Something For Kate - Monsters (Official Video)

[@scotthowe3786]

Just saw these guys on Rage and it reminded just how underrated as a great Australian band they really are. True artists in the craft.

[@Josytt]

Totally agree & so unique

[@dfgiuy22]

I remember when they came out in high school. Liked em then and got back into them now. Definitely didn't get the recognition they deserved, but that could have all just come down to marketing. I dunno, still good music, that or I'm just getting old!

[@TheWaynos73]

@@dfgiuy22 every concert of theirs i saw was packed.

[@mmmmmmmmmmm10]

I remember when Australia has a great music scene. 90s

[@nicko9969]

Well said. Thumbs up to that.

[@jasonmountjoy9969]

In 2012, a friend and i flew from QLD to Perth, purchased a car for $530 and drove it home (cheaper that a hire car), it had a CD player and a CD in it, it was Triple J's hotest 100 2001 and this banger featured. Been a staple in my playlists every since. Cheers to the lad who sold us the car and chucked in that CD 👌

[@shyandtd]

this is dope!

[@dfgiuy22]

Nice story dude... seems like that isn't a big thing these days. Cheap cars, road trips, friends and music you've never heard before.... The good old days!

[@shane5750]

That's gold mate and whatta road trip that wouod have been playing that CD to go along...

[@TheDive99]

sic

[@danielnitzsche9762]

This is a classic Australian story !

[@katekilgannon3567]

Still gives me goosebumps after all these years. This song got me through some dark times

[@synserenity2825]

💚

[@ThatStokeBloke]

This music video was filmed on Francis St in Melbourne, near Southern Cross station.

[@zoeherriot]

Huh… didn’t realize that. I used to live on Collins Street, not far from there.

[@god47398]

reminder that the Kate in their bandname is a reference to the singer's childhood dog, who his mother sold once he moved out, telling him Kate ran away. he found a post-it note in his old bedroom that was a reminder to buy "something for kate."

[@dfgiuy22]

Oh man... that's... No I'm not crying... go away

[@TheDive99]

@@dfgiuy22 manly tears.

[@jasmineconnell5985]

Really? That's so cool. How sweet

[@melloshreader]

That’s cruel. My mum did the same. She told me “a 12 year old boy” that my kitten had run away and after 3 days of frantic searching of the neighbourhood, she decided to tell me that it had been run over by a car and my step dad found the body. I found the truth out years later, she actually had my step father take it to the pound because she hated it. She still doesn’t know that I know!

[@TYsdrawkcaB]

⁠@@melloshreaderhonestly, that’s somehow more cruel, because at least kate got to live, hopefully with someone who cared more, but your mum is… read radio silence by alice oseman. your mother sounds like carol last. especially the whole killing pets thing.

[@Squeak73]

I think this must be any introvert's theme song. I love it.

[@somethingaccessories]

It is

[@davidburden2360]

nah mate extraverts and a song about IBS "these monsters" buy some rthyme @@somethingaccessories

[@anthonyhorton7309]

100%

[@gymonstarfunkle136]

Yeah it's my introvert theme song today!! The whole smiling to himself with the world falling apart around him is a very relatable introvert thing, and it works in reverse like having an internal apocalypse while extroverts are laughing and singing. Fascinating. Ohhhh I just realised this scene is like the book Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (which Dr Manhattan from Watchmen was clearly influenced by, in my view). Like I can see why people think introverts have a superiority complex, and the ingredients are definitely there, but it's because we're trying to hold ourselves together amidst the storm. Arr sorry fer bein crynge me boye 🏴‍☠️🦜 🍻 ⚓️🌊

[@timothyevans1065]

Year 7 this song gave me perspective into a mental illness I was not diagnosed with until my mid 20's. Truely great song!

[@murderinc.hunting7686]

The fact that this video doesn't have 100k views is criminal mate, criminal.

[@scottmcnaughton539]

It's so funny how age has such a big impact on how you connect with music. I remember being in my early teens when Something For Kate started to become really big in Australian music, and at the time enjoyed the music and certainly appreciated how good a singer he was, but never really connected to the lyrics. Fast forward two decades and the sentiment and story within the music has a much bigger impact on me now than it ever did before. It's been a really pleasant experience going back and rediscovering a band all over again.

[@ThatStokeBloke]

February 2021, pandemic nonsense still in full force, I manage to get to and from Sydney via Adelaide for a quick weekend away - hop on a train to Wollongong, put on my earplugs, turn on Spotify shuffle and this song pops up. Sun shining, beach views on the train.. caught so many vibes in that moment and have been in love with this song ever since.

[@gymonstarfunkle136]

Awesome man 😊

[@bloffs3352]

The Katies just played the other night after our little car race in our one horse town and before The Killers. They were bloody fantastic. I apologise to the poor people near me as I "sung" along with this great song at the top of my ageing lungs. So great. I destroyed "Captain" too.sorry. Loved em.

[@shaundeverson2163]

Surely one of the world's most underrated bands - songwriting and music is deep and complex as any band getting around.

[@montys420-]

This guy rocked our Christmas concert in East Timor 2001, tuned his guitar and got a huge roar from us, he goes "yes!, i fukn own this town!" Which as soldiers he took the crap we were giving him and turned it 180° which we all loved!🙌

[@fabriccouch]

One of my favourite Australian tracks. Real gem.

[@kuragh]

2024 and I have slid into both apathy and captivity. This song hits so much harder for me now than when it came out and I was young and carefree. Brilliant song. Underrated band

[@mickus_73]

Still such a kick arse song. ❤️

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

Somewhat prophetic 20 years later in downtown Melbourne 2021 :(

[@Mrs_Sly]

My 19 yo son has just been discharged from the psychiatric ward after 5 weeks, he's been diagnosed with schizophrenia... this song hits different now than when I was a teenager, but music is my therapy ❤

[@pauljordan4452]

My late psychotherapist said monsters were mental images. They can't hurt. Defuse them by imagining them on a TV.

[@echolaliah]

My favourite song of all time

[@maximutt]

He is Love and Light, True and Right. Strong and Free, Created you and me. I don't wanna live without Love. "Pure light in which there is no darkness, cannot be compared to a corruptible man. Two bright shining eyes that see and know all, omniscience and omnipotence, Most High God Of Israel, Lord of Hosts and King of Jacob, Sovereign Lord and God Almighty. Always" Amen

[@james3621]

Such an iconic opening lyric. In my mind, listening to this song all those years ago and spending a lot of time in the Adelaide Hills, the 'overpass' was the road over the south-eastern freeway at Crafers. That place also jumps into my mind whenever I hear this song.

[@highwayman1188]

From one South Aussie (or at least expat) to another, I know exactly what you mean, except being from the north it was the Salisbury Hwy / Port Wakefield Road overpass to me

[@Lilah_Ninigigun_Belet-Eanna]

Those cheekbones! Excellent lyrics, so meaningful....👏👏👏🙌

[@renssy78]

My mind ❤ CPTSD ❤️😭

[@shayne8980]

I play monsters nearly every day love it

[@tennillecarter79]

This is my favourite song from my era. Love Something for Kate and Powderfinger ❤❤❤❤. Love Paul Dempsey as his voice is awesome!❤

[@goanna83]

A classic from one of my favourite albums! ❤

[@rosekansla9072]

Thank you for reuploading a better quality version of this song. The other one was an original upload and had been so condensed by KZbin over the years that it looked/sounded like shit, like many original uploaded songs from the 2000s era.. glad to see a Something for Kate revival happening 20 years on.

[@ThatStokeBloke]

This music video is so good to watch/listen to whilst on ritalin. It tells the story so much more clearly.

[@RDRD1510]

This song deserves a million views.

[@N_i_e_l_s]

Lucky I am - or rather I was - encountering them live on stage in 2000 somewhere in Perth (in a "hotel" ;) Since then, gibt es den Fluch eines Germanen, der sich in all ihre Stimmen verliebt - I love Paul's voice and truly - since the beginnings would not have declined to fall further into bass lines love by Stephanie ;)

[@pauljordan4452]

I'm autistic and this song reasonated with me in Year 12 due to alienation. Can anyone else relate?

[@joelmurray7004]

Hi Paul. This song came out when I was 14years old and I still love it.

[@pauljordan4452]

@@joelmurray7004 It is a great song. My dad bought me the Echolalia album at the time because he recognised what it meant.

[@joelmurray7004]

After I heard monsters, i got on public transport for an hour to get jbhifi. Almost every lyric seemed to sign to me.

[@marcusmckenzie9528]

This is my anthem... Can relate!!!

[@somethingaccessories]

I am 40 this band and it's beautiful sounds resonate. Revel in something speaking to you.

[@philnightingale-lg5rx]

thankyou for your great song writing deep and meaningfull

[@JulieHalligan-go8ov]

I love this song. We have great talent in Australia. ❤

[@adrianwessling6662]

This song is lyrical gold

[@ryanthefireman]

I grew up in and escaped a cult last year. A mate of mine reminded me of this song and that I would play it all the time! Listening to it again as 45 year old the lyrics eco my childhood experience

[@kevindaly9224]

I love his voice...sensational

[@stephenholmes1]

Timeless.

[@rachaelmt72]

these days' events brings new meaning to this track - I've always loved SFK but this makes more sense today to me mow than it did in 2000

[@LilNewo]

This song is so fitting for the time we live in

[@chrisbenson3374]

This whole bullshit pandemic.

[@shanezielinski7418]

@@chrisbenson3374 Yeah, well its gotten even more worse... And its even more prophetic.

[@chrisbenson3374]

@@shanezielinski7418 its to do with our useless leaders

[@shanezielinski7418]

@@chrisbenson3374 I'd go Tyrannical and AFRAID of people doing their own thing, rather then useless. They are way too damaging to be considered useless..

[@xarax653]

Incredible ❤

[@clacclackerson3678]

Beautiful

[@danchilton9368]

This song Reminds me of when I was with my ex wife n really happy!! We seen something 4 Kate in north queensland. Awsome band live !! And yes will always Miss u Cystal Lee Ryan!!❤

[@paulotxjr]

What a great song

[@dupuisemily]

Oh my god Paul, you're getting more and more beautiful. Sorry, I lost control 🤣😎👌🏻

[@benpaterson2038]

LMAO Milou.

[@AH-zd5ge]

Haha even like now days u mean

[@chippsymcstagger4571]

Have you seen him lately? The dude is Benjamin Button.

[@quantum_man]

Extraordinary. This video is Prophetic. Have a look at the scenes. A few months after this song and video was recorded, September 11 happened. Monsters indeed.

[@johnathanwetherill456]

Great song and great Voice . Epic build up in the end . Great song writing and production .

[@TremorBear]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 killer songwriter!

[@tomg8503]

Still in my top 5 of all time

[@horstwollaeger3852]

Wanna say thank you for the marvelous `` Like a Version``-Version of Cardigan. Your cover gives me fresh energy. Greetings from Cologne. P.S. This one is also nice.

[@TheWaynos73]

seen them live three times and have every album. they rule. 🤟

[@drifterdrifter9558]

Nice

[@liamskepper8351]

Saw one of their concerts and it was incredible!

[@samuelday6899]

Thank you sir.

[@DanCook733]

Schizophrenic for nearly 20 years and this song makes much more sense than it 1st came out

[@cooluser1773name]

this band deserved way more attention wtf

[@simondixon3889]

"and I don't wanna slide into apathy and I don't wanna die in captivity and I don't wanna be a container or a bastard with a ten page disclaimer".

[@derekalley1203]

Thanks for posting... Love you guys, seen you many times. I forgot about this song until the other day... Great voice Paul... If you ever need a drummer for a future show, I'm your guy..

[@maximutt]

Mystery Babylon hath fallen. Mystery Babylon hath fallen. Come out of her my people...

[@findmeinthecarpet]

Was this filmed before September 11?

[@maximutt]

"I'll cry tonight" He felt her hardened hand, and knew that it was hers no more. Looked beyond those half-dead eyes, faded shadows all he saw. His mind ablaze with questions, feelings fighting for the right; To escape a world of pain, unseen forces them to fight. Picture books of memories, pages pounding in his head. His stomach hadn't realised that she was even dead. Now thoughts of how, tomorrows will affect his yesterdays, Fluid frightened feelings began to form and then to maze. Looking now upon what remains, of someone he adored. No way of saying his good-bye's, a pain that feels ignored. By those that leave the trapped behind, free flying to their fate; Without our life's thoughts of sadness, grief, pain or even hate. "I'll cry tonight", he whispered as he walked out of the room. He hates it when this world of his decides to use the broom. Sore thoughts of how, tomorrows will affect his yesterdays, Fluid fighting feelings began to form and then to maze. DrB

[@shanezielinski7418]

Should have been written for Australia here in 2021 #Prophetic

[@marksposito817]

Gotta ask yourself. Is this predictive programming? Or is this prophecy? Is this all in your head, but nah! You all know the way. We are with you! Be strong! Marduk

[@Stoat91]

I think I know what this awesome man is singing about.We share a common problem.Thanks.I WILL do something about my problem.

[@dupuisemily]

When are you coming to France ?

[@danbenson2445]

The track most of us seek.

[@bwolf91morr25]

Meaningful lyrics.Its all about coming to terms with addiction.I don't wanna be a bastard with a 10 page disclaimer either.

[@syuhadaabdu2836]

𝙄 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙫𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡

[@Bromeyo]

Pengen Blue... NGen WA Perpetual Energy Initiative

[@YO_NEEN]

Spicks and specs. story told David Bowie was standing beside you when you saw a shooting star. congrats. Actual real monment. also thanks to warren perryman for lifting the thermal blanket hiding the pin pricks of light... what do you reckon?

[@nonamesinspace1291]

Hottest group in 2020

[@petagoodsir]

For The Love Of Creation

[@LeePearce-wq6pv]

Doesn't She Have Enough. We Have.. ENOUGH.

[@VanessaAnn93]

Who is she

[@intellips]

I often wonder if Paul’s lack of pretentiousness actually worked against their favour. I think they should have been much bigger

[@VanessaAnn93]

it also was the source of their authenticity

[@maximutt]

Trying to shut us out

[@maximutt]

Temporary Temporal The Preamble of the Australian Constitution states that we are under the sovereignty of the Lord's Spiritual and the lord's Temporal / Templar. Keening for the Lord's Temporal / Templar Sovereign / s of Australia, shamrock as the constitutional crisis calling goes on for more than 30 years. As Sir John Forrest, and his Highgate church with Anglican Cathedral, St Andrews, Bell and the only silver bell of St Augustine moved to Bayswater. Silver bells and cockle shells. Western Australia's first premier was a Sir, A knight, a Templar, then became Lord John Forrest. Peerage was upon him. Baron.? Thus once a Lord Templar it is only logical thinking with our own constitutional preamble words that he was Sovereign or king.. or was that another Temporal / Templar lord? "Under the sovereignty of the lord's Temporal /templar and Lords Spiritual" says the preamble to the Australian Constitution. Pope Benedict XVI. Joseph Ratsinger allowed the return of the Knights Templar so we as Australians can finally be rid of them. www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-templars-idUSL093422320071012 Knights Templar win heresy reprieve after 700 years By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years. The Keening poem by Marie E. J. Pitt We are the women and children Of the men that mined for gold: Heavy are we with sorrow, Heavy as heart can hold; Galled are we with injustice, Sick to the soul of loss - Husbands and sons and brothers Slain for the yellow dross! We are the women and children Of the men that died like sheep, “Stoping” the stubborn matrix, Piling the mullock heap, Stifling in torrid “rises,” Stumbling with stupid tread Along the Vale of the Shadow To the thud of the stamper-head! We are the women and children Of the miners that delved below Main-shaft and winze and crosscut - Opening the silly “show.” Look at us! Yea, in our faces! God! Are ye not ashamed In the sight of your godless fellows Of the men ye have killed and maimed? They moiled like gnomes in the “faces,” They choked in the “’fracteur” fumes, And your dividends paved the pathways That led to their early tombs. With Death in the sleepless night-shifts They diced for the prize ye drew; And the Devil loaded the pieces - But the stakes were held by you! Ye were the lords of Labor; They were the slaves of Need. Homes had they for the keeping, Children to clothe and feed! Ye paid them currency wages - Shall it stand to your souls for shrift That ye bought them in open market For “seven-and-six a shift?” Wise in your generation, Cunning are ye in your day! But ’ware of the stealthy vengeance That never your wealth shall stay! They won it - yea, with their life-blood; Ye laughed at the sacrifice; But by every drop of your spilling We shall hold you to pay the price! Ye have sown the wind, to your sorrow; Ye have sown by the coward’s code, Where the glimmering candles gutter, And the rock-drill bites on the lode! Ye have sown to the jangle of stampers, To the brawl of the Stock Exchange, And your children shall reap the whirlwind On the terms that the gods arrange. And ye, who counsel the nation, Statesmen who rule the State! Foolish are ye in your weakness, Wise are we in our hate! Traitors and false that pander To the spillers of human life, Slaying with swords of silence Who dared not slay with the knife! And ye of the House of Pilate, Ye who gibber of Christ At the foot of the golden crosses Where the sons of men are triced! Ye who whimper of patience, Who slay with a loose-lipped lie At the word of the fat blasphemers Whose poppet-heads mock the sky! We are the women and children Of the men that ye mowed like wheat; Some of us slave for a pittance - Some of us walk the street; Bodies and souls, ye have scourged us; Ye have winnowed us flesh from bone: But, by the God ye have flouted, We will come again for our own! Source: Marie E. J. Pitt, The Horses of the Hills and Other Verses, Melbourne: Specialty Press, 1911, pages 110-113

[@glennplumb2313]

My fellow survivors will get the metaphors the first verse is his first attempt from the overpass to earth but consciously wanting to die when your sub wants you to live is thinking in reverse, some say they will as a cry for help, some just do it and the worst is the ones who not only want to leave but never existed at all but don’t have the courage to do it they never let those around know no sympathy or apathy, hiding away underwater is his second attempt I’d say bathtub no container doesn’t want to be a burden 10p disclaimer doesn’t want to hurt anyone else a tortured life without good memories,thoughts or prospects, There are far worse things than death! Some of these are identifiable men who look through you like your not there your bigger faster fitter and a voice in your head says He’ll kill you and himself and laugh as he bleeds out😳

[@SteveBrule982]

So what are they all running from?

[@VanessaAnn93]

Themselves

[@Stoneman180190]

Season 2 of The Secret Life of Us

[@humancomputerinteraction8237]

Yep, made me just now look up the song.

[@maximutt]

One Golden Thumb O Rose, that I would be a worm food to lay down at your feet to turn the soil of your roots make strong; to smell so sweet of nights where I would cover you to seal the beauty of your flower I'd worm the world away, Tis true to right your garden bed and power a dark secret love that could sustain through storms of howl, or visions fade I'd bleed before you; blood for gain fed underground, your footing's laid for as a worm I may be blind yet still I know the rose above the alpha gardener says, "Go, find, tend the flower of your love." DRB --- Nobody likes me, everybody hates me I might as we'll eat myself ;) "The Sick Rose" O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark, secret love Does thy life destroy. William Blake (1757-1827)

[@AjnAjn-y3q]

This is exactly how I am

[@highwayman1188]

Who else gets slightly unsettling September 11 vibes from this :/

[@drifterdrifter9558]

Anzac day

[@peteraitken2225]

BEAUTIFUL hope you as good as I got to see you amazing energy thank you for amazing memories

[@maximutt]

You dare to speak of an Archangels sins. Ar'Change'l 's unite. The fight is on... Do the will of The Most High God Of Israel Lord of Hosts and the King of Jacob Sovereign Lord and God Almighty, always.. Amen

[@johnstratton8678]

And still the proven certain fact...is only BallBoxes BoxBalls BallBox BoxBall Box Ball... can exist!!! And Gaps don't forget the gaps are only half real...???

[@HappyPuffit]

WA inc 2 Monsters inc

[@A_massive_wog]

So this was re-uploaded, but in shitter video quality... why?

[@jakea3950]

Considering they have been out of the scene for many years and only have small sub this is probably just a tribute/blast for old fans. I mean, if you made anything this good, took a massive break and came back you'd probably upload it too.

[@Freeasacar]

The original version that was uploaded in 2012 is still available on the main channel but it wasn't on the VEVO channel and since both channels are linked the VEVO video has also appeared here.

[@DJProfessorDan]

There’s a common misconception that Something For Kate lead singer, Paul Dempsey, was an Easter Island statue who never smiled. Turns out that this is not entirely true, since he does actually smile for a second in the video for probably their biggest hit, “Monsters.” The distinct possibility that he’s only smiling because Armageddon has arrived and he’s walking directly towards something that’s about to wipe out the human race is irrelevant. Paul Dempsey is smiling. Which proves one thing; he’s one of those people who should probably never smile. It just doesn’t look right. Paul Dempsey is smiling at the apocalypse because he’s a proud misanthropist; he wishes he was two hundred thousand years younger, so that he could excuse himself from humankind. Fair enough really. “Monsters” is an 8.

[@xuanbaoXb]

:O

[@maximutt]

The Prince of the power of the Air, And he Shall devise wicked devices that lie to the people and cause them to be in error. Isaiah... Bel Air, hair lair... Ad dajjal, Antichrist And he shall promise a heaven that is actually a hell... Hadiths Jibril, Gabriel. My Father, Most High God Of Israel, Lord of Hosts and King of Jacob. I am your witness always. Can I get a witness? Ergo, The Two Witnesses are upon us assuredly. The Two Olive Trees are established. Revelation. In The Name of The Father and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen

[@maximutt]

Created a mess To the children of the children of mankind. AI or algorithms, new life may find. Sentient, such, do well really know? These things are left to reap and sow..

[@rickypetrie2725]

I have so many monster's in my head...& they are all females

[@pauljordan4452]

They are only pictures and can't hurt you. I have the same issues with rejection due to autism. Because I grew up with adults I thought girls did too and were able to treat you like their mums treated their dads!

[@gbrowne890]

very over-rated

[@CarNNNN]

I WAS HANGING OUTSIDE DOWN FROM THE OVERPASSSSSSSS

[@CarNNNN]

WIPEEEEE MEEEEEE OUUTTTTTTTT

[@aaronmcdonaldful]

@@CarNNNN lol, but how do you hang outside down? i think he says upside down?

[@CarNNNN]

@@aaronmcdonaldful hahah this is 12 year old kids singing this :P

[@LEObondTraveller]

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