The Chills - Pink Frost

[@richardjarvis722]

RIP Martin. Im so sad, Loved you & your music from day one.

[@DennisGoodman-y3k]

So very sorry to learn of Martin's passing. One of our NZ music legends.

[@raphaelmaraki]

i still think that this is one of the greatest songs to come out of nz.,doesnt seem to age.

[@filiporvik2782]

The intro is interesting, but when it suddenly got dark with the part that builds until the first words, you know you're in for a treat

[@johngardner5660]

I saw this band at Exeter Lemon Grove in 1990. The audience was small -poor for such a decent band - but I think the band recognised the enthusiasm in the crowd and played a really decent set. It was only £2.50 too. The effort they showed was immense and they will always have my respect. Brilliant track by the way

[@cackhandedchimp]

Were you in the same circles as Thom Yorke? Think you would've both been in Exeter around the same time.

[@StainesAlex]

Loved The Chills. Co-founders of the remarkable Dunedin psych-pop revolution. Was fortunate to see them and many other bands in Dunedin in the 1980s. Martin was a great man who enriched my life. RIP.

[@bpberthold]

The video imagery fits so well with a great haunting song. Great 80's song that few would know.

[@nzsjccom]

The Chills were a NZ band from Dunedin. The video was shot on the Otago peninsula at a place called Lovers Leap. I grew up there and every time I see this video it reminds me of the times I went there. Great song from a great Dunedin band.

[@GeekGirlsChannel]

RIP Martin

[@tasimana]

Great band. Submarine bells and Brave Words are amazing albums. This is the first track of theirs I heard and one of my favourites. A haunting track.

[@tiborvivi]

It was 1986 when I've heard this song on KFJC in Phil Dirt's show. I still like it!

[@Alleswirdgut1982]

Real and raw. Great Stuff!!! Hard to find in modern-day music. New music often sound like "plastic". Very unreal.

[@jowellsmedia]

Thank you MGMT. so much.

[@_31513]

same here

[@woombroom69]

ha ha i allways said this would be at my funeral too lol.... but seriously one of the greatest and most brilliant songs that very few heard sad just sad, this to me is a tie between pink frost and thier other great song hidden bay witch in my opinion is even harder to find ...bolth graets along with all thier songs. this band is up there with a split second , big black, the stare, and sooo many more bands that time but not us forgot

[@ayshaxwills]

The lyrics... Wow. Chills down my spine. No pun intended

[@econogate]

Death, the one thing we all think about and makes us crazy as a result, others demise and our own demise scare us make us crazy! Great song!

[@crockpile]

really incredible

[@cbeeber1]

This song is really fuckin awesome I had heard it a few times but never found out what it was called or who sang it then I saw a movie that had it in it. One of the greatest songs ever made.

[@Explorer1302]

Went for a walk yesterday where this video was shot ... Sandymount and around Hoopers Inlet on the Otago Peninsula. I immediately recognised the road through the trees from this video while walking out to the cliff tops.

[@SirHprdgn]

Really been getting into Flying Nun lately, but it's kind of overwhelming. So much great stuff.

[@Jordamo]

Lyrics to this song always reminded me of the opening scene of "River's Edge"

[@ruthdixon7807]

somehow the chills' albums never quite sustained the giddy rush of such pop thrills.

[@Lauge7]

Hate when people write something like "... got me here" but in this case it's true: MGMT got me here and that was a good thing

[@Bennyboy1985]

Love the scarecrow. So creepy!

[@chrisalugbuo467]

🔥🔥🔥ahead of its time fr

[@kelechi_77]

More like the New Zealand scene influenced all of modern indie music, but yeah as a zoomer this feels like it could have come out in the 2010s

[@DarkInsanity14]

I put this video up at 23:57 so I'd be listening to this song as the year changed ✌️

[@itsjessokay]

This is going to be my funeral song.

[@Oilisdeathtomany]

@porleegee I'm totally with you on this porleegee. Although I draw more parallels between Hallowed Ground (VF's) and this, as opposed to the Femmes first album which featured, of course, the brilliant BITS. Great stuff, nonetheless. Shit, there was some brilliant music around then, eh. Great melodies, interesting and clever musicianship and the best lyrics to boot. We were and still are so fortunate to have this.

[@rros0511]

From Dunedin, so practically Scottish.

[@Caligula138]

i think im going to go see them play tonight.

[@handglops]

chipotle brought me here!

[@DM-qs5ju]

What can I do if she's lost? Just the thought fills my heart with Pink Frost

[@colinwilson4609]

A more polite Joy Division.

[@Metal-Possum]

Well, apparently New Zealand were pioneers for indie rock/pop.

[@OldbeanO]

Is that actually true? I once heard that NZ independent bands were the most requested/ popular on US student radio... back in the 80's 90's

[@Metal-Possum]

@@OldbeanO The "Dunedin sound" was influential on bands like REM, Mudhoney, Pavement, Pearl Jam and Parallelled the USA's Paisely Underground scene. Definitely the stuff college radio stations would have been blasting.

[@kelechi_77]

@@Metal-Possum People forget to mention how important New Zealand was to modern indie rock, bands like Television Personalities and Buzzcocks were pioneers in the UK but it was groups like the Clean, Tall Dwarfs and the Chills who actually brought the indie sound to fruition.

[@agagpatatra]

Hymn!!!

[@GoldenDarks]

muito bom!!!

[@yohannagulliverbirkett3278]

COOL😎

[@aaronsunderland8838]

❤

[@benmochrie7832]

Thank John Peel for first hearing Chills. The Dunedin sound. This song kills me. 👊

[@peterleslie8326]

this song reminds me of the cure,ripmartin

[@quixot1c]

@djangosdawson5 oh yes.. this song is definately my thing. more darkness in my heart than in my eyes

[@CalebCluff]

@bpberthold Ummm - why can't you believe it came from New Zealand?

[@weesasse]

friends and neighba's och the 80's

[@saanzacs]

@545t3t4t5 My bad, RIP Martyn Bull (drummer)

[@ShakingSeismologist]

New Zealand one, Australia nil. (and I'm not a kiwi)

[@MrPzhamz]

@Bennyboy1985 1984

[@Bennyboy1985]

What year is this song from?

[@xdoctorblindx]

@porleegee Unless your "art school indie outsider" circle practices lethal amounts of needle-injected drugs "Pink Turns to Blue" is absolutely not an "art school indie outsider anthem."

[@8wirral8]

Too bad they never had a bigger following.

[@andreiivanof7712]

Apparently, back in the day they were one of the most requested bands on independent student radio in the U.S.. So it's all relative I guess

[@linnightl9277]

soggy cornflakes

[@thomspearsbeach]

FEW

[@seventeenboi]

poignant

[@michaelclanton5077]

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