Hocus Pocus - Here's Johnny!

[@PerfectSense77]

I was a 7-year-old kid in Australia when I heard this blasting on a car radio outside our school playground. I thought it was the BADDEST thing ever back then. Had never heard anything like it. I still think it bangs pretty hard.

[@Madman117-k4o]

lol i was 9 when i seen it on rage for the first time.

[@alexwallberg5607]

@@Madman117-k4o what is “rage”? I’m not from Australia btw

[@Madman117-k4o]

Music video show on Free tv over here googel it you will love it.

[@TheAxelay]

I was 16 going to 17 and it was talked about by all my friends, saying this son called: "Here's Johnny" that it was sick!!! It must of stayed on the Australian tracklist for most of 1995 if not the whole year! Played so many times via RAGE and Video Hits! It's still unique and a piece of art, nothing like it to this day.

[@icenewzealand6774]

I was 8 in armidale, and some bikey guys were beating up on some dudes out on the road , two houses down. For playing this... Lol

[@zt1788]

I remember watching this on Rage at like 2am in the 90's. Man those where the days..

[@philliposhea7767]

thinking the same. bloody oath i remember. those were the days

[@FlyingDropBearAU]

'ken oath. I remember this too. I never managed to catch the friggin title card though and only found out the name of it like, a decade later.

[@schnookimz]

Oath I had this taped on a VHS tape... I miss saturday morning rage...

[@stacey7529]

Haha yes 😆

[@MrJD2you]

Hell yeah!! Same

[@brycering5989]

i'm 50 now, and I still lose the plot while listening to this ;)

[@sophiepooks2174]

What even was the plot?

[@Focussed-vk6wt]

Every nightclub in Townsville simultaneously played this song one night . Mega song at the time

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"in a situation where a Person finds themself with an overlook of their feelings in their Life & with no support for What feelings they SHARE, being told to TAKE A BOW is emotionally defeating." - SkyKnight Drongo.

[@Funkykitsune]

God I remember waking up to this when my brother would blast it through the house

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"programming this would be one way to be heard over the deafening roar of affection at a dance party."

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"IMAGINE," ALL THE RAVERS, just Listening to the Music through Headphones & COMPARING hearing Their FOOTWORK to The SOUND of Rain LANDING on a CALM Sea."

[@zonavarbondagoo4074]

Classic techno which was very much 'hardcore' back in the day.

[@LostInTardis]

My Gorgeous Sister turns 70 Today! I sent her this to remind her of how annoying her little sister (ME!) was when we'd get together - we are 16 years apart - and I'd throw this Track on just for Sh!ts & Giggles... And damn me, she'd just roll with it! Absolute LEGEND of a Big Sister - if I could choose a Big Sister: I would choose her EVERY.TIME! #Love #Happy70thSid 🎉🎉💖💖💕💕🎉🎉 #Blessed

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"reminds Me of what could be the SOUNDTRACK to working at a Repetetive Engineering Factory!"

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"Employment SHOULD be Enjoyment."

[@stacey7529]

The 1st techno song I ever heard. Listening to Rage late at night in the 90s 🤭🙃

[@dennisfrank3345]

I was 22 years old and tripping to this at the Warehouse night club in Melbourne Australia

[@michaelk8864]

I remember they always used to play this on rides at amusement parks 😁

[@angelaxuereb9138]

my father used to have a car that he'd fixed up really nicely, I can't remember what kind of model it was but he had the body professionally repaired and he installed leather car seats with hydraulic's that made the seats adjust (its more common these days but back then it was the mark of a platinum car) he also had really good bass speakers installed in the boot and he would blast this so loud that the whole car would shake, I loved it so frigging much I was so devastated when my father sold the car, he got a pretty penny for it but I think my father would have sacrificed me for that car lol, a few years later he saw it being resold on facebook marketplace and went to go buy it back, it was really beaten up, somebody had taken to it with a mallet, dad was so devastated lmao

[@MajinTalon]

I liked your story.

[@johnjames34]

15+ years later I still love it lol

[@Kt-cn2rq]

Adam Clarke aha someone posted something on another video where pycho ex gf then said Here Johnny and here I am lol

[@amandajeangraham5277]

Lol

[@cjatwnty8301]

I remember when this came out. Someone in primary school had it on a cassette and our teacher let us play it on the stereo in the class for show and tell. Sent the whole class into ADD mode. I was 7 at the time. 37 this yr and it still sends me hyper. 🤣

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"involuntary hypnosis," involving the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatry, REMINDS me, of "putting words into someone elses mouth."

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"Or, a BRAIN FUCK!"!!!!!!

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"Or, a BRAIN FUCK!"! ! !

[@ctakitimu]

I remember this and Ultrasonic at the clubs back in the day! Sticky floors and the haze of cigarette smoke with lasers beaming through

[@emilycross1867]

Truth! 😂

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Never forget this. One of my first great loves in music. Became a lifelong Nicholson fan from this.

[@shazmcgee2049]

Of course this is on rage

[@planetx1595]

Video Hits wouldn't have shown it.

[@DrMario2008]

What do you expect?

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"You DON'T need DRUGS when You're ON the PITCHING deck of a SHIP at SEA!!" - St. Cut-Throat."

[@elisabethlewis6084]

& I'm 71 yr old...lol

[@trickytank]

Watching this on TV is my earliest memory. lol

[@adrianpurcell7528]

Video made on VERY cheap equipment using super-VHS However the stunning original video graphics were done on an Amiga, by a duo called Kino Ruin. We made no money, but they made $50 (so it all worked out in the end)

[@charlessale409]

Were they from Brisbane? I can see information relating to a bunch of dance/hippie events dating from around 1993 online.

[@adamsims5749]

Rage throwing equipment Through the wall

[@thisbambibites]

The band Hocus Pocus were Dutch.

[@grumnut1]

Yes, but the video was made in Brisbane Australia. The guy who bought the rights for Australia lived in Paddington Brisbane for $5000. He made about a million overall as he had rights in parts of Asia and NZ ETC.😮The video was put together by me when I was one of the directors of Nightlife Music.

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"Involuntary Hypnosis would Be Like controlling the Mind of a Person."

[@skeemag]

no way was this number 1 in the australian charts, aussies are mad as a box of frogs

[@ohnoitisnathan11]

Yes, it was #1 in Australia... for 6 weeks no less!

[@mrtrashcompaktor1540]

and we are quickly wiping out the frogs ;)

[@stephaniego6111]

Well gee thanks

[@MattExzy]

I think I was like 11 when this came out. I remember this film clip freaking me out. And I remember this being huge here in Australia. We had a school project of sorts - we had to sing a current 'pop' song in front of the school. My group chose this, but we were quickly shut down, since the lyrics were... too sparse.

[@asoper7005]

Mullet...check. shearers singlet....check. stubby shorts.....check. commodore......check. winnie blues.....check. this song blasting through the speakers.....check. '94 in oz hahahahaa

[@hellenpapadopoulos2828]

My son is 16 and he loves this song mostly because his name is johnny 😅😅

[@kokokenzi4317]

back to '94 (when i was in first year of Univ.) this was the first Hardcore Hits at that time in Aussie... damn, it sounds so old!!... but i am glad to hear this again after 21years passed!! OMG... time flies!!

[@camillecrestani3499]

I'm Born in 1994 glups '

[@joaoramos3846]

just happy to find this track again..............after 30 Years.........i am craying......... realy old.....cry and no wards...cry...so ...so THE BEST HARDCORE TECNHO..... :D

[@skitstorm5136]

Hey Johnnyy

[@missnadine4448]

Same here but i was 14 and a bad Bad girl 😎

[@missnadine4448]

+João Ramos i was looking for it because thinking about the old good Party Time 😁

[@wrexhammusic]

What a throwback

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"Breathe where Mother Nature keeps you Rockin'!!!" YEAH BAY BEE!!! !! ! ! - ST. RAVER."

[@RapunzElleFairyGothMother]

still one of my ultimate songs I cannot listen to enough

[@kimblemojimble7967]

Couldnt remember the name of this song. "would she bam bam bam" search brought me here. 10/10 would search again.

[@RF-yf8rd]

Ten to six Saturday Morning was when I would be watching RAGE as low volume as possible at the ripe old age of 5 back in 93.

[@AmandaFloyd-hs8bx]

DAM THIS STILL GOT IT

[@samhoward2750]

Coming home after school on a Friday afternoon no bills, no job, no worries sitting in front of the box TV with snacks watching WWF knowing this song exists

[@stevej3297]

Good times bro

[@nlx78]

Those days were nice yes. In a way almost noone wants to hear: "Enjoy school while you can" But when it's the only thing you know and then homework at night. There were obivously 2 groups of students that either study at night or in the afternoon. I liked to have a break between coming home from school (15 mins on bike) to just watch (back then for me only the 56th rerun of The A-Team or the Love Boat (I liked Julie though, sort of crush on back then)

[@haleyrichardson8818]

Had this on cassette. 'The Brain - Central Nervous System' album 😃

[@jolincoln5759]

WHOA THROW BACK - The Brain - Central Nervous System album - what a memory!!!

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"for SOME reason i'm REMINDED of Angel Anne of Mother Earth 2 be FRANK!"! !

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"takes me back to a PHOTO of Mrs & Mr Winston CHURCHILL carrying WHITE CARDS 4 a "picture," TAKEN by LORD LONDONDERRY on "James," FILM."

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"LSD turns You into WHO You WANT." - St. Psyko."

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"EVERY FLAG IS A SYMBOL OF A WAR WON." - ST. HMAJW."

[@ruantengyi]

how on earth did this song make it to number one in Australia? This song was the reason why Nicki French’s Total eclipse of the heart lost its chance to be number one!

[@goingbike]

It is what it is

[@skylapse00]

That's funny! Didn't know I feel this fact speaks to the duality of man They're both great songs...

[@AustraliaUnmasked1984]

Drugs and raves were more popular amongst Gen X youth in 1995.

[@VoyageOne1]

That and Central Station, in their infinite wisdom, decided to release two versions of the single with identical tracklistings but with a different lead track (one with the drab album mix and the other with the vastly superior radio edit mix that appeared on Hit Machine 8).

[@thisbambibites]

And all without any radio support...

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"JOHNNY 5: IS ALIVE!!!"!! ! !

[@haydenTenno-]

Coming back from college and this came on the radio. Everyone one the bus was groovin'

[@elizaspencer8107]

Central station records luv them!!!

[@mwatson785]

This track had club kinetic rockin many a Friday night

[@Locdoggggggggg]

Omg classic vibes for real

[@TheSoulHarvester]

Can't believe Sandstorm is still good after all these years.

[@jakeyvee9]

I still love this song!

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

Electro Convulsive Therapy ALSO KNOWN AS Encryption Cancelling Technique.

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

ANY OBJECTIONS? ? ?

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"LySergic acid diethylamiDe." - Law Spy Dream."

[@notmaireelneim]

Heeeeerrrrrrrrre's JOHNNY! Bam bam bam she bam bam BAM BAM!

[@kaijaydekirra5354]

Lmfao

[@fennfenn4]

DAMN DAMN DAMN ITCHY DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN ITCHY!! Fuckin banger👌💪

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"I Need like a WINDOW in My Door SO the WHOLE WORLD is ICU!!!" - St. Insane."

[@INTHEMIX74]

i wore out 2 copies on the decks from 92-94 ..i had a copy in 92 but the tracks didnt gain popularity to a year later

[@AntonioCarillo-u7k]

Brivido..............Ho il disco in vinile 1993 (versione originale)

[@louiejj4819]

old school has the best bass

[@DJProfessorDan]

It's a mystery... and Australia is still trying to figure it out. How did "Here's Johnny!" by Hocus Pocus, a relentless blast of 'ardcore techno noise, go to Number One for 6 weeks?!!?! Naturally you are thinking it was because of the Jack Nicholson sample from “The Shining.” But you know what? Although I clearly remember hundreds of comments back in the day from friends or family whenever they stumbled upon it, along the lines of “what is this shit?!?!!”, I don’t remember anyone ever saying “bah! They just ripped that off “The Shining.” And I had friends who would routinely go “you know he ripped this off from Queen” EVERY TIME “Ice Ice Baby” came on the radio! So you know they totally would! I mean, I’m sure some of the older DJs knew, but us kids, teenagers and young adults? We didn’t have any idea. It wasn’t so easy being a movie geek in 90s Australia. It wasn’t as though “The Shining” was played every year at Christmas. I asked one friend of mine, a film-geek, who now does movie reviews online, and even he wasn’t sure he recognised the sample back then. I wrote a Facebook post asking if anyone did know back then, was aware it was Jack Nicholson. I got 6 likes. I do not know how to read that data.

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"The creation of our United Nations were the birthplace of our World Peace." - St. HMAJW." Anno Domini Atomic Democracy AD 2024 OCTOBER 20 SATURDAY 0013 HOURS MELBOURNE Australia DAYLIGHT SAVING."

[@CrimeBeanus]

best moment at the ice rink in the 90s

[@amandajeangraham5277]

Good stuff

[@safbrah6427]

footy shows fletch n hindy brought me here lol

[@temujin8765]

How good is this shit!!

[@sophiepooks2174]

Like archeologists finding relics and not knowing the contexts of what they were really about back in the day, most people who liked techno hated footy.

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"An PERFECT HOMAGÉ to the REMINDER to us of HOW Gorbacheouve HEARD the SOUND of the DRILL of His DENTIST in the Top Gun ANTHEM."

[@carissaneal2774]

My 2 year old sister loves this song soooooo much

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"I BOUGHT Acid but I took it and DESTROYED the Evidence!!!" - St. HMAJW."

[@elisabethlewis6084]

Fuckin love it, beat is tremendous, great for blowing out.

[@Smiff74]

The sound of drugs in the 90's😊

[@laureah21]

Had a MRI awhile ago and was lying there trying to figure out what it reminded me of and it was this somg from My teen years 😆

[@Pinkett86]

Used to have sk8 comps with this song at my old skate place see who could go the fastest to it lol

[@lorettabasedow7028]

Bangerrrrrr skitz mix memwors offttttyyyy 😍😍😍

[@elishasmith7621]

100% AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!😄

[@colingoddard6537]

Just watched the shinning and remembered about this song lol

[@Kt-cn2rq]

🤣 watching a Korean react had the johnny scene. I was like here's johnny bam bam bam

[@rightwingnucleararmedaussi1544]

Me too I just watched it and here I am - lol!!!!

[@DavidWright447706099886]

Epic. Part of my set

[@HueyTheDoctor]

I'm 36 years old. This song came out when I was 5 years old and it's at that moment I knew I wanted to try drugs. Life's been interesting.

[@JimmyHandtrixx]

you knew about drugs at age 5?

[@isabelfreeman2702]

Don't do drugs, kids.

[@anonmous4468]

Isabel Freeman 😂 after this bad trip never again I’m scarred for life

[@skiphaskell706]

No. C'mon kids Fuck that class And hit that bong #Tyler

[@nicklund1556]

No definetly do them

[@naught101]

why not

[@sophiepooks2174]

Yes alcohol related violence great, people passing out from dehydration or worse, people dancing, hugging and grinning bad.

[@vtrmcs]

Remember this from a top night at The Orbit in Morley! Sven Väth.

[@mikewraight1032]

1993 Yes 🙏👌❤️😉🤪

[@nickfurlanis3849]

wow amazing!

[@Renegades23]

What a banger

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"join our holy network."

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"just ask the Crisis Assessment Team 4 a "CRITERIA ASSESSMENT TEST"" ?

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"as 4 a "criteria assessment test," ASK 4 HOW 2 AVOID 'BEYOND BLUE'"! ! ! ! ! ! !

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"armaggeddon is over"

[@prossdawg]

Good ole rage if it wasn’t for rage I wouldn’t know half the music I have now

[@thisbambibites]

Interesting how a Dutch happy hardcore track, which didn't chart in its home country in its original form, spent six weeks at #1, with no radio support, in Australia of all places.

[@vjfocus]

WoW!

[@samanthagraham9404]

love it

[@kaylasmith4187]

I love this song

[@matthewbagshaw1892]

Takes me back a few years 🤔 worthy for a laugh but still hits hard !

[@RMStudios2021]

1:40 BAM

[@Slbk8905]

What year did this come out? I remember it from when I was a teenager lol 😜 memories

[@piewpiew9537]

Heard at ice skating last week heheh

[@RMStudios2021]

2:03

[@homeschoolhd596]

0:00 My god what is that abomination?

[@Kt-cn2rq]

Called smoking pot and having too many mushrooms

[@sophiepooks2174]

God is an abomination made up by men who seek mind control of weaker minded humans through fear, lies and intimidation and to calm the fear of death/the unknown, by offering another life after death and decay happens. 🤣

[@sophiepooks2174]

@@Kt-cn2rq Depends what country where I live it was speed/party acid no such thing as mushrooms in 1994, pot was for chilling out not for going faster/ dancing.

[@Domozorro]

Cime on, like if you couldn't put it hat as a pre nump you wouldn't? 😂 ❤ True luv

[@EARGASmickTRON]

THIS SHUD BE PLAYED AT ALL NITECLUBS ! GET OUT THE GLOW STIX and dance with me baby ! !

[@davegoodwin1950]

Badboy tune

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"psychiatry & psychology are an alleged science giving excuse for public trial of the action of a person condemned for their behaviour in the name of humanity."

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

NO - ONE TAKES RESPONSIBILITY 4 THEIR PATIENTS IN MENTAL HOSPITALS SO THAT THERE IS NO - ONE DEFINING WHAT IS "RIGHT OR WRONG" EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE WHO FALL VICTIM TO SUICIDE ARE MERELY LABELLED AS 'MENTAL PATIENTS' WHO COMMIT SUICIDE 4 THE SAKE OF POLITICAL CONVIENCE OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE IN PUBLIC!!!!

[@BeeDotEee]

Haha Rage. Nice one :)

[@RMStudios2021]

1:40 3:44

[@josema1479]

Esto me devuelve a la vida !! Dale + volumen

[@stonedjedi87012]

Time for some lsd’s and this playing talk about tripping out

[@stephaniethebatter7975]

I feel like this was a music/animation experiment that the band found to actually turn out okay and they turned it into a song. But that's just a theory.

[@ohnoitisnathan11]

On the contrary, I believe this video was compiled by the Australian record company for its release there. The group are actually Dutch, so probably had nothing to do with it.

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

IS MY TOUCH-SCREEN PHONE SCRENE A MIRROR OR IS THERE A PERSON LOOKING AT ME ?

[@avastha]

Heres jonny