I was Sweet 16 when this song came out in 1985. What I wouldn't give to go back to that time in my life....to be young again, to see my mom again who has been gone so long, to see all my old friends, and have all my old "problems" again with none of the burdens of being older. Enjoy your youth, folks, because it goes so fast.
Now just faded to the bittersweet memories. Like one day everything will be more reason to love the shit out of now, the mystery of life #forevergreatful.
God this comment got to me. I'm not that old but I feel exactly what you said.... My early 20s in college. My problems were girls and life dreams. My mom would always give me advice. She loved this song so much. I lost her 2 years ago tragically. I would give anything to go back to that time. Her giving me advice that I would shrug off.
This song makes me long for the past, especially the 80's. I am now 61 years old and find myself saying goodbye to friends every year. This song illustrates the passage of time and the promise of change. Still gives me goosebumps when I hear it.
60 years old...and this reminds me of such a fantastic time...the 80s rocked guys and I am sorry if you weren't there. There has never been and never will be a period of music creation, the likes of which happened over those 10 years.
totally agree am 54...... i dream most nights about the 80s ..... music/fashion/ such a simple life .......i would live it again ..... a million times x
It's 2020...Dream Academy gave us this gift 35 years ago...I have never heard a song quite like this one...It's just so smooth & lovely...Who is with me? Love It!
"Loved/Love" it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! after "all" these years etc..........there,s something about this song as soon as it starts "takes" you straight back then etc as if time "hasn,t passed". x x x x
Almost 40 years and it still makes me think of my mate from school who was killed on his bike when this song was out. We were 15 and had the rest of our lives ahead of us. Still think of you Pete ❤️
@@joejoe7212 I’ll take your comment at face value mate, as it’s hard to read tone in some messages. He was on his push bike riding home from school. Have a good day.
Now we all know about Pete and carry a tiny piece of him too! Nobody ever really leaves us my dude, not as long as somebody carries the torch. Good on you.
Hey! Me too! Was talking about the scene on King of the Hill, where it has no reference at all to the scene and people get teary-eyed over it to this day.@@johnspinelli9396
The 80’s. MTV. The style. The everything. It will never happen again. We lived in a very unique decade that is now only a part of history. We will always have this music though. No one can take this away from us who lived in this time. I may be sad for it, but I lived it.
You're right Robert. A huge part of the fabric of my growing up years in the 80's was our awesome music. Not to mention our movies! Such powerful memories & emotions.
It's true, it's a shame the kiddies don't understand. These days when I go into a pub every television plays sports. Baseball, hockey, whatever is in season. In the 80's every TV was on MTV and it was non stop music and videos. They wrote the book on music vids and it really was a different atmosphere.
I was 16 as well. I’m 55 now, have a wonderful wife and two beautiful kids, 14yr girl,and 11yr boy. I’m an older dad, grew up in a small, Northern town 45 minutes East of Sacramento CA. I can listen to these songs all day. I remember my black, zip up parachute pants and pegged, Levi 501’s, and the first kid at Amador High School to have blue & white, high top checkered vans. My parents took me all the way to Santa Cruz to get them. I was so excited. I’m sitting here right now as I’m typing this, watching my wife and kids get ready for church. My life has turned out great. I actually have tears now thinking how I grew up in the 80’s, all the cool games you could play on your Commodore 64, swimming in the rivers and jumping off rope swings, and dreaming about all the things I was gonna do. When I look around today, I think back at how lucky and fun the 80’s were. Take care everyone. Tim Cassesi, Ione, Ca
I was also 21 in 1985,,, the sad part of it is living through the best time of our lives , and we didn't have a clue. My dad, rest in peace, used to tell me back then, "life is hard, life is beautiful, but life is incredibly too short" . I didn't understand. Now I do.
I am one year behind you, as it sure was a much better time to get our kicks. Now 59, I realize that everything in this crazy world is actually cyclical. Peace always...
This song is a timeless masterpiece, with a steady, powerful rhythm, a strong vocal performance, and a beautiful melody that just instantly calms you down. This song will forever be a 1980s gem
It's dreamlike. Connects to a special kind of karma. Makes me feel like I'm blasting brainwaves. All of a sudden did, so I just think affirmatively, if that's the way to go.
oh you are SO right, i still long for those warm 80's days in L.A. at least we got to experience it, you know? our youth will never get to experience that, we've been given a gift:)
..don't forget that the political deep state satanists and their minions were long in power back then preparing for their nwo communist world government and our destruction and complete enslavement. You see what they did right now..and we just didn't know it back then. We need to pray Trump is on the right side of humanity trying to destroy them and Q is legit or we're lost.
whiteonyx11 No, what I won’t forget is that our Savior is not D Trump, although I am proud he is our President. This was all planned from the beginning, nothing is lost, this world model was destined to be done away with, and Satan did not plan that, he just thinks he did..
i understand . im 50 and feel older than that . where are skating rinks and arcades and fun ? in my dreams sometimes im there and wake up and get pissed . damn.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
So true! Now you've gotten me to want to read some Tennessee Williams or see some of the movies he inspired. "Streetcar" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "Glass Menagerie". What a playwright. I was raised in the South & he & O'Neil got it so right! Thanks for the reminder!
@@karolinesmail489 remember the fashion lol, padded shoulders, high tops, pastel color clothes, trench coats, heavy metal backpatches. Yes the music especially, where did time go.
At 79, I still remember the 80's with a full heart, the music, the time of life, the wonder of life itself. What a great set of memories that these songs bring back.
That's strange. I grew up in the 1980's and it was an unbearably grim and soulless experience. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, new conservatism, the cold war, nuclear threat, hunger strikers, apartheid, the birth of me culture and the worship of mass consumerism on a scale unseen before, the emergence of AIDS and the out and out hatred of homosexuals, one of the worst famines in recorded history in the region of Ethiopia, rampant racism and sectarian violence on the streets of Britain, terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, the Falklands War, mass unemployment....oh yeah, and yuppies.
I'm 19 - playing random 80s songs to get my parents to guess who's singing it. This song comes on and the pair of them get these massive smiles on their faces, they love this song 💞💞
I'm from metropolitan New York, took my first visit to England in '85 and it changed me for the better. I'm 70 now but still feel like I'm 30 years younger. I miss the friends and the great 80's music, and though I've visited England over 30 times since, I continue to long for being there. Not from a northern town, but my dad's side of the family came from Lincolnshire to the States in 1637, my mom's father came from Nottingham. I love my English roots!
ABSOLUTELY ❣️ I've read, somewhere, those of us who DO get goosebumps, when hearing certain songs, have something "unique" about us! But for the life of me, I cannot remember WHAT it is!! It's making crazy trying to remember... Maybe I can research it, and find it again!
A song about nostalgia for the 60s makes us nostalgic for the 80s. This is the power of poetry and sound when applied in the right way. RIP Nick Drake.
Thank you for your comment. I never knew this about Nick Drake. I learned something new today. I've loved this song and wondered who it was about or what it was about. Thank you. 💗 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake
I was 25 when this song came out. I"m 63 now but listening to this...I'm 25 again. This song makes me smile at the beauty of it, laugh when I think about the things I got up to back then, and cry a little at what was lost along the way. Words cannot express how much I love this song.
@@Glyder1959 Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏 Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚 When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more. So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀 More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays! Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔 Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all. Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉 Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s. Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED. Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time. Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦 Um-hum, aha, okay? And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
i mean im sure this song reminds you of past times as a person living in a town/city in new hampshire the feel this song gives off isn't too different from how life still feels in these towns when you went outside plenty of people go outside and are having social interactions if you fail too se that then thats on you
To be back in 1985 again just 15 years old, God were did the time go, such an amazing decade, not a worry in the world, hanging out in the basement with all your friends listening to this music, playing cards, board games like Clue, Monopoly, Risk, Scrabble and riding big wheels down the steepest road playing football in the snow i can go on and on, I miss you 80's
I was 30 in '85 and still think the same... A greta song, where has the time gone, I'll be 69 this year and can't help thinking not long to go now... A bit melancholy I know but such is life. Music, how it brings back all those beautiful memories. It is just wonderful.
As a 14 year old back in 1985 I approve all the messages here and this great Dream Academy song. It was a pleasure seeing the video for the first time that year.
I love this song . I remember playing it on the air back when it came out . I was working at KKJO 1550 AM in St. Joseph Missouri . It was one of the happiest times of my life working on a top 40 AM station. Every time I hear it , it transports me back to a simpler and happy time !
I always thought being a disk jockey would be fun. Working in the radio station and watching the workings. Just like the wolf man. But then I toured a radio station and watched an evenings broadcast and you basically sit in a room and drag and drop sound bites into slots all day then play on your phone or play solitaire. I just cried. They didn't even have a microphone in the room, they had a small closet sized room with a mic and if he needed to make an unprogramed announcement he flipped a switch went in there and recorded it or said it live and went back to his phone. I cried. I couldn't believe it. No disks no records, no talking or interacting with the airwaves.
@@dustywelchcraneman6614 Back in the 80's when I was on KKJO it was fun. We played records , or carts with songs on them. Some of the commercials were live and we ran out own boards. What you are describing is how it is nowadays. They've taken the heart out of radio , most of it is automated these days .... but it used to be fun and majical .
J Bro I was a kid , believing that as an adult I’d enjoy that same world .... I was horribly mistaken 🥺 the magic was gone , from music , to people being social , to just enjoying the simple things
@@leary4170 same. I though that the world of the 80s would be the same world we lived in as adults. I never, ever imagined it would be like what it is now. Everything is so different and technological and it's strange seeing millenials everywhere.
Brother I tell you......I feel the same way...I graduated in 84 n NEVER thought things would have changed so much...ppl don't think b4 they act...don't care about anyone else but themselves . It's crazy. Back in the 80s it was GREAT. Carefree..easy going..How I wish we could go back and start over n not let social media take over. ANYWAY...ROCK ON FRIENDS. KEEP ROKN THE 80S...LATERS👋🤘
This is one of those songs that penetrates the soul and pulls at the heart. It evokes a feeling of a lost time which has gone forever. A time that had its struggles and troubles, but underneath there was a sense of freedom in which we all shared and long to return.
Perfectly said.. it’s crazy that soo many have the exact same feeling because sound and arrangement. What else can be done with this and How far can that go and causes this? Is it because of our age at the time we first heard or something else?
It's called feelings we all have them some open some not so good let's the toxicities of life go breath in the good positive energy 💪🙏 move forward no reverse think tanking .. a holes around every corner.
I'm an American who lived in Northern England from 1979-81. The open scenes are a time machine for me... reminds me of being 19 again and experiencing "life in a northern town."
This is one of those magical songs that gives me a flood of nostalgia. It reminds me of being a young teen in the 80s when the song came out .It also reminds me of being a small child in Brooklyn in the early 70s. I know Brooklyn isn't technically a town, but we lived in a close knit neighborhood that felt more like a small town, rather than a borough within a big city. When I hear this song, I think of those few winters that I got to enjoy playing in the snow before our family moved to Florida, where in never snows. But in a way, this song even reminds me of my childhood growing up in Miami, which obviously is neither northern, nor a town...but life was still so much more small town-like back then. We knew all our neighbors, we had block parties, all the kids would play outside until the streetlights came on. Anyway....I love this song.
@@warsameawale5449 Thank you. That was one of the nicest compliments I've ever received. If I ever write a book, I'll be sure to let you know and of course send you a free copy.
Having David Gilmour as the producer of this track greatly helped it break into radio playlists in late 1985... I'd be honored if some fans of mid-80s British classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson on my YT channel in tribute to the era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and stay safe in the '020s.
Rest in peace Nick Drake - the genius that quietly slipped away before anyone realised his brilliance. This song is a wonderful dedication to him and everything about the (very much missed) 70’s & 80’s.
Everyone in the comments section! The 80's aren't gone. We lived the 80's and took it with us and it lives on today. We may not live in the physical years, but they are not over. We are the 80's and we take it with us wherever we go.
I really like the way you think and I agree. The spirit of the 80s are in my heart. I try to keep the fun, bright, bouncy lightness to things, even in bad times. And especially when I listen to the music....I’m there!
@@michaelanderson2881 Whats not true? I'm 62 and remember the English summer mornings when I lay on the grass in the garden and listened to the birds and life going on around me. Life seemed slow and warm and safe. Rainy days exploring the attics and winter days stamping footprints into frost or tracing my fingers over frost patterns on the window. Playing games in the snow, catching snowflakes. I'm West Country not Nothern but the gentle nostalgia for those times makes me smile. ( I remember watching JFK's funeral with my parents-didn't understand why, just remember Jon Jon holding his mother's hand. I also remember the storm of '63. Our trees blew down in the orchard and the door to the roof was blown off and snow got in to our upper storey. Our 300 year old front door splintered from the cold and we had to get a new one).
@@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138 So you're saying that time passes. The OP doesn't seem to say that. If the morning lasted all day, we'd never reach evening, and we'd all still be young. So it's a great line. Too bad it's not true.
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
Meade Music - Lyrics dont always make a song... You have to consider the beat and the instruments because without those then a song would be somebody speaking into a mic.... Nothing more or nothing less.
DNF Danninetyf singing is not speaking, and as a songwriter i disagree. The instruments are icing, but the lyrics can make or break, imo. This song well written. Other songs from the era sound dated by comparison.
Oh, I totally agree! It makes you want to be back standing on the side of the street watching the parade go by eating a snow cone. With all the town folk there. And everyone knows each other. I so miss the 70s and 80s
I wish I could wake up to find today was just a bad dream, and it was still the 80's. I was Young had friends, and life was exciting, the music great. This is the perfect song, just love it. Brilliant lyrics sung with real emotion. Thank you for sharing. My best wishes to everyone out there.
19 and starting college at Holyoke Community College, while commuting from Elms College(which I would later transfer to). And Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out" 1982
“If you are an angel, tell me something the REAL Buckley would know” “Uh, you have a birthmark on your butt the shape of a Honda key” *GASPS* “YOU ARE A REAL ANGEL!!☺️😌”
The one where they think Bobby is the reincarnation of a lama (Won't you Pyaimi (spelling?) Neighbor) and the one where Bobby goes hunting (the title is a play on Good Will Hunting).
@@thatguy20861 "Good Hill Hunting" yep, that was a good one. The one where Hank and Bill find out that Dale and Boomhauer have been sneaking away on Memorial Day for years made me sad when Hank figured it out that he was the one they were avoiding instead of Bill. At least he tried to do better. That darn Peggy is such a narcissist she very rarely admits she's being a jerk-wad. I don't know if you're in to this kind of thing but if you type in 'King of the Hill Edits' into your youtube search bar, it will bring up some hilariously freaky edits some guy has done.
I remember requesting this song to a local radio station once. I live in northern Saskatchewan (Christopher Lake) and work in Waskesiu. Tears me up just writing about this and listening to this song.
I'm an Australian who visited the UK in the 90s. I couldn't get over how welcoming and friendly the people of northern England were to me. I've never forgotten you people. Love to you all from Brisbane.
I just keep playing the song over and over again it reminds me so much of not knowing what to do when to do it how to do it the time flies by so fast like a speeding train
This song makes me feel bad for people who aren't moved emotionally by music. I have no personal nostalgic connection to this song, but hot damn is it powerful
you're talking about my wife! lol.she claims to like music, but as i told her a few weeks ago, in 20years i have never seen or heard you jump for the volume or say "omg, i used to love this song! it brings back so many memories!" sigh... kinda bothers me...
You should stop saying you feel bad for people because they are not as emotionally gifted as you. It is condescending and really a back handed insult. This song is about a time when people were much more understanding of life and there was far less judgement than there is now by the PC left. This is why the people like me who lived through it miss those times so much!
What a magical song. As a 62 year old, this song takes me back to a much better time. And to be written as an elegy to Nick Drake just makes it even more precious
as an ex-Michigander, this song always reminds me of the exodus of the young people from our hometown when the automotive industry was failing. eerie @@FusionHowie
This song in 1986..I swear it felt like I could do anything. I was 14. This video would come on the original MTV at least 6 times a day every 4 hours for months and I would drop whatever I was doing to listen to it. It brought me calm and peace for 4 minutes. But we had so many songs like this back then. I wish I had a time machine. I would give up cell phones and internet just to experience for one more day.
@@tamiparris3132 “Take on Me” by A-ha is another blockbuster hit. A little more techie, but hugely popular and still played today. “Africa” by Toto is another song that many remake and is attributed to its gentle sound. U2’s “With it Without You” has touched many souls deeply with Bono’s top notch vocals and great guitar rifts from “The Edge”. Journeys “Don’t Stop Believing” has got to round out this short list of many many great songs from the 80’s. There are literally hundreds of songs across many genres that are very enjoyable. I think that may be the best point of 80’s music, it all sounded good all while being distinct.
Miss the eighties every day, life was so simple then, friends were durable, unfettered. Music was amazing and ever-evolving. It was so easy to take people at face value, in comparison to everyone's "digital self" nowadays. I grew up in the South Suburbs of Chicago, where kids ran around on their BMX bikes and only had to check in or be home for supper, otherwise, hit the roller rink, or the arcade at the mall, shovel snow and save up for that Mongoose or Diamondback and hit that secret fishing hole just outside of town....
Roller rink, be home before the street light came on, arcades, stretch arm strong, pop rocks, and having no cell phones to where you actually had to communicate with others..... Ya miss those days as well.
Life in a Northern Town" is a song by British group The Dream Academy. The song is the lead single from their debut studio album The Dream Academy, released in 1985. The song was written as an elegy to British folk musician Nick Drake, who died in 1974, and the single's record sleeve includes a dedication to him. Released: March 1985 (UK/International);
it is very lonely and melancholic. You nailed it. It was also played at a memorial for all the lost astronauts of the Challenger explosion, which happened a year later in Jan, 1986. It really gives the song that much more of a sad tone.
COLD rainy day...… so cold your teeth are chattering, your fingertips are numb and the mug of hot soup your mother has made you makes it all better......
I graduated from high school in Michigan in 1985. In the fall I left for college up north in the Upper Peninsula. This long always reminds me of being up there. Some of the best times of my life up there. ❤❤
I saw that episode 2 week's ago and I had to Google the episode to see who sang that song. I totally forgot that hit. I always loved it. I love it even more know.
1985, in college, 2 jobs, on my own, broke, but happy! Great memories! Fast forward to 2024, happy, the journey has been hard but rewarding, very blessed. No matter what, ALWAYS push forward!
While my 1 wk old son was in the hospital having surgery I walked across the street to a college bookstore and bought this album. He's almost 35 yrs old now and everytime I hear it I reminded of how precious life is.
Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏 Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚 When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more. So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀 More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays! Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔 Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all. Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉 Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s. Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED. Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time. Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦 Um-hum, aha, okay? And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
@@OtomoTenzi no such thing death is part of living you go on to a different dimension or you fail and game over or start over who really knows? No one is the answer. We live in a vibrational vortex and the energy we take and use and give back to source is how this game really works. You can choose to doom and gloom or choose to just embrace happiness. No big mystery stop trying to scare people. The fear in your life has only as much energy as you feed into it. Limits exist only on the mind. ✌🏼
@@Ivylights Michael Altman has said, that we all will be reunited with our alien creators after death, and then we shall become WHOLE again... 2215 A.D. 🙏ALTMAN BE PRAISED!!!🙏
@@OtomoTenzi I am not sure who that is. I do know reason a lot of people dying is because earth is traveling through a dark energy field hence all the intense natural disasters. This is all effecting the mood of the people. The young are more susceptible because they have not developed the tools to identify it and adjust.
Every generation thinks they had it the best when they were young, and that the world has gotten worse since then. It is human nature, but it isn't true and never has been. Your nostalgia is blinding you to the problems that existed then - the Cold War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, apartheid in South Africa. AIDS, starvation in Africa, lead in the atmosphere poisoning brains, the hole in the ozone layer. No time is perfect, they all come with problems. I was a teenager in the 90s, but I know it was messed up time too. Today is better, though some things are worse.
The Dream Academy wrote this song as a dedication to the late Nick Drake, an underappreciated folk artist in his prime. RIP Nick Drake, your short lived legacy lives on. 1948-1974
The connection is the guitar Nick Drake posed with on the cover of Bryter Layter. The guitar came into the possession of Nick Laird-Clowes, the singer of the band some ten years later and it was used in the recording of the song.
Maybe he wasn't underappreciated. Maybe he was overappreciated... just wasn't any good. I mean to think one song about you was vastly more popular than your entire life's work says a lot about your life's work.
What a beautiful song for a dismal time in my life. I was in my mid 20s when this song came out in 85. Winter time....fiance had left and moved cross-country to be with her family....Christmas break from college....alone....cold, bleak, grey weather and frigid temperatures....just like the song. Still, there was something about the vocals and the haunting melody that made an otherwise depressing period in my life tolerable and endurable. Thank you!!!
Having David Gilmour as the producer of this track greatly helped it break into radio playlists in late 1985... I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
The Salvation Army band played And the children drunk lemonade And the morning lasted all day, all day And through an open window came Like Sinatra in a younger day Pushing the town away, oh Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah Life in a northern town Ah hey ma ma ma ma They sat on the stoney ground And he took a cigarette out And everyone else came down to listen He said in winter 1963 It felt like the world would freeze With John F. Kennedy And The Beatles Yeah, yeah Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah Life in a northern town Hey ma ma ma ma Ah hey ma ma ma Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah All the work shut down The evening turned to rain Watched the water roll down the drain As we followed him down to the station And though he never would wave goodbye You could see it written in his eyes As the train rolled out of sight...bye-bye Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah Life in a northern town Ah hey ma ma ma ma Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah Life in a northern town
1985 I was 16 and now in 2021 I'm 52 I still enjoy listening to this song, the harmony's and rythm sounds breath taking; had so many cool friends back then...
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
70's and 80's for me...and I wasn't even around for the 70's. Paul Davis, First Edition, James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, Genesis, Air Supply, Chicago, Boston, Foreigner, Led Zeppelin, Journey, Kool and the Gang, The Commodores... And, yes, Paul Davis belongs in that group. I'll fight you over it.
I'm 39 and I promise you nothing brings up amazing nostalgia like listening to the sounds of classic 80s songs. Long live the decade of unforgettable and heartwarming music that inspires generations.
@@davidtrousdale120 amen, I have an old soul as many would say . I listen to everything from the Benny Goodman orchestra to the Big Bopper to the Bar Kay's to Jackie Wilson to Buddy Holly to Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong. If I could I'd invest and open a true to form jazzy style club that takes you back to that era . Long Live the Era of Music .
The hole video was probably edited and put together at Salford technical college at the top of Frederick Rd it used to be a centre for film and media a lot of top 80s bands played there it's now part of Salford university
Thanks to The Dream Academy for this gem! This is one of those songs that's a geographic memory for me. I was living in a northern town - Manchester, NH - when this song came out. This will forever be one of my favorite songs in its own right. The fact that it always takes me back to simpler times learning my way through adulthood just adds to the feels this song gives to me.
The, very first time I heard this song, I was a junior in high school. My girlfriend, an I where kissing, in my convertible over looking the Golden Gate Bridge, looking at San Francisco at night. The next time, was when I was in SouthWest Asia with my Airborne Unit, during the first Gulf War. The same girlfriend, sent me a tape that she made for me, that only had this song. She, sent it as she looked at this song was OUR song. It, sure brought back fond memories sitting in a fox hole late at night. This, song holds a very special place in my heart!!!!
HA! I was about 100 miles away...out in the Gulf....listening to an old pirated tape of Big Country. Watching cruise missiles get launched and wanting to be home.
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar mid-80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson on my YT channel in tribute to the era. Live acoustic with no digital enhancements. Thanks and Happy '020 to all.
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I was Sweet 16 when this song came out in 1985. What I wouldn't give to go back to that time in my life....to be young again, to see my mom again who has been gone so long, to see all my old friends, and have all my old "problems" again with none of the burdens of being older. Enjoy your youth, folks, because it goes so fast.
The pull to go back is real, but yet it is part if who we are, yet the longing is deep.
I was 15. You are so right.
Now just faded to the bittersweet memories. Like one day everything will be more reason to love the shit out of now, the mystery of life #forevergreatful.
I was a junior in high school and i wish i could go back one more time. Those days problems i would do it over, forget now.
God this comment got to me. I'm not that old but I feel exactly what you said.... My early 20s in college. My problems were girls and life dreams. My mom would always give me advice. She loved this song so much. I lost her 2 years ago tragically. I would give anything to go back to that time. Her giving me advice that I would shrug off.
This song makes me long for the past, especially the 80's. I am now 61 years old and find myself saying goodbye to friends every year. This song illustrates the passage of time and the promise of change. Still gives me goosebumps when I hear it.
60 years old...and this reminds me of such a fantastic time...the 80s rocked guys and I am sorry if you weren't there. There has never been and never will be a period of music creation, the likes of which happened over those 10 years.
KJV 📖 time is short here
totally agree am 54...... i dream most nights about the 80s ..... music/fashion/ such a simple life .......i would live it again ..... a million times x
I'm 60, and you're comment hit me between the eye's. Carry on good sir. The race isn't over yet!
Oh man....
It's 2020...Dream Academy gave us this gift 35 years ago...I have never heard a song quite like this one...It's just so smooth & lovely...Who is with me? Love It!
Total Ear Magic.
😑😒😍😏😌😍😎
Im with you
Im with you. Underrated song,very smooth,tender atmosphere
"Loved/Love" it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! after "all" these years etc..........there,s something about this song as soon as it starts "takes" you straight back then etc as if time "hasn,t passed". x x x x
If you only have one hit song. This should be it. 😎
Almost 40 years and it still makes me think of my mate from school who was killed on his bike when this song was out. We were 15 and had the rest of our lives ahead of us. Still think of you Pete ❤️
@@joejoe7212 I’ll take your comment at face value mate, as it’s hard to read tone in some messages. He was on his push bike riding home from school.
Have a good day.
Now we all know about Pete and carry a tiny piece of him too! Nobody ever really leaves us my dude, not as long as somebody carries the torch. Good on you.
@@joejoe7212what a,stupid comment.
Fool
@@joejoe7212you can’t have that much of a twisted mind
@@joejoe7212 When your time comes you can be his friend
who is listening to this timeless classic in 2024?
Me 😀
I am
Hey! Me too! Was talking about the scene on King of the Hill, where it has no reference at all to the scene and people get teary-eyed over it to this day.@@johnspinelli9396
Me too
Me. I'm here!
I don't care what anyone else says, the 80s is the best musical era ever!
Music was just one of the ways the generations today don't measure up to the 80's....
Just if in the video they drove on the correct lane . . . just kidding, 80s English music was the best after the Beatles.
Damn shame, there will be no more music to match the 80's pop.
@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq love English bands
Apoyo 100% tu comentario
The 80’s. MTV. The style. The everything. It will never happen again. We lived in a very unique decade that is now only a part of history. We will always have this music though. No one can take this away from us who lived in this time. I may be sad for it, but I lived it.
Robert Sanko Amen!! I miss those days when music was great!
So damn frickin true Robert Sanko.👍Rock on brother
Your words brought a lump to my throat.
You're right Robert. A huge part of the fabric of my growing up years in the 80's was our awesome music. Not to mention our movies! Such powerful memories & emotions.
It's true, it's a shame the kiddies don't understand. These days when I go into a pub every television plays sports. Baseball, hockey, whatever is in season. In the 80's every TV was on MTV and it was non stop music and videos. They wrote the book on music vids and it really was a different atmosphere.
I was 16 as well. I’m 55 now, have a wonderful wife and two beautiful kids, 14yr girl,and 11yr boy. I’m an older dad, grew up in a small, Northern town 45 minutes East of Sacramento CA. I can listen to these songs all day. I remember my black, zip up parachute pants and pegged, Levi 501’s, and the first kid at Amador High School to have blue & white, high top checkered vans. My parents took me all the way to Santa Cruz to get them. I was so excited. I’m sitting here right now as I’m typing this, watching my wife and kids get ready for church. My life has turned out great. I actually have tears now thinking how I grew up in the 80’s, all the cool games you could play on your Commodore 64, swimming in the rivers and jumping off rope swings, and dreaming about all the things I was gonna do. When I look around today, I think back at how lucky and fun the 80’s were. Take care everyone.
Tim Cassesi, Ione, Ca
❤
1985, I was 21, best time of my life. Now 58, I shed a tear for lost youth.
I was also 21 in 1985,,, the sad part of it is living through the best time of our lives , and we didn't have a clue. My dad, rest in peace, used to tell me back then,
"life is hard, life is beautiful, but life is incredibly too short" . I didn't understand. Now I do.
Keep on goin, life could be a loop I think !
: )
I was born in 1985. I share that in common with this song which is news to me. I didn't know this song came out in 85 until I saw this comment.
Hell awaits you.
I am one year behind you, as it sure was a much better time to get our kicks. Now 59, I realize that everything in this crazy world is actually cyclical. Peace always...
This song always makes me think of the people who I will never see again.
This comment struck a chord. Nailed it, Wow,
@@stevenw9824 thanks.
heaven someday
i believe you said it the best..... about seeing someone for the last time .
says it all.. ...people who may never be seen alive again😐
This song is a timeless masterpiece, with a steady, powerful rhythm, a strong vocal performance, and a beautiful melody that just instantly calms you down. This song will forever be a 1980s gem
It’s also an homage to Nick Drake. ❤
no, it's not an 80s gem, it's a timeless gem!!
It's dreamlike. Connects to a special kind of karma. Makes me feel like I'm blasting brainwaves. All of a sudden did, so I just think affirmatively, if that's the way to go.
It's so full of sweetness, isn't it?
True
I'm old but my brain tells me that I'm 25. My heart my soul full of life and happiness remembering those years!!!🎉🎉🎉😊❤
❤
Why does this song still reduce an old man to tears? Oh what I would give to return to that magical time of my life known simply as the eighties.
oh you are SO right, i still long for those warm 80's days in L.A.
at least we got to experience it, you know? our youth will never get to experience that, we've been given a gift:)
Dean Oliver
With that magic fire living in us that lived those years.....we shall never grow old my brother, keep singing along..
..don't forget that the political deep state satanists and their minions were long in power back then preparing for their nwo communist world government and our destruction and complete enslavement. You see what they did right now..and we just didn't know it back then. We need to pray Trump is on the right side of humanity trying to destroy them and Q is legit or we're lost.
whiteonyx11
No, what I won’t forget is that our Savior is not D Trump, although I am proud he is our President. This was all planned from the beginning, nothing is lost, this world model was destined to be done away with, and Satan did not plan that, he just thinks he did..
i understand . im 50 and feel older than that . where are skating rinks and arcades and fun ? in my dreams sometimes im there and wake up and get pissed . damn.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
Yes very sobering thought
That's an amazing quote.
So beautiful. Brings me to tears.
Yes!
So true! Now you've gotten me to want to read some Tennessee Williams or see some of the movies he inspired. "Streetcar" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "Glass Menagerie". What a playwright. I was raised in the South & he & O'Neil got it so right! Thanks for the reminder!
Everytime I hear a song from the 80s I get so lonely. I long for those days. What an era we had, truly wonderful.
Yes it was! Where did the yrs n music go?
As close as America will EVER GET to the 1950’s. Thank you Ronald Reagan!
@@karolinesmail489 remember the fashion lol, padded shoulders, high tops, pastel color clothes, trench coats, heavy metal backpatches. Yes the music especially, where did time go.
@@karolinesmail489 they sure went fast!
Like the 60's, those days are not gone if they are still within you.
Who is here in 7/2024 listening to this? I t makes me miss the best decade ever 80's can never be touched or matched.
I am
I actually got choked up hearing this song. It took me back to watching MTV at 14 in my old house. Miss those days
Me 😮😊
Still gives me shivers!
I am. Class of 1985. This is the only place I don't feel old.
At 79, I still remember the 80's with a full heart, the music, the time of life, the wonder of life itself. What a great set of memories that these songs bring back.
God bless you
That's strange. I grew up in the 1980's and it was an unbearably grim and soulless experience. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, new conservatism, the cold war, nuclear threat, hunger strikers, apartheid, the birth of me culture and the worship of mass consumerism on a scale unseen before, the emergence of AIDS and the out and out hatred of homosexuals, one of the worst famines in recorded history in the region of Ethiopia, rampant racism and sectarian violence on the streets of Britain, terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, the Falklands War, mass unemployment....oh yeah, and yuppies.
@@AnthonyMonaghan oh man you would have loved the 1880's!! haha t a r d
@@timpavilion3156 Oh dear.
I'm 50 and still 1 of my favorite songs. Peace to you :D The 80's was incredible!
I'm 19 - playing random 80s songs to get my parents to guess who's singing it. This song comes on and the pair of them get these massive smiles on their faces, they love this song 💞💞
I bet they guess right just about every time.
Your a good daughter. Making memories!
More daughters like you,please.
@@sportsdogs7927 They do indeed! @Gregg Mireau and @James Hill Jr Thank you! Those comments made my day!!
Doing the same with my wife right now we're trying to stump each other with songs ages done pretty damn good lol
"can I have a last kiss?"
"no...that part is over..."
"why?"
"chicken thigh"
Buckley & LuAnne? She never stopped loving him. She loved her husband of course, but Buckley wss her first love.
I'm from a "Northern Town" in Britain, (a long time ago), so this timeless classic has a special meaning to me.
Life in a Northern Town❤
I'm from a northern town in Saskatchewan. It's driving me to tears just listening to it.
I'm from a northern New York town, and this song gets me every time.
I'm from metropolitan New York, took my first visit to England in '85 and it changed me for the better. I'm 70 now but still feel like I'm 30 years younger. I miss the friends and the great 80's music, and though I've visited England over 30 times since, I continue to long for being there. Not from a northern town, but my dad's side of the family came from Lincolnshire to the States in 1637, my mom's father came from Nottingham. I love my English roots!
Does anyone else feel like they're in a trance listening to their voices sing in harmony?
Gives me goosebumps.. :)
I dig the percussion in this with the fine piano
Cringe
Yes, often when I listen to Kim Wilde and Kirsty MacColl songs.
Yes so true...💯😇
ABSOLUTELY ❣️
I've read, somewhere, those of us who DO get goosebumps, when hearing certain songs, have something "unique" about us!
But for the life of me, I cannot remember WHAT it is!!
It's making crazy trying to remember... Maybe I can research it, and find it again!
This has got to be one of the most beautifully crafted melodies I've heard. I've always loved this song. Peaceful and just amazing.
Shazara D I agree completely takes me to an era that i miss and loved.
@@kevinaldridge5130 I can just close my eyes and it takes me away, out of the present and into floating peacefulness. I just love this song. :)
I think this song is about the past and now that it is in the past, it haunts us
I love this one from Pink Floyd:
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@@kevinaldridge5130 ah also miss these days so much, 80's will always be special
A song about nostalgia for the 60s makes us nostalgic for the 80s. This is the power of poetry and sound when applied in the right way. RIP Nick Drake.
Agreed.
Thank you for your comment. I never knew this about Nick Drake. I learned something new today. I've loved this song and wondered who it was about or what it was about. Thank you. 💗
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake
Sorry the 1980s are not coming back
Nick Drake lived before my time, wrote/sang "River Man", a moody piece tinged with nostalgia. I had to look him up. Thanks
Beautiful words
I was 25 when this song came out. I"m 63 now but listening to this...I'm 25 again. This song makes me smile at the beauty of it, laugh when I think about the things I got up to back then, and cry a little at what was lost along the way. Words cannot express how much I love this song.
I hear you friend.!!
You’re my mother’s age and she loves this song, too, and now I do, as well ❤
My good friend and brother, I hope you live to be 100+
I was 25 also. Alas, life has really slipped by. This song never gets old.
@@Glyder1959 Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏
Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚
When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more.
So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀
More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays!
Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔
Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all.
Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉
Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s.
Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED.
Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time.
Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦
Um-hum, aha, okay?
And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
Ironic that most everyone on this thread is nostalgic about an 'eighties song that's nostalgic about the 'sixties.
i defy anyone becoming nostalgic about NOW
Kids who are about fifteen now will though, @@vincec3773. It's just normal. Everyone does. Sooner or later, we all put on the rose-colored glasses.
@@vincec3773 Dead right mate!
''The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.''
LP Hartley
@The What's Up - The Band thats right
"Buckley's Angel"
RIP Tom Petty and Brittany Murphy
@daphney bovil Buckley says Hey!
❤️❤️❤️
That’s what brought me here
That’s the reson I can here
hey
Reminds me of simpler days. Before cell phones, computers, and the internet.
When we spoke face to face & hugged one another & shook hands.
Sadly, we all can't seem to live without any of those technologies now.
A time before you would have been able to communicate the comment you made to millions of people. The irony !!
@@alexgreen5064 You are absolutely correct. Hence the reflection on days gone by.
i mean im sure this song reminds you of past times as a person living in a town/city in new hampshire the feel this song gives off isn't too different from how life still feels in these towns when you went outside plenty of people go outside and are having social interactions if you fail too se that then thats on you
To be back in 1985 again just 15 years old, God were did the time go, such an amazing decade, not a worry in the world, hanging out in the basement with all your friends listening to this music, playing cards, board games like Clue, Monopoly, Risk, Scrabble and riding big wheels down the steepest road playing football in the snow i can go on and on, I miss you 80's
I was 30 in '85 and still think the same... A greta song, where has the time gone, I'll be 69 this year and can't help thinking not long to go now... A bit melancholy I know but such is life.
Music, how it brings back all those beautiful memories. It is just wonderful.
Watching my Chicago Bears win the Super Bowl & going to detention for cutting up in class! Times of my life!
@@JosephWilkovichlol. Detention….. I do remember.
18 in 1985.....those were great times!
As a 14 year old back in 1985 I approve all the messages here and this great Dream Academy song. It was a pleasure seeing the video for the first time that year.
I love this song . I remember playing it on the air back when it came out . I was working at KKJO 1550 AM in St. Joseph Missouri . It was one of the happiest times of my life working on a top 40 AM station. Every time I hear it , it transports me back to a simpler and happy time !
I always thought being a disk jockey would be fun. Working in the radio station and watching the workings. Just like the wolf man. But then I toured a radio station and watched an evenings broadcast and you basically sit in a room and drag and drop sound bites into slots all day then play on your phone or play solitaire. I just cried. They didn't even have a microphone in the room, they had a small closet sized room with a mic and if he needed to make an unprogramed announcement he flipped a switch went in there and recorded it or said it live and went back to his phone. I cried. I couldn't believe it. No disks no records, no talking or interacting with the airwaves.
@@dustywelchcraneman6614 Back in the 80's when I was on KKJO it was fun. We played records , or carts with songs on them. Some of the commercials were live and we ran out own boards. What you are describing is how it is nowadays. They've taken the heart out of radio , most of it is automated these days .... but it used to be fun and majical .
Me too
Hiya fellow Joe Townie. Listened to KKJO every night growing up. Such memories
This song makes me think of where I am now. Came from Texas to what I would consider a northern town to work the afternoon show on KGWY FM.
Did anyone else who grew up in the 80s think that things would always be that way?
J Bro I was a kid , believing that as an adult I’d enjoy that same world .... I was horribly mistaken 🥺 the magic was gone , from music , to people being social , to just enjoying the simple things
@@leary4170 same. I though that the world of the 80s would be the same world we lived in as adults. I never, ever imagined it would be like what it is now. Everything is so different and technological and it's strange seeing millenials everywhere.
Every generation believes this. Gen X marked the end of an era in more ways than one.
Yup me too miss the 80s
Brother I tell you......I feel the same way...I graduated in 84 n NEVER thought things would have changed so much...ppl don't think b4 they act...don't care about anyone else but themselves . It's crazy. Back in the 80s it was GREAT. Carefree..easy going..How I wish we could go back and start over n not let social media take over. ANYWAY...ROCK ON FRIENDS. KEEP ROKN THE 80S...LATERS👋🤘
This is one of those songs that penetrates the soul and pulls at the heart. It evokes a feeling of a lost time which has gone forever. A time that had its struggles and troubles, but underneath there was a sense of freedom in which we all shared and long to return.
Bloody hell....well said... 👍
A poet could not have said that better.
Thats deep 😢
Perfectly said.. it’s crazy that soo many have the exact same feeling because sound and arrangement. What else can be done with this and How far can that go and causes this? Is it because of our age at the time we first heard or something else?
It's called feelings we all have them some open some not so good let's the toxicities of life go breath in the good positive energy 💪🙏 move forward no reverse think tanking .. a holes around every corner.
Buckley’s angel sent me here
Aliquippa, Pa is part of the footage. We had a church there at West Aliquippa. Makes me homesick.
@@alext.8456bucklys Angel died in squirrel Hill and went on vacation in Moon twp but aliquippa is the childhood home of Mike dika
RIP BUCKLEY
Hey.
What? Chicken butt.
I'm an American who lived in Northern England from 1979-81. The open scenes are a time machine for me... reminds me of being 19 again and experiencing "life in a northern town."
Hi Jeff, sincerely hope Us Northerners treated you well brother, regards from Sheffield England , keep the faith son
Mission? 🙂
This is one of those magical songs that gives me a flood of nostalgia. It reminds me of being a young teen in the 80s when the song came out .It also reminds me of being a small child in Brooklyn in the early 70s. I know Brooklyn isn't technically a town, but we lived in a close knit neighborhood that felt more like a small town, rather than a borough within a big city.
When I hear this song, I think of those few winters that I got to enjoy playing in the snow before our family moved to Florida, where in never snows. But in a way, this song even reminds me of my childhood growing up in Miami, which obviously is neither northern, nor a town...but life was still so much more small town-like back then. We knew all our neighbors, we had block parties, all the kids would play outside until the streetlights came on. Anyway....I love this song.
You can write beautifully.
When's your book coming out, cause I would spend top dollar to continue reading the way I have just now.
@@warsameawale5449 Thank you. That was one of the nicest compliments I've ever received. If I ever write a book, I'll be sure to let you know and of course send you a free copy.
Ditto. But Chicago
It's about Northern England but it's great other people relate to it
Same here. My childhood was spent between Philadelphia then Clearwater Florida. The music got us through the culture shock.
Having David Gilmour as the producer of this track greatly helped it break into radio playlists in late 1985... I'd be honored if some fans of mid-80s British classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson on my YT channel in tribute to the era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and stay safe in the '020s.
Will Ritter didn’t know Mr Gilmour were the producer...
Enough reasons to breakthrough... uffff
Whattt? That’s crazy. I never would’ve guessed that. Thanks for that bit of trivia.
Thanks for the enlightenment. I had no idea David Gilmour was producer of this track. David Gilmour of obviously Pink Floyd 👍
And if I remember correctly, I think Paul Simon may have helped as well.
Rest in peace Nick Drake - the genius that quietly slipped away before anyone realised his brilliance. This song is a wonderful dedication to him and everything about the (very much missed) 70’s & 80’s.
I was born in 94, and this makes me feel meloncholy for a time I wasn't around for 😢
Well put.
Everyone in the comments section!
The 80's aren't gone. We lived the 80's and took it with us and it lives on today. We may not live in the physical years, but they are not over. We are the 80's and we take it with us wherever we go.
I really like the way you think and I agree. The spirit of the 80s are in my heart. I try to keep the fun, bright, bouncy lightness to things, even in bad times. And especially when I listen to the music....I’m there!
True, I am a product of the 60's, 70's, 80's.
Nothing can destroy the sweet, tender memories of another time, another place.
@@hell-sol5240 idiot
@@elizabethwallace3418 piss off ya little wanker
"Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end."
And that's another great song
They never did, so long as we have the music and the memories.
I wish they hadn't ended
"With its ivory towers and its plastic flowers I wish I was back in 1981"
"We'd loot and burn, forever and a day."
"The morning lasted all day" is one of the great lines, poetry or prose, of any and all times.
agreed, poetry pure and simple
Agree--too bad it's not true. I'll be 60 in two months and, well, I just can't believe it.
@@michaelanderson2881 Whats not true? I'm 62 and remember the English summer mornings when I lay on the grass in the garden and listened to the birds and life going on around me. Life seemed slow and warm and safe.
Rainy days exploring the attics and winter days stamping footprints into frost or tracing my fingers over frost patterns on the window.
Playing games in the snow, catching snowflakes.
I'm West Country not Nothern but the gentle nostalgia for those times makes me smile.
( I remember watching JFK's funeral with my parents-didn't understand why, just remember Jon Jon holding his mother's hand.
I also remember the storm of '63. Our trees blew down in the orchard and the door to the roof was blown off and snow got in to our upper storey. Our 300 year old front door splintered from the cold and we had to get a new one).
@@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138 So you're saying that time passes. The OP doesn't seem to say that. If the morning lasted all day, we'd never reach evening, and we'd all still be young.
So it's a great line. Too bad it's not true.
Agreed. Perfect description of childhood; or at least mine.
"Before I go, can I have one last kiss?"
"No. That part's over."
Actually makes me cry every time
That was a good episode. I'm sad the show ended.
@@brandonmckown9952It was for the best. It started veering into Simpsons territory after the co-creator left.
@@JDoe-gf5oz definitely - this episode had heaps of heart.
what show are we talking about
@@makesfun1270 King of The Hill. The episode with Buckley's angel.
This song is one of those magnificent 80s anthems, a tribute to the best musical decade ever. 80s forever!
Not just music! The time was so damn great compared to now!
@@ed2kou1 yes it was for sure
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
It's a shame we have to get old.
Youth is wasted on the young. . .
It's getting older that gives us the perspective to understand this song, and the emotions it stirs.
no, then we can remember
Im more experienced..not old
Part of getting old(includes me),you can listen to any song that came out decades ago or recently(if that's what u like).
This song still sounds fresh and new 31 years later.
They were brilliant.
Agree completely the timelessness of this makes it so brillant. It never had sounded worn out or cheesy it's an amazing tune.
It's because of the lyrics. Lyrics make the song.
Meade Music - Lyrics dont always make a song... You have to consider the beat and the instruments because without those then a song would be somebody speaking into a mic.... Nothing more or nothing less.
DNF Danninetyf singing is not speaking, and as a songwriter i disagree. The instruments are icing, but the lyrics can make or break, imo. This song well written. Other songs from the era sound dated by comparison.
avioncamper they put together just right not many bands can do that..
One of best songs ever 🌈🙏❤️ Who's listening in 2024?
May I am 70 years old
I looked for this song when I was jumping on a trampoline.
Your mom.
When will you learn to stop thumbing up these spammers, seriously?
@@brandonkitchen9229 Mum*
Who agrees...This tune is hauntingly beautiful....It just is....Just so rhythmically cool and suave. Just dig it
Haunting is the most accurate description of this song. I know of no song that can evoke my emotions like this one.
Wish I could go back to the 80’s. Life was so much fun
You've commented a few times.I get it .this is one of those top ten songs.Enjoy 80's friend.
Lol. Matthew! U beat me to it
Oh, I totally agree! It makes you want to be back standing on the side of the street watching the parade go by eating a snow cone. With all the town folk there. And everyone knows each other. I so miss the 70s and 80s
I wish I could wake up to find today was just a bad dream, and it was still the 80's. I was Young had friends, and life was exciting, the music great. This is the perfect song, just love it. Brilliant lyrics sung with real emotion. Thank you for sharing. My best wishes to everyone out there.
😊
@@katieroller4812 Thank you Katie. When I've built my time machine, we are all going back.
Agreed!
19 and starting college at Holyoke Community College, while commuting from Elms College(which I would later transfer to). And Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out" 1982
Seriously
“If you are an angel, tell me something the REAL Buckley would know”
“Uh, you have a birthmark on your butt the shape of a Honda key”
*GASPS* “YOU ARE A REAL ANGEL!!☺️😌”
Chicken thigh
There are three episodes of King of the Hill that make me tear up at the end; and that is one of them.
@@thatguy20861 what are the other two? I loved how the one with ZZ Top ended.
The one where they think Bobby is the reincarnation of a lama (Won't you Pyaimi (spelling?) Neighbor) and the one where Bobby goes hunting (the title is a play on Good Will Hunting).
@@thatguy20861 "Good Hill Hunting" yep, that was a good one. The one where Hank and Bill find out that Dale and Boomhauer have been sneaking away on Memorial Day for years made me sad when Hank figured it out that he was the one they were avoiding instead of Bill. At least he tried to do better. That darn Peggy is such a narcissist she very rarely admits she's being a jerk-wad. I don't know if you're in to this kind of thing but if you type in 'King of the Hill Edits' into your youtube search bar, it will bring up some hilariously freaky edits some guy has done.
Im sooo Glad i was brought up in my Northern Town ❤x im now 58..its 2023 God Help my lovely Grandson The country is Unrecognisable sooo sad 😔 x
This song gives me chills still today. Always loved the chorus especially. ❤ Hauntingly beautiful.
Yes
So are you from what I can tell. Want to hook up and listen?
❤
Agreed.......still a beautiful song....
I remember requesting this song to a local radio station once. I live in northern Saskatchewan (Christopher Lake) and work in Waskesiu. Tears me up just writing about this and listening to this song.
I'm an Australian who visited the UK in the 90s. I couldn't get over how welcoming and friendly the people of northern England were to me. I've never forgotten you people. Love to you all from Brisbane.
You're welcome mate.👍
You should see it now.
Hope you're well, mate. From Blackpool.😄
It's a right shithole now. Tories fucked us, big time.
@@PatrickFDolan the 90's was an era that simply cannot ever be regained,
FEW SONGS CAPTURE NOSTALGIA AND MELANCHOLY AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME LIKE THIS ONE----IT WAS, AND IS, WONDERFUL!
I just keep playing the song over and over again it reminds me so much of not knowing what to do when to do it how to do it the time flies by so fast like a speeding train
This song makes me feel bad for people who aren't moved emotionally by music. I have no personal nostalgic connection to this song, but hot damn is it powerful
you're talking about my wife! lol.she claims to like music, but as i told her a few weeks ago, in 20years i have never seen or heard you jump for the volume or say "omg, i used to love this song! it brings back so many memories!" sigh... kinda bothers me...
I'm the same...just heard it for the first time yesterday and was moved straight away by it. Amazing.
well said pal
You should stop saying you feel bad for people because they are not as emotionally gifted as you. It is condescending and really a back handed insult. This song is about a time when people were much more understanding of life and there was far less judgement than there is now by the PC left. This is why the people like me who lived through it miss those times so much!
This song murdered me the first time I heard it, so long ago.
What a magical song. As a 62 year old, this song takes me back to a much better time. And to be written as an elegy to Nick Drake just makes it even more precious
Ohh that is a good song to be a good friend to my family
I didn't know that. Poor Nick Drake flew away.
I hear you Joel,in same boat,but we not cast adrift.
60 year old here , I feel the exact same way , peace from Detroit MI.
as an ex-Michigander, this song always reminds me of the exodus of the young people from our hometown when the automotive industry was failing. eerie
@@FusionHowie
I was 28 years old when this song came out and living in Japan.
When I find my way to this video on RUclips,for four minutes it's 1985 in my mind.
yeah, while it takes me back to Worcester Mass, it IS 1985 again.
We don’t search for old songs, we search for old memories.
This song in 1986..I swear it felt like I could do anything. I was 14. This video would come on the original MTV at least 6 times a day every 4 hours for months and I would drop whatever I was doing to listen to it. It brought me calm and peace for 4 minutes. But we had so many songs like this back then. I wish I had a time machine. I would give up cell phones and internet just to experience for one more day.
I totally agree. The second best decade of music (the 60s was first) ever!
Word…
hi, im much younger than most ppl in the comments but I love this song! what other songs from the 80's were like this???
@@tamiparris3132 “Take on Me” by A-ha is another blockbuster hit. A little more techie, but hugely popular and still played today. “Africa” by Toto is another song that many remake and is attributed to its gentle sound. U2’s “With it Without You” has touched many souls deeply with Bono’s top notch vocals and great guitar rifts from “The Edge”. Journeys “Don’t Stop Believing” has got to round out this short list of many many great songs from the 80’s. There are literally hundreds of songs across many genres that are very enjoyable. I think that may be the best point of 80’s music, it all sounded good all while being distinct.
Amen to that! I was also 14. We thought we knew it all and wanted to grow up so fast. Looking back, we had everything, including really good music 🎶
Miss the eighties every day, life was so simple then, friends were durable, unfettered. Music was amazing and ever-evolving. It was so easy to take people at face value, in comparison to everyone's "digital self" nowadays. I grew up in the South Suburbs of Chicago, where kids ran around on their BMX bikes and only had to check in or be home for supper, otherwise, hit the roller rink, or the arcade at the mall, shovel snow and save up for that Mongoose or Diamondback and hit that secret fishing hole just outside of town....
sounds very much like growing up here in Scotland. Simpler times for sure.
@@tweedy151
Life was very good here in Atlantic Canada.. the late 70s and early 80s was a great time for Beautiful
Songs.. miss them so so much.
Right now I would do anything if it was 1980 again (I was 20)
@@pegleg09able
I wish it was the 70s
Same reason as you
Roller rink, be home before the street light came on, arcades, stretch arm strong, pop rocks, and having no cell phones to where you actually had to communicate with others..... Ya miss those days as well.
Life in a Northern Town" is a song by British group The Dream Academy. The song is the lead single from their debut studio album The Dream Academy, released in 1985. The song was written as an elegy to British folk musician Nick Drake, who died in 1974, and the single's record sleeve includes a dedication to him.
Released: March 1985 (UK/International);
Thanks for that bit of history.
I was 12 years old. I thank God for allowing me to live during this decade. I wouldn't trade it for any other.
To this day, I still haven't heard a song as melancholic and lonely as this one, and I hold it dear to me.
Check out "Linger" by The Cranberries. It's a tough one too.
Me too
it is very lonely and melancholic. You nailed it. It was also played at a memorial for all the lost astronauts of the Challenger explosion, which happened a year later in Jan, 1986. It really gives the song that much more of a sad tone.
"Walk Away" by Cast.
Hold it tight ✌️
The soundtrack to every rainy day in 1985.
COLD rainy day...… so cold your teeth are chattering, your fingertips are numb and the mug of hot soup your mother has made you makes it all better......
Soundtrack to winter nights for me in 2019.
In around 1988 there were Tinseltown in the Rain by the Blue Nile, and Jocelyn Square by Love and Money.
I graduated from high school in Michigan in 1985. In the fall I left for college up north in the Upper Peninsula. This long always reminds me of being up there. Some of the best times of my life up there. ❤❤
Meant song lol
This song was played in one of King of the Hill episode where Buckley appeared as an angel and visited luanne. Definitely nostalgic!
unless you're just a hallucinogen of my mind.
One of my favorite episodes of that show dude
It was on tonight lol
That's where I first heard it!
I saw that episode 2 week's ago and I had to Google the episode to see who sang that song. I totally forgot that hit. I always loved it. I love it even more know.
1985, in college, 2 jobs, on my own, broke, but happy! Great memories! Fast forward to 2024, happy, the journey has been hard but rewarding, very blessed. No matter what, ALWAYS push forward!
Same.
Schwerinaeger?
Sempoer Deinceps!
Was The Year That Charlize Theron Was Born, Yes Another Reason Why The 80's were The Best
The instrumentation in this song is incredible. As an 11-year-old when it was released, I could appreciate the musicianship.
Another fine example of why 80's music is the best. Music and lyrics brought together to create a masterpiece.
While my 1 wk old son was in the hospital having surgery I walked across the street to a college bookstore and bought this album. He's almost 35 yrs old now and everytime I hear it I reminded of how precious life is.
The magic of nostalgic time travel.
What an awesome memory!
Love is all it takes
God Blessed You 🙏
Mamba Ford
1963. We really did think the world would freeze & never change. We had J.F.K. & The Beatles. We had arrived. This song breaks my heart.
Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏
Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚
When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more.
So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀
More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays!
Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔
Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all.
Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉
Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s.
Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED.
Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time.
Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦
Um-hum, aha, okay?
And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
@@Ivylights ENDTIMES are near... Trust me on this! 😞
@@OtomoTenzi no such thing death is part of living you go on to a different dimension or you fail and game over or start over who really knows? No one is the answer. We live in a vibrational vortex and the energy we take and use and give back to source is how this game really works. You can choose to doom and gloom or choose to just embrace happiness. No big mystery stop trying to scare people. The fear in your life has only as much energy as you feed into it. Limits exist only on the mind. ✌🏼
@@Ivylights Michael Altman has said, that we all will be reunited with our alien creators after death, and then we shall become WHOLE again... 2215 A.D. 🙏ALTMAN BE PRAISED!!!🙏
@@OtomoTenzi I am not sure who that is. I do know reason a lot of people dying is because earth is traveling through a dark energy field hence all the intense natural disasters. This is all effecting the mood of the people. The young are more susceptible because they have not developed the tools to identify it and adjust.
this song makes me feel weird
i feel like crying or something
a human brain came up with this?
damn...
It does have a melancholy air to it. At the same time it's very uplifting and beautiful. Like a chilly autumn breeze or something.
Who is listening to this while in Coronas 2020 Stay at Home Order?
blue horseshoe 👍🙏
Yep me too.
Me
Merv Hughes was here 11 APR 2020, Day 24 of Corona Virus Lockdown. Search - Obscure 80s music
All the work shutdown.
Such a nice song, reminds me of the 80s when life was simpler
And so much cooler.
We were on the brink of nuclear war with Russia. Yes, such a joyous carefree time... 🙄
WE (the 80s teens) had the best of everything, especially music...Little did we know it would be the last generation of greatness...Great song!
Ain’t that the truth 😢
1960's Jimi, the Beatles.. etc was the best.
@@michaelcraig9449 not even close....
@@galas062 Beatles biggest band ever by far! Jimi changed the entire sound of music. No one else ever did that before or since.
Every generation thinks they had it the best when they were young, and that the world has gotten worse since then. It is human nature, but it isn't true and never has been. Your nostalgia is blinding you to the problems that existed then - the Cold War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, apartheid in South Africa. AIDS, starvation in Africa, lead in the atmosphere poisoning brains, the hole in the ozone layer.
No time is perfect, they all come with problems. I was a teenager in the 90s, but I know it was messed up time too. Today is better, though some things are worse.
i have no idea why this song always brings a lump to my throat..always has..strange..
It does to me too, and that's okay.
It's because it is great and timeless! Plain and simple.
timeless, wonderfull
its almost like it takes me through time under the threshold of existence to see the different timeless universal frames.
mikieson music is the soundtrack of our lives, that's why! 💕💕💕
This song is timeless
who else could rock an ENGLISH HORN like this lovely lady!! AND YES timeless quality to it!!
completely
I agree Michael Chance.
Friggn timeless
WHO HERE FROM KING OF THE HILL
The Dream Academy wrote this song as a dedication to the late Nick Drake, an underappreciated folk artist in his prime. RIP Nick Drake, your short lived legacy lives on. 1948-1974
Oh thank you! I've always wondered who the song was about, never got around to looking it up!
Pink moon by Nick Drake is a Gem. Thanks for the info about the connection. I had no idea!
I grew up in Tanworth-in-arden not far from nick drakes family home. Very inspiring artist, as is this tribute to him.
The connection is the guitar Nick Drake posed with on the cover of Bryter Layter. The guitar came into the possession of Nick Laird-Clowes, the singer of the band some ten years later and it was used in the recording of the song.
Maybe he wasn't underappreciated. Maybe he was overappreciated... just wasn't any good. I mean to think one song about you was vastly more popular than your entire life's work says a lot about your life's work.
Rest in Peace Nick Drake (who this song was an elegy to). Known as the Vincent Van Gogh of music, he died before the world realised his talent...
I just want climb into this song and stay there. . . forever.
You've put so eloquently a feeling I've been struggling to express. Thank you.
Definitely.
Your comment is the most accurately expressed desire of mine!
Mr. Bob Dobalina 👏
This. Yes. Please 💖
Anyone w a time machine?
I'm ready .... bags are packed 😎
Still here in 2024...who is with me?
I am! 🤩
@@seoul_soleil They're SPAMMERS, these 24 people.
@@williamdavisjr.3784 get a life. Who's here in 2024. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. People are just dumb asses nowadays
Still here my friend.
Still a great way to start the day…
What a beautiful song for a dismal time in my life. I was in my mid 20s when this song came out in 85. Winter time....fiance had left and moved cross-country to be with her family....Christmas break from college....alone....cold, bleak, grey weather and frigid temperatures....just like the song. Still, there was something about the vocals and the haunting melody that made an otherwise depressing period in my life tolerable and endurable. Thank you!!!
Having David Gilmour as the producer of this track greatly helped it break into radio playlists in late 1985... I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
so; where do we find it ?
I'm glad you asked that :-) ruclips.net/video/DkkvnRXkrPo/видео.html
When my days are at an end, I want to hear this and other 80's song to send me on.
Peace Christina.x
Me too x
Same with me Christina
I was just thinking the same thing!
I was 15 in '85. Such great memories. I hope everyone enjoyed the 80's as much as I did. They weren't perfect but, well, yea they were.....
Born in 69. Growing up in the 70s and 80s was special.
The Salvation Army band played
And the children drunk lemonade
And the morning lasted all day, all day
And through an open window came
Like Sinatra in a younger day
Pushing the town away, oh
Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya
Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah
Life in a northern town
Ah hey ma ma ma ma
They sat on the stoney ground
And he took a cigarette out
And everyone else came down to listen
He said in winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
And The Beatles
Yeah, yeah
Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya
Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah
Life in a northern town
Hey ma ma ma ma
Ah hey ma ma ma
Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah
All the work shut down
The evening turned to rain
Watched the water roll down the drain
As we followed him down to the station
And though he never would wave goodbye
You could see it written in his eyes
As the train rolled out of sight...bye-bye
Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya
Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah
Life in a northern town
Ah hey ma ma ma ma
Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya
Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah
Life in a northern town
🥰Thank you for posting the lyrics. 👍I appreciate your thoughtfulness.! ❤It's such a great song.!
DRANK lemonade.......bad english
"Winter 1963. It felt like the world would freeze. With John F. Kennedy and the beatles" I love that
The very air sparkled.
That's Beatles
@@davidtrousdale120 must of autocorrected
The year I was born
@@verdant2215 That's must _have_ autocorrected. 😏 Must've is also ok. By the way, I love that lyric too.
1985 I was 16 and now in 2021 I'm 52 I still enjoy listening to this song, the harmony's and rythm sounds breath taking; had so many cool friends back then...
So was I.
I still have the cool friends that matter at 53
Yeah me too. Best years and best memories
And in 20 years you will be 72, don’t waste a minute of it.
Such a great song. Why? Chicken thigh. RIP Buckley.
And Luanne, Dale & Lucky.
August, 2019 anyone else on a random 80's binge for no particular reason?
Me!!!
It's not random, it's The Way.
Music unlocks and releases forgotten memories, especially when it is from the 80s
Always in the 80s
mcgavin always McGavin having nice Romiania spirit 🇷🇴
Great memories from the 80's, who is listening in 2023!
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
listening in 2024. check out pub choir and sugarland with their covers.
I just looked it up!😊
2024
2024 here..
This song by Dream Academy is proof, that Music is the best and only way to travel back in time.
What a name for a band!
Never looked at it that way...how very true!!!!
Nothin will compare to the 80"s or 90's music GREAT TIMES ,NO rap crap !!!!!!
70's and 80's for me...and I wasn't even around for the 70's. Paul Davis, First Edition, James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, Genesis, Air Supply, Chicago, Boston, Foreigner, Led Zeppelin, Journey, Kool and the Gang, The Commodores... And, yes, Paul Davis belongs in that group. I'll fight you over it.
I'm 39 and I promise you nothing brings up amazing nostalgia like listening to the sounds of classic 80s songs. Long live the decade of unforgettable and heartwarming music that inspires generations.
I'm 61 and for me it was the 60's as well as the 70's and 80's!
@@davidtrousdale120 amen, I have an old soul as many would say . I listen to everything from the Benny Goodman orchestra to the Big Bopper to the Bar Kay's to Jackie Wilson to Buddy Holly to Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong. If I could I'd invest and open a true to form jazzy style club that takes you back to that era . Long Live the Era of Music .
A lot of it filmed in my northern town ....SALFORD it starts in a car driving up Frederick rd ...A place I know well
eh up lad!
Cool! Thanks for the inside info on the location!
I live in a small town in the far north of New Zealand and I have always loved this song from the first time I heard it.
I can see the bridge at 2:27 from my bedroom window
The hole video was probably edited and put together at Salford technical college at the top of Frederick Rd it used to be a centre for film and media a lot of top 80s bands played there it's now part of Salford university
Thanks to The Dream Academy for this gem!
This is one of those songs that's a geographic memory for me. I was living in a northern town - Manchester, NH - when this song came out. This will forever be one of my favorite songs in its own right. The fact that it always takes me back to simpler times learning my way through adulthood just adds to the feels this song gives to me.
It is quite a unique Jewel of a Song !!
Quien mas le gusta este hermosa canción?
Listening to this song always floods my mind with memories of my childhood and early teens. I grew up in a northern town during this very time.
The, very first time I heard this song, I was a junior in high school. My girlfriend, an I where kissing, in my convertible over looking the Golden Gate Bridge, looking at San Francisco at night. The next time, was when I was in SouthWest Asia with my Airborne Unit, during the first Gulf War. The same girlfriend, sent me a tape that she made for me, that only had this song. She, sent it as she looked at this song was OUR song. It, sure brought back fond memories sitting in a fox hole late at night. This, song holds a very special place in my heart!!!!
HA! I was about 100 miles away...out in the Gulf....listening to an old pirated tape of Big Country. Watching cruise missiles get launched and wanting to be home.
Yeah... I was to your south with 1st Armored Division listening to the Stone's Paint It Black. What unit were you in?
Attached to Command (yeah...one of those STAFF guys) out of Bahrain...Initially JTFME. I trained to fire Stinger Missiles
Whatever became of your relationship? Tell me you guys got married.
I did....same girl I was pining over then. #26 coming up for us.
2020 and I'm STILL love'n this song!!!
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar mid-80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson on my YT channel in tribute to the era. Live acoustic with no digital enhancements. Thanks and Happy '020 to all.
It's just Me agreed. Love this era!
☺
@@willritter4076 Both great songs were from 2 obscure 1 hit wonders of mid 80's.
Buckley's angel is watching over us all.
What? chicken butt.
hey.
Chicken thigh.
You have a birthmark on your butt the shape of a Honda key 🔑
I can't tell if this song makes me happy or sad but I like it 😌
it makes you feel. that's good art.