Classic ! Aussie rock! Simple but powerful! The awesome "80"s! Nothing comes close! Depth and meaning! Not just an annoying noise! Like today's so called music!
“Pressure Sway” was popular here in Los Angeles in the 80s, but only that song. I heard it again on an oldies station today, but I knew this band had to have more. So here we are!
You forget sometimes just how insane Aussie music was in the 80s. You could go see the likes of these guys, INXS, AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, Mondo Rock, Do Re Mi all in the same month, playing at Pubs with a $5 cover charge and $7 jugs of beer on a week night... You could have an amazing night out for $25.
Yep....you could go from Parramatta war and peace over to sweethearts at Cabra and all in between....that was Aussie rock and roll...and thank God we got to taste it.
@@garethwest9069 lol wtf... bash the bible at people reminiscent of how good the 80s was for a cheap and good night out? You were praying in church the whole time and missed all the fun eh...
Still listening. Another kick ass local band of my 80s youth.....I wish I could go back right now. Simply can't listen to the crap they call music today. We'll never see the same variety or quality of Aussie music again as we had back then. Ever.
WOW! The 80's! NEVER to be repeated... Plenty of classic times from the 60"s and 70's as I'm often reminded of... However, the sound of the 80's was absolutely new, and I'm not sure we've truly had the next NEW sound since.
I was a teen back then so lucky to have experienced that era, Australia was an amazing place to live then so free and exciting. Now in 2022 My God what ever happened to this place? It's nothing now we gave up our freedom for so called safety. Now look what's happened.
When the high school social and the blue light disco played back to back bangers - and most of the tunes were Aussie bands just because they were the best music at the time. What a heyday for Australian music.
True, hadn't heard this tune since 85'. The bass line hooked me then.Used to have on a pop mixed tape. Countdown hits of 85 or something. Was double cassette, long gone now. But was drinking, and somehow remembered the proper name of the song I've been wanting to hear again since 85. I think I was like 12 then. Nostalgia trip. And thanks to the great Aussie invention of the goon bag , I was shown the way back to a good Aussie tune from the 80s.
Warren McLean passed on 3 Jan 2021. He was one hell of a drummer as well as a popular UA-cam vlogger and leaves behind an impressive musical legacy. He will be missed.
That is very sad. His photo stands out on the back of Big Music. Great drumming on that record. Thank you for letting us know. RIP Warren. A wonderful legacy indeed.
You know, I had forgotten about the Machinations. Music in the 80s in Oz was just insane. The talent that you could see around your local area was ridiculous. So I get why kids in the kitchen, Pseudo Echo and the rest are doing the pub circuit again but what happened to these legends
I saw The Machinations many, many times in the 80's. Which means I would've danced to the metronomic Drumming of Warren McLean. I remember sitting in my bedroom listening to JJJ 105.7FM in Sydney, in 1981, when out of the speakers came the awesome sounds of ' AVERAGE INADEQUACY ' I was totally immersed in the music masterpiece. JJJ voters agreed with me and placed it very high in one of their early HOT 100's of all time. The B-side of ' Arabia ' is very cool also. I rate them as one of Australia's premier music artists of all time. Vale Warren McLean , and condolences to his family and friends.
Grew up listening to super hits such as this one. Doubt there was , nor will be a better decade in terms of how many great Aussie/NZ artists and bands were regularly smashing out top 10 hits and having huge international sucess. Angels, Rose Tattoo, Australian Craw,l Big Pig, Pseudo Echo and the Hoodu Gurus, just to mention some more brilliant Aussie/NZ acts. We are fortunate that us Aussies and also our Kiwi cobbas, in the 80's in particular, oozed talent in music. It was awesome.
The 80's. Seem to have been here for such a very short time. Makes me feel so very melancholy, I love the music - all of it, but wish I was back there as a 10 year old in the mid 80's
Ha ha!! ripped off, glad I could enjoy this era as an independent young adult and do adult stuff rather than being a minor wishing I was grown up enough and still too young to enjoy the early 90's. Owch!
I first heard this song as a kid on a compilation cassette in '85 call "Choose 1985" I played this song so much I stretched, and broke the tape. At the time it broke me heart when that cassette died. The 80's was the best childhood.
Craving for affection again It's too soon to feel what the body requires Keeping it, under control You're a saint It's looking good ahead of time Playing ladies She's keeping it out in the open She's no angel But she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way Starving for some more confusion You seem to know what the body requires No more thinking, out in the open Under control, so you can make your own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way Seeing that reaction's growing Your senses just leave Your body's on fire Now she's pretending it's under control You're no saint when instinct makes its own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way
All I know for certain is that@ the turn of the Millennium, we still had a domestic music industry to be proud of..but within a decade it had already pu$$ified into the Millennial-hipster w@nk it is today👎
Hate to break it to you David, but INXS's The Swing, which included Original Sin, came out about a year before The Machinations album containing this song. Indeed, INXS had a similar sound in '83 with Shabooh Shoobah. They (INXS and The Machinations) were contemporaries.
Spent a while talking with someone today, about Australian music 1985-95. We both agreed they were golden years, with a “pub rock” sound that overtook punk and new romantic. Why? Probably the crowded, noisy small pubs that bands played in. The poor acoustics, the crowded intimate audience who were standing inches from the bands, who often didn’t even have a stage to play on, and were jammed into a corner of the bar. Maybe the money, and a new wealthy generation hit the pubs and got pissed. Bands got gigs, they made enough to do it for a living, they developed hard rhythms and loud vocals that could be heard above the noise. By the late 90s it was over. Music had changed. American rappers were In vogue, young people didn’t hit the bars as hard as they use to, pub managment changed. The last vestiges hung on. The Three Monkeys had live bands until around 2008. Good bands that were good to listen to. But it’s pretty well all gone now. Pubs serve food and have walls of pokies. RSA marshals “advise you to leave” if you look like you are having fun. RIP that decade. I had a ball
Why there has not been a remix with the current "sound" for a tune and lyrics this well done back in the day particularly considering how well it would probably do, boggles the mind.
Jesus it was THE best and ONLY decade of music. What was UP with you? I'm very fussy when it comes to music but I even ended up with at least 35-40 albums from that era-admittedly a number from the same act but it counts. Even moreso as people could be relied upon!
@@HouseholdDog No way?! Shit. What was the UK equivalent in price terms do you know? Bless, I remember Chrissie Hynde of Pretenders saying more than a few decades back that the prices of CDs were disgusting, and she had no problem with them retailing to the consumer for about £3, bless her, instead of 3x that or more. Shit, if that's bad, thank God I didn't live where you did. Presumably you've bought a lot since or just downloaded?
@@kyachdistent1301 IIRC they were about $12au. I think the exchange rate was around $2-$2.5 to the pound. So around £5-£6 each. For the most part we copied things onto tape. Either off the radio or off someone who bought the record.
A fantastic song which beings happy times of 1985.. Wollongong... Annabelles..the Illawarra hotel..cousins...kenadys..Winnie reds..JD and coke..schooners of old...ahh shit next year is the h.s.c..better get a kiss from Alison my squeeze at the time
It kicked arse fantastic time to enjoy music in Australia.michael gudinksi produced some brilliant bands.he was a legend. I'm 53 still love 80s music.
It astounds me how much talent Australia has. It’s never gets the recognition it truly deserves, too busy worshipping international acts
this and pressure sway way ahead of its time , some eighties electronic music a bit painful now but these 2 songs musical genius
Classic !
Aussie rock!
Simple but powerful!
The awesome "80"s!
Nothing comes close!
Depth and meaning!
Not just an annoying noise!
Like today's so called music!
“Pressure Sway” was popular here in Los Angeles in the 80s, but only that song. I heard it again on an oldies station today, but I knew this band had to have more. So here we are!
Check out 'DO TO YOU' and 'My heart's on fire.'
Man how could I forget about that song....hoooold ME UP !!!!
What a cool track. Oozes quality 80s sound but also timeless.
You forget sometimes just how insane Aussie music was in the 80s. You could go see the likes of these guys, INXS, AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, Mondo Rock, Do Re Mi all in the same month, playing at Pubs with a $5 cover charge and $7 jugs of beer on a week night... You could have an amazing night out for $25.
The Models and Mental as anything were both big winners in the mid 80s
Yep....you could go from Parramatta war and peace over to sweethearts at Cabra and all in between....that was Aussie rock and roll...and thank God we got to taste it.
“The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!” - Mark 1:15
Best day's of my life
@@garethwest9069 lol wtf... bash the bible at people reminiscent of how good the 80s was for a cheap and good night out? You were praying in church the whole time and missed all the fun eh...
Golden Days, never to be seen again. And that's a bloody tragedy.
A seriously underrated band. Love The Machinations. Great live band.
I hammered this song in the 80s. Such a great era for Aussie music.
Did you have a Fido Dido t-shirt? 😺
“The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!” - Mark 1:15
still hammering it in 2023
Still listening. Another kick ass local band of my 80s youth.....I wish I could go back right now. Simply can't listen to the crap they call music today. We'll never see the same variety or quality of Aussie music again as we had back then. Ever.
I agree 100%
🎉🎉 that bassline, the guitars and those epic drums. Highly underrated badass song.
And the mesmerizing eyes of that Lady singing the back up vocals..wow
Love to see the frontman get with it whilst performing, they’re really enjoying themselves, great song that has stood the test of time 👌
ohh the memories... 80's was the best!!
Miss the 80's so much!
Could not agree more - blessed to have seen them live multiple times live here in OZ during the 80’s
The best decade
@@greghall7796
Awesome, sorry only just saw your comment.
😁
@@stevestanley2
Absolutely!
I was in 6th grade the year of this song, and I woke up then to realize i was living in the best time in all of human history.
Love for Machinations here from Brazil! What a great band... 80s still rule!!!!
WOW! The 80's! NEVER to be repeated... Plenty of classic times from the 60"s and 70's as I'm often reminded of... However, the sound of the 80's was absolutely new, and I'm not sure we've truly had the next NEW sound since.
I was a teen back then so lucky to have experienced that era, Australia was an amazing place to live then so free and exciting. Now in 2022 My God what ever happened to this place? It's nothing now we gave up our freedom for so called safety. Now look what's happened.
80,s Werent we lucky. Seeing band like this.🇦🇺🎹🎼🎸
Fred definitely had some cool moves.
When the high school social and the blue light disco played back to back bangers - and most of the tunes were Aussie bands just because they were the best music at the time. What a heyday for Australian music.
Yes it was a great time for Aussie music
Saw them live in 1985
AWESOME
MAD BASSLINE , KILLER GROOVE 👌
True, hadn't heard this tune since 85'. The bass line hooked me then.Used to have on a pop mixed tape. Countdown hits of 85 or something. Was double cassette, long gone now. But was drinking, and somehow remembered the proper name of the song I've been wanting to hear again since 85. I think I was like 12 then. Nostalgia trip. And thanks to the great Aussie invention of the goon bag , I was shown the way back to a good Aussie tune from the 80s.
great bass
From memory this came out on a 12 inch EP! It's a fantastic song !
Warren McLean passed on 3 Jan 2021. He was one hell of a drummer as well as a popular UA-cam vlogger and leaves behind an impressive musical legacy. He will be missed.
Very sad news. Fantastic drummer. RIP.
RIP 👍✌
That is very sad. His photo stands out on the back of Big Music. Great drumming on that record. Thank you for letting us know. RIP Warren. A wonderful legacy indeed.
Man that sux rip
Did he take the vax 🤓
You know, I had forgotten about the Machinations. Music in the 80s in Oz was just insane. The talent that you could see around your local area was ridiculous. So I get why kids in the kitchen, Pseudo Echo and the rest are doing the pub circuit again but what happened to these legends
Classic! And still stands up today. Great tune and tight production.
The talebt that flowed in this band.... man....
I remember working on this clip at the Paddington Town Hall. Great fun!
Bad ass song. Got turned onto these guys from the Dead End Drive In movie soundtrack.
I saw The Machinations many, many times in the 80's.
Which means I would've danced to the metronomic Drumming of Warren McLean.
I remember sitting in my bedroom listening to JJJ 105.7FM in Sydney, in 1981, when out of the speakers came the awesome sounds of ' AVERAGE INADEQUACY '
I was totally immersed in the music masterpiece.
JJJ voters agreed with me and placed it very high in one of their early HOT 100's of all time.
The B-side of ' Arabia ' is very cool also.
I rate them as one of Australia's premier music artists of all time.
Vale Warren McLean , and condolences to his family and friends.
Grew up listening to super hits such as this one. Doubt there was , nor will be a better decade in terms of how many great Aussie/NZ artists and bands were regularly smashing out top 10 hits and having huge international sucess. Angels, Rose Tattoo, Australian Craw,l Big Pig, Pseudo Echo and the Hoodu Gurus, just to mention some more brilliant Aussie/NZ acts. We are fortunate that us Aussies and also our Kiwi cobbas, in the 80's in particular, oozed talent in music. It was awesome.
The 80's. Seem to have been here for such a very short time. Makes me feel so very melancholy, I love the music - all of it, but wish I was back there as a 10 year old in the mid 80's
Ha ha!! ripped off, glad I could enjoy this era as an independent young adult and do adult stuff rather than being a minor wishing I was grown up enough and still too young to enjoy the early 90's. Owch!
Thanks for putting this up. Good era to grow up in with great music like this
Sure was, loved the 80s
I'm still growing up with it.☺️👍
So awesome
Sensational song aussie 80s classic but that Bass WOW.
As soon as I read your comment..the bassline is killer
Beautiful music.
`80年代TVでMVを観て以来気に入っています。当時VHSに録画したものを観ていましたが紛失、レコードも手に入らず。UA-camのおかげで何十年ぶりに見つけることが出来ました。ありがとう！！
Such a great track.of the 80s real class.
When many Australians had class, life was more easygoing and Sydney was the worlds most livable and fun city.
This is timeless
Aussie music the best!
I first heard this song as a kid on a compilation cassette in '85 call "Choose 1985" I played this song so much I stretched, and broke the tape. At the time it broke me heart when that cassette died. The 80's was the best childhood.
Pretty sure I had that tape too, boy those were great days 🇦🇺👍
I had it too....rockin
I reckon I still have mine!
Love the Machinations. This song was superb - one of my favourite from the 80s.
One of best songs ever
Amazing song!
Fantastic
I still love this song and that voice.
2022 and this song is still so good!
awesome
song
Love The Machs.
Hi dicko
The 1980’s era a great time to live life have fun and everything was so hip and exciting. 2020-2022 life has become an absolute shit show..
God i wish i had seen them live in the day
What a Classic
Yes, and I've never heard before! That chorus!
80's awesome,the 90' s not so much, today .....few and far between.
absolute Awesome Song!
Great BASS！ Great Base！ Great Base Line ！ Beautiful Base Line ！
Craving for affection again
It's too soon to feel what the body requires
Keeping it, under control
You're a saint
It's looking good ahead of time
Playing ladies
She's keeping it out in the open
She's no angel
But she can make her own way
You've got no say in it
She's known danger, she can make her own way
You've got no say in it
She's pure instinct, she should make her own way
Starving for some more confusion
You seem to know what the body requires
No more thinking, out in the open
Under control, so you can make your own way
You've got no say in it
She's known danger, she can make her own way
You've got no say in it
She's pure instinct, she should make her own way
You've got no say in it
She's known danger, she can make her own way
You've got no say in it
She's pure instinct, she should make her own way
Seeing that reaction's growing
Your senses just leave
Your body's on fire
Now she's pretending it's under control
You're no saint when instinct makes its own way
You've got no say in it
She's known danger, she can make her own way
You've got no say in it
She's pure instinct, she should make her own way
You've got no say in it
She's known danger, she can make her own way
You've got no say in it
She's pure instinct, she should make her own way
Great song and great moves
I just love, love this song!!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
When I listen to Machinations, my neighbours do too!
(This song still sounds great in 2022)
😆👍
Slappin that base like a redhead step son!
So much Aussie talent in the 80s - where did it all go?
Aussies didn't have to be too serious in the 80s, just get into the music, now they need to be Woke.
Rap came and devastated it.. Aussies did not rap well.. hard to adjust to it..
All I know for certain is that@ the turn of the Millennium, we still had a domestic music industry to be proud of..but within a decade it had already pu$$ified into the Millennial-hipster w@nk it is today👎
I think it is the same problem everywhere. Luckily we have a fantastic back catalogue. The 80s were fantastic.
Stock, Aitken and Waterman flushed it down the toilet with a singing budgie.
Aahhhh the memories
How the hell does this not have 1 billion views
Ahhhh Yeah this Song was incredible I Blasted this Song
saw them live around 1983 i think at the trade union club - brilliant
Couple of years after this, INXS were playing the same funk rhythms. Roger Sterling, Roger (Pommie) Pete Moss, Jamie and Ado were big Artarmon fans.
Hate to break it to you David, but INXS's The Swing, which included Original Sin, came out about a year before The Machinations album containing this song. Indeed, INXS had a similar sound in '83 with Shabooh Shoobah. They (INXS and The Machinations) were contemporaries.
man i have an amazing story associated with buying and listening to this tape back when it come out i wont tell it to protect the guilty lol
if i had a time machine running at 8.21 jiggawatts id take us all back! I love the 80s!
RIP Warren McLean
ACE!
kudos to the eighties
Great music
Take me back please now.
Me too!!!!
I’ll have what you’re having! Take me please!
Aussie Duran Duran. Love it!!!
Spent a while talking with someone today, about Australian music 1985-95. We both agreed they were golden years, with a “pub rock” sound that overtook punk and new romantic.
Why? Probably the crowded, noisy small pubs that bands played in. The poor acoustics, the crowded intimate audience who were standing inches from the bands, who often didn’t even have a stage to play on, and were jammed into a corner of the bar. Maybe the money, and a new wealthy generation hit the pubs and got pissed.
Bands got gigs, they made enough to do it for a living, they developed hard rhythms and loud vocals that could be heard above the noise.
By the late 90s it was over. Music had changed. American rappers were In vogue, young people didn’t hit the bars as hard as they use to, pub managment changed.
The last vestiges hung on. The Three Monkeys had live bands until around 2008. Good bands that were good to listen to.
But it’s pretty well all gone now. Pubs serve food and have walls of pokies. RSA marshals “advise you to leave” if you look like you are having fun.
RIP that decade. I had a ball
Great Aussie band
I'd forgotten this, great song, thanks for posting
Fucken great times 👌
Aussies did some unique funk, its underrated
Fuck yeah
Seriously brilliant 👏 🙏❤
He was a great singer
good times
Just belting out some decent music, sadly missing today, a great band.
Hon, "sadly missing today"? Try fucking extinct since 1990 virtually!
Peak Oz 80s here.
Thebest
Why there has not been a remix with the current "sound" for a tune and lyrics this well done back in the day particularly considering how well it would probably do, boggles the mind.
The puffy shirt!
One of the few albums I bought in the 80s.
Jesus it was THE best and ONLY decade of music. What was UP with you? I'm very fussy when it comes to music but I even ended up with at least 35-40 albums from that era-admittedly a number from the same act but it counts. Even moreso as people could be relied upon!
@@kyachdistent1301 I was in my early teens with no pocket money.
Albums were ferociously expensive in Australia.
@@HouseholdDog No way?! Shit. What was the UK equivalent in price terms do you know? Bless, I remember Chrissie Hynde of Pretenders saying more than a few decades back that the prices of CDs were disgusting, and she had no problem with them retailing to the consumer for about £3, bless her, instead of 3x that or more. Shit, if that's bad, thank God I didn't live where you did. Presumably you've bought a lot since or just downloaded?
@@kyachdistent1301 IIRC they were about $12au.
I think the exchange rate was around $2-$2.5 to the pound.
So around £5-£6 each.
For the most part we copied things onto tape. Either off the radio or off someone who bought the record.
@@HouseholdDog I see, cheers. I don't blame you, either. 80s was flash with cash for only those few who had it!
❤
RIP Waz, never met you but loved your work here and with your Bali vids. Rest in peace champion.
How Good was Aussie Rock in the 80s
Some very good. And that Kylie Minogue ruined everything by the end! And accepted everywhere NATURALLy!
YOU SAID ROCK NOT POP
@@kyachdistent1301 ROCK NOT POP
SEE THAT TOP SHELF OF AUSTRALIAN BANDS? MACHINATIONS SITS RIGHT UP THERE. END OF STORY.
Ken Oath 🎉
Iam sure this was filmed in Paddington town hall , my mate and I were asked to be part of the audience for the clip .
Can anyone tell me who's the woman doing the backing vocals in this video/track please?
Inez
Thanks@@markcastelletti483 , you're a legend!
i got this one as the 2nd greatest aussie song of all time
Have to ask, what's number one?
@@TheAntster102 #1 Hey Little Girl. If you don't like that song, there's plenty others to choose from the Icehouse list=)
A fantastic song which beings happy times of 1985.. Wollongong... Annabelles..the Illawarra hotel..cousins...kenadys..Winnie reds..JD and coke..schooners of old...ahh shit next year is the h.s.c..better get a kiss from Alison my squeeze at the time