Bottom > The Young Ones (feat Madness and other 80s music videos)

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Dave Dobbyn was another Kiwi that made it big over the ditch with this song, went to no,1 here as well as NZ, great song.




Dave Dobbyn had a heap of other hits in NZ, he was the Kiwi John Farnham but that was the only song of his that got traction in Australia.

 

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This took NZ by storm - instant No 1. Done by locals just down the road, the Patea freezing works had closed and the town was full of unemployed. The local marae decided to involve as many people as possible making a song. Watch for cameos from the quintessential Kiwi milk tankers and stock trucks.

 

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Dave Dobbyn had a heap of other hits in NZ, he was the Kiwi John Farnham but that was the only song of his that got traction in Australia.

Slice of Heaven was the track written for the movie Footrot Flats - A Dog's Tale. Dave Dobbyn collaborated with Herbs (another seriously successful local group). His earlier hits were with his own band DD Smash.

 

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This was a protest song written in '83 against the French nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll, before the French Secret Service sent in a team of frogmen (see what I did there?!) and two agents to blow up the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior while docked in Auckland.

 

[Gough]

In both life and lore Kiwis are some of the most stoned people I've ever come across.

 

[PT Bar None]

Speaking of the Rainbow Warrior, and her untimely demise, this song was apparently written in her honour by hair band White Lion. Didn't do much commercially, but I always liked it. Retains a place on my playlist to this day

 

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Shihad are another great Kiwi rock band.




The Datsuns could rock hard too.

 

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Goodshirt were another good NZ alt rock band from the noughties.

 

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A lot of great NZ bands that never made it big in Australia, as good as Split Enz were they benefitted from Molly giving them exposure on Countdown.





They even hosted Countdown back in 1979, Tim Finn must have been on some good coke.

 

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Im pretty sure there was no kiwi band on TYOs


but you forgot counting the beat and baked beans

 

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Who could forget The Swingers with the late great Bones Hillman of Midnight Oils fame on bass.

Well I did, good pick up Hawk Dork

 

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Who can forget this classic from Monte Video and The Cassettes, another classic 80s NZ band.

 

[Billy ray]

Going back a little further

how good were wimple winch

 

[Billy ray]

Melanie went alright too

 

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Collette could ring my bell.

 

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Margaret Urlich > Lorde

 

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I still miss George Michael.

 

[The Dice Man]

Robin Williams deserves his own thread so I've added him to the thread title.

This is a great tribute from Dave Letterman.

It's interesting that often with celebrities that have taken their own life that you never hear about how they took their life. I don't remember reading how Robin did it at the time, but it's out there and available information. The disease he was said to be suffering from makes some kind of sense, in a ****ed up way. The man was loved the world over, nothing but a mental disease can explain that IMO.

 

[The Dice Man]

I still miss George Michael.

So does Ed Helms

 

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We are programmed to do
Everything they want us to
We are the robots
We are the robots

Wow, scarily prescient from 40 years ago...

 

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You can't beat this 80s German classic.




I was at Oktoberfest about 20 years ago with a Kiwi mate of mine sitting at a table with some Germans in one of the old school German tents.

There was a German band there that were playing some old German tunes along with some old rock and roll classics like Chuck Berry and The Beatles.

After several steins I went over to one of the guys in the band and asked him if they could play 99 Luftballons as it was my favourite German song.

I never thought they would play it but a few songs later they did and the whole tent went off, everyone was dancing on the tables, it was amazing.

It has to be the German version too, the English version sucks.

 

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This was another 80s German classic.