Three years ago, my partner Alan, died unexpectedly. I cried every day for at least six months as I could not believe he'd gone. I felt we'd been cheated. Him of his life, and me of a wonderful man. The morning after he passed I woke up crying from a dream he was in and this song was in the dream, and on my mind. I don't know why this song. Now, whenever I hear it, Alan is with me. I listen to it and it gives me the deepest nostalgic and emotional feeling. It's now our song, forever. Rest in peace, beloved. Xx
@@josephmalone9386 Yes, all good things are ephemeral, and pass so quickly that we lose track of time. At 56, I still remember the good times, and when I see and hear these wonderful videos, they make me travel, relive and numb me warmly and I will never let them be lost. There are so many great songs from my youth that make me think and wonder if there is a way to preserve the good things. Well, now that I stopped working, I'm about to convert all the music videos to virtual reality. I don't know if copyright will let me publish them for free??? But I'll try, what can I say?
You forget how absolutely fantastic the music was in the eighties... Another Brilliant band that goes under the radar... Thank you lads... Exceptional quality in your music... Bringing back so many memories... ❤🙏❤
Underrated indeed this is my 3rd favourite song by the band This should of been no 1 defently Wishful thinking and arazona sky are my other 2 favourites
I'm 70 and I thought I knew all about groups over the years but this song came on the car radio this week and I vaguely remember the tune from way back,by the end of the song I was kicking myself for not realising how good this song was until now, needlessly I'll be playing it non stop now everyday
Aahhh the 1980s, what a decade ! Good times. Better days. Perfect for a teenager way back then. Carefree life. Simplier and happier moments. So basic. Nostalgia. New wave music, the perfect theme songs for the teens of the greatest decade in human history. Long live Gen X. With love from the Philippines..... God bless us all.
It's strange, somehow I feel the sounds of this song tap into an emotional core. It evokes memories of a different time and place surrounded by different people. Quite beautiful in its own way.
For some reason hearing it made me want to roll up and down daisy buttercup hills in a carefree manner before sunset on the first warm day of summer. Strange,I know.
I feel I am thrown back in time and able to see my happy self in my teenage years carefree and have that same feeling of joy and and happiness but almost an overwhelming sadness also because it's in the past. Beautifully enchanting
Omg I've not heard this for years. I used to go to a pub with a friend to play pool and I would always put this on the jukebox. God I miss the 80's so much, I was about 16 at the time. Great memories 👌
@@ColinLewis-w3x oh dear. theres still real musicians and real songwriters. just that you have to go and find their art. because spotify and streaming has taken over from people buying records and hearing top of the pops
Me and my parter went to watch china crisis last night in mansfield nottinghamshire march 23rd 2023 they was fantastic ....sound no different ..a great band and they gave great entertainment between the songs if they are in your area you need to get a ticket booked not to be missed
Tell me about it,lm 65 now,the DJ that always played it for me demised last year at only 61 RIP Craig X keep playing and enjoying your music when you're cleaning or cooking! any kids still at home,will frown at you, but! it keeps you young! x
This tune popped into my head for some inexplicable reason yesterday...so I had to come and listen to it and...it sounds as beautiful today as it did all those decades ago!
I commented on this song 8 months ago & here I am again doing the same thing as I still can’t believe how good music was back then ,proof that class NEVER ages 😊😊👍👍
Ah the 1980s, what a time for teens way back then. Greatest music, fashion, movies and everyhing about the best decade in human history. Simplier and yet the happiest one. Good times. Better days. Happy new year, 2024 to all esp. to my fellow GEN X. God bless us all. Greetings from the Philippines.....
You are such a wonderful and amazing band Artist.. I really like all your songs, bring me back my high school life! I love you China Crisis from the Philippines. God bless you always. 😊❤️😘
I remember attending their concert at the Warwick Art Centre in 1986. All those years ago. I am 63 YO now. I recently rediscovered the band by chance. This piece is one of their many timeless classics. Great music.
Going through a mammoth China Crisis music binge right now after an interval of about 40 years. Age-wise contemporaries.Such well crafted melodies and lyrics. Steely Dan a major influence and even sounds a bit like Donald Fagen
This beautiful song instantly transports me back to 1985 and my first year of university in Durban, South Africa. China Crisis deserves far greater accolades than what they've been given over the years. 👌👏
These songs were the ones that stick in the memory because they relate to so much, in life back then. Loved them all, as echoe and the bunnymen would say.
I was about 13 or 14 this song is unique.whatever you want to read into it. But God Only Knows in the End . Fabulous my ever 80s song..I could be wrong
Actually it was April and May of 1985. I remember this being played a lot on the radio, and my uncle bought the single. Brings back memories of sunny spring days in 1985. Was top 20 in late April and early May of 85.
I loathed this song when it first came out then(when I was young and ignorant ) .Then years later I got to hear it again and boom! Totally fell in love with it ,it’s a awesome meaningful track.
No solo la música en general, sino también el cine están en decadencia. Es muy triste la verdad. Tenemos que dar gracias los que pudimos vivir en los 80s y 90s
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Only strangers know this types of songs. The extremely 80-90s flourishing the floors of an empty-wood house in Bob Dylan's glory morning sun. Yet you're to be the one.
Three years ago, my partner Alan, died unexpectedly. I cried every day for at least six months as I could not believe he'd gone. I felt we'd been cheated. Him of his life, and me of a wonderful man.
The morning after he passed I woke up crying from a dream he was in and this song was in the dream, and on my mind. I don't know why this song.
Now, whenever I hear it, Alan is with me. I listen to it and it gives me the deepest nostalgic and emotional feeling. It's now our song, forever.
Rest in peace, beloved. Xx
I was born in 1963 and up till 1999 life was such a party...................now life is just so fucking depressing.
E sei giovane......
I could not agree anymore you are so right
you hang in there iknow what its like
Get yourself a motorcycle
@@kevinlemes2627 I don't have the balls - I'd shit myself on one lol.
25 when this came out 64 now shit wheres all those years gone
lol I am still listening and I am 53
Time goes by matty 😳😂👍
@@josephmalone9386 Yes, all good things are ephemeral, and pass so quickly that we lose track of time. At 56, I still remember the good times, and when I see and hear these wonderful videos, they make me travel, relive and numb me warmly and I will never let them be lost. There are so many great songs from my youth that make me think and wonder if there is a way to preserve the good things. Well, now that I stopped working, I'm about to convert all the music videos to virtual reality. I don't know if copyright will let me publish them for free??? But I'll try, what can I say?
You forget how absolutely fantastic the music was in the eighties...
Another Brilliant band that goes under the radar...
Thank you lads...
Exceptional quality in your music...
Bringing back so many memories...
❤🙏❤
A more gentler time where people had respect for each other and tolerance...
Yet another totally underrated band from Liverpool. Back when most lyrics actually meant something, when songs told the story. Superb
Yup. The 'pool have created some wonderful sounds. Regards from Glasgow x
I had a good friend, who did not like 80's music. I wish she had heard this. I miss you Jo-Anne, hope you hear it now in heaven.
Underrated indeed this is my 3rd favourite song by the band
This should of been no 1 defently
Wishful thinking and arazona sky are my other 2 favourites
I'm from Liverpool and underated too 🤣
Absolutely love China crisis, great 👍 classic timeless thank you 😊.
A timeless classic which I have loved for years. Now 58 yrs old and still choose to search for it and singalong..... Great track 😊
Yes same, loving singing 2 it 😊
Snap 65 and still love this era. Wish I could back to those care free years
Hey I am 67, and I was 30 when this came out. Loved the clothes and great hair of the 80s
I'm 70 and I thought I knew all about groups over the years but this song came on the car radio this week and I vaguely remember the tune from way back,by the end of the song I was kicking myself for not realising how good this song was until now, needlessly I'll be playing it non stop now everyday
who is the 'black man Ray' they sing about?
Miss the 80s so very much
Was there🥰
As a child of the '50s..I agree 👍
Me too
Technocratic neoliberalism ruined it.
me too
Aahhh the 1980s, what a decade ! Good times. Better days. Perfect for a teenager way back then. Carefree life. Simplier and happier moments. So basic. Nostalgia. New wave music, the perfect theme songs for the teens of the greatest decade in human history. Long live Gen X. With love from the Philippines..... God bless us all.
Gen X too. We had it all and nobody can take it from us.
So much better than the crap hip hip/rap that came in the late 90s.
God bless the Phillippines my friend
Amazing song...living, growing in up in the 80's...was heaven. ❤
Well said Julie,the 80s was great.
Best years ever, wish I could go back 😢
Anybody still listening to this bangin tune.😅
I am ❤
nah, i'm here with the volume down...
I am 😊 18th September 2024.
@@LdevArt
That's ok it's a nice video😊
@@northlincsfox243 you inspired me to return so i can say 'ditto'-)
It's strange, somehow I feel the sounds of this song tap into an emotional core. It evokes memories of a different time and place surrounded by different people. Quite beautiful in its own way.
Nostalgia.
Isn’t that just the 80s?
For some reason hearing it made me want to roll up and down daisy buttercup hills in a carefree manner before sunset on the first warm day of summer. Strange,I know.
Yeah , nostalgia
I feel I am thrown back in time and able to see my happy self in my teenage years carefree and have that same feeling of joy and and happiness but almost an overwhelming sadness also because it's in the past. Beautifully enchanting
I think anyone who grew up to these songs yearns for them halcyon days
I listened to this song when I was 12 years old and I am 50 now. I am still listening to it
I was about your age when I first heard this song. I am 51 years old now and this song is on one of my Spotify playlists.
Same guys, where did time go? Just seems like yesterday.
@@paul-ie6wi correct, I fully agreed with you
Same age here, one of the first albums I bought on tape I wore it out!
That's some batteries you've got in that walkman
Not heard that song 30-40 years . Still sounds great !
Man this song is so good 😊 another gem from the 80s. by a underrated Band
It's Black "Man" Ray good.
Just got greatest hits cd for £4
@@johnharkness2342 hey awesome I've had the cd for ages it's a really good selection of tracks enjoy
@@sandgrownun66 it's a very good song actually 1 of my favourites
This song sends shivers down my spine, absolutely beautiful, their masterpiece.
Omg I've not heard this for years. I used to go to a pub with a friend to play pool and I would always put this on the jukebox. God I miss the 80's so much, I was about 16 at the time. Great memories 👌
That's it exactly......great memories...glad to have them!
Love this song too. Here is my cover : ruclips.net/video/808BXyQfzDk/видео.html 🙏😉
Me too. The 80s were absolute mega....If only we had a time machine! Coming from the UK, it has very happy memories too.
Hang on in there laddie! The 80s will be back in just 58 years!
The 1980s have got some great music bands and most of them are unique in their own ways!
So much quality music back then.
When bands were real bands
Proper bands
@@davidflinton4574 real bands are called groups
Absolutely
They were real musicians, songwriters who had God given gifts not like the grossly inferior crap nowadays which anyone could make up.
@@ColinLewis-w3x oh dear. theres still real musicians and real songwriters. just that you have to go and find their art. because spotify and streaming has taken over from people buying records and hearing top of the pops
British 80s music, simply the best
Most underrated band ever. Beautiful.
Most definitely! O the memories ❤️
Couldn't agree more this should of been no1 definitely
Best moment of British group we grew up with
Amazing song from an amazing underrated group. Timeless music.
This is so good it makes me ache for another world where life made sense
My thoughts exactly
I'm 74 beautiful song ❤
Me and my parter went to watch china crisis last night in mansfield nottinghamshire march 23rd 2023 they was fantastic ....sound no different ..a great band and they gave great entertainment between the songs if they are in your area you need to get a ticket booked not to be missed
Dis brings me so far back, wow,
I loved that 80s style at 1:34 Best ever, clothes Hair. Lovely
Has to be one of the best songs ever made… certainly one of my all time favourites…. Thanks for the memories !!
This definitely ranks 1 of my favourites by the band
Wishful thinking and arazona sky being 2 more
definitely. i love this song as well
Listening to it now what a lovely song
Not really.
Tell me about it,lm 65 now,the DJ that always played it for me demised last year at only 61 RIP Craig X keep playing and enjoying your music when you're cleaning or cooking! any kids still at home,will frown at you, but! it keeps you young! x
This is an amazing song and has a timeless quality- love it.
Im Drifting back to the 80's again
Sure that's no harm, you could do worse.
@@anthonymullen6300 Anthony, may I ask which area you are from
@@michaelplein9402 Ireland. I think I know where you're going with that question, so over to you...
covid19 brought me here .. love this song .. bring back my school day memories ...
Same here dren..great memories of the 80s..they were happy times indeed!
Ah,me too Dren.A great Liverpudlian band they were.
Covid is a China Crisis🎶🎶
@@geoffreyjonathanwilson5826 they still are
So many good bands out of England in the 80s. This is one of them right here. Classic pop.
This tune popped into my head for some inexplicable reason yesterday...so I had to come and listen to it and...it sounds as beautiful today as it did all those decades ago!
And 5 months later…..it happened to me
No jokes - four months later, it popped into my head too, for absolutely no reason. Great song, great year. (15 y.o.)
Same here.... exactly what I was going to say....2022 , have not heard it since it was on the charts.
Same here!
Was already 40 when this came out and74 now, still love it so much from france, where we got too our 80 s period with many gems too.
This song is really beautiful.
I commented on this song 8 months ago & here I am again doing the same thing as I still can’t believe how good music was back then ,proof that class NEVER ages 😊😊👍👍
Graciass al cielo vivi en los 80 gloriosa época la mejor!!!
What a fabulous musical gem of a band from the 1980s.
Beautiful song! 😢
Wonderful masterpiece of good old 80's
Love this song, never get tired of it 😊
How good is this, wonderful times to grow up
Damn I miss the 80s
After years in storage I've finally rescued my vinyl collection. This was the first song I played,great song.
Ah the 1980s, what a time for teens way back then. Greatest music, fashion, movies and everyhing about the best decade in human history. Simplier and yet the happiest one. Good times. Better days. Happy new year, 2024 to all esp. to my fellow GEN X. God bless us all. Greetings from the Philippines.....
Nostalgic and touching, this is what I called the music of 80's
I loved it then, and still love it 40 years later
Love love love this song.. and "Wishful Thinking" .. Brilliance.
Life was so beautiful then. Everything has changed, life not the same anymore.
I was 6 nearly 7 years old when this song was released in March '85
I remember listening to it on the radio 📻 🎶
Jesus what a piece of music this is ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Saw them last night, absolutely amazing. Most sincere and personable performance, Black Man Ray gets me every time, love em!
Just brilliant. This band are so good,. absolutely underated.
Yep underrated u got it I love this band
Amazing. I had a beautiful friend, who did not like 80's music. Jo-Anne hope you can hear this in heaven, you'll love it. I miss you so much. x
You are such a wonderful and amazing band Artist.. I really like all your songs, bring me back my high school life! I love you China Crisis from the Philippines. God bless you always. 😊❤️😘
Another beautiful, timeless song❤
This was a great song when it first came out and it hasn’t aged, still fresh, takes you to a higher place
My favourite CC song. The genius is in the fact it is written in a minor key so sounds melancholic yet catchy at the same time.
Absolutely outstanding. I miss the 80s, my life, my love........ho hum.
I remember attending their concert at the Warwick Art Centre in 1986. All those years ago. I am 63 YO now. I recently rediscovered the band by chance. This piece is one of their many timeless classics. Great music.
Going through a mammoth China Crisis music binge right now after an interval of about 40 years. Age-wise contemporaries.Such well crafted melodies and lyrics. Steely Dan a major influence and even sounds a bit like Donald Fagen
This is for my great mate Stevo I know you loved this track mate. God Bless you
80s music personified
This beautiful song instantly transports me back to 1985 and my first year of university in Durban, South Africa. China Crisis deserves far greater accolades than what they've been given over the years. 👌👏
These songs were the ones that stick in the memory because they relate to so much, in life back then. Loved them all, as echoe and the bunnymen would say.
God this song his so beautiful I used ta listen to these all time I'm listening now 🥰
I miss listening to this and looking over to the town street lights on a hill as the sun sets
One of the best voices I have heard fronting a band
Absolutely in tune
Ver powerful
Loved this group and still do
“Black Man Ray by China Crisis is one my favourite song “
Classic timeless
Not many songs can give you warm happy & content feeling from deep within but this song doe's, thanks China Crisis.
Sheer class. 🇬🇧
OMG - I just to love this song. Brings back so many good memory's and warm feelings. Thank you CC
I was 13 y.o when this song took its side into my emotional pop heart kicks. Rare gem from 1985.
I was 11 in '84 and I LOVED China Crisis.Always will!
still brilliant after all these years
😊
Love this, still got the single vinyl ❤
I was about 13 or 14 this song is unique.whatever you want to read into it. But God Only Knows in the End . Fabulous my ever 80s song..I could be wrong
How good was this group .
Very good In my book but a underrated band
They deserved more recognition
Class. Pure n simple
I can remember when this was released way back in '85
March or April 1985
Great 80s song 🎵
80s music forever
Actually it was April and May of 1985. I remember this being played a lot on the radio, and my uncle bought the single. Brings back memories of sunny spring days in 1985.
Was top 20 in late April and early May of 85.
Daym great song
Obra de arte señores !!! calidad máxima , me faltan adajetivos ...
YET another brilliant musical act from Liverpool
I loathed this song when it first came out then(when I was young and ignorant ) .Then years later I got to hear it again and boom! Totally fell in love with it ,it’s a awesome meaningful track.
This song was so much better than half the crap that was topping the charts in 85, like Move Closer, or that awful Into the Groove by Madonna.
They weren’t an underrated band , there was a sea of great bands around at the same time and they was one of them.
love this band, still see them live today.
Always treasured, never forgotten.
¡Qué canción, Dios mío!
Ahora sería impensable crear algo así.
Yeah, makes you wonder why there's no more music like this today...
No solo la música en general, sino también el cine están en decadencia. Es muy triste la verdad. Tenemos que dar gracias los que pudimos vivir en los 80s y 90s
The 1985 Album is fantastic
Reminds me my high school days, ohh. That was a great song!
this is the happiest song to me for some reason
Still touring and still as brilliant
Ì saw China Crises in concert in May this year They sill sound fantastic after all those years!
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I listened to this when I was 20. It seemed very arty and creative back then. The singers voice has a dissociated quality. Great song.
I was 20 too when this came out. Is it me or has it been faded out a little early at the end here?
I was 17... great times
Great song reminds me of the year I had too spend six months in hospital
Only strangers know this types of songs. The extremely 80-90s flourishing the floors of an empty-wood house in Bob Dylan's glory morning sun. Yet you're to be the one.
Just saw Gary and Eddie in concert in Brisbane! Great show!