Ambitious Lovers - Copy Me + Admit It [1989] 

Night Music was a treasure trove. RIP Hal Wilner

I saw this band when they came to Tokyo in '89. They played at a small live house jam packed and standing room only. After playing the first song in tune, Arto Lindsay untuned his guitar like the one he is playing in this video. During the break between the songs, he saw we were all kind of quietly waiting for the next song (you know how the Japanese are) and he asked us "Don't you guys have any friends here?" It was funny.

This band was smoking hot. They were tight as hell. Brilliance wrapped in madness.

This is the high water mark of the 20th century.

Arto, , apenas! O norte americano/brasileiro que mais amo.

Melvin Gibbs on bass, damn

ANN KLEIN ON GUITAR!

Band is on fire! Damn.

Steve Buscemi on guitar, John Turturro on percussion...

What kind of king crimson is this? They are marvelous!

I bought the LP back then and love it until now. Then I saw them, bringing their production to stage and what really blew my mind was, that they really could perform the unbelievable complexity of the rhythms with this highly professional attitude and give even more, adding this joy of play, this video is testify too. Couldn't find any other gem of this stunning unique and vital band, thanks so much for posting.

These guys and the Pixies on Night Music changed how I listened to music. Good times.

Tony and Melvin are just outrageous here. Killer rhythm section and a great production mix by this show.. the sound is awesome. Credit to Arto for his recruiting skills. I try to deny it, but I find these tunes mesmerizing and infectious. Uniquely trippy, free, and funky all at once. This is a seriously unique treat.

The space in Admit It is quite astonishing. There is so much going on but they've somehow created this incredible separation. I guess thats what great rhythm sections do.

the dorky avant-garde frontman. the house band straight out of an 80s instructional yoga tape. the sinisterly intense spanish percussionist. this is something that is like a fever-dream. but its real and actually happened. this video, its like a peep into a hyper-reality where everything is a non-sequitur.

My god, man. Arto and band are totally on fire here. Too bad Jool's words didn't come true.

How else likes Arto and the Ambitous Lovers so much ? Obviously so unknown , uncomparable !

Big fan of these guys. Definitely influenced me during my musician days.

I was really stoned when this first aired and I somehow never forgot it.

the great brazillian percusionist Cyro Baptista

Goose bumps.

My mind is blown away! I was born this year......and I most certainly appreciate.

One of my influences here "Greed" was a sleeper cult classic..production/sounds/texture & "color"..this was too cool!

Mix of everything good in mid-1980s New York

one of my favourite guitarists!

Arto is a big big name in the music, as musician, producer and part of mythical bands like The golden palominos for example.

two masterpieces

I must say when Jesus Quintana isn't bowling he tears it up on percussion. Interesting stuff. Thanks for uploading it.

arigato(thanks)

enjoyed every second of this

yep wow, what a great relic! dang...

🔥🔥🔥

this is so amazing, this groove and Arto's guitar,,legendary

It's like David Byrne and Adrian Belew had a little brother....

killer

M. Gibbs is badass

Good gawd again the very brave and naively unique tv show...oh my were we blessed...only place i could find such original music in the middle of Paula Abdul muzak😂

This is a knockout!!

Come for the fashion, stay for the Bongo Fisting

Thank you for uploading this masterpiece video!

love this

This is so fucking brilliant

GLORY

Love to see a young and deranged Cyro Baptista on percussion.

great program Night Music!!!! I watched and taped this back in the day. plus was already an Arto Lindsay fan from his DNA days and still a fan. cheers y'all from the big hills of osage county

Love it!!

Demais, esse som!!!!

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

Keep both hands where I can see them. In a gold convertible. Head me off at the pass. You shrug off my compliments before they can adorn you. You’re no exception to the laws of symmetry. Why is your bathrobe always hanging open. For a Brazilian this guy wrote pretty good lyrics.

I liked it when he fisted the congo drum at 2:19

One of the best live performances ive ever seen on television or in person...this is what today's music is missing...great job.

genius vocalist taeko ohnuki too

This is so hella awesome! #marcribot

The evil Talking Heads

Is this a roland jazz chorus I spot 🔍

funky. weird but sort of endearing interviewer

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I like The Ambitious Lovers, not a bad way... we were in the 80's... And exactly, it sounds like the Talking Heads The band is really good and Arto made excellent records with Peter Scherer, as "Pretty Ugly", more abstract... I can understand this desire of funky groove, a kind of Steely Dan finally with more punk spirit. Prince is in the house.

who’s that girl playing guitar? she’s amazing

Is that the guy from DNA on guitar and vocal?

Did he drop his pick at one point nice scoop

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* Who’s the backup singer (?)

It’s interesting how in 1989 music was still instinctively 80s. This song has 80s all over it. It couldve came out 8 years earlier and I wouldnt be surprised. It would completely fit. But if we just go one year forward to 1990 then it would no longer fit.

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so that's what christian bale was doing prior to all those movies, killing on the percussion

drummer who?

Sounds like the talking heads

american standard order & disorder

I loved Blonde Red Head - DNA - otherwise a John Zorn' hanger on' nothing more

Watching videos like this really makes you realize how terminally boring and worthless most music is.

why is the pervert from DNA trying to do a cringe version of Prefab Sprout

not a good singer or guitar player, but he's doin it anyway!

Im good untill he plays the guitar

Holy shit that was the worst thing I've ever seen done to a guitar. Where is the rape whistle on this thing?