Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday [TOTP 24th Jan 1985 HQ Sound]

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  • Strawberry Switchblade Performing 'Since Yesterday' On Top Of The Pops On Thursday 24th January 1985. No.5 Was The Highest Chart Position That This Underrated Slice Of Pop Melancholia ever reached. Looking Past The Polka Dots, Rose's Prescient Lyrics Have Left Us With An All Time Classic And A Legacy Of Music That Was Not So Simple And Throwaway As So Many Critics Would Have Had Us Believe At The Time.
    Available To Buy On CD On The Platinum Collection And The Japanese Reissued 'Strawberry Switchblade' Album.

Komentáře • 171

  • @davidburke2915
    @davidburke2915 Před 26 dny +9

    Im 61 and still enjoy listening to this

  • @sarahcox9284
    @sarahcox9284 Před 5 lety +99

    I'm 55 now and I still luv strawberry switchblade as much as when they first played on totp. So upbeat and sweet,I still sing a long to their songs :)

    • @pjfps980
      @pjfps980 Před 3 lety +9

      I'm also 55yo,
      Lives in japan.
      I clearly remembered that
      They are very strongly influenced to japanese culture, especially for girls pop and culture scene.
      After they sang Since Yesterday,
      Japanese tv show gonna pick up lots of girls band and groups.
      Strawberry Switchblade
      is an epoc artist.
      Sadly, not so much people remembered them though,
      But Strawberry Switchblade's spirit ,
      Wear any dress deserves,
      Sing any type songs ,
      So many things
      Strawberry Switchblade
      Had done .
      Thanks and God bless UK.

    • @meggymorello
      @meggymorello Před 3 lety +1

      One of my all time top 10 Sarahkins x

    • @romainekersting3345
      @romainekersting3345 Před měsícem +1

      Me2😂

  • @user-ne2un1tv4s
    @user-ne2un1tv4s Před 2 měsíci +3

    30年以上探してたこの曲、やっと探せた。
    嬉しい。

  • @maestroh2986
    @maestroh2986 Před rokem +18

    The synth hooks, harmonies, and sensual mystique was a winning formula for these girls. I just wish there was more material.

  • @susanmyonghee
    @susanmyonghee Před 5 měsíci +6

    Sweet memories of being a young teenager in the 80s listening to Strawberry Switchblade. This remains one of my all-time favorite songs!

  • @phillipgreer4875
    @phillipgreer4875 Před 6 lety +23

    I adored Rosie back then. She was one gorgeous babe!

  • @jonnyhaw
    @jonnyhaw Před 4 lety +18

    Another hugely underrated track that should have been a number one.

  • @tony1967ames
    @tony1967ames Před 4 lety +14

    Great times. Take this 55 old bloke back there and away from 2020

  • @simandaud
    @simandaud Před 7 lety +36

    At 15 I was so in love with rose . Couldn't wait for top of the pops .

  • @mightyquinnproductions8672
    @mightyquinnproductions8672 Před 3 lety +12

    A stand out song so sweet and catchy should have been number one a classic !

  • @pixelfascination
    @pixelfascination Před 10 lety +62

    wha! yep 30yrs on it seems my crush on Rose is still raging :D

    • @Lerequindemort
      @Lerequindemort Před 5 lety +1

      Maximillian Fischer it's not the only thing that's raging 😘😛😘😛😘

    • @mikeymc3094
      @mikeymc3094 Před 4 lety +2

      Maximillian Fischer
      Max it’s now Nov 2019 an she’s still gorgeous. Christ it’s like she never ages a day no matter when you watch this video

  • @annaelizabethwade1660
    @annaelizabethwade1660 Před 6 lety +36

    My 80s style icons! Back then I would have been in the black pvc but these days I'm probably more polka dot. Either way just wonderful... ❤❤❤💋💋💋

    • @soniawilliams5198
      @soniawilliams5198 Před 4 lety +4

      me too!

    • @zacetto
      @zacetto Před 4 lety +2

      I’m sure you could still rock the PVC/rubber!

    • @zacetto
      @zacetto Před 4 lety +2

      Sonia Williams
      And I am sure you could still rock those materials, too!

    • @annaelizabethwade1660
      @annaelizabethwade1660 Před 4 lety +3

      @@zacetto Haha! It would have to be pretty stretchy these days... 😊

    • @zacetto
      @zacetto Před 4 lety +2

      Anna Elizabeth Wade
      Well.....that is the appeal...the stretchiness and the skin tight look/sensation. I am sure you would still be a vision. I blame bands like these, who I witnessed whence barely 11 for the resultant kink!
      😈🤣

  • @leeosborne3793
    @leeosborne3793 Před 4 lety +38

    One of the most tragically short-lived bands ever. :( I saw Rose MacDowall live in London about twelve years ago, and she was amazing.
    As for this video, yeeeow....that dress and those boots! I think I need to lie down for a bit now.

  • @thomastom888
    @thomastom888 Před 10 měsíci +6

    Almost 40 years ago now still sounds good

  • @nervo6321
    @nervo6321 Před 4 lety +6

    Rose....so gorgeous...

  • @nineteenthly
    @nineteenthly Před 6 lety +18

    I feel like this was years ahead of its time and I bought a polka dot dress because of the video.

  • @desertrose1226
    @desertrose1226 Před 7 lety +22

    I love the way these girls dress especially the one with the longer dress on - so cute!

  • @nickpalmer3076
    @nickpalmer3076 Před 4 lety +17

    80'S and it still sounds good.

  • @helen7471
    @helen7471 Před 9 lety +33

    A forgotten classic, it didn't do as well as it should have.

    • @michaelmyers75
      @michaelmyers75 Před 9 lety +11

      It went top 5 in the UK and brought them success in Japan , just a shame none of the follow ups did as well

    • @eddiecaplan1908
      @eddiecaplan1908 Před 7 lety +5

      Takes me straight back to my youth!!!!

    • @profmartin1967
      @profmartin1967 Před 4 lety

      Another act from that era that deserved to do better was Scarlet Party with 101 Damnations. Have both songs in my 80s record collection and I'm 53 now.

  • @philgreer3213
    @philgreer3213 Před 5 lety +9

    One of the classic pop songs of the 80s. I loved it and Rose too.

  • @AnthonyMonaghan
    @AnthonyMonaghan Před 4 lety +4

    They were my 15 year old crush. I thought they were completely exotic and untouchable and the song cemented their allure in my hormone raging mind. I wore this single out. Scotland produced a lot of amazing music in the 1980's.

    • @1414yorks
      @1414yorks Před 3 lety

      Just as long as the single was the only thing you wore out!!

    • @MarkyMark16352
      @MarkyMark16352 Před rokem

      @@1414yorks true, the Bluebells., Big Country rip Stuart,, the Mighty Wah, the Associates rip Billy, Altered Images and Clare Grogan. Happy days they were

  • @admiralackbar9307
    @admiralackbar9307 Před 2 lety +4

    This song has always been so amazing, in 1985 i would have been so diehard into Arcadia's So Red the Rose album that I didn't appreciate all the other incredible talent in British music, sadly those days are all long gone now.

  • @robertgarrett4046
    @robertgarrett4046 Před 9 měsíci +2

    I JUST [[ LOVE ]] THIS SONG EVERY LAST BIT OF IT , YOU CAN'T BEAT IT AT ALL , EVEN TO THIS DAY HAVING BOUGHT IT BACK IN 1985 I CAN'T STOP PLAYING IT , [[ JUST GREAT ]] . ROB.

  • @johndonnelly80
    @johndonnelly80 Před měsícem +1

    Brilliant to see people playing music and loving it.

  • @FierceMundy
    @FierceMundy Před 8 lety +38

    some great guitar skills

    • @spadypoonpeepee
      @spadypoonpeepee Před 7 lety

      lolz

    • @christopherb9888
      @christopherb9888 Před 7 lety +7

      An inspiration to so many future guitarists.

    • @usauser3163
      @usauser3163 Před 5 lety +1

      @@christopherb9888 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Zizzyyzz
      @Zizzyyzz Před 4 lety +1

      Stellar.

    • @splintercast8092
      @splintercast8092 Před 4 lety +5

      It takes a huge amount of skill to get a guitar to sound like a synthesizer like that!

  • @emmawylde100
    @emmawylde100 Před 5 měsíci +2

    22 at the time rose just had me mesmerised

  • @phillipgreer4875
    @phillipgreer4875 Před 9 lety +23

    fabulous song, fabulous ladies!

    • @Smithjones12
      @Smithjones12 Před 9 lety +3

      Not heard this for years its still good

  • @phillipgreer4875
    @phillipgreer4875 Před 7 lety +6

    I love this song. Brilliant pop from this duo. I and use to fancy Rosie so much!

  • @phillipgreer4875
    @phillipgreer4875 Před 6 lety +8

    Great song. I fancied like mad . She was gorgeous!

  • @andreasmarx6127
    @andreasmarx6127 Před 3 lety +4

    LOVE ROSE FOREVER-and listen to C.93 version live with Rose. I LOVE THIS SONG !!!!

  • @robbie007
    @robbie007 Před 7 lety +25

    I fancied these two along with Clare Grogan of AI back in the day.

  • @bazza9830
    @bazza9830 Před 10 lety +9

    Rose & Jill marvellous and that shiny outfit !!!

    • @MrMjp58
      @MrMjp58 Před 7 lety +1

      It's a Hofner Galaxie.

  • @marktopliss2550
    @marktopliss2550 Před 3 lety +5

    What a song always makes me smile and feel good when I'm down , timeless those girls were fashionly sexy ,forever young voice 80s were awesome times I miss them 🌟🍻👌🌹💗😘👍🇬🇧🌈👏😍 xxx

  • @tcleehk
    @tcleehk Před 11 lety +8

    I was 12 on that day! Loved this song since 1984 and has been remained at the top tier of my most favourite songs of all time! Thanks for the upload!

  • @jackoboymm
    @jackoboymm Před 6 lety +3

    Lovely Scottish lasses.... from Scotland.

  • @dylanbethlehem8529
    @dylanbethlehem8529 Před 6 lety +10

    I had such a crush on jill when i was a teenager still do now lol

  • @america14684
    @america14684 Před 2 lety +3

    This is a beautiful classic from childhood.

  • @ramsesmendoza6555
    @ramsesmendoza6555 Před 5 lety +2

    Rose was a beauty out of this world

  • @philgrossman660
    @philgrossman660 Před 3 lety +3

    Rose MacDowall looking gorgeous in a figure-hugging PVC top & microskirt and FMBs. What's not to like?

  • @joebee1558
    @joebee1558 Před 3 lety +1

    They played at Plymouth Academy back in the 80s i met Rosie after at the bar bought her a drink,let's say we were getting on ,till someone had a word then she left I was gutted loved her Glasgwigen accent though

  • @discoveryone
    @discoveryone Před 5 lety +13

    I wouldn't say this was underrated. everyone i know says they love it. #5 was a good position to reach in a time when nearly every release was as fantastic as this.

    • @Muesli711
      @Muesli711 Před 3 lety +6

      Yep, bone fide hit record - reaching number 5 in 1985 meant shifting a seriously large number of singles.

  • @jonnyhaw
    @jonnyhaw Před 4 lety +3

    Fantastic song, deserved to be number one.

  • @therealzakflash2622
    @therealzakflash2622 Před 6 lety +2

    My absolute favourite 80s song!

  • @35whirlpools
    @35whirlpools  Před 9 lety +4

    Jake, Jill is playing a red Hofner 175 guitar which she used on their last tour, though her favourite guitar around this period was a Guild semi-acoustic

    • @35whirlpools
      @35whirlpools  Před 9 lety +1

      BestCanKeanRob2 Of course she is not playing it live on TOTP, but that was one of Jill's own guitars around that time.

    • @35whirlpools
      @35whirlpools  Před 9 lety +5

      BestCanKeanRob2 Actually she could and still does. Check out her latest material here theshapists.bandcamp.com/

    • @_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
      @_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Před 7 lety

      is it a synth-guitar ? I love SS but what the hell is going on here ?

  • @bantam-tx9im
    @bantam-tx9im Před 5 lety +3

    80's classic. The Macc Lads even nicked the intro for 'Feed Your Face'

  • @thegranddilligaf
    @thegranddilligaf Před 8 lety +3

    Steve Wright fashion icon. Those were the days!

  • @SJam491
    @SJam491 Před 7 měsíci +1

    How many American girls could've been into Strawberry Switchblade in 1985? Not many, I'm sure!

  • @parkerspupsters362
    @parkerspupsters362 Před 4 lety +13

    I was 11 when this came out. I was clearly very impressionable as I developed an immediate and long lasting love of pretty girls with huge hair and killer makeup 🤘🏻😍🤘🏻

  • @by_antony
    @by_antony Před rokem

    I was 14 on this day and I have been inspired by so many people since...including DJ Steve Wright as well as the talent of many of the artists of the 80s. As a listener and music creator 30 years later, I feel there is no (or little) input on this track when guitarist comes in and starts to play. ** I love this track, esp at the end with the reverb/delay part...

  • @marcelog668
    @marcelog668 Před 6 lety +1

    I WAS THIS THEME SINCE SEVERAL YEAR AGO. I DIDN T KNOW HOW IT WAS CALLED, NOW I M VERY HAPPY , KISS HUGS

  • @michaeldenham3818
    @michaeldenham3818 Před 4 lety +2

    Still class in October 2019

  • @35whirlpools
    @35whirlpools  Před 10 lety +20

    Melissa the horns at the beginning aren't sampled from the 1974 hit 'Beach Baby' by the UK band the First Class, but do, as is the same in the case of 'Beach Baby', incorporate a phrase from the last movement of Sibelius' Fifth Symphony....

  • @scottpiercy9931
    @scottpiercy9931 Před 2 lety +2

    Jill looked like she hadn’t a clue what was going on! Lol

  • @simoom37
    @simoom37 Před 12 lety +6

    always pure bliss to watch them

  • @steveaston516
    @steveaston516 Před 9 lety +4

    A corking little ditty from the eighties

  • @alexwood1401
    @alexwood1401 Před 7 lety +2

    one brilliant song where are they today

    • @wattage2007
      @wattage2007 Před 7 lety +1

      alex wood On Facebook 😊

    • @leeosborne3793
      @leeosborne3793 Před 4 lety +1

      Jill quit the music industry, but Rose did quite a lot of work with various bands, and some solo stuff. Not sure if she still is.

  • @maybeyuli975
    @maybeyuli975 Před 3 lety +1

    they're so adorable

  • @brianmorecombe2726
    @brianmorecombe2726 Před rokem +3

    24th Jan 1985.I was only 19 years old Got sacked after only 1 month as a labourer,back on the dole.Thank god i never saw this on totps,i was suicidal at that time

    • @Tzunamii777
      @Tzunamii777 Před 9 měsíci +3

      I hope you're doing better now.

  • @alexoverfelt1816
    @alexoverfelt1816 Před 4 lety +1

    Shredding that guitar!

  • @BristolLeathered2010
    @BristolLeathered2010 Před rokem +1

    I'm nearly 50 yrs old ... I love this Tune .. I would of been 12 in 1985

  • @darrenibson3367
    @darrenibson3367 Před 6 měsíci

    Jill definitely snorting the laughing gas! Love em

  • @MrMikomi
    @MrMikomi Před 11 lety +1

    Wow, videoed and uploaded in stereo. Well done!

  • @cuttlefisch
    @cuttlefisch Před 6 lety +2

    10 James Orr Street is a great song by them.

  • @tinamichellefan
    @tinamichellefan Před 7 lety

    Annette Firman from Grange Hill. I miss the 80's. Top Song.

  • @zedata57
    @zedata57 Před 6 lety

    Brilliant upload. Thank you so much.

  • @rossmorebaz
    @rossmorebaz Před 6 lety

    I wish i could go back to the 80s

  • @user-tk4gr9zo7t
    @user-tk4gr9zo7t Před 2 lety

    Legends🖤🤌🏼💅🏼✨ they are timeless

  • @davidmiller5573
    @davidmiller5573 Před 3 lety

    Bless em, they made many a record executive happy getting the record deal!

  • @Loverboy19691
    @Loverboy19691 Před 12 lety +4

    Is it me or does this song sound like something from the 1960's? i'm not saying its a cover but ever since i first heard it in 1985 i always thought there was a 60's feel to it!

    • @robbie007
      @robbie007 Před 5 lety +3

      Maybe it's because the tune in part uses horns used in the 1974 hit Beach Baby which sounds like a 60s Beachboys hit.

    • @clod8
      @clod8 Před 4 lety +2

      There was a Sixties psychedelic revival in the early to mid ‘80’s. As always, there’s a 20 year turn over in fashion. I loved this stuff at the time I was 15.

  • @johnnymfan5065
    @johnnymfan5065 Před 4 lety +7

    why is Rose(??) playing guitar on this lipsynch. There is no guitar, or bass or drums for that matter, in the mix. Still good poprock from these synthpoppers.

    • @offbeat65
      @offbeat65 Před 2 lety

      Sharply observed. Somebody should have told her.

  • @philmalley7888
    @philmalley7888 Před 7 lety

    Mixed memories of this song stuck in bed for three weeks with a hideous infection. Then dragged off to hospital and I missed the girls big show on Top of the plops. Darn it !

  • @neilstamp9444
    @neilstamp9444 Před 7 lety +5

    I knew jill well

  • @rockinblue978
    @rockinblue978 Před 6 dny

    I'm sure this was a few years before 1985 surely?

  • @melissaholton5161
    @melissaholton5161 Před 10 lety +2

    The horns at the beginning are sampled from Beach Baby, which is a 60s song, so perhaps that is why it sounds 60s to you, Andrew Dexter. Also, Rose's voice has a little 60s pop sound to it, at times. I love them so much. Ever since they became known in the US in '85.

  • @wanderinggoliard
    @wanderinggoliard Před 5 lety

    What a world

  • @marshlightning
    @marshlightning Před 2 lety +1

    What happened to you girls? So sweet.

  • @jfr06
    @jfr06 Před 5 lety +1

    Wish to be 19 again.

  • @billgrant4825
    @billgrant4825 Před 3 lety +1

    Don't think this get the credit it deserves

  • @michaelbraun3808
    @michaelbraun3808 Před 4 lety +7

    Cute girls, great song and still wondering about the guitar.... :-)

  • @megaphoenix2001
    @megaphoenix2001 Před 23 dny

    i was 14 when this was in chart they shouldnt have been a one hit wonder there follow up to this let her go should have been top 10 hit too

  • @walteroque
    @walteroque Před 4 lety +1

    Jill

  • @shandywarhol4444
    @shandywarhol4444 Před 2 lety +1

    Subbed. Kx

  • @iaindoherty1993
    @iaindoherty1993 Před 9 lety

    this is England brought me back to a class tune⌐╦╦═─

  • @romanocadiz7288
    @romanocadiz7288 Před 2 lety +1

    Fuckin goosebumps

  • @MrMerrrrrrr
    @MrMerrrrrrr Před 4 lety +2

    Polka dots 😘😘😘😘

  • @iaindoherty3994
    @iaindoherty3994 Před 5 lety

    Scotland no glasgow has so much much to be proud of great toon hot chics i was 13 n its still like yesterday still in love wae rose

  • @tomsurfing007
    @tomsurfing007 Před 7 lety +1

    Did they ever do a live show without lipsync ?

  • @seedhillbruisermusic7939
    @seedhillbruisermusic7939 Před 4 lety +4

    there's something really sad about Jill miming the guitar when there's no actual guitar on the track. I loved the early Strawberry Switchblade stuff with its dreamy guitars, I wish they hadn't gone all electro-pop, kinda ruined it for me, but I'll always love them

  • @haxio17
    @haxio17 Před 14 dny

    Love Boomer Styles

  • @RioBow
    @RioBow Před 3 lety +1

    Now you know were Amy Winehouse nicked her back to black look from.
    God I laughed

  • @garry77083
    @garry77083 Před 5 lety +3

    this is my kind of music too and now Stephen Clarke from Loughborough got garry whiting from Leicester has real proper gay partner forever together and we both like very same music together and proper stuff together too true

  • @robbie007
    @robbie007 Před 4 lety

    ..the horn section at the starting think is a copy of the song beach baby from 1974

  • @1nfiniteSeek3r
    @1nfiniteSeek3r Před 7 lety +12

    do they even have any guitar in this song?

    • @unohoncho7727
      @unohoncho7727 Před 7 lety +1

      Ha ha, yes, was thinking the same

    • @wattage2007
      @wattage2007 Před 7 lety +2

      gno nimo Not this version obviously but Strawberry Switchblade were originally an indie girl guitar band. Their label/producer obviously had other ideas leading to their sampled pop sound from this tune onwards!

  • @jamiehanley3419
    @jamiehanley3419 Před 5 lety

    Is this Siouxsie?

  • @TheSickNeeds
    @TheSickNeeds Před 4 lety +1

    Turn up the guitar!!!.......and maybe plug it in.

  • @liammitchell2437
    @liammitchell2437 Před 8 lety +1

    minted

  • @MegaTrainspotter
    @MegaTrainspotter Před 12 lety

    wow! check out steve wright?

  • @errtg102
    @errtg102 Před 7 lety +2

    ゴスロリの走り!!

  • @martinjones8216
    @martinjones8216 Před 3 lety +1

    Perfect beautiful girls .

  • @moirasinclair1554
    @moirasinclair1554 Před 9 lety +28

    The girls had a fabulous image, todays girl singers have to rely on skimpy outfits which hardly cover anything!

    • @urmo345
      @urmo345 Před 8 lety +7

      +Moira Sinclair ....and autotune

    • @shaungilmartin1505
      @shaungilmartin1505 Před 5 lety +7

      her skirt don't cover that much

    • @Zizzyyzz
      @Zizzyyzz Před 4 lety +1

      @@shaungilmartin1505 Lol.

    • @allthethingsineversaid
      @allthethingsineversaid Před 3 lety +1

      you could’ve complemented them without being misogynistic... rose’s outfits were pretty skimpy. but this was 5 years ago so i’ll give you a pass.