Totally agree. Soft Cell, Duran Duran, Communards, Simple Minds, OMD, Human League, Deacon Blue, Prefab Sprout, Spandau Ballet, the list is endless, I could go on forever..... Nothing comes close to matching the 80's today.
@@storrho Yeh, can't remember the club they were from, but it was a kind of home base for the New Romantics- Boy George and Culture Club are another of the club's alumni.
@@Mr11ESSE111 I think Steve Strange was more fringe than Phil Oakley. Plus I feel Human League was more commercial. So for me the early 80’s will always be bands like Visage.
I used to design high-end car audio systems back then. Used this to demonstrate to a client how good the system in his vehicle sounded. We sat there in absolute silence to this song, it was so good.
That is a cool story. I was dancing to this with my friends at the school fete. We tried to look so cool then, I think we were (for the duration of the song)...
It's an astonishing piece of work. For me, it does for the '80s what Bowie's 'Sound and Vision' did for the '70s. It made living a pretty miserable life seem somehow desirable. It helped me through some atrocious periods. 👌
I was 14 when this song was released. It still sends chills down my spine! So blessed to have been born when I was. All this fantastic early and mid 1980's music. The sound track to my youth and even now in my 50's. Truly glorious days of fantastic music. Oh to be a teenager again and to go back to the early 1980's. How great that would be. Rest in peace Steve Strange a true and utter south Wales legend ❤❤❤❤
This must be late 80 or early 81 as I was in my first year of secondary school. New school, new kind of music. Felt like a new birth for me and so always takes me back to a time I felt euphoric for life. The make up in this video isn’t surpassed even today it is exquisite
One of my favourite 80s songs..i bought the single with my pocket money. I was born 72 so was only young when this debuted...loved it. Still do...absolutely iconic.
I'm 60 now so was in my early 20s. I was an ardent New Romantic. Everybody dressed individually and creatively and tried to make the best impression lol. I've only recently seen some of my favourite bands live with my daughter who is also into it. Gary Numan, Ultravox and Human League. They still perform to packed out venues.
I'm 60 next week - a true '80s' teen. These amazing songs were our party music...what an honour to have made it onto the Brit pub/club scene ...my youth was magical. Went to see my favourite '80s' band -- OMD -- with my 23-yr-old daughter in Nov '21, in April '22 we went together to watch Echo & Bunnymen ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Que ceux et celles qui n'ont pas vécu ces années charnières se taisent et écoutent.On peut reprocher aux années 80,gold,images ,mader et toute la clique mais les groupes made in britain c'est de la pépite pour vos oreilles!!!
I was a very little kid and this song used to spook me to tears, each time it came on the radio over the 80s. I suppose it touched the spot it intended to touch. The whole atmosphere is dramatic. I was very musically sensitive, and grew up and became a classical musician. The music of my first few years of life, my childhood, the 80s, remains indelebile inside me 💖
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I'm Desiree from Balcatta WA and I used to dance to this song in Betovens and Ponochios Nightclub great memories I rocked out in the 80:s it's my 60th Birthday!❤❤
I've been thinking for some time that this is perhaps the greatest song of the entire '80s decade. The surging synth, those superbly placed percussion beats, the desolate lyrics in English and French sweeping in like a fog-bank. The atmosphere of this masterwork stays with you long after each listen. The video is great, too.
I was born in '95... Even when I was a child (3,4,5 years old somewhere)... My parents bought me a small children's cassette play-deck... And my tastes originated from good music, like Boney M, 70's, 80's music... In other words "modern" *pop* music (at least in the last decade or so) simply makes me wanna barf lol... Its a disgust to my eardrums ^__^ I know that 99.8% that comes from the 80's -- its awesome :)
Eben..., ich höre bis heute sehr gerne diese Hits. Dagegen kann man mich mit diesem heutigen Techno-Kram oder all dem, was so ab Mitte der 90's heraus kam, echt jagen...
+IKE66 I agree - but do you like Underpass (Jon Foxx), Games Without Frontiers (P.Gabriel) and Echo Beach (Martha and the Muffins) too? I'd put them alongside this.
2:23 this part of the song, and especially, the video, with the disappearing makeup, is truly powerful, and gives me chills! What a talent, what boldness! It feels like they got their creative ideas from the Beyond. Just found this song a few days ago, can't forget the vibes, the chills, the beautiful darkness of it! I'm a big fan of 80s euro disco, italo disco, synth pop and hi-nrg, how could I have missed it? Always keep discovering amazing new things from the past.
This song has always been in rotation on my playlists, and I absolutely love it. So hauntingly beautiful and gloriously 80’s. So glad I was able to kid of that era. ❤
@@valgehiir right. and it was created with basic equipment. a cr78 drum machine, a solina string machine, polymoog brass and a simmons sds1. no editing software, no computer.... thats what i find so great.
And 70's too. I would say ESPECIALY 70's.Look at all those amazing rock bands from UK. Actualy, Britain was ruled always. No compare to British musicians...
@@33neptun Britain always ruled music? Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Telemann, Handel, Mahler, Schumann, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Pachelbel... the list goes on of the greatest composers in history, and they are all German. Mozart was Austrian, so close enough. Don't get me wrong, England ruled music throughout the 20th century, but to say they always have is not true. They definitely played a good game of catch-up, although bands like Queen and Led Zeppelin make you think twice about that. Remember also, the synth-driven 80s would not exist without Kraftwerk...
I was a teen in the 80's and me and my friends and all our carefree weekends at nightclubs where the best music played and filled our souls not realizing that those were going to be the best times of out lives.
Oh que oui!! Sans aucun doute je pensais que la musique serait été toujours aussi belle ❤❤ Hellas je ne pouvais savoir que l'électronique détruirait même ma musique si belle si douce et si sincère, je pleure l'adieu de cette musique génération 70'80'et 90'!!!! L'être humain se retrouve orphelin de ces générations !!!
This song has to be played on my funeral, thank god I was a teenager in the eighties and witnessed all of these great and precious songs when they had been released...Fade to grey , for me, ist the best synth/pop song ever written by a mile and influenced my life since it appeared in 1981, love it❤❤!
One of the true songs to put a young dreaming mind to sleep by radio luxembourg way , and now this voice is silenced , this world is created by our music , songs , and rythms , so musicians never die , they float on to more hardships...happy trail my friend , sorry to hear of your passing !
No joke had a dream last night where i was making out with 2 busty females in a silk bed with this song playing over and over. Easily one of the best dreams i ever had. woke up in a splendid mood for once.
Absolute classic song from an incredible era for British music. The years 78-82 were perfection that brought us so much quality, the list is almost endless. Visage, Ultravox, Teardrop Explodes, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, The Police, The Jam, XTC, Duran Duran, OMD, Human League etc etc. Today's music will never have the shelf life that this era has. Name me ten classic songs from 2010-2015 that will be on the radio in thirty years time? Not a chance. Not anyone's fault, it's just the way it is!
One of the most ingenious songs of our pop history and unique at all. For 1981 already amazingly progressive. A great produced, timeless, mystical-melancholic sound, which perfectly stages the statement "We fade to grey" to our fate with an almost somewhat frightening truth and irrefutable absoluteness. Simple and sophisticated at the same time. Absolutely ingenious.
I so loved Visage back in their day. Great synth sounds and brilliantly produced. A real canvas of sound. This was the last meaningful era of music we had imo.
It's crazy but we were so fortunate to live through the most eclectic decade of modern times.... soon to be 56 and would not change a whole lot of those 10 years
@@FriesinNF So, smart-aleck, why people of your kind keep obsessing over ancient songs then like this one ?? Along the lines of "the grass is always greener on the other side". Stay in YOUR generation then for heaven's sake and don't listen surreptitiously to music that's basically none of your business!!!
in 1982, I was 13 when I heard this song for the first time. I very remember for what occasion. Since then, it has never ceased to move me. Thank you Visage
I was 16 when I first heard this song. It was not in the eighties, but it was a real revelation and enlightenment for me. I was overwhelmed by this music, although not everyone understood me, calling it primitive.
