Please review Loggins and Messina ANGRY EYES song......or GOLDEN RIBBONS song, both of which are on the double live album called ON STAGE. Angry Eyes is very funky, and Golden Ribbons is very sentimental. Anything from Loggins and Messina is fantastic......the 70's !!!!!! The BEST decade for musical groups !!!!!! Thank you, sir Jamel.
Steve is a wizard. If you can still find his side gig it was called Atomic Playboys. His playing on that is still worth listening to. There’s one track on it called Run Across Desert Sands, it’s an instrumental and flat out killer tune. His solo stuff is worth the hunt.
Reminds me of the mid-70's taking the bus from LA to Vegas so I could hitch-hike to Colorado -- reading Raymond Chandler books and getting stoned at the stations.
@@track1219 Yes! That's what makes it a "classic"! The guitar part is simple, loud and effective and kinda comes out of nowhere to make the song exponentially more interesting. Billy and Steve's best tune!
I missed one of his shows in Vegas by a week a few years ago. I'm still pissed I missed him. Dude puts on a show regardless if it's on stage or on his radio show. Dude is legit.
Kings & Queens of the Underground was an amazing album. I had no idea it even existed until a couple years ago. Where the hell had I been?? Blew my freakin' mind!!
Steve Stevens is a guitar legend, no doubt. But don’t take anything away from Billy Idol…he wrote these phenomenal lyrics. It’s definitely a collaboration that worked, and is still working!
You also have Keith Forsey producing who no doubt was a big influence on why this was successful. Steve Stevens work on Top Gun with Harold Faltermeyer... all this points back to Giorgio Moroder
I disagree, Rebel Yell maybe, White Wedding is tolerable but it wouldn't bother me one bit to never her Mony Mony again. Eyes Without a Face and Flesh for Fantasy are far better songs than the over played top 40 stuff.
@@lrsrosebud I say that is unfortunately true. With MTV music became all about the video, less about the song. Any list of top videos of the '80s would include "Take On Me", for good reason. It's an innovative work using cinematic techniques to tell a story. However, what would the song itself be without the video? Probably nothing. Just another keyboard-driven New Wave bore-fest. Counterpoint, look at Rush. Great band but the lost popularity in the '80s because they didn't do the awesome videos. Could you imagine if they had done a video for Red Barchetta with high cinematic quality?
This song shares a title with a horror film, but is not about any of that. Billy Idol is singing about a lover who has lost themself and has nothing left to give. It's about the end of a relationship.
I highly recommend that film. My High School French leaves much to be desired, but the film’s title is something like “Les Yeux Sans Visage”, which is the translation of “Eyes Without A Face”. Love the song and the film.
Surely one of the best voices in music. Julia Louis Dreyfus, in one of her comedy bits said, "Looks like Sting, sounds like Bing". The look, the leather, the snarl, all pure Billy. And that voice. Amazing
I suggested it too on a comment on Rebel Yell. I LOVE that song. Plus it was in a John Hughes movie, so you know it's got all the feeling of teen angst! Please check out "Catch My Fall"! ❤
It could also be based on a book or movie (i forget) about a man whose daughter was murdered and he was trying to make her a face again (i think that was it)
The 80s were like that though. Videos were a MAJOR factor in an artist's popularity and really familiarity. Billy is just as awesome today as he was back then.
I would rather have the strange of Billy Idol , then the non talent crap singers of today..lol I am still trying to figure out why Billie Fish or Elfish or Shellfish is such a big deal. Can’t sing worth of shit, yet she is a mega star.
The song concept came from a French horror movie from the '60s' about a plastic surgeon who tried to restore his daughter's face who had been disfigured in an accidnet.
It’s just called cradle of love, it was my first billy idol song I knew. My mom hated me watching the video cause I was so young, I was born in 82, but I still love it to this day. As I got older I learned more billy idol songs and loved them too but cradle of love will always be my fav 😂
There’s that stupid term again. Nobody who understands rock thinks Steve is underrated. He’s been considered one the very best by many music critics and industry experts
Steve Stevens recently (currently?) was doing guitar for Deadland Ritual, with Geezer Butler on bass, Matt Sorum on drums, and Franky Perez on vocals. Pretty bad-ass, actually. If you haven't heard them, I'd recommend checking out their songs Down in Flames and Broken & Bruised. Good stuff. For sure.
When you look at Idol’s catalog you realize how much of an influence he had, even into the 90’s. “Hot in the City”, “Flesh for Fantasy”, “To be a Lover” and on it goes. I saw him in concert a couple years back, he can still bring it.
My mom actually liked this song (except for the bridge, which was too hard rock for her). She was from the Silent Generation (1938) and preferred crooners. She liked his voice. :)
For all his work to try & make punk fashionable back in the 80's, Billy Idol is ABSOLUTELY a talented "Crooner". Some of the best work put out in the 80's.
Man, it was the 80's we didn't have computers and cell phones and videos like this had to be done in studios and it was all new to everyone. This was epic when it came out. Oh, and that 80's ass slap was in almost ever rock song.
Billy Idol created a classic look for himself that withstands the trials of time. He still looks great! He's had some awesome hits, but he didn't do it alone. That's Mr. Steve Stevens on the guitar bringing us that searing solo. He's also partially responsible for the lovely and memorable theme song from Top Gun. Show this man some love and respect. He's an exemplary and outstanding performer and has played with numerous acts throughout his career.
The Professor of Rock channel just released an interview with Steve Stevens (guitar) this week about this song. These mentioned how he came up with the chord progression and how Billy came up with the lyrics and the French bits. Interesting stuff. I think Professor and Jamel could do some great crossovers. It can't be just me that watches these two channels. (Rick Beato, too.)
I still today to this day (cuz I actually thought it was saying this as a kid), whenever, "Dirty Deeds," by ACDC comes on, I always sing, "Dirty Deeds, done to sheep."
"Les Yeux Sans Visage" is a 1960 French movie.It's about a doctor trying to repair the face of his daughter disfigured in a car crash.So, the doctor will kill other girls to take parts of their face to repair his daughter's face. In Billy Idol song, the chorus is just the translation of the title: "Les Yeux sans visage...Eyes without a face" . Love that song and listened a lot to Billy Idol when I was a teenager! Still listen to him! Good vibes with your videos Jamal!
This is a story of love, an obsessive love, and like the surgeon in the film of the same title, who would do anything to repair that love. He knows that when he looks at her that 'the love has gone from your eyes', and while he's away touring 'don't call me on the phone, to tell me you're alone' 'it's easy to deceive, and I just can't believe', he tries as best he can 'to keep the dream alive', he's torn apart by doubt. Eyes without a face, he can't tell from her expression whether she is being true or not.
I always thought it was a snarl, not a sneer that Billy does when he sings. I guess it's a matter of semantics. There was an intensity to him. It elevated his music. So many great songs he gave us.
“They slappin’ those cheeks!” 😆 Hey, I saw Billy Idol live at the Lakeland Civic Center in the 1980’s when he was supporting this album and Whiplash Smile album. The Cult opened up for him! Best concert of my life. The 80’s were wild! Kids these days, with things so politicized and everyone scared to be themselves, will never know the freedoms and fun we had.
I met Billy Idol in 1999 when he came through Eau Claire Wisconsin!! I worked at a fancy restaurant attached to the hotel, holiday inn convention center. Hes so nice!!
This video is from the heyday of MTV where every video was a movie in and of itself. Some of them were definitely better than others. I mean, Michael Jackson's Thriller set the standard on some level, but most of them had 3 to 5 minutes to tell their story. This video is definitely one of the better ones. BIlly Idol in general got the medium in a way a lot of his peers didn't.
When these songs were new, I was a kid and heard the song on the radio without a video. Seeing the video years later tends to not be anything you would have imagined it to be.
Who says there wasn't any great music made in the 1980's? I forget just how amazing this album is... I gotta get the record player out! Thanks for reviewing this tune!
I never looked into the lyrics but I always assumed it was talking about staring so deeply into someone's eyes that you don't even see their face anymore.
Yes, I was more in that vein, not the psycho-sexual splatterfest mode discussed elsewhere. I specifically thought it was an address of a partner's jealousy during unavoidable separation.
Billy idol was and still is awesome. He sometimes host radio stations on Sirius xm every now and then and plays some great tunes I'd have never heard if it wasn't for him.
He also did an acoustic version of Dusty Springfield's "For What Its Worth" in the 90's I think on either MTV or VH1. Fantastic cover! Really showcases his talents in a different way and worth checking out.
It was SO DIFFERENT for him when this was released. Regardless, became an 80s classic, ethereal feel with a great background. Who could not love this song ............Bang On
remember when this come out. Idols first top ten in the U.S. he's still an 80's fav. doesn't it seem like Miley has channeled Blondie, Jett and Idol. even does his lip thing.