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I took the girl of my dreams to see Pretty in pink, we got married and had three children. I lost her eleven years ago and my heart has never been the same. This song has been one of my favorites for many years.
Right? I too, shared this with someone I loved. He let me go. I still look back fondly on this. But we can't let it affect our lives anymore..We gotta strive to find happiness elsewhere. And when you do, you'll probably regret pondering and wasting your time so much over this person. BUT...who knows? If they come back, it must've been true all along? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
so sorry! my boyfriend died 2mnths ago we used to dance to this song In the living room.he bought the movie and I fell in love with thing song so we played it on the stereo connected to youtube
@@annalizardi amazing group and greT that young people like yourself are listening to music from 80's. Have you listened to Fiction Factory - feels like heaven, The Lotus Eaters - first picture of you, Blancmange - waves or China Crises - wishful thinking. Take care ♥️
Listening to this driving through the heartland, rolling thru the deep, school days, college, loves won and lost... this was played in the background of a lot of those moments.....
Me too!!! Turning the big 50 in August and wish to hell I could back to those days, everything back then just seemed to be better. EVERYTHING!!! Life was easier, let’s put it that way. No freaking cell phones, email, social media!! You actually picked up a regular phone and dialed a number!! But can’t go back so just try to cherish to good times, because there will never be another decade like the eighties man!!!!! NEVER
One of the comments here was a guy saying he’s 49 years old and still loves this song. I’m 66 years old and play these 80s videos/songs over and over again so I can recall those memories, which are many. As a whole decade goes the 80’s we’re my favorite, then the 70’s. Where did it all go? Thank goodness we have our music!
I'll see you and raise you a decade just turned 76 in December and have been loving this song since it was released. By All Rights I should have been well out of the demographic even when it was released, but something about this song just really grabbed me back then. 80s music turned out to be pretty damn good. It took me a long time to realize that in fact I used to make fun of'80s music and then one day I went through all of my hundreds of tapes both store-bought and things I stole from the air with my remote control activated Deluxe tape recorder back in the 80s and I'll be damned if I didn't have more music from the '80s than anything else. I should be totally fixated on music of the '60s which I am because that's more my youth time but the 80s were a great time for me I had a great job, a beautiful girlfriend who was a lunatic in the very real sense I was 39 freaking years old when this was released. Speaking of songs from the '80s anybody here remember It's My Life by talk talk? One of dozens and dozens of Kick-Ass songs from the '80s. I practically had a second childhood in the eighties. Maybe it's because my girlfriend was 27.
I was born in summer of 68 raise in the 70’S thru 80’S and 90’S plus 2K but I rather listen to the 80’S music is always the best damn years long live the 80’S
OMD had alot of Songs but this their most successful on the US Charts where u want to be and Worldwide their signature song they changed their Sound abit so different than Enola Gay
I never realized how much I would miss the 80's and being back in high school. I hear these songs and the memories hit me like a tidal wave. I wanna cry some times.
Yessirrr! All of us do even those of us in the newer generations, I’m 18 graduating high school in less than 2 months here and I can only dream of growing up in the 80s. Sexy cars, Mullets, hot chicks and Rock🤟🏻 And arguably the best part no social media or phones to get in the way.... we live our lives more digitally nowadays than anything even when we’re out and about most of us are thinking about what we’re gonna post on sm or something to those regards we’re so out of touch with the world😂
I was born in '58 so I was in my 20's for most of the 80's. The greatest years of my life. I'd trade every dime I have to go back to being young and broke.
Yes snap! And in answer to the comment above might have been 10 when the song came out but it became hugely popular due to being the closing track on Pretty in Pink.
True, although there was the large mobile phones, and computers were beginning. That is what made it fun, technology was new and exciting, and still we had the innocence of the past.
This is one of those songs from the 80's that immediately takes you to the 80's once again in a transcendence, what happy and innocent times was the 80's this song sums it pretty well. A gem 💎
When i was a kid i loved this song...had it on a radio mixed tape with part of the begining missing...i played it over and over...i still play it over and over on youtube.
@@ImperialValues Amen! I already had a sense of nostalgia back then about those times. I felt like this was home, where I belonged. I remember when '89 came and went I felt a sense of loss. And sure enough, at least to me, the early 90's served notice that the best decade had come and gone.
My dad was a big metalhead but he had a big soft spot for the New Wave scene. I'm so grateful that he showed me the music he grew up with. So much heart.
I listened to British pop when I was teenager. Culture club, Thompson twins, Tears for fears, Depech mode, Spandau ballet, etc. This song leads me that time
Music is and has always been the biggest part of my life. I’ll be 52 next week, disabled due to cancer. I relive the 80’s in my mind wishing to go back to the simpler time and life. Sometimes I feel like crying, thinking of how much I waisted my time here. I get caught up in the music sometimes get totally lost. My wife asks who do these songs remind you of or what are you thinking about when listening to these songs
I'm so sorry to hear about your tribulation James. I weep with you as a brother of the 80's in more ways than you can imagine. And as for getting lost. Yes. Those wonderful times and people are the stuff of which we fuel our soul with comfort beyond reason. All the best to you!
James im so sorry. i sometimes cant listen to my favourite music due to those ive lost, but then its often the most real comfort we can have. Please take care of yourself and hang in there! 🙏🙏🙏💯💪
It’s just that we seemed to do more because it was our parents doing what we now do and have no time for. We had a quarter of a year off school holidays, I was always fishing, out on a bike, with mates playing football
I feel you, James. Eh, I don't understand what you're going through, but just know that although our struggles are different, doing our best to remain positive and strong 💪 will see us through. As for the music, yeah, the 80's rocked.
I don't care what anyone says - the 80's were the best for EVERYTHING!!! Especially, the music - like this song!!! EVERY INCREDIBLE MEMORY I HAVE IS CONNECTED TO THE 80'S!!!
People in 80s said the 50s were the greatist years....Go figure. Every generation is filled with its ups and downs so it doesn't matter what year you're in, what matters is living a good life and doing the best you can do. I like watching the youth discover these songs for the 1st time. Life is an open book so write good lyrics to it and love what you do.
It was 1985 i was 15 and met the first love in my life at a youth camp. Our eyes cross each other again and again, but we were too shy. It was only on the last day of this vacation that we gathered all our courage and spoke to each other. I only touched her briefly, it was magical. The time was up, we had to go. We promised to meet next year at the youth camp again. How life is like that, in the following year there was no youth camp anymore. We never saw each other again. I touched her once, never twice .....
wow. that’s really tough. Just by reading this I learned that I shouldn’t be afraid and take my chance when it’s being handed to me. I’m gonna talk to my crush.
This is not just any song for me. It was The song from my teen years, for the gorgeous girl named Susan at my high school. She was in track, band etc with me, and was all I wanted. I didn’t ever get to hold her. These guys did an A+ job on this deep, emotional song!
My Dream Girl was named Kim. I met her in 1977. I thought that she was the most perfect girl but she had other ideas at the time. WE reconnected in 2010 and got married in 2011. When we were in school I was not her type. Luckily I had a second chance with her and we have been married for 12 years.
lexi love Oh Lexi, I'm sorry to hear that... I won't bore you with advice of how to live your life, etc, but do try to look for the good around you. I wish you the best.
I'm 56 years old now and I enjoyed the 80s + 90s, I don't want to and don't have to miss them. It was the best time in my life, we simply had no internet, everything was much more exciting, you had to arrange the first date by phone and then I was looking forward to seeing you again. The music, the bands everything was perfect. Today's generation with the Internet etc. is not to be envied in any way.
Don't forget the love letters you wrote in your own handwriting! Still got all of mine. I also used the line from the end scene of 16 Candles to secure my first ever date!
@@Yellowtruck55 or on extra thin airmail paper! And then there was going to the post office to post it. And then waiting in anticipation several days for the return letter to be delivered by the postie! It made the heart grow fonder! What a contrast to today's instant messaging!
@@Slotten68 ... But the difference will be in 30-40 years time, people wont be listening to all the trash that's circulating these days, Ive lived a basically normal modern life and have heard if not all the musical trends from the 1950s up till now. Yeah every generation has had their limelight, but when "the 80s" is mentioned yeah well, if you don't know you don't know and you don't need to know...if you were there you were, if not don't rabble about something you wouldn't know about.
Indeed they did! The song they were originally gonna use for the movie was Goddess of Love but John Hughes changed the ending so they had to write this fast. Loved hearing them explain it in detail on Behind the Vinyl!
I was born in 82 so I was just a child in the 80’s, but I got to experience this song along with some other amazing 80’s music due to having older teenage cousins I’d hang around with. God it seems just like yesterday. What I’d give to go back. ❤ This song hits different now. 🥰
I miss the 1980's big time.all the music, movies, cartoons, tv shows, action figures, the jewelry, the posters, the sticker cards, the sneakers & everything else that we grew up with back then.
Then bring it back! There’s no reason you can’t live as if it were still the 80s. I wasn’t born until after they ended, but I still wear double denim and listen to Kajagoogoo on full blast. If you truly love a decade, those no reason to miss it, you just have to live it. There’s far to many people complaining these days about how they want to go back to the 80s, but unknown to them, they don’t need a time machine, they just need a bit of inspiration.
@@hattiecadwell6605 I disagree. I think it’s easy to look back on the good parts of each decade, and in the case of the 80s that’s the music, fashion and film. But there were plenty of problems as well. Reagan’s America, Thatcher’s Britain, 35% unemployment rate where I would’ve lived. The war on drugs, the start of trickle-down economics, much more homophobia, transphobia and racism that nowadays. I’m just happy we can still party to the music from that time without all the crap that originally came with it.
That song embodies first love like nothing else. That beautiful, naive, untainted feeling that you can never feel again once your heart has been broken. Oh how I miss that feeling.
My body isn't young anymore, but my mind and the memories are still that 18 year man back in the 80s, pre aids, it was a wonderful time to be alive and young
Sorry for your loss. May this band and their music work with the memory of your husband to give him back to you, if only momentarily and in your heart.
They were given 24 hours to write this song after "Goddess of Love" was struck down to be the anthem for the movie 'Pretty in Pink'. 24 hours and.. such magic. It made them famous.
If you leave, don't leave now Please don't take my heart away Promise me just one more night Then we'll go our separate ways We always had time on our side Now it's fading fast Every second, every moment We've got to, we've got to make it last I touch you once, I touch you twice I won't let go at any price I need you now like I need you then We always said we'd still be friends someday If you leave, I won't cry I won't waste one single day But if you leave, don't look back I'll run the other way Seven years went under the bridge Like time was standing still Heaven knows what happens now You've got to, you've got to say you will I touch you once, I touch you twice I own't let go at any price I need you now like I need you then We always said we'd meet again I touch you once, I touch you twice I won't let go at any price I need you now like I need you then We always said we'd still be friends I touch you once, I touch you twice I won't let go at any price I need you now like I need you then You always said we'd meet again someday
Tengo 49 años con esta musica revivo cada dia, como muchos, los 70,80,90 lo mejor en melodias clasicas, pasaran 50 años mas y se seguiran escuchando por todo el planeta, a vibrar que la juventud se lleva en el alma, me encanta esta musica!!
