Some good, some bad. But it definitely was talking about upcoming changes. I wonder how many people never really caught onto the lyrics. @@albertataulbee5077
1979, actually one of the most formidable, innovative and splendid years of this decade: punk, new wave, disco, rap, fresh pop all emerging. So glad I was around...
I remember walking around the house trying to memorize the lyrics. This was hard cuz wehad no streamin. You just had to wait for it to play on the radio. Anybody remember that? 1000 times and i never get tired of it...knick knack patty wack😂
If you was in the UK, like me, we bought Smash Hits are memorized the lyrics to everything that was in the charts. The 80s (and the late 70s were awesome
Knick knack paddy whack ! It's from the verse of an old English song "Knick knack paddy whack give the dog a bone " Then I think if I remember right it is followed by "this old sailors coming home "
@@goverlord That sounds right ! I said I think if I remember right because I haven't heard anyone sing it in over fifty years ! And I'm 56 so I was very young when I last heard It !
And here we are I walked around my work kitchen the other day singing this, and the youngsters looked at me like I was nuts 😂😂😂😂😂 Eeny Meeny Miny Moe, which way you wanna go😂 singing helps me keep time I heard the dishwasher say talk about pop music 😊 he likes our music so I know he went and looked it up ….
I loved this the very first time I heard it. There is a meaning behind this. A meaning a lot of people just don't see or hear. Now I'm old and dying. Thank you for creating this. Thank you.
He actually sang the lyrics ''knick knack paddywhack'' , ''fe fi fo fum'' and ''eeny meeny miny mo'' and made it work in a hit pop song. Hats off to you sir.
Some say it was David Bowie's "Heroes", that was the start of the New Wave of 80's synth based pop music. Sadly it mostly came to an end in late 1988. As Hip-Hop, Rap & RnB seemed to straggle the charts. Their would be nothing really new until, Grunge and Guitar based Brit Pop in the 90's with Oasis, Blur, Pulp, and others. Thank god, Electronic Dance Music is now everywhere to drown out, so much "poor me" cr@p.
1979. I can remember this when I was five years old. New York, London, Paris, Munich everybody talk about pop musik.This and the Buggles (Video Killed The Radio Star) I can remember like yesterday. What great sounds, what great memories.
The first time I heard this song was at a firestation block party - I was 8 years old at the top of a Ferris Wheel and this song was blazing from down below - a definitive moment in my life. My perception of what mattered and what was real changed right then and there.
Boy, does THIS take me back. I was a junior in high school when this came out, and we were just blown away. I'm pleased to see that 45 years later, it's still a great song!
This came out when stuff like Kansas, Styx, and Queen were riding high at the top of the charts. Do you realize how STRANGE this music seemed at that time? I was 12 in 1979, and whenever this came on the radio I would turn it up loud and beg everyone to listen....my parents listened one time, then told me to play it in my room only.
+Moses Berkowitz DEVO was just hitting it big around that time too. This was a time when uniqueness and experimentation was embraced and appreciated in music.
it's still imo, some of the most interesting music that's actually "catchy"...I am a good decade or more younger than you, but hearing some of this kind of music as a small child sent me later on a quest to listen to as much of this style as possible. ...I don't think 00s electro pop comes close in style or originality, though some groups like M83 managed to channel the style, it's actually called New New Wave.
+Moses Berkowitz Yeah Com Truise is great and so are The Limousines. Or you could always go with Neon Indian, which is like listening to '80s hits from underwater.
U2 opened their concerts with a cover of this song during the Pop Mart tour in 97/98. The crowd in Sao Paulo went crazy. I'll never forget that moment.
You're so lucky to have seen U2 on that tour. I saw them on the War Tour in Philadelphia (Tower Theatre) in 1983, and it was the most amazing concert ever!
I was floored when I found out this song came out in 1979. I would have pegged this at coming out in 1982 at the earliest with it more likely coming out around 1984-85. Definitely revolutionary
I find the same to be the case with alot of 1979’s synthpop music, like “Are Friends Electric?”, always thought that song released somewhere around 2000-01, not 1979, which suprised me.
There was in fact a 'decade remix version but not sure if it was ever released in the US - much like there was a decade remix version of 'You To Me Are Everything' by The Real Thing
My mom was on a roller disco team while my dad was stationed in Japan. She took me with her to the Skate Barn every Friday night. This song brings it all back for real!
coffycup75 a little different, but my aunt was on tv in the late 70's/early 80's on a little local television station that filmed the all female roller derby! She was a tiny little lady - but a frigging beast on skates - & they would play this song & other awesome new wave classics during the games. Happy memories all around :)
When this Song first came out, me and my friends thought it was the COOLEST, the MOST FUN Song that we'd ever heard of, AND Roller Skating every day at OUR Local skating rink (SKATELAND IN Texas) MADE BEING a YOUNG CARE-FREE teeny-bopper EVEN MORE FUN back in the day. :-) gosh, How i MISS BEING YOUNG, FUN, SILLY, CARE-FREE AND WORRY-FREE, i MISS MY Youth SO freaking MUCH, Becoming a grown-up *-bleeping-* SUCKS, sigh (Lol). :-(
Naw not true. There’s lots of great stuff from back then you don’t hear, most of it better than what you do hear. Deep cuts are always the best. Problem is radios today only play the same top 40 over and over.
Oh nice. Yeah all these 80s radio stations only license about 500 songs and play them over and over and over, that may b why we never hear it randomly. There's so much from back then like that imo that just gets ignored, but it's all here on YT!
I was stationed in Germany in the U.S. Army in 1979 in a very small village in Northern Germany that even Germans in larger cities didn't know about. This was a very big song in the local disco pubs. This reminds of those days before the internet and social media. The song has stuck in my head for all these years. It is still a favorite of mine.
Synth Pop, Techno Beat, Dance Club Synth...What ever you want to call this, it took the world by storm. The 1980's were a total incubator for what I like to think of as Euro-Techno-Beat and, the sound was absolutely infectious. So many great artists producing the most different pop ever. And, it was a...HIT! From the very beginning.
vous etes bon qu'a diversé sur des musiques que vous n'écoutiez sans doute meme pas. Retournez vous coucher et laissez ceux qui on vecu pour de vrais entre eux et les factices qui mentent sans cesses qu'ils vivent leur vie
I was in high school when this came out. Having been there, I'd say that 1979 was the year that New Wave began to break big on mainstream Top 40 radio. In an era when bands like The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Journey and REO Speedwagon , as well as disco, ruled the charts, this song, and others by The Cars, Gary Numan, Sniff N' the Tears ETC, sounded like something out of a flying saucer from another planet. This was the bleeding edge of cool. This was the future! All these years later it still sounds fresh and new.
You got it so right, my friend :) I was a freshman in high school in 1979. I got the shit kicked out of me on day one because I wore a skinny tie to proclaim my punk rock cred. LOL (in retrospect... was no laughing matter at the time....) It is hard to convey to the younglings just how groundbreaking this music was at the time.
1979 was a great time for new wave music. I remember this with fondness. I also remember the Vapors with turning Japanese around that time too. I say bring all this music back, because the stuff that passes for music these days has no heart. Thanks for sharing this great track.
I used to listen to this song all the time on a construction site. This older guy made his own lyrics to it. His name was Bob Lucie so instead of pop muzik it was Bob Lucie. “Everyone talk about, Bob Lucie. Bob Bob Bob Lucie.” It was fun
This guy was way ahead of his time. I was in 9th grade when this came out. He was so far ahead of the new wave curve it's not even funny. Lyrical Genuis this guy!
@Thou Swell For metal i agree with you, and dont forget rock's music like QUEEN SCORPIONS GENESIS, but Wtf bro, you don't like WITHNEY HOUSTON ??? THE QUEEN ? na man, something wrong with you.
@Thou Swell I will always love you is lifeless ? how will i know is forgettable ? i wanna dance with sombedoy is horrible ? Celine dion is also shit for you ? but tell me why man ? Just one quesiton, how old are you bro ?
This song was so ahead if it's time. Had such an 80s sound in the late 70s. I was in 10th grade just entering high school when this song came out. My friends and I thought this was the coolest song ever made at the time. Now here it is 2023 and it still sounds like the coolest song ever made. A true classic that has stood the test of time. Sounds a lot better than all the garbage called music being made today.
Uh, oh, a geezer has to put down today’s music to make himself feel better about getting old. 🤦♂️🤦♂️ I am referencing hollywood000. He likes old music. Cool!! But for some reason, the narcissistic clown has to go off topic and label *all* of today’s music as garbage. He must be a real pleasure to be around. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Huge fan of 70/80’s New Wave. I was 3 when this song came out. However, by the time Duran Duran blew up, I fell in love with this genre. This song is no exception to pure excellence!
Naturally this has always been on constant rotation in my car. When son was about 6 {few years ago now} we went to the shops to get him some shoes. After we worked out his size I said 'talk about big feet!' he put on a serious face and said 'no mum - talk about pop music' So proud 😭🤧❤️🥰
Born in the early 70's. Grew up in the 80's. Came to age in the 90's. Realized how much I miss real music in the 2000's. They just don't make them like this anymore.
Kids these days don't know the struggle of waiting for this song to come on the radio and hitting "record" (two buttons). Also hoping that the DJ didn't talk over the intro.
Probably the most universally-liked pop song in history. Everybody liked it... English, Afrikaans, Coloured. Kids, Teens, Metalheads, boertjies, even grannies tapped their toes to it. You heard it everywhere... on the radio, in taxicabs, in supermarkets, in lifts, in your dentist's waiting room...
@Mister Happy"In many of these places, it may now be considered an ethnic slur, though has taken on a special meaning in Southern Africa." Stop being a dumbass and do your own research, I mean we're literally on RUclips
@Mister Happy coloreds are mixed race in South Africa a combination of white, black or Asian. Not like in America we’re it’s a term for black people. In South Africa it’s an ethnic group
These guys were so far ahead of their time. If this song came out today, it would still be a huge hit. I remember as a kid in the 80s, this song made a big comeback, I’m thinking it was because it was on MTV.
I'd argue it doesn't sound fresh anymore...I mean, I'm definitely getting an "artifact of the late 70s/early 80s" vibe, but it still sounds super cool, and super catchy.
Robin Scott was light years ahead of the curb in that this signature classic was the first New Wave track that caught the world's attention straightaway. I was 13 and in eighth-grade when this gem charted in the US. I still remember it oh so well. 10/10
Agree 100% Alan. Thanks for mentioning it's from 1979 (and not the '80s) but the transition to the new fresh decade was already underway. That was a good thing!
This tune ran in my mind all morning today... much to the amusement of my wife as we drove to work. It came out when I was working in a Coca Cola warehouse and I still love it today.
This song went number one on the soul/R&B chart and it crossed over to the pop chart. My Mom had the 45. Remember when we all played records, albums, cassettes and 8 track tapes! 1979!
Do people and their music "become" one-hit wonders because the music/video is so perfect, they can't top themselves? Everybody, including the models nailed it in this video.
I remember how excited I was to buy the 45 of this song when it came out and playing it over and over in my bedroom. I guess that was 2000 years ago. Time flies. 😞🙂
Back in 79 this song clearly told me the new decade will bring change.
That was correct.
Changes in so many different ways
Was the first record I ever bought. My second was an album... The Cars.
Yes. This song had an interesting subtext.
Some good, some bad. But it definitely was talking about upcoming changes. I wonder how many people never really caught onto the lyrics. @@albertataulbee5077
but pretty much stale by 1989 though
I’m actually glad TikTok is introducing people to oldies like this because then more people get to enjoy this awesome song :)
@ShadeATV
Too bad they won't remember it since TT and most of the Internet is aimed at 10 second Toms 😂😂
They just ruin it
yall at the comments will live
ancient dinosaurs
There's a better selection on YT.
And vids that gives info about the artists.
1979, actually one of the most formidable, innovative and splendid years of this decade: punk, new wave, disco, rap, fresh pop all emerging. So glad I was around...
Yeah it really had it all in 79.
Right!!????
belter
I've been saying for years that 1979 is THE best music for pop music, especially singles
PJ Angels woderful years!!
I remember walking around the house trying to memorize the lyrics. This was hard cuz wehad no streamin. You just had to wait for it to play on the radio. Anybody remember that? 1000 times and i never get tired of it...knick knack patty wack😂
If you was in the UK, like me, we bought Smash Hits are memorized the lyrics to everything that was in the charts. The 80s (and the late 70s were awesome
Knick knack paddy whack ! It's from the verse of an old English song "Knick knack paddy whack give the dog a bone " Then I think if I remember right it is followed by "this old sailors coming home "
@@nonnovyabizness3003 in America we say "this old man comes rolling home"
@@goverlord That sounds right ! I said I think if I remember right because I haven't heard anyone sing it in over fifty years ! And I'm 56 so I was very young when I last heard It !
And here we are I walked around my work kitchen the other day singing this, and the youngsters looked at me like I was nuts 😂😂😂😂😂 Eeny Meeny Miny Moe, which way you wanna go😂 singing helps me keep time
I heard the dishwasher say talk about pop music 😊 he likes our music so I know he went and looked it up ….
"Roboter", "Are Friends Electric", "Cars", "Video Killed The Radio Star" and "Pop Muzik" are songs that were WAY ahead of their time!
Yes indeed. I remember watching the videos on "Video Concert Hall" on PBS way before MTV was a twinkle.
Check out New Zealand band Misex for another good band from this genre/ time. "Computer Games" is a good start.
Same with the first two Cars albums.
'World of Water' by New Musik should be added to that list. As should 'Money' by The Flying Lizards.
Very,very true.
I loved this song when I was little!
I was 11 🎉😂
I was 8 or 9 it was my favorite song ❤
Cool I was -30
you and me borh no one in my family remembers this but me and i was 9
@@Jujuthetherian._. im bad at math how old r u
Eighties music was so epic it had to start in 1979.
1979 is "honorary 80s" to me.
1978 actually: "Die Roboter" by Kraftwerk
I was thinking the same thing.
It couldn't be contained in merely ten years
Song was definitely ahead of its time.
I loved this the very first time I heard it. There is a meaning behind this. A meaning a lot of people just don't see or hear. Now I'm old and dying. Thank you for creating this. Thank you.
sorry to hear of your impending demise. everyone who lived in the 80s should celebrate. it was amazing to be alive then.
He actually sang the lyrics ''knick knack paddywhack'' , ''fe fi fo fum'' and ''eeny meeny miny mo'' and made it work in a hit pop song. Hats off to you sir.
Aunt Esther hahaha!! My kid thinks I’m insane cause I sang along word for word.
that was funny he threw a little comedy into the song
Aunt Esther My husband just talked about this song. He is Jamaican and I am American. Didn’t think he knew this song. Good memories.
Janel Bernotas maybe they were admiring your ability to memorize the lyrics. That’s a talent in itself
I believe he rhymed that with "Right in Betweeny"
in 1979 The song that Launched the next decade! - Long Live the 80's!!!!!!!
YEAAAAAAAAAA BAAAAAAAABEE, the 80s were great
The Cars created a whole no genre. Everybody else is pretenders
Set the scene for a decade of joy i feels the human race had earnt that.
Some say it was David Bowie's "Heroes", that was the start of the New Wave of 80's synth based pop music.
Sadly it mostly came to an end in late 1988. As Hip-Hop, Rap & RnB seemed to straggle the charts.
Their would be nothing really new until, Grunge and Guitar based Brit Pop in the 90's with Oasis, Blur, Pulp, and others.
Thank god, Electronic Dance Music is now everywhere to drown out, so much "poor me" cr@p.
@@slmeucalesa1 main stream yes , but groups like Kraftwerk and Devo were heads above this lot..😎
This song, along with Cars by Gary Numan and Video Killed the Radio Star by Buggles, were songs that bridged the 70s to the 80s.
Great times!
They brought in NEW WAVE and Killed Disco!
Yessss!!
Funky Town
agreed....but, devo,b-52's, the cars, etc etc
Who the hell is gary newman?
How have I NEVER heard this song? This is amazing.
It was a massive global hit in 1979
@OnlyGoodMusic_ most people here weren't born yet
That’s crazy.
There are radio stations that play music from specific decades, if you’re interested.
in 1980 it was EVERYWHERE
Born in 64... Huge Oldsmobiles in the 70..80..going 120mph in a 98 delta listening to this... Awesome
Hot
And they floated like we were on clouds!
born in '59, experienced much the same, had a '71 Chevy BelAir in 1980, what a floaty-boaty-car it was . . . so fun to drive / ride in....
@@vap0rland We had a 73 Impala custom. Loved that boat of a car
Grandpa bought his 71 new
A massive hit yet still ahead of its time. Foreshadowed the synth-pop wave of the early 1980s.
Try MAY of 1979
Group was definitely ahead of it,s time! Song has staying power, even for today. 😍
@@theodoreritola7641 if you were alive then you could see what was coming and that it was going to be much better than what you had been living in
It came out may of 79 nothing to do with the 80s🙄🤔
A forerunner to Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me with Science" - ruclips.net/video/V83JR2IoI8k/видео.html
1979. I can remember this when I was five years old. New York, London, Paris, Munich everybody talk about pop musik.This and the Buggles (Video Killed The Radio Star) I can remember like yesterday. What great sounds, what great memories.
Same here. Also Funky Town, though released as a single in 1980.
The first time I heard this song was at a firestation block party - I was 8 years old at the top of a Ferris Wheel and this song was blazing from down below - a definitive moment in my life. My perception of what mattered and what was real changed right then and there.
How can you not smile and feel happy when you hear this song?
Boy, does THIS take me back. I was a junior in high school when this came out, and we were just blown away. I'm pleased to see that 45 years later, it's still a great song!
it has been stuck in my head for almost 40 years...
My dad introduced me to this song like 2 years ago. Guess I got another 38 years of this.
same, and I was born half those years ago. It's a masteriece and I'm astonished every time about how crazy simple but perfectly working this song is.
Same here
Ditto
NewYork, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talk about POP MUZIK
That line has been burned into my brain for 4 decades 😊
I just shared this with my 12 year old granddaughter. I said this is what was on the radio when I was a little bit older than you are now.
Still one of my favorites from that era! What a time to be alive and watching these on MTV!
Or watching on
Much Music.
coming home from a hard day's work, kicking back with bong hits and beer and MTV - was life ever better than the 80s?
The entire album was a refreshing drink.
Quirky and fun
M was setting the mood for what the 80's was gonna be all about!
Exactly how i remember it.. i was about 10 at the time.
Absolutely. The 80's had great music in all genres, but man...pop was HUGE.
Right? Little did we know (while we watched The Dukes of Hazzard)…
Darryl Willett ' The Kings are Here'.Turning Japanese,? Why (k)not? Thank you.
pretty much him and Gary Numan predicted the trend of the 80s pop
This came out when stuff like Kansas, Styx, and Queen were riding high at the top of the charts. Do you realize how STRANGE this music seemed at that time? I was 12 in 1979, and whenever this came on the radio I would turn it up loud and beg everyone to listen....my parents listened one time, then told me to play it in my room only.
+Moses Berkowitz DEVO was just hitting it big around that time too. This was a time when uniqueness and experimentation was embraced and appreciated in music.
it's still imo, some of the most interesting music that's actually "catchy"...I am a good decade or more younger than you, but hearing some of this kind of music as a small child sent me later on a quest to listen to as much of this style as possible. ...I don't think 00s electro pop comes close in style or originality, though some groups like M83 managed to channel the style, it's actually called New New Wave.
I will look them up! Have you ever heard Com Truise? 80's retro-electro instrumental. Very cool.
+Moses Berkowitz Yeah Com Truise is great and so are The Limousines.
Or you could always go with Neon Indian, which is like listening to '80s hits from underwater.
Prometheus Xavier lol....I like Neon Indian; will try the Limousines. Thanks for the tip!
U2 opened their concerts with a cover of this song during the Pop Mart tour in 97/98. The crowd in Sao Paulo went crazy. I'll never forget that moment.
🍋
And it was immortalized in the PopMart Mexico tour concert recording!
You're so lucky to have seen U2 on that tour. I saw them on the War Tour in Philadelphia (Tower Theatre) in 1983, and it was the most amazing concert ever!
I saw PopMart live in San Diego and this moment was insane. They walked through GA from the baseball dugout
This is when the 70's became the 80's LITERALLY!!!
The music video was a few months before the 80s so yes
Literally would mean January 1, 1980.
I was floored when I found out this song came out in 1979. I would have pegged this at coming out in 1982 at the earliest with it more likely coming out around 1984-85. Definitely revolutionary
no cause I was listening to this song in 1980 I was 6 years old but still remember
I find the same to be the case with alot of 1979’s synthpop music, like “Are Friends Electric?”, always thought that song released somewhere around 2000-01, not 1979, which suprised me.
Like Cars
There was in fact a 'decade remix version but not sure if it was ever released in the US - much like there was a decade remix version of 'You To Me Are Everything' by The Real Thing
For the most part I agree, gowifb. Except that by '84 music had gotten noisier - Master and Servant by Depeche Mode, for example.
My mom was on a roller disco team while my dad was stationed in Japan. She took me with her to the Skate Barn every Friday night. This song brings it all back for real!
coffycup75 a little different, but my aunt was on tv in the late 70's/early 80's on a little local television station that filmed the all female roller derby! She was a tiny little lady - but a frigging beast on skates - & they would play this song & other awesome new wave classics during the games. Happy memories all around :)
Skate Barn in Santa Ana, Ca?
Let's hear it for your Mom!
When this Song first came out, me and my friends thought it was the COOLEST, the MOST FUN Song that we'd ever heard of, AND Roller Skating every day at OUR Local skating rink (SKATELAND IN Texas) MADE BEING a YOUNG CARE-FREE teeny-bopper EVEN MORE FUN back in the day. :-)
gosh, How i MISS BEING YOUNG, FUN, SILLY, CARE-FREE AND WORRY-FREE, i MISS MY Youth SO freaking MUCH, Becoming a grown-up *-bleeping-* SUCKS, sigh (Lol). :-(
Lucky!!!!
why did I never hear this song till this year? it's like every other popular 80s song is introduced in modern times EXCEPT this one!
Back then we thought it was another DEVO song
Idk for you but I was introduced to this through nirami lol
Naw not true. There’s lots of great stuff from back then you don’t hear, most of it better than what you do hear. Deep cuts are always the best. Problem is radios today only play the same top 40 over and over.
Oh nice. Yeah all these 80s radio stations only license about 500 songs and play them over and over and over, that may b why we never hear it randomly. There's so much from back then like that imo that just gets ignored, but it's all here on YT!
@@shark_cat125 yea same
This is the most 80's thing to come from the 70's.
Except the song Rock Lobster maybe...
Ahah
Pp
That's exactly what I just said lol
I consider it the beginning of the 80’s.
I was stationed in Germany in the U.S. Army in 1979 in a very small village in Northern Germany that even Germans in larger cities didn't know about. This was a very big song in the local disco pubs. This reminds of those days before the internet and social media. The song has stuck in my head for all these years. It is still a favorite of mine.
This video is probably the most 80s German thing ever made.
naval airport eggebeck/tarp?
Just a wild guess
@@SGobuck Popular music, cheers up and heals the human psyche.
@@nilsrogge9067 Popular music, cheers up and heals the human psyche.
Popular music, cheers up and heals the human psyche.
A real harbinger of 80s New Wave
WE ARE MAKING T-SHIRTS WHIT THIS ONE🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Yes that’s probably how half of the people got here
@ there’s a channel out there making T-shirts with questionable phrases and using this sound
Synth Pop, Techno Beat, Dance Club Synth...What ever you want to call this, it took the world by storm. The 1980's were a total incubator for what I like to think of as Euro-Techno-Beat and, the sound was absolutely infectious. So many great artists producing the most different pop ever. And, it was a...HIT! From the very beginning.
I bet you're a hoot at dinner parties.
The 70's were the best decade ever for music, whether you wanted rock, new wave, punk, disco, soul, glam......the list goes on and on
vous etes bon qu'a diversé sur des musiques que vous n'écoutiez sans doute meme pas. Retournez vous coucher et laissez ceux qui on vecu pour de vrais entre eux et les factices qui mentent sans cesses qu'ils vivent leur vie
@@sandrinerousseau6579You're snotty.
I was in high school when this came out. Having been there, I'd say that 1979 was the year that New Wave began to break big on mainstream Top 40 radio. In an era when bands like The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Journey and REO Speedwagon , as well as disco, ruled the charts, this song, and others by The Cars, Gary Numan, Sniff N' the Tears ETC, sounded like something out of a flying saucer from another planet. This was the bleeding edge of cool. This was the future! All these years later it still sounds fresh and new.
You got it so right, my friend :) I was a freshman in high school in 1979. I got the shit kicked out of me on day one because I wore a skinny tie to proclaim my punk rock cred. LOL (in retrospect... was no laughing matter at the time....) It is hard to convey to the younglings just how groundbreaking this music was at the time.
@@CeeTheJaywhere did you grow up, Texas?
@@allendulles2481 Texas face their foes with AR-15s, school kids can be tricky.
I only disagree on one; 'Drivers Seat.' 'Drivers Seat' sounded ultra-old, like it was from 1974 or '75. The others were very-much ahead of their time.
@@Sundae_Times how are they not new wave?
Damn Straight it makes it into the 21st century! Timeless!
The 80's Rocked!!!!
Correction, it was 1979. Not the 80s.
@@roberttaylor9825does it really matter? U don’t have to ruin it he’s just trying to share smth
@@Ghostypawzz Ok???? How is this ruined?
1979 was a great time for new wave music. I remember this with fondness. I also remember the Vapors with turning Japanese around that time too. I say bring all this music back, because the stuff that passes for music these days has no heart. Thanks for sharing this great track.
B-52's were also amazing in '79...
I used to listen to this song all the time on a construction site. This older guy made his own lyrics to it. His name was Bob Lucie so instead of pop muzik it was Bob Lucie. “Everyone talk about, Bob Lucie. Bob Bob Bob Lucie.” It was fun
😂
Awesome
I guess you had to have been there 😁😉
I love that!
Did the whole crew move to the rhythm when lifting boards, pounding nails, driving rivets... etc.?
This guy was way ahead of his time. I was in 9th grade when this came out. He was so far ahead of the new wave curve it's not even funny. Lyrical Genuis this guy!
Lyrical Genius maybe - but still only one hit. Go figure?!!
I was 12 years old when this song came out.
and the fact that he was only 20 years old in 1979 when he made this
@@coverageforyou7705 Are you sure?
@@aus80srockradio94 He had another minor hit in his home country UK not as big as this though.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POP MUSIC WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥
All these years later and I still boogie with a suitcase
Well that means you are just daft to do such a stupid thing
1:32-1:35 I witnessed this song from the miniseries of the santa 🎅🏻 clauses on Disney +.
Aha, but can you shuffle with a shoeshine sonny hmm?
@@chelseafan65 That's easy.
Pop pop popcorn chicken!
Late 70's and early 80's: a great time to be a teenager!
@Thou Swell 80's too.
@Thou Swell I disagree what you said bro, " girl just wanna have fun" is horrible ? lol let me laugh.
@Thou Swell Out fo touch, wake me up before you go, is this horrible ? bro, be clever.
@Thou Swell For metal i agree with you, and dont forget rock's music like QUEEN SCORPIONS GENESIS, but Wtf bro, you don't like WITHNEY HOUSTON ??? THE QUEEN ? na man, something wrong with you.
@Thou Swell I will always love you is lifeless ? how will i know is forgettable ? i wanna dance with sombedoy is horrible ? Celine dion is also shit for you ? but tell me why man ? Just one quesiton, how old are you bro ?
this song was ahead of its time considering that it was recorded in 1979
Same thing with "Video Killed The Radio Star" released in the same year.
@ted ritola oh superman
A lot of good stuff came out in the late 70's
if you say so
79 doesn't seem like it was that long ago. this song really holds up well still sounds good after all these years
I am !!! Born in the 60's. Love the 70's & the 80's 90's was wild rock, pop, rap, did it all, LOL.
oh great wise commenter from the 60s was it how people depict it nowadays
IM SO JEALOUS!! Being a teen today sucks!! Wish I was a teen when thus music was emerging.
@@pix_iieeeeFR IT WOULDVE BEEN AWESOME! ;3
The start of the greatest era in Music,. 80s Music 🎶🎼🎵🎶🎵🎼 👍👍👍
This song was so ahead if it's time. Had such an 80s sound in the late 70s. I was in 10th grade just entering high school when this song came out. My friends and I thought this was the coolest song ever made at the time. Now here it is 2023 and it still sounds like the coolest song ever made. A true classic that has stood the test of time. Sounds a lot better than all the garbage called music being made today.
I agree with you! Hello from Tyler Texas!
@@paulaward2075 Popular music, cheers up and heals the human psyche.
yes i too was in high school year 10 and 1979 was an amazing time for music yes a taste of what music was to come in the 80's talk about pop music
Super muza najlepsza kocham ją bardzo jest piękna muzyka miłości
Uh, oh, a geezer has to put down today’s music to make himself feel better about getting old. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I am referencing hollywood000. He likes old music. Cool!! But for some reason, the narcissistic clown has to go off topic and label *all* of today’s music as garbage.
He must be a real pleasure to be around.
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Holy Cow....another fave of mine. Thanks. With much appreciation to all ❤😊
Still sounds good after 45 years. So much better than today's stuff.
can't agree more. I was thinking about it today. There is no song in the last decade that I am sure to remember in 45 years (if I am still alive)
i mean some modern music is good, its not all the same yknow.
Bollocks
I’m a teenager and can’t listen to today’s music. I call it sound. This is real music that is worth listening to.
As a teenager, I agree with you. Never understood that Kanye West, Taylor Swift gobbledygook. That "music" sucks, but this? Now that's music!
I am having a drunken, martini-fueled new wave music on youtube kind of night. It's awesome. Totally recommended.
Doing the same thing at the casino
Rock on. Bonus points if you're wearing sunglasses indoors.
Right on!
suziequzie fucks up the recommended section though
Going down that rabbit hole are ya?
2020 and the song never get old. Classic.
Timeless.
Hope these songs are around long after we have checked out. Great song, lovely girls
The guy’s hair is perfect.
2021,he looks likes Falco.
Muzik is german ortography for music.
The best tongue in cheek, sly, evisceration of modern music ever made.
I was born in 77, but somehow didn't hear this song until 2024? Where the hell had i been???
😂😂😂😂😂
Probably in koma.. 😋
No way bro! Did you live in the woods?
The important thing is to keep facing backwards.😎
@edslcmThe opposite side of the coin in many respects. But not in every respect. The beat of the earth goes on and on …
I was there, folks, and this is the song that totally launched us into the 1980s.
Damn right. Senior year in highschool 🤓
@@sheldonjennings440 Same here!
I can see that James Murphy was right with 'Losing My Edge' 😂
@@notomonuncamas I told Robin Scott don’t do it that way. You’ll never make a dime.
Huge fan of 70/80’s New Wave. I was 3 when this song came out. However, by the time Duran Duran blew up, I fell in love with this genre. This song is no exception to pure excellence!
This song bridged the 70s and the 80s. Great innovation
One of the catchiest late 70's songs that made a perfect Segway into the 80's I've ever heard!
Segway is a scooter. Segue is a transition
@@hankkingsley9300 Be nice, it was probably a yank!
@@soisaidtogod4248 britbong f#gg#t
@@soisaidtogod4248 A yank?
@@hankkingsley9300 Well met, fellow grammar-Nazi! There are way too few of us!
This tune transcended all genres at its peak. Underrated classic!!!
A song that remains pop even after 44 years
Still one of the best pop songs ever recorded, and the groove behind all the pop is top notch. I usually have to listen to it a few times. Still.
Naturally this has always been on constant rotation in my car. When son was about 6 {few years ago now} we went to the shops to get him some shoes. After we worked out his size I said 'talk about big feet!' he put on a serious face and said 'no mum - talk about pop music'
So proud 😭🤧❤️🥰
That's awesome ;)
😂
Wow this song still going strong 😍❤ 1:13 .
This song is the begining of the 1980s music.... THE ORGINAL 1980s POP MUSIC
Born in the early 70's. Grew up in the 80's. Came to age in the 90's. Realized how much I miss real music in the 2000's. They just don't make them like this anymore.
the souns of the. desert mony machine.
@@michaelangelotorres5668 i remember that. our place of escape was called the skylab and its jukebox full of these wonderful 80's hits.
Listen to The Weeknd you’ll feel it again
It’s eventually the kids who listen to this of music and going to say that the music in 2030 sucks
Early new wave before the 80’s came in !👍🙏😊😎
How is the video for this so absolutely crystal clear? Much more so than videos/shows/movies that came up to 30 years later even…
My first 45 record I ever bought, early 1980! I still have it.
I remember roller skating to this and "Cars" by Gary Numan in 1980-81.❤
same here my first ever record purchase and its still worth every cent lol
Same. Heard it for the first time at the first party i ever went to. Will never forget. Was at a girl called Carolyn Bennetts house We were in year 9
Wow m inspired a few generations
So cool,we all love popmuzic
Just heard it tonight in 2022 roller skating :)
Kids these days don't know the struggle of waiting for this song to come on the radio and hitting "record" (two buttons). Also hoping that the DJ didn't talk over the intro.
🤣
How about missing the first few seconds of the song because you weren't close enough to the recorder. LOL.
100% TRUTH
Kids don't know what the jazz is all about
Hahaha those were the days!
Still love this song after all these years
Love the makeup!! Makes me long for my HS days. Feel very privileged to have been 16 in 1979! 70s music forever!!
This was at time when pop music was FUN!!!!
Had to take a break from the news and revisit the music of my childhood. Very refreshing!
Probably the most universally-liked pop song in history. Everybody liked it... English, Afrikaans, Coloured. Kids, Teens, Metalheads, boertjies, even grannies tapped their toes to it. You heard it everywhere... on the radio, in taxicabs, in supermarkets, in lifts, in your dentist's waiting room...
@Mister Happy coloured has a different meaning in South Africa than in the USA
@Mister Happy it's true, people don't find it offensive
@Mister Happy"In many of these places, it may now be considered an ethnic slur, though has taken on a special meaning in Southern Africa."
Stop being a dumbass and do your own research, I mean we're literally on RUclips
@Mister Happy coloreds are mixed race in South Africa a combination of white, black or Asian. Not like in America we’re it’s a term for black people. In South Africa it’s an ethnic group
@Mister Happy oh piss off dude, don't you have a life?
These guys were so far ahead of their time. If this song came out today, it would still be a huge hit. I remember as a kid in the 80s, this song made a big comeback, I’m thinking it was because it was on MTV.
Pop Music Ghostbusters! 😀
SO ahead of it's time. still sounds fresh.
I'd argue it doesn't sound fresh anymore...I mean, I'm definitely getting an "artifact of the late 70s/early 80s" vibe, but it still sounds super cool, and super catchy.
I'm a new wave junkie, i live for the stuff.
this song sounds super dated and ridiculous.
You have my last name it is patrick
it sounds dated. it's so simple and minimal though, it really could have been made yesterday
@@startervisions what the fuck are you talking about
Oh my!!! I just rediscovered this song after 30 years and am ab-so-lu-te-ly freaking out!! SO GOOD!!!
Love this song
Me too!
My adoration for this song knows no boundaries...I can play it on a loop all day long!!
=)
Loved this song in Spring 1979 when it was in the UK singles charts.Although I was only 6,
it is one of my favourite songs from my childhood.
*This is one of the most fantastic masterpieces to ever come from the 70's*
It was one of the mile markers for the 80s just ahead.
@@hankkingsley9300 yes
Robin Scott was light years ahead of the curb in that this signature classic was the first New Wave track that caught the world's attention straightaway. I was 13 and in eighth-grade when this gem charted in the US. I still remember it oh so well. 10/10
I was a disco freak in '79, but loved this song and Devo, Blondie, the B-52s! 😎🤩😍
@@HolyRollerTV I will check that out. Thanks.
i feel blessed to be a young'n who actually enjoys this music
Same
Robin Scott is/was M
40 years ago in 1979 this was an amazing 'One Hit Wonder'
Still love it today, always will.
Loud and clear.
Agree 100% Alan. Thanks for mentioning it's from 1979 (and not the '80s) but the transition to the new fresh decade was already underway. That was a good thing!
Great tune, but not a one hit wonder....there is an actual definition for that - a single chart entry that reached #1, they didn't....
@@richardcochrane1966 It reached Number 2 in the UK but managed Number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA.
I love how old songs are brought back
0:29 ".....boogie with a suitcase" 😂😂👌👌
I was only 7 years old when this came out in 1979 and I still remember it like it was yesterday.... Good music never gets old! 😃😃
Yup! Me, too! 7 years old, in 79'. Memories.
You got great taste
@@simonmallett9310 Why - Thank you! 😄
@@andreweasternman8788 17 years old when this came out. Great tune
17 years old when this song came out. Great tune
My all time favorite song...not only ended an era of great music, but launched another era of the same...
What an excellent way of putting it
This 1979 tune was a taster for what was to come in the 1980s.
Video Killed the Radio Star too
This was actually bettween 79 and 80s to come the better or the best to come...
"shoooooby dooby doooo wopppp" --------------------- a song that makes ya glad to be alive!
Slow that down and you get Phineas and Ferb
I'm actually obsessed with this song. idk why
Me too.
Your not the only one..Its so catchy...X :)
Because you have exceptionally good taste, that's why!
Heidi Holman ...I too was obsessed with this song.I had the new wave mullet and all.
Drug addiction
This man single handedly changed the direction of music and pop culture for the entire decade to come
This tune ran in my mind all morning today... much to the amusement of my wife as we drove to work.
It came out when I was working in a Coca Cola warehouse and I still love it today.
This song went number one on the soul/R&B chart and it crossed over to the pop chart. My Mom had the 45. Remember when we all played records, albums, cassettes and 8 track tapes! 1979!
I only remember seeing 8-track tapes in a store once in the mid-70s, and even then it was a very small display.
Never get fed up listening and singing along to this song since I first heard it in 1979. It's a classic!
Thank u miss lynnimod this jamm was hitting lolol✌️😎
Me neither
It just never gets old
No doubt.
Do you normally get fed up over trivial things?
It came out in may 1974
This was stuck in my head all day. (8 hours of this song straight) and i am not complaining.
Do people and their music "become" one-hit wonders because the music/video is so perfect, they can't top themselves?
Everybody, including the models nailed it in this video.
Three hit wonder. I Want a New Drug and Ghostbusters!
I think technically most groups are 1 hit wonders
Unbeliavable, how well the background singers can remember that amount of text ;-)
LOLL!!! That was funny. I remember this song when it first came out, I think it was before even MTV was a thing!
I remember how excited I was to buy the 45 of this song when it came out and playing it over and over in my bedroom. I guess that was 2000 years ago. Time flies. 😞🙂
Love it ❤ The first time I heard this song was back in 1979. I was 13 at the time.
Was hard to go to any 80's dance night club in Southern California without them playing this song. Blasting out on JBL's studio monitor.