The The - Sweet Bird Of Truth (Video)

[@nigelwadner9134]

The infected album is an absolute piece of art. Such a shame people don’t get it. Stands up today x

[@laurentgossent234]

Yes !!!! A perfect diamond !

[@georgestephenson7158]

Damn right.

[@mike_burke]

Absolutely. And the album cover itself is also a work of art. One of the best albums of the eighties and most people have never heard of it. Max Headroom introduced me to it 😊

[@fionagem3282]

Amazing album x 🙏huge talent!

[@aimeemacdn]

I got it. Still listen to it. Genius.

[@CasperVanderlyle]

Just as relevant today as it was back then with the fighting in Yemen and Palestine

[@honeybeeblossom5846]

If I’d known I’d be listening to this as a 16 year old in the 80’s and again now as a 51 year old in 2024 while it has not aged a single moment!!!!

[@cowboyjustice3580]

True, same.❤😂

[@cal-native]

This song is still as brilliant, timeless, and prescient as the say it was released 37 years ago😞

[@lankylad1998]

My dad showed me this song and god bless you for this dad

[@roninaround6450]

Such a great and under rated song. Stood the test of time and still relevant today.

[@rjjcms1]

Even MJ cannot have known just how relevant it would become!

[@marguerita555]

YEP ......

[@massimodambrogio]

From my point of view is one of their best track

[@jamesure2426]

It's superb,. Matt was a prophet. Even more so on the next album, Mind Bomb.

[@massdrivermusic]

The bad thing is... this song (and video) never gets old.. I just hope it will someday. Matt Johnson is a genius. Really great song.

[@CathyKitson]

I must be odd because this is my favourite Thethe song. The first time I heard it I just went, "Wowwww...."

[@julliard]

Your not odd at all. This is one of their many classics.

[@jamesure2426]

It's one of highlights of Infected.

[@BoardroomBuddha]

I was 21 when this came out. My only regret in life was not buying the VHS when it was $15.00 .The entire album was flawless and so unique as a story.

[@nickbenke3306]

It was one of my first VHS video's after buying my first VCR! And I still have it! Sadly it's very worn, I messaged for ages about getting it released on DVD but some of the original master tapes were lost after production companies (There were a few involved in the project) folded. On the label a review reads 'After watching it, everyone seemed stunned!' And why not? In 'Twilight of a champion' Matt places a loaded, cocked gun in his mouth! What a guy!

[@muttleycrew]

Needs about 100 million more views. Honestly a bit staggered that this absolute masterpiece isn't a lot more appreciated.

[@ramblingrose6604]

You're not wrong!!! It is a f..n Masterpiece!! They don't make them like this any more !

[@muttleycrew]

@Carlos You really want Matt Johnson to not be more successful just so that you can feel superior? That's more than a bit weird.

[@chanc8r38]

Listen mostly to12 inch album version but yesssssss genius

[@rjjcms1]

It should be.

[@christinagiannaros9817]

Brilliant and timeless. All the changes and life stages gone through and I've never stopped coming back to it for well over 30 yrs.

[@simonburns1055]

This is your captain calling... with an urgent warning...

[@jamesure2426]

Whole album is pure quality: material and production.

[@davidharrison3739]

I’m burying my mum to this tune this week. She loved it. Pouring tears of a mixture of darkness, nostalgia and laughter it’s so dark in the church!

[@Del-Lebo]

O I'm 55 never thought I would see this on KZbin. Have the LP and Cassette, cd..et..freaking cetera! Thank YOU!!!! Damn, I'm lagging! Love it!

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

My dad played me this song when i was 8. Now at 39 i can still feel that bass thudding in my gut!

[@GriefTourist]

Eerie and still as hard hitting today as in 1986

[@ramblingrose6604]

This song is just amazing! I used to listen to The The all the time during my Uni days and this song just stirs me right up!

[@mikenow3050]

In 2023 this sounds so Prophetic

[@JUSTMENANCYT]

This is another group/band that I would not have heard of if not for MyMichaelC

[@mikenow3050]

I don't what mymichaelc is. But my brother introduced me to the the in the 80's. Still great.

[@JUSTMENANCYT]

I guess I should really just call him MichaelC now, drop the My part. I finally, over it....him

[@JUSTMENANCYT]

Actually, looks like I never really knew him after all.

[@TheCoraB]

Still a masterpiece.

[@callummorritt3421]

Fucking classic…. One of the best bands in the world 😎😎😎😎

[@gangoffour6690]

Great band and that was such a great time to be around. I was living in Boston and every band in the world came through town.

[@nickbenke3306]

It's been Way too long! So good to have it back in here! Outstanding track and so relevant still.

[@rjjcms1]

Absolutely. They banned it when it was released as a single,unfortunately. Just remembered it was released the same year as Top Gun.

[@chelseapoet3664]

My favourite track on the album. I got the 12" single when it came out. Prophetic. Very excited about Ally Pally Sep 28 2024....I hope they play this!

[@elizabethbell4697]

I first heard this tune way back in 1987 on a Sunday during a TV ad break on Channel 4. Totally fantastic song and video. Been off of KZbin for far too long.

[@richardcoutts694]

Just excellent - one of the best bands - and undervalued.

[@julliard]

@Richard Coutts I think they have a healthy fanbase

[@ramblingrose6604]

Help me Lord! I can't stop playing this song! It's tribal ecstasy!!

[@crystalledford9364]

Love this song and the band

[@bobbyshafto3259]

Unbelievable ! Another THE THE CLASSIC !

[@SunshineClementine]

Oh what a heaven--what a hell!! Matt Johnson brought me here. x

[@scrunts666]

Infectd and Soul mining are two of the best albums ever made and this is one of the best songs on those albums. Having said that, every song on both albums are amazing.

[@DeanMurphyCDM]

I had a C90 cassette tape with Soul Mining on one side and Infected on the other. That tape lives in my (very posh for the time) Sony auto-reverse Walkman for pretty much most of the second half of the 80’s. Astounding albums.

[@AaranC]

Great song very visceral sound. Gets under your skin. Great clip.

[@shaun.rimmer]

Sonically amazing album, and employing some of the real talents of the day.

[@jackellsworthsavage5384]

a work of art

[@ChrisBrown-go6gq]

Watched Ch 4 TV in the UK who premiered the whole Infected Album Video. To say I was completely blown away that Thursday evening (I think they did a lot of Video stuff for Indie Bands on that night as well as other Progs like The Tube/Whatever you didn't get with Keith Allen). They were a very good source of upcoming indie bands

[@rjjcms1]

Those mid-through-late 80s when Channel 4 was the scourge of the blue rinse establishment.

[@impeachy1518]

Checks out..

[@muttleycrew]

I was gifted the Infected video on VHS for one of my birthdays. It was actually astonishing.

[@Itstinner]

I watched it too on Ch4 and blown away, i am sure Ch4 put it on twice. I bought the vhs tape of the lp but it didnt play properly, didnt have a replacement copy tho 😅

[@01aleph]

Brilliant album, cleverly composed, great production and playing, amazing lyrics and videos that follow the whole album are brilliant, what can I say Matt (The The) is a really flawless author.

[@HRC1]

This song was so on point then as it is now with Israel and Gaza. Mr Johnson you have a very deep mind.

[@andreav1965]

Still fresh after all these years. Thank you Matt

[@DanWagnerWags]

more relevant than ever. such a great song on an amazing album. I can hear Slow Train to Dawn start up in my head when this song ends :)

[@malgalloway5717]

Made even better by the backing vocals from the awesome neneh cherry.

[@drhenkenstein]

Anna Domino on backing vocals in this song.

[@GaryTitherington-so1gt]

Absolute work of art classic album

[@jorose8138]

Random fact: This song gets a mention in The Jazz Butcher songbook "Miracles & Wonder" by Philip Snow and Pat Fish (aka The Jazz Butcher). Page 103 to be exact! If anyone's interested! Pat said he was thinking of this song, and Reagan's bombing of Tripoli, when writing lyrics to his beautiful song "Angels". Rip Pat, you have introduced me to a lot of music/songs (such as this) that I wasn't previously aware of...musical inspiration from beyond the grave.

[@godwindracing6056]

Another random fact: one of the first music videos to be directed by Mark Romanek

[@colinbrown2012]

Still cuts thru !!!

[@mrwatertiger]

Masterpiece

[@stuartmalcolm5854]

I heard this just before I went out to the Gulf of Oman for the second time serving in the Royal Navy, made me think about just what the funk I was doing!!.

[@garydavies-bt9xq]

Dedicated to Michael Murtagh from Longford in Ireland. You are a special man and thank you ❤

[@VoroninHop]

I remember this brilliantly-prescient track never got the promotion or radio play it deserved as its planned release coincided with the US bombing of Libya in 1986, and his record company (CBS) got cold feet & pulled it. Despite it being *exactly* the message the public needed to hear right then.

[@latenightchillout1202]

Here in 2024. What a shame this song is still relevant.

[@cletusbeauregard1972]

I feel that way about both the Infected and Mind Bomb albums. D:

[@SoZen08]

Many people are surprised about the chaos and division in the world, but some of us have always seen it.

[@Finthefish-hr8ky]

Fucking exactly

[@LoSpettatore70]

Capolavoro.

[@MrSirDrew]

Lyrics 6 o'clock in the morning & I'm the last person in this plane still awake Y'know I can almost smell the blood washing against the shores, Of this land that can't forget its past. Oh the wind that carries this plane, is the wind of change, heaven sent and hell bent! over the mountain tops we go, just like all the other GI Joes EE-AY-EE-AY - adios! This is your captain calling - "with an urgent warning" We're above the Gulf of Arabia - "our altitude is falling" & I can't hold her up - "there's no time for thinking" All hands on deck - "this bird is sinking" Across the beaches and cranes, rivers and trains all the money I've made - bodies I've maimed. Time was when I seemed to know, Just like any other GI Joe Should I cry like a baby, or die like a man While all the planets like wars start joining hands, Oh what a heaven - what a hell!! Y'know there's nothing can be done in the whole wide world. I don't know whats wrong or right, I'm just a regular guy, with bottled up insides, I ain't ever been to church or believed in Jesus Christ but I'm praying that Gods with you when you die!!! Arabia Arabia Arabia Arabia Arabia Arabia

[@nihansen1457]

Lil wars

[@chercoe5717]

While all the planets 'LITTLE' wars start joining hands

[@nobody-x7g]

Phenomenal then and now. Could have been released today. Still listening at age 71.

[@TuRo-Maserati]

Heaven sent, hell bent ... My fave MaJo track 😊

[@mikem2778]

Wow, totally forgot about this song! Haven't heard in...probably decades! Awesome song, fun to be catching up on The The.

[@chadarracks]

I don't know how i got here, but it's amazing

[@blasterd]

Lovin it

[@Bricameron]

Here we are again

[@derekmathieson5018]

Saw them in Brisbane last night.So many highlights but they played a particularly banging version of this song. A cracking gig.Matt’s voice is in bloody good nick. Superb band too - Barrie Cadogan was different class

[@andrewdownie62]

These guys were a good act seen em at Manchester Apollo England

[@GaryTitherington-so1gt]

Seen them at the Albert hall long drive from Liverpool but I would have walked to see how good they were

[@danabrahams7892]

During a tory choked 80s Britain, this was one of the only life rafts...

[@jumpstar9000]

Most appropriate track of the day.

[@davidwhaite3330]

Amazing song , I remember reading a review on the single it said it's a much more powerful version of Paul Hardcastle's 19 and should be a big hit , The whole Infected album is something else what a masterpiece ,

[@aimeemacdn]

Heaven sent, and hell bent.

[@chelseapoet3664]

I got this on 12" vinyl when it came out. It's all coming back. So evocative.

[@jonhunter8737]

This album is outstanding!!! Find me a poor track! I love Prefab Sprout, you would select three or four tracks off their album, and go, yeah, I'll buy!! There is NO weak track on this album!!!! An amazing piece of music/social commentary, just Brilliant.

[@julliard]

@Jon Hunter Do you think its their best album? I find it a little dated. I much prefer Soul Mining.

[@jonhunter8737]

@@julliard I think it stands up really well. It's one of 5 or 6 albums on a playlist or in the cd draw at any point, along with Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout, Woodface by Crowded House, Talking Heads Remain in Light/Stop Making Sense/Speaking in Tongues, Thomas Dolby Golden Age of Wireless/Aliens Ate my Buick. I dip in and out of modern stuff, but I have a brother in the industry and he knows a fake song/protools/autotune rip off when he hears it!! Back to analogue!!!!

[@TarzansMom]

Prefab Sprout, my eye I haven’t thought of them in a loooong time. Thanks for reminding me.

[@jsaintr.i.r4018]

6 часов утра и я последний человек в этом самолете Еще не спит Почему я почти чувствую запах крови, омывающей берега, Из этой земли, которая не может забыть свое прошлое. О ветер, несущий этот план, это ветер перемен, Небеса послали и ад согнут! Мы идем по горным вершинам, как и все остальные солдаты Джо И-И-И-И---- прощай! ПРИПЕВ Это ваш капитан, звонит "срочное предупреждение" Мы над Аравийским заливом - "наша высота падает" И я не могу ее удержать - "нет времени думать" Все руки на палубе - "эта птица тонет" Через пляжи и краны, реки и поезда Все деньги, которые я заработал - тела, которые я искалечил. Было время, когда я, казалось, знал, Как и любой другой солдат Джо Должен ли я плакать, как ребенок, или умереть, как мужчина В то время как все планеты, как войны, начинают браться за руки, О, что за рай, что за ад!! Да что ты знаешь, на всем белом свете ничего нельзя сделать. Я не знаю, что неправильно или правильно, Я обычный парень с закрытыми внутренностями, Я никогда не был в церкви и не верил в Иисус Христос Но я молюсь, чтобы Боги были с тобой, когда ты умрешь!!!

[@Raz.C]

It was the 1990s computer game (political simulator) called Conflict Middle East that introduced me to this song. It was the heavy 80s feel to the song and music video that kept me coming back!

[@Del-Lebo]

Glad to see some traction on this Vid! So good!

[@julliard]

@Micky Jesus I would be glad to see some tractors in this video

[@galinamatrossova197]

Amazingggggg

[@williamkuhns2387]

@ 2:16 "Alas poor Yorick....I knew him well Horatio".

[@mike92505]

😂

[@mike92505]

Over used Shakespeare quote, but I love it😂

[@teresapuna]

Truth is art

[@shb8124]

Easily one of the best albums ever, just briliant. If you're into hi-fi too... on a good well set up system it's reference material.

[@luvspreadzzzzz]

I always wanted to watch this video and it is finally available in Mexico nowww!!! AAAAA

[@aquariusthird]

An exquisite elicitor of empathy for both Arabia and the West in response

[@ericthiel4053]

Dude this video used to trip me out. I remember this on MTV a to z every summer.

[@walterharris1410]

80s and 90s when MTV played music videos.

[@keithbill310]

Change the world this never stopps

[@paulahall5775]

Amazing!

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend a song and video called 'Where I Come From' By Robert Nix

[@Taliesin-xd7ke]

Not an album, a prophecy.

[@GirlMcGyver]

Sweet bird content!

[@SavePlanetPlease]

Look love love look! TheThe the best

[@jumpstar9000]

So happy I got to see you Matt in Brixton back in the day. Continue to be a huge fan.

[@thierrypetitjean]

J'adore ❤❤

[@xiwangmu7421]

Very topical still after all these years.

[@michelelaraia7358]

Visionary

[@galinamatrossova197]

Обалденно❤❤❤❤

[@alans-mr5bx]

Saw them live in Toronto at the old Masonic Temple on Younge Street Shortly after the Album Infected was released. Way ahead of there time one of my favourite bands of all time

[@DavidMoore-jg4kh]

The video's of the whole album were shown on Channel 4 in the UK. I taped it on VHS, but after my term at university, somebody had taped over it.😢Sold the vinyl copy I bought at the time and bought the CD, and most of the videos are online so it's worked out OK in the end. It's still relevant today. "Should I cry like a baby, or die like a man, when all the planet's little wars start joining hands."

[@Aramanth]

🔴 Still as *arresting* today as it was back then!

[@complexproductions5525]

Nice- Very - Never seen this! Good capture!

[@tobebike]

The The BEST 💪

[@garydavies-bt9xq]

❤I loved you years ago and I still love you. ❤😊

[@aimeemacdn]

Brilliant video too, who directed?

[@julliard]

This was directed by Mark Romanek who also directed David Bowie's "Jump They Say" and the film One Hour Photo

[@stevef3453]

Brilliant!

[@Eneroscu]

❤️❤️❤️

[@cameronrycroft4635]

Love 2sing along,,,always,,,and yes I got it, 😂👌🤘🤘🎧

[@julliard]

@Cameron Rycroft How are the vocals holding up these days?

[@cameronrycroft4635]

@@julliard ,,quite well ,,if I do say so myself,,lol,,tis a fun time 4me,,, appreciate so many different vocals,,👌,shizzle thanku 4 askin,😂

[@sirlancealittles]

It took 68 years to find this song, poopft

[@hoo3370]

One great song so much to it

[@AussieTVMusic]

only 4k views?

[@suemoses_videocoach]

I know, right!

[@ceedee227]

Only available in Australia

[@kolinevans9127]

The google industrial complex Lowell.

[@marguerita555]

Truth he said it many moons ago! Met him in a Club Wardour street London Go Matt ...........................

[@jednmorf]

Needed

[@RobertWarren-um2pg]

Listen to re-mix It's freaking awesome