I actually wrote this while living in Hamburg in 82, which is where the famous Onkel Pö club was, but took a few artistic liberties with the lyrics - there weren't any trams in Hamburg by then, and both the movies Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and Taxi Zum Klo were in colour, not b&w :-)... I did later work for a few months in East Berlin where there WERE trams, but the song had been written by then. And yes, for the upload of this vid I did re-sync the audio direct from the digtal remaster.
I listened to this as a lonely teenager in Dubai, listening to my walkman in the dark, with the deserts of Saudi Arabia on one side of us and the mountains of Iran just across the water. It really felt as if there was "a thousand miles on either side" of emptiness.
After all these years it's still one of my all time favourites. It always feels like an old friend who you haven't talked to in years and suddenly you pass on the street and it's all still so familiar like you only met yesterday... Brilliant, classic but never grows old ❤
Tom, it's a wonderful song. I always find it enormously touching whenever I play or listen to it, remembering my father and family caught up in that madness of war in the 40s and beyond. Amateurishly, I play it on guitar, but the gravity and beauty of your original vision shine brightly and beautifully. Thank you.
There are only a few songs in a persons life that has the ability to take you back in time as if you are space traveling. This is definitely one of them. What an amazing timeless song!
This song takes me back to dark, early mornings when it played on my radio alarm clock before getting up for school. Loved it then, and still love it now I'm 54
The drums on this were a tape loop of Steve Laurie playing live, as far as I remember, with live percussion by Steve and Martin Ditcham over the top. The really amazing contributions come from Paul Harvey's mathematicall precision guitar playing and Guy Barker who did the muted trumpet parts...
you are tom robinson? damn you are a legend idk why your comments aren't exploding with comments this like best song i heard. I will send you the remix of it when i am done i just had weird epiphany last night while hearing this song at work to electronically remix it idk if anyone has. since you are here i might as well tell you.
@CONSIDERABLYMORE1 The music was based on an idea of PG's when I visited him at New Year 1981. He played me a drum pattern on his new Linn machine & some chords that went with it. I took a cassette & while recording the album North By Northwest in Hamburg developed that fragment into a fullblown song. The lyrics came from listening to BBC World Service at 3am on a tiny transistor. The earlier North By Northwest version of the song is faster & includes Peter's original drum machine pattern.
one of those songs reminding me of an era when people listened to the radio. as a teen cassette player ready for recording new songs like this one! still brings me back to a time without real problems. well there were some problems with nuclear missiles... nowadays problems are bigger so let's listen to the radio again! thx!
I used to listen to this song when I was a teenager living in Dubai in the 1980s. It reminds me of lying in bed, listening to the radio on my Walkman, twiddling the dial to tune into stations from Australia to Moscow, listening to the voices fading in and out of the darkness.
Growing up in Toronto in the 80s, I had only ever heard the Pukka Orchestra's cover of Listen to the Radio. I loved it...it's perfect late-night music...it made me nostalgic for a time/place in which I had never lived. Tonight I was in a fast food joint when the Pukka version came on the radio...first time I'd heard it in probably 20 years. Came home and had to look it up on RUclips and discovered this original version which I love even more. Many thanks for song, and the memories!
never heard that theory. was living in hamburg in 1982 making an album called "North By Northwest" - it was all finished including the backing for (the first, early version of) this song. all except for the lyric. i had to go into an office upstairs and come up with something in an hour flat & these words came out without thinking too hard. i later found out just how many songs in the world already featured the words "listen to the radio". would never have written it if I'd known!!! tom robinson
Tom I have not seen any recent comments on this amazing song of yours but just wanted to say that your music is still uplifting and relevant and hordes of us still listen to you..thank you Sir Robinson
This song is a classic example of how to paint pictures with words. A superb example of how a great lyricist can create a whole scenic environment. You can sense the lonliness. Tom, once again, you have created a masterpiece.
This is also a classic example of a song being made by incorporating parts of another song, in this case the other song being Milestones by Miles Davis.
Impactful. I had only listened to the music (rented from the library), and had never seen the video clip until now. It resonated then, it resonates now, decades later. Wow.
On my one trip to Berlin I stayed in the Kreuzberg area. This song evokes the feel of every street, some of the older shop fronts, Templehof Airport and the Noir atmosphere.
One of my favorite songs of the eighties. Same time I loved music by Peter Gabriel (oh, he worked with Tom on this song), Talking Heads, U2 and The Police. And of course Nena, Blondie, The Tourists / Eurithmics and the famous Dutch bands called Doe Maar, Drukwerk and Bram Vermeulen & De Toekomst. Later also Falco, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N'Dour came along (1985 / 1986). So, great music times indeed, these eighties. LOVE and RESPECT from The Netherland, mr. Robinson. 🎶 👍
I was actually looking for "War baby" but as soon as I saw this song's title I remembered that I preferred it. I haven't heard it for years - it is fantastic, and my favourite Tom Robinson song.
As so many sensitive and appreciative people have said on here, this is sheer haunting Robinson poetry. The atmospherics of the song and what they refer to shimmer throughout it's cold war autumnal shadowy evening feel... a feel of the need for comfort, company...and if not in direct human contact then via the power of Radio Free Europe...turn the dial... a 1000 miles from Moscow to Cologne... the atmospherics...the ghostly voices...the distance traversed...lie back on the bed... or butter some toast and put another coffee on... my 6th form homework can wait... 1983 and this ghostly great are forever etched upon my memory and my soul. Great music moves us and this timeless track is legend writ large...love and hope and human salvation are all here and how he does it, only Tom knows. Thank you for Listening to the Radio.
Oh my god! I have searching for this atmospherics song for the longest! I heard it on band's rock over London in 1984! Always loved the fact, that yes u can listen to the radio when lonely, just always remembered this song. Thank you!!😄
I recently obtained a Robert's revival laye 50s type radio to stream 60s pirate radio stations and early radio 1 ect and thought about this great song l had at back of my mind ,and remembered it from early 80s. Very under played. Love it
This is one of my all time favorite songs, i have great memories of when music was everything back in the late 70's and sitting in the kitchen listening on my dads lovely 8 track tape hifi system :)
Remember seeing this video on RTE Television's 'MT USA' show in December 1984, this is my first time seeing it since then, how amazing it is that 28 years can just disappear so fast, great song & video!
I was 16 back then, some 38 years ago - and this is still some of my Top of the 80’s songs. It meant a lot to me as I felt very desperate that period. Listening to the radio and music revamped me, and life became better. Thank you Tom.
I found a copy of this song in Wilton manors, S Florida. This has been my fav song for 30 yrs plus. Love you tom, and your views. Put another coffee on !
I remember like yesterday 2 4 6 8,it playing in my brothers little red Datsun..1978 ?. He died two years ago of cancer .I broadcast on radio in Ireland and often play it.I've no reason to have the serious blues ...but do...during a recent bout I heard- Listen to the Radio-.Tom couldn't care less if you are 'Bothways'.Your talent captured something truely -Atmospheric- here.At 48 I feel jaded with life..this helps me go on :).Thank you...sincerely..-Mark ...'put another coffee on'..and I did !
I first heard this song on my first trip to Europe in January/February of 1984. Lasting memories through this song of Amsterdam and the Rhine River Valley.
This was the track that I learned to play drums to in the 80's. My drum instructor picked it for the tempo and simplicity. The thrill of eventually getting the groove, great memories and still playing... Thanks Tom.
Growing up in Canada I remember the version by The Pukka Orchestra. I just bought their LP and noticed that the liner notes said it was written by Tom Robinson and Peter Gabriel so I came here to listen to Tom's version. Interesting differences in the style. Others are correct when they say the lyrics paint a beautiful word picture. I just love it!
Although this amazing song came out in the eighties it never fails to evoke memories of when I lived in West Berlin a decade earlier. In particular my visits to the Soviet sector. The images the words conjure up in my mind harmonise so well with the melancholy melody. One of the very few songs that, whenever I hear it, I have to stop what I'm doing and just listen. Here I go again, BFBS Berlin, Asters....the Britannia Airways 737 trooper every Wednesday...old Hess still in Spandau...Summit House NAAFI...Steak night at the American PX...Checkpoint Charlie and the greyness beyond...
This just popped into my head and I looked it up. Haven't heard it since 1983/84, I remember walking to my part-time job after school thinking how great it was. Great to hear it again. Tom - if you are reading these comments "were you influenced at this stage by another Tom - Tom Dolby?".
Tom Robinson My brother came out around the time this song did:) I hadn't heard it for at least 20 years but when I did, it brought me right back to that time and reminded me of his bravery:)
Songs pop into my head and take me back to a place in time.I was 15 when this song came out. Lie down on the bed...lay back your head...smoke a cigarette. I was cool then smoking and listening to the radio :) watching Friday night videos.
Colin Croft mate i heard this for the very first time on Luxemburg. Had a little train bedside light and a black radio that i tuned in everynight to listen to music til my dad came in to tell me it was time to go to sleep and turn the light off.
Sure glad you didn't know at the time how many others about he other radio songs. Love this version as well, I had heard the Pukka version first long ago and just now watching this video ,I remeber seeing that as well quite a while ago. Great lyrics.
Had almost forgotten this great song, then heard it a couple of days ago on Ken Bruce's radio show, so fantastic to hear it again, love the "early evening ring around the moon" lyric, very Atmospheric!
@@buxvan David,that's brilliant.And!! A friend of mine thought Van Morrison was singing "Hey there Amigo",instead of "Hey where did we go" in Brown Eyed Girl! Love it.
My gawd................. I grew up in Toronto as a kid listening to the Pukka Orchestra cover of this song, which I didn't realize was a cover......... And co-written by Peter Gabriel........ And I just realized, the Pukka Orchestra name drops "Atmospherics" near the end of their version.
Great song from my youth! This song reached the Dutch charts in early 1984 when I was 18 years of age. It came to number three here. I guess the song had the biggest succes here in Holland.
The amazing poetry of this song is fantastic, the music is haunting. It always makes me feel both optimistic and sad at the same time. Love this - Classic!
As a teenager in the 1970s and early 80s I listened to a lot of short wave radio. I was always dead curious about what was going on in other countries and it was always interesting to listen to stuff from behind the "Iron Curtain". Things are much more transparent now. We get our insights via the internet, citizen journalism, social media etc. Thanks for putting this up Tom ! Always makes me smile when I hear it !
This song always reminds me on walking outside in the wind and rain in autumn and then when you enter your house, the darkness surrounds you untill you put on the light and turn on the radio....with a hot coffee getting cosy. Great song always give me a warm feeling.
If you like this video, it'd be great if you could subscribe to this RUclips channel. There are loads of other clips on here - some of my own music and some that I've shot or edited for other people. Google will let us do all kinds of extra stuff on the channel once it gets over 1,000 subscribers :-) Cheers, me dears... Tom Robinson x
Another long-forgotten gem dug up! Thanks for posting. This heavy, pensive song reminds me of the job I had just after graduating, working in a huge psychiatric hospital; and takes me back to walking its five miles of corridors, all now demolished and buried under a vast, amorphous housing development.
@canis65536 Well to be comletely honest I don't really know, but hey - it was Nicolas Roeg directing the video and he ws afamous movie director while I was just some schmuck who'd written a song. So I let him get on with it. It was nice that Steve Laurie and his partner Freddie Stopler, plus Ebo Ross and Paul Harvey from the band were able to play parts in it though...
One of those records that reminds me of a certain period. Quite unique. Think I bought the 12'' vinyl version. Great haunting track. Awakes strong memories of the early 80s
Been looking for this one for ages. I remember the 'put a coffee on; bit being used for a jingle for Adrian John on Radio One (the other one I remember was a version of Livin' Alright by Joe Fagin jingle).
I actually wrote this while living in Hamburg in 82, which is where the famous Onkel Pö club was, but took a few artistic liberties with the lyrics - there weren't any trams in Hamburg by then, and both the movies Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and Taxi Zum Klo were in colour, not b&w :-)... I did later work for a few months in East Berlin where there WERE trams, but the song had been written by then. And yes, for the upload of this vid I did re-sync the audio direct from the digtal remaster.
I listened to this as a lonely teenager in Dubai, listening to my walkman in the dark, with the deserts of Saudi Arabia on one side of us and the mountains of Iran just across the water. It really felt as if there was "a thousand miles on either side" of emptiness.
I have a recording of a live version of this. Really good, really haunting.
After all these years it's still one of my all time favourites. It always feels like an old friend who you haven't talked to in years and suddenly you pass on the street and it's all still so familiar like you only met yesterday...
Brilliant, classic but never grows old ❤
Tom, it's a wonderful song. I always find it enormously touching whenever I play or listen to it, remembering my father and family caught up in that madness of war in the 40s and beyond. Amateurishly, I play it on guitar, but the gravity and beauty of your original vision shine brightly and beautifully. Thank you.
Hi Tom, if you read this can you please tell me if that old man was you in the last shot?Magical song, i got this on single back in the day.
once had to sing this on children's television in Newcastle and had to change "have another cigarette" to "avocado vinaigrette". strange times.
I remember that I think it was razzmatazz 😁
@@jasonthompson6558 And here is that infamous performance ruclips.net/video/AyBwMKWOks4/видео.html
Perfect.
different times ☺️
I prefer cigarettes to Avocado vinaigrettes.
Love listening to this song in the dark, sounds even better
This song surely takes you back to the 80's where only pure music existed...i used to listen to it early mornings wandering the streets of Mumbai..
Brilliantly atmospheric... 'Stations fading into the unknown' sums up AM radio 70s / 80s
This song will always bring me back to my friend who lived in the woods with me. We would sit in front of my fireplace and listen to this song.
WHAT A BRILLIANT SONG TOM. BRINGS BACK FABULOUS MEMORIES ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊
There are only a few songs in a persons life that has the ability to take you back in time as if you are space traveling. This is definitely one of them. What an amazing timeless song!
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I do remember this song way back.
I still listen to sw radio before bed.
This song takes me back to dark, early mornings when it played on my radio alarm clock before getting up for school. Loved it then, and still love it now I'm 54
It's a great great song
The drums on this were a tape loop of Steve Laurie playing live, as far as I remember, with live percussion by Steve and Martin Ditcham over the top. The really amazing contributions come from Paul Harvey's mathematicall precision guitar playing and Guy Barker who did the muted trumpet parts...
you are tom robinson? damn you are a legend idk why your comments aren't exploding with comments this like best song i heard. I will send you the remix of it when i am done i just had weird epiphany last night while hearing this song at work to electronically remix it idk if anyone has. since you are here i might as well tell you.
the sound whatever that is at 00:44 for some reason hits somethign inside me that is forcing me to do this
mroe or less the lyrics are better then anything in this song
Some of the trumpet parts in this song sound to me like some of the trumpet parts in the song Milestones by Miles Davis.
Always loved this song. Takes me back to my angst ridden days as a young adult living on my own for the first time. Really great song.
This brings back Very similar memories for me...just moved into college digs..no family around ...just on my own...
This song always takes me straight back to the eighties. Wonderful memories.
@CONSIDERABLYMORE1 The music was based on an idea of PG's when I visited him at New Year 1981. He played me a drum pattern on his new Linn machine & some chords that went with it. I took a cassette & while recording the album North By Northwest in Hamburg developed that fragment into a fullblown song. The lyrics came from listening to BBC World Service at 3am on a tiny transistor. The earlier North By Northwest version of the song is faster & includes Peter's original drum machine pattern.
I just want to take a second to thank the woman who called into to RTE Gold to request this song and bequeath my ears with magnificence.
one of those songs reminding me of an era when people listened to the radio. as a teen cassette player ready for recording new songs like this one! still brings me back to a time without real problems. well there were some problems with nuclear missiles... nowadays problems are bigger so let's listen to the radio again! thx!
3rd verse is so evocative...loved this as well as the first Thomas Dolby album. Golden ages of wireless indeed
I used to listen to this song when I was a teenager living in Dubai in the 1980s. It reminds me of lying in bed, listening to the radio on my Walkman, twiddling the dial to tune into stations from Australia to Moscow, listening to the voices fading in and out of the darkness.
So did I in the mid-seventies. It was always chilling to find unknown stations.
Growing up in Toronto in the 80s, I had only ever heard the Pukka Orchestra's cover of Listen to the Radio. I loved it...it's perfect late-night music...it made me nostalgic for a time/place in which I had never lived.
Tonight I was in a fast food joint when the Pukka version came on the radio...first time I'd heard it in probably 20 years. Came home and had to look it up on RUclips and discovered this original version which I love even more. Many thanks for song, and the memories!
Probably on CFNY, as was I! Cheers from another T.O. 80s era survivor! 😎🎼🎧⏳⌛️📡
never heard that theory. was living in hamburg in 1982 making an album called "North By Northwest" - it was all finished including the backing for (the first, early version of) this song. all except for the lyric. i had to go into an office upstairs and come up with something in an hour flat & these words came out without thinking too hard. i later found out just how many songs in the world already featured the words "listen to the radio". would never have written it if I'd known!!! tom robinson
Tom I have not seen any recent comments on this amazing song of yours but just wanted to say that your music is still uplifting and relevant and hordes of us still listen to you..thank you Sir Robinson
This song is a classic example of how to paint pictures with words. A superb example of how a great lyricist can create a whole scenic environment. You can sense the lonliness. Tom, once again, you have created a masterpiece.
Along with Peter Gabriel!...
This is also a classic example of a song being made by incorporating parts of another song, in this case the other song being Milestones by Miles Davis.
Impactful. I had only listened to the music (rented from the library), and had never seen the video clip until now. It resonated then, it resonates now, decades later. Wow.
In these strange times I yearn for eighties music. This one in particulair. Thank you Tom for still shouthing me!
On my one trip to Berlin I stayed in the Kreuzberg area. This song evokes the feel of every street, some of the older shop fronts, Templehof Airport and the Noir atmosphere.
Interesting. Tom says he composed this song in Hamburg, incidentally.
Now I remember - " 208 - Radio Luxembourg"
- this just took me back 50 years . . .
Thank you Tom.
It's like 1983 all over again. Brilliant
One of my favorite songs of the eighties. Same time I loved music by Peter Gabriel (oh, he worked with Tom on this song), Talking Heads, U2 and The Police. And of course Nena, Blondie, The Tourists / Eurithmics and the famous Dutch bands called Doe Maar, Drukwerk and Bram Vermeulen & De Toekomst. Later also Falco, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N'Dour came along (1985 / 1986). So, great music times indeed, these eighties.
LOVE and RESPECT from The Netherland, mr. Robinson. 🎶 👍
loved this way back and still love it today
I was actually looking for "War baby" but as soon as I saw this song's title I remembered that I preferred it. I haven't heard it for years - it is fantastic, and my favourite Tom Robinson song.
Love war baby also!
@@janecoull3197 both great tunes, i do prefer this 1 though, so mellow and chilled " and listen to the radio " 😄
This has been my favourite song for 30yrs, thank you Tom and Peter.
As so many sensitive and appreciative people have said on here, this is sheer haunting Robinson poetry. The atmospherics of the song and what they refer to shimmer throughout it's cold war autumnal shadowy evening feel... a feel of the need for comfort, company...and if not in direct human contact then via the power of Radio Free Europe...turn the dial... a 1000 miles from Moscow to Cologne... the atmospherics...the ghostly voices...the distance traversed...lie back on the bed... or butter some toast and put another coffee on... my 6th form homework can wait... 1983 and this ghostly great are forever etched upon my memory and my soul. Great music moves us and this timeless track is legend writ large...love and hope and human salvation are all here and how he does it, only Tom knows. Thank you for Listening to the Radio.
Oh my god! I have searching for this atmospherics song for the longest! I heard it on band's rock over London in 1984! Always loved the fact, that yes u can listen to the radio when lonely, just always remembered this song. Thank you!!😄
One of the most interesting little-known songs and videos from 1983/84.
Show your papers, be polite
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Glad to have found this song again. The lyrics make so much more sense in context. Timeless - thank you !
I recently obtained a Robert's revival laye 50s type radio to stream 60s pirate radio stations and early radio 1 ect and thought about this great song l had at back of my mind ,and remembered it from early 80s. Very under played. Love it
Just loved Tom for his music and everything he stood for.
Loved this record ever since I first heard it.
Love the fact Tom Robinson still comments on this occaisionally too.
This is one of my all time favorite songs, i have great memories of when music was everything back in the late 70's and sitting in the kitchen listening on my dads lovely 8 track tape hifi system :)
Remember seeing this video on RTE Television's 'MT USA' show in December 1984, this is my first time seeing it since then, how amazing it is that 28 years can just disappear so fast, great song & video!
I hadn't heard this song in about....25 years or so and the lyrics suddenly popped into my head tonight; so memorable, superb!
This song was played a lot on CFNY here in Toronto back in the day. It felt timeless back then, even more so now.
I was 16 back then, some 38 years ago - and this is still some of my Top of the 80’s songs. It meant a lot to me as I felt very desperate that period. Listening to the radio and music revamped me, and life became better.
Thank you Tom.
This was probably THE song that prompted me to pursue broadcasting, along with the movie, Play Misty For Me.
Sunday 31st May 2020 ... Happy 70th Birthday dear Tom. This is such a fabulous track from my youth. Thank you.
I heard this on the radio, fittingly, for the first time a few days ago. Instantly loved it and I wasn't even sure why. Great tune!
Peter Gabriel and Tom Robinson are both brilliant songwriters.
I found a copy of this song in Wilton manors, S Florida. This has been my fav song for 30 yrs plus. Love you tom, and your views. Put another coffee on !
This was the standout song of 1983 for me. Thanks for sharing.
It was my ninth favourite song of 1983 but that is a big deal in my house. One place below another gem, 'I Am A Child' by Roy Harper.
@@Fatima502 what are your other 8? 🙏😊
I remember like yesterday 2 4 6 8,it playing in my brothers little red Datsun..1978 ?. He died two years ago of cancer .I broadcast on radio in Ireland and often play it.I've no reason to have the serious blues ...but do...during a recent bout I heard- Listen to the Radio-.Tom couldn't care less if you are 'Bothways'.Your talent captured something truely -Atmospheric- here.At 48 I feel jaded with life..this helps me go on :).Thank you...sincerely..-Mark ...'put another coffee on'..and I did !
fantastic song: it remind me the time of secondary school 26 yrs ago !!!
fantastic artist: hooping all the best for him !
A lot of memories of '80. Remember.... outstending artist and fantastic song...... written with heart.
I first heard this song on my first trip to Europe in January/February of 1984. Lasting memories through this song of Amsterdam and the Rhine River Valley.
This was the track that I learned to play drums to in the 80's. My drum instructor picked it for the tempo and simplicity. The thrill of eventually getting the groove, great memories and still playing... Thanks Tom.
I’m a huge Tom Robinson fan.This song is sublime and the album sounds as great today as it did back then.I salute you Tom thank you.
Growing up in Canada I remember the version by The Pukka Orchestra. I just bought their LP and noticed that the liner notes said it was written by Tom Robinson and Peter Gabriel so I came here to listen to Tom's version. Interesting differences in the style. Others are correct when they say the lyrics paint a beautiful word picture. I just love it!
Although this amazing song came out in the eighties it never fails to evoke memories of when I lived in West Berlin a decade earlier. In particular my visits to the Soviet sector. The images the words conjure up in my mind harmonise so well with the melancholy melody. One of the very few songs that, whenever I hear it, I have to stop what I'm doing and just listen. Here I go again, BFBS Berlin, Asters....the Britannia Airways 737 trooper every Wednesday...old Hess still in Spandau...Summit House NAAFI...Steak night at the American PX...Checkpoint Charlie and the greyness beyond...
This is such a magnificent song which I played constantly on a road trip across central Europe back in the early 90's.
This just popped into my head and I looked it up. Haven't heard it since 1983/84, I remember walking to my part-time job after school thinking how great it was. Great to hear it again. Tom - if you are reading these comments "were you influenced at this stage by another Tom - Tom Dolby?".
undoubtedly - was and am a big fan!
Tom Robinson
My brother came out around the time this song did:) I hadn't heard it for at least 20 years but when I did, it brought me right back to that time and reminded me of his bravery:)
Songs pop into my head and take me back to a place in time.I was 15 when this song came out. Lie down on the bed...lay back your head...smoke a cigarette. I was cool then smoking and listening to the radio :) watching Friday night videos.
always reminds me of searching for radio Luxembourg in the late seventies early eighties classic thank you Mr Robinson.....
Colin Croft mate i heard this for the very first time on Luxemburg. Had a little train bedside light and a black radio that i tuned in everynight to listen to music til my dad came in to tell me it was time to go to sleep and turn the light off.
Sure glad you didn't know at the time how many others about he other radio songs. Love this version as well, I had heard the Pukka version first long ago and just now watching this video ,I remeber seeing that as well quite a while ago. Great lyrics.
Had almost forgotten this great song, then heard it a couple of days ago on Ken Bruce's radio show, so fantastic to hear it again, love the "early evening ring around the moon" lyric, very Atmospheric!
Why has it taken me so long to discover this, brilliant track !!!
Beautiful evocative song, the lyric reads like poetry. I alway loved the line: "Slip in by the concierge." Takes me back to my youth, Thanks Tom!
I bought this single & thought it said "slip in by the Cold sea edge" for years !
@@buxvan David,that's brilliant.And!! A friend of mine thought Van Morrison was singing "Hey there Amigo",instead of "Hey where did we go" in Brown Eyed Girl! Love it.
One of Tom's best songs. Fascinating video.
My gawd.................
I grew up in Toronto as a kid listening to the Pukka Orchestra cover of this song, which I didn't realize was a cover......... And co-written by Peter Gabriel........
And I just realized, the Pukka Orchestra name drops "Atmospherics" near the end of their version.
Great song from my youth! This song reached the Dutch charts in early 1984 when I was 18 years of age. It came to number three here. I guess the song had the biggest succes here in Holland.
I remember buying this lp.One of my favorite songs off of it.
Tom this is still in my top 10 songs from 80s
thanks for all the tunes
Stakenet
What a quality artist,epitomises the 80's,there ain't many as good as Tom these days.
Takes me back to my carefree teenage years...
Wonderfully evocative song. Head the pleasure of seeing TRB perform it live recently ❤.
Thank you Tom. Your music helps me to see the beauty in the sadness. Love you man.
Superb evocative melancholic music.
The amazing poetry of this song is fantastic, the music is haunting. It always makes me feel both optimistic and sad at the same time. Love this - Classic!
As a teenager in the 1970s and early 80s I listened to a lot of short wave radio. I was always dead curious about what was going on in other countries and it was always interesting to listen to stuff from behind the "Iron Curtain". Things are much more transparent now. We get our insights via the internet, citizen journalism, social media etc. Thanks for putting this up Tom ! Always makes me smile when I hear it !
+Eugene Morice Imagination and Creativity dying a slow death now
Aye. me too. no 24 hour information back then
This song always reminds me on walking outside in the wind and rain in autumn and then when you enter your house, the darkness surrounds you untill you put on the light and turn on the radio....with a hot coffee getting cosy.
Great song always give me a warm feeling.
Tom your songs were and still are inspiring, fantastic composition thank you.
This song has haunted me for years…at 59 I’m feeling it loud & clear.
If you like this video, it'd be great if you could subscribe to this RUclips channel. There are loads of other clips on here - some of my own music and some that I've shot or edited for other people. Google will let us do all kinds of extra stuff on the channel once it gets over 1,000 subscribers :-) Cheers, me dears... Tom Robinson x
Another long-forgotten gem dug up! Thanks for posting. This heavy, pensive song reminds me of the job I had just after graduating, working in a huge psychiatric hospital; and takes me back to walking its five miles of corridors, all now demolished and buried under a vast, amorphous housing development.
How the hell did this escape me for all these years? only heard it last month---its been on a loop since then---BRILIANT
Same as that mate 👍
Great tune. Thanks for the tickets yesterday at the Cumberland Arms,Tom, much appreciated and a fab way to spend my birthday. Cheers, all the best x
I was 16 when I first heard this. Still takes me back to a more innocent time all these years later.
@canis65536 Well to be comletely honest I don't really know, but hey - it was Nicolas Roeg directing the video and he ws afamous movie director while I was just some schmuck who'd written a song. So I let him get on with it. It was nice that Steve Laurie and his partner Freddie Stopler, plus Ebo Ross and Paul Harvey from the band were able to play parts in it though...
Tom Robinson Any chance of getting this onto Spotify Tom, please?
Love this tune even after all these years it’s still brill Nice one Tom✌️
Still one fabulous song-love it!
One of the most under-rated British Muscians in Musical History xxx
Brilliant track, takes me right back.
Masterpiece
2022 and it still sounds good 👍
One of those records that reminds me of a certain period. Quite unique. Think I bought the 12'' vinyl version. Great haunting track. Awakes strong memories of the early 80s
Just saw you at Wickham Festival, Tom. We loved your set - stunning. Thank you!
Classic track - bought this many moons ago - still a great song.
Superb Tom Robinson
Wow not heard this for years, one of those songs that reminds me of evrery good about the 80's and music in general 👌🏻
Thanks Caroline - they played this over and over
A very clever man, who did so much for so many. A very brave man as well. Thanks. John (Australia)
Amazing song Tom, looking forward to seeing you at the Music room Liverpool Nov 22nd.
Still sounds good in 2022 !!!
Been looking for this one for ages. I remember the 'put a coffee on; bit being used for a jingle for Adrian John on Radio One (the other one I remember was a version of Livin' Alright by Joe Fagin jingle).
I LOVE this song.... ooooh..... I had forgotten about Tom Robinson.... I used to like him so much....
with digital radio it is strange to think a whole generation not knowing what atmospherics are
know what you mean, thought it was a bit annoying having to be moving around the radio this way and that to get a good single. Much prefer digital
What a great fuckin' song!