Best pop song ever made...when I was 20 I worked in a petrol station in Suffolk, UK.....I had a Prefab Sprout album playing in the back-office......in walks Martin.....I asked him for his autograph and he said "Nobody's ever asked me for that before..."...we both laughed....lovely man....I've kept it in my bedside draw , tucked in the CD case, all my life...right by me now.
That’s so cool. He seems a down to earth fella. I’ve loved this song since it came out in 88 I was a kid and loved singing Hot dog jumping frog Albuquerque again and again. Still do tbh
I was the model on the diving board . We shot the video on location in one day at a mansion in Essex as I remember. The owner of the house owned a construction company , we had great fun shooting that day. I think this got to no.7 in the charts and after it appeared on Top of the Pops everybody was saying is that me …. Great times
My dad played this for me when I was a kid and I thought it was the coolest song ever. Needless to say it made no sense to me as a kid and listening to it again as an adult has not cleared anything up
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Prefab Sprout and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
Here, here!! As an American you all knock the socks off us musically, not just in creativity, and fun catchy pieces like this, but British song writers have unparalleled depth in their music. British songs have so much variety, they can invoke feelings to the point of tears, or make you want to tear up the dance floor.... I love you guys, I live in the UK now and I'm just discovering more brilliant music we never got in the States....
@Castlegrad Off the Wall and Thriller were both written by a British bloke, Rob Temperton. He died last year actually. Massive loss to music everywhere.
Surreal hearing this. Immediately invokes strong memories of waking up with this track playing in the background on a warm summers day years ago as a teenager, an endless day ahead going out to the beach with mates. Mum and dad were still alive, they were downstairs, watching a bit of telly, everything ok, nothing to worry about. Great memories.
I lived in London and met a guy from Albuquerque. Imagine my joy when he invited me to his motherland and I finally got to sing "hot dog, jumping frog , Albuquerque" to some bewildered New Mexicans on a Saturday night in the city centre.
No, it was outside a gay bar called Sidewinders, I think. Nobody had a clue about the song. The good people of Albuquerque hadn't a clue! @@PaulForshaw
Lyrics: All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts And they're coming round the track to haunt me. When she looks at me and laughs I remind her of the facts I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely Up from suede shoes to my baby blues Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque The dream helps you forget you ain't never danced a step You were never fleet of foot, hippy. All the pathos you can keep for the children in the street For the vision I have had is sweeping New broom, this room, sweep it clean Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque High kickin' dandy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ; Long legged candy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ; Now my rhythm ain't so hot, but it's the only friend I've got I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely All the pretty birds have flown now I'm dancing on my own I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely Up from, suede shoes to my baby blues Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque High kickin' dandy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ; Long legged candy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ; Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque You welcome ....
Paddy McAloon is such a great wordsmith: 'All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts, and they're coming round the track, to haunt me.' I mean, c'mon, that's genius!
Some observations after coming across this for my first time moments ago: 1. Where has this been my whole life? 2. This is just the right amount of kooky. 3. I want to live inside this music video. 4. I think this song just saved my life. 5. There is the exact right amount of Albuquerque in this video. 6. I freaking LOVE everything about all of this. 7. I seriously thought I was hallucinating when I first watched it. 8. I am so glad these wonderful people had the audacity to make this fine art. 9. This song/video is sheer genius. 10. A novelty song about a fictional novelty song performer that doesn't sound like a novelty song. Brilliant. 11. This seems like someones fever dream that magically got caught on camera. 12. I really wish I'd seen this back in the day so I could have gone years without knowing anything further and just enjoyed the mystery because I'm about to go down the rabbit hole deep on this.
i loved to hate this when i was 13 when this came out but now, as an adult , it is a guilty pleasure... the song was definitly a worm that burrowed deep!
Enjoy the rabbit hole! The Thomas Dolby-produced trilogy of Steve McQueen/From Langley Park to Memphis/Jordan: the Comeback ranks among the best all-time pop rock imho. The right combination of great musicianship, complex, often jazz-inflected arrangements, catchy choruses and brilliant lyrics that few bands manage to achieve (Steely Dan come to mind as another example).
*Lyrics* La la la la..... All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts And they're coming round the track to haunt me. When she looks at me and laughs I remind her of the facts *I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely* Up from suede shoes to my baby blues Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque The dream helps you forget you ain't never danced a step You were never fleet of foot, hippy. All the pathos you can keep for the children in the street For the vision I have had is sweeping New broom, this room, sweep it clean Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque High kickin' dandy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ; Long legged candy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ; Now my rhythm ain't so hot, but it's the only friend I've got *I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely* All the pretty birds have flown now I'm dancing on my own *I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely* Up from, suede shoes to my baby blues Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque High kickin' dandy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ; Long legged candy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ; Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque La la la la...Albuquerque
Paddy, Morrissey, Paul Buchanan & Lloyd Cole. All the great stories have been written... not in short stories but pop songs. So thankful that I lived in that era.
Yes, though this isn't really their best song , just their biggest hit.... :) (very ironic, seeing that the character in the lyrics *is* a one-hit wonder guy from the 1950s)
Correct. Paddy is possibly one of the best writers of his generation. The Thomas Dolby-produced trilogy of Steve McQueen/From Langley Park to Memphis/Jordan the Comeback is unsurpassed in pop rock imho. What a band
I remember as a kid watching this video on tv. All this years having the tune in my head but didn't know the name of it or the band. Until a few months ago it was being play on the radio. I started laughing and crying at the same time. It was so surreal. I couldn't believe it. It's been 32 years since i last heard it. Now we sing it with my 3 years old son. Albuquerque!!!
I adored this band and loved all their tracks, clever/quirky lyrics great melody and cool voices! We were truly blessed to enjoy these bands as they emerged, I loved my youth!
@@Groovieglitter That is so sweet! There are many songs that I really laugh at now when I hear them, as I still sing the words that I thought I was hearing , it is so funny how we just accepted it without worrying about what the lyrics really were! Thanks for sharing it was a lovely comment:)
Such an under-rated group. Pure magic, damn this makes me 16 again. Reminds me of my dear friend Stef who passed away this year. She loved this song too. She was crazy in high school, had already booted from two others, we were always there for each other. Rest in peace my dear misfit partner in friendship.
@@dw89music73 That's because there were Sooo many bands in 80s who were so good... too many to name... that's why thank fuck for youtube coz we can revisit! Thank You YOUTUBe (much as I hate you too).
I was 10 years old back in 1988, this is 1 of the songs that stick out more from that year, so many great hits....those of our generation we were blessed to live out our childhood back in the 80s
Yeah, the drums seem to be setting up a different beat/pulse than the main tune through most of the song - Paddy's vocals follow the pulse of the keyboards and guitar, not really the drums - and I think that's an essential part of what makes the song special. The drums are like they wandered in from a different version of the song, and this creates a fluid tension between two different rhythmic layers in the track (most easily heard in the second verse I think).
one of the best alternative and smartest bands ever - vitriolic lyrics and a symbolistic hillarious video - the album is also brilliant . the '80s - indeed, a creative if not eccentric decade.
I travelled in the U.S. last week and visited Albuquerque. This song started to play in my head. Finally came hear to listen to it and watch video. Possibly first time in 30 years to hear it. Fond memories from 1988 like MTV, first car, first girlfriend.
The song and video feel like a jolly teenage anthem, much like the Happy Days tv series (which the band must have seen while growing up), but there's an undercurrent of sadness to the lyrics: "All the pretty birds have flown / Now I'm dancing on my own". The rift between glam illusion and sad realities, or between hope and betrayal, is a recurrrent theme in their songs.
I was a year younger than Neil Conte at school, but even then he'd nailed his colours to the wall by refusing to play with musicians who were going nowhere. No hard feelings Neil. So glad you made it.
Yeah, you can tell this is a digital recording, there's no way they would have got it to sound like this the analog way (practically no natural reverb, all notes are basically start-stop and even Paddy's voice sounds a bit like a ghost, there are no low frequencies to it). I figure this too helps to create the feeling of a big, sunny landscape with no edges in space and time...
"Hot dog 🌭 jumping frog 🐸 Albuquerque".... without a doubt one of the best and catchiest choruses in the history of pop music. Paddy McAloon.... What a great talent!
I am NOT ok with this! Having to wait (probably) a year for the next season. That's one bad thing about streaming services if it's a brand new show, and they release one season every year. Or the show doesn't get renewed. Oh, I'm not here from the show, I'm here from the late 80s (I think) when the song was released. Sounds as good now as it did then. Great music on the programme as well.
Paddy McAloon - what a name and what a voice. This band made some great music - melodic, rich and deep. And this song is about a faded rock and roll star. Terrific stuff.
@@JohnDoe-gc1pm no, it's definitely about a one-hit wonder who dreamed of being the king of rock 'n roll but ended up just singing a stupid novelty song... kinda ironic when it ended up being Prefab's most well-known song when they had a number of really interesting pop songs.
@@TJATJA1982 Yep, Paul ;McCartney amicably told Paddy "It's your "My Ding-a-Ling" " (referring to Chuck Berry's early 1970s novelty hit cover of a 1950s song). The comment is fair enough, it's their biggest hit single but not really their greatest song.
Just recently discovered Prefab Sprout and I think they are awesome! I missed them the first time around and wondered just what was I listening to back then?! I’m 71.
Holy shit , I just looked it up , it has been 31 years since this tune was released, OMG I am getting old. But it go's without saying , I love love love love love love love this song!
I was 22 when this song came out and I don't remember ever hearing it. Just discovered it on "I'm Not Ok With This". Keeping it on loop. How did I miss this? It's AWESOME!!!!
This song was in uk tv show called Spaced too! I knew I recognised it when Stanley was singing it - it’s taken me 24 hours to remember what other show it was in! Jessica Hynes sings along to it in the ‘party’ episode.
We have the box set of Spaced and I decided to look this song up. Every time I've watched it I thought she was singing an ad song. I didn't know it was a real pop song. Lol
Went to school with my old man did Holly Johnson, but yeah if it comes on one of the classic music channels while the kids are around have to dive for the remote.
Great hit. I remember this when it came out. 1987 ? It was from the album From Langley park to Memphis, I remember buying it. 👍❤️🇬🇧 Good old Paddy McAloon
Got this album when it came out - thank you WXRT Chicago for introducing me to countless out of the top40 box artists since the start of the 80s. One of my favorite bands - clever, surreal, catchy lyrics and hooks. Timeless classic!
My story to get here is an odd and roundabout one. I was sitting at home in Pennsylvania, USA, playing around with the Radio Garden website, when I honed in on a random local radio station in Ireland. It played a lot of songs I knew, but also a lot I didn't know. As it turns out there is a huge swath of middling-successful UK acts that never crossed over the pond at all and remained unknown to us in the States. So I started writing down the names of songs I never heard before that I liked. One of them was "Cars and Girls", which I enjoyed quite a bit. I looked at the band name and thought "Hmm, Prefab Sprout, never heard of them, what else have they made?". I saw that their most successful song was something called "The King of Rock n Roll"... ...That was 24 hours ago and I have now listened to this song about 30 times by now, and I am convinced that it is one of the best pop songs of the 80s. I just know I'm going to be singing "hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque" all day tomorrow at work. Absolutely criminal that this song didn't get a big push in America.
It's a rainy Winter's day in Cape Town, South Africa and I am grinning ear to ear, listening to this ... Loved it since school days and my 9-year-old is loving it too. Such a great band!
You know the 80s were amazing you will never get videos like this ever again, so retro yet so timeless. Abc etc you know looking back is so much better than looking forward.
Exactly what I was thinkin!!! Along with a weird sense of being glad they don't make them like this anymore....,coming back here takes me back there n gives me a warm escape,...does that make any sense?
Ming Lips...knee-jerk reaction was curiosity (hence the above link). Although in retrospect, I think I prefer the idea of just not knowin....great track, no analysis needed...IMO
What a song, great video too. How on earth did they come up with Hot Dog Jumping Frog Albuquerque. A classic from the 80s and impossible not to sing along to. Love it
Brings back memories of the first summer dating my husband, he would borrow his Dads car every night that summer and we would drive for miles, it was a boiling hot summer and we would have tapes blaring out driving in the English country side,this was one of our favourites.
Possible to time travel travel? I would hesitate. Any fully rational person would. To round out the point, nostalgia is not what it used to be and the 1980s were, well, 40 or so orbits around the sun ago, or as the kids say nowadays 40 years Anyway all the best😮.@@alexandrapatricio2727
Found this song from my bf singing it at karaoke on one of our first dates! He was incredible! And this song was OUTRAGES!!! Here I am 3 years later still with my wonderful bf and listening to this song over and over! What a miracle
This reminds me of when I was really young I used to go to the beach with my cousins every summer listening to this on the way with the windows open and then boiling heat… the good days where there were no worries in the world oh how I wish it was still like that ❤️
I remember a few years ago there was a faceplace post of "what's a song that changed your life?" and I posted this. Dude replied "....really?" and I said "YES!"
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Best pop song ever made...when I was 20 I worked in a petrol station in Suffolk, UK.....I had a Prefab Sprout album playing in the back-office......in walks Martin.....I asked him for his autograph and he said "Nobody's ever asked me for that before..."...we both laughed....lovely man....I've kept it in my bedside draw , tucked in the CD case, all my life...right by me now.
That’s so cool. He seems a down to earth fella. I’ve loved this song since it came out in 88 I was a kid and loved singing Hot dog jumping frog Albuquerque again and again.
Still do tbh
What petrol station dude ?
Thetford lad here, well I live in Bangkok. Hi t the enemy.
I moved from Glasgow to Cheshire back then 88 great times the Moose
Lovely story to know. Thanks dude.
I was the model on the diving board .
We shot the video on location in one day at a mansion in Essex as I remember.
The owner of the house owned a construction company , we had great fun shooting that day.
I think this got to no.7 in the charts and after it appeared on Top of the Pops everybody was saying is that me …. Great times
Ok, I'll bite, how did you get cast for this music video?
Cap
@@ronaldramo3 Did you not watch the video?
I always wondered if it was actually bloody cold. Please confirm!
I know your daughter Paris.
Can you imagine that I never heard this song until 2020? My life is changed for the better.
So fun 🥴
Same here
GreasyFilms2016 WHAT ?! you are just now hearing this song, wow :) I should send you my playlist I grew up with these songs
Im just listening to it thanks to Im not okay with this... 😭😂
Soundtrack of i am not okay with this and the end of f***ing world are the best!!
The more I hear it, the more I am convinced this is one of the great pop masterpieces of the 80's. It just gets better.
100%
@@GraveTime no
1992
@@johncurran7389 Pretty sure it was 1988. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Rock_%27n%27_Roll
I'm not here for "I am not okay with this". I'm proud my dad showed me this type of music but I admit Wyatt's lipsync was awesome!
it was such a vibe!
same :))
cool
My dad played this for me when I was a kid and I thought it was the coolest song ever. Needless to say it made no sense to me as a kid and listening to it again as an adult has not cleared anything up
"fortunately" lmao why is being introduced to good music by ashow a bad thing?? let people live.
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Prefab Sprout and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
Aw, thanks from the UK...
You are most welcome.. Xx
that means alot we have some good music even though dean martin was american thats amore was a classic
Here, here!! As an American you all knock the socks off us musically, not just in creativity, and fun catchy pieces like this, but British song writers have unparalleled depth in their music. British songs have so much variety, they can invoke feelings to the point of tears, or make you want to tear up the dance floor.... I love you guys, I live in the UK now and I'm just discovering more brilliant music we never got in the States....
@Castlegrad Off the Wall and Thriller were both written by a British bloke, Rob Temperton. He died last year actually. Massive loss to music everywhere.
@Castlegrad Yes my friend, I agree. The UK could never have produced a James Brown and thanks for the heads up regarding Fela Kuti. All the best.
Surreal hearing this. Immediately invokes strong memories of waking up with this track playing in the background on a warm summers day years ago as a teenager, an endless day ahead going out to the beach with mates. Mum and dad were still alive, they were downstairs, watching a bit of telly, everything ok, nothing to worry about. Great memories.
Such a beautifully painted memory. Can honestly picture it. Thanks for sharing!
Great coment, cheers from Portugal.
And great music.
Those were the days mate !!!
You've just summed up everything!
Unfortunately that's life, but you will see mum and dad again x
I lived in London and met a guy from Albuquerque. Imagine my joy when he invited me to his motherland and I finally got to sing "hot dog, jumping frog , Albuquerque" to some bewildered New Mexicans on a Saturday night in the city centre.
On Karaoke?
No, it was outside a gay bar called Sidewinders, I think. Nobody had a clue about the song. The good people of Albuquerque hadn't a clue! @@PaulForshaw
😂
Have A listen to Neil Young'S 'Tonites the Night
Apropos of nothing. @@PaulForshaw
I'm 26. I have to say, you guys who grew up with this had it damned good. Excellent sound. Keep on keeping on you glorious bastards.
Lyrics:
All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts
And they're coming round the track to haunt me.
When she looks at me and laughs I remind her of the facts
I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely
Up from suede shoes to my baby blues
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
The dream helps you forget you ain't never danced a step
You were never fleet of foot, hippy.
All the pathos you can keep for the children in the street
For the vision I have had is sweeping
New broom, this room, sweep it clean
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
High kickin' dandy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ;
Long legged candy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ;
Now my rhythm ain't so hot, but it's the only friend I've got
I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely
All the pretty birds have flown now I'm dancing on my own
I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely
Up from, suede shoes to my baby blues
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
High kickin' dandy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ;
Long legged candy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ;
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
You welcome ....
Ionescu Bogdan
It’s in the description 🔫
F
Now tell me what it's all about?
I THOUGHT IF WAS I WANT COOKIE NOT ALBUQUERQUE, my life has been a lie.
Indeed
Paddy McAloon is such a great wordsmith:
'All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts, and they're coming round the track, to haunt me.'
I mean, c'mon, that's genius!
💯 Hits hard!
It must be torture to be a one hit wonder and to have had it at a young age lol
@@MadDannyWest they had a few hits, including cars and girls
@@alexhiggins4life I was talking about the character they're singing as in the king of rock n roll
then it follows with a food, a species of anphibian and a town new mexico
Who in 2024 is listening to this classic ?😉😉
Saul Goodman does
❤❤
me for sure. classic shit
sshit meaning good stuff...I had a few drinks
Me x
Yo!!!! Desde Mar del Plata Argentina!
Some observations after coming across this for my first time moments ago:
1. Where has this been my whole life?
2. This is just the right amount of kooky.
3. I want to live inside this music video.
4. I think this song just saved my life.
5. There is the exact right amount of Albuquerque in this video.
6. I freaking LOVE everything about all of this.
7. I seriously thought I was hallucinating when I first watched it.
8. I am so glad these wonderful people had the audacity to make this fine art.
9. This song/video is sheer genius.
10. A novelty song about a fictional novelty song performer that doesn't sound like a novelty song. Brilliant.
11. This seems like someones fever dream that magically got caught on camera.
12. I really wish I'd seen this back in the day so I could have gone years without knowing anything further and just enjoyed the mystery because I'm about to go down the rabbit hole deep on this.
i loved to hate this when i was 13 when this came out but now, as an adult , it is a guilty pleasure... the song was definitly a worm that burrowed deep!
Friday night 87, packed pub, on she comes, lived it live, epic time
@Toshackeegan1nil Thank you!
Enjoy the rabbit hole! The Thomas Dolby-produced trilogy of Steve McQueen/From Langley Park to Memphis/Jordan: the Comeback ranks among the best all-time pop rock imho. The right combination of great musicianship, complex, often jazz-inflected arrangements, catchy choruses and brilliant lyrics that few bands manage to achieve (Steely Dan come to mind as another example).
*Lyrics*
La la la la.....
All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts
And they're coming round the track to haunt me.
When she looks at me and laughs I remind her of the facts
*I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely*
Up from suede shoes to my baby blues
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
The dream helps you forget you ain't never danced a step
You were never fleet of foot, hippy.
All the pathos you can keep for the children in the street
For the vision I have had is sweeping
New broom, this room, sweep it clean
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
High kickin' dandy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ;
Long legged candy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ;
Now my rhythm ain't so hot, but it's the only friend I've got
*I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely*
All the pretty birds have flown now I'm dancing on my own
*I'm the king of rock 'n' roll completely*
Up from, suede shoes to my baby blues
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
High kickin' dandy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ;
Long legged candy, fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah ;
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
La la la la...Albuquerque
Paddy, Morrissey, Paul Buchanan & Lloyd Cole. All the great stories have been written... not in short stories but pop songs. So thankful that I lived in that era.
Okay i just got in to this band and i can't believe I've missed out on them all these years. This is top tier songwriting and musicianship
Yes, though this isn't really their best song , just their biggest hit.... :) (very ironic, seeing that the character in the lyrics *is* a one-hit wonder guy from the 1950s)
Correct. Paddy is possibly one of the best writers of his generation. The Thomas Dolby-produced trilogy of Steve McQueen/From Langley Park to Memphis/Jordan the Comeback is unsurpassed in pop rock imho. What a band
I’m a metal head and this is an absolutely sensational song
"hey syd, i know homecoming can be lame but i was thinking that we could be lame together."
'go to homecoming with m- uoh that was forcefull' *giggle*
I can hear this
syd, go to homecomin- ee that was *forceful*
*its not a fuckin clearance sale* lol i really laugh at that lmao
No that’s f ing stupid
My mum talked about being in this music video. Not sure if it was true or not but i still love the song regardless. Miss you mum.
One of the singers.
I remember as a kid watching this video on tv. All this years having the tune in my head but didn't know the name of it or the band. Until a few months ago it was being play on the radio. I started laughing and crying at the same time. It was so surreal. I couldn't believe it. It's been 32 years since i last heard it. Now we sing it with my 3 years old son. Albuquerque!!!
As a Black Metal fan, I would have to say that this is the greatest song ever written.....love it
As an extreme lover of heavy metal and black rock this song is a shot of pure adrenaline happiness into the veins hah!
Metal heads are like the vegans of music.
I love this tune and I really Do love Heavy Metal since 1990🤘🤘🤘🤘
I love this endorsement.
@@mercian9425 How do you know someone is a metal fan/vegan? They never fucking shut up about it.
One of the finest songs ever made.
Driving in the car in the 80's..
Listening in 2022.. Still totally
"Hot dog 🌭 Jumping frog 🐸 Albuquerque"
Awesome!! ❤🎶
Agreed!
I adored this band and loved all their tracks, clever/quirky lyrics great melody and cool voices! We were truly blessed to enjoy these bands as they emerged, I loved my youth!
We were young ( 8 or 9) and always thought he was singing " I love cookies" :D
@@Groovieglitter That is so sweet! There are many songs that I really laugh at now when I hear them, as I still sing the words that I thought I was hearing , it is so funny how we just accepted it without worrying about what the lyrics really were! Thanks for sharing it was a lovely comment:)
Legend lyrics
I remember listening to them repeatedly in the mid 80s. Even today it sounds fantastic
Neeil Bhatia It was out in 1988. So it was late 80s
Neeil Bhatia The best ever song x
Glad you clarified that ;)
Evonne Okafor I loved this tune back in the mid 70s when it came out
@@evonneokafor where do the mid 80's end is the question
Such an under-rated group. Pure magic, damn this makes me 16 again. Reminds me of my dear friend Stef who passed away this year. She loved this song too. She was crazy in high school, had already booted from two others, we were always there for each other. Rest in peace my dear misfit partner in friendship.
Pat O not underrated record exec wimps gutless
Yeah, Prefab Sprout were easily one of the best British pop groups of the 1980s, that didn't get a lot of recognition.
@@dw89music73 That's because there were Sooo many bands in 80s who were so good... too many to name... that's why thank fuck for youtube coz we can revisit! Thank You YOUTUBe (much as I hate you too).
RIP x
so sorry for your loss xxx
I was 18 when it was on the radio for the 1st time. One of the best 80s summer memories. True songs never die !
Cool I was 8. Good memories.
My baby blues 💙
I was 10 years old back in 1988, this is 1 of the songs that stick out more from that year, so many great hits....those of our generation we were blessed to live out our childhood back in the 80s
Was 4 when you were 10.
15
So true. 💪🏽👊🏽👍🏽
Love the 80's forever.
I was 9 years old
78 baby here bud, with you 💯 what an awesome song and band 💥
1991/2
June 2024 and still a classic 80s song
Hey u n y rok steady ctew wot year wer u born
Prefab Sprout is one of my favorite bands and one of the most underrated in history.
When I was school one of the teachers was the main singers wife
I'm a huge 80's fan and I can't believe I've never run into this gem before!
Good for you
Same!!
Virgin book of British hit singles.
Was 111 likes at time of this cement,now 127 ....
1:34: Whenever I listen to this classic, I'm always in anticipation of that tasty offbeat snare Neil Conti plays in this section.
Yeah, the drums seem to be setting up a different beat/pulse than the main tune through most of the song - Paddy's vocals follow the pulse of the keyboards and guitar, not really the drums - and I think that's an essential part of what makes the song special. The drums are like they wandered in from a different version of the song, and this creates a fluid tension between two different rhythmic layers in the track (most easily heard in the second verse I think).
one of the best alternative and smartest bands ever - vitriolic lyrics and a symbolistic hillarious video - the album is also brilliant . the '80s - indeed, a creative if not eccentric decade.
My uncle was one of the dancing hot dogs
comment of the week. laughed out loud. and if that's true, it's still funny as fuck.
@@MitchelGant hahaha his comment is epic..I want to believe it. Can't stop laughing when i see them dancing. He must be so proud
A hero.
My uncle was the frog...😬
For real?
I travelled in the U.S. last week and visited Albuquerque. This song started to play in my head. Finally came hear to listen to it and watch video. Possibly first time in 30 years to hear it. Fond memories from 1988 like MTV, first car, first girlfriend.
Prefab Sprout. Still a great and talented band in 2024.
Und wer traut sich das als Mann 😂. Ja der Text ist bekannt . Mfg aus Helvetia GS
Yes sweet not mud
Who’s here after watching Stanley dance to this in I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS!💛
Joseph McCarthy So adorable
I like your picture
I haven’t listened to this song in a very long time, thank you stanley🥺
Exactly this lol!
Yeah, me too, but I knew this song from my youth.
I remember this song on the radio as a kid, haven't heard for 15 years, nostalgia overload 🎶
The song and video feel like a jolly teenage anthem, much like the Happy Days tv series (which the band must have seen while growing up), but there's an undercurrent of sadness to the lyrics: "All the pretty birds have flown / Now I'm dancing on my own". The rift between glam illusion and sad realities, or between hope and betrayal, is a recurrrent theme in their songs.
Good god this song is still amazing all these years later.
Interesting fact about this song, it was only the 18th song to hit the uk charts featuring the word ‘hotdog’
This song still holds it's own in the music world. Great band!!
Old enough to remember when this was originally released. Who's with me?
I was 9 when this was released. When Loves Breaks Down is even better in my opinion.
I was 10 when this came out
(*Stan dancing happily*)
Santino Jann aww 👉👈
That's so adorable
Lol
When she looks at me and laughs 🤣🤣 I reminded her of the facts 👁👁
I was a year younger than Neil Conte at school, but even then he'd nailed his colours to the wall by refusing to play with musicians who were going nowhere. No hard feelings Neil. So glad you made it.
tremendous drummer who was a very long lived session player beyond his prefab work!
I just moved to Albuquerque NM last month, imagine my surprise upon hearing this chorus 🤣✨ only in the eighties! Haha, HOT DAWG!
Hey, how're you liking it? I'm from Albuquerque, but I haven't been back in ten years. Going back to visit family summer 2020.
I'm second hand from I'm Not Okay... love all these cool soundtracks in shows these days
we can thank vinyl coming back and vintage style into trend for all the awesome music we're being introduced to
i can relate
This song just has a summertime feel about it. Best enjoyed while enjoying life in the sunshine. When you hear this it’s impossible not to feel good.
Incrível essa banda
filmed in winter as you can see all the leaves off the trees
Yeah, you can tell this is a digital recording, there's no way they would have got it to sound like this the analog way (practically no natural reverb, all notes are basically start-stop and even Paddy's voice sounds a bit like a ghost, there are no low frequencies to it). I figure this too helps to create the feeling of a big, sunny landscape with no edges in space and time...
"Hot dog 🌭 jumping frog 🐸 Albuquerque".... without a doubt one of the best and catchiest choruses in the history of pop music.
Paddy McAloon.... What a great talent!
Can't believe this entire time I thought it was hot dog, jumping frog, I want cookie
I used to think it was Alba Cookie when I was a little kid. 😂
It’s so weird because that chorus shouldn’t even work in theory at all….and yet it’s just lodged in your brain forever! 😊
Oh wow, I thought it was have a cookie
Incomparable . .. genius
this song has literally been stuck in my head for three days straight. . . it's overtaking my body.
my great grandmother use to play this in the car all the time when i was little and it would always make me happy
i’m gonna miss ‘i’m not okay with this’ :(
Me too :(
me too
Here From "I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS" First Time I've Heard This Song! Searched It On RUclips As Soon As It Played. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I was watching the show, Shazamed the song, now I'm here!
I am NOT ok with this! Having to wait (probably) a year for the next season. That's one bad thing about streaming services if it's a brand new show, and they release one season every year. Or the show doesn't get renewed. Oh, I'm not here from the show, I'm here from the late 80s (I think) when the song was released. Sounds as good now as it did then. Great music on the programme as well.
I looooooove this song 😂😂🥰
Watched it and remembered, I bought this when it came out....
I'm so happy that I found I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS. It's such a good show and I was not expecting the ending. And I found my new favourite song.
Paddy is one of the nicest guys you could meet as well as a great song writer
Paddy McAloon - what a name and what a voice. This band made some great music - melodic, rich and deep. And this song is about a faded rock and roll star. Terrific stuff.
@daro2096 Paddy comes from Langley park and 1 of the albums is called from Langley park to Memphis
the song isn't about anything. it's complete jibberish. it is a middle finger to their label when they were told they couldn't make a number one
@@JohnDoe-gc1pm no, it's definitely about a one-hit wonder who dreamed of being the king of rock 'n roll but ended up just singing a stupid novelty song... kinda ironic when it ended up being Prefab's most well-known song when they had a number of really interesting pop songs.
@@TJATJA1982 Yep, Paul ;McCartney amicably told Paddy "It's your "My Ding-a-Ling" " (referring to Chuck Berry's early 1970s novelty hit cover of a 1950s song). The comment is fair enough, it's their biggest hit single but not really their greatest song.
@@louise_rose who says it's not their greatest?
A catchy tune that I was only fortunate to hear yesterday. It’s now ringing in my head all day and night long.
This is a masterpiece of pop music. I remember hopping around the garden to this in 1989! It’s an incredible song even today. Timeless and sound funky
Hoppin' about like a frawwwwg? 🙂
Just recently discovered Prefab Sprout and I think they are awesome! I missed them the first time around and wondered just what was I listening to back then?! I’m 71.
Holy shit , I just looked it up , it has been 31 years since this tune was released, OMG I am getting old. But it go's without saying , I love love love love love love love this song!
here from I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS, i heard this song 1st time and its so goooood
The chorus of this track is an ear worm. It will never leave my head.
I was 22 when this song came out and I don't remember ever hearing it. Just discovered it on "I'm Not Ok With This". Keeping it on loop. How did I miss this? It's AWESOME!!!!
This song was in uk tv show called Spaced too! I knew I recognised it when Stanley was singing it - it’s taken me 24 hours to remember what other show it was in! Jessica Hynes sings along to it in the ‘party’ episode.
Spaced was brilliant! Simon peggs masterpiece 👌
I have a crush on daisy from that show 🤣
We have the box set of Spaced and I decided to look this song up. Every time I've watched it I thought she was singing an ad song. I didn't know it was a real pop song. Lol
@@richardwellend3806 i think daisy sang "almond cookie" instead of albquerque..funny thing is is was in abq at the time i looked it up.
@@zaxus211 yes I think she did, she was sooooo cute!! I'm gonna hafta watch my spaced boxset and drool haha
Our teenage music was so pure and innocent compared to today's pop music. Love it !!
‘Relax’ -Frankie Goes Goes To Hollywood 1984 ……just saying 😂
Went to school with my old man did Holly Johnson, but yeah if it comes on one of the classic music channels while the kids are around have to dive for the remote.
I was so surprised and just filled with joy when I heard this playing in that new Netflix show haha, such a fun song
Which show?
@@blackmalcolmthehomeofhomer442" i am not okay with this" its on netflix
Stanley Barber is best boii❣️❣️
I cannot believe the RUclips algorithm blessed me like this, this song is off the chain
this reminds me of my summer holidays in cornwall with the family in the mid-late 80's, fab times.
274 people who don't know what a brilliantly crafted song sounds like.
Terry Eggett they’re all to young and so there wasn’t enough Twerking
Terry Eggett or maybe they’re Elvis fans
seriously ?
"hot dog jumping frog"
SERIOUSLY ????????????
Terry Eggett probably ignorants who listen to Ed Shearan
Great hit. I remember this when it came out. 1987 ? It was from the album From Langley park to Memphis, I remember buying it. 👍❤️🇬🇧 Good old Paddy McAloon
May 1988
was that the bite of 87?@
Got this album when it came out - thank you WXRT Chicago for introducing me to countless out of the top40 box artists since the start of the 80s. One of my favorite bands - clever, surreal, catchy lyrics and hooks. Timeless classic!
Astonishing
The like twenty absolutely perfect songs these guys have
Agree😇
In a period in the last of the 80s i was listening this song so many times, still love it.
I have been listening to it for 25 years and I still love it with passion ... best song ever.
My story to get here is an odd and roundabout one. I was sitting at home in Pennsylvania, USA, playing around with the Radio Garden website, when I honed in on a random local radio station in Ireland. It played a lot of songs I knew, but also a lot I didn't know. As it turns out there is a huge swath of middling-successful UK acts that never crossed over the pond at all and remained unknown to us in the States. So I started writing down the names of songs I never heard before that I liked. One of them was "Cars and Girls", which I enjoyed quite a bit. I looked at the band name and thought "Hmm, Prefab Sprout, never heard of them, what else have they made?". I saw that their most successful song was something called "The King of Rock n Roll"...
...That was 24 hours ago and I have now listened to this song about 30 times by now, and I am convinced that it is one of the best pop songs of the 80s. I just know I'm going to be singing "hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque" all day tomorrow at work. Absolutely criminal that this song didn't get a big push in America.
Everytime i listen to this, 10 years are added to my life span
Must be the thought of hot dogs
It's a rainy Winter's day in Cape Town, South Africa and I am grinning ear to ear, listening to this ... Loved it since school days and my 9-year-old is loving it too. Such a great band!
My 9 yr old now loves it 🤗💜
@@BritWit1 😃😍🤩❤
Thnanks Paddy McAloon and Prefab Sprout.
You know the 80s were amazing you will never get videos like this ever again, so retro yet so timeless. Abc etc you know looking back is so much better than looking forward.
I love the melodies and sounds used on this track...long live 80's music 😊
Love the way they are all relaxing as if they are in the sun... and the trees are bare!!
great tune, everything that's good about the 80's
I remember them on Top of The Pops dancing around in costumes. I will always be grateful I got to grow up in the 80's and 90's. 🥰
What a tune, they dont make em like they used to
Exactly what I was thinkin!!! Along with a weird sense of being glad they don't make them like this anymore....,coming back here takes me back there n gives me a warm escape,...does that make any sense?
+Foil Arms and Hog In a way I'm kinda glad, it makes me appreciate amazing songs like this one even more.
yeah the lyrics dont mean what they used to now adays
Ming Lips...knee-jerk reaction was curiosity (hence the above link). Although in retrospect, I think I prefer the idea of just not knowin....great track, no analysis needed...IMO
j'adore ...
It remains me those days where we had a safe cities with beautiful people. No haters, no gunners, no bad 5v shows and movies...
fantastic song with great vibes
What a song, great video too. How on earth did they come up with Hot Dog Jumping Frog Albuquerque. A classic from the 80s and impossible not to sing along to. Love it
it's been like, four days and the IANOWT people have already claimed this song.
Yep
That's what happens when a song suits a certain character or show too much :/ like the toh fandom and little miss perfect
I got into this song about 3 years ago, and became obsessed with Prefab Sprout, and I am so glad it's getting more attention!
Singing this in the shower before asking a girl to homecoming really hits different.
ShurikenHavoc too bad she’s a lesbian
Lillie The Lynx Gachas and she’s in love with her best friend
and she can blow off people's heads if her emotions get too out of hand
hmm shame
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Listened today from a radio station that play only music of the 80's and the childhood memories just came back! I missed this song!!!!!
The new Boots ad brought me here. I haven't heard this song in about 10 years. Classic.
I agree and I had NO fucking idea what the name of the song was only i thought it was Hot Dog. Thanks Boots
me tooooo :)
This band must be one of the most underrated of all time
absolutely right!!!!!
True!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This song reminds me of my little girl dancing to it when she was about 2 yrs old . awww Her wee smiling face . Lovely memories fun song and vid x
This is no coincidence I heard this song on the radio the other day and I honestly didn't know who sang it and I've just come across it right now.
Bet the dude in the Speedos was bloody freezing. Obviously filmed in the winter considering the bare trees behind the dancing hotdogs!
well observed.
he doesn't look too cold...
Nah, he's from Witton Gilbert. That shit's normal there.
Daz White
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Not in Langley park its like that in summer
Brings back memories of the first summer dating my husband, he would borrow his Dads car every night that summer and we would drive for miles, it was a boiling hot summer and we would have tapes blaring out driving in the English country side,this was one of our favourites.
Miss so much the 80s.🥲
My god, miss them too. If it was possible i would have loved to be there now.
1991/2
Possible to time travel travel? I would hesitate. Any fully rational person would. To round out the point, nostalgia is not what it used to be and the 1980s were, well, 40 or so orbits around the sun ago, or as the kids say nowadays 40 years Anyway all the best😮.@@alexandrapatricio2727
@@johncurran7389 I think it is earlier than that, 1989 / 1990 i think...
Found this song from my bf singing it at karaoke on one of our first dates! He was incredible! And this song was OUTRAGES!!! Here I am 3 years later still with my wonderful bf and listening to this song over and over! What a miracle
This reminds me of when I was really young I used to go to the beach with my cousins every summer listening to this on the way with the windows open and then boiling heat… the good days where there were no worries in the world oh how I wish it was still like that ❤️
I am here because I’ve had the hits album for twenty years and love everything on it. Great band
Most underrated band ever.
I remember a few years ago there was a faceplace post of "what's a song that changed your life?" and I posted this. Dude replied "....really?" and I said "YES!"