The Farm - Groovy Train (Official HD Video)
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2016
- You are watching the official HD video of Groovy Train by The Farm
The first single from their number 1 UK debut album Spartacus, Groovy Train reached no. 6 in the UK chart in September at the end of the long hot summer of 1990. Its infectious indie-dance groove chimed perfectly with the times and led to 2 Top Of The Pops performances and a live appearance on the brand new Youth TV explosion that was Channel 4’s The Word. The video features a cameo appearance by Bill Dean AKA Harry Cross from the British soap opera Brookside (set in the Farm’s home city of Liverpool).
The video has been remastered to HD to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Spartacus . This milestone is also marked with a new expanded digital version of the album entitled "Spartacus 30".
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Lyrics:
I saw you walking down our street
Well you looked quite neat
Baggy jeans and long blond hair
Without a care in the world
What happened to the attitude you used to have at school
What happened to the attitude when you broke all the rules
I saw you just the other week
But we did not speak
You turned your back and flicked your hair
As if you did not care
Well I don't care where you come from
I don't give a damn
Well I don't care where you come from
It's all a sham
You're so special
You're so special
She sings
Get on, get on, get on, get on 'the groovy train'
Get on, get on, get on, get on 'the groovy train'
Get on, get on, get on, get on 'the groovy train'
Get on, get on, get on, get on 'the groovy train'
#TheFarm #GroovyTrain #Spartacus30 
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Brilliant tune... Like many have said those truly were the days... Going into the 90s as a teen life really was different no social media and no mobile phones.. Sega mega drives.. Fiesta xr2s...escort cosworths😍.. mk2 golf gtis... Renault 5 turbos...Cool clothes... Dance music kicking off proper.. .. Great festivals n raves... N lots of good nyt clubs... . Everyone on the e, s made for some friendly loving and the best nights out ever... Every generation will say there era was the best but the 90s truly were... Techonology was good just advanced enough... We're too far now.. Anyone who was there will understand... ✌️
So true.
I was trying to copy this and pass on to a friend born in the 90s
You are talking my language - breath of fresh air to read. Thank you!
@@LIVERNIL723 Thank you my friend👍
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God bless 1989-1991. May the memories never die. We had something really special that this generation will never have (too busy heads down worshipping their master, the mobile phone). THIS is what humankind was capable of before our enslavement by technology. shout out to the kids of 1989-1991.
great comment. Kaczynski was right!
Too Right
There May be something like it come around again ?
You said it
Yep - so true. A special time, it was in the air, it was amazing.Our revolution.
I was 24 and ye life was fabulous
I’m now 54 and boy has the world changed!!!
Back when music was good and life was uncomplicated and care free
The farm, happy mondays, stone roses,shamen... those were the days, never bored, no depresion, ppl enjoying life...
Sadly true bro. But nobody can take from us the great memories, them we can relive and cherish forever, till the grave and beyond.
soup dragons classic
@@garyturley2435 ya this band like not there for them, fake manchester band for me
All of the above when I wanted to "dance". When I wanted to spaz out??! 'Faith No More'!!!
@@ichhasseamerika 00000ππ000ο
Love this song, summer of 1990. 17yrs old, life was great.
Same here. I turned 17 on the 15th of May 1990. I'll be forty fucking five next Tuesday. Where did all the time go?
Same... 17 on April 1 1990. I didn't get into the song (over here in the States) until about a year or two later I think, but still love it.
@@frankboothsedated.7054 .... God knows better
I was 17 5th of June... was right into the indie scene and the raves then.. even wore a pair of flares and a sun hat...😎😎😎
I was 11 years old but I loved it and still love it to this day
That guitar riff is still one of the best ever on any song.
It sure does !
Coupled with her voice…! Goosebumps every time 😄
I feel exactly the same about the riff . ❤
What about that guitar riff from toes across the floor, Blind Melon?
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The Farm, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Charlatans and 808 State created something that the bands of today will never create...originality
You’re so special
I don't think they are allowed to anymore. The artists freedom to write and perform has been massively restricted due to the manufactured pop culture we have today sadly. Luckily we were there to enjoy it.
Agreed 100% and you just can't beat the 90s !
Mock turtles?
MV 120 minutes. Loved seeing all the Brit bands during the "2nd Brit Invasion".
Ahh the memories! 🤩
Who else here misses the 1990's like an old friend?
Exactly....I was 13 in 1990 and that was the start of my wicked journey. I feel sorry for today's youth
@@joebloggs2857 so true. Love your profile pic btw
F' yeah, loved those days so much!
I, the final 80's and 90's. Today ... sucks !
Best years ever.
Young generation don't know what they missed.
One of those songs that you always recall no matter how many years might have passed.
One of the best tunes ever it just encapsulated everything that was happening at that time in British culture raves,festivals,football,the casual scene and of course the music.I was so lucky to being growing up in that period.If I had a time machine would I go back?Of course I would I don't envy the youth of today in fact I pity them.
@mikedoesseo isnt meghan and harry canadas problem now😉
@Hartley Hare LOL ;-)
@mikedoesseo happy mondays, the who, the jam, the sex pistols, the clash, oasis, stone roses
james, inspiral carets
I met Peter Hooton on holiday the summer before this. Obviously I didn't know him but him and his mates were brilliant. Sat round the pool talking about music, football, clothes one day was such an education. When it comes to training shoes this fella knows it all. He's an absolute encyclopedia of Adidas trainers and a really lovely guy.
Harry Cross plays a mean stick of rock. He's like the Brookside Bez
Su fucking perb!!!1990.What a fucking year.Roses Mondays,The Charlatans,The Farm.Great World Cup,New Order,World In Motion,what a classic tune.Jesus,wish I was back there now,no social media,heaven!!!
Met these guys back in the 90s. I was on a night out in Merseyside and bumped into these guys in a pub. Had a great laugh with them. We were all dancing just having fun. Great bunch of lads. Those were the days 😊
Timeless this song still sounds so fresh
Wish I could ride the groovy train right out of this musical ice age we're living in.
One of the most memorable, high energy, amazing songs of my life. “Groovy Train” was the perfect “vibe” for the time!
and now
It only reached #41 in the USA but it ended up being my favorite song of the year. Still got my vinyl 45 of this great song. A great feel good song. This didn't reach USA shores until the late summer of 1991.
30 years already. Where does time go????
Ya I think first heard this when I was 10 back in 93
I was surprised it didn't go higher in the US too. Many less memorable songs kept it out of the top 40. So it's good to see the band did well in the UK. I'm glad there's youtube so we can go through their whole works.
This is why the 80s and 90s were great...music songs made then will never b done again
I was 16 when this came out! Why oh why can't I go back?!
Such a beautiful tease of a song. It takes over half the song before the first chorus. All carried by perfect pop instrumentation, crunchy sounds, and great vocal complements. Groovy Train should be shown by the NHS to depressed people -this is what fun feels like on a daft sunny day. Try to have that more often.
What an excellent review, you have really captured the song and it's wonderful, sunny vibe - even after all these years.
Aw thank you Adam. I always think even The Stone Roses, Mancunians/ Cheshire lads, were inspired by Liverpool, what with Mersey Paradise and Spike Island. I hope you're going to see The Stone Roses this year. I'd be interested to know whcih bands you've seen live or are interested in. I really do think, even for that era, Groovy Train was very special. It's a bit like Happy Mondays Kinky Afro - some quirky poetic brilliance.
Cheers mate. Yeah the visuals of the video also remind me of Step On. It was a bright, song with a great hook. I also loved Altogether Now, particularly the theme of the song, which was interesting. Liverpool has always been wonderful for music of course, and I loved how the city synced with Manchester and that part of England around the late 80s, until Brit pop over ran everything. I was a big fan (from a slightly early period) of the Bunnymen, New Order, the Fall and the Smiths, and I saw them all in their pomp - in Belfast, where I'm from. Next up for me in a few weeks is Kraftwerk. Quality is Quality! But I do think I'd swap anything for a time machine and a trip to the Hacienda, 1982, or maybe 1990.
Did you change name, Stephen? I seemed to have called you Adam. New Order's Blue Monday was epic- they took this imperialistic Teutonic-like (maybe partly Kraftwerk) inspired sound, and it seemed to chime with the Industrial Revolution and apocalyptic 1980s de-industrialisation of UK cities. I like The Smiths too - I always think if someone likes The Smiths there must be at least a few Stone Roses songs they like or can like and vice versa. I guess you might have seen Kraftwerk at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool in June last year, looking at their schedule. I'd just like to mention Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2 from 1992 (plus practically all 80s music) as a big favourite of mine too - it's a much more robust, melodic , new age album, than the straight forward folk of the original.
Great comment brother
No words can say how much this song rocked my 20's (1994) at the time. Thank you Farm!
Same here bud 20's (1994)
1991
Harry Cross in a farm video, the stuff of legends.
Top character, top band, mega tune.
All these years later it still makes me smile.
Brookside was legendary. My grandfather knew Bill Dean who played Harry Cross tangentially as he was a club act too if I recall correctly. By all accounts a nice person.
@@eightiesmusic1984 brilliant.
@@garethjones6566 You're not Gareth Jones the TV presenter and associate of The Alarm by any chance? Just a guess, probably wrong.
@@eightiesmusic1984 i get that a lot, but Gaz top is my leader. He is the one...
@@garethjones6566 I thought Mike Peters was the leader and everyone else was one of his followers. Or at least the 30 people who bought Rain In The Summer Time in 1986!
"You're so special, oh so special". Know a few people like that..
This is one of those songs that's ageing really well, I remember hearing it often back in the day. Proper feel good gig if your not smiling check your pulse there's something wrong with you 😊😉☀️
The end of the 80's/ start of the 90's was a special time... We were still buzzing from the 2nd Summer of Love, E was strong, the mood was up, healthy change and positive revolution seemed possible, and the music was strong. Even pop train jumpers like the Farm were putting out fun danceable stuff. Love honestly did seem like a solution.
What a shame when we look at now... The 10's have been awful. Negative, authoritarian, lecturing, and vindictive. The kids have no decent drug to call their own, no notable music movement, and no new youth culture at all but identity politics that have rebuilt all the walls we as teenagers wanted to break down.
I am glad I lived my young years back when the sun was shining. One love
Final Remains You're right on the identity politics front, it's creating a more tribal mindset while dividing people. That's one of the reasons why there's no musical movement that the kids can call their own. Drill music is nihilistic and vengeful, filled with venom. It really does reflect what the identity politics idiots on the intersectional left and the white right are thinking: us versus them. I'm an indie kid who was too young for the Second Summer of Love, but I wonder if it was just a sham as Hollow as Jarvis Cocker said in "Sorted For Es and Whizz".
I wouldn't be surprised if someone said that the Second Summer of Love was just an establishment con game to crack down on the youth and divert them into hedonism to create a generation of addicts enslaved to harder drugs. I bet someone has.
This is the realist comment I've ever read on RUclips.
RIGHT ON !! 80's 90's maybe the,,,,
What an astonishing comment. SPOT ON!
When your young you just crack on with it no time to think so deeply your comment is in hindsight
Brings back memories. Best decade ever in my opinion .
Yep but nobody cares Your opinión 🙄🙄
This is a great pop track that I managed to record off the FM radio in Waco, Texas back in 1990 and listed to it a ton. Getting to hear it again makes for a very nice reunion ... still love it and it makes me happy to hear it!
Living in New York back in the day I literally wore the tape out of this phenomenal song. Phenomenal album.
Ahhhh, happy days. 1990 and I was seeing a girl who was the love of my life. It didn't work out but this and a few other tracks remind of a special time. Awesome tune.
The 90's music, one last hoorah before the 2000's and beyond which is utter crap, I'm so glad I got to live in the 90's
I lived through mid 70s
Music died after 2 thousand n 6 ....
So True
Top tune wicked year for indie music stone roses Happy Mondays the list goes on 🙌🙌
Jay Mansbridge new charlatans out this year...
The good old days 😀
Top man! I agree👍
I loved this song back in the early 90's. I bought this single on a cassette tape. Damn!!! A cassette tape.
Adidas Gazelles, Puma Dallas, Stan smiths, Duffer, Chevignon, Chipie,Chambers, Jet jeans, Simpson jeans, By Basi , Monday’s Roses, Farm Charlatans, La’s and old Skool Rave, those were definitely the days just beautiful ✌️
Chevignon! Hells bells I’d forgotten about Chevignon gear.. we also wore Red Fila walking boots over in Leeds at Rickys, KAOS and the warehouse 😎 happy days
Grew up happy on a farm. Left at 14 to explore life . After a bit of world travelling here I find myself owning 2 acres of farm land raising my two kids . We travel to come back to the beginning to know it for the first time
Perhaps your mind is a little too broadened by travel. This is a music video.
Was in Southport with my kids and saw them filming the vid. Few cases of Stella there too.
Will always love this song, so many memories wrapped around it.
Wasn't these just happy and carefree times?
Great dad dancing from Harry Cross, especially at 3.15
Haha old Harry from brookside
Wow! Those days...
They really don't make great music like this anymore.
they do mate - they just don't get a look in or dont look right for the camera :-(
2nd that
Thank fuck.
This is lightyears ahead of most music today lol
God I miss the 90s
This track made me go and buy the CD and the whole thing was special including the bonus tracks. Spartacus, pills thrills and belly aches, Talk Talk The remixes and ofcourse The La's ( I am a scoucer ) where the party albums of 91
"Get on get on get on get on get on get on ....." 👌👌✅Love it
Who wants want to come back with me to the Summer of 1990?
I'm up for it when I turned 13
Me
What a tune this is takes me back to madchester nights at the cockpit Leeds
Man I forgot what a tune this is! Get in there!
This is a very chill song and I love that time in history.
Man this song brings me so many great memories! I still have this album! In cassette!!✌😎👍
This is pure musicjoy🤟
Well it's a classic. Me and my buddy from high school really appreciated this song during long nights of mountain dew laden road trips.
Cracking tune.... Shame when it was out in the charts back in the early 90's I didn't appreciate it....
I'm 39 still remember this banger as a 10 year old
Banging tune, I was 22 in 1990, I only cared about getting smashed every weekend, Britain was brilliant then, what we got now? Ed Sheehan and Stormzy? Shower of shite
Bang on
ye same
Same here! Born 68. 1990 was a blow out. Great music. Nice summer.world cup fever.
@@number9scores spent summer in ibiza. ye great world cup. happy days.
Yep born in 68. 88-93 was so cool.
Always loved this tune but seeing the video to it has brought back so many great memories how me and my mates was back then. Care free and always looked the part... “you’re so Spezial” 😉.
Music evolved immensely in those short few years...Respect peace and love
Love this song, just fantastic.
Loved this and All Together Now back in the day
One of my favs of all time 🇬🇧
Great tune. First time hearing it and im 63. Go figure.
Thank you for being so special. Song never goes out of style love listening to it in my car or going on holiday
Take me back to when I first heard this and leave me there, no misgivings
i wish i could beam myself back to this time and never ever come back to now.
We're going to need feel good tunes like this 30 years on after the virus is done.
Back when music was pure and genuine, and life was just better
Used to blast out this album (cassette) in our block (army) in the early 90's, great memories of The GH's
block tunes! hated most of them but you tend to have no choice as someone would always be playing them!
2024 still seeking this out...great track :)
Forgotten how good this tune is, the video captures these merry scouse chancers in all their feel good glory! I was 22 in the summer of 1990 and my whole life was ahead of me, where the fuck did those years go?
Best song the happy Mondays never made
They look like a bunch of lads from down the pub...I love it!
They WERE "a bunch of lads from down the pub"
@@alifragisnick71176 the were a bunch of lads from the farm....canny farm
Been looking for this song for ages. It's always in rotation on VintageTV! Shame I couldn't have been there in 1990. Only four years out. What a tune.. 😎
Absolutely superb
20 in 1990 still playing all theses tracks ..50 last wknd ... still 20 pmsl ...love it !!,
Just seen the Farm recently in Sunderland, still amazing.
Paul Richards did you meet Ebenezer Goode?? 😲🙃
This tune had some bollocks. 😎👍
Up to Goodison with Chelsea in 89 or something, 2-0 down and Dixon hammers in a couple...now THAT was groovy.
Happy weekend
True talent shines through every time!
1991 was amazing!!!!
I agree 1991 was great year but this was 1990
Love that. Seeing Harry Cross living his best life
The keyboard intro of this song sends me to the space !!
I was 28 in 1990. Loved 90's music, still do.
I was 27 starting a job as a bank teller, many happy memories. 😊
this just rocks on so many levels.. minature trians.. Harry Cross.. .oh and the song
A golden age of music, film,art, sport, comedy and dance. 😎♥️
Was a student of 120 Minutes. Such brilliant music then The Sundays, My Bloody Valentine, Joy ÷, then the punk stuff. Ska. So many genres. Fun to reflect on sounds & the times they got me thru. This is pop cheese from the UK, but so was my bestest then, @ age 12, she was with accent & a house on an island in Ft Myers & we danced to KLF & Jesus Jones & EMF like we'd stay teens always
90s banger
Good old times, brillant tune!
the vibe comming from Manchester....
I remember going to see them live in Manchester .Don't know how but I woke up in McDonald's in Preston 2 days later !
Crazy days without a care in the world !
This brings back wonderful memories of various substances and great times dancing all night long :)
Fantastic song, brings back great memories, so get on that groovy train. 😎
Forgot all about this gem
Only just realised Bill Dean (Harry Cross from Brookside) in the video.
Why did it happen ? Why did it end ? We thought it would go on forever. The endless summer. Now its endless winter. :( Still twas good
It ended when people of the same generation see that there was more money in sadness than happy ecstasy. And now after this corona virus lockdown it will be business as usual with banks and big pharma taking all our money and the system supports it. Endless winter is a great term and what we live now.
KENKENNIFF
Late 80's into early 90's was like a repeat of the 60's hippy culture mate. It's the way the world works, nothing lasts forever unfortunately.
It lasted from what, 1988 to 1992 or 1993. That's around five years. After that the limitations of ecstasy had become apparent. The commercialization of the culture and also organised crime and violence played a part.
I whole heartedly concur -
The second coming of the British invasion. Loved this stuff....still do.
Omg a favorite
1991! Catchy song, good lyrics, good members
i turned 18 jan 1990 remember this song was really big when i started my first week at university, cant believe its nearly 30 years ago
J B How are you finding being 48?
oh! so special! even then, i was like, 'oh! i totally have never heard that beat, those riffs, and just those words, all together like that-i like it!'
I like listening to this when I go to my model railway club.
Go on Harry Cross