I was just recently introduced to this by a wise German man in Thailand lol and as an Irish man you can only imagine the night was had and many beers drank and many story's told. Love this its absolutely gold love from Ireland guys 🇮🇪 🇩🇪
70s-90s is pretty good some early- even mid 2000s are good. If you want any of the “good stuff” today , you kind of have to look at smaller music creators.
Before internet, when we got "energy drinks" from Jolt Cola, McDonald's frys were the ultimate junk snack, we could actually shop at a dedicated music store and a pager was how you beeped someone in need! The pre dawn to the fuckery era ! Long love the 80's !!
I remember seeing/hearing this song on MTV. Not an album but the single/video. What an incredibly infectious song. The 80’s had buttloads of crazy, catchy singles. And I’m a 70’s dude.
This is an ode to never being able to go home again. Couched in a 60's vibe, but it's as true today as when it was written. The past is a written book, you can never go back, as much as you might want to.
As a German I grew up listening exclusively to the German version of this song and for the longest time didn't even know there was an English version of it. It's really amazing how this version makes me feel the same emotions even though the lyrics are completely different.
This song contains one of best chorus hooks ever written and performed. Nearly 40 years on, I am using this to teach a new generation of students. The lyrics are simple and easily understood but there's an intriguing twist in the story. Thanks Peter.
My dad was listening to this song when he was driving me home. I instantly fell in love with the song and used Shazam to find it. Now I can’t stop hitting the replay button!
Peter Schilling turned 30 years old on the Day of the tragic Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. This video reminds now me of that sad day. Almost 38 years have gone by.
Thank you sir Schilling for this gem of music. I knew this song on my vacation 1983 in Brazil at a pub where I was there and this tune made me blow my mind.
As a marine I was walking across a parade deck in front of the chow hall on a weekend in 29 palms California and I heard the chorus “4,3.2,1....” over the loudspeakers. The high tone echoed off the buildings and I instantly loved this song. It sounded surreal. Today the chorus gives me chills and brings me back to this walk across the base.
Ufff! This is a classic from my teen years, every time I hear it my feet jump from the ground and my mind blows up A dopamin rush To the infinite and beyond....
Amor da minha vida eu estou dançando igual uma louca na cozinha mas eu gosto de dançar sabe porque eu amo dançar eu curto porque eu vejo a vida viver eu vivo eu vivo eu vivo para curtir a minha vida a minha vida e amar a sua vida quando você tiver aqui no Brasil nós vamos dançar muito
I was driving my family home when the son heard this song on my radio and was stricken by it. The father told him how famous it was back in the 80s! Great day to be a car.
The punk scene in the 80s in Germany was amazing. So much great music came out of that scene. Probably the last great decade for music. This is my all time favorite song. Its got a great beat and the lyrics and story they tell are literally out of this world. An astronaut lost in space. Drifting endlessly forever. Alive inside yet dead to the world. Such a great life metaphor for how many people feel. Drifting aimlessly. Alive inside. But eternally ignored by society.
It's 2024 and my teenage son brought me here. He heard 4 seconds of this song on some radio ad and was driven to know this song. He said their voices are pitch perfect. All I could tell him was "Son - that was a hit song from my time" - but I found it - evidence enough that 80s music is here to stay.
I was born in the year 2004 and i have grown around my siblings that have been born in the early 90s and i have been living my childhood around 90s tech and stuff and i love music from 80s and 90s!!
I had forgotten about this 80s gem of a song. I was getting a haircut the other day and it came on the local radio station while sitting on the barbershop’s chair. It was stuck in my head for the rest of the day!
If you love this one, listen to some of his other songs, like The Different Story or Terra Titanic, Ich Vermisse Dich/All the Love I Need. It's VERY hard to pick a favorite!
I'm the same. Once I listen to this song I pretty much have to go without music for awhile. It's very "ethereal," if you will. It's also melancholy. I think what is hardest for me is how the wife responds to Major Tom's demise: she's in the arms of another man. That wrecks me and not in a good way. I think the idea of my wife in another man's arms while I'm away is a torture too insufferably indescribable to utter. An agony better suited for hell than earth. Then I wonder if Major Tom put his career before her and it drove her into another's arms. Then I wonder if it was just the music video director's cynical view of love.
I m into Heavy Metal but this song gets me moving, I really enjoy it for some reason... love the Chorus, I just put this song on Loop for around 7 times, lol... love it, thank you for sharing! 👨🏻🚀💫🌙🌍✨💥🚀🚀🚀
Always loved this song. Listene to in NYC as a kid when it first came out and today was the first time I am watching the video. Can'ts stand the music today.
As a child I remember hearing this on MTV...my husband was watching Umbrella Academy and I was in the kitchen when this song played. I actually stopped what I was doing to listen...there was an emotion I can not explain that literally welled up inside and gave me chill bumps. I have listen to this song several times over the last 2 days and I simply can't get it out of my head...
I loved tis song. Had completely forgotten about it. I was just watching episode of The Black List and heard it. Paused the show now this is in my saved list. Ah the memories I was 12.
I remember when this song came out. I loved it!! I was in the Army stationed in Germany. Whenever I hear it I always think of that time. I spent a good portion of the 80's in Germany.
@@marketmail49 That's awesome! My Daughter moved back there in 2010. She married a very nice German guy who is a mechanic, and a Volunteer Firefighter. Also, he is big into soccer. But then again you can compare that to us here liking our football or baseball. I loved it over there!
Life is crazy. I heard this song in Old Navy when I was like 7-8 and had no idea what the hell he was saying. I’m 25 now and listened to this song today!!!! I’m so shocked and don’t have words. So much talent and respect for this artist 🙏
I wish I could watch those stars with you, I feel the EXACT same way. I sometimes listen to this and look at the stars from my little apartment window in the city.
Timeless. This could hit the top 10 again today and be relevant as it was when released. The world after Covid is begging for peace and freedom's and more relationships than the internet. The closeness of family and friends. We need hope not chaos. Love to all. Keep dancing.
1980s was one of the greatest errors, and now Generation X gets to see it all go down. I was 18 yrs old in 1985 , and it's pretty sad to see what has happened with music and everything else that's going on.
My sister recorded this on Friday Night Videos in '84. I was six, and of course my German born mom liked this song-who bought the album. I loved the shots of rockets, space, even my boomer Dad liked this video because he was interested in it also. We had rough times as a farm family during the 80's but we had lots of good times also.
4,3,2,1 :56 is just timeless, I love metal but I appreciate all genres. This is one of my favorite songs, even with the heavy music I listen to. I can appreciate good music in any form.
I remember listening to this with my dad cruising down the road at night good memories when I was a lil girl hanging out with my dad he introduced me,to so many different genres of music
Desde que esta pequeña mi abuelito me enseñó la mejor música de los 80 y los 90 hoy en día la sigo escuchando estoy temas.. 😢♥️ Saludos dedes México 🇲🇽
I am from Madrid and I have just returned after many days in Germany, where I was watching matches of my national team for Euro 2024 I am 36 years old and this is the fourth time I have visited Germany (the first time was in 2006, another unforgettable summer for football lovers) That trip in 2006 was incredible, I was 18 years old, and thanks to some songs I managed to relive that trip to Germany with my friends, and I felt very nostalgic. Even songs in German, even if I didn't understand the lyrics. 18 years later, this song will help me not to forget another incredible summer in Germany. It is a wonderful country and every time I go I enjoy it a lot. You Germans always organize these types of events well, and also a country with a huge football tradition. In Spain we respect you a lot 👏🏻👏🏻
26 year old Spanish fan here - first ever international tournament for me, and what an incredible experience it has been. I was at the Germany-Spain game in Stuttgart, and I was euphoric for the win obviously, but still sad to see this fantastic host nation out of the tournament. I was happy to see so many German fans wearing the shirt on the following day. I didn't find out about the name of this song until then, and now it captures what I feel is so special about national team football - a whole country united behind a team, wanting to enjoy football, music (the joy of singing unofficial anthems like this one), summer, beer, and having a good time with football as the uniting passion. The daydreaming and hopeful feeling while your team is still in the fight, and the "what could have been" feeling when knocked out of the tournament. in the end that's what makes national team football so special in my opinion. thank you EURO 2024, regardless of what happens tomorrow in Spain v France, I will never forget this tournament.
1983, perhaps the best year out of the 80s for iconic 80s new wave music. Such an iconic early 80s new wave classic. Timeless masterpiece. It makes me sad, happy, nostalgic, and wanting to sing at the top of my lungs. I just turned 57...
I once heard this song, and for a entire year I tried to find out his name (but because I listened the german version, I didn't know the lyrics) but a few days ago my ex boyfriend played it out on RUclips, so yes, it's a song pretty hard to find
La escuche en una película y no me acordaba ni de Peter Schilling ni de Major Tom...la busqué a lo tonto como "Four Three ..." y me salió de primera...Que grande los 80's y 90's y que grande Peter
Today's date is 4/3/21, and I guess you could say I've been waiting my whole life for it 🙃 4, 3, 2, 1 Earth below us Drifting, falling Floating weightless Calling, calling home...
I generally do not read youtube comments but this one took of particular interest. A lot of what you stated is correct but not quite. As far as the whole 2012 Ancient Mayan Doomsday prophecy, it is actually very much set in stone as one of the greatest serendipities that is yet to conquer the whole world or "macrocosm" as we all know. There have been many other prophets from around the globe supporting this prophecy not just the ancient Mayans. All that being said apparently it was miscalculated according to the date. Supposedly December 21st 2012 was going to ignite the end of times bringing on catastrophic destructions such as natural earth disasters, etc. Not only that rumor has it that a giant dragon is supposed to arise out of the Ocean somewhere spitting fireballs all over the earth. All that being said , guess what ? It was a slight miscalculation with the year.... that's right, it did not happen in Dec 2012 but reverse that so they say and that means that it is really bound to happen this year.... 2021. Reverse the 12 it's obviously a 21. So that being said come the date of December 21st 2021 we are all going to be in for something extremely serious.
It happens something strange to me... Whenever I m reading Comments then it comes the exact part of the video That I m listening...in this case the 4,3,2,1🤔🙄🎶
Standing there alone The ship is waiting All systems are go "Are you sure?" Control is not convinced But the computer Has the evidence No need to abort The countdown starts Watching in a trance The crew is certain Nothing left to chance All is working Trying to relax Up in the capsule "Send me up a drink." Jokes Major Tom The count goes on... 4, 3, 2, 1 Earth below us Drifting, falling Floating weightless Calling, calling home... Second stage is cut We're now in orbit Stabilizers up Runnning perfect Starting to collect Requested data "What will it affect When all is done?" Thinks Major Tom Back at ground control There is a problem "Go to rockets full." Not responding "Hello Major Tom Are you receiving? Turn the thrusters on We're standing by." There's no reply 4, 3, 2, 1 Earth below us Drifting, falling Floating weightless Calling, calling home... Across the stratosphere A final message: "Give my wife my love." Then nothing more Far beneath the ship The world is mourning They don't realize He's alive No one understands But Major Tom sees "Now the light commands This is my home I'm coming home." Earth below us Drifting, falling Floating weightless Coming home... Earth below us Drifting, falling Floating weightless Coming, coming Home Home
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Peter Schilling hit a home run with this classic. Still evergreen today.
This has always been one of my favorite songs. It inspires sadness, loneliness and hope. It's just so perfect.
I agree, it's perfect
Yes. The loneliness is so gripping and the spectral of death waiting patiently, drooling imperceptibly; just in case.
If that ain't the truth nicola and robert
The end of this song is real tear jerking to mee
@@funkysawmanwright5077 it's absolutely haunting...
Time stood still for this classic. I will never get tired of this song.
Same here
Shiny Toy Guns version is amazing too!
ME ETHER!
I was just recently introduced to this by a wise German man in Thailand lol and as an Irish man you can only imagine the night was had and many beers drank and many story's told. Love this its absolutely gold love from Ireland guys 🇮🇪 🇩🇪
THAILAND IS AWESOME! Been there, done that!
80's songs...
So recognizable but so unique, truly a golden era for the music industry.
hell yeah even the like the mainstream stufds better than alot of the music of my generation in all geners
Undoubtedly. We lived it.
70s-90s is pretty good some early- even mid 2000s are good. If you want any of the “good stuff” today , you kind of have to look at smaller music creators.
Before internet, when we got "energy drinks" from Jolt Cola, McDonald's frys were the ultimate junk snack, we could actually shop at a dedicated music store and a pager was how you beeped someone in need! The pre dawn to the fuckery era ! Long love the 80's !!
@@nicholasbrooks7349 60s are best though.
One of the most satisfying choruses in all of modern pop tunery. Very Moody Bluesish. Top notch.
Tll ok yn
And what a great outro.
You are so right.
I love the beat- I was listening to in the car and I wanted to sing but my one of my siblings were sleeping.
I used to love this song on my dad's stereo a long time ago
I remember seeing/hearing this song on MTV. Not an album but the single/video. What an incredibly infectious song. The 80’s had buttloads of crazy, catchy singles. And I’m a 70’s dude.
I'm from that Mtv era I was like in junior high and high school when Mtv was all about music, I'll always jam to my old school music ☺️🙌💕
Esta. Cancion. Me. Recuerda. La. Tragedia. Del. Trasbordador. Espacial Challenger
MTV IN THE 80S ❤STRAIGHT MUSIC NOT LIKE THE JUNK TODAY.....
This is an ode to never being able to go home again. Couched in a 60's vibe, but it's as true today as when it was written. The past is a written book, you can never go back, as much as you might want to.
Teen in the eighties. Saw the first MTV broadcast at a friend's house.
As a German I grew up listening exclusively to the German version of this song and for the longest time didn't even know there was an English version of it. It's really amazing how this version makes me feel the same emotions even though the lyrics are completely different.
𝙸 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙶𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝, 𝚝𝚘𝚘. 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚜𝚊𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝚘𝚗 𝙼𝚃𝚟 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚗. 𝙸 𝚑𝚜𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚑 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝. 😊
🐾🖤🐾
I found the German version and fell in love with it. That’s my go to version
The bass tone in this song is just incredible.
@@ELIZABeth360 Monke
perfection
@@SB-mb8fx it sounds specifically like a Steinberger to my ears.
@@Thompsongs you’d be right my friend, the bassist used a steinberger in loads of videos where they’d mime out the song.
I was a child when I listened to this song. It took me 38 years to find it. It's still more convincing than many songs in the last decade. Big up! Xx
¿How do you feel now with all this sound at your command?
Its because they only uploaded it to youtube last year ! :O
@@raphafouine6994 good answer hahahaha
@@tomasernestorivamontanfarf2864 lol 😂
Must have been a cool childhood
This song contains one of best chorus hooks ever written and performed. Nearly 40 years on, I am using this to teach a new generation of students. The lyrics are simple and easily understood but there's an intriguing twist in the story. Thanks Peter.
Love it
I honestly think it’s an homage to Space Odyssey
@@kuznickic1 oddity
It totally iz
You can thank David for originating the story.
I am spanish speaker, can you help us with the meaning of this song?
For me is not easy to understand
Just another reminder of just how many great singers there were in the 80’s
They were brillisnt
Ano byli jsme mladí a hezcí,dnes jsme alespoň hezcí!😂
And let’s not forget the hair and clothes
My dad was listening to this song when he was driving me home. I instantly fell in love with the song and used Shazam to find it. Now I can’t stop hitting the replay button!
Wow, exactly the same happenned to me
am i dumb or why didnt you ask your dad what the song was
Why not just ask your dad the name of the song
I love the song so much to the point I created a cover with an electronic synthesizer
Wait until you fnd out what the real story about it is.
Loved it in the 80's. STILL love it now. Wow, what a chorus.
The harmonics at 3:36 are beautiful. A very, very talented musician of the 80's is Peter Schilling.
AGREED! I pity people who do not know of this song!
Number 14 in the Billboard charts with this English version in autumn 1983 … much respect Mr. Schilling! 🍻
This song always gives a euphoric feeling😮
Same thing!. I always listen to this song when I’m on my way to hit the gym 💪🏻
This is the exact moment Peter Schilling becomes Major Tom. Bravo Vince!
This song is in my memory! It is such a pleasure to hear again! This is so good! Thank you Peter Shcilling!
In 1983 my school music teacher played this in school. I was stunned and loved the song. A great memory.
The favorite song of my childhood. Great song, just timeless! Thanks Peter
Peter Schilling turned 30 years old on the Day of the tragic Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. This video reminds now me of that sad day. Almost 38 years have gone by.
I had no clue! 1/28/86. Wow! What a connection!
I'm here after watching Deutschland "83... Brilliant series 👌
Totally brilliant series, loved it !
Umbrella Academy ❤
Ich auch!
❤❤❤❤
Excelente canción
Thank you sir Schilling for this gem of music.
I knew this song on my vacation 1983 in Brazil at a pub where I was there and this tune made me blow my mind.
Who wouldn't love this song? One of my favs of all time. So early 80s yet timeless.
As a marine I was walking across a parade deck in front of the chow hall on a weekend in 29 palms California and I heard the chorus “4,3.2,1....” over the loudspeakers. The high tone echoed off the buildings and I instantly loved this song. It sounded surreal.
Today the chorus gives me chills and brings me back to this walk across the base.
I can fell the same, is sort weird but is peacefully
Respec for marines!
The original german version is even better!
Semper Fi ! Fom a US Navy vet .
Semper Fidelis
This was #1 hit here in Canada🇨🇦 back in 1983 and even today you will always here it on the radio. Classic.
Nr1 in Canada is great and rare for a German singer. Did not know that, thanks for the info.
Metal head here I love it draws me out
That shows that Canadians know great music!
You gotta try it in german its actually a German song and it was also released in English but the German one sounds even better
You never hear this Song on Canadian Radio for at least the Last 2 Decades. prove me wrong Please.!!!
That chorus is hypnotizing. So beautiful , and dreamy. It really takes you to a deeper place
41 years later and I still love this song... "4,3,2,1... Earth below us... Drifting falling... Floating weightless... Coming, coming home..." 👍👍👍👍
I heard this today coming from my 17 year old daughter’s room.Great music standing the test of time x
Thats so cool. I was 12 when this song came out.
Probably from Umbrella Academy Pogo scene
I love his voice during the chorus. It is truly beautiful.
Even angelic.
Ufff! This is a classic from my teen years, every time I hear it my feet jump from the ground
and my mind blows up
A dopamin rush
To the infinite and beyond....
80's ... greatest decade of music!
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
90s was a great decade for music also 😊
Yes! Queen, Iron Maiden, Michael Jackson, The Big Four
The Smiths,great 80s music
Better decade
My grandpa is obsessed with this song and he’s 85 and he only knows Spanish but he says how this song is always and forever gonna be the best song
Porque narra una trágica aventura y tan solo una pequeña despedida a su querida esposa.
Maybe that’s the reazon!
Es q tu abuelo en el año q est tema salió tenia 42 años claroo tuvo q haberle encantado y todavia la recurrda 😍😊
That’s only cuz he hasn’t heard WAP
that's right........guess when this song was released.what a hit......that song was like an inspiration.
I am the 100 th like because this song is very underrated
I don't know why, but the lines, "This is my home, I'm coming home" feel like a rebellious anthem for life.
He sings about his real home which is the Space and not the planet Earth
El lugar donde todos regresamos cuando morimos, o sea nuestro hogar original como parte de una sola energia universal.
The guitar licks, the drum and bass carrying a perfect pop song. Hot Belinda swinging around like my 80’s college crush is why I love the video.
Not only is this song timeless and amazing but the video is just as fantastic.
Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
agree 100%!
man you're timeless and amazing and just as fantastic!
"Timeless." Forever.❤️
EM Torhymne ✅🇩🇪
Amor da minha vida eu estou dançando igual uma louca na cozinha mas eu gosto de dançar sabe porque eu amo dançar eu curto porque eu vejo a vida viver eu vivo eu vivo eu vivo para curtir a minha vida a minha vida e amar a sua vida quando você tiver aqui no Brasil nós vamos dançar muito
😂😂
DUDE THE CHORUS OF THIS SONG IS UNDESCRIPTIBLE. I'm in love.
The moment I heard the intro and saw pogo flipping switches, that scene is burned into my brain how well done it is.
love the profile picture
Yeah that's why I Shazamed it lmao
Born To The Night by Ava Max was co-written by Peter Schilling and they sampled this song. The melody & chorus are very similar.
for real i wish the chorus was longer
I was driving my family home when the son heard this song on my radio and was stricken by it. The father told him how famous it was back in the 80s! Great day to be a car.
I was lucky to be born 70 and got to listen to da 80's music I miss da old music
He’s waited his entire life for this day. Happy 4/3/21 Mr. Schilling!!!
Hats off to you...
Sorry to be that guy but whappened on 4/3/21?
Oh wait never mind
I figured it out
I wonder how long you waited to be able to post this 🤣
The way the song starts out of time and then flips back in time for the chorus is pure madness. And genius.
The punk scene in the 80s in Germany was amazing. So much great music came out of that scene. Probably the last great decade for music. This is my all time favorite song. Its got a great beat and the lyrics and story they tell are literally out of this world. An astronaut lost in space. Drifting endlessly forever. Alive inside yet dead to the world. Such a great life metaphor for how many people feel. Drifting aimlessly. Alive inside. But eternally ignored by society.
Story of my life being the middle child LOL
I'm from Brazil and I really like 80s music.
It's 2024 and my teenage son brought me here. He heard 4 seconds of this song on some radio ad and was driven to know this song. He said their voices are pitch perfect. All I could tell him was "Son - that was a hit song from my time" - but I found it - evidence enough that 80s music is here to stay.
I was born in the year 2004 and i have grown around my siblings that have been born in the early 90s and i have been living my childhood around 90s tech and stuff and i love music from 80s and 90s!!
I hope 80s/90s music will not lose popularity❤
Big shoutout to him, I reintroduced this song to my grandparents and they went apeshit
Los años ochentas fue sin duda, donde los grandes artistas dejaron un legado para la humanidad; Saludos desde Ica 🇵🇪....!!!
@@matthewgrunow6760 reintroduced? Haha, cool. Gonna shoot my old man a link to this and see if he recalls, sure he'll like it.
New Germany goal sound 🇩🇪❤️
Can't wait for it to be played!🇩🇪
Fiago what are you doing here 😂
1982 is new?
Major TOM IS WITH YOU GUYS
Aber bitte in Deutsch
Good music will never go out of style, This song makes me happy 😊🤘
Me too
Why have I never heard this beautiful song before?...thank you Skeleton Crew! 😁
Loved this song back in the day a long long time ago
Only got to number 42 in the U.K. charts,crazy!
I heard of this songs many years before that upcoming show.
@@AndrewFry-d6wBut it reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
@@victorhernandez8723 Oh me too when it came out. I was just surprised to see it in a Star Wars show
This song is dripping in 80's-ness, just... perfectly.
Couldn't say it better
This chorus makes me feel like I'm weightless. Brilliant stuff!
"We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low" =)
This chourus is takiing off to infinity caliing hoooooooome, hoooooooooooome ,hooooooooome , thats music !
Mmm
Verdade
If you listen to the German version you will get that feeling even more
Still one of the most beautiful songs ever.
I agree.
Even touching to my heart.
Just the chorus part.
The chorus is one of the best I’ve ever heard
you're one of the most beautiful songs ever.
@@Liyah.s.1803 yea it's so beautiful I love it
I had forgotten about this 80s gem of a song. I was getting a haircut the other day and it came on the local radio station while sitting on the barbershop’s chair. It was stuck in my head for the rest of the day!
The sound design in the chorus is truly stellar.
Interstellar!
you beat me to it... @@TheProfessorsWorld
I can put this on repeat loop and listen for hours. Not many songs can do this for me.
true...i did the same
Yes me to
ROGER THAT,,,,watch my big brother Mikey on my channel someday,,,kudos only please
If you love this one, listen to some of his other songs, like The Different Story or Terra Titanic, Ich Vermisse Dich/All the Love I Need. It's VERY hard to pick a favorite!
I'm the same. Once I listen to this song I pretty much have to go without music for awhile. It's very "ethereal," if you will. It's also melancholy. I think what is hardest for me is how the wife responds to Major Tom's demise: she's in the arms of another man. That wrecks me and not in a good way. I think the idea of my wife in another man's arms while I'm away is a torture too insufferably indescribable to utter. An agony better suited for hell than earth. Then I wonder if Major Tom put his career before her and it drove her into another's arms. Then I wonder if it was just the music video director's cynical view of love.
I m into Heavy Metal but this song gets me moving, I really enjoy it for some reason... love the Chorus, I just put this song on Loop for around 7 times, lol... love it, thank you for sharing! 👨🏻🚀💫🌙🌍✨💥🚀🚀🚀
Yup, metalhead here too. I listen to a lot of cold wave and goth stuff too.
I grew up on New Wave ,punk and metal. The 80's were a blast
@@annahanguiano8931 Yes, I grew up in the 70's and graduated in 81, loved it, was a blast back then, much better than today for sure!
Totalmente. ...muchas bandas de metal le rinden tributo a estos grandes temas del pop de los 80...gamma ray. .hellowen etc...
New wave, punk, heavy metal are friends xd
Always loved this song. Listene to in NYC as a kid when it first came out and today was the first time I am watching the video. Can'ts stand the music today.
Había escuchado la canción millones de veces ... pero el video no lo había visto! Es genial! Ojalá aprendamos a valorar nuestro planeta 🙏🏼
As a child I remember hearing this on MTV...my husband was watching Umbrella Academy and I was in the kitchen when this song played. I actually stopped what I was doing to listen...there was an emotion I can not explain that literally welled up inside and gave me chill bumps. I have listen to this song several times over the last 2 days and I simply can't get it out of my head...
I loved tis song. Had completely forgotten about it. I was just watching episode of The Black List and heard it. Paused the show now this is in my saved list. Ah the memories I was 12.
Umbrella academy?
Yes
@@emmanuelmedina3337 its a great show on Netflix
@@sweettooth792002123 A fitting song for that apocalyptic series
I remember when this song came out. I loved it!! I was in the Army stationed in Germany. Whenever I hear it I always think of that time. I spent a good portion of the 80's in Germany.
and I came here from Deutschland (series) :)
@@marketmail49 That's awesome! My Daughter moved back there in 2010. She married a very nice German guy who is a mechanic, and a Volunteer Firefighter. Also, he is big into soccer. But then again you can compare that to us here liking our football or baseball. I loved it over there!
You should watch deutschland 83
@@Colhogan06 Passed through Frankfurt on the way to the box. Swore I'd go back and took my wife that next year. We stayed on Hanau. Loved it.
The "Rock" 3/36INF.
Life is crazy. I heard this song in Old Navy when I was like 7-8 and had no idea what the hell he was saying. I’m 25 now and listened to this song today!!!!
I’m so shocked and don’t have words. So much talent and respect for this artist 🙏
There is something about music from this time that just hits different than today and it's a good thing
Listening to the hook during midnight watching the stars makes me feel like I can achieve anything and make every dream reality.
This was 21 hours ago ur comment most are a year ago-
Well said 🤗
I wish I could watch those stars with you, I feel the EXACT same way. I sometimes listen to this and look at the stars from my little apartment window in the city.
I love this comment
Wanted to make a dumb joke, but yeah we're all looking at that same beautiful night sky.
Timeless. This could hit the top 10 again today and be relevant as it was when released. The world after Covid is begging for peace and freedom's and more relationships than the internet. The closeness of family and friends. We need hope not chaos. Love to all. Keep dancing.
Those of us who were youth in the 80s were BLESSED
Sim somos abençoados por ter curtido essa inesquecível era!
1980s was one of the greatest errors, and now Generation X gets to see it all go down. I was 18 yrs old in 1985 , and it's pretty sad to see what has happened with music and everything else that's going on.
Yes, we were! 80s were so awesome! I feel sorry for the youth today.
couldn't agree more! Nothing but opportunities and fun!
@@aspirecan4829Matt's post up there, my man! Read it...
Whose here lucky enough to hear this in the 80's? Songs from that decade are just like this song...out of this world.
I was in high school when this was released.
I was in the sccoll.... I was 17 yeard old....
I’m grateful for Umbrella Academy for introducing me to this song 🙌🏼😍 (Wasn’t born til the 90’s)
I was 13 when it came out
It was on the radio of course, but the only specific time I remember is watching this on "Friday Night Videos".
Massively underrated. Such a great song
I'm 35 years old, it's the first time I've heard this song, incredible.
Yo tengo 26 años y la escucho desde niña
Now listen to Space Oddity from David Bowie which is the song that inspired this german singer.
Y ya escuchaste Space Oddity de David Bowie? fué la canción que inspiró a este cantante alemán.@@valeriavb8133
I'm 43, and heard it in snippets in the past, but could never catch who it was etc. Captured it today via a link!
Just keep listening to the classics!
My sister recorded this on Friday Night Videos in '84. I was six, and of course my German born mom liked this song-who bought the album.
I loved the shots of rockets, space, even my boomer Dad liked this video because he was interested in it also. We had rough times as a farm family during the 80's but we had lots of good times also.
This reminds me when MTV and VH1 used to play great music videos
Me too. I guess that shows how old we are 😎
I always lamented not being able to see that.
We bts now
2:25
Exactly I’ve not watched any music channels for years no interest anymore
BITTE TORHYMNE für die EM 2024❤🇩🇪🦅💪🏻
Woher kommt der ganze hype jetzt mit diesem song? Wieso soll es plötzlich die hymne werden?
Ne auf deutsch
@@wasabifilms.Ist einfach ein guter Song
@@wasabifilms. Vom Adidas Werbeclip
@@wasabifilms.Unteranderem weil Adidas diesen Song im Werbespot verwendet hat 👌🏽 also daher dieser Hype
one of the best things about 50 years old ,is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 80's that is priceless and Iam grateful !!!
Gen x
Yessir ! What a great time to have lived through 👍
Mine, too!
You lucky SOB
Same here! 51 now. This was music!
My son played this to me and was surprised when I knew all the words, the greatest era of music
4,3,2,1 :56 is just timeless, I love metal but I appreciate all genres. This is one of my favorite songs, even with the heavy music I listen to. I can appreciate good music in any form.
Same, metal is my main genre but I love pop, folk and classical too.
I remember listening to this with my dad cruising down the road at night good memories when I was a lil girl hanging out with my dad he introduced me,to so many different genres of music
His soul drips into the chorus. More magical is, you're soaked into it too.
Yup, this song just draws you in and engulfs you. Its Totally absorbing.
Such a nostalgic song. Everytime I hear this song, it brings me back to those happy times.
I can't get enough of this song.
Not me either its soo amazing!!
Ditto, kinda like Dancing in the Moonlight
@Emma Maina lmao came from umbrella too
I've still got the vinyl.
Try the german Version its even better
Desde que esta pequeña mi abuelito me enseñó la mejor música de los 80 y los 90 hoy en día la sigo escuchando estoy temas.. 😢♥️ Saludos dedes México 🇲🇽
berlin city of night
muy excelente por esa enseñanza de tu abuelito igualmente yo se las enseñe a mis adolescentes hijas y les fascina
Yo tambíennnnn
Yo Diario las escucho camino hacia mi trabajoo...saludos desde san diego california🙂
Germany's EM song after the opening game brought me back here. Such a great song!
its a german song originally
Yes!!
Love it !!!
❤❤❤❤❤!
I am from Madrid and I have just returned after many days in Germany, where I was watching matches of my national team for Euro 2024
I am 36 years old and this is the fourth time I have visited Germany (the first time was in 2006, another unforgettable summer for football lovers)
That trip in 2006 was incredible, I was 18 years old, and thanks to some songs I managed to relive that trip to Germany with my friends, and I felt very nostalgic. Even songs in German, even if I didn't understand the lyrics.
18 years later, this song will help me not to forget another incredible summer in Germany.
It is a wonderful country and every time I go I enjoy it a lot. You Germans always organize these types of events well, and also a country with a huge football tradition.
In Spain we respect you a lot 👏🏻👏🏻
26 year old Spanish fan here - first ever international tournament for me, and what an incredible experience it has been. I was at the Germany-Spain game in Stuttgart, and I was euphoric for the win obviously, but still sad to see this fantastic host nation out of the tournament. I was happy to see so many German fans wearing the shirt on the following day. I didn't find out about the name of this song until then, and now it captures what I feel is so special about national team football - a whole country united behind a team, wanting to enjoy football, music (the joy of singing unofficial anthems like this one), summer, beer, and having a good time with football as the uniting passion. The daydreaming and hopeful feeling while your team is still in the fight, and the "what could have been" feeling when knocked out of the tournament. in the end that's what makes national team football so special in my opinion. thank you EURO 2024, regardless of what happens tomorrow in Spain v France, I will never forget this tournament.
@@2121MATEOy ahora con más motivo no lo vamos a olvidar en la vida!! 🇪🇸🏆
@@julianmarkham campeones!!! inolvidable
This is not song ....
This is timeless masterpiece
Bravo!
This is something unique, period.
This song is to the 80,s,what"crocodile rock"was to roller skating.
Yepp
I listen to this song every time:D
1983, perhaps the best year out of the 80s for iconic 80s new wave music. Such an iconic early 80s new wave classic. Timeless masterpiece. It makes me sad, happy, nostalgic, and wanting to sing at the top of my lungs. I just turned 57...
Dont be sad to be 57, I listen to new wave every day and try to get into the vibe that was it in the 80s
I get this 100% because I was a new wave punk in the 80's. 54 now! LOL
I will never get bored of this song. ever.
Me neither!👍🏻🎇🌌🌃
Its hard to believe it's been 41 years since this song can out!! I was 15😢. Rich.
I feel ya I was 14
Dam. I was 6. Song still blows my mind
Hahaha you need to calm down hahaha.
I was 16 years old in 1983 when this song was released.
I was 11. Great song!
I think the only reason this video doesn’t have more views is due to people likely not knowing the name of this song
the german original was more popular and up in the charts for an insane long time
@@zoolkhan what is the name for the german version?
@@lummx Also Major Tom. Nothing much to translate with the title, major is also major in German.
17 MILLION views is pretty good, I think
I once heard this song, and for a entire year I tried to find out his name (but because I listened the german version, I didn't know the lyrics) but a few days ago my ex boyfriend played it out on RUclips, so yes, it's a song pretty hard to find
La escuche en una película y no me acordaba ni de Peter Schilling ni de Major Tom...la busqué a lo tonto como "Four Three ..." y me salió de primera...Que grande los 80's y 90's y que grande Peter
that chorus is amazing
I love how it begins sounding spooky and the chorus is happy. I love songs that have emotions like this.
The dreamy futuristic 80s vibes I am getting from this song are the best.
So, Even J.C Denton listens to this in 2050
Yup
Hear my big brother Mikey on my channel someday,,,kudos only
Wow does this song bring back memories from 80’s… still sounds awesome today!
yes it does boy how i miss good music
1983 was a great year for music. This is one of my favorites.
70s until 1993
❤❤
Chorus is incredible, one of the best of the 1980’s.
Today's date is 4/3/21, and I guess you could say I've been waiting my whole life for it 🙃
4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Calling, calling home...
COOL.!! 🪐☄️💫
I generally do not read youtube comments but this one took of particular interest. A lot of what you stated is correct but not quite. As far as the whole 2012 Ancient Mayan Doomsday prophecy, it is actually very much set in stone as one of the greatest serendipities that is yet to conquer the whole world or "macrocosm" as we all know. There have been many other prophets from around the globe supporting this prophecy not just the ancient Mayans. All that being said apparently it was miscalculated according to the date. Supposedly December 21st 2012 was going to ignite the end of times bringing on catastrophic destructions such as natural earth disasters, etc. Not only that rumor has it that a giant dragon is supposed to arise out of the Ocean somewhere spitting fireballs all over the earth. All that being said , guess what ? It was a slight miscalculation with the year.... that's right, it did not happen in Dec 2012 but reverse that so they say and that means that it is really bound to happen this year.... 2021. Reverse the 12 it's obviously a 21. So that being said come the date of December 21st 2021 we are all going to be in for something extremely serious.
@@Archmetal06 sir, this is an Arby's
It happens something strange to me... Whenever I m reading Comments then it comes the exact part of the video That I m listening...in this case the 4,3,2,1🤔🙄🎶
This song is the epitome of the 80s
Nobody beats the 80 music. That's a fact...guarentee you will fall in love listening to the 80s songs
I love the 80s music
70s music does beat 80s in good music
My youth.i feel sorry for these kids Billie is not the most record breaking message in 30 years.yikes
@@error2912-w9q Um, no.
Bowie's my hero.
Just want to say how grateful I am to my parents for introducing me to fantastic music made before my time. This is one of those masterpieces.
Standing there alone
The ship is waiting
All systems are go
"Are you sure?"
Control is not convinced
But the computer
Has the evidence
No need to abort
The countdown starts
Watching in a trance
The crew is certain
Nothing left to chance
All is working
Trying to relax
Up in the capsule
"Send me up a drink."
Jokes Major Tom
The count goes on...
4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Calling, calling home...
Second stage is cut
We're now in orbit
Stabilizers up
Runnning perfect
Starting to collect
Requested data
"What will it affect
When all is done?"
Thinks Major Tom
Back at ground control
There is a problem
"Go to rockets full."
Not responding
"Hello Major Tom
Are you receiving?
Turn the thrusters on
We're standing by."
There's no reply
4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Calling, calling home...
Across the stratosphere
A final message:
"Give my wife my love."
Then nothing more
Far beneath the ship
The world is mourning
They don't realize
He's alive
No one understands
But Major Tom sees
"Now the light commands
This is my home
I'm coming home."
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Coming home...
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Coming, coming
Home
Home
✌
thansk for the lyrics
DANKE 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍!!!
gracias por la letra
Give my wife my love ...
as his last message...
That's an honorable guy to think of his wife at that point in time with Earth below him.
What can you expect from a German artist...nothing but the best.
Anymore...I expect Islam and the destruction of Deutschland.
Peter schilling has a everlasting legacy here he will never be forgotten this is his song
La cadena se ronpio
Gracias por darnos lo mejor de la vida 🙌🏻. Desde Ayacucho🇵🇪 Perú, Cuna de la hispanidad americana.