I was mocking them when I was 19, now I am stunned by them in my 49. Electro funk at it weirdest. How come this weird kind of music was at charts is still mistery to me. Nick Beggs is a killer on bass. Wish this was covered by Grace Jones. Now I see how much talented they were. Amazing.
Would have been a top 3 hit if it hadn't been up against some really strong singles like Let's Dance, Beat It, Sweet Dreams, etc. Not as weird as Ghosts by Japan which was in the charts about a year earlier.
This song and the video are brilliantly ridiculous and a great homage to excess and celebrity culture in the 80’s!! One of my favourite guilty pleasures! I like it so much I once repeatedly played it for two hours non stop!
Along with The Human League, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode, Culture Club, Eurythmics, Bananarama, Adam and the Ants, Tears for Fears, etc etc etc....
I've been pondering this video's meaning for many, many years. And I think it has mostly to do with egotism, and how wealth can contribute to that (check the lyrics). When it comes to Nick's 'shadow man,' I think--again--that's the ego. Shadow Man causes Nick to stumble, crash, and burn in every situation here. In so many instances in this video, egos and expectations of fame and wealth are dashed. In the end, all are LITERALLY reduced to rubble, in the metaphorical earthquake!
Ahh, thank you for explaining that. I was trying to figure it out the whole time. Decided to scroll thru comments to see if anyone had one about the meaning of the video. I think you're right. 😊
I've been baffled for almost 40 years over this video. Nick Beggs was/is deeply religious so there may be some religious angle to the iconology as there were in many of the later Kajagoogoo songs.
An surreal video as well , in a way it was good that this band was so shortlived , they burned at the brightest in that very moment , unlike some that just drag on.
I think this is prior to when he picked up the Chapman stick but i am not sure. This bassline could have been done with the stick. Synth arr. also cool even by todays computerized standards. Song? ...well.
@@mordaciousfilms same! the kajagoogoo fandom is really dry these days bcuz majority of their fans were teenage girls in the 80s who loved limahl, its great that theres still legit fans!
Definitely not crazy. Artists had talent in the 80's. Between autotune and 9000 rediculously named music genres, people have a whole new appreciation of 80's music now.
LYRICS (YEAR 1983): Pick and choose The things you wear Feel free to look around, with no obligation Times have changed So break new ground Feel free and take your time take a little Extra time, more time with no obligations Clothes, in Vogue, are all the rage But don't expect too much, they can't perform miracles Head to toe Disguised again, it's heavy when they say We don't perform miracles, no we don't perform miracles Ooh to be ah jetsetter Be ah head start Ooh to be ah, to be ah Look at me, ooh in something new Ooh to be ah Cool glossy mags, reveal the facts With a little bit of goo, it's usually in the who's who Place your bets, predict the favourite party of the day You'll find it in the who's who, who's there You'll find them in the who's who Ooh to be ah jetsetter Be ah head start Ooh to be ah, to be ah Look at me, ooh in something new Ooh to be ah
This was one of my favorites during the summer of '83. I was 14 at the time. I remember pretty well 'cause we used to play 'disco bar' in my friend's attic. Another favorite of mine that same summer was the B-side of Duran's 'Is there something I should know', called 'Faith in this color'. It's an instrumental track. Years later (like 10) I suspected the Stereo MC's of being inspired by its break, when they came up with 'Step it up'.....
This music video sums up eighties as an era: White pants, sport coat/tshirt combination with the sleeves rolled up, RayBan aviators and mullet blowing in the wind. Mobile phone the size of a brick.
Dismissed them at 8, respect them at 48. A band that was steered initially very well by Llahmal seemed to get lost by the 3rd album and its a shame in a way they couldnt get to enjoy the same success. But they did reunite eventuality and itvwas good to see them altogether again.I hope they do something this year for 40 year's, it would be a waste otherwise. Here's hoping
Had no idea Kenny Everett was in this video ! Brilliant. With groups like this, the singer is usually the best looking, but would say the keyboard player probably got a fair bit of fan mail at the time !
That's because music videos made the music industry and music buyers more image-conscious and naturally, entertainment companies were more strict in the looks of their talent.
Somebody should really remix this track into something else...the synth and bassline are crazy on this!. Okay some 80's bands might not have stood the test of time...but the constituent parts on this record are pretty worthy!. Oh and excellent casting of Kenny Everett...never expected him to crop up!.
They were their strongest together for sure. It’s difficult to say because the pop music scene was already changing by the time of the albums they did separately.
I believe so yes, he was responsible for Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody getting airplay in the UK since he was good freinds with Freddie Mercury so it may be a joke about how Kajagoogoo have paid him to play their single here.
Amusing video in the heyday of the awesome 80s limahls vocals stuarts synth combining with nick beggs killer bass playing great band that sounded and still does simply grand to hear
My first vinyl record, remember walking proudly behind my mum in town with it in its woolworths bag! Thing is, i remember being slightly embarrassed at liking them,weren't they a bit of a joke even at the time?
Superb video, superb song. This is really far too complicated for a young 1980s pop audience, which is why it didn't do that well; let's be honest, it's more or less prog rock.
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not just the bass, the guitar and synths are amazing
Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran on production.
@@ajs41 with the great Colin Thurston
I was mocking them when I was 19, now I am stunned by them in my 49. Electro funk at it weirdest. How come this weird kind of music was at charts is still mistery to me. Nick Beggs is a killer on bass. Wish this was covered by Grace Jones. Now I see how much talented they were. Amazing.
Would have been a top 3 hit if it hadn't been up against some really strong singles like Let's Dance, Beat It, Sweet Dreams, etc. Not as weird as Ghosts by Japan which was in the charts about a year earlier.
Absolutely can relate.
It’s muso mince. Talented musicians but it isn’t any good
So true 😂
💯!!! As we got older we now fully appreciate how great they were!
Stuart's synth parts and sounds on this song are superb. Very fine player.
Nick Beggs, bass master!
Kajagoogoo underated this is subtle funk classic early 80s 😎👍 .......
dude, this is NOT funk.
This song and the video are brilliantly ridiculous and a great homage to excess and celebrity culture in the 80’s!! One of my favourite guilty pleasures! I like it so much I once repeatedly played it for two hours non stop!
If you truly like a song, you replay it til you become sick of it!
Y'know, I once asked the DJ in Greece (when on holidays there years ago) to do the same with the B52s Rock Lobster. GREAT!
This clip is so 80's even the 80's are jealous
This band made the 80s the 80s
true, prototype, and fashion
bit of a stretch !
Don't knock Duran Duran & Culture Club!! That was the 80s right there!! 🎶🎶🎶
Along with The Human League, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode, Culture Club, Eurythmics, Bananarama, Adam and the Ants, Tears for Fears, etc etc etc....
That bassline!
I've been pondering this video's meaning for many, many years. And I think it has mostly
to do with egotism, and how wealth can contribute to that (check the
lyrics). When it comes to Nick's 'shadow man,' I think--again--that's
the ego. Shadow Man causes Nick to stumble, crash, and burn in every
situation here. In so many instances in this video, egos and
expectations of fame and wealth are dashed. In the end, all are
LITERALLY reduced to rubble, in the metaphorical earthquake!
Ahh, thank you for explaining that. I was trying to figure it out the whole time. Decided to scroll thru comments to see if anyone had one about the meaning of the video. I think you're right. 😊
Ironic the egotism considering how the band imploded not too long aftr
I've been baffled for almost 40 years over this video. Nick Beggs was/is deeply religious so there may be some religious angle to the iconology as there were in many of the later Kajagoogoo songs.
Such a funky tune in parts, with such fine and apt, minor chord changes, especially, early on in the tune. Kajagoogo's best, in my opinion.
This is their best song!!
Yes 👍
No matter how old you are, if this doesn't do it for ya, nothing will.
I agree , great synth and slapwork on this one , the most danceable as well
An surreal video as well , in a way it was good that this band was so shortlived , they burned at the brightest in that very moment , unlike some that just drag on.
I got the entire album and enjoyed every minute of it
Produced by Nick Rhodes. You can hear his influence on songs like this.
@@ajs41 Great album.
Who doesn't? White Feathers remains a real goody.....
Never realised Christopher Timothy and Kenny Everett were in this video.
Kenny was in the charts at the same time with Snot Rap.
@@ajs41 Choon!
They should never have got rid of Limahl things were never the same again great Band and music 💜
So why did they got rid of him anyway?
Allegedly he was a Egomaniac and was becoming difficult to work with
Im guessing drugs
It was a bad mistake!
The rest of Kaja wanted to be more professional and do more advance music whereas Limahl wanted to stay the same and keep making pop singles.
Although not a massive hit, this has to be the most-80s sounding & video I’ve see and heard !
I've got an deja Vu!
The bassline for this track is absolutely ridiculous. Nick Beggs is a beast!
Yeah, Nick Beggs and Mark King were the main guys who inspired a lot of people to start sticking out their thumbs and start slapping.
No bass no music ...bass 💯
I think this is prior to when he picked up the Chapman stick but i am not sure.
This bassline could have been done with the stick.
Synth arr. also cool even by todays computerized standards.
Song? ...well.
Cor Severin Chris guitar=bad
I agree.
Nick Beggs is a legend on the bass and he is such a brilliant singer also.
2019 and still listening 👂 to kajagoogoo
me too fav song at moment
Sept/2020...still listening to Kajagoogoo!! They were great!!!
May 2021 🤟🏼
Ditto in 2022!
May 2023❤
So thankful that someone took the time to remaster this amazing videos for an amazing band.
Guys didn't Nick Rhodes produce this? Fantastic track.
Yes, he was one of the producers on almost every song on the album.
My favourite Kajagoogoo song and at last a far better looking video than the one I saw on RUclips before. Thanks for the upload 😁
I love how they look like a flashy pop band but they're legitimate musicians and talented songwriters. I love this group .
agreed! they totally deserved more recognition for that
@@jenviieve This is why I dug deep into their library this past year and became a legit fan. Nick Beggs is a genius!
@@mordaciousfilms same! the kajagoogoo fandom is really dry these days bcuz majority of their fans were teenage girls in the 80s who loved limahl, its great that theres still legit fans!
they were really really good band, british music is the highest quality music in the world.
call me crazy but love 80s!
Nope...you're 100% sane. Today's crap....that's crazy and another story altogether. Long live the 80's👍
I was born in 2001, Guess what music do i listen to
Here's another crazy person. I love the 80's too 😁
Definitely not crazy. Artists had talent in the 80's. Between autotune and 9000 rediculously named music genres, people have a whole new appreciation of 80's music now.
I was born in 1991 but 1980s music is my favorite!
These guys could play. Nick Beggs on bass guitar, fantastic.
Love this track the bass and the guitar are standout brilliant , and the video quality is awesome thanks for posting.
keyboards are top notch too
LYRICS (YEAR 1983):
Pick and choose
The things you wear
Feel free to look around, with no obligation
Times have changed
So break new ground
Feel free and take your time take a little
Extra time, more time with no obligations
Clothes, in Vogue, are all the rage
But don't expect too much, they can't perform miracles
Head to toe
Disguised again, it's heavy when they say
We don't perform miracles, no we don't perform miracles
Ooh to be ah jetsetter
Be ah head start
Ooh to be ah, to be ah
Look at me, ooh in something new
Ooh to be ah
Cool glossy mags, reveal the facts
With a little bit of goo, it's usually in the who's who
Place your bets, predict the favourite party of the day
You'll find it in the who's who, who's there
You'll find them in the who's who
Ooh to be ah jetsetter
Be ah head start
Ooh to be ah, to be ah
Look at me, ooh in something new
Ooh to be ah
Quintessential 80s sound! I like the redhead guy.
This is the best music video ever
Great to see legendary tv guru and classic dj late and great Kenny Everett in this video 👃➕ ......
He also had his own hit in the charts at the same time with "Snot Rap".
Cool music and scenery. 👌
This was one of my favorites during the summer of '83. I was 14 at the time. I remember pretty well 'cause we used to play 'disco bar' in my friend's attic.
Another favorite of mine that same summer was the B-side of Duran's 'Is there something I should know', called 'Faith in this color'. It's an instrumental track. Years later (like 10) I suspected the Stereo MC's of being inspired by its break, when they came up with 'Step it up'.....
Thanks for recommending that Duran Duran Bside! Its absolutely wicked!
@@AllySay u r welcome
Kajagoogoo definitely had that it factor❤
This music video sums up eighties as an era: White pants, sport coat/tshirt combination with the sleeves rolled up, RayBan aviators and mullet blowing in the wind. Mobile phone the size of a brick.
I still have a bag phone which I have kept over the years.
Johnny R Finley ... nice!!!
That’s the 80’s !!!! 😄
that's not even a "brick size" mobile phone in the video - the main unit of those mid-80s car phones was as big as a small case.
@@backslash68 Exactly, that was just a car phone not a Brick Mobile phone!
Also this was the early 80's being it 1983!
The much derided Kajagoogoo, but this track was electro funk in full 80’s effect !!
As good as it gets, along with the instrumental track Kajagoogoo
What is Kenny Everett doing in this video? 🤣🤣🤣
Just having fun. Incidentally he had a single in the charts at the same time called Snot Rap.
Brilliant Dance Hit!🪩💃🏻🕺❤️🔥
Nick Beggs is a GENIUS
One of their best tracks!
Fantastic song, I need a timemachine to 1983
It was produced by Nick Rhodes
this is my ABSOLUTE FAV KAJAGOOGOO ||| and this video is SO MUCH WACKY!!!
TOO SHY以外の曲で良い曲があったね❗
Nice song !
Both this song and the lions mouth are class efforts yet are never ever heard on the 80s radio shows
Nick Beggs was Jim Carrey before Jim Carrey was Jim Carrey
Dream Of A Tiger omg ur right
...except that Nick is infinitely more talented, less psychotic, and assured of a future in the entertainment business.
It’s a pretty good song surprised it wasn’t more popular and the video has a lot of positive reviews energy
Classic 80s
it’s called skill, not just some fancy make-up boys doin’ silly stupid stuff
*top notch bass
Dismissed them at 8, respect them at 48. A band that was steered initially very well by Llahmal seemed to get lost by the 3rd album and its a shame in a way they couldnt get to enjoy the same success. But they did reunite eventuality and itvwas good to see them altogether again.I hope they do something this year for 40 year's, it would be a waste otherwise. Here's hoping
The band likely bought too much into how much teenybopper girls liked their music and that’s why they fired Limahl.
Glad to see this vid back, thanks Rhino.
Berlin ❤️
Jez, the drummer, a fitness freak. I knew him in the 90s - very tall!
Dude was 6-4, 175 lbs! He had zero body fat.
I wonder why he left the band after 1984.
Limahl! 💙💙💙
0:48 imagine people seeing this in the 80s and laughing about that obscure idea of always having a phone with you
First phone I had was a carphone in a BMW 318i in 1989. Where has the bloody time gone :(
Ring! Ring! It's for you.
Hello? Oh.... sorry wrong number.
Funky!!!
Had no idea Kenny Everett was in this video ! Brilliant. With groups like this, the singer is usually the best looking, but would say the keyboard player probably got a fair bit of fan mail at the time !
Limahl got a punky Rod Stewart hairdo.
Underrated Kajagoogoo song. I really like the synthesizers. And the music video is funny, too! :D
British life in the 80’s
Best decade so far for me.
Love this song!
"With a little bit of goo" - 1:33.
See it wasn't my imagination...everyone WAS skinny in the 80's
It was the Coke.
That's because music videos made the music industry and music buyers more image-conscious and naturally, entertainment companies were more strict in the looks of their talent.
@@RocStarr913 bullshit. People were skinnier. I was alive in the 80's, I would know. Overweight people were a total anomaly and really stuck out.
Yes people were most definitely skinnier. You didn't start to see mass amounts of overweight people until the 2000's really.
@@TheDJColby13 Beat me to it. If you read the oral history of MTV, *everyone* was doing coke.
Another brilliant song
Ah , the late Kenny Everett, legend. Rest in Peace Kenny.
2020
Somebody should really remix this track into something else...the synth and bassline are crazy on this!. Okay some 80's bands might not have stood the test of time...but the constituent parts on this record are pretty worthy!. Oh and excellent casting of Kenny Everett...never expected him to crop up!.
Oddly enough he was in the charts at the same time himself with his one and only hit Snot Rap.
1:15
Hazel O'Connor
Its such a good song and music video
Excellent song and video. Sick bass lines from Nick Beggs
Nick Beggs is a great bass player, his bass playing in this song is fab!! 😀👍
It really is a sad thing they parted ways with Limahl. They could have had many more hit songs and videos.
They did some really great songs with Nick Begg as lead singer as well, such as Big Apple, Lion's Mouth, and Turn Your Back On Me.
@@ajs41 they might have good songs but they were short lived. Stupid move by them and their manager
They were their strongest together for sure. It’s difficult to say because the pop music scene was already changing by the time of the albums they did separately.
Vengo escribir algo en español , solo eso 😀
I think nothing beats the 80s😊
I adore everything about this! 😍
Was that Kenny Everett in the video clip on the phone?
I believe so yes, he was responsible for Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody getting airplay in the UK since he was good freinds with Freddie Mercury so it may be a joke about how Kajagoogoo have paid him to play their single here.
It certainly was.
Amusing video in the heyday of the awesome 80s limahls vocals stuarts synth combining with nick beggs killer bass playing great band that sounded and still does simply grand to hear
Esse estilo de música é tudo que se pode esperar do Kajagogo. Explendido.
Best time was the 70 and 80 time ❤️💯
so funky. I fu**ing love this tune.
Totally agree. Very funky and inventive.
Good old Kenny everet 👍👍
Okaaaaaay. The song alone is major dopamine score, but good grief, what is going on with this video storyline? LOL 😂
Absolutely love this track ❤️
Able to express yourself freely and not be afraid of being who you ARE seems to have gone away with Limahl. Come back Kajagoogoo And Or Limahl!!!
Wow .. I love it 🤣👍
My first vinyl record, remember walking proudly behind my mum in town with it in its woolworths bag! Thing is, i remember being slightly embarrassed at liking them,weren't they a bit of a joke even at the time?
Real music & fashion from 80 th
Kajagoogoo♡
😂😂😂😂 superrr
where did you get this videos? i've been looking for them since january, thank youuuu :) :)
This is the channel of the record label that now curates the band's major label back catalogue, so it's an official source.
an odd song for the time. but still my favourite from the lads :)
They just made a music video about anything lmao
the baseline is more funky than 2 weeks old milk
Nick Beggs makes me want to learn bass
Great band👏
2:45 haha bassist doppelganger with the exotic mullet made of cutlery!
That's Steve, the guitar player.
Princess Diana would have fit nicely in the video, she had that 80s look that no one can top.
I wonder what the shadow man is upto these days.....
Yes! Indeed!
I seen him the other day ,he didnt look that good ...a shadow of his former self ..🤦🏼♀️ ..Ill get my coat 🧥
My father used to think he was hilarious.
2:51 nick beggs better be careful you don't know where that hand has been 😉
Adults react to kajagoogoo! ( Ooh to be ah )
OOH TO. BE AH. JET. SETTER.
Superb video, superb song. This is really far too complicated for a young 1980s pop audience, which is why it didn't do that well; let's be honest, it's more or less prog rock.
3 weeks at number 7 wasn't bad really.