I had the pleasure of meeting Shaun Ryder in a bar here in Dublin. An absolute down to Earth bloke. Asked for a photo and he happily obliged and shook my hand.
I'm American and I've concluded the Madchester scene was one of a kind. One of the most interesting sounds in music, and one of the best eras in modern music history.
I am also American and JUST NOW discovered the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets and the Charlatans. I had heard of these bands but never HEARD THEM. The Smiths were the only 80s English band I cared about. Until now. This music is awesome. America didnt have this kind of talent in the late 80s/early 90s. Not until Grunge broke. Then America owned music for the next five years.
The early 90s are a coke filled haze... Marylebone NW1 crew checking in. Not sure how I'm still alive; nor for that matter how any of us survived. My heart couldn't handle it now, but the memories are there somewhere... shudder at the close calls and wonder what happened to those less fortunate whom turned to the opiates thereafter. RIP John Jermyn
"best decade for British Music" Oh go away yer Sausage , im 57 and ill sell my kidneys to argue that the best decade For music was the "80,s" But I'm a realist unlike yourself 😇 clearly the best decades for music EVER Where the 50,s and 60,s ............................ PERIOD 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Im 49 now and this time was without doubt the best days of my life ... I certainly twisted my mellon man ... ohhhh yeeeeaaaahhh. drugs clubs and more drugs and yet more clubs ... I wish I was back there now my kids who were born in this era are calling me old .... cheeky buggers
@@kamranhashmi1575 yes he did Blood clot Iscemic heart attack brought on by coronary artery disease. Just hours before they were supposed to perform Years of the heroin abuse caught up to him and a terrible lifestyle Shaun unfortunately hasn't fared much better but he's still with us.
Kongos is one of my favorite bands. Their father, John Kongos originally wrote this song, which brought me here. I haven't heard this version in ages. Music is so amazingly connected.
Wow! This Happy Mondays cover brought back some pleasant memories! I heard this song by John Kongos while I was stationed in Vietnam in 1971. As an Air Force medic, we'd climb up onto the roof of our dispensary every night with 2 or 3 of the "walking wounded" veterans after "lights out at 10 PM", pop a cassette into the tape deck, break out some weed, cold coca-colas and some munchies, and party for a couple hours! It was sort of a mini celebration the night before the vets would fly back to the states (along with the more severely wounded vets) for further rehab. Of course, the vets were always different each night, but it made us feel good to reward those guys for surviving their tour. As one vet remarked, "Man, this is the BEST night I've EVER had in Vietnam! I will NEVER forget you guys!" I was 22.
@@SilkaJoSilawulf Providing medical care for wounded allied and American vets was my pleasure, a significant chapter in my 54+ years in the healing profession. ❤
I'm 58 now and when I see young people heading out to the club I just want say, "yeah, this old man over here...yes me...you'll have fun tonight, but you can't possibly have a better time than I did back in 91. And then one day it will be over."
@T See that's the problem right there. Your generation is using the wrong drugs. Alcohol, coke, and xanax are garbage drugs. LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA is where the good times are. You can trust the people around you, which is a plus.
@T I didn't want to come off all grandpa Simpson on you. Was really ment as a suggestion. I've done them all and the only ones that weren't a problem were the list I gave you. A plus is besides MDMA they are basically undetectable by any drug test. Non habit forming and the only side effect is falling in love with the universe.😂
I was born in 1993 always hung around with people good few years older than me hearing their stories of actually going to raves and parties in 90s I always felt jealous. I know I’d be much older now but god I wish I experienced the 80s and 90s
The most underrated band in history but the words crack me up. "Hey good lady, he wont make you forget you're the man"🤣 Will Always love Paul Ryder and did not know that he died in 2022. Rest in peace mate, you are legend, love from New Zealand ❤
I was 18. My first time abroad, in England. Concert at Leeds Stadium. The sound was bad but the mood was perfect. I will never forget that. They were like Gods to me
Yeah whole #Madchester scene was almpst biblical - preaching the gospel of Stone Roses, Charlatans, Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Oasis for starters - life changing stuff for me - #,Madchester is either in you or it ain't... Sounds like it that genre runs through your veins just like it does mine.... Wish it was 1990 again.....
These songs by the Mondays spoke volumes to me when i was a teenager. I used to go in my room and put these tunes on vinyl on my record player. Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets, got me through my adolescent years.
Shame it’s a cover but a great cover at that. Preferred their stuff off Bummed. Also tunes like WFL, Hallelujah and Madchester Rave On. Freaky Dancing! Tune!! Great band that were never given enough credit. Proper dance groove but “indie “ vibes. The Wrote For Luck was it Oakenfold mix was an absolute fucking banger!!
I somehow came across this CD in California when it came out. I listened to it all the time, loved it. So different from what I was listening to at the time. Light it up. 😃
Yeah Mondays had a great rhythm section with Paul RIP and Gaz on Drums. Some proper groove like beats which made them that bit better than a lot of contemporaries , Roses excluded. Not to mention Shaun’s voice , good or more often than that bad just seemed to juxtapose with rest of band. “When Shaun William Ryder will lie down beside ya, fill you full of junk “. Hallelujah 88. RIP Kirsty McColl.
This song got modest airplay on US radio and MTV for a couple months in early 1991 but then it disappeared quickly. It went to #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The song is actually 49-50 years old! It's a cover of John Kongos song ""He's Gonna Step on You Again". Happy Monday's version is the best cover version though..... 😃
It's old as me I feel such a connection to early90s music ,my dads from north Liverpool lol ,, I just feel connection I wish I de Beene born in his era and enjoyed this time in my 20s
This Happy Mondays song Step on is a brilliant Amazing song with Sean Ryder's brilliant vocals great song great band from a 60 years young Irishman fan😊
Was born in 1989, remember my dad smashing this classic on his hi fi when I was 4. I’m now 30 and it makes my hairs stand on end. Fuck I wish I was born 20 years earlier
I'm so glad that I got caught up in the Happy Mondays rave vibe,as a teenager,,had all the records,going to see them playing,jaw swinging while dancing 💃 lol and having the time of my life!! Happy days indeed!👌🖖✌❤🇬🇧
Met Shaun Ryder in O'Sheas in Manchester on whitworth street when I was smoking red seal through a silver palm leave credit card pipe! He was with curly watts from coronation street, wasn't a bad night out in the end!!!!!
I don't know what it is about Manchester, but their front men always have the same swagger. That limber looking strut that Ian Brown, Liam Gallagher, and Shaun Ryder have. I simply love it.
Massive fan from Alabama lol nobody I talk to has a clue who the happy mondays are or any band from Manchester lol
Hot
But i know. Kirill from Moscow Russia 36yo
Thats the way how the music goes bro))))
Cali here. We KROQ in LA, 91X in SD, x103.9 in the IE. We were loaded with good music. Thank God.
São Paulo - Brasil. Concordo plenamente com você
same here in WV
The early 90s, Manchester and the Happy Mondays...Best times of my life. R.I.P Paul.
🙂
Respect
DO YOU MEAN FATTY ERSE FINALLY GOT STABBED, IN MORE THAN A LEG, &, DONE IN!
TYPICAL, DEVERS, THEIVING KVNT!
LIVE BY THE SWORD, DIE BY THE SWORD!
😅😮😂
The stone roses, The smiths, The charlatans, oasis and happy Mondays, God bless the Madchester era, the land of the kings of rock.
10cc as well
808 State too, not a rock band but their music is awesome
And the Beegees they're from Salford
808 YEP @@ejenplitobarces
@@lilithstuff8355 Yes, Joy division/new order of course.
this song is like a time capsule, brings back so many great memories. I think most happy mondays record’s still stand up perfectly well.
Don't forget Kinky Afro.
Couldn't sing but great times and blag
*records
I had the pleasure of meeting Shaun Ryder in a bar here in Dublin. An absolute down to Earth bloke. Asked for a photo and he happily obliged and shook my hand.
I'm American and I've concluded the Madchester scene was one of a kind. One of the most interesting sounds in music, and one of the best eras in modern music history.
Your probably a scouser begin for likes
I am also American and JUST NOW discovered the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets and the Charlatans. I had heard of these bands but never HEARD THEM. The Smiths were the only 80s English band I cared about. Until now. This music is awesome. America didnt have this kind of talent in the late 80s/early 90s. Not until Grunge broke. Then America owned music for the next five years.
TheCopeland45 You have never owned nothing . 😂. Gunge ? Bless
There is so much music that has been lost and never given the chance to shine. Thank God I can surf TH-cam and rediscover gems like this.
@@thomasjohnson9677 begging* sorry im from the south
Paul Ryder RIP.
I hope you are partying hard, wherever you are now.
Dont say that
I want to go back to the 90s 2024 is fkked
Yeah, let's go. I can't believe this work of genius was 30 years ago.
Dam straight
Remember the political, economic and social climate these bands were grafted out of.
Get off social media and things are ok
C I it's me
Like other posters have already said RIP Paul Ryder. Great music from a great band in a great era for British music.
Привет из Перми!) на Туманный Альбион!))
Had to take something to travel
LOVE THIS SONG!!!! I only "discovered" the Happy Mondays about two years ago...
late '80's early '90's will never be surpassed. Best time to grow up
3:23 love how Bez head butts Shaun 🤣 Shaun looks at him like WTF 🙄😅
These guys like to party.
lol fuk yeah
Xtc fuel guitar this is dance garage😊
Im off to watch these guys tonight in Leeds...Inspiral Carpets and Stereo MCs in support.
The early 90s are a coke filled haze... Marylebone NW1 crew checking in. Not sure how I'm still alive; nor for that matter how any of us survived. My heart couldn't handle it now, but the memories are there somewhere... shudder at the close calls and wonder what happened to those less fortunate whom turned to the opiates thereafter. RIP John Jermyn
Lisson Grove represent!
twat
R. I. P Paul Ryder an understated bass guitarist imo. Cheers for the memories especially Mondays Brixton 92 ❤️
1990 had the most short lived and distinct style of dancey drum loops
That acid house sound baby - second summer of love!
Absolute class track. Monday's definitely had their own sound.
bez what a joke
This was a cover of an early 70s song
@@denniscowdell9027 Yeah but they covered it in their own style
Original 1971 by John Kongos..way better than this
RIP Paul. Thanks for all the great music. You will be remembered.
54 year old Manc here. Manchester was cool as fuckin the 90's. Flares, acid, Afflecks, Hacienda, Reni hats, we were the centre of the universe
We dressed like that a few years before bands did as Glasgow rangers soccer casuals but must agree Manchester had it all
Hell yeah we were brother✌️
❤ true
Word ❤
Slay !! ... it was fkn awesome !! ... still pissing people around me right off with these amazing grooves !! .... Manchester FOREVER !! ❤
Farewell Paul Ryder: great memories from the beginning of the best decade for British Music. RIP
Well said man
"best decade for British Music"
Oh go away yer Sausage , im 57 and ill sell my kidneys to argue that the best decade For music was the "80,s"
But I'm a realist unlike yourself 😇 clearly the best decades for music EVER
Where the 50,s and 60,s ............................
PERIOD 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
The golden era
Is he dead?
Thanks for the great bass man. I'll sorely miss ya.
This song NEVER fails to lift my mood. Thank you Happy Mondays for this masterpiece 🙏 💫 ❤ and Bez for bringing the vibes. Vibes are so important man!
Bez is the Bezt! He's my favorite member of the band yet he doesnt play nor sing. The ultimate hypeman, so dope not a word need be spoken!
@@ogsegasteve9430 Yes, but other people are still saying Flavor Flav was the ultimate hypeman too. And the Bunga Bunga is good too lol.
Perfect 🎉
@@ogsegasteve9430 I know! I just get him, whatever he's doing we get it 😃
@@SJ-un9dy 😃
Im 49 now and this time was without doubt the best days of my life ... I certainly twisted my mellon man ... ohhhh yeeeeaaaahhh. drugs clubs and more drugs and yet more clubs ... I wish I was back there now my kids who were born in this era are calling me old .... cheeky buggers
Oright david your off your melons man
Same age.. Same scenes 👍🏻
RIP Paul Ryder..extremely talented and helped defined the 90s..iconic is an understatement
What! He's passed away?
@@kamranhashmi1575 yes he did
Blood clot Iscemic heart attack brought on by coronary artery disease.
Just hours before they were supposed to perform
Years of the heroin abuse caught up to him and a terrible lifestyle
Shaun unfortunately hasn't fared much better but he's still with us.
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist the clotshots did it actually!!
@@jon-kp2rq 🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist truth hurts dont it,lol
Man I fucking miss the 90s
Amen to that bro
this 49 year old fucker does too.
bro we born too late for this (((
Thats not a feeling alien to me ether fella.....
half the moindays output was late eighties
Bez just having a melt in the background! Feckin awesome!
RIP Paul Ryder 😥 this def got me melon twisted get that rave started for us all up there Paul ✌🏻
Tune !! I am nearly 60 and this still makes me get up and dance!!
the only thing you can do while listening to this song. Sitting down is no option.
Yeah i know what you mean clare,
I am 53 and still dancing to it.
Dirto
Ditto
Mental 90s
The Bez dance is underrated 🕺🏾
Shaun Ryder and Bez are legends.
Bez dancing is my spirit animal
RIP Paul. Like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the 1960's,defining a world we live in.
As soon as I hear that piano my knees go wobbly
Haha haha class!!
Love it. Manchester at its finest.....the melody is divine
Kongos is one of my favorite bands. Their father, John Kongos originally wrote this song, which brought me here. I haven't heard this version in ages. Music is so amazingly connected.
Interesting fact. Thanks for sharing.
I could dance to the sound of this bass line for ages. Bez-slyle moves...such a great vibe!
Can't be many songs with an instantly recognisable guitar riff and an instantly recognisable piano riff. Love this song, still sounding fresh in 2020.
Yeah. I love the piano riff from December, 1963 as well.
There are quite a few... But know what you mean :-)
damngood.
Originally done by John Kongos roughly 50 years ago
Absolute banger 🔥
RIP Paul 💔
You’re all in my heart.
This was a good time to be alive. UK music was so fresh, innovative, and fun.
Wow! This Happy Mondays cover brought back some pleasant memories! I heard this song by John Kongos while I was stationed in Vietnam in 1971. As an Air Force medic, we'd climb up onto the roof of our dispensary every night with 2 or 3 of the "walking wounded" veterans after "lights out at 10 PM", pop a cassette into the tape deck, break out some weed, cold coca-colas and some munchies, and party for a couple hours! It was sort of a mini celebration the night before the vets would fly back to the states (along with the more severely wounded vets) for further rehab. Of course, the vets were always different each night, but it made us feel good to reward those guys for surviving their tour. As one vet remarked, "Man, this is the BEST night I've EVER had in Vietnam! I will NEVER forget you guys!" I was 22.
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Thank you for sharing that. That's beautiful!
Thank you for sharing. Thank you for your service
@@SilkaJoSilawulf Providing medical care for wounded allied and American vets was my pleasure, a significant chapter in my 54+ years in the healing profession. ❤
Thanks for that been listening to this for years and never knew it was a cover
I'm 58 now and when I see young people heading out to the club I just want say, "yeah, this old man over here...yes me...you'll have fun tonight, but you can't possibly have a better time than I did back in 91. And then one day it will be over."
1991 forever!
@T See that's the problem right there. Your generation is using the wrong drugs. Alcohol, coke, and xanax are garbage drugs. LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA is where the good times are. You can trust the people around you, which is a plus.
@T Its a reference to the movie 2001: a Space Odyssey. I was older than you are now in 2001.
@T I didn't want to come off all grandpa Simpson on you. Was really ment as a suggestion. I've done them all and the only ones that weren't a problem were the list I gave you. A plus is besides MDMA they are basically undetectable by any drug test. Non habit forming and the only side effect is falling in love with the universe.😂
I was born in 1993 always hung around with people good few years older than me hearing their stories of actually going to raves and parties in 90s I always felt jealous. I know I’d be much older now but god I wish I experienced the 80s and 90s
"Most people can name every member of the Beatles, but im like that with Happy Mondays - theyre my beatles." - Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
I don't think Corgan ever said that
No.
RIP Paul Ryder... 58, too young that.
my good mate and i used to blast this from the juke box in the legion in Llay sadly now my mate Andy Cabbage isn't here but heres to you my friend 👍
The most underrated band in history but the words crack me up. "Hey good lady, he wont make you forget you're the man"🤣 Will Always love Paul Ryder and did not know that he died in 2022. Rest in peace mate, you are legend, love from New Zealand ❤
I was 18. My first time abroad, in England. Concert at Leeds Stadium. The sound was bad but the mood was perfect. I will never forget that. They were like Gods to me
The spelling didn't. Sorry.
@@cubrasa2 it was just a little joke pal that's why I apologised. Fucktarf
Yeah whole #Madchester scene was almpst biblical - preaching the gospel of Stone Roses, Charlatans, Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Oasis for starters - life changing stuff for me - #,Madchester is either in you or it ain't... Sounds like it that genre runs through your veins just like it does mine.... Wish it was 1990 again.....
These songs by the Mondays spoke volumes to me when i was a teenager. I used to go in my room and put these tunes on vinyl on my record player. Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets, got me through my adolescent years.
Yup used to rock this when I was senior in ‘91 at parties at my house when my dad went away for the weekends…kegs and doobies 😃
Excellent choices 😅
Excellent choices 😅
whoever produced this was a genius...this video was played in every pub in halifax uk
absolutely loved the mondays ace video xx SR xx
Every Band needs a Bez .....................................................................
Still an amazing tune 30 years on, they could play live like no other band, pure bedlam, love it
Don't know about you, but I'm having a trip down memory lane to youth, great music and questionable decisions 😄
@@mandymac2059 and very little sleep
Shame it’s a cover but a great cover at that. Preferred their stuff off Bummed. Also tunes like WFL, Hallelujah and Madchester Rave On. Freaky Dancing! Tune!! Great band that were never given enough credit. Proper dance groove but “indie “ vibes. The Wrote For Luck was it Oakenfold mix was an absolute fucking banger!!
Yeah, it's a great cover.
Wow … It’s still alive 2023
Who's still listening and bouncing ??🔥🔥
Me, in Ireland September 2024. Bless the Mondays and Elvis.
10/14/24
5:35 p.m. CST
DALLAS
💜❤💜❤💜❤
🤣🤣🤣
CHEERS !
Yes yes!! At age 60.
Kids these days dont know what they missed. Good job youtube is here so I can tell my kids about the 2nd summer of love!
Kids today are too busy worrying about being offended and apologising for being white.
Heros of my youth.
*Heroes
Absolutely brilliant
This video is just so perfect to capture the mood of the song. Beautiful hedonism.
The epitome of swagger.
Cool cats alright
I lived in England at the time of all these amazing bands, now that was a vibe!!
I somehow came across this CD in California when it came out. I listened to it all the time, loved it. So different from what I was listening to at the time. Light it up. 😃
I know what are you talking about. Greetings from Lima, Perú!
Awesome in every way. They nailed it.
Thanks for twisting our melons Paul, RIP. Condolences to Shaun, the Ryder fam, and cohorts.
This beat is so good! Those drums are addictive!
Fine feeling beat!
Listen to the original by John Kongos.
Yeah Mondays had a great rhythm section with Paul RIP and Gaz on Drums. Some proper groove like beats which made them that bit better than a lot of contemporaries , Roses excluded. Not to mention Shaun’s voice , good or more often than that bad just seemed to juxtapose with rest of band.
“When Shaun William Ryder will lie down beside ya, fill you full of junk “. Hallelujah 88.
RIP Kirsty McColl.
Sounds like a Soul 2 Soul sample.
Class song it's gets you in such a good mood , and I am not in this type of music. Bur I like this song
This group is so great, I remember seeing them, with Jane's Addiction in New York City, back in the 90s, Great Show...
Amsterdam greets the happy mondays. Those where the days
What a tune! Will never die
John Kongoes did a good job writing it !
RIP Paul Ryder 🙏
Manchester grooves FOREVER ! ... 🙏
THAT BASS GUITAR
Paul Ryder is very underated.
Just found out today he’s kicked the bucket :( may he rest in peace
Brilliant lyrics, insane rifts, every song reeling you in deeper and deeper, only to leave you with an insatiable desire for more!
This song ushered in the 90s ……..timeless
I may be one of the few American viewers, but this is a delight.
Haha we have 2 american melons that need twisting happy days
@@seanandlizzie Shaun Ryder is a character and, as someone who lives in L.A., I find the Madchester scene quite entertaining.
This song got modest airplay on US radio and MTV for a couple months in early 1991 but then it disappeared quickly. It went to #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Masterpiece
Better than the original!
@@Sundae_Times original?
@@Happy63936 John Kongos, 1971
R.I.P Paul, thanks for the music and memories. 🎶💞🎶
Awesome song 🎸🎧
Not a patch on the original 1971 hit by John Kongos
30 years I’ve been listening to this now! Madchester!
This song is 30 years old. Thirty. Take me back.
This is older now than Please Please Me was then.
The song is actually 49-50 years old! It's a cover of John Kongos song ""He's Gonna Step on You Again". Happy Monday's version is the best cover version though..... 😃
Wow I'm only 23 but I believe I was born in the wrong era
@@darkstatehk no credits in the description either!
It's old as me I feel such a connection to early90s music ,my dads from north Liverpool lol ,, I just feel connection I wish I de Beene born in his era and enjoyed this time in my 20s
This Happy Mondays song Step on is a brilliant Amazing song with Sean Ryder's brilliant vocals great song great band from a 60 years young Irishman fan😊
Hey Hey Hey , makes me feel happy!!
Was born in 1989, remember my dad smashing this classic on his hi fi when I was 4. I’m now 30 and it makes my hairs stand on end. Fuck I wish I was born 20 years earlier
Rip Paul 🎸
Shaun Ryder - absolute excellence this bloke, and then some in his own strange way.
Rave on Shaun... happy days fella.....
Sounds so much better when you try and actually listen to the lyrics. Makes sense if they were on drugs when they wrote this..but a great song.
It's a cover version.
@@Raider577 you know it's a good cover when people don't realize it's a cover
What a great song and great British band of the 90s
The Mondays came out of the mid 80’s mate
I'm so glad that I got caught up in the Happy Mondays rave vibe,as a teenager,,had all the records,going to see them playing,jaw swinging while dancing 💃 lol and having the time of my life!! Happy days indeed!👌🖖✌❤🇬🇧
As a young man in the 90's you were either Bez, or knew a Bez. No avoiding it. Great times
Met Shaun Ryder in O'Sheas in Manchester on whitworth street when I was smoking red seal through a silver palm leave credit card pipe! He was with curly watts from coronation street, wasn't a bad night out in the end!!!!!
Bez here 🤗
@@bryanmower2703 Ha ha get in mate
Proper Manchester/Madchester, appy days......up and down the country....One Love. MUFC
One of the best songs ever.
RIP Paul Ryder
This track defines an entire era.
I listened to this CD in college. Such great memories. I was living in Boston
I don't know what it is about Manchester, but their front men always have the same swagger. That limber looking strut that Ian Brown, Liam Gallagher, and Shaun Ryder have.
I simply love it.
Rest In Peace Mr Paul Ryder a fantastic Bass man
he's not dead
I love the bit when shaun takes his sunglasses off. Reminds me of Danny from 'Withnail & I' doing the same.
Pills,thrills and bellyaches ...
simply the best
Timeless tune ❤
Sean Ryder is so coool!!
This song is so good. I almost forgot about it but as soon as I played it right now every lyric came back to me. A hidden gem for sure!