reaction to Mental As Anything - If You Leave Me (popular version, 1981) THE WOLF HUNTERZ REACTIONS

[@goatslunch6991]

One of the best pub bands in Aussie history. Must have seen them over 20 times. Mental As Anything - He's Just No Good For You (1987) is a great single take video.

[@JoTracy]

Me too! And I LOVE that song 🎵

[@jayjayjase9796]

With multiple versions of the video...I remember Rage played them all back to back one night

[@richie1919]

RIP Greedy Smith 🎸😎

[@darrenmoore1305]

Loved The Mentals growing up, just an incredibly fun band. This song, Live It Up, The NIps Are Getting Bigger, Too Many Times and Your So Strong were their biggest hits. Greedy Smith, Martin Plaza and Reg Mombassa became household names. Great reflection of the Australian Psyche at the time. Irreverant, even when discussing serious matters.

[@kaafromoz]

A side note on this awesome Aussie band is that one of their video's was being filmed in a suburban area and the production crew went out trying to recruit locals to be in the video and told them "The Mentals are in your street" lol..I am sure many locked their door and windows but a lot did understand and turned up. Reg Mombassa the lead guitar player is also an accomplished artist and is a lead designer for the label MAMBO. Keep Safe Keep Strong 🦘🦘🦘🦘🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵

[@vtbn53]

That's good trivia, thanks!

[@naedynot1]

Was that He's Just No Good for you? I heard that was done in one take

[@vinsgraphics]

The Mentals kept me sane in boarding school. “Date With Destiny,” “Big Wheel,” so many others. Definitely a rabbit hole for you guys, memories for me.

[@Bellas1717]

I saw them perform this live at a lunchtime concert at my uni early in their career. That great title line reduced to 'can I come too?' became something we say in our marriage if one is a bit annoyed with the other, still breaks the tension with a smile all these years later.

[@macman1469]

You've got to listen to their first biggie " The Nips are getting Bigger " .

[@vtbn53]

My brother used to hear that as "the nits are getting bigger" LOL

[@gregtheegg3576]

I loved this, also "Let's Work". Early MTV gold.... "let's cook...let's eat..."

[@fractalnomics]

I'm here cause I love this song. The sound of 80s radio dark winter nights Southland NZ

[@bonoroo5313]

Great to see my home town feature in a music vid, the iconic kunanyi / Mount Wellington and Salamanca Place in Hobart, Tasmania.

[@carokat1111]

Wasn't it great? I never knew there was a video clip filmed in Hobart.

[@alisonholland7531]

Yet another awesome band that I saw on a regular basis in the live music venues in Sydney 😁😁😁😁 God im glad im old i got to see the best bands in the flesh and in their prime. 😊

[@JoTracy]

I LOVE the Mentals!! I saw them live many, many times Such a fun band

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

Great band, love their music, quirky and fun.

[@kazz3956]

Did you know that the Mentals music is on an Australian movie classic, Crocodile Dundee, with their songs Live it up, and Sloppy Crocodile?

[@kazz3956]

PS RIP to Andrew "Greedy" Smith who passed in 2019 of a heart attack whilst moving house at 63 years of age. He was in the Red Jacket in this clip. He sang some of their other hits, but was not singing this one. This band is another one from the 70s in Australia. My goodness what a time period for our music! I loved them in my teenage years.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

That's seriously not music, said my father the jazz pianist! 🥱 Maybe but it's so bloody fun, and they must have been great live! I will be singing this all day now! 👍😂

[@marionthompson3365]

Loved the Mentals. Such a fun band and great live. Saw them numerous times.

[@doktorOK-bh2qq]

One of the most fun yet really really great bands in Australian history. Just keep listening ... Brain Brain another for you.

[@IanM-id8or]

Saw them in concert a few years ago. In a nightclub. I wasn't expecting the Mentals. Good band

[@3inchhippotomous.508]

Great song and one of the best titles for a song ever!

[@DoubleSupercool]

Fun fact: Guitarist "Reg Mombassa" (Chris O'Doherty) is the father of equally talented and hilarious actor Claudia O'Doherty

[@scottyh8494]

A great fun song. The video is just silly fun. Great band.

[@leandabee]

MAA just one of the best feel good Aussie bands. Understated but 100 % quality 👌 . I always loved the fact that this clip was filmed in Hobart Tasmania. The house they walked out of, used to be well known on the Brooker Highway with it's standout lovely red flower hedge 😃👍🤗

[@glenod]

seen them 3 times in the last 35 years, always a good gig, each time 10 years apart. the first time was the Geelong Hotel, Victoria, AKA The Refinery Night Club, down there for trade school and running a muck as we always did on a thursday night.

[@Joshualuv13]

I've seen Mental As Anything a few years back now, and I tell ya . Even though the boys are older .They still rocked ! Think it's about time you guys checked out The Dyvnals again.Jealous and science fiction are both fantastic.

[@mikeythehat6693]

"The Nips Are Getting Bigger" is easily the best song from the Mentals.

[@alanstrom2221]

Released late 1979. The Bass line at the beginning is very unique.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Rip greedy

[@74allnite]

Australia and New Zealand gave us some of the best pop music ever

[@trumpsta4759]

What I love about this video…filmed in my hometown Hobart, Tasmania ❤

[@AussieTVMusic]

They were the first band in the world to play at Live Aid 1985

[@adampritchard5011]

😅 you both are just AWESOME!!! Check out the song "too many times" by them. We've all been there...

[@JohnDoe-bz4yl]

I remember the first time seeing this video it was shown on Hey Hey it's saturday

[@jughtful]

the guy with blue jacket & crazy hair was an artist who had his art on Mambo surf wear which is a huge brand here in Australia. not sure if the brand is overseas, you should check out their shirts very cool. 😎🏝🌞🌊

[@lynndally9160]

That's Reg Mombassa, he was actually the founder of Mambo not just the artist

[@ianmontgomery7534]

Its a catchy name as a restaurant went with the theme and called themselves Lentil As Anything (vegetarian of course).

[@alanstrom2221]

Martin Plaza's white singlet makes a very funny statement. The rest of the Band following him down the garden path was funny then and still is funny today. They all met at Art School in the late 70's. They really knew how to write a great 'Pop/Rock' song. One of Australia's greatest 'good time' Bands. RIP Greedy Smith

[@waynekasmar4401]

I think of Mental As Anything as a bunch of art students who formed a band and never took themselves too seriously. Consequently, their music isn't going to go down in the annuls of rock history, but they sure were quirky and a lot of fun. (They were good artists)

[@dalewyatt1321]

Always liked Martin's voice.

[@thevocalcrone]

Farout. Back in the day we didnt analyse the music we just enjoyed it

[@brettbridger362]

👍

[@terryallen345]

The grungy looking guitarist is a graphic designer for Mambo clothing

[@peterhay8961]

He and his brother, the other guitarist, founded Mambo...Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

[@marcusfromoz7066]

Reg Mombasa !!!!

[@johnking8789]

Filmed in the best place on the plant, Hobart, Tasmania on the river Derwent.

[@epicbeardface2981]

Great Australian pub band I grew up in Sydney lots of the mentalist live. Please check out if you haven't Stevie Wright's Evie parts 1,2 and 3 Sydney Opera House 1979 possibly Australia's greatest rock song ever.

[@rickpratchett2986]

If you rewatch the movie Crocodile Dundee, the Mentals track "Live It Up" is on the soundtrack.

[@paulineeast8560]

Haveta do Berserk Warriors Mental As Anything...it was a tribute to ABBA and their breakdown as couples.

[@paulineeast8560]

It was written by band member Reg Mombassa who is also an accomplished artist providing designs for the Mambo surfwear fashion brand

[@paulineeast8560]

Doh sorry guys you did do a reaction to that already.

[@thevocalcrone]

Hey there you with the sad face....

[@twoheads666]

Filmed in Hobart Tasmania

[@georgestarzynski7222]

The guys behind Mambo clothing

[@Shabenn]

If you haven't before, try Working girl by the Members. I really think you would get a kick out of it. Give it a shot. Good one here.

[@JaydeJackson]

There are many vegetarian restaurants in Australia named Lentil as Anything.

[@JaneDoe-se8ku]

Quirky is the word!

[@waynekasmar4401]

I thought there was only one original member, Greedy Smith, left in the band, but then he died a couple of years back. Did the band still continue after that, as per what was read out at the start?

[@GaryNoone-jz3mq]

No wonder she's leaving! Like, she's got to put up with the whole band! I'd be out of there too.

[@anthonypirera7598]

Great band and it reminds me that we have lost Greedy Smith

[@davegray2056]

👍🏼🇦🇺

[@annakonda2664]

Do you want to hear a god sing? Go to Tommy Johansson's YT channel and listen. He played guitar in Sabaton until recently and has his band Majestica. Releases a cover every Friday. Godsend. Multi-instrumentalist and does everything himself, sings and plays all instruments. Go in and enjoy

[@TheSamleigh]

The studio recorded version for radio or film clip is much better.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Rip greedy smith martain .not .in good health

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

How about live it up great song from.1987

[@justlinsu]

Yea nah....lol

[@timmorgan8450]

Just Play The Song Don't Interrupt

[@Semajsenrab72]

This is not the best video, the true video is very hard to find. Blonde guy Greedy died a few years back, got the knickname as they got paud in KFC at a university gig and greedy ate the lot. The lead guitarist is the brother of the shorter guitarust now in a band called Dog Trumpet, inspired by Reg Mombassa and his Mambo clothing line. They never took them selves seriously.

[@74allnite]

Get over the clip appreciate the music

[@richtensail]

ilike me sme mentals, try mr natural, berszerc warriors ( about abba), parts of vis vid was filmed were i am in tassie. romeo n juliet, rock n roll music, rip greedy piano/vocals/songwriter, workn 4 v man covr, live it up, your so strong, spirit got lost, come around, apocalypso, nips r getn bgr, lets go 2 paradise. enjoy

[@pmR32red]

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