Great Aussie rock, always commenting on society at the time.

It’s definitely my favourite crawl song 😎😎😎

Sort of sounds like he wrote the story about..... Guy McDonough.

It's a song about drug addiction. A relationship ruined by drugs where she is caught between love and wanting to leave. "She don't want to cry, she just wants to know why." The lyrics tell the whole story although when Australian Crawl wanted to break into the American market they had to re-record some of their songs so the target audience could understand what they were singing. You know how James Reyne is with lyrics. He likes to slurrrr half of them and make the other half up. 🤣

A guest spot ? The bloke singing wrote many of their hits and sang lead vocals on more than just a guest spot or two.

I came across another great one recently: 'Baking Carob Biscuits' instead of 'Taking Care Of Business'! 😂

@@mightyV444 and The Weeknd's "Starboy"; I always heard "I'm a starboy" as "I'm at Starbucks"

@@stefkukla8533 - 😄👍

I had a friend who did that often, my favourite was, "Watch out for the string beans", instead of "smoothies".

I’m 58 and I was a little bit young for them, but loved them all the same. Only just fell in love with Chisel and they broke up!

We'd definitely try it.

@@hanierfamily Me too. I'm sure I'll find a place in Hobart that sells it. So much food, such little time!

@@Green_N_Blue_monster lol... unfortunately, it's a much bigger place than I thought it'd be, and there's a LOT of places with awesome food. My favourite place is the Constitution Dock with all the sea food joints.. you gotta come and see it for yourself!

From Campbelltown NSW absolutely a tragic loss..

Did you ever turn around and wave at the camera during your Countdown years?

@@Robbo766 Heaps of times! I've watched Countdown re-runs and have seen myself waving with a teddy bear in my hand, or turning to a camera and grinning and waving with my friends. My goofy young face has come back to haunt me when I watch a Countdown clip, from time to time.

@@liveitup67 - That is sooo cool! 😁👍

@@mightyV444 it's hard to see it as cool. it was just part of my life growing up in Melbourne. My dad often threatened that he woouldn't drive me to Countdown if I didn't do what parents usually want their kids to do (clean room, take garbage out, behave in school)... lol

@@liveitup67 - Oh! I see... 😯 But surely it was fun once you _did_ get to 'Countdown'? 😀👍

That story kind of reminds me of the cassette tape of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album my cousin said he'd make me, in '79 - I'm still waiting for it today! 😄

''Beeu!-tippi-peephole'', LOL! 😂

@@mightyV444 I actually used to sing along to it with my own interpretation: ''you tickle me balls!''. Time heals all wounds but can also reveal how childish one used to be...

@@brettfrench6121 - Awesome! 😂👍

Not on opioids in this clip. He died of pneumonia. Obviously being a heroin addict played it's part. He did not have AIDS.

@@garybalranald6323 I read Bill's book since and it's cleared a lot of the myths. Maybe Guy wasn't on anything in this Countdown clip. His eyes do look a bit glassy.

Wouldn't put it past them. They were also toying with a mild form of reggae-rock, à la The Police, around that same period. The guy doing the lead singing is Guy McDonough, who was the new man in the band at the time. It's likely he wrote this song a few years prior to joining Crawl, and decided to drag it in to fill the album. A lot of people were Southern Rock influenced in the mid 70's, so I'm sure this song goes back further than it's 1981 release. No disrespect to the late Guy McDonough, but he was a heavy drug user and this song is most likely about him. The rest of Australian Crawl were rich boys that surfed, so they were more a surf rock band than an Eagles inspired band. Their next album ''Sons of bitches''... sorry, I mean, ''beaches'', was less Southernish.

Not really it’s more that “soft” rock was a style at the time. The lyrics are usually very personal about people, issues etc. , the words are a lot serious than you’d think.

Yes! 'The Age Of Reason' 😀👍

@@mightyV444 yaaay!

@@rickandersen2284 - 😁

"Chain Reaction" has always been one of my favourites.

@@stefkukla8533 - Yes, that one's great also! 😀👍 The local supermarket sometimes plays his song 'Two Strong Hearts' ... 🎵"We stick together like the honey and the bee"🎵, LOL! 😄

I used to make it to the front of the crowd to watch groups perform on countdown. it was an opportunity to watch band dynamics. I don't remember Guy being very ''happy'' or ''energetic'' when he was doing this song on the Countdown set. More often than not, what you get on TV is not what you get when you're in the studio. I got to see bands not look at eachother as they're setting up, and then when suddenly become best of friends when the cameras are on. This is a little outside of the Countdow conversation, but it's kinda the same thing... I don't know if you got to see bands play at your High School, but I got to see many, and one band I would never forget was The Sports. They were fighting before they walked into the school hall, and then after the gig, they continued fighting, with punch ups... it was sad because ''Who Listens To The Radio'' had just been a hit in America and here they were at my school.... fighting! 😦

here, here... I can list many Aussie bands that had a classic album in them, but they have ''she'll be right'' attitude and are happy to just settle with some radio play and gigs and touring a big country... and then you get the extreme opposite like The Triffids

I would argue that their 2 best songs were both written and sung by McDonough. Such a sad loss.

You’ve omitted the main reason for AC’s inability to make it big overseas…..Guy’s passing in 1984.