Be Near Me by ABC is a perfect example of the great music we had in the 80's, there was so much new music being released so fast you could not keep up with it all at the record store but soon you would hear it on the radio. We were overwhelmed like a tidal wave. If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 90's with all the golden classic movies, music and concerts, YOU were blessed!
Lol I dunno kind of nicer to live now cause I can listen to all of this great music but also enjoy modern medical care and a reduction in criminalization of homosexuality (which is important because ABC made me gay)
Most of us I think were just chilling and carefree in the 80s, not all uptight and up in arms about everything like people are now. I am still laid back probably even more now that i don't have school to think about.
I graduated from college in 1983. I returned home and vegged out in front of cable TV watching videos. ABC was definitely one of my favorite groups. ❤️
i was a punk rocker and then a bigtime metalhead in the 80's i secretly liked this song but would never admit it out loud at the time. i'm 55 now and absolutely do not give a shit what anybody thinks about my taste in music this tune is rad.
I grew up in the 80s as a teenager a young adult towards the end of the 80s. Some of the best years of my life. Some of the best music ever. These songs bring back memories I will never forget as long as I live. Thank you 80s.
If I recall, that keyboard sound was one of the first uses of what I think was called a "Fairlight" synthesizer. They were so expensive only a few artists were using them. A truly breakthrough beautiful sound.
Quite True, I'm glad they never leave us. There are certain times when we Need Them, almost couldn't be without them either, for many & various reasons. Better stop now, before this becomes a Novel! 😎 C'ya, CJ-4-JC always
Martin Frey used to be a client of mine many years ago, after the release of their biggest album at that time, I was always amazed at what he shared were his influences, and it always goes back to Motown and classics, and what I mean classics, contemporary classics from like Smokey Robinson to Roxy Music, he has very eclectic tastes... And it shows with ABCs music
theoneaft I feel the same 1000 percent. This song makes me so happy and melancholy at the same time. The beat and lyrics are not just upbeat but infectious. I can't explain it. The video is simple and understated yet visually brilliant at the same time.
@@milkbone28681 They were one of those groups that had like a 99.99% pure New Wave sound. The pure pop sound doesn't tend to be popular in America, that market needs something mixed in, like a stronger rock edge or a little R&B/hip-hop or soul, or a softer yacht-rock ballad.
@@hbia Yeah, Duran Duran had a couple of things going for them: they had some good guitar hooks in their songs that appealed to American rock fans, and they had a couple of real heart-throbs in the band too that the girls loved.
Not sure they were underrated. They sold millions of albums, shows and were featured on top TV shows. They just didn't have super duper long careers like some people (Diana Ross, Madonna, Mick Jagger) It is not easy to stay on top of the charts for decades
I kinda agree with you.i lived the 60s 70s&80s,......even the 90s were good times socially.......been there done that.who knows maybe time dose repeat itself and we get lucky to be with dinosaurs again.
I went to a very small private Catholic high school in the 80's and we had a jukebox in the cafeteria. Every day I played Be Near Me by ABC and Take Me Home by Phil Collins. I had to make sure I was one of the first in the room to make sure my choices got played. I'm sure everyone in my lunch group remembers this song. :)
I remember this, like it was yesterday working at Miller's Outpost! Hitting the malls, cruising Bob's Big Boy, the Boulevard.. How many of you can say that today..
Ever since being born 1n the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and beyond many people cherish this decade's pop music. Quite simply, it was freakin' bomb ass..
Lo único que puedo decir es que los 80s fue la mejor década de mi vida, y Be Near Me de 1985 me traen recuerdos inolvidables de mis 15 años. Y me siento afortunado de haber vivido esa época de buena música.
When I hear songs like this, it takes me back to a time of dance clubs, the gym, long and joyous summers lifeguarding and good friends. Those were the 1980s.
we were happy with very little: true music, true dance, a smoke, a beer by the sea with a range rover and the sunset was all ours ...Then only songs like this is what we needed to fill in our spirits and soul.....Pure magic
@gloriaelenaimperatore4222 I was born in '83, but I experienced enough of the 80s to miss it. I have two brothers who are 6 and 9 years older than me and whatever they were into or did, I was right there for it. I'm grateful for their influence on me, otherwise I would've missed out on practically everything that was happening at the time. I miss the summers spent together at our family's cabin, Air Force squadron picnics, sitting in the living room with my brothers and watching music videos on MTV., my brothers reading their comic books to me and our younger sister, going trick or treating in Air Force Base housing, watching Star Trek the Next Generation on Saturday nights together. I always thought that when we all grew up that we'd all have kids of our own and they'd be close with each other like we all were together and with our cousins. Not how life went, but when I listen to songs like this I'm taken back to how we all were then and it makes me smile to myself.
F*ck I miss the early 80s. I was a teenager then, and New Romanticism had a huge effect on me. It made me feel that anything and everything was possible. We (I) really need to feel that again, this new millennium so far has been an utter disappointment in my book.
And the thing is, a lot of groups like ABC were never played on the mainstream radio stations, and if it wasn`t for MTV, you never would have heard of them.
For what it’s worth in 1985 I looked a lot like Mark White especially that I styled my hair exactly like his in the video. And man! did I ever have a lot of success! 😘⭐️
Great 80s music, wonderful, we used to listen to it, watch the videos on MTV, when they actually showed music videos and not the BS that they show now. It was great, we had fun doing that and built some amazing memories through this music. Timeless music that still brings back all those amazing memories through sound and video.
This takes me back to being a very young child, with out the stress and drama that being an adult can bring. It also rerminds me of my mother who passed two years ago. Sad and happy memories rolled into one song.
Man... I've been saying for many years now that Alive and Kicking is my favorite video from the 80s. But THIS one's near the top of my list too! Delightful to the max. Love how the director knew what details of each person to zoom in on and what angles to use to bring out the essence of it all. Memories of this make you tear up.
This song brings back so many great memories growing up as a teenager in the '80s hanging out at the arcade in the mall and the old teenage nightclub area code 313 in Waterford, Michigan always dreaming and wishing that girls would talk to me! ✨🤩👌🏾
En México se escuchó en 1985 aunque no en todas las estaciones. En el mundo fue un exitazo y de lo mejor de ese año. Su música es simple pero evocativa y se oye un poco relajante y me parece que hasta algo nostálgica. Pero la magia es que nos gustó a tantos en el mundo y sigue trayendonos recuerdos de esa época como si nos trasladará a esos años. Todo su sonido me causa eso. Espero a ustedes también. Hay magia.
hermosa cancion hase 41 años que la escucho por la fm .suena en todas las fm de todos los países del mundo desde 1983.ahora los escucho por Internet en youtube y los miro en videos.." exelente"".tienen mucho talento..
When Smoky Sings in 1987 to me is their all time #1!💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🍻🥃.But I love this one too, and the group still looking fantastic plus sounding great since the awesome & well missed 1980's.👍👍👏
Remembered watching this on MTV... When it was played regularly... When MTV was the pinnacle of music listening and viewing... Now, no more... Damn millennium media...
I remember it well, too! (I still have this song on 45 - vinyl.) For me, the 80's was the best era for music, hands down. And, I was a huge fan of MTV. I even had the pleasure of watching their very first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles, when MTV first aired in 1981. (Man, I'm old!) MTV died in the late 90's when the execs figured people would rather watch the blathering idiots on "The Real World" versus actual music videos. It seems that music in general, including MTV, has gone down hill ever since. Hmmm, I wonder why MTV no longer plays videos, but yet still hosts the VMA's. That's a head scratcher! However, with the sickening, raunchy antics of Miley Cyrus (and her ilk), who would really want to watch the VMA's in the first place? Huh. I believe I've turned into my mother. I sure did sound like her just now. (Ok. Yes, I am officially old.)
I remember it well, too! (I still have this song on 45 - vinyl.) For me, the 80's was the best era for music, hands down. And, I was a huge fan of MTV. I even had the pleasure of watching their very first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles, when MTV first aired in 1981. (Man, I'm old!) MTV died in the late 90's when the execs figured people would rather watch the blathering idiots on "The Real World" versus actual music videos. It seems that music in general, including MTV, has gone down hill ever since. Hmmm, I wonder why MTV no longer plays videos, but yet still hosts the VMA's. That's a head scratcher! However, with the sickening, raunchy antics of Miley Cyrus (and her ilk), who would really want to watch the VMA's in the first place? Huh. I believe I've turned into my mother. I sure did sound like her just now. (Ok. Yes, I am officially old.)
I remember when my brother told me that there was a new station that played music videos all the time---didn't believe him until I watched it. This was when MTV first came on the air. Oh the memories. What happened????
I wish today's kids could experience the 80s like we did. So much fun fashion, so much great music. No social media! Yet we still found ways to connect over bands we liked!
This song should have been on the soundtrack with Molly Ringwold's " Pretty In Pink" Definitely would go with the movie with how it sounds and storyline. I miss the 80's
Wow. That's interesting -- I've thought the same thing for _years!_ This song seems a perfect fit for a typical 1980s teen-romance, John Hughes-type movie. Fascinating to see that I'm not the only person who feels that way!
I could see it on sixteen candles...maybe during the scene at the dance or the scene at the party at jakes house...something like that...but then again it would've fitted to the pretty in pink soundtrack...the song is a contender for both soundtracks..to the 80's 🍻
Right On 👍 ! {} I to Loved those Decades my teen yr's, and just starting a family of my Owen ! But it wasn't all 🎉Carefree & Wonderful🎊 if you was like me and most of American's at this time 💸 paying for it was expensive, I had two lovely 💞 👨👩👧👦 💞children to pay 💸for and everything that goes along with that ~ 🚗 "🌲🏘 left me pretty worried 🙍🗯almost all the time But got through it all ! yeah I'll never forget those decades how about you ha,ha!
Looking back maybe. But actually there were many worries back then. Still a great decade for sure. Especially in mainstream music. There were more styles and diversity in the mainstream and more artistic expression that was popular. These days there still is, but just not in the mainstream.
Guess you didn't hear about AIDS or the Falklands war or the Iran-Contra affair or the Bhopal gas leak or the Challenger explosion or the Lockerbie bombing or the Tiananmen Square massacre or crack cocaine or....
This was absolutely my favorite MTV video back in the 1980s, indeed of the whole decade. Seriously, whenever it came on, I would rush to the TV screen and lie before it in a near trance as one would prostrate oneself before a favorite idol.
It's so funny cuz I couldn't stop watching MTV and I, for the life of me can't recall ever seeing this video, I know I had to have, I heard the song almost daily, I saw 'Shoot That Poison Arrow' and 'Look of Love' vids and loved'em - this song is awesome, and even though the video doesn't stick out in my mind, seeing it now goes right along with ABC's videos - awesome imagery
@@fadingworld5569 You can gloss over the truth with coke and When in Rome all you want but I prefer to see the whole picture, otherwise my knowledge about life would forever remain incomplete; including the negative, destructive, violent, painful etc
I would play the ABC tape in my walkman and go on my bike and ride as fast as I could all over town and into the country (no rail trails back then). Only great memories now.
Loves this.Brings me back to the days of song n fashion and the flavor of the 80's. The New Romantics. Kajagoogoo. Duran Duran. Spandau Ballet....Culture Club .....Human League...miss this time greatly
Me too, as I was in HS during the mid-late 1980s. Even in the 90s I felt most anything was possible. Then the 2000s happened. And everything I knew & learned was immediately rendered obsolete. And everything I loved was destroyed.
I've been listening to this song since I was 5. It's probably by number one favorite ever! I love Martin's voice and Mark's keyboarding (they're both so good-looking too). But my number one favorite thing about this song is the way the sounds come together - the piano, bells, beat, lyrics....the effect is amazing and just puts me in a blissful mood.
So it’s 1985 and I’m getting ready to attend my first college football game. I’m staring in the suite’s bathroom mirror and this tune is rocking. Great times, which fly.
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My dear brother said this recently: The 1980s was a better decade for music than many people acknowledge. I agree. ABC was one of my favorite groups.
Underrated Song...
Literally everyone says this in the comments section on every single 80s video on youtube. Your brother is not special.
@@James-if3kc Because it is true
@@stevedavenport1202 What I was saying is that EVERYONE praises 80s music now, so it's not "underrated" like this giuy said.
@@James-if3kcHe never claimed his brother was special. Take a chill pill.
God's favorite decade.
Mine too 😊
It's incredible how music can transport you back in time and trigger memories and feelings you haven't felt since back then.
Music and memory areas in the brain are linked together. Thank God; we can always go back in our minds.
I miss the 80's !!🥺😫
Omg yes! 84 was the best year!
Yes
true. ✌️🕶
I was 8 years old when I heard this track in 1985. This bring me back to the happy time of my childhood.
I have all their albums. Still. And I am 97 yrs old. They are one of my favorite groups.
Hi Ann,hope you’re okay ?
AWESOME! Pretty hip in you 60s and now 90s!
Grande !
bless you, Ann you are 😎! hope you are well!!
that is cool . hey are you 97 really that is awesome
Be Near Me by ABC is a perfect example of the great music we had in the 80's, there was so much new music being released so fast you could not keep up with it all at the record store but soon you would hear it on the radio. We were overwhelmed like a tidal wave. If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 90's with all the golden classic movies, music and concerts, YOU were blessed!
Lol I dunno kind of nicer to live now cause I can listen to all of this great music but also enjoy modern medical care and a reduction in criminalization of homosexuality (which is important because ABC made me gay)
yup!
You're not kidding there, Buddylove. I grew up in the 80's and ABC was definitely my favorite group
the perfect memoir
mdma before it was illegal
the perfect background music
So true!
It's 2023, but this song still brings me a lot of memories of my youth.
Hellyeah
The instruments, the lyrics, the camera angles, the hair, the clothes, the pure joy.. The 80's were one long party!
Indeed!
Most of us I think were just chilling and carefree in the 80s, not all uptight and up in arms about everything like people are now. I am still laid back probably even more now that i don't have school to think about.
it's very short for us who really enjoyed that decade, when the 90s came, we became depressed, 80s was one heck of a party
@@PM_yearsago the 90s was a party for me, too ... but yeah ... after about 2005, everything went downhill ....
@@groofoot even though 90s and early 2000s wasn’t as fun as the 80s, 90s and early 00s are astronomically better than now
I graduated from college in 1983. I returned home and vegged out in front of cable TV watching videos. ABC was definitely one of my favorite groups. ❤️
i was a punk rocker and then a bigtime metalhead in the 80's i secretly liked this song but would never admit it out loud at the time.
i'm 55 now and absolutely do not give a shit what anybody thinks about my taste in music this tune is rad.
I grew up in the 80s as a teenager a young adult towards the end of the 80s. Some of the best years of my life. Some of the best music ever. These songs bring back memories I will never forget as long as I live. Thank you 80s.
The message is perfectly simple: there’ll never be another amazing decade like the 80s
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Creativity all around. Lyrics, music style, fashion,
@@guzaria Don't forget choreography and filming.
All the different styles of music , even if you didn't like one , you still can't deny the talent they had reguardless..
Agree, but 70's were very nice too, believe me!
This song takes me away from the crazy world that we live in today and makes me smile again 😁❤️love the 80's
Kind of weird how it does that. It actually puts you in a time warp with 1980s happy thought. I wanna go back there again. Those days were da bomb
Yes i was born in 80.i love 80s and ABC.im italian
@@davidbanner9661 I was a young adult in the 1980's..Best time ever. Oh My God...
With you all the way! Why God chose us to live out our youth in that era I’ll never know. But I’m glad He did!
Happy years, happy tears 😢
Hey the 80’s were fucked up too. You just couldn’t scroll through the horror all day. Ignorance is bliss
My favorite ABC song. Their songs are pure joy to listen to.
I’m so lucky to have stumbled across this song again, the feeling is perfectly simple, it’s a good, happy, up beat feeling.
Show me is pretty great too.
They really are
@howard bianchi Not sure, but the dwarf thing, yeah, all music videos! lol
I have all of their albums. And a (Dare I say it, Video)
The String/Piano setting on the keyboard utilized in this gem was a perfect application for it within the track. Of course a perfect dose of whimsey.
It's 1985 and ABC is playing on my FM radio with "Be Near Me"!
Yes 1985 I was 13 year's old back then. 😲 😲 Now I am almost 50 year's old. Amazing song
1985 ! I just graduated high school ! Loved them then & now !
too many stupid invention and still no timetravel.....bloody hell.
BEST decade of my life!
Would gladly live it over & over again if I could!
It was a great era for music in ALL genres....IMO 🤩🤩
I’m 68 and it still brings happy tears in my eyes. Wow! The keyboard and the fretless bass...
If I recall, that keyboard sound was one of the first uses of what I think was called a "Fairlight" synthesizer. They were so expensive only a few artists were using them. A truly breakthrough beautiful sound.
💯% 80s music. One of the greatest times for music lovers
Definitely
I was a hardcore metalhead in the 80s, but I always liked this song.
I can't stand metal and rap I've always enjoyed this kind of music
A man of good taste in music.
same here
I am a 55 year old metal head but this was a good song. It is one of those songs that makes people happy, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Ozzy Osbourne is 80s scene UK's best export
A teenager in love..80's..She did ,not know..
Memories, don't fade..
Quite True, I'm glad they never leave us. There are certain times when we Need Them, almost couldn't be without them either, for many & various reasons. Better stop now, before this becomes a Novel! 😎 C'ya, CJ-4-JC always
ABC is one of my favorite bands. "Be near me" is a timeless "piece of art" all the way. No. 1 hit if it was released today!!!!
The 80s had some of the most unique Music Videos ever!
Hands DOWN the absolute best!
ABC.
HALL OF FAME.
Exactly right
I totally agree Rob! Happy memories 🤗
Martin Frey used to be a client of mine many years ago, after the release of their biggest album at that time, I was always amazed at what he shared were his influences, and it always goes back to Motown and classics, and what I mean classics, contemporary classics from like Smokey Robinson to Roxy Music, he has very eclectic tastes...
And it shows with ABCs music
Yes, 'when Smokey sings . . .' is a perfect example by them. Thnx so much for sharing your ecperience.
From a time when hope was genuinely alive.
I love this song. It makes me happy every time I heard it. Do you feel the same?
Me too! et aussi "the look of love"....."To be a belionnaire".
theoneaft I feel the same 1000 percent. This song makes me so happy and melancholy at the same time. The beat and lyrics are not just upbeat but infectious. I can't explain it. The video is simple and understated yet visually brilliant at the same time.
So true
Always ! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😁😁
Yes!
The 80s was the greatest era of pop music in my opinion.
Aw, London, London in the '80's! No cellphones, no computers, people just wanted to be with people, great times!
Enjoying a pint or two with your mates in the pub during the 80's
I had computers in the 80s 🤘 and many ABC fans (many of which were yuppies) had cellphones 😅🤣
All comments are of joy, hope, harmony. This is how real music should always make you feel...
The nostalgia just runs through my body. The memories of who, what, when and where. The 80's ruled!!
This song makes me overjoyed. My depression goes on hiatus every time I hear this song. They kick ass for real. I love them.
Make this your go to if you feel bad.
Bravo! Killer song. Has the same effect!
I wore my ABC cassette tape out in the 80’s. They had the quintessential sound of that era-strange that they’re so underrated.
They were pretty big time in the UK, less here. True, odd.
@@milkbone28681 They were one of those groups that had like a 99.99% pure New Wave sound. The pure pop sound doesn't tend to be popular in America, that market needs something mixed in, like a stronger rock edge or a little R&B/hip-hop or soul, or a softer yacht-rock ballad.
@@theevilascotcompany9255 agreed. That´s why Duran Duran were so big in America (they are great either)
@@hbia Yeah, Duran Duran had a couple of things going for them: they had some good guitar hooks in their songs that appealed to American rock fans, and they had a couple of real heart-throbs in the band too that the girls loved.
Not sure they were underrated. They sold millions of albums, shows and were featured on top TV shows. They just didn't have super duper long careers like some people (Diana Ross, Madonna, Mick Jagger)
It is not easy to stay on top of the charts for decades
I been looking for this song for 40 years found it today 4/22/24 thinking about a Love❤ gone bye! Thanks ABC for the lovely song!!
In tears , In tears !!! 📻🎵🎶🎼🔕🎷🥁🎺🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎻🎻🎻🎻
Being in love today is not the same as in the 80s. This is a reminder of how lucky we were
I love this
I kinda agree with you.i lived the 60s
70s&80s,......even the 90s were good times socially.......been there done
that.who knows maybe time dose
repeat itself and we get lucky to
be with dinosaurs again.
Best comment I've ever read on the internet. And I was here when it started.
hate is the new love
I don't need it....all that drama. Peace and quiet and being calm is so good!.
In the 80's, I loved every single song on the radio. Now I last at most 5 to 10 minutes before I turn it off in disgust.
I went to a very small private Catholic high school in the 80's and we had a jukebox in the cafeteria. Every day I played Be Near Me by ABC and Take Me Home by Phil Collins. I had to make sure I was one of the first in the room to make sure my choices got played. I'm sure everyone in my lunch group remembers this song. :)
I remember this, like it was yesterday working at Miller's Outpost! Hitting the malls, cruising Bob's Big Boy, the Boulevard..
How many of you can say that today..
Hard to believe that many people could thumb down a song like this. Ever since being born in 1980, I have remained with all these 80's songs.
I don’t trust anyone who thumbs down this song!! Seems suspicious.
A lot of 80’s bands had songs that gave off good positive vibes, like the 60’s did
Some people just don't have good music taste
Ever since being born 1n the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and beyond many people cherish this decade's pop music. Quite simply, it was freakin' bomb ass..
I miss when the 80s was "near me".
This was the greatest decade of music ever.
Lo único que puedo decir es que los 80s fue la mejor década de mi vida, y Be Near Me de 1985 me traen recuerdos inolvidables de mis 15 años. Y me siento afortunado de haber vivido esa época de buena música.
Una delle più belle voci di sempre ABC immensi.....
Vero .io sono nato nell 80 e li ascolto da quando ne ho 20 .come tanti altri degli anni 80.
@David Banner Me too born in 1982 last decade for good music and happiness .
the golden decade of music. dunno what tf happened but it's gone now since almost 20 yrs ago
In 1985 I was 13 year's old in the 7th grade in junior high school when this legendary song came out. ABC
I loved the keyboardist’s haircut back then. I still do
When I hear songs like this, it takes me back to a time of dance clubs, the gym, long and joyous summers lifeguarding and good friends. Those were the 1980s.
lol yep ... and big-haired babes in Zena jeans and Converse hi tops too
we were happy with very little: true music, true dance, a smoke, a beer by the sea with a range rover and the sunset was all ours ...Then only songs like this is what we needed to fill in our spirits and soul.....Pure magic
@gloriaelenaimperatore4222 I was born in '83, but I experienced enough of the 80s to miss it.
I have two brothers who are 6 and 9 years older than me and whatever they were into or did, I was right there for it.
I'm grateful for their influence on me, otherwise I would've missed out on practically everything that was happening at the time.
I miss the summers spent together at our family's cabin, Air Force squadron picnics, sitting in the living room with my brothers and watching music videos on MTV., my brothers reading their comic books to me and our younger sister, going trick or treating in Air Force Base housing, watching Star Trek the Next Generation on Saturday nights together.
I always thought that when we all grew up that we'd all have kids of our own and they'd be close with each other like we all were together and with our cousins. Not how life went, but when I listen to songs like this I'm taken back to how we all were then and it makes me smile to myself.
F*ck I miss the early 80s. I was a teenager then, and New Romanticism had a huge effect on me. It made me feel that anything and everything was possible. We (I) really need to feel that again, this new millennium so far has been an utter disappointment in my book.
Completely agree
I couldn't agree more!
Regarding music, 💯 agree!!
And the thing is, a lot of groups like ABC were never played on the mainstream radio stations, and if it wasn`t for MTV, you never would have heard of them.
It started with 9/11, and its been downhill ever since!
THIS SONG REMINDS ME OF WHEN MY LATE WIFE AND I FIRST MEET, MISS HER SO MUCH.
Oh bless you James how lovely xoxo
THANK YOU SO MUCH LOVELY LADY, MAY GOD BE WITH YOU
i wish you good health and everything else will follow....peace.
sorry to hear that man hope you're always fine..
Sorry for your loss.
For what it’s worth in 1985 I looked a lot like Mark White especially that I styled my hair exactly like his in the video.
And man! did I ever have a lot of success! 😘⭐️
I've had this song stuck in my head for the last couple days. The keys are so simple but beautiful.
HECK I've had this song stuck in my head for the last four decades never mind the last couple of days...
El Mensaje es simple y Perfecto!!!! Be near me ....🎵🎶🎼🎼🎹🎹
No words for that keyboard melody.
bad ass isn't it? takes someone with a brain to make that type of melody along with the whole arraingement.
Magic
MAGNIFICO!!
Paul Wright So true, so true!
Genius
this song takes you to a different place and time !
Truly the Alice in Wonderland of Music
Did he sport that style of clothes before Duran Duran did in the 90’s???
Indeed
Yup. When I hear this, it's 1985 again.
Specifically, for some reason, Houston Oilers football season.
And the same place each time, or at least that's how it seems.
Great 80s music, wonderful, we used to listen to it, watch the videos on MTV, when they actually showed music videos and not the BS that they show now. It was great, we had fun doing that and built some amazing memories through this music. Timeless music that still brings back all those amazing memories through sound and video.
Life was so much happier in the 80's..💯
The best
This takes me back to being a very young child, with out the stress and drama that being an adult can bring. It also rerminds me of my mother who passed two years ago. Sad and happy memories rolled into one song.
Same here 100%
I lost my mom almost 3 years ago. It still hurts. I don't think we ever get over missing them.
@@mchris8142 Lost my mom over 33 years ago ... I still miss her to this day. Some losses you never get over.
My fondest memories are shopping with my mom and listening to the radio on our drive there. So many great 80s songs. She’s gone as well.
the message is perfectly simple
the meaning is clear !!!!!!!!!
80s was great
well said indeed was aweome
eduardo leon .........all a dream...........
Very well said long live the 80s
Man... I've been saying for many years now that Alive and Kicking is my favorite video from the 80s. But THIS one's near the top of my list too! Delightful to the max. Love how the director knew what details of each person to zoom in on and what angles to use to bring out the essence of it all. Memories of this make you tear up.
the message is clear! yo moma
This song brings back so many great memories growing up as a teenager in the '80s hanging out at the arcade in the mall and the old teenage nightclub area code 313 in Waterford, Michigan always dreaming and wishing that girls would talk to me! ✨🤩👌🏾
I heard this song in the Applebee's bathroom and have loved it ever since
My son ( whom is 8) is singing this - now 2022….. Tooooo cute 😊
En México se escuchó en 1985 aunque no en todas las estaciones. En el mundo fue un exitazo y de lo mejor de ese año. Su música es simple pero evocativa y se oye un poco relajante y me parece que hasta algo nostálgica. Pero la magia es que nos gustó a tantos en el mundo y sigue trayendonos recuerdos de esa época como si nos trasladará a esos años. Todo su sonido me causa eso. Espero a ustedes también. Hay magia.
hermosa cancion hase 41 años que la escucho por la fm .suena en todas las fm de todos los países del mundo desde 1983.ahora los escucho por Internet en youtube y los miro en videos.." exelente"".tienen mucho talento..
Love this tune from the 80's and who just doesn't love how cute Fiona Russell-Powell is.
Probably their best track, that bass drum foot pedal work is top stuff.
I feel my booty bouncing to it! 🤍🕊️🤍☀️🧿🤩
When Smoky Sings in 1987 to me is their all time #1!💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🍻🥃.But I love this one too, and the group still looking fantastic plus sounding great since the awesome & well missed 1980's.👍👍👏
THE 80’s......so full of energy fun and....
HOPE! Glad to lived in that decade would never change it for nothing else
Remembered watching this on MTV... When it was played regularly... When MTV was the pinnacle of music listening and viewing... Now, no more... Damn millennium media...
I remember it well, too! (I still have this song on 45 - vinyl.) For me, the 80's was the best era for music, hands down. And, I was a huge fan of MTV. I even had the pleasure of watching their very first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles, when MTV first aired in 1981. (Man, I'm old!)
MTV died in the late 90's when the execs figured people would rather watch the blathering idiots on "The Real World" versus actual music videos. It seems that music in general, including MTV, has gone down hill ever since.
Hmmm, I wonder why MTV no longer plays videos, but yet still hosts the VMA's. That's a head scratcher! However, with the sickening, raunchy antics of Miley Cyrus (and her ilk), who would really want to watch the VMA's in the first place?
Huh. I believe I've turned into my mother. I sure did sound like her just now. (Ok. Yes, I am officially old.)
I remember it well, too! (I still have this song on 45 - vinyl.) For me, the 80's was the best era for music, hands down. And, I was a huge fan of MTV. I even had the pleasure of watching their very first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles, when MTV first aired in 1981. (Man, I'm old!)
MTV died in the late 90's when the execs figured people would rather watch the blathering idiots on "The Real World" versus actual music videos. It seems that music in general, including MTV, has gone down hill ever since.
Hmmm, I wonder why MTV no longer plays videos, but yet still hosts the VMA's. That's a head scratcher! However, with the sickening, raunchy antics of Miley Cyrus (and her ilk), who would really want to watch the VMA's in the first place?
Huh. I believe I've turned into my mother. I sure did sound like her just now. (Ok. Yes, I am officially old.)
Mostly Trash Vision !!!
I remember when my brother told me that there was a new station that played music videos all the time---didn't believe him until I watched it. This was when MTV first came on the air. Oh the memories. What happened????
Well we are in luck, MTV has now a classic channel and we can see all those videos again, check it on satellite tv.
This is one of those songs that if put on a commercial during the Superbowl, everyone would want to know who sings it, and it would go viral.
You're so right
It’s a very under rated song. I doubt many people have heard it. If they put it on a commercial, I’m sure a lot of people would love it.
I wish today's kids could experience the 80s like we did. So much fun fashion, so much great music. No social media! Yet we still found ways to connect over bands we liked!
Their #9 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 from late 1985
What's your reputation? Ecstasy
What's your destination? Next to me
Nice Hope. Those where the days.....I try to keep them alive by these videos..
Hope Maria all my dreams came true...happens every time we fall in love again for those we dont have fear to givr all once more
Michael Morales same here ;)
Juan Campos true ♥
i agree Hope Maria the whole thing was Genius from beginning to end AVE MARIA !
80' friends! Much love to all! This is my jam!
Awesome song, with beautiful lyrics. Miss the 80s. 😥❤ Martin's voice is too gorgeous.💙
1:40 Those piano phrases makes me feel the song : )
This song should have been on the soundtrack with Molly Ringwold's " Pretty In Pink" Definitely would go with the movie with how it sounds and storyline. I miss the 80's
The same here Chris!!
Wow. That's interesting -- I've thought the same thing for _years!_ This song seems a perfect fit for a typical 1980s teen-romance, John Hughes-type movie. Fascinating to see that I'm not the only person who feels that way!
Yes the song should be in pretty in pink and sixteen candles
I totally pictured that movie ending when I heard it
I could see it on sixteen candles...maybe during the scene at the dance or the scene at the party at jakes house...something like that...but then again it would've fitted to the pretty in pink soundtrack...the song is a contender for both soundtracks..to the 80's 🍻
80's & 90's Carefree... Not a worry in the world... 💯💯💖💖👏👏💃💃🕺🕺
Yess...I want to go back! Lol
Sure, in mainstream America.
But what about the overlooked, underclass, low-income communities?
Right On 👍 ! {} I to Loved those Decades my teen yr's, and just starting a family of my Owen ! But it wasn't all 🎉Carefree & Wonderful🎊 if you was like me and most of American's at this time 💸 paying for it was expensive, I had two lovely 💞 👨👩👧👦 💞children to pay 💸for and everything that goes along with that ~ 🚗 "🌲🏘 left me pretty worried 🙍🗯almost all the time
But got through it all ! yeah I'll never forget those decades how about you ha,ha!
Looking back maybe. But actually there were many worries back then. Still a great decade for sure. Especially in mainstream music. There were more styles and diversity in the mainstream and more artistic expression that was popular. These days there still is, but just not in the mainstream.
Guess you didn't hear about AIDS or the Falklands war or the Iran-Contra affair or the Bhopal gas leak or the Challenger explosion or the Lockerbie bombing or the Tiananmen Square massacre or crack cocaine or....
This was absolutely my favorite MTV video back in the 1980s, indeed of the whole decade. Seriously, whenever it came on, I would rush to the TV screen and lie before it in a near trance as one would prostrate oneself before a favorite idol.
It's so funny cuz I couldn't stop watching MTV and I, for the life of me can't recall ever seeing this video, I know I had to have, I heard the song almost daily, I saw 'Shoot That Poison Arrow' and 'Look of Love' vids and loved'em - this song is awesome, and even though the video doesn't stick out in my mind, seeing it now goes right along with ABC's videos - awesome imagery
No sexual content, wars, and drug related topics just pure music and pure talents😂
Oh C'mon! We did have hair battles. At least give us that. . .
Idk the blond chick in this has some legs!!😍😍😍
The lead singer?. . . . .🤔
Yeah no sexual- content......... *_Booooooring!_* lol J/K
@@ToyotaGuy1971 Well, soon enough went from this to 2 live Crew, so you know 🤷🏿♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏻♀️. . . . . .
One of the Best songs of the 80's Wonderful memories and seemed like a Decade when Almost anything was possible.
Indeed one of the '80s best...
Nothing has been quite the same since 1985.
AIDS, Cold war, crack, trickle down economics, Ronald Reagan (lol) .... anything was indeed possible
@@fadingworld5569 You can gloss over the truth with coke and When in Rome all you want but I prefer to see the whole picture, otherwise my knowledge about life would forever remain incomplete; including the negative, destructive, violent, painful etc
OriginalMACMAN EXACTLY !
1986, where were YOU?
I was listening to this song EVERY day inside of the Air Force dinning facility, at Norton AFB, CA.
How about you?
This type of music (80"s) gives me spiritual peice.
I would play the ABC tape in my walkman and go on my bike and ride as fast as I could all over town and into the country (no rail trails back then). Only great memories now.
Peace
I'm ready to go back in time after COVID19 when I hear songs like this
I miss the 80s...thank God for RUclips! Love this song❤😍
Me too Colleen. The melody is magical.
That piano is what makes this song stand out. Very nice “hook” 👍
Ahhh the 80’s. What a blast! ❤
2-21-21. This might be the 2,891st time to hear this FANTASTIC song!! It all began the fall of 1985!!!!
Another great band from my generation 😍
Brilliant song. Listening to it brings back fond memories of the mid 80’s. That was a great time to be alive.
Hi Hillary,hope you’re okay ?
Forgive them Hillary, for they know not what they do.
Yep, I hope you are okay and over the fact that you lost.
I love the keyboard of this song. 😊
Loves this.Brings me back to the days of song n fashion and the flavor of the 80's. The New Romantics. Kajagoogoo. Duran Duran. Spandau Ballet....Culture Club .....Human League...miss this time greatly
It wasn't all that great behind the scenes sometimes but happy you get so much pleasure from these memories.
So glad this was my music in High School, it still makes me believe anything is possible! I missed the 80's!!
Me too, as I was in HS during the mid-late 1980s. Even in the 90s I felt most anything was possible. Then the 2000s happened. And everything I knew & learned was immediately rendered obsolete. And everything I loved was destroyed.
I've been listening to this song since I was 5. It's probably by number one favorite ever! I love Martin's voice and Mark's keyboarding (they're both so good-looking too). But my number one favorite thing about this song is the way the sounds come together - the piano, bells, beat, lyrics....the effect is amazing and just puts me in a blissful mood.
I was 17 licing to this song riding my Suzuki motor cycle in Standish Michigan in 1987 good memories!
So it’s 1985 and I’m getting ready to attend my first college football game. I’m staring in the suite’s bathroom mirror and this tune is rocking. Great times, which fly.
How to be a millionaire is the best cd of 1985! Great group!
What's your reputation? Ecstasy
What's your destination? Next to me