Blancmange - The Day Before You Came (Official Video)

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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Комментарии • 283

  • @simonclarke4574
    @simonclarke4574 Год назад +75

    The best cover of the best Abba song.. Hands down Blancmange the best after all these years ...

    • @Exisles
      @Exisles 3 месяца назад +2

      Ageed it's the best ABBA song, though that's all !

    • @smugsheep3307
      @smugsheep3307 Месяц назад

      I must have heard that musical style!

  • @WolfgangLuna
    @WolfgangLuna Год назад +16

    The smile at the end

  • @nickclarke1908
    @nickclarke1908 Год назад +102

    One of the cleverest songs ever written. I’m still not sure if I fully understand it 40 years later. Blancmange’s version is utterly sublime, without doubt an epic cover version.

    • @garycarr3857
      @garycarr3857 Год назад +4

      Blancmange

    • @mortisxx5712
      @mortisxx5712 Год назад +14

      Probably one of the best covers ever

    • @paul70uk
      @paul70uk Год назад +3

      Absolutely correct.

    • @AZ0986688
      @AZ0986688 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@mortisxx5712fastastic!

    • @mitchellbaker9434
      @mitchellbaker9434 8 месяцев назад +11

      It's just about a person living a mundane life before he (or she, in the ABBA version) met someone that changed his life.
      He is describing what his days were like before, and how much the same they were.

  • @Freehardy
    @Freehardy 5 месяцев назад +25

    it's rare a cover version done in the same style nails it. here we are.

  • @BadWolf219
    @BadWolf219 Год назад +106

    OBSESSED with this song still!!! (And it’s 2023) I wish I could go back in time and go to one of their concerts.

  • @DigitallyRemasteredMusic
    @DigitallyRemasteredMusic Год назад +39

    I love the way Agnetha is still used in the video :)

    • @TheDaglow
      @TheDaglow 3 месяца назад +3

      Abba gave them permission to use the video clips as they lived Blancmange's version

  • @salemguimba7704
    @salemguimba7704 3 месяца назад +2

    It's about the struggle of life in the city. Everybody of any occupations can relate to this song. It's the rigours and pain of monotonous life in the urban world. The daily deep sufferings of modern-day urban slaves.

  • @Caratacus1
    @Caratacus1 2 года назад +15

    I still smile at the thought of a gruff Yorkshireman settling down with the latest Barbara Cartland.

    • @radman8321
      @radman8321 2 года назад +8

      I think you mean proud Lancastrian!

    • @professormause
      @professormause Год назад

      layers
      onion boi

    • @ooyah69
      @ooyah69 Год назад +1

      Of course, this was an amusing change to the original lyric, which was ‘the latest one by Marilyn French, or something in that style’ 😊
      3:25

  • @coyoteartist
    @coyoteartist 5 месяцев назад +10

    This is the perfect bookend to the original. And to have Agethna in the video as well just adds to that. it's long been my favorite ABBA song and it's great to see it treated so well.

  • @marquonuk
    @marquonuk Год назад +35

    This has long been my favourite ABBA song, but this Blancmange cover is brilliant.

  • @David-uf8ex
    @David-uf8ex Год назад +5

    Not a patch on ABBAs version but a good try

  • @harrydonaldson1965
    @harrydonaldson1965 3 месяца назад +11

    Being a 70's product I have to agree that this is the best cover version.

  • @johnsimspon8893
    @johnsimspon8893 Год назад +6

    He's not Agnetha. This is not bad though.

  • @Ricksta66
    @Ricksta66 Год назад +4

    That bit starting @1:35 sounds like New Order's Blue Monday... Just saying :)) Edited

    • @chockergram
      @chockergram 10 месяцев назад

      Or Donna Summer’s 1979 Our Love, which New Order ‘borrowed’?

  • @Ricksta66
    @Ricksta66 Год назад +17

    The best cover version of this brilliant Abba song ever :))

  • @brucegibson7478
    @brucegibson7478 Год назад +5

    Not even close to as Good as Agnetha when she sang it.

  • @perlarsen7944
    @perlarsen7944 2 года назад +16

    This song was the best ABBA cover versions ever.

  • @KarlHamilton
    @KarlHamilton 2 года назад +23

    This is much better than I remember.

  • @melgrant7404
    @melgrant7404 Год назад +14

    He is gorgeous here xx

  • @easystar123
    @easystar123 2 месяца назад

    This was brilliant. I bought the single when it came out. Just as good as the ABBA version.

  • @김종일-f3p
    @김종일-f3p 4 месяца назад +5

    I first watched this video in 1988... It's already been 30 years, but it's great.

  • @Michaelmbz
    @Michaelmbz 7 месяцев назад

    Superb cover of this song!

  • @regplasma7906
    @regplasma7906 2 года назад +22

    Agnetha is at her peak of beauty in ABBA's video for this.Neil did a first song, live acapella of this on their last but one tour a couple of years ago and it was totally brilliant and somewhat moving.

    • @dashoverton1963
      @dashoverton1963 Год назад +4

      I think Agnetha’s peak of beauty was in 1975-1976. When ABBA was on American Bandstand, doing SOS.

  • @gunvorassergard6071
    @gunvorassergard6071 2 года назад +50

    Beautiful version of a beautiful song.

    • @patrickbrett1552
      @patrickbrett1552 Год назад +2

      Couldn't agree anymore. Lucky

    • @steverowlands338
      @steverowlands338 Год назад +3

      Pretty much one of the best comments I've read, both versions are crackers 👊😎

    • @garycarr3857
      @garycarr3857 Год назад +2

      ​@@patrickbrett1552 Blancmange

  • @staffsyeoman
    @staffsyeoman 2 года назад +10

    In 2015 I met someone. I'd been in a bad place. We gradually fell in love that summer. We both loved ABBA. I said I love this version; improved on the original, which I loved anyway; she was less convinced. But every year I would send her this the day before the anniversary of our meeting. "It's funny, but I have no sense of living without aim... the day before you came..." Well, it lasted five years.

  • @grantnixon9945
    @grantnixon9945 3 месяца назад +7

    A fantastic cover, timeless.

  • @robyoung9968
    @robyoung9968 Год назад +15

    First time ever hearing this.. Simply beautiful!

  • @markwrightrf
    @markwrightrf Год назад +7

    Pinnacle of parody. I adore the original but keep coming back to this. Brilliant literal clips to accompany the video (especially the Lin Drum fill) and random Gharbar on the TV. So sad we don't have this sort of thing anymore - "I must have made my desk" - cut to video of an Ikea flat pack SNAFU just to keep it Swedish. Shout out to those with a sense of humour.

  • @distortech2
    @distortech2 2 года назад +35

    This is just beyond great. ❤️

    • @garycarr3857
      @garycarr3857 Год назад +1

      Blancmange

    • @AZ0986688
      @AZ0986688 9 месяцев назад +1

      Fantastic! As good as a modern song can ever be..

  • @otman558
    @otman558 6 месяцев назад +6

    Fantastic cover of a classic song. Great video with the original Abba. Excellent.

  • @مداماشجان
    @مداماشجان 6 месяцев назад +4

    "This song gives me chills every time I listen to it. The artist's voice is so powerful and the melody is incredibly catchy. Can't get enough of it!"

  • @fettessawmill
    @fettessawmill 2 года назад +20

    The best cover of any song.

  • @80snewwavekid
    @80snewwavekid 2 года назад +59

    … most people swoon over their debut album ‘Happy Families’ which in itself is a terrific piece of music … but ‘Mange Tout’ truly trampled the sophomore jinx, with its corral of strong offerings, ‘Don’t Tell Me’, ‘Blind Vision’, ‘That’s Love That It Is’ & this single … ABBA songs are typically hard to cover with their lush layers & harmonies … yet, the boys improve with their vision of it, rarely said, better than the original

    • @rustydogcfl
      @rustydogcfl 2 года назад +6

      I agree with you 100% and I also love "Believe You Me." Blancmange are one of my favorite bands from the 80's and I continue to purchase all of their recent releases as well. By the way, as much as I adore ABBA, I like this version much better. I hope that is not a blasphemous statement to say to all of the music fans out there in the world. ;-)

    • @shanefitzpatrick5811
      @shanefitzpatrick5811 2 года назад +7

      Fantastic version. Love them since 80s.

    • @timwood8912
      @timwood8912 Год назад +2

      Beautifully said thank you

    • @timwood8912
      @timwood8912 Год назад +2

      @@shanefitzpatrick5811 very sorry if I called you an idiot I do apologize

    • @shanefitzpatrick5811
      @shanefitzpatrick5811 Год назад +3

      @@timwood8912 no don't think you did. Thanks for apologising even though there was no need. Also isn't it great there making music again. Had them,Duran Duran,Abc,Yazoo etc on my school bag back in the day and still love them all. Have a great day and week Tim. Talk again.

  • @emmaharding7288
    @emmaharding7288 6 месяцев назад +7

    Takes me back to my youth obsessed with this song

  • @rw8733
    @rw8733 11 месяцев назад +6

    I love Blancmange, but ABBA are in a class of their own. 😊

  • @a0b0
    @a0b0 2 года назад +5

    i don't know what my life was like before i saw elaine in the school playground back in 1974, but i know how empty my life has been since i last saw her i n 1979.

  • @ruicarreteiro1439
    @ruicarreteiro1439 3 месяца назад +4

    Perfect electronic pop, as the original. A masterpiece for the ages.

  • @theflyingluxman5653
    @theflyingluxman5653 Год назад +6

    27 to 29 seconds in... The most beautiful smile ever.

  • @jvanek7362
    @jvanek7362 8 месяцев назад +9

    Such an underrated song. The 12inch version of this is absolutely magical.

    • @hilo6755
      @hilo6755 5 месяцев назад

      Oh behave X

    • @entropybentwhistle
      @entropybentwhistle 4 месяца назад

      @@hilo675512 inches of anything is usually pretty magical, except that pianist. Like dude, why you so smøl?

  • @garycarr3857
    @garycarr3857 Год назад +2

    Blancmange

  • @tedriding
    @tedriding 9 месяцев назад +2

    I Was 14,.. gone to a secondry school I knew noone,.. but the 3 fittest birds in school all liked Blancmange, found out I did and invited me to Appollo in Manchester,..my first ever gig with Three top birds,.. could have made more of it, but I was only young ,and my Yamaha TY 175 was my baby.. couldnt believe they would sit outside Niels mums house in Darwen, lancs, hopeing he would turn up,..his mum actually brought some biscuits out,.. wasn,t there myself,.. scrambling on my Ty175 listening to this on my walkmen...had it pretty good looking back...should of had a threesome with them though,...lol...hope you are all well...enjoy the track

  • @iainwallington474
    @iainwallington474 3 месяца назад +3

    Amazing beautiful cover ❤

  • @Jillutube2
    @Jillutube2 2 месяца назад +1

    Covering an ABBA song is very brave, but he made a great version of a very individualistic song.

  • @lem7881
    @lem7881 Год назад +3

    Heard this last week on absoluteradio80s forgotten 80s segment. I don’t know where to start, it’s just brilliant. The end.

  • @mjremy2605
    @mjremy2605 Год назад +2

    I must have, I must have, I must have.... poor dude is suffering from amnesia.

  • @3630046
    @3630046 5 месяцев назад

    Is it me or does the RUclips version differ from the album version ?

  • @bobbyperu4683
    @bobbyperu4683 2 года назад +9

    Pop perfection. Beautiful.

  • @ervins.kalnins5613
    @ervins.kalnins5613 2 года назад +12

    Super version !!!!👍👍👍

  • @Waltznumber2
    @Waltznumber2 2 месяца назад +1

    Good try, and well done, but the original from ABBA remains the best

  • @ewonnestrand7298
    @ewonnestrand7298 8 месяцев назад +1

    I like the singers voice, but don't understand the meaning whit the forced tempo. So no, not my favorit.
    I going to listen till them in another song, se what I think 🙂.

  • @movesky6696
    @movesky6696 2 года назад +5

    1984 summer the day before you came

  • @thecocktailian2091
    @thecocktailian2091 Год назад +1

    99.9% of covers are varying degrees of rubbish. This is in the .01% range.

  • @rhaimondesuggs5127
    @rhaimondesuggs5127 Месяц назад +2

    BLANCMANGE: Highly Underrated!🎶☹️

  • @lulululu6817
    @lulululu6817 Год назад +2

    Неееет! 😮. Никак

  • @Freehardy
    @Freehardy 5 месяцев назад +5

    blancmange are just a joy

  • @grantnixon9945
    @grantnixon9945 2 месяца назад +2

    Superb cover brilliant.

  • @Jay-fb4dz
    @Jay-fb4dz 11 месяцев назад +3

    Just seen them tonight in Manchester UK. Sound just as good as they did back then especially this tune..

  • @greg55666
    @greg55666 2 года назад +84

    I love Agnetha and I love ABBA, but this version is much better. He seems to understand the song better than ABBA did. He has real pain, anger, and sadness in his voice throughout. This song is so great.

    • @cserranoweb
      @cserranoweb 2 года назад +36

      I beg to differ. ABBA's version is far superior than this. Nice try but not going above ABBA. Agnetha's voice and Frida's operatic singing is better than this.

    • @professormause
      @professormause Год назад +2

      @@cserranoweb it's a
      cover version
      it's still
      an abba version
      'coz they earn off it
      where have u been ?

    • @martinraxyz
      @martinraxyz Год назад +2

      Haha! I need a good laugh. This video is quite amusing though!!! 😂

    • @patrickbrett1552
      @patrickbrett1552 Год назад +5

      They're both superb. Yes! 2 brilliant songs. Thanks.

    • @robincutti4596
      @robincutti4596 Год назад +5

      Unforgettable, beautiful, timeless melancholic music!!!❤❤❤

  • @hilo6755
    @hilo6755 5 месяцев назад +2

    It's my favourite Abba song X

  • @wast3myt1mee
    @wast3myt1mee 2 года назад +5

    I FINALLY FOUND IT OMG YAYAYYA

  • @madison9923
    @madison9923 2 года назад +27

    So underrated; my SO of the time and I (two musicians and big music nerds) were having a pretty bad argument and Spotify was playing rec's in the background - all of a sudden, the extended version of this cover came on and we both shut the hell up, turned our heads to the laptop and just listened to it (argument forgotten). It's so good

    • @garycarr3857
      @garycarr3857 Год назад +4

      Blancmange

    • @AZ0986688
      @AZ0986688 9 месяцев назад +1

      Blancmange of course you did!

  • @MrRoastedSnow
    @MrRoastedSnow Год назад +2

    Love Neil! Saw him a month ago. Looks even more youthful now

  • @antman7181
    @antman7181 9 месяцев назад +1

    Terrible version, the original can never be bettered.

  • @colincorcorcoran5284
    @colincorcorcoran5284 Год назад +2

    The day before you came was also sung by abba but I must admit I love blancmange version he seems to put more emphasis into this song and he sings it to perfection well done top guy from mr Colin Corcoran high street royal mile Edinburgh 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

  • @dinocuoco193
    @dinocuoco193 Год назад +2

    Very nice Version ,ABBA is very proud of you ♥️ very Talented ,Thanke you for this Moment 💛❤️💕❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥💙🧡🧡❣️💜❤️‍🩹💌💞

  • @alvarodechile7331
    @alvarodechile7331 Год назад +4

    Maravillosa versión, no la había escuchado. Bravisimo!!!

  • @erwinwoodedge4885
    @erwinwoodedge4885 Год назад +2

    Hardly a change from the original version.

  • @AZ0986688
    @AZ0986688 9 месяцев назад +4

    Extremely handsome man there! Jeez!

  • @stuartjones7229
    @stuartjones7229 Год назад +5

    Loved this version

  • @Neil-t2p
    @Neil-t2p Год назад +1

    This is quite a good version...though Agnetha's beauty swings it!

  • @Jauly
    @Jauly 8 месяцев назад +3

    The kick at 1:35

  • @bruce5799
    @bruce5799 Год назад +2

    Nice to see the ABBA lady at the end of video,that was their song.

  • @PaulTerry-l8x
    @PaulTerry-l8x 3 месяца назад +2

    Excellent job 👏...

  • @roverboi100
    @roverboi100 Год назад +5

    MASTERPIECE X

  • @tonisil4751
    @tonisil4751 Год назад +4

    so beautfull song.

  • @ladyleftfieldlover
    @ladyleftfieldlover 11 месяцев назад +1

    This always reminds me of a book by Vladimir Nabokov called Mary.

  • @malleyland7082
    @malleyland7082 Год назад +11

    The most gorgeous women to ever walk this world without doubt and a beautiful singer to boot. Loved her since 1974.

  • @richardrickford3028
    @richardrickford3028 2 года назад +2

    You would have thought as it was the blancmange version of the song old Neil would have brought some Indian food to go (perhaps a curry in a hurry)

  • @MartinWalker-t1n
    @MartinWalker-t1n Год назад +2

    My friend died in a motorcycle accident at the time,he was only 16,reminds me so much of him.

  • @susannoulton7634
    @susannoulton7634 Год назад +2

    Love this version as much as the original. Great version, and just love the original, it should have been more popular then a lot of the ABBA songs. ❤️💙

  • @mariokovac2488
    @mariokovac2488 Год назад +4

    excellent bravo

  • @ivicatunukovic4509
    @ivicatunukovic4509 Год назад +4

    Best cover on the original!

  • @michelbrion3604
    @michelbrion3604 Месяц назад

    Chou, tu connais cette version ? J'aime bien et ça change de la voix d'Agnetha ! Moi j'adore et le beat aussi et le garçon aussi mais manque parfois d'assurance dans la voix !!!!

  • @keplertagapan2912
    @keplertagapan2912 Год назад +1

    Top 5 Blancmange English British 🇬🇧 Band Best Of Collection Single Hits New Waves 80s 90s Billboard Chart European Waves Legendary

  • @mredben
    @mredben 5 дней назад

    in my younger days i looked like him :-) Really nice video and nice Track

  • @michaelw2816
    @michaelw2816 Год назад +2

    Nostalgia for a time when we had a 'lunch hour'.

  • @RickDanner
    @RickDanner Год назад +1

    Agnetha is the prettiest women in the history of the universe

  • @evb62
    @evb62 2 года назад +4

    I first knew Blancmange listening to 'Mange Tout', back in the eighties. I was living in Japan at the time, and it was a Japanese LP. It seems to me that the mix on this particular song was slightly different.

    • @cdpetee
      @cdpetee 2 года назад +2

      The video is for the shorter single version, which is remixed. It's different from the 'Mange Tout' LP version. In America, our version of the 'Mange Tout' LP contained the 12" mix of this song. Sire Records did that with Depeche Mode and Yazoo too.

    • @evb62
      @evb62 2 года назад

      @@cdpetee thanks, good explanation. I eventually acquired the US LP, and noticed the difference there, but didn't realize it was a 12 inch mix.

  • @kimbozw1808
    @kimbozw1808 5 месяцев назад +1

    and so Marilyn French became Barbara Cartland ... and later became Margaret Attwood in the version by Meryl Streep!

  • @greensnake6011
    @greensnake6011 8 месяцев назад

    Под гармошку! Непонятно, зачем браться за композиции, которые ты не можешь улучшить? Здесь Ютуб, а не ресторан!

  • @veranikom
    @veranikom 3 месяца назад

    Интересная мужская версия, приятный голос и манера. Но... Убыстренно сверх меры, и в некоторых местах мимо нот.

  • @b30b60b90go
    @b30b60b90go 3 месяца назад +2

    Absolutely Brilliant!

  • @MrZorro127
    @MrZorro127 7 месяцев назад +1

    Always loved this 80s music was pure bliss

  • @banerankovic4688
    @banerankovic4688 10 месяцев назад

    ABBA's version is women's point of view on solitude and expectation and Blancmange's is man's point of view . more sarcastic considering distrust in real woman's emotions . As if she missed him so much that her life was just a routine , not really worth of living and his response is something like "yeah ,sure" . Actions , no small-talk .

  • @michaeloneill6453
    @michaeloneill6453 11 месяцев назад +3

    Great song. I. Love it.

  • @8778yeh
    @8778yeh 4 месяца назад +1

    Would really really love a new album guys....

  • @НатальяКрайнова-о2ц

    Пародия на шедевральное произведение.Да,мир идёт к концу,искусства как такового уже нет...

  • @51pinn
    @51pinn Месяц назад

    Es gibt Lieder, die sollten nicht gecovered werden. The Day Before You Came ist eines davon. das Cover ist nicht schlecht, aber es gibt nicht das Gefühl wieder, dass das Original erzeugt. Man kann Agnetha nicht covern oder ersetzen.
    There are songs that shouldn't be covered. The Day Before You Came is one of them. The cover isn't bad, but it doesn't convey the feeling that the original creates. You can't cover or replace Agnetha.

  • @Winnipegger
    @Winnipegger 4 месяца назад +1

    Their cover is not bad but I still prefer ABBA's.

  • @jrpapamikemg
    @jrpapamikemg Год назад +2

    Sensacional... Perfeita, melhor até que a original.