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One of my clearest memories as a child is sitting on my dad's lap watching this video and being absolutely terrified of the puppets.
THANK YOU! Just showed it to my husband, we are late 30’s now, he had the same look I had all those years ago.
Same. I remember seeing it in tv as child. Terrified of the dolls and everything ... but I remember this one thanks to this
I was six when this video came out and the guy eating his tongue in a hotdog bun has haunted my whole life. 😂
same here
Tenías razón en tener miedo (por los políticos de la época que nos guiaron hasta aquí)
"we're not just making promises that we know we'll never keep. "
Years and years later, this rings so sinister...
They did exactly that- their generation didn't put it right.
Fuck the Boomers.
I wouldn't worry. We've got Greta Thunberg!!
@@duncancurtis5971 Booooooo.
A rich girl and her rich dad's boat? Telling the world what we already know?
Fuck her.
We don't need idols. Stop placing rich people on pedestals.
@@ebenezergatsby5848 their generation DID. There isn't too many people anymore
I loved D.C.'s Follies Spitting Image as a kid. Those puppets are trippy AF.
They need to reboot it!
Them and the beloved Muppets.
uncanny
Proof the world keeps repeating itself
Proof that something of higher intelligence is using us as pawns in their morbid game
@@georgemcduncan5391
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Life truly is cyclical in nature
The Simulation needs to reboot itself ever so often
Superman, where are you now? When every thing's gone wrong somehow?
Literally ahead of its time. As an 80's kid, I didn't think we were in a land of confusion. Now, I think this song applies more than ever!
Oh yeah we weren't in a land of confusion in the 80s. 80s and 90s were great! I hate the way the world is today
This video turned out to look like a prophetic model about the coming of the modern online AI-driven, algorithm, President Deepfake, media machine of mass destruction - it terrified me as a kid but the world we live in now that I'm older is far worse...
Yea they thought Regan seemed old. Wonder what they would think of old Joe.
I bet 95% of the kids don't even know the cover of this jam wasn't original lol
The song/ lyrics is now left to our kids stuck in the GenZs mode.
And almost 40 years later this resonates more than ever 😢
Except where are the nuclear protestors. Nowhere.
@@geraldsinger7982 they morphed into climate activists
Not much left to go round
Never stop making it resonate.
I was just thinking that.
I’m embarrassed of my country.
Perverting innocence.
F k Disney as well
Wow this video never left me as a kid in the 80s i was too young to understand rhen but this is history repeating again in 2025 !
Crazy that this song applies more than ever in 2024!!!!😳😳😳😳
True sad story....
Exactly my though... 😞
It applies to the history of the world.
It's sad that we can't learn from our mistakes and everyone get along. 1 planet 1 nation, we are all human 😢
Boy, how does it? Excatly, right!! I'm sure everyone sees the bring back of Reagan days and what the LAST OF REAL DEMOCRISY MEANS WHAT IT STANDS FOR GIVING THE REPUBLIC IT'S ORIGIN TO KIN!
I miss storytelling in our music. This song was ahead of it's time.
If you like storytelling in music, a very skilled band that does 80s-like music with sometimes storytelling elements is TWRP
Can't recommend them more!
Edit: recommendated listening-
Synthesize Her
Starlight Brigade
Black Swan (one of my favorite songs ever)
Have You Heard?
Not only ahead of its time but nobody seemed to get the message. Disturbed did a cover which was great too. Our generation needs to hear this and make that change
@@crowbardso you're just gonna assume that everyone knows what band TWRP is? You can't just say a random acronym and assume everyone knows it wtf especially when they are asking for suggestions.
Edit: the band is literally called TWRP 😂🤦
@@anony-moontry twrptube channel.
@valentinedan cultural adoption of bitcoin will go a long way to making that change.
When the money is manipulated and based on lies, it incentives the population to lie and become corrupt, which eventually corrupts society at its foundation.
Scared of the video as a child to scared of the lyrics as an adult. Truly full circle.
Still scared of both
I know right?!?😂
Truth
That one puppet look just like Peter Gabriel all the rest of them gave me the f****** creeps
@@TheDanielForrest I'm afraid YOU! My name is Lewis Robert Burton jr!
At 2:16 Phil is singing in the forefront but during the group back-up part he also pops up from the drums. Kinda funny to acknowledge Phil would sing *while* playing the drums, which is not easy in any sense of the term.
The puppet of Phil used on the drums was their first generation that turned out poorly so it was used further away from the camera. The one in the foreground was their second attempt which turned out much better.
yeah he could do anything👍👍😁😁
Try watching a live performance on the drums doing most of his sings when he does both like " in the air tonight"
There is an Australian band called COFFIN in which the drummer sings. If you wanna be blown away watch their Empty Room Sessions video. It's here on TH-cam.
It's been nearly 40 yrs & this song is just as relevant as it was back then..Oh Superman where are you now~🤔😞😏🦸🏻♂️
Even SUPERMAN had to contend with Lex Luthor as president. The writers, directors, playwrights, musicians satirists, etc (THE TRUE CREATORS)have been WARNING us for as long as I've been alive(I'm 52) and longer...
Damn if half the country didn't just pull a 🙈🙉(no 🙊 because they & their heroes were yelling "LA LA LA"!)
More so these days (to many voice to many people and not enough love to go round)
@@tenon13 I agree,but then ppl.say it's,always been like that..Well,maybe,to a certain extent,yes.But too many ppl.making too many problems,& the line you mentioned above.I think it's getting worse with AI & technology to some degree.I feel the new era"started way back,around the new Millenium,with 9 th/11 01 & many things changed for the worse.Botox & fillers,I first heard about that throught Baywatch at 15/16.Ever since the war,& the 80's too,each decade has slightly changed...For the worse,I'd say. "Everybody knows the wars were fixed,the poor stay poor the rich get rich..🤔"Orwells 1984 would fit even more as of now;40 yrs.later.Are we just getting older,or is it really that bad overall..(70's baby, 80's kid,90'teen)I look at my kids trolleys & they remind me of tiny cars.Nostradasmus predicted certain things,some would even say The Simpsons(Creators of (🤷🏼♀️)did..Others would bring up the Holy Bible as a testmony,well, perhaps the New Testament somehow warned us about the future.Who gnows🥴🙏🏼🪷🤲🏼🦋🪻✌🏼
A fantastic demonstration of why nobody should pay attention to celebrity political opinion. This is a response to Pershing missiles being deployed in West Germany. The left said it would lead to WWIII. Reagan and Thatcher were right. The peace you enjoy now is their doing and it was achieved against a current of heavily educated leftists who were certain they knew better.
Absolutamente de acuerdo. Pasan los años y nada cambia para bien en este mundo ! No aprendemos más...
Song is more important than EVER, this stuff is happening right now. Stay strong people, somehow we can overcome this.
Sadly, this tune is so relevant decades later
except it had a different meaning at the time, but you can still use the words for current events.
Sadly its all still true....
You stand correct I agree!!!
Yeah man, he right, that's one heck of a nurse.
Not only this song, but this video is GENIUS!! How did they do that??!! Even in 2024 this video is a feast for the eyes!!❤❤❤
Puppets never go out of style......
They just become US politicians
they contacted the people who made a British show called "Spitting Image" although moderately offensive at times the show holds up shockingly well 40 years later.
IMOP.. One of Genesis most powerful songs..Even to this day in 2024...Phil's vocals are raw and straight to the point..Best to listen to this cranked full volume
There was and is nothing like hearing him belt this song live!
genesis pretty under rated in their day , musically they are pretty sophisticated , at least in their genre .
Sort of like Edwin Starr's War, I know there's a mashup of both of those songs.
Listening to the 2007 remastered version. Volume maxed in 🎧
~"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the Sun."~ (Ecc. 1:9)
This song speaks more truth today than ever before despite its age.
Agreed!!!
Oh Superman where are u now ? When everything gone wrong somehow
yes
The song doesn't speak of today, it rejects today and longs for "the future". This song is just as nihilistic as the power structure it's writers think they understand.
Definitely 👍🏾!!!
It's really depressing that we live in an era where this song is relatable
Let's hope Biden don't need life alert....
But wouldn't this be every era since the beginning of time?
Even more so today.
The bridge starting at 2:57 hits hard nowadays. There was indeed a time long ago where life was so much better.
It was happening way before the 80's. The Cuban Missile Crisis kicked things off in 1962, and the threat really hasn't calmed down much since.
This song means more to me now than ever before.
inderdaad,,,,
Sat crying listening to this realizing we're doomed
"My generation will put it right!"
Swing and a miss...
@Cali Mero NOTHING is what it seems. Buckle up, get ready for a show.
@Cali Mero your grand pa was Italian and so...... this explains what exactly?
Has this song ever been more relevant? Who's still here in 2024?
I'm here. Raleigh, NC.
Glad you are here too.
I'm here, and given the situation of our country now, I am more or less losing hope. When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die
We're all fucked.
@@welling1 SO TRUE
yup
Anyone remember when MTV actually played music man I loved the 80s
Yup this is one of the videos I remember watching as a kid.
And actually wrote lyrics that made sense, like this.
My dad does.
Head bangers ball my dude
@@edwardhernandez7600 \m/\m/
“… So make it a place worth living in” one of the most important lines in this song. Everyone needs to hear this.
You know we (the people, not the puppets)must start trying to make this a world worth living in.
everyone needs to DO this
@Bruce Alarie I agree. There is no more waiting for the next person or the other person. Everyone of us needs to help fix our world now. The time has run out. Pick your fix as will I and may the rest of the people join in to replenish our home.
i thinks "make it a place worth fighing for" strong too, since "patriots" think protecting america is more important than making it worth protecting
I listen to it and it chokes me up. For one I miss that time in my life and two a lot of what's said has come true. Too many people.
"There's too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go 'round
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?"
Sounds like he wanted to blame men, but couldn't quite.
They should have played this during Biden's inauguration!
Some things never change…….
@@colleen4ever I disagree with you on that front.
Edit: I may have jumped the gun on my reply. Sorry.
@@colleen4ever Biden sucks as well as Obama. My heath insurance use to pay for everything until Obama took office. Now we are more poor.
The eighties were underrated. The greatest time to be alive. Long live the music from that era.
This song is literally about how the 80s were not a fun time to be alive.
@@BernardMiller-u4t and AIDS
@@sealeo5772 More fun than now.
I suppose its a matter of your perspective
Yep, the entire decade. It was a wonderful heyday back then
Phil had his ear to the streets back then. This is on point.
Mike Rutherford wrote the song
This hit harder now than back when it came out.
Big time lol
I know right.
Exactly
If they thought that way back then I wonder what do they think of nowadays....we are going right into soilent green
Exactly
As soon as the 80s were finished, I thought they were corny. Looking back now though, what a great time it was to be alive. Those were the days.
Agreed i'd give pretty much anything to re live the 80's. Sigh here we are in a land of much more confusion than then. lol
It's kinda crazy just how much the 1990s rejected the '80s. Like EVERYONE thought the '80s was corny as fuck and it's taken us many years to get to a point where we can reflect on the 1980s more fairly.
Id take the 80s over the 2020s any day....fuck id take jimmy carter right now
You should watch They Live. It’s perfect critique of the Reagan administration.
@@ourfatherinthegreen4065 one of my favorite movies. ❤
Unfortunately this high creativity doesn't exists in these times we're living 😢
I feel like this song is even more relevant now than it was then.
absolutely
For as long as human beings exist, this song will be relevant, hell, ANY beings for that matter. Carnage is the nature of all species, most all living species are dangerously primitive and shall remain that way. We’ll almost definitely never exist for long enough as a species to genuinely safeguard ourselves against ourselves, but as this song asks: why don’t we all stop fighting, and make this a place worth living in? These are the hands we’re given after all, and we can do nearly anything with them, not just use them to engage in conflict.
Radio stations should blast this master piece all over the world at the same time to get this message out or what some radio stations have done in the past, to play the song on repeat for days on end.
Extremely relevant today. Even more than when it originally came out
Won't happen. Not when a democrat is is the Oval Office.
STATE. OF THE. UNION. ADDRESS. THIS SONG
*This and We didn't start the fire*
Absolutely. I loved it at the time but appreciate it more now.
This song was way ahead of it's time. Hands down one of the most underrated 80's song there was. This song still holds truth and meaning up until today, and most likely for years ahead of time.... Great song by a great band.
and remade by another..
"Hands down one of the most underrated--"
Ah, bullshit.
I mean this song is great, but it's as generic as 80's pop songs get
@@r0bw00d What kind of loser likes their own comment....nvm...lmao
@@igybproductions8191 I've never investigated the matter; couldn't tell you.
"Make it a place worth fighting for." Words to live by!
💯
0:06 Nancy Reagan, Bonzo (from Bedtime for Bonzo) and Ronald Reagan
0:21 Tony Banks
0:23 Mike Rutherford
0:41 Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher
0:44 Phil Collins
0:51 Henry Kissinger
1:09 (briefly) Meryl Streep
1:48 (on the screen) Ayatollah Khomenhi
1:53 (on the screen) Colonel Gaddafi
2:45 Richard Nixon
2:50 Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock
2:54 Bob Hope
3:17 Sylvester Stallone as Rambo
3:38 Prince (with the tongue)
3:42 Tina Turner, Madonna, Grace Jones
3:47 Pete Townshend (Michael Jackson in the background)
3:50 Hit by a falling bone - David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan
4:04 Left - Ian MacGregor Right - Lord Lucan, Edward Heath
4:21 Cliff Richard, Tina Turner (again), the Queen
4:25 Left to right - Clint Eastwood, Sting, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson
4:30 Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Mr T
4:40 Bette Midler, Princess Diana
4:43 Paul McCartney, Pope John Paul II
The book Nancy Reagan is reading in bed is 'His Way' by Kitty Kelley.
1:44 either Mussolini or Dwight Schrute
Your a saint
Thx
What about at 4:20? Looks like Bob Lazaar
Hulk Hogan was in there too being an eighties icon as the World Wrestling Federation World Heavyweight Champion.
It’s crazy to see how many people feel the same way I do about this song. It applies to today just as much as it did back when this song was made
Way more actually. The 80’s were pretty good, even at the time we knew that.
More so. This song is way more relevant now than it was in the 80s.
nah 80s and 90s were great. Pretty much nightmare since 2000s even worse today.
@@bluemoon8498 True
I agree Benjamin.
This song is timeless. It definitely describes the world and the time we're living in right now
More so now than in the 80's - ahead of its time!
The Bible predicted it.. he just put it in a song... superman where are you now?
A senile something, something presses the... something at the very end of the videa. I smell Ink.
Wake up time...Jesus is coming
Please free palestine from hamas
I remember watching this video on MTV as a little kid and being scared but liking it at the same time.
Im 50 and this is exactly what I told my 25 yr old daughter. Crazy how most of us think about this masterpiece.
30 years later, this land is even more confused.
only in ur mind
Yeah, guess his generation didn't make it right :(
Tamila how's that diet working out for you?
Agreed!
This song makes perfect sense why this world is fucked up
This song is a masterpiece. Period, end of story.
it absolutely shatters me every time I watch it. I want to cry sometimes, with both joy and sadness...
@@michaelrowell1429 You just described the feeling perfectly.
Yes sir
Not really.
And even though there are some great covers of it, Phil Collins' vocals are still 🔥
It's sad to live in an era where so many talented people have and will pass in my generation. I've seen so many artists and friends pass away. By the time I pass, pretty much all of our classic rock idols will have already passed. Keep their music alive!
I'm thinking of Phil Collins, not even able to play drums anymore, having to sit on stage and looking far older than his 71 years. Sad...
So true Dublin ireland 👍
@@nolanboles8492 Oooh Superman were are you now Ooo…
Greetings 🙋🏻♀️
Dear Xeno Gryph... "I agree and it's up to us not to die, right?" ... You do not have to answer to me, only to yourself when you look in the mirror and say these words: I LOVE YOU and all is well.
I often think the same stuff. When all these great artist of the 60's, 70's, 80's are gone, we will truly be left with a much more soulless, robotic and generic world of today's modern music.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it...Need this song on a record, cause we keep going round...
You got That right, why don't more folks talk about it?
This song was HUGE. This should have way more views.
You’re right about that!!!!
Disturbed did a Cover. So the song is known by that then the original
@@timothywhite8130 Maybe to younger people, but I certainly knew it was a cover. Regardless of that, this should still have more views. I'm thinking that those of us who remember this video, thought the puppetry was terrifying lol. in 1986 I was 5, this was not what I was used to
@@timothywhite8130 not really
AND you should HAVE bought it $$$.
I was born in '79 and my mom always had the radio playing in my room as I fell asleep at night and this is one of those songs that I distinctly remember sparking my imagination as I fell asleep. Such a great exposure to music I had in this decade.
Mike Rutherford of Genesis wrote this in under an hour. It's about, "what a wonderful world we live in and what a terrible mess we're making of it all".
holly-wood 🤡's.. plagiarism is anal worship for star struck dummies
@@Iamllumash huh? 🤨🤔
@@minty_Joe people love their fake phony wannabe malevolent 🤡's of holly-wood.. man is a fraud & pompous.. They have their paradise today...
Although these know full well the righteous decree of God-that those practicing such things are deserving of death-they not only keep on doing them but also approve of those practicing them.Rom.1:32
The 80s were pretty awesome compared to now
@@scottsoltani8389 Well, aside from the fluctuating tensions between World powers, AIDS/HIV and recessions, yeah the 80s were still a rad time to grow up in. I was born in 1980 and remember from '83 onward. Reagan's "evil empire" speech really ruffled some feathers and Operation Able Archer didn't help either, bringing us closest to nuclear war by the end of '83. But we did help Afghanistan protect and defend against the Soviets. It was a great time for economic growth, where many were making a killing in the stock markets. New fashion trends, gadgets, entertainment...I could go on.
This song predicted the future as we know it now, genesis was always something I listened to on the radio in the 90s.
A world away. A memory of better times and mockery. This really is a land of confusion right now.
This song is the world today!!!!😮😮😮😮😮
Man, this must have frightened some children back in the day.
It did. I was a child when I first saw this.
Nov 80$ babie right here yes this one in Greg Kihn -Jeopordy frightening me has a kiddo
yepp.. Think I was like 4-5 years old when I saw this...
What do you mean back in the day? I'm 38 and having trouble looking at these creepy, bad acid trip puppets
We were living on the edge of nuclear war….😂
One of my fav songs. When I was a kid, when this album and vid came out times were rough at home and I often feared getting hurt. So I made this hidey cave under the hollow area of my bed’s headboard, and put blankets in there and I’d take Phil & Genesis music in there with me, to comfort me during long hours my parents were fighting and screaming and I felt they were out of control. Man Phil got me thru a lot of hard times. One of the best musicians of our time.
How you doing, now? Phil is a calm amongst the storms, for sure.
I'm so sorry when I see someone had my sort of childhood. I hope you're doing fine.
I wish I could hug you. God bless you.
😢
How absolutely ironic this song is to present 2024! Clearly “Superman, where are you now?”
His name is Clark Kent. His power isn't strength or flight or even laser vision. Its to show us how a strong man or woman uses power, to serve the people. Clark Kent lives in the service of others, and that's his power. That's what makes him a Super-Man. We can't ask for help, we have to help others.
Sleeping.
He's busy sucking some d*ck, cause he turned gay.
Superman got the hell off this fucked up planet.
I don't think you know what ironic means
35 years later and this song still relevently applies, perhaps even more so
even more problems, even less love
YEP! Equally pertinent songs EVEN TODAY are Johnny Cash's "All Of God's Children Ain't Free" and Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons!"
The song is relevant to the whole of human history.
Not 'perhaps'......definitely. :(
This song hits home how much has changed in 36 years and this song still applies today in 2021
"Too many men, there's too many people
Making too many problems"
*ACURATE AS FUCK*
Accurate for the Obiden regime
beat it, Trumpfanboy
And not much love to go 'round.
@scottluther2091 so do you have a final solution then?
True!
Here are the lyrics:
I must have dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street
Now, did you read the news today?
They say the danger has gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
They're burning into the night
There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go around
Can't you see this is the land of confusion?
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in
Oh, Superman, where are you now?
When every thing's gone wrong somehow?
Men of steel, these men of power
I'm losing control by the hour
This is the time, this is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go around
Tell me why this is the land of confusion
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in
I remember long ago
When the sun was shining
And all the stars were bright all through the night
In the wake up this madness, as I held you tight
So long ago
I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know we'll never keep
There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go around
Can't you see this is the land of confusion?
Now, this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for
This is the world we live in
And these are the names we're given
Stand up and let's start showing
Just where our lives are going to
This is so relevant now in these times
How so?
32 YEARS LATER AND WE STILL LIVE IN A LAND OF CONFUSION.
AND we still have a President who THINKS he's Superman...
It's always gonna be like that, no matter what we do
and you know what? if what Billy Joel sang in '89 is any indication, that ain't gonna change for a looooooooong time ;)
And it was not in confusion when?
I’VE SEEN YOU IN THE COMMENTS OF QUITE A FEW MUSIC VIDEOS, AND I’M CURIOUS AS TO WHY YOU ONLY TALK IN CAPS LOCK.
The line that breaks my heart. Every time is “not much love to go ‘round.”
And it'll be less and less of it
💔😢
@@toy.den7524unless we do something about it
One of the greatest groups of all time and still very relevant today!
oh god this song is scarily relevant now.
god help us all.
Well this is the world we live in!
And these are the hands we're given
*use them and let's start trying...
to make it a place worth living in!*
Seriously, was just about to post the exact same sentiment.
@Stephanie lol yea #trump2020
This song is never not relevant.
I couldn't stop thinking about this song and the lyrics. I was really little when i saw the video and yes, it hits the nail on the head.
this song is just as relevant now as it was in the 80's because nothing changes, people.
nothing ever changes.
natural law. "bad guys" will always be strongest because they set no limitations on themselves through misguided ethics and morals.
OR,...THE MORE THINGS CHANGE,...THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME,...TO QUOTE YODA.
It's always the same, and it's a shame, that's all.
@@bjam27Well, since you made that reference, I might just Play it again
The only time that things change is when our dystopian fiction gives our "leaders" new ideas for evil things to do to us.
If there was one song that summed up the 80s, it's this one.
The 80s were the life of Riley compared to today's problems. At least back then, life was still normal and goals were doable.
@@lucasjordan7444 Will again...just need to brush aside the White Houses empty suit! Or, if you like...the Emperor has no clothes.
The English, willing to piss themselves in lieu of reason. Have faith Chicken Littles, Have Faith!
@@danrowley6934 I'd bring back everything from that decade except the lousy fashion and hairstyles. Definitely an economy like back then.
I'd say between this and George Harrison 'Got My Mind Set On You'
I heard this song back in like second grad on the radio and did not understand much of what it was about, but when I heard that there were too many people causing too many problems, this is the earth we have and these are the hands we give her and we make make it a better place, I just radicallt turned into an environmentalist and decided everything did was going to have the intent of making the world a better place. I still believe that twenty years later. One song does not change your life but it opens your mind and it the door to try doing what you believe in. This was probably the most impactful song of my life even to this day.
Really, this song is so appropriate for the world today. Ive always loved Genesis, and this was a big favorite of thier songs.
I wonder if Genesis is willing to rethink their opinion of President Reagan. They made him out to be a fool that was risking nuclear destruction. Instead he ended the Cold War without a shot.
This song was so ahead of it's time
No matter how much things change, they always stay the same. I'm sure someone said that at some point
and yet it was released 16 years after Ball of Confusion by the Temptations
@@ashevillecat Think about it... same indifference. We care not as people, as community, as lowest common denominator. Else, we would stop it, right? Hmmm...
@@libradragon Too right...we are our own worst enemy...witnessing the underlying premise that explains the Fermi Paradox/Great Filter
All the faces. How many did you recognize? Where are they today, 33 years later? So profound.
Phil Collins is hard-core. Much respect.
I remember seeing this as a child on MTV at my aunt & uncles (where I could see cable tv). The video compliments the song so well. Rebel music lives.
*lived
@@SONOFABITCH As in once lived in a spectrum of pop culture and influence on a program possibility scale for actual influence ? Or outside of that limited spectrum life can't survive?
I like him. He gives a good vibe.
Agreed!!!
Yup! This song is truly relevant in 2022!
This video scared the shit out of me when I was little, but now it rocks.
History repeats itself! Again and again! One day you would expect a generation to learn from it!
They're too busy burning the USA flag 🇺🇸 & demanding Civil War monuments be torn down...alongside hitting the mainstream media feederbar in a panic over a virus.
THAT'S WHY History will repeat itself🤔
@@maestroaxeman The only repeate here is the blind ignorance and stupid irresponsebility, of the idiots stuck in lies and bullshit... who lack the mental capasity and knowledge to see reality as it is, and not what some outdated narrsesist hatespewer told them it should be
@@maestroaxeman i hope you're referring to the ones who should be teaching and not the ones learning.
(1) Confederate monuments confer undue dignity on a faction that fought to preserve the institution of slavery and the ethos of white supremacy that underlays it.
(2) Alexander Stephens, VP of the CSA, famously gave the “Cornerstone Speech” in which he announced that the new Confederate government was FOUNDED on the idea that blacks were inferior to whites.
(3) General Robert E Lee acknowledges that he fought to preserve the institution of slavery, but one letter written after the Civil War in 1866, addressed to Gen. Thomas L. Rosser shows Lee Actually OPPOSED the erection of Confederate monuments or symbols saying it would keep division alive. (he was Sooo right)
(4) Any unprovoked attack on Civilians or Military bases are acts of Terrorism, -Fact. Major Robert Anderson of the Confederate Army became a Domestic Terrorist when he Attacked Fort Sumpter before sunrise on April 12, 1861, leading to a total senseless loss of over 620,000 American soldiers.
(5) Why do some insist on celebrating the lives of men who committed treason in the name of preserving slavery? That these statues even exist is unusual. When armies are defeated on their own soil-particularly when those armies fight to promote racist or genocidal policies-they usually don’t get to keep their symbols and material culture. Seriously, who does that?!? Even Deutschland knows better.
(6) In 1949, West Germany criminalized the display of swastikas; the symbol was blown off of buildings. The federal state systematically destroyed statues & MONUMENTS!, razed many Nazi architectural structures and buried ‘executed’ military and civilian officials in mass, unmarked graves so that their resting grounds would not become Nazi shrines. The Confederates were lucky the benevolence of Lincoln prevented him from doing the same.
(7) The statues were blunt instruments in institutionalizing white supremacy and blotting out the dual sins of treason and slavery. Those who believe anything else will forever be on the WRONG Side of history.
(8) if the South had prevailed:
(a) the Institution of Slavery would have persisted well into the 20th Century
(b) The “United” States would Not exist as the Super Power it continues to be; therefore...
(c) We May have not had the Military & Organizational strength to assist Churchill in defeating the Nazis nor stand up to the CCCP during the subsequent Cold War.
(d) We also Might not have a GIANT well deserved statue of a Real American Patriot, Abraham Lincoln, in The Capitol
Class dismissed
History never repeats. What you're feeling is an echo or a rhyme of the past.
What is history? "An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
Victor Hugo
This song STILL holds up!
It's more relevant than ever. We are in deep doo-doo. 😖
@jdereck477 you know if we tap your profile we can see your comments to all the females, you're a phishing scammer. Glad most ignored you. Get an actual job or at least a hobby.
Oh Superman where are you Now!! You can say that AGAIN in these times.
Ronald Regan ain't around no more!
A man in tights... Look outside.. lol
What? When wouldn't superman be helpful?
This is the current state of America. I wish more people listened
My Heart: "This song is meaningful."
My Eyes: "wtf"
Lol
It's definitely a representation of its era.
Jaja
😂 Agree!
@MrGriff305 It completely is. The very topic of it is covering the concerns and events people had & experienced at that time.
Still cracks me up Phil popping up behind the drum kit during the "whoa ooaah" part when he's also out on front of the band
If you listen to the music closely, they have Phil timed right in hitting the crash cymbals on the refrains, then ducking out of sight! 😂
My generation will put it right...
Don't we all say that at some point?
Back then it was true
Back then that generation COULD make a difference.
Not sure. I'm Gen X. We all said screw the system and dropped out. Y'all made your bed. now lay in it.
Thank you Spitting Image, great show and great music video.
Remember Phil, everyone. He has retired for health reasons, and isn't doing so well. The music industry seems to have forgotten him, but we will not. ❤
Don't worry, Phil Collins and Genesis are timeless and immortal, musically - unforgettable.
Never gonna forgive him for taking an Oscar away from real artist like parker and stone
@@radical117 What a terrible thing to say
I'm passing this generation of music (not now music because it's weird but I like some artists tho) to the future generation so the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and the early 10s because I don't want it to be forgotten
@@radical117 Who???
Ironic that the Disturbed video is less disturbing than this one.
ooh ah ah ah ah
Hadn't thought about that but your correct
Disturbed sux
Disturbed's video is about the economic and cultural identity crisis of the early 2000s. While the message of unity that derives from the original song and their tribute to it is similar, Genesis' video was made in 1986. The world had been going through a Cold War for almost thirty years, with each side spreading misinformation and trying to invest more in its military arsenal than the other.
With the mid 80s (this video is is from '86), the world was also exposed to the dangers of nuclear technology following the Chernobyl incident, showing everyone that not only the nuclear weapons being used by the opposing powers were likely to bring the world to an end, but even the peace-time uses of it.
Added to this, both the Soviets and the US found themselves being led by unqualified people, with their share of problems (Gorbachev's drinking and Reagan's mental issues), people who were put in charge of an enormous military that had been waiting to pull the trigger for 3 decades, and which was now facing aging hardware and software that were liable to cause a disaster merely through a computer glitch or some decayed wiring.
Genesis' depiction of this is brilliant through its caricature, as Reagan presses what he thinks is his nurse's call button, only to trigger a missile launch instead. And all the while, the world seems to be oblivious to what is going on (the TV channels, putting everyone to sleep through funny talk-shows, optimistic series like Star Trek, which is why you see Leonard Nimoy's Spock at one point, and general entertainment, like Michael Jackson who appears in his Thriller outfit).
This was the true crisis facing the World in the 80s, even though most people block it out and only remember the fun music and different clothes or hair people wore. It was 2 sides with a very strong and embedded sense of identity, each trying to prove one's ideology over the other.
Disturbed was for the children of those generations of people, who instead felt purposeless and being only alive to exist as part of a vast economic machine that gave no importance to their value beyond their productivity. Bad in its own way, but not in the accidentally world-ending sense of things.
Might be neither of those things that screws us over now though, but this asshole virus instead, that's gonna tank economies with the equality of Communism and the ruthlessness of Capitalism simultaneously. And it's likely gonna kill more people before its conclusion than any of the last wars of the 20th and 21st centuries...
@monokhem I stand corrected, it was indeed Boris Yeltsin who I was remembering.
As for the second part, a lot of people my parents' age actually thought a nuclear incident the likes of Chernobyl was as close to being in the vicinity of a deployed weapon.
While this doesn't make any sense (a reactor is not built on the same principles as actual nuclear ordnance), these were folks born in the late 30s (and maybe being part of the Communist block didn't help either).
I don't think even an actual nuclear war would end the planet, it's been through far worse and some ecosystem always replaces the previous one, eventually.
But it would end a lot of what's been built and that people are used to. The "modern conveniences", so to speak. Hell, we've still got infrastructure in place and still the whole world's panicking, and it didn't take 10000 nuclear warheads to do it, only a tiny virus....
Heard this song when I was 12 and it was all about the beat, guitar and sound. As I've got older the words behind the music are timeless and relevant even now... Amazing song
Wow. Phil Collins, who knew he was also a prophet.
Who else was watching and listening to this on MTV in 1986!
The question should be, "Where did MTV go?" MTV is not the same MTV we saw back then. I have to click on a different channel to watch music videos and that channel just repeats the same songs. They should really revamp MTV and "bring back that lovin' feeling", cause if I wanted movies I would watch NETFLIX.
I was 3 and loved it!!
@@TheCake8queen you dont need MTV anymore, you have youtube, use it.
I was 8
I watched it on Friday Night Videos !!!
"Superman where are you now, where everything's gone wrong somehow." So true, my favorite part of the song. Lyrics are awesome!
Woke up in the middle of the night dreaming about this song and video. I forgot about it until just a second ago it popped back into my head. I haven't heard this song in YEARS, but it definitely a banger. It seems very fitting for a current cultural climate as well. Kudos Genesis!
I have to see some irony in the fact you dreamed about a song whoses music video is a dream
Basically the same here. Early this morning watching the news this song pops into my head. I had to look it up.
This song and video have been playing in my head…waking me up every morning for the past 2 weeks… 😶
All Reagan did was WIN the cold war! Right now, we are at DEFCON 3 because of OBiden! Why? DUMBASS REGESSIVES! Where is the song for now? Loved Genesis, but now.............................?
Wonder if they knew it would still be relevant 36 years later when they first made it
We are now IN a land confusion. 2025
40 years on and just...damn. Nailed it guys. Nailed it
40 years before that the world was just coming out of the second world war. Either we are not learning or there is a lot of profit to be made from never ending wars. I know where my money is on this subject.
As bizarre as the video is, it has a very powerful message that still stands today. "This is the world we live in." " It's worth fighting for!"
As completely weird and creepy as the video is, the hands holding the child's hands... gets me every time because... it's still true.
@@Crackrzz That is so true!🤘
You’re right about that!!!
Simple message, but, truer words were NEVER spoken! It's a world worth fighting for, but, the world powers that be, are simply fighting for a greater share of the world's political power over the vast majority of the world's citizens, no matter WHERE they live in the world! My opinion, so, prove me wrong, if you can.
It's so true
This is definitely the world we live in today. So much confusion and not enough love in the world!!!
I understand this completely now.
One of the best music video of all time
I'm 12 and and this video need to go now
clobbyhops I agree !!!!!!!!!!
@@coolmanson3007 go back to your diapers kid...lol
@andrew You've fallen for the social engineering for men of the day. GOD/YAHUAH/YAHUSHUA made woman out of man for a help mate. You instead of being a SPIRITUAL leader in your future home, are provided porn to replace her.
You are blind if not just dishonest with yourself and hopeless as a victum of your programmers. They abused us as children by force indoctrinating their lies into our child minds.
What you see as troubled woe to the man, they are also victims unawares of the social engineering and predictive programming steered towards them. The nucleus for the BIBLICAL fam. The thread that binds the family unit.
Just as your programmers wanted you see your helpmate as your enemy. It causes double mindedness which leads to instability in all your ways - Proverbs/book of Wisdom shares that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Those pigs/swine characters you were led to use after your views on women reveals reveal that you have lil to know knowledge of the LIVING WORD/JESUS/YESHUA - Your lack of seeking a Wise dome and common sense in the LIVING WORD/JESUS/YESHUA reveals why you've no SPIRITUAL ears to hear or eyes to see the WICKED and WILEY ways of the devil
Hegelian dialectic method
Devide and Conquer method
Destruction of the fam
A GOD/YAHUAH/YAHUSHUA less nation programming where the lil g government get to then play your god instead.
Sadly they are lovers of satan/death and all about lies and fear of overpopulation programming and settinv the WORLD STAGE for the return of the NEPHILIM and their NEPHILIM KING/ANTICHRIST/DRAGON.
As written by these Occultists on the dollar bill/paper money - ORDER OUT OF CHAOS
The OLD BIBLICAL FIRST ATTEMPTED BY NIMROD NEW WORLD ORDER AGENDA FIRST ATTEMPTED BY NIMROD KING OF PAGAN ISM/MIGHTY HUNTER OF SOULS - NEW WORLD ORDER the nations rulers behind the UNITED NATIONS INITIATIVE NWO AGENDA
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY BACKBONED
● UNITED NATIONS INITIATIVE NWO AGENDA
The WORLD STAGE is being set for the return of the NEPHILIM and their NEPHILIM KING/ANTICHRIST/DRAGON. It's DUMMY UUUUP time now!!!
A man needs ONE woman. It's no mistake your programmers narrative goes against this. The beast system prefers chaos over ORDER in order to create the environment for the masses to turn to them to play their lil g so they can lead the deaf dumb and blind to their side of the END OF THE AGE PROPHECY OF THEIR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT UNFOLDING AS WE ARE LED TO SPEAK
You dont have to be a dumbass! You've been given access to the LIVING WORD/JESUS/YESHUA and His gospel that was written in the stars that revealed His physical coming and the whole gospel of the written word.
@@carpejkdiem all I have to say with this nonsense is Hail Satan
They had NO IDEA how Relevant this Song would be in 2021.
Maybe they did....🤫
@@tracyleeortega9856 and in 2022!
Life repeats itself, it’s only relevant because in both snapshots in time our country and world was at the brink of nuclear war one administration with a president that was hell bent on showing no weakness except he couldn’t see past the fact he was in mental decline and the you have an administration that projects nothing but weakness but when confronted he has these violent verbal outtakes of rage usually at everyday ppl not the actual person he is angry at . All the while everyone can see his cheese slid off the cracker. Every word he speaks or attempts to along with every decision he makes single handedly has all but brought this country to its knees and our enemies are watching and moving chess pieces accordingly and sadly we must endure 3 more years
@@gsmithy7995 diplomacy is a strength, not a weakness. Putin has nuclear weapons and he has threatened to use them at will. We must do everything to avoid a confrontation. Attacking Russia would only destroy everything. No, diplomacy must happen first.
@@gsmithy7995 which US city or town do you think is expendable? Yours? Mine?
Putin has threatened to use his nukes. Then we will launch missiles at Russia. Both of ours are thousands more powerful than those we dropped on Japan and they were not a nuclear power. All nations that have nukes will be forced into launching against Russia and they will be destroyed as well.
Putin is not "man of good will ". Diplomacy first is strength.
I must've dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street
Now did you read the news today?
They say the danger's gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
There burning into the night
There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go around
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?
Well, this is the world we live in (oh-oh-oh)
And these are the hands we're given (oh-oh-oh)
Use them and let's start trying (oh-oh-oh)
To make it a place worth living in
Ooh, Superman, where are you now
When everything's gone wrong somehow?
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour
This is the time, this is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go around
Tell me, why this is a land of confusion?
This is the world we live in (oh-oh-oh)
And these are the hands we're given (oh-oh-oh)
Use them and let's start trying (oh-oh-oh)
To make it a place worth living in
I remember long ago
Ooh, when the sun was shining
Yes, and the stars were bright all through the night
And the sound of your laughter as I held you tight
So long ago
I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know, we'll never keep
Too many men, there's too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go around
Can't you see, this is a land of confusion?
Now this is the world we live in (oh-oh-oh)
And these are the hands we're given (oh-oh-oh)
Use them and let's start trying (oh-oh-oh)
To make it a place worth fighting for
This is the world we live in (oh-oh-oh)
And these are the names we've given (oh-oh-oh)
Stand up and let's start showing (oh-oh-oh)
Just where our lives are going to
Thanks you stranger 😘
FJB
Phil Collins is killing it on this track.
Let's make America 80s again
Yes, the music and movies !!!
@BeatlesFan1975 100% my friend
I AGREE 💯 PERCENT 😁👍💙🇺🇸
Perfect. I'm in.
The dystopian future run by corporations in a bleak world ravaged by war and economic poverty predicted in all those 80s films actually came true!!! We finally arrived. We're living it!!! O.O
Genisis =GENIUS. PHIL COLLINS. this man can perform any style of music. R&B, ballads, pop and classic rock, of course.. legendary musician and writer of music..
I love that at one point there are four musicians on the stage including two Phils.
One Phil for the drums and another Phil for the vocals.
The one behind the drums was called “the crappy Phil” because it was so badly messed up (not really sure how it got that way; when the band saw it, they thought “it looks crappy") and the one upfront was called “the good looking Phil.” The “crappy” one was originally going to be upfront but when they saw how it looked, they conveniently put it behind the drums and made another one to put up front.
@@jwavada Very interesting story, thanks!
If you look closely, you can see the real Phil Collins jumping up over the puppets at 4:44.
*No amount of words will ever describe how much I love this song and this band*
Me too! I was 26 in 1986, when this song came out. 1980's videos were so amazing. You really had to be there in that decade to appreciate the innovation at the time.
2:57 This verse hits hard nowadays. Things indeed used to be alot better & the sun always shined along with the stars
This feels timeless and more relevant than ever right now. A melodious yet muscular, strident offering.
How about now?
@ more pertinent potentially than ever. Almost prophetic 🙏
This song has been a true revelation for many years...its has never been more true than now
I agree 100% Charles!
No no, it's Benesis, not Revelation. Genesis is the one with Adam and Eve, Revelation is the one with the Harlot and the giant frogs.
Holmes, what you say is true. And it is a testament to a piece of art that it becomes more and more true and salient over time rather than less. Every. Single. Occasion. I go back and watch this it is like a fucking revelation, and it feels like the most cognizant look at the flow of history ever possibly encapsulated into a pop song. Kinda blows me away, honestly. Casandra like really.
i was born in 81, this was the music that i grew up with .. i absolutely still embrace this music and sound. so powerfull and rich, todays music just doesn't come near all this.
Ammer Reduron I am 18, but I still agree. There's just something about "older" music.
Hi I'm Jason, and I was born in 74',. but I can relate to music of the 80s it was a time when music was music. Find me on Facebook and let me hear your feedback @ Jason Arkenberg I live in Louisville,Ky. I'll be glad to share the greatest decade of all.
Ammer Reduron I’m 17 and I agree! 😃
Ammer Reduron you want a prize?
I was born in 1982 and I agree.
All PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH
Psalms 85:11
[11]Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Even though I love both era's of Genesis, Peter and Phil, This is the song that got me into genesis.
Me too, my dad was a huge genesis fan and he played this song alot
This song never loses its merit.
There is hardly a prog rock song with a message as timeless as this one. It echoes across generations and centuries for all those who have been oppressed, enslaved, ill treated and cast out from human rights. Shows how the arts are one of the most powerful tools to bring light to this darkness and chaos that is our world
Yeah well, the arts can also be a great tool for the state to further it’s propaganda onto an ignorant populous… just ask Mark Ruffalo.
Or one with a more original, funkier synth-line. Such an unconventional time signature even for Prog Rock.
This song is still good 2025😊