Billy idol - 'Rebel Yell'! The Rock Icon Gives Us a Rebellious Anthem with that Iconic Lip Curl!
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- "Rebel Yell" is a song by English rock musician Billy Idol. It was released as the title track from his 1983 album "Rebel Yell." The song was written by Billy Idol and guitarist Steve Stevens. "Rebel Yell" is one of Billy Idol's signature songs and remains a popular rock anthem.
The song's lyrics are about the excitement and intensity of youth and rebellion. The "Rebel Yell" in the song's title refers to a famous bourbon whiskey, but it is also used metaphorically to describe a passionate and rebellious cry. 
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Younger reviewer saying it's nothing but an average pop song is delusional. I sense some jealousy there for obvious reasons. This song and Billy himself are iconic in the best way possible.
Agree 100%
The guy has a point. Billy Idol’s image is an industry take-off from London punk, which was much more brash and noisy. It’s pop in that way, but it’s still a damn good song.
"you're just jealous" is the most immature response ever 😄
@@Darling_Nicci Who posted that?
@@Mk1Male it's in the original comment, "I sense some jealousy"...
His most iconic songs were probably White wedding, the beautiful Eyes without a face, Hot in the City...I was a teenager in the 80's, this was my music! Thanks for your reactions!
Gen x yes!
I think you forgot about Dancing With Myself, which was one of his biggest hits. I'm an 80's guy also, and Billy Idol was a staple of the 80's.
I grew up with Billy Idol and I'd say Rebel Yell is as iconic as it gets. Also you left out Dancing with Myself which, along with White Wedding, is probably his most famous song.
Rebel Yell & Mony Mony are the most catchy.
Epic guitar playing by the legend, Steve Stevens.
He's on my list of favorite underrated guitarists, along with Elliot Easton (The Cars), Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), Neil Giraldo (Pat Benatar), Glenn Buxton (Alice Cooper) and Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot).
Steve is great live too.
Is he the guitarist in MJ video Dirty Diana?
@@angelcharms7297 I believe he did.
@@janmorrill9184 I thought so. Thanks
How can you sit still listening to this man ??? Nothing average about it.
I think the fact that this was the EARLY 80s demonstrates the reverse - rather than recycling other artists’ material, Billy Idol was one of the trendsetters that OTHER artists copied/were influenced by.
And 40 years later he's still putting out good music.
He collaborated on a Miley Cyrus song called "Night Crawling" from her 2020 Plastic Hearts album. It's pretty good.
The guitar player Steve Stevens played on Michael Jackson’s song “ Dirty Diana “ !!!! ❤😂
As a musician and listener, this song is fire. The raw energy is enough to make anyone bob their head. If it doesn't make you move at least a finger, then you're probably suffering from some kind of nerve damage. But then again, this one's for us, the ancient ones. My second daughter was two when this came out. Long live the 80s.
I still love this 40 years later. One of my favourites to dance to at discos in the early 80's.
Billy Idol is actually from England originally 🏴 ❤
Yay!! Bill Idol is still touring huge venues, he's amazing. He's got a very deep catalogue, too, not a one hit wonder at all. He started out in the UK punk scene then evolved into his own thing. Yes, he was so good in The Wedding Singer!! His videos were on constant rotation on MTV in the 80s, was so fun.
I'm shocked it only got to 46 in the US? I was 19 when this came out and we LOVED this song! So fun and energetic!
But, it has staying power. It looks great after over 40 years.
Back then (and maybe still) the US did it differently than most countries. They counted radio plays, for instance, and the record companies manipulated the radio play. I remember wandering the US in the 80s and most commercial stations only played a few songs - the same ones over and over and over and over. My country, and probably most back then, counted actual sales. Period.
Id sell my soul for you babe, for money to burn with you. Thats one of the coldest lines ever.
‘White Wedding’ and ‘Eyes Without A Face’ all by themselves put Billy in the pantheon of pop rock.
Average, are you insane? This is one of my favorite songs. Definitely not average…..✌
Billy Idol - "Rock The Cradle Of Love"
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Edgy song of my youth. Gen X loves Billy Idol because he was the bad boy of our generation.
He sounds even better live. His performances are fantastic he give it his all.
Eyes without a face, one of my favourites of his
I love eyes without a face!!!
All the punk awesome looks aside, his voice is AMAZING. He hits the lower register like butta,(Butter). He could be a crooner, you know like those old school Bing crosby if he wanted. Deal is...He's old now, AND STILL IS AMAZING. He is a Grampa...I mean check out his concerts with Iheart where he partners with Mylie Cyrus and they sing this song together. Perfect match and amazing. He's grown into a very awesome human being. His kids, grandkids changed his life for the better, I have much respect for this man.
I don't think i ever met anyone not liking this song. No matter what genre they listen to primarily. But overall, White Wedding is still my favourite song by him.
Handsome man I have to say
That entire Rebel Yell album is fire, no cap.
It’s a freaking jam bro! This is a driving song. When this comes on at night in the car watch The speedometer go up. Or if you were with your lady other things will go up because this song is a workout song in more ways than one! With a rebel yell she cried more more more! Hell yeah!
Still sounds great after all these years. Rebel Yell album was huge back then. All of Billy Idols videos were all over MTV. Majority of his songs from the 80’s still get major rotation and they hold up. Another artist that didn’t sound like anyone else. It’s a sound and voice all it’s own. I can’t think of single artist being played on the radio during the 80’s or after that sounded like Billy Idol. So not the same old formula. It was original. Just like The Police. No one sounded like them.
Nice reaction, guys. That's the amazing Judy Dozier on keyboard. A few years later, she was in the show band for Legends in Concert and played behind me there several times. Fans would look for her at the Meet and Greet after each show!
Rebel Yell is what we call a perfect song.
My mom's currently 73, but back then...she LOVED Billie Idol! At first she wouldn't let my younger sisters get MTV, but between Lionel Ritchie, Neil Diamond and Billie Idol, she was lured into it ;0) Mom has the album this track is on. Too bad he didn't make it to ourvarea to take her to a concert. Oh, yea....we're black ;0)
I used to listen to Casey Kasem's Top 40 on the radio every Sunday evening and this song was in the top 10 and in the top 40 for weeks. His top 40 included radio airplay from across the nation and it was definitely played a lot on the radio out here in Nebraska. I still have this record. When I was young it was Billboard who?
That dude has stage presence.
I think hes always been underrated. And sexy.
This is up there with the great's ! Fire, wild energy, primal.💥
Interesting thing about Billy Idol is that he was the real deal in his personal life. Drugs sex and Rock n Roll seriously. But he fell to the softer New Wave genre than the real punk world he came from. Made millions and slept with millions of girls did millions dollars worth of drugs and his body is paying for it now. My favorite song of his is "Dancin With Myself". Good reaction 😊...
He appealed to a niche audience of Punk & New Wave. He was Huge in that scene. Billboard can kiss my backside
I LOVE Billy's voice
THIS song was HUGE in the day. Heavy rotation on radio & MTV. GREAT SONG!
80' golden age of music.Today nothing.
This song was actually inspired by a night when Billy Idol was drinking at a bar in New City with The Rolling Stones and they were drinking the Whiskey Brand Rebel Yell and Billy had never heard of it,so they have a night of drinking Rebel Yell and Billy probably went home with a girl that night and then he wrote this song
My favorite in the 80s. Much appreciated fellas ❤❤❤
This is one of those perfect rock songs
Billy Idol in 1983, with his spiked, blonde hair, and his Rebel attitude was fire…I graduated in 1985, and me and my friends would sing this song, cruising on the weekends…absolutely loved this punk rock genre. Another song I loved, is “Eyes Without A Face”, a lot different and slower. “White Wedding”, is another great one.
Man, don't you miss cruising?? Having a car/truck full of booze with the windows down & the music up. Those were the days...
"Hey little sister, shotgun!"... 😆 I graduated in 1985 too.
He came up with that song after seeing the classic French horror movie “Eyes without a face” . It’s a creepy movie that everyone should see at least once.
This song hit #9 on the Mainstream Rock list.
Billy's lead guitar player worked with M.J too, he's the guitar player in the video for his song Dirty Diana.
While the single failed to break into the top 40, the album went to number six in the charts. I was in high school when it dropped and we used to crank up that album all the time in the car. "Rebel Yell" confirmed for us that his debut album wasn't a flash in the pan. Beyond this and "White Wedding", check out "Dancing with Myself", "Hot in the City", "Eyes Without a Face", and "Flesh For Fantasy" along with his other tunes. Beyond that, here's a list of songs from that era -- 82,83,84 -- that are more or less in the same sonic ballpark. YMMV. Missing Persons "Walking in L.A.", "Words", "Mental Hopscotch"; INXS "The One Thing", "Don't Change"; Big Country "In a Big Country"; U2 "New Year's Day", "Two Hearts Beat as One", "I Will Follow (Live)"; The Fixx "One Thing Leads to Another", "Red Skies"; Duran Duran "Hungry Like The Wolf", "Rio"; Tears for Fears "Pale Shelter", "Mad World"; Oingo Boingo "Who Do You Want to Be", "Grey Matter"; Echo & the Bunnymen "Never Stop", "The Killing Moon"; Ratt "Round and Round"; Yes "Owner of a Lonely Heart"; ZZ Top "Legs", "Sharp Dressed Man"; ...
LOVE Flesh for Fantasy,
One of the best songs....see Billy Idol gets it
Saw him live twice. This video perfectly reflects what the shows were like.
Love this song and Steve Stevens was awesome on guitar!!!
Eyes without A face is my FAVORITE Billy Idol song.
Thats still a Rockin Ass Kickin Banger!
such awesome guitar work too!!! I always thought the intro was a keyboard, but it's Steve. bad ass. oh yeah, and Billy is so under-rated.
What a performance! Wowza!!!!!❤
Billy !! 🤙🏻
Billy did an acoustic version of this tune that shreds...
Billy idol is pure genius
I'm going to see Billy AGAIN in Vegas next month. He's still great in concert, and we're both old farts now. 😂😂
Billy was Punk Rock then ss they say became commercialized and of course the punk rock community called him a sellout.
He lasted longer than punk rock. 😎
So I dont see this fact added yet....
Steve Stephens 🎸 LOVES old classic toys. He would go through all the shops & buy the classics. He found an oldtime "alien ray gun" that made that sound. HE USED IT in this track 👏 thats the sound you hear! Cool as shit!
Also, the "breakdown" you called it in the song is 32 bars built in for dance mixes. Billy knew his music was used in clubs & purposely used that many bars so DJ could mix.
Dope
what you on about Alien Ray Gun, its synths sizer pushed through an electric guitar , clever.
Billy Idol is a legend
The guitarist Steve Stevens is the same guitarist on Michael Jackson’s Dirty Diana
Eyes without a face… his best imo
Truth .. guys on left and middle could do without negative vibes on most every reaction from the right.
It is a groovy song for sure!! And Steve Stevens on the amazing guitar!!😍
He never played the local clubs in New York but yeah he can sing live. He had swag!
We Metal Heads accepted him even though he was more punkish. He bent gundrers punk metal and rock even pop.
This song is a classic and your boy is tripping 🎉
Billy Idol with streaming STEVE STEVENS.
Fun fact, Idol’s guitarist Steve Stevens played the solo on Michael Jackson’s Dirty Diana.
Early punk man cool tune
Steve Stevens ( guitar ) also played with Vince Neil ( Mötley Crüe ) on his solo album " EXPOSED ". ;)
My mom would bleach and spike my hair for me. Such good times, may she rest in peace.
Billy was drinking in a bar with the rolling stones and drinking Rebel yell whisky went back to the hotel and wrote the song
80s was fun.
He helped bring an end to the Disco era. Try "Cradle of Love" a later hit of his. Michael Jackson definitely shined bright and artists like Billy Idol got overlooked.
His 1987 "live" version of Mony Mony, is his most FIRE 🔥 song.
You know what we all yell back in the chorus 😉
This song is best played in your car, all windows down, stereo cranked, on the interstate, going 90+ at 2am…
Love Billy Idol ❤😊
I still listen to him
Average?? Absolutely not! Go for a drive and rip this up! And really listen to the lyrics, mannnn so hot 🥵 It's my fav 80s song.
This song was on constant rotation on MTV when it came out. 46? Nah. That had to have at least hit top 10.
It charted at number 9 on Billboard Rock Charts. This song was huge during a time when there were a million incredible songs all vying for top 40 slots on various US pop and rock charts.
Australia (Kent Music Report)[6][7] 7
Canada Top 50 Singles (RPM) 10
New Zealand Singles Chart[8] 3
UK Singles Chart 62
US Billboard Hot 100 46
US Cashbox Top 100 29
US Billboard Top Rock Tracks 9
I was 17 when this song came out, and I still love this song
CoreyRoy, loved your reaction especially, your energy. And I gotta say, you have one of THE finest beards EVER.
The first time I heard this song was in den 90s, but it wasn't the version of Billy Idol, but from the german techno band "Scooter" ... later I found out, that this is a BI song as I saw him performing this song at "VH1 Storytellers". It was an epic version as the VH1 series in "Unplugged" and so it was only him and his guitar player! Imagine this solo on an acoustic guitar! Outstanding! It's actually the version of the song I like most as the original has these 80s vibes, kind of. Anyway - BI is great! :)
It didn't recycle anything from the 80's. They were setting the trends that you saw later from others in the 80's. At least that's what I remember as a young person in the 80's.
Man bringing back all those High School memories...the music from the 70s & 80s were & still is the best.
His guitar player doesn’t get enough credit.
Legendary Steve Stevens. He notably thought of using a 60's space laser as a guitar tool. I've been listening to it since it came out when I was 10, and I still love that laser sound. He also has a raw, sexy solo in 'Eyes without a face'.
It's still on rotation in my phone 😊
I'd love to see you react to a group that had connections to Billy Idol and the Sex Pistols (of Anarchy in the UK fame), namely Siouxsie and the Banshees. The Spellbound video would be a good start, or maybe the live versions of Eve White/Eve Black or Sin in My Heart from their Nocturne album.
A suggrstion if I may; One fine morning by a group called Lighthouse. Released July 1971. Cheers.
Loved watching this with you guys
The album was huge….no matter the billboard…your right.
Only one Billy... and he was so unique as our spiked hair vampire rocker (though his natural hair was darker of course). Still the video is one of the MTV eras finest to play continuously as non-stop visual with one of so many 80s rock must-have guitar riffs that only elevate the effect of 80s rock.
I always felt to see his videos the first time... especially - White Wedding. It is as taking you into a Wiccan cult of some kind yet it was all just created and to view today YOU CANNOT TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE VIDEO kinda thing... That proves its longevity as the video alone can just numb you in place as it lures you in and you cannot let go till you are fully dominated by its grip.
Even just that 80s old reverb still works to get that blood flowing and you are subdued as if paralyzed by the end..... for his BITE for blood. Just as many bands.... not everyone or song we think must have been #1s..... ever did. Just so many great band and songs in this era and at least these videos still hold up even those that were just the performers and a video that seemed to make no sense for a video.
Great reaction! Billy idol is still perfect 80ies rock n roll!
Always loved Bill Idol.
Dancing With Myself, is my favorite
This song immortalized the "FIST PUMP". If this doesn't set your feet moving in overdrive you are just deaf ... The dude there that doesn't feel it ????? This was not pop !!!
The clash
Hes been my idol since 1987😍😍😍
I’m commenting about your opening music, you can get with this, you can get with that; my favorite Black Sheep line” “Engine Engine Number Nine, On The New York ❤ Transit Line, If My Train Goes Off the Track, Pick It Up Pick It Up Pick It Up”!!!!!!! 🔥
This is such a fantastic song. Other really good ones by Mr. Idol would be Don`t need a gun, Flesh for fantasy and To be a lover.
His album Whiplash Smile from 1986 is amazing as a whole.
Love Billy!