if you would like to go back to these times, close your eyes, fantasise, get away from where you are now, and you will be there. Back to the life we long for, real freinds, laughing,dancing & happy again. no phones, tablets laptops. no facebook . just good music and a beer or 2.......ahhhhh take me back
sadly, thats the story for a lot of highly deserving bands/acts from those long gone days.. especially when a person considers the utter crap that gets massive exposure now.
I remember back in the day, Altered Images were a favourite band of John Peel, he played their records frequently on his late night radio 1 show. R.I.P. John Peel.
Stone cold classic. Still have an irrepressible crush on her to this day. Songs like this were ten-a-penny at that time. Perfectly crafted pure pop, jangly guitars shoved right up in your face and a bunch of real people simply enjoying themselves and sweeping you along at the same time with the sheer joy of it all. God I love this song so much.
You're not alone. I both love her voice & still have a crush on her since the '80's. I really do wish they lasted longer. I hear they are going to debut an original album in August. Let's hope so...
I'm in Dublin on the same road where her cousins lived. She came to visit them (40 years ago)and I watched from the gate as she said to her cousin ''doe's your friend want to come up and say hello " to which she replied"no" (I'd pissed her off a few days earlier or she thought (incorrectly) that we only liked her for her looks🙄. I was and still am to this day GUTTED😂
For my 50th birthday, my wife threw me a surprise party complete with the best DJ I've ever known -- Richard Blade -- playing the best 80s dance music all night long. One of the best nights of my life.....and on top of it all, Richard Blade was one of the nicest people we've ever met. Epic......
You absolutely should read or hear his autobiography. The audible is read by him. A genuine person, so nice, and like Mr. Rogers just who he is without a doubt.
All these years later she still owns 'super adorable'. Despite filters etc etc, no one has got even close. George Harrison and his son Dhani come a good second/third (I am not gay!).
When my abusive father finally cut me off I listened to this song over and over. I still couldn’t escape him, thinking about it all the time and crying. This song helped me through that rough patch. 💕🙏
This is still as great now as it was when I first heard it in the 80’s!!! Love the video because the band are clearly enjoying themselves!! A lot of amazing music came out of Glasgow (and nearby)!!!
We were so spoilt with such brilliant, timeless 80s music! Altered Images still sound amazing....Life was so much simpler then and ppl were happier....We're now living in difficult, uncertain times and the music isn't half as good....At least there's still RUclips and I can step back in time with these classic tunes for a while.....This was an enjoyable trip down memory lane!
Saw Clare in Gregory's Girl and fell in love with her. Then she was on TOTP singing and dancing like a loon and never looked so beautiful. A few years later she turns up on Red Dwarf and I think this girl just keeps haunting me. I'm 52 and very happily married but still love the music of the 80's and along with Kate Bush, Clare singing brings back so many happy memories.
My love for this song is boundless. I was living in a Wolverhampton bedsit at the time, I would listen to it on an old white transistor radio. I'd already come out on the Liverpool gay scene and was feeling a bit under confident about it all. Somehow it was this song completely lifting my spirits getting me involved not just in the gay scenes of both cities, but all the clubbing scenes. I don't really know why, it just did, the magic of pop music on a young adventuring soul. Timeless, touching, uplifting, escaping and what a stunningly story telling vocal, what else did a young gay need? Gx
Good times right? As a total hetero, I feel ya. It's just so catchy and well, happy! I fell in love with Clare as an actress in Gregory's Girl. I had no idea she even had a band going until '86 years after they broke up!. So much undiscovered joy ever since.
Altered Images really had something; shame they never fully realized their potential. At their best, though, they nailed the era. I Could Be Happy is one of their best.
It was the production from one album to another. Fans from Happy Birthday couldn't relate to Pinky Blue and fans of Pinky Blue didn't make the leap to Bite. I liked them all though.
Ahh ... the 80's ... graduated HS in '82 ... Every time I listen to 80's music now, I think of the quote from Andy Bernard on The Office ... "“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
I had a massive crush on Clare Grogan as a young lad viewing videos to this track and Happy Birthday. Thanks to you tube I am able to bring back those long ago days. Thanks for uploading.
I don't know how I found this, but I am 55 and from the U.S. and although I don't remember this song playing on MTV or the radio back then, it is one of my favorites and brings me back to that time ! It is so wonderful, (the song and video), I can't even describe it. It actually makes me Happy.
So many people are commenting what a happy uplifting song this is, and it is....on the surface. However, take a look of the lyrics. After singing through the different things she could do to be happy, the final line of the chorus is "All of these things I do / To get away from you" and the song ends with the repeated refrain: "Get away, runaway, Far away / How do I escape from you?". It's actually about an abusive relationship and THAT'S the thing I find so genius about this song - the various emotions it conveys and the dichotomy of the upbeat poppy music in relation to the dark context behind the lyrics. It mirrors real life in a way because so many women are trapped in unhappy abusive relationships, but due to embarrassment or shame they wear the mask of a happy, upbeat public persona. You often never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. Brilliant song!
As far a I recollect it was about a facial scar she had as the result of a pub fight in which she was innocently involved , she was hit by flying glass.
I remember listing to this song in my childhood and becoming obsessed with it, but i lost the song years ago. I never knew the name of it but it’s been stuck in my head for years, but I finally found it after searching “i could be happy i could be happy” since those were the only lyrics i understood
An interviewer once asked Clare Grogan, "You always look so fashionable & current in th latest look, how do you do it ?" Clare looked @ him absolutely deadpan & said " I just usually put on what's on the end of my bed from the night before " I loved her & Altered Images & it's such a wonderful pop production from Martin Rushent, I mean wow ! Altered Images in 1982 AND The Human League in 1981. Bless you Mr Rushent.
Altered Images supported Siouxsie & The Banshees @ The Hammersmith Palais in I think 1981 (?) & they were superb! I went for S&TB but Claire & the band were superb & somehow the two bands just complemented one another perfectly! Would never have seemed a match but my gawd it was! And the Palais was such a perfect music lovers venue! Great days, fondly recalled & evenings spent with my lovely big brother, no longer with us, who will be dancing in his own Palais as I play this loud tonight thinking of him ❤️💕💗
+Chris Mozer Lucky you ! I turned 18 in 1991. I always said I was born 10 years too late because I loved all the early 80s music when I was a kid. Looking back though I am glad I was a teenager when Stone Roses , Happy Mondays etc. were around. Loved it.. I feel sorry for teenagers today. They are too glued to X box and Play station to even be into music!
+uman965 you will have to leave your cell phone , internet, cheap air fares ,i pod etc ..its nice to look back with nostalgia but ..im still happy in 2015 ..sure i wish i could go back and do things different but we grow and learn and constantly change mentally we are all on a spiritual journey for a purpose
One of my favourites songs and band form the 80’s. It makes happy but a bit sad at the same time especially in the summer. A bit of seasonal depression. Living with people can be a bit hard at times. I find my self escaping all the time. Just getting out it’s better then sitting around doing nothing.
Yes, no doubt she is cute but what is up with that guy running around in a lion's suit? Methinks some mind altering substances were enjoyed by the people who produced this clip!
Pop trivia: "True" by Spandau Ballet was written about Clare. Pinky blue is the sublimest of pure 80's Glaswegian pop, and this tune still sounds epic.
Was only speaking to a friend earlier about how good this era was and that I was playing some old 80’s vinyl’s .. this song popped up as my mum and dad gave me their old Hi-Fi…the old school ones with everything (turntable, cassette, CD’s) and more lights than a spacecraft out of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” … fantastic tune … like many of us I miss these days so much .. 😞
I was at their first ever gig at a pub in Shawlands, Glasgow. I ran a fanzine called Fumes and I knew the bass players' sister Lorraine who asked me to interview them. The sound was terrible, and to be totally honest, they were pretty crap. I'm pretty sure I recorded this gig as I tended to record every gig I went to in the 70's and 80's. They did a much better gig at the Mars Bar on my 21st Birthday and Claire gave me a big kiss, she also managed to smash her Maracas, which caused a cloud of white dust...happy days!
Could we make a brief stop in the mid 70's on the way? Just need to slap myself upside the head and tell myself not to be a fat bastard (and not to date that one girl...)
exactly, it's not a happy song at all, notwithstanding the boppy tune. Nouvelle Vague did a cover of it a number of years ago and their treatment was more faithful to the lyrics.
i went on an army reunion in Leicester a few years back. ended up in the suburbs in some pub disco. next day i woke up in my front garden holding an altered images cd!! this is a great song
@Andy Brown Was that an average night for you? I used to black out when I drank with prescribed medication. I would wake up in the strangest of places notably public parks and church doorways.
So very happy that I grew up in the 80's with KROQ giving me the opportunity to hear all this new music. Almost every other station in L.A. was lame... well, KMET and KLOS were good, too. lol
Probably my first musical crush, right here. And the music still stands up! Plus I don't know of anyone else who ever rhymed "tree" with "holiday" ever so perfectly. Brilliant stuff. 🥰
SUCH an amazing song. So seemingly upbeat and adorable-but you would never have expected the chorus to be about getting away from someone! It was such a flip of the expected! This song made me fall in love the way boys don't cry made me love the cure. I found this band on record at goodwill in the 90s and bought it because the album art was just cool. Then I recognized their happy birthday song from 16 candles. I fell in love with the deep cure-ish bass backing and supporting this epic sweet poppiness.
Altered Images one of my all time New Romantic bands and Clare Grogan my icon of fashion 👍❤ Copied her hair cut for some years as well as some of her outfits❤
Gosh, I just heard that last week whilst shopping with my 14y old daughter at Gap Outlet. I hadn't heard it in years. Took me back right away to my college days here in Chicago. Neo's on N Clark St. Wax Trax Records. Anyone remember those? I had this on 45. and Happy Birthday. I was just a few years older than my daughter is now when I first heard this. Boy, do I feel old. And young again.
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The 80’s had so many different styles of music that were amazing to listen to and enjoy.
Her vocals are so unique! Great band! Everytime I hear them their songs take me to that special 80's place...where music was fun...
Agree 😎
Outstanding
Truly miss those days as a kid.
Exactly!
She is 👍 she got a facial wound wen she was younger did u know thisx
Claire keeps me feeling young inside. Always loved this song.
I'm Brazilian and I'm getting to know the band today, at 58 years old, better late than never
😎🇧🇷
A Brilliant Better Late Than Never!!! Also try Orange Juice and The Associates
Brilliant enjoy my friend ❤😅
Never too late or too old. Enjoy any music 🎶 in any time ⏲ at any time.😅😊
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if you would like to go back to these times, close your eyes, fantasise, get away from where you are now, and you will be there. Back to the life we long for, real freinds, laughing,dancing & happy again. no phones, tablets laptops. no facebook . just good music and a beer or 2.......ahhhhh take me back
"I have to go home"
"You ARE home"
- Almost Famous
I do that sometimes... I miss those simple times
I totally love you
It's 2021 and I agree
The very best of times loved the 80s
Classic Scottish sound. Hugely underrated band.
sadly, thats the story for a lot of highly deserving bands/acts from those long gone days.. especially when a person considers the utter crap that gets massive exposure now.
This song is so simultaneously upbeat and sad. It's unique.
+Dan Harvey It's like the darker alternative to Happy Birthday.
has a joy division touch in a way
happysad...fey
Not really. Joy Division was darker.
An upbeat song about dying is Laura Nyro's iconic 'And When I Die' (1967). Then listen to her Gibsom Street (1969), about abortion.
I remember back in the day, Altered Images were a favourite band of John Peel, he played their records frequently on his late night radio 1 show. R.I.P. John Peel.
Hugely under rated band. They turned out some great music.
No they weren't.
AI were very highly rated.
Yes
Most definitely. They should have had more hits! 🙏 Clare Grogan was an absolute sort too! 😉
Yeah these 5 people are so talented... I wonder why they never started a band and made music videos for mtv
Forreal, they're only known for two of their songs but I've heard all of Bite and that album alone has many great songs
Amazing how many great scottish bands there are🏴🏴
Big Country, Simple Minds, Cocteau Twins, Orange Juice, Fiction Factory....
Not that many really
Don't forget Sean Connery, The James Bond
Scotland is a Big Country
Primal scream
Always one of my best. Great Scottish band. Love Claire's voice. It's like bubble gum. So proud to be of this music genre.
Stone cold classic. Still have an irrepressible crush on her to this day. Songs like this were ten-a-penny at that time. Perfectly crafted pure pop, jangly guitars shoved right up in your face and a bunch of real people simply enjoying themselves and sweeping you along at the same time with the sheer joy of it all. God I love this song so much.
Not paying attention to the lyrics at all, I guess...
You're not alone. I both love her voice & still have a crush on her since the '80's. I really do wish they lasted longer. I hear they are going to debut an original album in August. Let's hope so...
I'm in Dublin on the same road where her cousins lived. She came to visit them (40 years ago)and I watched from the gate as she said to her cousin ''doe's your friend want to come up and say hello " to which she replied"no" (I'd pissed her off a few days earlier or she thought (incorrectly) that we only liked her for her looks🙄. I was and still am to this day GUTTED😂
@@robertterrell3065 Yeah, she's trying to escape from him lol
@@chaoswitch1974 Or family or work colleagues or boss etc. Could be anyone.
For my 50th birthday, my wife threw me a surprise party complete with the best DJ I've ever known -- Richard Blade -- playing the best 80s dance music all night long. One of the best nights of my life.....and on top of it all, Richard Blade was one of the nicest people we've ever met. Epic......
I hope he payed "Happy Birthday" by Altered Images
Lucky guy
You absolutely should read or hear his autobiography. The audible is read by him. A genuine person, so nice, and like Mr. Rogers just who he is without a doubt.
Richard Blade is great. I love listening to First Wave on Sirius.
Awesome 😎 man! How about inviting some of us the next time Richard Blade DJ’s one of your parties 🎊
She is absolutely super adorable!
All these years later she still owns 'super adorable'. Despite filters etc etc, no one has got even close. George Harrison and his son Dhani come a good second/third (I am not gay!).
I can't even stand how adorable she is.
I just turned 50 an hour and a half ago but I feel 16 at the moment thanks to this. I miss the 80's!
53 here and I feel the same.
53 and I agree with everyone here, I'm glad I was able to experience a decade of the best innovative music to date.
Love it, fabulous comment. I'll be 50 come march. We were truly blessed to have lived through the 80's X💚
if that's a recent photo then you bely your age by about 20 years ... belated *_happy birthday!!_* (another Altered Images tune!)
Yup not kids club promoter party party then Social Media killed us. But now we do one offs! 80s night old skool crowd only! In LA.
When my abusive father finally cut me off I listened to this song over and over. I still couldn’t escape him, thinking about it all the time and crying. This song helped me through that rough patch. 💕🙏
Just terrible. I hope you are happy now xxx
😢🎉
Hope you are doing very well now
May God Heal your heart and mind and give you Peace
Thank you to all 💕
Bingeing new wave and post punk videos on RUclips is the best activity
Agreed! RUclips was made for binging post-punk and new wave.
Especially at work
Agreed!
If everyone did that...there'd be no war!
yeah solid !
WOW, She was fantastic along with a fantastic band.... SIMPLY AWESOME TRACK... ❤❤❤
This song is so underrated it’s just brilliant
This song was a top ten hit in the UK.
No! Stop saying underrated! It was a hit!
One of the prettiest female singers of the 80s
Wasant she Gregory’s girl. Horizontal dancing in the Park!!,
@@vernongoodey5096she was indeed. Love that film.
Kim Wilde and Wendy James and Annie Lennox
@@vernongoodey5096 Yes she was.
... she was a smoke show!
This is still as great now as it was when I first heard it in the 80’s!!! Love the video because the band are clearly enjoying themselves!!
A lot of amazing music came out of Glasgow (and nearby)!!!
We were so spoilt with such brilliant, timeless 80s music! Altered Images still sound amazing....Life was so much simpler then and ppl were happier....We're now living in difficult, uncertain times and the music isn't half as good....At least there's still RUclips and I can step back in time with these classic tunes for a while.....This was an enjoyable trip down memory lane!
I met a girl named remi wolf on an airplane ride and she's on RUclips...... play some good new music she's only 26 check her out.
I love this song
Clare was my teenage crush...she's never left me! ❤
80's Clair is my old man crush.
Clare Grogan was my good girl crush, Wendy James was my bad girl crush, Susanna Hoffs was my all time crush ❤
Saw Clare in Gregory's Girl and fell in love with her. Then she was on TOTP singing and dancing like a loon and never looked so beautiful. A few years later she turns up on Red Dwarf and I think this girl just keeps haunting me.
I'm 52 and very happily married but still love the music of the 80's and along with Kate Bush, Clare singing brings back so many happy memories.
OMG, I had forgot about that movie, I prolly watched it 20 times as a teen, I gotta find it now and rewatch it!!!
I see Dee Hepburn now and again, as we both live in East Kilbride. She's barely changed.
George Wilson wait, what?!?! Thats Rimmers girl from the hard light episode? You just blew up my entire universe.
Not seen Comfort and Joy, another Bill Forsyth film?
Don't forget father Ted..
My love for this song is boundless. I was living in a Wolverhampton bedsit at the time, I would listen to it on an old white transistor radio. I'd already come out on the Liverpool gay scene and was feeling a bit under confident about it all. Somehow it was this song completely lifting my spirits getting me involved not just in the gay scenes of both cities, but all the clubbing scenes. I don't really know why, it just did, the magic of pop music on a young adventuring soul. Timeless, touching, uplifting, escaping and what a stunningly story telling vocal, what else did a young gay need? Gx
Good on you Gary like your style,
God bless you .. what a beautiful story 🤗
Good times right? As a total hetero, I feel ya. It's just so catchy and well, happy! I fell in love with Clare as an actress in Gregory's Girl. I had no idea she even had a band going until '86 years after they broke up!. So much undiscovered joy ever since.
Invictus Mortis
I came out of the closet when I heard small town boy
Born in the 60s. Shaped in the 70s. Partied in the 80s. Grew up in the 90s. Skint 00s...
Robbie Detour
Sounds fantastic.
Robbie Well said, sir! 👍🏻DITTO!
Mark Whittaker it was. Believe me. Problem was, we didn’t realize it at the time...
Me 2
Like the late Stan lee now your paying for it no I'm kidding really pece6
Such an amazing decade. I would give anything to go back and not deal either today’s problems.
Same here Sonia. Just to go back for a day....
I was there, but I was too young for it to be anything but a dream I woke up from too soon.
meh, you'd still have Reagan and the Soviet Union.
Altered Images really had something; shame they never fully realized their potential. At their best, though, they nailed the era. I Could Be Happy is one of their best.
It was the production from one album to another.
Fans from Happy Birthday couldn't relate to Pinky Blue and fans of Pinky Blue didn't make the leap to Bite.
I liked them all though.
New album out apparently
I mean lack of any and all musical talent might have derailed that train 😂
Lequel a fondé HIPSWAY ?
@@MrJeepsters i saw them live on 1987 !!!
Time machine ...
I totally forgot about this song. Thanks for all the memories!! I miss the 80s so much compared to this hellacious dumpster fire called the 2020s 🔥🔥🔥
Yes....take me back to the 80's...I hate the way the world is now😮💨
Ahh ... the 80's ... graduated HS in '82 ... Every time I listen to 80's music now, I think of the quote from Andy Bernard on The Office ... "“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
Oh how I miss the 80s... Great styles, great music, simple times... sigh 😔
Needed something to cheer me up . Perfect.
Such a wonderful song from a wonderful era. Claire Grogan was so cute as well!
I had a massive crush on Clare Grogan as a young lad viewing videos to this track and Happy Birthday. Thanks to you tube I am able to bring back those long ago days. Thanks for uploading.
Who of a certain age didn't Peter??
I’ve got forearms like Popeye because of her and eight wonder patsy Kensit and Wendy James 😍
@@peterstayne3765 I didn't get the Popeye joke... :p
🤣🤣 From flogging the dolphin to much 🧴👋🏻
I don't know how I found this, but I am 55 and from the U.S. and although I don't remember this song playing on MTV or the radio back then, it is one of my favorites and brings me back to that time ! It is so wonderful, (the song and video), I can't even describe it. It actually makes me Happy.
all the way from Scotland, this band endeared us with pop/punk beats and fun sensibilities, relieving us from the mundane..Stevo
Slamming tune! Just turned 50 and remember this 80's gem vividly.
Best decade ever! ❤
I haven't heard this in ages.
Still sounds great, and Clare was always lovely.
Her youthful innocence and sense of irony is infectious!
Still reckon this was their best song. So glad i grew up in the 80s, I'd go back in a heartbeat
One of my favourite early 80s songs. It never ages, always sounds great. And they look SO YOUNG and so happy. The happiness is infectious 👍
My favorite 80s video. Maybe my favorite video period.
So many people are commenting what a happy uplifting song this is, and it is....on the surface.
However, take a look of the lyrics. After singing through the different things she could do to be happy, the final line of the chorus is "All of these things I do / To get away from you" and the song ends with the repeated refrain: "Get away, runaway, Far away / How do I escape from you?". It's actually about an abusive relationship and THAT'S the thing I find so genius about this song - the various emotions it conveys and the dichotomy of the upbeat poppy music in relation to the dark context behind the lyrics. It mirrors real life in a way because so many women are trapped in unhappy abusive relationships, but due to embarrassment or shame they wear the mask of a happy, upbeat public persona. You often never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. Brilliant song!
As far a I recollect it was about a facial scar she had as the result of a pub fight in which she was innocently involved , she was hit by flying glass.
The actual meaning is lost on most people who hear, or in reality, don't hear what the song is about 🤷♂️
Doesn't necessarily mean an abusive relationship. She could be trying to escape the memories of someone, after a breakup of a good relationship.
From the comments I've read, most who say this are saying it sounds happy but the subject isn't.
The song speaks for its self 😉
Such gorgeous innocence. I kind of feel envious of Claire Grogan getting to goof around with those Scottish boys
@Damian Griffiths They are a nice looking bunch of people. I think the bass player went on to form Hipsway
One of the most fun uplifting early 80s pop songs ever 😁
I could be happy if the 80s music comes back!
I used to love , Love, LOVE English New Wave from the early ‘80s....still do @ 58!! Good times!! ❤️💜❤️
They are not English. They are Scottish from Glasgow. But you a right to love them. Clare is amazing.
@@MickeyTheMouth Im talking about this genre of music. From an American perspective, it was all from the UK.
Seriously 1983 i think is the best 80's music. Every tune was coming out of every fabulous group.
This is 1982
I was 13 when this wonderful song was released. I suddenly just started singing the song a couple of days ago. So glad it found me again. 😎
Superb...we ALL remember!
A good song is a good song. Timeless. Such wonderful stuff, eh Anges? Aye, it's wonderful stuff. Thanks Ms. Clare, you are fantastic.
One thing I can say about northerners they can bloody sing
I remember listing to this song in my childhood and becoming obsessed with it, but i lost the song years ago. I never knew the name of it but it’s been stuck in my head for years, but I finally found it after searching “i could be happy i could be happy” since those were the only lyrics i understood
An interviewer once asked Clare Grogan, "You always look so fashionable & current in th latest look, how do you do it ?"
Clare looked @ him absolutely deadpan & said " I just usually put on what's on the end of my bed from the night before "
I loved her & Altered Images & it's such a wonderful pop production from Martin Rushent, I mean wow ! Altered Images in 1982 AND The Human League in 1981. Bless you Mr Rushent.
Hahahaha!!!! Nice one Clare, that's why we love you
RIP Martin
Altered Images supported Siouxsie & The Banshees @ The Hammersmith Palais in I think 1981 (?) & they were superb! I went for S&TB but Claire & the band were superb & somehow the two bands just complemented one another perfectly! Would never have seemed a match but my gawd it was! And the Palais was such a perfect music lovers venue! Great days, fondly recalled & evenings spent with my lovely big brother, no longer with us, who will be dancing in his own Palais as I play this loud tonight thinking of him ❤️💕💗
I WANT TO GO BACK IN TIME AND STAY THERE - 80's
+uman965 same for me !!!! life was so good that time
+Chris Mozer SO TRUE!!!
+Chris Mozer Lucky you ! I turned 18 in 1991. I always said I was born 10 years too late because I loved all the early 80s music when I was a kid. Looking back though I am glad I was a teenager when Stone Roses , Happy Mondays etc. were around. Loved it.. I feel sorry for teenagers today. They are too glued to X box and Play station to even be into music!
+uman965 you will have to leave your cell phone , internet, cheap air fares ,i pod etc ..its nice to look back with nostalgia but ..im still happy in 2015 ..sure i wish i could go back and do things different but we grow and learn and constantly change mentally we are all on a spiritual journey for a purpose
+uman965 Me too
Remember when people celebrated happiness, fun and positivity? Great wasn't it? 😊❤️
One of my favourites songs and band form the 80’s. It makes happy but a bit sad at the same time especially in the summer. A bit of seasonal depression. Living with people can be a bit hard at times. I find my self escaping all the time. Just getting out it’s better then sitting around doing nothing.
You and me both.. 🙏
The guitars on this are just genius.
3 years late but yes :)
PS I'll try and be more prompt
John Squire was/is one underated Guitarist.Gary Mountfield is the best bassist of all time....
Sounds exactly like New Order.
@@glaswegiansouth-side2350 That would be another Scotsman, Derek Forbes of Simple Minds.
Loved Claire Grogan, loved Altered Images and loved Gregory’s Girl. So glad all three were part of my rites of passage.
one of my many female 80s band crushes
She was stunning guys, come on !
Yes, no doubt she is cute but what is up with that guy running around in a lion's suit? Methinks some mind altering substances were enjoyed by the people who produced this clip!
Gorgeous woman, even years later in Red Dwarf
She is ! She has the best lips too !
Don't think anyone is arguing
no doubt about still is
I love 80’s music, 91X plays resurrection Sunday, in San Diego for 4 hours, highly recommend,
Just saw them in concert in Los Angeles! They still look and sound great!
I love thissong. Especially the extended version!!.
Classic gem,fabulous band.
Maybe the greatest Pop song and video ever😊
Pop trivia: "True" by Spandau Ballet was written about Clare. Pinky blue is the sublimest of pure 80's Glaswegian pop, and this tune still sounds epic.
Was only speaking to a friend earlier about how good this era was and that I was playing some old 80’s vinyl’s .. this song popped up as my mum and dad gave me their old Hi-Fi…the old school ones with everything (turntable, cassette, CD’s) and more lights than a spacecraft out of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” … fantastic tune … like many of us I miss these days so much .. 😞
Clare Grogan your amazing - still remember watching the film Gregory's Girl - love the music you made from the 1980's - bring on the time machine x
IDP Film you're
Absolutely cracking band!
The 80s were the best decade of my life!
i cannot agree more - nothing can top it and nothing will
Juliet Schwartz-Martinez . Snap.
had the best time in the 80s juliet
A men to that the best times
Totally! Juliet!;)
I was at their first ever gig at a pub in Shawlands, Glasgow. I ran a fanzine called Fumes and I knew the bass players' sister Lorraine who asked me to interview them. The sound was terrible, and to be totally honest, they were pretty crap. I'm pretty sure I recorded this gig as I tended to record every gig I went to in the 70's and 80's. They did a much better gig at the Mars Bar on my 21st Birthday and Claire gave me a big kiss, she also managed to smash her Maracas, which caused a cloud of white dust...happy days!
Seriously 80's as fuck. Clothes, hair and all 👍💥👍💥
Don't need to close my eyes to be transported back to 1982 at the age of 14 just by hearing this beautiful track
Such an upbeat song about escaping/leaving someone behind.
Her voice was so completely and totally unique!
Clare is still beautiful. This song is sad because sometimes the only way to be happy is to eliminate someone in your life.
That is true..
I get it: cut off a finger to save the hand, but why did you have to leave me!?
Yes I have had to do that a lot, unfortunately.
Or everyone! 🙃
You got it but yang or wang going to the right person not the words it's how it makes you feel
This is slowly becoming my favorite 80’s song.
2020 lockdown. Man remember this back in the '80s!
The greatest times
I love this song ❤
To the time machine.......who wants to join me? First stop 1981.
yeah
so I'm NOT the only one who with a soft spot for that particular year!
Would you go back to the present or stay, if you only have those 2 options?
Could we make a brief stop in the mid 70's on the way? Just need to slap myself upside the head and tell myself not to be a fat bastard (and not to date that one girl...)
Brendan Barnes 1981 was an UNBELIEVABLE year, my September 81 I started high school. Best best times ever. Late 70s to mid 80s was ultimate era.
Perfect pop from the early 80s.
How many people who just love this song are actually paying attention to the lyrics? This is a happy song? She's trying to escape!
You are correct. The song is about being stalked but most people don't see that.
exactly, it's not a happy song at all, notwithstanding the boppy tune. Nouvelle Vague did a cover of it a number of years ago and their treatment was more faithful to the lyrics.
Only by someone in a lion costume though. And they end up smooching at the end.
Maybe the ultimate joyful pop 1980's song (along R. Smith Cure ones) always so good to hear. And see her dancimg around! on my playlist since.
i went on an army reunion in Leicester a few years back. ended up in the suburbs in some pub disco. next day i woke up in my front garden holding an altered images cd!! this is a great song
@Andy Brown Was that an average night for you? I used to black out when I drank with prescribed medication. I would wake up in the strangest of places notably public parks and church doorways.
@@julliard nah not really just drank an awful lot that day 👍🏻🍺
So very happy that I grew up in the 80's with KROQ giving me the opportunity to hear all this new music. Almost every other station in L.A. was lame... well, KMET and KLOS were good, too. lol
Met a lovely couple on holiday and they told me there daughter played drums in Clare’s new band, wow. I’m so happy. Always think about you guys
Probably my first musical crush, right here. And the music still stands up! Plus I don't know of anyone else who ever rhymed "tree" with "holiday" ever so perfectly. Brilliant stuff. 🥰
SUCH an amazing song. So seemingly upbeat and adorable-but you would never have expected the chorus to be about getting away from someone! It was such a flip of the expected! This song made me fall in love the way boys don't cry made me love the cure. I found this band on record at goodwill in the 90s and bought it because the album art was just cool. Then I recognized their happy birthday song from 16 candles. I fell in love with the deep cure-ish bass backing and supporting this epic sweet poppiness.
@Sara Sepia This song is timeless. I feel the same euphoria every time I felt the first time I heard this. Was Goodwill a music store?
Ohhhh yeahhhh... One of those 'I Totally Forgot About That One' songs. Loved it. And still now I hear it. SO eithies :-)
One of the very greatest songs of the eighties.
Altered Images one of my all time New Romantic bands and Clare Grogan my icon of fashion 👍❤ Copied her hair cut for some years as well as some of her outfits❤
Altered images are a great band from Scotland.
Dancing was so much easier and fun back then 😄😄😄
Love this so much! I don't remember seeing it back in the day. Such a fun and exciting time in music.
Same, although it was 10 years before me 😅 I always wonder what life woulda been like as a teen in the 80s.
Gosh, I just heard that last week whilst shopping with my 14y old daughter at Gap Outlet. I hadn't heard it in years. Took me back right away to my college days here in Chicago. Neo's on N Clark St. Wax Trax Records. Anyone remember those? I had this on 45. and Happy Birthday. I was just a few years older than my daughter is now when I first heard this. Boy, do I feel old. And young again.
Stay Young,I am 29 for 47 years now
Vibes are real
Damn, it has been a long, long time since I've heard this song. Like a long missed friend, you just pick up where you left off when you reunite.
Brilliant.