I'm a Los Angeleno of the era as well. KROQ. What a perfect time.

@@natalyamay72 He he, if you start me talking about LA in those days, I won't stop... I saw The Go-Go's and The Germs in the same week when I arrived there. I was a regular Licorice Pizza record store rat, and got hold of all the little known British, Canadian and Australian records there and Tower (XTC, The Photos, Simple Minds, Mi-Sex). It just isn't what it used to be.

@@BostonAndProud Fantastic.

Have you heard Eddie Vedder sing this he came to NZ & sang a bunch of spilt enz songs with Neil Finn man he was awesome .It sounds just like a pearl jam song with eddie singing it & eddie said himself that he & his band were highly influenced by them .

@@jonsmith6982 I was aware that Eddie Vedder had taken them as an influence. I did watch what he did with their songs when he performed in NZ. It's good guys like that wave a flag for Enz, instead of it just being me and a few other New Wave freaks that were there at the time.

Dead on mate Poor Boy is classic.

@@simoncoley303 Yes, it is. 🙂

well written well played one of my favs also ,,have you heard the ENZO version ,kiwi Dave Dobbyn on vocals with the nz sympathy orchestra i really enjoy that one also ,Dave,s vocals just really seem to suit that song he did great with it .

@@jonsmith6982 Thanks, I'll have to check that out.

acdc should be tryed at the international criminal court for HIGH CRIME'S AGAINST MUSIC AND EXECUTED IMMEDIATELY

@@heathcornbeef You think they're that bad? I am not a super AC/DC fan. I can take them or leave them. They're just part of the ''classic rock'' wallpaper along with every other mainsteam band. However, I have a thin connection with AC/DC. I attended the same school as Angus Young (different decades), grew up in the same part of Sydney as the Young brothers and my grandmother was a friend of Bon Scott's back in the late 60's. Bon's wife, Irene Thornton, briefly mentions my grandmother in her book - not by name but by description. So, I do have a sense of pride that AC/DC made it. I like Split Enz a lot more than AC/DC, but I'm proud of AC/DC for what they've achieved. They're close to home.

@@OnceWasRStrathfield it's a passion of mine i really do HATE acdc with every atom in my twisted body I'm into punk rock ska and reggae exclusively

@@OnceWasRStrathfield ps none of my friends will play them when I'm around unless they want to wined me up i have been known to throw a CD or two from the CD player over the fence YIPPEE that gets things exciting

@@OnceWasRStrathfield How can you go past Angus in his Convict Pajamas in the Jailbreak clip.

He's really talented, though.

We love that song too. We don't know that many Split Enz songs, but that one found us.

@@hanierfamily - Awww, that is really lovely! 😊

I liked their 'Live It Up' when it was released in the late 80's 😀 I found out they were Kiwi only after I'd moved from Germany to NZ about 15 years later! Same goes for the Finn Brothers; I'd always had the impression Crowded House were an Australian band! But that's also how they'd been marketed in the German media. And I'd known the name 'Split Enz' forever, before I finally heard their actual songs; They were on the same record label as The Police, one of my all-time favourites, and their albums were being advertised on The Police's albums' inner sleeves. Along with XTC's, by whom I'd known only a couple of songs forever, too! Which I changed a couple of years ago, and they also were great! 😊👍

@@mightyV444 Cool story. I'm impressed that Split Enz albums were advertised inside the sleeve of Police albums. Mental As Anything (''Live It Up'' fame) were an Australian band. Crowded House are an *Australasian* band. Crowded House are both an Australian band and a New Zealand band. Neil Finn (New Zealander) formed Crowded House in Melbourne with Paul Hester (Aussie) and Nick Seymour (Aussie), and Craig Hooper (another Aussie, and ex-Reels member). However, I don't feel Australia should have complete claim over Crowded House, seeing as Tim Finn joined the band a few years later.. Crowded House are not completely a New Zealand act. Nick Seymour and Paul Hester are NOT New Zealanders. I think it's offensive when a New Zealand band gets promoted as an Aussie band, and as for Split Enz, that happened a lot in their early years. I saw footage of Dion Warick calling Split Enz an Aussie band when she hosted Solid Gold, and The Professor Of Rock also referred to Split Enz as an Aussie band. That is just ignorance. Your first impression is correct. Crowded House were two thirds Aussie, and were half-Aussie/half-Kiwi when Tim Finn joined in 1991.

@@OnceWasRStrathfield - Yes, that's pretty much my own math, too: Two Australians versus only 1 New Zealander = an Australian band. To be fair, though: That 1 Kiwi was (and still is) their primary songwriter and thus probably has more say than the other two guys (which definitely also was the impression I was getting when reading the band's bio). He's Crowded House's Sting! 😄😉 'Australasian band' is a great compromise, though! 😁👍 And thank you for correcting me on Mental As Anything; I'd remembered it wrong 😅

@@mightyV444 I used to say that Crowded House are an Australian band running on New Zealand fuel. But I think it's much fairer to say that they are an Australasian band. In fact, Mental As Anything are also, technically-speaking, an Australasian band, because brothers, Reg and Pete, were born in New Zealand. The weird thing is, Australia claims anything successful from New Zealand. We still have a cultural cringe in Australia, which is why we do absurd things like demand unassuming Canadian couples react to our (often obscure) music. ha ha ha

@@OnceWasRStrathfield - LOL! 😄 In any case: Great to meet you! 😀👍 Thank you for chatting, and I wish you a great 2023! 😊 See you around too, I'm sure! 😉