Hunters & Collectors - Talking To A Stranger (Official Video)

[@davidrixon3549]

The bass line in this is incredible

[@seanfoster6320]

He's a very underrated player

[@samael9445]

True 👍

[@JanetMaynard-bt3zq]

Totally agree;!! This song is epic,!!

[@pablojones5613]

One of the greatest Australian songs of all time, but hardly anyone remembers it. That bass is just amazing.

[@TheOminousVoidWispers]

It's pretty popular in The Avalanches remixed version. It's what got me here.

[@pablojones5613]

@@TheOminousVoidWispers can't say I have heard of it, will definitely check it out.

[@pablojones5613]

@@TheOminousVoidWispers just had a look, yeah I have heard that remix, forgot it existed, lol

[@mickleberry]

Like early Models, they started out pushing experimental edges, jarring and unnerving. Great track.

[@CikisHelyzet]

I totally remember it! 🖤 Still stands up.

[@yusuke5331]

Thanks to The Avalanches for introducing Hunters & Collectors to me 😊

[@jeffn1384]

How?

[@yusuke5331]

@@jeffn1384 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWPTnaycr8Spb8ksi=qZc6AG4S74r7H_HR

[@SunshineClementine]

Love this song for so many years, it never gets old. x

[@leannepage1778]

Remember the panic in his delectable face when you touched it.

[@DeathlessDevil]

To me it always sounds like “pancakes delivered to your face”

[@grunthostheflatulent9649]

This track has such a primal drive to it.

[@mikebarton]

Never a big fan but one night, it must have been 1985, we went to see them. Right up against the stage and Mark Seymour talking to us (why?) between songs. The band was on fire. Great memory.

[@dumafuji]

This song and video freaked me out as as a kid. Intense. And the bass is from another world.

[@timstamps5281]

This song was actually partially banned in the US. This song wound up on a flexi in a magazine distributed in the US, but the label had wiped out “Hunters and Collectors” and the song title and replaced it with “DO NOT PLAY THIS SIDE”. A friend thought it meant it would wreck the turntable stylus if it was played - but eventually gave in and we found an actual (unknown) song. Evidently the ban was due to a dispute with the record company and the magazine/label refused to promote the band, who also never toured the states, and their videos were never played on MTV. They were a banned band… and banned to this day.

[@stevebengel1346]

Yup, I was a subscriber to Trouser Press magazine and I got the flexi- disc with some stupid comedy routine on the A side and this gem that we "weren't supposed to play". 😂

[@timstamps5281]

I still want to know why they were banned in the US.

[@matsl8654]

They did tour the US. In 1990 they opened up for Midnight Oil on their US tour. I saw them at Radio City in NYC, sadly few people in the audience paid much attention to H&C and were just waiting for the Oils. H&C performed When the River runs dry on Dave Lettermans show that same year

[@timstamps5281]

@@matsl8654 H&C should have been given more airplay. MTV should have at least played a music video often.

[@melg1329]

WoW 😳

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

Now that was Bloody Good eh...!!

[@PB477]

1982 as a 23year old Kiwi living at 11 Colville Terrace, Notting Hill, London W11. Played this song many a time on my new sony walkman happy days!!!!

[@nnoddy8161]

You can see Lowenstein's fingers all over this video clip. Brilliant.

[@mondomacabromajor5731]

brilliant opening and song ... outstanding ...

[@stevendphoto]

I know nothing about this band, but have loved this song since the 80's when it was first released, had the 12" single back in the day too...!

[@ThatDepressionGuy]

A true Aussie classic ! No doubt !

[@salvadoralienday5055]

The musical score of the movie "Disconnected" (1984, Gorman Bechard)

[@markscott4969]

01/18/23 .. still kicks ass

[@pizzagirl597]

Sensational. An absolute masterpiece.

[@jbdsigned]

Love the clip. Song fantastic. Band extraordinary..

[@sharonjensen3016]

I just started reading Mark Seymour's book "Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters And Collectors" and this song is mentioned in the first part.

[@mikechristie24]

I remember Karen Hay - Radio with Pictures (TV-NZ) introducing this song as the last song in the last episode ever, LOVED it then, still love it now!

[@alexanderhack3841]

Yeah I remember seeing it on pickys then Sunday horrors after that!! Far out

[@IHitANazi]

Yeah radio with pictures and then the Sunday Horrors I was 6 and obsessed with fetus productions flicker cause of Radio with pictures I didnt even think about it but it was a Sunday nighr wouldn't never been able to stay up that late on any other night but a Sunday night to go to school on Monday and I was a little kid and everyone at my primary school except very few kids stayed up to watch and that's all good talk about the next day and parents didn't seem to mind, plus got up early as on a Sunday to listen to the kids stories on the 1zb 1080 club

[@marsmarv]

It was great that Mtv needed all the video clips so this song had some decent exposure and I was lucky to catch it back then. The whole record is great but this song is haunting and stands out. Good stuff

[@seanfoster6320]

Really? That's cool im glad to hear that

[@timstamps5281]

Did MTV play it? Trouser Press pulled support, telling people to not play the record.

[@glennbolton4495]

1st time I saw H&C was a real WTF moment - Wow! This was 80's Aussie music. Collendina Pub - Ocean Grove Mark Seymour still going strong

[@HisToe1822]

Sydney Exit Club 1981

[@Johnhealey-]

Can’t wait to see you guys play again. I miss you all. Tour Sydney please

[@ArnaPresland]

Ground breaking video!

[@MoonMum82]

Great song and great year it was made

[@kevbhoy05]

magic band ..met them in stkilda back in the 80,s. 😎

[@kevinmillergaragerock]

The art behind the video is spot on..love the rubber band around the nose..

[@jren2385]

great new wave song

[@Andy-o2f]

There was a lot of interesting primal bass line driven music and film clips coming out around this time. Psychic TV & Shreikback were other bands forming this genre. You'd almost brand this stuff 2nd wave "industrial" music.

[@Zdawg1471]

goat

[@blueshorecreative3146]

Love you people!

[@MrsBazzy]

Ahhhh my fave ❤️

[@wellenstrom]

great song, great video.

[@ruantengyi]

Song starts at 1:42

[@boyandcatmum]

I remember hearing this song on Video hits as a teenager and I absolutely loved it 😊

[@bazza6534]

fine wine indeed

[@ArrDee49]

Carn th' Hunners! Doit again!

[@EdwardBaggettEdtrader]

Dead End Drive In the movie sent me here.

[@flinn2552]

Hawking Tuah stranger

[@JessSimms-x7h]

GROUSE

[@briancairns3253]

Wasn't music great back then😊

[@geoffreypiltz271]

KZbin sound quality is dreadful. Only vinyl can do this justice.

[@marsmarv]

I got it in one of my rare travels abroad in some obscure vinyl shop in London, now I need to repair my spinner...

[@pena.3302]

TO ME THIS SUMS/TIES ALL AUSTRALIAN ART @TIME &-THRU NOW..A MASTERSPROGRAM..OUGHTA BE THROW YR LIKES @YOU..OK.