KJ, along with the Clash, also the Jam, are my best teenage memories and I feel privileged to have had this music in my life. I had to edit this to include the Jam. In my 20’s however, Fugazi blew my head off! Thankfully the head reattached itself and I’m OK now, thanks for asking 😂
I wish I'd heard this version back when I first encountered the band back in 1983. 18-year-old me would have fucking loved this song. 56-year-old me still does.
I turn 56 on Wednesday. Brit from the eighties is amazed at how prescient kj were lyrically. New cold war, I am the virus, eighties... Jaz definitely has some inside information 😂😀☮️
What a fucking sound that bass makes. It still gets me that Youth was only nineteen when this was released (Big Paul was the eldest in the band at the grand old age of 21).
As I have said...and others...This version is in our opinion..the better version. I like the album version...but its slower. This is more where KJ were going...more raw power..more frenzy..more energetic....more The Wait style. Pylon speed. Wouldnt this be the original version...since it came out before the album version? I'll take the original! A rockin song needs to rock. Not a million miles an hour...but this is a good rockin speed. But in the end...we all love both versions..lol
I need to hear this daily. I love what you did with Fred. We're still dancing for the big show, just outside the door. The music with images have a perfect chilling exhilaration.
keep coming back. This is THE version! Original! Came first! Too bad. Its rockin and dark and powerful. Stomping and marching! Driving! Not too slow.....just mmmm right! They should play it like this!
You did really a good job in chosing, rallenting, linking the 'moving pictures' with the music of this fabulous track (only got the LP, IMHO the single is more "punk", the LP version, more "metal"). How marvellous was the Post-Punk/Hard Wave style ? And "Follow the Leaders","Madness", from the 2nd KJ album? Then critics pretend to crown U2 as the best 1980s "ROCK" band...
A lot of people have commented, on my news feed THIS VIDEO IS RACIST & UPSEPPTING TOWARDS CERTAIN PEOPLE.. I reply IT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW! AS IT DID THEN... ! If the folk don't like the video.... ... WHY FUCKING WATCH IT!??? LAUGH? I NEARLY BOUGHT THE VIDEO! 🤣🤡🤡🤡🎵
Agree - the dalek-style singing and sheer aggression of the album version seem more powerful and disturbing than the slightly sneery delivery here. Plus the coughing and retching are a bonus.