Agree, great song with that hard-boiled, funky groove and Elmer's raspy vocals! Also, a very funny back story behind it (you know how these guys were hired by Mick Fleetwood to do a US tour posing as Fleetwood Mac, at a time when the real FM, pre-Stevie Nicks and pre their golden age of arena glory, were in a state of limbo but had contractual obligations to fulfil? Then Mick failed to show up at the first gigs and the band, these guys, felt he had given them away!) 😁
Go On, man, re-release this fantastic track, seeping in soul. It used to be blaring out on Camden High St, London. Heart & Soul this is do profound, Thanks Stretch band members & YT., Ooh, so tight, JaneR
Top top tune. If this doesn’t get you off your wherever you are listening to this classic: be it a dance floor/sofa/ or wherever you happen to be listening to this timeless tune, and to boggy on down, there no hope for you dance wise.🤣🤣👍🙏
My dad listened to this song a lot when I was younger, then I watched Lock Stock and two smoking barrels and it took me down memory lane🥳love this song
@@signpo890 Noxema Jackson is quite right, it's only your opinion. The fact you posted it doesn't make it true, all you have done is post your opinion, numbnuts. Mind you, in my opinion it is a great riff.
The mind and work process all these producers have is just fascinating to me. They listen to so much music across genres and decades, and their mind is always "on" in that it suddenly latches onto a one-second moment somewhere in the song, they store it in "the library", and they come back to it, maybe the next day, maybe years later, to create something completely different from it. It's like the music version of every DIY person who has this tool shed full of random stuff that they might use at some point in the future, possibly, and they somehow always remember that they have it when they need it.
Das ist eins der cooooooolsten songs ever! Beachte auch das abgefahrene Bühnenbild und den rhythmischsten Scheich.... great Vibrations ❤ I`m feeling good...
Crazy story behind this track. Actually a terrible story…but if it wasn’t for the horror we wouldn’t have this absolute gem of a song. One in a million tracks!
@@joooanit0224 well, they were supposed to front for Fleetwood Mac in the US. It was going to be their break! Then right at the last minute, after they had arrived in the States, Mick Fleetwood canceled their appearance. He didn’t pay them anything and fabricated a lie that he had never even asked them to play. The lyrics are a reply to him.
@@crizish Worse than that they actually performed a few shows billed as Fleetwood Mac on the understanding that Mick Fleetwood would be joining them shortly, audiences noticed something was up (no female singer most notably), the shows got bad reviews and I think that is what made Mick Fleetwood change his mind and distance himself from it. Shady from Mick but as you say, we get this gem of a track.
I love this song. I think the band were maybe a one hit wonder but what a brilliant song. There are many bands who play this song on the pub circuit. Good music!
Was listening to Casey Kasem's American Top 40 for July 3rd 1982 and prior to playing Fleetwood Mac's "Hold Me", Casey gave an abbreviated (and as I discovered, not very correct) synopsis of Fakewood Mac. I went down a rabbit hole and ended up here. Wow! Can't understand how this never became a hit in the US. This song reminds me of the Average White Band, but MUCH better!
Ich find's super duper ultra mega hyper giga geil das Wilsberg Intro mal in voller Länge zu hören. Sowas zaubert mir als leidenschaftlicher Wilsberg-Fan ein super duper ultra mega hyper giga riesengroßes und super duper ultra mega hyper giga breites Grinsen ins Gesicht! Ach ja und der Song an sich ist auch super duper ultra mega hyper giga geil!😍💙💛💚😍
I heard a sample of this in a tune on the radio this afternoon (December 21) and I recognised it immediately as from the 70's as a record I'd loved but couldn't think who it was until I googled! I'm not sure that I ever saw a video of the band and I certainly didn't know the story behind it - thanks for posting, very interesting!
I know right! Mick Fleetwood must have been really miffed at how the lyrics cast him as a faithless, fickle woman.... 😃The back-story of the band and the song is hilarious.😃 A great single though, top class white r'n'b!
Good things might come out from bad things, sometimes. Fleetwood’s nastiness led to the creation of this amazing song. There is also a recent interview with the band where they explain what is in the description of this video.
big fan of gigi d'agostino here. Just imagine what I felt when coming back from work on bicycle and listening to this track on Radio Jazz for the first time. I almost hit the pole.
Beautiful song thanks to the bizarre behavior of Michael John Kells. The relationship with blues, funk, power and pain is musically beautifully united here!
Agree, this is such a cool fusion of genres (also a touch of reggae, I think) and Gantry's slightly raspy voice is a perfect fit for it. The back-story of how they were booked to perform as Fleetwood Mac (!) in the US and then got back at Mick F. is very funny, too.
@@adrianpolley9419 oh yeah, very good. Crime with a bit of comedy. But not the kind of humour which is annoying in most German films. You’ll find the series via zdf.de, but I’m not sure if they have subtitles
Mr. Weed, my friends and me.... - and this song - we spend a very good time in the 80`th at Westerland/Sylt - I was young and very wild in my head - and drank a coffee at Cafe Orth and hear this song... - OKY the dog and my girlfriend Katy... it was a really greatful time...!
out of every crisis there is an opportunity. disappointing what happened but this is a genius comeback. i was not aware of the history and its a shame as a collective artistic collaboration that it collapsed whilst on tour. artistic differences can be tough to handle. it could definitely have been handled definitely but kudos to stretch. i remember when this first came out. still awesome some 40 years later
In the past, it was expensive and difficult to reproduce the sound of recorded music. Everything was based on playback (they couldn't even get the metals for the video). The drummer, who was very cheerful, was not a very good actor. I love the German series, Wilsberg (that uses music as the opening theme). Even though I don't understand German at all hahaha the music is very good too. um senhor funkão, dos bons tempos que não voltam mais....
This is an absolute masterpiece.
Indeed this is one of the greatest tracks ever
Who Cares ?
@@TheJoegallaghan Well , it's something for those who are about art and music , they enjoy stuff like that , don't worry about it.
Some songs are just made for eternity. This is one of them.
Agree, great song with that hard-boiled, funky groove and Elmer's raspy vocals! Also, a very funny back story behind it (you know how these guys were hired by Mick Fleetwood to do a US tour posing as Fleetwood Mac, at a time when the real FM, pre-Stevie Nicks and pre their golden age of arena glory, were in a state of limbo but had contractual obligations to fulfil? Then Mick failed to show up at the first gigs and the band, these guys, felt he had given them away!) 😁
YESSSS
Very well said.
Amen man; this has, sadly, been overlooked after short stint. But a great funk/soul track- well delivered,
JaneR
Underrated Masterpiece !!!
Underrated? You 🤡
Go On, man, re-release this fantastic track, seeping in soul. It used to be blaring out on Camden High St, London. Heart & Soul this is do profound,
Thanks Stretch band members & YT., Ooh, so tight,
JaneR
Just came here from the Snap Judgement podcast. Amazing story. Crazy stuff.
Top top tune. If this doesn’t get you off your wherever you are listening to this classic: be it a dance floor/sofa/ or wherever you happen to be listening to this timeless tune, and to boggy on down, there no hope for you dance wise.🤣🤣👍🙏
Hi, if there's not just me, the austrian guy, who loves this song. Please give me a sign 😊
Unfairly undervalued...
Great song
PURE, PURE Funky sound !!! In Uruguay was a big hit in 1975 and again around 87
Temaso , lo escuchaste por Taddei y Rada ? es muuuy bueno
@@LUISFERNANDEZUY nooo... esta en youtube?
Yes! In Bulgaria and East Europe also was a big hit 1991-2!
seguro que bailabas en el club olimpia los sabados
@@joseglauco9693 lamentablemente no iba alli. Me quedaba lejos. Solo fui una vez pero alrededor del 94.
Gigi D’Agostino’s sampled and cutted the opening words for BlaBlaBla
Yes
Grande Gigi D'Ag❤
@@esauro88 mm..m..
@@annaosakaoldaccount Waw a a a
Drugs does many good things
2:25 - Gigi d'Agostino - BlaBlaBla
th-cam.com/video/Hrph2EW9VjY/w-d-xo.html 👌
I'm here because someone said this song in that video 🤣
I'd never heard this before. It's pretty kickass!
I would suggest you leave this chat 😊
My dad listened to this song a lot when I was younger, then I watched Lock Stock and two smoking barrels and it took me down memory lane🥳love this song
"Feelin a bit poorly, my son?"
I’m related to the main singer he is such a cool guy
One of the most best Riffs ever and that is the truth.
It's not the truth It's an opinion.
@@gogoyubari366 Eh yeah, in my opinion. That’s why I posted it numbnuts.
yeah.. some music is for ever... smoke on the water is similar .. only 3 or 4 notes and you know that song.
@@signpo890 Noxema Jackson is quite right, it's only your opinion. The fact you posted it doesn't make it true, all you have done is post your opinion, numbnuts. Mind you, in my opinion it is a great riff.
The complete equilibrium of harmony, melody, rhythm, composition, love and sheer beauty
The way Gigi D’Agostino sampled this… absolute genius
😭@callahansmoke
@callahansmokeGigi D'Agostino, ignorant
The mind and work process all these producers have is just fascinating to me. They listen to so much music across genres and decades, and their mind is always "on" in that it suddenly latches onto a one-second moment somewhere in the song, they store it in "the library", and they come back to it, maybe the next day, maybe years later, to create something completely different from it. It's like the music version of every DIY person who has this tool shed full of random stuff that they might use at some point in the future, possibly, and they somehow always remember that they have it when they need it.
I've never heard this before and I've been listening to music since the late '60s!! Brilliant track!
We can always discover good music
I’ve seen them live in a pub on the Romford Road, in the early 1980’s. They were great live.
Noel’s drumming here is absolutely fantastic ……he had great style and technique……Rest in Peace…🥁
That's some creative mixing of 2:26 for "Bla Bla Bla" :O
This song is also really good :D
😮😮😮😮
🤯🤯🤯
Das ist eins der cooooooolsten songs ever! Beachte auch das abgefahrene Bühnenbild und den rhythmischsten Scheich.... great Vibrations ❤ I`m feeling good...
Na du bist mir einer/eine 😂
@@andreascepnik360 ....und es fängt wieder an?!
2:26 the word is being other❤
Heard this in a shop for first time in decades! Fantastic song, rediscovered it , yay!!
played this when I was DJ in the 1970s ,filled the dance-floor,still love it now x
You certainly did a great job for the folks on the dancing floor back-in-those-days: choosing from dozens of “singles”! 🎧🎶💃🏼🕺🏼🎵
Crazy story behind this track. Actually a terrible story…but if it wasn’t for the horror we wouldn’t have this absolute gem of a song. One in a million tracks!
Elaborate please?!
Yes, elaborate please?
@@joooanit0224 well, they were supposed to front for Fleetwood Mac in the US. It was going to be their break! Then right at the last minute, after they had arrived in the States, Mick Fleetwood canceled their appearance. He didn’t pay them anything and fabricated a lie that he had never even asked them to play. The lyrics are a reply to him.
@@crizish Thank you very much for elaborating.
@@crizish Worse than that they actually performed a few shows billed as Fleetwood Mac on the understanding that Mick Fleetwood would be joining them shortly, audiences noticed something was up (no female singer most notably), the shows got bad reviews and I think that is what made Mick Fleetwood change his mind and distance himself from it. Shady from Mick but as you say, we get this gem of a track.
Just recently discovered this song - love it!
happy time
Same here it is a straight jam 💥
One of the most cool songs ever written!
I love this song. I think the band were maybe a one hit wonder but what a brilliant song. There are many bands who play this song on the pub circuit. Good music!
Best oldies, 70's 80's!!! Born 1972 best time to live!
Born 1971!
-68
Me too, born 72s in february best time ever my in my childhood
When I was 18, this was at the disco, and Grandmaster Flash. This is the best music.
Loved dancing to this.
This tune jumped in my head so I came here to listen :) Great memories of pubs clubs and discos in the West Midlands
Great memories....good music
Yesss! London for me!
Yah man
Me like dat dere ya nu
Same here
This is the Happy Mondays a decade earlier.
Fuckin' great !!!
THIS ONE I HAVEN'T HEARD IN A REALLY LONG TIME.STILL FUNKY AS EVER
Was listening to Casey Kasem's American Top 40 for July 3rd 1982 and prior to playing Fleetwood Mac's "Hold Me", Casey gave an abbreviated (and as I discovered, not very correct) synopsis of Fakewood Mac. I went down a rabbit hole and ended up here. Wow! Can't understand how this never became a hit in the US. This song reminds me of the Average White Band, but MUCH better!
So smooth, funk at its best!
Ich find's super duper ultra mega hyper giga geil das Wilsberg Intro mal in voller Länge zu hören. Sowas zaubert mir als leidenschaftlicher Wilsberg-Fan ein super duper ultra mega hyper giga riesengroßes und super duper ultra mega hyper giga breites Grinsen ins Gesicht! Ach ja und der Song an sich ist auch super duper ultra mega hyper giga geil!😍💙💛💚😍
Probably my all time favourite song always played in Ibiza clubs 42 yrs ago magic.
Underrated masterpiece
Très groove, en souvenir du bon vieux temps musicalement métissé.
I love this song then and now !
Dig that funky A-rab !!
great
voice
Superb track! Pure soul and funk,Marky boy
Underrated song...perfect in a travel in the midnight
you wha?
I heard a sample of this in a tune on the radio this afternoon (December 21) and I recognised it immediately as from the 70's as a record I'd loved but couldn't think who it was until I googled!
I'm not sure that I ever saw a video of the band and I certainly didn't know the story behind it - thanks for posting, very interesting!
i heard same clip , and thought of climax blues band, average white band, knew i was wrong , looked it up
This track was way ahead of its time damm...
One two... have been saving ever since the record came out. Should be a memento nowadays haha ;)
Ésto sigue rompiéndome la cabeza aún hoy, después de cuarenta años haberla escuchado por primera vez. Impresionante sonido y voz...
Te garantizo que no sos el único, estoy en la misma... Un saludo!
I remember thinking this would be a hip US Black American band ,imagine the shock of seeing the above on TOTP ,great tune thought !
White men make great black music (in this case).
Average white band would have smashed this too
Awesome 2thumbs up
Yes the 70s and 80s those were best disco days to live and jive through
Amazing Bass player
Yes, but how come he's dressed like an Arab? ;)
Love that bass player
great classic song
Une petite partie de ma jeunesse, j'adore 🙌
Very cool! How did I miss it and cool story behind the song.
This is easily the best Fleetwood Mac song
I know right! Mick Fleetwood must have been really miffed at how the lyrics cast him as a faithless, fickle woman.... 😃The back-story of the band and the song is hilarious.😃 A great single though, top class white r'n'b!
These guys look really cool
Good things might come out from bad things, sometimes. Fleetwood’s nastiness led to the creation of this amazing song. There is also a recent interview with the band where they explain what is in the description of this video.
So seventies...and so good !
big fan of gigi d'agostino here. Just imagine what I felt when coming back from work on bicycle and listening to this track on Radio Jazz for the first time. I almost hit the pole.
🤣
Whos here in 2024?
Everybody ...
Meeeeeee ❤❤❤❤❤
🙋
I am....❤
Yep, infact I sung it in my local on the karaoke last night. 😂
Why is this song not that famous?
For those who know what this is, it's very famous.
@@zsoltpradel1776 Look at the views man
Excellent bit of music, very catchy
POV: Sei Gigi D'agostino negli anni 90 e stai pensando "e se mettessi questo...insieme a questo..."
Soundtrack in a "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998 British-American crime comedy film) 00:33 min
"Feelin' a bit poorly, my son?"
Brilliant movie
drummer proves drugs back then must have been amazing. Such a tune!
Eines der besten Lieder überhaupt ❤❤❤❤
Happy birthday mom, my mom love this song!!!
Brilliant song.
great voice great song
Blijft een heerlijke funky riff!!
SIMPLESMENTE SENSACIONAL ESSE SOM👊
the drummer's so sweet
Watch Status Quo In The Army Now. His names Jeff Rich
This is really great but where are the horn players?
One of the Best Funk All of the time.....
Best song ever
Brilliant !!!
Legend
Great epic song
Great song and video
Magistraleeeee!!!!!!!!!
Timelessness 🎉 I ❤ funk
Great vocals
Beautiful song thanks to the bizarre behavior of Michael John Kells. The relationship with blues, funk, power and pain is musically beautifully united here!
Agree, this is such a cool fusion of genres (also a touch of reggae, I think) and Gantry's slightly raspy voice is a perfect fit for it. The back-story of how they were booked to perform as Fleetwood Mac (!) in the US and then got back at Mick F. is very funny, too.
Absolut cool
This track is used as the opening titles of German crime series wilsberg.
Rate mal, wieso ich hier bin!
Wilsberg ❤
is it any good ? Wilsberg that is.
@@adrianpolley9419 oh yeah, very good. Crime with a bit of comedy. But not the kind of humour which is annoying in most German films. You’ll find the series via zdf.de, but I’m not sure if they have subtitles
@@cissyblack3806 Thanks Cissy, will check it out.
Awesome!
un petit bijou à ranger dans la discothèque de tous
Ouvi quando era adolescente, vivia na minha mente até que you tube me agraciou amo essa música.
When less is more. Genius.
the drummer is having the time of his life
Yes, he loves it. Jeff Rich later joined Status Quo.
Great
Mr. Weed, my friends and me.... - and this song - we spend a very good time in the 80`th at Westerland/Sylt - I was young and very wild in my head - and drank a coffee at Cafe Orth and hear this song...
- OKY the dog and my girlfriend Katy... it was a really greatful time...!
The good ol days when none of the guitars were plugged in ,,,,
Great track ...
out of every crisis there is an opportunity. disappointing what happened but this is a genius comeback. i was not aware of the history and its a shame as a collective artistic collaboration that it collapsed whilst on tour. artistic differences can be tough to handle. it could definitely have been handled definitely but kudos to stretch. i remember when this first came out. still awesome some 40 years later
Remember it well I bought the single. Still a top tune.
Great 💯!😎
Sounds so similar to ‘couldn’t get it right’ by climax blues band
I noticed the same thing.
@@Neptuneman07 only...this was first!
Chicago Blues sound.
In the past, it was expensive and difficult to reproduce the sound of recorded music. Everything was based on playback (they couldn't even get the metals for the video). The drummer, who was very cheerful, was not a very good actor. I love the German series, Wilsberg (that uses music as the opening theme). Even though I don't understand German at all hahaha the music is very good too. um senhor funkão, dos bons tempos que não voltam mais....
Where were this band from? Can't find any information about them.
So cool !! 👍
Do the funky Savile
le bassiste est hypra cool, j'adooooore !