Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

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  • Опубликовано: 27 янв 2025

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  • @nate_river_
    @nate_river_ Год назад +235

    Looking back on it now, it's insane how much gold we had charting in the 80s. Still as good as the day they released it.

    • @Taliesin-xd7ke
      @Taliesin-xd7ke 10 месяцев назад +4

      Adversity has an amazing side effect..
      .creativity😂

    • @Baronrhubarbpostoffice
      @Baronrhubarbpostoffice 9 месяцев назад +3

      Like the birdie song

    • @joelashadali
      @joelashadali 7 месяцев назад +1

      Im looking thru just that. The music was all over the place in 83. So much new emerging genres along with more established bands. Birth of alternative,post punk,
      New wave there was a ton of great punk and pop. Even rap was in its earliest stages. What a time I was a senior in high school.

    • @Taliesin-xd7ke
      @Taliesin-xd7ke 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@Baronrhubarbpostoffice 🎶🤣👏

    • @euromusicfreak
      @euromusicfreak 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Baronrhubarbpostoffice Nothing like a party dancing to the birdie song, especially when you get older and have a few fair pints and would feathers if you didn't realise

  • @pepsiq11965
    @pepsiq11965 Год назад +31

    Blancmange were huge in the 80s in cities in the USA. New York, L.A., Boston, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Philly, and Chicago. Loved everything from the UK in the entire 80s decade. Small country with the most musically talented people on Earth along with NYC :)

    • @PalaniRides
      @PalaniRides 4 месяца назад +3

      I believe all those cities had independent progressive stations that had a pipeline directly coming from Great Britain. We in Southern California had 91X in San Diego, and right up the freeway in Los Angeles was the mighty KROQ. Both had their in-house English deejays also. San Diego had the great Steve West, and LA had Richard Blade. Oh what great times and great music. ... A lot of that music would have been even bigger if conservative, craven Top 40 radio had given them a chance.

    • @pepsiq11965
      @pepsiq11965 4 месяца назад +2

      @@PalaniRides KROQ was one of the best

    • @louisestevenson5102
      @louisestevenson5102 Месяц назад +1

      We loved it in Australia too

    • @jont22285
      @jont22285 29 дней назад +1

      This is my favorite song love it🙌🙋‍♂️

  • @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva
    @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva 3 года назад +1357

    Zone really likes 80s music by the looks of it.

    • @JohnMkrv
      @JohnMkrv 3 года назад +18

      My man

    • @ashkirby8896
      @ashkirby8896 3 года назад +61

      Yep, and Egyptian style music at best!😄

    • @huntermossakajunkerman9646
      @huntermossakajunkerman9646 3 года назад +16

      I mean hey, it's good music.

    • @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva
      @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva 3 года назад +4

      @@ashkirby8896 Why are you replying to literally every popular comment.

    • @LolaTheGardevoir
      @LolaTheGardevoir 3 года назад +7

      Kinda like Toby Fox likes old commercials.
      You ever wonder if they’re gonna make music that’s only used for their animations

  • @MrGoblin60
    @MrGoblin60 2 года назад +172

    Truly one of the best tracks to ever emerge from the early eighties.

  • @ianjones3568
    @ianjones3568 3 года назад +25

    Love it in the barbers shop at 01:30, that guy utterly non-plussed. Then two little gestures and he knows exactly what to do 🤣

    • @melindahajdin
      @melindahajdin 9 месяцев назад +5

      He's like, "Okay, crazy white man. I give you haircut now."

    • @philipdavidson8420
      @philipdavidson8420 Месяц назад

      @@melindahajdin 🤣🤣

  • @markparsons5549
    @markparsons5549 5 лет назад +799

    Blancmange ,just another pop group passing through the early 80s,nearly 40 years later we are still listening to their music!! We didnt realise we had it so good back then

    • @michaelshiffman6271
      @michaelshiffman6271 3 года назад +22

      I knew it then, and I know it now! Like wine!

    • @yanguYT
      @yanguYT 3 года назад +11

      finally, i'm coming to the 80s

    • @urbanosprey
      @urbanosprey 3 года назад +35

      Can you imagine anyone listening to music from 2021 in 40 years time?...me neither

    • @TheMetaKid
      @TheMetaKid 3 года назад +10

      @@urbanosprey no, it seems pretty likely. Think about how people loved the "classics" in the 80's

    • @Stop_Sign21
      @Stop_Sign21 3 года назад +13

      We are listening because of a certain yellow cat dancing

  • @wendydavis622
    @wendydavis622 11 месяцев назад +15

    It's 2024 still love the lyrics and song!!

  • @28981karlos
    @28981karlos Год назад +125

    This is the definition of 80s synth pop...Bloody love this song 🎵 ❤️

  • @dhenderson1810
    @dhenderson1810 4 года назад +190

    "I'm so small, I'm so small" as it shows him towering over everyone.

    • @NixDarkLord
      @NixDarkLord 4 года назад +7

      It's the other way round i think

    • @trevorbishop3567
      @trevorbishop3567 3 года назад

      Lol Ok 😁

    • @mowl
      @mowl 3 года назад

      😁

    • @karluhh_9351
      @karluhh_9351 3 года назад +11

      Fun fact if you pay attention to the song the lyrics he singing like from a cats perspective that’s why.. is like telling a cats story

    • @satanic_priestess
      @satanic_priestess 3 года назад +4

      @@karluhh_9351 oh god no OH GOD NO

  • @Dead-Ball-Situation
    @Dead-Ball-Situation 4 года назад +128

    Don't anyone ever tell you that the 80's wasn't the greatest decade for music because it was.

    • @cathsalazar9930
      @cathsalazar9930 4 года назад +7

      Absolutely 💯!!!! Best years ever for these great bands!!!! Timeless!!!!! Lol🇺🇸👍☮️🔥🥵🤩🇺🇸💯❤️

    • @Freehardy
      @Freehardy 4 года назад +8

      the thing about the 80's is it was the last era pop music was made by adults. you can hear it in the music and lyrics

    • @cathsalazar9930
      @cathsalazar9930 4 года назад +2

      @@Freehardy fur sure! 🤩

    • @antonjonsamuelsen8970
      @antonjonsamuelsen8970 4 года назад +4

      Brilliant 1980s

    • @UnpaidInternJR
      @UnpaidInternJR 3 года назад +5

      I may have been born late 90s but 80s is definitely my favourite decade of music!

  • @RogueWJL
    @RogueWJL 3 года назад +337

    Belter of a dance track.
    Criminally underrated.
    Good to see the middle East in happier times.

    • @gabzinemo3894
      @gabzinemo3894 3 года назад +11

      Well, at least a few young peeps listen to these tracks. I sure do and I’m in my early 20s :D

    • @PeterNgola
      @PeterNgola 3 года назад +17

      ""Good to see the middle East in happier times.""" Weeeeeel....... at least the country this was filmed in. Dont forget Iran Iraq war lebanon etc. But great song indeed!

    • @Eaglehunter44
      @Eaglehunter44 3 года назад +3

      This comment aged like milk

    • @savary5050
      @savary5050 3 года назад +2

      Lmao actual fans are here

    • @yvc9
      @yvc9 3 года назад +1

      Its far from underrated. I sure danced my ass off to it enough in clubs to know.

  • @hilary.teanti
    @hilary.teanti 2 года назад +72

    A criminally underrated song this is. How does this not get played more often (anywhere and everywhere) as a masterpiece of the 80's ?!

    • @mikey50boy
      @mikey50boy 2 года назад +1

      Still one of my favourite tracks of the 80’s

  • @thenightbreak
    @thenightbreak 4 года назад +425

    I just heard this being played in a supermarket. I could barely contain myself from dancing.

    • @Lou-nn3nr
      @Lou-nn3nr 4 года назад +19

      Did you buy multiple packets of Blancmange?

    • @sirjellybeans6653
      @sirjellybeans6653 4 года назад +9

      That was a dance?

    • @vidster13
      @vidster13 4 года назад +3

      Did they cut out the swear word?

    • @Drexxaal
      @Drexxaal 4 года назад +4

      I hope u didn't! I hope u got shaking those hips like a belly dancer!

    • @samanthacarter3655
      @samanthacarter3655 4 года назад +8

      I danced to a tune in a supermarket yesterday. Isn't that what we are supposed to do?:)

  • @robertjohnson1602
    @robertjohnson1602 3 года назад +65

    Anyone who includes mysterious Egypt and the Sphinx in their video clip - in addition to one of the most infectious beats of the '80s has a memorable music moment!

  • @2010vintagesandwichenjoyer
    @2010vintagesandwichenjoyer 3 года назад +1525

    Another hidden gem discovered thanks to yellow dancing cat
    THIS time around she actually dancing

    • @JohnMkrv
      @JohnMkrv 3 года назад +37

      I never knew that I'm gonna say this but, thanks Zone

    • @kdksgshdg2877
      @kdksgshdg2877 3 года назад +8

      wdym? wasn’t she always dancing?

    • @ferdinandroig3460
      @ferdinandroig3460 3 года назад +30

      She's really _dominating_ the dance floor.

    • @JohnMkrv
      @JohnMkrv 3 года назад +7

      @@kdksgshdg2877 never has been

    • @LolaTheGardevoir
      @LolaTheGardevoir 3 года назад +4

      Who cares about the cat all you should care about is Tiffany

  • @MrChristian
    @MrChristian 6 лет назад +457

    I was lucky to see and meet Blancmange at a concert in Leamington, England in 2014. Neil Arthur was nice enough to come out to meet me after the show when he heard that I flew in from Los Angeles just to see him and Heaven 17. 100% true story. It was a dream come true to see both bands perform.

    • @marcusverkler5246
      @marcusverkler5246 5 лет назад +20

      That's some good stuff! I like hearing stories like yours. Thank you.

    • @boxfetish
      @boxfetish 5 лет назад +12

      Jealous!

    • @clairesmith1964
      @clairesmith1964 5 лет назад +16

      That made me emotional Christian..so proud of my brother..Stephen who was in the band but now retired

    • @randomnesspersonified
      @randomnesspersonified 5 лет назад +8

      That sounds awesome! Was he actually "so tall" though? He looks tall in that video, but maybe all the people around him were just short. Weird random question that occurred to me lol

    • @PatrickGalbraith
      @PatrickGalbraith 5 лет назад +7

      Smaller venues are the best. Bands that aren't super-bands even better. I saw the Fixx a year ago and it was one of the best concerts I've seen and was only a good 20' away from the stage. One of my favorite bands. I heard this Blancmange song the other day which brought me here. Check out SomaFM Underground 80s

  • @dbg32
    @dbg32 3 года назад +111

    I love the way he says he’s “up the bloody tree” in his Northern accent! Of course “bloody” was too offensive for radio so they changed it to “cuckoo tree”.

    • @jenwendy7
      @jenwendy7 3 года назад +21

      We got to hear "bloody" in the States 😍

    • @markellis3036
      @markellis3036 2 года назад +8

      Check out the Limmy sketch about that. Comedy gold.

    • @tracyobrien5849
      @tracyobrien5849 Год назад

      Was just thinking before i saw your comment. Why did i always sing cuckoo tree 😁😁

    • @EaAblott
      @EaAblott Год назад +4

      I recently moved to Lancashire from the East Midlands and I have to contain myself from saying “IM UP T’ BLOODY TREE” when talking to people

    • @tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817
      @tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817 11 месяцев назад

      @dbg32 last time I listened to Radio 2 daytime , when the legendary maverick Steve Wright (RIP)was on in the afternoons, they bloody censored it!!

  • @yorkshirelassinsuffolk1209
    @yorkshirelassinsuffolk1209 11 месяцев назад +8

    Play this once a day. I loved it back then enjoy it now.

    • @micksmith106
      @micksmith106 4 месяца назад

      you have great taste ,now has you did back then ...

    • @philipdavidson8420
      @philipdavidson8420 Месяц назад

      "Play this once a day" - - a recipe for feeling fabulous right there 😊

  • @davegahan5908
    @davegahan5908 4 года назад +382

    Love this song, so much energy and sounds so exotic and different from anything else around at that amazing time in music in the 80's!

    • @karenmccarthy1523
      @karenmccarthy1523 4 года назад +6

      Totally agree...could listen over & over..💖

    • @globalparadise6979
      @globalparadise6979 4 года назад +5

      Hey what 80's head was'nt living on the ceiling back in the day 😂

    • @maxwellsmart6487
      @maxwellsmart6487 4 года назад +4

      Pre emptive indies music Boom! Stock market takes off like a DC10

    • @alloy1100
      @alloy1100 4 года назад +5

      Love this

    • @edwardthemememan
      @edwardthemememan 4 года назад +5

      Certainly were a unique fresh and different sound and came from Darwen just down the road from my home town Blackburn

  • @reapeashooter2
    @reapeashooter2 3 года назад +1729

    I don't know what they're talking about. That cat really is just dancing.

    • @MomongaOffical
      @MomongaOffical 3 года назад +24

      Yeah you right

    • @Delta-ass
      @Delta-ass 3 года назад +12

      I rejoice

    • @ashkirby8896
      @ashkirby8896 3 года назад +16

      More like a formerly wholesome yellow cat trying to get over the trauma of another “not so much a dance”!😄😏😎

    • @Delta-ass
      @Delta-ass 3 года назад +2

      @@ashkirby8896 ye

    • @huntermossakajunkerman9646
      @huntermossakajunkerman9646 3 года назад +1

      @AshKirby YOU AGAIN?!

  • @willybeezy2775
    @willybeezy2775 2 года назад +18

    This song shows up like an old friend and gives you a warm hug.

    • @paulklee5790
      @paulklee5790 4 месяца назад +1

      That’s so well put… a hug it is!

    • @andrewwatson5509
      @andrewwatson5509 2 месяца назад

      Great reference. Heard it yesterday and felt all warm and couldn't stop smiling.

  • @unionjakjakson
    @unionjakjakson Год назад +20

    Classic 80''s amongst the best. Love it

  • @helenofboyd
    @helenofboyd 4 года назад +128

    this song is so good. one of the best vocal performances of the 80s, imho.

    • @trevorbishop3567
      @trevorbishop3567 3 года назад +4

      Brilliant tune

    • @trevorbishop3567
      @trevorbishop3567 3 года назад +3

      Brilliant tune 🤠

    • @adelebeverley2901
      @adelebeverley2901 3 года назад +3

      Bloody fabulous

    • @wildechild5
      @wildechild5 3 года назад +1

      I saw them in a small club in San Francisco California in 1986 I believe it was might have been 85 but this song is so brilliant and I was so looking forward to their Showmanship but it was boring as hell and I ended up falling asleep. I have never fallen asleep at a concert before or ever since. And no I was not drunk or on drugs I was straight as straight can be.

    • @alexmalpass8526
      @alexmalpass8526 3 года назад

      when i heard it, I ascended for real!

  • @christopheradderley45
    @christopheradderley45 8 месяцев назад +27

    Great track.
    "Living on the Ceiling" takes me straight back to the Hammersmith Palais and seeing Blancmange in '82. A standing only venue that soon turned into a magically happy sweaty disco of sitars and synthesizers. One of the most beautiful nights of my life, and all for just £3.50, although the memories remain priceless 🧡

    • @simonrusk3338
      @simonrusk3338 6 месяцев назад +1

      Brilliant Hammersmith Palau’s I saw Blondie there back in the day 😊

    • @christopheradderley45
      @christopheradderley45 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​​​​@@simonrusk3338I agree with you Simon. The Hammersmith Palais was certainly one of my favourite venues back in the day. The Brixton Academy was another that I loved being in. Maybe it's because both of these places had completely or mostly standing areas which created a brilliant atmosphere. All the best 🧡

    • @aerostar24
      @aerostar24 Месяц назад +1

      I was there too 1982 and never forget it

  • @lihilihi5111
    @lihilihi5111 4 года назад +30

    This song was the opening of an Arabic program on Israeli television when I was a child. I discovered the original song only in my youth in the 90's when mtv (and cables in general) came to Israel 😁😁

    • @tzahibar7146
      @tzahibar7146 3 года назад +2

      גדולה!
      את זוכרת איזו תכנית??
      לא מוצא אפילו רמז

  • @petermagill3745
    @petermagill3745 Год назад +7

    80s best decade for music

  • @FedericaDN
    @FedericaDN 2 года назад +23

    Lyrics:
    Hey
    You keep me running round and round
    Well, that's alright with me
    Up and down, I'm up the wall
    I'm up the bloody tree
    That's alright with me
    Yeah, that's alright with me
    Well, it feels alright to me
    Yeah, it looks alright to me
    And I'm so tall, I'm so tall
    You raise me and then you let me fall
    And I'm so small, I'm so small
    Wrapped around your finger, see me fall
    You keep me running round and round
    Well, that's alright with me
    Nothing, nothing, nothing's gonna
    Step in my way
    Living on the ceiling
    No more room down there
    Things fall into place
    You get the joke, fall into place
    And I'm so tall, I'm so tall
    You raise me and then you let me fall
    And I'm so small, I'm so small
    Wrapped around your finger, see me fall
    Here we go
    You keep me running round and round
    Well, that's alright with me
    Up and down, I'm up the wall
    I'm up the bloody tree
    Hiding from your questions
    Questions you won't ask
    Why am I up the tree, you say
    Why are you down there, I say
    And I'm so tall, I'm so tall
    You raise me and then you let me fall
    And I'm so small, I'm so small
    Wrapped around your finger, see me fall
    Hey

  • @tammysack4097
    @tammysack4097 4 года назад +57

    One of the best songs to dance to.... I miss the 80s!

    • @thesenate5291
      @thesenate5291 4 года назад +2

      Cant belive this song is 38 years old...man I want to be there when the song was released so bad.

    • @trevorbishop3567
      @trevorbishop3567 3 года назад

      Miss them to the 80s

  • @jasminerahman8410
    @jasminerahman8410 3 года назад +90

    Love this song! Brings back happy memories from the 80's and school days! Nothing beats the 80's for entertainment. Classic and so unique!

    • @trevorbishop3567
      @trevorbishop3567 3 года назад +4

      Brilliant tune miss the 80s

    • @NEOGEO1966
      @NEOGEO1966 3 года назад +2

      Best music, 80s had such well engineered tracks.

  • @liquidgold40oz
    @liquidgold40oz 3 года назад +30

    I haven't heard this song since 83 . That's pretty much 40 yrs ..
    I completely had forgot about this group ....
    Now it's added on my Playlist.

    • @Paulie80
      @Paulie80 2 года назад +1

      China Crisis "Arizona Sky" Another lost gem.

    • @liquidgold40oz
      @liquidgold40oz 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@Paulie80Thank you.

  • @kevinmccarthy7762
    @kevinmccarthy7762 Год назад +30

    I bought Blancmange's album when it was still vinyl and this song is still relevant today as so many others think so too!❤🎉

    • @OlgaSmithSaysStuff
      @OlgaSmithSaysStuff 7 месяцев назад

      Do you still own the vinyl of it? Vinyl is back, baby, ask my Gen Z daughter.

  • @woggybot
    @woggybot Год назад +9

    only 2.6M views up to mid 2023? WTAF?! This song is awesome!!

    • @worldpeace666now
      @worldpeace666now 11 месяцев назад +2

      Even more awesome...hearing it back in 80's💖💖

  • @kimmitheengineer9291
    @kimmitheengineer9291 7 лет назад +399

    This song was a very cool 80s song. Glad someone went into the walls to find it and dust it off! It's been like 35 years since I last heard it!

    • @MarkSmith-er7fe
      @MarkSmith-er7fe 6 лет назад +15

      i wish we could go back 35 yrs mate

    • @PONKEYWAG
      @PONKEYWAG 6 лет назад +8

      lol everyone wants to go back in time when they hear these songs, I suppose in the 80s the older generation wanted to go back to the 60s ha ha Great song though

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 6 лет назад +5

      Blind Vision was a pretty good song as well. Very dramatic.

    • @johnwinner9102
      @johnwinner9102 6 лет назад +4

      Is there anyone from vice city stories?

    • @MarkSmith-er7fe
      @MarkSmith-er7fe 6 лет назад +10

      no-i want to go back to the 80s-------because the world was a better place---OK PAL---oh and music was better

  • @BoardroomBuddha
    @BoardroomBuddha Год назад +11

    Never was there a band that combined the best of the 80s New Wave music. Drum machines, samples of non-western music, chic costumes and a Duran Duran style video on location. Loved these guys.

  • @gaz9005
    @gaz9005 3 года назад +6

    NEW ROMANTICS AT IT BEST BRING ON THE 80s

  • @djbozeman2131
    @djbozeman2131 4 года назад +67

    NEVER get sick of this classic 80’s track! 💃 🎧

  • @davemash82
    @davemash82 5 лет назад +66

    Just seen Blancmange supporting The Human League in Hull. Really small venue (basically a car park with a stage). But I have to say it's the best gig I've ever been to. And everyone in the crowd singing along to this song. Blancmange were fantastic 🙂👍

    • @GGoAwayy
      @GGoAwayy 3 года назад +8

      Some bands just stay good. OMD is another from that era that also still feel to me like theyre at the top of their game.

    • @mxbx307
      @mxbx307 Год назад +1

      @@GGoAwayy Last time OMD were on tour they sold out my local venue (at the time - I've moved since) within about 18 hours. 1500 seat theatre in a crappy town that everyone loves to slag off.
      Other big acts like Texas, Status Quo, Travis, John Mayall, Mark Knopfler all came to town on other occasions. None of them got a full house. Even Jimmy Carr only managed about 80% or so.

    • @GGoAwayy
      @GGoAwayy Год назад

      @@mxbx307 I saw OMD a few years ago in Toronto when they opened for the B-52s. It was so weird because honestly, energy wise, OMD shouldve been the main act. They came out with so much energy and then the B-52s kind of seemed over it when they went on.

  • @bibiofficialmusic2204
    @bibiofficialmusic2204 3 года назад +62

    Great song! Not only the sound but also most of the 80s artists were such elegant dressers, and those haircuts, such great memories from school days!!!

  • @MalcolmDesigns
    @MalcolmDesigns Год назад +4

    Soooo GREAT! I remember dancing at The Jab, a club at Syracuse University and thursday night New Wave Night my freshman year in '82. I miss the eighties...

  • @markellis3036
    @markellis3036 Год назад +8

    I’m up tha’ bloody tree!

    • @douga3212
      @douga3212 Год назад +1

      That's what hooked me to the song when it first got released. They used Australia's most well known swear word. Bloody great song.

  • @Rickstartattooman
    @Rickstartattooman 5 лет назад +41

    Bloody hell man I was aged 17 back in 1982, and absolutely loved this song :)

    • @ACIDvICTIM
      @ACIDvICTIM 5 лет назад +3

      I was 4 and I liked it too -Love it now more than ever!

    • @markbell4345
      @markbell4345 5 лет назад +3

      i was hitting 20.....loved it too pal. proper stuff. Leeds

    • @mariadaugbjerg6141
      @mariadaugbjerg6141 4 года назад +3

      Me too :-) . I was 17 too in 1982.

    • @mirola73
      @mirola73 4 года назад +2

      Only 9 in 1982, discovered it later and love it to date......

    • @paulmckenzie7814
      @paulmckenzie7814 4 года назад +2

      I was 18 loved that tune then still do ,the 80s were the best times ever

  • @learnin10minutes
    @learnin10minutes 4 года назад +12

    Since 1982... I've listened to this song over 5000 times... likewise DM's get the balance right... fade to grey by visage... one small day by ultravox... kove like blood by killing joke... i will keep listening to them till i die...

    • @gaskellr44
      @gaskellr44 3 года назад

      Do you count every time you listen?

    • @royalnass1029
      @royalnass1029 3 года назад +2

      Ultravox is good too

  • @italiancat3786
    @italiancat3786 3 года назад +514

    This music sounds fit for wholesome yellow cat dancing

    • @ashkirby8896
      @ashkirby8896 3 года назад +9

      More like a formerly wholesome yellow cat trying to get over the trauma of another “not so much a dance”!😄😏😎

    • @haystackbill6187
      @haystackbill6187 3 года назад +4

      @@ashkirby8896 Do you not know how to type anything else?

    • @ashkirby8896
      @ashkirby8896 3 года назад +1

      @@haystackbill6187 Yes!😏😎

    • @S-fn3oe
      @S-fn3oe 3 года назад +2

      @@ashkirby8896 What do you mean not so much a dance? What else did the cat do but dance

    • @ashkirby8896
      @ashkirby8896 3 года назад +1

      @@S-fn3oe Fucking the heck out of the villager!😏😎 ruclips.net/video/Vg7ZKwA3lBM/видео.html

  • @BrightintheMoonlite
    @BrightintheMoonlite 9 дней назад

    1:36 that guy's reaction was PRICELESS

  • @philipdavidson8420
    @philipdavidson8420 Месяц назад

    Gotta love the whole "vibe" of this video - - the way they're dressed (the classic "foreigner in a strange Middle-Eastern country" jacket, cravat, pants and shoes), the sort of "old-school" boxy, rectangular suitcase, the Middle-Eastern musical undertones - - you can almost feel the heat and sweat, smell the spices in the air 😊

  • @andyj639
    @andyj639 9 месяцев назад +12

    One of my favourite 1980s records. Brilliant so far ahead of its time.

  • @siniorpeligro2468
    @siniorpeligro2468 3 года назад +202

    The first time i heard this song was in GTA Vice City Stories, then years later i heard it again with Ankha. Thank you Zone

    • @Lisbord
      @Lisbord 3 года назад +4

      same

    • @visas666
      @visas666 3 года назад +2

      same XD

    • @alessivo82
      @alessivo82 3 года назад +5

      you in fact I also gta vice city stories for Ps2 always listened to him in the game but only now after years I decided to look for this song on the tube, funny I didn’t think to find here another similar comment :-)

    • @andropolo16
      @andropolo16 2 года назад

      Ahhh, no wonder it seemed familiar to me, as if the PS2 came to mind

    • @TheKeeeks97
      @TheKeeeks97 24 дня назад +1

      FlashFM with Tony and Terry!

  • @paulboulter7823
    @paulboulter7823 4 года назад +8

    Still listening during Covid19.14 February 2021 👍👍

  • @lisaprince5767
    @lisaprince5767 Месяц назад

    The 80s was unique in that it combined musical styles you never thought would jam. But they did this and really made it fly.

  • @gearoidgalavan7483
    @gearoidgalavan7483 Год назад +5

    It was a banger then and still a banger now perfect combination of song snd video

  • @elizabethm2353
    @elizabethm2353 Год назад +5

    What a gem! I haven’t heard this since I was a sophomore in high school. And that was a loooooong time ago 😢

  • @tikmuzika
    @tikmuzika 7 месяцев назад +4

    Not so small in July 2024 ! Still huge , standing strong !!! Never fall !!!

  • @MelaniaSideWigga
    @MelaniaSideWigga 4 года назад +6

    Neil Arthur is one helluva character: From that voice to that lumbering frame, to those illuminated eyes, he just draws you in & then you're spinnin' & spazz-ing.

    • @patrickbrett1552
      @patrickbrett1552 4 года назад +3

      Lovely man. God bless him. Beautiful song.

  • @thetrickisirarelyrespond5945
    @thetrickisirarelyrespond5945 Год назад +2

    In my hazy recollection of the 80s, this song phases in and out of "You Spin Me Right Round" by Dead or Alive.

  • @lynnwilliams2554
    @lynnwilliams2554 9 месяцев назад +17

    2024 and still as fresh as it was.

  • @fatimapacheco268
    @fatimapacheco268 Год назад +7

    I heard this music as Iwas 16, today iam 57 and I still ❤❤❤ it

  • @lallamarebelde4829
    @lallamarebelde4829 3 года назад +225

    First gta vice city stories and now.... An Egyptian cat dancing.
    Yes, the years go by

    • @Lisbord
      @Lisbord 3 года назад +13

      I came here thanks to both. I discovered this song first in GTA VCS 3 years ago but never find out the name but after Zone's Ankha animation I get to know the band and the song name.

    • @timkirby2347
      @timkirby2347 3 года назад +2

      @Jasim Miah yeah same here lol

    • @JohnMkrv
      @JohnMkrv 3 года назад +1

      @@Lisbord Same

    • @HUNdebLeonidasX
      @HUNdebLeonidasX 2 года назад +1

      So thats why it sounded familiar. Barely played Gta vcs but somehow remembered that it has an egypt style music

    • @alessivo82
      @alessivo82 2 года назад

      also confirm for me the first time he listens to it in gta vice city, it is one of my favorite tracks that I always listened to and with real pleasure, I went to look for the title in the game booklet, I thank Rokstar for having marked all the tracks of the songs in sequence and listened to in the game😄

  • @markrich7171
    @markrich7171 5 лет назад +8

    The 80's. Still the greatest decade for music. unbelievable to think that finished nearly 30 YEARS AGO!

  • @SHEARMINATOR
    @SHEARMINATOR 2 года назад +2

    Definitely sums up the 80s. I was a child growing up and I bet the clubbing era was wicked! I'm more a 90s raver.

    • @MacStoker
      @MacStoker 2 года назад +1

      i started clubbing around 1984... to get a good dance club we went to gay clubs to listen to High energy/italo disco....
      most kids my age were ready for dancing coz we were into the breakdance craze happening at the time... each year got trippier and more hyper lol....
      i was 13 in 1984... i doubt kids that age get in clubs now ;-)

    • @SHEARMINATOR
      @SHEARMINATOR 2 года назад

      @@MacStoker you looked older your generation. I was only little but I followed electro breakdance stuff. In infant school we used to breakdance on mats lol. The rave scene started for me at 16 1992 lol. The kids now still throwing illegal parties

    • @SHEARMINATOR
      @SHEARMINATOR 2 года назад

      @TTFPouyi wicked yea and the kids are still throwing illegal parties.

  • @stephensmith3033
    @stephensmith3033 4 года назад +15

    This is one of my very few all time songs ever.

    • @apricott1907
      @apricott1907 4 года назад +2

      Good choice. What are your other all time songs?

    • @stephensmith3033
      @stephensmith3033 4 года назад +1

      Apri Cott harvest moon,b52s love shack meatloaf bat out of hell.

    • @cathsalazar9930
      @cathsalazar9930 4 года назад +1

      Dude u missin some awesome music so sad your lose😹🙀

    • @stephensmith3033
      @stephensmith3033 4 года назад +2

      cath salazar I’m still stuck in early 80s I’m afraid

    • @cathsalazar9930
      @cathsalazar9930 4 года назад +3

      Stephen Smith so am I dude so I go & went to a better time when life was so much better stay strong dude thanks for reaching out to an 80’s chick forever ❤️ & ☮️ I’m a young at heart aged 71 ❤️👍😻☮️🔥😹🙀🇺🇸

  • @codzy3532
    @codzy3532 2 года назад +8

    showed my dad this vid..........he said cool love how they mix cultural music to their music great classic too

  • @sandrawright2892
    @sandrawright2892 3 года назад +7

    Masterpiece 🎶 I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG. ONE OF THE BEST FROM THE 80'S. IT'S BETTER THAN THE RUBBISH TODAY.

  • @EnidAgnusDei
    @EnidAgnusDei 2 года назад +3

    Rather addicted to this I have to say!

  • @MrJdp1968
    @MrJdp1968 4 года назад +34

    One of the best 80’s songs 👌🏻

  • @my2cents395
    @my2cents395 4 года назад +7

    Saved to my 80's play list.

    • @MacStoker
      @MacStoker 4 года назад

      ruclips.net/p/PLqVgaKsN3icPZY599Mt_xNPfbb3H5mXWQ
      thats a good 80's list you might need to check out mate

  • @carolinejanneh2877
    @carolinejanneh2877 7 месяцев назад +4

    One word for this song fantastic still love this song in my 50s

  • @Tmetrvlr
    @Tmetrvlr 6 лет назад +73

    Damn good, Love that British music....

  • @jalexgonzalez76
    @jalexgonzalez76 2 года назад +1

    An Egyptian dancing cat referred me to the original version...
    Pure magic from the Middle East gentlemen!! We have a gem buried in the sands almost 40 years after its release.

  • @DaveLloyd-b1l
    @DaveLloyd-b1l 18 дней назад +1

    Fantastic

  • @simonpearn479
    @simonpearn479 5 лет назад +82

    Fabulous-listening to this in October 2019!

  • @smashism
    @smashism Год назад +9

    Blancmange to video production company: "Give us the Duran Duran"

    • @OlgaSmithSaysStuff
      @OlgaSmithSaysStuff 7 месяцев назад

      As a Duran Duran fan back then as well as a fan of this song...lol 🙂

  • @Deedee-ee1sg
    @Deedee-ee1sg 4 года назад +43

    Extraordinary song, and wonderful sound.

  • @freyml
    @freyml 4 года назад +10

    This is one of a handful of songs that I remember exactly where I was when I first heard it!

  • @francebanville3060
    @francebanville3060 8 дней назад

    Que de souvenirs des clubs des années 80 à Montréal. J'adore cette toune!

  • @bleish.
    @bleish. 4 года назад +7

    This and blind vision are my 2 favorite blancmange tracks.

    • @toothlessthemega838
      @toothlessthemega838 3 года назад +1

      Agree!plus.....Gods kitchen, The day before you came,

    • @bleish.
      @bleish. 23 дня назад +1

      ​@@toothlessthemega838yes and "don't tell me" too.

  • @debra1232
    @debra1232 2 года назад +7

    I'm back in love with this again... Hadn't heard it in over thirty-years but it's gripped me again... So blessed to have turned 17 in 1980. 🌋♥

  • @neonpixiee518
    @neonpixiee518 Год назад +8

    My parents gave me the best music taste ever, the 80’s will always be superior!! So happy I got to experience this genre at such a young age

  • @sportskacentrala
    @sportskacentrala 3 месяца назад +1

    What an 80s sound, gold!

  • @shiruotakuno28
    @shiruotakuno28 3 года назад +416

    Zone-sama's got great taste in music. How many more bangers is she gonna single-handedly bring back from the dead?

    • @PrixtoTNT
      @PrixtoTNT 3 года назад +19

      *she

    • @赴大家惡化不得好死時
      @赴大家惡化不得好死時 3 года назад +8

      @@PrixtoTNT >she

    • @TatsukiHashida
      @TatsukiHashida 3 года назад +6

      @@PrixtoTNT SHE?

    • @PrixtoTNT
      @PrixtoTNT 3 года назад +1

      @@TatsukiHashida Indeed

    • @callmewhatever.7963
      @callmewhatever.7963 3 года назад +6

      @@PrixtoTNT So just to be completely clear, they are in fact a she? Honestly I never cared enough to try and find out but was curious about it. I always see them referred to as both he and she.

  • @jabah126
    @jabah126 3 года назад +5

    Filmed in Cairo, looks like. I lived there for a year, exciting place

  • @lifeline667
    @lifeline667 4 года назад +8

    I love the Indian Influences, great song, one of the best 5 Dance-Songs of the 80ties....absolutly one of the underrated songs of one of the most underrated bands!!!

    • @thesexyskywalker3283
      @thesexyskywalker3283 2 года назад +2

      *Arab influence

    • @lifeline667
      @lifeline667 2 года назад +1

      @@thesexyskywalker3283 My Wife is arabic, she said its Indian 🙃.....maybe its both 😊

  • @joshthetree
    @joshthetree 5 месяцев назад +3

    I still throw my 80s dancefloor shapes to this

  • @Paul-ry5rf
    @Paul-ry5rf 7 месяцев назад +2

    1st song i ever played on my sony walkman seems like yesterday.
    This band did some great songs.

    • @joaquindominguez1526
      @joaquindominguez1526 5 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly, my favourites are "Feel Me" "Kind" and "That's Love That It Is". They we're a great band.

  • @robertk6640
    @robertk6640 8 месяцев назад +3

    Why couldn’t this song sound as good back then as it So delicious to my ears now in 2024.

  • @tlcmc6451
    @tlcmc6451 Год назад +9

    Brilliant! This packed the floor in the New Wave clubs back in the day. Great times! Never stop dancing!

  • @biggixer
    @biggixer 4 года назад +17

    I think it’s one of the best intros to a tune.

  • @funsp
    @funsp 6 лет назад +73

    You keep me running round and round,
    Well that's alright with me,
    Up and down, I'm up the wall,
    I'm up the bloody tree.
    That's alright with me,
    Yeah, that's alright with me,
    Well, it feels alight to me,
    Yeah, it looks alright to me.
    And, I'm so tall, I'm so tall,
    You raise me and then you let me fall.
    And I'm so small, I'm so small,
    Wrap me round your finger, seen before.
    Here we go
    You keep me running round and round,
    Well that's alright with me,
    Nothing, nothing, nothing's gonna
    Step in my way.
    Living on the ceiling,
    No more room down there.
    Things fall into place,
    You got the joke, fall into place.
    Well I'm so tall, I'm so tall,
    You raise me and then you let me fall.
    And I'm so small, I'm so small,
    Wrap me round your finger, seen before.
    You keep me running round and round,
    Well that's alright with me,
    Up and down, I'm up the wall,
    I'm up the bloody tree.
    Hiding from your questions,
    Questions you won't ask.
    "Why am I up the tree" you say,
    "Why are you down there" I'm saying.
    Well I'm so tall, I'm so tall,
    You raise me and then you let me fall.
    And I'm so small, I'm so small,
    Wrap me round your finger, seen before.

  • @GloryOfBarbelo
    @GloryOfBarbelo Год назад +3

    Legendary tune

  • @andrewwatson5509
    @andrewwatson5509 2 месяца назад +2

    One of my favourite singles of all time. Brilliant and redolent of starting my degree at Polytechnic when all things seemed possible. Fantastic and so original

  • @marciajenkins7831
    @marciajenkins7831 4 года назад +11

    Good memories with my mum singing and dancing.

  • @TheAxelay
    @TheAxelay 6 лет назад +4

    You just don't get this kind of originality and music these days?!! So way ahead of it's time!! It's like a story!! Timeless even now.

    • @dirkvandermerwe6027
      @dirkvandermerwe6027 3 года назад +1

      It's one of the top new wave tracks of the century ...

    • @TheAxelay
      @TheAxelay 3 года назад

      @@dirkvandermerwe6027 Exactly! Epic stuff.

  • @ivanazepeda4289
    @ivanazepeda4289 6 лет назад +98

    Still holds up today

  • @garyandrewranford
    @garyandrewranford 9 месяцев назад +2

    Btw...
    Blancmange (Neil Arthur) still do live concerts.
    Saw them in Colchester Arts Centre a couple of years ago, and they were impressive 😊❤😊

  • @davidhookway1451
    @davidhookway1451 3 года назад +2

    Used to love dancing to this at the Reaktor Club in the early 80s in Oshawa!

  • @almoniousor3112
    @almoniousor3112 4 года назад +38

    01:30 hair dresser scene is hilarious.
    subtext: "this is ridiculous!"
    (sings into his face) "yeah man, I know!"

    • @stephanewantiez164
      @stephanewantiez164 4 года назад +11

      people in Cairo must have thought they were crazy :D

    • @Drexxaal
      @Drexxaal 4 года назад +10

      Thank u so much 4 pinning that! I laughed when I saw it! But I think the barber was mystified n delighted by this nutcase in his chair! Also that amazing jump right after, perfect! Thank u!

  • @kingelvis1977d
    @kingelvis1977d 4 года назад +19

    Always loved this song always will ( 38 years ,wow ! ) . How cool was Neil Arthur

  • @tacoplatter4294
    @tacoplatter4294 4 года назад +23

    This was the coolest most amazing song when this came out and we had so little access to it in the U.S. So much amazing. So grateful to having lived through this.

  • @Nihilsus
    @Nihilsus 3 года назад +3

    Living On The Ceiling was released on Happy Families in 1982. Camel by Camel was released three years later in 1985.

  • @jackschreuders9122
    @jackschreuders9122 5 месяцев назад +2

    Nog steeds........heerlijk!!!

  • @shanefitzpatrick5811
    @shanefitzpatrick5811 4 года назад +11

    Still in school when this was released l was about 17. Absolutely loved it and still do. Even the guy's who weren't into the new romantics loved it.