When I first heard the song I was 8 years old I couldn't speak English I came from another country and when I heard this I said whoa this music is awesome in my own language then I began to speak English and this was my favorite song that I love so much this song has a lot of meaning today there is violence in the street and we all need to get together and start the violence and stop the hate against all Races against people that have different nationalities homosexuality Etc we should not judge we should accept people and let God be being control of what is right and what is wrong we should love each other regardless and stop the hating against violence of any situations I wish one day I would meet this guy he is such an amazing person to me his song has a lot of meaning and it really stands out for what's going on in the world back in the day in the 70s in the '80s the '90s and now it's 2000 so violence is still there this song really needs to stand up all across the world to show the world that we can stop the violence regardless of what's going on in the world stand up for what you believe and stand up for what is right and the right way with peace
World peace is bout to happen. Let Father Rathzinger do his love of the world by in Africa. Let the black and Caucasian man in America hug each other . Let the childrens laughter remind us of how we used to be. Learning to love yourself it is the greatest love of all He had a dream. When children black and white be playing in the Play ⏯️ ground together Michael our main man said WE ARE THE WORLD WE ARE THE CHILDREN WE ARE THE ONES WHO MAKE A BRIGHTER DAY 🌏🇺🇸🇮🇱🇯🇵🇰🇼🇲🇱🇨🇱🇮🇷🇵🇭🇵🇷🇳🇴🇺🇾🏴🇨🇮🇨🇻🇩🇲🇩🇰🇨🇭🇬🇧🇦🇨🇧🇶🇩🇬🇨🇵🇪🇺🇩🇿🇲🇵🇲🇶🇵🇰🇵🇭🇹🇹🇺🇾🏴 SO LET'S START GIVING.There is a choice we're making in sharing our own lives. It's true we make a brighter 🌟 day just you and me. There is a man living in the 🌎 world today who knows the existence of the KING TO ARRIVE SHORTLY. The 🌎 world must agree to a cease fire in their wars and drop all weapons. Still get to respect national borders and hood turfs. If a man can not forgive his brother how can he expect CHRIST to forgive him? And if you are human you are my brother! I love you. HE asked Peter: Do you love me? Peter replied, yes LORD you know that I love you. We are all each other's brother's keeper. Can the MAN heal the sick and dying when the world finally transforms their swords to plow shares? YES HE can! Can this wonderful MAN once again take but a few fish and loaves of bread and feed a hundred or more multitude? YES HE can! God created angels. The athiest scientist would disagree. A simple existence in a dark void we call space on a world once believed to be flat is the womb ot a woman, and since was born as a human he created son of a living GOD who GOD HIMSELF has the ability to transform into material human existence. Can GOD, ELOHIM, JEHOVAH, ALLA, THE ETERNAL DO THIS? YES, HE can!! So, anyway, you tell me who can say I belong to a race, nation, political unity, church, cathedral, temple, mosque, shrine, or maybe even a social group of people who believe they are the few individuals who are the righteous chosen of this biased god? The answer to this question is nobody. Every single hair among thousands is accounted for on our billions of heads in an interaciall planet of a multinational society. Every hair on an afro, under a hair net, twisted in braids or tails, black and red, brown and blonde or white for the senior citizens or that man has no hair GOD loves all. If the man has no hair due to a hatred organization GOD loves him also, but be fully aware that the KINGDOM will have no racists before or after It exists in the spirit world, after the final collection of souls in the era of humanity or any place in the infinite realm of GOD'S universe having no begining or end. There will be no hatred spirits resurrected as the KING of the Earth will not allow; with an army of angels at a minimum multitude of 52,000,000 (52 million) combined but uncountable and perhaps infinite in quantity in an infinite and invisible in 4th dimension spirit light beyond the speed of light. Yes Michael one of the 3 arch angels with Gabriel as Lucifer has fallen have a blockade against racists from supernaturally entering Heaven. This ALLA, ELOHIM,GOD,, JEHOVAH, OR ETERNAL that created the angels created them similar to all of mankind one of mongols watching the Orient and middle East, one of color the African man, and one of no color adaptable to colder climates. Three types of man as begotten of HIM and three types of angels in the spirit kingdom. There will be no racism, sexism, and no biased feelings as we all enter or exit through the gate of pearl in a KINGDOM with steets to walk on made of gold beyond any in the whole world more valuable 10 tiimes. The greatest treasure in the world is wisdom. So, be wise and love yourself first in order to love your brother. Lay down your weapons of bad feelings and pistols of hate. Follow me and you will follow this MAN I know WHO is my brother. HE is coming soon to rule the Earth as KING of kings to the king of China, to the king of America, to the king of France, to the king of Australia, to the king of Saudi Arabia as Mohammed All inhabitants of the world will be rewarded by this MAN. Food for the hungry, shelter from rain, and freezing cold, plenty of goods and services, and worship him whether burning incense in temple to GOD BUDDHA in mass to GOD living as Spirit in Holy Father, or however you like. Can a man forgive another for bondage and lashing? Yes, we must say in order to consider Egyptian power, the throne of Spain in the Americas, Rome as one time, masters of columns, delicacies, and navy, and but until 1865 in the United States man has been considered property and not a free human being. I forgive you brother with the knowledge you the same. And all of the gold, jewelry,milk,honey,.men servants, maid servants, fruit,meat to eat,trucks,cars,the right to live in even large tents all we can have the golden age offers we share ! ! ! Christi THE SON GOD .,.m 🇨🇱🇨🇮🇮🇷🇺🇸🇵🇷☮️✝️✡️🈶🇯🇵☯️🌏
I was about 6 or 7. At my best friends apartment His mom put it on and turned it up. We loved it so she played it again. We learned it so fast and sung along. I’ll never forget it. My friend Josh.
Tengo 58años y esta canción forma parte de mi juventud de buena música, hoy creo que la juventud no tiene buena música como yo la tuve, Saludos cordiales
When i see Eddy aging, i feel nostalgia! Eddy i wanted u to be forever young but it is not possible ! Anyway, you are a living Legend !! Who IS listening to this Master piece in 2023? I need your like if WE are together 💪
Gotta say that I'm a pasty assed white boy from Philadelphia AND I'M STILL ROCKIN' TO THIS GENUIS MASTERPIECE!!! And I'm only 5 years younger than Sir Eddy Grant!🤓😎🤪💖💪💪💪!!!
I remember driving with a friend of me, this came on the radio and when we expected it to end it continued on for another couple of minutes, made me shiver to hear this again. LOVE IT!
Eddie grant still has it, this song is a credo for so many of us growing up in the 80s. This song is timeless, eternal, and magical. Eddie thank you for a wonderful song and for all the cherished memories of my youth listening to Electric ave. God bless you my brother and rock on 👍🙏♥️
He was on the news a few was ago on about when he came to England one of the first streets he saw was one called electric Ave he don't look any older I love him x
@@BrendaDrummElectric Avenue is in Brixton south London and is the first steet in the UK to have ekectric lighting. Brixton is the centre of the black community and was the scene of riots in April 1981. This song was released in 1982 and was about the Brixton riots. I grew up in Brixton and was 16 at the time of the riots.
One of the first songs I recall listening to as a kid as I was first getting into music. This song never gets old. Glad to see Eddy is still touring and doing well. Timeless classic.
Awesome !!! Im 70 years old,sitting in my rocking chair,and without realizing at first,I was stomping my feet in place.When music and the beat grabs you like that,theres no denying you are listening to a classy piece of tune !!!
Love those back up singers. So cute. Often live versions of songs are not as polished or tight as the recorded ones, but this just kicks ass.....faster and more powerful than the version we all know. Thanks for this..... Do your homework and find out why this song was written........................
Now in the street there is violence And, and a lots of work to be done No place to hang out our washing And, and I can't blame all on the sun Oh no we gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher Oh we gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher Workin' so hard like a soldier Can't afford a thing on TV Deep in my heart I am warrior Can't get food for them kid Good God we gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher Oh we gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher Oh no Oh no Oh no Oh no Oh no, we gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher Oh, we gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher Who is to blame in one country Never can get to the one Dealin' in multiplication And they still can't feed everyone Oh no, we gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher Oh no, we gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher Out in the street Out in the street Out in the playground In the dark side of town Oh, we gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher We gonna rock down to electric avenue And then we'll take it higher Oh we gonna rock down to electric avenue (Rock it in the night) And then we'll take it higher (electric avenue) (Rock it, Miami mama, meh) We gonna rock down to electric avenue (Whoa, in a Brixton) And then we'll take it higher (electric avenue)
That's the only way they should sound live, is just the way they sound on the record. I hate when they come out and start doing a whole bunch of stupid s*** instead of just sing the song The Way We Know It And liked it.
Excellent version of this song. The band played it tight, and I love the way the background singers danced. Mr. Grant, your voice sounds the same as it did when this song first came out. Absolutely fantastic.
Eddy looks and sounds better than ever! I was 13 when I first heard Electric Avenue. We were on a class field trip and the song was blasting on the bus. Great memories. I"m loving the band and the backup singers here.
Santa bárbara do oeste, como eu amava adorava essa música. Muito muito da hora. Eddie Grant que talento fora do comum, Eu e meu irmão curtia pra caramba essa música👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@@M4RC05V1N1C1U5 I somewhat thought so that it was somewhere in South America. Many Brazilians have visited my Santa Barbara, and I met quite a few of them. Very friendly nice and polite. Do come up here and pay a visit when you can. You need mucho pesetas to spend some time here.
Electric Avenue actually exists, it's a street in Brixton, south London which has always been an Afro-Carribean centre. But Eddy comes from Kentish Town, north London which is where this is coming from. He went to Acland Burgley school round the corner from me.
Dear Monkey 1000: I went to Archibishop Temple's school At Westminster Bridge Road, with the extension at Lambeth Road. Now, this is called Michael Ramsey school in Camberwell. I took the 109, 133, 95 to the Brixton Mall in the days of yore.
Whenever this song comes on our playlist at work here in Missouri, I rock out like no one is watching 🎶🎶 I am so proud of you Eddie and I am proud of you our Guyanese son of the soul 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
Hey Eddie, this is such a great song. So well written and performed. It's a song that will transcend for eons to an everlasting audience! 🎼 God bless you for pursuing those that abuse what music is all about! Plumpy the Clown has been accused of "copyright infringement" by other musicians, furious that he has "commandeered their music" without permission - to use at his BS campaign rallies for messages they despise. You're not the only one! He's a manipulator! 🌐 All the best to you and your family, Eddie!
I’m watching this in 2020. I remember when the song came out in 1983; I was 13 then. I loved and still love the song’s Caribbean beat and the catchy chorus. Yet I had a feeling that Eddy had a message in the song’s lyrics, especially because of the beginning “Out in the street, there is violence.” Thanks to the www I learned about the history behind the song. If anything, I’ve read that Eddy has always stood for peace ☮️ This song definitely has stood the test of time.
That whole band is absolutely living their best life! I LOVE seeing that energy, they know they're doing something important. And this is one of those songs that has a story more people should know. Him performing it in South Africa is even bigger. It's about the Brixton riots in April of 81 against the violent and racist over policing of the black Afro Caribbean community in that neighborhood. The Clash wrote the Guns of Brixton about the same riot. Seeing Eddie Grant in his 60s kill this song in South Africa is a beautiful thing, and again...that bassist is absolutely loving, living, and every second of what should be recognized as a pretty important piece of rock and world history.
He was on tv the other day on the news explaining this song electric avenue is a Rd he saw in London when he came to England he hasn't aged a bit a very well educated man
Every time I hear this man he reminds me of my time in the military. I was stationed in West Germany and in our barracks we had the country music fans, disco and funk fans and those who liked rock music. It was like listening to the battle of the bands.
Only a true composer can perform a song with no actual keychange and progression all in A Major but what makes this song is the rhythm and diphthong in the tempo lyrics! Love ya Eddy! Huge fan
En 1984 escuché por primera vez está canción, tenía 18 años eran esas discos donde hacían tardeadas para los jóvenes sin venta de alcohol...lo máximo, y ahora a mis 54 años la sigo escuchando
Wuuoo Wuuoo Wuuoo, Excelente Muy Excelente, Nunca pero nunca pasará de Moda este Gran Éxito De Eddy Grant, Cada vez que Escucho esta Canción retrocedo a mi Juventud.
Excellent. Thank You. Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮. Love You Afrikaaa 🤜🏻❤️❤️❤️. Best greetings from me and my tiny family of 3. Three persons 😊. I believe Afrikaa ❤️❤️❤️ is raising.
Ooooopa soy de la 3ra edad y escucho esta canción y me traslado a la época donde si en verdad verdad si se escuchaba excelente música no como actualmente de tantos músicos que son un fraude
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Glad this song is still being appreciated. Thank You!
Lots of work to be done
This song is a classic from my past.
From a heavy metal fan all of my life, I LOVE this song. I remember it as a kid.
We gonna rock down to>> electric avenue and then we'll take it higher.....oh no 4x
I remember this when released!! Is awesome!
Thanks for your comments and your appreciation of the music.
SUPERRRRR LEYENDARY EDDY GRANT
Muiiiito Boa que estilo às dançarinas é um espetáculo à parte
Maravilha
I want to build a street infront of my house and name it Electric Avenue!
Thank. you for writing this song and bringing it to us. It's meant a lot in my life.
Eddy Grant, 72 years old/young & still rockin' out - oh yeah!
The 3 back up ladies in front are having a grand time of their lives, it's so entertaining to see them together with Eddy Grant.
Wouldnt want a one to one with those women lol lolvely song 😂❤
they gone be rockin down to electric avenue baby
When I first heard the song I was 8 years old I couldn't speak English I came from another country and when I heard this I said whoa this music is awesome in my own language then I began to speak English and this was my favorite song that I love so much this song has a lot of meaning today there is violence in the street and we all need to get together and start the violence and stop the hate against all Races against people that have different nationalities homosexuality Etc we should not judge we should accept people and let God be being control of what is right and what is wrong we should love each other regardless and stop the hating against violence of any situations I wish one day I would meet this guy he is such an amazing person to me his song has a lot of meaning and it really stands out for what's going on in the world back in the day in the 70s in the '80s the '90s and now it's 2000 so violence is still there this song really needs to stand up all across the world to show the world that we can stop the violence regardless of what's going on in the world stand up for what you believe and stand up for what is right and the right way with peace
Amazing 👏👏👏
Viva meu Brasil
World peace is bout to happen. Let Father Rathzinger do his love of the world by in Africa. Let the black and Caucasian man in America hug each other . Let the childrens laughter remind us of how we used to be.
Learning to love yourself it is the greatest love of all
He had a dream. When children black and white be playing in the Play ⏯️ ground together
Michael our main man said WE ARE THE WORLD WE ARE THE CHILDREN WE ARE THE ONES WHO MAKE A BRIGHTER DAY 🌏🇺🇸🇮🇱🇯🇵🇰🇼🇲🇱🇨🇱🇮🇷🇵🇭🇵🇷🇳🇴🇺🇾🏴🇨🇮🇨🇻🇩🇲🇩🇰🇨🇭🇬🇧🇦🇨🇧🇶🇩🇬🇨🇵🇪🇺🇩🇿🇲🇵🇲🇶🇵🇰🇵🇭🇹🇹🇺🇾🏴 SO LET'S START GIVING.There is a choice we're making in sharing our own lives. It's true we make a brighter 🌟 day just you and me.
There is a man living in the 🌎 world today who knows the existence of the KING TO ARRIVE SHORTLY. The 🌎 world must agree to a cease fire in their wars and drop all weapons.
Still get to respect national borders and hood turfs.
If a man can not forgive his brother how can he expect CHRIST to forgive him? And if you are human you are my brother! I love you. HE asked Peter: Do you love me? Peter replied, yes LORD you know that I love you. We are all each other's brother's keeper.
Can the MAN heal the sick and dying when the world finally transforms their swords to plow shares? YES HE can! Can this wonderful MAN once again take but a few fish and loaves of bread and feed a hundred or more multitude? YES HE can!
God created angels. The athiest scientist would disagree. A simple existence in a dark void we call space on a world once believed to be flat is the womb ot a woman, and since was born as a human he created son of a living GOD who GOD HIMSELF has the ability to transform into material human existence. Can GOD, ELOHIM, JEHOVAH, ALLA, THE ETERNAL DO THIS? YES, HE can!!
So, anyway, you tell me who can say I belong to a race, nation, political unity, church, cathedral, temple, mosque, shrine, or maybe even a social group of people who believe they are the few individuals who are the righteous chosen of this biased god? The answer to this question is nobody.
Every single hair among thousands is accounted for on our billions of heads in an interaciall planet of a multinational society. Every hair on an afro, under a hair net, twisted in braids or tails, black and red, brown and blonde or white for the senior citizens or that man has no hair GOD loves all. If the man has no hair due to a hatred organization GOD loves him also, but be fully aware that the KINGDOM will have no racists before or after It exists in the spirit world, after the final collection of souls in the era of humanity or any place in the infinite realm of GOD'S universe having no begining or end. There will be no hatred spirits resurrected as the KING of the Earth will not allow; with an army of angels at a minimum multitude of 52,000,000 (52 million) combined but uncountable and perhaps infinite in quantity in an infinite and invisible in 4th dimension spirit light beyond the speed of light.
Yes Michael one of the 3 arch angels with Gabriel as Lucifer has fallen have a blockade against racists from supernaturally entering
Heaven. This ALLA, ELOHIM,GOD,, JEHOVAH, OR ETERNAL that created the angels created them similar to all of mankind one of mongols watching the Orient and middle East, one of color the African man, and one of no color adaptable to colder climates. Three types of man as begotten of HIM and three types of angels in the spirit kingdom.
There will be no racism, sexism, and no biased feelings as we all enter or exit through the gate of pearl in a KINGDOM with steets to walk on made of gold beyond any in the whole world more valuable 10 tiimes. The greatest treasure in the world is wisdom.
So, be wise and love yourself first in order to love your brother.
Lay down your weapons of bad feelings and pistols of hate. Follow me and you will follow this MAN I know WHO is my brother. HE is coming soon to rule the Earth as KING of kings to the king of China, to the king of America, to the king of France, to the king of Australia, to the king of Saudi Arabia as Mohammed All inhabitants of the world will be rewarded by this MAN. Food for the hungry, shelter from rain, and freezing cold, plenty of goods and services, and worship him whether burning incense in temple to GOD BUDDHA
in mass to GOD living as Spirit in Holy Father, or however you like.
Can a man forgive another for bondage and lashing? Yes, we must say in order to consider Egyptian power, the throne of Spain in the Americas, Rome as one time, masters of columns, delicacies, and navy, and but until 1865 in the United States man has been considered property and not a free human being.
I forgive you brother with the knowledge you the same. And all of the gold, jewelry,milk,honey,.men servants, maid servants, fruit,meat to eat,trucks,cars,the right to live in even large tents all we can have the golden age offers we share ! ! !
Christi THE SON GOD
.,.m
🇨🇱🇨🇮🇮🇷🇺🇸🇵🇷☮️✝️✡️🈶🇯🇵☯️🌏
I was about 6 or 7. At my best friends apartment His mom put it on and turned it up. We loved it so she played it again. We learned it so fast and sung along. I’ll never forget it. My friend Josh.
Whole❤heartedly AGREE . Unfortunately, it's THE(oS=SETH😈 aka. iDIOt)), RAcism, HOM🌞oPHOB👿ia, etCET👿ERA🌞>)
Tengo 58años y esta canción forma parte de mi juventud de buena música, hoy creo que la juventud no tiene buena música como yo la tuve, Saludos cordiales
escucha scary pockets, vulfpeck, family dinner de snarky puppy y luego me dices ;)
We grew up with guns for the answer yes or no
Yo De 51 y sigo disfrutando de esta música!!
Exactly agree
Igual ,de años en discos de Acapulco un clasico
When i see Eddy aging, i feel nostalgia! Eddy i wanted u to be forever young but it is not possible ! Anyway, you are a living Legend !! Who IS listening to this Master piece in 2023? I need your like if WE are together 💪
Its 2024 and I still here this oon the radio once in a while. Live forever!
Gotta say that I'm a pasty assed white boy from Philadelphia AND I'M STILL ROCKIN' TO THIS GENUIS MASTERPIECE!!! And I'm only 5 years younger than Sir Eddy Grant!🤓😎🤪💖💪💪💪!!!
My good friend! 2024!
It’s 2020 and this song is STILL being appreciated - more than ever!👊🏻😎
Probably more relevant in some ways
Can not be closer to divine
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Still as relevant as ever th-cam.com/video/UZcErHHOLgY/w-d-xo.html
Last time I listen to it. He’s nothing - a one song wonder? Lolol - get hold of your ego!!!
I remember driving with a friend of me, this came on the radio and when we expected it to end it continued on for another couple of minutes, made me shiver to hear this again. LOVE IT!
Eddie grant still has it, this song is a credo for so many of us growing up in the 80s. This song is timeless, eternal, and magical. Eddie thank you for a wonderful song and for all the cherished memories of my youth listening to Electric ave. God bless you my brother and rock on 👍🙏♥️
He was on the news a few was ago on about when he came to England one of the first streets he saw was one called electric Ave he don't look any older I love him x
Meant to say weeks ago just read my comment again
@@BrendaDrummElectric Avenue is in Brixton south London and is the first steet in the UK to have ekectric lighting.
Brixton is the centre of the black community and was the scene of riots in April 1981. This song was released in 1982 and was about the Brixton riots. I grew up in Brixton and was 16 at the time of the riots.
@@sylviamaua745 thank you for taking the time to talk to me god bless you x
The bassist is having so much fun. It's like he's having his own dance party back there.
Brilliant.😘❤️🙏💎🤞👍😍🥳🤪😇
I was thinking that
Guy is digging it. God bless 🤾
The husky voice of the great Eddy Grant with his band ...Drummer & bass player Is electrifying ...' Love those 3 back up vocals , Very Natural ... :)
%0 years later and I still here this on the radio at times. Great Song.
I’ve loved this song for 40 years. That man is still STRONG!
Me too!
I've loved it since I was 15. I will be 56 next month...
Great song. Absolutely love it!
Yes
I am 64 and I love this song
One of the greatest songs ever made. Eddy Grant, you Sir, are awesome!
The Legendary Eddie Grant with Lucky Dube band....whoz watching with me in May 2020?
Sad what happened to Lucky Dube
June 2020
Ere me 🙋🏼♂️ June 2020
paul moshome Greetings from Mexico City.
Greetings from kenya
Loved this song for almost 40 years now!
One of the first songs I recall listening to as a kid as I was first getting into music. This song never gets old. Glad to see Eddy is still touring and doing well. Timeless classic.
This song is my most Favorite I can't control to dance, I'm 63 yo it makes me feel happy and strong ♥️🎧🎤♥️🎤🎸♥️
Awesome !!!
Im 70 years old,sitting in my rocking chair,and without realizing at first,I was stomping my feet in place.When music and the beat grabs you like that,theres no denying you are listening to a classy piece of tune !!!
I'm 73 thank god I can still get around love the song god bless xx
I'm 73 the song is fantastic lol x
😢
I wouldn't want a thump off one of those women 😂
Gracias Eddy Grant por esta super canción, gracias por regalarnos tu talento.
That's is how we do it rough and tough for survive okay
this live performance is awesome!! Loved to play this song LOUD in my car back in the day! The drummer is amazing here, just pounding that beat!
Whenever I want to hear this song, I ALWAYS pick this live version (video)!!!!
@@ChattieCathie I came for the song, stayed for the drummer 🥰🇺🇦
@@skipacuff5104 YESSS. I always end up watching the drummer. Amazing you said that!!!!
Love those back up singers. So cute. Often live versions of songs are not as polished or tight as the recorded ones, but this just kicks ass.....faster and more powerful than the version we all know. Thanks for this..... Do your homework and find out why this song was written........................
Do your home work, sir. And then maybe you'll stop referring to the backup singers with such a patronizing term as "so cute" .... a little respect.
@@patricias5122 But you have to admit they are pretty awesome... Such presence.. In awe, you bet
@@patricias5122 Another fucking liberal getting upset about absolutely nothing. Live a little. lady!!
Well put. This is a great live version
@Ronald Butcher oh God. Get a life...!!!
I just heard this again and I said to myself must Rock down again more frequently!
Now in the street there is violence
And, and a lots of work to be done
No place to hang out our washing
And, and I can't blame all on the sun
Oh no we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Workin' so hard like a soldier
Can't afford a thing on TV
Deep in my heart I am warrior
Can't get food for them kid
Good God we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no, we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh, we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Who is to blame in one country
Never can get to the one
Dealin' in multiplication
And they still can't feed everyone
Oh no, we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh no, we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Out in the street
Out in the street
Out in the playground
In the dark side of town
Oh, we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
We gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to electric avenue
(Rock it in the night) And then we'll take it higher (electric avenue)
(Rock it, Miami mama, meh) We gonna rock down to electric avenue
(Whoa, in a Brixton) And then we'll take it higher (electric avenue)
he sounds just like he does on the 45 i bought when this song first came out
That's the only way they should sound live, is just the way they sound on the record.
I hate when they come out and start doing a whole bunch of stupid s*** instead of just sing the song The Way We Know It And liked it.
@@M.O.G. Wish someone would tell Bob Dylan that
@@M.O.G. 👍
Great energy! This song is an anthem. Look at the drummer and the bass player. Inspiration...Eddy is a master.
Im 73 and still love the song
Wegangisthebossforeverok
Eddie is phenomenal the ladies r absolutely lovely to look at. awesomeness
Yes, the ladies are 100% AWESOME
Hi
@@richardallen6013 whoowhee, those sistahs are fine
Suuuperrrr!! 👍
The best thing about this performance to me is how each person is expressing themselves in their own way. They’re each one of them in the zone.
Estas canciones de mi época, inolvidables, todo los clásicos de los 80.
As a DJ I played this song at least 10,000 times. Cool song.
Anthony Barber: This was inspired by the avenue of the same name in Brixton.
E C GO
Depois de quase 40 anos o cara ta na ativa saudável e arrebentando com o vozeirão. Nota 1000000000000 pra Eddie Grant
Thanks
O cara é foda!
This is awsome!! Until now I have never seen this song perform live by Eddy Grand.He is a Legend.
Chesnel Henry m1
U have to see is concert in london back in the 80's its beautifull😀
No me neither.💯👍💕🔥
Love this song always have and always will even at 74 years old. ❤
❤❤
Excellent version of this song. The band played it tight, and I love the way the background singers danced. Mr. Grant, your voice sounds the same as it did when this song first came out. Absolutely fantastic.
I love every body okay
eddy grant really is one of the greats..very under estimated...play listen ..and remind your self how good he was
he's still one; he's not gone anywhere!
www.eddygrant.com/site/main.html
Yes beau
Wonderful! Great song! So much talent!
Anda a lavarte el culo.
I'm 63 and I love this. Been listening to this for the BEGINNING. Dam awesome
One of my favorite songs from the 80's. He still sounds great.
Eddy looks and sounds better than ever! I was 13 when I first heard Electric Avenue. We were on a class field trip and the song was blasting on the bus. Great memories. I"m loving the band and the backup singers here.
Powerful song, powerful band, and Eddie is a powerful singer. I've always loved this song.
Years since I heard this song and it’s still great 😂🤣
One of my favorite songs as a kid, and it still kicks ass today.
I'm in love with the Xhosa regal the backing sisters are wearing👌🏽
Representing!!💗
One love
I will live this song untill my bones are dust and my soul comes back again and gess what I still love this song why cause its beuitiful and timeless
Santa bárbara do oeste, como eu amava adorava essa música. Muito muito da hora. Eddie Grant que talento fora do comum, Eu e meu irmão curtia pra caramba essa música👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Santa Barbara, California? I was born here and I still reside here. Central West Coast.
@@undergroundwarrior70 no, it's a brazilian city, in São Paulo State.
@@M4RC05V1N1C1U5 I somewhat thought so that it was somewhere in South America. Many Brazilians have visited my Santa Barbara, and I met quite a few of them. Very friendly nice and polite. Do come up here and pay a visit when you can. You need mucho pesetas to spend some time here.
@@undergroundwarrior70 thank you my friend! I much appreciate your comment! Yes we do need to spent 5 times more for each dolar spent... :(
So.... This version was in South Africa. Love it! Greetings from South Africa. 30 December 2020. Hope you have an electric 2021!
Vanderlinde gang!
@@michaelcasares6909 toNM FYI
Spectacular performance for this great song!
amen
Electric Avenue actually exists, it's a street in Brixton, south London which has always been an Afro-Carribean centre. But Eddy comes from Kentish Town, north London which is where this is coming from. He went to Acland Burgley school round the corner from me.
Dear Monkey 1000: I went to Archibishop Temple's school At Westminster Bridge Road, with the extension at Lambeth Road. Now, this is called Michael Ramsey school in Camberwell. I took the 109, 133, 95 to the Brixton Mall in the days of yore.
Do they let native Americans hang out there ?
I play this song to my sons age 7 & 5 they love it, I feel for their generation with the crap music spat out these days....
once ya hear this song it bounces around the brain till the end of days.....good music does that to ya.....
Whenever this song comes on our playlist at work here in Missouri, I rock out like no one is watching 🎶🎶 I am so proud of you Eddie and I am proud of you our Guyanese son of the soul 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
I’m Trini and used to live in Illinois and there were barely any other West Indians out there
I can’t imagine what it’s like in Missouri
This drummer is Killin it. Appreciate this song 2021 love it 4 Eva
I looked on wiki and IMDB for the Drummer's name but could not find his name
un gran clasico que nos evoca tiempos de buena musica
Still listening this song in 2024, never get bored to this
Chidotas esas rolas de mis años 80 s lo mejor
I swear 💖 to you all ,I've just found this & it's just helped me out of a deep depression..!!!
Hang in there. Life is wonderful 👍
Hey Eddie, this is such a great song. So well written and performed.
It's a song that will transcend for eons to an everlasting audience! 🎼
God bless you for pursuing those that abuse what music is all about!
Plumpy the Clown has been accused of "copyright infringement" by
other musicians, furious that he has "commandeered their music"
without permission - to use at his BS campaign rallies for messages
they despise. You're not the only one! He's a manipulator! 🌐
All the best to you and your family, Eddie!
I’m watching this in 2020. I remember when the song came out in 1983; I was 13 then. I loved and still love the song’s Caribbean beat and the catchy chorus. Yet I had a feeling that Eddy had a message in the song’s lyrics, especially because of the beginning “Out in the street, there is violence.” Thanks to the www I learned about the history behind the song. If anything, I’ve read that Eddy has always stood for peace ☮️ This song definitely has stood the test of time.
See also Eddys song "Give me hope Joanna" about South Africa great lyrics in that song.
I like it still in 2022, who agrees?
2024!! Yeah, yeah!
I do ❤❤❤
Much more love from Araucária, Paraná, Brazil in 2024!!!!!
And beyond forever
I still like it in 2024❤
That whole band is absolutely living their best life! I LOVE seeing that energy, they know they're doing something important. And this is one of those songs that has a story more people should know. Him performing it in South Africa is even bigger. It's about the Brixton riots in April of 81 against the violent and racist over policing of the black Afro Caribbean community in that neighborhood. The Clash wrote the Guns of Brixton about the same riot. Seeing Eddie Grant in his 60s kill this song in South Africa is a beautiful thing, and again...that bassist is absolutely loving, living, and every second of what should be recognized as a pretty important piece of rock and world history.
I like those three dancers/singers. Love their outfits!!! Beautiful 👩🏻🏫😻‼️
One of my favorite songs since my childhood. Every time I listen to it I feel the energy that we can change the World!
Omgh this song takes me back to my teens years in the 80's!!
The man doesn't get older. He gets stronger!!!! Keep kicking ass, Eddy!
He was on tv the other day on the news explaining this song electric avenue is a Rd he saw in London when he came to England he hasn't aged a bit a very well educated man
Every time I hear this man he reminds me of my time in the military. I was stationed in West Germany and in our barracks we had the country music fans, disco and funk fans and those who liked rock music. It was like listening to the battle of the bands.
Caraca quanto tempo que não ouço essa música
Eu era MT jovem quando dancei essa música nas discotecas
Alguém aqui ouvindo hj dia 11/03/2020
Eu também encontrei faz pouco tempo
Tô ouvindo agora
Todo bien aunque yo preferia cambiar esas tres vacas que tiene como coristas por tres lindas chicas en minifaldas.....
First time i've heard this live, my God.
Sounds better than the studio version.
Naw but the beginning does
It's better big time. It's sooo cool..that's better than a rave..I think
It's because he's at home .. can't stop dancing.HIGHER. ✌️🔼⏫
This is good but absolutely no way is this even remotely as good as the original
@@angelkell5884 oi meu amor te amo á muito tempo meu limdo te amo
It's June 2022 and I'm still enjoying Eddy😁 and I'll be 70 this August🎉🌺🎉
Chingonaaaaa esaaaa rola me e tanta alegría escucharla me e recuerda mi juventud la avenida electrónica en mis años maravillosos 80 s
voy a ponerla de despertador... esta canción te levanta todo el animo!!!!!...
I can't stop to hear this song, one of my favorites, everything is perfect in this performance! I feel the strong energy!! 💪
Encontré esta versión en vivo y no se cuantas veces la estoy viendo, increíble
After all these years hearing this song, this is the first time i heard it live.
Algumas musicas serão tocadas e ouvidas para sempre, de geração para geração e esta é uma delas, pode ouvir a vontade!
Excellent live performance by Eddie Grant and the band with the female backup singers.
Thanks fortheloveoftunes. Keep listening
Hi loving it. What became of Glen who were a member of the Electric Avenue.
i have heard this song in most countries i´ve visited ... and it always makes me feel energetic and at home in the world !!!
Muito boa música!!! Pra cima, muita pegada. Parabéns Eddy!!! Músicas assim nunca envelhecem.
Only a true composer can perform a song with no actual keychange and progression all in A Major but what makes this song is the rhythm and diphthong in the tempo lyrics! Love ya Eddy! Huge fan
Que show maravilhoso!! Essa coreógrafa das vocais completam o show.
i used to listen to this as a kid whilst i was studying then i became and engineer can you imagine why so all thanks to these guys
Pure MAGIC by a great singer and his super band of musicians ( and back up singers! ) :)
My absolute favorite song of all time!! Absolutely Legendary. Still watching him and listen ming to him in 2020
Que coisa mais linda... olha essas backnig vocals, que performance maravilhosa. Lindas.
Your wonderful sake iloveyou
Love The 1980's Music!
Lo maximo Eddy : Viva Los 80"s saludos desde Peru!!
Salut .............
En 1984 escuché por primera vez está canción, tenía 18 años eran esas discos donde hacían tardeadas para los jóvenes sin venta de alcohol...lo máximo, y ahora a mis 54 años la sigo escuchando
Same here
I have this on replay!!! The jam!!!!
Used to play this song over and over great song
Killer version power to the people 💪 🙌 🙏🇺🇸
O cara e bom, curti muito os anos 80 com ele, ate hoje tenho som do edy grant
Been listening to this song.for decades....STILL LOVE IT!!!😎😎 THIS PERFORMANCE IS AWESOME!!!!😎😎 and I think.your bass Guitarist is AWESOME!!!
Wuuoo Wuuoo Wuuoo, Excelente Muy Excelente, Nunca pero nunca pasará de Moda este Gran Éxito De Eddy Grant, Cada vez que Escucho esta Canción retrocedo a mi Juventud.
Excellent. Thank You. Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮. Love You Afrikaaa 🤜🏻❤️❤️❤️. Best greetings from me and my tiny family of 3. Three persons 😊. I believe Afrikaa ❤️❤️❤️ is raising.
mais uma,ou varias e nao me canso,de ver essas belissimas bailarinas.parabens Eddy!!!
Conserteza elas abrilhantaram o show.
Esta canción es tu huella en el mundo, hermano. Solo aplausos.
Eddy o grande. Grande homem da música mundial. Infelizmente a industria fo Show business o ignora.
Much love and respect just been to Brixton saw sign and song came to mind and remind me my childhood listening to this song watch music video on tv.
The lyrics are for all ages wholesome and clean and also my kids love this song even now they are grown
again timeless
Ooooopa soy de la 3ra edad y escucho esta canción y me traslado a la época donde si en verdad verdad si se escuchaba excelente música no como actualmente de tantos músicos que son un fraude