When music was great. No auto tune. No scantily clad people with virtually no clothes on who cannot really sing to grab your attention. Where the hell did I put my time machine.
That's because we grew up in a generation of great music! MTV was MTV and being a teen in the 80's was above and beyond fan-fucking-tastic!! To this day, I still see trails! 😉
Just added this spectacular song to my play list for my dance party with my 4 year old granddaughter. What a song! Our time ruled people!!!! Best music.....63 here and rocking till I drop!
59 here and I tell the young is I’m happy I was born in 1964 because I got to experience Post Punk and New Wave ❤❤ for starters!! I love all genres of music almost anyway!!!!!
Hell yeahhhhh! What a classic masterpiece. How could you not like this band . Iconic tunes, ground breaking synthesizers, beat is old but new . Could listen to this on repeat . Sorry Selena Gomez , Justin Bieber, and Swifties, you can’t touch these oldies
I first heard this a few months ago on my dad's record player and now he gave me it and loads of albums and it sounds so weird not seeing the single... Still, I absolutely love this song
It most certainly was a great time! I graduated HS in 1980 and the world was my oyster! Still is......music was so good back in the 60's, 70's and some of 80's for sure!
The 80's had their ups and downs. It wasn't perfect. I think of all the good times and forget the bad, but I would give my left nut to go back in time to relive it all over again. Journey, REO Speedwagon, British Steel, British Invasion, RUSH, ACDC, the list is extensive. Today there seem to be fewer artists with any quality and talent. Too many samplers. Too man Autotune crap.
This takes me back to being 17yo. I had this album, it was laser etched. Hard to believe it was 40 years ago... I just turned 60yo. An incredible era for music!
... turning 64 later this year, of course I still have the laser etched version of "True Colours", although at first I considered the album a bit more mainstreamed than their wonderful and weird two records before ("Mental Notes" and "Dizrytmia"). Looking back they just added a touch of 'New Wave' to their sounds and 'Poor Boy' is still an eternal fave of mine.
“Faded Flowers” 1985? by “Shriekback” a lesser known Brit band. Cool song. It’s part of the soundtrack to “Band of the Hand” 1986 movie, a cult classic.
Neil Finn was about 17 when he wrote this song! I could barely string a sentence together. I now live in NZ . this is a stunning song by a hugely underrated band. Hello england
'ello Kiwis, yankisorus here, California NOT dreaming!! I was 10 or 11 living in Aussieland, (Melbourne) years ago 'course, this song was #1 on top of the pops Australia 🦘 AND the U.K!! Way ahead of it's time. I mean shit, you could listen to this song today and it doesn't sound outdated at all. My wife who's 10 years younger than me thought it was some pop song from the local 📻 radio!!! Great times the '80's.....
Every summer I'd come to Miami for summer vacation my mom lived here, the year this song came was 1980, I met this girl at the beach and fell in love lol, I graduated in 81 so I moved to Miami with my mother and said goodbye Philadelphia, first thing I did was looked Jennifer up and we started going out and we are still together till this day! I Got You And That's All I Want....
Ken that's wicked cool take it from a guy that's had more girls than 10 guys have the right to. For one Awesome one I'd trade. So good on you and good for you brother. I sincerely wish you the best of luck!!
About once or twice a year I go through a Split Enz period and have to listen to this and Six Months in a Leaky boat incessantly. Both songs are on my death list that I want my kids to listen to when I pass to remember me by. Thank you Split Enz for making such fantastic and memorable music ❤️
Oh my God I have been looking for this song for YEARS! It just showed up in my recommends after listening to a bunch of '80s songs! YES I FINALLY FOUND IT!
funny how growing up in this era u love and enjoy all these songs, then many yrs later u find them again and ur instantly shot back into that time, and u remember all the damn words,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, its a wonderful feeling and sad all at the same time
this happened to be on the radio when I got in my car yesterday and I instantly remembered ALL the words, even though I haven't heard it in 25 years at least!
@@TaigaTurf Accidents Will Happen by Elvis Costello, Let's Go by The Cars, Treason by The Teardrop Explodes, Reward by The Teardrop Explodes, or many other tracks on Split Enz's True Colours album, Up The Junction by Squeeze, or Another Nail In My Heart by Squeeze.
I’m 39. And I only heard this song for the first time last year while watching mtv classic. Since then I’ve gone down a really deep rabbit hole. I wish I would have gotten into the Enz earlier in life, but as the old saying goes, “better late than never”. These guys were geniuses , and if the internet had been around back in the 70s and 80s, they would have easily been one of the biggest bands ever.
Props to the dude in the tan suit not singing or playing any instrument... just swaying to the groove and giving moral support to the rest of the band....
That's Noel Crombie, and he contributed a lot to Split Enz; he designed and made their costumes, designed some of their album covers, directed their videos, and played percussion.
I know a thing or 2 about music and this is in my top Five of ALL TIME best songs for reasons I cant explain. Anyone ever heard actual professional reviewers or musicologists say the same thing? I can't be alone! DAMN!
Man,, I was 3 when this came out… unbelievable.. I love it because that’s all I heard playing from the attic with my older brothers. Incredible memory nothing but the best music in my house across-the-board. 1977! I wouldn’t change a thing.
I love that the verses are made to sound uneasy and anxious; the 007 style muted guitar riff, the Prophet-5 synthesizer lead in the background, punctuating every sentence with a ghostly, distant howl. It's all so suspenseful and really makes me feel like I am alone in my room, lamenting over my love for someone, still paranoid and damaged from a previous relationship; just not trusting enough yet. Then the chorus kicks in all Elvis Costello style, with poppy organ and major chords, and Neil starts apologizing, stumbling over his words to the girl he loves. She wonders why he is so anxious and wound up over what she might be doing without him, behind his back, or when she doesn't answer the phone. "I don't know why sometimes I get frightened." he says, and then seeks reassurance "Tell me you're not lying". This is what makes a song fantastic. It all lines up! The sound, the lyrics, and the topic are all tightly nit; the tone of the music matches the mood of the lyrics, and it all comes together in a catchy song. I'm sure a lot of us have been in that jealous relationship, where you don't trust your lover because you think they're way out of your league, and could have anyone, so whenever you're left alone, you begin to ruminate over how they're probably not interested in you. "Why would she want to be with me, when she could have anyone?"
Perfectly put. The lyric and its accompanying music are telling a story and presenting an atmosphere. All perfectly packaged into 3 minutes! That takes skill!
Nice time to be young. Love this music. No cell phones. No internet, MTV was all about music, no politics, no money, less cars, more nature, Easy meeting new people in person, more freedom, less suspicion and more respect. Comfort and ease is for the old and the 80's was for the young.
I agree with Jimm Bear.Hard to believe this song is 41 years old.I used to listen to this when I was in college.I'm 61 now glad I grew up with the music I did it's so much better than any of the music from today.
A Crowded House video popped up in my feed, I thought to myself that I really liked Split Enz too...searched...arrived here...been at least 20 years since I heard this...still know every single word ! 16 years old when this came out, what a time to be alive...16 in 1980 ...started working at 14...bought my own HUGE Pioneer boom box...best one Pioneer made at the time...bought it at Pacific Stereo of all places 😂
New Zealands never had a better singer songwriter than Neil Finn. He' s so good that the sheep clap when he walks by. I grew up in New Zealand so i can make that joke !
@@gdaym8635 True. You can kinda see it too. I just uploaded a song and video i made for a Split song that some may not have heard from 1982, to see it simply type in the search bar the following title.....Split Enz Hello Sandy Allen Slideshow
When i first heard of Split Enz in the late 70's they utterly blew me away.... got every album and saw them at Hammersmith Odeon.... so ahead of their time! Crowded House were great but it all started here first for me! ❤
This song reminds me of a beautiful man who passed away 2017. Had no interest with the song. I think of him tho when I hear it, so, glad its here to cheer myself up sometimes when I feel blue. Love you Lee. X
I got you, that's all I want I won't forget, that's a whole lot I don't go out, now that you're in Sometimes we shout, but that's no problem I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying Look at you, you're a pageant You're everything, that I've imagined Something's wrong, I feel uneasy You show me, tell me you're not teasing I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying There's no doubt, not when I'm with you When I'm without, I stay in my room Where do you go, I get no answer You're always out, it gets on my nerves I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes you can tell that I'm not lying I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying I don't know why sometimes I get frightened You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
Verses sound like the Cars and the chorus sounds like Genesis! I finally found this song, heard it on the radio and had the one line from the chorus in my head for years !
Here is another song that uses this effect. What I call a ‘tonal shift’. Not a true modulation, but a sort of displaced, or hidden key center. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qGzIKOYJBYo.html
That's cool to know people are still discovering great music from the past. Don't forget these guys, Neil and Tim Finn, started the band Crowded House after this.
@@davidadams2395 True! As a fan of the 80s' (and other decades) I'm always looking and finding new stuff that I missed or was not so popular here in my country. And yes, after a couple of views of this video I was like "wait a minute, I know that face... and that voice...is that the singer of Crowded House?" Dirty Creature and Message To My Girl are also great!
I was 13 wren this was released and turned 54 earlier this month. This song is still in my rotation. If you haven't, listen to Big Country, The Proclaimers, General Public... A few favorites I can think of right now. 💗
@@DeplorableprepperNYC I first heard this about 40 years ago when I was 6 or 7. Few more recommendation's " Simple Minds" , " Duran Duran ", "In XS " Blancmange. I could go on.
***** I was almost 9 years old when this first came out. But I remember it getting heavy radio play throughout most of the 80s and early 90s. The song is that good.
1980, duel edged sword for me. I graduated from high school, however; I met my first wife that last year in school. The rest of '80 was pretty great with 4 mostly shitty years following. I did become a father in '82 though. She was the bomb to anyone that knew her (she passed 5 weeks ago). Not even her ex's hate her, how does that happen? I hate the hell out of my ex's.
My daughter Jacqui, my only child, extended the lives of at least 5 people, one who was hours from death. I couldn't be more proud of her. Thank you for your kind words, it's very touching and appreciated. To be honest, it's substantially easier to type those words than it is to actually speak them out loud. The words often catch in my throat when I try.
I was 27 when I bought the cassette. I'm 67 now and clearly remember driving around in my MG 1300 with this blasting out on the tape deck. Always hoping that it wouldn't chew the tape up.
I heard this song as a junior in high school, we were all at a pizza restaurant called Mr. Gatti's. I didn't really think either way about the song, wasn't sure if I really liked the song, but there was a cute strawberry blonde girl that I had seen before but didn't know her. She said "OMG, I love that song". If she loved it, then I loved it! I was so in love with her, I couldn't hear this song without thinking of her. I bought the record and played the song everyday. Anne Adams, where ever you are today, I still think of you every time I hear this song and I still love this song.
+Stephan Campbell Snow on the roof, but the fireplace is still burning. :-) If I ever lose my ability to enjoy music, be it old or new, I'll pull the trigger myself.
Remembering 1980 in the Living room of My Parents house Watching MTV hearing This And Seeing This For the First Time. WOOOOOOOOT WOOOOOOOOT Best Times !!! 2023
Its got to make you that young age again as well, no good going back to that time but you are the same age as now defeats the object, it be nice to have a machine that can go back to that time and make that young age as well by programming it to do that it really be good then
The magic of Memory Lane is that it erases the bad stuff so you just remember the good times. The reason you look upon it fondly is because you were young then. We all look fondly upon our youths, because everything is amazing when you're young. As we get older, the burden of age and time takes its toll, and if we are not mindful, we often lose the ability to appreciate the amazing things happening all around us. This is when it helps to have a kid or two around--they help us see the world in a new way. There are plenty of wonderful young artists working today--we're undergoing a rennaissance in both film and music, due to a more egalitarian means of production. Sure, there were some GREAT artists from our childhoods, but there are great artists now as well. It's possible to look back fondly while looking around at the present. Enjoy while you can. :)
creepy sounds in the verse, more upbeat in the chorus and the mix is great, the song writing is great. Everything sounds like it fits like a glove and that vid.... man, the effects they added to his singing in the verse were so subtle but you could tell it had some fast parts like they filmed at diff speed. This was right before MTV so this vid ballooned these guys way, way up. Very unusual also to change from minor to major inside the verse back and forth. That's very rare. Usually people start minor then once they switch to major they stay there a while like maybe an entire chorus then verse is minor. Here, 2 lines min, next 2 major. I dont' think I've ever heard that in any other rock or pop song.
