Cardiacs - Is This The Life (Official Video) [HQ]
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- This is the classic promo video for 1988's "Is This The Life" (from A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window). This is sourced from the highest quality VHS rip I've seen and is dubbed with a FLAC rip of the track from the ALMAAHATWWW CD.
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The most normal cardiacs song ever and it isn't normal
Haha exactly!
I was at work. It was Christmas 2010 and the local radio station was Linc's fm. Being in Lincoln...and they played this song. I was so excited
"Gena Lolla Brigida" is also a bit on the "normal" front. Of course, the normalcy's destroyed by "Hello Mr. Sparrow" right after it in the track listing.
haha so true
It's literally just a Cure song and sounds nothing like Cardiacs - Cure-diacs perhaps
That guitar solo is just like nothing else, just plain out of this world.
it is xxx
Awesome!!!!
Where he covers his ears because it's too cool is my favorite part.
@@trollfinger Another Mr bungle fan. We are not alone
@@madfrankiefraser2234 We are not. I saw Bungle in Tilburg last week and met a pondie in a Cardiacs shirt. I don't speak Dutch but I think he knew what i was saying.
Fortunate to experience Cardiacs at the Marquee a few times. Blew my mind then. Best live band I ever saw.
This is bloody brilliant. How has this band gone under the radar for god sake. The most underrated band ever. Weird and wonderful. R.I.P Tim Smith
Sorry I was unaware of this band.aybe because I'm 72 , but one listen to Is This The Life caught me off guard and had me do a repeat of it 4 times in a row
WOW!
Yo me too bro, wow!!!😊
Looks and sounds like the greatest goth band of all time that isn't considered goth. Wow. I'm 53 yrs old and never heard of this band until yesterday. I've been missing out on this most of my life. How have I never heard of this until now? But I do now have a new favorite band. That's rare at my age.
This is my first time hearing them.... I wonder why it has taken so long? I consider myself to be knowledgeable in all genres but missed Cardiacs
Wow
Exact. Same. Here. 48, never fucking heard of them. And I'm into plenty of obscure shit 😂
My neighbors hear me listening to this and ask," who is that? " I tell em and now they're telling all their people. And they're all black rap listeners. The fact that they could even like this blows my mind. Must be the sax.
Enjoy, you're in a good place now x
Just discovered these guys today. I don't know how I didnt catch them back then. It's all right up my alley.
Same
same
Should have been massive, bonkers but brilliant. Once described as a band that have more ideas in one song that most bands have in their entire career. Will forever love them, RIP Tim..too fucking early ☹
Everything about this resonates with me, the lyrics, the performance, how I’ve felt about my existence from a teenager and now in my 70’s. Tim Smith you are so missed but not misunderstood. RIP.
Best live band I’ve ever seen….absolutely no other band got near them they were bloody brilliant live
Totally agree
Never fails to amaze me how everything looks so out of place, but at the same time it all fits so perfectly; and none of it feels forced or contrived. It's simply incredible.
When you are this original, you pave while driving...
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I had the great pleasure of seeing The Cardiacs supporting Chumbawamba twenty-odd years ago (by accident)....but they were that good we went to see them at The Leopard in Doncaster at a later date....fabulous band !
I think I was there too-Town and Country club, or had it been renamed by then? One of the best gigs ever! Chumbas remain my fave band apart from Cardiacs (chumbas is what Tim called them-we were friends). Thanks for the reminder-I’d forgotten. Gutted about Tim….
What a great combination!
@@pamdoyle3459 You're right,it was the Town & Country,it's now O2. Fantastic venue,what a night !
I am sure my friend, Joy, who passed away in 1996 loved this band, I will love them now, too.
This band has existed most of my entire adult life (I’m fairly old) and I’ve only just discovered them? Brilliant stuff.
Amazing band there will never be another cardicas. R.i.p tim smith
This a hidden gem. Classic 80's heartfelt lyrics, keyboards, & sax solo 😂
Cardiacs - forever one of my very top bands .... Love them, especially Dirty Boy.
The greatest song ever written
A fantastic band. The fact the lead singer of Cardiacs died of a heart attack at only 59 seems like one of those strange tragic ironies of life that make me think we are either living in a simulation or god has a weird sense of humour.
Just like Otis dying in The Dock of a Bay, George Michael dying on Christmas Day, Prince in an elevator. It makes me wonder if Tim pissed anybody off in the music industry!
Justin Hawkins just brought me here!
Can't believe as a British musician I had not even heard of them before?
But then being the village loner might explain that.
But, decades later here I am, and in a different country.... Such a strong song!
Sort of The Cure meets Sound Garden... which boys and girls means there is no higher praise I could shower! 🏆🇬🇧
It never matters how or when you come to music. They seemed like a well guarded secret that was adored by their fans. I only heard of them after Tim died. But here we are enjoying it. Tarred and Feathered and that shed version of Pip as Uncle Dick but Peterspoiled it are a constant rotation for me. What a band!
sameeee
Justin brought me here as well!
Yay new old music!
Soundgarden?! but they were grunge/metal? I hear The Cure in there maybe?
I was scrolling on Google I've never heard of this band I'm 60 yrs old and listen to everything musical mostly a hard rock and metal lover but these fuckers are good glad I found them !!!
I know! Im 48 or 49, I can't fucking believe I've never come across them before. Brilliant beautiful music. I'm 48. I remembered 😂
I've always felt that cardiacs are for those people who feel pain. And when they feel pain they want to scream at the top of there lungs.
I saw this band live at the Marquee Club in London during the 1980's...absolutely brilliant!
Thrilled to have unlocked this band - I can hardly believe it exists. This music surely reverberates through spirit and body causing irreversible changes to our dna.
Can I quote you on that?
I went to Dingwalls sometime in the 1980s. Then this band (the Cardiacs) started playing. I was gob smackes. The sound they produced was just so unlike anything I had heard before, so unlike the other music of the time. I have not been to that many pop / rock concerts, but this was probably the best one I have ever been to. Entertaining, lots of inventiveness and creativity.
Saw them at the Marquee twice in the early 80s with my hippy/punk mates, awesome band.
This my friends is what's called ...Enlightenment ...
There's Cardiacs...and the rest! RIP Tim a true genius indeed!
I get a strong sense of rather self consciously sending up guitar heroics and big Guitar Rock Songs here, and paradoxically happening to be an utterly great Guitar Rock Song.
Tarred and feathered 1987 my memories chart show
One of those tracks that always does it for me. Epic!
I first saw this band in 1984 and several times after, yet until now have somehow still believed that Nirvana stole the LOUD quiet LOUD formula from Pixies. This was first, and should have been a huge hit.
First half: Song
Second half: Guitar
Mental, yet normal and utterly sublime! I love this song!
the guitar solo
❤❤❤
I've loved this song, constantly, for 36 years. Still sounds fresh ❤
Timeless.
I miss Cardiac gigs so much. Seeing them in Kilburn was always a treat.
Should have been a worlwide hit!
Im here because of Shane Embury. Timeless music this is. Love it!
RIP Tim Smith
An underreported fact about The Cardiacs is that they gave Neil Hamburger his start in showbusiness, seen here playing keyboards.
Good song
saw them in imperial uni in 1984, absotutely awesome
I keep coming back to this it’s superb
I really wish the full video was still on You Tube; that extra 2 minute outro is just stunning.
I know, that's what I was looking for.
czcams.com/video/UguOG0lNoQo/video.html the full version!
BRILLIANT!
Music so great 11 on the volume control and still you want more.
For some reason this band passed me by in the 80s.
Me too. Brilliant sound.👍
blame the music press who ignored them in favour of shite
Following around to see a life that's never in
Always calling itself on its own phone
Though its never quite at home in the world today
See it to arranging the day
Prepared in its own special way
With added loving care
Though its not been there since yesterday
Looking so hard for a cause
And it don't care what it is
And never really ever seeing eye to eye
Though it doesn't really mind
Perhaps that's why It never really saw
Never really saw
Saw
Never heard of them. Now glad I did.
Ha cardiacs,so happy i found u again!!! 🎸😁😁
Huuge Mr Bungle vibes and early Mike Patton in general. Genius work
Becouse Mike Patton likes Cardiacs
Yes. Egg
I love these guys . There ideas about music where brilliant.
Damn. Between all those circus prog nursery-rhyme shenanigans this looks pretty simple and radio friendly. But it's even more unsettling to me, I can't tell if they are laughing, crying, desperate, sarcastic, confused or all at once. Another band I discovered some 30 years too late. Now I know what the members of Mr Bungle or Primus could listen to.
Cardiacs were an influence to Mr Bungle and Faith no More.
Mike patton defo listened
Absolutely brilliant!
The video and song are equally captivating.
yup thanks to Justin Hawkins for the introduction to this. Great song that went totally under my radar. Guitar sounds reminds me of the mission or something
wonderful... i love the Cardiacs
Beautiful.
Haunting perfection from a lyrical lovely
This was 3-5 years ahead of its time, would've fit nicely into the whole BritPop / Grunge / AltRock scenes of the 90's
A perfect song
Thank God brothers for rock n roll . Please keep going for my life..great,great song. Great song among my dispear
The only band that realy matter's.
A wild and wondrous fever-dream.
Great band
Genius.
Love this song ❤️
IF you are going to make a band that puts out brilliant music - watch , learn and do it not to make money but just bring beautiful music to people - too little of that nowadays
Just had that convo with my wife about modern music. Most of what you hear has no soul and passion left. Its been replaced with greed and materialism.
Most the modern music that is good, you have to dig for
How many light years ahead of it's time?
Always loved The Cardiacs. Their live practice of 'Jibber & Twitch' is my favourite thing on the internet.
Thanks @jakezen72
Very much appreciated.
Just great. Didn't, don't the credit they deserve. John, RIP so wrong !
2:00 you can hear that typical siren 🚨 sound of the English 👮 fits extremely well and you can hum with it through the song
Awesome
I love you again ❤
I can see how this tune influenced many bands...
Me marcaron en los 80..❤
2:55 onwards... phenomenal guitar work.. reminds me of David Gilmour.
Tim Smith looked so charismatic
He was! I knew him-he was a gorgeous friend and human being. He would have been very open and friendly to you (assuming you’re a good person, which you obviously are). Miss him so much…
Not bad not bad stuff they came out around the same time Devo came out and that was the style of the music back then as well as the band The Cars then of course came Echo and the Bunnymen good music back then but that was the style back then
They're way better than any of their contemporaries, for realsies 😂
Where’s the rest?? Seriously, the end of this song is so important-and perfect. And someone’s cut it off??
Liverpool crazy house when you could get on stage for dancing ✌️❤️
Saw them twice,as bonkers as a Dickies gig!🏴
Very unique band, kind of punk-prog (if such genre exist)
Incredible how these nutters look so wrong but make the utmost beautiful grungy whallop ❤❤❤😊
one word God
either way, very, very good
The promo people dropped the ball on this band, their record company should have pushed these guys every chance they had, but instead they were left out in the weather, just like the video. If they had a little more promotion the history of rock n roll would be a little different. It is a shame they did not get to the ears of all the people who needed to hear them
Nice
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This song is timeless. 1988? It could almost be from 2028.
The keyboardist reminds me of the IT Crowd episode where Jen dates a hipster keyboardist.
Radio-activityyy...
I saw an alternative better video than this, years ago, on television, filmed in what looked like a factory and the band were on a moving platform. I wish I could find it but it appears to be lost.
If you find it-please let us know
i miss my wife
I miss her too
Hope you are okay mate.
So sad two members are dead :(.
the cure if it was good:
These guys you can tell did a decent amount of drugs😂😂
maybe 1985
Yeah it's sticky.
John Oliver's dad on keyboards?
Is this not a cure disintegration reference
this was over a year before disintegration
Nice song, but I hate the video.
Fast robert was my favourite tune for ages. But its all brilliant.