Ohh I was born only over a year later after this came out but I’m glad to have grown up on this music and at least it was real music compared to all the bullshit out now!
Early May 1984. I’m sitting with my back against a big pine tree in NC. SSG King throws a brown bag at me. I say, “What’s this?” He says, “MRE. The new rations.” This song was playing from a parked POV a few meters from me. It was my first MRE and the first time I heard Dance Hall Days. I’ll never forget it.
Few songs are as magically emblematic of that fantastically undying decade, the 80s. So heavenly, so beautifully reflective, & so powerfully evocative, music like this takes me to another dimension of feeling & consciousness, lifting my spirits to these dreamy & surreal heights of rapture & excitement, all while resonating to the depths of my soul with a power & poignancy that is all healing, & in a manner that few other songs could emulate. Amazing, transcendent & wonderfully nostalgic, this masterpiece brings the 80s back to life!
Take your baby by the hand And make her do a high handstand And take your baby by the heel And do the next thing that you feel We were so in phase In our dance hall days We were cool on craze When I, you and everyone we knew Could believe, do and share in what was true I said Dance hall days love Take your baby by the hair And pull her close and there, there, there And take your baby by the ears And play upon her darkest fears We were so in phase In our dance hall days We were cool on craze When I, you and everyone we knew Could believe, do and share in what was true I said Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days, love Take your baby by the wrist And in her mouth an amethyst And in her eyes two sapphires blue And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you We were so in phase In our dance hall days We were cool on craze When I, you and everyone we knew Could believe, do and share in what was true I said Dance hall days, love Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days, love
Amazing song, reminds me in 84, i was only 8, listening it with my best friend in his sister's bedroom. Secretely of course, she hated us to take her vinyls without permission ! i discovered a lot of good music !
Isn't it amazing how good a song with a simple catchy top line, room in production for lyrics to breath, some counter melodies, no overload of 'beatz' and good simple singing without autotune or harmonised vocoder effects all over it can sound like... Please take note modern pop artists.
Extraordinary song. The one that saved Wang Chung from dissapearing for good even before they could reach stardome. The song was written one day a student missed a music class with one of the band's musicians. Back in the day when they were struggling to survive financially. What a story! What a band!!
Extraordinaria cancion. Y aun mas la historia detras de su creacion. La cancion que salvo a la banda de desaparecer para siempre aun antes de alcanzar el estrellato. Escrita un dia que un estudiante de musica falto a su clase habitual con uno de los miembros de la banda, en una epoca en que Wang Chung luchaba por mantenerse a flote financieramente. Que cancion! Que banda! Los 80's y su musica siempre seran unicos.
The Kinks were also missing the days of the dance hall in "Come Dancing". Wang Chung's ode is still amazing because of the way it transports me back to the eighties. 🕺💃
Thumbs up. It transports me nowhere in particular. I just LUV the catchy rhythm and clever lyric. OK it " transports " me to YIN - YANG. You need her and she needs you.
I couldn't get this song out of my head ever since I first heard it or saw the video I love the conductor ahh those were the days when MTV was good I miss the 80's
I find Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung to be very enjoyable to listen to multiple years after first hearing for multiple reasons one reason is the happy and carefree energy of the song.
@@gmar7836 how true. The instrumental beat may indeed be mistaken as " carefree." But the lyrics and some of the imagery paint a decidedly darker picture.
last song ever played at the "Asylum" nightclub at Brighton Le Sands. 1985 owner/DJ too stoned/sad to continue. he asked me to keep going and this was the last song i played :( wonderful times
Yes in my junior year of high school. The dance hall was an all night all people encompassing bar that several of my friends and I went to every Friday night. I told my boyfriend Fridays were for me and my friends and Saturdays was ours. We didn’t leave until 3 a.m. some nights because one of them had no curfew. It was the best!
I was 18 and living in Paris the summer this song came out, l can remember dancing around my teeny tiny apartment overcome by beat of this fab song! Ahhhhh.....the best of times!
Am directly interested and agree whith you 51 year old and a miss so much that périod . A miss that young time when a lives in St Julie on rive Sud on Montréal Québec Canada the song its better at that time clearly the 80 and 90 its the best time to be happy and lives the great time whith the real good music.😊❤😊 from André Fontaine Québec city CANADA
1983,was für ein Jahr,und welche geniale Musik dort gemacht wurde,Ich war damals 17 Jahre alt,schwer verliebt😉und einfach nur glücklich Wenn ICH Mir Heutzutage meine Enkelkinder ansehe, und denen erzähle,was ICH früher gemacht,erlebt habe,kommt immer wieder die Frage,und welche Handys hast Du da gehabt😂😢
What gets me is this is retro off of retro. The production value the song everything in this video was absolutely incredible it's probably one of the songs out of that era that just emotes super emotion and there are a lot of songs that I liked during the day. This is sort of the post disco era but people didn't stop dancing as a matter of fact it was right back on the way up. So thankful for that. Glad that I lived in a town that love to dancing and that town of San Antonio Texas. A lot of people would never understand the nightlife but when you're in it it is amazing. Wang Chung never forgotten. Everybody have fun tonight
Im definitely playing this at my wedding if i had a dream come true and these guys could play this song as we both walk down the aisle! Amazing song for true love!
Yes! I have a personal tie of this song to my first love which sadly didn’t work out. He married someone who I knew which didn’t work but we are good friends. She never brings him up to me. They have two beautiful daughters who both had babies this past October. I am not going to lie I still care about him but he cheated on her and that was crappy. I met him know it when he did it. But this song was in our Senior year and I will always think of him when it plays as it may have both affected our lives differently if we married.
Great upload! Brings back the good old days of the 1980s. MTV and for those of us who couldn't get cable tv the local tv stations carried clones of MTV for an hour or two of music videos. I was 10 years old when I first heard this song and video.
Que recuerdos cuando difícilmente podíamos ver estos videos en la tv en programas como"a toda música" etc ,etc...y ahora los tenemos aquí para grabarlos de principio a fin y cada vez que se nos antoja verlos
I would always disregard this song because it was before the ghostbusters song on my vhs but over time I would treasure this over ghostbusters. But don’t get me wrong, both songs are bangers.
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Words can't describe how lucky I feel to have lived in those times!
So well said!!!
@@Andla_2806 Thank you, happy new year :)
❤
We are still lucky to be able to enjoy this music 🥳
@Minimalist-Lifestyle debut of the mirror suit
2:25
I remember in 1984 this song was a hit.
The charts at the time were full of great songs.
Yes, that year 1984! How lucky we were to have experienced it!!!
Graduated in 1984!
Released on January 13, 1984.
@@ainsleyscarlet9027 Same here, 84 was a great yr for music!..
Echo & the Bunnymen Ocean Rain was released
Let’s all of us jump into a Time Machine and go back to the great 80s who is with me
Me
Me
Yo.
Me!!❤
I would love nothing more. I grew up in the 80s.
Another iconic 80s music with a saxophone. We didn't know how great music back then was till you listen to music now in 2024.😢
I love saxophone too and OMD has many songs using that instrument as well!!! How about now in 2024? None… So sad!!!! Forever 80’ fan ❤
Ohh I was born only over a year later after this came out but I’m glad to have grown up on this music and at least it was real music compared to all the bullshit out now!
2023 this song never gets old, I love it...
Hi I’m here
It’s amazing how such a simple song can be so absolutely brilliant and indeed iconic
yep its in a great movie to live and die in la 1985
😅
Absolutely
Simply a great dance hall and a reserved audience,but a song that remains timeless.
What an amazing drummer! Hehehehehe
Take me back to the 80s - I promise I won't come back.
“You need her and she needs you.” That’s right.
Oh Lord! The unreplaceable mood of the eighties.😍 Long live wang chung and brilliant tune like this one.😍
My description is a child of the 60s and the 80s . I'm sticking with it .
No such word, you mean irreplaceable.
@@crimsonpirate1710 it exists. And its what I really intended to say.
Damn, I miss the 80s!!!
We are the 80's. Those of us who lived those great days.
@@normc.1118 well put!
My thoughts exactly 👍
Me Too
We all do...😎😎👍👍
The best times for sure.
This song is 80s 🔥 😁
Early May 1984. I’m sitting with my back against a big pine tree in NC. SSG King throws a brown bag at me. I say, “What’s this?” He says, “MRE. The new rations.” This song was playing from a parked POV a few meters from me. It was my first MRE and the first time I heard Dance Hall Days. I’ll never forget it.
Few songs are as magically emblematic of that fantastically undying decade, the 80s.
So heavenly, so beautifully reflective, & so powerfully evocative, music like this takes me to another dimension of feeling & consciousness, lifting my spirits to these dreamy & surreal heights of rapture & excitement, all while resonating to the depths of my soul with a power & poignancy that is all healing, & in a manner that few other songs could emulate.
Amazing, transcendent & wonderfully nostalgic, this masterpiece brings the 80s back to life!
Who's there in 2024 ?
I think you mean 'here' ;-)
@@bobdobalina838 Oups ... 😅👍
Me!
Literally everybody on this page.
Already there. Burp.
That drum beat drove this song into my heart forever!
Take your baby by the hand
And make her do a high handstand
And take your baby by the heel
And do the next thing that you feel
We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you and everyone we knew
Could believe, do and share in what was true
I said
Dance hall days love
Take your baby by the hair
And pull her close and there, there, there
And take your baby by the ears
And play upon her darkest fears
We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you and everyone we knew
Could believe, do and share in what was true
I said
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days
Dance hall days, love
Take your baby by the wrist
And in her mouth an amethyst
And in her eyes two sapphires blue
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you and everyone we knew
Could believe, do and share in what was true
I said
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days
Dance hall days, love
Dance hall days
Dance hall days, love
Iconic 1984 song and video! I can smell, taste and touch the essence of those days. We are absolutely lucky to have lived that era!!!
One of my favourites ever! Sheer perfection,uplifting,and timeless! Well done Wang Chung!
I used to watch MTV, just waiting for this video to come on. It was my absolute favorite.
Amazing song, reminds me in 84, i was only 8, listening it with my best friend in his sister's bedroom. Secretely of course, she hated us to take her vinyls without permission ! i discovered a lot of good music !
I was 21, and working on a very cool television rock programme (pre-MTV) - and this went OFF!!
I wasn't even close to being around yet
I was 12 years old . 7 grade
I was only born 😂
I was 12. A metal head in the making but love this then and still and time after time still gives me goosebumps
Isn't it amazing how good a song with a simple catchy top line, room in production for lyrics to breath, some counter melodies, no overload of 'beatz' and good simple singing without autotune or harmonised vocoder effects all over it can sound like... Please take note modern pop artists.
Totally agree 👍
so true!
Poetic. Nice
Extraordinary song. The one that saved Wang Chung from dissapearing for good even before they could reach stardome. The song was written one day a student missed a music class with one of the band's musicians. Back in the day when they were struggling to survive financially. What a story! What a band!!
This is in my top 10 all time videos.
Extraordinaria cancion. Y aun mas la historia detras de su creacion. La cancion que salvo a la banda de desaparecer para siempre aun antes de alcanzar el estrellato. Escrita un dia que un estudiante de musica falto a su clase habitual con uno de los miembros de la banda, en una epoca en que Wang Chung luchaba por mantenerse a flote financieramente. Que cancion! Que banda! Los 80's y su musica siempre seran unicos.
a music video make with luxury, class and elegance, today nobody make a music video like that, thats for sure
That ending gives you a sense of being free, even the whole song makes you feel good like that.
yea, unlike TODAY.......
@@eddievastag7818 lol I know right.
Wish music still had that magic
The Kinks were also missing the days of the dance hall
in "Come Dancing". Wang Chung's ode is still amazing
because of the way it transports me back to the eighties.
🕺💃
Thumbs up. It transports me nowhere in particular. I just LUV the catchy rhythm and clever lyric. OK it " transports " me to YIN - YANG. You need her and she needs you.
listening to this song driving around at 16 years old back in 1995. the good stuff.
When we were young, vibrant, full of Hope and dreams, and the world was our oyster.
Dance hall days is the best Wang chung song ever Wang chung is the best band ever
What a time to have been alive...
Ah the greighties...humanity will never get that time or feeling back
“when I, you and everyone we knew, could believe, do and share in what was true…” that sums up the times and our youth exactly,
Rock On, 👍💝💝🌹😘
Remember seeing them open for the Cars in July of 84 at Pine Knob (Michigan). So glad I caught them there!
自分が生まれる前の曲だけど音楽も映像もすごく好き。去年この曲に出会ってから毎日聞いてます。出会いに感謝🙏
Different music back in the 80’s But the best music back in the day :)
SUPER.DAYS VH1 CLASICS WHITHOUT BAD BUNNY 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Tremenda canción.
Me emociona y me lleva a las alturas , donde los ángeles también la aman , la bailan y atesoran como una joya .
Had the pleasure to see Wang Chung live at the theatre on the Groton navy base back in 87. So much fun!
I couldn't get this song out of my head ever since I first heard it or saw the video I love the conductor ahh those were the days when MTV was good I miss the 80's
They are going to be at the Big E Fair in Springfield MA on 9/23/2024-9/24/2024. Surprised they are still touring around!!!
Timeless
What a great throw back to the 80s!
Still one of the greatest songs ever produced..nothing has ever sounded like it and thats why its my favourite song❤
The band leader always cracks me up!! He's sooo in to it!!
Excelente canción 👍
Saw them a couple of days ago in KY. Amazing live act!! What they did with Everybody have fun tonight blew my mind! And super sweet guys!
It's sad that a higher quality of this isn't available on RUclips!
We had the best music and musicians back in 80s. It was an amazing experience growing up in America back then. Cheers.
Another masterpiece of highest respect thank you for the 80s.movemrnt God bless and good music 🎶
Super Lied das kann man immer wieder hören
I find Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung to be very enjoyable to listen to multiple years after first hearing for multiple reasons one reason is the happy and carefree energy of the song.
Have you read the lyrics?
@@gmar7836 how true. The instrumental beat may indeed be mistaken as " carefree." But the lyrics and some of the imagery paint a decidedly darker picture.
Remembering me watching MTV as a kid and taking in all the uniquely '80s sounds and vids. 😌
My favorit song of Whung Chung,amazing song,80's is the best decade musicaly.🎶❤️
last song ever played at the "Asylum" nightclub at Brighton Le Sands. 1985 owner/DJ too stoned/sad to continue. he asked me to keep going and this was the last song i played :( wonderful times
I love this song dance 🩰 all days by wang Chung
Yes in my junior year of high school. The dance hall was an all night all people encompassing bar that several of my friends and I went to every Friday night. I told my boyfriend Fridays were for me and my friends and Saturdays was ours. We didn’t leave until 3 a.m. some nights because one of them had no curfew. It was the best!
1984, I was in my second year of middle school in Acapulco, México when I heard this for the first time, I have great memories of those days.
I was in Acapulco in 1984👍
I was 18 and living in Paris the summer this song came out, l can remember dancing around my teeny tiny apartment overcome by beat of this fab song! Ahhhhh.....the best of times!
hello mam, can you say me how old are you now?
@@TheTowande around 59 if you do the math
Allways loved this x
Am directly interested and agree whith you 51 year old and a miss so much that périod . A miss that young time when a lives in St Julie on rive Sud on Montréal Québec Canada the song its better at that time clearly the 80 and 90 its the best time to be happy and lives the great time whith the real good music.😊❤😊 from André Fontaine Québec city CANADA
I want a time machine to simple Just Go back to80s and stay in the Dance Hall Days.i miss so much 80s
Me too ❤️
You never know it could be made in the future 🤔🤔💎
1983,was für ein Jahr,und welche geniale Musik dort gemacht wurde,Ich war damals 17 Jahre alt,schwer verliebt😉und einfach nur glücklich
Wenn ICH Mir Heutzutage meine Enkelkinder ansehe, und denen erzähle,was ICH früher gemacht,erlebt habe,kommt immer wieder die Frage,und welche Handys hast Du da gehabt😂😢
I love the way this song sounds, and makes me feel!
💯% 80s child
What gets me is this is retro off of retro. The production value the song everything in this video was absolutely incredible it's probably one of the songs out of that era that just emotes super emotion and there are a lot of songs that I liked during the day. This is sort of the post disco era but people didn't stop dancing as a matter of fact it was right back on the way up. So thankful for that. Glad that I lived in a town that love to dancing and that town of San Antonio Texas. A lot of people would never understand the nightlife but when you're in it it is amazing. Wang Chung never forgotten. Everybody have fun tonight
Im definitely playing this at my wedding if i had a dream come true and these guys could play this song as we both walk down the aisle! Amazing song for true love!
GOOD dream
True love is the answer to everything!
Yes! I have a personal tie of this song to my first love which sadly didn’t work out. He married someone who I knew which didn’t work but we are good friends. She never brings him up to me. They have two beautiful daughters who both had babies this past October. I am not going to lie I still care about him but he cheated on her and that was crappy. I met him know it when he did it. But this song was in our Senior year and I will always think of him when it plays as it may have both affected our lives differently if we married.
Great, I remember it from 1984, really evocative and memorable. Stands the test of time and wouldn't sound outdated in 2013.
you said it best, stands test of time...love the drums on this track since it came out. Cant believe this is 1984 ill never get over this
or 2020 ,,,,=^..^=,,,,
Even in 2021!!! 😊😊👌👌
Memory lane.
Those were the days.
When MTV had proper music videos
and when music was just brilliant!!!
Ahh, the inevitable plight of corporate greed
Tremendo tema jamas dejó de escuchar....!!! Días de baile de salón....!!!!!!!!! 😃
This was the song we danced to at our wedding. We'll be celebrating two years on March 13!!! Love you Lila 🥰🩷💙🌸
I Never Get Tired Of This Song Played On The Movie Blood And Bone❤🔥
The real music...magic
Rewelacyjny klimat muzyczny 😉
I have yet to hear this song in one of those professional Ballroom Dancing Championships 💃
Thanks Dream Factory... I never saw the green crushed velvet before!
This Man's that song rememebered me 80's disco
Great upload! Brings back the good old days of the 1980s. MTV and for those of us who couldn't get cable tv the local tv stations carried clones of MTV for an hour or two of music videos. I was 10 years old when I first heard this song and video.
Best time to be a kid with these videos
And you need her and she needs you...
I mega love this song
One of the greatest of 80's.
Que temasoo!! Que lindas épocas cuando lo bailaba en mi adolescencia! Hermosoo!!
Love the woman dancing in mosaic glass tiles! Love this song 💃❤😊
Reminds me of being 10 years old watching Night Tracks and Friday Night Videos. This music/video was and still is SO hip!
Simply, magnificent music for DANCING !!!!!
Mi canción favorita, me da mucha esperanza al escucharla!
Heard the song for years but had never seen the video.
Funny, but this song has always come across to me as "clean" for some reason. The music and video are smooth to the eyes and ears. Love it.
Que recuerdos cuando difícilmente podíamos ver estos videos en la tv en programas como"a toda música" etc ,etc...y ahora los tenemos aquí para grabarlos de principio a fin y cada vez que se nos antoja verlos
Estaba también música total videos.
I would always disregard this song because it was before the ghostbusters song on my vhs but over time I would treasure this over ghostbusters. But don’t get me wrong, both songs are bangers.
What a beautiful song of remembrance, my times of good grades in .............!
Efrain diaz paz Che i lanzas y parece
Quando i ballerini cominciano a ballare è un momento incredibile
I woke up with this running laps in my head this morning
2020 still excellent!
80'S THE DECADE OF DECADES .
Still remembering music this cool in 2023.
Remenber this beautiful song in year 2021
Fond memories.. great song....instrumentals is superb
80’s … last decade of excitement and fun!
Love this video!
Me Too