As one of Stiv's old friends, it gives me hope that people realize where he was coming from, so long ago, and THAT is what IMORTALITY is a about! THE SOUL REASON he changed his style, was to reach more people, with the same PUNK attitude...and message! "Stiv...IT WORKED"! YOU CAN REST IN PEACE!
27 years ago I acquired a guitar that was sworn to have belonged to one of the guys from Lords of the New Church..Maybe Stiv? I still have it.. If you know of anyone who can't verify this, please hit me up.
@@EtreTocsin Emperor Constantine created the myth of "Jesus of Nazareth" then huckster Saul of Tarsus sold it to YOU. Open your eyes and see the lies right in front of ya
Man....I remember when this album came out! I can smell the clove cigarettes, warm amplifiers, spilt beer, chipped teeth from someone backing into the microphone, getting nothing for playing 4 nights. Those were the days!
I remember these guys from the 80s you were aren't even born yet price some of you anyway don't forget to play some Killing Joke while you're at it living in the 80s those were the good old days
Very relevent in 2020 during the COVID 19 Pandemic and Quarentine. I think it is interesting that the Pandemic happenned during an Election Year, actually during a Primary where with all the Corona Virus Panic- the Primary was no covered and an Establishent Candidtate again won the Nomination.
@@Scred00xx - Thank YOu. I guess you have come to the same conclusions I have. Strange how in the Year 2020- this isn't 1920 or even 1970- they haven't figured out a way to beat a "Naturally" Occurring Virus.
RIP, but the music lives on. I interviewed the band when I was a 15 yr young punk, for our punk fanzine. I have not listened to them for a long time, but when in Paris this summer...it came back to me. It's beautiful. Open your eyes, and ears.
I recall in the 80s the first time a friend of ours brought this album and we heard their music for the first time. It is just as great and relevant now as it was then. We loved them, we loved the 80s music scene period, because the music was great then and it is timeless, still amazing now.
I'm so thankfull I saw them in '85 at St Andrews Hall in Detroit. I was still in high school, high on pills & tequila sunrises. They were great, played amazing, sounded amazing. Stiv tried to start a little riot, taunting the crowd, "I thought Detroit was a rock n roll town. You fuckers can't dance." He pulled out his pubic hair & sprinkled it on the people up front. By the end of the show people were throwing everything at the stage. It was awesome!
It's amazing how significant the lyrics are to today's times and political Warfare this generation truly needs to open their eyes and see the lies right in front of them
I can still remember tearing down their poster from my bedroom wall! If she only knew... I ended up sneaking off to many of their shows. I met Stiv walking down Market St. in S.F., he was the nicest guy, he even put my friend and I on their guest list!
I thought the same of both Lord's and The Plimsouls. Neither had lift off. Actually a whole bunch of bands were sidekicked once MTV hit the scene. No videos, no access. Video did kill the radio star afterall. ;)
@@impalaman9707 In theory, yes. Even back then they knew which vids to push through. Have you read the lyrics to this song or California Uber Alles by DK? Many did not gain traction specifically for their lyrics. Life is like underground music, you have to look to find the good stuff ;)
@@hollymae70 Maybe I watched too much MTV as an 10-11 year old kid in 1981-82 because I was so addicted, I would watch it day and night--because I wanted to make sure I saw EVERYTHING they put on, and I guess I suceeded. No video games for me--I was addicted to MTV
I heard this for the first time ever this evening on radio....was immediately drawn to it and thought it must be something new. Amazing, powerful track.
lords were one of my favs way back when..... had to take a drug test for work and the TV in the office was playing TMZ, E or whatever... and it was the Hoff covering this, Kudos Hoff
Appreciate the qualities of this song; 1-The words are sung pure and without any technology improvements. 2-The sax solo 3-The infectious bass line throughout 4-The musical influences of reggae, latin, classical (harpsicord intro), Dylanesque vocal delivery and Morrison-esque stage presence 5-We will never see such talent again (my prediction) 6-The ability to use music to influence politically in a melodic and hypnotic way 7-His words were true as we can see now how the media and politicians conspire against the very people they swore to protect and serve.
Definitely at a time when both the mainstream and the underground were mostly devoid of social/political content. I was deeply involved in the college radio/CMJ scene that unintendedly induced the major label feeding frenzy that kneecapped the music just as it was gaining traction. It took a number of years and direct distribution of easy to ship/cheap to produce CD's for the touring underground scene to recover. I can explain why it all got wrecked again because of a certain label CEO's crush on a certain vulnerable bandleader...
you talk a lot of smack - what's your gig little girl? I come from the fun punk scene - you a part of that - name your name little girl. tell me how punk you are.
Yeah, open your eyes and see rhe lies in front of you! Great stuff,man! Yeah, I loved this fine bsnd. I still got msny of their albums snd like them. :)
Still one my favorite 80's alternative bands ....and still have the cassette tape . Even my kids love my 80's music better than the trash music of today....Long live the 80's!!!
I've been listening to this song a lot lately. I always loved LOTNC and this song but today as an adult these lyrics hit harder especially the line 'Cause meek inherits earth 6 ft deep."
I well remember seeing LOTNC perform this song at the now long-defunct Golden Bear venue in Huntington Beach, CA venue in the late 80's. Stiv's voice was as-ever powerful and a force to behold. It amazes me that the message of this song is even more true today (04/2109) as they were then... RIP, Stiv... you were exactly right on this.
RIP Stiv.. I loved you.. I loved your music.. your loss is so sad. I remember when I heard you died. We need you more than ever. I am resharing this song...
It's Nov 2020 ,I saw this in 84 on mtv , I've been a fan ever since ,I could read these words you in my sleep ,, it meant something then and does now , media pollution ! Lies ,politics ,. Trump 2021. Find me in north ga mtns ,Helen ga , open your eyes people !
I still have my first couple of LotNC albums from back then. The first one is one of my all time favorites, and I have thousands of albums in my collection.
This album was in my top ten for a loooooong time. Because I was so worried that I might wear it out, it was the first CD I bought. Easily still in my top 50 albums of all time, and I own over 10,000 pieces of vinyl, 8,000 CD’s, and an unbelievable number of downloads.
@@AnacondaVanaspati Back in the day I would record a cassette on the first spin and shelve the LP! Good for the car and for parties. I bought a dubbing cassette deck for mix tapes. In the late 80's the cassette that ALWAYS got stolen at parties was the Meters Best Of "Look Ka Py Py". Still a great late-in-the-evening living room party dance winner
this is the song that turned me on to this lot, back in the good ol 80s when i watch MTV MUSIC ALL DAY VIDEOS, , i also saw them live on mtv doing this song, and i loved the punk/goth images too on them,......marius(punk rules).
As one of Stiv's old friends, it gives me hope that people realize where he was coming from, so long ago, and THAT is what IMORTALITY is a about! THE SOUL REASON he changed his style, was to reach more people, with the same PUNK attitude...and message! "Stiv...IT WORKED"! YOU CAN REST IN PEACE!
You were friends with Stiv? Would he mind if I boot Only Lovers Left Alive? He was such a talented lyricist.
@@psywarltd.1984 His stuff s still proteced y copyright law, bu I don't know who inherited his estate. He wouldn'care...
27 years ago I acquired a guitar that was sworn to have belonged to one of the guys from Lords of the New Church..Maybe Stiv? I still have it.. If you know of anyone who can't verify this, please hit me up.
@@UJAXMAN Really don't know them...
He was decades ahead of his time - spot on lyrics
Profoundly relevant in 2024.
Not to the wet hens of "The View" spewing nothing but hate.
ABSOLUTELY!!! maybe for the last ohhh 30 years....?? At least...
He was a Prophet.
Yes!!!!!
Always takes a year of 42 🦆
This song resonates just as strong if not stronger than back in the 80s. We have to wake up. Now more than ever.
Ive been awake since Ive been punk. It's just that the rest of the world is blind and complacent.
Lyrics more relevant today than ever
Yeah because he was Prophet
40 years later and we are still sound asleep.
@jwinters792
speak for yourself
brainwashed
HOW did this band not become HUGE ????????
stiv got hit by a car, in Paris i believe.
That was MUCH later in life though. @@herchelleonwood7463
The Singer died in the Streets of Paris..
The establishment owns the industry - TRUMP 2024
@@ursulaschlapbach311he died later that same night, at home, from internal injuries.
KROQ in Pasadena CA played this song a lot on the early 80’s. For me it was the only true message of our time as I still feel that way.
KROQ in the 80's was THE best!
@ PASADENA 🙌
Rodney on the ROQ?
38 years later. As profound as EVER.
Yeah, because nothing changes…and never will. Not ‘till the return of Christ.
@@EtreTocsin
he should never return
Rest in Powder
Stiv
may all Gods be with
you
☠️💣☠️
☠️💣☠️
My age
@@EtreTocsin Emperor Constantine created the myth of "Jesus of Nazareth" then huckster Saul of Tarsus sold it to YOU. Open your eyes and see the lies right in front of ya
Hi my friend. I saw them in Berkeley 1985 and it made quite an impression on me!
Man....I remember when this album came out! I can smell the clove cigarettes, warm amplifiers, spilt beer, chipped teeth from someone backing into the microphone, getting nothing for playing 4 nights. Those were the days!
What dreams are made of!!cloves..
This was just last week for me, love every second of it.
I remember these guys from the 80s you were aren't even born yet price some of you anyway don't forget to play some Killing Joke while you're at it living in the 80s those were the good old days
@@marksipe6328 Have another drink Mark.
Sorry I don't drink anymore don't need it with funny stuff to laugh at
1982 was a fantastic year for all things music! 🙌
For me, music from '82 to '89 was THE best!
@@kellychoo35 YES! I have Sirius radio and it pretty much stays on New Wave and Lithium Channels
Absolutely telling the truth here and Totally applies to the here and now. Been listening to this since the 80's and the music still rings true!
A song still as relevant & profound today, in 2023, as it was then.
Totally agree!!! Still as good now as back in the days
Damn right
A song still as relevant & profound today, in 2024, as it was then. (ill see ya here in 2025, 2026, 2027...)
Prophetic lyrics. And here we are. Ignorance, passivity of good people and insensibility to evil are the favorite food of a destroyer.
Ohio band
Still relevant today in 2022 . Probably will be for years to come!
“Army chic in high-fashion stores”
I was at their concert in 1985 in Berkeley California and was shatterblastered
Good people are not passive!
2024 and still no one’s opened their eyes 👀
I could not agree more, mate. Greetings from El Salvador. All politicians are disgusting.
TRUMP 2024
More eyes are open than you know.
@@BrickhouseacademyWere you being intentionally ironic, there?
SERIOUSLY
What a joy to find this historic video! Stiv Bators will always be the Best!
It's truly scary how relevant this song is in the year 2019.
It has always been that way unfortunately ..
History repeats, and repeats...
Prophecy
@@CabanaD not quite. Your statement, imo is inaccurate n better describes insanity stupidity and immaturity.
Always relevant
The most underrated band ever.
I remember this in highschool!
The Lords definitely didn’t get what they deserved. This is a great band!
Your right. Their songs get better through the years.
They were definitetly under-rated
took me 30 years to wake up to what I heard them singing about in the mid 80's.
Very relevent in 2020 during the COVID 19 Pandemic and Quarentine. I think it is interesting that the Pandemic happenned during an Election Year, actually during a Primary where with all the Corona Virus Panic- the Primary was no covered and an Establishent Candidtate again won the Nomination.
@@HoldenNY22 finally someone who sees the truth.
@@Scred00xx - Thank YOu. I guess you have come to the same conclusions I have. Strange how in the Year 2020- this isn't 1920 or even 1970- they haven't figured out a way to beat a "Naturally" Occurring Virus.
I was raised listening to this as a toddler and I understood it fully.
@@HoldenNY22 V is a smokescreen/diversion/distraction for monetary "reset".
WEF...Claus Schwab.
What a time to be alive. : )
Lords are so underrated. Simply genius stuff.
2020 and we’re still blind!
RIP, but the music lives on. I interviewed the band when I was a 15 yr young punk, for our punk fanzine. I have not listened to them for a long time, but when in Paris this summer...it came back to me. It's beautiful. Open your eyes, and ears.
I recall in the 80s the first time a friend of ours brought this album and we heard their music for the first time. It is just as great and relevant now as it was then. We loved them, we loved the 80s music scene period, because the music was great then and it is timeless, still amazing now.
Totalmente de acuerdo contigo.
Stiv knew what was comin' love this band . Brian you genius!
Ever since the Day This song came out,it’s been Relevant Every Single Day…to This day in June 2023👊👊
What a gift he was. Thankful that he is immortalized in these beautiful songs!
This song is more appropriate for todays population than it was in it's day.
I'm so thankfull I saw them in '85 at St Andrews Hall in Detroit. I was still in high school, high on pills & tequila sunrises. They were great, played amazing, sounded amazing. Stiv tried to start a little riot, taunting the crowd, "I thought Detroit was a rock n roll town. You fuckers can't dance." He pulled out his pubic hair & sprinkled it on the people up front. By the end of the show people were throwing everything at the stage. It was awesome!
It's amazing how significant the lyrics are to today's times and political Warfare this generation truly needs to open their eyes and see the lies right in front of them
These lyrics make more sense now than ever. What a great band. All star punk line up that came together to do something a bit different. Great stuff!
Back then as a goth in the early 80s? This was on my radar because the chick who styled my hair was a superfan.
Thanks, Alex. Phenomenal band.
This song is eerily relevant in our modern age.
"...slaughtered on the altar of apathy..."
poetry.
Loved this band. Stiv Bator was with the Dead boys. This song fits perfectly for today. RIP STIV.
Los Dead Boys, no duraron mucho, pero se nos quedó clavados, a much@s....
🌹
I’m 49 now and was talking to my wife and the lyrics just popped in my head - from when we were kids weird. THANKS for posting this!
" The actings lousy but the blind don't know"...beautiful
I love seeing Brian James from the Damned during this period.
95 people don’t like hearing the truth.
They probably love masks and vaccines but their true and biggest love is tv.
99 percent
Relevant in 2021!
Perfect song for the 2020s
Holy Sht.. Stunningly Prophetic. I had forgotten that music is Art.
th-cam.com/video/V_8_QV8sZkA/w-d-xo.html
way ahead of its time
I can still remember tearing down their poster from my bedroom wall! If she only knew... I ended up sneaking off to many of their shows. I met Stiv walking down Market St. in S.F., he was the nicest guy, he even put my friend and I on their guest list!
magnergirl27 Jealous! I love Stiv so much. I wish I was older so I could’ve seen Dead Boys and Lord’s of the New Church.
Relevant 2024!!
Glad I got to see them live back in the day. So many good bands around back then.
When I first heard this song in 1982, I had high hopes that this band would be bigger than U2. The American music consumer proved me wrong again!
I thought the same of both Lord's and The Plimsouls. Neither had lift off. Actually a whole bunch of bands were sidekicked once MTV hit the scene. No videos, no access.
Video did kill the radio star afterall. ;)
@@hollymae70 For reference sake, I saw this video on MTV just after I saw U2 on MTV. So if anything---MTV should have kickstarted their career!
@@impalaman9707 In theory, yes. Even back then they knew which vids to push through. Have you read the lyrics to this song or California Uber Alles by DK? Many did not gain traction specifically for their lyrics.
Life is like underground music, you have to look to find the good stuff ;)
@@hollymae70 Maybe I watched too much MTV as an 10-11 year old kid in 1981-82 because I was so addicted, I would watch it day and night--because I wanted to make sure I saw EVERYTHING they put on, and I guess I suceeded. No video games for me--I was addicted to MTV
I heard this for the first time ever this evening on radio....was immediately drawn to it and thought it must be something new. Amazing, powerful track.
40 años hace que pude disfrutar de uno de vuestros conciertos.
Se te echa de menos.
It is the day after election day in 2024, and this was the first song I thought of.
Totally
I saw these guys at Perkins Palace.. I actually climbed up on the stage and chilled for the whole show. RIP STIV
2021 and still relevant. Fantastic album.
The Hoff brought me here. ;-)
HAHAHAHA :D great song and Hoff did it well!
Haha same
Me too!
Me too! (is it wrong I prefer his version...seems heavier somehow) *sorry*
lords were one of my favs way back when..... had to take a drug test for work and the TV in the office was playing TMZ, E or whatever... and it was the Hoff covering this, Kudos Hoff
"Open your eyes see there lies a psychologist." Profound lyrics indeed.
Appreciate the qualities of this song;
1-The words are sung pure and without any technology improvements.
2-The sax solo
3-The infectious bass line throughout
4-The musical influences of reggae, latin, classical (harpsicord intro), Dylanesque vocal delivery and Morrison-esque stage presence
5-We will never see such talent again (my prediction)
6-The ability to use music to influence politically in a melodic and hypnotic way
7-His words were true as we can see now how the media and politicians conspire against the very people they swore to protect and serve.
Definitely at a time when both the mainstream and the underground were mostly devoid of social/political content. I was deeply involved in the college radio/CMJ scene that unintendedly induced the major label feeding frenzy that kneecapped the music just as it was gaining traction. It took a number of years and direct distribution of easy to ship/cheap to produce CD's for the touring underground scene to recover. I can explain why it all got wrecked again because of a certain label CEO's crush on a certain vulnerable bandleader...
SOOO GOOD this song has everything: mystery, lyrics, style, horns and most especially THE GREAT STIV BATORS........REST IN PEACE.
Still relevant 2022. Some old tunes are prophetic.
This songs awesome I didn't grow up in the 80's (wish I did)but this song applies to now more than ever
I did and it sucked. You didn't miss much.
Oh you know, AIDS, the threat of a nuclear holocaust, the mediocrity of MTV, Ronald Reagan, John Hughes films to name a few...
Also, the advent of Hardcore punk, hair metal, etc...
you talk a lot of smack - what's your gig little girl? I come from the fun punk scene - you a part of that - name your name little girl. tell me how punk you are.
Albert Adams the 80s was ok, but the mainstream sucked, as always....i went underground when it called.
Their debut album is fucking exceptional. Every track is a killer!
Super band, Super Song....
Saw them play this at the Agora Ballroom in Dallas in 1983. Genius.
November 2020. Just wow.
There are some songs that do NOT need a cover and are pristine in their original verse.🤦 RIP Bator 🙏💞 Thank you guys for lighting the torch!
🙌🙌🙌🤙🤙😘
I bought this record back in the early 80's and it is more relevant in 2022,just brilliant.
I'm waking, I'm waking!
Such Cool Band! R.I.P. Steve...Your Music Lives on Forever!!
I saw these dudes play at Scream in DTLA back in the 80s. Holy shite, back in the day.
I was there! With Christian Death right?? Amazing show!
yeah man was living in west hollywood back then , Scream the orig and the 2nd were wicked , saw them among many others,,what a place
So jealous!
🤟Do share your experience
Yeah, open your eyes and see rhe lies in front of you! Great stuff,man! Yeah, I loved this fine bsnd. I still got msny of their albums snd like them. :)
I’m glad this is something we can all agree on.
Brings back so many memories of high school in the 80s, and yet so current.
amazing song, its like ultravox meets punk
Ah The Lords and Sisters, my best days !
Still one my favorite 80's alternative bands ....and still have the cassette tape . Even my kids love my 80's music better than the trash music of today....Long live the 80's!!!
History repeats itself.
Told you so
-JudeMelroses
Welcome to the Russian war. 😟
Stiv, way ahead of his time again...
This is so damn perfect
Posted this tune so many times for years, and still waiting for anybody to get it.
Sadly, it's a 180 degree.
We have been played!
More relevant now than it was 33 years ago when I first heard it.
Reminds me of KROQ radio station in Pasadena, CA. Great song....better yet great VIDEO, Thanx for sharing eminmusic
I've been listening to this song a lot lately. I always loved LOTNC and this song but today as an adult these lyrics hit harder especially the line 'Cause meek inherits earth 6 ft deep."
I well remember seeing LOTNC perform this song at the now long-defunct Golden Bear venue in Huntington Beach, CA venue in the late 80's. Stiv's voice was as-ever powerful and a force to behold.
It amazes me that the message of this song is even more true today (04/2109) as they were then...
RIP, Stiv... you were exactly right on this.
TenSeven Damn, that’s crazy. I live in Orange County, too. I would’ve killed to have seen Lords in their hayday.
I am jealous! th-cam.com/video/CCv8P8S8VOw/w-d-xo.html
This is absolutely a great song. Think ’bout these things, I mean it ! No lies no more ! This is the Right Way. Jon Fisher
Bake some fresh chocolate cookies after this bong load!!
RIP Stiv.. I loved you.. I loved your music.. your loss is so sad. I remember when I heard you died. We need you more than ever. I am resharing this song...
Fucking brutal. Mt very FAVORITE album from this era of 25 years ago. I hope and pray you are still alive
loved this , MTV 1984
one of the best music videos of ever seen in my life
So strange that I thought that this was a song from the early 70's and that the Lord's did a remake of it.
They were really brilliant!!!
It's Nov 2020 ,I saw this in 84 on mtv , I've been a fan ever since ,I could read these words you in my sleep ,, it meant something then and does now , media pollution ! Lies ,politics ,. Trump 2021. Find me in north ga mtns ,Helen ga , open your eyes people !
My people perish for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6
RIP Stiv Bators... and thanx for leaving me with two of my favorite LPs: this and "Young Loud & Snotty"!
My wife hunted through a record shop after record shop until finding 'Killer Lords' for a present. She's the best. Glad I got their stuff on vinyl.
Una 💎 Joya!!!
Excelente reflexión..🌟✨🙏🏽🙏🏽🌹🇪🇦🫶🏽🫧🫧🫧
Prescient. Here we are.
Merci aux lords ..que des bons souvenirs avec leur musique !!
Unique !!
Amazing voice 💖
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Heard a clip of this when I was 15 but never knew who it was. Now I've found you 33 years later. Love this track to the moon and back
one of my favorite bands! love!!!!
They were trying to tell us in 1982.
I still have my first couple of LotNC albums from back then. The first one is one of my all time favorites, and I have thousands of albums in my collection.
This album was in my top ten for a loooooong time. Because I was so worried that I might wear it out, it was the first CD I bought. Easily still in my top 50 albums of all time, and I own over 10,000 pieces of vinyl, 8,000 CD’s, and an unbelievable number of downloads.
@@AnacondaVanaspati Back in the day I would record a cassette on the first spin and shelve the LP! Good for the car and for parties. I bought a dubbing cassette deck for mix tapes. In the late 80's the cassette that ALWAYS got stolen at parties was the Meters Best Of "Look Ka Py Py". Still a great late-in-the-evening living room party dance winner
So relevant now.
this is the song that turned me on to this lot, back in the good ol 80s when i watch MTV MUSIC ALL DAY VIDEOS, , i also saw them live on mtv doing this song, and i loved the punk/goth images too on them,......marius(punk rules).
Truly underappreciated band