that voice gets better every day...amazing version!

Too good for today's 'music' scene..this is the real stuff! 😍

Just goes to show how good this guy is now and was back then.

This is an extract from the "Stop The Drop" concert in Melbourne in the early 80s. A collection of Australia's best performers gathered to protest the continued madness of Reagan, Thatcher and others in their escalation towards a feared nuclear Armageddon. Midnight Oil delivered a typically fierce set, but this opener from Colin Hay was astonishing. Nobody had heard this song in a solo acoustic version, and in the contest of a possible nuclear war, the question of "Who can it be now?" was scarily appropriate. Brilliant stuff on a sunny Saturday at the Myer Music Bowl!!

@StormsongK

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I first heard an acoustic version of "Who Can It Be Now?"on Colin's "Man at Work" album, and it was absolutely haunting in its quiet paranoia. I immediately got the feeling this was the way the song was meant to sound, but of course you can't market that as a pop song to put you on the charts. It made me realize I never really understood the song until that moment. I read an interview with Colin saying he wrote it about all the people who would come to his apartment asking for cash or drugs or whatever they could get from you.

I remember this - it was and still is the best rendition of this song!

So young.

That flowed straight from his heart.... wow !

WOW the best wcibn i have ever heard

The greatest songs of all always sound better when accompanied by a 12 String guitar!

This is an absolute gem thank you for posting this

The greatest travesty of justice him being dismantled over the song rights issue. Consummate performer.

People tend in a natural way to fantasize about the past as if it was perfect. It happens every century. Crime rate in those days in NY was outrageous just saying.

Anybody know where I could find the tab to this live version of the song?

Activism. -__- Not picking on Collin, he was doing a good thing. I just don't like activism generally. People have to be WAY upset over things that maybe don't need that much focus, but they pour their whole being into it, and shame others that have other priorities. I grew up in the 80's when we had activism all over the place (although I would trade it for today's activism in a heartbeat) from Save the Whales to Save the Planet to "We're Here... We're Queer.. Get Used to It...", not to mention (but I will) AIDS awareness, Band Aid, Farm Aid, Anti-Apartheid, Comic Relief... you get the point. The arms race was a big deal due to nukes and opposing ideologies that would take the world down in a nuclear war defending those beliefs. Wow, just thinking about it makes me realize nothing's changed. Except maybe the commies won the cold war, cuz the US now has communist, socialist, fascist, and marxist people in government.

@marlaplunk2833

4 жыл бұрын

and oh ya, my favorite Colin Hay song. :)

@jaxensweet

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately its only getting worse... great points

@StormsongK

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I rather think not wanting to get nuked to death is something worth activism.

@marlaplunk2833

Жыл бұрын

@@StormsongK Sure, I remember the scare of getting nuked to death in the 80's. Like I said, I wasn't picking on colin.. I just don't like activism in general. I guess your point is a good one, though - some things are much more justified than others.

@jpcoll2011

Жыл бұрын

Mr Potato head and socialism and communism at the fore.