Absolutely. And the album cover itself is also a work of art. One of the best albums of the eighties and most people have never heard of it. Max Headroom introduced me to it 😊
Random fact: This song gets a mention in The Jazz Butcher songbook "Miracles & Wonder" by Philip Snow and Pat Fish (aka The Jazz Butcher). Page 103 to be exact! If anyone's interested! Pat said he was thinking of this song, and Reagan's bombing of Tripoli, when writing lyrics to his beautiful song "Angels". Rip Pat, you have introduced me to a lot of music/songs (such as this) that I wasn't previously aware of...musical inspiration from beyond the grave.
Watched Ch 4 TV in the UK who premiered the whole Infected Album Video. To say I was completely blown away that Thursday evening (I think they did a lot of Video stuff for Indie Bands on that night as well as other Progs like The Tube/Whatever you didn't get with Keith Allen). They were a very good source of upcoming indie bands
I watched it too on Ch4 and blown away, i am sure Ch4 put it on twice. I bought the vhs tape of the lp but it didnt play properly, didnt have a replacement copy tho 😅
I remember this brilliantly-prescient track never got the promotion or radio play it deserved as its planned release coincided with the US bombing of Libya in 1986, and his record company (CBS) got cold feet & pulled it. Despite it being *exactly* the message the public needed to hear right then.
6 часов утра и я последний человек в этом самолете Еще не спит Почему я почти чувствую запах крови, омывающей берега, Из этой земли, которая не может забыть свое прошлое. О ветер, несущий этот план, это ветер перемен, Небеса послали и ад согнут! Мы идем по горным вершинам, как и все остальные солдаты Джо И-И-И-И---- прощай! ПРИПЕВ Это ваш капитан, звонит "срочное предупреждение" Мы над Аравийским заливом - "наша высота падает" И я не могу ее удержать - "нет времени думать" Все руки на палубе - "эта птица тонет" Через пляжи и краны, реки и поезда Все деньги, которые я заработал - тела, которые я искалечил. Было время, когда я, казалось, знал, Как и любой другой солдат Джо Должен ли я плакать, как ребенок, или умереть, как мужчина В то время как все планеты, как войны, начинают браться за руки, О, что за рай, что за ад!! Да что ты знаешь, на всем белом свете ничего нельзя сделать. Я не знаю, что неправильно или правильно, Я обычный парень с закрытыми внутренностями, Я никогда не был в церкви и не верил в Иисус Христос Но я молюсь, чтобы Боги были с тобой, когда ты умрешь!!!
The video's of the whole album were shown on Channel 4 in the UK. I taped it on VHS, but after my term at university, somebody had taped over it.😢Sold the vinyl copy I bought at the time and bought the CD, and most of the videos are online so it's worked out OK in the end. It's still relevant today. "Should I cry like a baby, or die like a man, when all the planet's little wars start joining hands."
It was the 1990s computer game (political simulator) called Conflict Middle East that introduced me to this song. It was the heavy 80s feel to the song and music video that kept me coming back!
Saw them live in Toronto at the old Masonic Temple on Younge Street Shortly after the Album Infected was released. Way ahead of there time one of my favourite bands of all time
The 12” variant is the definitive version that they always used to play on JJJ in Australia. If you haven’t heard it, do yourself a favor and check it out!
Also the references to religion ( often used as an reason to invade etc or war ) or the silliness of airman who who are not religious ( I aint never been to chruch . . .) but still as part of being in the military, you have to take part in Christian sermons and prayer ( but I am praying god is with you when you die . . . ) - in reference to colleagues - Jesus was the 'Fisher of Men' and in the video, the fish is clearly foundering in a puddle
It was one of my first VHS video's after buying my first VCR! And I still have it! Sadly it's very worn, I messaged for ages about getting it released on DVD but some of the original master tapes were lost after production companies (There were a few involved in the project) folded. On the label a review reads 'After watching it, everyone seemed stunned!' And why not? In 'Twilight of a champion' Matt places a loaded, cocked gun in his mouth! What a guy!
Lyrics 6 o'clock in the morning & I'm the last person in this plane still awake Y'know I can almost smell the blood washing against the shores, Of this land that can't forget its past. Oh the wind that carries this plane, is the wind of change, heaven sent and hell bent! over the mountain tops we go, just like all the other GI Joes EE-AY-EE-AY - adios! This is your captain calling - "with an urgent warning" We're above the Gulf of Arabia - "our altitude is falling" & I can't hold her up - "there's no time for thinking" All hands on deck - "this bird is sinking" Across the beaches and cranes, rivers and trains all the money I've made - bodies I've maimed. Time was when I seemed to know, Just like any other GI Joe Should I cry like a baby, or die like a man While all the planets like wars start joining hands, Oh what a heaven - what a hell!! Y'know there's nothing can be done in the whole wide world. I don't know whats wrong or right, I'm just a regular guy, with bottled up insides, I ain't ever been to church or believed in Jesus Christ but I'm praying that Gods with you when you die!!! Arabia Arabia Arabia Arabia Arabia Arabia
I first heard this tune way back in 1987 on a Sunday during a TV ad break on Channel 4. Totally fantastic song and video. Been off of TH-cam for far too long.
Brilliant album, cleverly composed, great production and playing, amazing lyrics and videos that follow the whole album are brilliant, what can I say Matt (The The) is a really flawless author.
Amazing song , I remember reading a review on the single it said it's a much more powerful version of Paul Hardcastle's 19 and should be a big hit , The whole Infected album is something else what a masterpiece ,
So we say it. This very song may be the linchpin. There may be no more immediate explication of the conundrum of the disposable human male in all of musico-video-hood. Heaven sent, and hell bent. Should I cry like a baby or die like a man? My captain sings out, "I'm just a regular guy with bottled-up insides. I ain't never been to church or believed in Jesus Christ, but I'm prayin'... that God is with you... when you die."
@@Boppo101 THE USA IS A COMMUNIST SOCIETY America fighting like a fish out of water involved with something it has no understanding of... as the middle east has been at it since Nimrod ruled them... most Christians are not Christians... they R warmongers seeking to become wealthy from both ends burning...
Infectd and Soul mining are two of the best albums ever made and this is one of the best songs on those albums. Having said that, every song on both albums are amazing.
I had a C90 cassette tape with Soul Mining on one side and Infected on the other. That tape lives in my (very posh for the time) Sony auto-reverse Walkman for pretty much most of the second half of the 80’s. Astounding albums.
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The chorus' lyrics for this song would appear as the first screen of the Amiga videogame _Conflict: The Middle East Political Simulator_ (1990). I used to wonder what it meant, back in the 90s, when me and my dad still used to play it, and there was no internet yet to appease our curiosity (we're from Italy). Fast forward 25-ish years, 10 minutes ago I found a video (this one: th-cam.com/video/vqKQnYUeDC4/w-d-xo.html ) which had me realize it must be a quotation... Google and this video made the rest.
This album is outstanding!!! Find me a poor track! I love Prefab Sprout, you would select three or four tracks off their album, and go, yeah, I'll buy!! There is NO weak track on this album!!!! An amazing piece of music/social commentary, just Brilliant.
@@julliard I think it stands up really well. It's one of 5 or 6 albums on a playlist or in the cd draw at any point, along with Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout, Woodface by Crowded House, Talking Heads Remain in Light/Stop Making Sense/Speaking in Tongues, Thomas Dolby Golden Age of Wireless/Aliens Ate my Buick. I dip in and out of modern stuff, but I have a brother in the industry and he knows a fake song/protools/autotune rip off when he hears it!! Back to analogue!!!!
If I’d known I’d be listening to this as a 16 year old in the 80’s and again now as a 51 year old in 2024 while it has not aged a single moment!!!!
True, same.❤😂
The infected album is an absolute piece of art. Such a shame people don’t get it. Stands up today x
Yes !!!! A perfect diamond !
Damn right.
Absolutely. And the album cover itself is also a work of art. One of the best albums of the eighties and most people have never heard of it. Max Headroom introduced me to it 😊
Amazing album x 🙏huge talent!
I got it. Still listen to it. Genius.
Just as relevant today as it was back then with the fighting in Yemen and Palestine
Here in 2024. What a shame this song is still relevant.
I feel that way about both the Infected and Mind Bomb albums. D:
Many people are surprised about the chaos and division in the world, but some of us have always seen it.
Fucking exactly
I must be odd because this is my favourite Thethe song. The first time I heard it I just went, "Wowwww...."
Your not odd at all. This is one of their many classics.
It's one of highlights of Infected.
Needs about 100 million more views. Honestly a bit staggered that this absolute masterpiece isn't a lot more appreciated.
You're not wrong!!!
It is a f..n Masterpiece!!
They don't make them like this any more !
@Carlos You really want Matt Johnson to not be more successful just so that you can feel superior? That's more than a bit weird.
Listen mostly to12 inch album version but yesssssss genius
It should be.
Brilliant and timeless. All the changes and life stages gone through and I've never stopped coming back to it for well over 30 yrs.
In 2023 this sounds so Prophetic
This is another group/band that I would not have heard of if not for MyMichaelC
I don't what mymichaelc is. But my brother introduced me to the the in the 80's. Still great.
I guess I should really just call him MichaelC now, drop the My part. I finally, over it....him
Actually, looks like I never really knew him after all.
Such a great and under rated song. Stood the test of time and still relevant today.
Even MJ cannot have known just how relevant it would become!
YEP ......
It's been Way too long! So good to have it back in here! Outstanding track and so relevant still.
Absolutely. They banned it when it was released as a single,unfortunately.
Just remembered it was released the same year as Top Gun.
Still a masterpiece.
Random fact: This song gets a mention in The Jazz Butcher songbook "Miracles & Wonder" by Philip Snow and Pat Fish (aka The Jazz Butcher).
Page 103 to be exact! If anyone's interested! Pat said he was thinking of this song, and Reagan's bombing of Tripoli, when writing lyrics to his beautiful song "Angels".
Rip Pat, you have introduced me to a lot of music/songs (such as this) that I wasn't previously aware of...musical inspiration from beyond the grave.
Great song very visceral sound. Gets under your skin. Great clip.
Oh what a heaven--what a hell!! Matt Johnson brought me here. x
My dad played me this song when i was 8.
Now at 39 i can still feel that bass thudding in my gut!
During a tory choked 80s Britain, this was one of the only life rafts...
Watched Ch 4 TV in the UK who premiered the whole Infected Album Video. To say I was completely blown away that Thursday evening (I think they did a lot of Video stuff for Indie Bands on that night as well as other Progs like The Tube/Whatever you didn't get with Keith Allen). They were a very good source of upcoming indie bands
Those mid-through-late 80s when Channel 4 was the scourge of the blue rinse establishment.
Checks out..
I was gifted the Infected video on VHS for one of my birthdays. It was actually astonishing.
I watched it too on Ch4 and blown away, i am sure Ch4 put it on twice. I bought the vhs tape of the lp but it didnt play properly, didnt have a replacement copy tho 😅
I remember this brilliantly-prescient track never got the promotion or radio play it deserved as its planned release coincided with the US bombing of Libya in 1986, and his record company (CBS) got cold feet & pulled it. Despite it being *exactly* the message the public needed to hear right then.
more relevant than ever. such a great song on an amazing album.
I can hear Slow Train to Dawn start up in my head when this song ends :)
Still fresh after all these years. Thank you Matt
Seen them at the Albert hall long drive from Liverpool but I would have walked to see how good they were
Most appropriate track of the day.
Very topical still after all these years.
🔴 Still as *arresting* today as it was back then!
Phenomenal then and now. Could have been released today. Still listening at age 71.
Heaven sent, and hell bent.
I got this on 12" vinyl when it came out. It's all coming back. So evocative.
6 часов утра и я последний человек в этом самолете Еще не спит Почему я почти чувствую запах крови, омывающей берега, Из этой земли, которая не может забыть свое прошлое. О ветер, несущий этот план, это ветер перемен, Небеса послали и ад согнут! Мы идем по горным вершинам, как и все остальные солдаты Джо И-И-И-И---- прощай! ПРИПЕВ Это ваш капитан, звонит "срочное предупреждение" Мы над Аравийским заливом - "наша высота падает" И я не могу ее удержать - "нет времени думать" Все руки на палубе - "эта птица тонет" Через пляжи и краны, реки и поезда Все деньги, которые я заработал - тела, которые я искалечил. Было время, когда я, казалось, знал, Как и любой другой солдат Джо Должен ли я плакать, как ребенок, или умереть, как мужчина В то время как все планеты, как войны, начинают браться за руки, О, что за рай, что за ад!! Да что ты знаешь, на всем белом свете ничего нельзя сделать. Я не знаю, что неправильно или правильно, Я обычный парень с закрытыми внутренностями, Я никогда не был в церкви и не верил в Иисус Христос Но я молюсь, чтобы Боги были с тобой, когда ты умрешь!!!
Truth is art
Change the world this never stopps
Capolavoro.
Amazingggggg
So happy I got to see you Matt in Brixton back in the day. Continue to be a huge fan.
Обалденно❤❤❤❤
The video's of the whole album were shown on Channel 4 in the UK. I taped it on VHS, but after my term at university, somebody had taped over it.😢Sold the vinyl copy I bought at the time and bought the CD, and most of the videos are online so it's worked out OK in the end. It's still relevant today. "Should I cry like a baby, or die like a man, when all the planet's little wars start joining hands."
It was the 1990s computer game (political simulator) called Conflict Middle East that introduced me to this song.
It was the heavy 80s feel to the song and music video that kept me coming back!
Love 2sing along,,,always,,,and yes I got it, 😂👌🤘🤘🎧
@Cameron Rycroft How are the vocals holding up these days?
@@julliard ,,quite well ,,if I do say so myself,,lol,,tis a fun time 4me,,, appreciate so many different vocals,,👌,shizzle thanku 4 askin,😂
Ah 80's... miss
Saw them live in Toronto at the old Masonic Temple on Younge Street
Shortly after the Album Infected was released.
Way ahead of there time one of my favourite bands of all time
After all these
J'adore ❤❤
Easily one of the best albums ever, just briliant. If you're into hi-fi too... on a good well set up system it's reference material.
Needed
Not an album, a prophecy.
listening to this band on strawberry blotters was 'interesting'......
Brilliant video too, who directed?
This was directed by Mark Romanek who also directed David Bowie's "Jump They Say" and the film One Hour Photo
The 12” variant is the definitive version that they always used to play on JJJ in Australia. If you haven’t heard it, do yourself a favor and check it out!
Best song to die to in aircraft accident
Classic , more poignant now than when it was written
I know I am NOT read. I speek for myselfindead: This was a good song almost 50 years ago. no doubt.
@Claire Tourigny This was released in 1986 so almost 40 years ago
Magical. I bombed Arabia x
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I'am here, I love The the pour toujours.
I'm here but my altitude is falling
Pan Staś stopped living because I did this
big fish little fish carboard box
Also the references to religion ( often used as an reason to invade etc or war ) or the silliness of airman who who are not religious ( I aint never been to chruch . . .) but still as part of being in the military, you have to take part in Christian sermons and prayer ( but I am praying god is with you when you die . . . ) - in reference to colleagues - Jesus was the 'Fisher of Men' and in the video, the fish is clearly foundering in a puddle
F14 Tomcat...
"... Request napalm..."
He had nice hair I would wear a wig if I was him ..a j ax
Fucking classic…. One of the best bands in the world 😎😎😎😎
Great band and that was such a great time to be around. I was living in Boston and every band in the world came through town.
This song is just amazing!
I used to listen to The The all the time during my Uni days
and this song just stirs me right up!
This is your captain calling... with an urgent warning...
O I'm 55 never thought I would see this on TH-cam. Have the LP and Cassette, cd..et..freaking cetera!
Thank YOU!!!! Damn, I'm lagging! Love it!
This song is still as brilliant, timeless, and prescient as the say it was released 37 years ago😞
I was 21 when this came out. My only regret in life was not buying the VHS when it was $15.00 .The entire album was flawless and so unique as a story.
It was one of my first VHS video's after buying my first VCR! And I still have it! Sadly it's very worn, I messaged for ages about getting it released on DVD but some of the original master tapes were lost after production companies (There were a few involved in the project) folded. On the label a review reads 'After watching it, everyone seemed stunned!' And why not? In 'Twilight of a champion' Matt places a loaded, cocked gun in his mouth! What a guy!
Eerie and still as hard hitting today as in 1986
Lyrics
6 o'clock in the morning & I'm the last person in this plane still awake
Y'know I can almost smell the blood washing against the shores,
Of this land that can't forget its past.
Oh the wind that carries this plane, is the wind of change,
heaven sent and hell bent!
over the mountain tops we go, just like all the other GI Joes
EE-AY-EE-AY - adios!
This is your captain calling - "with an urgent warning"
We're above the Gulf of Arabia - "our altitude is falling"
& I can't hold her up - "there's no time for thinking"
All hands on deck - "this bird is sinking"
Across the beaches and cranes, rivers and trains
all the money I've made - bodies I've maimed.
Time was when I seemed to know,
Just like any other GI Joe
Should I cry like a baby, or die like a man
While all the planets like wars start joining hands,
Oh what a heaven - what a hell!!
Y'know there's nothing can be done in the whole wide world.
I don't know whats wrong or right,
I'm just a regular guy, with bottled up insides,
I ain't ever been to church or believed in Jesus Christ
but I'm praying that Gods with you when you die!!!
Arabia
Arabia
Arabia
Arabia
Arabia
Arabia
Lil wars
While all the planets 'LITTLE' wars start joining hands
I first heard this tune way back in 1987 on a Sunday during a TV ad break on Channel 4. Totally fantastic song and video. Been off of TH-cam for far too long.
Help me Lord!
I can't stop playing this song!
It's tribal ecstasy!!
Brilliant album, cleverly composed, great production and playing, amazing lyrics and videos that follow the whole album are brilliant, what can I say Matt (The The) is a really flawless author.
Amazing song , I remember reading a review on the single it said it's a much more powerful version of Paul Hardcastle's 19 and should be a big hit , The whole Infected album is something else what a masterpiece ,
Made even better by the backing vocals from the awesome neneh cherry.
Anna Domino on backing vocals in this song.
My favourite track on the album. I got the 12" single when it came out. Prophetic. Very excited about Ally Pally Sep 28 2024....I hope they play this!
Bassline is dirtier than my dead granddad's undercrackers.
Unbelievable ! Another THE THE CLASSIC !
a work of art
Still cuts thru !!!
My dad showed me this song and god bless you for this dad
Just excellent - one of the best bands - and undervalued.
@Richard Coutts I think they have a healthy fanbase
So we say it. This very song may be the linchpin. There may be no more immediate explication of the conundrum of the disposable human male in all of musico-video-hood. Heaven sent, and hell bent. Should I cry like a baby or die like a man? My captain sings out, "I'm just a regular guy with bottled-up insides. I ain't never been to church or believed in Jesus Christ, but I'm prayin'... that God is with you... when you die."
Whole album is pure quality: material and production.
Sonically amazing album, and employing some of the real talents of the day.
Wow, totally forgot about this song! Haven't heard in...probably decades! Awesome song, fun to be catching up on The The.
This video was banned in the USA for almost ten years...
Why?
Wasn't it something about the welfare of the fish?
@@johnhume4346 the fish is Christianity...
@@Boppo101 THE USA IS A COMMUNIST SOCIETY America fighting like a fish out of water involved with something it has no understanding of... as the middle east has been at it since Nimrod ruled them... most Christians are not Christians... they R warmongers seeking to become wealthy from both ends burning...
@@TheGuyMullins yeah I get that, but what i meant was why the video taken down?
Lovin it
Infectd and Soul mining are two of the best albums ever made and this is one of the best songs on those albums. Having said that, every song on both albums are amazing.
I had a C90 cassette tape with Soul Mining on one side and Infected on the other. That tape lives in my (very posh for the time) Sony auto-reverse Walkman for pretty much most of the second half of the 80’s. Astounding albums.
only 4k views?
I know, right!
Only available in Australia
The google industrial complex Lowell.
Russian pilot when he realises the truth.
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Love this song and the band
The chorus' lyrics for this song would appear as the first screen of the Amiga videogame _Conflict: The Middle East Political Simulator_ (1990). I used to wonder what it meant, back in the 90s, when me and my dad still used to play it, and there was no internet yet to appease our curiosity (we're from Italy). Fast forward 25-ish years, 10 minutes ago I found a video (this one: th-cam.com/video/vqKQnYUeDC4/w-d-xo.html ) which had me realize it must be a quotation... Google and this video made the rest.
And here we are again, the repetition of human stupidity....as long as that exists, Matt & The The is relevant, crack on 2024.
Heaven sent, hell bent ... My fave MaJo track 😊
Directed by Mark Romanek
I always wanted to watch this video and it is finally available in Mexico nowww!!! AAAAA
pure magic, and poor Gaddafi and his solar farms!
❤️❤️❤️
This album is outstanding!!! Find me a poor track! I love Prefab Sprout, you would select three or four tracks off their album, and go, yeah, I'll buy!! There is NO weak track on this album!!!! An amazing piece of music/social commentary, just Brilliant.
@Jon Hunter Do you think its their best album? I find it a little dated. I much prefer Soul Mining.
@@julliard I think it stands up really well. It's one of 5 or 6 albums on a playlist or in the cd draw at any point, along with Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout, Woodface by Crowded House, Talking Heads Remain in Light/Stop Making Sense/Speaking in Tongues, Thomas Dolby Golden Age of Wireless/Aliens Ate my Buick. I dip in and out of modern stuff, but I have a brother in the industry and he knows a fake song/protools/autotune rip off when he hears it!! Back to analogue!!!!
Prefab Sprout, my eye I haven’t thought of them in a loooong time. Thanks for reminding me.
Glad to see some traction on this Vid! So good!
@Micky Jesus I would be glad to see some tractors in this video
I don't know how i got here, but it's amazing
That said its adults only territory some of his songs are RUDE .... or should I say Crude being female
Here we are again