@@Toodle.Pipp001 I watched it happen here in San Francisco. Then the students get radicalized. But not all of them some of the best sidewalk graffiti is way cool for the good guys.
Highly underrated band (and singer). Just fucking amazing, to be blunt. I loved them decades ago, and today at 60, I make my neighbors nervous as I crank up the old Bose speakers and play some Romeo Void and a handful of other 70s-80s bands. 'It makes my garden happy,' I tell them, as my wife rolls her eyes.
We used to play this song at our college dorm dances in 1982. It was also a staple on KROQ, a Southern California alternative radio station. The 80's were prolific for some of the most innovative and unique music. I miss those days.....
I had KROQ, KLOS and KMET stickers on my Bumper cruising down Beach Blvd on Friday/Saturday nights in the 80s blasting this and everything else coming outta those radio stations.. Even Pirate Radio that came out of Catalina Island
Back in the 1980's I listened to WNUR 89.3 from Northwestern University and they would play this song without bleeping the F word. Excellent tune. BTW, I'm 75, I was born Feb 1946.
Romeo Void was playing a show in Boston. They ran out of songs so they just jammed. They started with that intro then the rest of the song. Rick Ocasek from the cars heard that intro and recorded this song in his studio. The rest is history.
@@BobBurnsOB Oh duh. Yes, Iconic! it sucks though, I saw a little documentary about a reunion they did idk how many years back and the original guy who played sax on this has tinnitus, so he can't play anymore. ;(
Happy 70th Birthday Debora Kay Iyall 29 April 1954 Romeo Void "Never say never" Love that song.. Yes, that girl with the baby face is now 70. Many, many more Debora
It would have been nice to see where they would have gone if Columbia hadn't been fucking tools and pulled support. They were unique and had a great sound, Romeo Void deserved so much better
Sadly we are now living with the devastating repercussions of the 80s, the worst decade politically and in terms of mainstream music but the lesser known and alternative bands are a gift that keeps on giving.
I am absolutely confounded as to why this song is not up in the mega millions of views. It's one of the coolest songs the 80's ever produced. And it was cool without trying to be cool. Really shocked this hasn't been rediscovered by a new generation.
When I ask people in my click ever heard of Romeo void, nobody even knows who they are ? I'm like what ? I play the song then most remember the song , at 1st I play a woman in trouble is a temporary thing, no male recognize it, woman tho all of them remember that song
I was 25 when this song came out and it was always played at the clubs. Everybody got up to dance including my wife (my girlfriend at the time). We are both 66 now and to hear this, brings back those great days of clubbing at NUTS AND BOLTS in Toronto.
I first heard this song in that badass 🎬 movie I think it was called Reckless I'm guessing with the Adrian Quinn and Daryl Hannah and then it came out in that other movie that's a great movie too with DiCaprio The Wolf of Wall Street good stuff !!
@@vincesmith2499 You’re partly right. I think it was a mistake for the record label to not promote the lead singer and embrace her largess. There have been a few fat big women rock stars including mama Cass who was loved by the public. I think her fatness coupled with her tough East LA personality should have been more emphasized. Kinda like the anti Madonna.
They were in the rotation on 106.7 (The World Famous) KROQ all the time... Rodney Bingenheimer (one of The Roq's DJs) interviewed the band on his show.
Caryn D Prescott I'm gonna assume that's a yes Caryn ! The 80's had the best music! I'm so Greatful to have been there for it all ! Duran Duran, The Fixx, Talk Talk, Psycadelic Furs, New Order, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Berlin, Simple Minds, Tears For Fears, were just some of the bands I listened too ! I worked in a Club in Cocnut Grove Miami, I listened too great music made great money, forgive me for saying this but I went home with a different girl every night all you needed was an eight ball of Coke and the ladies were there lol....
@@kenbray5682 I remember all of those bands. I taped their songs off of the radio, (WLIR in Long Island, NY) and me and my friends bought the records and made mixtapes for each other. No sex or drugs though. Just rock 'n' roll 🤣😁
I did all I could to support them. I purchased multiple copies of their albums. Made my own Romeo Void t shirts at Kinkos and other t shirt making shops when others wore Van Halen , Queen , Dio etc. I didn't care .I liked Romeo Void and that's who i promoted all the time for years and still doing so right now.
Absolutely right. I can only imagine what great songs this magnificent band would have created, so talented and special. and it seems they were also victims of marketing, taking away support for their image, ignoring their artistic potential. as you say it is a crime. well I thank their members for their work that they left us.
Absolutely im a 80s metal guy who grew up in the 80s on the lower east side cbgbs mud club maxes And this song is the epitome of 80s bad ass shit ..Just great memories my 68 Dodge Charger my German Shepherd and My Beautiful hot 5ft9 Irish gf you know who you are the sex the youth Romeo Void and this record just brings me back..I hope everyone in this band understands the great feelings listening to NEVER say NEVER, God bless just amazing music til its to late, mucho respect!
@@jamestolson2526 Listening to it I discover more and more I like. The guitar in the background has an edge of hurried intensity to it. Back when this was hot I was hitting the new wave clubs listening to the likes of Flock of Seagulls, etc. with my now ex-wife. Sadly those good times didn't lead to a good marriage. :-/
I was lucky to actually meet Deborah one night in a club in San Francisco. It was my pleasure to tell her that this song was one of the songs that inspired me to pick up an instrument and start playing in bands!!
The 80s were the best days ever!! This song would have never worked without this QUEEN😂❤SHE NAILS IT!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ #80sgreatness This band...was amazing 👏🏻 😍 underrated!!!
At the San Francisco Punk Reunion she watched my piece Purging the O in Other and she commented, "She's Naked". Proud moment hearing my idol praise my work
Back in the day all it took was to hear the opening chords of this and people would literally be fighting to get on the dance floor. 40 years later this still slaps.
Nah. There were a lot of media products, but the bad ones were just erased by the flow of time, and now we only remember the good ones. The same thing with every decade.
@@JudgeHill I could not agree with you more!!! We absolutely DID know we had it good, but couldn't have imagined the drastic changes ahead. Personally speaking, I feel as though 9/11 was "the paradigm shifter". I was 30 going on 31 when it happened and it almost feels like 2 time lines now.
Does anyone know how good they have it? When they'd rather complain than find what's good in the world? Did older people beat the "your generations music sucks" line over your heads til you couldn't tell anymore? Maybe don't do that to the next generation...too fucking late.
Ahead of its time? Sounds like it came out in 1978, not 1981. Good song, but definitly not ahead of its time. I mean punk had moved on. To put this song in perspective, Remain in Light came out in 1980.
Yeah but does Once In A Lifetime have a saxophone solo!? I don't think so! Who looks dumb now!? Still me probably for being petty! But whatever, I totally feel better now!
abcdefh1992............... The two most over used words on your youtube are "Ahead of it's time" and "underrated" when almost always the song was exactly OF it's time and most of the time the band or song was greatly acknowledged.
Matthew Wilson..............So a saxophone solo puts the song "ahead of it's time? Lot's of songs have sax solos in them, Who Could It Be Now by Men At Work comes to mind and that song came out around the same time. Were they ahead of their time too?
Artful Dodger More like the effing suits didn't find her attractive enough to front a band and recommended getting a sexier singer to take her place. The music was more important than making money for the greedy bastards upstairs so a deal was never struck. That's what I heard, anyway.
Handy Man hear, hear--they and Iyall were great, anyway they say that living well is the best revenge, I'm faceback friends with Debora and she has had a good life as a teacher and artist, and she is happily married.r
Deborah became an Art Teacher in my high school (Desert Hot Springs High School) around 2013/2014, I'm not sure if she's till there. Around the same time Wolf of Wall street was released and featured her song. Pretty dope fact.
Nadia Valdovinos Way dope fact, Nadia ! I’ve wondered whatever happened to her for years. Gotta be around somewhere. She was nutso talented, and very charming and intelligent when I met her. Glad to know that she gathered herself after the band. Thank you for the update!
Saw them open for U2 in 1981 in the Student Union Ballroom at San Jose State, during U2's first tour of the US. Place was so packed, the building was actually shaking. Oh yeah, the show was free.
I think she wasn’t as big-maybe on the West Coast but not on the East Coast. Underrated! Her voice was better than Debbie’s ... & you are talking to someone who is picky and old school!
The lead singer in Question name is Deborah Iyall and she is 62 now and she is Native American. very sharp and intelligent woman for some of you that only see size. Romeo void had Been together for for a couple of years in late 70s. she is also an activist with her native people.
Deb, you got the last name wrong. It's Eye-ALL...and lemme tell ya, her family will let you know it! I know a lot of her family, and her Uncle Ray. Her cousin Mike was a friend of mine, killed by a drunk driver after dropping off Uncle Ray after a Dawgs game at UW.
@Hippy Gumbo You clearly have neither heard or seen Orson Welles from back in the day. Since your attack reference is about Deborah not being a stick-figure, interchangeable parts Barbie doll, it is entirely unsurprising that you are unaware that Orson Welles was actually pretty fit in his earlier roles.
I was surprised and instantly saddened to come across this comment. I can't believe this is the first I've heard of Ric's passing away - that was almost 6 months ago. Another amazing icon of the 80s who was a huge part of my 'coming of age' with music as a child. I also wasn't aware of his producing career - not surprising at all.
Fall of '84 I was working at a downtown SF hardware store and Ben Bossi was a regular. He'd come in for his bulk packs of Norton ear plugs and we'd have a word or two about the band and the club scene. Really nice guy. Was saddened to hear of his death last December.
My mother got me into Romeo Void and I've been forcing my partner, my friends, anyone who will listen to me to listen, this band is so incredible, it has a sound that I've never heard replicated before. It's just brilliant. The very sound itself is so expressive, top it off with such thought-provoking lyrics... just incredible.
Very cool. I'm at an age - sadly - where I cannot drink and smoke and stay up late like I used to, but this song makes me want to. Everything about it rocks!
Such a tragic band. Love them. Lead singer was an alcoholic for a long time. Bassist is still extremely embittered by how the record company handled the band. Sax player went deaf, can't even hear his own music anymore. It's frocked. This was such a good band. And not just this song. Go listen to both their albums. They're both really good from start to finish. I try to crank on Never Say Never at every juke box I come across.
I cannot BELIEVE in 2015 people are dissing this song because the singer weighed more than the average 20-something female pop singer. You don't have to like the song - it wasn't written to make one feel comfortable, and punk/new wave was not/is not for everybody, but making derogatory comments about this work, just because the singer had extra pounds, is IGNORANT. Criticizing her weight has NOTHING, nothing at all to do with the great and ORIGINAL music this band created, for a very brief time, during a rare time in pop music history. Now go listen to your old Back Street Boys' CD's - they kept the weight off, so I guess to weak tastes, that music sounds better.
Lyndra Ski Unfortunately, American minds have regressed a lot since the time this video was made. I think ideas about gender appearance for women are much narrower than they were back then - not that Deborah was considered conventionally attractive then, but there didn't seem to be as much of an insistence on all women looking like Barbie dolls as there is now. In the seventies and eighties, even female models were much more muscular, and thus less skinny, than models now, let alone the cookie-cutter female pop singers around these days.
colibri1 Even in the Modeling industry, when they hire what they call plus "size models", thinking they are being innovative and risky, their idea of "plus size" is what we normal people would call an average body type. I personally, find chubby women very attractive and skinny women.... not so much. It is sick, that the media cannot seem to look past a woman's body and see a talented singer, actress, or a beautiful woman who would be a great model.
Jeffrey P Is this about the music or your war with models and the size and look of the lead female singer...its very insulting to the singer ..who cares what you prefer .
When I was little my parents played this song a lot so I thought it was really popular, like something everyone knew until I was 17. I was asking my parents questions about music when they where my age and my mom mentioned organizing a concert at her college that Romeo Void performed at. I had no idea they where a local underground band
I'm fairly certain this made the Australian charts. Which proves that if good music product receives exposure then Australians will and do buy it. i bought the 12" vinyl. " O Superman " by Laurie Anderson made the top 10 in OZ, I bought " Big Science " the album. In the late 70's and early 80's I didn't have enough money to keep up with buying all the quality music.
@AJtheory Nope, try again. Where did you ever get the idea A.) punk was linear, B.) punk was musically defined only by three chords and screaming, or C.) punk fit neatly into a single decade/discrete "quantum packet" of time/history. Wrong on all counts. For the record, "New Wave" was more of a marketing ploy to make less stereotypically punk sounding or seeming acts palatable to the general public. Think about it - how else could some clearly and self-admittedly punk acts not only get airplay, but actually hit the charts? I'm talking about real contemporaries of the "classic" punk icons if not those selfsame icons.
Great guitar riff intro, Debora Iyall has an amazing voice. I first heard this song in 1984 in the movie Reckless starring Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah. This song opened the door for me for post-punk.
Yes this is an all-around excellent song. Beyond that, as a young girl, I was fascinated by this band-especially the singer. That a bigger girl could be so confident, so brazen, and sexual in a sea of beautiful female singers blew me away. She was the original body positivity poster child. Bringing it!
GTA Vice City has brought me all the way here. I am forever thankful to listen to a lot of great 80's classics like this. When I first heard it while I got chased by the cops on Vice City, I was researching a lot what the song was actually titled? Luckily i remember the lyrics and it's a very hard hitting catchy song that ages beautifully. Plus the singer has an incredible voice too :)
