Nik kershaw- Radio musicola Official musicvideo

[@surendrakumar3987]

Heard this when I was 17. Now I'm 53 and it seemed we have really grown up to Radio Musicola for sure. Sad, so so sad. Great vision Nik!

[@annbritanilsson]

Everything the 80's stood for - all encapsulated in any Nik Kershaw song. Magic !

[@KenLey]

One of my absolute favorite Nik-compositions. Brilliant construct all together.

[@jpisello]

I agree. This is one of his best.

[@skyreadersociety6183]

same here! As usual - not appreciated enough by the masses.

[@ROXYMUZAK1964]

Just listen to those horns.... absolute delight

[@yorkiebear1970]

I bought the album in 1986. At least he had the nerve to do and say exactly what he wanted and take a side step against the odds.. This song was and is still ace. I could listen on repeat and have never forgotten it..

[@annbritanilsson]

Totally agree. He was brave and took pop in his own progressive direction as a songwriter and it really stands out even today.

[@yetino]

Absolutely great composition. Sounds fantastic in 2023. Nik was and still is one of the finest musicians.

[@RaveTracks]

The production on this record is superb!

[@nmacog]

still one of the most amazing basslines of all time ...

[@lesmartinsings]

In retrospect do we realize how good this period of music was, and Niks contribution is right up there with it !

[@EphemeralInspiration]

one of my favourite Nik songs. The guy is such a songwriting and production genius. Influenced me heaps. Your music was a cherished part of my musical life, Nik!

[@annbritanilsson]

Me too!

[@genomizer2763]

Absolutely one of Nik´s best song by far, never getting tired of this track!!

[@jackdexter9439]

I'm a MASSIVE Kershaw fan and i've never seen this before ... Thank YOU !!!!

[@Ladykershaw]

I found it on a Nik Kershaw dvd i bought, i've never seen it before either before i saw the dvd! You're welcome!:)

[@ollywurk]

great tune from a classically trained highly underrated musician.nice to hear some real brass as well.

[@robertosardi3770]

So ahead of the time when it was released ..Music..lyrics..Nik Kershaw a real pop music genius ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@kbraz1970]

In the whole time I have loved Nik Kershaw I have NEVER seen this filmclip. I found the cassette tape of this album yesterday. Thanks for sharing.

[@Ladykershaw]

Kim Brazell you are welcome! Its from a DVD :)

[@vikingfortiesfaeroes]

@Ashley Which DVD, just out of interest?

[@Ladykershaw]

@vikingfortiesfaeroes classic Nik Kershaw The universal Masters DVD collection 😌👍

[@vikingfortiesfaeroes]

That's great, thanks!

[@Iceblooo]

An extremely underrated songwriter. I bought this wonderful album at the time and replaced it on CD after many years of searching. I don't think I ever saw this video - thanks for posting !

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

Great 80s sleeper!

[@tomtoshack]

Timeless▪Kershaw is a very clever musician, looks like he's got a crystal ball too.

[@Aramanth]

I have spent over 20 fruitless years searching out this album! I have some of the songs on compilations but not the whole. Thanks for uploading this rare clip!

[@ash231266]

wonderful! - great songwriting and playing, - Nik Kershaw was far too good to be remembered as an 80's pop star! Huge talent!

[@UltraPOPDJ]

I used to love this song. When I saw this video on Music Box this was the first time that I have ever heard of Nik Kershaw. My family moved to England in 1986 until 1989. With a bunch of ads from the telly and Record Mirror I though that this was bound to crack the UK Top 40. It's hard to believe that it peaked so low in the top 75. Thank you for finally posting the video.

[@jvirgo9]

So young there, thanks for uploading. Magic listening to some Nik

[@jannepori]

Underrated song... This is GREAT!!

[@R-S2021]

My teenage years right there.

[@anettehallstrom]

This is just my all time favourite Nik K song. LOVE that bassline. (loved Mark King and Level 42 also actually)

[@BurgundyPlush]

Love this song from back in the day. Kickin bass line. Nik was quite the hottie

[@johntomkins]

Great track , sounds even more awesome live , remember seeing Nik perform the song on the 15 Minutes tour in Bristol

[@unicorno11]

Great Artist...great sounds always; here most of all, drums and bass!!!

[@johnmclachlan3602]

Wow - great quality upload - thanks

[@wegogreycup]

Have you heard Ei8ht? I give it a 4our. And I LOVE Nik Kershaw music!

[@simonpearson1599]

Love this music even though I wasn't alive when it came out. Nik Kershaw is awesome.

[@Pieriv]

I always liked very much this song, I think it's a very good composition

[@Charlotte-hq3xh]

Lyrics: Black vinyl man with black plasticised imagination More fodder for the new lost generation I got a question to send you to the nearest closet "Why can't you let us do it like Joni does it?" There you go again, giving it your very best Trying so hard to make it sound like all the rest And as your factory sanctifies your wooden soul Gave us TV dinners, now it's TV Rock 'n' Roll We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola I got political inclinations to announce No way, if it doesn't scan with your accounts I got some spiritual ideology for you I know it's gotta correspond with the corporation view We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola You can find it in the streets You can find it in the elevators You can find it where the ladies wash their hands It emanates from little boxes on the wall and It'll soon be coming in disposable tin cans My soul shows art to me, but dollars says my radio Wall Street liquid lunches showing us the way to go "Why tolerate this numismatical polity?" There isn't any other way, There isn't any other way, More is the pity We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio ooh musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio Ooh musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio ooh musicola (musicola) We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola...

[@skalpel56]

the best bass line i ever heard in rock music

[@dickturnipmarlboro]

Klassic Kershaw. Very under-rated artist.

[@josephglover4256]

“How many effects do you want on the vid, Nick?” “Yes.”

[@giuliapretto1986]

wonderful song from the album of the same name radio musicola!!! :)

[@CitroenCX]

The indoor location with the long corridor is Wandsworth Town Hall, I think.

[@ElkundEklund]

Session man Steve Sidwell on trumpet actually released albums under his own name but they're all production music / library music. Check out "Eurokitsch" Cavendish CAV CD 91 (1998)

[@Ladykershaw]

Thank you!:-) I love this song too!

[@WilliamAFerguson]

And the thing is Nik was absolutely prophetic about the where the music industry would eventually end up. Everything he said in this song has come to pass.

[@jeromesincire4676]

Génial ce titre et l’album éponyme de 1986 est excellent également....on appelait cela "techno pop" à l'époque mais sans rapport avec le genre électronique que l'on a appelé "techno" par la suite.

[@Velorandoz]

Il y a aussi le terme de synthpop pour définir ce style

[@AndreiBaburin]

Yes ! Musicola ! and yes, Mark King ! )) Good song.

[@AndreiBaburin]

wow, 12 years gone, and I see my own old comment here, while listening to this brilliant song.

[@valcujo5690]

I was Born when It was related❤️ go Nik

[@g-plan9future204]

Classy.still have cd

[@Raider7779311]

Another NK video I have never seen until today! MuchMusic has let me down lol

[@wegogreycup]

"...Why can't you let us do it like Joni does it...." PRICELESS!

[@gaelanhansel3223]

Nik had a dream of humanity going up, we're going up, to radio musicola leaving behind all musical mediocrity.

[@karrade]

This album had bigger drum sounds on the cassette version than on the CD version .. strange :)

[@dickturnipmarlboro]

@cafste3make Im not 100% certain but I dont think Mark King played bass to this track? He did on "Easy"

[@Monokitty768]

Why does the drumming style remind me so much of Phil Gould....Level 42's drummer around that time.

[@jaybowden2658]

John Mulligan it’s a drum machine, matey pops . Although there are some overdubs

[@Monokitty768]

@@jaybowden2658 Didn't Mark King play Bass on this? Maybe that is why. Very Similar style to Gould's. Excellent drummer.

[@jaybowden2658]

@@Monokitty768 okay, and this is a probably a programmed Fairlight CMI for the bass parts

[@Monokitty768]

@@jaybowden2658 if it is fair enough. No doubt the influence though.

[@jaybowden2658]

@@Monokitty768 that's a very belated reply lol

[@AndorrasB0X]

Nik Kershaw understood to hide great philosphical /political / Economical themes in his "nice, little" Pop Songs.. i guess this is his confession ;-)

[@pipsqueakNZ]

yaye! another Nik vid to add to my collection!!

[@samarmytage6199]

i can hear so much 'fruit machine' in this song. genius.under-rated. his first 4 albums coulda had 7 singles each. stop what you're doing and buy tape/lp(i bought cd for $75 and another at $45) play 'don't let me out of my cage'. he liked humphrey bogart (Talk to me BOGART)and james cagney(james cagney).did he collect old film posters ?

[@wsx234rr]

cool rhythm

[@dickturnipmarlboro]

Mark King played bass on "Easy"

[@ChasBeauregarde]

@bosunbilly I can't understand all of the lyrics. I will look them up. I agree with a lot of the other comments that Nik was certainly overlooked and a brilliant songwriter/artist.

[@Rossmcewan71]

I prefer the album version, its longer!

[@brixtbass]

(I'm curious coz I've always loved this bassline). Where did you get that from? - is MK credited on the sleeve? It sounds like it's a sequenced bass synth? - any idea if he actually played it - or just programmed it?

[@letmeouttamycage]

The middle 8 is the best bit of this song.. the rest is kinda Don Quixote part 2

[@ElkundEklund]

Probably because MTV never played the video... I was there and I did not see it...

[@crazykc]

Gimmee that radio!

[@kimakotrotman6860]

I was first hit by the moving bass.

[@Starglance]

Music was so much better in the 80ies

[@Pirosuki]

日本に来てくれー

[@benchristo1155]

I agree!

[@drawlbag]

I stole the cassette of this album in about 1987?? from WHSmith in Romford, Essex, England. Listened to it non-stop on my way to work from Gidea Park To Brentwood; I realise this means nothing to anyone, but I'm reminiscing!!!

[@jaybowden2658]

drawlbag return it now

[@benchristo1155]

Does it lack Nik's signature key-change driven sound?

[@LeoDragon34]

Listening to this back to back with Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s ‘Welcome to the Pleasuredome’, I can’t help but think he was influenced by it (coming 18 months before this song). I love this song though - it’s more musical, but has a similar throbbing bass throughout. You can’t help think that Frankie’s song did better because of their controversial and more edgy vibe.

[@neurokillbill88]

I wanted to write 'which HE shows in interviews'

[@wernerkarall8156]

cool

[@progpuss]

Quality

[@skalpel56]

mark king is...........one of the greatests bass creators ever........

[@Sinjinator]

Are the disposable tin cans MP3 players? That was some forward-looking genius...

[@cafste3make]

MKings bass line really keeps the track going and funky! However the horn playing is my favourite. Pity about video. Ok, Nik standing while corridor moves is a neat trick, but overall its a bit depressing! Maybe that's the idea, keeping in context with the song.

[@kershaw1983]

This is a superb track of a fantastic album,nik kershaw at his very best,check out his new stuff too,you've got to laugh cd is brilliant,check it out

[@LorvinWolf]

When to many people are on a server.

[@tht707]

@marisculo: I quite agree, but it's interesting.

[@kirin2112]

Sad how relevant this song is with respect to contemporary 'music'. Kick ass song and album nonetheless.

[@Ladykershaw]

I like more: "It isnt any other way,it isnt any other way, more's the pity":-)

[@gwensciora8516]

its missing the WLIR DJS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MrStuartbruce1]

@cafste3make That's not Mr King, that's Andy Richards and his Fairlight 3...... and yes Andy, it does sound better!!!

[@Ladykershaw]

Nik's videos are wierd..all of them:)

[@thefenlanddefencesystem5080]

Does Radio Musicola play the grown-up music that Peppa Pig listens to?

[@ElkundEklund]

Yeah. There was an academic paper published in Nature today which proves how pop is deteriorating. "Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music", just google it. "Much of the gathered evidence points towards an important degree of conventionalism, in the sense of blockage or no-evolution" - while the Loudness War rages on.

[@minnowpoo]

yuk

[@EphemeralInspiration]

well he doesn't like the music industry very much does he :) And who can blame him.

[@crimsonrush]

Brilliant song. Deserved a better video.

[@neurokillbill88]

3:13 - sexy look :), he's totally sexy, even now, btw I'm gay but I don't care :), I love his songs and his character which his shows in interviews

[@ВладимирКруглов-к9о]

Can't believe people are puzzled this didn't become a hit. What scream "a hit" to you here? It's got no melody, no discernible hook, average vocals - a sound of a man devoid of ideas, who resorted to a boring mid-paced funk-rock beat and nothing much else. The lyrics are clunky and a bit pretentious, also take a lot of time and effort to hammer home a very simple point. The video is lackluster - chaotic, but dull, and with unpleasant effects. Also, with this kind of image Nik looks like a banker of something, not a pop star. This is exactly the stuff you release when you aim to terminate your star carrier - which Nik seemingly wanted to do at that point. And it did the trick, unsurprisingly. One question - when did his melodic gift of only a couple years back go?

[@ChasBeauregarde]

Great Fairlight polyrhythmic programming. A bright spot in the decline of 80's music (unfortunately Nik was popular the same time Michael Jackson and Madonna ruined pop music.)

[@wegogreycup]

Very syrupy. No Vinnie grooves. No drive.

[@ste52s69]

I think he ran out of tunes.

[@richardmurphy4520]

Level 42,s Mark King plays bass on this Nik stonker, a fitting critique of all the shite manufactured Americana and western pop music being pumped out in the mid to late 80,s. " It,ll soon be coming in disposable tin cans." Says it all really.