Roddy Frame was probably the best kept secret songwriter of that era. And his tunes were spot on as well. The world should have stopped what it was doing and given him full attention- he was that good.
I went to see Edwyn Collins about 11 years ago at a gig.... and Roddy Frame came on as a special guest. You could see how humbled Roddy was playing with Edwyn and it just made me appreciate him even more. To me, his first three Aztec Camera albums will be his divine Trinity of work.
Tears Just like the jewels adorn their corporate crown Weigh on me worthless And I shake them down and leave now And have no royal things You Would consecrate the ground I paced in pain And though those pavements Caught your sorrow stains, They fall from me and I say Maybe don't fall for anything That says it's never gonna give you everything. I wish myself into your arms To know that all I need is everything The size of the sea And the sun in my eyes And the line in my head Yearning for more Only for more These days are are bright As the days I have seen In the wildest of dreams Yearning for more Only for more I wish myself into your arms To know that all I need is everything Hold back the night I am tired of my sight That won't see anymore More than today Threatening to stay Hold back the night I am tired of my sight That won't see anymore Show me you care Is show me the door
another boy wonder from the 80s....roddy had the whole package...incredible song writing, lyricist ,outstanding guitarist..and killer looks. Sad that their talent didnt reach where it should. Funny coz nowadays you dont even need talents or looks to make it huge..long live the 80s.....
The difference between the 80's and 21st century is that in the 80's no matter how much talent you had, you didn't always make it to the top and in 21st century no matter how little talent you have, you always make it to the top.
Greetings from Peru. I'm 45. I have always argued that the best creations come from UK. And most of them made by teens, 16. Saludos desde Perú. Yo tengo 45 Siempre he afirmado que las mejores creaciones vienen de UK. Y la mayoría de ellas hechas por jovenes de 16.
bought this album after watching still on fire on mtv. became an aztec fan even copied his haitstyle. i listened to this track every night...everyyyyy night. god bless roddy. ylu brought joy to many lads back in those days.
It has been my favourite music for many years and I still listen to it almost everyday. This version is very good and the video I didn't know it. Thank you. Now I'm trying to remember how I was back in 1983. :-)
Tears, just like the jewels Adorn their corporate crown, Weigh on me worthless and I Shake them down and leave now, And have no royal things. You, would consecrate the ground, I paced in pain, And though those pavements Caught your sorrow stains. They fall from me and I say, Maybe don't fall for anything That says it's never gonna Give you everything. I wish myself into your arms To know that all I need is everything. The size of the sea, and the sun in my eyes And the line in my head, Yearning for more, only for more. These days are as bright as the days I have seen In the wildest of dreams, Yearning for more, only for more. I wish myself into your arms To know that all I need is everything. Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight That won't see anymore, More than today, threatening to stay. Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight That won't see anymore, "Show me you care, " is "Show me the door."
I saw Roddy perform live in San Francisco back in the early 80's!!!!! I also got the opportunity to briefly meet him after the show - a VERY NICE chap he was indeed! ... And I have been an American Fan for LIFE since then!!!
I'm sitting here alone drinking red wine and wanted to go on UA-cam and put on a song. This is the first thing that came to mind. Love this song, and Roddy was a great looking guy. I feel better now.
Man how i miss mtv's oldschool days. Hip-hop used to be underground stuff back than man, can you believe it? For me the seventies and eighties were the most easy and experimental periods. electronica was fun and experimental as well till '95 in my opinion, it just feels dead to me nowadays. the trick has been done way too often! I just stick to acoustic singer songwriter stuff lately, some real warmth in there... i like to be warmed =)
I'm with you on both points! Can you believe they used to show this video on MTV in regular rotation? It wasn't lurid, it wasn't crass, nor was it goody-goody Christian rock. It was just pure brilliance. The first 2 Aztec Camera albums are as timeless as Simon & Garfunkel!
thanks for the sharing this - never seen the video before. and of course you can't get the song on CD, album cut is longer and has a call and response between guitar and keyboards that drags in places.
Esto es música y no lo que ofrecen de algunos temas de aranbeat o reggeton etc.. Roddy Frame con Aztec Camera a hecho grandes temas, desde luego escuchas este tema y lo escuchas con Nostálgia.
You never hear this brilliant track on the Radio, if Aztec Camera are played it's always Somewhere in my heart, commercial Radio needs a major overhaul, run by executives who employ yes men as Programme Controllers, rant over.
His elegance never gets old. Aztec Camera was almost the new Simon & Garfunkel. Roddy was good but not great after the Knife line-up. Different sound. Philadelphia Soul. Good stuff. Lacked depth...but not this!
Its too bad Aztec Camera never made it big here in the states. I seem to be the only person I know who even knows who they are. On a side note, I'm not gay but Roddy Frame is a really good looking guy
No, of course not. I'm not saying everyone who hates Michael Jackson is a hipster. However, when some of your main reasons for hating them are that they are "commercial" or "famous", then those are just bad arguments, especially when the band you're defending had 15 singles in the top 100 or so. I don't really think they're hipsters even, but their comments are kind of...dumb. I'm more just playing their game. And Michael Jackson was very good. Maybe not a genius. Again, exaggerating.
Aztec Camera wasn't as popular in the United States as they were in Europe, so we never heard their songs on the radio. A friend put Walk Out To Winter on a mix tape for me and I became an instant fan. I had to order all their albums import from Tower Records in Hollywood, and I have been a loyal fan ever since. His lyrics are pure poetry and his music is brilliant!
Went to see them at the Edinburgh Playhouse in the 80's. The support band didnt turn up, so out comes Frame with an acoustic guitar, apologises and then does 40 minutes just himself, to a quarter full house. He then goes of and ten minutes later comes back on with the full band and does a full set. One of the best performances i've seen.
In 1988 I went to see Aztec Camera at the Royal Albert Hall with some workmates. Our seats were in the boxes. We watched the support act and went to the bar. I think I had drunk just over half of my pint of beer when we heard some music and realised it was the guitar intro of this very song. We knocked back our drinks and ran back to our box for what was an excellent concert. Happy days!
Roddy Frame is such a poet and an equally accomplished musician. I have to apologize to all those young ladies from back in the day who thought I was the lad with the clever words and puppy love notes..... I borrowed liberally from the lyric sheets in "High Land Hard Rain" and "Knife"
Temazo años 80 !! Gracias por este tema y un abrazo a todos los que les gusto esta canción, en las discos de mallorca año 85 sonaba todas las noches ... que recuerdos !!! Desde balearic islands se os recuerda !!!
Roddy Frame regularly gets his fair credit as an excellent songwriter. But there is no other male British pop singer who looks as cool in a pair of shades as he does. And it needs to be said more often 😎
He always looked cool A.F. in these videos .. total Rockstar. Ppl know Roddy is the man. Perhaps Johnny Marr's only true guitar rival, on top of being terrific frontman.
I saw this once on MTV back in '85, never again, but the song always stayed in my head. Always knew who and what. I remembered seeing "Oblivious" before this and thought the band had a unique sound for the time. Great to hear this again after all these years!
This is just absolutely amazing... 80s bands really killed it..
Roddy Frame was probably the best kept secret songwriter of that era. And his tunes were spot on as well. The world should have stopped what it was doing and given him full attention- he was that good.
Yes I think he's a musical genius
And a much-underrated guitarist too 👍
Perfectly put mate
Absolutely. Saw them in a little place on the SDSU campus. What a wizard with the guitar.
Same thing but for #VinceClarke (#Erasure), for people who don’t know him.
More than 30 years after hearing it on the radio for the first time and I'm still loving it.
LOVE THIS SONG FOREVER !!!
I went to see Edwyn Collins about 11 years ago at a gig.... and Roddy Frame came on as a special guest. You could see how humbled Roddy was playing with Edwyn and it just made me appreciate him even more. To me, his first three Aztec Camera albums will be his divine Trinity of work.
Ian Brooke you should give the album Frestonia a chance. It’s AC’s last one and pretty good
I'm from Peru and I loved "Somewhere in my heart". I used to listen that song when I was about 12.
Brings me back to a great period of music - 1984-1985 - just a fantastic song.
i would stretch that to between 1979 - 1985
Let me shake your hand on this, Ralphie. God, I love this song.
Tears
Just like the jewels adorn their corporate crown
Weigh on me worthless
And I shake them down and leave now
And have no royal things
You
Would consecrate the ground I paced in pain
And though those pavements
Caught your sorrow stains,
They fall from me and I say
Maybe don't fall for anything
That says it's never gonna give you everything.
I wish myself into your arms
To know that all I need is everything
The size of the sea
And the sun in my eyes
And the line in my head
Yearning for more
Only for more
These days are are bright
As the days I have seen
In the wildest of dreams
Yearning for more
Only for more
I wish myself into your arms
To know that all I need is everything
Hold back the night
I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore
More than today
Threatening to stay
Hold back the night
I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore
Show me you care
Is show me the door
Sophisticated pop, sophistapop, never goes out of style.
one of the greatest tunes written in the new wave era...
Agreed. A lost classic
Roddy Frame was very good looking and such a young musician. I had this album when I was a kid. I have always loved this song.
We were so fortunate to come of age at this time. Amazing music.
one of the best ginger kids of all-time.
At Roddy Frame concert in Glasgow October 2011. Forgot just how great he was! Can't stop listening now!
another boy wonder from the 80s....roddy had the whole package...incredible song writing, lyricist ,outstanding guitarist..and killer looks. Sad that their talent didnt reach where it should. Funny coz nowadays you dont even need talents or looks to make it huge..long live the 80s.....
so in love with Roddy Frame since 1984
The difference between the 80's and 21st century is that in the 80's no matter how much talent you had, you didn't always make it to the top and in 21st century no matter how little talent you have, you always make it to the top.
Incommensurabile! Musica di gran classe!💙
E senza tempo!
what a handsome man...
Roddy Frame is the most underrated artist of his generation. This is a forgotten masterpiece.
Greetings from Peru. I'm 45.
I have always argued that the best creations come from UK. And most of them made by teens, 16.
Saludos desde Perú. Yo tengo 45
Siempre he afirmado que las mejores creaciones vienen de UK. Y la mayoría de ellas hechas por jovenes de 16.
Thanks Oscar. And you guys gave us Nobby Solano who was the best little footballer of his generation :-)
@@danielward7008 Nobby!!! interesting ...., here we call him Ñol Solano. Have a good day!!
Hey, Now I am 56 !!!
bought this album after watching still on fire on mtv.
became an aztec fan even copied his haitstyle.
i listened to this track every night...everyyyyy night.
god bless roddy. ylu brought joy to many lads back in those days.
He’s so lovely ♥️
Great song😃👍
It has been my favourite music for many years and I still listen to it almost everyday.
This version is very good and the video I didn't know it. Thank you.
Now I'm trying to remember how I was back in 1983.
:-)
He is so cute!
il avait une belle voix surtout dans cette chanson…..Un peu comme Tony Hadley l'ex chanteur de" Spandau Ballet" ou Rick Astley.
aww he is
Tears, just like the jewels
Adorn their corporate crown,
Weigh on me worthless and I
Shake them down and leave now,
And have no royal things.
You, would consecrate the ground,
I paced in pain,
And though those pavements
Caught your sorrow stains.
They fall from me and I say,
Maybe don't fall for anything
That says it's never gonna
Give you everything.
I wish myself into your arms
To know that all I need is everything.
The size of the sea, and the sun in my eyes
And the line in my head,
Yearning for more, only for more.
These days are as bright as the days I have seen
In the wildest of dreams,
Yearning for more, only for more.
I wish myself into your arms
To know that all I need is everything.
Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore,
More than today, threatening to stay.
Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore,
"Show me you care, " is "Show me the door."
this song is in my top 50 of all time
I saw Roddy perform live in San Francisco back in the early 80's!!!!! I also got the opportunity to briefly meet him after the show - a VERY NICE chap he was indeed! ... And I have been an American Fan for LIFE since then!!!
Roddy is so adorable!!
I'm sitting here alone drinking red wine and wanted to go on UA-cam and put on a song. This is the first thing that came to mind. Love this song, and Roddy was a great looking guy. I feel better now.
Havent heard that for over 20 years.Forgot how good it was.
one of my favorites
The boy wonder! For those who don't know it: do go to the full album version, which includes a serene little guitar solo section ...
Even at the age of 15, Roddy Frame was like Messi with a guitar
Bellissima, quanti ricordi...mitici anni 80
right there with you. wonderful times :-)
Amazing songwriter!
Esta canción se la dedico a un amigo de verano en el pueblo, Miguel Angel estes donde estes va por ti amigo
He's so pretty, like...he could be KD Lang's little brother. A sweet androgenous look. LOOOOVE his music!
This song is like Prefab Sprout and Style Council together
CLASSIC OF STATION RADIO 99, LIMA-PERU, 1984
Great song indeed...and a great band.
Knife as the first album (vinyl) i bought by them.
I served me well to expand my English vocabulary :)
awesome tropical beat
Man how i miss mtv's oldschool days. Hip-hop used to be underground stuff back than man, can you believe it? For me the seventies and eighties were the most easy and experimental periods. electronica was fun and experimental as well till '95 in my opinion, it just feels dead to me nowadays. the trick has been done way too often! I just stick to acoustic singer songwriter stuff lately, some real warmth in there... i like to be warmed =)
I'm with you on both points! Can you believe they used to show this video on MTV in regular rotation? It wasn't lurid, it wasn't crass, nor was it goody-goody Christian rock. It was just pure brilliance. The first 2 Aztec Camera albums are as timeless as Simon & Garfunkel!
I love Roddy ❤️
So underrated!
he was so fucking gorgeous omg!
Most importantly brilliant song writer
thanks for the sharing this - never seen the video before. and of course you can't get the song on CD, album cut is longer and has a call and response between guitar and keyboards that drags in places.
Paul Weller's in Roddy Frame talent?
Good Times!
buena cancion!!!
@AlbanianMan yeah im 18 and my dad introduced me to them! think he got it from his days in Australia, but love these guyss
Roddy is a genius
Esto es música y no lo que ofrecen de algunos temas de aranbeat o reggeton etc.. Roddy Frame con Aztec Camera a hecho grandes temas, desde luego escuchas este tema y lo escuchas con Nostálgia.
Really? The only time I ever remember seeing Aztec Camera on MTV was during 120 Minutes. God I miss that show
awesome!
Sublime
You never hear this brilliant track on the Radio, if Aztec Camera are played it's always Somewhere in my heart, commercial Radio needs a major overhaul, run by executives who employ yes men as Programme Controllers, rant over.
NEO Acousticといえば このグループと言うか、ロディフレイム
この暑い夏エンドレス
で聴いていたい🎵👍
心地いい､このﾈｵｱｺ･ｻﾆｰ･ﾋﾞｰﾄ､ｱｽﾞﾃｯｸ･ｶﾒﾗの"ALL I NEED IS EVERYTHING"～頑張るｽｺｯﾁﾏﾝ､ﾛﾃﾞｨ!
great stuff
His elegance never gets old. Aztec Camera was almost the new Simon & Garfunkel. Roddy was good but not great after the Knife line-up. Different sound. Philadelphia Soul. Good stuff. Lacked depth...but not this!
Jazz meets synthpop
Then what is it?
Listen to the structure of the song the cords the phrasing my explanation of it is spot on.
Chandler Nunley absolutely agree with you! it's what new wave is all about - a fusion of musical genres! :)
Post-punk jazz pop
That’s basically the definition of sophisti-pop which is what this style is called. Think ABC and Style Council too
Nice comment dfresh. The song goes really well with red wine
earliest acid jazz
This would be great for video game music.
oh i was a teenager
warner música japan
Roddy is the biz.
top
loneliness
Fu@kim cool song.... Talented Rody collons true
カツオのタタキ
ストレートなラブソング？
Roddy wrote some banging tunes
Its too bad Aztec Camera never made it big here in the states. I seem to be the only person I know who even knows who they are.
On a side note, I'm not gay but Roddy Frame is a really good looking guy
ME SUENA UN POCO A SPANDAU BALLET
Gabriel Alejandre PIENSO IGUAL SOLO QUE CON UN POCO DE JAZZ
Cierto! Aunque también me recordó a Boy George, saludos desde el Perú 😀🖖
No, of course not. I'm not saying everyone who hates Michael Jackson is a hipster. However, when some of your main reasons for hating them are that they are "commercial" or "famous", then those are just bad arguments, especially when the band you're defending had 15 singles in the top 100 or so. I don't really think they're hipsters even, but their comments are kind of...dumb. I'm more just playing their game. And Michael Jackson was very good. Maybe not a genius. Again, exaggerating.
REUNION TOUR NOWW!
7 peaople are human, 191 153 are to
1985: awesome song
2023: awesome song
2085: awesome song
Aztec Camera wasn't as popular in the United States as they were in Europe, so we never heard their songs on the radio. A friend put Walk Out To Winter on a mix tape for me and I became an instant fan. I had to order all their albums import from Tower Records in Hollywood, and I have been a loyal fan ever since. His lyrics are pure poetry and his music is brilliant!
The instrumental version of this song was used by the mailbag programme on Radio Canada International (shortwave) during the 80s
Was so popular in Japan. Boys appreciated sounds, and girls loved face. Later on, Ryuichi Sakamoto produced them.
It's so popular right now in Uruguay! FM Stations are playing too much in 2024!
Went to see them at the Edinburgh Playhouse in the 80's. The support band didnt turn up, so out comes Frame with an acoustic guitar, apologises and then does 40 minutes just himself, to a quarter full house. He then goes of and ten minutes later comes back on with the full band and does a full set. One of the best performances i've seen.
Vídeo please 😵
How many other bands would just leave the lot to wait 40 minutes... wish I was there. Or well, alive.
So wish I could've been there!! He's a prodigy
You lucky person!!!
that was an awesome experience, you're so lucky
the blow monkeys , everything but the girl, curiosity killed the cat , heaven 17, aztec camera : the 80s
all great musicians. They played with the heart.
Dr Robert, Frame, Weller, L Cole& Thorn all awesome live. Proud to have seen them all.
Dream Academy, Thomson Twind, Style Council, ABC...and quite a few great ones
Style Council as well
María Lourdes Alonso damn! We were so fortunate to come of age at that time. It was magical.
In 1988 I went to see Aztec Camera at the Royal Albert Hall with some workmates. Our seats were in the boxes. We watched the support act and went to the bar. I think I had drunk just over half of my pint of beer when we heard some music and realised it was the guitar intro of this very song. We knocked back our drinks and ran back to our box for what was an excellent concert. Happy days!
Summer of 85
.in Algarve Portugal..i have now 58 years old. God times with friends.
Eurico from Lisbon
Roddy Frame is such a poet and an equally accomplished musician. I have to apologize to all those young ladies from back in the day who thought I was the lad with the clever words and puppy love notes..... I borrowed liberally from the lyric sheets in "High Land Hard Rain" and "Knife"
20년 전부터 들어 2021년도에도 듣는 음악! 음악부터 외모까지 어떻게 이렇게 완벽한건가요.
같은 한국인이라 반갑네요 그러게요 언제즘 질릴까..
this guy always had an interesting way w/ jazz-like cadences.....awesome.... pure genius.
Temazo años 80 !! Gracias por este tema y un abrazo a todos los que les gusto esta canción, en las discos de mallorca año 85 sonaba todas las noches ... que recuerdos !!! Desde balearic islands se os recuerda !!!
Roddy Frame regularly gets his fair credit as an excellent songwriter. But there is no other male British pop singer who looks as cool in a pair of shades as he does. And it needs to be said more often 😎
I am American, and I belonged to their fan club when I was 15. Getting that mail was the greatest thing ever. I love Roddy.
He always looked cool A.F. in these videos .. total Rockstar. Ppl know Roddy is the man. Perhaps Johnny Marr's only true guitar rival, on top of being terrific frontman.
This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard
Yup… 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼
It rules 😁
It's like the Smiths and Culture Club made a song together.
I saw this once on MTV back in '85, never again, but the song always stayed in my head. Always knew who and what. I remembered seeing "Oblivious" before this and thought the band had a unique sound for the time. Great to hear this again after all these years!
I loved this song since watching this video on MV2 in 1985
It´s sad that there were so much good groups in 80s and many were messed up and now we don´t have so much. It´s a pity. They were fantastic.
Rafael Masiá Tarazona the 80s did produced a bumper crop of artists that will stand out had they come out today!
Adam Ant
Some are still fantastic, OMD, Adam Ant plays well and all the time in England. Coming to America in 2017 and sold out many places.
Guauuuuu un millón de gracias for sharing this jewel!
中学３年生の時に受験勉強をしながら毎日聞いていた思い出の曲です。Upありがとうございます。
The boy wonder! The man is even better. Brilliant singer songwriter!
Superb rhythm guitar on this track. It's kind of latin like Matt Bianco and then like the Smiths or Haircut 100. Brilliant.