The Sports - Strangers On A Train (1980)

[@Kwanglebeh]

One the most perfect pop songs ever composed and recorded.

[@Neilcampbell-gu7uz]

One of my favourite Sports songs!

[@alexzannoni1501]

The Sports bring back great 1980s memories. Definitely the most underrated Australian band.

[@stuartcox6395]

Heard this track on ABC radio the other day. Man, it took me back . The Sports, another great Aussie band that should’ve got more air play than they did.

[@rubiconnz1754]

Stick Ya Bryan ferry _ Stephen Cummings was Mr Cool !!

[@robertmilo5203]

Who listens to the radio?

[@stuartcox6395]

@@robertmilo5203Me apparently! Love the come back. Another great Sports track. Guess I won’t hear it on MMM, lol.

[@robharris6874]

this song should be played in every train station in the world!!!!

[@leemurray2035]

FFS! Can't believe this song's nearly 40 years old...talk about timeless!!!

[@michaelgenias8491]

2019 AND STILL STANDS UP AMAZING SONG AMAZING GROUP MISS THOSE YEARS

[@jupitersoup4542]

Sensational band. Underscored.

[@Railwayman01]

GREAT sounds of the 70's/80's.... Music will NEVER be the same as this again!

[@soulminer]

Cracking tune still hits the eardrums in a good way. They weren't trying to be Sex Pistols or Joy Division or bands like that.

[@aus80srockradio94]

As featuring Sally Freud (Clifton at the time) wife of the late great James.

[@Austech]

And sister of Jane Clifton, AKA Margot Gaffney in Prisoner.

[@leemurray2035]

Thanks for the info, Aus80s, I didn't know that.

[@bonniebianco5918]

@@Austech Jane sang" girl on the wall " and "taxi Mary" with Jo Jo zep.

[@tefllife2024]

Wow cool info. Thanks.

[@Sean-gu3tq]

I still listen to and love this gem decades later ….great clip too.

[@robertgroves4293]

Love it. Play it over and over.

[@OctozoidPRS]

Since hearing this on the radio the other day, I am playing it over and over also.

[@zachariahwade8482]

Same. It’s a hugely catchy song but so well done. How was it not a massive hit !!

[@michaelgenias8491]

Songs of our youth, absolutely agree most under rated band

[@cameronaltmann1178]

Fantastic teenage memories.

[@slackdude1]

One of those bands that were too good in so many ways. No place in the industry in some kind of way. Memories.

[@misterdavid5400]

I still have them on vinyl and it's one of my most treasured records. Saw them at Coolangatta a few times - I can almost remember the sets they played even though that was around 40 years ago.

[@chrislaurie2734]

Most under rated Aussie band ever. Pity the world didn't accept them like INXS

[@andrewunjo158]

Chris Laurie Indeed! If my cousins in Perth hadn't included this on a mix tape they sent I'd have never heard this in Canada.

[@josephkane8176]

Great comment. Probably my favorite Australian band.

[@robertgroves4293]

Have to agree with Joseph. A great underrated Australian band.

[@JCStorm76]

Chris Laurie Agreed. This song was only a minor hit but is as good anything any Australian band was releasing at the same time

[@Nathan-jq1uw]

@@andrewunjo158 Canadian guy here too. This is awesome, eh?

[@freeagent8225]

Love this song and the film clip. For nearly 3 minute's I was back in the 80s. Thanks.

[@andrewunjo158]

This would have gone over so well in Canada! 🇦🇺🇨🇦😍

[@PeterLo-cz1ig]

I first heard this song at the train station in Mount Isa in 1980.

[@alanstrom2221]

Check out the Drumming on this Australian Rock Classic. This is the type of Band that should get played 1,000 times a day on Aussie radio!!!!!!!!!! Go and get there ALLSPORTS best of album to hear why they are an Australian Treasure. INXS are cool, though THE SPORTS were and are awesome.

[@McchiselOZ]

This would have to be One of the best 10 video clips ever !👍

[@spello8191]

Don’t Throw Stones was a incredible favourite from the band!!

[@Neptuneman07]

Brilliant song

[@ansc6472]

Good song

[@joannemaunder6171]

Always loved this band and their music totally resonates

[@johnc3673]

great song great band.

[@coccinella4107]

2:40 of pure 80's bliss. I miss it. 😍

[@Stllno]

Takes me back to the Manly Vale Hotel 😁😎👍

[@joscandurra9322]

Units built on that site now the manly vale was a great pub music venue the sports were awsome

[@stephentroisi5827]

Gr8 band.

[@mebeasensei]

That year....Mondo Rock, MiSex, Aussie Crawl. Cold Chisel, Matt Finish, Split Enz, The Angels, Dragon, JoJo Zep, the list of local bands was endless. I suppose it was towards the end of the time when it was ‘general guitar pop soup for everyone’ Pretty soon, more ‘trendy’ pointed styles and sophisticated sounds , The Church, Psuedo Echo, The Models, Midnight Oil, Birthday Party and all the lush gothic stuff from England Psychedelic Furs, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure would come along. I mean The Smiths ain’t like this.

[@spello8191]

Damn Matt Finish was the best of the group!! Short Note blows me away every time

[@markcastelletti483]

Plenty more to mention....Scribble, the Go Betweens, the Venetians, the Dugites. A lot of lesser known Aussie bands producing great music.

[@racketman2u]

Ok, we did like the New Wave stuff coming out of the UK, but with the Aussie and NZ pub bands, those aussie rock standards were the staple for a long, long time.

[@time2kickarse]

Your comment alone got me searching all of them other bands. They were definitely the days!

[@zachariahwade8482]

Gawd I love that song 👏👏👏

[@lindafiaschi1166]

Awesome Aussie band thanks for wonderful music 🥰🥰👍👍

[@lyncarter9424]

Love this song

[@thereal_kpatz]

I was 13 and a Sports fan.

[@andrewunjo158]

A song l always sing when I'm on a train!

[@time2kickarse]

Does this train go back to the 80s? I'm in...

[@davidroberts3205]

It’s a great day

[@DooWopDays]

Awesome...thanks for this.

[@maryisle9112]

Great song, reminds me of my childhood in Sydney 😊

[@richalderson6069]

This is just perfect pop.

[@bradwillis2274]

Best wishes ,hope your on the mend,thanks for the great memories x

[@CarefreeAus]

Awesome song

[@MultiDesignGuy]

HAS NOT aged!!!

[@paulgibson4991]

Classic oz

[@zoran54]

Just class

[@darrenwrd]

love it the sports were a great Australian band

[@GoodMrDawes]

Awesome

[@rick_fortune]

Quite literally ran into Stephen Cummings on a street corner in Elwood once. Just didn't see each other. :)

[@jacintaedwards1123]

He had a reasonably good solo career.

[@Metalelbow]

❤

[@genericgeorge]

Classic

[@stephenross6944]

Love this one and don't throw stones how good were the 80s compared to the crap of today

[@itchyhope.6782]

I heard somewhere the young lady in the clip was the producer's office secretary, not a model. Has anyone else heard that rumour?

[@jacintaedwards1123]

Growse song, good times.

[@verypython3667]

should have more views

[@tefllife2024]

Pretty flash train for 1980, reality was red rattlers at the time.

[@Nathan-jq1uw]

Looks like they're in one of the Enterprise's space shuttles.

[@josephinehenry8236]

Lmao

[@leemurray2035]

...and those blue jobs.

[@jonnightrain]

It's a studio mate

[@tefllife2024]

@@jonnightrain um. I know. Lol.

[@pixl8me]

Would be the best actor ❤

[@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756]

I think this song would have been a bigger hit, had not Split Enz released "I got you" at the same time.

[@robertmilo5203]

Both are on compilation album Full Boar. Also on it is Driver's Seat, and Dream Police by Cheap Trick

[@nyosito]

@@robertmilo5203 Great compilation which I still have. I won a copy off 6PM in Perth when they played the sound of a pig snorting you had to be the first caller.

[@robertmilo5203]

@@nyosito I have all the Rippers, Scorcher, Hit Wave, Choc-o-block, Ripsnorter [different pig on the cover] and several other compilations from the era. Full Boar is my fave as it has the best tracks - and they are all mixed into each other. It is not always seamless but it is pretty cool anyway.

[@nyosito]

@@robertmilo5203 Me too! Hitwave '78 is my favourite. Green vinyl copy.

[@nihilist4184]

Nothing like the movie.

[@figbat1]

Day 7062. 2 x 3 x 11 x 107. Raw honey and all of my urine til 3.15pm then dried figs and baby spinach leaves and mandarins then more urine then fresh fruit and vegetables and other foods at 10.15pm. No change.

[@RoddieStJames]

Sensational alright part of the Carlton cult bringing out hit after hit.

[@HandyAndyTechTips]

Hilariously weird music video, but excellent song :-)

[@rubiconnz1754]

NOT really a train

[@damianmcwilliams8352]

One of the greatest surfing bands ever...

[@stevenguegens1098]

Steven Cummings looks as though he could pass for being James Reynes older brother ?????

[@koolroo8337]

Steven Guegens Funny, I thought the same thing! Also their singing style and sound is so similar if they sang each other’s songs it would be hard to tell them apart!

[@joeys5429]

hi stephen did you go to holy fosary primary school in the sixties ?

[@freeagent8225]

Should our athletes go to Beijing in 2022? The Sports must go ahead.

[@ianleary5270]

Possibly THE most under-rated band in Australian.....no WORLD history. They should have been mega stars.

[@YouAmIArchive]

That must be a young Geoffrey Rush?!

[@thespartan8476]

Our treasured favourite bands are the Most under rated Aussie bands. Thanks to Molly Meldrum who ruined the Australian music industry. Molly treated James Freud like shit.

[@leokimvideo]

Amazing song and i'm sure Australian Crawl could have done a really good version of this song.

[@pixl8me]

The back crew look like ….

[@kunwarbedi3882]

whos the girl

[@dgod62]

died in a car crash not long after this video apparantly

[@t.a.7970]

That's a really shitty train.

[@kirklenagh3095]

This is nowhere near their best stuff either. What did the detective say, when we go out tonight, they could do it all from punk to funk.