I produced and edited this video and 2 others for The Call. I love this post but it’s out of sync and drives me crazy. The little boy that appears in the video is Michael Been’s son Robert who is now the lead singer for the band Black Rebel Motorcycle club. Can’t believe how relevant these lyrics are 37 years later. LOVED THE CALL RIP MIchael Been
Be VERY proud of your work. This video will go down as an important piece of 20th Century culture for reasons I don't have time or health to explain. Thank you for coming forward some 37 years later. Brava! 👻
I heard it today (9/18/2022) at the grocery store. Great music is timeless. (ISTR that it made a bit of a comeback when the Berlin Wall collapsed 6 years later.)
Sorry man, this song was not about the Berlin Wall. Michael Been was a devout Christian, and this song references the walls of Jericho in the old testament ("they blew the horns".) The symbolism of those walls was that even though the Israelites were proficient warriors, the fortress city presented a new kind of anxiety, an impenetrable wall that could only be removed by God. This song was Michael's way of expressing his belief that even though you may be anxious about the current political climate, God is sovereign over all.
I remember noticing when I first saw the video back in 1983 or whenever it was, and it was only later that I read about his days with The Band and everything. It's really mind boggling to me, since I was born in 1973, what my entry point for a lot of that older classic stuff was (I guess it's all old now, but I mean old from the perspective of a 10 year old in 1983). Like you want to know what the first Paul McCartney songs I ever heard were? Silly Love Songs and Goodnight Tonight. I didn't even know who Paul McCartney was, as in one of the Beatles until he got busted in Japan in 1980. Up until I only knew him for those two songs.
I can see myself now on the dancefloor dancing to this and so many other wonderful songs of the 80s. So glad to be part of an unforgettable era of music
Those days are GONE !!! ....we are truly in the End Times ..... I'm trying to wrap my pathetic human brain around it and Get right with GOD ....hopefully its not too late !!!....
I saw this fabulous band at a small auditorium in Pasadena Ca. I won tickets on an L.A. radio station around 1983 when this album came out. A marvelous time was had by all!! 👍😊
I managed a live music venue in Springfield, MO in the mid-late 80s and was lucky to book them a few times, splendid musicians, and better humans. They always packed the 400-500 seat club, and left it all on the stage every performance
It's a standard 3 chord blues progression. Great bass playing that for sure. Been writes many The Call songs with 3 chords. It sounds easy enough - but it surely is NOT. Thanks for your comment @@tr1522
We also still have the Stone's 😛 This tune crosse's with "" Sympathy " and" Street Fighting man " Music that calls you out the boys at the so called top. One boy is in trouble now, . "You can't always get what you want" ,but we'll get who we need I guess 🙄😜❗
Sure sign of a song... that's more than just a song: it's decades old and the lyrics are so relevant that it could have "dropped," literally, yesterday. When this gem came out, I was 22 and didn't have a clue.. !
Being older already in the 80s (in my 30's).. this song was in constant rotation on MTV.. stuck in my head as it still does.. underated band.. scarry message.. great tune,,
Why would you say they are "underrated"? I see that extremely ridiculous word being used often. I sense who ever uses that word for posts are those who has nothing to say but would like to appear they are saying something. You know... an empty skull.
Sent to you from your friendly Russian internet trolls. Let The Day Begin is a better song from the Call ,,,if you can forget that it was Al Gore's campaign song !
What a GREAT GREAT song...1983...I was 14 yrs old & in 7th grade when this song came out. I thought it was such a GREAT song...I bought the cassette tape & a Sony Walkman at T.G.&Y. after saving my money from cutting grass. I think I paid around $25.00 or $30.00 for both... SONY WALKMAN'S WERE THE ABSOLUTE BOMB IN THE 80s!!! I practically wore out that cassette tape playing it over & over!!! This song brings back so many GREAT GREAT MEMORIES & SWEET REMINISCING TEARS!!! Much love from Mobile Alabama.
I am an old guy, but I some how missed this group in the 80's. I just happened to hear his song streaming music on the internet. I was convinced it was David Byrne's Talking Heads. I later found out it was The Call. Pleasantly surprised. I like them. Now I will listen to them more often, as I now know who they are.
Hi Kurtiss, thats a very interesting post. Can you please elaborate. I am a huge baseball fan and love this song. I also really like "Let The Day Begin" by The Call as that is an awesome song by The Call as well.
Today, August 15, 2019, some stray bit on social media put me in mind of this song. A song I loved when first it landed, and which I still do and always will. Significant.
Loved these guys. Like how Mike starts the video with a Telecaster, that magically transforms into the AK-47 of music, the Strat. RIP, Mike, great soul. I think of you everywhere I go.
I love the professor on keyboards saw them at my University around 1984. And I'll never forget before the show seeing the lead singer in the student union sitting there all alone watching television, I believe mtv to be exact. RIP buddy.
I was just vacuuming my house and listening to my 80's play list on my iPod. I had several The Call songs on there - including this one. I'm so sad to see that Michael passed away back in 2010! He was a really great songwriter, singer and guitar player. RIP Michael. 💞
June 1985, the Reality Weekend party on the lawn at St. John's College. We had a beer truck, I was drinking crap beer with with my future wife, and all of us were having a great time. Somebody threw this song on the turntable and it was a perfect moment.
Oh what a perfect example of conservative thinking... nothing is as good as when I was in my glory days. And Im not even going to try to understand anything new. Even more ironic that you love a song that dogs on corporate criminals, yet you proudly identify with a trump slogan.
@@Schombergski It really is an ignorant, mindless, but totally common act of extreme awareness deficit. How many more comments on old videos will have that same exact dumb comment? Like monkeys, these people. Always the "Those were REAL bands"...as if to say that "real" music didn't exist prior to the bands of their formative years, and certainly never came after. There is ONLY the time of their neurologically-hardwired music, and all else is garbage. LOL....way to sound like a grandfather, stuck in time. Sadly though, this reply to the original comment turned it into a left-vs-right thing. Almost equally as stupid.
I knew the song thanks to 80s MTV, but couldn't figure out what it was while watching the end of a Goldbergs episode tonight. They were only playing the (yah-yah-yah-yah) part lol. What a great jam!
Saw them live at Irvine Meadows back in 1984 when they were on tour for this album. They opened for The Fixx, if I remember correctly. What a great band to see live, very talented musicians!!!
Imagine having this type of music being put out nowadays instead of the commercialized french fried crap we have now. CZcams fought me all the way on typing this by the way.
right there with you... been trying to find this for so manny years .... and now at the end of time the walls are about to fall.... it turn up again may the gods have mercy on us
To me the cool factor on this video was high. Remember watching it on TV for the first time with my buddies in SoCal. We were young and immortal kings living in the happening place. Kings all the more because we ascented to the truth of "corporate criminals playing with tanks...boy, now we look back and see how far our society has sunk
There were a couple of deep cuts we used to play during sound check; Loudness' Never Change Your Mind and this. We got so many head nods and sing-alongs that we added both to our regular set. Great songs!
"I don't think there are any Russians and there aint no Yanks just corporate criminals playing with tanks" A line that transcends time!
✨🌌🎶✌😊I read this just as the song came to those lyrics,
nice synch!🌌✨
Spot on lyrics because they're true!
Wake up! ❤❤❤❤
Especially with all these "wars" going on now 😓🕊️
I don't think I can dance to this. Lol. So true. Terrorists playing on fears. USA
I produced and edited this video and 2 others for The Call. I love this post but it’s out of sync and drives me crazy. The little boy that appears in the video is Michael Been’s son Robert who is now the lead singer for the band Black Rebel Motorcycle club. Can’t believe how relevant these lyrics are 37 years later. LOVED THE CALL RIP MIchael Been
So what do you think of Bruce Springsteens new song "Ghosts?" The riff sounds sooooo similar.
@@theresaq8321 I thought so too. Especially the end. I thought it was just me that noticed! Thanks for writing.
@@juanitadiana I am glad that a pro noticed it too. I ain't mad: they are both great songs about different matters. Nevertheless....
Be VERY proud of your work.
This video will go down as an important piece of 20th Century culture for reasons I don't have time or health to explain.
Thank you for coming forward some 37 years later.
Brava!
👻
Excellent work on the video. These lyrics are so preciant. Do you remember working with them? Always thought they were underrated.
40 years later and this song still sounds soo good.
And it couldn't be more relevant to today.
So true!
This is what pop could have been.
It is an added treat to see Garth Hudson from The Band working the keyboards on this song.
@@scotte3838Click on Garth's name in the Band listing then look under
The Band Reformed
1980s-1990s.
I've loved this song since it came out. I didn't know Garth was playing the great organ part.
Looks like a professor
Thank you for pointing that out. All these years, and I never knew. ❤
Remember when music was good?
Always loved this song! I’m 76 and still listen to it at least once a week! 👍🏻☮✌🏻
I’m 72 but love dancing to this song 😊💯🇦🇺
I luved it then I luv it now
@@marilyntape508 If they knew it was a Christian band do you think mtv would have played it? 🔥 👑 🕊
That and "Let the Day Begin".
@@marksimons9359good question. I'd like to think they would.
One of the most Underrated Bands of all time.
Garth Hudson on keyboards is Awesome!
Garth is a bona fide Hall of Famer! Take that for what the HOF is worth, but The Band are are one of the greats!
Hell yeah he is
Peaked at just No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983. Great song, should’ve been a MUCH bigger hit.
We played the heck out of this at my record store
Yep. Play it about. 120.dB. Around a fire 🔥 pit. With the best company. No. Rules. 🤪✈️🏏🤪👠🐺👠🎩
I heard it today (9/18/2022) at the grocery store. Great music is timeless. (ISTR that it made a bit of a comeback when the Berlin Wall collapsed 6 years later.)
I agree! Great song!
It was likely too political and the band relatively unknown still in the States - incredible song.
Still sounds fresh as in 2024 cheers from Australia
Hi - 2023 here checking in ! 40yrs *freaking* later, and this song is equally relevant NOW as it was then.. Just amazing how TIMELESS this is !
"They all just stood there laughing, they're not laughing anymore"
It's 2018- and this song is more relevant than ever. RIP Michael
More relevant than ever. It was taped at the Agora Ballroom in New Haven, CT. Pat Benatar played there a lot .
wen budro Boy, and how! I was just listening to this song (before coming to CZcams) - and I was thinking the exact same thing!
No doubt brother....let's end this fascist shit.
You are an idiot, the wall was the Berlin wall in Germany. Reagan got the wall taken down-we need a wall at the Mexican border!
Sorry man, this song was not about the Berlin Wall. Michael Been was a devout Christian, and this song references the walls of Jericho in the old testament ("they blew the horns".) The symbolism of those walls was that even though the Israelites were proficient warriors, the fortress city presented a new kind of anxiety, an impenetrable wall that could only be removed by God. This song was Michael's way of expressing his belief that even though you may be anxious about the current political climate, God is sovereign over all.
I always loved the band Big Country along with The Call.
I agree this was back when MTV actually provided what it was supposed to.
Big Country was awesome!
I don't even know what kind of crap MTV is churning out these days and I don't care to find out.
One of the greatest under-rated bands.
Christian bands Amen 🔥 👑 🕊
Garth Hudson of THE BAND on Keys with The Call..
THANK GOD someone else noticed that!
I thought that was him!
@@susanmcnally6356 Me too, so cool!
Thought so
I remember noticing when I first saw the video back in 1983 or whenever it was, and it was only later that I read about his days with The Band and everything. It's really mind boggling to me, since I was born in 1973, what my entry point for a lot of that older classic stuff was (I guess it's all old now, but I mean old from the perspective of a 10 year old in 1983). Like you want to know what the first Paul McCartney songs I ever heard were? Silly Love Songs and Goodnight Tonight. I didn't even know who Paul McCartney was, as in one of the Beatles until he got busted in Japan in 1980. Up until I only knew him for those two songs.
brings tears to my eyes every time i think of the 80s and the amazing warm summer nights dancing and hanging with friends at the lake.
I can see myself now on the dancefloor dancing to this and so many other wonderful songs of the 80s. So glad to be part of an unforgettable era of music
@Cosmic Apostate I have no issue with Santa…or God. But I know who the enemy is…
i totaly agree ..what a great decade
I was actually on the dance floor when they played at the agora ballroom in New Haven, CT.
@@robert9783 Good times for sure. Lots of great shows at the ballroom for sure. Take care
Those days are GONE !!! ....we are truly in the End Times ..... I'm trying to wrap my pathetic human brain around it and Get right with GOD ....hopefully its not too late !!!....
Always loved this song, never gets old
Hauntingly timely, yes?
I saw this fabulous band at a small auditorium in Pasadena Ca. I won tickets on an L.A. radio station around 1983 when this album came out. A marvelous time was had by all!! 👍😊
I managed a live music venue in Springfield, MO in the mid-late 80s and was lucky to book them a few times, splendid musicians, and better humans. They always packed the 400-500 seat club, and left it all on the stage every performance
I am a child of the 80's. Graduated in 1982 and was an MTV junkie as soon as it was out there! Always loved this song!
Class of 82. We are starting to get old now. Last generation of REAL MUSIC.
Ima graduate of 84 so I loved the hey day of new wave songs that generated from mtv, & this was one of em. Love it still
I'm class of 1984. This song makes me feel like I'm living in the Los Angeles Valley where I was born and raised.
1987!
Same here 😁. Was a great era.
This song has aged really well!
That bass is just a kicker.
I forgot how much I loved this song.
I never forgot.
A little hint, don't forget the things that have meaning in your life, when you do, you are DEAD.
Definitive proof that you can write a truly great song and wake the world up with 3 chords. But then again Been is a genius songsmith.
the bass carries the song.....I don't think he was just playing 3 chords....
It's a standard 3 chord blues progression. Great bass playing that for sure. Been writes many The Call songs with 3 chords. It sounds easy enough - but it surely is NOT. Thanks for your comment @@tr1522
2020 who is with me. Covid 19 and Race riots but damn we still have this song.
We also still have the Stone's 😛 This tune crosse's with "" Sympathy " and" Street Fighting man " Music that calls you out the boys at the so called top. One boy is in trouble now, . "You can't always get what you want" ,but we'll get who we need I guess 🙄😜❗
@Dale Cooper Fuck off.
Dian Cecht You fuck off, because he’s probably right.
I'm with ya. Who knew this song was a story about 2020?
hold the door
My God, a third of a century ago. Rest well, Michael.
He's still alive
Mtv lives on in my mind, with this song and others playing in the background. High School was a magical time.
And the walls came down....
I heard this on the radio this morning and had to come here to hear to again!
36 years and absolutely nothing has changed.
its actually gotten worse in many ways
I miss this sound as much as I miss my youth. 40 years later, wow!!!
“They’re not laughing anymore.”
Have a blessed Easter.
Hi Whitehurstcomic, yes Joshua is a very important person in Old Testament history.
Washington flooding 🤔
I was 10 when this was released and I can vividly remember this on MTV. Still such a great song and an underrated band..
We had meaningful music. Great Bands. Great movies. We were independent. Reckless. Strong. Self aware. We are Timeless We are Gen X
What a super super song. This is what the 80s was all about !😝😝😝😝
There are Russians there are yanks there are corporate criminals playing with tanks !
Sure sign of a song... that's more than just a song: it's decades old and the lyrics are so relevant that it could have "dropped," literally, yesterday. When this gem came out, I was 22 and didn't have a clue..
!
2021 and it is more relevant now .
Straight up Victor. Shalom!
@@victorwaddell6530 2022 and more relevant still.
@@rajnimsg7816 Shalom !
@@dogslobbergardens6606 Sure is .
Being older already in the 80s (in my 30's).. this song was in constant rotation on MTV.. stuck in my head as it still does.. underated band.. scarry message.. great tune,,
Why would you say they are "underrated"? I see that extremely ridiculous word being used often. I sense who ever uses that word for posts are those who has nothing to say but would like to appear they are saying something. You know... an empty skull.
@@hankgarza4975talk about empty skulls.. you got nothing better to do then write this crap?.. you mad at the world or something?..
Is the song about the fall of Jericho?😊🇦🇺
I LOVE "The Walls Came Down" The Call were a great band!
"I don't think there are any Russians
And there ain't no yanks
Just corporate criminals
Playin' with tanks."
Truer words were never sung.
Send that to the Democrats
And the republicans too.
Drain that swamp !
Every bit as relevant today as it was 35 years ago, if not more so.
Sent to you from your friendly Russian internet trolls. Let The Day Begin is a better song from the Call ,,,if you can forget that it was Al Gore's campaign song !
The bass on this is awesome 👏
Love to see Garth Hudson playing on this! Never noticed it was him back when the video came out
What a GREAT GREAT song...1983...I was 14 yrs old & in 7th grade when this song came out.
I thought it was such a GREAT song...I bought the cassette tape & a Sony Walkman at T.G.&Y. after saving my money from cutting grass. I think I paid around $25.00 or $30.00 for both...
SONY WALKMAN'S WERE THE ABSOLUTE BOMB IN THE 80s!!!
I practically wore out that cassette tape playing it over & over!!!
This song brings back so many GREAT GREAT MEMORIES & SWEET REMINISCING TEARS!!!
Much love from Mobile Alabama.
AMEN 🙂🥰
Saw them at the Cleveland Agora in the early 80's after this came out. Awesome afternoon to skip school.
Saw the Call 3 times in concert. Have their entire record collection in cds and vinyl. RIP Michael Been.
One of my all time favorite bands. RIP Michael Been.
Ya ya ya yaaa ya ya yaaaa!
Sing it out loud my brothers!
My heart just aches for this music and those times!
My favourite gospel song!
RIP Michael Been..you were class of the first division..
I am an old guy, but I some how missed this group in the 80's. I just happened to hear his song streaming music on the internet. I was convinced it was David Byrne's Talking Heads. I later found out it was The Call. Pleasantly surprised. I like them. Now I will listen to them more often, as I now know who they are.
I got a chance to see them live at Shank Hall in Milwaukee in the 90's and hadn't realized how many of their great songs they had.
OMG the commercial MTV first? GAH!! :) xxoo this song is SO RIGHT NOW!
I first heard this song in a used record store. I asked the clerk about the song and bought the record that day. Huge fan of this band.
Amazing song! I’m in my 50’s loved this song the first time I heard it and still love it!
Hell yeah!
7th grade for me.
Fantastic song !
I think we hung out in the day, what a great time girl.
@@hankgarza4975 really! Lowell High School in Lowell, MA?
Heavy rotation in my college bar days.
It's 2021, still relevant as ever.
Back when music mattered as well as a good sports jacket.
True story: Michael Been was a terrific baseball coach. RIP Michael, thanks for the music.
Hi Kurtiss, thats a very interesting post. Can you please elaborate. I am a huge baseball fan and love this song. I also really like "Let The Day Begin" by The Call as that is an awesome song by The Call as well.
@@philipmedley5680 that is my all time favorite song. this comes in a close second third.
Today, August 15, 2019, some stray bit on social media put me in mind of this song. A song I loved when first it landed, and which I still do and always will. Significant.
@Katherine Brennan, in 2019 it's still relevant.
Loved these guys. Like how Mike starts the video with a Telecaster, that magically transforms into the AK-47 of music, the Strat. RIP, Mike, great soul. I think of you everywhere I go.
I love the professor on keyboards saw them at my University around 1984. And I'll never forget before the show seeing the lead singer in the student union sitting there all alone watching television, I believe mtv to be exact. RIP buddy.
I was just vacuuming my house and listening to my 80's play list on my iPod. I had several The Call songs on there - including this one. I'm so sad to see that Michael passed away back in 2010! He was a really great songwriter, singer and guitar player. RIP Michael. 💞
Pure 80s Cold War art. Love it. I was there. Sophomore in college.
June 1985, the Reality Weekend party on the lawn at St. John's College. We had a beer truck, I was drinking crap beer with with my future wife, and all of us were having a great time. Somebody threw this song on the turntable and it was a perfect moment.
1983 so long ago. There are not bands this good not anymore. I miss this band
Make America Great Again I was a Sr. or Junior when this came out.
Mueller ain't going away.....conviction one. Manafort.
Oh what a perfect example of conservative thinking... nothing is as good as when I was in my glory days. And Im not even going to try to understand anything new.
Even more ironic that you love a song that dogs on corporate criminals, yet you proudly identify with a trump slogan.
@@Schombergski It really is an ignorant, mindless, but totally common act of extreme awareness deficit. How many more comments on old videos will have that same exact dumb comment? Like monkeys, these people. Always the "Those were REAL bands"...as if to say that "real" music didn't exist prior to the bands of their formative years, and certainly never came after. There is ONLY the time of their neurologically-hardwired music, and all else is garbage. LOL....way to sound like a grandfather, stuck in time. Sadly though, this reply to the original comment turned it into a left-vs-right thing. Almost equally as stupid.
@@Bhatt_Hole fair enough.
OMG Brings back memories I remember this when I was a kid Still good after all these years
I knew the song thanks to 80s MTV, but couldn't figure out what it was while watching the end of a Goldbergs episode tonight. They were only playing the (yah-yah-yah-yah) part lol. What a great jam!
Major awesome and memorable and magical!
Just sent it was such a simple time back then just wanna go back and stay there
MTV was a great gateway to some awesome music. To bad its not so good anymore.
FUN FACT: That's the one and only Garth Hudson on the Wurlitzer organ, ex- member of The Band!!
So many memories. I was a sophomore in 83. Love this song!
Saw them live at Irvine Meadows back in 1984 when they were on tour for this album. They opened for The Fixx, if I remember correctly. What a great band to see live, very talented musicians!!!
They didn't play Irvine Meadows in 1984 but they did play the Greek.
Still a killer song in 2020.
Still killer in 2023.
@@l.fabulous8035 Amen 👑
His guitar magically turns from a Telecaster to a Stratocaster. The two greatest guitars.
I didn’t notice till now! Good eye
My favorite song!!!!!
Garth!! The man, the myth, the legend.
I loved this song when it came out in 83 ... .... so much more relevant now in 2023
Corporate criminals playing with tanks.........
@@markm7499 I didn't understand that line when this song came out in the 80s. I sure understand it now.
Brilliant, prophetic song!
I've always enjoyed there music ! Thks guys. Semper fi my friends.
This song sunk into me I was born in 1966.
Now I can see clearly how beyond their time “the Call “ was and IS
Damn good song...
Sad how far Mtv has fallen...
Rock is dead!
Swordsquire today's music is awful.
Definitely not music television. It’s the full of crap station now.
@@Jointsnroaches06-15
MTV...Manure Television
That's Garth from The Band?!?!?! Mind blown
Great song from an awe as one band! Love how they got Orson Wells for the keyboards. 😊
Imagine having this type of music being put out nowadays instead of the commercialized french fried crap we have now. CZcams fought me all the way on typing this by the way.
Nearly 40 years later, still a great song. And yet the thing I remember most about Michael Been--the best baseball coach in Lafayette Little League.
What a nice memory, and a touching tribute to a friend...thanks for that.
some of the best bass playing I have ever seen.
Greg Freeman. The best
It's essentially the Peter Gunn riff.
That last line says it all!
My favorite 80s song
I've had this song stuck i my head for 37 years and finally finally I heard it on sirius xm new wave... AMAZING song.
right there with you... been trying to find this for so manny years .... and now at the end of time the walls are about to fall.... it turn up again may the gods have mercy on us
Really, it took sirius to hear this, I've been jamming with it since the day it came out, its all over the place, where do you live Fallon, Nevada?
@@mikkelharkes for sure with the Communists running around burning down cities, killing and stealing (BLM and Antifa)
Great alternative rock song! Should've been a bigger hit on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts.
To me the cool factor on this video was high. Remember watching it on TV for the first time with my buddies in SoCal. We were young and immortal kings living in the happening place. Kings all the more because we ascented to the truth of "corporate criminals playing with tanks...boy, now we look back and see how far our society has sunk
2021 This still means what it meant. WALK
God bless Michael Been!
As underrated bands go The Call has to be right up there, shame because they were one of the best that came out of the 80s.
Simple minds using this for their forthcoming new album this October.
I actually play in a band with the drummer Scott Musick! Feel very blessed! He’s also a dear friend!
There were a couple of deep cuts we used to play during sound check; Loudness' Never Change Your Mind and this. We got so many head nods and sing-alongs that we added both to our regular set. Great songs!
Listening in 2018!
Simple Minds still singing this in soundchecks....on their current tour and I know because I was at one the other week. A classic.
I’ve listed to this song for 40yrs and I just noticed he switches from a Telecaster guitar to a Stratocaster, during the song, after the last chorus.
thanks for this whoop whoop absolutely