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
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! 👻
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.
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.)
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
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 !!!....
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 !
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!! 👍😊
Just thought I'd let you guys know (in case you didn't) that this song was a massive hit in Australia... and I absolutely loved playing it when I was teaching myself the guitar as a 15 year old. Cheers!
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.
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
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.. !
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 🙄😜❗
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.
@@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.
RIP Garth Hudson, one of the greatest keyboardists and last surviving member of The Band, who just died today at the age of 87. He is featured playing keyboards and synths on this 80s classic song by The Call.
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,,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
2:30 - "I don't think there are any Russians...there ain't no Yanks... just Corporate Criminals...playin' with tanks." Makes one wonder about today's Russia/Ukraine Situation. 1983 - The midst of the best years of my Career and Life. This song has no choice but to hearken PHENOMENAL Memories, some to the extent that, "Did I REALLY Do AND GET AWAY WITH that ****?!!!" ROFLMAO My sincerest thanks to those who posted this and thus brought back such ROCKIN' Memories! Cheers...All Best...Be Well...and PLEASE Do Our World a BIG Favor...Keep...Being...GREAT!
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. ❤ 🙏
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
I love this song. I'm 60 years old now. I just started playing guitar at the time and was playing around with the mixolidian scale in the key of A and inadvertently foung the melody to this song! It is so easy and fun to play. AA, D, A, E,D,AA Here it is E 5 7 A5 6 5 E 7 5, move up one string To play the same sequence on the A string for the D, move up 2 frets from there for the E. Rock on and Happy New Year!
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
In late 1987 or early 1988, my roommate made me listen to all the Call CDs he had, and he told me they were going to play a club on Sunset Blvd. This was around the time when Tim Cappello sang Michael Been's (and Jim Goodwin?) I Believe in the Lost Boys. After a few weeks of listening to and loving The Call's music, I decided "The Wall" was it for me. Then the Call had a gig in a club somewhere on Sunset in LA. It seems like it was close to Tower Records. I remember the place. Bar, stage, dance floor in front of the stage, and raised seating off to the left of the stage where people could eat, drink, and sit... That night, George Wendt and Woody Harrelson showed up and sat at the table nearest the dance floor. Seeing Mr. Wendt having some beers was quite funny, just like his character in Cheers. Everyone left them alone. It was a great show, and my one moment with Mr. Been was I was right next to the stage near the end of the show, and he was asking what people wanted to hear. Now I'm ready and am yelling out, "The Wall! The Wall!" and he looked right at me and said, "Don't worry, we'll definitely play that" (or something very close to that). And, sure enough, in the encore or at the very end, I got to hear the Wall live, standing just a few feet from the Band. LA and the 80's was a fun place to be. I'm glad I got to see Mr. Been and the group like that. Best roommate ever :-)
these guys wrote a prophecy song. so cool. I am a young old hippie chick. tim is my husband. I was part of the punk and new wave movement. I was a rock performing arts and features reporter for many years. i am just saying this to introduce myself. I found the call by listening to david bowie a true genuine now in a better place. don't ever give up on the energy of music. blessed be to all and thank you. peace. Jo dawes.
In some ways this is a prophecy song! Also it is about the Israelites marching around Jericho and when the horn blows all the Israel citezens shouted! And the walls of Jericho came down.. Yes, this song is about Joshua 6 in the OT.
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.
We had meaningful music. Great Bands. Great movies. We were independent. Reckless. Strong. Self aware. We are Timeless We are Gen X
Hey us old boomers like these too! 😅
@@mikew7561 Yuppers!!!
@alanh7247 lots of band members were in their 20s or 30s when impressionable teens were listening, so it's common for them to be a decade older
@alanh7247 quick, what's the square root of 2?
The eighties was a good time for music. Unfortunately I can't say the same for politics
"I don't think there are any Russians and there aint no Yanks just corporate criminals playing with tanks" A line that transcends time!
✨🌌🎶✌😊I read this just as the song came to those lyrics,
nice synch!🌌✨
Spot on lyrics because they're true!
Wake up! ❤❤❤❤
Especially with all these "wars" going on now 😓🕊️
I don't think I can dance to this. Lol. So true. Terrorists playing on fears. USA
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
So what do you think of Bruce Springsteens new song "Ghosts?" The riff sounds sooooo similar.
@@theresaq8321 I thought so too. Especially the end. I thought it was just me that noticed! Thanks for writing.
@@juanitadiana I am glad that a pro noticed it too. I ain't mad: they are both great songs about different matters. Nevertheless....
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!
👻
Excellent work on the video. These lyrics are so preciant. Do you remember working with them? Always thought they were underrated.
40 years later and this song still sounds soo good.
And it couldn't be more relevant to today.
So true!
This is what pop could have been.
Doesn't sound dated either.
I was 19 when this song came out. Now I'm 60 I cant believe how time flies...
Brother, you got that right.
Time flies when you're having rum!
Yeah with a couple of old guys too. Ol Jack Daniel's and Jim Beam.
Same
It is an added treat to see Garth Hudson from The Band working the keyboards on this song.
@scotte3838Click on Garth's name in the Band listing then look under
The Band Reformed
1980s-1990s.
I've loved this song since it came out. I didn't know Garth was playing the great organ part.
Looks like a professor
Thank you for pointing that out. All these years, and I never knew. ❤
Yep! He produced the album!
Always loved this song! I’m 76 and still listen to it at least once a week! 👍🏻☮✌🏻
I’m 72 but love dancing to this song 😊💯🇦🇺
I luved it then I luv it now
@@marilyntape508 If they knew it was a Christian band do you think mtv would have played it? 🔥 👑 🕊
That and "Let the Day Begin".
@@marksimons9359good question. I'd like to think they would.
Still sounds fresh as in 2024 cheers from Australia
One of the most Underrated Bands of all time.
The most 2024 song. Released in 1983.
No kidding!
Prophetic.
It's 2018- and this song is more relevant than ever. RIP Michael
More relevant than ever. It was taped at the Agora Ballroom in New Haven, CT. Pat Benatar played there a lot .
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!
No doubt brother....let's end this fascist shit.
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!
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.
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 !
Garth Hudson on keyboards is Awesome!
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!
Hell yeah he is
Major awesome and memorable and magical!
Peaked at just No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983. Great song, should’ve been a MUCH bigger hit.
We played the heck out of this at my record store
Yep. Play it about. 120.dB. Around a fire 🔥 pit. With the best company. No. Rules. 🤪✈️🏏🤪👠🐺👠🎩
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.)
I agree! Great song!
It was likely too political and the band relatively unknown still in the States - incredible song.
"They all just stood there laughing, they're not laughing anymore"
Maranatha.
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
@Cosmic Apostate I have no issue with Santa…or God. But I know who the enemy is…
i totaly agree ..what a great decade
I was actually on the dance floor when they played at the agora ballroom in New Haven, CT.
@@robert9783 Good times for sure. Lots of great shows at the ballroom for sure. Take care
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 !!!....
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.
Same here. Same here man....
Always loved this song, never gets old
One of the greatest under-rated bands.
Christian bands Amen 🔥 👑 🕊
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.
Big Country was awesome!
I don't even know what kind of crap MTV is churning out these days and I don't care to find out.
RIP Stuart Adamson…
Still enjoying in 2024
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!
Class of 82. We are starting to get old now. Last generation of REAL MUSIC.
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
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.
1987!
Same here 😁. Was a great era.
My God, a third of a century ago. Rest well, Michael.
He's still alive
"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.
Send that to the Democrats
And the republicans too.
Drain that swamp !
Every bit as relevant today as it was 35 years ago, if not more so.
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 !
My favorite song!!!!!
I forgot how much I loved this song.
I never forgot.
A little hint, don't forget the things that have meaning in your life, when you do, you are DEAD.
That bass is just a kicker.
Hauntingly timely, yes?
This song has aged really well!
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!! 👍😊
Just thought I'd let you guys know (in case you didn't) that this song was a massive hit in Australia... and I absolutely loved playing it when I was teaching myself the guitar as a 15 year old. Cheers!
Garth Hudson of THE BAND on Keys with The Call..
THANK GOD someone else noticed that!
I thought that was him!
@@susanmcnally6356 Me too, so cool!
Thought so
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.
This vato would be cruisin' along streets of the South Bay in his retro 1970 VW Squareback with the radio blastin' this tune and others on KROQ 106.7.
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.
the bass carries the song.....I don't think he was just playing 3 chords....
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
Garth Hudson of The Band on keys RIP 🙏🏾😓
“They’re not laughing anymore.”
Have a blessed Easter.
Hi Whitehurstcomic, yes Joshua is a very important person in Old Testament history.
Washington flooding 🤔
Remember when music was good?
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..
!
2021 and it is more relevant now .
Straight up Victor. Shalom!
@@victorwaddell6530 2022 and more relevant still.
@@rajnimsg7816 Shalom !
@@dogslobbergardens6606 Sure is .
I saw the Call at the Cains Ballroom in 89.. maybe the best concert I've ever seen..
I heard this on the radio this morning and had to come here to hear to again!
Amazing song! I’m in my 50’s loved this song the first time I heard it and still love it!
Hell yeah!
7th grade for me.
Fantastic song !
I think we hung out in the day, what a great time girl.
@@hankgarza4975 really! Lowell High School in Lowell, MA?
Heavy rotation in my college bar days.
36 years and absolutely nothing has changed.
its actually gotten worse in many ways
So relevant October 16 2024. Listen to the lyrics, feel that Jam...🎶🎶🎵🎶🔥💯✌️🇺🇸☮️🕊️
2020 who is with me. Covid 19 and Race riots but damn we still have this song.
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 🙄😜❗
@Dale Cooper Fuck off.
Dian Cecht You fuck off, because he’s probably right.
I'm with ya. Who knew this song was a story about 2020?
hold the door
What a super super song. This is what the 80s was all about !😝😝😝😝
There are Russians there are yanks there are corporate criminals playing with tanks !
The bass on this is awesome 👏
1983 so long ago. There are not bands this good not anymore. I miss this band
Make America Great Again I was a Sr. or Junior when this came out.
Mueller ain't going away.....conviction one. Manafort.
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.
@@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.
@@Bhatt_Hole fair enough.
I loved this song when it came out in 83 ... .... so much more relevant now in 2023
Corporate criminals playing with tanks.........
RIP Garth Hudson, one of the greatest keyboardists and last surviving member of The Band, who just died today at the age of 87. He is featured playing keyboards and synths on this 80s classic song by The Call.
RIP Michael Been..you were class of the first division..
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,,
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.
@@hankgarza4975talk about empty skulls.. you got nothing better to do then write this crap?.. you mad at the world or something?..
Is the song about the fall of Jericho?😊🇦🇺
I LOVE "The Walls Came Down" The Call were a great band!
Love to see Garth Hudson playing on this! Never noticed it was him back when the video came out
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....
RIP Garth
My favourite gospel song!
Thought of Garth today.....RIP Mr. Hudson.
I was 10 when this was released and I can vividly remember this on MTV. Still such a great song and an underrated band..
I need The Call today. To me, their music shined a light on the world's problems, while offering reason for hope. God bless Michael Been and the band.
Ya ya ya yaaa ya ya yaaaa!
Sing it out loud my brothers!
My heart just aches for this music and those times!
One of my all time favorite bands. RIP Michael Been.
Saw the Call 3 times in concert. Have their entire record collection in cds and vinyl. RIP Michael Been.
From 1983 no less. Thanks for the upload
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.
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.
OMG the commercial MTV first? GAH!! :) xxoo this song is SO RIGHT NOW!
True story: Michael Been was a terrific baseball coach. RIP Michael, thanks for the music.
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.
@@philipmedley5680 that is my all time favorite song. this comes in a close second third.
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.
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
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?
@@mikkelharkes for sure with the Communists running around burning down cities, killing and stealing (BLM and Antifa)
His guitar magically turns from a Telecaster to a Stratocaster. The two greatest guitars.
I didn’t notice till now! Good eye
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.
AMEN 🙂🥰
Saw them at the Cleveland Agora in the early 80's after this came out. Awesome afternoon to skip school.
Back when music mattered as well as a good sports jacket.
Back when "empty V" was watchable.
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.
@Katherine Brennan, in 2019 it's still relevant.
2:30 - "I don't think there are any Russians...there ain't no Yanks... just Corporate Criminals...playin' with tanks."
Makes one wonder about today's Russia/Ukraine Situation.
1983 - The midst of the best years of my Career and Life. This song has no choice but to hearken PHENOMENAL Memories, some to the extent that, "Did I REALLY Do AND GET AWAY WITH that ****?!!!" ROFLMAO
My sincerest thanks to those who posted this and thus brought back such ROCKIN' Memories!
Cheers...All Best...Be Well...and PLEASE Do Our World a BIG Favor...Keep...Being...GREAT!
Skull n bones 3/22
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.
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. ❤ 🙏
Brilliant, prophetic song!
RIP Garth Hudson
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
I love this song. I'm 60 years old now. I just started playing guitar at the time and was playing around with the mixolidian scale in the key of A and inadvertently foung the melody to this song! It is so easy and fun to play. AA, D, A, E,D,AA
Here it is E 5 7 A5 6 5 E 7 5, move up one string To play the same sequence on the A string for the D, move up 2 frets from there for the E.
Rock on and Happy New Year!
So many memories. I was a sophomore in 83. Love this song!
It's 2021, still relevant as ever.
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.
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.
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!!!
They didn't play Irvine Meadows in 1984 but they did play the Greek.
some of the best bass playing I have ever seen.
Greg Freeman. The best
It's essentially the Peter Gunn riff.
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.
MTV was a great gateway to some awesome music. To bad its not so good anymore.
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.
Pure 80s Cold War art. Love it. I was there. Sophomore in college.
In late 1987 or early 1988, my roommate made me listen to all the Call CDs he had, and he told me they were going to play a club on Sunset Blvd. This was around the time when Tim Cappello sang Michael Been's (and Jim Goodwin?) I Believe in the Lost Boys. After a few weeks of listening to and loving The Call's music, I decided "The Wall" was it for me. Then the Call had a gig in a club somewhere on Sunset in LA. It seems like it was close to Tower Records. I remember the place. Bar, stage, dance floor in front of the stage, and raised seating off to the left of the stage where people could eat, drink, and sit... That night, George Wendt and Woody Harrelson showed up and sat at the table nearest the dance floor. Seeing Mr. Wendt having some beers was quite funny, just like his character in Cheers. Everyone left them alone. It was a great show, and my one moment with Mr. Been was I was right next to the stage near the end of the show, and he was asking what people wanted to hear. Now I'm ready and am yelling out, "The Wall! The Wall!" and he looked right at me and said, "Don't worry, we'll definitely play that" (or something very close to that). And, sure enough, in the encore or at the very end, I got to hear the Wall live, standing just a few feet from the Band. LA and the 80's was a fun place to be. I'm glad I got to see Mr. Been and the group like that. Best roommate ever :-)
these guys wrote a prophecy song. so cool. I am a young old hippie chick. tim is my husband. I was part of the punk and new wave movement. I was a rock performing arts and features reporter for many years. i am just saying this to introduce myself. I found the call by listening to david bowie a true genuine now in a better place. don't ever give up on the energy of music. blessed be to all and thank you. peace. Jo dawes.
Love you, Jo. Rock on. 🖖🏿✌🏽🙏🏻💞🔥💖
In some ways this is a prophecy song! Also it is about the Israelites marching around Jericho and when the horn blows all the Israel citezens shouted! And the walls of Jericho came down.. Yes, this song is about Joshua 6 in the OT.
Great job and I use to love this song.
OMG Brings back memories I remember this when I was a kid Still good after all these years
great album released during what is considered the greatest year in music history, 1983.
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
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.
Great song. Always loved this one.
This song sunk into me I was born in 1966.
Now I can see clearly how beyond their time “the Call “ was and IS