@@angelsapparent it's brother, my son changed my name and pic on here, lol. 80s kids didn't need all that social media. All I needed was my bike or some friends or even by myself and I'd be outside all day and night. Simple life back then. Great music, great movies.
Ummmm, yes we are quite aware. Can't buy a house today without 400 thousand dollars. Could have bought a mini castle back then, even with accounting for inflatation. It's not the part of having it "better", you old people had it so much _easier_
I wanna tell you kids, jokin' okay. I grew up in the 60s-70s and loved the music but the eighties were the icing on the cake for me. I have always liked all kinds of music. now it seems we have so little.
I was born in 1966. We are very lucky to have memories of those good ol days. Today's kids are like zombies staring at their phones. We are so blessed.
One of the greatest, most uplifting songs of the 80s. Should have been used as a soundtrack in more movies, because it has such a great positive vibe to it
Absolutely agreed. One of the greatest best happiness songs of the 80’s. I have been there as well (literally with having someone in the boot). I miss the drive in days. As for the back seat, well…….
This was out during senior year in the fall of 1985...I was having the time of my life, and I would relive every second of it and never change a thing...
I live right down the road from where this was shot in Exton, PA. The Drive-In is no longer there and a Kohl’s stands in its place yet, on more than one occasion, I have heard this song played more frequently than it should on the in-house Kohl’s music. I guess someone is trying to keep the spirit alive!
The Spirit is Alive & Well &. I play this & fly.outta bed like a rocket & dance into my jeans & eyeliner & dance outta my home into my car & just keep dancing ~ Very American Spirit outta the gut ~ gals & guts. ~ 👞👠👞🌹
Please take me back to the 80s. I would sacrifice the internet, I would sacrifice cellphones, and I would sacrifice all the overrated junk from this miserable new millennium. Just take me back to those simpler times.
You nailed it!!!...nothing like it...no internet anything..the thrill of liking girls..fun and good times..1975-85 was an amazing time to be young and alive.
The Hooters used to practice in a garage around the corner from my house. They were such good people, always signing autographs and giving kids signed drum heads and sticks👍
Agree ... They left for a tour once from our church/school parking log on Paoli Pike ... very nice to the kids who came out to meet them. (PS ... went to the Exton Drive-In quite often way back when!)
I’m doing a research project about a distant relative for school and my dad told me about the bassist, Fran Smith Jr. Apparently he is my dad’s second cousin and a really awesome dude. I remember meeting him once when I was really little and he had one amazing smile. The coolest part of this to me is that I also play the bass which makes me look up to him more than before. Unfortunately I can’t visit him very often but I do miss him
I'm able to do that, too... to go to a certain time in my life, concentrate a little, and feel what I was feeling at the time.. it's a powerful thing, and I have often wondered how many people can do it... wondered if it's an unusual ability, or if it's commonplace..
This song is never played on the radio in the Netherlands. I only recently discovered this song because of that. Now, it's one of my favorites. It's like a better Bruce Springsteen song!
It's like a better Bruce Springsteen song! HAHA! I totally agree with that! I was born in 78 and I have never heard this song before in my life. That is exactly how I would describe it too though.
I was at a college party when I first heard this song. It was April 1986 and I was a junior at Penn State. Some girl was drinking Bartles and James wine coolers and she started singing this song, at the top of her lungs. I barely knew her, but this really left a memory. God, I can't believe that was thirty-six years ago.
Seriously! Is it just me, or does it seem like the 80's were just yesterday? Good times, people were more laid back - society was better then. It was a whole different era.
This song takes me back to a summer night where a bunch of my high school classmates circled up a few dozen cars turned all of our radios full blast to the same station and danced and danced and danced the night away. The 80's were the best!
If this was your cup of tea there is a good chance you were born in the sixties, a child of the 70s, an adolescent in the 80s, a young adult in the 90s, and made it to Y2K in your thirties. That means you got to play in the dirt, rode the hell out of some bicycles, listened to great tunes, and watched genre defining movies! The best part? Those experiences will always be yours!
When I saw my future husband sing this with his garage band at a summer in the park concert, I knew he was the one..30 years later and we're still going strong.
Do not let the troubles of what we have now take away from the joy we all had then! We lived it, captured it in our hearts, it is our duty to pass it on. Life is trading time for experience. I so love guitar driven rock from the 60s to present and love the intensity it can bring to enriching our lives and others. Never forget to enjoy moments, whether alone or with that 30+ year guy with whom you get to hang out... and rock, and remember! Cheers to both of you! dg
Here’s to another thirty for you and your husband Amy!! I lost my one because I didn’t appreciate her enough for how awesome she truly is, hold him tight🙂
This took my back to the 80s when I was a teenager. This song is priceless. They don't make music like this anymore. Take me back to the dreamy 80s when music was good. What a great band.
Would have been late 70's for me but yah same thing, late 70's and80's great music, and people just got along, didn't really care what the other thought, or dressed like or any of that sjw shit. You showed up, rocked out and had fun.
Born in the sixties, a teen in the eighties, and grateful to have known and loved the best musical decade of all time. Music that made you feel happy (and also music that you could relate to when you weren't so happy). I feel bad for the kids today that don't know ( and haven't been brought up on )80's rock. There was a real heart and soul to that decade that I don't believe will ever be captured in any future decade. But, at least we had it, albeit for a short time.
@@derekkess5988 Oh, I could never pick a favorite! We were spoilt for choice in the eighties. But, possibly, one of the best songs with a performance video for it (clips of the singer and band performing onstage, pieced together) a song that spoke to so many people, was Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. And then the animated video for Take On Me by the band Aha . Born To Run was the seventies, but the video was the eighties, if I remember correctly, but we are so lucky to have RUclips to be able to watch and hear the wide range of so many different musical styles that the eighties brought us. Truly a remarkable era!
I use to go to the exton drive in with my then girl friend now wife of 47 years! Saw the Hooters many times. What a time to grow up. Between the Hooters and Bruce Springsteen. Wouldn't trade that time for anything!
When i was in high school i saw this band open for Loverboy. They were great and got everyone dancing and hyped up before Loverboy came on. Great times !❤
Man.. Lately RUclips is just suggesting so many of my favorite song from my youth. I am about to turn 61, but I feel like I'm in my 20's. Luv this song.
A portion of the 70's and the whole of the 80's might be America's best era ... and not just music ... but the music will live on because what followed was a slow decline that morphed into the rapid decent we have today. There are no poets. No true musicians. No real artist, just the lowest common denominator of clownish entertainers :-(
That line, "she could dance all night, shake the paint off the wall" described me to a T in the 80s - a fun-loving 20-something who just loved to dance - nothing to say, simply swept away with emotion, having fun all night dancing! I love this song, it brings me back to a time when nothing mattered more than having an amazingly fun night dancing! 😄
The greatest song ever written. Yes, I'm serious. This song is a gift from an entity named Happiness, and I wish everyone could feel as alive as I do when I hear this tune.
80s music is amazing and this is an example of that era of music and in general, beautiful and memorable, danceable music. Timeless and ageless. Loved it then and still do, danced to it many times and still makes me want to move when I hear it. So fantastic.
I grew up in PA, driv'in movies with dates was wat we did in the summer. Had a Harley too !. This song brings back a simple time in life. O' yah. I was born in 1957
@Maximilian Schnabel I wanna go back too...but with foreknowledge I'll actually use. Like, say, inform the IRS about the dealings of a certain infamous New York estate tycoon...
I never heard This in England in the 80s. I just randomly stumbled on it recently. You can’t get anymore 80s than this though surely!? Love it. Let’s dance!!!
Went to high school in the Philly area when these guys were just a hugely popular local band. WMMR and WYSP played the crap out of their locally released EP and their Philly fan base was huge. Not long after they got signed to their major label record deal, they had a contest where the high school who made the most hand-written index cards with some contest motto on it and delivered them to the radio station won a free Hooters concert at your school. Every one in my school chipped in and our high school won. That night they played in our gym was probably one of my best high school memories ever. We all knew their songs by heart because of the support of local radio back in those days.
Memories of a life well lived. Awesome experience. One of my favorite songs of the 80s. Gets better with age as only classic songs do. Great story thanks for sharing.
Also grew up in Philly at that time... a lot of the songs from that local album (Amore) ended up on Nervous Night, and I think 1 or 2 on their second album as well
Born in 1970, 15 when this came out. The '80's were an absolutely amazing time to be coming of age. Everything seemed like a positive, even with me not having economic advantages, and the negatives felt like they wouldn't last long. My entire life has been fueled off the energy from music like this.
Love this song!! So many memories of 1985 music. My wife and I had a Mother in Law apartment added to our daughters house on eight acres. Just the other day I was listening to this song when my six year old granddaughter came strolling in. She couldn't help but dance with "papa". Loved that moment as much as I did being 21 years old when this came out. Dancing kept me sane.
ladyjedi21 Rob Hyman, Hooters keyboard player, wrote 'Time After Time' (Cyndi Lauper) and made LOADS of dosh off of it. The Hooters also played on Patty Smyth's album and co-wrote the title track 'Never Enough', which is also a great song.
Baji Kimran The music scene in the 80's was brutal and divided. It was the Rise of AC/DC, Metal. The birth of hip-hop also caught on big in 1985 with RunDMC going mainstream. Some great artist got kinda lost in the shuffle.
A beautiful late-summer's eve in Pennsylvania in 1997. Right before I headed off to my freshman year at college. My buddy and I were out cruising in his dad's very roughly restored 4-speed '69 Corvette Stingray, with sidepipes burbling and targa tops removed. We rounded a hairpin corner at this one spot on a local rural road. He dropped a gear and that small block 350 bellowed through the valley literally just as the opening chords to this song came on the FM radio. We were on our way to a party to "meet chicks" (spoiler alert: we failed), but for the remainder of my days on this glorious earth that exact millisecond in time will instantly be reattained when I hear the opening chords to this song. Music is the closest thing we have to time travel. Every sensory perception is magically recreated and I'm suddenly a teenager again with the whole world as my oyster, if only for the brief 3 minutes. An era before I met the love of my life, now sadly gone, and before I became bitter and jaded. I'll never get tired of it nor wishing I could have that time back. Pro tip, kids: savor every moment and bite off big chews of life and never settle. As an odd coincidence, my soul-sucking corporate job for the last 15+ years is only about a mile from the old Exton, PA drive-in theater where this video was filmed back in 1985. And my unsatisfying marriage also originated within a few scant miles of the same location. Life is 'funny' like that sometimes...
Unfortunately truer words have not been spoken, at 53 now wishing I had known how good life was in the 80's and 90's. Making the best of what I have, but always wonder what could have been
Your message just hit home hard, bro. I had a few similar moments while growing up on the island of Tasmania (Which, coincidentally, has a Smithton, Somerset, Latrobe, Elizabeth (town), Scottsdale, and Exeter, all in a line along its northern border, just as Pennsylvania does on its southern border). Time is a strange thing: you can’t touch it, see it, or find it occupying a space in a specific location…. Yet, it affects all things and can be observed by its effects on those things…. It has no borders whatsoever, but completely blocks us from reconnecting with all the things, people, and moments it has taken away from us. Seen in this light, your advice about ‘biting off the big chews’ is a characteristic essential for a good life but not fully realized by most people…. I sure did ignore this fact, much to my own detriment…. But finally woke up to it by the time my daughter entered toddlerhood. I’ll never regret quitting law school to give her the quality dad time she deserves. I sincerely hope that one day, once again, the world will be your oyster, just as it was when you & your mate rounded the bend, hit the gas, as this song kicked into gear on your radio…. …. If there’s no such thing as a coincidence? Perhaps that moment was to be remembered as, once you pass through your dark night of the soul, it is a metaphor which contains a kernel of truth, that, when realized, is symbolic of the mind and energy you need to live your life by?… … like now.
Born in 1969. I lived through the time of the best music, the best movies and some really great times. We didn’t need cell phones or the internet to have a good time. Just fast cars, loose woman and Jack Daniels
I haven't heard this song in 30 years for some reason I was standing in the kitchen doorway and this song just popped in my head. Punched it in my phone and low and behold a long forgotten song came on. It's sad that music like this doesn't exist anymore. When it came on my mind flashed back to a much simpler time. I don't think the youth of today could handle such magic. For now this is the closest thing we got to a time machine
They wouldn't know what to do with it. They're all completely lost without their phones and all the technology the Terminator warned us about. We're living in the end days/years...can't you hear the trumpets?
1985 was my junior year in high school and I was 16 when this came out. That year I was dating the beautiful new girl who was in the ballet class right next to the room where I had jazz band. I was in the clouds over her but of course love at that age is cagey at best and we eventually broke up. I still think of her when I hear the line "she could dance all night and shake the paint off of the walls". The sweetest memories stay with you. I'm 55 it's 2024.
My kid is 17 and he loves the 80s lol, we listen to the 80s together and he loves the songs we listen too. It's sad that his generation will never know what it is to have music like this and what it was like to grow up in the best decade ever. I was only 12 when this song came out, but how I miss those days being a kid in the 80s, I wish we could go back to those simple wonderful days. Feeling so nostalgic now.
It surprises me to find my kids listening to so much of this music. I really don't play much of it, so they are digging it up themselves. It makes me happy thinking they are creating so many memories that they too will fondly reflect upon in later years.
My husband and I are in the audience for this video. Exton Drive-In Exton PA near West Chester and Downington. Probably gone now like most of the Drive-Ins.
+Dawn Nadjani Yes the drive in has been gone for a long time. The area it was is across from the Exton Square Mall and its a shopping center. Go to google maps and type in 40°1'47"N 75°37'56"W.
From the Mall straight to the all night drive-ins of '85 and '86......incredible the amount of detail that I can still remember from that time when I close my eyes.......good stuff.
Saw them at the historic Keswick theater before the COVID lock down. Wow, what a fantastic night. They are all brilliant musicians! Hometown Philly guys, with a tremendous catalog of hits. Brought back great memories, and made new ones with their performance! Can't wait until they return.
Coming back to their home theater, the Keswick in November! Got tickets the day they were released, can't wait ! Only a few dates in the US, most of the year they're in Germany.
I'd be honored if some 80s fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal performances of 80s classic songs on my YT channel. Covers include Sting, Prince, George Michael, Phil Collins, Tom Petty, Kenny Loggins, the Hooters, Billy Joel, Earth Wind & Fire, plus a couple of '010s classics from Bruno Mars and Coldplay. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
Those keys in the trunk remind of the time me and my buddies were cruising Gratiot and we ran into some friends at a gas station. They had left their keys in the trunk lock as they were filling up and my buddy grabbed them. We drove around for almost an hour and they were stuck at the gas station with no keys…we tossed them back and we all had a good laugh. No guns, no violence, no crazy crap… just Gen Xers out cruising on Friday night in the 80s…..
Born in 1974, growing up an 80s kid nothing beats it. I hope when I pass on the Lord allows me to re watch my 80s years on this earth, pure heaven.
Amen. With you on point brother. born 67. 80's were coming of age excess, lawless fun
@@keithhunt4475 so many things about the 80s were great, I can't name them all.
FN Right Brotha! (or sis ... best ONE hit Wonder gen ... with no antisocial media, iphones, or Mass Shootings! Love my Xgen!
Great song. I love thousands of 80's songs, but this one in.particular is very😊 nostalgic to me.
It's pure magic isn't it??.
@@angelsapparent it's brother, my son changed my name and pic on here, lol. 80s kids didn't need all that social media. All I needed was my bike or some friends or even by myself and I'd be outside all day and night. Simple life back then. Great music, great movies.
The 80s were great can I GET a witness ??!!
Amen!
Amen buddy totally tubular! ❤
Um yeah
Hell Yeah!
Hell yeah! Class of 85' kick's it live
Young people today just have no idea how much better we had it.
Ain't that the truth!
Ummmm, yes we are quite aware. Can't buy a house today without 400 thousand dollars. Could have bought a mini castle back then, even with accounting for inflatation. It's not the part of having it "better", you old people had it so much _easier_
@@SillyGoose2024 30 years ago I brought my house for 60 grand. Last year a family member brought theirs for 600 grand.
Yeah, shame on them
People who grew up in the 1950s told us the same exact thing in the 1980s.
Ahhhhhhhh, Gen X childhood once more😌.
No TikTok, No Instagram, No Facebook, No Google, we just danced in 1985. Wonderful 80s
I was 2 yet Dad introduced me to Pete Townsend, Paul Simon and Sting's material. I'm still a rocker 40 years later.
No millions of illegal immigrants. No millions of baby mama's whose endless children we have to pay for.. you know... AMERICA!!!!
When music was music 👍👈
I left the 80's but the 80's will never leave me.
Me neither
Same goes for me, who was only alive for 5 years of that decade... 😄
@@annabrisley1463 mmmmmmmmmm
@ Tom Brody is that approval or disapproval lol. Major Tom :)
I wanna tell you kids, jokin' okay. I grew up in the 60s-70s and loved the music but the eighties were the icing on the cake for me. I have always liked all kinds of music. now it seems we have so little.
For those who missed the ‘80s, I am so sorry. What a special time to be a kid.
I was born in 1966. We are very lucky to have memories of those good ol days. Today's kids are like zombies staring at their phones. We are so blessed.
@@frdo66brings back my cruising days 1985, I want my MTV 😂
Amen on that my Friends
Yeah, when we found it humorous to see people being humiliated and being made fun of. F that.
Best time to be a college student!!
I miss the 80's❤
One of the greatest, most uplifting songs of the 80s. Should have been used as a soundtrack in more movies, because it has such a great positive vibe to it
This takes me back.
Used to see Hooters playing at Cavanagh's Bar on Sansom St in Philly back in 1984.
Absolutely agreed. One of the greatest best happiness songs of the 80’s. I have been there as well (literally with having someone in the boot). I miss the drive in days. As for the back seat, well…….
Makes me HATE people from nowadays even more... 🔥😡🔥
I remember first seeing them on the broadcast of the Live Aid show.
Born in 84, this song just feels natural to me
Im from the UK born in 2000 n still think the 80s is the best music 🤷♂️
September 2024 people!!!! How lucky were we to have the pleasure and honor to live through the 80s…
Sure!!!!
This was out during senior year in the fall of 1985...I was having the time of my life, and I would relive every second of it and never change a thing...
I live right down the road from where this was shot in Exton, PA. The Drive-In is no longer there and a Kohl’s stands in its place yet, on more than one occasion, I have heard this song played more frequently than it should on the in-house Kohl’s music.
I guess someone is trying to keep the spirit alive!
The Spirit is Alive & Well &. I play this & fly.outta bed like a rocket & dance into my jeans & eyeliner & dance outta my home into my car & just keep dancing ~ Very American Spirit outta the gut ~ gals & guts. ~ 👞👠👞🌹
And the bearded hippie at the concession stand is WMMR's own Pierre Robert.
I remember seeing them at a local college in the Poconos, I think it was after the Nervous Nights cd came out.
I know the area well.
Sadly, Pierre has retired and gone.
@@lairdcummings9092 Pierre Robert? No, he's still doing the midday slot for MMR.
Please take me back to the 80s. I would sacrifice the internet, I would sacrifice cellphones, and I would sacrifice all the overrated junk from this miserable new millennium. Just take me back to those simpler times.
Right.
No happiness in their music
Giving up the internet and cell phones is no sacrifice
Remember, this is like people in the eighties saying “please take me back to the 40s/50s” ☺️
@@roytore5062 50s nostalgia was actually big in the 80s. In many ways it was a better time.
@@Sam-lm8gi yep, that’s how nostalgia works. In my country we even had a parody song called “everything was better during the war” 😊
This song captures the essence of youth! Energy, passion, love, carefree life! Wish I could feel that again! Miss the 80s!
You nailed it!!!...nothing like it...no internet anything..the thrill of liking girls..fun and good times..1975-85 was an amazing time to be young and alive.
Me too!! 🥰
If I could find my way there.....I'm stayin
I recapture part of my youth (I turned 50 in 2021) in the gym. Squat, Bench Deadlift. Rinse repeat!!!
I’m 66 and feeling this again. Such an exciting time for me though eyes being wide open due to life. Biden 🤮
I was in the grocery store today and this song came on over the speakers, all of the sudden I wasn't 58 years old anymore!
I heard Voices Carry by Til Tuesday at Kroger a few months back. Definitely raised my eyebrows and/or dropped my jaw.
Remember when this came out back in 1986 and it still kicks ass after 37 years. They just don't make music like this anymore, the 80's were the best.
I remember seeing them open for Bryan Adams in ‘87
@AustinFarley-d4d: Me too! Where did you see them?
@@DonRood-fx3dt the Mid-South Coliseum.
So much nostalgia!
Timeless classic. These guys were so underrated.
oh yeah they were....
This is what fun, freedom and joy looks like.
Ah BIG SIGH!
yes!! 80's is so timeless
Exactly
Oh the good old days. Wish I could go back to the 80s. Life sucks here in 2020. Who's with me.
I am definitely with you on that
With you, dude
Oops just your probally a girl
Loved this album! They defined my high school experience!
For real! Has anybody come up with a time machine yet?
Hands down one of the best songs of the entire 80s. Just never gets old
Did we just become best friends?
@@cvcubbington Looks like it
Nah bro, the best song ever!
@@whenlifehitsdifferent Don't let Kanye Ye West know that's your opinion.
Sorry, not to poop on your parade, no where near one the 80s best, pretty w*nk if you ask me, just my opinion though :)
The Hooters used to practice in a garage around the corner from my house. They were such good people, always signing autographs and giving kids signed drum heads and sticks👍
Where was that at? Very awesome experience and memory.
willow grove mall 1982
That’s awesome!
Agree ... They left for a tour once from our church/school parking log on Paoli Pike ... very nice to the kids who came out to meet them. (PS ... went to the Exton Drive-In quite often way back when!)
I’m doing a research project about a distant relative for school and my dad told me about the bassist, Fran Smith Jr. Apparently he is my dad’s second cousin and a really awesome dude. I remember meeting him once when I was really little and he had one amazing smile. The coolest part of this to me is that I also play the bass which makes me look up to him more than before. Unfortunately I can’t visit him very often but I do miss him
My heart just hurts watching these old videos and reliving the emotions I felt back then.
What an amazing time the 80's were.
I'm able to do that, too... to go to a certain time in my life, concentrate a little, and feel what I was feeling at the time.. it's a powerful thing, and I have often wondered how many people can do it... wondered if it's an unusual ability, or if it's commonplace..
Same
And im only 17
I have a hard time also I get very sad and would love just one more day to go back to this time
The best times man. This work is right dickered now
If I had the chance to go back to the 80s.. my grandmother, my dad, my uncle would all still be here to listen to this
Well, thanks very much for that kick in the emotional balls, Captain Buzzkill.
I was 15 in 1985..Man, RUclips is the closest thing that we have to a time machine..
Great song im from WESTBURY LONG ISLAND
I was 3 and love this song
This song is never played on the radio in the Netherlands. I only recently discovered this song because of that. Now, it's one of my favorites. It's like a better Bruce Springsteen song!
Great song😊
It's like a better Bruce Springsteen song!
HAHA! I totally agree with that!
I was born in 78 and I have never heard this song before in my life.
That is exactly how I would describe it too though.
I was born in 77
I was at a college party when I first heard this song. It was April 1986 and I was a junior at Penn State. Some girl was drinking Bartles and James wine coolers and she started singing this song, at the top of her lungs. I barely knew her, but this really left a memory. God, I can't believe that was thirty-six years ago.
Did you ask her to dance? I hope you did.
The Hooters used to play in State
College when I was there, just a bit before you.
Seriously! Is it just me, or does it seem like the 80's were just yesterday? Good times, people were more laid back - society was better then. It was a whole different era.
@@0329Christine I too saw some great bands when I was at university. It seems your contemporaries were more carefree than I was.
1986--A good year for Penn State on the gridiron! 😊
Brilliant stuff. Who's here October 24?
We grew up in the greatest time and didn’t even know it…….until now
@@Frank-km6ig Amen
thats because at the time we didnt have anything to compare it to. everything that has followed his been (insert word here).
@@SillyGoose2024 shit
I knew the 80s were great as I lived it, but I had no idea how crazy the world would be in the future.
This song takes me back to a summer night where a bunch of my high school classmates circled up a few dozen cars turned all of our radios full blast to the same station and danced and danced and danced the night away. The 80's were the best!
How fun! ❤
Please tell me that was at a clearing in a cornfield or at a farm/wild space and not a Walmart parking lot!
@@msgypsylady100 at a rival school parking lot after a football game...who knows who won.
I've never heard of dudes getting in a circle and dancing.
Dudes, dudettes, our school, their school, anyone who wanted to join.
If this was your cup of tea there is a good chance you were born in the sixties, a child of the 70s, an adolescent in the 80s, a young adult in the 90s, and made it to Y2K in your thirties. That means you got to play in the dirt, rode the hell out of some bicycles, listened to great tunes, and watched genre defining movies! The best part? Those experiences will always be yours!
Well I think you have just about hit the nail on the head with that one. Yay Rock on Man. :)
Absolutely spot on - infinitely better than the world as it is - so much for progress 🙈🙈
Wow! That's me! Very on point my friend 👍😎
Born in the late 60’s
You are spot on!! 🇦🇺🇦🇺What a wonderful youth we had! I was born in 1971!!
Oh yes I was teenager in the 80's
Growing up in the 80’s was the best!
The late 60’s thru the mid 80’s
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THE OPENING OF THIS SONG!!
When I saw my future husband sing this with his garage band at a summer in the park concert, I knew he was the one..30 years later and we're still going strong.
Do not let the troubles of what we have now take away from the joy we all had then! We lived it, captured it in our hearts, it is our duty to pass it on. Life is trading time for experience. I so love guitar driven rock from the 60s to present and love the intensity it can bring to enriching our lives and others. Never forget to enjoy moments, whether alone or with that 30+ year guy with whom you get to hang out... and rock, and remember! Cheers to both of you! dg
What a nice thing to say, dg, thanks
Congratulations!! 🎉❤️
Here’s to another thirty for you and your husband Amy!! I lost my one because I didn’t appreciate her enough for how awesome she truly is, hold him tight🙂
@@davegordon3935 well said brother!
There was something magical about the 60's, 70's and 80's music, those were the best years of my life.
My music was classic rock, 60s and 70s. But I can appreciate good tunes like this one from a later era.
@jonesroberts3640Yep. Then the heroin addicts from Seattle in the 90s took over and ruined it.
This took my back to the 80s when I was a teenager. This song is priceless. They don't make music like this anymore. Take me back to the dreamy 80s when music was good. What a great band.
So many good, original bands and songs back then.
@@danhughes8669 yeah and so much garbage today
@@rockandroller8352actually, I think about the last 10 years or so music has been making a comeback.
Couldn't agree more!! I too grew up on the eighties, turned 13 in '83, perfect timing!!!! High School, girls, parties and the music!!!
Would have been late 70's for me but yah same thing, late 70's and80's great music, and people just got along, didn't really care what the other thought, or dressed like or any of that sjw shit. You showed up, rocked out and had fun.
Take me back to 1985 and just leave me forever...
Deloreans are expensive these days........
Who's listening 🎶 to this beautiful masterpiece 🥰in 2024
Ja ich u.daß immer wieder gerne!❤
Me
july 20 2024. NYC
Here I am!
Sharing this with my 21 year old son.
Born in the sixties, a teen in the eighties, and grateful to have known and loved the best musical decade of all time. Music that made you feel happy (and also music that you could relate to when you weren't so happy). I feel bad for the kids today that don't know ( and haven't been brought up on )80's rock. There was a real heart and soul to that decade that I don't believe will ever be captured in any future decade. But, at least we had it, albeit for a short time.
@@derekkess5988 Oh, I could never pick a favorite! We were spoilt for choice in the eighties. But, possibly, one of the best songs with a performance video for it (clips of the singer and band performing onstage, pieced together) a song that spoke to so many people, was Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. And then the animated video for Take On Me by the band Aha . Born To Run was the seventies, but the video was the eighties, if I remember correctly, but we are so lucky to have RUclips to be able to watch and hear the wide range of so many different musical styles that the eighties brought us. Truly a remarkable era!
@@derekkess5988 Hi, I don't really like giving out private information, but I hope that you have a very nice weekend and enjoy your summer.
I use to go to the exton drive in with my then girl friend now wife of 47 years! Saw the Hooters many times. What a time to grow up. Between the Hooters and Bruce Springsteen. Wouldn't trade that time for anything!
I miss the 80's very much. No other decade even comes close. Music will never be the same or anything else either. It was the best of times.
yup...it was an original time for sure...my era
I love music of the 80's, but going by decade, I'll take the 50's, 60's, and 70's over the 80's.
Brian - zzzzzzzz
The 60's were pretty special as well. lol
sorry you missed the 70s hahahahah
When i was in high school i saw this band open for Loverboy. They were great and got everyone dancing and hyped up before Loverboy came on. Great times !❤
We never realised how good we had it, a magical time to be alive.
So damned true.
Man.. Lately RUclips is just suggesting so many of my favorite song from my youth. I am about to turn 61, but I feel like I'm in my 20's. Luv this song.
2020 and how I'd love to go back to when life was simpler. Long live the 80's
A portion of the 70's and the whole of the 80's might be America's best era ... and not just music ... but the music will live on because what followed was a slow decline that morphed into the rapid decent we have today. There are no poets. No true musicians. No real artist, just the lowest common denominator of clownish entertainers :-(
Jody Titus Could not agree more
@@ronpeacock91 Well said Ron.
The video looks like it came from The Outsiders movie.
@@ronpeacock91 well put
The mid 80's I was young, broke, and had the best times of my life!
+Tony W life has worked that way for alot of people..
+Laurie Solonka i miss the madhouse on madison as much as 1985 too
Amazing how much fun you can have with little money and fewer cares.
What a great time to grow up.
Lol..yes wasn't it wonderful...
now your old, broke and the blackhawks suck
That line, "she could dance all night, shake the paint off the wall" described me to a T in the 80s - a fun-loving 20-something who just loved to dance - nothing to say, simply swept away with emotion, having fun all night dancing! I love this song, it brings me back to a time when nothing mattered more than having an amazingly fun night dancing! 😄
from a former Czerwinski who married a Wisniewski to an olszewski - YES!
Love the wink big girl gives to her potential suitor! He's so nervous & shaken up. Cute clip..The Hooters were amazing!
Same here!
Me too!
Very well put girl!! 👏 . We did the same thing here in Wisconsin.
If you put this on a mixed cassette tape made off the radio, you're probably Gen X!😁
Gen Xr of 67 here!
I once stayed in my room for a full weekend to record Zeppelin A-Z off the radio…
The sort of song that sets the songwriter up for life
The greatest song ever written.
Yes, I'm serious. This song is a gift from an entity named Happiness, and I wish everyone could feel as alive as I do when I hear this tune.
Greatest song ever written? LMAO
80s music is amazing and this is an example of that era of music and in general, beautiful and memorable, danceable music. Timeless and ageless. Loved it then and still do, danced to it many times and still makes me want to move when I hear it. So fantastic.
I grew up in PA, driv'in movies with dates was wat we did in the summer. Had a Harley too !. This song brings back a simple time in life. O' yah. I was born in 1957
And a Union Boilermaker
They only had a couple of hits but they were great songs! I never get tired of hearing them.
Another band from Philly!
And they were never afraid to write great songs for other artists either!
They also launched the solo career of one Cyndi Lauper. Let's not forget that.
@@jameswilson7790tell me more?
And We Danced, Day By Day, All You Zombies
G. Love & The Special Sauce
One of my most favorite songs from the 80s!
UNEQUIVOCALLY THE 80s were the BEST❤
Ever heard of The Beatles (60s)
Right on!!
Cuse I can't Speel
The BEST !!
You must have missed the 70's... such a shame.
So underrated- what a great band and pure 80s dance at its best. Plus where do the children go… wow
Johnny do the talkin to ya walkin!
This song. The eighties. I’m actually crying right now. Wow things went downhill from there so bad.. i want it BACK..🤦♀️🇺🇸💔
You said it. Every time I listen to these songs I get a gut wrenching feeling that those days are long gone. As Eddie Money said, I Wanna Go Back!
You betcha maggies farm and btw, i ain't gonna work on your farm no more!
@Maximilian Schnabel I wanna go back too...but with foreknowledge I'll actually use. Like, say, inform the IRS about the dealings of a certain infamous New York estate tycoon...
😢
I know EXACTLY how you feel. This world as it is today is NOT meant for me. We didn't understand back then
I never heard This in England in the 80s. I just randomly stumbled on it recently. You can’t get anymore 80s than this though surely!? Love it. Let’s dance!!!
The Hooters were/are a great Philly band ! ... Check them out ! .... VERY enjoyable tunes !!
I first saw this on a programme called 'No Limits' with Jenny Powell presenting it (in the UK) way way back in the good old days.
I saw them live twice in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. 1985 and 1986.
In '85, the British band , The Outfield opened for them.
Was such a good time.
Went to high school in the Philly area when these guys were just a hugely popular local band. WMMR and WYSP played the crap out of their locally released EP and their Philly fan base was huge. Not long after they got signed to their major label record deal, they had a contest where the high school who made the most hand-written index cards with some contest motto on it and delivered them to the radio station won a free Hooters concert at your school. Every one in my school chipped in and our high school won. That night they played in our gym was probably one of my best high school memories ever. We all knew their songs by heart because of the support of local radio back in those days.
Memories of a life well lived. Awesome experience. One of my favorite songs of the 80s. Gets better with age as only classic songs do. Great story thanks for sharing.
Also grew up in Philly at that time... a lot of the songs from that local album (Amore) ended up on Nervous Night, and I think 1 or 2 on their second album as well
It is something to have support. Respect.
That’s so cool. None of todays stars would do that.
I was there when they played at the gym at Rutgers Piscataway campus, probably '87. A great night!
Turn up the volume and wait for the band to kick in after the mandolin and melodica intro. It never gets old after all these years.
Born in 1970, 15 when this came out. The '80's were an absolutely amazing time to be coming of age. Everything seemed like a positive, even with me not having economic advantages, and the negatives felt like they wouldn't last long. My entire life has been fueled off the energy from music like this.
We were young and invincible. We never thought the last time we danced to this song would be the last time we saw some of our friends.
Love this song!! So many memories of 1985 music. My wife and I had a Mother in Law apartment added to our daughters house on eight acres. Just the other day I was listening to this song when my six year old granddaughter came strolling in. She couldn't help but dance with "papa". Loved that moment as much as I did being 21 years old when this came out. Dancing kept me sane.
Watching Planet of Apes, Godzilla and Jaws at the drive-in as a kid❤ WE brought paper sacks full of popcorn, boiled peanuts Coke in a glass bottle😂
I was and still am a metal guy. I would not admit, back then, that I liked this song....I will admit it now, lol!
Same here!😂😅😂 LOL LOL
Same brother ! Almost 55 , hair still down to the middle . But , i crank this song any time i can ! 🤘
I always loved this song. Hard to believe it only reached #21 on the charts in October of 1985.
But is an iconic 80's song. Everybody remembers it.
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Rob Hyman, Hooters keyboard player, wrote 'Time After Time' (Cyndi Lauper) and made LOADS of dosh off of it. The Hooters also played on Patty Smyth's album and co-wrote the title track 'Never Enough', which is also a great song.
Baji Kimran The music scene in the 80's was brutal and divided. It was the Rise of AC/DC, Metal. The birth of hip-hop also caught on big in 1985 with RunDMC going mainstream. Some great artist got kinda lost in the shuffle.
Baji Kimran is it 30 years already? I thought maybe late 80s, but yea 30 years wow
Yep, it makes you wonder where all the time went. It's all fun and games till you learn it takes more than monopoly money to survive.
A beautiful late-summer's eve in Pennsylvania in 1997. Right before I headed off to my freshman year at college. My buddy and I were out cruising in his dad's very roughly restored 4-speed '69 Corvette Stingray, with sidepipes burbling and targa tops removed. We rounded a hairpin corner at this one spot on a local rural road. He dropped a gear and that small block 350 bellowed through the valley literally just as the opening chords to this song came on the FM radio. We were on our way to a party to "meet chicks" (spoiler alert: we failed), but for the remainder of my days on this glorious earth that exact millisecond in time will instantly be reattained when I hear the opening chords to this song. Music is the closest thing we have to time travel. Every sensory perception is magically recreated and I'm suddenly a teenager again with the whole world as my oyster, if only for the brief 3 minutes. An era before I met the love of my life, now sadly gone, and before I became bitter and jaded. I'll never get tired of it nor wishing I could have that time back.
Pro tip, kids: savor every moment and bite off big chews of life and never settle. As an odd coincidence, my soul-sucking corporate job for the last 15+ years is only about a mile from the old Exton, PA drive-in theater where this video was filmed back in 1985. And my unsatisfying marriage also originated within a few scant miles of the same location. Life is 'funny' like that sometimes...
Unfortunately truer words have not been spoken, at 53 now wishing I had known how good life was in the 80's and 90's. Making the best of what I have, but always wonder what could have been
I love the riffs in this song as someone said before femos and karens and having to watch your tongue. The 80s what a time.
Your writing made me yearn for something.
I tell the young folks I know, the years will run, don't waste them.
Take care fellow Gen Xer.
@@montylorenz7150
Same. A bit older than you, and the same generation.
I loved the late 80's and the entire 90's.
I never wanted it to change.
Your message just hit home hard, bro. I had a few similar moments while growing up on the island of Tasmania (Which, coincidentally, has a Smithton, Somerset, Latrobe, Elizabeth (town), Scottsdale, and Exeter, all in a line along its northern border, just as Pennsylvania does on its southern border).
Time is a strange thing: you can’t touch it, see it, or find it occupying a space in a specific location…. Yet, it affects all things and can be observed by its effects on those things…. It has no borders whatsoever, but completely blocks us from reconnecting with all the things, people, and moments it has taken away from us.
Seen in this light, your advice about ‘biting off the big chews’ is a characteristic essential for a good life but not fully realized by most people…. I sure did ignore this fact, much to my own detriment…. But finally woke up to it by the time my daughter entered toddlerhood. I’ll never regret quitting law school to give her the quality dad time she deserves.
I sincerely hope that one day, once again, the world will be your oyster, just as it was when you & your mate rounded the bend, hit the gas, as this song kicked into gear on your radio….
…. If there’s no such thing as a coincidence? Perhaps that moment was to be remembered as, once you pass through your dark night of the soul, it is a metaphor which contains a kernel of truth, that, when realized, is symbolic of the mind and energy you need to live your life by?…
… like now.
I was at the Exton Drive In a million times.
Thumbs up if this music makes you wish you could go back to the 80s for just one day
I'd go back for much more than a day at this point.
could never go back for one day, would love to spend the rest of my life in the 80s
One day? I'd want at least a year (1985, if I had to pick, but as an adult).
I would run away and never come back
Wish someone would invent a damn time machine already!
Born in 1969. I lived through the time of the best music, the best movies and some really great times. We didn’t need cell phones or the internet to have a good time. Just fast cars, loose woman and Jack Daniels
Yea, i missed this times👍👍👍
Bryan Adams had a song about when I was born. You2 no?!
I haven't heard this song in 30 years for some reason I was standing in the kitchen doorway and this song just popped in my head. Punched it in my phone and low and behold a long forgotten song came on. It's sad that music like this doesn't exist anymore. When it came on my mind flashed back to a much simpler time. I don't think the youth of today could handle such magic. For now this is the closest thing we got to a time machine
They wouldn't know what to do with it. They're all completely lost without their phones and all the technology the Terminator warned us about. We're living in the end days/years...can't you hear the trumpets?
1985 was my junior year in high school and I was 16 when this came out. That year I was dating the beautiful new girl who was in the ballet class right next to the room where I had jazz band. I was in the clouds over her but of course love at that age is cagey at best and we eventually broke up. I still think of her when I hear the line "she could dance all night and shake the paint off of the walls". The sweetest memories stay with you. I'm 55 it's 2024.
My kid is 17 and he loves the 80s lol, we listen to the 80s together and he loves the songs we listen too. It's sad that his generation will never know what it is to have music like this and what it was like to grow up in the best decade ever. I was only 12 when this song came out, but how I miss those days being a kid in the 80s, I wish we could go back to those simple wonderful days. Feeling so nostalgic now.
It surprises me to find my kids listening to so much of this music. I really don't play much of it, so they are digging it up themselves. It makes me happy thinking they are creating so many memories that they too will fondly reflect upon in later years.
I was born in 85 so I don't remember any of the 80's culture but most of the music I listen to is pre-1990. And I am sooooo not ashamed!!
@@franmiller1381 the culture was as amazing as the music.
I was born in 1995 so missed the 80's and the 90's but i absolutely love the 80's music so many great songs lol i call myself an old soul
I am the same as your kid. I'm 16 but I really should've been born in the 60s or 70s so I could enjoy this music that I love
My husband and I are in the audience for this video. Exton Drive-In Exton PA near West Chester and Downington. Probably gone now like most of the Drive-Ins.
Dawn Nadjani The Exton Drive-In on 100 near 30 is long gone. 25+ years :(
Dawn Nadjani My cousin is in the audience too.
My husband's kid brother was sound guy for a local band called Borrowed Time and he told us about this filming.
+Dawn Nadjani Yes the drive in has been gone for a long time. The area it was is across from the Exton Square Mall and its a shopping center. Go to google maps and type in 40°1'47"N 75°37'56"W.
+Dawn Nadjani
Luck!!
Yea I miss the 80's and the Drive-in movies.
I remember this was the first song I heard on the radio as my parents drove our brand new 1986 Pontiac off the lot. The '80's were great.
An overlooked 80's lp every song is good too
From the Mall straight to the all night drive-ins of '85 and '86......incredible the amount of detail that I can still remember from that time when I close my eyes.......good stuff.
Boy....if this song can't move you, nothin can!! Back in the day this song got everybody dancin.
do you mean like a peoples collective?
More like the proletariat
I want to go back to the 80s and do it all over again.and again.and again.
Me too...
This song makes me want to skip down the road. :)
Discovered this band in the 80’s and still love them today.
Thank you!
DAMNED!!! what I would do to go back to the 80's and just live there forever.
Me Too 😂😂
Me 3
I love to go back to the 80's and Just live there forever too Grappler Baki. everything was simple in the 80's
I'll meet you there
Find that time machine!
The 80's will never grow old!
Amazing singer nice memories back home still listening to his song... How are you Maxine-Charlie Caulfield ?
Most definitely 😄😄👊👊🤙🤙👍👍✌️✌️
@@ericsmith1786 hi I'm fine thank you, I hope u r well,
@@maxine-charliemaxcaulfield Nice to hear from you. Where are you from ?
@@ericsmith1786 the north of Ireland
80's teen, 55 now. I LOVE this song. I'm a teen again when I listen...and Dance!
The Exton Drive-In closed in 1984, but the Hooters filmed this video in July of 1985, shortly before it was demolished.
1953 here--love the 80s. Saw these guys a month ago--they've still got it it goin on!
Still one of the best songs I have ever heard.
Good melody, good beat, good musicians and the song tells a story. It doesn't get any better than that.
Makes you forget your troubles and dance them away.LOVE THIS SONG TO DEATH
Lisa Walz yea,itsuredoes.
Mike L
Saw at UCONN @1987 and was amazed at the versatility of their instrumentalist-many played multiple pieces
Poor you
This has the most 80’s dancing ever filmed
Saw them at the historic Keswick theater before the COVID lock down. Wow, what a fantastic night. They are all brilliant musicians! Hometown Philly guys, with a tremendous catalog of hits. Brought back great memories, and made new ones with their performance! Can't wait until they return.
Coming back to their home theater, the Keswick in November! Got tickets the day they were released, can't wait ! Only a few dates in the US, most of the year they're in Germany.
45 years old in February 2018 and still listening!...THE HOOTERS ROCKS!...MASTERPIECE!....Greetings for everyone from Santiago, CHILE!
Ohhh...San Diego, California, USA!!...You must be proud to be American!!...Greetings of a Chilean Rocker!
I'll be 45 next month April 9. Still rocking to the Hooters
"...chasing 60 and love them. Always in my playlists somewhere."
I’ll be 45 in August! Loved this song...to be young again :(
I'm 45 and greetings from Oklahoma City
After all these years I never tire of listening to this song by this great band.
1967 here...nothing was politically correct but we LIVED and never worried about anything but having fun
Best decade, best music, best times. Oh, to be a teenager again!
I'd be honored if some 80s fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal performances of 80s classic songs on my YT channel. Covers include Sting, Prince, George Michael, Phil Collins, Tom Petty, Kenny Loggins, the Hooters, Billy Joel, Earth Wind & Fire, plus a couple of '010s classics from Bruno Mars and Coldplay. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
I was a kid in the 80s... even better
@@fml5910 so true
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Every era says that! It's all good! Just depends when you grew up!
It’s my absolute favorite song. And I love the part where the girl winks at the soda guy and he drops the tray. She’s so obviously into him.
No better feeling for a guy when a girl looks at you like that.
@@alanchamberlain9902 When he's gynophilic and single, anyway.
Amazing singer nice memories back home still listening to his song... How are you Ashley ?
@@ericsmith1786 er, do I know you?
@@ashleylambert1236 Hi. Not really. How are you ?
Sometimes a song is perfect. This is one of those times
Those keys in the trunk remind of the time me and my buddies were cruising Gratiot and we ran into some friends at a gas station. They had left their keys in the trunk lock as they were filling up
and my buddy grabbed them. We drove around for almost an hour and they were stuck at the gas station with no keys…we tossed them back and we all had a good laugh. No guns, no violence, no crazy crap… just Gen Xers out cruising on Friday night in the 80s…..
I remember dancing to this under the stars at our county fair grounds as a summer send off. One of the best nights of my teen life!