There's an amazing trance-like quality to this song. It's like being in somebody else's compelling dream. It's of it's time, yet timeless. How do you write and arrange music that simmers just below rage and still echoes with love and passion and humid summer air? Keupper did, it's an elegant arrangement with the restrained execution of a professional artist and I marvel at it's brilliance every time I hear it. And I know that I'll be hearing it for days. It's so bloody resonant!
That is beautifullly expressed, presumably inspired by the genius of the music- only can happen in Australia, the home of the songlines that stretch back through our beautiful indigenous people
Remember seeing this on Rage in ' 92 in my first ever share house off Ipswich Rd in Annerley. $40pw for a room, parties every weekend, 4ZZZ collective, those were the days.
if we can have the Go Between bridge in Brisbane, in honour of the Go Betweens (NO complaints there), then Ed Kuepper deserves a freeway or at least a suburb - Kueppers Plains (pun intended, for those of you who don't know brisbane Coopers Plains is not far from Ed's childhood zone) sounds good.
Apart from memories flooding back this reminds me that there is only 2 degrees of separation in Brisvegas. Eds brother spent some time in the same classroom as me at high school (now long gone) and the list goes on.
Speaks to a time in my 20s "and what they said in all that time was true there were no good old days as such" came one like an epiphany especially as a working class intellectual refugee
As of 16/2/2020 there were 82 brain dead dickheads who did not like this song, possibly the best song ever written by an AMAZINGLY talented man. THANK YOU Ed we love this, your are remarkable.
I have been listening to this type of music since I was 15 years of age I'm now 52 love the alternative music that came out in the 80s 90s even the 70s and 60's the music scene was so much better back then and you're right where did time go
Nice we caught the end of him playing Byron about 5 years ago,,, very intimate setting,,, my mate was stoked afterwards he met him (I told him to just go up to him),,, he was chill as,,, I just checked out his guitars and no one told me off lol 😆
He was in one of the first punk bands ever, called The Saints”, in Australia, and is highly respected in Germany where he lived (lives?) for a long time. Britain recognized The Saints as ground-breaking .
I've seen him play live twice. Both instances were in fairly intimate settings. He was only accompanied a drummer and he is an intense guitar player and his sets are intense. He just belts out all these original songs, many of them on a steel string guitar. What he does is takes the listener on a journey into his mind. He is an artist not for the casual listener but even so he can draw you in mid set. I find to get the most out of these types of musician it is better to be familiar with their material to better appreciate the live. He really is an excellent live performer and very approachable. We had a chat after the show for ages - perhaps 45mins and it was the first time I'd seen him (not that two occasions is much LOL. I was introduced to him by a New Yorker who was visiting Melbourne (Australia) and I was hooked. We saw him at a pub and there were only about 10 people there on a Monday night. That was in 1994 and by '94 he was already getting on to be a well known performer for about 15-20 years. I came to him late.
Yes it started when i was cleaning dishes And the phone rang in the hall I was drawn to it against my wishes Ugly memories of the war I didn’t count on mass destruction When i saw you It was the way i made you feel I hadn’t seen such mass destruction ‘til i saw you Was the way i made you feel Well we went to town past the old café That existed to service the highway And what they said for all those years There never were good old days as such I didn’t count on mass destruction When i saw you It was the way i made you feel I hadn’t seen such mass destruction ‘til i saw you Was the way i made you feel
Saw Ed do this at the Basement last week - just Ed, his guitar, and Mark Dawson on drums. Astonishing. Sounded almost exactly like this studio version, but, incredibly, better. How does he do it? Ed is a musical genius. Oh, and he was funny and humble as well. Knockout show. If you get a chance to see Ed - regardless of who he's playing with, what he's playing, or the venue - just go.One day we will realise he is our Dylan, or hendrix, or.....maybe just our Ed :-)
Honeyy fools gold is a deserved album in Australia's top 100 of all time , just like l' m stranded with the saints led by a legend aswell in Chris Bailey may he rest in peace
As for the landscape in the video, the first minute shows the cokemaking facilities in Port Kembla steelworks, in those days perhaps the largest industrial plant in Southern Hemisphere. Then there is a tall cylinder (one of two) holding the reserve gas supply for the steelworks. A very tall chimney seen between weatherboard houses belonged to the copper smelter that changed many hands (I remember it under the name Southern Copper). The smelter is gone, and the chimney too. The orange flame is from the burning of off-gas in the steelmaking plant. The derelict suburb is most likely Port Kembla or its surrounds.
Karl Benson - Picturesque and Matchstickable perhaps ? I love both this (Ed's) tune and Alan's from 1968 . PS: The weather forecast today " Sunny (with) Cellophane Skies"
This should be voted the best song ever Killer riff great voice He should be incredibly rich Another Aus that doesn't get the complete recognition I hope in a hundred years they go wow (this song)
I’ve had the “I was drawn to it against my wishes, ugly memories of the war.” lyrics in my head for months now then finally I remembered who sang them. Ed Fucking Kuepper!!! Great song.
I saw Ed Kuepper perform this song at a party last weekend in Brisbane. This song is just magical, but the first time I actually knew of it was in 1999 when Jimmy Little covered it and it got a lot of radio airplay at the time.
Currently watching this clip in a hotel in Kao Lak Thailand . Have seen it played live at the Gov Hindmarsh hotel about 20 years ago and it still sounds great.
good music. thanks. I lived with bands and a promoter, and met a lot of 80-90s bands. from here and overseas. great times. real acid and extc. I was living in the city and managing a cattle/pot+magic meshroom paradise. farm in the equivalent of Woodstock. be warned! the scag got me for 20 years..
The Saints are great even when they have a bad day. CHRIS BAILEY will be recognized after his light goes off. Love the band, imagine, growing up in Yugoslavia, comming in a book shop and there is ETERNALLY YOURS
Listen to the 25 year of The BJM (The Brian Jonestown Massacre),,, Anton is their 'leader' always use three or four guitars including normally old school Brian Jones style 12 string hollowbodies,,, look up Anemone for easy listen or 'Dig!' which is their backstory
Im here cause i just got a message is the support act for the psychedelic furs tomorrow night at the enmore i know him could not remember what he sounds like i like him so in that case ill watch him if i remember i think i saw him live at the rocks when i was a kid pretty sure it was him long time a go im 61 so im going a long way back 16 nov 2022
Tak Lesiu! trzeba było zacisnąć zęby i zostać u kasztanów,rąbać drzewo i Helgę, mieć mleczne krowy ,kozy i kury a przede wszystkim świnie i jądłbyś żeberka z rusztu z kartofelkami a stado dzieci radośnie by jodłowały tatusiowi piękne rytmiczne piśni i marsze,miałbyś vw i krótkie skórzane nie opadające spodnie na szelkach ,odwiedzałbyś swoje rodzinne strony w opolskiem i wszyscy by ci zazdrościli mówiąc na stronie "her gott " ten to jest goścć!! fafluchter dunerweter nie to co my gamonie z opolski
Have always loved this song on the Butterfly Net CD, which would be one of my desert island discs. I don't remember seeing the video before, but it really does justice to the song.
wow how coool is this one, not much more can be said except thank you Ed and to you NZOZ Thank You for finding and sharing all these great tracks n vids with us all a wonderful collection you do have
Wow , memory lane, I use too play this death in 90s,,Then today a thought went through my mind, the words Honey steals gold? I thought that rings a bell , what is it ? why does that mean something to me? crazy mind ! youtube of course had the answer here!! too much weed a long time ago!😆
Love Ed. I find he went through a bit of a self indulgent period seeing him live several times years ago. I left one gig. Kinda weird. It might have mean just me but I love all his earlier albums. Thank goodness you can now get most of it on streaming platforms. Awesome muso and songwriter.
The slide part is a 12 string acoustic is say (or some kinda lap slide which is similar concept of different times of the same note) and you can hear the finger picking solo has two tones to each note (like the opening to Wish You Were Here needs to be a 12 to sound properly),,, plus like the Phil Spector 'Wall of sound' sound there would be one on rhythm although it's electric primarily
@@macharptube haha just answering your question :) did someone else say the same?? that was just my opinion; I play and rexord so just giving my thoughts cjeers
There's an amazing trance-like quality to this song. It's like being in somebody else's compelling dream. It's of it's time, yet timeless. How do you write and arrange music that simmers just below rage and still echoes with love and passion and humid summer air? Keupper did, it's an elegant arrangement with the restrained execution of a professional artist and I marvel at it's brilliance every time I hear it.
And I know that I'll be hearing it for days. It's so bloody resonant!
wow! well said, exactly how i have been hearing the song the last 40 years
Actually the way you write is pretty awesome too! What I would've said if I could've found those words. Thank you 🎶
That is beautifullly expressed, presumably inspired by the genius of the music- only can happen in Australia, the home of the songlines that stretch back through our beautiful indigenous people
Agree 1000% !! Nothing flashy or pretentious about this. Just beautifully executed, hypnotic artistry, which evokes nostalgia !
Remember seeing this on Rage in ' 92 in my first ever share house off Ipswich Rd in Annerley. $40pw for a room, parties every weekend, 4ZZZ collective, those were the days.
i found a ed kuepper cd at a random thrift store in my hometown (md usa) listened to it like 40x greetings from america
Worth a follow up numerous albums and good success with Aussie punk band The Saints
9 opp 9000 please l lo 999 lo op Ollie) ollllll090p
If you like ed here is another album you have to hear from another local Aussie band - died pretty doughboy hollow
Gday ;) Ed is amazing, this song is a classic, congrats on your find! You have great taste! Salutations from Oz
You stumbled onto gold
if we can have the Go Between bridge in Brisbane, in honour of the Go Betweens (NO complaints there), then Ed Kuepper deserves a freeway or at least a suburb - Kueppers Plains (pun intended, for those of you who don't know brisbane Coopers Plains is not far from Ed's childhood zone) sounds good.
I AINT gonna lie, this is brilliant!
Sure is !! One of my favourites !!! ❤️
Apart from memories flooding back this reminds me that there is only 2 degrees of separation in Brisvegas. Eds brother spent some time in the same classroom as me at high school (now long gone) and the list goes on.
Oxley High?
It’s the year 2022 still love this song, his guitar on kings of the sun just beautiful , still 72 yrs old love the saints.
72 years old in the year of the Coronavirus in August of 2020 and still love this song..Stay safe all you out there. 😶
Speaks to a time in my 20s "and what they said in all that time was true there were no good old days as such" came one like an epiphany especially as a working class intellectual refugee
G'day ed. Lovely track here isn't it mate ?
Dave..
74 coming January
My favorite ed kuepper song , that guitar is so sweet..
Out of the 100+ countries including 25 members of the UN have never and will never isolate cv 😉
Quite possibly the greatest Australian song of all time ⭐️
This is, to me, one of the greatest Australian songs of all time. It so much captures a moment and a feeling.
This doing is still as beautiful and haunting as the day I heard it. One of my faves since the first day I heard it!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
As of 16/2/2020 there were 82 brain dead dickheads who did not like this song, possibly the best song ever written by an AMAZINGLY talented man. THANK YOU Ed we love this, your are remarkable.
A guitar hero. What a talent he has.
Feel like i am listening to Rage at 4 am Sunday morning...
At 61 still loving it November 2019 😎
It's absolutely brilliant and it's an absolute shame about the way music has gone these days.
Same 61 in February but in my head I’m still thirty ROCK ON
@@snowdropper5879 where did the time go.
Love this xx
I have been listening to this type of music since I was 15 years of age I'm now 52 love the alternative music that came out in the 80s 90s even the 70s and 60's the music scene was so much better back then and you're right where did time go
Still listening oct 2020 Australia
Saw him do this song live in a small restaurant/venue in Katoomba, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. Brilliant songwriter and great show.
Nice we caught the end of him playing Byron about 5 years ago,,, very intimate setting,,, my mate was stoked afterwards he met him (I told him to just go up to him),,, he was chill as,,, I just checked out his guitars and no one told me off lol 😆
@@blacksaxmusic haha. I asked his sound engineer what his guitar was going through but he didn’t tell me details ( the guitar had a unique sound).
God bless Brisbane, home of fine Aus music!!!!!
Underrated underlies ex on radio
Classic
Classic AUSSIE 🇦🇺
Track
The very close friend who introduced me to Ed Kuepper's music is sadly now gone. I listen to remember. Thank you.
This music makes my voices in my brain go away. Now its silent in my mind. Thanks for the music, mates.
great musician...........
Masterpiece classic. Beautiful blend of fast-slow pacing and declension. Lovely riff ricochets and hangs in the air.
Here it is 11/02/2018 an this yank is just now finding this man's music. Why wasn't his music pushed harder here in the U. S.of A. His music is sweet.
Thomas Blue his music goes back to the 70's.keep looking and enjoy.
He was in one of the first punk bands ever, called The Saints”, in Australia, and is highly respected in Germany where he lived (lives?) for a long time. Britain recognized The Saints as ground-breaking .
I've seen him play live twice. Both instances were in fairly intimate settings. He was only accompanied a drummer and he is an intense guitar player and his sets are intense. He just belts out all these original songs, many of them on a steel string guitar.
What he does is takes the listener on a journey into his mind. He is an artist not for the casual listener but even so he can draw you in mid set.
I find to get the most out of these types of musician it is better to be familiar with their material to better appreciate the live.
He really is an excellent live performer and very approachable. We had a chat after the show for ages - perhaps 45mins and it was the first time I'd seen him (not that two occasions is much LOL.
I was introduced to him by a New Yorker who was visiting Melbourne (Australia) and I was hooked. We saw him at a pub and there were only about 10 people there on a Monday night. That was in 1994 and by '94 he was already getting on to be a well known performer for about 15-20 years. I came to him late.
Ed kueper has being one of my music hero's for forty years . And Chris Bailey
The way this makes me feel , OLD .
I only ever saw him in Sydney so same feels.
Yes it started when i was cleaning dishes
And the phone rang in the hall
I was drawn to it against my wishes
Ugly memories of the war
I didn’t count on mass destruction
When i saw you
It was the way i made you feel
I hadn’t seen such mass destruction
‘til i saw you
Was the way i made you feel
Well we went to town past the old café
That existed to service the highway
And what they said for all those years
There never were good old days as such
I didn’t count on mass destruction
When i saw you
It was the way i made you feel
I hadn’t seen such mass destruction
‘til i saw you
Was the way i made you feel
Saw Ed do this at the Basement last week - just Ed, his guitar, and Mark Dawson on drums.
Astonishing. Sounded almost exactly like this studio version, but, incredibly, better. How does he do it?
Ed is a musical genius. Oh, and he was funny and humble as well. Knockout show. If you get a chance to see Ed - regardless of who he's playing with, what he's playing, or the venue - just go.One day we will realise he is our Dylan, or hendrix, or.....maybe just our Ed :-)
He is a genius. :)
Brings back some great memories of Sydney in the 90's, hanging at the Annandale and Hopetoun hotels good times.Paul M
Arrr the Hope hotel.
Capo on 5th fret D C F G,then F,G D C F G.... noice!
Always so with ed it seems 🤪
Ben Martin - Thanks for the chords to this brilliant song👍🎸😎
Honeyy fools gold is a deserved album in Australia's top 100 of all time , just like l' m stranded with the saints led by a legend aswell in Chris Bailey may he rest in peace
Honey Steel’s Gold 😎
One of the greatest song's about about pure carnal desires, always reminds one of opressive humidity of a Brisbane summer day
Oh yeh
Yes he has a song called Electrical Storm but I suppose you know that but still...
Always thought it was about a domestic....lol
Rings true
Still modern
Astonishing music
Honey Steel's Gold and Doughboy Hollow seminal Aussie albums. (for me at least)
100% agree.
100% agree saw Ed play this in front of 50 people at a uni bar amazing made me go buy honey steels gold
Died Pretty ... Australia’s best and ugliest band .... I still love DBH. .. everybody moves away .... not on DBH but Died Pretty.
Viva Bris Vegas! Cheers for the music, Ed!
The underrated musician is the key to excellence.
As for the landscape in the video, the first minute shows the cokemaking facilities in Port Kembla steelworks, in those days perhaps the largest industrial plant in Southern Hemisphere. Then there is a tall cylinder (one of two) holding the reserve gas supply for the steelworks. A very tall chimney seen between weatherboard houses belonged to the copper smelter that changed many hands (I remember it under the name Southern Copper). The smelter is gone, and the chimney too. The orange flame is from the burning of off-gas in the steelmaking plant. The derelict suburb is most likely Port Kembla or its surrounds.
Thanks for the history lesson!
I have wondered about that for the last 25 years. Funny thing is I was semi regularly driving post there a few years go.
Cringila ?
Wollongong The Brave
Thankyou.
Voted “most bonkable song” JJJ poll about 1997!
Ed is an aussie music legend.
And a great bloke as well.
Good music 🇩🇪
One of Alan Lancaster's best early songs.
Karl Benson - Picturesque and Matchstickable perhaps ? I love both this (Ed's) tune and Alan's from 1968 .
PS: The weather forecast today
" Sunny (with) Cellophane Skies"
This should be voted the best song ever
Killer riff
great voice
He should be incredibly rich
Another Aus that doesn't get the complete recognition
I hope in a hundred years they go wow (this song)
Film clip made near pt kembla steelworks...and nearby suburbs of cringila and warrawong
Stuart McKern - Thanks, I was wondering where they filmed the video.
Best guitar riff ever. And Jimmy Little did a great version
Warwick Norwich Jimmy's version brilliant too.
I had him on a tape, then I had him on a CD, now I've got him on my Ipod.. Brilliant!
I’ve had the “I was drawn to it against my wishes, ugly memories of the war.” lyrics in my head for months now then finally I remembered who sang them. Ed Fucking Kuepper!!! Great song.
Months.... I had it for years back in the 90's yet had seen the Saints...
' i was drawn to WED against my wishes , ugly memories of the WALL , love ed cheers
Awesome
Love music totally how I never heard this song till this year really fucking infuriates me😒
RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE ... (raaaaaaage)
loved the 1990's and Ed Kuepper for soooooooo long
I saw Ed Kuepper perform this song at a party last weekend in Brisbane. This song is just magical, but the first time I actually knew of it was in 1999 when Jimmy Little covered it and it got a lot of radio airplay at the time.
An icon
First heard this in '92 on the Greek Island Paros and it rocked then as it does now...
rastarobbo - I visited Paros in 98, what a great place to 1st hear a great 👍 song.
live performance of Ed at the zoo in the valley just knocked my socks off! I was left tingling.
grew up listening to ed as a kid my dad used to play it all the time now im 28 and still playing it! sleepy head another brilliant track!
You and my 30 year old son Israel, growing up in Petersham soaked in this kind of malarkey. Dads eh!
I saw Ed Keupper perform at the Paddington RSL - already had his album
The man's got talent. I believe he is a diamond in the rough.....could have been a super star.
Beautiful lilting song to sing myself to sleep with, back to the lovely days of the early nineties...
Currently watching this clip in a hotel in Kao Lak Thailand . Have seen it played live at the Gov Hindmarsh hotel about 20 years ago and it still sounds great.
good music. thanks. I lived with bands and a promoter, and met a lot of 80-90s bands. from here and overseas. great times. real acid and extc. I was living in the city and managing a cattle/pot+magic meshroom paradise. farm in the equivalent of Woodstock. be warned! the scag got me for 20 years..
Brissy days,Saints,Laughing Clowns,...great great
Cloudland.
The Saints are great even when they have a bad day. CHRIS BAILEY will be recognized after his light goes off. Love the band, imagine, growing up in Yugoslavia, comming in a book shop and there is ETERNALLY YOURS
Bloody great song
Ed is an aussie music legend.
Bloody great song
The underrated musician is the key to excellence.
@@TimeTraveller010 when you refer to Nick Cave, don't forget the bad seeds.
Agree with what you say about underrated musicians. But no one is a legend. Australians love to make the word totally meaningless.
Saw him live a few weeks ago and met the man himself, so stoked! Legend.
What a fucken song up there
love love this song
First time Sydney UNi in the late 80s....wow.
Still sounds as good today
Has to be the best use of a 12 string in a rock song.
Listen to the 25 year of The BJM (The Brian Jonestown Massacre),,, Anton is their 'leader' always use three or four guitars including normally old school Brian Jones style 12 string hollowbodies,,, look up Anemone for easy listen or 'Dig!' which is their backstory
Im here cause i just got a message is the support act for the psychedelic furs tomorrow night at the enmore i know him could not remember what he sounds like i like him so in that case ill watch him if i remember i think i saw him live at the rocks when i was a kid pretty sure it was him long time a go im 61 so im going a long way back 16 nov 2022
2024 Still a awesome tune 😎👌🇦🇺🎸
The best aussie musician, from Chile
God bless Brisbane, home of fine Aus music!!!!!
I had him on a tape, then I had him on a CD, now I've got him on my Ipod.. Brilliant!
A classic.
Honey Steel's Gold ... Fantastic Album
Words escape me..... fucking brilliant
This is a great song but hard to get out of your head, esp that guitar riff .
Do 46 people understand how they make me feel by giving this classic the thumbs down?
Masterpiece. Beautiful lilting guitar, keyboards, light drums, beautiful construction.
Tak Lesiu! trzeba było zacisnąć zęby i zostać u kasztanów,rąbać drzewo i Helgę, mieć mleczne krowy ,kozy i kury a przede wszystkim świnie i jądłbyś żeberka z rusztu z kartofelkami a stado dzieci radośnie by jodłowały tatusiowi piękne rytmiczne piśni i marsze,miałbyś vw i krótkie skórzane nie opadające spodnie na szelkach ,odwiedzałbyś swoje rodzinne strony w opolskiem i wszyscy by ci zazdrościli mówiąc na stronie "her gott " ten to jest goścć!! fafluchter dunerweter nie to co my gamonie z opolski
This song is 1992.
Have always loved this song on the Butterfly Net CD, which would be one of my desert island discs. I don't remember seeing the video before, but it really does justice to the song.
this hits all the right spots..another aussie gem.
Ed Kuepper, one of the backbone members of the Saints.
wow how coool is this one,
not much more can be said except thank you Ed
and to you NZOZ
Thank You for finding and sharing all these great tracks n vids with us all
a wonderful collection you do have
Wow , memory lane, I use too play this death in 90s,,Then today a thought went through my mind, the words Honey steals gold? I thought that rings a bell , what is it ? why does that mean something to me?
crazy mind ! youtube of course had the answer here!!
too much weed a long time ago!😆
Memories miss u sis💖🙏
why don't you join ed kuepper on face book
Seriously beautiful song, Ed.
Classic I grew up listening to... now 17 and still slaps and forever will
Gotta hand it to ol' grumpy guts
There something about this song
Another Aussie great not for the homesick....
I'd love to hear Ed Kuepper write something with Paul kelly. Would be nothing less than awesome
Brilliant timeless classic 🌹❤️💯
Really, clearly the most beautiful song ever.
Love Ed. I find he went through a bit of a self indulgent period seeing him live several times years ago. I left one gig. Kinda weird. It might have mean just me but I love all his earlier albums. Thank goodness you can now get most of it on streaming platforms. Awesome muso and songwriter.
Just Brilliant, a timeless tune of emotions, the way you made me feel;- when i saw you
Loving the rehearing of this. One of my all time favourite Aussie tracks. Sounds like there's a 12 string in there.. Does anybody know..?
The slide part is a 12 string acoustic is say (or some kinda lap slide which is similar concept of different times of the same note) and you can hear the finger picking solo has two tones to each note (like the opening to Wish You Were Here needs to be a 12 to sound properly),,, plus like the Phil Spector 'Wall of sound' sound there would be one on rhythm although it's electric primarily
@@blacksaxmusic Thanks.. this question was asked and kind of answered some time back.. Was quite surprised to see pop up out of the blue..
@@macharptube haha just answering your question :) did someone else say the same?? that was just my opinion; I play and rexord so just giving my thoughts cjeers
Loved this song and album.great aussie music