I made this. Just me, two cameras, the band and their manager on the road in Japan. First video I ever edited on my own. I got a bit carried away with transitions, hehe. Cut it in two weeks at MTV after hours when we got back. very 90s, but still holds up I think.
To clarify a few things from comments below. Yes the song and title are a homage to Prince. The video was shot in Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. Quan is Vietnamese-Australian. Martin is Chinese-Australian. Ben is American-Australian. All 3 were born and raised in Brisbane
I remember back when this video was playing on Rage and Video Hits in the morning on Saturdays. It was the late 90s, the anime boom was just about to start when Neon Genesis Evangelion aired on SBS, video games were breaking into the mainstream off the back of Sony Playstation and JRPGs were the biggest genre in the industry thanks to Final Fantasy VII. Japan was the most fascinating place in the entire world to a teenage boy like me, and the fact that they were so well aware of this made Regurgitator even cooler than they already were.
I miss the days when Powderfinger, Spiderbait, Jedediah and these guys were at pretty much every festival throughout summer backing up the internationals but still holding their own.
Holding their own, or showing up the internationals? I reckon the latter. Our musos might be less slick, less 'produced' but they're much better. To me.
my folks told me that when i was 4 i was obsessed with this song and would sit in front of the stereo replaying this song over and over again and looking at the cd cover lol. i guess this was the first song in my life that i loved haha. i fully forgot about this and listening to it again brought back the memories.
Yeah he is a gem of a dude, I messaged him ages ago about how much of an impact Beautiful Story had on me when I was a teen exploring my bent on existentialism/absurdism.
This is the direction Regurgitator should have pursued with vigor. Not the grunge indie vibe, that market was so completely saturated with bands. Given, that was the music that was popular at this time - but Regurgitator could have been a worldwide sensation in my opinion. Very talented musicians, and this song is so very, very fresh.
100% agree with you, but sometimes the magic for an album can't be replicated no matter how talented the artist, it's just a certain chemistry for a moment in time, can always dream of an alternate reality.
My best friend sent me this album in 1998 when she moved back to Australia... I fell in love with this awesome music immediately, which at least in Denmark was way before it's time... I still have the CD, but it has been years since I've listened to it... But today I talked with another old friend and it all came back to me... Now there is UA-cam, and I thank you for this moment of nostalgia... :)
There is just no uniquely aussie bands like this anymore, these guys were amazing! Like the 70's the 90's really had some stand out musical acts, made going to Big Day Out and various other music festivals all the more worth it! Great memories! Amazing band!
+Paffster saw these boys live at Falls festival in 2012. Was fkn epic as all the teen bopper people left the dance area and was only 25+yr old's having a great time! Ahhh the sun burn!
try 50 plus .took our young fellas to a save the ABC in king George square in bris in 96 after little johnny howard took office and pounded them . great gig but the youngsters nearly pushed the temporary stage over good times
I know how you feel. The 90's were my teens and started the new millenium as a 20 year old. What a great era for music. This clip shows me and I also think that Regurgitator were ahead of their time by a good few years in all ways. Musically and culturally, especially.
***** Most definitely mate, such underrated band!!! I wish artists still created sounds like this! When this song came on my pre-recording of the 'Rage: Top 100 1998" it literally made my life.... and I was 4 at the time lol
I had the best time in Australia from 1978 up to 1998 would love to go back and do it all again, great music living was ezy I bought a great 2 story house pool out the back. I went back to see the old house and everything is gone all new housing estate built.
I've seen Gurge all but one time in Adelaide, lost count now. Truly my fav band ever and every single time they love being there and the fans love them for it! Thanks everyone for commenting and THANK YOU Gurge for so many years of utterly amazing tunes and live shows.
3:30 Back in the day, when this song was played copiously on radio, I used to think that the "Thank you Mr DJ" part belonged to the radio station, rather than belonging to the song itself.
Sickest song I remember these dudes writing an entire album in a glass box in the middle of Melbourne XD listening in 2017? i think we can safely assume it wont date now yeah?
LOL! I thought that this tune was from PRINCE. I searched for it for ages on UA-cam but I could not come up with any confirmation. Then, I heard it on DOUBLE J FM and I looked at their "play list" to find that it was from this Group REGURGITATOR. I've heard of them previously, but I thought that their music was nothing but head banging rave / techno crap. I was so pleasantly surprised to be wrong.I love this tune and it has now been posted to my Group as one of my favourites. :)
These guys are so awesome, Australia really does have some rippers, its a shame music today isn't as unique as these guys are, they actually seem to enjoy what they do, unlike the rubbish these days.
The commercial platform has gotten bigger meaning pushing a band/singer through the marketing machine carries a higher cost but it also has further reach/bigger payoff. It's a large investment for the record company so the template often pushes out shit so they can get a return. But like roidroid said, it's always been like this. Compared to 20 years ago it seems like the generic charting performers push their bit across several marketing channels in a coordinated campaign so you feel bombarded by a new release/tour or whatever. But the flipside is the less commercial stuff is so easy and cheap to access I don't know how it could possibly improve. *These* are the good old days.
Back in '96, I was balls deep in to RATM, NIN, Deftones, Oasis, 311 etc. to my bluesy jazzy side like G. Love and Special Sauce, Medeski Martin and Wood, to my undying love for rap like 2Pac, Biggie, Tribe, The Roots. I also loved modern ska/punk like Rancid, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish and NOFX . All these indulgent name drops later is that Regurgitator was the first band I ever heard that combined every-fucking-thing I liked and they blew my balls off with Tu Plang. I'm high and drunk, Happy "2020 is almost 3 months to over" everyone!
@@kesiawhap2142 That's completely kickass, I'm jealous in the most positive way🤘 I'm American, so seeing Regurgitator live would have been some kind of extreme rarity that I would have never been able to make it to. I was only 15 in '96 so life circumstance probably wouldn't have allowed me into the show even if they did tour in the States back then.
AFL 360 brought me here i cant believe I had forgotten about this gangsta band for so long. I still remember watching them in the bubble with Jabba writing a album now that's reality TV i can watch
Ugh, I miss the nineties so freaking bad! I used to see a gig every weekend! You name it.... Cosmic Psychos..the Hard Ons..the Meanies... Tumbleweed... Nursery Crimes...Root Beer....Fridge... Damaged....Blood Duster... I mean, I'm very happy that Carcass just released Torn Arteries! So REAL music still exists in 2021..... Thank fuck!
Cool rediscovering them .... First heard them on International radio . CBC Canada has radio stations from all over the world rebrocasting late at night. So it was just chance that I heard Polyester Girl one really late night. I wonder if they have heard Unknown Hinson's " Polyurethane" song . Funny stuff ....
man I just want to recreate that sound at Good Things Sydney where the speakers were super loud and the bass was boosted to heaven, I missed out on the lyrics but damn that beat got me bouncing
All that proves is this song is still seen as an under-rated track!. Gurg were one of the biggest bands on JJJ from about 1995 until 1999. Black Bugs was also pretty big from memory it wasn't all SFNA !.
1:43-1:51 Martin Lee checks out long haired girl with backpack, checks out her ass, is disappointed as she walks away then looks back and remembers hes being filmed and smirks, LOL classic.
Am I the only one who thinks Martin Lee was very unique guy. His looks and antics in this song was very lot of LOL moments. Too bad that he left the band and faded into obscurity.
I made this. Just me, two cameras, the band and their manager on the road in Japan. First video I ever edited on my own. I got a bit carried away with transitions, hehe. Cut it in two weeks at MTV after hours when we got back. very 90s, but still holds up I think.
pretty shit job mate
I remember watching this as a kid... such a great video, even after all these years.. good job dude.
Redridge86 Yeah cause you have done heaps more huh?? lol
why you so mad Tony, i was only saying it was shit
Redridge86 wow what a comeback you rat.
The best introvert party anthem ever
Australia was the most rockin place to be in the 90’s. Such great diverse original artists. And they all played at the Espy!
Boris Sladakovic how you compare a song that’s not hip hop to the genre of hip hop , stop drinking rakje braco
You're so right!
Name five original artists.
I hear this was filmed in Shibuya district Tokyo...I wanna go there
@@pb6959 Karnivool .. Butterfly Effect .. Superheist ..Bodyjar .. Magic Dirt .. Frenzhal Rhombe .. Spiderbait .. John Butler Trio .. 28 days .. STFU 🤫🔥🇦🇺🤘
I like the old stuff better than the new stuff
I see what you did there.....
probably because you listen to beiber and jlo
unit is my answerr
I got killed by black Bugs on my video game.
It's a bit kun fu sing.
Still listening to this track in 2023. Still such a catchy track and hasn’t aged a day!
To clarify a few things from comments below. Yes the song and title are a homage to Prince. The video was shot in Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. Quan is Vietnamese-Australian. Martin is Chinese-Australian. Ben is American-Australian. All 3 were born and raised in Brisbane
Tony McGrath bloody legends
Brissy boys representing! Thanks tony for this Aussie music awesomeness. I was 12 rocking to the Gurge via channel v haha
And only 1 got to fuk a spiderbait lol
Then that had a kids(band) and drugs were so good
If they were born and raised in Australia, they are Australian. But I digress.
43 years old here... I remember this first coming out when I lived in Sydney in the 1990s... thank you Mr. DJ... 🙏
"I'd rather dance in ugly pants in the comfort of my loungeroom in suburbia" has always spoken to me
I remember these dudes writing an entire album in a glass box in the middle of Melbourne XD
Band in a bubble. Channel v was the shit back then.
They're from Brisbane you twat.
@@jollyrogers7519 they filmed it melbourne
666Sinn Yes right out the front of Federation Square
@@jollyrogers7519 he's talking about when regurgitatior did band in the bubble for channel v in Melbourne back in the late nineties Fuckwit!
I remember back when this video was playing on Rage and Video Hits in the morning on Saturdays. It was the late 90s, the anime boom was just about to start when Neon Genesis Evangelion aired on SBS, video games were breaking into the mainstream off the back of Sony Playstation and JRPGs were the biggest genre in the industry thanks to Final Fantasy VII. Japan was the most fascinating place in the entire world to a teenage boy like me, and the fact that they were so well aware of this made Regurgitator even cooler than they already were.
Instantly took me back to 12 years old, back of the car whilst Dad played Triple j on the way to school. Such a great band
What a very cool dad! Xz
Your Dad's Rock'n.
Triple J was worth listening to back then. It's just another swamp of virtue signalling bs these days.😢
This was my jam in the 90s
I miss the days when Powderfinger, Spiderbait, Jedediah and these guys were at pretty much every festival throughout summer backing up the internationals but still holding their own.
Dave O I do too. Consistentcy all through those years.
Custard, TISM.
Holding their own, or showing up the internationals? I reckon the latter. Our musos might be less slick, less 'produced' but they're much better. To me.
@Nicholas Wade I guess you either love them or hate them. Personally I love them!
I think you may be my spirit animal
Still goes hard after all these years.
the drummer Martin is my neighbour that's why i ended up here hahah
my folks told me that when i was 4 i was obsessed with this song and would sit in front of the stereo replaying this song over and over again and looking at the cd cover lol. i guess this was the first song in my life that i loved haha. i fully forgot about this and listening to it again brought back the memories.
I challenge every 90s teen not to know every song of Regurgitator! Sooooo good! Polyester girl! Woohoo!
who here remembers when they lived in a translucent house on channel v
It was a bubble man! 🤣🤣🤣
@@brownbeardontcare Bubble Boy
Lol yeah i do
Yeah I walked past that
ua-cam.com/video/bqbTUqMZkS8/v-deo.html
was that not regurgatator ,live in a bubble
A Brisbane anthem for all time ❤
I vote for them to play at the ‘Lympics!
That would be super cool to see, even if they have more artist playing at certain games e.g the soccer finals, super cool 🤙
I grew up with these guys. So glad my parents raised me on good music. I met Quan a little while back, he's a cool guy.
Yeah he is a gem of a dude, I messaged him ages ago about how much of an impact Beautiful Story had on me when I was a teen exploring my bent on existentialism/absurdism.
This is the BEST Prince song that Prince never released.
His vocals do sound like Prince!
@@pauljordan4452 Whole thing does. Very funky.
Lol..Fan Fucking Tastic!!!!
It really is
Was 31yrs old when this came out paying off mortgage thinking kids....how did I miss this banger 😢
30 years old but still current as hell. I'll never not stan the 'Gurge.
I stole this record from Kmart when I was 9. Probably the greatest thing I've ever done in my entire life.
Cool
I use to snort cushed nicotine lozengers and now I just take bath salts.
Crime does pay
Remember that 90s 'you wouldn't steal a car' piracy ad?
Wouldn't steal a car, would steal a Regurgitator CD 🤣🤣🤣
@kingmjb yes!
This is the direction Regurgitator should have pursued with vigor. Not the grunge indie vibe, that market was so completely saturated with bands. Given, that was the music that was popular at this time - but Regurgitator could have been a worldwide sensation in my opinion. Very talented musicians, and this song is so very, very fresh.
100% agree with you, but sometimes the magic for an album can't be replicated no matter how talented the artist, it's just a certain chemistry for a moment in time, can always dream of an alternate reality.
They had no direction or any such thing ...all directions were pursued ;)
Just rediscovered this! added to my party list..50 this Dec 2022👍
I miss this sort of music
Classic fkn Aussie band. Legends. 🇦🇺✌🏻
November 2020.
It is just as shit hot now as it was way back then...and I say this as a 64 year old man...
throws devil horns!
peace - out.
It keeps people young!
Unit was and still is one of my favourite CDs. Still great, too!
I just heard this on a Commonwealth Bank Ad….you sold out on us Regurgitator!!!!
Saw these guys in Manly a few years ago. Amazing! How they never became a worldwide hit I'll never know.
They're truly incredible artists!
Still dancing to this today. Thanks Tony
One of my favourite gurg songs ever. Love it, such a great time for music!
My best friend sent me this album in 1998 when she moved back to Australia... I fell in love with this awesome music immediately, which at least in Denmark was way before it's time... I still have the CD, but it has been years since I've listened to it... But today I talked with another old friend and it all came back to me... Now there is UA-cam, and I thank you for this moment of nostalgia... :)
One of my all time favourite songs. Still makes me want to move out after 20 + years since it was released.
There is just no uniquely aussie bands like this anymore, these guys were amazing! Like the 70's the 90's really had some stand out musical acts, made going to Big Day Out and various other music festivals all the more worth it! Great memories! Amazing band!
+Paffster saw these boys live at Falls festival in 2012. Was fkn epic as all the teen bopper people left the dance area and was only 25+yr old's having a great time! Ahhh the sun burn!
that would have been awesome!
try 50 plus .took our young fellas to a save the ABC in king George square in bris in 96 after little johnny howard took office and pounded them . great gig but the youngsters nearly pushed the temporary stage over good times
Regurgitator still exists, and are still amazing. They released a new record last year, and a children's album this year.
Kram telling of the stagecrew at Homebake.. '97 or '98... meeting up with my brother to smoke cones at HMV Pitt Street after... Great bloody times...
Still fucking bangin in 2024
big day summer vibes gold coast 1996
To say that "I LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG!!!!!" would be an understatement...
I know how you feel.
The 90's were my teens and started the new millenium as a 20 year old.
What a great era for music. This clip shows me and I also think that Regurgitator were ahead of their time by a good few years in all ways. Musically and culturally, especially.
***** Most definitely mate, such underrated band!!! I wish artists still created sounds like this! When this song came on my pre-recording of the 'Rage: Top 100 1998" it literally made my life.... and I was 4 at the time lol
Absolutely love this amazing song easily one of the best songs ever written.
I had the best time in Australia from 1978 up to 1998 would love to go back and do it all again, great music living was ezy I bought a great 2 story house pool out the back.
I went back to see the old house and everything is gone all new housing estate built.
Bet you made a load of $ when you sold it too
God I miss the 90s this song used to crack me up
Saw them in concert support act for the prodigy. In Sydney 🙌🙌🙌🙌
One of the best band in the 90' Fantastic timeless music!!!
Still killin it in 2018
This. This is the song of my generation.
Rainbow
DRC wtf
I've seen Gurge all but one time in Adelaide, lost count now. Truly my fav band ever and every single time they love being there and the fans love them for it! Thanks everyone for commenting and THANK YOU Gurge for so many years of utterly amazing tunes and live shows.
Good times, great music and good friends. Life was simple and lots of fun back then.!
Facts 🔥🇦🇺🤘
i found it, only took me a good decade. what a tune ;) so happy
we was just saying same thing
An earworm of a song. I've listened to this song so often since its release over 20 years ago.
House music has never been quite so beautiful until this group. Ladies and gentlemen, "The 'Gurg"!!!!!!!!!
Bring back the 90s
The late 90's was brilliant :)
Agree my friend
I was trying to find this song all my life
DANCE
me too, finally just came to me one night the name of the band. Bring then I found the song.
3:30 Back in the day, when this song was played copiously on radio, I used to think that the "Thank you Mr DJ" part belonged to the radio station, rather than belonging to the song itself.
Fantastic song.Great Sound.Pure Rocking Beat.
Back when Aussie music was good. p.s bring back happyland :)
MegaGnerd what are you talking about? It still is great!
go back 20 -30 years prior mate
Happyland ruled!
Sickest song
I remember these dudes writing an entire album in a glass box in the middle of Melbourne XD
listening in 2017? i think we can safely assume it wont date now yeah?
Love this song has always been one of my favourites. I'd love to work with these boys, their style is very unique like my own
Keeps getting better
To this day one of the most addictive songs. This will be in my head every morning for the next week...
LOL! I thought that this tune was from PRINCE. I searched for it for ages on UA-cam but I could not come up with any confirmation. Then, I heard it on DOUBLE J FM and I looked at their "play list" to find that it was from this Group REGURGITATOR. I've heard of them previously, but I thought that their music was nothing but head banging rave / techno crap. I was so pleasantly surprised to be wrong.I love this tune and it has now been posted to my Group as one of my favourites. :)
I remember where I was when I first heard this song. I legitimately thought it was a Prince track.
It's only a great dance song when you hate dancing and want to...
Regurgitation in Brisbane 2019!!!
I miss these guys. I could never get time off work to go and see them live in concert.
These guys are so awesome, Australia really does have some rippers, its a shame music today isn't as unique as these guys are, they actually seem to enjoy what they do, unlike the rubbish these days.
Every generation says that.
The commercial platform has gotten bigger meaning pushing a band/singer through the marketing machine carries a higher cost but it also has further reach/bigger payoff. It's a large investment for the record company so the template often pushes out shit so they can get a return. But like roidroid said, it's always been like this. Compared to 20 years ago it seems like the generic charting performers push their bit across several marketing channels in a coordinated campaign so you feel bombarded by a new release/tour or whatever. But the flipside is the less commercial stuff is so easy and cheap to access I don't know how it could possibly improve.
*These* are the good old days.
haha 'some rippers'
very true
Tit's don't sell my music, wouldn't say no though....
I have just listened to this band for the first time today, sorry I'm late. What a treat this is
Such a tune! This takes me back to a very happy time. Unit was a great album.
I swear to God... the very first time I heard this I thought "well Prince... you have improved".
One of the best tracks ever out of Oz🌴
What I sic fat synth.
Great stuff.
👍👍
Woo! BANGER. Never gets old.
Back in '96, I was balls deep in to RATM, NIN, Deftones, Oasis, 311 etc. to my bluesy jazzy side like G. Love and Special Sauce, Medeski Martin and Wood, to my undying love for rap like 2Pac, Biggie, Tribe, The Roots. I also loved modern ska/punk like Rancid, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish and NOFX . All these indulgent name drops later is that Regurgitator was the first band I ever heard that combined every-fucking-thing I liked and they blew my balls off with Tu Plang. I'm high and drunk, Happy "2020 is almost 3 months to over" everyone!
This comment is everything 🙌🙌🎶 rancid wow. N regurgitator saw them live 🙌🎶
@@kesiawhap2142 That's completely kickass, I'm jealous in the most positive way🤘 I'm American, so seeing Regurgitator live would have been some kind of extreme rarity that I would have never been able to make it to. I was only 15 in '96 so life circumstance probably wouldn't have allowed me into the show even if they did tour in the States back then.
WOOO!!! Good onya mate!!
Love this song, the composition
AFL 360 brought me here i cant believe I had forgotten about this gangsta band for so long. I still remember watching them in the bubble with Jabba writing a album now that's reality TV i can watch
I love this video it is awesome! One of my favourite videos ever!
Thank you Mr. DJ!
2:44 - sample of "Get Up and Boogie" by Silver Convention
who here remembers when they lived in a translucent house on channel v
Still looking good in 2020 (COVID-19 dayz)...
Cheers from Australia.
90s was pinnacle
listening in 2017? i think we can safely assume it wont date now yeah?
2019.. yes, we're safe.
Just now, Live, festival2018, Southbank, Brisbane.. so good
Ugh, I miss the nineties so freaking bad! I used to see a gig every weekend! You name it.... Cosmic Psychos..the Hard Ons..the Meanies... Tumbleweed... Nursery Crimes...Root Beer....Fridge... Damaged....Blood Duster... I mean, I'm very happy that Carcass just released Torn Arteries! So REAL music still exists in 2021..... Thank fuck!
Such a classic Aussie 90's track - good times
Cool rediscovering them ....
First heard them on International radio . CBC Canada has radio stations from all over the world rebrocasting late at night.
So it was just chance that I heard Polyester Girl one really late night.
I wonder if they have heard Unknown Hinson's " Polyurethane" song .
Funny stuff ....
Damn. Great song. Actually sounds like an early 80's Prince song with those synths.
Thank you Mr. DJ!
awesome tune from an awesome band...
man I just want to recreate that sound at Good Things Sydney where the speakers were super loud and the bass was boosted to heaven, I missed out on the lyrics but damn that beat got me bouncing
Glad I grew up in this era of music.
Always be one of my favorite bands Gud Zo!!!
thank you mister dj!
Great song.👌🏾
Watching the video put a new spin on it for me. I always knew it was about fitting in, but I never thought of it on the cultural level.Akward X 1000
TheDino - no-one was paid as background. No crew either. Just me and the band on the road thru Japan.
All that proves is this song is still seen as an under-rated track!. Gurg were one of the biggest bands on JJJ from about 1995 until 1999. Black Bugs was also pretty big from memory it wasn't all SFNA !.
Thank you Mr Warner Music Australia 😅
Still loving the gurge in 2021
Ooh ooo thing's don't get no better, better in 2021
1:43-1:51 Martin Lee checks out long haired girl with backpack, checks out her ass, is disappointed as she walks away then looks back and remembers hes being filmed and smirks, LOL classic.
Am I the only one who thinks Martin Lee was very unique guy. His looks and antics in this song was very lot of LOL moments. Too bad that he left the band and faded into obscurity.
2022
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