I had a girlfriend since may 1981. This song i sang to her in 1983. That was 37 yrs ago. I was so in love with her, she was 14 and i was 16 when we met at an arcade in Santa Cruz at the boardwalk, 39 yrs ago. We got married in may 1986, had 4 sons and 1 daughter. We now have 10 grandchildren. Every time i play this song it just makes me melt and remember the time i had a girlfriend that was just drop dead gorgeous. She is still so beautiful.
1983! Remember it well. Reagan in the white house, Reaganomics going strong. $1.25 a gallon gasoline super supreme. 80¢ Big Mac, Whopper, Jumbo Jack. $300 a month rent for a 2 bedroom house with all utilities included except the corded dial phone at $6 a month. ET the movie in theaters all over USA. And this mega hit playing out of boom boxes every where. Great time to be alive. Different people, different era, different time, different styles, different values, different music, different country, different world. Never to return again. Glad I lived it.
@@truelies3690 I know I really sound like an old fart, but I came of age (born in 1959) through the late 70s and early 80s. In the 70s I was a rocker at war with disco!! With MTV and new wave, I found a new love in modern, European music. I loved this song! I saw Eurythmics, Berlin, Missing Persons, Psychedelic Furs, Blondie, and a few more. I do think we were lucky. We had enough electronics to have fun but none that would steal our brains and have us staring at our phones all day. I feel so sorry for kids now - we had it better and it seems like the socio-economics of our peers was pretty similar. Forgive me for yakking!!
For somebody who just listened to this song for the first time - i don't get it. It doesn't hold up to other hits from the same genre. I've no idea how this garbage became so popular.
I'm originally from Northeastern England. We needed music so we could keep moving to stay warm. I came to the US for the central heating - but I still move to good music.
The 80s are as far away from us now, as the 40s were when we were teens in the 80s. I remember back then thinking the 80s were so modern. I thought the future was going to be so much better than it is today.
I graduated from high school in 83, at the end of that summer in September I went into the Army, February of 84 right out of training I was stationed in Germany, on June 6th of that year in the morning I got a Stars and Stripes magazine and the headline story was how it was the 40th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. Just the other day I was talking to an old Army buddy of mine who was there that day in Germany and told him "Do you realize that on this June 6th it'll be the same amount of time from D-Day to when we were stationed in Germany as from then until now? We are now as old as some of those WW2 veterans were when we were in the Army, good lord the years have passed by". Years back I heard an explanation about the perception of time passing by that a long time ago I realized was true and the older I get the truer it is, when you're 10 years old 1 year is one 10th of your perceived life, but when you're 50 years old 1 year is one 50th of your perceived life, that's why the older you get the faster time seems to go by, each day seems like it lasts just as long but when you look back is when time seems to be speeding up and the years seem to go by faster.
I think of those things too…certainly when reflecting on WW2. I remember when I was a little kid and someone mentioned it had now been 35 years since the war…it might as well have been a thousand…@@dukecraig2402
Bringa a tear to my eye. Im an inner city Black kid from the 80s, MTV opened so many musical doors for so many like me. This is my shit!!! Life was so good even though we had little in the way of material possessions. Music was free for all of us!!!
I tell mines the same 35 34 33 30 27 17 an 8 grandkids I’m 51 best years of my life an you’re right for them I would always watch valley girl just to hear this song
Still are.... i love that several 80s artist are doing quarantine versions, its like they know we need our music from a time when all we cared about was jean jackets, tapes, 8pm radio stations request lines, hanging out with our parents and hanging at the mall with our friends.
33 years ago I married my soulmate and this was our wedding song. The DJ scratched his head.. we shared the dance floor with everyone. Such a timeless epic song.
Song is 40 years old this week.. It still rocks and makes me want to get up and dance and spin around.. Good on everyone of us for having loved it all these years..
Great observation. I hope you saw them on the tour when they swung through the states. I saw them in Illinois. Got to talk to Robbie and Stephen before the show. They opened with 16 days and gathering dust.
Where were you in 1982!? Reaganomics underway, Aids scare running wild, Prince Charles and Diana's massive expensive wedding, 99¢ a gallon gas, 75¢ Big Mac, Whopper, Jumbo Jack. Great music, great country, great people, great era, great to be alive. If you were there at the time you know what I mean. A once great era country never to return again.
Looks like I wasn't the only one who got to 'Stop The World And Melt WIth . . . the one I love! This song still evokes tears of joy and love for my wife every time I hear it!
@@jayhughes3168 now people will get triggered and say "OMG DID YOU JUST ASSUME THEIR GENDER YOU MISOGYNISTIC TRANSPHOBIC WHITE RACIST MAN" My generation is full of pussies.
This was the song that was playing back in 1983 when my 16 year old girlfriend told her mother that she was pregnant .HER MOTHER HATED ME..we are still together today and have been married since 1984 and her mother still hates me......I LOVE IT
I suppose she wanted her daughter a single mother her whole life? She's fuckin lucky she found somebody to go through life with her and her mother better realize the alternative is awful.
This was playing when I walked into the house of my first party In high school. I went downstairs and everyone was dancing to this song. It was at this moment I first saw Cindy. She was a senior and I was a freshman and of course I never talked to her. 40 years later I can still see her dancing when I hear this song. Such a fine memory
lol he's been imagining hooking up w her 40 yrs now ... eversince that party when he was a skinny freshman no car no license she's untouchable senior.
Oh man, who hasn’t wanted to stop the world and melt with someone? I was 16 in 1982. The song sounds as fresh today as it did the first time I heard it.
I don’t have memories with this song yet but my dad does, my dad was leaving for Navy boot camp and before he left him and his buddies called up his friend who was DJ at the local radio station and asked him to play this song which he did and mentioned how my dad was leaving on the radio. He tells me that story every time he hears this song and I love it. My dads my best friend and I can’t thank him enough for everything he’s taught me and I could go the rest of my life without a friend other than him. Just love your family everyone, especially with times like this. God bless whoever reads this comment
IN '83 when I saw the movie Valley Girl for the first time as a kid featuring a young Nick Cage who, back then, I thought was the coolest white man on the planet, I fell in love with this song. God do I miss the 80's.
+Darrin Magnus i was born in 1992, but this is definitely one of my favorite movies! my mom let me watch it when i was 13, which i think was too young of an age.... but Cage was awesome in it. And the ending makes me melt!!!!
mandalynn185 IN 1983 I was only 8 years old when this movie premiered, Mandalynn. It was a romance comedy whose plot was loosely based on Shakespeare's play of Romeo and Juliet. Needless to say the impression that it had on me no doubt had a hand in shaping who I am today. :) And yes, that's a good thing.
mandalynn185 THINK I may do the same when I get home from work this evening. It's too bad you don't live close here in Pittsburgh, Mandalynn, or else I'd buy a good pizza pie and invite you over to watch it with me. :)
Back in the 80s I put this song on a mix-tape for my husband, who was kicking speed in residential rehab. This song brought tears to his eyes, because he knew he was my everything and I just wanted him to be healthy again. LOVE you, my Matthew! ❤
I love how everyone is sharing all of their memories/stories. It's so warming to read them and imagine the imagery in your head. A big thank you to the 1980's for allowing this sort of music to bring us together and share with one another. ❤
This is my one and only comfort song. I heard this on an 80s radio station and felt nostalgia and calmness. Now I play it whenever I’m sad,angry, or depressed. Thank you, Modern English 🙏🏽
I'm 55yrs now,Thank God I was alive in the 1980s.What a very Magical time.A 10 yr party of music for every taste u can imagine.The 1970s too were the best for our age group.A twenty year party!!!!!
The 70's L.A. punk scene was great with Rodney B. on KROQ paving the way for new bands trying to break through and cut their teeth in the industry. Black Flagg, The Runaways, The Circle Jerks, The Misfits and Social Distortion were on their way to getting fully established with T4he Ramones here in the States leading the way while Bauhaus, Bowie, The Clash and The Sex Pistols across the pond in Great Britain doing the same. The result? The perfect musical storm of various styles, tastes and flavors mixed, matched, shaken, stirred or just served straight up or neat to create the most badass decade ever.
I too am 55 and the 60s, 70s, and the 80s were the most magical and memorable decades of incredible music for me!! Thanks to RUclips I can sit back and kick my feet up and enjoy the music and reminisce about the good old days and when it was a simpler time! ❤️🙂❤️
@@kaisersozshye2525 WOW!! I really LOVE the way you write! I really felt your emotions and appreciation for music!! I take my hat off to you, and very well said my friend!!! 👍😉
When I was a teenager all this great music was coming out so frequently I just took it for granted not knowing it would end one day. Thanks to all those great musicians for all the great tunes!
my parents’ song! married for 32 years this July! anytime this song comes on the radio they stop what they’re doing and dance with each other, or if they’re away from each other they’ll call the other one and tell them it’s playing. 💗💗💗
@@shrimppimp4509 what I meant to say that as a heavy metal fan,I even find myself listening to a song like this one...this song is far from been a heavy metal song.. nevertheless is a great song..
I'm 49 years old and have been hearing this song for decades; and danced to it so much back in the day; great song to get a chick to the dance floor (remember???). First time I've ever seen the video. Cool .... thanks. Oh, yeah, and "What I Like about You" was another dance floor song too ...
Jordan Sutherland We grew up in a great time (the 80's); little did we know. Hope you have great memories too ... Oh, and yes, this chap is not a looker lol.
@@jeffwilliams8074 yea right ahhh NO. The 70s were the coolest generation, you know why? Cause we Fuckin rocked. Led Zeppelin, aerosmith, Boston, pink Floyd. Got it ?
i remember skipping school to go hang out at the local cemetery...they had a huge mausoleum, and back then no one cared much about visitors, even young 15 year old visitors with bright green hair, trench coat, and ghetto blaster..i would go to the lowest floor, play this, and it would echo through the halls, and it sounded amazing...i thought i had forever. i spent many an hour in that chilly, sickly sweet smelling place, reading, listening to modern english, the smiths, the cure, depeche mode, nitzer ebb..those were some good days.
I used to walk through the cemetery at my very old university, looking at the gravestones of students who had died of tuberculosis and drowning back in the 1700's. I wanted to remind myself that I I'm going to die one day.
I started playing 80s music at work( hardware store)....in one day customers were happier and almost dancing while in line. Imagine what would happen to the world if we just went back to the 80s
My dentist plays all 80's music and likes to hum or low-key sing along. I loved growing up in the 80's and the music was break-thru into New-Wave>Alternative and really opened the door for exponential genres.
Well you wouldn't be able to play 80s music in your hardware store without 2000 cassettes while replacing them every 2 years and you wouldn't be able to make such an inane comment on the internet that didn't exist. The murder rate would be 3 times as high. The Soviet Union would still exist. Nuclear warning drills would still exist. All of Eastern Europe would still be being ruled by the Soviets. We'd still be denying Japanese Internment. And every waking hour we'd still be worrying about a nuclear bomb stopping the world and melting us. Like the writers of this song were.
This was my first wife and I's song. I don't see her often but when I do this song always reminds me of our relationship even though it was terribly tumultuous. We have a 27 yr old super handsome son. I will always love her and this song is a part of that relationship long gone 💯
I was born in 1973... Ive never loved anyone that loved me in return... I dont know what it feels like... But it mustbe the most amazing feeling on earth to love someone who loves you back... My only happiness is knowing that this world is full of people in love with each other...
When we're young, they always tell us how fast it will fly by, and we never believe them. I was 12 in 1983 when I first remember hearing I Melt With You in Valley Girl. It truly feels like only yesterday. BTW, you are very young to be retiring! Good luck to you.
@@Nightflyer720 40yrs at one job is a longtime, COVID is the reason why 100k's have been offered early retirement in America, I was one of them, just got a 2 year head start that's all, thanks and to you as well.
@@Nightflyer720 Ahem yeah, about that...it is more than 20 years, in fact it is somethingy2. I just lie about my age. I was 19 in 1980, you do the math but don't tell me cos I'm in denial right now.
It was the real first decade with independent labels... that really did things just for artistic reasons. But it is true, not only the sound, even many of the songs have an uplifting nature that perdures until today. I am thinking of The The's "This is the day", or A Flock of Seagulls "Space Age Love Song", The Waterboys ("The whole of the moon"), Prince ("1999") or so many tracks from the Cure, Depeche mode (but not tonight) or even the weirder stuff that is also amazing. Then you had all the early detroit techno, Acid House, New Beat... CRAZY. The 90's were pretty damn good too, but it was more of a continuation of the spirit of the 80's.
I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this song! It is an absolute masterpiece, a true classic of the 80s that has not got the recognition it deserves. One of the absolutely best songs of the 80s, period.
I fell in love with this song when I heard it on the movie Valley Girl , at times I can't carry a tune in a bucket, but I sing it to my wife every now and then. It been 23 years since I've seen Valley Girl & my wife well I think she likes my singing
Awesome movie with a great sound track with Modern English, The Plimsouls, Josie Cotton, the P-Furs and more. My daughter told me that there is a reboot of Valley Girl that came out a year or so back but I have not seen it yet.
Where to even begin. I will just say that this song pretty much defines what the 80’s felt like. It really is a time capsule captured in music. This is one of the best songs in all history.
It makes me sad that this song wasn't appreciated in it's own time. People think of Modern English as a one hit wonder, but even this, their biggest track, didn't even get into the top 70. The vocal bit at 2:52 that sounds like the NBC jingle gives me goosebumps every time.
I’m 19 and this song is my life! Sucks I wasn’t born to experience the 80’s and I wish I had friends who liked this kind of music. But, I thank my parents for raising me right.
This is one of those iconic 80’s songs for me. So many amazing memories come flooding back. Dancing my ass off in a dingy little bar in NY called The Beat. I had a floor length army jacket, black chucks, stovepipe dress slacks with a cuff, vintage dress shirt and a skinny tie. I would dance until the sweat was pouring off me and my hair was matted. Modern English, Depeche, Smiths, Cure, PIL, Bauhaus, you know the list. Never gets old and still gets me going and I’m 60!!
I’m 61, LOVED this song and Depeche Mode, the Cure, PIL, and dozens more. Since you’re from NY, I’m sure you listened to WLIR back in the 1980’s. It was the New Wave station. I loved New Wave music from the 1980s, I have a New Wave playlist on my iPhone with some great music. Couldn’t have imagined the words playlist and iPhone back in the 1980s. It was all about CD’s, Sony Walkmen and mixed tapes back then. Saw a bunch of great New Wave bands live back then too.
@@MichaelConnorsZBS Agreed 1000%. I loved that station. Some of my mixed tapes were some live concerts they would play. One of the saddest days was when they switched their format. I listened to them from 1982 until that happened.
I'll never forget just chilling on our destroyed old couch listening to 80s music with my dad. One of the best moments of my childhood, thank you dad, you mean the world to me ♥️
The band them self just released a remake of it sometime in the last year, and I was actually much more impressed with it than I expected I was going to be - that generally does not go well.
This and White Wedding right? And Born in the USA is about patriotism? You might want to reread the lyrics before you look like an even bigger fool. As the writer said, "This is a song about having sex during a nuclear holocaust."
For no reason whatsoever, this song pops into my head every once in a while. I'm 50 years old, and I liked this song when ot first came out, and I like it just as much today.
This song never gets old. When I listen to it, it brings me back to those high school and college days of the '80s and look back at those amazing years with wonder.
This song came out in 82ish,I met what would be the love of my life two years later! He was perfect, but we were young and though no fault of our own had to separate. This song was ours and whenever i heard it after 84,it took my heart back to my perfect boy and our perfect love... Don't be sad,this story has a happy ending...we found each other again 8 years ago...this is still our song...and we are living happily ever after . Believe in fairy tales(and good music) kids!❤❤❤❤
we only know that now,we'll we knew it then but we really had nothing to compare it too except our parents depending on their age.the cool thing is my daughter wants to have an 80s party for her 17th.She us into the music and asked me alot about how it was like to not have cell phones etc.yum we didn't know anything else.long live the 80s baby.
There is no possible way to describe being out with all your friends in high school on a Friday night . . . going from party to party . . . this song is playing. It is magic. For me, the year was 1987. You find as you get older that the times are rare when you are truly exactly where you want to be with the people you want to be with. You wouldn't trade those times for anything.
I was doing my student teaching/coaching at a small Catholic high school back in the spring of 1983. The first person I saw when I arrived on campus was a beautiful brown eyed girl and I immediately fell in love. I finished my degree and she graduated and we ended up dating for a while. I would give anything to stop the world and melt with her. This song was popular at the time and when I hear it I think of her. Hope you are doing well Tricia....love Richard.
I had a boyfriend since may 1990. He played a trumpet solo for me in the French class next to my math class. He was 15 and I was 14. He still stops my world. Married in 1997. Almost 25 yrs married but 32 together with 3 girls 1 boy. Blessings to those who fix things that break instead of throwing them away.
Of all those big new wave hits, THIS feels the most REAL. It's not overproduced, it still feels like it came from some British punks who found a synth.
I'm running out of tissues again, happens every time I go back and listen to the 80s. so many tears remembering how good things were and how crap they are now. peace out to children of the 80s.
My decade the 80's. From 8 to 18 years old. Thanks to all the bands from all kind of music... pop, new wave, techno, rock, hard rock, metal... you gave my life the best sountrack ever.
You were a child! No one can associate their life with music of a decade when they weren't old enough to make any life decisions. Those of us in our 20s in thd 80s knew and appreciated the music of our real lives. Not mommy and daddy's lives.
@@julesmisty Come on Jules, don't be like that. Let's say that 80's music was so awesome that even a "kid" like me could save it in his mind forever. Also helped that I have two sisters 5 and 9 years older than me.
+Cristy Ramirez I lived high school in the 80s and graduated in 87. I'll never those four awesome wonderful years. They are etched in my mind...the weekend house parties, Friday night football games, great music everywhere, break dancing, heavy metal, freedom, and fun throughout. Damn...
Really wish I had that experience, was born in '80 so was just a little kid at that time. But if I could live in any period, it would've been being a teen in the 80s.
I think some of us have somebody we secretly and quietly love (our somebody). When I play this song I cry tears of joy because it truly stops my heart everytime. 30 yrs and counting.
I wasn’t here for the 80s, born in the early 2000s, but this was my favorite song as a kid. First heard it at a friends birthday party, and now it fondly reminds me of my childhood :) Absolutely timeless.
Live every day like it is your last day. Follow your heart and your passions, life is too short to go through it unhappy. Cherish the ones you love, never let a day go by without telling them that you love them. Your 20s are the best time of your life, dont waste them on foolish things like drugs and drinking. I hope you have a wonderful life and do great things❤
Hi, same!!! Born in the early 2000s too and the first time I listened to this song was in a movie I absolutely adore (you probably know it, its called “Sky High”) and every time I hear this melody, I can only remember my childhood fondly.
Same, I was born in the early 90s (so obviously not alive when this song came out) but I remember first hearing it as a kid while I was shopping at an Old Navy store with my mom! I remember being mesmerized by it and then always associating it with Old Navy whenever I heard it. lol.
This is absolutely a perfect song... one of the most underrated 80s singles. PERFECT SONG. Perfect lyrics, perfect melodies.... teenage romance / first loves just permeate from this song. I will never EVER tire of this masterpiece.
Wasn't that underrated really, VH1 ranked it 39th in best songs of the 80s, and that's a pretty deep talent pool to be in... #76 on Billboard top 100 on original release I will buy as underperforming though.
Simon Cooper and ill tell you why it underperformed...modern english werent pretty boys. Its sad to say but true. If Duran Duran had sung this (even before they were famous) it would have been a no1 hit. Also to be honest..it could have used a better video. This was the peak mtv years...billboard performance was very dependent on video.
Milk Carton Sadly, you're probably right about them not being "glam." Duran Duran did have some good tunes, but nothing as great as this... just my opinion.
Boring comment compared to many but here goes.... I was tending bar at a hotel in Seattle. Just about to close up after giving last call and these lads came by and said, "Can you stay open just for a few?" I said yes, if they'll hurry and put their bags in their rooms. They did, then came back and I learned they were Modern English! They'd just come from a show at Seattle Center where they'd ROCKED THE HOUSE! Totally. A couple of other patrons and I stayed way too long sharing stories (and drinks) with this group of GREAT guys! A pleasure to meet them, and to get this story to share.
I had a girlfriend since may 1981. This song i sang to her in 1983. That was 37 yrs ago. I was so in love with her, she was 14 and i was 16 when we met at an arcade in Santa Cruz at the boardwalk, 39 yrs ago. We got married in may 1986, had 4 sons and 1 daughter. We now have 10 grandchildren. Every time i play this song it just makes me melt and remember the time i had a girlfriend that was just drop dead gorgeous. She is still so beautiful.
Cliff, you really know what life is all about, brother. My very best to you and yours. Bravo!
The Boardwalk was a good place to meet girls in the '80s. I distinctly remember playing this album on cassette during a drive back home from there.
You are blessed 💗
@@Nerval-kg9sm first time ever on a roller coaster I was so scared but didnt show it because I wanted to impress her
💛💛💛💛💛 !!!!!
One of my favorites. I don't care that I am getting older. Thank you God for allowing me to live during 80's.
Well said! We really are so lucky to be part of that time and carry it with us forever.
No musical era rocked like the 80's
1983! Remember it well. Reagan in the white house, Reaganomics going strong. $1.25 a gallon gasoline super supreme. 80¢ Big Mac, Whopper, Jumbo Jack. $300 a month rent for a 2 bedroom house with all utilities included except the corded dial phone at $6 a month. ET the movie in theaters all over USA. And this mega hit playing out of boom boxes every where. Great time to be alive. Different people, different era, different time, different styles, different values, different music, different country, different world. Never to return again. Glad I lived it.
@@truelies3690 I remember it well also. I am glad I lived it as well
@@truelies3690 I know I really sound like an old fart, but I came of age (born in 1959) through the late 70s and early 80s. In the 70s I was a rocker at war with disco!! With MTV and new wave, I found a new love in modern, European music. I loved this song! I saw Eurythmics, Berlin, Missing Persons, Psychedelic Furs, Blondie, and a few more. I do think we were lucky. We had enough electronics to have fun but none that would steal our brains and have us staring at our phones all day. I feel so sorry for kids now - we had it better and it seems like the socio-economics of our peers was pretty similar. Forgive me for yakking!!
Timeless!! My condolences to anybody who missed the 80’s.
Yep.
I miss the 80's and the 90's
Hell yes!
For somebody who just listened to this song for the first time - i don't get it. It doesn't hold up to other hits from the same genre. I've no idea how this garbage became so popular.
Grubby bum obviously you weren’t there. This is the epitome of the 80’s
Why are the English so great at making music? Endless supply of amazing art from these people.
I agree well said
@Joe-qm4yv legit lol
Their music making ability is amazing...
I'm originally from Northeastern England. We needed music so we could keep moving to stay warm. I came to the US for the central heating - but I still move to good music.
@Joe-qm4yv how is it fake ? He's British 😂😂😂😂😂
someone once said "music is the closest thing we'll ever have to a time machine " let's all go back for awhile.....
i one hundred agree with that, goodjob
Ya when 🇺🇸 wasn’t overflowing with newcomers/illegal savages n a shi load of 🌚🗑
Don’t b a punk n just say that 🇺🇸 was yt safe prosperous n the world wasn’t in 🔥 …🌚🗑 = 🇮🇱🌈
Just wish it lasted forever
Way
The 80s are as far away from us now, as the 40s were when we were teens in the 80s. I remember back then thinking the 80s were so modern. I thought the future was going to be so much better than it is today.
I graduated from high school in 83, at the end of that summer in September I went into the Army, February of 84 right out of training I was stationed in Germany, on June 6th of that year in the morning I got a Stars and Stripes magazine and the headline story was how it was the 40th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy.
Just the other day I was talking to an old Army buddy of mine who was there that day in Germany and told him "Do you realize that on this June 6th it'll be the same amount of time from D-Day to when we were stationed in Germany as from then until now? We are now as old as some of those WW2 veterans were when we were in the Army, good lord the years have passed by".
Years back I heard an explanation about the perception of time passing by that a long time ago I realized was true and the older I get the truer it is, when you're 10 years old 1 year is one 10th of your perceived life, but when you're 50 years old 1 year is one 50th of your perceived life, that's why the older you get the faster time seems to go by, each day seems like it lasts just as long but when you look back is when time seems to be speeding up and the years seem to go by faster.
I think of those things too…certainly when reflecting on WW2. I remember when I was a little kid and someone mentioned it had now been 35 years since the war…it might as well have been a thousand…@@dukecraig2402
They still are
Stop whining
@@mikeyb5467 Yeah, ok Mom.
Bringa a tear to my eye. Im an inner city Black kid from the 80s, MTV opened so many musical doors for so many like me. This is my shit!!! Life was so good even though we had little in the way of material possessions. Music was free for all of us!!!
Well put ✊✊✊✊
We were cool with each other !
@@EdwardKovach-v7y 4 sho!!
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Hey I'm 65 we were all together back then
I tell my children (27 and 30 yrs old) that I want it to be 1982 again. Not for me but
for them.
that would be awsome wouldnt it that was the best of times
There will never be a better decade...Music, movies, TV and college sports were all so much better than today!!!
Perfect sentiment
I tell mines the same 35 34 33 30 27 17 an 8 grandkids I’m 51 best years of my life an you’re right for them I would always watch valley girl just to hear this song
Same !
The 80's were AWESOME.
TOTALLY AWESOME.
Yes it was
Still are.... i love that several 80s artist are doing quarantine versions, its like they know we need our music from a time when all we cared about was jean jackets, tapes, 8pm radio stations request lines, hanging out with our parents and hanging at the mall with our friends.
Lets go back and do it again
I see what you did there
Nowadays a lot of music manufactured garbage!
33 years ago I married my soulmate and this was our wedding song. The DJ scratched his head.. we shared the dance floor with everyone. Such a timeless epic song.
Awesome!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw
Take me back much love 🤗
Wow ❤❤ good memories
Maybe he scratched his head because you requested a song about being with your lover during nuclear war . . . LOL
Song is 40 years old this week.. It still rocks and makes me want to get up and dance and spin around.. Good on everyone of us for having loved it all these years..
Great observation. I hope you saw them on the tour when they swung through the states. I saw them in Illinois. Got to talk to Robbie and Stephen before the show. They opened with 16 days and gathering dust.
Thanks for reminding me how old I am 👴🏽
Class of 85’
😳 wow 40 years!!!
Where were you in 1982!? Reaganomics underway, Aids scare running wild, Prince Charles and Diana's massive expensive wedding, 99¢ a gallon gas, 75¢ Big Mac, Whopper, Jumbo Jack. Great music, great country, great people, great era, great to be alive. If you were there at the time you know what I mean. A once great era country never to return again.
Looks like I wasn't the only one who got to 'Stop The World And Melt WIth . . . the one I love! This song still evokes tears of joy and love for my wife every time I hear it!
The 80s were the best 40 years of my life.
😁
Good stuff
Best comment ever well played sir
It was truly like time stood still, dam I sure miss the good ole days
@@jayhughes3168 now people will get triggered and say "OMG DID YOU JUST ASSUME THEIR GENDER YOU MISOGYNISTIC TRANSPHOBIC WHITE RACIST MAN" My generation is full of pussies.
My husband was a drummer. He passed suddenly this year. We heard this together in the 80s. Yes we did the 80s dance to it 😉
So sorry. I'm glad you have the great memories.
@@misplacedcajun2325 Thank you for that 👍❤️
Don't worry you will see him again in the next lifetime
@@paulgrieshop5024 Thank you for your uplifting words. I appreciate 👍
sorry for your loss, glad you have good memories
This was the song that was playing back in 1983 when my 16 year old girlfriend told
her mother that she was pregnant .HER MOTHER HATED ME..we are still together today
and have been married since 1984 and her mother still hates me......I LOVE IT
I suppose she wanted her daughter a single mother her whole life?
She's fuckin lucky she found somebody to go through life with her and her mother better realize the alternative is awful.
Cheers. No kids here & yet. Though I couldn’t imagine a world without her. ❤️
awesome you made the best choice boss
Marco1985 ORVISINI What a fabulous story!! ❤️ ❤️
What if Marco1985 ORVISINI was 70 years old at the time he wrote of this seemingly innocent 83' story and hateful Mother? Not so fabulous now is It?
Nothing like the 80s. Being a teenager during that decade can't be matched.
I know that's right!
We were lucky.
60s,70, and 80s❤❤❤
Yes the 80s was out 60,s facts
OMG DO I MISS IT!!
One of those songs that just randomly pop into your head and now you’re suddenly addicted to it all over again
Exactly what just happened to me tonight ❤
This was playing when I walked into the house of my first party In high school. I went downstairs and everyone was dancing to this song. It was at this moment I first saw Cindy. She was a senior and I was a freshman and of course I never talked to her. 40 years later I can still see her dancing when I hear this song. Such a fine memory
Great memory, thanks for sharing; I think we all have little memories/episodes like this in our past.
Find her, tell her.
Imagine what might have been if you got together with her.
Damn. I think we’ve all got a similar memory. God Bless all the Cindy’s in this world
lol he's been imagining hooking up w her 40 yrs now ... eversince that party when he was a skinny freshman no car no license she's untouchable senior.
Oh man, who hasn’t wanted to stop the world and melt with someone? I was 16 in 1982. The song sounds as fresh today as it did the first time I heard it.
I’m 55 now and this song brings back so many memories! The crap music of today doesn’t hold a candle to the go old stuff of the 80’s. ✌🏻💫❤️💫
I agree, @dadoftwinsau 😊!
I'm there too
I'm 62 now,n so do miss the 80s. Great music. Luvd the 80s
Hey @KimBlackburn , I just turned 70 a few days ago and I agree, wish we could go back to the 80's music. Thank God for you tube's music
People, come on now,
I don’t have memories with this song yet but my dad does, my dad was leaving for Navy boot camp and before he left him and his buddies called up his friend who was DJ at the local radio station and asked him to play this song which he did and mentioned how my dad was leaving on the radio. He tells me that story every time he hears this song and I love it. My dads my best friend and I can’t thank him enough for everything he’s taught me and I could go the rest of my life without a friend other than him. Just love your family everyone, especially with times like this. God bless whoever reads this comment
Best wishes to you and your family
God Bless You And Your Family 😊 From Florida
God bless your lovely dad🙏😘
And family 🙏
Your comments brought tears to my eyes.
That is an awesome story!
IN '83 when I saw the movie Valley Girl for the first time as a kid featuring a young Nick Cage who, back then, I thought was the coolest white man on the planet, I fell in love with this song. God do I miss the 80's.
+Darrin Magnus i was born in 1992, but this is definitely one of my favorite movies! my mom let me watch it when i was 13, which i think was too young of an age.... but Cage was awesome in it. And the ending makes me melt!!!!
mandalynn185 IN 1983 I was only 8 years old when this movie premiered, Mandalynn. It was a romance comedy whose plot was loosely based on Shakespeare's play of Romeo and Juliet. Needless to say the impression that it had on me no doubt had a hand in shaping who I am today. :) And yes, that's a good thing.
+Darrin Magnus sounds like a good thing! I never thought of the r&j reference. I think I'll watch the movie tonight too!! lol
mandalynn185 THINK I may do the same when I get home from work this evening. It's too bad you don't live close here in Pittsburgh, Mandalynn, or else I'd buy a good pizza pie and invite you over to watch it with me. :)
Kadmos Phoinikou Kanaanon So do I we ruled the world back then
This was 'our' song....high school sweethearts. Graduated in 1983. He's gone now. Still love this song.
Awww, that's so sad, Allene B. I was class of '85, and it's terrifying to think life is that fragile. I'm sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss, Allene! Not close to fair. Be well and God Bless!
Awwww now I'm crying.
Same here ....
Allene B I'm very sorry he was way to young
Hearing “the future’s open wide” at age 13 was just what I needed.
Back in the 80s I put this song on a mix-tape for my husband, who was kicking speed in residential rehab. This song brought tears to his eyes, because he knew he was my everything and I just wanted him to be healthy again. LOVE you, my Matthew! ❤
That's. Cool. Nancy,. I. hope. He. never. forget s. how. much. you. care. for. him🥲
You're an amazing woman for that. That's so sweet. Beautiful
@@ZeranZeran What a kind response! Thank you.
@@BruceWall-gv4up Thank you so much. And he never has. 🤗
absolute perfect song for this ! never EVER be ashamed, we lived a life of a 100 lives back then with what we had - good or bad 👍
This is one of the greatest songs of the 80's. How the hell can there be over 7000 thumbs down? I guess not everyone has great taste in music. :)
I so agree!!!
Gen-Z kids?
And lots of very unhappy peeps that are jealous of all......
80s!!!!!!!!
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I love how everyone is sharing all of their memories/stories. It's so warming to read them and imagine the imagery in your head. A big thank you to the 1980's for allowing this sort of music to bring us together and share with one another. ❤
I hate the 80s ultra consumerism but god it was such a unique culture in music
Loved that era of music and entertainment and the fact that we realized then how great it was without realizing how unique we had it.
That’s rich from someone who can’t wait to get the latest slave made iPhone
One of my fav mini life hacks using this site. Reading people's reflections on classic songs. Always so uplifting, and heartwarming.
True that!!!
This is my one and only comfort song.
I heard this on an 80s radio station and felt nostalgia and calmness. Now I play it whenever I’m sad,angry, or depressed.
Thank you, Modern English 🙏🏽
I'm 55yrs now,Thank God I was alive in the 1980s.What a very Magical time.A 10 yr party of music for every taste u can imagine.The 1970s too were the best for our age group.A twenty year party!!!!!
Model- Man - Yay! Class of 81
Hell yeah....was a teen in the seventies and 20s in the eighties.. awesome time
The 70's L.A. punk scene was great with Rodney B. on KROQ paving the way for new bands trying to break through and cut their teeth in the industry. Black Flagg, The Runaways, The Circle Jerks, The Misfits and Social Distortion were on their way to getting fully established with T4he Ramones here in the States leading the way while Bauhaus, Bowie, The Clash and The Sex Pistols across the pond in Great Britain doing the same. The result? The perfect musical storm of various styles, tastes and flavors mixed, matched, shaken, stirred or just served straight up or neat to create the most badass decade ever.
I too am 55 and the 60s, 70s, and the 80s were the most magical and memorable decades of incredible music for me!! Thanks to RUclips I can sit back and kick my feet up and enjoy the music and reminisce about the good old days and when it was a simpler time! ❤️🙂❤️
@@kaisersozshye2525 WOW!! I really LOVE the way you write! I really felt your emotions and appreciation for music!! I take my hat off to you, and very well said my friend!!! 👍😉
The heartwarming replies to this video suggest a lot of people who listened really did stop the world. 🤗❤👩❤👨
Definitely one of the best songs of the 80's, hands down
Give me other good titles
@@sunnym2458 love my way by the psychedelic furs
@@willd6215 that song is FIRE 🔥
@@sunnym2458 This is how it feels by Inspiral Carpets
@@sunnym2458 “under the Milky Way’ by The Church
Great memories from the greatest youthful years of my life.
Thank you Modern English for a song that is branded into my life's soundtrack.
When I was a teenager all this great music was coming out so frequently I just took it for granted not knowing it would end one day. Thanks to all those great musicians for all the great tunes!
So true. We took things for granted.
It never stopped. Open your fucking ears child.
Not ended, just like fine wine. Better with age.
There's still great music coming out, it's just not on the radio much now. You have to look for it.
If you like this group you will also like (Modern Talking).... I 💕💕 both Singers/Bands...🎉🎉
I'm reading the comments. This song is so special to so many people. Myself included. Very personal memories. Its magic! Thank you.❤
my parents’ song! married for 32 years this July! anytime this song comes on the radio they stop what they’re doing and dance with each other, or if they’re away from each other they’ll call the other one and tell them it’s playing. 💗💗💗
how often this song is playing on your radio? name the station...
❤️
@MythicalHippie: Your parents have awesomely rad taste, and I raise a toast to them.
I want that type of relationship
I love this ❤️
It’s Christmas of 2024 and no song has been written that is better than this
I'm a big time Heavy Metal fan, listening to it for 40 years...but even I must admit,this song is timeless...
I'm also a huge metal head, since '84. My wife says I'm weird because I also love blues, 50s/60s doo wop and New Wave.
@@djay6651 same here, metal my true love, but music is music if it gets you thats it
Is this considered heavy metal? It ain't really that heavy pretty soft if you ask me
@@shrimppimp4509 what I meant to say that as a heavy metal fan,I even find myself listening to a song like this one...this song is far from been a heavy metal song.. nevertheless is a great song..
it was a great time
Theme song of an entire generation...iconic is an understatement. I miss the 80's...
I'm 49 years old and have been hearing this song for decades; and danced to it so much back in the day; great song to get a chick to the dance floor (remember???). First time I've ever seen the video. Cool .... thanks. Oh, yeah, and "What I Like about You" was another dance floor song too ...
Danced this song too back then. The difference now is I dance alone - must be when my hair disappeared.
***** lol
stereopolice as long as I don't look at the chaps singing this song, it is still one of my favorites!!!!! (age 45 here)
Jordan Sutherland We grew up in a great time (the 80's); little did we know. Hope you have great memories too ... Oh, and yes, this chap is not a looker lol.
stereopolice Yes, I am so grateful for growing up when I did!!!!! Amazing memories here.... I'm sure you have great ones, too! :)
One of the songs that defined the 80s. I remember hearing it on Valley Girl from our illegal HBO.
My time, my music, my generation. I miss those golden days of my youth.
Don't we all. The 80's were awesome. We were the Coolest generation.
Ya i wish it was mine I'm 11
So do I!
@@jeffwilliams8074 yea right ahhh NO. The 70s were the coolest generation, you know why? Cause we Fuckin rocked. Led Zeppelin, aerosmith, Boston, pink Floyd. Got it ?
Yes..Tell them to get off our lawn!
i remember skipping school to go hang out at the local cemetery...they had a huge mausoleum, and back then no one cared much about visitors, even young 15 year old visitors with bright green hair, trench coat, and ghetto blaster..i would go to the lowest floor, play this, and it would echo through the halls, and it sounded amazing...i thought i had forever. i spent many an hour in that chilly, sickly sweet smelling place, reading, listening to modern english, the smiths, the cure, depeche mode, nitzer ebb..those were some good days.
I used to do the same thing with my bros in the 80's at the RoseHills cemetery in Los Angeles except we were blasting SLAYER! 🤘
"A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side..."
That's a nice memory. Also depeche mode. Wow.
When I ditched school, we’d smoke pot and go to arcade or just smoke pot.
I used to walk through the cemetery at my very old university, looking at the gravestones of students who had died of tuberculosis and drowning back in the 1700's. I wanted to remind myself that I I'm going to die one day.
One of my favorite songs from the 80's! Never ceases to make me smile and want to sing along, no matter what is happening in life.
Me too compadre
Agree
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I’m 81. My kids were teens during the 80’s. This has been one of my favorite songs forever. I love it!❤ 3:48
What a great song....I am 63 years old and I still love this song. I always will love it.
D Thomas Good Grief! I’m 68! Great, fun, song! ❤️ ❤️
I'm older! lol
Love the alternative 80's music...miss it
it´s because you are so young in body and mind that you enjoy life as you where a teen. don´t you feel that way?
61 here still the love song i post on my wifes fb page (when im not in fb jail. lol)
I started playing 80s music at work( hardware store)....in one day customers were happier and almost dancing while in line. Imagine what would happen to the world if we just went back to the 80s
My dentist plays all 80's music and likes to hum or low-key sing along. I loved growing up in the 80's and the music was break-thru into New-Wave>Alternative and really opened the door for exponential genres.
Right!?
Imagine what would happen to the world if we just went back to the 80s
probably a lot more crack
Well you wouldn't be able to play 80s music in your hardware store without 2000 cassettes while replacing them every 2 years and you wouldn't be able to make such an inane comment on the internet that didn't exist. The murder rate would be 3 times as high. The Soviet Union would still exist. Nuclear warning drills would still exist. All of Eastern Europe would still be being ruled by the Soviets. We'd still be denying Japanese Internment. And every waking hour we'd still be worrying about a nuclear bomb stopping the world and melting us. Like the writers of this song were.
@@slippymadtadpole ….yeah and less fentanyl
This was my first wife and I's song. I don't see her often but when I do this song always reminds me of our relationship even though it was terribly tumultuous. We have a 27 yr old super handsome son. I will always love her and this song is a part of that relationship long gone 💯
I was born in 1973... Ive never loved anyone that loved me in return... I dont know what it feels like... But it mustbe the most amazing feeling on earth to love someone who loves you back... My only happiness is knowing that this world is full of people in love with each other...
I love you ❤
Born in 68, can relate
Life is beautiful nonetheless
And lets not forget, as a very wise man once wrote and sang, that Hapiness is a warm gun
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, I'm 59 and never been in love. Don't know what it feels like. Must be nice.
It will happen to u bro!!
The only time I felt real love is with my guy and still there even more today … but before that not such a great childhood
Dedicated to my husband who after 38 years of marriage is still my best friend and the one person who brightens my day when he walks into the room. 👍
That is beautiful
We should ALL be so lucky...Good on ya both!
Nothing better
Very nice story. Gave me goosebumps. Congratulations
Sweet, sounds like my parents honestly! They've been married for 35 years!
Take me back to the 80's please happy Birthday to me it's my Birthday today I'm 52 .
How time flies, are you that old?
Happy late birthday Scott
@Scott Manning: Happy belated birthday! I'm one year older than you. We were blessed!
Belated Happy Birthday Scott!!
Happy belated birthday
19 and on my own in 1982, I blinked my eyes and find myself retiring in Jan. of 2021, life's like that they say.
When we're young, they always tell us how fast it will fly by, and we never believe them. I was 12 in 1983 when I first remember hearing I Melt With You in Valley Girl. It truly feels like only yesterday.
BTW, you are very young to be retiring! Good luck to you.
@@Nightflyer720
40yrs at one job is a longtime, COVID is the reason why 100k's have been offered early retirement in America, I was one of them, just got a 2 year head start that's all, thanks and to you as well.
I only looked away for 5 minutes and when I looked back, 10 years had gone by...then 20...
@@DawnSuttonfabfour I WISH it were only a decade or two. Now I look back, and 30 and 40 years have passed. Scary!
@@Nightflyer720 Ahem yeah, about that...it is more than 20 years, in fact it is somethingy2. I just lie about my age. I was 19 in 1980, you do the math but don't tell me cos I'm in denial right now.
My uncle loved this song. He passed away recently and this reminds me of him❤
The 70’s had some great music, as did the 90’s. But something about the 80’s music . . . that is as something special.
John S. true I also liked it the way stranger things used it
And the reason is, it was the most diverse decade of music ever put together on this planet.
It was the real first decade with independent labels... that really did things just for artistic reasons. But it is true, not only the sound, even many of the songs have an uplifting nature that perdures until today. I am thinking of The The's "This is the day", or A Flock of Seagulls "Space Age Love Song", The Waterboys ("The whole of the moon"), Prince ("1999") or so many tracks from the Cure, Depeche mode (but not tonight) or even the weirder stuff that is also amazing. Then you had all the early detroit techno, Acid House, New Beat... CRAZY. The 90's were pretty damn good too, but it was more of a continuation of the spirit of the 80's.
Very good.
The best decade I have ever lived :) A-lot of things took off but they didn't fly long. But this hit flies forever.
I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this song! It is an absolute masterpiece, a true classic of the 80s that has not got the recognition it deserves. One of the absolutely best songs of the 80s, period.
One of the best songs of all time my friend
I was a teenager in the 80's and we had the best music. I'm glad I was here to enjoy it! It was definitely the best!
I first heard it on MTV and then it was on my favorite movie Valley Girls. I loved these British Bands in the 80's
I fell in love with this song when I heard it on the movie Valley Girl , at times I can't carry a tune in a bucket, but I sing it to my wife every now and then. It been 23 years since I've seen Valley Girl & my wife well I think she likes my singing
Awesome movie with a great sound track with Modern English, The Plimsouls, Josie Cotton, the P-Furs and more. My daughter told me that there is a reboot of Valley Girl that came out a year or so back but I have not seen it yet.
Wow, me too. I watched Valley Girls years ago and heard this song for the first time and have enjoyed listening to it ever since.
You need to be up on a hill looking down at Los Angeles at night.
I love Valley Girl 💞
@@guymorris6596 Mulholland Drive!
Where to even begin. I will just say that this song pretty much defines what the 80’s felt like. It really is a time capsule captured in music. This is one of the best songs in all history.
I love this song. And just like that I’m back in high school and it’s 1981. The 80’s. Such a great decade. Thankful I lived them first hand. ❤
Class of 81 here too. Those were fun times.
Me too, sister. Wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Class of 81 here, I didn't realize then how good we had it until now. Loved the 80s
Class of ‘86 - Good time to live in
It makes me sad that this song wasn't appreciated in it's own time. People think of Modern English as a one hit wonder, but even this, their biggest track, didn't even get into the top 70. The vocal bit at 2:52 that sounds like the NBC jingle gives me goosebumps every time.
I think it sounds like the "Na-bis-co" jingle
I can hear pyscadelic furs guitar riffs in there.. brilliant
❤
I’m 19 and this song is my life! Sucks I wasn’t born to experience the 80’s and I wish I had friends who liked this kind of music. But, I thank my parents for raising me right.
You've got great taste!
Yes...parents did a good job.
Start writing songs from ya hart n life n get yaself a band start changing the world to better as we did in the 80s.
you are a loser
Thank you for reading... this song got me my wife....
80's were the BEST OF TIMES IF MY LIFE 54 now,stay positive kid the future is yours.
“I’ll stop the world and melt with you” that’s so beautiful and heart warming🥺😩❤️
this is a song about two people making love and literally melting because a nuclear bomb hit them lol
@@hylwicks who cares...it’s the fact that he’s willing to die with her.
@@shesmoneja5478 I mean he has no choice lol
@@yougotgamesonyourphone6947 again... who cares 😂 I still feel the EXACT same way I did when I comment my comment. Nothing changed.
Thanks.
Oh the sweet 80s, I'm 57 and this song takes me back to high school. Thank you! :)
This is one of those iconic 80’s songs for me. So many amazing memories come flooding back. Dancing my ass off in a dingy little bar in NY called The Beat. I had a floor length army jacket, black chucks, stovepipe dress slacks with a cuff, vintage dress shirt and a skinny tie. I would dance until the sweat was pouring off me and my hair was matted. Modern English, Depeche, Smiths, Cure, PIL, Bauhaus, you know the list. Never gets old and still gets me going and I’m 60!!
I’m 61, LOVED this song and Depeche Mode, the Cure, PIL, and dozens more. Since you’re from NY, I’m sure you listened to WLIR back in the 1980’s. It was the New Wave station. I loved New Wave music from the 1980s, I have a New Wave playlist on my iPhone with some great music. Couldn’t have imagined the words playlist and iPhone back in the 1980s. It was all about CD’s, Sony Walkmen and mixed tapes back then.
Saw a bunch of great New Wave bands live back then too.
WLIR/WDRE best radio station ever. That’s actually the station that turned me on to a lot of that music!
@@MichaelConnorsZBS Agreed 1000%. I loved that station. Some of my mixed tapes were some live concerts they would play. One of the saddest days was when they switched their format. I listened to them from 1982 until that happened.
Great memories.
I'll never forget just chilling on our destroyed old couch listening to 80s music with my dad. One of the best moments of my childhood, thank you dad, you mean the world to me ♥️
Beautiful
what destroyed it? 🤣🤣
Don't worry, guys. The 80s will be back in 60 years.
But 2080s won’t be that good,like 1980s:(
Yeah when I'm dead
Sounds legit! 👍
it's back now - the sound, not the date XD
It won’t be like 1980 tho
In my opinion, this is the most gorgeous love song of the 1980s. They have tried remixes and revisions, but for me, this is the definitive version.
The band them self just released a remake of it sometime in the last year, and I was actually much more impressed with it than I expected I was going to be - that generally does not go well.
If it hasn't got the humming during the bridge, I don't want it.
Agreed..........................
I agree the best
This and White Wedding right? And Born in the USA is about patriotism? You might want to reread the lyrics before you look like an even bigger fool. As the writer said, "This is a song about having sex during a nuclear holocaust."
For no reason whatsoever, this song pops into my head every once in a while. I'm 50 years old, and I liked this song when ot first came out, and I like it just as much today.
This song never gets old. When I listen to it, it brings me back to those high school and college days of the '80s and look back at those amazing years with wonder.
This song came out in 82ish,I met what would be the love of my life two years later! He was perfect, but we were young and though no fault of our own had to separate. This song was ours and whenever i heard it after 84,it took my heart back to my perfect boy and our perfect love...
Don't be sad,this story has a happy ending...we found each other again 8 years ago...this is still our song...and we are living happily ever after . Believe in fairy tales(and good music) kids!❤❤❤❤
@oh no no What a happy story,your mum has great taste!! It just goes to the fact that music DOES bring people together! HAPPY STUDYING!!!
@Blue Butterfly Thank you so much,I feel very lucky!❤❤❤
Rock on girl!!!
@@waynegouin939 Thanks! I am ALWAYS rockin' on...you do the same!!❤
Cool, keep rockin!
Being a teen in the 80s was totally rad!
Being a teen in the 1300's sucked!
Well said and I second that dude!
Being legal in the 80s was even better
we only know that now,we'll we knew it then but we really had nothing to compare it too except our parents depending on their age.the cool thing is my daughter wants to have an 80s party for her 17th.She us into the music and asked me alot about how it was like to not have cell phones etc.yum we didn't know anything else.long live the 80s baby.
being a teen in 2016 is stupid xD
This would be great to dance to at a wedding. ❤
There is no possible way to describe being out with all your friends in high school on a Friday night . . . going from party to party . . . this song is playing. It is magic. For me, the year was 1987.
You find as you get older that the times are rare when you are truly exactly where you want to be with the people you want to be with. You wouldn't trade those times for anything.
Yeah
1985 for me :)
That was the best year
I love this song
Well said
I was doing my student teaching/coaching at a small Catholic high school back in the spring of 1983. The first person I saw when I arrived on campus was a beautiful brown eyed girl and I immediately fell in love. I finished my degree and she graduated and we ended up dating for a while. I would give anything to stop the world and melt with her. This song was popular at the time and when I hear it I think of her. Hope you are doing well Tricia....love Richard.
that's so sweet!
So what happened to her?
Why'd it end?
Cute. Cheers:).
I hope you can find her
This song is getting better all the time😎
4 sure
April 2024 I'm 65 still listening great memories
Here 5/2/2024
I'm with you
I'm 56 and this was my song in the 80s
52..
Me too! I used to listen to this when I worked as a cook in a trendy vegetarian place in the 80's in Toronto.
Still love this
We don't just remember songs...
We go back to the memories these songs represnt.
that was the fun part.@D-jj5dy
It’s not even specific memories, it’s emotional time travel 🩵
Music was more than music back then for sure. It was everything.
@D-jj5dyHaaa, I thought the dancing was awesome. You just don't see it anymore 😉
I had a boyfriend since may 1990. He played a trumpet solo for me in the French class next to my math class. He was 15 and I was 14. He still stops my world. Married in 1997. Almost 25 yrs married but 32 together with 3 girls 1 boy. Blessings to those who fix things that break instead of throwing them away.
@lisamartinnez2232 I can fix quite uh few appliances. Fixing A BROKEN HEART is outta my range.
That drummer needs a round of applause all his own...,♥️
As a drummer, I really appreciate someone recognizing them in the background📺 thank you
Really, it'd be like striking gold to find a drummer to "play a song".
@@tlk6668 drummers are like filmmakers they don't get the appreciation they deserve
@@tlk6668 I'm obsessed with drums omgeeeeee
It's the theme, not the meme.
I just hear the opening of this song and immediately smile. ☺️
💖
I agree. Was a teen in the 80’s and no doubt the best years of my life.
Its a cool song
ME TOO !!! ;)
@@prepcastready YES ME TOO !!! ;) I FEEL THE SAME WAY !!! :)
Of all those big new wave hits, THIS feels the most REAL. It's not overproduced, it still feels like it came from some British punks who found a synth.
Can’t get enough of this song!! EVER!!! He has such a powerful voice.
This song definitely is a masterpiece
I'm running out of tissues again, happens every time I go back and listen to the 80s. so many tears remembering how good things were and how crap they are now. peace out to children of the 80s.
Bob Dobalina I feel ya... tears for all the things that’ve happened since I used to hear this song.
I listen to the 80's music and takes me back to the days of innocence and happy times. Miss it soooo much.
So true hugs x
Bob, I must ask you. Did you get your RUclips name from the Monkees song Zilch?
@@hoosiermyrek No, was he in there? No, mine's from that Del tha funky Homosapien song ;)
My decade the 80's. From 8 to 18 years old. Thanks to all the bands from all kind of music... pop, new wave, techno, rock, hard rock, metal... you gave my life the best sountrack ever.
You were a child! No one can associate their life with music of a decade when they weren't old enough to make any life decisions. Those of us in our 20s in thd 80s knew and appreciated the music of our real lives. Not mommy and daddy's lives.
Agreed with you as we had the best music. From 17 to 26 for me.
@@julesmisty Come on Jules, don't be like that. Let's say that 80's music was so awesome that even a "kid" like me could save it in his mind forever. Also helped that I have two sisters 5 and 9 years older than me.
This was the best decade to be a teenager in by far!
+Cristy Ramirez I lived high school in the 80s and graduated in 87. I'll never those four awesome wonderful years. They are etched in my mind...the weekend house parties, Friday night football games, great music everywhere, break dancing, heavy metal, freedom, and fun throughout. Damn...
+gabesplace2 LolBreak Dancing 2 Electric Boogaloo. Chaka Kahn. lol so many cool bands and music. I loved Duran Duran.
Really wish I had that experience, was born in '80 so was just a little kid at that time. But if I could live in any period, it would've been being a teen in the 80s.
The music was the best and so was the clothes! I wish I could go back in time.
+Cristy Ramirez Yes, yes it was.
I proposed to my wife with this song on. 33 years later I think we melted together quite excellently. Still our song.
Congratulations to you both
@@billybarrett6839 Thank you 👍
I am here because living through the 80s was the best time to be alive
Anybody else wanna try to invent a time machine and go back to the 80s with me 🤧
Love to! I could right the wrongs of the past!!
Ready!
In a heartbeat....as long as I can be 16 again too.
Don’t forget the flux capacitor that makes time travel possible
I've been trying! I can't find a working DeLorean and my hot tub has a leak
I think some of us have somebody we secretly and quietly love (our somebody). When I play this song I cry tears of joy because it truly stops my heart everytime. 30 yrs and counting.
I have someone exactly like this and I love them so much and I’ve been waiting for a comment like this :)
Can't get this song outta my head, anyone else?
nah same i heard it on a commercial n now its stuck in my head
I wasn’t here for the 80s, born in the early 2000s, but this was my favorite song as a kid. First heard it at a friends birthday party, and now it fondly reminds me of my childhood :)
Absolutely timeless.
Live every day like it is your last day. Follow your heart and your passions, life is too short to go through it unhappy. Cherish the ones you love, never let a day go by without telling them that you love them. Your 20s are the best time of your life, dont waste them on foolish things like drugs and drinking. I hope you have a wonderful life and do great things❤
Hi, same!!! Born in the early 2000s too and the first time I listened to this song was in a movie I absolutely adore (you probably know it, its called “Sky High”) and every time I hear this melody, I can only remember my childhood fondly.
I,m. glad. you. like. it,,. I. wish. you. could. know. how. far. out. is. was in. the. 80,s. 🥲
My kids were the 90's & still love this song cause I played it when they were growing up
Same, I was born in the early 90s (so obviously not alive when this song came out) but I remember first hearing it as a kid while I was shopping at an Old Navy store with my mom! I remember being mesmerized by it and then always associating it with Old Navy whenever I heard it. lol.
This is absolutely a perfect song... one of the most underrated 80s singles. PERFECT SONG. Perfect lyrics, perfect melodies.... teenage romance / first loves just permeate from this song. I will never EVER tire of this masterpiece.
Wasn't that underrated really, VH1 ranked it 39th in best songs of the 80s, and that's a pretty deep talent pool to be in... #76 on Billboard top 100 on original release I will buy as underperforming though.
Simon Cooper and ill tell you why it underperformed...modern english werent pretty boys. Its sad to say but true. If Duran Duran had sung this (even before they were famous) it would have been a no1 hit. Also to be honest..it could have used a better video. This was the peak mtv years...billboard performance was very dependent on video.
Milk Carton Sadly, you're probably right about them not being "glam." Duran Duran did have some good tunes, but nothing as great as this... just my opinion.
underrateed by who? this song is a forever popular classic.
Man, where did music like this go? I would take this song over any shit in the radio right now 10x over.
Gotta look for it man, nothing worthwhile comes easy. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth it
I say that too...only I want music from the 60's. 1980's....I liked Crowded House! :-)
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Bro just find a radio station that plays 70s 80s and 90s it ain’t that hard
The radio is crap now.I still feel so good hearing this song
Boring comment compared to many but here goes....
I was tending bar at a hotel in Seattle. Just about to close up after giving last call and these lads came by and said, "Can you stay open just for a few?" I said yes, if they'll hurry and put their bags in their rooms.
They did, then came back and I learned they were Modern English! They'd just come from a show at Seattle Center where they'd ROCKED THE HOUSE! Totally. A couple of other patrons and I stayed way too long sharing stories (and drinks) with this group of GREAT guys! A pleasure to meet them, and to get this story to share.
THATS AWESOME!!
My beautiful wife and I danced to this great song at our solo wedding dance - (05/16/99)
I LOVE YOU...MARIA
Gosh, didnt know u were married Morrisey. :D
🤣🤣🤣
I love you too Maria!
Awesome!!!
@@jongriggs85 LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE CREEPY ASSHOLE HATERS!!! I BET YOU ARE SINGLE!!!
The opening of the song puts a smile in my face. Heard it on the radio few days ago. Great song by Modern English!
met my one, true love when we were both in high school in 1984-- and we're still together and have been blessed with four, beautiful boys
You are awesome
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Donna Ellis I did too😢
Donna Ellis same here but with 3 boys .
I may have not lived in the 80s but im sure as hell glad I have easy access to all of its music.
Ok. I'm almost 60 years old. I was here on the ground floor. This is (was) the 80's
55yo and so, so happy I was coming of age in the 80's.
Was the BEST time🎆
I'm with you. Every time I hear this it takes me back. Best times ever! Still know all the words too.
Ditto. First heard this as part,of Valley Girl soundtrack at,the theatre. Which we drove to in the 1983 red Camaro z-28. Good stuff.
@@chrisa.4011 I am 53 and I am so glad I grew up in the 80's!! so awesome!!!