Matt - That's a good word for it. One that we don't see very often,. Very descriptive. Totally different genre and from a different era, but another song this feeling brings to mind is Take Me Home Country Roads by John Denver.
Beautiful song. Nostalgic for us who remember it from the eighties, but they are actually singing about and being nostalgic themselves about the sixties. Everyone, the older they get, gets nostalgic about the times of their youth.
Having been 16 in 1963, when I heard this in the late 80’s, in my late 30’s, it almost made me cry. Now in my late 70’s, it just about knocked the breath out of me. Seeing THAT clip of video of Kennedy….so much promise. Destroyed in an instant. We all remember where we were when we heard. And then paired with that clip, the scream of all the Beatles’ young fans ( I was one). Oh man. I remember.
Yes, I'm old now - So I can offer you a similar kind of song to react to, SG - "Northern Lights" (1978) by a prog rock group called, Renaissance - and there was at least 1 live version of it on here before . . . Annie's voice was mesmeric in this song as her vocal abilities were simply amazing!
I'm so glad you picked this! You kind of skipped over the part that it's a tribute to Nick Drake. He was a wonderful musician who died too young. I think he put out 3 albums maybe. His most famous song is Pink Moon.
This song has some tremendous covers all over youtube, from high school choir all the way up to country artists Sugarland and Little Big Town doing an amazing rendition on stage together. I highly recommend you go check out those covers as well as The Dream Academy live on various television shows from around the globe.
I was a very young 21-year-old US ARMY corporal stationed in West Germany when this came out and your comment about having feelings of nostalgia hit me like a ton of bricks...I was so alive then!!!!! everything was a new adventure.......I accidentally came across this due to a misspelling of a word in youtube search bar but God works in mysterious ways, I guess he/her knew I needed to take a ride in the "Way Back Machine" (a reference to a popular 1960's cartoon) Thanks I needed that.
Imagine this scenario: All the excellent british synth pop literally dominating the world, all the loud California Glam Metal, Madonna exploding all over the place, and out of nowhere comes this song just to make everything peaceful and beautiful again. There had never being anything like that song in the radio before.
What a beautiful song. I flew from London to Singapore on Christmas Eve 1985. I'm a nervous flyer, so I had my earphones in during taxi-ing. This song started to play just as the packed Singapore Airlines 747 "Big Top" started its take-off roll. We seemed to be on the ground forever, but just as the song reached its climax, the plane left the ground for the start of our 15-hour non-stop flight. This song will forever remind me of that moment. We were safely in the air, it was Christmas Eve, there were sprigs of holly over each window, everyone was happy. A great memory. Thank you!
Their instrumental version of The Smiths "Please Please ..Let me get what I want" used in the Art Gallery Scene in Ferris Buellers Day Off is also a wistful melodic cover.
I lived in Spain in 1985, I was 14, I remember this song playing, I have fond memories of the sound of this song. The nostalgia is SCREAMING! You definitely nailed the emotions so well. The music and words had & still have a warming effect to much better times.
This came out just months after I moved out of my childhood home. It was only 8 miles but it felt like hundreds. Thank you, Lynn, it's been decades since I've heard this song.
When you consider the fact that back in the 80s we relied on MTV and the radio for our Music enjoyment it's no surprise that songs took root in our psyche in a more organic, sneaky way. When a top 20 song is always playing in the background it becomes a part of the fabric of your memories of that time. So a song like this with a haunting nostalgic Vibe hits us extra hard 30 years later.
Never thought of it like that, but you're right. Maybe that's why I love the 70's & 80's music so much. Those were the last 2 decades before we started getting computers & cellphones. Technology just took all the sweetness out of life. If it wasn't for a capella music, I would have given up on music in the recent years.
I was 16-17 when this song was released...one of my best friends at the time passed away, suddenly, just February of last year....so, for me, this song invokes memories of simpler, more innocent times when just being pals, hanging out, was all that mattered in the world...when growing apart was inconceivable, and all that the future held was irrelevant because we had all we needed in that carefree now.
I LOVE THIS SONG...THIS ALBUM AND THIS GROUP! They should have been much bigger than they were. The follow up single The Love Parade is a great song as well...WOULD KILL TO SEE YOUR REACTION TO IT. I play the album several times throughout the year...since 1985!! There is such a feeling of nostalgia to it but it's more the feeling of nostalgia I had for it back then because I never stopped listening to it. They also did a cover of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want by the Smiths....would love that reaction too! Better version than the original! Unfortunately they fell on the heap of one hit wonders...they were so much better than that. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REACT TO THE LOVE PARADE! YOU WON'T BE SORRY!
I loved this when it came out, just was a breath of fresh air, and the dynamics were extraordinary. And I find out that it was produced by one of my favorite guitar players David Gilmore, and I had already been playing for years! Great reaction as always, brother.☮️🤘🎸
This song was a massive hit here in the UK. I was brought up in a town in the north of England just like the one he's singing about. It brings back memories of my childhood everytime i hear it.
For whatever reason, this song in particular always makes me choke up. They're covering topics and issues from a different era and it makes me feel very, very nostalgic. LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!
Thank you so much, i loved, this thing is happened to me, i know so many songs, and days ago Dario G passed away, he make a song with this back grond, SUNSHINE, impossible not to dance, i was listen Dream Academy yesterday,..............
Sal-Don’t forget to listen to the extended version!! Starts to break it down at 3:21 or so!! th-cam.com/video/RWMKAYRU9qE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1_lXa-0XTYAqFSF-
Growing up in an American northern town in the sixties, this still gives me '80s nostalgia of a snow-covered rooftop sixties dawn there - even after knowing this is English nostalgia regarding the death of Nick Drake and receiving that sad news. Immediately loved this first time finding it on the radio.
They had other hits, just not in the Top 40 but on College and Alternative Rock radio. “The Love Parade,” “Indian Summer,” and their covers of the Smiths’ “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want,” and John Lennon’s “Love.”
i was seventeen when this came out. you made me tear up talking about the nostalgia we must feel hearing this years later. you are so right, thanks for your insight 💜
One of my 3 fav songs of the 80's. It just gives me such a vibe, like it transports me back to that time in my life. I just close my eyes and I'm there. I was 25 when it came out. That time in my life was amazing & it just bringsme joy to hear it. I have a playlist called Songs That Touch My Heart - it's on there!💜
Still get goosebumps whenever I hear this song. Takes me back to the mid-80’s instantly. One hit wonder that has such a unique sound. Wonderfully produced.
I always loved this song, and it never fails to make me feel . . .something. I'm not sure what. But I always get goosebumps when the drums kick in. I definitely feel like it's kind of unique. I heard an interesting fact which is that Nick, the lead singer, modeled his vocals and instrumentation after Nick Drake. And I would LOVE to have Sal react to some Nick Drake - I think he would really like it. 🙂 Thanks again Lynn! 😊
Have loved this song since it came out, hits different now than it did when i was 14 . Now it makes me look back at my own past vs when it came out i just enjoyed the song and the references for others.
❤Great band. I also love their cover of The Smiths' Please, Please. Please Let Me Get What I Want from the awesone Ferris Bueller's Day Off soundtrack.
The lyrics remind me of the times back in the 60s and 70s when I was a kid, and relatives would visit from out of town. I remember various family gatherings, playing outside till night, catching fire flies and putting them in a jar, (grownups made holes in the lid so they could breath) lighting up sparklers on the 4th of July after the sun went down..
I haven't watched your outro yet but I wanted to comment first. I've loved this song since I was a kid (I'm from a northern English town so yeah). I've always focused so much on the lyrics, even though I usually pay attention to the music, I never really noticed how sweetly the different instruments drift in and out and take their turns, so thanks for highlighting that. And I can see other people have already said this, but this song's ability to make you homesick for somewhere you've never been, or nostalgic for a time when you weren't even alive, I think is really great. Not to mention 'hey ma ma ma ma' is one of the most singalongable choruses ever, even by the end of your first listen, it's hard NOT to join in. Love it, thanks for this one.
PS Since you asked in your afterthoughts... I was 2 when this song first released, so it was new right at the time of my first memories in life. I never 'forgot' it but there was awhile in my 20s when I didn't hear it for a long time. I think it was a TH-cam recommended video the next time I saw it, and I played it about 20 times and cried, put it on my main TH-cam music playlist and haven't let it go since. I've probably listened to it at least monthly, and sometimes more often than that, for about a decade since it came back into my life. It's really perfect for me though, the music is really rich and unique, the vocals are pitched kinda high which I always find appealing, and that last section where it drops out and goes almost acapella just completes it. I'd recommend finding the 5-minute version if you liked this, not to react to but just to listen to, it adds even more nostalgic feeling and it's the version I usually reach for when I need to feel homesick for the 1980s.
The song is great but I love the video. I was 17 in 1983 and the yellow and white bus took me right back to then plus seeing Durham Cathedral and the Tyne and Wear Metro.
great song! Another great one by them is the instrumental version of The Smiths "Please, Please, Please, Let me Get What I Want", which can be heard during the museum scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" 👍
Since the song namechecked the Beatles, you should try their cover of Love, originally by John Lennon. Also, a 90s dance act Dario G samples the chorus chant, and turned it into a dance anthem Sunchyme, which is straightforward and effective. Worth checking out too.
always loved this song from the first time I heard it in my late-teens. if you've ever seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, there's a Dream Academy cover of a song by The Smiths ("Please Please Please, Let Me Get What I Want") that you might like
Timeless classic! Even as a kid, before I knew what melancholy was, always made me feel a certain way. If this was released now, it’d still be a hit. Fun fact: they recorded an instrumental version of The Smiths’ Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want that was used in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
...also available with vocals. The song when Ferris says goodbye to Sloane bear the end of the film is also a Dream Academy song....."The Edge Of Forever".
This is from a pivotal point in my life and, at the time, evoked joy, fear of the unknown, and meeting harsh challenges head-on in my early twenties. All the early learning experiences that shaped the man I am today. Now I can reminisce, remembering both good and bad, taking pride in the wild ride I took to get to my sixties.
It's not disappointing at all. There's a great live version showing them playing all the instruments. Look for "Life in a Northern Town - Extended Version". There are more than just the three of them playing. I like the timpani player and the lady playing the cello.
Thank you Mr. G. I've been waiting (a long time) for someone to react to this song. It was unique for it's time and one of my (many) favorites from that era.
Such an emotively gorgeous song.......Illuminating 1963 (the year I was born) as a pivotal year in history...Takes me straight back to 1985 when I was only 22.❤
I think we don't understand how drastic things were in Northern England. From what I understand there were still scarred landscapes from WWII and buildings. But they as a people were getting these life changing events around them. At least this is what I am getting.
I’ve said it before: this song can make you homesick for a place you’ve never even been.
❤
@ashleydixon4613 Wow! You described in words, this kind of melancholy nostalgic feeling. Well done.
@@kimberly3131 “Wistful” just came to me ❤️
Matt - That's a good word for it. One that we don't see very often,. Very descriptive. Totally different genre and from a different era, but another song this feeling brings to mind is Take Me Home Country Roads by John Denver.
I get what you mean. Great song
Beautiful song. Nostalgic for us who remember it from the eighties, but they are actually singing about and being nostalgic themselves about the sixties. Everyone, the older they get, gets nostalgic about the times of their youth.
Great, it's a specific moment in time, there were so many amazing British songs released around this time.
"It felt like the world would freeze, with John F. Kennedy and the Beatles."
Gets me every time.
for me its "make easy on yourself..."
Just posted the same! ❤❤❤
Same here. All choked up like a big baby... But the whole song does that to me. It's those damn dynamics!! ☮️
@@setdriftlike verbal Valium.
Love the background 'Yeah Yeah Yeah' after The Beatles.
Having been 16 in 1963, when I heard this in the late 80’s, in my late 30’s, it almost made me cry. Now in my late 70’s, it just about knocked the breath out of me. Seeing THAT clip of video of Kennedy….so much promise. Destroyed in an instant. We all remember where we were when we heard. And then paired with that clip, the scream of all the Beatles’ young fans ( I was one). Oh man. I remember.
🎵 "And the children drank lemonade . . ."🍋🥤
"And the morning lasted alll dayyy . . . " 🌄 🎶
All daaaay😎🎶🎵🎶
This song has such a feel to it. The way it's sung and played evokes so much warmth.
The Dream Academy is SO underrated. The Edge of Forever and Their cover of Please, Please, Please...let me get what i want Are gorgeous.
Yes, I'm old now - So I can offer you a similar kind of song to react to, SG - "Northern Lights" (1978) by a prog rock group called, Renaissance - and there was at least 1 live version of it on here before . . . Annie's voice was mesmeric in this song as her vocal abilities were simply amazing!
I'm so glad you picked this! You kind of skipped over the part that it's a tribute to Nick Drake. He was a wonderful musician who died too young. I think he put out 3 albums maybe. His most famous song is Pink Moon.
This song has some tremendous covers all over youtube, from high school choir all the way up to country artists Sugarland and Little Big Town doing an amazing rendition on stage together. I highly recommend you go check out those covers as well as The Dream Academy live on various television shows from around the globe.
I was 20 when this came out. I don't think you can truly appreciate how amazing it was to be young in the 80s.
I was a very young 21-year-old US ARMY corporal stationed in West Germany when this came out and your comment about having feelings of nostalgia hit me like a ton of bricks...I was so alive then!!!!! everything was a new adventure.......I accidentally came across this due to a misspelling of a word in youtube search bar but God works in mysterious ways, I guess he/her knew I needed to take a ride in the "Way Back Machine" (a reference to a popular 1960's cartoon) Thanks I needed that.
Imagine this scenario: All the excellent british synth pop literally dominating the world, all the loud California Glam Metal, Madonna exploding all over the place, and out of nowhere comes this song just to make everything peaceful and beautiful again. There had never being anything like that song in the radio before.
A glowing light in that gloomy darkness
@@kimberly3131 , beautifully stated.
What a beautiful song. I flew from London to Singapore on Christmas Eve 1985. I'm a nervous flyer, so I had my earphones in during taxi-ing. This song started to play just as the packed Singapore Airlines 747 "Big Top" started its take-off roll. We seemed to be on the ground forever, but just as the song reached its climax, the plane left the ground for the start of our 15-hour non-stop flight. This song will forever remind me of that moment. We were safely in the air, it was Christmas Eve, there were sprigs of holly over each window, everyone was happy. A great memory. Thank you!
Their instrumental version of The Smiths "Please Please ..Let me get what I want" used in the Art Gallery Scene in Ferris Buellers Day Off is also a wistful melodic cover.
....and the actual cover version (with vocals) is better than The Smiths original (for me).
Great song that I’ve always felt sounds and feels like winter.
Yes!
The song has an aura. Makes you close your eyes and imagine another world.
I have to stop what I'm doing and just get lost in this track. Its so haunting and emotional.
This is one of two songs that makes me cry
I lived in Spain in 1985, I was 14, I remember this song playing, I have fond memories of the sound of this song. The nostalgia is SCREAMING! You definitely nailed the emotions so well. The music and words had & still have a warming effect to much better times.
This came out just months after I moved out of my childhood home. It was only 8 miles but it felt like hundreds. Thank you, Lynn, it's been decades since I've heard this song.
When you consider the fact that back in the 80s we relied on MTV and the radio for our Music enjoyment it's no surprise that songs took root in our psyche in a more organic, sneaky way. When a top 20 song is always playing in the background it becomes a part of the fabric of your memories of that time. So a song like this with a haunting nostalgic Vibe hits us extra hard 30 years later.
Never thought of it like that, but you're right. Maybe that's why I love the 70's & 80's music so much. Those were the last 2 decades before we started getting computers & cellphones. Technology just took all the sweetness out of life. If it wasn't for a capella music, I would have given up on music in the recent years.
I was 16-17 when this song was released...one of my best friends at the time passed away, suddenly, just February of last year....so, for me, this song invokes memories of simpler, more innocent times when just being pals, hanging out, was all that mattered in the world...when growing apart was inconceivable, and all that the future held was irrelevant because we had all we needed in that carefree now.
One of my all time favorite songs.
Same here
Ditto!@@reallymysterious4520
I LOVE THIS SONG...THIS ALBUM AND THIS GROUP! They should have been much bigger than they were. The follow up single The Love Parade is a great song as well...WOULD KILL TO SEE YOUR REACTION TO IT. I play the album several times throughout the year...since 1985!! There is such a feeling of nostalgia to it but it's more the feeling of nostalgia I had for it back then because I never stopped listening to it. They also did a cover of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want by the Smiths....would love that reaction too! Better version than the original! Unfortunately they fell on the heap of one hit wonders...they were so much better than that. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REACT TO THE LOVE PARADE! YOU WON'T BE SORRY!
I loved this when it came out, just was a breath of fresh air, and the dynamics were extraordinary. And I find out that it was produced by one of my favorite guitar players David Gilmore, and I had already been playing for years!
Great reaction as always, brother.☮️🤘🎸
I forget about this, but then, like a lovely, wistful dream, it pops up again, and I remember how awesome it is.
This song was a massive hit here in the UK. I was brought up in a town in the north of England just like the one he's singing about. It brings back memories of my childhood everytime i hear it.
Although a lot of people hardly play this one anymore, it was one of my old favorites!
This entire album is fantastic.
One of my favorite songs from the 80's it's on my 80's playlist, great vocals & instrumentations.
Most people who know this song never knew it was produced by David Gilmour.
For whatever reason, this song in particular always makes me choke up. They're covering topics and issues from a different era and it makes me feel very, very nostalgic. LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!
I managed a record store, we got this record before the radio started playing it and yes it does get nostalgic. I saw it live on Saturday night Live.
Thank you so much, i loved, this thing is happened to me, i know so many songs, and days ago Dario G passed away, he make a song with this back grond, SUNSHINE, impossible not to dance, i was listen Dream Academy yesterday,..............
Love this song
Give Dream Academy another listen with “The Love Parade” (from the same album)… you won’t be disappointed.
Yes!
Totally agree
Also "The Party".
Sal-Don’t forget to listen to the extended version!! Starts to break it down at 3:21 or so!!
th-cam.com/video/RWMKAYRU9qE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1_lXa-0XTYAqFSF-
Growing up in an American northern town in the sixties, this still gives me '80s nostalgia of a snow-covered rooftop sixties dawn there - even after knowing this is English nostalgia regarding the death of Nick Drake and receiving that sad news. Immediately loved this first time finding it on the radio.
They had other hits, just not in the Top 40 but on College and Alternative Rock radio. “The Love Parade,” “Indian Summer,” and their covers of the Smiths’ “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want,” and John Lennon’s “Love.”
Beautiful song. Very evocative, you feel like you’ve stepped back into a time and place. Touching.
i was seventeen when this came out. you made me tear up talking about the nostalgia we must feel hearing this years later. you are so right, thanks for your insight 💜
One of my 3 fav songs of the 80's. It just gives me such a vibe, like it transports me back to that time in my life. I just close my eyes and I'm there. I was 25 when it came out. That time in my life was amazing & it just bringsme joy to hear it. I have a playlist called Songs That Touch My Heart - it's on there!💜
Still get goosebumps whenever I hear this song. Takes me back to the mid-80’s instantly. One hit wonder that has such a unique sound. Wonderfully produced.
I was in the Air Force when it came out. Brings me back to when I was around 20. Almost 61 now and the song does hit me hard.
Exactly the same. I’m 61 and heard this in the Air Force, stationed in a “northern town”-Grand Forks, ND.
“With John F Kennedy and The Beatles.” This is a sublime song ❤
Listened to this 4/5 times on youtube, on different sites, and all have complained how quiet the lyrics were, fine every time on my laptop.
Thank you.Really.Thank you.
They collaborated with David Gilmour and Paul Simon to create this unique sound.
Love the song choice, Lynn ❤
The only live version of this song I've seen is when Little Big Town and Sugarland covered it. It is amazing!
One of my all time fav one hit wonders
always loved this song since it was first released, and its just as good today.
I always loved this song, and it never fails to make me feel . . .something. I'm not sure what. But I always get goosebumps when the drums kick in. I definitely feel like it's kind of unique. I heard an interesting fact which is that Nick, the lead singer, modeled his vocals and instrumentation after Nick Drake. And I would LOVE to have Sal react to some Nick Drake - I think he would really like it. 🙂 Thanks again Lynn! 😊
Have loved this song since it came out, hits different now than it did when i was 14 . Now it makes me look back at my own past vs when it came out i just enjoyed the song and the references for others.
I love love love this song…bittersweet…it can get me crying at times…the message feels nostalgic.
❤Great band. I also love their cover of The Smiths' Please, Please. Please Let Me Get What I Want from the awesone Ferris Bueller's Day Off soundtrack.
Perfectly done song.
The lyrics remind me of the times back in the 60s and 70s when I was a kid, and relatives would visit from out of town. I remember various family gatherings, playing outside till night, catching fire flies and putting them in a jar, (grownups made holes in the lid so they could breath) lighting up sparklers on the 4th of July after the sun went down..
I haven't watched your outro yet but I wanted to comment first. I've loved this song since I was a kid (I'm from a northern English town so yeah). I've always focused so much on the lyrics, even though I usually pay attention to the music, I never really noticed how sweetly the different instruments drift in and out and take their turns, so thanks for highlighting that. And I can see other people have already said this, but this song's ability to make you homesick for somewhere you've never been, or nostalgic for a time when you weren't even alive, I think is really great. Not to mention 'hey ma ma ma ma' is one of the most singalongable choruses ever, even by the end of your first listen, it's hard NOT to join in. Love it, thanks for this one.
PS Since you asked in your afterthoughts... I was 2 when this song first released, so it was new right at the time of my first memories in life. I never 'forgot' it but there was awhile in my 20s when I didn't hear it for a long time. I think it was a TH-cam recommended video the next time I saw it, and I played it about 20 times and cried, put it on my main TH-cam music playlist and haven't let it go since. I've probably listened to it at least monthly, and sometimes more often than that, for about a decade since it came back into my life. It's really perfect for me though, the music is really rich and unique, the vocals are pitched kinda high which I always find appealing, and that last section where it drops out and goes almost acapella just completes it. I'd recommend finding the 5-minute version if you liked this, not to react to but just to listen to, it adds even more nostalgic feeling and it's the version I usually reach for when I need to feel homesick for the 1980s.
A big hit in the 80's in Chicago, NYC and Boston.
The song is great but I love the video. I was 17 in 1983 and the yellow and white bus took me right back to then plus seeing Durham Cathedral and the Tyne and Wear Metro.
So was I
A super nostalgic 80s sound for us UK based foggies 😅
Ah-hey-ma-ma-ma🎶
Dee-doo-din-nie-ya-ya🎵
Ah-hey-ma-ma-ma🎶
Hey-y-yah🎶
Life in a northern town🎶🎵
Still beautiful
great song!
Another great one by them is the instrumental version of The Smiths "Please, Please, Please, Let me Get What I Want", which can be heard during the museum scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" 👍
Wow, thanks for this one. Hadn't heard it in a long time. Beautiful.
I love this song and you are right, it is nostalgic. Another one hit wonder which you might like is “Northern Lights” by Renaissance.
Since the song namechecked the Beatles, you should try their cover of Love, originally by John Lennon.
Also, a 90s dance act Dario G samples the chorus chant, and turned it into a dance anthem Sunchyme, which is straightforward and effective. Worth checking out too.
Beautiful song.
I was there when it first came out on MTV and it had a nostalgic feel even then. The video had a lot to do with that too.
It transports me to Michigan's UP
I was a teenager when this came out and you're right, it's super nostalgic! ❤ Great insight. 😃
Was obsessed with this song in junior high.
Your right, I was 25 when it came out and it always gave me goosebumps. Haven't heard it in decades so thank you!
This brings me back to working at a corner store as a teen.
It got a lot of radio play when it came out
always loved this song from the first time I heard it in my late-teens. if you've ever seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, there's a Dream Academy cover of a song by The Smiths ("Please Please Please, Let Me Get What I Want") that you might like
Ear candy song. As you finished the video, every time I hear it I’m back in college in the 1980s.
It's one of those feel good songs that stayed with you All day! ❤
Really enjoy your reactions. A great era of music this.
Like a book in my library I haven't opened for a very long time. Interesting how dust can bring a tear to your eye.🖖
Timeless classic! Even as a kid, before I knew what melancholy was, always made me feel a certain way. If this was released now, it’d still be a hit. Fun fact: they recorded an instrumental version of The Smiths’ Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want that was used in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
...also available with vocals. The song when Ferris says goodbye to Sloane bear the end of the film is also a Dream Academy song....."The Edge Of Forever".
Very evocative.
Sonically Stunning!
This is from a pivotal point in my life and, at the time, evoked joy, fear of the unknown, and meeting harsh challenges head-on in my early twenties. All the early learning experiences that shaped the man I am today. Now I can reminisce, remembering both good and bad, taking pride in the wild ride I took to get to my sixties.
Another great song on this album is "The Love Parade." An audio treat. Very ‘80s yet very unique.
I’m from a northern town and they got the feeling exactly. I’ve always loved this song.
This is a great song! ❤
I love this song so much. I only ever really knew 2 Dream Academy songs but they are both in the top 20 or so of songs from that era for me.
loved this track, and I still play it now and again.
Back when America was proud, free and you could afford stuff.
I think a live version would be disappointing, She couldn't play all the various instruments live. Loved this song since day one, bought the album.
It's not disappointing at all. There's a great live version showing them playing all the instruments. Look for "Life in a Northern Town - Extended Version". There are more than just the three of them playing. I like the timpani player and the lady playing the cello.
I love this song so much. It’s on my regular playlist. I come from a northern town in England, I get it.
I had just moved from Toronto to Detroit (I know, I know)
Thank you Mr. G. I've been waiting (a long time) for someone to react to this song. It was unique for it's time and one of my (many) favorites from that era.
Such an emotively gorgeous song.......Illuminating 1963 (the year I was born) as a pivotal year in history...Takes me straight back to 1985 when I was only 22.❤
I think we don't understand how drastic things were in Northern England. From what I understand there were still scarred landscapes from WWII and buildings. But they as a people were getting these life changing events around them.
At least this is what I am getting.
The fact that David Gilmore produced it - WOW!!
Blast from the past! Thanks!
😊😊Thank you Salvo !! Great memories 😊😊
You should check out Sugarland, Little Big Town and Jake Owen doing this on one of the country awards shows.