This was one of those songs that when I first heard it, I felt as if it had been on the airwaves since I was a toddler. It is one of those songs that feels like it has always been and will always be.
Probably the same for you as I feel about two songs by the Beatles, "Day Tripper" and "Friends and Lovers," two songs which have become the defining sounds of my life going all the way back. As for "Metropolis" being your very own life's siren call, you could have scarcely picked anything better..."Metropolis" is one of my all time favourite songs...
It’s 1990 again in Downey, California. I’m 16 years old; driving in my 1981 Ford Escort with a 4 on the floor and I’m cruising down Firestone Blvd. listening to KROQ on my car radio; wondering about this girl, and wondering where of my life.... this music; I really believe kept me alive and from doing dumb things during my high school years.... If only I knew then what I know now; my God how different my life would’ve been; of course for the better👍🏼
Know that feeling brother. Summer 1990 was full of sunshine and hopes. It went downhill for me personally after that but this song brings back the better memories.
@Chris Campbell - It’s never to late my brotha. Ive made through homelessness, hunger, divorce, bankruptcy and I’m still kicking; I’ll be 50 soon and I’m still waiting for my glory days…. I hear you…. But yes; this music does OUR hearts good.
I was in a very rough and low point in my life when this song was released. It warmed my Heart and Soul. Even though I felt as though I was going to die, the warmth I felt soothed my tortured self. 12 October 1990 I entered Pacifica House in Hawthorn Cal. and experienced my 1st. day Clean and Sober. 32 & 1/2 years later I'm still Clean and I still get the same warmth from this song. It definitely is a sweet sound to My ears...
@@SassaFrass28 No, they were definitely underrated. They were popular, yes, but they weren't blockbuster-big like The Cure and a few other like-minded 80's bands. The Church should have been much bigger than they were.
that's so classic.. I fell in love with mine at Philadelphia Collage of Art in 1982.. WONDERFUL and ended in DISASTER .. Artists are the most wonderful BEINGS on earth but they suck at love, relaishipions , spellin , math, etc :)
Yes Indeed 💯 I was Attending UCLA as a Theater Student W/Music Minor & Everything was So much Fuuuuun & Ok back in 1990, Really Miss the College Days 🎶 🎵 ❤️👏😁
couldn’t agree more. I was knee deep in extreme music during their heyday and this release. The Church always took me to a completely different realm of pure wonder.
One of the things I love and have in common with Church fans aside from the fact that I am one, is that when listening to their music we all just go back to our best memories. Not just the songs we liked but memories that few know or have shared. And that’s a powerful thing.👍🏻
I have a library of LPs I have been collecting since 1975. I have seen just about every band there is, with a few exceptions, play live. Heck, I've been to 25 Grateful Dead shows. If I had to listen to only one song for the rest of my life, it would be this one.
I bought three CDs when I got my first paycheck as a teenager, working at a grocery store, summer of 1990. One was The Sundays (Reading, Writing & Arithmetic), second was the Cure (Disintegration), and then there was Gold Afternoon Fix. I roamed around town in my white four-door Nissan Sentra in a kind of stupor playing tracks. "Metropolis" was a folk-rock kind of turn for this band that I didn't expect after endless listens to their stuff from Starfish, and it made me feel more OK with my eclectic tastes in music while all my friends were embracing gangster rap alone as though we never listened to bands like They Might Be Giants or XTC or Bob Mould before that.
Incredible song! A guitar symphony. The lead guitar hook is so simple but so memorable. Love that they didn't try to overdo it. The song could be a study on how to write "hooks." I was never a big Church fan but sometimes a band writes that ONE SONG!!! Metropolis, for me at least, is their ONE SONG!!!
Isn't it? I think The Church always did the best intros and outros of any band, ever. The 'Starfish' album is a masterclass in intros and outros on every song, and their song "Myrrh" from the album 'Heyday' may be my favorite album intro ever.
@D.W. Shepherd yeah someone corrected me elsewhere! I thought I heard NZ in an interview but when I researched the band Wikipedia stated Australia as well!! I stand corrected!!!
@@gfm1496 so I was partially correct in another place and time... Hardly makes up for my mistake for which I have been repeatedly reprimanded for! But thanks anyway!!!
and I remember going to work in 1986 and hearing this song for the first time...I knew there was something special about this tune....still have it in the memory banks after all these years..it mellos you out before a stressfull day, even before work,,,js
I will never forget my first reaction to this video of my then favorite song played almost incessantly on the radio back around 1987, 1988. I was awestruck by the simplicity AND grandiosity of this artistically inspired music video.
Marty's so freakin' cool he just hits a couple notes on the "solo". Any other guitarist just tries to show how great a player they are. Marty's "nah, I'm good, I got this". LOVE it.
I remember the first time I heard this back in the day. That main guitar riff had me instantly hooked. Just has a haunting, melancholy essence to it that instantly triggered my depressive tendencies and still does to this day. But I still love it and listen to it all the time. ;-)
The Church is among the greatest bands of all time despite not having got the recognition it deserved. I love this band too much! Metropolis is a song that refers to an intoxicating atmosphere, and when I hear that song highest flight... it's like I'm listening to the music on my walkman, walking on the clouds...
My girlfriend (now wife of 31 years) sent me this video on a VHS tape. I was in the Army at FT Irwin, CA and cut off from the world. I had to travel to Victorville to find the CD. Good memories with an excellent song.
SO glad this original video has finally found it's way to the ol' YT. During the golden age of MTV, (remember the REAL MTV folks?!?) this track was my intro to a band I've loved ever since. Around Christmas time in that same great year of 1990, I found a cassette copy of GAF at my local, long gone 5 and Dime; cost a whopping 1 dollar! I'm proud to say I still have that tape, and just recently purchased a first pressing of the CD from Hawaii via the Bay. The magic of music and our memories, let's not lose those gifts friends!! Stay healthy, God bless us all, and God bless the church.
It was in the 90s that this new wave rock group invaded the music scene with melodic tunes and provocative lyrics they bring back memories of our youth 🎤🎸🇵🇭😄
Huh??? This album was - for many followers of the band - a sort of swan song. Some of The Church's most towering moments - The Blurred Crusade, Heyday - were already YEARS behind them at this point. The (deserved) commercial success of Under The Milky Way and Metropolis doesn't overshadow the less widely known genius of Almost With You, Tristesse or Columbus. Kilbey himself has said (numerous times) that he HATED the recording process during Starfish - hated LA, and felt that poisonous vibe came through loud and clear in the final result.
Top 5 The Church English Aussie 🇦🇺 English Australian 🇦🇺 Band Best Of Collection Single Hits New Waves 80s 90s Billboard Chart Disband Legendary Pacific Oceanian Waves
I'M SO INVOLVED WITH EVERYTHING YOU DO. DON'T THINK ME A NUISANCE, JUST YOUR...BIGGEST FAN. -THEY FELL DOWN ON THEIR KNEES... -THE NINE. SEE THE NINE IS I AND I AM THE NINE... SEE, THE NINE IS ME AND I AM THE...NINE.
The Church was the first band I discovered by my self in a record store. Skin and bones was on sale, I soon got them all. Years went by no music oracles knew anything about them until I talked with the music oracle him self (Finn Bjelke) - Finn knew The Church and gave me confidence I was right all those years since the mid 80s - The Church is the best guitar rock & roll band!
Lyrics There'll never be another quite like you I'm so involved with everything you do Don't say nothing good will ever come of this Don't say the damage is worse than it is Back in Metropolis, circuses and elephants Where the oranges grew And back in Metropolis nothing can ever topple us When I'm standing with you You stare down at some crowd from your trapeze And when you fell they fell down on their knees And when you broke they scrambled for a piece And when you spoke I felt their anger freeze Back in Metropolis, circuses and elephants Where the oranges grew And back in Metropolis nothing can ever topple us When I'm standing with you And back in Metropolis talk about a holocaust And then visit the zoo And back in Metropolis the weather is ridiculous What's it all leading to And it's only a day away We could leave tonight You could sleep along the way Dream in black and white
@@philippalmer7686 I could be misinformed but I thought I heard in an interview that they are from New Zealand... Anyone can be mistaken, and I am far from perfect!!! Thanks!
That's a great memory also remember my girlfriend dancing to this whole album night after night is wonderful it's purple skies too at night and it's a wonderful time so tattoos that morning so yeah but so we can listen
The Churh es una enorme banda. Hacedora de hermosas canciones y de maravillosos discos, inclusive los últimos que no cuentan con "hits", pero ganan en concepto e intensidad. Hace muchos años que los acompaño y me acompañan.-
This was one of those songs that when I first heard it, I felt as if it had been on the airwaves since I was a toddler. It is one of those songs that feels like it has always been and will always be.
Probably the same for you as I feel about two songs by the Beatles, "Day Tripper" and "Friends and Lovers," two songs which have become the defining sounds of my life going all the way back. As for "Metropolis" being your very own life's siren call, you could have scarcely picked anything better..."Metropolis" is one of my all time favourite songs...
timeless my man, this one's timeless
It’s 1990 again in Downey, California. I’m 16 years old; driving in my 1981 Ford Escort with a 4 on the floor and I’m cruising down Firestone Blvd. listening to KROQ on my car radio; wondering about this girl, and wondering where of my life.... this music; I really believe kept me alive and from doing dumb things during my high school years.... If only I knew then what I know now; my God how different my life would’ve been; of course for the better👍🏼
Know that feeling brother. Summer 1990 was full of sunshine and hopes. It went downhill for me personally after that but this song brings back the better memories.
@Chris Campbell - It’s never to late my brotha. Ive made through homelessness, hunger, divorce, bankruptcy and I’m still kicking; I’ll be 50 soon and I’m still waiting for my glory days…. I hear you…. But yes; this music does OUR hearts good.
@Chris C. - Hang in there with me bro…. Hang in there with me.
Thanks for this 😎
@Carolyn Smith - XO ❤️
I was in a very rough and low point in my life when this song was released. It warmed my Heart and Soul. Even though I felt as though I was going to die, the warmth I felt soothed my tortured self. 12 October 1990 I entered Pacifica House in Hawthorn Cal. and experienced my 1st. day Clean and Sober. 32 & 1/2 years later I'm still Clean and I still get the same warmth from this song. It definitely is a sweet sound to My ears...
That's amazing.
That’s awesome brotha. Music 🎶 does do our hearts 💕 good doesn’t it?? Keep up the good work. Much love from L.A.
@@ralphlazio505 Thanks Ralph! I do miss L.A. my Hometown.
Glad you made it.
Music (especially THE CHURCH) has some pretty amazing healing powers.
Steve Kilbey - one of the best lyricists ever. A Poet, really.
Absolutely.
Amazing song from the most underrated band of all time time.
They were big back in the day - not underrated
@@SassaFrass28 No, they were definitely underrated. They were popular, yes, but they weren't blockbuster-big like The Cure and a few other like-minded 80's bands. The Church should have been much bigger than they were.
Agree; but it makes us fans cooler. Just saw them and they were awesome.
That era from 1988-91 really doesn't get enough credit for its 🔥 music.
That's so true because the era between 88 to 91 or even 92 was the best especially the music
This song always triggers my memories from college in 1990. I met and fell in love with a gal and this was our song for a little while.
MTV’s 120 Minutes used to play this a lot when it came out that year.
I hope you fall in love again soon.
that's so classic.. I fell in love with mine at Philadelphia Collage of Art in 1982.. WONDERFUL and ended in DISASTER .. Artists are the most wonderful BEINGS on earth but they suck at love, relaishipions , spellin , math, etc :)
beautiful anecdote
Yes Indeed 💯 I was Attending UCLA as a Theater Student W/Music Minor & Everything was So much Fuuuuun & Ok back in 1990, Really Miss the College Days 🎶 🎵 ❤️👏😁
Very romantic lyrics. Every woman wants to hear these words from the man she loves.
majestic and ethereal all at once. a musical masterpiece.
couldn’t agree more. I was knee deep in extreme music during their heyday and this release. The Church always took me to a completely different realm of pure wonder.
@@kennygerchow8795 well said!
His voice is like velvet
That is for sure!!!
God I love these guys. Criminally underrated. Love that they play in Chapel Hill NC whenever they're in the US. Never miss a show.
We just saw them in Carrboro at the cats cradle.
Ditto. Amazing shows love seeing them at CC
One of the things I love and have in common with Church fans aside from the fact that I am one, is that when listening to their music we all just go back to our best memories. Not just the songs we liked but memories that few know or have shared. And that’s a powerful thing.👍🏻
stevemrmusic9 Not true. 10 years from now we’re both ‘gonna look back and say: “Hey, I met that guy on You Tube.”🤝
I can’t listen to this and not get goosebumps!!!
I have a library of LPs I have been collecting since 1975. I have seen just about every band there is, with a few exceptions, play live. Heck, I've been to 25 Grateful Dead shows. If I had to listen to only one song for the rest of my life, it would be this one.
30 years ago...and remains the best song of modern rock of 90s.....👍👍👍....
My favorite Church song, and I'm so happy to see the official video back online!
Tru dat!
@CRY TV prophet or profit? Hmm, know what I mean?
I find very few things in life as beautiful as Steve Kilbey’s voice.
what about my buttcheeks?
I bought three CDs when I got my first paycheck as a teenager, working at a grocery store, summer of 1990. One was The Sundays (Reading, Writing & Arithmetic), second was the Cure (Disintegration), and then there was Gold Afternoon Fix. I roamed around town in my white four-door Nissan Sentra in a kind of stupor playing tracks. "Metropolis" was a folk-rock kind of turn for this band that I didn't expect after endless listens to their stuff from Starfish, and it made me feel more OK with my eclectic tastes in music while all my friends were embracing gangster rap alone as though we never listened to bands like They Might Be Giants or XTC or Bob Mould before that.
The Church for Eternity, long live the Church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A dreamy flow
Awesome song from the band
Guitar line on this tremendously tremendous
Great memories from a wonderful album
One of the best albums.
one of their best ,my fave of the this band!
This tune its absolutely awesome. Higher class. Nothing to envy U2,Psychedelic Furs,Echo and the Bunnymen,Cure....the greatest 80 bands
Incredible song! A guitar symphony. The lead guitar hook is so simple but so memorable. Love that they didn't try to overdo it. The song could be a study on how to write "hooks." I was never a big Church fan but sometimes a band writes that ONE SONG!!! Metropolis, for me at least, is their ONE SONG!!!
A wonderful song, in these times of covid 19. Inspiring for us.
I listen to this song whenever I get in the car. My son says: "dad, again?! I've been listening to the song since I was a little boy."
@@regisbrasil4082 OMG, my children all said the same!
@@donnaewigleben120 Children never forget the time spent with their families. Especially songs.
I was 30, in love and sittin by the pool with a hooter and my fave song. Goddam I miss 1990
Been listening to The Church and keeping the faith for a long time.
One of the best guitar outros ever!
Isn't it? I think The Church always did the best intros and outros of any band, ever. The 'Starfish' album is a masterclass in intros and outros on every song, and their song "Myrrh" from the album 'Heyday' may be my favorite album intro ever.
That's a hell of a guitar hook!🙂
Magical and underrated song, one the best Australian bands ever!!!!!!!
Actually New Zealand... But who's THAT picky? Well I guess I am!!!
@D.W. Shepherd yeah someone corrected me elsewhere! I thought I heard NZ in an interview but when I researched the band Wikipedia stated Australia as well!! I stand corrected!!!
@Rachie Sayd Tim Poweles, the drummer (not the guy in this video) is from NZ.
@@gfm1496 so I was partially correct in another place and time... Hardly makes up for my mistake for which I have been repeatedly reprimanded for! But thanks anyway!!!
@@rachiesayd9423 No reprimanding necessary - you have great taste in music :)
This song has been playing in my head, on and off, for decades.
The guitar, drum, vocals, just a great band, awesome memories, wish bands still could hold a candle to these guys ..
This group is just as on now as when it came out and played this when i was a dj in the 80's and 90's
The church is a band I'm starting to discover their unique fusion of jangle pop and songcraft and this song here is one of their good ones
Qué maravilloso encontrar este video...adoraba este tema y lo había olvidado, ahora lo puedo escuchar todos los días !!
From Italy my favorite band of my teenage... Dreams, happiness, and all of my beautiful life
That is a gem of a song. Never gets old.
I remember hearing this classic tune on NPR 8 years ago after work cruising on the highway. The Church are legends.
and I remember going to work in 1986 and hearing this song for the first time...I knew there was something special about this tune....still have it in the memory banks after all these years..it mellos you out before a stressfull day, even before work,,,js
@@stevej.8364 This song was first released in 1990, on the album Gold Afternoon Fix.
Love the ending of the song,the strums of the guitar.its so classic
‘They’ll never be another quite like you’
I will never forget my first reaction to this video of my then favorite song played almost incessantly on the radio back around 1987, 1988. I was awestruck by the simplicity AND grandiosity of this artistically inspired music video.
Marty's so freakin' cool he just hits a couple notes on the "solo". Any other guitarist just tries to show how great a player they are. Marty's "nah, I'm good, I got this". LOVE it.
MWP : My neighbour and my friend 😉
Thanks for putting this back online. My fave!
Should have 10 million views
Dit is de beste lied dat ik hebbe gehoren in laang tijd...ik houde van't...Dank U voor uur poost...
Always been in love with this song from way back !!!
only gets better with time-beautiful guitar, Steve's smooth vocals, intelligent, searching lyrics....top-shelf upload!
I was today years old when I found out there was a video for this one -- and it's my favorite of theirs!
That music was SO GOOD. They can’t make songs like that nowadays. Brings me back to my teens.
Beautiful song. I love it. Very romantic.
Oh yeah, the soundtrack to high school and beyond
I remember the first time I heard this back in the day. That main guitar riff had me instantly hooked. Just has a haunting, melancholy essence to it that instantly triggered my depressive tendencies and still does to this day. But I still love it and listen to it all the time. ;-)
The Church is among the greatest bands of all time despite not having got the recognition it deserved. I love this band too much! Metropolis is a song that refers to an intoxicating atmosphere, and when I hear that song highest flight... it's like I'm listening to the music on my walkman, walking on the clouds...
One of the great guitar outros of all time
Bonkers video. Nice Rickenbacker! Oh what a great song...
Great song. Love the guitar
This is a great song. ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊
My girlfriend (now wife of 31 years) sent me this video on a VHS tape. I was in the Army at FT Irwin, CA and cut off from the world. I had to travel to Victorville to find the CD. Good memories with an excellent song.
Simple and effective video. A story told through the menagerie of character’s eyes
I love this song and this band...SONIC!!!
Why they are not superstars? Fantastic style! Like U2 meets Pink Floyd!
They deserve more recognition!
❤You are getting me through these REALLY difficult times in 2021!!❤. Stay safe. Stay cool. Stay healthy:)
Definitely some goosebump moments at several points in this song.
Top tune from a great Australian band!
This is one of many classic songs from the Church, with a beautiful sound and a feeling of serenity.
SO glad this original video has finally found it's way to the ol' YT. During the golden age of MTV, (remember the REAL MTV folks?!?) this track was my intro to a band I've loved ever since. Around Christmas time in that same great year of 1990, I found a cassette copy of GAF at my local, long gone 5 and Dime; cost a whopping 1 dollar! I'm proud to say I still have that tape, and just recently purchased a first pressing of the CD from Hawaii via the Bay. The magic of music and our memories, let's not lose those gifts friends!! Stay healthy, God bless us all, and God bless the church.
I am proud to be from the planet that produced this
My lord what an amazing song
great song, nice harmony🤩
It was in the 90s that this new wave rock group invaded the music scene with melodic tunes and provocative lyrics they bring back memories of our youth 🎤🎸🇵🇭😄
Huh??? This album was - for many followers of the band - a sort of swan song. Some of The Church's most towering moments - The Blurred Crusade, Heyday - were already YEARS behind them at this point. The (deserved) commercial success of Under The Milky Way and Metropolis doesn't overshadow the less widely known genius of Almost With You, Tristesse or Columbus. Kilbey himself has said (numerous times) that he HATED the recording process during Starfish - hated LA, and felt that poisonous vibe came through loud and clear in the final result.
Beautiful song.
The Church forever lives on!!!!!!!!!
always liked them, a hint of Echo in them.
other way around. :)
♡The Church♡ F'n awesome to this day 2021.
Who is listening in 2021? I m from Italy
🙋♂️ Mexico
2024, Se, Bueno
I remember those feelings,back in my younger days
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Love the young English vocals and guitar work from a pre-interweb time!!
PK is the subtle guitar genius that makes the Church...
One of my faves.
Saw The Church live last year on my Birthday in Minneapolis and they were amazing. Great band.
El mejor tema de este grupo de rock australiano.
A whole vibe ✨️
I'M SO INVOLVED WITH EVERYTHING YOU DO.
DON'T THINK ME A NUISANCE,
JUST YOUR...BIGGEST FAN.
-THEY FELL DOWN ON THEIR KNEES...
-THE NINE.
SEE THE NINE IS I
AND I AM
THE NINE...
SEE, THE NINE IS ME
AND I AM THE...NINE.
One of my favorite songs and they're hot!
Es parte de mi top 100 de canciones que escucharé antes de quitarme la vida .
Just another favorite band and album growing up :)
The Church was the first band I discovered by my self in a record store. Skin and bones was on sale, I soon got them all. Years went by no music oracles knew anything about them until I talked with the music oracle him self (Finn Bjelke) - Finn knew The Church and gave me confidence I was right all those years since the mid 80s - The Church is the best guitar rock & roll band!
The best of The very best. The Church has made my life easier.
My Favorite Song From Them
Lyrics
There'll never be another quite like you
I'm so involved with everything you do
Don't say nothing good will ever come of this
Don't say the damage is worse than it is
Back in Metropolis, circuses and elephants
Where the oranges grew
And back in Metropolis nothing can ever topple us
When I'm standing with you
You stare down at some crowd from your trapeze
And when you fell they fell down on their knees
And when you broke they scrambled for a piece
And when you spoke I felt their anger freeze
Back in Metropolis, circuses and elephants
Where the oranges grew
And back in Metropolis nothing can ever topple us
When I'm standing with you
And back in Metropolis talk about a holocaust
And then visit the zoo
And back in Metropolis the weather is ridiculous
What's it all leading to
And it's only a day away
We could leave tonight
You could sleep along the way
Dream in black and white
God that guitar part is pure beauty i remember being amazed when this came out that it was not as successful as "Under The Milky Way" had been.
Como na Austrália existem" Bandas" excelentes.The Church é mais um exemplo disso 👏👏👏
Totalmente cierto , tienen un sonido propio
Actually New Zealand...
best new wave band from Australia
Actually New Zealand...
@@rachiesayd9423 Nope, Australia. :)
@@philippalmer7686 I could be misinformed but I thought I heard in an interview that they are from New Zealand... Anyone can be mistaken, and I am far from perfect!!! Thanks!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kilbey
@@rachiesayd9423 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kilbey
That's a great memory also remember my girlfriend dancing to this whole album night after night is wonderful it's purple skies too at night and it's a wonderful time so tattoos that morning so yeah but so we can listen
Adoro The Church , cada canción y esta en especial!!
Es muuuuuuucho bella esta canción, a mi me relaja demasiado 🥰🥰
The Churh es una enorme banda. Hacedora de hermosas canciones y de maravillosos discos, inclusive los últimos que no cuentan con "hits", pero ganan en concepto e intensidad. Hace muchos años que los acompaño y me acompañan.-
Saw them on Friday The 13th a few days ago and Kirby is still so amazing and knows how to pick his musicians
So glad to see this video is back! Still an all-time magical song for me.
Obra Maestra por los Siglos de los Siglos... 🙏
A great song and video from a great band. Oh yeah, the lead singer, Steve Kilby is FINE and has a sexy voice.👧🏾👍🏾🤗🤗