I always felt an emotional connection to this song. It is disguised as a song, but it is a tender, romantic, longing ode to yesterday seeking a hopeful tomorrow. The words meet the melody wonderfully, half tones for incomplete sequences of life. It grabs you by the guts and punches in the heart. So we'll done, too profound to be number one on the charts, too true to be ever forgotten... Thank you Mr. Horn, in this piece you are all of usTrevor. Forever.
You are so right with this. I have also a very deep connection with you song. It moves me in a way that I can’t describe. I have loved this beautiful piece of music from the the day I bought Adventures in Modern Recordings, right back in the day when I was a teen. God bless you Mr Horn…
62 years old now but this song has haunted me for many,many years,it stirs up emotions, life challenges,pivotal moments and the times I held my girlfriends hand and danced around together giggling and felling wrapped in the lyrics.
Ahhhh...this song. Thinking of Yes, Drama and days gone by. I will love all versions of this song until i drop. Adventures in Modern Recording is a great album.
@@marxter6 If I'm honest I like the Buggles version a bit more but both are enjoyable and timeless. The Yes version adds an extra line or two to the lyrics and the arrangement is a lot more bombastic but is otherwise similar. I think Adventures in Modern Recording is a very underrated album. It's high up on the list of my all time favourite records. Another gem is the song Fly From Here which ended up unused both on the Drama and the Adventures album. I like that one a lot. Years later it got official releases both in its original demo form and as a finished arrangement with Yes.
In hindsight this feels like a prelude to one of Trevor Horn's biggest hallmarks as a producer: making different versions of the same song that end up being radically different from one another while still playing into their biggest strengths.
The Buggles had broken their contract with Island Records to join Yes, then when Yes broke up, the Buggles went in to start recording this album. However, Downes left on the first day, citing musical differences and also getting the backing of Island to go form Asia with Steve Howe, John Wetton and Carl Palmer. Island had not extended the same interest to Trevor Horn, deeming him "washed up". Trevor's wife Jill Sinclair arranged for the second album to be financially backed by French record executive Claude Carrere. However, Carrere was not a major record label so distribution faltered.
Sadly, The Buggles disbanded by this point. Geoff Downes (who doesn't appear at all in the video) had already joined the supergroup Asia (w/John Wetton, Steve Howe, and Carl Palmer).
This was one of the first (and best) albums that ushered in the era of synthpop. Not much before Buggles except for Kraftwerk. The first Buggles album came out in late 1979, which is extraordinary when you hear it now, and AIMR is yet another leap forward.
...and such an imaginative video. Director: Here is what l see: your album has a pair of glasses on the cover. So my concept is to stay with that theme. The glasses are the hook for the audience. They are morons. If you show them an odd-looking pair of glasses for 3 minutes, they will buy your album. Trevor Horn: l don't know...did you listen to the song, or the lyrics? Kind of means a lot to me. I personally think it is a great song. It will last beyond this weird video fad. Director: It's great that you think that. Put your fucking glasses on. And ...scene.
Noch heute,ein supertoller Song,den ich mit Wehmut und mit Blick auf ,eine leider schon vergangene Jugend Blicke.Ja,damals ,Trevor Horn,voll in seiner Jugend stehend und tolle Songs mit seiner Gruppe the Buggles heraus gebracht. Aber heute ,er innerlich jung geblieben singt hoffentlich noch lange weiter😊
Yeah the whole first album was really good- this mood/groove defined the sound. I really recommend a full listen of it. I had it before they were injected into Yes (I love Drama, btw) and when they redid it, I had the same feeling. Super punchy on the remake- both excellent.
@@mightyV444 ah yes, of course you are correct. I'm not sure where my brain broke that day, but broke it did. And Adventures in Modern Recording is as rare as hen's teeth. I had it decades ago, but it's long gone, and out of print I see. I guess I need to chase down the used CD or vinyl.
@@kevbob - I wish you best of luck for that search! 😊👍 I hadn't even known of a second album before I came across this version of the Yes song only fairly recently!😀 I had found the 'Plastic Age' CD in a discount bin during a Netherlands trip in 2002; Before that, I'd only known their 'Video Killed...' and 'Clean, Clean' - but the rest of the album then actually underwhelmed me (except for 'Elstree'), so I gave the CD to a good friend of mine for his birthday, and he then liked it a lot! 😄 I'll have to listen to it again, though; I may have 'different ears' now!
@@kevbob - I just listened to 'Adventures in Modern Recording' here on YT and like it a lot! 😀👍 I was surprised by things like Trevor's vocals totally sounding like Jon Anderson's in 'Lenny' - Probably a result of his stint in Yes 😊 I also listened to 'The Age Of Plastic' again tonight (20 years after the latest listen) and actually quite liked it, too! 😀 The second album definitely is a big step up from it, though! Cheers, V. 🙂
What a brilliant piece of music & art wow never thought i would see this again only saw it once back when MTv first started in the 1980's they were way ahead of there time always liked them with YES
Cada versión en su estilo por lo que digo que uno sea mejor que el otro!!! Simplemente voy a opinar que me encantan los dos. Tanto ésta como la de YES. Son hermosas versiones!!! Uno syntho-pop, y el otro rock bien progresivo!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Cet homme à la voix déterminée, distincte, au regard perçant, un médium perfectionniste en 1980, qui m a tant marquée adolescente de 11 ans pour la vie...avec ses visions sur l accélération exponentielle des technologies avant l an 2000. Oui en 2023, il doit voir, désabusé que les appareils photos sont des miniatures déformant en améliorant cette réalité sordide...je traduisais ses paroles abasourdie tel dans un film de science fiction puis apprenais par cœur les paroles du premier album... Il s'est tapi dans l ombre pour produire autrui...si fragile 😮 peut-être mais un homme intègre et fidèle. Un maître à penser précurseur en électronique 📧. Je l'aime ❤
Arguably, the production of this is better than the Drama version, and yeah, it's certainly different . . . Better or worse is subjective, but I prefer the harder sound of the Yes track
Wow, just wow! Like many, I'd heard only Yes Drama album version until now. This is beautiful❤! And yes, INNOVATIVE! Masterpiece. I particularly love lush synth and tasteful use of drum machines. And bass playing is so efficient and effective! Reference: Yes "Into the lens". ruclips.net/video/qXhYsMEjsZ8/видео.htmlsi=mm6AcPcHY-eYMp3s
Lyrics😎 Memories, how they fade so fast Look back, there is no escape Tied down, now you see too late Lovers, they will never wait I am a camera (Oh, oh, oh, oh) I am a camera (Oh, oh, oh, oh) Take heart, I will never let you go If you wanna let your feelings show Lovers all, how they never broke your heart You lose them if the feeling starts I am a camera (I am a camera) Camera, camera I am a camera (I am a camera) Camera, camera Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh oh There, by the waterside Here, where the lens is wide You and me, by the sea Take heart, I will never let you go If you wanna let your feelings show Lovers all, how they never broke your heart You lose them when the feeling starts I am a camera, I am a camera (I am, I am, a camera) I am a camera, I am a camera (I am, I am) A camera, camera, camera, camera (I am, I am) A camera There by the waterside Here where the lens is wide You and me by the sea
The song is from the second Buggles album, Adventures in Modern Recording. The album was mostly a Trevor Horn solo project (Downes left for Asia after the Drama concert tour). Three of the tracks were leftovers from previous Geoff Downes work, this song, Beatnik, and Lenny. The rest were Trevor Horn and Simon Darlow for the most part. Downes was credited as keyboards for those three tracks though.
I noticed, this is from 2 vhs bands fromayard sale and the first uploaded on youtube (for stabilization). I have gone frame by frame since the video was shaking alot for some reason. Still trying to find a even better copy but no succes for now.
Not to be the party pooper right here but, this song belongs to Trevor Horn Indeed, however it was first released as "Into the Lens" when Trevor and Geoff Downes entered "Yes" in 1978 to replace Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman. Later in 1981 Trevor reworked the song for "Adventures in Modern Recording" for the second album of The Buggles. Technically not the original, but still a great piece from the wonderful Trevor Horn, excellent producer!!!
..for some reason this song reminds me of Dick Tracy and his watch...b4 there wer all these cameras in our lives wether we want to acknowledge them or not...
I always felt an emotional connection to this song. It is disguised as a song, but it is a tender, romantic, longing ode to yesterday seeking a hopeful tomorrow. The words meet the melody wonderfully, half tones for incomplete sequences of life. It grabs you by the guts and punches in the heart. So we'll done, too profound to be number one on the charts, too true to be ever forgotten... Thank you Mr. Horn, in this piece you are all of usTrevor. Forever.
You are so right with this. I have also a very deep connection with you song. It moves me in a way that I can’t describe. I have loved this beautiful piece of music from the the day I bought Adventures in Modern Recordings, right back in the day when I was a teen. God bless you Mr Horn…
I thought it was a song about a camera! 🤔
Beautifully said! Nothing beats the genius of Trevor Horn. Much love ❤️🎵🙌
Well said
INTERESTING
62 years old now but this song has haunted me for many,many years,it stirs up emotions, life challenges,pivotal moments and the times I held my girlfriends hand and danced around together giggling and felling wrapped in the lyrics.
I'd never heard this version...only the Yes version. This is wonderful!
Kim Carnes does a good version too
@@bensantiago4557 Oh, that's good to know...I'll check it out.
It's better than the YES version, and I've been a diehard YES fan since 1972.
What a piece of music every time I listen to this is awesome!
It was great to hear this. That said, I still prefer the Yes version
Ahhhh...this song. Thinking of Yes, Drama and days gone by. I will love all versions of this song until i drop. Adventures in Modern Recording is a great album.
This song was ahead of its time.
This remains one of my all time favourite synthpop songs, it's so beautiful. Thank you for the restored video!
You're welcome!
This Song also appears on the Yes Album Drama.
@@marxter6 If I'm honest I like the Buggles version a bit more but both are enjoyable and timeless. The Yes version adds an extra line or two to the lyrics and the arrangement is a lot more bombastic but is otherwise similar.
I think Adventures in Modern Recording is a very underrated album. It's high up on the list of my all time favourite records.
Another gem is the song Fly From Here which ended up unused both on the Drama and the Adventures album. I like that one a lot. Years later it got official releases both in its original demo form and as a finished arrangement with Yes.
Great Mr Trevor Horn, great singer, great writer and of course last but least a great innovative producer . ❤
In hindsight this feels like a prelude to one of Trevor Horn's biggest hallmarks as a producer: making different versions of the same song that end up being radically different from one another while still playing into their biggest strengths.
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This version sounds dated, but they version he did with Yes is classic and does NOT sound dated at all.
@@Gizathecat2 That whole yes album is amazing still to this day. Shame they never made more in that style.
@Giza. I had to look at the Yes-version OMG, that was terrible. Buggles is the one NOT dated. What are you smoking?
The coda of this track just takes me places...
Me, too! Absolutely amazing! 🤩
How this was not in the top ten anywhere in the world, is totally beyond me.
Extraña fusion de YES con BUGGLES impensable un par de años antes de esto ..ahora entiendo el porque del estilo de YES en los 80
The Buggles had broken their contract with Island Records to join Yes, then when Yes broke up, the Buggles went in to start recording this album. However, Downes left on the first day, citing musical differences and also getting the backing of Island to go form Asia with Steve Howe, John Wetton and Carl Palmer. Island had not extended the same interest to Trevor Horn, deeming him "washed up". Trevor's wife Jill Sinclair arranged for the second album to be financially backed by French record executive Claude Carrere. However, Carrere was not a major record label so distribution faltered.
This Song, Drama YES or Buggles Adventures... is excellent as either version!
Sadly, The Buggles disbanded by this point. Geoff Downes (who doesn't appear at all in the video) had already joined the supergroup Asia (w/John Wetton, Steve Howe, and Carl Palmer).
But there was Chris Squire in this album
Makes me love YES even more!! They defenatly took a already great song OVER THE EDGE!!
this is WAY better than the weird Yes version
@@bitkahuna Not even close! Yes Into the Lens destroys this good version
@@freddystone7584 i love the start of the yes version but like so much of their music, it goes off in various odd directions
@@bitkahuna Small brain.
@@bitkahuna "like so much of their music, it goes off in various odd directions". As opposed to this version?
This was one of the first (and best) albums that ushered in the era of synthpop. Not much before Buggles except for Kraftwerk. The first Buggles album came out in late 1979, which is extraordinary when you hear it now, and AIMR is yet another leap forward.
i am a camera>>>>>>>>>into the lens
Damn I was today years old when I discovered this. Awesome. Trevor Horn is awesome.
Today we are all literally cameras
One of those songs that you wish would never end...
Incredible version
...and such an imaginative video.
Director: Here is what l see: your album has a pair of glasses on the cover. So my concept is to stay with that theme. The glasses are the hook for the audience. They are morons. If you show them an odd-looking pair of glasses for 3 minutes, they will buy your album.
Trevor Horn: l don't know...did you listen to the song, or the lyrics? Kind of means a lot to me. I personally think it is a great song. It will last beyond this weird video fad.
Director: It's great that you think that. Put your fucking glasses on.
And
...scene.
I like Trevor Horn very much. Thanks a lot for upload this video.
Timeless. First heard at my first rock concert, on the Yes/Drama tour in '81. After this came out, it became my favored version. Gorgeous to me.
I can’t stop listening to this.
First I've heard this version...I still prefer the Yes edition.
Great song, one of the Buggles' best!
A video seldom seen in Canada, and lesser played on FM radio in the early 80s. A great tune in hindsight.
A sexy video, and superb song. Visionary! x
A fantastic restoration job, I think! Very well done!
Noch heute,ein supertoller Song,den ich mit Wehmut und mit Blick auf ,eine leider schon vergangene Jugend Blicke.Ja,damals ,Trevor Horn,voll in seiner Jugend stehend und tolle Songs mit seiner Gruppe the Buggles heraus gebracht. Aber heute ,er innerlich jung geblieben singt hoffentlich noch lange weiter😊
Here I am months later still enjoying this brilliance.
The album came out in November 1981, several decades more than a few months later. 😅
@@RarebitFiends to translate, I enjoyed this a few months earlier dum dum .
@@davidboyce8683 Really, I make a joke and you respond with insults? What a credit to our species you are, your parents must be so proud.
@@RarebitFiends my parents are dead and you must be trolling from you're mummy and daddy's house Johnathon.
@@RarebitFiendsdavidboy is a bit agitated lol
Wow, I like this as much as the Yes version (Into The Lens). Same singer, same keyboardist, different style.
Yeah the whole first album was really good- this mood/groove defined the sound. I really recommend a full listen of it. I had it before they were injected into Yes (I love Drama, btw) and when they redid it, I had the same feeling. Super punchy on the remake- both excellent.
@@kevbob - This is from The Buggles' *2nd* album though, right?!
@@mightyV444 ah yes, of course you are correct. I'm not sure where my brain broke that day, but broke it did. And Adventures in Modern Recording is as rare as hen's teeth. I had it decades ago, but it's long gone, and out of print I see. I guess I need to chase down the used CD or vinyl.
@@kevbob - I wish you best of luck for that search! 😊👍 I hadn't even known of a second album before I came across this version of the Yes song only fairly recently!😀 I had found the 'Plastic Age' CD in a discount bin during a Netherlands trip in 2002; Before that, I'd only known their 'Video Killed...' and 'Clean, Clean' - but the rest of the album then actually underwhelmed me (except for 'Elstree'), so I gave the CD to a good friend of mine for his birthday, and he then liked it a lot! 😄 I'll have to listen to it again, though; I may have 'different ears' now!
@@kevbob - I just listened to 'Adventures in Modern Recording' here on YT and like it a lot! 😀👍 I was surprised by things like Trevor's vocals totally sounding like Jon Anderson's in 'Lenny' - Probably a result of his stint in Yes 😊 I also listened to 'The Age Of Plastic' again tonight (20 years after the latest listen) and actually quite liked it, too! 😀 The second album definitely is a big step up from it, though! Cheers, V. 🙂
trevor horn's a genius. this is a (better) variation of "into the lens" by yes, by the way.
Wonderful version of this song , without what Steve Howe described as " all the Yes fiddle - faddle " .
The 'Into The Lens' version by Yes is also great! Except for the 'circus music' intro and middle part, but those are missing here 😊👍
😳...wow, my favourite song and restored! 😊😊👍thanks for share, 3 likes for you from Italy.
Owh great you liked it 😁!
Thanks!!
What a brilliant piece of music & art wow never thought i would see this again only saw it once back when MTv first started in the 1980's they were way ahead of there time always liked them with YES
i like this version as much as the yes version
Thanks so much for giving us this lost video. :-) :-) :-)
You're Welcome :)
Never seen this version. Interesting to compare it to the YES version. :)
Yes indeed, sounds completely different.
great pre-ASIA keyboards by Geoff Downes.
Trevor Horn = genius .
I love this music, perfect combination with electronic and acustic instruments, clear sound
Just amazing modulations, the change at 2:55 is incredible
Cada versión en su estilo por lo que digo que uno sea mejor que el otro!!! Simplemente voy a opinar que me encantan los dos. Tanto ésta como la de YES. Son hermosas versiones!!! Uno syntho-pop, y el otro rock bien progresivo!!!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Je suis absolument d'accord avec ce qui est dit...merci à vous Mr horne et YES. je suis fan depuis des années. des années..80.
Yes! pun intended
Too the singer is true music man is magnifico a coll song Thankfully other version IM with YES
This one sounds a bit dated, but the version he did on Drama with Yes does not. Both are great.
A neverending dream in a song
I think the Buggles second album is pretty good. A bit more experimental than their massive selling first one.
Buggles my mind it's almost 42y old...
Very emotional
Good song, so so video.
Yes! What does it all mean?! 🤔😄
GREAT STEREO SOUND
Genius song but have to say the fuller sound of Trev's version with Yes is even better.
Cet homme à la voix déterminée, distincte, au regard perçant, un médium perfectionniste en 1980, qui m a tant marquée adolescente de 11 ans pour la vie...avec ses visions sur l accélération exponentielle des technologies avant l an 2000. Oui en 2023, il doit voir, désabusé que les appareils photos sont des miniatures déformant en améliorant cette réalité sordide...je traduisais ses paroles abasourdie tel dans un film de science fiction puis apprenais par cœur les paroles du premier album...
Il s'est tapi dans l ombre pour produire autrui...si fragile 😮 peut-être mais un homme intègre et fidèle. Un maître à penser précurseur en électronique 📧. Je l'aime ❤
Every bit as good as the Yes version, but also strangely more personal and relatable. HOWEVER, the bass synth parts here are kinda pro forma.
Great job
Arguably, the production of this is better than the Drama version, and yeah, it's certainly different . . . Better or worse is subjective, but I prefer the harder sound of the Yes track
This song is the link between Prog Rock and New Wave
Brilliant .
Wow, just wow! Like many, I'd heard only Yes Drama album version until now. This is beautiful❤! And yes, INNOVATIVE! Masterpiece. I particularly love lush synth and tasteful use of drum machines. And bass playing is so efficient and effective!
Reference: Yes "Into the lens". ruclips.net/video/qXhYsMEjsZ8/видео.htmlsi=mm6AcPcHY-eYMp3s
Somebody tell me why nobody mentions Geoff Downes .. he's still listed on the album as co songwriter and the technical guy on keyboard.
Lyrics😎
Memories, how they fade so fast
Look back, there is no escape
Tied down, now you see too late
Lovers, they will never wait
I am a camera
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
I am a camera
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Take heart, I will never let you go
If you wanna let your feelings show
Lovers all, how they never broke your heart
You lose them if the feeling starts
I am a camera (I am a camera)
Camera, camera
I am a camera (I am a camera)
Camera, camera
Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh oh
There, by the waterside
Here, where the lens is wide
You and me, by the sea
Take heart, I will never let you go
If you wanna let your feelings show
Lovers all, how they never broke your heart
You lose them when the feeling starts
I am a camera, I am a camera
(I am, I am, a camera)
I am a camera, I am a camera
(I am, I am)
A camera, camera, camera, camera
(I am, I am)
A camera
There by the waterside
Here where the lens is wide
You and me by the sea
Awesome find for Yes/Buggles fans! Was Geoff involved with the recording but off doing Asia by the time this video was made?
The song is from the second Buggles album, Adventures in Modern Recording. The album was mostly a Trevor Horn solo project (Downes left for Asia after the Drama concert tour). Three of the tracks were leftovers from previous Geoff Downes work, this song, Beatnik, and Lenny. The rest were Trevor Horn and Simon Darlow for the most part. Downes was credited as keyboards for those three tracks though.
@@stuartdollar9912 - Simon Darlow has been involved with Toyah Willcox in more recent times, I think.
well done, thank you
La maquina del tiempo funciona!!!, transpórtame por favor a ese momento!!!
instrumental at end sounded like music Hitman video games
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Good quality, but the top and bottom are slightly cut off.
I noticed, this is from 2 vhs bands fromayard sale and the first uploaded on youtube (for stabilization). I have gone frame by frame since the video was shaking alot for some reason.
Still trying to find a even better copy but no succes for now.
Why isn’t it on Spotify
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Cool song, but I have to say the Yes version is better
Sorry, got to disagree on that 😜
1979. Bham, Al..Yes tormato Trevor fill in for John
Me gusta mas que la version de Yes.
Great song, but I think the Yes version is superior with Steve Howe's guitar.
Where's Geoff?....
He left the band before recording this album. Trevor was the only marketed member of recording for this album.
Kim Carnes does a good version of this too
2:57
Oh, I love this man, too much handsome and genius and wonderful voice.
I am going to get nightmares from that frame, the glasses shadow makes it look strange lmao.
@@hyperlaser8577 Yep, haha, you're right, LOL XX
my gawd
weirdest, trippiest, bizarre music video i've ever seen
uhm... are you ok?
Lol, regular uploads wil be next again.
@@RubenEditIT ruben.... volgensmij weet je niet wie ik ben...
@@BoostedMusicOfficial ik ben aan het denken, maar weet het even niet zo 😅
I prefer the original versions of these songs.
So do, just like videotheque from Dollar.
That's a cover on a previous unreleased version from the Buggles.
that IS the original....
Yeah, this is the original version.
What are you thinking by original version ,there not the Yes version !
Not to be the party pooper right here but, this song belongs to Trevor Horn Indeed, however it was first released as "Into the Lens" when Trevor and Geoff Downes entered "Yes" in 1978 to replace Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman.
Later in 1981 Trevor reworked the song for "Adventures in Modern Recording" for the second album of The Buggles.
Technically not the original, but still a great piece from the wonderful Trevor Horn, excellent producer!!!
Muy buen arreglo. Y una letra excelente.
..for some reason this song reminds me of Dick Tracy and his watch...b4 there wer all these cameras in our lives wether we want to acknowledge them or not...
Amazing 🥰
Buena versión.