It was Christmas 1987...at a high school friend's birthday party we were all having a great time and as this song started blaring over the radio, "this is the best song ever" remarked one of my friends. Since then that moment and this song has been etched into my memories forever.
I have a similar memory, walking into a gas station one random night fifteen years ago. "Young Turks" by Rod Stewart started playing beginning to end, and I was in love with that song. Still remember that moment to this day vividly
I just heard it randomly last week on a online radio I listen, and I liked it, added to my playlist, I keep listening to it again and again...since last week and I love this
Dammit...this song always has me with tears in the corners of my eyes...but now I'm positively crying since your post! My sincere condolences re: the loss of your brother (who clearly possessed great taste in music), my friend...cheers & best wishes from 'Down Under'...Matt.
This song takes me right back. Enjoying life, out clubbing, dancing all night and living life with zero worries. Little did I realise how happy I was back then.
When I listen to the Pet Shop Boys, I remember a time when I was happy and didn't know it....this band has been with me throughout my life and they still make me dream....
There's so many great lines in the full version (in the film It Couldn't Happen Here) such as "I've just been fishing with Salvador Dali, he used a dotted line. He caught every other fish."
@@that_youtube_channel7343I was lucky enough to share his company for a short while in late 2004. A wonderful man and generous with his time in my experience. Missed.
For those who are wondering the eccentric passenger in the cab is Joss Ackland, the distinguished English actor who has appeared in over 100 movies, scores of plays and a plethora of television programs in his six-decade career...
I think I'd have died and gone to heaven if the film were remastered for 4k and some killer audio system. Loved it then, love it now. Such a wild ride, ahead of its time and yet remains so incredibly off piste.
It was very sad to hear of Joss Ackland's passing yesterday. For me, he'll always be the hitchhiker in Always On My Mind / It Couldn't Happen Here. Amazing actor 🙏❤️
This and Hunt for Red October are the two references I instantly think of - and maybe this one first and foremost, given how unhinged he in the video. Just looks like he's having fun letting loose ^.^
Every time I hear this, it transports me back to Christmas 1987 when I bought the single with a WH Smith voucher and I played it non stop everyday for months...Still one of my all time songs and probably the greatest ever cover to be made
After "All of us Strangers" this song will be never the same for me. My brain exploded during that Christmas tree's scene. That scene with those lirycs ... just breathtaking, blew my mind. Always on my (blew) mind.
Takes me back to 1987, junior year of high school. Remember blasting this song on the car radio, driving along with the windows down, hair blowing in the wind. Life was so carefree and fun back then. Love our 80s music!
Pet shop boys are the soundtrack of my life.From when I bought “Actually” back in 1987 till today,I’m 47 years old and i have so many memories listening to their songs...
SAME!!! Ever since a friend of mine taped a copy of *Actually* for me when we were teenagers. That music really, really made a deep and lasting impression on me...
If I ever have a stroke or a head bleed, this is one of the songs of my mix I want to play while I lay in the hospital recovering. It would remind me of my past with great songs to rejuvenate my soul.
1:36 This is the most emotive part for me, as it represents how fast time pass and that there is always something you couldn't do in the moment and now it's too late
Now that I'm 59 years still listen to the music of the 80s and who else is doing the same having the same feeling, guys we hit the jackpot born at the right time to enjoy that incredible time no handys no violence, like today.
Those two guys; their music, videos.. In a class of their own. Those times will never come back unfortunately. 6.5 million views, and most of them mine
@@MrMatthewWhalen but what a discovery! I didn't know that! I just listened to the original version, what an incredible melody and what a magnificent job PSB did to make it their song!
@@petraleopold2713 I bought three copies of this single on vinyl at the time and it was 1987 Christmas number 1 in the UK charts. It has been voted by Radio 2 as the best cover of all times a few years ago.
The greatest moment of my life was meeting these two lads after a concert in Australia and having them invite me to join them for a glass of wine. They were absolute gentlemen and so kind to this gushing fan. Loved them across 5 decades.
@@poofygoof Ditto the INXS live at Wembley concert. All shot on film, so the recent rescan of it with all the new tech has made for such an amazing video production.
The 1980s were great because there was the perfect essence of fashion music film technology and politicians who were still doing at least some of the people's work, now it's just a giant commercial cabal that Western Society has become. Sometimes fueled by greed sometimes fueled by War but always fueling suffering, take care to find peace joy and love wherever you may find it for those of the rarest of commodities in this century
@@harveypointn.a.s.5243 So true. Looking back from the future people will see the 1960s to the 1990s was, us the people's, greatest and most free time in history.
I watch the official videos the boys, OUR boys upload and I feel happy, and extra privileged to have lived my adult life with them and their music... and also, THEY ARE AN INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL TREASURE and I can't seem to get enough of them!!!
This is one of the best film clips ever made in my eyes and that man in the back of the car is a classic ,one of the rare times a song is better than the original.
Where have all those year gone? When I listen to this song I am 12 again. Then I look in the mirror and wonder who the old man is looking back at me... That vintage aircraft was vintage then and is still flying and very much more vintage now!
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March, 2024........Amazing instrumental and song.....thank you for the 4k version.
10th April, 2024 now & I'm still bopping away to this classic, as well as their new cracker, "Dancing Star"...cheers from 'Down Under', Randy...Matt.
It was Christmas 1987...at a high school friend's birthday party we were all having a great time and as this song started blaring over the radio, "this is the best song ever" remarked one of my friends. Since then that moment and this song has been etched into my memories forever.
I have a similar memory, walking into a gas station one random night fifteen years ago. "Young Turks" by Rod Stewart started playing beginning to end, and I was in love with that song. Still remember that moment to this day vividly
you could've said "have been always on my mind"
I just heard it randomly last week on a online radio I listen, and I liked it, added to my playlist, I keep listening to it again and again...since last week and I love this
В мои сердца тоже ❤😊
oooh I love the radio
It's January 2025 and still listening to the songs of Petshop Boys.. New wave never dies
Of course!!😉😉.
Rolled over into feb
This was the final song at my brother’s funeral service in November.
He loved Pep Shop Boys! 🥰
❤❤❤
Dammit...this song always has me with tears in the corners of my eyes...but now I'm positively crying since your post! My sincere condolences re: the loss of your brother (who clearly possessed great taste in music), my friend...cheers & best wishes from 'Down Under'...Matt.
sorry he died, but he had good taste. It's actually a song I would play at my wife's funeral, should she precede me.
Sending love ❤
Gone to a better place… RIP
This song takes me right back.
Enjoying life, out clubbing, dancing all night and living life with zero worries. Little did I realise how happy I was back then.
So true
Me too!
We all were.
we were living the time of our lives..... the thing is, we didn't know it at the time!
@@daveyusa yes indeed.
When I listen to the Pet Shop Boys, I remember a time when I was happy and didn't know it....this band has been with me throughout my life and they still make me dream....
Exactly
So true...
"A life is like a garden.
Perfect moments can be had,
but not preserved,
except in memory"
L. Nimoy
@@wilhelmhesse1348 A perfect definition! 😀
did you clap your hands
Muy cierto , thanks PSB
God bless Joss Ackland! "I'm glad you asked me twice! ....." "I'm going there, but I like it here. Wherever it is." He makes this video golden.
Alas ! Another man that recognises joss ackland !
Yes, it's a "Waiting for Godot" type character? Saying something while meaning everything and nothing at the same time?
There's so many great lines in the full version (in the film It Couldn't Happen Here) such as "I've just been fishing with Salvador Dali, he used a dotted line. He caught every other fish."
Joss from jozi.we love him.@@that_youtube_channel7343
@@that_youtube_channel7343I was lucky enough to share his company for a short while in late 2004. A wonderful man and generous with his time in my experience. Missed.
1987 - this song is awesome!💥
2024 - this song still awesome!💥
❤Elvis ❤ Pet Shop Boys
@@martinm.5608 ❤👄👄🎸 A M O R 🍓👄👄👄😿
🤩😍
This is the first song I loved from PSB and I still remember where I bought the CD Single and I still feel that it is the one I like the most of all.
2023 es mejor xq vivimos aquella época y con los años nuestros sentidos lo aprecian más ❤
All of us Strangers... thanks for steering me here.
hear hear!
That movie broke me
I came here after watching the movie. what a wonderful film...
❤
For those who are wondering the eccentric passenger in the cab is Joss Ackland, the distinguished English actor who has appeared in over 100 movies, scores of plays and a plethora of television programs in his six-decade career...
Oh God, thank you. It was driving me crazy trying to recall who it was.
Bad bot
Muchas Gracias por su información! lo he visto en innumerables películas
He was ❤I think Joss Ackland and was peron in the original cast of Evita ax
En la caza del octubre rojo hace de embajador de la urrs
This music video looks so good in 4K
I think I'd have died and gone to heaven if the film were remastered for 4k and some killer audio system. Loved it then, love it now. Such a wild ride, ahead of its time and yet remains so incredibly off piste.
Because the movie was shot on celluloid, and this is just a part of it.
@@stefansfundstuecke Name of this movie?
@@arra1892 Are you a PSB Fan. Then you wouldn't ask
@@arra1892 “It Couldn't Happen Here”
It was very sad to hear of Joss Ackland's passing yesterday. For me, he'll always be the hitchhiker in Always On My Mind / It Couldn't Happen Here. Amazing actor 🙏❤️
Rip 😢he was an absolute legend 😢😢😢
Since Joss Ackland passed away recently I actually paid attention to him in the back of the cab and he's amazing! How have I never noticed this?
This and Hunt for Red October are the two references I instantly think of - and maybe this one first and foremost, given how unhinged he in the video. Just looks like he's having fun letting loose ^.^
Leathal Weapon
@@kubamajchrzak1127 “Pick them up with your hands!”
Every time I hear this, it transports me back to Christmas 1987 when I bought the single with a WH Smith voucher and I played it non stop everyday for months...Still one of my all time songs and probably the greatest ever cover to be made
Late 87 - early 88 was one of those gold periods in the UK pop charts. The only 6 months that stands out to me post-85.
WH Smith voucher every 80s kid must have received at least one
@@dax8753 Yep.
After "All of us Strangers" this song will be never the same for me. My brain exploded during that Christmas tree's scene. That scene with those lirycs ... just breathtaking, blew my mind. Always on my (blew) mind.
Takes me back to 1987, junior year of high school. Remember blasting this song on the car radio, driving along with the windows down, hair blowing in the wind. Life was so carefree and fun back then. Love our 80s music!
R.I.P. Joss Ackland
And Gareth Hunt
R.I.P
amén!
Pet shop boys are the soundtrack of my life.From when I bought “Actually” back in 1987 till today,I’m 47 years old and i have so many memories listening to their songs...
Can totally relate.....
yo tengo 48 y pienso lo mismo actually forever.......un saludo.
SAME!!! Ever since a friend of mine taped a copy of *Actually* for me when we were teenagers. That music really, really made a deep and lasting impression on me...
dude we are the same
“Actually “ Was the 1st CD I ever bought when it came out in 1987....didn’t even have a CD player yet either....haha
If I ever have a stroke or a head bleed, this is one of the songs of my mix I want to play while I lay in the hospital recovering. It would remind me of my past with great songs to rejuvenate my soul.
❤😊 Brings back the wonderful music of the 80s!!!
1:36 This is the most emotive part for me, as it represents how fast time pass and that there is always something you couldn't do in the moment and now it's too late
This is FANTASTIC,’ and to anyone listening to this song,’ I wish you good health,’ happiness and peace ☮️ 🤩🤩❤️
Probably the best cover version of all times!
Now that I'm 59 years still listen to the music of the 80s and who else is doing the same having the same feeling, guys we hit the jackpot born at the right time to enjoy that incredible time no handys no violence, like today.
I was 19 in 87 and, WOW!!! The memories are numbing. Watching, Full Metal Jacket at the odeon in Liverpool💞 ps. Joss Ackland,,,, LEGEND!
Confermo nel cuore per sempre anni 80 ❤
After all these years if this was released or new to the charts it would be a No1. Superb 80’s track
Probably not
Those two guys; their music, videos.. In a class of their own. Those times will never come back unfortunately. 6.5 million views, and most of them mine
One of the most beautiful PSB songs ✨
Originally by Brenda Lee
@@MrMatthewWhalen but what a discovery! I didn't know that! I just listened to the original version, what an incredible melody and what a magnificent job PSB did to make it their song!
The 4k remaster is fabulous. At 2:05, I had never noticed the old guy pulling faces at the back before the remaster.
This sure brings back memories...... Youth, the best part of life.
They say youth is wasted on the young and i agree.
Amen!
Omg I am so glad I grew up in the 80s. I had an incredible childhood.
We all did.
Me too!
Me too!!💖
This might be the greatest cover of all time
I totally agree. It's incredible how they pulled off this masterpiece.
I agree
I've said that for years.....
Agreed
The best cover version of ANY song EVER made.
agreed💯
@@petraleopold2713 I bought three copies of this single on vinyl at the time and it was 1987 Christmas number 1 in the UK charts. It has been voted by Radio 2 as the best cover of all times a few years ago.
Johnny Cash - Hurt
I agree completely
@@Scripner...but that song is depressing as f*ck, while this is euphoric
Ooh my God!!! what a voice what a tune... ancestors will enjoy music in heaven..what a talent🙏
One of my favorite 80’s group. So damn talented and underrated. I still have their LP and now my kids are getting into them is even more awesome.
Never understood why so underrated, crazy hey.
Subestimado?....una de las bandas Electrónicas Dance que marcaron época en los 80?.
Me too, bro...
Took my 14 year old to see them earlier this year. He loved it. Fucking awesome parenting if I say so myself.
They are not underrated, bruh, far from it. True legends.
Best version of the song, ever. I am 54 years old and this still effin rocks.
Still love this song and it brings me back to the 80’s. What a decade to grow up in
I love this song so much it was part of my childhood, my uncles spent the afternoons dancing with great joy 😍 I miss you ❤
Who knew that a country song will be come the sound of the late 80's
Hands down, the best cover version of all time.
100 percent, my favorite cover all time ❤
Watch... Family Guy will make Elvis's song a slow dance cover version of the Pet Shop Boy's song, creating an infinite loop courtesy of Baby Stewie!
The greatest moment of my life was meeting these two lads after a concert in Australia and having them invite me to join them for a glass of wine. They were absolute gentlemen and so kind to this gushing fan.
Loved them across 5 decades.
Katherine knows her stuff. Same Christian name as my mother AND same spelling. I know it sounds corny but,,, for real! 😊
Why am I only watching this now in 4K?! Whoever worked on this did an excellent job! It's almost like you're watching a movie.
It was a movie 🙂
One of the Greatest Pet Shop Boys' song, and great actor Joss Ackland
You're right! And he can still see it and that's amazing!
I bumped into Joss Ackland in my local Sainsburys.
95 and still going strong.
...and now: R.i.P Joss Ackland! 😪
The production of this song is second to none.
Every song is amazing. Even now when they are older, the music is amazing. I love PSB!❤
Same me! 👍🏴
One of the best covers ever. Reminds me so much of my childhood.
the video reminds me so much of my childhood..
One of the best covers ever produced... Absolutely Brilliant...
What an amazing treat. I would never have guessed the raw footage would have still existed to do this.
Thank the producers who decided to shoot on film rather than video.
@@poofygoof Ditto the INXS live at Wembley concert. All shot on film, so the recent rescan of it with all the new tech has made for such an amazing video production.
Solo queda decir GRACIAS Pet Shop Boys por tanta linda música. Love you guys from Paraguay 🇵🇾❤️🙌
Saludos de Paraguay 🇵🇾
"hope the music plays forever"
Amen!
❤
Слушаете, значит любите, любите значит всё хорошо будет
The 1980s will never be repeated - the greatest decade in human history.
I gather you didn't grow up in the 70s.
@@LaughingStock_I didn't but would love to have.
@@LaughingStock_Guess you didn't grow up in the 60s
The 1980s were great because there was the perfect essence of fashion music film technology and politicians who were still doing at least some of the people's work, now it's just a giant commercial cabal that Western Society has become. Sometimes fueled by greed sometimes fueled by War but always fueling suffering, take care to find peace joy and love wherever you may find it for those of the rarest of commodities in this century
@@harveypointn.a.s.5243 So true. Looking back from the future people will see the 1960s to the 1990s was, us the people's, greatest and most free time in history.
taking an absolute classic, re-arrange it, change the musical style, and make it a new absolute classic. Incredible.
This is one of my top 20 songs in my play list for life!!
Cinematic quality and best music. Bravo
Amazing cover, one of the best covers of all time, I love how upbeat is but in same time melancholic
I watch the official videos the boys, OUR boys upload and I feel happy, and extra privileged to have lived my adult life with them and their music... and also, THEY ARE AN INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL TREASURE and I can't seem to get enough of them!!!
I love how you said they are an *international* cultural treasure (not just British)!!! *SO TRUE.*
This is still a banger 40 years later!! Pet Shop Boys are always on my mind!!
...you are from future, or you just are not able to count? 🙂
チャーチル首相
dam good video remaster, looks brand new
Thank you boys, classic 80s forever, the music is magic..............................
4K 리마스터링 덕분에 조스 에클랜드 배우분의 시선강탈 모습도 제대로 볼 수 있어서 좋네요.
지금도 12인치 싱글을 소장중인 정말 멋진 곡😍🤩👍
Ребятушки ..... Это шедевр ..... Спасибо Пет Шопам за это! Это мощно, красиво, сильно!!!
только это кавер, но он даже интереснее оригинала
Слава Україні!!!🎉
@@dimamimo5208 я знаю и понимаю, что это кавер, и что? )
@user-gx9pf1dg7n Это тут к чему?
@@ИгорьКиенко-л5пне будет к сожалению украины.доскакались в кружевные трусиках
One of the GREATEST songs of ALL TIME!
Watching this transition literally brought me to tears.
R.I.P Joss...you went away. 😢 A brilliantly unsettling performance here. Great song too!
Where are you going ? I’m going there, but I like it here wherever it is. Life summed up there
That .. left me slightly unsettled for about 20 years
I'm a massive fan and have been to quite a few of your concerts and this track always raises the roof.....
The 80's music still matters 2023💯
80's best music era ❤
1000% true....
And it always will.
This song was awesome years ago now in 2024 it still is
facts
4ever, i mean...
🏂🏂🫠🇬🇧
Lo máximo !
2024 baby,,!! They will be listening to it in 3024.... Its a classic!
Repping the older generation. I love this song.
A timeless classic 🎶 maybe it was the third song I heard by the Pet Shop Boys, and fall in love with them since then. Love you Neil and Chris 🎉
Love the new HD remaster of this awesome song.
Brilliant song and clip. One of my favourite!
I just heard this Song today after a long, long , long time. I blasted it at full volume in my car while driving. EVERYONE enjoyed .😃
One of the greatest covers in history - period.
Gracias Pet Shop Boys.
Desde 1987 que la escucho.
El mejor cover de la Historia.
Desde Valdivia Chile Saludos
What a cover. Just watched them in Liverpool, 34 years after I last saw them at Wembley Arena. Still absolutely superb!
Inspirational song from an inspirational band.
That smirk Chris gives as he looks at the ventriculist is lovely!
This is my favourite song!
"Always on my mind" in 4k in 2k23! The logical step after the excellent movie "It couldn't happen here" on DVD and Blu-ray. Thank you so much! ❤
I have it on VHS
@@kentneil7100 Nice! Never sell it!
@@SpiesserHB I have lots of rare PSB stuff from the 90's.....
@@kentneil7100 I have it on VHS too - very rare, apparently! And surprisingly lucky, considering I found it in Canada, not the UK.
I absolutely love the Pet Shop Boys, this is the music i grew up to. Joss Ackland is fantastic in this video!
Loving all the HD releases, thanks Boys!
His voice is undeniable!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 100% 80s approved 🙌
The upscaling to 4k is gorgeous, tje bright colors reminds me of thr first timr hearing the pet shop boys
A song eternalized in several versions and with a special meaning to each version.
The quality of this upgrade is unbelievable! And so is the song, quite possibly the best cover of all time!
For over 30 years, Pet Shop Boys has really shown me the height of electronic pop.
They're still so cool.
I love ❤ always Pet Shop Boys
I bought 5 of their Albums (Please)in vinyl... Gave them away to friends ..... such a Pivotal Time in my life.... Fun Excitement, Free.....
This is one of the best film clips ever made in my eyes and that man in the back of the car is a classic ,one of the rare times a song is better than the original.
check out Eleanor Rigby by Aussi Band Zoot with Rick Springfield
This was the very first video by PSB I saw in 1988 and I fell in love with them since then. Shine On ❤️☀️
The 80s is the best decade
This is just the best feel good music ever, whenever I'm feeling a bit down I put on the Pet Shop Boys and everything is ok.
Thank you. It`s my childhood and all good that I had.
Both of them might have changed, but their music has never changed.
IMO this is the best cover ever. Love Pet Shop Boys.
This was always one of my favorite songs
This looks incredibly good. Thank you
One of the best bands ever. Who agrees
Dedicated to my late father, always on my mind.
Einer meiner größten Hits soweit ich zurück denken kann🤔
Damn. This looks and sounds great. Best cover ever. This version sounds just as fresh now as it did then.
Thank you for all the music. Love from Mexico PSB :3
Where have all those year gone? When I listen to this song I am 12 again. Then I look in the mirror and wonder who the old man is looking back at me... That vintage aircraft was vintage then and is still flying and very much more vintage now!
What a tune this is ❤