Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) on Top Of The Pops 5/6/1986

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  • @seato412b
    @seato412b 9 месяцев назад +18

    A great all time performance

  • @retrodreamer8726
    @retrodreamer8726 3 года назад +48

    i want to cry. we have lost such an era, and it will never return...

    • @seato412b
      @seato412b 9 месяцев назад +1

      I feel a bit bad I wasn't into this group back my cousin from Buffalo was heavy into them back then

    • @USAPethead
      @USAPethead 5 месяцев назад +4

      But the music is forever. This aired before I was born. But they're one of my favorite bands now. They're timeless.

    • @Sergio-zd1ce
      @Sergio-zd1ce Месяц назад +2

      Esa era es eterna 🎉

  • @djpeekay2370
    @djpeekay2370 4 года назад +141

    80s had so many iconic songs! This was one of them!

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +4

      You put it “PERFECTLY!” Well said!♥️

    • @vincentpadovano7855
      @vincentpadovano7855 3 года назад +4

      Long live the 80s

    • @adrianjackson6541
      @adrianjackson6541 3 года назад +1

      @@karenstrycharz1499 You crazy

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +3

      @@adrianjackson6541 “You are a fool!”🤣

    • @dennismartinovich4639
      @dennismartinovich4639 3 года назад

      80s sucked for good music, the hair bands were hudge if you call that iconic you never seen really good music Rolling Stones Jethro Tull,and so on the 90 came and it was all about you to

  • @USAPethead
    @USAPethead 3 года назад +68

    Can we just take a moment to appreciate that beautiful tie Neil is wearing? That is the most quintessentially 80's thing I've ever seen lol. It's very cool.

    • @Engelbird
      @Engelbird 2 года назад +7

      I noticed it, too. It looks straight out of the art deco 20's.

    • @darryledwards8937
      @darryledwards8937 Год назад +5

      With a dash of snooker referee with the white gloves

  • @juliakendall4544
    @juliakendall4544 3 года назад +77

    I love this song !!!! I play it over and over in my head. I am 73 years old but I still like my rock and roll, lol.

  • @gregorycolon267
    @gregorycolon267 3 года назад +23

    Love the visualness of the drumming.

  • @greenlantern1123
    @greenlantern1123 3 года назад +53

    When music was great 👍🏻

  • @scottbohling7234
    @scottbohling7234 Год назад +4

    Feel good song. POSITIVE!

  • @dilshanperera9784
    @dilshanperera9784 2 года назад +9

    I❤️pet shop boys ever in my life...

  • @JasonC32935
    @JasonC32935 3 года назад +68

    Thanks Allstate for getting this stuck in my head! At least it's a good tune.

    • @jerrydeyoung4084
      @jerrydeyoung4084 3 года назад +3

      Great song! I'm 72 but never heard it before the Allstate commercial. The only problem with this song is that when I wake up in the middle of the night, the tune is still in my head!

    • @billiec706
      @billiec706 3 года назад +1

      Then listen to West End Girls
      Loved the Pet Shop Boys then... love them now 😊

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +1

      I soooooo love this song 🎶’& loved it in the ‘80’s and absolutely love it “now!”You are so right though for this melodic song plays forever in my mind. I never ever get sick of hearing it, too!❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡

  • @williammiller1446
    @williammiller1446 3 года назад +91

    Amazing how a commercial can bring life to a band/song, if laughs at the commercial everytime

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +6

      How very true! Makes everything relevant again, ha! so to speak! How right you are!♥️

    • @felipabelcher2557
      @felipabelcher2557 8 месяцев назад

      Right now I can't recall the commercial you mentioned but do remember the song! For a long time I thought the title of it was "You've Got the Looks"...lol

  • @emmetdonnelly2072
    @emmetdonnelly2072 3 года назад +16

    If you only know this because of a TV ad you aren't into 80s music. Chris looks like he is from the early 90s, ahead of its time.

  • @musicman201047
    @musicman201047 3 года назад +45

    The more things change,the more they stay the same...Big 80s FOREVER.

    • @mickfinnegan
      @mickfinnegan 3 года назад +1

      Nothing has changed in man in 10,000 years except the technology or belief that binds him. Let's make all the money. Fathom that.

  • @wyattbiker
    @wyattbiker 3 года назад +229

    Thanks Allstate for the song. But you still cost more than my other insurance :)

  • @petras5171
    @petras5171 3 года назад +24

    I’ve always loved the Pet Shop Boys! Neil was my first celebrity crush

  • @ARKK777
    @ARKK777 6 месяцев назад +5

    What a vibe!

  • @nasserahudroge3457
    @nasserahudroge3457 3 года назад +40

    This song is a commercial for Allstate insurance right now. Always love PSB❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @marcuscross8051
    @marcuscross8051 4 года назад +67

    Great song. I think that's the most I've ever seen Chris move!

    • @DummyWasting
      @DummyWasting 4 года назад +4

      You must see this, then. lmao
      ruclips.net/video/g9LX7YDfhYE/видео.html

    • @zephyrsky6786
      @zephyrsky6786 4 года назад +2

      LMFAO right lol

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣I BURST OUT LAUGHING WHEN I READ YOUR COMMENT MARCUS! You are to darn funny but so true! I need to add though that this song has always been a favorite of mine!!!!♥️

    • @MrTara033
      @MrTara033 3 года назад +3

      I have always loved these guys. Your right 80's had the best music ever. Now days you can hardly understand what they are singing.
      As someone stated on Facebook recently I miss the old America. Now that is the truth.

    • @khv_dv_jungle
      @khv_dv_jungle 2 года назад

      Крис явно руки там накачал😂😂💛

  • @michealalowakennu588
    @michealalowakennu588 3 года назад +76

    Listening to this in a commercial made me search for it... I can't stop listening to it. A masterpiece.

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +6

      I feel the same way! Loved it when it came out in the ‘80’s & love it now. It is a song ( tune) that I can never get enough of, I don’t care “how many times I listen to it!”♥️

    • @annhoover7471
      @annhoover7471 3 года назад +4

      The Allstate version is a cover, right? Sounds different. Still, I love it!

    • @moeeshangpate6320
      @moeeshangpate6320 3 года назад +1

      Me2 bruuuuuhhhh🤔🤔😂😂✌🏾🖤

    • @judyanne3563
      @judyanne3563 3 года назад +2

      Same here...I dont know how I missed it back in the 80s

    • @Kim11546
      @Kim11546 3 года назад

      Ikr!!

  • @moeeshangpate6320
    @moeeshangpate6320 3 года назад +8

    "Aaaayyee Yo!! That "ALLSTATE" commercial brought me here🤦🏾🤦🏾🤷🏿🤷🏿😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🖤🖤

  • @caroldadian5556
    @caroldadian5556 3 года назад +30

    I LOVED THIS SONG WHEN I SAW THE ALLSTATE COMMERCIAL, GOOGLED IT AND FOUND OUT ALL ABOUT THE SONG..MY SON LOVED THESE GUYS IN THE 80'S..NOW MOM LOVES THE SONG TOO....THANKS ALLSTATE EVEN THOUGH I CANCEL MY INS. WITH YOU 5YRS AGO

  • @Tommyboy80s
    @Tommyboy80s 3 года назад +7

    The 80's.....just a wonderful time

  • @gregsmith4657
    @gregsmith4657 17 дней назад

    Much better music than anything out today

  • @jokatt0162
    @jokatt0162 3 года назад +10

    I remember my brother jamming to the pet shop boys everyday riding to school in his chevette. We were the “cool kids”that didn’t have to ride the school bus lmao we were such nerds miss the 80s the best

  • @jimmygarcia1129
    @jimmygarcia1129 3 года назад +12

    Good jam even til this day.

  • @patriciagossmeyer9297
    @patriciagossmeyer9297 3 года назад +4

    This is the best commercial song I ever heard.

  • @angelaandersons7918
    @angelaandersons7918 6 месяцев назад +2

    Beauty and the geek theme tune x loved that show

  • @petsifakis
    @petsifakis 4 года назад +14

    Legends

  • @karenmccutchen6197
    @karenmccutchen6197 3 года назад +7

    I'm 73 but I remember this song because of my two son. Love it!

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +2

      I am 71 but I used to listen to it in the ‘80’s when it came out on MTV! How I loved MTV! Ha!

  • @riisikumi2236
    @riisikumi2236 4 года назад +10

    Epic

  • @LionElJonssonisBased
    @LionElJonssonisBased 4 года назад +42

    Absolutely a iconic banger

  • @diannebleacher6156
    @diannebleacher6156 3 года назад +41

    I love when I get transported back to the distinctive sound of those crazy 80’s. Oh the memories. Thanks Allstate!

  • @musick_junkie
    @musick_junkie 3 года назад +17

    After listening to that commercial for months it brought me here. I remember the Pet Shop boys from back in the day!!! Music was so awesome back then.

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +3

      Same with me! Always loved this song but that commercial ( ad) brought me here too!🤣

  • @victorrodriguez5765
    @victorrodriguez5765 3 года назад +6

    My favorite Pet Shop Boys song........ greetings of Perú...

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +1

      Greetings to you too from south western Massachusetts, USA! This is one of my favorite songs too!

  • @MintyDog4
    @MintyDog4 Год назад +5

    This is just a beautiful song. the original version too❤

  • @shawnjewell5894
    @shawnjewell5894 3 года назад +4

    I love the new commercial that it's so cool that

  • @Djeudes100
    @Djeudes100 4 года назад +29

    Pet Shop Boys Forever.

  • @cathyschatz1138
    @cathyschatz1138 3 года назад +9

    Great song never grows old

  • @juanrykelme
    @juanrykelme 2 года назад +3

    Pet Shop Boys 2023 🔊

  • @anneeames8946
    @anneeames8946 3 года назад +4

    Thanks Allstate! Love the song ... and we have your home and auto insurance.

  • @scottbohling7234
    @scottbohling7234 Год назад +2

    Just LOVE IT❤️

  • @evaisabellagmagyar6173
    @evaisabellagmagyar6173 3 года назад +6

    Love … love … 80 ‘s Music 🎶💕🎧🎶 Pet Shop Boys so great , I am listening 2021 July 16

  • @themayan7689
    @themayan7689 2 года назад +11

    My fave Pet Shop Boys song, first heard it in HS back in 86 & still love it in 2022!!!!

  • @nitahassan6406
    @nitahassan6406 3 года назад +20

    Makes me nostalgic 😪 Pet Shop Boys used to be my favorite Band in my younger days...the world was a wonderful place...Thank you Allstate for bringing me back to this song.

  • @Retarmy1
    @Retarmy1 4 месяца назад +1

    The stock market 2024 has been good all I think of is this song 😊

  • @Dime.Society
    @Dime.Society 3 года назад +6

    this was the year I was born, LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!! THANKS ALLSTATE FOR LETTING US KNOW

  • @eduardobenitez666
    @eduardobenitez666 11 дней назад

    Amó está música hace mucho años que no lo escuchaba de echo fue allá por el años 94 🕺💃

  • @cliffords2315
    @cliffords2315 3 года назад +3

    I thank the Insurance Co for reminding us of the Great Music of the 80's,.....makes me smile

  • @gracieshepard7264
    @gracieshepard7264 3 года назад +6

    Best live version of this song!

    • @09weenic
      @09weenic 2 года назад +2

      It’s not live

  • @felixhernandez5664
    @felixhernandez5664 4 года назад +24

    My first album I ever owned given to me as a birthday gift. It cost $7.99 from a store called Music + and it has a sticker on it touting the XDR technology. ( X-Tra Dynamic Reproduction). What an incredible decade to be a youth in.

  • @chloeabigailbarbin4619
    @chloeabigailbarbin4619 4 года назад +8

    I really love this song❤️

  • @dkparadise2777
    @dkparadise2777 3 года назад +87

    You're not here because of Allstate. You're here because those electronic drums look fantastic and the drummer is wearing a yellow raincoat while playing them.

    • @Danimal1177
      @Danimal1177 3 года назад +4

      No, it is because of Allstate.

    • @caesarfiorini
      @caesarfiorini 3 года назад +7

      I wore yellow raincoat at porn theatres in the 70s

    • @deand3308
      @deand3308 3 года назад

      That drummer is often mistaken for Danny Carey of TOOL😋.. I believe Danny's may be a bit more complex.🤔

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +2

      No, 🤣I am here purely because of that incredible song, that plays forever in your head, after you hear the All State commercial on tv! LOL! 😂 Admittedly, I agree with you that the drummer in yellow raincoat, playing those drums is absolutely amazing BUTTTTTTTTTT”......FACT
      IS, FOR ME ANYWAY 😆 LOL!......, “ I AM HERE PURELY DUE TO THAT MELODIC 🎶 SONG , 🎵 THAT I CANNOT GET OUT OF MY MIND/MEMORY ( actually, don’t want to ha! for “I LOVE THIS SONG!”) , ♥️
      ♥️💕♥️💕♥️💕♥️♥️💕♥️💕♥️💕♥️💕

    • @gummybear1929
      @gummybear1929 3 года назад +9

      I’m 100% just here for Chris Lowe

  • @sherrymay5409
    @sherrymay5409 3 года назад +5

    Love this song

  • @luissanchezvalerio500
    @luissanchezvalerio500 3 года назад +9

    There is something that identifies Pet Shop Boys and that is that despite having great covers like GO WEST or ALWAYS ON MY MIND, the lyrics, arrangements and music of their songs is their composition, that undoubtedly makes them to this day , one of the best components of pop music in history, really great

    • @Zeisser1903
      @Zeisser1903 Год назад +3

      I absolutely agree with your opinion👏👏👏

  • @turboplayz2593
    @turboplayz2593 3 года назад +1

    this song is still alive in 2022 lol good job pet shop boys

  • @408SPLKINGS
    @408SPLKINGS 3 года назад +9

    4 decades of great music by one of the greatest duo ever !!! Long live PSB 📻📢🔈🔉🔊🎼🎵🎶🎹🎤🏪7 365

  • @antovado77
    @antovado77 4 года назад +7

    Chris, you bang!

  • @Nick-zj1on
    @Nick-zj1on 3 года назад +31

    All state brought me here but this is the best version I’ve found yet

  • @0504Revati
    @0504Revati 4 года назад +18

    One of my favourite songs from them. Love it! And Neil has beautiful eyelashes :)

  • @janeporter818
    @janeporter818 4 года назад +9

    I love this song!

  • @judithaferreria-hutchinson9473
    @judithaferreria-hutchinson9473 3 года назад +6

    Great song.....thanks Allstate !

  • @tessditommaso5285
    @tessditommaso5285 3 года назад +15

    Came here to find the rest of the lyrics cuz I can't get rid of this damn earwig! Literally go to bed every night humming it. Only way to kill it is to hear the end of the song. Or so I've heard. Now I'm humming West End Girls. Dang.

  • @markalles881
    @markalles881 3 года назад +15

    I was 28 when it came out in '86, and I didn't need an Allstate commercial either......

  • @Cinderella999-l5r
    @Cinderella999-l5r 3 года назад +4

    Great song

  • @suseq949
    @suseq949 3 года назад +3

    It’s an awesome commercial. Love it!

  • @nickp440
    @nickp440 3 года назад +3

    I may have to consider making the switch from nationwide after watching this masterpiece

  • @mishaalalsadoon8212
    @mishaalalsadoon8212 13 дней назад

    Best song

  • @bluerain2558
    @bluerain2558 4 года назад +34

    Oh how i love Chris playing that drums, so energetic, it is fantastic, Neil cute as always. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️💋💋🔝

    • @melaniemason4049
      @melaniemason4049 Год назад +1

      Chris is always cute psb will always be fantastic ❤em

  • @karenstrycharz1499
    @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +12

    I always loved this song & when I hear it in a commercial now, I have to say that I literally stop everything , for the few seconds the commercial plays, to listen to it! This has always been a favorite song 🎶 that I have forever loved, from the ‘80’s! Just a “fun, upbeat 🎵 song but the music 🎶 seems to play, forever in your mind! Love the words & energetic, “catchy music!!!! ♥️

  • @gmanchoi8993
    @gmanchoi8993 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for the great memories!!!
    Love you all

  • @magicknight8412
    @magicknight8412 4 года назад +7

    Such a great iconic track. Always reminds me of The Clothes Show

  • @skylieechase2115
    @skylieechase2115 3 года назад +4

    What a voice...one of the best

  • @thomas8673
    @thomas8673 3 года назад +2

    Thanks Allstate

  • @cjaywilson293
    @cjaywilson293 3 года назад +4

    I have to sing along every time this commercial comes on.

  • @paulafisherraines6863
    @paulafisherraines6863 4 года назад +6

    This is the awesome rendition thats on the new ad that came out during the super bowl

    • @terracottapie
      @terracottapie 3 года назад +2

      It's also the rendition on the record because he's lip-synching

  • @rosemaryparker2567
    @rosemaryparker2567 3 года назад +2

    Took my advice allstate need good music and it so works.

  • @brendarico715
    @brendarico715 3 года назад +1

    Great dance song

  • @bessievest1271
    @bessievest1271 3 года назад +5

    Love this song!! Can't stop humming it!! 👍👍👍👍👍😀😊😊💕💕🌹🌹

  • @alfredoaparicio2359
    @alfredoaparicio2359 4 года назад +7

    Perfección hecha música..genios

  • @alfredoaparicio1260
    @alfredoaparicio1260 2 года назад +6

    Genios por siempre de la música más sofisticada! Así o más claro!!

  • @wandafrye1556
    @wandafrye1556 3 года назад +4

    Love this !👍🏻🤠

    • @wandafrye1556
      @wandafrye1556 3 года назад +1

      Love this song lets listen to it again !!🤠😎👍🏻

    • @wandafrye1556
      @wandafrye1556 3 года назад +1

      Listen to this song! It awesome!🤠

  • @Gronk79
    @Gronk79 3 года назад +2

    There was a mini series on NBC(?), in the mid 80s called "The Billionaire Boys Club". This song was also the theme song. Anyone else remember?

  • @toddstein5407
    @toddstein5407 3 года назад +2

    I'M here because they still got it, and sound great

  • @marioiriarte4797
    @marioiriarte4797 3 месяца назад

    Great band

  • @phillee8262
    @phillee8262 3 года назад +3

    Great song 🎵👌

  • @sp2435
    @sp2435 2 месяца назад

    The 80’s were the best

    • @markyjj
      @markyjj 2 месяца назад

      This made me laugh

  • @phavens83
    @phavens83 3 года назад

    i love you pet shop boys

  • @majorpayne100
    @majorpayne100 3 года назад +5

    I ❤️ the 80s

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +2

      I do too! Great music from that era & the ‘60’s too!

  • @creativesoul8196
    @creativesoul8196 3 года назад +1

    Never heard of this song and i love music...THANKS ALL STATE! I love the woman singing on the hood and you can actually here the driver's voice singing this great song! I was 5 yrs old when this came out...WOW

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 3 года назад +1

      They played it on MTV & radio( in our area, near Boston) all the time but loved the video on MTV so much!♥️

  • @joannjohnson2481
    @joannjohnson2481 3 года назад +2

    This song I first heard on Billionaire Boys Club movie with Judd Nelson in the 80's.

  • @InsideOutsider81
    @InsideOutsider81 3 года назад +9

    This makes me want to speed really fast, down a scenic highway

  • @immalasorsa1583
    @immalasorsa1583 3 года назад +2

    Beautiful NEIL!!!!

  • @Ham-Man-Hammy
    @Ham-Man-Hammy 3 года назад +4

    I was watching the loyola Marymount vs Gonzaga game. Loyola has a guy with a sweet mullet. The Allstate add came on and I was in a time warp.

    • @monsieurmike2072
      @monsieurmike2072 3 года назад +4

      Same here...came from Allstate commercial...80's Baby..whatta decade..🤘⚡

  • @sherrymay5409
    @sherrymay5409 Год назад +3

    The guy playing the drums cracks me up

    • @Zeisser1903
      @Zeisser1903 Год назад +2

      Otherwise Chris Lowe just stands around and feels bored on his keyboard😂😂😂

  • @birgitmatzat472
    @birgitmatzat472 4 года назад +3

    Somehow cool music of All the Songs of The Pet Shop Boys... I love it !

  • @sharonkillian614
    @sharonkillian614 3 года назад +1

    I love the commercial!

  • @miguelurban1697
    @miguelurban1697 4 года назад +4

    it's cool 🤩

  • @ferhattas2531
    @ferhattas2531 Год назад +5

    Tetris reminded us of this beautiful song again

  • @anabeatrizberrios5714
    @anabeatrizberrios5714 4 года назад +7

    Simplemente extraordinarios por siempre ❤️

  • @gtc1961
    @gtc1961 3 года назад +1

    I was listening to a lot of music in the 80's and never heard this song....thanks Allstate!