Hey! Me too! Was talking about the scene on King of the Hill, where it has no reference at all to the scene and people get teary-eyed over it to this day.@@johnspinelli9396
1985, in college, 2 jobs, on my own, broke, but happy! Great memories! Fast forward to 2024, happy, the journey has been hard but rewarding, very blessed. No matter what, ALWAYS push forward!
Every generation thinks they had it the best when they were young, and that the world has gotten worse since then. It is human nature, but it isn't true and never has been. Your nostalgia is blinding you to the problems that existed then - the Cold War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, apartheid in South Africa. AIDS, starvation in Africa, lead in the atmosphere poisoning brains, the hole in the ozone layer. No time is perfect, they all come with problems. I was a teenager in the 90s, but I know it was messed up time too. Today is better, though some things are worse.
I was Sweet 16 when this song came out in 1985. What I wouldn't give to go back to that time in my life....to be young again, to see my mom again who has been gone so long, to see all my old friends, and have all my old "problems" again with none of the burdens of being older. Enjoy your youth, folks, because it goes so fast.
Now just faded to the bittersweet memories. Like one day everything will be more reason to love the shit out of now, the mystery of life #forevergreatful.
God this comment got to me. I'm not that old but I feel exactly what you said.... My early 20s in college. My problems were girls and life dreams. My mom would always give me advice. She loved this song so much. I lost her 2 years ago tragically. I would give anything to go back to that time. Her giving me advice that I would shrug off.
I was also 21 in 1985,,, the sad part of it is living through the best time of our lives , and we didn't have a clue. My dad, rest in peace, used to tell me back then, "life is hard, life is beautiful, but life is incredibly too short" . I didn't understand. Now I do.
I am one year behind you, as it sure was a much better time to get our kicks. Now 59, I realize that everything in this crazy world is actually cyclical. Peace always...
I told my wife the other day, that I remember to this day waking up on a Saturday morning in 1985, early morning sun shining through the curtains, and this song playing on the radio, and realising in that moment, that life could not get better than this ...
It's 2020...Dream Academy gave us this gift 35 years ago...I have never heard a song quite like this one...It's just so smooth & lovely...Who is with me? Love It!
"Loved/Love" it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! after "all" these years etc..........there,s something about this song as soon as it starts "takes" you straight back then etc as if time "hasn,t passed". x x x x
At 79, I still remember the 80's with a full heart, the music, the time of life, the wonder of life itself. What a great set of memories that these songs bring back.
That's strange. I grew up in the 1980's and it was an unbearably grim and soulless experience. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, new conservatism, the cold war, nuclear threat, hunger strikers, apartheid, the birth of me culture and the worship of mass consumerism on a scale unseen before, the emergence of AIDS and the out and out hatred of homosexuals, one of the worst famines in recorded history in the region of Ethiopia, rampant racism and sectarian violence on the streets of Britain, terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, the Falklands War, mass unemployment....oh yeah, and yuppies.
To be back in 1985 again just 15 years old, God were did the time go, such an amazing decade, not a worry in the world, hanging out in the basement with all your friends listening to this music, playing cards, board games like Clue, Monopoly, Risk, Scrabble and riding big wheels down the steepest road playing football in the snow i can go on and on, I miss you 80's
I was 30 in '85 and still think the same... A greta song, where has the time gone, I'll be 69 this year and can't help thinking not long to go now... A bit melancholy I know but such is life. Music, how it brings back all those beautiful memories. It is just wonderful.
As a 14 year old back in 1985 I approve all the messages here and this great Dream Academy song. It was a pleasure seeing the video for the first time that year.
A song about nostalgia for the 60s makes us nostalgic for the 80s. This is the power of poetry and sound when applied in the right way. RIP Nick Drake.
Thank you for your comment. I never knew this about Nick Drake. I learned something new today. I've loved this song and wondered who it was about or what it was about. Thank you. 💗 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake
oh you are SO right, i still long for those warm 80's days in L.A. at least we got to experience it, you know? our youth will never get to experience that, we've been given a gift:)
..don't forget that the political deep state satanists and their minions were long in power back then preparing for their nwo communist world government and our destruction and complete enslavement. You see what they did right now..and we just didn't know it back then. We need to pray Trump is on the right side of humanity trying to destroy them and Q is legit or we're lost.
whiteonyx11 No, what I won’t forget is that our Savior is not D Trump, although I am proud he is our President. This was all planned from the beginning, nothing is lost, this world model was destined to be done away with, and Satan did not plan that, he just thinks he did..
i understand . im 50 and feel older than that . where are skating rinks and arcades and fun ? in my dreams sometimes im there and wake up and get pissed . damn.
The 80’s. MTV. The style. The everything. It will never happen again. We lived in a very unique decade that is now only a part of history. We will always have this music though. No one can take this away from us who lived in this time. I may be sad for it, but I lived it.
You're right Robert. A huge part of the fabric of my growing up years in the 80's was our awesome music. Not to mention our movies! Such powerful memories & emotions.
It's true, it's a shame the kiddies don't understand. These days when I go into a pub every television plays sports. Baseball, hockey, whatever is in season. In the 80's every TV was on MTV and it was non stop music and videos. They wrote the book on music vids and it really was a different atmosphere.
I was trying so hard to remember in what animated movie or show I heard this song. Thank you. I could have sworn it was some Disney movie, but no…Buckley’s Angel.
@@dogdonut "I have a message from Jesus, something about how you suck at beauty school, except worded nicer. Here it is: "Luanne, you really suck at beauty school. Drop out. Love, Jesus." Hm. He underlined "really." Guess it wasn't nicer."
I was 25 when this song came out. I"m 63 now but listening to this...I'm 25 again. This song makes me smile at the beauty of it, laugh when I think about the things I got up to back then, and cry a little at what was lost along the way. Words cannot express how much I love this song.
@@Glyder1959 Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏 Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚 When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more. So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀 More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays! Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔 Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all. Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉 Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s. Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED. Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time. Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦 Um-hum, aha, okay? And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
i mean im sure this song reminds you of past times as a person living in a town/city in new hampshire the feel this song gives off isn't too different from how life still feels in these towns when you went outside plenty of people go outside and are having social interactions if you fail too se that then thats on you
@@karolinesmail489 remember the fashion lol, padded shoulders, high tops, pastel color clothes, trench coats, heavy metal backpatches. Yes the music especially, where did time go.
This song is a timeless masterpiece, with a steady, powerful rhythm, a strong vocal performance, and a beautiful melody that just instantly calms you down. This song will forever be a 1980s gem
It's dreamlike. Connects to a special kind of karma. Makes me feel like I'm blasting brainwaves. All of a sudden did, so I just think affirmatively, if that's the way to go.
I'm 19 - playing random 80s songs to get my parents to guess who's singing it. This song comes on and the pair of them get these massive smiles on their faces, they love this song 💞💞
Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏 Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚 When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more. So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀 More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays! Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔 Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all. Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉 Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s. Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED. Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time. Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦 Um-hum, aha, okay? And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
@@OtomoTenzi no such thing death is part of living you go on to a different dimension or you fail and game over or start over who really knows? No one is the answer. We live in a vibrational vortex and the energy we take and use and give back to source is how this game really works. You can choose to doom and gloom or choose to just embrace happiness. No big mystery stop trying to scare people. The fear in your life has only as much energy as you feed into it. Limits exist only on the mind. ✌🏼
@@Ivylights Michael Altman has said, that we all will be reunited with our alien creators after death, and then we shall become WHOLE again... 2215 A.D. 🙏ALTMAN BE PRAISED!!!🙏
@@OtomoTenzi I am not sure who that is. I do know reason a lot of people dying is because earth is traveling through a dark energy field hence all the intense natural disasters. This is all effecting the mood of the people. The young are more susceptible because they have not developed the tools to identify it and adjust.
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
So true! Now you've gotten me to want to read some Tennessee Williams or see some of the movies he inspired. "Streetcar" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "Glass Menagerie". What a playwright. I was raised in the South & he & O'Neil got it so right! Thanks for the reminder!
Everyone in the comments section! The 80's aren't gone. We lived the 80's and took it with us and it lives on today. We may not live in the physical years, but they are not over. We are the 80's and we take it with us wherever we go.
I really like the way you think and I agree. The spirit of the 80s are in my heart. I try to keep the fun, bright, bouncy lightness to things, even in bad times. And especially when I listen to the music....I’m there!
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
I wish I could wake up to find today was just a bad dream, and it was still the 80's. I was Young had friends, and life was exciting, the music great. This is the perfect song, just love it. Brilliant lyrics sung with real emotion. Thank you for sharing. My best wishes to everyone out there.
19 and starting college at Holyoke Community College, while commuting from Elms College(which I would later transfer to). And Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out" 1982
J Bro I was a kid , believing that as an adult I’d enjoy that same world .... I was horribly mistaken 🥺 the magic was gone , from music , to people being social , to just enjoying the simple things
@@leary4170 same. I though that the world of the 80s would be the same world we lived in as adults. I never, ever imagined it would be like what it is now. Everything is so different and technological and it's strange seeing millenials everywhere.
Brother I tell you......I feel the same way...I graduated in 84 n NEVER thought things would have changed so much...ppl don't think b4 they act...don't care about anyone else but themselves . It's crazy. Back in the 80s it was GREAT. Carefree..easy going..How I wish we could go back and start over n not let social media take over. ANYWAY...ROCK ON FRIENDS. KEEP ROKN THE 80S...LATERS👋🤘
@@michaelanderson2881 Whats not true? I'm 62 and remember the English summer mornings when I lay on the grass in the garden and listened to the birds and life going on around me. Life seemed slow and warm and safe. Rainy days exploring the attics and winter days stamping footprints into frost or tracing my fingers over frost patterns on the window. Playing games in the snow, catching snowflakes. I'm West Country not Nothern but the gentle nostalgia for those times makes me smile. ( I remember watching JFK's funeral with my parents-didn't understand why, just remember Jon Jon holding his mother's hand. I also remember the storm of '63. Our trees blew down in the orchard and the door to the roof was blown off and snow got in to our upper storey. Our 300 year old front door splintered from the cold and we had to get a new one).
@@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138 So you're saying that time passes. The OP doesn't seem to say that. If the morning lasted all day, we'd never reach evening, and we'd all still be young. So it's a great line. Too bad it's not true.
ABSOLUTELY ❣️ I've read, somewhere, those of us who DO get goosebumps, when hearing certain songs, have something "unique" about us! But for the life of me, I cannot remember WHAT it is!! It's making crazy trying to remember... Maybe I can research it, and find it again!
This song in 1986..I swear it felt like I could do anything. I was 14. This video would come on the original MTV at least 6 times a day every 4 hours for months and I would drop whatever I was doing to listen to it. It brought me calm and peace for 4 minutes. But we had so many songs like this back then. I wish I had a time machine. I would give up cell phones and internet just to experience for one more day.
@@tamiparris3132 “Take on Me” by A-ha is another blockbuster hit. A little more techie, but hugely popular and still played today. “Africa” by Toto is another song that many remake and is attributed to its gentle sound. U2’s “With it Without You” has touched many souls deeply with Bono’s top notch vocals and great guitar rifts from “The Edge”. Journeys “Don’t Stop Believing” has got to round out this short list of many many great songs from the 80’s. There are literally hundreds of songs across many genres that are very enjoyable. I think that may be the best point of 80’s music, it all sounded good all while being distinct.
Oh, I totally agree! It makes you want to be back standing on the side of the street watching the parade go by eating a snow cone. With all the town folk there. And everyone knows each other. I so miss the 70s and 80s
It’s a good song that one of my favorites from back in the day back in the hay day you can play this one over and over and over never gets boring never gets old A lot of stations played it when it came out way back in 85
I'm an Australian who visited the UK in the 90s. I couldn't get over how welcoming and friendly the people of northern England were to me. I've never forgotten you people. Love to you all from Brisbane.
Rest in peace Nick Drake - the genius that quietly slipped away before anyone realised his brilliance. This song is a wonderful dedication to him and everything about the (very much missed) 70’s & 80’s.
While my 1 wk old son was in the hospital having surgery I walked across the street to a college bookstore and bought this album. He's almost 35 yrs old now and everytime I hear it I reminded of how precious life is.
I remember requesting this song to a local radio station once. I live in northern Saskatchewan (Christopher Lake) and work in Waskesiu. Tears me up just writing about this and listening to this song.
Miss the eighties every day, life was so simple then, friends were durable, unfettered. Music was amazing and ever-evolving. It was so easy to take people at face value, in comparison to everyone's "digital self" nowadays. I grew up in the South Suburbs of Chicago, where kids ran around on their BMX bikes and only had to check in or be home for supper, otherwise, hit the roller rink, or the arcade at the mall, shovel snow and save up for that Mongoose or Diamondback and hit that secret fishing hole just outside of town....
Roller rink, be home before the street light came on, arcades, stretch arm strong, pop rocks, and having no cell phones to where you actually had to communicate with others..... Ya miss those days as well.
I love this song . I remember playing it on the air back when it came out . I was working at KKJO 1550 AM in St. Joseph Missouri . It was one of the happiest times of my life working on a top 40 AM station. Every time I hear it , it transports me back to a simpler and happy time !
I always thought being a disk jockey would be fun. Working in the radio station and watching the workings. Just like the wolf man. But then I toured a radio station and watched an evenings broadcast and you basically sit in a room and drag and drop sound bites into slots all day then play on your phone or play solitaire. I just cried. They didn't even have a microphone in the room, they had a small closet sized room with a mic and if he needed to make an unprogramed announcement he flipped a switch went in there and recorded it or said it live and went back to his phone. I cried. I couldn't believe it. No disks no records, no talking or interacting with the airwaves.
@@dustywelchcraneman6614 Back in the 80's when I was on KKJO it was fun. We played records , or carts with songs on them. Some of the commercials were live and we ran out own boards. What you are describing is how it is nowadays. They've taken the heart out of radio , most of it is automated these days .... but it used to be fun and majical .
I'm an American who lived in Northern England from 1979-81. The open scenes are a time machine for me... reminds me of being 19 again and experiencing "life in a northern town."
The Dream Academy wrote this song as a dedication to the late Nick Drake, an underappreciated folk artist in his prime. RIP Nick Drake, your short lived legacy lives on. 1948-1974
The connection is the guitar Nick Drake posed with on the cover of Bryter Layter. The guitar came into the possession of Nick Laird-Clowes, the singer of the band some ten years later and it was used in the recording of the song.
Maybe he wasn't underappreciated. Maybe he was overappreciated... just wasn't any good. I mean to think one song about you was vastly more popular than your entire life's work says a lot about your life's work.
I saw that episode 2 week's ago and I had to Google the episode to see who sang that song. I totally forgot that hit. I always loved it. I love it even more know.
I'm 39 and I promise you nothing brings up amazing nostalgia like listening to the sounds of classic 80s songs. Long live the decade of unforgettable and heartwarming music that inspires generations.
@@davidtrousdale120 amen, I have an old soul as many would say . I listen to everything from the Benny Goodman orchestra to the Big Bopper to the Bar Kay's to Jackie Wilson to Buddy Holly to Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong. If I could I'd invest and open a true to form jazzy style club that takes you back to that era . Long Live the Era of Music .
it is very lonely and melancholic. You nailed it. It was also played at a memorial for all the lost astronauts of the Challenger explosion, which happened a year later in Jan, 1986. It really gives the song that much more of a sad tone.
I know those that didn't get to experience the 80's as they happened, get so tired of us saying it........ but DAMN, we had the best music ever. Rock, Pop, Country........just an incredible decade for music.
I,ve always said this etc.............fab decade for music/film/tv series..,e,g....miami vice.........dallas............beverly hills cops starring Eddie Murphy.............could go on and on and on................
What a magical song. As a 62 year old, this song takes me back to a much better time. And to be written as an elegy to Nick Drake just makes it even more precious
as an ex-Michigander, this song always reminds me of the exodus of the young people from our hometown when the automotive industry was failing. eerie @@FusionHowie
It's a great song. I wish I lived in a northern town, one where it gets cold and snows every winter. This song always reminds me of when my sister and brother-in-law used to live in Waukegan, north of Chicago. A northern town!
I ( 69) have come to this song later than many of you! And all of your comments resonate with me! The song itself is magical but the connection to a time when we were all younger and the world was full of hope is a real emotion. I was busy raising a family when this was issued but I still remember those times with my parents and friends who have since departed this life with profound loss and sadness... the yearning will never leave us.. in many ways we were the last "golden" generation who believed in a brighter future and the music captured our dreams!
@@lindaweston4482 Thank you for your kind comment. Yes, we have been alive through a frankly amazing time in the world Linda... and we were so very lucky to have all of this music as a soundtrack to it all... and now it can serve to remind us of other times and places and most importantly of people!
This is absolutely true what you say. I‘m 48 years old and yes, times were in some special way better than today. I will never forget my childhood playing with friends outside without any cell phone or watch, just listening to the church bell. Very magic song..
@@annetteripplinger7995 Magic is a very good description of both the song and our youth... as you say without watches, phones or all the other gadgets of today.. no social media, uniformity and conformity, cancel culture and mostly bland music. And the ability to play outside.. how precious! Maybe it's true we that we were a golden generation that will not be seen again for many a year... if ever!!
The 80s...simply put...THE GREATEST ERA/DECADE OF MUSIC TO EVER COME AROUND IN MY OPINION. This takes me back to 1985 & being in 10th grade...such an easier & simpler way of life. Much love from Mobile Alabama.
This is one of those magical songs that gives me a flood of nostalgia. It reminds me of being a young teen in the 80s when the song came out .It also reminds me of being a small child in Brooklyn in the early 70s. I know Brooklyn isn't technically a town, but we lived in a close knit neighborhood that felt more like a small town, rather than a borough within a big city. When I hear this song, I think of those few winters that I got to enjoy playing in the snow before our family moved to Florida, where in never snows. But in a way, this song even reminds me of my childhood growing up in Miami, which obviously is neither northern, nor a town...but life was still so much more small town-like back then. We knew all our neighbors, we had block parties, all the kids would play outside until the streetlights came on. Anyway....I love this song.
@@warsameawale5449 Thank you. That was one of the nicest compliments I've ever received. If I ever write a book, I'll be sure to let you know and of course send you a free copy.
I live in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland used to be a Steel Town. Then "All of the work shut down". Cleveland, Canton, Youngstown and other cities in Northeastern Ohio stopped producing steel and basically died. Now all of those neighborhoods that were so nice have become slums. This song brings me to tears thinking about how much everything changed for the worst. I still love you, Ohio.😭😢💖
1985 I was 16 and now in 2021 I'm 52 I still enjoy listening to this song, the harmony's and rythm sounds breath taking; had so many cool friends back then...
Am I the only one who listens to this wonderful song again and again, because it takes a person to a different time, and good memories, and feeling of peace? What a soothing song
This masterpiece takes me back to my childhood when I was growing in a Northern Town. Back then everyone seemed to care for each other. That has long gone. Now everyone seems to be in a rush to go nowhere. I wish I could go back and visit my Northern Town. The last time I was there was in the summer of 2000 a long time ago
This is one of those songs that penetrates the soul and pulls at the heart. It evokes a feeling of a lost time which has gone forever. A time that had its struggles and troubles, but underneath there was a sense of freedom in which we all shared and long to return.
Perfectly said.. it’s crazy that soo many have the exact same feeling because sound and arrangement. What else can be done with this and How far can that go and causes this? Is it because of our age at the time we first heard or something else?
It's called feelings we all have them some open some not so good let's the toxicities of life go breath in the good positive energy 💪🙏 move forward no reverse think tanking .. a holes around every corner.
Having David Gilmour as the producer of this track greatly helped it break into radio playlists in late 1985... I'd be honored if some fans of mid-80s British classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson on my YT channel in tribute to the era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and stay safe in the '020s.
I’m so sad that I never got to experience a normal and happy childhood and teenage life, I’m currently 17 and things still aren’t getting any better. Maybe if I was born in a different family I would have been able to experience the joys that should happen in those years.
In the 80s the people looked back at the 60s like we look back at the 00s. That makes me feel quite old. Born in 79 and proud to be an 80s kid through and through. 🥰🥰
Born in 79 makes you 70s *baby* , and a half and half 80s kid and 90s kid. I was born in 88. I'm by no means an 80's kid. I'm a 80's baby and I'm a 90's/00's kid, as those were my adolescent years.
Meade Music - Lyrics dont always make a song... You have to consider the beat and the instruments because without those then a song would be somebody speaking into a mic.... Nothing more or nothing less.
DNF Danninetyf singing is not speaking, and as a songwriter i disagree. The instruments are icing, but the lyrics can make or break, imo. This song well written. Other songs from the era sound dated by comparison.
Dreams.... Without them, we do couldn't re- live the best years of our lives. A certain smell, a touch, especially a sound can cause your memory to flash those instances related to that Sense and you're once again, back in the moment, remembering every touch, feel, laugh, cry.... Missing the experience, good or bad, because it was the time in your life when you were young, had no real responsibility, weren't a child but you weren't quite grown. Yeah, dreams, gotta love them ❤
Before the cancer of Social Media set in, music meant something because we had real musicians to listen to. I’m now 61 and while I look back as these some of the best days of my life, it carries me forward with clear air.
I just love 💕 this song! I was 19 when I first heard Life In A Northern Town! It was on Christmas 🎄🎁 Eve 1985 when my brother Benny and my sister in-law lived with me at the time. My brother Benny had passed away in 2000, my Dad in 2012 and my Mom in March of this year 2023. My life has been turned inside out since 1985 but I still live in the same house but all alone now. I certainly miss the 1980s! They were the very best part of my life! The 2010s and 2020s have been very hard times for me! But at least I have very vibrant memories of my happier years when I was so much younger!
This song took me back to my Hometown and my youth; A small New England town with a few hidden gems if you knew where to look. A diner, a cafe, an overlook, a wooded trail, a little spot on the bank of a river... Now I'm out in Ohio, living in the city, and desperately homesick. I miss the mountains, the trees, the clean air. I listen to this, close my eyes, and I'm Home, if only for a moment.
Me to, this takes me back to winter in Harlan KY 16 owned my 73 mustang Life was simply wonderful 😢😢😢😢53 now in Florida married to a beautiful fl. Girl, can't believe it is 2023.
American here, but to the people of Northern England: from *The Road to Wigan Pier* to this sublime, inimitable anthem- we are mindful of your history, and of who you are. Thank you, and God bless you. Peace.
My #1 favorite 80s song--which says a lot, because I LOVE 80s music, grew up on it, still listen to it routinely on Sirius XM... But this one is my top favorite of the decade.
who is listening to this timeless classic in 2024?
Me 😀
I am
Hey! Me too! Was talking about the scene on King of the Hill, where it has no reference at all to the scene and people get teary-eyed over it to this day.@@johnspinelli9396
Me too
Me. I'm here!
Buckley’s angel sent me here
1985, in college, 2 jobs, on my own, broke, but happy! Great memories! Fast forward to 2024, happy, the journey has been hard but rewarding, very blessed. No matter what, ALWAYS push forward!
WE (the 80s teens) had the best of everything, especially music...Little did we know it would be the last generation of greatness...Great song!
Ain’t that the truth 😢
1960's Jimi, the Beatles.. etc was the best.
@@michaelcraig9449 not even close....
@@galas062 Beatles biggest band ever by far! Jimi changed the entire sound of music. No one else ever did that before or since.
Every generation thinks they had it the best when they were young, and that the world has gotten worse since then. It is human nature, but it isn't true and never has been. Your nostalgia is blinding you to the problems that existed then - the Cold War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, apartheid in South Africa. AIDS, starvation in Africa, lead in the atmosphere poisoning brains, the hole in the ozone layer.
No time is perfect, they all come with problems. I was a teenager in the 90s, but I know it was messed up time too. Today is better, though some things are worse.
I was Sweet 16 when this song came out in 1985. What I wouldn't give to go back to that time in my life....to be young again, to see my mom again who has been gone so long, to see all my old friends, and have all my old "problems" again with none of the burdens of being older. Enjoy your youth, folks, because it goes so fast.
The pull to go back is real, but yet it is part if who we are, yet the longing is deep.
I was 15. You are so right.
Now just faded to the bittersweet memories. Like one day everything will be more reason to love the shit out of now, the mystery of life #forevergreatful.
I was a junior in high school and i wish i could go back one more time. Those days problems i would do it over, forget now.
God this comment got to me. I'm not that old but I feel exactly what you said.... My early 20s in college. My problems were girls and life dreams. My mom would always give me advice. She loved this song so much. I lost her 2 years ago tragically. I would give anything to go back to that time. Her giving me advice that I would shrug off.
1985, I was 21, best time of my life. Now 58, I shed a tear for lost youth.
I was also 21 in 1985,,, the sad part of it is living through the best time of our lives , and we didn't have a clue. My dad, rest in peace, used to tell me back then,
"life is hard, life is beautiful, but life is incredibly too short" . I didn't understand. Now I do.
Keep on goin, life could be a loop I think !
: )
I was born in 1985. I share that in common with this song which is news to me. I didn't know this song came out in 85 until I saw this comment.
Hell awaits you.
I am one year behind you, as it sure was a much better time to get our kicks. Now 59, I realize that everything in this crazy world is actually cyclical. Peace always...
STILL LISTENING IN 2024. 🎶 And I am a 1955 baby with two 1980's sons ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Awesome! Good for you! Glad you too have made it this far
Good for you bro.i have 2 kids too.they are grown up and on their own .now im a pop of 3 beautiful grand kids .❤❤
So am I lovely song😊 ❤
I told my wife the other day, that I remember to this day waking up on a Saturday morning in 1985, early morning sun shining through the curtains, and this song playing on the radio, and realising in that moment, that life could not get better than this ...
It's realiZing lol
@@rustyzahn8739 Nope, just like there is no such thing as 'color' or ' aluminum' 😃
I don't know exactly why, but this comment really touched me. There's a lot inside that sentence. Thanks for sharing it.
And yet it got better.
So you told your wife that you were happiest, before you met her?. What a guy
It's 2020...Dream Academy gave us this gift 35 years ago...I have never heard a song quite like this one...It's just so smooth & lovely...Who is with me? Love It!
Total Ear Magic.
😑😒😍😏😌😍😎
Im with you
Im with you. Underrated song,very smooth,tender atmosphere
"Loved/Love" it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! after "all" these years etc..........there,s something about this song as soon as it starts "takes" you straight back then etc as if time "hasn,t passed". x x x x
If you only have one hit song. This should be it. 😎
At 79, I still remember the 80's with a full heart, the music, the time of life, the wonder of life itself. What a great set of memories that these songs bring back.
God bless you
That's strange. I grew up in the 1980's and it was an unbearably grim and soulless experience. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, new conservatism, the cold war, nuclear threat, hunger strikers, apartheid, the birth of me culture and the worship of mass consumerism on a scale unseen before, the emergence of AIDS and the out and out hatred of homosexuals, one of the worst famines in recorded history in the region of Ethiopia, rampant racism and sectarian violence on the streets of Britain, terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, the Falklands War, mass unemployment....oh yeah, and yuppies.
@@AnthonyMonaghan oh man you would have loved the 1880's!! haha t a r d
@@timpavilion3156 Oh dear.
I'm 50 and still 1 of my favorite songs. Peace to you :D The 80's was incredible!
To be back in 1985 again just 15 years old, God were did the time go, such an amazing decade, not a worry in the world, hanging out in the basement with all your friends listening to this music, playing cards, board games like Clue, Monopoly, Risk, Scrabble and riding big wheels down the steepest road playing football in the snow i can go on and on, I miss you 80's
I was 30 in '85 and still think the same... A greta song, where has the time gone, I'll be 69 this year and can't help thinking not long to go now... A bit melancholy I know but such is life.
Music, how it brings back all those beautiful memories. It is just wonderful.
Watching my Chicago Bears win the Super Bowl & going to detention for cutting up in class! Times of my life!
@@user-jq4mw9yb6jlol. Detention….. I do remember.
18 in 1985.....those were great times!
As a 14 year old back in 1985 I approve all the messages here and this great Dream Academy song. It was a pleasure seeing the video for the first time that year.
A song about nostalgia for the 60s makes us nostalgic for the 80s. This is the power of poetry and sound when applied in the right way. RIP Nick Drake.
Agreed.
Thank you for your comment. I never knew this about Nick Drake. I learned something new today. I've loved this song and wondered who it was about or what it was about. Thank you. 💗
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake
Sorry the 1980s are not coming back
Nick Drake lived before my time, wrote/sang "River Man", a moody piece tinged with nostalgia. I had to look him up. Thanks
Beautiful words
Why does this song still reduce an old man to tears? Oh what I would give to return to that magical time of my life known simply as the eighties.
oh you are SO right, i still long for those warm 80's days in L.A.
at least we got to experience it, you know? our youth will never get to experience that, we've been given a gift:)
Dean Oliver
With that magic fire living in us that lived those years.....we shall never grow old my brother, keep singing along..
..don't forget that the political deep state satanists and their minions were long in power back then preparing for their nwo communist world government and our destruction and complete enslavement. You see what they did right now..and we just didn't know it back then. We need to pray Trump is on the right side of humanity trying to destroy them and Q is legit or we're lost.
whiteonyx11
No, what I won’t forget is that our Savior is not D Trump, although I am proud he is our President. This was all planned from the beginning, nothing is lost, this world model was destined to be done away with, and Satan did not plan that, he just thinks he did..
i understand . im 50 and feel older than that . where are skating rinks and arcades and fun ? in my dreams sometimes im there and wake up and get pissed . damn.
The 80’s. MTV. The style. The everything. It will never happen again. We lived in a very unique decade that is now only a part of history. We will always have this music though. No one can take this away from us who lived in this time. I may be sad for it, but I lived it.
Robert Sanko Amen!! I miss those days when music was great!
So damn frickin true Robert Sanko.👍Rock on brother
Your words brought a lump to my throat.
You're right Robert. A huge part of the fabric of my growing up years in the 80's was our awesome music. Not to mention our movies! Such powerful memories & emotions.
It's true, it's a shame the kiddies don't understand. These days when I go into a pub every television plays sports. Baseball, hockey, whatever is in season. In the 80's every TV was on MTV and it was non stop music and videos. They wrote the book on music vids and it really was a different atmosphere.
If it weren't for Buckley's angel, i wouldn't know about this song.
Thank you, Mike Judge.
I was trying so hard to remember in what animated movie or show I heard this song. Thank you. I could have sworn it was some Disney movie, but no…Buckley’s Angel.
Lol! That’s why I’m here 👑🗻
@@ethanhouston2433same 😂😂😂😂
Dear buckleys angel, please bring me a woman. Any woman. Love Bill
@@dogdonut
"I have a message from Jesus, something about how you suck at beauty school, except worded nicer. Here it is:
"Luanne, you really suck at beauty school. Drop out. Love, Jesus."
Hm. He underlined "really." Guess it wasn't nicer."
I was 25 when this song came out. I"m 63 now but listening to this...I'm 25 again. This song makes me smile at the beauty of it, laugh when I think about the things I got up to back then, and cry a little at what was lost along the way. Words cannot express how much I love this song.
I hear you friend.!!
You’re my mother’s age and she loves this song, too, and now I do, as well ❤
My good friend and brother, I hope you live to be 100+
I was 25 also. Alas, life has really slipped by. This song never gets old.
@@Glyder1959 Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏
Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚
When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more.
So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀
More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays!
Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔
Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all.
Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉
Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s.
Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED.
Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time.
Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦
Um-hum, aha, okay?
And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
Reminds me of simpler days. Before cell phones, computers, and the internet.
When we spoke face to face & hugged one another & shook hands.
Sadly, we all can't seem to live without any of those technologies now.
A time before you would have been able to communicate the comment you made to millions of people. The irony !!
@@alexgreen5064 You are absolutely correct. Hence the reflection on days gone by.
i mean im sure this song reminds you of past times as a person living in a town/city in new hampshire the feel this song gives off isn't too different from how life still feels in these towns when you went outside plenty of people go outside and are having social interactions if you fail too se that then thats on you
Everytime I hear a song from the 80s I get so lonely. I long for those days. What an era we had, truly wonderful.
Yes it was! Where did the yrs n music go?
As close as America will EVER GET to the 1950’s. Thank you Ronald Reagan!
@@karolinesmail489 remember the fashion lol, padded shoulders, high tops, pastel color clothes, trench coats, heavy metal backpatches. Yes the music especially, where did time go.
@@karolinesmail489 they sure went fast!
Like the 60's, those days are not gone if they are still within you.
This song is a timeless masterpiece, with a steady, powerful rhythm, a strong vocal performance, and a beautiful melody that just instantly calms you down. This song will forever be a 1980s gem
Sexy
It’s also an homage to Nick Drake. ❤
no, it's not an 80s gem, it's a timeless gem!!
It's dreamlike. Connects to a special kind of karma. Makes me feel like I'm blasting brainwaves. All of a sudden did, so I just think affirmatively, if that's the way to go.
It's so full of sweetness, isn't it?
Nothin will compare to the 80"s or 90's music GREAT TIMES ,NO rap crap !!!!!!
I'm 19 - playing random 80s songs to get my parents to guess who's singing it. This song comes on and the pair of them get these massive smiles on their faces, they love this song 💞💞
I bet they guess right just about every time.
Your a good daughter. Making memories!
More daughters like you,please.
@@sportsdogs7927 They do indeed! @Gregg Mireau and @James Hill Jr Thank you! Those comments made my day!!
Doing the same with my wife right now we're trying to stump each other with songs ages done pretty damn good lol
This song always makes me think of the people who I will never see again.
This comment struck a chord. Nailed it, Wow,
@@stevenw9824 thanks.
heaven someday
i believe you said it the best..... about seeing someone for the last time .
says it all.. ...people who may never be seen alive again😐
1963. We really did think the world would freeze & never change. We had J.F.K. & The Beatles. We had arrived. This song breaks my heart.
Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏
Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚
When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more.
So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀
More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays!
Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔
Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all.
Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉
Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s.
Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED.
Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time.
Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦
Um-hum, aha, okay?
And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
@@Ivylights ENDTIMES are near... Trust me on this! 😞
@@OtomoTenzi no such thing death is part of living you go on to a different dimension or you fail and game over or start over who really knows? No one is the answer. We live in a vibrational vortex and the energy we take and use and give back to source is how this game really works. You can choose to doom and gloom or choose to just embrace happiness. No big mystery stop trying to scare people. The fear in your life has only as much energy as you feed into it. Limits exist only on the mind. ✌🏼
@@Ivylights Michael Altman has said, that we all will be reunited with our alien creators after death, and then we shall become WHOLE again... 2215 A.D. 🙏ALTMAN BE PRAISED!!!🙏
@@OtomoTenzi I am not sure who that is. I do know reason a lot of people dying is because earth is traveling through a dark energy field hence all the intense natural disasters. This is all effecting the mood of the people. The young are more susceptible because they have not developed the tools to identify it and adjust.
Great memories from the 80's, who is listening in 2023!
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
listening in 2024. check out pub choir and sugarland with their covers.
I just looked it up!😊
2024
2024 here..
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
Yes very sobering thought
That's an amazing quote.
So beautiful. Brings me to tears.
Yes!
So true! Now you've gotten me to want to read some Tennessee Williams or see some of the movies he inspired. "Streetcar" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "Glass Menagerie". What a playwright. I was raised in the South & he & O'Neil got it so right! Thanks for the reminder!
Everyone in the comments section!
The 80's aren't gone. We lived the 80's and took it with us and it lives on today. We may not live in the physical years, but they are not over. We are the 80's and we take it with us wherever we go.
I really like the way you think and I agree. The spirit of the 80s are in my heart. I try to keep the fun, bright, bouncy lightness to things, even in bad times. And especially when I listen to the music....I’m there!
True, I am a product of the 60's, 70's, 80's.
Nothing can destroy the sweet, tender memories of another time, another place.
@@hell-sol5240 idiot
@@elizabethwallace3418 piss off ya little wanker
This song is one of those magnificent 80s anthems, a tribute to the best musical decade ever. 80s forever!
Not just music! The time was so damn great compared to now!
@@ed2kou1 yes it was for sure
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
I wish I could wake up to find today was just a bad dream, and it was still the 80's. I was Young had friends, and life was exciting, the music great. This is the perfect song, just love it. Brilliant lyrics sung with real emotion. Thank you for sharing. My best wishes to everyone out there.
😊
@@katieroller4812 Thank you Katie. When I've built my time machine, we are all going back.
Agreed!
19 and starting college at Holyoke Community College, while commuting from Elms College(which I would later transfer to). And Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out" 1982
Seriously
Did anyone else who grew up in the 80s think that things would always be that way?
J Bro I was a kid , believing that as an adult I’d enjoy that same world .... I was horribly mistaken 🥺 the magic was gone , from music , to people being social , to just enjoying the simple things
@@leary4170 same. I though that the world of the 80s would be the same world we lived in as adults. I never, ever imagined it would be like what it is now. Everything is so different and technological and it's strange seeing millenials everywhere.
Every generation believes this. Gen X marked the end of an era in more ways than one.
Yup me too miss the 80s
Brother I tell you......I feel the same way...I graduated in 84 n NEVER thought things would have changed so much...ppl don't think b4 they act...don't care about anyone else but themselves . It's crazy. Back in the 80s it was GREAT. Carefree..easy going..How I wish we could go back and start over n not let social media take over. ANYWAY...ROCK ON FRIENDS. KEEP ROKN THE 80S...LATERS👋🤘
"The morning lasted all day" is one of the great lines, poetry or prose, of any and all times.
agreed, poetry pure and simple
Agree--too bad it's not true. I'll be 60 in two months and, well, I just can't believe it.
@@michaelanderson2881 Whats not true? I'm 62 and remember the English summer mornings when I lay on the grass in the garden and listened to the birds and life going on around me. Life seemed slow and warm and safe.
Rainy days exploring the attics and winter days stamping footprints into frost or tracing my fingers over frost patterns on the window.
Playing games in the snow, catching snowflakes.
I'm West Country not Nothern but the gentle nostalgia for those times makes me smile.
( I remember watching JFK's funeral with my parents-didn't understand why, just remember Jon Jon holding his mother's hand.
I also remember the storm of '63. Our trees blew down in the orchard and the door to the roof was blown off and snow got in to our upper storey. Our 300 year old front door splintered from the cold and we had to get a new one).
@@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138 So you're saying that time passes. The OP doesn't seem to say that. If the morning lasted all day, we'd never reach evening, and we'd all still be young.
So it's a great line. Too bad it's not true.
Agreed. Perfect description of childhood; or at least mine.
2024 and still listening...80's Baby...
Does anyone else feel like they're in a trance listening to their voices sing in harmony?
Gives me goosebumps.. :)
I dig the percussion in this with the fine piano
Cringe
Yes, often when I listen to Kim Wilde and Kirsty MacColl songs.
Yes so true...💯😇
ABSOLUTELY ❣️
I've read, somewhere, those of us who DO get goosebumps, when hearing certain songs, have something "unique" about us!
But for the life of me, I cannot remember WHAT it is!!
It's making crazy trying to remember... Maybe I can research it, and find it again!
It's a shame we have to get old.
Youth is wasted on the young. . .
It's getting older that gives us the perspective to understand this song, and the emotions it stirs.
no, then we can remember
Im more experienced..not old
Part of getting old(includes me),you can listen to any song that came out decades ago or recently(if that's what u like).
I was 15 in '85. Such great memories. I hope everyone enjoyed the 80's as much as I did. They weren't perfect but, well, yea they were.....
This song in 1986..I swear it felt like I could do anything. I was 14. This video would come on the original MTV at least 6 times a day every 4 hours for months and I would drop whatever I was doing to listen to it. It brought me calm and peace for 4 minutes. But we had so many songs like this back then. I wish I had a time machine. I would give up cell phones and internet just to experience for one more day.
I totally agree. The second best decade of music (the 60s was first) ever!
Word…
hi, im much younger than most ppl in the comments but I love this song! what other songs from the 80's were like this???
@@tamiparris3132 “Take on Me” by A-ha is another blockbuster hit. A little more techie, but hugely popular and still played today. “Africa” by Toto is another song that many remake and is attributed to its gentle sound. U2’s “With it Without You” has touched many souls deeply with Bono’s top notch vocals and great guitar rifts from “The Edge”. Journeys “Don’t Stop Believing” has got to round out this short list of many many great songs from the 80’s. There are literally hundreds of songs across many genres that are very enjoyable. I think that may be the best point of 80’s music, it all sounded good all while being distinct.
Amen to that! I was also 14. We thought we knew it all and wanted to grow up so fast. Looking back, we had everything, including really good music 🎶
Who agrees...This tune is hauntingly beautiful....It just is....Just so rhythmically cool and suave. Just dig it
Haunting is the most accurate description of this song. I know of no song that can evoke my emotions like this one.
Wish I could go back to the 80’s. Life was so much fun
You've commented a few times.I get it .this is one of those top ten songs.Enjoy 80's friend.
Lol. Matthew! U beat me to it
Oh, I totally agree! It makes you want to be back standing on the side of the street watching the parade go by eating a snow cone. With all the town folk there. And everyone knows each other. I so miss the 70s and 80s
"Buckley's Angel"
RIP Tom Petty and Brittany Murphy
@daphney bovil Buckley says Hey!
❤️❤️❤️
That’s what brought me here
That’s the reson I can here
hey
It’s a good song that one of my favorites from back in the day back in the hay day you can play this one over and over and over never gets boring never gets old A lot of stations played it when it came out way back in 85
I'm an Australian who visited the UK in the 90s. I couldn't get over how welcoming and friendly the people of northern England were to me. I've never forgotten you people. Love to you all from Brisbane.
You're welcome mate.👍
You should see it now.
Hope you're well, mate. From Blackpool.😄
It's a right shithole now. Tories fucked us, big time.
@@PatrickFDolan the 90's was an era that simply cannot ever be regained,
This has got to be one of the most beautifully crafted melodies I've heard. I've always loved this song. Peaceful and just amazing.
Shazara D I agree completely takes me to an era that i miss and loved.
@@kevinaldridge5130 I can just close my eyes and it takes me away, out of the present and into floating peacefulness. I just love this song. :)
I think this song is about the past and now that it is in the past, it haunts us
I love this one from Pink Floyd:
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@@kevinaldridge5130 ah also miss these days so much, 80's will always be special
Rest in peace Nick Drake - the genius that quietly slipped away before anyone realised his brilliance. This song is a wonderful dedication to him and everything about the (very much missed) 70’s & 80’s.
I was born in 94, and this makes me feel meloncholy for a time I wasn't around for 😢
Well put.
I was 15. Man what I wouldn't to go back. Love the 80s. Great music and badass cars. Long live GENERATION X.
I feel the same way
Yeah. The Breakfast Club & MTV!!!!
One of myFAVE movies ever!!!!!
While my 1 wk old son was in the hospital having surgery I walked across the street to a college bookstore and bought this album. He's almost 35 yrs old now and everytime I hear it I reminded of how precious life is.
The magic of nostalgic time travel.
What an awesome memory!
Love is all it takes
God Blessed You 🙏
Mamba Ford
Ironic that most everyone on this thread is nostalgic about an 'eighties song that's nostalgic about the 'sixties.
i defy anyone becoming nostalgic about NOW
Kids who are about fifteen now will though, @@vincec3773. It's just normal. Everyone does. Sooner or later, we all put on the rose-colored glasses.
@@vincec3773 Dead right mate!
''The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.''
LP Hartley
@The What's Up - The Band thats right
This song gives me chills still today. Always loved the chorus especially. ❤ Hauntingly beautiful.
Yes
So are you from what I can tell. Want to hook up and listen?
❤
Agreed.......still a beautiful song....
I remember requesting this song to a local radio station once. I live in northern Saskatchewan (Christopher Lake) and work in Waskesiu. Tears me up just writing about this and listening to this song.
Ooft..Who remembers hearing this for the 1st time & hearing perfection?! 15yrs old in the kitchen doing " My turn of the dishes" ..Happy Days.
Miss the eighties every day, life was so simple then, friends were durable, unfettered. Music was amazing and ever-evolving. It was so easy to take people at face value, in comparison to everyone's "digital self" nowadays. I grew up in the South Suburbs of Chicago, where kids ran around on their BMX bikes and only had to check in or be home for supper, otherwise, hit the roller rink, or the arcade at the mall, shovel snow and save up for that Mongoose or Diamondback and hit that secret fishing hole just outside of town....
sounds very much like growing up here in Scotland. Simpler times for sure.
@@tweedy151
Life was very good here in Atlantic Canada.. the late 70s and early 80s was a great time for Beautiful
Songs.. miss them so so much.
Right now I would do anything if it was 1980 again (I was 20)
@@pegleg09able
I wish it was the 70s
Same reason as you
Roller rink, be home before the street light came on, arcades, stretch arm strong, pop rocks, and having no cell phones to where you actually had to communicate with others..... Ya miss those days as well.
I love this song . I remember playing it on the air back when it came out . I was working at KKJO 1550 AM in St. Joseph Missouri . It was one of the happiest times of my life working on a top 40 AM station. Every time I hear it , it transports me back to a simpler and happy time !
I always thought being a disk jockey would be fun. Working in the radio station and watching the workings. Just like the wolf man. But then I toured a radio station and watched an evenings broadcast and you basically sit in a room and drag and drop sound bites into slots all day then play on your phone or play solitaire. I just cried. They didn't even have a microphone in the room, they had a small closet sized room with a mic and if he needed to make an unprogramed announcement he flipped a switch went in there and recorded it or said it live and went back to his phone. I cried. I couldn't believe it. No disks no records, no talking or interacting with the airwaves.
@@dustywelchcraneman6614 Back in the 80's when I was on KKJO it was fun. We played records , or carts with songs on them. Some of the commercials were live and we ran out own boards. What you are describing is how it is nowadays. They've taken the heart out of radio , most of it is automated these days .... but it used to be fun and majical .
Me too
Hiya fellow Joe Townie. Listened to KKJO every night growing up. Such memories
This song makes me think of where I am now. Came from Texas to what I would consider a northern town to work the afternoon show on KGWY FM.
I don't care what anyone else says, the 80s is the best musical era ever!
ohh... how i miss the 80's. good health, the music, dancing at the Exit til 5 am, if i could go back for just one week.
I'm an American who lived in Northern England from 1979-81. The open scenes are a time machine for me... reminds me of being 19 again and experiencing "life in a northern town."
Hi Jeff, sincerely hope Us Northerners treated you well brother, regards from Sheffield England , keep the faith son
The Dream Academy wrote this song as a dedication to the late Nick Drake, an underappreciated folk artist in his prime. RIP Nick Drake, your short lived legacy lives on. 1948-1974
Oh thank you! I've always wondered who the song was about, never got around to looking it up!
Pink moon by Nick Drake is a Gem. Thanks for the info about the connection. I had no idea!
I grew up in Tanworth-in-arden not far from nick drakes family home. Very inspiring artist, as is this tribute to him.
The connection is the guitar Nick Drake posed with on the cover of Bryter Layter. The guitar came into the possession of Nick Laird-Clowes, the singer of the band some ten years later and it was used in the recording of the song.
Maybe he wasn't underappreciated. Maybe he was overappreciated... just wasn't any good. I mean to think one song about you was vastly more popular than your entire life's work says a lot about your life's work.
I was born in 1963. Love this song!
This song was played in one of King of the Hill episode where Buckley appeared as an angel and visited luanne. Definitely nostalgic!
unless you're just a hallucinogen of my mind.
One of my favorite episodes of that show dude
It was on tonight lol
That's where I first heard it!
I saw that episode 2 week's ago and I had to Google the episode to see who sang that song. I totally forgot that hit. I always loved it. I love it even more know.
A haunting & unusual song but in SUCH a good way !…..this just works on every level & still does even now 😊
"Before I go, can I have one last kiss?"
"No. That part's over."
Actually makes me cry every time
That was a good episode. I'm sad the show ended.
@@brandonmckown9952It was for the best. It started veering into Simpsons territory after the co-creator left.
@@JDoe-gf5oz definitely - this episode had heaps of heart.
what show are we talking about
@@makesfun1270 King of The Hill. The episode with Buckley's angel.
I'm 39 and I promise you nothing brings up amazing nostalgia like listening to the sounds of classic 80s songs. Long live the decade of unforgettable and heartwarming music that inspires generations.
I'm 61 and for me it was the 60's as well as the 70's and 80's!
@@davidtrousdale120 amen, I have an old soul as many would say . I listen to everything from the Benny Goodman orchestra to the Big Bopper to the Bar Kay's to Jackie Wilson to Buddy Holly to Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong. If I could I'd invest and open a true to form jazzy style club that takes you back to that era . Long Live the Era of Music .
To this day, I still haven't heard a song as melancholic and lonely as this one, and I hold it dear to me.
Check out "Linger" by The Cranberries. It's a tough one too.
Me too
it is very lonely and melancholic. You nailed it. It was also played at a memorial for all the lost astronauts of the Challenger explosion, which happened a year later in Jan, 1986. It really gives the song that much more of a sad tone.
"Walk Away" by Cast.
Hold it tight ✌️
Im sooo Glad i was brought up in my Northern Town ❤x im now 58..its 2023 God Help my lovely Grandson The country is Unrecognisable sooo sad 😔 x
Buckley's angel is watching over us all.
What? chicken butt.
hey.
Chicken thigh.
You have a birthmark on your butt the shape of a Honda key 🔑
This song by Dream Academy is proof, that Music is the best and only way to travel back in time.
What a name for a band!
Never looked at it that way...how very true!!!!
"can I have a last kiss?"
"no...that part is over..."
"why?"
"chicken thigh"
Buckley & LuAnne? She never stopped loving him. She loved her husband of course, but Buckley wss her first love.
I know those that didn't get to experience the 80's as they happened, get so tired of us saying it........ but DAMN, we had the best music ever. Rock, Pop, Country........just an incredible decade for music.
You got that right.❤ The 90s were the last years for great music.
I,ve always said this etc.............fab decade for music/film/tv series..,e,g....miami vice.........dallas............beverly hills cops starring Eddie Murphy.............could go on and on and on................
Also 70's.
What a magical song. As a 62 year old, this song takes me back to a much better time. And to be written as an elegy to Nick Drake just makes it even more precious
Ohh that is a good song to be a good friend to my family
I didn't know that. Poor Nick Drake flew away.
I hear you Joel,in same boat,but we not cast adrift.
60 year old here , I feel the exact same way , peace from Detroit MI.
as an ex-Michigander, this song always reminds me of the exodus of the young people from our hometown when the automotive industry was failing. eerie
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It's a great song. I wish I lived in a northern town, one where it gets cold and snows every winter.
This song always reminds me of when my sister and brother-in-law used to live in Waukegan, north of Chicago. A northern town!
I don't know but this song brings me tears. I suppose you can never go back to then! Such a wonderful time.
I just want climb into this song and stay there. . . forever.
You've put so eloquently a feeling I've been struggling to express. Thank you.
Definitely.
Your comment is the most accurately expressed desire of mine!
Mr. Bob Dobalina 👏
This. Yes. Please 💖
Anyone w a time machine?
I'm ready .... bags are packed 😎
Having an 80's-90's night in 2024. George Michael, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, R.E.M.
Lots of memories of the past flooding back.
Nothing quite like this song. So beautiful. Reminds me of my Midwest upbringing. FAVORITE
Rest in Peace Nick Drake (who this song was an elegy to). Known as the Vincent Van Gogh of music, he died before the world realised his talent...
"Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end."
And that's another great song
They never did, so long as we have the music and the memories.
I wish they hadn't ended
"With its ivory towers and its plastic flowers I wish I was back in 1981"
"We'd loot and burn, forever and a day."
To have these days again. Life was so simple. Miss the music the times and the life of then
I ( 69) have come to this song later than many of you! And all of your comments resonate with me! The song itself is magical but the connection to a time when we were all younger and the world was full of hope is a real emotion. I was busy raising a family when this was issued but I still remember those times with my parents and friends who have since departed this life with profound loss and sadness... the yearning will never leave us.. in many ways we were the last "golden" generation who believed in a brighter future and the music captured our dreams!
I'm 69 in a month. Your post touched me. We've experienced a lot of great music in our lifetime.
@@lindaweston4482 Thank you for your kind comment. Yes, we have been alive through a frankly amazing time in the world Linda... and we were so very lucky to have all of this music as a soundtrack to it all... and now it can serve to remind us of other times and places and most importantly of people!
With you brother 💪❤️
This is absolutely true what you say. I‘m 48 years old and yes, times were in some special way better than today.
I will never forget my childhood playing with friends outside without any cell phone or watch, just listening to the church bell.
Very magic song..
@@annetteripplinger7995 Magic is a very good description of both the song and our youth... as you say without watches, phones or all the other gadgets of today.. no social media, uniformity and conformity, cancel culture and mostly bland music. And the ability to play outside.. how precious! Maybe it's true we that we were a golden generation that will not be seen again for many a year... if ever!!
The 80s...simply put...THE GREATEST ERA/DECADE OF MUSIC TO EVER COME AROUND IN MY OPINION.
This takes me back to 1985 & being in 10th grade...such an easier & simpler way of life.
Much love from Mobile Alabama.
This is one of those magical songs that gives me a flood of nostalgia. It reminds me of being a young teen in the 80s when the song came out .It also reminds me of being a small child in Brooklyn in the early 70s. I know Brooklyn isn't technically a town, but we lived in a close knit neighborhood that felt more like a small town, rather than a borough within a big city.
When I hear this song, I think of those few winters that I got to enjoy playing in the snow before our family moved to Florida, where in never snows. But in a way, this song even reminds me of my childhood growing up in Miami, which obviously is neither northern, nor a town...but life was still so much more small town-like back then. We knew all our neighbors, we had block parties, all the kids would play outside until the streetlights came on. Anyway....I love this song.
You can write beautifully.
When's your book coming out, cause I would spend top dollar to continue reading the way I have just now.
@@warsameawale5449 Thank you. That was one of the nicest compliments I've ever received. If I ever write a book, I'll be sure to let you know and of course send you a free copy.
Ditto. But Chicago
It's about Northern England but it's great other people relate to it
Same here. My childhood was spent between Philadelphia then Clearwater Florida. The music got us through the culture shock.
I live in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland used to be a Steel Town. Then "All of the work shut down". Cleveland, Canton, Youngstown and other cities in Northeastern Ohio stopped producing steel and basically died. Now all of those neighborhoods that were so nice have become slums. This song brings me to tears thinking about how much everything changed for the worst.
I still love you, Ohio.😭😢💖
I was in Bowling Green freezing when this song came out
15 years old. Freshman in HS. Watchng my Chicago Bears win Super Bowl XX & cutting up in class!!! GREAT TIME TO BE ALIVE!!!!!
Getting my SNL on with "Da Bears".
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1985 I was 16 and now in 2021 I'm 52 I still enjoy listening to this song, the harmony's and rythm sounds breath taking; had so many cool friends back then...
So was I.
I still have the cool friends that matter at 53
Yeah me too. Best years and best memories
And in 20 years you will be 72, don’t waste a minute of it.
"Winter 1963. It felt like the world would freeze. With John F. Kennedy and the beatles" I love that
The very air sparkled.
That's Beatles
@@davidtrousdale120 must of autocorrected
The year I was born
@@verdant2215 That's must _have_ autocorrected. 😏 Must've is also ok. By the way, I love that lyric too.
I came down LSD to this song in 1985-thank U
Am I the only one who listens to this wonderful song again and again, because it takes a person to a different time, and good memories, and feeling of peace? What a soothing song
Simply, no.
NO
Currently 7.4 MILLION views! Nope, not just you. There's plenty of us😊
NO YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE
This masterpiece takes me back to my childhood when I was growing in a Northern Town. Back then everyone seemed to care for each other. That has long gone. Now everyone seems to be in a rush to go nowhere. I wish I could go back and visit my Northern Town. The last time I was there was in the summer of 2000 a long time ago
This is one of those songs that penetrates the soul and pulls at the heart. It evokes a feeling of a lost time which has gone forever. A time that had its struggles and troubles, but underneath there was a sense of freedom in which we all shared and long to return.
Bloody hell....well said... 👍
A poet could not have said that better.
Thats deep 😢
Perfectly said.. it’s crazy that soo many have the exact same feeling because sound and arrangement. What else can be done with this and How far can that go and causes this? Is it because of our age at the time we first heard or something else?
It's called feelings we all have them some open some not so good let's the toxicities of life go breath in the good positive energy 💪🙏 move forward no reverse think tanking .. a holes around every corner.
Ha!Ha! Nostalgia in 2023 for a song from the 80's about nostalgia for 1963.
I’m not from the 80s but when this song comes on... I am one
FEW SONGS CAPTURE NOSTALGIA AND MELANCHOLY AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME LIKE THIS ONE----IT WAS, AND IS, WONDERFUL!
Having David Gilmour as the producer of this track greatly helped it break into radio playlists in late 1985... I'd be honored if some fans of mid-80s British classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson on my YT channel in tribute to the era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and stay safe in the '020s.
Will Ritter didn’t know Mr Gilmour were the producer...
Enough reasons to breakthrough... uffff
Whattt? That’s crazy. I never would’ve guessed that. Thanks for that bit of trivia.
Thanks for the enlightenment. I had no idea David Gilmour was producer of this track. David Gilmour of obviously Pink Floyd 👍
And if I remember correctly, I think Paul Simon may have helped as well.
Decades later, so many remixes, covers, and etc and this song still hits and is inspirational to keep strong and move forward.
I was 15 when this came out. Thought my teens would last forever. Man they FLEW by! Miss the 80s so much
I’m so sad that I never got to experience a normal and happy childhood and teenage life, I’m currently 17 and things still aren’t getting any better. Maybe if I was born in a different family I would have been able to experience the joys that should happen in those years.
In the 80s the people looked back at the 60s like we look back at the 00s. That makes me feel quite old. Born in 79 and proud to be an 80s kid through and through. 🥰🥰
Born in 79 makes you 70s *baby* , and a half and half 80s kid and 90s kid. I was born in 88. I'm by no means an 80's kid. I'm a 80's baby and I'm a 90's/00's kid, as those were my adolescent years.
Unreal one of the most under rated songs of the 80s. Man do I miss those times.
This song still sounds fresh and new 31 years later.
They were brilliant.
Agree completely the timelessness of this makes it so brillant. It never had sounded worn out or cheesy it's an amazing tune.
It's because of the lyrics. Lyrics make the song.
Meade Music - Lyrics dont always make a song... You have to consider the beat and the instruments because without those then a song would be somebody speaking into a mic.... Nothing more or nothing less.
DNF Danninetyf singing is not speaking, and as a songwriter i disagree. The instruments are icing, but the lyrics can make or break, imo. This song well written. Other songs from the era sound dated by comparison.
avioncamper they put together just right not many bands can do that..
Dreams.... Without them, we do couldn't re- live the best years of our lives. A certain smell, a touch, especially a sound can cause your memory to flash those instances related to that Sense and you're once again, back in the moment, remembering every touch, feel, laugh, cry.... Missing the experience, good or bad, because it was the time in your life when you were young, had no real responsibility, weren't a child but you weren't quite grown. Yeah, dreams, gotta love them ❤
That is exactly why I love this music because it takes me back to times with no worries. Our parents hadall the worries
Before the cancer of Social Media set in, music meant something because we had real musicians to listen to. I’m now 61 and while I look back as these some of the best days of my life, it carries me forward with clear air.
I just love 💕 this song! I was 19 when I first heard Life In A Northern Town! It was on Christmas 🎄🎁 Eve 1985 when my brother Benny and my sister in-law lived with me at the time. My brother Benny had passed away in 2000, my Dad in 2012 and my Mom in March of this year 2023. My life has been turned inside out since 1985 but I still live in the same house but all alone now. I certainly miss the 1980s! They were the very best part of my life! The 2010s and 2020s have been very hard times for me! But at least I have very vibrant memories of my happier years when I was so much younger!
Such a nice song, reminds me of the 80s when life was simpler
And so much cooler.
We were on the brink of nuclear war with Russia. Yes, such a joyous carefree time... 🙄
This song took me back to my Hometown and my youth; A small New England town with a few hidden gems if you knew where to look. A diner, a cafe, an overlook, a wooded trail, a little spot on the bank of a river... Now I'm out in Ohio, living in the city, and desperately homesick. I miss the mountains, the trees, the clean air.
I listen to this, close my eyes, and I'm Home, if only for a moment.
Me to, this takes me back to winter in Harlan KY 16 owned my 73 mustang Life was simply wonderful 😢😢😢😢53 now in Florida married to a beautiful fl. Girl, can't believe it is 2023.
New England looks great, definitely going one day.
@@louwoo2264 I highly recommend it, if you get the chance.
American here, but to the people of Northern England: from *The Road to Wigan Pier* to this sublime, inimitable anthem- we are mindful of your history, and of who you are. Thank you, and God bless you. Peace.
✌️ I’m northern England & lived through that era,it was poor but magical and I loved every moment of it-wish I could go back 😢✌️
Another fine example of why 80's music is the best. Music and lyrics brought together to create a masterpiece.
Brings back great memories of a great time in my life. Miss my daddy so much.
My #1 favorite 80s song--which says a lot, because I LOVE 80s music, grew up on it, still listen to it routinely on Sirius XM... But this one is my top favorite of the decade.
Yup - mine, too