Only The Lonely - The Motels [Extended Version]
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- Опубликовано: 9 окт 2019
- I love this song from the early eighties. I was 21 when this came out in 1982.
I used the original footage from an old TV show from the day but removed the audience and applause at the beginning and replaced the rather poor audio.
I used Adobe Audition and iMovie to extend sound and vision, adding some repeat verse and chorus elements, (plus a second guitar solo of course - rude not to) as well as adding a few kinda haunting background vocals on the outro. All that was left to do then was to sync up the new extended video to match the longer high-def audio track.
Start to finish took about an hour and I think the result is pretty good although I wish I had found better quality video!
Enjoy! 
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![The Motels- "Only The Lonely" 1982 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ohzij-eZ4sE/mqdefault.jpg)
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Check out one of my other extended versions: Liverpool Express - 'You Are My Love'. ruclips.net/video/Cp7CeBoVKXE/видео.html
Thanks for this one, it it the greatest version currently available!!!
@@kevinkelley3657 glad you like it
@@RobSnowden so good and this is how I've always wished my favorite star should be presented. Brava and bravissimo....so incredible....her and you for loving her so well...
Nice !.....but fer Gods sakes,somebody get that lady a longer Mic cord !
I was 20 years young. This song always evokes a nostalgia for summer and making new Friends. Thanks for this!
When music was grand. This song could be 20 minutes long and still not last long enough.
Agreed 😊
Someone please transport me back to the 80's
Consider it done 😉
living in wanstead at the time ,east london and driving home from work when I heard this on radio 1 . was so in love with the woman I had just moved in with.. happy days ,,,long gone now..Conan 74
Possibly one of the greatest songs ever written.
JUST LOVE THIS SONG
Hell yes!
Absolutely!!!!! 👍🇺🇸
To me, it is one of the top 5 ever written. I was arround 14 years old when this one hit, so to me, it defines 80' s music to a T. I love it. I love Martha to this day. If she hit me up in a casino, I would withouth dought take care of this one. Its a classic, always.
No matter what life hands you, keep a POSITIVE attitude! Life should be 5% the facts of what occurs[good and bad] and 95%YOUR POSITIVE ATTITUDE and the actions you take! Cherish each and every day like a DIAMOND and do your best to help other people,especially those who are less fortunate than you are."Peggy Lee &Albert Camus"
I love this song brings back a lotta memories 🎉❤🎉❤
That sax really kills doesn't it? The 80s were the greatest.
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A Truly Magnificent Song Of That Era - I'm swept up in it every time.
I feel the same way.
Great song. Never gets old. Totally dig it
I agree, I'm Japanese. SANK YOU. 🙂🙂🙂
I was coming of age in the 70's & 80's This music played a BIG part of it, fantastic era for music!!
I needed to hear this. One of the best beats, ive heard in yrs. I miss the 80s.
Never gets old
Thanks for the memories🙂 I was 20 years old when this came out and I played it at full volume driving my 1977 VW Golf to Palm Beach with my windsurfer strapped to the roof. Such a good time to be alive.
Absolutely a great song that I haven't heard in a long time. Brings back memories. 👍
Jealous here cuz I've just born in 1980 and couldn't enjoy this song back then.
I miss the 80s, I miss my youth....lots of happier memories...
Martha Davis..... LOVE...... This is one of my ALL time favorite songs. Thank You Motels. Martha playing the sax......my sister did too...she never got to use her talent... So Thank You Martha. Love to you.....
You don’t listen to the 80’s...you FEEL it ❤️
It all came together here. Total gem.
Love this song
Decent guitar & sax work, but Martha's voice (stunning) and emotive acting bring this home. She is/was way under-rated.
Martha Davis should have tried her hand at R&B. In that era, LA Reid & Babyface, Jam & Lewis, and Teddy Riley would have assisted her well and she would have had at least a couple of hits.
Very underrated
I played the sax and this guy is very good.
I had a girlfriend from down the road. We were teenage lovers. I first saw her when I delivered news papers. Her eyes were a grayish blue. I fell in love. We dated for about a year and half. We went our separate ways one autumn. I heard from her cousin she passed away from breast cancer. I felt that familiar pain once again. I've been to her grave several times. I feel foolish but I really truly never stopped loving her.
I dated several girls in 11th and 12th grade. I chose one in the first year of college, and we are married now. One of the ones that I discarded still haunts me. Her name was Deanna, she died in 2007, I do not know the circumstances of her passing, I have asked around, but nobody can tell me.
@@garykay7418..I think you should try to find her and get in contact with her.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful memory-painful, sweet and beautiful all in one. I believe she was one of your true loves.
@@kevinkelley3657 Kevin, my guess there may have been something negative the family wants to hide. Possible drugs or alcohol death. Maybe took her own life. My opinion. I would still pursue it if it bothers you.
Love transcends all space and time. May you always feel loved. 😊
Such nostalgia… Oh how I wish I could back. Love her.
The 80s. Jesus I wanna break down and cry for the greatest decade of my life. Come back. God, please come back.
I love this extended version of the song.
That 80's saxophone kicks in... love it.
Eddie and the cruisers sax too lol
Probably the best 20 second guitar solo ever to me because of the FEELING it adds to the song.It fits perfectly and just drives home that emotion that Martha was bringing to a crescendo.What an incredible song!
I hear it was Waddy Wachtel who performed and created the solo. It's got his style of sounding the lowest note on the guitar at odd times inside the solo --something he did with Linda Ronstadt.
AMEN!!!
Thank you Thank you Thank you very muuuch for sending this song. It is just the puzzle piece that I need right now to hold Myself together...
Do i get the feeling that all of us that loved MTV and the 80's music are now in there late 50's early 60's. WE loved the 60's and the 70's but MTV made the 80's something special . Thank you.
What a voice, what a hit. 80's vibes don't get better than this. Shout out to all my Gen-Xers !
There was a lot of sax in the 80's.
Back at ya!
Oh hell yeah! Us X-ers out here still!
Gen Xer shouting back at ya! 80's FOREVER!
Hola
Amongst the very best 80s tracks, and arguably an all-time best.
One of those timeless songs that never gets old. Always a joy to hear it.
Absolutely. Aug. of 21. Still listening.
Long live Bill the Cat...
You got that right great band and beautiful voice
Takes you back in time
You know you're old when today's music doesnt make any fuckn sense to you. I'm a freaking dinosaur. What a beautiful song.
Martha Davis had one of the best voices of the 80s babes (she, and Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde). Motels kicked major ass! Love the brief, tasty guitar solos. Extremely underrated band.
Guitar? Man, think of how many kids picked up a sax!
I DID!!!
I'm 68 years old, and still LOVE the 80's music, Motels ROCK!!!!!!!
Dang! You were about to be in your 30's when the 80's started. You got such a good seat and memories. Where were you located, roughly? And did you realize how awesome things were during or was it in retrospect?
I am 65, and have great memories of the 80's!!
I can still smell the air.. where I was... listening to this song.... pretending I can sing to it... lol
65 here....I swear i was just in my 40's. Good luck everyone.
@@wataki2 I was 23 in 1980 ... we knew it was great music. There was no "classic rock" ... it was just rock and it was (and still is), awesome. What we DIDN'T know was that great music was going to fall off a cliff in the next decade. I became obsessed with the Motels and Martha Davis. Must have played this song/album (vinyl), a thousand times.
I think the Motels are underrated...Great music!
I was born in the early 80s, I spent most of my life avoiding the music and looking for the future. Well Im in the future and now Im obsessed with my past.
Me too!
Well said
I hear ya there 👍 I too was born in the early 80’s and love the music from that era
Life can be ass backwards like that . in the eighties i was in the sixties, now in the 2000s Im in the eighties. great music.
Don’t be surprised if u start exploring ur parents music... music takes u on sooo many trips
This song hit home hard to so many people and Martha had that special gift with her voice and her gestures made you feel the pain she was feeling from a lost love that hurt so bad that it hit you right in the heart like you had been run over by a train.Very few songs or singers could make you feel like that.Thank you Martha for this jewel.
There are some songs that you can listen too for a lifetime....
One of the absolute best female voices in a rock band. Martha had real talent and as such, it holds up after all these years.
Still has
Man, you know it !! Back in the 80's Martha Davis and Chrissie Hynde Were the two best female singer/musicians ever and the hottest looking for me.
Well said; her voice is so feminine and submissive; I prefer Martha's version of 'Take my breathe away' over Berlins
@@donatoiacovino6968 agree, as her voice is far more emotional than Terri’s. I saw the Motels in a club in Eugene 1980, and when she sang Total Control, she just blew my mind! So clean, crisp, and perfect. Like no signal processing at all.
@@anthonymichaelhalloates2902 very well said
Haunting & Beautiful! We all knew, at *The* *Seven* *Seas* in Hollywood back then, that this smash hit would be remembered forever.
I was at a Motels Concert around 1980. Cedar Falls Iowa. Wish I could remember it. Got hauled out during their encore. Missed "The Cars" coming on stage. Sober now 28 years. Life is Better Now.
I was 20 in '82. I still listen to the music from that era (the best imo).
It was a great song in the 80's and it still is.
It always will be..
Nothing like the 80's
@@E-stylz-1967 (With the exception of disco), the 70's were pretty good too.
BUY IT IS NOW 2021🥰😍🤩😋🤗💋💋💋💋
The guitar riff at 1:40 is timeless.
I got to meet Martha a couple of years ago. I told her 17 year old me was freaking out, but mid 50's me was having a good day
I was 15 in 1982. I still believe the 80s was the greatest decade for music. #susanspencer
I was 16 in that year, listening this music in Central America
Beautiful song very memorable ❤👍
Love this and Last Summer. Make me reminisce.
Had that one
This song will last longer than humanity itself.
Absolutely
Beautiful song! Takes me back to those wonderful days of high school and early MTV.
still a great song even today Aug. 7 / 2021
Yep, back when music just felt so real you could touch it. So thankful to have grown up in the 70’s and the 80’s.
Every time I hear this song, time just freezes for me and it steers me back to the 80's when I was a teenager. This song elicits powerful, sad, and happy emotions and memories for me. What an INCREDIBLE voice and melody.
I agree, it really does
Yes.
Ex wife used to say that there was no good music from the 80's. Guess we will always disagree on that. Now, the 90's ?
@@mikekokomomike the Verve, Counting Crows, Offspring, Cranberries, STP....
All for one and til Tuesday's first albums are still among my favorites even now.
Only the 80ties can make me feel this way......only the motels can take me back, back where I belong....
I saw a magazine ad for a time machine if that helps.
@@markkeith9055 Sign me up for a ride.
You HAD to live it to get it. So sad that those listening now who never experienced the 80's as they happened do not fully get what some of these songs mean. SOOOO much change was happening. A sleepy Ozzie and Harriet America waking up to globalization. Competition from JAPAN in electronics. Hell everything. Coal dead. Timber dead. Steel dead. Manufacturing in America dead. Pretty somber times.
The fall of the USSR. The relief that the Cold War and the "Mutually Assured Destruction" philosophy that had our US troop stationed in Germany on the Border doing drills at 2 AM that the Russians were invading Western Europe, Pershing NUCLEAR missiles in the UK, and the tensions when Brezhnev (sp) died and Andropov did not live a year....The instability of the USSR. Poland under Lech Walesa opposing the communists. Hungary declaring itself free of the USSR.
Atomic Blonde was a great movie to explain some of it.
The opening of East Europe. The FREEDOM being experienced by so many. The songs reflected the optimism. But then also GIRD (HIV as it was first called) and YOUNG people dropping left and right.
1982 was my HS Graduation year. So much OPTIMISM...
One of my FAV all-time songs....this song has an immeasurable effect to take me back to my days as a teenager. What a classic song.
@@mtbarr64 1978 but we are close enough that your comment resonates deeply with me. What happened? Where did we go wrong? How have we arrived here? These are the questions I ask myself. Could we have seen this coming? Could we have done anything?
Martha Davis was, and still is the real deal, an amazing voice!
I just love Martha's voice. She still sounds incredible!
Saw her years ago. Hell of a performer.
This song really still holds up, especially for the lonely.
I was volunteering at the college radio station in the early eighties after leaving the USAF. This song takes me back to those days. Back when MTV was really MTV.
Excellent Song I Love It Many memories of the 80s
No one else can do it like she does she owns that song
Motels? On my Playlist forever! Shout out right back at cha! 80's music forever!
simply one of the best band of the 80's..
Martha is a great singer in a great band, nuff said!
Martha Davis wasn't just the motels'frontwoman she also was their chief songwriter and guitarist I know she isn't playing it in this clip but she does play guitar.
Short lived career though.
I’m so glad I know the name of this song now. It has been soo elusive every time I hear it on the radio.
Wow, that singer has the most expressive eyes I've ever seen for a Pop singer. One moment she can look sultry and demure, and the next she throws that crazy Lizzy Borden psycho glance at you. I actually love that!!! A little touch of danger. Seriously though, I've loved this song ever since it came out & I wish the label would've trusted them to deliver more. They certainly had it in them.
Ms Martha Davis
The 80,s just wouldn't be complete without this band.Do love this version.
Her voice is mesmerizing. Not just one of the best songs of the 80s, one of the best songs period!
I AGREE,HEATHER!!
Her voice, the way she delivers it, just so "haunting", it stays with you lol
Martha Davis and The Motels........love it! Oh the memories.
Timeless Classic Hit...the first time I heard this it was about 1979..WMMS in Cleveland, they were going to play at the Agora Ballroom
The '80's rocked👍
One of my favourite songs of the 80s. Martha Davis was a very innovative singer and writer. You rock on, Martha and the band!!
I Remember This So..Long Ago! But It Applies Now To My Life! Can She Sing 👍
Long live the 80's 👌😎👍
This is one of those rare songs that you can play over and over.It just defines the 80's to me and brings me straight to that time 40 years ago.She wrote the song and won Best Video award for it.
great song in the 80's...still great song 2022. i still crank up the volume for it to get all the sound!
Ever hear a song and it takes you straight back?
THIS...
I love this song
I want to close my eyes, and when I open them I am in the 80's again. I wasted so much time, back then. Ah who am I kidding. I just wanna die.
Martha Davis and the group "The Motels" have undoubtedly been one of the many musical wonders of the incomparable 80's, that God allowed us to live ❤️
Great way to put it ❤❤
A time capsule song that freezes you at a specific moment from your past . . .
I can listen to this 10 times in a row!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a WOW
Yeah it has that effect
I saw them at Madame Wong's in Chinatown Los Angeles. This was about 1977 maybe. They brought the house down!
DAMN those were different times compared to today's.
Life seemed simpler, less involved, than now
@@bruceradzwion6160 Exactly Simpler times
Who has a time machine i can borrow....
Agreed jan
By the way " you're cute" ❤️💘
Show without words for this content today and infinite blessings blessings
Hey I was born in '49 but I love 80's music.
This song will always stand the test of time no matter how many decades pass. ❤️
'82 was an excellent year. Thnx.
What a Great old Song--We do no not forget :-)
An emotional super great song!!!!!! Will hear it till my end........!!!!! What a phantastic song......!!!!!!!! Thank you........!!!!
the motels,blondie,the pretenders,,some of the great bands i grew up listening in the 80’s when i was a kid,,i still love them til now
The very best
OK, let's go off the rails on a Crazy Train, and go BACK to the 80's, who's with me??????
Omg id love to so many good memories 😍
Let's ride...I'm so ready.
I'm down
Gotta get the band back together....
toot the whistle and lets get the train moving
All I know is it makes me feel good now. Every time I hear this song.
We are of the same age...Loved this song...up to now
She is right there with Ann Wilson "HEART" - magnificent voice!! J Dusti Shirley,Ma.
This version is hot again ! ! 😊😊
WOW - such raw emotion in this era of dimissiveness. "All Iknow is that it makes me feel good now", ++
Always loved this song and the lead and sax kill it
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God I missed the feeling of the 80s. Almost brings a tear to my eye knowing that moment in time is never to be again but at least for a few minutes during songs like this I can close my eyes and remember that magic.
The time may have passed, but the Magic Lives On
Sweet sweet memories. A time capsule of never ending feelings get released by these great songs. More please.......
All of us who grew up back then agree with you
As a teen it had it's good points - LOTS of ORIGINAL GREAT movies (not like now where they are picking the bones of those same movies), but this song came out during the recession when people were hurting and the Tylenol murders too. Yes, we had good times but there was a lot of darkness and the never forgotten threat of nuclear war in TV and movies was rampant until the wall fell in 1989!
Nostalgia hides the bad stuff, but going back would slam you with it all, not just the cool stuff.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV Now its a lot better. Covid....masks....vaccines.....Senile Biden....No borders.......BLM....... Yeah, its fantastic now.
This is one reason why I listened to the Motels because the lyrics of the song itself
Kannte den song und die Gruppe gar nicht, nie gehört!!!! Aber....... irre!!!! Was für ein Lied, was für eine Sängerin mit Ausdruck ohne Ende.....Phantastisch!!!!!!! Thank you sooooo very much!!!!!!!!
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No matter what life hands you, keep a POSITIVE attitude! Life should be 5% the facts of what occurs[good and bad] and 95%YOUR POSITIVE ATTITUDE and the actions you take! Cherish each and every day like a DIAMOND and do your best to help other people,especially those who are less fortunate than you are."Peggy Lee &Albert Camus"