Drummer reacts to "This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide" by The Kings

[@kevjones5047]

Fun Fact : This is the Canadian National Anthem. Oh Canada is just the song we sing before hockey games.

[@Nana_Reads]

😂😂

[@JB-yb4wn]

I thought it was Taking Care of Business.

[@mathewwallis2863]

Before there were things like KZbin and GoPro cameras, my buddies and I duct-taped our VHS video camera to the bottom outside of our car and went racing through the winding streets of the West Hills in Portland, Oregon. We audio-dubbed THIS song to our crazy ride! MAN, what great memories!

[@kevinwalsh9788]

This song was played every Friday at 4:55pm in every time zone.

[@JB-yb4wn]

I thought it was from a Tuesday point of view. 🤔

[@GameFaceLouie]

​​@@JB-yb4wn 😂 It just doesn't matter everybody gets the no no Check out All the Way

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

The entire album is great! By the way the album title is actually "The Kings Are Here"!

[@vampfashions]

I'm not sure, but I think I was born with a copy of the album, and I was born in 63 LOL.

[@Stuman57]

I would have been 11. This was all over Toronto radio for years. And still. One of the best driving songs. If you listen to it again. All the places and people are real. Eg: zero Donna The Limo Etc, etc. you made my day buddy Thanks.

[@YESFan1971]

One of rock's most classic lines......."Nothing matters but the weekend, from a Tuesday point of view". Still true 40 years later.

[@michaelkappes8226]

I was 16 when this song came out -- and sometimes I forget just how awesome this song still is, even today...

[@orangeandblackattack]

I still have original album I bought at 13 years old. Used to jam it on my Pioneer turntable into old Sony amp/preamp..I put it on the Sony reel to reel too. Lol

[@kentonkruger8333]

So glad you said this seems like great driving music, to me this is the perfect summertime driving tune.

[@Sprenklefish]

One of my all time faves!!!! Great radio song. Here in Central PA they played it a lot back in the 80's, but it was never considered a hit. It was just another cool tune the local stations would play. I never got that 50's vibe though, but moreso power pop and a little new wave sounding, which if you're my age you would probably get. Great videos! Keep going!

[@vampfashions]

Everything before 2010 sounds like the 50s to dude born in 2005.

[@allengator1914]

One of my favorite one hit wonders.

[@OutOnTheTiles]

A Toronto staple. Played on the radio daily up here.

[@CosmicVagabondPixie]

OH MY GAWD!!! Holy WoW i have NOT even watched the reaction yet cuz Whoa man just SAW the title i used to freakin Rollerskate to THIS song when i was a lil kid at the **Skating Rink** WoW man this freakin brings me back Ha SO freakin **Awesome!!!** **LUV** this song Oook ready going to watch NOW!!! heh smh

[@mikemicrael5749]

The singer of another one-hit wonder, Melanie, passed away yesterday. While I love the sexual innuendo, I never cared for her hit, "Brand New Pair of Roller Skates," but while we're on the subject of one-hit wonders and roller skating ...

[@CosmicVagabondPixie]

WOW!!! **Thank YOU Bruce D!!!** & **L33** for bringing back such **KickAss** **Fun** memories for me & i am sure a bunch of people! & sorry but no i do not hear a 50's vibe here at ALL heh to me this song was SO **Hard&BadAss** back then YAY!!! **ThanxAgain!!!** made my day **Brighter** & truly needed it!

[@GameFaceLouie]

Check out their song All the Way. They are a great live band too. Thanks for showcasing them 👍🏻

[@wendy2shoes]

I just bumped into Zero at Farm Boy two days ago. (Oakville girl, went to high school with three of these guys). They just came home from a tour with Glass Tiger.

[@fenderboy68]

Milton boy here!! Cheers neighbour

[@Taphfy]

The ultimate playground song! Even when its snowing! (From Main Street Park in Cedar City, Utah)

[@butters395]

the entire album is....... AWESOME !..... not one weak song on it 👍.....plus how great is it to have bob ezrin produce your first album? he happened to be in the studio that day and liked what he heard and asked to produce it 😯....he produced alice Cooper's early stuff....pink floyd the wall.....kiss...etc....guys a legend 👍

[@orangeandblackattack]

Dude..this was a staple cruising streets from 1980 to 1983.

[@markoconnor995]

Wow, pulled out a classic. This was a driving song, often played by radio stations between 3pm and 6pm. 1980, was an interesting time musically. Up until the new millennium, there used to be a 20 year retro culture cycle. So the 70's would integrate 50's culture, the 80's would retro 60's culture, etc.. also added to this was the new or 2nd wave of punk, which would explode and largely take over 80's culture in all it's forms. Additionally, guitars had been largely quieted in the early 70's, as the folk disco era consumed AM radio, which used to be the primary source of musical entertainment. FM radio became the new frontier in the early 70's and the best place, if not the only place you could hear grittier rock or punk sounds. By the late 70's, early 80's, the rolls of AM and FM radio had switched. This song is one of the few songs that embodies all of this history. If you like the obscure, you might try another 1HW, Jim Carroll - "Those are the People Who Died," which actually somewhat autobiographical.

[@vampfashions]

"Guitars were largely quieted" in the early 70s....? So you've never heard songs like Ram Jam's Black Betty, Black Sabbath's Paranoid or those kind of guitar heavy songs. Listen to April Wine Roller, or Stampeders Big City Woman... both have 3 or 4 guitars and even a banjo.

[@markoconnor995]

@vampfashions You had to go to FM radio for that. The King Biscuit Flower Hour was famous for this. ,eventually by the late 70's all the best stuff was playing on FM and payolla wouldn't find FM until the early 80's. AM might play Stairway, or Kinks or Yardbirds Heartful of Soul, but FM played Montrose, Sabbath, Rush, Black Flag, Sex Pistols and Dazed and Confused. For about a decade, FM was free and wild. By the mid 80's payolla and stifling corporate control would start working it's malignancy on FM the way it did AM radio 📻. When I first moved to NYC, there was a punk station that would play just about anything that could be remotely connected to punk. If someone heard a guitar 🎸 line that reminded them something from another genre, ie metal, the producers would seek out the song and play it. I remember them playing about 8 versions of My Way after playing the Pistols cover. Can you imagine anything other than FM satellite 🛰, possibly doing this?

[@vampfashions]

@@markoconnor995 I never listened to FM, all the songs I mention were from AM, and then of course strip clubs LOL!

[@patrickmcevoy5080]

Hey old people - Was there a version with just "Switchin' to Glide"? Because I swear I only heard that part on the local radio in CA back in the day. And I loved it!

[@jamespuleo3269]

I also remember "STG" as it's own tune, on NYC radio. But in 1980 it felt like the 70's pop/commercial sound was old hat. My attention was more focused on Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, the Pretenders, and that new band from Ireland, U2.

[@sonnykeyes4594]

@@jamespuleo3269 Elektra released "Switchin' To Glide" on its own at first, and nothing much happened with it, but when a Chicago station started playing the segue together it started climbing the charts.

[@vampfashions]

The band's joke was This Beat Goes On (and on and on and on and on and on) right into the start of the next song, so radio that wasn't overly commercial (3:30-3:45 only) played both since it was hard to catch the cut point.

[@vampfashions]

@@sonnykeyes4594 Not sure about what happened on American charts, but in Canada we bought the album and usually heard them together on the radio. The Beat Goes On (and on and on and on) is supposed to go on and on into the next song.

[@mikemicrael5749]

One of the great one-hit wonder tunes. Always fun to hear this. My favorite one-hit wonder song is "Timothy" by The Buoys, the best song ever written about cannibalism. :)

[@vampfashions]

How can 2 songs be a one hit wonder? Your math ain't mathin'

[@pollynicklas5220]

This album was very hard to find back then - I had to make a million phone calls to various music stores in my metro area to find it!

[@vampfashions]

Every house I was ever in in the 80s had at least 1 copy of the album, usually playing, and usually cranked up.

[@mikeeckel2807]

Loved the whole album.

[@paulehney4581]

At least now I know the name of the Band that did this tune. Lol

[@vampfashions]

Its from the album The Kings Are Here

[@YESFan1971]

80's Classsic.

[@vampfashions]

This isn't the 50s or 60s, this is what the mid 70s into the early 80s, before music was murdered by Blondie (a damn punk band) foisting rap into the mainstream. The hidden secret stash is Canada had much better rock and roll than USA and we only shared a tiny bit with our neighbours.

[@glassontherocks]

Mr. Bean "Invisible drumset"

[@scottgorkoff3146]

Amazon Beach

[@orangeandblackattack]

Yeah harder than a Grease song. The synths keep it out of like the Stray Cats, who were straight up 50s rockabilly.

[@vampfashions]

It has nothing to do with the 50s, and only the late 60s rock bands (like The Doors) with heavy organ or synth elements are like this. This is a mid 70s to early 80s Canadian full on Rock and Roll song. There were many.

[@artomatt]

I'm tempted to say that I'm a sucker for a great organ, but I know that will be misinterpreted, lol. I think that organ sound was not a thing in 1950s rock and roll, maybe 60s.

[@vampfashions]

Moody Blues, The Doors and Procol Harem had huge songs with very prominent organ elements. It was very popular from the early 60s, but with harder rock bands mostly from late 60s into the mid 80s (when synth sounds ruined it).

[@JuliaWooster-HypnotistFo-qp5bh]

"great driving music" - sure if you want to get a speeding ticket - just kidding

[@vampfashions]

Good driving song, a Great driving song is Life Is A Highway!! We Canadians need good driving rock & roll since its 10 miles to the neighbours house.

[@philhunter9134]

Grease? No.

[@L33Reacts]

Greaser.

[@AnneLeighton]

Hi L33, thank you. I work with the Kings, and they've a bunch of albums that are played on Canadian radio. Their new album, "The Longest Story Ever Told" is finding airplay at independent stations in North America and Europe, as well as all over Canada. This is the new music video "Nowhere to Go But Gone," which is perfect for #springbreak! :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIuolpWwnaiHaZI

[@vampfashions]

I love how people hear a song from "the way back" and forget that the band could still be making great music today.