First... My heart aches (now in my senior years) for the 1980's. Best times ever. Second...John Baxter's vocals. What a great voice. Lastly...the message. Man, 2024 and the message of the song seems to resonate more than ever. 🙏❤
@@markmewordz6860 Actually TBH it's too long ago for me to remember precisely. Might very well be about then, HOT CHOCOLATE were also playing and I knew Patrick Olive so met up in the BBC bar afterwards, should really remember this nostalgic stuff, but memory like a hard drive that's full!
Yep, late 'seventies - early 'eighties were TOTPs best years, no question - Abba, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Blondie, Level 42, The Pretenders, John Travolta & Olivia Newton John, The Human League, Madonna, The Bee Gees, Elton John, Adam Ant, Tears For Fears, Spandau Ballet, Eurythmics, DAMN, so much good music, and so much of it British!
The film Atomic Blonde featuring the gorgeous Charlize Theron brought me here .. fab song .. i`d almost forgot about it .. great upload ,,,love it .. thank you ..
I was so excited when I located you dancing next to the girl with the stripey hat! It's just as if not a moment had passed since those nights we all flocked together to listen to Top of the Pops! Trust you to get right to where all the action was so effortlessly!
You did a great job extending the visuals by using the video after TOTPs cut out. How sad that was their only appearance on TOTPs - the song went down in the charts after this I think. Inexplicable it didn't get to Number One it's a fantastic track. Thanks for this great upload, you did a brilliant job!
@@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539 Yes, it's a reminder how crucial promotion is to the success of any new product however good it is, be it a song, a book or a new brand of apple pie! The song deserved to be a much bigger hit, no question. The problem was TOTPs was such a huge show, with fierce competition each week from the record pluggers to get their artist featured, a band like this which was not yet established could easily get lost in the mix. It's disappointing 'Re-Flex' didn't produce more songs of that high standard. If they had, they'd have been among the biggest British bands of the 'eighties.
Awwww man that`s cruel ... but i get your jist .. no bald guy would ever make the charts nowadays?? ....too many talentless "pretty boys" ... i miss the 80`s ..
Well you have done a great 👍 of putting this upload video of early 80's group reflex a one hot wonder song of possibly 1982 and did went on tour with other bands but didn't get enough attention at all.
how bout them 80`s!!! we sure had fun. last days/years of the COLD WAR. smokin music set with videos & the BRITISH INVASION 2!! lead`in the parade. AGAIN! 1983 was pop musics last great year. I always wondered: Would RE FLEX have stayed togethered if MARK KING stayed on?!!!!!!
Mark King and drummer Phil Gould were too busy forming the legendary Level 42 to worry about Re-Flex. This group were one hit wonders, sadly - Level 42 churned out hits like a factory!
@@bqkmg20371984 had it's moment. The music had begun a 'Watered Down'process with the music 📸 video as the money making driven source. For me personally & their music 🎵🎶 is still solid, only TEARS FOR FEARS' 1985 lp SONGS FROM THE BIG 🪑💺 CHAIR was the real deal. 2023 Seasons Greetings 🌲🎁🦌🌨️🌨️☃️☃️⛄🟩🟥
Top 5 Five Single Hitsongs Billboard Chart John Baxter He's Gay Lead Vocalist Songwriter Guitarist Keyboard Re-Flex Germanic Barbarian Gaelic Scottish 🏴 English British 🇬🇧 Band New Waves Eighties 80s Nineties 90s Legendary Europe Waves
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Scandalously this cracking tune didn't even break the top 20 in it's native UK. Underrated and unappreciated band from a great decade of music.
True. But also don't forget there was such a wealth of great music that every Top 20 song was incredible in those days.
From a great 4 years of music.
A brilliant song should have been a huge hit
First... My heart aches (now in my senior years) for the 1980's. Best times ever. Second...John Baxter's vocals. What a great voice. Lastly...the message. Man, 2024 and the message of the song seems to resonate more than ever. 🙏❤
Such an underrated new wave band from the 1980s!👍🎹❤️
Played this to death on my Sony Walkman… still love it to this day❤️👌👌
This one's a real thumper. Love the pounding beat.
Whoever wrote the (synth) bass line in this song is a genius. Perfect note choices bobbing in and out of the melody. Subtlety brilliant.
That's Nigel Ross-Scott with the bass guitar. Paul Fishman did some bass work on the PPG.
All about the PPG bass notes. Credit to Fishman!
One of my favourite songs from the 80s ♥️
Me too
Very nice !
Mine too
This title deserves millions of views. I love this guy on the synth he's into the sound !
I remember this song on the radio here in Australia. Peak 80s sound and video ❤😊
Such a great song,the groove is so strong.The lead singer had a powerful voice.
My favorite 80's tune
And there I am with my long permed hair dancing behind the titles and by the girl in the red striped hat - 24 years old - oh the memories.
Nice. What month? I am guessing August?
@@markmewordz6860 Actually TBH it's too long ago for me to remember precisely. Might very well be about then, HOT CHOCOLATE were also playing and I knew Patrick Olive so met up in the BBC bar afterwards, should really remember this nostalgic stuff, but memory like a hard drive that's full!
40 years ago! Oh boy! Still sounds great though.
A truly superb song.
Song SCREAMS!!!!! the 80`s! AWESOME!!!!
My #1 song from the 80”s. That’s saying something! Class of “88
Love it. Love it.. such feel good music...where has time gone?
Live Top of the Pops show, Thursday 23rd February 1984.
@DM True. 1982 to 1985 were the best years for the show IMO.
Yep, late 'seventies - early 'eighties were TOTPs best years, no question - Abba, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Blondie, Level 42, The Pretenders, John Travolta & Olivia Newton John, The Human League, Madonna, The Bee Gees, Elton John, Adam Ant, Tears For Fears, Spandau Ballet, Eurythmics, DAMN, so much good music, and so much of it British!
I had a massive crush on Baxter at the time. Many moons later I still see why
Anyone here in 2020?? What a track-mix of Duran/Frankie etc etc-out on their own though, for this amazing track!! How can you not thumbs up it???
I hereby declare this the greatest pop-movie dance mashup I have ever seen. Joyous.
Love this! Sung it alot in the 80's 90's 2000's and still love it.
Thanks so much. Memories of hearing this on a ferry to Holland with my girlfriend en route to Amsterdam. Haven’t heard it since, Stu X
Wish we could go back to MCMLXXXIV
The film Atomic Blonde featuring the gorgeous Charlize Theron brought me here .. fab song .. i`d almost forgot about it .. great upload ,,,love it .. thank you ..
These guys many other great songs that did not make it to the radio, too bad eh ?
I wouldn't mind if that tune ran on for about 5 more minutes.
SOOOOO GOOOOD!
80s classic
3:06 The music of my era i am glad i lived it.
and I'm 75 I loved it
für mich eine der geilsten 80 Jahre Bands...da wackelt die Tanzfläche..
Definitiv, Schulabschlussparty 1984 und damals auch Dr.Mabuse, puh ist das lange her.😀
I was so excited when I located you dancing next to the girl with the stripey hat! It's just as if not a moment had passed since those nights we all flocked together to listen to Top of the Pops! Trust you to get right to where all the action was so effortlessly!
You did a great job extending the visuals by using the video after TOTPs cut out. How sad that was their only appearance on TOTPs - the song went down in the charts after this I think. Inexplicable it didn't get to Number One it's a fantastic track. Thanks for this great upload, you did a brilliant job!
It got to No.28 shortly after, but would have done an awful lot more if TOTP gave it full coverage. Was a No.9 hit in Canada however.
@@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539 Yes, it's a reminder how crucial promotion is to the success of any new product however good it is, be it a song, a book or a new brand of apple pie!
The song deserved to be a much bigger hit, no question. The problem was TOTPs was such a huge show, with fierce competition each week from the record pluggers to get their artist featured, a band like this which was not yet established could easily get lost in the mix.
It's disappointing 'Re-Flex' didn't produce more songs of that high standard. If they had, they'd have been among the biggest British bands of the 'eighties.
I usally don't like dance tunes but.. Saw them & the Thomson Twins at Irvine Meadows.
A surprise top 30 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 as well the UK Top 40.
Bellissimo ricordo riascoltare dopo più trent'anni. ...
Australia: #12 - April 1984 ❤️😎
One of the best one-hit wonders ever. I got the message thanks.
Ace Song
Fine tune. The slaphead in the leather trousers is an added bonus.
Awwww man that`s cruel ... but i get your jist .. no bald guy would ever make the charts nowadays?? ....too many talentless "pretty boys" ... i miss the 80`s ..
He looks better with dreads, at least he looks like Predator then.
He looks like 1 of the coolest slapheads of all time playing that bass on that 80's classic hit
👨🦲 our re-flex's egghead
one of the hottest songs released in USA
Their english...
Released in the USA by a British band.
@@terryblaize4231 They're English.
back when it was cool to play 2 keyboards at the same time
@srujan00... i still do and then a few🎹🎹
pitty the BBC decided too run this last with the credits over it.
(can't understand their politics)
I see what you did there. 😉
MR GEDWOOD of course u know the POLITICS OF DANCING around the ISSUES! instead of FIXING! them. ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER.
Well you have done a great 👍 of putting this upload video of early 80's group reflex a one hot wonder song of possibly 1982 and did went on tour with other bands but didn't get enough attention at all.
memories & nothing changed in the 20s
2 people didn't get the message
Who's here after watching film Atomic Blonde, ...I remember this back in the day ...cool tune
In places this guy sounds like an exact copy of David Bowie - incredible voice.
That was then ..blimey 1984
The guy on the left at 1:10, with his hands in his pockets....."NO. I am not dancing".
My hair was like the keyboard players hair 35 years ago now it,s more like the bass players hair👴
this band opened for the police feb 1984 at the buffalo aud. i was there.
💖
Paul Fishman did some for Superman IV after this.
At 1:16 the guy on the left with the moustache abstains from voting with his dancing feet.
Atomic BLonde movie has sunk me in this song.
Someone on may 20?
He looks a bit like the actor Lee Pace. Nice looking dude.
What 1984 TOTPs was this on? Any one? Great song
I don't think you had a choice. If you wanted to play TOTP in 1984 you had to have balloons.
Yes, at least neunundneunzig ;-)
This song in Atomic Blonde is a pure epic moment
It's in Looking for Lola too.
Atomic Shit, this song is better than that crapy hipster film
So you made contact with the French operative?
0:02 What is brand and type of the radio?
Miming? Hell no....These guys are legit.......
To this song, one naive lamb lost his virginity in the arms of one hyper-temperamental she-wolf... Who did not let him out of bed for several days.🤣🤣🤣
how bout them 80`s!!! we sure had fun. last days/years of the COLD WAR. smokin music set with videos & the BRITISH INVASION 2!! lead`in the parade. AGAIN! 1983 was pop musics last great year. I always wondered: Would RE FLEX have stayed togethered if MARK KING stayed on?!!!!!!
Mark King and drummer Phil Gould were too busy forming the legendary Level 42 to worry about Re-Flex. This group were one hit wonders, sadly - Level 42 churned out hits like a factory!
1983 was the last pop year for music a lot other great stuff came out from the rest of the 80s decade ....1984 was the best year of the 80s .
@@bqkmg20371984 had it's moment. The music had begun a 'Watered Down'process with the music 📸 video as the money making driven source. For me personally & their music 🎵🎶 is still solid, only TEARS FOR FEARS' 1985 lp SONGS FROM THE BIG 🪑💺 CHAIR was the real deal. 2023 Seasons Greetings 🌲🎁🦌🌨️🌨️☃️☃️⛄🟩🟥
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Re-jected
sure 84 not before ??? re-flex was the band opening the evening before the police for a while .....
eww in 84 at mesa amphitheatre they opened for the THOMPSON TWINS!
Was that Phil Gould or Mark King drumming?
I'd have to say no.
They'd left the band some time before.
They'd already left to form 'Level 42' - the drummer was Roland Vaugh Kerridge, who sadly died a few years ago.
Top 5 Five Single Hitsongs Billboard Chart John Baxter He's Gay Lead Vocalist Songwriter Guitarist Keyboard Re-Flex Germanic Barbarian Gaelic Scottish 🏴 English British 🇬🇧 Band New Waves Eighties 80s Nineties 90s Legendary Europe Waves
The keyboard player needs to mellow out, a bit. Less dance moves, more playing. Great singer and song.
LOL lip syncing.
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