The Saints ('73 -'78) - This Perfect Day

Performed 'live' on UK TV show Top of the Pops 14th July, 1977.
7" single version released by EMI UK, Germany, Australia July 1977
12" single version released by EMI UK only July 1977
Chris Bailey - vox
Ed Kuepper - guitar
Kym Bradshaw - bass
Ivor Hay - drums
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[@edkuepper4234]

very sad to confirm the news about Chris Bailey dying on the weekend. Chris and I met when we were about 14 during detention at Oxley High School and became close friends which later developed into what I always thought was an extremely strong artistic partnership, I couldn't have hoped for a better singer. My deepest condolences to his wife Elisabet, his sisters Margaret, Carol and Maureen and the rest of his family and loved ones. I'll post something longer down the track but for now..

[@radiowrjp9201]

Condolences Ed.

[@randypaul5427]

My deepest condolences Ed. He will be greatly missed.

[@brownrabbit61]

😪

[@blueshorecreative3146]

Very good partnership. The Saints came out like a horse out of the gates. Makes me proud they're an Aussie band. Thanks to all the members.

[@stephendallison1465]

First song I learned to play on bass r.i.p. Chris

[@nickclark4599]

An absolutely Perfect single....lasting memory of the summer of 77

[@shanequentin5360]

R.I.P. The Saints bassist Algy Ward who passed today aged 63

[@peteryates6354]

Legends. Way ahead of their time. Australia you should be so proud of these groundbreakers.

[@michaelyoung1103]

Very underrated group brilliant 👏 👌

[@knucklehead6678]

This is so fucking good.

[@jasonloader8149]

God - I love this song. I bought it 12" back in the day, the production was streets ahead of normal punk stuff. It's brilliant.

[@jp95js]

Yeah I have the single downstairs too. I brought when I was 17.

[@liminal27]

First time I'm hearing this masterpiece. Thank you.

[@petercifuentes2670]

The Saints were way ahead of their time. I hear grunge, it turned up in Seattle maybe 10-12 years later.

[@shenanigans3710]

Well the grange bands loved their Aussie pub rock

[@leahflower9924]

I know right the singer even had the grunge look lol hes just missing a flannel shirt

[@desisdosis473]

Wipers

[@jordanmahony4268]

They also released one of the first punk songs

[@woodspirit7701]

Let alone punk!

[@angrypossumsx1259]

Loved the end where Chris detaches the mime-o-phone holding it like a dead rat as he’s sings “Don’t need nothing ...” What more to say?

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

Top 2 rated of the Aussie bands 1 Cosmic Psychos 2 The Victims and the I'm Stranded was one of my first records I'm 58 Punk Rocker from Motorcity Stuttgart Germany ☠️💣☠️

[@dariowestern]

Classic! Taking the piss out of the fact they were miming, though outdone by Nirvana in 1991 for their one and only TOTP appearance for "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

[@lordprotector3367]

@@dariowestern REM really took the piss in 1988 with their TOTP version of Orange Crush. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZPZp2WceaiYfMk&ab_channel=PSC%C3%A9sar

[@stevedanko2422]

I went up to Sydney to take part in the mastering of our Time EP, and the guy asked what comparable sound we were after. I pulled out this album. He said it sounded like mud, so I pissed on his console and said try it now

[@cangong]

is that Algy Ward on bass? what a great band the Saints were! Tank, Damned, Saints: rocknroll.

[@kjetilkjellevold8054]

No. Its Kym Bradshaw

[@sea80vicvan]

Chris taking the microphone away from his mouth on the last lines shows his bemused attitude toward miming, shared by a lot of bands. Sad that they subsequently got ignored by the UK press and general public for not looking like what they thought punks were supposed to look (essentially Pistols clones). But the Saints were a lot more than just by the book punks.

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

I'm just watching this top of the pops episode. The previous act sang live, back then there was a choice

[@billbaggins1688]

@@mr.y.mysterious.video1 I doubt it very much

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

@billbaggins1688 it's no secret. during this time period many acts sang live on top of the pops, accompanied by the top of the pops orchestra as per union rules at the time

[@geoffw1209]

How this didn't make the top ten I really don't know.

[@doctorskull8197]

Great awesome stuff ‼️😍🔥🎸

[@catinthehat8412]

just found this record original 2024 so happy to have it from the first punk group in the world 🔥

[@loiszaremba9582]

I had to look again! It IS you! Nice to meet one of THE men responsible for the soundtrack of my life! ❤️☠️❤️

[@Nop2Net]

Damn, this is good.

[@TheIkaraCult]

I love Aussie bands, but The Saints are the greatest Aussie band

[@scorpio8716]

Yeeahh,early Saints💎🌹

[@OujiDarkmatter]

Poor old Chris,RIP,part of the adisntidientariansm of my teensge years

[@thenorthrocksmusic]

Great vibes. In my imagination early 1992-1994 Oasis gets influenced by this song and turns into a punk band.

[@dariowestern]

Here's the clip for "Know Your Product" on Cheggers Plays Pop: Cheggers Plays Pop, clip from 19/06/78 featuring "Know Your Product" by The Saints - KZbin

[@mikebarton]

Terrific song. 👏👏👏

[@magiccat4316]

I bought the single at the time! SO old.....

[@liamwilson42]

Great Tune

[@cheesyG87]

R.I.P Chris Bailey

[@aMarkJeffery]

Ivor sitting upright like he's in a back brace: very Charlie Watts. Ed just playing the guitar like playing the guitar is everything. :) Seriously, though, WTF was a TOTP experience like for a band when Andy Gibb et al were on the charts?

[@lazlokovacs2263]

I've often called TOTP F*ck Off The P00ps. And then The Saints comes in and materializes what I said.

[@michelleryan1861]

So good to see an all female band.

[@andrewleach1323]

Wow one of my first records I bought when music was edgy and alive not like the sanitised drivel churned out today

[@Kcapgar]

RIP

[@joserodrigues-vq8pz]

Don't talk to me about what you done, ain't nothing has changed, it all goes on, and they'll keep laughing till the end. I've seen them drive around in cars, all look the same, get drunk in bars, and don't talk back, we got no social rights. Oh! Perfect day! What more to say? Don't need no one, to tell me what, I don't already know! We got no high times, always flat, if you go out, you don't come back, it's all so funny, I can't laugh. Oh! Perfect day! What more to say? Don't need no one, to tell me what, I don't already know! Don't talk to me, about what's you done, ain't nothing has changed, it all goes on, and they'll keep laughing, till the end. Oh! Perfect day! What more to say? Don't need no one, to tell me what, I don't already know! I need nothing! Don't want no one! I don't need nothing, nothing at all!

[@woodspirit7701]

Luugh when the poms say that they invented punk. Look at the dates!!!

[@ChrisMuscillo]

Dam good single if ask me.

[@michaelperry6641]

🍺😎🤘

[@PIERRECLARY]

O my misspent life! 😢😂❤

[@travprice3979]

Vale Algy Ward 🤘👍

[@charleshall3372]

#21

[@danielmcaloon4691]

Top of the Pommies.

[@juancarlosmolina6190]

Suena a the Strokes

[@bran1dav]

Is Ed enjoying himself? He looks bored.

[@jerrydetwiler9552]

This is fake I think. It doesn't look old ir I've been under a rock

[@paulhewson6302]

Yes, the latter.