Men At Work - It's a Mistake (Video)
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Lyrics:
Jump down the shelters to get away
The boys are cocking up their guns
Tell us general, is it party time?
If it is, can we all come?
Don't think that we don't know
Don't think that we're not trying
Don't think we move too slow
It's no use after crying
Saying it's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake - Hudba
Most people know only Down Under and it is so sad, they have many great songs and Colin Hay has a very distinct, beautiful voice.
Originally knew them for down under and who can it be now, and now my favourite songs from them are overkill and this
Same
I can see it in your eyes is another great tune
Jorge Okay thx for the tip
This was a great ! Band,.. what happened to them??
Truly one of the best anti-war music videos ever. Despite the tongue-in-cheek aspects it really hits, especially with the desolate landscape.
irl the products of bushfires id rekon
A nuke attack was a real threat in the 80s
It's more of a threat now that it was in the 80s.@@mrobertson188
love this song and army dreamers by kate bush
They are one of those bands that truly embraced the emerging music video era. They put a lot of effort into making funny, engaging videos, and every band member got equal screen time as well, rather that just focus on one "star". Which is kinda cool.
Great observation, I completely agree!
It's just a pity the members of the band didn't get on.
Still love colin hay's music today
Querra nunca mais
This song sings my 80s childhood
Its right!
These guys are so underrated. 52 years old and I still love this band! ITS NOT A MISTAKE!
same here brada
You got that right
Tell us General. Is it party time? If it is can we all come??
I'm 72 and a Vietnam (era) vet and I like this song as well.
Maybe because the the lead singer is obviously half blind like me. 😀
One thing american and aussie vets have in common is a distrust of authority after Vietnam.
And we regard and respect Mel Gibson for his better movies like Mad Max and Gallipoli. Every american and citizen of the world needs to know about Gallipoli to understand what is REALLY a mistake in war and conflict and why Australians decided on independence from the UK like the american colonials did after the 'French and Indian' war.
Gibson played an american patriot that REALLY hated redcoats because of his experience in the F&I war, in the movie, The Patriot, where the redcoats, the british officers, especially, were depicted to be as cold blooded as the german Wehrmacht.
Amazing what feelings and thoughts a music video can dredge up when you get to a certain age. 😀
I, too, am 52. We were young and liked good music. This one is in my top 5 of their songs, #1 is usually whichever one I'm listening to.
The subtle transition from the people saying "it's a mistake" in the refrain to them becoming soldiers is one of the coolest things in this music video.
Yeah, I see that as a common theme with people who have once been deployed, everyone I know that has came back from being deployed told me it was a mistake to even enlist
@@chelo4197 it was never even got my bonus for my second
@@chelo4197 During Vietnam, you were drafted.
@@carolynzaremba5469 not everyone was drafted, many volunteered. Common misconception
The transition of the last one, from nurse to army medic, directly going from a civilian job to a military equivalent did happen to people too. My great grandad was a blacksmith and farrier, and when he enlisted that's what he did in the first World War.
Men at Work is
Underrated
Agree
Definitely. I love his voice and will never forget lyrics like "I can't get to sleep..." Songs that stay with you forever.
The band broke up after realeasing their third álbum
🖐 here in February
@@SUGAR_XYLER "Men at work= era mi sana droga de aquellos años⭐👏💥
Perfect song to listen in 2024. Today I will be watching Men at Work at my city, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I can't wait for this moment.
💋💋💋🇳🇴🇳🇴
BH 😘
Linda música
RJ hoje, só por Deus....
Envious
I cannot overstate how important this song is right now.
Yes sir. I agree completely. God help us all.
Again.... it's happened before
The plebs ( soldiers) are manipulated by corrupt politicians and leaders. All it takes is common sense to make a comeback and a backbone
Most don't realise how lucky we are.
It was even more important when it was released.
This song makes me feel some kinda wonderful melancholy. One of the best songs of the 80’s.
Spot on!!
This song defines the 80's. Along with Madonna
"wonderful melancholy" that's about as close as one can get to the original definition of nostalgia.
Same
Icónica y melancólica 😔😭
This is why the 80's was the best decade. It will never come again and if you lived it you are blessed.
It really was the best decade! I was a little girl when they were making music in the early 80s. The 90s sucked to me! By then I was a teenager and it was hard!
Tell me about it! I love the 80s and wish I could go back. This song has a very catchy melody.
As an "80's Army Infantry sergeant, life is an endless road march, with no return. You march along with some, comrades and lovers may come and go, but you have to live in the present, So sure, the '80's were great, but cannot compare to my very first wife and 6 year old daughter I have now. Time marches on.
Don't be so pathetic, we are not dead yet :P
not on my ship MR!!!!
That guitar solo still gets me decades later 😊
So very melodic and perfectly executed
The 80s were the golden age of music, and this song is proof of that! Listening is like taking a trip back in time to a decade full of style, energy and musical talent. Long live the good music of the 80s!
Também curti muito o AC/DC!!🤜🤛
Compartilhamos o mesmo sentimento amigo.
Couldn't have said it better dude.
👏👏👏👏
R-U-N Lord Christ Jesus Christ? 8💯8🙏😇
Released in 1983. Still too f**king appropriate in 2023.
This song was a huge success in Brazil, it still is played on radio stations over there to this day.
They're probably singing about Bolsonaro.
@@carolynzaremba5469 And they will sing to this song about the next and the next brazilian President. Is there even a decent politician in this shit country??
@@voutespancar I'd take Bolsonaro over Biden.
@@SC-ut2dn It's funny how Carolyn just went quiet.
Bolsonaro is just as garbage as Biden. Bolsonaro doesnt even work! Dude is always travelling and driving jet skis or streaming his bullshit.
Lyrics: | "It's A Mistake" - Men At Work. |
Jump down the shelters to get away
The boys are cockin' up their guns
Tell us general, is it party time?
If it is can we all come?
Don't think that we don't know
Don't think that we're not trying
Don't think we move too slow
It's no use after crying
Saying
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
After the laughter has died away
And all the boys have had their fun
No surface noise now, not much to say
They've got the bad guys on the run
Don't try to say you're sorry
Don't say he drew his gun
They've gone and grabbed old Ronnie
He's not the only one
Saying
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
Tell us commander, what do you think?
'Cos we know that you love all that power
Is it on then, are we on the brink?
We wish you'd all throw in the towel
We'll not fade out too soon
Not in this finest hour
Whistle your favorite tune
We'll send a card and a flower
Saying
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake (it's a mistake)
It's a mistake (it's a mistake)
It's a mistake (it's a mistake)
It's a mistake (it's a mistake)
It's a mistake (it's a mistake). END.
Thanks
Thanks brother
thanks
Gracias gracias hermano 😢🇨🇱
Take it from a first hand combat arms veteran. This song hits home on so many levels
Advanced Infantry here. Good song.
Always loved this song, had to hear it one last time before the apocalypse.
Buck up, all is not lost yet.
@@MXB2001 The last president you want in a situation that could trigger a nuclear war is Biden
Me too we have a year of two at best.
Down the hatch, I regret nothing.
Not surrender
Videos with lower budgets are often more imaginative and fun. Less money more freedom.
+Phillip S true
+Phillip S Lower budgets? Jaguars are cheap.
Plus it's the 80's special effect was good but not much to go at like todays music.
Though that said 60's - 80's Music was 100x better
+Phillip S i love how there all in work outfits and then they magically get transformed in the same pose into having army outfits and weapons.
+Phillip S higher budget? it's a mistake
+Phillip S So true
I'm 51 and the 80's music was so great
I'm so glad I was there to witness the best music ever !
From a french Canadian!
👏👏💋
May I join your little club? LoL ~ ( Canadian Club )
PS We are getting some Canadian Wildfire smoke on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 😳 We wish you a safe resolution ✌
@detectivedave Hi !
I' m from Québec, Canada , to be honest with you I am a french Canadian , what I mean is that my first language is french .
I hope you are safe in the Mississippi gulf .
Join the club , thank you for your nice message 👍
I'm 49 and agree
51 here 😂😂😂
Perfect song for these times.
This and Overkill my fav by the Men..
Overkill is everything 💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏
Me encanta esta canción de Men at work.
And don't forget: Blue for you😁
I agree with Holly. This and Overkill were played on TV-61 in Phoenix everyday and sometimes on the radio. Now your lucky if you hear either one of these. Down Under more popular for some reason along with Who can it be now?. I want to here these songs instead and relive the Summers of 1983-84. Those were the good times.
Mine too
Not often does a music video so perfectly accompany and satirise the subject matter in question. Men At Work created a piece of eternal art and timeless commentary on the notion and frailty of war and a video which truly suggests just how truly daft it ultimately remains. Sometimes all it comes down to is a decision made by a single human being that can affect millions or even billions of the same species. For what?
for what? you think life can be peaceful with no conflict? really? are you that ignorant? human nature cannot be defeated, no matter how much love you give or have or want or desire. some people are good, some people are bad. this will never change. extremes of both of these natures exist. sometimes you need to defeat an overwhelming evil. unless you like the nazi way of life.........
@@gps9715 You missed the point & are also oversimplifying it. War isn't always about good vs evil. Many wars, especially nowadays, are fought because of politics, fearmongering, ignorance and greed. Not because they are necessary. Vietnam & the Gulf Wars in Iraq are a great example.
@@coolcat6303 Especially since this song is specifically about NUCLEAR war. Y'know, the potential extinction event. And the Cuban Missile Crisis was just one of several flashpoints that almost set that off, including a few in 1983, the year this song was released.
It's honestly a little amazing that we're still here now. And considering renewed tensions between the US and Russia, North Korea, and China, I'd say this song is more relevant than ever.
Wow. Profound, yet lucid. What the hell are YOU doing on the internet… 😉👍🏻
@@gps9715 You might wanna listen to a John Lennon song or two. If we can’t dream, we can’t achieve. The comment was on point and not debatable. An accurate observation. Nothing more, nothing less…
It’s true if you were one of us lucky enough to be around in the 80s it was a once in a lifetime experience.. and I’m glad I was there & old enough 5 in 80 old enough to remember the great music and tv & movies that came along that decade…
Mais alguém escutando em 2024?!
J'en écoute ce soir.
Yes 👍
Eu aqui kkk
Better men at work than men at war.
аб вг war has Its benefits it helps promote production which is needed to keep our country from collapsing in on itself
@@insertname7750 war industry production.... That's useless to 99% of humanity and economies.
Larry Fink where did you pull this information from
@@insertname7750 It's called the military-industrial complex. It's a huge topic, well worth knowing about when understanding the machinations of war and military conflict. The american war industry has been around for a long time and is formidable when it comes to making foreign policy decisions using think tanks and lobbyists like the Atlantic Council.
@@lloydblankfeinofgoldmansac8203 if you are a truth seeker i recommend checking out John Rose's youtube channel! He has the ultimate solution, check out his playlists
My dad told me this was playing when I was born.
I’m going to show this to my kids one day and say the same.
Hahahah
Lol
Your dad is a funny guy
funny, but yeah... Don't do that lol
Your dad, is the dad, of dads.
Excelente tema, Men at work es y será uno de los mejores grupos de los 80,sus temas son todos inolvidables👌🏻👌🏻👏👏👏❤❤💃🕺🧚🏽♀️🧚♂️👍🏻🇨🇱
Noruega
The guitar 🎸 solo is absolutely 100% pure genius, perfect, flawless, & above all, priceless. 😃 💯 👏🏽 🌈 🌹🤗 ♥️ 💐 🥰
It took 40 years but we have come full circle.
Exactly
yes sir.. I just ordered iodine tablets last week... I am dead serious (no pun)
@@charlesbukowski9836 they protect u from radiation,parasites,disease? where from & website? russia/ukraine unjustify war; WE MUST STOP WAR NOW,WORLD PEACE. TRUMP RETURNS SOON.
Exactly
Yes we have
This song started playing on the radio about 5 seconds after I proposed! 4 years later we still laugh about it. Luckily it wasn't a mistake.
pudzta That's good to know she was a KEEPER!!
Good for you!
pudzta My congrats, that must have been awesome =)
congrats!
💞
Aqui do Sul do Brasil escutando a melhor banda dos anos 80.👉👍💪👏👏👏👏👏
Melhor banda da terra..e eles são norueguêses 🇳🇴🇳🇴
Listening to this song is not a mistake, it's a gem.
Jump down the shelters to get away
The boys are cockin' up their guns
Tell us general, is it party time?
If it is can we all come
Don't think that we don't know
Don't think that we're not trying
Don't think we move too slow
It's no use after crying
Saying
It's a mistake, it's a mistake
It's a mistake, it's a mistake
After the laughter as died away
And all the boys have had their fun
No surface noise now, not much to say
They've got the bad guys on the run
Don't try to say you're sorry
Don't say he drew his gun
They've gone and grabbed old Ronnie
He's not the only one saying
It's a mistake, it's a mistake
It's a mistake, it's a mistake
Tell us commander, what do you think?
Cause we know that you love all that power
Is it on then, are we on the brink?
We wish you'd all throw in the towel
We'll not fade out too soon
Not in this finest hour
Whistle your favorite tune
We'll send a card and flower
Saying
It's a mistake, it's a mistake
It's a mistake, it's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
Ya ya ya ya
Oh wait....wrong song.
+Andres Acosta lol TERMINATOR???
arnold jack Yes.
cockin up their guns...
Thanks for the lyrics
I was a kid in the 80s. I grew up a hard core music video junkie... MTV, night tracks, radio 1990, solid gold, night flight... and so on. It was all I cared about.
Men At Work make me very nostalgic for that time in my life.
Sad those days are gone but very happy to have their songs still with me.
I bought Cargo on vinyl yesterday... Spent the evening listening to the album and playing bass guitar along to the music.
The madness of the Cold War summed up in one song. Awesome work with a very good video.
God thank you for letting me turn into a teenager 1981. The BEST musical decade ever. Hands down. The fact we can enjoy this song 41 years later is amazing. Soooo good!
That guitar solo is actually pretty cool
its unequaled .. hm
I wouldn't say that.
It's a perfect solo for the song. I learned it note for note a few years back. Very tasty.
Panic Station ą
Agreed. It seems ahead of its time somehow.
Happily surprised I was not the only one who thought of this song with the current Russia-Ukraine situation, I hope peace prevails.
yep ..Its a mistake..
@@datata3719 HELL YEAH, PUTIN/USSR MADE A MISTAKE!!!!!
IT'S A MISTAKE😃😃😃😃😃😪🤔🤫🤫😮💨😔
Noruega 🇳🇴🇳🇴
god its already been over a year of conflict
Probably one of the most beautifully relevant songs/videos of all time. If I was King, this would be my country’s National Anthem.
honestly if i was the guy in power down here i would make Down Under our anthem instead of the lame bullshit 'sing australia fair' song
@@rebel6301 Well, I’m from the US, and I’m really starting to see that wars are not the answer to much at all. Maybe in the distant past some were justified, but these days it all seems like needless destruction. I’m old and it makes me sad.
@@johnr3369 yeah, seems pretty pointless to keep killing eachother over nothing. sure, a few were justified (since y'know nazis and shit) but overall i dont think we should continue waging war
@@rebel6301 I just think it’s amazing that I’m having a brief chat with someone half a world away, who apparently shares my love of the band Men at Work. Really, we might disagree on some things, but what more do you need to be friends with people than some good music and cold beer? Pretty much everything else can be overlooked. (All of my friends have their issues, who doesn’t). And that is the basis of a more diplomatic way of dealing with things. Peace to you. It’s midnight here.
@@johnr3369 im not even old enough to drink lol but yeah you're right
Today in Viña del Mar festival 🇨🇱😍🔥✨
Siempre Geniales !!!
Por fin trajeron a quienes valen la pena ir a ver.
Por favor no traigan más p○rqv£r¡@$ reguetoneras.
Saludos desde Mendoza ARGENTINA ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow. This takes me back to late summer of '83. I was 11, MTV was still shiny and new, and I was loving life. I absolutely loved the video. Still do. This is one of men at works best pieces in my opinion.
ABOUT JULY 1983. MISS EM DAYS
Same here!! I was 10, getting ready to enter 5th grade and turning 11 in November. To see and hear this video/song again takes me right back to 39 years ago! :)
@@crmay72 you must also be a '72 model 😉 I'm so glad I got to grow up in that one last generation before the internet and a cell phone in every pocket. Going out to play "for the day" on summer break. Riding bikes for hours. Atari got boring after 30 minutes!
@@jacksemporiumofstuff I know, right??! LOL ;)
Also 11.
The reaction to the guns suddenly appearing in their hands always cracks me up, they're like "WHOA! SHIT!"
Quanto tempo tem essa música e continua sendo tão atual !! O mundo nunca muda .
I Loved this band ever since Australia Day! Greatest band and to all the same!! Men At Work will on forever!
Norway norway 🇳🇴🇳🇴
8 years ago Greg Ham left us all!
R.I.P Forever missed!
RIP
He forever lives on in our hearts, never forgotten 💙💙💙😭
What an incredibly appropriate and meaningful song for the times we are living in now!! I know it was written with the arms race
of the 80’s in mind, but considering what’s going on in Russia and Ukraine now, hearing this song again is sending chills up my spine!!
Chills? Yes shiver my Timbers😳allow me to encourage your 🎉 that war? Just a little catalyst to initiate pearl production. We will press on. No extinction for us. I’ve got to hurry, other stuff to do but try “Biocentrism” Robert Lanza. Wrap your head around that, if you please.
It's will be appropriate until the world ends because as long as humans live there will be someone dropping bombs someone
I agree
BACK NOW. GOD BLESS OUR GREAT COUNTRY
🤔 Kinda like" Red Dawn" But it Will Be OUR OWN GOVERNMENT 🤨 WE MUST TAKE OUR COUNTRY
This song is funky and chilling at the same time. More relevant than ever before
Yeah . Maybe an error
@@frankbarnwell____ No way
The smoky, desolate landscape fire was actually the result of a blaze in Australia.
Eles são norueguêses 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
Such a gleeful, upbeat sound with such a dark subject.
like dreamer by Ozzy Osborn
Mid 70's were also like that. Terry Jacks - "season in the sun"
Born in the USA
Makes me feel nostalgic ...I just turned 46 and remember this song ...I believe it came out in 1983?
About then,I'm 47 an remember these when they was new!! The 80s 😁😁👍👍
@Black shuck You have excellent English by what I read.👌👌
Es un gran honor y verles y escucharlos a la banda Legendaria MEN AT WORK y su It's a Mistake de 1983 los adoro que siguie vigente mas que nunca en este 2022 y 2023👍👌✌😄😆😎
The 80's was THE best decade in recorded history! Especially as a teenager. '87 RULES!!
How did this not become the megahit that Who Can It Be Now and especially Down Under were, when its just as good! Those still get played alot even now, but I never knew this song existed until 2009.
It was well known in Germany...dunno where u are from?
This is actually a Men at Work standard. Any fan would know, sorry you discovered it so late.
I wonder if I just missed it on the radio etc. over the years. My personal memories of hearing Down Under are from 1989-90 or so, awhile after it was already popular.
I agree with you. This is a fabulous song & right up there with their other big hits. I think the reason this wasn't a major hit was because of it's darker tone & also becuz it wasn't as playful or upbeat as "Down Under" was. But at the very least, it was still a minor hit for the band & got a fair amount of airplay back in the 80's.
This is true. I mean it SOUNDS lighthearted and fun, but its about nuclear war...so you may be right.
I love how Colin Hay got into the parts in these videos. He was awesome.
Glad he caught a break in his own video
😮
I love the warm and analogue sound of the guitar in the intro. No, seriously - I LOVE THAT SOUND SO MUCH!! It gently touches me on a very deep level and brings back a certain feeling of my childhood. I cant point the finger at it nor even describe it rationally. It is like an almost faded memory, pale and blurry - but still there...
Y hoy en viña 2024. Chile 🇨🇱
Saturday afternoon 16 April 2022. A 39 year old song that is TIMELESS. One of the great songs to come out of the 1980s. Thank you Colin Hay and Men At Work. Take care and all the best.
So true, you are absolutely right.
And sadly closer to the truth today than ever. Yes, take care all. God bless.
Back when music was played with your hands and soul
@GG GG "Out of Touch"
...?
Wasn't that Hall & Oates?
@@willmfrank don’t forget “Together Forever”by Rick Astley and so on and so fourth
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What a great underated guitar solo
From a great underrated band
Nobody watching in year 2024? Cheers from Down Unda!!!🎉
Brings back a lot of memories of the summer of '83, when there was plenty to great music on FM radio.
and no commercials yet
That's quite a combo, the who, bee gees and the beach boys. You have good taste!
FC Schaeffer I wanna get back to 70' and 80' God can you hear me please take me there 😭
Dude, you just mentioned every bit of musician that i love and a huge fan too. I have them all in my playlist. Thanks for making my day ;D
FC Schaeffer ....wow!....you said it.
This song actually makes me feel sad. Way to convey emotion.
***** lol.
Imperial Scholar Expert That's right.
He said the song conveys a "sad" emotion and not that he had "depression". Big difference.
+A Yema quite being a peice of shit
Josh Casey LOL
02/2024 após 41 anos de lançamento, ainda estando em nossas emoções.
The finale has always moved me the most, when John Rees lowers the mic. It's the last moment of the human species on earth, one million years of existence deleted in that moment...😢
That guitar solo near the end should have been played for 10 minutes
Agree, one of my favorite guitar solos!
Add the guitar solo from Overkill to that.
Agreed it’s awesome
@@robh693h4 yeah the guitar solo sounds great!
I cant listen to that solo without tearing up, its that good.
Rare footage of the Great Emu War circa December 5, 1932.
The war we lost
Munster the Numster depends on which side you are on. Team Emu!
The only war Aussies lost basically
But they have Cold War gear?
M16ʼs in 1932?
This is truly 80s music the voice the sound everything about it❤❤❤
Oh how I miss the 80's I fell in love and a 7 year relationship knowing it would never work never fell in love again.59 now just gotta keep going.
Oh how I miss the 80's I fell in love and had a 7 year relationship knowing it would never work never fell in love again.These 80 songs bring back memories.59 now just gotta keep going.
There was a skating rink where I lived that played music videos on a huge movie screen for people to skate to. This video came on and suddenly everyone stopped skating to watch it. They did so until it ended. They didn't do that for any of the other music videos that had played. I think it underscored the anxiety every one felt in those days concerning world affairs.
The song is NOT about Vietnam. From a guy who lived when this came out I can assure you it was about nuclear war, as many of the 80's tunes were. In the 70's elementary schools we trained frequently for bombing, using the duck and cover under our desks. I remember a bunch of churches were marked as fallout shelters, with supplies in the basement. The 80's got better, but it was still cold war time. We were conditioned the USSR could/would bomb us at any time. We feared them and they probably feared us. I finally realize the people of the USSR just want the same things as us. They have families, lives and jobs too. Maybe things were on the verge back then, but the world is much more connected now. I always wanted to ask a Russian if they we brought up the same way, with fear of nuclear war, but I have never met one.
This song, much like men at work's "it's a mistake" is based on never knowing who will push the launch button or launch missiles by mistake and prompt the two super powers at the time to annihilate each other.
🏆🏆🏆🏆💙💙💙👥👥👥🙏🙏🙏
Yes, it is crearly about the cold war and you can tell from all the references to the USSR
👍👍 Billy sounds like you came to your senses !! I don't believe in war 🌐
Yeah, they felt the same way. I've known lots of people from all over the eastern bloc. In fact, the USSR was hoping that sporting events and the space race would invite the US into peaceful competition. The biggest contributor to the continuation of the cold war in the 80s was Ronald Reagan, who explored the possibility of a first strike nuclear attack. That's what Star Wars was really about. To be able to fire nuclear weapons, and still preserve the United States. So if anything, the Russians probably agreed with you more than NATO did.
I think it's about all the wars judging from the M-16 rifles used in the video but also the part where the TV was changing with the same person saying the same thing but the area around the TV kept changing. WW1, WW2, and Vietnam etc
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Power to the People!
Un temazo..lastima que las canciones de reggaeton tienen mas vistas cuando se hace llamar "musica"..Esto si que es musica, Men At Work son los mejores...
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Los gustos musicales son subjetivos, no eres superior por escuchar x banda en lugar de reggaeton
son solo opiniones de cada quien@@deasadayunacocade
La realidad no te hace superior por escuchar alguna banda y es cierto. Pero la realidad es que la música si influye en el intelecto del ser humano, yo soy quien escucho rock, metal pero no satánico incluso este tipo de músicas, incluso oigo música sinfónica y he al oír cada música me vuelve alegría o concentración en alguna cosas. La música si influye en una sociedad. Lo cual el regueton es el género de música que la sociedad actual escucha y para nadie conviene de intelecto. Lo cual nos hace vernos como animales. Por que será que Europa todavía siguen poniendo melodías como estas??? Ya sabes porque.
Y yo apoyo la música buena y el regueton para nada tiene de bueno. Lo cual hace a los latinos perversos. Preferiría que tocaran viejas de español que oír música que tiene poco amor al formar su música. El regueton tiene el mismo beat y la letra pésima.
La sociedad actual está arruinada por la música.
@@Kobani06te apoyo amigo la sociedad actualmente está arruinada. Apoyemos la buena música bendiciones
"Tell us General is it party time.
If it is can we all come?
Don't think that we don't know
Don't think that we're not trying
Don't say we move to slow
There's no use after crying.
Saying it's a Mistake..."
Sooner than later this songs message will seem greater.
The signal will be clear.
The signs are all right here.
There is no use after crying..
What a brilliant song. It's genius all the way through.
Also saving the best for last..
But it seems like it comes to fast..
It's always like that with the great ones.
Great song.
I’m 23 now. Born in 98 but man… the things I’d do to go back to this time period. Men at work is such a great freaking band! I love all their music 😍❤️
same here haha
Another 90s kid and I agree, I just wasn't wishing for the threat of nuclear war to re-emerge too! :( ❤
was a great time to be a kid, I was 10 years old when this song came out. the music was so good it got it's own TV Channel!!!
@@magdalenem4949 Same here! I was born in November of '72.
I’d hate to tell you, but you missed a really good time for music. But my son is 17 and he listens to music that is 40 and 50 years old. And so do many of his friends . But even they know, there just isn’t much good music coming out anymore
Here in Sydney 🇦🇺 listening this amazing band, so famous similar to INXS. #1 in USA and all around the world in early eighties. ✨✨✨✨🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱 A Chilean guy loves them.
Saludos desde Santiago amigo, me encanta Men At Work. Ojalá algún día pudiera ver a Colin Hay presentarse en vivo e interpretar estos temazos.
They put together a string of hits that are timeless his voice is unmistakable I enjoy their music 🎵
One of the great voices in rock nobody that good in 2023
I am listening to this in 2017 as I did in 1983....
Wish i could have been there with you man but i did not exist back then
Joe, I grew up in "80's, I wish sometimes I was back their. The music, everything from Priest to Men at work, ABC, Maiden, Spandau Ballet, Human League, loved it all!! What a time to be a teenager!!
Joe S So do we! 80s forever! Brilliant song works, songs with a heart, synthesizers ruled the world in every song etc. pp ❤️
Joe S You're not alone =)
qeustion: did you listen only with a walkmen or did you had something else in that time how you could listen music ?
I saw Men At Work in 1982 and they were amazing! Such fun and humor. RIP Greg Ham of Men At Work--you made the world laugh and sing and that is an amazing accomplishment.
Amen to that. He inspired me to be a saxophonist and I'm Native America's greatest saxophonist, thanks to Greg
All the old ladies from this video are dead.
Now that i have your attention
Spend time with your loved ones while you still can is never late to call them and hug them while they are alive 💖
Hoy en viña 🇨🇱
Very underrated tune!
Strongly agree also! The best!!
Pwcritter I agree with you. For those too young to know, It's A Mistake expresses a feeling a lot of us had in the early 1980s, when it seemed like the bombs could drop at any moment. We really felt like some stupid mistake by the Russians or the Americans could destroy the world and we were all living on the edge of a cliff. It's A Mistake has pop appeal, but a simple enough sound that you can't really hide from the emotional heart of its message. For me that makes it poignant and effective.
agreed
Verdade
aye a dear tune to me growing up in the 80's
How relevant!! I have had this song in my head the past few weeks . God help us all 🤦.
I listened to these guys in the 80's and their music is soo pertinent today,it should be blasted loudly in every city worldwide!!!
It's sad that this song is still relevant
This song should have like 90M views
Ouvindo vinte vezes nas estradas da Austrália,sonho realizado.
Um dia irei tbem moça, este era sonho meu e de um amigo muito querido que faleceu recentemente, mas irei...
Austrála é um paraíso na Terra, especialmente Queensland
Muito bom..
Brasileira?? Animal mano puta sonho fmza! DEUS ABENCOE!
Noruega 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
Funny how this track is even more relevant today, the escalation just keeps going. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and the rest of us pay the price, literally.
Somos pocas de la generación que aún conservamos el buen gusto musical
Somos pocos . Por qué saber de música no es común. Somos escogidos
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como madre no he fallado mis hijos aman el buen rock sobre todo el de antes
¿Alguién más escuchando este clásico en estos momentos?
I love 80's
No! No hay nadie. Lo siento.
Hasta aquí llegamos al refugio dela buena música 🤩
Yo salud🍺🍻
yo escuchando la en este momento
This is their best song, it rocks in 2019 !!!!! Love the Big 80's
Michael Hodgkins exactly. A lot of people dismiss this band because of how Down Under turned into a meme
Michael Hodgkins absolutely! 🤘
Still like this song but
Overkill And Who can it be now are tops
I agree that this is their best. 2nd best is "Overkill".
My favorite men at work song
Women💃💃💃💃🇳🇴🇳🇴
absolutely one of the best songs I'll ever hear
Welcome to the 1980s, please be seated and enjoy your stay....
Indeed!
Front row please.
AIDS epidemic
It’s 2019 please take a seat and reminisce what’s 😎
Slant Six Thanks!
Can't get enough of this record it's a mistake and over kill
Nelson c Mcgee I agree! Then you should listen to No sign of yesterday. A very underrated song of them.
With its unique sound and its eighties chords, it is unquestionably one of the great Australian bands that accompanied us in the best decade of Rock and Pop music and will always be part of our wonderful years ... thanks Men at Work from Chiclayo-Peru
After the laughter as died away.
That is why I always said how dangerous it is with people being so upset and triggered over comedy.
When the laughing stops, the dying starts.
Every Single Time.
Sou brasileiro quem curte música boa e de qualidade como essa deixa seu link brasileiros de plantão.
I love this generations music. I use to listen to rap but this is much better. I feel more positive.
Weird, me too lol!!! Now I listen to rock but I still listen to other genres but none of them are such amazing as rock!
MegaRiqueZ me too
It's funny how a song about Nuclear War just feels so upbeat & positive lol
Men At Work ruled back in the early Eighties! Forty years later it was not a mistake to listen to the music from this Australian pop band!
Born in 1991. My friends and I used to listen to this song in high school (circa 2008). What a wonderful song and video. The good stuff truly lasts.