I think the magic of the 80's is that great songs like this from that era have this ability to have such a strong association of a very specific time and place in people's lives because they are so good and have so much meaning. I don't think kids today will say the same of a Kesha song when they reach 42 yrs old.
The public and young kiddies in particular are looking back to the 80's and liking what they hear. It's the decade that has been cruelly overlooked by the fashion rather than the tunes. Bands like OMD, Blue Nile, Talk Talk, Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan, Japan, Tears For Fears, Ultravox, Aztec Camera and so many more had great songs that still stand up !
OMDs songs always seem to be able to bring you back to a place in time, doesn't it? whenever I hear this song I go back to my senior year in high school....that was the magic of the 80s music! OMD are just brilliant!
I was born in 91 and i managed to fall in love with the 80's now! Red Dawn, Short Skirts, New Wave, Everything about the 80's is so great! Today's music for the most part, IS THE WORST! I wish they'd take lessons from the 80's. It'd be a lot better of a music scene :') This is some good music from the heart!
So in love for this song... for the 80s... for this band... for music... I can hear each note, word, sound... it's pure & clean music... Thank you so much OMD
This music is never going to let you down .. the 80's was and is a very important time in Music transformation of the society and the mentality ... it endures the time and will never fade away.
This song takes my breath away and its hard to believe that I have waited 25 years to see them playing live ! Dream will come true in about an hour, waiting in front of the theater in Montreal !!!!! : ) We will have a great time !
I was a member of the official OMD fan club back in the 80's....and because of that I won tickets to go to the greatest concert in my life....Depeche Mode 101 at the Rose Bowl..OMD opened for them..it was great!!!!!!!....
Quiero decir una vez más, que me encanta esta canción de los años 80´, escucharla me relaja y me recarga de buenas vibraciones y recuerdos, muy buena..... saludos desde Chile.
Agreed. Great song. I've never heard of OMD in the 80's until this song came on scene. They had a string of great hits in the 80's, it's a shame when people talk about 80's music, this band is often never mentioned.
80s will always remain the Era of Perfect/Sensational/Cool Songs.... everything abt the 80s is unbelievable... i'm glad i'm still alive to compare the 3 decades, 80s, 90s, Y2K.....
I love this song and boy does it bring back memories!! I remember having recorded this on cassette and played this on my walkman when I was flying to then West Germany in summer of 1986. Man, 16 years old and going for 6 weeks on a foreign exchange, seems like yesterday. Always remember hearing this when I was flying over there and looking at the sun rising on the horizon.
This video was made in a south-east county of Spain. Super song and very nice images. They bring you back to the 80´s. Thank you and best regards from Spain.
OMG - I'm going to see them on Monday in Nottingham - loved their music for 29 years! First time I will have seen them live! Can't wait! OMD sums up the 80's for me!! Love them!
In the 70´s and 80´s we were riding a wave of love and need for freedom and peace - born in the 60´s and drawn from the shadow of the nuclear fear from the second world war... we were so naive and the surf was clean... a deep felt respect to every person who fought and lost their lives for freedom - so I can breathe freely today...
I heard this song years after it came out. And even then I reminisced about it. What's wrong with me?! OMD will always be one of the top band of the 80s, over A-Ha and WHAM!
Great song, so many beautiful emotions ! We dont hear that kind today, I hate the 2000's so much that I wish that I would have been stuck in the 80's forever... Forever young !
I remember hunting out Electricity back in 1979 from first hearing it on a late night radio show age 16. And this song reminds everytime I hear it of driving my new XR3i along the hill tops of Somerset England. God how the time has flown by! but so glad I grew up trough the 80s one of the best decades ever. Got to see them in concert again in 2007 and they were just as good as when I saw them trough the 80s. Quailty Group! Nikki
OMD Is by far my favorite band of all time!! They were so amazing in concert... I hear they have gotten back together and possibly doing a European tour....??? I hope they come to Canada!!!!! They are amazing!!! Timeless!!!
Classic OMD. This isone of my favorites of theirs....brings back wonderful memories of being a teen in the 80's. I also find it "hard to believe I was so in love" with him.
CLARO QUE SI!!!!!!!..I LOVE OMD THEY ARE ALSO ONE OF MY FAVORITE 80S BAND...GLAD TO FIND PEOPLE THAT HAVE GREAT TASTE IN MUSIC..THERE SONGS ARE FABOULOUS
Cool ass song. One of my favorites of all time. Brings back memories from my high school days in Chi-town. I can't stop playing it over and over again. Man, I wish I were young again. Reminds me of an old girlfriend. We were so much in love. I miss her. Thanks for the song and video. The place does look like someplace in Mexico.
I remember listening to this song on the radio when I was 14/15. Classic OMD track!! Joan Of Arc, Electricity, Enola Gay, If You Leave, Messages, man are these some good tunes or what?
Yehhhh! Moja muza z lat ... przytulania, pierwszych pocałunków itd... Zagraniczna muzyka disco polo, ale wpada w ucho i przywołuje wspomnienia... Lalalalala:)
É uma delícia ouvir esta música.... Lembra dias de juventude: trabalho e estudo intenso.... pra compensar...., final de semana intenso....! Pra segurar a semana, vídeos na tv com Serginho Caffé! bons tempos que se foram... mas nunca da minha memória, nunca do meu coração!
Esta cancion es mágica, a la vez trsite pero alegre, nostálgica, pura, me hace sentir acompañado libre. Las voces son geniales, un equilibrio total...un temaso de temas..SALUDOS DESDE CHILE, GRACIAS OMD POR SUS GRANDE SCANCIONES
Brings me back to the innocence of college years...everyone was in our little microcosm where everything was certain: exams, study lounges, weekend parties, and financial aids...
unforgettable!!!!!does anyone remember the other classics & tunes like that??omd is the one of classic new romantic sounds:hmmmm ...if I could turn back in time to begining of the 80's? -sure!
This song was my introduction to OMD back in the '80s. They've made great songs before and after this one, but this one remains my favorite of theirs. ^_^
I think I just wen back in time. Thanks for posting this song, makes me feel young again for the next 3 minutes. I remember seeing them at Irvine Meadows in Orange County, Ca. in 1987....
Last friday march 11th, 2 113 485 people viewed and one week later there is a difference of nearly 3 000 views !!! Amazing ! I can't get enough of this video : ) Keep on until 3 million OMD fans !
In the 80's there came - as in every time - a lot of crap and few good bands and singers up. OMD was with no doubt one of the best. Of course, noone who was born later can know or feel how life was in the 80's. I became 15 in 1980. I remember this "age of changes" very well. Almost everything in everyday life started to change. Music and the videos of this time can give only a glimpse of it all. After all, there's no reason to regret anything. ;-)
Nice! I grew up in the 80's as well. Our clubs were the Palladium (also), DV8, DasClub, Club Mirage, The Holy Cow. I so miss those days. Great music and great times. I'd so go back if I could.
Architechts of the synth industry without doubt who brought music to where its at today. Without OMD and their extraordinary style of synth music we wouldn't have the pop groups of the 21st century. The pop groups of today have destroyed everything OMD set out to do, rave was introduced, this bump bump bump music that has no traces of the OMD style in it what so ever. They try to better themselves by taking synth music to a higher level , only OMD can do this , true creators of synth .
I was living in Los Angeles in the mid 1980s, and my favorite radio station was KROQ...this song was very popular on that station and this always brings back such great memories!
One of the super group of the 80's. Not sure if they are mostly wave or a little bit of romantics as well. My favourite OMD song,wich we can turn back to the 80's era once again.
I was In love with a Girl Named Erica when this song came out, I had this song in my head for a very long time. 400 Girls later I still think about my first love from time to time.
the 80's is the golden age of music, is amazing to think how many quality bands were in the eighties, what happenned to all that, can anybody name a new high quality band of the 21st century. 80's
This song bring me lots of love memories about a special girl I love so much...it takes me back to my youth and happy days..it will be nice to see OMD in concert. Chuy
I miss the late 80's I loved new wave and hip hop so scary we r getting old now! :-( I wish I listen to my grandpa wise! Dont rush to get old lavish every moment! Now I tell my kids what grandpa told me.
Yes, I was so in love with you, every second of my life, every heartbeating, you lived inside me and I will never love anyone like you until the end of my life. Beautiful memories, I would give anything to go back to 1985...
