Late summer, 1984, aged 13, eating chips & playing manhunt and jumping through people's back gardens thinking we were the bees knees, we knew fck all! Such an underrated song that just doesn't date in my opinion. The 80s really were brilliant
Great times indeed 👍.. and a great record ! Altho I must say that synthesized sound has dated to my ears ! But still love it ... would love to hear the cpt covering it with the damned 😁
Two nineteen year old kids fell in love in the summer of '87. It was a short but very intense time before they went their separate ways. The years passed, and they lived their lives but never forgot that glorious summer and the moments spent dancing to this song. 34 years on, and their paths crossed totally unexpectedly. The feelings were still there and are even stronger than ever. I love you, Urchin. Always have, always will. ❤
The last ever song on Dom Jolly's Trigger Happy TV brought me here... Yes it is over 20 years ago when it finished but I just watched it all again on Netflix... Absolutely forgotten all about this beauty of a song that never ever gets played on the radio... Brilliant...
That Dom Joly series was unexpectedly moving. I remember a scene where he's playing a mafia don or something having dinner in a restaurant and someone walks in and shoots him dead. Then "Madame Butterfly" by Malcolm McLaren plays as he lies face down in his plate.
OMG i just thought of this tune and found it after not hearing it for sooooooo long. Back in 1984 this was a TUNE, and guess what, it still is a TOP TUNE. Great music from a great time...
Given this video was made over 38 years ago, the people featured must be pretty old now. That’s pretty scary. I was only 28 when this was in the charts. I’m 66 now. Great tune.
I remember buying this record when it was in the charts. I was 21 at the time and in a bad place, this track helped me to just say fuck it and i walked away from everything.
If the Captain didn't come across as guy who was just having a good time, and not taking the mickey most of the time, this song would have been taken more notice of for the lyrics, that have a real message, great song from a great ere.
I think most people used to think he was slapstick novelty re his early solo releases Happy Talk and Wot after his time in The Damned - but in all seriousness records like this brilliantly crafted tune turned all that perception on it's head, Ray Burns was a very clever fellow.
So you didn't hear it playing at a family party/shopping centre when playing the album: The Power of Love as that came out in late 1983 and this was the 3rd anf final single taken off of it! My cousin still has thisaalbum on Chrome Cassette!
In the past 2 years we've lost the following human rights .... -Freedom of movement -Freedom to make a living -Freedom to vote -Medical freedom -Freedom of speech This Fascism is 'going to be over' anytime soon
Ja het gaat over de Falkland oorlog.. ik kan me het nog herinneringen. Van de tv BBC begin jaren 80 we konden het ontvangen als het weer mee zat...we zagen de gevechten op tv...
Leaving school at the time ... Our teacher allowed the class out for the day This was on the radio on the way back ... our class was singing (shouting) this song I remember feeling very sad at the time ... How time has passed !
Love the captain met him several times and he will always give you the time of day , the last time I met him he remembered my name .. I couldn't believe it !! Your right about madness that would be great , he would be great with the blackheads too !!!
When this came out I had a broken heart, and working in a toilet warehouse in North Yorkshire, having fled from London & a vengeful bank, didn't speed the healing. I thought the poignancy & melancholy I heard in this was Just Me. But I still hear it. Seems there were 2 Sensibles, the "I'm not a rock star" oaf who shat in people's hotel beds like the worst possible '70s rock star (it being some poor menial worker cleaning it up, very People's Champ, Mr Burns - should've had your nose rubbed in it) and then this sensitive soul.
Yep, it's 1984, and I'm in Chaddesden, Derby, delivering Alpine Soft Drinks, whizzing around the streets in a Bedford TK on the sunniest of days. Bliss!
Whatever happened to Apline Soft Drinks?? Did they go bankrupt. The good old days... My driving licence still shows the 7.5T driving entitelment...HOWEVER it is not worth the ink it is printed on. Unless you are driving a 7.5T horse box etc.
Alpine Soft Drinks. Cost a fortune in the late 60's. We had Limeade, Cherryade, and Lemonade delivered to our house in Bulwell Notts once every month. Thanks for the memory Ed Smith
Love this song and the memories being 13 and in thought love;) wish i could just have one day back there to enjoy not just the time but friends and family who arent here anymore!! dont hate "LOVE"
I feel the same way. I was 14-15 living in the States. I was playing this on cassette. I had this beautiful black girl I just met. Being in the US just after the 70's I had a waterbed. She stripped the sheets and covered the bed with oil so it was slippery and I took her right then. 5 seconds later I was done and this song played and she said in a non mocking nice tone. I'm not glad it's over. Can't remember what I had for dinner but that is vivid in my mind. Never saw her again. Good times. Hey this is Penthouse Letters right. Peace from the States. Don't blame me I didn't vote for him. He's insane. Hopefully he won't make a full year. We're not all into sex with animals over here. Just the uneducated trump voters
Heartbreaking to see Camden Town in nicer times- was there today, really unbelievable, the most aggressive drug dealers you've ever seen brazenly intimidating people right outside the tube entrance while police hide inside the tube exit pretending they don't see what's going on. Don't dare speak about it, it makes you "ray-sissst" and the cops will very likely arrest you. It really is a nightmare. I could'nt believe when I was younger things could ever get like this, it happened so quickly. There have been 85 homicides in camden 2000-2012 alone!! (Homicies committed by the usual suspects) Please people, spread awareness amongst yourselves and vote CAREFULLY- there are consequences to getting it wrong.
I don't remember that. I remember standing outside a mate's house and being stopped and searched in my own manor for looking a bit swarthy. They definitely were not hiding in the station and were in a van looking for nice blokes alone to have a look in their pockets, as soon as I protested that I live here they called the fucking van over and turned me upside down in front of everyone. I get that you probably moved up there about 5 seconds ago, but you're also what made Camden shit by the 1990s, believe it or not. It's got fuck all to do with Labour, who used to do the bouncies on Parliament Hill in the 1980s, only you were not there then, or you wouldn't be coming out with such fucking shit. What you are talking about in the 1980s was all down to Labour, who'd been in charge for just over a decade by then, it was good then, but ruined by a bunch of dickheads and chancers that moved in during the 90s and ruined it forever. Why don't you piss off back to Sudbury or Surbiton or whatever nightmare suburb that begins with an 'S' you came from and vote Tory as much as you like there, you fucking cancer, blaming others for what you did. Who buys those fucking draws off street dealers, because they don't know anyone local to get a draw off? Home counties twats like you in for their being day out in Camden. Like as if living somewhere vaguely nearby makes you any kind of local with such provincial views like yours.
@@Oscuros Yeah! How dare that provincial asshole prefer a safe, peaceful city over a violent, dystopian slum. Leftists are angels, and everything bad that happens is somebody else's fault. Just ask the Khmer.
iTS right now... year whateva... I'm never going to war... I love everyone of my brothers and sisters where eva they are on this planet... please join me... xxxx peace out right NOW XXX
Russia was a clever thing to give us to worry about, cuz if we would've been worrying about the stuff that we should have been worrying about, we wouldn't have quite so many worry now !!!
the things i could say about this wonderful record is that it is Ray Burns ,s best recording since he left the damned and i first heard this record on April 1984. it will become the most awesome record of all time !!!!!!!
Tony Mansfield of "New Musik"! was producer of this record & you can hear his influence on this song!Heard this track on "Trigger Happy T.V"!on the end credits & found it on RU-vid which has chuffed me!
+Terry Barthram I'm glad he went on to make a contribution as NM was a great band, well underrated. Few people would have heard of them now, sadly for them.
I see, you are glad that Tony Mansfield went on from New Musik (From A to B was 1980) to make this (1984). So am I. "Mansfield went on to achieve considerable success in the field of production with After the Fire, a-ha, Aztec Camera, The B-52's, The Damned, Captain Sensible, Naked Eyes, Mari Wilson, Jean Paul Gaultier, Miguel Bosé, and Ana Torroja." (wikipedia) Fancy that! I wonder where the children's voices came from in "Living By Numbers"? It always sounds like Essex and I presumed he was from somewhere like Basildon.
this is a great record easily the best of 1984 . Ray Burns is in fine form as I always remember this ditty when I moved into my bed sit in Poole , Dorset back in late March 1984 . this is pure brilliance from the captain.........
A great song, even if it does borrow a bit from Dancing in the Dark. But as the theme for Simon Bates' show, it was hilarious. "Let's listen to four-eyes!" Classic!
