1981 is possibly the best year that ever existed since time began.
@altsuite10 ай бұрын
This is correct
@caoilte809710 ай бұрын
I like 83
@WestbustahSaucedo9 ай бұрын
Many albums that I like came out in 1980 and 1981
@ferdinandmapa5616 ай бұрын
That depends on every person's timeline mine is 1987 because of the Cure.
@aclark9034 ай бұрын
#BillHaley died in 1981.
@liverpoolscottish64303 ай бұрын
When you hear this today, you appreciate how *SHIT* modern music is- instantly forgettable tripe. This is timeless, haunting, atmospheric- unforgettable.
@haz28423 ай бұрын
Grow up. There is so much good music out there 😂
@abigaileldritch2 ай бұрын
You just don’t know where to look for good modern music. You are missing out
@floatingfreedom6091 Жыл бұрын
56. And then I’m 15 again …. Haunting nostalgia. When music was real
@thecitizenjoan5 ай бұрын
Did you know music is still real?
@BABYWOLF--19664 ай бұрын
Yes mi amigo 😂😂🎉🎉
@TrabacooliasmeniАй бұрын
45 here 🙃 I remember bying the white box/collector's album when it came out. We compared among friends the barcode numbers in the back of each album, so to see who got the smallest number. I did, and I m holding it right now!
@iansands86073 жыл бұрын
The late 70s and the 80s were a fantastic time for music. I was 22 when this song was in the charts and I have to say the women of that era were untouchable in their style and beauty, Debbie Harry, Toyah, Siouxsie, Kate Bush, Cyndi Lauper and of course Barbara Gogan of the Passions who gave us this haunting song.
@royalboilpinthe7th5052 жыл бұрын
Add Rose McDowall.
@securedcertification4772 жыл бұрын
and also Kim Wilde...!
@handeyecoordinationskills2 жыл бұрын
That's a great comment , summed that era up well, I was 11 in 1981 but I don't remember this , perhaps it was low down in the charts, I knew all the other artists you mentioned . In my 20s in the 90s I went through that whole decade listening to early to mid 80s , tells it's own story I guess
@adrianlast1952 жыл бұрын
Chrissie Hynde, Kate Pierson/Cindy Wilson of the B-52's, Poly Styrene, The Slits, The Bangles, Grace Jones, Gina X and probably loads more I forgot about.I do like Lulu's cover of The Man who Sold the World.
@schielesmrs76482 жыл бұрын
@@adrianlast195 Oh yes :)
@grantfryer4079 ай бұрын
i left school in 78 and was bought up on 50 60 70's music but when this came out it made my scalp fizz my hair stand on end and shiver down my spine im 62 now..and it still happens..mega toon
@markmorrid81447 ай бұрын
Same age I know what you mean.
@susansmith99033 жыл бұрын
I’m in love with this haunting musical dream of a song that, in 2021, is still light years ahead of the corporate garbage that passes for music today.
@KENKENNIFF Жыл бұрын
They lived it.
@orchardgroovey2774 Жыл бұрын
Si vrai.
@terencepierce8488 Жыл бұрын
My sentiments exactly!
@50-50_Grind Жыл бұрын
The corporate garbage has exploded exponentially. To make things worse that garbage is also out of ideas because I hear an awful of amount covers these days.
@urbanfryk28789 ай бұрын
Cheers from a lover of decent music in Sweden! I'm lucky to say thay I was young in the lovely eighties! God bless! We are not alone - at all!
@yrureadingthisname Жыл бұрын
As a child of German immigrants to my native country... I like this.
@amandamckeever83003 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe it's 40 years ago today that this single was released. One of the best guitar intros.
@doyleperkins49163 жыл бұрын
And one of the more recognizable ones...
@clausjohansson82333 жыл бұрын
40 years..Fuck i Was only 18 at that time..But Damn i remember Them..Great number who granddad here still loves🖤
@FuckSlowShit3 жыл бұрын
81 - 2021 yep it sure was 40 years its bring me tears
@OLDGOLDDREAMER2 жыл бұрын
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@doyleperkins49162 жыл бұрын
Totally true...
@marSLaZZ6610 ай бұрын
I was 15 back then, such a beautiful haunting song ! The voice, the guitar, the mood, beautiful !!
@scottcorkery7863 Жыл бұрын
Like a long forgotten fever dream...the song haunts me.
@DenisLeVertDu7711 ай бұрын
Après tant d'années, cette chanson est tellement envoûtante...
@DenisLeVertDu7711 ай бұрын
Comment peut-on réaliser une chanson aussi parfaite et puis plus rien ? Cette chanson me donne autant de frissons qu'il y a 42 ans
@williamgrady4088 Жыл бұрын
Remember watching this at 10 years of age. 52 now and still mesmorised
@squarepeg94845 жыл бұрын
Still in love with this, it’s quite timeless
@Ystadcop4 жыл бұрын
Utterly fantastic.
@tinamichellefan3 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@loganbul663 жыл бұрын
Takes me back to that time I was a fresh face 15 year old
@OLDGOLDDREAMER2 жыл бұрын
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@tvc153 Жыл бұрын
Me three
@claerevilla9 ай бұрын
I want to be 14 again and listen to that song in my bedroom on my little radio
@Andrew-yb1uv8 ай бұрын
Me too, I was 14 also.
@paulgrice6682 Жыл бұрын
She was a lovely girl
@robertreape3 жыл бұрын
This song has not aged one bit, it still sounds as fresh as it did 40 years ago.
@BrookeWaters-xu3ko6 ай бұрын
😊
@tutts9993 жыл бұрын
In a sea of post Punk, Ska, New Wave, Metal, Oi and New Romantics this wonderful song hit the charts.
@madsteve93 жыл бұрын
I'd class this as New Wave. Didn't realise until I saw this vid, it wasn't a Synth Track.
@doyleperkins49163 жыл бұрын
You're drowning in labels. You have no imagination and can't think for yourself. However, there is one consolation prize for you to take back to your lonely existence: you have good taste in music.
@gordonspence65443 жыл бұрын
Haunting ! Never tire of this tune even after all these years ... im in love
@eatlaughandstupid44303 жыл бұрын
the 80s was a really creative period...
@Wolfington3 жыл бұрын
I'd say this ticks the post punk and new wave boxes in your list. It's non more '81 post punk imo
@Clocktoys Жыл бұрын
I adore this song. Surely a huge influence on the shoe-gaze movement and bands like the Cocteau Twins which came along later. The song’s magic lies in the fantastic use of the delay effect on the guitar, creating a gloriously hypnotic rhythm built on echoes. Unlike most songs, the drummer and bassist are not setting the tempo or rhythm - they are following the timing of the echo.
@lewis7515 Жыл бұрын
Pure nonsense.... The echo is only an echo of something that created it - that something, looks a lot like a classic hollowbody and, just like all bands, the player of that hollowbody will be taking his timing from what the drummer does. It's the drummer's responsibility to set and maintain tempo - he or she will know what the interval of the echo is, and will play to favor it: but the keeping time is all the drummer's responsibility. Ain't nobody playing to echoes.
@Clocktoys Жыл бұрын
The driving feel of the track comes from the very precise syncing of the drums and the echo. The echo pulse remains constant. The drummer has to stay locked tight with that: he can’t introduce a bit of swing or change tempo.
@lewis7515 Жыл бұрын
@@Clocktoys This is practically meaningless: the drummer, drums - he provides the rythmn. The echoes only exist because the guitarist is creating them as a result of his playing - which he synchronises to the drummer, all parties having established the character of the echoes he's creating as part of creating the song. In creating the song, something has to be in principal charge of establishing and regulating tempo - and in this case, that thing is a drummer, not, an echo. The echo is incidental and additive, it is not foundational and constructive - that is the responsibility of the drummer. Of course he can change tempo if that's a requirement of the song: anyone can change anything, _the band_ are in control of the song, not an echo: if they don't change tempo it's because they don't want to - because that's not the song they wrote. They wrote a song that doesn't change tempo - because that's what they wanted, not because they need permission from an echo... You're writing nonsense, here.
@batto571710 ай бұрын
very accurate i think
@tbaproductions12310 ай бұрын
Always thought this was the case personally, youve put it nicely into words. A lot of post punk stuff in the late 70s early 80s carried a lot of that shoegaze dna, even before the cocteau twins.
@christopherdryden20064 жыл бұрын
I first heard this when I was 9, instantly loved it, and still do 38 yrs later.
@garyc48103 жыл бұрын
@@hunt4redoctober628 Same here, but Mcr Poly. Those were the days.
@OLDGOLDDREAMER2 жыл бұрын
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@StevenAddison-akasteaddy9 ай бұрын
Are we still blasting it 2024,I 54 omg! Yes u know dear,walking stick,😂,still loving it! enjoy it,goes quick
@doyleperkins49163 жыл бұрын
1981 was a beautiful year for pop music. I was 16 and bought all the albums/cassettes. The Passions are one of my favourites. "It really moved me." And I don't have to be in love with a German film star for that to happen! "For the cameras and the girls, it's a glamorous world..."
@ajs413 жыл бұрын
True. Two of my favourite albums of all time are from 1981: Tin Drum by Japan, and Penthouse and Pavement by Heaven 17.
@FuckSlowShit3 жыл бұрын
I'm 22 years young and I gotta say these new generations of music isn't the same like it was in 1900s!! Sometimes I rather be 22 in 1981 than 2021!!
@welshlad64273 жыл бұрын
1979-1982 the best years of my life for music ❤️
@welshlad64273 жыл бұрын
@@FuckSlowShit it was a great time mate. At least you can be 22 and watch this era on you tube, however being 53 and having the memories is pretty good also.
@lilwrldzx11222 жыл бұрын
Did you know that I am a decent of Richard Williams the passions drummer, he’s my great uncle and it’s really Crazy too think about it
@witchdoctorgaz4 жыл бұрын
Magnificent, memorable, unforgettable. Takes me back to 1981...
@infour442 жыл бұрын
Brilliantly unresolved song. Never hits the finality point but keeps you expecting. Classic, bit like Bowie's Heroes
@bhamacuk Жыл бұрын
Undisputed CLASSIC!
@stephenbolger59255 ай бұрын
Great song! 80s was a great decade for music
@BLUEHORIZON-g2b4 ай бұрын
100%
@ex-scientia42343 жыл бұрын
Outstanding song - ethereal and slightly other-worldly allowing the listener to drift away on a bittersweet cloud of memories of being young at that time and sadness that it’s all in the past. Bang on target with the early eighties.
@mikerichardson487511 ай бұрын
Great song ... so simple but powerful
@TheLegenDacster2 жыл бұрын
A timeless classic, forgot just how brilliant the music is, as well as the wonderfully atmospheric vocals.
@MrClingclong4 жыл бұрын
I've just listened to the Foo Fighters version of this song and I think it is good, but not as good as the original. It's 39 years old now and it still impresses me. There is not a single note that I would change, absolutely hypnotic.
@RyleeStrange4 жыл бұрын
go figure you and i got the itch to listen to this 40 year old song within a day of each other. Good taste in music.
@danthefan53783 жыл бұрын
Yes! ❤️🎈❤️, Best, dtf
@madsteve93 жыл бұрын
Covers that aren't better than the original are pointless. *** A few songs with covers better than the original. Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody Soft Cell - Tainted Love Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want) Bryan Ferry - Jealous Guy Laura Branigan - Self Control Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence
@jaysinha03 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, haunting guitar. I remember watching this TOTP in 1981 when I was a kid.
@brianrowland99935 жыл бұрын
Loved this song way back in my youth. Iconic 80’s unique sound. The female singer is so understated and even a bit shy and awkward - but just gorgeous!
@Crionicsmasher Жыл бұрын
Born in ‘93 and the vibe and emotion can still be felt almost 40 years later. So thankful because I hate this corporate **** and the “music conglomerates” that seem to control everything now in the US.
@spaceytracey1237 Жыл бұрын
I had this on record in the 80's and I had a Frisco Disco ( I'm yet to find anyone who knows what a frisco Disco is) and would take my little plastic record player everywhere I went, up hills, in fields, sitting playing in parks, sitting outside chippies till 9 pm. Hearing this again reminded me of the good days, when life was easier and safer.
@MeTube3 Жыл бұрын
1981, snowy winter days, absolutely immersed in adolescent turmoil and this atmospheric song takes me right back there.
@Muesli7113 жыл бұрын
One word describes this: perfection.
@jameswingert9596 Жыл бұрын
this is one of the most beautiful perfect songs I've ever heard. I had never heard it before now. 1981.
@nickburlton5821 Жыл бұрын
Light years ahead of its time too!
@Lwize Жыл бұрын
Released 42 years ago this week. Hard to believe the early 80's was so long ago....
@jibized4 жыл бұрын
40 years on and I still can't get enough of this amazing song.
@anjajurgenssen69763 жыл бұрын
I loved this song from being a teenager in the 80s ... years later on a three week road trip across Europe I was in a bar in Brussels ... a local put this on the juke box ... just ... wow ... only great songs can imprint on your life like that ✌️
@traceybonds87943 жыл бұрын
Fantastic memory.. my wife's hair looked like hers back in the day..
@lucetteketley91143 жыл бұрын
@@traceybonds8794 Everyone's hair looked like hers in the 80s. We all had to have curly perms or we weren't cool!
@OLDGOLDDREAMER2 жыл бұрын
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@alibobsmarland95724 жыл бұрын
Nearly 40 years ago. Bloody hell!
@ursamajor65464 жыл бұрын
Just what I thought!!!
@garywood58823 жыл бұрын
Gone in the blink of an eye ...
@TheHairybaz3 жыл бұрын
for want of a better phrase!!
@scottcorkery7863 Жыл бұрын
Where has this hauntingly beautiful song been my whole life??? Stupid American radio in 1981...Im sure i woulda dug it then maybe even sought out the record at Cactus Records...now long gone..
@6lr6ak6 Жыл бұрын
Brings back memories, this had come out when I'd left school.
@rodneycooperLMSCoach3 жыл бұрын
Another fantastic track from the magnificent 80's.Quite the finest decade for popular music over the world and centred on Britain.
@jayrandall62792 жыл бұрын
Just one of those songs that stops you in your tracks, very hypnotic and a beautiful song,one of a kind.
@TheCaptain64 Жыл бұрын
Wow loved this song back in 81 still do now nearly 43yrs later, how on Earth can it be that long ago.Some really fantastic music 1970s n 80s, not sure what happened come say 1990 but something seemed to go seriously wrong . Anyways still listen to the fantastic music from the 70 n 80s, only now through nearly 60yr old ear holes with headphones, and it still sounds just as good .
@OLDGOLDDREAMER Жыл бұрын
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@OLDGOLDDREAMER Жыл бұрын
Doing the 70’s first .. done 70’71’72’73’74’ currently putting together 75’ and completed this yr too 👇🏻 1979 CHART HITS (All In Weekly Chart Entry Order) kzbin.info/aero/PLbO1DMzDZcpgFJC8P6awEQ3zPR1k07esz
@MrGommeren Жыл бұрын
Woke up with this song in my head. Always listen to the song you wake up with..
@briantheminer Жыл бұрын
Great voice, gorgeous looks 👌
@chrishowland6062 Жыл бұрын
It’s even hard to type that this is 42 years ago.
@anagalbana3 жыл бұрын
incredible song, i will never get tired of it
@Iskandar642 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe this is 41 years old yet it is excellent. So cool restrained and yet powerful
@qcsorter46263 ай бұрын
A song that should have received much more success. Unusual and haunting.
@markreville69173 жыл бұрын
This track was produced by Nigel Gray who also worked on The Police' first three albums. You can hear the similarity between the guitar tone here and that of Andy Summers on Zenyatta Mondatta.
@adamwright95178 жыл бұрын
My favourite song of all time.
@Sebastian10183 жыл бұрын
I ... L O V E D ...this single when it first came out ... and still do....
@paulbayley50963 жыл бұрын
What a song brilliant music,timeless
@The.Last.Guitar.Hero. Жыл бұрын
Always loved this track especially the guitar sound
@Sebastian10183 жыл бұрын
I remember this wonderful piece of music when it came out in 81. I loved it then and love it now.
@joedow61803 жыл бұрын
It’s nice after 40 years to see the faces behind the song. Class for it’s time.
@donnaschembri8377 Жыл бұрын
Love love love this song, ever since I first heard it when I’d have been ten or eleven in 1981, it never ever ages for me. The opening guitars and her voice are just perfection! ❤
@tomthompson74003 жыл бұрын
still sounds fresh today.
@joeherbert43295 жыл бұрын
still amazing to this day........
@TheSamplet13 жыл бұрын
Cracking song it was a cracking song and still stands out today what an era for music that was !
@OLDGOLDDREAMER2 жыл бұрын
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@Rigid_Digits3 жыл бұрын
Whenever I hear this I'm right back there in the time, and it was a great time. Great tune too.
@OLDGOLDDREAMER2 жыл бұрын
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@tronique3 жыл бұрын
40 years old - still gorgeous.
@chrisroy70853 жыл бұрын
Clive's echoplex guitar work = sublime. Ah, to be young again. Where's the hot tub time machine?
@paulbrien9902 Жыл бұрын
Die Texte wurden von der Sängerin der Band, Barbara Gogan, über Steve "Roadent" Connelly geschrieben, einen ehemaligen Roadie für die Clash und Sex Pistols, der kleinere Rollen in mehreren deutschen Filmen hatte und den Joker in der Miniserie Das Ding von 1978 spielte
@julieharrison7417 Жыл бұрын
Love this song the guitar on it
@Ukuleleal3 жыл бұрын
Sounds as amazing today as it did when I firtst heard it back in 1981. Still gives me goosebumps. :)
@gracedoughton71862 жыл бұрын
It really moved me
@Doubletrouble000 Жыл бұрын
I first heard this 40 years ago then heard it a week ago and still remembered it because it’s sooo cool😎
@paultreadaway1023 ай бұрын
Was playing this today their only hit on the their Charts.Melodies her smooth Vocals to be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s atmosphere could harp on and explain vibes and feelings like no other time or place in history
@TheRowlandstone733 жыл бұрын
Crackin' tune. Sounds as though it's about 15 years ahead of it's time.
@ronin-kf1uq3 жыл бұрын
an absolute gem .
@professormause3 жыл бұрын
I heard this in a club once. Everyone danced to it.
@dard6833 жыл бұрын
perfect song, great mood...can stand up againt any of the greats from any decade... pity they couldnt follow it up.
@workingboat2 жыл бұрын
Just wanna say ' thank you ' my ears cannot get enough of The Passions
@glynhowarth456 Жыл бұрын
Oh My Goodness I remember this performance at the time, I had just come home from working in Germany age 21, I always loved this.
@marko8854 Жыл бұрын
Top tune 70s and 80s was brilliant music wise 17 when I saw this
@shaunbaby79 Жыл бұрын
never would have found this gem if I didn't play GRAND THEFT AUTO
@michaelj.schulz92502 жыл бұрын
How provocative ! A German filmstar! In perfect clothes! With style! An English lady falling in love with a German! Only 35 years after the war! This was real punk.
@nathong32293 жыл бұрын
Such a great track... so slick and smooth... love it... My teenage years were the 90's and Rave but I love these 80's classics
@finnkdy3 жыл бұрын
Tarantino M U S T use it. Make it happen. Make im an offer .. .....
@TheGodParticle7 жыл бұрын
Hand in hand with the new romantics. Beautiful memories.. Cheers
@tjwright-df2cu20 күн бұрын
My Dad, Berlin, 1945 - 1 of the liberators of Belsen. His GF there was an actress - this takes me back...
@deeayecee79474 ай бұрын
I'm 16 again ❤ Fantastic song xx
@75Krusty Жыл бұрын
Great sound with that guitar with echo effect and her nice voice... Heard it today for first time, in a Accord music store in Denmark.
@scorbieholic4 жыл бұрын
A timeless classic
@markperryman17974 жыл бұрын
1981, 18 yrs old, dossing everyday in King George's Park Rayleigh with mates, beers, pea picking at 5 am, cashing my earnings related Giro cheque every other Friday, Crocs nightclub every Sat night, heaven 😀
@tracykitching4262 жыл бұрын
Recently rediscovered this track. OMG! Takes me back to my college days - great days, great track! 🥰🥰
@mickyday20083 жыл бұрын
I listen to this every week
@bobwilkinson20083 жыл бұрын
Every day more like
@Biggles24982 жыл бұрын
I remember this in The Concorde Club Southampton 1981 brilliant !
@josegabrielperezmartinez13713 жыл бұрын
Uno de los mejores temas de los 80, una pequeña joya, gracias!
@pepesancheziniesta7638 Жыл бұрын
1:08
@pepesancheziniesta7638 Жыл бұрын
Estoy contigo,de lo mejor.
@markdoughty87803 жыл бұрын
Great song, great guitarist and a nice guy to boot...
@MrFreakMeister5 жыл бұрын
Girlfriend Hair style the same, me College, her school, couple of years then went separate ways. 25 years later met again, after divorces, kids etc. Can't fault Echoplex on lead 🖖🏻👍🏻👽
@doyleperkins49163 жыл бұрын
"I once saw in a movie...IT REALLY MOVED ME..."
@kimholland93163 жыл бұрын
Superb. One verse, repeat. No chorus. Still great song
@thejoker-ie1mm Жыл бұрын
The beautiful music of the 80s, nice choice! 😎👍
@TheMLMGold10 ай бұрын
Heard this for the first time on that TOTP rerun recently, not sure how it passed me by. It really moved me!
@welshlad64273 жыл бұрын
Great tune and on my Spotify playlist.
@OLDGOLDDREAMER2 жыл бұрын
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@garypeach89453 жыл бұрын
My god this brings back a lot of memories. Thirty Thousand Feet Over China worth a look, much underrated band.