Genius song. Not sure why I suddenly felt the need to listen to it but I’m glad I did. The opening seconds were like time travel, taking me back to the 16 year old who heard this song for the first time and adored it then just as much as he adores it now. It has a haunting sound that completely encapsulates the 80s for me.
Probably their best "non single" track, such a powerful melody, beautiful stuff. I am 51 years old and grew up on these two. So grateful for their music.
Neil Tennant said in his book One Hundred Lyrics & A Poem that this song was a hymn for the rejects of Thatcherism. In the 80's the Kings Cross area was a magnet for homeless people, prostitutes, drug dealers etc - all life's rejects. This was the first thing you saw of London if you travelled from the north to the capital, and the negative impact of Thatcherism was right in your face, immediately. I think this song was either released as a single very briefly and then withdraw almost immediately, or was intended to be released but was withdrawn - because its release coincided almost exactly with the terrible fire in the Kings Cross tube in the '80's. It was an unbelievable coincidence, and if you didn't know you could be forgiven for thinking it was actually about the event itself. The lyrics - "good luck, bad luck, waiting in a line...." "Dead and wounded on either side....." The lyrics, and the release date, are unbelievably coincidental and painful. I loved this song immediately when I bought the album for its powerful synth lines, but I can remember at the time being utterly speechless at the coincidence of events and the lyrics.
it was never released as a single. PSB were asked to release it as a "charity single" by EMI but flatly refused a decision for which I applaud them. This track and The Theatre from Very are very similar in both their beauty and their content ......
I will be more than happy to swap today’s London for 1980’s. We had our share of trouble like every other nations but it was just our trouble. We had the spikes we had the drugs we had the leather jackets but society wasn’t as f****d up as now. What have we done to our country!!!
Listening to this song brings all sorts of feelings, so many memories... Thank God I was born when I was born and was able to enjoy and love the 80's. Til this day, i refuse to enjoy anything else.
Please let’s go back to that time! Remember looking at the cover on the way home and reading the lyrics on the bed while playing it on the stereo. If you want to hear the tune you can call me at night when I’m home watching my favourite show. If I do not answer, I may have went out to buy milk.
This really is a work of art! It’s their best song, and the lyrics are haunting especially with what happened after at Kings Cross Station. Premonition? It’s a crying shame this was never released as a single.
They were offered to release the single - after the accident itself, for a charity purpose. Apparently, Tennant rejected the offer, as he thought it would be an inappropriate move
@@АлександрРумянцев-щ7д that is actually false. 1) Chris and Neil co-wrote the song…. So they never would have been ‘offered’ the chance to release it as a charity single. It would have had to have been their r idea 2) it was actually the tabloid newspapers that approached the lads to release it as a single .at the time,I was working in local radio,and I still have the cuttings from the local paper as I got to interview them .; 3) it was actually covered 20 years after the train station incident by a woman who’s known here in the U.K.
It's eerie that this song was released before the Kings Cross fire. A burning man walking to a train, engulfed in flames. Dead and wounded on either side (every platform). Lost by the station called King's Cross. You know it's only a matter of time. Waiting at a platform with the smoke all around. PSB had a phone number where you could listen to this song and the money would go to the fire victims. It's eerily prophetic.
Man with burning coat. "Dead and wounded on either side, you know it's only a matter of time". The song and album came before the Kings Cross fire disaster, but it's the first in a line of PSB "predictions". They talk of Diana crying ("Diana dried her eyes, and looked surprised") in Dreaming Of The Queen, then she dies in a car crash. Then they drop Versace from the new version of Paninaro, then he died. I asked them about this once via the fan magazine Literally, their response was "Spooky".
Not that the war is over, we are still in fatigues. Afghanistan. Very topical. Theatre still hits me...northern parts and Scottish towns... We were in London/Tell it like it is Maggie: And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.[I believe you believed that!]
It is eerie. A song about Kings Cross station and then said station erupts in flames. Burning men walking to a train covered in smoke. Dead and burnt on every platform.
good classic song of kings cross there where two bus route 468 and N68 on the bus route out of South Croydon bus garage in 2013 best song it reminds me of the 468 N68 .the pet shopboys was the best song top 10 in the charts more please
I used to listen to this on repeat for hours when I was a teenager, I'm 51 now and it sounds as riveting now as it did then and takes me back to those days when times were simpler
For me, this stunning Epic Song is their Best, their finest Song to Date! It has so many Levels of Despair and Hope! The Words are brave and aspirational but suffocated by a genuine and emotional Despair and driven down by a nostalgic, misty eyed Avalanche of Sound!
4:40....Hey guys....will you believe it, if I would tell you, that when I heard it, for the first time, back in '87 (.....when I was still a teenager) the first thing that came to my mind, were British soldiers of the first world war?! And I'm not even a Briton! I'm a Greek....and yet, thanks to my vast military historical knowledge (....in my free time, I'm an amateur but avid military historian) I could picture this image, in my mind! It's incredible, how can a masterpiece, such as this one, can become a constructive "food" for the brain and imagination! Indeed, Pet Shop Boys, have done an incredible job here! Well done boys! Our love from Greece!
From the moment I first head this track way back in 1987 as a 16-year old (listening to 'Actually' on my little cassette player) it sums up one thing and one thing only for me: London. Anyone who was born and raised in London feels this song and can identify with it. I distinctly recall that it coincided with the horrendous fire at King's Cross Station. That was a terrible irony. I am now almost 50 years old and I still love this track like it is the first time I am hearing it.
This album helped me through the awful commute to Cannon Street/ London Bridge and the dark winters in the rain walking over that damn bridge with my walkman on. 🤣.... Takes me straight back there! THX!
Neil's voice was quite soothing back in the 80s. A brilliant example of Brit music n lyrics at its best. Kings Cross has great tunes n superb beats. Simply a artistic masterpiece.
This will be the main theme song of a film coming up in a few years, which hopefully will encompass all the feelings everyone is sharing here when they listen to it
I m pretty sure GOD has Pet Shop Boys on his IPOD !! Their music has always been amazing! Their music shaped me through the 80 s and 90s! Neil and Chris both are so talented and memorable with their synthesizers and beats, while Neil brings that soft angelic voice and harmony in everything to deliver the message! Thank you Pet Shop Boys !
always think of the fire when i here this classic song. used to visit london alot in the 80s and went down the underground many times where the fire was. i feel spared. rip to those poor souls that perished.
You will find me here or very near when the clock strikes 2050, 2075 or when that magical 3000 strikes and I’ll be part of the wavelength carrying It’s Alright and other petshopboys songs (whether or not they actually wrote the lyrics) out to infinity and beyond!!! Love you guys with all of my 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜🤍🖤🕉☯️☮️♋️♐️♐️⚛️🆘💟✅❎♻️⚠️🆗🆕🆓🆒🆙🚸🚹🚹
I.love them.....its history .....ever since their young age till now.....pop songs ....their style of singing and quite unique ....trust me....this song will change your mood ....keep it up ya
Genius song. Not sure why I suddenly felt the need to listen to it but I’m glad I did. The opening seconds were like time travel, taking me back to the 16 year old who heard this song for the first time and adored it then just as much as he adores it now. It has a haunting sound that completely encapsulates the 80s for me.
Ive literally just done the same..song came into my head after 33 year lol
Realy does capture the 80s , dunno why but it does
You instinctically did the right thing listening to it. Also the Video is awesome.
Same
Same
Probably their best "non single" track, such a powerful melody, beautiful stuff. I am 51 years old and grew up on these two. So grateful for their music.
A Masterpiece from Neil and Chris. Actually is definitely their best Album.
Amen.
🎉
Me too, Always on My Mind Is The Best song of Pet shop boys for me.
Who listening in 2020? PSB Forever!
Great music and beats. Best composition without a doubt.
I'm Russian GS.13.07.2020.
real people listen to great tunes that never go out of style, like this amazing one from 85, HUGE back in those days and still BRILLIANT today
Right now in Bangalore India my all time favorite song
@@girishbj3403 Sit on the botle(I joke,I joke).Sit on the bottle-no kidding.
"Actually", in my opinion, was one of the best albums ever released by any artist.
WillieWagglestick I agree with u. This Song in particular is superb
100% agree....actually please and actually was the two best albums ever released by an artist.
Agreed, perfect record really. They were the biggest group in England at this time. Halcyon days...
Concordo!!
Agreed love this song heart and rent
What a PSB classic still great to hear in 2024
❤❤❤❤❤кн5😅5❤г❤
Who listening in 2024?
Still brilliant
Listen often yes. Part of my 80's special Playlist 😊
Ne, and I allways will.
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Neil Tennant said in his book One Hundred Lyrics & A Poem that this song was a hymn for the rejects of Thatcherism. In the 80's the Kings Cross area was a magnet for homeless people, prostitutes, drug dealers etc - all life's rejects. This was the first thing you saw of London if you travelled from the north to the capital, and the negative impact of Thatcherism was right in your face, immediately. I think this song was either released as a single very briefly and then withdraw almost immediately, or was intended to be released but was withdrawn - because its release coincided almost exactly with the terrible fire in the Kings Cross tube in the '80's. It was an unbelievable coincidence, and if you didn't know you could be forgiven for thinking it was actually about the event itself. The lyrics - "good luck, bad luck, waiting in a line...." "Dead and wounded on either side....." The lyrics, and the release date, are unbelievably coincidental and painful. I loved this song immediately when I bought the album for its powerful synth lines, but I can remember at the time being utterly speechless at the coincidence of events and the lyrics.
#Stig10001 Same here. Absolutely astonishing and heartbreaking. The tragic fire was a really bizarre coincidence.
it was never released as a single. PSB were asked to release it as a "charity single" by EMI but flatly refused a decision for which I applaud them. This track and The Theatre from Very are very similar in both their beauty and their content ......
@Mack Sarnie Indeed.What all of us do?But Nail did enough with his music
I will be more than happy to swap today’s London for 1980’s. We had our share of trouble like every other nations but it was just our trouble. We had the spikes we had the drugs we had the leather jackets but society wasn’t as f****d up as now. What have we done to our country!!!
@@losedarkhorse Agree. London in the 80's is still better than London today.
Brings tears to my eyes ❤
Such a unique sound, both in their music and Neil Tennant's voice. A brilliant example of British music at it's best.
💞💞💞💞
Love Neil Tennant's voice 🥰❤️
Thank you Pet Shop Boys for making my life better with your music! I will always love you
I love Pet Shop Boys, your songs have marked my life.
Listening to this song brings all sorts of feelings, so many memories... Thank God I was born when I was born and was able to enjoy and love the 80's. Til this day, i refuse to enjoy anything else.
As well as me
@@DanGorMusic A timeless Masterpiece !
✋️🤗🌹❤️
Timeless.
I am listening to PSB since 1984 and I allways will .
First crush. 12 years old. This new song was playing in the background. Forever stuck.
Who’s listening this Gold-Epic song in 2022? 🎵
Brilliant and genial band
Favorite music now and always
Pet Shop Boy's finest hour. Just listen to those synths. Genius at work in this song.
Excellent, Excellent Song by the one of the World's Best Music Bands, The Pet Shop Boys'. What a Masterpiece. Simply Incredible.
Listening to this when it first came out and buying the album only seems like yesterday, so sad. How the world has changed!
Please let’s go back to that time! Remember looking at the cover on the way home and reading the lyrics on the bed while playing it on the stereo. If you want to hear the tune you can call me at night when I’m home watching my favourite show. If I do not answer, I may have went out to buy milk.
Agreed
For me...This is their best song ever☝
This really is a work of art! It’s their best song, and the lyrics are haunting especially with what happened after at Kings Cross Station. Premonition? It’s a crying shame this was never released as a single.
They were offered to release the single - after the accident itself, for a charity purpose. Apparently, Tennant rejected the offer, as he thought it would be an inappropriate move
@@АлександрРумянцев-щ7д that is actually false.
1) Chris and Neil co-wrote the song…. So they never would have been ‘offered’ the chance to release it as a charity single. It would have had to have been their r idea
2) it was actually the tabloid newspapers that approached the lads to release it as a single .at the time,I was working in local radio,and I still have the cuttings from the local paper as I got to interview them .;
3) it was actually covered 20 years after the train station incident by a woman who’s known here in the U.K.
Just like Dreaming of the Queen…. Singing about a lady Diana drying her eyes….. it’s just so eerie how prescient they are 💜
Yeah, it really is a work of art
..especially now in hindsight.
superb song.
So refreshing to hear this tune in 2021. Who agrees?
Me! Love this song since I was little
Definitely
Just left school when i bought actually on LP in 1987 53 now still listening to it .👍
It's eerie that this song was released before the Kings Cross fire. A burning man walking to a train, engulfed in flames. Dead and wounded on either side (every platform). Lost by the station called King's Cross. You know it's only a matter of time. Waiting at a platform with the smoke all around. PSB had a phone number where you could listen to this song and the money would go to the fire victims. It's eerily prophetic.
yes very sad
Für mich persönlich einer der schönsten PSB Songs.
Agree,my school days released pet Shop boys 1st album 😊
Für mich tatsächlich DER Schönste ❤️
I want to go back to 80's
You can't, but you can recreate it with your 80s friends and music. All the very best
I will come with you
Me too. .. I was so young then...
Me too.
Me tooooooo!😭
That girl at the beginning is so beautiful. And great song obviously.
I love Pet Shop Boys forever.......
The Pet Shop Boys
BRILLIANT. Loved them in the 80's and still do.
Man with burning coat. "Dead and wounded on either side, you know it's only a matter of time". The song and album came before the Kings Cross fire disaster, but it's the first in a line of PSB "predictions". They talk of Diana crying ("Diana dried her eyes, and looked surprised") in Dreaming Of The Queen, then she dies in a car crash. Then they drop Versace from the new version of Paninaro, then he died.
I asked them about this once via the fan magazine Literally, their response was "Spooky".
Not that the war is over, we are still in fatigues. Afghanistan. Very topical. Theatre still hits me...northern parts and Scottish towns... We were in London/Tell it like it is
Maggie: And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.[I believe you believed that!]
It is eerie. A song about Kings Cross station and then said station erupts in flames. Burning men walking to a train covered in smoke. Dead and burnt on every platform.
A surreal, dreamy and ethereal song!
I agree....it will change your mood
So so true! I want to take your hand and dance with the song....
yes
Yeah
Мощнейший трек переживший себя минимум на 40 лет , респект зоошникам 😉
He was watching that damn pythons every move... Great Song Pet Shop Boys. 👍 😎
Nostalgic! Always one of my favourite songs by Pet Shop Boys. Great Actually album.
Katri Kuusisto
Still bring a tear to my eye today......
The finest song ever produced by Neil & Chris. A masterpiece.
Amo essa música, fez parte da minha adolescência. Que saudade!
I know that the time lines don’t work but I lived in London at the time of the King’s Cross fire and this track always brings that right back 😢
Their best Song! I've been a huge Fan of Neil and Chris from ever since.
Awesome memories 💜 Walking downtown in Zweibruecken, 1984. Loved living in Germany.
No.1 Pet shop boys song
I didn't grow up in 80's Europe but this song makes me feel like I did.
the most poetic melody ever written
good classic song of kings cross there where two bus route 468 and N68 on the bus route out of South Croydon bus garage in 2013 best song it reminds me of the 468 N68 .the pet shopboys was the best song top 10 in the charts more please
I used to listen to this on repeat for hours when I was a teenager, I'm 51 now and it sounds as riveting now as it did then and takes me back to those days when times were simpler
Α masterpiece 💎
I found myself lost by a station called King's Cross...probably the best Pet Shop Boys track ever.
You're so right. Read it in a book, or write it in a letter, wait until tomorrow and there's still no guarantee. This line always got to me.
That make me cry great words
Their entire carrier is just undescribable, something amazing!
This song often makes me cry and I don;t know why. I have tried to find out just what the song is really about.
@@paulhoratio1560 It's about Zionism and King Arthurs (Hyperborean). Esoteric deep. Look the soldiers of the Third Reich 4:40; and the snake.
I used to listen to this all the time in the 80's and 90's on cassette tape. So many memories. I used to lip sync to this in the mirror. Thanks.
Stay blessed
Brilliant Track, Brilliant Album. 30 years, where does it go..
Fantastic SONG and Video👍👍
PSB forever ..!!!
Greetings from 🇩🇪
For me, this stunning Epic Song is their Best, their finest Song to Date! It has so many Levels of Despair and Hope! The Words are brave and aspirational but suffocated by a genuine and emotional Despair and driven down by a nostalgic, misty eyed Avalanche of Sound!
The sound of Pet Shop Boys is excellent and the quintessential of synagogue pop music of the eighties.
One of the greatest songs ever!
4:40....Hey guys....will you believe it, if I would tell you, that when I heard it, for the first time, back in '87 (.....when I was still a teenager) the first thing that came to my mind, were British soldiers of the first world war?! And I'm not even a Briton! I'm a Greek....and yet, thanks to my vast military historical knowledge (....in my free time, I'm an amateur but avid military historian) I could picture this image, in my mind! It's incredible, how can a masterpiece, such as this one, can become a constructive "food" for the brain and imagination! Indeed, Pet Shop Boys, have done an incredible job here! Well done boys! Our love from Greece!
Можно слушать бесконечно,хочется вернутся в то время и остаться там на всегда
Я плакала, честно!!!
@Angelina Petrovskaja да
Мне кажется только я знаю эту песню
Никто не знает
Нил красава
Masterpiece of a song.
When I listen to this song, I find myself just off in a daze, can't explain.
From the moment I first head this track way back in 1987 as a 16-year old (listening to 'Actually' on my little cassette player) it sums up one thing and one thing only for me: London. Anyone who was born and raised in London feels this song and can identify with it. I distinctly recall that it coincided with the horrendous fire at King's Cross Station. That was a terrible irony. I am now almost 50 years old and I still love this track like it is the first time I am hearing it.
wow there is actually an English person in this thread lol
One of their very best songs ~ if not, The Best song from the Pet Shop Boys.
"Actualy" (1987) is the Greatest pop album in music history
It is
Perfect classic tune...still the best
Wake up in the morning, and there's still no guarantee...
This album helped me through the awful commute to Cannon Street/ London Bridge and the dark winters in the rain walking over that damn bridge with my walkman on. 🤣.... Takes me straight back there! THX!
A premonitory song, mysterious and with a deep meaning both in the text and in the video. I loved it from the first listen ❤🔝
Beautiful composition-Their music is great.I love their music.Thank you.Pet Shop Boys.
Neil's voice was quite soothing back in the 80s. A brilliant example of Brit music n lyrics at its best. Kings Cross has great tunes n superb beats. Simply a artistic masterpiece.
Amazing song 🎵 unbelievable sound and voice 🙌 👌
This will be the main theme song of a film coming up in a few years, which hopefully will encompass all the feelings everyone is sharing here when they listen to it
Wonderful Neil Tennant
Most favorite track off Actually!
I m pretty sure GOD has Pet Shop Boys on his IPOD !! Their music has always been amazing! Their music shaped me through the 80 s and 90s! Neil and Chris both are so talented and memorable with their synthesizers and beats, while Neil brings that soft angelic voice and harmony in everything to deliver the message! Thank you Pet Shop Boys !
Thank You For All 🙏🙏🙏...PET SHOP BOYS ❤️❤️❤️
God loves every one
always think of the fire when i here this classic song. used to visit london alot in the 80s and went down the underground many times where the fire was. i feel spared. rip to those poor souls that perished.
Me and my parents love Pet Shop Boys, Its band of my childhood, even tho Im 13 right now I love 80s. :D
Que música! Que música!
tesão de música
Essa música eu viajei de Mogi Guaçu até Ribeirão Preto muito da hora linda música meus tempos de garoto eu 16 anos
maravilhosa sempre
Beauty! Hello I'm Russian GS.
compare el s.XX con el presente.
Few videos where we see the other Pet Shop boy without glasses.
This song was made before the tragedy at kings cross . I will never forget that time. I still have say us Brits do make the best music
Goddamned this is a good tune. I can’t stop listening to it.
This song is masterly. The next station will be called King's Cross. Congrats's to Neil Francis Tennant and Christopher Sean Lowe.
I love how they blend that train engine sound at the end!
My both favs ABBA and PSBoys.
We drive together wth them all my travels
Genios en sonidos los británicos!!
I agree, it's a masterpiece of a song, it's absolutely beautiful!
Обожаю вас! Одна из моих любимых песен в юности.
I was 18 when this released simply amazing
Danke Neil und Chris für die Musik in meiner Jugend...Grüsse nach Engeland
You will find me here or very near when the clock strikes 2050, 2075 or when that magical 3000 strikes and I’ll be part of the wavelength carrying It’s Alright and other petshopboys songs (whether or not they actually wrote the lyrics) out to infinity and beyond!!! Love you guys with all of my 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜🤍🖤🕉☯️☮️♋️♐️♐️⚛️🆘💟✅❎♻️⚠️🆗🆕🆓🆒🆙🚸🚹🚹
Any song by pet shop boys is awesome
Such beautiful piece of music
Genius, Masters, excellent, the music its celestial
King's Cross, eterna, mágica, triste, romántica,la mejor balada de siempre y de los Pet Shop Boys, por supuesto.
One of my favourites
I.love them.....its history .....ever since their young age till now.....pop songs ....their style of singing and quite unique ....trust me....this song will change your mood ....keep it up ya
One of the best albums tracks by any artist anywhere
The best song from the best album.
Simply a good song
God, I love the Petshop boys. 2020 and I still love this album especially.
Great song from a top band true classic ❤❤❤
Men! The sound of this video is very good!
this is still awesome and kicking me every time i herd this........................
where are all the the years gone ??
this album is one of the best of their careers as it has produced several memorable classics even today.