IT's STILL Great! Hâve you Travelled throughout North America much? We'ré Cosmopolitan YES, but SAFE for Our Size with LOTS TO DO! Great location Today for many Road Trips of FUN FAMILY Events, Too!
@@jeffreybarkin3177 Dream on...plenty of places in North America that are safer, nicer, better maintained. Toronto has been driven into the ground the past few decades. Wake wakey!
I loved the 80s still love the Spoons today. Im 51 now listening to all this brings me back to when i would rush home to watch Toronto Rocks with JD Roberts and John Major on CityTv
My 8th grade class in Timmins, Ont. went on a trip to Toronto in '81; omgggg the memories, what a time, Toronto, this music 🎶 I'm so happy I was a teen then ❤️❤️❤️
This is such a nostalgic video for me. As a kid in Toronto in the 70s and 80s it was always a big deal to see those old red subway cars... and it was sad to watch them slowly disappear. I remember the lights would flicker in them as they bumped along the tracks. It was equally sad to see the whistlemen replaced by electronic chimes. I loved this song as a teen. It's such a distant memory, it seems like a different life.
I well remember those red trains too...the seats were red leather, the windows could open and the lights flickered and were incandescent rather than florescent. The last one was pulled from service in 1990. I used to ride them downtown to work in the 80s.
The lights would flicker every time they crossed another set of tracks. They also had those grips for people standing that would spring back when not being used.
You can still ride the old red streetcars. In San Francisco the F-Line street car route uses historic street cars from around the world. They have a red TTC one.
Back in the 80s Toronto music scene was incredible. Headpins, Platinum Blonde, Toronto, Lee Aaron, FM, Spoons, David Wilcox, Coney Hatch, Honeymoon Suite, Rush, Saga...to name a few. Fond memories of the Diamond Club, Tony's East.
I too lived in Western NY, and was a proud listener of CFNY. I remember all the great music that was played, especially by The Spoons. What a great plethora of bands from Canada eh? This genre of music helped to shape my life, my beliefs, and who I am today. I loved the 80's
You are awesome coming from New York state and I'm from western Canada the province of British Columbia a few thousand miles away and across the border pfft this sucks totally///:)
The 80s was such a fun decade! Full of great times and music as well!! The Spoons were definitely a part of it! I remember them in concert one night at Ryerson! Still listening to these nostalgic tunes in 2022
I remember walking out of the subway one day in 1982 and 6 young punkettes were sitting on the ground at the entrance singing ‘Shout’, by TFF, at the top of their voices. Pure joy, no inhibitions and everyone just smiled at their youthful exuberance. Good times, great music.
I love this song! just watched The Spoons play at a New Years Eve party at the elMocambo!...What a Blast!!! Cheers to 2023🥂Do do do do do do do do!....:)
I’m not sure I can say I have a favourite Canadian band, there were so many greats. Payolas will be my favourite and I listen until I need a change, Trooper next until I need something different to hear, Spoons, Haywire, Triumph, and so on
One of my favourite songs...little back story... I was working at TSN in the 90s. An intern & I had been flirting intensely. We were driving to an event... he was following me & he rear ended my car, and this song became the "theme song" for our brief office romance ... always makes me smile!
Woke up this morning with this song rattling in my head for some reason, haven't heard it in years. Love it, really is a timeless classic. Going thru the comments. I ride that subway all the time, and have since the 70's, so much has changed and so much hasn't. The yellow tiles are still at Yonge-Bloor, but just for the east-west line. The fluted aluminum columns that Sandy Horne walks around are still there just as you come out to the north-south platform at Yonge-Bloor, but the tiles are changed to white now. No more red cars, but the new ones are great open all the way from nose to tail of the train. People are the same, just different fashions.
Produced by Nile Rodgers (up all night to get lucky, David Bowie - Lets Dance, Diana Ross, etc.). That guy is a genius. He actually passed-up on producing Culture Club's next album to work on this Spoon's album, because he thought The Spoons were a better band.
I lived in Toronto for six+ years and I rode the TTC subway so much. What a great way it was to get around the most awesome city in the world. I go there still at least 3-4 times a year and always have my mp3 filled songs of the 70s and 80's and downtown is the best place to listen to them. Timeless memories of an incredible musical era.
I have a special place in my heart for these rockin Canadian bands from the 60's and 70's. I was fortune to grow up in Western New York just over the boarder so I could pick up Canadian radio stations out of Toronto and Hamilton. Great music!
A sweet 80's tune! I grew up in Toronto and remember the subway from that time. I love the part of the video with the Bloor St. Viaduct over the Don Valley.
Thank you. I was searching my memory of where there subways lines were passing. Pretty sure I saw St Clair west . Use to pass threw there everyday when I lived on Bathurst and St Clair. Many years ago
I grew up near the border listening to TO's CFTR & CFNY...this brings back nice memories...the TTC...Ride the Rocket,etc... You Canadians were always one step ahead...
I used to love opening the windows on them, too. I still remember the pressure on the ears as it headed south from St. Clair West to Dupont going from the square into the round tunnel. I forgot about the lights going out. I also missed the other cars (which had the orange/tan vinyl seats). They had a bit of a hum to them as they pulled into and out of the stations.
@@Bradat26 lol you could open the windows?!!!! How wide? Why did the lights turn off? I noticed that in this vid. my 1st subway ride was in '88 but I don't remember the red trains.
1984...... One of the best years for music in the 80s and this song was one of the best examples. 1984.... One with many happy memories for me. Good GOD, I was 22! ( Getting a little misty here lol ). I feel very lucky to have been in my 20s in that decade. Awesome music that will stay with me til the end. Go out smiling I say!
Finch station boy here. Grew up in North York and I Lived at the end of the line. Haven't lived in Canadá for years now, the old red subway cars bring back memories, as do the Spoons.
I remember this song, when i was a child growing up here in Toronto, if you look at 1:30-1:31, theres the TTC operator with the whistle, any Torontonian living or growing up in the 80s here would remember men like him would tell that the subway is leaving by blowing his whistle, before the noise on the subway door came, does anyone remember those TTC conductors and whistles?
I only vaguely remember the red cars, but I do remember the conductors and their whistles! This post really brought me back.Toronto in the 80s was a golden period - the TTC functioned like clock-work, the city was cleaner and well-run, and there weren't condos going up on every vacant piece of land. I wanna go back!! Thanks to dcappe for posting and for the memories!
I definitely remember them! By 1990 they were out. Whenever a red train came into the station, it was "Oh no, it's a red train, it's going to screw up somehow". The lights would often go out!
This song is above all, one of the best ever made by Canada's own, the Spoons! When I first heard this song on the radio, I was literally blown away. The video is incredible, man! Filmed in a subway station in Toronto somewhere! Just fantastic! Keep up the great work.
I love this song, this band, this video, and the fact it was shot on the TTC with a bunch of extra random people. It's so much fun and you know they were probably just grabbed and asked: "Hey wanna be in a video?" It's 2021 and this is still on my playlist.
This reminds me of my first wife and I miss her and her family I lived in Winnipeg from 1982-1995 and loved this so many Great Canadian Bands it’s a pity the world didn’t get to hear so many of the 80’s and 90’s Canadian Bands And Artists
I remember 'Live' Earl Jive and the Dave 'Mars Bar' Marsden playing this on 102.1 during my formative years. Living in WNY, I loved, loved, LOVED the Toronto, Mississaugua, and Hamilton radio stations -- so much better than the pablum the local (Buffalo) stations played: I'm looking at you, 97-Rock and WNYS! All grown up, now, and living in San Jose, CA -- I'd love to have this re-released, and see Sandy, Gordon, and the rest get a resurgence and get the exposure and credit they deserve.
As a kid, I remember rolling down a subway train window that was unlatched, and felt the wind over my face with the flickering indoor lights. So much instant nostalgia.
Amen. Kids today have no real concept of anything. They got no clue what they're missing out on in the real world. You can't make memories by being stuck to your hand held devices all day and night long.
Yep, parties now (if you call them that) involve people talking and looking at their phones every few seconds. Back then we were too busy keeping the bonfire going, finding the next beer hidden in the woods from the police and who to shag that night.
Time to toss those phones into the bonfire ! I miss those parties. We used to have a place in a secluded area next to the woods. There was a nice clearing and there was a cornfield next to it. We made a trail for escaping, and one that was a false trail where the cops would wind up getting lost if they chased us. My buddy took his quad and made the cop trail and it went in circles. But luckily we never had to use it. People knew better not to act a fool. My favorite place was "The Metro". It was a video arcade that had bands on the weekends. It was wonderful times there. Especially the tailgate parties before the shows. I miss the 80s.
Whenever I hear this song I think of a cute redhead A&W manager that worked at Square 1, Mississauga. I used to see her every weekday morning on my way to work. Me in my wabbit, her in her little red Fiero. I used to try to stay close enough that I could always see her car. Romantic traffic that never got further then ordering a Moza Burger.
Now THATS 80's spirit bro :). I think life never changes though..you made me think of Bob Seger's Main Street. Also Everything but the Girls's Miss You
This video makes me feel so nostalgic. I lived in Toronto in the 80's and use to ride the subway countless times to get all over the city. I was at the Main St. station and I remember that section that goes outside for a bit. I would do the exact same thing as in the video, lean up against the window and ponder about my life and the future.
Taking the Danforth 113 from Main St. into the bowls of Scarborough after spending yet another night prowling the arcades and pizza joints of Yonge St. and all over downtown. The 80's and Toronto--what a time it was to be young and alive!
Dawes 23 after spending too late a night downtown. Was down in the States at a boarding school at the time, and only got back home 4 times a year, so I wasn't able to do that all too often. Now, all the arcades are gone, so too most of the old pizza joints, and there is hardly any reason from our youths to go back down these days.
Same here. I lived in Brampton and being in the city just felt like I was out on a big adventure. So much to see and do...so many cool sights and sounds...all I wanted to do was figure out a way to live down there so I could be a part of it 24/7.
This was filmed in Toronto Gordon Deppe Vocals, Guitar Sandy Horne Vocals, Bass Rob Preuss Electronic Keyboards and Piano Derrick Ross Drums. Derrick Ross born a triplet Rod's sister played in the video... They were all from Burlington Ont Canada & went to Nelson High School together
@@23Fibonacci I always wondered what was the story with the red subway cars too. I though it was a sign of good luck when a red subway train pulled into Pape station. Lol, but then, I was just a kid.
There is a train museum in Milton Ontario! They have one red car on display, and you can go inside! Relive those times....simpler times before we became slaves to our own devices.
I remember seeing them filming a part of this video at Sheppard station (at Yonge). I asked a crew member what high school they went to! Lol. I thought this was part of a high school film project!! Didn’t recognize the artists, although I had seen them perform many times at the now defunct Ontario Place Forum. Saw the Spoons perform last at CNE Bandshell in 2016. Love this song. Miss the 80s. The hair. The old subway cars. Still taking the subway. Way more traffic in 2020. What a beautiful throwback.
I was born in 79 and I remember when i was a little boy about 6 or 7 i was fascinated with the whole subway system. My grandpa would used to take me for rides on the trains just cuz i loved it. I remember refusing to get on the train until a red subway came.. ahh brings a tear to my eye i love u grandpa rip !!
Quite possibly the loveliest piece of Canadiana ever captured in music video form. Now I suddenly have this urge to go to the concession stand at Bloor station and rhythmically point at packages of Certs....
It's 1989 and I'm riding the TTC to the downtown core. Stopping at Queen to pick up comic stuff at Silver Snail. Hitting the sketchy arcades and Sam's on Yonge Street. Walking over the Kensington Market to check out the vintage stores and food stalls. Okay I'm gonna go cry now.
I have the bass she was playing in this video, owned it since 1991. It's a 1 of 3 custom Spector NS-2 she had built for her. in the early 80's :) I love Sandy Horne.
I never thought I'd say it but I miss the '80s. Great memories. Music, big hair and all. I remember seeing the Spoons in '84 at Harbourfront. If anyone can believe it they opened for Brian Mulroney. Cheers!
My daughter Christina loves this song (almost as much as I love her). When she, and her fraternal twin sister, were in high school (2000’s) the deal was I drive to and from school only if I control the car tunes. My tough love forced my gals to experience the ultimate real music; being that of my ge-ge-generation (The Who, kid) ; and Romantic Traffic (Spoons) was just one such song, from the tail-end of that rock’n big bang. Chris has great music taste (thanks to me?). What I never told Chris was that, to really get this tune, one must have rode the subways during one’s early young adult years of “romantic traffic.” I also never told her that I rode the subways of Manhattan, Montreal, Toronto, London, and Paris (in that order) while I was a single young man (in a three-piece suit), through early marriage (still in suits). Lucky me! Why? Because, to love this song for what it is, is simply enough; no subway needed.
One of my all time favorite videos. They were great in concert, sat in the front row back in 1982 or 1983. Sandy Horne was a beaut. I love the video...reminding me of the TTC 30 years ago.
Ever since I read Gordon Deppe's (the lead singer) excellent book about the Spoons/his life, I cannot look at this video the same. Apparently, this video was shot not long after he and Sandy Horne (the lovely gal/base player in the band) had mutually ended a long term, romantic relationship. So he said making this video was rather sad/melancholy for him (I assume the same for her as well). I used to think it was a happy video...not for me any longer. Still a very nice song though, a refreshingly simple idea for a video and I Iived in T.O. for a few years around that time - so it brings back memories of the subway.
I heard Sandy talking about the breakup on Behind The Vinyl a week before they shot the video...and you're right it does change the tone of the video. I had the biggest crush on Sandy back in the day (who didn't?). She had such a young, fresh and energetic look with her unique hairstyles and just her cute way of lookin'. Hearing about their split made me think back to Stevie Nicks & Lindsay Buckingham in Fleetwood...and how two people integral to a group broke up yet managed to remain together as artists.
@@SilentKnight43 Sandy & Gord's split was waaaay more amicable than Stevie & Lindsay (if you get a chance to watch footage from Fleetwood Mac concerts in the 80s, you'll see what I mean!
So many memories when I hear this... I was raised near Toronto and knew all these locations as a kid. Different feeling about it now with these lyrics in my head as an adult...
I grew up near the Donlands subway station and I used to love riding the subways on cloudy or cold winter days you could ride the thing all day on one Fair I remember it being something like $0.90 back in the late seventies and eighties this video Harkins me back to those days.
This video makes me long for Toronto. I remember those formative days as being some of the best moments of my life. The film festival, the wonderful music scene, ect ect. Incredible days for sure...
Does anyone remember the giant aircraft called a Lancaster down at Lake Shore Blvd, near Ontario Place? It's been gone for decades...I also remember a tank there too...? Is it just me or has time changed too much? (I hope the HMCS Haida is still (dry-docked) there?). I got these flashes of giant padded shoulders, those baby safety pins with beads and letters on running shoe laces, and lace gloves for women (like Madonna had one time), Cougar winter boots, North Star running shoes, the Blizzard!
I played in a band that opened for the Spoons three different times. I had to stay deliberately calm in front of my singer boyfriend because I knew she was better looking than me lol
Toronto in the 80's was a great place to be.
Trying to be Morrissey? Lol
Absolutely!
Yeah
Not if you played for the Leafs lol...Jk
@@sandie302 lmao. That's actually hilarious. Happy New Year!
Toronto in the 80's. Send me back, please! What a beautiful fun time that was.
A great song from a time period when Toronto was a great city.
ohhhh if i miss it !😔
Ya, the hood now
IT's STILL Great!
Hâve you Travelled throughout North America much?
We'ré Cosmopolitan YES, but SAFE for Our Size with LOTS TO DO!
Great location Today for many Road Trips of FUN FAMILY Events, Too!
@@jeffreybarkin3177 Been all over the world, and the crime stats show your statement to be factually incorrect.
@@jeffreybarkin3177 Dream on...plenty of places in North America that are safer, nicer, better maintained. Toronto has been driven into the ground the past few decades. Wake wakey!
I'm proud to say that the pianist for the Spoons Rob Preuss is my UNCLE! A great song, a great band, and I have a talented UNCLE 😎😎💙💙👑🙏🎵🎶🥄🥄
❤
That's so sweet. I'm really happy for you. It's nice to see families who feel that way about each other. We need more of those.
I meet him in Calgary when he performed at an all teen club. They were so good live...
Good looking talented uncle you have. We are about the same age. I wish he would have stayed in the band.
Ki ki ki ki ki..😊😊
I sure miss my Toronto back then. I'm glad I got to see it in the 70s and 80s. And love the Spoons on the TTC!
I loved the 80s still love the Spoons today. Im 51 now listening to all this brings me back to when i would rush home to watch Toronto Rocks with JD Roberts and John Major on CityTv
My 8th grade class in Timmins, Ont. went on a trip to Toronto in '81; omgggg the memories, what a time, Toronto, this music 🎶 I'm so happy I was a teen then ❤️❤️❤️
This is such a nostalgic video for me. As a kid in Toronto in the 70s and 80s it was always a big deal to see those old red subway cars... and it was sad to watch them slowly disappear. I remember the lights would flicker in them as they bumped along the tracks. It was equally sad to see the whistlemen replaced by electronic chimes. I loved this song as a teen. It's such a distant memory, it seems like a different life.
I well remember those red trains too...the seats were red leather, the windows could open and the lights flickered and were incandescent rather than florescent. The last one was pulled from service in 1990. I used to ride them downtown to work in the 80s.
Great memories of an incredible time to live in Toronto! I remember the old red subway cars too, I think you could open the windows on them?
@@Busbybeats Yes, you could. Cheers.
The lights would flicker every time they crossed another set of tracks. They also had those grips for people standing that would spring back when not being used.
You can still ride the old red streetcars. In San Francisco the F-Line street car route uses historic street cars from around the world. They have a red TTC one.
Sandy Horn .... one of the hottest female artists of the 80s , without even trying ........
She is so cute in that video.
Back in the 80s Toronto music scene was incredible. Headpins, Platinum Blonde, Toronto, Lee Aaron, FM, Spoons, David Wilcox, Coney Hatch, Honeymoon Suite, Rush, Saga...to name a few. Fond memories of the Diamond Club, Tony's East.
I´m 23. From Spain and i love this song¡¡ ¡Oh Canadá!
The 80's was the 'golden era' for Toronto...peaked in early 90's all downhill since.
I too lived in Western NY, and was a proud listener of CFNY. I remember all the great music that was played, especially by The Spoons. What a great plethora of bands from Canada eh? This genre of music helped to shape my life, my beliefs, and who I am today. I loved the 80's
Richard Jennings CFNY had the best music really supported the Toronto new wave
And I grew up in Northern NY, 10 mins from Cornwall. CHEZ and, later The Bear, were what "radio" meant to me as a teen. I consider myself blessed.
Thank you.
Lockport here and same here never would of heard of half the bands I still love and listen to rip martin streek
You are awesome coming from New York state and I'm from western Canada the province of British Columbia a few thousand miles away and across the border pfft this sucks totally///:)
This was one of the first Canadian 80's songs introduced to me by my lovely wife Suzanne after moving from the USA to Canada Sept. 2017.
The 80s was such a fun decade! Full of great times and music as well!! The Spoons were definitely a part of it! I remember them in concert one night at Ryerson! Still listening to these nostalgic tunes in 2022
I remember walking out of the subway one day in 1982 and 6 young punkettes were sitting on the ground at the entrance singing ‘Shout’, by TFF, at the top of their voices. Pure joy, no inhibitions and everyone just smiled at their youthful exuberance. Good times, great music.
People looked cooler back then.
Epic tune!! Long live CFNY, Pete and Getes, VOODOO Club, Nuts and Bolts, and The Brunswick House!!
I love this song! just watched The Spoons play at a New Years Eve party at the elMocambo!...What a Blast!!! Cheers to 2023🥂Do do do do do do do do!....:)
My absolute fave Canadian 80s band! Their songs were/are fantastic. 'Time turns around" has never left my iPod.
I’m not sure I can say I have a favourite Canadian band, there were so many greats. Payolas will be my favourite and I listen until I need a change, Trooper next until I need something different to hear, Spoons, Haywire, Triumph, and so on
Me too... I love the 80's music/ hair styles and clothing... nothing compares to that totally awesome decade!
Thank God I lived and experienced it.
One of my favourite songs...little back story... I was working at TSN in the 90s. An intern & I had been flirting intensely. We were driving to an event... he was following me & he rear ended my car, and this song became the "theme song" for our brief office romance ... always makes me smile!
I still enjoy this song, after all these years. Very pleasant.
Woke up this morning with this song rattling in my head for some reason, haven't heard it in years. Love it, really is a timeless classic. Going thru the comments. I ride that subway all the time, and have since the 70's, so much has changed and so much hasn't. The yellow tiles are still at Yonge-Bloor, but just for the east-west line. The fluted aluminum columns that Sandy Horne walks around are still there just as you come out to the north-south platform at Yonge-Bloor, but the tiles are changed to white now. No more red cars, but the new ones are great open all the way from nose to tail of the train. People are the same, just different fashions.
Sandy Horne sure was sexy for back then...I wouldn't have dumped her for anything.
Produced by Nile Rodgers (up all night to get lucky, David Bowie - Lets Dance, Diana Ross, etc.). That guy is a genius. He actually passed-up on producing Culture Club's next album to work on this Spoon's album, because he thought The Spoons were a better band.
wow man, thanks for that reminder... yeah music world would be a different place if it wasn't for Nile.
WOW! Is that true?! If so, that's really saying something. Nile is a legend.
80s were the best for music!
13 years and this Spoons video's still rocking Tube...It speaks to the durability of Nile Rodgers and his music genius producing classics.
I lived in Toronto for six+ years and I rode the TTC subway so much. What a great way it was to get around the most awesome city in the world. I go there still at least 3-4 times a year and always have my mp3 filled songs of the 70s and 80's and downtown is the best place to listen to them. Timeless memories of an incredible musical era.
One of the best pop songs of the '80s, no question.
I have a special place in my heart for these rockin Canadian bands from the 60's and 70's. I was fortune to grow up in Western New York just over the boarder so I could pick up Canadian radio stations out of Toronto and Hamilton. Great music!
1984
Best year of my life!
Good times and great music
This was more representative of my '80s childhood than any big budget music video.
I was born in 1984 January 2nd. Although i wasn't born earlier 1970s to 2005 we're the legendary years to rock.
A sweet 80's tune! I grew up in Toronto and remember the subway from that time. I love the part of the video with the Bloor St. Viaduct over the Don Valley.
70's 80's and even the 90's were my best times, 3 decades, unbelievable times.
Thank you. I was searching my memory of where there subways lines were passing. Pretty sure I saw St Clair west . Use to pass threw there everyday when I lived on Bathurst and St Clair. Many years ago
I grew up near the border listening to TO's CFTR & CFNY...this brings back nice memories...the TTC...Ride the Rocket,etc...
You Canadians were always one step ahead...
This is worth watching for just looking at the old red subway cars!
Jennifer Dawn yep I miss those. Especially when the lights would go out on them.
Exactly what I was going to say!
And the old tiling and pillars at Bloor-Yonge.
I used to love opening the windows on them, too. I still remember the pressure on the ears as it headed south from St. Clair West to Dupont going from the square into the round tunnel. I forgot about the lights going out. I also missed the other cars (which had the orange/tan vinyl seats). They had a bit of a hum to them as they pulled into and out of the stations.
@@Bradat26 lol you could open the windows?!!!! How wide? Why did the lights turn off? I noticed that in this vid. my 1st subway ride was in '88 but I don't remember the red trains.
1984...... One of the best years for music in the 80s and this song was one of the best examples.
1984.... One with many happy memories for me. Good GOD, I was 22! ( Getting a little misty here lol ). I feel very lucky to have been in my 20s in that decade. Awesome music that will stay with me til the end. Go out smiling I say!
Finch station boy here. Grew up in North York and I Lived at the end of the line. Haven't lived in Canadá for years now, the old red subway cars bring back memories, as do the Spoons.
I remember this song, when i was a child growing up here in Toronto, if you look at 1:30-1:31, theres the TTC operator with the whistle, any Torontonian living or growing up in the 80s here would remember men like him would tell that the subway is leaving by blowing his whistle, before the noise on the subway door came, does anyone remember those TTC conductors and whistles?
I remember! The red train cars, ah, nostalgia.
I remember the whistles. I don't remember the red trains though. I went on my 1st subway ride in January, 1989.
I only vaguely remember the red cars, but I do remember the conductors and their whistles! This post really brought me back.Toronto in the 80s was a golden period - the TTC functioned like clock-work, the city was cleaner and well-run, and there weren't condos going up on every vacant piece of land. I wanna go back!! Thanks to dcappe for posting and for the memories!
lolz Torontonian here too - the subway stops on the vid are sooo familiar !
I definitely remember them! By 1990 they were out. Whenever a red train came into the station, it was "Oh no, it's a red train, it's going to screw up somehow". The lights would often go out!
This song is above all, one of the best ever made by Canada's own, the Spoons! When I first heard this song on the radio, I was literally blown away.
The video is incredible, man! Filmed in a subway station in Toronto somewhere! Just fantastic!
Keep up the great work.
I love this song, this band, this video, and the fact it was shot on the TTC with a bunch of extra random people. It's so much fun and you know they were probably just grabbed and asked: "Hey wanna be in a video?" It's 2021 and this is still on my playlist.
Everything about this video is so very Toronto. It's awesome.
Who's listening in 2020 ? Love T dot forever. In Tx USA right now. 😣😔😷. Stay safe everyone 💜💜💜🇨🇦🇯🇲.
This reminds me of my first wife and I miss her and her family I lived in Winnipeg from 1982-1995 and loved this so many Great Canadian Bands it’s a pity the world didn’t get to hear so many of the 80’s and 90’s Canadian Bands And Artists
I remember 'Live' Earl Jive and the Dave 'Mars Bar' Marsden playing this on 102.1 during my formative years. Living in WNY, I loved, loved, LOVED the Toronto, Mississaugua, and Hamilton radio stations -- so much better than the pablum the local (Buffalo) stations played: I'm looking at you, 97-Rock and WNYS!
All grown up, now, and living in San Jose, CA -- I'd love to have this re-released, and see Sandy, Gordon, and the rest get a resurgence and get the exposure and credit they deserve.
As a kid, I remember rolling down a subway train window that was unlatched, and felt the wind over my face with the flickering indoor lights. So much instant nostalgia.
Times were so much better no smartphones , no social media and way better music !
Take it all away and I will be happy if I can only go back.
we all partied on weekends and it was a social thing.
Amen. Kids today have no real concept of anything. They got no clue what they're missing out on in the real world. You can't make memories by being stuck to your hand held devices all day and night long.
Yep, parties now (if you call them that) involve people talking and looking at their phones every few seconds. Back then we were too busy keeping the bonfire going, finding the next beer hidden in the woods from the police and who to shag that night.
Time to toss those phones into the bonfire !
I miss those parties. We used to have a place in a secluded area next to the woods. There was a nice clearing and there was a cornfield next to it. We made a trail for escaping, and one that was a false trail where the cops would wind up getting lost if they chased us. My buddy took his quad and made the cop trail and it went in circles. But luckily we never had to use it. People knew better not to act a fool.
My favorite place was "The Metro". It was a video arcade that had bands on the weekends. It was wonderful times there. Especially the tailgate parties before the shows. I miss the 80s.
Brings back so many memories.
1984!!! The year I got my first "Romantic Traffic". Take me back. ;)
Same here! I was 19 👍
@@chiefscheider I was 14. That woman would be going to prison today. lol
Whoa how old was she? Mine was 23 and knew what she was doin, aayyy
@@chiefscheider Mine was 21 and she trained me well. LMAO!!! Friend of my mothers. Good times for a very bad boy. :)
Nice! Those were the days huh 😁
Whenever I hear this song I think of a cute redhead A&W manager that worked at Square 1, Mississauga. I used to see her every weekday morning on my way to work. Me in my wabbit, her in her little red Fiero. I used to try to stay close enough that I could always see her car. Romantic traffic that never got further then ordering a Moza Burger.
Now THATS 80's spirit bro :). I think life never changes though..you made me think of Bob Seger's Main Street. Also Everything but the Girls's Miss You
Fiero!!! I always wanted a Fiero!! One of my fave cars... ;)
That's awesome!! Love how songs make you think of different things that happened in the past!!
This video makes me feel so nostalgic. I lived in Toronto in the 80's and use to ride the subway countless times to get all over the city. I was at the Main St. station and I remember that section that goes outside for a bit. I would do the exact same thing as in the video, lean up against the window and ponder about my life and the future.
Taking the Danforth 113 from Main St. into the bowls of Scarborough after spending yet another night prowling the arcades and pizza joints of Yonge St. and all over downtown. The 80's and Toronto--what a time it was to be young and alive!
Dawes 23 after spending too late a night downtown. Was down in the States at a boarding school at the time, and only got back home 4 times a year, so I wasn't able to do that all too often.
Now, all the arcades are gone, so too most of the old pizza joints, and there is hardly any reason from our youths to go back down these days.
Arcades on Yonge , maybe grab a slice at The Big Slice. Awesome memories. Music is magic. :)
Same here. I lived in Brampton and being in the city just felt like I was out on a big adventure. So much to see and do...so many cool sights and sounds...all I wanted to do was figure out a way to live down there so I could be a part of it 24/7.
But did you lean and ponder wistfully in order look smoulderingly sexy and interesting?
This was filmed in Toronto
Gordon Deppe Vocals, Guitar
Sandy Horne Vocals, Bass
Rob Preuss Electronic Keyboards and Piano
Derrick Ross Drums. Derrick Ross born a triplet
Rod's sister played in the video...
They were all from Burlington Ont Canada & went to Nelson High School together
Those people singing along will go down in time, and can tell their kids/grandkids they were in a music video.
Damn this song is catchy though.
Something special about Toronto (and Niagara Falls) in the 1980's. Vivid memories
I can't believe this song is turning 40 this year. Just heard it on the radio last night before I go to sleep.
I miss the 1980s, I love this song, I miss the Red subway cars
The Gloucester cars retired in 1990 😰 😿.
Pretty much. That is the Hemingway of CZcams comments.
@@23Fibonacci I always wondered what was the story with the red subway cars too. I though it was a sign of good luck when a red subway train pulled into Pape station. Lol, but then, I was just a kid.
I do to. The red Gloucester trains were the most fun to ride. Especially when the lights go out in the middle of the tunnel.
There is a train museum in Milton Ontario! They have one red car on display, and you can go inside! Relive those times....simpler times before we became slaves to our own devices.
Love the old Gloucester subway cars the reason the TTC was and still is called the the Red Rocket ( I am a retired TTC operator )
Brings back so many memories. Early 80's I used to ride the subway all the time. 80's Canadian music is so underrated.
I remember seeing them filming a part of this video at Sheppard station (at Yonge). I asked a crew member what high school they went to! Lol. I thought this was part of a high school film project!! Didn’t recognize the artists, although I had seen them perform many times at the now defunct Ontario Place Forum. Saw the Spoons perform last at CNE Bandshell in 2016. Love this song. Miss the 80s. The hair. The old subway cars. Still taking the subway. Way more traffic in 2020. What a beautiful throwback.
There is notthing about this song or this video that I don't love. Perfect.
Even the TD ad? Just kidding.
(It's at 2:30)
"Withdraw $40 in 30 seconds flat!" How I remember those cheesy subway ads! LOL!
What an amazing flashback in time seeing this video is!! Gotta love it…
I remember watching this video on MuchMusic back in the 80's when I lived in Kingston, Ontario Canada.
I was born in 79 and I remember when i was a little boy about 6 or 7 i was fascinated with the whole subway system. My grandpa would used to take me for rides on the trains just cuz i loved it. I remember refusing to get on the train until a red subway came.. ahh brings a tear to my eye i love u grandpa rip !!
Canadian 80s rock. Seriously. So many 80s groups.
Awww toronto in the early 80s was awsum..mis u 80s
Quite possibly the loveliest piece of Canadiana ever captured in music video form. Now I suddenly have this urge to go to the concession stand at Bloor station and rhythmically point at packages of Certs....
Thanks for the fond, wonderful memories of the 80's.
Those red subway trains were gorgeous.
They came to my high school. lol. Always a throwback trip.
Back in the day when life was fun and when life made sense.
Agreed. 2020's is pure oppression compared to then.
Boy, you're not kidding!
You know what, there should be somekind of time capsule so all of us could go back to those wonderful times! Damned these new hard times!
Spotted my friend in the vid, good times.
It's 1989 and I'm riding the TTC to the downtown core. Stopping at Queen to pick up comic stuff at Silver Snail. Hitting the sketchy arcades and Sam's on Yonge Street. Walking over the Kensington Market to check out the vintage stores and food stalls.
Okay I'm gonna go cry now.
It's understandable as toronto is now extinct!
Sandy Horne gave me her pick at the Student Union Building at UNB in 1986. I still haven't washed that finger.
I have the bass she was playing in this video, owned it since 1991. It's a 1 of 3 custom Spector NS-2 she had built for her. in the early 80's :) I love Sandy Horne.
I was in UNB in 1986 as well (freshmen year starting in September). I never saw them. I wish I could go back in time and see them back then!
Seriously, who didn't love Sandy Horne. That little sideways look she does in the video used to take my breath away!!! Hell, it still does!!!!
She was absolutely adorable in those days.
I never thought I'd say it but I miss the '80s. Great memories. Music, big hair and all. I remember seeing the Spoons in '84 at Harbourfront. If anyone can believe it they opened for Brian Mulroney. Cheers!
My daughter Christina loves this song (almost as much as I love her). When she, and her fraternal twin sister, were in high school (2000’s) the deal was I drive to and from school only if I control the car tunes. My tough love forced my gals to experience the ultimate real music; being that of my ge-ge-generation (The Who, kid) ; and Romantic Traffic (Spoons) was just one such song, from the tail-end of that rock’n big bang. Chris has great music taste (thanks to me?). What I never told Chris was that, to really get this tune, one must have rode the subways during one’s early young adult years of “romantic traffic.” I also never told her that I rode the subways of Manhattan, Montreal, Toronto, London, and Paris (in that order) while I was a single young man (in a three-piece suit), through early marriage (still in suits). Lucky me! Why? Because, to love this song for what it is, is simply enough; no subway needed.
Nobody on trains is dicking around with cellphones! Yay! Good song.
Instead they had to sit there, bored to death and staring at ugly strangers. Yay!
PHONE BAD
@@MrKruger88 Who's forbidding them from listening to music in a headset or reading to eliminate boredom?
LOVE the old RED ROCKET in the video - only Torontonians will get the refference
I was in Port Credit last night and saw the lead singer with a member of Glass Tiger. good show!
One of my all time favorite videos. They were great in concert, sat in the front row back in 1982 or 1983. Sandy Horne was a beaut. I love the video...reminding me of the TTC 30 years ago.
Ever since I read Gordon Deppe's (the lead singer) excellent book about the Spoons/his life, I cannot look at this video the same. Apparently, this video was shot not long after he and Sandy Horne (the lovely gal/base player in the band) had mutually ended a long term, romantic relationship. So he said making this video was rather sad/melancholy for him (I assume the same for her as well).
I used to think it was a happy video...not for me any longer.
Still a very nice song though, a refreshingly simple idea for a video and I Iived in T.O. for a few years around that time - so it brings back memories of the subway.
I heard Sandy talking about the breakup on Behind The Vinyl a week before they shot the video...and you're right it does change the tone of the video. I had the biggest crush on Sandy back in the day (who didn't?). She had such a young, fresh and energetic look with her unique hairstyles and just her cute way of lookin'. Hearing about their split made me think back to Stevie Nicks & Lindsay Buckingham in Fleetwood...and how two people integral to a group broke up yet managed to remain together as artists.
You can tell that day
The separation
Cant believe you actually bought a book on tragic
Life of brampton band
@@SilentKnight43 Sandy & Gord's split was waaaay more amicable than Stevie & Lindsay (if you get a chance to watch footage from Fleetwood Mac concerts in the 80s, you'll see what I mean!
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Haha imagine how old everyone shown in this video is now! The video is 33 years old! How fast times are going :( It's sad and happy at the same time
So many memories when I hear this... I was raised near Toronto and knew all these locations as a kid. Different feeling about it now with these lyrics in my head as an adult...
Toronto has really changed in the last 30 yrs and not for the better
My fav 80s song! One of biggest thrills was to sing the Do Do Dos w/Gord at a private party once.
I lived in Toronto for 3 years from September 2011- September 2014.Had to come back home ,after my visa expired,never felt lonelier in my entire life!
You mean you were lonely when you lived in Toronto?
@@patgaristo4365 Nope
Oh the other way around ...you were homesick for Toronto, ok that makes more sense.
Loved this ere. New wave music so many memories.
I grew up near the Donlands subway station and I used to love riding the subways on cloudy or cold winter days you could ride the thing all day on one Fair I remember it being something like $0.90 back in the late seventies and eighties this video Harkins me back to those days.
Saw them in Etobicoke at the annual Mardi Gras concert, amazing.....love this band. The energy that night was unbelievable....
This video makes me long for Toronto. I remember those formative days as being some of the best moments of my life. The film festival, the wonderful music scene, ect ect. Incredible days for sure...
Good song. Don't mind the video, and I like the Spoons. For the longest time, I had no idea they are Canadian.
They are also from my city Burlington Ontario. kinda proud of it too
My stepbrother and sisters mom is the bassist from this band
MetalRealm
Wow! Ultra cool!!
Sandy Horne rocks!
Tell her I had such a crush on her back then. She is so cute in this video.
MetalRealm sandy Horne is a legend, tell her thank you for being the soundtrack of my youth
I remember getting a kiss from Sandy Horne during a New Years concert in London. I think she is still hot !!!!
Such an awesome 80's group
Miss'n the 8💜's
I remember riding the red rockets when I was a kid. :) I had a lot of fun riding them with my dad. :)
Saw them live twice. Awesome band! Still around...keep it up Gordon and Sandy!
This takes me back to my radio days mid 80's in Regina Saskatchewan when I was the Iceman at CKCK . Great memories . Thanks for posting :)
Does anyone remember the giant aircraft called a Lancaster down at Lake Shore Blvd, near Ontario Place? It's been gone for decades...I also remember a tank there too...? Is it just me or has time changed too much? (I hope the HMCS Haida is still (dry-docked) there?). I got these flashes of giant padded shoulders, those baby safety pins with beads and letters on running shoe laces, and lace gloves for women (like Madonna had one time), Cougar winter boots, North Star running shoes, the Blizzard!
The HMCS Hadia is now restored and docked at HMCS Star in Hamilton
Damn... 2023 reporting in. I was going down nostalgia lane for Robbie Robertson today and this was on the side bar. Such a wonderful little tune.
Sandy Horne - I had such a huge crush on her in the 80s
she looked like the bomb in nova heart
she is so cute
everyone had a crush on sandy horne. that bit at the end when she was singing the chorus. Some 40 years later, makes me wax nostalgic for the 80s.
I played in a band that opened for the Spoons three different times. I had to stay deliberately calm in front of my singer boyfriend because I knew she was better looking than me lol
SPOONS FOREVER!!!!!
What great music!
Many thanks for the upload great song and Band