Same age as you are. 1988 wasn't exactly the best year for me. But I know what you mean. Still, the 80s weren't all roses and peaches. But to each their own.
I have a late in the birthday and I was also 21 or 22 years old and you are so right! Music was always good and united us then like it doesn’t anymore! We need that again!!! We were very lucky to have grown up in the 80’s!!!
SAME I was 21 in 1988 and just began my career as flight attendant living in San Francisco coming from a tiny farming community in Indiana .. I was living my best life… we were the blessed ones
I first heard this song on the radio in the 80s, driving alone at night on a lonely highway and could see the stars ✨ above in the night sky. What a memory!
I used to love weed..music like this took me somewhere when i was young but with a more mature educated ear its the same now without pot..but well weed was cool😂😂...i just cant smoke it because of probation 🤣😂
My son passed away in January 2022. This song was saved in his videos. Now it’s saved in MY videos, and I listen almost every day. I’m so glad he saved it. I knew he had great taste in music. ❤️💔❤️🩹
Yup. For me it is the music AND videos together that do it for me. "She's So Young' by Pursuit of Happiness, 'Mad About You' by Belinda Carlisle, 'Our Lips Are Sealed' by The Gogos. "One More Color" by Jane Siberry. These songs make my heart ache with nostalgia. Ugh...If I could time travel back to the 80s, I would do it in a heart beat.
"The Ghost in You" by the Psychedelic Furs affects me greatly to this day still. I am 62. If that doesn't say something about the 80's music, I don't know what could.
Around '89 at 19 I went to Australia to meet a couple of friends who had went ahead over a month before. We were from California. They had been there trippin around and partying made a few connections. Around the Sydney area. I bought a ticket to join them but one of them got their arm tore up pretty good with glass in a bar fight so they came home. I decided to go anyway and stayed at an apartment at the top of Bondi beach with one of their connections. I stayed about a month and half even worked in a warehouse. Damn the beer was good. Victoria Bitter VB is one of the best the world has too offer. Anyway, one quiet Sunday night this American kid 7,000 miles from home walked up to the cliff overlooking Bondi Beach and the Tasman Sea. I put this on my headphones and looked Northeast towards home at the sea and up at the stars. Pretty amazing life is. Some moments and some songs are pretty damn amazing.
Every generation has it’s favorite music that was playing in the background of their lives. I’ve been looking for that “time machine” to get me back to the 60s and being older -- not a pre-adolescent.
It's 1988 and I am sitting outside looking up at the night sky. I have been drinking with my best friend in college and thinking I never want to be anywhere else OR with anyone else. Now it's 2022 and we have been married for over 27 years but this song takes me back to when we were just two kids in college.
Same here! Colorado State 1988, Fraternity House Party jamming this and others for everyone so happy on the day/late night just grooving and moving so fluidly. I can remember it like yesterday and thought I never wanted this moment to end… and I was so right!! Best times of my life. Happy days & PERFECT Music to go with it!! Love the 80’s jams… still 😅❤
And it's a reminder of what a great country Australia is. I have lived in three different countries, now in my fourth. Can not pass Australia for it's landscape, vast space, the skies and how visible they are from afar. Everytime I get on a plane and return to Australia I think, I am blessed! (Despite it's political social problems)
Donnie Darko brings me back every single time! They'll never be another era like the 80's and what it did for music! Too bad RU-vid is the closest any of us will ever get to experiencing a time machine lol. Hope Life is treating everyone well. Wes
Grew up in the 60s, 70s and had two older brothers who let me listen to all their great music, but for some reason, the 80s is MY music. I don't know... maybe it was because I was out of college and on my own and free to do whatever i wanted that went along with all the great music. I know a lot of 80s music was synth pop, but the second British invasion was fantastic! The Cure, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, Dexy's, Dolby, Duran, Eurythmics, A FVCKING FLOCK OF SEAGULLS!!!!!, THE FIXX, Heaven 17, Human League, Idol, Howard Jones, Modern English, Naked Eyes, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, Thompson Twins. Awesome 80s!
Hard to believe those of us who lived the 80’s are about to start, now starting or half in our 50’s when it feels like yesterday. I was warned time flies, but did I listen?
Like you're holding hands with 30 years ago...like remembering the glimpse you had back then of who you are now...someone stepping on your grave...now and then all at once.
@@clayr9833 a glimpse 30 years from now, when now will be 30 years ago... holding hands with the memory retained after the grave... now and then all at once
18 yo me working in a music store, playing this song every twenty minutes. The Church, The Cure, The Cult, The Psychedelic Furs, Bauhaus, Echo and the Bunnymen , gosh just on repeat. Good mind space
I miss the record stores and the good times and trends they set by allowing people to shop for music . My phone is only good for revisiting the days of my youth . I was 25 when this was released in record stores not phone apps ..
Agreed, my friend. Strangely, I had never heard this song until about ten years ago. It immediately nabbed a place of honor on my "running" playlist. It will remain there for as long as I'm able to hit the road.
@@robertjackson3819 where the HECK! we're U!! U just got hip to THE ⛪ CHURCH in 2012? when the album STARFISH debuted in '88? How 'bout XTC? U ever of them from the 80's?: WAKE ⏰ UP! No. Go listen to Wake Up by XTC. Seriously.
@@petegobeckli1386 Alright, Pete. I checked out Wake Up and loved it, but I suspect you knew I would. And I have to confess, the 80's was the decade of my life that I'd like to forget, so I probably missed a lot of good music.
My girlfriend and I would listen to this in the spring of 1988 and we both knew the world would get bigger than both of us, I miss her but I know we are both doing really well, gen x is the best 🎉
I had forgotten about this song until i heard it in the car today. Turned my whole miserable day into a much better day. I finally came out of the hell I've been. Of course it's always the best song when you've reached your destination. I cranked it in the parking lot until end of song. How music can change your moid so quickly says a lot about an artist who can do this to you.❤
I’m 56, been a fan since the mid 80’s, got to see them in about 85. A guy I met in College, we became friends over this band, he passed away a couple of years ago from a heart attack, gone too soon 😢 I saw his widow shortly after and she said “Matt always loved The Church, and when he talked about them, your name would always come up” made my cry, it’s amazing how wonderful music is an interwoven part of our lives. I’m really looking forward to their new music in 2023 🙌🏼
I was living in Hawaii when this song came out. It was played religiously at a bar called The Wave in Waikiki. A testament to incredible 80s music and times. Indelible indeed!!
It’s 1988. I’m at the University of Iowa. Young and good looking I come across the beautiful girl we spent the day together and listen to this song. I wonder where she is now? Does she have grandchildren? Is she happy. This song is haunting. There’s no other song like it. It immediately brings you back to your youth.
It's 1988 and at a college north of NYC. Same story but not listening to this song per se but this song was big for me back then. But yeah, with Facebook you know to some degree (if people share)... Anyway, puts all of our little dramatics in perspective in the vastness of this galaxy and the universe.
I bet most metal heads have guilty pleasure songs they like, & why bloody not. I love everything from punk & metal, & lots of stuff like this. Cheers 🍻
@@robertmacivor3786 It really was! My kids tease me that I'm stuck in the 80's. I admit that I am - but it was an awesome time! Music was amazing. You had lots of talent, lots of different "sounds" to music, and not this cookie cutter crap of today.
Well they never really made it 'big'. This song is one of the only, if not the only, that they were known for even at the time. Gold Afternoon Fix was a well-received album & just when it looked like they were going to ramp it up, they just disappeared instead. Despite how great this song was- it literally was the precursor of those Goth era sounds & mellow lamenting melodies. Fits perfectly with The Cure & Echo & the Bunnymen. Like somehow if all 3 bands could collaborate a new album of music & tour together, it would have that dreamlike quality.
How we all have changed music, memories, loved ones passing on, reading peoples pieces of love on here, and, all i want is just one good day to go back in time and say I really love you.
I think for it to be a peak of musical creativity it would have to be an overall greater departure from what was popular in the previous era than others. 80s might be it but I think it could be 60s as well. A lot of stuff since the 90s feels relatively derivative compared to these times, not that I don't think excellent has come out in the last two decades, it just doesn't feel quite as ground breaking.
This came on the radio last week while I was in a taxi riding through the chaotic streets of Mexico City. The windows were down, the air was warm and the cabbie cranked the radio up. I thought, “Life is pretty damn good”.
cool I live in Cebu Philippines I have the same thoughts some times when I am in a cab here......I always like riding with older cab driver who play the radio on 80 s stations
It will never be lost to many of us.....I keep coming back to this one, time and again. Played this in a cover band back in the 90s....one of the easier tunes to learn, but you really have to find a great vocalist or it sounds funny. Fortunately we had a guy who had the same register as Steve Kilbey. Short lived unfortunately.
The entire album, Starfish, is an all-time classic. We drove from Mobile to NOLA to see them when they were on that tour, but Tipitina's was sold out. We ended up listening from the parking lot and ended up having a great night. ❤
My best friend gave me a mixtape (yes, a cassette) back in 1992 that I took with me to Somalia when I got deployed. I appreciated this song so much. It helped me get to sleep as I literally was looking at the stars ✨ out in the open at night.
Maybe our age gap is not too far cuz I'm feeling the same as you do. I'm starting to feel the effects of getting old in my body and it sucks and painfull most of the time.
80s music reminds me of times when we used phones to actually talk & make plans to get together. People were definitely more connected back then. We actually visited each other in people's homes, met our friend's families. Technology is supposed to improved our lives. But the further we advance, the more disconnected we become, the more we stray from what really matters. What's happening today, the fear driven agendas, the corrruption of government the endless inane chatter of "influencers" and lies from social media, the total lack of empathy & connection among people... It's a disturbing antithesis of what the 80s were. And it's leading the world down a dark path.
This song will always remind me of one summer evening in 1988. Some friends and I ended it by taking a walk through the cemetery at midnight. In the car on the way back home afterwards, we heard this song. Through the sunroof, we could see that the dark sky above us was full of stars. The driver of the car that night has since passed. It’s been 15 years since Chris died, and every time I hear this song, I think of how much I miss him, how much I loved him, and wish I’d known what he was looking for. Maybe he’d still be here if I’d been able to help him.
this is such a similar bridge that i've crossed. my friends (in the early '90s). would spend weekends at cemeteries at night. our unabashed friend, Jay (boyfriend to my best friend ~ i "hooked them up" & they were soul mates), had killed himself much after early 2000. i wrote a book about suicides to honor his living spirit and will always remember his presence. to this day, she says he was the love of her life.
I cannot believe I was a freshman in high school when this song came out. I remember the radio stations in Houston always playing it. I wanted nothing more than to grow up back then and now, at 49, I'd give anytime to be that kid again, in my room, listening to the radio and daydreaming about the boy I liked.
I think what you mean is so-called recycling sub contractors panic that they can't hit their profit targets as well as come in on the quote they gave municipal government, originally intended just to undercut everyone else and secure that sweet sweet public fund gravy train. So they cut corners. Landfill half of it or sell it to the far East. Everything is recyclable if you put the effort in.
Oooohhh what a glorious masterpiece!!! Lennon/McCartney wish they had ever written such an otherworldly glorious Pop tune - O well, The Church, they did !!!
Fell asleep last night a few too many beers in... woke up to this song playing. Usually don't have autoplay on, but man am I happy I did last night. Beautiful. And as others have said, timeless. Sounds like it could've been from the 90s, 00s or even 2023. Never would have guessed 1988. Great stuff.
Late June afternoon after coffee, 5 beers and a gummy bear here I recline inside my mind with such beautiful sonic bliss inside memories of ghosts from so long ago
