Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame
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- Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame 1986
You can look at the menu, but you just can't eat
You can feel the cushion, but you can't have a seat
You can dip your foot in the pool, but you can't have a swim
You can feel the punishment, but you can't commit the sin
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
You can build a mansion, but you just can't live in it
You're the fastest runner but you're not allowed to win
Some break the rules, and live to count the cost
The insecurity is the thing that won't get lost
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her, and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
You can see the summit but you can't reach it
Its the last piece of the puzzle but you just can't make it fit
Doctor says you're cured but you still feel the pain
Aspirations in the clouds but your hopes go down the drain
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her, and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
No one ever is to blame
No one ever is to blame
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A time machine must have taken me back to the 80's! When it was great to just turn on the radio, lay in bed, and just listen to talented musicians.
Ahh yes, great voices and better lyrics
A lost time. The best. I love this song. I'm 67 now...
Not his greatest commercial success, but very much his best ever song. Lovely melody with an inspired and inspiring lyric.
I was in my 20's during the 80's....best decade of my life....went dancing every night to great music.....miss the 80's so much.....
Been at least 25 years since I've heard this song. Awesome to hear it again now. Wow, we really had some good music back in the 80s didn't we?
It's difficult to find a song nowadays with clever lyrics like this one. Thanks, Howard.
Well, in the Top 30 charts, anyway.
Alternative music still has some intelligence.
The average IQ of humanity has dropped since the 1970's...sadly (fact).
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I Graduated in 1989. It was an honor & a privilege to grow up during the 1980's. Not everyone was so lucky......
That is a gigantic comment. Now, I shared your experience. But you are so wise for adding the last sentence.
Amen!
This song reminds us that in the journey of love, sometimes it's not about assigning blame but rather embracing the ebb and flow of life.
Jesus Christ, what memories Of being so happy and free as a teenager growing up in the 80s, no stress, no mortgage, no middle age spread,😂 And no bloody coronavirus, thank you Howard for the memories 🌹
Wow. How many years and I still love this song. Oh, 80's why couldn't you go on forever?
Words of truth were more never spoken.
Coke. The 80s had to end because of all the Coke. We would be extinct.
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@@OnlyKoolaid hahahahaha! Would be funnier if it wasn't so true! God bless us all that made it-
The hairspray was eating a hole in the ozone or something like that, then it became greenhouse gasses.
How does this only have 1M views? This was HUGE in 86 or so...
Kids today are missing out man...
Your answer 4 years later... cause this is someone who just uploaded this.
His official account has over 3 million views. ruclips.net/video/pekhxxngQ3s/видео.html
What's also amazing is that everyone looks back to the 80s as this great era of electronic music, but the songwriting craft, all alone, was just amazing. Play this on a piano or a guitar, with no synths or anything, and it's still beautiful. Those were good days.
A time that's gone forever. Great times...makes my heartache and miss this time in my life.
👏👏👏👏I know exactly what you mean friend,what a great time to grow up 🏴🏴🏴🏴x
Same feelings....
I feel the same way!
Me too
Howard Jones should write a song about that. I’m sure he’s ace it.
I was/am a 60s-70s kid who lived and breathed that music. The 80s not so much, but this song speaks volumes. It had me from the first bars. It still does.
I listened to this song over and over in the 80's. It was all over the radio too. Thank GOD for 80's music.
me too
I remember hearing this tune in 1985 when I was inside of a pet store in my neighborhood, it's a good tune and I love the lyrics the 80's were my preschool/kindergarten years I miss that decade I'd love to go back in time.
Was this already out in 1985? I just remember hearing it in 1986.
@@josephmackela8466 .
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@comatoast72 ,,,, Wow, you brought tears to my eyes. I had two brothers with Muscular Dystrophy and they loved Howard Jones and many others songs of the 80's. Thank you Howard Jones for making real and meaningful songs. Love you!
one of top 10 songs ever heard in my life. nobody could make a song like this anymore.
Class of 90. It was the best time in the world to be a teenager. John Hughs films ,great music, great hair, real communication, and no cookie cutter fashions, we were real individuals then.
Check out your yearbook sometime. We all appear like young adults, long past our childhoods. A good majority of us were employed in some fashion by the time we were 14. School parking lots full of safe, insured, motor vehicles that we worked hard for. Our friends preparing themselves for basic training, trade school, community college, or university. Romance and adventure always on our minds, and our futures were bright. Independence and self-sufficiency was the goal.
There's something about the 80's that soothing... 💯👏👍🏽😀😉
The 80's music was so dam real. So fortunate 2 b a teen back then.
Brings back such great memories of MTV and 1986. What the hell happened to music and MTV? Someone could make a fortune if they put that back together again. Fools destroyed MTV.
"Doctor says you're cured...but you still feel the paaaain..." This song just randomly popped into my head. I was 13 when this song came out. Whenever it played on the radio, I would listen and visualize everything he said.
“Doctor says you’re cured but you still feel the pain
Aspirations in the clouds but your hopes go down the drain”
These lyrics really speak to me.
And Ben gets her usually Ben Franklin
Every time.
You can feel the punishment but you can't commit the sin .....
Great song.
my brother passed several years ago....back in the day he loved this song!! I miss his drunk ass...
Just watched his concert in the park for United Way Utah and he is just as cool and fun as he was 20 odd years ago. Thanks for the music and good memories
You can and you can't.
No one is to blame.
Brilliant interpretation.
80's music RULES and that's a FACT!
To me it's sad to learn music will never be this good again. You would have to build a time machine to experience the 80s again.
some of the best lyrics from the 80's and some of the best music underneath...
I love this song. Howard Jones in Charlotte NC was my first concert when I was 13.
We never really know how good we had it until it's gone. RIP 80's.
Wish I could go back and relive the crazy 80’s, great music, friends and the freedom to do whatever!!!! Great times!!!!
Damn...still love his voice all these years later
we do we have katty perry ellie goldman lady gaga the list goes on
You can build a mansion, but you just can't live in it
Line hits me hard as a fifty year old carpenter who will never be a homeowner.
Remember, the greatest carpenter of all didn't come to build houses of furniture, but to wash away sins!
"...the insecurity is the thing that won't get lost": my favorite lyric from one of my favorite HJ songs.
It's so true and gets stuck in my head regularly....
Many philosophies and spiritual beliefs teach that it is wanting or the obsession with desire that has long been a cause of suffering. This song demonstrates that same wisdom with the acknowledgement that it is our human nature. Deep thinkers.
No other era will ever equal, the great 80's.
YOU'VE GOT THAT RIGHT !😀
Thank You, Laurie for your reply, be safe and take of yourself.
+ratter531 You too hun 👍
Thank You...
ratter531 The best era. Loved the 80s.
what a lovely song! MY God...the lyrics are so sad and yet so powerful...I am in a small town in Brazil and this song rip me apart everytime........no one ever is to blame......
The year I graduated.. 1986.. How lucky we were to have gone to High School in the 80's.... This was music...
I agree I graduated 1980 in college in 86
you missed the late '60's...nothing better!
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Late 70's....no war then :) and the same drugs..so.. ! WHOOT
Eric Parks you know that's the truth, I spent many a Friday night cruising around listening to the once in a lifetime music👍👍✌✌
Takes me back to 1986 -- the very best time of my life.
A talented and underrated musician.
you can say that again! but just as Phil Collins did background singing with Howard in this song, Howard did so much for so many others as well.
I NEVER realized it was Phil Collins on background until I read this...now it's all I hear. That and the overtone of the drums, classic Phil Collins. Every song I've heard of Phil's the drums are very much in front of the rest of the instruments....same thing here. Very cool, love learning new stuff.
Growing up in the 80's was a wonderful experience...I can't go back, but I'll always have the great memories.
God I miss that music... 60's, 70's, and 80's music will NEVER be matched!! Thanks to ALL those great artists!!
SO TRUE... ALOHA.
Never ever be matched!!!
This is one of my favorite 80's song. I wasn't even born yet. I just fell in love with 80's
Such a great decade of music..... I wonder if 25 years from now people would remember these new artistes?
I will stick with 80's on any given day.
You can look at the menu but you just can't eat
You can feel the cushions but you can't have a seat
You can dip your foot in the pool but you can't have a swim
You can feel the punishment but you can't commit the sin
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her, and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
You can build a mansion but you just can't live in
You're the fastest runner but you're not allowed to win
Some break the rules and live to count the cost
The insecurity is the thing that won't get lost
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her, and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
You can see the summit but you can't reach it
It's the last piece of the puzzle but you just can't make it fit
Doctor says you're cured but you still feel the pain
Aspirations in the clouds but your hopes go down the drain
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her, and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
No one ever is to blame
No one ever is to blame
Thank you, Robin. One of the best melodies EVER & such poignant lyrics... go Howard!!
Howard Jones is a true natural writer for music that really matters. The message of "No One Is To Blame" comes through in the lyrics, and I'm sure we have have all been through the blame game, and this song is an exception to the rule. Another reason to love Howard Jones.
I soooo agree!!!!
1986 had some great songs. I fell in love that year and I miss her
A brilliant performance.
How true is this. I love this song.
The songs nowadays just don’t have class like this one and the songs back in the days.
Perfection, plain and simple, sheer perfection.
My favorite Howard Jones song. Probably listened to it 20 times a day when it came out
Has always been and still remains .. my theme song …
Just saw Howard Jones concert. What a gifted and talented artist/musician. Love him so much
Classic song & one of Howard's best. Alot of ppl don't even realize that Phil Collins is playing drums & singing in the b/g of this song. It's amazing how many great albums he played on back in the 80's.
Yes he did. Bryan Adams did that a lot too.
It sounds like a woman i always thought it was
Find some sort of list of who sang backup.
Great info- I never knew. Love Phil Collins
Adam Dunn Reason why song sounds so good is not 100% computer synth and drum machine - most of Howard's song was himself and his computer digital synth machine. Imperfect variable timing sounds more natural to the human ear. Other sounds on album only credit Howard.Keyboard & vocals - Howard JonesDrum & vocals - Phil CollinsGuitar - Phil PalmerBass - Mo FosterBacking vocals - Afrodiziak
phil Collins drumming style and pattern with howards writing abilities makes this my 80's alltime fav hit...great upload
Howard jones was the 80's
yes
Howard Jones is one of the most prolific songwriters of my generation he is right up there with the late Danfoglberg Farhana
loves lost ... time lost ... tears streaming down my face
Yup.
Agreed
Absolutely. Such uncertain times.... I thought this would make me feel better but I’m in tears.
Me too, today is the first time since I first heard it in the 80s that I REALLY listened to the words, and I’m crying my eyes out.
3 decades of life experience on, and I understand the pain and the acceptance in my core, in a way I just couldn’t as a teenager.
Life is both cruel and infinitely beautiful.
I have never looked at it that way... Doctor says "You're cured" but you still feel the pain. I love that about Music. We all receive the message that is meant for us to feel. Beautiful.
Reminded me of a time sitting in the back of my cousins camaro with a guy I was crushing on,..... of course he liked my cousin....yet, I smile as I say those were the days I miss so much. Running with my cousin, school and the crazy days that went with being a teenager....if any of the 80's Bratts know what I am saying---smile proud!
I still have the fold-out poster from this album framed and hanging in my TV room.. He is standing below a high window in an old building with long stemmed roses strewn at his feet. He was such a beautiful boy and this music is TIMELESS!
WANTED time machine to take me back to the 1980s
If you ever get one come by and get me
Well get a time machine yet ???
I want to go too !!
😎 LOL
Take me!
Uncle Rico is that you??
First, we need a Delorean
Back to the 1980s...the best decade ever...thanks for this!!!
Just saw Howard J tonight at the Greek in L.A.
He sang this song with the "Barenaked Ladies" backing him up.
Still great!!!
The best from Howard Jones, so motivational and beautifully written and made.
Wholly 80's Batman, I love this song!! It was played on awesome classic soundtrack too :-)
Leave it to Mr. Jones to educate the masses with his talent and wisdom. Such important lyrics.
People think others have control over who they love. We have control over our actions, yes, feelings- no. Sometimes you’re just IN it and you don’t even want to be! I don’t understand what makes people believe we have ANY control over love. It goes where it will and for as inspiring as it is, it’s powerful and you are no equal opponent. It’s a teacher if you listen to wisdom. Or an outright killer if you listen to folly.
I was so into Howard Jones in high school (back in 1999 or 2000), and this seems to be his one song that's still pretty well known. Love the Phil Collins production sound.
+JPMcFly1985Two don't forget the wondrous BASS line by PALLADINO ! that man is a magician with that instrument and of course JONES is a brilliant songwriter!!
Hearing a song like this that I have not heard in years take me back to the 80's
1986 Phil Collins produced one track for Howard Jones, the international hit “No One Is to Blame”, for which he also played drums.
Howard Jones. An 80's icon.
One of the most underrated singer/songwriters of our generation....!
No one is to blame, cannot argue with that.
That summer in '86 was magic for me. 20 years old and full of romance, LOL. This song was one of many that will define that period of my life. The girls back then seemed different than today. Maybe I'm just old now, but they really were worth romancing. It won't ever be same as it was.
Unpretentious, crystalline vocals + great lyrics + nice melody = Pop Classic.
I literally have had this earworm of a tune in my head for days now.. I'm Spirit of '76; so I'm getting old.. Proud of myself for remembering these lyrics enough from "back in the day" to have a positive Google Search (woah! google is uncannily intuitive).. Anyway, great tune.. It was stuck in my head for so long! Makes me nostalgic for taking long, aimless, (& most importantly, careless) car rides late @ night just to escape the confines of the suburbs & existential dread
Happy memories ...no one is to blame but i didn't know back them. ...love this song .Always reminded me of my happy high school year ...1986
Never cared for this Genre of Music until I heard this tune, my gosh look at the lyrics, now that's a song writer, I'm sure this tune touched a bunch of people with what was going on in their lives at this time.
Always one of my faves!
My parent’s song. Perfect 80’s song.
I can remember HBO playing this video between movies in 1986.
My girl tells me mom. The 80s music was the best cuz it was all real. This song brings me back 2 the teens. Whoa that was kinda long ago. Lol
When this song came out in 1986 I was in love with my girlfriend. Best year of my life
My first love tape this for me in the 80's ! Still love it!!💜
Such a perfect song to capture the melancholy feeling both people who once loved each other greatly realize when it comes to light they have fallen out of love and both agree to part ways
far out.... high top fade spaced out mushroom bleached... trench coat....gotta be the 80s. good times, good memories, good music. from the instruments, to the voice, beggining to end, Just a PURE song. mean jam!!
My gosh... this song does it for me every time❗❗❗❗❗
We cannot control whom we feel attracted to. No one is to blame for that. All we can control is our behavior. THIS is the song that best expresses the pain of this haunting moral dilemma.
This song truly is food for the soul. I was in elementary school; 5th grade... How time flies! Such a great song..
I was an adult in the 80's. I loved and lived every minute of it.
Miss the music of 80's.. Never the same
Makes me wanna go back a few!
Yes.... amazing song. This is how you deliver music if you have something to say.
The decade of my youth. I miss the 80's.
If you listen to the chorus really carefully you can hear Phil Collins voice breaking through where he says "no one" at the higher pitched part. It's unmistakable.
Gixxer Sixxer ...always have loved that part. Great harmonizer. Try listening to "In the air tonight" with headphones halfway plugged in. For me at least, it cuts out lead vocals and you hear backing vocals only. His backing vocals in that song are ridiculously cool. So now when I hear it I always notice the backing vocals clearly, when before I did not.
Gixxer Sixxer totally can hear it now!
I'm so grateful that I'm old. Graduated '90's but a kid got an education. Jones is still touring and still a master of mastering mastery. Sad that nobody ever took a lesson from this song. Everyone blames everybody for someone loving someone.
To me this song is timeless. Kudos to Howard Jones,and thanks for putting this up on here Robin :)
Music today can't give you those kind of memories. Cool 80's story, thanks for sharing.
Doctor says I'm cured...But I still feel the pain...
Take me back to the 80's...I'm sure It'll fix everything.
mmm, no money problems, time seemed longer, first car LJ Torana, just doing whatever felt good. Yep time travel woulds be nice.
Hey Gus...It was good seeing you & Cessy.
I'm 1/2 way through that book you gave me.
Sandy & Iris went back to NZ for her C check up with her surgeon. They will be back late December/early January.
I'm just chilling...Rehab ...& so on.
Oh well Stay safe.
V
Hey mate, your family is very humble made Cecil feel welcome, love your place how can you not relax there. I've taken a week of work, it was my birthday saturday. Now doing house work before it gets to hot to work outside (gardening), and in the roof (wiring the house for internal network).
Take care,
G
Hey Gus ....Just checking in say Hi to Ceci. Hope you enjoyed your holiday.
This song was popular when I got together with one of the loves of my life. She's since passed away so every time I hear this song I get choked up. When she got pregnant by me I didn't handle it right so she was out of my life as quickly as she came into my life. Our daughter was born on December 6th of 1985. I thought that I would have plenty of time and that someday we would run into one another and I would be able to say "Pammy I was a selfish, inconsiderate jerk when you were pregnant with Nichole and I'm truly sorry for my behaviour can you please forgive me" But I never got to do that so now all I have is this song to remind me of Pammy and our time together and what a beautiful song it is! R.I.P. Pammy and I miss you!