A true 80s classic. The two note synth after each verse makes me stop and listen every time I hear this song. Like a doorbell that asks me to open up and listen. Something important is coming next. Fantastic song.
For me, in my late 20's, this music still evokes emotional feelings....I was in love with the music and what was happening then, for me. Still one of my favorites!
I'm stuck in the 80s. I can't get out, please… don't get me out of here! (This syndrome happens to everyone who lived from 20 to 30 years of age in a certain era, we always think that ours is the best).
fantastic music and so sad to learn of Mark Hollis passing today. Talk Talk one of the most under rated bands ever. Very influential on other musicians.
Love this song! I used to drive on the 5 freeway on my way to work in Downtown L.A listening to KROQ. I would hit the clubs in Hollywood with my co-workers after work. SUCH GREAT MEMORIES, 80's AWESOME!
Not appreciated enough in their day - a phenomenal band with many great songs. They helped me through a lot of shit. And years later, this still fucking rules.
Une chanson qui rentre dans mon ❤. Une autre dimension. Les années 80 un monde différent. La joie de vivre .une jeunesse heureuse .une jeunesse qui avait le sens du respect envers les adultes.
Puesss sí y no. Mejor llámale Reino Unido, para considerar tanto a los escoceses, norirlandeses y galeses. Y éso que, no me meto en decir el legado irlandés, jamaicano y demás en la música inglesa, no siempre reconocido
80’s without Talk Talk ? No chance.. love them deep in my heart ❤️. There is something very special in this band. Sure people knows that. I call it unique. With all the respect to many bands from that era that I like too .
I also like B-Movie, Nowhere Girl and Heaven 17, Let Me Go! Best 80's Songs for me and this one always played it loud on my way to work in my 86 Trans Am. All the remixes had on cassette.
Its not just the synths, its the style of the music/structure/arrangement that is the magic and the vocals. Today you have synths over everything and drum machines and samplers BUT the magic isn't there.
Absolutely agree .. What a fantastic time to be alive . Hopefully we will wake from our slumber soon , realise we cant keep abusing our home planet , and become better people . I get the feeling Music will play a huge part in our mass raising of awareness to what we are expecting , the Christ consciousness , we are capable of so much more , we just need to realise it and take a bold step forward , before it,s too late. Love is all we need. Literally. . It's that easy , but seems so foreign now , Can't wait for someone to take the first step to a Better , brighter , more connected loving Future. Love Peace Always
My favourite of theirs is such a shame. That's the one I found last year. Carnt believe I grew up in the 80s and only song I,d herd of theirs wa it's my life.
I still remember Mark Hollis back in 1984 claiming in an interview (cheek in tongue though) that his aim was to write songs which one would still listen to twenty-five years later. Now this one truly has passed the test of time, as well as many others he wrote.
I was 16 in 1982 when I first heard of Talk Talk probably because I was at college with the bass players younger brother, He took my 45 in single home and got his brother to sign it for me, Now here i am aged 53 and still listening to Talk Talk on an almost daily basis. So yes he succeeded.
Been listening to this since -84 but haven't understood the lyrics until 2018. I am mesmerized by the sound of the voice more than the meaning of the words. The soundscape is magical. 'How much do you commit yourself?' Is not to himself but to his lover.
I was stationed in the middle east; and it reminds me of the distance from home, in the states. Calling my wife, at strange hours. Amazing how comprehensive our minds are to remember all of it. Like a time stamp / I'll hear it, and I am back -so far away------------------
"It's My Life" is a song by the English new wave band Talk Talk. Written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, it was the title track on the band's second album and released as its first single in January 1984. It reached #46 in the UK charts, but did better in several other countries, reaching #33 in Germany, #32 in New Zealand, #25 in France and #7 in Italy. It was also a success in North America, entering the Top 40 in both the United States (#31) and Canada (#30). (Notably, it peaked at #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.)
Listen to the 'Colour of Spring' album. It has some of their best tunes on it...and for sheer 80s loud, Simple Minds - 'Sparkle in the Rain' album. I used to drive across London in my two-blue tone Mini with the dodgy heating and matchboxes protecting the uncovered ends of wires from touching other parts of the car, listening to Simple Minds and Echo & the Bunnymen at full tit from the 80s car stereo.
The 80s were quite the time to be alive in the west in many ways. I was a young kid then but I have a weird cultural echo of it in my memory, the way I suppose many people remember the zeitgeist of their childhood decade without many of the details, until comments like yours come along to fill them in.
You are not kidding song after song and especially this dance tune. The whole club would crowd the dance floor with hardly any room to get down. ...but you made sure you had a space to show your dancing talent. Great memories. ...
Probably one of the best and most beautiful songs ever written. The synthesizer sequences are superb, and the vocals are great. The 12" version is far superior to the single which has a very short (and disappointing) ending. I've listened to this song many hundred's of times, and never get tired of it.
Beautiful song❤❤🎉🎉🎉
maybe the best song of mankind
This song is so haunting, when you hear it reaches out to your soul.
So true, amazingly brilliant
One of the greatest songs of all time!
yyyeessssssssss
Ditto! YAASSSSSS
@@davidfreeman3154 Mark's voice is its own instrument...a gift that he used so often and treated so well. I cherish it, his band and their music.
A true 80s classic. The two note synth after each verse makes me stop and listen every time I hear this song. Like a doorbell that asks me to open up and listen. Something important is coming next. Fantastic song.
good thinking
Great analogy..ah the 80s✨
How true !
Never had a song do this to me… This haunting feeling. Why?
What a gorgeous analogy……
and a profoundly beautiful, insightful mind.
I'm 70 and this extended version is the greatest! I have played this up to 10 times in a row. Wow!
Was a teenager in the 80s. Don't miss much about that era except our music - without a doubt, the best. Love this song still.
+RainPoetry Music was our life as teenagers in the 80's. No doubt unmatched until this day.
Angel of Silence
Agreed
absolutely agreed!
For me, in my late 20's, this music still evokes emotional feelings....I was in love with the music and what was happening then, for me. Still one of my favorites!
Agree 100%
This song hits after getting out of toxic relationship. It is indeed My Life.
Awesome High Energy Classic.
I'm stuck in the 80s. I can't get out, please… don't get me out of here! (This syndrome happens to everyone who lived from 20 to 30 years of age in a certain era, we always think that ours is the best).
My God I miss the 80s, thank God 4 CZcams.
Love that song and the beat to the song
Mark Hollis had a great voice that i will never forget. Now he is gone. So, Sad!
WHAT A GREAT SONG
When music was real music 💜💯
I have both my kids on the music I grew up on, this was and will always be an 80’s classic…… when music was music💯
Either you get the '80s or you don't, and this is at the heart of it right here...
talk talk forever in my life !!! it's my life since 1983 !!
LONG LIVE THE 80's and that's a FACT!!!!!!
Awesome song. I know that I come here every year or so to leave a comment, but I just never get tired of it!
I always liked Talk Talk. I rediscovered them lately and can't seem to get enough. I was especially disheartened to learn of the death of Mark Hollis.
One of those songs you never get tired of…
I was 15 yrs old, high school days.. Gen X. SOOOOO GOOD.
Crazy this music seems more in tune today than the music of today
So many more layers than the radio cut. It’s like hearing the song for the first time. Masterpiece
Mark Hollis will live forever in our hearts. Talk Talk forever.
im agree!!!!
Forever..
@@elenilsonbarbosa4323 :3
YESSSS ALWAYSSS ALBERTO HIS VOICE IS UNIQUE.. AND I LIKE SO MUCH.. ALL THEIR SONGS..
I loved it in the 80s. It’s still one of my top 10 favorites. Fantastic.
80s artists are unique!
This is the best version ever, can’t find it anywhere else
From time to time I run up on one that gives me chills when I hear it. Good times
One of the all-time greatest basslines in any pop song, any era.
It almost sounds as if The Real McCoy borrowed the bassline and modified it for "Another Night."
fantastic music and so sad to learn of Mark Hollis passing today. Talk Talk one of the most under rated bands ever. Very influential on other musicians.
80's.....Happy the person who lived at that time.
Feel it deep inside, thank you.
Still one of the best songs ever…
Super version of this classic and unforgettable song.The bass thread is just sumptuous and the voice melts you.Marvelous stuff.
If this didn't get you on a dance floor back in the 80's ........
Man, I used to tear it up on the dance floor at "Smart Bar" in Chi town to this one, Baby! I love it!
Love this song! I used to drive on the 5 freeway on my way to work in Downtown L.A listening to KROQ. I would hit the clubs in Hollywood with my co-workers after work. SUCH GREAT MEMORIES, 80's AWESOME!
KROQ! Was fortunate to meet the Bangles in 1985 when they were on Rodney on the Roq one evening! Miss Southern California, miss KROQ!
Not appreciated enough in their day - a phenomenal band with many great songs. They helped me through a lot of shit. And years later, this still fucking rules.
but very popular in France 84 85
The last 45 I ever bought. I still have it.
Une chanson qui rentre dans mon ❤. Une autre dimension. Les années 80 un monde différent. La joie de vivre .une jeunesse heureuse .une jeunesse qui avait le sens du respect envers les adultes.
Simply the best song ever.
Thank you for sharing so we can all enjoy it
Englands ....one of the greatest. love from germany. R.I.P Mark! we will miss you.
Absolute 80s classic.
It was definitely a must play songs with clubs and public events..!!
Every time I listen to this masterpiece it gives me goosepimples, this track is a timeless classic. Fantastic memories of the 80's.
England has always made the best music.
Puesss sí y no. Mejor llámale Reino Unido, para considerar tanto a los escoceses, norirlandeses y galeses. Y éso que, no me meto en decir el legado irlandés, jamaicano y demás en la música inglesa, no siempre reconocido
listen to this music while driving in an wide open road....try it!
The 80s absolutely ruled the world.
80’s without Talk Talk ? No chance.. love them deep in my heart ❤️. There is something very special in this band. Sure people knows that. I call it unique. With all the respect to many bands from that era that I like too .
Not in the UK for sure !
And listen to over and over... It 'so addictive😎😎👌👌
KOMMEN NIE WIEDER DIE GEILEN ZEITEN 😊
I also like B-Movie, Nowhere Girl and Heaven 17, Let Me Go! Best 80's Songs for me and this one always played it loud on my way to work in my 86 Trans Am. All the remixes had on cassette.
Hey,
Fantastique forcément fantastique. Grand merci .👍👏🎵🐉
I came of age in the 60s so that’s my thing, but in retrospect 80s music is the most underrated. Love this stuff
THE SYNTHESIZER GREATEST INSTRUMENT EVER INVENTED.ETHEREAL FEELING.
YES! Synths are magic
Its not just the synths, its the style of the music/structure/arrangement that is the magic and the vocals. Today you have synths over everything and drum machines and samplers BUT the magic isn't there.
I think 80s artists were telling a story within the music structure.
Absolutely agree .. What a fantastic time to be alive . Hopefully we will wake from our slumber soon , realise we cant keep abusing our home planet , and become better people .
I get the feeling Music will play a huge part in our mass raising of awareness to what we are expecting , the Christ consciousness , we are capable of so much more , we just need to realise it and take a bold step forward ,
before it,s too late. Love is all we need. Literally. . It's that easy , but seems so foreign now , Can't wait for someone to take the first step to a Better , brighter , more connected loving Future. Love Peace Always
This came up in my playlist. I didn’t recall ever hearing it before. I was immediately hooked and played it over and over and over! And over again.
he had a fantastic voice, i only found this group last year and i,m a fan now.
One of my favorite tunes. Great for cardio!
I highly reccomend you check out their last album Laughing Stock
My favourite of theirs is such a shame. That's the one I found last year. Carnt believe I grew up in the 80s and only song I,d herd of theirs wa it's my life.
@@tinkerbell6046 i loved from 1982 Tina they are my fa band and Living in another world is my fav ever song.
Tomorrow's Started its another great tune
Timeless perfection
I had forgotten how beautiful this song was.
I still remember Mark Hollis back in 1984 claiming in an interview (cheek in tongue though) that his aim was to write songs which one would still listen to twenty-five years later.
Now this one truly has passed the test of time, as well as many others he wrote.
PeterSpaeter96 Well, he accomplished that goal thru this song. That's for sure!
And the last two post-rock albums?? Mark is just a genius. I wish he would do music again in these times.
Isn't that tongue in cheek? I'm sure that's it, but I digress. The point was made, and rather well I might say.
PeterSpaeter96 // no songs like that today
I was 16 in 1982 when I first heard of Talk Talk probably because I was at college with the bass players younger brother, He took my 45 in single home and got his brother to sign it for me, Now here i am aged 53 and still listening to Talk Talk on an almost daily basis. So yes he succeeded.
The wonderfull 80's...best music-era ever..
"Its my life, it nevers ends" so poignant. Mark your life is your musical legacy that you have left us, so "it never ends". Thank you.
That's Heavy.
As Steve Thomas once said
This extended mix is incredible. It makes a great song even better. I hope this is my earworm for the day!
hope the 2080's will be this awesome
We’ll all be dead by then
Blasting the 12"version in my car like a maniac. Making that amplifier work!
One of the absolute best from the 80s....forget the other cover versions...first and best!
A "musical Faberge egg..." Divinity in song...Thank you, Talk Talk...Love from Texas...
I♥️80's 🎼🎵🎵🎵
The Greatest Decade Ever... ✨✨✨
Pure gold. Draws me to the deepest, furthest corners of my vague memories and sensations of which are only mine and cannot be described.
WELL SAID !
the eighties amazing times of music forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best extended mix of this song.
Merci a toi de nous laisser ce souvenir imortel Mark RIP
one of my favorite's from the best decade ever The 80'
Linda canção que marcou muito uma época onde as emoções eram mais verdadeiras. Uma pena a perca desse cantor Mark Hollis.
This tune is fecking awesome. Pure 80's class :)
Been listening to this since -84 but haven't understood the lyrics until 2018. I am mesmerized by the sound of the voice more than the meaning of the words. The soundscape is magical. 'How much do you commit yourself?' Is not to himself but to his lover.
Outro pancadão dos 80. Essa versão extended arrebenta
1984
Anos 80s simplesmente Maravilhoso com músicas como está show
Thank you for all the fine tunes Mark Hollis - R.I.P in your heaven!
The Utterly gorgeous 12' version and honoured to have had this as a childhood song
J'adore💙🔥
One of THE best songs EVER!
I've always loved the bass line in this song.
My Mind Is Blown 🤸🥳😜🤪🤯
Today musicians wish they could make music like this : Mark Hollis thank you for making great music .RIP and love always.
One of the greatest songs of all time...
got to agree!
Mark Hollis had it figured out...make several albums of great music, then check out via Timothy Leary...I wish House Reps would do the same...;) rcb
Rob B
Concordo plenamente com você!
Cannot disagree. Right after “Jabdah” by koto
Not really but it is very good
Thank you, Mark! You'll never be forgotten ...
I was stationed in the middle east; and it reminds me of the distance from home, in the states. Calling my wife, at strange hours. Amazing how comprehensive our minds are to remember all of it. Like a time stamp / I'll hear it, and I am back -so far away------------------
"It's My Life" is a song by the English new wave band Talk Talk. Written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, it was the title track on the band's second album and released as its first single in January 1984. It reached #46 in the UK charts, but did better in several other countries, reaching #33 in Germany, #32 in New Zealand, #25 in France and #7 in Italy. It was also a success in North America, entering the Top 40 in both the United States (#31) and Canada (#30). (Notably, it peaked at #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.)
i did not know this...thnk u
Great info, thanks. I have a feeling that the 12" version would have done much better than the 7" on many of the charts which you mention.
Very popular in the french gay clubs summer '84.
I know it was not a hit in England.
And has an amazing cover by no doubt
Thank you, Dick Clark.
After all these years. This is still a very amazing song. Thank you guys for all of your great music. Talk talk forever.
This song is pure heaven 😇🙏.
Pendant plus d'un mois , en 2004 je me réveillais tjrs avec cette chanson 😇
The sound is haunting. I can't make it loud enough. I need to hear it over and over again.
Listen to the 'Colour of Spring' album. It has some of their best tunes on it...and for sheer 80s loud, Simple Minds - 'Sparkle in the Rain' album. I used to drive across London in my two-blue tone Mini with the dodgy heating and matchboxes protecting the uncovered ends of wires from touching other parts of the car, listening to Simple Minds and Echo & the Bunnymen at full tit from the 80s car stereo.
The 80s were quite the time to be alive in the west in many ways. I was a young kid then but I have a weird cultural echo of it in my memory, the way I suppose many people remember the zeitgeist of their childhood decade without many of the details, until comments like yours come along to fill them in.
Tobi Walker spot on
hpoonis2010 Sparkle in the rain!!! WOOOWWWW! Nobody knows about that one!!! DEF one of the most underrated 80s albums of all time!!!! Very cool!!
Absolutely, I agree, !!
You are not kidding song after song and especially this dance tune. The whole club would crowd the dance floor with hardly any room to get down. ...but you made sure you had a space to show your dancing talent. Great memories. ...
The best 80's/new wave
Brilliant song lyrics. I really miss the 1980's. Nothing can compare to today's music standards.
One of my favorite Talk Talk songs EVER!!!
My most FAVORITE 80's SONG EVER!!!!!!!! PERIOD.
THE BEST SONG OF ALL TIME. PERIOD. MY ALL TIME FAV 80'S SONG!!!!!
Probably one of the best and most beautiful songs ever written. The synthesizer sequences are superb, and the vocals are great. The 12" version is far superior to the single which has a very short (and disappointing) ending. I've listened to this song many hundred's of times, and never get tired of it.
When I listen to this I transcend to another place in time. It's what good music is supposed to do... Right????
Jim Jones indeed same here
agreed
one of the best records of the time
Agree....
GREAT TUNE, the classics are the best. Not like today's rubbish.