The Call - The Walls Came Down (1983)

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  • @juanitadiana
    @juanitadiana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +711

    I produced and edited this video and 2 others for The Call. I love this post but it’s out of sync and drives me crazy. The little boy that appears in the video is Michael Been’s son Robert who is now the lead singer for the band Black Rebel Motorcycle club. Can’t believe how relevant these lyrics are 37 years later. LOVED THE CALL RIP MIchael Been

    • @theresaq8321
      @theresaq8321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      So what do you think of Bruce Springsteens new song "Ghosts?" The riff sounds sooooo similar.

    • @juanitadiana
      @juanitadiana 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@theresaq8321 I thought so too. Especially the end. I thought it was just me that noticed! Thanks for writing.

    • @theresaq8321
      @theresaq8321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@juanitadiana I am glad that a pro noticed it too. I ain't mad: they are both great songs about different matters. Nevertheless....

    • @thitchin
      @thitchin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Be VERY proud of your work.
      This video will go down as an important piece of 20th Century culture for reasons I don't have time or health to explain.
      Thank you for coming forward some 37 years later.
      Brava!
      👻

    • @hoderharris
      @hoderharris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Excellent work on the video. These lyrics are so preciant. Do you remember working with them? Always thought they were underrated.

  • @Ludlam19
    @Ludlam19 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    40 years later and this song still sounds soo good.

    • @jr_gotrocks4796
      @jr_gotrocks4796 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      And it couldn't be more relevant to today.

    • @okrajoe
      @okrajoe 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So true!

    • @GrayNeko
      @GrayNeko 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is what pop could have been.

  • @andydkid
    @andydkid ปีที่แล้ว +282

    "I don't think there are any Russians and there aint no Yanks just corporate criminals playing with tanks" A line that transcends time!

    • @XI_Daisy_XI
      @XI_Daisy_XI ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ✨🌌🎶✌😊I read this just as the song came to those lyrics,
      nice synch!🌌✨

    • @thomasdwyer6128
      @thomasdwyer6128 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Spot on lyrics because they're true!

    • @yanasungar9000
      @yanasungar9000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Wake up! ❤❤❤❤

    • @shantenafreeman8908
      @shantenafreeman8908 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Especially with all these "wars" going on now 😓🕊️

    • @beverleecambronne6599
      @beverleecambronne6599 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I don't think I can dance to this. Lol. So true. Terrorists playing on fears. USA

  • @0159ralph
    @0159ralph หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I was 19 when this song came out. Now I'm 60 I cant believe how time flies...

  • @daytondave100
    @daytondave100 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    It is an added treat to see Garth Hudson from The Band working the keyboards on this song.

    • @Texeyevideo
      @Texeyevideo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@scotte3838Click on Garth's name in the Band listing then look under
      The Band Reformed
      1980s-1990s.

    • @squeakeththewheel
      @squeakeththewheel 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I've loved this song since it came out. I didn't know Garth was playing the great organ part.

    • @user-hd8sb9cc8g
      @user-hd8sb9cc8g 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Looks like a professor

    • @texb69
      @texb69 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for pointing that out. All these years, and I never knew. ❤

    • @RobGeorge29
      @RobGeorge29 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yep! He produced the album!

  • @alanross3435
    @alanross3435 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Always loved this song! I’m 76 and still listen to it at least once a week! 👍🏻☮✌🏻

    • @marilyntape508
      @marilyntape508 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I’m 72 but love dancing to this song 😊💯🇦🇺

    • @MattKarenStabale
      @MattKarenStabale ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I luved it then I luv it now

    • @marksimons9359
      @marksimons9359 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@marilyntape508 If they knew it was a Christian band do you think mtv would have played it? 🔥 👑 🕊

    • @mikelmart
      @mikelmart ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That and "Let the Day Begin".

    • @lucyn2000
      @lucyn2000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@marksimons9359good question. I'd like to think they would.

  • @geneawisea2708
    @geneawisea2708 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    One of the most Underrated Bands of all time.

  • @bigguys45s29
    @bigguys45s29 5 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    Peaked at just No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983. Great song, should’ve been a MUCH bigger hit.

    • @Roxy-ch4gv
      @Roxy-ch4gv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We played the heck out of this at my record store

    • @davidbutton8497
      @davidbutton8497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep. Play it about. 120.dB. Around a fire 🔥 pit. With the best company. No. Rules. 🤪✈️🏏🤪👠🐺👠🎩

    • @sarah2.017
      @sarah2.017 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I heard it today (9/18/2022) at the grocery store. Great music is timeless. (ISTR that it made a bit of a comeback when the Berlin Wall collapsed 6 years later.)

    • @milancoric8787
      @milancoric8787 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree! Great song!

    • @matthewmirande1540
      @matthewmirande1540 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was likely too political and the band relatively unknown still in the States - incredible song.

  • @TheBaconeaterz
    @TheBaconeaterz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Still sounds fresh as in 2024 cheers from Australia

  • @mikesbeard2058
    @mikesbeard2058 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Remember when music was good?

  • @gary6449
    @gary6449 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Hi - 2023 here checking in ! 40yrs *freaking* later, and this song is equally relevant NOW as it was then.. Just amazing how TIMELESS this is !

  • @keithbrown3703
    @keithbrown3703 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Garth Hudson on keyboards is Awesome!

    • @dspf68
      @dspf68 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Garth is a bona fide Hall of Famer! Take that for what the HOF is worth, but The Band are are one of the greats!

    • @kurtheimerman8267
      @kurtheimerman8267 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hell yeah he is

  • @wenbudro7597
    @wenbudro7597 6 ปีที่แล้ว +303

    It's 2018- and this song is more relevant than ever. RIP Michael

    • @auroraborealis8254
      @auroraborealis8254 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      More relevant than ever. It was taped at the Agora Ballroom in New Haven, CT. Pat Benatar played there a lot .

    • @i_love_rescue_animals
      @i_love_rescue_animals 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      wen budro Boy, and how! I was just listening to this song (before coming to TH-cam) - and I was thinking the exact same thing!

    • @fartknocker8363
      @fartknocker8363 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      No doubt brother....let's end this fascist shit.

    • @vambo13257
      @vambo13257 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You are an idiot, the wall was the Berlin wall in Germany. Reagan got the wall taken down-we need a wall at the Mexican border!

    • @FamousDavisPro
      @FamousDavisPro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Sorry man, this song was not about the Berlin Wall. Michael Been was a devout Christian, and this song references the walls of Jericho in the old testament ("they blew the horns".) The symbolism of those walls was that even though the Israelites were proficient warriors, the fortress city presented a new kind of anxiety, an impenetrable wall that could only be removed by God. This song was Michael's way of expressing his belief that even though you may be anxious about the current political climate, God is sovereign over all.

  • @springsource
    @springsource 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "They all just stood there laughing, they're not laughing anymore"

  • @robertglare9019
    @robertglare9019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    I can see myself now on the dancefloor dancing to this and so many other wonderful songs of the 80s. So glad to be part of an unforgettable era of music

    • @rikkousa
      @rikkousa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Cosmic Apostate I have no issue with Santa…or God. But I know who the enemy is…

    • @olderdude2755
      @olderdude2755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i totaly agree ..what a great decade

    • @robert9783
      @robert9783 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was actually on the dance floor when they played at the agora ballroom in New Haven, CT.

    • @mtadams2009
      @mtadams2009 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@robert9783 Good times for sure. Lots of great shows at the ballroom for sure. Take care

    • @alic9353
      @alic9353 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Those days are GONE !!! ....we are truly in the End Times ..... I'm trying to wrap my pathetic human brain around it and Get right with GOD ....hopefully its not too late !!!....

  • @impactisimminent8509
    @impactisimminent8509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    One of the greatest under-rated bands.

    • @marksimons9359
      @marksimons9359 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Christian bands Amen 🔥 👑 🕊

  • @dougl.6461
    @dougl.6461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I always loved the band Big Country along with The Call.
    I agree this was back when MTV actually provided what it was supposed to.

    • @Matthoole1
      @Matthoole1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Big Country was awesome!

    • @mikelmart
      @mikelmart 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't even know what kind of crap MTV is churning out these days and I don't care to find out.

  • @ginog9684
    @ginog9684 7 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    My God, a third of a century ago. Rest well, Michael.

  • @konowd
    @konowd ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Always loved this song, never gets old

  • @gernblanstead7833
    @gernblanstead7833 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    brings tears to my eyes every time i think of the 80s and the amazing warm summer nights dancing and hanging with friends at the lake.

  • @neilphelan145
    @neilphelan145 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I saw this fabulous band at a small auditorium in Pasadena Ca. I won tickets on an L.A. radio station around 1983 when this album came out. A marvelous time was had by all!! 👍😊

    • @stevencotten3529
      @stevencotten3529 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I managed a live music venue in Springfield, MO in the mid-late 80s and was lucky to book them a few times, splendid musicians, and better humans. They always packed the 400-500 seat club, and left it all on the stage every performance

  • @susangabriel4480
    @susangabriel4480 7 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    I am a child of the 80's. Graduated in 1982 and was an MTV junkie as soon as it was out there! Always loved this song!

    • @johnyoung9379
      @johnyoung9379 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Class of 82. We are starting to get old now. Last generation of REAL MUSIC.

    • @rubenreyna8729
      @rubenreyna8729 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ima graduate of 84 so I loved the hey day of new wave songs that generated from mtv, & this was one of em. Love it still

    • @haveanicedave1551
      @haveanicedave1551 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm class of 1984. This song makes me feel like I'm living in the Los Angeles Valley where I was born and raised.

    • @kamuelalee
      @kamuelalee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1987!

    • @gentlegiant6585
      @gentlegiant6585 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here 😁. Was a great era.

  • @dh6035
    @dh6035 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I saw them in concert in 83 or 84 and had no idea what I was walking into. They played this song and the next day my hunt began to find their album. It took some work, but I did find it and wore the grooves out! RIP Michael Been. ❤ 🙏

  • @J0hnC0ltrane
    @J0hnC0ltrane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    That bass is just a kicker.

  • @SWog617
    @SWog617 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I forgot how much I loved this song.

    • @squeakeththewheel
      @squeakeththewheel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I never forgot.

    • @hankgarza4975
      @hankgarza4975 ปีที่แล้ว

      A little hint, don't forget the things that have meaning in your life, when you do, you are DEAD.

  • @markharrison5321
    @markharrison5321 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The most 2024 song. Released in 1983.

  • @legendaryhour
    @legendaryhour หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Garth!! The man, the myth, the legend.

  • @alexleitch37
    @alexleitch37 7 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Definitive proof that you can write a truly great song and wake the world up with 3 chords. But then again Been is a genius songsmith.

    • @tr1522
      @tr1522 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      the bass carries the song.....I don't think he was just playing 3 chords....

    • @alexleitch37
      @alexleitch37 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a standard 3 chord blues progression. Great bass playing that for sure. Been writes many The Call songs with 3 chords. It sounds easy enough - but it surely is NOT. Thanks for your comment @@tr1522

  • @beverlyplonski-mcgavock3512
    @beverlyplonski-mcgavock3512 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This song has aged really well!

  • @tjcolatrella943
    @tjcolatrella943 6 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Garth Hudson of THE BAND on Keys with The Call..

    • @csimps01
      @csimps01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      THANK GOD someone else noticed that!

    • @susanmcnally6356
      @susanmcnally6356 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I thought that was him!

    • @kamuelalee
      @kamuelalee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@susanmcnally6356 Me too, so cool!

    • @arm5080
      @arm5080 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thought so

    • @Kohntarkosz
      @Kohntarkosz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I remember noticing when I first saw the video back in 1983 or whenever it was, and it was only later that I read about his days with The Band and everything. It's really mind boggling to me, since I was born in 1973, what my entry point for a lot of that older classic stuff was (I guess it's all old now, but I mean old from the perspective of a 10 year old in 1983). Like you want to know what the first Paul McCartney songs I ever heard were? Silly Love Songs and Goodnight Tonight. I didn't even know who Paul McCartney was, as in one of the Beatles until he got busted in Japan in 1980. Up until I only knew him for those two songs.

  • @kielys91
    @kielys91 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    great album released during what is considered the greatest year in music history, 1983.

  • @hoderharris
    @hoderharris 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    2020 who is with me. Covid 19 and Race riots but damn we still have this song.

    • @FantomWireBrian
      @FantomWireBrian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We also still have the Stone's 😛 This tune crosse's with "" Sympathy " and" Street Fighting man " Music that calls you out the boys at the so called top. One boy is in trouble now, . "You can't always get what you want" ,but we'll get who we need I guess 🙄😜❗

    • @diancecht4566
      @diancecht4566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Dale Cooper Fuck off.

    • @crimelab8795
      @crimelab8795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dian Cecht You fuck off, because he’s probably right.

    • @mosesGcracker
      @mosesGcracker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm with ya. Who knew this song was a story about 2020?

    • @korbandallas8931
      @korbandallas8931 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hold the door

  • @marccoleman2029
    @marccoleman2029 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    36 years and absolutely nothing has changed.

    • @fumingriley
      @fumingriley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      its actually gotten worse in many ways

  • @SuperNolaguy
    @SuperNolaguy ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hauntingly timely, yes?

  • @Swordsquire
    @Swordsquire 7 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    "I don't think there are any Russians
    And there ain't no yanks
    Just corporate criminals
    Playin' with tanks."
    Truer words were never sung.

    • @richardbowes6897
      @richardbowes6897 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Send that to the Democrats

    • @Swordsquire
      @Swordsquire 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      And the republicans too.

    • @ohutma
      @ohutma 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Drain that swamp !

    • @R3dp055um
      @R3dp055um 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Every bit as relevant today as it was 35 years ago, if not more so.

    • @ohutma
      @ohutma 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sent to you from your friendly Russian internet trolls. Let The Day Begin is a better song from the Call ,,,if you can forget that it was Al Gore's campaign song !

  • @bobbender7707
    @bobbender7707 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I heard this on the radio this morning and had to come here to hear to again!

  • @deborahchase475
    @deborahchase475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I LOVE "The Walls Came Down" The Call were a great band!

  • @jamiemartinez8674
    @jamiemartinez8674 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    RIP Michael Been..you were class of the first division..

  • @whitehurstcomic
    @whitehurstcomic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    “They’re not laughing anymore.”
    Have a blessed Easter.

    • @philipmedley5680
      @philipmedley5680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi Whitehurstcomic, yes Joshua is a very important person in Old Testament history.

    • @winendesertrose
      @winendesertrose 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Washington flooding 🤔

  • @paulA-xs1qt
    @paulA-xs1qt ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The bass on this is awesome 👏

  • @patsparks8731
    @patsparks8731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Mtv lives on in my mind, with this song and others playing in the background. High School was a magical time.
    And the walls came down....

  • @user-hb6to1wk5s
    @user-hb6to1wk5s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    41 years ago. And the lyrics still ring true with accuracy. Michael Been was way ahead of his time. Just corporate criminals playing with tankd

  • @kevinmcgiffin10
    @kevinmcgiffin10 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What a super super song. This is what the 80s was all about !😝😝😝😝

    • @Lara-wm9rm
      @Lara-wm9rm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are Russians there are yanks there are corporate criminals playing with tanks !

  • @welcomelion7702
    @welcomelion7702 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I was 10 when this was released and I can vividly remember this on MTV. Still such a great song and an underrated band..

  • @SuperDachshund
    @SuperDachshund 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Ya ya ya yaaa ya ya yaaaa!
    Sing it out loud my brothers!
    My heart just aches for this music and those times!

  • @joegulick8652
    @joegulick8652 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    One of my all time favorite bands. RIP Michael Been.

  • @leeknouff3037
    @leeknouff3037 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I've had this song stuck i my head for 37 years and finally finally I heard it on sirius xm new wave... AMAZING song.

    • @mikkelharkes
      @mikkelharkes ปีที่แล้ว

      right there with you... been trying to find this for so manny years .... and now at the end of time the walls are about to fall.... it turn up again may the gods have mercy on us

    • @hankgarza4975
      @hankgarza4975 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really, it took sirius to hear this, I've been jamming with it since the day it came out, its all over the place, where do you live Fallon, Nevada?

    • @hankgarza4975
      @hankgarza4975 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mikkelharkes for sure with the Communists running around burning down cities, killing and stealing (BLM and Antifa)

  • @mfrembgen
    @mfrembgen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love to see Garth Hudson playing on this! Never noticed it was him back when the video came out

  • @easyrolling
    @easyrolling ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Being older already in the 80s (in my 30's).. this song was in constant rotation on MTV.. stuck in my head as it still does.. underated band.. scarry message.. great tune,,

    • @hankgarza4975
      @hankgarza4975 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why would you say they are "underrated"? I see that extremely ridiculous word being used often. I sense who ever uses that word for posts are those who has nothing to say but would like to appear they are saying something. You know... an empty skull.

    • @easyrolling
      @easyrolling ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hankgarza4975talk about empty skulls.. you got nothing better to do then write this crap?.. you mad at the world or something?..

    • @marilyntape508
      @marilyntape508 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is the song about the fall of Jericho?😊🇦🇺

  • @PFB1994
    @PFB1994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    His guitar magically turns from a Telecaster to a Stratocaster. The two greatest guitars.

    • @johnnyfever3832
      @johnnyfever3832 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I didn’t notice till now! Good eye

  • @artandrade1
    @artandrade1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Saw the Call 3 times in concert. Have their entire record collection in cds and vinyl. RIP Michael Been.

  • @gloriaramirez7959
    @gloriaramirez7959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Amazing song! I’m in my 50’s loved this song the first time I heard it and still love it!

    • @davidhefner2010
      @davidhefner2010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hell yeah!

    • @greenacres2319
      @greenacres2319 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      7th grade for me.
      Fantastic song !

    • @hankgarza4975
      @hankgarza4975 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think we hung out in the day, what a great time girl.

    • @gloriaramirez7959
      @gloriaramirez7959 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hankgarza4975 really! Lowell High School in Lowell, MA?

    • @pokor5791
      @pokor5791 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Heavy rotation in my college bar days.

  • @BryanUslick
    @BryanUslick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Saw them at the Cleveland Agora in the early 80's after this came out. Awesome afternoon to skip school.

  • @tonyjones1560
    @tonyjones1560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Sure sign of a song... that's more than just a song: it's decades old and the lyrics are so relevant that it could have "dropped," literally, yesterday. When this gem came out, I was 22 and didn't have a clue..
    !

  • @philrichlaw1159
    @philrichlaw1159 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I had forgotten about this song until I heard it on the SiriusXM 80s channel. I had to watch the video to see him go “whoop whoop!” 83 was a great year for music. .

  • @coreyrichardson5305
    @coreyrichardson5305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I got a chance to see them live at Shank Hall in Milwaukee in the 90's and hadn't realized how many of their great songs they had.

  • @makeamericagreatagain3792
    @makeamericagreatagain3792 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    1983 so long ago. There are not bands this good not anymore. I miss this band

    • @markmclaughlin1165
      @markmclaughlin1165 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Make America Great Again I was a Sr. or Junior when this came out.

    • @fartknocker8363
      @fartknocker8363 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mueller ain't going away.....conviction one. Manafort.

    • @Schombergski
      @Schombergski 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Oh what a perfect example of conservative thinking... nothing is as good as when I was in my glory days. And Im not even going to try to understand anything new.
      Even more ironic that you love a song that dogs on corporate criminals, yet you proudly identify with a trump slogan.

    • @Bhatt_Hole
      @Bhatt_Hole 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Schombergski It really is an ignorant, mindless, but totally common act of extreme awareness deficit. How many more comments on old videos will have that same exact dumb comment? Like monkeys, these people. Always the "Those were REAL bands"...as if to say that "real" music didn't exist prior to the bands of their formative years, and certainly never came after. There is ONLY the time of their neurologically-hardwired music, and all else is garbage. LOL....way to sound like a grandfather, stuck in time. Sadly though, this reply to the original comment turned it into a left-vs-right thing. Almost equally as stupid.

    • @Schombergski
      @Schombergski 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Bhatt_Hole fair enough.

  • @theHentySkeptic
    @theHentySkeptic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My favourite gospel song!

  • @katherinebrennan5695
    @katherinebrennan5695 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Today, August 15, 2019, some stray bit on social media put me in mind of this song. A song I loved when first it landed, and which I still do and always will. Significant.

    • @user-qr8ki8ue4i
      @user-qr8ki8ue4i 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Katherine Brennan, in 2019 it's still relevant.

  • @moochcat8439
    @moochcat8439 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I first heard this song in a used record store. I asked the clerk about the song and bought the record that day. Huge fan of this band.

  • @SuperDachshund
    @SuperDachshund 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    So many memories. I was a sophomore in 83. Love this song!

  • @kamuelalee
    @kamuelalee ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Back when music mattered as well as a good sports jacket.

  • @Cheese_Piedogi
    @Cheese_Piedogi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I miss this sound as much as I miss my youth. 40 years later, wow!!!

  • @Swordsquire
    @Swordsquire 7 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    Damn good song...
    Sad how far Mtv has fallen...

    • @brfswigcham
      @brfswigcham 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Rock is dead!

    • @skyclarking-123
      @skyclarking-123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Swordsquire today's music is awful.

    • @Jointsnroaches06-15
      @Jointsnroaches06-15 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Definitely not music television. It’s the full of crap station now.

    • @Swordsquire
      @Swordsquire 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Jointsnroaches06-15
      MTV...Manure Television

  • @karencanfieldmaskens3073
    @karencanfieldmaskens3073 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    OMG the commercial MTV first? GAH!! :) xxoo this song is SO RIGHT NOW!

  • @glenniz1
    @glenniz1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Saw them live at Irvine Meadows back in 1984 when they were on tour for this album. They opened for The Fixx, if I remember correctly. What a great band to see live, very talented musicians!!!

    • @NickL951
      @NickL951 ปีที่แล้ว

      They didn't play Irvine Meadows in 1984 but they did play the Greek.

  • @mikew7561
    @mikew7561 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We had meaningful music. Great Bands. Great movies. We were independent. Reckless. Strong. Self aware. We are Timeless We are Gen X

  • @stevedriscoll2539
    @stevedriscoll2539 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    To me the cool factor on this video was high. Remember watching it on TV for the first time with my buddies in SoCal. We were young and immortal kings living in the happening place. Kings all the more because we ascented to the truth of "corporate criminals playing with tanks...boy, now we look back and see how far our society has sunk

  • @richardypelaar7773
    @richardypelaar7773 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    OMG Brings back memories I remember this when I was a kid Still good after all these years

  • @TGiannini007
    @TGiannini007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Pure 80s Cold War art. Love it. I was there. Sophomore in college.

  • @nickgates5914
    @nickgates5914 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Geez they don't make music like this anymore

  • @scottculli7851
    @scottculli7851 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My favorite song!!!!!

  • @robertvegas8156
    @robertvegas8156 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    MTV was a great gateway to some awesome music. To bad its not so good anymore.

  • @brainscott8198
    @brainscott8198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    FUN FACT: That's the one and only Garth Hudson on the Wurlitzer organ, ex- member of The Band!!

  • @davidhefner2010
    @davidhefner2010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That last line says it all!

  • @kennethjohnson3657
    @kennethjohnson3657 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just sent it was such a simple time back then just wanna go back and stay there

  • @OneAdam12Adam
    @OneAdam12Adam 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Brilliant, prophetic song!

  • @kurtissjacobs3124
    @kurtissjacobs3124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    True story: Michael Been was a terrific baseball coach. RIP Michael, thanks for the music.

    • @philipmedley5680
      @philipmedley5680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Kurtiss, thats a very interesting post. Can you please elaborate. I am a huge baseball fan and love this song. I also really like "Let The Day Begin" by The Call as that is an awesome song by The Call as well.

    • @winendesertrose
      @winendesertrose 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@philipmedley5680 that is my all time favorite song. this comes in a close second third.

  • @infoscholar5221
    @infoscholar5221 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved these guys. Like how Mike starts the video with a Telecaster, that magically transforms into the AK-47 of music, the Strat. RIP, Mike, great soul. I think of you everywhere I go.

  • @nomoreturningaway1459
    @nomoreturningaway1459 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Major awesome and memorable and magical!

  • @i_love_rescue_animals
    @i_love_rescue_animals 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I was just vacuuming my house and listening to my 80's play list on my iPod. I had several The Call songs on there - including this one. I'm so sad to see that Michael passed away back in 2010! He was a really great songwriter, singer and guitar player. RIP Michael. 💞

  • @billbradley2475
    @billbradley2475 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I knew the song thanks to 80s MTV, but couldn't figure out what it was while watching the end of a Goldbergs episode tonight. They were only playing the (yah-yah-yah-yah) part lol. What a great jam!

  • @slw0599
    @slw0599 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Simple minds using this for their forthcoming new album this October.

  • @bobdobalina838
    @bobdobalina838 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the professor on keyboards saw them at my University around 1984. And I'll never forget before the show seeing the lead singer in the student union sitting there all alone watching television, I believe mtv to be exact. RIP buddy.

  • @randymiller3949
    @randymiller3949 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a GREAT GREAT song...1983...I was 14 yrs old & in 7th grade when this song came out.
    I thought it was such a GREAT song...I bought the cassette tape & a Sony Walkman at T.G.&Y. after saving my money from cutting grass. I think I paid around $25.00 or $30.00 for both...
    SONY WALKMAN'S WERE THE ABSOLUTE BOMB IN THE 80s!!!
    I practically wore out that cassette tape playing it over & over!!!
    This song brings back so many GREAT GREAT MEMORIES & SWEET REMINISCING TEARS!!!
    Much love from Mobile Alabama.

  • @bigguys45s29
    @bigguys45s29 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Great alternative rock song! Should've been a bigger hit on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts.

  • @johnkasper6139
    @johnkasper6139 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite 80s song

  • @blankvrs
    @blankvrs 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great song from an awe as one band! Love how they got Orson Wells for the keyboards. 😊

  • @pdempsey
    @pdempsey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That's Garth from The Band?!?!?! Mind blown

  • @oldguy9078
    @oldguy9078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am an old guy, but I some how missed this group in the 80's. I just happened to hear his song streaming music on the internet. I was convinced it was David Byrne's Talking Heads. I later found out it was The Call. Pleasantly surprised. I like them. Now I will listen to them more often, as I now know who they are.

    • @user-qt6gq7eg1k
      @user-qt6gq7eg1k หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree. I am in my mid 50s and just started appreciating their music. Nothing has changed. I was 15 in 1983 and listening to rock (Rush, Boston, Aerosmith, etc..) for the beat and not lyrics.

  • @nonamesplease6288
    @nonamesplease6288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    June 1985, the Reality Weekend party on the lawn at St. John's College. We had a beer truck, I was drinking crap beer with with my future wife, and all of us were having a great time. Somebody threw this song on the turntable and it was a perfect moment.

  • @donwarnick1089
    @donwarnick1089 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Imagine having this type of music being put out nowadays instead of the commercialized french fried crap we have now. TH-cam fought me all the way on typing this by the way.

  • @kurtissjacobs5618
    @kurtissjacobs5618 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nearly 40 years later, still a great song. And yet the thing I remember most about Michael Been--the best baseball coach in Lafayette Little League.

    • @stevedriscoll2539
      @stevedriscoll2539 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What a nice memory, and a touching tribute to a friend...thanks for that.

  • @spongedaddyhawk
    @spongedaddyhawk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    some of the best bass playing I have ever seen.

    • @joeblow-es1qy
      @joeblow-es1qy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Greg Freeman. The best

    • @buddypc7361
      @buddypc7361 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's essentially the Peter Gunn riff.

  • @jerryburleson8604
    @jerryburleson8604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's 2021, still relevant as ever.

  • @cassconner6023
    @cassconner6023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We were warned but we didn't listen......and here we are.

  • @Mrhasbarafree
    @Mrhasbarafree 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Still a killer song in 2020.

  • @KR-ki9hw
    @KR-ki9hw 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Great song. Always loved this one.

  • @richsims6870
    @richsims6870 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've always enjoyed there music ! Thks guys. Semper fi my friends.

  • @alfredm7497
    @alfredm7497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As underrated bands go The Call has to be right up there, shame because they were one of the best that came out of the 80s.