I was friends with David “Frenchy” O’Brien (Animotion’s drummer) through my mom (who he worked with in the Los Angeles Library system). He always used to give me & my friends tickets to his shows when he was with Red Zone and then Animotion. He would also give me tickets to other clubs when he had extras. I lost touch with him after the death of my mother in 2002. This video came up on my CZcams recommendations so I started watching it and looked up Frenchy online… That’s when I found out he passed away in 2019 at the age of 71. He was a prince of a person. My mom found him to be one of the funniest people she ever met. He was always helpful with advice for me regarding music and the bands I played in. Rest well, Frenchy. Thanks for being a beautiful soul. Say hello to my mom. ✌🏽❤️💔
He look straight gangsta on nem drums! Animotion most definitely woulda been invited to the cookout in da hood. The Human League would most definitely be invited too!💙🤗
OMG! Was that the library on Robertson? Because I think that’s how I got tickets 🎟️ when I was a kid. My best friend somehow knew them, and I remember talking about drums with him at the library 📚 because I played drums 🥁 as well. What a small world.
@@theunknownatheist3815 Frenchy worked with my mom for years at the Palms/ Rancho Park location on Overland Ave. However… Frenchy did work out of many different branches. He would go fill in, etc. He was a sweet guy and ALWAYS loved to talk about music be it the bands he was in or music in general.
The soundtrack made it my favorite game of the series, every now and then I'll pop in my anniversary edition and tool around VC listening to music. I even have the official soundtrack on CDs!
Los ochenteros, sobre todo los que usaron sintetizadores, siguen y seguirán siendo FUTURISTAS en sus sonidos, ritmos y melodías. Aunque, paradójicamente, en este video representan a Cleopatra y Marco Antonio (o Julio César), 😆😊
In 1985 I was a teenage metalhead, long hair, wearing the leather jacket, Iron Maiden t-shirt and smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. But I was also a music fan, so I would be taping whatever songs I felt were catchy from the radio on those shitty clear no-name cassettes. Obsession was one of them. Listened to this, pretty much all year (along with Zeppelin, Maiden, etc) on my family trip to Florida, when I skipped off school, when I got my first real job, etc. Obsession will always transport me back to 1985. That's my story.
Back in 1985, they changed the recipie in Coke and they called it "New Coke". The result was so bad that after just 3 months, they went back to the original formula and released it as "Classic Coke".
Same, but I had outgrown metal by 1984, got my hair cut and got into Spandau Ballet, Alphaville, Modern Talking, the Cure, INXS, and other New wave/Romantic bands. Still love the classic metal bands, though.
I was 16 in 1985 so the 80's were my teen years. AMEN to what you said. I rode a Triumph motorcycle and had long hair, and denim jacket. DONT forget the rhinestones in the early 80's.
@@NatalieValentina6 That isn't a stalker song. They had a thing and now she wants to move on and be her own person and he doesn't understand why it's suddenly blown up.
@@kt1pl2 Firstly, they said stalker/creep, & I'll die on the hill that the male protagonist in that song is a creep. He straight-up ridicules, threatens, & gaslights her in the lyrics. He acts as if her accomplishments are solely due to HIS efforts. Plus when you read meaning into the lyrics, he's exhibiting stalker-like behavior, e.g. not taking "no" as an answer, not believing/wanting to abide by the fact that she says she doesn't want to see him. Perhaps he wasn't expecting a break-up, but his reaction is telling. He's not broken-hearted that she left, he's PISSED that she had the nerve to leave him without his permission. "You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up And turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet Success has been so easy for you But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down too. Don't. Don't you want me? You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't. Don't you want me? You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me It's much too late to find When you think you've changed your mind You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry Don't you want me, baby?"
Astrid, the female lead, is my singing teacher. Been seeing her once a week for the last month. Great teacher, truly happy to have her guiding me through my love of singing 😎👍
Please let her know that she had a profound role in my experience of the music of the 1980s. The image of her as Cleopatra with MarkAnthony is iconic of the era… and she is obviously dead sexy lol
In 1985 this sounded like the future had landed on our doorstep…. Driving synth, driving lyrics… obvious sexual tension between the lead and Astrid…. I hope they hooked up in a big way.
The bittersweet thing about being a late 80's baby is that we only hit adulthood once the airwaves had become saturated with trash, and the 80's classics the Gen X'ers and earlier were making were not as popular as before. Real shame, because the 80's had such great music.
Lol I joined an '80s Facebook group, july 4th and I graduated 1981, at 18 yrs old.. Posting all the classics I remember AND sing as a karaoke junkie turned Karaoke host, so I know them well too! But videos make them great to post, with some lyrics. How about Vapors Turning Japanese and Cyndi Lauper's She Bop, BOTH about masturbation, BUT Vapors is about a Serial Killer locked up, with a photo of a girl he was dating to kill, but and got a photo with. But he got caught from some other kill, and she's ok but HIS obsession. READ the lyrics on both and think on them and see i'm right lol!
The 60's and 80's have the best music imo..I was born in 80 yet the motown sound influence the 80's sound of new wave..Some songs of the 60's were remade in the 80's like Softcell's Taint Love ....There was plenty of remakes of 60's hits...
@@richardschiffman6916 Are you on crack man. it was the longest bull run in history at the time for the stock market. Interent just came on line , the economy was insane. Weed prices were 3200 cdn a LB now they are 1000 a lb. You are nuts 90s by far the best decade and the music was the best as well. grunge hip hip gansta rap you name it . LOL
Now I 54. 😁 For me two decades are most important in modern music history: 50's rock and roll with electric guitar evolved into all rock guitar music in next dacades, 80's synth music with electronic synthesizer evolved into all synth music in next decades. 40 years later we are in creativity crysis and listen a lot of covers of best songs from 50' or 80's. Nothing revealing coming. 😪
I live for dance music. This song in particular still fires me up... bringing a longing for the 80's night life of downtown Montreal........ it was the era of primary colors for clothing, shoulder-pads, mullets, Coke & Pepsi going at it Big-Time, the birth of rap music & break-dancing, the last episode of MASH, The Breakfast Club, Freddy's 2nd Nightmare, The Color Purple and all things 80's !! Brings back all the good memories.
I love all the 80's but no one ever made fun of me because they loved the 80's as well and my friends now like the 80's too. I still wear tye dye lol. You are the only person online though. I got rid of the people that made fun of me
I was barely out of high school when this hit the airwaves. I worked cleaning a K-mart store in the morning and cut grass in the afternoon. After we cut grass the boss man had a little Isuzu truck we hauled lawn mowers and stuff in and I can remember this song being played on the radio. I was young free with my whole life ahead of me.
@@k-leb4671 You are probably right and i am not disagreeing with you but I dont't like 96% of music today! i am 60s-90s! a few artists here and there i like some songs but i am not a big fan of everything!
Born too late to hear this song during the 80's. But born in time to hear this while driving my Stallion on the streets of GTA Vice City, oh yeah boi. 😎
Growing up in the 80s, my first exposure to this song was at a the roller rink as a kid. I remember it! The second this song started, the DJ brought all the house lights down but these flashing purple lights and lasers of some sort, and of course a disco ball was deployed, raining its reflections throughout the room. People starting pouring into the rink from the sidelines, and there we were, racing around the circular track with this new sound PUMPING out of the sound system, our minds blown by those synthesized blasts. There hadn't been a song like this before -- it was breaking ground. I never saw the visuals of the video until today -- personally I think the song is better, grittier, if you don't know what the singers looked like. Watching this on a laptop today delivers only a fraction of the magic that was hearing it in such a dark and kinetic setting, all of us in motion, on wheels and at speed. I would love to experience this in a roller rink again!
It`s 2024 and I still blast it driving home from work thinking of her and how in the world I let her get away. She sadly passed away last year. Rest In Paradise Beautiful, I will 4ever think of us during that wild summer of 1991. You would sing this song to me and tell me you would never let go. I`m such an idiot.
Godspeed and Rest in Peace to a Founding Member and original drummer for Animotion, David " Frenchy" O'Brien who passed away this past Sunday evening, January 13, 2019.
Bloody heck! I haven't heard this in decades. I danced and danced to this in the 80s. There were so many different clubs back then and so many dance floors. Now all there are is sports pubs with a tiny square where the owner switches on the disco lights on Friday and Saturdays. This track is awesome.
it's a gray area. I tend to group myself more strongly with millenials. I can see a big difference between someone born in say 1975 vs 1980. I was too young to get into MTV till it was already on its way out in the mid 90s. Millenials are more likely to still be living with their parents after 25. I definitely fit into that category, even working full time.
+coolbluelights. well a 36 year old is to old to be millennial. they are 25 and younger. Anyone that watched He Man when it was new in the 1980s is not the new generation. lol.
The music fit the over the top fashions and lifestyles (crack & cocaine) of the era. Regan endorsed excessive spending, which is what nuclear parent families did in the middle class and upper economical echelons. One thing was common with all of us who were teenagers or young adults in that era, you had to talk. If you could talk (sell, market, and communicate) you'd always find the place and people to party.
'73 here. It is June 2023 now, thinking about how school would have been wrapping up, 5th grade for me in 1985 when this song was released. Schools out and summer is here! We would spend hours upon hours outside exploring EVERYTHING in our suburban neighborhood at the edge of farm/forest. We would get tired and go inside for short breaks and watch videos like this! Best of times...NO STUPID social media crap and cell phones to stare into like zombies. We were alive and lived life to its fullest! No regrets!
Yeah! The funny thing is , that everybody thought music was bad back then (just like disco In the 70's) but compare that with today's crap and it sound damn good!!!!!
@@scootover7 I would even take big band over the crap these uninspired "artists" spew out these days. czcams.com/video/6vOUYry_5Nw/video.html Ah yes, Mr.Miller and "In the Mood".
Only those of us who were young and having fun in the 80's can really appreciate them ! It was the BEST of times ! We embraced life and everything was fun ! Great music ! Great dancing ! Great videos ! We had it ALLLLLLL ! I would go back, in a second !!!!!
I was born in the mid 70s, so I consider myself an 80s kid. While I agree it was great to hear all these songs for the first time, when they came out, I disagree that 'only those who were young enough can really appreciate it'. Anyone can appreciate it, if they actually appreciate it. That's like saying only those who were in attendance of Mozart playing the piano can appreciate him. People will always appreciate it.
There are certain 80’s songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.
100%. punches me in the gut.
Agreed but it's not painful 🎉
You endure it then, that is, nostalgia.@@rmbarnes672
It makes you remember alot of things
Truth ❤❤❤❤❤
Especially when you were thin with DDs
The older I get the more grateful I am that I was a teenager in the 80's.
Those of us that were teenagers in the 80's didn't know then that kids now wood be envious of US and wish they were us then
Life then was awesome and so free. Yes we did fight for unity and we won. So much has been lost on the youth of today.
11/16/70. I will be your co-pilot!!!
@@Shawn-mo6dh and it’s confirmed that the 80s is the best decade
Fuckin A - me too!
I was friends with David “Frenchy” O’Brien (Animotion’s drummer) through my mom (who he worked with in the Los Angeles Library system). He always used to give me & my friends tickets to his shows when he was with Red Zone and then Animotion. He would also give me tickets to other clubs when he had extras. I lost touch with him after the death of my mother in 2002. This video came up on my CZcams recommendations so I started watching it and looked up Frenchy online… That’s when I found out he passed away in 2019 at the age of 71. He was a prince of a person. My mom found him to be one of the funniest people she ever met. He was always helpful with advice for me regarding music and the bands I played in. Rest well, Frenchy. Thanks for being a beautiful soul. Say hello to my mom. ✌🏽❤️💔
He look straight gangsta on nem drums! Animotion most definitely woulda been invited to the cookout in da hood. The Human League would most definitely be invited too!💙🤗
Thanks for sharing 👍
I'm friends with Paul (on the Keys) what a fantastic person he is. So happy this music will live forever
OMG! Was that the library on Robertson? Because I think that’s how I got tickets 🎟️ when I was a kid. My best friend somehow knew them, and I remember talking about drums with him at the library 📚 because I played drums 🥁 as well. What a small world.
@@theunknownatheist3815 Frenchy worked with my mom for years at the Palms/ Rancho Park location on Overland Ave. However… Frenchy did work out of many different branches. He would go fill in, etc. He was a sweet guy and ALWAYS loved to talk about music be it the bands he was in or music in general.
Child of the 80s and an avid GTA Vice City nerd. This song is pure bliss.
This song is memories of scrambling around the stadium arena on a dirt bike
The soundtrack made it my favorite game of the series, every now and then I'll pop in my anniversary edition and tool around VC listening to music. I even have the official soundtrack on CDs!
Nothing can beat 80s songs!
Could not have put it better
It's beyond timeless
except a stick.... and maybe a bat
synthwave remixes can
90х
This video is the most eightiesest eighties that ever eightiesed.
Men Without Hats Safety Dance. Who trumps who?
+Christopher Wright no hes still right, saftey dance is more 70s
+Zeina107 well in the style of it, i know its an 80s song
so gooood
Try Missing Persons "Words"....
As someone once quipped, it is worth being old now to have been young in the eighties.
Couldn't have said it better 👍👍
I, being around very much so in the 80's, agree.
LUCKY.
word.
Damn right!! 👋❤
i would relive the 80s like groundhog day all day everyday .
If I built a time machine to go back to the 80's would anyone join me?
On 2 conditions, I go back knowing what I know today, and I go back to my teens 😎😎
Definitely gotta be 18 again and know what I know now . get that thing built.
Only if it was a hot tub.
I'm in!
ME
Born in the sixties raised up in the 70s n young adult in the 80s best years!
Exactly the same here.
Me too!!
Me too
You’re lucky, I was born in 2001. I wish I was born in the late 1920’s or early 1930’s though.
Me too!! I miss those days!
This is 100% an 80s anthem.
It is mathematically impossible for a band to be more '80s than this
Los ochenteros, sobre todo los que usaron sintetizadores, siguen y seguirán siendo FUTURISTAS en sus sonidos, ritmos y melodías. Aunque, paradójicamente, en este video representan a Cleopatra y Marco Antonio (o Julio César), 😆😊
Ha ha yes. 😄
Gave me a laugh in the future, thank you past comment!
Oh I don’t know, throw in a gerry curl and a moustache ala Hall and Oates and you might have a rival there 🤣
What I love about this song is the level of energy it has. Loud sinth, loud bass, loud guitar. Everything is full volume.
God i miss the 80's. My dad was a bouncer at a night club back when i was a kid. Great memories
@@brettbourgeois5379 I can imagine the bright lights, pastel jackets, white stilettos and bumps of cocaine in the corner. Am I right?
Definitely a reason why I always wanna chug a beer when I hear this
The 80s were pretty badass in this way
Is there an 80s track with a shoddy bassline?? I can't think of one...
Thats very Flea slappin...inspiration I think so
This song sounds 1000x better with headphones. It way more layered and complex than I thought.
In 1985 I was a teenage metalhead, long hair, wearing the leather jacket, Iron Maiden t-shirt and smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. But I was also a music fan, so I would be taping whatever songs I felt were catchy from the radio on those shitty clear no-name cassettes. Obsession was one of them. Listened to this, pretty much all year (along with Zeppelin, Maiden, etc) on my family trip to Florida, when I skipped off school, when I got my first real job, etc. Obsession will always transport me back to 1985. That's my story.
You just described my teen years, as well as most of my friends. A few of us had denim jackets, but other than that you described 1985 perfectly.
Back in 1985, they changed the recipie in Coke and they called it "New Coke".
The result was so bad that after just 3 months, they went back to the original formula and released it as "Classic Coke".
Same, but I had outgrown metal by 1984, got my hair cut and got into Spandau Ballet, Alphaville, Modern Talking, the Cure, INXS, and other New wave/Romantic bands. Still love the classic metal bands, though.
I was 16 in 1985 so the 80's were my teen years. AMEN to what you said. I rode a Triumph motorcycle and had long hair, and denim jacket. DONT forget the rhinestones in the early 80's.
LOL dude I was 17 in 1986. Now I go to Shambhala music festival every year. I never stopped partying , Blame OG is my name. Original gamer or Old Guy
If you ever needed a song to capture the 80s sound, this would be your go-to. Sure, there are many more, but THIS ONE particularly is a good one!
There's a few. What about this?? czcams.com/video/ijAYN9zVnwg/video.html&ab_channel=infosocietyVEVO
Relax don't do it ,
It's a banger. That bassline and synth stabs are awesome. Video sucks though!
Agreed. But not the ONLY go-to. There really are so many! If there was a list of “Top Ten Unmistakable Songs of the 1980’s”, this would be included.
@@Sal.Manila most definitely, there are more! But this one is particular is a must go to! LOL
Incredible bassline on this track.
Sounds like the guy took lessons from John Taylor !!!!!!!!!!!!
Who’s listening to this gem in 2024🔥🔥🔥
S
Still listening in January 2024!
Me right now!! In Philly we have a station called Ben fm. I hear this song often
2024
I am
This is the greatest of all stalker/creep songs out of any decade. Long live the 80s.
Yeah, and after you listen to : Police every breath you take
Other stalker/creep songs from the 80's;
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Infatuation - Rod Stewart
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
@@DP-hy4vh I'd add on The Human League's "Don't You Want Me", too...
@@NatalieValentina6 That isn't a stalker song. They had a thing and now she wants to move on and be her own person and he doesn't understand why it's suddenly blown up.
@@kt1pl2 Firstly, they said stalker/creep, & I'll die on the hill that the male protagonist in that song is a creep. He straight-up ridicules, threatens, & gaslights her in the lyrics. He acts as if her accomplishments are solely due to HIS efforts. Plus when you read meaning into the lyrics, he's exhibiting stalker-like behavior, e.g. not taking "no" as an answer, not believing/wanting to abide by the fact that she says she doesn't want to see him. Perhaps he wasn't expecting a break-up, but his reaction is telling. He's not broken-hearted that she left, he's PISSED that she had the nerve to leave him without his permission.
"You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too.
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me, baby?"
Astrid, the female lead, is my singing teacher. Been seeing her once a week for the last month. Great teacher, truly happy to have her guiding me through my love of singing 😎👍
Very lucky. 😍
Please let her know that she had a profound role in my experience of the music of the 1980s. The image of her as Cleopatra with MarkAnthony is iconic of the era… and she is obviously dead sexy lol
In 1985 this sounded like the future had landed on our doorstep…. Driving synth, driving lyrics… obvious sexual tension between the lead and Astrid…. I hope they hooked up in a big way.
What part of the world is this
Is she in England?
Both these voices together are so great!
If you see her, tell her she's a babe.
She'd prolly appreciate it.
Hello from Austin, TX
It doesn’t matter if you’re a fan of Animotion or not, this song is legendary.
Im a fan of the meme 🫡
one of the recent pantheon of 80's songs to appear in British TV ads
Born in the 60s .. grew up in the 70s .. got pissed in the 80s !
The bittersweet thing about being a late 80's baby is that we only hit adulthood once the airwaves had become saturated with trash, and the 80's classics the Gen X'ers and earlier were making were not as popular as before. Real shame, because the 80's had such great music.
80's had the sickest keyboard riffs. Ever.
this keyboard riff is synth
Donald Haney yep the synthisizer was the king of 80s music.
The Fairlight Sound was state of the art and very popular at that time . Custom programming was required and very expensive .
Maybe thats why im obsessed
The synths combined with the sick af guitar riffs are what make '80s music unique.
Lemme guess:
You're on an 80's binge too?
Always
Lol I joined an '80s Facebook group, july 4th and I graduated 1981, at 18 yrs old.. Posting all the classics I remember AND sing as a karaoke junkie turned Karaoke host, so I know them well too! But videos make them great to post, with some lyrics. How about Vapors Turning Japanese and Cyndi Lauper's She Bop, BOTH about masturbation, BUT Vapors is about a Serial Killer locked up, with a photo of a girl he was dating to kill, but and got a photo with. But he got caught from some other kill, and she's ok but HIS obsession. READ the lyrics on both and think on them and see i'm right lol!
if listening to 80s all my life is a bing. yeah :)
For some reason I'm on that 80s binge for life
For life
Hypnotic and beautiful. An artistic blend of techno and counterpoint.
Anyone here in 2024? This is timeless!!!!!
Here in 2027
Here in 2030
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I was born in the late 40s, so I’ve lived through the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and the 60s and 80s are my favorite years.
I appreciate you commenting and I would like to say that you're lucky to watch the change of music over time.
I'm so jealous!! I was born in 76..grew up in the 90's as a teen...not even close to being as cool as the 80's!! 👍
The 60's and 80's have the best music imo..I was born in 80 yet the motown sound influence the 80's sound of new wave..Some songs of the 60's were remade in the 80's like Softcell's Taint Love ....There was plenty of remakes of 60's hits...
Ditto from a guy your age .
70’s are the best hands down
Their will be no decade like the 80's ever again live on 80's!
I think 1960s, 70s and 80s are unique and memorable in their own way. There won't be any other decades like these three.
Hi, the lead singer from this band is from Rochester, NY.
@@productplacement39 Bro the Ninities were the best by FAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@thedude5599 The 90s weren't that great.
@@richardschiffman6916 Are you on crack man. it was the longest bull run in history at the time for the stock market. Interent just came on line , the economy was insane. Weed prices were 3200 cdn a LB now they are 1000 a lb. You are nuts 90s by far the best decade and the music was the best as well. grunge hip hip gansta rap you name it . LOL
I love low quality low cost 80's videos!
The hairstyles the hairstyles.
Such an Eighties song and video...the colors, the fashion, the hair, the dancing, the 80s!
i was born in 1989 :P
Hey I am 60,but if I hear it I am 26 that time@@gabez8
Looks like Bob Paris and Tanya knight
as an 80s guy, I agree 100%
The GR8EST teenage time u could have was the 8iiieeeeesss....!!!
Oh my god. This video is like a buckshot of extra strength 80’s being fired into your face from every direction at once. It’s art.
The location with the swimming pool looks similar to where The Cars shot their 1984 video for "Magic."
Now I 54. 😁 For me two decades are most important in modern music history: 50's rock and roll with electric guitar evolved into all rock guitar music in next dacades, 80's synth music with electronic synthesizer evolved into all synth music in next decades. 40 years later we are in creativity crysis and listen a lot of covers of best songs from 50' or 80's. Nothing revealing coming. 😪
Anyone here April/May 2024?
Present!
Right here! Gorgeous as it has been for 40 years 🙂
Yup. It popped in what's left of my brain and began another endless loop.
Enjoying with a dram of Singleton and Glenmorangie. In the Hot tub
meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lol
I live for dance music. This song in particular still fires me up... bringing a longing for the 80's night life of downtown Montreal........ it was the era of primary colors for clothing, shoulder-pads, mullets, Coke & Pepsi going at it Big-Time, the birth of rap music & break-dancing, the last episode of MASH, The Breakfast Club, Freddy's 2nd Nightmare, The Color Purple and all things 80's !! Brings back all the good memories.
Where r u sexy?
Yes, fond memories indeed.
I know how that feels. My friends did the same to me but I did not care.
I love all the 80's but no one ever made fun of me because they loved the 80's as well and my friends now like the 80's too. I still wear tye dye lol. You are the only person online though. I got rid of the people that made fun of me
Vijay Patel Breakfast Club? you ARE a dork!
My dude is really slapping the hell out of that bass.
I always say this bass line is awesome
Slappin' da bass!!!!!
When you word it like that, it don't sound right. 🤡🤡
@@dallasmarcola6423 good reference bro I enjoyed it hahah
It is a tasty bass line for sure!
The greatest bass riff in mid 80's pop at 1:43. Most underrated pop song of the mid 80s. Takes me back to Saturday Night Main Event!
You know what is the biggest diferrence between music 80's and today beside quality! I think it is a humor in music videos!
Damn that synth line has always hit hard. Guess that's why people are still instantly recognizing it 35 years later...
Yeah the smokin D minor chord running through this song does it. Everybody knows this song.
This and the one from Prince's 1999 are like all time faves for me
Saturday Night’s Main Event . Jesse and Vince. “I told you McMahon!”
200 volt song!
synth bass line actually
Saw them live in 2019 and loved their show! Afterwards, they walked among the audience to say hello and shakes hands with people. Super cool duo!
Are churches made of wood.
Didn’t know they were still around.
They wouldn't have done that in their peak.
@@neboshman It wouldn't take long to meet the whole audience.
Bill is the nicest guy I ever worked with in the business.
This song has the funkiest synth groove. It’s hypnotic.
yup
This is the most 80’s thing ever.
I don't think the '80s could've been more '80s.
Animotion - Hold my Bartles & Jaymes.
OMG! bartles n jaymes.
California peach wine cooler for me !
Ha..ha..got that right!
Janet Alvarado Bartles & Jaymes: “Thank you for your support”.
😂😂😂
I was barely out of high school when this hit the airwaves. I worked cleaning a K-mart store in the morning and cut grass in the afternoon. After we cut grass the boss man had a little Isuzu truck we hauled lawn mowers and stuff in and I can remember this song being played on the radio. I was young free with my whole life ahead of me.
80s was the FIRST real cool decade !!!! Nice memories.
This takes me back... when MTV still played music videos...
+Christopher Wisdom What a douchey thing to say.
+David Chiodo OMGravy...MTV actually played videos...(sarcasm)
Those days are sooooooo far gone.
+Christopher Wisdom you might be confusing mtv with bet, plus I think they preferred to be called black folk now?
+David Chiodo you mean when MTV was relevant?
+peacheslovesjesus Seems liked that stopped around 2004 or so.
The bassline is amazing.
The intro is classic. Instantly recognizable.
Box candle night.
Slaptastic!
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I'm struggling to think of a BAD bass line from the 80s. Is there one???
The 80s was a great time to live in in my teens to early 20s
Some of the music videos from this era are absolutely great. This one is so cool.
When I die my heaven will be the 80's
Agreed!
For those of us, who experienced the 80's. We can only hope for that, in the here after! Which wouldn't be a bad thing!
Maybe 😏 But Then Again Maybe Not 🤭
Mine too 🙌
Thank you Fashion Television for making this the show's theme song!!
The WWF used the first 40 seconds of this song as the Saturday Night's Main Event TV program theme, too.
@@user-nc7cf4sp1r Yes! I loved that show.
loved FT
I knew I’d find the answer on CZcams 😂
A classic 80s pop song. Always great to hear it!
Saturday Nights Main Event!
I miss you 80s.
Babylonkid me 2, personally.
YES !!
Hell yeah!!!
Babylonkid snme intro
OMG yeah
Remembering how much synthesizers the 80s had. Can we bring that back.
Yes. I mean I'm tryin anyway lol just started but makin progress
Analog synths
How is it the 1980s had the best videos! and its 2021 and Videos SUCK!
There's tonnes of synth in more modern music.
@@k-leb4671 You are probably right and i am not disagreeing with you but I dont't like 96% of music today! i am 60s-90s! a few artists here and there i like some songs but i am not a big fan of everything!
Born too late to hear this song during the 80's. But born in time to hear this while driving my Stallion on the streets of GTA Vice City, oh yeah boi. 😎
I give full credit to GTA Vice City for my love of 80s music
Same here
As long as you were born in time to hear songs like this, you were born to hear good songs ;)
@user-nc7cf4sp1r and friday the 13th
Sorry to hear that. I'd hate to have missed the 1980s! So much fun😊
take me back to the 80’s
Of all the 80's memories this brings, Saturday Night's Main Event is the overriding one for me.
Right! It always stuck in my childhood Years watching it and remembering how everything was at that moment.
I was at a club on the 80's night a couple of years ago. Hearing this song on a sound system suddenly reminds you why 80's music is so amazing.
Growing up in the 80s, my first exposure to this song was at a the roller rink as a kid. I remember it! The second this song started, the DJ brought all the house lights down but these flashing purple lights and lasers of some sort, and of course a disco ball was deployed, raining its reflections throughout the room. People starting pouring into the rink from the sidelines, and there we were, racing around the circular track with this new sound PUMPING out of the sound system, our minds blown by those synthesized blasts. There hadn't been a song like this before -- it was breaking ground. I never saw the visuals of the video until today -- personally I think the song is better, grittier, if you don't know what the singers looked like.
Watching this on a laptop today delivers only a fraction of the magic that was hearing it in such a dark and kinetic setting, all of us in motion, on wheels and at speed. I would love to experience this in a roller rink again!
I was in Middle School when the song was a hit on the radio station.
I really miss the 80s
Yeah this plays and it kinda wakes ya up eh?
Movies & music =80s bliss
@@christinamarcet1780 wow. Beautifully written with great word- pictures!
It`s 2024 and I still blast it driving home from work thinking of her and how in the world I let her get away. She sadly passed away last year. Rest In Paradise Beautiful, I will 4ever think of us during that wild summer of 1991. You would sing this song to me and tell me you would never let go. I`m such an idiot.
Found this by memory, not suggested. Miss the 80s
Wow memories of being 16, wild, crazy and not a care in the world all while listening to this song!😜
There is a ridiculous amount of layers going on in this track..I think that's why it feels so energetic.
I think "a ridiculous amount of lines" would be closer to the truth.
@@jackal59 the 70s and 80s were all coked out but the grunge 90s brought back the trend of heroin
@@jrmetmoi And hence why the 90s sucked so bad...
@@Rep0007 exactly
Love the guitar riffs behind the female singer
Godspeed and Rest in Peace to a Founding Member and original drummer for Animotion, David "
Frenchy" O'Brien who passed away this past Sunday evening, January 13, 2019.
rip really sad to hear that
Such, sad news, there. R.l.P.
Noooo 😭😭😭😭😭😭
So she is your Obsession then.
God rest his soul
LONG LIVE THE 80's!
Bloody heck! I haven't heard this in decades. I danced and danced to this in the 80s. There were so many different clubs back then and so many dance floors. Now all there are is sports pubs with a tiny square where the owner switches on the disco lights on Friday and Saturdays. This track is awesome.
"My fantasy has turned to madness and all my goodness has turned to badness" is the best line ever written
Women can do this to us!
Damn, without seeing this comment I just wrote this SAME line because I too think that its one of the greatest lines EVER!
i can't stop thinking about this celeb girl, and i'd rather wish my obsession was with another girl, but she's the one i keep thinking of
@@gars129 Maybe do some roleplay with your girl. Just a thought.
The serial killer manifesto
When music was real and MTV ruled the world
I found my people on this comment thread. Love to you all ❤
80’s forever
omg the 80s were so much fun!!!
Absolute total 80's banger!!
I love how 80s music was so over the top. today's music is sadly lacking.
I'm part of that mini generation born in the late 70s-early 80s. born 1980. half X half Milennial. I have the qualities of both
it's a gray area. I tend to group myself more strongly with millenials. I can see a big difference between someone born in say 1975 vs 1980. I was too young to get into MTV till it was already on its way out in the mid 90s. Millenials are more likely to still be living with their parents after 25. I definitely fit into that category, even working full time.
Somebody was saying the same thing back then.
+coolbluelights. well a 36 year old is to old to be millennial. they are 25 and younger. Anyone that watched He Man when it was new in the 1980s is not the new generation. lol.
I have no memory of He-man I was like 3-4 when it was on. never watched it.
Being from the 80's brought me here! What a wild decade it was.
Movie matics. I wish we could wake up back in the 80s...
The music fit the over the top fashions and lifestyles (crack & cocaine) of the era. Regan endorsed excessive spending, which is what nuclear parent families did in the middle class and upper economical echelons. One thing was common with all of us who were teenagers or young adults in that era, you had to talk. If you could talk (sell, market, and communicate) you'd always find the place and people to party.
The original opening for WWF Saturday nights main event. Great time to be alive
Perfect example of a sexy and seductive song done in good taste. Gotta love the golden age of music.
the 80's rocked
After watching this video I looked down and I had leg warmers on, I don't own leg warmers.
Hilarious!
Haha
That's funny cause I still have my leg warmers
rainbow stripes
best years to grow up in and heck the leg warmers are antiques now 😂😂😂
I found a used Trojan wrapper in my pocket and a breath mint and I never got lucky.
Lmfao!!
April 2024! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 still moving and listening to and loving this music 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
I love Bill's expression when he sings "All my goodness has turned to badness.".
Yes! 😁😈DEAD 😂😂😂
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Definitely one of the sexiest songs from the 80s. Who’s here in December 2020?! ✌🏽
I am
Me! 😀
me
Saturday Nights Main Event theme 85-86.
Here
"Doctor Doctor " From The Thomson Twins convinced me that new wave can be art.
One of the numerous songs i love from the 80s!
The 80's an era where disco, pop, classic rock, heavy metal, new wave, electro-pop, were all sooooo cool!!!! Great times!
Metal is still cool. If you're a true metalhead, you never "grow out of it"
@@richielopez2897 only metal from the 70s was good after that it was crap
I was born in '71 so I had my teen years right the way through the 80s. We as a generation were so much stronger back then.
Same here..... Nov 1971
August '70! ...hey we're STILL ALIVE! Cheers everyone!
We were lucky, I must be horrible to be young now!
Jan 1971 so grateful for what I lived thru
'73 here. It is June 2023 now, thinking about how school would have been wrapping up, 5th grade for me in 1985 when this song was released. Schools out and summer is here! We would spend hours upon hours outside exploring EVERYTHING in our suburban neighborhood at the edge of farm/forest. We would get tired and go inside for short breaks and watch videos like this! Best of times...NO STUPID social media crap and cell phones to stare into like zombies. We were alive and lived life to its fullest! No regrets!
If you like the 80's you're a fuckin movie star.
Love this song! One of my favorites! 80’s, the best decade in music! ❤️❤️❤️
How true..70s too
The 80's was the best decade of music ever. Too bad it didn't last another 20 years.
Jody Padilla love the 80s but sixties had everything you could ever want in music...
Yeah! The funny thing is , that everybody thought music was bad back then (just like disco In the 70's) but compare that with today's crap and it sound damn good!!!!!
@@douglaspaterson5269 I would take disco over today's music.
@@scootover7
I would even take big band over the crap these uninspired "artists" spew out these days.
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Ah yes, Mr.Miller and "In the Mood".
This song is so underrated its SAD
If I were making a movie set in the 80's, I would definitely use this track in my opening credits/scene.
I so miss the 80's Everything was so cool back then!
80s NO OTHER WAY
Only those of us who were young and having fun in the 80's can really appreciate them ! It was the BEST of times ! We embraced life and everything was fun ! Great music ! Great dancing ! Great videos ! We had it ALLLLLLL ! I would go back, in a second !!!!!
i'm a 60's child i was there...no cellphones...no social media....we didn't need it...the 70's-80's vibe was unreal...you had to be there
I was born in the mid 70s, so I consider myself an 80s kid. While I agree it was great to hear all these songs for the first time, when they came out, I disagree that 'only those who were young enough can really appreciate it'. Anyone can appreciate it, if they actually appreciate it. That's like saying only those who were in attendance of Mozart playing the piano can appreciate him. People will always appreciate it.
great videos?? u blind? we had it all, but videos nope...
i love 80’s
WHO ARE HERE TO LISTEN IT AGAIN IN 2024 🫢🤫🤫🤫
I am!!!
Me!
Of course this kind of music we are all here🙌
I am!!! Greetings from Norway 🇧🇻 I like music from the USA my cousin lives in Boston Massachusetts 😊
This was an awesome dance club song in the mid-80's. But this video...that tapping shoe at the very beginning....priceless.
Oh I bet. :)
It looked like the Iron Sheik made a special cameo when I saw those shoes
Scott Adkins It's so 80's, that it might have been made July 1, 1985 at 12:00pm.
+hgonz14 James Klein was jamming out to this song in the 80's
Scott Adkins I always picture that while I tap my foot while shitting.
"Who do you want me to be, to make you sleep with me."
Best pickup line ever.
Lol or the fastest way to get a restraining order lol
That's just hilarious 😅
Good answer is: my opposite gendered spouse.
I want you to be ...
gone 😉
Riiiiiight.... Gotta wonder if anyone tried this and it worked.....
In 2024 and I still love it... Timeless and anthological music.
🥇A true classic
Ahh, the 80's.) The last era of colorful music and a time when electronic music was played with instruments by people.
If you find yourself here. Welcome to the eighties. The world of big hair, weird styles and cheesyness and I absolutely love it and miss it.