Translator - Everywhere That I'm Not

Music video by Translator performing Everywhere That I'm Not. (C) 1982 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

[@mikkalinka9781]

NEVER in a million years did l think l would hear this song again! THANK YOU! 63 yrs old & song is still friggin GREAT! l Love it.

[@frankthecoach]

Mikka Linka I’m 61 and frigging luv this song

[@victorshipley1707]

@@frankthecoach HAHAHAHA ....OH HELL YA........

[@mcalles2518]

I'm 61 only, I like it, but I don't know how the original. But now, I will try to find it. Jaja. Saludos FROM España.

[@billb502003]

I am almost 70 and I can't get enough of it Remember it well Love this music!

[@tinamarconi4890]

I'm 67 and so Glad to hear this again!!! Love it!

[@johnchapman1439]

Lost my Mom on 7-12. This song is dedicated to her !!! RIP Mom !!!

[@berniekellman405]

They were our private, San Francisco Beatles for a minute in 1983. I will always love them. They have a bunch of great songs

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

They are actually, a very underrated band. Really, incredibly underrated.

[@bassmanapprel]

Absolutely loved this song back when it was originally released, and still do. Ah yes... back when Rock, Punk, Ska & New Wave ruled. 😁

[@johnprestigiacomo8070]

Takes me back to hearing this song for the first time on WLIR in the early 80's. My gosh, has it really been 40 years???

[@knickkification]

Back when we were young, buddy

[@tommygiordano9687]

Wow, WLIR! Great station and the first to play the Translators. Great song!!!

[@lynnaustin3414]

I remember the first time I heard this song!! It was 1982, at the US Festival. I loved it immediately!!

[@darrylwiggins4799]

I remember that station and this song like it was yesterday.

[@joedellinger9437]

Live 105, KITS for me… I have many hours of recordings of that station from back in the day.

[@edwardcall153]

I was in a group called the Marina Swingers that was fortunate enough to play the LA new wave punk scene in the late 70’s early 80’s. We did a number of shows with Translator - couple big rooms (Nobody’s, Swingers, Translator at the Troubador) and some other smaller dives. Though we played a complete different style of music, we always had a great time with Translator. First time I heard them do “Your Everywhere” I knew that was a classic song. They would knock the walls down - that vamp at the end was masterful. Great band and good guys. There was some special music back then.

[@MrDavesf]

Edward! Holy Toledo! Hep Hep!!!

[@JunkoPilot]

Way cool EC - I saw them in SF way back when and was knocked out - bought the lp and played it so many times I wore it out. So much energy on stage - one of the greatest rock shows I've experienced. Too bad (or good?) they never quite made mainstream.

[@TimBurVlogs]

My uncle Tommy traveled with Translator around that time, I have no idea what he did with the band but he passed a few years ago, I inherited his "estate" and he had a few Marina Swingers items.

[@minorminormajor9702]

i was a dumb punk rock kid when i saw translator, and didn't like them because they weren't punk enough. later, when i became a person, i found them again, and this song has been with me ever since.

[@maisie-on2zq]

Crazy! I played a Marina Swingers song ("I'm a Swinger") on WPRK (Rollins college) radio here in Winter Park Florida a few weeks ago. Discovered you guys on the Post-Punk Oddities website. Great stuff, I was (just a little) too young to know about it back then

[@philipatoz]

It is almost a crime that Translator didn't become a huge act in the 80s. Clever, interesting lyrics, melodic, singable songs, they were just a terrific guitar-oriented rock band. Their albums weren't full of a bunch of "filler" tracks, either - virtually every track really rocked with a classic sound. Saw them live. My band played a cover of this - which was the probably their best effort. Good stuff! They can look back and be VERY proud!

[@norekfamily]

Am I the "youngest" person who loves this song? Heard "Everywhere I'm Not" once when I was seven years old in 1982 and for many years thought it was just a figment of my imagination that played in my head. Ten years later I called the college radio station in my town (WRPI) and asked if they had a song called "Everywhere I'm Not" even though I didn't know the band's name or even if the song was even real. By some miracle the DJ knew the song and threw it on the radio. Finally, I learned the band's name and could get my hands on the track. I still think this is one of the best songs of the '80s.

[@TheEggplantThatAteChicago]

42 here, and I like it pretty well.

[@peggysemingson]

I'm 48 and heard it in the 80's at some point. They played a lot of this type of music in the 80's in high school on 91X in San Diego.

[@Luvthesky]

@@TheEggplantThatAteChicago 67 and man the 80's were a great time to be in my late 20's!!!

[@mariannepeters1801]

I’m in my early 60s and have LOVED this song since I first heard it; I downloaded onto my phone years ago. Awesome song!

[@asimhussain2344]

31 but I wouldn’t say I love this song. “Everything You See” from the same album is better IMO.

[@maggievandyke814]

I remember this song like yesterday. And I'm 66! One of my very favorites.

[@alanfox9000]

How was this not a hit??? I sing it every day!!!

[@imontop4u]

It was to those of us who remember it and loved it!

[@calistacatkiss]

Don’t forget to sing it again today!

[@djo9941]

Time machine! 63 also and hearing it again for the first time in decades!! Great song!

[@johnperiard9594]

And so, the grunge apocalyse hit and melodic music like this were not allowed to co-exist and now we dont even have a music industry. Thanks for posting. Geat tune

[@slowneutron6163]

There are only two kinds of music: Good Music and Bad Music. This is Good Music.

[@bzfgt1]

+Adam Bash What about Zydeco?

[@slowneutron6163]

+bzfgt bzfgt Ok, there are only three kinds of music...good, bad, and Zydeco. Fucking troll.

[@bzfgt1]

Schottische?

[@MrCarl220]

If you mentioned this song today, I wonder how many people would actually remember it! It's been so under appreciated for so long

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

Good music has to be heard first before it can be appreciated. All the good music from yesteryear is getting zero exposure while Stone Age primate sounds are being heard everywhere.

[@MrCarl220]

Davin Damper True, very true, but what's good about youtube with these videos posted is that it's hopefully finding both an old and NEW audience. This video got a lot of air play on the old MTV back in the day

[@TreyNichols1]

MrCarl220 I'm one of those happy few who fell in love with Translator in the 80's. Grew up in the Bay Area, probably heard this song on KFJC and immediately bought "Heartbeats and Triggers" (on vinyl) at Tower Records in Mountain View. After 30+ years I'm finally seeing them perform live tonight at Molly Malone's in Los Angeles!

[@MrCarl220]

Cool! I'm glad they still play out and that there is still people like you who know what good music is!!

[@MrNematodeking]

Trey Nichols I remember Alex Bennet playing it alot on KMEL. Great stuff... saw them open one of the Day on the Green gigs

[@rtrepsas]

Hearing this on the radio in 1982, helped me feel not alone during a very sad break up of my marriage, still madly in love with my ex wife. Hearing it now brings me right back to that sad feeling, but feeling that you’re not alone. Life happens.

[@MrJoedabaker]

I've felt that

[@frankthecoach]

This song takes me back to San Francisco early 80s New Wave scene. Great band. This song was played at Stud Bar my fav hangout back then

[@carolyncrampton4050]

What a great bar that was!! Translator played at the Stud live at least twice. My band The Varve opened those shows.

[@frankthecoach]

I remember The Varve!! Thanks for responding

[@carolyncrampton4050]

Funny, one of my first youtube comments ever and I get a reply right away! Thanks.

[@desireec.crooks78]

I probably was there with you at lots of those shows. When Haight Street was Alternative/death rock central

[@slshusker]

Haunting voice. No auto tuner required.

[@jsparky8363]

Scott Struble I wish I could give your comment 100 likes. LoL

[@brentgartside2185]

Still love it ! After all these years. I want my MTV! back....

[@andreatalbot2868]

Original MTV would have such a big audience if they went back to these original videos

[@centralscrutinizer66]

They actually played this video regularly on MTV back so long ago they hardly had commercials and would air video montages of vintage NASA testing footage for 10 minutes at a time.

[@Kevinegan1]

Martha Quinn and Kurt Loder days. Why the fk can I remember this sh*t and not important stuff? A friend and his girlfriend call me the other night. They were watching old movies and had a question. So my friend asks me, "who played Captain Nemo in the original film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?" I mean, not even thinking of it for a second, I answer "James Mason." My gift, my curse. The wife and I were watching the movie "Children of Men" like 10 or 12 years after it's debuted. The movie is moving along and interesting. Then some music starts playing that I haven't heard in so long that I'm not really sure if I ever heard it at all. But after 5 chords it just came out of nowhere and I blurt out "King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King." How do I know this? Why do I know this? Before you ask, his name is Clive Owen. In the original movie "The Thing" the monster is played by James Arness of Gun Smoke fame. Spock's Father portrayed by Mark Lenard, also was The Romulan Commander in Star Trek Balance of Power. Allan Hale, Russell Johnson, Bob Denver, Jim Backus, Natalie Schaffer, Dawn Wells, and Tina Louise, aka, (Jonas Crumby The Skipper), (Roy Hinkley The Professor), (Thurston Howell III), (Lovey, Mrs. Howell) (Mary- Ann), (Ginger Grant).

[@rtrepsas]

WARPHEAD I have the same thing, I’ll hear a song and there’s a part of my brain that comes from the unconscious, it’s not something I am conscious of and every single time this happens I get the correct name of the artist or band. It feels like it comes from like the lower left rear part of my brain I don’t know why. It really is a THING that happens!

[@jeffy9145]

As a recent transplant to SF in '84, this track served as my introduction to the local SF music scene and I can't tell you how big of an impression it made on me at the time. "Everywhere" received a copious amount of airplay and became somewhat of a gold standard for other local bands. For this small town boy, SF seemed like the "big city" but in fact it could not have been any smaller, so small that I had, at one point, ran into Steve Barton at a party in the Alamo Square part of town, having at one time shared a girlfriend in common. Her name was "Jill".

[@basking_in_it]

I saw these guys play at a club in Sacramento in 1982. My brother got me on the guest list because he was producing the show. It was a lot of fun!

[@kenphillippi2822]

Saw them with X in SF in 1983. Surprisingly rocking band. After seeing them several more times, I finally grasped they WERE a rocking band. I think their sound suffered on No Time Like Now a little due to the overproduction so common then, but those guitars were big live. They were THIS close to making it.

[@doodleedledoo]

What incredibly unusual chords and bass part in that intro figure.

[@IcarusSuite]

Exactly what I thought when I heard this song past week while listening to my Weekly Discover by Spotify.

[@JamesTJim]

WFNX Radio Boston 1982. Rock the boat radio!

[@eddichiara14]

Julie Kramer

[@derekstewart5689]

Oedipus! He recently got a proclamation from the Governor of Massachusetts.

[@mikkalinka9781]

YA-HAAAAAAA!!! 101.7 fm

[@st.anthony1134]

WCOZ

[@ralphjohnston9483]

One of my fave songs since 1982...Cheers!!! Tyrone.

[@rebjiii]

YEP...one of the best from 1982

[@OaktownBman]

One of the first songs played by "The Quake" San Francisco's new wave radio station in the early 80s. I remember the station going on the air at midnight, listening with an antenna radio from our roof 80 miles away in the Central Valley, desperate to leave farm town and to join the modern world. Translator provided hope you could sing along to.

[@irasparer6111]

Short-lived radio station. Remember early to mid 80s in SF very fondly.

[@HerAeolianHarp]

I tuned into Quake from Stockton as a middle schooler. I know the feeling.

[@brucedemarest3929]

I was stationed in Seattle when this song was played on KYYX - Seattle's new wave station at the time. Immediately bought the album even though I didn't have a record player. I kept it in my record collection (still in it's plastic wrap) until 2012 when a friend offered me $200 for it. I took it! Thanks Translator! 😊

[@creeper109]

Man this song brings back some memories back in the 80s It was a fun time growing up.

[@BirdTalk13]

Everything about this band and song is pure perfection.

[@DonaldTurner]

I keep coming back to this song.. so many years later. so amazing

[@imontop4u]

This song brings back wonderful memories from my teen years of listening to 99.1 WHFS, hanging out with friends in the middle of nowhere wondering where all these great groups were coming from!

[@user-nl9jj5yy2p]

Yes! Heard this on WHFS in the 80s when they were located in Bethesda, and it was a great song from the get go! We were lucky to grow up with such an amazing local radio station in the DC Metro area!! 🎉

[@apro109]

My God, just as fn brilliant as ever.

[@stevenszwaja5754]

I love this song! What a great song! A lost gem, a forgotten classic. Great chords, great lyrics, vocals and a Killer bass-line! I get this song playing in my head when I'm a-struttin' & a-strollin' down the avenue. Especially when I see somebody ahead who looks like someone I used to know but turns out to be somebody else. Then I wonder where they are. Then I wonder where I am. And where are you? Who cares: it's just a great song!

[@kilts4u2]

Just one of the many great bands of the '80s. So much good music. So many good times. My life hasn't come close to as much fun since. Where are they now?

[@maynardsmoreland]

Damn, this got a lot of airplay in the SF Bay Area, but didn't break nationally. A memorable song.

[@darkkiss7247]

That's where I heard it. They use to play it on KFOG 104.5.

[@gbaker9295]

It was popular in Seattle. Kids in my class used to sing it together. I did the scream part

[@kencummings953]

It broke on MTV. It was a frequent video in 1982 or 83.

[@stevewallace2724]

Stumbling around 80's music. Thank you.

[@Belluser-we1uc5cb2l]

They don't play this on the radio. Thanks for posting.❤love the 80's

[@raserx63]

Classic from WLIR NY !

[@carlingtonme]

LIR will never die!

[@zoimoie]

Now i remember where i had heard this..awesome 👍

[@tommygiordano9687]

Amen for WLIR!!!

[@bitterspice]

I’m kind of surprised this is 1982. I was a very young child in 1982 and I don’t remember it from back then. Live 105 in San Francisco played this song quite a bit in the late 1980s, early 1990s when I was in middle and high school, and that’s what I remember it from. In my memories, this song is immediately followed by “Anything, Anything” by Dramarama, and then “Orange Crush” by REM.

[@LD10000]

Woke up this morning thinking about this one really hard, good ol' KZbin... Can't believe I'm hearing this song again.

[@winterswinters3137]

Drives to 'Frisco' listening to the White Album on cassette..some restaurant that was all desserts,. Remember Salmagundis? Honestly, Dave, you were the kindest, sweetest guy I knew in Santa Cruz. Precious memories...

[@winterswinters3137]

This from Wendy Homer, by the way...if you remember me?

[@MrDavesf]

@@winterswinters3137 HI Wendy!!! Of course I do!!!

[@jsparky8363]

First heard in the early 80s on college radio but could never find it. Heard it on Serious XM /first wave a few days ago first time in ages.

[@mrmxyzplk]

WHFS in DC played this and pre-alternative music back in the day.

[@LuisHernandez-hw7dj]

Damn I miss that fantastic station.

[@readthisnotthat273]

WHFS Bethesda, cool station. Not as cool as 'BCN in Boston, but damn close.

[@wmcbrine]

Heard it today on WTMD from Towson.

[@MarkSentMe]

The WHFS-tival!

[@rankin1779]

Yup hfs used to play this shit alot

[@journmsu]

I'm going to be 57 in a few months and the one thing I can share with the young today is that they don't make music like this anymore and it's a shame. What Gen Z (and Gen Alpha) listen to isn't real, it's created with software on a PC, you don't even need instruments. It's not music. It's hollow, it's empty, it's meaningless, and devoid of a soul. Young Padawan: You must unlearn what you have learned. (Yoda)

[@JunkoPilot]

I saw this band at the I-Beam on Haight in SF prolly around '83 - they rocked - one of the best nights of my life.

[@mikieson]

nothing wrong with one hit wonders..they fuel a great deal of the great music I like.

[@AlexBarraza-d7l]

This song was awesome, I had a beat up cassette played it every day, God bless the 80's I'm still stuck in the 80's lol

[@hzv7242]

Another really great 1980's guitar band.

[@rankin1779]

This and Wall of vodoo Mexican radio was my shit on WHFS back in the day still the shitt

[@edwardcarloni6356]

I've got 3 of their albums and all are great. How is Joan Jett in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame and these guys can't get air play.

[@mirandaspencer6097]

Miss the late 70s-80s music! Always liked this one.

[@williamkiely9523]

I loved MTV in the eighties. Hearing this song brings it all back. Great music.

[@PublicJohn]

This was on all the time on KJET in Seattle.I still sing it to myself while driving .

[@MurrayEstes]

Just my thoughts in Palermo, Sicily a couple months ago. This song is so remember in my head! Konaboyz Honolulu, Hawaii

[@loungecruz]

Listening in Makiki

[@jimflys2]

O.K. so I woke up today hearing the chorus to this song. I was vaguely remembering the video. I have literally not heard this or have not seen the video since 1982 or 83. Great song. Amazing chords. Awesome. I also had no recollection of who did this. I was thinking a band like English Beat or one of those.

[@randysantana9174]

Thank you so much for posting this! Another lost memory from 91X in San Diego in the late 80's!

[@marioricci6650]

91X was the best back in the early 80’s!

[@abbymayginnes4073]

I am so glad to reconnect with this song, I believe it affected my psyche at the age of 3yrs old. Perfect song for a Scorpio girl to látch on to.

[@estebansteverincon7117]

Heard this song for the first time, right after a breakup. Damn..it really hurt. Now... I love this song.

[@mikebise]

I fell in love with this song in Late 1982 after seeing it on an Austin music video show.

[@louis3266]

I remember seeing this video on MTV and thought this was so so cool 😎

[@roseanncarlino1947]

Saw these guys on MTV in the early 80's and was hooked immediately! Still one of my favorite songs of all time❤

[@whitneylhuffman3]

I don't remember where I first heard this song, but I instantly fell in love with it.👍🏻💜👍🏻

[@andrewvare3173]

Brings me back to tge record store at UCSD, winter 1981/82. Really fun.

[@karenwivell8300]

What a great song

[@1ricky77333]

I saw them in 1984 at UNLV. Great show.

[@Zippy994]

Wow. Another song I haven't heard in a long time. This tune was a staple of KROQ back in the day for sure. Love it or hate it now, the early to mid eighties was a fun time to be a teenage music freak.

[@badbrain7163]

Loved this song back in the 80’s-Stumbled on this gem again and now listen to it several times a week ❤

[@tigerlyn9627]

I haven’t heard this song in years! Love it ! I was listening to Sirius station 33 in my car yesterday and this song came on and it took me back to the 80’s growing up in the Valley in SoCal. Life was so different then…me and my friends went cruising Van Nuys Blvd on Wednesday nights and listening to KROQ ..Good times.

[@goblinoidfilms7119]

Love the Nova Scotia drop.

[@RobertoDiAguiar]

Very good

[@cloudshadow954]

I love this song... Thanks for posting

[@hipknitta]

WLIR played this! I'm still missing that station!

[@gbeachbum464]

One of my very favorite songs from this era!

[@stanleywieczorek739]

I saw these guys in 1981 or 82 at a bar in San Francisco. Very cool.

[@Romany1111]

They will be At The Man Cave in Bordentown NJ for an acoustic show on September 23!

[@IrishAlways8]

One of my favorites from back in the 80’s. I still love it! Brings back great memories of simpler times.

[@nikolateslasj5854]

20 people are in Nova Scotia....but I'm not.

[@steviesteele]

Hilarious!

[@stephenulmer3781]

Great New Wave Flashback

[@stevebaillargeon5853]

The 1st time I heard that song in 2000, it stayed in my head since. I truly love the guitar, melody and lyrics.

[@wendywinters4734]

Hi Dave, remember the good times driving to San Francisco, from UCSC listening to the White Album going to a dessert restaurant, hope you’re doing great- I remember you-you were a kind soul. Alright Dave!! (There we’re too many choices at the dessert place-overwhelming-haha!) 💗 Wendy Homer

[@jimcatalfamo8034]

soon i'll be 55 and i still remember the words like when i bought the album in 82

[@pauladamson9459]

I always loved this song. :) I occasionally find a philosophical way to fit it into conversation.

[@rogerjones332]

A masterpiece from my youth

[@hechtgalleries]

I agree, the best music from the eighties.

[@hudentdw2]

Oh Translator is one of my sentimental favorite bands coming out the 80's too bad they didn't hit the big times but with me they did, even today I still play their music and I still love it!

[@NismoDJ20]

Happened upon a Translator LP at a garage sale. Good band!

[@ArchambaultMark]

This was such a great LP! Necessary spinning in the front yard!

[@jeffwessman]

Woke up this morning with the title in my head but couldn’t remember the tune or the band. Had to look it up and found this! A blast from my past in SF in the '80s. It brought back a memory of a guy I used to hang out with who claimed he was in the band. He looked kind of like one of them (didn't we all?) but you knew it was a lie. He told the story so much that the band actually issued a statement (probably in BAMM) calling him out and saying it was bullshit. Glad to hear they’re still going after all these years.

[@QueenCeleste2]

Saw Translator in San Diego back then. Gorgeously haunting song.

[@StrawberrySoju_1]

I remember this song! WLIR on Long Island played it all the time.

[@carlingtonme]

LIR lives! I think they are making a documentary about it!

[@Bends95]

Heartbeats and Triggers is an underrated album packed with so many great songs including this one!

[@thepredsrule]

only song i know mentioning nova scotia.good song!!!

[@broncanomix2967]

Your so vain by Carly Simon. Now you know two songs mentioning Nova Scotia

[@its1110]

... and I think both of those songs are about me.

[@leheli7838]

Thank you, KROQ.

[@andreatalbot2868]

Didn’t appreciate this song until years later. Great song👍

[@pamela8329]

Thanks for post! Love the attitude; one of my faves

[@kennstrong601]

great groove ...

[@sharonjackson5196]

I used to see these guys almost every weekend in SF went I was at Berkeley. Them and Silvertone (Chris Isaak's band). All those hip, tiny clubs. Good times.

[@scottquickel8010]

One Hit Wonder, and a nice breakup song. Thanks.

[@jawoody9745]

A local band I saw a lot. Nice guys but we were in a rival band. It's an incredible song! They could write!

[@dino2710]

I saw this band play at Chico State when I was a freshman in '83 or' 84.

[@hundredsand]

Saw them at UC Berkeley

[@johncurtiss8339]

I was in college when this came out ,my girlfriend had just graduated , bought a new car and began taking off to places like New York,other college towns etc,and making sure I knew what a great time she was having without me,even hinting she was seeing someone else.We drifted apart,and she ended blowing the engine.This song always reminds me of her.

[@billwierling3836]

If it were today, she'd post everywhere she went on social media and request you follow her on Instagram. I prefer the simpler times.