What a great time to be alive I'm 62 but I loved the optimistic vibe with the Berlin wall coming down, glasnost and the feeling of peace in the 90's music
You know what this song is about right? It was about every single person living under Communism finally (after almost 80 years) seeing the Soviet Union bankrupt, communism failing, and finally entering into the free world of knowledge and wealth and happiness.
I worked security on their first tour. I worked for hundreds of bands and they were the most fun to be around. Their energy was immense and they were very talented.
Makes me think of America & the Black Lives Matter movement. Watching the world wake up from centuries of oppression. It's like the definition of woke.
@@multipletanksyndrome Oh BS. Nice way to besmirch a good song by linking it to some mythical oppression NO ONE living has endured. Perhaps BLM should be asking why 13% of the population is responsible more MORE THAN half of all homicides. What was that number again, 61, 64%? Yeah, it's oppression...
@@gogoyubari366 Kids try to change the meaning of every established word. Sheer idiocy. When a song is a hit around the world, explain how that is underrated? I will wait.
Listening again in 2024.....Anyone else? It seems so significant now, just as it did when it was released. The World is changing, hope on the horizon once more.
Is there hope on the horizon? I keep telling myself MAGA is the death throws of bigotry. Once we get past them we will wake up from history again. But they are so insistent on repeating it.
Watching the Cold War series on Netflix brought up a very powerful memory. The summer of 1991 I was living in London and hanging out at the Camden Palace (Thursday nights were “Guitar Rock Night” - Lots of Blur and R.E.M.) There had been increasing numbers of young people fleeing eastern Europe and discovering London and the club. The DJ played “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones. All those kid flooded the dance floor, with images of the Berlin Wall coming down on the screens. There were so many people on the dance floor, there was no room on the dance floor. We just jumped up and down and hugged and laughed and wept. The Cold War was over. “Watching the world wake up from history.”
I’ve had those words tattooed in my mind for 33 years. I didn’t even speak English when I first heard it but I still remember that lyric and I still don’t get what it means 😂
@@tjstrongbone5373 I was born in 79. Don't get me wrong, I loved the 80's. But the 90's felt like the world was headed in the right direction. It felt like everyone's dream could come true. And technology was taking off. At that time it felt like those years were the best years to be alive. Then the year 2000 came and it felt like a huge letdown. Then Covid hit and it made me wonder, when was the last time I felt carefree and safe from all the chaos in the world. In the 90's.
Fuckin' eh! The next musical era moving into something different. It was exciting. I was to go from this to grungy distorted guitars of the early 90s and I'm thankful for Jesus Jones being on the radio.
True! Tell me what other eras in world history did you grow up in? You know, so you can actually say it was better? Oh, you only grew up in the one then? oof.
Kids growing up in the late 70's and early 80's had more freedom. I was too young to enjoy it. When this song came out cops harassed us no matter where we parked our cars to hang out. I recall seeing teens in the late 70's have a party with beer and those funny cigarettes they smoked (weed) out of a van in a grocery store parking lot where they bought there beer as the drinking age was just 18 then. Those were the times to grow up in but I was still pooping my diapers or pissing my training pants... but at least I didn't have to sit in a stupid car seat
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Yep, and it's about the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Revolutions of the Eastern bloc nations from the domination of the Soviets. None should forget the horrors of socialism.
+AgentXPQ I also remember when this song came out, it was 1991, the USSR had fallen and it's replacement was the Commonwealth of Nations(did i get it right), and I had the cassette tape which was borrowed, but never returned . What an awesome time it was!!!
You know I felt that there was a sense of hope seeing that the USSR had fallen down on November 17, 1991. But I guess that what I felt it was just that moment and nothing else.
I was in the USAF in the first half of the 80's, then in college, and my first civilian career job. Compared to the Shytt Storm of the late 70's (stagflation, Jimmy Carter telling us to turn out lights, put on more sweaters and turn down the heaters, while he let all the hostages rot in captivity of the Iranian cult mullah pigs???? That was after we abandoned a million freedom fighters in Viet Nam, and suffered Watergate, and the infiltration of the American Psychology Association by mentally ill "activists" .... P.S.. The Berlin Wall came down.... we had won the COLD WAR (only recently did the leftists Dems enrich the Communists in Russia and China to start it up again!!!!! ) See Ukraine and Taiwan for the next "expansion"..... Yeah... the Domino Theory was just stupid.... sure..
I had a terrible childhood so the 80s were painful and I'd love to forget it, but I miss the 90s more than anything. I wish I could be in a time loop and repeat the 90s again and again.
As a faithful representative of generation X, this song is included in my "top 10 songs of the 90's" playlist. I listen to it daily to be more precise and it was the first ringtone for calls on my mobile phone.
Yes indeed. This captures the incredible moment in history when the Cold War ended and we had peace with our former enemies. So much hope, then. It is a shame that we didn't do more to bring Russia fully into the fold of the 'West', and they are again our enemies.
This was one of those songs that seemed too short so you had to listen to it over a few times. What a great bass groove. For me, I think the poignancy of the lyrics was lost on me a little at the time because I loved it so much musically.
I'm also a boomer, 65 years old, in 2024. This is a nice, little, pop song but nothing brilliant. I'm here because, once again, this song, 'Right here-Right now', has been called 'racist'. I just read the lyrics and there are two short verses and that's it. The writers of the song claim they were moved by everything that was happening in '89 in Europe; the fall of the wall in Berlin, dictator over-thrown in Romania and so forth. I have no idea how this song can be called 'racist'?
As someone who grew up during the Cold War this song really nailed the feeling of when the Berlin Wall finally came down. There was no one who ever thought in those days that the Cold War would end peacefully.
When Winds of Change pops up on my Spotify, I still get chills. Was explaining the Berlin Wall & the Cold War to a colleague as their eyes glazed over ....
68 years here, and when I listen to this song (and some others), I most definitely hear ya! I feel the same. One of my fav songs from the late 80's/early 90's that takes me back,... newly married, feeling so positive and hopeful. Looking at the present day state of the world (and my life), would love to go back to those late 80's and feel that again.
I think this is a gift from Gen X to every generation as they come up into the world, it seems since then we got both bigger and smaller at the same time, as folks come to realize it's always "history in the making" in the now if you know where to look.
Oh God, I remember the very first time hearing this song and feeling so hopeful for the future....like nothing could stop this freedom...and now it's 2022 and I'm crying because it truly seems like we're back to *before* this song was released.
I'm from British Columbia, sitting in my van in South Florida, about to drive through the night to do a triathlon in Georgia in seven hours. I'm doing triathlons every weekend until 2030 in the name of my friend, Michelle, who died six months ago. She changed everything about my life. Everything was different after her. She was my girlfriend when this song came out. It makes me think of her...which is why I'm sitting here at 11pm listening to it in my van before my drive. This song breaks my heart, but also keeps her alive. I will never stop listening to it.
I find this song still very relevant, even by today's standards and expectations (Dec. 2022). The Band's name, Jesus Jones, is "so prophetic", in its own right. The song title, "Right Here, Right Now", suggests the perpetual pivotal juncture, that we, as "a global human species, have been latently standing on the edge of tomorrow, namely, our collective state of hostage restraint before "an imminent World turmoil and unrest", especially for the last 75 years to date. Jesus, the lead singer, having written this song ahead of his time, is urging us "to wake up" from the past and enter "the new era of human enlightment and revival", the Age of
In a decade full of great, great music, this song right here was the anthem of that time for me. It just held it all. We were in our 20s, and it was our time; everything was possible and it was all coming out right in front of us...
Leaving middle school to enter high school… reading the lyrics to this song from a cassette tape with my friend Noah Pardro Friedman over the corded telephone ☎️
Geez, what's happened these past few years flies in the face of the theme of this song and shows how unduly optimistic he was in writing these lyrics. And the same goes for the Scorpions with their Winds of Change song.
I woke up to te fall of the wall, and later this song came out. I Literally woke up to history, and thse guys are an absolute inspiration for the 15 year old me. I don't know if you know, but Nuclear war was arround the corner all my life. The fall of the wall was an inspiration.
we failed, we made our world significantly worse without the "threat" of them: bad commies, that threat make them live worse and us so much better with expanding social plans and expand freedoms to "compete" with the commies
Ah. When the wall came down, the iron curtain drew back, and it felt like we really were 'waking up from history'. Such a hopeful time. How did we make such a dog's dinner of it all?
BY letting our leaders sabotage it with quick get rich schemes in Eastern Europe that drove them away from us again. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Exactly my thoughts/feelings. We were uniquely fortunate. Unfortunately history came back with a vengeance in many places. But what goes down must come up again someday...
Ongoing awakening. We weren't done with the work before us; we were just really optimistic at the time. There was a lot going on that many of us were not aware of. Cell phones and the Internet have done a lot to make us aware of the problems that were with us all along and that many of us were able to ignore.
And there is no other place I want to be, right here right now--literally--watching the world wake up from history in 2024. Much Love and No Fear, Y'all 🙏🏻💕
I literally come back here every so often just to watch the keyboardist dancing away during the live set. Seems like he's doing more dancing than playing lol
dude you are so wrong... this era only lasted for about 2 years 1990-91... then the decade totally changed to another style, and cool stuff like this was quickly (and unfortunately) cast aside.
@@willritter4076 you're trippen.. Watch school of fish 3 strange days... Backwater The Meat puppets. Better 90's songs and later..alice in chains, Stp, soundgarden tons more
It’s the kickoff. Berlin Wall came down in Nov. ‘89, Warsaw Pact countries followed in 1990, and the USSR collapsed in ‘91, just in time for Nirvana, I guess. 😆
Listening to this song gives you motivation and pride! The beat is hypnotizing! This song is 33 years old and it grooves 🪨!! One of the many songs that's my favorites!
ARE YOU SERIOUS? 33 YEARS AGO! 33 YEARS AGO. I GOT SHOT IN DALLAS, TEXAS. MARCH 17/18, 1990. ST. PATRICK'S DAY/NIGHT. UNBELIEVABLE ON HOW TIME HAS FLOWN BY ME, THIS SONG AND TIME IT'S SELF.
I was a young Buck Sergeant in the 101st Airborne when this was released. Trained in the Cold War...went to battle in the Gulf War. This was one of my favorites... Still...is...🇺🇸
Had forgotten this gem ran across it by accident damn it takes me back👍👍👍 when this came out in 91 I was 24. I just turned 56 yesterday may 29 2023 where has the years gone they disappear like evaporating water???
At 68 here, man, I can relate! Always loved this song, always uplifted my spirit and sparked inspiration as to where we could go as a planet. These days, not so much.
A woman on the radio talks about revolution When it's already passed her by Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about You know it feels good to be alive I was alive and I waited, waited I was alive and I waited for this Right here, right now There is no other place I want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up from history Oh, I saw the decade in, when it seemed the world could change At the blink of an eye And if anything Then there's your sign of the times I was alive and I waited, waited I was alive and I waited for this Right here, right now I was alive and I waited, waited I was alive and I waited for this Right here, right now There is no other place I want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up from history Right here, right now There is no other place I want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up from history Right here, right now There is no other place I want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up-
I graduated from high school that year. I was so optimistic. Communism fell, apartheid was on the way out, Iraq was ousted from Kuwait ( I tied a yellow ribbon to my locker) and the world seemed like it was entering an era of peace and openness. If only I could have bottled that feeling.
This song was written partly in response to all the tired old boomers constantly going on about how great the 60s were. So you've now become that tired old boomer.
Today is one day it really feels like the world is "waking up from history", for good or ill. Came to remember, this is a classic from my childhood and so the phrase has always been there. Thanks for the memory, over a lifetime, every one has great value. Time always moves on.
This song was a true signature of this time. I look back and felt exactly this way. The cold war had ended and we believed that we had entered an era of peace (how very naive we were). A musical revolution had and was about to erupt (electro music was booming and the following year Nirvana would change the rock world with smells like teen spirit) and I was a young adult in the prime of my life. I love this song for this reason.
@@RellenMcDee Hope? Hope is wishing for something better to come. The wall was down and the cold war was done. The chance that the whole planet would get destroyed in a nuclear war dropped way down. You don't hope for something that's already happened. That's celebration!
i remember when i could hear the anthem "we are the world" in my head so crisply...pregnant with my beautiful first born, laying with ears half immersed in the water, in the bathtub circa the turn of the millenium. he was born march 10, 2000. possibly he was already born, but no....i felt big with the fullness and small with the peace, and trumpeted on with the voices of many, in hope and dreams and realizations. My son told me before he was conceived, that he would change everything in this world. Our New Hope
One of only two famous songs which greeted the fall of the Soviet Empire. A nightmarish empire which suppressed all speech, artistic expression and life choices, and only two Western bands made kick ass songs about it. For that reason alone I will always have respect for Jesus Jones and the Scorpions.
I was diggin' this in my 20s/30s. It's like, every gen has a song or two like this.... About really, trying to... grasp the Now or whatever. Reminds me of another song... Van Halen: Right Now. Until tomorrow. Peace.
@D W we can still hope and act as private citizens, as human beings and as a community. Whining won't help, positive and constructive actions will 🙏. Wishing you and your family all the best 🙏
Wow me and this song are the same age , my how time flies let’s love and value each other I’ve heard this song on so many commercials ,Live from 2023 #Free Palestine
Don't worry, you're not the only one listening to this masterpiece in 2024!
What a great time to be alive I'm 62 but I loved the optimistic vibe with the Berlin wall coming down, glasnost and the feeling of peace in the 90's music
I'm here early for 2025!
heard in at the radio in my car so i listen it here now
@@okrajoe your enlightenment is showing
Brings me back to a simpler life. So many great memories with this song.
agreed
@@LisaGrealis so so true. If we could only go back, right.
Where's all my gen xers at? This is such a great moment in time, we had it made and didn't even know it.
Gen X here! This was when Star Trek set the standard for SciFi in the 90’s.
@@StarFleet_Tech1701 currently going through TNG for the 100th time lol! 😅
Agreed
PRESENT! 🖐 STNG on Thurs at 8pm!! Right? Make it so!
Yeah and look at where we are now.....
Simpler, more innocent times, when it felt like anything was possible
No camera phones or social media. The worst and best things ever created.
You know what this song is about right? It was about every single person living under Communism finally (after almost 80 years) seeing the Soviet Union bankrupt, communism failing, and finally entering into the free world of knowledge and wealth and happiness.
I worked security on their first tour. I worked for hundreds of bands and they were the most fun to be around. Their energy was immense and they were very talented.
Particularly the keyboardist. He looks too busy dancing to be able to actually play the thing.
@@66secularist That's a good thing seeing as there's not ONE cord running to that keyboard. Or to any guitar, bass, etc...
Damn you're lucky lol
Makes me think of America & the Black Lives Matter movement. Watching the world wake up from centuries of oppression. It's like the definition of woke.
@@multipletanksyndrome Oh BS. Nice way to besmirch a good song by linking it to some mythical oppression NO ONE living has endured. Perhaps BLM should be asking why 13% of the population is responsible more MORE THAN half of all homicides. What was that number again, 61, 64%? Yeah, it's oppression...
This song is an underrated classic.
It's so underrated it was a hit.
@@gogoyubari366 it was but not one I hear so often on the radio or TV compared to other music of the era
@@gogoyubari366 Kids try to change the meaning of every established word. Sheer idiocy. When a song is a hit around the world, explain how that is underrated? I will wait.
@@davymania700 true
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Listening again in 2024.....Anyone else? It seems so significant now, just as it did when it was released. The World is changing, hope on the horizon once more.
What?
2024 here.......nice profile pic btw...lmao.
the real HOPE for CHANGE. not obama, Trump 2024! Make America Great Again, Again!
@@shanes.6227 Politicians aren't our friends, dude.
Is there hope on the horizon? I keep telling myself MAGA is the death throws of bigotry. Once we get past them we will wake up from history again. But they are so insistent on repeating it.
Watching the Cold War series on Netflix brought up a very powerful memory. The summer of 1991 I was living in London and hanging out at the Camden Palace (Thursday nights were “Guitar Rock Night” - Lots of Blur and R.E.M.) There had been increasing numbers of young people fleeing eastern Europe and discovering London and the club. The DJ played “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones. All those kid flooded the dance floor, with images of the Berlin Wall coming down on the screens. There were so many people on the dance floor, there was no room on the dance floor. We just jumped up and down and hugged and laughed and wept. The Cold War was over. “Watching the world wake up from history.”
Dude yea as soon as this came on it got me thinking about "Turning Point"
Just waiting on all the posts thanking Maggie Thatcher for helping to end the Cold War. 🤔
Gotta see the movie Reagan
@@jonathandunseath741and Ronnie!
@@HappyHalBallard 💯
This makes me so sad, never thought the late 80's early 90's were gonna be the best times.
"compared to the 80s, the 90s are going to make the 60s look like the 50s"
Don’t forget the 60s and 60s
70s, lol. They were that good!
@@carolmorrison6075 (it's a movie quote)
Hey, I'm an old lady now, and I say it WAS ALL GOOD!
30 years later… still watching the world wake up from history.
The great awakening has certainly begun long may it continue…👍🏻
I’ve had those words tattooed in my mind for 33 years. I didn’t even speak English when I first heard it but I still remember that lyric and I still don’t get what it means 😂
No shit
Or die being a guinea pig taking that experimental product 😂
@@Our_creepy_adventures eat shit
This song gives me a weird indescribable feeling of being nostalgic, yet excited and hopeful for the future at the same time.
That's exactly what it makes me feel too.
It makes me feel pretty stupid for it having caused those feelings
@@RellenMcDee Hope is never stupid.
It makes me feel nostalgic because I first heard it on a car commercial years ago.
You summed this song up
I appreciate this comment.
If you were a teen or an adult in the 90's. You lived the best life.
you must have missed the 80's
I was born in 1981, you are right.
So do I.
@@tjstrongbone5373 I was born in 79. Don't get me wrong, I loved the 80's. But the 90's felt like the world was headed in the right direction. It felt like everyone's dream could come true. And technology was taking off. At that time it felt like those years were the best years to be alive. Then the year 2000 came and it felt like a huge letdown. Then Covid hit and it made me wonder, when was the last time I felt carefree and safe from all the chaos in the world. In the 90's.
the sweet spot, for me, is 85 to 95.
This song was such a big part of my growing up. I miss the 90s so much
It's a anthem for all generations !! Look at today !
I hear you.
Fuckin' eh! The next musical era moving into something different. It was exciting. I was to go from this to grungy distorted guitars of the early 90s and I'm thankful for Jesus Jones being on the radio.
Yep
Kamala Harris brought me here.
30 years later, this still slaps.
I agree 100%🔥🎯
yassss
That groove slays!
Slaps? Since when did that word gain a slang meaning? 🤨
@@OfTheMindscape well, this song fucks
The late 80s-early 90s was such a great time to be kid. Every other generation never had the luck we did of growing up during that era.
The Golden Era of music right there.
So true !
True! Tell me what other eras in world history did you grow up in? You know, so you can actually say it was better? Oh, you only grew up in the one then? oof.
Kids growing up in the late 70's and early 80's had more freedom. I was too young to enjoy it. When this song came out cops harassed us no matter where we parked our cars to hang out. I recall seeing teens in the late 70's have a party with beer and those funny cigarettes they smoked (weed) out of a van in a grocery store parking lot where they bought there beer as the drinking age was just 18 then. Those were the times to grow up in but I was still pooping my diapers or pissing my training pants... but at least I didn't have to sit in a stupid car seat
Born in 92, I caught the back end of it and am totally jealous. I wanna go back!!
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Yep, and it's about the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Revolutions of the Eastern bloc nations from the domination of the Soviets. None should forget the horrors of socialism.
Agreed, but who are you quoting?
@@ViirinSoftworks I did not mean to make it in quotes. It was a mistake. I said it. I love this song. And I'm thankful I can watch it for FREE!
They did this when the Berlin Wall fell.
😢
I remember when this song came out and how optimistic the times felt.
In 2020, I think of this song with the lyric "Back there, Back Then".
+AgentXPQ I also remember when this song came out, it was 1991, the USSR had fallen and it's replacement was the Commonwealth of Nations(did i get it right), and I had the cassette tape which was borrowed, but never returned . What an awesome time it was!!!
You know I felt that there was a sense of hope seeing that the USSR had fallen down on November 17, 1991. But I guess that what I felt it was just that moment and nothing else.
And here we are again!
AgentXPQ perfect
cool
the 80’s were crazy…. the 90’s were a new beginning for the world. Everyone was hopeful and the music represented that optimism ❤. I miss the 90’s
The 2020s is like someone farted in the room and left.
bring the 90s SPIRIT BACK! the chronic too!
I was in the USAF in the first half of the 80's, then in college, and my first civilian career job. Compared to the Shytt Storm of the late 70's (stagflation, Jimmy Carter telling us to turn out lights, put on more sweaters and turn down the heaters, while he let all the hostages rot in captivity of the Iranian cult mullah pigs???? That was after we abandoned a million freedom fighters in Viet Nam, and suffered Watergate, and the infiltration of the American Psychology Association by mentally ill "activists" .... P.S.. The Berlin Wall came down.... we had won the COLD WAR (only recently did the leftists Dems enrich the Communists in Russia and China to start it up again!!!!! ) See Ukraine and Taiwan for the next "expansion"..... Yeah... the Domino Theory was just stupid.... sure..
I’m a 90s era kid. The last best decade of television and music and movies ❤
NO! The time is RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW! You are missing the point of the song.
Born in 1975. I remember the late 70s, played all throughout the 80s, partied and rocked in the 90s. Great decades. After 2010 . . blah!
1976 myself and I totally concur.
'77 ... Miss the '90s, but my chest caves in with sorrow, when I think back to the '80s.
Lembro demais de dessa época de ouro.
I had a terrible childhood so the 80s were painful and I'd love to forget it, but I miss the 90s more than anything. I wish I could be in a time loop and repeat the 90s again and again.
The 90s. America's longest weekend.
I was in 9th grade when this song came out ❤❤
Me too!
I was in middle school.
As a faithful representative of generation X, this song is included in my "top 10 songs of the 90's" playlist. I listen to it daily to be more precise and it was the first ringtone for calls on my mobile phone.
Yes indeed. This captures the incredible moment in history when the Cold War ended and we had peace with our former enemies. So much hope, then. It is a shame that we didn't do more to bring Russia fully into the fold of the 'West', and they are again our enemies.
Bunch of SAPS!
"Excellent " in my Bill n Ted voice, haha. Gen X foSho! 💚💛❤️ I recorded this song on my tapedeck boombox
Geriatric millennial here but I love this song, one of my favorites from my early childhood.
@@TommyPaycheck92 wtf does saps stand for
I am 64 years old. This song is just as pointed as it was when I first heard it.
This song was a massive hit in 1991....still great.
This was one of those songs that seemed too short so you had to listen to it over a few times. What a great bass groove. For me, I think the poignancy of the lyrics was lost on me a little at the time because I loved it so much musically.
I listen to it over and over…🙏
I was 23 when this song dropped. I'm 51 now!!! Still listening in 2019!
I'm right there with you..I'll be 50 in July...💞💞💞
This seemed like the bookend to the 1980s to me, i was 17 at the time.
@@econogate I was 18, and 1990 and 1991 didn't seem much different from the late 80s.
It's eerie j.s ....How time fly past us 😳
J. S. Top tune
This song is an anthem. It's as powerful and enjoyable to listen to today as it was in 1991. One of my favorites.
@Big BlackDawg It's still enjoyable.
Larry Lee Moniz Well said!
I was 12 years old in 1990. Great time to be a teenager.
How nostalgic, haven't heard this song in years, remembering being happy to be alive, and high on life!!!
Sounds like THOSE days are gone.
Yes!!!!!
Good 90’s song makes me miss the past even more bc of these present dark days...
1991 you ain't lyin partner
I am a Baby Boomer, now 76, in 2024. This is a brilliant song and yes, still listening to it, periodically. And we are still “waking up from History”!
I'm also a boomer, 65 years old, in 2024. This is a nice, little, pop song but nothing brilliant. I'm here because, once again, this song, 'Right here-Right now', has been called 'racist'. I just read the lyrics and there are two short verses and that's it. The writers of the song claim they were moved by everything that was happening in '89 in Europe; the fall of the wall in Berlin, dictator over-thrown in Romania and so forth. I have no idea how this song can be called 'racist'?
Dunno, Gen X here. Seems like the world only changes the bullshit train it's riding.
When MTV used to play music videos, the memories.
As someone who grew up during the Cold War this song really nailed the feeling of when the Berlin Wall finally came down.
There was no one who ever thought in those days that the Cold War would end peacefully.
This song and the Scorpions Wind of Change.
@@arserobinson7118, I agree. Winds of change was the great song during this time.
Totally
When Winds of Change pops up on my Spotify, I still get chills. Was explaining the Berlin Wall & the Cold War to a colleague as their eyes glazed over ....
@@LaSorciereFeuillue Ur OLD.
This song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991
CUAL FUE LA #1??
What was number one?
@@hazelxtaliahazelxtalia9975 Bryan Adams "Everything I Do"
I find it really confusing that the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays never had a hit in the States but Jesus Jones did.
64 years young and this song once again makes me feel pumped and good!💥🤣👏👏😎🙏
68 years here, and when I listen to this song (and some others), I most definitely hear ya! I feel the same.
One of my fav songs from the late 80's/early 90's that takes me back,... newly married, feeling so positive and hopeful.
Looking at the present day state of the world (and my life), would love to go back to those late 80's and feel that again.
50 yo. Let’s rock \,,/
:) :) :)
U mean 64 yrs old?😅
✨❤️🔥✨
Who else was watching and listening to this on MTV in 1991!
Friday Night Videos
All time favorite band
I was like so a freshman in school. Lol
Hells yeah!
ME! Freshman year of college, first time I had access to MTV.
Generation X. This is just one of our theme songs. I think so much about the great times as a teen in those years.
I think this is a gift from Gen X to every generation as they come up into the world, it seems since then we got both bigger and smaller at the same time, as folks come to realize it's always "history in the making" in the now if you know where to look.
as a preteen in those years, it still pops in my head on the regular
The Best Is Yet To Come!!!!
I have tears in my eyes listening to this now!!!!
Fuck dude for some reason I was already choked up listening to this then I read your comment and broke out crying...wtf has happened to this world
@@sagespalding1958 i think the guy above just got maced, but you and me, we're the sentimental type.
Lol The best is yet to come.
I’m crying too
@@Gapgirl-yk4sh Happy tears I hope :-)
Classic 90's. Glad I was a teen then.❤🎉
Bon voyage, Mikhail.
Oh God, I remember the very first time hearing this song and feeling so hopeful for the future....like nothing could stop this freedom...and now it's 2022 and I'm crying because it truly seems like we're back to *before* this song was released.
the time before this song was for the most part better than 2022 as well
Yeah, we've regressed
Exactly
GREAT SONG!!! We are screwed 😔 Brandon is destroying USA 🇺🇸 everytime he opens his disgusting pie hole!!
og is there anything you cannot use his name on. this is youtube not a local church let's leave it there
Today seemed like a good day to go back and remember how it felt back in 1989 as we all watched history, and remembering how great it felt.
Seemed is the depressing word. They might have been onto something with these lyrics.
03+22+2024
❤Healing
In Jesus Christ name Heal Our Beings.Amen Love I say Love ❤❤❤
I'm from British Columbia, sitting in my van in South Florida, about to drive through the night to do a triathlon in Georgia in seven hours. I'm doing triathlons every weekend until 2030 in the name of my friend, Michelle, who died six months ago. She changed everything about my life. Everything was different after her. She was my girlfriend when this song came out. It makes me think of her...which is why I'm sitting here at 11pm listening to it in my van before my drive. This song breaks my heart, but also keeps her alive. I will never stop listening to it.
I'm sorry about you losing your friend. 😥
Good luck with your triathlons! She will always be with you, but your pain will pass in time...I believe that is what she would want)
Steve, you have a pure heart. Keep her memory alive. This song rocks. ❤
Stay safe
Calm down
This song was SO spot on! This song really encapsulates what the immediate post Cold War era was like. What a cultural anthem!!!
And Vladimir Putin has fucked it up.
I find this song still very relevant, even by today's standards and expectations (Dec. 2022). The Band's name, Jesus Jones, is "so prophetic", in its own right. The song title, "Right Here, Right Now", suggests the perpetual pivotal juncture, that we, as "a global human species, have been latently standing on the edge of tomorrow, namely, our collective state of hostage restraint before "an imminent World turmoil and unrest", especially for the last 75 years to date. Jesus, the lead singer, having written this song ahead of his time, is urging us "to wake up" from the past and enter "the new era of human enlightment and revival", the Age of
@@veronicamejia6918 Yes endless western war
In a decade full of great, great music, this song right here was the anthem of that time for me. It just held it all. We were in our 20s, and it was our time; everything was possible and it was all coming out right in front of us...
Watching on Election Day in the USA 5 November 2024. This is so apt.
Probably more so than ever. We took the wrong road. I hope we can find our way back.
@julioMo How?
@rmzweig3972 right here right now, watching the world wake up from history.
@@JulioMo The meaning of these lyrics is the complete opposite of the winning message on USA Election Day 2024: go backward in history, not forward.
So many years later and I still love this song.. 2024
This song encapsulated the years 1989-1991 perfectly. You knew you were living through a historical time with the fall of Iron Curtain.
Leaving middle school to enter high school… reading the lyrics to this song from a cassette tape with my friend Noah Pardro Friedman over the corded telephone ☎️
How can you not love this profound tune?
This song was very ahead of its time.❤ Even today? It still is.
It is happening!
Geez, what's happened these past few years flies in the face of the theme of this song and shows how unduly optimistic he was in writing these lyrics. And the same goes for the Scorpions with their Winds of Change song.
I woke up to te fall of the wall, and later this song came out.
I Literally woke up to history, and thse guys are an absolute inspiration for the 15 year old me.
I don't know if you know, but Nuclear war was arround the corner all my life. The fall of the wall was an inspiration.
I was born during the Cuban missile crisis. The nuclear threat was always in the back of our minds.
This song after the Berlin Wall felt like an anthem for my generation. I cannot help but feel we didn't live up to the promise of that time
Please don't self blame! We the people are not the 'top' 1%:The sociopathic reptillian overlords who run the world.
same
we failed, we made our world significantly worse without the "threat" of them: bad commies, that threat make them live worse and us so much better with expanding social plans and expand freedoms to "compete" with the commies
Scorpions 'Wind of Change' must surely rank up there for an anthem of the era.
Ah. When the wall came down, the iron curtain drew back, and it felt like we really were 'waking up from history'. Such a hopeful time. How did we make such a dog's dinner of it all?
BY letting our leaders sabotage it with quick get rich schemes in Eastern Europe that drove them away from us again. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Islam awakened after a few centuries of slumber.
Exactly my thoughts/feelings. We were uniquely fortunate. Unfortunately history came back with a vengeance in many places. But what goes down must come up again someday...
dimMcratts! that's how.
Ongoing awakening. We weren't done with the work before us; we were just really optimistic at the time. There was a lot going on that many of us were not aware of. Cell phones and the Internet have done a lot to make us aware of the problems that were with us all along and that many of us were able to ignore.
As a Cold War Kid, when the wall fell was outstanding! This song gives me the goose pimples.
Jamming out to this song while being in quarantine!
Me to,I'm rockin it
iconic. Few songs can capture a moment in history like this song did. Props.
One of those songs that takes you back with a smile
Still listening in 2024!!
And there is no other place I want to be, right here right now--literally--watching the world wake up from history in 2024.
Much Love and No Fear, Y'all 🙏🏻💕
Likewise. 1 of my very fav songs ever!!
2-28-24 Much Love From New Orleans Everyone 💜💚💛
Yassss!! 2/29/24 right here, right now🤙
Nobody cares.
That little dude in the red shirt got a crazy dance! It can't help but lighten your mood!
Looks like he is possessed by Lucifer himself.
Yep, really cool put together video. Love how the group was filmed and/or choreographed. Really slaps with the music!
I literally come back here every so often just to watch the keyboardist dancing away during the live set. Seems like he's doing more dancing than playing lol
This gotta be the most 90s song and video ever made.
dude you are so wrong... this era only lasted for about 2 years 1990-91... then the decade totally changed to another style, and cool stuff like this was quickly (and unfortunately) cast aside.
@@willritter4076 EMF's video also
@@willritter4076 you're trippen.. Watch school of fish 3 strange days... Backwater The Meat puppets. Better 90's songs and later..alice in chains, Stp, soundgarden tons more
It’s the kickoff. Berlin Wall came down in Nov. ‘89, Warsaw Pact countries followed in 1990, and the USSR collapsed in ‘91, just in time for Nirvana, I guess. 😆
This song came out in 1991 I was only 13 years old and great a song as well.
Listening to this song gives you motivation and pride! The beat is hypnotizing! This song is 33 years old and it grooves 🪨!! One of the many songs that's my favorites!
Makes me look back at the good times... senior year HS
ARE YOU SERIOUS? 33 YEARS AGO! 33 YEARS AGO. I GOT SHOT IN DALLAS, TEXAS. MARCH 17/18, 1990. ST. PATRICK'S DAY/NIGHT. UNBELIEVABLE ON HOW TIME HAS FLOWN BY ME, THIS SONG AND TIME IT'S SELF.
@@kenhemmila2081. Damn! Glad you made it through that to tell your story! Yes! This song is really THAT old!
me too!
I was a young Buck Sergeant in the 101st Airborne when this was released. Trained in the Cold War...went to battle in the Gulf War.
This was one of my favorites...
Still...is...🇺🇸
Ok.............
Thank you for your service
@@airsuperiorityllc2748 it was my honor.
Every Saturday morning during cartoons…80’s…greatest decade in HISTORY!
Good times! Miss the 90’s!
Most of the 90's up to 1995 then music truly started to suck @Lyn Raposo.
Jfa
@@mikeysuzefour Maybe in 2000 but since 2010 really sucks
Had forgotten this gem ran across it by accident damn it takes me back👍👍👍 when this came out in 91 I was 24. I just turned 56 yesterday may 29 2023 where has the years gone they disappear like evaporating water???
At 68 here, man, I can relate! Always loved this song, always uplifted my spirit and sparked inspiration as to where we could go as a planet.
These days, not so much.
This guy had one of the best voices I have ever heard. I totally love it. This band is so underrated imo.
agree! I love Jesus Jones
This song appeals to the optimist in me.
As it should.
Exactly!
well, when the optimist is done, you should play it for him! :P (jk man. hope you can take a stiff joke ;) )
JESUS WALKS LIVES
Did that make more sense in your head?
@SundaeExpress keep your comments to your self Hater.
@@Sundae_Times with a cherry on Top.
A woman on the radio talks about revolution
When it's already passed her by
Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about
You know it feels good to be alive
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history
Oh, I saw the decade in, when it seemed the world could change
At the blink of an eye
And if anything
Then there's your sign of the times
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history
Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history
Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up-
Received lots of airplay in 1991, the good old days
This song has opened up neural pathways I thought long forgotten
I strive to have the enthusiasm for life that keyboard guy has.
Great memories.
I heard this song in a T-Mobile commercial, and the song had such a cool tune that I HAD to look it up. So glad I found the original video!
Legendary song. Nothing beats the 90’s!
The 80's called and said you're welcome for the early 90's.
Actually. The 80s beat the 90s
@@aarr3193 90s song
@@aarr3193 Nope.
*Right Here Right Now Watching The World Wake Up From History...* I miss hearing Jesus Jones!
This song reminds me of when I got home from Desert Storm in May '91
Music is such a beautiful thing.
I graduated from high school that year. I was so optimistic. Communism fell, apartheid was on the way out, Iraq was ousted from Kuwait ( I tied a yellow ribbon to my locker) and the world seemed like it was entering an era of peace and openness.
If only I could have bottled that feeling.
My fellow GenXers……we got old yo….but thankfully we can listen and take that trip back in time.
I know it! The 90’s music is now “classic rock “ but songs like this are ageless
Reminds me of when the Berlin Wall was being torn down, brought tears to my eyes...
I was alive, and I waited for this.
How did such a talented band fly under the radar?
They didn't. This song got a lot of airplay.
One hit wonder band.
@@keithhinchcliffe4377 two hits. Real Real Real was a big hit at the time, just forgotten and overshadowed
what about mc 900 foot jesus?
they arrived just before grunge swept everything aside. Madchester slowly evaporated too in 1991.
This guy is very handsome in this video!!!
Why can't music be this good now? Damn I miss the 80's early 90's)
This song was written partly in response to all the tired old boomers constantly going on about how great the 60s were. So you've now become that tired old boomer.
Well written song. Will forever be a golden hit 🙏🏽
sapphire, ruby, and topaz inlaid
on a crown
Such much hope and optimism back then. What in the world happened?
Today is one day it really feels like the world is "waking up from history", for good or ill. Came to remember, this is a classic from my childhood and so the phrase has always been there. Thanks for the memory, over a lifetime, every one has great value. Time always moves on.
This song was a true signature of this time. I look back and felt exactly this way. The cold war had ended and we believed that we had entered an era of peace (how very naive we were). A musical revolution had and was about to erupt (electro music was booming and the following year Nirvana would change the rock world with smells like teen spirit) and I was a young adult in the prime of my life. I love this song for this reason.
2019... 28 yrs later and i still find this to be a feel good song
For some reason this song keeps playing in my mind over the last few days.
Because of how wrong this hopeful feeling was?
@@RellenMcDee Hope? Hope is wishing for something better to come. The wall was down and the cold war was done. The chance that the whole planet would get destroyed in a nuclear war dropped way down. You don't hope for something that's already happened. That's celebration!
It was playing in my mind today; it's the reason I came to RUclips 😂
i remember when i could hear the anthem "we are the world" in my head so crisply...pregnant with my beautiful first born, laying with ears half immersed in the water, in the bathtub circa the turn of the millenium. he was born march 10, 2000. possibly he was already born, but no....i felt big with the fullness and small with the peace, and trumpeted on with the voices of many, in hope and dreams and realizations. My son told me before he was conceived, that he would change everything in this world. Our New Hope
why do i still feel blue.? He is ...a miracle. i want to see him know
There's no place in all the world I'd rather be than right here - right now !
Me too in the name of Jesus !
The keyboard player cracks me up every time.
One of only two famous songs which greeted the fall of the Soviet Empire. A nightmarish empire which suppressed all speech, artistic expression and life choices, and only two Western bands made kick ass songs about it. For that reason alone I will always have respect for Jesus Jones and the Scorpions.
Probably best comment posted :D
Why thank you kind sir! Nice to receive some positive vibes here on RUclips 🌈
The world HAS changed in the blink of an eye, I'd rather be anywhere else
do you mean anywhen else?
I know just what you mean.
Yes!!! The great awakening!!!
@@arleneh.1107 LOVE!!!!
#WWG1WGA
Agreed! Crazy how songs predict the future, That's why I play, the songs I play have always predicted my future,..
some songs really cement a moment in time
I watched the movie Nefarious today on bitchute and I cringed and looked away at several moments.
I was diggin' this in my 20s/30s.
It's like, every gen has a song or two like this....
About really, trying to... grasp the Now or whatever.
Reminds me of another song... Van Halen: Right Now.
Until tomorrow.
Peace.
Such a great song. It gave a lot of optimism to us when the Iron Curtain fell.
A happy 2021 everyone 🙏 let's make this year better than the former one 👊. 30 years later and this song still relevant as it was in 1991
@D W we can still hope and act as private citizens, as human beings and as a community. Whining won't help, positive and constructive actions will 🙏. Wishing you and your family all the best 🙏
i loved 1991 i go back i was 14
@@shannoningram3840 me too 🙏. Beautiful time 🙂 But in life "the only way is forward". We will create ourselves better present and future 🙏
Wow me and this song are the same age , my how time flies let’s love and value each other I’ve heard this song on so many commercials ,Live from 2023 #Free Palestine
Always put me in a good mood.
Good band. Very underrated. Coming up to 60 now. ❤❤❤❤❤
One of the best one hit wonders of all time.
The best times are just around the corner. The best is yet to come.