This is a song best experienced with a little mother nature and a kick ass stereo in a dark room with only a single candle for light. Yes folks it was the seventies.
Absolutely. The amazing thing about this song is that yes it was in the 70s, but it was right at the very end of the 70s right when 70s music started becoming '80s music even before the 80s even technically began. (Anybody remember "Pop Musik" by M?? It came out right at the same time.) So this was both a product of the 70s which also at the same exact time presaged the 80s. And it was the perfect song at the perfect time.
Thank you so much for this. This was a favorite of my mom and I. We lived in a log cabin and had this ridiculously powerful Pioneer stereo and the speakers sat on the wood floor. I cranked this song up so loud that the whole house was shaking and vibrating and my young aunt got scared and thought ufo's were literally landing outside. No joke. It was awesome! It was a quadrophonic stereo, with quad headphones, this was incredible to listen on those as well. I discovered so much music on those. Fantastic. Sadly, my mom passed in 2013 at only 59. I miss her dearly. Music was our thing. She loved the Beatles, ELO, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, Gary Wright, Al Stewart. I just turned 52 myself. My mom had me at just 16 in 1970. I grew up with all this great music from the 70s and its still my favorite. You guys are great. Love your reactions! BTW, the late great Cozy Powell on drums!!!
Joel, so, so sorry about your mom,, may her soul be in God's keeping🙏,...the story about your speakers, so awesome, sounds like you had speakers like they all had at concerts back then, those huge Marshall speakers, crazy David Lee Roth use to stand on, jump from,..I can imagine, how loud, that was at ya'lls cabin,.huh your lucky hmmpf the aliens, didn't turn their ship around and come back and investigate,.."did you hear that, sounds like another ship is taking off, thought we were the only ones here?",😉, makes me think of those characters in first Heavy Metal movie, that were flying that ship and getting high,..so would've loved having speakers like that when I was growing up, my mom was too through with how loud I had it from my little record, stereo player, really would've been beyond the beyond to have speakers like that, playing Hair of The Dog by Nazareth,.huh, we had neighbors, close neighbors, they would've been like can't you do something about your kid,..just love it,..Godspeed to you, ✌
@@emmasaccount3568 I believe Pioneer is still making car systems, but not sure about home hi-fi. My mom also had a ba Z-28 with an Alpine system that flat rocked!
This song is best heard on a quadrophonic stereo set up. Not only does the sound move left and right but front and back as well. The mix is a true 3D experience.
Back in the day when you could call the radio station and make a request, this was the song that was played at 1:30am by the cool DJs on AOR stations. I once had a DJ follow the song with something like: "Thanks Paul! I'm only allowed to play this song when someone requests it, so call back tomorrow."
Holy butt! I can't believe you guys reacted to this song! My Brother came home one day in 1979 with this album and blew my socks off. I don't know why he needed to blow my socks off, I was about to take them off anyway. But he put down the air hose and put the album on and this song was mind-boggling. I still have his record.
My Dad was a Music buff. I was twelve. He played me some stuff he liked Cash, Denver...biggest modern band he was into was Heart. I said "Well Dad, sit down and have a listen to what I've got". He sat down and we listened to BT. I'll never forget the look on his face
I’m a Billy Thorpe fan from the very early 70s. This was very different but I loved it and bought it. Billy had a great voice - try Somewhere over the Rainbow - and could rip on guitar as well - try Most people I know think that I’m crazy. Billy was working on another concept album Tangiers when he died.
Thorpe was KNOWN for sound effects, and you can tell. This song is amazing!! give it time!! Just remember, early in the 80's we were all pot heads and it was AWESOME!!!
i can guareentee, it wasnt just sound effects with billy....listen to his early stuff 70's mainly, his voice could blow the amps....truly....a great artist
Hey guys, glad that you found this song. And yes this song is best listened to through headphones or blasting on your stereo with a subwoofer. Just a little back story on Billy Thorpe. Before he moved from Australia to the U.S. his band had the reputation as being the loudest bar band in Australia. Picture this I graduated High School in 1978. We listened to this along with so many other great REAL rock bands. Like my favorite bands RUSH, April Wine, Aerosmith, Peter Frampton, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, etc., etc., etc. The list goes on and on! Plus we all drove hot rods with big amps and stereos, and of course 6x9 speakers in the rear deck. It was the heyday of rock and roll. What a great time to be alive. There were so many great bands and real musicians that I took for granted back then. And yes it is a timeless song like many of RUSH’S songs. You need to react to some of RUSH’S songs. I suggest Starting with “Tom Sawyer”, “Lime Light” or “XYZ”. It really does not matter which RUSH song you start with. Once you listen to one you will be hooked. I had the privilege of seeing RUSH live during their “Permanent Waves” tour back in April of 1980 for $7.25. Yes you read that right $7.25 and “38 Special was the warm up band!!! Hey I’m an old guy and can you imagine when they put me into the old folks home with the rest of my generation. How great it’s going to sound in the hallways when we are all blasting the music that we grew up with? Now as far as I’m concerned the current music sucks! But I was spoiled by growing up in an era with real musicians that were true masters. Also check out “The Cult”, “She Sells Sanctuary” is a great live song and I challenge you not to bob your head. 😁 LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL!!
put this into context , this was the 70's and progressive rock as it's known was alive and well , but to see Billy at his best check out the "live at Boggo Road Jail "concert from the 90's , especially from the 40 minute mark , think John Bonham was a special drummer , then check this out !
If you want to hear more of Billy Thorpe, go back a little to his song mamma, it's as raw as rock could get. He started out in the 60's and had done many different genres in his time.
Billy was one of our greats in Australia from the early 60's onwards. He also had a song called Most people I Know Think That I"m Crazy. Thanks guys. Also love the intro song.
This song came out when I was in high school, and yes, it got lots of radio play. I have always loved it. I'm glad you guys appreciated it. Now, I think we've waited long enough for another Al Stewart reaction. Roads To Moscow, please.
Oh my goodness; Dig seeing your expression guys~it's like getting on a new adventure ride at Disneyland & you three experiencing it for the first time! Love it ❤ 👍
This is the best reaction I have ever watched. You guys are so funny and you come up with some thoughts that make me rethink the songs I’ve listened to from the time they were released. Right on dudes. This 63 yr. old sitting out on the back patio with sweet leaf ,laughing and remembering the day I first heard these great songs and know my reactions were just as some of yours. Peace.
This is IHMO the best one hit wonder EVER written and performed. Yes, I said it...THE BEST! Between the vocals, the creative choices made, both with chords and notes within the melody and harmonization, this song stands out as an exceptional offering. And the progginess of it all. I can't negatively criticize anything in this song. There is literally nothing I can find fault with.
Raymond B. Crisp As an Aussie, it's really weird hearing Billy referred to as a one hit wonder. He's had hits from 1963/4 with the original Aztecs, right up until he went to America. Actually, my favourite period included all of his early '70s heavy blues rockers.
I listened to it for the first time yesterday. I'm obsessed. I'm a musician and I consider my music taste to be at least decent. This is one of the best musical pieces I've ever listened to.
The song "Children Of The Sun" came from the third album by Billy Thorpe, it was released in 1979 along with three other singles, "Wrapped In The Chains Of Your Love", "Goddess Of The Night" and "Simple Life". This was the only song I was familiar with and believe me, it made one hell of an impression. I'll never forget the first time I heard it back in '79', ya know, we were just sittin' around in our living room, listening to the stereo and then, this song comes on, we just looked at each other as if to say "What the f***k is this!", it blew our minds, lol! Yeah, that's a memory, thanks!
I would suggest listening to this in your car if you have a decent sound system 6+ speakers. The spaceship sound sounds like it's going around in a circle.
Thank you, friends! Been waiting for some reaction channel to brave this! It's amazing. I was 20 years old when I first heard this great son. I am 61 today. My best bud worked at a stereo store in a mall in Illinois when this came out. There was a listening room with amazing speakers there. I thought I was floating into another dimension the first-time hearing this! great job!!
Before your head phones we had quadrophonic. It was right after stereo and that was just after hi fidelity witch was after mono. Point is we had 4 speakers around us and the sounds went in all directions, left right, forward, backwards up and down. A great time to be a teenager. Glad you could experience a little time of old.
This song came out when I was a teenager. Loved it then and still love it . There is no other song like it. I hear different influences like Pink Floyd, The Beatles and David Bowie as well as Rush.
Holly Martner Fun facts. Billy was recording in 1963/64 as a 17 year old with the Aztecs when The Beatles first came to Australia. By 1970 Aztecs was the loudest band here. At a gig at the Bondi Lifesaver, Billy's volume killed all of the tropical fish in their aquarium. Well documented.
"Never heard a song like this" nominee Focus - Hocus Pocus live '73. The show wouldn't allow them to play the 'studio' version because it was too long. The band still wanted to play the entire song so they increase speed to fit the time slot. *** This video cannot be unseen.
I had never heard this song, and I wasn't sure about that beginning. But man after the drop, the minor chords, the funk section. I'm sold. Great commentary as always and lots of laughs discovering this with you guys. Thanks!
And now you see Thrope's skill in writing movie stuff...Many Sci-Fi flim's and T.V series has his music as a sountrak...The guy didn't have time to record a lot of LP's, he was just too damn busy and one of the most underrated musicians of the 70's 80's.
Great reaction! This song! the effects, the drums!, his guitar playing! his guitar sound! (that’s Billy on guitar too btw) but the main thing that floors me is that man’s voice. Particularly the raw power, intensity, and sheer badassness that erupts out of that man when he sings “Everyone felt the sound of the own heartbeat… every man … every woman… every chiiiiiiild… Still gives me chills when I hear it. One of those songs that hooks you deep after about the 10th time you listen to it. You should check his live version video on here in Dallas around 1980.
One thing you guys will never understand in my opinion. The generation that this album came out in. Came from a generation that had mono radios then we went to a bi system where we had a left and a right speaker. At this time they were coming out with four speaker systems for audio. So you finally got to hear it travel around the room versus a set of headphones. And it's also talking about the children of the Sun arriving on the Earth taking the mankind back to the galactic federation kind of like in Star wars expand your thinking😅
Still amazing until this day!!! I remember hearing it on the radio and buying the album. Fyi there is a Canadian band called Klaatu that did a song called We're Off You Know from their 1977 album called Hope that many people thought were the Beatles since they didn't put their names on the album info. Great reaction!!!
OMG! I had to come back because I wrote my first comment before I watched your reaction all the way through, lol, your reaction was exactly like ours back then! I just watched with a big grin on my face, especially when you mentioned what we were probably doing while listening to this song, yeah, you were dead on, lol!
the first time I heard this song I had just got home from a party and was feeling no pain. turned on the stereo just as the intro started. only light was the stereo. volume at 11. next thing I knew I was transported to another world. then the station went right into "nights in white satin" with the poem intro. a heavenly experience.
The first time I heard it, it was a radio cut for a 1970s-themed radio station (I heard it in the late 1980s). Most of the middle part was cut along with part of the intro, so you got more of a song with vocals than the album cut. Great response! This is also a very creepy song to have randomly come up when you're driving late at night on a stretch of deserted highway - not that I'd know anything about that! ;-)
Headphones & a fattie is how I remember hearing this 1st time lol I see this requested a lot, but you're the first I'm seen react! Thanks for the great memories!🛸👽✌
I have loved this song since the first time I heard it a couple of years after it came out. Bought it on cd when cd was available and have had it ever since. It's a concept album, but I only like about 3 of the other songs.
Do yourselves a favour...... listen to the Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs , live at Boggo Road.... video. This is live blues as it used to be played by a band who hadn’t played together for zonks at one of Australia’s toughest prisons. Thorpe had only just arrived back in Australia after many years working in the USA .... a lot in Hollywood building movie sets. lol
This is a song best experienced with a little mother nature and a kick ass stereo in a dark room with only a single candle for light. Yes folks it was the seventies.
Yes to all. Perhaps, better yet, it marked the end of the 70's era and the beginning of another.
Miss those days!!! Rock ON!!
I had a black light and a bunch of felt posters all over my room back then instead of a candle,.
Absolutely. The amazing thing about this song is that yes it was in the 70s, but it was right at the very end of the 70s right when 70s music started becoming '80s music even before the 80s even technically began. (Anybody remember "Pop Musik" by M?? It came out right at the same time.) So this was both a product of the 70s which also at the same exact time presaged the 80s. And it was the perfect song at the perfect time.
New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talk about Pop Muzik
always loved this song
Thank you so much for this. This was a favorite of my mom and I. We lived in a log cabin and had this ridiculously powerful Pioneer stereo and the speakers sat on the wood floor. I cranked this song up so loud that the whole house was shaking and vibrating and my young aunt got scared and thought ufo's were literally landing outside. No joke. It was awesome! It was a quadrophonic stereo, with quad headphones, this was incredible to listen on those as well. I discovered so much music on those. Fantastic. Sadly, my mom passed in 2013 at only 59. I miss her dearly. Music was our thing. She loved the Beatles, ELO, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, Gary Wright, Al Stewart. I just turned 52 myself. My mom had me at just 16 in 1970. I grew up with all this great music from the 70s and its still my favorite. You guys are great. Love your reactions! BTW, the late great Cozy Powell on drums!!!
Joel, so, so sorry about your mom,, may her soul be in God's keeping🙏,...the story about your speakers, so awesome, sounds like you had speakers like they all had at concerts back then, those huge Marshall speakers, crazy David Lee Roth use to stand on, jump from,..I can imagine, how loud, that was at ya'lls cabin,.huh your lucky hmmpf the aliens, didn't turn their ship around and come back and investigate,.."did you hear that, sounds like another ship is taking off, thought we were the only ones here?",😉, makes me think of those characters in first Heavy Metal movie, that were flying that ship and getting high,..so would've loved having speakers like that when I was growing up, my mom was too through with how loud I had it from my little record, stereo player, really would've been beyond the beyond to have speakers like that, playing Hair of The Dog by Nazareth,.huh, we had neighbors, close neighbors, they would've been like can't you do something about your kid,..just love it,..Godspeed to you, ✌
Pioneer was the best in those days !! Guess they are no longer around !!
@@emmasaccount3568 I believe Pioneer is still making car systems, but not sure about home hi-fi. My mom also had a ba Z-28 with an Alpine system that flat rocked!
Sorry for your loss. Sounds like you and your mom had a common passion...music! Thats so cool! This is a fantastic yet funky, weird all in one song!
Cozy ❤
This song is best heard on a quadrophonic stereo set up. Not only does the sound move left and right but front and back as well. The mix is a true 3D experience.
It was great in the newer stereos, cranked up, cousin central on a Saturday night!
This song was played 2-3 times a day everyday when it first came out. Very unique, almost Pink Floyd ish.
...but without the quality tbh.
@@79BlackRose Who cared about 'quality' back then? Really........ NOW we do, 'cause we actually know what it is.
Back in the day when you could call the radio station and make a request, this was the song that was played at 1:30am by the cool DJs on AOR stations. I once had a DJ follow the song with something like: "Thanks Paul! I'm only allowed to play this song when someone requests it, so call back tomorrow."
FROM THE TOP! Love this guys!
And yet ANOTHER all time great from the 70's!
Holy butt! I can't believe you guys reacted to this song! My Brother came home one day in 1979 with this album and blew my socks off. I don't know why he needed to blow my socks off, I was about to take them off anyway. But he put down the air hose and put the album on and this song was mind-boggling. I still have his record.
"Holy butt??" 🤔
My Dad was a Music buff. I was twelve. He played me some stuff he liked Cash, Denver...biggest modern band he was into was Heart. I said "Well Dad, sit down and have a listen to what I've got". He sat down and we listened to BT. I'll never forget the look on his face
I’m a Billy Thorpe fan from the very early 70s. This was very different but I loved it and bought it. Billy had a great voice - try Somewhere over the Rainbow - and could rip on guitar as well - try Most people I know think that I’m crazy.
Billy was working on another concept album Tangiers when he died.
Billy left us way too soon, but, DAYUM. What he left behind!
Thorpe was KNOWN for sound effects, and you can tell. This song is amazing!! give it time!! Just remember, early in the 80's we were all pot heads and it was AWESOME!!!
i can guareentee, it wasnt just sound effects with billy....listen to his early stuff 70's mainly, his voice could blow the amps....truly....a great artist
Yup and now I listen to liliac
Gets my vote as greatest headphone song of all time
This song use to be played alot on rock radio back in the 80s.
One of the coolest songs ever
Great to see this finally getting reactions!! I still own my original vinyl of this, which was when I was in high school. WAAAAY long ago.
Hey guys, glad that you found this song. And yes this song is best listened to through headphones or blasting on your stereo with a subwoofer.
Just a little back story on Billy Thorpe. Before he moved from Australia to the U.S. his band had the reputation as being the loudest bar band in Australia.
Picture this I graduated High School in 1978. We listened to this along with so many other great REAL rock bands. Like my favorite bands RUSH, April Wine, Aerosmith, Peter Frampton, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, etc., etc., etc. The list goes on and on! Plus we all drove hot rods with big amps and stereos, and of course 6x9 speakers in the rear deck. It was the heyday of rock and roll. What a great time to be alive.
There were so many great bands and real musicians that I took for granted back then.
And yes it is a timeless song like many of RUSH’S songs.
You need to react to some of RUSH’S songs.
I suggest Starting with “Tom Sawyer”, “Lime Light” or “XYZ”.
It really does not matter which RUSH song you start with. Once you listen to one you will be hooked.
I had the privilege of seeing RUSH live during their “Permanent Waves” tour back in April of 1980 for $7.25.
Yes you read that right $7.25 and “38 Special was the warm up band!!!
Hey I’m an old guy and can you imagine when they put me into the old folks home with the rest of my generation. How great it’s going to sound in the hallways when we are all blasting the music that we grew up with?
Now as far as I’m concerned the current music sucks! But I was spoiled by growing up in an era with real musicians that were true masters.
Also check out “The Cult”, “She Sells Sanctuary” is a great live song and I challenge you not to bob your head. 😁
LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL!!
Billy Thorpe - Mama live video. Fire. Billy was around in the 50's. He didnt copy, he created and everyone else copied.
put this into context , this was the 70's and progressive rock as it's known was alive and well , but to see Billy at his best check out the "live at Boggo Road Jail "concert from the 90's , especially from the 40 minute mark , think John Bonham was a special drummer , then check this out !
OMG!!!!! You finally got to play this song!!!! I told you, you wouldn't regret it!!! This song has special memories for me. I'm so glad you like it.
“You have to listen to this with the headphones”. You’re right - total headphone candy.
Brings back Memories... it got plenty of radio play.
Try Donnie Iris, "Ah Leah", another "one hit" classic Banger.
YES!!!
This song is best listened to on a Quad or surround sound speaker system.
Them ships be flyin all over the room!
If you want to hear more of Billy Thorpe, go back a little to his song mamma, it's as raw as rock could get. He started out in the 60's and had done many different genres in his time.
Barbara Rees The Sunbury live version is supreme, but Live on GTK if people want to see him in action.
This song is so trippy. I can't wait to see this reaction. 🌞😎
Oh I loved the 70’s. Thank you KGON Rocks in Portland. That’s where I heard all the best songs
Love love love this song
Billy was one of our greats in Australia from the early 60's onwards. He also had a song called Most people I Know Think That I"m Crazy. Thanks guys. Also love the intro song.
This song came out when I was in high school, and yes, it got lots of radio play. I have always loved it. I'm glad you guys appreciated it. Now, I think we've waited long enough for another Al Stewart reaction. Roads To Moscow, please.
Yes to "Roads to Moscow"!
@@dougnelsin1480 ROAD TO MOSCOW YEP!
@@kirkhall2099 And On The Border
Al Stewart as a follow up to Billy Thorpe?
'Between The Wars' album, amazing guitar work.
Oh my goodness; Dig seeing your expression guys~it's like getting on a new adventure ride at Disneyland & you three experiencing it for the first time! Love it ❤ 👍
Wife Speaking!!...Thiis song is put togerher instrumentally with an almost magical arrangement !!...I still rock it in my stereo.... 🔥 Fire for sure!
I've loved this song since I heard it on the radio. I was shocked to learn it was from 1979. I am so glad you guys reacted to it!
I remember this song being on the radio when I was little!
This is the best reaction I have ever watched. You guys are so funny and you come up with some thoughts that make me rethink the songs I’ve listened to from the time they were released. Right on dudes. This 63 yr. old sitting out on the back patio with sweet leaf ,laughing and remembering the day I first heard these great songs and know my reactions were just as some of yours. Peace.
This was a staple of the local community college Saturday night laser shows in the planetarium.
This is IHMO the best one hit wonder EVER written and performed. Yes, I said it...THE BEST! Between the vocals, the creative choices made, both with chords and notes within the melody and harmonization, this song stands out as an exceptional offering. And the progginess of it all. I can't negatively criticize anything in this song. There is literally nothing I can find fault with.
Raymond B. Crisp As an Aussie, it's really weird hearing Billy referred to as a one hit wonder. He's had hits from 1963/4 with the original Aztecs, right up until he went to America. Actually, my favourite period included all of his early '70s heavy blues rockers.
I listened to it for the first time yesterday. I'm obsessed. I'm a musician and I consider my music taste to be at least decent. This is one of the best musical pieces I've ever listened to.
I did hear it on the radio.
The song "Children Of The Sun" came from the third album by Billy Thorpe, it was released in 1979 along with three other singles, "Wrapped In The Chains Of Your Love", "Goddess Of The Night" and "Simple Life". This was the only song I was familiar with and believe me, it made one hell of an impression. I'll never forget the first time I heard it back in '79', ya know, we were just sittin' around in our living room, listening to the stereo and then, this song comes on, we just looked at each other as if to say "What the f***k is this!", it blew our minds, lol! Yeah, that's a memory, thanks!
Check out billy Thorpe and the Aztec’s singing Mama live on GTK
Absolutely awesome song and performance
I'm an older fellow, but I have never heard this song. VERY special song. Well done, Boys. I am experiencing the darndest things with you. :)
BEAU QC If you're older than me (67) you'd like Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs "Mama" Live on GTK 1971. Heavy blues rock.
I would suggest listening to this in your car if you have a decent sound system 6+ speakers. The spaceship sound sounds like it's going around in a circle.
"Why haven't they sampled this in hip hop?!?" Word.
Love this song
I saw Billy Thorpe in concert back when this was on the radio. It was incredible in person too.
This song was the baddestass.song EVER!!
Thank you, friends! Been waiting for some reaction channel to brave this! It's amazing. I was 20 years old when I first heard this great son. I am 61 today. My best bud worked at a stereo store in a mall in Illinois when this came out. There was a listening room with amazing speakers there. I thought I was floating into another dimension the first-time hearing this! great job!!
Great song! Kinda forgotten. Thanks for highlighting to again
Saw him in 79. Amazing show.
I am effin loving yalls reactions
In 1976 i put this song on the same shelf as PIRATES,
CLOSE TO THE EDGE, COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING and
SUPPER'S READY.
I forgot about this masterpiece!
Haven't heard this in Years!!! Great song.
Before your head phones we had quadrophonic. It was right after stereo and that was just after hi fidelity witch was after mono.
Point is we had 4 speakers around us and the sounds went in all directions, left right, forward, backwards up and down. A great time to be a teenager. Glad you could experience a little time of old.
I don’t know what was more trippy - - the song, or the reaction! Best song reaction of any song I’ve witnessed in a minute. Subscribed!
Loved that song growing up in the 70',80's
I remember hearing it a lot on rock radio stations. Loved the vibe this song gave. 🔥🔥🔥
at night.
This song came out when I was a teenager. Loved it then and still love it . There is no other song like it. I hear different influences like Pink Floyd, The Beatles and David Bowie as well as Rush.
Holly Martner Fun facts. Billy was recording in 1963/64 as a 17 year old with the Aztecs when The Beatles first came to Australia. By 1970 Aztecs was the loudest band here. At a gig at the Bondi Lifesaver, Billy's volume killed all of the tropical fish in their aquarium. Well documented.
"Never heard a song like this" nominee Focus - Hocus Pocus live '73.
The show wouldn't allow them to play the 'studio' version because it was too long.
The band still wanted to play the entire song so they increase speed to fit the time slot.
*** This video cannot be unseen.
“Masterpiece” sums it up perfectly!
I was a senior in high school in 79. THIS WAS OUR SONG!
My Brother was a Senior in 1979 too. He brought this album home and I still have it. I was 15.
I had never heard this song, and I wasn't sure about that beginning. But man after the drop, the minor chords, the funk section. I'm sold. Great commentary as always and lots of laughs discovering this with you guys. Thanks!
I've heard this countless times on the radio, but I've never heard that intro before.
And now you see Thrope's skill in writing movie stuff...Many Sci-Fi flim's and T.V series has his music as a sountrak...The guy didn't have time to record a lot of LP's, he was just too damn busy and one of the most underrated musicians of the 70's 80's.
This was some fine radio rock that was always right on time......
I had totally forgotten this song until the vocals started.
No more gravity holding them down. Which means they start to ascend up.
Loved riding around with this cranked up in the car.
This got plenty of airplay back in the day. Yes, I’m that old. 😉
Oh my gosh it was so entertaining watching your reactions to this song! Y'all are so fuuny! lol
Love the shirt! BIG BLUE NATION. GO CATS!!! Kentucky!
Great reaction! This song! the effects, the drums!, his guitar playing! his guitar sound! (that’s Billy on guitar too btw) but the main thing that floors me is that man’s voice. Particularly the raw power, intensity, and sheer badassness that erupts out of that man when he sings “Everyone felt the sound of the own heartbeat… every man … every woman… every chiiiiiiild… Still gives me chills when I hear it. One of those songs that hooks you deep after about the 10th time you listen to it. You should check his live version video on here in Dallas around 1980.
This was fu***ng awesome in the 80s. Still a great tune. Very unique
Cheesy Fire. One hit wonder tune. Can't imagine listening to the intro with headphone.
Aldo Nova meets Pink Floyd.
This brings back memories from my very early 20's. Still as good now, as it was then, and there was enormous radio play for this! We loved it!
One thing you guys will never understand in my opinion. The generation that this album came out in. Came from a generation that had mono radios then we went to a bi system where we had a left and a right speaker. At this time they were coming out with four speaker systems for audio. So you finally got to hear it travel around the room versus a set of headphones. And it's also talking about the children of the Sun arriving on the Earth taking the mankind back to the galactic federation kind of like in Star wars expand your thinking😅
This is the definition of “headphone “ music.
Since you liked this, you need to try Golden Earring’s Twilight Zone
I remember the 1st day this song came out... l listened to it on max volume on my headphones at least 20 times in a row.
Still amazing until this day!!! I remember hearing it on the radio and buying the album. Fyi there is a Canadian band called Klaatu that did a song called We're Off You Know from their 1977 album called Hope that many people thought were the Beatles since they didn't put their names on the album info. Great reaction!!!
You all ought to check out Billy Thorpe "Stimulation"
OMG! I had to come back because I wrote my first comment before I watched your reaction all the way through, lol, your reaction was exactly like ours back then! I just watched with a big grin on my face, especially when you mentioned what we were probably doing while listening to this song, yeah, you were dead on, lol!
Listen too this song with a set of Yamaha speakers (4). The music goes around you in a circle not side to side. I was 17 when we rocked to this.
This was huge on the radio back then. I was in high school when it came out. Alot of hallucinagenics back then. Hahaha.
the first time I heard this song I had just got home from a party and was feeling no pain. turned on the stereo just as the intro started. only light was the stereo. volume at 11. next thing I knew I was transported to another world. then the station went right into "nights in white satin" with the poem intro. a heavenly experience.
The first time I heard it, it was a radio cut for a 1970s-themed radio station (I heard it in the late 1980s). Most of the middle part was cut along with part of the intro, so you got more of a song with vocals than the album cut. Great response! This is also a very creepy song to have randomly come up when you're driving late at night on a stretch of deserted highway - not that I'd know anything about that! ;-)
this song was an instant classic when it first came out. the radio station I listen to had a program called For Headphones only and was played a lot.
Outstanding selection and brilliant reaction
His big hit here in Australia was MOST PEOPLE I KNOW (Think that I'm crazy)
Love it....may I suggest for funky 70's rock check out Gary Wright ~ love is alive or sniffin the tears ~ drivers seat.
Headphones & a fattie is how I remember hearing this 1st time lol I see this requested a lot, but you're the first I'm seen react! Thanks for the great memories!🛸👽✌
I have loved this song since the first time I heard it a couple of years after it came out. Bought it on cd when cd was available and have had it ever since. It's a concept album, but I only like about 3 of the other songs.
I saw Billy Thorpe play in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1982 and it was killer!
Ahhh, Children of the Sun. SO good.
Do yourselves a favour...... listen to the Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs , live at Boggo Road.... video.
This is live blues as it used to be played by a band who hadn’t played together for zonks at one of Australia’s toughest prisons.
Thorpe had only just arrived back in Australia after many years working in the USA .... a lot in Hollywood building movie sets. lol
The entire album is a must-listen
I'm 55 now, just heard it for first time days ago, 70' S rocked out , soulful , funky, big hair lol, not today
The guy across the hall in my college dorm had this on LP. We would jam out in the afternoon to this song and so did everyone else on that floor. 😄
Billy Squire IN YOUR EYES, ONE GOOD WOMAN.
An inspired song.
I have never heard this song before. Very unique. He also has a killer voice and range. Was this ahead of its time?