THE CHURCH - The Unguarded Moment

From The Album Of Skins And Heart

[@donnadinsdale-pr8xy]

I'm here 2024 Still listening to this..whos with me...

[@homeless_greg_games]

Saw Steve Kilbey last Sunday . Some great stories and music.

[@bonghead6621]

Brilliant song.

[@robertashdown6117]

I am.

[@jessicawaye4459]

I am listening as I drink elder flower cordial and smoke a cigarette and I'm laughing again despite the pain.🎉❤😅

[@HempBuildSchoolMastermind]

My husband and I both played in bands that covered this song in the 80s

[@mikereid7150]

Driving the Cortina, with the cassette on full, Singing at the top of my lungs.

[@ray.shoesmith]

The 4cyl or 6cyl Cortie? Square nose?

[@elizanne6660]

We had a purple Cortie 74 purple, the smoothest gearbox i ever drove till I went to auto.

[@mikereid7150]

@@ray.shoesmith MKIII GT 2L

[@stevefirth725]

Fuck yeah!!!

[@iankearns774]

Was me in 1983, first car TC Cortina, Mushroom Beige, Mag wheels, sports steering wheel, Voxson sound system, pissy little 2 litre with extractors. I thought it was cool but I was only 18. Traded up to a Chrysler Centura with a 265 hemi about two years later. That thing flew in comparison.. Still see myself hooning around Melbourne listening to The Blurred Crusade and other cassettes I ripped off the records. Great days.

[@steveelliott7893]

So who's here in 2021 listening to this 40 year old classic. It only make me feel like crying. I'm so old now @ 56 and the song only seems like it was yesterday

[@Dont_be_a_Silly_Wombat]

2024! 🎉 I only listen to classic Oz rock

[@galiyan06]

2024 56! what a young-un. I'm 71 and still think this song sums up human relationships. Sadly.

[@darkmantis69]

I’m 52 and still rocking !!

[@24em59]

ikr? 65 and the Angels at the Bondi Pavilion or Flowers (now Icehouse) at Manning House Sydney Uni seems like last week

[@michelleisaacson6069]

They're touring with The Afghan Whigs now. Saw them last night at Summerfest Milwaukee Wisconsin 🇺🇲 Freaking EPIC!!!

[@fatpossum22]

I'll never understand why this band isn't more well known. These guys should've been HUGE.

[@BrendonHollis]

Drugs will do that for you heroin especially.

[@thomaselliott573]

Saw them live at the pubs. they were just a good pop band

[@jarrodcross1482]

PS HUGE is a pyramid scheme of um bigness, only so few can be so much to sooooo many ... it's sucks being ultra famous n rich, they complain about it all the time! The Church are perfect ... ly fine.

[@vg8345]

Yep agree.

[@BarryForde-il5qq]

They were a good studio band but boring in concert

[@thetriumphofthethrill2457]

One of the all-time greats. One of the most flawless tracks ever. The Church truly left their mark with this.

[@seventscott3945]

Under the Milky Way left an even bigger mark in America

[@pamelahay6242]

And definitely also in home country Australia… you just have to lay on your back and stare skywards on any clear night outside the cities to be totally blown away by the Brilliance of the Milky Way, Downunder…..✨💫✨💫✨💫✨

[@productdesign9626]

@@seventscott3945 maybe commercially, but not artistically

[@aunshiwho]

Nothing is better than hearing this song, playing on the radio, in the afternoon, in the car.

[@awfulstupidman]

The most underestimated song in Aussie Punk Rock History. This song is a fucking Masterpiece.

[@alekseycalvin534]

Some resources say that this song is "power pop", others "post-punk", others yet "new-wave", "dark-wave", or "minimalist Gothic pop with elements of garage psychedelia". But before one trusts any of these designations, one must know where they come from. The legends tell us that many eons ago there was a dusty old house in Camden Town, London, with its walls like cancer-worn lungs, and in these walls was a smoky dilapidated room where the hundred best-paid music writers gathered in secret on a cold November weekend. Few souls alive today know precisely why they met or what was said in that room and I am not one. However, it is a Snopes-proofed fact that out of the hundred passionate critics who walked into that building only twenty came out and in the years that followed, which saw the rise of the Internet, we also started hearing terms like "post-punk", "power pop", "proto-punk", "paleo-psychedelic", or even "psychedelicate" used by music publications and eventually online resources far and wide with remarkable consistency and an air of certainty, as if these terms were a part of some officiated classification system of genres rather than the labels of convenience or hype which others still purport them to be... And as far as the mystery of the missing music critics, the facts remain vague. Out of those twenty remaining writers, twelve are still alive today. Eight of them no longer write about music or do so infrequently and superficially, one's been institutionalized in Canada, and another is Greil Marcus.

[@owenrees7544]

ha ha fanks manj

[@arniesorenson2901]

sounds like easy listening music to me .....keep it simple

[@sandybutt9898]

+Aleksey Calvin Thanks for clearing that up.

[@songsaboutmixing]

Nailed it!

[@shanemorris-tm4jo]

Man, what a song & what a great era, these guys crushed, so underrated

[@kimbaldunsmore4633]

The Church is one of my absolute favourite bands; my wife loves the and my kids love them as well. The guitar riff in this song still gives me goosebumps after all these years. And I am old enough to remember when The Unguarded Moment first came out. One of the coolest bands ever to come out of Australia. And yep I still step out in the paisley shirts with the long sleeves!!

[@davenotdoug8394]

Well, you might consider updating your wardrobe, but you're right - it is a great song. And I too remember when it first came out.

[@kimbaldunsmore4633]

@@davenotdoug8394 When you're our age I think it doesn't really matter what you wear; but I do keep the paisley shirts for special occasions only. BTW my daughter and I are seeing them at the Enmore in a couple of weeks, might have to dig up a shirt for that.

[@tonyrath9158]

A magnificent band - highly underrated. Some great songs, and a haunting voice. Church. Brilliant.

[@davidbeckett425]

Yeah this period was brilliant , but when Kilby started on the dodgy stuff , it all went slow boring rambling stuff , no kick or energy , sad really

[@bullwinkle57]

At a concert in Falls Church, Virginia, Steve Kilbey told a story. "I was in a cab, and this next song came on. 'Hey, that's me,' i said. 'This is my song!' The cabbie replied, 'I've always bloody hated that song!' "

[@mikaelsjoberg1894]

Hilarious...:)

[@joshfeatherstone8546]

Fuck that cabbie

[@jasmineconnell5985]

@@joshfeatherstone8546 I can't imagine anyone not liking this song! Unless he hates the English accent..

[@jasmineconnell5985]

😆 haha!!

[@warwickbetts5115]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

[@davenotdoug8394]

Isn't it great to come back to a song you loved in your youth and be very pleasantly surprised that it has stood the test of time and still sounds fantastic now? Cos not all do.

[@ClaireCJS]

So hard finding inspiration I knew you'd find me crying Tell those girls with rifles for minds That their jokes don't make me laugh They only make me feel like dying In an unguarded moment So long, long between mirages I knew you'd find me drinking Tell those men with horses for hearts That their jibes don't make me bleed They only make me feel like shrinking In an unguarded moment So deep, deep without a meaning I knew you'd find me leaving Tell those friends with cameras for eyes That their hands don't make me hang They only make me feel like breathing In an unguarded moment

[@CloudyWishes]

Thanks

[@Chasb001]

Lyrics are top drawer

[@donaldchristy4128]

Amazing song and words

[@lorenzoantonio3461]

So 😎 cool The unguarded moment

[@rodhmu]

beautiful, sad, haunting, thoughtful lyrics. love it, love it

[@stupendous1068]

This song, and this band were way ahead of it's time.

[@elizabethalexandra8924]

Agreed!

[@drewbabydrew7331]

omg I have to tell you this ,as you are stu pidity after all . I went to the pool shop and the guy calls me mr Pitt as my partner is Pitt and he assumes I am too , so me being a bit stupid ,agreed with him and I said yeah my name is stu , Stu Pitt

[@seq2024]

Regardless.

[@davidbrownlee8903]

New Romantics

[@hatmap]

The Church were a horribly overlooked band virtually everywhere, especially North America. The Blurred Crusade, Remote Luxury, and Starfish were awesome albums filled with supercatchy songs. Steve Kilbey is one of the best and most poetic songwriters ever!

[@PooDotStinkPants]

Hello future person, yes we are still listening to this song in *[insert date here]* . You have great taste in music too. Have a lovely day!

[@hogey74]

I think that this is one of the best songs of that 80s era. The feel, the lyrics, the combination of the instruments and voices - its a very complete song. I heard recently early one morning on the way to work after too little sleep and it made me misty eyed. How can a bunch of 80s Aussie males blokes capture so well that teenage angst thing? And in a rock song like that? Maybe its his voice? Awesome.

[@zapkvr]

That's some mighty guitar riffing. Best Australian band of the eighties, no contest.

[@michellesiggs6500]

For an Aussie band they were certainly outstanding in their time. I know, I was there. Loved seeing them on the live scene... when that was a thing.

[@ceeemm1901]

"When that was a thing"...yeah, it won't be long before all the pubs will be closed and boarded up like half the shops in town....

[@Armourlego]

The Church are the most underrated band in Australia.

[@neilsmith9066]

World

[@terrencebunce1964]

@@neilsmith9066 Milkyway

[@richardkidwell4134]

You are all correct , it is a masterpiece ! This is the one that brings back the "good ol' days".

[@70briareos]

Damn. Brings back memories of high school in the 80's.

[@tripzville7569]

This video was our introduction to the Church . Long long time ago in Belfast N.Ireland. We were hooked and never looked back.

[@russellchadd6521]

For over 30 year's I've loved this song.

[@darrenjohn68]

Quite possibly my all time favorite song!

[@darrenjohn68]

+Darren Mitchell Same, love this song

[@Dunshaggin]

its a classc

[@trapezoidspangle934]

I don't usually comment here but jeeeez...... that song is just so fucking perfect. I've heard it thousands and thousands of times and it just stays perfect. I've just read 'Something Quite Peculiar' bloody absorbing read. Now i feel another Church bender coming on. Oh goody.

[@OutOfFocusWot]

nadia markovic Well, just another great aussie band xx

[@aus80srockradio94]

nadia markovic I loved this song when it first came out in 1981 (as a 7 year old!) - now at 41 - it's still well inside my top ten ever.

[@5kylord]

nadia markovic Well spoken. This is a true timeless classic of a song.

[@fr06hgv]

nadia markovic Try a slice of the hoodoogurus then.....like wow! wipeout!!!!!

[@johnjohnson2125]

Played this song over and over in Afghanistan when I tried to sleep

[@gxd4b1]

Thank you for your service ..... (thats what we all say isnt it?) nah but seriously thanks.

[@jenlarge9036]

Thank you. And I get your humour ha.

[@andrewskinner8560]

Thank you for your service. Glad you are back home.

[@timwright6100]

Respect ✊🏾

[@johnswensen5629]

John Johnson that’s funny. I played under the Milky Way each night.

[@davidcross1010]

Love this song. One of the all time greats!

[@juanxjune9257]

I love this song. That is all. Poetry and music that touched my soul... forever.

[@kevinwilliams8784]

My favourite song by The Church. This song never get's old or tired.

[@maryrecoy1616]

Rifles for minds Horses for hearts Cameras for eyes And that unguarded moment ..this speaks to me the genius in his writing along with the kilby look executes a bad ass song..Great backup vocals peter...and marty n richard bring it altogether...Ilisten to this band more now then the 80s and I loved them inthe 80s..Gotta run need a reptile fix!!🔥😎🤘💯🎸

[@roadwarrior711]

An example of a PERFECT pop/rock single. Great guitars, great toon, fantastic vocal/vocal backing, stylish video. They probably never bettered this. 'Nuff said.

[@paulsheringham7332]

They never bettered this Even 4 years later it is worth saying bullshit to that comment.

[@ellaausic7388]

Yes they did better this with "Under the Milky Way"

[@alanstrom2221]

Have a listen to REPTILE or I'M ALMOST WITH YOU or a number of album tracks that are superior to UNGUAREDED. The man who wrote the song groans when it is mentioned.

[@ClaireCJS]

Okay, i reluctantly admit that Reptile is just slightly better than Unguarded .... but Almost With You definitely is not! Almost With you is still fuckin' great though, and one of their best songs! But yea I think Reptile just barely wins.

[@jacquelinemorris5104]

Favourite song of the 80's 😄 Love it!

[@jackfrost2030]

Still brilliant 42 years later ...... Kilbey's voice, so good, raspy vocals rule.

[@jeffries1232]

Back in the early 80s when this song was released and i was at high school..Couldnt get it out of my head ,and even now still it has left its mark..Its just so brilliantly done and a song that was meant to be created .Words cant explain how addictive it is ,the guitar ,the lyrics and the whole band assembly .It just rocks

[@positiveadvances1295]

A brilliant song, unique vocalist with a restrained delivery making it more powerful. Great memories.

[@chrisvincent7999]

A great song! One that I could relate to as a teenager and even today.

[@microbus99]

I love this. Reminds me of my college years in the 80;s I love this. I love the band to this day 30 Years later.

[@gregwhittle2326]

Another great Aussie Song that never gets old.

[@alisondrysdale5903]

I love The church They were one of my favorite long time bands

[@HurdyGurdyMen]

Loved this in the 80's. Not heard it for over 20 years and it's even better than I remember. What a great find. Thanks for the wonderful memories.

[@rosalynpage7214]

I love this song. That is all.

[@melanie0311924]

great in 1981 and still great now.......just started playing it on the acoustic

[@davenotdoug8394]

I agree with you. But there is more than that - Hoodoo Gurus: What's My Scene? Angels: No Secrets? Cold Chisel: quite a few.

[@shanebutcher]

Man I love this song. Hard to sit still with this one.

[@JaneyJJJ]

I met Steve once and I tried but could never convey what he, the Church, and the narrative meant to me...I did tell him I introduced his music to LA mods and punks who loved it... Steve was so gracious... A true legend 🙏🏼💯❤️

[@MrDblStop]

Yeah I bumped into him at someone else's gig in 1986. I was tongue tied by hero worship. I couldn't tell him how his words described how I was feeling as a young man better than I could.

[@charleshill2265]

the 80s were a good time for music

[@garymarquett2866]

The best

[@MrChannel2010]

I think this was 78. Could be wrong.

[@juncoloma6376]

Saw them monstrrs

[@jacksonblythe-hall6712]

to true

[@mattede8744]

@@MrChannel2010 The album came out between late 80 early 81. I only know because I got the album on my 16th birthday. Great Aussie band.

[@JohnCran]

In the 90's if you went to a party here in Brisvegas and put this song every available space would suddenly fill with writhing bodies even if there were as many bogans as us hip and cool dudes. Says something about how great this song is.

[@BBrecht]

Possibly the only ever pub rock/goth crossover

[@aussiem4791]

I grew up with this great aussie band and so many other fab aussie bands! Still love them to this day

[@Europagirl01]

Poetry and music that touched my soul... forever.

[@stevebeachmountain]

I Agree, "Fullilly"...!, U SoulMate!

[@christinec7956]

I just came across this band this week in Stirling, Scotland. I was standing outside a record shop and just really loved the sound. I went into the shop to ask who it was. Great shop, the owner really knows his stuff. Enjoying exploring more of their songs. And enjoying hearing how so many of us lose ourselves in great music when other things in life are not so great.

[@justanotherlyd2325]

One of the best Australian Albums of 1980!

[@mick469]

This song always makes me think of college in Boston in the 80s, the best years of my life. Also, they opened for Echo & The Bunnymen at the Wang Theater and blew them away!!!

[@anthonyporter4497]

Mike Johnson no band could blow the bunnymen away in the 80's....the Bunnymen where the best / hippest / coolest band in them days alongside The Smiths.

[@davidrixon3549]

Wang theater giggitty

[@philski63]

every time i heard this song, it gives me inspiration. The Church legends

[@SorenKk]

One of the fifty songs in my top ten all-time list for sure!

[@michelleday5564]

Woke up this morning with this as a song worm an had to hear the whole version. Aaaah thats better a release of poetic craziness.

[@zedfield7736]

This was a big hit in NZ...and l sung this song in covers band in Palmerston North at the Albert motorlodge we were called the Bawd members...loved this song immensely,l have deep respect for Steve Kilbey as a singer/ Songwriter,awesome stuff guy's

[@jumpme1959]

We were blessed growing up the 70s 80s so many great bands to go and see

[@SusieDavidsonBrookl]

I finally heard them do this song live yesterday at the Cruel World Festival in LA. I have seen them about five times, always hoped they would do it, they never did. It made the festival for me.

[@nullsnull5826]

Just discovered this song. March 2022. Love. It.😳💖😍

[@AceRememberTheDude]

you legend

[@truespyfan]

What ever happened to the Aussie pub rock scene... its totally extinct. Thank fuck I was part of it in the Aussie 80's Pub scene in Sydney and up and down the coast... Kids these days have no idea what they are missing out on, and we didn't have to spend a weeks wages to see some 5th rate band! AND we could afford drinks!

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

+truespyfan You're right. It was an era never to be repeated. I was part of it (as in, ''in a performing band'') in Adelaide... which had its own vibrant inner-city pub underground music scene.

[@benboechri69]

+truespyfan great scene great venues

[@hectorlamar806]

Fukin A mate .80s Sydney. Best time of my life.

[@sixshot19]

greed kill everything

[@KaydenHusky]

You are absolutely right go to the pub and listen to a rock band now just an ordinary band not at a pub

[@glitterbugstar]

I can never get too much of this song.. One of the best bands to ever come out of Australia...

[@godisanissan7407]

The year was 1983. The pub was the Quinns Post In Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. ( I seem to remember visiting a WW1 Australian combat position on the Gallipoli Peninsular called Quinns Post in 04). The Band was The Church. The song was "The Unguarded Moment". Thanks for the memories guys.

[@ghosttroop]

"So deep ... deep without a meaning. I knew you'd find me leaving. Tell those friends with cameras for eyes, that their hands don't make me hang. They only make me feel like breathing in an unguarde moment."

[@musicsoups]

I loved this band and this song to bits when I was 26 and it came out and the feeling hasn't faded at all ... wow!

[@francescoc3916]

Same.. good music never fades the feeling... wow wow!!!

[@chocchip4373]

my favourite song when I was 18 years old to now I'm 57 and still loving it

[@stupeters8409]

I remember when I first heard this song the hairs on the back of arm stood up and went down and grabbed the Album I was hooked what a group

[@stevenfenton8137]

I saw them live at the mountain view pub Melbourne I had never herd of them I'd brought a pot of beer and lit up a winy red when this came on it sent a shiver through my spine

[@LionessDeWinter]

A truly gorgeous song. Magnificent lyrics.

[@nrith]

brings back memories....thanks for the post. What a fantastic song this is....

[@starvingbuddha7622]

What a masterpiece ! Love the Church since 1985

[@chrisdavidson856]

Aussie pub rock at it's best. Absolutely love it.

[@dannyinaus]

This was one of the first cover songs my band ever did back in the early 80's. I still love it!

[@aftrdrk7263]

Decades later it never gets old. Still a favourite 👍

[@cantymccantfuce2078]

When I first heard this song back in the day, I knew it was a winner. I was a young teen, and every moment at home was guarded, walking on eggshells. Thanks for the awesome music guys.

[@allenjones361]

Awesome song, one of my favs!

[@raymcdonald6910]

Love the song and especially when the backup singer comes in with the higher voice compementing the deeper lead voice

[@civilwheels]

Its a very sharp harmony beautifully done

[@9700jb]

Absolutely. It’s integral to the song.

[@thaoandtony]

the forte accent vocal on the chorus screaming unguarded moment - that makes this song

[@SS-cl9td]

Among many awesome rock songs in this (my) era, this is the one I always come back to as the best ever.

[@chincat44]

Twenty four people don't know what really good music is...sigh. I LOVE THIS SONG< AND THIS GROUP

[@SafeTrucking]

This is such a deep, heartfelt song and it was one of those that influenced a generation. Brilliant writing. Never saw them live, but looking back I wish I'd taken the time to do so. Choirboys, Radiators, the Oils, Hunters and Collectors: where are their successors to come from? All the pubs have been shut down by miserable, poncy whingers who think a good time is a glass of overpriced wine and a baguette in a sterile box with fake memorabilia on the walls and the current generation of kids have been tranquilised with smart phones and headsets. The social impact is huge. Huge overpriced overcontrolled raves are no substitute for a decent Friday night down at the local getting your ears blasted by a young band learning the ropes, but it's all that's left for many. Sad.

[@rickbruce7969]

Spot on!

[@jacquelinemorris5104]

So true mate! On a typical 80's weekend in Sydney you could go & see any of those bands you mentioned above (including The Church) They were all my favourites! "Those were the days my friend"

[@johnbilchuris9728]

So true my friend ✌️

[@robinsonbobette]

This group is performing in March 2023 in Tasmania, NSW. Look on ticketeck.

[@rogerjones5970]

This song would have to be one of my desert island discs. So great.

[@bigboy9983]

My God Aussie rock was good. Thought it would last forever. How wrong was I

[@xero6396]

Pokies in the pubs took over from the live music pub scene.

[@truespyfan]

@@xero6396 Yep - destroyed it in months. How many of our Venues in Shitney from the 80's are still open, let alone having live bands

[@kkparky]

@@xero6396 Blame .08

[@ave423]

Man, this song got me through some tough times back in the day. Got to tell the band so and thank them on the Gold Afternoon Fix tour. Marty is the sweetest most considerate person. I took my sister to the show and we got back stage and talked with him for about an hour. Real stand up guy.

[@Cdog79]

Absolute Aussie classic!

[@danuynoah]

They are better live. Last night I was at their concert. Plain awesomeness!

[@jeffrichards5106]

One of the best songs of all time!

[@BartAlder]

Jam packed with killer riffs. Vintage Church.

[@RK-ml2ns]

An absolute masterpiece!

[@malcolmcone8367]

Had one once. Don't want another. Great song. Great time in life.

[@TheMusicZone1]

Mr Kilbey, Your amazing so much talent the church are amazing also i will always be a church fan forever!!!!!!!!!!

[@MasalaiMeri]

Saw these guys last night at the Triffid in Brisbane last night.....THEY'VE STILL GOT IT PLUS SOME... so bloody awesome. If you have a chance to catch them....do so!!

[@MrMotorNerd]

Loved it from the first moment I heard it and its still Awesome

[@Masewa1000]

Great old song. Love it!

[@SaishiYT]

I have to admit I'm here because of that recent interview with Brandon Flowers!

[@SeaBassVamp]

The Midnight Oils The Church Inxs The Angels Hoodoo Gurus Icehouse Noiseworks AC/DCCold ChiselChainSkyhooks list goes on...!!

[@rapidcaricol]

+SeaBassVamp Divinyls

[@SeaBassVamp]

trankifandango jones Yes, DIVINYLS !

[@donrocin]

+SeaBassVamp Chisel

[@SeaBassVamp]

+Don Rocin Yes, Cold Chisel are up the top of Aussie's Best!

[@JediPitch]

+SeaBassVamp Crowded House, Toy Dolls, Pseudo Echo.....

[@flamencoprof]

"Tell those friends with cameras for eyes" seems quite prescient re current pic posting culture!

[@PougueMahone]

time travel

[@sj3109]

How bizzarre

[@Sinsteel]

Well, he's talking about people who remember everything they see and gossip about it - like paparazzi.

[@thefacelessmen2101]

That line always rang a bell in my mind and now I know why, thanks for posting.

[@WarriorsSon]

I remember this comment too last time I was here. The insta and Fb crowd. Turning the internet into a fake avatar for them to image create..

[@lucyboughner9638]

I love this song. That is all. Love this song. One of the all time greats! Twenty four people don't know what really good music is...sigh. I LOVE THIS SONG< AND THIS GROUP

[@ajpussinboots5062]

2024 - friends with cameras for eyes - ....They were well before their time. What a band. What music did you 🥰

[@strineys.957]

Love this song ❤

[@seaeagles64]

A great song about Bullying... Stand up .

[@jonnyronnyguy]

The hair, those single pickup Fenders with some distortion, and most importantly the posterised low framerate video effect really captures the 80s. Love it.

[@tanyascott2195]

They were on of my favourite groups. In the 80s