So sorry for everything you’re going through-I can understand why you’d like to go back to a better time. So many of us feel that way too. Hang in there 🙏❤😊
I'd be honored if some 80s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of SISTER CHRISTIAN by Night Ranger, IS THIS LOVE by Whitesnake, and RADIO GA-GA by Queen in tribute to the age of legendary power ballads. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Stay safe and keep on rocking in the '020s.
It’s 2025 and I just wanted to say that these early 80’s music videos that were actually shot on film have magical properties. They are amazing. Especially this one. The direction is gorgeous.
Christmas 1981 and this was No. 1 in the charts. I was home on leave from the Navy. So was my best mate and we had a great Christmas leave. Last time I saw him as he was killed in the Falklands. He's still 22 and I'm nearly 60. Every time I hear this song I think of him.
@@colin-campbell Just the usual! Drinking too much, chasing girls, eating too much! I remember my mate getting very drunk one night and repeatedly running at a brick wall as he wanted to run through it! Even at the time we both felt it was a 'good' Christmas - one of those that stick in your memory forever.
I'm crying uncontrollably right now. I was born 1971. This music (80's) is life. I watched my wife and mother pass away just a month apart from each other in 2013. Then my oldest brother lost his father, then his oldest son, and finally he himself. And now my own health is failing. I find comfort on coming on youtube to listen to the 80's music I grew up on, although it can make me tear up. I long for the old days when life was so much more simple and happy.
God bless you. My dad was was born the same year as you. I have sadly lost him and I listen to his music collection. Please keep the faith. I’m sending healing thoughts from England. Where there’s life, there’s hope. Be strong.
@Farrakh-ch2ti Yeah, wow, I so miss those great, much more simple times, born in October 62, the 80's were my fantastic, youthful time of experience and learning. What a great time to have lived in that era as a young man! All best wishes to you and your family, hope life has been good to you, thanks for sharing about this iconic, magical music era! Mark Rayner.
I love the 80s man. I'm 16 right now and growing up is realizing how much better this generation's musical taste was. I hope no one forgets how amazing 70s and 80s music is.
Happy birthday to English singer, songwriter and record producer Phil Oakey, born October 2, 1955, solo artist and lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of English synth-pop band The Human League.😍🤩❤
sorry to pee on your parade but 80's produced more stars in a decade than any other decade to date !! As for your 60's music theory even though there was good music to a point.It was not at the amount of the 80's !! and many became household names.....
Came here to say the same thing... a masterpiece of lyrical story telling. They waste NO time in setting up the story and bringing you into it, then (seamlessly) comes the other side and both are relatable. "Paradise by the dashboard light" also comes to mind as a terrific "back and forth" relating both sides of a story. Also an EPIC song.
I can remember literally hearing this for the first time in 1982...the synth sounds were utterly new; there was almost nothing on the radio that sounded like this. One of the best pop hooks ever written. And excellent haircuts that set the trend for years to come!
During the 1970s I and a schoolfriend were big fans of Vangelis and Tomita and thought electric guitars were completely old hat. However, in the early 1980s it was amazing to see and hear synths go from a niche instrument few musicians could afford to the mainstream. p.s. Do you realise this was from The Human Leagues third album. However, both they, and Heaven 17 who were the "musical" part of the group got fed up with being niche and went for a full on Pop sound. It obviously worked as this was the U.K.s 1981 Christmas Number 1 single back when that actually meant something.
no, it didn't. It only ruled your mind. The guitar, the sitar, sampling, backmasking, and digital all existed. The thing that was super cool about the 80's, is that everything and every genre was were all exploding, all at once. I guess you missed that experience. For instance, Metallica and Skinny Puppy were both born in the 80's. Everything was available, everything was out there. I'm actually kind of sad you missed that. And glad I didn't.
Best variety of music ever was back in the 80's. One of my all time favorite bands, glad theyre still performing today because good music never gets old.
This song is so extremely well written, produced, and performed. The chord arrangement, 4/4 thump, bass groove, sound selection, call and response lyrics, storytelling. It's all excellent.
The thing that freaks me out the most is that this song is 40 years old and I remember it vividly as as a 10 year-old kid. Someone telling me about a 40 year-old song when I was 10 would be someone telling me about a song from World War Two.
I had the same thought pattern. Music 30 years ago from TODAY is not TOO far removed from what we have today; Grunge, Hop/Hop, Pop, Rock. More or less on the same keel. But 30 years before from when I graduated high school in 1988, you were talking about a whole different world from '88: Kingston Trio, Chantilly lace, King Kreole, and Bobby Darin. It might as well have been from another planet!
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change it for the world!🇬🇧
I shed a tear now because I never got to experience the 80s and am so grateful for my amazing mother to show me all her favorite 80s songs. She constantly tells me, my brothers, and sisters how she wish she could take us back to the 80s because of how incredible it was. Thank you mother you never cease to amaze me, because of you i dive deeper and deeper into 80s music everyday.
It was a special time...before smart phones, personal computers (they were just starting to come out), and no Internet. People related to each other better, and weren't totally lost in their own little worlds....and then all of these music styles were popular all at the same time, from New Wave to Punk and ska and glam rock and doom glamor (early goth). Magical time to be a teenager for sure.
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up And turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet Success has been so easy for you But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down too. I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar That much is true But even then I knew I'd find a much better place Either with or without you The five years we have had have been such good at times I still love you But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own I guess it's just what I must do
@@mathewhorodner2000 Sounds like a few of my past dating experiences . Once the money is rolling in for themselves they "Dont need you anymore". Whatever...
@@debrajones7344 stalker? no. Abusive partner? yes. The line "...you better change it back or we will both be sorry" literally is something an abusive partner would tell someone.
"Don't forget it's me who put you where you are now; and I can put you back there too." --- one of my favorite lines in a song, such insecurity and resentment and bitterness!
Trust me, you would hate it (particularly in the UK). No jobs, constant strikes. No internet, no computers, no smartphones, no smart watches, no smart ANYTHING & a choice from just THREE channels on TV. If your only concept of the 1980's is from music vids & Hollywood movies from the time, I can see how it might look glamorous, but for those of us outside of London who lived through it, it was anything but!
It was truly a great time to grow up in,the 80s for me turned child in to man in 10 short years but I knew it was special at the time but now realise how great it all was,no mobile phones,you used a payphone in a box,arranged to meet your mates after school on your bmx,ate as much junk as you wanted and didn't gain weight! Lol. The best of times believe me!
I was born in 1983 and remembered hearing all these songs while my mother was getting ready for work. I listen to this playlist when I'm in a bad mood and it ALWAYS lifts my spirit! Remember the awesome 80's!
I miss the 1980's ...I graduated from high school and got my first driver's license and my first car and my first real job then and my first apartment then. It was the decade of growing up for me. I can't believe 1980 was forty years ago. Where has the time gone? In another decade I will be ready for Social Security. I get older but the music videos of the 1980's stay young and fresh to me.
I hear you brother, I turn 60 this year. When I hear music like this I feel like I am in my 20s again. The one mercy of getting older is that the bad parts of any part of your life are forgotten. The '80s now seem to be a glorious period of freedom, casual sex and a pocket full of money with no mortgage, daughter, aged parent and wife to support.
I was born in Dec 71 and to me music grew old with me as a kid in the 70's a teen in the 80's and like you said got all my first things except in the 90's .During this era music sort of got dark dealing with issues as I did. Now I am going to be 49 in 5 weeks but I wish I was older because life was better back then I just didn't know it was . Take care 💕
I'm young, but I listen to all these tunes half the time. The same thing is gonna happen to me in 40 years with the other music I like now lol. Nostalgia is insane
Love it. Teenager in the 70s. Went thru my twenties in the 80s. Loved both decades. Everything was so simple then. People were nice and had decent morals.
Born in sixty six so all and only music from the eighties entered my world! if I had to choose which era I prefere(d) now, but also during the late eighties and early ninetees when I studied at college/university,, my choice would not be the violent by cocaine dominated 'ninetees', but hands down 'the 'sixties' better known as the flower power decade where pill popping acid dropping peace loving joints smoking hippies organized music and sex swing parties! But the EIGHTIES are the bomb!
Those synths, that eyeliner, the hairstyles, the girls singing and Phil as the lead - they made musical magic not only with this song, but the album(Dare) as well.
Trouble is, all the good music has been made. There are no boundaries to push. Music is so easy to make and release to the public these days it has gotten lazy.
The song's distinctive intro The song's arrangement The very direct "stalkerish" lyrics The brilliant vocals The beautiful Rover SD1 car What does this all add up to? The perfect 80s hit!
Just like a beautiful flower be careful not To touch the torns they look beautiful and apart oeverything if you look at the two women in the human league And I'm not being sexiest now for a weak man when it comes down to putting up a fight if there looking for something
I was born in 1982, the year this song hit #1 on the charts. Growing up in the '80s and '90s really was a great time. So many fun pop culture moments. Music, TV, movies. Toys such as the Care Bears, Smurfs, Ninja Turtles, Teddy Ruxpin... Fun times 🙂
@@mumofthreekids3428 Yes! that’s what i’m saying but all my family and friends say my music taste is horrible since i just “live in the past”, well what’s wrong with that i say! wise everyone around me is listening to “todays” music i’m listening to music 30+ years older than when i was born haha!
The Human League are one of the most underrated groups in history!! Despite being slagged off by the music press, they kept going, and have produced countless classics!! I'm pleased to say they are still going strong, and sounds just as good now as they did in the 80s!! Thank you all!!
@Joe Owen I have lost count of how many times I have seen them live and each has been a good show. The funny thing is back in the 1980s they never toured as it was difficult with synths and they didn't need to. p.s. A US Billboard number one with Human proves they certainly weren't / aren't a one hit wonder. p.p.s Ever heard of Depeche Mode ? Another synth band who have had a bit of success.
It is so fun to go back and hear the 80's tunes we grew up listening to. Much Music, the videos, JD Roberts and everyone standing at the window because some huge band was coming to Toronto. I see JD Roberts on the FOX channel now. Times have changed but the music lives on.
@@awalkingman83 honestly that's not really plausible. For example you can watch or listen to 80s music and movies, but there is nothing new being produced. It's like saying you love the 20s, but that culture is as much gone as the 80s.
@@8bert9 52 in Feb here 🤜🤛 such good years man and the middle school dances were good times plus I truly believe our Gen had the best movies too not just music
The 80's had and will ALWAYS have the BEST music. Every Genre of Music in the 80's had TOP Ten HIT's... From Disco to Pop to Jazz to Reggae to Heavy Metal to R&B to Soul to Rock... All the Music was DOPE!!!
It knocked me out in 1981 during the second wave of Britpop, when I was in junior high. We were hit with a blast of groundbreaking music and the birth of god knows how many new genres-New Wave, punk, synth pop, alternative rock, the beginnings of Prince’s Minneapolis sound, the birth of Hip Hop-not to mention the launch of the MTV era (when it was relevant and new). Also in 1981! And it seemed to last forever, but vanished all too fast with the introduction of disposable music-ProTools, low-fi downloads and the demise of music stores and Death of the Album. The thing that makes listening to this stuff a bit bittersweet is that I was too naive at the time to realize how lucky I was to be young, alive and a music fanatic during such a flood of innovation and creativity, the likes of which I’ll probably never see again in my lifetime. I’ve tried to describe that period to my nieces and nephews, and I’ve managed to turn them on to a lot of music from the eighties. But I can’t take them to see Prince and Sheila E. on New Year’s Eve in 1984 as I did in tenth grade, or describe the smell of the aisles and aisles of 12 inch singles at Bill’s Records and Tapes, or what it was like to drive around with the top down listening to “The Adventure Club” on THE EDGE 94.5 on winter Sunday nights in Dallas. I can’t explain the thrill of finding an obscure 12” of Depeche Mode’s “Shake the Disease” during my summer trip to Berlin in 1985 or what it was like to make fake IDs and dance to “The Politics of Dancing” underage at the Starck Club (that SOUND system! The MIDI-synched laser beams plunging down to the dance floor! A substance-free high like no other…). The payoff is seeing 150 million views of this vid and the thousands of comments assuring me that legions of others get it. To the folks who voted it down, share the music experience that gave YOU the thrill that mine did-music is the ultimate social catalyst, so pay it forward! ✌️
It's one of my favourites, stood in Bessemer pub (mainly 80's) in Sheffield and this comes on, what an atmosphere. 80's Sheffield band, in an 80's pub in Sheffield and everyone knows the words. Brilliant !
From 1981 and now its 2020 This will forever be a classic. Next year it will be 40 years since its release and nowadays people can't even listen to pop for more than weeks.
The lyrics of that song is so interessing. The story is really sad and creepy but what I love the most is that we get the two side of it. And thanks to it we can clearly see that they're both not good person wich make them realy realistic.
Why is she bad? She may have been using him to get ahead but that’s not apparent in what she says. She may just feel like he’s controlling her career too much and she needs to feel more autonomous.
Being a little kid playing with my toys while my Mom kept playing songs such as this ..even tho u didn't payed attention on listening but those songs just gets inside your Brain and soul and until now being 20 years old all i listen to is those type of music cause its just true music and quality.
I completely understand where you're coming from, I'm twenty-three these songs aren't part of our generation and other older folks would say something along the lines of "you weren't around for these songs" true but the songs where still around us thanks to our parents. When I hear these older songs and others I still feel a better connection and understanding compared to today's pop music, call me crazy but that's how I see it.
Yes, well said. i'm the same age and definitely as much brainwashed as you! Because my mom was a eighties kid I absorbed all these synthpop songs. They're overplayed on certain radiostations with a hugh audience bounded by nostaglia and have always sounded so familiar, like I knew them from a long time ago. So i asked her about it and she plead guilty :3
Couldn't be any more right, I'm only 17 and I like and relate to the 80's music more than today's music. I grew up listening to my nan and my parents always playing 80's music and that's why I love it so much. It's just pure, good quality, real music.
well said, its so awesome to see that a 20 year old is into this music - it is simply one of the best. its great to be open minded to different forms of music
As a German teenager, I found this video fascinating. this sound - simply indescribably great. The protagenists had an incredible charisma on me. I wish something like that still exists today
Was only 5 as preschooler back then still listen to the song gives me goosebumps. Wishing children even that age and kindergarten cut down on dirty Hip Hop music.
The Human League defined how LEGENDARY and IMMORTAL the 80's music is going to be. The Human League burst the dam wide open for the Second British Invasion to happen, with the likes of Duran Duran, The Culture Club, Wham (with George Michael), the Eurythmics (with Annie Lenox) and others following the wave of change.
In the UK we never, ever used the term 'New Wave' in the 80s. Or 'Synth-Pop'. It was post-punk, New Romantic, electronic, alternative, synth occasionally (for this sort of music, I mean. Not even going to start on rock, metal, ska, two-tone, funk, pop etc etc). By the late 80s 'indie' was creeping in.
@@clairenoon4070 I'm aware of all the different subgroups and names but in America Alternative radio stations were just beginning to pop up in the major cities and markets so it made it easier for them to lump them all into one name for their new listeners and that was New Wave.
@@clairenoon4070 From what I’ve read the League were mostly described as synth/electro pop. New wave was more for punky pop music like The Jam and Buzzcocks.
This song will always be emotional for me I had an unexpected one night stand with my twin flame but it didn' t work out because I said too soon I love you and I ' ve send too long messages to him. I cried a lot for this and this song reminds me at this evening
My era, My decade, My growing up and listening to this and all kinds of 80’s music. This was the golden age of music from R&B, Rock, New Wave, House, Punk, etc
The 80s music was so damn eclectic. There was such a variety of different styles all at the same time on the charts. The era was packed with incredible music. Sorry to sound like a broken record but today's music is God awful by comparison. So many of todays song are so similar its sad. The same two ghost writers have been responsible for the majority of pop music's recent hits. Its sad...basically two middle age guys are responsible for many of the songs by Taylor Swift, Rhianna, Beyonce etc etc.. The same chord progression, no build up no bridge just crap...
@@helenakatic1690 thank you. I just can't believe the disparity of talent between the 80s music artist compared to todays. It's sad.. Especially how diverse the music scene was. On any given week we could have a metal song, a pop song , a club song, a rap song, a new wave song, and even songs that parodied other hits"Weird Al" on Billboard's top 200. You name, reggae yup, that too...
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up And turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet Success has been so easy for you But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down too.
I put this on my own Vice City radio station. Did speaks and all. I like the song better than "fascination", maybe because the melancholic tone. Or Maybe because I am hopeful romantic.
I walked into a McDonalds on Queensway street near the Bayswater tube stop... and this was playing over the speakers in May 2024... now everytime I hear this song i think of my trip to London 😁🇬🇧
I love how the 80's had synth sounds mastered better than we do now ffs lmao. Truly the greatest time for music ever no question! Pop was just transformed into this unstoppable world wide sensation, Hip-Hop/Rap is just born, metal is taking off plus rock and roll is spiraling out with all of these subgenres. Punk rock took the world by storm at this point. Last but not least electronic music has started making it its way over from Europe. The 80's is like the renaissance of music imo.
thats because most of the mastering now is done in the computer with plugins not real analogue hardware the sound of today is degraded as result of going digital they should have stuck with analogue
This is considered new wave, right? Or was that something different? I always thought new wave was like a mix of traditional pop, with punk, and disco elements.
The tragedy of growing up in the 80’s is you didn’t realize at the time how awesome it was, and when you finally do it’s already over.
The 90s were also great
Yup, great music, great movies, and big shoulder pads in everyones clothes...
Thats generslly about life, you are young and before you know it, you are 40. Enjoy the moment
Seriously. It was like a 10-year-long block party!!
Most people realized that it was awesome, if you didn't, you had issues.
We were lucky to be raised in this era
😻
We really were!
YES, me too, in Germany by the way
I wish I was raised in the 80s, too bad i grew up in the 2000s :(
J'avais une dizaine d'années à l'époque. Personnellement je dis que j'ai grandi avec cette période. Après, tout à commencé à se détériorer.
I don't thinkb most people realize what a lyrical masterpiece this song is.
yeah I don't thinkb either XD
That's the point ☝️.
Yo si, tremenda canción de los 80
Good thing you told me!
It's creepy!😂
I am 64 now with p/state cancer, Dementia,I lost my wife of 40 years in January, take me back to the 70s - 80s and leave me there.
God bless you
I will go with you Mike take care
So sorry for everything you’re going through-I can understand why you’d like to go back to a better time. So many of us feel that way too. Hang in there 🙏❤😊
Consider it done!!!❤🕊️🙌✨✌️🌛👍❤
@@miket5763 I can understand how you feel. We will make the journey together.
One of the best songs of the 80s without question.
I'd be honored if some 80s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of SISTER CHRISTIAN by Night Ranger, IS THIS LOVE by Whitesnake, and RADIO GA-GA by Queen in tribute to the age of legendary power ballads. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Stay safe and keep on rocking in the '020s.
Yes. Agreed!
100%
Agreed I wasn't there but it makes me feel like I was
Im 50 years old now. But everytime i hear all these songs from the 80's, i instantly feel like im 15 again. I love it....
Me too. How strange it is. That this songs like take us back to those times in memories.
The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen. My kind of music...
The Cure, Echo And The Bunnymen. Thats my kind of music.
Yep.. great music.
I've been waiting to hear someone else say exactly what I feel like when I hear it.
It doesn't get anymore 1980's than this. Great memories.
I most definitely agree with you! This was a great time for music fans!:😊😊
Wasn't there, but the music is unparalleled
Gen X confirmed.
Right on, we like the samec music,are wevold?
I ❤ 80s hair!
It’s 2025 and I just wanted to say that these early 80’s music videos that were actually shot on film have magical properties. They are amazing. Especially this one. The direction is gorgeous.
Christmas 1981 and this was No. 1 in the charts. I was home on leave from the Navy. So was my best mate and we had a great Christmas leave. Last time I saw him as he was killed in the Falklands. He's still 22 and I'm nearly 60. Every time I hear this song I think of him.
Berko Boy wow that’s tough
Berko Boy
What kind of antics did you get up to on leave?
@@colin-campbell Just the usual! Drinking too much, chasing girls, eating too much! I remember my mate getting very drunk one night and repeatedly running at a brick wall as he wanted to run through it! Even at the time we both felt it was a 'good' Christmas - one of those that stick in your memory forever.
Berko Boy
Sounds like you had some good times; I’m glad 👍🏻
Berko Boy. I'm sorry for the loss of your mate. Bless you both for what you did for your service to your county-from a Yank.
I'm crying uncontrollably right now. I was born 1971. This music (80's) is life. I watched my wife and mother pass away just a month apart from each other in 2013. Then my oldest brother lost his father, then his oldest son, and finally he himself. And now my own health is failing. I find comfort on coming on youtube to listen to the 80's music I grew up on, although it can make me tear up. I long for the old days when life was so much more simple and happy.
God bless you. My dad was was born the same year as you. I have sadly lost him and I listen to his music collection. Please keep the faith. I’m sending healing thoughts from England. Where there’s life, there’s hope. Be strong.
Remember there is a God
@@TomRipley7350strength brother
interested in a new suit for tomorrow Mr. Eastwood?
Wow 😢. My Heart goes out to You at such a difficult time in Your Life. 🙏🏾
I turned 50 today. I still remember the 80s music in its glory. Great music
Superbe musique en 1980 que de souvenirs. Plus rien aujourd'hui 😢
Yes mate. What great times they were, smokey dancefloors and the smell of Brut 33 or Old Spice wafting in the air.
@Farrakh-ch2ti Yeah, wow, I so miss those great, much more simple times, born in October 62, the 80's were my fantastic, youthful time of experience and learning. What a great time to have lived in that era as a young man! All best wishes to you and your family, hope life has been good to you, thanks for sharing about this iconic, magical music era! Mark Rayner.
@Farrakh-ch2tidont forget Drakkar
@@angrygreek3969 Yes bro, Drakkar Noir
I love the 80s man. I'm 16 right now and growing up is realizing how much better this generation's musical taste was. I hope no one forgets how amazing 70s and 80s music is.
and the best part is you still have much to listen to like me! Enjoy the musical Journey!
The 1980s was a mystery wrapped up inside of an enigma decorated with style, glamour, uniqueness like no other time ever felt , enjoyed or lived.
Perfectly said
@@greekb.9321 how so true
Sounds like a line from JFK
Never will be repeated either:)
Lets not forget soul Train. (70s 80s and all through the 90s )im wondering did they ever had human league on.🤔 i think they did.
That synth drop at the start always gives me chills
Me to and iam 64
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it makes my balls shiver in delight
the chorus?
I Agree ❤
There are certain 80's songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.
What are your other 80's songs?? Put the playlist 🖤
what other songs??
Facts!
@MLWATKK One of the best songs in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I'm not born in the 80's so this was the only way I found this song. :)
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Happy birthday to English singer, songwriter and record producer Phil Oakey, born October 2, 1955, solo artist and lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of English synth-pop band The Human League.😍🤩❤
1980's we laugh about it but British Music brought us some of the best groups and solo artists ever !!
wow !! what a decade !!
who laughs about the 80's? I want names
You know a bunch of morons
Definitely!!
***** why the fuck are you here if you don't like it? Gtfo
sorry to pee on your parade but 80's produced more stars in a decade than any other decade to date !! As for your 60's music theory even though there was good music to a point.It was not at the amount of the 80's !! and many became household names.....
Its 2024 and I'm still listening to the 80s. They don't make music like this anymore 😢
They defintely don`t ,the music was SO good it`s hard to pick out just one song.
Is anyone talking about how well-written this song is? How many songs are there where you get both perspectives like this? It’s really a masterpiece.
Came here to say the same thing... a masterpiece of lyrical story telling.
They waste NO time in setting up the story and bringing you into it, then (seamlessly) comes the other side and both are relatable.
"Paradise by the dashboard light" also comes to mind as a terrific "back and forth" relating both sides of a story. Also an EPIC song.
Gotye Somebody that I used to know?
@@CraftAero Liberty X: Thinking it Over. Ha. 😁
Private Number by William Bell and Judy Clay.
I also think the storytelling Is really cool. Sadly i think that girl's part could have been better. Feels uninspired
I fell in love with this song long ago, when I couldn't understand English properly. Now that I do, the lyrics hit so hard...
I can remember literally hearing this for the first time in 1982...the synth sounds were utterly new; there was almost nothing on the radio that sounded like this. One of the best pop hooks ever written. And excellent haircuts that set the trend for years to come!
Amazing
Same.
During the 1970s I and a schoolfriend were big fans of Vangelis and Tomita and thought electric guitars were completely old hat. However, in the early 1980s it was amazing to see and hear synths go from a niche instrument few musicians could afford to the mainstream.
p.s. Do you realise this was from The Human Leagues third album. However, both they, and Heaven 17 who were the "musical" part of the group got fed up with being niche and went for a full on Pop sound. It obviously worked as this was the U.K.s 1981 Christmas Number 1 single back when that actually meant something.
This song officially started the Second British Invasion in the US
i first heard this when i was in hs; im varely getting aquainted with every song from my birth era✌🏻
The synthesizer ruled 80s music .....im so glad it did 💯
Synth music is the best....
Woot!
no, it didn't. It only ruled your mind. The guitar, the sitar, sampling, backmasking, and digital all existed. The thing that was super cool about the 80's, is that everything and every genre was were all exploding, all at once. I guess you missed that experience. For instance, Metallica and Skinny Puppy were both born in the 80's. Everything was available, everything was out there. I'm actually kind of sad you missed that. And glad I didn't.
I love It
You love this song because the 80s ruled.Doesn’t matter if it’s 2054. The 80s rule, enough said.
80's will always rule 😎
Best variety of music ever was back in the 80's. One of my all time favorite bands, glad theyre still performing today because good music never gets old.
I feel so lucky to have grown up in the 80's. What an awesome time.
I wanna go back... Teenage...
Same...I couldn't agree with you more! 😊
I'm still in the eighties
Me too!!😂
So lucky to have free access to this music in the 2020's
I'm going back to the 80's. I've had enough of these crazy times.
Same here.
The 80s were even crazier
I hear that!
ME TOO, TAKE ME BACK!
me too
This song is so extremely well written, produced, and performed. The chord arrangement, 4/4 thump, bass groove, sound selection, call and response lyrics, storytelling. It's all excellent.
Excellently described. Reminds me of why I liked H2O, Animotion, Prince, and many others of 80's fame and fortune.
It has come to pass😮 a jingle😢
esse cara me ligou
This song is excelent. Of the better of the 80's.
All electronic too.
Nothing compares to living in the 80s best decade!!!
❤❤😊
The starting of civilisational decadence, but it was delicious ! 😂
To be in your 20s in the 80s: Cheap booze, fun girls, bands & music everywhere...
I hear ya,I was 20 in 82@@voiceofexperience
@@altor1964 Yes it was!! Debauchery at its finest!
Songs like these still put tears in your eyes, because those times are gone.
And they went so fast. And we took it for granted.
@@easternyellowjacket276indeed
@@easternyellowjacket276 I agree with both of you
Who's still listening in 2024 great music and watching this video ❤❤❤
me !!! from CCS Caracas... 28 march 2024
👍🏿
One of my favs 🌹
@@hollynonya6991 👍🏿
Yes me listening 15th July 2024 from Swansea South Wales UK 🏴
THe 80's everyone talks about.........These are the tunes right here.
Hell yeah
yes
For ever 80's . . Desde bs as Argentina
If you’re reading this… You have Awesome music taste!!!
Thanks! I always knew it!!! ;-)
A
I like this Song. It's a masterpiece
2021. Here I am. STILL listening to this song. Big part of my youth. Miss the good old days.
Still here
2021 & and forgot great tunes from my teens like these, yes i want you
January 31/2021 😉🤩
Add me to it... 2021.
Listen to a LOT of Roxette, George Michael, Prince. So much diverse music. I loved going out dancing! Can't to this stuff now!
The thing that freaks me out the most is that this song is 40 years old and I remember it vividly as as a 10 year-old kid. Someone telling me about a 40 year-old song when I was 10 would be someone telling me about a song from World War Two.
80's baby for life! They had great songs back then-oh the good old days~
:)
Pop new wave wow
This song makes me feel like a 15 year old again!
I had the same thought pattern. Music 30 years ago from TODAY is not TOO far removed from what we have today; Grunge, Hop/Hop, Pop, Rock. More or less on the same keel. But 30 years before from when I graduated high school in 1988, you were talking about a whole different world from '88: Kingston Trio, Chantilly lace, King Kreole, and Bobby Darin. It might as well have been from another planet!
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change it for the world!🇬🇧
Yeah,
Thought it would last 4ever.
Born in 1985... whenever I listen to a '80s song like this one, it seems I know everything from that decade for certain! Indescribable sensation ;-D
I feel sorry for todays youth. So much they’re missing out on…
@@michaelkangas3437 you're right there brother
@@michaelkangas3437 Like what? lol
Excelente, pura belleza y felicidad 😊
I shed a tear now because I never got to experience the 80s and am so grateful for my amazing mother to show me all her favorite 80s songs. She constantly tells me, my brothers, and sisters how she wish she could take us back to the 80s because of how incredible it was. Thank you mother you never cease to amaze me, because of you i dive deeper and deeper into 80s music everyday.
Not just the 80s music.(which is the best part of it) but the movies, TV, life itself and innocence. Long live the 80s.. Born in 1985
Send me a playlist haha
i was there
I wish more kids appreciated their nostalgic parents the way that you do! You belong in the 80s!
It was a special time...before smart phones, personal computers (they were just starting to come out), and no Internet. People related to each other better, and weren't totally lost in their own little worlds....and then all of these music styles were popular all at the same time, from New Wave to Punk and ska and glam rock and doom glamor (early goth). Magical time to be a teenager for sure.
Love how this song tells the story from both sides.
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too.
I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even then I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good at times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do
@@mathewhorodner2000The song is messed up
@@cursedpyrogaming5176 The persona of the singer is that of a stalker. Creepy.
@@mathewhorodner2000 Sounds like a few of my past dating experiences . Once the money is rolling in for themselves they "Dont need you anymore".
Whatever...
@@debrajones7344 stalker? no. Abusive partner? yes. The line "...you better change it back or we will both be sorry" literally is something an abusive partner would tell someone.
"Don't forget it's me who put you where you are now; and I can put you back there too." --- one of my favorite lines in a song, such insecurity and resentment and bitterness!
THEN she turns around and says "I still love you" but it's time to move on. Gets me in the feels every time.
If you are not a psychiatrist you damn sure sound like one
And pain.
PAIN my ex and I used to sing it on his car 🥺
@swlinphx don't forget the line, "you think you can change your mind? You better change it back or we will both be sor-ry" #murder-suicide 🤣🤣🤣
I’m 14 and I love 80s music. This is my favorite song!!
@@Zoomieb Great taste in music!
@@alicemcleod6149 thank you!!
thompson twins,aeiou by freeze, howARD JONES,DEPECHE MODE .
Terrific taste. Absolutely terrific
I am 39,very fine song
This song was literally played on 5 different radio stations in Chicago at the same time every 2 hours in 1981-82. I was 14.
NEWZZCAFE that's kind of weird
wow 14 years old and livin in the 80s. Thats my dream :(
I remember those times.
When I was 14 The Kinks Lola was constantly on replay. I know every word..
I am jealous bro instead we hear drake every 2 mins on every radio station
As someone born in 2011
I honestly want to go back in time and experience times back then
They just look really cool
Trust me, you would hate it (particularly in the UK). No jobs, constant strikes. No internet, no computers, no smartphones, no smart watches, no smart ANYTHING & a choice from just THREE channels on TV.
If your only concept of the 1980's is from music vids & Hollywood movies from the time, I can see how it might look glamorous, but for those of us outside of London who lived through it, it was anything but!
No it was better
And in 1981, everyone was wishing it was the 60s. Grass is always greener and all that.
It was truly a great time to grow up in,the 80s for me turned child in to man in 10 short years but I knew it was special at the time but now realise how great it all was,no mobile phones,you used a payphone in a box,arranged to meet your mates after school on your bmx,ate as much junk as you wanted and didn't gain weight! Lol. The best of times believe me!
@@richardhaywood4123 thank you for sharing!
A perfect electronic track that still sounds amazing - 40 years later!!. Brilliant tune.
You mean 30 years later I was born in 1989
@@alenaduplantier4505 this song came out in 1981 though so 41 years ago
Ohh I see
Yess 👏🏼👏🏼
@@alenaduplantier4505 Bye Alena from Lucky , Italy. 💖✌👀
último dia de 2024 e ouvindo essa maravilha de música, obrigado senhor por mais esse ano que está no fim 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
80s music, clothing and hair styles...simply the best
As others say,the 80s was a fantastic time to be young.The music was simply the best too.
Im not even an 80's kid but even i know it was the best decade for music and the movies were not too shabby either!
You obviously never heard of lil pump or 6ix9ine🤦♀️ smh you guys are too busy living in the past when everthing is better now
@@blank6735 music is trash now and the times we are in sucks!
@@blank6735 I really hope you're being sarcastic.
I was born in 1983 and remembered hearing all these songs while my mother was getting ready for work. I listen to this playlist when I'm in a bad mood and it ALWAYS lifts my spirit! Remember the awesome 80's!
Chris Ostrowski yup. I was born 1982 and remember a lot of these songs. Good times.
"no me quieres? , sabes que no lo creo cuando escucho que no me necesitas!!"
I was born in 97 and I agree 80's music is awesome, this happens to be one of my favorite 80's songs.
99’ bro 80s songs is so fire 🔥
My favorite song of the whole decade!
I’m still with the company I started working for in 97 😂
One of the greatest songs of all time. You can't think of 80's without this song.
Maybe you can't, but I can.
Timeless, just like Blue Monday with New Order
Raiden324 absolutely you can't think of the 80s without thinking of this great record,and so many others.
@@__MjG__😢
I feel like I was born in the wrong decade
I miss the 1980's ...I graduated from high school and got my first driver's license and my first car and my first real job then and my first apartment then. It was the decade of growing up for me. I can't believe 1980 was forty years ago. Where has the time gone? In another decade I will be ready for Social Security. I get older but the music videos of the 1980's stay young and fresh to me.
I hear you brother, I turn 60 this year. When I hear music like this I feel like I am in my 20s again. The one mercy of getting older is that the bad parts of any part of your life are forgotten. The '80s now seem to be a glorious period of freedom, casual sex and a pocket full of money with no mortgage, daughter, aged parent and wife to support.
I was born in Dec 71 and to me music grew old with me as a kid in the 70's a teen in the 80's and like you said got all my first things except in the 90's .During this era music sort of got dark dealing with issues as I did. Now I am going to be 49 in 5 weeks but I wish I was older because life was better back then I just didn't know it was . Take care 💕
I'm young, but I listen to all these tunes half the time. The same thing is gonna happen to me in 40 years with the other music I like now lol. Nostalgia is insane
yeah, it's fucking ridiculous
I don't know
Love it. Teenager in the 70s. Went thru my twenties in the 80s. Loved both decades. Everything was so simple then. People were nice and had decent morals.
Ur lucky that you were alive then. I wish I was alive in that time range
1980s = HIV was "cocktailed"
Bro same, I’m 22 I’m like damn I’m jealous
Born in sixty six so all and only music from the eighties entered my world!
if I had to choose which era I prefere(d) now, but also during the late eighties and early ninetees when I studied at college/university,, my choice would not be the violent by cocaine dominated 'ninetees', but hands down 'the 'sixties' better known as the flower power decade where pill popping acid dropping peace loving joints smoking hippies organized music and sex swing parties! But the EIGHTIES are the bomb!
Totally agree. None of these crazy acts of 2024 in the media. Take me back to the eighties anytime. In my 20's then
Unless you were a kid in 1981/82..you will never understand the greatness or influence this song had on the whole decade. Just amazing
huge influence it sort of took over
I was 14 years old in 1981 when this song was released. Heard this song on the radio back then in 1981.
Wouldn't go that far but a great piece all the same.
I was born in 1978, probably was 5 when I started getting lookin mags, had a huge collection at about 8
1 of the greatest songs of the 80 for real... bless up
Those synths, that eyeliner, the hairstyles, the girls singing and Phil as the lead - they made musical magic not only with this song, but the album(Dare) as well.
I'm still having goosebumps and the song stopped 10 minutes ago.
Why only 44 mill views, why not 1 billion ? This is the best of the 80's.
Give it time, my friend; surely, it will get tons more views.
More equals better?
+Lupe Vélez very good but not as good as the sound of the crowd
This is the best of all time...
I prefer to listening at home with no ads and Original CD Quality.
I wasn’t born in this time, when I was younger I didn’t understand, but now im glad I was raised on this.
This song reminds me of my dad. We used to jam to it in his car. Miss him.
Sounds like a good memory :)
Aww. Good times, I'm sure 😊
:-)
:)
Joanna R txt
80's music is the best!
Yes sir
Nick Cathelyn heck yeah
Nick Cathelyn I prefer late 90's and early 00's
Of course, I'm agree
marionette gamer you look fucking 11 kid, most of the kids here just want to be called special i guess becouse they like 80's music
let's all live in the 80's permanently!!
+Jorge Moran i grew up in the 80 s the best times ever
MY vision of Heaven.
+Jorge Moran From what I've seen and heard from my mom, living in the 80's would be fun.
But living in the 50's, now THAT would be interesting...
+Jorge Moran no.
pcocker100 Eh, we all got an opinion.
Con esre tema.es mi maxima expresion.
Music these days never compares to the 60s, 70s, 80s and even the 90s ✌🏻
True.
20th Century FTW!
There’s a few artists that have that older feel to them.
because now it's just manufactured noise, no longer music
Trouble is, all the good music has been made. There are no boundaries to push. Music is so easy to make and release to the public these days it has gotten lazy.
November 2024! Always a classic
😮😮😮
Love it
Hell Yeah !!! I bought this 45 when I was 17. I am now 60 !!! :)
@@ventues9751 👏
Makes me feel like a little kid again.
The song's distinctive intro
The song's arrangement
The very direct "stalkerish" lyrics
The brilliant vocals
The beautiful Rover SD1 car
What does this all add up to?
The perfect 80s hit!
Just like a beautiful flower be careful not
To touch the torns they look beautiful and apart oeverything if you look at the two women in the human league And I'm not being sexiest now for a weak man when it comes down to putting up a fight if there looking for something
Those two women In the human league are Soo beautiful to believe And there's two of them talk about driv we you mad
Don’t forget that black jenson intercepter
The black car is a SAAB 99 Turbo, not a Jensen Interceptor.
That's a Rover? I thought it looked like a Citroen BX or something. It's kinda uncanny.
Im only 31 but my mum had this and all the other 80's classics playing on repeat while i grew up
80s and the 90s are the best time periods to be alive, even though i wasn’t born then i still find everything about them magical!
I was born in 1982, the year this song hit #1 on the charts. Growing up in the '80s and '90s really was a great time. So many fun pop culture moments. Music, TV, movies. Toys such as the Care Bears, Smurfs, Ninja Turtles, Teddy Ruxpin... Fun times 🙂
Any decade between 1950 and 2000 was great.
@@brendaquick6598 The big band music of the '40s was great, too!
I was born 1988 and love 80s and 90s music. Much better than the modern music they play nowadays with mumble rap lol
@@mumofthreekids3428 Yes! that’s what i’m saying but all my family and friends say my music taste is horrible since i just “live in the past”, well what’s wrong with that i say! wise everyone around me is listening to “todays” music i’m listening to music 30+ years older than when i was born haha!
having an 80's jam session right now, NO REGRETS.
@TiqqerGoRawr
Mee too, tho I was born in 2011, so yea. Also, are you having an 80’s jam session in 2024?
The Human League are one of the most underrated groups in history!!
Despite being slagged off by the music press, they kept going, and have produced countless classics!!
I'm pleased to say they are still going strong, and sounds just as good now as they did in the 80s!!
Thank you all!!
@Joe Owen I have lost count of how many times I have seen them live and each has been a good show. The funny thing is back in the 1980s they never toured as it was difficult with synths and they didn't need to.
p.s. A US Billboard number one with Human proves they certainly weren't / aren't a one hit wonder.
p.p.s Ever heard of Depeche Mode ? Another synth band who have had a bit of success.
Sorry my english it s not good my you express all the generation of 80 s want to say..thanks for type that words
No they aren't.
bro what?
Underrated? Come on, that's such a cliché. Human League were big.
It is so fun to go back and hear the 80's tunes we grew up listening to. Much Music, the videos, JD Roberts and everyone standing at the window because some huge band was coming to Toronto.
I see JD Roberts on the FOX channel now. Times have changed but the music lives on.
I wish 80's culture lasted longer.
It did, It was the early-mid 90s.
Me too.
@@awalkingman83 honestly that's not really plausible. For example you can watch or listen to 80s music and movies, but there is nothing new being produced. It's like saying you love the 20s, but that culture is as much gone as the 80s.
What do you mean it has except we are older and not as attractive.
@@armandoreyna9228 It's not about attraction, it's about fun.
Are, yes, classic early 80s British synth-pop at its best.
Its no “Fade to grey” but its Incredible.
The Brits and Americans ruled rock in the 80s. But I have to say, the Brits had some very good rock songs in the 80s.
@@theamerican3970 yes yankee boy 🇬🇧
Excelent song!!
What state would music be in without the brits massive contribution???!!!! God save the brits!!!
The 80's is a phase we'll never get to live again...
Soul in this song. Soul only attract souls. This is magic formula and formula of magic.....
Greatest song of my teen years, I'm 55 now. Thank you for one of the best songs ever!
56...Great times
53 years old, best times in my life!
Sad just heard Lisa Marie Presley has passed
@@8bert9 52 in Feb here 🤜🤛 such good years man and the middle school dances were good times plus I truly believe our Gen had the best movies too not just music
55 but it really does feel like yesterday.
42 years from the release day ... and still one of my favorite songs! Magnificient! 🙂
IKR, I was 18 years old when it was released
One of the best old song ever
It has such a dark brooding undertone. That dark synth is brilliant.
Sim ate aqui no brasil t um doido que cirte pra caramba
I was born in 87 and still heard these songs because of my mom . What it must've been like to hear so many hit songs released day after day
It was simply put crazy! Seriously day after day just incredible music.
I was born in 69........HAD TO BE THERE! lol......Oh man , where do I even start.......
The 80's had and will ALWAYS have the BEST music. Every Genre of Music in the 80's had TOP Ten HIT's... From Disco to Pop to Jazz to Reggae to Heavy Metal to R&B to Soul to Rock... All the Music was DOPE!!!
Is this the greatest pop song ever? I can't think of a better one. Iconic,fashionable and great song lyrics. Can't believe it's 40 years old.
Is it just me, or is the guy a controlling jerk?
It knocked me out in 1981 during the second wave of Britpop, when I was in junior high. We were hit with a blast of groundbreaking music and the birth of god knows how many new genres-New Wave, punk, synth pop, alternative rock, the beginnings of Prince’s Minneapolis sound, the birth of Hip Hop-not to mention the launch of the MTV era (when it was relevant and new). Also in 1981! And it seemed to last forever, but vanished all too fast with the introduction of disposable music-ProTools, low-fi downloads and the demise of music stores and Death of the Album.
The thing that makes listening to this stuff a bit bittersweet is that I was too naive at the time to realize how lucky I was to be young, alive and a music fanatic during such a flood of innovation and creativity, the likes of which I’ll probably never see again in my lifetime.
I’ve tried to describe that period to my nieces and nephews, and I’ve managed to turn them on to a lot of music from the eighties. But I can’t take them to see Prince and Sheila E. on New Year’s Eve in 1984 as I did in tenth grade, or describe the smell of the aisles and aisles of 12 inch singles at Bill’s Records and Tapes, or what it was like to drive around with the top down listening to “The Adventure Club” on THE EDGE 94.5 on winter Sunday nights in Dallas. I can’t explain the thrill of finding an obscure 12” of Depeche Mode’s “Shake the Disease” during my summer trip to Berlin in 1985 or what it was like to make fake IDs and dance to “The Politics of Dancing” underage at the Starck Club (that SOUND system! The MIDI-synched laser beams plunging down to the dance floor! A substance-free high like no other…).
The payoff is seeing 150 million views of this vid and the thousands of comments assuring me that legions of others get it. To the folks who voted it down, share the music experience that gave YOU the thrill that mine did-music is the ultimate social catalyst, so pay it forward! ✌️
It's one of my favourites, stood in Bessemer pub (mainly 80's) in Sheffield and this comes on, what an atmosphere. 80's Sheffield band, in an 80's pub in Sheffield and everyone knows the words. Brilliant !
Это не поп, а новая волна 😎😉
This and West End Girls I think are the top ones
Great dance song from 'Human League', 1981.
George michael
Roberto Pereira 1
Roberto Pereira it's also a great duet song too!!!! XD
Glee?
Roberto Pereira True!
From 1981 and now its 2020
This will forever be a classic. Next year it will be 40 years since its release and nowadays people can't even listen to pop for more than weeks.
The lyrics of that song is so interessing. The story is really sad and creepy but what I love the most is that we get the two side of it. And thanks to it we can clearly see that they're both not good person wich make them realy realistic.
Why is she bad? She may have been using him to get ahead but that’s not apparent in what she says. She may just feel like he’s controlling her career too much and she needs to feel more autonomous.
@@juliahello6673 oh I'm sorry I didn't meant to say that she was bad, just not the best person in the world
this might be the most 80's thing I've ever seen, and I love it!
Being a little kid playing with my toys while my Mom kept playing songs such as this ..even tho u didn't payed attention on listening but those songs just gets inside your Brain and soul and until now being 20 years old all i listen to is those type of music cause its just true music and quality.
I completely understand where you're coming from, I'm twenty-three these songs aren't part of our generation and other older folks would say something along the lines of "you weren't around for these songs" true but the songs where still around us thanks to our parents. When I hear these older songs and others I still feel a better connection and understanding compared to today's pop music, call me crazy but that's how I see it.
Yes, well said. i'm the same age and definitely as much brainwashed as you! Because my mom was a eighties kid I absorbed all these synthpop songs. They're overplayed on certain radiostations with a hugh audience bounded by nostaglia and have always sounded so familiar, like I knew them from a long time ago. So i asked her about it and she plead guilty :3
Couldn't be any more right, I'm only 17 and I like and relate to the 80's music more than today's music. I grew up listening to my nan and my parents always playing 80's music and that's why I love it so much. It's just pure, good quality, real music.
well said, its so awesome to see that a 20 year old is into this music - it is simply one of the best. its great to be open minded to different forms of music
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As a German teenager, I found this video fascinating. this sound - simply indescribably great. The protagenists had an incredible charisma on me. I wish something like that still exists today
merkel and biden made sure it won't happen
Was only 5 as preschooler back then still listen to the song gives me goosebumps. Wishing children even that age and kindergarten cut down on dirty Hip Hop music.
I guess this band and song still exists! Elsewhere on this channel they posted a 2021 version of the hit.
It's a little more gothic but Blutengel has kept this kind of thing going, both English and German songs and all of them are great.
You may want to check out Drab Majesty
In 1981, when this song was released, I was in the second grade of elementary school.
The Human League defined how LEGENDARY and IMMORTAL the 80's music is going to be.
The Human League burst the dam wide open for the Second British Invasion to happen, with the likes of Duran Duran, The Culture Club, Wham (with George Michael), the Eurythmics (with Annie Lenox) and others following the wave of change.
The Thompson Twins,..,.😊.
Damn right!
If you are listening this in 2019 you have awesome taste in music
Listen from Brazil.
The guyver thanks you too! :3
GenX, baby!!
why is everyone so self-congratulatory??
Here I am, and I totally agree my taste in music is superb lol
For a kid from the California suburbs this was most of our first exposure to British New Wave in 1981 and it's still a great song 41 years later.
In the UK we never, ever used the term 'New Wave' in the 80s. Or 'Synth-Pop'.
It was post-punk, New Romantic, electronic, alternative, synth occasionally (for this sort of music, I mean. Not even going to start on rock, metal, ska, two-tone, funk, pop etc etc). By the late 80s 'indie' was creeping in.
@@clairenoon4070 I'm aware of all the different subgroups and names but in America Alternative radio stations were just beginning to pop up in the major cities and markets so it made it easier for them to lump them all into one name for their new listeners and that was New Wave.
"Don't you want be Baby, don't you want me OOOOOOOOhhhhhhh......................."
@@clairenoon4070 Definitely New Romantic. Duran Duran's first hit single "Planet Earth" actually namechecks the term.
@@clairenoon4070 From what I’ve read the League were mostly described as synth/electro pop. New wave was more for punky pop music like The Jam and Buzzcocks.
This song will always be emotional for me I had an unexpected one night stand with my twin flame but it didn' t work out because I said too soon I love you and I ' ve send too long messages to him. I cried a lot for this and this song reminds me at this evening
35 years on this is a great song I was 7 then
Sexy Curvy Girl 1974 same! 1974 💕
72 close! Great music growing up.
Sexy Curvy Girl 1974 you old asf
Sexy Curvy Girl 1974 sshh it reminds me of how old I am...
music in the 80s made our life awesome
A music video within a music video, within a music video... Damn...
Inception in the '80s.
+DigitalForumUser
8cepti0n
+Bavarian Banshee Matrix
+Bavarian Banshee 2cept 4me
the person in the car at0:42 is sooo hot
You know i dont believe you when you say that you don't need me
100% songwriting perfection 🥰
When songs were coming from the heart. No obscenities, love stories. Close to reality 💔
My era, My decade, My growing up and listening to this and all kinds of 80’s music. This was the golden age of music from R&B, Rock, New Wave, House, Punk, etc
Muy buena epoca, siempre sera recordada...
The 80s music was so damn eclectic. There was such a variety of different styles all at the same time on the charts. The era was packed with incredible music. Sorry to sound like a broken record but today's music is God awful by comparison. So many of todays song are so similar its sad. The same two ghost writers have been responsible for the majority of pop music's recent hits. Its sad...basically two middle age guys are responsible for many of the songs by Taylor Swift, Rhianna, Beyonce etc etc.. The same chord progression, no build up no bridge just crap...
Metal too
@@LS-ti1rz Your comment is very true and you don't sound like broken record to me.
@@helenakatic1690 thank you. I just can't believe the disparity of talent between the 80s music artist compared to todays. It's sad.. Especially how diverse the music scene was. On any given week we could have a metal song, a pop song , a club song, a rap song, a new wave song, and even songs that parodied other hits"Weird Al" on Billboard's top 200. You name, reggae yup, that too...
80s Music: They knew we'd need it in the future.
this is the sort of song you replay and it still rocks, this song cannot get old ❤
Love it now as much as i did then. Never dies.
90% of what I listen to is 80's music, with just a few modern songs.
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too.
Eyes of a Stranger is another song like that. I play it now and it sounds just as fresh as it did the first time I heard it.
Still to this day one of the best opening riffs to a song please take me back to the 80s
Released November 27, 1981. Still brilliant nearly 37 years later.
mark perry wow! I've always thought this song was late 80's, I don't know why... Thanks for pointing it out.
Thx nice info
mark perry classic and creepy 😅😍👍
I put this on my own Vice City radio station. Did speaks and all. I like the song better than "fascination", maybe because the melancholic tone. Or Maybe because I am hopeful romantic.
Number 1 the day I was born. I have a special bond with it.
I walked into a McDonalds on Queensway street near the Bayswater tube stop... and this was playing over the speakers in May 2024... now everytime I hear this song i think of my trip to London 😁🇬🇧
I love how the 80's had synth sounds mastered better than we do now ffs lmao. Truly the greatest time for music ever no question! Pop was just transformed into this unstoppable world wide sensation, Hip-Hop/Rap is just born, metal is taking off plus rock and roll is spiraling out with all of these subgenres. Punk rock took the world by storm at this point. Last but not least electronic music has started making it its way over from Europe. The 80's is like the renaissance of music imo.
thats because most of the mastering now is done in the computer
with plugins not real analogue hardware the sound of today is degraded as result of going digital
they should have stuck with analogue
This is considered new wave, right? Or was that something different? I always thought new wave was like a mix of traditional pop, with punk, and disco elements.
It was awesome, just awesome.
@@opticalman6417 Nonsense. It has absolutely nothing to do with that.
I bought the single of this brilliant song back at Christmas 1981. 2024 and I'm still listening. A classic.