Straitjacket Fits - She Speeds

[@GEEMELLOW]

One of the best songs of the great 90s, one of the best bands of the 90s by far.

[@noisepollution6761]

As usual nothing happens but... he speeds!!!

[@alznow]

Yep, Radio BFM's song of the year in "87 and "88 was for sure one of the 90's greatest.

[@danieleyre8913]

This song isn’t from the 1990s, it is from the late 1980s

[@rjh6037]

This song and that mullet will never be beaten.

[@longbeachdave1]

thread winner.

[@frodo261]

The Mullet makes him look a bit scary

[@markchapman4466]

Maybe not New Zealand's national anthem, but most definitely punched well above its weight for any music of its time. Thanks boys , you are so well remembered after the Pop of these songs

[@maryjackson8484]

Somebody put back Loverboy on KZbin please ...

[@joevanroo8877]

Weird…but I like it! Harkens to a bygone American era in the late eighties early nineties. I love it! Born in 76, lived thro some weird music times.

[@markchapman4466]

​@@joevanroo8877 check out "Down in Splendour" by the same band - super cool

[@bigberry5979]

RIP Andrew Brough......

[@tabazail]

@@Here.now123 Thats Shane Carter

[@caseyjones0113]

❤️

[@caseyjones0113]

❤️

[@Bloodduck112]

I could never drive past those rail yards in Christchurch without hearing that opening riff. The numbers were painted over sometime in the 00's. Vandalism.

[@deepfryblue]

totally agree Stephen pure nz heritage gone with a slapdash of green paint( i think they're green now) i took a photo of them back around 2014 while waiting for Ross Galt's opposite to rebuild a van doorlock, thinking to myself they would eventually be painted over- back then EasySteel were trading from the warehouse but i don't think they were the prats who vandalised an icon.

[@deepfryblue]

Yeah and the back of the ute/truck scenes were shot in the Lyttelton Tunnel; which direction were they travelling tho?

[@Bloodduck112]

@deepfryblue Something says Lyttleton to Chch to me. I have no idea why, though.

[@deepfryblue]

@@Bloodduck112 i've tried to watch it for clues haha- no luck. It's uphill from Lyttelton to Heathcote, but that doesn't seem to help here?

[@bernardreedy5476]

I am an aussie- loved all this stuff- verlaines, bats, straitjacket fits. Verlaines were probably my faves- managed to see them 2-3 times in Sydney- saw them recently supporting Blonde Redhead at the Opera House. Thought I was 25 again!

[@LaughingStock_]

I envy you, Bernard. I'm not sure how I managed to miss seeing them in their prime :/

[@steersman-zv2ng]

R.I.P. Andy

[@clumpft]

thank god for flying nun

[@sandyrickard6612]

one of new Zealands great symphonies

[@stephenbradley6285]

Work of art

[@bhuvidya]

Such a great great song. The Straitjacket Fits were one of my fave bands of the late 80s, and Hail got high rotation on my stereo. Was in Dunedin in Feb 1990, on a tramping trip with a mate, and the Fits were playing in an o-week gig at Otago Uni - we were over the freaking moon, until we found out you could only buy a ticket if you were a Uni student - aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!

[@powertrust1971]

Now that's a timeless mullet.

[@mozdickson]

300 views; deserves at least 4 million

[@powertrust1971]

They were like the new clean pair of shoes at the doorstep amongst the Bata bullets,the Jandells and the dunlop volleys with the hole in the toe.

[@McdAngus]

Timeless Kiwi classic!!!

[@willyj51]

I am so glad that for every good NZ band I knew about in the 1980s, there were 2-3 others to discover!

[@PetraZoeNZ]

Ahhh, the fabulous, heady days of the bad hair band... fantastic!

[@robalston590]

Saw them playing at the Empire tavern.. Dunedin, awesome

[@McdAngus]

Me too!

[@5150show]

I saw them at the Hillcrest Tavern . Hamilton

[@markclaridge175]

And The Albert, Palmy (a few times!).

[@mistery-ed7900]

Ahhh.. the video on the "in love with these times" vhs tape. love it.

[@cmkxn]

WOW - great song. Flying Nun could do no wrong.

[@janetmaynard9476]

That is no mullet!! That's Shane ❤️❤️❤️ was ! Love you my hometown Dunedin 💜💜 your beautiful sounds 🖤🖤

[@realsinisterminister]

Reading Shanes book now well worth it!

[@madeleinefougere5798]

Brilliant. Beautiful.

[@OldbeanO]

Beautiful!

[@roxysk32]

the moment in the tunnel is nostalgia in its purest form

[@mrsarcastic5331]

Was it NME magazine that called them the greatest guitar band in the world at one time?

[@Bloodduck112]

Melody maker may I think it was "the weirdest guitar band in the world, and the best."

[@petermateer]

Remember when Karen Hay said after playing this on RWP: "Well that was completely full of every cliche known to pop so no wonder it is going to be a huge international success" or some such droll, dry, ironic, deadpan, witty, satirical comment. A bewitching dark facetious icon.

[@ten10strips85]

That quote is completely off the mark though. The song isn't "full of every cliche known to pop" that's the most inane, reductive, idiotic description I can imagine. Combing elements, tropes, motifs to create something unique and new - which, to me anyway, still stands out as a unique song... doesn't even warrant explanation, if you don't get it you don't get it, but ffs why slog on about a style of music that you fundamentally, at the basest level, do not understand? Robert Christgau started all this fucking nonsense, and he continues, deaf to rock'n'roll, forever onward, mesmerizing countless dipshits....

[@daggylmcgra9653]

Peter Mateer; Last sentence. Are you talking about the song or about Karyn? If it's Karyn, then I guess you had a crush on her eh?

[@petermateer]

@@daggylmcgra9653 Karyn was more interesting than Shayne Carter to me😅

[@paulbrimble8204]

Boneable

[@deepfryblue]

@@ten10strips85 to be fair i believe Ms Hay meant that the video imagery, not the music, was full of every... obvs trying hard to be a smartass but we all loved Karyn ay....

[@MB-oc1nw]

Powerful music...

[@josephking2499]

a masterpiece

[@tintypecentral]

brilliant

[@McdAngus]

I agree 100000%

[@longbeachdave1]

tears of joy. well played...

[@Blackscorpion1963]

As good as any international song by any international artist. Shayne Carter was so under rated in his own country. Ah yes all part of the Duners Sound - stuff legends are made of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin_Sound

[@bernardreedy5476]

forgot to mention the chills- submarine bells- top 10 album for me to this day!

[@NashSpaceRocket]

The Pale Saints got an entire album out of this song ...

[@tonylove4800]

Very talented but too often ignored that memo about needing to be catchy. This is, and that is why it was a hit.

[@gavburger]

I always thought Shayne played a Les Paul. 30 plus years later I realise it's a Hagstrom Swede.

[@painsettomusic]

Try listening to this song followed by "Drive Blind" by Ride. They pair well.

[@trivialnonsense]

And I quietly count with her gone Name any number and I'm counting beyond Playing it coolly, though you know it isn't even really there Caress one night away, I was looking for more More, more, more But she She speeds Elusive as a thief in the night, she's stealing away She rides the wind, she burn, burns Yeah she rides the wind, she burn, burns And her speeding, her freedom's what's appealing to me to stop her in her tracks Match an act with flat tactics of attack These eyes may be steady but my cigarette is shaking With way deep saying, why don't you leap in But she, she goes, so no Leave it, but you know at times it seems oh I need her more than my mind Yeah, I need her more than my mind Oh I need her more than my mind

[@madeleinefougere5798]

Thank you!! Beautiful lyrics.

[@el0blaino]

Great track!

[@smidon]

Thank you

[@libararianonfire]

Really. It should be the New Zealand national anthem.

[@MothraBlues]

Really? Surely Blam Blam Blam's 'Depression' is a WHARR moa appropriate song than thiss whiny piece of average DinniDinn pop, Shirley? Butt I MAY well bee biased, cumming from ChurchChurch innall, & having several distinktively unpleasant "encounters" with 'Mr Overrated' from 1980 onn under me belt*...Koff koff (!) (*operative term)

[@daggylmcgra9653]

@@MothraBlues ; Gotta agree with you there, [also the Mr O kom ment]

[@rhysdrader9972]

That's a great mullet alright❤

[@5150show]

Mandatory. I’m always shoegaze ing

[@pulloutscotty]

That was Lyttelton Tunnel and the big red doors to the Waltham Rail Yard

[@smortinz]

I want a beer!

[@mainmaam]

I really don't know why these guys didn't get enough press...

[@reneedavies9231]

She means it when you're not supposed to leaving everybody vulnerable. We tell ourselves I like it then she says too bad except the person who means it too. Just thought I'd put it out there and then she comes to the aid of the guy who doesn't mean it but should. Isn't it private? TEAM FUTURE 💜 I guess it hasn't been decided yet and there's a place for everybody 😴 we all thought she didn't have a choice 👶 Hamish kilgour kept it from us 25march 2023

[@urbvnarchitectsnyc]

focus ahead

[@realitywinner7582]

wow only discovered now after someone compared the brill 'Black Swan Lane' to them !

[@bob4analog]

When I 1st heard this, I thot it was U2. 😃👍

[@ihrstinkt100]

💕❤💕

[@micklee5152]

Some shades of Jeff Buckley in there? (I know this pre-dates)

[@iandalziel7405]

Jeff's dad, Tim (RIP), was around prior though...

[@LONEEAGLE_space_rock]

met him at Zenith's coffee bar in Dunedin in about 94

[@johnneve6882]

Ageless

[@captainsensiblejr.]

New Zealand's greatest love song, apart from Shona Laing's 1905.

[@hurricaneolga]

[@frodo261]

Should’ve been no 1 on compilation of NZ top songs “ Natures Best” The only maybe better songs were by legends Sir DD and Nil Funn…"Nature” was good but really, but no 1 ….dunno Would love to find a tab for Speeds...esp Brough's intro licks

[@cyantwerp435]

what happened?

[@MB-oc1nw]

When New Zealand was worth a shit

[@noisepollution6761]

It's alright I'm dead...

[@leonmorgan1158]

Lyttleton tunnel?

[@adubbya1776]

Leon Morgan yep

[@nzmarco]

And the red sliding doors were over from Moorhouse Ave.

[@theoriginalsuzycat]

Having just read Shayne Carter's autobiography, I feel very disappointed that I will never know exactly how they felt shooting that footage, how many takes etc ... because that is one stinky, fumefilled tunnel and I imagine they all felt rather woozy and were possibly sick afterwards. If only this anecdote had been provided for me personally.

[@theoriginalsuzycat]

@@nzmarco yup by the Waltham overbridge.

[@leonmorgan1158]

@@theoriginalsuzycat haha.. yea.. not good air in there.. guess ya gotta do these things for rock n roll..

[@MothraBlues]

Call me a cloth-eared git (G'wan! Iddill be WHUN!), but I've NEVER understood the mass appeal of thiss overrated piece of distinktly average DinniDinn pop. Sure, the descent into the chorus is a cool wee russh, but Shayne's whiny-arse vocals simply activate my hackles ("the bleughdy-bleuagh" lyric IS brillo, mynd!), & the Pixies-styled 'quiet-NOIZEEE-quiet' compositional trick was alreaddy gettinnabitt tyred even by '87 (minnd u, I musst also admit to a certain amount of personal BIAS here, as I never liked Mr Scarter, dating back to my first hen counter wiffim bakkin 1980, b4 I even knew that thiss obnoxious little twat was a 'Living Rokk Legend' - HAW!). But still, putting all regurtitative urges ASSIDE whor the moa-ment, thiss song STILL ownly gets a 6.5 outter 10 from thiss partickular pair o' hex-ChurchChurch 'Merciless Earss'. (Plz forward all deaf threats & abuse to: Yo' Momma! c/o Cloth-Eared Gitsville Penitentiary, Folsom). xOx :-D

[@thebottles4379]

ok buddy

[@hellovanite]

cloth eared git!

[@nzfreeski]

Born in London? Household names. That ear of Dunedin/Kiwi Sound still lives!!!

[@wolfcattube]

RIP Andrew Brough

[@daggylmcgra9653]

Yep that's why I'm here now bro. [excuse the pun].