ABC has a lot of great songs like "Be Near Me", "When Smokey Sings", "The Look of Love", "That Was Then but This is Now", "Poison Arrow", "(How to Be A) Millionaire", "Tears Are Not Enough", "If I Ever Thought You'd Be Lonely", "All of My Heart", "15 Storey Halo", "The Night You Murdered Love", "King Without a Crown", and a lot other great songs. One of my favorite bands growing up in the 1980s. ABC is still awesome.
Strange... Several of these songs aren't on Absolutely ABC. I don't mean to sound like I'm doubting you, but if you say they're great (and they probably are!) then I have to take a look.
I love this song SO MUCH. I wasn't even a thought in my parents heads when this came out, but it blows my mind on how listening to 80s music people started talking about the impending doom in the system that started back then and how I'm standing here 40 years later wondering why we didn't listen and how we let it get this bad.
Me too!!! I have a 2005 Sienna and it has a cassette player!! 😳😆 Mine is recorded onto an extra long cassette tape with Zillionaire one side and Belinda Carlisle’s Belinda on the other. 😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰. I can’t believe it’s not destroyed from playing it so much!
I remember Rocking this song in gta vice city stories on my psp riding an infernus around the airport while in cenametic mode it was one of the greatest moments of my life listening to this amazing song
GTA vice city stories so underrated man… especially the radio stations. Literally every station is so good including Flash, Wave, VCFL, Paradise and Emotion
I remember working out in the basement, listening to the radio in 1985, hoping this would come on. Everything on that "How to Be a Zillionaire" album was just the best.
Pops played this all through out my childhood. He always tells me I grew up in the wrong generation cuz all I play is 80's joints lmao what an era it would've been to experience.. that guitar riff at the end always gets me hyped af!!!!
A great song with a catchy beat & groovin' lyrics from ABC! This was a featured track on "American Top 40 - The '80s" (from March 22nd, 1986), & was the #20 song. "I've seen the future, I can't afford it". Bravo, Martin Fry & Co.!
This song should be re-released,corruption,corruption,"I've seen the future, I can't afford it". A song for the times we live in now. When so many are paying for the mistakes of the few.
On this day in 1986 {March 8th} ABC performed "How To Be A Millionaire" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'... At the time the song was at #25 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, two weeks later it would peak at #20 {for 1 week} and it spent thirteen weeks on the Top 100... It reached #4 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart... And on the same 'Bandstand' show the group also performed "Be Near Me", four months earlier on November 3rd, 1985 it peaked at #9 {for 2 weeks} on the Top 100 chart and on September 22nd, 1985 it reached #1* {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart... Besides the above two song, the British group had five other Top 100 records, "Poison Arrow" {#25 in 1982}, "The Look of Love" {#18 in 1982}, "That Was Then But This Is Now" {#89 in 1983}, "Vanity Kills" {#91 in 1985}, and "When Smokey Sings" {#5 in 1987}... * Besides "Be Near Me", they had two other #1 records on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, "The Look of Love" for 1 week in 1982 and "When Smokey Sings" for 2 weeks in 1987...
I used to play this song over and over my senior year of high school. This an "Bizarre Love Triangle", "Something About You" all theme songs of my late adolescence. :)
I'm not from this generation, but I love this music, I might be 16 and heard this from stater brothers while shopping, don't ask, but I'm just vibing now ahaha.
I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else needs to find out about secret millionaires club try Renkarter Millionaire Brain Report (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some super things about it and my buddy got cool results with it.
Music Power I'd strongly recommend it. I purchased ABC's best of compilation ("Absolutely") sometime after I heard Look Of Love on Sirius-XM's First Wave station. (I had already heard Poison Arrow and this song due to the GTA franchise.) BTW, I didn't particularly care for Poison Arrow when I first heard it, but I tolerated it for the song that was coming up next on Wave 103, and a year after I purchased GTA:VC in 2006, my interest in New Wave really took off.
I think you're totally right on many levels because of the yuppies from the Ronald Reagan and Reaganomics had people as greedy and as trendy as we've ever been until the new bling rap s*** came out which promotes it even more so but anyway... I love Lifestyles of the Rich and heartless this is a great song the documents that so much of the underground 80s stuff that isn't as popular as this like Cabaret Voltaire and other bands touched on the same subjects
paul mooij I was talking about the trolls posting hate comments,maybe i was talking with someone else b-4 about trolls and haters being all over music vids now,sorry you're not a troll or hater
It’s unbelievable how good pop music used to be and how bad it is today. It’s been like this since the early 2000s. A few good bands/artists here and there but nothing like the 60s-90s
@SIKE01 It was on VICE CITY STORIES. I was aware of the band before and listened to some of the music they made before this but, I became aware of this song while playing the game. It was on Wave 103 after "Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
this song should have been on the GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY soundtrack. it perfectly represents the excess and decadence of the 80's, where the video game is set.
I love growing up to this song. I miss these days of better quality also a stronger Dollar. I dislike knowing the greedy calous fraud we living in today. I demand quality and a stronger Dollar. Help change
I remember around 1999 or 2000 there was actually an album for the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Somehow, this song wasn't on it! How the heck do you leave this song out? The band's name is the same as the US network it was on, ABC! And there's a line near the end of the song that's the same as the title of the show! They blew it!
@@phonocraftrecordmfg6060 But it WAS a Top 40 hit. In 1985 or thereabouts. That's how I knew about the song, and why they should have known about it too. Granted, that was fourteen or fifteen years before they put this album together, but it still should have been on their radar.
“I’ve seen the future. I can’t afford it.” This lyric has aged better than the inflation rate, economically-speaking.
Exactly
Prophetic. 😭😭😭
2023. Appropriate
It is inspired
What do you expect it was a different time of life 1985 I was in my 20s
Still going to be rocking in 2024 like it's 1985 💣💣.
When this came out I was still rocking like it was 1973!
2021
If only !! XD
Sho ya right
My kidneys, back, and synapses would fail if I were to rock like that again.
Sometimes the voice can act as a unique instrument among instruments. This lead singer is no exception. Great vocals!
Martin Fry is a great vocalist!!
" I've seen the future, I can't afford it" Damn!! These Band just foreshadowed what is happening in our world today..
The UK had been through one of its worst economic crisis when that song came out, so...
Yet another classic example of how British 80s music kicked everyone's ass, before, then, and now.
Must not have heard much music from anywhere else then
ABC has a lot of great songs like "Be Near Me", "When Smokey Sings", "The Look of Love", "That Was Then but This is Now", "Poison Arrow", "(How to Be A) Millionaire", "Tears Are Not Enough", "If I Ever Thought You'd Be Lonely", "All of My Heart", "15 Storey Halo", "The Night You Murdered Love", "King Without a Crown", and a lot other great songs. One of my favorite bands growing up in the 1980s. ABC is still awesome.
Strange... Several of these songs aren't on Absolutely ABC. I don't mean to sound like I'm doubting you, but if you say they're great (and they probably are!) then I have to take a look.
VANITY KILLS!!!!!
S.O.S.
@@Artielectric it dont pay bills
Yes they were good. Liked them along with Dire Straits
I love this song SO MUCH. I wasn't even a thought in my parents heads when this came out, but it blows my mind on how listening to 80s music people started talking about the impending doom in the system that started back then and how I'm standing here 40 years later wondering why we didn't listen and how we let it get this bad.
blame the conservatives for opposing any attempts at reforms.
@@jacksonteller3973 yyyuuup
Reagan. 😞🤬 I knew at 10 years old in 1980 he was bad news.
@@kristapoints7728I'd more concerned about sleepy Joe if I were you. The USA is a laughing stock on the world stage now.
80's music was so frikkin fantastic!
Dan Grant Agreed
Dan Grant Amen!
+Dan Grant the best!
+Dan Grant I wanna go back especially back to this era-1985/1986
+spyrdol nope I'm going back to 12-31-79-1-1-90!! Actually I want to see the aftermath of the 80s so it's actually 12-31-79-12-31-89!!!!
Just saw Martin Fry of ABC in concert tonight in Detroit. Great show! 🥰
I still have the cassette tape. Love ABC.
I used to!
@@chaoswitch1974 Had it too until a couple of months ago--Absolutely ABC. (Greatest hits)
Its incredible the things you can buy on the internet like a motorola dynatac and pretend to be '84 rich
Me too!!! I have a 2005 Sienna and it has a cassette player!! 😳😆 Mine is recorded onto an extra long cassette tape with Zillionaire one side and Belinda Carlisle’s Belinda on the other. 😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰. I can’t believe it’s not destroyed from playing it so much!
I remember Rocking this song in gta vice city stories on my psp riding an infernus around the airport while in cenametic mode it was one of the greatest moments of my life listening to this amazing song
GTA vice city stories so underrated man… especially the radio stations. Literally every station is so good including Flash, Wave, VCFL, Paradise and Emotion
Hell yes ABC bring back good memories! Long live the 80's!!
I remember working out in the basement, listening to the radio in 1985, hoping this would come on. Everything on that "How to Be a Zillionaire" album was just the best.
One of ABC's best!It really does make you feel that you ARE a millionaire,as this song is all but rich!
One of the greatest underground hits of the 80'S among the poor looking up to make it.
Pops played this all through out my childhood. He always tells me I grew up in the wrong generation cuz all I play is 80's joints lmao what an era it would've been to experience.. that guitar riff at the end always gets me hyped af!!!!
Absolute pain in the ass to find this song after the TV show "Who wants to be a millionaire" came out.
This is my jam even though I was born in 2001, my mom listens to 80s music all the time and this one was always my favorite
Your mom knows some damn good music then and so do you!
Born in 99 same here
If this is your jam then buy yourself something from the 80s like a ae86 or a e36 beamer
Im from 01 too
I can't even afford the present, let alone the future...
I saw them at the Hollywood bowl in 2009....they looked sharp in their suits and sounded great!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Still brilliant and way underated band
Not really a band. It was Martin Fry and whoever else they hired for the moment.
A great song with a catchy beat & groovin' lyrics from ABC! This was a featured track on "American Top 40 - The '80s" (from March 22nd, 1986), & was the #20 song.
"I've seen the future, I can't afford it".
Bravo, Martin Fry & Co.!
should had been higher great video .
This song should be re-released,corruption,corruption,"I've seen the future, I can't afford it".
A song for the times we live in now.
When so many are paying for the mistakes of the few.
Hello from 2021. It gets worse. Way worse.
Not after amc and gme mooooon
How to be a millionaire for life?🤑
This is no mistake. The few knew and know exactly what they're doing. And now they are brazenly open about it.
I'VE SEEN THE FUTURE... I CAN'T AFFORD IT !!!! (ahem....)
On this day in 1986 {March 8th} ABC performed "How To Be A Millionaire" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
At the time the song was at #25 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, two weeks later it would peak at #20 {for 1 week} and it spent thirteen weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #4 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart...
And on the same 'Bandstand' show the group also performed "Be Near Me", four months earlier on November 3rd, 1985 it peaked at #9 {for 2 weeks} on the Top 100 chart and on September 22nd, 1985 it reached #1* {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart...
Besides the above two song, the British group had five other Top 100 records, "Poison Arrow" {#25 in 1982}, "The Look of Love" {#18 in 1982}, "That Was Then But This Is Now" {#89 in 1983}, "Vanity Kills" {#91 in 1985}, and "When Smokey Sings" {#5 in 1987}...
* Besides "Be Near Me", they had two other #1 records on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, "The Look of Love" for 1 week in 1982 and "When Smokey Sings" for 2 weeks in 1987...
Released as a single in the UK in October 1984 and in the US in January 1986.
Great vocalist
Still rocking in 2021.
Brings back sooooo many good memories while growing up..1980's rock forever!💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣
It was 80s. Dallas, Dynasty and all the shows and movies that were out at the time is what I think inspired this song.
Wall Streets Goldman Sachs hedge fund managers
Stock market trading was opened to the public for the first time, creating a 'Free for all'
Still a great track.
One of the best dance music during the 80s.
Introduced this to a lot of people at house party's I used to DJ back in the mid and late 80's. Timeless!
Their first four albums are incredible!
I used to play this song over and over my senior year of high school. This an "Bizarre Love Triangle", "Something About You" all theme songs of my late adolescence. :)
Vice city stories
SpectreNeon yup
one of the best songs from the 80's :D
"I've seen the future. I can't afford it."
I 💕💕💕😘😘😘 love this tune & video of all time of all.!!!.
Sweet, sweet, sweet memories!! Awesome period and awesome music!! Scotty; beam me up!!
I'm not from this generation, but I love this music, I might be 16 and heard this from stater brothers while shopping, don't ask, but I'm just vibing now ahaha.
This album, ya gotta live it.
Brilliant structure. Lyrical.
Martin Fry had tremendous range.
Reefer deluxe
ABC knows how to compose a good song. Great!!
I gotta get some of these guys records. GTA : Vice City turned me on to Poison Arrow and they have so many other great tunes.
I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else needs to find out about secret millionaires club try Renkarter Millionaire Brain Report (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some super things about it and my buddy got cool results with it.
Music Power
I'd strongly recommend it. I purchased ABC's best of compilation ("Absolutely") sometime after I heard Look Of Love on Sirius-XM's First Wave station. (I had already heard Poison Arrow and this song due to the GTA franchise.)
BTW, I didn't particularly care for Poison Arrow when I first heard it, but I tolerated it for the song that was coming up next on Wave 103, and a year after I purchased GTA:VC in 2006, my interest in New Wave really took off.
Don't you mean Vice City Stories
@@Dank_Dank He meant Vice City, really. "Poison Arrow" was featured on the Vice City version of Wave 103.
@@TheLuca2001 this was on VC:S too
Theme song of the 1980's.
I think you're totally right on many levels because of the yuppies from the Ronald Reagan and Reaganomics had people as greedy and as trendy as we've ever been until the new bling rap s*** came out which promotes it even more so but anyway... I love Lifestyles of the Rich and heartless this is a great song the documents that so much of the underground 80s stuff that isn't as popular as this like Cabaret Voltaire and other bands touched on the same subjects
It's December 31, 2018 somewhere in the Eastern Hemisphere...
Yuppies. Was a great time!
@@sl4983 Snortin' coke, votin' for Reagan!
GTA Vice City Stories brought me here.
so cool to see the youngsters being introduced to songs I grew up with :).
One of my favorite '80's bands,this is my favorite single of their's,still holds true today...GREED IS EVIL !!!
greed is evil,corp greed is much worse
paul mooij I don't respond to haters any more,that's what they want....attention
paul mooij I was talking about the trolls posting hate comments,maybe i was talking with someone else b-4 about trolls and haters being all over music vids now,sorry you're not a troll or hater
Be Near Me was a great single too
Classic, I dreamed of Gold
Heard this song playing in applebees while using the bathroom lol, and I just had to find this song
Jhanelle Brown haha! I heard this in Subway. I used the all mighty Shazam app!
Marquis Lewis Lol I took the harder route and took a line from the song and looked it up. The only part I remembered was "Tell me how to be"
haha!
Jhanelle Brown haha!
+Jhanelle Brown God bless you youngens this was my high school jam!!!!
muito bom eu era jovem quando escutava essa musica hoje tenho 52 anos ,mais nunca esqueci ,a epoca era boa!
Dinesh sings this in the final episode of Silicon Valley
better than anything 'new' these days
aha!! Why is chesse a word?!!!
This was the delightful past and jerkwads like Bieber and Kayne are the present?
Oh, how we've gone actually backwards while going forward!
Amen to that!
A million times better
It’s unbelievable how good pop music used to be and how bad it is today. It’s been like this since the early 2000s. A few good bands/artists here and there but nothing like the 60s-90s
"I've seen the future, I can't afford it" - they were ahead of their time!
It's not like those are complex thoughts or concepts
So ahead of their time...funny to think this was written way back in the 80's
this is so apt for todays britain and this was nearly 25 years ago...martin fry had one hell of a premonition lol
THATS THE PERFECT FLASH BACK OF THE 80S
Am I the only one who sings into the hairbrush, dancing across the room to this as loud as it goes!! Still...at 48 lololol!
Love this song.I remember hearing this song when I was a preteen.
Wickedly fresh song right here!
I love this song.
Corruption 😊 I've seen the future, I can't afford it
Loyalties go to the highest of bidders!
Remember being in the back of the car whilst my mum would play this dropping us off to school haha!!
Jameelah1 the same... but it was in L.A. for me 😉
Your moms were cool. 😎
One of my favorites!!!
i love their songs!
tall blonde, short brunette. just like Hall and Oates, the formula works. Both groups are awesome!
LOVE THIS !!! APPLIES to TODAY.
Love this song!
Whenever I listen to this song, I instantly think of the film "Slumdog Millionaire" 💰
This is more prevalent in 2020 than this song in 1984.
@SIKE01 It was on VICE CITY STORIES. I was aware of the band before and listened to some of the music they made before this but, I became aware of this song while playing the game. It was on Wave 103 after "Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
If and when I win the lotto . This is the first song I want to hear
So do I!! Hahahahahahaha!!🌚
I bought this on cassette tape when it was released. Wow I'm getting old
this song should have been on the GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY soundtrack. it perfectly represents the excess and decadence of the 80's, where the video game is set.
vice city stories has it
I love this!!!
ABC was so great love love!
I love growing up to this song. I miss these days of better quality also a stronger Dollar. I dislike knowing the greedy calous fraud we living in today. I demand quality and a stronger Dollar. Help change
This song sounds EXACTLY like a song I made back then. I just found out about this song a few moments ago.
Classic song , I was in tenth grade when it came out 😁
1984 UK "New Wave" THE BIG BEAT documentary Hip Hop roots brought me here!
The Wave 103!
a catchy song
It was awesome in the clubs, dance floors filled up fast!
Man, the good days.... I was 15 when this song came out..... A more civilized time!
You forgot a more elegant weapon before "a more civilized time...."
Whovian1899...lol! Right!
Berzerkerhakijedi......lol Ok then.
Bezerkerhakijedi+ you have Jedi in your name. How do you not get the reference and, perhaps you're right about that actually.
lol!
I’ve been singing this song since ‘85. I’m still waiting. Anyway, great track!!
My favorite 80 song
DOPE TRACK 🎶👊🏼
nice to remember
"I'm still a million dollars shy of being a millionaire!"-John Candy as Dell Griffith-Planes, Trains, & Autos.
Love it, great song in the middle of the Reagan revolution
Wicked tune. Get the 12" with super extension !
Sampled by Armando in a tune called "The Future".
A local radio station did a "throw back" weekend. They did not play any ABC! I had to hear this.
Those bastards! What is wrong with some people!? :)
A Crime! They must've at least played Look of Love!
l love this song too
ABC and INXS...man I miss the 80's.
Where's the actual video? The video is brilliant!!
DarkAries76 I saw the video on VH1 classics 3 days ago. im shocked it's not on youtube.
AnastasiaLUVSU I just love animated music videos. Hey youtube, get that video!
NO ABC
Who want to be a millionaire
I like this song.
Greatest decade of music ever.... the 80's !!
Brilliant lyrics.
Una de las excelentes canciones de ABC. No mueran los 80
well hats a good lyric "ive seen the future i couldnt afford it" very true
I remember around 1999 or 2000 there was actually an album for the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
Somehow, this song wasn't on it!
How the heck do you leave this song out? The band's name is the same as the US network it was on, ABC!
And there's a line near the end of the song that's the same as the title of the show!
They blew it!
2001 was i listen these group in cassette
yeah they blew it, cause they dont know anything except top 40
@@phonocraftrecordmfg6060 But it WAS a Top 40 hit. In 1985 or thereabouts. That's how I knew about the song, and why they should have known about it too. Granted, that was fourteen or fifteen years before they put this album together, but it still should have been on their radar.
@@martyklestadt6766 WAS being your keyword. people in the mainstream nowadays. they would say this is "not relevant' today , cause they are idiots.
This art style reminds me a lot of 90s pop themes used by artists like Venga Boys. Probably directly influenced by ABC!
Evolution of music is dope.