Prefab Sprout - The King of Rock 'N' Roll

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025

Комментарии • 5 тыс.

  • @SteveGolding-d9f
    @SteveGolding-d9f 5 месяцев назад +293

    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

    • @ronaldramo3
      @ronaldramo3 5 месяцев назад +7

      Ok, I'll bite, how did you get cast for this music video?

    • @__-vk9hx
      @__-vk9hx 5 месяцев назад +3

      Cap

    • @r4h4al
      @r4h4al 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@ronaldramo3 Did you not watch the video?

    • @Guntic
      @Guntic 5 месяцев назад +7

      I always wondered if it was actually bloody cold. Please confirm!

    • @HarveyKnicks
      @HarveyKnicks 5 месяцев назад +3

      I know your daughter Paris.

  • @GreasyFilms-qc1xo
    @GreasyFilms-qc1xo 4 года назад +3742

    Can you imagine that I never heard this song until 2020? My life is changed for the better.

    • @tonyguerlais4256
      @tonyguerlais4256 4 года назад +30

      So fun 🥴

    • @mathewparell
      @mathewparell 4 года назад +22

      Same here

    • @Sunshine-rz4gp
      @Sunshine-rz4gp 4 года назад +57

      GreasyFilms2016 WHAT ?! you are just now hearing this song, wow :) I should send you my playlist I grew up with these songs

    • @lalydelgado3904
      @lalydelgado3904 4 года назад +38

      Im just listening to it thanks to Im not okay with this... 😭😂

    • @elvicent
      @elvicent 4 года назад +24

      Soundtrack of i am not okay with this and the end of f***ing world are the best!!

  • @iseeolly9959
    @iseeolly9959 4 года назад +1301

    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.

    • @Eduardo-pc6gq
      @Eduardo-pc6gq 4 года назад +51

      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

    • @pdizzle8646
      @pdizzle8646 3 года назад +8

      What petrol station dude ?

    • @thetommonator2991
      @thetommonator2991 3 года назад +2

      Thetford lad here, well I live in Bangkok. Hi t the enemy.

    • @geraldcummiskey6721
      @geraldcummiskey6721 3 года назад +4

      I moved from Glasgow to Cheshire back then 88 great times the Moose

    • @rooflessmofo
      @rooflessmofo 3 года назад +5

      Lovely story to know. Thanks dude.

  • @lillies3481
    @lillies3481 10 месяцев назад +91

    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.

    • @PaulForshaw
      @PaulForshaw 10 месяцев назад +2

      On Karaoke?

    • @lillies3481
      @lillies3481 10 месяцев назад

      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

    • @peterpowis4145
      @peterpowis4145 8 месяцев назад +2

      😂

    • @MarinaFlyn
      @MarinaFlyn 7 месяцев назад +3

      Have A listen to Neil Young'S 'Tonites the Night

    • @drbalbon7332
      @drbalbon7332 6 месяцев назад

      Apropos of nothing. ​@@PaulForshaw

  • @therealjamesbaker9138
    @therealjamesbaker9138 Месяц назад +42

    This song is a pop masterpiece.
    Who's listening in 2024????

    • @fredhominal5029
      @fredhominal5029 Месяц назад +2

      De France ! .. 👍

    • @caiooliveira1056
      @caiooliveira1056 Месяц назад +1

      Me

    • @FARIDLALAMI-g8b
      @FARIDLALAMI-g8b Месяц назад +1

      Moi quasiment toutes les semaines ainsi que cars and girls et when love break down

    • @darielmacduev1856
      @darielmacduev1856 29 дней назад +1

      my grandmother (96) with her gramophone

    • @atlemoen-i8o
      @atlemoen-i8o 18 дней назад +1

      Lots ow oldies;)Gylty pleasers is olso among;)

  • @libraryman
    @libraryman Год назад +128

    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.

    • @GraveTime
      @GraveTime 6 месяцев назад +3

      100%

    • @sallyjoan
      @sallyjoan 5 месяцев назад

      @@GraveTime no

    • @johncurran7389
      @johncurran7389 3 месяца назад

      1992

    • @libraryman
      @libraryman 2 месяца назад

      @@johncurran7389 Pretty sure it was 1988. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Rock_%27n%27_Roll

  • @peteryyz43
    @peteryyz43 10 месяцев назад +14

    1:34: Whenever I listen to this classic, I'm always in anticipation of that tasty offbeat snare Neil Conti plays in this section.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 9 месяцев назад

      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).

  • @ajaybhalla-jl7el
    @ajaybhalla-jl7el 11 месяцев назад +18

    I’m a metal head and this is an absolutely sensational song

    • @atlemoen-i8o
      @atlemoen-i8o 18 дней назад

      Lots of gilty pleaser with this band,)

  • @benedettobruno1669
    @benedettobruno1669 6 лет назад +632

    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.

    • @eleanorwalmsley635
      @eleanorwalmsley635 6 лет назад +41

      Aw, thanks from the UK...
      You are most welcome.. Xx

    • @scottsoencer-rowell8090
      @scottsoencer-rowell8090 6 лет назад +8

      that means alot we have some good music even though dean martin was american thats amore was a classic

    • @wedp112
      @wedp112 6 лет назад +58

      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....

    • @andyr226
      @andyr226 6 лет назад +28

      @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.

    • @andyr226
      @andyr226 6 лет назад +6

      @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.

  • @TrapperMilan
    @TrapperMilan 7 лет назад +657

    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.

    • @GnarMarv2
      @GnarMarv2 6 лет назад +59

      Such a beautifully painted memory. Can honestly picture it. Thanks for sharing!

    • @catopupua
      @catopupua 6 лет назад +20

      Great coment, cheers from Portugal.
      And great music.

    • @bradh6062
      @bradh6062 6 лет назад +18

      Those were the days mate !!!

    • @marnie620
      @marnie620 5 лет назад +14

      You've just summed up everything!

    • @jackietreehorn6544
      @jackietreehorn6544 5 лет назад +17

      Unfortunately that's life, but you will see mum and dad again x

  • @jakethekipper
    @jakethekipper 2 года назад +80

    One of the finest songs ever made.

  • @santinojann873
    @santinojann873 4 года назад +1425

    (*Stan dancing happily*)

  • @enigmabean7953
    @enigmabean7953 4 года назад +1036

    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!

    • @ted5012
      @ted5012 4 года назад +17

      it was such a vibe!

    • @aliciaf1875
      @aliciaf1875 4 года назад +3

      same :))

    • @steven-lw4th
      @steven-lw4th 4 года назад +3

      cool

    • @FahlosueeWoWStream
      @FahlosueeWoWStream 4 года назад +16

      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

    • @midapita
      @midapita 4 года назад +13

      "fortunately" lmao why is being introduced to good music by ashow a bad thing?? let people live.

  • @frazzleface753
    @frazzleface753 3 года назад +403

    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!

    • @fparnaby8366
      @fparnaby8366 2 года назад +7

      💯 Hits hard!

    • @MadDannyWest
      @MadDannyWest 2 года назад +10

      It must be torture to be a one hit wonder and to have had it at a young age lol

    • @alexhiggins4life
      @alexhiggins4life 2 года назад +14

      @@MadDannyWest they had a few hits, including cars and girls

    • @MadDannyWest
      @MadDannyWest 2 года назад +21

      @@alexhiggins4life I was talking about the character they're singing as in the king of rock n roll

    • @luckyjim37
      @luckyjim37 2 года назад +4

      then it follows with a food, a species of anphibian and a town new mexico

  • @nope5445
    @nope5445 3 года назад +26

    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.

  • @jonblazeinc
    @jonblazeinc Год назад +74

    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

  • @hanymgamal
    @hanymgamal Год назад +44

    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

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 9 месяцев назад +1

      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)

    • @xebio6
      @xebio6 8 месяцев назад

      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

  • @g--stef4756
    @g--stef4756 Год назад +41

    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.

  • @leejt101
    @leejt101 3 года назад +311

    Driving in the car in the 80's..
    Listening in 2022.. Still totally
    "Hot dog 🌭 Jumping frog 🐸 Albuquerque"
    Awesome!! ❤🎶

    • @kellymaree9286
      @kellymaree9286 2 года назад +5

      Agreed!

    • @brandon2912t
      @brandon2912t 2 года назад +3

      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
      @Groovieglitter 2 года назад +6

      We were young ( 8 or 9) and always thought he was singing " I love cookies" :D

    • @brandon2912t
      @brandon2912t 2 года назад +4

      @@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:)

    • @barnpicks8884
      @barnpicks8884 2 года назад +3

      Legend lyrics

  • @gingerbread1759
    @gingerbread1759 4 года назад +310

    "hey syd, i know homecoming can be lame but i was thinking that we could be lame together."

    • @anxonx
      @anxonx 4 года назад +35

      'go to homecoming with m- uoh that was forcefull' *giggle*

    • @ainasyahiera
      @ainasyahiera 4 года назад +9

      I can hear this

    • @agriffiths
      @agriffiths 3 года назад +6

      syd, go to homecomin- ee that was *forceful*

    • @petiteass
      @petiteass 3 года назад +3

      *its not a fuckin clearance sale* lol i really laugh at that lmao

    • @Darkwolfnoah
      @Darkwolfnoah 3 года назад +2

      No that’s f ing stupid

  • @arbicuswoo
    @arbicuswoo 2 года назад +67

    Prefab Sprout is one of my favorite bands and one of the most underrated in history.

    • @ExwayeOnVal
      @ExwayeOnVal Год назад +2

      When I was school one of the teachers was the main singers wife

  • @Camrographer
    @Camrographer 4 года назад +127

    I'm a huge 80's fan and I can't believe I've never run into this gem before!

  • @agentnil7509
    @agentnil7509 4 месяца назад +6

    I recently moved to a small village in Kettering called Linton. The population is under a hundred, the is only a greengrocer and tobacconist on the ‘high street’. The village elder has the lyrics to this tattooed on her calf

  • @bhatian
    @bhatian 9 лет назад +335

    I remember listening to them repeatedly in the mid 80s. Even today it sounds fantastic

    • @evonneokafor
      @evonneokafor 7 лет назад +6

      Neeil Bhatia It was out in 1988. So it was late 80s

    • @siobhanmooney3952
      @siobhanmooney3952 7 лет назад +2

      Neeil Bhatia The best ever song x

    • @michaelsmedley7519
      @michaelsmedley7519 6 лет назад +2

      Glad you clarified that ;)

    • @brettwyatt7165
      @brettwyatt7165 6 лет назад +4

      Evonne Okafor I loved this tune back in the mid 70s when it came out

    • @davidmolyneux1780
      @davidmolyneux1780 6 лет назад +2

      @@evonneokafor where do the mid 80's end is the question

  • @Grooveman_MC
    @Grooveman_MC 5 лет назад +68

    I was 18 when it was on the radio for the 1st time. One of the best 80s summer memories. True songs never die !

  • @manxmark
    @manxmark 2 года назад +219

    As a Black Metal fan, I would have to say that this is the greatest song ever written.....love it

    • @mack3er
      @mack3er 2 года назад +19

      As an extreme lover of heavy metal and black rock this song is a shot of pure adrenaline happiness into the veins hah!

    • @ReclusiveHTID
      @ReclusiveHTID Год назад +15

      Metal heads are like the vegans of music.

    • @tinas6710
      @tinas6710 Год назад +1

      I love this tune and I really Do love Heavy Metal since 1990🤘🤘🤘🤘

    • @LaMorenitaDivina
      @LaMorenitaDivina Год назад +1

      I love this endorsement.

    • @pov_music
      @pov_music Год назад

      @@ReclusiveHTID How do you know someone is a metal fan/vegan? They never fucking shut up about it.

  • @lisbonlions6116
    @lisbonlions6116 7 месяцев назад +37

    June 2024 and still a classic 80s song

    • @richardplume3212
      @richardplume3212 6 месяцев назад +1

      Hey u n y rok steady ctew wot year wer u born

  • @wavelengthrecords-1
    @wavelengthrecords-1 2 года назад +35

    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.

    • @jeffredd9965
      @jeffredd9965 2 года назад +2

      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!

    • @marcot5386
      @marcot5386 2 года назад

      Friday night 87, packed pub, on she comes, lived it live, epic time

    • @wavelengthrecords-1
      @wavelengthrecords-1 2 года назад

      @Toshackeegan1nil Thank you!

    • @xebio6
      @xebio6 8 месяцев назад +2

      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).

  • @pato6612
    @pato6612 8 лет назад +149

    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.

    • @peterrothe6913
      @peterrothe6913 7 лет назад

      Pat O not underrated record exec wimps gutless

    • @dw89music73
      @dw89music73 7 лет назад +5

      Yeah, Prefab Sprout were easily one of the best British pop groups of the 1980s, that didn't get a lot of recognition.

    • @Stormeysmummy
      @Stormeysmummy 5 лет назад +1

      @@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).

    • @radfordsquire6837
      @radfordsquire6837 5 лет назад +1

      RIP x

    • @Goodbyeeveryonehere
      @Goodbyeeveryonehere 4 года назад +1

      so sorry for your loss xxx

  • @ercoguitars
    @ercoguitars 4 года назад +35

    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!!!

  • @thomasbaillie-carrigan3100
    @thomasbaillie-carrigan3100 10 месяцев назад +60

    Prefab Sprout. Still a great and talented band in 2024.

    • @Gabi-cp9mn
      @Gabi-cp9mn 8 месяцев назад

      Und wer traut sich das als Mann 😂. Ja der Text ist bekannt . Mfg aus Helvetia GS

    • @richardplume3212
      @richardplume3212 7 месяцев назад

      Yes sweet not mud

  • @robertmeikle2636
    @robertmeikle2636 6 лет назад +23

    This song still holds it's own in the music world. Great band!!

  • @Gibboni
    @Gibboni 5 лет назад +16

    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.

  • @carlydanielson7477
    @carlydanielson7477 7 месяцев назад +6

    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.

  • @audiojoint
    @audiojoint 3 месяца назад +4

    The synths at 1:34 are so pretty

  • @purplepepe218
    @purplepepe218 7 лет назад +37

    *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

  • @aaronbattin9516
    @aaronbattin9516 4 года назад +62

    I remember this song on the radio as a kid, haven't heard for 15 years, nostalgia overload 🎶

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 9 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @glyph2011
    @glyph2011 4 года назад +30

    Good god this song is still amazing all these years later.

  • @alexandrapatricio2727
    @alexandrapatricio2727 4 месяца назад +6

    In a period in the last of the 80s i was listening this song so many times, still love it.

  • @ThePlayerToBeNamedLater
    @ThePlayerToBeNamedLater 4 года назад +25

    Old enough to remember when this was originally released. Who's with me?

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 3 года назад +1

      I was 9 when this was released. When Loves Breaks Down is even better in my opinion.

    • @heididegg8478
      @heididegg8478 8 месяцев назад +1

      I was 10 when this came out

  • @foilarmsandhog
    @foilarmsandhog 9 лет назад +501

    What a tune, they dont make em like they used to

    • @delario80
      @delario80 9 лет назад +21

      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?

    • @ll-wolfie-ll8994
      @ll-wolfie-ll8994 9 лет назад +4

      +Foil Arms and Hog In a way I'm kinda glad, it makes me appreciate amazing songs like this one even more.

    • @yogpog3085
      @yogpog3085 8 лет назад +4

      yeah the lyrics dont mean what they used to now adays

    • @delario80
      @delario80 8 лет назад +2

      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

    • @nathalienowostawski8226
      @nathalienowostawski8226 8 лет назад +4

      j'adore ...

  • @aposteriori1594
    @aposteriori1594 4 года назад +175

    I'm second hand from I'm Not Okay... love all these cool soundtracks in shows these days

    • @monicamarie3464
      @monicamarie3464 4 года назад +4

      we can thank vinyl coming back and vintage style into trend for all the awesome music we're being introduced to

    • @buglemonade
      @buglemonade 4 года назад +2

      i can relate

  • @waynemarshall272
    @waynemarshall272 2 года назад +49

    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.

    • @vandovalentim16
      @vandovalentim16 Год назад

      Incrível essa banda

    • @filevans
      @filevans Год назад

      filmed in winter as you can see all the leaves off the trees

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 9 месяцев назад

      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...

  • @philstrange6789
    @philstrange6789 5 лет назад +2662

    My uncle was one of the dancing hot dogs

    • @MitchelGant
      @MitchelGant 5 лет назад +274

      comment of the week. laughed out loud. and if that's true, it's still funny as fuck.

    • @pipleo6313
      @pipleo6313 5 лет назад +111

      @@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

    • @syllabear3871
      @syllabear3871 5 лет назад +85

      A hero.

    • @yanieabkarim
      @yanieabkarim 5 лет назад +72

      My uncle was the frog...😬

    • @ViRRization
      @ViRRization 5 лет назад +30

      For real?

  • @okdonnyalright
    @okdonnyalright 4 года назад +2253

    Singing this in the shower before asking a girl to homecoming really hits different.

    • @abigaelbrooks2558
      @abigaelbrooks2558 4 года назад +139

      ShurikenHavoc too bad she’s a lesbian

    • @laurenmichelle07
      @laurenmichelle07 4 года назад +117

      Lillie The Lynx Gachas and she’s in love with her best friend

    • @martianhermit
      @martianhermit 4 года назад +92

      and she can blow off people's heads if her emotions get too out of hand

    • @lethal1084
      @lethal1084 4 года назад +9

      hmm shame

    • @jehanbartolay7247
      @jehanbartolay7247 4 года назад +14

      Best comment

  • @shaun5944
    @shaun5944 3 года назад +23

    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

  • @147stewart
    @147stewart 3 года назад +12

    Paddy is one of the nicest guys you could meet as well as a great song writer

  • @lindsayroberts6484
    @lindsayroberts6484 4 года назад +14

    my great grandmother use to play this in the car all the time when i was little and it would always make me happy

  • @agentnil7509
    @agentnil7509 5 месяцев назад +15

    Interesting fact about this song, it was only the 18th song to hit the uk charts featuring the word ‘hotdog’

  • @Wolf-f9
    @Wolf-f9 5 месяцев назад +21

    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.

    • @r4h4al
      @r4h4al 4 месяца назад +2

      One of the singers.

  • @Degjoy
    @Degjoy Год назад +43

    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

  • @sedonasworld3724
    @sedonasworld3724 4 года назад +23

    this song has literally been stuck in my head for three days straight. . . it's overtaking my body.

  • @timvoridis7931
    @timvoridis7931 9 лет назад +12

    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.

  • @KaedeSmithOfTheKiller7
    @KaedeSmithOfTheKiller7 4 года назад +13

    The chorus of this track is an ear worm. It will never leave my head.

  • @sharononeil3354
    @sharononeil3354 11 месяцев назад +484

    Who in 2024 is listening to this classic ?😉😉

  • @taniadaniels4629
    @taniadaniels4629 8 лет назад +54

    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.

    • @BigBadLoneWolf
      @BigBadLoneWolf 6 лет назад +2

      @daro2096 Paddy comes from Langley park and 1 of the albums is called from Langley park to Memphis

    • @JohnDoe-gc1pm
      @JohnDoe-gc1pm 2 года назад

      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

    • @TJATJA1982
      @TJATJA1982 Год назад +1

      ​@@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.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 9 месяцев назад

      @@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.

    • @sallyjoan
      @sallyjoan 5 месяцев назад

      @@louise_rose who says it's not their greatest?

  • @fey__3919
    @fey__3919 4 года назад +154

    I was so surprised and just filled with joy when I heard this playing in that new Netflix show haha, such a fun song

  • @pedropereira5080
    @pedropereira5080 5 месяцев назад +14

    Miss so much the 80s.🥲

    • @alexandrapatricio2727
      @alexandrapatricio2727 4 месяца назад +1

      My god, miss them too. If it was possible i would have loved to be there now.

    • @johncurran7389
      @johncurran7389 3 месяца назад

      1991/2

    • @garethbeare8741
      @garethbeare8741 2 месяца назад +1

      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

    • @alexandrapatricio2727
      @alexandrapatricio2727 2 месяца назад

      @@johncurran7389 I think it is earlier than that, 1989 / 1990 i think...

  • @tembandebele6216
    @tembandebele6216 2 года назад +23

    A catchy tune that I was only fortunate to hear yesterday. It’s now ringing in my head all day and night long.

  • @stephenoneill2844
    @stephenoneill2844 5 лет назад +18

    Holy shit , I just looked it up , it has been 31 years since this tune was released, OMG I am getting old. But it goes without saying , I love love love love love love love this song!

  • @ionescubogdan6899
    @ionescubogdan6899 4 года назад +243

    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 ....

  • @RKO2D3STINY2
    @RKO2D3STINY2 4 года назад +812

    Here From "I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS" First Time I've Heard This Song! Searched It On RUclips As Soon As It Played. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @GinjaNinja77
      @GinjaNinja77 4 года назад +5

      I was watching the show, Shazamed the song, now I'm here!

    • @Sunset_City_Blues
      @Sunset_City_Blues 4 года назад +7

      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.

    • @tomatecerizz
      @tomatecerizz 4 года назад +2

      I looooooove this song 😂😂🥰

    • @Oolon_Colluphid
      @Oolon_Colluphid 4 года назад +2

      Watched it and remembered, I bought this when it came out....

    • @miacolwell7768
      @miacolwell7768 4 года назад +3

      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.

  • @Nikkolina88
    @Nikkolina88 5 лет назад +22

    I just moved to Albuquerque NM last month, imagine my surprise upon hearing this chorus 🤣✨ only in the eighties! Haha, HOT DAWG!

    • @davidadams2395
      @davidadams2395 5 лет назад +1

      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.

  • @w.r.carman3328
    @w.r.carman3328 Год назад +7

    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!!!!

  • @josephmccarthy453
    @josephmccarthy453 4 года назад +1908

    Who’s here after watching Stanley dance to this in I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS!💛

    • @franceduffoo2867
      @franceduffoo2867 4 года назад +6

      Joseph McCarthy So adorable

    • @marvalker4058
      @marvalker4058 4 года назад +3

      I like your picture

    • @starswechase_mia
      @starswechase_mia 4 года назад +2

      I haven’t listened to this song in a very long time, thank you stanley🥺

    • @sgt_xs9905
      @sgt_xs9905 4 года назад +1

      Exactly this lol!

    • @jeroendenhertog4975
      @jeroendenhertog4975 4 года назад

      Yeah, me too, but I knew this song from my youth.

  • @ripleysephiroth
    @ripleysephiroth 3 года назад +40

    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!

    • @BritWit1
      @BritWit1 3 года назад +1

      My 9 yr old now loves it 🤗💜

    • @ripleysephiroth
      @ripleysephiroth 3 года назад

      @@BritWit1 😃😍🤩❤

  • @andiegerman4760
    @andiegerman4760 5 лет назад +111

    Everytime i listen to this, 10 years are added to my life span

  • @jameswade8970
    @jameswade8970 4 месяца назад +1

    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!

  • @stefina1973
    @stefina1973 2 года назад +4

    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!!!!!

  • @peliche77
    @peliche77 2 года назад +88

    "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!

    • @squeakers27
      @squeakers27 Год назад +7

      Can't believe this entire time I thought it was hot dog, jumping frog, I want cookie

    • @thedeadd.c.207
      @thedeadd.c.207 Год назад +2

      I used to think it was Alba Cookie when I was a little kid. 😂

    • @curly_wyn
      @curly_wyn Год назад +1

      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! 😊

    • @neon7888
      @neon7888 Год назад

      Oh wow, I thought it was have a cookie

    • @jeanettedevereux7664
      @jeanettedevereux7664 10 месяцев назад +1

      Incomparable . .. genius

  • @sueelliott4793
    @sueelliott4793 Год назад +21

    Our teenage music was so pure and innocent compared to today's pop music. Love it !!

    • @seaandbells
      @seaandbells Год назад +8

      ‘Relax’ -Frankie Goes Goes To Hollywood 1984 ……just saying 😂

    • @themouflon2936
      @themouflon2936 9 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @danieljupiter7223
    @danieljupiter7223 3 года назад +18

    Astonishing
    The like twenty absolutely perfect songs these guys have

  • @Bookish_Lattes
    @Bookish_Lattes 3 года назад +8

    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. 🥰

  • @ravenhill_of_yore_1968
    @ravenhill_of_yore_1968 5 лет назад +16

    this reminds me of my summer holidays in cornwall with the family in the mid-late 80's, fab times.

  • @MonicaSagar
    @MonicaSagar 3 года назад +29

    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.

    • @moonmonkey71
      @moonmonkey71 3 года назад +3

      Spaced was brilliant! Simon peggs masterpiece 👌

    • @richardwellend3806
      @richardwellend3806 3 года назад +2

      I have a crush on daisy from that show 🤣

    • @mariewright1724
      @mariewright1724 3 года назад

      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

    • @zaxus211
      @zaxus211 3 года назад +1

      @@richardwellend3806 i think daisy sang "almond cookie" instead of albquerque..funny thing is is was in abq at the time i looked it up.

    • @richardwellend3806
      @richardwellend3806 3 года назад

      @@zaxus211 yes I think she did, she was sooooo cute!! I'm gonna hafta watch my spaced boxset and drool haha

  • @devenjamesmusic
    @devenjamesmusic 6 дней назад +1

    I’m the king of the rock ‘N’ Roll!!! Me and my girl played this all night on a old tape in my 69 corvette at Sebago Lake on are first date smoking joint after joint, it was the best night of my life 🎶🕺🏼🖤

  • @lasdcb
    @lasdcb 3 года назад +12

    I have been listening to it for 25 years and I still love it with passion ... best song ever.

  • @neilshots
    @neilshots 2 года назад +7

    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

  • @KenM_1987
    @KenM_1987 2 года назад +6

    I cannot believe the RUclips algorithm blessed me like this, this song is off the chain

  • @alexsdb9712
    @alexsdb9712 Год назад +2

    80s pop-rock new wave mystique the fantasy, humour, creativity, romance done all at once as it was done back then!

  • @jakelarman5728
    @jakelarman5728 2 года назад +11

    Always loved 80’s
    Heard this randomly on radio.
    Pretty sure it’s my new favourite song of all time. Taken the place of Rupert Holms escape !!!!

  • @alanscott6836
    @alanscott6836 8 месяцев назад +22

    Possibly the finest pop song yet.
    One of a number....

  • @187kvn
    @187kvn 4 года назад +65

    here from I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS, i heard this song 1st time and its so goooood

  • @terryeggett1
    @terryeggett1 8 лет назад +84

    274 people who don't know what a brilliantly crafted song sounds like.

    • @debbiethemadbee
      @debbiethemadbee 7 лет назад +1

      Terry Eggett they’re all to young and so there wasn’t enough Twerking

    • @debbiethemadbee
      @debbiethemadbee 7 лет назад +1

      Terry Eggett or maybe they’re Elvis fans

    • @robmccluskey6906
      @robmccluskey6906 5 лет назад +1

      seriously ?
      "hot dog jumping frog"
      SERIOUSLY ????????????

    • @BHK0000
      @BHK0000 5 лет назад

      Terry Eggett probably ignorants who listen to Ed Shearan

  • @WordofGOD-y7j
    @WordofGOD-y7j 3 года назад +6

    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

  • @jayzacharias4136
    @jayzacharias4136 8 лет назад +88

    great tune, everything that's good about the 80's

  • @Clara-Tarlos
    @Clara-Tarlos 4 месяца назад +2

    Childhood song, I remember playing this on repeat with my cousins and grandma and dancing :)

  • @lefont71
    @lefont71 4 года назад +4

    I love this song from the 80's, which it was not known in the US, but it was a well known song in Argentina, where I'm from. And I recently started watching I am not OK with this and I thought it fit the character so well... the kid steals every scene on that show. Love this song even more now.

  • @paulaxxxx7446
    @paulaxxxx7446 3 года назад +10

    This is an anthem of my teenage years. It's so happy 😊

  • @jemmajames6719
    @jemmajames6719 3 года назад +10

    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.

  • @Robbieschristianchannel
    @Robbieschristianchannel Месяц назад +2

    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.

  • @letmeouttamycage
    @letmeouttamycage 10 лет назад +9

    Love the way they are all relaxing as if they are in the sun... and the trees are bare!!

  • @freddierodriguez3036
    @freddierodriguez3036 4 года назад +17

    This song is genius! Can't help but smile!😁

  • @RegularDiogenes
    @RegularDiogenes Год назад +6

    Listening to Prefab Sprout is just a guaranteed great time and this song is no exception.

  • @patrickmccarthy5462
    @patrickmccarthy5462 4 месяца назад +2

    Sang along with Martin McAloon last night at the Thomas Dolby gig, Shepherds Bush. Best version ever

  • @nancyyy397
    @nancyyy397 2 года назад +8

    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 ❤️

  • @MrLouisecurrie
    @MrLouisecurrie 3 года назад +9

    Originally my fav band from the 80s what a lovely sound it has joyful memories

  • @mariebrightlight1736
    @mariebrightlight1736 4 месяца назад +2

    Remember this in my youth.
    Fabulous.

  • @ALEJANDRO-b9e
    @ALEJANDRO-b9e 4 месяца назад +1

    then,.... time went by and we still love this HIT!! Prefab forever-

  • @dawngayle82
    @dawngayle82 5 лет назад +8

    I love the melodies and sounds used on this track...long live 80's music 😊