The Chameleons - Second Skin Reaction
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- čas přidán 1. 12. 2022
- In this video we're listening to another song from The Chameleons. We enjoyed our first listen to this band, and we're interested to hear what else they've got. Enjoy!
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The way she keeps wanting to close her eyes and get lost totally in the music is exactly how The Chameleons make me feel.
The Chameleons , The Comsat Angels & The Sound .. the three most underrated bands of the 80's. This is the best track on the debut.
I would like to add Diesel Park West to those three as another criminally under rated UK band.
Okay, guys. We need song titles. Tell us what you guys think is the best song of these bands. We'll tell you what we think.
@@hanierfamily Chameleons - Swamp Thing , Comsats - Gone , Sound - I Can't Escape Myself .. Enjoy 😊
@@hanierfamily Diesel park west - All the myths on Sunday
Absolutely GLORIOUS , if there has ever been a better band than The Chameleons i've yet to hear them ❤❤❤
There's a few contenders but right up there as the most underrated British band.
Absolutely superb song from the best unknown band in the world 🌎
So unknown that I discovered them by noticing the art work on the album in a record store back in the early eighties. I flipped the album over and there was a picture of them and they looked like a band I would like. They didn't play them on MTV, and there was no internet back then. They turned out to be my favorite 80's band. and was able to see Mark Burgess and Chameleons Vox a few years ago.
@@sunstar9778 It probably had more to do with where you lived. I am sure college radio played them, but most college stations at the time were on the larger campuses which had a limited audience. I lived just on the edge of the city limits of Houston and Rice Univ. station had a weak signal at the time. The Chameleons are more like the VU and The Stooges in they were more influential rather than pop.
Oh fantastic guys thanks so much this track is AWESOME one of my favourite bands of all time a very underated band from Manchester forget oasis, stone roses, this is so atmospheric and wonderful. Mark Burgess is a Genius, from the Magnificent" Script of a bridge " album. "Up the down Escalater, is another classic, Monkeyland.This band is universal in its appeal not Look at me I'm a rock star these guys wrote AWSOME MUSIC, TRUST ME .Music that is applicable today. SUPERB
It is always like this, and it is not a coincidence that when someone is peeking at the mysteries of the self, they are interrupted by someone, something, or anything external. That's why temples were invented to safeguard the process of revelation for the initiates. That's the meaning of "someone is bagging at my door" part.
One of many amazing songs by The Chameleons!
A classic post-punk track from a classic post-punk album.
One of my all time favourite bands, and criminally underrated.
I think the last time you reacted to these guys was before you had the proper setup. They really need to be listened to on headphones for the full effect.... Dreamy harmonies, complex interlocking guitar parts.
I forget their names, one might be John Lever, but the two guitarists have a rare talent for what Keith Richards calls, "the ancient art of guitar weaving"....they way they can drop in and out of each others riffs, and echo melodies, is mind blowing to me.
Try, In Shreds, musically harder and lyrically darker than this, or maybe, Swamp Thing.
I`m going to see Mark & Reg play as the Chameleons, in a months time here in the city in Scotland where I live. I had some great times & nights out with the singer/songwriter Mark Burgess & jamming with acoustic guitars until morning. Good times, with a great bloke. They say you shouldn`t meet your heroes & he`s one of mine. He didn`t disappoint me. Monkeyland is a great track as is Don`t Fall & I could go on.
A Chameleons track that may possibly be of more interest on this channel is Swamp Thing, which funnily enough I recommended just two days ago.
My favourite song ever it's just perfect
It really is. It’s the only song I’ve actually cried listening to the first time. That second half is so ethereal and there is so many layers of beauty.
One of my favorite songs of all time, from one of my favourite bands. The song is about experiencing life (and death) beyond contructs we impose upon ourself to make sense of our life, but rather though the lens of metaphysical thought. Intense stuff, which really only makes sense if you study the concepts of metaphysics lol
Don’t forget That driving angst ridden Motorik pulse provided by Lever and Burgess. Mark Burgess is Post Punk’s Angst Poet for me.
Saw them live a couple of weeks ago. Still amazing
I was supposed to see them in September but they rescheduled. Next September it is! Last time I saw them was back in '09. It was magical.
The Chameleons is my all times favourite band, they had a personal different sound and his own musical concept, and that’s the reason why his music still sounds valid after 40 years .
The song talks about life after death experience
just mesmerizing
Это одна из самых моих любимых групп , почти все песни у них классные . Они задали новую «веху» в пост-панке❤
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The Chameleons were definitely slept on as a band
The first part was particularly about the fact that cinema can preserve your image long after you age and are gone. Your image is effectively saved forever in that form regardless of what happens to you.
Where the change is in the middle and the anthemic parts come in, Mark has previously said it was written after reading about near death experiences and that grey area between living and dying.
Thanks for reacting to Up the Down Escalator - I'd have thanked you at the time but got locked out of my account cos I'd changed continents (on your shores now!). If you'd like something more rock / driving by the Chameleons, Don't Fall from the same album and Return Of the Roughnecks are definitely more post punk. That last one would be good if you'd like something political alongside Singing Rule Britannia (While the Walls Close In). I am also a big fan of Big Wreck and was glad to see you reacting to them!
best Chams song hands down
Watch their live shows from back then powerful and revved up a bit fantastic underrated band!
Guess you have to live in bleak Thatcherite Northern English towns in the 80's to appreciate this genius. !
A worldwide audience wouldn't get The Smiths for example. Somethings banging on my door!
Masterpiece.
You are definitely ‘missing something’. Listen to it three times in a row and you’ll get it.
Thank you.
Don't fall reaction next please!
Thank you. Thank you, thank you!!! My favorite song by my most favorite band!
There is a reason this band still tours today off albums and songs recorded more than 30+ years ago!!
See the reaction to this very song being played in front of the hometown crowd in Manchester, England.
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THE CHAMELEONS were a BRILLIANT, criminally-underrated band. "Swamp Thing," "Here Today" (a haunting masterpiece about the death of John Lennon told from his perspective), and "Tears" are all amaaaazing songs. Cheers!
this song, always the same effect ❤
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Oh dear, Oh dear. One of the genre's greatest songs, truly great band, but it seems it was quite alien to you. That's fine - we can't all connect with everything we hear; but - the song structure? The arrangements? The multi-layered, almost Gregorian harmonies? The expanded chord voicings, minor/major modulation? Lyrics?
I have the first pressing of Script of the bridge signed by Mark Burgess (vocalist) and Reginald Smithies (guitarist).
Hopefully the proper version & not the MCA USA release 😬 !
@davidellis5141 the english vinyl, actually the second one so not a first pressing
What an amazing tune, I'm going to be listening to this on my walk tonight. So dreamy, brilliant guitar sound which reminds me of the 80s. The guitars mimicked Chinese folk music instruments. I'll be shedding my second skin tonight as I try to lose some weight lol.
Thanks for your vid. A pity you did cut the song in two parts, cause the feeling is not the same when you discover the second part of it. One of my fave.
This particular song is for the depressed. You guys need not apply..
You'de be exepted from watching the Camden Palace live version. Jus' saying! ;)
The Chameleons is a band that I knew at the time of their debut album in 1983 but I was never fond of them either because all their songs seemed similar to me or because their style did not speak to me, except for this piece in particular. For me "Second Skin" is the fact of passing from life to death and considering that there is something else after your passing, but that's just my interpretation. From this first half of the 80s, I always preferred the bands The Sound, The Comsat Angels and The Opposition. From The Sound, you could try doing the track "Longest Days" from their EP Shock of Daylight (1984). From The Comsat Angels the track "After the Rain" from the album Fiction (1982) and from The Opposition the track "Black and White" from the album Breaking the Silence (1981).
The Comsat Angels were an interesting band, i only ever really remember, Independence Day... Probably because it was covered by Voice Of The Beehive. Sorry @Hanier Family if i just opened another worm hole.
@@Sandy-dd4le Yes "Independence Day" is a good track, as well as "Missing In Action" and "Map Of The World", all three on their debut album Waiting for a Miracle, but I find this LP too minimalist and austere to please me and I think The Comsat Angels' most successful albums are their second and third albums, 1981's Sleep No More and 1982's Fiction.
@@a.k.1740 Sleep No More was my favorite album of 1981 which was a great year for music. Fiction was # 3 in 82 behind ABC ( also from Sheffield ) & Sulk by The Associates. Then came the so so Jive albums.
@@davidellis5141 Yes, their Jive period was frankly disappointing after their famous "trilogy" with Polydor. Luckily the band was able to get back to more interesting things with their last three albums (I'm not counting the Dream Command episode).
@@a.k.1740 That Dream Command was deleted by Island the week after it was released .. Once Robert Palmer left the label The Comsats had no support. Chasing Shadows was a fine album.
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Funny how it looks like you are listening to two different songs on the way you move
😆 Moving to different aspects of the song
not bad but to do have a feeling that this indie thing is where it all went wrong for rock n roll. we no longer had rock n roll after this amateur indie thing started coming in... before these guys it was supertramp and 10cc.. wonderful bands
🤣🤣 you are joking? both bands were middle of the road dross,, the chameleons were and are still of the best maanchester UK bands that spawned a genre
@@billrand4138 shut up .. they were good bands, very professional attitude and good show business skills.
Very amusing but complete bs, BabyBoomer.
You are obviously a sarcastic troll, and quite a funny one.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Normal everyday pop is utterly trivial next to the transcendent beauty this band can achieve. This song is about life after death and merging with the cosmic consciousness. It is utterly profound and a spiritual experience in itself. How anyone cannot get it is beyond me, but not everyone gets higher mathematics.
@@billrand4138 You should know better. In reality 10CC was of course one of the best art pop bands of the 70s and Supertramp, though long haired ugly hippies in the 70s, had great, but underrated songs.