Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
Released 1982
From the album ‘Happy Families'
UK Chart Position #7
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[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

Zone really likes 80s music by the looks of it.

[@JohnMkrv]

My man

[@ashkirby8896]

Yep, and Egyptian style music at best!😄

[@huntermossakajunkerman9646]

I mean hey, it's good music.

[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

@@ashkirby8896 Why are you replying to literally every popular comment.

[@LolaTheGardevoir]

Kinda like Toby Fox likes old commercials. You ever wonder if they’re gonna make music that’s only used for their animations

[@christopheradderley45]

Great track. "Living on the Ceiling" takes me straight back to the Hammersmith Palais and seeing Blancmange in '82. A standing only venue that soon turned into a magically happy sweaty disco of sitars and synthesizers. One of the most beautiful nights of my life, and all for just £3.50 🧡

[@nate_river_]

Looking back on it now, it's insane how much gold we had charting in the 80s. Still as good as the day they released it.

[@Taliesin-xd7ke]

Adversity has an amazing side effect.. .creativity😂

[@Baronrhubarbpostoffice]

Like the birdie song

[@joelashadali]

Im looking thru just that. The music was all over the place in 83. So much new emerging genres along with more established bands. Birth of alternative,post punk, New wave there was a ton of great punk and pop. Even rap was in its earliest stages. What a time I was a senior in high school.

[@Taliesin-xd7ke]

@@Baronrhubarbpostoffice 🎶🤣👏

[@reapeashooter2]

I don't know what they're talking about. That cat really is just dancing.

[@MomongaOffical]

Yeah you right

[@Delta-ass]

I rejoice

[@ashkirby8896]

More like a formerly wholesome yellow cat trying to get over the trauma of another “not so much a dance”!😄😏😎

[@Delta-ass]

@@ashkirby8896 ye

[@huntermossakajunkerman9646]

@AshKirby YOU AGAIN?!

[@markparsons5549]

Blancmange ,just another pop group passing through the early 80s,nearly 40 years later we are still listening to their music!! We didnt realise we had it so good back then

[@michaelshiffman6271]

I knew it then, and I know it now! Like wine!

[@yanguYT]

finally, i'm coming to the 80s

[@urbanosprey]

Can you imagine anyone listening to music from 2021 in 40 years time?...me neither

[@TheMetaKid]

@@urbanosprey no, it seems pretty likely. Think about how people loved the "classics" in the 80's

[@Stop_Sign21]

We are listening because of a certain yellow cat dancing

[@MrGoblin60]

Truly one of the best tracks to ever emerge from the early eighties.

[@markwinters1216]

Love it

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

Yeh 🇨🇮❤️😊🎄🐐🖐️🤠👍🌿

[@shayb5647]

Ahhhh stoppppp now , please like 😅😅😅

[@shayb5647]

It is funny though, ohhh the reminiscing is outrageous 😂

[@OlgaSmithSaysStuff]

Total truth

[@ianjones3568]

Love it in the barbers shop at 01:30, that guy utterly non-plussed. Then two little gestures and he knows exactly what to do 🤣

[@melindahajdin]

He's like, "Okay, crazy white man. I give you haircut now."

[@2010vintagesandwichenjoyer]

Another hidden gem discovered thanks to yellow dancing cat THIS time around she actually dancing

[@JohnMkrv]

I never knew that I'm gonna say this but, thanks Zone

[@kdksgshdg2877]

wdym? wasn’t she always dancing?

[@ferdinandroig3460]

She's really _dominating_ the dance floor.

[@JohnMkrv]

@@kdksgshdg2877 never has been

[@LolaTheGardevoir]

Who cares about the cat all you should care about is Tiffany

[@italiancat3786]

This music sounds fit for wholesome yellow cat dancing

[@ashkirby8896]

More like a formerly wholesome yellow cat trying to get over the trauma of another “not so much a dance”!😄😏😎

[@haystackbill6187]

@@ashkirby8896 Do you not know how to type anything else?

[@ashkirby8896]

@@haystackbill6187 Yes!😏😎

[@S-fn3oe]

@@ashkirby8896 What do you mean not so much a dance? What else did the cat do but dance

[@ashkirby8896]

@@S-fn3oe Fucking the heck out of the villager!😏😎 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJiai36tdpifeK8

[@thenightbreak]

I just heard this being played in a supermarket. I could barely contain myself from dancing.

[@Lou-nn3nr]

Did you buy multiple packets of Blancmange?

[@sirjellybeans6653]

That was a dance?

[@vidster13]

Did they cut out the swear word?

[@Drexxaal]

I hope u didn't! I hope u got shaking those hips like a belly dancer!

[@samanthacarter3655]

I danced to a tune in a supermarket yesterday. Isn't that what we are supposed to do?:)

[@RogueWJL]

Belter of a dance track. Criminally underrated. Good to see the middle East in happier times.

[@gabzinemo3894]

Well, at least a few young peeps listen to these tracks. I sure do and I’m in my early 20s :D

[@PeterNgola]

""Good to see the middle East in happier times.""" Weeeeeel....... at least the country this was filmed in. Dont forget Iran Iraq war lebanon etc. But great song indeed!

[@Eaglehunter44]

This comment aged like milk

[@savary5050]

Lmao actual fans are here

[@yvc9]

Its far from underrated. I sure danced my ass off to it enough in clubs to know.

[@tikmuzika]

Not so small in July 2024 ! Still huge , standing strong !!! Never fall !!!

[@PaulieD1984]

UP T' BLOODY TREE!!!

[@dhenderson1810]

"I'm so small, I'm so small" as it shows him towering over everyone.

[@NixDarkLord]

It's the other way round i think

[@trevorbishop3567]

Lol Ok 😁

[@mowl]

😁

[@karluhh_9351]

Fun fact if you pay attention to the song the lyrics he singing like from a cats perspective that’s why.. is like telling a cats story

[@mud8723]

@@karluhh_9351 oh god no OH GOD NO

[@28981karlos]

This is the definition of 80s synth pop...Bloody love this song 🎵 ❤️

[@jrmetmoi]

I love the 80s

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

Yeh

[@carolinejanneh2877]

One word for this song fantastic still love this song in my 50s

[@dbg32]

I love the way he says he’s “up the bloody tree” in his Northern accent! Of course “bloody” was too offensive for radio so they changed it to “cuckoo tree”.

[@jenwendy7]

We got to hear "bloody" in the States 😍

[@markellis3036]

Check out the Limmy sketch about that. Comedy gold.

[@tracyobrien5849]

Was just thinking before i saw your comment. Why did i always sing cuckoo tree 😁😁

[@EaAblott]

I recently moved to Lancashire from the East Midlands and I have to contain myself from saying “IM UP T’ BLOODY TREE” when talking to people

[@tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817]

@dbg32 last time I listened to Radio 2 daytime , when the legendary maverick Steve Wright (RIP)was on in the afternoons, they bloody censored it!!

[@MrChristian]

I was lucky to see and meet Blancmange at a concert in Leamington, England in 2014. Neil Arthur was nice enough to come out to meet me after the show when he heard that I flew in from Los Angeles just to see him and Heaven 17. 100% true story. It was a dream come true to see both bands perform.

[@marcusverkler5246]

That's some good stuff! I like hearing stories like yours. Thank you.

[@boxfetish]

Jealous!

[@clairesmith1964]

That made me emotional Christian..so proud of my brother..Stephen who was in the band but now retired

[@randomnesspersonified]

That sounds awesome! Was he actually "so tall" though? He looks tall in that video, but maybe all the people around him were just short. Weird random question that occurred to me lol

[@PatrickGalbraith]

Smaller venues are the best. Bands that aren't super-bands even better. I saw the Fixx a year ago and it was one of the best concerts I've seen and was only a good 20' away from the stage. One of my favorite bands. I heard this Blancmange song the other day which brought me here. Check out SomaFM Underground 80s

[@andyj639]

One of my favourite 1980s records. Brilliant so far ahead of its time.

[@pepsiq11965]

Blancmange were huge in the 80s in cities in the USA. New York, L.A., Boston, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Philly, and Chicago. Loved everything from the UK in the entire 80s decade. Small country with the most musically talented people on Earth along with NYC :)

[@lihilihi5111]

This song was the opening of an Arabic program on Israeli television when I was a child. I discovered the original song only in my youth in the 90's when mtv (and cables in general) came to Israel 😁😁

[@tzahibar7146]

גדולה! את זוכרת איזו תכנית?? לא מוצא אפילו רמז

[@robertjohnson1602]

Anyone who includes mysterious Egypt and the Sphinx in their video clip - in addition to one of the most infectious beats of the '80s has a memorable music moment!

[@JohnMkrv]

Yes

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

Don't anyone ever tell you that the 80's wasn't the greatest decade for music because it was.

[@cathsalazar9930]

Absolutely 💯!!!! Best years ever for these great bands!!!! Timeless!!!!! Lol🇺🇸👍☮️🔥🥵🤩🇺🇸💯❤️

[@Freehardy]

the thing about the 80's is it was the last era pop music was made by adults. you can hear it in the music and lyrics

[@cathsalazar9930]

@@Freehardy fur sure! 🤩

[@antonjonsamuelsen8970]

Brilliant 1980s

[@JasperCasper24]

I may have been born late 90s but 80s is definitely my favourite decade of music!

[@garyandrewranford]

Btw... Blancmange (Neil Arthur) still do live concerts. Saw them in Colchester Arts Centre a couple of years ago, and they were impressive 😊❤😊

[@siniorpeligro2468]

The first time i heard this song was in GTA Vice City Stories, then years later i heard it again with Ankha. Thank you Zone

[@Lisbord]

same

[@visas666]

same XD

[@alessivo82]

you in fact I also gta vice city stories for Ps2 always listened to him in the game but only now after years I decided to look for this song on the tube, funny I didn’t think to find here another similar comment :-)

[@andropolo16]

Ahhh, no wonder it seemed familiar to me, as if the PS2 came to mind

[@STEVES7EVE]

Thank you limmy show for showing me this masterpiece It lives in my heads attic rent free and occasional comes out when I've forget about it ⬆️🆎️🌴

[@davegahan5908]

Love this song, so much energy and sounds so exotic and different from anything else around at that amazing time in music in the 80's!

[@karenmccarthy1523]

Totally agree...could listen over & over..💖

[@globalparadise6979]

Hey what 80's head was'nt living on the ceiling back in the day 😂

[@maxwellsmart6487]

Pre emptive indies music Boom! Stock market takes off like a DC10

[@alloy1100]

Love this

[@edwardthemememan]

Certainly were a unique fresh and different sound and came from Darwen just down the road from my home town Blackburn

[@helenkramer]

this song is so good. one of the best vocal performances of the 80s, imho.

[@trevorbishop3567]

Brilliant tune

[@trevorbishop3567]

Brilliant tune 🤠

[@adelebeverley2901]

Bloody fabulous

[@themodstrobator5676]

I have Down syndrome

[@wildechild5]

I saw them in a small club in San Francisco California in 1986 I believe it was might have been 85 but this song is so brilliant and I was so looking forward to their Showmanship but it was boring as hell and I ended up falling asleep. I have never fallen asleep at a concert before or ever since. And no I was not drunk or on drugs I was straight as straight can be.

[@elizabethm2353]

What a gem! I haven’t heard this since I was a sophomore in high school. And that was a loooooong time ago 😢

[@lallamarebelde4829]

First gta vice city stories and now.... An Egyptian cat dancing. Yes, the years go by

[@loll33882]

At least glad I heard this music in GTA VCS before Egypt cat dancing

[@Lisbord]

I came here thanks to both. I discovered this song first in GTA VCS 3 years ago but never find out the name but after Zone's Ankha animation I get to know the band and the song name.

[@loll33882]

@@Lisbord your welcome

[@timkirby2347]

@@loll33882 yeah same here lol

[@JohnMkrv]

@@Lisbord Same

[@siegebug]

They're coming

[@StuzRoz]

There's no such thing as the perfect pop song Blancmange: Hold my beer 🍺

[@kevinmccarthy7762]

I bought Blancmange's album when it was still vinyl and this song is still relevant today as so many others think so too!❤🎉

[@OlgaSmithSaysStuff]

Do you still own the vinyl of it? Vinyl is back, baby, ask my Gen Z daughter.

[@markellis3036]

I’m up tha’ bloody tree!

[@douga3212]

That's what hooked me to the song when it first got released. They used Australia's most well known swear word. Bloody great song.

[@philipelwell4214]

Could blow just about any contemporary record into the dust this. BRILLIANT.

[@unionjakjakson]

Classic 80''s amongst the best. Love it

[@CrickettoSantalune]

Everybody: the cat is dancing Me: one of the best themes of GTA Vice City Stories

[@loll33882]

Yeah this music is ruined

[@Lisbord]

@@loll33882 Either that or enhanced depending on how you see it.

[@ronienrikey1712]

Finally someone said it.

[@woggybot]

only 2.6M views up to mid 2023? WTAF?! This song is awesome!!

[@worldpeace666now]

Even more awesome...hearing it back in 80's💖💖

[@fatimapacheco268]

I heard this music as Iwas 16, today iam 57 and I still ❤❤❤ it

[@willybeezy2775]

This song shows up like an old friend and gives you a warm hug.

[@Borazilla1]

Thanks for the new song suggestion ankha!

[@MalcolmDesigns]

Soooo GREAT! I remember dancing at The Jab, a club at Syracuse University and thursday night New Wave Night my freshman year in '82. I miss the eighties...

[@vertono6084]

She really was dancing this time.

[@ashkirby8896]

More like a formerly wholesome yellow cat trying to get over the trauma of another “not so much a dance”!😄😏😎

[@huntermossakajunkerman9646]

@AshKirby why are you on most of the ankha comments?

[@huntermossakajunkerman9646]

Can we just appreciate the long forgotten song that zone helped us rediscover?

[@isaiahwalking]

@@huntermossakajunkerman9646 yes

[@isaiahwalking]

@@ashkirby8896 bruh i just saw you on that video why do you gotta remind everyone here?

[@yorkshirelassinsuffolk1209]

Play this once a day. I loved it back then enjoy it now.

[@smashism]

Blancmange to video production company: "Give us the Duran Duran"

[@OlgaSmithSaysStuff]

As a Duran Duran fan back then as well as a fan of this song...lol 🙂

[@codzy3532]

showed my dad this vid..........he said cool love how they mix cultural music to their music great classic too

[@bakislayer]

So basically 2021 is just a rewind of classics

[@otaddiction]

I guess now I associate this song with two things: that cat and GTA: Vice City Stories

[@Lisbord]

same

[@maxcruickshank77]

And that skit from the funny Scottish guy

[@gaz9005]

NEW ROMANTICS AT IT BEST BRING ON THE 80s

[@markrich7171]

The 80's. Still the greatest decade for music. unbelievable to think that finished nearly 30 YEARS AGO!

[@EnidAgnusDei]

Rather addicted to this I have to say!

[@robertk6640]

Why couldn’t this song sound as good back then as it So delicious to my ears now in 2024.

[@gearoidgalavan7483]

It was a banger then and still a banger now perfect combination of song snd video

[@wendydavis622]

It's 2024 still love the lyrics and song!!

[@AdrianFay-bd1dp]

God im old i was these live supporting Ultravox in Birmingham UK in the 80s

[@jamescatneyarbuckle5390]

Just a great song. One of the best synthpop tunes ever. A classic.

[@biggixer]

I think it’s one of the best intros to a tune.

[@djbozeman2131]

NEVER get sick of this classic 80’s track! 💃 🎧

[@bibiofficialmusic2204]

Great song! Not only the sound but also most of the 80s artists were such elegant dressers, and those haircuts, such great memories from school days!!!

[@monabostrom8357]

Hear hear.

[@liquidgold40oz]

I haven't heard this song since 83 . That's pretty much 40 yrs .. I completely had forgot about this group .... Now it's added on my Playlist.

[@Paulie80]

China Crisis "Arizona Sky" Another lost gem.

[@liquidgold40oz]

​@@Paulie80Thank you.

[@lynnwilliams2554]

2024 and still as fresh as it was.

[@petermagill3745]

80s best decade for music

[@hilary.teanti]

A criminally underrated song this is. How does this not get played more often (anywhere and everywhere) as a masterpiece of the 80's ?!

[@mikey50boy]

Still one of my favourite tracks of the 80’s

[@tammysack4097]

One of the best songs to dance to.... I miss the 80s!

[@thesenate5291]

Cant belive this song is 38 years old...man I want to be there when the song was released so bad.

[@trevorbishop3567]

Miss them to the 80s

[@Rhlgull1331]

I’m up ‘t bloody tree

[@peacec47]

Love that bit

[@stephenbrett4216]

Locked in my world

[@loveandpeace9956]

I’m up t’ *BLUB BLUB* tree

[@peacec47]

@@loveandpeace9956 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jane1975]

@Rhigull: It was censored on TOTP to Cuckoo Tree.

[@jf8085]

The production was top notch sounds like it was recorded yesterday

[@semilife]

So so cool sounding now, with that middle eastern sound. This has definitely aged very well.

[@jabah126]

Filmed in Cairo, looks like. I lived there for a year, exciting place

[@alexmalpass8526]

Wow! Gonna say it I cried..good lord!

[@alexmalpass8526]

Thanks for all the likes!! 😭

[@thetrickisirarelyrespond5945]

In my hazy recollection of the 80s, this song phases in and out of "You Spin Me Right Round" by Dead or Alive.

[@ascaro1885]

We really are here for a reason..

[@kimmitheengineer9291]

This song was a very cool 80s song. Glad someone went into the walls to find it and dust it off! It's been like 35 years since I last heard it!

[@MarkSmith-er7fe]

i wish we could go back 35 yrs mate

[@PONKEYWAG]

lol everyone wants to go back in time when they hear these songs, I suppose in the 80s the older generation wanted to go back to the 60s ha ha Great song though

[@ajs41]

Blind Vision was a pretty good song as well. Very dramatic.

[@johnwinner9102]

Is there anyone from vice city stories?

[@MarkSmith-er7fe]

no-i want to go back to the 80s-------because the world was a better place---OK PAL---oh and music was better

[@PhilP8980]

I miss the 80’s

[@davidhookway1451]

Used to love dancing to this at the Reaktor Club in the early 80s in Oshawa!

[@drewcampbell8555]

Talking Heads inspired and great tune for dancing!

[@jasminerahman8410]

Love this song! Brings back happy memories from the 80's and school days! Nothing beats the 80's for entertainment. Classic and so unique!

[@trevorbishop3567]

Brilliant tune miss the 80s

[@NEOGEO1966]

Best music, 80s had such well engineered tracks.

[@Zinriusminazen]

Incoming influx of viewers! Praise Zone-Sama!!

[@thehenwithatie]

In the ZOOOOOOOOOOOONE

[@shiruotakuno28]

Zone-sama's got great taste in music. How many more bangers is she gonna single-handedly bring back from the dead?

[@PrixtoTNT]

*she

[@user-vr1nd3ep3s]

@@PrixtoTNT >she

[@TatsukiHashida]

@@PrixtoTNT SHE?

[@PrixtoTNT]

@@TatsukiHashida Indeed

[@callmewhatever.7963]

@@PrixtoTNT So just to be completely clear, they are in fact a she? Honestly I never cared enough to try and find out but was curious about it. I always see them referred to as both he and she.

[@lennydicko]

Unbelievable song and nearly 40 years old 🎉

[@vickytoriat295]

😍 take me back 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

[@jalexgonzalez76]

An Egyptian dancing cat referred me to the original version... Pure magic from the Middle East gentlemen!! We have a gem buried in the sands almost 40 years after its release.

[@JJ-ls8jo]

The way the barber looks at Neil...thinking "Mate your bloody mad"!! Love Neil's voice & style, even the lil gap in his teeth, however he couldn't dance!!🙄😄

[@learnin10minutes]

Since 1982... I've listened to this song over 5000 times... likewise DM's get the balance right... fade to grey by visage... one small day by ultravox... kove like blood by killing joke... i will keep listening to them till i die...

[@gaskellr44]

Do you count every time you listen?

[@royalnass1029]

Ultravox is good too

[@drkahara]

Such a great song. And a nostalgia for me. I first heard its "chorus" as an opener for the Arabic News Line hour.

[@Cinephileval]

J ecoutais Blancmange dans ma période New wave. D ailleurs j écoute toujours ❤❤❤❤❤❤👍😃

[@codzeedeedee5990]

Isn't anybody gonna mention the 2 different cultural music blended together on this xlent 80s classic....frickin awesome😊😚😎😁

[@tlcmc6451]

Brilliant! This packed the floor in the New Wave clubs back in the day. Great times! Never stop dancing!

[@jonathanburrows9394]

I'm watching this in Cairo.

[@sylviafaulkner668]

Going back to the 80’s and a very happy time in my life

[@cathsalazar9930]

Still living there with all these great bands & songs!!!! Ain’t leaving!.....🇺🇸👍💯❤️

[@cathsalazar9930]

@Stuart Cumings this is one of the best 80’s dance songs ever what a great video singer pure masterpiece 🇺🇸👍❤️💯🎼🎧😻🤩

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Extraordinary song, and wonderful sound.

[@8bitnitwit]

RIP Benny Harvey. Miss ya big man.

[@Cybercrapper28]

Real

[@kingelvis1977d]

Always loved this song always will ( 38 years ,wow ! ) . How cool was Neil Arthur

[@dominewimbury2039]

Listening now in the song's 40th year

[@Kolyan_R]

Someone: know this song in Zone's animation. I'm: oh, this is from the gta vc stories.

[@marciajenkins7831]

Good memories with my mum singing and dancing.

[@darreneffle4118]

i remember listening to this song on kroq in the 80s. great time to be alive.

[@tabbykat9]

I really wish I could live a day in the 80s. I just love the music so much!

[@shanefitzpatrick5811]

Still in school when this was released l was about 17. Absolutely loved it and still do. Even the guy's who weren't into the new romantics loved it.

[@jasminerahman8410]

Love the look on the barbers face! He's probably thinking who's this loony tune!!

[@NEOGEO1966]

I that look on the barber's face was epic

[@djbeancanarias2881]

000

[@shellybaby1621]

Still great 80s tune 😂

[@dawnfinch8232]

Yes ha ha 😂

[@craiganderson2720]

I saw that look.😂