Music – ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’ Hunters & Collectors (1984)

‘Throw your arms around me’ is a song by Australian rock band Hunters & Collectors, first released 41 years ago, in November 1984.

The piece is appealing – in music and lyrics – and is on the song list of even the younger demographics.  In 2025, the song placed 25 on the ‘Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs’.

Hunters & Collectors formed in 1981 with Mark Seymour on guitar and vocals, together with a raft of other talented musicians, song writers and sound engineers.  Their breakthrough came in 1986 with the release of the album ‘Human Frailty’, which featured a new recording of ‘Throw your arms around me’.  Their ‘Farewell to the World’ concert in 1996 saw the band come to a close.

Wikipedia includes a piece from Seymour describing writing for ‘Human Frailty’:

I was in a relationship with a woman I was very much in love with and she was the inspiration.  I wrote virtually all the lyrics on ‘Human Frailty’ about my relationship with her … ‘Throw your arms around me’ was the first song I wrote that wasn’t angry.  And because it was so out of the square, we didn’t record it particularly well … One time, we played it at The Palace, to about 2,000 people who just went off.  We finally got it right so we recorded it again.  I think we did about four versions of it.

The entry goes on to say of ‘Throw your arms around me’:

The song captured the intensity of sensual love [but] at the same time portraying its fleeting nature with the lyrics including ‘and we may never meet again, so shed your skin and let’s get started’.

A link to the YouTube version of the song – from 1990 – is here.