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the best music came from the 80s, loved it then (i was in my teens) had my 55th birthday on the 3rd of march 2024 still love the 80s , in the words of sinead , nothing compares x
fun fact: when this came out, the singer Marian Gold was still working as cooks mate in his hometown in Germany. it got a lot of radio airplay and so one of the cooks said: "son, they are playing your song all day long" and fired him. so the singer was fired because his boss didn't want him to waste his career peeling potatoes
The boss said " Du bisch zu gut du arroganter Arsch. Geh naus und zeig dene wer dr Chef isch. Aber du musch mir trotzdem noch die 5 Euro vom Dorffescht letschtes Jahr geben"
The members live in Berlin and the singer Marian Gold in Münster in Germany. He is involved in social projects and takes care of his family, but they all live quite quietly :)
agreed - 40 years onwards and current music trash like pink, miley siphilus etc are 10,000 rungs lower as far as REAL talent goes, compared to the 80's musicians... Stay Blessed..
every single new song sounds like literal shit and most people can't even sing anymore so they need autotune. 80s music sounds like the future and modern music sounds like the stereotypical future if you know what I mean
What’s even crazier, and possibly very inspiring/motivating for aspiring musicians, is that none of them knew how to play any instruments; and yet, they still managed to produce such great music. With technology of the times (synthesizers, drum/rhythm machines, etc), they were able to turn the music they had in their heads into reality, without any knowledge of playing instruments…a magical time. Nowadays, it’s even easier…but you still need the talent/creativity to produce magic like this.
@@sonicfoxxmusic4281 He´s describing the atmosphere. he's looking to score heroin in a big city (Berlin) at night so he's passing by neon shop signs and shop windows
@@LoneShot95 Then he says '" Shall I stay here at the Zoo or shall I go and change my other point of view". It means shall he stay in the Zoo (Zoo train station in Berlin) where drug addicts used to take a stay... and keep my straggle vs drugs or go away and get clean! Very touchy lines and script, but 1st of all the song is Perfect, even in 2020!
The phrase "Big in Japan" from the 1984 song by the band Alphaville refers to the idea of being famous or successful in a distant or foreign place, especially in Japan, while remaining unknown or struggling elsewhere. In the context of the song, it symbolizes escaping reality and fantasizing about success or a better life in a faraway place. Japan was chosen because, during the 1980s, many Western artists and bands who didn't achieve mainstream success at home were surprisingly popular in Japan. The song itself is more about yearning for a better future and dealing with personal struggles (such as love and addiction), using the notion of being "Big in Japan" as a metaphor for an idealized escape or sense of hope. In Portuguese it's similar to the saying, "Santo de casa não faz milagre", or "Home grown saints don't work miracles".
Because actual talent made it big because more people voted to spend actual money for the records based on actually liking them than voted for a puerile TV entertainment show because they were sucked in by the hype and fomo? Just guessing, I could only afford to buy one or maybe two singles per week in the 80's, but voting a few pennies while sitting on my ass using my phone appears easier nowadays. I don't bother doing it, never have, but it still has the appeal of being simple and inexpensive. BTW I still have all the records I bought and a record player so i can listen to any of the music I originally thought was worthwhile. About 5% of it gets ignored, the rest gets a listen at least once a year, much more for some great songs! I feel like I got value for what I spent back in the day. Personally I would rather be able to still listen to the media I bought for as long as i like than have a stream removed because some beancounter exec decides it isn't making enough revenue. I grew up being able to do that and simply don't like companies taking away what I paid for because they already got my money and don't care if I get value or not so long as they get their profit.
Вы заметили, что сейчас все слушают песни тех времен) потому что таких талантов и песен больше никто не сочинил) Слезы на глазах наворачиваются, когда слушаю и вспоминаю свое детство ❤ Браво) это легенды ❤❤❤🎉
I'm an Arabic guy, when i was 15 i found an old cassette thrown on the side of the road, and this song was in the playlist, back then i couldn't understand the lyrics but i was caught in the feel of something extraordinary, and now after all these years i found it. My eyes are full of tears from the nostalgia
Discovered this song on accident when RUclips music put together a playlist for me. And now I can't get enough of it. It's on repeat pretty much every day. 😁 Awesome tune.
I'd completely forgot about it till a few years back when I heard it as background music on a TV show, immediately went on RUclips to find it and listened to it constantly for days. Massively underrated song
This song and this group are not well-known in Japan for some reason, but I'm a big fan. No matter when you listen to it, it's fresh no matter how many times you listen! 80s synth music is immortal forever. Greetings from Big in Japan.🇯🇵
@Luiz Claudio Lemos Yes, IMHO every person has more or less delusions of being famous and successful somewhere out of the real life. The lyrics, the synths, everything of this song is beyond time. It will ever be actual. Adding the stunning voice and brutal beauty of Marian makes it one of a kind.
Not to mention you could express fascination and interest in other countries without someone digging through everything to find reasons to get offended.
@@nelus7276 Still can bro, you'll just get locked up for it! lol But had to grow up in the 80s to really 'get' it. I appreciate all eras and genres, but the 80s is so varied. Bands were not afraid to mess with keys and chords as cookee says. ;-) Thompson Twins, DrDr!
What can I say about Alphaville? Really love their sound got into their music whilst travelling around the world living out of a suitcase...and they still stimulate my senses 35 years later
@@marvinsilverman4394 It really was! In high school, I had a synthpop band with some friends. I wrote a song about a New Wave girl called "(She's Living A) Plastic Life" and within a couple years, it had gotten lots of airplay on the the local college radio station. 30 years later, when we started Heroineburgh, I rewrote the lyrics, and it became our theme song, "(She's Living In) Heroineburgh". Every episode of ours is named after a song or artist from the 80s. So, yes, it was quite an inspirational 'era of plastic' (and I would add many more groups to the list, such as Gary Numan, Yaz, Howard Jones, Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Front 242).
Masterpiece! Winter's cityside, crystal bits of snowflakes All around my head and in the wind I had no illusions that I'd ever find A glimpse of summer's heatwaves in your eyes You did what you did to me Now it's history, I see Here's my comeback on the road again Things will happen while they can I will wait here for my man tonight It's easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight Big in Japan, be tight Big in Japan, where the Eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes Of strange illuminated mannequins Shall I stay here at the zoo Or shall I go and change my point of view For other ugly scenes You did what you did to me Now it's history, I see Things will happen while they can I will wait here for my man tonight It's easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight Big in Japan, be tight Big in Japan, ooh, the Eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight Big in Japan, be tight Big in Japan, ooh, the Eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight Big in Japan, be tight Big in Japan, ooh, the Eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan
I don't know how this band come to the idea of this song. 👏👏👏 I lived and studied in the city where this band comes from...the small, beautiful and clean city of Münster.💚 Six years in Münster and Münster is my home town in Germany. Up to this day 10.06.2023, I am still playing this song loud and in a row in my Studio. The sound is so great and timeless, it makes you just wanna dance. The voice from Marian is crystal clear and energetic. I mastered the lyrics and any day I am in Japan. I will go to a park full of people, stand in the middle and will sing this song acapella as loud as possible. I will be 'Big In Japan'😎
I wanna deplore any music critics, reporters all of whom dared to call Alphaville the 1 hit wonder band, this song was literally extraordinary, should have been promoted much harder than only Forever Young
I say the same thing all the time. So glad that I grew up in the 70's and 80's. Those were the best decades ever!!!!!!!!! The last truly great decade for music. So diverse and original.
Winter's cityside Crystal bits of snowflakes All around my head and in the wind I had no illusions That I'd ever find a glimpse Of summer's heatwaves in your eyes You did what you did to me Now it's history, I see Here's my comeback on the road again Things will happen while they can I will wait here for my man tonight It's easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight Big in Japan, be tight Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes Of strange illuminated mannequins Shall I stay here at the zoo Or should I go and change my point of view For other ugly scenes You did what you did to me Now it's history, I see Things will happen while they can I will wait here for my man tonight It's easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight Big in Japan, be tight Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan Tonight Big in Japan, be tight Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight Big in Japan, be tight Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan Tonight Big in Japan, be tight Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh, when you're big in Japan...
daniel cross was the original slowed down tho? I dont know if its because ive heard the other version so much, but this one just seems like hes singing so slower and im not sure if he sang it this slow or they slowed the track down?
This song has been huge in Greece literally ever since it came out. I was 5 or 6. And I've been dancing and singing to it all my life since then. To me it's perfection, it's what music should be like, I can't imagine anyone not liking it.
I'm applying to the Japanese Studies & History course at Sheffield University this year. This'll be the track I'll listen to on the plane flight come my year abroad.
@@verangium It's a metaphor ... It was a sarcastic saying in the music industry back then, that even if you're not big in your country, you can just say in you're big in Japan, and no one in your country would know.
+Mara Iapoce I blame radio and tv stations for that, things have become sanitized, computer playlists, no DJs anymore, etc. No room for new music to come in. DJs used to go to clubs and concerts and brought the new music they liked back to the airwaves during their shows. I remember one DJ in Ottawa who decided one night to listen to the new Jethro Tull album, so he played the whole thing on air from start to finish. Others I saw at dance clubs when small unknown bands were visiting from other cities. Meanwhile Adam Curry and others on MTV used to bring in new bands, played music videos... It's sad how much things have changed.
Probably some of them are unpresentable, but Hammerfall, Nightwish, Ensiferum, Turisas, Equilibrium, Two Steps From Hell, Future World Music beat 80's IMO.
Winter's cityside Crystal bits of snowflakes All around my head and in the wind I had no illusions That I'd ever find a glimpse Of summer's heatwaves in your eyes You did what you did to me Now it's history, I see Here's my comeback on the road again Things will happen while they can I will wait here for my man tonight It's easy when you're big in Japan Chorus: Aah when you're big in Japan-tonight... Big in Japan-be-tight... Big in Japan...ooh the eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan-alright Pay! - Then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh when you're big in Japan Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes Of strange illuminated mannequins Shall I stay here at the zoo Or should I go and change my point of view For other ugly scenes You did what you did to me Now it's history I see Things will happen while they can I will wait here for my man tonight It's easy when you're big in Japan Chorus (2x) Oh when you're big in Japan Chorus (2x) Oh when you're big in Japan
I was a teenager when I first heard this master piece ! Like the whole world, I instantly fell in love with this song ! Funny that now in September, 2024 I like it EVEN more this song ! Amazing energy ! THe beat and his voice anre so powerful ! Brilliant !
This song is about a heroin-addicted couple at Berlin Zoo-Station dreaming about what life could be - far far away - without their addicition. Thats actually what "Big in Japan" originally meant (its the name of a british band): When you are a loser or an outcast you might be able to have a good life in a place far away. This song makes me feel strongly hurt for the many addicted people all over the world who want to have a decent life but just can't break free :'( Great song and rightfully an 80's classic.
Agree it really sets a tone/mood...love music that can provoke this. That is the real mccoy. WHat id give to be a teenager again Wait I am!! But theres this long haired old guy looking back in the mirror hanging on lol
It was aired on mtv pretty hard for a short period around 1984, never to be seen/heard from again for decades it seems. I do vaguely remember it, but I was a video junkie back then,
Still one of the best songs ever. I've listened to it most days since it came out. Which means I have listened to it 10,000+ times. Thanks for the enjoyment, Alphavile.
This song came back to me as i woke up yesterday, buried somewhere in my head all these years later. Watched the movie The Burbs a few days ago. I was very much child of the 80s.
I've always loved this song and have only just looked it up after all this time...I was born in the 60's ...so yes..the 80's was my era for music...great stuff !!! 😅💕
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Still hoping for a real one
Lol🤪💔🎁💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚🎆🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌
RHINO 🤙🤙🤙👍👍👍😍😍😍👏👏👏
RHINO Lyrics please
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40 years!
ABSOLUTELY... I WAS A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL...HOW ABOUT YOU ?
@@DISMISSED375 I wasn't alive then. 😂
Damn! We are the same age🤣
Lol mu dad is just 47😂😂@@davidkepesi2412
@@DISMISSED375wish i was alive to experience when this song released, thankfully i can still listen to it
the best music came from the 80s, loved it then (i was in my teens) had my 55th birthday on the 3rd of march 2024 still love the 80s , in the words of sinead , nothing compares x
The words of Prince also sung by Sinead.
@@dabeezkneez8716 yes he told her not to swear but she did lol, amazing plp legends
мне 56 , это потрясающая музыка моей юности! Всем счастья и здоровья! С уважением из России ❤
fun fact: when this came out, the singer Marian Gold was still working as cooks mate in his hometown in Germany. it got a lot of radio airplay and so one of the cooks said: "son, they are playing your song all day long" and fired him. so the singer was fired because his boss didn't want him to waste his career peeling potatoes
Herford
The boss said " Du bisch zu gut du arroganter Arsch. Geh naus und zeig dene wer dr Chef isch. Aber du musch mir trotzdem noch die 5 Euro vom Dorffescht letschtes Jahr geben"
Sauce or fake
@@proGamer1.8.7 Stimmt das wirklich? Hat er so auf Schwäbisch geschwätzt?
Rly ?
40 years later, it keeps being a great song! Congrats, Alphaville, wherever you are‼️
The members live in Berlin and the singer Marian Gold in Münster in Germany. He is involved in social projects and takes care of his family, but they all live quite quietly :)
agreed - 40 years onwards and current music trash like pink, miley siphilus etc are 10,000 rungs lower as far as REAL talent goes, compared to the 80's musicians... Stay Blessed..
I still love this song. The 80's were magical.
13 speaker Bose system. Blasting. YEP.
Is he alive again?
I am Japanese teenager and this masterpiece caught my heart❤
Traditional music video is definitely amazing!!🇯🇵🇩🇪
Wen du Deutsch bis muß ich dir leider sagen das big in Japan ein anderen Hintergrund hat Hals fihle denken 😂
Genau
Very sad indeed, the real meaning of this masterpiece
Das gleiche Schicksal fand ich als ich zum ersten Mal von den Stranglers mit Golden Brown hörte!
@@1963VictoryI think I missed something ...🤔
This masterpiece sums up the 80s, brilliant decade.
I so agree 💯
My fave 80s record..the one that I still play and never forgot
The best decade ever.
lol considering this is a song about drug abuse... not sure it s the best example for a "brilliant" decade
@@unhommequicourt There is drug abuse in every decade, fool!
I'm happy for the fact this song exists, I'm not happy by the fact we'll never have masterpieces like this again.
every single new song sounds like literal shit and most people can't even sing anymore so they need autotune. 80s music sounds like the future and modern music sounds like the stereotypical future if you know what I mean
sanırım dünya da müzik kalitesi düştü.@@matty6598
Did im pretty to you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.You are to my .
@@matty6598 The only hope we have is music from independent creators these days. Thankfully, there are some who make genuinely good music.
@@matty6598все ок
Someone in 2024?? ♡♡
Hola, soy Cristian, saludos desde Argentina..... !!
Yo
12 September 2024💕💕💕
12 сентября 2024 Хит,великолепно! Привет из России!
Olá direto do Brasil!
Em 2024 e sempre!
40 Years passed by and this song is still a masterpiece
This whole album is absolutely incredible. I cannot believe more artists haven’t sampled their stuff today!
Yeah I was enjoying my prenatal time back then. Incredible times.
i was so young then now 53
How would it stop being a masterpiece?
38 ans
This was real music these times back then.
What’s even crazier, and possibly very inspiring/motivating for aspiring musicians, is that none of them knew how to play any instruments; and yet, they still managed to produce such great music. With technology of the times (synthesizers, drum/rhythm machines, etc), they were able to turn the music they had in their heads into reality, without any knowledge of playing instruments…a magical time. Nowadays, it’s even easier…but you still need the talent/creativity to produce magic like this.
1:47 "neon on my naked skin...passing silhouettes of strange illuminated mannequins. " Always loved that line.
But what does it mean?
@@sonicfoxxmusic4281 it means you imagine the image and create your own answer.
I readed over there that the center of this song is the heroine, he is not gay he is waiting for his dealer (man)
@@sonicfoxxmusic4281 He´s describing the atmosphere. he's looking to score heroin in a big city (Berlin) at night so he's passing by neon shop signs and shop windows
@@LoneShot95 Then he says '" Shall I stay here at the Zoo or shall I go and change my other point of view".
It means shall he stay in the Zoo (Zoo train station in Berlin) where drug addicts used to take a stay... and keep my straggle vs drugs or go away and get clean! Very touchy lines and script, but 1st of all the song is Perfect, even in 2020!
The phrase "Big in Japan" from the 1984 song by the band Alphaville refers to the idea of being famous or successful in a distant or foreign place, especially in Japan, while remaining unknown or struggling elsewhere.
In the context of the song, it symbolizes escaping reality and fantasizing about success or a better life in a faraway place. Japan was chosen because, during the 1980s, many Western artists and bands who didn't achieve mainstream success at home were surprisingly popular in Japan.
The song itself is more about yearning for a better future and dealing with personal struggles (such as love and addiction), using the notion of being "Big in Japan" as a metaphor for an idealized escape or sense of hope.
In Portuguese it's similar to the saying, "Santo de casa não faz milagre", or "Home grown saints don't work miracles".
Absolutely best description of the song and idiom's meaning. 👍
This is the comment i was looking for
Perfect. What I wanted to know.
Thanks
In french: nul n'est profete en son pays. nobody is a prophet in his own country.
As a teenager I had a huge crush on that girl...
As an adult I have a huge boner for that girl
@@hansyolo9649 what's her name?
@@mchalecm Monique, she is the wife of Dieter Meier, the director of the video.
1984 40 yrs. Ago I was only 15,now I'm 55 yrs old.
Now watching Dec. 22, 2024
How did the 80s manage to both be so ridiculously random and so amazingly awesome at the same time?
then the mind used it for right things and not for the nonsense of today 🙂
we were so blessed to live in such wonderful freedom
hahahahha you are right
The 80s were the beginning of the tech age but it went to shit after the 80s.
Because actual talent made it big because more people voted to spend actual money for the records based on actually liking them than voted for a puerile TV entertainment show because they were sucked in by the hype and fomo? Just guessing, I could only afford to buy one or maybe two singles per week in the 80's, but voting a few pennies while sitting on my ass using my phone appears easier nowadays. I don't bother doing it, never have, but it still has the appeal of being simple and inexpensive. BTW I still have all the records I bought and a record player so i can listen to any of the music I originally thought was worthwhile. About 5% of it gets ignored, the rest gets a listen at least once a year, much more for some great songs! I feel like I got value for what I spent back in the day. Personally I would rather be able to still listen to the media I bought for as long as i like than have a stream removed because some beancounter exec decides it isn't making enough revenue. I grew up being able to do that and simply don't like companies taking away what I paid for because they already got my money and don't care if I get value or not so long as they get their profit.
Вы заметили, что сейчас все слушают песни тех времен) потому что таких талантов и песен больше никто не сочинил)
Слезы на глазах наворачиваются, когда слушаю и вспоминаю свое детство ❤
Браво) это легенды ❤❤❤🎉
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Это правда
Да, Вы правы
Шикарное было детство. И песни шикарные👍👍👍👍
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私は日本人です、この曲に感動しました！！！
Дорогой мой самурай.ты сейчас
радуешься.этой песне а я
влюблена с 1984 года.❤😂
@Массагет11 Я не говорю по-русски, друг
I'm an Arabic guy, when i was 15 i found an old cassette thrown on the side of the road, and this song was in the playlist, back then i couldn't understand the lyrics but i was caught in the feel of something extraordinary, and now after all these years i found it.
My eyes are full of tears from the nostalgia
How is it relevant that you’re Arabic
very cool!! ty for sharing that. Now this song is 40 years old today!!
It does?!, i didn't know that so ty, no wonder it's Amazing since the music peaked in the 80's
Amazing! Thank you for sharing that story 😊
I love the stories of how we Middle Eastern folk find music in the weirdest ways possible.
Yes, fantastic song. Still beautiful after all these years
no matter how old it gets, this song will always be legendary
Concuerdo contigo👍👍
Big
it ages like fine wine
Yes
I agree 👍🙏❤️
I'm Japanese, but when I was in middle school, my American English teacher brought a CD of this song and we all sang it together (lol).
Thats very awesome! Glad you had good memories of that
Ahah it's so cool I'm envy u
I miss Japan the best country !
This has to be one of the most underrated songs of the 1980s. I love this and I just think it's perfect.
It Was Big Hit In UK. 🙂
@@GameBoyyearsago . . . .but not in Japan.
@@roylennie8117 But Big In Germany Then Later Japan.
@@GameBoyyearsago My mum used to know all the band and said they were big down under.
@@GameBoyyearsago "It's easy when you're big in *Germany* too"
😂🇩🇪😂 😎
Discovered this song on accident when RUclips music put together a playlist for me. And now I can't get enough of it. It's on repeat pretty much every day. 😁 Awesome tune.
Alphaville. 1984. Music was just that. Music.
@@simonanders5676 I was born in 1979. I grew up with 80's music.
Трогает за душу супер супер супер
I'd completely forgot about it till a few years back when I heard it as background music on a TV show, immediately went on RUclips to find it and listened to it constantly for days. Massively underrated song
Who agrees the 80s were the best for music ?
I love the 80s and 90s! My stepson just moved to Japan so his mother and I came back to this song for some nostalgia. Cheers!
No contest
For now yes, maybe next years Will be Better then now
Me!!
Probably true.
One of the best songs of a decade full of legendary hits.
This song and this group are not well-known in Japan for some reason, but I'm a big fan. No matter when you listen to it, it's fresh no matter how many times you listen!
80s synth music is immortal forever.
Greetings from Big in Japan.🇯🇵
They lied to us!
Moshi Moshi : )
@@GilesMcRiker how 🤔 🤔❓
Oh! We all thought that they were 'Big in Japan'! 😂
They’re honestly not that well known in America either. I’m a child of the 80’s and first heard this a few years ago
I'm 46 years old and I still listen to this song. This song will be legendary forever❤❤❤❤❤
How does this song feel so pure and forlorn
Because good taste never gets old❤
50 and remember it like it was only released yesterday
Im 45 from Brazil!
I’m 59 and still listen to it
80s music was amazing
Thank you Alphaville for this masterpiece !!
YA.❤🎉😂
Tienes razón
80s music was rich, opulent, diverse, deep, stunningly creative, melodic, full of rhythm and.... fun!
And mysterious. And magical. And romantic. And dark.
This lyrics are incredibly PERFECT, still today.
The 80s are the biggest treasure of the electronic music. The fundamentals of the genre.
@Luiz Claudio Lemos Yes, IMHO every person has more or less delusions of being famous and successful somewhere out of the real life. The lyrics, the synths, everything of this song is beyond time. It will ever be actual. Adding the stunning voice and brutal beauty of Marian makes it one of a kind.
Так и есть) Привет из России)
The 80s was perfect. Musicians were able to express themselves through the music. I would never trade growing up in the 80s for anything.
Can you tell one nice memory? I wanna know what it was like
Not to mention you could express fascination and interest in other countries without someone digging through everything to find reasons to get offended.
This is a truly masterpiece.
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I was 24 & now 64 yrs young and I still enjoy this song! Timeless 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Amazing 40 yrs u have been listening to this masterpiece. I tip my hat to u.
80s. The last decade where music wasn’t afraid of pure melody and emotion.
You mean the last decade where YOU could legally smile at a somebody under 20 😂
@@nelus7276 Still can bro, you'll just get locked up for it! lol
But had to grow up in the 80s to really 'get' it.
I appreciate all eras and genres, but the 80s is so varied. Bands were not afraid to mess with keys and chords as cookee says. ;-)
Thompson Twins, DrDr!
I agree 100%. I grew up in the 80's and the music had great melodies. I try to incorporate those 80s style melodies into my music, Dream Factory.
And have some sort of story!!!
@@braydonwen3852 No I don’t. The same thing applies in many other genres. I’m old enough to have lived through it.
What can I say about Alphaville? Really love their sound got into their music whilst travelling around the world living out of a suitcase...and they still stimulate my senses 35 years later
Sandy, it's international music, pride is global
It’s 2024 and I’m still listening to this banger ️. no matter how old it gets, this song will always be legendary.
424k. Hello from Las Vegas !
Feb 2024
Hello from Russia
Hello from Cape Town 🎉
Escutando agora nesse momento Brasil
This song playing loud in the car late at night just as you enter the empty highway instantly puts you into a magical world.
Me pasa lo mismo.
Same experience here with this song but in Mexico's City "Perifěrico"... Whatta days!
Same here but in India, on the way to Himachal pradesh
Россия. Санкт-Петербург. Alphaville!!! Слушали Вас до поздней ночи, сегодня - утром. Зарядите нас огнём😂🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
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Когда тебя будет ждать твой муж, будет оке :D
Сандра интереснее исполнила эту песню !!!
Tenho dependência russa.
Meu sobrenome é mansoreitch
Alphaville,Erasure,Pet Shop Boys,Depeche Mode,OMD,Eurythmics...Great Synthpop Groups 80's ! Greets From Poland ;-)
Yes, they are❤❤❤
the era of plastic
@@marvinsilverman4394 It really was! In high school, I had a synthpop band with some friends. I wrote a song about a New Wave girl called "(She's Living A) Plastic Life" and within a couple years, it had gotten lots of airplay on the the local college radio station. 30 years later, when we started Heroineburgh, I rewrote the lyrics, and it became our theme song, "(She's Living In) Heroineburgh". Every episode of ours is named after a song or artist from the 80s. So, yes, it was quite an inspirational 'era of plastic' (and I would add many more groups to the list, such as Gary Numan, Yaz, Howard Jones, Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Front 242).
If you're still here after 40 years you're a legend
Yes. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
but bro im only 25
😮😅😮😅
Always here bro
I am a legend, thanks to my dad for making me listen to this marvel when I was still a child, I became addicted
Best songs are from 80's, no question about it.
I agree
@@Amzeeel❤
I agree with you on 1980-'85. There was a big drop-off starting in 1986. Very little in the late '80s. The peak years were 1982-'85.
Masterpiece!
Winter's cityside, crystal bits of snowflakes
All around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions that I'd ever find
A glimpse of summer's heatwaves in your eyes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history, I see
Here's my comeback on the road again
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight
Big in Japan, be tight
Big in Japan, where the Eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan, alright
Pay, then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan
Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes
Of strange illuminated mannequins
Shall I stay here at the zoo
Or shall I go and change my point of view
For other ugly scenes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history, I see
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight
Big in Japan, be tight
Big in Japan, ooh, the Eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan, alright
Pay, then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight
Big in Japan, be tight
Big in Japan, ooh, the Eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan, alright
Pay, then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight
Big in Japan, be tight
Big in Japan, ooh, the Eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan, alright
Pay, then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan
Thank You! ❤
🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
@@michaelkili2886❤
Thanks
forever Alphaville!
I don't know how this band come to the idea of this song. 👏👏👏
I lived and studied in the city where this band comes from...the small, beautiful and clean city of Münster.💚
Six years in Münster and Münster is my home town in Germany.
Up to this day 10.06.2023, I am still playing this song loud and in a row in my Studio.
The sound is so great and timeless, it makes you just wanna dance.
The voice from Marian is crystal clear and energetic.
I mastered the lyrics and any day I am in Japan.
I will go to a park full of people, stand in the middle and will sing this song acapella as loud as possible.
I will be 'Big In Japan'😎
It's about his sordid life near the zoo.. drugs etcetera.. it's great
This is a rare time (in my opinion) where the music video goes perfectly with the song
I wanna deplore any music critics, reporters all of whom dared to call Alphaville the 1 hit wonder band, this song was literally extraordinary, should have been promoted much harder than only Forever Young
I can't even describe how lucky I feel to have been a teenager in the 80s
Same here
as a current teenager, i am embarrassingly jealous!
@@meangothlesbian At least you have excellent taste! :)
@@mgparis aww thank you! so nice to get a reply !!
I say the same thing all the time. So glad that I grew up in the 70's and 80's. Those were the best decades ever!!!!!!!!! The last truly great decade for music. So diverse and original.
52 yr old and still listening to this wonderful song - May 2024
Me too. I feel like this song should have been sampled more
❤❤🎼🎼
71 and still kicking to this great track, gotta love the digital overlay.
This song should will be considered one of the best song of the history's new wave, isn't?
Yes,definitely😄
16 years old, here listening to this classic oldie because today‘s music is just not the same as it was back then.
ayyy! 16 year old here as well. This is my favorite song.
@@samuelgirven3488 21 yo, heard this song on my ride home with a taxi, instantly saved it lol
23 yrs old. 90 percent of tracks from my playlist are 80s hits. 80's earth is Heaven.
This slowed-down version is much better than the original. And the music video, it's just brilliant. Such powerful imagery.
It was directed by Dieter Meier of Yello.
この曲歌ってて本当に楽しいわ
I absolutely love 80s music and I don’t understand how this song got passed me. It’s so good. I miss the good ol days.
Winter's cityside
Crystal bits of snowflakes
All around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions
That I'd ever find a glimpse
Of summer's heatwaves in your eyes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history, I see
Here's my comeback on the road again
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight
Big in Japan, be tight
Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan, alright
Pay, then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan
Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes
Of strange illuminated mannequins
Shall I stay here at the zoo
Or should I go and change my point of view
For other ugly scenes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history, I see
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight
Big in Japan, be tight
Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan, alright
Pay, then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan
Tonight
Big in Japan, be tight
Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan, alright
Pay, then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan, tonight
Big in Japan, be tight
Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan, alright
Pay, then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan
Tonight
Big in Japan, be tight
Big in Japan, ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan, alright
Pay, then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh, when you're big in Japan...
Great
Thank you dude :)
Pppoopoo
Thanks lyrics guy, you are good guy
(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ❤️
I love you 80's 90's music...
Meee too I miss you 80 s 90 years
@@barscskn9150 i miss You too! I am coming from Finland.
One of my favorite songs of the 1980s and one of the songs which defined in the era for me
German artists brought out some killer hits that era.
oh yeah, brilliant tunes
German efficiency........didnt even know they were German !!!!
Yea, UFO/MSG, Scorpions, Falco, Goombay Dance Band (maybe not the last one).
@@roylennie8117 😂😂haha Goombay dance band
Don't forget Nena also Die toten hosen 😁
@@sushigirl1069 Can't remember the last band, don't think they had a hit here did they? How about The Rattles?
I dunno why but I love this version of the song better than any other version. I just love how it sounds a little bit deeper and slower, it's amazing
Because it has been slowed down a bit
Ghoulin_ Its actually the original. What you talking about is the album version.
I agree, I like this slower version better ...
Ane Brun tho.... nothing beats her version
daniel cross was the original slowed down tho? I dont know if its because ive heard the other version so much, but this one just seems like hes singing so slower and im not sure if he sang it this slow or they slowed the track down?
This song is aging very well. Infact it has become almost seminal. It oozes pure 80s out of every pore. Such an underrated masterpiece. Bravo.
Why underrated? Don't agree
Alphaville :
- is from 🇩🇪
- they sing in 🏴 language
- they sing about 🇯🇵
Alphaville is THE WORLDWIDE BAND 👍
👍
The song is not about Japanat all but the idiom includes it. 😊
@@vessto yeah i know actually,but you get it what i tried to say
@@JJK-ij3nt Yes, of course. 🙂
@@vessto 👍
You have to be big in Japan to know
Incredible tune. Still going strong. Born in the 90's but the 80's was where it was at.
87 same
Çocukluğumun parçaları.Ben 47 oldum halâ en gözde parçalardan biri
@@pasokim im 86. hope life is treating u well
This song has been huge in Greece literally ever since it came out. I was 5 or 6. And I've been dancing and singing to it all my life since then. To me it's perfection, it's what music should be like, I can't imagine anyone not liking it.
Mee to bro ,my dad's fav song . He used to play it in the car when i was 6 yr old . Now I'm 16 and I'm addicted to it 🥰
@@the_bimmer_boy6957 lol I'm 44, I've been listening to it for 40 years 😂
@@theodora_pilates yeah this song has a great vibe 🥰
TOTALMENTE DE ACUERDO ES MARAVILLOSA!!👍
I'm applying to the Japanese Studies & History course at Sheffield University this year. This'll be the track I'll listen to on the plane flight come my year abroad.
Except that the song has nothing to do with Japan...
@@Bubbles-od2tv what’s the title of the song?
@@verangium It's a metaphor ... It was a sarcastic saying in the music industry back then, that even if you're not big in your country, you can just say in you're big in Japan, and no one in your country would know.
@@Bubbles-od2tv thats great but whats the title of the song again?
Still a masterpiece in October 2024
Noviembre 9th. ❤
Nov.10
Noviembre 25🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
11 декабря 2024❤
people say that pop music cant be timeless but I beg to differ. Superb tune and the lyrics behind it have a poetic message too.
idk i like how pop get dated like u listen to synth pop and u can tell its from the 80s but in a good way
From 1984 to 2024. 40 years 👏👏👏
I was just 7 Years old when that Song came out!
Too bad it went by in a flash 😢
Yup 1984 Nairobi dancing on a Saturday morning
As one day 😢🎉❤
One of the greatest masterpieces in pop music history.
80s' are truly the age of amazing, breathtaking vocalists/frontmans
i love alphaville like forever young & big in japan.
The sound of the 80's is unbeatable! Current music is flat, dull, the copy of something else. Simply daunting...
+Mara Iapoce I blame radio and tv stations for that, things have become sanitized, computer playlists, no DJs anymore, etc. No room for new music to come in. DJs used to go to clubs and concerts and brought the new music they liked back to the airwaves during their shows. I remember one DJ in Ottawa who decided one night to listen to the new Jethro Tull album, so he played the whole thing on air from start to finish. Others I saw at dance clubs when small unknown bands were visiting from other cities. Meanwhile Adam Curry and others on MTV used to bring in new bands, played music videos... It's sad how much things have changed.
+Mara Iapoce le wrong generation
Music today is about the artist NOT the music
Probably some of them are unpresentable, but Hammerfall, Nightwish, Ensiferum, Turisas, Equilibrium, Two Steps From Hell, Future World Music beat 80's IMO.
Mara Iapoce your right..
im on that 80's era.
I will never get tired of listening to this musical masterpiece.
Are you sure, sucker?
same dude
@@thegame6141 funny comment. i'm guessing you're trolling, and that's a bit sad ngl :D
@@Filloh hi, i'm guessing you have nothing to do at home, so get a job!
it's no Safety Dance, but still a classic.
Winter's cityside
Crystal bits of snowflakes
All around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions
That I'd ever find a glimpse
Of summer's heatwaves in your eyes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history, I see
Here's my comeback on the road again
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Chorus:
Aah when you're big in Japan-tonight...
Big in Japan-be-tight...
Big in Japan...ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan-alright
Pay! - Then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh when you're big in Japan
Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes
Of strange illuminated mannequins
Shall I stay here at the zoo
Or should I go and change my point of view
For other ugly scenes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history I see
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Chorus (2x)
Oh when you're big in Japan
Chorus (2x)
Oh when you're big in Japan
Fantastic...thanks for printing the lyrics but what are they about???
SONIC FOXX MUSIC they are about buying Heroin at the Zoo - a big train Station in Berlin
Hubert Prętkiewic
@@P1llerChiller Unfortunately Bahnhof Zoo keeps his reputation....
Fantastic: we got a copy paster here
I was a teenager when I first heard this master piece ! Like the whole world, I instantly fell in love with this song ! Funny that now in September, 2024 I like it EVEN more this song ! Amazing energy ! THe beat and his voice anre so powerful ! Brilliant !
this is the second song I did sing to on a disco floor in my life..how can I possibly forget about that? thanks Alphaville..love from Italy
I've been had this song on repeat without stopping and I'll never get tired of it
Same here. And same about SLAM.
since 1984
Me too and for decades now
@@vessto timeless xx
Recommend DURAN DURAN -- Come undone ..and Ordinary world ...
One of the most underrated bands of all time.
Yeah They Need To Remastard This Songs
So true!!!
@@GameBoyyearsago were remastered in 2019 already
Duran Duran
@@seesikopter Need Remastard Again
Woke up this morning, with this song on repeat in my head, awesome 👌 😊
IM OUT IN TOKYO BECAUSE IM IN BIG IN JAPAN
IYKYK
Hell yeah
This song is about a heroin-addicted couple at Berlin Zoo-Station dreaming about what life could be - far far away - without their addicition.
Thats actually what "Big in Japan" originally meant (its the name of a british band): When you are a loser or an outcast you might be able to have a good life in a place far away.
This song makes me feel strongly hurt for the many addicted people all over the world who want to have a decent life but just can't break free :'(
Great song and rightfully an 80's classic.
Best comment , thanks
don't do drugs then, it is easy
Thanks
You will make it! I wish you that!
Thanks, first time I know this, best comment !
This is the best song in the whole world. I can play it on loop for the rest of my life and I would be the happiest person ever.
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens!!!!!
This black Detroit 60's chick loved this video and song. Thanks internet 😊
The first three seconds of this song are better than any of the garbage out today.
Perfectly said.
Agree it really sets a tone/mood...love music that can provoke this. That is the real mccoy. WHat id give to be a teenager again
Wait I am!! But theres this long haired old guy looking back in the mirror hanging on lol
You are pretty did im pretty to you ❤❤❤❤❤❤ i Like woman ass and legs .
make that 15 seconds and you've got a deal
Ikrrrr
Don't let this classic die!
Thanks guys of Alphaville for the beautiful moments we could enjoy listening to your music ❤
I am bloody 60 and this song makes me feel like I am 20!!! The knees may be cracking but the heart beat still can follow😂
I'm 53, 👌👍you speak for me too!
😂😂😂😮❤
I am also
😮
I'm an 80s guy and I never heard this song until today. This beat is incredible!
It was aired on mtv pretty hard for a short period around 1984, never to be seen/heard from again for decades it seems. I do vaguely remember it, but I was a video junkie back then,
Not a big hit in the US unfortunately, but in south America this was played alot in bars. At least, according to my Peruvian dad.
I grew up with that song, Alphaville, The Cure and Bowie made me what i am. Music can heal so many things..
+Laumerta I'm too old to make any decision, but yeah, living on Hawaii, knowing Japanese, I still like Alphaville and Bowie too...
nice words
Seeing this comment now that Bowie is dead makes me cry.
Crying is gift..
+Laumerta. same here - so many memories!
Still one of the best songs ever. I've listened to it most days since it came out. Which means I have listened to it 10,000+ times. Thanks for the enjoyment, Alphavile.
80's music is something special!
80-90s music had a different vibe ❤
Correct!❤
70’s & 80’s did 90’s were the beginning of the end
A happy vibe. Society was generally happier in the 80s
@@mohamedalkaboomI don’t think so
The 80s was a vibe, something about the 80s sound of snare never gets old
This song came back to me as i woke up yesterday, buried somewhere in my head all these years later. Watched the movie The Burbs a few days ago. I was very much child of the 80s.
I've always loved this song and have only just looked it up after all this time...I was born in the 60's ...so yes..the 80's was my era for music...great stuff !!! 😅💕
Almost 40 years passed...this legendary song...will be forever one of my favorite
Scandalously long ago for a modern song. A re release of the original with updated video might trick the kids it's brand new.
@@Cloxxkithere kinda is but not in the way kids would listen to it
one of the best intros in all music history....
My first posting when i served in the British Army was Herford, where Marian hails from. Best Germany posting ever.
Кто эту легендарную вещь слушает в 2024 году? ❤😍
Слушаю! 💘
Я я я🎉
Eu aqui no Brasil!
Даже если человек не в курсе легендарности группы и песни, услышав оценит её👍
Я...
One of my all time favourites, and I'm a 80's metal head, remember this song like it was yesterday
Were did the time go
This is the most classic disco song! It's fantastic!
Disco? Wtf
Thank the good lord for the 1980’s. An era to always aim for. This will never change