When people mean underrated they mean his persona not famous these days, only a glimpse of their 40 years ago success by people who remember. Many musicians are don't deserve to be forgotten, but Midge is just national treasure, a legend, he deserves more recognition these days. Too good for media and people talking about him.
Midge Ure works his magic on this track and produces the best version in my opinion. I've always loved his voice in Ultravox and this recording continues to demonstrate his obvious vocal talent. I also love his effective, unpretentious guitar work on this track - he makes it (and myself) cry. Very few artists improve on an original but Midge has done just that in a dynamic but respectful manner.
Even in 2021 this is an amazing video. I loved the arty style of Midge’s early solo work. He was very much showing the true meaning of the old/ new romantic era of the early 1980’s. I was an old romantic myself
Hearing this for the first time in 2024 and the first 5 seconds have already twinged my heart strings with such a nostalgic pull. Definitely about to listen to Midge’s entire discography 🤩
Love this version...hearing Midge perform it on his 2023 tour is bliss..I've done three.. Sheffield, Stockton & Manchester ..I would do Llandudno but work say Noooo
Thank you for this-it is so wonderful really! Midge Ure's first-and best? solo single outside of Ultravox at the time of course. A cover of the Walker Brothers No Regrets hit before. I have the issue of Smash Hits from June 1982 here in Britain that includes the words for this one in it, and I know it was written by a Tom Rush apparently. Surprisingly I am not so keen on his next own hit If I Was in 1985, even though it was a number one for him at the time. I prefer this and of course most of his Ultravox hits such as Vienna, Hymn, Visions In Blue, All Stood Still, The Thin Wall, Reap The Wild Wind, Lament, One Small Day, etc; although I was not so keen on Dancing With Tears In My Eyes or Love's Great Adventure; nor their later hits either, but each to their own I guess. Well done too!!
I know you're leaving but it's too long overdue For far too long, I've had nothing new to show to you Goodbye, dry eyes, I've watched your 'plane fade off west of the moon And it felt so strange to walk away alone There's no regrets No tears goodbye I don't want you back We'd only cry again Say goodbye again The hours that were yours echo like empty rooms The thoughts we used to share I now keep alone I woke last night and spoke to you Not thinking you were gone And it felt so strange to lie awake alone There's no regrets No tears goodbye I don't want you back We'd only cry again Say goodbye again There's no regrets No tears goodbye I don't want you back We'd only cry again Say goodbye again
I dedicate this song to all my former girlfriends of my past. We all went our separate ways. Btw this is one heck of a song .👍 A meaningful song ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Midge made ultravox showhow even beter i own every extened edition of all midge ultravox records only 2 of the john fox ones the john fox ones are hard 2 find
This was released around the time a long term and very deep relationship was breaking up. I felt that I learned a lot from the relationship. It was time to move on. This song struck deep in my heart at the time, but I still love this version.
The original was a pure country tune! Midge has done a few covers over the years he did a whole cd called 10, 3 stand out tracks, this, man of the world, and lady starlight, 2 others man who sold the world, and the supernatural! when he does them, he's is honest it's his interpretation of them it's not an exact copy, he tweaks them to suit, Harry Rush, a song writing legend as far as Mr Ure said at 1 gig I was at,1 of the q and a out alone tours, I was at both, 2 nights each! but what he does is respectful of the original but makes it his version! He has been compared to the late GREAT PETER GREEN, not by me, by Gordon Gilltrap, well renowned folk musician/guitarist who said feel wise his vibrato is the closest to Peter he has ever heard! he has a voice with quite a range nothing like Freddie Mercury or Harry Nillson, maybe an octave less! but he is incredibly underrated! I have met him and got his autograph lost in a house clearance! but he keeps going doing what he loves, creating music, playing live! it was pur country this song he made it a POP/SOFT ROCK CLASSIC! Man of the World, a song with AMAZING PLAYING AND DEEP MEANINGFUL LYRICS! 1 forgot 1 other MY minds Eye by the Small Faces, a throw away pop song, with such a hook intro, that chord progression it's not hard to play, but it is classic earworm, and those lyrics! When he admires someone, he goes all in! but he has done some amazing work with Ultravox as well as solo! Yes he is a hero, I picked up a keyboard, then a guitarbecause of him, my dad played guitar, then switched to accordion, and he knew music, but was no teacher! my son plays guitar better than me my daughter keyboards and what an artist!
@@stephenwalton1932 but the voice of John Foxx is not so great and clear, then the voice of Midge. John has a standard voice, but Midge his voice is excellent.
John Foxx was great on Underpass but crap with chart success with Ultravox. Midge sorted that out. Why does THE CLASSIC ULTRAVOX LINE UP have Midge and not Foxx?, Simple.. , they were better with him
I think I remember Midge Ure himself referring to this cover as horribly over-produced (or words to that effect). Nevertheless, it holds up on its own merits, really underrated.
This song is my favorit since 1984 and 1985 in then month i ihave this two Brother in crash verloren! sorry my english the two broher is for me the best friend who i knowing in my life and i was hes Mom het no forget that in 10 month two son bye😢 i know forget forever i be 58 this time with my young years unforgeteble
Did Mick Karn play on this cover? Certainly the bass player is imitating Karn if it wasn't Mick. Scott Walker, what an interesting talent. This song feels so slight...casual...it's mysterious...and a little irritating too...meant to seem sad...but it seems dismissive, resigned...confusing...I have a love hate thing with the song, lol But big respect for it and the artists... Midge Ure, a truly amazing work ethic musician...
A brave choice to cover a song so strongly associated with Scott Walker it's a very good version by Midge but he's really on a hiding to nothing as the tone and delivery will be always compared to the master Scott Walker.
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When people mean underrated they mean his persona not famous these days, only a glimpse of their 40 years ago success by people who remember. Many musicians are don't deserve to be forgotten, but Midge is just national treasure, a legend, he deserves more recognition these days. Too good for media and people talking about him.
Yes , too good for media
Midge was the reason I became gay. I still 💕 love him today 😍
Beautiful Man, Wonderful Artist. A Living Legend. ❤❤❤
Iv never forgotten Midge. 👍
@@manuelgonzales6483
Why was he the reason if you don't mind me asking?
A lovingly sincere cover of one of the best songs ever.
When Midge sings, I cry.
Me 2
Midge Ure works his magic on this track and produces the best version in my opinion. I've always loved his voice in Ultravox and this recording continues to demonstrate his obvious vocal talent. I also love his effective, unpretentious guitar work on this track - he makes it (and myself) cry. Very few artists improve on an original but Midge has done just that in a dynamic but respectful manner.
💯
Very underated singer and mucisian,
What ya on about underrated where you been he's top man
@@davidanderson4777 And Person too. Geldof stole the whole Live Aid when Midge was the brains behind it.
Even in 2021 this is an amazing video. I loved the arty style of Midge’s early solo work. He was very much showing the true meaning of the old/ new romantic era of the early 1980’s.
I was an old romantic myself
He jumped on the bandwagon!
You must've missed Slik!😂
Slik was Midge’s band. So what are you talking about? What bandwagon??
If you had read the comment I made you would see I made mention to the video not bands
If you’re going to troll someone read properly
Certainly one of the best male voices in pop business. And also a gifted composer. It brings so much joy and enjoyment. Thank you!!
Hearing this for the first time in 2024 and the first 5 seconds have already twinged my heart strings with such a nostalgic pull. Definitely about to listen to Midge’s entire discography 🤩
Midge with Ultravox was amazing, & he proved he could still be amazing on his own
Wonderful voice & gorgeous too. ☺️❤️😉
This has given me strength at times of self doubt
This has given me strength at times of immense heartbreak and loneliness
@@dragonballzkai9283 Hang in there my friend. God Bless.....
@@dragonballzkai9283 salmo 46 verso 1 salmo 72 verso 12 salmo 9 verso 9
One of Ures great triumphs outside Ultravox. Great video too. Hadn't seen this
My first 7 inch single . Still have it. Still sounds as good now as it did then
Me too. Never knew there was a video. :)
Awesome first purchase!!!
Gives it the Midge Ure treatment ... power-pop perfection 👌🏼
I love the original, but I also love this version he's done a fantastic job 👏 ❤😊
One of my favorite songs from Midge.
Check out the live version on youtube with bass legend Mick Karn,phil collins,Pete Townsend etc,brilliant,Mick's bass style just fits it so well!
mines too
It's a Tom Rush song.
true I love The walkers brothers version as well
one of those songs that you have a sample of the chords in your head and you search for ages for it - finally found it
Exactly my friend, I heard it once on radio while working in a kitchen in 2003, and finally found it!!
😆😆☘️
Exactly right. Same here 👍
Midge totaly nails this song. Great vocals from a very underrated muscian
@Geoff Gauld I totally get it
@@colingeddes2172 No, never underrated.
extraordinary aesthetics!!! I'm delighted
Love this version...hearing Midge perform it on his 2023 tour is bliss..I've done three.. Sheffield, Stockton & Manchester ..I would do Llandudno but work say Noooo
Having lost my family this song gives hope to those who need it 😢❤
Class performance by Midge 👍
I love Midge Ure's voice, and music, but have to say Scott Walker sang it even better
this is def my fav version of this song
This song is so beautiful, yet I can’t keep hearing it for the bad memories.
love this... you can tell Scott Walker was an influence, as he was to many, Bowie included. great song. this is a great version.
Absolutely was.
Yes definitely so then too!
And thank you there of course for the highlight so then too!
The 80's was a decade where cover versions were done properly.
Yes they were then too of course for sure!
Can this song be on my tombstone?
so goooooood!!!!!!!!
Nostalgic song with a great message from leavetaking for a special person in our life. This song makes me cry a lot
Thank you for this-it is so wonderful really! Midge Ure's first-and best? solo single outside of Ultravox at the time of course. A cover of the Walker Brothers No Regrets hit before. I have the issue of Smash Hits from June 1982 here in Britain that includes the words for this one in it, and I know it was written by a Tom Rush apparently. Surprisingly I am not so keen on his next own hit If I Was in 1985, even though it was a number one for him at the time. I prefer this and of course most of his Ultravox hits such as Vienna, Hymn, Visions In Blue, All Stood Still, The Thin Wall, Reap The Wild Wind, Lament, One Small Day, etc; although I was not so keen on Dancing With Tears In My Eyes or Love's Great Adventure; nor their later hits either, but each to their own I guess. Well done too!!
Play this a lot. Especially when im alone
Me too
Same here
This is a real great tune for sure thank you of course too wonderful as well too
Very nice voice!!!
I know you're leaving but it's too long overdue
For far too long, I've had nothing new to show to you
Goodbye, dry eyes, I've watched your 'plane fade off west of the moon
And it felt so strange to walk away alone
There's no regrets
No tears goodbye
I don't want you back
We'd only cry again
Say goodbye again
The hours that were yours echo like empty rooms
The thoughts we used to share I now keep alone
I woke last night and spoke to you
Not thinking you were gone
And it felt so strange to lie awake alone
There's no regrets
No tears goodbye
I don't want you back
We'd only cry again
Say goodbye again
There's no regrets
No tears goodbye
I don't want you back
We'd only cry again
Say goodbye again
those lightbulbs are swinging about a lot - must be one hell of a draught in that studio
I dedicate this song to all my former girlfriends of my past. We all went our separate ways. Btw this is one heck of a song .👍 A meaningful song ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Midge made ultravox showhow even beter i own every extened edition of all midge ultravox records only 2 of the john fox ones the john fox ones are hard 2 find
Pamiętam ten utwór z radia PR.Pr.3❤😊
I love the Midge Ure version of the song no regrets it is. a beautiful melody
Absolutely. Better than the original imo and arguably his best solo song. Kudos to midge.👌
This song helped me understand the pain of breakup before I even had my first girlfriend hahaha
This was released around the time a long term and very deep relationship was breaking up. I felt that I learned a lot from the relationship. It was time to move on. This song struck deep in my heart at the time, but I still love this version.
piekny magiczny glos 😍
beautiful!
3:04 -- That 80s New Romantic Dance! hahahahahahahaa
Brilliant...😉
The original was a pure country tune! Midge has done a few covers over the years he did a whole cd called 10, 3 stand out tracks, this, man of the world, and lady starlight, 2 others man who sold the world, and the supernatural! when he does them, he's is honest it's his interpretation of them it's not an exact copy, he tweaks them to suit, Harry Rush, a song writing legend as far as Mr Ure said at 1 gig I was at,1 of the q and a out alone tours, I was at both, 2 nights each! but what he does is respectful of the original but makes it his version! He has been compared to the late GREAT PETER GREEN, not by me, by Gordon Gilltrap, well renowned folk musician/guitarist who said feel wise his vibrato is the closest to Peter he has ever heard! he has a voice with quite a range nothing like Freddie Mercury or Harry Nillson, maybe an octave less! but he is incredibly underrated! I have met him and got his autograph lost in a house clearance! but he keeps going doing what he loves, creating music, playing live! it was pur country this song he made it a POP/SOFT ROCK CLASSIC! Man of the World, a song with AMAZING PLAYING AND DEEP MEANINGFUL LYRICS! 1 forgot 1 other MY minds Eye by the Small Faces, a throw away pop song, with such a hook intro, that chord progression it's not hard to play, but it is classic earworm, and those lyrics! When he admires someone, he goes all in! but he has done some amazing work with Ultravox as well as solo! Yes he is a hero, I picked up a keyboard, then a guitarbecause of him, my dad played guitar, then switched to accordion, and he knew music, but was no teacher! my son plays guitar better than me my daughter keyboards and what an artist!
Bought the Single 1985 at the age of 15. Heard it many many times.
This was released in 1982.
May 1982. I was 12.
This is a awesome video! Hurt emotional song. Definitely artistic in a dark new wave hidden way. Midge had a very huge range of talent.
A superb cover really good.well done Midge Ure.
The guitar and piano solo reminds me rather a lot of the theme tune to Soldier Soldier.
Really cool song and he sings it really well
Man I NEED THAT HIGH BACK CHAIR!!!
I think they sell them in Wakanda.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh ladder chairs. You can come over to my house for dinner.
@@riannonsd1 I will know I've made it when I get my hands on one of those chairs
Great song
Midge Ure 😍😍😍😍
Oh yes, he is very fine
A classic from midge Ure 😂😂😂
Great song love it so atmosferic
Great atmosfere
My favorite Midge Ure song...............greetings of Perú....
Best Cover ever Made by the great Midge Ure
AMO ESTA CANCION
Very fine man, i discovered only now, very fine voice.
Espetacular
Absolutely agree. ❤
Love this video and this song it is hauntingly beautiful and sad, but love the way he sings it.
La guitarra de fondo es sensacional.
Midge is 1 handsome man 😊
He sounds like Benjamin Orr from the Cars - beautiful deep voices.
The Voice of Ultravox ... !!!!
Thomas D. No that would be John Foxx
@@stephenwalton1932 yeah...midge has the voice that ruined Ultravox
@@stephenwalton1932 but the voice of John Foxx is not so great and clear, then the voice of Midge. John has a standard voice, but Midge his voice is excellent.
@@spongeboab68 bullshit
John Foxx was great on Underpass but crap with chart success with Ultravox. Midge sorted that out. Why does THE CLASSIC ULTRAVOX LINE UP have Midge and not Foxx?, Simple.. , they were better with him
Quailty👌🏻👌🏻
Sleege
Love this song.
A masterpiece
Wow.I've just discovered that it's a cover of Walker Brothers song though I've known this song since the 80ies
Now try listening to the original by Tom Rush..
the milk tray man would be prouder ;)
Brilliant stuff from Midge but Scott Walkers version is practically unbeatable.
Practically unbeatable! It is unbeatable IMHO
@@christinejameson5221 Can’t argue with that Mrs
@@christinejameson5221 Yep
Listen to Tom Rush original...hauntingly beautiful
Maybe If you like folk, Midge Is a genius
I think I remember Midge Ure himself referring to this cover as horribly over-produced (or words to that effect). Nevertheless, it holds up on its own merits, really underrated.
Great version.
Liiiiinda música!
Lovely song
This Scottish Rich Kid is a great singer and a New Wave and Synthpop/Rock genius composer !
You forgot Slik!😂🤡
SERIOUSLY WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO NAME THEMSELVES AFTER AN IRRITATING BITING SCOTTISH INSECT ? ? ? GREAT SONG THOUGH ! ! !👍
NICE CHAIR...
superb 😊😊😊
This song is my favorit since 1984 and 1985 in then month i ihave this two Brother in crash verloren! sorry my english the two broher is for me the best friend who i knowing in my life and i was hes Mom het no forget that in 10 month two son bye😢 i know forget forever i be 58 this time with my young years unforgeteble
Say Goodbye Again -
My favourite version of this song is definitely midge ures version not the walker bros
The 9 thumbs down are probably rappers who have NO taste in music
No, just folk who think it's crap & it is.
❤
Did Mick Karn play on this cover? Certainly the bass player is imitating Karn if it wasn't Mick.
Scott Walker, what an interesting talent. This song feels so slight...casual...it's mysterious...and a little irritating too...meant to seem sad...but it seems dismissive, resigned...confusing...I have a love hate thing with the song, lol But big respect for it and the artists...
Midge Ure, a truly amazing work ethic musician...
I prefer this version
Do the math ... Neither Midge Ure or Walker Brothers song both covers of forgotten hero Tom Rush original from 1968 🤔😎👍 ........
One of those tunes that is almost as good as the original.
Don't be silly!
Was gonna say he's trying to sound like Scott Walker here, then I realised lol.
He's no Tom Rush
Love echoey voice tracks in 80s best songs Kanye West effec
Brought nothing to this
Worthy cover version with mick karn of Japan fame
Better than the rubbish of today 😂😂😂
A brave choice to cover a song so strongly associated with Scott Walker it's a very good version by Midge but he's really on a hiding to nothing as the tone and delivery will be always compared to the master Scott Walker.
Underrated blah blah
❤❤❤😍😍😍🌹
oswald moseley would be proud :)
Midge, you have to lose that moustache, fella.
He looks good now -he’s bald/shaven headed no moustache looks like a decent looking mature guy.
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