You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now, is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's........Priceless, and I wouldn't change them for the world!
I do love the 70's and the 90's music, but the 80's is something special, and the fact i was a teenager throughout it means i really was very lucky indeed. I pity those coming through to adulthood today, they don't know what they missed.
I first heard this song in 1990 (thanks to my maternal aunt Cheryl), the year I finished high school and started college. I'm 52 and still enjoying Ultravox. I even borrowed two or more CDs from my local library with Ultravox music on it.
Im 18 and i grew up with this type of music. I literally adore 80s music all thanks to my mum who’s music taste is brilliant. These days teenagers are only listening to commercial music. Ultravox is in my spotify wrapped 😹💗
I mean in their day people called the new romantics movement a more commercial and poppy take on the New wave nerds that had come before. There's great music in all generations and genres, just a lot more mediocre stuff that wont survive the years.
I loved Ultravox as a teenager. Our generation grew up under the shadow of the Cold War and this song perfectly encapsulates that. This and Vienna are amongst their best.
In 2023,..i am 58/59..shortly... And still listen to Ultravox in these ever changing times and war torn world,..were ever there maybe such goings-on.. Thank you Ultravox for your music..gr8.
One of the best ever videos. Hard to watch at times, such are the emotions it generates. And, with Midge Ure in charge, you are also guaranteed a haunting, beautiful song.❤
Dancing with tears in my eyes Weeping for the memory of a life gone by Dancing with tears in my eyes Living out a memory of a love that died It's five and I'm driving home again It's hard to believe that it's my last time The man on the wireless cries again It's over, it's over Dancing with tears in my eyes Weeping for the memory of a life gone by Dancing with tears in my eyes Living out a memory of a love that died It's late and I'm with my love alone We drink to forget the coming storm We love to the sound of our favourite song Over and over Dancing with tears in my eyes Living out a memory of a love that died It's time and we're in each other's arms It's time but I don't think we really care Dancing with tears in my eyes Weeping for the memory of a life gone by Dancing with tears in my eyes Weeping for the memory of a life gone by Dancing with tears in my eyes
The 80's, what a fantastic era for music and for this literally awesome song and video by Ultravox. Written in 1984 when the event of a nuclear war could have started and what this song is about. Here we are again in 2022 and the world is in an even more unstable crisis than back then. The possibility of it happening now seems more likely and a real possibility. If it is going to happen this is how I would like to go... Should it occurr, God bless you all Hiroshima Mon Amour (Foxx/Ultravox) In their own right as the "frontman" of Ultravox on seperate occasions, John Foxx and Midge Ure are in their own unique way are what made both versions of the band great. They are possibly two of most decent and sincere and talented influential musicians/song writers there have been in the music industry and deserve a damn site more recognition. They are the only band, in my believe, were neither versions were better than the other. Thank you for giving us ULTRAVOX RockWrok
I first heard Ultravox in 1984 I was in 8th grade one of my classmates had their cassette so we listened to as we waited outside for our next class teacher. Just that one song got me hooked on them. Still enjoying there songs today in 2022.
Pesnata potsetave na edno cisto, nepokvareno vreme, vreme vo koe sekuj zaljban par bese original en I prekrasen, vreme nerasipano.. Vreme koe veke... JOK... IT'S GONE😢
First band I saw live. 1984 ~ Set Movements. Southampton. They set the bar high and so far never seen a better band. I started playing the bass because of Chris Cross.
As a teen in the 80s I remember the threat of nuclear war , but it helped produce some awesome tracks . Nazareth , pop the silo is well worth a listen .
We are all dancing with tears in our eyes these days when watching TV and seeing wars and hoping that nuclear weapons will not been set up for destroying more lives of humans HOPE THAT THEY WILL STOP THE WAR NOW 🙈🙉🙊
🇮🇹.... INIZIA LA CANZONE E PARTONO I RICORDI 🤔 GITA ALLE SUPERIORI , NEL PULLMAN , LA MIA COMITIVA I MIEI AMICI... AHIMÈ... LA MIA GIOVENTÙ ORMAI LONTANA , QUANTE COSE TI VENGONO IN MENTE , DURANTE L'ARCO DELLA CANZONE , IL POMERIGGIO AD ASCOLTARE MUSICA CON LA MUSICASSETTE 📼, PER LE VIE DEL PAESE , A PIEDI MA SEMPRE INSIEME, QUANTO MI MANCANO GLI AMICI DI QUEL PERIODO CASPITA 🤔 , SALUTI DALLA PUGLIA ✋😜✋
I used to have The Collection compilation album in the 80s both vinyl & cassette & I had an audioline walkman which I used to listen to on my way to work in the mornings. I totally rinsed that album this song Hymn & of course Vienna being my 3 faves at the time. LOL.
According to lead singer Midge Ure, the lyrics were inspired by the Nevil Shute book On the Beach, which is about a group of people in Australia awaiting nuclear radiation stemming from a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere. "They knew it was the end but they had time to think about how they wanted to choose their final moments", Ure stated, "And that’s what “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes” was about." (Das Lied beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, was man im Falle einer nuklearen Katastrophe in den letzten Minuten seines Lebens noch tun würde. Es geht um die Erkenntnis, dass das eigene Leben unausweichlich ein Ende finden wird und einen das zu Tränen rührt. Das Lied wurde in Midge Ures Musicfest Studios in Chiswick im Südwesten von London aufgenommen und von der Band selbst produziert. In Belgien wurde der Synthie-Pop-/New-Wave-Song ein Nummer-eins-Hit.)
The sound affects at the start of the music video are reminiscent of those at the beginning of Ridley Scott's science fiction film entitled Alien (1979).
