My son passed away in January 2022. This song was saved in his videos. Now it’s saved in MY videos, and I listen almost every day. I’m so glad he saved it. I knew he had great taste in music. ❤️💔❤️🩹
Yup. For me it is the music AND videos together that do it for me. "She's So Young' by Pursuit of Happiness, 'Mad About You' by Belinda Carlisle, 'Our Lips Are Sealed' by The Gogos. "One More Color" by Jane Siberry. These songs make my heart ache with nostalgia. Ugh...If I could time travel back to the 80s, I would do it in a heart beat.
"The Ghost in You" by the Psychedelic Furs affects me greatly to this day still. I am 62. If that doesn't say something about the 80's music, I don't know what could.
Every generation has it’s favorite music that was playing in the background of their lives. I’ve been looking for that “time machine” to get me back to the 60s and being older -- not a pre-adolescent.
Around '89 at 19 I went to Australia to meet a couple of friends who had went ahead over a month before. We were from California. They had been there trippin around and partying made a few connections. Around the Sydney area. I bought a ticket to join them but one of them got their arm tore up pretty good with glass in a bar fight so they came home. I decided to go anyway and stayed at an apartment at the top of Bondi beach with one of their connections. I stayed about a month and half even worked in a warehouse. Damn the beer was good. Victoria Bitter VB is one of the best the world has too offer. Anyway, one quiet Sunday night this American kid 7,000 miles from home walked up to the cliff overlooking Bondi Beach and the Tasman Sea. I put this on my headphones and looked Northeast towards home at the sea and up at the stars. Pretty amazing life is. Some moments and some songs are pretty damn amazing.
I first heard this song on the radio in the 80s, driving alone at night on a lonely highway and could see the stars ✨ above in the night sky. What a memory!
I used to love weed..music like this took me somewhere when i was young but with a more mature educated ear its the same now without pot..but well weed was cool😂😂...i just cant smoke it because of probation 🤣😂
And it's a reminder of what a great country Australia is. I have lived in three different countries, now in my fourth. Can not pass Australia for it's landscape, vast space, the skies and how visible they are from afar. Everytime I get on a plane and return to Australia I think, I am blessed! (Despite it's political social problems)
18 yo me working in a music store, playing this song every twenty minutes. The Church, The Cure, The Cult, The Psychedelic Furs, Bauhaus, Echo and the Bunnymen , gosh just on repeat. Good mind space
I miss the record stores and the good times and trends they set by allowing people to shop for music . My phone is only good for revisiting the days of my youth . I was 25 when this was released in record stores not phone apps ..
Hard to believe those of us who lived the 80’s are about to start, now starting or half in our 50’s when it feels like yesterday. I was warned time flies, but did I listen?
Like you're holding hands with 30 years ago...like remembering the glimpse you had back then of who you are now...someone stepping on your grave...now and then all at once.
@@clayr9833 a glimpse 30 years from now, when now will be 30 years ago... holding hands with the memory retained after the grave... now and then all at once
It’s 1988. I’m at the University of Iowa. Young and good looking I come across the beautiful girl we spent the day together and listen to this song. I wonder where she is now? Does she have grandchildren? Is she happy. This song is haunting. There’s no other song like it. It immediately brings you back to your youth.
It's 1988 and at a college north of NYC. Same story but not listening to this song per se but this song was big for me back then. But yeah, with Facebook you know to some degree (if people share)... Anyway, puts all of our little dramatics in perspective in the vastness of this galaxy and the universe.
I’m 56, been a fan since the mid 80’s, got to see them in about 85. A guy I met in College, we became friends over this band, he passed away a couple of years ago from a heart attack, gone too soon 😢 I saw his widow shortly after and she said “Matt always loved The Church, and when he talked about them, your name would always come up” made my cry, it’s amazing how wonderful music is an interwoven part of our lives. I’m really looking forward to their new music in 2023 🙌🏼
It's 1988 and I am sitting outside looking up at the night sky. I have been drinking with my best friend in college and thinking I never want to be anywhere else OR with anyone else. Now it's 2022 and we have been married for over 27 years but this song takes me back to when we were just two kids in college.
I was living in Hawaii when this song came out. It was played religiously at a bar called The Wave in Waikiki. A testament to incredible 80s music and times. Indelible indeed!!
I had forgotten about this song until i heard it in the car today. Turned my whole miserable day into a much better day. I finally came out of the hell I've been. Of course it's always the best song when you've reached your destination. I cranked it in the parking lot until end of song. How music can change your moid so quickly says a lot about an artist who can do this to you.❤
Well they never really made it 'big'. This song is one of the only, if not the only, that they were known for even at the time. Gold Afternoon Fix was a well-received album & just when it looked like they were going to ramp it up, they just disappeared instead. Despite how great this song was- it literally was the precursor of those Goth era sounds & mellow lamenting melodies. Fits perfectly with The Cure & Echo & the Bunnymen. Like somehow if all 3 bands could collaborate a new album of music & tour together, it would have that dreamlike quality.
My girlfriend and I would listen to this in the spring of 1988 and we both knew the world would get bigger than both of us, I miss her but I know we are both doing really well, gen x is the best 🎉
@@robertmacivor3786 It really was! My kids tease me that I'm stuck in the 80's. I admit that I am - but it was an awesome time! Music was amazing. You had lots of talent, lots of different "sounds" to music, and not this cookie cutter crap of today.
Agreed, my friend. Strangely, I had never heard this song until about ten years ago. It immediately nabbed a place of honor on my "running" playlist. It will remain there for as long as I'm able to hit the road.
@@robertjackson3819 where the HECK! we're U!! U just got hip to THE ⛪ CHURCH in 2012? when the album STARFISH debuted in '88? How 'bout XTC? U ever of them from the 80's?: WAKE ⏰ UP! No. Go listen to Wake Up by XTC. Seriously.
@@petegobeckli1386 Alright, Pete. I checked out Wake Up and loved it, but I suspect you knew I would. And I have to confess, the 80's was the decade of my life that I'd like to forget, so I probably missed a lot of good music.
I bet most metal heads have guilty pleasure songs they like, & why bloody not. I love everything from punk & metal, & lots of stuff like this. Cheers 🍻
This came on the radio last week while I was in a taxi riding through the chaotic streets of Mexico City. The windows were down, the air was warm and the cabbie cranked the radio up. I thought, “Life is pretty damn good”.
cool I live in Cebu Philippines I have the same thoughts some times when I am in a cab here......I always like riding with older cab driver who play the radio on 80 s stations
I think what you mean is so-called recycling sub contractors panic that they can't hit their profit targets as well as come in on the quote they gave municipal government, originally intended just to undercut everyone else and secure that sweet sweet public fund gravy train. So they cut corners. Landfill half of it or sell it to the far East. Everything is recyclable if you put the effort in.
I think for it to be a peak of musical creativity it would have to be an overall greater departure from what was popular in the previous era than others. 80s might be it but I think it could be 60s as well. A lot of stuff since the 90s feels relatively derivative compared to these times, not that I don't think excellent has come out in the last two decades, it just doesn't feel quite as ground breaking.
Sometimes, when this place gets kind of empty Sound of their breath fades with the light I think about the loveless fascination Under the Milky Way tonight Lower the curtain down on Memphis Lower the curtain down, all right I got no time for private consultation Under the Milky Way tonight Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you would find And it's something quite peculiar Something shimmering and white It leads you here, despite your destination Under the Milky Way tonight Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you would find Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you would find And it's something quite peculiar Something shimmering and white Leads you here, despite your destination Under the Milky Way tonight Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you would find Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you would find Under the Milky Way tonight Under the Milky Way tonight
Here in 2024 thanks to a video on the Retro Renaissance channel. The guy was presenting 'Songs from the 80's that you definitely don't know' I thought this was one of them for me, and then I started listening. It has been a long time. I am so thrilled that I was lead here ❤
Oooohhh what a glorious masterpiece!!! Lennon/McCartney wish they had ever written such an otherworldly glorious Pop tune - O well, The Church, they did !!!
This song will always remind me of one summer evening in 1988. Some friends and I ended it by taking a walk through the cemetery at midnight. In the car on the way back home afterwards, we heard this song. Through the sunroof, we could see that the dark sky above us was full of stars. The driver of the car that night has since passed. It’s been 15 years since Chris died, and every time I hear this song, I think of how much I miss him, how much I loved him, and wish I’d known what he was looking for. Maybe he’d still be here if I’d been able to help him.
this is such a similar bridge that i've crossed. my friends (in the early '90s). would spend weekends at cemeteries at night. our unabashed friend, Jay (boyfriend to my best friend ~ i "hooked them up" & they were soul mates), had killed himself much after early 2000. i wrote a book about suicides to honor his living spirit and will always remember his presence. to this day, she says he was the love of her life.
My best friend gave me a mixtape (yes, a cassette) back in 1992 that I took with me to Somalia when I got deployed. I appreciated this song so much. It helped me get to sleep as I literally was looking at the stars ✨ out in the open at night.
The entire album, Starfish, is an all-time classic. We drove from Mobile to NOLA to see them when they were on that tour, but Tipitina's was sold out. We ended up listening from the parking lot and ended up having a great night. ❤
I cannot believe I was a freshman in high school when this song came out. I remember the radio stations in Houston always playing it. I wanted nothing more than to grow up back then and now, at 49, I'd give anytime to be that kid again, in my room, listening to the radio and daydreaming about the boy I liked.
It will never be lost to many of us.....I keep coming back to this one, time and again. Played this in a cover band back in the 90s....one of the easier tunes to learn, but you really have to find a great vocalist or it sounds funny. Fortunately we had a guy who had the same register as Steve Kilbey. Short lived unfortunately.
Sometimes, when this place gets kind of empty Sound of their breath fades with the light I think about the loveless fascination Under the Milky Way tonight Lower the curtain down on Memphis Lower the curtain down, all right I got no time for private consultation Under the Milky Way tonight [Chorus] Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you might find [Verse 2] And it's something quite peculiar Something shimmering and white It leads you here, despite your destination Under the Milky Way tonight [Chorus] Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you would find Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you would find [Verse 2] And it's something quite peculiar Something shimmering and white Leads you here, despite your destination Under the Milky Way tonight [Chorus] Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you would find Wish I knew what you were looking for Might have known what you would find [Outro] Under the Milky Way tonight Under the Milky Way tonight Under the Milky Way tonight
Maybe our age gap is not too far cuz I'm feeling the same as you do. I'm starting to feel the effects of getting old in my body and it sucks and painfull most of the time.
I won $102.10 by being second caller to the radio station when this song played, after I heard it announced as the song of the day when I went to sleep after a nightshift in my new paramedic job. This song is a nice way to wake up.
I'm 19, and I absolutely adore the 80s. There's something about this era of music that has me hooked. However, I don't think it's fair to bash *all* modern music. There's good stuff, you just gotta dig for it. But, even with all the good songs today, I still find myself always coming back to the 80s. Such a good fucking song. I was actually brought to tears at 1:11.
My daughter is 17 and 80's music is her favorite as well, especially the goth bands. Too bad she can't come to terms with the fact that her dorky dad already owns most of the albums she really likes. Glad to see so many young people reliving the 80's through music.
I got a 15yr old daughter, she loves 80's that was my era .. i love 80's too, her dad and i play all the good stuff and her grandparents do too...i love how she open minded to listen to about all type of music, she always ends up going back in time our music.. she says is my music too 😊
80s music reminds me of times when we used phones to actually talk & make plans to get together. People were definitely more connected back then. We actually visited each other in people's homes, met our friend's families. Technology is supposed to improved our lives. But the further we advance, the more disconnected we become, the more we stray from what really matters. What's happening today, the fear driven agendas, the corrruption of government the endless inane chatter of "influencers" and lies from social media, the total lack of empathy & connection among people... It's a disturbing antithesis of what the 80s were. And it's leading the world down a dark path.
Fell asleep last night a few too many beers in... woke up to this song playing. Usually don't have autoplay on, but man am I happy I did last night. Beautiful. And as others have said, timeless. Sounds like it could've been from the 90s, 00s or even 2023. Never would have guessed 1988. Great stuff.
I heard some young guys on a music reaction channel saying that this was "kind of a boring, forgettable" song. I'm glad I don't personally know them or ever have to watch them again!
In my opinion, the lyrics aren't liberating at all and they don't instill a sense of freedom; there's a deep sense of melancholy. That said, Unicorn Lover, I understand you totally. There is a sense of abandonment in the overall feel of this song that has always made me feel free; especially on nights velvet black sky and a full show of stars.
I'm 57...where has the time gone since I would see this video on MTV when it first started airing. I agree so much with what you wrote...it tugged my heart to tears. ❤
I tried to record this song over and over on a cassette tape so I could have it on “repeat” and listen to it as I fell asleep every night. Then along comes this invention of spotify and I can’t believe I can just loop this song forever!! Ha ha One of my all time favorite songs ever!!!!! Will never get old!
My Brother in law was a massive Church fan, we lost him last week, I am going to take time to listen to his Church collection, going to miss you mate God bless love John.
@@StMichael7 The creativity of music of the 60s goes way beyond lyrics, if you care to explore... and I’m not knocking this era either. I love both eras!
This song makes me feel less alone. Makes me think there's someone out there that likes being out under the night sky as much as me, walking and chatting about the things we love.
My favorite song of all time. I have never, ever, never grown tired of it, and I have been listening to it since it was released in 1988. It's just the perfect song.
This song and band had completely slipped under my radar. Only discovered it for the first time a few years ago and it inspired me to make an 80s playlist featuring all those great tunes which I DIDN'T hear hundreds of times back in the day. Awesome song, and the title of that playlist. Salud!
Music is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
WORD!
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WOW
Bingo
👍 I agree
My son passed away in January 2022. This song was saved in his videos. Now it’s saved in MY videos, and I listen almost every day. I’m so glad he saved it. I knew he had great taste in music. ❤️💔❤️🩹
My condolences.
May he rest in peace!
@@giorgiomartinico3774 thanks so much. ❤️
@@davidhawley3337 thank you! ❤️
Jeeez... I'm not sure whether I should *like your comment or not. I will say this - he obviously had good taste in music. Be well, Traci.
Here we are again , meeting once again. 2024 and still under the milky-way tonight. Hope this song brings you all the feels you are needing right now
😔😔😔😔😔
Yeah I'm feeling better now
as u
Takes me back to long ago. My heart yearns for the people and places and music of that time. All alone now. Everything & everyone lost to me.
Marvelous song
I would give anything to go back to 1988. 21 years old, not a care in the world, and great music and vibes were everywhere.
There are certain 80’s songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.
Yup. For me it is the music AND videos together that do it for me. "She's So Young' by Pursuit of Happiness, 'Mad About You' by Belinda Carlisle, 'Our Lips Are Sealed' by The Gogos. "One More Color" by Jane Siberry. These songs make my heart ache with nostalgia. Ugh...If I could time travel back to the 80s, I would do it in a heart beat.
Unfortunately I know exactly what you mean.
"The Ghost in You" by the Psychedelic Furs affects me greatly to this day still. I am 62. If that doesn't say something about the 80's music, I don't know what could.
Nostalgia and for me too tears, loss, longing.
Definitely, this, No One is to Blame, Mellt With You...
The 80's produced some of the greatest music that defined a generation.
Most eclectic for sure. What I loved about 80s music. Pick your flavor - it was available.
Every generation has it’s favorite music that was playing in the background of their lives. I’ve been looking for that “time machine” to get me back to the 60s and being older -- not a pre-adolescent.
Facts!!!
The 80s was great but the best music of the 20th century was in the late 60s and early 70s
@@latitudeselongitudes1932 no way - 80’s was more eclectic in my opinion. But I do like some 60s and 70’s music.
Around '89 at 19 I went to Australia to meet a couple of friends who had went ahead over a month before. We were from California. They had been there trippin around and partying made a few connections. Around the Sydney area. I bought a ticket to join them but one of them got their arm tore up pretty good with glass in a bar fight so they came home. I decided to go anyway and stayed at an apartment at the top of Bondi beach with one of their connections. I stayed about a month and half even worked in a warehouse. Damn the beer was good. Victoria Bitter VB is one of the best the world has too offer. Anyway, one quiet Sunday night this American kid 7,000 miles from home walked up to the cliff overlooking Bondi Beach and the Tasman Sea. I put this on my headphones and looked Northeast towards home at the sea and up at the stars. Pretty amazing life is. Some moments and some songs are pretty damn amazing.
I first heard this song on the radio in the 80s, driving alone at night on a lonely highway and could see the stars ✨ above in the night sky. What a memory!
Today I'm 52 and if I could go back to that time...
I have so many memories like this from the 80's. The music was amazing, and it was a great time to be young.
Best time to hear it!
99999
I used to love weed..music like this took me somewhere when i was young but with a more mature educated ear its the same now without pot..but well weed was cool😂😂...i just cant smoke it because of probation 🤣😂
1988 - this song is awesome!💥
2024 - this song still awesome!💥
I agree!
Quetia ter a letra desta música. Quem tem?
Always and forever a real beauty!!
Ouvindo em 17 de dezembro as 20:37
2023- Still awesome ☺️
This song is timeless. Feels like the future and past collide in multiple timelines.
This is a time traveller machine !!!
100 percent
I concur with all of you ❣️
Nice one...👍👍
And it's a reminder of what a great country Australia is. I have lived in three different countries, now in my fourth. Can not pass Australia for it's landscape, vast space, the skies and how visible they are from afar. Everytime I get on a plane and return to Australia I think, I am blessed! (Despite it's political social problems)
Any band where the bassist is also the lead singer = instant greatness.
Geddy Lee of Rush!
absolutely,,,, golden like the Cars
James Dewar with Robin Trower
Motorhead with Lemmy
Primus sucks
I was 30 years old when I first heard this song now I am 66 and it still sounds awesome. Hope that you love good music as much as I do. ✌️
18 yo me working in a music store, playing this song every twenty minutes. The Church, The Cure, The Cult, The Psychedelic Furs, Bauhaus, Echo and the Bunnymen , gosh just on repeat. Good mind space
I miss the record stores and the good times and trends they set by allowing people to shop for music . My phone is only good for revisiting the days of my youth . I was 25 when this was released in record stores not phone apps ..
Oh wow. You have great taste. All those bands were played by djs at alternative clubs in the 80s and early 90s in south africa. Great great memories.
Nurse Kat U may be a musical genius 🏄🌊
❤
Welcome to our world :-)
Hard to believe those of us who lived the 80’s are about to start, now starting or half in our 50’s when it feels like yesterday. I was warned time flies, but did I listen?
YESSSSSSSSSSSS
None of us did, don't feel as if you're the only one.
No one listens .
Like you're holding hands with 30 years ago...like remembering the glimpse you had back then of who you are now...someone stepping on your grave...now and then all at once.
@@clayr9833 a glimpse 30 years from now, when now will be 30 years ago... holding hands with the memory retained after the grave... now and then all at once
This song is proof that we don’t just long for people in this world. We long for time itself and meaning.
Great comment...we can't see time, but man can we feel it...
@@WinsomeWinsletyour comment was awesome too. Learn something everyday from others.
Speak for yourself. I don't long for time and meaning. There's no meaning and time's running out. And I feel fine.
@@rike94you wasted more precious time typing that comment. Just kidding mate. Cheers my fellow time travelers.
@@rike94spoken like a true Gen X. I would high-5 you but our call-sign is we don't care. 😂
It’s 1988. I’m at the University of Iowa. Young and good looking I come across the beautiful girl we spent the day together and listen to this song. I wonder where she is now? Does she have grandchildren? Is she happy. This song is haunting. There’s no other song like it. It immediately brings you back to your youth.
It's 1988 and at a college north of NYC. Same story but not listening to this song per se but this song was big for me back then. But yeah, with Facebook you know to some degree (if people share)... Anyway, puts all of our little dramatics in perspective in the vastness of this galaxy and the universe.
I’m 56, been a fan since the mid 80’s, got to see them in about 85. A guy I met in College, we became friends over this band, he passed away a couple of years ago from a heart attack, gone too soon 😢 I saw his widow shortly after and she said “Matt always loved The Church, and when he talked about them, your name would always come up” made my cry, it’s amazing how wonderful music is an interwoven part of our lives. I’m really looking forward to their new music in 2023 🙌🏼
Friendship is eternal, cheers
We love you man!
We are probably The Chosen Generation, X.
I am so sorry for your loss.
You’re are so right about music. Thank you for sharing about your friend. ❤️
It's 1988 and I am sitting outside looking up at the night sky. I have been drinking with my best friend in college and thinking I never want to be anywhere else OR with anyone else.
Now it's 2022 and we have been married for over 27 years but this song takes me back to when we were just two kids in college.
What a sweet memory!!!❤
Great rollerblading song for a lady age 50+
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Bravo
I'm a very old man at 97 years old, i know my time is near but i love to listen to this song
The keyboards, reverb on the rim shot, gorgeous harmonies, and bagpipe solo really set the mood.
All of it! YAAAS! 🖖🏼❣️🖖🏼
Are they actually using a bagpipe or just making their guitars sound like that?
The solo is played on a guitar using an e-bow and with a synclavier bagpipe preset.
you need to write for a music magazine.
After 30 years this song still has an ethereal and magical atmosphere. I can smell and taste the 80's when listening this.
All true mate snella of Australia i miss him so much
Smell of! The 80 s
Smell is the strongest sense related to memory.
Well said... feelings are the same...
I was living in Hawaii when this song came out. It was played religiously at a bar called The Wave in Waikiki. A testament to incredible 80s music and times. Indelible indeed!!
Take me back to no cell phones, no laptops, no internet, no nasty social media, no over crowding, dollar gas and THE BEST DAMN MUSIC...EVER.
I'm all for that, Jay. I'm 64 and can do without this stuff going on today.
It would be pretty difficult to be watching this video in 2021 if not for the internet.
Amen, but unfortunately we can’t
No obama/biden disease either
I wish I could.
I had forgotten about this song until i heard it in the car today. Turned my whole miserable day into a much better day. I finally came out of the hell I've been. Of course it's always the best song when you've reached your destination. I cranked it in the parking lot until end of song. How music can change your moid so quickly says a lot about an artist who can do this to you.❤
That's awesome! Nice story!
I know what you mean.
The Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, the Mary Chain do this to me. Everytime.
Amén brother!! ❤❤❤
Dead Boys Detectives lead me here. Beautiful song. Can't wait to hear them all.❤
LOL...I'm legit watching that episode and paused it to come here and listen to it fully. Such a beautiful piece of music 💚
Who's still here listening and loving 2021
Never stopped
Michael
God bless you and your family 🙏❤️
I discovered this song a few days ago doing reactions with a youtuber friend and I can’t stop listening to it...still awesome in 2021
Been listening to the Church since their first appearance on UK TV with Unguarded Moment, why stop now 😉
@@jonathansteadman7935 i saw that also.....very nice
This is an 80's gem of a song. It's so underrated.
Agreed it is an 80's gem!!!...
Well they never really made it 'big'. This song is one of the only, if not the only, that they were known for even at the time. Gold Afternoon Fix was a well-received album & just when it looked like they were going to ramp it up, they just disappeared instead. Despite how great this song was- it literally was the precursor of those Goth era sounds & mellow lamenting melodies. Fits perfectly with The Cure & Echo & the Bunnymen. Like somehow if all 3 bands could collaborate a new album of music & tour together, it would have that dreamlike quality.
Indeed my friend. Always come back to this song for inspiration.
I've loved this song since I was 15
@@Mike-dx1ul That makes you 46, you are old man way up there in dog years.
The 80s and 90s will never die, greetings from Argentina
Agree with you my friend.
THE 80'S WILL NEVER DIE ..GREETING FROM ALABAMA 😅✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧 2:15
Hola vieji
Nunca brother 🙌🏼☀️
Tampafla
I died last year, but I came back this year to listen one more time.
Me too. 😆 For reals.
An actual Time and Relative Dimensions In Space (TARDIS) kinda deal.
Absolute Truth.
Is it a dream? Might be ...
@@Valtitude it's all a simulation... just respawn when you die.
I wish for people to not meet death already dead
🧟♂️❤
Bottoms up 👍
This is one of those iconic songs that personifies the mood and feel of the 80’s new wave genre. A magical decade that will never be matched.
Hi I recommend a new 80's style song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
❤ said perfectly
My girlfriend and I would listen to this in the spring of 1988 and we both knew the world would get bigger than both of us, I miss her but I know we are both doing really well, gen x is the best 🎉
Almost the same way America's music personified the 70s.
The late 80s. This song really acts as a precursor to the 90s and the golden era of alternative music. Such a great song.
Timeless 80's memories. To those of you who weren't there, you missed a helluva ride!
Agreed! I didn't know it at the time but it was an incredible time.
@@robertmacivor3786 It really was! My kids tease me that I'm stuck in the 80's. I admit that I am - but it was an awesome time! Music was amazing. You had lots of talent, lots of different "sounds" to music, and not this cookie cutter crap of today.
H.S. class of “85”
@@chopperdave43 "89" here!
@@robertmacivor3786 I KNEW it AT THE TIME!!
❤❤❤ I miss these days! How great was our music?
Just heard this in dead boy detectives, and it brought me back to the song that I heard when I was a teenager.❤
This has to be one of the most beautiful songs to come out of the eighties.
@@jeffreyfunke8866 Agreed. This one never gets old.
And of all time I'd say, at least with regards to rock and roll in general.
Agreed, my friend. Strangely, I had never heard this song until about ten years ago. It immediately nabbed a place of honor on my "running" playlist. It will remain there for as long as I'm able to hit the road.
@@robertjackson3819 where the HECK! we're U!! U just got hip to THE ⛪ CHURCH in 2012? when the album STARFISH debuted in '88? How 'bout XTC? U ever of them from the 80's?: WAKE ⏰ UP! No. Go listen to Wake Up by XTC. Seriously.
@@petegobeckli1386 Alright, Pete. I checked out Wake Up and loved it, but I suspect you knew I would. And I have to confess, the 80's was the decade of my life that I'd like to forget, so I probably missed a lot of good music.
Such a melancholy masterpiece. I adore this song and i'm a crazy old metalhead.
Hi I recommend a song and video here on youtube called 'Where I Come From' By Robert Nix
Me too!
Same brother, same. 🤘🏼
Such a simple song that sticks in your head beautiful and haunting
I bet most metal heads have guilty pleasure songs they like, & why bloody not.
I love everything from punk & metal, & lots of stuff like this.
Cheers 🍻
This came on the radio last week while I was in a taxi riding through the chaotic streets of Mexico City. The windows were down, the air was warm and the cabbie cranked the radio up. I thought, “Life is pretty damn good”.
Exacto
That's sounds fantastic, cabron.
I'm from Mexico City and I have to say the same to myself every single day... Fortunately, there is this great song...
cool I live in Cebu Philippines I have the same thoughts some times when I am in a cab here......I always like riding with older cab driver who play the radio on 80 s stations
what a beautiful description , I love it 👍
A new generation of young people are finding this song, and really liking it. Once cool, always cool.
Donnie Darko soundtrack for a lot of them?
It pays to recycle I know that’s right. ✨✨✨💫💫💫💫🌙🌙🌟💫💫
I think what you mean is so-called recycling sub contractors panic that they can't hit their profit targets as well as come in on the quote they gave municipal government, originally intended just to undercut everyone else and secure that sweet sweet public fund gravy train. So they cut corners. Landfill half of it or sell it to the far East.
Everything is recyclable if you put the effort in.
@J Christ Or just install AdBlock
@J Christ no problem. Good info
Am I the only one who CANNOT get this song out of my head in the middle of the night...
The 80s was by far the coolest era and arguably the peak of musical creativity.
Agreed
100% I always say this. Its so timeless
Bear in mind we had plenty of mostly pure coke. Wasnt as great as everyone thought
ok was pretty great!
I think for it to be a peak of musical creativity it would have to be an overall greater departure from what was popular in the previous era than others. 80s might be it but I think it could be 60s as well. A lot of stuff since the 90s feels relatively derivative compared to these times, not that I don't think excellent has come out in the last two decades, it just doesn't feel quite as ground breaking.
Sometimes, when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Lower the curtain down on Memphis
Lower the curtain down, all right
I got no time for private consultation
Under the Milky Way tonight
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
And it's something quite peculiar
Something shimmering and white
It leads you here, despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
And it's something quite peculiar
Something shimmering and white
Leads you here, despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Under the Milky Way tonight
Under the Milky Way tonight
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Played the he'll out of that disc back in the day.
It is indeed a shimmering song.
Thank you!
so there's basically just 1 verse ... wish there was more
This song is haunting and just beautiful. Always has been one of the greatest examples of a song that takes you back in your memories and time.
i never listened to it until recently. i think i heard it maybe a couple times. it's really f'ing pretty!
When I think of haunting songs I think of this one, Julee Cruise - Falling and Bruce Smeaton - The Ascent.
Bring me back in time to better place Panama
All 80s songs bring me back. It makes me sad, I really miss the good old days
Here in 2024 thanks to a video on the Retro Renaissance channel. The guy was presenting 'Songs from the 80's that you definitely don't know' I thought this was one of them for me, and then I started listening. It has been a long time. I am so thrilled that I was lead here ❤
Oooohhh what a glorious masterpiece!!!
Lennon/McCartney wish they had ever written such an otherworldly glorious Pop tune - O well,
The Church, they did !!!
L/M were ok but Ringo was the real genius behind the Beatles.
This song will always remind me of one summer evening in 1988. Some friends and I ended it by taking a walk through the cemetery at midnight. In the car on the way back home afterwards, we heard this song. Through the sunroof, we could see that the dark sky above us was full of stars. The driver of the car that night has since passed. It’s been 15 years since Chris died, and every time I hear this song, I think of how much I miss him, how much I loved him, and wish I’d known what he was looking for. Maybe he’d still be here if I’d been able to help him.
Nothing probably
this is such a similar bridge that i've crossed. my friends (in the early '90s). would spend weekends at cemeteries at night. our unabashed friend, Jay (boyfriend to my best friend ~ i "hooked them up" & they were soul mates), had killed himself much after early 2000. i wrote a book about suicides to honor his living spirit and will always remember his presence. to this day, she says he was the love of her life.
May he rest easy
Very heartfelt story.
My best friend gave me a mixtape (yes, a cassette) back in 1992 that I took with me to Somalia when I got deployed. I appreciated this song so much. It helped me get to sleep as I literally was looking at the stars ✨ out in the open at night.
That’s cool bro 😎 awesome
thanks for your service, glad you made it back
Semper fi. Glad u are back witj a great story
Did this song touch you as much as your troop?
did you kill any innocent people?
The Professor of Rock sent me here!
Me too!!!
Me too!
Same.
Hahaha you are awesome. Prof of rock is the best.
Yes!!!!!!!
The entire album, Starfish, is an all-time classic. We drove from Mobile to NOLA to see them when they were on that tour, but Tipitina's was sold out. We ended up listening from the parking lot and ended up having a great night. ❤
I may just pick up a copy of that LP tomorrow, thanks for the idea... we have a great used record shop in my town
Saw them in NOLA last night, they kicked ass. Great show.
Awesome!
Tipitina’s back in the day…good times and road trips.
I cannot believe I was a freshman in high school when this song came out. I remember the radio stations in Houston always playing it. I wanted nothing more than to grow up back then and now, at 49, I'd give anytime to be that kid again, in my room, listening to the radio and daydreaming about the boy I liked.
Agreed, getting old is both satisfying and depressing simultaneously.
I'm 51 and this song puts me back so fast 😊
well said
but was your crush as dreamy as the church's vocalist
What a sweet comment. It all goes way too fast.
Steve Kilbey's voice is incredible in this. Combined with a haunting melody, this is a lost gem.
It will never be lost to many of us.....I keep coming back to this one, time and again. Played this in a cover band back in the 90s....one of the easier tunes to learn, but you really have to find a great vocalist or it sounds funny. Fortunately we had a guy who had the same register as Steve Kilbey. Short lived unfortunately.
Sometimes, when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Lower the curtain down on Memphis
Lower the curtain down, all right
I got no time for private consultation
Under the Milky Way tonight
[Chorus]
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you might find
[Verse 2]
And it's something quite peculiar
Something shimmering and white
It leads you here, despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight
[Chorus]
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
[Verse 2]
And it's something quite peculiar
Something shimmering and white
Leads you here, despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight
[Chorus]
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
[Outro]
Under the Milky Way tonight
Under the Milky Way tonight
Under the Milky Way tonight
@Micah Lawrence >> THANKS 4 THIS .. STILL 2 THIS DAY NEVER KNEW BUT BOUT 75% OF LYRICS..
Thank you
This is the nowadays equivalent of singing along. 🤘😆. I hear everyone singing...
Visiting my Mum in her nursing home right now, she has dementia, and this beautiful song of yours comes on. Thank you forever, Steve. Mum is 82 today.
My mom is 95 and she dementia as well.. Tough times but this song helps me go through this period of time.
My mom is 95 and she dementia as well.. Tough times but this song helps me go through this period of time.
I’m so exhausted that I’m barely even conscious right now but this song just came on and it means absolutely everything in the world to me right now
Hope you feel rested now...keep going❤
We're here with ya
I'm 🙏 for your positive future, in Jesus name amen.
We are all with you under the milky way tonight and we all love you .
Maybe our age gap is not too far cuz I'm feeling the same as you do. I'm starting to feel the effects of getting old in my body and it sucks and painfull most of the time.
This song is a fucking masterpiece
Kind of a Nihilistic one though?
it's pretty good.. Have you listened to Kasmir? When the Levi Breaks? :)
Agreed! If my memory is correct, I think this was part of the soundtrack of a "Miami Vice" episode. Check it out if you can.
@@cut-- Listened to those songs? I have worshipped them.
@@cut-- you mean kashmir and when the leeves break downftomled zeppelin
It is not only the song - it is very much this voice, too, that makes this one an absolute evergreen.
ahhhhhhh evergreen the evil devil minions did !!!
Wonderful song
Totally agree. Beautiful male vocal.
This band does not even touch Taylor Swift...
I won $102.10 by being second caller to the radio station when this song played, after I heard it announced as the song of the day when I went to sleep after a nightshift in my new paramedic job. This song is a nice way to wake up.
❤love it
Definetly one of the best songs of all time of any kind of music.
This song takes me back to a time when all things in life seemed possible.
yep
Michael Delaney. U got that right! Optimism is STILL HIGH!!
Same here
They still are....you've become jaded. It's called growing up.
it's called being young... but, yeah, there with you.
Such a bitter sweet song. If you weren't there, sorry but you just wouldn't understand. Long live the 80's
The constant threat of nuclear annihilation mixed with freedom and yearning. That's how I remember the 80s
Amen!
And the 70s
Hi Martin, I recommend the song 'Where I Come From' by Robert Nix
One of the greatest songs ever made.
Dead Boy Detectives thanks for bringing this song back!
I'm 19, and I absolutely adore the 80s. There's something about this era of music that has me hooked. However, I don't think it's fair to bash *all* modern music. There's good stuff, you just gotta dig for it. But, even with all the good songs today, I still find myself always coming back to the 80s. Such a good fucking song. I was actually brought to tears at 1:11.
TheAndroidMan so many of the great current indie bands are just channeling the 80’s
TheAndroidMan the 80’s was a special time for music. The world was good, people were exploring. I love it still.
My daughter is 17 and 80's music is her favorite as well, especially the goth bands. Too bad she can't come to terms with the fact that her dorky dad already owns most of the albums she really likes. Glad to see so many young people reliving the 80's through music.
I got a 15yr old daughter, she loves 80's that was my era .. i love 80's too, her dad and i play all the good stuff and her grandparents do too...i love how she open minded to listen to about all type of music, she always ends up going back in time our music.. she says is my music too 😊
The "music" you hear today isn't music...it all died in 2000!
80s music reminds me of times when we used phones to actually talk & make plans to get together. People were definitely more connected back then. We actually visited each other in people's homes, met our friend's families.
Technology is supposed to improved our lives. But the further we advance, the more disconnected we become, the more we stray from what really matters.
What's happening today, the fear driven agendas, the corrruption of government
the endless inane chatter of "influencers" and lies from social media, the total lack of empathy & connection among people... It's a disturbing antithesis of what the 80s were. And it's leading the world down a dark path.
Honey you pretty much nailed it....,stay Content pretty woman peace out
Thank you for these deep and insightful thoughts. Spot on.
meh. screw the 80s.
who can honestly say that life now is better than in the eighties?
Amen sister, and we are both blessed and cursed to have eyes to see it
We truly grew up during a blessed time in history. Great songs, cool cars, and beautiful women. I miss those days.
hells ya \m/
No internet!!!
Agreed 💯
Same here, great times
Fell asleep last night a few too many beers in... woke up to this song playing. Usually don't have autoplay on, but man am I happy I did last night. Beautiful. And as others have said, timeless. Sounds like it could've been from the 90s, 00s or even 2023. Never would have guessed 1988. Great stuff.
The melody has a haunting quality that makes you pause and think. A really good song
Donnie Darko. A brilliant soundtrack, and this was perfect in the film.
Yupppppp!!!!
One of the best movies ever made!! Such a beautiful film!! And im an avid movie and B movie seeker
This is also a soundtrack to the movie The Dry. Movie is very good.
@@matthewryan4344 "Donnie Darko - One of the best movies ever made!!"
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Way overrated.
Nah, not really, considering they just dont make movies with such esoteric imagination like that anymore.
I still tear up today and get chills listening to this
❤
I heard some young guys on a music reaction channel saying that this was "kind of a boring, forgettable" song. I'm glad I don't personally know them or ever have to watch them again!
Every living creature on earth dies alone
and then again, you are never alone...
Haha, nice. Bet there's a bunch of ppl who don't know what that's from.
That’s not what the song is about
cellar door
...creature
My favorite song in my entire life. I'm 44. This song instills in me a freedom I cannot express into words. I'm in space when I play it.
In my opinion, the lyrics aren't liberating at all and they don't instill a sense of freedom; there's a deep sense of melancholy. That said, Unicorn Lover, I understand you totally. There is a sense of abandonment in the overall feel of this song that has always made me feel free; especially on nights velvet black sky and a full show of stars.
I'm 57...where has the time gone since I would see this video on MTV when it first started airing.
I agree so much with what you wrote...it tugged my heart to tears. ❤
I tried to record this song over and over on a cassette tape so I could have it on “repeat” and listen to it as I fell asleep every night. Then along comes this invention of spotify and I can’t believe I can just loop this song forever!! Ha ha One of my all time favorite songs ever!!!!! Will never get old!
Only 17M views. That's not enough. This song is a classic.
The professor of rock brought me here too. An eighteen year old who only enjoys jazz, seventies prog and eighties new wave; can't go wrong.
This is one of those songs that makes you fly away without destination or purpose. ✨🌟🤟
I agree
Deep
Yet another brilliant moment in television accompanied with this beautiful song in Dead Boy Detectives 🩵🩵✨️✨️✨️
Dang, this band had the best looking guys. Great song!
I would love to go back in time snd never come back
Only if you take me with you!
The music in the 80s had so much more soul and depth of beauty, than what is produced today!
Once people would think before writing, and really write before singing the song. Now, this is lost somehow.
Yippers....I'm 74 n still rocking this 🎵song with other classic New Wave music...oh yeah
Jose, I hear you. I'm 72 and rocking along with you. What a great song.
nice one man me am 71 rock on forever
@@keithbell7941 yeppers us baby boomers definitely have to stick together especially in our music and the 80s were awesome
Los 80' qué bellos recuerdos y mucha nostalgia 😢
Once in a great while things align just long enough to create a brief moment of perfection. This song is one of those moments ❤
Still listening and loving it in 2020.
I love this song!!!
December, 19th 2020
😄🎶
@@jessygf Yep tonight!
Beautiful song
Tonight
... For ever !!! 👍👌
One of the best songs of the 80's, in my opinion.
Hi I Recommend an indie song called 'where I come from by Robert Nix
One of the best songs of any time period.
Soundtrack of our lives back then, the Smiths, The cure and these guys
I know few songs like this one that carry so much atmosphere and mood within them. This song has a sound that makes you feel something very special.
My Brother in law was a massive Church fan, we lost him last week, I am going to take time to listen to his Church collection, going to miss you mate God bless love John.
Sorry for your loss ❤
I'm sorry for your loss, friend.
Such a masterpiece of 'modern' music. Sounds fresh and modern, even 35 years later.
Some good music today, but don't make them like this anymore.
It’s incredible that this track is over 33 years old.
1988 my year when i was born
@@sergeisaint5947 I think I have some socks that are older than you, LOL...
my age :O
I was 16
I was 33 years younger when this came out
Your son is beautifully blessed in many ways plus Dad you're absolutely right your son has the best ear when it comes to music 🎶🤩
I will never get tired of this song, as it brings back so many memories…I love the ‘80’s music
I love the 80s too - got married 1980, and had my 3 kids in 1981, 1983, 1984. Sigh 😌
Me too, best decade in history of artists and their music 🎵🎶🎵🎶 🎸 🥁
They don't make great music like this anymore. 80's New Wave music was brilliant.
The most creative period in modern history.
ozgoodphotos I don’t think songs about yellow submarines or California dreams is very creative 😆
The sad thing is, it IS still being made. But it doesn't become mainstream so most people will simply never know of its existence.
The Church are still making albums though. ;)
@@StMichael7 The creativity of music of the 60s goes way beyond lyrics, if you care to explore... and I’m not knocking this era either. I love both eras!
Not sure why, but every time I hear this song, I just sob. It’s so beautiful but so painful
"love is never the same twice"
I do too. I was in a relationship, and fell into another one to this song. none of it worked out well, and I am so sorry for it. 34 years later...
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Me too
Me too
Beautiful, haunting, chilling, just a wonderful song. ☺️
Driving thru the dessert awake at night cause idk a life without you
"it leads you here, despite your destination" - I have always loved this song.
43 seconds in. The bass drop, background harmonies kick in, and we are off to a silky smooth, haunting, dark ride.
True
Dont forget the wood block!
This song makes me feel less alone. Makes me think there's someone out there that likes being out under the night sky as much as me, walking and chatting about the things we love.
This song brings back so many memories. This was one of my favorites when it first came out. It reminds me of being lost and trying to find myself
My favorite song of all time. I have never, ever, never grown tired of it, and I have been listening to it since it was released in 1988. It's just the perfect song.
.... an ethereal, melodic masterpiece.
I remember hearing back then...
I loved it the first time I heard it. A classic, beautiful, one of a kind song that I will never tire of listening to !
Same!
Jamie, that makes two of us.
This song is a timeless classic. Listening to it makes me feel like 1988 was only yesterday.
Same. I’m immediately sent back in time. Driving & playing this in my car.😊👍
Timeless classic indeed
Then you look in the mirror and instantly realize that 1988 was a very long time ago. Life really is short!
This song and band had completely slipped under my radar. Only discovered it for the first time a few years ago and it inspired me to make an 80s playlist featuring all those great tunes which I DIDN'T hear hundreds of times back in the day. Awesome song, and the title of that playlist. Salud!
Even after all these years, it's amazing how great this song is and always will be
Magical music of the great 80’s!