The original video for RHRN, with an introduction from the wonderful Annie Nightingale, onstage in Romania. Taken from the Jesus Jones longform, Big in Alaska.
Listening again in 2024.....Anyone else? It seems so significant now, just as it did when it was released. The World is changing, hope on the horizon once more.
@@gogoyubari366 Kids try to change the meaning of every established word. Sheer idiocy. When a song is a hit around the world, explain how that is underrated? I will wait.
@@tjstrongbone5373 I was born in 79. Don't get me wrong, I loved the 80's. But the 90's felt like the world was headed in the right direction. It felt like everyone's dream could come true. And technology was taking off. At that time it felt like those years were the best years to be alive. Then the year 2000 came and it felt like a huge letdown. Then Covid hit and it made me wonder, when was the last time I felt carefree and safe from all the chaos in the world. In the 90's.
I'm also a boomer, 65 years old, in 2024. This is a nice, little, pop song but nothing brilliant. I'm here because, once again, this song, 'Right here-Right now', has been called 'racist'. I just read the lyrics and there are two short verses and that's it. The writers of the song claim they were moved by everything that was happening in '89 in Europe; the fall of the wall in Berlin, dictator over-thrown in Romania and so forth. I have no idea how this song can be called 'racist'?
True! Tell me what other eras in world history did you grow up in? You know, so you can actually say it was better? Oh, you only grew up in the one then? oof.
Kids growing up in the late 70's and early 80's had more freedom. I was too young to enjoy it. When this song came out cops harassed us no matter where we parked our cars to hang out. I recall seeing teens in the late 70's have a party with beer and those funny cigarettes they smoked (weed) out of a van in a grocery store parking lot where they bought there beer as the drinking age was just 18 then. Those were the times to grow up in but I was still pooping my diapers or pissing my training pants... but at least I didn't have to sit in a stupid car seat
I was in the USAF in the first half of the 80's, then in college, and my first civilian career job. Compared to the Shytt Storm of the late 70's (stagflation, Jimmy Carter telling us to turn out lights, put on more sweaters and turn down the heaters, while he let all the hostages rot in captivity of the Iranian cult mullah pigs???? That was after we abandoned a million freedom fighters in Viet Nam, and suffered Watergate, and the infiltration of the American Psychology Association by mentally ill "activists" .... P.S.. The Berlin Wall came down.... we had won the COLD WAR (only recently did the leftists Dems enrich the Communists in Russia and China to start it up again!!!!! ) See Ukraine and Taiwan for the next "expansion"..... Yeah... the Domino Theory was just stupid.... sure..
Watching the Cold War series on Netflix brought up a very powerful memory. The summer of 1991 I was living in London and hanging out at the Camden Palace (Thursday nights were “Guitar Rock Night” - Lots of Blur and R.E.M.) There had been increasing numbers of young people fleeing eastern Europe and discovering London and the club. The DJ played “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones. All those kid flooded the dance floor, with images of the Berlin Wall coming down on the screens. There were so many people on the dance floor, there was no room on the dance floor. We just jumped up and down and hugged and laughed and wept. The Cold War was over. “Watching the world wake up from history.”
+AgentXPQ I also remember when this song came out, it was 1991, the USSR had fallen and it's replacement was the Commonwealth of Nations(did i get it right), and I had the cassette tape which was borrowed, but never returned . What an awesome time it was!!!
You know I felt that there was a sense of hope seeing that the USSR had fallen down on November 17, 1991. But I guess that what I felt it was just that moment and nothing else.
I worked security on their first tour. I worked for hundreds of bands and they were the most fun to be around. Their energy was immense and they were very talented.
Makes me think of America & the Black Lives Matter movement. Watching the world wake up from centuries of oppression. It's like the definition of woke.
@@multipletanksyndrome Oh BS. Nice way to besmirch a good song by linking it to some mythical oppression NO ONE living has endured. Perhaps BLM should be asking why 13% of the population is responsible more MORE THAN half of all homicides. What was that number again, 61, 64%? Yeah, it's oppression...
I’ve had those words tattooed in my mind for 33 years. I didn’t even speak English when I first heard it but I still remember that lyric and I still don’t get what it means 😂
I had a terrible childhood so the 80s were painful and I'd love to forget it, but I miss the 90s more than anything. I wish I could be in a time loop and repeat the 90s again and again.
I think this is a gift from Gen X to every generation as they come up into the world, it seems since then we got both bigger and smaller at the same time, as folks come to realize it's always "history in the making" in the now if you know where to look.
This content is culturally significant. Posting it on RU-vid will ensure that future generations will have access to it and appreciate it. Thank you for sharing it.
Yep, and it's about the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Revolutions of the Eastern bloc nations from the domination of the Soviets. None should forget the horrors of socialism.
Fuckin' eh! The next musical era moving into something different. It was exciting. I was to go from this to grungy distorted guitars of the early 90s and I'm thankful for Jesus Jones being on the radio.
As someone who grew up during the Cold War this song really nailed the feeling of when the Berlin Wall finally came down. There was no one who ever thought in those days that the Cold War would end peacefully.
When Winds of Change pops up on my Spotify, I still get chills. Was explaining the Berlin Wall & the Cold War to a colleague as their eyes glazed over ....
As a faithful representative of generation X, this song is included in my "top 10 songs of the 90's" playlist. I listen to it daily to be more precise and it was the first ringtone for calls on my mobile phone.
Yes indeed. This captures the incredible moment in history when the Cold War ended and we had peace with our former enemies. So much hope, then. It is a shame that we didn't do more to bring Russia fully into the fold of the 'West', and they are again our enemies.
And there is no other place I want to be, right here right now--literally--watching the world wake up from history in 2024. Much Love and No Fear, Y'all 🙏🏻💕
68 years here, and when I listen to this song (and some others), I most definitely hear ya! I feel the same. One of my fav songs from the late 80's/early 90's that takes me back,... newly married, feeling so positive and hopeful. Looking at the present day state of the world (and my life), would love to go back to those late 80's and feel that again.
Oh God, I remember the very first time hearing this song and feeling so hopeful for the future....like nothing could stop this freedom...and now it's 2022 and I'm crying because it truly seems like we're back to *before* this song was released.
Geez, what's happened these past few years flies in the face of the theme of this song and shows how unduly optimistic he was in writing these lyrics. And the same goes for the Scorpions with their Winds of Change song.
I'm from British Columbia, sitting in my van in South Florida, about to drive through the night to do a triathlon in Georgia in seven hours. I'm doing triathlons every weekend until 2030 in the name of my friend, Michelle, who died six months ago. She changed everything about my life. Everything was different after her. She was my girlfriend when this song came out. It makes me think of her...which is why I'm sitting here at 11pm listening to it in my van before my drive. This song breaks my heart, but also keeps her alive. I will never stop listening to it.
I find this song still very relevant, even by today's standards and expectations (Dec. 2022). The Band's name, Jesus Jones, is "so prophetic", in its own right. The song title, "Right Here, Right Now", suggests the perpetual pivotal juncture, that we, as "a global human species, have been latently standing on the edge of tomorrow, namely, our collective state of hostage restraint before "an imminent World turmoil and unrest", especially for the last 75 years to date. Jesus, the lead singer, having written this song ahead of his time, is urging us "to wake up" from the past and enter "the new era of human enlightment and revival", the Age of
we failed, we made our world significantly worse without the "threat" of them: bad commies, that threat make them live worse and us so much better with expanding social plans and expand freedoms to "compete" with the commies
I was a young Buck Sergeant in the 101st Airborne when this was released. Trained in the Cold War...went to battle in the Gulf War. This was one of my favorites... Still...is...🇺🇸
I Believe that when Our Lord and Savior CHRIST JESUS Returns at the Very End of History,,, the World would Finally Wake up,, When we will see a New Heaven and a New Earth
Had forgotten this gem ran across it by accident damn it takes me back👍👍👍 when this came out in 91 I was 24. I just turned 56 yesterday may 29 2023 where has the years gone they disappear like evaporating water???
At 68 here, man, I can relate! Always loved this song, always uplifted my spirit and sparked inspiration as to where we could go as a planet. These days, not so much.
This song was a true signature of this time. I look back and felt exactly this way. The cold war had ended and we believed that we had entered an era of peace (how very naive we were). A musical revolution had and was about to erupt (electro music was booming and the following year Nirvana would change the rock world with smells like teen spirit) and I was a young adult in the prime of my life. I love this song for this reason.
I was diggin' this in my 20s/30s. It's like, every gen has a song or two like this.... About really, trying to... grasp the Now or whatever. Reminds me of another song... Van Halen: Right Now. Until tomorrow. Peace.
This song was written partly in response to all the tired old boomers constantly going on about how great the 60s were. So you've now become that tired old boomer.
One of only two famous songs which greeted the fall of the Soviet Empire. A nightmarish empire which suppressed all speech, artistic expression and life choices, and only two Western bands made kick ass songs about it. For that reason alone I will always have respect for Jesus Jones and the Scorpions.
I agree the 80s influenced the 90s sound, but the 90s sound was more gritty and realistic. A response to the plastic 80s pop culture. I still love 80s music too. But I think 90s music wins all day.
Ah. When the wall came down, the iron curtain drew back, and it felt like we really were 'waking up from history'. Such a hopeful time. How did we make such a dog's dinner of it all?
BY letting our leaders sabotage it with quick get rich schemes in Eastern Europe that drove them away from us again. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Exactly my thoughts/feelings. We were uniquely fortunate. Unfortunately history came back with a vengeance in many places. But what goes down must come up again someday...
Ongoing awakening. We weren't done with the work before us; we were just really optimistic at the time. There was a lot going on that many of us were not aware of. Cell phones and the Internet have done a lot to make us aware of the problems that were with us all along and that many of us were able to ignore.
Listening to this song gives you motivation and pride! The beat is hypnotizing! This song is 33 years old and it grooves 🪨!! One of the many songs that's my favorites!
ARE YOU SERIOUS? 33 YEARS AGO! 33 YEARS AGO. I GOT SHOT IN DALLAS, TEXAS. MARCH 17/18, 1990. ST. PATRICK'S DAY/NIGHT. UNBELIEVABLE ON HOW TIME HAS FLOWN BY ME, THIS SONG AND TIME IT'S SELF.
dude you are so wrong... this era only lasted for about 2 years 1990-91... then the decade totally changed to another style, and cool stuff like this was quickly (and unfortunately) cast aside.
@@willritter4076 you're trippen.. Watch school of fish 3 strange days... Backwater The Meat puppets. Better 90's songs and later..alice in chains, Stp, soundgarden tons more
It’s the kickoff. Berlin Wall came down in Nov. ‘89, Warsaw Pact countries followed in 1990, and the USSR collapsed in ‘91, just in time for Nirvana, I guess. 😆
No other song captured the moment of November 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet empire, like this song. The energy, the hope, the optimism. Not pensive like Scorpions "Wind Of Change", but brash, in your face.
In a decade full of great, great music, this song right here was the anthem of that time for me. It just held it all. We were in our 20s, and it was our time; everything was possible and it was all coming out right in front of us...
Tom Hiddleston was singing in jesus jones waaay before he took to role for Loki. Seriously, i love this song. It has such a cool vibe and brings back good memories. Beautiful.
@@RellenMcDee Hope? Hope is wishing for something better to come. The wall was down and the cold war was done. The chance that the whole planet would get destroyed in a nuclear war dropped way down. You don't hope for something that's already happened. That's celebration!
i remember when i could hear the anthem "we are the world" in my head so crisply...pregnant with my beautiful first born, laying with ears half immersed in the water, in the bathtub circa the turn of the millenium. he was born march 10, 2000. possibly he was already born, but no....i felt big with the fullness and small with the peace, and trumpeted on with the voices of many, in hope and dreams and realizations. My son told me before he was conceived, that he would change everything in this world. Our New Hope
It played out in real-time back in the day , I think as I've gotten older things tend to play out a lot like that , as they say for decades nothing happens and then in no time, decades happen.
@D W we can still hope and act as private citizens, as human beings and as a community. Whining won't help, positive and constructive actions will 🙏. Wishing you and your family all the best 🙏
Wow me and this song are the same age , my how time flies let’s love and value each other I’ve heard this song on so many commercials ,Live from 2023 #Free Palestine
*I remember hearing this song MANY, MANY TIMES, as a little kid, in the 90’s and early 2000’s…* *Brings back many memories…* *I heard this song on a T-Mobile Commercial, and I’m just like, “I HAVEN’T HEARD THAT SONG, since I was a little kid!!!!”* So, I searched for it, and here, I am… *basking in the good vibes and nostalgia…*
I vividly remember. In...it must have been early 1991. I was in my last year of high school. I was in the car with my dad and brother both - to date the last time (or near to it) we've been in a car together. This song was on the radio. We pulled up to a stoplight, and across the way there was some girl in her car. She was dancing her ass off in the driver's seat, clearly to the same song. I don't know who she was, but she was *SO* into it. Her happiness was so contagious it made *me* feel alive and amazed and joyous that I could witness her happiness and abandon in such a hopeful time. So, thanks, lads, for giving me that memory.
This American, who was born 1965, never thought he would see the fall of the Iron Curtain. This band and this beautiful song sums up that hopeful era for me 1989-1991.
With the repeal of roe v wade, while watching so many other major parts of societal evolution pushed backwards 50 years, I find this comment ironic to the point of hilarity.
