Can't begin to tell you how much I still love Heaven 17. As soon as I heat that 1st note of every track my heart skips a beat and the butterflies start. I'm right back to my 17 year old self. With all of my hopes and dreams ahead of me ❤ Glenn - I still would 😮
Can you believe Martyn Ware is a computer programmer by trade. He has a very musical brain though even though he's not trained at all, I think his production is great too. He's massively underrated.
I miss these years in music and I thought it was a revolution of its own kind, even bigger than the punk era. Like this song idea changes two or three times and it still works. For me, this was the future...
This is their masterpiece isn't it? I used to stand in front of the mirror in 1982 miming to it and wishing I was Glenn Gregory. Stalled at 41 in the charts and i thought it was gonna be number one for weeks. 30 years on and nothing's changed, great songs still don't get to number one and I still mime to it in front o . the mirror. ..
Come rimpiango la mia infanzia .....ma non per gli anni passati, ma per quel meravigliosi tempi che ti divertivi con soldi zero. Si ballava la musica dence nei garace in comitiva ....😭😭😭 non rimpiango i miei anni , marimpiango quei tempi viva gli anni 80 e 90
I still can't believe that this didn't do better in the charts. It's an anthem and gives me goosebumps even now. And as a line in the song says, "...these were the best years of our lives." And believe me they were! Oh the memories. Thanks Martyn, Ian and Glenn.
@@krisstopher8259 Some of us have good taste. But it's kinda hard to listen to these songs without having the knowledge of them. I mean, I just know these songs because of my dad. It's not something that plays on radios and such (yeah, there is specific radios that plays but u guys understood. It's not the type of music that people make nowadays. And sadly.)
1983...mein erster Abend in einen Club. Und dazu noch ein Indie-Club...zarte 17 ...und in dieser Nacht öffnete sich mir ne neue Welt. Den Song verbinde ich ganz krass damit...
Heaven 17 were such a big part of the 80s as far as I was concerned. One of the guys used to carry round this single and played it at every party we went to - sublime
Heaven 17 seems quite fresh and amazing for the time. I did not appreciated them enough in the 80s as I was a kid, but i think they are super underrated
One of the Great U.K bands for Song and Video. I love to Harmonise with this one🎵.Thank You H17 and Human League for helping me through my Youth. Be Proud❤❤
One of the earliest records to use the iconic Roland TB-303 Baseline synthesizer. And it's brilliant. The production on Heaven 17 records was absolutely superb - it still stands up today.
in 1983 my 15 year-old crush and 17 year-old me were at a party, she sang to me along with this song "...they were the best years of our lives", and kissed me. I still remember her.
This is the song that got me into Heaven 17 when I was just 18. They hadn't reached the masses at that time, until Temptation was released some months later. I was fixing my motorbike in my Dad's old shed and this came on the radio. I thought it was fabulous, went out and bought the 12" and subsequently bought loads of their records. They've done some really cool stuff both with H17 and the British Electric Foundation. This song really spoke to me.
I teach English in Spain. I was a teenager in Valencia when all this Brit Pop was on our radios all the time. This influenced me so much I studied English at university and... there you go, I've taught it for about 30 years. I bought this "single" when I was about 17 and I kept on listening to it enraptured. Long live the British Pop from the 80s!
Something similar happened to me, but in my case it was not only British Pop, but also all the British TV series that were broadcast in Spain in the 80s, that inspired me, along with my English teacher at secondary school, to study English and English literature at university. I taught English literature for 23 years until… well, that's a different story! :)
My wife is French and teaches it in the UK, having done so since 1997. She grew up in the eighties listening to a lot of music in English by British and American bands, writing the lyrics out as a way of helping to learn English. She still has some of the books she used to use for this, which is nice. I am proud of how hard she worked and the bravery of moving to the UK and being so successful in her chosen field.
Despite the world crisis in the 80's because of the Cold War ,conflicts in Latin America, Africa and other countries the music in the 80's was such a glorious escape from that gloomy reality. My dad was lucky enough to live his younger days in the 80's, but he knew that I had to part of that good times, so I was lucky enough too to have a dad who showed and introduced me to the gold music from the 80's when I was just 5 years old. Gracias, papá. You did it well! PD: I was born in 1992. 80's music will transcend forever.
Once there was a day We were together all the way An endless path unbroken But now there is a time A torture less sublime Our souls are locked and frozen Once we were years ahead, but now those thoughts are dead Let me go (Let me go) All hopeless fantasies are making fools of me Let me go I walk alone, and yet never say goodbye Let me go (Let me go) Change of heart, a change of mind, and heaven fell that night Let me go I tried but could not bring The best of everything Too breathless then to wonder I died a thousand times Found guilty of no crime Now everything is thunder Daytime, all I want is Nighttime, I don't need the Daytime, all I want is Nighttime, I don't need the Daytime, all I want is Nighttime, I don't need the Daytime, all I want is Nighttime, I don't…
Nighttime, I don't need the Got to, got to, got to, got to let me go Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da Ooh Once we were years ahead, but now those thoughts are dead Let me go (Let me go) All hopeless fantasies are making fools of me Let me go I walk alone, and yet never say goodbye Let me go (Let me go) Change of heart, a change of mind, and heaven fell that night Let me go The best years of our lives The hope of it survives The facts of life unspoken The only game in town I'll turn the last card down And now the bank is Broken Broken Found guilty of no crime They were the Best years of our lives Broken Broken I'll turn the last card DOWN.
I grew up listening to Heaven 17... You'll never find awsome music like this any more..That's a time when music and fashion was at it's peak.. After the 80's It all went down hill..
takes me right back to 1983 when I was sixteen and life was so much more simple, not to mention my loved ones were still with me. oh how I wish I could go back : - (
It was great being a teenager in the eighties! We had class, we had style, the music was... Well it was still music.... It was the base of many later music streams....
I bumped into Glenn the other day in north London putting out his rubbish . Had a chat about heaven 17 and the 80’s we both agreed it was a fcuking good time
❤️80'es❤️ 'was an almost perfect musical era. Different cool pieces of music were released from every continent ... it was a worldwide brilliant moment in music production that will not repeat itself again ... I even mean Australians came groups like 'Icehouse' or 'men at work' brilliant beautiful tracks. Brit-Pop was top, and Italo Pop had also produced beautiful musical pearls .. I could do without the German scrap like "modern talking" .. years later, I have to say Madonna also had a strong influence on a musical era. - Yes, I miss this time very much .. ❤️80'es❤️
LOVE this song!! My favorite 80's dance song. Still so fun to dance to! I love that you can drop this in clubs now and kids who were babies then get down to it. Timeless.
