This song was the best send off a band could have done. Its just sad that it never picked up. Any normal person that listens to this song with rock and roll in their heart will fall in love immediately.
Totally agree one brilliant song from one of the truly best punk bands of all time. I go running a lot I always make sure that this song is always on my playlist.👍
Words cannot tell what this song means to me and how deeply I feel every word, beat and tune of it. Never found a better punk song, and I am sure I never will. RIP Nidge!
I'm right there with you brother!! It's the anthem of that time in my life, the way I felt and the fact that it's gone somehow all coalesce into that one magical feeling, nostalgia!! True; Words cannot describe. 💪👊🍻
As someone who grew up on old 1977 English punk rock, Oi! and UK 80's hardcore as well as Goth rock, new wave and post-punk, couldn't have found a more perfect song to fall in love with. This brings the best of everything all into one kick ass song. This is something extraordinary. Totally underrated band.
Oi Oi Oi from Orange County California.. lots of modern Post Punk, is also link to/as Modern Oi depending on song.. my playlist has some . I'm now 50.. never stop searching for new sounds
I saw Blitz in Houston right before I enlisted. News about Nidge's death hit me while I was freezing to death in Virginia, I listened to this one nonstop as UA-cam had an earlier, crappier version of this video. My Marines laughed at me because it wasn't Drowning Pool or whatever the fuck. Thanks boys, you did this guy a kindness
@@50milliondownthedraintonym16 He was, and it was a low key gig. Couldn't have been more than a hundred punks and skins. It was our show, no one can take that away from us.
@USmarinePunk Yeah I saw them the night before In Chicago at SubT. It was like 10 below and the pipes froze. A fat skinhead got thrown through the front window and Nidge couldn't comprehend all the stage diving and threw a fit on stage. Before that I saw them in Milwaukee in 92 supporting the Killing Dream album which is underrated. So crazy dude got wiped out by a semi.
@@AtillaGenghisHuyter yeah, there's a reason we're not supposed to walk across a busy highway. Still though, that gig was one for the books. Glad you got to see them.
I was a pure punk but fuck Blitz will always be fucking awesome so much raw energy awesome 👌 I'm now 56yoa and still a punk inside and love letting it rip out
When I hear.... the sound of concrete and steel I sense a rythm, that science can't feel I feel the beat.... of our hearts as one I hold your colour, when my vision is gone This power is something but the force is blind Transmitted through a network, of your own kind As minutes tick away.... and days become years I know this old feeling, it's a substance in my tears And the kids on the street And the kids everywhere And all I gotta say is the kids don't care When i hear................... I sense a rythm............... I feel the beat............... I hold your colour............ When you've got me running and you stop my machine You try to tell me something, that has never been When you stop me running, with my own pack You know you've got me swearing that I'll get my own back
It's almost unbelievable that this is the same band that did Someone's Gonna Die Tonight. Both songs are great but this is levels above it. It's a truly beautiful song, both the lyrics and the music. I wonder if it sounded as sadly nostalgic then as it does now. A lot of street punk/oi was like that, interestingly. Where Have All the Bootboys Gone...No Room for You...etc. But what's amazing about this song is the sweetness of the music and its postpunk vibe while still having that oi spirit.
I’m 27, since I was a teenager haven’t hear other kind of music with such energy. I mean, I really like other music genres, now I don’t have prereferences just for a particular one, I can listen punk, hardcore, rap, dreampop, norteño, but when I hear this song something in my mind wants to do somehitng (don't know what, but something). In other comments, someone sayed the lyrics are kind of "stupid", I believe the lyrics are smart AF. Saludos desde México.
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Remember seeing these guys live…. Those songs have stayed with me since then… don’t think a day goes by that I don’t listen to Blitz and a few of the others like Sham and Rejects …. Great days… great memories…. The line that really stays with me as I get older is….. “As minutes tick away.... and days become years I know this old feeling, it's a substance in my tears”…. Oi! Oi!
Because the low IQ conformist contingent doesn’t like it when a band breaks out of the three chord ghetto. I guess bands are supposed to keep it simple ‘n stupid forever in order to maintain “cred”, or some such nonsense. I’m not sure. My knuckles don’t drag the ground.
Well this is unique. Start off like old Cure then into rough and tough Oi chorus. Distortion down on guitar as well. Very interesting Does this song come from a full album or ep?
Macke has been quite active recently. He was in a melodic punk band called Epic Problem for a while. He also played on an album by a short lived band London Oi band called City Miles. The album Social Upheaval is one of the best UK Oi albums for years but sadly the singer died just before it was released. Mackie also released a really good 7" called Full Circle under the Rose of Victory name again last year with guest vocalists, in a more post punk vein. He's now in a band called Rivalry who I think are more of a melodic punk thing.
I tried to do the lights one night for Blitz when they played the YMCA at Chelmsford, what an arrogant bastard the singer was. Wanted to be treated as a super star at the YMCA? I gave up and left the lights on a setting that responded to the noise they were making. Not an enjoyable gig at all, because of his attitude. Most bands that played there were great, the would turn up and enjoy playing the gig. Friday nights at the Y were great normally.
oh how choices and attitude can make a big difference in our lives. the singer may have been a dick but i wonder how many people's night was slightly disrupted because of your sabotage.
@@something_in_the_radiator1665 The whole operation at the YMCA was run by a group of us voluntarily. I was not going to be treated like shit. And I don't think the small audience, of mainly people I knew, were disappointed by me. They were by the band because when the singer told them to dance, they were to the bar.
Me flipó este tema nunca me ha cansado cada vez me flipa aún más y no solo este tema sois una pasada puro frenesí musical muy bien ejecutado me llega muy dentro vuestros trabajos larga vida espíritus salud suerte y libertad os deseo desde España 😊😅😅
I got to see this video on a video compilation that I bought from a video rental store in small town Montana, and I fell in love with Blitz to this day 10-12 years ago.
Oddly enough, this song reminded me of something by The Sweet from their mid 70s period, except more new wavish/post punk. I'm used to songs like "Dead Cities", so this one was a bit of a surprise, nonetheless a pretty decent song.
This song was the best send off a band could have done. Its just sad that it never picked up. Any normal person that listens to this song with rock and roll in their heart will fall in love immediately.
Totally agree one brilliant song from one of the truly best punk bands of all time. I go running a lot I always make sure that this song is always on my playlist.👍
@@teamblitz1990 Unlike Sex Pistols and many other more famous punk bands this has a clear melody. This is really brilliant song.
First listen, and this is great.
This is a family favorite. I quest we’re old school. Those drums! We used to listen on the way to pour concrete. Grateful.
It did, I was there in 2005 when they did a show in Lynwood, nothing but love.
refreshing to listen in 2024
Words cannot tell what this song means to me and how deeply I feel every word, beat and tune of it.
Never found a better punk song, and I am sure I never will. RIP Nidge!
You do realise they ripped the tune off “the Moondogs”song “ya don’t do ya “! It’s on UA-cam if you want to hear !
@@stupididiot369 Don't care if it was lifted. This song has better lyrics and energy.
I'm right there with you brother!! It's the anthem of that time in my life, the way I felt and the fact that it's gone somehow all coalesce into that one magical feeling, nostalgia!! True; Words cannot describe. 💪👊🍻
If you can’t find a better one, write one
@@drem5248 this is a classic,lifted or not brings back so many good memories of the good old days. It beats the shit out of today's music 😀
As someone who grew up on old 1977 English punk rock, Oi! and UK 80's hardcore as well as Goth rock, new wave and post-punk, couldn't have found a more perfect song to fall in love with. This brings the best of everything all into one kick ass song. This is something extraordinary. Totally underrated band.
Yes!!!!
well said...77 punk and 81 UK punk and everything happening on the streets at the time,were like some kind of alchemy....it just ... happened..
Weak as piss attempt at commercial cash in, absolutely crap ,Carl's brother on bass ruined them, grinning twat
Oi Oi Oi from Orange County California.. lots of modern Post Punk, is also link to/as Modern Oi depending on song.. my playlist has some . I'm now 50.. never stop searching for new sounds
I saw Blitz in Houston right before I enlisted. News about Nidge's death hit me while I was freezing to death in Virginia, I listened to this one nonstop as UA-cam had an earlier, crappier version of this video. My Marines laughed at me because it wasn't Drowning Pool or whatever the fuck. Thanks boys, you did this guy a kindness
Whats drowning pool? Lol Glad u kept your head up and the song helped!🤟
@@raphaelzepeda980 DP was an incredibly shitty numetal band that was popular in the early 2000s.
@@50milliondownthedraintonym16 He was, and it was a low key gig. Couldn't have been more than a hundred punks and skins. It was our show, no one can take that away from us.
@USmarinePunk Yeah I saw them the night before In Chicago at SubT. It was like 10 below and the pipes froze. A fat skinhead got thrown through the front window and Nidge couldn't comprehend all the stage diving and threw a fit on stage. Before that I saw them in Milwaukee in 92 supporting the Killing Dream album which is underrated.
So crazy dude got wiped out by a semi.
@@AtillaGenghisHuyter yeah, there's a reason we're not supposed to walk across a busy highway. Still though, that gig was one for the books. Glad you got to see them.
Been listening to these guys for almost 40 years, and I don’t think I’ll stop anytime soon. Oi!
You are a Real dog, chat is funny. Thay are Princes, m'y friend
In fact, your Heart is sensible. Thay is Inca song cause War is coming, thé people pry... You are singing. Thay is cheyenne song !
Singing this with tears in my eyes
Owh, trars mo frand, at is goud
their Voice of a Generation is a must for any punk collection. Their first singles too!
One of the all time great punk songs, absolutely classic.
Instrument-wise sounds more like new wave than Punk. Vocally more punk.
It's Oi imho.
@@DiamorphineDeath I agree. I was replying to Emrah.
@@bealmor1963 Copy, got ya dude. Cheers
New wave punk Song.
Made by an oi band.
I was a pure punk but fuck Blitz will always be fucking awesome so much raw energy awesome 👌 I'm now 56yoa and still a punk inside and love letting it rip out
MAM TO SAMO👍💪👍
Same here mate awesome band I'm 58yoa and still have a red mohican
When I hear.... the sound of concrete and steel
I sense a rythm, that science can't feel
I feel the beat.... of our hearts as one
I hold your colour, when my vision is gone
This power is something but the force is blind
Transmitted through a network, of your own kind
As minutes tick away.... and days become years
I know this old feeling, it's a substance in my tears
And the kids on the street
And the kids everywhere
And all I gotta say is the kids don't care
When i hear...................
I sense a rythm...............
I feel the beat...............
I hold your colour............
When you've got me running and you stop my machine
You try to tell me something, that has never been
When you stop me running, with my own pack
You know you've got me swearing that I'll get my own back
Muchas gracias
Thanks bro
Still playing in 2023 🤘🏻🇬🇧
Me too 😢
@@Yu-mn4od me too. in `24
@@Yu-mn4od i try i Can not, a singer !!!
@@FokkeMol,nein! Ich lique music rock
It's almost unbelievable that this is the same band that did Someone's Gonna Die Tonight. Both songs are great but this is levels above it. It's a truly beautiful song, both the lyrics and the music. I wonder if it sounded as sadly nostalgic then as it does now. A lot of street punk/oi was like that, interestingly. Where Have All the Bootboys Gone...No Room for You...etc. But what's amazing about this song is the sweetness of the music and its postpunk vibe while still having that oi spirit.
Us Boot boys are still here, we never really went away, just got older.
This song has been with me since I was a kid, almost 20yrs now, it still speaks to me, timeless.
I’m 27, since I was a teenager haven’t hear other kind of music with such energy. I mean, I really like other music genres, now I don’t have prereferences just for a particular one, I can listen punk, hardcore, rap, dreampop, norteño, but when I hear this song something in my mind wants to do somehitng (don't know what, but something).
In other comments, someone sayed the lyrics are kind of "stupid", I believe the lyrics are smart AF.
Saludos desde México.
懐かしいです😭中学生の時、UKDKのビデオを買って観ていました😅45歳になったオヤジですが、今でも色あせない、映像です😭本当に懐かしいです。ありがとうございます！
Timeless classic, rest in peace Nidge Miller.
wena ctm
I was there before his last show. So much love. Punk rock live forever in our hearts. Oi oi!
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@Flynn Blaine instablaster :)
damn he got the covid?
rip
I'm an old school punk of 1977 and I can't remember this much but a tribute band we go to see has started playing it and it's a classic punk song.
sad they did not recorded a complete album in that manner...it would be a burner...great sound and great arrangement.
Listen to this over n over and still today years on I love the blitz
Remember seeing these guys live…. Those songs have stayed with me since then… don’t think a day goes by that I don’t listen to Blitz and a few of the others like Sham and Rejects …. Great days… great memories…. The line that really stays with me as I get older is…..
“As minutes tick away.... and days become years
I know this old feeling, it's a substance in my tears”….
Oi! Oi!
Skinhead und Punk Rock aus GB ist sowieso der Beste. Liebe ich seit meiner Jugend bis zu meinem Tod!
This was their last really good single. After this, they turned into a dance band.
I was nicknamed Blitz, because I so loved this band
Was my CB handle back in the day
Is this some kind of nazi punks? I dont get it so much about this band
Brilliant sound love blitz
Great even in 2019 never fade a way this song is total class
TOO RIGHT BUDDY!!!! Like a cross between positive Noise and the The Skids!!
I would listen to this in 2013 when I was 16 now in 2023 being 26 still listening 💯
This along with a few Infra Riot songs you can see that Oi! really was rock and roll, metal and a mix of pop. Just working class rock and roll.
Absolute belter. Heard for the first time in 2021.
I got shivers down my spine when I listen to this. Fucking awesome!
UK/DK is a punk rock must see, great film, I love the Varukers
Classic blitz punk gone now keep it back then can never be replicated by knobs
I bought all their singles from RAT RECORDS in DRWSBURY ,WEST YORKSHIRE..
The shop doesn't exist anymore, but the ace music still does!
Goosebumps everytime i hear it
Certain songs take you right back! Still love this song.
👍
Fisher wrecked the band thou, shame coz us Buxton Skins always got a mentioned on back of sleeves RIP Nidge .
What a change from 'Razors in the night'....though this was their last fine moment.
How can 109 people not like this song?baffling…
Simply because they deviated from a hard Oi band into something more poppy i guess
To puste dzbany.
Because the low IQ conformist contingent doesn’t like it when a band breaks out of the three chord ghetto. I guess bands are supposed to keep it simple ‘n stupid forever in order to maintain “cred”, or some such nonsense. I’m not sure. My knuckles don’t drag the ground.
That moment when “skins” and punks collaborate to create something that transcends subculture
Proud to own this single on vinyl in 83.still have it
Never gets old. Replaced coffee in the morning.
Explosão de sensações
Absolute classic. Never knew they were called Oi Division, who ever thought that description name up is a genius, it 100% describes Blitz.
Well this is unique. Start off like old Cure then into rough and tough Oi chorus. Distortion down on guitar as well. Very interesting
Does this song come from a full album or ep?
This band set a standard for so much modern music.
Loved this band...I remember the attacked by rats tour...this band could bang it out...rip nige....look out for the razors in the night
Can't stop listening
I really wonder what the rest of the band is doing today.
I discovered them quite late but nevertheless their music is fucking brilliant
Macke has been quite active recently. He was in a melodic punk band called Epic Problem for a while. He also played on an album by a short lived band London Oi band called City Miles. The album Social Upheaval is one of the best UK Oi albums for years but sadly the singer died just before it was released.
Mackie also released a really good 7" called Full Circle under the Rose of Victory name again last year with guest vocalists, in a more post punk vein. He's now in a band called Rivalry who I think are more of a melodic punk thing.
LOVE THIS BAND They should have been Massive
This song is absolutely banging, it’s a shame it weren’t a proper hit
Probably one of the greatest bands ever
Makes me want to get up and dance! Tune
This is what it was all about. Great song.
A powerful source of inspiration for Joey Ramone and his Poison Heart
Salah satu lagu punk terbaik yang pernah saya dengar!
This is one of the greatest ever.
I tried to do the lights one night for Blitz when they played the YMCA at Chelmsford, what an arrogant bastard the singer was. Wanted to be treated as a super star at the YMCA? I gave up and left the lights on a setting that responded to the noise they were making. Not an enjoyable gig at all, because of his attitude. Most bands that played there were great, the would turn up and enjoy playing the gig. Friday nights at the Y were great normally.
oh how choices and attitude can make a big difference in our lives. the singer may have been a dick but i wonder how many people's night was slightly disrupted because of your sabotage.
@@something_in_the_radiator1665 The whole operation at the YMCA was run by a group of us voluntarily. I was not going to be treated like shit. And I don't think the small audience, of mainly people I knew, were disappointed by me. They were by the band because when the singer told them to dance, they were to the bar.
@@clivemortimore8203 oh ok then.
A truly amazing song, absolutely timeless. It's the song il be getting cremated too. Full blast, so I hear for the last time.
Loved this song when it came out and still love it now
To jest kurwa ogień 🔥🔥🔥
My work inspired by this.
This is the soundtrack of my youth RIP
The PiSs was here.... RIP Punk 1974-1983 BoMb ☠️
Yeah,Blitz,the Oi!Division from Manchester. One of my favourite Songs
OI!
"D'une même voix et dans nos pas ♪
la Voix de la OI! ne s'éteins pas !" ♫
Classic! Blitz knew how to craft catchy song.
Me flipó este tema nunca me ha cansado cada vez me flipa aún más y no solo este tema sois una pasada puro frenesí musical muy bien ejecutado me llega muy dentro vuestros trabajos larga vida espíritus salud suerte y libertad os deseo desde España 😊😅😅
Timeless.
This brings back back good memories. Thanks for the upload CherryRed.
Good memories from the early 80's. Someone's Gonna Die still my favourite Blitz trk
I got to see this video on a video compilation that I bought from a video rental store in small town Montana, and I fell in love with Blitz to this day 10-12 years ago.
ZombifiedGuitarist Oi! From Montana!!
Hey!
We ARE the boys, cause,
Hey!
Were the boys!
I always respected blitz and nidge ,i feel really bad nidge past away
Do it, a monster singer. I love it
Pure brilliance
Best bands
12 years , i was , riding me Skateboard
Top, top song.
Blitz ,total skinheads (the real deal, not the bonehads crap) legends
always brings a instant smile to my face.
love the way they play...greatings fronm poland :)
👍👍👍
Oddly enough, this song reminded me of something by The Sweet from their mid 70s period, except more new wavish/post punk. I'm used to songs like "Dead Cities", so this one was a bit of a surprise, nonetheless a pretty decent song.
Esta cancion es increible lo buena que es
My mom is actually gonna pay this great band to play at my grad party
Great tune.
they played in Tijuana, Mexico many moons ago
Cracking single, can remember this being played on Radio 1 - when R1 massive compared to today.
Kids my age don't even know about this song...Such a shame cause this is one of the greatest pop punk songs ever
This song is a masterpiece
Tidy!
Que dulce es volver a sentirse como ayer, volando en los recuerdos!
Inocentes - Patria Amada?
We love.... That music,,,, Sims .- we re heard,first time- about 92-93.!!!!
And , 4..-ewer!!!!
Underrated gem
Nice Blitz cover
fantastic song
Very unique to say the least 👍👍👍
Porque eles sumiram
Hammer...
One of the best oi Song ever
Yeah great song