I totally understand why Black people and people of colour have never seen most of the John Hughes movies.... They were awfully..... monochromatic... The only time I ever remember seeing non white people was the dance scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as well was the guys who worked at the parking garage. Oh, and the scene in 16 Candles when Farmer Ted and his friends knock over the tower of beer cans... But yeah, he wasn't exactly diverse in his casting or target audience.
@@SuperDaveSo I must be one of the exceptions because I'm black and loved all those movies. Will turn them on today and watch plus sing along to the soundtracks. 🤷
@James-sc6vx in my scope of experience, you definitely are... and to have such a strong connection to them too. Most of my black friends either never seen any of them or just seen maybe 1 or 2 and just thought they were alright.
I'm only a few minutes in, but I really hope he makes the connection to The breakfast club. If he doesn't I'm shocked but then again learn something new everyday...
If you weren’t there back in the day you have no idea just what iconic nostalgia this song holds for a whole generation as soon as it starts. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks, the rich spoiled girl, the school cliques keeping them in their lanes but that one day in detention, just that one moment in time of a genuine connection …that’s a lot of what this song is about.
original MTV video was released LONG BEFORE put in movie soundtrack.... Was 'recut' to show movie clips, which were just "photoshopped" & dubbed-in over original video of singer Jim Kerr looking at monitors showing band playing solos & that toys are piling up in room as the song goes on... *IS **_Walk on By or Call my Name_** about: WILL YOU ACKNOWLEDGE ME?, OR: **_ARE YOU SANE ENOUGH TO RECOGNIZE ME?_*
The song isn’t really about playing yourself. It’s more about people who don’t really belong together sharing a moment in time and going their separate ways.
Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds, is Scots, and English is his first language. He was married for several years to Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of the Pretenders. This song was the title track for the movie The Breakfast Club.
There is English, there is Scottish English, then there is Glaswegian which is a whole other animal. Even other Scots have problems understanding someone from Glasgow.
@hectorsmommy1717 I'm glaswegian and I agree as there's times I struggle to understand 😂glad to say I don't have the typical neddish glaswegian twang.😊
@@justm9892When I was a child (in England), one of my favourite shows was Rab C. Nesbitt. I couldn't understand a word, but I thought that was the joke. I thought he was talking gibberish and everyone was just going along with it to not make him angry. 😅
Grew up in the 80's, metalhead. However, really appreciated this style of music. To this day, I crank it when this comes on the radio. I would argue this might be the most iconic song that represents those 80's of all time.
This song is definitely THE SONG of the eightees. Saw them last april in concert. It was fantastic ❤. Next one Belfast child, Alive and kicking, Waterfront
The song will make MUCH more sense to you if you watch The Breakfast Club. All these kids from different walks of life in detention as you said. They were never friends and won't be friends afterward, but they know everything about each other now thanks to events in that detention. People meet, minds touch, and then go their separate ways in a matter of hours all the time. That's the essence of this song.
This was known as "New Wave" music, before it progressed into "Post Modern" music. The lead singer is James Kerr, born in Glasgow, Scotland (1959). Another song Simple Minds did, that I always enjoyed is ""Alive and Kicking", I love the short soft single piano note riff. The song just suddenly mellows into the twice played riff, and then kicks back in. Beautifully done. I do miss the 1980's music, probably because it had a lot of the 1960's music elements.
Scottish. Every Gen Xer knows this song by heart and LOVES IT. Gotta watch the movie. My 21 year old very hip 😅 son watched it with me and was, for once, speechless.
Instead of thinking of it as a break-up song, try this, BP - think about the day you graduated high school and said goodbye to your close circle of friends as you parted ways and went out into the world.... "don't you guys forget about me.... where ever you go, whatever you do, don't you forget about me!" If you go that route it takes a more sentimental feel...
The actors were known as The Brat Pack at the time and they made a lot of movies together mostly directed by John hughes. This song was for The Breakfast Club about five troubled high schoolers forced into detention over the weekend. The circumstances allowed them to bond in a way they never foresaw, hence the Simple Minds song echoes their question about whether they would remain friends afterwards. Simple Minds big sound paired really well with the sentiment of the story which is basically "if I show you who I really am would you still like me?"
Simple Minds were a great Scottish band of mainly the 1980s. Being Scottish myself, loved this band! and had a lot of their music. The singer, Jim Kerr, is Scottish and other favourite songs from them - 'Waterfront', 'Alive and Kicking', and 'Promised You A Miracle'. Certainly brings back lots of memories hearing this song again which has always been a favourite! I remember them performing at Live Aid in front of 100000 people in the John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia USA on the 13th July, 1985.
Thank you for the trivia Annie from SCOTLAND 🥳🥳😜😜 I remember 40 years ago when nobody was paying so much attention in your accent like now. The English is my second language now, 40 years ago I didn’t know any words. ❤❤❤❤❤and ☮️☮️ ☮️
Music reminds us we're getting old. Us Millennials are getting that now every time we go back to listen to early-to-mid 2000s rock. The post-grunge style riffs and angsty lyrics just remind us how long ago our childhoods are.
Breakfast Club was a little too teen for me at the time [I was in my 20's back then] but it stands up today as a great "teen angst" movie. And this song is clearly it's lead and also holds up still today on it's own. When your kid is pre-teen definitely watch it to get prepared! LOL
They are Scottish, so you are hearing a strong accent when he sings. The Breakfast Club is an iconic 80's movie and this is the most iconic song from it.
The next song to listen to is "Alive and Kicking". That was my anthem, as I felt like life was kicking my assets as a teen. And that was my anthom that I would listen to on my cassette walkman player as I went to high school in the 80s.
Am I the only one who has to watch the movie that the song is in? In the last week I've watched All About Eve (Bette Davis Eyes), Flashdance (what a feeling), Dirty Dancing and I guess the next is Breakfast Club!
Sounds like next week should involve the movie Hellraiser and the title track with the same name by an Ozzy/Motorhead collaboration! 🔊🔊 Volume on high!
Glasgow, United Kingdom Simple Minds is a Scottish rock band. They formed in Glasgow in 1977 and became the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s.
Also from what I read of interviews at the time, the band hated this track - mostly because they didn’t write it and it became such a massive hit and I think that irritated them that their biggest hit wasn’t their own after they had worked for so many years and made so many great tunes of their own.
Ha! Jim Kerr's voice is mesmerizing in some songs, like in Hypnotised, and powerful in others, like in Alive and Kicking (which should be the next one to react).
One of my graduation songs. The song is about the people who were important in one part of your life that go a different path as you enter a different phase of your life and our hope that they don't forget us or what they meant to us. For example moving on from highschool to adulthood: your first roommates: your single friends getting married: retiring from your job......
As teenagers, my sister and I watched The Breakfast Club so many times, we could practically recite the whole script. 😆 Stereotypes haven't really changed, so the movie still holds up all these years later. This song was really perfect for that soundtrack.
Theme song of a whole generation. Simultaneous hope and melancholy. It’s a banger. I think the word you were looking for was anticipate or predict. :) Here for you BPeg.
@@tweettweet2457 “I expected a little bit more from a varsity letterman”. Damn Vernon! Who did you associate with? I’m female but was a cross between Allison and BENDERRRR! 🤘🏼
This is from the 1985 movie "The Breakfast Club". You are correct, BP, the five are forced into detention on a Saturday morning. They spend the day learning about each other...their life experiences and form a bond against the teacher monitoring detention despite being from different backgrounds. The song lyrics make more sense after you see the movie. "Would you recognize me? Call my name or walk on by?" In other words, back at school on Monday will you acknowledge me? Or will you ignore me like you did before our Saturday detention?
***REVENGE OF THE NERDS*** one of the biggest movie franchises of the 80s and made it OK to be a nerd, dork, geek, etc. WATCH IT WATCH IT!!! (It was not ok...it was rough if you were smart or into sci fi or tech or books at all. Life was very different...now the "nerdy look" is "cool".
WHAAAAT WHAT!!!!! Dude, when this fella drops the LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LAHHH LAAHHHHH it gives my goosebumps every single time, makes me feel Alive and Kicking if you will. See what I did there. No lies, felt my second boob whilst this tune played softly in the back of a low lit room.
I SAW WHAT YOU DID 👀🤘🏽 Hell yeah!!!! Two songs that are forever embedded in my SOUL from my high school days. When I hear the HEY HEY HEY HEY I start singing this out loud every time ❤
Simple Minds are one of the best live bands still touring today . Recently just finished their European tour and saw them in Edinburgh superb. Jim Kerr is the singer his first language is English the band are from Scotland. The movie is Breakfast Club .
Simple Minds from SCOTLAND mate. So many great songs from them. Please react to Promise You a Miracle, Belfast Child and Someone, Somewhere in Summer time. They were famous before this 1985 film The Breakfast Club.
The Breakfast Club is a great movie about kids in detention at school. They are all from completely different backgrounds, but somehow end up relating. This is the outro on the movie soundtrack.
As a European, I really don't get how you view love and relationships. He is not excusing himself, he has realised (as she has), that their relationship is over. He is walking away too. Without making a fuss about it. When he leaves, he is referring to the good times. "Remember me, love - because I will remember you". He doesn´t want to go back, he knows it is over. He is basically singing about the memories and what the memories will become in the future. Both had a good time together, but now it is over.
Simple minds are cool as hell 😁 Early stuff includes I Travel Love song Promised you a miracle All the things she said They have a ton of great tracks. I believe the song was written for the film and it references this in the lyrics Great band 😊
To appreciate the song you have to watch the 80's movie the Breakfast Club. I mean, they just go together. The Breakfast Club is, by far, considered the number one 80's teen movie. This song is played in the closing sequence of the movie and it just fits the premise of the story. A group of kids in Saturday detention who come from different cliques who start off rocky but then they come to realize they are more alike than different. And they share the same insecurities, fears, and disappointments. The jock, the geek, the freak, the princess, and the rebel.
Various bands were asked to record this song but turned it down thinking it wouldn't be popular. Simple Minds made the right choice in recording this iconic song.
@@Cchan53 here I googled it for you. Here’s what is says if you google Chrissie Hynde marriage “She married Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band Simple Minds, in 1984. Together they had a daughter, Yasmin, in 1985.” FYI, people can be from different countries and marry each other.
Classic 🙌 1980s song 🎵. 1 moment from a few years ago. Molly Ringwald, star 🌟 of The Breakfast Club, introduced Simple Minds at a Billboard concert and walked 🚶♂️ to the crowd. She stood near Taylor Swift. The TV 📺 in the video 📹 shows a clip of The Breakfast Club. Suggested video 📹: Simple Minds perform Water 💧 Front.
The first bars of this one always bring The Breakfast Club to mind - it is that iconic to the movie. If you have never watched it, it is worth the watch.
Every time I hear this song I immediately feel like I'm 14 again and have to turn the radio up loud. A brilliant song for a brilliant film. A film that was unique in that an adult film director simply understood the problems of teenagers completely. THE BREAKFAST CLUB and "Don't You" will always be a part of my memory of my youth.
Hey, Robert! The Simple Minds are big ones! Almost like U2. I like the very old songs from the 80`ies. This song "Don`t you...." is quite commercial. But there are many very interesting, and sometimes, a little bit weird songs. BUT GOOD!!! 😎
He is Scottish and the Breakfast Club is an Iconic movie from the 80's a must watch
I totally understand why Black people and people of colour have never seen most of the John Hughes movies.... They were awfully..... monochromatic... The only time I ever remember seeing non white people was the dance scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as well was the guys who worked at the parking garage. Oh, and the scene in 16 Candles when Farmer Ted and his friends knock over the tower of beer cans... But yeah, he wasn't exactly diverse in his casting or target audience.
I graduated in 86, and this movie brings me back to that time every time I see it.
@@UriahjwI graduated in 88. This song defined my high school years. Takes me back too ❤
@@SuperDaveSo I must be one of the exceptions because I'm black and loved all those movies. Will turn them on today and watch plus sing along to the soundtracks. 🤷
@James-sc6vx in my scope of experience, you definitely are... and to have such a strong connection to them too. Most of my black friends either never seen any of them or just seen maybe 1 or 2 and just thought they were alright.
This is one of the most iconic movie songs ever . It’s immediately identifiable as the breakfast club
Not so immediate for me...🤣Brain fog, I knew I knew it but until I saw the film clip...Ahhh... OMG "The Breakfast Club"!!!
Never forget the first time I saw that movie
Such a timeless and relatable movie.
I'm only a few minutes in, but I really hope he makes the connection to The breakfast club. If he doesn't I'm shocked but then again learn something new everyday...
Thank you!!!!
If you weren’t there back in the day you have no idea just what iconic nostalgia this song holds for a whole generation as soon as it starts. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks, the rich spoiled girl, the school cliques keeping them in their lanes but that one day in detention, just that one moment in time of a genuine connection …that’s a lot of what this song is about.
What a beautifyl synopsis!
Simple Minds "ALIVE AND KICKING". 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Fire is right on!
Great song
"Belfast Child", "Sanctify Yourself", "Waterfront", "Ghost Dancing", "Promised you a Miracle" as well, these guys had a lot of hits.
Best song they did in my own person opinion. And the album....incredible
😊 Excellent song ! A "crank up the volume" song !😊
Watching The Breakfast Club will enrich your life. Its a timeless classic.
original MTV video was released LONG BEFORE put in movie soundtrack.... Was 'recut' to show movie clips, which were just "photoshopped" & dubbed-in over original video of singer Jim Kerr looking at monitors showing band playing solos & that toys are piling up in room as the song goes on... *IS **_Walk on By or Call my Name_** about: WILL YOU ACKNOWLEDGE ME?, OR: **_ARE YOU SANE ENOUGH TO RECOGNIZE ME?_*
My favorite 80’s movie
@@Emilie-one Right up there with Goonies for me
Spot on!...Never will grow old.
Is this the movie with Charlie Sheen ?
So many good Simple Minds songs. Alive and Kicking is an absolute must!
100%
Waterfront, Book of Brilliant Things, Glitterball
@@bruceferguson1544 All the things she said
The song isn’t really about playing yourself. It’s more about people who don’t really belong together sharing a moment in time and going their separate ways.
Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds, is Scots, and English is his first language. He was married for several years to Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of the Pretenders. This song was the title track for the movie The Breakfast Club.
I’d say English is his first language but a Glaswegian dialect which to the untrained ear, could be anything from Nordic to Swahili.
There is English, there is Scottish English, then there is Glaswegian which is a whole other animal. Even other Scots have problems understanding someone from Glasgow.
@hectorsmommy1717 I'm glaswegian and I agree as there's times I struggle to understand 😂glad to say I don't have the typical neddish glaswegian twang.😊
@@justm9892When I was a child (in England), one of my favourite shows was Rab C. Nesbitt. I couldn't understand a word, but I thought that was the joke. I thought he was talking gibberish and everyone was just going along with it to not make him angry. 😅
My friend was the one who took the pretenders to get Crissy Hynde out of jail in Memphis
The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, all those movies and music from that era, so iconic. 💛🎶
Iconic. Although I loved all of them except Pretty in Pink - I wanted an alternate ending with Ducky! Pretty in Pink has one of the BEST soundtracks.
The "Brat Pack" era.
🎼🎶🎤🦾
Grew up in the 80's, metalhead. However, really appreciated this style of music. To this day, I crank it when this comes on the radio. I would argue this might be the most iconic song that represents those 80's of all time.
Same way as well. Grew up in th 80s. Rocker/Metal but I appreciated most anything.
Iconic song from the mid-80s played in a classic movie Breakfast Club.
This song is definitely THE SONG of the eightees. Saw them last april in concert. It was fantastic ❤. Next one Belfast child, Alive and kicking, Waterfront
Soundtrack to one of my favorite movies
Legendary British band another song by them Alive & Kicking 👌
'It sounds like English is his second language'. As a half Scot/half English, that absolutely cracked me up 🤣
It'd be fun to see him listening to someone speaking with a thick Glaswegian accent.
@@Xiroi87 is it too early for Rab? 🤣
It cracked me up too, even as a Swede! 🤣
@@jokervienna6433 Same here!
Yeah of course it isn't as he's Scottish...
Alive and Kicking.
Love that song over this. Total Ear Candy. 👌🏼👌🏼
This is an anthem of the 80s....
* F I S T P U M P * :) ~Gen X
The song will make MUCH more sense to you if you watch The Breakfast Club. All these kids from different walks of life in detention as you said. They were never friends and won't be friends afterward, but they know everything about each other now thanks to events in that detention. People meet, minds touch, and then go their separate ways in a matter of hours all the time. That's the essence of this song.
This was known as "New Wave" music, before it progressed into "Post Modern" music.
The lead singer is James Kerr, born in Glasgow, Scotland (1959).
Another song Simple Minds did, that I always enjoyed is ""Alive and Kicking", I love the short soft single piano note riff.
The song just suddenly mellows into the twice played riff, and then kicks back in.
Beautifully done.
I do miss the 1980's music, probably because it had a lot of the 1960's music elements.
This period of great British bands had some great ,great music...
Iconic❤️🔥✊️
So right..Hit after Hit.
The song brings me back to high school, my first Love and teenage angst.
Scottish. Every Gen Xer knows this song by heart and LOVES IT. Gotta watch the movie. My 21 year old very hip 😅 son watched it with me and was, for once, speechless.
Instead of thinking of it as a break-up song, try this, BP - think about the day you graduated high school and said goodbye to your close circle of friends as you parted ways and went out into the world.... "don't you guys forget about me.... where ever you go, whatever you do, don't you forget about me!" If you go that route it takes a more sentimental feel...
FACTS! it was my senior class song. we did the cap toss to this. phenomenal. a moment never to be forgotten.
Has always been one of my favorite songs
The actors were known as The Brat Pack at the time and they made a lot of movies together mostly directed by John hughes. This song was for The Breakfast Club about five troubled high schoolers forced into detention over the weekend. The circumstances allowed them to bond in a way they never foresaw, hence the Simple Minds song echoes their question about whether they would remain friends afterwards. Simple Minds big sound paired really well with the sentiment of the story which is basically "if I show you who I really am would you still like me?"
One of my 80's loves along with Crowded House- Don't Dream It's Over.
Simple Minds were a great Scottish band of mainly the 1980s. Being Scottish myself, loved this band! and had a lot of their music. The singer, Jim Kerr, is Scottish and other favourite songs from them - 'Waterfront', 'Alive and Kicking', and 'Promised You A Miracle'. Certainly brings back lots of memories hearing this song again which has always been a favourite! I remember them performing at Live Aid in front of 100000 people in the John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia USA on the 13th July, 1985.
Dude.... Were... Still are, just finished a massive sellout global tour, still making albums and killing it live
@@PaulForeman-indievisuals That's good to hear, didn't know that, thanks for telling me! 😊😊
I heard their hit songs growing up, then I got into their music a little deeper. Then I heard Street Fighting Years and Belfast Child. Damn.
@@annemaclean6634 ruclips.net/video/c-9IiY9cD-w/видео.htmlsi=uq5RRJ4yXiLMSDz9
Thank you for the trivia Annie from SCOTLAND 🥳🥳😜😜
I remember 40 years ago when nobody was paying so much attention in your accent like now. The English is my second language now, 40 years ago I didn’t know any words.
❤❤❤❤❤and ☮️☮️ ☮️
Big 80s hit and anthem for a lot of us.
Was 15 when this came out…loved it. Just can’t believe it was so long ago 😳
Music reminds us we're getting old. Us Millennials are getting that now every time we go back to listen to early-to-mid 2000s rock. The post-grunge style riffs and angsty lyrics just remind us how long ago our childhoods are.
One of the great 80s song of the decade. Takes me back home.
Breakfast Club was a little too teen for me at the time [I was in my 20's back then] but it stands up today as a great "teen angst" movie. And this song is clearly it's lead and also holds up still today on it's own. When your kid is pre-teen definitely watch it to get prepared! LOL
Breakfast Club. Such an iconic song. And oh so 80s.
They are Scottish, so you are hearing a strong accent when he sings. The Breakfast Club is an iconic 80's movie and this is the most iconic song from it.
Great movie, this soundtrack was such a hit back then and I still love this song
The next song to listen to is "Alive and Kicking". That was my anthem, as I felt like life was kicking my assets as a teen. And that was my anthom that I would listen to on my cassette walkman player as I went to high school in the 80s.
I’m 57 and I’m down for that song anytime anywhere
This is one of my absolute favorite songs from the 80s. The best musicians and songs simply come from the UK.
Am I the only one who has to watch the movie that the song is in? In the last week I've watched All About Eve (Bette Davis Eyes), Flashdance (what a feeling), Dirty Dancing and I guess the next is Breakfast Club!
I hope you watched it! YOU MISSED OUT!!!! It's for teens but it it's funny and relatable to Gen X especially and it has a message. :)
Sounds like next week should involve the movie Hellraiser and the title track with the same name by an Ozzy/Motorhead collaboration! 🔊🔊 Volume on high!
This song was written by English musician Keith Forsey who also co-wrote Flashdance (what a feeling).
You missed foot loose then
what about Chariots of fire?
This song isn’t simply a love song. It’s a song about being vulnerable and telling a loved one that you deeply care.
You MUST watch Breakfast Club!!! 💙💙
Definitely
Absolutely! A classic
No really. I was a teen in the 80s. The movie was bellow its sound track.
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Simple Minds is a Scottish rock band. They formed in Glasgow in 1977 and became the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s.
I'm also a Simple Minds lover, but about scottish successful 80s artist, don't forget Fish ( Marillion )
Written specifically for the movie, they first offered it to Billy Idol, who turned it down. The rest is music history. Yes, 80s iconic.
i could see billy idol singing this
He turned it down because he didn't write it and didn't want to record someone else's song... he did do a version years later.
Also from what I read of interviews at the time, the band hated this track - mostly because they didn’t write it and it became such a massive hit and I think that irritated them that their biggest hit wasn’t their own after they had worked for so many years and made so many great tunes of their own.
Ha! Jim Kerr's voice is mesmerizing in some songs, like in Hypnotised, and powerful in others, like in Alive and Kicking (which should be the next one to react).
One of my graduation songs. The song is about the people who were important in one part of your life that go a different path as you enter a different phase of your life and our hope that they don't forget us or what they meant to us. For example moving on from highschool to adulthood: your first roommates: your single friends getting married: retiring from your job......
RUclips keeps recommending Thompson Twins to you on these 80s songs. Hold Me Now would please your soul. Aloha
YES!!!
And _Doctor! Doctor!_
He might like _Lay Your Hands On Me_
One of my fav songs...
The drums in this are so lit.
They have great music . sanctify yourself and alive and kicking are greatness!!
The 80s was one of the greatest decades for music!😸So diverse!
OMGoodnes, this is from the Breakfast Club....love it ❤ When they used it in Pitch Perfert...awesome. so 80s
No, it was from Say Anything with Jon Cusak.
Oops, I'm wrong. Bad on me.
No Breakfast Club
@@josephbofill7498 yup. Figured that out in the nick of too late! LOL
As teenagers, my sister and I watched The Breakfast Club so many times, we could practically recite the whole script. 😆 Stereotypes haven't really changed, so the movie still holds up all these years later. This song was really perfect for that soundtrack.
Theme song of a whole generation. Simultaneous hope and melancholy. It’s a banger.
I think the word you were looking for was anticipate or predict. :) Here for you BPeg.
THE ultimate movie about teenage angst. My favorite of all time…
My favorite movie too, ever.
@@tweettweet2457 “I expected a little bit more from a varsity letterman”. Damn Vernon! Who did you associate with? I’m female but was a cross between Allison and BENDERRRR! 🤘🏼
@@stacie4170 I was just in love with Bender- gorgeous, tough yet hurt and wanted to cuddle him!
@@tweettweet2457 lol…I’m a Judd Nelson fan. Check out From the Hip
This is my second, favoite, 80's teen movie. My first is "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
The band is Scottish. Amazing band. Loved them in the 80's and still do
Breakfast Club
Soon as I saw the song I thought the same thing.
closing scene song
This is from the 1985 movie "The Breakfast Club". You are correct, BP, the five are forced into detention on a Saturday morning. They spend the day learning about each other...their life experiences and form a bond against the teacher monitoring detention despite being from different backgrounds. The song lyrics make more sense after you see the movie. "Would you recognize me? Call my name or walk on by?" In other words, back at school on Monday will you acknowledge me? Or will you ignore me like you did before our Saturday detention?
"Sanctify Yourself" is great & worth a listen.
A special time for our 80's kids... Aesthetics were a prime feature of the ea.
“Alive & Kicking” is ear candy. Sonic Perfection. Glorious! 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
***REVENGE OF THE NERDS*** one of the biggest movie franchises of the 80s and made it OK to be a nerd, dork, geek, etc. WATCH IT WATCH IT!!! (It was not ok...it was rough if you were smart or into sci fi or tech or books at all. Life was very different...now the "nerdy look" is "cool".
All the best music is from the UK my friend 😊
This was written for movie the 1985 film The Breakfast Club.
Great New Wave band and part of the New Wave scene.
WHAAAAT WHAT!!!!!
Dude, when this fella drops the LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LAHHH LAAHHHHH it gives my goosebumps every single time, makes me feel Alive and Kicking if you will. See what I did there. No lies, felt my second boob whilst this tune played softly in the back of a low lit room.
I SAW WHAT YOU DID 👀🤘🏽 Hell yeah!!!! Two songs that are forever embedded in my SOUL from my high school days. When I hear the HEY HEY HEY HEY I start singing this out loud every time ❤
The Breakfast Club, must, see, movie.
Yes!!!!! One of the most iconic songs of the 80’s! Jim Kerr has an amazing voice!❤
This was the song for the movie "The Breakfast Club"! Love it & the movie!! It makes more sense if you watch the movie! ✌🏼
Simple Minds are one of the best live bands still touring today . Recently just finished their European tour and saw them in Edinburgh superb. Jim Kerr is the singer his first language is English the band are from Scotland. The movie is Breakfast Club .
Probably one of the most iconic movie songs ever, takes you right back to the 80's.
They're still touring, saw them at the Nottingham arena a few months back. Absolutely brilliant.
Jim Kerr was brought up in the southside of Glasgow in Scotland so he would have a very broad accent
Such a classic song 🎶
Simple Minds from SCOTLAND mate. So many great songs from them. Please react to Promise You a Miracle, Belfast Child and Someone, Somewhere in Summer time. They were famous before this 1985 film The Breakfast Club.
Alive and Kicking next time!
I love this song and The Breakfast Club.
Jim Kerr is Scottish. 😂❤
The song and movie is iconic 80's. It also has a iconic movie scene with the guy with his fist in the air.
Alive and kicking.
Iconic 80’s tune from the movie The Breakfast Club. So many memories!
The movie is “the breakfast club” the quintessential genx film. The band is Scottish.
The drummer is a beast!
You just took every Gen X back to sitting in a theatre in 1985 watching "The Breakfast Club", contemplating our life and our place in High School
Jim Kerr is a musical icon
Jim Kerr is the singer of Simple Minds. The movie is The Breakfast Club - it’s a must watch! Alive and Kicking is an amazing Simple Minds song!❤
Omg...The Breakfast Club. That was great!!
Love that movie! smoke up Johnny! 😂😂
Screws fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place." *giggles*
The Breakfast Club is a great movie about kids in detention at school. They are all from completely different backgrounds, but somehow end up relating. This is the outro on the movie soundtrack.
As a European, I really don't get how you view love and relationships. He is not excusing himself, he has realised (as she has), that their relationship is over. He is walking away too. Without making a fuss about it. When he leaves, he is referring to the good times. "Remember me, love - because I will remember you". He doesn´t want to go back, he knows it is over. He is basically singing about the memories and what the memories will become in the future. Both had a good time together, but now it is over.
loved this song. it was in the movie The Breakfast Club. the group is from Glasgow Scotland. watch the movie the breakfast club.
Simple minds are cool as hell 😁
Early stuff includes I Travel
Love song
Promised you a miracle
All the things she said
They have a ton of great tracks.
I believe the song was written for the film and it references this in the lyrics
Great band 😊
To appreciate the song you have to watch the 80's movie the Breakfast Club. I mean, they just go together. The Breakfast Club is, by far, considered the number one 80's teen movie. This song is played in the closing sequence of the movie and it just fits the premise of the story. A group of kids in Saturday detention who come from different cliques who start off rocky but then they come to realize they are more alike than different. And they share the same insecurities, fears, and disappointments. The jock, the geek, the freak, the princess, and the rebel.
They are from Glasgow in bonnie scotland xxxx
They are from Scotland, and they are brilliant!!!!
Okay you need to check out alive and kickin. When the sister comes in near the end of the song and blows some strong vocals.😊
🙌 yes ma’am…the amazing Robin Clark!
Thanks. I didnt know her name.😊
Various bands were asked to record this song but turned it down thinking it wouldn't be popular. Simple Minds made the right choice in recording this iconic song.
this is one of fav songs from the breakfast club and the 80's in general. GREAT TUNE
He’s from the UK and was married to Christie Hynde of The Pretenders
Hmm didn't know that...she was from Cleveland, Ohio
@@Cchan53Akron actually
@@Cchan53well he did say 'was' married..
@@Cchan53 google it
@@Cchan53 here I googled it for you. Here’s what is says if you google Chrissie Hynde marriage “She married Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band Simple Minds, in 1984. Together they had a daughter, Yasmin, in 1985.” FYI, people can be from different countries and marry each other.
Classic 🙌 1980s song 🎵.
1 moment from a few years ago. Molly Ringwald, star 🌟 of The Breakfast Club, introduced Simple Minds at a Billboard concert and walked 🚶♂️ to the crowd. She stood near Taylor Swift.
The TV 📺 in the video 📹 shows a clip of The Breakfast Club.
Suggested video 📹: Simple Minds perform Water 💧 Front.
You know you don't have to use an emoji after every 5 words if your over 15, right?
You never see the singer and Gary Oldman in a room at the same time. " Then I was like Emilooooo"
The first bars of this one always bring The Breakfast Club to mind - it is that iconic to the movie. If you have never watched it, it is worth the watch.
IT JUST GOES TO PROVE THAT WITHOUT ROCK THERE IS NO RAP .
British bands were huge in the 80s!
Still are!
Every time I hear this song I immediately feel like I'm 14 again and have to turn the radio up loud. A brilliant song for a brilliant film. A film that was unique in that an adult film director simply understood the problems of teenagers completely. THE BREAKFAST CLUB and "Don't You" will always be a part of my memory of my youth.
Love your comment “Nobody is breaking up this household.” Very wise!
Hey, Robert! The Simple Minds are big ones! Almost like U2. I like the very old songs from the 80`ies. This song "Don`t you...." is quite commercial. But there are many very interesting, and sometimes, a little bit weird songs. BUT GOOD!!! 😎