When this song was a hit it was 1984. I was 29 at the time, dreading turning the dreaded Big Three-Oh. But now, 38 years later, here I am, still breathing, doing great and wondering what I was so worried about. And now, to see this video after so long it's quite a treat to realize how good life can be.
I I was spinning in San Francisco in 1984 ....and I swear 99 % of the vinyl I got through the record pools, Top 25 & BADDA were great. Not just so-so, but music that had something to it. I say 1984 was the best year for music. Period. Prince, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears, Thompson Twins.... And all the Italio Imports. Those really were the Days.
Unlike today when you have a plethora of software synths for a bargain. And back then you could hear the same DX7 and TR808 and other famous machines' presets everywhere. How about: One wasn't so used to the sounds and, as an upright teenager, doing substances and bonking and dancing and not giving a fork? (Although: Style-wise, yes, far more variety back then. Golden age!) ( ^^)v
People wore clothing, no tattoos, no cursing, had talent, didn’t need auto tune; and, almost all songs were different. What do we have today? 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s will live on because of videos!
@@wiseblood90 Stay focused. She was largely speaking of this video of the 1980s WITHIN THE GREATER CONTEXT OF THE OTHER DECADES. Tell me, does Nicole Larsson fit in to your pejorative comment? She was a shining beacon of the 1970s. I grew up in the '70s and '80s AND I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT...
Great melody and so catchy! Lovely to hear this song again after many years. Still sounds terrific!!Better than anything in today's dull auto-tuned music chart.
Build something with a LOT of passenger seating and you'll make a fortune. Let's talk about arrangements for you to pick me up on New Year's Day 1989 and drop me off on New Year's Day 1980...in a permanent loop.
As a 100% child of the 80s, this endures as one of my all time favorite 80s songs. It's brilliantly arranged, and has romantic...yet dark, and even creepy lyrics... A true masterpiece.
I'm 51, grew up 80's Liverpool (Republic of England) , 'WANG CHUNG' wouldn't be a known band BY NAME, maybe few girls knew from "NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC 19,28, 12"(I have older sister lol) , but we rocked to this ....brilliant , timeless ...this would be in a film 🎥 today , my kids 12 , 10 would enjoy .....N
This was one of my favorite songs from the 80's. In fact, this song instantly makes those of us who were alive back then think of the 80's. And when MTV was actually worth watching (i.e., playing MUSIC instead of the reality show crap it plays today), this video got a lot of airplay. Ah yes...I love thinking back to my teen years. LONG LIVE THE 80'S!!!!!
@@robm1359 I agree for pop music but I'd have to say '70-86 for RnR to punk even the birth of house/electronic music which was invented in '84. Rock on!
I remember buying this for my mother as an 80's kid and I still have the record and I'm 53 now! - sadly my mother is not here anymore but it gives me the nice memory.
A brilliantly written song. The structure and instrumentation are flawless. Add a perfect melody being sung by a smooth voice, a perfectly laid out bass line, and you have one of the best songs of a great decade.
I love how songs like this always pay homage to that old place you spent most of your youth at, now nothing more than a crumbling crypt with nothing but the ghosts of days gone by holding the walls together. We all had that special place we loved. You walk by it, or drive by it and stop to look at it, and your heart fills with the joy of your old memories of the good times you had, but your eyes fill with tears as your realize those days are gone. After a brief reflection of the old days, you smile and move on with a renewed vigor, knowing that it was better to have had those old days and good times, than never to have had them at all, and you realize how much time really has gone by, as we must find a way to deal with the fact that we aren't kids anymore. Such is the dilemma for us all...
+Kain Nosgoth Your commentary captures the mood and zeitgeist of this song perfectly, as well as the challenge for those of us who were there in the 80s now having to reckon with our looming mortality.
Prairie Wolfdog Thanks, friend. I was there in the 80's too, as I now clock in at 51. I always was very sentimental about the old places is used to hang out at when I was a kid, and be they still there or under a new name, or an old deserted building, my heart still longs to go thru them "just one more time" to look at the place or to just hang for a moment and remember everything that happened in a room or corner of the place. For that reason, "House We Used To Live In "by the Smithereens was always one of my fave songs.
I agree. Time shows us that nothing can remain the same forever, but for those places that DO remain, it's like a reward life gives us, that we can still go to some of the same old places we went as kids, and celebrate those who are still with us and remember with a wink a smile and a tear, those who are not. Memories are two-sided, they can make you happy, and they can hurt like hell. I've had a bit of both in my life.
Damn I love 80's music videos. They weren't afraid to just take some strange idea and run with it. It's great that such experimentation was visible and mainstream back then. They weren't boring back then. an 80's music videos is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
They don't make music like they used to. The 80s really do rock! I love the 80s so much. No matter how many times I listen to this song, it is still popular and inspiring, even today. In fact, most songs of the 80s have really touching and tight drumming sounds. Great tune! The group known as "WC" also rock, they have been one of the best groups in music history. Those were thy days, unlike nowadays. Thanks for posting. And I thank "WC" for performing such great music.
By sheer chance, I saw the band at the airport yesterday (they were traveling on some sort of 80s tour). I approached at the luggage carousel and said, "Your music is the soundtrack to a particular point in my life. I can't think of the time without the music and I can't hear the music without thinking of the time. Thank you for so many years of joy." It was nice to finally make that connection.
The 80's will live on in the memories of my generation. Welcome to our memories. p.s. To all you young people; Yes the 80's were as good as you think they were. We lived it. This is one of the songs that I would always dance to at my high school and middle school dances. Thanks.
This video was on MTV all the time in the early 80's, and it's a great song that holds up today, but that suitcase chasing him at the end was such a surreal image almost out of nowhere that always stuck with me. Just a small piece of magical filmmaking.
Will Francis 80’s videos were filled with so much of that kind of surreal imagery. It’s because real artists were involved in conceptualizing, and they weren’t as constrained. Jim Whiting’s robot sculptures in Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit”, Brian Grant’s claustrophobic tribalism in “Shock The Monkey”, and so on. Just brilliant, brilliant artists.
That was the artist trying to say that memories will follow you like a living brief case. It was a metaphor. Many videos in the 80s had messages that were used like metaphors
It's 1984 and DJ Mike Read is summarising the best songs of 1983 in a TV special on BBC TV. While I can barely remember the other videos on the show, I never forgot this song, despite the fact I'd never heard it before in my life! That's testament to the power of this song, and it wasn't even a big UK Top 40 hit. Although I didn't have a copy to play for decades, I never, ever, forgot it. I still love it as much now as I did then. What a great song!
It’s funny how people think Wang Chung we’re one hit wonders for “Everybody have fun tonight” and completely forget about this song until they hear it and go, “Oh yeah! I remember this one now too!”
I dont think that they are underrrated, this was a gr8 song, i really loved it, but they were a 1 hit wonder, they never had any other songs that were as good as this, or that i can remember.
Este tema de 1984 lo escuche en ese año cuando en chile llovia por semanas y de verdad ,trabajaba como pioneta donde el viejo lucero! Tiempos remotos que no se compara con la pesadilla que vivimos en 2020!!
My introduction to this song was through a little game called Vice City on the PS2. I've always loved it because of the game, and I remember all of the memories of driving around through the night, listening to this, Out of Touch by Hall & Oates, and Africa by Toto. However, this one struck different with me. I'm not sure why I love this one so much compared to the others. Last year (2022), Ray Liotta, legendary actor and the voice of the game's protagonist, passed away. Now everytime I hear this song, I imagine Tommy Vercetti strutting the streets in his tuxedo, living the high life Thank you, Ray Liotta and Wang Chung! 💖
in 1984 I started going to discotheques with just 16 years old and being there listening the beginning of this song I remember everyone go to the dance floor
I Lost my ⚰️Older ♌🦁 Sister like Shannon ♈ Lee Lost Her🐉Dad🐉♐& Her Brother Brandon♒🐲 Lee. So this music brings back memories of my Older Sister. But also Brandon ♒🐲 Lee's Awesome & Iconic like his Dad but in his own way :Legacy Of Rage: & :Rapid🔥Fire: Movies he did in late 70's & early ☮️80's✌🏼...
If one listen carefully to the instruments with the vocals besides the lyrics - just the beat and vocals , you'd realize how well and professionally this track has been composed - all the instruments with the vocals altogether is in perfect sequence with a rocking beat that compliments and combines the song altogether... In my opinion this track could easily be the track of the pop era...
Summer of ‘84 nostalgia- me and my brothers running around in the sand and playing in the waves at Robert Moses beach and my mom (rip) relaxing on the blanket while this song played on her little Sony radio. I’ll never forget it.
For a brief, shining moment, Wang Chung ruled the world. They were all anyone was talking about during that time. Then, as quickly as they had BURST onto the scene, they were gone, leaving us all with only beautiful memories.
Wow 1984 i was 18 im now 51 and still love this song , when i want to think back to those days this song is first to be Played. Happy times indeed and sadly missed.
I don't know what makes this song so incredible. Today, the melody sounds as suffused with surreal nostalgia as the day it was released. Only now, 30 years later, the nostalgia for me is so much more real. Totally awesome and 80s - totally!
This was the second video shot for "Dance Hall Days". The first video, listed as VEVO Official was hated by the band and the record company. This video was then shot and the one used when the song was released. That VEVO thinks the other one is the "official" one is wrong.
Lyrics Take your baby by the hand And make her do a high handstand And take your baby by the heel And do the next thing that you feel We were so in phase In our dance hall days We were cool on craze When I, you and everyone we knew Could believe, do and share in what was true I said Dance hall days love Take your baby by the hair And pull her close and there, there, there And take your baby by the ears And play upon her darkest fears We were so in phase In our dance hall days We were cool on craze When I, you and everyone we knew Could believe, do and share in what was true I said Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days, love Take your baby by the wrist And in her mouth an amethyst And in her eyes two sapphires blue And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you We were so in phase In our dance hall days We were cool on craze When I, you and everyone we knew Could believe, do and share in what was true I said Dance hall days, love Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days, love
FINALLY!!! was searching for the past 20 minutes on Google trying to find this song after I randomly thought of it and it got stuck in my head. I can rest in peace now.
Wang Chung is still a cool band...those catchy new wave sounds of the 1980s that can never be recreated...due to technological advances in music equipment...it's not easy to recreate that retro sound with modern music equipment...though with Wang chung..these guys can do it..so glad Wang Chung came back last with a new album of reworked songs..amazing how jack and nick still sound as good as ever..their wonderful voices restored in time.
Yeah the song wing Chun tonight is a good song to. I have that on record as well. And should have been gone oh Sherrie wontons, wontons, I think it's really saying hold on I want to let go long ☺️ago song by Steve Perry🤷♂️😹 U just can't beat the good old 80's vinyl record 30 big hits chart attack✌🏻...
Pour ceux qui aiment ce groupe, ne manquez pas la sublime BO du film culte "To live and die in LA" du regretté W. Friedkin, ambiance furieusement eighties.
Next time someone says that the 80's wasn't cool or filled with talented music, show them this video or play this song for them!!! I think that this is one of the best 80's songs EVER, IMO!!! I like the end of this video when the person has the suitcase over their head and is running, LOL!
Yes, Wang Chung had some great songs!!! I think the tempo, melodic chiming guitar (as someone below said), and lyrics made this New Wave Song what it was. However, "To Live and Die In L.A. was also a MASTERPIECE! " Peace out and I like your very definitive boom box icon!
Daniel Marquis OK I hear u about "live and die in LA" again one on the best if not THE BEST songs of the 80s. Maybe its second best behind "dance hall days"
hottestbabe1000 I love this Era of music. My good friend thinks I have music issues because I like older music (Gary Numan, Duran Duran, and the very obscure band, Japan), but you like what you like. I listen to newer music (The Killers, Foster the People, Imagine Dragons to name a few).
I can remember one day in about July 1984 listening to 2ZM Radio in Wellington, New Zealand when this song came on and the DJ commented he was having it requested by a caretaker who was just starting his shift. Seemed like the appropriate tune to request by that fellow and funny how a song like that takes you back to that time, lol.
I remember dancing around in my living room with my brothers to this when I was little. I'll never forget the gifts of music my parents passed down from the eighties and I'm now passing to my nephew, one favorite at a time.
Dance Hall Days Is A Classic.
It was my time, and I loved it, I am 63 now.
I agree 100% I’m a couple behind you.
I always get the chills when I hear this song on the radio -- and a touch of sadness, thinking about being young.
When this song was a hit it was 1984. I was 29 at the time, dreading turning the dreaded Big Three-Oh. But now, 38 years later, here I am, still breathing, doing great and wondering what I was so worried about. And now, to see this video after so long it's quite a treat to realize how good life can be.
Me too......
Jadd612. Me too
well said
dont let your physical and mental health slip and youll be good
1984 wouldn't have been the same without this song.
Heaven!
I lived through the 80s, some would give the world for that!
I absolutely agree man 🙌🏼
Do U mean heaven is a place on earth, my 💭brother use to think it blue heaven is a place on 🤫earth🤔.
you have the fucking right
@@snyper53iwama-san to do what exactly 🤔.
The 80’s music was the best around, I liked 90’s only for their Club Music, like 2 Unlimited. Otherwise it was the 80’s all the way.
This really takes me back to the hot and humid summer of 1984, when all the songs on the radio did not sound exactly alike, unlike today.
+FC Schaeffer
Putting on the Ritz!!
Come Dancing
Mecos' Ewok song.
I totally agree
+FC Schaeffer I didn't appreciate this song much back then, but I do now.
+FC Schaeffer Yep! That was the analogue world! :-)
I I was spinning in San Francisco in 1984 ....and I swear 99 % of the vinyl I got through the record pools, Top 25 & BADDA were great. Not just so-so, but music that had something to it. I say 1984 was the best year for music. Period. Prince, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears, Thompson Twins.... And all the Italio Imports. Those really were the Days.
Unlike today when you have a plethora of software synths for a bargain.
And back then you could hear the same DX7 and TR808 and other famous machines' presets everywhere.
How about: One wasn't so used to the sounds and, as an upright teenager, doing substances and bonking and dancing and not giving a fork?
(Although: Style-wise, yes, far more variety back then. Golden age!)
( ^^)v
People wore clothing, no tattoos, no cursing, had talent, didn’t need auto tune; and, almost all songs were different. What do we have today? 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s will live on because of videos!
Bull 1970s was all ripped clothes tattoos swearing etc where were you living in a guilded cage away from normality
@@wiseblood90 Stay focused. She was largely speaking of this video of the 1980s WITHIN THE GREATER CONTEXT OF THE OTHER DECADES. Tell me, does Nicole Larsson fit in to your pejorative comment? She was a shining beacon of the 1970s. I grew up in the '70s and '80s AND I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT...
True, so very true ...
So true and I come from the 80s
@@wiseblood90 You don't know what your talking about, you were not there.
I will never get tired of this song!
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Great melody and so catchy! Lovely to hear this song again after many years. Still sounds terrific!!Better than anything in today's dull auto-tuned music chart.
1984 was the most extraordinary year for songs.....the quality is unmatched.
Of course... Is the best year ever
The only other year that comes close is 1991 with so many massive releases from metal and grunge that changed the music scene for the whole decade.
'82-'86 was amazing
i was 13 in 1984 will never forget
1983 was so totally rad though.
When I'm done building my time machine, the 80s is my first stop,!!!
Pick me up in that time machine.
Do let me know. I'd surely tag along.
Take me with u plz
How much is a one way ticket?
Build something with a LOT of passenger seating and you'll make a fortune. Let's talk about arrangements for you to pick me up on New Year's Day 1989 and drop me off on New Year's Day 1980...in a permanent loop.
As a 100% child of the 80s, this endures as one of my all time favorite 80s songs. It's brilliantly arranged, and has romantic...yet dark, and even creepy lyrics... A true masterpiece.
Three chords, yet mystic...
WOOOOO!!!
@@davidwaters935 recuerdos del rey Delos caminos en su casa dela Pobla no. Quinta bella es el rey Delos csminos
Agree,I love it ❤️
How old are you now
PLEASE BRING BACK THE 1980'S RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have to remember that back then you had bands unlike today
I know right? It didn't matter what style music it was either, it was all better
Yeah!!!...the 2080s
I'll go with you any day.
MoparRapidTransit, my thoughts and wishes exactly.
This sound AMAZING..you don't hear songs like this today..so long life to the 80's!!🥳🥳👍
omg I cant get over how great this song is. Forever live the 80's.
I'm 51, grew up 80's Liverpool (Republic of England) , 'WANG CHUNG' wouldn't be a known band BY NAME, maybe few girls knew from "NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC 19,28, 12"(I have older sister lol) , but we rocked to this ....brilliant , timeless ...this would be in a film 🎥 today , my kids 12 , 10 would enjoy .....N
The good old days I would go back there in a second , great clothes , music , people, enough said peace ✌️
This was one of my favorite songs from the 80's. In fact, this song instantly makes those of us who were alive back then think of the 80's. And when MTV was actually worth watching (i.e., playing MUSIC instead of the reality show crap it plays today), this video got a lot of airplay.
Ah yes...I love thinking back to my teen years. LONG LIVE THE 80'S!!!!!
October 2021. I yearn for the 80s. Todays music is tragically poor.
99%pure!!
The Electrifying Eighties!!!!!!
When Music Was 100% Pure Magic.
mark neville early 80’s even 78 to 84 the best
And it is endless so many great songs from so many great and bands and in known bands
@@danielrodriguez248 A decade that will never be forgotten
@@robm1359 I agree for pop music but I'd have to say '70-86 for RnR to punk even the birth of house/electronic music which was invented in '84. Rock on!
Yeah 80’s were great times tunes like this bring it all back
I remember buying this for my mother as an 80's kid and I still have the record and I'm 53 now! - sadly my mother is not here anymore but it gives me the nice memory.
A brilliantly written song. The structure and instrumentation are flawless. Add a perfect melody being sung by a smooth voice, a perfectly laid out bass line, and you have one of the best songs of a great decade.
This is a prime example how FANTASTIC the 1980's really was,BRILLIANT.
I love how songs like this always pay homage to that old place you spent most of your youth at, now nothing more than a crumbling crypt with nothing but the ghosts of days gone by holding the walls together.
We all had that special place we loved. You walk by it, or drive by it and stop to look at it, and your heart fills with the joy of your old memories of the good times you had, but your eyes fill with tears as your realize those days are gone.
After a brief reflection of the old days, you smile and move on with a renewed vigor, knowing that it was better to have had those old days and good times, than never to have had them at all, and you realize how much time really has gone by, as we must find a way to deal with the fact that we aren't kids anymore. Such is the dilemma for us all...
+Kain Nosgoth Your commentary captures the mood and zeitgeist of this song perfectly, as well as the challenge for those of us who were there in the 80s now having to reckon with our looming mortality.
Prairie Wolfdog Thanks, friend. I was there in the 80's too, as I now clock in at 51.
I always was very sentimental about the old places is used to hang out at when I was a kid, and be they still there or under a new name, or an old deserted building, my heart still longs to go thru them "just one more time" to look at the place or to just hang for a moment and remember everything that happened in a room or corner of the place.
For that reason, "House We Used To Live In "by the Smithereens was always one of my fave songs.
but never forget that all seasons of life are wonderful... of course if u make it to be
Kain Nosgoth well said i felt the same every place just gets bought out here
I agree. Time shows us that nothing can remain the same forever, but for those places that DO remain, it's like a reward life gives us, that we can still go to some of the same old places we went as kids, and celebrate those who are still with us and remember with a wink a smile and a tear, those who are not. Memories are two-sided, they can make you happy, and they can hurt like hell. I've had a bit of both in my life.
Damn I love 80's music videos. They weren't afraid to just take some strange idea and run with it. It's great that such experimentation was visible and mainstream back then. They weren't boring back then. an 80's music videos is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
The conductor is hilarious!
I want a video of just him conducting for the whole song...
Best bit
This song is so cool.It sounds as great today as it did in the 80s
A beautiful song and video The 80s I miss that decade!!!
The girl with mirrors outfit is one of the greatest scenes in the 80's. Beautiful.
THE most memorable and indelible part of the VIDEO and a great tune!
That actually freaked me the hell out as a kid.
She looks like the Destroyer in the 2011 Thor movie.
SIN LUGAR A DUDAS LOS 80S FUE LA MEJOR EPOCA MUSICAL DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS , LA MUSICA MODERNA DE HOY ES SILENCIO
Did you ever see the movie To Live and Die in L.A.? The did the whole soundtrack.
Here you go. Enjoy 👍 th-cam.com/video/bf4x36XKhsM/w-d-xo.html
80s wer the best for music
Kevin Brown I agree
@@victorevans6845 I agree secondly!
80s were the best for everything
Fuck yeah Kevin!!!😂😂😂
Just leaving school when this came out. Remember this and the eighties with great fondness ✌️
They don't make music like they used to. The 80s really do rock! I love the 80s so much. No matter how many times I listen to this song, it is still popular and inspiring, even today. In fact, most songs of the 80s have really touching and tight drumming sounds. Great tune! The group known as "WC" also rock, they have been one of the best groups in music history. Those were thy days, unlike nowadays. Thanks for posting. And I thank "WC" for performing such great music.
As a lad in his prime in the 80’s “ We truly had the best of times” !
Me too
TANTOS RECUERDOS CON ESTA MÚSICA, MÉXICO ERA OTRA COSA
SÍ, ERA UN COMPLETO DESMADRE!! AÚN ASÍ,FUE LA MEJOR ÉPOCA PARA MUCHOS,LA VIDA ES BUENA!!😎😎😎👍👍👍👍
By sheer chance, I saw the band at the airport yesterday (they were traveling on some sort of 80s tour). I approached at the luggage carousel and said, "Your music is the soundtrack to a particular point in my life. I can't think of the time without the music and I can't hear the music without thinking of the time. Thank you for so many years of joy." It was nice to finally make that connection.
Did they ran off and looked at you like some sort of creep?
@@ricomajestic they were touched that i recognized them 40 years later and thanked me for approaching them.
Wang Chung is timeless!
great beat,good lyrics,great song baby!
The music of the 80s! The carefreeness, the rhythm, the fashion, all our youth, another youth, if I could go back and block the button of time...
I love the 80's.
Wang chung
i would like to back to the 1980 and see wang chung in concert 1980 wow🤩🤩😍🤠😎😊😇
The 80's will live on in the memories of my generation. Welcome to our memories. p.s. To all you young people; Yes the 80's were as good as you think they were. We lived it. This is one of the songs that I would always dance to at my high school and middle school dances. Thanks.
I miss the 80's 4real
This video was on MTV all the time in the early 80's, and it's a great song that holds up today, but that suitcase chasing him at the end was such a surreal image almost out of nowhere that always stuck with me. Just a small piece of magical filmmaking.
Will Francis 80’s videos were filled with so much of that kind of surreal imagery. It’s because real artists were involved in conceptualizing, and they weren’t as constrained. Jim Whiting’s robot sculptures in Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit”, Brian Grant’s claustrophobic tribalism in “Shock The Monkey”, and so on. Just brilliant, brilliant artists.
Yes
That was the artist trying to say that memories will follow you like a living brief case. It was a metaphor. Many videos in the 80s had messages that were used like metaphors
👈👉You 💭mean🤔MTV 2 & 3🤷🏾♂️Will Francis...
When first saw this one Saturday morning on a kids show February 1984 I was like that guy looks like James Cagney with long hair.
It does get more 80s than this ! Awesome nostalgia !
It's 1984 and DJ Mike Read is summarising the best songs of 1983 in a TV special on BBC TV. While I can barely remember the other videos on the show, I never forgot this song, despite the fact I'd never heard it before in my life! That's testament to the power of this song, and it wasn't even a big UK Top 40 hit.
Although I didn't have a copy to play for decades, I never, ever, forgot it.
I still love it as much now as I did then. What a great song!
One of the 80s best songs. Even better with the 2019 version with the Prague Symphony Orchestra.
It’s funny how people think Wang Chung we’re one hit wonders for “Everybody have fun tonight” and completely forget about this song until they hear it and go, “Oh yeah! I remember this one now too!”
I've said this before, about this band, they are a truly underrated band in my humble opinion.
@Max Kazzora Totally underrated band!
I dont think that they are underrrated, this was a gr8 song, i really loved it, but they were a 1 hit wonder, they never had any other songs that were as good as this, or that i can remember.
Este tema de 1984 lo escuche en ese año cuando en chile llovia por semanas y de verdad ,trabajaba como pioneta donde el viejo lucero! Tiempos remotos que no se compara con la pesadilla que vivimos en 2020!!
Me pasa lo mismo,este tema me lleva a mi adolescencia.la musica era muy buena,ahora pura caca....tienes toda la razon amigo mio.
Yo la escuche en la pelicula " despedida de soltero " con tom hanks
Nostalgia pinochetista xD
@@javiersolariruiz5873 Yo también jajajajja
My introduction to this song was through a little game called Vice City on the PS2. I've always loved it because of the game, and I remember all of the memories of driving around through the night, listening to this, Out of Touch by Hall & Oates, and Africa by Toto. However, this one struck different with me. I'm not sure why I love this one so much compared to the others.
Last year (2022), Ray Liotta, legendary actor and the voice of the game's protagonist, passed away. Now everytime I hear this song, I imagine Tommy Vercetti strutting the streets in his tuxedo, living the high life
Thank you, Ray Liotta and Wang Chung! 💖
Listening in quarantine in my home
Nov, 2020, me too 😊
I just remember how the 80’s had arcades and roller skating and great music on EVERY STATION! I guess I miss being young.
80s was the best iwas 18 in 1984 wish iCoud go back stay in that time as you get older you realise they was the best days of life time machine we need
Dance Hall Days Wang Chung 1984
in 1984 I started going to discotheques with just 16 years old and being there listening the beginning of this song I remember everyone go to the dance floor
We used to sneak into the nightclub through the kitchen. I was 14
Dance floor packed with beautiful women and great 80's tunes playing
Disco sucks!!! Sorry
@@BrianEllischannel Fail comment.
The Idea of Love (2024)
Oui, I was 18. Bons souvenirs de jeunesse.
When Music was Real Music. When Music Videos were Real Music Videos. The 80's was a Great time in Music! Long live the 80's!
Gta vice city! The good old days playing great 2000s 80s game
Every time I hear this song, I can't help but dance and be happy. no matter what mood I am in. 👍🏼 ❤️
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Swsome
Brittany Bigelow I would have to agree with you,.until then....dance hall day.
Vice city Gta ❤✌
I Lost my ⚰️Older ♌🦁 Sister like Shannon ♈ Lee Lost Her🐉Dad🐉♐& Her Brother Brandon♒🐲 Lee. So this music brings back memories of my Older Sister. But also Brandon ♒🐲 Lee's Awesome & Iconic like his Dad but in his own way :Legacy Of Rage: & :Rapid🔥Fire: Movies he did in late 70's & early ☮️80's✌🏼...
If one listen carefully to the instruments with the vocals besides the lyrics - just the beat and vocals , you'd realize how well and professionally this track has been composed - all the instruments with the vocals altogether is in perfect sequence with a rocking beat that compliments and combines the song altogether... In my opinion this track could easily be the track of the pop era...
This never gets old 🙂
love this song Everyone knows the 80's was the best time for every style of music
Class 👌
Waow!!! Qué... tiempos 💃🏻🌐🕺🎼🎶🔊 Vividos 80tas me da Melancolia El saber que era Feliz y no lo sabía.
Impresionante canción y más x la orquesta toda una joya q se sigue escuchando en 2023 gracias 80,s por tan buena música
We had rock and of course metal. But I’m realizing how much 1st wave music made the 80s extra special. Nothing else like it. What a great time.
Summer of ‘84 nostalgia- me and my brothers running around in the sand and playing in the waves at Robert Moses beach and my mom (rip) relaxing on the blanket while this song played on her little Sony radio. I’ll never forget it.
The sax adds a great element 👍🎶🎶
For a brief, shining moment, Wang Chung ruled the world. They were all anyone was talking about during that time. Then, as quickly as they had BURST onto the scene, they were gone, leaving us all with only beautiful memories.
This has always been one of my absolute favorite songs -- not only of the 80s, but of all time!
That disco ball dancer is fabulous!
Wow 1984 i was 18 im now 51 and still love this song , when i want to think back to those days this song is first to be Played. Happy times indeed and sadly missed.
That’s awesome, btw can I please ask you some question?
Yeah go ahead.
I don't know what makes this song so incredible. Today, the melody sounds as suffused with surreal nostalgia as the day it was released. Only now, 30 years later, the nostalgia for me is so much more real. Totally awesome and 80s - totally!
Man if I could build a machine to go back in time to the 1980's would anyone join me? Be honest
Absolutely! I honestly grieve for the 80’s. It was such an innocent yet intense era. I miss it
Lets go
I always loved this song
Wang Chung
"Dance Hall Days"
Points On The Curve
Geffen Records, 1984
This was the second video shot for "Dance Hall Days". The first video, listed as VEVO Official was hated by the band and the record company. This video was then shot and the one used when the song was released. That VEVO thinks the other one is the "official" one is wrong.
Version 1 video director: Derek Jarman
Version 2 video (this one) director: Daniel Kleinman
Está si es música, apresar qe yo era una niña cuando escuchaba está canción ,a mis 42 años la sigo escuchando 👍😎💃🕺
Lyrics
Take your baby by the hand
And make her do a high handstand
And take your baby by the heel
And do the next thing that you feel
We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you and everyone we knew
Could believe, do and share in what was true
I said
Dance hall days love
Take your baby by the hair
And pull her close and there, there, there
And take your baby by the ears
And play upon her darkest fears
We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you and everyone we knew
Could believe, do and share in what was true
I said
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days
Dance hall days, love
Take your baby by the wrist
And in her mouth an amethyst
And in her eyes two sapphires blue
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you and everyone we knew
Could believe, do and share in what was true
I said
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days
Dance hall days, love
This video epitomizes all that was great about the 80's! Great song and video!
This song will never get old still love it after all thses years just shows how great the music was back in the 80s .
I just can't get over this song! It has some kind of nostalgic eternal feeling. I want to hear it on repeat
J’adore cette chanson, 1984-1987 ont été un grand moment pour la musique 🎵 🎶 🎧 👍👍👍👍
Como quisiera volver en una maquina del tiempo y disfrutar de estas músicas ,era tan pequeño pero me gustaban y ahun me siguen gustando.
i will always hear "we were cool on christ" , when listening to this
Me too
Nothing wrong with being cool on the Christ, he is a dude!
Everyone hears "cool on Christ."
You do know that it was cool on cries? Which makes more sense.
@@cherylguest7415 really its "cool on craze" its the British accent that makes it sound like "cries" but i like "christ" better myself :)
Sacré souvenirs toujours les années 80. La meilleure époque. Super musique. Bravo
FINALLY!!! was searching for the past 20 minutes on Google trying to find this song after I randomly thought of it and it got stuck in my head. I can rest in peace now.
1983 was a great year. Hard to believe it's been 40 years.
Wang Chung is still a cool band...those catchy new wave sounds of the 1980s that can never be recreated...due to technological advances in music equipment...it's not easy to recreate that retro sound with modern music equipment...though with Wang chung..these guys can do it..so glad Wang Chung came back last with a new album of reworked songs..amazing how jack and nick still sound as good as ever..their wonderful voices restored in time.
have you heard of the genre Vaporwave? Its like a modern recreation, not as good but still cool
Yeah the song wing Chun tonight is a good song to. I have that on record as well. And should have been gone oh Sherrie wontons, wontons, I think it's really saying hold on I want to let go long ☺️ago song by Steve Perry🤷♂️😹 U just can't beat the good old 80's vinyl record 30 big hits chart attack✌🏻...
Pour ceux qui aiment ce groupe, ne manquez pas la sublime BO du film culte "To live and die in LA" du regretté W. Friedkin, ambiance furieusement eighties.
Next time someone says that the 80's wasn't cool or filled with talented music, show them this video or play this song for them!!!
I think that this is one of the best 80's songs EVER, IMO!!! I like the end of this video when the person has the suitcase over their head and is running, LOL!
You might be right, this might be THE BEST song of the 80's period! Wang Chung owns the 80's
Yes, Wang Chung had some great songs!!! I think the tempo, melodic chiming guitar (as someone below said), and lyrics made this New Wave Song what it was. However, "To Live and Die In L.A. was also a MASTERPIECE! " Peace out and I like your very definitive boom box icon!
Daniel Marquis OK I hear u about "live and die in LA" again one on the best if not THE BEST songs of the 80s. Maybe its second best behind "dance hall days"
Totally agree with you Dan !!! Pure class !!!
hottestbabe1000 I love this Era of music. My good friend thinks I have music issues because I like older music (Gary Numan, Duran Duran, and the very obscure band, Japan), but you like what you like. I listen to newer music (The Killers, Foster the People, Imagine Dragons to name a few).
This is my all time mtv music video back in the 80 jam. The director of this video did a real good job on expressing how this song go.
Pure love and nostagia for the 80's brought me here, not a video game.
so right me too
One of my favorites of all time. I was there, I lived it, I watched this premiere live on MTV back when they played music videos.
I can remember one day in about July 1984 listening to 2ZM Radio in Wellington, New Zealand when this song came on and the DJ commented he was having it requested by a caretaker who was just starting his shift. Seemed like the appropriate tune to request by that fellow and funny how a song like that takes you back to that time, lol.
Opened for the 'Cars' at Pine Knob.
I remember dancing around in my living room with my brothers to this when I was little. I'll never forget the gifts of music my parents passed down from the eighties and I'm now passing to my nephew, one favorite at a time.
"...sharing what was true!"
Didn't know I still remembered all the lyrics until they popped into my head at 2am! Memories of my youth!
There are two different videos for this song. This one is vastly superior...
This is the version I recall from MTV. I like it better, and hadn't seen the other one until today. The walking suitcase at the end is a classic.
David Kleinman directed it. Excellent art direction/cinematography...
John Southern agreed!
Agreed
John Southern The other one was supposed to be more "American" I guess. But it was just lame
This just came on while I was cutting the grass. What a pick me up! I thought I was driving my tractor in Vice City listening to Flash FM!
When I hear this old school song bring back memories of the 1980 I wish I could go back to the 1980🤩😍😛😋🤪😜😝😛😋🥲😂😢😭🤟✌️
I LOVE this song!
I cannot express how much I love this, and how much it means to me.