The same reason all their other songs that should have been hits weren't and the same reasons everyone else's songs that should have been hits or bigger hits weren't: people are effing stupid, have no taste and are driven buy the dictates of shitty fashions. In other words, you unerringly support utter crap like slagdonna, the S/A/W shit machine, Spamhead Ballet, Madness, Cure, Weller, Sting, Phil Collins, Wet Wet Wet, Bros, dumb novelty records and even decent people with underwhelming songs (George Michael) or ones that have yucky songs &/or lousy voices (Tina Turner, Whitney Houston)! No decent artist allowed to have a chance more than a few songs that get 'luckier' than all their others. This China C song like all of them deserved to be much higher! But people are twats!
Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple, shake the tree Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple, grind coffee To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody etc.. This Shakespearean-esque sonnet reached no1. and then reached no1 again at a later date Tragedy and Mystery reached no 46. The universe never said it was fair :)
@@ajs41 It so isn't. This song, 'Arizona Sky', 'St. Saviour Square', 'The Highest High', 'You Did Cut Me', 'No More Blue Horizons (Fool Fool Fool)', 'All My Prayers' (awesome & rudely cancelled 1989 3rd single from their last 80s album) & 'Scream Down At Me' (plus many things left on the albums) are superior, as good as 'AAW' is.
@@kyachdistent1301 All My Prayers would not have been a hit. It is a good song but without a remix it would not have charted. More album track than contender for successful single.
@@eightiesmusic1984 Bullshit, it's perfect in the version that turned up on the finished album. Anyway, it's not like it helped the singles beforehand did it, nor the 2 chalked up to follow the 1st 2 off the previous album from 1986. Even 'The Highest High' missed out and most people went for that album. The year is 1989 and no one is going to chart ANY CC song with the likes of slagdonna, Kylie Minogur, Tina Turner, Wet Wet Wet, Bros, Jive Bunny & c/rap and all else suffocating the charts. Remix my arse. Clearly that's meant to be the 3rd single on a very cool album anyway.
Another great song! These true artists don't care about everyone and make their own way..They are always true to themselves...I will always be an 80' s girl and listen to their wonderful songs... needful in these days!!! R.I.P Kevin Wilkinson...
the biggest tragedy is that so many great songs from the 80's didn't get into the top 40, this being an example proving that the record buying public oftenly got it wrong.
What's this all about this song along with christian, hanna hanna, working with fire and steel, black man ray, and african and white pure pop gems that should have been top ten hits among the most under rated 80s bands ever without a doubt.
I absolutely loved this when it was first released. It got a lot of airplay, will never understand why it wasn’t a hit. To be honest they’ve never written a duff song - very underrated songwriters. Looking forward to their 40th anniversary concert 👍🏻
A certain sensibility and connection with eternal issues like dealing with change and being open and honest with each other. Good lyricists and nice melodic tunes. Thank you guys...
Really like their sound. As a child i thought this typical synth music from the U..K mostly, sounded so grim. Ffw a decade or 3... i just love it. The grimness is nothing compared to what we see nowadays. I love how during the eighties there was so much experimenting going on with vocals. The balls they had to keep pushing. Also they had great content lyrically. Not line after line of meaningless teenage issues.
Grim? But that's a compliment, it means writing about serious issues and unlike the likes of Weller's shit group The Jam and dumb idiots like Madness & Spamhead Ballet, China C had serious things to say. I don't get this 'grim' thing, guitar-based music is grim. Not only does it always sound more dated than synth lines, but it usually gets boring quick. And don't term this 'typical synth'. Nothing 'typical' about this awesome tune or EVERYBODY could do it. Typical guitar-based crap is what I'd term Bon Jovi and other shit from the 80s without an important sound, or who are just bad jokes. And typical disco crap is what the likes of slagdonna the untalented does. And dumb kids music like Wham! & Michael Jackson and icky ear-splitting love ballad bull from Whit Houston, Tina Turner and all those boring women, then the awful S/A/W machine. And more guitar-driven icky crap like Phil Collins, Sting. Yuck. Thank God for REAL talent like China Crisis!
Very good band in 80 s ,and i was young back then so id say there also was ,many other great bands so much going on back then ,from the jam to sex pistols and spandau ballet ,omd ,joy division ,could go on and on forgot blondie .
Ravaging tragedy came along, but thy strength didn't sway thee along, it is as fierce as the sword of light, in guard ye lights that emanates in the vastness of places of truth. /./././RHD/G.M Industries. Thank you.
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This is the first time I have heard this song. I feel it is more important now than it was then. There is more mystery now and it has a degree of darkness
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Absolutely brilliant single! How this was not a bigger hit is completely bewildering.
The same reason all their other songs that should have been hits weren't and the same reasons everyone else's songs that should have been hits or bigger hits weren't: people are effing stupid, have no taste and are driven buy the dictates of shitty fashions. In other words, you unerringly support utter crap like slagdonna, the S/A/W shit machine, Spamhead Ballet, Madness, Cure, Weller, Sting, Phil Collins, Wet Wet Wet, Bros, dumb novelty records and even decent people with underwhelming songs (George Michael) or ones that have yucky songs &/or lousy voices (Tina Turner, Whitney Houston)! No decent artist allowed to have a chance more than a few songs that get 'luckier' than all their others. This China C song like all of them deserved to be much higher! But people are twats!
Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees
Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody
etc..
This Shakespearean-esque sonnet reached no1. and then reached no1 again at a later date
Tragedy and Mystery reached no 46. The universe never said it was fair :)
The album probably sold well😊
Same applies to Arizona Sky to me their best ever song
Agree
One of the best Liverpool bands to grace the 80s era. Hits like African and white, Christian made them great songsmiths.
African and White is by far their best song in my opinion. Especially when you consider it's from 1981.
great song indeed
but then we can't forget
Christian and that monster hit wishful thinking
@@ajs41 It so isn't. This song, 'Arizona Sky', 'St. Saviour Square', 'The Highest High', 'You Did Cut Me', 'No More Blue Horizons (Fool Fool Fool)', 'All My Prayers' (awesome & rudely cancelled 1989 3rd single from their last 80s album) & 'Scream Down At Me' (plus many things left on the albums) are superior, as good as 'AAW' is.
@@kyachdistent1301 All My Prayers would not have been a hit. It is a good song but without a remix it would not have charted. More album track than contender for successful single.
@@eightiesmusic1984 Bullshit, it's perfect in the version that turned up on the finished album. Anyway, it's not like it helped the singles beforehand did it, nor the 2 chalked up to follow the 1st 2 off the previous album from 1986. Even 'The Highest High' missed out and most people went for that album. The year is 1989 and no one is going to chart ANY CC song with the likes of slagdonna, Kylie Minogur, Tina Turner, Wet Wet Wet, Bros, Jive Bunny & c/rap and all else suffocating the charts. Remix my arse. Clearly that's meant to be the 3rd single on a very cool album anyway.
Fantastic Liverpool Band
Love the bass line.
Love bassy heads that will appreciate such sweet things.
Bass player Gazza Johnson is still in the band
and also the bassline of "African & White"~~~~~~
The days when everybody loved music and regardless life itself.
The thinking man and woman's music.i wish I could be trapped in a 1980s bubble never to escape
Steve Levy's oboe, saxophone and flugel horn is pure perfection. He gave China Crisis an unique sound. The bass in this song is so cool!
Simply beautiful melody
Absolutely . Loved his oboe , and the bass is awesome . !
I don't like pop music but China Crisis , the most underrated band in the UK musical history, the poetry of their songs will be in my heart forever.
80's is the best
Simply the best I love um
absolutley spot on
“Underrated” to you not to those who know their class!
absolutely 😊
Even my mam in the 80s liked this song. Amazig bass line.
Great band,and even better musician's, and song writers....Greetings from Ireland
Grew up listening to China Crisis.. love this song.
Uk and 80 s: the most perfect couple ever.
@Dylan White If you could please explain what you mean by that...
except for poor people
La escuchare una y mil veces!!nunca me cansare, una joya
New wave elegancia del rock , los 80s los mejores años
Another great song! These true artists don't care about everyone and make their own way..They are always true to themselves...I will always be an 80' s girl and listen to their wonderful songs... needful in these days!!! R.I.P Kevin Wilkinson...
"Wishful Thinking", "African & White", "Black Man Ray"......
Only started listening ta these over a year ago just brilliant
"Christian" is also a beautiful track. I recommend the extended version available on UA-cam.
Maybe cos there there the best band ever
Ditto 🙏💖
Class Is Permanent 💕
the biggest tragedy is that so many great songs from the 80's didn't get into the top 40, this being an example proving that the record buying public oftenly got it wrong.
Kelvin Wilkinson, hero of mine.. SK ( Scotland ) Seen them in Glasgow Uni and Royal Albert hall,during the 1980s. Absolutey brilliant....
What's this all about this song along with christian, hanna hanna, working with fire and steel, black man ray, and african and white pure pop gems that should have been top ten hits among the most under rated 80s bands ever without a doubt.
Spot on bud ✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@MELLYBOY58 thanks for the reply fella thought it was just me hey! you are on the same planet as me thank god.
@@stevepettit2064 We have good taste bud ✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@MELLYBOY58 cheers yes we have wish everyone else had.
@@stevepettit2064 No hope for some bud ✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧
I absolutely loved this when it was first released. It got a lot of airplay, will never understand why it wasn’t a hit. To be honest they’ve never written a duff song - very underrated songwriters. Looking forward to their 40th anniversary concert 👍🏻
They remind me in some ways of xtc, great songs, never had the sales to match, never understood why
its a great song
I’m sick of people classing proper bands as underrated, they’re only underrated in your opinion for Fuck Sake!
@@HarryFlowerrs I’m praising them I don’t know what you’re talking about
@@HarryFlowerrs I’m praising them?! I don’t know what you’re going on about
A brilliant song from a flawless album.
40 years later and this song is still relevant. It could have actually been written in 2023.
I found this gem while browsing through old playlists from John Peel (on BFBS in 1983). What a lovely tune ❤
Wow I have forgotten just how good these lads are.
A certain sensibility and connection with eternal issues like dealing with change and being open and honest with each other. Good lyricists and nice melodic tunes.
Thank you guys...
Definitely thoughtful lyrics. Often poetic.
Amazing band, love the 80s music 🎶🎵🎶
Absolutely love them still fab today saw them sat night at the tapestry arts Bradford
Really like their sound. As a child i thought this typical synth music from the U..K mostly, sounded so grim. Ffw a decade or 3... i just love it. The grimness is nothing compared to what we see nowadays.
I love how during the eighties there was so much experimenting going on with vocals. The balls they had to keep pushing. Also they had great content lyrically. Not line after line of meaningless teenage issues.
Grim? But that's a compliment, it means writing about serious issues and unlike the likes of Weller's shit group The Jam and dumb idiots like Madness & Spamhead Ballet, China C had serious things to say. I don't get this 'grim' thing, guitar-based music is grim. Not only does it always sound more dated than synth lines, but it usually gets boring quick. And don't term this 'typical synth'. Nothing 'typical' about this awesome tune or EVERYBODY could do it. Typical guitar-based crap is what I'd term Bon Jovi and other shit from the 80s without an important sound, or who are just bad jokes. And typical disco crap is what the likes of slagdonna the untalented does. And dumb kids music like Wham! & Michael Jackson and icky ear-splitting love ballad bull from Whit Houston, Tina Turner and all those boring women, then the awful S/A/W machine. And more guitar-driven icky crap like Phil Collins, Sting. Yuck. Thank God for REAL talent like China Crisis!
"tragedy and mystery open your mind and you will see." It's their music to listen to.
Really good Rythim melody...and much better from today songs....Oh Yes Very Yes
Something wonderful about this song..❤
Chulisima esta cancion....ellos fantasticos ...que tiempos..80,90,los mejores años para la musica.,.
The masterful song , better even than Dont you want me . Not matched until Enjoy the silence ( Depeche Mode) nine years later.
Banda adorável. Amo demais! Tenho em vinil o "Working With Fire And Steel de 1983, e o Flaunt The Imperfection de 1985".
👏👏👏
Que temaso...jose de paraguay...80s
Saludos desde Guarambare Py
Very good band in 80 s ,and i was young back then so id say there also was ,many other great bands so much going on back then ,from the jam to sex pistols and spandau ballet ,omd ,joy division ,could go on and on forgot blondie .
Rediscovering this amazing group.
Great band and very underestimated .
The soundtrack of my childhood ❤
Genius is never recognised in it’s time, I hope China Crisis are. Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!
As an east Londoner, I'm flattered that CCfilmed a coule of their videos in east London< Scousers are my northern counterparts.
Recognise Shad Thames and London Bridge as I live right there
Beautiful track, just beautiful..
Amazing Song!
Sinceramente una obra de arte!!!!!!!
best master musicians and vocals, love them ! 💗💗💗💗💗💗
Marvellous💜💜
It says everything when the great Walter becker chooses to produce an album. I loved this band since African and white. I'm nearly 61 now
they sound just as good live, they still tour.
Gran año 1983 Amo este tema vivan los 80'
Siempre pop melódico elegante!!!grandes!!
Wicked bass to ornament a sequence of delicate melodies
2020
This song featured in my first ever made compilation on Cassette I recorded from the radio when I was 13, my first year in high school
Wonderful songsmiths. always a haunting melody
I like so much China crisis band music
PREDICTING the future here with their lyrics
Ravaging tragedy came along, but thy strength didn't sway thee along, it is as fierce as the sword of light, in guard ye lights that emanates in the vastness of places of truth. /./././RHD/G.M Industries. Thank you.
The chorus is just brilliant😍
Adore CC, this is one of my special favs. Roll on November in Darwen, my first time seeing them in concert!
Inolvidables.
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What a bass player,exceptional.... name anybody ???🤔
gazza johnson
Joder!!! De repente He volados 30 años atrás !!! 🙆♂️
This is the first time I have heard this song. I feel it is more important now than it was then. There is more mystery now and it has a degree of darkness
Opening line, he’s walking along Shad Thames outside my house 🤩
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sublime,so much brilliant music came from GB in the 80s.
BEST china crisis song
Pamiętam ten utwór z radia ❤
Your world is changing faster every day. Love themx
Great bassline.
Nice nice👌🏻
Nice hat Gary .. 👒👍👍
😍 Q recuerdos uff
Excellent
The best
Increible
Que maravilla
The best song of China crisis
This one's quite good but I like "Wishful Thinking" better.
Prefer this music to most shit in 2020
I just couldn't find some decent music probably after the millenium.
Lot a better than shit nowadays
80s music: allí Times BEST músic
Underrated??? I think really succesful
Check out liverpool singer mick roach an his track meantime , Amazing
Such an art :) pleasing to the ears.
Perbon cánciu.
Tragedy and misery. Open thy mouth and thou wilt drink.
less trendy than New Order or Simple Minds in 83 but, better music !
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China crisis all their songs and Gerry Marsden ferry across the mersey
The singer reminds me of Irish Rugby player Johnny Sexton.
Great
Reminds me of Corona quarantine... the streets becoming empty like that... the name of the band doesn't help the situation. :\
Great...take care :)
And the lyric!
My favourite song is no more blue horizon 😂
❤❤❤👍👍👍
nice
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Algum brasileiro vendo em Abril de 2023 ???
Very Good So i love Song Perfect Song i love Clipe Beutiful Mens 🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍🔝💯🔝💯💚❤️🔥🧨👐☺️🙃🕶️🕶️🧧😱🎀🎀🙃🙃 !!!
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China crisis 4ever,ever my luvs
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