Jamel thank you so much for everything you do, what I love the most is how you help this younger generation appreciate great music they otherwise might not have experienced, much love and Gods blessings my friend 👍
According to Dutch news , earlier this year Golden Earring co-founder , singer and guitarrist George Kooyman was diagnosed with the disease ALS . The band has officially stopped performing after decades . Let's all pray for the health of Brother George . Golden Earring is my favorite European rock band , and I have some song suggestions besides the obvious Radar Love and Twilight Zone . Check out When The Lady Smiles , Midnight Moonlight , Silent Tears , and Long Blonde Animal . My personal favorite is Something Heavy Going Down . The song and video make me recall my days as a navy radar operator on warships sailing in hostile waters . The lyrics ' on a midnight operation when the searchlights make your skin crawl ' give me something close to PTSD feelings . Peace !
Back in the early 80s, noir was a big thing. This vid is a nod to noir films of the 40s and spy movies of the early 60s, with a nice helping of kink sprinkled in for good measure. It's a hit man's experience of being double-crossed, tortured and set up for execution, with his hallucinations contrasting with reality. 'Well the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind...'
Fun fact: Golden Earring’s lead guitarist was a huge Robert Ludlum fan and he wrote this song about a character in one of his novels. You may have heard of him… Jason Bourne
Hard to believe that this band has like 25 albums in their catalog, yet they’re only known for basically 2 songs here in the U.S. But have been big in Europe going back to the 60’s.
It"s a shame Radar Love got most of the airtime from Moontan. Every song on that album is kick butt. However vanilla Queen did get some air time when I was a youngster in the seventies.
@@ronaldpena8990 hell yeah. Budgie are essentially Welsh Rush. Gotta check out Breadfan, Crash Course In Brain Surgery, Anne Neggan, Who Do You Want For Your Love, I Can't See My Feelings, Black Velvet Stallion, I Turned To Stone.
This band started in 1961 and recently stopped performing after George Kooymans (the bands guitarist) was diagnosed with ALS. The rest of the members decided they didn’t want to go on without him.
@@christinerobinson9372 - they had 50 years of Rock'n'Roll together. That's like being married for a lifetime. I guess every one of those years counts for 2. ;)
Ouch. Sad. I have a friend living in A-dam, I guess he was mistaken when he said they were still active. I liked thinking they were still out there somewhere playing. I guess all the best things have to end just like everything else. They had a great run.
Yes, I wish Jamel would've listened to the album version, especially for the bass section and the guitar solo! Which is exactly why I think first time listeners should ignore official videos for songs, since many of them are cut for time for broadcast on MTV.
@@kimdeese6410.. I entered high school in 82'.. Friday night dances after the football games.. rocked to 70's and 80's on the dance floor (gymnasium or cafeteria!) lol. Fun memories!
Working one's ass off in a restaurant kitchen on 6th Street in Austin Tx. Its 11 p.m. on a Friday and the place is jammed...16 crazy,stoned,half drunk folk flinging food like madmen,with this just blaring out of the stereo, Good Times!
"Twilight Zone" is a 1982 hit by Dutch band Golden Earring. It was written by the band's guitarist George Kooymans, who got the inspiration from a book by Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity. "Twilight Zone" appears on their 1982 album Cut and pays tribute to the 1960s television series The Twilight Zone. It spent more than half a year (27 weeks) on the U.S. Pop charts. It was the group's sole Top 10 Pop single on the US Billboard Hot 100 (the song reached #16 on the Cashbox chart) and hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart, the band's only No. 1 hit in America
Wow, so Radar Love only made it to 13 on the Billboard Top 100 but made it to number 10 on US Cashbox top 100. US Billboard Hot 100 13 US Cash Box Top 100 10 I would never have guessed, considering the historical impact their first hit Radar Love had. You can still hear that 4 times a week on any Classic Trax station in the US.
Its amazing to see the band performing this ata music festival in 2015. The guys are damn near 70 and still have it. ruclips.net/video/wEOSDsFVaRU/видео.html
This song was made just after the Cold War was ending when intergovernmental spy and assassin stories were at an apex. The creater of the song was inspired by the book, "The Bourne Identity," which movie we have all seen. However, in this song, The guy is a Russian spy in Turkey. The stanza, "My beacon's been moved under moon and star:" refers to this. The 'beacon' is referring to his own life, and the 'moon and star' is a reference to the crescent moon and star of the Turkish flag. Why Russia and Turkey? Because during the cold war, those two coutries entered into a crisis for which Turkey had to turn to the United States for help, and Russia was believed to use assassins, and then double cross them. Song verse meanings: VERSE 1 ("It's two a.m. The fear has gone I'm sittin' here waitin' The gun still warm Maybe my connection is tired of takin' chances") He's been sent by Russia to Turkey to kill someone, he's just finished the job, his gun is still warm. Now he's sitting in his hotel room waiting for his contact to get him the information he needs to get out of the country. But he realizes his contact is late... VERSE 2: ("Yeah there's a storm on the loose, sirens in my head I'm wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead I cannot decode, my whole life spins into a frenzy") Now he's been abandoned by all his contacts inside the country, (wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead), and he now realizes that his own country is now going to assassinate him because he's a loose end. The rest speaks for itself and is self explanatory
Now i'm a very proud Dutchman! Thank you for this '80s sound of the Earring, Jamal! ♥ It's hard to believe that they won't ever play again after more than 50 Years of Rock & Roll! Guitarplayer George Kooymans has diagnosed ALS so hé can't play anymore. It's sad but thier heritage will never be forgotten. Maybe you can try "Radar Love" one time?
@rib bit unfortunately Spyker has been declared bankrupt for the 20th time last January, so you probably have to wait quite some time to drive one… On the other hand, if you want to drive a Dutch sports car, there still is Donkervoort
I have all their CDs, they are great. Kind of a cross between Foghat and the Rolling Stones. My favorites would be songs like “When the Lady Smiles,” “Paradise in Distress,” “The Devil Made Me Do It,” and “Kill Me” (which was covered by Iron Maiden.
Yeah, the still the cold war was still going strong when this came out. It had the very European feel to it. I always loved this song and video. It was the days when MTV was still new and videos sometimes had East German dancers interrogating spies. Ah, the good times.
This came out in the early days of MTV. This was maybe the very first music video that I can think of that had good acting and a story. I remember loving this song back in the day.
I've heard this song a hundred times, at least; first time was about 1982. I've never looked into Golden Earring and can't even remember ever seeing the video...was kinda cool. But I sure as hell know the song.
The first time I heard this song I was watching an episode of Miami Vice. That was one of the coolest TV shows ever. Imagine a crime drama with music videos.
MV was a game changer for sure!! Maybe Jamel should check MV sound tracks, great music and appearances by Phil Collins, Ted Nugent, Sheena Easton, Glenn Frey, Melanie Griffith, Willie Nelson and many more...Jamel ?????? 👍🏽❤
@@wen-nz3sk I wonder if I watched some of those shows if they'd still be as good as they were then. Back in the day I looked for that show to come on all week.
Not just music, but great mainstream music. I love watching the clip from the pilot, In the Air Tonight is playing. Crockette is driving and Tubbs is loading his shotgun. That's all me and my friends talked about for the next week.
'Twilight Zone' (1982) was directed by Dick Maas, who made THREE of the most successful Dutch movies of all time: Flodder (1986), Amsterdamned (1988) and Flodder in Amerika! (1992). Maas also directed another Golden Earring music video, for their song 'When The Lady Smiles' (1984).
You may have heard when the bullet hits the bone the actual lyric is when the bullet hits the phone why do you think that they show a phone getting shot
3:20 to 3:45 “Like Scarface, The Godfather and The X-Files had a baby.” "just walkin with em out....not a care in the world" - Prime Jamelisms!! I have been away for two weeks. What have I missed?? 😢. I'm lost!! Missed you Jamel!
Most videos back then where like mini movies. Even had the video music awards every year. A real good song and video is the Smugglers Blues by Glen Frey. Both this song and and Smugglers Blues came out when Miami Vice was one of the hottest shows on T.V. And Scar Face was in the theatres . First review my brother. I wish I could take you back to that time. Those where my teenage years.
Golden Earring, Dutch band, highly underrated and underplayed, though in Canada, we did get this played a lot as well as Radar Love, but... they've got a whole catalogue, and I challenge anybody to find a band that is better at telling a story with, not only their lyrics, but the music as well. That is some top notch artistry right there.
@@chrisstory563 I don't know there was a cut version. Then again, it has been about 30 years since I seen it, and stumble across the age restricted version on RUclips.
@@chrisstory563 It must've been a "pan and scan", basically re-edited to zoom in on her above the shoulders. Apparently from what I've read on IMDB, MTV was the one to add the red bar and CENSORED tag. How dare they deface art! :)
One reason I watch your channel is that I've been listening to so many of these rock songs for so many years, but I've never seen any of the music videos. So we're both getting to watch them for the first time. 👍
One of the most popular concept videos from the early days of MTV. The record labels were throwing BIG money into videos then. Some bands were "allowed" to make club versions of their videos; in other words, videos intended to be played in adult night clubs. But the club versions didn't have the "CENSORED" blocking on them. And yes, Motley Crue had a club version of "Girls, Girls, Girls..."!
I was a teen when this came out and all I knew about Golden Earring was that They had 1 hit many years ago. That was many, many, many years ago. 2 hits now....
@Terry In America yes, the rest of the world knows GE oh so very well, 25 Top 10's and since You Tube is world wide, I guess America as usual just does not get it. Says something.
This song came out in 1982...I was 15 year old. When this song was released I went bought their album, Cut. I eventually bought the cassette because a year later I bought a car that had a cassette player in it. Still one of their best songs EVER. The extended version is even better!
The album version has a longer drum solo segment in the middle and a more extended outro. The video and the song are based on spycraft stories of agents being doublecrossed by their own allies. Golden Earring actually holds the World Record for the longest operating (recording and touring) Rock band with 2 original members. Radar Love is another of their big hits, but for some other favorites I recommend: Clear Night Moonlight; She Flies on Strange Wings; Something Heavy Going Down; Ce Soir; Vanilla Queen. Glad you enjoyed it!
"Twilight Zone" came out in 1982. Golden Earring also released "Radar Love" in the mid 70s. THe joke is that Golden Earring were a one-hit wonder. Twice. It's only a joke in the sense that they were the bands biggest US hits. They were bigger in western Europe;
As a sp ed teacher. Id play music in my office during my paper work time! My boss a good mormon lady came and i immediately turned my laptop off ! She said no. Who is that? Lol we turned her on to some great stuff! Our office rocked. They came for the best coffee and music! Lol
This was one of my favorite videos of '82. It seemed like a legitimate episode of the original show, especially with the nightmare scenario at the end: Set up for an execution, blindfold and all, but the execution never comes and he's left there, waiting...and waiting... Primo stuff for early MTV.
Are you receiving me is an incredible song and probably my favorite from Moontan. That whole album was fantastic. Radar Love is good but the rest of the album was underrated.
This song was inspired by reading an obscure novel that came out in the early 1970s. That novel was "The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum, long before anyone ever thought of casting Matt Damon and turning it into an international box office blockbuster series of films.
I went to see them in the 80s in Kalamazoo Mi. There were three bands and they are the only one I remember. They were amazing. The lead guitarist actually sings the leads on this song. Hes an extremely talented musician. They all are and I believe they are still together.
Golden Earring was a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as The Golden Earrings (the definite article was dropped in 1967, while the "s" was dropped in 1969). They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs "Radar Love" in 1973, which went to number one on the Dutch charts, reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, and went to number thirteen on the United States charts, "Twilight Zone" in 1982, and "When the Lady Smiles" in 1984. During their career they have had nearly 30 top-ten singles on the Dutch charts while releasing 25 studio albums.
This is the *short* version of the song! Per IMDB, "The original version of the song is almost 8 minutes long, but the music video was shot for the shorter radio edit only. Over time, fans have made their own versions of the video for the longer cut of the song by adding various concert and other footage. However, these are all unofficial videos. There is no official video for the longer version of the song."
Jamel I'm going to tell you something here that deeply impossible to express how much I love this song. This song will always rank up high as the best song ever. The beat , vocals.. lyrics . is so mesmerizing. Could very easily be ranked in the single digits as far as favorite song of all time.
This song came out in 1982 when I was 15 years old and I was totally blown away by it the first time I heard it on the radio. This version you just reacted to is a much shorter version than what they play on the radio. I heard this before I heard their other hit, Radar Love, and I was hooked into Golden Earring from that day to today.
This is one of those road trip songs. You still need to check out some Montrose, one of the greatest classic rock bands. Check out Rock the Nation or Good Rockin tonight by them
Just before 1:00am where I am . I happened to see this notifier pop up & now I have to stay up to watch your reaction ! Such a great song !! Definitely check out Radar Love by them .
I read years ago that the original title of the song was "When The Bullet Hits The Bone". The record company knew they had a hit on their hands, but realized that no radio station would play a record with that title. Hence we have "Twilight Zone."
Not gonna lie - I absolutely love this song and video. I was a little kid when I saw this on MTV. The uncensored video is cool too. A great video. 👍👍🎸🎸👍👍
I looked this one up, from 1982 so early MTV years video. It says it was inspired by Robert Ludlum's "The Borne Identity" book, which has been remade in to to a new series of movies recently. The book is about a superspy who wakes up with amnesia after an injury and does not know why people are after him or how he has some ninja skills. So the music video does have these themes of confusion and unreality. I always liked the song, but never knew it was inspired by this Ludlum book which I actually read back in the 80's. Great to have two great artforms with this kind of crossover.
Golden Earring, best Dutch rock band ever and so much more than Radar Love and Twilight Zone. Underrated band in America. They have delivered great music with a lot of (unfortunately) undiscovered pearls. Started in 1965 until February 2021 when the band was forced to stop. George Kooymans (singer / guitarist / founder) has the progressive muscle disease ALS. The news about the legendary guitarist of Golden Earring, who is already alive, hits fans, but also many people who have little or nothing to do with his band and rock music.
It came out in 1982 and The music video was one of the first to feature a cinematic storyline and dance choreography and was a hit on the fledgling MTV network (in somewhat edited form, as the original European cut was notable for a sequence featuring a topless woman), helping the song to become the second international hit for the band.
Thing is Jamal... you asked what year was this... well golden earring is a band from the Netherlands... this video was Directed by Paul Verhoeven (total recall) and Jan de bont (speed) who are also dutch.. lead singer Barry Hay is American. Lives somewhere near or in New York.. unfortunatly the Golden Earring had to retire, because one if the guys unfortunatly got diagnosed with ALS/MS... golden earring have been arround as long as The Rolling Stones.. story has it, twilight zone was recorded in an American recording studio, and mick jagger appearently was also in that studio at that time... muick walked out that studio singing the twilight zone... hahaha
When videos first came out in the 80's none of them made any sense, you just have to forget the video and listen to the music.....everyone was still listening to the radio and using their own imagination to each song!
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Do you know RUSH has a "Twilight Zone" song also....?
Jamel thank you so much for everything you do, what I love the most is how you help this younger generation appreciate great music they otherwise might not have experienced, much love and Gods blessings my friend 👍
According to Dutch news , earlier this year Golden Earring co-founder , singer and guitarrist George Kooyman was diagnosed with the disease ALS . The band has officially stopped performing after decades . Let's all pray for the health of Brother George . Golden Earring is my favorite European rock band , and I have some song suggestions besides the obvious Radar Love and Twilight Zone . Check out When The Lady Smiles , Midnight Moonlight , Silent Tears , and Long Blonde Animal . My personal favorite is Something Heavy Going Down . The song and video make me recall my days as a navy radar operator on warships sailing in hostile waters . The lyrics ' on a midnight operation when the searchlights make your skin crawl ' give me something close to PTSD feelings . Peace !
GREAT REACTIONS AND GREAT SONG TO TO REACT TO PAL .. .YOU TOOK ME BACK TO MY YOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW JAMEL I BELIEVE IT CAME OUT IN 1982
Glad you reacted to this song. I haven't heard it in a long time. Have you ever heard The Clash's "Rock The Casbah" (listen to the long version).
'Somewhere in a lonely hotel room there's a guy starting to realize that eternal fate has turned its back on him. It's 2AM'
@Tara Charnow
One of the best spoken opening lines ever! Definitely sets the mood.
Never had a clue what he was saying - thanks for posting !
Thank you! The only thing I can make out of that was it's 2:00 a.m. so I had no idea that phrase was even smoking thank you very much.
It's 2am.
Exactly.. That first line.. Grabs you straight into the story! Love it!
“Like Scarface, The Godfather and The X-Files had a baby.” Hahahah 😂
I died!” 🤣
My baby's womb is so polluted..
Listening to this drinking my morning coffee and just about spewed it across the room 😆😆
I think that’s the best comment I’ve ever heard.
Back in the early 80s, noir was a big thing. This vid is a nod to noir films of the 40s and spy movies of the early 60s, with a nice helping of kink sprinkled in for good measure. It's a hit man's experience of being double-crossed, tortured and set up for execution, with his hallucinations contrasting with reality. 'Well the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind...'
Fun fact: Golden Earring’s lead guitarist was a huge Robert Ludlum fan and he wrote this song about a character in one of his novels. You may have heard of him…
Jason Bourne
Hard to believe that this band has like 25 albums in their catalog, yet they’re only known for basically 2 songs here in the U.S. But have been big in Europe going back to the 60’s.
Check out the band Budgie. Very good from Whales. Big in Europe. Never made it in the U.S..
It"s a shame Radar Love got most of the airtime from Moontan. Every song on that album is kick butt. However vanilla Queen did get some air time when I was a youngster in the seventies.
@@ronaldpena8990 hell yeah. Budgie are essentially Welsh Rush. Gotta check out Breadfan, Crash Course In Brain Surgery, Anne Neggan, Who Do You Want For Your Love, I Can't See My Feelings, Black Velvet Stallion, I Turned To Stone.
My favorite album is N.E.W.S.
That one gets zero radio time.
Only 2 songs?? Man, that really is a shame. They're Dutch, like me. My mom thinks Barry Hay is the hottest man in the world. lol
They wrote two of the greatest Rock songs ever a decade apart. The first was Radar Love.
What was the other?
@@greg2757 another one i can add is "The Devil Made Me Do It", another great rock track by them.
Don't forget 'Another 45 miles' and 'When a lady smiles'.
@six It is sad that most will ever know the real GE, who had many great Progressive Rock songs early on.
@@j0hnn13K The next track from the "Cut" album to be issued.
This band started in 1961 and recently stopped performing after George Kooymans (the bands guitarist) was diagnosed with ALS. The rest of the members decided they didn’t want to go on without him.
Very sad.
@@christinerobinson9372 - they had 50 years of Rock'n'Roll together. That's like being married for a lifetime. I guess every one of those years counts for 2. ;)
Damn. That’s a great story.
@@Rainyman63
The band actually had existed for 60 years.
Ouch. Sad.
I have a friend living in A-dam, I guess he was mistaken when he said they were still active. I liked thinking they were still out there somewhere playing. I guess all the best things have to end just like everything else. They had a great run.
Now imagine that there's another 3 minutes of that song that was edited out of the video version.
Yes, I wish Jamel would've listened to the album version, especially for the bass section and the guitar solo! Which is exactly why I think first time listeners should ignore official videos for songs, since many of them are cut for time for broadcast on MTV.
Inagadadavida anyone?
Tough call with this song because the video is so cool.
One of the first music vids that wasn't just the band playing on a fancy set.
@@centuryrox Probably that was cut out for being too suggestive.
I thought the song had been cut short. As usual some of the best parts too.
Ahhhh!! 1983 lives in my head again!! What a great year
Mine too. Graduated in 1982. We had the best music.
@@kimdeese6410.. I entered high school in 82'.. Friday night dances after the football games.. rocked to 70's and 80's on the dance floor (gymnasium or cafeteria!) lol. Fun memories!
Working one's ass off in a restaurant kitchen on 6th Street in Austin Tx. Its 11 p.m. on a Friday and the place is jammed...16 crazy,stoned,half drunk folk flinging food like madmen,with this just blaring out of the stereo, Good Times!
I was born in 1983! Beavis and Butt-Head introduced me to this song in 1993! I’ve been hooked ever since!✊🏽
"Twilight Zone" is a 1982 hit by Dutch band Golden Earring. It was written by the band's guitarist George Kooymans, who got the inspiration from a book by Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity. "Twilight Zone" appears on their 1982 album Cut and pays tribute to the 1960s television series The Twilight Zone. It spent more than half a year (27 weeks) on the U.S. Pop charts. It was the group's sole Top 10 Pop single on the US Billboard Hot 100 (the song reached #16 on the Cashbox chart) and hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart, the band's only No. 1 hit in America
So Radar Love didn't chart top ten in the US ever?
Wow, so Radar Love only made it to 13 on the Billboard Top 100 but made it to number 10 on US Cashbox top 100.
US Billboard Hot 100 13
US Cash Box Top 100 10
I would never have guessed, considering the historical impact their first hit Radar Love had. You can still hear that 4 times a week on any Classic Trax station in the US.
Its amazing to see the band performing this ata music festival in 2015. The guys are damn near 70 and still have it. ruclips.net/video/wEOSDsFVaRU/видео.html
Thanks for the information. I'm going to be all up into this hit.
It's a shame the movie series didn't pick up on that and use the song!
"Scarface, X-FILES and the Godfather had a baby!" Dude, I.Am.Ded 🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️💀👻
My baby's womb is so polluted.
This song was made just after the Cold War was ending when intergovernmental spy and assassin stories were at an apex. The creater of the song was inspired by the book, "The Bourne Identity," which movie we have all seen.
However, in this song, The guy is a Russian spy in Turkey. The stanza, "My beacon's been moved under moon and star:" refers to this. The 'beacon' is referring to his own life, and the 'moon and star' is a reference to the crescent moon and star of the Turkish flag.
Why Russia and Turkey? Because during the cold war, those two coutries entered into a crisis for which Turkey had to turn to the United States for help, and Russia was believed to use assassins, and then double cross them.
Song verse meanings:
VERSE 1
("It's two a.m.
The fear has gone
I'm sittin' here waitin'
The gun still warm
Maybe my connection is tired of takin' chances")
He's been sent by Russia to Turkey to kill someone, he's just finished the job, his gun is still warm. Now he's sitting in his hotel room waiting for his contact to get him the information he needs to get out of the country. But he realizes his contact is late...
VERSE 2:
("Yeah there's a storm on the loose, sirens in my head
I'm wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead
I cannot decode, my whole life spins into a frenzy")
Now he's been abandoned by all his contacts inside the country, (wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead), and he now realizes that his own country is now going to assassinate him because he's a loose end.
The rest speaks for itself and is self explanatory
This was 1982 Jamel. Always been one of my favorites ❤
Now i'm a very proud Dutchman! Thank you for this '80s sound of the Earring, Jamal! ♥ It's hard to believe that they won't ever play again after more than 50 Years of Rock & Roll!
Guitarplayer George Kooymans has diagnosed ALS so hé can't play anymore.
It's sad but thier heritage will never be forgotten.
Maybe you can try "Radar Love" one time?
Yes. So next song should be Herman Brood - Saturday Night !!
He reacted to that the other day! Hoera!
@rib bit unfortunately Spyker has been declared bankrupt for the 20th time last January, so you probably have to wait quite some time to drive one…
On the other hand, if you want to drive a Dutch sports car, there still is Donkervoort
I have all their CDs, they are great. Kind of a cross between Foghat and the Rolling Stones. My favorites would be songs like “When the Lady Smiles,” “Paradise in Distress,” “The Devil Made Me Do It,” and “Kill Me” (which was covered by Iron Maiden.
Agreed. The Earring make me proud to be Dutch! :)
I've waited forever for Jamel to react to this song. Dang good lyrics in that incredible song.
This had things from every spy novel and movie ever created.
Yeah, the still the cold war was still going strong when this came out. It had the very European feel to it. I always loved this song and video. It was the days when MTV was still new and videos sometimes had East German dancers interrogating spies. Ah, the good times.
It's based on the Bourne Identity book.
This song was written after the singer read the first Bourne novel. It's about the Bourne Identity.
It was 1982 the year I graduated high school. This song brings backs memories.
I graduated in '82 also - I'd give anything I have to go back!
I was in grade 10
@@Vampyre82 me too! Let's get a time machine!!
ditto, also an '82 grad... feels like both just yesterday and 100 years ago
@@traceyc2576 If only! I hope when I go to Heaven, it's perpetually the 80s.
This came out in the early days of MTV. This was maybe the very first music video that I can think of that had good acting and a story. I remember loving this song back in the day.
I've heard this song a hundred times, at least; first time was about 1982. I've never looked into Golden Earring and can't even remember ever seeing the video...was kinda cool. But I sure as hell know the song.
Definitely among the best music videos of all time. Man I miss those MTV Days.
One of the best music videos…when music videos were creative and MTV was worth watching.
I still jam to this song and Golden Earring
The first time I heard this song I was watching an episode of Miami Vice. That was one of the coolest TV shows ever. Imagine a crime drama with music videos.
MV was a game changer for sure!!
Maybe Jamel should check MV sound tracks, great music and appearances by Phil Collins, Ted Nugent, Sheena Easton, Glenn Frey, Melanie Griffith, Willie Nelson and many more...Jamel ?????? 👍🏽❤
@@wen-nz3sk I wonder if I watched some of those shows if they'd still be as good as they were then. Back in the day I looked for that show to come on all week.
Not just music, but great mainstream music. I love watching the clip from the pilot, In the Air Tonight is playing. Crockette is driving and Tubbs is loading his shotgun. That's all me and my friends talked about for the next week.
'Twilight Zone' (1982) was directed by Dick Maas, who made THREE of the most successful Dutch movies of all time: Flodder (1986), Amsterdamned (1988) and Flodder in Amerika! (1992).
Maas also directed another Golden Earring music video, for their song 'When The Lady Smiles' (1984).
"You are gonna know when the bullet hits the bone" that lyric is powerful.
I always thought it was, "You will come to know/when the bullet hits the bone."
You may have heard when the bullet hits the bone the actual lyric is when the bullet hits the phone why do you think that they show a phone getting shot
@@stuartkruse2690 nope, know Ceasar, George, Barry very well. Dutch band. It's the bone.
3:20 to 3:45 “Like Scarface, The Godfather and The X-Files had a baby.” "just walkin with em out....not a care in the world" - Prime Jamelisms!! I have been away for two weeks. What have I missed?? 😢. I'm lost!! Missed you Jamel!
I'm probably a victim of my era, but this is one of my favorite songs of all time. :)
That interlude bass is funky as hell and I love it so much, it's such fun to play, as is the rest of this amazing song
Love this band. Love this song...great lyrics...soon you will come to know, when the bullet hits the bone...
Most videos back then where like mini movies. Even had the video music awards every year.
A real good song and video is the Smugglers Blues by Glen Frey.
Both this song and and Smugglers Blues came out when Miami Vice was one of the hottest shows on T.V.
And Scar Face was in the theatres .
First review my brother.
I wish I could take you back to that time. Those where my teenage years.
Twilight Zone, Smugglers Blues, and Don't Take Me Alive...the three songs I like to call the Trouble Trio.
Oh yeah ! My driving song ! My workout song ! This song kicks total ass !
LOL I left a comment that it is one of my workout songs too
I said in a work icebreaker meeting this was my driving song. It was not well received. Said more about them than it does about me! 😆
@@kodiosmond6185 LOL They sound like no fun
I’m sorry. Kicks total ass is now in my lexicon. Love it.
This song song has been one of my constantly listened to since my teen years of the 80s decade, best time of my life!
They did a great job of creating the feeling of watching a twilight zone episode...kinda trippy kinda rock kinda dance. Ultimate 80s song!
The first video I ever saw on MTV back in 1982👍🏼
MTV all music videos 24/7. A precious memory of the past.
This is my all time favorite song to blast while I’m cruising down the highway
Then Radar Love has to run a close second, right ?
@@kenr.4526 correct! Followed by La Grange
Golden Earring, Dutch band, highly underrated and underplayed, though in Canada, we did get this played a lot as well as Radar Love, but... they've got a whole catalogue, and I challenge anybody to find a band that is better at telling a story with, not only their lyrics, but the music as well. That is some top notch artistry right there.
The drumming in this song is incredible
That and the killer-simple bassline. It's literally the easiest bass to just randomly jam to for no reason whatsoever. I fucking love this song.
Exactly! @@josephschultz3301
Basic but effective.
THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE JOHN WICK MOVIES LMAO
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The entire run of The Sopranos I waited for them to use this song. They never did. Missed opportunity for sure.
Inspired by the book not movie The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Good call. 👍
@@julilla1 you got that right girl lmao
"Where do I go now that I"ve gone too far?"
Was always a favorite. Ahhhh, the memories, the memories.
Such an underrated song.
And very underrated band
@@douglasainsworth2448 Agreed
'Radar Love' gets all the love, but 'Twilight Zone' has the _balls_ . ;^)
@@BoojumFed Well said.
Definitely well said
Nothing like cranking that up on a road trip!!!
Followed up by Radar Love
Because of the nudity, this video was only played after 8pm in MTV. Remember when they played music videos?
I think they editing the bedroom scene by having the girl seen from head to shoulder. didn't know there was an uncut version.
@@chrisstory563 I don't know there was a cut version. Then again, it has been about 30 years since I seen it, and stumble across the age restricted version on RUclips.
MTV: Music videos? What are those again?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
@@chrisstory563 It must've been a "pan and scan", basically re-edited to zoom in on her above the shoulders. Apparently from what I've read on IMDB, MTV was the one to add the red bar and CENSORED tag. How dare they deface art! :)
I WANT MY Mtv!!🤘
Picture It......19 yrs old at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA on New Years Eve watching them play this live - One of the best concerts ever.
One reason I watch your channel is that I've been listening to so many of these rock songs for so many years, but I've never seen any of the music videos. So we're both getting to watch them for the first time. 👍
Amazing song. I've heard it thousands of times and it never gets old.
One of my all time favorite songs by one of my all time favorite bands ♥️🎶🎸♥️
Their #1 Billboard hit from '82. As Radar Love was so '70's Twilight Zone epitomizes the '80's. Great video too...
One of the most popular concept videos from the early days of MTV. The record labels were throwing BIG money into videos then. Some bands were "allowed" to make club versions of their videos; in other words, videos intended to be played in adult night clubs. But the club versions didn't have the "CENSORED" blocking on them. And yes, Motley Crue had a club version of "Girls, Girls, Girls..."!
“Sireens in my head”. Just a flat out great song. Love the guitar work on the outro.
I was a teen when this came out and all I knew about Golden Earring was that They had 1 hit many years ago.
That was many, many, many years ago. 2 hits now....
@Terry In America yes, the rest of the world knows GE oh so very well, 25 Top 10's and since You Tube is world wide, I guess America as usual just does not get it. Says something.
She flies on strange wings
When the lady smiles
Buddy Joe
many more!
This song came out in 1982...I was 15 year old. When this song was released I went bought their album, Cut. I eventually bought the cassette because a year later I bought a car that had a cassette player in it. Still one of their best songs EVER. The extended version is even better!
Oh man, I love this song! Never seen Golden Earring play it live, but absolutely love this jam!!
Check out this live version: ruclips.net/video/TKktECKDgIs/видео.html
The album version has a longer drum solo segment in the middle and a more extended outro. The video and the song are based on spycraft stories of agents being doublecrossed by their own allies. Golden Earring actually holds the World Record for the longest operating (recording and touring) Rock band with 2 original members. Radar Love is another of their big hits, but for some other favorites I recommend: Clear Night Moonlight; She Flies on Strange Wings; Something Heavy Going Down; Ce Soir; Vanilla Queen. Glad you enjoyed it!
She Flies on Strange Wings is my favorite GE song
ALSO - Mad Love's Comin'.
I dislike shortened versions of songs in general but whenever i hear the edited version of Twilight Zone I really feel cheated.
"Twilight Zone" came out in 1982.
Golden Earring also released "Radar Love" in the mid 70s. THe joke is that Golden Earring were a one-hit wonder. Twice. It's only a joke in the sense that they were the bands biggest US hits. They were bigger in western Europe;
As a sp ed teacher. Id play music in my office during my paper work time! My boss a good mormon lady came and i immediately turned my laptop off ! She said no. Who is that? Lol we turned her on to some great stuff! Our office rocked. They came for the best coffee and music! Lol
Has anybody got that time machine built yet? Come on, chop chop, not getting any younger here!
RIGHTTTTT ...... I hear that
So you say chop, chop too...lol
Glad I don't have to react to the video, I can just close my eyes and enjoy the music.
I really like this dude! He's all about it people uniting for good! I love the slogans on his shirts! Good vibes to you too!
This was one of my favorite videos of '82. It seemed like a legitimate episode of the original show, especially with the nightmare scenario at the end: Set up for an execution, blindfold and all, but the execution never comes and he's left there, waiting...and waiting...
Primo stuff for early MTV.
"Candy's Going Bad", "The Vanilla Queen", "Are You Receiving Me?"... I loved Golden Earring.
Are you receiving me is an incredible song and probably my favorite from Moontan. That whole album was fantastic. Radar Love is good but the rest of the album was underrated.
The music in the middle is a great piece!
This song was inspired by reading an obscure novel that came out in the early 1970s. That novel was "The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum, long before anyone ever thought of casting Matt Damon and turning it into an international box office blockbuster series of films.
Thought's for Earring guitarist and founder member George Kooymans who was recently diagnosed with ALS and so can no longer perform.
I went to see them in the 80s in Kalamazoo Mi. There were three bands and they are the only one I remember. They were amazing. The lead guitarist actually sings the leads on this song. Hes an extremely talented musician. They all are and I believe they are still together.
Golden Earring just retired this year! One of the most underrated bands out there!
Golden Earring was a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as The Golden Earrings (the definite article was dropped in 1967, while the "s" was dropped in 1969). They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs "Radar Love" in 1973, which went to number one on the Dutch charts, reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, and went to number thirteen on the United States charts, "Twilight Zone" in 1982, and "When the Lady Smiles" in 1984. During their career they have had nearly 30 top-ten singles on the Dutch charts while releasing 25 studio albums.
Oh ya a lot of people been waiting for this one!
This is the *short* version of the song! Per IMDB, "The original version of the song is almost 8 minutes long, but the music video was shot for the shorter radio edit only. Over time, fans have made their own versions of the video for the longer cut of the song by adding various concert and other footage. However, these are all unofficial videos. There is no official video for the longer version of the song."
All I really want is a cleaned up HD remaster...of the unedited version lol
Jamel I'm going to tell you something here that deeply impossible to express how much I love this song. This song will always rank up high as the best song ever. The beat , vocals.. lyrics . is so mesmerizing. Could very easily be ranked in the single digits as far as favorite song of all time.
This song came out in 1982 when I was 15 years old and I was totally blown away by it the first time I heard it on the radio. This version you just reacted to is a much shorter version than what they play on the radio. I heard this before I heard their other hit, Radar Love, and I was hooked into Golden Earring from that day to today.
This is one of those road trip songs. You still need to check out some Montrose, one of the greatest classic rock bands. Check out Rock the Nation or Good Rockin tonight by them
Rock Candy!!!
@@yn2skynyrd you're hard sweet and sticky! Cause you're Rock Candy babe, you're hard sweet and sticky.
Montrose - "Connection". Good as any, better'n some.
OMG! I FORGOT ABOUT THIS SONG
.THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
Just before 1:00am where I am . I happened to see this notifier pop up & now I have to stay up to watch your reaction ! Such a great song !!
Definitely check out Radar Love by them .
I read years ago that the original title of the song was "When The Bullet Hits The Bone". The record company knew they had a hit on their hands, but realized that no radio station would play a record with that title. Hence we have "Twilight Zone."
One of the most CRIMINALLY under-recognized guitar bridges, ever.
Yay! This song is one of my all time favorites! 🙂♥️
One of the best air drumming songs ever. Especially the extended version.
Great music is an absolute understatement 👌 This is one of the most killer bass guitar riffs ever written.
The 'Young Elvis' is the same guy who sang 'Radar Love' about 10 years earlier!
"Where am I to go now that I've gone too far.."(says everyone who's killed someone-dont do it)😒 ty for another most awesome classic,JakaJ😁🤙
Not gonna lie - I absolutely love this song and video. I was a little kid when I saw this on MTV. The uncensored video is cool too. A great video. 👍👍🎸🎸👍👍
This was released in 1982, based on the book by Robert Ludlum "The Bourne Identity". It's considered one of the greatest songs ever written.
I looked this one up, from 1982 so early MTV years video. It says it was inspired by Robert Ludlum's "The Borne Identity" book, which has been remade in to to a new series of movies recently. The book is about a superspy who wakes up with amnesia after an injury and does not know why people are after him or how he has some ninja skills. So the music video does have these themes of confusion and unreality. I always liked the song, but never knew it was inspired by this Ludlum book which I actually read back in the 80's. Great to have two great artforms with this kind of crossover.
Golden Earring, best Dutch rock band ever and so much more than Radar Love and Twilight Zone.
Underrated band in America. They have delivered great music with a lot of (unfortunately) undiscovered pearls.
Started in 1965 until February 2021 when the band was forced to stop.
George Kooymans (singer / guitarist / founder) has the progressive muscle disease ALS. The news about the legendary guitarist of Golden Earring, who is already alive, hits fans, but also many people who have little or nothing to do with his band and rock music.
This is a great song it is a JAM!
There's a whole world of great songs by this band if you ever are curious. Their career is long and storied.
One of the classic/CLASSIC songs from the 1980s! 80s was the best decade!
It came out in 1982 and The music video was one of the first to feature a cinematic storyline and dance choreography and was a hit on the fledgling MTV network (in somewhat edited form, as the original European cut was notable for a sequence featuring a topless woman), helping the song to become the second international hit for the band.
1982 I do believe close anyway at least that's when i was jamming to it in the clubs hell yeah 👍✌️♥️
Right? They played this in clubs and bars relentlessly
This song was 1982. band formed in 1961. Netherlands, Dutch.
Thing is Jamal... you asked what year was this... well golden earring is a band from the Netherlands... this video was Directed by Paul Verhoeven (total recall) and Jan de bont (speed) who are also dutch.. lead singer Barry Hay is American. Lives somewhere near or in New York.. unfortunatly the Golden Earring had to retire, because one if the guys unfortunatly got diagnosed with ALS/MS... golden earring have been arround as long as The Rolling Stones.. story has it, twilight zone was recorded in an American recording studio, and mick jagger appearently was also in that studio at that time... muick walked out that studio singing the twilight zone... hahaha
This whole album kicks ass, especially Future and Last of the Mohicans.
I also liked the devil made me do it. 👍😎
Think it's been 40 years since I've heard this song. Damn I'm old af 🤦🏻♀️
This tune and their song Radar Love are on my permanent Driving Tunes play list. Thanks for reacting to this one Jamel!
This song gets me on the dance floor every. single. time!
One of golden earring best songs.
I believe it was the 80’s, that song and radar love were both hits on the same album, the best decade for music, hands down!
When videos first came out in the 80's none of them made any sense, you just have to forget the video and listen to the music.....everyone was still listening to the radio and using their own imagination to each song!
Golden Earring are very underrated. I love this band. Great reaction once again, Jamel. Peace and love brother.
A MTV favorite from 1982!
The girls were the same dancers that were in Billy Idol's White Wedding song.
The RUSH poster on the wall is just EPIC!!!