Like a Nostradamus a head of his time my favourite band my favourite artist who understood my frustrations and anger who was able to express in lyrics how I felt a band that understood me 👌💪🙏 God I hope humanity makes it out of the clutches of the progressive WEF globalists and my god we have starmlin void of emotion empathy and integrity what a awful awful human being I had tickets for The The in Edinburgh cannot make it because I’m on the work hamster wheel that the elites created god bless you Matt
I saw The The twice in concert. When I saw them at the QE theater in Vancouver, the security was being assholes and trying to keep everyone in their seats. During this song, Matt stopped the show dead and said "Ya know, if you all stand up at once they can't stop you." Then went back into the song at "we're being sedated by the gasoline fumes..." without missing a beat as the guards melted away and the crowd packed the stage front. My most vivid and cherished concert memory to this day.
my brother was the assistant manager I was lucky enough to see them a few times these were my formative years i was in my teens always remember with a soulful heart xxxx
matt´s lyrics and music were way-ahead of their time. It´s the shocking truth, how actual his texts are even today. We need critical people like him. Now more than ever.
My father showed me this song. He listened to this like 20 years ago when he worked in Finland as student. Thank you dad for teaching me what the real music is.
The video gives it away - it's a clever plea to the 'beat' generation (60's) who've lost their ideals and us as the beaten one who just lie down and take it. Matt Johnson the underrated genius of 80's music.
Welp Rich..... Nstead of bending over, 2 take it, we should b bending em over & saying BYE THEN 2021!!!! New meaning 2 DUH BEATEN GENERATION. Datz whut opening ur mind, nstead of yo bhind, mite gitchya!
It feels true and real and now... Except for this bit: 'And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced' As David Bowie said: 'they know exactly what they're going through'. I've never met sharper and smarter kids than I do at the moment. It's the older folks who are being seduced, particularly the older folks priced out of the job market a few decades before retirement.
I turned to this song after the U.S. elections in 2016. This song completely describes the current situation in the U.S. today. "Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation"....how true is that? "Freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun".....The pendulum has swung back to at least 1989, or earlier. Maybe 1959. Sad. I hope that 2018 is "when everthing that dies, shall rise".
I remember I first heard of The The because Simon Le Bon use to keep saying how good they were, and how he was a big fan of them, he was very right. :)
.....the greedy hands of politics and half truths. Timeless lyrics, amazing band. Would love to see them play live again. Mind bomb just blows me away.
Matt's lyrics have a phrophetic element to them. Armageddon Days, Heartland & Beat(en) Generation all hit a chord even today 20+ years after their release
They are not more applicable now compared to the past, they are as equally applicable now. Nothing changes when the system stays the same, never will and never has.
Right after the “special police” started arresting protesters on Portland Streets instantly had the truly prophetic lyrics of this brilliant song run through my mind. More relevant now in 2020 than ever before. Yes Matt Johnson is a musical genius. THE THE are timeless.
The worst mistake I ever made was ignoring Mind Bomb and Dusk after the Release of The Beaten Generation for ten years and accidentally discovering they were even better, then Infected. Forgive me Matt. No other Musician touches me emotionally that much.
Up here in Portland, OR this song still rings so true. In fact, It's one of our Anthems. It seems to settle everyone down. Even the cops. Down here in the War Zone we love the the.
Some have said this is about The Beat Generation and I’m pretty sure that’s not it. I’m the same peer age as Matt and have been blasting this song & album since it was released. He was singing about the youth in Great Britain at the time and their current state in the late 80’s vis a vis Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, etc. this was written at the height of the Cold War and not long before the crumbling of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. It’s always darkest right before dawn...
@Flying Scotsman we are probably off the same vintage. I had stations and feeding of the 5000. I got in trouble with my parents when they saw the album covers. I had been listening to them for a while, but they could not understand the words.
The message of this song was valid 35 years ago, is valid today and will still be valid 35 years from now. If I still exist then I will confirm it in 2059.
I think this got to No 2 in my home country of NZ.Helped along by the wonderful guitar of Johnny Marr. Now I live in London I understand the political message too.
They should re-release this - once again it’s the perfect song for these toxic times although I seem to recall it originally being sung with a lot more passion & anger - or am I just imagining that ?
Feel things more deeply in you’re youth - not true , the state or should I say lack of democracy in the U.K. , government corruption & cronyism & the ever widening gaps between the rich & the poor still makes me boil with anger which ain’t good for my mood or blood pressure ! Yes…I still sing along loudly & passionately & I still remember every word on that album
This song is more relevant today than ever before.
Like a Nostradamus a head of his time my favourite band my favourite artist who understood my frustrations and anger who was able to express in lyrics how I felt a band that understood me 👌💪🙏 God I hope humanity makes it out of the clutches of the progressive WEF globalists and my god we have starmlin void of emotion empathy and integrity what a awful awful human being I had tickets for The The in Edinburgh cannot make it because I’m on the work hamster wheel that the elites created god bless you Matt
It's not so much that this song was ahead of its time but rather how nothing ever really changes.
Yep. As a certain Mr. Cohen observed in his songs Everybody Knows and The Future.
Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
is proof of this as well, in fact Soul Mining, Infected and Mind Bomb are all in that ilk.
Spot on.
I think it was both, how they were beaten and how things weren't going to get any better
The fact that Johnny Marr rates Matt so hugely speaks volumes about his talents
I saw The The twice in concert. When I saw them at the QE theater in Vancouver, the security was being assholes and trying to keep everyone in their seats. During this song, Matt stopped the show dead and said "Ya know, if you all stand up at once they can't stop you." Then went back into the song at "we're being sedated by the gasoline fumes..." without missing a beat as the guards melted away and the crowd packed the stage front.
My most vivid and cherished concert memory to this day.
That’s awesome!
Genuine love for you Brian.
my brother was the assistant manager I was lucky enough to see them a few times these were my formative years i was in my teens always remember with a soulful heart xxxx
What a great memory and what a great underappreciated talent he is. Teamed wwith Marr here its almost too good. Thanls for sharing!
People have the power!
Get up stand up!
Decades ahead of his time,massively under-rated genius as far as I'm concerned.
I can imagine
The man was really ahead of his time almost prophetic one could say, a tremendous word smith even if you partly disagreed with his views .
Most definitely!
Right!!!
and you just know he didn't sell his soul
Also a big Cheers to Johnny Marr for his work with The The and of course The Smiths...
Beautiful guitar work from Johnny Marr
That's knowledge .
@@jamesleslie6830 in hi i
And David Palmer from ABC on Drums!
@@davidhenderson6733 never too late my friend
makes the song genius
I was really surprised when I found out that he’s basically a one man show who works with other musicians. He is so under-rated.
matt´s lyrics and music were way-ahead of their time. It´s the shocking truth, how actual his texts are even today. We need critical people like him. Now more than ever.
My father showed me this song. He listened to this like 20 years ago when he worked in Finland as student. Thank you dad for teaching me what the real music is.
A timeless song with some of the most beautiful lyrics and melody ever written! This song has captured the essence and failure of the Western world.
what the Western World that created all these great bands?
The video gives it away - it's a clever plea to the 'beat' generation (60's) who've lost their ideals and us as the beaten one who just lie down and take it. Matt Johnson the underrated genius of 80's music.
Nicely put!
GENIUS!!!
The words in this song are probably more poignant today than they were 30 years ago... Class
Yes ... Vote Labour on December 12th 2019
Sadly I had precisely the same thought as the lyrics began
💩
Wow! Very topical x
I think it's safe to delete the word "probably".
January 31st, 2020 and these lyrics just get more and more real. My heart fucking bleeds for the shit that the future holds for this country.
Rioting sort of gets me down too.
Welp Rich.....
Nstead of bending over, 2 take it, we should b bending em over & saying BYE THEN 2021!!!!
New meaning 2 DUH BEATEN GENERATION.
Datz whut opening ur mind, nstead of yo bhind, mite gitchya!
How right you were and are. This world of ours is turning into a shit hole.
I listened to them back in the 1980's!!!!! My fav is Uncertain Smile!
I worry for my grandkids , but they seem happy as grandad is a bad influence in a good way ;-)
One of the most underrated bands!!! As an early 80s kid, I grew up listening to The The. Still one of my favorites!
FACT
problably was 10/12 y when my older brother brought this amazing album. i still remember all the lyrics.
In the 80's two Bands are running all over the time in my Cassette Recorder: The The and the Smith's ... Awsome Sounds
A perfect song for our times,they were sooo ahead of their time,this is ART.
Shout out to Fred Gardner (where ever you are) for turning me on to THE THE back in the mid 90s at Tracey Locke Ad Agency in Dallas.
27 years on, and, sadly, still ringing true today.
Truer sadly.
It feels true and real and now... Except for this bit:
'And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced'
As David Bowie said: 'they know exactly what they're going through'. I've never met sharper and smarter kids than I do at the moment. It's the older folks who are being seduced, particularly the older folks priced out of the job market a few decades before retirement.
I turned to this song after the U.S. elections in 2016. This song completely describes the current situation in the U.S. today. "Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation"....how true is that? "Freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun".....The pendulum has swung back to at least 1989, or earlier. Maybe 1959. Sad. I hope that 2018 is "when everthing that dies, shall rise".
Anthony Steele My sentiments too sadly !
2022 and it just gets more true with every passing year.
The beat (en) generation... reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation... still rings true today!
Amazing, the world needs a new The The album more than ever...
I've loved this song for nearly three decades now. It's still prophetic.
Mind Bomb was released 1989....food for thought 🤯
More timely than ever. Matt's a genius.
Loved the the,in the 80's the lyrics helped me to think about the world, at 42 it still makes me think!!!
***** Your not too far from the truth there mate............if Google says its the truth, then its the truth for many people!!
One of the greatest songs ever written. But will always be one of the most underrated
You’ve put “underrated “ and “greatest” in the same sentence. 😂
The UK has had so many extremely talented musicians Matt being just one of them.
Perhaps THE most impressive song of THE moment, and still shaking minds. Recommend this song to all youth in your vicinity.
still sounds great and relevant. At 19, I got my hair cut like Johnny here, and have never changed it since :)
It must be quite long now, then?
I really love the work of Matt Johnson and this is my favourite music video ever.
After all these years Matts songs still ring true to this very day...! 👌
Brilliant song....
Still makes the hairs on my neck stand up ! 👍
I remember I first heard of The The because Simon Le Bon use to keep saying how good they were, and how he was a big fan of them, he was very right. :)
More relevant now than when 1st recorded. MJ - one of the most important British songwriters from the '80s.
Have LOVED THE THE since I was a wee lass. I knew they were about more than music, and have vast hidden depths...
.....the greedy hands of politics and half truths. Timeless lyrics, amazing band. Would love to see them play live again. Mind bomb just blows me away.
Best band of the 80’s..... love the fact they are still not too widely known
Did you catch the last tour? Awesome.
Matt's lyrics have a phrophetic element to them. Armageddon Days, Heartland & Beat(en) Generation all hit a chord even today 20+ years after their release
Arabia
Arabia...
Boy was that one prophetic. Sweet Bird of Truth, indeed.
What's remarkable is the lyrics are more applicable by society in 2022....
They are not more applicable now compared to the past, they are as equally applicable now. Nothing changes when the system stays the same, never will and never has.
& in Tory run Britain in 2024
@@r7coo time for reform
This song holds true for today and all of the tomorrow's.
And yesterday too. This song is 1990....
god i love matt johnson love loads of his songs the man is a genius everybody should love this man great song.
Boy i miss the 80's......... Mind blown....... Job well done.
Right after the “special police” started arresting protesters on Portland Streets instantly had the truly prophetic lyrics of this brilliant song run through my mind. More relevant now in 2020 than ever before. Yes Matt Johnson is a musical genius. THE THE are timeless.
Great song, but the Portland "protestors" were/are actually rioters.
good art is always alive. This lyrics are so alive today!
Yep... rip uk
...and America ...and............
Fortunately, this is still a beautiful song. Unfortunately, it’s still very relevant.
Generation X was the beat (en) generation
Generation Y is the beat (en) generation
Generation Z will be the beat (en) generation.
Its never been so true as it is today ...
Somehow like in the middle of the eclipse. The corona can hardly be seen, at the moment, so to say.
The worst mistake I ever made was ignoring Mind Bomb and Dusk after the Release of The Beaten Generation for ten years and accidentally discovering they were even better, then Infected. Forgive me Matt. No other Musician touches me emotionally that much.
This track came out in the early 90's , ahead of it's time ... look at the world NOW !
Mind Bomb is a brilliant album.
Late 80’s..
It came out in the late 80's
Released 1987, the whole album is a masterpiece
Seriously, you couldn’t take 2 minutes to Google it?
1989 is the early 90s is it? Yeah alright!
Words used to absolute perfection.
Can’t believe I happened across this song by accident, I do remember buying the album about 2 lifetimes ago , happy memories
Depressing that this is still so relevant in 2021. “Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation..” indeed
classic college radio
what a music ! What a song! Great. Thank you The The !
Prophetic, true, great songs and lyrics. Grossy underrated. Never by me.
Brilliant band. If you don't have the album Infected, then get it.. Stunning.
One of my favorite songs since the first time I heard it decades ago.
If people wised up lyrics in songs like this would not exist but what a gem !
October 2022. Insightful song . Sorry to say the words ring so true now more than ever.
Outstanding song. Breathtaking talent
Mindbomb isn't just an album, it is a prophecy.
So far it's on track so good for them yeah?😢
this song sums the uk at the moment.
thats the trouble with genius,,,its ahead of its time
I work in a factory. I'm forced to listen to Radio 1 All-Day-Long. How I so long to hear this and its like.
The beat (en) generation... reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation...29 years on it still rings true today -probably moreso!
What a great song... and so appropriate for this new generation. I'm Gen X but I feel for tomorrow's kids... stay strong kids.
This song was created to Generation X.
If you only knew…
Magnificent song and great guitar.
But can you still walk back to happiness
When you've nowhere left to run?
The song that has come true. Only matt , had he's finger on the pulse of humanity. Whaow . Talk about profisiy
Best Song ever recorded.
This song does it for me. ❤
It was my generation when he made it, now it seems like it's all the ones to come as well.
So what’s changed, great song can’t wait to see them at festival no.6 Matt Johnson legend!
As relevant today as the day it was written... and they call this progress!
Up here in Portland, OR this song still rings so true. In fact, It's one of our Anthems. It seems to settle everyone down. Even the cops. Down here in the War Zone we love the the.
some songs never get old
... Indeed !
My Gen-X anthem. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
This song is still relevant to this day
amazing man matt is. love him so much. underrated bless him
Some have said this is about The Beat Generation and I’m pretty sure that’s not it. I’m the same peer age as Matt and have been blasting this song & album since it was released. He was singing about the youth in Great Britain at the time and their current state in the late 80’s vis a vis Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, etc. this was written at the height of the Cold War and not long before the crumbling of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. It’s always darkest right before dawn...
Absolutely beautiful song and so appropriate for todays trouble in the world, love it.
But was created for 90's not nowdays
@Ces Ci I guess anyone with a crass symbol would have been around when the song came out
@@craigfoulkes I certainly was around when the song came out and a long time before it !!
@Flying Scotsman we are probably off the same vintage. I had stations and feeding of the 5000. I got in trouble with my parents when they saw the album covers. I had been listening to them for a while, but they could not understand the words.
@@craigfoulkes sounds very familiar had all the album and singles covers on my walls too.
And my mum and dad were the same not impressed.
The message of this song was valid 35 years ago, is valid today and will still be valid 35 years from now.
If I still exist then I will confirm it in 2059.
Mestre e mestre das bandas clássico The The .
the "real" guitar hero, Johnny Marr...
Bill Owen He's a fucking wizard
Bill Owen I , am a Wizard .
Lyrically masterful
2020 and the words haunt me as they are so prophetic. Genius song but it's sad that its true
I think this got to No 2 in my home country of NZ.Helped along by the wonderful guitar of Johnny Marr.
Now I live in London I understand the political message too.
They should re-release this - once again it’s the perfect song for these toxic times although I seem to recall it originally being sung with a lot more passion & anger - or am I just imagining that ?
Ur just jaded now.
U felt thangz mo deeply, azz a youth.
If you are like me that was your voice singing along. Passionately.
Feel things more deeply in you’re youth - not true , the state or should I say lack of democracy in the U.K.
, government corruption & cronyism & the ever widening gaps between the rich & the poor still makes me boil with anger which ain’t good for my mood or blood pressure ! Yes…I still sing along loudly & passionately & I still remember every word on that album
What unbelievable intro and brilliant tune.
and Johnny Marr , it is just mind bomb
genius.......wow
This song is more true today.
+Randy Ping I was thinking the same thing. Pretty amazing for a song almost 30 years old.
But was created to generation X. Sorry but is the true....
We was listening to the the in 80’s.
This is the day ……..,,
Jeez, this track is so relevant today
"Freedom lives in the barrel of a warm gun"
The The ~ they are all good.
Johnny Marr looks so good in this video. ❤
He means so much to so many and is still a gem for those to discover by accident. Matt "The God" Johnson.
que de souvenirs............
true song ,last 20 odd years the youth have lost there way ,no more heroes any more