(From The Video Vault) Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now | REACTION

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[@jamelakajamal]

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[@VicMikesvideodiary]

I've always loved this song, ever since it first came out. I was a teenager in the 80's. But what a weird time for pop media. The cloths, the massive drug scene, weird songs about stalking people. It's like vampire people took over for a while, all wearing bright neon pastel colored clothing.

[@THECAJUNYETI]

Wayne Wonder did the song for 50 First Dates with a reggae beat Still a Great Song you check it out

[@timdyer5326]

I am so glad you are coming to British new wave bands Jamel. Thompson twins have much to offer. Please react to Talk Talk. life's what you make it, happiness is easy, it's my life, living in another world, and early stuff. Talk talk, my foolish friend, today. Believe me you will love Mark Hollis haunting voice and the base lines, and piano. Chord changes. Talk Talk My Foolish Friend 1982, such vivid images of Halifax and north England then: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKXEYmaKhrB3nqs

[@timdyer5326]

I love your reactions mate. Always a happy day after a Jamel reaction.

[@dpchristian1]

Thank you for making these shirts available! The message catches people's attention in public. May you always have a heart full of love for your brothers and sisters.

[@jag9401]

Tom Bailey was my music teacher in school before he left to form the Thompson twins

[@patrickw123]

That's amazing! How was he as a teacher?

[@ButterCookie1984]

Totally cool😎👍

[@dbell582]

Wow so cool.

[@Myah234]

Oh MY GODDDDDD

[@sljf555]

Lucky, lucky you!

[@martinduquette8749]

The great british 80's pop music. Thompson Twins, Simply Red, Simple Mind, Spandau Ballet, cannot name them all but they were playing and playing on the air with pleasure.

[@yomogami4561]

oh i have to agree. some great songs in that mix

[@tghost739]

Agree!

[@tdstone]

Prefab Sprout!

[@matterpimp3146]

Don't forget XTC!

[@yunengdahl3675]

Psychedelic Furs, the Smiths, Cure, Tears for Fears. What about Adam Ant and Echo & the Bunnymen. More will come to me, give me a minute

[@wadedwigans442]

1984 was a fantastic year for music... this takes me back to bein 14 , ready to get my license and find out what I was missing!! I blinked and I'm 50.. impossible.. makes the heart hurt

[@sailor213100]

I'll be 52 in July, need to go back to then.

[@blgeiger71]

49 here, and I feel the same way! The 80s was such a wonderful, magical time to be a teenager...still my very favorite decade!

[@kevinrenn9123]

I was going to leave this same comment but saw you already had. It's nice to see I'm not the only one that these songs do this to. The things I'd like to tell my teenage self...

[@Qboro66]

Me, 17 and a high school grad then, now 54 and a dad now...😉

[@Qboro66]

@@blgeiger71 it was a perfect time to be a teen... The music, the movies, TV shows, video games... It was absolutely perfect and I show and tell my kids about it at least weekly...

[@dipsydoodle7988]

The singer and percussionist were secretly married through the height of their popularity. Literally, no one had a clue. The lyrics had personal meaning, obviously. They eventually divorced years later. These guys have amazing 80s hits. Doctor Doctor, Lies, and my favs off the album this came off of, Storm on the Sea and The Gap. Don't know if you're familiar with 16 Candles, but the song at the last scene of that movie is called If You Were Here and it's these guys.

[@loveandlight8533]

Thank You! I love learning facts about the "behind the scenes" of any song!

[@lindarenee2198]

Remember "In the name of love"?

[@Nunya_Bidness_53]

I love them, but they would have produced children so pale they could credibly call Conan O' Brien the "N-Word".

[@wolf762x51]

@@Nunya_Bidness_53 , They formed another band called Babble after the Twins split. They had two children together. They were a couple for a decade before they married, but they married in 1991 and divorced in 2003. They weren't actually married during their time in the Thompson Twins except for the last three years of the band. The great thing is Tom is back touring, and playing Thompson Twins music again for the first time since the band split.

[@UrsaMajorPrime]

@@wolf762x51 I love Babble

[@turnerdan53]

The lead singer and his wife ( The woman on cow bell ) had one of those fights that escalates over nothing so you go to neutral corner while he wrote this song.

[@zelgkopitar8799]

Bassist is like "Yo I think we need more bass." Everyone else: "naw man it sounds good." Bassist: "Ok, more bass it is!"

[@OgreProgrammer]

And he was right!

[@robertb1849]

More cowbell!!

[@whtwht]

Classic tune man

[@gradybird3336]

I've listened to this song since it came out, but never before on headphones. That bass crushes!

[@thisiswhatilike54]

I ain’t complainin’

[@jackie_jrml]

Something About You by Level 42, (I Just) Died In Your Arms by Cutting Crew and Promises Promises by Naked Eyes play after this on my 80’s playlist. 👌🏼👌🏼

[@sljf555]

Yes! Something About You and I Just Died In Your Arms. Cutting Crew did a great video too.

[@Turbochapman]

I just died is still over played in our area

[@kellysmith3917]

I miss the Eighties!!! We had so much friggn fun!! What a great era in music!!! Great reaction!!!

[@micksmusicchannel]

You're right Kelly 👍

[@mikebailey783]

I was having a Thompson Twins session only today and now this reaction drops! - Love this song. You've gotta do 'Doctor! Doctor!' next!!

[@erin535]

The 80's were the best times to be a teenager...I'm 51 now, and still obsessed with 80's music! Check out Don't You Want Me by the Human League

[@bknsty14]

47 and I feel the same. I have the top 100 from each year, 80-89, on my phone and just like to hit shuffle and see where it takes me.

[@leonardosgood7819]

right with ya, brother.

[@lostinwonderart]

He needs to do Howard Jones Things Can Only Get Better. BTW, I thought it was so cool that the Thompson twins cassette album had an orange case. 🤣

[@Vaticider69]

51 and feel the same way.... Nostalgia is strong..

[@debbiegoolsbyjackson95]

I'm 66...still LOVE the 80's!! I was only 25 in 1980...lol

[@Frankincensedjb123]

A song that swirls, intertwines, wraps and enraptures.

[@kingham61ki]

Great comment

[@estimatedleighton6389]

What a statement! Really sums up this song

[@alrivers2297]

Perfect description!

[@PanicSurvivor]

Perfect description

[@dbell582]

I love your verbiage and it’s so on point.

[@elainethomas9985]

My idiotic 19 year old self in 1983 in a very short lived first marriage. This song can still take me straight back to those memories and feelings. I love that 19 year old me, the lessons she learned and her ability to still have an open heart.

[@katethomas5712]

That's a positive outlook. How have you managed to keep your heart open? I struggle with this, especially when things happen over and over again

[@dbell582]

I wish my heart was still open but this last one left me reeling for the past 10 yrs. I just want to move on. Ugh

[@micksmusicchannel]

We got through it Elaine 👍

[@micksmusicchannel]

@@katethomas5712 stay strong Kate

[@lunagal]

New wave music...it was big when I was in college and Thompson Twins were one of many with Duran Duran, the Police, Simple Minds, Flock of Seagulls....

[@deking43]

For sure, I went to UF in 1982. Flock of Seagulls played live at the on campus bar, the Rathskeller, ! She ran, she ran so far away...

[@sounder9393]

And don't forget the Fixx. One Things Leads to Another, Saved by Zero, Are We Ourselves.

[@greendoor49]

flock of seagulls were (are) the biggest arse holes on the planet...I had the displeasure of being in their orbit..

[@stephanlarsen8169]

Adam ant 🐜🐝🌞🐘☮️🌊🌹🌛 we echo and t bunny 🐰 Men. Madness Men without hats. Jah Herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah sisters

[@Telefiend]

I was a total metal head in the 80s and I would tell anyone I loved this song.

[@bobthebear1246]

Me too. I hadn't yet become a Metalhead - watching "Freewheel Burning" by Judas Priest just mere months later would do that to me - so loving this song was never an 'issue' for me (if I may use that expression). I loved this song the first time I heard it, and have never stopped, even with all the Metal I've consumed over the past 37 years now. 🤘🏻

[@suprchickn7745]

Lots of us metal people like music period! I still love ABBA and just found out Frida (one of the two female singers) did one of my favorite songs of the 80s.

[@davidelswick6660]

Great 80s song. This was a hit during my freshman year of high school. I'm 52 now. It's hard to believe it's been that long, but it still sounds great. Great reaction, as usual, Jamal.

[@jaywillingham4085]

The uncut version of this song is a glorious 9 minutes long. Joe Leeway, Tom Bailey, and Alannah Currie wrote some of THE most infectious songs of the 80s, yet many people dont even know who they are. Love on your side, Lies, Doctor Doctor, Lay your hands on me, If you were here, Love lies bleeding.

[@sarahhannush1466]

My mother got her ribs broken at a Thompson Twins concert. She was shoved up against the metal barrier in front of the stage. At the time, she didn't totally register what happened and adrenaline kept her up, but she was clearly hurt somehow. So they came over and sang to her, having noticed.

[@brushstroke3733]

I had this song in my head for twenty something years not being able to find it. It was so cool when I found it on KZbin a couple years ago! It was like I had been insane and suddenly I found out I was sane!

[@SpideyVids]

I still have the album on vinyl - I went out and bought it as soon as I heard this song on Top of the Pops.

[@bobbusby5058]

No song takes me back to the 80s more than this, its like a time capsule.

[@micksmusicchannel]

A real classic

[@kaymad]

Quintessential 80’s right there.

[@reganferguson4823]

The long version of this song is an absolute masterpiece!!

[@bekkiware264]

I know a lot of people make fun of 80's music but there was some good stuff then. Thanks for the video.

[@jameslawson2663]

The 80s was probably the greatest era of music of all times. It wasn’t just one certain type of music either, they were smashing it it pop, punk, rock, metal, country. The whole catalog was simply amazing.

[@tghost739]

Loved the 80's music...

[@meikorules1]

@@jameslawson2663 FUCK YEAH !!!

[@lonedinosaur13]

True. Has he done til Tuesday, “voices carry”? Another 80’s gem. The video is a little intense w overacting but the end is awesome. And Aimee Mann is so cool.

[@teddyritola2655]

@@jameslawson2663 James DID YOU KNOW The 70s Have 8 of the top 25 biggest selling LPS In The USA ,? , A TRUE Fact , And the whole Catalog In the 70s was just as Amazing ,

[@misturchips]

Thank you - with your willingness to learn about so many different types of music, you're helping me and many others expand our tunnel-hearing....

[@marcofalzone6469]

Exactly

[@pisces228]

From the album "Into the Gap." I was in 9th grade when it came out and I wore out the CASSETTE TAPE in my Walkman! Love the Thompson Twins. Thank you for reacting to this one!

[@HeyItsKarenMarie]

This song came out when I was 8 or 9 and I didn’t understand the lyrics at the time. I just liked the beat. But now as an adult, it hits hard. It’s so relatable now.

[@SignalCorps1]

Oh, to be able to return to the 80s and to do it all again. This really takes me back

[@ausfuhrpramienjagar]

The greatest bassline ever in a song .. from all of the 1980's! 🙂

[@skylab14]

One of my favorite songs. ..... Rest in Peace to my dearly departed friend, Demetrius. Love you my friend.

[@sandyleewhite]

I will always love how the 80's was the only decade, that would go anywhere, and everywhere, and they did!!! Best time to be young ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣

[@dathorndike4908]

Classic song. So original and innovative. How could a band write something so great as this and then disappear?

[@nfbuckeye]

As a child of the 80s, this song brings the warm/fuzzies.

[@lisaashby1547]

YES!

[@Fairygrl_TW]

Such a fun and funky group, some of the best of the 80's...Vocals and lyrics on point, funky bass...Love it. Thanks Jamel, Peace

[@mjwaldrep]

You nailed it, Jamel. Most pop songs today are formulaic and technology reliant. Songs like this remind me of song craftsmanship.

[@micksmusicchannel]

Real underrated band Michael

[@garysteinert8040]

I was stationed in New Zealand with the US navy when this was a hit.

[@ellenjones4523]

Thank you for your service Gary. Good song.

[@paull4968]

One of my favorite 80s bands. Thomas Bailey is now touring on his own and is awesome.

[@blueknight5754]

You always pick good songs to review!

[@lorneknapp6712]

Wow, bring back some memories! This and "Doctor Doctor" were my faves from this band. Thank you for playing! this!

[@sourisvoleur4854]

I like how in 1980s soft rock/pop songs, the vocals are so forward in the mix. Lyrics and melody are very important to me and I love not having to fight to hear it.

[@ZachBrimhall]

Saw them in concert 1983. The opening band was Berlin. Awesome concert. This video looks like the exact stage setup they had for the concert. Good times!

[@sda6691]

My most favorite song when i was high school!!!! ❤❤❤

[@micksmusicchannel]

A classic Shelly 👌

[@flintrock5383]

I'm 53 and this is on my list of favorites. Check out Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame.

[@gerard1954]

That’s funny always thought The Thompson twins and Howard Jones went together

[@jimmyzee7040]

The 80’s was the best time for music.

[@fitzgivesfits1]

Tattered and torn is a common expression but it's a poetic way to say things are in shambles, almost to the point that the relationship can't be reconciled. React to "Goodbye says it all" by Blackhawk (country trio).

[@Laniefj]

MTV flashbacks, that was the 80's for me as I was a nurse and we would sit and watch MTV in our down time. Down time is a thing of the past. So happy to relive those memories in the midst of Covid and all that comes with it as a nurse.

[@suzan5533]

I really love the Thompson Twins. ❤️ Simply good to dance to and the lyrics

[@summerwooten512]

YES!!! LOVE IT!! LOVE MY 80S!!! Born in '79.... But I love ALL MUSIC!!! Awesome awesome song!!💯💯💯💯🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@crhu319]

This song, and Romantic Traffic by The Spoons True, Spandau Ballet Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper Red Lipstick, Blue Peter Worlds Away, Strange Advance Avalon, Roxy Music (whole damn album) are the most romantic tracks of the 1980s imho.

[@echopryme]

Underrated song of the 80's. They had, just, a COOL style! Its impossible to describe, but it was fucking cool!!!

[@mandylorien314]

This song is hardly underrated - It is the TT's highest charting single across a number of countries.

[@cjturner370]

How is this master piece underated Especially it's there biggest hit And #1 Define your definition of underated please!!???!?

[@cjturner370]

@@mandylorien314 I would love to know how this master piece was underrated also!

[@echopryme]

@@cjturner370 Do you hear ANYONE on a retrospect of the music of the 80's talk about i!? Or do they talk about Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Def Leppard?!? 💯💯💯 IT'S UNDERRATED! And its an amazing song... but its been buried among the 80's songs. And it deserved to be remembered. 💯

[@bevvie7262]

Saw them live when I was about 19 or 20 They were absolutely brilliant and I still say this was one of the best concerts I've been to and I've been to a lot. I remember the floor of the concert hall bouncing up and down and thinking we're all going to go through it. Great day!

[@jackie_jrml]

Yes yes yes!! Instant thumbs up 👍🏼 One of my favorite 80’s songs!! I love their song Lay Your Hands On Me.

[@micksmusicchannel]

Jackie Lay your hands on me was an amazing song. They were so underrated at the time. Looking back their music seems even better if that's possible

[@Savingforlife]

I loved this band. Every band member just seemed so valid and as relevant.And all played a vital part of a fabulous band. They were amazing. I miss the vibe.Thanks for the reminder

[@illustratedstorycorner]

I hope you try out more 80s new wave songs like this one. That's my teen years. Bands like the Cure, New Order, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Siouxie and the Banshees, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Inspiral Carpets, The Phychedelic Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds, Modern English, etc. Hopefully other people request songs by those bands so you have some to choose from. Thanks for being you!

[@CherylinAction]

That ‘block’ type editing in the opening, originated from the 1968 film “The Thomas Crown Affair”

[@SpectreNUT]

To me,still this is one of THE staple songs of the 80s. Love love LOVE this song always. A huge favorite of mine that whenever i hear on the radio i still turn the radio up when i hear it.

[@servantofg-d5393]

Another Thompson Twins suggestion - "Love On Your Side."

[@joannamcpeak7531]

Yay!! Love this song!! Sweet and beautiful Never saw the video, because MTV was banned in my hometown.

[@bknsty14]

Did you grow up in Bomont?

[@legalass17]

They were also showcased on American Bandstand.

[@hellokimmy68]

This is another one that I wasn't crazy about when it was popular (mostly because you couldn't go for an hour without hearing it on the radio), but hearing it now after what, 35 years? It's amazing. If you could check out more Thompson Twins - The Gap, Lies and If You Were Here are some of their kind of more underrated/less played songs that are soooo good.

[@MariaRodriguez-np3xs]

Oh the 80’s 😢 I miss that time in my life . I love this song a lot . I want to go back to that time .

[@bonniespruin6369]

I loved the Thompson Twins in the 80s. Tom Bailey is the lead singer. I met him on the 80s Cruise. I brought a concert ticket from 1985 that I saw the Thompson Twins, and he signed it for me. He was a really nice guy. 😊

[@Gsmooth10455]

Jamel thank you so much for giving this song and this band its due. I'm 62 and I miss this type of music so much. Peace my brother!

[@malindahasten9386]

80's had such fun style and music! I might had had too much fun back in the day.

[@bethshadid2087]

I truly miss the 80s 🕊️😓

[@18986]

Its one of my go-to love songs. The lyrics and music that i used to play over and over when i got married and then when i had my babies. Still play it and it brings back memories x

[@stellaraudioaz]

You're make me re-listen to these songs that I grew up hearing on the radio and seeing the music videos on MTV in a totally different way and I thank you for that. Love and miss the 80's and 90's.

[@amandaschultz8867]

I love the music, the magic… they were jamming to their own song and promoting a great message!!!

[@dakitagataa6031]

Child of the 80s I've long introduced my kids to the 70s,80s,90s,but it's nothing like the 80's jewels,keep up the amazing work !

[@SpideyVids]

That whole album is the best they ever made with great songs like You Take Me Up, Doctor Doctor and much more.

[@w.williams2694]

Rarely will I not listen to a TT song when it comes on the radio. Such a great sound.

[@ronnierice5447]

Born 1971 and the 80's is a time that defined the future of this country and the world. We as humans opened up and dealt with issues that our elders would never have done. My belief is 80's music brought a lot of people together that otherwise would not have.

[@Rayray-kj9cc]

I will be 50 this year and I Love seeing the 80's making a comeback! Was the best times!! Keep rockin!

[@jenniehettrick4204]

❤️ the 80s

[@YaHKaB_WaRYaL_YaSHaRaL]

Another one of my favorite 80's songs! I may have been a metal head growing up. But my dad who was also, grew me up with music like this also. This song takes me back to my childhood in the 80's. This song reminds me of how my dad loved my mom & it also reminds me of both of them. Thank God I still have them alive & makes me still want them to Hold Me Now! 😭

[@death2pc]

TT's were SO off the charts............. Three people and THAT much sound. They did SO much........ One of my faves.

[@magpie9223]

That singer has awesome 80s hair After watching Jamel's reaction I enjoyed the song musically more than I did driving around my Datsun in the 1980s.

[@titools4375]

This is the type of music that makes me happy, the 80's pop or synth pop, just Fantastic!! thank you for reacting to it.

[@gerard1954]

The percussion in this band is what carried it they were very impressive

[@fleshen]

Thompson Twins Sister Of Mercy! Just a great song!!!

[@surferjoehangten]

The only haunting song you will ever hear that will last you a lifetime.....and bring tears to your eyes many years from now when you hear it again.....remember this forever! I know....I'm pushing 77.....

[@suprchickn7745]

Such a quintessential 80s track. I never get tired of that sound and the gorgeous production!

[@dtulip1]

THIS song is literally my late teens...wonderful memories..my car (banger) only had a radio which I had to have a wire coathanger jammed into the aerial in the wing...but every Sunday evening I'd "tape" the top 40...then play it in the car on a portable cassette player on the front seat...used to chew through batteries as I had to have it at full volume :D

[@dennismorgan2230]

Strange but true. Thompson Twins is hands down,best concert I have ever seen! Great song!

[@johnmarshall4442]

Thompson Twins , another great 80's band ......very talented.

[@Goprogamer57]

The biggest American hit for The Thompson Twins, "Hold Me Now" was written by band members Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie, with additional contributions from the third member, Joe Leeway (he does the falsetto backing vocals). Bailey and Currie were a couple - they got married in 1991 and had two children together. They wrote the song after a heated argument that they had resolved. "We actually decided, well, this is an interesting emotional subject," Bailey said in a 2014 Songfacts interview. "What it feels like to get back together again after separation and the kind of ideas that come up and the way that emotion and physicality somehow are brought together." The song has such permanence in part because it was triggered by a real relationship. Over the course of its 4:44 running time, the song takes us through Bailey's desperate pleas, as he's not even sure what caused the damage or what to apologize for. He is, however, eager to work through their problems and move on. In the chorus, Bailey asks Currie to hold him, stay with him and love him again.

[@lisa_jetsgurl642]

Love this song ❤❤

[@micksmusicchannel]

A classic

[@lisa_jetsgurl642]

@@micksmusicchannellove it

[@micksmusicchannel]

@@lisa_jetsgurl642 still sounds great today 👍

[@lisa_jetsgurl642]

@@micksmusicchannelabsolutely 💯

[@micksmusicchannel]

@@lisa_jetsgurl642 on par with Doctor Doctor 🙂

[@rachelbainton9473]

One of my favourite songs of all time. Absolute genius 👏 .Lyrics are outstanding.

[@danaberman6929]

This and so many other great 80's songs to keep alive. Great reaction as always...

[@francis2811]

Always loved the Thompson Twins! Always listening to them in my car...

[@inf82nd]

This song amongst others from the 80s always makes me crave thoughts time again.

[@stevemd6488]

Great band, love them. Love the laid back bass, doesn't try to control the song but just flows with it. Beautiful.

[@lightlantern]

I grew up listening to all of this, I was so lucky!!

[@scottruck5584]

What a GREAT!!!!..ERA......IN MUSIC 80'S GOD ..How I miss those times.I am 57 NOW!!!!!

[@Debagio]

One of my go-to 80s songs. Perfect pop and lyrically superb.

[@gpreactions3194]

Loved this song from late 1983 into 1984. Remember listening to this in the chip shop where they had an arcade video game called asteroids and playing it whilst wolfing down a Dandy burger. All these memories from one song.

[@ty7504]

Dear, dearly dearest Jamal-slash-Jamel had it not it been for you I would not have recalled this childhood gem, my words are true.

[@alanshepherd4304]

The perfect pop song!! Great lyrics, great voice, great harmonies, great key and tempo chanes, great musicianship, (love the bass), great video. Loved this song then, still love it now!! 😂😂🇬🇧

[@electromaniac1]

They had a hit with In the name of love in 1982 when they were 7 members of Thompson Twins. They've had several lineups since they started in 1977. When they became a trio in 1983 that's when they got more hits. Lay your hands on me from 1985 is another great single by them.

[@luissoriano1492]

Hey !! This is one of my fave tunes from T.T. and LOVE ON YOUR SIDE . . both make me sing and dance everytime !!

[@charlesburris6314]

Another I remember on the Rockola jukebox at the local hangout. Lunchtime at the high school meant rushing to the car, driving down there, and making memories. Crazy how fast it flew. As always, brother, I hope you and yours are doing fine.

[@katsujinkin60]

This was my jam back in the 80s.I was doing battle with a whole legion of demons, and this song on my Walkman was a small refuge from the storm. I still sing it and play it on guitar often! Many thanks!