How would you even do that? Like only limit yourself to using tech that was only available in the 80s? Only wearing clothes and listening to music that was "in" during the 80s? To me that would be the only way to "stay in the 80s" but it would be very stupid to do so and no one is able to keep something like that up so what the hell do you even mean by this comment???
This track is such a trip on headphones, because all the perc and bass is hardpanned to the left and everything else to the right - try soloing it one side or the other, it's a completely different experience. It was getting to be a rare technique in the 80s and absolutely unheard of these days
@@wolfbirdhomestead600 in terms of crazy stereo stuff? If you go back to the 50s/60s its surprisingly common, one of the things the "remasters" do is move things into a more contemporary stereo spread. I think some versions of My Baby Shot Me Down by Nancy Sinatra have her voice isolated off to one side with the instruments on the other, I think thats the version they used for Kill Bill Not quite the same thing but also if you find the isolated guitars for something like GnR's Welcome to the Jungle you'll notice that each guitarist is hard-panned to the left and right and sometimes they're playing completely different things that get lost when it's in the full mix
@@CoiledasDevilry- A friend of mine had me record & mix a song of hers, and she told me she wanted it to sound like “Under My Thumb” by the Rolling Stones, which separates instruments by placing them far left & right, with full reverb on opposite sides. It blew my mind - the recording was successful, and I’ve used that technique a lot. Van Halen’s earlier records used it to great effect - it’s how “Unchained” sounds so huge.
@@moxyblackfiddlervery true but without Trevor Horn & The Art Of Noise musicians & recording engineers, non of this would have never happened….OMG, in 1982 this song was a Bi%#h to create. Took not weeks but months to edit all these sounds together with a real band (Art Of Noise) playing real instruments on top of all the Fairlight keyboard & IBM touchscreen efx’s going on this track which was all on recorded on magnetic tape to be edited with razor blades (not computer’s like they do today) for a final mixdown. I remember hearing Buffalo Gals on the radio in 1982 & seriously thought the record was skipping 😂😂😂 I remember when the song finally ended, a high school friend of mine & myself both looked at each other & said WTF was that😂😂😂….Buffalo Gals & Malcolm Mclaren for sure deserve’s too mentioned right along with Afrika Bambaataa, Kool DJ Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Kool Mo Dee, KRS One, Sugarhill Gang as one of precious few to help start freestyle & hip hop….R.I.P. Sexpistol Man🤟
The World's Famous Supreme Team Show ran all the beats basslines and scratching on this track but never seem to get any credit, I thank everyone who made this classic🙏
@@CHRISANDREOU4199 All Music Production & Mixing Duties handled by Trevor Horn, Gary Langan, Anne Dudley & J.J. Jeczlik, actually,…these 4 musicians would later be called THE ART OF NOISE….It was Malcolm McLarens idea to travel the for corners of the world to create the album DUCK ROCK & Producer Trevor Horn & his sound engineer Gary Langan went along with Malcolm to utilize all the music from around the world & all the unique samples they acquired for the Fairlight Computer when they returned back to Ztt Records London. WORLD FAMOUS SUPREME TEAM SHOW, are for the most part, 2 DJ’s who were massively popular & Trevor brought them both to London for vocal-ad libs & things for the Duck Rock LP…Art Of Noise is in charge of all the incredible music in terms of Malcolm’s Lp & various 12inch Singles related to the Duck Rock album….the HEY DJ 12inch one-off single has different musicians & production folks if that’s the song your referring too…..wish WORLD FAMOUS SUPREME TEAM SHOW made more records beside just that one😢….Trevor Horn & the Art Of Noise were way to busy after working with Malcom, they shifted there work duties to Frankie Goes To Holly, ABC & the massive YES 90125 LP…..wow, 1982/83 was one hell of a year in music for these lads…..
Dude also managed the pioneers of punk rock, punk rock wasn’t that big and the Sex Pistols are the definition of punk but Ramones got the spotlight and praise because of how much albums and hits they have
One of THE most important tunes and videos of my growing up. I’d heard nothing like it before when it came out. It was a calling card for the next few years after. To say I love it is an understatement. I know ppl moan about Malcom McClaren piggybacking on other ppls talent but he certainly had his finger on the pulse when this one came out. And for that I’m forever grateful.
Its a very weird track. The people who made this hadn't really heard Hip Hop and were just sort of making it from having it described to them. It doesn't really sound like anything else and the break dancing looked weird as hell back when this came out too because very few people outside NYC had ever seen it.
@@uv77mc85 It was not weird it was mind blowing to the creative people that were all in Hip Hop. Especially The DJ's like me back then. And the break dancing was The Rock Steady Crew from NY. One of the originators.
@@mvj1153 The only way you were a hip hop DJ when this came out was if you lived in The Bronx. Infact this wasn't even called hip hop in Europe then. It was called electro funk so stop lying.
@@uv77mc85 You don't think there were no Hip Hop Dj's outside of New York by the time this song came out? lol It came out in 1983 and I was 16 years old Djing all Hip Hop (and Electro Funk) in my neighborhood. People threw block parties back then. And the DJ's were playing it on the radio too. What are you talking about? And I'm not from NY or Europe. And it wasn't weird it was groundbreaking. lol How old are you? You don't even know what you're talking about. By that time Hip Hop been spread out of New York and to other states close to NY. Act like you know.
The good ole days... it was a privilege to be there in NYC watching hip hop be born! I remember all those crews. Rock Steady from the Bronx, GFW (Grand Floor Wizards) from Brooklyn.... and many other dope crews out there at that time. It was definitely a privilege.
Man, that must have been something! I watched it happening on TV from the West Coast, but must've been something to be there in NY in those early days.
World Famous Supreme Team, I love how the snatches of phone call conversations with the World's Famous are sampled and thrown into the mix here. Man this tune goes through some serious changes of gear. So many cultures, styles and beats thrown into Malcolm's mixing bowl. We were all getting a glimpse into of the future of music right here.
@@chuxchix5362 It wasn't made by the supreme team lol. trevor horn asked them what their favourite beat was and then he programmed a version of it into a Linndrum. That was their contribution. Oh and some samples of their radio show. The record was written and performed by Trevor Horn and Ann Dudley and the other art of noise people who were in the studio at the time.
Born in 71. Listened to a lot of rock. A lot of Motown. Flash forward to the 80s. Here comes this $hit. How peeeeerfect. Classic. Timeless. To good to be true. Malcolm you changed my life Bro
Back in the eighties, this started it all for me. I saw these amazing rock steady crew guys and it blew my mind. Had to do it too, and I did, Today I'm 50 looking at these days with longing. This is a huge song
I was a BBoy in 1982 ... in England :-) My friend had a some relatives living in the US, who were posting cassettes to him, with recordings of Red Alert & Chuck Chillout radio shows and that's where we heard the music first.
Amazing! Never gets old! Back in the days of giant speakers on basketball courts...this was one song that made everyone dance or sing along. It was a great time to be young in NYC for sure.
THE FIRST EVER music video to introduce the Hip Hop culture / street music to the masses beyond NYC ! it was a culture shock when we first watched this video (and that crazy Beat/mixing/scratch of course 😉 ) on TOTPS back in 1982 ! 😎👍 R.I.P. Malcolm , a true musical genius across various genres
Groundbreaking, haunting, such depth and quality. Absolute masterpiece We were truly blessed, And it honestly felt like that at the time. You could just feel we were riding the wave of something massive. God I wish I could just go back there, Even just to watch, Catch a glimpse. I'll be 50 soon. This track makes me cry
Big Fat Rotund facts. Above the game right here. Like Aliens landing on the planet > Here comes Malcolm McLaren. I mean Jeeeez...... How much better does it get than this?
Damn I'm 53 here in 2020 and still got them early 80s moves lowrider shows are a blast when they jam this and we old school cats start doing some breakdance moves
Brings back memories, from back in the day. My 7th grade Brooklyn classmate ( rapper known as Chubb Rock) tought me how to scratch and mix off this song. He's one hell of a DJ, before he went into rapping.🤔😎
THIS SONG! This was my intro thesis to hip hop! I had a partner from the Bronx, he played this for me in Texas. At first I said WTF. After hearing it about 3 times it sunk in and I have never looked back. Glad to see I watched the progression of Hip Hop, Rap grow from a vine in concrete into a full grown tree and now a forest. Thanks VIC.
Buffalo Girls go around the outside love the scratching and breakdancing there's abit of a beat i think Herbie Hancock got in his gem Rock It he merges every genre in his Music underated a legend doesn't get played on any Radio Station shame he has alot of Songs but anyways hail the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s
Think everyone who lived the eighties has a favourite year from the decade. Mine was 1985, i was 21 with the world at my feet and felt like i was going to live forever. Would give anything to go back and do it all again
When i hear this song it takes me right back to my youth, it brilliantly captures that whole breakdancing movement of the 80s, Malcolm was a visionary ahead of his time when it came to music and creativity. The breakdown bit at 2:11 with the rap break just brings back so many memories.
And the amazing thing is that Malcolm really had no singing or musical talent of any kind. Producer Trevor Horn thought he was insane to think he could make an album. But somehow it all worked brilliantly.
I was born in 1967 but I'd go back to the 80's in a heartbeat if i could, it was by far the best decade ever especially for music and fashion in my opinion lot's of love from Carol in Nottingham UK xx ❤
40 years ago, Buffalo Gals became the best of Hip Hop sound, and some cool sounds from Trevor Horn. Got to love him! Plus Malcom was one of the best. When I first heard this very sample around my pre-adult years before I heard the rest, I could not stop dancing to it! It's got combination of Rodeos, and an old school beat, with all the scratching. All that scratching' is making me itch! R.I.P. for the Duck, Duck, Duck, Malcolm McLaren. 0:00 These artists brought me here, J Dilla, FSOL, and a few more.
Damn I miss the 80s was a good era a lots of memorie I was a b boy too back then RIP to all those b boys that past away young damn so sad from the boogie down Bronx 👍😎 Peace out
When this video first premiered on MTV in 1982, it helped spread the NYC B-boy culture worldwide. A lot of people's first exposure to B-boying and hip-hop culture was from this video. R.l.P. Buck 4, Kuriaki, Frosty Freeze RSC, Dondi Cia. ✌
Yup, all the way to the bottom of the world too. Every dance move was copied in New Zealand from this video until we started finding our own style. It went from Malcom to Grandmaster to Sugar hill to Zapp. It's still endless to this day.
Respect Albert, thanks for addressing the art by its real name "Bboying". I'm sick of people calling it breakdancing, they need to educate themselves & realise that was the commercial name given to it by the media. I started bboying in the Uk in 1982 as a first generation Bboy, & carried on for 34 years it was the greatest time ever so raw & real through those years. Peace brother
Wow. It is 2019 and I have encountered this hidden gem a few days ago. You get to see a time capsule of NYC in the 1980's and how this genre did NOT have any color barrier. You see white boys break dancing, people of all races just having fun and the singer who is English. This video should be studied for its original innovation
Who says the past was more racist than now? Would this happen today? No. People's attempt at not being racist makes em more racist. You either are or you aren't.
@@coreym162 would this happen today ? ....look at any footage from a rap show. Even split white, hispanic, asian...couple black kids. For sure any big pop or emo rapper. It actually look....just like this, even the fashion is back. For like a decade now.
The 80’s was it, best time to be alive. Everything was electric, music, movies, pop culture and people. I used to be in a dance crew, I still break out the occasional head and knee spin, I’m sure it will be the death of me one day, crumpled in a twisted heap in front of a party of family and friends
Can you think of a better way to go out? I'll be doing the singing part, that was my specialty. I still sing this one when I see a big girl with a bad attitude ( white girls included ( my sister ! )
I grew up in the 80s and it was a truly great period to be alive and experience what a time it was. Kids today live such restricted lives compared to how we did. You don’t even see kids playing outside anymore as their all indoors on their X box all day.
Thanks Malcolm for this brilliant conceptual song and video! After all these years, there's still a lot to unpack here! Combining the title of an old song (Buffalo Gals), American folk dance, a then new fad of scratching, a random radio station call-in to World's Famous Supreme Team used as a sample (all that scratchin's making me itch), British fashion, tribal inspired make-up, B-boys, South African Choir, and... Malcolm leading the promenade on a basketball court in New York City - all at the same time! (I'm sure I've skipped something.) Innovatively produced by Trevor Horn, the video is an important time capsule on several new international cultural movements... some still popular today, some completely underground even then.
Malcolm was very brilliant, but he wasn't a producer. He was the manager/hype guy. Trevor Horn from the group "The Buggles" was the Mastermind behind it along with the World Famous Supreme Team
Think from memory this song came out on a cassette album called 1982 the Strand. Loved this era. Lots of break dancing, great time as a teen ager in high school showing our mates whst moves we had. I still got some moves and i trip out the young one todsy lol 😋
FLIPS on Melrose.. Malcolm appeared with a ghetto blaster and Buffalo Gals on tape. Buffalo Gals played 3 times. I met a genius that day and I will never forget it.!.
Foi e ainda é muito Top!!! Que saudade dos meus anos 80!! Malcon Maclaren...Afrika Bambata... Run DMC.. Tom Tom Club e muitos outros que nos fizeram dançar, namorar e Viver um tempo mágico.... Hoje em 2020 saudosos vivemos está outrora em nossas recordações.
Yep it is. First heard it on a cassette tape ripped from the radio back in '83. I had never heard anything like it before, and I even remember the name of the girl who had sent in the request that they play it: Anita Kompomecki (or spelled Kompomäki maybe?) :)
58 years old and still looove this, this era and the Rock Steady Crew #babylove. Been a fan since the beginning of BBoys in the Netherlands thanks to my brother BBoy Carlos Alberto Rocha aka RHYTHMMATIC 🙌🏽
I remember hearing this in the summer of 1983 on the legendary 98.7 KISS FM NYC (RIP). It was on rotation back then on KISS. Back then you hardly heard songs like this come out on the radio but 98.7 kiss (RIP) was a pioneer on HIP HOP MUZIK. Every time I heard this I also heard "Sucker MC'S" and West Street Mob "Breakdance". Radio and MUZIK In the early 80's was so good. "Buffalo Gals" has to be considered as HIP HOP ROYALTY. PEACE OUT TO THE ROCK STEADY CREW! (Rest in peace) Buck 4, Kyriaki, Frosty Freeze, (RIP) DONDI, Malcolm McClaren 🙏
98.7 kiss was born in 1981 they started with dance tunes, not disco anymore but R&B dance hits Kashif, I Level, Melba Moore, Midnight Star "wet my whistle" MichaelJackson, Madonna,Prince etc lots of good dance songs.They had a D.j Shep Pettibone who mixed for them it was mostly dance hits.Kiss was the first radio station to include HIP HOP MUZIK on their rotation.
@@josefpulistar5144 Ah thanks, for arguments sake name me the more underground tunes from this era 1981, not the well known tunes but the tunes that people actually played before it was popular.
I remember first hearing this when we were playing handball over at Lincoln Terrace park (Brooklyn) and these two Puerto Rican chicks were playing it loud on a box and I said whose that and they said it was the Supreme Team and I was like wow! Since I had turntables, a mixer and all that I knew they were mixing those "dosi-doe" records that country ppl did those barn dances to back in those days and all I could think of was how genius that $hit was......Malcolm McLaren was next level and way ahead of the others.
I remember the instrumental was on one side of the speaker and the vocals on the other side of the speaker and you could turn the volume to one side and hear just the music without the vocals and turn the volume to the other speaker and you could hear just vocals. One of my favorite songs back then...That and Hobo Scratch and the whole World Famous Supreme Team Show Album.
Esta música, "Buffalo Girls", tem um lugar especial em meu coração. Ela foi a voz que me ajudou a descobrir minha verdadeira paixão musical. Vindo da zona sul de São Paulo, Brasil, eu não tinha acesso fácil à televisão e à diversidade musical que ela oferecia. No entanto, essa música encontrou o seu caminho até mim, e tudo mudou. "Buffalo Girls" é uma canção que transcende fronteiras e conecta pessoas de diferentes origens. Com sua batida contagiante e letras cativantes, ela me envolveu em um mundo de energia e liberdade. Quando eu a ouvi pela primeira vez, senti como se estivesse sendo transportado para além das barreiras físicas e limitações da minha realidade cotidiana. Essa música me mostrou que a música não tem fronteiras e que a paixão pela arte transcende qualquer barreira geográfica. Mesmo sem acesso fácil à TV, eu consegui encontrar uma joia musical que ressoou profundamente em mim. Isso despertou em mim um desejo fervoroso de explorar mais, de buscar outros ritmos e melodias que poderiam me mover da mesma maneira. Através da música, encontrei um senso de comunidade e pertencimento. Descobri que não estava sozinho em minha paixão pela música e que havia muitas outras pessoas ao redor do mundo que compartilhavam o mesmo amor. Essa música se tornou a trilha sonora dos meus dias, me inspirando e me motivando a seguir em frente, mesmo diante dos desafios. Portanto, dedico esta mensagem à música "Buffalo Girls". Ela foi a faísca que acendeu minha paixão pela música e me levou a explorar um universo sonoro diversificado e enriquecedor. Sou grato por essa experiência transformadora e por todas as vozes que contribuíram para a criação dessa canção incrível. Que "Buffalo Girls" continue a inspirar e conectar pessoas ao redor do mundo, assim como fez comigo. Que sua batida contagiante ecoe nos corações daqueles que a escutam, superando quaisquer limitações e fronteiras, levando alegria, liberdade e união a todos os amantes da música. Que a música sempre encontre um caminho para iluminar nossas vidas e nos lembrar da beleza e da diversidade do mundo ao nosso redor. E, acima de tudo, que nunca percamos a capacidade de nos maravilhar com a magia que a música tem em oferecer. Buffalo Girls, obrigado por me mostrar o poder da música e por me ajudar a encontrar meu caminho nesse vasto universo sonoro. Eu sempre vou carregar essa canção em meu coração e compartilhar sua mensagem com todos que cruzarem meu caminho. Com gratidão e admiração, Adailton São Paulo - BR
McLaren was inspired by Cool DJ Herc, Fab 5 Freddie, Sugar Hill Gang and Curtis Blow, Afriika Bambaata and The Soul Sonic Force and all the Underground Hip Hop NY Scene of the late 70's and early '80's....
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IF I HAD KNOWN LIFE WAS GONNA TURN OUT LIKE THIS I WOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE 80S.....
Yo know it!
I feel you one hundred fam...
Speaking of the 80's I once knew a guy named Marty McFly 👀😁
How would you even do that? Like only limit yourself to using tech that was only available in the 80s? Only wearing clothes and listening to music that was "in" during the 80s? To me that would be the only way to "stay in the 80s" but it would be very stupid to do so and no one is able to keep something like that up so what the hell do you even mean by this comment???
It HAS gotten rather ugly, hasn’t it?
‘80s Hip Hop culture was the best thing ever. I was on the West Coast, but we loved all this flavor that was coming from NYC.
Trevor Horn was the producer and it was his idea to introduce the scratching 👍
You know this is British ?
He was also Godfather of punk era scene - and manager of Sex Pistols he hand picked Jonny Rotten to be the singer
@@-RAMS-FAN 👍
May Malcolm McLaren RIP. Passed away 4/8/2010 at age 64 from peritoneal mesothelioma. Thanks for the lifetime memories.
He sure packed a lot in to those 64 years.
He was in his 30s most likely at this time.
I had no idea he was gone. Time catches up with all of us.
R.I.P.
Whats mesowhatsowhat?
This track is such a trip on headphones, because all the perc and bass is hardpanned to the left and everything else to the right - try soloing it one side or the other, it's a completely different experience. It was getting to be a rare technique in the 80s and absolutely unheard of these days
had to immediately bust out my headphones and relisten once i read your comment. Any other songs or artists you can recommend?
@@wolfbirdhomestead600 in terms of crazy stereo stuff? If you go back to the 50s/60s its surprisingly common, one of the things the "remasters" do is move things into a more contemporary stereo spread.
I think some versions of My Baby Shot Me Down by Nancy Sinatra have her voice isolated off to one side with the instruments on the other, I think thats the version they used for Kill Bill
Not quite the same thing but also if you find the isolated guitars for something like GnR's Welcome to the Jungle you'll notice that each guitarist is hard-panned to the left and right and sometimes they're playing completely different things that get lost when it's in the full mix
Omg ye
@@CoiledasDevilry- A friend of mine had me record & mix a song of hers, and she told me she wanted it to sound like “Under My Thumb” by the Rolling Stones, which separates instruments by placing them far left & right, with full reverb on opposite sides. It blew my mind - the recording was successful, and I’ve used that technique a lot. Van Halen’s earlier records used it to great effect - it’s how “Unchained” sounds so huge.
It’s called “Stereo”
Nothing better than These hip-hop/funk olschool from 1980s never dies such a great hit
Malcolm Mclaren never gets enough mentions for progressing B-boy/hip hop culture. Dude was way ahead of his time.
He appreciated Hip Hop when white America didn't take it seriously.
@@moxyblackfiddlervery true but without Trevor Horn & The Art Of Noise musicians & recording engineers, non of this would have never happened….OMG, in 1982 this song was a Bi%#h to create. Took not weeks but months to edit all these sounds together with a real band (Art Of Noise) playing real instruments on top of all the Fairlight keyboard & IBM touchscreen efx’s going on this track which was all on recorded on magnetic tape to be edited with razor blades (not computer’s like they do today) for a final mixdown. I remember hearing Buffalo Gals on the radio in 1982 & seriously thought the record was skipping 😂😂😂 I remember when the song finally ended, a high school friend of mine & myself both looked at each other & said WTF was that😂😂😂….Buffalo Gals & Malcolm Mclaren for sure deserve’s too mentioned right along with Afrika Bambaataa, Kool DJ Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Kool Mo Dee, KRS One, Sugarhill Gang as one of precious few to help start freestyle & hip hop….R.I.P. Sexpistol Man🤟
The World's Famous Supreme Team Show ran all the beats basslines and scratching on this track but never seem to get any credit,
I thank everyone who made this classic🙏
@@CHRISANDREOU4199 All Music Production & Mixing Duties handled by Trevor Horn, Gary Langan, Anne Dudley & J.J. Jeczlik, actually,…these 4 musicians would later be called THE ART OF NOISE….It was Malcolm McLarens idea to travel the for corners of the world to create the album DUCK ROCK & Producer Trevor Horn & his sound engineer Gary Langan went along with Malcolm to utilize all the music from around the world & all the unique samples they acquired for the Fairlight Computer when they returned back to Ztt Records London. WORLD FAMOUS SUPREME TEAM SHOW, are for the most part, 2 DJ’s who were massively popular & Trevor brought them both to London for vocal-ad libs & things for the Duck Rock LP…Art Of Noise is in charge of all the incredible music in terms of Malcolm’s Lp & various 12inch Singles related to the Duck Rock album….the HEY DJ 12inch one-off single has different musicians & production folks if that’s the song your referring too…..wish WORLD FAMOUS SUPREME TEAM SHOW made more records beside just that one😢….Trevor Horn & the Art Of Noise were way to busy after working with Malcom, they shifted there work duties to Frankie Goes To Holly, ABC & the massive YES 90125 LP…..wow, 1982/83 was one hell of a year in music for these lads…..
Dude also managed the pioneers of punk rock, punk rock wasn’t that big and the Sex Pistols are the definition of punk but Ramones got the spotlight and praise because of how much albums and hits they have
One of THE most important tunes and videos of my growing up. I’d heard nothing like it before when it came out.
It was a calling card for the next few years after. To say I love it is an understatement.
I know ppl moan about Malcom McClaren piggybacking on other ppls talent but he certainly had his finger on the pulse when this one came out. And for that I’m forever grateful.
Totally agree. This was and still is gold
It comes across as a short documentary rather than a music video. The biggest drawback is McLaren's voice. He can't sing for toffee.
This was a totally groundbreaking track. Still sounds fresh today!
Its a very weird track. The people who made this hadn't really heard Hip Hop and were just sort of making it from having it described to them. It doesn't really sound like anything else and the break dancing looked weird as hell back when this came out too because very few people outside NYC had ever seen it.
@@uv77mc85 It was not weird it was mind blowing to the creative people that were all in Hip Hop. Especially The DJ's like me back then. And the break dancing was The Rock Steady Crew from NY. One of the originators.
@@mvj1153 The only way you were a hip hop DJ when this came out was if you lived in The Bronx. Infact this wasn't even called hip hop in Europe then. It was called electro funk so stop lying.
@@uv77mc85 You don't think there were no Hip Hop Dj's outside of New York by the time this song came out? lol It came out in 1983 and I was 16 years old Djing all Hip Hop (and Electro Funk) in my neighborhood. People threw block parties back then. And the DJ's were playing it on the radio too. What are you talking about? And I'm not from NY or Europe. And it wasn't weird it was groundbreaking. lol How old are you? You don't even know what you're talking about. By that time Hip Hop been spread out of New York and to other states close to NY. Act like you know.
@@mvj1153 It didnt come out in 83. It was 82 and you were not a "hip hop" DJ then.
About to be 57 in a week.i was born&bred on hip hop like this❤
54 by september first days
About to be 62, still love this song
A pity.
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musica nao tem idade a nao ser que for modinha 😁
51 years old born in 71 UK,still listening to this,
and will continue to listen to this until they put me in a box😁
Buffalo box
Man ot takes me back to my crew performing on Hollywood Blvd
Yeah Mal And Viv.Buffalo is still a great tune,so long ago. RIP Mal and Viv.🐃💕🙏n Sid🇬🇧
'73 👍
The good ole days... it was a privilege to be there in NYC watching hip hop be born! I remember all those crews. Rock Steady from the Bronx, GFW (Grand Floor Wizards) from Brooklyn.... and many other dope crews out there at that time. It was definitely a privilege.
Dex. Camerón I was there too. It was special. Kids are corny now.
Peter Zacco - You are right, they don't have a clue. The hip hop art form has been diluted so much I don't recognize it anymore.
Kendrick and J Cole still keeping the true essence of hip hop.
Man, that must have been something! I watched it happening on TV from the West Coast, but must've been something to be there in NY in those early days.
@@Norwalquero - It was my brother.
A time when the hip hop culture was at it's full bloom. Basically the golden time of hip hop, thank god I lived that time. 54 years old now.
Same here. Still rocking this jam and many others.
Was beginning of hip hop don't you agree
Gen X represent.
Still rockin man
age is bullshit a bullsht concept from
The man, do want you wanna do and be who you wanna be
Yes. And I recognize all the samples. Yes, New York back in the day.
World Famous Supreme Team, I love how the snatches of phone call conversations with the World's Famous are sampled and thrown into the mix here. Man this tune goes through some serious changes of gear. So many cultures, styles and beats thrown into Malcolm's mixing bowl. We were all getting a glimpse into of the future of music right here.
The song was made by the World Famous Supreme Team. They just didn't get the credit.
Errr think that was down to Mr Trevor Horn
@@chuxchix5362 It wasn't made by the supreme team lol. trevor horn asked them what their favourite beat was and then he programmed a version of it into a Linndrum. That was their contribution. Oh and some samples of their radio show. The record was written and performed by Trevor Horn and Ann Dudley and the other art of noise people who were in the studio at the time.
@@chuxchix5362
That was always Malcolm's MO
Born in 71. Listened to a lot of rock. A lot of Motown. Flash forward to the 80s. Here comes this $hit. How peeeeerfect. Classic. Timeless. To good to be true. Malcolm you changed my life Bro
*Fast forward
This song screams 80s!!! Classic just everything about this song is a masterpiece🤍
Back in the eighties, this started it all for me. I saw these amazing rock steady crew guys and it blew my mind. Had to do it too, and I did, Today I'm 50 looking at these days with longing.
This is a huge song
Dam...I feel you
I saw the break dancers in New York in 1984. How things have changed so much since then. Never forgot this track. Rock Steady Crew were awesome
It’s like being in Rome when Julius Caesar was in the consul.
Rock steadys still around and still legendary :) i meet ken swift when he cam hear to canada in 2006
I was a BBoy in 1982 ... in England :-)
My friend had a some relatives living in the US, who were posting cassettes to him, with recordings of Red Alert & Chuck Chillout radio shows and that's where we heard the music first.
Dj red alert goes berserk. Mr magic radio show and chuck chill out back in the early 80s.
Good times!
@@newzcutter Awesome times !
I loved the way he scratched the telephone ring tone when he said there was a caller on the line.
Ditto!!! I'm almost 54 and the 80s was my best decade.
Captured the hip hop culture in NYC in less than 4-mins
Truth
This music video feels like a documentary
This why i love TH-cam it takes me back in time with these amazing videos ❤
All that scratching is still making me itch in 2022
All these scratches is making me rich!
-T. Lodsofemone
Malcolm, World famous supreme team, rock steady crew and the buffalo collection by Vivian Westwood
Classic times and good quality
Superb!
I loved that collection, especially the skirts! I couldn't afford any of it! I wonder if any of the people in the video could?
Amazing! Never gets old! Back in the days of giant speakers on basketball courts...this was one song that made everyone dance or sing along. It was a great time to be young in NYC for sure.
Listen to all McLaren's recordings. Brilliant artist!
This was Music from another dimension.. the 80s was amazing 🎹❤️
Yes too.
THE FIRST EVER music video to introduce the Hip Hop culture / street music to the masses beyond NYC ! it was a culture shock when we first watched this video (and that crazy Beat/mixing/scratch of course 😉 ) on TOTPS back in 1982 ! 😎👍
R.I.P. Malcolm , a true musical genius across various genres
Groundbreaking, haunting, such depth and quality.
Absolute masterpiece
We were truly blessed,
And it honestly felt like that at the time.
You could just feel we were riding the wave of something massive.
God I wish I could just go back there,
Even just to watch,
Catch a glimpse.
I'll be 50 soon.
This track makes me cry
This song holds up well for those who loved it then. You either get it, or you don’t. Nothing today comes close
Indeed.
Rip Mr Malcolm McLaren!!!!! 💔💔💔💔💔 RIP Dondi 💔💔💔💔💔💔
Now RIP Vivian Westwood.Malcolms long time Partner in everything. Viv was a great supporter of Julian Assange.✨🇬🇧🇦🇺
Big Fat Rotund facts. Above the game right here. Like Aliens landing on the planet > Here comes Malcolm McLaren. I mean Jeeeez...... How much better does it get than this?
I bought the 45 of this and the lady that sold it thought it was trash. My mouth was wide open like wth you don't know diddley lady!!
Malcolm did so much for music punk and then hip hop he was a brilliant head of his time person
My god 🙏🏾 the best years of my life... growing up in this era💯😍😎
Damn I'm 53 here in 2020 and still got them early 80s moves lowrider shows are a blast when they jam this and we old school cats start doing some breakdance moves
I STILL HAVE 45RPM RECORD
Deeply longing for the days of my youth!!! The Mighty '80's!!! Miss it!!
Brings back memories, from back in the day. My 7th grade Brooklyn classmate ( rapper known as Chubb Rock) tought me how to scratch and mix off this song. He's one hell of a DJ, before he went into rapping.🤔😎
I'm 57 and still listen to this. Music rocked back then! Anyone remember Hey DJ ( play that song).
51 here. It has been a looooong time since I have heard this song.
your a cool cat.
Cox Gary yeah World Famous Supreme Team.
I'm 54 and still rocking this! Yes, I remember Hey DJ!
55 here. Hey DJ just play that song keep me dancing........
THIS SONG! This was my intro thesis to hip hop! I had a partner from the Bronx, he played this for me in Texas. At first I said WTF. After hearing it about 3 times it sunk in and I have never looked back. Glad to see I watched the progression of Hip Hop, Rap grow from a vine in concrete into a full grown tree and now a forest. Thanks VIC.
Malcolm Maclaren was great at picking up the new music genres in the 80s
Masterpiece. One of the most influential songs ever recorded.
Just ask Eminem, "two trailer park girls go round the outside, round the outside"
@moehammondmedia.......Mmm - very probably. But Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message' [also released in 1982] is arguably more influential.
@@thesoultwins72 i totally agree with you
Damn one if not the biggest breakdancing jam of all time, keep it it jamming 2023
World's Famous Supreme Team BROUGHT ME HERE
My childhood in 3 minutes and 43 seconds.🙏🏿
One of my all time favorite songs! This always takes me back to the good ol days.
Madame Butterfly version is still suck in my head after all these years.
Me too
@@racafritzI loved that too!
Damn, I was born in 1987 instead of 1967. I missed out on some real good times.
yes u did
I was born in 77 and got to grow up in the thick of it all!
Dude you would be 20 years older, take yo pic my guy
You definitely missed out on a lot of great music ps I was born in 67 lol
Don't worry it's all here.
Buffalo Girls go around the outside love the scratching and breakdancing there's abit of a beat i think Herbie Hancock got in his gem Rock It he merges every genre in his Music underated a legend doesn't get played on any Radio Station shame he has alot of Songs but anyways hail the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s
Think everyone who lived the eighties has a favourite year from the decade. Mine was 1985, i was 21 with the world at my feet and felt like i was going to live forever. Would give anything to go back and do it all again
This is the NYC I remember and love.
And I'm from the west coast, seemed like when we had to wait on the next best thing culturally, music wise coming from NY was the good DAZE!😉😎
Hello Martta!
@@dimitrisp.7781 Scarface? 😂
The *REAL* NYC.... B BOYIN HARDD LATE NIGHT IN THE PARK....
Same here Marrta K. I spent the summer and fall of '82 in NYC and this was playing. Happiest time of my life!
This takes me wayyyyyy back to the day of poppin, break dance battles, and when MCs and DJs had real talent on the mic and 1s and 2s.
When i hear this song it takes me right back to my youth, it brilliantly captures that whole breakdancing movement of the 80s, Malcolm was a visionary ahead of his time when it came to music and creativity. The breakdown bit at 2:11 with the rap break just brings back so many memories.
Yes the breakdown was definitely cool.
And the amazing thing is that Malcolm really had no singing or musical talent of any kind. Producer Trevor Horn thought he was insane to think he could make an album. But somehow it all worked brilliantly.
The bboy at 2:11 moves are incredible. I can never forget that bit. Awesome track, shout out the myths...legends... roc steady crew too.
@@69Mucci That's true. He wasn't a musiciaan of any kind.
McLaren and Art of noise, those were the days.
The Art of Noise were awesome.
Christopher Montoya I still have their albums stashed in my crates.
Christopher Montoya, you sure know good music 🎶 man
You ain't lyin....
Yep this is basically AoN directed by McLaren.
I was born in 1967 but I'd go back to the 80's in a heartbeat if i could, it was by far the best decade ever especially for music and fashion in my opinion lot's of love from Carol in Nottingham UK xx ❤
40 years ago, Buffalo Gals became the best of Hip Hop sound, and some cool sounds from Trevor Horn. Got to love him! Plus Malcom was one of the best. When I first heard this very sample around my pre-adult years before I heard the rest, I could not stop dancing to it! It's got combination of Rodeos, and an old school beat, with all the scratching. All that scratching' is making me itch!
R.I.P. for the Duck, Duck, Duck, Malcolm McLaren.
0:00 These artists brought me here, J Dilla, FSOL, and a few more.
Born 72’ popper/breaker at 8yr old , this era and music never gets old to me
hip hop for life ✌🏽❤ miss those days , timeless
Damn I miss the 80s was a good era a lots of memorie I was a b boy too back then RIP to all those b boys that past away young damn so sad from the boogie down Bronx 👍😎 Peace out
Thank you Malcom for all you discovered Rest in peace
When this video first premiered on MTV in 1982, it helped spread the NYC B-boy culture worldwide. A lot of people's first exposure to B-boying and hip-hop culture was from this video. R.l.P. Buck 4, Kuriaki, Frosty Freeze RSC, Dondi Cia. ✌
You know your music.
Yup, all the way to the bottom of the world too. Every dance move was copied in New Zealand from this video until we started finding our own style. It went from Malcom to Grandmaster to Sugar hill to Zapp. It's still endless to this day.
@G B Mr. Freeze, not Mr. Fresh.
Respect Albert, thanks for addressing the art by its real name "Bboying". I'm sick of people calling it breakdancing, they need to educate themselves & realise that was the commercial name given to it by the media. I started bboying in the Uk in 1982 as a first generation Bboy, & carried on for 34 years it was the greatest time ever so raw & real through those years. Peace brother
Word!
a timeless collision of streetwise new york hiphop, african vocal harmonies and a half-hearted hertfordshire barn dance.
so much style...creativity..and class....God bless Malcolm Mcclaren and The World Famous Supreme Team
Wow. It is 2019 and I have encountered this hidden gem a few days ago. You get to see a time capsule of NYC in the 1980's and how this genre did NOT have any color barrier. You see white boys break dancing, people of all races just having fun and the singer who is English. This video should be studied for its original innovation
Pharrell Williams must have studied it and stole Malcom's hat.
@@PAn-su3wy Must have.. He did steal samples from Marvin!
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Who says the past was more racist than now? Would this happen today? No. People's attempt at not being racist makes em more racist. You either are or you aren't.
@@coreym162 would this happen today ? ....look at any footage from a rap show. Even split white, hispanic, asian...couple black kids. For sure any big pop or emo rapper. It actually look....just like this, even the fashion is back. For like a decade now.
Nice move George! Right around the outside!
Song takes me back to junior high school in the early 80's when everyone was popping and locking.
So right💯🎯‼
Man...for real!
The 80’s was it, best time to be alive. Everything was electric, music, movies, pop culture and people. I used to be in a dance crew, I still break out the occasional head and knee spin, I’m sure it will be the death of me one day, crumpled in a twisted heap in front of a party of family and friends
Can you think of a better way to go out? I'll be doing the singing part, that was my specialty. I still sing this one when I see a big girl with a bad attitude ( white girls included ( my sister ! )
Yes..
What idiot would down vote this epic comment?
thats hilarious
I grew up in the 80s and it was a truly great period to be alive and experience what a time it was. Kids today live such restricted lives compared to how we did. You don’t even see kids playing outside anymore as their all indoors on their X box all day.
Thanks Malcolm for this brilliant conceptual song and video! After all these years, there's still a lot to unpack here! Combining the title of an old song (Buffalo Gals), American folk dance, a then new fad of scratching, a random radio station call-in to World's Famous Supreme Team used as a sample (all that scratchin's making me itch), British fashion, tribal inspired make-up, B-boys, South African Choir, and... Malcolm leading the promenade on a basketball court in New York City - all at the same time! (I'm sure I've skipped something.) Innovatively produced by Trevor Horn, the video is an important time capsule on several new international cultural movements... some still popular today, some completely underground even then.
Malcolm was very brilliant, but he wasn't a producer. He was the manager/hype guy. Trevor Horn from the group "The Buggles" was the Mastermind behind it along with the World Famous Supreme Team
@@fritzj6803 Yup, very true. And, I've already mentioned Trevor Horn as producer.
From Brasília/Brazil
Great Malcon, thnaks for to your music...
Awesome ❤ 80's was soo fun
I haven’t heard this track since the breaking days!!! Takes me right back to the good old days
I'll never forget the first time I saw/heard this. Pure magic. Eternally on my playlist. A real classic.
This classic song is perfect to break dance to RIP Malcolm Mclaren 🎤🎤🎤🎶🎵💪
Think from memory this song came out on a cassette album called 1982 the Strand. Loved this era. Lots of break dancing, great time as a teen ager in high school showing our mates whst moves we had. I still got some moves and i trip out the young one todsy lol 😋
FLIPS on Melrose..
Malcolm appeared with a ghetto blaster and Buffalo Gals on tape. Buffalo Gals played 3 times. I met a genius that day and I will never forget it.!.
@@CALIfotoSPUD THE GHETTO BLASTER,I REMEMBER THATLOL
This song brings back so many memories of simpler times. I wish I could go back to these happy and fun times.
The importance of this track and video was very important to Hip Hop during it's early 80's developmental faze . Trust me, I was there.
Brilliant !!! Ya gotta love Malcolm McLaren
A masterpiece. I remember hearing this when I was a kid. Along with the HOBO SCRATCH.
Hobo scratch I remember that lol
Did all the scratching make you itch? 🤔
Brilliant song. Innovative and exciting
With this Song and Video, Mclaren brought the hip hop culture to people who never heard about it before
Foi e ainda é muito Top!!!
Que saudade dos meus anos 80!!
Malcon Maclaren...Afrika Bambata... Run DMC.. Tom Tom Club e muitos outros que nos fizeram dançar, namorar e Viver um tempo mágico.... Hoje em 2020 saudosos vivemos está outrora em nossas recordações.
Yes! Time Zone with Afrika Babbata and World Destruction. Best song ever.
NOW IT'S 2022
Da um aperto no coração de escutar essas músicas dos anos 80 e viver agora e perceber que anos mágicos que se passaram e não volta mais.
Takes me back!! May 2022......
I don't know what actually made me search for this song today to listen to. Pure classic.
Elbin le mollo !!!
Happy new year 2021 !!!
Yep it is. First heard it on a cassette tape ripped from the radio back in '83. I had never heard anything like it before, and I even remember the name of the girl who had sent in the request that they play it: Anita Kompomecki (or spelled Kompomäki maybe?) :)
Haha! I did too
Eminem 👀😂
58 years old and still looove this, this era and the Rock Steady Crew #babylove.
Been a fan since the beginning of BBoys in the Netherlands thanks to my brother BBoy Carlos Alberto Rocha aka RHYTHMMATIC 🙌🏽
I remember hearing this in the summer of 1983 on the legendary 98.7 KISS FM NYC (RIP). It was on rotation back then on KISS. Back then you hardly heard songs like this come out on the radio but 98.7 kiss (RIP) was a pioneer on HIP HOP MUZIK. Every time I heard this I also heard "Sucker MC'S" and West Street Mob "Breakdance". Radio and MUZIK In the early 80's was so good. "Buffalo Gals" has to be considered as HIP HOP ROYALTY. PEACE OUT TO THE ROCK STEADY CREW! (Rest in peace) Buck 4, Kyriaki, Frosty Freeze, (RIP) DONDI, Malcolm
McClaren 🙏
Hi, was Latin hip hop big on Kiss Fm prior to HipHop. What did kiss play before 1983 ?
98.7 kiss was born in 1981 they started with dance tunes, not disco anymore but R&B dance hits Kashif, I Level, Melba Moore, Midnight Star "wet my whistle" MichaelJackson, Madonna,Prince etc lots of good dance songs.They had a D.j Shep Pettibone who mixed for them it was mostly dance hits.Kiss was the first radio station to include HIP HOP MUZIK on their rotation.
@@josefpulistar5144 Ah thanks, for arguments sake name me the more underground tunes from this era 1981, not the well known tunes but the tunes that people actually played before it was popular.
@@sirlordcomixx1 th-cam.com/video/Z_c5ij_tHYY/w-d-xo.html
You can also listen to part 2 on you tube. It was wonderful muzik. Check out D j Shep Pettibone he was a master on KISS becoming BIG.
I never get tired of listening to this song. !!!
I remember first hearing this when we were playing handball over at Lincoln Terrace park (Brooklyn) and these two Puerto Rican chicks were playing it loud on a box and I said whose that and they said it was the Supreme Team and I was like wow! Since I had turntables, a mixer and all that I knew they were mixing those "dosi-doe" records that country ppl did those barn dances to back in those days and all I could think of was how genius that $hit was......Malcolm McLaren was next level and way ahead of the others.
.....This and the song Buffalo Stance, are two rocking songs, with Buffalo in it...
I remember the instrumental was on one side of the speaker and the vocals on the other side of the speaker and you could turn the volume to one side and hear just the music without the vocals and turn the volume to the other speaker and you could hear just vocals. One of my favorite songs back then...That and Hobo Scratch and the whole World Famous Supreme Team Show Album.
Ahhh...memories.
I remember my mom tried breakdancing to this song back in the day, and I nearly died laughing. 👁👁😂
This song is still kick'in it. 80's Favorite at the Fun House NYC...😎🎉
This is right old school hip hop music one of my favorite songs
This takes me straight back to my days in break dance crews of the 80s
YUT
This is still amazing! After all these years!
Esta música, "Buffalo Girls", tem um lugar especial em meu coração. Ela foi a voz que me ajudou a descobrir minha verdadeira paixão musical. Vindo da zona sul de São Paulo, Brasil, eu não tinha acesso fácil à televisão e à diversidade musical que ela oferecia. No entanto, essa música encontrou o seu caminho até mim, e tudo mudou.
"Buffalo Girls" é uma canção que transcende fronteiras e conecta pessoas de diferentes origens. Com sua batida contagiante e letras cativantes, ela me envolveu em um mundo de energia e liberdade. Quando eu a ouvi pela primeira vez, senti como se estivesse sendo transportado para além das barreiras físicas e limitações da minha realidade cotidiana.
Essa música me mostrou que a música não tem fronteiras e que a paixão pela arte transcende qualquer barreira geográfica. Mesmo sem acesso fácil à TV, eu consegui encontrar uma joia musical que ressoou profundamente em mim. Isso despertou em mim um desejo fervoroso de explorar mais, de buscar outros ritmos e melodias que poderiam me mover da mesma maneira.
Através da música, encontrei um senso de comunidade e pertencimento. Descobri que não estava sozinho em minha paixão pela música e que havia muitas outras pessoas ao redor do mundo que compartilhavam o mesmo amor. Essa música se tornou a trilha sonora dos meus dias, me inspirando e me motivando a seguir em frente, mesmo diante dos desafios.
Portanto, dedico esta mensagem à música "Buffalo Girls". Ela foi a faísca que acendeu minha paixão pela música e me levou a explorar um universo sonoro diversificado e enriquecedor. Sou grato por essa experiência transformadora e por todas as vozes que contribuíram para a criação dessa canção incrível.
Que "Buffalo Girls" continue a inspirar e conectar pessoas ao redor do mundo, assim como fez comigo. Que sua batida contagiante ecoe nos corações daqueles que a escutam, superando quaisquer limitações e fronteiras, levando alegria, liberdade e união a todos os amantes da música.
Que a música sempre encontre um caminho para iluminar nossas vidas e nos lembrar da beleza e da diversidade do mundo ao nosso redor. E, acima de tudo, que nunca percamos a capacidade de nos maravilhar com a magia que a música tem em oferecer.
Buffalo Girls, obrigado por me mostrar o poder da música e por me ajudar a encontrar meu caminho nesse vasto universo sonoro. Eu sempre vou carregar essa canção em meu coração e compartilhar sua mensagem com todos que cruzarem meu caminho.
Com gratidão e admiração,
Adailton São Paulo - BR
Que homenagem ❤
The BADDEST BEAT I have ever heard!!!! Great song✊🏾🙏🏾
He sure put hip hop into the mainstream.
I was and still is a B-BOY FOR LIFE. STRAIGHT OUT OF BALTIMORE 😊😊❤
Man the good Ole days!!!!! Break Dancing!!! Woooohoooo !!!!!
McLaren was inspired by Cool DJ Herc, Fab 5 Freddie, Sugar Hill Gang and Curtis Blow, Afriika Bambaata and The Soul Sonic Force and all the Underground Hip Hop NY Scene of the late 70's and early '80's....
Back in the day, there was about 19 different versions. Loved everyone of them
This was our favorite song to breakdance in 83 in tijuas. Madame butterfly also a good song from malcolm.
Agreed. Should get more love than it does.
The rock steady crew! Awesome
2024, still rockin' this!
Raygun should've watched this.
Why don’t you bugger off with these inane repetitive questions?
3 Words for Malcolm McLaren. Grand Wizard Theodore.
The memories.....ahhh the 80's.
Top 5 destination for all time travelers.
Still have this on memory stick in my car..RIPMCLRMN.
😊
These are the real sounds back in the 80s and still is today ❤️