Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days - 7/6/1986 - Ritz

Recorded 7/6/1986 - Ritz (New York, NY)
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[@bobwirth9256]

Folks in the 80's, Man i can't wait for the future ! it's going to be awesome ! Folks in 2024 : I really want to go back to the 80's 😀😀

[@simplechronology2605]

Honestly, both the 70s and the 90s were cooler than the 80s... But this song was one of the better moments.

[@royvillalta6669]

Jamás los 80 no tienen comparación, todas las grandes bandas de la historia de la música tienen su mejor momento en los 80's. El 31 de diciembre de 1989 prácticamente se murió la buena música!!!!

[@pudster4115]

The 80s was incredible...All the new sounds coming out all the time. The new wave was exciting, the ska /mod scene in so cal was fun. It was a good set up for the 90s. Hasn't been anything like it since. I was so bummed when MTV started to play the glam rock/GNR ...I knew the times were coming to a close.

[@ceciliogarcia9569]

There's nothing like the 80S. Those years live in your heart and linger a lifetime.

[@bobwirth9256]

@@ceciliogarcia9569 🕺🇨🇦

[@timothyflynn1927]

I grew up in the 80s...we didnt know how good we had it till we got older. Love this era, best music, toys, movies, sports, and these were prosperous wonderful times.

[@alanserjeant4947]

and no effing cell phones. AND we didn't need them !!

[@bogermil4201]

Everyone; including those not there at the time... When Frankie said?

[@familys6076]

Indeed 💯

[@lorenzosanchez8735]

Yes is true 😢

[@a_ya5555]

I mean, billy idol, duran duran, The Cars, Stray cats, cyndy lauper, go gos, inxs, etc kind of changed everything. Hippie days were gone. Edgy synth music or new wave rock was in.

[@suspensiondude]

Who else wants to go back to the 80s?

[@germanicelt]

Part of me never left.

[@viadharmawheel]

Yeah, but we can't. It was wonderful!

[@warpath72]

Who wouldn't want? Appeals to my immortal inner child

[@fanndisgoldbraid3183]

Best decade of my life. Young, energetic, great music, great friends, reckless...love every minute of it!

[@andysaunders3708]

Me.

[@barryweston4887]

As a headbanger I could never tell my freinds how much I liked this song

[@jkent6526]

Lmfao. Same.

[@rayhall5280]

Ha! I remember some of the true rockers who secretly liked some top 40 stuff and barely admitted it to their closest friends very reluctantly 😂😂

[@unstablegenius2325]

😂😂You’re a dude who looks like a lady-AREOSMITH 😂😂😂😂😂

[@John-ct9zs]

As a kid in the 80s and 90s I never understood why people of a "hard genre" that wasn't mainstream friendly like hard heavy metal or hard gangsta rap couldn't be seen listening or liking anything else, or else their image would be ruined.

[@stephandiehl3893]

i got your back man as black sabbath raised 80s priest maiden metallica metal head this is one of my favorite songs of all time

[@shannonmonroe5873]

When I was 17 me and my buddy went to see “The Cars” and Wang Chung was opening for them. As my friend and I entered the stadium and made our way to our seats this was playing. I’ll never forget it. Great times…

[@leewinter28]

If you were old enough to enjoy the 80’s you know exactly what this felt like. Just two years later I would be at this same venue for one of Guns and Roses most classic performances. The 80’s were kick ass because you could listen to a wide variety of styles and everything was just all about the party. Oh yeah and nobody was walking around like a zombie with a phone in their hand, they were living in the moment. Until you passed out later that night that is…

[@bobwirth9256]

Agree, the 80's were some of the best of times , we have to keep on rocking out cheers .

[@brianmishler9274]

Well said!!

[@at1970]

Now they scratch records, shoot each other and call it art.

[@brianmishler9274]

@@at1970 sad world we live in

[@at1970]

@@brianmishler9274 I’d go back in a minute

[@at1970]

80s. The last, best decade. Been all downhill since.

[@jamesdipinto5076]

I agree mostly, but the 90’s we’re pretty good too. Not as good as 80’s but good

[@at1970]

@@jamesdipinto5076 Agreed. The 90s were the tail end. By 2000 it was over.

[@incidentalist]

90s were a blast tbh

[@andrettski8686]

In ALL genres too

[@jerrysanders9101]

Well the 90/s were badass 😂

[@barryvincentredmond3973]

No autotune in the 80's.None was required.Great music,artists,and vibrancy.This clip from Wangchung is a real memory blast.Classic.!.

[@bobwirth9256]

You want to start a dance party , you start playing this song 🍷🍹🥃🎸🎸

[@MD-zo7cl]

Born in "61" Enjoying Music since then❤. Playing Drums since "67"👍. And still ROCKIN🙏♥😁🇺🇸🙏

[@Malcontent-]

This performance just brings tears to my eyes. Just memories of the 80's. Just so well done. Bravo....

[@KittyMike32202]

U and me both dude . I was born in 2002 lol . I gotta thanks my parents for good taste in music and also remember in vice city

[@Malcontent-]

@@KittyMike32202 2002, you make me feel so old. LoL. I'm probably your parents age. But your lucky to have parents that have exposed you to this music. I'm grateful to have been born at a time to have experienced the 80's fully. All of my teen and high school years were in the 80's. The 80's were just a special time. At the time we just didn't know it. Regards to your parents for exposing you to this great music. Younger generations just don't appreciate how great those times were. The fact that you do understand just makes me happy....

[@KittyMike32202]

@@Malcontent- 80s will live on for every lol I'm only 20 but still a youngster

[@Malcontent-]

@@KittyMike32202 no shame in that. music touches all generations. no bias. .

[@Gravy_Master]

Do you go out of your way to include the word “just” in every sentence?

[@GrzesSobieski]

They are superb musicians. This was an enormous hit song from 1984-86. I lived it.

[@drinkingpoolwater]

i was born 84 and feel its engrained in my psyche. one of my fav songs ever. wish i couldve lived it.

[@a_ya5555]

This came out in 83.

[@djrondo1224]

When they sound as good live” as they do in a recording you know they are legit. Man brings back so many good times.

[@TheCrittercam001]

That was frickin' awesome!!!!! Today's so-called music sucks! These guys rocked and had a blast doing it.

[@WhatsCookingTime]

The power of the '80s I wish I could go back

[@thegiftedone]

We never left…the world did…

[@koroamai7639]

Me too 😂😂😂😂

[@FELIPEGARCIA-fk6zx]

C'mon !! Let get into that time machine, ready ? Set ? Goooooooooo !!!!! 🥳🥳🍺🍺🍺🥳🥳🥳♥️♥️🥳🥳🥳😎😎

[@Malcontent-]

I was fortunate enough to have experienced this song in real time back in the 80's. The opening riff of this song just touches my heart in a way I can't fully explain. It brings back memories of my teen years. Listening to my 80's boom box radio late night in my teen bed room. This has to be the best performance of this song. So many teen memories of this music group. Happy memories. I can't explain it better.

[@LudwigSC93]

I understand exactly what you are saying. I was there myself at the same time you were. It was a great time.

[@hybridous]

you don't have to explain it. the music hits us; connects us with the bittersweet past in ways that are...ineffable. it's just magical & we can all share it.

[@suburbanindie]

I was 4 when this song came out but I remember it along with a bunch of WLIR New Wave bands... makes the hair on my arms stand up

[@glenroche3204]

I totally understand where you are coming from. Great to know people out there that experienced this great decade especially up to 85. Such fabulous music,films, life in general. We will not see its like again. It was so good but makes us so sad in other ways remembering that wonderful time.

[@Keyboardman88]

One of the best versions ever. Sax solo at the end is fantastic. One of the best songs of the 80's.

[@simmonsdrums9422]

Acoustic snare. Thats a pity.

[@thomasharman250]

That was as perfect as perfect gets that sax at the end was incredible. Man, I miss the 80s

[@phillipbrown7062]

One of the best!

[@nstix2009xitsn]

@Keyboardman88 "One of the best songs of the 80's." Did you mean that as a compliment, or a criticism?

[@Jcole000123]

That SAX!!!!

[@danny-li6io]

These guys are still rocking in 2023, still look and sound amazing! Check out the orchestral version of this great song!

[@janeabbott5379]

The Orchestral version is absolutely amazing

[@niged]

God I miss the 80's. What a brilliant decade. Wish I could do it all again 😢

[@davidgeorge000]

This is video should be mandatory viewing for all these so called singers today because this is how it's done. Now go practice.

[@russelleads2145]

So miss the 80's, would go back in a heartbeat!!! Things made sense and most bands could play their music live, unlike today!!

[@psychotictactoe]

Sounds better than the album version, amazing!

[@DavidCooper-vh4nr]

Dance Hall Daze!!! Love the chick playin the drums, she's goin to town on them and never missin a beat. A great live performance!!!!

[@Malcontent-]

My god I can't stop watching this performance. Just so good. Brings back so many memories of the 80's. Thank you.

[@drw9571]

Love the eighties

[@jamespeterson3021]

I'm the same way. I can't watch this video enough

[@germanicelt]

I here to remind you of it, so you'll start watching over again.

[@germanicelt]

I've watched it over a dozen times now.

[@JamesPeterson-i4o]

And just think the drummer, has been with REO Speedwagon, for yrs now

[@injuhneer]

Hues has a rich and clean vocal style. No processing or auto-tune. Awesome.

[@Malcontent-]

The vocals are just so great in this video. Just perfect...

[@TheMsAngelaS]

I just saw them sing this in concert, May 18, 2024. They still sounded great.

[@bonekaizen]

Although I was born in 1995 it’s just something about the 80’s and the music that just touches my soul!! I sometimes get saddened by the fact that I wasn’t able to experience the 80’s in person only through great great music and videos like such!!! This song along with other songs just screams 80’s!!! What a time to be ALIVE!!!!! Also a special thanks to the people who decided to record concerts back in the 80’s so that the ones who wasn’t born then could enjoy them!!!

[@shifterbbr1986]

I was a teenager in the 80s, there was some terrible music but this tune was class. Have a listen to New Wave 80s for the coolest stuff. 👍

[@michaelmendoza9214]

I grew up in the 80's and believe me, I live those years everyday with this music. You had to live thru it, not only that, but the movies were also somehow connected to all of it. The entire 80's culture was awesome. Take a look at the video for, YOU BELONG TO THE CITY, by GLEN FREY. That video says it all.

[@Vitagirl]

I miss this so much these were great times!! This song is simply brilliant!! They don’t makem. Like this anymore!! As so many from my generation these are true musicians!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@bobwirth9256]

Agree, i remember going to the clubs when this song came out and the dance floor would be packed , great song and memories cheers.

[@mandymorris3341]

Aahhh the 80's best music back then.😁🇬🇧

[@ScottBrownlee-dj1jw]

Fantastic live performance! Martin Winning on Sax gives a stunning masterclass of how to give every bit of your soul to something you love doing ,blown away 👏

[@buffer0179]

I miss these days.. so many memories of times past. Best days of my life!! ❤️❤️ Great version of this song.

[@bobwirth9256]

Agree . I remember this song playing in the clubs back in the day and the dance floor would be packed . Songs like this one have no expiry date 🍷🍷

[@germanicelt]

Don't we all.......well, everyone who was a kid to their 30s misses the sh!t out of those times.

[@hereswhatmyseeingeyedogsez7745]

This song is a masterpiece tidal wave collision of music & art...the enormous undertoe sweeps you right out to sea! Just don't forget to take your baby by the hand.

[@bobwirth9256]

Got to love when bands incorporate the Sax into a song. just brings it to another level cheers .

[@gullygully69]

This is a great performance. And yes the sax solo was divine

[@Jcole000123]

OK! That man on the SAX FUCKING KILLED IT! How does this song still sound fresh after 36 years???

[@bobwirth9256]

Agree, Plus back in the 70's and 80's Musicians had real talent and didn't rely on synthesizer to make them sound good cheers .

[@daynasmum529]

Because real music is like a collectable antique, as it ages it gets better, maybe when compared to the rubbish we have today!

[@Jcole000123]

@@daynasmum529 Rubbish indeed, Sir!

[@suburbanindie]

Something about the chorus effect on the guitar and the tight rhythm section. Look at Tears For Fears, they're immortal as well

[@Jcole000123]

@@suburbanindiegood call out

[@hermesmartinezburga1823]

Excelente canción, ochentas, nunca pasan de moda,!!!bravo¡¡¡

[@bryanmorrow714]

there will never be another decade like the 80's 😒such great music 🎶 great movies and great times!!!i definitely miss those years 😢

[@bobwirth9256]

Agree. Best time was going to the drive inn watching movies on the big screen . Sneaking in a few cold pops and picking up the chicks lol cheers .

[@jimbojazza5539]

I like the song but an 8 minute version? And of course 8 mins and 10 seconds later I put it back on again. Great version - thanks for posting.

[@suburbanindie]

To close their set

[@1023Endurance]

For 35 years I’ve been saying “dance all day long”. Like until today.

[@jl2937]

LoL same

[@wendylagrant8312]

Exactly, and I worked in rock radio at the time. What a blast!

[@Beisanm1]

Thanks to Vice City I discovered this masterpiece 😎.

[@ALEJANDRO-b9e]

I do not only listen to this great great classic from time to time, but also think its a hallmark of the decade.

[@garlowe8565]

I must have listened to “points on a curve” at least 300 times in the 80s. It’s one of those albums I know by heart and can play in my mind. Looking at that set up, a very robust drum kit and percussion kit… mostly needed for this song.

[@bobwirth9256]

The drummer on this song is Bryan Hitt also drum for REO Speedwagon cheers .

[@Francisco-o7f8g]

Un directo fantástico. Hay grupos que muestran su potencial "en vivo". Y este es uno de los pocos.

[@ayubmuhammad6851]

Glad this is not just tracks and playback, this is golddd live performance

[@RobHL6283]

That sax solo at the end was epic! All fantastic musicians tbh!

[@doreenevanssaintclaire5855]

I'm still in love with 80s music

[@at1970]

We all are. If I had a time machine it would have to be as big as an ocean liner to fit everybody.

[@james5460]

That's an amazing live performance, and that song has really grown on me over the years.

[@gangoffour6690]

Oh the memories from this song. How I wish I was back in the 80s living in Boston.

[@boggadee07]

66 and I love this song, and performance.

[@EricBoston1992]

That’s extremo fly. A great performance from in their prime. That’s always the kind of live performance I’m hoping to find & watch

[@nicholasbell9017]

I have a cassette tape of Wang Chung, a movie soundtrack called "Live and die in L.A." It still sounds amazing. They were very rhythmically powerful. I know nothing about the band so it was great to watch and hear this song in a live performance.

[@EarnPassiveWithJoe]

The sax 🎷 solo did Justice, this song is a total masterpiece. 80s ❤

[@WolfLAX-yn3yq]

No doubt at all the 80's+90's were the best time in every way, now i'm 58 years young and still love to here the songs and have only good memories.

[@graemes7407]

OMG, fabulous to see this band again. So many comments complimenting this performance and I have to agree absolutely. Outstanding!! Long live the 80's!!

[@colinb50]

One of the best eighties groups ever long live the eighties great time 👍👍

[@gabrieldiwester]

This is a dance song made it by real artist. Timeless.

[@Sportracer956]

It's perfect. All of it. The music, the lyrics, the performance... Jack's intros and thank yous, the vibe is on another level. Don't even get me started with the killer sax solo... What is like this today? I'm gonna watch again...

[@davidgeorge1294]

When you see the band having a blast you know it's gonna be an epic performance!

[@thomaspeiker5577]

Das macht Laune 👍 Dazu lässts sich entspannt trinken, super Nummer 🤟

[@ba-ba1193]

This is a great live performance!

[@shanegriffin2215]

I love this band. Simply incredible. I first heard this song in June of 1984. I was a senior in high school.

[@Muesli711]

The sound mix was always exceptional on these Ritz concerts, love it.

[@cameronmoffett181]

It really was. The sound mixer makes the difference between eh and amazing.

[@jerirasulo9543]

Ritz concert? It's that the Ritz Carlton? What do you mean? Thx

[@drinkingpoolwater]

@@jerirasulo9543 the venue was called "The Ritz". many bands performed there in the 80s. well known club.

[@jerirasulo9543]

@@drinkingpoolwater oic thanks for that reply👍😁 I like your name, ' drinking pool water' funny! 😀 Take care, Jeri from Hawaii 🌴

[@loisnicklas8180]

This was all over the place. Anybody w/music of 80s really had good music to listen to. Wangchung tonight also

[@bobwirth9256]

Agree , the 80's were some of the best cheers .

[@ArabClubPerfum]

a mis 45 años recien lo escucho en vivo, tremendo cantante , tremendo sonido, tremendos musicos suenan igual guaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaau

[@gw8147]

An absolute iconic 80s song.

[@gerardohernandez1223]

Eighties years were the best ones, and this song was wonderful, I really loved it. It was a talented band 😢❤😊🎉🕺💃

[@bobwirth9256]

Man i miss the 80's . As a young teenager during this time was a bomb for sure 🍺🥃

[@jerirasulo9543]

8 minutes of joy :) :) it would be nice if a band member or two would chime in now and then. More joy! :)

[@jeannemacaluso162]

One cannot sit still and listen to this magnificent song!

[@bobwirth9256]

Agree . I remember when this song was played in the clubs back in the day the dance floor would be packed 😀🍷🍷

[@jllafoy8605]

I’m bouncing to the beat as I read this comment 👍

[@peteyleewheatstraw6093]

I miss these times!! So simple and great music!!

[@Keikdv]

Never saw a life performance of this song but I can sing it every word! Loved it so much when it was in the charts. Memories of days gone by, but the music is still there and will be!

[@drinkingpoolwater]

legendary, iconic, beautiful, timeless

[@boggadee07]

I didn't listen to Wang Chung back in the day. But I sure appreciate their music now.

[@doreybain]

Sometimes music is magical. This is one of those times.

[@dallaslane1355]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Malcontent-]

Wow, the band members were really feeling the music in this performance. Just...jamming.

[@veliofontanilla6500]

It reminds me during our happy days while working aboard ship trading Europe ports 1984

[@donaldmurphy3148]

Great LIVE performance

[@missellendiane]

I wish I were dancing in a dance hall right nOW

[@yehah]

Love this band. Sound awesome live; both studio and live versions are amazing, from an amazing band.

[@Nottazippo]

Best decade of my life !

[@eastlondon666]

80s music always reminds me of being on the beach with my radio listening to steve Wright in the afternoon.

[@HumbertoMorones-wl6ig]

Que manera de tocar la batería llego pa quedarse esa grandeza joya de cancion

[@wozm9924]

When I was there I never appreciated it like I should have. If only I could just go back.

[@mikehotdice8699]

More Wang Chung will make you smarter. Trust me, im 76

[@MisterTourmalet]

I loved Wang Chung back in the day!

[@lukedlite]

The sax is really the star here in this performance, excellent stuff.

[@michellmendozas.4062]

Que temaso ksmre y la entrada ni hablar de Perú 🇵🇪 saludos 👍🏼✌🏼💯

[@brotherthor8699]

Closest we can come to dancing during Covid-19.

[@bobwirth9256]

This live performance is awesome . Watch Jack Hues give a fist pump in the intro about 30 to 40 seconds in . He knows this is going to be on tune right from the start cheers .

[@jamespeterson7636]

I can't believe I never heard this til recently.it's great live version.and the drummer,who has been with REO Speedwagon, for some years now.

[@tuliolinares4265]

That song takes me back to the early '80s. I love it!!!

[@germanicelt]

mid

[@yutehube4468]

Go read the lyrics to this, just crazy. One of my favourite 80's songs and I grew up in the 80's not even remembering this song, I only heard it in GTA, but it's one of the best 80's songs all the same.

[@darrincassidy9045]

Doesn't get any better than this.

[@Deplorable512]

They sound great live, I love the beat to this song ❤

[@ClaudioD-17]

Desde Argentina, yo viví toda la música de los 80 y busco versiones en vivo porque sólo escuché las de estudio, y es difícil encontrar una como ésta tocada en esos años en la plenitud de los grupos, agradezco mucho al canal que subió el video 👏👏👏👏👏

[@lilianazuniga3934]

I remember the video 😊💓 I never forgot my teenager, it was an incredible time and it will not return...☹️

[@autumn7s]

Fantastic! I felt like they were really underrated.

[@bobwirth9256]

If this song doesn't get you on the dance floor then you don't have a heart beat 😀🍷🍷

[@karafogertey1764]

This song & whole album shook my life. So brilliant and nothing sounded like this.