I think that you could say that about a number of other songs of theirs: Power (Strength in Numbers), Napoleon Sheds His Skin, What Do You Got To Do... the list goes on.
Made the hair on my back stand up as I had this hitting 4 large Wi-Fi speakers kickin all at once in my man cave. Work hard play hard. Keep it real my fellow Americans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸God bless America!
Still one of my favorite songs from the 80's. And simple minds..Don't you forget about me. Two epic songs to this day still hold strong. And from two great movies.
Somewhat little known fact about this line-up of Red Rider: the bass player, Jeff Jones, was the first bassist/lead singer in Rush for exactly one performance in the summer of 1968. Gotta admit this kind of blew my mind when I found out about it.
You do actually know what this song is about? It's about racism. Tom Cochrane wrote the song after noticing a new wave of Antisemitism in the late 70's. The "final solution" referred to in the song is what Hitler called his plan eliminate all the "undesirables" (initially, Jews, but later widen the scope to include homosexuals, gypsies, and the mentally and physically handicapped) from society. Wikipedia defines "lunatic fringe" as "a term used to characterize members of a political or social movement as extremists with eccentric or fanatical views.". WIth those thoughts in mind, you might want to rethink your "I'm one of the lunatic fringe" stance.
@@Kohntarkosz Nah that's what he means. But, I would have never figured out that's what this song is About. I thought it was about people's inner maniac.
@@donavonmacallister3101 According to Wikipedia, it is. They quote an article on Tom Cochrane in a Canadian newspaper from 2002. "Guitarist Tom Cochrane wrote the song after becoming concerned about a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the 1970s, and was also inspired after reading a book about Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued Jews from The Holocaust during World War II."
@@Kohntarkosz I believe you're 100% correct. There's an interview of him here on UA-cam where he talks about it. He doesn't define the antisemitism specifically.. just talks about "racism" in a general sense.. but it makes sense. FYI there's a Netflix series called Mindhunter about the FBI's behavioral reserach team (studies serial killers) that used this song very effectively.
He also wrote a song that wound up on the Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Soundtrack, also recorded by him with Tom Cochrane & Red Rider in 1988. "Not So Far Away"
I was in high school 78 to 82 and absolutely did not appreciate the EXCELLENT music I was surrounded by...Always loved this song though… Just heard it on mind reader season two…
Wow, what a incredible performance to a great song and I am able to watch it free, we are truly blessed in America and especially in Boston Massachusetts to have all these incredible devices to watch videos like this and even those that are struggling financially Massachusetts gives them a device for no cost.
Funny story, I grew up in the 80's and had always had vague memories of this awesome song, being an audiophile....i had hearing parts of this song all the damn time, trying to remember the band and song title... Then one night in my mid-20's , I had the pleasure of spending the night with a girlfriend... Turns out she has work in the morn and set her alarm for the butt crack of dawn, 5:30am. The alarm/radio went off at said time and in my sleep I heard that classic synth intro and boom, it was lunatic fringe... I jumped out of bed to listen to the dj say the band name and song title. Fortunately, he did. I went out and bought that cassette later that afternoon. Finally had it and another plus was I was invited later on to visit with my friend/girlfriend. Do a VHS horror movie marathon and chill, lol.
the other day I was getting ready to get on i75 south listening to 106.3 here in Macon and the female DJ played k lunatic fringe saying she likes to listen to the song while driving.
This band is soooo awesomely perfect live! They’re sooo unique but have the live talent like Pink Floyd live! I say they are just as great as Pink Floyd live!
the basser is Jeff Jones, the original Rush bass player before Geddy Joined. I had no idea. doing lots of Rush research and that of Ontario. This was a pop song in the '80s I had no clue the bass player was in the original Rush basser! Or that Geddy joined so long ago as 1968!
I wonder how many people know this song came as a result of the John Lennon assassination in Dec 1980. And yes, even more meaningful today.Thank you Tom for writing this.
Great classic hit by a great Canadian band. 😀👍 These lyrics hold true today maybe even more so than in 1981. Example. Russia's invasion of UKraine and Hamas totally unpredictable invasion of Israel.
Saw this performed in 1984 when Red Rider opened for RUSH. RUSH was recording their live Grace Under Pressure tour in Toronto. Mabe there are some Red Rider goodies from that show?
The fact I always think this is a Pink Floyd song is the highest compliment I can pay it.
I always think so too. 🤭
this band deserves a lot more recognition
One of the greatest songs ever recorded.
Very, very good.
Well Stated!!!
True, but Stairway To Heaven from The Song Remains The Same is even better!
I think that you could say that about a number of other songs of theirs: Power (Strength in Numbers), Napoleon Sheds His Skin, What Do You Got To Do... the list goes on.
John Lennons death inspired Red Rider to record this great song and yes today it rings true
This great song depicts the current times and events.
History does have a way of repeating itself😢😢
Indeed.
the 'final solution'...
@@marktwaine9344 Secret meetings? Final solution?
I just want to say.
YOU have NO IDEA.
We now have the "META" data, of the soCIAl firmament!!!
Now what?
Great song! I never get tired of listening to it. Who's jamming to it in 07-21?
Listenening right now! 🤘
Right here right now!
Right here, right now.. February 2022
June 2022. Heard it on the radio today and had to find it!
Right now 2022
What a flashback to the early '80s! Great musicians and music. Truly a classic and timeless
Red Rider, The Fix are still my favorite bands of the 80's
Saw these guys in 1981 open for The Kinks. Here it 2022 and I'm still jamming with them.
Me, too, in Montreal.
Timeless ! Still one of the all time greatest songs that you still love after all these years !
This song was WAY before its time. What a great song!
One of the best guitar pieces back in the 80's!
I am 75 and still enjoy this music.
Made the hair on my back stand up as I had this hitting 4 large Wi-Fi speakers kickin all at once in my man cave. Work hard play hard. Keep it real my fellow Americans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸God bless America!
2:25 one of the BEST rock guitar solos ever... and it's played on a pedal steel !! Ken Greer is highly underrated.
Beast...
And the director seemed to forget to have a camera on him during the solo...SO pissed!
There’s no sound like it... 🏆
i agree
man, there's just somethin' about pedal steel, lap steel and nasty slide guitars that gets the blood pumpin'....!
When i first heard it on a Miami Vice episode i was stunned.
Whew nobody can jam like these guys 👨🎤 🎸
I had "LUNATIC FRINGE" lettered on my second race car, I was known as the only person with a stereo in their dirt oval race car.
Heck yeah i would to at least you let everyone no you have great taste in music😊😊😊
Absolutely love this song. Remember when it first came out. As Far As Siam. Love the album ❤
I never tire of the feeling I get when I hear this song
This song does something incredible to me. Always wanted to name my motorcycle after this song.
SOOOO WHO IS ROCKING ROCKING THIS 12/20/20???? CARRY ON !!!!!!!
Love love this song
Wow, cool!! L.F. LIVE!! Go Red Rider!!😃💜🎼🎵🎶🎸🎹🥁🎤🎧
One of my favorites
Only 44 years old but most definitely jammed to this at wrestling matches in the 90's
Still one of my favorite songs from the 80's. And simple minds..Don't you forget about me. Two epic songs to this day still hold strong. And from two great movies.
Somewhat little known fact about this line-up of Red Rider: the bass player, Jeff Jones, was the first bassist/lead singer in Rush for exactly one performance in the summer of 1968. Gotta admit this kind of blew my mind when I found out about it.
Even littler known fact: He didn't last because his name was Jeff
Red Rider kicking ass playing their legendary hit
awesome and timeless song, great memories 80's rocked, they don't make em like that anymore
We still listeng this song in 2078
Red Rider, Rush, and who can forget Saga!! Lots of talent in these 3 bands! Progressive rock is always my favorite!
June B
& Honeymoon Suit!
Saga !!!! I Loved them !
Triumph?
I AM ONE of The Lunatic Fringe and am proud of it because I am in good company!
You do actually know what this song is about? It's about racism. Tom Cochrane wrote the song after noticing a new wave of Antisemitism in the late 70's. The "final solution" referred to in the song is what Hitler called his plan eliminate all the "undesirables" (initially, Jews, but later widen the scope to include homosexuals, gypsies, and the mentally and physically handicapped) from society. Wikipedia defines "lunatic fringe" as "a term used to characterize members of a political or social movement as extremists with eccentric or fanatical views.". WIth those thoughts in mind, you might want to rethink your "I'm one of the lunatic fringe" stance.
@@Kohntarkosz Nah that's what he means. But, I would have never figured out that's what this song is About. I thought it was about people's inner maniac.
@@Kohntarkosz thats not true.
@@donavonmacallister3101 According to Wikipedia, it is. They quote an article on Tom Cochrane in a Canadian newspaper from 2002. "Guitarist Tom Cochrane wrote the song after becoming concerned about a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the 1970s, and was also inspired after reading a book about Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued Jews from The Holocaust during World War II."
@@Kohntarkosz I believe you're 100% correct. There's an interview of him here on UA-cam where he talks about it. He doesn't define the antisemitism specifically.. just talks about "racism" in a general sense.. but it makes sense. FYI there's a Netflix series called Mindhunter about the FBI's behavioral reserach team (studies serial killers) that used this song very effectively.
2024 still a great rock song
History might not always repeat but it does rhyme and keep to a rhythm.
studio version LP released June 30, 1981 ..reached #65 on Billboard Top 200 LP chart
+ Colin Sanders Thanks, I was just wondering when this video was recorded. I was thinking late 70's early 80's.
:)
Fuckin' love this BAND!!!
Absolutely 👍 One of The Most Haunting & Powerful Song Ever Fantastic ❤🙏🤘🤘
That slide guitar reminds me of how great David Gilmore is on the song "One of these days" by Pink Floyd
It was so good And so great in the 80's , I wish It was thin!!!!!!
A all time favorite
Makes me feel young again!
Awesome song ya Love that whole album
2023 , still rocks .
Always one of my favorite songs but I didn't figure out until a few years ago that this is the same guy who did "Life is a Highway" in the late 80's.
90s
He also wrote a song that wound up on the Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Soundtrack, also recorded by him with Tom Cochrane & Red Rider in 1988. "Not So Far Away"
Love the live version ! Even the studio version still speaks to today prefectly.
I was in high school 78 to 82 and absolutely did not appreciate the EXCELLENT music I was surrounded by...Always loved this song though… Just heard it on mind reader season two…
a canadian early warning system for US
Def 1 of my favorite songs/bands! Blast it loud! :-P
hit sound in Germany 1970-73....heard it on radio Luxembourg when I was in service over there..........still sounds great........
wolfe david Thanks for your service and sacrifices!
No matter what ppl say about this n that, Lord above thats a hell of a catchy song, absolutely love it🕺
I grew up in this time period loved this song never saw them live bet they put on a great show
Those were the good old days. I saw them when they performed live in Edmonton, Alberta.
Wow, what a incredible performance to a great song and I am able to watch it free, we are truly blessed in America and especially in Boston Massachusetts to have all these incredible devices to watch videos like this and even those that are struggling financially Massachusetts gives them a device for no cost.
Say, "Thank you President Biden."
This is program is nationwide.
Not one Republican voted for it.
Amazing song will always be placed in the cool zone Thank you guys Red Rider even live you sound great.
For the longest time I thought this band playing this song was either Pink Floyd or Def Leppard. Pretty badass.
Love this song lunitic fringe right at the top of my favorites may it not be forgotten
Love this track!
Much better live version than others I've heard.
heaven sent.
This is my current ringtone❣️ January of 2022
Funny story, I grew up in the 80's and had always had vague memories of this awesome song, being an audiophile....i had hearing parts of this song all the damn time, trying to remember the band and song title... Then one night in my mid-20's , I had the pleasure of spending the night with a girlfriend... Turns out she has work in the morn and set her alarm for the butt crack of dawn, 5:30am. The alarm/radio went off at said time and in my sleep I heard that classic synth intro and boom, it was lunatic fringe... I jumped out of bed to listen to the dj say the band name and song title. Fortunately, he did. I went out and bought that cassette later that afternoon. Finally had it and another plus was I was invited later on to visit with my friend/girlfriend. Do a VHS horror movie marathon and chill, lol.
A One of Kind rock song with a Twist unlike any other Song.
I just found out that this bass player was the guy that Geddy Lee replaced in Rush, in 1968 !!!
I did not know that and I loved Rush for ages!
Yeah I heard he was rushes first bass player too crazy
Holy sh*t! Did not know that...ty!
whillop not sure about that one will have to research
Jeff Robin Jones
the other day I was getting ready to get on i75 south listening to 106.3 here in Macon and the female DJ played k
lunatic fringe saying she likes to listen to the song while driving.
This band is soooo awesomely perfect live! They’re sooo unique but have the live talent like Pink Floyd live! I say they are just as great as Pink Floyd live!
the basser is Jeff Jones, the original Rush bass player before Geddy Joined. I had no idea. doing lots of Rush research and that of Ontario. This was a pop song in the '80s I had no clue the bass player was in the original Rush basser! Or that Geddy joined so long ago as 1968!
I love this tune !
If this was taped at Ontario place in the early 80's, I believe I was there at this show and Boys Bridage opened for them. I was 12. lol....
"Lunatic Friends" LOL they so kick ass
This is amazing... but i cant stop picturing Jim Breuer singing this.
Green Grass High Tide
I wonder how many people know this song came as a result of the John Lennon assassination in Dec 1980.
And yes, even more meaningful today.Thank you Tom for writing this.
Saw them at a lunch time concert at the Metro in Boston in 1984. Great show
Great classic hit by a great Canadian band. 😀👍 These lyrics hold true today maybe even more so than in 1981. Example. Russia's invasion of UKraine and Hamas totally unpredictable invasion of Israel.
And to think, the original bassist for this band was the earlier bassist for the band Rush!
remember them on radio Luxembourg 1970..........great sounds.....
GOT THAT BEAT....NEED MORE LIKE THIS...
Great performance!
That is the perfect front man! You can tell he is off his rocker!
Life Is A Highway
amazing how they cleaned this up
Lunatic Fringe,I'm an awkward dancer.
Growing up a 90 kids with baby boomer parents I got exposed to all these great iconic songs 🤘🏻
Tom Cochrane lead for Red Rider (LIFE IS A HIGHWAY).....
the good old days...gone....
I heard this song in 2021 AMAZING!!
How many of us thought this was Pink Floyd's song until now
No...big difference. But, I do like this...liked it when it was first released. Definitely not Dave on guitar...not his playing style.
Outstanding!
One of the few cases where the live version is better.
Superb Musicianship!!!
Cincinnati Stand Up For Our Radio Station's National Anthem!
sleywehrmachtanic i still have it turned up from 1981, when i graduated from HS!!!!!
You need a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, and a fierce mullet to listen to this song
Saw this performed in 1984 when Red Rider opened for RUSH. RUSH was recording their live Grace Under Pressure tour in Toronto. Mabe there are some Red Rider goodies from that show?
In this day and age, if you don’t really know or care what they are singing about,it’s no wonder we as a country are So Screwed Up!!!😱
Easy to confuse Red Ryder with Golden earing. Both great bands. I have a good 👂 ear for good music 🎵🎶.
It's now March of 2023 and we are in the storm. Worse things to come.
So Awesome🎸🎶
even live that slide guitar is amazing,you would be forgiven for thinking it was david gilmore,WOW.....
#RedRider-LunaticFringe~ CountMeIn and LetsRide this IntoTheBlueShift-- iHas Feelin We be Hearing MoreFrom TheEdgeSoon
song is so strong great mysterious lyrics music all PERFECTION
great lead sonjg for the movie vision quest
So very good.
VISION QUEST 🤘🤘🤘