Music video by Nik Kershaw performing Wouldn't It Be Good. (C) 1984 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited vevo.ly/R9l9xJ
Nik is a really nice guy in person aswell. I do security at Lets Rock 80's festival that travels around the uk and I talk to him every time. One thing is for sure. He always remembers a face. First time I met him was last year at Lets Rock Sunderland. A year later he remembered who I was.
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change them for the world!
@Jenna Same here sister. The benefit we have is that we can rewind time and listen to these songs again, and suddenly we are transported back to that time again
@Jenna Yes, that's true Jenna. These are surreal times. You know, I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them 😉
80s folks, because I didn't experience the 80s myself I can confirm that: The music you grew up with holds up incredibly well, the way you feel about it isn't just the nostalgia talking.
@@brandonwoo8299 I was only 10 but I loved it, I didn't ignore it, I danced to it, it made me happy. Older people ignored it, thinking its just noisy shit compared to what they grow up with, and they are depressed from life experience crushing their spirit.
Oh, yeah, i love you, my melody, i'm listenin' to themme in june 13 in 2020, my lady. Very good, the 80's songs are specials. suarezalberto575@gmail.com 13-6-2020 12:02 Generation 2020.
This song hits hard for me. After I lost my husband to cancer in 2021, the lyrics described how I felt at the time. I literally didn't want to be here no more. Only for our son, did I keep going. This song still gets me choked up though when I listen to it. Such a deep and fantastic song xx
Me: Hi there! My deep respects! I don't know such deaĺ of pain; though, these days vary so much from those 80's driven tunes, concepts, lyrics, melodies and more... that you get into outsided mode n' else. Please, is OK... You're not alone. Nice reading on ya...!
I am now 56 and every day I go back to the 80s.......a time when I was at comprehensive school, paper round, college, first car, first job, loads of mates, out down the pub every night, football, great music and fashion. Punks, skins and mods, nothing was false like today. I have had children and saw that none of them lived their teenage years like we did..........we were lucky.
This is something I like a lot with 80's new wave and pop songs : behind the out-of-this-world instrumentals and flashy trends or weird clips, you can notice a very down-to-earth melancholy and existential angst which countered the superficiality this era wanted to drown people into in the West.
I was an apprentice in 84,for £2 ,3 pints of bitter,game of pool,a packet of cheese and onion crisps.£37.50 a week ,£10 board,saved for my moped ,fs1e.Glory days!!
Nik Kershaw is without doubt one of the most underrated solo artists of the 80's. Not only is he a brilliant guitarist, his lyrics and song writing ability is second to none. Its desperate when you listen to the total crap that's hitting the charts now compared to stuff like this song. A reminder of just how great the 80's really was. The best era for music in my opinion by far..... 👍😎
Three decades ago, walking out of school one evening with this on my mind, the sun on my face and wondering where I fit in. Thirty five years later, I'm not sure I've found out yet but this song is still here and the sun is still on my face.
Best comment I have seen today, thank you. I was falling asleep when I saw it too but it woke me up! I am 50 and feel the same. I have been listening to Nik Kershaw since 1984 when I bought the album ( it is still fantastic) and I feel the same much of the time when I hear the music as I did then. The follow up album was superb too.
@@eightiesmusic1984 I never really paid much attention to Nik during his heyday. When the lady cooks at my Scripture Union camp kept playing his songs I became well and truly hooked. Similar story with Gilbert O'Sullivan in the 70's.
@@davidkelly1414 Glad you have enjoyed his music through the years. I saw him live in Liverpool in 2011 at a small venue. His vocals and guitar playing were just as good as in his prime in the eighties. I could not help think of the contrast between a small crowd and his performance at the legendary Live Aid on another day now far away in July 1985. The cooks had good taste in music!
Oh im still listening 🖐🏼good memories that make me feel somewhat sad thinking about how easy life was back then its weird listening to these songs wishing you could go back and try to imagine what your future would look like, i bet it wouldn’t be you lay in bed at 23.15pm listening to 80s music reminiscing bout the past WOW that was deep even for me but im sure you get the jist of it 😂
@joannependlebury6644 I get you for sure too long ago, but yes, things were easier, and the music was sooo good. Wish I could travel back there just for a day or two, lol. Miss these days 🥺
The difference between the old music and today's music is simply one things...the older music lives on the new music dies in a week enuff said.glad I lived in that decade.😊👌
Your absolutely right! Most of the new songs are boring, only 3 minutes long and always the same rhythm. Many of the songs today are finished when many of the 80s-Songs begin their after a long interesting intro. And in most of the 80s Songs you have rythm-changes, breaks, they play with the sound … You see, I’m totally in love with the 80s sound! 😊❤️
And I’m so glad that I was a teenager in the 80s! It was a wonderful, fantastic, phenomenal, easy living time with cool movies and extraordinary outstanding music!
In the early 80's I was working in the studio of a merchandise company in London and one of the t-shirt logos I was asked to design was Nick Kershaw. Wish I'd kept the t-shirt! Great days!
That's so cool, I met him in the 90s in Mark King (level42) dressing room, I agree, top bloke! I blurted out 'I loved you when I was at school' for some reason they had a good laugh over that, but Nik hadn't been around since I was at school(left in 86) so I just meant that. So cool so many80s bands are doing the rounds, I can pretend I'm a teenager again xx
He was an old neighbour of mine, We was really good friends with him and Sherrie, I am still in touch with his first wife Sherrie, he even used to read bed time stories to my son
Something about the 80s. . It was a decade like no other. . for me, musically speaking and having grown up in the 70s and 80s it was magic.. Music of the 80s can never be topped.
My brother is 51, I'm 61. We both are mesmerised by the 80s music. Nothing else comes closer, nothin' ! Today, we are still listening to the 80s. Greetings & love from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾 ❤️
@markemsworth4235 Thk you, Mark.❤ Here's a very special X'mas greetings to you and your loved ones coming real soon on 25 Dec 2023. All the best for 2024. Peace for all, Peace to Humankind to make our tiny Earth we call Home, a safe place for everyone to live.
One of the greatest songs of the 1980's. This song brings back so many great memories of 1984.. Great friends, music and life in general.I would love to go back to my teenage years in that decade. Things were not perfect , but so much better than now. Nik Kershaw , you are brilliant.
@@lyrimetacurl0 Music at least half good as this (I'd say just as good) nowadays are made for example by Tame Impala, MGMT, Tennis, Sports and Future Islands. Those are just bands I've discovered recent times. I recommend you to try. (:
I got it bad You don't know how bad I got it You got it easy You don't know when you've got it good It's getting harder Just keeping life and soul together I'm sick of fighting Even though I know I should The cold is biting Through each and every nerve and fibre My broken spirit is frozen to the core I don't want to be here no more Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes Even if it was for just one day? Wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away? Wouldn't it be good to be on your side? The grass is always greener over there Wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care? You must be joking You don't know a thing about it You've got no problem I'd stay right there if I were you I got it harder You couldn't dream how hard I got it Stay out of my shoes If you know what's good for you The heat is stifling Burning me up from the inside The sweat is coming through each and every pore I don't want to be here no more I don't want to be here no more I don't want to be here no more Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes Even if it was for just one day? Wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away? Wouldn't it be good to be on your side? The grass is always greener over there Wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care? I got it bad You don't know how bad I got it You got it easy You don't know when you've got it good It's getting harder Just keeping life and soul together I'm sick of fighting Even though I know I should I don't want to be here no more I don't want to be here no more
This song is transcendental art masquerading as pop music. Nik knows how to create music that taps into something very subtle and deep that's buried within us all.
My best decade of all. Born in the 60's, tried to figure what growing up was all about in the 70's, went out out into the wide world in the 80's and put my stamp on it by getting married in 88. Any song in the 80's conjours up nostalgic memories for me, times, places, the smells and of course friends and acquaintances who shared those ups and downs with us. I'm a father of 3, grandad to 2 (so far), still married to the same girl who stole my heart with her crazy Maddona look. My kids and grandkids think i'm a nutter when Frankie, DuranDuran, the Cure etc. is played and i start my jigging thing going on lol but god, wouldn't it be nice to be my youth in the 80's for just one more day ...... Peace guys xxx
I love how at 3:56, the solo part goes: "even if it was for just one..." and then it switch over to multiple voices just as the other character on screen says: "day!" Pure goodness.
I'd be honored if some fans of 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of AGAINST ALL ODDS by Phil Collins, PRAYING FOR TIME by George Michael, and EYE OF THE TIGER by Survivor on my YT channel in tribute to the era of legendary power ballads. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks & peace.
Stop whinging - Granddad in 1942 went to war and watched his best mate get shot to bits - me in 2020? Had to stop socializing with insufferable idiots.
Please please please take me back!!! I was so in love with this song and still am all these years later!!!!! I miss the 80s, who the duck would have thought it could be this bad..11\11\2023.
My friends and I ended up backstage with Nik and The Krew in 1984, Edinburgh Playhouse, courtesy of my artwork and a kind security guard - none of us have forgotten it and we’re all 50 this year. This song means so much to me!! ❤️❤️
We will always keep the 80s music alive and in our hearts. We always lift our spirits when we put 80s music on. Thanks Nick Kershaw for being such a big part of our memories.
I was 12 when this came out, just about to hit my teens! Nik was the hottest thing back then! Still is now! There was no internet back then just tape decks, countdown, and MTV!! I'd stay up late just to watch the top 10 and get a glimpse of Nik! I was crazy about him!! I'd write every lyric down on paper and practice every word! I still know every song he wrote!! Best days !! 💕😄🙏
This was the "light" music of the 80s ... to the face .... Thanks Nik ... One of the most beautiful hits of the period ... and then the solo with electronic horns and triplets .... ... when even the pop music was of quality and full of ideas and good taste ....... what good times ....
I just love his enunciation and breathing technique. There's no slurring, no audible breathing or even gasping. He hits every note and syllable with precision. Given that it's "just" pop, and not something like opera, I feel like people often underestimate singers like him, no matter the commercial success. As if it were mostly just that they were born with this kind of voice. Still you need to practice just as much as someone who wants to master a musical instrument.
As someone who has butchered this song a trillion times in Karaoke-bars, I can only agree with your statement. The way he sings is actually what's gotten me hooked to the artist. It's not often that I can fully understand a songs lyrics the first time around. But it doesn't sound overly deliberate, it doesn't feel technical. Just his unique style. Love it.
I actually remember when this song was released in January '84 January 20th 1984 It's incredulous to believe that this song is going to be 40 years old in January 2024 A brilliant 80s gem 💎 👏 ✨️ Good songs never seem to get old In fact like fine wine they actually get better as they age Nick kershaw was a superstar in the early to mid 80s If I can remember he performed this song at live aid in 1985 Wouldn't it be good if modern music was as good as this 👌 🎶
Me: Hi There! On the counttary. I've listened that good one in late 1987, for first time... on the car radio, that used to take me to school. But, still... woildn't it be good, if 'musak' these days shows off away... !? Music from the 80's is unsuspected, by comparison, with some originally more content of it self ( as well as quallity of it own... ) to consider in many items ( ...from our living memories, it's OK... ) more gaderingsome of an option, weather alone or with your budies and love ones; I mean, what kind of power is such... !?
We all have a battle to fight sweetheart, don't ever be sick of fighting, the fact that your fighting says your strong, it's when you stop fighting it means you gave up, don't give up👊Take care 🙏x
Every single song my dad keeps listening over and over is a masterpiece. I don't like all of them immediately, but always end up loving them. This one I used to hate because he would blast it on the car EVERY.SINGLE.TIME ... but here I am... no one forced me to search this song... It's 4 AM and this song just seems PERFECT PS: I still live with him and as we grow older our music taste match more and more... and I am not complaining at all hehe
back in 2010 I backpacked through Syria before it all went to shit. I had this song on my iPod and listened to it over and over and over. Now years later it will always remind me of that incredible time.
It depresses me when the young people of today don't realize what decent music is!! Music will never be the same EVER again. This music, particularly the eighties, was inspiring and uplifting. Yes they still had music about drugs and other absurd things. But oh boy the music was so much better. Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Adele and Nicki Minaj just don't speak to me. However this music will always speak a message. It has a meaning. A purpose!
@Real?Girl: you gotta look harder there's lotsa good music still but not much of it reaches us through mass media.But having said that tracks such as this classic hit deeper if it's part of your life , especially your teens or twenties. Taste is a funny thing - mine is actually impeccable ! 😂✌️🏼😎 🐂💨💨💨💨💨💨💨
1983 was the most memorable year of my life. Dire Straits Alchemy tour, movie An Officer and a Gentleman and my time living and working in Norway. Never will I forget it. ❤
@@roydavis5613 🙂🙂 I'm glad th@ these tyms wr(were) happy & productiv 4 @ least SOMEONE out there!!! @ the least, I c(a)n alw(a)ys rely on this IMMORTAL opus by Nicholas David 2 inspyr & recrudesce me!!!.....
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They dont make music like this nowadays💯
Nik is a really nice guy in person aswell. I do security at Lets Rock 80's festival that travels around the uk and I talk to him every time. One thing is for sure. He always remembers a face. First time I met him was last year at Lets Rock Sunderland. A year later he remembered who I was.
That's really nice to know :)
That's really cool, good to see artists who are grounded and don't have an ego.
If you ever see him again please tell him the starseeds and light workers send love and light ❤️❤️🙏🙏🌎🌎🕯️🕯️
I snogged him sometime in the early eighties 💋
He doesn`t get out that much lol
This is a masterpiece from the 80's
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change them for the world!
Me neither! I have been one of the lucky ones, just like you! Oh, the '80s!
@@CaritoWest Right up there👍
@Jenna Same here sister. The benefit we have is that we can rewind time and listen to these songs again, and suddenly we are transported back to that time again
@Jenna Yes, that's true Jenna. These are surreal times. You know, I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them 😉
@Jenna ❤️
80s folks, because I didn't experience the 80s myself I can confirm that: The music you grew up with holds up incredibly well, the way you feel about it isn't just the nostalgia talking.
Who's listening in 2024?
Yes.
me
And ME 🙋🏻♀️
nope
even from Japan.
Folks don't be sad that the 80s are gone. Be glad that they existed and we experienced them in our bones and soul ❤
Makes me feel young again, the thrill of it all x UK den
同感です♪
Playlist with best-selling singles of the 80s in the UK: ruclips.net/p/PL6oCQqv2KW6XIEHtzEroDJt2a1vFwmyLW
1983 was the best year of my life. Dire Straits Alchemy tour, An Officer and a Gentleman, my time living in Norway. Unforgettable!
Be glad it's still in you, jeeze! Why so serious😂❤
In the 80's we took music of this quality for granted... We had no idea the chart was full of absolute gems.
fodsaks and such great songwriting 🔥
True
I think this kind of music was ignore on that period because its sound way ahead of that time.
@@brandonwoo8299 I was only 10 but I loved it, I didn't ignore it, I danced to it, it made me happy.
Older people ignored it, thinking its just noisy shit compared to what they grow up with, and they are depressed from life experience crushing their spirit.
@@brandonwoo8299 it was a big hit at the time
Wouldn't it be good, if they still could make music like this?!? 👍❤👍
Oh, yeah, i love you, my melody, i'm listenin' to themme in june 13 in 2020, my lady. Very good, the 80's songs are specials. suarezalberto575@gmail.com 13-6-2020 12:02 Generation 2020.
Beautiful you and MUSIC, congratulations to Curicó Chile 😏🍸🍸😍
Thank you so much, dear guys... 😊 a BIG HUG for you, from Austria/Europe!!! 🌈🌻🌈
Wouldn't it
It would be fantastic...😆
This song hits hard for me. After I lost my husband to cancer in 2021, the lyrics described how I felt at the time. I literally didn't want to be here no more. Only for our son, did I keep going. This song still gets me choked up though when I listen to it. Such a deep and fantastic song xx
Me: Hi there! My deep respects! I don't know such deaĺ of pain; though, these days vary so much from those 80's driven tunes, concepts, lyrics, melodies and more... that you get into outsided mode n' else. Please, is OK... You're not alone. Nice reading on ya...!
One of the most beautiful pop songs ever.
Agree...
yes my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
✅👌👌
Pop-rock
Beautiful ? He's basically singing about depression. That's not beautiful
Craft, melody, lyrics. THIS is why the 80s were so great, and this song is a perfect example.
In the 80 's they wrote songs you could join in ..and were goood
Absolutely
Playlist with best-selling singles of the 80s in the UK: ruclips.net/p/PL6oCQqv2KW6XIEHtzEroDJt2a1vFwmyLW
1980 people: The future will be awesome!
2020 people: I want to go back to the 80s
A qui tu le dis !
Haha so true, the best tunes ! 😅
2021: coronaviruses silently fly here and there
Go on back to a time before laptops, iphones and Internet if you want to, you don't need to go back in time to achieve that
Wouldn't it be good if you lived to see the future they spoke about because it'll be well after our time
I am now 56 and every day I go back to the 80s.......a time when I was at comprehensive school, paper round, college, first car, first job, loads of mates, out down the pub every night, football, great music and fashion. Punks, skins and mods, nothing was false like today. I have had children and saw that none of them lived their teenage years like we did..........we were lucky.
True words, mate!
I barely lived in the eighties. I was an infant. And I also yearn for that time. Wouldn't it be good if I woke up in 1980?
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The lyrics hits deep, especially when feeling at your lowest.
This is something I like a lot with 80's new wave and pop songs : behind the out-of-this-world instrumentals and flashy trends or weird clips, you can notice a very down-to-earth melancholy and existential angst which countered the superficiality this era wanted to drown people into in the West.
@@GeigermSv so true!
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Spent my 14th & 15th years, feeling exactly what this song says.
New Wave wss far more resistance than most reslised at the time. But as Chris Rea sang, we were on the road to Hell.
This track is
timeless. It still sound so fresh.
I was an apprentice in 84,for £2 ,3 pints of bitter,game of pool,a packet of cheese and onion crisps.£37.50 a week ,£10 board,saved for my moped ,fs1e.Glory days!!
And at the same time it sounds so 80s.
MacGyver haircut as well
sounds
2023🐱👍🏿
Nik Kershaw is without doubt one of the most underrated solo artists of the 80's.
Not only is he a brilliant guitarist, his lyrics and song writing ability is second to none.
Its desperate when you listen to the total crap that's hitting the charts now compared to stuff like this song.
A reminder of just how great the 80's really was. The best era for music in my opinion by far..... 👍😎
Music today just absolutely sucks. Todays music + coronavirus = hell
Are you real Bruce Lee?
He’s the real Bruce lee!!
He is underated that period because of his song way ahead of time.
I know the song but never heard of him
Let's be honest, this song is a classic! Even in the year 2100 people will listen to this masterpiece.
Probably the best song I know about lack of empathy. Masterpiece
ABSOLUTLY
I don't understand any english. What a pity
Three decades ago, walking out of school one evening with this on my mind, the sun on my face and wondering where I fit in. Thirty five years later, I'm not sure I've found out yet but this song is still here and the sun is still on my face.
Best comment I have seen today, thank you. I was falling asleep when I saw it too but it woke me up! I am 50 and feel the same. I have been listening to Nik Kershaw since 1984 when I bought the album ( it is still fantastic) and I feel the same much of the time when I hear the music as I did then. The follow up album was superb too.
nice comment 👌✅
@@eightiesmusic1984 I never really paid much attention to Nik during his heyday. When the lady cooks at my Scripture Union camp kept playing his songs I became well and truly hooked. Similar story with Gilbert O'Sullivan in the 70's.
@@davidkelly1414 Glad you have enjoyed his music through the years. I saw him live in Liverpool in 2011 at a small venue. His vocals and guitar playing were just as good as in his prime in the eighties. I could not help think of the contrast between a small crowd and his performance at the legendary Live Aid on another day now far away in July 1985. The cooks had good taste in music!
Beautiful 🤍🐦 When you were thinking that, I wasn't even alive. 🥲
I was born in 94 and I grew up with all the 80s music I thank my mum and nan for that lol gotta love 80s music
Same here❤
Still listening in 2024 anyone and still as incredible. They don't make music this good now. Thankyou one of my faves. ❤❤
Awesome isn't it this song
Oh im still listening 🖐🏼good memories that make me feel somewhat sad thinking about how easy life was back then its weird listening to these songs wishing you could go back and try to imagine what your future would look like, i bet it wouldn’t be you lay in bed at 23.15pm listening to 80s music reminiscing bout the past WOW that was deep even for me but im sure you get the jist of it 😂
@joannependlebury6644 I get you for sure too long ago, but yes, things were easier, and the music was sooo good. Wish I could travel back there just for a day or two, lol. Miss these days 🥺
Awesome to just that, awesome
Here
As a child of 82.... these kinds of music from this decade will never be matched 👍💪🇦🇺
I’m a 90’s kid and i love the Down Low rmx version to
Good singer yes
This decade was full of epic melodies. Bring back the 80s!!!!
Bavinh Pham ....I totally agree with you its hard to pick a bad 80's tune tbh... 😊
Bavinh Pham I was born in 1988 and I totally agree
Bavinh Pham, pity it’s gone...
look up the NewSynthWave channel here on youtube
thank me later
It will be the 80s in 62 years
The difference between the old music and today's music is simply one things...the older music lives on the new music dies in a week enuff said.glad I lived in that decade.😊👌
Your absolutely right! Most of the new songs are boring, only 3 minutes long and always the same rhythm. Many of the songs today are finished when many of the 80s-Songs begin their after a long interesting intro. And in most of the 80s Songs you have rythm-changes, breaks, they play with the sound … You see, I’m totally in love with the 80s sound! 😊❤️
@@tatjanabrand3517 Same!👍
Me too !!
And I’m so glad that I was a teenager in the 80s! It was a wonderful, fantastic, phenomenal, easy living time with cool movies and extraordinary outstanding music!
80's MUSIC NEVER DIES !
Magic can't beat the 80s
One of the best choruses ever made.
tho the verses are fire
This was truly one of my favorite songs in the 80s. How good it was and still is!!!
I’d give anything to travel back in time
Best remembering of the eifhties, indeed
In the early 80's I was working in the studio of a merchandise company in London and one of the t-shirt logos I was asked to design was Nick Kershaw. Wish I'd kept the t-shirt! Great days!
I met Nik on Saturday after a concert in the TLT theatre in Drogheda , Ireland . Spoke for a few minutes . What a lovely lovely man . A true icon
That's so cool, I met him in the 90s in Mark King (level42) dressing room, I agree, top bloke! I blurted out 'I loved you when I was at school' for some reason they had a good laugh over that, but Nik hadn't been around since I was at school(left in 86) so I just meant that. So cool so many80s bands are doing the rounds, I can pretend I'm a teenager again xx
Big into trad especially The bothy band
Fake. We didn´t speak.
I remember him as a bit tiny and always with those suspenders :-)
He was an old neighbour of mine, We was really good friends with him and Sherrie, I am still in touch with his first wife Sherrie, he even used to read bed time stories to my son
Something about the 80s. . It was a decade like no other. . for me, musically speaking and having grown up in the 70s and 80s it was magic.. Music of the 80s can never be topped.
I was only born halfway through the 80s, but I grew up hearing the music my parents played and fell in love with the sound
Proper 80's royalty this song 💙🤎💜🎼🎵🕺‼️💯
The Most underrated songwriter in history. What a Genius! !!!
You've never heard of the most underrated songwriter in history. Nobody has.
I i thought that he was very popular in the 80's ?
January 1984. One of the best Clips EVER!!!!!!!
1983
I was 17 in '84 and this song really touched me!
What a brilliant song. What a great decade.
When your a metal head but have some guilty pleasures 😊
best instrumental bit ever in the middle. epic !
Hell Yeah!... Glad I'm not the only one who loves it and comments on it.
David Thomas yeah of course. that was incredible and very nicely played 33 years ago :)
Agreed! 🤩❤
🤩🤩😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤❤
Nik Kershaw understands our problems.
Francisco Braga mine in particular, he went to the same school I did >:(
What school area etc
Francisco Braga true
The way the solo hits when you're expecting a regular chorus is terrific
80’s rules forever…. The Good old days…
Music First… 🙏
nostalgia helps us to support the emptiness of the present time
This was my favourite song in 1984 at the age of 16 and still is today at 53!!
My favourite song of 1984 , aged 18, ( that year). I agree , great song.
I'm now 51 and grew up with this track. To this very day - 3:30 still gives me goosebumps.
My brother is 51, I'm 61. We both are mesmerised by the 80s music. Nothing else comes closer, nothin' ! Today, we are still listening to the 80s. Greetings & love from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾 ❤️
@@billylum3243...Tonnes of love to you and your dear brother over there in Kuala Lumpur. 🇬🇧
@markemsworth4235
Thk you, Mark.❤
Here's a very special X'mas greetings to you and your loved ones coming real soon on 25 Dec 2023. All the best for 2024.
Peace for all, Peace to Humankind to make our tiny Earth we call Home, a safe place for everyone to live.
And hes still singing this to this day...talent lasts
"I don't wanna be here no more" I sing that at work sometimes.
Detroit8V92tta then the boss walks in and you’re in the middle of the air Sax solo 🎷 🔥😂
Nik Kershaw. One of the best singer/songwriters the UK ever produced.
I wish i reincarnate into 80s and enjoy that time to the fullest
One of the greatest songs of the 1980's. This song brings back so many great memories of 1984.. Great friends, music and life in general.I would love to go back to my teenage years in that decade. Things were not perfect , but so much better than now. Nik Kershaw , you are brilliant.
WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD if today's stuff was half as good as this?
there's good music nowadays, but you probably knew that and posted this just for likes or something
@@kevbri11 yes but it's less than half as good as this lol
@@lyrimetacurl0 same goes to you, hipster, do the same effort you did to find this music for the music we produce nowadays
@@lyrimetacurl0 Music at least half good as this (I'd say just as good) nowadays are made for example by Tame Impala, MGMT, Tennis, Sports and Future Islands. Those are just bands I've discovered recent times. I recommend you to try. (:
@@kevbri11 Not at all. I prefer this to today's music.
I got it bad
You don't know how bad I got it
You got it easy
You don't know when you've got it good
It's getting harder
Just keeping life and soul together
I'm sick of fighting
Even though I know I should
The cold is biting
Through each and every nerve and fibre
My broken spirit is frozen to the core
I don't want to be here no more
Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes
Even if it was for just one day?
Wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away?
Wouldn't it be good to be on your side?
The grass is always greener over there
Wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care?
You must be joking
You don't know a thing about it
You've got no problem
I'd stay right there if I were you
I got it harder
You couldn't dream how hard I got it
Stay out of my shoes
If you know what's good for you
The heat is stifling
Burning me up from the inside
The sweat is coming through each and every pore
I don't want to be here no more
I don't want to be here no more
I don't want to be here no more
Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes
Even if it was for just one day?
Wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away?
Wouldn't it be good to be on your side?
The grass is always greener over there
Wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care?
I got it bad
You don't know how bad I got it
You got it easy
You don't know when you've got it good
It's getting harder
Just keeping life and soul together
I'm sick of fighting
Even though I know I should
I don't want to be here no more
I don't want to be here no more
❤
♥️
👍nothing but class
Thx
This song is transcendental art masquerading as pop music. Nik knows how to create music that taps into something very subtle and deep that's buried within us all.
Facts! He's a true artist and so underrated IMHO.
im 16 years old and absolutely in love with 80's music, i love this song (:
no wonder. 80's music was great!
I'm 14 I love 80's music this song's really good
Mee toooo but I'm 15. Wish i couldve lived through the 80s so bad
Am 15 Aswell and I love 80s music it just bring me joy
Actually same all my friends hate this music 😕😕
My best decade of all. Born in the 60's, tried to figure what growing up was all about in the 70's, went out out into the wide world in the 80's and put my stamp on it by getting married in 88. Any song in the 80's conjours up nostalgic memories for me, times, places, the smells and of course friends and acquaintances who shared those ups and downs with us. I'm a father of 3, grandad to 2 (so far), still married to the same girl who stole my heart with her crazy Maddona look. My kids and grandkids think i'm a nutter when Frankie, DuranDuran, the Cure etc. is played and i start my jigging thing going on lol but god, wouldn't it be nice to be my youth in the 80's for just one more day ...... Peace guys xxx
Damn man , many people are married then they divorcing after few years after marriage
Nice for u and ur wife for stayin still
Join the Rolling Stones
The music of 2000 and later is nothing comparable to 80s and 90s, the top periods of all times!
I love how at 3:56, the solo part goes: "even if it was for just one..." and then it switch over to multiple voices just as the other character on screen says: "day!"
Pure goodness.
The instrumental is epic
You don’t get a lot of Instrumentals in modern music sadly
I'd be honored if some fans of 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of AGAINST ALL ODDS by Phil Collins, PRAYING FOR TIME by George Michael, and EYE OF THE TIGER by Survivor on my YT channel in tribute to the era of legendary power ballads. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks & peace.
it's fantastic, so enjoyable.
this was his best song in my opinion.
@@willritter4076 Me, i would like to hear your performances. I love the songs you mentioned and of course 80s power ballads.
“Wouldn’t it be good .. if we were out of the covid 19 quarantine and transported back to the 80’s” ?? 😊
Stop whinging - Granddad in 1942 went to war and watched his best mate get shot to bits - me in 2020? Had to stop socializing with insufferable idiots.
I wish!! I was 16 when this song came out, still love it, life in the 80's was simple, fun, electric and colourful xx
@@Scarletpimpanel73 Still, it would be good to go back to the 80's 😉
Definitely
Yes
I was 21 in 1984, this is one of the greats...timeless!!!
A real gem from my 80s youth. Wouldn't it be good to be back in the 80s.
The best music came out of the 80's. Love it.
This is PURE 80's LOVE!!!
My mum played this a lot.
She died by suicide, and after when i listened to these lyrics i was touched.
Gosh I'm so sorry mate 😢 ❤
This song is brilliance from start to finish. The 80s are the years with the most killer melodies.
It's not possible to get more 80s than this.
Take on me by A-ha? Jump by Van Halen? I'd say they're more 80's than this.
Depeche mode I just can't get enough. That's the 80s in one song
check "no tengo dinero" by Righeira. The 80s in a video
Loved this song in the 80's... I'm 62yrs old , still love it❤
As an aside - _The Man in the White Suit_ is a really good film...I feel it may have been an inspiration here.
Please please please take me back!!! I was so in love with this song and still am all these years later!!!!! I miss the 80s, who the duck would have thought it could be this bad..11\11\2023.
Oooops 11/01/23
Mad eh. Would go back, no hesitation. This universe/time is well fkd.
My friends and I ended up backstage with Nik and The Krew in 1984, Edinburgh Playhouse, courtesy of my artwork and a kind security guard - none of us have forgotten it and we’re all 50 this year. This song means so much to me!! ❤️❤️
3:20 being most replayed, such a human natural reaction... amazing.
The days of a $10 concert. Seeing him live was my teenage dream come to life
We will always keep the 80s music alive and in our hearts. We always lift our spirits when we put 80s music on. Thanks Nick Kershaw for being such a big part of our memories.
I was 12 when this came out, just about to hit my teens! Nik was the hottest thing back then! Still is now! There was no internet back then just tape decks, countdown, and MTV!! I'd stay up late just to watch the top 10 and get a glimpse of Nik! I was crazy about him!! I'd write every lyric down on paper and practice every word! I still know every song he wrote!! Best days !! 💕😄🙏
Hahaha and I was 3 years old or almost 3 years old. 😉. I love this song I just keep listening to it.
They were the best of times they were the worst of times
tengo 42 años y no me canso de escuchar estos clásicos eternos
This was the "light" music of the 80s ... to the face .... Thanks Nik ... One of the most beautiful hits of the period ... and then the solo with electronic horns and triplets .... ... when even the pop music was of quality and full of ideas and good taste ....... what good times ....
80s ETERNALLY 😢🙏⭐💫
Like Eternal flame from Bangless ?
exactly!
Yes !
More like ephemeral lol
No ! You don't know nothing at all ! That song was one of the greateast hits of the '80 ! Your opinion makes you -ephemeral !
I just love his enunciation and breathing technique. There's no slurring, no audible breathing or even gasping. He hits every note and syllable with precision.
Given that it's "just" pop, and not something like opera, I feel like people often underestimate singers like him, no matter the commercial success. As if it were mostly just that they were born with this kind of voice. Still you need to practice just as much as someone who wants to master a musical instrument.
As someone who has butchered this song a trillion times in Karaoke-bars, I can only agree with your statement.
The way he sings is actually what's gotten me hooked to the artist. It's not often that I can fully understand a songs lyrics the first time around. But it doesn't sound overly deliberate, it doesn't feel technical. Just his unique style.
Love it.
Got ya , sis. Most artist today slur, drag the notes, breathy voices. This almost borders on rap in its rhythm. Hypnotic.
I lived it, it was the time of my life
I'm 70. This was one of the best songs made in the 1980s, IMHO.
I'm 61, and i love this N. Kershaw's gem to bits. The wonderful 80s music .. ❤🎉
This is so 80's - the music, hair, clothes, atmosphere. Great music decade to grow up in, continuous stream of brilliant hits.
I actually remember when this song was released in January '84
January 20th 1984
It's incredulous to believe that this song is going to be 40 years old in January 2024
A brilliant 80s gem 💎 👏 ✨️
Good songs never seem to get old
In fact like fine wine they actually get better as they age
Nick kershaw was a superstar in the early to mid 80s
If I can remember he performed this song at live aid in 1985
Wouldn't it be good if modern music was as good as this 👌 🎶
Me: Hi There! On the counttary. I've listened that good one in late 1987, for first time... on the car radio, that used to take me to school. But, still... woildn't it be good, if 'musak' these days shows off away... !? Music from the 80's is unsuspected, by comparison, with some originally more content of it self ( as well as quallity of it own... ) to consider in many items ( ...from our living memories, it's OK... ) more gaderingsome of an option, weather alone or with your budies and love ones; I mean, what kind of power is such... !?
I was 10 years old, but I loved that song anyway...I didn't know the 80s were the best years for the music...
I know a lot of 80s songs, have been listening to smooth radio recently and this finally clicked for me. It resonates with the times imo Love it.
80's music is without doubt the best, could listen to the likes of Nik, Howard Jones, Level 42, UB40 all day every day!
I just love that lyric "I'm sick of fighting even though I know I should". This could not apply more to my life right now.
hopefully since your comment a year has passed and your still fighting, there is loads of us out there trying to make sense of each day that passes..
We all have a battle to fight sweetheart, don't ever be sick of fighting, the fact that your fighting says your strong, it's when you stop fighting it means you gave up, don't give up👊Take care 🙏x
i feel the same, but that is when i got to remember, Jesus is fighting for me. It's not about my strength its abut His
Always keep Fighting!! Your Stronger than you relise💪💜
I know what you mean.
Best of the 80's.
The best thing abt the 80s music is that u don’t get sick n tired of listening it over n over again
100%! I'm 61, and my Spotify favourites list has Nik's tune ... in fact, all in that list are from the 80s !😂. Awesome 80s❤
2022 This is it. One of the best songs ever. And no comment to be seen these days... Come on
I still think that suit-effect is so cool, even after 35 years.
its like "green screen" ?
Wouldn't it be good if music today had this much meaning,
Even if it was for just one day?
😹👌🏻
I like it... Ha, ha... 😂😝😆🤪😜
The Riddle, tho....
@@eddsalazar
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a real song that could be played live,original and creative its got strength
We could live a million years and never get the 80s back
Every single song my dad keeps listening over and over is a masterpiece. I don't like all of them immediately, but always end up loving them. This one I used to hate because he would blast it on the car EVERY.SINGLE.TIME ... but here I am... no one forced me to search this song... It's 4 AM and this song just seems PERFECT PS: I still live with him and as we grow older our music taste match more and more... and I am not complaining at all hehe
back in 2010 I backpacked through Syria before it all went to shit. I had this song on my iPod and listened to it over and over and over. Now years later it will always remind me of that incredible time.
Indeed I am from Syria, this song matches Syria colors in the night and countries that belongs back to the Soviet union. Armenia, Georgia,,,,,
Such an underrated song writer..Nik is brilliant!
When i'm in a deep dark place this song is fire🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wouldn't it be Good if we could go back to the 1980's. x
yeah it sure would!
Hell Yeh. The 80s were the best👍
Time is an illusion.
It would indeed
Loved the 80s..
It depresses me when the young people of today don't realize what decent music is!! Music will never be the same EVER again. This music, particularly the eighties, was inspiring and uplifting. Yes they still had music about drugs and other absurd things. But oh boy the music was so much better. Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Adele and Nicki Minaj just don't speak to me. However this music will always speak a message. It has a meaning. A purpose!
RealGirl17 It's the only music I listen too. These people could actually sing .
@Real?Girl: you gotta look harder there's lotsa good music still but not much of it reaches us through mass media.But having said that tracks such as this classic hit deeper if it's part of your life , especially your teens or twenties. Taste is a funny thing - mine is actually impeccable ! 😂✌️🏼😎
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1983 was the most memorable year of my life. Dire Straits Alchemy tour, movie An Officer and a Gentleman and my time living and working in Norway. Never will I forget it. ❤
Dunno ab't 1983 (CE.), but this song wz releasd in 1984.....
@@vladuly Yes, I know. I was just musing about the early 80's and the memories.
@@roydavis5613 🙂🙂 I'm glad th@ these tyms wr(were) happy & productiv 4 @ least SOMEONE out there!!! @ the least, I c(a)n alw(a)ys rely on this IMMORTAL opus by Nicholas David 2 inspyr & recrudesce me!!!.....