I've always loved this song, ever since it first came out. I was a teenager in the 80's. But what a weird time for pop media. The cloths, the massive drug scene, weird songs about stalking people. It's like vampire people took over for a while, all wearing bright neon pastel colored clothing.
I am so glad you are coming to British new wave bands Jamel. Thompson twins have much to offer. Please react to Talk Talk. life's what you make it, happiness is easy, it's my life, living in another world, and early stuff. Talk talk, my foolish friend, today. Believe me you will love Mark Hollis haunting voice and the base lines, and piano. Chord changes. Talk Talk My Foolish Friend 1982, such vivid images of Halifax and north England then: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nta13TQKDhI.html
Thank you for making these shirts available! The message catches people's attention in public. May you always have a heart full of love for your brothers and sisters.
The great british 80's pop music. Thompson Twins, Simply Red, Simple Mind, Spandau Ballet, cannot name them all but they were playing and playing on the air with pleasure.
1984 was a fantastic year for music... this takes me back to bein 14 , ready to get my license and find out what I was missing!! I blinked and I'm 50.. impossible.. makes the heart hurt
I was going to leave this same comment but saw you already had. It's nice to see I'm not the only one that these songs do this to. The things I'd like to tell my teenage self...
@@blgeiger71 it was a perfect time to be a teen... The music, the movies, TV shows, video games... It was absolutely perfect and I show and tell my kids about it at least weekly...
Something About You by Level 42, (I Just) Died In Your Arms by Cutting Crew and Promises Promises by Naked Eyes play after this on my 80’s playlist. 👌🏼👌🏼
The singer and percussionist were secretly married through the height of their popularity. Literally, no one had a clue. The lyrics had personal meaning, obviously. They eventually divorced years later. These guys have amazing 80s hits. Doctor Doctor, Lies, and my favs off the album this came off of, Storm on the Sea and The Gap. Don't know if you're familiar with 16 Candles, but the song at the last scene of that movie is called If You Were Here and it's these guys.
@@Nunya_Bidness_53 , They formed another band called Babble after the Twins split. They had two children together. They were a couple for a decade before they married, but they married in 1991 and divorced in 2003. They weren't actually married during their time in the Thompson Twins except for the last three years of the band. The great thing is Tom is back touring, and playing Thompson Twins music again for the first time since the band split.
The 80s was probably the greatest era of music of all times. It wasn’t just one certain type of music either, they were smashing it it pop, punk, rock, metal, country. The whole catalog was simply amazing.
True. Has he done til Tuesday, “voices carry”? Another 80’s gem. The video is a little intense w overacting but the end is awesome. And Aimee Mann is so cool.
@@jameslawson2663 James DID YOU KNOW The 70s Have 8 of the top 25 biggest selling LPS In The USA ,? , A TRUE Fact , And the whole Catalog In the 70s was just as Amazing ,
The lead singer and his wife ( The woman on cow bell ) had one of those fights that escalates over nothing so you go to neutral corner while he wrote this song.
Me too. I hadn't yet become a Metalhead - watching "Freewheel Burning" by Judas Priest just mere months later would do that to me - so loving this song was never an 'issue' for me (if I may use that expression). I loved this song the first time I heard it, and have never stopped, even with all the Metal I've consumed over the past 37 years now. 🤘🏻
Lots of us metal people like music period! I still love ABBA and just found out Frida (one of the two female singers) did one of my favorite songs of the 80s.
New wave music...it was big when I was in college and Thompson Twins were one of many with Duran Duran, the Police, Simple Minds, Flock of Seagulls....
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My idiotic 19 year old self in 1983 in a very short lived first marriage. This song can still take me straight back to those memories and feelings. I love that 19 year old me, the lessons she learned and her ability to still have an open heart.
The uncut version of this song is a glorious 9 minutes long. Joe Leeway, Tom Bailey, and Alannah Currie wrote some of THE most infectious songs of the 80s, yet many people dont even know who they are. Love on your side, Lies, Doctor Doctor, Lay your hands on me, If you were here, Love lies bleeding.
My mother got her ribs broken at a Thompson Twins concert. She was shoved up against the metal barrier in front of the stage. At the time, she didn't totally register what happened and adrenaline kept her up, but she was clearly hurt somehow. So they came over and sang to her, having noticed.
Great 80s song. This was a hit during my freshman year of high school. I'm 52 now. It's hard to believe it's been that long, but it still sounds great. Great reaction, as usual, Jamal.
I had this song in my head for twenty something years not being able to find it. It was so cool when I found it on RU-vid a couple years ago! It was like I had been insane and suddenly I found out I was sane!
@@cjturner370 Do you hear ANYONE on a retrospect of the music of the 80's talk about i!? Or do they talk about Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Def Leppard?!? 💯💯💯 IT'S UNDERRATED! And its an amazing song... but its been buried among the 80's songs. And it deserved to be remembered. 💯
This song came out when I was 8 or 9 and I didn’t understand the lyrics at the time. I just liked the beat. But now as an adult, it hits hard. It’s so relatable now.
From the album "Into the Gap." I was in 9th grade when it came out and I wore out the CASSETTE TAPE in my Walkman! Love the Thompson Twins. Thank you for reacting to this one!
This song, and Romantic Traffic by The Spoons True, Spandau Ballet Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper Red Lipstick, Blue Peter Worlds Away, Strange Advance Avalon, Roxy Music (whole damn album) are the most romantic tracks of the 1980s imho.
I hope you try out more 80s new wave songs like this one. That's my teen years. Bands like the Cure, New Order, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Siouxie and the Banshees, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Inspiral Carpets, The Phychedelic Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds, Modern English, etc. Hopefully other people request songs by those bands so you have some to choose from. Thanks for being you!
MTV flashbacks, that was the 80's for me as I was a nurse and we would sit and watch MTV in our down time. Down time is a thing of the past. So happy to relive those memories in the midst of Covid and all that comes with it as a nurse.
I like how in 1980s soft rock/pop songs, the vocals are so forward in the mix. Lyrics and melody are very important to me and I love not having to fight to hear it.
Tattered and torn is a common expression but it's a poetic way to say things are in shambles, almost to the point that the relationship can't be reconciled. React to "Goodbye says it all" by Blackhawk (country trio).
Saw them in concert 1983. The opening band was Berlin. Awesome concert. This video looks like the exact stage setup they had for the concert. Good times!
Saw them live when I was about 19 or 20 They were absolutely brilliant and I still say this was one of the best concerts I've been to and I've been to a lot. I remember the floor of the concert hall bouncing up and down and thinking we're all going to go through it. Great day!
I loved this band. Every band member just seemed so valid and as relevant.And all played a vital part of a fabulous band. They were amazing. I miss the vibe.Thanks for the reminder
This is another one that I wasn't crazy about when it was popular (mostly because you couldn't go for an hour without hearing it on the radio), but hearing it now after what, 35 years? It's amazing. If you could check out more Thompson Twins - The Gap, Lies and If You Were Here are some of their kind of more underrated/less played songs that are soooo good.
I loved the Thompson Twins in the 80s. Tom Bailey is the lead singer. I met him on the 80s Cruise. I brought a concert ticket from 1985 that I saw the Thompson Twins, and he signed it for me. He was a really nice guy. 😊
You're make me re-listen to these songs that I grew up hearing on the radio and seeing the music videos on MTV in a totally different way and I thank you for that. Love and miss the 80's and 90's.
Its one of my go-to love songs. The lyrics and music that i used to play over and over when i got married and then when i had my babies. Still play it and it brings back memories x
This is a truly tough one for me. This was the “our song” of me and my high school boyfriend. We broke up long ago, and I went on to marry someone else, have lived my life, but my bittersweet adolescent memories have been tainted. My ex boyfriend is in prison in another country for doing truly despicable things. Take my word for it, what he did was wretched, and I found out he’s a repeat offender, but he’ll be released from prison in about 7 years. What he’s done during his life has tainted everything that I still had connections to. I now recognize our relationship had become a front for him, even that early on, and I’m angry & grieved about the harm that’s come to so many others. I want to say I love this song, and it brings back memories I’ll cherish, but that’s been ripped away by a predator. The truth is, what has happened to me is **NOTHING** compared to what he’s done to his victims. Hold Me Now Hold Me Never
The only haunting song you will ever hear that will last you a lifetime.....and bring tears to your eyes many years from now when you hear it again.....remember this forever! I know....I'm pushing 77.....
THIS song is literally my late teens...wonderful memories..my car (banger) only had a radio which I had to have a wire coathanger jammed into the aerial in the wing...but every Sunday evening I'd "tape" the top 40...then play it in the car on a portable cassette player on the front seat...used to chew through batteries as I had to have it at full volume :D
There were a couple of bands named after characters in Tintin (by Herge), but I think this is the only one that ever became famous. Nostalgia overload when I think about Tintin.........
The biggest American hit for The Thompson Twins, "Hold Me Now" was written by band members Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie, with additional contributions from the third member, Joe Leeway (he does the falsetto backing vocals). Bailey and Currie were a couple - they got married in 1991 and had two children together. They wrote the song after a heated argument that they had resolved. "We actually decided, well, this is an interesting emotional subject," Bailey said in a 2014 Songfacts interview. "What it feels like to get back together again after separation and the kind of ideas that come up and the way that emotion and physicality somehow are brought together." The song has such permanence in part because it was triggered by a real relationship. Over the course of its 4:44 running time, the song takes us through Bailey's desperate pleas, as he's not even sure what caused the damage or what to apologize for. He is, however, eager to work through their problems and move on. In the chorus, Bailey asks Currie to hold him, stay with him and love him again.
Another one of my favorite 80's songs! I may have been a metal head growing up. But my dad who was also, grew me up with music like this also. This song takes me back to my childhood in the 80's. This song reminds me of how my dad loved my mom & it also reminds me of both of them. Thank God I still have them alive & makes me still want them to Hold Me Now! 😭
Born 1971 and the 80's is a time that defined the future of this country and the world. We as humans opened up and dealt with issues that our elders would never have done. My belief is 80's music brought a lot of people together that otherwise would not have.
They had a hit with In the name of love in 1982 when they were 7 members of Thompson Twins. They've had several lineups since they started in 1977. When they became a trio in 1983 that's when they got more hits. Lay your hands on me from 1985 is another great single by them.
Loved this song from late 1983 into 1984. Remember listening to this in the chip shop where they had an arcade video game called asteroids and playing it whilst wolfing down a Dandy burger. All these memories from one song.
The perfect pop song!! Great lyrics, great voice, great harmonies, great key and tempo chanes, great musicianship, (love the bass), great video. Loved this song then, still love it now!! 😂😂🇬🇧
