I love the ending, where all the tribes start fighting each other to the point where the original two tribes start to step back in amazement. This song was 40 years before its time. You just can't make music like this today unfortunately.
" A born again poor mans son." I said a prayer to God, commiting myself to Him. I then became a Christian. Then when l was laying on my bed , God parted the thing in my head and spoke to me with a strong powerful voice , telling me to learn by my mistakes not by others mistakes , as at the time l was studying at the Cambridge college of arts and technology, and was trying to point out spiritually to my classmates where they were going wrong. But it got all to much for me. Hence why God spoke to me giving me some advice. Ha ha. St Michael.
@rmarsyoutube well this song doesn't feature any black men in their 20's singing over a repetitive beat so I guess this song would be completely ignored by any record label nowadays !
Well ahead of their time too. When I was a kid listening to this it sounded like something from outer space or something excellent music only wish they did more
One reason for this may be that apart from the vocals from Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford, the band didn't actually play on the first Frankie album themselves (as opposed to their second one); This were producer Trevor Horn's studio crew. The actual songs were still written by the band, though. I love the title track 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome' in particular 😊
When my friends and I were in high school in the early 1980’s and living with the very real fear of dying at any moment in a nuclear holocaust, we knew exactly what this song was all about. Thank you Frankie for helping relieve our Cold War angst.
Back then the mainstream media & Hollywood pushed that our Republican president was going to lead us into a war. Of course that didn't happen and you see it was the same way with Trump. Now with Biden who has us in 2 wars the media & Hollywood don't bring that up.
@@melissazanella3938 Except now nuclear war isn't spoke about like it was back in the 80s. Where are songs like this or tv dramas like Threads? Even the media is barely making a fuss.
Half the songs during the first half of the 80s seemed to be about nuclear war. The cold war was at its peak, must have also been half a dozen movies made about it during that time, plus countless documentaries as well
They're not missing. The critique of current issues IS the reason most, if not all, don't make it to the limelight... Major labels don't want to upset the money-people or - heaven forbid - give people ideas, so you gotta go to the indies and self-publishing artists for that.
ZTT as a label would have been unthinkable in today's music business (they would never have made the impact they had, or produced as many great records). One of the reasons being, the money has gone out of record production.
I was born in the mid eighties, this is my era and the music I still listen to, '85-'93 is where most of my favourite songs hail. This era will never be replicated, the atmosphere, songwriting, the blazing synths and depth will never again be replicated.
No other pop record comes out punching this hard from the start, and somehow it gets bigger from there. As a young teen I thought it was the most exciting thing I'd ever heard. I sort of still do.
Astonishing record then and now. The production, melody, lyrics and resonance- incredible. Just been on a tour of Liverpool music sites with Brian Nash of FGTH, including a visit to The Bridewell pub where they formed, rehearsed and wrote Welcome To The Pleasure Dome. Charles Dickens visited as well in 1860. There are two plaques outside about the band and him. Brian Nash was very personable throughout, communicated information very well and told some interesting anecdotes and stories about music. Walking through Liverpool en route to Mathew Street and The Cavern in the pouring rain no-one recognised him as one quarter of probably the biggest sensation in music of the eighties, certainly 1984. He does look different now, of course but said he is only occasionally recognised.
@@brandonquezada9523 It never ended Lmao. It just took a break during 1989/1990-2014 then resumed exactly were it left off, just with the composition of the two sides slightly changed and the demarcation line between the two blocs moved further East. Also another big change is that now China is the main power opposing the western sphere of influence and the "patriarch" of the anti-western alliance, rather than Russia which has been reduced to a more secondary role by China's side. Also there's no more ideological element to the conflict, pretty much all the great powers at the moment are various shades of capitalist, and economics, trade and soft power play a much bigger role.
The best music video ever made! The theme, camera-work, nationalities, video importance, the actors playing Reagan and Gorbachev, the music leading up to the final act: the Earth is demolished.
@Nimravid 66 interestingly enough, I saw the video for Two Tribes before ever hearing Relax in the USA. Then it seemed to drop off the face of the earth. Guess nobody liked nor could handle the message in this song. After all, the all out brawl at the end I took to mean any conflict between the Soviet Union and the USA would drag other countries into the fray. I still like the actors who played the parts of Ronald Reagan and especially Konstatin Chernenko. But that ending scene... it hit hard then... it hits just as hard today.
@@carolball5764 I think some other *Randy Scouse Gits* were more than three times more recognisable by saying "Yeah Yeah Yeah" more than four times with the final line of the chorus "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah." and more than seven times with the final "Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" ruclips.net/video/ixrnWDICB5U/видео.html
This is one of Godley and cremes best directed videos it just captured the whole Reagan vs Gorbachev cold war conflict in the best way possible a good old fashioned slamfest
@@LevensbeschouwingnetAbsolutely, Konstantin Chernenko he was not USSR president for long, he died pretty early in office and if memory is correct replaced by Gorbachev.
Crazy times they were. I'm from the former Eastern Bloc and my father saw the Berlin Wall with his own eyes back in the 80s when he was on a visit to East Germany, him and a couple of his work colleagues went by themselves outside the organized tour because they wanted to see the Wall with their own eyes. They got to the Brandenburg Gate but when they wanted to take a closer look they were accosted by some East German border guards who basically told them to frick off. Every night while they were in East Germany they would sit in their hotel rooms till late watching West German television. "The other side" was just a couple of minutes walk from where they were staying but for them it was physically unreachable at that time. Really says a lot about the absurdity of the Cold War and the unecessary walls that we humans tend to put between ourselves. And to think that merely 20 years later me, him and mum would go to visit Berlin again and we would pass freely through the Brandenburg Gate which by then had become just an ordinary square in the city.
I remember this from 1984, when I was 11, and it's insane that the video pictured the leading superpowers in a fight, with all of the other smaller countries egging their favourite on, while the press watched. The world could have been blown up. Mad stuff, and a great song. Thank you FGTH.
Child, for those of us who bought this album on cassette while it was on the top 40, the current situation isn't even remotely close. Watch some history videos and then realize the computer they used for the history video had more memory than the ENTIRE US government had at the time. Realize that your last phone had more speed than the most powerful computers at the CIA. All the decisions had to be made by people, and the network moved at speeds that couldn't even handle a small .jpeg image.
They never have. They never signed on to attach the US and the few times they got close Mexico or Cuba backed out. (Of course we told Mexico the FIRST people were gonna deal with when the Russians leave is YOU!) It’s NEVER been about the Russians. They don’t run anything.
Frankie are reforming to play Liverpool at Eurovision song contest... That's the best news since sliced bread. What a band. I saw them in mid 80s the King's Hall, Belfast. Outstanding. Bring it on. I'm going even if I will be on a rolator x
What this song related to was the USA ~ USSR "Cold War" era, amongst other things. So indeed its relevance today IS INDEED the same as when it was released in the mid - 1980s. I was age 14 here in Melbourne, Australia, when I heard it on radio at the time.
This song has to be played up loud. Its one ov the best songs i have ever heard. I remember the summer of 1984 when this was at no.1 for a while on the uk charts. Those long hot summers, when every one could leave there doors and windows open when not in the house. I remember going up ferguslie park avenue on my bmx bike at age 11 and it was around 6.55pm and i could hear some one playing the music charts one sunday out loud from a house near bye. And when this song came on i liked it strait away as it kept getting faster and faster and louder and i got faster and faster on my bike lol, then it stopped at the end as in quite sudden. I bought it the next day. Those were the days. I was very very lucky. When men werent scared to do hard dirty jobs, with out hard labour you have nothing, the big money men want machines to do everything, even if they can make robots to use instead of humans, and they are doing it. But robots can only do so much, the world will always need tradesmen and even robots cant do hard labour. When i worked in a cooperage and seen the way the coopers made those whiskey barrels i had no idea how much skill and hard work was involved, the geometray in it alone was amazing, the way they had to observe everything and think what to do and what not to do as they worked away. It took them around 30 minutes to make a barrel from scratch. And they were mostly 45 gallon barrels that lasted at least 36 years and without leaking once? They even made 120 gallon barrels, they were over 5ft high, around 5ft 9 inches high, they were huge! But i think they were becoming not as common, as they were to big to handle all round. By the rules and laws ov the whiskey trade a barrel could only be used 3 times then had to be broken down. But the whisky in them took 8 to 12 years to mature in them. It took 7 years training to be a cooper at one time. A heard thats longer than a dr. Then they cut it down to 5 years due to machines making it a bit easier as everything had to be done by hand and not a machine in the place ov work. Its seen as more ov an art than a trade. Tbh i dont think it would be as good growing up as a kid in todays world, It would be good yes? but not the way we had it, not even close. Today you never see kids out kicking a ball about, no wonder at age 9 there 6ft tall and 25 stone, the boys are big as well. lol, we were 5ft and 6 stone lol. A couldnt eat a 2ft wide pizza with everything on it, except the 2 litre bottle of coke lol, at age 9 all too myself. A believe the technology in todays world is great but its making people much lazier than when i remember the old days, and especialy at work as thousands ov people must surely know. As so much doesnt get done even when there sitting down, no way would that lot last 5 minutes working in the 80s and 90s. The 1980s and early 90s were the best years ov my life. Brilllllliant!!!!!!! Today most boys play on artificial grass? But theres nothing better than natural grass. Especialy when it was a bit wet to slide into a tackle.
Did Holly Johnson have a time machine? How can this song be so relevant today? Nearly 40 years later and we’re all still working for the black gas. What’s happening now is terrifying. Solidarity with the people of the Ukraine
In 1984 this video was played in a disco on the Romanian coast, in the resort of Mamaia. As was the custom, when videos were played everybody stopped dancing and stood still watching the tv screen. My Romanian friend told me the audience had absolutely no idea what it was about.
Well I remember this when it was first released….and I think if I recall the video was banned uk…….well here we are in February 22, and this is even more relevant today unfortunately. God bless this crazy warmongering world!!….love and peace to every human and living creature 🙏🙏
All the mixes had their own strengths. "Carnage" was global and grand with the orchestra. "Annihilation" was terrifying and claustrophobic and funky. The 7" single mix punched the hardest. The one on the album was not the best.
Here I am now in my early 50’s living this and remembering this as a 15 year old with a 16 year old child wondering if we are going to have WW3. Choose peace and kindness over war. Shut the narcissists down or end of days will ensue. 🙏🏽 God prey for the Ukraine 🙏🏽
@Viro Pax Alot Classic 80's tunes didn't make top 40 in the states that were international acts that still get played on radio ahead the crap that made the so called Top 40 what a wank!!!.
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38 years and this song still kicks ass
And is unfortunately relevant again
Land of confusion by genesis also!.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤩👍 I agree....never boring
Yes, AI works this jewel on me.
💯
I love the ending, where all the tribes start fighting each other to the point where the original two tribes start to step back in amazement. This song was 40 years before its time. You just can't make music like this today unfortunately.
Could wars please be fought like this. Leaders in a ring and they fight it between themselves. Leave thousands and millions of innocent people alone.
Or let humans war and let nature be in peace, war is human from day 1 even cavemen killed before money was god and all looked same
putin and biden I'd put my money on putin
Yes ! I agree !
It used to be like this. You’d send your two best fighters to mediate via one on one combat.
Couldn’t agree more…….bit of BKFC
" A born again poor mans son."
I said a prayer to God, commiting myself to Him. I then became a Christian. Then when l was laying on my bed , God parted the thing in my head and spoke to me with a strong powerful voice , telling me to learn by my mistakes not by others mistakes , as at the time l was studying at the Cambridge college of arts and technology, and was trying to point out spiritually to my classmates where they were going wrong. But it got all to much for me. Hence why God spoke to me giving me some advice. Ha ha. St Michael.
A song that come out in the 80s would be so relevant today in 2024
como te quiero monazo toda la razon!! saludos desde argentina , un pais gobernado por un demente como milei!!
Porque se me borro el comentario?
Where were you when it came out?
@rmarsyoutube well this song doesn't feature any black men in their 20's singing over a repetitive beat so I guess this song would be completely ignored by any record label nowadays !
バイデンとプーチンがこうやって決着つければ良いのに。あるいは、バイデンとトランプ対プーチンと習近平のタッグマッチはどう？ｗ
This is what war should look like - a fight between the ones pulling the strings.
Would be nice to see that
Exactly,😅
You have to keep going behind the curtains. Political leaders are mere puppets. Try the globalist bankers. And keep going...
rich people create war, poor people die in them!
Wouldn’t be any wars if this was the case.
Frankie goes to Hollywood rarely get the recognition from their peers. Brilliant band
Well ahead of their time too. When I was a kid listening to this it sounded like something from outer space or something excellent music only wish they did more
One reason for this may be that apart from the vocals from Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford, the band didn't actually play on the first Frankie album themselves (as opposed to their second one); This were producer Trevor Horn's studio crew. The actual songs were still written by the band, though. I love the title track 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome' in particular 😊
@@mightyV444 welcome to the pleasuredome, what an awesome song. Holly Johnson has just released a new album named "Released from the pleasuredome"
@@Gaz9000 - Oh! Interesting! Thank you for the info! 🙂
Agree! There's FGTH live material on YT from the Trevor Horn themed Prince's Trust concert - you should look it up if you haven't yet!
80’s bands were living through the times. A number of them weren’t afraid to include a message amidst the music.
We need them now, but music has lost some of its purpose in our age, it seems.
Who knew that Frankie Goes to Hollywood would be so relevant in 2022?
Because politics never changes
This songs always relevant in general.
im here cause the south park episode last night
@@crystalbluepartain3434 same loooool
South Park predicted this.
When my friends and I were in high school in the early 1980’s and living with the very real fear of dying at any moment in a nuclear holocaust, we knew exactly what this song was all about. Thank you Frankie for helping relieve our Cold War angst.
Back then the mainstream media & Hollywood pushed that our Republican president was going to lead us into a war. Of course that didn't happen and you see it was the same way with Trump. Now with Biden who has us in 2 wars the media & Hollywood don't bring that up.
We are here again!
@@melissazanella3938 Except now nuclear war isn't spoke about like it was back in the 80s. Where are songs like this or tv dramas like Threads? Even the media is barely making a fuss.
old ass nga
@@gyobfan22 Because it's not going to happen.
The Production on these Frankie songs is way ahead of its time
GENIUS OF TREVOR HORN
Waaaay ahead friend.
Happy 40th birthday to this song from being UK number 1, 40 years ago today 💛
I remember watching it on top of the pops
My mother got upset when I played this single when it came out. She remembered the air warning signal from the war all too well.
it's amazing how many songs from the 80s apply to the current situation
Half the songs during the first half of the 80s seemed to be about nuclear war.
The cold war was at its peak, must have also been half a dozen movies made about it during that time, plus countless documentaries as well
apollo creed vs ivan drago
History repeats and Rhymes but never the same
yes. I've just remixed this track in modern form :) see my channel
Us humans will never learn, that is why.
This is how all wars should be fought in the future. Stick their leaders in a boxing ring and may the best man win.
Putin would win in about 5 seconds.
@@edlawn5481 Sadly that is true.
Well said. Ronny'd kick Chernenko's @ss
All of a sudden, this song became relevant again.....
That guitar riff is LEGENDARY!❤😂
This is what we are missing today. Artists that shine a light on the issues of our time.
Propaganda. Come back Reagan
Enter Shikari my friend.
I can’t picture music without political messaging behind it.
They're not missing. The critique of current issues IS the reason most, if not all, don't make it to the limelight... Major labels don't want to upset the money-people or - heaven forbid - give people ideas, so you gotta go to the indies and self-publishing artists for that.
ZTT as a label would have been unthinkable in today's music business (they would never have made the impact they had, or produced as many great records). One of the reasons being, the money has gone out of record production.
"are we living in a land where sex and horror are the new gods. yeah". rhetorical. no question (mark) . Brilliant
And look at the mess it's produced.
We are here again.
1984/2024.
Yes good song
ahí las doa como pocos 😂
I saw them in Manchester 1986, great gig, killer bass from Mark O'Toole.
I was born in the mid eighties, this is my era and the music I still listen to, '85-'93 is where most of my favourite songs hail. This era will never be replicated, the atmosphere, songwriting, the blazing synths and depth will never again be replicated.
That's right 👍
Today's musicians can't do that, they could follow an example!
Still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up nearly 40’s years on, a truly EPIC track 😎😎😎
Sad how these songs don't have more views. The messages they carry have so much relevance today than ever.
I loved this song when it came out in 1984, still love it in October 2021, still has great energy.
👍👍👍👍
Exactly, mate
and in Feb 2022 it might become a reality
Strange on how it came out in 1984 🤔
This comment aged like fine wine
Absolutely brilliant. Still pertinent. Still relevant. We haven't come very far...have we...
We really haven't. Individually maybe but not as a collective
Especially as we living through agenda 21 to agenda 30, 2021/2030, you'll see
@@jengarcia6957 .. We should put Boris, Biden & Putin into a boxing ring & let them themselves knock the 💩 out of each other !!
Sharing this & the 12” mix to all char grps now
@@catbreath007 Putin is ex KGB and is a black belt in Judo, he would flummox Demented Biden and Bohemian Boris in 30 seconds flat.
So sad that this song is just as relevant in my 60s as it was in my 20s.
It was relevant to my mum in her 20's and now it's relevant in my 20's. Crazy.
Back then I was terrified of nuclear war.I am 56 now and not terrified because if it happens death will be instant. I would not want to survive.
A lot of 80s hits were about this. Sting has reworked Russians too.
I am only a few years behind you but soooooooo true. Make sure you watch the South Park Putin video on RUclips if you haven't already.
@@adrianlast195 but think about the youngsters. I don't have kids either, but I wouldn't want to be them right now.
No other pop record comes out punching this hard from the start, and somehow it gets bigger from there. As a young teen I thought it was the most exciting thing I'd ever heard. I sort of still do.
Astonishing record then and now. The production, melody, lyrics and resonance- incredible. Just been on a tour of Liverpool music sites with Brian Nash of FGTH, including a visit to The Bridewell pub where they formed, rehearsed and wrote Welcome To The Pleasure Dome. Charles Dickens visited as well in 1860. There are two plaques outside about the band and him. Brian Nash was very personable throughout, communicated information very well and told some interesting anecdotes and stories about music. Walking through Liverpool en route to Mathew Street and The Cavern in the pouring rain no-one recognised him as one quarter of probably the biggest sensation in music of the eighties, certainly 1984. He does look different now, of course but said he is only occasionally recognised.
The most incredible pop production of all time, now more relevant than ever.
Meh more relevant during the actual Cold War
@@brandonquezada9523 It never ended Lmao. It just took a break during 1989/1990-2014 then resumed exactly were it left off, just with the composition of the two sides slightly changed and the demarcation line between the two blocs moved further East. Also another big change is that now China is the main power opposing the western sphere of influence and the "patriarch" of the anti-western alliance, rather than Russia which has been reduced to a more secondary role by China's side. Also there's no more ideological element to the conflict, pretty much all the great powers at the moment are various shades of capitalist, and economics, trade and soft power play a much bigger role.
The best music video ever made! The theme, camera-work, nationalities, video importance, the actors playing Reagan and Gorbachev, the music leading up to the final act: the Earth is demolished.
@@humanbeingchatagentinsal-rv1zy I think it is not Gorbatchov but Bresnjev
Second most overused YT Music video comment.
When two tribes think they want to go to war they need to RELAX and DON'T DO IT
That was TOO punny 😂
Maybe they should take a relaxing trip and ask "Do you know nthe way to San Jose?"
And here we are again - West vs. East - on & on & fuckin' on.
Totally under rated video and song
@Nimravid 66 interestingly enough, I saw the video for Two Tribes before ever hearing Relax in the USA. Then it seemed to drop off the face of the earth. Guess nobody liked nor could handle the message in this song. After all, the all out brawl at the end I took to mean any conflict between the Soviet Union and the USA would drag other countries into the fray.
I still like the actors who played the parts of Ronald Reagan and especially Konstatin Chernenko. But that ending scene... it hit hard then... it hits just as hard today.
definitely not underrated by any means.
Not in my country. few weeks on #1 spot.. And pretty much everyone from my age knows this clip. Very iconic.
I'm beginning to think people make this statement to annoy people lol.. Makes no sense
@@WazigeLogica Yeah. Just trolls
I swear holly Johnson has the most recognisable “yeah” in music
Too right.. Brilliant voice too!!
@@carolball5764 I think some other *Randy Scouse Gits* were more than three times more recognisable by saying "Yeah Yeah Yeah" more than four times with the final line of the chorus "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah." and more than seven times with the final "Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" ruclips.net/video/ixrnWDICB5U/видео.html
Well ‘ard lad!!!
Indeed he has Together Billy Idol who also had that
You are so right!
RIGHT! 😮!
GREAT SONG! I LOVED IT!
何度観てもいいなぁ、これほどまでに米ソの冷戦時代を描いたVCはない！！
The song is not only still good now, but the lyrics also relevant.
The CC appears to catch it all too.
This is one of Godley and cremes best directed videos it just captured the whole Reagan vs Gorbachev cold war conflict in the best way possible a good old fashioned slamfest
this was not Gorbachev, it was Chernenko
@@Levensbeschouwingnet ok thanks for correcting me
@@LevensbeschouwingnetAbsolutely, Konstantin Chernenko he was not USSR president for long, he died pretty early in office and if memory is correct replaced by Gorbachev.
A great band..a brilliant brilliant song...and one of the best pop videos ever.
That gritty synth bass, oh yeah! Stunning video, very political, we don't get that now, when it is sorely needed.
More great talent from Liverpool . LOVE IT !
Best song yet
I was stationed in Germany when this came out. Surreal.
Stationed at RAF Upper Heyfrord,England '77 to '86 ..... F-111's Uploaded with Nukes!
@Viro Pax This got played on MTV regularly, but it was an edited, less graphic version of the video.
Crazy times they were. I'm from the former Eastern Bloc and my father saw the Berlin Wall with his own eyes back in the 80s when he was on a visit to East Germany, him and a couple of his work colleagues went by themselves outside the organized tour because they wanted to see the Wall with their own eyes. They got to the Brandenburg Gate but when they wanted to take a closer look they were accosted by some East German border guards who basically told them to frick off. Every night while they were in East Germany they would sit in their hotel rooms till late watching West German television. "The other side" was just a couple of minutes walk from where they were staying but for them it was physically unreachable at that time. Really says a lot about the absurdity of the Cold War and the unecessary walls that we humans tend to put between ourselves. And to think that merely 20 years later me, him and mum would go to visit Berlin again and we would pass freely through the Brandenburg Gate which by then had become just an ordinary square in the city.
Travelling thru Celle (Bergen), Germany during that time.. tanks in the forests.. signs saying "do not leave road / beware of tanks" .
The caricatures of Reagan and Chernenko are convincing...
That's what made it shocking at the time.
@@KingFahtah
I don’t remember it being shocking
Many years later, DJ Shadow x Run the Jewels bring us "Nobody speak".
This song has been playing in my head the past 8 days.
My childhood in the 1990s and GTA Vice City brought me back here. Goated nostalgia forever!
I was lmao when they showed Putin dancing to this on Southpark.
lmao southpark
I remember this from 1984, when I was 11, and it's insane that the video pictured the leading superpowers in a fight, with all of the other smaller countries egging their favourite on, while the press watched.
The world could have been blown up. Mad stuff, and a great song. Thank you FGTH.
Thank you Todd. Another Automatic Man!
I think there is a very good possibility that this song is even more relevant today than when it was released
Yah and the Russians have us fighting each other in the US . Checkmate.
Child, for those of us who bought this album on cassette while it was on the top 40, the current situation isn't even remotely close.
Watch some history videos and then realize the computer they used for the history video had more memory than the ENTIRE US government had at the time.
Realize that your last phone had more speed than the most powerful computers at the CIA.
All the decisions had to be made by people, and the network moved at speeds that couldn't even handle a small .jpeg image.
@@pauljensen5699 lol...Child...Im almost 50..I bought this album on cassette when it came out...
@@spensert4933 You honestly believe that? Try China buddy. Not even the Russians like 'em. That says a lot.
They never have. They never signed on to attach the US and the few times they got close Mexico or Cuba backed out. (Of course we told Mexico the FIRST people were gonna deal with when the Russians leave is YOU!) It’s NEVER been about the Russians. They don’t run anything.
Frankie are reforming to play Liverpool at Eurovision song contest... That's the best news since sliced bread.
What a band.
I saw them in mid 80s the King's Hall, Belfast. Outstanding. Bring it on. I'm going even if I will be on a rolator x
What this song related to was the USA ~ USSR "Cold War" era, amongst other things. So indeed its relevance today IS INDEED the same as when it was released in the mid - 1980s. I was age 14 here in Melbourne, Australia, when I heard it on radio at the time.
It’s that time again 😎 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇺🇦
Even more relevant now
I've been looking for this song for ages
Todd in the Shadows sent me here
Not the only one, but I do remember it the first time around.
literally same
9. weeks. @. number. 1
Tonya Harding sent me here…
He sent me here after reminding me this song existed. Now I’m off to The Race by Yello.
One of the greatest pop songs ever made.... Turn it up to 11 and enjoy it's gloriousness!
My amp goes to 50.
This is very relevant again.
This song has to be played up loud. Its one ov the best songs i have ever heard. I remember the summer of 1984 when this was at no.1 for a while on the uk charts. Those long hot summers, when every one could leave there doors and windows open when not in the house. I remember going up ferguslie park avenue on my bmx bike at age 11 and it was around 6.55pm and i could hear some one playing the music charts one sunday out loud from a house near bye. And when this song came on i liked it strait away as it kept getting faster and faster and louder and i got faster and faster on my bike lol, then it stopped at the end as in quite sudden. I bought it the next day. Those were the days. I was very very lucky. When men werent scared to do hard dirty jobs, with out hard labour you have nothing, the big money men want machines to do everything, even if they can make robots to use instead of humans, and they are doing it. But robots can only do so much, the world will always need tradesmen and even robots cant do hard labour. When i worked in a cooperage and seen the way the coopers made those whiskey barrels i had no idea how much skill and hard work was involved, the geometray in it alone was amazing, the way they had to observe everything and think what to do and what not to do as they worked away. It took them around 30 minutes to make a barrel from scratch. And they were mostly 45 gallon barrels that lasted at least 36 years and without leaking once? They even made 120 gallon barrels, they were over 5ft high, around 5ft 9 inches high, they were huge! But i think they were becoming not as common, as they were to big to handle all round. By the rules and laws ov the whiskey trade a barrel could only be used 3 times then had to be broken down. But the whisky in them took 8 to 12 years to mature in them. It took 7 years training to be a cooper at one time. A heard thats longer than a dr. Then they cut it down to 5 years due to machines making it a bit easier as everything had to be done by hand and not a machine in the place ov work. Its seen as more ov an art than a trade. Tbh i dont think it would be as good growing up as a kid in todays world, It would be good yes? but not the way we had it, not even close. Today you never see kids out kicking a ball about, no wonder at age 9 there 6ft tall and 25 stone, the boys are big as well. lol, we were 5ft and 6 stone lol. A couldnt eat a 2ft wide pizza with everything on it, except the 2 litre bottle of coke lol, at age 9 all too myself. A believe the technology in todays world is great but its making people much lazier than when i remember the old days, and especialy at work as thousands ov people must surely know. As so much doesnt get done even when there sitting down, no way would that lot last 5 minutes working in the 80s and 90s. The 1980s and early 90s were the best years ov my life. Brilllllliant!!!!!!! Today most boys play on artificial grass? But theres nothing better than natural grass. Especialy when it was a bit wet to slide into a tackle.
The item of this song is so 2024!!
When I first heard this song i was a frightened 12 year old now I'm a frightened woman 🙏💕
Time doesn't flow - technically, you're already dead. 'Nothing at all about which to worry. Doris Day said it best...
@@Pwwh0711 We also 'die' every time we fall asleep.
Hi everyone else who came here Feb of 2022. We're all still at it, learning nothing.
A song that made light of the fear of nuclear war between two of the biggest superpowers. One of the greatest songs ever written.
World since 2022...
We had to.
38 years later and this song still rocks! 😄
Yes 👍 and Russia 🇷🇺 it’s against the USA 🇺🇸! Nothing changes, world stays the same….
Ive quite literally never heard another song like this one, nothing else is really even similar.
Did Holly Johnson have a time machine? How can this song be so relevant today? Nearly 40 years later and we’re all still working for the black gas. What’s happening now is terrifying. Solidarity with the people of the Ukraine
Yup. This song and Genesis "Land of Confusion"
This was written in protest of the Cold War and it will always be relevant until war is over
It's chilling isn't it ? We haven't learned have we ?
Russia deployed strategical units such as the Northern Fleet this morning (EST) in preparation for nuclear war. It's fucking wild……
Putin put his nuke forces on alert. I mean, goddamn.
In 1984 this video was played in a disco on the Romanian coast, in the resort of Mamaia. As was the custom, when videos were played everybody stopped dancing and stood still watching the tv screen. My Romanian friend told me the audience had absolutely no idea what it was about.
I'm amazed this was played in Romania during the Soviet era.
"why does the two man in the suit fighting again, Andrei?"
Most of the Romanians didn't even knew that Reagan was the president of the US.
to be fair, Ceaușescu was like Kim Jong in terms of censorship and misinformation
@Balage78Szfvar BTW it's Chernenko (one of these old men) who is depicted in this video.
Here we are again, 1980’s…2020’s…good grief. And shortwave radio is even back in style again.
This song still sounds extraordinary today. I still get chills when Holly sings "Listen to the voice sing, follow me". One of the best lines in pop.
Once again, rather relevant.
Well I remember this when it was first released….and I think if I recall the video was banned uk…….well here we are in February 22, and this is even more relevant today unfortunately. God bless this crazy warmongering world!!….love and peace to every human and living creature 🙏🙏
Why has this masterpiece not got 500 million views? I know cause it's nearly 40 years old. People these days, honestly.
0:04 When The Wind Blows
Number one in '1984' and so was '99 Red Balloons'
That Synth in 1983 or what changed music. What a band, 80ies were special.
Welcome back to the 1980's everyone!
Learned about this song from a Cold War documentary lmao shit slaps dawg
One of the best songs ever written! The video was literally perfect!
the video is totally ahead of time
When i was in Berlin visiting checkpoint Charlie i played this out loud on my headphones. So amazing.
Next time, let's rig up a proper Funktion One sound system!
Picked up the Japanese CD album at a thrift store. I remember these videos from MTV in the 80s.
Putin has been very nostalgic lately.
Yes he look so fucked up in South Park 🙏
I think that is why we are all here right now.
putin's pee pee don't work anymore, he must show he still got one this way... SAD but some truth in it HUMAN NATURE...
Ffs i thought id be first with the Putin ref lol
Isn't a Putin something you keep in a tank to do your business in
Killer Bass! Awesome song!
What a song and so relevant today !
Todd in the Shadows sent me.
Same, lol.
He wasn't kidding, this is good.
9 weeks @ number 1
Great record. Way ahead of its time. The “Annihilation” mix is the best.
All the mixes had their own strengths. "Carnage" was global and grand with the orchestra. "Annihilation" was terrifying and claustrophobic and funky. The 7" single mix punched the hardest. The one on the album was not the best.
one of the best music videos of all time, hands down
another Godley + Creme masterpiece
I’m glad I grew up in the 80s we had such awesome music
Brilliant. The bass is other worldly.
This great song has always made sense, more now than ever...
Still such a damn great song 37 years later
That was a brilliant song back then - today it looks like it was clairvoyant!
It's almost like we're doomed to repeat history.
Heard the song many times but first time I’ve seen this video - brilliant.
One of the very best records of the 1980s!
Couldn't get this song out of my head for days.. it is a message for the current times!
Here I am now in my early 50’s living this and remembering this as a 15 year old with a 16 year old child wondering if we are going to have WW3.
Choose peace and kindness over war.
Shut the narcissists down or end of days will ensue. 🙏🏽
God prey for the Ukraine 🙏🏽
Came here after the mention by Todd in the Shadows.
This song and relax are classics even today in 2020.
The power of love as well
@@Bobsend and welcome to the pleasure dome
Satanic people on ride !!!
VERY TXS TO FGTH for all that thay srgure as !!!
@Viro Pax Alot Classic 80's tunes didn't make top 40 in the states that were international acts that still get played on radio ahead the crap that made the so called Top 40 what a wank!!!.
pure genius...
as relevant today as the day it was first realised.
forget the war connotations, this brings the 80s all back, mega fun times.
And the 80s were a peaceful time, even if it was the time of the Cold War!
Let's see politicians fight the wars they create whilst we watch it on live TV.
What a song still sounds incredible 😍
Trevor Horn's work. Magnificent!
More relevant than ever now.