ONE HIT WONDER?! 🎵 Eddy Grant - "Electric Avenue" - Reaction

[@gunsfan4ever]

Eddy Grant is 73 years old this year. Unbelievable how time has flown

[@opencarry3860]

It's moving by quick. It doesn't seem that long ago when this was a new release.

[@brianjones9392]

I agree.

[@JamieSingh-r5w]

Eddy grant is one of the best guyanese artists his songs are legendary. Proud to be Guyanese.

[@ShelbyFarrow]

My Grandmother was from Guyana.

[@dcanmore]

Eddie Grant may have been a one hit wonder in the States but in the UK and the wider world he had a load of hit songs, also he was in a very successful band called The Equals (Baby, Come Back) before he went solo.

[@michaelserrurier9392]

The Equals. YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYyEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@keithgupton9349]

Eddie Grant did have another dance hit in the States called Time Warp

[@steveparker8065]

Just had a quick look, it's in Brixton. You should know the Brixton riots took place in 1981 the year before this was released in 1982 and so I have always interpreted the song as a call to arms rather than a street party. The first line of the song is 'Now in the streets there is violence'. "The Electric Avenue referenced in Eddy Grant's song is real (map). It exists in the Brixton area of London, England, a part of the Brixton Market. The street name derives from a very simple explanation: it began as one of the first market streets in the area lit by electricity."

[@PanglossDr]

Back in the 60s I used to go to Brixton Market for my weekly shopping. I loved it, the colour, the smells.

[@Isleofskye]

TRUE STORY: Around 20 years ago I pulled up at the traffic lights which were then thereon the junction of Electric Avenue, Brixton ( hence the song title ) and Brixton Road and a girl jumped in my passenger seat, turned off my ignition, and demanded £20 ( $25 ) otherwise she would throw my car keys down a drain and as luck would have it, I always keep some spare money in my car for an Emergency ( though I never dreamed for THIS type of emergency ). I gave her the money. She returned my car keys and I drove off. LOVELY :( 1

[@dcanmore]

Yes, Eddie Grant lived there for a time in the 1970s.

[@MikeB12800]

Guns of Brixton - The Clash

[@tradeladder146]

@@Isleofskye Electric Avenue is in Brixton, South London .

[@joegreen9987]

This song will never go out of style you can take this song to any disco club's and people will get up and dance 💃 ♥ ❤ 🎶 💜 💕 💃

[@alexandrelachapelle4232]

Love this song. the line "Dealing in multiplication, and they still can't feed everyone." gets me every time.

[@glasgowjohn7831]

holy shit eddy grant!!!! i love eddy and love the fact you're listening to a lot of British songs that no other youtubers listen too

[@msammon1]

Electric Avenue is a street in a mainly Afro-Caribbean populated area called Brixton in London with a reputation for street drugs and gangs that was targeted by the police, in 1981 upset about the institutional racism of the police department there was a major riot that lead to looting and attack on the police station not far from electric avenue. In 1985 there was a second riot in the area due to a police raid n the home of Dorothy "Cherry" Groce, she was in bed when the police raided the home but somehow mother of 6 Dorothy was shot by the police sparking a second riot and attack on the police station and looting. I still live a few miles from Brixton and have vivid memory's of those times.

[@goldboy150]

The song is about anti-police brutality protests and riots in Brixton (a suburb of London with a predominant afro-Caribbean community). Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton. The chorus, which says: “we’re gonna rock down to electric Avenue and then we’ll take it higher”, is saying “we’re going to take to the streets in Brixton and then we’ll go to Westminster and Knightsbridge where the politicians and rich people are so that they can hear our voices. The song makes reference to other societal inequities like famine and poverty as well.

[@Isleofskye]

TRUE STORY: Around 20 years ago I pulled up at the traffic lights which were then thereon the junction of Electric Avenue, Brixton ( hence the song title ) and Brixton Road and a girl jumped in my passenger seat, turned off my ignition, and demanded £20 ( $25 ) otherwise she would throw my car keys down a drain and as luck would have it, I always keep some spare money in my car for an Emergency ( though I never dreamed for THIS type of emergency ). I gave her the money. She returned my car keys and I drove off. LOVELY :( 1

[@coconinoco]

@@Isleofskye Never happened.

[@jamestroost2784]

Thanks Did not know that

[@dusterss6290]

@@Isleofskye ha ha: reminds me of watching football at Anfield "Hey give us squid and your car will be ok". Of course you play, its called helping the economy.

[@Isleofskye]

Just seen your comment and I can assure you,a complete stranger, that it did happen. Those lights(to my knowledge) are no longer there and that entrance, opposite Lambeth Town Hall, has been closed for a long time(I think). As a matter of psychological interest, why do you NOT want to believe this? Bit "random" is, wouldn't you say, especially as I did not reveal the ethnicity of the girl. Remember,if she was local, she would know that cars stop at those lights for , at least,90 seconds to defer to the main Brixton Road traffic...

[@DIN_A8]

I love how she is having just the best time possible

[@peaceloveandunity278]

Electric Avenue was the first place in Britain to have Electric street lighting. Electric Avenue is in Brixton,South London.

[@3VILmonkey]

This is an amazing unique song which is why it's still fire after decades.

[@sammyholloway334]

I still remember discussing this with my cousin in KY,he said" I got that eddy grant album,,cept fir that one song,,it ain't no count"

[@kathleenarchacki7875]

Luv this song.. when I lead an aerobics class ,this was one of my songs..lol

[@chrisstorms7511]

This song always reminds me of the first time I heard it. When I was in high school a had a huge crush on girl that went to the college next to my school where i had one of my classes, I saw her almost everyday and tried to impress her, she didnt know I was a highschooler. anyways she played this song for me, and I thought it was cool because i liked her. of course she was way out of my league and I didnt have a chance, but still a good memory.

[@trevorgibson1190]

This is beautiful Barbados where this video was filmed ! Eddy lives there. It is also my culture.

[@thechronicmaster-baker7172]

This was My JAM when I was in 4th Grade

[@klmnbeats]

its 2001 on the top of a mountain in Austria. Me and my friends have our first joint and the ghetto blaster plays this song.

[@javianjohnson8746]

I wasn't even born in the same decade when this song was born, yet it feels so nostalgic.

[@pharllslim4544]

I was 12 when this came out, still rocks

[@free-birdrocker8809]

Bad to the bone early 80s jam! Love the video work on this one. 😎

[@miketd711]

We played the heck out of this back in the day..We skated to this every weekend in goldengate park.

[@PillBoxUK]

I used to live in Streatham, South London. Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton. Walked passed it on a daily basis.

[@MySherry10]

I love this song so much , I played it over and over , we gonna rock on to Electric Avenue and then we'll take it higher, What he is saying we are going to Electric Avenue which is the only street with electric then they will move to the higher streets , this is about protesting

[@jayrayhoossongsilivedby5444]

MTV in the 80s. Kinda electronic reggae groove. Love it.

[@sumonjamal1653]

Eddy Grant wrote 'Electric avenue' about London... as a Carribean guy who couldn't afford the high life in uptown. The music video depicts Jamaica, the power outages... the creepy enforcers patrolling the streets...

[@davide.pedersen3378]

A lot of the keyboard sounds reminded me of the early video games of the late 70's, early 80's. 😎☮️

[@BrixtonTone]

LMAO ! I'm down shopping in Electric Avenue ( Brixton, London) 3 times a week and Eddy's groove is right on point !

[@ronwalker403]

Eddy has been around a long time. He formed the band The Equals in 1965 in Britain. The Equals had a #1 hit in 1968 with Baby Come Back. Yes, I’m showing my age here.

[@BlackieNuff]

In my city (Calgary AB), we had a downtown strip of just bars and night clubs, and it got the name Electric Avenue. That was back in the 80s but my "tenure" there was during the 90s - what a great time, but as the 90s came to a close, so did the Avenue. It became a "ghost town" after many of the bars and clubs closed down. It was sad.

[@SuperDaveSo]

I have very vivid memories of a 6 or 7 year old me screaming the chorus of this song in my mom's Buick Skyhawk.

[@joemachine4714]

The first time I ever danced in public was to this song. MTV had a dance in our town and passed out swag... I wore all white and my friend said I looked like a Baker 🤣

[@fredshred5194]

Electric Ave, Railton Road both join Coldharbour Lane in Brixton aka The Front Line back then. Electric Ave was the first street in London to get electric street lighting rather than gas, hence the name. I lived up the road once upon a time.

[@michaelscott9974]

Electric Ave is a place where u can get all kinds of vices And also he sings about how tough things are for the folks

[@dankoftinoff8119]

This song was blasted on the TV in the day. Video was just becoming a thing and this song was tailor made for it. Great memories! Another song , from that time would be Thomas Dolby's "Blinded me with Science", very similar to that early electric music.

[@karlsmith2570]

Eddy Grant had another song that was the theme song from the Michael Douglas movie "Romancing The Stone"

[@Day0One]

In all, Eddy is using “Electric Avenue” to speak about fighting for one’s rights and a positive change to occur in matters that affect one’s livelihood. Facts about “Electric Avenue” This song was written and produced by Grant. He released it as the first track on his 1982 album, Killer on the Rampage.

[@Lugnut73]

one of my favorite songs when i was a child, i would crank it up while doing homework, or drawing! i never realized he didn't do any other songs. this was a good one to jam to!

[@dannydarkense5500]

He did a lot of other songs. :)

[@bminturn]

More 80s goodness. It's a funky song with a serious message. That's the 80s in a nutshell.

[@rwfrench66GenX]

Oh man, when I was 17 I worked at a pizza place and after closing we pulled the jukebox away from the wall and we could reach up inside and flick a bunch of armatures that would get songs to play for free. We had no clue which ones would play but we finished washing the dishes and floors so we were pigging out on leftovers and raiding the keg and the assistant manager was going to college for computer science so he’d open the video machines and put them in a diagnostic mode and we’d get like 100 guys on Asteroids or Galaga! The brain cells we killed were epic while songs like Electric Ave were playing in the background!

[@esmeraldapooner751]

When I watched this video/song in the 80's. I taught he met we work hard, and study hard, but we are still in poverty. And he and his friends are going into the poor neighborhood, and going to have a party and enjoy themselves. It's a progressive video.

[@randywissler9923]

This song is still to this day a straight banger!!!

[@mytube2959]

I've been down electric avenue. I lived in Crystal Palace, not far away.

[@daveborder7751]

The song is about a street in Brixton & something of a damnation of the Conservative Government's policies. There was a huge riot there in 1981 & other riots all over England regarding police brutality/racism, mass unemployment, social inequality etc. The higher line is probably meaning taking the protests elsewhere or lifting people, rather than getting high.

[@goldboy150]

“We’re gonna rock down to electric Avenue and then we’ll take it higher” We’re going to go and protest in Brixton and then we’ll take those protests to Westminster/Knightsbridge etc and let the politicians and rich people hear our voices.

[@coconinoco]

@@goldboy150 Knightsbridge? To go shopping?

[@nomasker1360]

So sort of like today in the US with brandon .

[@jamesalexander5623]

Exactly!

[@barriehull7076]

Grant was born in Plaisance, British Guiana, later moving to Linden.[12][13] His father, Patrick, was a trumpeter who played in Nello and the Luckies.[13] While at school, his parents lived and worked in the United Kingdom, sending back money for his education.[13] In 1960, he emigrated to join his parents in London.[14] He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park, where he learned to read and write music.[15] He became a big fan of Chuck Berry, and after seeing him play at the Finsbury Park Astoria decided on a career in music.[15][16]

[@jeffreekoch9298]

Ah! My childhood. He was so cool and videos. I remember this. Song been on movies too. Its like reggae funk. Lol Maybe yall should see another group, Musical Youth song "Pass the Dutchie" as well! Same era and genre.

[@mts982]

The song's title refers to Electric Avenue in the south London district of Brixton which was the first market street to be lit by electricity. According to Grant, he first became aware of the street's existence during a stint acting at the Black Theatre of Brixton.[1] The area is now known for its high population of Caribbean immigrants. At the beginning of the 1980s, as identified by the Scarman Report, tensions over unemployment, racism and poverty exacerbated by racist policing culminated in the street events now known as the 1981 Brixton riot. Grant, horrified and enraged, wrote and composed a song in response to these events. Shortly after, Grant left the UK to live in Barbados, and his most recent batch of songs were lost during baggage transit. "Electric Avenue" was one of the songs he wrote immediately afterwards to make up for the lost material.[1]

[@julienielsen4462]

This was a huge song when it came out. It was on a mixed album. This was one of my faves on the album. Many 80s artists on it.

[@alvinruble6939]

This was literally my favorite song when it came out. I was like 10. I'm 47 now and still love it. It gives you energy. Loll

[@TranquiloTrev]

Eddy Grant had a UK No1 hit when he was 15 years old. He was with his group The Equals. It was called Baby Come Back. He also wrote that song. This song is about Electric Avenue. That is a small road in Brixton. It had recently been the scene of major civil disturbance when the local black population fought back against police brutality. Eddy Grant is not Jamaican. He is from Guyana, but for this period was living in London in the UK. His song Give Me Hope Joanna was the biggest selling record in Europe the year it was released. He built his own recording studio in Barbados where many artists have recorded.

[@danieldavis7784]

As a kid my mind was blown by the sounds of this song. Then I got older and found out what it was about. Made me feel weird jammin super hard to it.

[@clfoster3310]

This song was a banger back in the day. Takes me back to the 80s.

[@jessehall1403]

Eddie has the jams, this was just the one MTV got ahold of and ran with. I had this album on vinyl and I miss the hell out of it

[@capcolombie3834]

He may have been a one hit wonder in the US, but in the UK he was a pretty big deal for a while here in the UK.

[@rik6696]

He wasn't a one hit wonder in Canada either. Check out The Equals, his old band if you haven't.

[@jermalcromartiepresents5728]

You can say the same thing to every country's one-hit-wonder.

[@rayray-xs6xu]

In Australia, he had at least six big hits! Just about everyone I knew, had his first two albums at least, and we were all rockers!

[@lovedc4ever678]

80s Baby! the best music ever. You had it all. This is one I have never seen anyone react to. Good job you two.

[@denisewright3179]

Ahhh.... Eddie Grant!!😍😍 one of my first crushes. Prince was #1... love this song, the beat and his voice.

[@michaelb1761]

Great info in the comments. I never knew he was referencing a place in London. Because of the sound of the music I always thought he was Carribean, maybe specifically Jamaica, and that it was about all of the poverty problems and despotic governments ruling the carribean nations at the time (and still).

[@susanbotwinski5584]

I love this song! It's so catchy. I was only 10 yrs old when I heard this. I was actually in Canada with my parents for the summer. We're from Michigan but we ran a fishing camp for several months. I ❤️ this jam.

[@sebby-d6124]

Eddy Grant - I don't wanna dance is an absolute banger that just infects you, your have it stuck on repeat playing in Ur head all day

[@MetalMonkey]

This reminds me of my youth, this was 1982. I think this was a hit through the mid 80's. I was 6/7 in '82 and I remember this song. I recommend UB40, the best white reggae band of all time!! Ali Campbell has a very unique voice

[@daveborder7751]

Nope, he was a big star-originally in a 1960's/1970's band called The Equals & then in the 1970's & 1980's-Do You Feel My Love & Livin On The Frontline were mammoth hits, I Don't Wanna Dance was a UK number 1 & Gimme Hope Jo'anna was a big hit in the late 1980's.

[@rik6696]

More people need to hear The Equals. So underrated.

[@marcovtjev]

Gimme Hope Jo'anna more mid 1980s

[@jpaine619]

This was the very first video I ever saw on MTV (which was still fairly new at the time). I grew up in rural California, and we did not have cable TV service at home. I saw this at a friend's house, who lived closer to "town" and did have cable TV.

[@Isleofskye]

TRUE STORY: Around 20 years ago I pulled up at the traffic lights which were then thereon the junction of Electric Avenue, Brixton ( hence the song title ) and Brixton Road and a girl jumped in my passenger seat, turned off my ignition, and demanded £20 ( $25 ) otherwise she would throw my car keys down a drain and as luck would have it, I always keep some spare money in my car for an Emergency ( though I never dreamed for THIS type of emergency ). I gave her the money. She returned my car keys and I drove off. LOVELY :(

[@kallejodelbauer2955]

Then you complete missunderstand that he was living in Barbados at this Time. He sing Electric Avenue and they dont shown any Streetlight there. With the Bikes, they make the Lights and looking for Criminals, thats why he sing he feels like a Warrior.But not in real Life,he had a heart attack with only 23 years.But your Songs can show the Problems.

[@hellscornalien8286]

@@kallejodelbauer2955 Eddy Grant said that this is a serious song. That it refers to a real place in London, and tells the story of a poor man who beholds the things in life he could never achieve. Electric Avenue is a shopping area in the Brixton section of London, named because is was the first street in the area to get electric lights. Brixton was the setting for riots between police and protesters in 1981, which Grant refers to in the opening line, "Down in the street there is violence."

[@coconinoco]

That never happened.

[@kallejodelbauer2955]

@@hellscornalien8286 Ok,Thank you.I wonder that there is no Riot in Britain nowadays.

[@Isleofskye]

I am afraid it did coconinico. It was at the junction where Electric Avenue met the main road and if you look across there is Lambeth Town Hall. Those traffic lights are no longer there and the last time I re-visited there was a barrier. In fact, she did her research because priority would naturally be given to traffic coming from Kennington to Stretham onwards vis Brixton so she knew that I would be there a while.. I ALSO had my car stolen from a Streatham side street and when it was found on THe Brixton Hill Estate I had to wait for The AA Patrol Guy NOT "by the car" which is the normal procedure but in Brixton Police Station on the corner of Coldharbour Lane and when we got to the vehicle by some garages at the back of The Estate and I told the AA Guy that I was scared as they appeared only one way in and out, he told me he always carried around an AXE in that area. Cabbies would not venture South to there and what I have NOT told you is that on another occasion I was parked in the Main Road looking at my "A to Z" Book Map to get to Galpins Road, Thornton Heath (PRE Sat Navs) at 4 people came along the main road and put a brick through my back car window. It may be psychologically inconvenient for you not to want to believe it but it was very much true I assure you ..

[@paulshaw9953]

Skindred did a banging cover of this

[@jamiepeers4642]

I wouldn't call Eddie Grant a one hit wonder. In fact this was my third favorite song of his as I found it to repetitive. My second favorite was the theme song for the movie "Romancing the Stone" and my all time favorite was "Give me hope Joanna" a song about apartheid were Joanna was a reference to Johannesburg.

[@CaptainTedStryker]

Agree with every word. There are a few ads for yogurt where they sing "give me Yop, me mama..." kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIvFg3Z4Z5lseZY

[@unwrittenwizard910]

Exactly, far from a one hit wonder

[@unwrittenwizard910]

I don't wanna dance

[@kutchie420]

Living on the Frontline

[@rwfrench66GenX]

Good call!

[@LC__15]

"Electric Avenue" was Eddy's biggest song no doubt but he had more than one hit like "I don't want to dance" (which I reckon you should react to if you get a chance), "Give me hope Joanna", "Romancing the stone" & even "Do you feel my love" so whoever said Eddy was a just one hit wonder was misinformed.

[@heliotropezzz333]

Also he had a hit with 'Living on the Front Line' and before that he was in a band called 'The Equals' who had a hit with 'Baby Come Back'.

[@DamianMartins]

War Party, too. Dude has some awesome songs. Underrated.

[@surlechapeau]

They will like "Romancing The Stone"

[@willasacco9898]

Most artists, who we consider to be one-hit wonders, are not. We just haven’t been exposed to the rest of their creative endeavors.

[@dcanmore]

from a United States point of view this was his only hit, but of course if you're from outside the USA he had a lots of hit songs; but what you get from a YT channel from the States is they think they're broadcasting to an American audience without realising they are broadcasting to the whole world.

[@michelm306]

"Do you feel my love" by Eddy Grant is an amazing tune, his best if you ask me. You would love it.

[@MustLoveDogsSA]

Me too! 👏🏻👏🏻

[@Bekka_Noyb]

absolutely ♥ this song!

[@Isleofskye]

The girl got in the car while I was at those lights knowing that you waited in the side street for quite a while and quick as a flash lent and took the keys out of the ignition b4 I gave her £20 to return them to me. It was at the junction where Electric Avenue met the main road and if you look across there is Lambeth Town Hall. Those traffic lights are no longer there and the last time I re-visited there was a barrier. In fact, she did her research because priority would naturally be given to traffic coming from Kennington to Stretham onwards vis Brixton so she knew that I would be there a while.. I ALSO had my car stolen from a Streatham side street and when it was found on THe Brixton Hill Estate I had to wait for The AA Patrol Guy NOT "by the car" which is the normal procedure but in Brixton Police Station on the corner of Coldharbour Lane and when we got to the vehicle by some garages at the back of The Estate and I told the AA Guy that I was scared as they appeared only one way in and out, he told me he always carried around an AXE in that area. Cabbies would not venture South to there and what I have NOT told you is that on another occasion I was parked in the Main Road looking at my "A to Z" Book Map to get to Galpins Road, Thornton Heath (PRE Sat Navs) at 4 people came along the main road and put a brick through my back car window. It may be psychologically inconvenient for you not to want to believe it but it was very much true I assure you ..

[@Isleofskye]

Streatham NOT Stretham !

[@vickiroman189]

I've always loved this one - so infectious.

[@theheepster]

Eddy Grant had a bunch of Top 20 Hits in Europe as a Solo Artist. He was a good Songwriter and had several Hits with his Band "The Equals" ( Baby come back / Softly,Softly / Viva Bobby Joe / and s.o.) in the late 60s and early 70s.

[@richhornburg4497]

I remember riding around listening to this when it came out when I was a kid in St Louis.

[@TracyfromNC]

What a great message! THIS song got me deeper into reggae. TAKE it higher means take the protest up and do more, especially out in the streets.I always think it means protest but then go do more on the street level...ground service.

[@manguy2000]

We gonna step into big piece of doggy doo. Let's hope the next ones drier.

[@MustLoveDogsSA]

“Do You Feel My Love” & “I Don’t Wanna Dance” are my favorites!!! “ These two, “Give Me Hope Johanna” and “Electric Ave” were HUGE hits in South Africa when I was a little girl in the 80’s!!! Part of my history! ❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@jean-pierreyot5871]

Eddie Grant had a huge hit with his group, The Equals, as far back as 1968 ; Baby come back. One of my favorite songs of his ; Do you feel my love. Awesome reggae riff!

[@djC653]

So I grew up in St.Croix, USVI and just before I left - mid 80's - the band Seventeen Plus was just starting up. They even had one of their songs in the movie The Mighty Quinn w/ Denzel Washington. Your reaction to this makes me think you'll like them. They are a kinda electric calypso band. Check songs like Mary Jane or Raggamuffin. Now that I look them up, again, so much more of their stuff is out, nice.

[@georgepoitras4154]

Eddy Grant was a member of The Equals! Great band! “Police on my Back” was covered by The Clash.

[@paulcallaway71]

"Workin' so hard like a soldier. Can't afford a thing on TV. Deep in my heart I am warrior. Can't get food for them kid." This is about unemployment, racism and poverty exacerbated by racist policing in the south London district of Brixton which eventually led t riots in 1982.

[@timlenard1646]

Right, it's a call for an revaluation....

[@laurabrevitz3944]

Agreed, but it's "Deep in my heart I abhor you," per the album sleeve.

[@timlenard1646]

@@laurabrevitz3944 yes that's the real lyrics, I saw the "warrior" and I was like "did i miss something all these years"... lol

[@dannydarkense5500]

@@timlenard1646 LOL, me too! Also if we're picking up on not particularly important points, the riots were in 1981, but the song came out in 1982.

[@inspectahmetal7978]

This is one of my favourite songs to hit the bong too. 💨

[@maxwellportlock2119]

"Living on the front line" "Do you feel my love" great songs from Eddy

[@annaoswald5943]

Another hit from the early 80s with a similar reggae vibe worth checking out is, "Pass the Dutchie" by Musical Youth.

[@LC__15]

I also love their song "Youth of Today" too :).

[@andrewgibson395]

Originally the song was Pass The Koutchie by the Mighty Diamonds one of Sly & Robbie's earlier bands but they changed it when a children's band covered it.

[@LowcountryJoe2]

I just saw a Superbowl commercial preview from BMW’s electric car with this song in it. Brad/Lex, you know when you’ve reached peak earning years when commercial for all sorts of crap uses songs from when you were in your teens. When that day comes, you’ll probably start watching young people reacting to the same songs on some platform.

[@johnnyhawkins43]

I loved this since I first heard it when it was new I would like to to hear more by him !

[@psoarchive]

Montgomery Wards (defunct) licensed and used part of this song in the advertising for their electronics & appliances department, which they logo'd in their department stores as "Electric Avenue". Very clever marketing.

[@dylankeville1026]

One of my all time favourite songs and the cover by skindred as well

[@Scoobywoo7447]

Brilliant song

[@bartlett454]

It's a banger. Great song for any party.

[@Dreyno]

He was in the Equals. They had a few hits at home. “Police On My Back” was covered by the Clash.

[@colecomatt]

Early music video goodness! My brother and I used to jam out to this beat when I was 10.😜

[@jimp9031]

Saw Eddy in 1983 at Bailey Hall - Cornell University He definitely was getting everybody higher🙌🏻💨💨

[@coconinoco]

I’m watching this literally a few minutes walk from Electric Avenue in Brixton. It’s famous for the street market and for being one of the first streets in Victorian London to be lit by electric light, sometime in the 1890s. Eddy Grant came down a couple of years ago to turn on the new illuminations there, but that’s a distraction from what the song is really about, being the 1981 riots in this area which came about due to heavy policing and poverty in what was then and is still now a largely Black and immigrant town south of the Thames. But the area is nowhere near as run down now as it was when this song was first out, and in the last decade and more there’s been a wave of change which has brought positives for sure, but the gentrification has somewhat diluted the long-standing Afro-Caribbean vibe of the neighbourhood. These days it is wealthy developers who trade on Brixton’s reputation as an “edgy” part of town, and cover their expensive apartment buildings with murals depicting a Brixton which no longer exists, and which they are in large part responsible for destroying.

[@RSpracticalshooting]

Take that shit to the next level, odelay! Also, I think we're starting to find Brad's lane, I've noticed a lot more songs recently that he's really digging and enjoying himself listening to. It's making these reactions just that much better.

[@creativitycell]

Electric Avenue was the slang name for a party street in Jamaica, the Electric Avenue in Brixton was renamed as such in honour of Eddy Grants song about "taking it higher" meaning raising black lives up out poverty, oppression, and into a higher place British Society, and a higher black social and political consciousness.Eddy was the British equivalent of Bob Marley in the 80s.🇬🇧❤️

[@Kipperbob]

Damn, blast from the past, I remember this dude had some pumpin tunes.

[@korybeavers6528]

It's just a song about life being hard, and going down the electric Avenue and partying to forget about it

[@davidcoleman8113]

You should come to London and have a wander around electric avenue - was the first electrified street in London - first in the world was Chesterfield street in Newcastle U.K

[@wenceslaogomez3965]

This is a song meant to bring attention to injustices around the world.

[@Jamie-lw5sy]

Hell yeah! Take that shit to the next level!🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍express.✌

[@thegiftedone]

Lex is rocking the Princess Leia hair! Love it!🔥