When music was great. No auto tune. No scantily clad people with virtually no clothes on who cannot really sing to grab your attention. Where the hell did I put my time machine.
That's because we grew up in a generation of great music! MTV was MTV and being a teen in the 80's was above and beyond fan-fucking-tastic!! To this day, I still see trails! 😉
Hell yeahhhhh! What a classic masterpiece. How could you not like this band . Iconic tunes, ground breaking synthesizers, beat is old but new . Could listen to this on repeat . Sorry Selena Gomez , Justin Bieber, and Swifties, you can’t touch these oldies
It most certainly was a great time! I graduated HS in 1980 and the world was my oyster! Still is......music was so good back in the 60's, 70's and some of 80's for sure!
The 80's had their ups and downs. It wasn't perfect. I think of all the good times and forget the bad, but I would give my left nut to go back in time to relive it all over again. Journey, REO Speedwagon, British Steel, British Invasion, RUSH, ACDC, the list is extensive. Today there seem to be fewer artists with any quality and talent. Too many samplers. Too man Autotune crap.
@@TaigaTurf Accidents Will Happen by Elvis Costello, Let's Go by The Cars, Treason by The Teardrop Explodes, Reward by The Teardrop Explodes, or many other tracks on Split Enz's True Colours album, Up The Junction by Squeeze, or Another Nail In My Heart by Squeeze.
This takes me back to being 17yo. I had this album, it was laser etched. Hard to believe it was 40 years ago... I just turned 60yo. An incredible era for music!
... turning 64 later this year, of course I still have the laser etched version of "True Colours", although at first I considered the album a bit more mainstreamed than their wonderful and weird two records before ("Mental Notes" and "Dizrytmia"). Looking back they just added a touch of 'New Wave' to their sounds and 'Poor Boy' is still an eternal fave of mine.
Just added this spectacular song to my play list for my dance party with my 4 year old granddaughter. What a song! Our time ruled people!!!! Best music.....63 here and rocking till I drop!
59 here and I tell the young is I’m happy I was born in 1964 because I got to experience Post Punk and New Wave ❤❤ for starters!! I love all genres of music almost anyway!!!!!
I first heard this a few months ago on my dad's record player and now he gave me it and loads of albums and it sounds so weird not seeing the single... Still, I absolutely love this song
+Stephan Campbell Snow on the roof, but the fireplace is still burning. :-) If I ever lose my ability to enjoy music, be it old or new, I'll pull the trigger myself.
Every summer I'd come to Miami for summer vacation my mom lived here, the year this song came was 1980, I met this girl at the beach and fell in love lol, I graduated in 81 so I moved to Miami with my mother and said goodbye Philadelphia, first thing I did was looked Jennifer up and we started going out and we are still together till this day! I Got You And That's All I Want....
Ken that's wicked cool take it from a guy that's had more girls than 10 guys have the right to. For one Awesome one I'd trade. So good on you and good for you brother. I sincerely wish you the best of luck!!
“Faded Flowers” 1985? by “Shriekback” a lesser known Brit band. Cool song. It’s part of the soundtrack to “Band of the Hand” 1986 movie, a cult classic.
funny how growing up in this era u love and enjoy all these songs, then many yrs later u find them again and ur instantly shot back into that time, and u remember all the damn words,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, its a wonderful feeling and sad all at the same time
this happened to be on the radio when I got in my car yesterday and I instantly remembered ALL the words, even though I haven't heard it in 25 years at least!
Neil Finn was about 17 when he wrote this song! I could barely string a sentence together. I now live in NZ . this is a stunning song by a hugely underrated band. Hello england
'ello Kiwis, yankisorus here, California NOT dreaming!! I was 10 or 11 living in Aussieland, (Melbourne) years ago 'course, this song was #1 on top of the pops Australia 🦘 AND the U.K!! Way ahead of it's time. I mean shit, you could listen to this song today and it doesn't sound outdated at all. My wife who's 10 years younger than me thought it was some pop song from the local 📻 radio!!! Great times the '80's.....
Props to the dude in the tan suit not singing or playing any instrument... just swaying to the groove and giving moral support to the rest of the band....
That's Noel Crombie, and he contributed a lot to Split Enz; he designed and made their costumes, designed some of their album covers, directed their videos, and played percussion.
I’m 39. And I only heard this song for the first time last year while watching mtv classic. Since then I’ve gone down a really deep rabbit hole. I wish I would have gotten into the Enz earlier in life, but as the old saying goes, “better late than never”. These guys were geniuses , and if the internet had been around back in the 70s and 80s, they would have easily been one of the biggest bands ever.
creepy sounds in the verse, more upbeat in the chorus and the mix is great, the song writing is great. Everything sounds like it fits like a glove and that vid.... man, the effects they added to his singing in the verse were so subtle but you could tell it had some fast parts like they filmed at diff speed. This was right before MTV so this vid ballooned these guys way, way up. Very unusual also to change from minor to major inside the verse back and forth. That's very rare. Usually people start minor then once they switch to major they stay there a while like maybe an entire chorus then verse is minor. Here, 2 lines min, next 2 major. I dont' think I've ever heard that in any other rock or pop song.
About once or twice a year I go through a Split Enz period and have to listen to this and Six Months in a Leaky boat incessantly. Both songs are on my death list that I want my kids to listen to when I pass to remember me by. Thank you Split Enz for making such fantastic and memorable music ❤️
Oh my God I have been looking for this song for YEARS! It just showed up in my recommends after listening to a bunch of '80s songs! YES I FINALLY FOUND IT!
***** I was almost 9 years old when this first came out. But I remember it getting heavy radio play throughout most of the 80s and early 90s. The song is that good.
1980, duel edged sword for me. I graduated from high school, however; I met my first wife that last year in school. The rest of '80 was pretty great with 4 mostly shitty years following. I did become a father in '82 though. She was the bomb to anyone that knew her (she passed 5 weeks ago). Not even her ex's hate her, how does that happen? I hate the hell out of my ex's.
My daughter Jacqui, my only child, extended the lives of at least 5 people, one who was hours from death. I couldn't be more proud of her. Thank you for your kind words, it's very touching and appreciated. To be honest, it's substantially easier to type those words than it is to actually speak them out loud. The words often catch in my throat when I try.
Nice time to be young. Love this music. No cell phones. No internet, MTV was all about music, no politics, no money, less cars, more nature, Easy meeting new people in person, more freedom, less suspicion and more respect. Comfort and ease is for the old and the 80's was for the young.
I love that the verses are made to sound uneasy and anxious; the 007 style muted guitar riff, the Prophet-5 synthesizer lead in the background, punctuating every sentence with a ghostly, distant howl. It's all so suspenseful and really makes me feel like I am alone in my room, lamenting over my love for someone, still paranoid and damaged from a previous relationship; just not trusting enough yet. Then the chorus kicks in all Elvis Costello style, with poppy organ and major chords, and Neil starts apologizing, stumbling over his words to the girl he loves. She wonders why he is so anxious and wound up over what she might be doing without him, behind his back, or when she doesn't answer the phone. "I don't know why sometimes I get frightened." he says, and then seeks reassurance "Tell me you're not lying". This is what makes a song fantastic. It all lines up! The sound, the lyrics, and the topic are all tightly nit; the tone of the music matches the mood of the lyrics, and it all comes together in a catchy song. I'm sure a lot of us have been in that jealous relationship, where you don't trust your lover because you think they're way out of your league, and could have anyone, so whenever you're left alone, you begin to ruminate over how they're probably not interested in you. "Why would she want to be with me, when she could have anyone?"
Perfectly put. The lyric and its accompanying music are telling a story and presenting an atmosphere. All perfectly packaged into 3 minutes! That takes skill!
A Crowded House video popped up in my feed, I thought to myself that I really liked Split Enz too...searched...arrived here...been at least 20 years since I heard this...still know every single word ! 16 years old when this came out, what a time to be alive...16 in 1980 ...started working at 14...bought my own HUGE Pioneer boom box...best one Pioneer made at the time...bought it at Pacific Stereo of all places 😂
Verses sound like the Cars and the chorus sounds like Genesis! I finally found this song, heard it on the radio and had the one line from the chorus in my head for years !
This song reminds me of a beautiful man who passed away 2017. Had no interest with the song. I think of him tho when I hear it, so, glad its here to cheer myself up sometimes when I feel blue. Love you Lee. X
I agree with Jimm Bear.Hard to believe this song is 41 years old.I used to listen to this when I was in college.I'm 61 now glad I grew up with the music I did it's so much better than any of the music from today.
New Zealands never had a better singer songwriter than Neil Finn. He' s so good that the sheep clap when he walks by. I grew up in New Zealand so i can make that joke !
@@gdaym8635 True. You can kinda see it too. I just uploaded a song and video i made for a Split song that some may not have heard from 1982, to see it simply type in the search bar the following title.....Split Enz Hello Sandy Allen Slideshow
I was 27 when I bought the cassette. I'm 67 now and clearly remember driving around in my MG 1300 with this blasting out on the tape deck. Always hoping that it wouldn't chew the tape up.
I got you, that's all I want I won't forget, that's a whole lot I don't go out, now that you're in Sometimes we shout, but that's no problem I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying Look at you, you're a pageant You're everything, that I've imagined Something's wrong, I feel uneasy You show me, tell me you're not teasing I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying There's no doubt, not when I'm with you When I'm without, I stay in my room Where do you go, I get no answer You're always out, it gets on my nerves I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes you can tell that I'm not lying I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
Listening to it in 2024
You know I keep thinking she’s there with a queen size bed. She’s not here it’s really disturbing to my mind. I swear to God she’s here.
When music was great. No auto tune. No scantily clad people with virtually no clothes on who cannot really sing to grab your attention. Where the hell did I put my time machine.
It's 2023 and this song still kicks ass.
yes!
Absolutely!
Was lucky enough to see CH last night -- they played it along with two other Enz songs. I lost my shit.
this has a 70s feel
released 1980
I saw Crowded House perform this song and a few other Split Enz tunes during their show last night in Toronto. Still kicks ass.
‘75 to ‘85 was an insanely great decade of music.
1000% correct. 1978-82 is my favourite period for popular music.
You’re right. Music started to go downhill in 1987
Probably 1977 was the best music year
@@edwardsinchuk8199 And music became exponentially worse after 1997 when autotune was put on the market
@@edwardsinchuk8199
I'd say mid 90's.
Late 80's was peak pop culture imo.
This song is timeless. A classic. Has it been 43 years? Incredible.
I'll be 50 in 2 weeks, this song still rewlz
Incredible indeed! Where the hell does the time go? !
Remember them getting five vids a night on Mtv? Now Those were the days.
Can i have a show of hands if you're still listening to this in 2020
Will always listen
That's because we grew up in a generation of great music! MTV was MTV and being a teen in the 80's was above and beyond fan-fucking-tastic!!
To this day, I still see trails! 😉
✋🏼
@@antneyfatts665 I grew up in the 60's and I love this song & the video
🙋🏻♀️ one of my favourite songs ever
Still bopping in 2023...hands up if you are!
These guys must have come from the future. There is a flat screen tv hanging on the wall.
Hell yeahhhhh! What a classic masterpiece. How could you not like this band . Iconic tunes, ground breaking synthesizers, beat is old but new . Could listen to this on repeat . Sorry Selena Gomez , Justin Bieber, and Swifties, you can’t touch these oldies
It was actual talent
The 1980’s what a great time to be young and alive!!
Amen I was 15 then with life ahead of me. God what happened?
I was between 15 and 25 years old then.... A great decade!
@@MM-zs7ir Diggit!✊😎 graduated H.S. in '84 & although I MAY be biased_ it's STILL the best, most eclectic, diverse decade of music! ✊😏👉 _💙&🎵_
It most certainly was a great time! I graduated HS in 1980 and the world was my oyster! Still is......music was so good back in the 60's, 70's and some of 80's for sure!
The 80's had their ups and downs. It wasn't perfect. I think of all the good times and forget the bad, but I would give my left nut to go back in time to relive it all over again. Journey, REO Speedwagon, British Steel, British Invasion, RUSH, ACDC, the list is extensive. Today there seem to be fewer artists with any quality and talent. Too many samplers. Too man Autotune crap.
7.2m people wished they were back in 1980..
I certainly do!
I know I do. I was 16.
TONE 007 u got that right
Yeap! I was 5. Lol
Yea. I was 12
These guys were waaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of their time. Early New Wave to the max.
2023
@@TaigaTurf I would say this sounds the very epitome of 1979-80 new wave pop. Sparse arrangement with an almost 60s vibe.
@@TaigaTurf Accidents Will Happen by Elvis Costello, Let's Go by The Cars, Treason by The Teardrop Explodes, Reward by The Teardrop Explodes, or many other tracks on Split Enz's True Colours album, Up The Junction by Squeeze, or Another Nail In My Heart by Squeeze.
@@TaigaTurf Glad to help. This era of music is my favourite, 1978-1982.
One of my favorite songs from high school. It sounded great in 1980, and still sounds great today.
I concur...memories of the chicks dancing up a storm to this one at the high school dance.
This was my favorite one in junior high.
Sounds like the cars
Reminds me of happier times
Classic!
The '80s had the best of everything! I wanna go back!
Still lovin' this song 💓
Yeah, if I'd realized how awesome the 80s were when I was there, I never would have left!
If I had a Time Machine, I’d pick you up on my way
Me too!
All you need is a DeLorean.
Can I get all the Real O.G's to give this beat a thumbs up in 2024?!!
🎉✊👆👍
This song is over 40 years old but still sounds fresh as a daisy. The two finn brothers went on to form crowded house.😍😍
Only Neil Finn did. Tim went his own way.
I stand corrected thanks.
Thanks for info❤
WHAT!! I did not know both brothers went onto crowded house.......darn! I have their cassette :)
This song should be released again it would still do good on the charts
What charts??
@@m.e.d.7997 I agree with you both. Charts kinda have no meaning anymore. But lets just way it would become an earworm to the public for a few months.
This takes me back to being 17yo. I had this album, it was laser etched. Hard to believe it was 40 years ago... I just turned 60yo. An incredible era for music!
I'm the same - just turned 60 and this was the first album I bought on CD - I've still got it and love it!
Fair play pal..you were there to experience it all
67 here, brings back a lot of memories
... turning 64 later this year, of course I still have the laser etched version of "True Colours", although at first I considered the album a bit more mainstreamed than their wonderful and weird two records before ("Mental Notes" and "Dizrytmia"). Looking back they just added a touch of 'New Wave' to their sounds and 'Poor Boy' is still an eternal fave of mine.
Yes sir, had the 45!
Just added this spectacular song to my play list for my dance party with my 4 year old granddaughter. What a song! Our time ruled people!!!! Best music.....63 here and rocking till I drop!
59 here and I tell the young is I’m happy I was born in 1964 because I got to experience Post Punk and New Wave ❤❤ for starters!! I love all genres of music almost anyway!!!!!
Que tu nieta sepa lo que era está música!!😊
I can't believe this is 40 years old it sounds/feels more fresh and modern and is so much better than much of the popular music today.
Amen to that. I still have the 45 of this somewhere.
Today's so called music is total Dross
Yah, Tool sucks...
I first heard this a few months ago on my dad's record player and now he gave me it and loads of albums and it sounds so weird not seeing the single... Still, I absolutely love this song
you're right it does sound fresh!
Totally underrated best song ever
I played the hell out of this record. Still sounds great 2022!
And in 2023 😌🫶
16:23 GMT 11 April 2023
The good old days when MTV played music and was must see.
Neil Finn was only 21 when he wrote this song. I was an idiot at 21.
Me too
I blame the chemicals.
I'm still an idiot
+Stephen Campbell Just a few weeks shy of 60 years of idiocy, compounded almost weekly.
+Stephan Campbell Snow on the roof, but the fireplace is still burning. :-)
If I ever lose my ability to enjoy music, be it old or new, I'll pull the trigger myself.
Every summer I'd come to Miami for summer vacation my mom lived here, the year this song came was 1980, I met this girl at the beach and fell in love lol, I graduated in 81 so I moved to Miami with my mother and said goodbye Philadelphia, first thing I did was looked Jennifer up and we started going out and we are still together till this day! I Got You And That's All I Want....
♡ !
congrats! ken bray
It's cause you're a Bray!
Steve Bray Hey what's up Bray? We are many lol, Irish and love my Ansestory.... SLANCHEA means cheers in Irish 😜
Ken that's wicked cool take it from a guy that's had more girls than 10 guys have the right to. For one Awesome one I'd trade. So good on you and good for you brother. I sincerely wish you the best of luck!!
Neil was sooo cute back then ... and Split Enz one of my all time favourite bands since 1976!
Yes!!!! Darn handsome!!!!!!!!!+
february 2024. no regrets.
Wish we were still in the 80s
That would be AWESOME!
Me too❤️❤️❤️
I would buy property in Auckland
@@gnrsgl or anywhere!
Actually this was the end of the 70's - trust me I was there, 20 years old at the time, but I just love your taste in music 👍😁
Never knew the name of this song until now, so glad I decided to search 80s songs today, more gems than any other decade
Admittedly, I did not know the song either, I had asked the UA-cam folks when I posted it!
70s.
“Faded Flowers” 1985? by “Shriekback”
a lesser known Brit band. Cool song. It’s part of the soundtrack to “Band of the Hand” 1986 movie, a cult classic.
Come across this in a group in the UK. I remember it well. Good song.
42 years later, it still sounds futuristic!
Ya! 80s music is still danceable!!
idk It makes me think of old-school Scooby Doo.
It keeps calling me back ☺
Level 42?
Absolutely agree 100%.XXX
funny how growing up in this era u love and enjoy all these songs, then many yrs later u find them again and ur instantly shot back into that time, and u remember all the damn words,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, its a wonderful feeling and sad all at the same time
So True! :)
My sentiments exactly
this happened to be on the radio when I got in my car yesterday and I instantly remembered ALL the words, even though I haven't heard it in 25 years at least!
Reminds me of MTV in the good ol'days. This song also reminds me of the music from movie "That Thing You Do " Love this sound !
Melencoly ass hell
Neil Finn was about 17 when he wrote this song! I could barely string a sentence together. I now live in NZ . this is a stunning song by a hugely underrated band. Hello england
Hello from the UK I totally agree stay safe
The man is a musical genius and it's a shame the world does not realize it
One of the best bands ever - no matter what year!
People who say this band is underrated must be under 35.
'ello Kiwis, yankisorus here, California NOT dreaming!! I was 10 or 11 living in Aussieland, (Melbourne) years ago 'course, this song was #1 on top of the pops Australia 🦘 AND the U.K!! Way ahead of it's time. I mean shit, you could listen to this song today and it doesn't sound outdated at all. My wife who's 10 years younger than me thought it was some pop song from the local 📻 radio!!! Great times the '80's.....
Props to the dude in the tan suit not singing or playing any instrument... just swaying to the groove and giving moral support to the rest of the band....
😄
That's Noel Crombie, and he contributed a lot to Split Enz; he designed and made their costumes, designed some of their album covers, directed their videos, and played percussion.
I’m 39. And I only heard this song for the first time last year while watching mtv classic. Since then I’ve gone down a really deep rabbit hole. I wish I would have gotten into the Enz earlier in life, but as the old saying goes, “better late than never”. These guys were geniuses , and if the internet had been around back in the 70s and 80s, they would have easily been one of the biggest bands ever.
if you like split enz....then give Squeeze a listen.
I had a best of compilation and for a couple of years I thought it half-unlistenable. Then it finally clicked and I "got" it.
This album now top of the charts in New Zealand again
And damned deservedly so
True art
Wow...very interesting and cool. I don't feel so old now...lol..
@@deannamorgan7586 They always say New Zealand is 40 years behind everywhere else.
Only joking - it shows great taste.
@@EricIrl If New Zealand is 40 years behind everywhere else, then that's where I want to be!! Take me back to 1980!!
I was 18 when this song hit. 80s were an amazing tom in America. How many great songs, and you can understand the lyrics.
I was 13 years old 😊
2023 Feb 17 WOW still alive and kicking
I was born on 02/17/1958.old but still love this classic.
2024!!!🖤💚 my wonderful father showed me this on the teenage kicks album.
One of the best songs ever! 😍
MTV wore this video out! This and Our House by Madness.
Ah, to the good old days!
creepy sounds in the verse, more upbeat in the chorus and the mix is great, the song writing is great. Everything sounds like it fits like a glove and that vid.... man, the effects they added to his singing in the verse were so subtle but you could tell it had some fast parts like they filmed at diff speed. This was right before MTV so this vid ballooned these guys way, way up. Very unusual also to change from minor to major inside the verse back and forth. That's very rare. Usually people start minor then once they switch to major they stay there a while like maybe an entire chorus then verse is minor. Here, 2 lines min, next 2 major. I dont' think I've ever heard that in any other rock or pop song.
This was the first 45 single I ever owned.
Who’s listening to this in 2020?
Me. Why is that a prob?
@@courtney9741 Yes its a prob. Its illegal now.
Lesley nah just wondering who is still listening to this wonderful song
Me! I miss the 80's....awesome music and i was young!!
@@courtney9741 never a problem with u sweetie 😹
About once or twice a year I go through a Split Enz period and have to listen to this and Six Months in a Leaky boat incessantly. Both songs are on my death list that I want my kids to listen to when I pass to remember me by. Thank you Split Enz for making such fantastic and memorable music ❤️
Six monthes in a leaky Boat! Plus Boomtown rats!
Before Crowded House Neil Finn working his magic. Great track! 🎶✨️
The dream isn't over.
Oh my God I have been looking for this song for YEARS! It just showed up in my recommends after listening to a bunch of '80s songs! YES I FINALLY FOUND IT!
One of if not the first songs i ever heard back as a kid, it's a belter
TimeandMonotony it was a classic when the album True Colours came out late 70s early 80s, can’t remember. My favourite album.
@honkster 7 hells yeah! I couldn't remember where I had heard this, but it was roller-skating in the early '80's
My favourite song 1978
@honkster 7 me too!
If any physicist is reading these comments, please build me a time machine so I can go back to the 80s.....
Any luck with that time machine? Desperate to get back to ‘88 or early ‘89. 😂
Sooo ahead of their time!!!
I can still hear my mum shouting...no not again....played and played this to death😂😂😂 great tune...
I love this song. One of the greatest and happiest years of my life.
Discovered this song in "My Life is Murder" with Lucy Lawless episode in 2022. Awesome song!!! ❤
Great classic 80’s tune! I’m flashing back to being 14/15 yo. Without MTV we don’t hear (or see!) this one. Went on to form Crowded House.
'I Want My 80s' tv show brought me here! Great song! 🕺
1980: was just a glimpse of what was to come in the best decade of music!!!
Dr K I agree, but I think that glimpse started in 1978.
Yeah? The decade of people not playing musical instruments?
BOLLOCKS was it the best decade...
You are very right. How are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe out there?
Bought this as a single in 1980 with my pocket money! The song is still awesome.
Mmm mmm mmn Neal Finn!
Still looks hot to me 40 years later here in this 80s flashback
This song brings a smile to my face. No, I am not frighten- I don't know why I would be. Just happy that this is my generation of songs growing up.
This song is mesmerising & is TRUE!! A lot of times. I luv it! I am 56 yrs. Old, I remember this song!!
Wow, Finn must have been the first person to ever own a flat screen TV back then lol
I graduated on Sunday May 18th 1980 ! The day Mount St Helens Blew up end changed the world
Immediate 80’s flashback. Good stuff.
Classic !!!
This is da real deal. 1980 must've really rocked!!
*****
I was almost 9 years old when this first came out. But I remember it getting heavy radio play throughout most of the 80s and early 90s. The song is that good.
We Did!!!!!
1980, duel edged sword for me. I graduated from high school, however; I met my first wife that last year in school. The rest of '80 was pretty great with 4 mostly shitty years following. I did become a father in '82 though. She was the bomb to anyone that knew her (she passed 5 weeks ago). Not even her ex's hate her, how does that happen? I hate the hell out of my ex's.
Rob Dotzler I am very sorry for the loss of your daughter. I can't imagine losing a child. You are very strong, to be able to talk about it. :)
My daughter Jacqui, my only child, extended the lives of at least 5 people, one who was hours from death. I couldn't be more proud of her. Thank you for your kind words, it's very touching and appreciated. To be honest, it's substantially easier to type those words than it is to actually speak them out loud. The words often catch in my throat when I try.
Killer track then. Killer track now. Killer track to your grandkids. And theirs...
takes you back to a better time, a better world, nostalgia at it's best, those damn 80s.
Still have this 45 in a box in the loft.
Alternative Rock on!
Still loving this song in July 1st 2023
I wanna go back in time...this world is sick and crazy now...
💙🙏💙
I still have my copy of this album...
Nice time to be young. Love this music. No cell phones. No internet, MTV was all about music, no politics, no money, less cars, more nature, Easy meeting new people in person, more freedom, less suspicion and more respect. Comfort and ease is for the old and the 80's was for the young.
Well said, Wes.
I'd go back in a heartbeat, best days of my life, first love college years, & my mum and dad were still alive, simpler times and great music.
43 years ago , Split Enz in activity by playing this great music!
2023 - Still listening
2100 - Mês Generation listening .
2024 baby; saw them live in '82
Great Musical masterpiece !
Never tired to listen !
That chorus is catchy af!
Still listening in 2022. Knocks the crap out of todays so called music!!!!
Saw them in Penns Landing , Philadelphia PA in 1980. They were with a band called Duran Duran and few others. What a great time I had.
Such a classic! Enjoyed on MTV many years ago, & still listening in 2023❤️
I just discovered this and I was born in 1982. I don't think I have ever heard this in the United States as a kid, but I'm digging it now. 😊
@@justinwallace390 Merry Christmas dude! Now check out Crowded House. The Finn brothers are brilliant. ❤
@@pamela8329 Oh yea, I definitely know them. Thanks :)
I loved and love this song. How many of you wish we could board a huge time machine and go back? Miss the days of good music. They're gone.
+S F Quinn sounds like a great plan. I like a good Chardonnay.
i'm ready lets go!!
Me too I'm in !
"count me in"
The 70's 80's were the best ever!!
lets go
I’m 45 and am happy as shit that I grew up in the 80’s. Absolute banger of a tune.😮😮😮😮
This records likeca good wine gets better with age great song 🎵
40 years old, time flies
I love that the verses are made to sound uneasy and anxious; the 007 style muted guitar riff, the Prophet-5 synthesizer lead in the background, punctuating every sentence with a ghostly, distant howl. It's all so suspenseful and really makes me feel like I am alone in my room, lamenting over my love for someone, still paranoid and damaged from a previous relationship; just not trusting enough yet. Then the chorus kicks in all Elvis Costello style, with poppy organ and major chords, and Neil starts apologizing, stumbling over his words to the girl he loves. She wonders why he is so anxious and wound up over what she might be doing without him, behind his back, or when she doesn't answer the phone. "I don't know why sometimes I get frightened." he says, and then seeks reassurance "Tell me you're not lying".
This is what makes a song fantastic. It all lines up! The sound, the lyrics, and the topic are all tightly nit; the tone of the music matches the mood of the lyrics, and it all comes together in a catchy song. I'm sure a lot of us have been in that jealous relationship, where you don't trust your lover because you think they're way out of your league, and could have anyone, so whenever you're left alone, you begin to ruminate over how they're probably not interested in you. "Why would she want to be with me, when she could have anyone?"
007 muted guitar..didnt realise till you mentioned it ..excellently noticed 🙂
Perfectly put. The lyric and its accompanying music are telling a story and presenting an atmosphere. All perfectly packaged into 3 minutes! That takes skill!
BRUH. You just beautifully and succinctly laid out what makes this song so amazing.
Fantastic review, agree with the muted guitar opening and the restrained menacing character (which I love since I first heard this in 1980). Thanks!
Best song review ever.
A Crowded House video popped up in my feed, I thought to myself that I really liked Split Enz too...searched...arrived here...been at least 20 years since I heard this...still know every single word ! 16 years old when this came out, what a time to be alive...16 in 1980 ...started working at 14...bought my own HUGE Pioneer boom box...best one Pioneer made at the time...bought it at Pacific Stereo of all places 😂
Verses sound like the Cars and the chorus sounds like Genesis! I finally found this song, heard it on the radio and had the one line from the chorus in my head for years !
This song reminds me of a beautiful man who passed away 2017. Had no interest with the song. I think of him tho when I hear it, so, glad its here to cheer myself up sometimes when I feel blue.
Love you Lee. X
I just love this song.
I agree with Jimm Bear.Hard to believe this song is 41 years old.I used to listen to this when I was in college.I'm 61 now glad I grew up with the music I did it's so much better than any of the music from today.
Six years later, the leader would front another band that would score a top #5 single called "Don't Dream It's Over".
Under a different name. crowded house
That song doesn't pop like this one does though.
By far one of the BEST songs ever made by anyone
New Zealands never had a better singer songwriter than Neil Finn. He' s so good that the sheep clap when he walks by. I grew up in New Zealand so i can make that joke !
I grew up in Oz so I can repeat it :)
I always thought these guys were either English or Scottish
Michael Lantz actually there background is Irish
@@gdaym8635 True. You can kinda see it too. I just uploaded a song and video i made for a Split song that some may not have heard from 1982, to see it simply type in the search bar the following title.....Split Enz Hello Sandy Allen Slideshow
Indeed, and proud of him and funny!x👏👏
2023 here….Upon hearing this I get transported right back to being a lil kid in 1980.
I was 27 when I bought the cassette. I'm 67 now and clearly remember driving around in my MG 1300 with this blasting out on the tape deck. Always hoping that it wouldn't chew the tape up.
Can you believe this is nearly 40 years old.
CustoopMoon Ugh...don't remind me. I grooved to this song as a punk ass teen and now I'm an old man. 😖
CustoopMoon OMG!!!!!! I was 9 when this was in the charts
Just like i cant believe im almost 50
I'm 54 and I grooved to it you'll adjust
I wish I was.
This song, released today would still be a smash.
Easily, a real good tune.
This video is awesome!
Neil Finn is just an INTERGALACTIC SINGER SONGWRITER..........NUFF SAID rocking my sox off in 2023 still a crackin song.
Same 👍
After he wrote this banger all those years ago, it’s not hard to see how he just went on and on with it. Pure talent.
I got you, that's all I want
I won't forget, that's a whole lot
I don't go out, now that you're in
Sometimes we shout, but that's no problem
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
Look at you, you're a pageant
You're everything, that I've imagined
Something's wrong, I feel uneasy
You show me, tell me you're not teasing
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
There's no doubt, not when I'm with you
When I'm without, I stay in my room
Where do you go, I get no answer
You're always out, it gets on my nerves
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes you can tell that I'm not lying
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
I miss when people would type out lyrics in comments. We need to bring that back. 👍
And Neil Finn wrote this gem at 21!!!!
Thumbs Up For Listening in 2019.
Yeah so do it hit like stop look so dumb. Hahahahahha
My mom showed me this When i was 15 last year...and i love it
cleverglimpse 💗💗💗
Alla grande!
Why? Fuck off with these stupid listening in 2019 comments just to get a few likes. Very sad and boring.