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@eldiablo85803 жыл бұрын
This song made it to number 3 in Australia in 1980!!! We Aussies have great taste in music
@ivorb8835 Жыл бұрын
Week Ending 19/5/1980 No.1 I Got You - Split Enz No.2 Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders No.3 Space Invaders - Player One
@eldiablo8580 Жыл бұрын
@@ivorb8835 Thanks for the info, that's awesome 👌
@saturnthunder Жыл бұрын
Indeed!
@BlowmeRoger Жыл бұрын
Settle down cu**. 😄😄😋
@simonburns1055 Жыл бұрын
It was big!
@MyOwnWayMusic3 жыл бұрын
Space Invaders by Player One (in USA released under the artist name Playback) was written & produced by Russell Dunlop and Bruce Brown in Sydney Australia in 1979/1980 and was a big pop / dance chart hit in Australia and also was a radio airplay hit in New Zealand and South Africa.
@robertchapman67953 ай бұрын
But who is that huge female vocal!? She nailed the brief! Sing it with feeling and sing it BIG! I can’t find anything about who she is. Surely she’s a known singer/recording artist with a voice like that!? The contrast between the male singers and her, make the song what it is. 🤷♂️
@mathumphreys4 жыл бұрын
I was 12 years old when this came and for the last 40 years I thought the song was made in the U.S. I'm so proud to find out it's Australian!
@gabrielleyalcinkaya70173 жыл бұрын
Absolutely blown away by that too! I would have been 11
@Kangaroo2112 жыл бұрын
Wow it’s aussie. Loved this song, spent hours at the arcade watching my brothers play this game over and over.
@PeterRamplin6 ай бұрын
@@Kangaroo211 I was 17 yrs old this came n for the last 47 yrs this was made in Australia.
@user-cg2ec7cq8e4 ай бұрын
I remember this when it came out
@hickory01au4 ай бұрын
I remember playing the game in the arcade
@carlwolf59233 жыл бұрын
The most obsolete and intriguing thing I've ever listened to.
@lolfunacount3 жыл бұрын
I guess someone aswell looked it up. Also still no clue what Space Disco is.
@ethanandres64443 жыл бұрын
Huggbees reference
@MasterBojangles3 жыл бұрын
I'm not even sure how I got here
@CDavis-el3es2 жыл бұрын
this is not nearly as obsolete or irrelevant song as you might think. For a small generation of kids growing u pi in the early 80;s, *THIS* song was the defining moment that separated the non-video game past from the brand new age of video games, that lasts to this day in 2021!
@FrankKnife12 жыл бұрын
Pepsi universe
@SuperBoomshack2 ай бұрын
How the hell did I miss this one? I am 54 and watched MTV from day one and never heard this until today.😂
@SinceSpacies6 жыл бұрын
This song is so bloody appropriate with the 40th anniversary coming up. So proud to know that this came from Sydney, Australia!
@footy2rock4 жыл бұрын
It's a great song and video, Americans haven't even heard of it
@rdvrdv89204 жыл бұрын
I believe it was produced by Vander and Young of Easybeats and Flash in the Pan fame. Much better and earlier than Pac-Man Fever.
@rdvrdv89204 жыл бұрын
VANDA and Young.
@RokuErickson4 жыл бұрын
@@footy2rock Jesse Saunders from Chicago knew it ;)
@mick2spic3 жыл бұрын
@@footy2rock An American sampled the best part, the baseline for Mach “on & on” back in 1979. Which that record was one of many which helped create house music.
@jimmywrangles3 жыл бұрын
Unnecessarily complete lyrics. Through dark sunken eyes I see another pale sunrise Surrounded by soldiers Glued to the screens Hold back the invaders Their infernal machines [Pre-Chorus] We fight to survive Running to stay alive Our bodies aching and tired There's no where to hide Our covers' been blown away [Chorus] Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders ooooooooooh They're closing in on me Dark forces cold and unseen Oh my hip pocket nerve is aching again I must go back in and fight it out to the end [Chorus] Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders ooooooooooh They're closing in on me Dark forces cold and unseen Oh my hip pocket nerve is aching again I must go back in and fight it out the end [Pre-Chorus] We fight to survive Running to stay alive Our bodies aching and tired There's no where to hide Our covers been blown away [Chorus] Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders We fight to survive Space Invaders Running just to stay alive Space Invaders [Chorus] Oooh oooh ooohh hooo Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Oooh hoo hoo hoo Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Oooh hoo hoo hooo Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders Space Invaders (fade)
@redsed15652 жыл бұрын
best lyrics ever!
@zanderwithaz5315 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@chrispbacon5313 Жыл бұрын
Thanks 😃
@deanosaur808 Жыл бұрын
Tricky lyrics, especially the last half 😂😂😂
@AnthonyHarris-gw3fx9 ай бұрын
Bob Marley
@kimmontalto22933 жыл бұрын
We are playing this song right now whilst we are playing space invaders on our cocktail arcade game machine....long live the 80s 🕹👾
@sharbux2 жыл бұрын
Oooh....I have one of those but it needs a new sound card. Still a lot of fun to play.
@sovietonion722 жыл бұрын
Yeah baby 🕹
@peterhoare32192 жыл бұрын
What did it cost you? I preferred Galaga myself
@christinecourtemanche80239 ай бұрын
I remember rollerskating to this !
@franok392 жыл бұрын
World class song! I loved it when I was a teenie in the 80s!!! 👍🏻😜🤘🏼 btw... I am from Austria and not from Australia 😍
@gogogeedus11 ай бұрын
Austria! put another shrimp on the barby!
@kathysangel562 жыл бұрын
I'm from Australia so proud of our music
@deanosaur808 Жыл бұрын
Australia definitely has better music.. no not Jason D or that guy with the wobble board 😅🤣😂
@amandataylor86222 жыл бұрын
Can't get enough of this epic song
@tntamusements8 жыл бұрын
This is pretty catchy
@Rlotpir19725 жыл бұрын
I agree. Very rare to find it, though.
@Unklechopchop3 жыл бұрын
That's the plan man
@D51_YT3 жыл бұрын
Good catchy music.
@huntrrams3 жыл бұрын
I’m happy this song influenced the first House track (On and On by Jesse Saunders)
@west64978 жыл бұрын
I was ten years old when this song came out i would go to school singing it
@celestialstar55637 жыл бұрын
Francisco Borges Dam you are old
@lubricatedgoat6 жыл бұрын
His atoms are the same age as your atoms. Just needs a software tweak, as you will.
@sovietonion726 жыл бұрын
Francisco Borges You oldie, I was only 8 and those men in black used to scare me with those red eyes.
@markmoreau29746 жыл бұрын
ah you young-ins i was 13 and i remember dancing at the school disco to it
@dalediamond4 жыл бұрын
same...was a great song and more than appropriate for the time..shoulda been a hit around the world.DD
@arespeverell98773 жыл бұрын
I may not have been alive when this came out, but damn do I love the music from back then.
@kdknyc Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my days long ago as a young and beautiful disco bunny.
@typhoon33564 жыл бұрын
I had an promotional album given to me in a showbag back in 1980 which had this song and a number of other computer game related songs. From memory there was a song called mousetrap and another about Frogger. It was never sold to the general public.
@erneststackhouse113310 ай бұрын
Just found out about this song! I was only 6 when it came out. Definitely playing Space Invaders while listening to this tune from now on!!! Space Invaders! Space Invaders!
@calvin34645 жыл бұрын
This song is both groovy and catchy at the same time. :)
@BensSightSoundandAuto2 жыл бұрын
Dad has this on a 7" single in his collection. It would have come out around the time he was doing mobile discos, I can only imagine how often he played it
@danapidd60135 жыл бұрын
This was so before it's time.... A classic song.... 😑
@globohomoenjoyer693 жыл бұрын
I think it’s pretty firmly locked in it’s own time lol
@Kangaroo2112 жыл бұрын
Totally agree
@deanosaur808 Жыл бұрын
Actually, 2 years after moroder, space, and cerrone 😉 This is space/italo disco. you can easily guess the origin of those 😂
@kerrywalker40322 жыл бұрын
Space invaders. What a song as wonderful it is thank you sharing it as well
@MrBuckshot1987227 жыл бұрын
(In high pitch voice) SPACE INVADERS!!!!!
@cliffordpike68503 жыл бұрын
What's this song even called?
@MrBuckshot1987223 жыл бұрын
@@cliffordpike6850 (in high pitch voice) SPACE INVADERS!!!! lol
@MrBuckshot1987223 жыл бұрын
@@jamiestuart7249 😂😂😂😂
@tonette18138 ай бұрын
What a great beat!
@aussievloggerss Жыл бұрын
2023 ready player one!
@PeterRamplin18 күн бұрын
I was 17 yrs old when this came n for 44 yrs n I'm so proud to find out it's Australia.
@Tutankhamun13337 жыл бұрын
I should dust off my old Australian market SNES console and thrash the invaders back to whence they came. And this is catchy as despite i was not around in the 1980's.
@TortureBot6 жыл бұрын
Tutankhamun1333 Dang, SNES came out over 10 years after Space Invaders, lol!
@FaithTheSlayer4 жыл бұрын
@@TortureBot It's still possible - www.ebay.com/p/1347
@louistournas1202 жыл бұрын
I think there is an Atari game and probably arcade game called Space Invaders. I know that there is Missile Command.
@kerrywalker4032 Жыл бұрын
Space invaders player number one always loved this song music very much in the future thank you
@Justin-Hill-1987 Жыл бұрын
This novelty song Australia's answer to Buckner & Garcia's "Pac-Man Fever."
@indiannatonifrey85443 жыл бұрын
💜 Still Luving ! In March 2021 💜🙏
@indiannatonifrey85443 жыл бұрын
🙏 FRIDAY 26/3/21🙏
@indiannatonifrey85443 жыл бұрын
TGIF
@sarahc32957 ай бұрын
Hello from January 1st, 2024
@DaveyBoomer2 жыл бұрын
Loved the game, love the song even more
@discovery7818 жыл бұрын
great beat
@misa35765 жыл бұрын
So aussi, so good, so real!!!!
@patrickhalloran2746 Жыл бұрын
Love this song I was 14 years old when i first heard it 1980 👍👻
@deanosaur808 Жыл бұрын
You must be really old now.. nearly as old as me 😅☺️😂
@SuperChainsaw0077 жыл бұрын
We fight 2 survive
@laurieraymond6467 Жыл бұрын
All years around,this song,is still standing on, 1,yep?
@johnmartin25106 жыл бұрын
be sure to compare this song with Jesse Saunders - on and on....both are fab tracks..but you can see where the bassline came from in 'on and on' ; arguably one of the first Chicago House tracks if not ''the'' first record referred to as 'House'.
@supremeeloheem Жыл бұрын
Don’t forget the Mach on and on, mixed with Bad Girls, and Funky Town.
@deanosaur808 Жыл бұрын
Don't forget "Burnin' Up" by Imagination from 1981! British of course 🥳
@FluxTraxАй бұрын
@@supremeeloheemthat was the template that Jesse and Vince wanted to re-create
@NathanAAASmith2 жыл бұрын
Not me playing this arcade game on the way home from the pool at a local fish n chip shop when I was a teenager 😎
@lclover774 жыл бұрын
got goosebumps......awesome !!.......did not know they were aussies .......it makes it so special!!
@Tehui19746 жыл бұрын
I can't believe I used to like this song as a kid.
@rnsrp2Ай бұрын
Thanks to the r/OldElectronicMusic subreddit, I’m here! 💚
@barrybristow46464 ай бұрын
this song takes me back to the lineup, for your turn .
@RokuErickson4 жыл бұрын
Recognized as the beginning of house music. Well done Australia
@dubsideproductions2859 Жыл бұрын
Not too much, house is from Chicago. The first commercially released house song sampled this song.
@deanosaur808 Жыл бұрын
@Dubside Productions Very true! They didn't dare sample other similar baselines from around that time, because they would get sued 😉 It's easier to borrow from a novelty band from australia, that also borrowed from a famous game 😅
@FluxTraxАй бұрын
The bassline was used on a mashup/re-edit with bits from Donna Summer and Lipps Inc as well. When someone stole Jesse's copy he set out to re-create it with his synth and 808, adding some expletives inspired by the Danes in Laid Back as well. When it came out, many budding producers thought they could do better and from that a musical revolution begun
@kerrywalker40322 жыл бұрын
Players number one song space invaders how wonderful the song was as well gambering as well played
@packagedfailure Жыл бұрын
my new favorite genre, Space Disco
@redsed15652 жыл бұрын
BEST SONG EVER WRITTEN!
@kerrywalker40322 жыл бұрын
Space invaders players number one how wonderful it is like as well the players numbers one music as well the song thank you sharing it
@peterramplin55422 жыл бұрын
I was 17 Yrs old when song came out in 80,s it take me back 42 Yrs
@petermeyer68733 ай бұрын
I found the single of this as a promo attached to the space invaders cartridge for my atari 2600 back then.
@nicholasmaude69062 жыл бұрын
All they needed in the video were some Cylon Centurions from Battlestar Galactica.
@kerrywalker4032 Жыл бұрын
Space invaders players one l love the 1980 thank you sharing it
@albundy67224 жыл бұрын
Was introduced to this song thanks to the honda ad on tele around 7yrs ago, been hooked ever since!
@tamluvswalt7 жыл бұрын
I love this song
@theaggravateddutchman73610 ай бұрын
C'mon you got to admit, a timeless classic...I had the single on repeat as a wee lad
@BlazeMaster3 жыл бұрын
I am legitimately surprised they never decided to make that into a show
@davidbloxham61142 жыл бұрын
Awesome Song a classic!!😀😃❤❤👍👍 August 2022, Ah such memories i still have the atari 2600 game.
@sezi9plays Жыл бұрын
I could honestly listen to this song on repeat for an hour. I prefer this version to the polished version on iTunes. I am not very good at the game but I love the aesthetic of it and I own some Space Invaders earrings. One day I wouldn't mind owning one of those arcade tables so I can play the game again.
@rauldulosa62782 жыл бұрын
I like this song. It brings back my yesteryears.
@toniilangham3280 Жыл бұрын
Haha CLASSIC 🥳 I Just Started YR 6 11 Turning 12 Happy Days Lol So Happy 💜🙏🇦🇨👍☮️💯🥳
@mattwoods88729 ай бұрын
This goes out to you ...ya outta this world
@pikabluebear99412 жыл бұрын
In an alternate universe they played this song in the space invaders scene in that one Futurama episode: "It's Saturday Night, i have no date, a 2 lt bottle of Shasta, and my all Player 1 Mixtape, Let's Rock!"
@thotrider693 жыл бұрын
Love myself some space disco. Obsolete and intriguing
@jamesonshekmeister Жыл бұрын
Oddly fitting for a game that was just white monochrome 8-bit aliens with the only colors being green and red. 👾
@user-yc5um2pl5v4 жыл бұрын
Great one, one of the first synth pop hits (albeit regional), along with "Computer game" by Mi-sex. Also recommend a great, but underappreciated "Space invaders" song by Alpha Beta - a corker too, only a bit more moody.
@renewachter46586 жыл бұрын
Hammer song!!!
@KyliePanozzo-xs3ps10 ай бұрын
I loved listening to this song when I was little ❤❤❤❤
@victoriajanejuarez4159 Жыл бұрын
It's 2022 still listening this music SPACE INVADERS.
@sarahc32957 ай бұрын
Listening on the very first day of 2024
@FluxTraxАй бұрын
Important Aussie contribution to the birth of House Music
@kerrywalker4032 Жыл бұрын
Players one a very much in the future song 💖💖 space invaders 1980/very forward for the time thank you sharing players one 💖 thank you 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
@KGBeast.3 ай бұрын
It would be awesome if there was a movie from 1980 about Space Invaders with this as the theme song and the scenes in this video as scenes from the actual movie
@kathysangel562 жыл бұрын
Dance to this at the clubs my friends were the DJs awesome song
@MelvinArthurMurray8 жыл бұрын
Space invadeeeers!
@Fawful_40005 жыл бұрын
I love it 🥰
@gaggilltronvorgog2875 жыл бұрын
This is cyberAzzz he'll. Love It
@TheGreekGoddess3693 жыл бұрын
I love this song I play space invaders but this song rocks
@teejay91892 жыл бұрын
space discoooo
@elvieefana39253 жыл бұрын
I was 13 when I first heard this song
@tamluvswalt7 жыл бұрын
i love this song
@doctordubstepgaming67065 жыл бұрын
a simple game and catchy song
@daiz20064 жыл бұрын
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE IT
@The151384 жыл бұрын
Ohh Wow I found it ... favorite song I was 13 yrs old
@djbozeman21312 жыл бұрын
Lmao 🤣. I was in 7th grade when this hit the charts! 😆
@drgrockster Жыл бұрын
without doubt a classic
@mobius30012 жыл бұрын
totally the best song ever.
@dubopp2 жыл бұрын
Turtles, Sharks, Snakes have survived 70,000,000 years. This video is proof we won’t last much longer and won’t be missed.
@AdrianDemarcusPpTheThird Жыл бұрын
this has no excuse to go this hard 💀
@beast98393 жыл бұрын
How many found out about this song after watching the video game years?
@sarahc32957 ай бұрын
Hi there
@djbozeman21312 жыл бұрын
1980. What a year 😀
@matthewkelly23992 жыл бұрын
RIP Bruce Dunlop
@danapidd60134 жыл бұрын
Just the fucken best.... 😛
@mackieldodjames96974 жыл бұрын
i always race to the shop to play this game
@DATZMAD8 жыл бұрын
Space invaders hooooooooooooooo
@davidbrown-wk6mq Жыл бұрын
it would be good to have come back updated new version of this song.
@allencobcroft58274 жыл бұрын
Where the hell has the time gone
@sydrider60232 жыл бұрын
What a cool song for the kid I was…
@grappefruuits27753 жыл бұрын
Ma music teacher made me listen to this, it’s a boring task, but again its fun
@misa35765 жыл бұрын
Are you awake or ur sleeping???
@KHayes6663 жыл бұрын
Hiya folks, here's a reenactment of how this video came about: oh hey you know what we need? A music video for Space Invaders!
@Rlotpir19725 жыл бұрын
Suprisingly, this was never a top 10 hit in 1980. Would've made a good hit in both the new wave and dance catagories.
@triffidgrower5 жыл бұрын
Wiki has it that Space Invaders was the 7th best selling single in Oz in 1980, peaking at No. 3 in the Kent Report (that the industry lived and died by at the time). Even from within the company bubble, for I worked for WEA at the time, we knew that we had a big one, we shipped it in its thousands a day. You're talking through your quoit.
@sharbux2 жыл бұрын
Not sure about that.....I distinctly remember it being played on the countdown top 10 along with Brass in Pocket, I Got You, Tired of Toeing the Line, a Motels song, Total Control perhaps. Yes, I did a search and found this....which must be the week before or after the one I remember. KZbin.com/watch?v=SjNw3aLwLDs
@DaveyBoomer2 жыл бұрын
You either weren't around or didn't live in Australia at the time. This came out the year I started high school and it was a big hit.
@Rlotpir19722 жыл бұрын
@@DaveyBoomer I'm from USA.
@DaveyBoomer2 жыл бұрын
@@Rlotpir1972 fair enough, this was almost unheard of outside Australia