Always loved this band - they took a piece of my heart long ago...

This band is like a great wine.

This song is an absolute masterpiece, the beginning of this is down right brilliant!

Yeah we have, it's just a shame we're ignorant about Australian bands, because there are so many brilliant songs that don't get recognition over here. The Church, Icehouse, Hoodoo Gurus, Divinyls, Sleepy Jackson, The Easybeats, Hush, The Models, Angels etc - brilliant stuff!

hard to believe this their 2nd album and from '82 no less. Way ahead of their time, still are and always have been.

obscure, rotting, beautiful, wonderful, there are no words for describe this!

From the greatest album ever. I remember seeing this clip at the cinema in Sydney.

@ronbrown2414

6 жыл бұрын

I made that film, in 35mm, for The Church's publishing company, SONY-ATV. Very tiny budget! But Hoyt's liked it and put it on before Starstruck around the country, made 60 prints.

@Elitist20

4 жыл бұрын

@@ronbrown2414 Yes, I saw it before Starstruck in Canberra.

@brookt3497

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronbrown2414 Fantastic, thanks for the information. Thank in for making the clip! I remember seeing it at the cinema too back then, but wasn't sure which movie, thought it might have been Puberty Blues(?) but obviously not. Was Almost With You played in cinemas too at the same time?

@brookt3497

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronbrown2414 What were they like to work with btw??

@ronbrown2414

3 жыл бұрын

@@brookt3497 they were very stoned the whole time. On the way to Malmsbury in Victoria we stopped at the Melbourne airport freight terminal where they picked up a parcel sent down from Sydney by their manager overnight that contained a kilo of dope in an airfreight bag. They smoked the lot over three days of filming!

As a UK-based Kilbey-worshipper, I can safely say that he IS Australia's finest export :)

ahhh yes wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard this song/album and the best aussie band ever !!

Didn't relly like it when I first heard it, but now can't get it out of my head. It really grows on you this song

Wonderful band. I love them!

I have not heard this song since the mid 80's, can't believe how good it still sounds. I had the Blurred Crusade on tape and wore it out. Awesome band

Great piece of guitar playing in the intro and throu out and at the end of the song

One of my all-time favourites!

The duel guitar outplay at the end part of the song is just farking otherworldly :)

@scottallison2296

6 жыл бұрын

Two of the finest guitarists ever IMO

You, You put the 80's into our hearts, and I think I know why, YES I think I know why.

The eighties.

Cracking track, and underrated, as a lot their tunes are. Rich, quality, musicianship and songwriting. The instrumental intro is up with the best I have heard. It transports me to a place, it speaks to me. Incredibly good band.

Such a great tune!

Brilliant!

I love this band. I kind of went off them in the early 90s - I think mainly my tastes as opposed to the band being in decline - but in the last year I've rediscovered them (new and old material) and they still do it for me. I think that listening to them helped me through a rocky period last year. Also love the cheesiness of this video. Particularly like the bit where the armoured soldier kind of contradicts his scary demeanour by walking so gingerly/carefully over the terrain. Only 20k views on here is shocking when you consider some indie rock bands get millions for much lesser quality material. Maybe we should all go through similar sorts of music on here purely to put comments in an effort to get the band a higher profile and educate the general public?

@MagicThys

6 жыл бұрын

love your interpretation..I think this is the kind of band that brings out the most interesting experiences..Aussie prog rock at it's best

@ronbrown2414

6 жыл бұрын

I made that film, in 35mm, for The Church's publishing company, SONY-ATV. Very tiny budget! But Hoyt's liked it and put it on before Starstruck around the country, made 60 prints.

@DarbyandGill

5 жыл бұрын

@@ronbrown2414 I don't know why but I always thought this was part of a Simon Townsend's Wonder World shoot? maybe they were on the show around the same time and so I stitched the two together (hey, I was very young!). Any cute stories from the shoot?

No we don't, that's why I'm the only person who seems to have heard of the Church :P My aim in life is relocate to Oz (spent a month in Sydney before university and fell in love with the place) and shake Steve by the hand and thank him for the years of pleasure his music has given this shy 22 year old!

So cool, never seen this..such a great band and such a desert island album..

The best songs You took!!!greetings

I discovered The Church through those clips at the pictures from the "Blurred Crusade"...on a school trip to see "The Man From Snowy River" in 1982

@ronbrown2414

6 жыл бұрын

I made that film, in 35mm, for The Church's publishing company, SONY-ATV. Very tiny budget! But Hoyt's liked it and put it on before Starstruck around the country, made 60 prints.

@noteatpig2getha

6 жыл бұрын

Ron Brown well thank you. I saw it before a matinee showing of Man From Snowy River on a school trip in 1982 - those song vids were the catalyst for me getting into the Church.

this music was in my head for many years. this music and U2's music- no other music even comes close, except maybe Jesus and MaryvChain... I cant believe out of all these comments- there wasnt a dissing of U2, all other Church video comments have at least one person saying how Church blows U2 away etc etc etc. ..i think im the only person in the world that U2 and The Church are the two greatest bands.

Thank you very much=)

It's a shame it's not a game we're playing - it is just a blurred crusade.

What an opus.

There were 3 Church videoclips played prior to the screening of Starstruck at the Regent Cinemas- Queen Street Mall Brisbane - circa 1982 = they were "When You Were Mine", "Almost With You" and "You Took". Upon hearing You Took, my life changed and has not been the same since.

@ronbrown2414

6 жыл бұрын

I made that film, in 35mm, for The Church's publishing company, SONY-ATV. Very tiny budget! But Hoyt's liked it and put it on before Starstruck around the country, made 60 prints.

@uncleboo47

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronbrown2414 - Just caught up with this reply. Many thanks for your work. That vision/sound has been in my head since then.

@ronbrown2414

3 жыл бұрын

@@uncleboo47 only two songs in the film, not When You Were Mine, just Almost With You and You Took.

wow still the best

I wish they had filmed this video way out in the simpson desert on a blazing sunny day. Severely underrated band and TBC is their best album.

Well you certainly have given the world some great bands mate

I always wondered why this video and the one for Already Yesterday was left off the Goldfish (Jokes Magic And Souveniers) video compilation back in the late 80's. It's interesting that they left those two songs off, but they included A Different Man, which at that time, was otherwise completely unavailable anywhere in the world. It was even weirder because in the US, Goldfish came out on Arista, who managed to not include Sing Songs amongst it's post-Under The Milky Way reissue campaign.

@ronbrown2414

6 жыл бұрын

I made that film, in 35mm, for The Church's publishing company, SONY-ATV. Very tiny budget!

Bon anniversaire Steve Kilbey!!!

The movie I saw them with was Starstruck. Remember that? The Swingers were in it.

@ronbrown2414

6 жыл бұрын

I made that film, in 35mm, for The Church's publishing company, SONY-ATV. Very tiny budget! But Hoyt's liked it and put it on before Starstruck around the country, made 60 prints.

I remember the shorts for the movie and the Swingers but to this day I've never seen "Starstruck".

I couldnt agree more!

can't argue with that might be a cliché, but all in all the blurred crusade is their best

I like songs great!!!!

This track actually sounds better with age. Hard to believe it's nearly 35 years old. Also 150-0 rating. I wonder what the record is for the number of thumbs up without a thumbs down?

the horse has been put before the cart..

Have you heard "Priest = Aura"?

the crap quality makes it so much better.

Its a shame its not a game we're playing in its just a blurred crusade.

buena rola

@Tengocuentadeyoutub you pretty much just proved my point there

bença

Hear hear!. Brits do have good taste

...it's a blurred crusade, alright. Anybody have the answer?

Not just good...great! If you read the new Kilbey biography "No Certainly Attached" SK himself says the album version is in no way the best version. When they play this song live, it just blows the studio version away, doesn't it?

Yes I have many lifetimes ago....its good but not great imo. :-)

Great band, but not great enough for me to overlook the snippet from 1:54 onwards being taken from Pink Floyd's "Time" solo almost verbatim.

have loved their music from the start, but most of their video choices left much to be desired, and may have hindered their popularity. while the tantalized video is excellent, what on earth were those knights in armour doing? literal interpretation taken way too far.

Shite !

@Tengocuentadeyoutub The only thing that sucks is your knowledge of the English language...

Great song , but the accompanying video is 💩🤔👎