The Chills perform "Pink Frost"

[@PlanetoftheeAtheists]

I heard this song one time on KZSC in the middle of the night, sometime back in the late 80's. It haunted my mind for years and I never knew who sang it. Then I heard it again and rushed to record it off the radio on a mixed cassette. So I had only the last third of it to listen to. No DJ's knew what I was talking about when I requested it. And I never heard it again until KZbin came along.

[@monterheymultimedia]

It truly is a beautiful age we live in. Used to be so hard to be obsessed with music, you had to know a guy who knew a guy and truly do some legwork to attain your fix. Now you type a sentence and you have 300 live performances and every remix ever created at your fingertips in seconds for free!

[@bocaburgler]

i like how it starts out like a song that would be annoyingly poppy and empty, yet it takes a turn for the darkest. wow, just wow.

[@RobCraig-wf3yi]

Genius

[@jacobcorral9874]

One of my favorite songs and a performance I’ll continue to watch for years to come. A wordsmith, an artist, and a human being. Rest easy, Martin.

[@lukeheywood7334]

Just the thought fills my heart with pink frost.. chills alwys had ability with whimsical sweet onthe surface soubds but the under current was a diffrent deal satin doll kakiedasxope world ie..beebabababeeboe simple is complex could be ptetty good on the live occasions. Lost ny sillihoute night of chill blue flamethrower was one fave..

[@powertrust1971]

One of those songs that draws memories.A timeless song that demonstrates the sound from a generation in new zealand. ...good times indeed.you never know how good you had it until it's gone.

[@RobCraig-wf3yi]

Aye

[@seurat2]

This is a great song. Period. Great songs trannscend their era or any era and continue to live. There are plenty of immensely gifted and original musicians out there forming bands and I'm always happy to discover them. That doesn't lessen my reverence for the Chills and this song one tiny bit.

[@bbbrobo]

Solid song, still holds up even today.

[@thejoydivision1]

i have always thought this on a par with "A Forest"

[@dclnmre]

Exactly !!!

[@ALDERSONPHIL]

sends a shiver up my spine.beautiful song

[@dclnmre]

many nights driving at night with this on full volume. so much feeling in one song with no exact direction on whats supposed to be felt

[@buduiza]

Tried to find this song for years.Thank god for youtube.This is so beautiful.

[@JimmBrady32]

i never realised NZ had such great bands like these guys amongst others im just discovering...great song

[@brianwoods4983]

Along with the Chills....The Clean also Brilliant..If you had to pin me down...Chills, Submarine Bells cd...Clean veichle cd.If you haven't got them....

[@NewPaltzIndie]

one of the few songs...if not THE ONLY SONG that can bring me to tears, it's that beautiful

[@markhower8986]

This is pretty neat. Was so fortunate to have seen the Chills at the long gone Bogart's in Long Beach CA. and to have met Martin Phillips at a radio station interveiw. Great live they were ♥

[@looneyricki]

a fantastic live rendition of one of their BEST songs. sublime in its emotional power.

[@purplepelican69]

First heard this fantastic song about 20 years ago whilst driving down the M62 and drove straight to my local record shop and threatened the owner with violence unless he sold me the album. This is right up there with Dolores by Blind Mr Jones and Song to the Siren by Cocteau Twins. How did we get from this to the unmitigated dross served up to todays unlucky kids?

[@1970brenz]

lovely tender quality to it...

[@swirlysound]

Love the Chills- so glad I type them in search today and discovered all these vids- never had the chance to see them live....

[@Upstreamprovider]

Great!! These were such a cool band, glad I came across them in the 80s

[@pena.3302]

Can we agree Martin.Certainly Knew &,Did Great ..[Ig.Likes your Music..]..Needless to add.🥝🌏👍🙃

[@moonlily1]

the opening notes of this song are my favorite that I've ever heard. I wish my alarm clock sounded like that.

[@djlerr]

i love this song i play this all the time'

[@mrsjanina68]

Thanks for posting, i hear this song 20years long So verdammt geil gemacht!!!!!!!!

[@mobyboy]

thank you so much !! I love this song since age of 18

[@Teetee33]

Play this one during a train journey in a window seat; gives a new perspective on the trees and junked cars as they whizz on by. Trancelike. Beautiful.

[@TATER1971]

Just awesome.

[@lunapark_42]

i have the old veniel lp...i love this since over 15 years

[@jmh2277]

Never expected to see this...Amazing!

[@beautyfashionaddict]

love this song!!!

[@sallylahaye2995]

Cheers Olilsdeathtomany. Another chap has also told me it's Martin Phillips, who strangely enough looks like my cousin James who is in the band The Chills. The other chap on this site thought the same thing. :-)

[@wilburfierce5312]

A great late 80s band I missed 1st time around

[@54spiritedwill54]

excellent!

[@goodtimefolkrock]

Awesome

[@Shirokinukatsukami]

How insightful.

[@MrDimikor]

I wish I could watching only the drummer... divine as the song.

[@gazzy2000]

very cool song!!

[@spikester99105]

the chills is the best

[@MagicAlex]

wow, for a live performance, this is astonishing.

[@rockymaldonado7758]

woof. this is amazing

[@J8T369]

Really good song.

[@Teetee33]

I found the cassette with this amazing song on it in a trash bin in a record store here in the States. Think I paid a buck for it. No harm, no foul, right? But wow...who the heck would throw the Chills out if they knew better? Love at first listen...

[@lukeheywood7334]

Iwanted to throw doledrums away

[@f40632]

thanks lot!! :DD

[@knivesout91]

Rest in Chill

[@Calavera336]

que buen temaaaa

[@petejanettpittman7085]

thx

[@duckking4815]

Kiwi as love it

[@charlessale409]

This is fucking amazing.

[@keithbate9405]

One of the great music tracks and incredibly moving. My younger brother Ian died rip) of cancer in 1986 aged just )barely) 20. he made his mark though check out for his band The sears who have songs on You tube The album "if only" is now much sought after

[@californialovinful]

this song gives me the chills...haha...

[@drapeblind]

hell YES

[@crockpile]

gorgeous. fuckin gorgeous!

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

Love the sound first 20 seconds. Good song. Martin is about 24-25 years old in 1988. He has a good voice. Can someone state what pink frost is without guessing? I think this song was recorded in 1982. All the great music has already been made and was recorded 25-50 years ago and most of it is not heard on a wide scale basis anymore.

[@aburns1995]

+Davin Dx blood turns the snow/frost/ice pink. Blood from the girl as she is dying in the snow.

[@cycheng9577]

honey guitar tones

[@FuggyWug]

Agreed. Caroline Easther is fantastic on drums here. And with Justin Harwood on bass it makes for a great, driving rhythm section. Very motorik.

[@michaeljohns6105]

chills r so and southern sound defining kiwi music.. I read the Mr Neil Young based some , maybe all , of his Grunge sound on nz sound .. ??

[@consman22]

This goes nuts!! Long live dunedin music at its purist.

[@oiloftrop]

Martin Phillpps is the man! Hard times for him be strong Martin!

[@foggyozarkgal348]

OMG i really like this soooooo ooo ooo oooo ooo ooo o uuu uuu nnnn nnn ggguuuuh and yes it is my birthday and yes i am alone

[@lyttleconnor]

Foggy Ozarks Robin happy birthday

[@anantmaher2736]

And he is wearing a watchmen t-shirt! Class all around!

[@Teetee33]

@skye6206 You got it, Jim, When I first heard it, I didn't know what to make of it. Van Gogh on record, immediate love. Perfect.

[@Klaus666]

This is fucking uh-MAZING

[@JimiJames]

thanks for those song recommendations. and to answer your question: its because public schools censor kids, ratings distort what children can watch, and the wrong programs and books are advocated for. movies and books used to be made for adults, with a hint for kids... now theres so many genres that are fluffy and pure and unchallenging, not for kids-- the music they want is not melancholy but feel good... or rather, feel AMAZING.

[@spudwas]

The lyrics always reminded me of "Syd and Nancy."

[@Euroshima61]

1:54

[@Teetee33]

Bad ass Maori fighting skills, Marton Csokas and the Chills. New Zealand has much right to be proud...

[@blairomatic]

Sunday night, 9.30 PM, TV One.

[@HolidayKirk]

@purplepelican69 Blinded by nostalgia.

[@HolidayKirk]

@purplepelican69 And in 15 years people will wish there was music like there is now. You have scrubbed your memories clean and only see what you want to see.

[@georgedipa1183]

Yeah awsome track'' I heard it when I visited New Zealand about 20 years ago' Call me pedantic but I think the keyboard in this live version should have been less melodic and more dark to suit the semi gothic nature of this track' Its a wonder a lot of bands haven,t tried to cover it" I wonder what it would sound like if Sisters of mercy did it''

[@BarrelShape]

almost unimaginable... but this is BETTER than the studio version.

[@Motarmstrong]

I always found martin very humble.

[@TallFastLoud]

Is that the guy who used to be in Silkworm? I read an interview with them and they said they listened to the Clean a lot- weird but cool

[@schofieldna]

as good as Joy Division, Smiths, etc. a top tier song

[@sallylahaye2995]

Could someone please tell me what the lead vocalist's name is in this video? Cheers.

[@oooohla123]

@ColdMelissa I meant did i heart hiroshima steal this... cos i haven't heard this version before and its much older and I didn't know that this would be famous enough for a cover... i wasn't alive when the chills were around so yeah i dont know.

[@mce161]

Can really hear Big Country in "The Chills" - must be the Scottish blood in Dunedin

[@Oilisdeathtomany]

Ahh.., lovely. Another track for the soundtrack of my misspent youth. This one being particularly poignant.

[@CupcakeExplosion]

know where i can find it? would love to see it cause i just love this song.

[@danielnelles]

i like the singers' shirt

[@andymanberge]

thats a rare fender.. coronado?

[@ElliMoAble]

[@Tuataroa]

@oooohla123 ha! yep they covered it

[@f40632]

sorry to bother. but im trying to translate this song into my language.(good music has no limit of nations. right? :) ) can anyone tell me the story/meaning behind this song for me please? i need more specific in and out to make the lyrics easy to understand and still good embellished. thank you!! >

[@number1genoa]

I think that is esther williams on the drums, can somone confirm ?

[@franknwalters]

I really don't agree with you about the todays unlucky kids. I won't try to compare "Pink Frost" which is a masterpiece with any other song, but listen to this ----> watch?v=TjL_uDP3YcQ&list=FLxkQQplfWOywqvLpeWHiHcg&index=3&feature=plcp OR this one ----> watch?v=PMku-GbafEg&list=FLxkQQplfWOywqvLpeWHiHcg&index=9&feature=plcp Just two songs I picked from my favorites. You might know them... There's really good music today, you just need to search more than 20 or 30 years ago.

[@Oilisdeathtomany]

Martin Phillips

[@sleater84]

wow these guys from dunedin? how stupid am I.

[@dr666is]

nice song... shame they destroyed there website tho long lived the bats

[@jordancloudbuster]

Purity.

[@SavagesInMyTown]

the keyboards make the song.

[@andreasegde]

I played on this but I was never credited. Recorded at the Point Studio in London.

[@Teetee33]

@bocaburgler I completely agree. That's what I thought too, on first listen. But then, wooooooo!

[@Petorian2012]

get some verlaines in ya toooooo.

[@blairomatic]

"The lyrics always reminded me of 'Syd and Nancy'." I wouldn't waste this track on those two. They're far too undeserving.

[@puppeteers420]

just like you sharkpecker, just like you

[@Nubecuube]

press thumbs up if this beats justin bieber

[@marcelobarbosa6192]

Neer

[@oooohla123]

ummm ok what the hell... i heart hiroshima sings this song??? did they steal it or what?

[@jakejudd]

You've got to be kidding