China Crisis - Tragedy And Mystery

[@Briangibson7825]

The days when everybody loved music and regardless life itself.

[@anthonydiggle2926]

Absolutely brilliant single! How this was not a bigger hit is completely bewildering.

[@kyachdistent1301]

The same reason all their other songs that should have been hits weren't and the same reasons everyone else's songs that should have been hits or bigger hits weren't: people are effing stupid, have no taste and are driven buy the dictates of shitty fashions. In other words, you unerringly support utter crap like slagdonna, the S/A/W shit machine, Spamhead Ballet, Madness, Cure, Weller, Sting, Phil Collins, Wet Wet Wet, Bros, dumb novelty records and even decent people with underwhelming songs (George Michael) or ones that have yucky songs &/or lousy voices (Tina Turner, Whitney Houston)! No decent artist allowed to have a chance more than a few songs that get 'luckier' than all their others. This China C song like all of them deserved to be much higher! But people are twats!

[@samsam91349]

The album probably sold well😊

[@lukehallinan9966]

Same applies to Arizona Sky to me their best ever song

[@chrisr5499]

Agree

[@malcolmhughes2363]

Going watching them in Chester next saturday 5th Oct 2024 cannot wait 😀

[@bigd8215]

Fantastic Liverpool Band

[@lykkefromspace7280]

I found this gem while browsing through old playlists from John Peel (on BFBS in 1983). What a lovely tune ❤

[@AlfUckhamHall]

Love the bass line.

[@BilisNegra]

Love bassy heads that will appreciate such sweet things.

[@roytbone5791]

Bass player Gazza Johnson is still in the band

[@mattma96]

and also the bassline of "African & White"~~~~~~

[@Lexthebarbarian]

Steve Levy's oboe, saxophone and flugel horn is pure perfection. He gave China Crisis an unique sound. The bass in this song is so cool!

[@abril9674]

Simply beautiful melody

[@brianjohnston4117]

Absolutely . Loved his oboe , and the bass is awesome . !

[@WaldemarMozwojski]

Pięknie wrócić w ten wspaniały dawny czas

[@Taskimetro]

Even my mam in the 80s liked this song. Amazig bass line.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

One of the best Liverpool bands to grace the 80s era. Hits like African and white, Christian made them great songsmiths.

[@ajs41]

African and White is by far their best song in my opinion. Especially when you consider it's from 1981.

[@linwoodgray6127]

great song indeed but then we can't forget Christian and that monster hit wishful thinking

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@ajs41 It so isn't. This song, 'Arizona Sky', 'St. Saviour Square', 'The Highest High', 'You Did Cut Me', 'No More Blue Horizons (Fool Fool Fool)', 'All My Prayers' (awesome & rudely cancelled 1989 3rd single from their last 80s album) & 'Scream Down At Me' (plus many things left on the albums) are superior, as good as 'AAW' is.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

@@kyachdistent1301 All My Prayers would not have been a hit. It is a good song but without a remix it would not have charted. More album track than contender for successful single.

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@eightiesmusic1984 Bullshit, it's perfect in the version that turned up on the finished album. Anyway, it's not like it helped the singles beforehand did it, nor the 2 chalked up to follow the 1st 2 off the previous album from 1986. Even 'The Highest High' missed out and most people went for that album. The year is 1989 and no one is going to chart ANY CC song with the likes of slagdonna, Kylie Minogur, Tina Turner, Wet Wet Wet, Bros, Jive Bunny & c/rap and all else suffocating the charts. Remix my arse. Clearly that's meant to be the 3rd single on a very cool album anyway.

[@kelvinredward3013]

The things about China Crisis that separates it from most bands is the musical talent, the Amazing Bass playing, and the Clarinet? Together the Harmonies make for Amazing Music 🎶 🎵 ❤ ♥

[@miguelangelferrenavarro5179]

La escuchare una y mil veces!!nunca me cansare, una joya

[@johnlavery6116]

Great band,and even better musician's, and song writers....Greetings from Ireland

[@krazystu1]

Kelvin Wilkinson, hero of mine.. SK ( Scotland ) Seen them in Glasgow Uni and Royal Albert hall,during the 1980s. Absolutey brilliant....

[@markrouse1540]

The thinking man and woman's music.i wish I could be trapped in a 1980s bubble never to escape

[@touchwood108]

Absolutely !!

[@eleazarramonfernandezpalac7003]

New wave elegancia del rock , los 80s los mejores años

[@andreatouhig2816]

Something wonderful about this song..❤

[@britta998]

Another great song! These true artists don't care about everyone and make their own way..They are always true to themselves...I will always be an 80' s girl and listen to their wonderful songs... needful in these days!!! R.I.P Kevin Wilkinson...

[@mattma96]

"Wishful Thinking", "African & White", "Black Man Ray"......

[@davidflinton44]

Only started listening ta these over a year ago just brilliant

[@simonb6724]

"Christian" is also a beautiful track. I recommend the extended version available on KZbin.

[@davidflinton44]

Maybe cos there there the best band ever

[@alliswell9574]

Ditto 🙏💖

[@timwright8785]

The first 2 albums from China crisis are just timeless still playing them today

[@geoffwalsh8864]

the biggest tragedy is that so many great songs from the 80's didn't get into the top 40, this being an example proving that the record buying public oftenly got it wrong.

[@relleno24]

I don't like pop music but China Crisis , the most underrated band in the UK musical history, the poetry of their songs will be in my heart forever.

[@jannuar2009]

80's is the best

[@davidflinton44]

Simply the best I love um

[@carl48uk]

absolutley spot on

[@HarryFlowerrs]

“Underrated” to you not to those who know their class!

[@linwoodgray6127]

absolutely 😊

[@stevepettit2064]

What's this all about this song along with christian, hanna hanna, working with fire and steel, black man ray, and african and white pure pop gems that should have been top ten hits among the most under rated 80s bands ever without a doubt.

[@MELLYBOY58]

Spot on bud ✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@stevepettit2064]

@@MELLYBOY58 thanks for the reply fella thought it was just me hey! you are on the same planet as me thank god.

[@MELLYBOY58]

@@stevepettit2064 We have good taste bud ✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@stevepettit2064]

@@MELLYBOY58 cheers yes we have wish everyone else had.

[@MELLYBOY58]

@@stevepettit2064 No hope for some bud ✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@cal26restaurantcastelloli98]

The soundtrack of my childhood ❤

[@garyjohnson7628]

A brilliant song from a flawless album.

[@davespeed45]

Wow I have forgotten just how good these lads are.

[@jaynefrazer883]

Absolutely love them still fab today saw them sat night at the tapestry arts Bradford

[@jonsiddons6190]

A certain sensibility and connection with eternal issues like dealing with change and being open and honest with each other. Good lyricists and nice melodic tunes. Thank you guys...

[@eightiesmusic1984]

Definitely thoughtful lyrics. Often poetic.

[@jackokiler]

40 years later and this song is still relevant. It could have actually been written in 2023.

[@HarryFlowerrs]

Class Is Permanent 💕

[@PatrickCoppinger-p1s]

Grew up listening to China Crisis.. love this song.

[@skelznap]

As an east Londoner, I'm flattered that CCfilmed a coule of their videos in east London< Scousers are my northern counterparts.

[@bloochoob]

Recognise Shad Thames and London Bridge as I live right there

[@nicholaspenfold1704]

The masterful song , better even than Dont you want me . Not matched until Enjoy the silence ( Depeche Mode) nine years later.

[@alexgreig3598]

It says everything when the great Walter becker chooses to produce an album. I loved this band since African and white. I'm nearly 61 now

[@sandrodellisanti1139]

Ciao, personally i love this kind of music since my teen ages in the 80's, have two albums on CD here, thank you for this wonderful music, many greetings from brunswick in Germany and please stay safe 🙃

[@elizabethanitahopkins2406]

Amazing band, love the 80s music 🎶🎵🎶

[@mariaangelesizquierdo6391]

Chulisima esta cancion....ellos fantasticos ...que tiempos..80,90,los mejores años para la musica.,.

[@jasonparfitt5936]

Great band and very underestimated .

[@skyscraper7474]

Uk and 80 s: the most perfect couple ever.

[@BilisNegra]

@Dylan White If you could please explain what you mean by that...

[@nachoroman2001]

except for poor people

[@chemagallego]

Awesome bass line!!

[@paulforry3376]

Genius is never recognised in it’s time, I hope China Crisis are. Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!

[@alainvosselman9960]

Really like their sound. As a child i thought this typical synth music from the U..K mostly, sounded so grim. Ffw a decade or 3... i just love it. The grimness is nothing compared to what we see nowadays. I love how during the eighties there was so much experimenting going on with vocals. The balls they had to keep pushing. Also they had great content lyrically. Not line after line of meaningless teenage issues.

[@kyachdistent1301]

Grim? But that's a compliment, it means writing about serious issues and unlike the likes of Weller's shit group The Jam and dumb idiots like Madness & Spamhead Ballet, China C had serious things to say. I don't get this 'grim' thing, guitar-based music is grim. Not only does it always sound more dated than synth lines, but it usually gets boring quick. And don't term this 'typical synth'. Nothing 'typical' about this awesome tune or EVERYBODY could do it. Typical guitar-based crap is what I'd term Bon Jovi and other shit from the 80s without an important sound, or who are just bad jokes. And typical disco crap is what the likes of slagdonna the untalented does. And dumb kids music like Wham! & Michael Jackson and icky ear-splitting love ballad bull from Whit Houston, Tina Turner and all those boring women, then the awful S/A/W machine. And more guitar-driven icky crap like Phil Collins, Sting. Yuck. Thank God for REAL talent like China Crisis!

[@PHOENIXHOUSE137]

I absolutely loved this when it was first released. It got a lot of airplay, will never understand why it wasn’t a hit. To be honest they’ve never written a duff song - very underrated songwriters. Looking forward to their 40th anniversary concert 👍🏻

[@seanharrington730]

They remind me in some ways of xtc, great songs, never had the sales to match, never understood why

[@malcolmhughes2363]

its a great song

[@HarryFlowerrs]

I’m sick of people classing proper bands as underrated, they’re only underrated in your opinion for Fuck Sake!

[@PHOENIXHOUSE137]

@@HarryFlowerrs I’m praising them I don’t know what you’re talking about

[@PHOENIXHOUSE137]

@@HarryFlowerrs I’m praising them?! I don’t know what you’re going on about

[@cesarincamendozaloyola4407]

Wicked bass to ornament a sequence of delicate melodies

[@stephanieevans941]

Adore CC, this is one of my special favs. Roll on November in Darwen, my first time seeing them in concert!

[@felipedulz1032]

Amazing Song!

[@RogueWJL]

Rediscovering this amazing group.

[@josemarecos3186]

Que temaso...jose de paraguay...80s

[@Ale.Beatle]

Saludos desde Guarambare Py

[@arnoldmabalay5841]

"tragedy and mystery open your mind and you will see." It's their music to listen to.

[@wellysonomena8972]

Banda adorável. Amo demais! Tenho em vinil o "Working With Fire And Steel de 1983, e o Flaunt The Imperfection de 1985".

[@edinaldoabreudacosta3741]

👏👏👏

[@alejandrocurado5134]

This song featured in my first ever made compilation on Cassette I recorded from the radio when I was 13, my first year in high school

[@johntorresaraujo3378]

Gran año 1983 Amo este tema vivan los 80'

[@miguelangel.5488]

Marvellous💜💜

[@Ipdex]

Beautiful track, just beautiful..

[@Perseas1]

Really good Rythim melody...and much better from today songs....Oh Yes Very Yes

[@julietoland7665]

music keeps me going...in this existance we need some joy

[@cristobalbobadillafleitas7493]

I like so much China crisis band music

[@tomrawley6549]

they sound just as good live, they still tour.

[@LFOVCF]

Wonderful songsmiths. always a haunting melody

[@britneychester6176]

best master musicians and vocals, love them ! 💗💗💗💗💗💗

[@roytbone5791]

"C'mon la, we're gonna make a video in that London."

[@KJosef24]

Branson lured them down with tea and buns. Could easily have made that vidyo on de Merseee.

[@miguelangelferrenavarro5179]

Siempre pop melódico elegante!!!grandes!!

[@malgorzataczerska8340]

Pamiętam ten utwór z radia ❤

[@mickharrison9004]

Very good band in 80 s ,and i was young back then so id say there also was ,many other great bands so much going on back then ,from the jam to sex pistols and spandau ballet ,omd ,joy division ,could go on and on forgot blondie .

[@tyroon81]

The chorus is just brilliant😍

[@markcolston2930]

So love this,sadly lost in time!

[@seank.chambers]

Nice hat Gary .. 👒👍👍

[@steelcrazy409]

sublime,so much brilliant music came from GB in the 80s.

[@Rod-bp8ow]

Ravaging tragedy came along, but thy strength didn't sway thee along, it is as fierce as the sword of light, in guard ye lights that emanates in the vastness of places of truth. /./././RHD/G.M Industries. Thank you.

[@montsegargallo-mj3bp]

Sinceramente una obra de arte!!!!!!!

[@joannanangle4876]

Your world is changing faster every day. Love themx

[@musicdemos80]

BEST china crisis song

[@Guillermo-fm1lq]

Un estilo y categoría como muy,muy pocos.

[@welshlad6427]

One of their best ❤

[@tonymontanajr61]

Nice nice👌🏻

[@agentnil7509]

This is the first time I have heard this song. I feel it is more important now than it was then. There is more mystery now and it has a degree of darkness

[@jackfrost838]

Great bassline.

[@tuxster123]

What a bass player,exceptional.... name anybody ???🤔

[@markduncan3246]

gazza johnson

[@damianalajero]

Joder!!! De repente He volados 30 años atrás !!! 🙆‍♂️

[@bloochoob]

Opening line, he’s walking along Shad Thames outside my house 🤩

[@jackmatthewtyson]

Thanks for sharing this! I have a website on which users can post videoclips and info about them (locations, cameo's) afterwards. This will be added! Do you recognize any of the other locations?

[@diegoyakisich4006]

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[@juanjosemoyarodriguez8930]

Inolvidables.

[@silvigarcia6388]

😍 Q recuerdos uff

[@LdevArt]

PREDICTING the future here with their lyrics

[@ellenigma2099]

2020

[@eliezerlogronio]

Such an art :) pleasing to the ears.

[@peeduwee]

Other Worldy early 80's brilliance.

[@josemarecos3186]

The best

[@Geletemol]

Underrated??? I think really succesful

[@master-kq3nw]

Excellent

[@sergiomatanzasmora7813]

Increible

[@chrisr5499]

The singer reminds me of Irish Rugby player Johnny Sexton.

[@CarlosAguilar-ro9zl]

La forma en que bailan, me recuerda a tear for fears

[@josediaz9020]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@rockall7083]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHe3hYymhdd6rKc

[@cristinadoldan7717]

The best song of China crisis

[@adamw126]

This one's quite good but I like "Wishful Thinking" better.

[@patriciahealey2927]

Check out liverpool singer mick roach an his track meantime , Amazing

[@bienvesena2210]

Que maravilla

[@andresexpositomosqueda8352]

Buena musica britanica❤❤❤😅😅😅

[@michaelplein9402]

Prefer this music to most shit in 2020

[@mattma96]

I just couldn't find some decent music probably after the millenium.

[@davidflinton44]

Lot a better than shit nowadays

[@tonyeructo]

Tragedy and misery. Open thy mouth and thou wilt drink.

[@diamondgelo3843]

80s music: allí Times BEST músic

[@tonyeructo]

Perbon cánciu.