The synthesisers on this track is unbelievable - even in 2023 - goosebumps - a great 80's song !!!
@IzthatafaC Жыл бұрын
Can you believe Martyn Ware is a computer programmer by trade. He has a very musical brain though even though he's not trained at all, I think his production is great too. He's massively underrated.
@mohamedbenferha3665 Жыл бұрын
you recognize at first sight the sound of TB 303 " silver box" it was in 1982 i was 9 years old somewhere in France
@ZoolGatekeeper11 ай бұрын
I miss these years in music and I thought it was a revolution of its own kind, even bigger than the punk era. Like this song idea changes two or three times and it still works. For me, this was the future...
@darielmacduev185611 ай бұрын
It switches between fat and dry in its effects sections!
@darielmacduev185611 ай бұрын
@mohamedbenferha3665 it was in 1982 i was 9 years old somewhere in France! We need professional child care for this neglected child in France.
@ichabodcrane248711 ай бұрын
Heaven 17 are one of those bands that the 80s would be unthinkable without.
@carnivalimusic7 ай бұрын
Well obviously. Soundtrack to a lot of lives.
@teresadecesare72842 жыл бұрын
Come rimpiango la mia infanzia .....ma non per gli anni passati, ma per quel meravigliosi tempi che ti divertivi con soldi zero. Si ballava la musica dence nei garace in comitiva ....😭😭😭 non rimpiango i miei anni , marimpiango quei tempi viva gli anni 80 e 90
@koushinoyakiin3 ай бұрын
👍
@annasimonit9611Ай бұрын
Stesse sensazioni mie 👋
@henryvaneyk37692 жыл бұрын
Once there was a time when music videos were pieces of art, and music were original pieces of brilliance. Those were the best times of our life.
@ajs412 жыл бұрын
I agree, I've set up some playlists on my channel for 1982 and 1983 especially although there are other years as well.
@radical386910 ай бұрын
What an intense part-time it was. Nowadays smartphone zombies where ever you look.
@neilthornton3544Ай бұрын
Filmed in the streets around u.k. version of the federal reserve. The song is about wanting a change of heart and direction from Thatcherism and the induced mass layoffs.
@LucaRedaelli-jy4hx8 ай бұрын
MASTERPIECE
@myopjourney46712 жыл бұрын
This is 40 years, and still sounds fresh AF
@michaelpottsenjoyallmusicx3627 Жыл бұрын
❤
@georgebrea73453 ай бұрын
This is easily fresher than 99% of new music.
@supiestar2 жыл бұрын
The best years of our lives
@carolelecadieu324611 ай бұрын
Je vais avoir 57 ans, ca c'était hier, tellement loin de toutes les m@erdes d'aujourd'hui. Nous avons vecu le meilleur
@gwynethharding286812 жыл бұрын
I still can't believe that this didn't do better in the charts. It's an anthem and gives me goosebumps even now. And as a line in the song says, "...these were the best years of our lives." And believe me they were! Oh the memories. Thanks Martyn, Ian and Glenn.
@krisstopher8259 Жыл бұрын
there were so many epic songs back then that it was hard to be on the top. nowadays it would be on the top if millennials had a good taste
@Gabriel45206 Жыл бұрын
@@krisstopher8259 Some of us have good taste. But it's kinda hard to listen to these songs without having the knowledge of them. I mean, I just know these songs because of my dad. It's not something that plays on radios and such (yeah, there is specific radios that plays but u guys understood. It's not the type of music that people make nowadays. And sadly.)
@acjazz0111 ай бұрын
They never were really famous, not like the Human League.
@paultreadaway102Ай бұрын
Radio suxs i could do a better job than this so call Djs have no brains technology right there they don't use it.The same one or two Songs and Artists everyday on a couple of Stations does my head in i guess we all getting old really suxs yikes omg scary gosh nobody left and the heavenly choir building
@CarlosDeRegules21 күн бұрын
@@Gabriel45206 i would be glad to help you finding "old" new music for you, it's such a great to find young people with a taste in music
@philipketchell8369 Жыл бұрын
So proud to be Englsh From the Country with the best music in the World..
@RedMoore1297 жыл бұрын
The electronic english music of that period was something almost perfect ❤️
@Reprodestruxion5 жыл бұрын
RedMoore129 well it was a parody of a corporate songwriting machine
@neriozulberti14925 жыл бұрын
Music from another planet
@TherymasterWidnes4 жыл бұрын
IT WAS PERFECT!
@mariadaugbjerg61414 жыл бұрын
It was perfect , not almost . :-)
@geoffreyjonathanwilson58264 жыл бұрын
I agree MuJo.
@juhanidahlman83876 жыл бұрын
i am 52 and listen to 80`s every day
@uweklausmichels19726 жыл бұрын
Me also, I think the best time in my life ....
@filippopetraroli89125 жыл бұрын
Also Me.. Born 1969😉
@matthiassauer79965 жыл бұрын
Yes 😁 😃 😎 😍 🍸
@davidcheevers5174 жыл бұрын
Me too. Born 1967
@mariadaugbjerg61414 жыл бұрын
I am 55 , and i listen to 80's music every day , too .
@aslammohammed2641 Жыл бұрын
The most underrated song of the 1980s
@carnivalimusic8 ай бұрын
Not by me ! This is their best song!
@antonyward89715 ай бұрын
@@carnivalimusicyep.
@rubenpm20986 жыл бұрын
I teach English in Spain. I was a teenager in Valencia when all this Brit Pop was on our radios all the time. This influenced me so much I studied English at university and... there you go, I've taught it for about 30 years. I bought this "single" when I was about 17 and I kept on listening to it enraptured. Long live the British Pop from the 80s!
@jesuscora5 жыл бұрын
Something similar happened to me, but in my case it was not only British Pop, but also all the British TV series that were broadcast in Spain in the 80s, that inspired me, along with my English teacher at secondary school, to study English and English literature at university. I taught English literature for 23 years until… well, that's a different story! :)
@emmanvelelele71803 жыл бұрын
Nobody cares
@CIMAmotor3 жыл бұрын
@@emmanvelelele7180 Yeah, they do.
@richardknight93223 жыл бұрын
@@emmanvelelele7180 it's only you we don't care about
@eightiesmusic19843 жыл бұрын
My wife is French and teaches it in the UK, having done so since 1997. She grew up in the eighties listening to a lot of music in English by British and American bands, writing the lyrics out as a way of helping to learn English. She still has some of the books she used to use for this, which is nice. I am proud of how hard she worked and the bravery of moving to the UK and being so successful in her chosen field.
@Ceallaigh1618 күн бұрын
Saw these in Birmingham last night, still a great act worth seeing.
@gumusluk05 Жыл бұрын
I started working for Virgin Records in Glasgow in November 82. This was played on a loop ... Great times ❤️
@paulward7665Ай бұрын
Brilliant still sounds good after all these years best track thank you Heaven 17
@PandaYogi Жыл бұрын
Heaven 17 seems quite fresh and amazing for the time. I did not appreciated them enough in the 80s as I was a kid, but i think they are super underrated
@ajs41 Жыл бұрын
This must have sounded very fresh in 1982. A few years ahead of nearly everyone else.
@markchristopher85153 ай бұрын
Great Track. The 1980's wouldn't have been the same without Heaven 17.
@king-of-the-universe2 жыл бұрын
A jewel. One of the best songs ever created. Will listen to it forever.
@ste52s12 жыл бұрын
This is their masterpiece isn't it? I used to stand in front of the mirror in 1982 miming to it and wishing I was Glenn Gregory. Stalled at 41 in the charts and i thought it was gonna be number one for weeks. 30 years on and nothing's changed, great songs still don't get to number one and I still mime to it in front o . the mirror. ..
@24nov678 жыл бұрын
takes me right back to 1983 when I was sixteen and life was so much more simple, not to mention my loved ones were still with me. oh how I wish I could go back : - (
@tagesmuecke8 жыл бұрын
your words...out of my soul :-)
@24nov678 жыл бұрын
thank you
@Mauropaylenao8 жыл бұрын
Well, guess what, there is a time time machine!!
@TheTowanda278 жыл бұрын
I was 16 too and I hear you!
@stewartdingwall1317 жыл бұрын
fitasafiddle just for 1 day
@merops4 жыл бұрын
in 1983 my 15 year-old crush and 17 year-old me were at a party, she sang to me along with this song "...they were the best years of our lives", and kissed me. I still remember her.
@jonas16893 жыл бұрын
do both of you still get along?
@blascoblasco47343 жыл бұрын
Idem
@tonyruggiero19 ай бұрын
This song is about the future on how we would miss the 1980s 🙏🏻
@Zontar82Ай бұрын
agreed, it hits so hard about it that it's unbelieavable
@alfadelta-d1d Жыл бұрын
is incredible how this song is so rich in every detaid: the text, the sounds, the musical changing ideas...
@ajs41 Жыл бұрын
They took those same ideas and created Temptation as their next hit, which is a slightly more simple song, but more commercial, and made them famous.
@simonedwards34573 жыл бұрын
If only we could forget baby sitting duties and go out to a neon lit bar/club and lose ourselves in these great tunes until our knees pack in!
@brianartillery2 жыл бұрын
One of the earliest records to use the iconic Roland TB-303 Bassline synthesizer. And it's brilliant. The production on Heaven 17 records was absolutely superb - it still stands up today.
@brianartillery2 жыл бұрын
Oh, and wasn't Glenn Gregory an annoyingly good looking bloke?
@uv77mc853 ай бұрын
what was the baseline?
@brianartillery3 ай бұрын
@@uv77mc85 - Bloody auto correct! - I had a 303, but swapped it for an SH-101, which did the same job, but which was also a proper monophonic synthesiser.
@catseyesism2 жыл бұрын
80s music , superb , brilliant , words can’t really describe how good this song is , heaven 17 were fab
@alanshuhimeabdulmajid39732 жыл бұрын
Gosh..how l missed the 80's😥..my teen years!!! Now 2022 l am here with Heaven 17😊💞🤟..a grandad of two ...age 56☹
@mariadaugbjerg6141 Жыл бұрын
I miss the 80's every day .Age 57 .
@clausjohansson8233 Жыл бұрын
59 and granddad.. Damn i miss the 80 ties .. H 17😎
@xaviwasabi4 ай бұрын
60 now!😂
@victorrodriguez-r9p Жыл бұрын
My favorite Heaven 17 song .............................. a hug inmense from Peru 💋💋💋💋💋💖💖💖💖🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💥🎉😎✔👍...
@ThePhlashy2 жыл бұрын
Takes me back to 1982 x “The best years of our lives” looking back now, they were !
@GhostRider-si6rw4 жыл бұрын
Once there was a day We were together all the way An endless path unbroken But now there is a time A torture less sublime Our souls are locked and frozen Once we were years ahead, but now those thoughts are dead Let me go (Let me go) All hopeless fantasies are making fools of me Let me go I walk alone, and yet never say goodbye Let me go (Let me go) Change of heart, a change of mind, and heaven fell that night Let me go I tried but could not bring The best of everything Too breathless then to wonder I died a thousand times Found guilty of no crime Now everything is thunder Daytime, all I want is Nighttime, I don't need the Daytime, all I want is Nighttime, I don't need the Daytime, all I want is Nighttime, I don't need the Daytime, all I want is Nighttime, I don't…
@GhostRider-si6rw4 жыл бұрын
Nighttime, I don't need the Got to, got to, got to, got to let me go Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ooh Once we were years ahead, but now those thoughts are dead Let me go (Let me go) All hopeless fantasies are making fools of me Let me go I walk alone, and yet never say goodbye Let me go (Let me go) Change of heart, a change of mind, and heaven fell that night Let me go The best years of our lives The hope of it survives The facts of life unspoken The only game in town I'll turn the last card down And now the bank is Broken Broken Found guilty of no crime They were the Best years of our lives Broken Broken I'll turn the last card DOWN.
@ThePhilGrimm5 ай бұрын
@@GhostRider-si6rw I spent 25 years chasing one woman. Moved in with her in 2010 and have regretted it ever since.
@francoisyseux5623 Жыл бұрын
I'm 55 and this music is perfection cold wave...
@janicebroom1612 Жыл бұрын
Heaven 17 were such a big part of the 80s as far as I was concerned. One of the guys used to carry round this single and played it at every party we went to - sublime
@giuseppemulas8082 Жыл бұрын
One of the best songs of early eighties
@Aneokame13 жыл бұрын
One of the best 'hidden gems' of the 80's. I have always loved this song. Always will!
@caffeitaliano83414 жыл бұрын
This is simply MUSIC. The soundtrack of entire generations. Adore it.
@captainarcher214 жыл бұрын
I grew up listening to Heaven 17... You'll never find awsome music like this any more..That's a time when music and fashion was at it's peak.. After the 80's It all went down hill..
@mariadaugbjerg6141 Жыл бұрын
I could not agree more .I miss the 80's every day .
@Mark-td5ux Жыл бұрын
We were the news, we were the news.....
@MarkiModica11 жыл бұрын
This is all the proof you need to know the 80s were the best decade for music at its most experimental and daring.
@nat1XP7 жыл бұрын
possibly more experimental and daring than 80s pop is modern metal sub genres aha...
@carnivalimusic8 ай бұрын
It’s a great song. End of. Does not matter which year it was made.
@paulholmshaw27054 жыл бұрын
The best H17 song and one of the best 80's songs , the lyrics and composition are brilliant
@nickdugard98483 жыл бұрын
I do agree however temptation has to be up there all day long
@terrydunlop4461 Жыл бұрын
I agree great song
@paulytwotanks3 жыл бұрын
This is the song that got me into Heaven 17 when I was just 18. They hadn't reached the masses at that time, until Temptation was released some months later. I was fixing my motorbike in my Dad's old shed and this came on the radio. I thought it was fabulous, went out and bought the 12" and subsequently bought loads of their records. They've done some really cool stuff both with H17 and the British Electric Foundation. This song really spoke to me.
@antonyward89712 жыл бұрын
Their best song by far I reckon
@gerhardkuesters466311 ай бұрын
It was and is the best time ever. Best Music and the greatest time to go older. This is what I have for the rest of my live.
@lolamiller45702 жыл бұрын
I grow up with this magnetic music I love it. From Germany with love.
@mattnorth75163 жыл бұрын
Saw them in Birmingham in November, since they then both my wife & I are !! Class 80’s sounds!!
@TheSpookyDuke3 жыл бұрын
Definition of 80s sound, one of the true anthems. 80s forever!
@thefairyqueen3697 ай бұрын
Haven't heard this in many years......and its giving me goosebumps.....omg...what a trip.....what an era!
@clausjohansson82334 ай бұрын
❤
@jorgn4876 Жыл бұрын
Listening to that, the beautiful days in West-Berlin and its clubs return. Where is my mascara?
@rokit430 Жыл бұрын
One of the Great U.K bands for Song and Video. I love to Harmonise with this one🎵.Thank You H17 and Human League for helping me through my Youth. Be Proud❤❤
@RaendyLeBeau3 жыл бұрын
❤️80'es❤️ 'It was an almost perfect era for music. Every continent contributed incredible tracks, creating a global musical masterpiece that may never be replicated. Even Australia produced gems like Icehouse and Men at Work. Brit-Pop was at its peak, and Italo Pop delivered stunning musical pearls. While I could certainly do without German acts like Modern Talking, Madonna's influence on the era cannot be denied. Yes, I miss those days dearly... ❤️80'es❤️
@lizhedley3489 Жыл бұрын
An absolute gem!
@Reuben007Ash2 жыл бұрын
80’s will never die. Never
@CarlosWulff Жыл бұрын
An excellent production in each and every way. 👍🌝
@studiobencivengamarcusbenc52725 жыл бұрын
This is not a song this a vibrating masterpiece - properties of synthesizers and funky guitar plus a wonderful mix of voices
@DoorCloser2 жыл бұрын
I'm into 80 not so long. But this band one of my favourite
@garyleaper3141 Жыл бұрын
I bumped into Glenn the other day in north London putting out his rubbish . Had a chat about heaven 17 and the 80’s we both agreed it was a fcuking good time
@ajs41 Жыл бұрын
Does he still sing this one?
@garyleaper3141 Жыл бұрын
They still do I think . I saw him jogging in St John’s Wood few weeks back was going to pull up singing this to him but was awkward timing .
@PoshLifeforME2 жыл бұрын
I worked for Nat West in Throgmorton Street and at 1:10 that is how I went after missing the train from Epsom. I took stuff more seriously back then.
@r.hubertmath4414 Жыл бұрын
Nothing can conquer this 80s music!!!
@poeps17 ай бұрын
1983...mein erster Abend in einen Club. Und dazu noch ein Indie-Club...zarte 17 ...und in dieser Nacht öffnete sich mir ne neue Welt. Den Song verbinde ich ganz krass damit...
@deanosaur808Ай бұрын
82 😉
@garyandrewranford8 ай бұрын
One of my fav 80's bands... I still have this, and other H17 tracks on my C90 cassettes 😮😅😅😅❤❤
@nolopa202 жыл бұрын
This song is a jewel!
@dietmarwee8939 Жыл бұрын
I am 58! and listen to 80's every day 😅
@sannelydia913711 күн бұрын
What attitude towards life do you associate with this song?
@groupestdo81712 жыл бұрын
That smooth guitar
@JeanMarieVanLoo7 жыл бұрын
It was great being a teenager in the eighties! We had class, we had style, the music was... Well it was still music.... It was the base of many later music streams....
@Professor77666 жыл бұрын
This was the best TIME.....
@marcovz18574 жыл бұрын
Despite the world crisis in the 80's because of the Cold War ,conflicts in Latin America, Africa and other countries the music in the 80's was such a glorious escape from that gloomy reality. My dad was lucky enough to live his younger days in the 80's, but he knew that I had to part of that good times, so I was lucky enough too to have a dad who showed and introduced me to the gold music from the 80's when I was just 5 years old. Gracias, papá. You did it well! PD: I was born in 1992. 80's music will transcend forever.
@nervo63212 жыл бұрын
80's atmospheric classic.
@billici112 жыл бұрын
the most underrated synth pop song of all time. Blows away all Human League, .....period
@stephenwaller74612 жыл бұрын
Not so sure about that but loved both equally. A great period in music history.
@cairyhunts2 жыл бұрын
Lol, I love this song but that's your opinion, anything on Travelogue is better than this
@alanstrom22212 жыл бұрын
@@cairyhunts I own Travelogue and Reproduction - 2 of the best electronic albums made.
@harryacam2 жыл бұрын
No!
@HarryFlowerrs2 жыл бұрын
Underrated to you not to those who know!
@navalerman1508 Жыл бұрын
I wish ...go back to the amazing 80 ❤💥❤
@juan_carlos_baldeon_ramirez11 ай бұрын
Mee too 🇵🇪
@stucklescrafter571211 ай бұрын
Nach all den Jahren mein absolutes Lieblings Lied!
@britfun6715 жыл бұрын
One of the BEST songs from that era.
@andyraw196514 жыл бұрын
The soundtrack of the 80's Heaven 17 are the godfathers of electro and this is classic
@cleliaalbano21845 жыл бұрын
This song is so beautiful and how elegant the singer is! Talent+beauty!
@tjward95405 жыл бұрын
Let me go is a 80s classic from another great Sheffield band, great tune.
@carnivalimusic8 ай бұрын
Their best song by an absolute mile!!!
@stupidmistake6712 күн бұрын
I havnt heard this song in years but I'm so glad I've rediscovered it as it is absolutely fantastic. It's been on constant repeat!!... Love love love!!! ❤
@Moe23pd Жыл бұрын
Heaven 17 are my band. Nobody else 😊. I have 197 pieces of there work. Temptation 17 times out of
@Macrogue652 жыл бұрын
I love the short reference to the BEF. Classic 80's. These vocals are evergreen.
@hiedipine15 жыл бұрын
I can't ever let go of the 80's music. I love it and this song. Thank you.
@regplasma7906 Жыл бұрын
A great song and the most bubbling , wobbly bass on a hit ever.
@lucapasseroni63716 жыл бұрын
one of the best 80' songs
@MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa3 жыл бұрын
Damn it! This song is sublime.
@marinaweaver3305 жыл бұрын
For me this music beats anything around today!
@PasqualeSequino26 күн бұрын
Magnifico pezzo❤Grandissimi Heaven 17.
@chrisdafnides86915 жыл бұрын
Let me go back to the 80s
@philippeschoepen18524 жыл бұрын
Hire a bus
@CIMAmotor3 жыл бұрын
I never left.
@hrvojeuranec3189 Жыл бұрын
80's forever 💪👌
@Heya54013 жыл бұрын
wonderful song, this is my favorite too, it was the great time of real music
@victoriaguarinoalemany42819 ай бұрын
Grupazo y temazo 🏆🏆🏆🛠🛠💯🌹🌹🌹🌹💃
@victoriaguarinoalemany42816 ай бұрын
Pues si me encantaba este grupo y además eres la 2 persona esta semana que, justo mañana la pongo en mi estado 👍🌹🌹🌹🌹💃
@michela6854 жыл бұрын
Li adoro, un pezzo sempre bellissimo da ascoltare, mi fa stare bene...
@isabellaing78663 жыл бұрын
Brilliant ❤️love heaven 17, abc, human league etc 80,s heaven 😎😜🤪🤩😍What an era music was just unique 💓💗💓
@josegabrielperezmartinez13714 жыл бұрын
Nunca me cansaré de escuchar esta joya del pop de los 80, grabada con una espectacular producción. Un auténtico placer. Gracias!
@simonecasadei7636 Жыл бұрын
Le più belle canzoni che io abbia mai sentito sono tutte dei primi anni '80... Come questa
@stefanielorbek60503 жыл бұрын
Remembering the best days of my life ❤
@clarenceblinten88604 жыл бұрын
September 2020,i am already 55 Years old and i still love this Song!
@garyleaper3141 Жыл бұрын
Top tune. Good times 😊
@francescafrattini59692 жыл бұрын
Their "cousin" band, Human League had more success but Heaven 17 were underrated. Listen to this song: an unrivalled example of synth pop.
@bizzle62314 жыл бұрын
LOVE this song!! My favorite 80's dance song. Still so fun to dance to! I love that you can drop this in clubs now and kids who were babies then get down to it. Timeless.
@mgtmol9 ай бұрын
I admire this song for so effortlessly finding its way into popular music with how different it is from the usual.
@ronfrancis3078 жыл бұрын
The best years of our live.
@newfie13007 жыл бұрын
Yes !!!
@mariadaugbjerg61414 жыл бұрын
Yes , no doubt about that .
@prltqdf94 жыл бұрын
* lives
@kevinrobertbrown23515 ай бұрын
Finally getting to see this classic 80s band live in December 2024 in Cardiff Wales 🏴 there supporting Culture Club, Bring it on, great song this and still very much listening to it in 2024 🎶 👌👌
@juliet28885 ай бұрын
Me too but in Leeds 🎶🎶
@dancindarla13 жыл бұрын
Heaven 17 rocks! I love the sound of his voice! They're QUIET giants of the 80's. Irvington High Class of 87!
@jeremyparker84592 жыл бұрын
London looking fabulous. What a great band and video