Back then we had never heard ANYTHING like this: not just synth-pop but just the bounciness, the voice, the background vocals, it was simply out of the box amazing.
I love how Amber "gets it" and almost immediately starts doing some funky chair dancing and Jay is like "what the ...??" Watched it 3 times already and laughed each time.
@@stevenjohnson4190 True, I was born in '64 and spent a chunk of the 80s riding a Lambretta around England wishing I'd been old enough to be a Mod and a Hippy. In retrospect I think if you were a teen in the 60s, 70s or 80s you were damned lucky...Very very happy days.
When this song came out, it was so different. If any song put a end to the 1970’s, and ushered in the 1980’s, this was one of them. Heavy rotation on MTV at the time. In my opinion, we need this creativity, catchiness and quirkiness back in music. Music now is in such a bad state of affairs.
I knew this song would come on this channel one day. I think it's as iconic as the song "Video Killed The Radio Star", the first video on MTV. And songs that you haven't heard yet: "Wordy Rappinghood" (1981) by Tina Weymouth's Tom Tom Club, Lipps Inc. with "Funkytown" (1980) and "Pump Up The Volume" by M/A/R/R/S (1987).
I was 10 when this song came out. My 5th grade music teacher was so cool! He would give us 5 choices of songs. We would write down which one we wanted. He would then count the votes and play the song that had the most votes. This song was so fun! Imagine a bunch of 9&10 year old kids singing and dancing around the big music room. Ahh...thanks for those memories, J & Amber!! ❣️
I was 12 and had just started secondary school (UK). All the trendies thought it was so "Eww!" and terrible. Most of us LOVED IT ❤❤❤and didn't care as did it!
@@DeAnne1233 Presume you mean the MCR song? (ruclips.net/video/egG7fiE89IU/видео.html). My kids (10 and 7 at the time) did because they loved how shouty it was ... and was an excuse for them to be LOUD! My daughter became a massive MCR fan as a teen.
@@joannecunliffe8067 No, I wasn’t… I was talking about This song, M- Pop Music. Here try this… La La La La La La La La La, La La La La La La La… as a 9 year old I always sang it as Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, it was funny.
This song is a jumpstart to the 80’s ❤️🔥❤️ The Cars, Gary Numan, Blondie,Herbie Hancock,Devo,(New wave) Evolution of music from the 60’s to the 70’s to the 80’s was so dynamic ❤️ I’m glad I got to experience it all 🔥 …….not silly music Jay, creative Pop Muzic ❤️🔥❤️ P.S. Roller skating Jam back in the day ! 🛼🛼🛼🛼
@@houngandave 🤡 I put them all in a group , that’s why I listed them all together 🤡 boy ! I know who came first or second 🤡 boy…… I’m from Boston and seen the cars in 1977. They are in fact from the Back Bay in Boston…… M was just 1 of the bands 1979 before the 80’s 🤡 boy ! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Completely agree, this massive hit single from 1979 had few predecessors but managed to create a sound that was going to grow huge a few years later in many variations.
"Wild, Wild West" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in November, 1988, making them the only British artist to have a number one hit in the U.S. without charting in the U.K.
Just a few months from the 80's. Basically the 80's started in '78-'79 music-wise. It's when you began to see music branch out in all sorts of directions. Electronics opened up a whole other world from metal to hip hop.
Don't know any kid who didn't love this tune immediately upon hearing it on the radio in '79 or seeing that video on the earliest days of MTV in like, 1981.
For many of us this song and Gary Numan's "Cars" were the first "synth" songs we'd ever heard -- pretty sure it was 1979 for both. Earlier stuff I didn't hear until later were songs by Kraftwerk ("The Robots" and "Trans Europe Express") -- the pioneers of electronic music -- but also Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" which came out in '77. Of course the 70s synth stuff doesn't really sound "80s" -- but I tend to like it more.
This track is 44 years old and still sounds ahead of its time. A pure new wave classic. Imagine a 44 year old song in 1979. It'd be a gramophone record from 1935.
It WAS years ahead of its time , but still managed to race to the top of the charts all around the world. The real thrill is how on the one hand, he creates a prototype for a kind of sound that was gonna be heard all over the place from around 1982/83 onward (check out "Wham Rap" by Wham, "Don't Go" by Yazoo, "Der Kommissar" by Falco and "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer, for starters) and at the same time the song works as a parody of this genre that still didn't exist in 1979! That's just amazing... (Sparks' "Beat the Clock" from the same year, does something similar, also a brilliant song and video, but it wasn't a major hit at the time - the band were at a commercial low end of their career).
Wow, haven't heard this one in YEARS! When it came out, pretty much everyone was influenced to move to it. Nice to know it still has that impact, all these years later.
I remember hearing this song for the first time. Coming from the disco age, it was quirky and rather refreshing, and I fell in love with it. Bought the 45 (how many kids know what that means these days) and played it over and over.
Yes! I heard this on the radio when I was in 8th grade, and it was so completely different than those disco songs that had been so dominant in the four years prior. I also had the 45. When my big brother and sister didn’t love it like I did, well, that was the first hint that our music tastes had diverged. They never liked synth-pop or New Wave, whereas that was my jam!
Thanks a lot guys! I haven’t heard this song for many years. And now thanks to you I haven’t been able to get this ear worm out of my head. It was one of the first big MTV hits for a reason.😂
When I think of this song, I always think of Cars by Gary Neuman for some reason. I don't know of they were the same year, but they go together in my brain.
In the US it was huge also.. At the place we went to party it was played on the bar jukebox way too much by the girl crowd and the guys were sick of it after a month or more and asked the bar owner to take it out of the machine ..lol. The 45 single had to have been carved out after that many plays ..
I always thought of it as Europop---so many of the songs in the genre came through European groups. Back in 1979 we didn't classify it as "synth pop" ; it all seemed as if electronic-oriented groups like M and Kraftwerk were stepping in with their own take on disco/new wave---it was made for dancing, and very catchy. Giorgio Moroder, as a German-Italian, contributed a lot to a European interpretation of electronic disco.
This is one of those few songs that come along and completely changed things. I heard this in junior high and it was instantly my favorite and opened me up to an entirely new genre - truly a new wave pioneering track.
You guy have to remember in April 1979 when this came out the charts had been full of Disco & Punk Rock so this new sound blew our minds. The following month "Are friends Electric" hit the charts and shot to Number 1, Tubeway army were fronted by Gary Numan and this was the start of the deeper full on synth music in the UK. However the German group Kraftwerk are widely credited as being the innovators and pioneers of synth music and they would finally get a UK number 1 hit record in 1982 with "The Model".
Whilst what you say is quite true, if you listen to Kraftwerks stuff like Autobahn, Trans Europe Express and Tour de France. You'll hear music that was literally EVERYWHERE in the 70's and early 80's!
I loved it when I first heard it and played the 45 over and over until my mother told me she was banning the song in the house, but yeah Robin Scott is very instrumental in opening the door for New Wave
Well, as a 54 yr old woman I can tell you this was a huge hit back then! Brings me wayyyyy back! 😅 Thanks for reacting to this song! 😊 And as a request, please React more to some Dr. Hook!! 🙏 They're my favorites. 💜
I'm the same age you are. It's funny to think of how this song came out when we were 10 years old and we were bopping to it! Didn't the song Born To Be Alive come out around the same time? And yes to more Dr. Hook!
58 here, and I don't care, I still listen to all this great stuff, as most of today's music leaves me cold. 60's, , 70's and 80's is my go to. Lots of radio , apps,etc. have music that suits me. Rap / hip hop etc just has no appeal for me, and I've tried, for my nephew's sake.
@@wendywatching it is! I loved music since I was a toddler, and being raised with 5 older siblings, 70s music was a huge part of my listenings. Imo, 70s & 80s music was the best of all time!! 🥰
I was waiting to see if it would grow on Jay because his face said it all, lol! Get your quirk on. Yep! It is just one of those songs. I was 9 when this came out but I don't remember it really being a thing until MTV launched in '81 and then everyone saw the video.
I was 11 when this came out. My mom just looked at me, with her mouth open, when I played this on the record player. Love the way that Amber just immediately drops into enjoying this.
The 80s was a time of musical tech innovation. I've over 45 years as a session musician working in studios and the invention of MIDI (musical instrument digital interphase) and digital synths such as the Yamaha DX7 really changed everything., Being able to connect a limitless amount of keyboards, drum machines and samplers together with a sequencer or a bit later a computer was an absolute blast. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
This came out at the tail end of disco. It was absolutely a fresh new sound and made people excited about where the 80s would take us. It went to #1 here in Canada and lots of other places.
Talking about M, there was a fabulous group from the 90s called M-People. "Moving On Up" 1993. "Search For The Hero" 1994. 2 of their biggest hits for you to start with. ❤🎶🎼🇬🇧
talk about pop music..Spring Session M, the 1982 album by Missing Pesons is another stunning 🎉 work of art y’all should check out-some of those hits where seminal MTV and new wave hits. They’ve got some excellent live RUclips videos (former players with Frank Zappa).
This song came on with the inception of MTV! Weird then weird now! I was heavily into hard rock and metal back then and I pretty much laughed at this! Bizarre!
@@kenbongaards554 one of the most craziest concerts I've ever been to. I went to Wembley Stadium, and I swear, I was shifted from one side of the stadium and back to the other side over the course of the show without my feet even touching the ground.
Omg, thanks for reacting to this. I *love* this song, but I have such an eclectic wide ranging musical interest that I have my own radio program examining music. So, I sometimes forget about some of the oldies. I might need to feature this on my program! Love this song… completely forgot about it.
In 1977, the synth pop sound showed in Donna Summers, "I Feel Love" truly a classic, the driving baseline was the standard for the sound. Kraftwerk was around then too.
I was in high school and this song was AWESOME and fun to dance to. It seemed like the period roughly 1979-1982, the early New Wave years, were full of fun and exploratory music. As New Wave became more mainstream it began to mature. As a young person, it was those early New Wave years when it was the most exciting.
Couldn't agree more, new wave, dark wave, post-punk, synth, new-romantics. Everybody was trying new sounds with the brand new "toys" and all of it was regularly played in commercial radio.
I was an elementary school kid in a bowling league when this was popular. To this day, I can’t hear this song without hearing bowling pins being crashed into in the background- that’s how strong the connection is
That's the neat thing about music. Certain songs can give you that nostalgic feeling when you get older. For example, if I hear "Woman" by Legs Diamond, it reminds me of when I lived in San Antonio and Cibolo.
This is one of the songs that anticipated the 80s a little early- M was essentially the brain-child of producer Robin Scott who tried his hand at the synthesized textures and anything-goes spirit that the new wave era offered (similar to what producer Trevor Horn did with The Buggles). Plastic pop music (sorry, "muzik") was never so joyous as the "New York-London-Paris-Munich" album, where this came from ("Cowboys And Indians" is another great song from this album). I remember seeing this video in 1979 (I was 7) on a local Chicago TV show that played really early music videos, and being transfixed by it.
Ah yes. I remember it well. In the charts the same year we had "Can you feel the force" by The Real Thing. "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. "Hit me with your Rhythm Stick" by Ian Drury. "Cool for Cats" by Squeeze. "Olivers Army" by Elvis Costello. Not forgetting Queen who were in they heyday. So much good music in the 1970s
I loved this when it came out and still do! We loved dancing to it. Another British song from about this time was Cockney Rebel who had a huge hit with “come up and see me and make me smile….”
Indeed, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's "(Make me Smile) Come up and see me" is a great track! However, it appeared in 1975 almost four years before "Pop Muzik" was a hit.
M was a guy called Robin Scott. He retired very young with the royalties from this massive #1 Hit song. This is one of the smartest songs ever written. DEVO & The B-52s were already in full flight in 1979.
This was always being played in our aerobics class! This is quintessential 80’s! 😁 Life was so much simpler and fun back then. I’m so happy I was a teenager in the 80’s ❤This was the first decade where you were free to be totally weird and man did we get weird! 😆
The fact that Devo and Rock Lobster were just on the tip of your tongue is just so awesome. Loved this vid from y'all. It reminds me of your One Night in Bangkok and then Vangelis's Friends of Mr Cairo 😂
Badass song!! I miss the 80s, I really do. I’m 53 in my husband’s 56 and we were talking about it the other day how much we miss the 80s and we would love a time machine just to go back even for a day.
Awe, man. This made my day awesome! I was 11 when this came out, and it has been a life-long favorite of mine. I played it recently for some friends in generation Y, but they didn't like it AT all. Lol So I was very interested to see your reactions. 😊 I'm so glad you liked it.
This is high school. What a time to be a kid!!! There was such a variety of music to "choose" from. Imagine music tastes going from classic Led Zeppelin and Hippie Music to Bubble Gum, to Nu Wave to the beginnings of Rap with Country sprinkles going on the whole time. A lot like myself, just went ECLECTIC!!! I LIKED EVERYTHING!!! Peace, guys...😊😊😊
Hello *The Family* (From South France as always), Yes, yes, yes, I suggested this absolute masterpiece long ago, and I'm happy you've decided to react to it. This title was in the top 5 of all hit charts in Europe, the USA and Australia. I hope you won't wait so long to react to *"Chicory Tip - Son of my father"* I already gave you in my last comment. It's another pearl of psychedelic synth-pop of the 70s (1972). Peace, folks. ☮😉
For another piece of addictive synthpop you should try "Einstein a Go-Go" by Landscape and "The Model" by Kraftwerk, who are widely considered the fathers of synthpop and also Techno and Trance
Anyone else notice that the lyrics are basically rap style?? in 1979 I was playing bass in a cover band doing Genesis, Pink Floyd, prog stuff. We heard this and just went WFT. Fun little synth tune for sure. Thanks Jay and Amber. Love you two!! Peace and happiness to all my family here.
A song that was way ahead of its time and was basically the 70s sound turning into the 80s sound was Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”. Well worth a listen.
I was a child when I heard this song for the first time. Everyone loved this song for what is was, a super fun song in the disco music era. You heard it everywhere.
Like everyone else, this song was such fun to sing to and dance to on the disco floor even in Melbourne, Australia. I haven't heard it for ages, so it was great to hear it and see you guys bopping to it too 😂😊
I was a teenage when this song came out and I still remember all the words! As soon as it came on, everyone would get up to dance and we'd all be singing along, bopping away.
Pop Muzik was what we call in the UK a 'one hit wonder'. The only song that ever got into the charts by 'M' and the interweb was not around back then to research if they did anything else. I am not going to have to check the interweb to see if they DID actually do anything else. But at the time it was cutting edge and a prelude to the 'new romantic' era. I have not yet looked, but I am sure you can find documentaries on the music scene of the 80's and the influence synthesisers brought to the music industry - starting with early influencers such as 'Autobahn' - a German band who clearly had the money to get their hands on the new technology of the day.
This song was so insanely popular because it was so different. We'd heard nothing like it before. even us metalheads were into it. Many tried to imitate it afterwards but none even came close.
The guy behind M was Robin Scott and they had a couple of quirky minor hits but this one was huge in 1979 and a number 2 hit in the UK.. Unbelievably catchy and almost a parody of the electronic music that was starting to become popular. An 80s hit before the 80s had started ..Infact 1978 and 1979 in the UK was the start of 80s music. There were so many quirky tracks like the M track back then.. Seek out the band Quantum Jump and the track The Lone Ranger and After The Fire with the song One Rule For You...Examples of the 80s in the late 70s. British music then was just so inventive. There are so many great tracks you've yet to discover from that era but loved your reaction to M because it kind of blew your minds. 😂❤👍
Unlike most other synth-pop songs, this one hit #1 and stayed there forever. It reached #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 on November 3, 1979, and continued to sell well into 1980, finishing in the top40 songs of that following year (1980). If one looks back at the singles from 1980, there was nothing like this one. It was completely against popular norm. 1980, the "Call Me" year, is one of the best years of singles in modern music
I had no idea this was released in 1979. I would have guessed more like 1983 and, in those days, four years difference in the music world WAS very different.
A great 70's song that you can't figure out the lyrics but will have you singing the chorus is Manfred Mann's "Blinded by the light" it gives off Pink Floyd journey in your head vibes.
I'm so enjoying the fact that younger folks get to discover these fab songs from the late 70s & the 80s. Back then the music was so innovative it was outta this world.
I think the man behind M was more of a music producer than a band, so I can't think of any other tunes but this hit was HUGE! RSR has already featured most of the synth pop I could think of, but there are still a few in the same range: Dead and Alive, "You Spin Me Round" or my ultimate Synth Pop hit, weirdly, Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." Female Friday Electronic Jam!!!
A lot of the early synth pop like this wasn’t always played on regular mainstream radio stations 1st, & the records weren’t always available in every record store either. They were played on indie or college radio stations that were already playing some experimental music. My older brother is a musician who also worked in an indie record store, back then was into lots of the early synth music/musicians - Switched on Bach, Fripp & Eno, early Kraftwerk, so my ear was already in tuned to listening to what was then some unusual sounding music. He was able gift me some amazing music of bands that never really hit big but were very vool (Nervus Rex, The Flirts, Josie Cotton) Then when this kind of music broke into the mainstream w/MTV videos it was like an explosion of sounds, colors, fashions, design & decor that was ushered into very futuristic themes that went into everything from mall design to hairstyles, amazing time to be a teenager
I never really thought the song was "silly" back then, it was just REALLY REALLY cool! (But watching the video now, I can see why you might think that.) This song hit #1 on the charts in the US and lots of countries. The only other song by M that I know is "Moonlight and Muzak" which was on the B side of the 45 - nice, but kinda weird. Try also "Being Boiled" by The Human League and "Fade to Grey" by Visage for other great synthpop tunes.
you two are right, this was a big 'shock' when it was first played on radio. Went right to #1 in USA, prob because it was so different for the time (and still is)
📜Y'all are ticking down my list! Thanks! X -Heart and Soul - T'Pau X -One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head X -Our House - Madness X -The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats In a Big Country -Big Country Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox Wild Wild West - The Escape Club X-Pop Muzik - M Under The Milky Way - The Church Tainted Love - Soft Cell She's So High - Tal Bachman Wouldn’t it Be Good - Nik Kershaw Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo 99 Red Balloons 99 Luftballons -Nena
love your list. In the same vein... Tarzan Boy Somebody's Watching Me West End Girls and also, while not goofy like these, I never miss a chance to promote "Life in a Northern Town"
techno pop reminds of being a kid at high school , at the time it was way ahead of its time....and seemed amazing. still fills any dance floor even just for a laugh.😄
This and Cars, by gary numan, blew peoples minds. I was 10 In 79. And all the kids loved it in the UK. Hot summer. Knock on wood byvamey Stewart is VERY, addictive too. Try it*
This song was awesome when it came out. The lyrics are just so silly, but combined with the cadence of the music you just can't help but smile and move your body
its great to see and hear all this music from my past especially the 80's synth pop. One thing, I don't see any reference to Blancmange out of the UK. They were big in Canada but not the US. Since you like bass and synth I recommend Blancmange - Blind Vision, the extended version if you are brave. keep up the posts they are great. E
This came out in 1979. I was about 5 or 6 when my uncle played this song for me a year or two later on his old record player at my grandparents house. I loved it so much, he gave me the record to play on my record player at home. He died about 10 years ago, but I’ll cherish this song and dedicate this song to him, forever
This was probably my very first favorite song as I was only 2 when the song came out, but my sisters had the record of it so I grew up listening to it and fell in love with the song!! I used to put on performances for my family using my stuffed animals as the singers and I would create stages and a fake TV set so I could make MTV Music Videos!! This song was the very first song and time I ever did anything like that and my parent's still bring it up today, about how "cute" I was bopping along with this song... dancing with my stuffed animals and lip-syncing... "Knick knack patty whack!" LOL LOL Looking back it's embarassing, but also awesome, because that moment was when I started to form my tastes in music and the strong bond I have with music to this day - especially tied to special childhood memories as "Pop Muzik" does for me! ***Please consider "Oh Yeah" by YELLO and "Situation" by Yazoo/Yaz and "Ponderous" by 2NU - keep smiling y'all!!
To this day, if I hear someone say "New York, London" I shout back "Paris, Munich." This song is guaranteed to get people on the dance floor.
Same dude, same.
🎶 _everybody talk about mmm pop music!_
So true, same thing!
You have to, right? 😂
Shoobiedooa
Back then we had never heard ANYTHING like this: not just synth-pop but just the bounciness, the voice, the background vocals, it was simply out of the box amazing.
Haha yeah right
One of the one-hit wonders from 1979.
Turning Japanese- the Vapors
Baby it’s You, Promises...
@@scottlaughlin9897 YES!! @robsquadreaction you need to do the vapors turning Japanese!!!!
M was A Radio DJ.
Not a one hit wonder in the UK. Moonlight & Muzak was another M hit song here and in Europe.
I love how Amber "gets it" and almost immediately starts doing some funky chair dancing and Jay is like "what the ...??" Watched it 3 times already and laughed each time.
As I always say, I never left the 80's, the 80's left me. Lol long live synthpop ❤
It was released in 79, but you can have it. Mindless dreck.
The 80s was for those who missed the 60s
Same! I tight rolled my jeans (and other pants) probably until 2000!
@@stevenjohnson4190 True, I was born in '64 and spent a chunk of the 80s riding a Lambretta around England wishing I'd been old enough to be a Mod and a Hippy. In retrospect I think if you were a teen in the 60s, 70s or 80s you were damned lucky...Very very happy days.
@@paulhanson5164 happy happy days indeed
That’s a flattering review guys…. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then & there’s more in ‘24 before the year’s out!
When this song came out, it was so different. If any song put a end to the 1970’s, and ushered in the 1980’s, this was one of them. Heavy rotation on MTV at the time. In my opinion, we need this creativity, catchiness and quirkiness back in music. Music now is in such a bad state of affairs.
I knew this song would come on this channel one day. I think it's as iconic as the song "Video Killed The Radio Star", the first video on MTV. And songs that you haven't heard yet: "Wordy Rappinghood" (1981) by Tina Weymouth's Tom Tom Club, Lipps Inc. with "Funkytown" (1980) and "Pump Up The Volume" by M/A/R/R/S (1987).
let's not forget genius of love.
Love Missile F1-1
funky town also 79 lol
I was 10 when this song came out. My 5th grade music teacher was so cool! He would give us 5 choices of songs. We would write down which one we wanted. He would then count the votes and play the song that had the most votes. This song was so fun! Imagine a bunch of 9&10 year old kids singing and dancing around the big music room. Ahh...thanks for those memories, J & Amber!! ❣️
I was 12 and had just started secondary school (UK). All the trendies thought it was so "Eww!" and terrible. Most of us LOVED IT ❤❤❤and didn't care as did it!
Imagine how many kids were dancing around the house to.. Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na back then 😂
@@DeAnne1233, I was one of those kids!
@@DeAnne1233 Presume you mean the MCR song? (ruclips.net/video/egG7fiE89IU/видео.html). My kids (10 and 7 at the time) did because they loved how shouty it was ... and was an excuse for them to be LOUD! My daughter became a massive MCR fan as a teen.
@@joannecunliffe8067 No, I wasn’t… I was talking about This song, M- Pop Music. Here try this… La La La La La La La La La, La La La La La La La… as a 9 year old I always sang it as Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, it was funny.
This song is a jumpstart to the 80’s ❤️🔥❤️ The Cars, Gary Numan, Blondie,Herbie Hancock,Devo,(New wave)
Evolution of music from the 60’s to the 70’s to the 80’s was so dynamic ❤️ I’m glad I got to experience it all 🔥 …….not silly music Jay, creative Pop Muzic ❤️🔥❤️ P.S. Roller skating Jam back in the day ! 🛼🛼🛼🛼
sorry mike, but no. devo and the cars came before. devo was born from the kent state massacre. so were the pretenders, actually. do a little research.
@@houngandave 🤡 I put them all in a group , that’s why I listed them all together 🤡 boy ! I know who came first or second 🤡 boy…… I’m from Boston and seen the cars in 1977. They are in fact from the Back Bay in Boston…… M was just 1 of the bands 1979 before the 80’s 🤡 boy ! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Settle guys, play nice :)
cars was number 1 in 1979 in the UK
Completely agree, this massive hit single from 1979 had few predecessors but managed to create a sound that was going to grow huge a few years later in many variations.
This song is so catchy you can’t help but bop to it, lol…Another quirky cool 80s band y’all should check out is The Escape Club, “Wild, Wild West”
Yes!!
YES! I love that song!
Yes
Great Suggestion ☺
"Wild, Wild West" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in November, 1988, making them the only British artist to have a number one hit in the U.S. without charting in the U.K.
The 80’s were so fun! I’m so fortunate I lived through this music time period!!!
Its from the 70s! Came out in 1979...
Just a few months from the 80's. Basically the 80's started in '78-'79 music-wise. It's when you began to see music branch out in all sorts of directions. Electronics opened up a whole other world from metal to hip hop.
Plastic Bertrand
Absolutely... when the F word was FUN! 75-85, the greatest decade in pop! 😎
THIS WAS 79 AND YES THE 70DZ were Justas good hands down feet to lol
Now you NEED to hear “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” by The Human League. It’s the true epitome of 80s ❤
And "Mirror Man"
Human league was definitely different.
Don't You Want Me, Louise
Yes! My favorite!
When I was young I absolutely loved the song don't you want me because it felt like a movie story I still love that song
Don't know any kid who didn't love this tune immediately upon hearing it on the radio in '79 or seeing that video on the earliest days of MTV in like, 1981.
VIDEOS KILLED THE RADIO STAR THE BUGGLES 1979 ROCK LOBSTER B52S 1979 LOTS AND LOTS OF 79 GREATNESS
For many of us this song and Gary Numan's "Cars" were the first "synth" songs we'd ever heard -- pretty sure it was 1979 for both. Earlier stuff I didn't hear until later were songs by Kraftwerk ("The Robots" and "Trans Europe Express") -- the pioneers of electronic music -- but also Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" which came out in '77. Of course the 70s synth stuff doesn't really sound "80s" -- but I tend to like it more.
Pop Muzik is from 1979 Cars is from 1980.
@@rickycole6327 Actually, Cars came out in 1979.
Soft Cell Tainted Love was the first I remember.
I had a couple of Kraftwerk's cd's back in high school.
@@screwyootube1 I think Ricky is right in that Cars was released/charted in the US in 1980 - but ‘79 in the UK
This track is 44 years old and still sounds ahead of its time. A pure new wave classic. Imagine a 44 year old song in 1979. It'd be a gramophone record from 1935.
Although try the Brits' revival of 1920's 'Pasadena' and Blackbottom' by the Temperance Seven in the early 60s. Lots of fun and great musicians.
It WAS years ahead of its time , but still managed to race to the top of the charts all around the world. The real thrill is how on the one hand, he creates a prototype for a kind of sound that was gonna be heard all over the place from around 1982/83 onward (check out "Wham Rap" by Wham, "Don't Go" by Yazoo, "Der Kommissar" by Falco and "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer, for starters) and at the same time the song works as a parody of this genre that still didn't exist in 1979! That's just amazing...
(Sparks' "Beat the Clock" from the same year, does something similar, also a brilliant song and video, but it wasn't a major hit at the time - the band were at a commercial low end of their career).
This Song was a Sensation back in the day, different from everything else on the radio. Glad you found this one !! it made me Smile. !
Same time as "Cars" by Gary Neumann
Wow, haven't heard this one in YEARS! When it came out, pretty much everyone was influenced to move to it. Nice to know it still has that impact, all these years later.
I remember hearing this song for the first time. Coming from the disco age, it was quirky and rather refreshing, and I fell in love with it. Bought the 45 (how many kids know what that means these days) and played it over and over.
I remember it was a yellow label.
Yes! I heard this on the radio when I was in 8th grade, and it was so completely different than those disco songs that had been so dominant in the four years prior. I also had the 45. When my big brother and sister didn’t love it like I did, well, that was the first hint that our music tastes had diverged. They never liked synth-pop or New Wave, whereas that was my jam!
Same here! Played it on my faux denim portable record player :-D
Me too-- MY JAM, and nobody in my family got it! But I did not care.
My older brother sent this clip to me, because I replayed the 45 relentlessly.
Thanks a lot guys! I haven’t heard this song for many years. And now thanks to you I haven’t been able to get this ear worm out of my head. It was one of the first big MTV hits for a reason.😂
When I think of this song, I always think of Cars by Gary Neuman for some reason. I don't know of they were the same year, but they go together in my brain.
I'm pretty sure they were because they were both on an album I had called "Rock 80" but I think all the songs were from '78-80.
@@kelqueen9998 I think so too...great years for music!
also Are Friends Electric by Numan.
This was HUGE here in the UK 🇬🇧 back then. A great song to dance 💃 to. ❤
In the US it was huge also.. At the place we went to party it was played on the bar jukebox way too much by the girl crowd and the guys were sick of it after a month or more and asked the bar owner to take it out of the machine ..lol. The 45 single had to have been carved out after that many plays ..
We loved it here in the states as well. I’m surprised M never had any more hits here after this one. I always liked “Moonlight And Muzak” as well.
This was huge in the US as well! Great beat!
this was a huge hit all over the world
I always thought of it as Europop---so many of the songs in the genre came through European groups. Back in 1979 we didn't classify it as "synth pop" ; it all seemed as if electronic-oriented groups like M and Kraftwerk were stepping in with their own take on disco/new wave---it was made for dancing, and very catchy. Giorgio Moroder, as a German-Italian, contributed a lot to a European interpretation of electronic disco.
So glad I was hitting the night clubs when music like this was big. Need to give "Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing" a listen
An absolute classic!
That song is absolute banger
I have Politics of dancing on 12”.
It’s a perfect record and a crime it was never a bigger hit!
This is one of those few songs that come along and completely changed things. I heard this in junior high and it was instantly my favorite and opened me up to an entirely new genre - truly a new wave pioneering track.
Yes, I was there. I was riding in the car with friends in 1979 and this came on the radio and we were like What? Damn this is awesome! True story.
I was 9 years old, and my parents just bought me a "Walkman". I remember listening to this song, in the bus home from school.
You guy have to remember in April 1979 when this came out the charts had been full of Disco & Punk Rock so this new sound blew our minds. The following month "Are friends Electric" hit the charts and shot to Number 1, Tubeway army were fronted by Gary Numan and this was the start of the deeper full on synth music in the UK. However the German group Kraftwerk are widely credited as being the innovators and pioneers of synth music and they would finally get a UK number 1 hit record in 1982 with "The Model".
The Model is great.
Whilst what you say is quite true, if you listen to Kraftwerks stuff like Autobahn, Trans Europe Express and Tour de France. You'll hear music that was literally EVERYWHERE in the 70's and early 80's!
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars Yes but you also have to remember that Autobahn was first recorded in 1972 & The Model in 78, all before Pop Muzik.
Came out in the fall of 79....in the US at least ..
I loved it when I first heard it and played the 45 over and over until my mother told me she was banning the song in the house, but yeah Robin Scott is very instrumental in opening the door for New Wave
Well, as a 54 yr old woman I can tell you this was a huge hit back then! Brings me wayyyyy back! 😅 Thanks for reacting to this song! 😊 And as a request, please React more to some Dr. Hook!! 🙏 They're my favorites. 💜
I'm the same age you are. It's funny to think of how this song came out when we were 10 years old and we were bopping to it! Didn't the song Born To Be Alive come out around the same time? And yes to more Dr. Hook!
I just turned 57 feels weird to be this old doesn't it
I just turned 56. I miss the older music
58 here, and I don't care, I still listen to all this great stuff, as most of today's music leaves me cold. 60's, , 70's and 80's is my go to. Lots of radio , apps,etc. have music that suits me. Rap / hip hop etc just has no appeal for me, and I've tried, for my nephew's sake.
@@wendywatching it is! I loved music since I was a toddler, and being raised with 5 older siblings, 70s music was a huge part of my listenings. Imo, 70s & 80s music was the best of all time!! 🥰
I was waiting to see if it would grow on Jay because his face said it all, lol! Get your quirk on. Yep! It is just one of those songs. I was 9 when this came out but I don't remember it really being a thing until MTV launched in '81 and then everyone saw the video.
I was 11 when this came out. My mom just looked at me, with her mouth open, when I played this on the record player.
Love the way that Amber just immediately drops into enjoying this.
“Record player”” says it all
Love Amber dancing on this video 👍
The 80s was a time of musical tech innovation. I've over 45 years as a session musician working in studios and the invention of MIDI (musical instrument digital interphase) and digital synths such as the Yamaha DX7 really changed everything., Being able to connect a limitless amount of keyboards, drum machines and samplers together with a sequencer or a bit later a computer was an absolute blast. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
You mean 79 I hope you have more knolage 80s kids love to song napp 70s songs lol
This came out at the tail end of disco. It was absolutely a fresh new sound and made people excited about where the 80s would take us. It went to #1 here in Canada and lots of other places.
There is an even older synth-pop song. From 1972 came a full synthetic song called "Popcorn" the band name is "Hot Butter".
Great catchy song. The bass player featured on this song is the great Mark King of Level 42! They has released their debut album that same year.
Love Level 42!
@@coolcpa3321 Level 42 would be a good '80s group for them to hit soon.
I remember when this started playing on the radio in ‘79. I think I was in the 5th grade. Everyone was going around singing it.
Talking about M, there was a fabulous group from the 90s called M-People. "Moving On Up" 1993. "Search For The Hero" 1994. 2 of their biggest hits for you to start with. ❤🎶🎼🇬🇧
Heather small fantastic voice 🎤
@@shaunsmith2914moving on up is fantastic 😊
I love m people
talk about pop music..Spring Session M, the 1982 album by Missing Pesons is another stunning 🎉 work of art y’all should check out-some of those hits where seminal MTV and new wave hits. They’ve got some excellent live RUclips videos (former players with Frank Zappa).
This song came on with the inception of MTV! Weird then weird now! I was heavily into hard rock and metal back then and I pretty much laughed at this! Bizarre!
In the late 90s, U2 opened their concert on their Pop Mart world tour with a cover of this song. It was great!
That was actually the only context I’ve ever heard the song in. And I’m 46!
I was there 🙌
So happen to have a vhs copy of that concert and was fortunate to see that concert in Vancouver
@@kenbongaards554 one of the most craziest concerts I've ever been to. I went to Wembley Stadium, and I swear, I was shifted from one side of the stadium and back to the other side over the course of the show without my feet even touching the ground.
@@Problembeing i have fond memories of that concert for sure when i saw them in Vancouver
Omg, thanks for reacting to this. I *love* this song, but I have such an eclectic wide ranging musical interest that I have my own radio program examining music. So, I sometimes forget about some of the oldies. I might need to feature this on my program! Love this song… completely forgot about it.
In 1977, the synth pop sound showed in Donna Summers, "I Feel Love" truly a classic, the driving baseline was the standard for the sound. Kraftwerk was around then too.
Been asking for "I Feel Love".
other songs in the mid 70s also
I was in high school and this song was AWESOME and fun to dance to. It seemed like the period roughly 1979-1982, the early New Wave years, were full of fun and exploratory music. As New Wave became more mainstream it began to mature. As a young person, it was those early New Wave years when it was the most exciting.
Couldn't agree more, new wave, dark wave, post-punk, synth, new-romantics. Everybody was trying new sounds with the brand new "toys" and all of it was regularly played in commercial radio.
Me too!
To me all of the 80's music was about having fun, even rap music. In the 90's, alot of music, especially rap, turned more dark.
The 70s created almost all 80s music .
Same!
I was an elementary school kid in a bowling league when this was popular. To this day, I can’t hear this song without hearing bowling pins being crashed into in the background- that’s how strong the connection is
That's the neat thing about music. Certain songs can give you that nostalgic feeling when you get older. For example, if I hear "Woman" by Legs Diamond, it reminds me of when I lived in San Antonio and Cibolo.
Now that's a unique childhood memory!!
Really? It's a roller skating rink for me.
This is one of the songs that anticipated the 80s a little early- M was essentially the brain-child of producer Robin Scott who tried his hand at the synthesized textures and anything-goes spirit that the new wave era offered (similar to what producer Trevor Horn did with The Buggles). Plastic pop music (sorry, "muzik") was never so joyous as the "New York-London-Paris-Munich" album, where this came from ("Cowboys And Indians" is another great song from this album). I remember seeing this video in 1979 (I was 7) on a local Chicago TV show that played really early music videos, and being transfixed by it.
Great memories and insight ❤
Ah yes. I remember it well. In the charts the same year we had "Can you feel the force" by The Real Thing. "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. "Hit me with your Rhythm Stick" by Ian Drury. "Cool for Cats" by Squeeze. "Olivers Army" by Elvis Costello. Not forgetting Queen who were in they heyday. So much good music in the 1970s
Now, get your kids dancing to... Pop Muzik.
Thanks for the smile.
Damn i remember very vividly skating to this in the late 70's!! Those were most definitely the good ol days!!
I loved this when it came out and still do! We loved dancing to it.
Another British song from about this time was Cockney Rebel who had a huge hit with “come up and see me and make me smile….”
Indeed, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's "(Make me Smile) Come up and see me" is a great track! However, it appeared in 1975 almost four years before "Pop Muzik" was a hit.
M was a guy called Robin Scott.
He retired very young with the royalties from this massive #1 Hit song.
This is one of the smartest songs ever written.
DEVO & The B-52s were already in full flight in 1979.
Some of the guys who would soon form Level 42 were also involved in the project..
This was always being played in our aerobics class! This is quintessential 80’s! 😁 Life was so much simpler and fun back then. I’m so happy I was a teenager in the 80’s ❤This was the first decade where you were free to be totally weird and man did we get weird! 😆
Realy from EARLY 79 how does that work in reality ?
The fact that Devo and Rock Lobster were just on the tip of your tongue is just so awesome. Loved this vid from y'all. It reminds me of your One Night in Bangkok and then Vangelis's Friends of Mr Cairo 😂
This song came out in the 70’s . I got the 45 record when I was 11. Yes I still know every word💯🤣⭐️
Totally hear ya - led the way for 80s music!
@@davidbenkert1062 ⭐️☑️
Badass song!! I miss the 80s, I really do. I’m 53 in my husband’s 56 and we were talking about it the other day how much we miss the 80s and we would love a time machine just to go back even for a day.
This piece of crapola was in 1979. But you can have it. Right up there with Disco Duck.
YOU miss 70s songs in the 80s wooow
well u2 would have had to go back to the 70s its from 79 bran new
Awe, man. This made my day awesome! I was 11 when this came out, and it has been a life-long favorite of mine. I played it recently for some friends in generation Y, but they didn't like it AT all. Lol So I was very interested to see your reactions. 😊 I'm so glad you liked it.
Takes me back to my teenage years. Please, The Force M.D'S!! Their songs "Tender Love" and "Love is a house" were big hits in the 80's😢
I was 16....at the time I'd experienced a lot in the 70s...with so many trips,nothing really surprised us!
This is high school. What a time to be a kid!!! There was such a variety of music to "choose" from. Imagine music tastes going from classic Led Zeppelin and Hippie Music to Bubble Gum, to Nu Wave to the beginnings of Rap with Country sprinkles going on the whole time. A lot like myself, just went ECLECTIC!!! I LIKED EVERYTHING!!!
Peace, guys...😊😊😊
We had the best music to grow up with
Hello *The Family* (From South France as always),
Yes, yes, yes, I suggested this absolute masterpiece long ago, and I'm happy you've decided to react to it. This title was in the top 5 of all hit charts in Europe, the USA and Australia.
I hope you won't wait so long to react to *"Chicory Tip - Son of my father"* I already gave you in my last comment. It's another pearl of psychedelic synth-pop of the 70s (1972).
Peace, folks. ☮😉
U2 used to come out of the back of a venue thru the crowd with this blasting as they made their way onstage 💥
That was the intro music as U2 took to the stage on their Pop Mart tour. 👍
YES during their PopMart Tour. Pop Muzik right into opening song “MOFO “🎸 🔥
Yes, that’s the tour I saw them on. Still have my shopping cart T-shirt 😄
The sound! I was there experiencing it for the first time. It was ground breaking.
For another piece of addictive synthpop you should try "Einstein a Go-Go" by Landscape and "The Model" by Kraftwerk, who are widely considered the fathers of synthpop and also Techno and Trance
I just recommended Einstein a Go Go in my comment too !
I would recommend Monsoon with Ever So Lonely.
Anyone else notice that the lyrics are basically rap style?? in 1979 I was playing bass in a cover band doing Genesis, Pink Floyd, prog stuff. We heard this and just went WFT. Fun little synth tune for sure. Thanks Jay and Amber. Love you two!! Peace and happiness to all my family here.
A song that was way ahead of its time and was basically the 70s sound turning into the 80s sound was Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”. Well worth a listen.
I was a child when I heard this song for the first time. Everyone loved this song for what is was, a super fun song in the disco music era. You heard it everywhere.
Like everyone else, this song was such fun to sing to and dance to on the disco floor even in Melbourne, Australia.
I haven't heard it for ages, so it was great to hear it and see you guys bopping to it too 😂😊
I was a teenage when this song came out and I still remember all the words! As soon as it came on, everyone would get up to dance and we'd all be singing along, bopping away.
This song, even when first released, became an earworm! Don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing
My thoughts exactly! I was a total hippy rocker in the seventies, but this song got in my head! LOL
Pop Muzik was what we call in the UK a 'one hit wonder'. The only song that ever got into the charts by 'M' and the interweb was not around back then to research if they did anything else.
I am not going to have to check the interweb to see if they DID actually do anything else. But at the time it was cutting edge and a prelude to the 'new romantic' era.
I have not yet looked, but I am sure you can find documentaries on the music scene of the 80's and the influence synthesisers brought to the music industry - starting with early influencers such as 'Autobahn' - a German band who clearly had the money to get their hands on the new technology of the day.
A classic of its time. Closer to spoken word or rap than singing (other than the backing singers). Cool to hear it for the first time in forever.
This song was so insanely popular because it was so different. We'd heard nothing like it before. even us metalheads were into it. Many tried to imitate it afterwards but none even came close.
I remembered and sang the whole thing but was cracking up watching yall! 😂😂
The guy behind M was Robin Scott and they had a couple of quirky minor hits but this one was huge in 1979 and a number 2 hit in the UK.. Unbelievably catchy and almost a parody of the electronic music that was starting to become popular. An 80s hit before the 80s had started ..Infact 1978 and 1979 in the UK was the start of 80s music. There were so many quirky tracks like the M track back then.. Seek out the band Quantum Jump and the track The Lone Ranger and After The Fire with the song One Rule For You...Examples of the 80s in the late 70s. British music then was just so inventive. There are so many great tracks you've yet to discover from that era but loved your reaction to M because it kind of blew your minds. 😂❤👍
U MEAN LATE 70s music lol
Unlike most other synth-pop songs, this one hit #1 and stayed there forever. It reached #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 on November 3, 1979, and continued to sell well into 1980, finishing in the top40 songs of that following year (1980). If one looks back at the singles from 1980, there was nothing like this one. It was completely against popular norm. 1980, the "Call Me" year, is one of the best years of singles in modern music
I had no idea this was released in 1979. I would have guessed more like 1983 and, in those days, four years difference in the music world WAS very different.
Having been conditioned to every genre of music being legendary in the 1970s, I embraced it for its quirkiness & futuristic vibes.
I graduated HS in 1982 and LOVE music from the 80's. Pop, electronic, metal....love it all!
A great 70's song that you can't figure out the lyrics but will have you singing the chorus is Manfred Mann's "Blinded by the light" it gives off Pink Floyd journey in your head vibes.
@@john-daviddennison2862 I don't know about that. Manfred Mann took it to No.1.
I'm so enjoying the fact that younger folks get to discover these fab songs from the late 70s & the 80s. Back then the music was so innovative it was outta this world.
Now play it again and as David Bowie would put it... Lets Danse!
I think the man behind M was more of a music producer than a band, so I can't think of any other tunes but this hit was HUGE! RSR has already featured most of the synth pop I could think of, but there are still a few in the same range: Dead and Alive, "You Spin Me Round" or my ultimate Synth Pop hit, weirdly, Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." Female Friday Electronic Jam!!!
Amber,you want to know what it was like where it came out in ‘79? Mate, it had the same effect then as it did wit you and your boy Jay. 😂👍👏
That was such a huge hit . those were the days
Big hit here in the UK still gets played today. Pop Classic tune.
We used to sing this during school choir practice to annoy our teacher. 😄
Try "Love Plus One" by Haircut 100.
Ah man, "Love Plus One" one of my all-time favs!
@@mkmstillstackin
Mine, too. 🙂 I watched the video about two weeks ago, along with a few other favorites from the 80s.
@@LMmccallL57 very cool. Always a treat listening to good 80s classics
@@mkmstillstackin
I agree. 👍🏽
A lot of the early synth pop like this wasn’t always played on regular mainstream radio stations 1st, & the records weren’t always available in every record store either. They were played on indie or college radio stations that were already playing some experimental music. My older brother is a musician who also worked in an indie record store, back then was into lots of the early synth music/musicians - Switched on Bach, Fripp & Eno, early Kraftwerk, so my ear was already in tuned to listening to what was then some unusual sounding music. He was able gift me some amazing music of bands that never really hit big but were very vool (Nervus Rex, The Flirts, Josie Cotton) Then when this kind of music broke into the mainstream w/MTV videos it was like an explosion of sounds, colors, fashions, design & decor that was ushered into very futuristic themes that went into everything from mall design to hairstyles, amazing time to be a teenager
I never really thought the song was "silly" back then, it was just REALLY REALLY cool! (But watching the video now, I can see why you might think that.) This song hit #1 on the charts in the US and lots of countries. The only other song by M that I know is "Moonlight and Muzak" which was on the B side of the 45 - nice, but kinda weird. Try also "Being Boiled" by The Human League and "Fade to Grey" by Visage for other great synthpop tunes.
Should have also included "Looking from a Hilltop" by Section 25.
@@jgreen6772Fade to Grey is without any doubt one song that best describes the beginning of the 80's.
you two are right, this was a big 'shock' when it was first played on radio. Went right to #1 in USA, prob because it was so different for the time (and still is)
📜Y'all are ticking down my list! Thanks!
X -Heart and Soul - T'Pau
X -One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
X -Our House - Madness
X -The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
In a Big Country -Big Country
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
X-Pop Muzik - M
Under The Milky Way - The Church
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
She's So High - Tal Bachman
Wouldn’t it Be Good - Nik Kershaw
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
99 Red Balloons 99 Luftballons -Nena
Great list of songs
Great list, can I add " Unguarded Moment " by The Church " as well ? Mexican radio fo sure !!
Yes, Mexican Radio!
this is a great list. I add Der Komissar by Falco and Amedeous by Falco ~ the first synth-pop-rap in German
love your list. In the same vein...
Tarzan Boy
Somebody's Watching Me
West End Girls
and also, while not goofy like these, I never miss a chance to promote "Life in a Northern Town"
techno pop reminds of being a kid at high school , at the time it was way ahead of its time....and seemed amazing. still fills any dance floor even just for a laugh.😄
We all dance to this song in high school 🕺💃🎤🎸
Yes, this was one of the Gateway Songs into new wave back then. I was 12 years old and this wanted me to find more of this! So goofy, yet so good!
This and Cars, by gary numan, blew peoples minds. I was 10 In 79. And all the kids loved it in the UK. Hot summer. Knock on wood byvamey Stewart is VERY, addictive too. Try it*
This was one of my favorite songs back in the day!! Good choice to listen too.
This song was awesome when it came out. The lyrics are just so silly, but combined with the cadence of the music you just can't help but smile and move your body
I’ve loved this song from the first time I heard it. I have it right next to the AC/DC and Godsmack. Amber’s chair dancing is so uplifting.
The mad mental Robin Scott and his “Pop Musik” a sure fire disco anthem from the 1980’s.
its great to see and hear all this music from my past especially the 80's synth pop. One thing, I don't see any reference to Blancmange out of the UK. They were big in Canada but not the US. Since you like bass and synth I recommend Blancmange - Blind Vision, the extended version if you are brave. keep up the posts they are great. E
My second recommendation would be Blancmange - That's love that it is , since you enjoyed Erasure. You can hear the Donna Summer influence.
This came out in 1979. I was about 5 or 6 when my uncle played this song for me a year or two later on his old record player at my grandparents house. I loved it so much, he gave me the record to play on my record player at home. He died about 10 years ago, but I’ll cherish this song and dedicate this song to him, forever
This song was a huge hit.
Yes Worldwide. I remember ☺
This was probably my very first favorite song as I was only 2 when the song came out, but my sisters had the record of it so I grew up listening to it and fell in love with the song!! I used to put on performances for my family using my stuffed animals as the singers and I would create stages and a fake TV set so I could make MTV Music Videos!! This song was the very first song and time I ever did anything like that and my parent's still bring it up today, about how "cute" I was bopping along with this song... dancing with my stuffed animals and lip-syncing... "Knick knack patty whack!" LOL LOL Looking back it's embarassing, but also awesome, because that moment was when I started to form my tastes in music and the strong bond I have with music to this day - especially tied to special childhood memories as "Pop Muzik" does for me! ***Please consider "Oh Yeah" by YELLO and "Situation" by Yazoo/Yaz and "Ponderous" by 2NU - keep smiling y'all!!