I remember picking up a promotional cassette of this when it first came out and just being blown away by that guitar sound. It remains one of my favorite songs from the front end of the alternative scene.
v-town1980 is there a chance i may have seen this band with massive background strobes on a field festival somewhere in the netherlands around 1986/7 ( then guessing it were the Jesus and Mary Chain back then ) ?! Good stuff, merci me and my brain. 🙄
Me and some friends went camping (circa 97) and all three of us went bananas after drinking 2 litres of strong cider each. We all danced like nutters around our campfire to this song over and over again. All of us projectile vomited everywhere, laughed and then drank and danced some more. Great times.
@deadbutdreaming I always thought it was about either heroin or religious oppression. I've never been able to find much info on the song meaning, but once you said that, the song and video took on a whole new feel. Yikes! How did you find out?
@@joaoguimaraes4993 I think this album came out in 90 or 91, so the Spacemen Three, Jesus and Mary Chain and Stone Roses were contemporaries. In fact, Kim Deal of the Pixies sings on this album.
Love this one. A genius track & by far my favorite from him... I suppose it's his All Tomorrow's Parties, a similar vibe to my ears anyway. UVS doing VU filtered thru a JAMC sieve
@@WizLaudan73 Yeah man... was an awesome year for music... indie dance, shoe-gazing.... proper dance music/house... Happy Mondays and Adamski at Glastonbury... Italia '90 world cup football... it had it all!
Excellent song from this band. I first saw it on a tv series called Snub TV in the UK . Weird that it doesn't show up in many if any indie charts in the past.
I found it the same way. Snub was great for finding indie tunes pre Internet. Also the chart show. This was a big tune for me back in the day when my hair and sideburns were very long..lol..Great days..rave on!
stellaviolens Maybe cos it wasn't really indie. Are Pixies and Cocteau's in those same charts ? Snub was ace , they liked 4AD stuff , probably cos its really Warner. Had its moments though. ENT and Napalm Death. Dinosaur Jr , Pale Saints. That Peel ,Kershaw and once every month the Chart Show did the Indie charts. And The Tube. Bring back the Tube !!
Very trippy groove ,one of their best songs waited yrs to see video.1st saw this on MTV*s 120 minutes when the fools really was about music.Anyone rememeber Matt Pinfield or Dave Kendell........yeah my age shows. lol
My Bro loved this song when he was young. But he thought it was the "Mersey sea" as you do when you are 11, he was really pleased when I sent him a copy of the song as he now lives in the USA and what the song was About :)
Pensé que había escuchado a todos los grupos de música de mi interés de entre los 80's y 90' s y me encontré con esta "masterpiece". Excelente banda, estilo muy particular con mezcla de Jesus and Mary Chain. La canción tiene influencia de The Pixies-Where is my mind? Excelente composición. Cheers to everyone who listens to this song.
Quien influencio a quien, son del mismo año ,es mas del estilo jesus and mary chains ,escuchate spaceman 3 tambien son del estilo y son bien conocidos para los que escuachamos este rock ..
I first saw Ralske in Crash before UVS, they played around the UK in the mid 80's. Funny that the video has a full band as he used a drum machine on that first album.
there it is...the first mention of crash in the comments. well done. tbh, the genius behind those crash tunes, and there are quite a few gems, was mark dumais, RIP. i guess the UVS song 'crash' could be viewed as homage to those times and mark?
not to promote the use , but UVS needs a resurrection right now with this epidemic . Kurt's lyrics seemed to advocate for respecting the power of chemistry . A Major Must .
Christ yeh...Snub Tv tuesdays 6pm UK 14-15 years old!! Ride Roses Monday’s UVS MBV Christ it was a little Church of Indie night. Oh yeh,Destroy the Heart by House of Love on it...man oh God
Exactly , that night does become ur life , unless ur life was so cool and together... it's the ultimate anti depressant. Even then I've seen some right spoilt little fuckers piss it all away...THE GREAT LEVELLER!
Late Eighties UK underground indie rock looked to the US, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, but UVS were looking at the UK. Good job too because I liked UVS all the more because of it.
Not sure Loop Cabaret Voltaire Happy Mondays Cocteau Twins or The Fall were looking to the US. Love American music but Dinosaur jr and Sonic Youth were considered pale imitations of UK bands.
@@sbwlearning1372 Err, Cabaret Voltaire pioneered the "industrial" scene, very tied to UK, and Cocteau Twins were post-punk initially (very Siouxsie) and then developed their own "ethereal wave" sound and pioneered dreampop and shoegaze. Just look at Lorelei live on UA-cam: which american band sounded like this?
@@Neurozumim My point exactly. Since the 60s UK and USA have been sharing and cross-pollinating ideas. But just as we had no Silver Apples or Jefferson Airplane in the 60s USA had no Joy Division or Cabaret Voltaire in the 70s I get the Industrial reference ( and back towards bands like Clock DVA or Test Dept etc etc ) but they were always edging towards a " funky" sound. Cocteau's are a fascinating band. I bought garlands week it came out and I loved it but I can't listen to it now it feels monotonous and repetitive yet I adore most of the bands work ( particularly Liz singing for Massive Attack !! ) and I think I would agree about their dreamy fuzzy sound it is unique. Saw them twice live they were great but both times they were on stage 45 mins which was disappointing as at the time the peak of the great age of music (1966- 1996) most hands did an hour and a half plus usually a 30 min encore. Cabaret Voltaire were utterly spellbinding live. Some of the first USA bands raved about in the UK in Pixies Slint Butthole Surfers etc etc Personally I think I have Big ears and can listen to anything but I can't listen to Radiohead or Sonic Youth weird eh ?? 😁
@@sbwlearning1372 I know that bands like Skinny Puppy and Severed Heads were listening to Cabaret Voltaire when they started, so that speaks of a huge influence. My take is that Throbbing Gristle invented the harsh industrial noise-related sound, and Cabaret Voltaire pioneered the dance aspect of it, which would lead to Depeche Mode (though Depeche Mode started as synthpop). I think Cabaret Voltaire should be up there with Kraftwerk as mega-influencers but they got sort of erased throughout the 1980s because the bands they influenced were probably better by that time. I have seen Cocteau Twins multiple times, they were really a band made for the studio. Wasn't Violent Femmes a band that got serious uk interest? Suicide was also huge and probably very influential but they also stood apart, so it's hard to see who they associated with.
Ay is that bass player wearing a Spacemen 3 sweater? I don't see the 3s but the colors are the same as their album Recurring. Anyways great song and band.....
What a song. To everyone listening please don't ever change.
@@MegaThefuture 🖤💀🖤
First heard this 1989 Snub TV. One of my Fav indie toons still. 2024
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I remember picking up a promotional cassette of this when it first came out and just being blown away by that guitar sound. It remains one of my favorite songs from the front end of the alternative scene.
I am floating. This is a 1990s rock anthem that everybody (most people) are missing, except it wasn't the 1990s yet.
I discovered this song a couple years ago and got hooked. That bass line is so sick.
Saw these guys at Maxwell's in Hoboken back in 1989. What a great band. This is a classic.
Listening to this for the first time, how beautiful this song is.
same
Fantastic sound! Kurt Ralske is so underrated. This music ruled my summer 1990.
v-town1980 is there a chance i may have seen this band with massive background strobes on a field festival somewhere in the netherlands around 1986/7 ( then guessing it were the Jesus and Mary Chain back then ) ?! Good stuff, merci me and my brain. 🙄
v-town1980 he made a a fortune as a Leonel Messi lookalike!
apparently that's moby on guitar
I thought Moby was in this video ... ?
Just this track ruled my head for years. Total genius
I miss the gone times, when Ultra Vivid Scene was the soundtrack of my teenage days, along with Spacemen 3, Pixies and My Bloody Valentine.
Fito Esteroles officially jealous of your childhood
You and me both
For sure Fito!!!been a while since i've listening this song,still have it on K7,an Indie Compilation
@@bombazine2 "You and me both" is also a quiet underrated album from Yazoo,bye the way
You must of been such a cool teenager. Any advice for a 17 year old?
Criminally underrated band.
Agreed 👍
Agreed agreed 👍👍
Nov.27.2023 Midnight. Haven't heard since 1990 ish and I really need something 😢🎉ivneeded2lmercybeaucorps.. michellek err aka Bauhaus fanatic #1❤🎉
Agreed agreed agreed 👍 👍 👍
🎉❤I 🖤💀 ultra vivid scene ultra vivid scene Mercy f****** seat😊thank U
I've still got this on VHS tape off the telly!!-hardcore fan!!!!!❤
HardCorE Ultra ViViD SCENE🎉🎉❤🎃🖤💀
@@wendymason5493 🖤💀🖤 is this Wendy " Kiss kiss Bang bang" 🖤🦇@findingWendy et My FaV BanD 💀🖤 The SPECiMEN 💀🖤🦇
Me and some friends went camping (circa 97) and all three of us went bananas after drinking 2 litres of strong cider each. We all danced like nutters around our campfire to this song over and over again. All of us projectile vomited everywhere, laughed and then drank and danced some more. Great times.
I loved this band in my youth, inspite noone other listened to it. For me it is a softer Version of jesus and the mary chain.
Didn't know that! Thanks dbd
@deadbutdreaming I always thought it was about either heroin or religious oppression. I've never been able to find much info on the song meaning, but once you said that, the song and video took on a whole new feel. Yikes! How did you find out?
They are more older than that bands you referr, but it sounds like stone roses too.
@@joaoguimaraes4993 I think this album came out in 90 or 91, so the Spacemen Three, Jesus and Mary Chain and Stone Roses were contemporaries. In fact, Kim Deal of the Pixies sings on this album.
@@deannilvalli6579 jesus and mary Chain are more older...influenced pixies, head on one fantastic tribute...
The whole album was amazing....
True mind, "She Screamed" is a great opener....
Love all 4AD bands
Love this one. A genius track & by far my favorite from him... I suppose it's his All Tomorrow's Parties, a similar vibe to my ears anyway. UVS doing VU filtered thru a JAMC sieve
Perfect description of a great track!
Utterly magnificent
Terrific song! That fine summer of '90 just washed over me all over again.
peace and love. Summer 1990 was beautiful maaan. rave on!
@@WizLaudan73 Yeah man... was an awesome year for music... indie dance, shoe-gazing.... proper dance music/house... Happy Mondays and Adamski at Glastonbury... Italia '90 world cup football... it had it all!
@@mattiemclean9882 maaan I wish I could go back. It was beautiful man...Lol. ✌✌✌✌✌
@@WizLaudan73Stay off the drugs, son.
The Venus in Furs of the 80s. (Edit:) I don't mean just the music, but also the lyrics
The hipnotic ceremonial background is the same
It's always sounded a lot more like All Tomorrow's Parties to me ears, but yeah very Velvets with a more than a touch of Jesus & Marychain
Excellent song from this band. I first saw it on a tv series called Snub TV in the UK . Weird that it doesn't show up in many if any indie charts in the past.
+stellaviolens Me too. I recall it was on late night/early morning. A young Moby is playing bass in the video!
I found it the same way. Snub was great for finding indie tunes pre Internet. Also the chart show. This was a big tune for me back in the day when my hair and sideburns were very long..lol..Great days..rave on!
stellaviolens Maybe cos it wasn't really indie. Are Pixies and Cocteau's in those same charts ? Snub was ace , they liked 4AD stuff , probably cos its really Warner. Had its moments though. ENT and Napalm Death. Dinosaur Jr , Pale Saints. That Peel ,Kershaw and once every month the Chart Show did the Indie charts. And The Tube. Bring back the Tube !!
SnubTV if ever a TV show needs ressurecting.
Yep I think it was a Janet Street Poter production.
Classic, still sounds effing amazing 🙂
Very trippy groove ,one of their best songs waited yrs to see video.1st saw this on MTV*s 120 minutes when the fools really was about music.Anyone rememeber Matt Pinfield or Dave Kendell........yeah my age shows. lol
I DO I DO!!! Did you ever watch AMP? I used to watch that show on the weekends super late at night and trip out.
james belljr wear that age badge proudly! I absolutely remember Kendell. Sunday nights, 120 minutes. Summer of '90. UVS and The Sundays. Brilliant!
Ya'll got it!!!!!!!!
But do you remember Kevin Seale?
@@s.miller2648I remember the Alamo.
Saw these guys open for Ian McCulloch's solo tour.... Great times.
the Definition of Underrated
Bought the album when it came out. Just downloaded it today. Brings back so many memories, great album.
the best thing moby did in his entire career
This band was magic.
A group that were so good,but didn't get the recognition they deserve,ahead of all music at the time,
Great track. Strong Mary Chain vibes.
FAVORITE of all time.
UGH
he is smokin
I saw them around 30 years ago in Toads Place New Haven CT. They were opening for somebody. They were great!
Brilant!! Shoegazing rules!!
My Bro loved this song when he was young. But he thought it was the "Mersey sea" as you do when you are 11, he was really pleased when I sent him a copy of the song as he now lives in the USA and what the song was About :)
Die schönste Zeit, fast unbeschwert und unwiederbringlich. Danke für diese Musik!
Pensé que había escuchado a todos los grupos de música de mi interés de entre los 80's y 90' s y me encontré con esta "masterpiece". Excelente banda, estilo muy particular con mezcla de Jesus and Mary Chain. La canción tiene influencia de The Pixies-Where is my mind? Excelente composición. Cheers to everyone who listens to this song.
Quien influencio a quien, son del mismo año ,es mas del estilo jesus and mary chains ,escuchate spaceman 3 tambien son del estilo y son bien conocidos para los que escuachamos este rock ..
Superb record. I looked for it for ages not knowing who it was by and kept getting Nick Cave's equally brilliant track of the same name.
Yeah, thought this was a cover at first. Still great song.
Such a great song!
J'ai l'album "joy".
Excellent.
Je les avais vu à la cigale à Paris avec INSPIRAL CARPETS" et ils avaient été très
bons.
What a perfect tune
I adore this band
epic bassline
Underrated song.
90's we played this song here in finland, our songlist
The beauty 🖤
I first saw Ralske in Crash before UVS, they played around the UK in the mid 80's. Funny that the video has a full band as he used a drum machine on that first album.
there it is...the first mention of crash in the comments. well done. tbh, the genius behind those crash tunes, and there are quite a few gems, was mark dumais, RIP. i guess the UVS song 'crash' could be viewed as homage to those times and mark?
I am in tears.....what a good time....Brit Pop in the 90's...best time of my life !!!!!
....still have one of their cassettes.
Vaya maravilla de canción.muy Velvet
By the way the 12"and album is da bbboooooommmm!!-on cassette as i was only 15yrs!!!❤
Was in a band back then & this song was the blueprint
What was your band called?
Good music for good people
One of the sons of JAMC and Spacemen 3 ;)
Maybe even Dinosaur Jr. stateside.. Listen to “No Bones” from them also came out in 1988..
Who?
BRILLIANT!
splendid
Love this schlub
beautiful
not to promote the use , but UVS needs a resurrection right now with this epidemic . Kurt's lyrics seemed to advocate for respecting the power of chemistry . A Major Must .
noise and more noise, guitars with distortion, the rock that I like the most..
カッコいいね
OMG do I miss the 80s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great mix
Met him signed my she screamed 12 in Newcastle england 😊
thanks for sharing
I've got this song somewhere on a compilation
Christ yeh...Snub Tv tuesdays 6pm UK
14-15 years old!!
Ride Roses Monday’s UVS MBV Christ it was a little Church of Indie night.
Oh yeh,Destroy the Heart by House of Love on it...man oh God
Pretty nostalgic for me
I'm a teenager again, sigh. :-)
The best thing Moby ever did was play bass here.
Moby play guitar here, not bass
Wish someone had a live show of their, VHS or whatever. I saw them 2x.
boa boa boa música.
damm ...fucking great song o○o
And all you can do is use unnecessary profanity? Tsk tsk
@@corey-bird3489 what ?🤦♀️😑💆♂️
@@corey-bird3489It's called being passionate. Get back to the basement, ninny.
Nostalgia
So bind me to the mercy seat and heal me...
"When the musis is over, Turn on the lights" - Brand new akin to the Doors of the late 60s
Is this kind of Alternative music even still made?
Early 90's hairstyle
this is so fucking cool
And all you can do is use unnecessary profanity? Tsk tsk
Heroin is great. I won't deny it. But that night is not your life.
you named it . Ralske never does say the word
Did he say it was ?
That Night! Bloody hell i new i fucked up, nobody said stop after one night, took decades man! DECADES : (
Exactly , that night does become ur life , unless ur life was so cool and together... it's the ultimate anti depressant. Even then I've seen some right spoilt little fuckers piss it all away...THE GREAT LEVELLER!
Its good to come out the otherside though : )
ultra vivid scene's blindingly obscure clip..
❤️❤️❤️
Doppppee😎
Word, yo.
never heard of them before. Here through Best Gig in London recommended by 'John Roger' channel Q&As
Kurt was 21 years old when he wrote this.
Ne güzelsin.
0:14 - Melora Creager of Rasputina on the cello! ♥♥♥
okay, so now i know why the lead singer in DIIV looks the way he looks
Late Eighties UK underground indie rock looked to the US, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, but UVS were looking at the UK. Good job too because I liked UVS all the more because of it.
Not sure Loop Cabaret Voltaire Happy Mondays Cocteau Twins or The Fall were looking to the US. Love American music but Dinosaur jr and Sonic Youth were considered pale imitations of UK bands.
@@sbwlearning1372 Haha fair enough, I guess I was reading Melody Maker too much.
@@sbwlearning1372 Err, Cabaret Voltaire pioneered the "industrial" scene, very tied to UK, and Cocteau Twins were post-punk initially (very Siouxsie) and then developed their own "ethereal wave" sound and pioneered dreampop and shoegaze. Just look at Lorelei live on UA-cam: which american band sounded like this?
@@Neurozumim My point exactly. Since the 60s UK and USA have been sharing and cross-pollinating ideas. But just as we had no Silver Apples or Jefferson Airplane in the 60s USA had no Joy Division or Cabaret Voltaire in the 70s
I get the Industrial reference ( and back towards bands like Clock DVA or Test Dept etc etc ) but they were always edging towards a " funky" sound.
Cocteau's are a fascinating band. I bought garlands week it came out and I loved it but I can't listen to it now it feels monotonous and repetitive yet I adore most of the bands work ( particularly Liz singing for Massive Attack !! ) and I think I would agree about their dreamy fuzzy sound it is unique. Saw them twice live they were great but both times they were on stage 45 mins which was disappointing as at the time the peak of the great age of music (1966- 1996) most hands did an hour and a half plus usually a 30 min encore. Cabaret Voltaire were utterly spellbinding live.
Some of the first USA bands raved about in the UK in Pixies Slint Butthole Surfers etc etc
Personally I think I have Big ears and can listen to anything but I can't listen to Radiohead or Sonic Youth weird eh ?? 😁
@@sbwlearning1372 I know that bands like Skinny Puppy and Severed Heads were listening to Cabaret Voltaire when they started, so that speaks of a huge influence. My take is that Throbbing Gristle invented the harsh industrial noise-related sound, and Cabaret Voltaire pioneered the dance aspect of it, which would lead to Depeche Mode (though Depeche Mode started as synthpop). I think Cabaret Voltaire should be up there with Kraftwerk as mega-influencers but they got sort of erased throughout the 1980s because the bands they influenced were probably better by that time. I have seen Cocteau Twins multiple times, they were really a band made for the studio. Wasn't Violent Femmes a band that got serious uk interest? Suicide was also huge and probably very influential but they also stood apart, so it's hard to see who they associated with.
🙏🌻
Ulra good
masna gitara
Why does the video have a checkerboard overlay now? I don't remember that being there before.
sounds like Stephen Pastel singing with My Bloody Valentine in the late 1980's
The ELITE COVEN of Goth learn batchildren this is classic cool GOTH seek
Melora Creager from Rasputina plays cello on this track.
Doin' the Bobby Gillespie drum thing.
Those were the days.
Ay is that bass player wearing a Spacemen 3 sweater? I don't see the 3s but the colors are the same as their album Recurring. Anyways great song and band.....
GÄNSEHAUT!
RIP Byron Guthrie
I noticed that, too! So weird