1983....I suffered a year long bout of deep depression....with time and counselling....it lifted...I have to say this song helped me a lot, and I was able to "throw off my mental chains"....I will be forever indebted to Mr. Jones for this song....
My dad died in 82, I was only 15 yrs old ,my world had crumbled around me .. when I first heard this song it put a little joy and pep back into my life, and it still does when I get to a low point, it pops back into my head.. I'm grateful that it came out when it did, it shure helped me
1999 aged 17 I was the Same. Discoverd 80s music and it pulled me right up. Think it was Depeche mode Just can't get enough got me right out of that frame of mind. There was definitely a spirit and magic in the 80s that was one off unique. Every molecule in my body responds to the sounds of the 80s. Hope you doing good now. In a weird way having suffered from Depression actually makes you a much stronger person!
I also suffer with depression pretty badly these days but able to hear a beautiful song you forget about what happing around you that makes us pissed.,angry, down depressed sad YOU FORGET ABOUT YOUR SHITE YOU HAVE TO COPE WITH THANKS HOWARD JONES FMHAMMYJ Hope your doing good,🙏👍
@@yvonbaron751 😭 During the Music Awards of 2020.... 🧙🏻♂️Qabbalist's DURAN DURAN claimed they "DROPPED THE BOMB onto the WORLD".... and they did! What kind of BOMB was this? With 📡 Mtv🛰️... Technology... the MAGIC of sorcery... had suddenly an ability to broadcast spell's quickly... using certain frequencies...that bend realities... Using the demonic Jinn 👥🧞♂️ genie's-dementors... Depression is a sign the occult was using MAGIC 🔮 against you... If your also susceptible to migraines... Epilepsy... Bipolar... Schizophrenia.... ADHD... auto-immune diseases... etc. This is mainly due to the jinn which are ENERGY... attacking our own ENERGY which we have inside our own bodies...the Central Nervous System... Magic ✨ is frequency mind control.... It's why Muslim's pray 🖐🏻 5 time's a day against all of the MAGIC IN THE AIR 🎙️🎼📻.... UNFORTUNATELY... MANY MUSLIM'S seem clueless about what I have explained... at this depth. The Quran is KRYPTONITE to Sorcerer's... The Free Mason's Illuminati made certain the Quran's Recitation's would eventually loose it's beautiful SOUND RESONANCES by reciting it ROBOTICALLY devoid of rhythm 🎼 claiming MUSIC is forbidden/Haram and reciting the Quran melodiously is also forbidden... THIS IS WRONG and it is for this reason why so many have left following such a beautiful ✨ faith... Due to the mind manipulation of the wicked... Omar Hisham Al Arabi and Saad Al Quershi, Sephardic... and many other's can recite the Quran is way's your heart just melts... SATAN'S #1 GOAL IS PARENTAL ALIENATION AL 🧞♂️ IEN 👽 NATION SATAN IS A JINN... NOT a fallen ANGEL.... The Catholic Church has tricked many into believing are Ghost's 👻 Spirit's 🍸🔥..... After the Beetle's with their Qabbalistic lyrics... pushing SEX DRUGS AND ROCK N ROLL ... The Disco Era came...then the 80's.... 🚀Mtv 🛰️ NASA began to take over the skies... Our Earth's SOUND BUBBLE 💭 which is our barrier 🚧 between us and the Jinn REALM! Halloween 🎃 night is when the air is the thinnest between us Human's and the Jinn 🧞♂️👻👽🛸... Many fell into deep depression once the Beetle Mania Era took off! Satan has an ARMY and they're relentless to destroy us! Glad you're okay! 💗✨🕊️
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Dude, the 80s were shit. Thatcher, miners strikes, union strikes, red-braced twats in Chelsea taking all the money, dumb yuppies. Man it was a shite decade. The only good thing about it was the music which made the mess bearable.
You’re missing some great songs like Elegy, Look Mama, Bounce Right Back, No One is to Blame…I mean, you can find positive messages in there, but not what would typically be considered “positive & uplifting”
We needed this before 2010... music has turned into Scheidt....And the people who like 'modern 2010- to current' music are the ones that say we 'older' people are the problem and they are being 'progressive', changing the world for the better...
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Howard if you see this I would just like to say thank you 😊 I had a difficult childhood but in a low point I was walking past a park in Birmingham in 83 ish and i heard you’re song to fireworks it put a smile on my face and I remember it to this day 🙂 your song is my favourite song of all time. Thank You from the bottom of my heart fella it reminds me where I came from and where I am now . Jason the old codger who fosters children 👍
My world came crashing down when my dad died in 82, I was only 15 yrs old, the worst time for a young man growing up... but when this song came out it put a little joy and pep back into me, and still does.. when I get to a low point it pops back in my head and after listening to it for a while it changes my mind set... even tho I'm really into old rock and roll then the pop songs of that time , I'm grateful that this one came out and to Howard cause it shure helped me and still does
@yvonbaron751 I can relate very much so. I just heard this song in a movie and it brought a lot of memories. I lost my mother in 1983 when I was 11 and it really shook my world as well.
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Because then it mattered more what was played rather than what the player looked like. Nowadays the priority is flipped, and we have fake people playing fake songs.
Im 53 now and this brings back memories of the best times on my life and the best thing is i haven't heard it in yrs an yrs and i remember every single word lol
Awesome song, I loved this from the very first minute I heard it 33 years ago and it still stands strong in my mind as one of the greatest songs ever recorded.
a friend had 2 tickets for a concert this guy Howard Jones was holding a concert in the odean Hammersmith so I went alone with my friend to this gig in a cinema never herd of concert in a cinema so I did a rekki first the critics had this guy Howard Jones couldn't perform a solo concert for 2 hour boy thay where so so wrong this concert was held in the 80s by the end of the concert I was up on the seat dancing away to this guy Howard Jones music this all new sound awesome songs I'm now in my 60s and still a life long fan I'll never forget is mind blowing style of music the way his keyboards were set up on stage the guy in chain's the gigs like a video in my head clear as a bell then I learned Howard is a Welshman I was in my oils one of the top artist of the 80s lol I wonder if people attending the concert remember the performances we were treated to thankyou Mr Howard Jones for turning the music I was listening to at the time on it's head brilliantly thought out concert. Cheers all ps my reverie song as to be the 12intch version of ban the bomb love it keep playing Howard fans and people of today will never tire of your music joyo davorre jdh fan for life.
One of my professors is obsessed with the 80’s and plays an 80’s song during the class break and has us guess, haha. Never heard this song till now. Shout-out to Mr. Madsen!
abso so so so lutely. I was 13 and those few yrs, from '83'-87ish contained some of the most important and multifaceted and multicultural music ever! Check it all out!
This song is a mantra for living your best life, totally underated! It's meaning may have been overlooked by it's catchy 80s sound i guess. Song is pure genius, created and performed by one person. Wonder if it should be re released to get such a great message out there again...think we need it right now!
This song actually plays a lot in grocery and retail stores. I had to look it up because I couldn't understand what he was saying and all I heard was "Ee! Ee! Eeee!"
Howard Jones is one of the few artist who can produce truly great works without having to resort to vulgarity, but instead inflect his music with much optimism, hope and love.
The "second British invasion" was great for the decade, British bands poured out of garages,cities, clubs, art school bringing back soul, Motown, r&b and introducing reggae, ska, dub, Irish and Scottish influences, mixing it up with synthpop, new wave, postpunk, pop, attitude, cool, accents, style helping make the 80's the most musically widely varied decade. Thanks guys!
Yes, this is an important detail. A lot of songs from the 80s people still love came from the UK and to a lesser extent, Ireland and Australia, plus some songs from continental Europe, especially from Italy, Germany, and France. What's frustrating the past 20 years is that it seems like there is almost no influence from those countries on the US anymore, besides maybe some EDM, but it's not the same. While the situation is too strong in the other direction now, too much influence from the US on what people listen to in other countries.
Yeah, I know the feeling. There were days when I would have given anything to relive this period of my life, 1981-1984. But we can’t go back. Don’t miss the past too much, otherwise you’ll get stuck there. Look forward, my friend.
"Don't crack up..bend your brain..see both sides..throw off your mental chains"...great lyrics and advice well taken!. So glad I got to see this guy live a few years back...80's bucket list is still quite long..
This is my song all over!! The final scene, where all the kids skip school and dance off into the sunset sums up the whole of my life! To my great confusion, yet massive relief, social conditioning failed to work on me: I started off quite well in life, yet failed GCSES and A-levels simply because something in me felt they were a complete waste of time. Likewise having a 'career' and saddling myself with a mortgage in life. Truth to tell, I've bummed about a fair bit in life and at nearly 50 have very little security, but I've never stopped feeling like a kid inside - which is a bloody wonderful feeling :)
I've been waiting for so long To come here now and sing this song Don't be fooled by what you see Don't be fooled by what you hear This is a song to all of my friends They take the challenge to their hearts Challenging preconceived ideas Saying goodbye to long standing fears Don't crack up Bend your brain See both sides Throw off your mental chains I don't wanna be hip and cool I don't wanna play by the rules Not under the thumb of the cynical few Or laden down by the doom crew Don't crack up Bend your brain See both sides Throw off your mental chains Don't crack up Bend your brain See both sides Throw off your mental chains I've been waiting for so long To come here now and sing this song Don't be fooled by what you see Don't be fooled by what you hear This is a song to all of my friends They take the challenge to their hearts Challenging preconceived ideas Saying goodbye to long standing fears Don't crack up Bend your brain See both sides Throw off your mental chains
Non ho mai vivuto negli anni 80 ma mi posso imaginare che bei tempi pieni di felicità aveti avuto, se avesse anch'io il DeLorean Di J Fox Mi piacerebe di andare in quella epoca, che bei momenti migliori.😢😢😢😢
Never realised as a callow youth how much the message of the song was as much about accepting different views as it was about tearing down the establishment. I bought Humans Lib for £3.49 from Woolies (as was the way of things at the time) and played it until the grooves wore low and still to this day consider it to be one of the greatest albums of the decade. Start by hearing Conditioning, What is Love and move through Don’t Always Look at the Rain and Pearl in the Shell and tell me it wasn’t. Sublime songs from a hugely underrated musician.
My son is now 12 in 2019. I was born in 1971. Sorry but I had the years for great music. It was hit after hit after hit and was so eclectic. Great times, and we knew it too!
Great song, great lyrics, great synthplayer! Thank you so much mr. Howard Jones for all your songs and help creating the wonderful 80s! musical history
love this guy, love his vibe, an music.. grew up to this in fab 80's.. still making me dance around when i hear on absolute 80's... the music was good in those days.. i'm on a fix tonight for nostalgia!!..
My favorite song of his. In the USA it only peaked at #27 in March, 1984 but since he was new to the music scene, radio didn't give this one a fair shake. Now days it can be heard on PA systems such as in Wal Marts.
This wonderful song has fabulous lyrics! So hopeful and positive! The bouncy tune and wonderful words just make you want to jump out of bed and go for it! :)
Sweet, lovely Howard. Only looks about 23 here. I can still see that dancer guy doing his thing on Top of the Pops, one Thursday night in 1983. I was 7 and I was mesmerised!
Don't know how I managed to watch MTV back in the day and never saw this video. Good music remains good music for those who have ears to hear it. Love the music and the sentiments (at any point in time, who doesn't need to throw off some mental chains???). Howard is still rockin' hard and sounding great. Go you! ❤☮🌎
This is part of the soundtrack of my life, I was 13, the 80’s was awesome, the 90’s a blur and the millennium a surprise! This makes me happy to be here. God bless us all.
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Top 5 (Five) Howard Jones English British 🇬🇧 Band Best Of Collection Single Hits New Waves Eighty (80s) Ninety (90s) Billboard Chart Legendary Seniors Citizens Disband European Waves
Edwardo Tinoco Britain in the early 80s was pretty grim though what with miners strikes etc. That's why we needed the relentlessly upbeet music of wham, Howard Jones etc
First time watching this video of a song I discovered last night thanx to Spotify 😊 I don't know if the 80s were so good as many people say in the comments, but definitely the 80s produced, by far, the music I like the most. I'm so hooked ❤️ (and it's friday, yay!)
Howard Jones gave us this "New Song" forty years ago! We are still listening in 2024. "New Song" will never get old!
It's weird, I've been hearing this song a lot recently, in the coffee shop, at the supermarket... This is one of the songs on which I grew up! 😊
Word.
It is perfection.
I finished building my time machine.Who would like to go back to the 80's and 90's with me?😎
My husband and myself would LOVE to join you!! I’d have more time with my mom, and I’d pitch those damn estrogen pills that gave her breast cancer.
Is it in a Delorean?
80's for me please ...
ME!!! ME!! ME !!!
Meeeeeeee
1983....I suffered a year long bout of deep depression....with time and counselling....it lifted...I have to say this song helped me a lot, and I was able to "throw off my mental chains"....I will be forever indebted to Mr. Jones for this song....
My dad died in 82, I was only 15 yrs old ,my world had crumbled around me .. when I first heard this song it put a little joy and pep back into my life, and it still does when I get to a low point, it pops back into my head.. I'm grateful that it came out when it did, it shure helped me
1999 aged 17 I was the Same. Discoverd 80s music and it pulled me right up. Think it was Depeche mode Just can't get enough got me right out of that frame of mind. There was definitely a spirit and magic in the 80s that was one off unique. Every molecule in my body responds to the sounds of the 80s. Hope you doing good now. In a weird way having suffered from Depression actually makes you a much stronger person!
I also suffer with depression pretty badly these days but able to hear a beautiful song you forget about what happing around you that makes us pissed.,angry, down depressed sad
YOU FORGET ABOUT YOUR SHITE YOU HAVE TO COPE WITH THANKS HOWARD JONES FMHAMMYJ
Hope your doing good,🙏👍
@@yvonbaron751 😭
During the Music Awards of 2020.... 🧙🏻♂️Qabbalist's DURAN DURAN claimed they
"DROPPED THE BOMB onto the WORLD".... and they did! What kind of BOMB was this? With 📡 Mtv🛰️... Technology... the MAGIC of sorcery... had suddenly an ability to broadcast spell's quickly... using certain frequencies...that bend realities... Using the demonic Jinn 👥🧞♂️ genie's-dementors...
Depression is a sign the occult was using MAGIC 🔮 against you... If your also susceptible to migraines... Epilepsy... Bipolar... Schizophrenia.... ADHD... auto-immune diseases... etc. This is mainly due to the jinn which are ENERGY... attacking our own ENERGY which we have inside our own bodies...the Central Nervous System...
Magic ✨ is frequency mind control....
It's why Muslim's pray 🖐🏻 5 time's a day against all of the MAGIC IN THE AIR 🎙️🎼📻....
UNFORTUNATELY... MANY MUSLIM'S seem clueless about what I have explained... at this depth.
The Quran is KRYPTONITE to Sorcerer's...
The Free Mason's Illuminati made certain the Quran's Recitation's would eventually loose it's beautiful SOUND RESONANCES by reciting it ROBOTICALLY devoid of rhythm 🎼 claiming MUSIC is forbidden/Haram and reciting the Quran melodiously is also forbidden... THIS IS WRONG and it is for this reason why so many have left following such a beautiful ✨ faith... Due to the mind manipulation of the wicked...
Omar Hisham Al Arabi and
Saad Al Quershi, Sephardic... and many other's can recite the Quran is way's your heart just melts...
SATAN'S #1 GOAL IS PARENTAL ALIENATION
AL 🧞♂️ IEN 👽 NATION
SATAN IS A JINN... NOT a fallen ANGEL.... The Catholic Church has tricked many into believing are
Ghost's 👻 Spirit's 🍸🔥.....
After the Beetle's with their Qabbalistic lyrics... pushing
SEX DRUGS AND ROCK N ROLL ... The Disco Era came...then the 80's.... 🚀Mtv 🛰️ NASA began to take over the skies... Our Earth's SOUND BUBBLE 💭 which is our barrier 🚧 between us and the Jinn REALM!
Halloween 🎃 night is when the air is the thinnest between us Human's and the Jinn 🧞♂️👻👽🛸...
Many fell into deep depression once the Beetle Mania Era took off!
Satan has an ARMY and they're relentless to destroy us!
Glad you're okay! 💗✨🕊️
👍🎶
The 80s were the best of times
Komisch. Das sagt jeder . War auch meine beste Zeit ! Grüße
an euch alle aus Köln !!!!
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Anyone else crying listening to him . thinking of how life was and will never be that good again.
Absolutely I see him on Tuesday face to face to thank him unsure how to keep the tears in x
Dude, the 80s were shit. Thatcher, miners strikes, union strikes, red-braced twats in Chelsea taking all the money, dumb yuppies. Man it was a shite decade. The only good thing about it was the music which made the mess bearable.
I am!
I think everyone thinks that about their past, viewed through rose-colored glasses... but having said that, I don't disagree
Vote Reform!
Its tony blairs fault
I will miss the 80s forever, my whole family was still in this world, we were simply in a magical era and we never knew it!!!
I agree with that. It wasn't possible to even dream up any of the darkness or all the misery of change that was coming up.
This is exactly what I miss.
Every song this guy sings is all positive and uplifting. We need more shit like this in 2021.
You’re missing some great songs like Elegy, Look Mama, Bounce Right Back, No One is to Blame…I mean, you can find positive messages in there, but not what would typically be considered “positive & uplifting”
Estás en lo cierto, positivo al máximo Míster Howard 👍
Yep. 2022 now…..
You mean positive and uplifting stuff like lil Wayne???
We needed this before 2010... music has turned into Scheidt....And the people who like 'modern 2010- to current' music are the ones that say we 'older' people are the problem and they are being 'progressive', changing the world for the better...
The 80s; we lived, loved, laughed, then it was gone. Bring back the 80s
Pure happiness and optimism. Thank you Howard Jones for this masterpiece which has aged well.
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Can you believe this was released 40 years ago today (September 17th)!
It’s not possible because I’m only 25 and I remember when it came out 🤣
@stephensmith7786 It's amazing! And I'm not semi-antique. 😂
Absolutely true! 🇨🇭
I want my 80s back...😑😭😐👍😎...♥️♥️♥️ My 80s👍😉
This song is fucking brilliant
yes
Great song and video plus great lyrics !
your telling me .
Dude definitely experimented with psycadelics
ONE OF THE BEST
Howard if you see this I would just like to say thank you 😊 I had a difficult childhood but in a low point I was walking past a park in Birmingham in 83 ish and i heard you’re song to fireworks it put a smile on my face and I remember it to this day 🙂 your song is my favourite song of all time. Thank You from the bottom of my heart fella it reminds me where I came from and where I am now . Jason the old codger who fosters children 👍
Jason Pyatt awesome...
Jason Pyatt what a cool story to link to this song. Good for you helping kids.
Jason Pyatt what a cool story to link to this song. Good for you helping kids.
Jason Pyatt brilliant 👍
Howard Jones put smiles on a lot of our faces who had difficult upbringings. You're not alone.
My world came crashing down when my dad died in 82, I was only 15 yrs old, the worst time for a young man growing up... but when this song came out it put a little joy and pep back into me, and still does.. when I get to a low point it pops back in my head and after listening to it for a while it changes my mind set... even tho I'm really into old rock and roll then the pop songs of that time , I'm grateful that this one came out and to Howard cause it shure helped me and still does
I’m so sorry for this great loss of your Dad.
💐🙏🏽
@yvonbaron751 I can relate very much so. I just heard this song in a movie and it brought a lot of memories. I lost my mother in 1983 when I was 11 and it really shook my world as well.
🙏🏽🤗
👍🙏😊
Who in 2024 ?❤
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Hope you will not stop been my fan?
I'm with you
@@STz1172Thanks a lot 🙏
Where are you watching from?
80s was a magical time growing up as a kid in England!
NO SOLAMENTE EN INGLATERRA AMIGO, AQUÍ EN SUDAMÉRICA TAMBIÉN FUERON INCREÍBLES ESOS AÑOS,, QUE LO HIZO INCREÍBLE APARTE DE LA MUSICA ? CUÉNTAME
Great music era
The 80's was the best decade in music and movies! Love it!
nothing will ever come close to the 80,s for its music and talented artists
Because then it mattered more what was played rather than what the player looked like. Nowadays the priority is flipped, and we have fake people playing fake songs.
Mayra Fuentes you are so right, can't get enough of 80's
Mayra Fuentes I love the 80s my self am, 43 and still love this song
to santiago
Don't be fooled by what you see, don't be fooled by what you hear. Very apt.
Sadly, most of us were.
Throw off your mental chains…
I'm going back to the 80's! There's a door that brings you to the past! Who's coming with me???
Me!!!
I hope when I die there is a 1980s heaven
Me!!!!!
I'm loading up the Delorean as we speak
did you find mr benns clothes shop lol
Ready!!!
Thumbs up if you’re over 45!
Yes, 17 years over 45. New Wave is great. So were the 80's.
Weeping moji in fact 😢
48 here. Yes agreed!
Im11
About twice that and LOVING G-d and Yeshua always despite agony of elderly slow ups!!
I have never missed the 80's as much as I do now....yep, I am old, but it was a special era for music and life.
I,m 17 again, not 51, lol, good memories
Now can I have the girl back that I had at 17?
Me too 🤗
Yes sir
Mate, are you finding yourself wheling up with tears in your eyes and a lump in your throat. Great feeling.
@@awolpw70 I was thinking EXACTLY that a second before I came to your comment! Sad and happy. And sad. And happy :) :)
Im 53 now and this brings back memories of the best times on my life and the best thing is i haven't heard it in yrs an yrs and i remember every single word lol
40 years and counting and still sounds fresh by proper talent 👍🏼
1983: I can't wait for the future. Things are going to be so much better
2020: I wish I was back in 1983. Things were so much better
That's the truth right there !!!
Life is it
Amen
You always love a century with a one-century delay!
I agree for the most part except Ronald Reagan in a way started this whole mess.
Ho Jo's songs are the soundtrack of my life in the 80s, such joy, and optimism. I cannot wait to see him in August 2023!
Just saw him in Austin! He’s a fantastic performer!
Wish I could go with ya live me Howard jones
He was wonderful. The show was a celebration!
@@donnareed7345 Glad you enjoyed it.
Brilliant loved every minute of the 80s ❤🎉
i loved this back in 83.was just turned 15.now 48.still makes me smile.
Me too!!
And now you're fifty...where did time go?
lord ely Howard Jones is in his 60s now..
But he's wondering where time's gone.
This (I’m 46) x
Me to.born In 69
Awesome song, I loved this from the very first minute I heard it 33 years ago and it still stands strong in my mind as one of the greatest songs ever recorded.
YES!! I agree with you!!
I was 15!! It bring back memories, but I realise how shit my life was back then.
David J great song.... nice memories....
Same here bro! 33 years ago ::))
Yes, great shit :)
33 years later...
This song is STILL new!
むしろ今の方が新鮮に聞こえるのはなぜだろう。
Kid Gohan haha 'new song'
a friend had 2 tickets for a concert this guy Howard Jones was holding a concert in the odean Hammersmith so I went alone with my friend to this gig in a cinema never herd of concert in a cinema so I did a rekki first the critics had this guy Howard Jones couldn't perform a solo concert for 2 hour boy thay where so so wrong this concert was held in the 80s by the end of the concert I was up on the seat dancing away to this guy Howard Jones music this all new sound awesome songs I'm now in my 60s and still a life long fan I'll never forget is mind blowing style of music the way his keyboards were set up on stage the guy in chain's the gigs like a video in my head clear as a bell then I learned Howard is a Welshman I was in my oils one of the top artist of the 80s lol I wonder if people attending the concert remember the performances we were treated to thankyou Mr Howard Jones for turning the music I was listening to at the time on it's head brilliantly thought out concert. Cheers all ps my reverie song as to be the 12intch version of ban the bomb love it keep playing Howard fans and people of today will never tire of your music joyo davorre jdh fan for life.
Hasn’t aged very much at all.
One of my professors is obsessed with the 80’s and plays an 80’s song during the class break and has us guess, haha. Never heard this song till now. Shout-out to Mr. Madsen!
80s best decade ever wish I could back better than this shitshow now
Originality, pure songwriting talent, good fun, every great song from the 80's had an unforgettable....well it was all the best-
Your professor is awesome
What a beautiful memory to have of your college days, love it
Howard Jones is unique. All his songs are full of happiness and optimism. He is the king of the 80's new wave.
abso so so so lutely. I was 13 and those few yrs, from '83'-87ish contained some of the most important and multifaceted and multicultural music ever! Check it all out!
"Don't crack up, bend your brain"...
I love this song!
"throw off your mental chains "
See both sides!!!
Angela Young 国境の悲しさ
throw off your mental chains ...
Ooo ooo ooo
Who is watching this in 2019. Master Howard Jones lives for ever.....
Solar Flare me
Howard Jones is coming to Lima on September 2019! Woowoowoo!!!
Me, i saw Hojo last night July 12 2019 in sunny San diego Ca Howard was GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow!!! hadn't heard this in like 10 years.. still love it at 50 years old
@@ChuchuBellorin si!!
Love the 80's. Love the Uk in the 80's. Love this New Song!
Sorry for writing you, just out of curiosity your page come up on my suggested friend lists so I was just wondering if I knew you from somewhere???
@@annetteveronica157 I think you are on the wrong platform if folks here are coming up on your "friends list".
This song is a mantra for living your best life, totally underated! It's meaning may have been overlooked by it's catchy 80s sound i guess. Song is pure genius, created and performed by one person. Wonder if it should be re released to get such a great message out there again...think we need it right now!
This song actually plays a lot in grocery and retail stores. I had to look it up because I couldn't understand what he was saying and all I heard was "Ee! Ee! Eeee!"
@@anthonyvaldes1021"Whoo whoo whoo!"
2023 still sounds amazing 👌
Howard Jones is one of the few artist who can produce truly great works without having to resort to vulgarity, but instead inflect his music with much optimism, hope and love.
Who else was watching and listening to this in 1983!
Ruben Delgadillo There then and here now, my friend. ☺
Me!
ME !
I was. Saw him in 1984 at Irvine Meadows in California.
Me, but just on radio in sfrj
The "second British invasion" was great for the decade, British bands poured out of garages,cities, clubs, art school bringing back soul, Motown, r&b and introducing reggae, ska, dub, Irish and Scottish influences, mixing it up with synthpop, new wave, postpunk, pop, attitude, cool, accents, style helping make the 80's the most musically widely varied decade. Thanks guys!
Agreed. If variety is the spice of life? 80's music was the spiciest decade of all...and I absolutely loved it!!
Yes, this is an important detail. A lot of songs from the 80s people still love came from the UK and to a lesser extent, Ireland and Australia, plus some songs from continental Europe, especially from Italy, Germany, and France. What's frustrating the past 20 years is that it seems like there is almost no influence from those countries on the US anymore, besides maybe some EDM, but it's not the same. While the situation is too strong in the other direction now, too much influence from the US on what people listen to in other countries.
I'm 37 years old and found this, heard it on the radio a few days ago. This song is fantastic. That synth
It's brilliant
DX7 for the bassline. Roland Jupiter 8 for the melodies. Emu Drumulator for the drums.
Every song this man sang was an absolute masterpiece!!!! He was UNABLE to make any bad songs whatsoever!!!!
二度と戻らぬ最高なる1984よ永遠なれ
i want my childhood back!
me too
+CitizenofTatooine We all do my friend. i would give everything i have to go back.
Me too. 😂😥
Yeah, I know the feeling. There were days when I would have given anything to relive this period of my life, 1981-1984. But we can’t go back.
Don’t miss the past too much, otherwise you’ll get stuck there. Look forward, my friend.
You just can’t :(
Unique, Original and Uplifting. What more can be said about Howard Jones and the Eighties style of Music!?
:) Thank you
"Don't crack up..bend your brain..see both sides..throw off your mental chains"...great lyrics and advice well taken!. So glad I got to see this guy live a few years back...80's bucket list is still quite long..
That synth solo is divine
God this brings back so so many memories, want someone to invent a time machine and let me off in 1980 , IF ONLY !!!
This is my song all over!! The final scene, where all the kids skip school and dance off into the sunset sums up the whole of my life! To my great confusion, yet massive relief, social conditioning failed to work on me: I started off quite well in life, yet failed GCSES and A-levels simply because something in me felt they were a complete waste of time. Likewise having a 'career' and saddling myself with a mortgage in life. Truth to tell, I've bummed about a fair bit in life and at nearly 50 have very little security, but I've never stopped feeling like a kid inside - which is a bloody wonderful feeling :)
TheHideChild Never lose that feeling.
same here really, until my mum died and this virus took over.
You made me love the song more than ever!! Thanks for your words i feel and i am quite the same as you
@@marcoantonioherreracuevas590 Same Marco. All the best to you mate :)
Howard Jones also had a song called "Welcome to Conditioning." It was like a synthpop update of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall."
I've been waiting for so long
To come here now and sing this song
Don't be fooled by what you see
Don't be fooled by what you hear
This is a song to all of my friends
They take the challenge to their hearts
Challenging preconceived ideas
Saying goodbye to long standing fears
Don't crack up
Bend your brain
See both sides
Throw off your mental chains
I don't wanna be hip and cool
I don't wanna play by the rules
Not under the thumb of the cynical few
Or laden down by the doom crew
Don't crack up
Bend your brain
See both sides
Throw off your mental chains
Don't crack up
Bend your brain
See both sides
Throw off your mental chains
I've been waiting for so long
To come here now and sing this song
Don't be fooled by what you see
Don't be fooled by what you hear
This is a song to all of my friends
They take the challenge to their hearts
Challenging preconceived ideas
Saying goodbye to long standing fears
Don't crack up
Bend your brain
See both sides
Throw off your mental chains
Howard Jones Is A Music Genius. He Belongs In The Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame. The Synthpop Legend.
Sorry for writing you, just out of curiosity your page come up on my suggested friend lists so I was just wondering if I knew you from somewhere?!!!
Just saw him opening for Boy George here in Phoenix on 8/18/23! He was amazing!!!! What a show!
And more talented than BG
How'd I miss that omg! Glad you had a great time!
Dude they play this at Publix, every. Single. Day. Now here I am!
Ooh... I need to go shopping at Publix more often then! Haha!
Non ho mai vivuto negli anni 80 ma mi posso imaginare che bei tempi pieni di felicità aveti avuto, se avesse anch'io il DeLorean Di J Fox Mi piacerebe di andare in quella epoca, che bei momenti migliori.😢😢😢😢
Simply Fantastic.. the 80's were the best.. not like the current crap! Not only did the have talent they remained human beings and normal..
One of the best from the 80s and now 2024s. The 80s had the best music!
Never realised as a callow youth how much the message of the song was as much about accepting different views as it was about tearing down the establishment. I bought Humans Lib for £3.49 from Woolies (as was the way of things at the time) and played it until the grooves wore low and still to this day consider it to be one of the greatest albums of the decade. Start by hearing Conditioning, What is Love and move through Don’t Always Look at the Rain and Pearl in the Shell and tell me it wasn’t. Sublime songs from a hugely underrated musician.
Masterpiece. Goosebumps on that first key change in the melody when it goes into a minor key. As good in 2022 as it was in the 80's.
In "New Song", can you give a timestamp please so I can understand where you mean for the key change in the melody?
@@jamesprivet 1.52. You're welcome 😁
Thanks! I guess then it goes back from minor key to major key at 2:00?
@@jamesprivet sure does
Yes timeless classic a masterpiece
Synths in this are just ohhhhhh lovely perfect and just flows beautifully
A brilliant song that kick-started the 80s and owes nothing to the Past. Makes me feel like dancing. So unabashedly upbeat!
Funny how this song/video is more applicable now then it was in the 1980’s!!! One of my favorites.
I miss the early 80s British Invasion Haircut 100, Yaz, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, and more
Imagine how much Howard and all other 80’s legends must want to go back to all of this fun and special times!💯♥️ they must miss it SO SO much!!♥️
My son is now 12 in 2019. I was born in 1971. Sorry but I had the years for great music. It was hit after hit after hit and was so eclectic. Great times, and we knew it too!
Isn't Howard Jones just amazing, this song is just brilliant,
G8t 😄
Dance 😊
By some miracle this song plays when im grocery shopping- like a lot! Im always wanting to windmill skip down the aisle behind the rolling cart.
My local Poundworld used to play classic 70s and 80s hits. It was like a really great retro disco where you could shop.
Sprouts playlist 😊
Great song, great lyrics, great synthplayer! Thank you so much mr. Howard Jones for all your songs and help creating the wonderful 80s! musical history
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@@annetteveronica157 Your name doesn't ring a bell...sorry.
How about you and where are you from?
Happy Birthday Howard Jones!
this song will be in my heart forever
I just heard it for the first time and fell in love with this song. Can't believe it has been out since 1983
What an amazing song. I wish this sort of music came back.
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Who's throwing off their mental chains in 2020? 👍😉
I am as I was in 1983!!
Yerman 😁👍💎
Hell yeah
When this number was released, I was 14 years old. Watching this video clip after long years ago, I can throw off my mental chains.
Ooo ooo ooo
So glad this is the music of my youth. While life wasn’t always easy, music made it bearable and often, wonderful!
love this guy, love his vibe, an music.. grew up to this in fab 80's.. still making me dance around when i hear on absolute 80's... the music was good in those days.. i'm on a fix tonight for nostalgia!!..
steve john Howard Jones and Nik Kershaw, never get tired of listening to their music.
1:43-2:09 is quite literally what got me to buy my first synth and get into the music production. almost 30 years later, it's as fresh as ever.
this is a song to all my friends... dont be fooled be what you hear! The 80s is still the best years! :)
So true!
This song really helped me cope with 2020. God I love this Song
God, I feel like the world needs the positivity and hopefulness of Howard Jones' music more than ever.
We need this in 2023...!
My favorite song of his. In the USA it only peaked at #27 in March, 1984 but since he was new to the music scene, radio didn't give this one a fair shake. Now days it can be heard on PA systems such as in Wal Marts.
This wonderful song has fabulous lyrics! So hopeful and positive! The bouncy tune and wonderful words just make you want to jump out of bed and go for it! :)
Sweet, lovely Howard. Only looks about 23 here. I can still see that dancer guy doing his thing on Top of the Pops, one Thursday night in 1983. I was 7 and I was mesmerised!
80s was the best decade for music.
( In 1984 ) 14 yrs old going to school on the subway looking at all the stressed out people with this in my headphones total bliss
1:43 LOVE that synth sound!
_"I don't want to be hip & cool."_
In the 80s, there were two ways of being cool:
Being cool. Not being cool. Win Win! 😎🙂
Howard Jones is master,was lucky to grow up with his era.
Hell yeah you were lucky. Wasn’t even born during that time. Sometimes I wish I was in your 👟
askerkaca me too.
That keyboard instrumental is SO satisfying.
@@VirtueAly Listen to the 12 inch version. Its even better. totally different than the single. More music but less singing
HoJo as we called him- at the time we couldn't/ didn't appreciate how timeless all this music was...
Don't know how I managed to watch MTV back in the day and never saw this video. Good music remains good music for those who have ears to hear it. Love the music and the sentiments (at any point in time, who doesn't need to throw off some mental chains???). Howard is still rockin' hard and sounding great. Go you! ❤☮🌎
One of the first songs i ever heard that _really_ connected with my teenage self.
Still moves me...
2023 and this song is still one of the best!! 40 years strong!! 💪
This is part of the soundtrack of my life, I was 13, the 80’s was awesome, the 90’s a blur and the millennium a surprise!
This makes me happy to be here. God bless us all.
💞💖 Howard Jones is unbelievably adorable! And a messenger!
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best keyboard solo ever
At the time though lots of songs had them; Roseanna with Toto for instance...
It's a brilliant looped phrase, hardly a keyboard solo however.
Definitely one of my favorite songs! Makes me remember the good old days!
Edwardo Tinoco Britain in the early 80s was pretty grim though what with miners strikes etc. That's why we needed the relentlessly upbeet music of wham, Howard Jones etc
1983 memories beautiful music forever my age is 42 year.remember to the music.
First time watching this video of a song I discovered last night thanx to Spotify 😊 I don't know if the 80s were so good as many people say in the comments, but definitely the 80s produced, by far, the music I like the most. I'm so hooked ❤️ (and it's friday, yay!)
This was one of my favorites back then. It's still a damn good song. Love it. Makes me happy!
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If i had a genie i would wish to re live those wonderful years over and over again. I was lucky to have been blessed, such amazing times!
First time I heard this song. Amazing
It can't get more 80s than this. 80s is great 90s was wierd to me.
This song is pure bliss. The eighties are the best era
I’m 29 and wish I was alive to party in these days. Damn the music is amazing. You guys are so lucky who experienced it
Yes we are and it was great.
I remember this video as a kid. :)
This song has so much positive meaning please re release this it wiĺl make people who are struggling give them hope .Well done Howard Jones