The early 80s were an epic time for Australian pub rock. Honestly I have no idea how many times I saw the Dynamic Hepnotics, Mentals, Chisel, Jon English and the Foster Brothers, Jo Jo Zep and so many others.

Good time band! I really like Gotta Be Wrong, which I think came out around the same time(?). I also love a singer/songwriter named Billy Field. ''You Weren't In Love With Me'', ''Bad Habits'' and ''True Love'' were my favourites by him. I'm really loving the almost daily flashbacks here! 😍

My all time favourite band. You now have a new subscriber.

Takes me back to university days. We had this small 60s revival in Australia back in the mid 80s and these guys found a way to fit the bill. They played a bit with ska and soul for a couple of years before this took off. Gotta Be Wrong is another goodie by these guys.

Yeah good track that one, almost forgot it. They had another good song "Gotta be wrong" I think it was called.

If you like this try Bachelors from Prague, great Aussie band

I had so much fun seeing this group live with my friends from 1982 to 1985. Late 20's.. Thirty around the corner... Then I turned 30 and just continued partying.. lol

The Dynamic Hepnotics were an Australian soul, blues and funk band which formed in 1979 and disbanded in 1986. Mainstay, lead vocalist and front man, "Continental" Robert Susz formed the group in Sydney. They had chart success on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart with a top 5 single, "Soul Kind of Feeling" in 1984. It was followed by "Gotta Be Wrong (Way to Love)" which reached the top 20 in 1985. Their album, Take You Higher, reached the top 20 on the related Albums Chart in June. In 1986, "Soul Kind of Feeling" won the APRA Music Award for 'Most Performed Australasian Popular Work'. Peace out

Nice one. Their follow up Gotta Be Wrong was pretty catchy too. The version on aussiebattlers is the best one if you check it out

OKAY GUYS, I noticed some conversation about the great Billy Field, and I am very keen to see Billy Field be included on this channel. Who did it better? Billy Field - Bad Habits *Antipodes* vs. David Lee Roth - Bad Habits (Billy wrote and recorded the original) Billy Field - You Weren't In Love With Me *nzoz1981* vs. Mick Fleetwood - You Weren't In Love With Me (Billy wrote and recorded the original) Tim Harden - If I Were A Carpenter (Tim wrote and recorded the original) vs. Swanee - If I Were A Carpenter (Audio + Video merge 2024) Also: Jo Jo Zep And The Falcons - Hit And Run nzoz1979 Moving Pictures - What About Me nzoz1982 Swanee - Lady What's Your Name nzoz1982 The Sports - Live Work And Play (visual + video merge)

I downloaded this off LimeWire, and my computer freaked out (infected file!!), but it's a great song. Probably a bit earlier than this was Billy Fields with Bad Habits. It's jazz, not soul, but worth a listen.

"Continental" Robert Susz was so awesome live. In fact the whole band always put on a good show

The man with the sunglasses and red comb on the side of his head is Frank Bennett. You might like to check out his version of Radiohead's ''Creep'' sometime. He did to ''Creep'' what The Mike Flowers Pops did with Oasis's ''Wonderwalll''. The singer is "Continental" Robert Susz. He used to be a customer at a chemist I worked at in Kings Cross yonks ago. If you live and work around the centre of Sydney, you tend to see the same faces and I often saw Robert's face around town. I didn't even know he was the singer from Dynamic Hepnotics! There was a time I thought this was some Jo Jo Zep song. Other quality Dynamic Hepnotics songs are as follows: Dynamic Hepnotics - Gotta Be Wrong Anitpodes Dynamic Hepnotics - Hepnobeat (Audio + Video merge 2024) Dynamic Hepnotics - Believe Me Mark Sydow Dynamic Hepnotics - On Our Way Now nzoz1986 Dynamic Hepnotics - Whenever You're Ready nzoz1985 I'll work on a very early video called ''It Ain't Right'' just for the fun of it, and post up the title if ever you need to use it. Very early!

Great.. love this song.. always have

It's really great to see you guys still willingly checking out our pop musical past. I just love to sit and watch you guys react to the music I grew up on. I do watch your non-Australian content too, just so you know. I know a lot of the songs you do including yesterday's Leo Sayer one. I'll try to comment if it helps enhance the video's status. I really liked this song growing up as a kid in the 80's. England did this style of 80's soul music, but we also had our little scenes that took a stab at it. Keep up the great work.

They were popular with my older sister and her friends. I note a "Once was R Strathfield" requested it. This band appeared at my sister's school - Santa Sabina (in Strathfield - where they filmed "Brides of Christ" also)

Yeah seen them a few times back then and there live sound was close to there recordings.

Great band my favourite tune of theirs is Hepnobeat and it was the mid eighties a great time for Aussie music

Directed by Doctor Fiona Cochrane. She was one out of a few 70's Countdown girls that got into making music videos in the 80's. You guys have no idea how much of an influence that show had on a generation of Australians. The make-up people had to do a bit of work to make singer, Robert ''Continenta'' Susz, look cool. He had the moves and confidence of a frontman, but the looks of a bank manager. If he could pass as a member of the original Dexy's Midnight Runners then it was a job well-done. I got to be one of the dancers in this video and can be seen a few times. Not going to point myself out, but I am definitely not one of the over-the-top Gothy looking chicks.

I played bass in a soul revival band back in the late 80s early 90s and we added this one and it NEVER failed to get people dancing. ‘Continental’ Robert Susz is their vocalist and he had a great delivery. That album Take You Higher had lots of great feeling tunes. This was the pick of the bunch for me and their debut hit. Gotta Be Wrong (Way To Love) got to top 20, but I think Whenever You’re Ready tops it easily. For a more modern good feeling tune with a soul styling I like Morcheeba’s Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day (studio version). Having steered you right once again I’ll gently but shamelessly plug Stanley Clarke’s song Lopsy Lu (studio version). Cheers!

Bloody nora, what have we done to deserve this?

I remember dancing to this song as a teenager and really liking it as a tune. I can't say it's my big 80's thrill. I don't get the same out of this song as I get from Go-West's ''We Close Our Eyes'' or Wham's big hits or A-ha, or local Aussie hits like Mental As Anything's ''Live It Up''. I remember hanging out with friends at malls or The Pancake Parlour and this tune would be on in the background and it was nice. I'm happy to see you guys do Dynamic Hepnotics, but I actually liked ''Hepnobeat'' more because the music video amused my simple little mind at the time. Pups... 🐕

I was waiting on him breaking into " reet petite" with that voice, i liked it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

I remember when these guys began in the very early 80's, and they were like an alternative to typical Oz pub rock. I class them along with a lot of other Sydney/Melbourne non-rock bands like Non Stop Dancers, No Nonsense, The Globos, Naughty Rhythms and Allniters. A lot of brass and soulful singing and 80's clothes. ''Soul Kind Of Feeling'' is probably the most successful from that era.

I grumbled when I first heard this in 84. I liked their 'Hepnobeat' single and thought this was a sellout. Not anymore. It's good.

It might be a pastiche of Motown and 60's Soul, but it feels as 80's as the fashion worn by all in the video

Wonderful Sydney band! 👍❤Thanks for listening to them.

Nice reaction folks. Continental Robert also did some fantastic work with band "Mighty Reapers". A bluesy soul outfit.

This is totally Northern Soul for our English friends They would dance their socks of to this.

Great 80's Aussie party song. Had a couple of good hits like this one. Fairly short lived from memory but they left their mark. What more can you ask for? Fine choice.

Good old Continental Robert and the boys. The drummer would join Mental As Anything in the 2000's before leaving God's green earth. There were a lot of bands of seasoned pro's that jumped on board the new wave of any style goes.. There were these swing bands, ska bands, jazz bands, soul bands and blues bands that were dressed up in a New Wave costume. When I think of these guys in the early 80's, I also think of The Mighty Guys. It was before the music industry figured out what New Wave was and how to sell it.

Heard the song before but know nothing about the band. Remind me a little of Mental As Anything. Would not have known what country they from so to find out they Australian means they obviously did not capture my attention much whenever they were around. But whenever this song was from, certainly heard it before.

A good and competent take on soul music. This wasn't a one off for this guys. Other songs like ''Gotta Be Wrong'' demonstrate their commitment to these style.

Their song 'Rollin' In The Dirt'' is a party favourite

Cracking soul revival party pop song , really like it . I don’t always watch the video to songs on here but I did with this one , dunno why but took an instant dislike to shonky singer after his falsetto thang , but that’s being super critical . Overall .. really positive about the bands style and musicianship . ✊ 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Not familiar with this band, but they have a similar kind of sound to, "Dexy's Midnight Runners", and few other bands from the early to mid '80s.

I can comment on these guys with authority because I was seeing them play at a club called Arthur's, which was a hop, skip and a jump away from where I lived in Potts Point. I also won their first EP ''Shakin' All Over'' in 1980, and asked Sydney's premier community radio station, 2JJ, to play their songs. They were playing around the same circles as The Allniters, who were a Sydney Ska group, and a lot of Hepnotics' audiences were made up of followers of the Melbourne rockabilly group, The Crackajacks. There was this cult of people that were into doing the 50's Rock'n'Swing dance style, and they would often attend Hepnotics' gigs. There's some crummy video on KZfaq of Dymanic Hepnotics performing ''It Ain't Right'', and you can see those dancers. The Ska people and the Mod people snubbed eachother off and never mixed, so DH's got those that fell in the middle. I was very happy to see them score a hit with ''Soul Kind Of Feeling'', and the follow-up ''Gotta Be Wrong''. If I was to ask you guys to check something out, could it be ''Hepnobeat'', ''It Ain't Right'' and ''Gotta Be Wrong''? The first two bring back memories of the early 80's. Seeing as I've made a request for a couple of D.Hep songs, could I please suggest one of my favourite Sports songs? I would love to see you guys react to ''The Sports - Live Work And Play (visual + video merge)''? I've always loved this song when it was played live and the live footage (which was taken from Nightmoves) captures the group's energy and Steve Cumming's charisma. The Sports had recorded a couple of versions of this particular song, but I only like the version that's on that ''visual + merge'' thing made by OnceWas. Anyway, that's my wee begging over. Thanks for checking out D.Heps.. I wish I thought of making this request.

Not my thing at all. Very disappointing indeed 😕