Madness - Baggy Trousers (Official 4K Video)
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- ‘Baggy Trousers’ video now in 4K HD.
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Official @RSDUK release 'Baggy Trousers' to come out this weekend! You can only get a copy exclusively from participating independent record shops on Saturday 18th June, so find your local: recordstoreday.co.uk/stores/
One of Madness's true anthems, 'Baggy Trousers' captured the imagination of kids and parents all over the UK when it was released in 1980. The video, which begins with that unmistakable "thing-a-ling-a-ling", finds Madness back at school remembering the fun they had. According to the song all Madness learned at school was "how to bend, not break the rules" and they've been doing it ever since.
Lyrics:
Naughty boys in nasty schools
Headmasters breaking all the rules
Having fun and playing fools
Smashing up the woodwork tools
All the teachers in the pub
Passing 'round the ready-rub
Trying not to think of when
The lunch-time bell will ring again.
Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to the days.
Headmaster's had enough to-day
All the kids have gone away
Gone to fight with next-door's school
Every term, that is the rule
Sits alone and bends his cane
Same old backsides again
All the small ones tell tall tales
Walking home and squashing snails.
Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to the days.
Lots of girls and lots of boys
Lots of smells and lots of noise
Playing football in the park
Kicking push bikes after dark
Baggy trousers, dirty shirt
Pulling hair and eating dirt
Teacher comes to break it up
Back of the 'ead with a plastic cup.
Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to the days.
Baggy trousers, baggy trousers, baggy trousers
Baggy trousers, baggy trousers, baggy trousers
Discover more about Madness on their website: www.madness.co.uk
#Madness #BaggyTrousers #OurHouse2021 - Hudba
"I'm making school lunches from around the world to see which country hates their kids the most, and today, it's..."
Love those videos
A man of culture
Straight out from there
We came from the same place…
Same 😂😂😂
Everyone gangsta till the saxophonist goes in creative mode
😂
Boys in survival
👏👏👏👏👏🤣🤣
Read this second the bit you mean comes on...gold mate.
exactly.
The saxophonist's trousers were so baggy that he defied physics
Why don't this comment have replies?😂
True💀
"Oh what fun we 'ad but at the time it seemed so bad" hits so hard.
I'm in the punishment book
Right?I miss school so much as an adult.
Fun fact: during the filming of the music video, the saxophonist had to be reminded several times about the laws of physics but he kept forgetting. So the producers had to leave it in because each shoot was so expensive
ya riiiight
You never actually said what he did that was wrong and had to be left in. Fun fact, he’s already defying the laws of physics by FLYING. What worse could’ve had done?!
@@hatednyc Do you ever get the feeling you have missed something painfully obvious?
Its Madness!
Damn, he really learnt how to bend *and* break the rules
I like how the sax player starts flying off in the middle of the song and the singer sees him and smiles as if he's thinking "wow, I didn't know he could do that!"
1:20
The singer = suggs
your mom mothafucka!
The band were probably unsure that the trick was actually going to work! 🤣
In the interview linked here ( czcams.com/video/d92AZ4Zypdc/video.htmlsi=0VhwTouWVtxw4kXr&t=610 ), Chris Foreman, guitar, talks about the Baggy Trousers video. Apparently, Lee Thompson, sax, wanted to have dummies flying but it ended up with just him on a wire... and Suggs' reaction reflects genuine fun/amazement. Overall, this is a fun interview with Chris and people might want to start from the beginning of Part 1 of the interview.
"Today, we're making school lunches..."
Bignipples?
@duckncontent and today its the uk...
Came here from him :3
*casually feels up ingredients with baby hand figures*
@duckncontent did Kanye design your PFP? 💀
I came here because of that as well
If ever there was a song that perfectly encapsulated growing up in 1980s Britain then this is it! 🙂
ding!
Agree.
Legends say that he's still flying over England to this day
We need to save him!
legends say hes still after the kids
@@lucaskayley Could have sworn I saw him over my house yesterday
I've seen him fly over my house quite a few times
Him and that Pink Floyd pig.
I love that they filmed this with proper council estate kids. Not a bunch of child actors or 'well behaved' kids from a stage school like bands would cast these days.
@I’m The Biblical guy NO WAY ARE THOSE CHILD ACTORS
@I’m The Biblical guy if you do your research you will find out they certainly weren’t actors.
In America they're called "the projects". Different countries, same spirit.
lol 100th like
Dave Robinson would've been too cheap to hire child actors!
Apparently, this is a sort of an “Another brick in the wall part 2” type song from someone with a different experience. The kids are of a later generation and generally lower social classes, they go to a less posh day school, they have more fun and the teachers aren’t evil by default.
So..... the less money you had tbe more fun school was
@@yeetiminguspro3438the less control the teachers have other you. Lower quality of education, but higher quality of childhood life.
Massively underrated musicians. Deserve more recognition for their music.
I just randomly clicked on this song and im confused on why this has 17 M views lmao
@@maru-jd8kg You're probably quite young and so know nothing about this legendary song and video!😎😎.....by the class act, the boys of Madness ♥️
John Lennon likes Madness
I don't know, getting a whole Colgate ad that parodies this song seems pretty well rated.
Had to play this in a band and now it's suck in my head
But yeah I agree
Madness is what happens when a Ska band breaks out in the middle of a Monty Python sketch.
I think The young ones already had the idea
Oh I like that description, brilliant!!
@@Lewy1900 I feel like I saw a Madness clip in an episode of “The Young Ones” or I could be wrong
@@justindawson5930 They appeared in two episodes, yeah.
@@justindawson5930 they were in it twice (once in each series, performing House of Fun in Ser.1 and Our House in ser.2
This truly is the most British band.
Nah I think it's the beatles
Until now I always thought they were Aussies.
This is one of the only bands I know of where you can actually hear the accent even when they’re singing.
@@WowbaggerTheInfinitelyProlongewhatever gave you that idea
@@dessmith7658 Good question. I guess I thought they seemed more aggressive and hence more Australian. Something about their "Our House" video just seemed more Aussie to me. I am ashamed of my error...
This was filmed at my school!
What?!
Nice
How were the school lunches?
I loved the clip of the girls,especially the one with a fag in her hand. I bet she had a sprog a year later!
Name of the school?
The real epic sax guy is in creative mode
Who actually has come here because they appreciate this awesome music?
Me.
me lol
Me
Hilgert Bos Me
Hilgert Bos mee even though I was born in 2006 I love 80's music, these are my favourite band.
Producer: how much gravity do you want
Saxophonist: no
Lmao
I’m giggling, I can’t help
It
😂👌
Lol 😃😃😃😂😂😂🍺🍺🍺
ha ha funniest thing I have heard all week.
Brilliant days. There vids show exactly as I remember very early 80s. Feel blessed I was born in 66 and was there to be part of this . Grange hill gives me a similar feeling. Having said that early 80 s were rough and you had to be on your toes .
Same, also born in 66 and 58 now. 70's kid, 80's teenage, it was perfect.
“Baggy Trousers!🤓” what an iconic line.
agreed
“All we learnt at school was how to bend and break the rules” - the most valuable lesson in life IMO. What a time to be teen, so much good music
I might be wrong but I think it's "how to bend - not break - the rules"
"NOT break the rules", meaning doing mess but in a "good" way
I wish Britain was still like this
Hate the 21st century so much. Everything’s just driven by technology
British culture is homogenised up the arse nowadays. Everyone trying to appeal to the American Market.
There's not many 'British' people left. They are all dying off.
David M one here
@ head to your local shit hole pub you will find them
Just love how he says baggy trousers at the beginning of the song ha, cracks me up everytime 🤣😂
1:14
"Just pretend like you're playing your kit when you recorded it."
"But this is only half me kit"
"Did I fakkin stutter sunshine"
Fits in with the name of the band though, it's all Madness
Still a brilliant band an music
1:12
This is relatable to every single person who has ever been inside a public school
Pretty sure it is about your common and garden comprehensives not public school!
Gone to fight the next door school, every term that is the rule .... In our case it was Orange Hill
Maximus might be Stateside, where the equivalent of a comp is called a public school (how on earth did 'public' come to mean 'posh' in the UK anyway? )
@@mrspoonofbuttonmoon Because they were funded directly by parents (the 'public') rather than through local authorities.
The teachers definitely went to the pub for lunch at my school, and the pub didn't do food.
Forgot the word British
This is absolutely brilliant. Never in my life have I heard anything like this.
This is true music
Search for One Step Beyond or Riding The XTC
This is my nephews favourite song and hes only 12 he listens to madness all the time their music is timeless
He's clearly a lad who has great taste in music......The Nutty Boys really are timeless 😉🇬🇧
This is more British than fish and chips.
Fish 'n' chips
@@SpiffyCS Yeah man don't forget ya cup `O` tea
@@thestonedrose7962 Just needed to correct you there, havin' a nice cuppa also helps
Fish and chips it's American to put the n
More British then quavers and football?
The kids in this video are, by now, about fifteen years off retirement.
what no theyre not
@@TheNoobyMinecrafter1 If this was released in 1980 and they're all about ten years old, they'd be about fifty now. Assuming retirement at 65 gets you about fifteen years to go. Make the most of life while it lasts!
Assuming they’ll even have jobs, the kids in this video will be dropping dead at their workstations in about 25 years because retirement is almost not a thing anymore:
David Scothern Retirement age for them will be 67, according to the gov website, presuming they were born January 1970.
who says everyone wants to 'retire'
I wish I'd appreciated my teens in the 80s more. My kids really don't know what freedom and fun were.
Madness was the group that defined my teens and without any swearing or violent lyrics. Thanks nutty boys from an 'official' nutty girl ❤️❤️👍👍👍❤️
Hello people with good taste in music
Hello back to you!
@@josephmarturana6752 hey bro
these guys make seizures look awesome
please take me
Kurt Given lol
Fucking top comment, made me laugh a lot 😂😂
Thanks to this comment I can't watch any madness music videos with a straight face!
ahaha far out
This song is getting me through the lockdown
I know right
Me 2
Me3
@@bobross3756 really if soo he is talented
@@oofnugget123 yes really
Omg. I did this song at my school when i was in yr1 i just found it again. My god the memories
Brilliant song, it still brings a smile to my face every time I hear it, and I left school in 1971...
I was 11 when this came out, 3 days before I started high school in 1980. Perfect era to grow up as a kid and was listening to this along with the likes of Dexys, Specials, Piranhas, The Jam, The Beat, The Selecter, The Police. I don't think I've ever been happier than I was in 79 to 82. Thinking back makes me want to cry.
Amen 🙏
La belle époque, avec tous ces groupes anglais incroyables
Those were the days!!❤️ RIP.....
Still keep your chin up....we can influence this generation by insisting on only GOOD music!!....
@@colinluckens9591 there's still some of us out there, I'm 24 grew up on madness and other 2 tone and of course love the original ska legends like dekker and murvin.
"All I learned in school is how to bend, not break, the rules" is probably one of my favorite lines in pop music history.
Legend says that the saxophonist still in the sky floating
this band is literally amazing
This was filmed at my old school. Islip Street, Kentish
My god is this such a British music video. Love it.
so y love american stuff??????????? there unhealthy
Lol ikr
M Alvi America is fat & corrupt and.... Britain isn't?
Be honest, you're 12, right?
Kieronfc1892 mate I am British
Julianna H5782 America is corrupt.
Some call it “The peak of British music”.
God, weren't we spoilt back then. Punk, new wave, and then the Ska revival all after each other. And all produced brilliant memorable music. What times. Sadly never to be repeated.
Just summed up school in the late 70s early 80s so it will live with us forever
My dad died this year and loved madness beyond belief! Listening to them and talking to him at the same time feels like he can hear me 😔
Your dad had good taste in music. Sorry for your loss.
Thoughts and Appreciation go out, he had great taste :)
Condolences my friend, here's to him going one step beyond
Cool comment.
I do the same thing but with my mum
Absolutely is a superb LP. Cheers Madness!
Madness is the most British band ever. More British than Queen, The Beatles, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Erasure, and even The Clash.
Your vieja in tanga
I agree , positivisme in everything.
...along with XTC, perhaps
Yeah honestly
More British than Pulp?
One of the best endings to any song ever....those cheeky sax bleats coupled with 'baggy trauzerz'.....just great.
I am from Liverpool in England but I like the way Madness did not alter their strong southern/London accents for this song. Full marks. This is a classic - it's nutty, mad and typically British. Thank you Madness.
"Typically British" Yeah, nice one mate.
I was at secondary school in London in the 1980s and this song perfectly captures the experience!
Wasn't Suggs originally a Pudlian?
All their songs used that accent
It's the mods/skinhead/suedehead working class love of MOBO thing from the early 60s vibe. A very British (especially from the South) thing that Americans never got.
Remember hearing this on the radio one Monday morning before primary school when it hit the Top Ten (which was a big deal back then). We were all so excited and sang it in the playground for weeks.
Great job, great song baggy trousers 🎶👏
Most underrated tune ever should have well over 100M views
here it goes again ... the "underrated"!
After all this years, the flying sax man still brings smile on my face
The music video of the song was shot in Kentish Town in north west London: at the Kentish Town C of E primary school on Islip Street and the Peckwater Estate. The band's saxophone player, Lee Thompson decided he wanted to fly through the air for his solo, with the use of wires hanging from a crane.
I remember it being on TOTP in September 1980 as I remember, just when kids in the UK had gone back to school after the summer holidays, so the timing was uncannily spot on! Just as when The Specials did Rat Race, I recall taking exams at secondary school at the same time.
As an 11 year old on a NW london council estate when this came out...... this was our world
Man just casually flying in the back round
The coolest thing to come out of eighties Britain. Effortless lesson in how to make to make catchy songs and have fun all at the same time.
im so proud of the uk :) this cheers me up so good
My brother who passed away suddenly at the age of 46 in 2020 was a massive fan. This was his favourite song played this at his funeral 💙
*hug*
Same age as my brother. Born 1974. Sorry for your loss. My brother loves MADNESS and this is one of his favourites too.
Rest in peace, what a song
Sorry I'm late but rest in peace
❤
There is one line that still describes schools now 'baggy trousers, dirty shirt pulling hair and eating dirt teacher comes to break it up back of the head with a plastic cup'
"Back of the head with a plastic cup" is so oddly specific but so true somehow lol
Except it's not baggy trousers anymore, it's stupidly tight trousers that taper at the ankles. They're the in-thing now. Won't find me wearing them though. Back when I was in secondary school in the 2000's, I wore a hand me down pair of Levi's that were about two sizes too big for me. A bloke who was a punk rocker in the 80's said I looked like a luddite in them. Good times 😂
This was what it was like to go to school in the early 80's England,truly. At least we didn't stab each other, worst it was was fight after school.
Get the badge in💪
1:23 One of the most iconic moments in 80s music,
bro defying gravity lol
Play for the Badge 🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺⚽⚽⚽
Feels like the last day of school
2020 and its still a banger
Too cool for nowadays kids.
2021 now
@@user-kj5qx1jg1b it’s 2021 and lee jay Thompson is still flying around London with his saxophone.
2021 and still a banger, holy crap this song remains cool
2022. Motherfuckers!! Haha
Last night at the bar, I put this song on the jukebox, and the frat dudes who were shouting at each other and pissing everyone off finished their beers and left.
In addition to this being one of the best songs ever, it turns out it's an effective douchey frat dude repellent.
Should've brought in some working class Englishmen, they would've danced like nutcases.
And everyone clapped?
Chvj Dvpa Damn you beat me to it
Hell yeah!
If you ever want to make annoying people leave a bar or restaurant just play Alice's Restaurant on the jukebox
I can’t believe it took me this long to find this song in particular, 13 years.
Thanks to my older sister,every day was some good music at home.Madness was for the morning time mostly...Great band 🎉
I was the same age as the kids running around in this video when I got into Madness. How time flies cos most of them are now in their mid-forties.
That's exactly what I was saying to myself watching this video
Greatest1979
Same yer mate ........ but wot a start in life. ;)
Greatest1979 That girl at 1:30 in the Lonsdale shirt probably became a model.
Alex K. I just hoped she quit smoking, if not, she'll be looking haggard in 2015
Alex K. She seems pretty average. Council estate model.
One of the most exquisite fast SKA bass lines ever. I've seen several cover bands disappoint
Bedders is a true bassman!
The reason why I started learning bass
Thinking back, this tune came out round about the same time as kids went back to school, and The Specials 'Rat Race' was in the charts when we were all taking exams. Uncanny timing. 🎹🎶
Had to sing this in primary school once, actual peak
I just want to appreciate that they called a wonderful song baggy trousers
That flying saxophone guy though.....
I can't find the wire creepy...
***** That sax guy must be high.
Lilicool09 was that a goddamn pun
What about him, Kumiko ?
He lives on my road.
I used to deliver school meals to this school when I worked for Camden Council. So yeah I had to visit this video location every day! As a hardcore Madness fan since forever this was an absolute joy! And I got paid for it!
Which school is it?
@@zuro1092 it's on Islip Street in Kentish Town NW5. There's only 1 school on that road. You can't miss it :)
@@danfossard4626 Cheers:) Will definitely stop by with new eyes:)
@@zuro1092 no worries. If you go up the little side street to the left of the main gates you'll see this playground where they filmed the video. Even tho it looks different now you still see where it was. Have fun
as an american who was born there and never been to england i'll prob never have the chance to visit this place lol
Proper football lads
This song is so British.
You want a british song? Search for Supertramp's song "bloody well right" ← Not actual title I dont know what it is called but you'll find it
Harry Ward yep
Not as good as American music, but decent.
@20sentryboy No, just Madness.
@@PapagenoMF how can you make such generalities? Also, cite one thing that proves your statement.
100% your dad showed this to you if not you have grate taste 😁
Both 😎
This is honestly a super underrated song that I think every rock fan should hear.
superb lyrics, lashings of bonkers sax and terrific piano - to use the technical expression - equals a total pop classic.
This song is over 34 years old and it still sounds great.
8 years crikey
My goodness! It's forty years later! When this came out, I was in school - now I'm a grandfather. What did the time go?
What is Daniel DeCriscio
🤣
I know what you mean! I still love the song though.
Time flies sir
I'm 14 and I prefer this song to half the things I hear on the radio
The most British song ever. Can't get more british
Love how madness was just a bunch of mates creating music and just having a laugh with it and ended up becoming engrained in British culture
I still feel like this song is criminally underrated
Id say it's not, anyone who was around at that time probably remembers it lmao
Saw them at the 02 London. The sax did make its way around the air. Brilliant
i was there to
@@realharryhill great nite
@@captainroger a night to never forget
@@realharryhill what was it again.....🤣
"Got the ball ref" 🇬🇧🍻
I was born in 1979, love Maddness.
1:46 saxophone guy flying randomly behind lol
All there tunes are simply brilliant, Madness are one of the greatest British Bands ever, FACT.....
I love the ‘dancing’ more than anything. It’s just…British. I don’t know how to explain it but it is
43 years later this song still sounds so accurate to modern day
Saw them live in Leeds 2 years ago, they never miss a beat. One of the best performances I've ever seen in my life.
My dad knows them and they performed in our local pub, its bloody mesmerising
Goofy ah name
@@chaitea6256 name the pub 👀
Was the guy flying?
I'm italian but this song is so british that my pizza turned into fish & chips 😎
Nice one mate
Lol
Legend says he is still flying over England
Godspeed, ya mad lad…🫡
Finsbury park Madstock '92 👊
Can still remember jumping around at the school disco when I was 10 to this. Great times.
Stumbled upon this. oh 80's nostalgia. I grew up on this Ska