Heaven 17 - "We Live So Fast" Single Mix

This is the single mix of the song, which is distinct to the album mix included in "The Luxury Gap" album.
This video was originally available from VEVO but had terrible sound quality. I have redone the audio so now the sound is the way it's supposed to be.
The music was recorded off a mint 12" 45 RPM vinyl single, distributed by Arista Records for Virgin Records.
The playback was performed using a Sony PS-X600 turntable equipped with an Ortofon X5-MC high output moving coil pickup. Tracking force, anti-skating, and stylus overhang were configured using a Stevenson protractor and in accordance with the pickup's specifications.
The recorded music was matched to the sound on the video. Once the recording I've made and the video's original sound were synchronized, the video's sound was removed, leaving the recording I have made in its place. All of this to help ensure a high quality sound recording for presenting this original music video in its proper glory ... or as well as KZbin's compression will permit.

[@dallwill2019]

This song used to play at San Diego nightclubs Mr. Dillon's and WCPC around 1981. I was 18 yrs old then, loved it!

[@sfundawge]

A TRUE CLASSIC FROM A GREAT BAND

[@excelhexcel5499]

Der Text hat nichts an Aktualität verloren...❤

[@robmcintyre1563]

Great tune!! Very under-rated band of the 80’s!! 😁

[@scottglenn2413]

This song proves the 80s still lives.

[@setyourmindfreenow]

Underrated band

[@treesloth9]

This was our 80’s motto as young adults.

[@stephaniecellucci7482]

I taped this song from the "progressive" radio station in my teens holding a cassette tape recorder up to a boom box. Still love it!

[@mattfinnigan8414]

since there was no real access to lyrics we use to think he was saying, "we live so fast (bullshit! bullshit!) we can't stand still (use it! use it!)" haha good times!

[@ScubaSteveM45]

Same here. Lesser known British new wave was hard to come by in the pre internet American west coast of the early 1990s so taping off the radio it was

[@grimrides]

When I was younger & this came out? I always thought they were saying, “We live so fast, b-shit, b-shit”. 💩 I love this song. ❤️

[@currymonster6516]

Yes but then you would have to use it use it

[@Ethericrose]

First time hearing this and I too thought they were saying Bull shit! 🤔 lol 😆

[@HoLeeFoc]

@@Ethericrose I think even the singer, was caught knowingly smiling a couple of times during the part of the song.

[@nightowl32]

Ron and Russell are proud.....well done

[@toddmodem]

Back in the day, I remember this tune from an under age bar, I used to frequent in Windsor. Great song!

[@Eon119]

Wow, first time I've heard this version of the song - nice 😁 As someone who was sober through the whole of the 80s (maybe not 89) I'm surprised this is my first encounter of this version of the song.

[@michellewilson3822]

I love this song by heaven 17 great singer legend's

[@imaginationunreal]

omg i haven't heard this since the early 80s. what a flashback. so many memories --at least the ones i remember :-)

[@user-qd7tf7gz6s]

Great song 🎵🎶🎵🎶

[@Dolores5000]

Fantastic! This is the best version! You can't find it anywhere Thank you!

[@currymonster6516]

Ahh I have this version 👍

[@dmerls8571]

It is far less played but I think the more familiar version is much better. This one has flaws, the synth fills are cheap sounding or missing entirely.

[@AMan-zt8tz]

Was this version a B side? It's my fav too.

[@Watcher3223]

@@AMan-zt8tz This may be a B-side, but it was part of a 12" 45 RPM single. The flip side is an extended dance mix of the song. The fact that the single is a 12" disc playing at 45 RPM has a lot to do with how well the sound quality turned out, along with using decent quality audio equipment.

[@eduardorivera4343]

Always liked this track..Have the 12inch

[@ottorinogentile5457]

I remember my Australians holy days, when I was young and went to Melbourne's disco... Aaaah...

[@marksnyder2365]

❤️ Heaven 17

[@grimandi]

Waht a group...love the 1980s synths sounds

[@sdovas]

Still the fastest Linndrum programming ever. K-pop bands aspire to this level of smooth.

[@ianmowbray203]

🎉what à track bùth what else fo you expect❤

[@e7teen]

Their best song I love it!

[@smithfield06]

better than the album version

[@paulbanner4978]

Reminds me off Friday night at the coach & horses. Good Times.

[@juliogarcia8646]

This guys were too cool for school.

[@edsonnavarrus7379]

The anthem about my life in the gigantic city CDMX in that past century

[@publicpitchblendeorg]

I see blue skies boundless spaces colors everywhere

[@RealmsofPixelation]

Song is truer now than ever.

[@stevenfallan8848]

Brings back memory’s of 83 when I first started Cuming to Sheffield from london

[@BlakeNaftel]

The sequencing for linear editing is excellent. Great video!

[@JeHa1967]

Good old times😎

[@midlander4]

ICM looking at his absolute coolest in this vid

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Can't even afford now to move to Sheffield city, let alone frigging London!!!

[@Zzyyxxyyxx]

I like that part where they lived so fast.

[@grammarnazi7428]

Motion motion?

[@PieAndChips]

Tell the folks at home what living so fast is

[@HoLeeFoc]

I always sang the chorus line "motion! motion!" as "bullsh!t, bullsh!t!" 🤣😂🤣

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

It was.

[@stevenfallan8848]

Class

[@paulmckenzie2232]

"Buuullshit, buuullshit, We can't stand still, Use it, use it"

[@yellyellng9180]

The way I found this song was from ikea💀

[@sdovas]

Antifascist dance pop! Go go GO!

[@tsitracommunications2884]

I thought they were saying "Bull****, bull****."

[@grammarnazi7428]

oh my now I hear it too

[@Deano14397]

Haha oh no now I can

[@Clarence2Worley]

Me too!!

[@tsitracommunications2884]

@@Clarence2Worley oh the double entendre potential

[@annmariesyoutube8729]

Really good

[@skyhawk747]

Being an airline pilot makes me unable to enjoy this video due to all the errors :-)

[@Watcher3223]

Well, if they flew for real, it would make one wonder if this song would have been recorded on the CVR for the crash investigators...

[@DJL78]

Delish.

[@goodredherring]

A sly "F#*k You" at 2:22?

[@Watcher3223]

Hey, that's pretty funny!

[@thiscorrosion900]

4 people don't know how to do an ILS landing in their Learjet.

[@helenchristinarees4335]

I don't think he's really flying that plane 🤔

[@eiffe]

Come on! Do you know how expensive it would be to rent a plane and not fly it?

[@johnnymfan5065]

Even though it died by 1980, was this song disco?

[@Watcher3223]

I think there's some disco influence, but I think this would be more accurately described as synthpop.

[@johnnymfan5065]

@@Watcher3223 Most of the technopop was dancey but this was especially. Disco saldy died in 79 and 80.

[@naturesfinest4871]

@@johnnymfan5065 disco's only as dead as people let it.

[@johnnymfan5065]

@@naturesfinest4871 Yea but the music since it died, just isnt the same sounding or as great quality. No great musicians or great singers on post disco dance music.

[@ScubaSteveM45]

This is new wave, disco was slower and had more funk to itself

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

👍 the witch is d e a d... 👍

[@marcobroeders9174]

I am still living fast and furious

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Subtitle, "Remember when you could walk onto a plane without being molested?"

[@naturesfinest4871]

Too bad this version doesn't exist for cd or download to listen in the car.

[@Watcher3223]

You should be able to download it from here using a video downloader extension on your browser.

[@christopherkenney4766]

Heaven 17 get their name from a made up group in the book (and film) 'A Clockwork Orange'.

[@Clarence2Worley]

We saw this video when I was 14 and we thought they were saying We live so fast, bullshit, bullshit...

[@Miss-Katie]

2020 says no 😒

[@publicpitchblendeorg]

Oooooops 9 11

[@VAHZGEN]

Thanks for this updated version. That’s super cool of you to put in work for others to enjoy. Respect 🫡

[@Watcher3223]

Thank you. And enjoy!

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Got this on VHS, it was well ropey original video album to start off with back then, 1984 or something. This is a big improvement, digital.