Being born 1976, i was of a good age to grow up through the 80's and i would love to be there still. I have 2 children now and i feel sorry for them as the world is now a hollow shell and fewer people say hello to you in the street. 80's forever when movies were corny and well odd, but they had the ability to make you feel euphoric when the karate kid wins the tournament or the starship music kicks in in mannequin. 80's music just makes you feel alive.
Admitably, I was simply born in 86 yet came to love the music from my birth decade. People like Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran to me have more musical talent then any of my generation.
Damn! I drank with this guy when he said he had a new song!! I asked him what he was going to call it and he said, "I don't know... New Song or something". It was 1982, I was just about 20 and he was a few years older than me (but looked younger!!) a mature student from the Royal Northern College of music which about 150 yards up from the Student Union Building which was opposite Manchester Polytechnic right next door to where the old BBC Oxford Road used to be where they showed the famous, 'Oxford Road Show" He used to rant on about his new Moog synthesiser he had called a memory Moog and for some silly reason he ended up with two of them which I've just noticed he had in the video of that song.. The next year after in 1983 I was in my year out at Wythenshawe College about 6 miles away and lost contact with him but when I stared work at Bonar Instruments for a year out in Industry this song hit the charts. It just didn't twig in my mind that it was Howard!! But when I saw now, 32 years later that he named it, 'new song' I was amazed. I would love to meet up with him again but I'm sure he's long gone into obscurity, secluded in some remote mansion somewhere.. Such is life. They were truly the best of times!!!
+quantumellon Howard has in no way long gone into obscurity! Though he's no longer in the mainstream charts (not that it matters - these days it's full of worthless, talentless manufactured pap), he's still very actively involved in music. New album ("Engage") was released early last year, and he continually tours both the UK and the USA. He also sounds just as good now as he did then. He's also a lovely guy and puts on a great show. Love your anecdote of meeting him just before he got his first hit btw!
+Chas D Agreed! I think he actually might still be touring. I wish I could sit down with Howard and get a more in depth explanation of the lyrics. I kinda get what he means but I can't help wonder how much deeper into the abyss those lyrics go into. :)
I don't know why so many people want to go back to the 80's...I spent most of them utterly depressed in a borstal-like boarding school in rural NZ with no technology or computers. NOW is better. This is the best song ever by the way.
Howard, you are one of the all-time greats, and sadly underappreciated. Your music means even more to me now then it did back then. Much Love, and thank you.
I agree. I was born in 76 too. & listened to very early 80s songs by my 2 older Sisters lol :) The world is Hollow now & the state this country is in too :/
howard jones was one of my favorites of those times! even with this song! Still sounds young and fresh today i think... and that cloth and hairstyle... my mother knitted me many similar pullovers at that time. Some of them i still have... :o) And yes... Long live the 80´s!
cocky bugger..... See him smiling when he was performing... He knew he had a serious winner.. God I miss those times. In those days I thought anything was possible and it was!!!
When I knew him his new wife was in Southampton running a produce wholsale business. He came across from Canada to go to Royal Northern College of Music at Manchester, UK. He was a few years older than me and I was about Summer term 83.
remember watching this on Top of the Pops as a 13 year old and thinking how cool it was.....crikey.....i've still got my history homework to do and its got to be in tomorrow!
Howard Jones es un genio . al ver como las personas tras de el sienten toda ese feeling de la cancion . me hubiera gustado estar en ese estudio ahi . debe haber sido algo grandioso. soy admirador incondicional de este Dios britanico en su genero . saludos desde Peru.
It was the Polytechnic of Central London - and we had media and film studies with TV and film studios on campus. I actually studied in the dubbing department with John Price (Audio). It was one of the best times of my life! Such a valuable and enriching time. This resulted in several qualifications, theoretical and practical in multi-media, journalism and media media production resulting 4 years later in a BA. Heading for a career in radio, I turned my love of music and production skills to DJing and working for myself - which was quite successful. I went on to sound tech for various bands around the U.K (none internationally known), and travelled abroad for a time DJing. Video production came, then of course the digital age, something this old analogue boy tries hard to get his head around, ha! I retired early from a diverse working life and I am currently enjoying putting together some TH-cam channels for history presentations, the usual 'how to' videos and local news and event coverage- all this low key and purely for fun. I have done voiceover work too. I have never seen it as work. Something I have enjoyed as I am one of those creative types, without being too clever, haha! I enjoy learning languages as a side track and speak fluent English and Spanish and I am currently studying Polish. Not easy for English speakers and more a challenge to keep the brain from seizing up, lol! (Seized up and left the building years ago!)
@WildBill6942 Im 23 im still giving you a thumbs up, born too late in '88 only I have the privilage of listening to REAL music on here and filling my iTunes with classic songs from the best decade.
the youngsters of today will say the same as you when they're your age now, it's been happening right the way back in history. Yes, the eighties is special to YOU because that was your era lol.
oh i so love this song .brilliant.i remember in 1983 when this came out.i love the 80s.its like only yesterday.what great music and times.everything was better then!loved the cars too!its one of them songs.gets you thinking and back on track.i love these proper old classic songs.70s and 80s were very good years for music.i wish i could go back too them times.😀😀.51 years old and still living the dream.back in the day.back too the future!fire the delorean up marty😃😁
2pm on a hot August afternoon, so hot you can smell the boardwalk at Wildwood NJ frying under you! The smells of pizza and cotton candy, the mechanical noise of the amusement piers, the seaguls and waves in the background, and a Howard Jones song blaring from a boombox on the beach or from one of the storefronts on the boardwalk. Howard Jones interrupted by "WATCH THE TRAM CAR, PLEASE!!" Time's up - you're back in 2010. :(
i agree its great to see that others think the same thing as i do bout great music back when i was growing up todays music i think is cheap half of todays artists cant write their own songs or even play an instrument, but i think the music of the 80s was most powerful becos there was such a great varity from pop, rock, disco, and, soul to love songs yep better than to days manufactured stuff
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Being born 1976, i was of a good age to grow up through the 80's and i would love to be there still. I have 2 children now and i feel sorry for them as the world is now a hollow shell and fewer people say hello to you in the street. 80's forever when movies were corny and well odd, but they had the ability to make you feel euphoric when the karate kid wins the tournament or the starship music kicks in in mannequin. 80's music just makes you feel alive.
Tengo 22 años, crecí escuchando estas canciones por mi mamá. Cómo me hubiera encantado nacer en los maravillosos años 80.
47 years old n I still LOVE this song :-)
sonia zapata same 😀 x
51 and love this song just like I did when it came out
where did the good ol days go, no music like this now....
Admitably, I was simply born in 86 yet came to love the music from my birth decade. People like Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran to me have more musical talent then any of my generation.
favourite song of all time....i ran a disco, i was 15..those days were great xx
terrific ..the 80s were the greatest decade
The 80's were indeed the best decade for as long as I've been alive. lol
Damn! I drank with this guy when he said he had a new song!! I asked him what he was going to call it and he said, "I don't know... New Song or something". It was 1982, I was just about 20 and he was a few years older than me (but looked younger!!) a mature student from the Royal Northern College of music which about 150 yards up from the Student Union Building which was opposite Manchester Polytechnic right next door to where the old BBC Oxford Road used to be where they showed the famous, 'Oxford Road Show" He used to rant on about his new Moog synthesiser he had called a memory Moog and for some silly reason he ended up with two of them which I've just noticed he had in the video of that song..
The next year after in 1983 I was in my year out at Wythenshawe College about 6 miles away and lost contact with him but when I stared work at Bonar Instruments for a year out in Industry this song hit the charts. It just didn't twig in my mind that it was Howard!! But when I saw now, 32 years later that he named it, 'new song' I was amazed. I would love to meet up with him again but I'm sure he's long gone into obscurity, secluded in some remote mansion somewhere.. Such is life. They were truly the best of times!!!
+quantumellon Howard has in no way long gone into obscurity! Though he's no longer in the mainstream charts (not that it matters - these days it's full of worthless, talentless manufactured pap), he's still very actively involved in music. New album ("Engage") was released early last year, and he continually tours both the UK and the USA. He also sounds just as good now as he did then. He's also a lovely guy and puts on a great show.
Love your anecdote of meeting him just before he got his first hit btw!
+Chas D Agreed! I think he actually might still be touring. I wish I could sit down with Howard and get a more in depth explanation of the lyrics. I kinda get what he means but I can't help wonder how much deeper into the abyss those lyrics go into. :)
Alain Corona Howard is doing a North American Tour this summer!
quantumellon
Amazing story mate love 80s music this is one of my favourites 🎧🎶👏
Lots of ways to contact him via his website -
www.howardjones.com/
The Great 80s.. Pop music at its best. Can't be compared with what we hear today.
I don't know why so many people want to go back to the 80's...I spent most of them utterly depressed in a borstal-like boarding school in rural NZ with no technology or computers. NOW is better. This is the best song ever by the way.
These were the days. Today's music is dead.
These songs seem to just get better and better with age.
195Bucks I couldn't have put it better friend :)
Howard, you are one of the all-time greats, and sadly underappreciated. Your music means even more to me now then it did back then. Much Love, and thank you.
33 years later... and this song is still NEW!!!!!
One of the best 80"s song, always can listen to it, never stop, great song
I was 17 at the time... Brings back good memories :)
I agree. I was born in 76 too. & listened to very early 80s songs by my 2 older Sisters lol :)
The world is Hollow now & the state this country is in too :/
the 80's at it's best, oh for a time machine.
Howard: one of the true electronic music pioneers :)
thank god for youtube. I just play my favourited list of songs when I'm at work instead of listening to the radio and this is going on it!!!!
This is awesome!
Love this I was 7 I did crack up but I'm going thru best part of my life. My favourite era early eighties
It is so brave of someone to write a positive song like this. Love the lyrics and the music. Kudos to Howard Jones and the mime artist.
Howard Jones changed my life.
another fantastic 1980s song.loved it ,in 1983, love it even more now 😀😀👍👍
This is one of my favourite songs ever. I have been listening to it regularly for more than twenty years.
I love him and his music!!! Since the 80`s !!!
When Jim Morisson said in the future one man will be the whole band he was talking about Howard Jones.
howard jones was one of my favorites of those times! even with this song! Still sounds young and fresh today i think... and that cloth and hairstyle... my mother knitted me many similar pullovers at that time. Some of them i still have... :o) And yes... Long live the 80´s!
I bought this 45 with the picture sleeve...in 1983.
STILL GOT IT !!😄
HJ is so talented. Things can only get better will always be my nostalgic fave. When I found out this BB track was by HJ I was like :-O Love this dude
When this was out I felt s million dollars I felt fresh alive I need to go back to that 😍 🙌
Still so good....
oh 1980's i was only a kid but i wish i was a teenager i get very nostalgic, the best music ever 1980's
Brilliant still.
This dude wrote so many timeless songs. Wow...still love this song all these years later.
love this song they really dont make tunes like these no more...todays so called groups suck come on bring back them great artists.xxx love it.xxx
Now 57 year old mind that like last week ,classic 😊👍
this is one of my favourite 80's! Oh, Howard is cool playing two synthesizers at the same time with one hand on each!
cocky bugger..... See him smiling when he was performing... He knew he had a serious winner.. God I miss those times. In those days I thought anything was possible and it was!!!
BRILLIANT!
THIS IS SUPERB. What quality. ALL videos on TH-cam should look and sound like this.
Agree! People were more free back then.A time when kids were allowed to play outside unlike today
first release from howard jones and still his best work classic!!!
I remember when I´d love this song at a dancehall when I was Young. It´s good to dance to.
I love all of his stuff.. i had such a crush on him when i was a kid. and frankly his new stuff is amazing :D
Fabulous song! The 80's were the best !
Just realized today that howard jones got my birthday. Thats something to be happy about lol
wow, my school mate, good memories xxx
+alli harris school mate?? He came from Canada...
+quantumellon No he moved to Canada in his teens - He comes from Southampton.
When I knew him his new wife was in Southampton running a produce wholsale business. He came across from Canada to go to Royal Northern College of Music at Manchester, UK. He was a few years older than me and I was about Summer term 83.
If you want to see how people dressed in the 80's, Howard Jones videos are a great place to look! :)
Love his songs.
reminds me of being in school in the 80's...... Howard Jones and Ged were geeeeeeeeezers back then........ respec..........
remember watching this on Top of the Pops as a 13 year old and thinking how cool it was.....crikey.....i've still got my history homework to do and its got to be in tomorrow!
Howard Jones es un genio . al ver como las personas tras de el sienten toda ese feeling de la cancion . me hubiera gustado estar en ese estudio ahi . debe haber sido algo grandioso. soy admirador incondicional de este Dios britanico en su genero . saludos desde Peru.
It was the Polytechnic of Central London - and we had media and film studies with TV and film studios on campus. I actually studied in the dubbing department with John Price (Audio). It was one of the best times of my life!
Such a valuable and enriching time. This resulted in several qualifications, theoretical and practical in multi-media, journalism and media media production resulting 4 years later in a BA.
Heading for a career in radio, I turned my love of music and production skills to DJing and working for myself - which was quite successful. I went on to sound tech for various bands around the U.K (none internationally known), and travelled abroad for a time DJing. Video production came, then of course the digital age, something this old analogue boy tries hard to get his head around, ha!
I retired early from a diverse working life and I am currently enjoying putting together some TH-cam channels for history presentations, the usual 'how to' videos and local news and event coverage- all this low key and purely for fun.
I have done voiceover work too. I have never seen it as work. Something I have enjoyed as I am one of those creative types, without being too clever, haha!
I enjoy learning languages as a side track and speak fluent English and Spanish and I am currently studying Polish. Not easy for English speakers and more a challenge to keep the brain from seizing up, lol! (Seized up and left the building years ago!)
Love It! My 6 and 4 year olds Love it too!
Awesome 80s
QUE HERMOSO TEMA DE LOS 80❤
Epic kick ass song. HJ built up the 80's.
@WildBill6942 Im 23 im still giving you a thumbs up, born too late in '88 only I have the privilage of listening to REAL music on here and filling my iTunes with classic songs from the best decade.
brillant song!! so him live 2 years ago,just as good now,should still be in the charts unlike the rubbish we have to listen to now!!!!
love this song i remember buying it so long ao but still love it roll on the 80,s
Thanks Howard for inspiring me to be a songwriter!
I was only 15 when this song came out. It was new then and it is still new now, 33 years later
GREAT CLASSICOLLECTION
I love this song!!!! Brings back a lot of GOOD memories!!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!
WOT A HAPPY SONG!!!,loved Howard Jones
I agree wi th you a 100%!!!!! I LOVE the music, the hair & the clothes! I`m totally an 80`s lady :)
It's very Cool!The best Song of Howard Jones!
80's forever!
Egyik nagy kedvencem az akkori diszkókból!
I'm so glad that some of the new kids are discovering this kind of music and are enjoying it as much as I did when I were their age.
Some people said: "80's was the last decade with their own identity". Checking the music evolution for thelast 20 years... i am agreed!!!
I wish I could go back in time & stay there where it was fun & comfortable, and to have the 1980 prices back again too would be nice!
pure classic totally thanks good and awesome
2:02 -2:27 I've had this as my ringtone for ages now... never get tired of it.
Good song..always in my heart
excellent song - it will always sound new
80s best decade ever so memories of my youth
the youngsters of today will say the same as you when they're your age now, it's been happening right the way back in history.
Yes, the eighties is special to YOU because that was your era lol.
Tune, just realising the great work Jones put out, all off the back of me looking up Roland 'keyboards', amazing what the 80's can throw up.
A really happy, feel good tune!
I watched him last night at the o2and it was like time stood still...Incredible evening
amazing song !!!
oh i so love this song .brilliant.i remember in 1983 when this came out.i love the 80s.its like only yesterday.what great music and times.everything was better then!loved the cars too!its one of them songs.gets you thinking and back on track.i love these proper old classic songs.70s and 80s were very good years for music.i wish i could go back too them times.😀😀.51 years old and still living the dream.back in the day.back too the future!fire the delorean up marty😃😁
i just love it madly 😍❤😍
I was soooo in love with Howard and his music, i had my hair identical :)
I was a kid when HJ was big with me!! Good times!! I'm so sad they're gone!>!
best synth riff ever
Genius and very fond memories of my youth. Thank you Howard!
1980-1990 music is unequalled
class of the 80s
2pm on a hot August afternoon, so hot you can smell the boardwalk at Wildwood NJ frying under you! The smells of pizza and cotton candy, the mechanical noise of the amusement piers, the seaguls and waves in the background, and a Howard Jones song blaring from a boombox on the beach or from one of the storefronts on the boardwalk. Howard Jones interrupted by "WATCH THE TRAM CAR, PLEASE!!"
Time's up - you're back in 2010. :(
i agree its great to see that others think the same thing as i do bout great music back when i was growing up todays music i think is cheap half of todays artists cant write their own songs or even play an instrument, but i think the music of the 80s was most powerful becos there was such a great varity from pop, rock, disco, and, soul to love songs yep better than to days manufactured stuff
Great Song
i just love the beat to this original howard jones video
Takes me right back this song loved it !
80s Rule best Time to be Here
I love this song xxxx
My mom used to bump this in our Chevy station wagon. Thanks mom. Timeless stuff.