The Sound of the Suburbs - The Members . Original 7" Mix

[@ildelisantos]

If you're listening to this song in 2024 you are a king 🎉

[@chrisparker5796]

damn right......

[@danielsaan1749]

I'm 28 and was born in the wrong decade

[@PaulaJGriffin65]

Or a Queen!!

[@tankthelord1178]

We are all kings.

[@monicaclaroz8440]

right

[@wolfenstein6676]

It's 2024, do we still love The Members? Oh, yes we do, MORE THAN EVER 👊🏼 🎸.

[@grantfryer407]

left school in 1978 great times great music great band..now my sons playing my my music and is a self taught guitarist..😢.proud dad..🇬🇧

[@stephenwride5695]

Well done dad

[@starkster2qf]

Just found this brilliant classic,...jumping around like a teen...and I am 67 years old......

[@deanbensobenson7950]

Get in

[@jaywalker3087]

65 and 😅Gobbin' on life......

[@stephenwride5695]

Love it you beat me my 3 years

[@IronBhoy]

The best days when this stuff was everywhere. ❤

[@seafox61]

62 and still my favourite punk/post punk track ever. distilled 70s life into eternity!!!

[@Cody6918]

Retirement homes will be blasting all the tunes from our youth..

[@paulwallis2495]

​@@Cody6918Old git here! Nodding in full agreement with yr quality comment 😂

[@chestrendy]

Even today, there's a kid somewhere who's been waiting their whole life to hear this.

[@X.ese_]

chestrendy me, today

[@BloodBoss94]

Nothing more true, or important has ever been ever said

[@vesellin]

Here I am

[@DelStrainOriginal12Legion]

Timeless frustration and rage!

[@tomray9895]

Playing in Bedford this weekend.

[@lyntoncarre6043]

Still listening to this song in 2024 at 64 years young 👍🏻👍🏻,bloody awesome

[@davidburns392]

I'm almost 71 and still enjoying this along with 999, Radio Birdman, the Angels, the Strangler, Vibrators..........

[@johncanning5209]

im 57 now and im still tapping my feet to this song, and most of the musicfrom the same era, fantastic times

[@briancostello4971]

john canning hi john your right I'm 58 and still listen to the same music from all those years ago Brian

[@shellydrew100]

i'm 57 John and this still sounds as brill as it did the 1st time i heard it...BRILLIANT

[@nickprica3127]

me too not as fast as 43yrs ago

[@michaelelsom4038]

53 and always getting 'bollocked' for jigging away to this brilliant era of music !! Its in the blood 💃💃💃🤣

[@malcolmcog]

I'm 63 so I should be snoozing by the the fireside in my slippers, but I am tapping my feet and to the Sounds of the Suburbs !

[@petekelsall4299]

Everybody has their own ideas about which music era was the best, I speak for a generation, when I say it was Ours.

[@davelyth3022]

I am 54 and amd still have this single on clear vinyl. What a tune, my introdction to real music

[@johncanning5209]

well im 60 now, having a glennfidditch night cap, or two and still enjoying this music, oh to go back to them days

[@SazDenny]

Watcha John!

[@igorstein5616]

@Talorc MacAllan It`s perfectly ok i can understand every word ya said as i read the Broons and OOr Wullie

[@andypandytangerine3044]

Ditto man 😁👍

[@weatherman68]

@@igorstein5616 Braw 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏾💯🍻🏴‍☠️

[@radiansthecomplementtodegr8006]

You have good taste sir

[@richardstuart325]

I lived in West London suburbia under the Heathrow flight path and worked in Staines. This song was the sound track to daily life back then. Now living a different life in semi-rural Western Australia, but transported back in time by finding this on the KZbin feed.

[@qft4300]

Ditto

[@defendermodsandtravels]

I lived in Isleworth then, under one of the Heathrow flight paths.

[@adrianions2805]

You f ing barclays banker?

[@paulwallis2495]

​@@defendermodsandtravelsI used to work with a bloke that also lived there and wld always call it "IsleWOOF". So when we asked him "Why WOOF, not Worth?" He said his neighbours dog wld go ape, every time a plane flew over. Which as you know, can be constant at times. 🙉

[@douglasmorris8364]

Saw them live in Aylesbury. The singer shouted at the audience 'Stop fucking spitting at us!'

[@bruceli457]

John canning , enjoying a night cap of whiskey at 54 listening to a great track ....London born grew up in Worcester and in living in Tennessee ..Hell yeah.

[@yoloswagbigswagmoments]

My mum used to play these legends for me when I was 3 in 2002 and they informed a massive part of my life and definitely impacted how I write songs

[@KINGMONKEY1989]

Loved this song as akid. Still here in 2024 playing this loud. THIS IS THE SOUND.

[@denisfinn6681]

I accidentally saw them in a suburban pub on a Sunday evening in Melbourne Australia in about 79/80. They were flying back to the UK the next day. They were sensational!

[@radiansthecomplementtodegr8006]

🎉 I drink with the bass player he's a good guy

[@loudenoughmagazine1373]

RIP Nick Tesco. The members were part of the soundtrack of my teenage years.

[@danp7652]

@Anthony Dempo February this year

[@vintentgreene6959]

Didn't even know he passed away😢

[@wullieg7269]

not wrong

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

what was an italian doing in england? did he move there like chissie hynde?

[@gavinreid8937]

Wonderful story on a TOTP docu where the Members blagged their way into the then exclusive BBC Bar, where Nick met tony Bennet, who told him "Keep on doing what you do, you enjoy it.".

[@carlwakefield889]

Bought this when it first came out, still have it still sounds brilliant

[@billcooney945]

I haven’t heard this song since I was a kid, just come in my mind all of a sudden wene I woke up. & I googled it. I'm nearly 60 now . Memories

[@neonwind]

How could I forget? Getting old. Punk, It was never meant to last, but it did. Saw them back in 78, they were the backing band for Devo. Brilliant live band, full of fun. Rest in Peace Mr Tesco. Thank you for making us all very happy.

[@harrybaran2683]

Went to see Joe Jackson in Toronto 1980 . Never heard of The Members who opened the show. Was blown away . Huge fan ever since!!!

[@paulwallis2495]

​@@harrybaran2683funny u should mention Joe Jackson cos I been seeing my pretty ex gf out walking with a 🦍 lately.

[@andrewdutton-nx3dh]

Has he died ? I got the album was really good .the first one .like they were the days

[@andrewdutton-nx3dh]

At that time there was a club in bpool ,I was 18 and spizz energy were supporting dept s .weres Captain Kirk was spizz biggest song.no kidding ,there was five there watching ,when dep s came on is vic there .rose to about 50 . Good old days

[@oolongoolong789]

Great song. An anthem of the times.

[@lennartforsberg1519]

I saw The Members and The Jam on a rock festival in Finland around 1980.

[@kp5026]

Just heard this for the first time on BBC Radio 6 and I’m 30. This should be more widely known as a classic!

[@christophersamuelson451]

So glad you got to hear this. Does my heart good to know some younger people love the music from the 70’s and’80’s. When I left Blighty in 81 radio 6 didn’t even exist. Cheers mate!

[@simonpennington1630]

If you grew up in the UK in the 60s and 70s, this was our "Pleasant Valley Sunday." Great tune!

[@nogger1956]

My youth saying that everything is possible we can all be on TV nothing pretentious no messing about just honest music drums a Lead a Bass and a singer.. What more it's wonderful.

[@LeeMcDaidDonegal]

Simply one of the greatest pop/punk songs to come out of that glorious period between 1977-1981 ... should be mandatory listening for anyone with even a passing love of music.

[@hayley8715]

I had not heard this until today when it was the closing song on 1st episode to new 🍎tv Enfield poltergiest series..I have to say I think it resonates through the generations, that time as teenagers where you felt kinda trapped,.a bit p**sed off because of lack of control of your own life and starting to realise that this goes beyond your own 'bubble' but a time you end up looking back at foundly, being at home for the weekend with your family and the goings on repeated again and again throughout UK and not knowing quite how influential the use of your existence will be in the bigger picture of control.

[@barriedear5990]

I passed though Staines on the train recently, which reminded me of this song.

[@AttillatheHun-ph5eu]

60, and still love this...

[@robertstorey7476]

I grew up in camberley in the 1970s and this was our song about our little corner of the world Heathrow's jets, ascot line station announcement, and the Monday morning broadmoor siren. Perfect.

[@themembers_soundofthesuburbs]

Thanks for the Post we are Still rocking Join the Fun on these sites GOSSIP facebook.com/groups/Membersfans/ TEE SHIRTS VINYL www.themembers.co.uk/merch.html GIGS www.themembers.co.uk/merch.html SOCIAL twitter.com/membersthe

[@andrina118]

So did I - Monday morning maths in the freezing France Hill school canteen hearing the siren. Was there at the civic hall for their gig. Coaches full of cops outside even though there was zero trouble.

[@jackmissile]

Bracknell here, used to travel to Camberley for the Rock Box record shop and some dirty rock club

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

Frimley lad here 1966, Great local band the Members! Broadmoor Siren 🤣

[@tfwiii]

Windlesham 1980s :⁠-⁠D

[@MrAcj1964]

RIP Nicky tesco . Loved sound of the suburbs in 1979 and still do now.

[@michael7286]

Sung by fans on the Shoreham Street Kop at Bramall Lane in the 70s to this tune and song - 🎶This is the sound, This is the sound of the Shoreham. 🎶 Really like this sound by the Members.

[@stevenweasel2678]

REELO

[@julian4548]

Must be 40 years since I heard this. Excellent !

[@PhilipCullen-of1lj]

Brilliant , had the single couldn’t wait when I bought it to get home n play it , youngsters wouldn’t understand today 🤷

[@automotivel3501]

RIP Nicky Tesco. Great song.

[@TheCliffRocks]

RIP Nic X X X thanks for the tunes that changed my life.

[@harrymay2528]

40 years on and it still sounds great.

[@vinjacks]

Always will to

[@neilwelsh4417]

Saw em at Redcar coatam bowl 1980 followed The ruts packed out mayhem oh the memories. Those days will never be replaced by the shite thats out there now. Period.

[@stevenweasel2678]

SPOT ON / MATE

[@PatrioticEssex]

Loved the Members ever since I discovered them 1980. Thank John Peel for that. Legend.

[@steve261brown]

JP the legend! RIP

[@seancharles1595]

@@steve261brown yeah, dear old Peely. I used to listen under the sheets with a small radio I had, he played such interesting stuff. I got into reggae as a result of him playing loads of Yellow Jacket IIRC. His was a sad passing indeed. Music today is so utterly bland and characterless.

[@milanpuzak5523]

Bas line is fantastic,after all this years good vibrations,well done Chris....

[@michaelandersson3400]

Not heard this song for over 20 years but still knows the lyric... I'm 54 now and dream me back to when the music was as good as this.

[@bandcouver]

Listening to The Sound Of The Suburbs in 2020.

[@fionawardle1225]

Yeah, fantastic life!

[@MrMickymitch]

I'm listening in 2021 and still under house arrest lol

[@darranthompson8202]

@@MrMickymitch me too lol

[@davidedwards6807]

40 yrs and still love this

[@kundendienst171]

A very great piece of punk music- So fantastic!!!

[@shadow-Sun]

I lived this era in my teenage years and it was awesome then and it's still holds up awesome now , our generation had some fantastic music and different genres , ska , punk . new romantics , early electronic this list is much longer but you get my drift .

[@stephenthomas3085]

''Same old boring Sunday, old man's out washing the car'' Just sums up the 1970s when I grew up. Better times - not in every way by any stretch of the imagination - but in many ways nonetheless. One's things for sure, we are not happier now than we were then.

[@PatSextonMusic]

Bought the single back in 1978 when I was 14. Now I'm almost 60 and it still sounds just as good as it did back then. Must be a contender for best punk rock song of all time ..

[@PatSextonMusic]

'79

[@AnwarKhan-sg3vd]

im 63 i grew up in the best music era the 70s

[@Billy102k]

21 years old and love this 👍🏻

[@calvingirdwood4112]

Growing up as a kid listening to the teenage kicks compilation album , my dads and uncles all jumping around to this song. Belter of a song

[@cracklingvinyl6779]

RIP Nicky Tesco. Beast of a tune

[@cquilty1]

Good old Mr. Tesco with his classic schoolboy barnet, dodgy jacket and death defying dance moves. And he's a long lost Leningrad Cowboy and top chap to boot.

[@claudiosalas9859]

I heard this song at a local bar like two days ago and I can't stop listening to it.

[@kenquinn84]

You have good taste. Enjoy.

[@vintentgreene6959]

Two days ago how old are you

[@gracie1312]

@@vintentgreene6959 how do you expect younger people to find :new' music?

[@anemone104]

Same old boring Sunday morning.....Guy over the road washes his car on a Sunday, 40 years on. It's a hybrid and it cost more than all the cars I've ever owned rolled into one and I'm old enough to be his Dad. Progress? Still feel the same about this track as when it came out: kind of trapped but good to hear it again, it's still relevant.

[@alfydungarees2014]

This kind of music never leaves you're head

[@harrisalan7489]

Still listening in 2024 at 58 ❤

[@redrum4100]

I can never get beyond a few seconds in. Too painful remembering the good old days.

[@patrik4067]

One of the greatest songs of all time

[@DiscoveringSpain]

First record I ever bought

[@veilbreak5867]

i loved this track, when i was a young un! It's as relevant today as ever....a timeless classic, up there with teenage kicks

[@mclees4593]

Saw these guys at the now defunct Bayou Club in Georgetown DC. They were absolutely brilliant!

[@robinkatze4488]

bloody awesome song. great that this video exists

[@TheThirtyNineSteps]

November 2024, nearly two o'clock in the morning and feeling restless so tried reading to see if that would make me tired, suddenly this pops into my head, God only knows why, I thought about what I'd just been reading but couldn't detect any connection that might have provoked it's arrival in my bonce. Born in 62 so now age 62, still sounds great and the memories came flooding back, pretty care free times the late seventies, great time to be going through your teens. Still have the single in a box upstairs somewhere, clear vinyl, picture sleeve, wonder if it still plays alright?. I think this happened to me a week or so ago when a couple of Lurkers numbers were earworming me. Take care everyone.

[@shamsoni]

I was one of the first Indian punks in cov 1978! Was 14 when I bought this - rezillios -,Sham - Clash - X-ray specs -,Siouxsie brilliant childhood

[@markmitchell450]

Cool

[@notamused3715]

Haha, I was in Cov in those days too! Great times, all those gigs at the Locarno!

[@sandrabecht4489]

👍🇩🇪

[@shamsoni]

@Nigel -- Eddie n the hot rods - vibrators dickies even early new wave boomtown rats reviillos

[@shamsoni]

Was one of first lads to get my ear pierced was 13 nearly got expelled sleeper with a cross dm drain pipe jeans - actually still dress like that now but have nose percied and am nearly 59

[@paulrosendale6199]

I went to see them at the ‘Electric Ballroom’ Camden Town, and ended up having a beer with Billy Idol. Happy days.

[@andrewdavis1427]

This never felt more relevant than right now. As a student who's in college and trying his damnest to maintain a job and internships in these crazy times, this song describes a mood far too familiar.

[@MrPDoff]

As I drive out of Slough each day just as you approach the M4 This tune just kept on coming to mind. Well I had to listen once again and again and again and again and still listening.

[@tsyuasui5241]

My dad used to always play this song cause like you know my dad has good music taste and it’s only now that I’m discovering what real music is and omg how I not like this song

[@benjohn8801]

That riff still does things to me after about the 500th time of listening to it

[@garyhillman4993]

Bought this. Great song

[@paulhadfield7909]

love this song, i had amate in the steel factory, who shared a house with the band, he hates this song, as he had to listen to it hundreds of times lol, ian was his name,

[@stephenwride5695]

Love it

[@Mattie1979]

00:54 - “10 o’clock Broadmoor siren driving me mad, won’t leave me alone” I used to live in Wokingham Berkshire England and I also heard the Broadmoor siren so I know exactly what he meant with this line.

[@lindafortner4557]

Sweet jesus I’ve been looking for this song for years.

[@yawnguy94]

Yawn

[@themembers_soundofthesuburbs]

Thanks for the Post we are Still rocking Join the Fun on these sites GOSSIP facebook.com/groups/Membersfans/ TEE SHIRTS VINYL www.themembers.co.uk/merch.html GIGS www.themembers.co.uk/merch.html SOCIAL twitter.com/membersthe

[@ThePsychoFish]

still sounds as greaat now as it did when it came out still remember buying it my 2nd year into punk age 14

[@scottleft3672]

Iwas 17 in 79, and im still addicted.

[@chickenlampbrent]

Snap. I was 14 and I bought the 45 single

[@skapunkno1]

I was 10 and it was my fave song on a tape my big bro made for me

[@vintentgreene6959]

​@trixiek942I wish I could as long as I can go back to 77

[@cmonthedees1381]

This song is so good 🙌

[@MarkCW]

I'm 54 and this brings back memories

[@tjordulf]

I'm 54 too👍

[@lindacox3177]

..and me

[@adrianbrowne7962]

Aspects of this record lyrically are " Very Clever " ! In particular Nicky Tesco addressing the " Suburban Or Otherwise " Musical Detractors Who " Poured Scorn " On The Whole New Wave / Punk Era " !! RIP Mister Tesco!!! From Adrian Browne 1965

[@themembers_soundofthesuburbs]

Lyrics mainly written by JC Carroll on this record!

[@zippy2u]

Saw these guys live at Merlyns in Madison in the 1980's. Nobody sat down for the entire set. So much energy.

[@neilly188]

bought the 7inch on clear vinyl - worked in Bracknell and travelled by train often so the announcement played in the background I'd heard a thousand times.. Great tune - evoked the time perfectly

[@deansopp7560]

I’m 57 that music a great era

[@markfrost9005]

Great days , old punks never die

[@AttitudeCharter]

Still amazing in 2023. Once you hear it you’ll never forget it. Fantastic songwriting.

[@ianmcgregorhart9354]

Saw them live supporting Eddie & the Hot Rods in 1979 at Newcastle City Hall. There was a huge cheer from the Punks when they sang the line; yeah they want anarchy!

[@crapitoutjim]

RIP Nicky Tesco. This Is The Sound Of My Youth.

[@ianmann5017]

too good, what a time I had, that's right!!!

[@brentkadatz3658]

Thanks guys... made my Sunday morning!!

[@karenrubylebass6002]

I saw The Members a couple of weeks ago in Guildford. Great gig, JC sang one of my favourites, ‘At the Chelsea Nightclub’

[@45rpmSINGLES]

RIP Nicky ❤️

[@georgedonaldson7220]

Bought this on vinyl. Forty years ago ah memories......

[@kenquinn84]

Still got it. Clear vinyl.

[@steevsmith2792]

Remember this single from way back in the day....and probably saw the band a time or two. I thought the geezer in the Jacket and tie was Wilko Johnson at first!...same haircut as the legend used to have!

[@chapelchicks8851]

Oh I love this just as much today as I did back in '79.

[@thedude1-wn2ij]

Loved this at school a looooong time ago! 😁

[@sco467]

I was only 2 years old when this was released and I still LOOOVE IT to this day!! 😜

[@dr.droneshchettri2250]

I may not have listened in 79 but still after 20 yrs.. I was a Punk Rock Lover... Bou 20 yrs and still the same.. One of the best True Punk...

[@SubTroppo]

Still brilliant! [Never take life or your music too seriously!]

[@morethanamidlifecrisis]

I used to love solitary confinement by them too - great band

[@meeruisland]

Had just joined the army when this came out, loved it