I was a security guard in the 80's in Ottawa, and these guys had a concert at this venue. They were the nicest guys you'd ever meet, so nice to grunts like me, and they put on an awesome show.
It’s literally timeless. As long as this system goes on, we’ll always have “big shot politicians” and “ordinary people” who just want peace and “ordinary lives”…….🤔
I haven't seen or heard these songs for over 20 years. I've tried searching online but no sucess. Thank you!!! I saw these guys in Halifax in July 1990: they sounded just like you hear them here on TH-cam. The Box are truly a part of Canadian history and culture.
Had the absolute pleasure of seeing these guys live at McBowl on the weekend. Just blown away! all these years later, how relevant this song still is. The Box is one of the greatest Canadian bands hands down!!!
The singer is doing a Box 40th anniversary tour in Ontario right now! Boom 973 plays 3 of their songs and probably didnt even help mention the tour lol... cancon needs help.
This song has such a mid-80s vibe, makes me nostalgic. We forget now just how much the cold war and the risk of nuclear annihilation was on all our minds at that time. But also hopeful for the future. Maybe it's just nostalgia for my youth, but it seems like it was a better time in many ways (not all, to be sure, but many).
I gave a Russian student my Box cassette tape when I was in Vladivostok back in 1990. They loved the music and it probably was shared, taped, and played, maybe it spread across Russian itself. Perhaps the music of the Box actually had its small role in the end of the cold war, who knows.
Such a fantastic tune! I only "discovered" this band after seeing a performance of this song by the singer on some Quebec TV show a few years ago. I really wish they would have made it in the US. I missed out all these years.
Proud to be Canadian since a lot of Canadian artists didn’t make world fame. If I had been born elsewhere the likelihood of hearing great Canadian music would be slimmer.
Le QUÉBEC ne fait pas partie de votre constitution et nous ne sommes pas canadien. Qui veut ressembler au canada et à justin trudeau...parlant d'idiot et de raciste??!
I listened to this and it brought back alot of memmories . I am from Ontario and grew up with this most beautiful and amazing band in my youth . The box not only gave me and the world solice ! , but enabled me to take a minute and look at the world “ outside the box “….. Salut to a most wonderful collaberation of very talented artists.
I heard this song for the first time on Boom 97.3 and because of that sound like a hammer hitting something on an anvil got me hooked instantly. It's also has a unique subtext in the lyrics.
Apparently this band is playing at a bowling alley in Mississauga tomorrow night. After learning this I had to look up this song that I absolutely LOVED as a child lol it still slaps
I loved these guys ever since the first time I heard this song. This was the first song I heard of theirs so I listened to their other songs right away and loved them my whole life and will never stop loving these guys. We need more groups like THE BOX.
The Box were a good band, i remember my parents signing up for Columbia House back in 1986. One of the Cassettes they got was The Box Closer Together. Good Stuff
Here in 2021...Closer Together popped in my thoughts while listening to oldies rock radio. Undeniable nostalgia...80's... high-school...all that. Still love this band 😀🎷🎹🎼🎸🎶
What an astronomically 80's tune! But almost any decade after it smashes into would be astonished as it would still be a hit today! So much power in emotion and lyrics - so much still applies because despite what it was as an anti-nuke song, it's very true that only the delusional & the naive think the cold war is over...
I remember my dad just blasting this when I was around 12, yelling “we are UNORDINARY people” I know the lyrics are wrong but he taught me we’re all different and that’s okay!
I came hear from watching 1987 team brawl CAN vs USSR World Juniors tournament which reminded me of this song that I knew from watching CBC Video Hits back in the day
Gotta love this song: Francophone Quebeckers (who are Canadian) singing in English pretending to be Americans who wanted better relations with the former Soviet Union!
Canada's values have changed though. They may not have a heavy military presence. Just a couple months ago an article from a canadian newspaper was celebrating the brazil election of Bosonero because of businesses opportunity it would give to Canadian corporations that want access to brazil's natural resources.
What a great message to all people in the world ... we are all the same ... we are human ... stop letting psychopaths divide us for their purposes of control. We are the UNION OF HUMANS ... revel in our greatness not in our problems. Black blue green yellow red white I don't care ... gay straight whatever ... love our differences and love humans for our greatness. Only through a UNION of HUMANS can we survive on our Earth and try to ensure our species.
I super adore this song, it's a royal slap in the face to relentless partisan warlock ideology. I will love all these artists right up until I die. I swear it. FG.
All those cool Canadian bands with that sound in the mid-80s... The Boxx, The Parachute Club, The Spoons, Men Without Hats et al... Those were such good years... and I was young and pretty...
T'was in like 1987 in Ottawa that I saw this act The Box ... so it was like over 30 ago... omg. dont cry over my dying old age please thank you. FG In the USA in the USSR. :,,-(.
This music video is one of my first memories as child. Like one of my first things I remember ever as a living being. How funny is that! I've always wondered what dude in a cast was doing at the video shoot. *L*
Most lyric sites say the line is "a star bears no colour black or white" but I'm pretty sure it's "red or white" which makes more sense given the red star and white star symbols.
Yep! A lot of people don't seem to make that distinction, which is even important in a smaller countr in area and population, and certainly important in coutries as large as China, the USA, Canada, Brazil and Australia. Anyway, that aside, I used to have this single, and then later it was on another album (I was on two) that had "Crying Out Loud for Love" and "Carry On".
"In the USA/in the USSR" -- ah, good point. It's been awhile since I'd listened to this song, so that obvious line didn't come to my head! "Canadians are obsessed with the US" -- if by "obsessed" you mean we shake our heads in wide-eyed disbelief and laugh. There's not a lot of respect for the country's image. For individual American people, sure (because yes, a country and its people are two different things) -- but the country and its politics, definitely nope.
True, not the US but us as in Canadians just smile cuz well we know the truth is you cant beat us never have never will :) ps remember the only war the Americans ever won was the civil war ... and it was the wrong side that won # They're full of themselves
I am an American-Canadian. Love both Countries but cannot understand why Canada acts like the 51st State. Canadians are truly obsessed. We watch American TV, American Movies, Obsess over American politics and other American issues that DO NOT concern Canadians.
@@a.jlondon9947 Imagine you lived in Tibet, and you had nothing but Chinese propaganda blasted 24/7. Your trade is inextricably linked to China. Your culture is flooded out literally and figuratively by Chinese culture on a daily basis. All your manufactured goods are bought from China, and all your products' primary market is China. Perhaps, you would pay attention to China's humours fairly closely. Now, put that in the current context: Thousands of Chinese are using Tibet to cross into parts of Russia for work during a plague that China has not effectively capped, or cares to do anything about for that matter. Canada doesn't act like the 51st state, it acts like a concerned neighbour that is watching another very important neighbour tear itself apart and setting the house on fire while claiming it's wonderful.
classic hit, which is maybe the father of rap as we know it as far as I'm concerned. makes me proud to know they are like me french canadians. I like them ever since I saw them in concert in the mid-late 80's (as a sideband). rock on everyone. (btw, by now I would'nt worry too much about US-Russia nuclear dangers)
"Crying Out Loud for Love" was on "Closer Together", which came out in the late '80s, and "Carry On' was on "The Pleasure and the Pain" which came out in the early 90s. Did you have a "Greatest Hits" album or something? It would be nice to discover The Box had an album I'd never heard before -- their stuff was so consistently solid, but they only put out a few albums *pout, grumble, whine*
I actually listened to one of the pop-up adds that come on TH-cam b4 the music video comes on & the only reason I listened to it was because it was a 16 second preview of the new 007 movie "SkyFall." But the truth is, I've listened to a couple of other movie trailors b4, but I tend to skip the music trailors because I simply don't keep up w/the music of the present era as I still favor the older stuff of the 50s/60s/70/80s & some of the 90s stuff in both rock & country.
Awesome song, awesome vid, awesome quality (and awesome pizza dude commercial again - that guy rocks like Box) Many thanks uploader / artist / faceless corporate MusicGiant My copy of this was substantially substandard "Smelly cat, Sme'Elly cat ; it's not your fault"
I was today years old when I realized The Box was Canadian!....I'm a 55 yr old Canuck ! lol.. Love this tune even more now !
Jean-Marc Pisapia's voice is amazing and unique
as are his gestures/moves~fantastic
Fabulous Songwriter, Too!
THE BOX are an INCREDIBLE Band with some WICKED TUNEAGE!
😂 ❤
I was a security guard in the 80's in Ottawa, and these guys had a concert at this venue. They were the nicest guys you'd ever meet, so nice to grunts like me, and they put on an awesome show.
That's SO nice to hear!
Happy to hear that and not surprised. Jean-Marc and the boys always seemed to be kind and well-grounded!
This song is suddenly on heavy rotation on the 80's music channels.
No KIDDING!
It's About Time!
❤ 😂
I heard this on 102.9 Bounce (in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) the other day and must say, this song is still current and still amazing!
One of the best songs from the best era of music hands down!!👍🏻
You like this song? Watch this! th-cam.com/video/78aPsCVnW-A/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/AFT1l50CgHo/w-d-xo.html This is another good one
this could not come at a better time, as a nova scotia "bluenoser" and a Quebecer. respect.
Wow this song could easily apply to what's going on in the world right now
It’s literally timeless. As long as this system goes on, we’ll always have “big shot politicians” and “ordinary people” who just want peace and “ordinary lives”…….🤔
Nah, only one country is cheering on a genocidal despot.
Yeah the media and politics never change much.
A case of the more things change the more they stay the same! They want us all to stay inside The Box, where they can keep us under control! 🤣🕊️🇨🇦
USSR went away but NEW World Order Crowd took over the lead roll of bad guys we should all fear !
One of my favourite 80’s retro songs! This should still apply today!
I haven't seen or heard these songs for over 20 years. I've tried searching online but no sucess. Thank you!!! I saw these guys in Halifax in July 1990: they sounded just like you hear them here on TH-cam. The Box are truly a part of Canadian history and culture.
i saw this band in toronto along the likes of lover boy,chilliwak.great memories late seventies early eighties .keep rocking guys.
Had the absolute pleasure of seeing these guys live at McBowl on the weekend. Just blown away! all these years later, how relevant this song still is. The Box is one of the greatest Canadian bands hands down!!!
They are not Canadian, they are Québécois.
@@markengel6570 Who's those guy's anyway, lol.
@@signedelacroix7213 their Canadian. Respected all over English , French Canada thanks...
@@signedelacroix7213 Troll level 2/10, I do not recommend this troll/gorm.
@@signedelacroix7213that makes them Canadians then right ?
The way they did the guitar solo medley of the two anthems at 2:30 was so cool. This band put out some classic tunes.
The Box is still missed, what a band, what a voice, wow. I wore out my cassette.
Me too!
The singer is doing a Box 40th anniversary tour in Ontario right now! Boom 973 plays 3 of their songs and probably didnt even help mention the tour lol... cancon needs help.
They are still playing! Just saw them in Port Hope! Small theatre but they were Great 👍
The Box is still my favorite Canadian band from the 80s; saw them in Kitchener and will never forget...
This song has such a mid-80s vibe, makes me nostalgic. We forget now just how much the cold war and the risk of nuclear annihilation was on all our minds at that time. But also hopeful for the future. Maybe it's just nostalgia for my youth, but it seems like it was a better time in many ways (not all, to be sure, but many).
I gave a Russian student my Box cassette tape when I was in Vladivostok back in 1990. They loved the music and it probably was shared, taped, and played, maybe it spread across Russian itself. Perhaps the music of the Box actually had its small role in the end of the cold war, who knows.
Such a fantastic tune! I only "discovered" this band after seeing a performance of this song by the singer on some Quebec TV show a few years ago. I really wish they would have made it in the US. I missed out all these years.
Proud to be Canadian since a lot of Canadian artists didn’t make world fame. If I had been born elsewhere the likelihood of hearing great Canadian music would be slimmer.
Amazing song. Great memories of life back in the 80's. Wish I could go back. The Box songs were always so damn catchy.
The Box are back!! I saw them in Laval, Quebec, Canada last night! As good as ever!
I saw a picture kicking around facebook of Jean-Marc and Sass Jordan this weekend. She is still as beautiful as ever.
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+WhiteHotToddy That's a great photo. Thanks for sharing. Still love hearing this song on the radio.
WhiteHotToddy a year ago but cool man
you have some sort of god. good for you.
What a great song, brings back the 80s and 90s
OMG, it's been 30 plus year since I heard this
Good tune!Canada 🇨🇦 rocks!🍁
This music is like medicine for me after having to endure all that top 40 crap at work.
This very tune shows that Quebec rocks, just like Canada does, and makes me proud of being canadian.
Rock on, world.
Quebec is still a part of CANADA. IDIOT.
name surname who said it wasnt IDIOT
Great music comes from all over the world....Including Quebec. Love it all.
Le QUÉBEC ne fait pas partie de votre constitution et nous ne sommes pas canadien. Qui veut ressembler au canada et à justin trudeau...parlant d'idiot et de raciste??!
@@filon67 Il ne faut pas etre raciste, haineux, ou anglophobe, ce n'est pas une bonne recette pour le bonheur. De ceci je t'assures mon ami.
My favorite band in my teenage days i still listen to them today 👍👍👌
Same here
awesome song, awesome message, awesome people
We are all the same. Stop the war!!!
My name is Jamie, this song is the best from the box from the 1980s. This song always puts me in a good mood.
Awesome song, great message.
A very under-rated band.
Saw these guys in St Johns Newfoundland... 1993???? Shit i am old
I listened to this and it brought back alot of memmories . I am from Ontario and grew up with this most beautiful and amazing band in my youth . The box not only gave me and the world solice ! , but enabled me to take a minute and look at the world “ outside the box “….. Salut to a most wonderful collaberation of very talented artists.
I heard this song for the first time on Boom 97.3 and because of that sound like a hammer hitting something on an anvil got me hooked instantly. It's also has a unique subtext in the lyrics.
I love boom 97.3!!+
So long to the 80s for ever. The 80s rule for ever and for ever. Peace out for ever.
Apparently this band is playing at a bowling alley in Mississauga tomorrow night. After learning this I had to look up this song that I absolutely LOVED as a child lol it still slaps
What an important message. Wish these guys were still around. The world needs them more then ever now lol.
Just play the song and hope more people listen.
They are still around.
I loved these guys ever since the first time I heard this song. This was the first song I heard of theirs so I listened to their other songs right away and loved them my whole life and will never stop loving these guys. We need more groups like THE BOX.
0:20 Sass Jordan in this one too!
The 80´s is the best ever in music! *Cheers from Sweden*
Quintessential 80’s!
The Box were a good band, i remember my parents signing up for Columbia House back in 1986. One of the Cassettes they got was The Box Closer Together. Good Stuff
Actually, they still are a good band. They started touring again, and they sound just as great!
The Box playing in Timmins, ON on June 29, 2017 !!!!! Stars and Thunder festival.
just the best !!!!!!!!!! we are missing them very much !!!
Here in 2021...Closer Together popped in my thoughts while listening to oldies rock radio. Undeniable nostalgia...80's... high-school...all that. Still love this band 😀🎷🎹🎼🎸🎶
Nostalgia. No war, no matter how one feels everything was in its place, and we knew who we were. Now everything is so confusing.
Yeah! My Frogs!!!
Best song ever!
What an astronomically 80's tune! But almost any decade after it smashes into would be astonished as it would still be a hit today! So much power in emotion and lyrics - so much still applies because despite what it was as an anti-nuke song, it's very true that only the delusional & the naive think the cold war is over...
Wow where did the 1980s went. I wish I could go back to the 1980s for ever.
Ordinary People of the World, Unite!
Saw this group as kid at Ontario Place before they built the Molson Amp. It was a great show.
We"re all different in our own unique ways, but we are all on the same team and striving for the same goal.
We hope that life goes on, and nothing changerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs.
Boucherville January 23rd, gonna rock out to these lads!
Damn, Sass is so beautiful
Just saw "The Box" in Kitchener Ontario Canada August 12 2017. Superb. They are back!
Good interview on "behind the Vinyl" Addictive!
I remember my dad just blasting this when I was around 12, yelling “we are UNORDINARY people” I know the lyrics are wrong but he taught me we’re all different and that’s okay!
Don't know why this song popped up in my head. I haven't heard it in 30 odd years
I came hear from watching 1987 team brawl CAN vs USSR World Juniors tournament which reminded me of this song that I knew from watching CBC Video Hits back in the day
love the box fav band in late 80s when in hi school
Gotta love this song: Francophone Quebeckers (who are Canadian) singing in English pretending to be Americans who wanted better relations with the former Soviet Union!
Canada's values have changed though. They may not have a heavy military presence. Just a couple months ago an article from a canadian newspaper was celebrating the brazil election of Bosonero because of businesses opportunity it would give to Canadian corporations that want access to brazil's natural resources.
NeoGeo12 I miss the cold war
Not pretending to be American. Sung from Canadian point of view.
You're way off. I suggest you search TH-cam for "Behind The Vinyl Ordinary People" and listen to Jean-Marc's overview of this song.
Exactly.
Year 2022. We are STILL ordinary people 👍🏼
Their best song I find it to be positive and about equality. I remember that sass Jordan was in this band first also.
Burlington Swine Fest 2023 Friday night headliner act. 🎉🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖
We are ordinary people 🙌
South Africa should hear this song...... VOETSEK ANC
Sass Jordan is a total babe in this video. Love the stage concept. Don't see this type of videos nowaday.
Number one and their time
Heard this on the radio today. SLAPS! 😌
Go Jean _ Marc!
Love the sound of that 80's Cold War Communist hammer hitting with that steady beat lol
What a great message to all people in the world ... we are all the same ... we are human ... stop letting psychopaths divide us for their purposes of control.
We are the UNION OF HUMANS ... revel in our greatness not in our problems.
Black blue green yellow red white I don't care ... gay straight whatever ... love our differences and love humans for our greatness.
Only through a UNION of HUMANS can we survive on our Earth and try to ensure our species.
UNION?! But...."Diversity?!" = Divisive.
I super adore this song, it's a royal slap in the face to relentless partisan warlock ideology. I will love all these artists right up until I die. I swear it. FG.
I enjoy seeing Sass Jordan in these videos. Best backup vocalist on this album!
❤
All those cool Canadian bands with that sound in the mid-80s... The Boxx, The Parachute Club, The Spoons, Men Without Hats et al...
Those were such good years... and I was young and pretty...
Gregg Smith don't forget The Arrows, Harlequin, Idle Eyes
I like this song and also Closer Together by The Box.
T'was in like 1987 in Ottawa that I saw this act The Box ... so it was like over 30 ago... omg. dont cry over my dying old age please thank you. FG In the USA in the USSR. :,,-(.
Pisapia has a great voice IMO
My name is Jamie Hand, this song has to be own of the best song of the 1980s
This music video is one of my first memories as child. Like one of my first things I remember ever as a living being. How funny is that!
I've always wondered what dude in a cast was doing at the video shoot. *L*
Most lyric sites say the line is "a star bears no colour black or white" but I'm pretty sure it's "red or white" which makes more sense given the red star and white star symbols.
Yep! A lot of people don't seem to make that distinction, which is even important in a smaller countr in area and population, and certainly important in coutries as large as China, the USA, Canada, Brazil and Australia.
Anyway, that aside, I used to have this single, and then later it was on another album (I was on two) that had "Crying Out Loud for Love" and "Carry On".
Oh My God!, great vid..thanks!
super! Cette chanson me rappelle Caroline Morin... We were 18...
"In the USA/in the USSR" -- ah, good point. It's been awhile since I'd listened to this song, so that obvious line didn't come to my head!
"Canadians are obsessed with the US" -- if by "obsessed" you mean we shake our heads in wide-eyed disbelief and laugh. There's not a lot of respect for the country's image. For individual American people, sure (because yes, a country and its people are two different things) -- but the country and its politics, definitely nope.
True, not the US but us as in Canadians just smile cuz well we know the truth is you cant beat us never have never will :) ps remember the only war the Americans ever won was the civil war ... and it was the wrong side that won # They're full of themselves
I am an American-Canadian. Love both Countries but cannot understand why Canada acts like the 51st State. Canadians are truly obsessed. We watch American TV, American Movies, Obsess over American politics and other American issues that DO NOT concern Canadians.
@@a.jlondon9947 Imagine you lived in Tibet, and you had nothing but Chinese propaganda blasted 24/7. Your trade is inextricably linked to China. Your culture is flooded out literally and figuratively by Chinese culture on a daily basis. All your manufactured goods are bought from China, and all your products' primary market is China.
Perhaps, you would pay attention to China's humours fairly closely.
Now, put that in the current context: Thousands of Chinese are using Tibet to cross into parts of Russia for work during a plague that China has not effectively capped, or cares to do anything about for that matter.
Canada doesn't act like the 51st state, it acts like a concerned neighbour that is watching another very important neighbour tear itself apart and setting the house on fire while claiming it's wonderful.
@@kmikl EXACTLY Kmikl!!
@garycalgary CBC Video hits sure bring back memories of my junior high days.
This used to be the YTV Anthem after 2:00am when they when off the Air ? From 2:00 till 6:00
classic hit, which is maybe the father of rap as we know it as far as I'm concerned.
makes me proud to know they are like me french canadians.
I like them ever since I saw them in concert in the mid-late 80's (as a sideband).
rock on everyone. (btw, by now I would'nt worry too much about US-Russia nuclear dangers)
Sounds like a great song when you’re driving on the highway
hmmm 2019 and still relevant .(eh?)
luv this song..thnx for sharing!!!
I love this song 2017
god how times have changed
"Crying Out Loud for Love" was on "Closer Together", which came out in the late '80s, and "Carry On' was on "The Pleasure and the Pain" which came out in the early 90s. Did you have a "Greatest Hits" album or something? It would be nice to discover The Box had an album I'd never heard before -- their stuff was so consistently solid, but they only put out a few albums *pout, grumble, whine*
I actually listened to one of the pop-up adds that come on TH-cam b4 the music video comes on & the only reason I listened to it was because it was a 16 second preview of the new 007 movie "SkyFall." But the truth is, I've listened to a couple of other movie trailors b4, but I tend to skip the music trailors because I simply don't keep up w/the music of the present era as I still favor the older stuff of the 50s/60s/70/80s & some of the 90s stuff in both rock & country.
Awesome song, awesome vid, awesome quality (and awesome pizza dude commercial again - that guy rocks like Box)
Many thanks uploader / artist / faceless corporate MusicGiant
My copy of this was substantially substandard
"Smelly cat, Sme'Elly cat ; it's not your fault"
I believe that's Sass handing Jean-Marc the baby at the beginning of the video. He gets a kiss too. :)
Thx for posting!
finnally the whole song with the video