01 - Shop Assistants - I Don't Want To Be Friends With You

[@DarkForcesStudio]

"You leave me and I'll scratch your eyes out".... Love that line. Aways stayed win me.

[@mauriceleahy7914]

Me too!

[@JoRobertsGaming1984]

I'm an Edinburgh girl born and bred, and the shop assistants are one of the best things to come out of my beautiful home city. I was just a kiddo when they were at their height. I wish I was older so I could have seen them play live at a venue in Edinburgh. What a great band this was. Thank you, Shop Assistants!

[@northcountrybhoy]

Have you seen any of the shows from potterrow? Videos are on here somewhere. I also missed out by being born too late!

[@MrDiscoPope]

I think Dave might be playing some shows with Swell Maps soon, so you're not totally out of luck!

[@ellspacer]

I was lucky enough to play ▶️ n the same bill as them in Edinburgh. Primal Scream were also on the bill. The Shoppies were by far the highlight of the night

[@BoysOnTheRadio]

​@@ellspacer 😮👏🎵

[@paintsilj]

Saw them at ULU

[@kaz5726]

How are shop assistants not more known!? their debut is so amazing! Heavily underrated band.

[@gbshahaq]

RIP Alex 😢 Shop Assistants and Motorcycle Boy soundtracked my adolescence

[@northcountrybhoy]

I must take every opportunity to tell the world about the shop assistants

[@daveydave1940]

They are fucking fab😎

[@TheGrandmasterMan]

Let's get this straight. The Shop Assistants were fucking magnificent. That's it.

[@FadGadget1]

Still love this song and I’m 50..... x

[@Dermot2927]

I'm currently reading a book called Mayflies, about a group of Scots lads who come to Manchester for the "Festival of the 10th Summer" gig (which I attended). Whilst in Manchester they also take in the Shop Assistants at the International...and that's why I'm here. Very of its time, let's put it that way. Dreamy vocals over a too-frantic backing - very 1986. RIP the singer, Alex, though. (Oh, and the book's not great by the way).

The beginning of indie pop is amazing!

[@diskochimp]

This still sounds bloody FANTASTIC...!

[@pauulkubasek1815]

Oh man, this is going to be stuck in my head all day, and for the rest of my life!

[@seeligsilence]

you know what, nothing will ever sound as good as this, i know thats a really general comment, but seriously i love these, saw them support my bloody valentine when i still had long hair :)

[@springalo66]

filmed overlooking Edinburgh...one of my favorite places in the world! thanks yet once again. lovely.

[@BorlandRIP7]

Their title "it's up to you" on C86 vinyl is also fantastic

[@tebb1t]

Thanks I taped them doing a Peel session, loved their Ace of Spades cover

[@chrisgoodson9312]

RIP Alex Taylor, died 2005. So sad the news only surfaced in 2020

[@stuartwilliams3104]

I love this band i love proper relationship lyrics .

[@cocteaufan]

I love this band -got an album somewhere - did a search for them on here expecting it to laugh at me and say "are you having al augh" but no someone's uploaded a shoppies clip Yay thanks so much - top stuff

[@AustinTXSlasher]

This is freakin' awesome. I'd never heard this before until tonight! Tis a very fun song.

[@BorlandRIP7]

Their song on the C86 LP called "it's up to you" is awsome

[@gleamingspire]

Cracking gig at the Dovecot Arts Centre in Stockton on Tees in 1985/6- a party atmosphere. Am sure the band will remember it well. It was fun whilst it lasted!

[@ollcanoe]

My wife left me for the best man four months after I got married and she said she hoped we would still be friends after. This song sums up why we can't be and I love it.

[@TheGrandmasterMan]

Seems to me that getting 2 back-stabbing, traitorous, deluded, wretched, useless fucks out of your life in one go was actually an unexpected bonus.

[@soxmaster]

Lol! I used to drive the van.

[@paddyeejit1954]

Hope things worked out for you, Oliver.

[@Dermot2927]

Heartbreaking. You must really miss that guy.

[@andyjgallagher]

Wtf

[@northcountrybhoy]

i have shop assistants records too..... can get them still in avalanche in Edinburgh

[@sidrocker]

2:17 of pop-rock perfection... Love this band! Where are these guys today?

[@leehazlewoodism]

I imagine they're old like the rest of us.

[@Dermot2927]

I believe the singer died in 2005.

[@NewWaver80014]

Another group I should be much more familiar with. Those deceptively perky harmonies are great!

[@formdissolve]

Records are making a huge comeback now. Everything from the small record shop to the big retail outfit.

[@Joonhollywood]

I got the 12 inch single of "Somewhere in China" I bought in 1991. What a great song.

[@tnimbus]

great song. Takes ma back. Thanks for posting

[@unknownbaldwin]

they are too cool. what an attitude she has :)

[@neilbombd]

Thrilled to find some Shop Assistants on here, thanks for the upload :-)

[@seerauberjohnny]

they were one of my favourite all time bands! I still have all their singles and 12" s although I remember being a bit disappointed with the album.Safety Net was their finest hour for me,or maybe All That Ever Mattered

[@redkettle7]

love this one, this was always my go-to shop assistants mixtape star! :) :)

[@Nervorama]

It is so cool to find that song on KZbin. They should bloody reform, even if it was only for a short while.

[@erikopnemer]

saw Dum Dum Girls earlier tonight and they really reminded me of this. used to really be into this back then.

[@voodoolander]

Just awesome.

[@mickeybaumann]

i saw this band as support jamc + inca babies 1985 electric ballroom, london ! great

[@RichardLemarchand]

Pure perfect trashpop minimalism - the ideal antidote for half a decade or more of Thatcherism. Shop Assistants rock!

[@juliane16]

FAN-TAS-TIC!!! This was my favourite band at college and I snuck into their final gig in Camden pretending to be a reporter from the NME. Oh those heady 80's days! Wonder where Alex Taylor is now?

[@56squadron]

Sadly she passed away in 2006

[@AngryBird64]

Great track!

[@54spiritedwill54]

gotta luv watchin the drummer

[@wilson2810]

easily one of my favourite bands of all time/any know what sarah kneale and laura mcphail are up to now?//

[@chelecossais]

Its nice to be eighteen again. Thanks. ( crawls back under the rock he came from )

[@Rich27014]

Mid 80s class - John Peel was playing loads of this kind of stuff, ran out of C90s on a regular basis.....

[@fishingrhod]

been keeping my eye open for their stuff for ages. many, many thanks for posting. got any flatmates?

[@crashsite000]

Thanks for posting this.

[@enzorizzo2872]

I was in deal with the young guitarist of Shop assistants last year. I owned his 1976 black Gibson S-1, 3 blade single pickups, you see in that track. For the story, the Gibson S-1 was initially endorsed by Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, as well as Carlos Santana.

[@CosmicHobo2]

Very cool.

[@larrybrownly5462]

Every good song 😊

[@Matthew-dn6ss]

WHY DID THEY GET RID OF THIS VERSION ON SPOTIFY :(

[@lopside0]

All hyperbole aside this is quite good.

[@Alesserio]

Motorcycle Boy rules!

[@CandyHam]

this is pretty nice

[@davidcaplin6697]

the video was filmed top of the old german hospital in dalston can still remember being up there watching it

[@coffeyeoin5]

David Caplin damn thats awesome

[@anthonyboyall7738]

jealous maaan

[@coco-lt5wt]

It's on the roof of Edinburgh Napier University where they were students

[@septicscab]

Help is available David😱!

[@BrokenBackMountains]

I don't know who you were watching but this was filmed at Napier college (as it was then) in Edinburgh. Look at the hills in the background and look at the architecture. Nothing like the German hospital or London. I should know, I was at Napier the same time as them. Finished the year this came out. At the end of the video you can even see Edinburgh castle. Maybe you should have a wee rethink of where you were...if you were there.

[@BrokenBackMountains]

Missing those days, so long ago.

[@bobmorrice]

excellent video is that done on st james centre roof? some of the scenes of the video down at leith docks now totally unrecgonisble as well

[@jimmcgonigal]

Awesome

[@jaimezegarram8794]

muy buena musica....

[@stefanomozzambani9009]

Alex forever and ever! ❤

[@spookybaba]

The Janitors' Wall Star is missing from this compilation video. :'(

[@BAGGWIGAN]

been looking for "Fixed Grin" for yonks, anyone come accross a vid or footage of it anywhere?

[@UlisesZarazua]

Beau music!

[@tebb1t]

The song I listened to when my first girl friend left me in 1987!

[@andyjgallagher]

RIP Alex

[@worldperfect8245]

Love forever❤

[@crashsite000]

I recently posted a Motorcyle Boy 'video' (Alex Taylor from The Shop Assistants singing lead). It's their cover of The Velvet Underground's Run Run Run. Thanks for uploading this video! crashsite000

[@voodoolander]

What are they all doing now? Are they aware how loved they are?

[@Bazza1968]

Guitarist (Dave Keegan) runs a bike shop in Aviemore.....brilliant dude....!!

[@popatyourecords]

@@Bazza1968 Say hello to dave ask him about the Whec and E mission

[@igornonsuch]

Wasn't "It's all up to you" by The Darling Buds?

[@buruuburuu]

me encanta 🍥🌹

[@masonpitzel]

A great Canadian punk band called Fucked Up recently recorded a cover of this song. It's really good, search it out.

[@Timmybear]

The Canadian band Fuc*ed Up do an interesting cover of this (and of Looking Back) on their new comp COUPLE TRACKS. This is not meant to be an ad 0 just info. :)

[@blonderedhead1]

Do you know what is funny? People and the press (NME) were raving a year ago about the Long Blondes who are a complete copy of The Shop Assistants, Tallulah, heavenly etc Big love from Greece

[@sneakyflutes]

your aunt is the best

[@bobdobalina838]

Ah, I remember this. . . it was called GOOD MUSIC. What happened? . . .. and WHERE IS MY TIME MACHINE, so-call BRILLIANT SCIENTISTS?!?

[@OldMod67]

Great 80s 7"

[@bobboyall895]

pure pop

[@wilson2810]

@PAULWALLER70 according to the sleevenotes on the reissue of psychocandy he runs a hairdressers with his wife

[@cammy758]

Where is she now? Is she still singing?

[@BigKahunaOG]

The guitarist looks like Nick Valensi

[@TheGrandmasterMan]

Alright...enough's a fucking enough....life is too short not to have one last flirtation with the tremendous Shop Assistants. What's it gonna take to get these guys to reform? Someone crowdfund it for fucks sake....

[@veniyeah]

Perf!!

[@odinswolf1969]

YES!!!!! YES YES YES

[@petmoonrock]

what are the chords/ tab to this song?

[@TheCrashesshit]

i put this on my girlfriend's wall on facebook, and she blocked me.

[@Jauwp]

Related Videos: Aerosmith-I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing haha

[@dubversion]

Adiós Alex 😔

[@blackgatesofdoom]

this is so totally fucking great bless 'em

[@pierograziani8885]

Grandi

[@topite]

please post motor cycle boy

[@kelechi_77]

produced by Mayo Thompson

[@wallerpaul70]

@wilson2810 Thank you

[@pbamcp]

@librarian289 top quote :)

[@davematras9345]

fucking fantastic

[@SnappedNeck]

the fucked up cover destroys

[@thebaddestgene8853]

So said she died

[@lamornababe]

118000+ views - fucking get in !!!

[@TenementFunster.74]

when indie was indie,

[@masonpitzel]

The drummer is unbearably cute.

[@wallerpaul70]

Tories out NOW.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!