Music flashback

I'm house- and cat-sitting for my friends down the road. I'm definitely loving my own house to hang out in, and be quiet, and only talk to myself or the cats. That said, I've not brought a lot of music over, so last night while typing things in, I hung out at youtube and searched for a long-lost Australian band song that had come to mind, "Heaven (must be there)" by Eurogliders. In doing so, I found some kind soul had compiled whole groups of Australian and New Zealand hits by year. Tonight as I was making dinner, I found myself aching to hear some early Split Enz, and have listened to "One Step Ahead" several times now. Unbelievable to realize that that song came out in 1980, six years before I went to Australia to live for a year and was first introduced to so much formative music.

So for those of you who also have a hankering for early 80's Oz/NZ rock, here's the youtube link. It's so funny: as soon as I saw it, I remembered the video from my first MTV days back in '83, so I must have known about them before I was gifted with my year abroad.