XTC - Making Plans For Nigel

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  • Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024

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  • @maxpower4817
    @maxpower4817 Год назад +629

    Poor Nigel. What a song. Still relevant after 40 years. Still listening in 2023.

    • @nijiljacob2725
      @nijiljacob2725 Год назад +6

      😭😭😭

    • @rabnori4836
      @rabnori4836 Год назад +6

      Parody of our Nigel to 😅😅😅😅 day , hilarious.

    • @2760ade
      @2760ade Год назад +17

      Especially if his future was in a British Steel. That won't have gone well! Poor Nigel!

    • @indoorminer8243
      @indoorminer8243 Год назад +5

      Tata Nigel?

    • @peterspeck4423
      @peterspeck4423 Год назад +5

      unforgettable: XTC in Berlin 1982- Metropol Theater

  • @briansergeant
    @briansergeant 3 года назад +643

    The Great British band you’ve never heard of!
    XTC were always ahead of their time.

    • @theresamcgurk907
      @theresamcgurk907 3 года назад +10

      Respectable Street from their Fossil Fuels album is my favourite.

    • @brentpalmer9800
      @brentpalmer9800 3 года назад +10

      @@theresamcgurk907 That's the bowdlerised version. The proper one's on their album Black Sea.

    • @colinwilkes8957
      @colinwilkes8957 3 года назад +12

      If you haven’t heard of them,try all their albums,each great and each unique-God ,I miss talent like them!

    • @LostwaveObsession
      @LostwaveObsession 2 года назад +4

      @@theresamcgurk907 Amazing record! Me and my mates all bought the 7" and STILL it didn't chart!

    • @forvainee
      @forvainee 2 года назад +1

      @@theresamcgurk907 complicated game... omg that song

  • @imogenimeson664
    @imogenimeson664 3 года назад +622

    STILL SOUNDS AMAZING TODAY JUST AS IT DID BACK IN '79.

    • @RegebroRepairs
      @RegebroRepairs 3 года назад +31

      The video held up nicely too. It's from 79, but really looks more mid-80's, with those video effects. I'm impressed.

    • @ritavaccaro1488
      @ritavaccaro1488 3 года назад +6

      I agree

    • @kinoglaz777
      @kinoglaz777 2 года назад +5

      This simply because everything about music was done til 92, after there is just some random meteor band or valuable isolated cases.
      The remaining musicians from today just copy and mix. Nothing really new coming up

    • @NeroLeMorte
      @NeroLeMorte 2 года назад +2

      Because they remastered the audio.

    • @NeroLeMorte
      @NeroLeMorte 2 года назад +3

      @@kinoglaz777 The bands Ghost , J.B.O. , lacuna coil , nothing , m83 , cellar darling , second person , coheed and cambria , gorillaz , periphery , polyphia , omnium gatherum , archenemy , epica and apocalyptica all beg to differ.

  • @slonzo8491
    @slonzo8491 3 года назад +458

    I heard this song for the first time yesterday. I thought it was a new indie song. I searched it up on spotify and i couldn't believe it was 42 years old!!!! It is so far ahead for its time! Then on youtube i saw that this video was posted 4 days ago? Crazy!

    • @watsie04
      @watsie04 3 года назад +22

      Exactly same thing for me lol
      It’s incredible that it’s from 79’ but so much new stuff only sounds like this now

    • @MD-kg1kq
      @MD-kg1kq 3 года назад +14

      And I myself was there the day this song came on record.... So a genius song long before you heard it the first time and before CD's existed. So you see, life.... was pretty genius, before you were born genius ;-)

    • @leiamarylogin
      @leiamarylogin 3 года назад +8

      I love these coincidences

    • @fabsanh
      @fabsanh 3 года назад +1

      Same here

    • @kof867
      @kof867 3 года назад +8

      That’s crazy this happened to me today, it was on my discover weekly and I came to RUclips to see the video and discovered that it was over 40 years old. Could have sworn it was a new song

  • @keithwalmsley1830
    @keithwalmsley1830 Год назад +84

    XTC were one of the most under-rated bands of all time, their unique sense of "Englishness" and rural themes, epitomised in their 1983 album "Mummer" is one of the greatest albums of all time to me, superb musicians too, if you haven't heard them before go back and have a listen, you won't be disappointed!!!

    • @richardmurphy4520
      @richardmurphy4520 Год назад +7

      I have the double CD of XTC called " FOSSIL FUEL ", some fantastic stuff on it. Sad to read that they stopped touring in the mid 80,s coz Andy Partridge had a nervous breakdown whilst performing live. He won't be the first or last to fold under that pressure. His songs are superb & bursting with life.

    • @CarlosSilva-ti5ib
      @CarlosSilva-ti5ib 5 месяцев назад +4

      «Black Sea» is one of the better records ever.

    • @GarryWootton
      @GarryWootton 4 месяца назад +1

      Aggre spot on Mummer great album...white music waz the first real punk record,imo

    • @MattiasSvanberg1987
      @MattiasSvanberg1987 2 месяца назад

      ​@@GarryWoottonwhat.....

    • @Barioncr
      @Barioncr Месяц назад +4

      I read this in Patrick Bateman voice.

  • @stevebrazilio
    @stevebrazilio Год назад +48

    XTC were on spot. This tune and Senses Working Overtime were part of my childhood when I was about 13...still my favourites now and I'm 53.

    • @sunnyjim1355
      @sunnyjim1355 8 месяцев назад +1

      Well, there's a reason they never made it big; this is their best song, and as good as it is, that's pretty much it - Senses Working Overtime is a cringe song (as in any song that has counting as part of the lyrics!).
      While I love this song as a piece of music, I detest the lyrics and the general sentiment. What's wrong with wanting the best for one's kids and preparing them for a steady, stable and prosperous life? Nothing.
      I wouldn't be surprised if Andy Partridge is/was a Trotsyist.

    • @fatherpaulstone896
      @fatherpaulstone896 3 месяца назад

      Summers cauldron killed it too

    • @SoLongAstoria
      @SoLongAstoria 3 месяца назад

      @@sunnyjim1355 True

    • @dewistaplesjones6338
      @dewistaplesjones6338 14 дней назад

      @@sunnyjim1355
      Ok Nigel fuck it’s only music 🎧

  • @simone2850
    @simone2850 Год назад +104

    I loved this song in 1979 , and I still do👌

    • @maddoman11
      @maddoman11 Год назад +4

      Same, back then to, was 20

    • @Legionnaire7777
      @Legionnaire7777 Год назад +8

      We named our cat after him 😂👌🏻

    • @MrHoefnix
      @MrHoefnix 11 месяцев назад +2

      Needless to say that XTC’s name came out before the awful designer drug.

  • @donaldmackay4837
    @donaldmackay4837 10 месяцев назад +28

    Such a dark video. Just thought it was a happy song for so many years . Brilliant song

  • @DD-ev2dt
    @DD-ev2dt 8 месяцев назад +32

    This was one of the great tracks from early 80s still sounds great in 2024 XTC "Making plans for Nigel" 😎👍.

    • @mariedolan-nq7zq
      @mariedolan-nq7zq 8 месяцев назад

      Fergal sharkey u little thief it's amazing Google it

    • @sergelu
      @sergelu 8 месяцев назад +5

      Late seventies

    • @DD-ev2dt
      @DD-ev2dt Месяц назад +1

      Stand corrected so much great music around late 70s early 80s a conveyor belt of greatness across all genres 😎👍 .....

    • @valerienisbet
      @valerienisbet 13 дней назад

      🗽🦄

  • @dcostello1976
    @dcostello1976 2 года назад +151

    One of the most unique bands of the era.

    • @KevTheImpaler
      @KevTheImpaler Год назад +2

      Absolutely

    • @therealisation5500
      @therealisation5500 Год назад +3

      So many songs singer's sounds very much alike now

    • @markrae1317
      @markrae1317 Год назад +3

      ... --*most*- unique, eh? That's pretty unique! LOL!

    • @arttiefuffkin5536
      @arttiefuffkin5536 Год назад +3

      Most unique ? Not sure id go that far. I allways thought they were quite mainstream but to be fair im not that clued up about them. Great tune tho

    • @markrae1317
      @markrae1317 Год назад +2

      @@arttiefuffkin5536 LOL!

  • @5threelborn
    @5threelborn Год назад +33

    Been humming this Song today whilst in the garden 44 years later some tunes never leave you Thanks XTC

  • @alisonbarnard5328
    @alisonbarnard5328 2 года назад +302

    They should have this playing 24/7 at all job centres. You’re life is just a game to them.

    • @colingeddes2172
      @colingeddes2172 2 года назад +14

      Ha ha i know where r u coming from.😀

    • @frankcairney5523
      @frankcairney5523 2 года назад +24

      When I was a kid, we used to call jobcentres joke shops.

    • @292Nigel
      @292Nigel 2 года назад +43

      ​@@frankcairney5523
      Job centres are a complete irrelevance these days. People have searched for jobs online for many years. They only exist to snoop on people who claim.

    • @richardmurphy4520
      @richardmurphy4520 Год назад

      @@frankcairney5523 We used to call them," subjugation centres." ( Easy to spot the droids who work in them, as the frontal lobotomy scar on their forehead is a dead giveaway.)

    • @jamiegoddard562
      @jamiegoddard562 Год назад +2

      Totally agree

  • @turnipsreturn716
    @turnipsreturn716 3 года назад +145

    What a fantastic historical song, a big leap in drum production too. Timeless

  • @miltiadisathanasiou4058
    @miltiadisathanasiou4058 7 месяцев назад +20

    what a masterpiece

    • @GarryWootton
      @GarryWootton Месяц назад

      @@miltiadisathanasiou4058 great intro..strange into power.

  • @hevchip741
    @hevchip741 4 месяца назад +26

    I was singing this the other day. Simply brilliant

  • @pauljohnpinkybennett3557
    @pauljohnpinkybennett3557 3 года назад +92

    This decade of music is the best ever and so diverse. Love XTC, the beat, echo and the bunnymen, men at we work

  • @barcyorky
    @barcyorky Год назад +101

    An absolute classic, still sounds fresh and stand alone.

    • @union310
      @union310 Год назад +1

      You're not wrong there Eric.

    • @misanthropic_shithead7438
      @misanthropic_shithead7438 11 месяцев назад

      It absolutely does not sound fresh. It sounds exactly like a popular song from the late 70's early 80's but that doesn't take away from what an amazing track it is

  • @jeanettehosking9167
    @jeanettehosking9167 Год назад +12

    1979 ❤ was a great tune then still is now

  • @SisterDogmata
    @SisterDogmata 9 месяцев назад +12

    I loved this song as a 13 year old. Lovely to hear it again!

  • @mattblackwell4100
    @mattblackwell4100 Год назад +26

    Haunting song, sinister video. I remember this from when I was a kid in '79. Such a brilliant tune. Possibly more relevant today than it ever was

  • @michaelmoore.5167
    @michaelmoore.5167 Год назад +11

    Xtc awesome 1979 great music 🎶, thank you 😊.

  • @janicelehane6373
    @janicelehane6373 3 месяца назад +12

    this is a brilliant song...timeless and should be rereleased 2024

  • @rruagg
    @rruagg 3 года назад +85

    I love the instruments, the voice and the lyrics. So futuristic.

    • @danielcharles7413
      @danielcharles7413 2 года назад +5

      Yea, if it hadnt been heard before and released now, we would all be claiming a musical break through! lol

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/ldQu1c4UflE/видео.html

    • @rhysgriffiths9797
      @rhysgriffiths9797 Месяц назад

      The lyrics are not futuristic at all. Its a political anti Thatcher song

  • @gavinredmond3766
    @gavinredmond3766 Месяц назад +7

    God, this is one of the greatest tunes EVER.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 Месяц назад

      Their first major UK hit,reaching number 17 in October/November 1979.

  • @EvilEye172
    @EvilEye172 3 года назад +82

    Beautiful song!
    A truly forgotten classic, which simply never gets old.
    Love it!

    • @FFM0594
      @FFM0594 2 года назад +4

      I never forgot it.

    • @EvilEye172
      @EvilEye172 2 года назад +3

      Good stuff!

    • @rippi37
      @rippi37 2 года назад +1

      It has never been forgotten !! WTF ??

    • @EvilEye172
      @EvilEye172 2 года назад +2

      @Kate Well, certainly not by us! Thankfully 🙂

  • @paulelephant9521
    @paulelephant9521 2 года назад +112

    I'm just blown away by how contemporary this song sounds over 40 years after it was recorded, Steve Lilywhite produced the f*&k out of this song, amazing.

    • @richardmurphy4520
      @richardmurphy4520 Год назад +1

      I thought Nigel Gray ( Now dead Police producer) had a hand in this XTC smash ?.

    • @thankyoudriver4219
      @thankyoudriver4219 Год назад

      @@richardmurphy4520 Hugh Padgham was the engineer.

    • @richardmurphy4520
      @richardmurphy4520 Год назад

      @@thankyoudriver4219 Really, someone else told me donkeys years ago that Dr. Nigel Gray ( who did first 3 Police and Banshee albums) had a hand in it too. One day when I have time, I,ll treble check to be sure. Though Nigel Gray is dead now.

    • @TomDickson66
      @TomDickson66 Год назад

      My first concert, probably Bayonne 1980 had the Police headlining and XTC part of the opening card. So the Nigel Gray link has legs. Also Skafish and the Beat were there if I'm not dreaming. (The Beat had a hard time in France, their name was tricky to get your mouth round in the local language)@@richardmurphy4520

    • @agdgdgwngo
      @agdgdgwngo 10 месяцев назад +2

      The strokes copied this guitar sound to fuck. It's genius. Like post punk reggae

  • @chrismartin6179
    @chrismartin6179 3 года назад +138

    Swindon's finest - 42 years old, unique sound, still sounds fantastic, it's a pity they are not around anymore as a group

    • @micheinnz
      @micheinnz 3 года назад +3

      Not many bands stick together for 42 years.
      Shriekback is coming up on it, though.

    • @sunnyjim1355
      @sunnyjim1355 2 года назад +3

      @@micheinnz Bands should NOT stick together for anywhere near that long.

    • @markgreet3543
      @markgreet3543 2 года назад

      Yes wish they would reform

    • @FFM0594
      @FFM0594 2 года назад

      Well, one of them is dead, so that's that sorted.

    • @pwatts8846
      @pwatts8846 2 года назад

      @@FFM0594 Partridge and Moulding are both living, that is the core.

  • @ArchStanton-o6m
    @ArchStanton-o6m 5 месяцев назад +134

    XTC are literally underrated

    • @fatherpaulstone896
      @fatherpaulstone896 3 месяца назад +4

      Says who?

    • @louiseed1321
      @louiseed1321 3 месяца назад

      They are and a lot of folk don't get the irony about Nigel the yes man.

    • @DontKnowDontCare6.9
      @DontKnowDontCare6.9 3 месяца назад +1

      Only children keep saying a band is underrated, because they think commenting it is cool.

    • @suzihall778
      @suzihall778 2 месяца назад

      Bullshit.

    • @suzihall778
      @suzihall778 2 месяца назад +1

      @@fatherpaulstone896Fuckwits who want exposure for their business

  • @BaxterStoneTV
    @BaxterStoneTV Год назад +16

    It looks like their using flat screen TVs on the walls. Unbelievably futuristic for 1979. XTC what a great band!

    • @thux2828
      @thux2828 2 месяца назад

      Stylistically it looks like it's from the 90s, especially with all the computer graphics, and even the album cover design.

  • @paulok8897
    @paulok8897 3 года назад +55

    No matter the style, time and geography you can always tell when someone is having fun making the music, and it’s the best

  • @dimitrispapadimitriou5622
    @dimitrispapadimitriou5622 Год назад +20

    I love all these great little details - sounds, riffs, vocals, patterns, drums...So many things in only a few minutes in this iconic catchy new wave song.

  • @stephenbarrette610
    @stephenbarrette610 10 месяцев назад +3

    So great to read all the positive comments about this song and the band. They were just brilliant. And this is a fabulous song, i’ve loved it since the day it was released.

  • @foxbat888
    @foxbat888 5 месяцев назад +29

    Late June 1979 my classmates organized a post 'O' levels disco party where this song was played, I felt things with such intensity at that age, now I am a stranger in a strange land, the past being another country entirely

  • @daniel-m
    @daniel-m 5 месяцев назад +37

    This song (excellent), is paradoxically much more relevant today. What a genius XTC group !

    • @erikhassler9459
      @erikhassler9459 5 месяцев назад +3

      I´m living it.

    • @daniel-m
      @daniel-m 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@erikhassler9459 Remember de song of ELO, "hold on tight to your dreams". Thank you for your comment ;o)

    • @arthurfleck629
      @arthurfleck629 4 месяца назад +1

      @@daniel-mI love that song, and ELO songs in general, I recently discovered their song “Jungle” and instantly fell in love with it, it’s awesome.

  • @MrNaKillshots
    @MrNaKillshots 3 года назад +61

    A truly unique band. They're all I listen to nowadays.

  • @Tulkas219
    @Tulkas219 3 года назад +20

    I've got a cousin called Nigel so this was a very popular song in our house growing up. Cousin NIgel grew to hate it with a passion though. :)

  • @stevewright8204
    @stevewright8204 Месяц назад +8

    Still sounds great in 2087 😉 anyone else here yet !

    • @cezarov997
      @cezarov997 29 дней назад +1

      It's not hard to make good music. That's XTC's message

    • @TheCatBilbo
      @TheCatBilbo 10 дней назад +1

      Phew, just got back from 2089... don't go - it's BAD 😊 Still making plans.

  • @trevorbrown6654
    @trevorbrown6654 Год назад +12

    XTC...a band that despite some great pop songs is unfortunately (and unjustly) more or less forgotten these days. This song still sounds fresh and modern and with a great video. This song is somehow also longer than I remembered!

  • @televisierewind5404
    @televisierewind5404 3 года назад +85

    He has his future in a British steel..... So, no worries for Nigel :-(

    • @nickreid9460
      @nickreid9460 3 года назад +6

      most memorable lyrics for me.lol

    • @micheinnz
      @micheinnz 3 года назад +8

      IIRC British Steel were not happy!

    • @krispynachos9980
      @krispynachos9980 24 дня назад +1

      British Steel great Priest album

  • @nickreid9460
    @nickreid9460 3 года назад +21

    classic one from late 70s-early 80s. still sounds good today. timeless classic

  • @rhianna616
    @rhianna616 2 года назад +30

    great song, so ahead of it’s time

  • @charles4283
    @charles4283 2 года назад +35

    One of the best riffs I’ve ever heard

    • @richardmurphy4520
      @richardmurphy4520 Год назад +1

      There's a minor 9th guitar chord amidst the riff, somewhere around the 7th fret. Bloody hard to play correctly, I know coz I've tried n failed many times. Andy Partridge is a genius.

    • @Muhammad_Sausage
      @Muhammad_Sausage 9 месяцев назад

      Listen to more riffs then.

    • @primalious9548
      @primalious9548 9 месяцев назад

      ⁠@@Muhammad_SausageWhat are your favourites then

    • @Muhammad_Sausage
      @Muhammad_Sausage 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@primalious9548 Jimmy Page.

  • @cliffordmargrett8666
    @cliffordmargrett8666 3 года назад +16

    X.T.C. One of the Great Bands of the 80s. I just loved them... Yours Cliff

  • @andrewgould2118
    @andrewgould2118 Год назад +7

    Nostalgia night with headphones, just had to hear this again. I was 15 when itit was released, LOVE IT

  • @BrianMurfitt
    @BrianMurfitt 2 месяца назад +5

    I 💖 XTC, they were a combination of MOD, New Wave and Rock and like everyone says v.underated by the music industry and media of that time. Maybe because they were difficult to define, it may have been the reason for not being taken so seriously? I remember this single was released in the Autumn/Fall of 79 and I'd just turned 14. The late 70s/early 80s was the best era for rock/new wave. 🎵👍

  • @dreamswithindreams
    @dreamswithindreams 9 месяцев назад +17

    Now(and always)thats top notch drums and bassline intro in a song that cannot be matched or compared.
    Rolls on throughout the song.
    Great music Great song.
    ♥♥♥♥♥♥

  • @Kay-mz8hc
    @Kay-mz8hc 3 года назад +10

    XTC love them my favourite band of all time . I'm 59 now but takes me back.

  • @pradaman307
    @pradaman307 3 года назад +29

    Always loved song AND Senses working overtime-WHAT a VERY underrated band they were !!!!

    • @FFM0594
      @FFM0594 2 года назад +1

      I loved them since the first time I heard them on JP in 77.

  • @marccoulson8997
    @marccoulson8997 2 года назад +26

    I was born in 1986, this was obviously before I was born but this is a great tune and even way ahead if it's time. This is a tune. People say I was born in the wrong decade as all my favourite music is from 78 to 84! I do think music was at its absolute best between those years x

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/ldQu1c4UflE/видео.html

    • @YOURTECHFRIEND
      @YOURTECHFRIEND 2 года назад +4

      True! Good on you 😍

    • @V8AmericanMuscleCar
      @V8AmericanMuscleCar 2 года назад +2

      1980 here. 😁
      I agree about late 70s and I would say it was great until the end of the 80s. After that the music suddenly began to die. 😕

    • @Steaks652
      @Steaks652 2 года назад

      My favourite era, exactly the same as yours mate.

    • @ijustdidahugeshit
      @ijustdidahugeshit Год назад

      Me too because I am a qualified lesbian

  • @TheDogsboddy
    @TheDogsboddy 5 месяцев назад +25

    He's bloody happy now . Bring back the good feelings, Narg

    • @leod-sigefast
      @leod-sigefast 4 месяца назад +3

      Vote for Nige...vote for Russian interference in the UK. What a patriot!
      how are those Brexit fishermen doing Nige? Has he said a word for them yet??

  • @warrenjones4407
    @warrenjones4407 2 года назад +5

    Can definitely feel a Kinks influence here!!! love it

  • @coloh9928
    @coloh9928 2 года назад +11

    wow i get strong blur vibes from this in both the song and video - i see where they got some of their inspiration from.

  • @stevepickett4453
    @stevepickett4453 Год назад +4

    RIP 💔🙏 Nigel ,Stewart 1977 /78 , beautiful wee baby boy , , taken far soon , so 😢💙sad ,

  • @nigelneal5524
    @nigelneal5524 2 года назад +21

    As a 'nigel' I grew up hating this song , forty years later I can sit back and laugh at feeling like that and appreciate how good this song is , strange how time mellows you 👍

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood 2 года назад +2

      I hear what you're saying mate. That is such a nice comm.

    • @ijustdidahugeshit
      @ijustdidahugeshit Год назад

      I agree with you because I am a qualified lesbian

    • @GG-ml3vr
      @GG-ml3vr Год назад +1

      Im a Gordon and hated Gordon is a moron,now at 58 i see it for what it is,a piece of music/comedy genius.

  • @dariowestern
    @dariowestern 2 года назад +213

    This is the Australian loner's anthem. In case you don't know, "Nigel" is Aussie slang for someone who is lovable but has no friends.

    • @lea6555
      @lea6555 2 года назад +17

      Ole Nigel No-mates 😂😂❤️

    • @paulinacolada8581
      @paulinacolada8581 2 года назад +24

      In Scotland we say Nigel Nae-Pals! :D

    • @lea6555
      @lea6555 2 года назад +3

      @@paulinacolada8581 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @markmoore9308
      @markmoore9308 2 года назад +13

      Hello I'm Billy ☹🤣🤣

    • @johnvanhal2450
      @johnvanhal2450 2 года назад +8

      Ok, learned something again. Like Bruces and Sheilas. I'm Dutch, we do the same stuff with some names.

  • @curiositypiqued6573
    @curiositypiqued6573 3 года назад +72

    Can't believe this was only uploaded 3 days ago and yet the song is 42 years old lol!!🤣🤣

    • @tombaum1805
      @tombaum1805 3 года назад +3

      I loved this song since 42 years ago!

    • @annettegardiner7270
      @annettegardiner7270 3 года назад +3

      Blimy that's weired I only thought of this song again after all these yrs just now and searched for it.. 😁 Listened to the yrs ago, have it on vinyl still..

    • @cassidiehailley4100
      @cassidiehailley4100 3 года назад +1

      Wow really glad I found it.👌🙂

    • @junior4654junior
      @junior4654junior 3 года назад +1

      It's been uploaded countless times.

    • @kitfagan2027
      @kitfagan2027 3 года назад +2

      I didn't even know there was a music video filmed until I searched today.

  • @heresydestroyer5025
    @heresydestroyer5025 3 года назад +33

    The best underated british band ever

    • @teeteringonthebrink.305
      @teeteringonthebrink.305 2 года назад +1

      Agreed. Should have had greater success in the charts than they did. They had a unique and wonderful sound.

  • @chitsb
    @chitsb 2 года назад +7

    Thank you Black Mirror Bandersnatch, for introducing me to this quirky song. What an apt song for the show.

  • @martino9134
    @martino9134 2 года назад +18

    The first 'hit song' with gated reverb drums. With a second set of mics positioned high in each corner of the stone built Studio .( usually attributed as an accident to Phil Collins on his solo LP and drums on Peter Gabriel 'melt' LP).Recorded april 79 at the newly built townhouse studio with Steve Lillywhite & Hugh Padgham' released 6th Sept79 as a single. Xtc never really got the kudos they deserved for their output.

    • @ezechielamadeus2828
      @ezechielamadeus2828 2 года назад +1

      👍

    • @richardmurphy4520
      @richardmurphy4520 Год назад +1

      I thought Police producer Dr Nigel Gray also had a hand in this XTC great too ?, at his Surrey Sound Studio in Leatherhead Surrey.

  • @azaz...
    @azaz... 2 года назад +21

    this song has randomly turned up on my playlist , what a choon , I can't believe ive never heard this. off key , way ahead of its time

    • @V8AmericanMuscleCar
      @V8AmericanMuscleCar 2 года назад +4

      I discovered this song couple weeks ago and I can't get enough!

  • @johnvanhal2450
    @johnvanhal2450 2 года назад +11

    Extremely successful in the Netherlands as well. And not only this one. I was serving in the army back then. Great times!

  • @НаидаСутаева-х4в
    @НаидаСутаева-х4в 2 года назад +5

    I saw this video twenty years ago, in The best punk video. Very creative group! One of the best post punk group.

    • @patttrick
      @patttrick 2 года назад

      Mummer Skylarking that's their best work .Grass for instance ruclips.net/video/nyvgFFAzwzA/видео.html

  • @NickFarnell-m7y
    @NickFarnell-m7y 24 дня назад

    As an architect for many years I understand your pain and love your take on it, keep it up and you will get there eventually. Peace and love

  • @garymcghee2249
    @garymcghee2249 3 года назад +39

    Timeless. Touched by genius. Still sounds fresh as a daisy.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/ldQu1c4UflE/видео.html

  • @cubleycat
    @cubleycat 2 года назад +13

    I was a teenager when this came out and this is the first time I have seen the video, awesome stuff

    • @LordPoshnameVonPlumbingparts
      @LordPoshnameVonPlumbingparts 2 года назад +1

      I'd just been born. I originally heard Pitchshifter cover it then followed up the original. Glad I did as it's an absolute belter.

    • @paulcoxon2134
      @paulcoxon2134 11 месяцев назад

      The white man was a great family

  • @michaelmoore8371
    @michaelmoore8371 2 года назад +6

    Classic forever thank you 😊 🙏 ❤.

  • @BillODriscoll-jo2ve
    @BillODriscoll-jo2ve 4 месяца назад +4

    Great song from xtc
    Released back in '79
    September 1979

  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy 3 года назад +80

    Hard to believe these guys are now heading towards their 70s.

    • @mklaver31
      @mklaver31 2 года назад +11

      Damn, that proves how far ahead their music was

    • @FFM0594
      @FFM0594 2 года назад

      Fuck off, so am I. Punk til I die.

    • @condensedsleep3936
      @condensedsleep3936 2 года назад +9

      We all are, even you.

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 2 года назад +10

      From the '70s to the 70s...

    • @geoffjoffy
      @geoffjoffy 2 года назад +3

      @@heinoustentacles5719 True

  • @ritavaccaro1488
    @ritavaccaro1488 3 года назад +11

    Unforgettable this song! Always on my mind. I was wery surprised at first listening when I was a young girl and in Italy there was the British invasion in 80's about music.

  • @richardmurphy4520
    @richardmurphy4520 Год назад +14

    I was a pillock like Nigel working as a trainee manager for Tescos when this came out in 1979. Great track but sinisterly sincere and true.

    • @stephengrimmer35
      @stephengrimmer35 Месяц назад +1

      Unlike British Steel, Tesco is still around mind!

    • @stephengrimmer35
      @stephengrimmer35 Месяц назад

      Unlike British Steel, Tesco is still around mind!

    • @richardmurphy4520
      @richardmurphy4520 Месяц назад

      @@stephengrimmer35 No surprise with the very long hours I worked, and the unpaid overtime I simply never received.

  • @conwaynoel3715
    @conwaynoel3715 2 года назад +4

    Brilliant piece of music ,remember it well. Jeez I'm gettin old !!!

  • @ZeldaFitz
    @ZeldaFitz 2 года назад +2

    I remember first seeing this video on Saturday swap shop on bbc1 when I was 8. Loved it then, love it now.

  • @ftmsexchange5102
    @ftmsexchange5102 2 года назад +3

    Fabulous song. I remember when it was first released I was in my early 20's,now I'm 62.

  • @robgreaves3738
    @robgreaves3738 2 года назад +44

    A classic then, and still a classic!

    • @Silkroads733
      @Silkroads733 2 года назад +1

      A opinion is such a wonderful thing to express...the trick is to remember your opinion is unique to you and you only.

    • @patience194
      @patience194 Год назад +1

      I agree, this track is classic🇬🇧❤️🌈

    • @richardmurphy4520
      @richardmurphy4520 Год назад

      @@Silkroads733 Yes, opinions are like A-holes, everyone has got one.

    • @Silkroads733
      @Silkroads733 Год назад

      @@richardmurphy4520 that’s not actually true, think about it..

    • @richardmurphy4520
      @richardmurphy4520 Год назад

      @@Silkroads733 You sound like a Pope Pious the 2nd of Spain fan. Think about that.

  • @isobelR1618
    @isobelR1618 2 года назад +15

    This song made for a beautiful summer back then, along with the blue sky and the yellow sun. Oh for those pre- chem trail, halcyon days. Nigel is happy in his world ... Much love to XTC

  • @PooPoo-fe9on
    @PooPoo-fe9on 2 года назад +4

    The first time i ever heard this song was 2010/2011 when it was on vintage tv its stuck with me ever since 🤣

  • @mamamia6925
    @mamamia6925 Год назад +4

    Excellent Song...

  • @davidmorris8669
    @davidmorris8669 Год назад +1

    The chugging base line makes this song.Cant believe this was 44 years ago; timeless!

  • @helenallison1637
    @helenallison1637 Год назад +11

    Brilliant band! Loved them then, still love them.

    • @krashd
      @krashd Год назад

      I bet you also love Squeeze. My big sis introduced me to lots of 80's bands and XTC and Squeeze are the best!

  • @gemini82Q
    @gemini82Q Год назад +2

    Heard this song on the local alternative radio last night for the first time in my life. Immediately shazamed. Later checked the band. 1979,wtf? First thing that crossed my mind was that this sounds progressive even for 90s. Awesome tune!

  • @JasmineSurrealVideos
    @JasmineSurrealVideos 3 года назад +11

    The blonde woman nurse in the loony bin looks like me and its no wonder I didn't end up in one with the life I've had lol. Great song, spiky, ironic and about real life situations that don't involve lurrrvve and ooh baby. My grandfather liked XTC and Talking Heads in the 80s, in his late 60s, and he was like Nigel pushed into a career he never wanted (Naval officer), he wanted to be an artist or surgeon. So I always think of him when I hear them.

  • @milouddouh3169
    @milouddouh3169 7 месяцев назад +1

    this track, one of XTC's best, is the quintessence of new wave music, a paragon

  • @Tobacc0
    @Tobacc0 2 года назад +4

    Dystopian song.

  • @didier6609
    @didier6609 3 года назад +15

    Chef d œuvre de l annee 79! le rythme de la batterie est exceptionnelle .J adore

    • @gertiesmit5746
      @gertiesmit5746 2 года назад +3

      What a great song ,by a great band,still sounds great!!!!

  • @patrickryan5570
    @patrickryan5570 10 месяцев назад +1

    Ok - Plans for Nigel goes into my top ten of all time - I remember as a kid hearing this song on the radio thinking this is the best song ever

  • @petel2551
    @petel2551 Год назад +4

    it was stand out back in the day and still is now. Such a unique song.

  • @jbradbury2
    @jbradbury2 10 месяцев назад

    My son now 24 loves this song! he says just how modern it sounds, unreal.

  • @deadstar44
    @deadstar44 3 года назад +46

    Andy Partridge is a genius but Colin Moulding just hit it out of the park with that one.

    • @pwatts8846
      @pwatts8846 2 года назад +2

      Partridge was more prolific by tenfold but Moulding wrote some true XTC classics, ran out of steam after Nonsuch though and completely lost interest after 2001 or so.

    • @BoneTone1961
      @BoneTone1961 Год назад

      They were the Lennon McCartney if their time. The Mancunian chaps 50/50 sex pistols Beatles don't compare

  • @ricardorodriguez-cm4hv
    @ricardorodriguez-cm4hv 9 месяцев назад +2

    Wow, the apple vision pro since 70's

  • @GeorgesBrunaud
    @GeorgesBrunaud Год назад +3

    A great band ! One of the most important band in the 80's

  • @drstevie
    @drstevie 10 месяцев назад +2

    Brilliant.

  • @some1online2
    @some1online2 5 месяцев назад +45

    We are so back.

    • @fatherpaulstone896
      @fatherpaulstone896 3 месяца назад

      LFO

    • @DontKnowDontCare6.9
      @DontKnowDontCare6.9 3 месяца назад +1

      Most overused and dumbest comments on youtube:
      A) who's here in (insert year)?
      B) we are so back
      C) let's goooooo (nowhere)
      D) underrated band
      E) First

    • @ianjames1754
      @ianjames1754 Месяц назад

      ​@@DontKnowDontCare6.9
      You missed one-
      F) 'Fun Fact:'

  • @chloeandrew1230
    @chloeandrew1230 3 месяца назад +2

    I can't get tired of this song

  • @grantlee6787
    @grantlee6787 3 года назад +147

    I absolutely love this song puts a lot of today's music to shame!!

    • @gabriele.1105
      @gabriele.1105 3 года назад +6

      Said it all, man!!!!! ❤️

    • @LaughingStock_
      @LaughingStock_ 3 года назад +8

      True. But it also put a lot of yesterday's music to shame. There is quality and utter crap in every decade. The sin is committed by those whose eyes are blinkered. See - Aldous Harding.

    • @anthonycleary4676
      @anthonycleary4676 2 года назад

      There's still a lot of good music out there today though don't forget, the Brixton Windmill is going through a bit of a renaissance, loads of great bands today.

    • @jeeves_uk
      @jeeves_uk 2 года назад +2

      Most music today rips off old songs

    • @arturocastillo5443
      @arturocastillo5443 2 года назад +3

      Agree , even when some people Say that todays música is still good , that's a lie

  • @bardbardy5573
    @bardbardy5573 Месяц назад

    When I first heard this song, I literally couldn't believe my ears! It was stuck on repeat because I couldn't understand how they managed to create such a unique infusion of styles and sounds into one record. Ahead of their time musically and in this video thematically.
    #Genius

    • @TinMan-i9l
      @TinMan-i9l Месяц назад

      Listen to White Music or maybe you have

  • @basketburger
    @basketburger Год назад +4

    What a song 🔥🔥

  • @darylperrins820
    @darylperrins820 6 месяцев назад

    Wow the treatment of the drums on this track is like so far ahead- love it when song goes dub towards the end- Terry Chambers what an ace up the sleeve of a truely great English band.

  • @martinfitzgerald1605
    @martinfitzgerald1605 3 года назад +9

    Absolutely love this, XTC superb👏🏻👏🏻, made my upcoming weekend😀

  • @bluemeadows40
    @bluemeadows40 7 месяцев назад

    I totally forgot about this fantastic song. Love the slow jam freaky stabby sound. Cmon 😮

  • @mayscough72
    @mayscough72 Год назад +13

    XTC without doubt one of the most influential under the radar bands that has ever existed, they were doing post punk britpop etc before those labels ever come about, a truly incredible band