Voice of the Beehive - I Walk the Earth
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- Voice of the Beehive I Walk the Earth. 1988 single charting at #42 in the UK in March 1988. From the album 'Let It Bee'. Official music video HQ my darling this is my home 80s. ohnoitisnathan
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How was this not a MASSIVE hit ? Great song, great group
Because they were labeled alternative when that still meant "weird and risky". Whereas it should have been interpreted as "new life for your festering industry".
Thank you, WRAS, for introducing me to VotB and so many more great bands.
The band weren't as big in the UK as they should have been.
It WAS a massive hit!
Most under-rated pop group of the late 80s
Yes, and The Darling Buds right behind. Plus we wouldn't expect something so damn good to come from the land of the tasteless and awful.
And The Fruits of Passion.
Got all their albums. Wished I saw them live
Totally agree
Absolutely amazing band and they're live gigs are mind blowing
I bought the album yesterday, mint vinyl.
£2.50.
That's both rather sad and really good.
This is SOOO my go-to happy song. They were so under-appreciated for how awesome they were.
yes they were. let it be rocks
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σh wє αpprєcíαtєd thє HELL σut σf thєm, вєlíєvє thíѕ вєє....
I'd be STUNG to hear this BUZZ if I wasn't so surprised, but then people always did SWARM around shit in HIVES. The best ROYAL JELLY is left to get POLLINATED by the smartest, fans with the sunniest, HONEYIST taste. QUEEN BEES rock, DRONES just flop!
Always makes me happy.
this song should have been a top 10 hit.......it's POP perfection!!!!
Yep it puts Cindy Lauper and Madonna to a lower level.
I noticed that in the UK, sooo many great songs didn't do much on the charts. I think Brits must be shallow music consumers. Any song that's outside a narrow genre guideline or 'grows on you' they didn't buy.
@@MrTonaluv The USA is much more narrow minded you deluded fool!
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Not quite! The band was actually quite popular in Britain. However, in the 80's there was so much good music around that it prevented some songs from getting higher up the charts!
'I walk the Earth my darling, this is my home.' I'm going to carve that in stone at my final resting place. Great song, great sentiment.
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Great uplifting piece of girl pop/rock, with nods to The Kinks, The Bangles and The Shangri-Las. This song should have been a much bigger hit than what it was.
nod to the B-52s also
Choosing that drummer was utter Madness!!
Him FINALLY getting into a proper band is madness! To think he wasted his life as part of that dopey stupid embarrassing outdated ska/reggae mash-up outfit even worse than UB4O and the rather silly Specials! Don't even have one good song. Then, for once, a decent American act came along, and he joined in it, beating the shit out of his original in just the opening 5 seconds of the first song on their debut album, never mind all that followed! And their real masterpiece came in 1995-"Sex And Misery".
@@kyachdistent1301 You don't know. Go listen to your Madonna records. S&M was there worst album. Do people really take you seriously??? Too funny. Ha,ha!!!!!!!
He looks bored.
@@kyachdistent1301 Delusion is a a hell of a thing!! LOL
One step beyond.
Their show at The Palace day before Thanksgiving was epic. Must've been 92' I think. Getting old.
I saw them at Maine Road back in the early 90's supporting Simple Minds, The Stranglers and OMD, they were superb live, I'm still dancing now :) xxx
This was such a perfect happiness song with beautiful vocals - I couldn't believe it was so unknown.
Yes, it should have been massive.
1988 !... what memories ! ;)...
Let It Bee is a very under-rated album. It's perfect bubblegum pop from start to end. Totally adorable.
Bubble gum it is NOT! They're fun AND serious rock, not effing Bananarama, Wham! Spamhead Ballet, Minogue or slagdonna the bitch! You're right in that the albums underrated, but even more so is their follow-up "Honey Lingers", but worst of all is their masterpiece, 1995's "Sex And Misery", which their label completely disregarded them over. Tossers! Album's a beaut!
It is a magnificent album
It's Bubblegum pop, bloody good though!
Bring the good times back 👍
We had a jukebox in our old digs,, we used to play this at tea time! What a lovely tune! Absolutely mental!! I love this so much,, still play it now!! “ go on girls”! What a tune!! I walk the earth
You are so right.....they were fantastic
Sublime to listen to this, isn't it just gorgeous to hear those beautiful harmonies again?
Voice of the Beehive (Let it Bee) and The Primitives (Lovely) had to be my two most played cassettes of 1988. Happy days...
I thought only the woman hyphenates her last name.
Only Number 42 ????
Forever Number One with a Golden Bullet in My Charts !
These Girlz ROCK !!!!
Unbelievably good song, how the hell this wasn’t a top 5 hit back in 1988 will be a mystery. I suppose it’s all about timing, if this was released in 1986 it would have been a bigger hit.
Should have been number 1
What a super cool band! Loved them from the start...can't understand why they were so overlooked...I heard the song monsters and angels and ran out and bought the c.d. that weekend! The whole album was awesome... still is!
Back in the 80's I was so in love with Missy (Melissa) one of my freinds was their FOH Engineer for their tour. Saw them at the Town and Country. That was it, hooked. Love ya. xx Fantastic band, got all the albums. :)
Take The Bangles... add a touch of The B-52... mix in a pop sensibility crafted across two generations distilled into two remarkably talented sisters, add workhorse rhythm section culled from the finest UK musicians of the 1980s.... then sadly subtract motivated record label and consistent label support, and you get the Voice of the Beehive. A joyful noise of a career cut short. But at least we can enjoy them in an archive like this.
I love this song and this band..They're awesome.
incredible harmonies I really love this group
These girls were awsome! ;)
Loved this album, from start to finish! :))
I really enjoyed this video, and any that knows me knows how much I love this song! Very proud of you girls!
The song that got me hooked...great albums and even better live.
Hillary Davies - I saw them twice in LA., Thanks Xx
this is class.......top class.....
Love this band, this song was my intro to them when I saw them on Friday Night Live in Feb 88
I remember that, Friday night live such a great show.
Forgotten classic ! Brilliant !
Not heard this for years!! I was 13 when this was released and was obsessed with them!
Great pop music. Good to see Mark "Bedders" Bedworth from Madness on drums.
Where? Bedders is a bass player. The drummer of both VOTB and Madness is Daniel “woody” Woodgate.
@grayfox7671 Qvatch! You are right, thanks for correcting. Getting my "bedders" and "woodys" mixed up. Thanks again.
from 2.40 on the girls sing some really great harmonies in fact i bought the album just to listen to that short piece , geeaz i really miss the 80's there was so many good bands but mainly so much diversity i doubt we will ever see such musical mastery again
Listened to this track this morning on my way to work...set me right up for the day!
One of my favourite bands EVER!
Don't Call Me Baby was the first song which got me into this band. I bought all 3 albums & I've seen them play twice at Leicester University in 1991 during the HONEY LINGERS tour.
Love this tune!. This one's in me head this morning. Just love the lyrics to it.
A brilliant song..
Trace and Malissa, two nutty tarts but were amazing!
A life sooooo long ago... wonderful memories... :0 :)
Beautifully awesome.
Brilliant.
I first heard this on Steve Wright BBCRadio2 and loved it!! This song has been played through my headphones in many countries on many continents. I love it particularly through the last few kms of a long hike .....always find added strength in my legs when i hear it!! Thank you for posting :-)
Brilliant song....such a terrific happy feelgood song to dance to.......god bless and please remember to try and b kind to each other good karma so important and try to do something special for someone as it really does soothe the soul......a peaceful xmas to everyone xxx 😇🥰❤❤❤
Loved these guys then,, still do 2021🎶🎙🎶🎙
Good live too..I saw them at the Town and Country Club back in the day and they were awesome.
Bodefit I saw them at the T&C too! Supporting Maria McKee, I guess you might have seen them some other time
Daniel Woodgate is the Highlight of this band to me !
Thanks for the nice music and excellent video dear friend 👍
I wish you a beautiful magical weekend🌺
Terrific band!!😘
Ah good memories of better times..
Great band! They did a reunion gig in London last year; still got it goin' on!
One of the first 7” vinyl singles I ever got
most beautiful uplifting 80's tune? probably
Best Girl rock group.
They were one of my favourite bands of tge 80s goid musicians
The love child song of The Kinks and Shangi-Las. Should've been a bigger hit!
Goddamn this is a great song
Let It Bee is an awesome debut album; play it now and still sounds awesome
Honey Lingers not quite so good but still class
The third album (Sex and Misery) is full of sad stuff and a few belters but still excellent
The girls are, and were, awesome
love this music xxx
Mike Jones on lead guiter. Boss of the Beatles bar in Fishermans Village Koh Samui. Great nights.
forgot what a good song this was, I always fancied the blonde one.
Penned by Brad Nack from Santa Barbara! Check out The Tan "360", an early 80's New Wave band he played in.
Saw the Tans first gig at Georges Cafe in 1979? 1980? Fantastic band and one of the greatest shows of my life.
J'adore
I found out from a website that this song actually reached #3 on the UK radio chart. It just reached #42 on the sales chart.
i bought the cd back in the day...superb!!
I can't believe I only just heard this! I would put them in the same league as the B52s at least.
Brilliant song - well written and great performance.
Agreed, but it's more. There's a fierce intelligence about all their stuff as well.
Let It Bee fucking rocks
love it !! xxxx
Best band EVER!!
Duas divas do pop rock! Elas tem vozes lindas, vozes de anjo!
Sigh!!! So uplifting! Makes me want to punch the air.
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WRAS[1] in Atlanta was still playing this and a couple of other VotB tunes in 1990, which was how I found them. Love this band; wish I could have seen them live. This and Barbarian are among songs likely to end up being played over and over and over- and not jsut because they;ll walk for Miles!
[1] The Georgia State student station, a hotbed of amazing alternative bands and tunes in the 1990-91 timeframe (not only then, but that was when I was able to listen to it incessantly).
Ga State's WRAS was one of THE best college stations in the US. So much good music came over those airwaves during the era that it was on. "Album 88". Their local music programs featured so many good bands out of Atlanta and Athens . REM, the B'-52s, the Face of Concern, the Basics, the Brains, the Roys et. al. all had time on WRAS local show. I still have cassettes I recorded off air of these bands and more. Sometimes I get these tapes out and fire them up. Btw, the Voice of the Beehive did play Atlanta's Center Theater on Spring St. I saw them. Those were heady days indeed. I miss them and WRAS more and more as time goes on. Nothing like it ever again.
Love the harmonies and guitar riffs (pointed here by a friend)
I can't believe this was not a top forty hit in the UK charts because they appear to be on a roll the only shown to play it were kids show get fresh and the chart show not on radio stations or the BBC
Let me see, a quirky band (who don't take themselves overly seriously) with dual female lead singers, and 50's inspired melodies, motifs and dresswear, singing in tight harmonies about traveling the world, I wonder if the style & subject matter of this song inspired B52s 'Roam'
Ha! I was just wondering the same thing! it had to have been an inspiration! came out before Roam!
Back again! Last time I visited 4 years ago! Time flies but this song is still playing regularly in my playlist!! Wow!! Still love it, still tapping my toes, still swinging my pants and still Singing "ma daahrling!!"
God bless one and all and see you all in another few years 😘
I love this track and also Monsters and Angels, Dont Call me Baby and I say Nothing which werre the other hits, album tracks were also good as well, wonder where they are now
Oh crap I remember this................. I was a 17 year old glass cutter .
perfect song at extra album Let it bee-----
Woody from Madness on drums..fantastic.
╰♫╮So wonderful my Freind ♡╰♫╮
I found it 😭😭😭😭😭 👏🏿👏🏿🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🕺🏿🕺🏿
Great song, woody woodgate on drums ☺️👍
@LCRV1 yes it was released in the US i had the cassette...lol I walk the Earth was on the same album as dont call me baby...
I was there!
Brill song. that drummer looks familiar.
Greg wiggall The drummer is Woody from Madness.
drummer from Madness
Thanks for posting these Video's
Very Underrated Group.
Woody from Madness on drums
How the hell can this be 26 years ago? Well, no use crying over spilt milk, I guess......
Paul Lavan True... though I didn't actually hear this track until 2002, when I got their 'Best of' CD. I knew of VOTB in '88 ('Don't Call Me Baby' only though), but didn't hear this track until then.
I used to hear this song, beat of love and i say nothing, on kroq a lot back in 88-91. I still have a bunch of those tapes. They'd play i'm an adult now by pursuit of happiness, then morrisey-every day is like sunday, then vanishing point by new order and then into beat of love with maybe something like headhunter by front 242 after that. These were pretty much the best days for music imo, even better then the early 80s. I'd say the mid 80s and late 80s were pretty much the pinnacle of music. It's been downhill since 92 onwards.
time flies. great songs stay great.
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This song was released twice as a single, once before 'Don't call me baby' and once again afterwards. This, I think, is the 2nd version. The earlier version has some different lyrics but doesn't sound as good.
they should have been WAY more well known.
Saw them twice at the Orgy at the Underworld in Camden - mind you, I was selling the pennicillen. I'm sure one of them - the short brunette - came up to me before the gig in the club and asked for directions.
Trying to find this song on one your many channels lead singer has black hair looks kind of gothic and the song is from the early 90s like from one of these rare bands. Thought this might be it
@LCRV1 If you can find it, get their first album "Let it Bee". It is vastly superior to their 1991 follow up. An absolute classic.
Perfect Popcorn Pop...
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