Steve Gilpin was a very good friend of mine. We hung out in the same muso nightclub (the Manzil Room), he'd always give me a lift home as the sun was coming up (going out of his way). I took a contract job in West Australia and when I returned he'd had that awful accident and died. I was devastated. He was a lovely man.
Hi. I know a workmate whose wife's sister was married to a member of the band, this was back in 1978, her surame was Mortal. Steve had an amazing voice, musical talent, looks and stage presence, so sad what happened. We saw the the band recently and there was one member of the original lineup.
I had the pleasure of meeting Steve at the 89 Broadford motor cycle festival and we became good friends for the following years. That man could party and party hard, he was and still is the best Kiwi i ever knew. I didn't hear of his passing until after the fact, and was even more saddened that he passed on my birthday 6 Jan.. A friend knew a nurse at Southport hospital where Steve was cared for, and she had a tale to tell about his coma. Every Friday afternoon around 4pm Steve's heartbeat would rise around 10 BPM higher and stay that way until the early hours of Monday morning. Even in a coma his body knew it was the weekend and time to party.. RIP Bro.
@@robertmilo5203 1983 was pretty good. "She Blinded Me With Science", "Our House", "I Ran (So Far Away)", "Space Age Love Song", "Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)", "Lies" (Thompson Twins), "Promises, Promises" and "Always Something There to Remind Me" by Naked Eyes, "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", and many others. 🎵 🙂
I'm now 80 and that song and that band bought me so much joy in my younger days.....I came to know the boys in the band and they were just so much fun and had wonderful senses of humour....then we come to their music unbelievable talent in spades!!!!...steve gilpin was such a nice fellow, I think about him often
I was recently diagnosed with cancer and I listen to this song at the gym on the treadmill to keep step. I love the strong bassline. Hopefully I'll be back at the gym after surgery and I can start listening to this again.
@@richardwitherow5289 thankyou, I just had my last chemo treatment a few days ago and will finish radiotherapy in a week. Fingers crossed that I'm cured.
Hi guys I just wanted to let you know that I finished up cancer treatment in late march, waited 3 months for the results and they've all come back - the cancer is gone! Im back in the gym on the treadmill and listening to computer games again :) I hope 2021 is a great year for everyone else too!
Nobody gives Murray Burns the credit he deserves for this track. The keys were absolutely revolutionary for the time. MURRAY BURNS!!! MURRAY FREAKIN' BURNS!!!!!
As a ten year old I desperately wanted this song to hit number 1 in the charts but it just couldn't move video killed the radio star. I will always carry this emotional scar!
After years of disco what a life saver new wave bands like Mi Sex were. I always thought this song should have been number one all over the world, I feel your pain.
Rob Muldoon regarded these guys as cultural as On The Mat, back in the day, saying no to the removal of sales tax from local act. This inspired The Knobz "Don't Give me Culture" A great decade to be a teenager.
I was DJ-ing in Crystal River Flori-DUH in '79 and had just gotten the 12" for this song. The dance floor was packed when I slapped it on the table and let loose. It was like seeing deer in your headlights. So I hit 'em with "Girl You Want" as a follow-up. :D They bled from their ears and screamed for more "Upside Down." I gave them Split-Enz, instead. There is no god.
@@robertmcmanus9185 No era tan difícil, yo escuchaba esta canción en el 79 en un programa de tv llamado "midnight special" que hacía armando plata camacho.
One of my absolute all time favourite songs, so catchy, so weird at the same time. The band that took their name from an "Ultravox!" song. Will always remember Steve Gilpin's voice, Don Martin's bass moves, Kevin Stanton's guitar, R.I.P. all of you...👽
Simon, you not wrong though I saw them only once at the Ambassador nightclub in Newcastle. There were a lot of good bands played there up close and personal.
The first time I ever got to buy my own records at 12 years old, I bought 2 singles, this and I Got You by Split Enz. Still got them both and I will never get sick of listening to this. At the time, I was getting into arcade games and Star Fire was one of my favourites so seeing it as the background to this clip was a thrill!
I also knew Steve Gilpin. A living legend. Playing gigs right up to the night he was mortally wounded. We lost a bright shining star in Steve. Not just an awesome talent and entertainer but a stellar human being and friend to all who knew him. Fond memories of singing on stage with him at Mullum footy club and parties in the hills.
I remember well the talent of Steve and his latter groups such as Under rapz and rapid fire. Playing all up and down the coast. But when they did their local sets he would point his mic. at you in the crowd and you would be obliged to jump up on stage and sing with him. Even if your voice was not great or you messed up the lyrics! That was the kind of generous fun spirit Steve possessed. I know you are up there singing with the angels Steve. Rock on Bro.
Newcastle NSW Australia . ..those pinball parlours in 80s..just fkn sik..an this music playing all the time. Call me old but fk it was mad back then..cheers
Same here Ray , Id say coast to coast... For me, from the Pinball Shack in George st opposite the cinemas, or westworld Arcade next door, to the Milk bar and the Laundromat in Riverwood.......A bike ride from Lugarno. ;)
One of my very first music purchases on a single lp as a pre-teen, great memories, and for all those who bag it, remember your music evolved from those previous, enjoy !
🎶 I fidget with the digit dots and cry an anxious tear As the XU-1 connects the spot But the matrix grid don't care Get a message to my mother What number would she be There's a million angry citizens Looking down their tubes at me Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games! Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games! There's safety in numbers, they say 'Cause the figures never lie No perfect persons ever noticed one computer die I'm programmed to a schedule What will the answer be Is it suicide run till the work gets done 'Cause the matrix grid don't say Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games! Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games! Jammed up tight by red traffic lights Advance one level on green These opportune commuters They're blasting on their hooters I fidget with the digit dots Frustration rules out there As the XU-1 connects the spot But the matrix grid don't care Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games! Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games! Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games! Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games! Com-put-er Games!
I was 16 yrs old and at the Sydney Opera House for an open air concert with many acts put on by 2SM. 1981 I think. It was my first live music experience and Mi-Sex opened the show with this song. It was so awesome to hear music so loud with so many cheering people. To this day when I hear this song I am back at the Opera House forecourt in my denim jacket and jeans, lots of surfie hair and drinking my first full long-neck. Shhhh, don't tell Mum. It was the start of an awesome decade of pub auditoriums, stadiums and the best music Australia ever produced.
Although they seem to have been launched to world success from Australia, and the video was filmed in Sidney, they were from New Zealand, ¿Weren't they?
Luke, MATE I got to agree Australian (*and New Zealand) music of the 80s is just so great. And this 40 + years later still sounds as fresh as then. And that riff....🤘
I was lucky to see this band live in Tasmania of all places, really awesome, and as you can see by this song, ahead of their time as far as technology.
Bro I've been trying to search this song for so many years I tell ya man it's been like 5 years I've been trying to find this absolutely amazing song and I've finally found it, my life is so much better now
On 25 November 1991, while driving home from an Under Rapz gig at nearby Byron Bay, Gilpin was involved in a car accident. He sustained serious head injuries that left him in a coma. He never recovered consciousness and died in Southport Hospital on 6 January 1992, aged 42. He was buried on his property. Two benefit concerts were held in February for his wife Maggie, and their two children.
Thank you for the info. Such a shame. I hear this song and I’m back to the late 70s in southern Sydney pubs, bopping around like an idiot in my Dunlop Volleys.
Wonderful, completely unique. Always wanted to know: is it 12 or 13 times that the "pu" from computer is repeated (with some that are hiccups-like) ??!! New Wave Masterpiece.
A great song from a talented new Zealand band..its sad that Steve gilpin was killed in a freak road accident shortly after this song was released..all future shattered forever ..So tragic . wherever you are in the afterlife Steve gilpin..I hope you went to heaven? ♥️ Xxxxooo
wow i remember laying on the floor at my football coaches house with headphones on listening to this song over and over again like all day for how long lol still love it that was 1979 wow i am old now was on a vinyl single so kool.
Fun days. I loved this song ever since I heard it regularly on Tom Leykis’s late night talk and comedy show on WBAI. He’d throw in a fair bit of new wave that you wouldn’t hear anywhere else. I was never a big arcade player, but was hooked on computer dungeon games and still play them to this day.
The video displays 'Control Data Corporation'. If I'm right that's the old data centre and educational facility in North Sydney where I trained in computer programming. Have often wondered where that was filmed. At that time magnetic tapes were state of the art and those hard disc drives were the next big thing - until they had what they called a head crash!
i remember singing this for year 6 choir and revisiting it now, like 7 years later, and although we sang a a slightly altered version i can see why i liked this song so much lol
Good men....I remember.... the first stereo I ever owned.... played this loud,,, until the parents got home.... me??? Nothing.... just doing my homework.......
takes me back to video arcades of the early eighties and getting zonked and spending hours in a trance playing space invaders and galaxian. Used to work up a real sweat trying to set a high score but neve quite making it. Great memories tho and this song takes me back there. R.I.P Steve Gilpin
This was released around the same time Space Invaders uprights & tabletops hit Australia. I remember it banging out the speakers while playing pinnies at Flashback (long defunct pinnie parlour in Bourke Street, Melbourne). The perfect soundtrack for a joystick junky.
Jammed this song hard at parties when we first heard it way back. Had this punk rock beat and swag about. Saw them play at Mainstreet, Upper Queen Street, Auckland as well..
Steve Gilpin was a very good friend of mine. We hung out in the same muso nightclub (the Manzil Room), he'd always give me a lift home as the sun was coming up (going out of his way). I took a contract job in West Australia and when I returned he'd had that awful accident and died. I was devastated. He was a lovely man.
Hi. I know a workmate whose wife's sister was married to a member of the band, this was back in 1978, her surame was Mortal. Steve had an amazing voice, musical talent, looks and stage presence, so sad what happened.
We saw the the band recently and there was one member of the original lineup.
I'd met Steve and Maggie too about a year or 2 before the accident, wonderful people and such a sad loss :(
Crap ! I had no idea :(
I hung at thhe Manzil also and knew him well...loved him
I had the pleasure of meeting Steve at the 89 Broadford motor cycle festival and we became good friends for the following years. That man could party and party hard, he was and still is the best Kiwi i ever knew. I didn't hear of his passing until after the fact, and was even more saddened that he passed on my birthday 6 Jan.. A friend knew a nurse at Southport hospital where Steve was cared for, and she had a tale to tell about his coma. Every Friday afternoon around 4pm Steve's heartbeat would rise around 10 BPM higher and stay that way until the early hours of Monday morning. Even in a coma his body knew it was the weekend and time to party.. RIP Bro.
1979 was the best year of the 80's
And 89 the nineties!
Was there a better year for music?
@@robertmilo5203 1983 was pretty good. "She Blinded Me With Science", "Our House", "I Ran (So Far Away)", "Space Age Love Song", "Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)", "Lies" (Thompson Twins), "Promises, Promises" and "Always Something There to Remind Me" by Naked Eyes, "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", and many others. 🎵 🙂
@@Milesco and '84 had CLauper, Nena, Madonna, and Thompson Twins' Doctor Doctor...
If you liked this song… as I did … did you also like Kraftwerk and Devo?
45 years later and MI-Sex still sounds more futuristic than anything coming out of the radio today.
I'm now 80 and that song and that band bought me so much joy in my younger days.....I came to know the boys in the band and they were just so much fun and had wonderful senses of humour....then we come to their music unbelievable talent in spades!!!!...steve gilpin was such a nice fellow, I think about him often
Genuine appreciation for all the Aussie and Kiwi Bands out there. Your music rocks. Hi5 from Goa, India
Goa, mate is my favorite place I would love to visit in India . And it was a small world for the doctor who removed my tonsils family from Goa.
These guys were ‘80s before the ‘80s were invented.
This was before DOS was released lol
@@lookingglassapartments8851 Dos, no Dos. The matrix grid don't care.
Escucha Our Love (D. Summer) 79 o el sonido del grupo Sparks 79 de Giorgio⚡Moroder y la electro NRG & Synthpop de la EDM que inicio Moroder desde 1977
Yeah
Our introduction to the 80's.
A great band saw them in Aug/Sep 1979 at the House on the Hill in Cairns.
Love from England 🏴 ❤
I was recently diagnosed with cancer and I listen to this song at the gym on the treadmill to keep step. I love the strong bassline. Hopefully I'll be back at the gym after surgery and I can start listening to this again.
I hope you're doing ok Andrew.
@@richardwitherow5289 thankyou, I just had my last chemo treatment a few days ago and will finish radiotherapy in a week. Fingers crossed that I'm cured.
@@Kingslayer_au Good one mate!
I know somewhere you can find your own personal Jesus....reach out and and touch faith. Hope you’re well mate. 👊🏼
Hi guys I just wanted to let you know that I finished up cancer treatment in late march, waited 3 months for the results and they've all come back - the cancer is gone! Im back in the gym on the treadmill and listening to computer games again :) I hope 2021 is a great year for everyone else too!
Everything about this song just works. Synth is great, guitar lead, ripping chords used sparingly, bass line, lyrics and voice... visionary.
It’s a very underrated song that’s for sure.
The NRG & Synthpop Sound of Giorgio⚡Moroder, father and pionner of EDM since 1977.
I was a child
That riff is epic.
It kind of has a 1960s spy film vibe to it.
Nobody gives Murray Burns the credit he deserves for this track. The keys were absolutely revolutionary for the time. MURRAY BURNS!!! MURRAY FREAKIN' BURNS!!!!!
Just wondering what you meant by the keys being revolutionary?
Got it.👍😂
he was given credit tonight at the croxton!
Murray Fkn BURNS!
As a ten year old I desperately wanted this song to hit number 1 in the charts but it just couldn't move video killed the radio star. I will always carry this emotional scar!
Hahaha I was also 10 when this came out. I remember thinking how high tech & modern it was. Such good memories...
After years of disco what a life saver new wave bands like Mi Sex were. I always thought this song should have been number one all over the world, I feel your pain.
its way better then video killed the radio star
I feel your pain 🥲
Rob Muldoon regarded these guys as cultural as On The Mat, back in the day, saying no to the removal of sales tax from local act. This inspired The Knobz "Don't Give me Culture" A great decade to be a teenager.
I was DJ-ing in Crystal River Flori-DUH in '79 and had just gotten the 12" for this song. The dance floor was packed when I slapped it on the table and let loose.
It was like seeing deer in your headlights.
So I hit 'em with "Girl You Want" as a follow-up. :D They bled from their ears and screamed for more "Upside Down."
I gave them Split-Enz, instead.
There is no god.
I will never get tired of this classic hit
Sports is another Aussie band that deserved international recognition.
Thank you for the memories.
Being a young adolescent in the 80's with a commodore 64, and this song coming out perfectly encapsulates the time. Wish I could go back!
Good times ..but can never go back .
Brilliant journey , push on .
Was the C64 a British System? I have a limited knowledge of "retro gaming" mostly from listening to Chiptunes.
@@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms yes tape dreive and 1 kilo byte memory
The C64 is still the sh@t....Happy times
Commodore was a US company but the C64 was hugely popular in the UK and Europe and Australia
I am from Colombia and I listened that song in my country, suddenly I was surprised. What a song?. Its a jewel. Thanks!
Cada tema musical hecho en los 70 y 80 te va sorprender / increíble este tema musical
Que bueno.... vivi en Colombia y yo se que fue dificil para escuchar musica de este estilo alla. Escucha todo el LP.... es excelente.
@@robertmcmanus9185 No era tan difícil, yo escuchaba esta canción en el 79 en un programa de tv llamado "midnight special" que hacía armando plata camacho.
@@willcastano3529 Si, conozco Midnight Special. Buena programa! Que bueno todo la musica que tenemos la oportunidad para escuchar. Suerte!
Man this has to be one of the greatest songs evet made
Every time this song is playing it makes me feel like I’m in a computer game world
At least one of the most underrated and cool tunes outta outback OZ.
Should play it in new Matrix movie.
You are getting a little excited
Yep, Jonah Lewis brought me here..
Still sounds very fresh and futuristic today
Agreed streets ahead!
Way way way ahead of time
This was my favourite song then, because i played arcade games at corner shop nd I'm still playing on xbox one 🎉😂 from Fremantle West Australia
Such an iconic riff.
We heard the future of music during the Fall of 1979 with ‘Computer Games’ and ‘Cars’…)
One of my absolute all time favourite songs, so catchy, so weird at the same time. The band that took their name from an "Ultravox!" song. Will always remember Steve Gilpin's voice, Don Martin's bass moves, Kevin Stanton's guitar, R.I.P. all of you...👽
Underrated...massively underrated. Having seen them live several times...I know.
Simon, you not wrong though I saw them only once at the Ambassador nightclub in Newcastle. There were a lot of good bands played there up close and personal.
For ~1979 this is quite an epic video for it's time.
Love how they got everything synched up so well. Including the beep beep.
Mason from Mr Sunday Movies sent me.
Same! Isnt this cyborgs theme?
@@kenmccarthy9838 And the Flash's.
the best part is that this was uploaded after their video lmao
Same ngl. Haven't been bit by an 80's earworm this bad since RedScotGaming's use of "House of Fun".
Genuinely one of the coolest songs and videos ever
The first time I ever got to buy my own records at 12 years old, I bought 2 singles, this and I Got You by Split Enz. Still got them both and I will never get sick of listening to this. At the time, I was getting into arcade games and Star Fire was one of my favourites so seeing it as the background to this clip was a thrill!
I also knew Steve Gilpin. A living legend. Playing gigs right up to the night he was mortally wounded. We lost a bright shining star in Steve. Not just an awesome talent and entertainer but a stellar human being and friend to all who knew him. Fond memories of singing on stage with him at Mullum footy club and parties in the hills.
I remember well the talent of Steve and his latter groups such as Under rapz and rapid fire. Playing all up and down the coast. But when they did their local sets he would point his mic. at you in the crowd and you would be obliged to jump up on stage and sing with him. Even if your voice was not great or you messed up the lyrics! That was the kind of generous fun spirit Steve possessed. I know you are up there singing with the angels Steve. Rock on Bro.
I was 12 when this song / video was featured on "Video West " in San Francisco bay area.One of my favorites! Greetings from California ❤
And love from Australia . Great band
for me this never ever gets old 💔🖥🖤🎮
Newcastle NSW Australia . ..those pinball parlours in 80s..just fkn sik..an this music playing all the time. Call me old but fk it was mad back then..cheers
yep
As a kid going to see movies at the tower cinemas would include going to the arcade on King st.
Same here Ray , Id say coast to coast...
For me, from the Pinball Shack in George st opposite the cinemas, or westworld Arcade next door, to the Milk bar and the Laundromat in Riverwood.......A bike ride from Lugarno. ;)
You all became boring conformist conservative normies, there is still good music you just have to know where to find it.
Mate your words just took me back in time! Loved those old school pinball parlours.
Just awesome New Zealand 🇳🇿 & Australian 🇦🇺 music 🎶 🎵 🎼 🎸 🎹 🎤 ❤️ 👌 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 R I P Don 😢
NZ.
Still poppin off in '24 lesgooo
One of my very first music purchases on a single lp as a pre-teen, great memories, and for all those who bag it, remember your music evolved from those previous, enjoy !
🎶
I fidget with the digit dots and cry an anxious tear
As the XU-1 connects the spot
But the matrix grid don't care
Get a message to my mother
What number would she be
There's a million angry citizens
Looking down their tubes at me
Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games!
Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games!
There's safety in numbers, they say
'Cause the figures never lie
No perfect persons ever noticed one computer die
I'm programmed to a schedule
What will the answer be
Is it suicide run till the work gets done
'Cause the matrix grid don't say
Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games!
Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games!
Jammed up tight by red traffic lights
Advance one level on green
These opportune commuters
They're blasting on their hooters
I fidget with the digit dots
Frustration rules out there
As the XU-1 connects the spot
But the matrix grid don't care
Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games!
Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games!
Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games!
Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter-puter-puter, computer games!
Com-put-er Games!
This was New Wave in the states. I loved it. Fun, it helped launched MTV.
I was 16 yrs old and at the Sydney Opera House for an open air concert with many acts put on by 2SM. 1981 I think. It was my first live music experience and Mi-Sex opened the show with this song. It was so awesome to hear music so loud with so many cheering people. To this day when I hear this song I am back at the Opera House forecourt in my denim jacket and jeans, lots of surfie hair and drinking my first full long-neck. Shhhh, don't tell Mum. It was the start of an awesome decade of pub auditoriums, stadiums and the best music Australia ever produced.
Although they seem to have been launched to world success from Australia, and the video was filmed in Sidney, they were from New Zealand, ¿Weren't they?
Luke, MATE I got to agree Australian (*and New Zealand) music of the 80s is just so great. And this 40 + years later still sounds as fresh as then. And that riff....🤘
@@Castilla-Madrid Yes they are band that originated from New Zealand :)
I was lucky to see this band live in Tasmania of all places, really awesome, and as you can see by this song, ahead of their time as far as technology.
Hoy 2023 Sonando aún este maravilloso tema musical fuera de tiempo
Love this band when I was 13yrs and still iconic at 58yrs!! July 2022
As an 18 year old myself, I remember my brother showing it to me when I was like 7 and damn.
Back then the best was this song playing on the speakers in an arcade playing the game featured in the video. Life was good.
Some of my best Childhood Memories bring it back :)
Bro I've been trying to search this song for so many years I tell ya man it's been like 5 years I've been trying to find this absolutely amazing song and I've finally found it, my life is so much better now
A deadset 80s classic!
I saw this song live at the Sydney Opera House steps in the mid 80s sounded awesome live too :).
Bring back the 80’s please.
Listen to Richard blade on 1st Wave on Serious Radio
Don't forget all the nuclear tension, mass shootings, wars, and all the other terrible things that came with it!
*1979
@@simbadooo9055 Any of that in Australia and NZ? Life in both countries was mostly carefree compared to the rest of the planet.
Mr. Sunday Movies brought me here and so glad they did... such a great song!
The late lamented Steve Gilpin - a man not afraid to make silly noises for the sake of his art. Love this
On 25 November 1991, while driving home from an Under Rapz gig at nearby Byron Bay, Gilpin was involved in a car accident.
He sustained serious head injuries that left him in a coma. He never recovered consciousness and died in Southport Hospital on 6 January 1992, aged 42.
He was buried on his property. Two benefit concerts were held in February for his wife Maggie, and their two children.
Thank you for the info. Such a shame. I hear this song and I’m back to the late 70s in southern Sydney pubs, bopping around like an idiot in my Dunlop Volleys.
I saw these talented gents at the Ambassador Club Maitland in 1980.
Wonderful, completely unique. Always wanted to know: is it 12 or 13 times that the "pu" from computer is repeated (with some that are hiccups-like) ??!! New Wave Masterpiece.
...greatest riff ever to come out of New Zealand ! :)
Still love this song
God I just gotta listen to this song every now and then...... and remember. Thanks for sharing.
Winter Garden Tavern, Queen street mall Friday and Saturday Nights, Steve and the lads were Awesome!
RIP Steve.
An actual mainframe computer at Control Data.
Just WOW!
Nicely edited video.
Especially since it was all done on tape or film.
A great song from a talented new Zealand band..its sad that Steve gilpin was killed in a freak road accident shortly after this song was released..all future shattered forever ..So tragic . wherever you are in the afterlife Steve gilpin..I hope you went to heaven? ♥️ Xxxxooo
This a catchy one
Another Kiwi band us Aussies adopted as our very own, classic early 80s Countdown staple.
been on board since South Florida, circa '82.
@@tomallen5837 qqAaaA
@@tomallen5837 qq
Shazamed this song from Coles background music
Still a banger2022!????????
Back in the 80's bring back a lot memories 😀😂
I think it's from 79!
They still play it on radio out here at western nsw Australia 🇦🇺
Saw them live in Parnell Auckland in a pub bloody Awesome
The Windsor Castle sadly gone now.
What a band,and what a song 👍👏❤️
Simply brilliant I love this band forever
wow i remember laying on the floor at my football coaches house with headphones on listening to this song over and over again like all day for how long lol still love it that was 1979 wow i am old now was on a vinyl single so kool.
They were SO good, that's the problem with getting older, we lose those that we love.
My Rock Band still plays MS Tunes to this day - great Band well ahead of there time - Cheers
Computer Games, Cars and Another Brick in the Wall pt2 while playing Space Invaders in an arcade, just awesome :)
Fun days. I loved this song ever since I heard it regularly on Tom Leykis’s late night talk and comedy show on WBAI. He’d throw in a fair bit of new wave that you wouldn’t hear anywhere else. I was never a big arcade player, but was hooked on computer dungeon games and still play them to this day.
Love this song!!!! Wen I’m singing the song makes me feel like I’m in a video game world!!!
This song blew my mind when i first heard it in 79, most certainly ahead of it's time
Saw them live mate and they where good value, I'm like Beatles' song.............64
Cyborgs theme
- Mason, Mr sunday movies
And the flash
Interesting... 🤔
@@adamcomma he watches rick and morty!!!
"Jammed up tight by a red traffic light, 🚦 advance 1 level on green!" Love that line, sort of an arcade take on gridlock!
Love this song. ❤ coming of age music. New Wave
Where was the Control Data Corporation building that they visited in the video?
North Sydney
wow still sounds good
As I am a programmer... this one of my favorites
The video displays 'Control Data Corporation'. If I'm right that's the old data centre and educational facility in North Sydney where I trained in computer programming. Have often wondered where that was filmed. At that time magnetic tapes were state of the art and those hard disc drives were the next big thing - until they had what they called a head crash!
This popped into my head today. Why? I have no idea. But I’m glad it did!
I'm glad this happens to me all the time
One of the very best !
Great to see you guys still charging!
One of my favourite songs grownup
The computers have improved over time, but I'm not sure if the music has...
Hopefully the computers will make our music in the future, the humans seemed to have ran out of steam there.
Loved it when i was12 love it now at 55
Best riff of 1979.
i remember singing this for year 6 choir and revisiting it now, like 7 years later, and although we sang a a slightly altered version i can see why i liked this song so much lol
This was the a song way ahead of any tech, brilliant
Good men....I remember.... the first stereo I ever owned.... played this loud,,, until the parents got home.... me??? Nothing.... just doing my homework.......
aussie/NZ music were ahead of their time and before MTV
Ready To Role was a must on Saturday evening 🙂
takes me back to video arcades of the early eighties and getting zonked and spending hours in a trance playing space invaders and galaxian. Used to work up a real sweat trying to set a high score but neve quite making it. Great memories tho and this song takes me back there. R.I.P Steve Gilpin
There was always the option of unplugging the game to reset the high scores to something easier to beat. Uh... a friend used to do that, not me. 😁
... and there was Defender. Yep, a great song
Bring it back
Tremendous song. They are timeless.
Skating to this at Canterbury ice rink 79, I was 12
This was released around the same time Space Invaders uprights & tabletops hit Australia. I remember it banging out the speakers while playing pinnies at Flashback (long defunct pinnie parlour in Bourke Street, Melbourne). The perfect soundtrack for a joystick junky.
I have seen them play this live, in 2019. It was the highlight of the concert.
This is a awsome song when you were raised to it, NOW IT SONDS SO MUCH BETTER, THE END IS THE BEST ,❤
Miss those Years, I need a Time Machine.😤
Jammed this song hard at parties when we first heard it way back. Had this punk rock beat and swag about. Saw them play at Mainstreet, Upper Queen Street, Auckland as well..
I was mesmerised as a kid by this song when it was released. A bad ass song with a bad ass sound !
Recently saw Mi Sex at The Big Red Bash concert with Steve Balby on vocals. They were amazing.
great band, great classic song... sadly most of the band are now passed
I have no idea what the lyrics are about and I'm a computer programmer.
I love that guitar!