Dream Academy - "The Love Parade" (Official Music Video)

[@jorged06]

More than 3 decades later this song still moves me. Nostalgic, beautiful, timeless. Perfect.

[@marshalllancaster2314]

Yeah it is special!

[@aplleyva]

I remember I had the radio on in the background and this song came on and I took great notice. Loved it ever since

[@WarpedRecord]

Someday I’ll be able to hear this song without breaking into tears at the profound beauty of it and the way it transports me to a better time in my life. This is definitely not that day. Talk amongst yourselves, please.

[@anthonypersons7212]

T H A N K Y O U!

[@arianebrendaalberskristian5866]

👍👍🥰❤️

[@computerboy2k]

A time where we didn’t have adult responsibilities, but on the edge of finding our significant other, saying I do’s, and maybe bringing the next generation into the world…I long for those times, but I wouldn’t trade it for what I have now…cheers mate!!!

[@fleurdhiver4833]

❤️❤️❤️ Since the 80's

[@doctorgarbonzo2525]

The power of Music! It can make you laugh & it will cry it will touch your heart & soul deep deep down inside,

[@riazbaksh1794]

Still love this song in 2020. Can't believe it's 35 years old.

[@gaboschultz1312]

Me too and always is classic, so refined, so sophistocated

[@gaboschultz1312]

Greats from Buenos Aires

[@dmj8891]

It sounds so timeless!

[@woodykelleher9253]

No idea this music video even existed til now.

[@teawanga]

Sublime

[@user-ph1xw5bs1r]

this is the epitome of lush 80s pop, with heavy doses of poetic-romanticism and melodic harmonies. I wish I could do it all over again. It really was a Dream.... God Save...

[@mrmedallis]

Well put. Same.

[@medicalattack]

Have anymore recommendations for this era? I like these deep cuts

[@julieb6512]

This brings back so many sweet memories of my youth with tears in my eyes

[@Hyper_V]

Dream Academy is just such a breath of fresh air in the pop music industry, both back then and also now... you don't hear stuff like this these days....

[@donovick]

It was produced by Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and Nick Laird-Clowes.

[@Purple1984Rain]

Loved this band even though they came and went in a flash back in 1985/86. Both their singles "Life In A Northern Town" and "Love Parade" sounded so fresh and very different from a lot of stuff that was on the radio at the time. This song has such a cool sped up 80's techno sound with a late 60's carefree kind of vibe.

[@SuperNevile]

Shane Anthony They actually brought out two further excellent albums "Remembrance Days" (1987) and "A Different Kind Of Weather" (1990) which for some very very very strange reason never charted in the UK and "Remembrance Days" only got to 181 in the US. Their first album (Life In A Northern Town) only got to 50 in the UK and 20 in the US... :-(

[@WinstonGuitar]

+Shane Anthony Yup. What Shane said.

[@jonmills5249]

You have your whole life to write your first album. It's harder to write your second.

[@kyachdistent1301]

It wasn't strange! Look at how they treated Kim Wilde-the best woman in music, with the most knockout albums anyone truly released-each highly different from the other, yet all highly brilliant, with not one weak track. Even more significantly, the 15 extra tunes she did during the first decade-every non-album B-side and non-album single, made another highly excellent album when compiled together and played from the first to last. Never did she drop the ball once, just soared, yet support and stats don't bare this reality. This befell loads of decent artists, even the few American ones that were worth it ('Til Tuesday, Voice Of The Beehive, Information Society, Bangles that even their own stupid country cared nothing about. Many UK acts were treated dreadfully and never got the hits they deserved or the plaudits or are remembered fondly-IF EVEN AT ALL-down the line either. Ever since Madonna the vile arrived that same year as the Academy, every other act (if it weren't critically acclaimed) had to just disappear and slide away. It was all about Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and other crap that shouldn't even exist like Bon Jovi, while the equally lousy but nauseatingly acclaimed ones like Weller, Sting, Collins, Cure were allowed to carry on. U2, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Sade and Alison Moyet were safe, everyone else could sod off. Ironically I feel this is their weakest tune. The debut naturally got the most singles off it, but that doesn't make it better. 'The Lesson Of Love' for me is their ultimate tune, and their excellent Smiths cover. They did no wrong singles, but this one doesn't have the same punch the other do. Too wishy-washy.

[@marshalllancaster2314]

Played this over and over summer ‘86. Through Spotify I have heard the collection. Excellent.

[@MrLevinej]

I can't get over how beautiful the girls background vocals sound on this

[@skykitchen867]

I can honestly say that i didn't care too much for Life in a Northern Town, but when I heard this for the first time on the radio, I went and bought the album just to get the track. One of my all time favorites. Beautiful and even to this very day it still is.

[@greeneyedsoutherngirl6468]

LOL same, except I heard it yesterday and I was little and I loved it back then and I had forgotten it-so when I heard it yesterday, it was like hearing it the first time again-I went to iTunes and had to get it!

[@amorninginmay]

​@Greeneyed Southern Girl it was so hard to find. No name seemed to suit it when you looked for it...I happened to hear it in the store and asked my phone the title. ❤

[@alternadiva2010]

They remind me of Prefab Sprout in this song. Two superb bands, in my humble opinion.

[@sammyslam1]

One of my all time faves!!! This one, The Blow Monkeys "Diggin Your Scene", Spandau Ballet "Gold", Modern English "Melt With You", Big Country "In A Big Country", Men At Work, "Down Under", They Might Be Giants, "Don't Let's Start, Eddy Grant, "Electric Avenue, Nik Kershaw, "Wouldn't It Be Good", The Cure "Let's Go To Bed", and on and on and on and on.....😊 So many great great tunes in this era! My above list is just a speck of dust.....😊

[@marshalllancaster2314]

1986, summer, really into this song

[@carlosmansilla3880]

UAU LA PUTA MADRE QUE BUENOS RECUERDOS QUE ME TRAJISTE DICIENDO SUMMER 86. QUE BUENO VERANO QUE FUE ESE. INOLVIDABLE

[@101iswhatsup]

Blessings to good memories... In my phrasing, "this mug ride!" Blessings yo.

[@dairocastro7115]

TREMENDO TEMAZO. Sin duda alguna, los 70's y 80's fueron una maravilla. Da nostalgia ver que todo haya pasado tan rápido...

[@blackcoffy83]

I haven't heard this song until a couple of weeks ago and I can't stop playing it!! It's so breathy and dreamy sounding ✨️ ❤️

[@davidl570]

No wonder they called themselves the Dream Academy!

[@adrianfuentes4623]

GREAT MUSIC. GREAT SONG. GREAT VOICE. !!!! G. R. E. A. T !!!!!

[@19gregske55]

In my humble opinion, this track "The Love Parade" beats "Life in a Northern Town" hands down. Superb. Timeless.

[@victorevanssr8771]

I second that

[@daveyboy_]

The British release is better

[@19gregske55]

@@daveyboy_ which is better: "Life in a Northern Town" or "Love Parade"? Be specific

[@daveyboy_]

@@19gregske55 Ahhh , good question . I have no opinion about that , im just saying the extended version of The Love Parade is better than this one .

[@olaoluwaafolayan6554]

I agree; this song is infinitely more buoyant and energetic... although I have to admit that “Northern Town” has grown on me over the years.

[@hamaniecheenibass5729]

I just love it when he sings "this is dedicated to the one i love ❤....". A true timeless classic

[@averyadrian1534]

The mid 80’s began to shift away from harsh angst of punk and new wave and dipped into the peace and love optimism of the late 60’s and this band with life in a northern town took us there - lush idealism of peace and love vibrations Feeling it - tapping into this is a good thing

[@user-fv4sf7im3q]

I loved this song ever since I was 15 years old. and still love it at 52.

[@stevepizzo5530]

Seriously, how awesome was this band? Absolutely loved them and "In Places on the Run" took me away on multiple nights in the 80's. So completely underrated! John Hughes, every 80's teen hero, used much of their music in his movies. He loved them too!

[@maxrosato1784]

Steve Pizzo was this song ever used? I know he had their songs in ferris bueller and planes trains and automobiles but was there any others? I'm doing an essay on him ;)

[@LanceVanceDance84]

@@maxrosato1784 John Hughes was a big fan of them, but he only ever used three of their songs in his films. An instrumental version of _The Edge of Forever_ and their cover of _Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want_ were in Ferris Bueller, and an instrumental version of _Power to Believe_ was in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

[@deanward393]

What a gem one of the best pop song ever never gets old.

[@vcr210]

One of my favorite bands. Their songs stand the test of time.

[@HarryFlowerrs]

I remember meeting the group at a party in Battersea Power Station in '86 & talking to them about this track and how much I loved it,they were well chuffed! Haven't heard it in years and it still sounds brilliant! Form is temporary,Class is permanent!👌

[@florenomorence1492]

Lol well chuffed. I like that. 😆

[@davidl570]

Did you see any floating pigs there too? (You know, the Pink Floyd Animals album cover......................)

[@vannjunkin8041]

What an awesome memory!

[@HarryFlowerrs]

​@@vannjunkin8041Hence I'm back for more... 💜

[@lucasmya9413]

This is the second song I have heard from the Dream Academy, and I have heard it literally six times already. Wonderful beautiful song.

[@barteechris]

The day I fell in LOVE with SEK! Thank you Dream Academy. Thank you 💕❤️🙏🏾

[@debbiestuart5084]

I have been looking for this song for years....all I could remember was the " " and if he could put himself into a different skin " part....yayyyyy, a quarantine bonus!

[@hamaniecheenibass5729]

Same here all i could remember was "this is dedicated to the one i love" glad i found it

[@kadrian5582]

This song has a way of making me feel something that current music sometimes fails to do🔥🔥

[@agnesbonnetain8656]

Their music relaxed the mind and made you dream.....

[@venicebluemagatt3588]

I am 51 now....this marsterpiece brings me back...i never got nowadays sad

[@patofliky6567]

UNA OBRA DE ARTE ! Unas melodias que te relaja y te transporta a esos bellos lugares o momentos únicos. Solo decir GRACIAS The Dream Academy

[@davel4467]

Summer of '86, On our way to Maui for our honeymoon. First heard this song on the flight's playlist. The love parade goes on, Even against all odds, We're still together.

[@woodykelleher9253]

Beautiful! Why can't music be like this today??

[@markrobinson8254]

because Poetry isn't valued

[@christineharrelson4831]

It's out there, I promise!

[@michaeldentico]

Posted a comment on the U.S. version of this video so this one is no different. To The Dream Academy, thank you for putting your tracks and videos up to be enjoyed by old souls like me. The cold winters in Chicago become infinitely more manageable when I have music like this to warm things up a bit. Cheers, Michael

[@johnellis5865]

Agreed and well said Michael D. Hey I'm in Chicago - born, raised and returned. Let' s got some retro music like this returning to the Windy City.

[@starkermann1567]

Great song one of the best songs of the '80s, a green icon with a great particularity in his sound and voice. A wonderful song with a great presence in its identity. A sensational band.

[@greeneyedsoutherngirl6468]

I heard this yesterday on Sirius XM and had forgotten about it! I was just a little kid and I love this song!

[@robm.2739]

Such a great song, my favorite from The Dream Academy....

[@dogscratchedoor]

This song still sounds as awesome as it did in 1985 and is still one of my favorite songs. Captures the desire and longing felt and with these gratifying harmonies the complex textures, a definite European feel, their gift to us of great aesthetic and art. I hope all have found good work and love paths through these years. Love you, Dream Academy.

[@hit8090]

This song is one of the best expressions of the new romantic, congratulations Dream Academy for the work in the 80s! "Saudades"

[@bonusbaby801]

37 years later & I did not even know The Dream Academy had a second Top 40 song. Guess I'm not quite the 80's Pop Music aficionado I thought I was. Damn.

[@tracyhall6195]

. YES ! 😃 ... To go with hits ..... 💎 "Life in a Northern Town" ...(1985) 💎 "Please Please Please..Let Me Get What I Want !" ...(the Smiths: cover, 1985) 💎 "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" .. (the Korgis: cover, 1987 . . with Lindsey Buckingham 🎸) 🤘😎👍

[@zillzultraboy]

I love this friggin' song! Grew up hearing this song. Remember when it first came out.

[@paulstewart9359]

This song is a musical masterpiece I can listen to it on a hot day rainy day day or night even after listening to Heavy Metal Death Metal Punk Rock Rock and Roll this song calms me down thank God for this song it is a healing song ✌️

[@anaibarangan4908]

That's today. A cloudy and probably rainy day. It might get better later on today. Seems a little too chilly to rain, but a good fishing day, if stay near the coast, because the water is calm.

[@fe2nq]

This song is dedicated to all you people who are going to get your heart broken and think that your life will never be the same only to realize it was a learning event, and that your real love was still coming down the road

[@FL8mileshigh1]

Great song. I hear a touch of Prefab Sprout in this wonderful piece.

[@WiwatChang]

Thanks Dream Academy, this is one of my most favourite songs ever. Surprised myself I could still sing along to this :D

[@lmckinney9369]

I agree!

[@mtjensen5]

Love his baggy white shirt...and those pants...too cool!

[@paco3.030]

Una gran gran canción. Una pena que hayan grabado tan poco. Gran banda que nos remonta hasta la hermosa mitad de la década de los ochenta. Bien por The Dream Academy

[@NADINEMACASER]

I'm fall in love of Kate St. John!! She's an angel. A poem dedicated to love.

[@bpagan7781]

First time hearing this. Fantastic airy feeling slightly 60's flavor . I'm loving it!

[@Aramanth]

*_Forget-me-not kisses at the end of a slow walk_* 💐 Beautiful summery lyrics... love the "heir apparant" lyric, clever... Dreamy and sunny imagery makes me wish it was June already.

[@shabbastewart980]

The best era of music.....where you could identify with the songs and you were surrounded by lyrics that lingers for lifetimes

[@Belfran]

Only heard it once and couldn't for the life of me, find it; looked into Howard Jones, Joe Jackson, OMD...years on Spotify! Finally today I found you and make my day again, thanks for the music!

[@cristianmarceloarrocet9377]

Exelente tema... The love parade uno más de la década de los 80's...

[@2112sgb]

Dude is swaggin hard in that tangerine suit.

[@10191927]

Ah! Classic 80s goodness. Thank you guys so much for this! Dream Academy rules!

[@jameslenahan6075]

Lush harmonies. Love this video and song!

[@zomdeath1203]

If Dave Gilmour produces your band its bound to be timeless ❤

[@chow729]

I am just discovering their music. All so different and the musical arrangement is just mad. Very refreshing yet i'm just discovering it. Their sound is very pleasant and not in a predictable way. i sure hope they're still working on tunes.

[@mariotarradell9553]

Gorgeous tune, and in my humble opinion just as worthy of praise as Life In a Northern Town. Stunning!

[@ScottKuhn-zf4rt]

Heard this in a bar shortly after my marriage went to shit. It made me feel so good. I remembered the eighties and how good life can be. Fantastic.

[@annabanana377]

One of my fav. bands to this day!!! Fell in love with them from the get go! All their songs are incredible in every way, brilliant bunch!

[@yolandarivera194]

I been searching for this song love it

[@Daisypetal100]

I had this on audio cassette when I was a kid. I still love you guys.

[@mrmedallis]

Daisypetal100 87 grad here. Feels like an hour ago.

[@Daisypetal100]

@@mrmedallis time goes by so quickly. Music 🎶 doesn't sound as good these days as they did back then. This song is romantic.

[@jasonmassplayingmusic5533]

One of the best tracks of the entire 1980s…

[@peterc8979]

Was a great summer

[@robertspretnak5998]

This song is like a beautiful mosaic of music. It is made of little tiny bits of, and allusions to, so many classic soul and R&B songs from years before, all combined in a clever way so that a unique and wonderful picture emerges from all the fragments. Weirdly enough, "Life In a Northern Town" never spoke to me, but I've always thought this song was the one that should've been the massive mega-hit. I only now after all these decades thought to look to see if there was a video of this. And, of course, there was, this being from the mid 80s.

[@rjmcallister1888]

1985: the second single from their first LP; added it at KJAS but it didn't get the same reaction as "Life in a Northern Town", and we dropped it a couple of weeks later. Kate St. John is simply adorable, though.

[@MrLevinej]

Is she related to Jill St.John?

[@sukhbhatti1554]

This song is amazing and Timeless

[@alandyche6156]

Another fabulous pop song from the Dream Academy! Cheers to the fellow who remembered Prefab Sprout!

[@redrob67]

Great that Prefab Sprout are still going strong. Well, singer/songwriter Paddy McAloon is, anyway. They have a new album coming out in September.

[@robfalgiano]

Prefab is fantastic. May I also recommend the final three records by Talk Talk.

[@On2sMC]

This song last the test of time and brings back so many memories.

[@danielalmeida7126]

Spring started this week. This song sounds like spring lol.

[@tomahawkseven]

So true!

[@danielalmeida7126]

+tomahawkseven just had the first bbq of Spring this year in Scotland. :D

[@mikeshumaker]

Ironic; this was actually released in the spring of 1986 in the United States, when it reached #36.

[@mjfangirlgal45]

Refreshing

[@emanualavery-ov8do]

I always enjoyed this song by the dream academy.

[@Guy_de_Loimbard]

Totally, totally forgot about this song. Stumbled on it looking for Life in a Northern Town and I'm so glad I did.

[@claudioadrianfuentes829]

THANKS FOR YOUR MUSIC.

[@fallonashton280]

I love this song. It's romantic! Thumbs up. I had this album on audio cassette when the album was released.

[@TheSteveRobinson]

I still have this on vinyl.

[@TheSteveRobinson]

Personally, I like intelligent, educated attractive women that have nice legs.. Would you like to go out some time? I'll throw this album on before I make dinner.

[@victorevanssr.5034]

Awesome song

[@diegopalavecino7038]

Aquellos que les gusta este género de música no pueden negar la excelencia de este temazo!!

[@myxgroupmyx8896]

Tremendo 👏💕

[@BLACK8PHOENIX]

I love this it transports me to my teenage years when life was easy amy health was good. I was happy and i looked at life through rose petal glasses

[@michaelbutcher3563]

Remember hearing this track in a very silent, unbusy pub and RACKING my brains as to the group who did it. Took me a fair few years to crack that it was the Dream Academy.

[@DreFromMaine8472]

My favorite song by this band! I love how it sounds!

[@Jefflantern483]

Just listened to this song as it was snowing outside. Wow fantastic memories of summer of 1986, as I would stare outside of my window & look at the puffy clouds go by as the sun shined! 😊😊 Great tune time listen to after a joint! 🌿🌿

[@michiganmike67]

Dreamy, nostalgic and totally infectious mid 80’s new wave pop. Should of been a much bigger hit.

[@davidbrooks2631]

This song has always put a smile on my face!

[@myxgroupmyx8896]

😊

[@johnbarry1965]

I bought the album when it came out and i've only realised how much like Paddy McAloon Nick Laird-Clowes sounds like!!!

[@c.draper1483]

Fantastic song...

[@KidTitan]

Back in the 80's I made a VHS tape of some of the music videos on MTV this song was the first one I taped. I love Dream Academy, bought 3 of their LPs back in the day.

[@RobertoGonzalez-tn9ji]

De lo mejor de aquellos inolvidables 80's.

[@EricSmith-hd1wk]

Like a lot of bands from the 80’s Warner Bros (their label that signed them up for a 3 record deal) did absolutely nothing to promote them, even though John Hughes surely did what he could for them - there was so many other bands out then with harder edge music, their music was considered fluff by the FM rock stations - but after hearing their first LP, I found myself mesmerized by their sound, and even with their sophomore effort having Indian Summer as their lead single, they were ignored by most radio stations - the lamoid album cover art did not help matters - I still consider it their best work

[@fathernsontv2446]

still 2019......love this song

[@mattparks2153]

Me too. It's wonderful isn't it?

[@aaronking488]

Life in a northern town... The Dream academy...still living it till this day... along with "please please please..." from ferris buelers day off.

[@lianamcgregor3487]

THE AESTHETICS ! :O

[@christianleblanc2842]

Love the lyric from the thematically-related Me and Mrs. Jones.

[@user-zk1zi7md1q]

いつ聴いてもいい曲！

[@user-zk1zi7md1q]

中３頃よく聴いてた！未だに聴いてます!!

[@isabelmoreno1803]

I heart this song!!! No, I'm OBSESSED with it!!!

[@thebeardedseeker5633]

loved this band. i was 16 and going through my neo hippy phase when this song was released. back then i felt like i was born 20 years too late. this band really captured that 60s mood very well. :)

[@carl_anderson9315]

Kate St. John’s beauty was haunting.

[@steveschwartz7322]

Great song even better then Life in a Northern Town

[@claudioadrianfuentes829]

BEAUTIFUL YOU MAKE CRY THANKS.

[@maxdcorgi]

Still refreshing, keeps me going during this crazy times.

[@jbass6665]

My music collection in the mid 80s consisted of all rock/metal and one Dream Academy cassette. 30+ years later and I'm still listening to Dream Academy and zero hair metal.

[@maggieleyton7317]

NICE MUSIC I' LOVE ITS❤❤

[@drtabe]

I remember as a teen in the 80s skating down the street listening to this on my walkman..this is dedicated to the one I love..my wife but its over now...