"And as we sit here alone looking for a reason to go on, it's so clear that all we have now are our thoughts of yesterday" I don't think a lyric has ever captured my life as perfectly as this one this one does.
It's a great lyric and a clear message to not get caught up in nostalgia. Yes, the past was good, but there are many things about today that people in the 80s could only dream about. The biggest example is smart phones. If you take away all the negatives like facebook and instagram, smart phones are amazing devices that can make life easier. I was a kid in the 80s and my head was full of electric dreams, a future where people could connect to the internet. I wanted it so badly. Now that it's finally here we all just take it for granted.
A time when two young girls could make a band, go shopping on a Saturday afternoon in Glasgow centre and then listen to themselves on the chart update on the radio at there grandma’s on a Sunday afternoon.... Life was simple and good.... Just like the music.
Oh this song makes me so emotional. Not just for the 80s, I was 16 when this was out and I have to say it wasn't a good time for me literally running away from my abusive father but the whole lyrics just makes me so sad. I still listen to it though 😢
Isn't it weird how a song can take us 2 a bad place yet we still listen. So sorry you had to suffer especially from a father who should be there to keep you safe ❤
Just close your eyes and then remember The thoughts you've locked away When tomorrow comes you'll wish You had today And as we sit here alone Looking for a reason to go on It's so clear that all we have now Are our thoughts of yesterday If you're still there when it's all over I'm scared I'll have to say That a part of you has gone Since yesterday And as we sit here alone Looking for a reason to go on It's so clear that all we have now Are our thoughts of yesterday Well, maybe this could be the ending With nothing left of you A hundred wishes couldn't say I don't want to It's so clear that all we have now Are thoughts of yesterday
This is one of the finest pop songs ever, a genuine classic! Rose and Jill looked so beautiful as well, absolutely gorgeous! This song more than other takes me back to being a teenager. Thanks for the memory Ladies!
used to see them both walking about Glasgow in the early 80s up near the art college,,,they just looked like they are in this video,,,two very good looking girls that stood out from tbe crowd.
@@Vyxia not even joking, rose mcdowall (the short one) went on to be a pretty important figure in the uk underground neofolk/avant-garde scene. she worked with groups like current 93, coil, death in june, nurse with wound, and psychic tv. she also sung lead vocals on this album right here ruclips.net/video/pHbkwgOnQpc/видео.html I hope this was helpful to you.
Why does this sound like the type of song you'd play at a funeral or memorial and people would burst out crying because the lyrics mirror how they're feeling but in a cheery tone
@@richardbriggs8509 This is the original. Strawberry Switchblade released their self-titled EP with this song in 1984 (and it was recorded in '83), while the Current 93 version wasn't released until 1988.
@@listen_to_the_snail Yeah current 93's is great too, but these gals wrote the thing. David Tibet respected them highly apparently. And to mocha barbie, it's a perfect contrast of melancholic lyrics with an upbeat tune. It's bittersweet and pulls on the heartstrings in a very powerful way, brilliant stuff, bravo girls!
One of 1984's finest! I can't believe I was 6 when this came out. My mum had the radio on more than the TV, and this was always playing. I'm instantly transported back whenever I hear it :)
This song popped into my head about a month ago, and I couldn't think what it was or who sung it. It was driving me nuts. So today I did the Google listen and whistled the tune, thinking no way would it recognise it....and it did!!! This song brings me back to days when music was clean, fun and fresh.
I'm glad my friend John Smith from high school in the 80's turned me onto this band. They are still one of my all time favorite bands in the world. I spin their records in the clubs like a religious belief, I love them so. Their music always makes me feel alive again unlike today's mainstream. You wont replace these girls ever. D.J. -Willie-
This was on a mixtape I got from a shy, awkward friend. Programmed computers on his spare time. Clumsy. He got mocked sometimes. Highly intelligent, became highly educated. He started working at an IT firm directly after a top engineering university. After some years, he suddenly took one year off. Traveled. Bought a motorcycle (he was not the motorcycle type). As if he had enough of his tidy life and wanted to break free. After some time, not long after he bought the motorcycle, I heard he died in a traffic accident. Somehow I wasn't surprised; this tall, skinny, clumsy man trying to control one of these beasts in a highly trafficked city. He was the first same-age person I knew that died. Felt sorry for him. He didn't enjoy his free life very long.
I'm sure he felt he lived life to the fullest. He did his best in things he had a passion about, then went to pursue freedom - he is at where freedom is at the highest pedigree now, I believe that!
Du de Normaundie one of my freinds died in a motorbike smash hit a wall at high speed he was only 20 he used to get bullied a bit for being scruffy and was a bit of a loner, he always said I made him laugh when we walked home together from school
Boy does this warp me back to my childhood, one of my absolute all time favourites, shear nostalgia. Apparently they were huge in Japan, I wonder where they are now?
They were Big in Japan,which sadly they were not here in Great Britain. The very clever band Japan had even higher notoriety in Japan,as the times and the culture were very visual oriented along with the unique position they held at that time. Nothing comes close by today's dismissal offerings.
Oh yes! I recall the Polk-a-dot skirts and hairbands when I was a teeny 12-13!. I loved these two female role model alternatives and they have definitely made history here!
The scots never get enough credit for anything, but that's okay. We know who we are! Scotland has contributed so damn much in all regards to humanity in spite of their small size, GO SCOTLAND!
I was 13 when this came out and absolutely loved them to bits. How they looked and dressed was just wonderful; I so wanted to be them and look that attractive. Unfortunately I was born male, but now almost 40 years later I’ve started transitioning and I still find I want to look like Jill and Rose. 🙂
That must be the touch of their producer Bill Drummond who had a post-KLF project in Finland of producing a compilation of fake Finnish pop bands and then he abandon the project.
Really one of my all time favourites. The other guys in the studio called me a pervert but I love these cheesy sounding records so much that a bought a cassette player just for this stuff. Thanks for sharing.
I knew both Rose and Jill back in the day and Jill is still writing and tours and Rose still writes as well. Would love to see them get together and tour again.
Sadly Jill is a bitter and vindictive person who has spent the last few decades trying to destroy Rose' career through rumour and subterfuge, but Rose will be performing until she dies, with much more capable and lovable people. Catch Jo the Cellist while you can, she is an incredible instrumentalist.
@@jhowardsupporter OK. I'll take up the challenge. All in good fun. Aside from numerous vinyl records, including Trees and Flowers and two of Jolene, I have a Japanese pressing of their CD. And also something called The Platinum Collection which was released rather more recently (2005) with the same track listing as the album CD plus Jolene and a few others.
Came here from the video by Pseudiom about them but have fallen in love with this track. So wonderfully melancholic yet beautifully cheerful, and I think this song understands me as much as I understand it.
This song reminds me back in 84 around this time early December I was 16 and working for Royal nail as a cadet we had a union meeting in our canteen because there was going to be a walk out ,strike one of our drivers put the TV on while we waited for our union rep to come up and the late but sadly missed Steve coke said great strawberry switch blade he turned up the TV and it lifted the atmosphere ,all was well great memory ,it was on a mid morning chart show on ITV ,freedom by wham followed great times
It's so clear that all we have now are our thoughts of yesterday? Ahem, perhaps that is all we have. But what thoughts they are! All the best, Jill and Rose. You rock.
I showed my baby cousin photos of strawberry switchblade and everytime she smiled and giggled i showed her this music video and she couldnt stop smiling
Our thoughts of yesterday indeed with this beautiful song when music was this good. July 2020 and we are still listening to this, you all know good music then. 😎👍👍😎♥️🎵👋👋
BeardedHoplite Goth music is basically 80’s alternative. Goth was invented in the 80’s and got it’s edge in the 90’s. So it will always have that 80’s flavor to it. Also scene ripped off goth. “Scene” looks existed in goth waaaaay back in the day.
David Arriaga got its edge in the 90s? It was over as a cool scene by 91, what was left became either sub metal dirge or goth lite. It’s peak years we’re 84-88 when the Sisters ruled supreme and The Cult (never really a goth band) became stadium rock. It was on offshoot of punk that became its own thing.
Duncan Garvey I’m aware, but it had more of a draw in the 90’s, granted it was heavily industrial influenced and even slightly metally, you should watch som goth RUclips’s from the 90’s and heat their experiences, the scene simply evolved as it does. I know about Goth music and the many genres that make it, I am goth, lol, one of the coolest things about goth is it’s a subculture that sure maybe in purity died out, but it planted to seeds for many things, and it evolves with each new generation.
David Arriaga Every generation shits on the previous one. Talk to anyone from any youth scene, and it definitely “died” after they grew up, coincidentally.
I remember this song from back in the day. Interesting part is that they were both art students at the Glasgow school of Art. Same for the Rezillos who went to the Edinburgh School of Art. So that reflects in their comic book 0:03 outfits and in their videos. A bit on creative, artsy, and outlandish side. 0:03
Wow! How has this been out since 1985 and I'm only discovering it now. Incredible track! Ohhh the discovery of music... 1. Friend sends me a link to check out the latest release from a group called "Lust For Life" 2. Interested enough in the song that I read up on the band and learn about their current record label called "Sacred Bones Records" 3. Go to labels website to check out their artist roster and happen across the artist Rose McDowall and listen to the album Cut With the Cake Knife. 4. At first I'm under the impression she's current so I look her up on youtube and this song keeps popping up. 5. I take a listen, instantly fall in love with the track and than realize the song is from 1985, sounds current to me. 6. Now I have something new and exciting to share back to my friend!
We did have some decent stuff in the eighties, you had some of the poncy boy bands with the bad hair then fantastic girl bands, Heart, Bananarama, go go's, Bangles, Mel and Kim,. Bands with female , you've got to listen to Divinyls and T'pau
Came out before I was born but my pops raised me listening to the CD living in oblivion 80s greatest hits and just found this gem again. Too bad music will never be this good again
I totally forgot this great song - haven't heard it for thirty odd years at least! Memories! You don't realise how quick time goes nowadays when you are older 😭
This song does something to me EVERY TIME I hear it! Too bad Strawberry Switchblade never really got the credit they so richly desevred here in the United States. They were AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm 43 too, love this track so much - Could have sworn it was out earlier than 1984, I think I first seen in played on BBC's "The Saturday Picture Show" in 1984 with Mark Curry/Maggie Philbin - The track's opening fanfare came from Sibelius's Symphony No. 5 - I never realised that until i heard it play on ClassicFM
Lyrics: just close your eyes and then remember The thoughts you've locked away When tomorrow comes you'll wish You had today [Chorus] And as we sit here alone Looking for a reason to go on It's so clear that all we have now Are our thoughts of yesterday If you're still there when it's all over I'm scared I'll have to say That a part of you has gone Since yesterday [Chorus] Well, maybe this could be the ending With nothing left of you A hundred wishes couldn't say I don't want to [Chorus] It's so clear that all we have now Are thoughts of yesterday.
1980s memory of an American kid visiting the UK; friends of mine there were bragging that their music was better than American music, and they asked me, "Have you heard of Strawberry Switchblade? They're BRILLIANT!" Well, the group had never crossed over to our side of the pond, so no, I had not heard of them. But years later I agree; "Since Yesterday" is a terrific pop tune, and today I enthusiastically champion Strawberry Switchblade just as those friends of mine did so many decades ago. :-D
Yep, I'm getting an 80s fringe, once the hairdresser's are open again. I did actually suit in it. Being a goth and SE Asian, I don't need to dye my hair black, but I might get colourful clip in's
This was on one my Radio 1 Weekly Top 40 cassettes from back in 84/85'ish when I would record live radio.... Brings back some really happy memories to hear this.
+HIDhater Ahhh, recording the Top 40. The highlight of many of us' week! Admittedly, I didn't do it until a few years later, I was too busy having my crisps nicked in primary school.
They were like chalk and cheese, hence the acrimonious break up a few years later. I saw them on Goth on the BBC on BBC 4 on Halloween night, and it was mentioned in a subtitle. I looked on their official website and read in the interviews they gave over the years that they although they were both brought up in Glasgow but they came from completely different backgrounds and when they met though being in the same circle of friends it took a few years to get the courage to speak to each other out of 'shyness'. They only connected as both wanted to form an all girl punk band. Jill's parents were middle class, and she had suffered from agoraphobia so bad she couldn't go to school for a year. Rose was brought up in a very rough area of Glasgow and had seen people get murdered including her younger brother, and also her cat was killed in front of her.
lemsip I remember seein them as the first guests of the year on good morning Briton not sure what year it was but I thought they were gonna be massive. Fancied the black haired one right off. Bit of trivia did u know how they got their name? They knew a bunch of lads in another band an one of the lads told them they were gonna call themselves strawberry switchblade but the others in the group thought it was to girlie so they never used it so the two girls decided to pick it as their name. Cool hey. The shit you remember as you get older haha
I'd wondered if it'd stemmed somehow from a book called The Cross and the Switchblade about New York Gangs. One of my teachers read extracts from it to us in class around the end of the 70s/start of the 80s.
i wonder if maybe there was only so much they could do with the the theme of dark, sad lyrics buried under saccharine. i think the name was an illustration of how they wanted you to be drawn in by the sound and then gutted by what they were singing.
The punk movement expanded rapidly in the United Kingdom in 1976. At the time, Rose McDowall and Jill Bryson were part of the bohemian art scene who adored the New York Dolls and who followed Scottish punk band Nu-Sonics (later Orange Juice) during their career, with McDowall playing and recording with Paisley punk band The Poems. Bryson studied for four years at the Glasgow School of Art where she achieved a BA honours degree in mixed media. As friends, McDowall and Bryson socialised in Glasgow pubs, catching many local bands at the time. One of these bands was Orange Juice, fronted by Edwyn Collins. Members of New Pop and Orange Juice had recorded a live version of "Felicity" as a flexi-disc and intended to release it. A fanzine, to be titled Strawberry Switchblade after a James Kirk song, was planned to promote the flexi-disc but never materialised. The "Felicity" flexi-disc was eventually released in conjunction with the debut Orange Juice single, "Falling and Laughing". McDowall was later given the name by James Kirk. The band's very first incarnation, an all-female 4 piece, recorded one demo at Glasgow's Hellfire Club and played a handful of gigs. Friends Janice Goodlett and Carole McGowan completed the line up on bass and drums respectively. Strawberry Switchblade played at a John Peel gig in Scotland, and he invited them to record a session for his BBC Radio 1 show in October 1982. They also recorded a session for David Jensen's Radio 1 show three days later. On both sessions the band were augmented by James Kirk from Orange Juice on bass and Shahid Sarwar from The Recognitions on drums. Early days making records. The sessions were heard by Bill Drummond (a Scottish musician who went on to form The KLF) and David Balfe, respectively manager and keyboard player with the recently defunct The Teardrop Explodes, who became the group's managers. The band's first single, "Trees and Flowers", was released in July 1983 through 92 Happy Customers, an independent record label run by Will Sergeant from Echo & The Bunnymen, and sold over 10,000 copies. It was featured at number 47 in John Peel's 1983 Festive 50. "Trees and Flowers" was written by Bryson about her anxiety disorder, agoraphobia. Drummond signed the band to Warner Music Group subsidiary Korova in 1983. They got a full backing band with whom they toured and began recording an album with producer Robin Millar. However, at the record company's behest, they reverted to the duo of Bryson and McDowall and for production duties they hired David Motion, who would soon go on to produce hits for Red Box. "Since Yesterday" In late 1984 their second single, "Since Yesterday", was released. Having been given a large marketing push over the festive period, it became a UK top ten hit in early 1985, peaking at number 5, and also met with success in Europe and Japan. Their cover version of "Sunday Morning" (originally by Velvet Underground) was released as an extra track on the 12" of "Since Yesterday". It was not included on any of the Strawberry Switchblade albums. The track's opening fanfare came from the third movement of Sibelius's Symphony No. 5.
My first real connection in secondary school, we ignored english lessons and drew pictures of Strawberry Switchblade and Tik and Tok; I loved you Nina xx
this song was stuck in my head for years (since the 80's actually) and i didn't know who it was until tonight when i heard the song 'beach baby' by 'the first class'. i recognized the horn part. it was very similar. i did some clever googling and found out it is from 'symphony no. 5" from "sibelius". well, wouldn't you know, the wikipedia had a listing of popular songs that used that horn section and one of them said "strawberry switchblade, since yesterday, 1984" and i said "thats gottabeit!!!"
I grew up in the 1980s and am familiar with a lot of songs in the era. But I have only heard of Strawberry Switchblade and this song a few days ago. I thought this could be a fairly new group and the song must have been released fairly recently. Until I did a Google search. Wow, what did I miss!? It hurts knowing that I have not known of them earlier.
This reminds me of my very very good pal David Bowe. He has sadly passed away now but whenever I hear this or play it it's an instant reminder of what a good lad he was. I genuinely miss him god bless you Dave Shenley Green forever son. ⭐️
Never heard this since just now on tik Tok...and has someone borne in the 80s and grew up in the 90s how come I never hear this till today.ITS BRILLIANT..and is screaming for a decent remix
When I was 14 I lived in London (1985) and I bought a compilation cassette tape with this song on it, I think it was from Smash Hits magazine. It also had Tracy Ullman's "They Don't Know", another classic song that never got the fame it deserved. I wish I could go back to the 80s with you. We didn't appreciate how good we had it back then - those were the days of true creativity and experimentation in music, film, art and fashion.
rose mcdowell has an amazing voice!! anyone thinking this is just pop nonsense, remember, she has a great reputation in the underground! she's done great work with COIL, current93, psychic tv, nurse with wound etc etc!! her other work, SPELL and SORROw are great!! she hasn't changed much...... still amazing!
@@scherryvalentine9673 😂no.... that’s Cosey fanni tutti.... Chris Carter was her band mate in throbbing gristle and is also her husband! Rose McDowell is the ex wife of ex COIL member Drew Mcdowell..... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosey_Fanni_Tutti en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_McDowall
@@schreineinAV Ah! Thank you! I am old now and get them all confused. I listened to a little Psychic TV long ago. So it was Rose who sang with Current 93 then? Current 93 and Jarboe defined my summer of ‘96. Strange and precious memories.
Wow, this song reminds me of my schooldays. It reached number 5 in the UK in January 1985 and I still remember it so clearly. The years have flown by so quickly!
I heard half of this song on the radio in 1984 or 85 and missed the title and band name, something with "strawberry" and "yesterday". I tried finding it a few times but then forgot about it for 20+ years. Finally found it, 40 years later.
Great song, such a cute look, much of my youth was spent with crimped backcombed hair 😂 this video reminds me of the magic roundabout for some reason. It just makes me feel happy ❤
This randomly came up recommended. I can remember this so clearly from my youth and desperately wanting to have my hair done like this. Their was a phase in 80s music where every female and some male singers etc looked like a commercial version of Siouxsie🙂
Sibelius's Fifth Symphony is playing from the Albert Hall right at this moment 9pm 21/8/2014. Odd having that coming in one ear and the Blade in the other.
That also gets used in the coda of Beach Baby, by The First Class. I'd love to hear someone do a mix or crossfade from Beach Baby into Since Yesterday - every time i listen to one of them, I hear the other.
![Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday [TOTP 24th Jan 1985 HQ Sound]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JPFcduYdxe8/mqdefault.jpg)
"And as we sit here alone looking for a reason to go on, it's so clear that all we have now are our thoughts of yesterday" I don't think a lyric has ever captured my life as perfectly as this one this one does.
I know how you feel
It's a great lyric and a clear message to not get caught up in nostalgia. Yes, the past was good, but there are many things about today that people in the 80s could only dream about. The biggest example is smart phones. If you take away all the negatives like facebook and instagram, smart phones are amazing devices that can make life easier. I was a kid in the 80s and my head was full of electric dreams, a future where people could connect to the internet. I wanted it so badly. Now that it's finally here we all just take it for granted.
This song captures the 80's in every sense. The video, the nostalgic song and the ambiance of that time.
The tinny production certainly.
YOU CAN GET LOST ,YOU DON'T APPRECIATE GREAT MUSIC FROM THE 80'S , TROUBLE WITH IDIOT'S LIKE YOU .@@offbeat65
@@offbeat65 way more sophisticated than now overproduction
The song is about suicide.
@@offbeat65 This youtube video was recorded from a crappy VHS copy. That's why it sounds so bad. We had CD's in the 80s.
I’ve never even heard of this band before and then suddenly 13 years later I get it in my recommended
@@alwayslearning-x5w they mean the video upload date :T
@@cicada8790 why are you this sour over a bunch of pixels that form text. It‘s not a message that harms anyone geez
Same.
I don't even think it was in my recommend. I think I've worked my through enough of RUclips that I inevitably ended up on it.
Same, and to top it all off, shit is wack
A time when two young girls could make a band, go shopping on a Saturday afternoon in Glasgow centre and then listen to themselves on the chart update on the radio at there grandma’s on a Sunday afternoon.... Life was simple and good.... Just like the music.
I LOVE what you wrote! So true!
you should work in advertising
@@octaviussludberry9016 Why you gotta bring the vibe down?
@@matrix26uk They pay me to do so.
@@octaviussludberry9016 You seem fun
these young ladies borrowed my drum machine , i never saw it again lol , i so loved the 80,s
Omg fr? That's such a big flex to be honest your a very lucky person. ❤
That's brillient x
Ivw always tried to support them xx
If it was an RX17 I bought it LOL
Thanks for doing so!! They made some damn good jams with it :)
Oh this song makes me so emotional. Not just for the 80s, I was 16 when this was out and I have to say it wasn't a good time for me literally running away from my abusive father but the whole lyrics just makes me so sad. I still listen to it though 😢
Isn't it weird how a song can take us 2 a bad place yet we still listen. So sorry you had to suffer especially from a father who should be there to keep you safe ❤
@grahamcheesman2252 thank you
Me too .
Just close your eyes and then remember
The thoughts you've locked away
When tomorrow comes you'll wish
You had today
And as we sit here alone
Looking for a reason to go on
It's so clear that all we have now
Are our thoughts of yesterday
If you're still there when it's all over
I'm scared I'll have to say
That a part of you has gone
Since yesterday
And as we sit here alone
Looking for a reason to go on
It's so clear that all we have now
Are our thoughts of yesterday
Well, maybe this could be the ending
With nothing left of you
A hundred wishes couldn't say
I don't want to
It's so clear that all we have now
Are thoughts of yesterday
You are beautiful 🌹
ありがとう
Sadly memory's become part of history ,good and bad
This is one of the finest pop songs ever, a genuine classic! Rose and Jill looked so beautiful as well, absolutely gorgeous! This song more than other takes me back to being a teenager. Thanks for the memory Ladies!
Gorgeous
So nostalgic for the sound of young Glasgow in the 80's....just a fantastic song.Thank you Rose & Jill
used to see them both walking about Glasgow in the early 80s up near the art college,,,they just looked like they are in this video,,,two very good looking girls that stood out from tbe crowd.
wonder what they're up to nowadays 😕😕
That's awesome
That’s incredible wtf
@@Vyxia not even joking, rose mcdowall (the short one) went on to be a pretty important figure in the uk underground neofolk/avant-garde scene. she worked with groups like current 93, coil, death in june, nurse with wound, and psychic tv. she also sung lead vocals on this album right here ruclips.net/video/pHbkwgOnQpc/видео.html I hope this was helpful to you.
@@hari2185 wow thank you so much xD How about the other one? I hope she's not dead :(
Why does this sound like the type of song you'd play at a funeral or memorial and people would burst out crying because the lyrics mirror how they're feeling but in a cheery tone
Look up Current 93 Since Yesterday...it's the original version and more funeral worthy
@@richardbriggs8509 This is the original. Strawberry Switchblade released their self-titled EP with this song in 1984 (and it was recorded in '83), while the Current 93 version wasn't released until 1988.
@@listen_to_the_snail Yeah current 93's is great too, but these gals wrote the thing. David Tibet respected them highly apparently. And to mocha barbie, it's a perfect contrast of melancholic lyrics with an upbeat tune. It's bittersweet and pulls on the heartstrings in a very powerful way, brilliant stuff, bravo girls!
I'm glad to say I still have the single of this in my 80s box. One of my faves. Lovely harmonies and loads of fun.
Fantastic song. Excellent lyrics and timeless. Should have been a smash hit. Thank you for the memories.
It was a smash hit in the UK ( No.5 in 1985).
Such a brilliant, prevocative and haunting song. Brings back so many memories. Beautiful.
One of 1984's finest! I can't believe I was 6 when this came out. My mum had the radio on more than the TV, and this was always playing. I'm instantly transported back whenever I hear it :)
Miss these times so much. Lost so many great mates over the last few years. Everyone be strong and hang in there. Love and peace 🇬🇧
This song popped into my head about a month ago, and I couldn't think what it was or who sung it. It was driving me nuts. So today I did the Google listen and whistled the tune, thinking no way would it recognise it....and it did!!! This song brings me back to days when music was clean, fun and fresh.
I'm glad my friend John Smith from high school in the 80's turned me onto this band. They are still one of my all time favorite bands in the world. I spin their records in the clubs like a religious belief, I love them so. Their music always makes me feel alive again unlike today's mainstream. You wont replace these girls ever. D.J. -Willie-
+Willie Meeks Well said Willie
This was on a mixtape I got from a shy, awkward friend. Programmed computers on his spare time. Clumsy. He got mocked sometimes. Highly intelligent, became highly educated. He started working at an IT firm directly after a top engineering university.
After some years, he suddenly took one year off. Traveled. Bought a motorcycle (he was not the motorcycle type). As if he had enough of his tidy life and wanted to break free.
After some time, not long after he bought the motorcycle, I heard he died in a traffic accident. Somehow I wasn't surprised; this tall, skinny, clumsy man trying to control one of these beasts in a highly trafficked city. He was the first same-age person I knew that died. Felt sorry for him. He didn't enjoy his free life very long.
Du de Normaundie thank goodness he broke out and lived and did what he wanted to do before he died though.
I'm sure he felt he lived life to the fullest. He did his best in things he had a passion about, then went to pursue freedom - he is at where freedom is at the highest pedigree now, I believe that!
Du de Normaundie one of my freinds died in a motorbike smash hit a wall at high speed he was only 20 he used to get bullied a bit for being scruffy and was a bit of a loner, he always said I made him laugh when we walked home together from school
Maybe he was luckier than all of us - he died doing something that made him free (RIP)
What age? What year was he born, this song was from the 80s?
Boy does this warp me back to my childhood, one of my absolute all time favourites, shear nostalgia. Apparently they were huge in Japan, I wonder where they are now?
They were Big in Japan,which sadly they were not here in Great Britain.
The very clever band Japan had even higher notoriety in Japan,as the times and the culture were very visual oriented along with the unique position they held at that time.
Nothing comes close by today's dismissal offerings.
Given that I can see a bit of Malice Mizer in them, a band from the 90s, I can see how that works.
Japan has always been a lucrative market to succeed in, they may have made more money there than they ever could here
Oh yes! I recall the Polk-a-dot skirts and hairbands when I was a teeny 12-13!. I loved these two female role model alternatives and they have definitely made history here!
Wow! I've just gone back to when I first heard this Absolutely Monumental Track from these Superb Artists
.Thank You For This Amazing Classic.
Completely forgot about them. Thanks for bringing back that memory. 😊
scotland doesn't get enough credit for contributions to the goth scene. strawberry switchblade, cocteau twins.
I agree
not forgetting the mary chain
@@andrewmccaig680 I thought Jesus had something to do the Mary chain
The scots never get enough credit for anything, but that's okay. We know who we are! Scotland has contributed so damn much in all regards to humanity in spite of their small size, GO SCOTLAND!
And a very early Simple Minds,fantastic band before they became a bloated stadium act.
Man I so loved this, I was probably 7 or 8. Had forgotten all about it. Great Fun, great memories
Angel voices with melodic synth pop of the 80'ies! No recycling, this is innovative and original! Ever grateful for this great music!
yeah
Apart from the Jean Sibelius sample eh!
I was 13 when this came out and absolutely loved them to bits. How they looked and dressed was just wonderful; I so wanted to be them and look that attractive. Unfortunately I was born male, but now almost 40 years later I’ve started transitioning and I still find I want to look like Jill and Rose. 🙂
so cool!
Mental Illness since childhood
bruh
I'm so glad you found yourself
Thats so cute :D
So happy this popped into my searches.. Just a beautiful song, girls and the happiest days of my life.
Great stuff, very melancholic, contrasting against the seemingly happy tone. A lot more deep than at first it seems.
The opening theme is from Jean Sibelius's symphony #5. It was also used in a 1970s song, "Beach Baby." Lovely melody.
I was going to mention that myself 🙂
First class ❤
Love you all merry Christmas 😂
@@andyburton27967 years too late 😅
That must be the touch of their producer Bill Drummond who had a post-KLF project in Finland of producing a compilation of fake Finnish pop bands and then he abandon the project.
Really one of my all time favourites. The other guys in the studio called me a pervert but I love these cheesy sounding records so much that a bought a cassette player just for this stuff. Thanks for sharing.
One of my top favourite songs of the 1980's...or ever 🙌🏻👩🏻👩🏻🏴😍😁🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
One of my favourite songs totally brings back the 80s to me
Reminds me of nowadays, thoughts lost, for a reasons to go in with thoughts of yesterday
I still have the 7" single of this when I bought when I was in 6th form.
I'm old...
There's so much great music out there that never gets any airplay. This is one of many of such classics. Thank You.
such a lovely song. a touch of melancholy runs through me when i hear it though,but i still cant stop playing it over and over
I knew both Rose and Jill back in the day and Jill is still writing and tours and Rose still writes as well. Would love to see them get together and tour again.
n i have the cd! original pressing i think! so ha beat that!
Sadly Jill is a bitter and vindictive person who has spent the last few decades trying to destroy Rose' career through rumour and subterfuge, but Rose will be performing until she dies, with much more capable and lovable people. Catch Jo the Cellist while you can, she is an incredible instrumentalist.
@@jhowardsupporter OK. I'll take up the challenge. All in good fun. Aside from numerous vinyl records, including Trees and Flowers and two of Jolene, I have a Japanese pressing of their CD. And also something called The Platinum Collection which was released rather more recently (2005) with the same track listing as the album CD plus Jolene and a few others.
@@terencedavis6811 forgive me if i am wrong were they not scottish i have something in the back of my mind saying they were from glasgow
I’d like to see them get together
いきなりオススメにあがってきて、懐かしくてびっくりした！
私もです もう十数年・・・それよりももっと長い間忘れていました
LPレコード持ってます。今でもお気に入りでよく聴いてます。MV見たのは初めて😊
Came here from the video by Pseudiom about them but have fallen in love with this track. So wonderfully melancholic yet beautifully cheerful, and I think this song understands me as much as I understand it.
Who ?
lol
@@Ritff666l-e9e Google is free and so easy to use even someone like you could operate it. Give it a try sometime
I fell in love with this one almost 40 years ago and i still love it
This song reminds me back in 84 around this time early December I was 16 and working for Royal nail as a cadet we had a union meeting in our canteen because there was going to be a walk out ,strike one of our drivers put the TV on while we waited for our union rep to come up and the late but sadly missed Steve coke said great strawberry switch blade he turned up the TV and it lifted the atmosphere ,all was well great memory ,it was on a mid morning chart show on ITV ,freedom by wham followed great times
One of those 'lightning in a bottle' songs: melody, lyrics, vocals, and performance. And written by them as well!
40 years on and I still love this song with all my heart.
I fell in love with New Wave growing up in the 80’s , happy fun times, takes me back to my carefree youth.
It's so clear that all we have now are our thoughts of yesterday? Ahem, perhaps that is all we have. But what thoughts they are! All the best, Jill and Rose. You rock.
The 80s were magic. Can't believe that this track only made number 5 in the charts.
Only?! There was so much quality in the charts between 1980 and 1985 that there were plenty of deserving tunes that failed to even break the Top 10!
This means nothing to meeeeee.....
It was completely surrounded on all sides by other songs that were just as good! the 80s was a tsunami of gorgeous songwriting....
Only made no 5 is hat a joke-got to be!
@@DaveAndBeth1978 That person has got to be being sarcastic or makes no sense!
I showed my baby cousin photos of strawberry switchblade and everytime she smiled and giggled i showed her this music video and she couldnt stop smiling
How did I miss this in the 80's?....love it...thank you
What a fantastic song,a brilliant tune.Would love to have heard more from Strawberry Switchblade in the 80's, just brilliant!
Our thoughts of yesterday indeed with this beautiful song when music was this good. July 2020 and we are still listening to this, you all know good music then. 😎👍👍😎♥️🎵👋👋
Proto-scene goth chicks with 80s sounding music?
This might be the most perfect thing I have ever seen
BeardedHoplite Goth music is basically 80’s alternative. Goth was invented in the 80’s and got it’s edge in the 90’s. So it will always have that 80’s flavor to it. Also scene ripped off goth. “Scene” looks existed in goth waaaaay back in the day.
David Arriaga got its edge in the 90s? It was over as a cool scene by 91, what was left became either sub metal dirge or goth lite. It’s peak years we’re 84-88 when the Sisters ruled supreme and The Cult (never really a goth band) became stadium rock. It was on offshoot of punk that became its own thing.
Duncan Garvey I’m aware, but it had more of a draw in the 90’s, granted it was heavily industrial influenced and even slightly metally, you should watch som goth RUclips’s from the 90’s and heat their experiences, the scene simply evolved as it does. I know about Goth music and the many genres that make it, I am goth, lol, one of the coolest things about goth is it’s a subculture that sure maybe in purity died out, but it planted to seeds for many things, and it evolves with each new generation.
Have more in common with the ronettes than goth i think 😉
David Arriaga Every generation shits on the previous one. Talk to anyone from any youth scene, and it definitely “died” after they grew up, coincidentally.
Im taken back to my youth listening to this 😊
I remember this hit as if it were Yesterday...Thanks for uploading.
Wow this is awesome. I never heard of them or this song. Very good. Thanks for sharing!
Pup
Not heard this song in decades. Now I feel really old.
+Jay Winstanley Me too!
+Jay Winstanley Yep we are
+Marja Lindeman lol = 50 something :)
+Jay Winstanley Strawberry Switchblade are old too. They're both nudging 60!
+Jay Winstanley Today I heard this song again since many many years.Yes I feel old too!
I remember this song from back in the day. Interesting part is that they were both art students at the Glasgow school of Art. Same for the Rezillos who went to the Edinburgh School of Art. So that reflects in their comic book 0:03 outfits and in their videos. A bit on creative, artsy, and outlandish side. 0:03
Wow! How has this been out since 1985 and I'm only discovering it now. Incredible track! Ohhh the discovery of music...
1. Friend sends me a link to check out the latest release from a group called "Lust For Life"
2. Interested enough in the song that I read up on the band and learn about their current record label called "Sacred Bones Records"
3. Go to labels website to check out their artist roster and happen across the artist Rose McDowall and listen to the album Cut With the Cake Knife.
4. At first I'm under the impression she's current so I look her up on youtube and this song keeps popping up.
5. I take a listen, instantly fall in love with the track and than realize the song is from 1985, sounds current to me.
6. Now I have something new and exciting to share back to my friend!
Yup. This videoclip looks like it was made this decade.
We did have some decent stuff in the eighties, you had some of the poncy boy bands with the bad hair then fantastic girl bands, Heart, Bananarama, go go's, Bangles, Mel and Kim,. Bands with female , you've got to listen to Divinyls and T'pau
Came out before I was born but my pops raised me listening to the CD living in oblivion 80s greatest hits and just found this gem again. Too bad music will never be this good again
I totally forgot this great song - haven't heard it for thirty odd years at least! Memories!
You don't realise how quick time goes nowadays when you are older 😭
This song does something to me EVERY TIME I hear it! Too bad Strawberry Switchblade never really got the credit they so richly desevred here in the United States. They were AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm 43 too, love this track so much - Could have sworn it was out earlier than 1984, I think I first seen in played on BBC's "The Saturday Picture Show" in 1984 with Mark Curry/Maggie Philbin - The track's opening fanfare came from Sibelius's Symphony No. 5 - I never realised that until i heard it play on ClassicFM
I don't know why this was reccomended but I'm glad.
holy shit! i haven't seen this music video in forever! i almost forgot about them. Thank you!
Lyrics: just close your eyes and then remember
The thoughts you've locked away
When tomorrow comes you'll wish
You had today
[Chorus]
And as we sit here alone
Looking for a reason to go on
It's so clear that all we have now
Are our thoughts of yesterday
If you're still there when it's all over
I'm scared I'll have to say
That a part of you has gone
Since yesterday
[Chorus]
Well, maybe this could be the ending
With nothing left of you
A hundred wishes couldn't say
I don't want to
[Chorus]
It's so clear that all we have now
Are thoughts of yesterday.
Bumping this up in the top comments, though the story about the mixtape still needs to be at the top
@@DylanFergusC The mixtape story is a fitting allegory and sad tragedy.
Thank you.
I read somewhere that these lyrics are supposed to be about "Nuclear War"
@@donniet685 I didn't know that, I thought it was about death in general...
1980s memory of an American kid visiting the UK; friends of mine there were bragging that their music was better than American music, and they asked me, "Have you heard of Strawberry Switchblade? They're BRILLIANT!" Well, the group had never crossed over to our side of the pond, so no, I had not heard of them. But years later I agree; "Since Yesterday" is a terrific pop tune, and today I enthusiastically champion Strawberry Switchblade just as those friends of mine did so many decades ago. :-D
One of my favourite songs of all time. I was 15 when this came out, makes me wish I was again.
I am closing my eyes and remembering what memories. Brilliant 🍒🍓🍍🍉
Thanks so much to whoever posted this...brought a smile to my face A nice way to end my day...
Shitty, brutal English boarding school study bedroom listening to this when it came out and feeling less miserable. Still love it over 40 years later.
80's were so awesome
80s what a decade
Yep, I'm getting an 80s fringe, once the hairdresser's are open again. I did actually suit in it. Being a goth and SE Asian, I don't need to dye my hair black, but I might get colourful clip in's
It must certainly was. Happy days 😊
This was a breathe of fresh air back in the day
Something on TV just reminded me of this cracking track.Hope the girls are doing well and happy,thanks!
This was on one my Radio 1 Weekly Top 40 cassettes from back in 84/85'ish when I would record live radio.... Brings back some really happy memories to hear this.
+HIDhater
Ahhh, recording the Top 40. The highlight of many of us' week!
Admittedly, I didn't do it until a few years later, I was too busy having my crisps nicked in primary school.
Loved this song. Loved these girls. Still do. Thank you rhubarbcream, great memory. :)
They were like chalk and cheese, hence the acrimonious break up a few years later. I saw them on Goth on the BBC on BBC 4 on Halloween night, and it was mentioned in a subtitle. I looked on their official website and read in the interviews they gave over the years that they although they were both brought up in Glasgow but they came from completely different backgrounds and when they met though being in the same circle of friends it took a few years to get the courage to speak to each other out of 'shyness'. They only connected as both wanted to form an all girl punk band. Jill's parents were middle class, and she had suffered from agoraphobia so bad she couldn't go to school for a year. Rose was brought up in a very rough area of Glasgow and had seen people get murdered including her younger brother, and also her cat was killed in front of her.
lemsip
I remember seein them as the first guests of the year on good morning Briton not sure what year it was but I thought they were gonna be massive. Fancied the black haired one right off. Bit of trivia did u know how they got their name?
They knew a bunch of lads in another band an one of the lads told them they were gonna call themselves strawberry switchblade but the others in the group thought it was to girlie so they never used it so the two girls decided to pick it as their name. Cool hey. The shit you remember as you get older haha
I'd wondered if it'd stemmed somehow from a book called The Cross and the Switchblade about New York Gangs. One of my teachers read extracts from it to us in class around the end of the 70s/start of the 80s.
i wonder if maybe there was only so much they could do with the the theme of dark, sad lyrics buried under saccharine. i think the name was an illustration of how they wanted you to be drawn in by the sound and then gutted by what they were singing.
The punk movement expanded rapidly in the United Kingdom in 1976. At the time, Rose McDowall and Jill Bryson were part of the bohemian art scene who adored the New York Dolls and who followed Scottish punk band Nu-Sonics (later Orange Juice) during their career, with McDowall playing and recording with Paisley punk band The Poems.
Bryson studied for four years at the Glasgow School of Art where she achieved a BA honours degree in mixed media.
As friends, McDowall and Bryson socialised in Glasgow pubs, catching many local bands at the time. One of these bands was Orange Juice, fronted by Edwyn Collins. Members of New Pop and Orange Juice had recorded a live version of "Felicity" as a flexi-disc and intended to release it. A fanzine, to be titled Strawberry Switchblade after a James Kirk song, was planned to promote the flexi-disc but never materialised. The "Felicity" flexi-disc was eventually released in conjunction with the debut Orange Juice single, "Falling and Laughing". McDowall was later given the name by James Kirk.
The band's very first incarnation, an all-female 4 piece, recorded one demo at Glasgow's Hellfire Club and played a handful of gigs. Friends Janice Goodlett and Carole McGowan completed the line up on bass and drums respectively.
Strawberry Switchblade played at a John Peel gig in Scotland, and he invited them to record a session for his BBC Radio 1 show in October 1982. They also recorded a session for David Jensen's Radio 1 show three days later. On both sessions the band were augmented by James Kirk from Orange Juice on bass and Shahid Sarwar from The Recognitions on drums.
Early days making records.
The sessions were heard by Bill Drummond (a Scottish musician who went on to form The KLF) and David Balfe, respectively manager and keyboard player with the recently defunct The Teardrop Explodes, who became the group's managers.
The band's first single, "Trees and Flowers", was released in July 1983 through 92 Happy Customers, an independent record label run by Will Sergeant from Echo & The Bunnymen, and sold over 10,000 copies. It was featured at number 47 in John Peel's 1983 Festive 50. "Trees and Flowers" was written by Bryson about her anxiety disorder, agoraphobia.
Drummond signed the band to Warner Music Group subsidiary Korova in 1983. They got a full backing band with whom they toured and began recording an album with producer Robin Millar. However, at the record company's behest, they reverted to the duo of Bryson and McDowall and for production duties they hired David Motion, who would soon go on to produce hits for Red Box.
"Since Yesterday"
In late 1984 their second single, "Since Yesterday", was released. Having been given a large marketing push over the festive period, it became a UK top ten hit in early 1985, peaking at number 5, and also met with success in Europe and Japan.
Their cover version of "Sunday Morning" (originally by Velvet Underground) was released as an extra track on the 12" of "Since Yesterday". It was not included on any of the Strawberry Switchblade albums.
The track's opening fanfare came from the third movement of Sibelius's Symphony No. 5.
i don't know what genius decided to go with heavy drums, and don't know who decided to go with trumpet on "who knows what love is" either
この頃も含めてイギリスの音楽はいつでも最高に良かった！
アメリカには真似出来ない、センスの良さがあった。
イギリス音楽は最高!!!
This is a brilliant tune. Scotland be proud.
I remember this song. Brings back some memories. 😊
My first real connection in secondary school, we ignored english lessons and drew pictures of Strawberry Switchblade and Tik and Tok; I loved you Nina xx
Such a fun song. It was a real earworm back in the day!
It's so clear that all we have now are our thoughts of yesterday
this song was stuck in my head for years (since the 80's actually) and i didn't know who it was until tonight when i heard the song 'beach baby' by 'the first class'. i recognized the horn part. it was very similar. i did some clever googling and found out it is from 'symphony no. 5" from "sibelius". well, wouldn't you know, the wikipedia had a listing of popular songs that used that horn section and one of them said "strawberry switchblade, since yesterday, 1984" and i said "thats gottabeit!!!"
I grew up in the 1980s and am familiar with a lot of songs in the era. But I have only heard of Strawberry Switchblade and this song a few days ago. I thought this could be a fairly new group and the song must have been released fairly recently. Until I did a Google search.
Wow, what did I miss!? It hurts knowing that I have not known of them earlier.
High iq post
good work my friend
This reminds me of my very very good pal David Bowe. He has sadly passed away now but whenever I hear this or play it it's an instant reminder of what a good lad he was. I genuinely miss him god bless you Dave Shenley Green forever son. ⭐️
Never heard this since just now on tik Tok...and has someone borne in the 80s and grew up in the 90s how come I never hear this till today.ITS BRILLIANT..and is screaming for a decent remix
I only wish I could go back to 84 but its a one ticket folks. Still much better days then the junk world we live in today.
When I was 14 I lived in London (1985) and I bought a compilation cassette tape with this song on it, I think it was from Smash Hits magazine. It also had Tracy Ullman's "They Don't Know", another classic song that never got the fame it deserved.
I wish I could go back to the 80s with you. We didn't appreciate how good we had it back then - those were the days of true creativity and experimentation in music, film, art and fashion.
40 years ago, I could have fallen in love with switchblade. I feel the same today
This group deserved so much more!
My childhood crush (both of them) I’m 47 years old ,still listen to it now and get the flashbacks...fit!! 😍
This was such a important moment in my young life,thank you for such a great pop song !!!!!
just close your eyes & remember
the thoughts you've locked away -
when tomorrow comes you'll wish
you had today ... ....
27/01/18. Played today by Mr. Paul Gambaccini on Pick Of The Pops.
Brilliant They Are Lyrics ...
Soòoòpooo sexy
Mmhh
Can't believe this is already 30 years old.
Gonna be 40 pretty soon.
rose mcdowell has an amazing voice!! anyone thinking this is just pop nonsense, remember, she has a great reputation in the underground! she's done great work with COIL, current93, psychic tv, nurse with wound etc etc!! her other work, SPELL and SORROw are great!! she hasn't changed much...... still amazing!
I thought she was half of Chris and Cosie?
@@scherryvalentine9673 😂no.... that’s Cosey fanni tutti.... Chris Carter was her band mate in throbbing gristle and is also her husband! Rose McDowell is the ex wife of ex COIL member Drew Mcdowell.....
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosey_Fanni_Tutti
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_McDowall
@@schreineinAV Ah! Thank you! I am old now and get them all confused. I listened to a little Psychic TV long ago. So it was Rose who sang with Current 93 then? Current 93 and Jarboe defined my summer of ‘96. Strange and precious memories.
Wow, this song reminds me of my schooldays. It reached number 5 in the UK in January 1985 and I still remember it so clearly. The years have flown by so quickly!
Fantastic song, always had this up full volume in my car back in the 80's. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I heard half of this song on the radio in 1984 or 85 and missed the title and band name, something with "strawberry" and "yesterday". I tried finding it a few times but then forgot about it for 20+ years.
Finally found it, 40 years later.
Nice 😊
Brings back good memories of being young free and not much of a care as a young man
Reached number 5 in the UK charts in January 1985, having been released in October 1984. Spent 20 weeks in the top 100.
Great song, such a cute look, much of my youth was spent with crimped backcombed hair 😂 this video reminds me of the magic roundabout for some reason. It just makes me feel happy ❤
This randomly came up recommended. I can remember this so clearly from my youth and desperately wanting to have my hair done like this. Their was a phase in 80s music where every female and some male singers etc looked like a commercial version of Siouxsie🙂
Sibelius's Fifth Symphony is playing from the Albert Hall right at this moment 9pm 21/8/2014. Odd having that coming in one ear and the Blade in the other.
That also gets used in the coda of Beach Baby, by The First Class. I'd love to hear someone do a mix or crossfade from Beach Baby into Since Yesterday - every time i listen to one of them, I hear the other.