A Certain Ratio - Touch Generation 80, Belgian TV 04.83 (Lipsync)

[@StillOnFire]

This song slaps, that bassline, magic.

[@mrcleanbear]

BRILLANT ! I've been a fan since the beginning

[@Fac323JQ]

Donald on the bass....ace

[@alexgibson4209]

'Sextet' and 'I'd like to see you again' are the two best albums. Never saw them play this. Pity it's not live. Bass is brilliant

[@gaztop411]

Funk it up 🆙 People forget this funk slap that bass broooo 🎉

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

This non-live television performance fascinates me because drummer Donald Johnson is on the bass guitar and vocals. For decades I thought the lead vocal here belonged to Topping. Love this clip so much although younger viewers will be horrified that it’s not LIVE.

[@andrewmicklethwaite698]

Topping's vocals were restricted to the chorus of 'Touch', it's unmistakably his voice on the 'feel your heart beat' line. Legend is he was getting tired of the sound of his own voice post-Sextet. I used to have a boot cassette of ACR at the Cedar Club, Birmingham from 1981 (Might still have it somewhere) and I'm pretty sure Touch was on it along with a couple of other tracks from the same LP

[@simplythrilling2903]

"Touch" was introduced into their set around June '82. Leicester Uni on the 19th of that month would have been the first time I saw them play it live.

[@cleaningmyroom1000]

I believe Johnson played bass on quite a few songs

[@arahjofobia]

@@cleaningmyroom1000 well, two years ago he played bass on some of the songs during their life performance in France, so I guess he could play bass on several occasions in the past.

[@jaybowden2658]

@@andrewmicklethwaite698 so was Topping their lead vocalist before Kerr?

[@djh29971]

'Touch' is a gem and deserved wider recognition. The band are in a bit of a makeshift mode here, as their retreating vocalist Simon Topping had just left and is replaced on the performance by a miming Andy Connell. Donald Johnson is just so damn good, he can play and sing almost anything, though one of the great things about the band is that they can play a lot of instruments, with Moscrop and Johnson often swap drumming duties to this day. Whether the band seriously considered having Donald as a full time vocalist I don't know, but having Kerr made a lot more sense.

[@ste_passant]

Just WOW, for soooo many reasons!

[@Zey-The-Mouse]

great bopping tune :)

[@discoverydavid]

I wonder if people still do "Hot Knives"...lovely memories of rare sunny days in England, completly w*nkered in the garden starring up at crystal blue skies, listening to " I'd Like to See You...", ma-gic mo-ments!

[@NachoVideo]

So good!

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Oh. My. God.

[@lucianofigueiredo7220]

Muito top

[@budgiesbudgie7389]

👍👍👍

[@jaybowden2658]

Ohhh, I had always assumed that Kerr had sang this tune for whatever reason. Clearly not lol

[@Jamic9]

Yeah so did i when i first bought the album I Like to See You Again, which featured the track in back in 1986, as they have similar voices.

[@andrewRthompson]

Jyst being my friemd

[@barryallen3883]

Is the guy with the green shirt Simon Topping?

[@pieterkock695]

Looks like Jeremy Kerr kinda, and wasn't Topping already gone by that time?

[@barryallen3883]

@@pieterkock695 But Jeremy Kerr is on the keyboards, now i know the guy in the green shirt is Andy Connell

[@pieterkock695]

@@barryallen3883 ah okay, tanx for clearing up

[@hansjorgzopp399]

This is Andy Connell

[@michaelmeade9111]

No, it’s Simon Topping. Jez faking the recently departed Peter Terrell guitar parts on keys.

[@pascalaernoudt8870]

belgium live