Hey! Me too! Was talking about the scene on King of the Hill, where it has no reference at all to the scene and people get teary-eyed over it to this day.@@johnspinelli9396
I was Sweet 16 when this song came out in 1985. What I wouldn't give to go back to that time in my life....to be young again, to see my mom again who has been gone so long, to see all my old friends, and have all my old "problems" again with none of the burdens of being older. Enjoy your youth, folks, because it goes so fast.
Now just faded to the bittersweet memories. Like one day everything will be more reason to love the shit out of now, the mystery of life #forevergreatful.
God this comment got to me. I'm not that old but I feel exactly what you said.... My early 20s in college. My problems were girls and life dreams. My mom would always give me advice. She loved this song so much. I lost her 2 years ago tragically. I would give anything to go back to that time. Her giving me advice that I would shrug off.
It's 2020...Dream Academy gave us this gift 35 years ago...I have never heard a song quite like this one...It's just so smooth & lovely...Who is with me? Love It!
"Loved/Love" it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! after "all" these years etc..........there,s something about this song as soon as it starts "takes" you straight back then etc as if time "hasn,t passed". x x x x
I was also 21 in 1985,,, the sad part of it is living through the best time of our lives , and we didn't have a clue. My dad, rest in peace, used to tell me back then, "life is hard, life is beautiful, but life is incredibly too short" . I didn't understand. Now I do.
I am one year behind you, as it sure was a much better time to get our kicks. Now 59, I realize that everything in this crazy world is actually cyclical. Peace always...
A song about nostalgia for the 60s makes us nostalgic for the 80s. This is the power of poetry and sound when applied in the right way. RIP Nick Drake.
Thank you for your comment. I never knew this about Nick Drake. I learned something new today. I've loved this song and wondered who it was about or what it was about. Thank you. 💗 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake
I told my wife the other day, that I remember to this day waking up on a Saturday morning in 1985, early morning sun shining through the curtains, and this song playing on the radio, and realising in that moment, that life could not get better than this ...
oh you are SO right, i still long for those warm 80's days in L.A. at least we got to experience it, you know? our youth will never get to experience that, we've been given a gift:)
..don't forget that the political deep state satanists and their minions were long in power back then preparing for their nwo communist world government and our destruction and complete enslavement. You see what they did right now..and we just didn't know it back then. We need to pray Trump is on the right side of humanity trying to destroy them and Q is legit or we're lost.
whiteonyx11 No, what I won’t forget is that our Savior is not D Trump, although I am proud he is our President. This was all planned from the beginning, nothing is lost, this world model was destined to be done away with, and Satan did not plan that, he just thinks he did..
i understand . im 50 and feel older than that . where are skating rinks and arcades and fun ? in my dreams sometimes im there and wake up and get pissed . damn.
@@karolinesmail489 remember the fashion lol, padded shoulders, high tops, pastel color clothes, trench coats, heavy metal backpatches. Yes the music especially, where did time go.
This song is a timeless masterpiece, with a steady, powerful rhythm, a strong vocal performance, and a beautiful melody that just instantly calms you down. This song will forever be a 1980s gem
It's dreamlike. Connects to a special kind of karma. Makes me feel like I'm blasting brainwaves. All of a sudden did, so I just think affirmatively, if that's the way to go.
1985, in college, 2 jobs, on my own, broke, but happy! Great memories! Fast forward to 2024, happy, the journey has been hard but rewarding, very blessed. No matter what, ALWAYS push forward!
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
So true! Now you've gotten me to want to read some Tennessee Williams or see some of the movies he inspired. "Streetcar" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "Glass Menagerie". What a playwright. I was raised in the South & he & O'Neil got it so right! Thanks for the reminder!
J Bro I was a kid , believing that as an adult I’d enjoy that same world .... I was horribly mistaken 🥺 the magic was gone , from music , to people being social , to just enjoying the simple things
@@leary4170 same. I though that the world of the 80s would be the same world we lived in as adults. I never, ever imagined it would be like what it is now. Everything is so different and technological and it's strange seeing millenials everywhere.
Brother I tell you......I feel the same way...I graduated in 84 n NEVER thought things would have changed so much...ppl don't think b4 they act...don't care about anyone else but themselves . It's crazy. Back in the 80s it was GREAT. Carefree..easy going..How I wish we could go back and start over n not let social media take over. ANYWAY...ROCK ON FRIENDS. KEEP ROKN THE 80S...LATERS👋🤘
I was trying so hard to remember in what animated movie or show I heard this song. Thank you. I could have sworn it was some Disney movie, but no…Buckley’s Angel.
@@dogdonut "I have a message from Jesus, something about how you suck at beauty school, except worded nicer. Here it is: "Luanne, you really suck at beauty school. Drop out. Love, Jesus." Hm. He underlined "really." Guess it wasn't nicer."
Every generation thinks they had it the best when they were young, and that the world has gotten worse since then. It is human nature, but it isn't true and never has been. Your nostalgia is blinding you to the problems that existed then - the Cold War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, apartheid in South Africa. AIDS, starvation in Africa, lead in the atmosphere poisoning brains, the hole in the ozone layer. No time is perfect, they all come with problems. I was a teenager in the 90s, but I know it was messed up time too. Today is better, though some things are worse.
i mean im sure this song reminds you of past times as a person living in a town/city in new hampshire the feel this song gives off isn't too different from how life still feels in these towns when you went outside plenty of people go outside and are having social interactions if you fail too se that then thats on you
To be back in 1985 again just 15 years old, God were did the time go, such an amazing decade, not a worry in the world, hanging out in the basement with all your friends listening to this music, playing cards, board games like Clue, Monopoly, Risk, Scrabble and riding big wheels down the steepest road playing football in the snow i can go on and on, I miss you 80's
I was 30 in '85 and still think the same... A greta song, where has the time gone, I'll be 69 this year and can't help thinking not long to go now... A bit melancholy I know but such is life. Music, how it brings back all those beautiful memories. It is just wonderful.
As a 14 year old back in 1985 I approve all the messages here and this great Dream Academy song. It was a pleasure seeing the video for the first time that year.
At 79, I still remember the 80's with a full heart, the music, the time of life, the wonder of life itself. What a great set of memories that these songs bring back.
That's strange. I grew up in the 1980's and it was an unbearably grim and soulless experience. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, new conservatism, the cold war, nuclear threat, hunger strikers, apartheid, the birth of me culture and the worship of mass consumerism on a scale unseen before, the emergence of AIDS and the out and out hatred of homosexuals, one of the worst famines in recorded history in the region of Ethiopia, rampant racism and sectarian violence on the streets of Britain, terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, the Falklands War, mass unemployment....oh yeah, and yuppies.
The 80’s. MTV. The style. The everything. It will never happen again. We lived in a very unique decade that is now only a part of history. We will always have this music though. No one can take this away from us who lived in this time. I may be sad for it, but I lived it.
You're right Robert. A huge part of the fabric of my growing up years in the 80's was our awesome music. Not to mention our movies! Such powerful memories & emotions.
It's true, it's a shame the kiddies don't understand. These days when I go into a pub every television plays sports. Baseball, hockey, whatever is in season. In the 80's every TV was on MTV and it was non stop music and videos. They wrote the book on music vids and it really was a different atmosphere.
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
I was 25 when this song came out. I"m 63 now but listening to this...I'm 25 again. This song makes me smile at the beauty of it, laugh when I think about the things I got up to back then, and cry a little at what was lost along the way. Words cannot express how much I love this song.
@@Glyder1959 Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏 Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚 When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more. So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀 More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays! Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔 Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all. Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉 Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s. Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED. Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time. Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦 Um-hum, aha, okay? And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
I'm 19 - playing random 80s songs to get my parents to guess who's singing it. This song comes on and the pair of them get these massive smiles on their faces, they love this song 💞💞
Everyone in the comments section! The 80's aren't gone. We lived the 80's and took it with us and it lives on today. We may not live in the physical years, but they are not over. We are the 80's and we take it with us wherever we go.
I really like the way you think and I agree. The spirit of the 80s are in my heart. I try to keep the fun, bright, bouncy lightness to things, even in bad times. And especially when I listen to the music....I’m there!
Yeargh, life can be SO brutally honest and fair... 😏 Especially in these DARK TIMES. 🌚 When the end is near, you will often find yourself tuning into the 'DEAD FREQUENCY' more and more. So why not just EMBRACE death, my dear brothers and sisters? 💀 More and more and more young people are dyin' even sooner than their parents nowadays! Life is SHORT, so WHY are they all in such a big hurry to DIE??? 🤔 Better to be OLD, than to NEVER even grow old at all. Being older, simply means that you'll at least be able to reflect back on all of the things and experiences you had in life... At least you can say: "Hey man, I was there at the party! Where was YOU?" 😉 Can't really say the same about these youngsters tho; all dying in like their 20s, and 30s. Doin' the most STUPIDEST things ever, just to get themselves and all their friends KILLED. Gettin' laid to rest, like WAY BEFORE their time. Cuz headstones DON'T lie! 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦 Um-hum, aha, okay? And the best thing of all these days? YOUNGER you are, just means the LONGER you'll SUFFER!!! 😝
@@OtomoTenzi no such thing death is part of living you go on to a different dimension or you fail and game over or start over who really knows? No one is the answer. We live in a vibrational vortex and the energy we take and use and give back to source is how this game really works. You can choose to doom and gloom or choose to just embrace happiness. No big mystery stop trying to scare people. The fear in your life has only as much energy as you feed into it. Limits exist only on the mind. ✌🏼
@@Ivylights Michael Altman has said, that we all will be reunited with our alien creators after death, and then we shall become WHOLE again... 2215 A.D. 🙏ALTMAN BE PRAISED!!!🙏
@@OtomoTenzi I am not sure who that is. I do know reason a lot of people dying is because earth is traveling through a dark energy field hence all the intense natural disasters. This is all effecting the mood of the people. The young are more susceptible because they have not developed the tools to identify it and adjust.
@@michaelanderson2881 Whats not true? I'm 62 and remember the English summer mornings when I lay on the grass in the garden and listened to the birds and life going on around me. Life seemed slow and warm and safe. Rainy days exploring the attics and winter days stamping footprints into frost or tracing my fingers over frost patterns on the window. Playing games in the snow, catching snowflakes. I'm West Country not Nothern but the gentle nostalgia for those times makes me smile. ( I remember watching JFK's funeral with my parents-didn't understand why, just remember Jon Jon holding his mother's hand. I also remember the storm of '63. Our trees blew down in the orchard and the door to the roof was blown off and snow got in to our upper storey. Our 300 year old front door splintered from the cold and we had to get a new one).
@@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138 So you're saying that time passes. The OP doesn't seem to say that. If the morning lasted all day, we'd never reach evening, and we'd all still be young. So it's a great line. Too bad it's not true.
I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
Oh, I totally agree! It makes you want to be back standing on the side of the street watching the parade go by eating a snow cone. With all the town folk there. And everyone knows each other. I so miss the 70s and 80s
People born in 1963 ..are called Kennedy babies…….I am one …..gonna be 61 in August…life has as its moments but otherwise very enjoyable….smile and get the most out of life…..
Almost 40 years and it still makes me think of my mate from school who was killed on his bike when this song was out. We were 15 and had the rest of our lives ahead of us. Still think of you Pete ❤️
ABSOLUTELY ❣️ I've read, somewhere, those of us who DO get goosebumps, when hearing certain songs, have something "unique" about us! But for the life of me, I cannot remember WHAT it is!! It's making crazy trying to remember... Maybe I can research it, and find it again!
What a magical song. As a 62 year old, this song takes me back to a much better time. And to be written as an elegy to Nick Drake just makes it even more precious
as an ex-Michigander, this song always reminds me of the exodus of the young people from our hometown when the automotive industry was failing. eerie @@FusionHowie
I wish I could wake up to find today was just a bad dream, and it was still the 80's. I was Young had friends, and life was exciting, the music great. This is the perfect song, just love it. Brilliant lyrics sung with real emotion. Thank you for sharing. My best wishes to everyone out there.
19 and starting college at Holyoke Community College, while commuting from Elms College(which I would later transfer to). And Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out" 1982
The Dream Academy wrote this song as a dedication to the late Nick Drake, an underappreciated folk artist in his prime. RIP Nick Drake, your short lived legacy lives on. 1948-1974
The connection is the guitar Nick Drake posed with on the cover of Bryter Layter. The guitar came into the possession of Nick Laird-Clowes, the singer of the band some ten years later and it was used in the recording of the song.
Maybe he wasn't underappreciated. Maybe he was overappreciated... just wasn't any good. I mean to think one song about you was vastly more popular than your entire life's work says a lot about your life's work.
I'm an Australian who visited the UK in the 90s. I couldn't get over how welcoming and friendly the people of northern England were to me. I've never forgotten you people. Love to you all from Brisbane.
I saw that episode 2 week's ago and I had to Google the episode to see who sang that song. I totally forgot that hit. I always loved it. I love it even more know.
Miss the eighties every day, life was so simple then, friends were durable, unfettered. Music was amazing and ever-evolving. It was so easy to take people at face value, in comparison to everyone's "digital self" nowadays. I grew up in the South Suburbs of Chicago, where kids ran around on their BMX bikes and only had to check in or be home for supper, otherwise, hit the roller rink, or the arcade at the mall, shovel snow and save up for that Mongoose or Diamondback and hit that secret fishing hole just outside of town....
Roller rink, be home before the street light came on, arcades, stretch arm strong, pop rocks, and having no cell phones to where you actually had to communicate with others..... Ya miss those days as well.
Rest in peace Nick Drake - the genius that quietly slipped away before anyone realised his brilliance. This song is a wonderful dedication to him and everything about the (very much missed) 70’s & 80’s.
I remember requesting this song to a local radio station once. I live in northern Saskatchewan (Christopher Lake) and work in Waskesiu. Tears me up just writing about this and listening to this song.
While my 1 wk old son was in the hospital having surgery I walked across the street to a college bookstore and bought this album. He's almost 35 yrs old now and everytime I hear it I reminded of how precious life is.
it is very lonely and melancholic. You nailed it. It was also played at a memorial for all the lost astronauts of the Challenger explosion, which happened a year later in Jan, 1986. It really gives the song that much more of a sad tone.
This song in 1986..I swear it felt like I could do anything. I was 14. This video would come on the original MTV at least 6 times a day every 4 hours for months and I would drop whatever I was doing to listen to it. It brought me calm and peace for 4 minutes. But we had so many songs like this back then. I wish I had a time machine. I would give up cell phones and internet just to experience for one more day.
@@tamiparris3132 “Take on Me” by A-ha is another blockbuster hit. A little more techie, but hugely popular and still played today. “Africa” by Toto is another song that many remake and is attributed to its gentle sound. U2’s “With it Without You” has touched many souls deeply with Bono’s top notch vocals and great guitar rifts from “The Edge”. Journeys “Don’t Stop Believing” has got to round out this short list of many many great songs from the 80’s. There are literally hundreds of songs across many genres that are very enjoyable. I think that may be the best point of 80’s music, it all sounded good all while being distinct.
I love this song . I remember playing it on the air back when it came out . I was working at KKJO 1550 AM in St. Joseph Missouri . It was one of the happiest times of my life working on a top 40 AM station. Every time I hear it , it transports me back to a simpler and happy time !
I always thought being a disk jockey would be fun. Working in the radio station and watching the workings. Just like the wolf man. But then I toured a radio station and watched an evenings broadcast and you basically sit in a room and drag and drop sound bites into slots all day then play on your phone or play solitaire. I just cried. They didn't even have a microphone in the room, they had a small closet sized room with a mic and if he needed to make an unprogramed announcement he flipped a switch went in there and recorded it or said it live and went back to his phone. I cried. I couldn't believe it. No disks no records, no talking or interacting with the airwaves.
@@dustywelchcraneman6614 Back in the 80's when I was on KKJO it was fun. We played records , or carts with songs on them. Some of the commercials were live and we ran out own boards. What you are describing is how it is nowadays. They've taken the heart out of radio , most of it is automated these days .... but it used to be fun and majical .
Meade Music - Lyrics dont always make a song... You have to consider the beat and the instruments because without those then a song would be somebody speaking into a mic.... Nothing more or nothing less.
DNF Danninetyf singing is not speaking, and as a songwriter i disagree. The instruments are icing, but the lyrics can make or break, imo. This song well written. Other songs from the era sound dated by comparison.
The, very first time I heard this song, I was a junior in high school. My girlfriend, an I where kissing, in my convertible over looking the Golden Gate Bridge, looking at San Francisco at night. The next time, was when I was in SouthWest Asia with my Airborne Unit, during the first Gulf War. The same girlfriend, sent me a tape that she made for me, that only had this song. She, sent it as she looked at this song was OUR song. It, sure brought back fond memories sitting in a fox hole late at night. This, song holds a very special place in my heart!!!!
HA! I was about 100 miles away...out in the Gulf....listening to an old pirated tape of Big Country. Watching cruise missiles get launched and wanting to be home.
I'm an American who lived in Northern England from 1979-81. The open scenes are a time machine for me... reminds me of being 19 again and experiencing "life in a northern town."
I ( 69) have come to this song later than many of you! And all of your comments resonate with me! The song itself is magical but the connection to a time when we were all younger and the world was full of hope is a real emotion. I was busy raising a family when this was issued but I still remember those times with my parents and friends who have since departed this life with profound loss and sadness... the yearning will never leave us.. in many ways we were the last "golden" generation who believed in a brighter future and the music captured our dreams!
@@lindaweston4482 Thank you for your kind comment. Yes, we have been alive through a frankly amazing time in the world Linda... and we were so very lucky to have all of this music as a soundtrack to it all... and now it can serve to remind us of other times and places and most importantly of people!
This is absolutely true what you say. I‘m 48 years old and yes, times were in some special way better than today. I will never forget my childhood playing with friends outside without any cell phone or watch, just listening to the church bell. Very magic song..
@@annetteripplinger7995 Magic is a very good description of both the song and our youth... as you say without watches, phones or all the other gadgets of today.. no social media, uniformity and conformity, cancel culture and mostly bland music. And the ability to play outside.. how precious! Maybe it's true we that we were a golden generation that will not be seen again for many a year... if ever!!
Having David Gilmour as the producer of this track greatly helped it break into radio playlists in late 1985... I'd be honored if some fans of mid-80s British classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson on my YT channel in tribute to the era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and stay safe in the '020s.
I live in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland used to be a Steel Town. Then "All of the work shut down". Cleveland, Canton, Youngstown and other cities in Northeastern Ohio stopped producing steel and basically died. Now all of those neighborhoods that were so nice have become slums. This song brings me to tears thinking about how much everything changed for the worst. I still love you, Ohio.😭😢💖
This is for my daughter Ruth..who was born and raised in a small town in Lancashire,England..Thru blood tests I found out she is my daughter 3 years ago..A blessing
I was a big rap head and I remember the first time this video came on. I couldn't help but be mesmerized by it. Growing up I got more into classic rock.
This is one of those magical songs that gives me a flood of nostalgia. It reminds me of being a young teen in the 80s when the song came out .It also reminds me of being a small child in Brooklyn in the early 70s. I know Brooklyn isn't technically a town, but we lived in a close knit neighborhood that felt more like a small town, rather than a borough within a big city. When I hear this song, I think of those few winters that I got to enjoy playing in the snow before our family moved to Florida, where in never snows. But in a way, this song even reminds me of my childhood growing up in Miami, which obviously is neither northern, nor a town...but life was still so much more small town-like back then. We knew all our neighbors, we had block parties, all the kids would play outside until the streetlights came on. Anyway....I love this song.
@@warsameawale5449 Thank you. That was one of the nicest compliments I've ever received. If I ever write a book, I'll be sure to let you know and of course send you a free copy.
This is one of those songs that penetrates the soul and pulls at the heart. It evokes a feeling of a lost time which has gone forever. A time that had its struggles and troubles, but underneath there was a sense of freedom in which we all shared and long to return.
Perfectly said.. it’s crazy that soo many have the exact same feeling because sound and arrangement. What else can be done with this and How far can that go and causes this? Is it because of our age at the time we first heard or something else?
It's called feelings we all have them some open some not so good let's the toxicities of life go breath in the good positive energy 💪🙏 move forward no reverse think tanking .. a holes around every corner.
I just love 💕 this song! I was 19 when I first heard Life In A Northern Town! It was on Christmas 🎄🎁 Eve 1985 when my brother Benny and my sister in-law lived with me at the time. My brother Benny had passed away in 2000, my Dad in 2012 and my Mom in March of this year 2023. My life has been turned inside out since 1985 but I still live in the same house but all alone now. I certainly miss the 1980s! They were the very best part of my life! The 2010s and 2020s have been very hard times for me! But at least I have very vibrant memories of my happier years when I was so much younger!
Am I the only one who listens to this wonderful song again and again, because it takes a person to a different time, and good memories, and feeling of peace? What a soothing song
This masterpiece takes me back to my childhood when I was growing in a Northern Town. Back then everyone seemed to care for each other. That has long gone. Now everyone seems to be in a rush to go nowhere. I wish I could go back and visit my Northern Town. The last time I was there was in the summer of 2000 a long time ago
Before the cancer of Social Media set in, music meant something because we had real musicians to listen to. I’m now 61 and while I look back as these some of the best days of my life, it carries me forward with clear air.
COLD rainy day...… so cold your teeth are chattering, your fingertips are numb and the mug of hot soup your mother has made you makes it all better......
I graduated from high school in Michigan in 1985. In the fall I left for college up north in the Upper Peninsula. This long always reminds me of being up there. Some of the best times of my life up there. ❤❤
This song took me back to my Hometown and my youth; A small New England town with a few hidden gems if you knew where to look. A diner, a cafe, an overlook, a wooded trail, a little spot on the bank of a river... Now I'm out in Ohio, living in the city, and desperately homesick. I miss the mountains, the trees, the clean air. I listen to this, close my eyes, and I'm Home, if only for a moment.
Me to, this takes me back to winter in Harlan KY 16 owned my 73 mustang Life was simply wonderful 😢😢😢😢53 now in Florida married to a beautiful fl. Girl, can't believe it is 2023.
The Salvation Army band played And the children drunk lemonade And the morning lasted all day, all day And through an open window came Like Sinatra in a younger day Pushing the town away, oh Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah Life in a northern town Ah hey ma ma ma ma They sat on the stoney ground And he took a cigarette out And everyone else came down to listen He said in winter 1963 It felt like the world would freeze With John F. Kennedy And The Beatles Yeah, yeah Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah Life in a northern town Hey ma ma ma ma Ah hey ma ma ma Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah All the work shut down The evening turned to rain Watched the water roll down the drain As we followed him down to the station And though he never would wave goodbye You could see it written in his eyes As the train rolled out of sight...bye-bye Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah Life in a northern town Ah hey ma ma ma ma Ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-ya Ah hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah Life in a northern town
Having David Gilmour as the producer of this track greatly helped it break into radio playlists in late 1985... I'd be honored if some fans of under-the-radar 80s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN by the Dream Academy and MARY'S PRAYER by Danny Wilson in tribute to the mid/late-80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
I know those that didn't get to experience the 80's as they happened, get so tired of us saying it........ but DAMN, we had the best music ever. Rock, Pop, Country........just an incredible decade for music.
I,ve always said this etc.............fab decade for music/film/tv series..,e,g....miami vice.........dallas............beverly hills cops starring Eddie Murphy.............could go on and on and on................
I was Only 35 I was watching this with my kids who are in there 40s Now It brings me back so much great memories and I was like the 7th Person Who watched this in 1985🎉🎉❤❤ And it did feel like it would frees in 1963 LOL❤❤
In the 80s the people looked back at the 60s like we look back at the 00s. That makes me feel quite old. Born in 79 and proud to be an 80s kid through and through. 🥰🥰
Born in 79 makes you 70s *baby* , and a half and half 80s kid and 90s kid. I was born in 88. I'm by no means an 80's kid. I'm a 80's baby and I'm a 90's/00's kid, as those were my adolescent years.
This song makes me feel bad for people who aren't moved emotionally by music. I have no personal nostalgic connection to this song, but hot damn is it powerful
you're talking about my wife! lol.she claims to like music, but as i told her a few weeks ago, in 20years i have never seen or heard you jump for the volume or say "omg, i used to love this song! it brings back so many memories!" sigh... kinda bothers me...
You should stop saying you feel bad for people because they are not as emotionally gifted as you. It is condescending and really a back handed insult. This song is about a time when people were much more understanding of life and there was far less judgement than there is now by the PC left. This is why the people like me who lived through it miss those times so much!
