Try ' Taller than God' by the offshoot, Strawpeople. Recorded 14 years ago, today with a better video, the segments of Fiona, looking cute, needs to be re set against a ' Piano' ( Jane Campion ) coast setting, I think rereleased today in the bubble moment and New Zealand prominent, it could still top US/ UK/ Euro charts. Maybe even Asian ones
I got my MC road train license not long after hearing this song in 2007 and remember driving over one way bridges with three trailers weighing over 120 metric tonnes in the Pilbara of Western Australia. Such an iconic song that resonates with my driving career. Love it!
I’m listening to the Body blow album again this week Love it been listening to it every few months since it was released 22 years ago! I’m 52 now & still love their music I wish I could have seen them live!
@@nerissarowan8119 it is for me 100%, but unfortunately wasn’t for them. They made some great music, it would have been interesting to see how far they could’ve taken it had they had more influence within the UK or US music scene at the time.
I must admit this song is always associated with the soap 'Neighbours' in my mind. Someone in the music department really liked this song and used it as incidental music for romance scenes for years and years.
Never knew this was from New Zealand?! It's still very nice with that early to mid 90's niche. It's a track that I forgot about or was dormant until I found it again like a long lost friend. Great song.
Thanks for all of the good feedback. As I said somewhere else on this site, there's a pretty good chance the band will reform for a few gigs at the end of this year...:-)
Aunty Flo just read your comment re. Grant Fell a sad loss this song stirred me in such a way that I will never forget it I still love it and listen it very much. If you know what the meaning of this song is I would love you to share....
I use to know and met Fiona Mcdonald, too, and Che Fu, from New Zealand Bands of Headless Chickens, Strawpeople, and Supergroove, before they were famous, I use to sit with Che Fu, from Supergroove, Fiona and their band members out on the field of the Auckland Museum, for lunch after band practice in late 1989 early 1990, they were band practicing right next door to me when I was working for a hardware shop right next door to them, in Newmarket, Auckland NZ. Che Fu gave me some great advice, at the time. It's a good thing that, years later they became more noticed in good ol' NZ, and abroad, and I'm proud that I got to meet them, little knowing of their popularity later on. This song was just a rough copy at band practice, when I saw her preform raw with the combined group back then and Fiona was later recruited to sing it again, re-written, because she sung it better than anyone else who tried. I saw Headless Chickens in RealGroovy Records Auckland years later signing autographs and preforming. :-)
Rachael House, the backing vocalist I’ve just learned for Isabelle. Underrated talented Actress who years later gives a stunning performance in Disneys (Moana) as Gramma Tala!! My hat off to you Ma’am.
I heard this version of this song recently and thought "Hey, that doesn't sound like Headless Chickens, who is this?" but I was wrong, it's just an alternative mix. I like it.
Always liked Fiona McDonald. She was in my first year cohort at uni (Epsom campus) for about a semester back in '03. Then she left and ended up doing NZ Idol instead (going back to what she knew, I guess). Pretty cool chick, though. Not too hard on the eyes, either. :)
Yeah and it seemed like they'd always end at least one scene before the commercial break with Fiona singing "Maybe I should've set my heart for cruise control" or failing that..."Lets make a deal or I'll hurt you you know" from George.
Excellent video ( XLNT) 😆 I loved this song " WoW 30 odds years ago & still do". I often wonder what was the meaning? for me it has been incredibly ivvocative. I love The Headless Chickens & wonder how they & what they are doing? Respond if you can?
My interpretation is that the singer was falling for someone to the point of obsession, and it drove them away. Seeing this person with someone else has made her question her actions. Similar to the Bible verse, "Guard the heart, for it is the wellspring of life." - Proverbs 4:23
@@danielbroadbridge886 thankyou for your comment 4 years ago I check into this song quite often and reflect on it always your thoughts on this make a heap of sense wondering if your thoughts have changed 4 years later???? Hope life is treating you well.
Never mind the tabloid crap people speculate about on these posts as a way of justifying their own dull lives. HC is an important group in NZ contemporary music history and make me proud to be a kiwi
Well I got the song on three different formats, the Headless Chickens compilation lp (with Mr Moon for a start), the Body Blow lp, the Cruise Control 12" with 2 different versions of it (one is the Blow lp) but still cannot grasp that of the video. Can someone help ?
Someone just replied to me a month-ish ago after I asked the same question about this version. They said it's the 'Eskimos In Egypt' remix. Although I see now further down in the comments someone else did mention it... 9 years ago! Haha.
To be honest that was a bit of cop out, I was in the band and there was fuck all drug taking going on at that stage...she left the band for other reasons...glad people are still digging the music though...
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Listening in 2024 and bringing back so many memories of my youth.
One of the best songs to come out of New Zealand ever..
u never heard omc?
@@tOOballs how bizzare but I've never heard of them
Actually I would say the best. Sorry Dave Dobyn.
Try ' Taller than God' by the offshoot, Strawpeople. Recorded 14 years ago, today with a better video, the segments of Fiona, looking cute, needs to be re set against a ' Piano' ( Jane Campion ) coast setting, I think rereleased today in the bubble moment and New Zealand prominent, it could still top US/ UK/ Euro charts. Maybe even Asian ones
HUF it.Nz at Perth
I got my MC road train license not long after hearing this song in 2007 and remember driving over one way bridges with three trailers weighing over 120 metric tonnes in the Pilbara of Western Australia. Such an iconic song that resonates with my driving career. Love it!
In fact I'm positive that they appeared in H&A as the fictional band Freinte during Melissa George's first episode as Angel
Her voice is angelic. The beat is great . Great song . She is amazing . I'm in love and I can't stop playing this song over and over .
❤😊
U sick barstard!
I’m ☎️ ☎️ doctor who
Never tire of this brilliant beautiful masterpiece of music voice composition 🎉
Heard this song on Sw999 Sydney west while Ubering the other night totally forgot about this song ,now hooked again ..
I’m listening to the Body blow album again this week
Love it been listening to it every few months since it was released 22 years ago!
I’m 52 now & still love their music I wish I could have seen them live!
Beautifully crafted kiwi song that connected the past with the future of musical genres.
In My Head For Decades, Thank You.
When the Kiwis do it right, they really nail it like this!
Home And Away 1994-1996!! Best years and this song was always playing then
Remember seeing these guys at the pub plenty of times. Place went mental when Soulcatcher played
90s had such great music, love this track 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Been listening to this on the radio for nearly 30 years here in NZ and have only just realised this isn’t an internationally known banger.
Welcome to the party 😋
It’s known in Australia, isn’t that international enough for you? ;)
@@nerissarowan8119 it is for me 100%, but unfortunately wasn’t for them. They made some great music, it would have been interesting to see how far they could’ve taken it had they had more influence within the UK or US music scene at the time.
I love how they all break character at the end and smile :-). Gets me every time! :-) Awesome song!
Ahhh... this song takes me back to high school.❤ 1994. Year 10.
I was in Year 12 and had my license. Was a freakin' awesome time 😋
Early 90s ❤😊
aaahhh Kiwiana styles for life!!
Makin me homesick & pine for Aotearoa...
MattyC representing the NZ flava on the Sunshine Coast of Oz
Great track. This mix (and almost all of the music) was by Eskimos & Egypt who were misspelled as Eskimos in Egypt.
This song takes me back to my misspent teen years! love it!!
Bless you Bevan circa 2003 for the awesome dj set in our backyard for our wedding xxxx
I must admit this song is always associated with the soap 'Neighbours' in my mind. Someone in the music department really liked this song and used it as incidental music for romance scenes for years and years.
Brilliant tune. Lucky to see these guys live.
Great catchy tune from 90's 😍😍😍
So is :-).
facts
I feel like im opening up my eyes to music I never considered in the past and I'm loving it
Can I ask you're age?
Music is Magic...
"Music is the rythem of life"
Quote from George Martin, Beetles sound engineer
God I miss the 90’s.
brilliant song
Headless chickens and Fiona was a match made in heaven
Didn't they used to play this track in the diner in both H&A and neighbour's back in the '90s????????
Spot on they did
This was on Neighbours in virtually every Coffee Shop scene from about 1993-98!
I remember!
a bit of Kiwi can only make it better
been looking for this song for 2 years and found it by accident.
I like the original version but this version has always been my favourite. Video is wickedly awesome. R.I.P Grant.
Sometimes they get away with showing the disconnect between making the single and the fun of the first time they came up with it and played it fully.
Today I learnt this was not the only version. (I found the other one first and thought “this is not what I’m looking for!”)
Never knew this was from New Zealand?! It's still very nice with that early to mid 90's niche. It's a track that I forgot about or was dormant until I found it again like a long lost friend. Great song.
Same, I've Rediscovered Alison Moyet and others..
They were pretty popular at the time, from memory.
I remember this song from the bodyboarding "Blast Off" Glad I found it again!
That's why I loved this song. When ever I caught a wave as a kid I thought of this song.
Amen
Same, great memories!!
Mashallah. Great song, great track, great music, great lyrics.... what else could one ask for !? .....
allahu Akbar !
Allelulia bro
@@jameslee7535 dont do that shit
I think I should move to New Zealand as I like so much of the music, all the way back to Split Enz
Takes me way back. And the baseline & drums reminds me of the final episode of Spaced.
Thanks for all of the good feedback. As I said somewhere else on this site, there's a pretty good chance the band will reform for a few gigs at the end of this year...:-)
You part of the band?
@@nevermore1777 He was. Grant passed away in 2018.
@@garyparata2885 very sad to hear man, i remember this band as a kid growing up in the 90s, amazing memorys
RIP Grant . Thanks for this amazing song
Thanks for the music Grant. Rest in peace brother.
Feel so good after listening to this.
Sadly, one of the band members of Headless Chickens, Grant Fell, lost to a cancer battle over the weekend at age 56.
RIP Grant!
Aunty Flo just read your comment re. Grant Fell a sad loss this song stirred me in such a way that I will never forget it I still love it and listen it very much.
If you know what the meaning of this song is I would love you to share....
Sorry to hear this - such a great song to leave as a legacy 💗
The song’s as timelessly classic as the DS Citroen - total class!
I just met Fiona the singer last night at Coldplay. she is a really cool down to earth chick.
I use to know and met Fiona Mcdonald, too, and Che Fu, from New Zealand Bands of Headless Chickens, Strawpeople, and Supergroove, before they were famous, I use to sit with Che Fu, from Supergroove, Fiona and their band members out on the field of the Auckland Museum, for lunch after band practice in late 1989 early 1990, they were band practicing right next door to me when I was working for a hardware shop right next door to them, in Newmarket, Auckland NZ. Che Fu gave me some great advice, at the time. It's a good thing that, years later they became more noticed in good ol' NZ, and abroad, and I'm proud that I got to meet them, little knowing of their popularity later on. This song was just a rough copy at band practice, when I saw her preform raw with the combined group back then and Fiona was later recruited to sing it again, re-written, because she sung it better than anyone else who tried. I saw Headless Chickens in RealGroovy Records Auckland years later signing autographs and preforming. :-)
She was well hot too.
"Wow! It's Fiona. McDonald from the Headless Chickens!" - Bressa Creeting Cake.
this was often played in neighbours between 1994-1996 its even played in shortland st in the coffee shop yrs ago as well
FM I loved this band as a teenager.
I do thats a great song, i still have the cd somewhere
I will always ❤this song
So strange…this popped into my head and I haven’t heard it for like 20 years and just had to look it up. Weird how songs just live in your memory.
I have always liked this song nice track and voccals
happy to say i have seen them live
Cool song!.. I ❤️🇳🇿
Love the cellphones. One of my favourite kiwi songs.
Fantastic.
What a brilliant song. X
Man I used to kick it with these guys up at Planet magazine K rd back in the early 90s a Fiona and Grant were super nice people ❤️
Man this sounds like it was recorded yesterday not 16 years ago.GREAT GROOVE!
The fact that your comment is from 13 years ago depresses the hell out of me.
I don't know but I saw Fiona MacDonald working in Sounds in Auckland late 90s.
Great to see this vid again!
Rachael House, the backing vocalist I’ve just learned for Isabelle.
Underrated talented Actress who years later gives a stunning performance in Disneys (Moana) as Gramma Tala!!
My hat off to you Ma’am.
懐かしいなぁ。高校生の時だったか。ウィンドサーフィンのプロモーションビデオに使われてた。
So creative
Love this track !@!!
I heard this version of this song recently and thought "Hey, that doesn't sound like Headless Chickens, who is this?" but I was wrong, it's just an alternative mix. I like it.
It was today I learnt this wasn’t the only version of this song!
Just discovered this beautiful track via backstage footage of Kylie Minogue circa '97? Being interviewed in a wardrobe department? 🖤
I was shearing sheep and heard this song from my youth had to look up headless chickens.
In New Zealsnd? ;-) 🤣 Legend 😜
Kickassmusic thx
Beautiful piece
once again another great tune
Went to Murray’s bay primary with grant. RIP. Best song.
Amazing hit
It's the year 3000 and still loving this song
underated band
Totally.
Always liked Fiona McDonald. She was in my first year cohort at uni (Epsom campus) for about a semester back in '03. Then she left and ended up doing NZ Idol instead (going back to what she knew, I guess). Pretty cool chick, though. Not too hard on the eyes, either. :)
Yeah and it seemed like they'd always end at least one scene before the commercial break with Fiona singing "Maybe I should've set my heart for cruise control" or failing that..."Lets make a deal or I'll hurt you you know" from George.
Our Go To Song _ Mate Is So Into This !!!
Excellent video ( XLNT) 😆
I loved this song " WoW 30 odds years ago & still do".
I often wonder what was the meaning? for me it has been incredibly ivvocative.
I love The Headless Chickens & wonder how they & what they are doing?
Respond if you can?
My interpretation is that the singer was falling for someone to the point of obsession, and it drove them away. Seeing this person with someone else has made her question her actions.
Similar to the Bible verse, "Guard the heart, for it is the wellspring of life." - Proverbs 4:23
@@danielbroadbridge886 thankyou for your comment 4 years ago I check into this song quite often and reflect on it always your thoughts on this make a heap of sense wondering if your thoughts have changed 4 years later????
Hope life is treating you well.
This is great. Thank you.
Can't wait to see them at the big day out
Great song!
Personally I love a good slow day, lots of time to smell the roses :)
Kiwi bands rock.
RIP Grant Fell
Never mind the tabloid crap people speculate about on these posts as a way of justifying their own dull lives. HC is an important group in NZ contemporary music history and make me proud to be a kiwi
Fiona should have had a turn driving!
They don't want to crash!
@@aaronbarlow4376 bahaha awesome dude !
Super Troopers!
Wow
I'd have to agree. I always liked this version (the so called Eskimos in Egypt Remix for reasons of which I'm not sure) a lot better.
Well I got the song on three different formats, the Headless Chickens compilation lp (with Mr Moon for a start), the Body Blow lp, the Cruise Control 12" with 2 different versions of it (one is the Blow lp) but still cannot grasp that of the video.
Can someone help ?
Someone just replied to me a month-ish ago after I asked the same question about this version.
They said it's the 'Eskimos In Egypt' remix.
Although I see now further down in the comments someone else did mention it... 9 years ago! Haha.
Those were the days my friends.
To be honest that was a bit of cop out, I was in the band and there was fuck all drug taking going on at that stage...she left the band for other reasons...glad people are still digging the music though...
What is the official name of this mix/version??? It's the later updated version but I've never known what its actual title was. Thanks.
Is this true bro?
RIP dude.
@@lefunk22 Eskimos In Egypt mix
Grant Fell legendary & Iconic forever!
My friends mother plays on this song
0:39 is that guy the guitarist from INXS?
the guy in the passenger seat does look like one of the Farris brothers, but there was a lot going on back then... who knows
Cool song - Fiona MacDonald rocks... :-)
The band's name seems more appropriate for a death metal band, rather than a Kiwi techno-pop group.
🎶Ţųnę!🤘😎
I was wondering where Samuel Bayer got his idea for the Greenday Holiday-Boulevard of broken dreams videoclip!!!
Sometimes days seem to move just like a big fat man...
Шикарно! Из Украины.Одесса.❤
Classis kiwi band, great song
When sampler’s were king ❤
classic kiwi music.
This video is related to a movie I know of. ;)
My brother Michael Lawry wrote this. Proud
Not true