I was 16 when this came out, and I remember watching it when my step dad was in the room, and he said, incredulously, "you like that stuff? Just wait until you get older, you will see how ridiculous this is" I am 53, and you know what? It still kicks ass!"
I love this song! I actually met the lead singer Dale Bozzio years ago in LA. My friend and I were shopping at a beach shop on Venice Beach and I saw her in the store. I instantly recognized her blond/pink hair. I went over and just told her I was a big fan and loved her music. She was extremely friendly and gracious and she spoke with my friend and I for about 10 minutes. She introduced us to her children who were with her. She told us about the upcoming plans the band had and what they have been up to. She was really cool and sweet. I didn’t expect her to be so chatty and friendly. I always appreciated that.
Legend has it that the weekend before he died, Prince walked into a used record store in Minneapolis and bought 4 albums, with one of them being the Missing Persons' "Spring Session M". His Purple Majesty always had impeccable taste.
Moved to LA in 1981 from San Diego, fell in love with KROQ radio... Traveled to Hawaii in 1982 and fell in love with MTV (back when they were a video music station worth listening to). I Loved this song, not to mention the girl singing it. A young conservative kid, loving the life in LA back then. Worked with some beautiful women in TV back in those days (behind the camera). Amazing people back then. People today can't hold a candle to what they were all about. Great song, thanks for sharing.
The magic of the 80s was you didn't even realize you were living through them until the ×%$* music of the next decades came along. It was just another week with the latest fantastic hit.
I love seeing comments like this. I was 8 years old when this came out, and it’s still so awesome. I get really nostalgic when they break it down at 2:09. Such an amazing 80’s sound!
I am 79 and I still love to sing that song . At a Missing Person concert I got squeezed against the metal fence who separated the public from the band as people from far behind the stage pushed everybody forward, and here I was up front about to faint, a good Samaritan helped me to move to the side. Thank you Sir, I was relieved to be able to get some fresh air. This memory never left me. Vive le rock and roll!
Dale's husband is the drummer in this video, Terry Bozzio, who was in the top tier of great drummers in the late 70s and 80s. As someone else pointed out, he cut his teeth on some of the most difficult music ever written with Frank Zappa, then later with UK and Jeff Beck and many, many others. Amazing talent.
One of my favorite bands from that era. Saw them live at Wolf & Rissmiller's Country Club in Reseda, '84 or '85. Warren Cuccurullo and Terry Bozzio *ripped*... but let's give the keyboardists some love, too! Thank you, Missing Persons!💖⚡
Seeing all the comments, the 80's were the best time to be alive. Coming home when the street light came on, smoking refer and just having a great ole time. I wish this generation could live how we did. I'm 54 and love every minute of my childhood especially listening to Missing Persons.
I’m 50 years old and I still sing this out loud in the car, including the high pitch squeaky bits, while my wife looks at me over her glasses and wonders if it’s too late for an annulment.
Such a beautiful young lady She also made her own outfits and as musicians they were extremely underrated very technical they never missed a beat was some great fun back in the 1980s. !!!!
@@jlay9944 Terry bozzio is one of the best drummers on the planet I think you need to go and find the Justin Bieber or the Katy Perry page zoomer dip 💩
This LIVING BARBIE DOLL was drop dead GORGEOUS..her frown,her smile,body,voice,everything about her was PERFECT! I had such a crush on her and the song Rocks!!!
What's brilliant about this video is that they performed it "live." no overdubbing and could easily pass for a studio recording. Zappa told Dale to not perform anything in the studio she couldn't replicate live. They were the best and taught by the best in the biz. Still one of my favorite bands of that era and go as far as saying of all time.
Had a minute after a show in Colorado where Dale told me she "fell out of a second story window and landed on my head" then Zappa and his wife helped get her on her feet/start a band... kissed her cheek and got hair in my mouth 🤣😎
Zappa's ! Opinion ! I just that ! Nothing more ! And has nothing to due with this video. Some ! Songs are basically studio songs and that's the way it is. They were good ! But so we're dozens of other groups at this time era. Basta !;!
I saw them in 82 and 95. They jam playing live. I think they sound better live than recorded. Terry’s drum solo was out of this world. I had front row seats in 95. A lot of people arrived late so I was one of the few people sitting in front and she waved to me a few times. Good times.
We loved them, we listened to them, had their albums and enjoyed the music and that time period. The 80s was the best in the music and in entertainment in general. Her voice and the music was amazing and still enjoy it up to this day. I just turned 57 and this music makes me nostalgic and I enjoy it even more knowing that it was the best era in music.
The absolute insanity of this song to me will ALWAYS be that as catchy and awesomely 80's as this is... THAT is one of the greatest drummers that has ever drawn breath on the planet Earth playing in the background there!!! Terry Bozzio is a fucking GOD with sticks in his hands!!! 💯💯💯💯
Damned right. I was eight when this came out and I prefer it today. I think my mother (Same age as Dale) is shocked I know who these people even are, but I remind her my memory is long and just because I wasn't a working adult with bills and problems in 1981/82, I WAS still there.
Evan Michael Here’s the thing although Dale should be much richer today. She knows in her heart and when she sings today that she is the Rock singer all these bitches take after.
I've seen Missing Persons live twice, both times in Santa Cruz, CA in the 80s. First at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and then at the Catalyst... All I can say is WOW!... Dale and her band mates were just awesome... I still remember it as if it was yesterday...
Back in the early 80's when I was like 8 or 9 years old me and my uncle were walking by some Dance club in Long Beach California. He let me look inside at all the people dancing around with all the crazy 80's fashion and 80's dance moves! This song was what was playing in that club and that whole scene I witnessed will forever be tattooed on my mind. Wish I could go back in time and go in that club so I could get shit faced with all those 80's folks!
In my opinion, the greatest song from the 80's ever! Not only because of the music, but what she can do with her voice. How she gets really high, and then how low she gets and what she's doing with her voice when she is low is something I've never seen!
Terry Bozzio is a Zappa alumnus and world class talent. It's no wonder they had lasting popularity. Dale is a beauty that puts Gaga to shame and she invented her style without ripping it off.
This is so good in so many ways, the voice, the makeup, the sound, the inflections, the amount of exposed flesh. She was the best vocalist at that time, hands down.
This song brings back fond memories of my college days back in the early 80s. Amazing as I hadn't heard this in years and just stumbled upon it and it still sounds great after 35 effing years! (2016) Long live 80s New Wave!!! It was an amazing time to be alive.
Back when music was music and when television was television with awesome Saturday morning shows and evening shows such as Knight Rider, A-Team, Hart 2 Hart, etc,.,
Been ba fan since 82 i was 15 years old and got to see thrm play @ magic mountain 82 and then the US festival 83 true musicians 💯💯💯 Terry bozzio 🥁🥁🥁🥁 killer drummer 🥁🥁
Remember this from the 80s. The amazing thing is they actually did it live. No lip syncing and no pre-programming instrumentation. They may not have had a lot of hits, but this song is a classic.
Interesting - I always assumed this was a conventional lip-synched music video, but indeed the differences between this and the studio album cut are clear.
@@paul6925 Yup, running over to the boom box near the end of the previous song, putting your finger on the record button, and hoping the song you want comes on next 🤣🤣🤣
Love this song. I remember I was sitting on my Aunt’s bed watching her get ready to go to her High School football game and this song was playing. I’ve always loved the beat and reminds me of the most awesome simplistic innocent time of my life❤️
I was 11 and seen this on mtv with all my cousins when mTv was just videos and they had the rocket ship . I think we saw it come online live . All the grown ups were getting hammered in another room , lol . Life is wonderful, “ I think I ll dye my hair blu “ 😊
The Music, the Outfit, the Hair... THE 80s!!!!!!!!!!!! Mtv played a big roll in my addiction of Women, Legs, & Hosiery!!! This Lovely Lady singing "Do you hear me?" I'd answer, I can't hear ANYTHING over the Gorgeous Sound LOOK OF YOUR LEGS!!! No way I could concentrate on ANYTHING beyond Her OUTFIT that SCREEEAMS "SEE ME!!!" I would know nothing else in that slice of time... Thanx for the video!!!!!!!!
Yeah...most people have no idea this group had connections to Frank Zappa/Duran Duran (group members) and Beatles/Supertramp (uber producer). One of the best drummers on the planet--listen to 'Windows'.
Only a few years prior to this, Terry was playing The Black Page, singing homoerotically about Punky Meadows, and chugging along with whatever weirdness Frank Zappa threw down on his music stand, not counting (or discounting) his UK stint. Truly a versatile dude, and these folks were tight. \m/
I'm 60 years old...saw them at the US festival. They were a band ahead of their time and I was so in lust with Dale Bozzio back then...I still think she was gorgeous and was a great singer.
Hi, This was a great shoot at A&M Records on La Brea. I was the SPL Visual Effects cameraman at MC2 part of Kramer Rocklin who got the production. Great Band and fun people Great music.
ray wojdynski Wow great work! So was this for MTV? Or was it promo to shop around? Also- did they play this down live for the vid? Any lip sync involved? Thanks!
How wonderful. You are not forgotten. To b part of this shoot that has attempts but no real copies. I adore her more than anything. I wanted to be her so badly. Still do.
@@paulvon2378 You said by 10 years? So you mean 1991? when Grunge, House and Hip Hop music were the most popular Genere's of the time. You must be High as i'm hearing. LOL
i remember the day mtv played this for the first time and also walking in l.a,after hearing other songs on this album i went and bought the album,every song on this album is great.
Dale Bozzio was such a natural beauty! I was 15 when I saw this on MTV & I'm not ashamed to say, I crushed on her immediately! Up to that very moment I had never seen a girl wear a skirt made from solar panels? She wore them well though? HIGH VOLTAGE STUFF right there!
I was a little slow to get onboard with new wave in the early 80's. Talking Heads, Hair Cut 100, Devo, Flock of Segulls... etc. But now being an old geezer, I do admit I lend a special ear to this music now.. Takes me back to young and the good ole days. Missing persons stood out though, they where outstanding in every way in their time of popularity. The LA scene and what was going on there. Very much ahead of there time.
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I love how Dale just jumps all over the vocal range like a boss who gives zero fucks. Quite possibly the most underrated 80's "pop" band.
I was 16 when this came out, and I remember watching it when my step dad was in the room, and he said, incredulously, "you like that stuff? Just wait until you get older, you will see how ridiculous this is" I am 53, and you know what? It still kicks ass!"
I was a young mom when this came out & I still listen to it a lot. Dale Bozzio is so original.
I'm 64 yo & still get a kick out of this video. In my opinion, Stefani & Gaga are pale imitations, no disrespect intended.
Agreed. Still awesome today. Your step dad sounds like my dad back in the day.
I'm 56 and I finally fully appreciate this. It's also clear what a talentless hack Lady Gaga is.
damn right!!
I have to laugh when people say Lady Gaga is so "innovative" when Dale was 30 years ahead of Gaga's persona.........
she's just one of the ppl gaga stole their style from.
I love this song! I actually met the lead singer Dale Bozzio years ago in LA. My friend and I were shopping at a beach shop on Venice Beach and I saw her in the store. I instantly recognized her blond/pink hair. I went over and just told her I was a big fan and loved her music. She was extremely friendly and gracious and she spoke with my friend and I for about 10 minutes. She introduced us to her children who were with her. She told us about the upcoming plans the band had and what they have been up to. She was really cool and sweet. I didn’t expect her to be so chatty and friendly. I always appreciated that.
That's cool! Thanks for sharing that.
I met Lita Ford and same thing. Very down to earth and friendly. We snapped a photo that I lost in many moves across the USA
@@susannpatton2893 that’s so awesome! I love Lita Ford, too, she is fantastic.
She was arrested for animal cruelty. Google it
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Missing Persons, Berlin, QuarterFlash, Motels, Blondie... great and unfortgeteable part of our adolescence soundtrack...
You got it man. All in my 80's download playlist✊
Stacey Q, Ultravox, The March Violets, Tryangz, Tubeway Army, TransX, David Bowie, Prince, Billy Idol, A Flock of Seagulls.
Ah, and don't forget The Specials!
Altered Images, Pretenders, The Photos to name a few more good ones..
@@crapple009 and X, of course
The sound, the costumes and make up, the edditing made this one the greatest videos of the 80s.
After 42 years, I still adore this band. Dale you are the best female singer entertainer ever!!!!!
This kids, is what the ‘80s was all about!!!
Dale Bozzio! The REAL Punk Princess!!! She was amazing! No one can touch her!
Legend has it that the weekend before he died, Prince walked into a used record store in Minneapolis and bought 4 albums, with one of them being the Missing Persons' "Spring Session M". His Purple Majesty always had impeccable taste.
Hell,I'm still listening in August 2023. 70 years old and still rocking.
She’s an amazing performer. She’s totally in the character of the song’s narrative.
Moved to LA in 1981 from San Diego, fell in love with KROQ radio... Traveled to Hawaii in 1982 and fell in love with MTV (back when they were a video music station worth listening to). I Loved this song, not to mention the girl singing it. A young conservative kid, loving the life in LA back then. Worked with some beautiful women in TV back in those days (behind the camera). Amazing people back then. People today can't hold a candle to what they were all about. Great song, thanks for sharing.
The magic of the 80s was you didn't even realize you were living through them until the ×%$* music of the next decades came along. It was just another week with the latest fantastic hit.
This ^
I miss MTV of the 80’s and American Bandstand. Look at the garbage MTV is today. It breaks my heart at what it has become.
The 80's were just as good as the 70's. Amazing music released on a daily basis!
I’m 73 in 2023 and still digging Dale Bozzio.😍
Her Hustler spreads back in the day...
🤘🏼 Rock On
😍🥰😍
yeah baby
I love seeing comments like this. I was 8 years old when this came out, and it’s still so awesome. I get really nostalgic when they break it down at 2:09. Such an amazing 80’s sound!
I am 79 and I still love to sing that song . At a Missing Person concert I got squeezed against the metal fence who separated the public from the band as people from far behind the stage pushed everybody forward, and here I was up front about to faint, a good Samaritan helped me to move to the side. Thank you Sir, I was relieved to be able to get some fresh air. This memory never left me. Vive le rock and roll!
How terrifying. Glad you were rescued!
Dale's husband is the drummer in this video, Terry Bozzio, who was in the top tier of great drummers in the late 70s and 80s. As someone else pointed out, he cut his teeth on some of the most difficult music ever written with Frank Zappa, then later with UK and Jeff Beck and many, many others. Amazing talent.
I am 57 years old and loveing this music 🎵🎶
86' grad here!
Me too🤘💚
@@keithinaz9769 Omg! 85 here. I had this album and I played to the enth degree.
12 years old with my Walkman and my Spring Session M tape...this band still rocks to this day. Thank you Dale, Terry and Warren!
This band was groundbreaking. Great music, great fashion, and great musicians.
I’m 50 now...still love this song and all 80’s music. These are real musicians.
51 here. And I totally agree with you. Best decade of music.
I have the Roku stick. I'm watching this video right now on the channel:
Flashback 80s
And you are damn beautiful!
@@Peter8Luigi 😆😆😆😆😆
spontanuity is a lost art. the atrophied 2020's.
This song will never get old
The 80s synth Pop will Never get old.
One of my favorite bands from that era. Saw them live at Wolf & Rissmiller's Country Club in Reseda, '84 or '85. Warren Cuccurullo and Terry Bozzio *ripped*... but let's give the keyboardists some love, too! Thank you, Missing Persons!💖⚡
Seeing all the comments, the 80's were the best time to be alive. Coming home when the street light came on, smoking refer and just having a great ole time. I wish this generation could live how we did. I'm 54 and love every minute of my childhood especially listening to Missing Persons.
Amen
I’m 50 years old and I still sing this out loud in the car, including the high pitch squeaky bits, while my wife looks at me over her glasses and wonders if it’s too late for an annulment.
😂😂😂🥰😘
I'm 57 and if my wife looked at me for a divorce after hitting those high squeaks I'd grant it.
@@ge2623 - I didn't bother waiting for the high notes. lol
the squeaks are the best part
LMFAO...i can relate..my wife always ask me if i need to goto the hospital
This tune was ahead of it’s time , her outfit is perfect.
Wow this started the transgender movement, amazing!
She made her own outfits.
100% agree
She used Starbuck’s mocha coffee lids as a bra before Starbuck’s was even born!
I thought it was an Album cover 🎶🎵🎼 seriously 😝🤪
I've played drums for 43 years. I can't do that synth bridge then the synth theme at the start of the second verse. Thank God for bands.
I love the little squeak at the end of those verses
Such a beautiful young lady
She also made her own outfits and as musicians they were extremely underrated very technical they never missed a beat was some great fun back in the 1980s. !!!!
not without all the make up. And her Hustler spread is one of the grossed things of her. She is a pig.
This songs "Words" by The Missing Persons is an absolute classic and one of my all time favorite songs from the 1980's. I love this song.
"NO one notices, I think I'll dye my hair blue". Sums up this decade. We did it first. Sincerely, Gen X
Pretty sure Dale was a boomer.
She is 68, soooo..... 🤷♂️
@@jakovasaurI think she is Generation Jones- too old to be a GenX-er but too young to be a Baby Boomer.
The boomers invented punk, new wave AND grunge. Sorry
@@reya346Born in 1955. The baby boomer generation includes everyone born between 1945 and 1964
Great song and band. Still relevant lyrics, probably more than back in the 80’s.
Terry is an amazing drummer. This whole band was absolutely awesome too.
Is this Terry...😂
@@jlay9944 Terry bozzio is one of the best drummers on the planet I think you need to go and find the Justin Bieber or the Katy Perry page zoomer dip 💩
@@jlay9944 this band and these guys are a protege of Frank Zappa's you don't have a clue what you're jabbering about young one
Totally
@@jlay9944 What you mean?
This LIVING BARBIE DOLL was drop dead GORGEOUS..her frown,her smile,body,voice,everything about her was PERFECT! I had such a crush on her and the song Rocks!!!
She was definitely unique. You saw her incredible raw talent. I thought the same thing. She knew how to perform. She knew what she was doing.
At 60 years old i remember rockin to this gem when it first came out, still am today.
One of the best drummers of all time! Absolute legend
What an absolute doll Dale is.
And a real sweetheart from all I've heard.
What's brilliant about this video is that they performed it "live." no overdubbing and could easily pass for a studio recording. Zappa told Dale to not perform anything in the studio she couldn't replicate live. They were the best and taught by the best in the biz. Still one of my favorite bands of that era and go as far as saying of all time.
Had a minute after a show in Colorado where Dale told me she "fell out of a second story window and landed on my head" then Zappa and his wife helped get her on her feet/start a band... kissed her cheek and got hair in my mouth 🤣😎
The tempo is slower.
Zappa's ! Opinion ! I just that ! Nothing more ! And has nothing to due with this video. Some ! Songs are basically studio songs and that's the way it is. They were good ! But so we're dozens of other groups at this time era. Basta !;!
@@schnellfahren911 yea !;! Right !;!
I saw them in 82 and 95. They jam playing live. I think they sound better live than recorded. Terry’s drum solo was out of this world. I had front row seats in 95. A lot of people arrived late so I was one of the few people sitting in front and she waved to me a few times. Good times.
We loved them, we listened to them, had their albums and enjoyed the music and that time period. The 80s was the best in the music and in entertainment in general. Her voice and the music was amazing and still enjoy it up to this day. I just turned 57 and this music makes me nostalgic and I enjoy it even more knowing that it was the best era in music.
Still here for it in 2023 💙!
for my dear friend Heather Valentine who has passed away. We used to rock out to this gem 💎
RIP, Heather Valentine. 🙏
"What are words for; when no one listens anymore?" So appropriate for 2020.
Voughers
@S.M.C. Kennels Thanks. Corrections made.
With that outfit, I think there was more watching than listening.
"Do you hear me? Do you care!?"
@@belladonnat4866, That's good, too.
The absolute insanity of this song to me will ALWAYS be that as catchy and awesomely 80's as this is...
THAT is one of the greatest drummers that has ever drawn breath on the planet Earth playing in the background there!!! Terry Bozzio is a fucking GOD with sticks in his hands!!! 💯💯💯💯
How true is that! Everybody listens, ..but, nobody speeks, listen to the music,.. and there you have it,.! Michael.
Better than the music we're hearing in 2023.
How true back in time music today not impressed 12 5 23
And 2024!
Damned right. I was eight when this came out and I prefer it today. I think my mother (Same age as Dale) is shocked I know who these people even are, but I remind her my memory is long and just because I wasn't a working adult with bills and problems in 1981/82, I WAS still there.
One of many bands with a timeless sound for its decade. ALL HAIL THE 80s!!! 😎🎸🕹
Criminally underrated band. And Medford, MA's own Dale! She was a blueprint 30 years before she eventually got ripped off. Ladies owe her a debt.
Evan Michael awe ok just listened to an interview of her from a couple years ago and couldn’t place her accent thx
Evan, I agree, I can name so many that copied her and never admit it. She was original.
Agreed. They do ! Dale rules!
Evan Michael Here’s the thing although Dale should be much richer today. She knows in her heart and when she sings today that she is the Rock singer all these bitches take after.
Dales all girl for shure
Im 74 years old, by crackie!! I loved them then and I love them now. Great song and GREAT lyrics.
I've seen Missing Persons live twice, both times in Santa Cruz, CA in the 80s. First at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and then at the Catalyst... All I can say is WOW!... Dale and her band mates were just awesome... I still remember it as if it was yesterday...
Back in the early 80's when I was like 8 or 9 years old me and my uncle were walking by some Dance club in Long Beach California. He let me look inside at all the people dancing around with all the crazy 80's fashion and 80's dance moves! This song was what was playing in that club and that whole scene I witnessed will forever be tattooed on my mind. Wish I could go back in time and go in that club so I could get shit faced with all those 80's folks!
+Spyder Fweek very cool story!!! :)
Very good song.
I would not be surprised if you saw me in there at that time you looked in there. I hope I didn't etched too bad of a image for you...LOL
+Dan M , if you were indeed in there I would only have to say one thing! Thanks!
You are welcome. Take care.
In my opinion, the greatest song from the 80's ever! Not only because of the music, but what she can do with her voice. How she gets really high, and then how low she gets and what she's doing with her voice when she is low is something I've never seen!
they were ahead of their time
@@tangel476 They were. Missing Person, Thompsons Twins, Steven Strange influenced the 80's fashion so much.
Hi, love her! Her voice is like no other! Brings back so many memories, of the younger years!
I can't get enough of the syncopation in this song against that steady synth bass. So good!
All 3 of the Missing Person original records were catchy, well played and well arranged. Great band overall.
Youth is fleeting.....I see these videos and I think about all of the crazy things we did back in the day.....Life goes by real fast...enjoy it
I sometimes remember I'm in my 60's and I ask myself,
Where does that highway go to? Am I right, am I wrong? My God, what have I done?
My cover band had this song constantly in rotation through the 80s. A lot of 80s music has not aged well, but I still love this one.
Terry Bozzio is a Zappa alumnus and world class talent. It's no wonder they had lasting popularity. Dale is a beauty that puts Gaga to shame and she invented her style without ripping it off.
the 80's without Missing Persons arent 80's
This is so good in so many ways, the voice, the makeup, the sound, the inflections, the amount of exposed flesh. She was the best vocalist at that time, hands down.
80s had the best music..PERIOD
Amen to that!!
I have to disagree with you the late sixties and in particular the 1970s had the greatest music and the greatest bands.
were not better than the 80s.
Neil Parga and Reagan was one of the best
I second that
Dale's look is absolute perfection, ahead of its time, and would be rock star fire today.
It's incredible how few people are actually good listeners. I totally understand the lyrics now.
I'm 92 years old and I just discovered this song, and I love it!
Im 72.Just a numbo.I feel like 5 years old !
i invented the moon landing and have always love most portions of this song if im in the mood to be hearing it
@@ttub_waffles pump up the mars landing
Welcome to the music !
so happy to have you here! :D
I’m 53. Radio announcer for 20 years. This album is top 5 all time for me.
Really? I'd like to hear what the other 4 are?
Top 5?? Of All Time? I love Missing Persons but that's a bit much man.
@@user-xk6dn7tu5d- He said “for him.” His choice.
Dale and Wendy O. Williams blew people away....they were so avant garde. I love Missing Persons. The awesome Terry Bozzio drumming!
Haven"t heard this song in years,got goosebumps.
This song brings back fond memories of my college days back in the early 80s. Amazing as I hadn't heard this in years and just stumbled upon it and it still sounds great after 35 effing years! (2016) Long live 80s New Wave!!! It was an amazing time to be alive.
Back when music was music and when television was television with awesome Saturday morning shows and evening shows such as Knight Rider, A-Team, Hart 2 Hart, etc,.,
Ny and LA new wave from the beginning of the eighties to 1984 is the best! Missing persons and Berlin were the most important groups
I love this when it came out. I spent every day after school watching MTV just to catch this video.
Words can't explain how awesome you guys were in the 80s!!!!
Dale Bozio wearing a solar panel g-string....leading the world in green energy since ‘81👍🏻😂💗
Yes if Greta Thunberg, looked liked this I think even the most avid climate sceptic would surrender!
@william bush lol
And sheer to waist pantyhose too.
I love it Denise, the Music Artists of 2day think they invented it!!!
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Been ba fan since 82 i was 15 years old and got to see thrm play @ magic mountain 82 and then the US festival 83 true musicians 💯💯💯 Terry bozzio 🥁🥁🥁🥁 killer drummer 🥁🥁
Saw them in Lubbock TX October 28th 1982 greatest show ever they were KILLER!!!!!
Remember this from the 80s. The amazing thing is they actually did it live. No lip syncing and no pre-programming instrumentation. They may not have had a lot of hits, but this song is a classic.
Never heard of this band, good though
LOL the amazing thing is mostly how she looked in that outfit. It's a great tune though. They had something snappy.
yep this is live...sounds VERY much like the actual single release but slightly different take. Goes to show how good musicans they were
Interesting - I always assumed this was a conventional lip-synched music video, but indeed the differences between this and the studio album cut are clear.
Missing Persons concert was one of the best shows I have ever seen. Saw them in the early 80's
Lucky bastard
For sure I've been rocking this....
Memories of trying to record this song from the radio onto a blank cassette tape!!
Hah remember waiting and waiting hoping the song would come on... it was much easier if they were playing a top 10 or top 5
Yup...did the same thing back in the day.
Ha!!! 😋
@@paul6925 Yup, running over to the boom box near the end of the previous song, putting your finger on the record button, and hoping the song you want comes on next 🤣🤣🤣
@@LittleLulubee 😂 I never thought I'd say this ... but kids these days don't know how easy they have it!
Love this song. I remember I was sitting on my Aunt’s bed watching her get ready to go to her High School football game and this song was playing. I’ve always loved the beat and reminds me of the most awesome simplistic innocent time of my life❤️
Cool memory
I was 11 and seen this on mtv with all my cousins when mTv was just videos and they had the rocket ship . I think we saw it come online live . All the grown ups were getting hammered in another room , lol . Life is wonderful, “ I think I ll dye my hair blu “ 😊
The Music, the Outfit, the Hair... THE 80s!!!!!!!!!!!! Mtv played a big roll in my addiction of Women, Legs, & Hosiery!!! This Lovely Lady singing "Do you hear me?" I'd answer, I can't hear ANYTHING over the Gorgeous Sound LOOK OF YOUR LEGS!!! No way I could concentrate on ANYTHING beyond Her OUTFIT that SCREEEAMS "SEE ME!!!" I would know nothing else in that slice of time... Thanx for the video!!!!!!!!
This was a polished act. Very influential. Outstanding musicians, to boot.
Yeah...most people have no idea this group had connections to Frank Zappa/Duran Duran (group members) and Beatles/Supertramp (uber producer). One of the best drummers on the planet--listen to 'Windows'.
@bcdhifi
The charming Mary in Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt (originally titled Wet T-Shirt Night)
Back in the day when pelvis solar panels were in style, and no one wore them like Dale. Damn I miss the 80s.
STILL got mine--I wear it when I shop at Walmart
Good one
So which side of the panel provides the energy?
Lol. Both if it's a top notch panel
" Edgy" before "Edgy"
Only a few years prior to this, Terry was playing The Black Page, singing homoerotically about Punky Meadows, and chugging along with whatever weirdness Frank Zappa threw down on his music stand, not counting (or discounting) his UK stint. Truly a versatile dude, and these folks were tight. \m/
The Bass player is Duran Duran
Almost 40 years later and this song is as relevant now as it was then. Perhaps more so..
Even more so - way more. When this song came out people would use a phone (landline) to talk. There way no texting or even email yet
I'm 60 years old...saw them at the US festival. They were a band ahead of their time and I was so in lust with Dale Bozzio back then...I still think she was gorgeous and was a great singer.
Saw them at Cal State Northridge, first row. Terry Bozzio was amazing ... 40 years later I saw him again and he's still a top 10 drummer.
top 10 based on what? No he isn't. I love him to death. BUT he isn't. He is just YOUR top 10. Please realize that is much different.
Saw at US Festival and in the Bay Area.. blown away then and still now.
Hi, This was a great shoot at A&M Records on La Brea. I was the SPL Visual Effects cameraman at MC2 part of Kramer Rocklin who got the production. Great Band and fun people Great music.
ray wojdynski You lucky bastard.
Thanks for all your work, I was in high school at the time !!!!
Cool!
ray wojdynski Wow great work! So was this for MTV? Or was it promo to shop around? Also- did they play this down live for the vid? Any lip sync involved? Thanks!
How wonderful. You are not forgotten. To b part of this shoot that has attempts but no real copies. I adore her more than anything. I wanted to be her so badly. Still do.
I bought this album back in the 80s and still have it. This music stands up damn well.
LOVED THE 80'S!!!
When I think about early 80's music 🎵 this song comes front and center.
We had such great music, growing up in the 80s was the best! 🤘🏻
Very underrated band that was ahead of their time. No band looked or sounded like this in 1981. #1
AHEAD OF THEIR TIME? SO WHAT DECADE SHOULD THEY BE IN? THE EARLY 80'S IS YOUR ANSWER...PERFECT TIME
@@pepsiq11965 by 10 years kiddo
Underrated by who??? 5 top 100 charted singles. Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo played with Zappa. You’re high.
@@jumpinjojo you are too
@@paulvon2378 You said by 10 years? So you mean 1991? when Grunge, House and Hip Hop music were the most popular Genere's of the time. You must be High as i'm hearing. LOL
i remember the day mtv played this for the first time and also walking in l.a,after hearing other songs on this album i went and bought the album,every song on this album is great.
I saw this on MTV and about had a meltdown over her and that outfit!😍
She was a Doll😊❤
I loved this song then 81 and still 💘 it. She Rocks. Lady Gagas got nothing over her.
Yep she, Lady Gaga, copies Dale and David Bowie. The androgynous thing has been done before.
except an actual singing voice.
@@morbidmanmusic
Says you
2019 (soon to be 2020) and this song is still futuristic.
Dale Bozzio was such a natural beauty! I was 15 when I saw this on MTV & I'm not ashamed to say, I crushed on her immediately! Up to that very moment I had never seen a girl wear a skirt made from solar panels? She wore them well though? HIGH VOLTAGE STUFF right there!
Is that what that thing is? It looked like an optical magnifier or something
Man, this song rules. Highly underrated.
I remember this Band they rock ,her voice is incredible sexy ,forget about it this girl was a total bombshell,I miss the 80s💯🔥
It surely will Rock On n on n on... The delivery and expressions from her are incredibly bangin'!
I was a little slow to get onboard with new wave in the early 80's. Talking Heads, Hair Cut 100, Devo, Flock of Segulls... etc. But now being an old geezer, I do admit I lend a special ear to this music now.. Takes me back to young and the good ole days. Missing persons stood out though, they where outstanding in every way in their time of popularity. The LA scene and what was going on there. Very much ahead of there time.