This is one of the greatest 80's songs ever! Just the opening synth alone is amazing. I love Jim Kerr's voice...it's very powerful and soothing at the same time :D
This song full volume in my 1985 sport's car with the sunroof open on a nice summer day makes me the happiest man in the world . Can not be better than this ! The melody at the beginning is amazing . Trully pierced me when i heard it the first time at school !
You turn me on You lift me up Like the sweetest cup I'd share with you You lift me up Don't you ever stop, I'm here with you Now it's all or nothing 'Cause you say you'll follow through You follow me, and I, I, I follow you What you gonna do when things go wrong? What you gonna do when it all cracks up? What you gonna do when the love burns down? What you gonna do when the flames go up? Who is gonna come and turn the tide? What's it gonna take to make a dream survive? Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside? Who's gonna save you? Alive and kicking Stay until your love is Alive and kicking Stay 'til your love is Until your love is, alive Oh You lift me up To the crucial top, so I can see Oh you lead me on till the feelings come and the lights that shine on But if that don't mean nothing Like if someday it should fall through You'll take me home where the magic's from And I'll be with you What you gonna do when things go wrong? What you gonna do when it all cracks up? What you gonna do when the love burns down? What you gonna do when the flames go up? Who is gonna come and turn the tide? What's it gonna take to make a dream survive? Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside? Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye In the final seconds who's gonna save you? Ooh oh, oh oh Alive and kicking Oh stay until your love is, love is Alive and kicking Ooh oh, oh oh Alive and kicking Oh stay until your love is, love is Alive and kicking Ooh oh Alive and kicking Stay until your love is Alive and kicking, oh Stay until your love is Alive and kicking, oh
This song brings me back to when I first moved to Cali in the 80's....blastin' the song & crusin' along the Pacific...wind in my hair & singin' at the top of my lungs....
Looking forward to sseing them in Dublin on the 9th. Listened to them in Scotland in the 80's. They used to do the McEwans Lager ads. Absolutely Brilliant.
I don't know how...just popped in my head one day I was listening to this...I had completely forgotten about R. Plant's song till this intro jarred my memory...happens when u luv music...
My fathers going to see these on Saturday, i was pretty much raised on these and think their music is definitely timeless and never grows old, brilliant group!
Thank you for uplifting this track-it brings back so many memories! Alive and Kicking by Simple Minds is now 25 years old, having been first released in October 1985 and then again in October 1992.
I remember watching this video on MTV and thinking "God, John...Get away from that ledge! (RIP John Giblin). What I didn't notice is that I was watching a video song from an 80's band that would stand the test of time.
Great song had the pleasure to see the LIVE back in the 80's and for the price I paid it was worth it .Not like today only lip singing yet people pay so much money to see them not to listen to todays artists.>
I saw simple minds right after this record came out at some university close to chicago. it was rather a small venue. they were SUPERB! have been a fan ever since.
Football's my life and I want this tune played at my wedding should I e. ventually get married - simple minds is world class. I have high hopes for England next year - please win it for the late Sir Bobby Robson - that would really make me happy.
Praise God for He is worthy of all praise forever and ever. He is the Master and Saviour of us all. His Love is always Alive and Kicking for everyone of us. The Father sent the Son to die for our sins and Reconciliation was made for us through Jesus Christ back to our Father in Heaven forever.
Don't know why the 80's are most impressing for me yet. I'm glad to know some people out in the world, sharing the feeling i've got, when i listen to these old things.
Spectacular!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!! Applause!!!!!! Favorite Video Greetings - Dj Mario Afonso - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil I love music, dogs, human beings and nature. Much music, health and peace.
Yesterday I was thinking about this song , It´s so beatiful. sometimes I walked on salinas beach and my felling cross my childholl life. The music of this time is Bad , it don´t have name and soul .
Those high school memories! He reminds me of Bono from U2. Aren't their voices similar? The black lady has a great voice as well, and the piano, and the video are all excellent! What an 80's classic!
when i first heard this song i was 11-years-old, i didn't even understand what they were saying 'coz i didn't speak english at all LOL!!!! but i just loved the melody and i knew the lyrics by heart. good times...
@AdamJLemon absolutely amazing...the power of nature combined with the power of music (and actually with the power of youth that this song reminds me of)...pure love..
The female vocalist her voice always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up-very talented vocalist.
Its True!
Me too
Everything about this song is perfection. But the bass player on the edge of the cliff makes me nervous.
I love it! Same here!
Who is she? I was there!
Been listening to this for almost 40 years. It is embedded in my bones.
Wow! I feel the same!!! ‘Embedded in my bones’ is so powerful! Still giving me goosebumps, that’s the 80’s magic 😊
This song is so awsome. Wish we could bring back the 80's, best time of my life.
Best is yet to come! 🎉
When I had hair, six pack abs, and my '77 Ford F-100. Great memories.
This is one of the greatest 80's songs ever! Just the opening synth alone is amazing. I love Jim Kerr's voice...it's very powerful and soothing at the same time :D
Went all the way to number 2
If it went back to back with don't you forget about me... we would be talking so much more bout them. Such a good tune
I've known this song for years. I am now realizing the greatness of this band
Ditto !! I'm 54.....loving it ....
I miss the 80's every day.
For some reason, the 80s music never gets old.🤙🤙👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👊👊✌️✌️
SIMPLE MINDS WERE AWESOME IN THE '80'S, AND THEIR MUSIC IS STILL AMAZING!!!!!!! UP THERE WITH U2.
This song full volume in my 1985 sport's car with the sunroof open on a nice summer day makes me the happiest man in the world . Can not be better than this ! The melody at the beginning is amazing . Trully pierced me when i heard it the first time at school !
Always imagine something like that...with sunshine passing through trees
I play it once a week maybe more brother
Original comment 9 yrs ago! 9 yrs on and it's still a great song
What happened to music in our present days? This is so freaking awesome and powerful!!! Love it!!!
This is a prime example of what we can keep from the 80s. AMAAAAZING song. So much passion. We DO NOT find poetry in music anymore like this!
So trueeeee!!! I saw SM twice and never got disappointed. Passion is missing in the 21st Century!!!!
This song reminds me the best times of my life, when the music was music, the ladies were ladies, and the cars were pure hp's !
I've been listening to this piece for 25 years ... and I will still be, long into the future. Brilliant !
25 years on...this song still rocks!!!!
You turn me on
You lift me up
Like the sweetest cup I'd share with you
You lift me up
Don't you ever stop, I'm here with you
Now it's all or nothing
'Cause you say you'll follow through
You follow me, and I, I, I follow you
What you gonna do when things go wrong?
What you gonna do when it all cracks up?
What you gonna do when the love burns down?
What you gonna do when the flames go up?
Who is gonna come and turn the tide?
What's it gonna take to make a dream survive?
Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside?
Who's gonna save you?
Alive and kicking
Stay until your love is
Alive and kicking
Stay 'til your love is
Until your love is, alive
Oh
You lift me up
To the crucial top, so I can see
Oh you lead me on
till the feelings come and the lights that shine on
But if that don't mean nothing
Like if someday it should fall through
You'll take me home where the magic's from
And I'll be with you
What you gonna do when things go wrong?
What you gonna do when it all cracks up?
What you gonna do when the love burns down?
What you gonna do when the flames go up?
Who is gonna come and turn the tide?
What's it gonna take to make a dream survive?
Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside?
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
In the final seconds who's gonna save you?
Ooh oh, oh oh
Alive and kicking
Oh stay until your love is, love is
Alive and kicking
Ooh oh, oh oh
Alive and kicking
Oh stay until your love is, love is
Alive and kicking
Ooh oh
Alive and kicking
Stay until your love is
Alive and kicking, oh
Stay until your love is
Alive and kicking, oh
i'd never seen the band before... but watching this video now, i'm overcome with the simple fact that this is one of the best songs ever written.
This was truly A great band in the 80's!
I love this song!!
Absolutely love this song, brings back sweet memories of the 80s.
Simple Minds; simply fantastic; simply uplifting; simply ethereal; 80's music mastering at its very best.
I feel fortunate to have been able to grow up with this kind of music. I feel bad for the kids today.
I needed a lift during these dark days . I'm glad I can be turned up by Simple Minds. ❤
Me encanta esta canción, es una de mis favoritas de todos los tiempos.
STILL stupendous.
Glad I bought the album almost 40yrs (!) ago.
STILL so Cool and Intense, all these decades later!!🥰
Awesome song, awesome voice. These guys made some really good tunes.
This song literally gives me goosebumps when I hear it. Fantastic!
This song could very well be the quintessential song of the eighties
80’s Music Hits
That drummer's face is the best!!
Veliki hit , pesma koju i dan danas rado slušam.
Really, really great stuff. It can't get much better than this. An everlasting gem! The build-up to crescendo from 3.23-4:20 is just magic. Love it!
This song brings me back to when I first moved to Cali in the 80's....blastin' the song & crusin' along the Pacific...wind in my hair & singin' at the top of my lungs....
Long hair, black t-shirt, jeans, DocMaartens , bus fareand a beer! Yet I find myself listening to this. Awesome!
Wonderfulll song, SIMPLE MINDS AINDA VIVE EM NOSSAS MENTES E CORAÇÕES
SIMPLE MINDS FOREVER - survivor fan from Brazil
NEVER STOP THIS MUSIC....FOOD FOR MY SPIRIT !!! THANKS
me too...I watch this video about everyday...takes me back to a good period of time and helps me through this time we're in now
Simplesmente Maravilhoso!!! E com tanto lixo por aí. Anos 80 que saudade!!!
This song is always on at my local Pool house, Good times!
Looking forward to sseing them in Dublin on the 9th. Listened to them in Scotland in the 80's. They used to do the McEwans Lager ads. Absolutely Brilliant.
I don't know how...just popped in my head one day I was listening to this...I had completely forgotten about R. Plant's song till this intro jarred my memory...happens when u luv music...
Epic music still as fresh as the first time I heard it!! Man do I miss the eighties...
God, I wish I could go in a time machine back to the 80's & do it all again!
My fathers going to see these on Saturday, i was pretty much raised on these and think their music is definitely timeless and never grows old, brilliant group!
Thank you for uplifting this track-it brings back so many memories!
Alive and Kicking by Simple Minds is now 25 years old, having been first released in October 1985 and then again in October 1992.
it's lovely to see that so many of u know about this song. i went to high school when this was released. good memories and good vocals.
written like a 17th century classic masterpiece, performed by classically trained musicians, brilliant, God bless the 80's music
¡1 súper tema de New Romantic de los 80's!!!
A super New Romantic's tune from th 80's!!!
80 music is the prime and pinnacle of music and rock started in the 50s ..it all hanged in the 90s to a new level ..its great stuff
gggggsus were has the time gone. unbelievable how time flys. genius song. please god bring us back the 80´s.
ohhh the 80's decade the bestttt.
I was born in '92 but I love the eighties too! :)
The lead singer is so cute 😍 I love this band 😍
I remember watching this video on MTV and thinking "God, John...Get away from that ledge! (RIP John Giblin). What I didn't notice is that I was watching a video song from an 80's band that would stand the test of time.
Great song had the pleasure to see the LIVE back in the 80's and for the price I paid it was worth it .Not like today only lip singing yet people pay so much money to see them not to listen to todays artists.>
Je to super hudba !! Rád na léta 80 a 90 vzpomínám. Miluji hits80 a hits90. Lidičky mějte se móóóc hezky.
this song lives to this day...
this song has such a awesome drive,shame there isnt music out there like this now n days!
I saw simple minds right after this record came out at some university close to chicago. it was rather a small venue. they were SUPERB! have been a fan ever since.
Northwestern??? That's close to Chicago. 😄
essa música é grandiosa dos anos 80, gosto demais, do simple minds..
nice reminds of 80' i was 18 ...simple minds sounded great in my best moments the best band...reminds from Rosario-Argentina....
awesome song..
i remember.. it's fantastic times.. simple minds sound.. alive and kiking track..
thank you so much
Football's my life and I want this tune played at my wedding should I e. ventually get married - simple minds is world class. I have high hopes for England next year - please win it for the late Sir Bobby Robson - that would really make me happy.
Praise God for He is worthy of all praise forever and ever. He is the Master and Saviour of us all. His Love is always Alive and Kicking for everyone of us. The Father sent the Son to die for our sins and Reconciliation was made for us through Jesus Christ back to our Father in Heaven forever.
me too! love the eighties!!!!! long live the feeling you get from old music :)
this reminds me of when i was about 13...gives me those same butterfly's i had back then!
"Alive and kicking."....live your life this way guys....amazing track...cool find,thankyou poster !
Don't know why the 80's are most impressing for me yet. I'm glad to know some people out in the world, sharing the feeling i've got, when i listen to these old things.
Great song ❤
Spectacular!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!! Applause!!!!!! Favorite Video
Greetings - Dj Mario Afonso - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil
I love music, dogs, human beings and nature.
Much music, health and peace.
The stage is simply Beautiful!
def one of the best from the 80's...one band I never got to see :(
uma das melhores músicas do mundo!!!
There`s some good music now but For me the music from the 80s and 90`s were and still are the best Greetings from Mèxico
Yesterday I was thinking about this song , It´s so beatiful. sometimes I walked on salinas beach and my felling cross my childholl life. The music of this time is Bad , it don´t have name and soul .
Im 51 this is my for tied first great song of all timm, well my time..tied is Bronski beat..but this song...no words..amazing. et al..
Great 80's Song!! Thanks for the memories...
I love Simple Minds!!!! I'm proud my kids were born in Scotland, just like Jim Kerr!
Mel gaynor's drumming lifts this to another level...always great when seen live
great classic of the 80's :)
ibiza 85 this was the number 1 record at the time ...great memories
When music was good...great memories.
My personal favourite.timeless classic...bass/drum driven............lyrics enlightening..............truly memorable thanks fr posting ahhhhhhhhh memories
love the 80' this is the best song ever!
@MrSanSalvador I miss the 80's with a passion.Wish I could do it all over again!!!
This is 1 of my favorite songs 🎵
Pesma je extra, najbolj grupa kao i pesme su iz 80's.
Pozdrav iz Srbije!!!!!!!!!
Jim Kerr! what a voice! This maybe Simple Minds best song!
Me trae grandes recuerdos de un programa de television que siempre ponia esta cancion!!! "el dia despues"
thanks one of my favorites love it 80's was the best.
One of the best songs ever made! Want to pee in my pants everytime I hear it.
I love this song!!! Great! Classic! Thank you Simple Minds!
This brings back great memories.
Those high school memories! He reminds me of Bono from U2. Aren't their voices similar?
The black lady has a great voice as well, and the piano, and the video are all excellent! What an 80's classic!
when i first heard this song i was 11-years-old, i didn't even understand what they were saying 'coz i didn't speak english at all LOL!!!! but i just loved the melody and i knew the lyrics by heart. good times...
I miss the 80s
@AdamJLemon absolutely amazing...the power of nature combined with the power of music (and actually with the power of youth that this song reminds me of)...pure love..
These guys were great! I love 80's!
Major groove on this tune .. Mel Gaynor ROCKS !!! .. LOVE THIS TUNE !!!
SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!