I was 7 years old when I first heard this and I was fascinated by it. 37 years later, it's one of my favorite songs of all time. The 80's were pure magic.
So grateful this Simple Minds video is here! I absolutely love watching this. Jim and the band is at the top of their game. What a performance! And the orchestra! The audience was so engaged. I'm 62 years old now and I feel like the '80s and 90s just passed by so fast. I would give anything to turn the clock back again. I am into their music - more now than ever!
I am "only" 52, but the 90's were the best decade. Not only because being in my 20ties but it looks like it was the last decade of optimism and innocence. After the cold war, but before 9/11 and all the current crisises. This video brings back so many great memories...
Ya ves somos tantos k nos gustaris reyroceder el reloj pero tenemos k estar contentos pork nosotros lo vivimos y fue maravilloso solo hay k ver aquellos tiempos y los de ahora
O Boy Simple Minds.. Your Audience Are Truly Alive And Kicking.. _ Love Love Love It * THE WORLD 🌎 IS WATCHING WITH A SMILE ON HER FACE ❤with peace and love from the city of LiverpoolUK 🙌✌️👌✨️🏴👋🤚🖐✋️🖖🫱🫲🫷🫸👌🤌✌️🫰🤙👈👉👆🖕☝️🫵👍✊️👊✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️
Love the 80's and 90's live concert. No mobile phones just enjoy the concert. Alive and kicking is one of my favorite new wave hits. This music never dies.
Thought they were just another 80s band, liked their songs back then, nothing special. Boy, was I ever wrong. Glad to have the opportunity to catch up.
Of course Don’t You blah blah is the big hit, and I do love it. But this song is epic. It’s a great album and I think this song in particular really stands the test of time. I think it’s just as strong today as it was decades ago.
No Coronavirus here..those were the good 'ole days when people went to great concerts like this one! So magical! This great masterpiece is pure energy for my soul! Keep the faith in man/womankind! This song give us hope!
@@johnnywalker2022 Heck yeh. I married a Glaswegian. We have two waens and I proudly tell them they’re half Scottish! Love that country and its people!!
Amen to that !! 4:42 minutes of sheer awesomeness. I love it when they mix in an orchestra on great rock songs like this one. The crowd is so energized, the good feelings jump right off the screen. For me, Simple Minds BEST song ....
Grandi artisti e ottimi interpreti di musica che ti regala una bella botta di vita ed energia. Vi ricordo quando sono andato a comprare il disco in vinile (LP) e l'emozione di ascoltarvi. Bravi !
What I'm Hearing is a throwback of one of the Most popular song of the '80's ...And what I'm seeing is the beautiful audience & faces of this concert ..WOW !!!
just like you said, how many satisfied people in audience, they expresse pure joy,very positively and very oposite of nowadays,and also in that years, massive drugs and ugly pervert histeries in concerts, that is the reason why The Simple Minds are so great,it's very rare group who declared good, healthy pure emotions like Principe. God Bless all positive people, let the Sun shines in our hearts.Greetings from Belgrade, Zana and Lazar
All the great bands of that era comes to my memory ... but this live version it´s simply sublime !!! ... I have to thank all the good and nice memories from those years when youth makes you dream on such a beautiful things for you in your life... all those smiles that comes to your face when discover the world and when meet that new beatifull person ... since you was discovering and be accomplished for this great great music... Its simply the best things in your life that NOBODY can take you away from your heart and from your mind... I will be an old man and I will keep smiling and imagine great things and moments when this notes come to my ears... thanks God for that... !! Hope all of you have good thoughts too with this great and emotive music... !!!
It's rare but every now and then musicians and audience combine to create something beautiful they are in the zone. This is one of those moments, if you're lucky to be there when this happens treasure it. You often see crowds in top tier cities standing looking bored at the musicians mentally thinking, impress me. Well, you only get what you give, that's the way it works.
Absolutely magnificent, I wish I'd been able to go to that concert... I see that their 2020 programme was postponed for the obvious reason, I hope to see the Minds soon. Wonderful uplifting music, thanks to ogmuk for posting this. Astonishing to think where time has gone! This was 23 years ago!!
Owned just about every SM CD.... love this band... a performance resonating pure joy, enrapturing the audience. They were on a higher level than 99%... and i was "all in"..
What an amazing group, amazing song and brings back so many incredible memories. Great music is truly timeless and I just turned 57 and still enjoy it as much now, as I have when it first came out. Amazing and so nostalgic. I recall driving in the car, listening to this music and enjoying life. That is what great music should feel like.
I'm in this with you Tim...missing here the good ole' days when our music had real substance... and the late 70's thru the 80's was seminal...like bests from Bowie and U2 (both many times over), Simple Minds, Peter Gabriel... and so many others in the days...what part of Texas are you in sir? Dallas suburb here....
I'm an American traveling through Brazil, Rio de Janeiro in 2021 And heard this song on the beach. I'm fucking alive and kicking! Live your life people
I miss this music so much. Not too compressed, recorded with some dynamics, great songwriting, excellent production, etc... The 80's had some great music.
Simply Magical!! It's just like to be there and at the same time living in the past when this song came up on the radio years ago. So many good memories, unforgettable. 👍
Una de las canciones más emotivas de los 80. Un grupo y una música elegante para un público elegante . Ni punto de comparación con la música de estos tiempos obscuros que vivimos
Brutal!!. He crecido con ésta y otras bandas : U2, Dire Straits, Marillion, Pink Floyd,, etc.. Y otra tan adictiva como Talk Talk. Años con música inolvidable que no volverán.
Awesome!! I just love this song. I always have. There is only one thing better than great Rock-n-Roll from back in the day...and that's when they throw in full orchestras!
Yeah... especially when he does his utterly pretentious Vic reeves cabaret arteeeest impression and screws up the song. This is one of the few live occasions he resisted .
What a great music...Not the shit the sell now ! Poor generation now and how lucky we were to have those bands ! I am proud to be 45 now...! Makes me remind my young years and my trips to U.K when I was young...! Regards to all of you from France
I still remember his passing like it was not so long ago...very missed and saddened by one of music's greatest icons gone, i was so lucky to have been in inxs era..❤
Love Simple Minds, one the greatest bands ever. I get emotional watching this video, seeing the fans at that time reacting so exuberantly to the music. It's just pure magic.
How the dutches love Rock! Every single moment i watch a great performance in a wonderful stadium! I love this music because remembers me the 80's, decade of my youth!
To me one of the grastest voices i have ever heard . . . Simple minds my faves . . . Dayem!!! I wanna go back to the 80s again! His voice and this song still sends chills thru me! One of the best New Wave bands for sure. Great song. One of the best of the 80's of any genre.
The thing with the 80s is there was that many good songs in the period so nothing was ever more special than another then when You look back 40 years You realise how really good they all were and what a phenomenal decade it was
Songs like this are like old friends you used to know. After the pop back up in your life after a long absence, you remember how much you enjoyed having them around.
one of my fav 80's band / song....a must in my motorbike riding playlist... Haven't heard that song for a long time. It holds up, really a beautiful song. Epic!
gente que sonzeira meu DEUS coisa lindaaaaaaaa Ahhh, 80's music, the best! One of the best New Wave bands for sure. Great song. One of the best of the 80's of any genre.
I was 7 years old when I first heard this and I was fascinated by it.
37 years later, it's one of my favorite songs of all time.
The 80's were pure magic.
I agree🎉
Indeed!!!😊
I agréé
Super groupe. Beaucoup de souvenirs 😢
Yes Indeed!
Unbelievable ... . It's like an epic film that the audience is a part of!
yes bro
One of the most underrated bands from the 80s. One of the best playing live, by miles❤
They weren't underrated. They were just damn good.
No mobile phones & everybody enjoying the real music!! What a time it was for the great music. I’m 50 & those were the days 🙏🙏
SM ever and forever 👍
Maurizio,Rijeka Croatia
Ja,was für eine wunderschöne Zeit ❤❤❤
No drones cameras.
The 80 the best time ever….time machine ready…and gooooooo back
So grateful this Simple Minds video is here! I absolutely love watching this. Jim and the band is at the top of their game. What a performance! And the orchestra! The audience was so engaged. I'm 62 years old now and I feel like the '80s and 90s just passed by so fast. I would give anything to turn the clock back again. I am into their music - more now than ever!
Same age, same here - gotta get the CDs! Gotta!!
I will come with you ... 59 years old , same musical roots
I am "only" 52, but the 90's were the best decade. Not only because being in my 20ties but it looks like it was the last decade of optimism and innocence. After the cold war, but before 9/11 and all the current crisises. This video brings back so many great memories...
I'm just a little older but I would go back also in a heartbeat💯😎
Ya ves somos tantos k nos gustaris reyroceder el reloj pero tenemos k estar contentos pork nosotros lo vivimos y fue maravilloso solo hay k ver aquellos tiempos y los de ahora
O Boy Simple Minds..
Your Audience Are Truly Alive And Kicking..
_ Love Love Love It
* THE WORLD 🌎 IS WATCHING WITH A SMILE ON HER FACE ❤with peace and love from the city of LiverpoolUK 🙌✌️👌✨️🏴👋🤚🖐✋️🖖🫱🫲🫷🫸👌🤌✌️🫰🤙👈👉👆🖕☝️🫵👍✊️👊✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️
Love the 80's and 90's live concert. No mobile phones just enjoy the concert. Alive and kicking is one of my favorite new wave hits. This music never dies.
One of the absolute best and most underrated bands of the 80s
Not underrated by me.
I agree, but...not by me, by us!!! SM❤YOU!!!!
Thought they were just another 80s band, liked their songs back then, nothing special. Boy, was I ever wrong. Glad to have the opportunity to catch up.
;)
I love when others appreciate really good music. Awesome for you. Introduce this music to others and you will pay it forward
Of course Don’t You blah blah is the big hit, and I do love it. But this song is epic. It’s a great album and I think this song in particular really stands the test of time. I think it’s just as strong today as it was decades ago.
@@shostenesavannahj44A qQq
Hey, don’t feel bad. It took me forever to get Metallica
These are the sounds i grew up with...and i couldnt be happier about it. Timeless music.
Absolutely astounding performance. Vocals, guitar, and especially the orchestra makes this an all timer..
niemals diese großartigen Musiker im Backround vergessen !!!! großartige Performance !! jeder der da live dabei war, darf sich glücklich schätzen !!!
That shot with the crowd raising their hands is priceless! #Goosebumps!!!!
this song is so full of harmony, sound and energy. It's amazing....
I love the group Simple Minds! There music is timeless. Thank you for all the great music 🎶 .
Tout pareil!
This was typical of the wonderful quality of our lives back then.
60 today. Glad I lived it. Gone forever.
Perfectly put. I'm 61. What a great decade. The 80's were fantastic and I damn grateful I was part of it.
Now THAT is an AMAZING crowd during an INCREDIBLE performance.
NO cell phones in hands.
NO shoe gazing.
Just a great crowd of fans.
RESPECT.
Dayem!!! I wanna go back to the 80s again! His voice and this song still sends chills thru me!
No Coronavirus here..those were the good 'ole days when people went to great concerts like this one! So magical! This great masterpiece is pure energy for my soul! Keep the faith in man/womankind! This song give us hope!
Yeah I have tickets
Def
No Mel no minds .
I'm an American and songs like this make me want to go to Europe. So much energy. These guys had some great songs and this one was epic!
Tailhook MD Tailhook, start your trip in Scotland, Simple Minds homeland 😜
You feel the spirit and unity because it's our homeland, Europe. ♥️
@@johnnywalker2022 Heck yeh. I married a Glaswegian. We have two waens and I proudly tell them they’re half Scottish! Love that country and its people!!
No rap, no crap, just music from the heart that elevates your soul when you hear it.
100%
Fantastic video. You can feel the energy. This band is what rock and roll is all about. Their songs are timeless! That orchestra is the topping!
Amen to that !! 4:42 minutes of sheer awesomeness. I love it when they mix in an orchestra on great rock songs like this one. The crowd is so energized, the good feelings jump right off the screen. For me, Simple Minds BEST song ....
Essa música tá da que ok❤️❤️🥰🥰
Dutch audience is the best! Timeless and still goosebumps after almost 30 years... 30!?! OMG, how time slips away... peace to you all.
Grandi artisti e ottimi interpreti di musica che ti regala una bella botta di vita ed energia. Vi ricordo quando sono andato a comprare il disco in vinile (LP) e l'emozione di ascoltarvi. Bravi !
What I'm Hearing is a throwback of one of the Most popular song of the '80's ...And what I'm seeing is the beautiful audience & faces of this concert ..WOW !!!
just like you said, how many satisfied people in audience, they expresse pure joy,very positively and very oposite of nowadays,and also in that years, massive drugs and ugly pervert histeries in concerts, that is the reason why The Simple Minds are so great,it's very rare group who declared good, healthy pure emotions like Principe. God Bless all positive people, let the Sun shines in our hearts.Greetings from Belgrade, Zana and Lazar
nelson duque. alot of beautiful women whereever that was
@@JohnRorabaugh thats Holland on huis best at night of the proms......
And Everyone was Have a Great timer TO GETHER . .,NO Cell phone's that's why
Saw them live for the first time in 85 for me they are the best live performers ever!!
All the great bands of that era comes to my memory ... but this live version it´s simply sublime !!! ... I have to thank all the good and nice memories from those years when youth makes you dream on such a beautiful things for you in your life... all those smiles that comes to your face when discover the world and when meet that new beatifull person ... since you was discovering and be accomplished for this great great music... Its simply the best things in your life that NOBODY can take you away from your heart and from your mind... I will be an old man and I will keep smiling and imagine great things and moments when this notes come to my ears... thanks God for that... !! Hope all of you have good thoughts too with this great and emotive music... !!!
I can't get enough of this 1997 live performance...feels great to be "Alive and Kicking"
Haven't heard that song for a long time. It holds up, really a beautiful song.
It's rare but every now and then musicians and audience combine to create something beautiful they are in the zone. This is one of those moments, if you're lucky to be there when this happens treasure it. You often see crowds in top tier cities standing looking bored at the musicians mentally thinking, impress me. Well, you only get what you give, that's the way it works.
Crank it up. Rock on. FOREVER
Simple Minds are Glasgow boys, they don’t do off nights, no way.
To all the kids in 2020, this is how to enjoy live music, dancing, singing and embracing the moment.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏thank u
Amen brother!!!🕺💃👯♂️🎒📻🎷🪗🎸🎼🎵
Exactly, damn cell phones nowadays at concerts, knocking out your hands and walking on them
É lindo demais essa junção banda e orquestra, penso quão valorosa é a melodia e qualidade musical para que isso aconteça dessa forma. Divino
Without a cellphone
A beautiful live version . Thanks!
am a 80, child...love it
Absolutely magnificent, I wish I'd been able to go to that concert... I see that their 2020 programme was postponed for the obvious reason, I hope to see the Minds soon. Wonderful uplifting music, thanks to ogmuk for posting this. Astonishing to think where time has gone! This was 23 years ago!!
OMG I got old,,,,, this still sounds as good today as it did back then,,,, Happy days .. to everyone..
...one of my all-time favorite 80's songs...thanks for sharing;-)
Owned just about every SM CD.... love this band... a performance resonating pure joy, enrapturing the audience. They were on a higher level than 99%... and i was "all in"..
Ahh.. The 80s...will it it ever come back
A State of the Art Stage! Simply Outstanding Voice , Tune and Orchesthra!
Goosebumps every time. Still one of the best and most underrated bands.
Essa música inesquecível ok❤️❤️🥰
Yea the pest music love
Essa banda marcou minha adolescência!!
This band marked my teenage years !!
amazing.....after all these years...your music will never die....thank you!
What an amazing group, amazing song and brings back so many incredible memories. Great music is truly timeless and I just turned 57 and still enjoy it as much now, as I have when it first came out. Amazing and so nostalgic. I recall driving in the car, listening to this music and enjoying life. That is what great music should feel like.
Cette chanson est magique
Still listening from Texas in 2019!!!! Man I sure miss the good old days....
I'm in this with you Tim...missing here the good ole' days when our music had real substance... and the late 70's thru the 80's was seminal...like bests from Bowie and U2 (both many times over), Simple Minds, Peter Gabriel... and so many others in the days...what part of Texas are you in sir? Dallas suburb here....
Im about 45 minutes south of Houston..
absolutely beautiful live version...
One of the best New Wave bands for sure. Great song. One of the best of the 80's of any genre.
Koop
Definitely. Right there on the list with Tear for Fears and Depeche Mode.
@@SternLX
Spot on..Great band.. Great music.
Great live...Great at 0200 hrs in the morning having a beer..
I'm an American traveling through Brazil, Rio de Janeiro in 2021 And heard this song on the beach. I'm fucking alive and kicking! Live your life people
I DAMN love the 80's!!!
This is without a doubt one of my favorite bands! And SONG!!!
Thank you very much for posting this Gem mate! 5 stars!!
I miss this music so much. Not too compressed, recorded with some dynamics, great songwriting, excellent production, etc... The 80's had some great music.
Que música, que banda!!! Música para toda la vida!!!
Simply Magical!! It's just like to be there and at the same time living in the past when this song came up on the radio years ago. So many good memories, unforgettable. 👍
What a great timeless track.
This version is polished, love it.
Una de las canciones más emotivas de los 80. Un grupo y una música elegante para un público elegante . Ni punto de comparación con la música de estos tiempos obscuros que vivimos
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Exacto!!!
¡¡¡ Absolutamente !!!!! 💪💪💪👍👍👍👍70 años , pues
Brutal!!. He crecido con ésta y otras bandas : U2, Dire Straits, Marillion, Pink Floyd,, etc.. Y otra tan adictiva como Talk Talk. Años con música inolvidable que no volverán.
Lived that time in highschool with this music , walkmans on walking to class with this playing, man, what a time and what a band😊
love this song, and the orchestra just wow
Keeping this video alive! Love these guys. It never gets old! 👍
Awesome!! I just love this song. I always have. There is only one thing better than great Rock-n-Roll from back in the day...and that's when they throw in full orchestras!
Jimmy Kerr has one of the most unique voices in rock music. He’s just incredible!
Bollocks . Mel drove the fuckers and Kerr became jealous .
Yeah... especially when he does his utterly pretentious Vic reeves cabaret arteeeest impression and screws up the song. This is one of the few live occasions he resisted .
Agreed! I love Jim's voice. It's passion and soul mixed with rock grittiness.
sensacional, infelizmente hoje não temos mais nenhuma banda desta grandeza, um som fora de serie.
Extraordinary song of my twenty years with joy and no worries! Thanks Simple Minds!
grand!
the 80s were the best time of my life ! :)
My own friend.
Definitely the best
IMHO, one of the greatest voices ever- so expressive, so special.
OK, when I was a teenager, these guys were in their twenties. I'm 54 now and these guys are younger than I. What happened?
Im 56
Até hoje são uma banda fantástica. Que continue assim. Venham ao Brasil
What a song What a Band What a concert What a night Scotland's finest for our pleasure God bless you Jim and Charlie Ax
What a great music...Not the shit the sell now ! Poor generation now and how lucky we were to have those bands ! I am proud to be 45 now...! Makes me remind my young years and my trips to U.K when I was young...! Regards to all of you from France
Uma das melhores banda do planeta simplesmente simple minds
Simple Minds reste indéniablement un groupe de scène et leurs morceaux sont taillés pour être jouer en live. Du grand Simples Minds !
simples minds é mto bom....que saudades qdo revejo os vídeos....por onde eles andam....mto bommmmm
I remember the 80s well. love this song. I believe the internet was built so we can see great videos like this
one of many gems by a truly wonderful Band ...
3:30 minutes... I'm flying with this music... 3:45 "everything's okay?" no photo, nothing..just smiling people
Alive and kicking, we survived 2020!
this should be the anthem for 2020
@@carrieconlon70
@Ace Cayson Yep, no one cares that you are a stupid stalker.
Como a própria banda se revela em cada música que toca; é simplesmente magnífica. Obrigado pelo post maravilhoso!!!
The audience makes this vid doubly good..They're enthralled. Brilliant band.
Still listening and will do at least once a month .never forget my youth love them
I still remember his passing like it was not so long ago...very missed and saddened by one of music's greatest icons gone, i was so lucky to have been in inxs era..❤
You really can feel the music your soul can feel it it's amazing!
Love Simple Minds, one the greatest bands ever. I get emotional watching this video, seeing the fans at that time reacting so exuberantly to the music. It's just pure magic.
Just want to say : best Music ever
How the dutches love Rock! Every single moment i watch a great performance in a wonderful stadium! I love this music because remembers me the 80's, decade of my youth!
Simple Minds!Fantastica banda!Musica boa demais!Excelente!
To me one of the grastest voices i have ever heard . . .
Simple minds my faves . . .
Dayem!!! I wanna go back to the 80s again! His voice and this song still sends chills thru me!
One of the best New Wave bands for sure. Great song. One of the best of the 80's of any genre.
There's something about this song that just always makes me feel good when I hear it.
The thing with the 80s is there was that many good songs in the period so nothing was ever more special than another then when You look back 40 years You realise how really good they all were and what a phenomenal decade it was
Saw them in Sweden in the 80-is .
They where one of my favourite bands. Have all their vinyl reckords😊
SM ever and forever ☝️
Maurizio,Rijeka Croatia
Songs like this are like old friends you used to know. After the pop back up in your life after a long absence, you remember how much you enjoyed having them around.
La mejor musica espectacular inolvidables años 80 no abra otra epoca mejor para la musica ya no se ve esta clase de musica
Memories of flying across Canada in my Fiat Spider..Top Down... Listening to the Simple.....my God!
Anos 80!Tempos maravilhosos!
Concordo tempos q n volta mais
one of my fav 80's band / song....a must in my motorbike riding playlist...
Haven't heard that song for a long time. It holds up, really a beautiful song.
Epic!
one of my favorite videos on youtube.
can't get enough of this 2:48 ~
I want to congratulate the joy and the richness of this live Jim and Charlie are fantastic
Questa non e solo musica e un elisir di sinergia che trasmette emozione creata da i Dei chiamati Simple Minds !!
Totally sensational concert & music..love the backing orchestra, crowd having a great time...so good
gente que sonzeira meu DEUS coisa lindaaaaaaaa
Ahhh, 80's music, the best!
One of the best New Wave bands for sure. Great song. One of the best of the 80's of any genre.
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Best time of my life- so sad it's gone forever!
i love this song and this guy is awesome, the sound of this band is absoluty amazing.
Amazing The sound
Simple Minds, me emociona ésta canción hasta las lágrimas, que tal recuerdo!