I was 16 when this came out, and I remember watching it when my step dad was in the room, and he said, incredulously, "you like that stuff? Just wait until you get older, you will see how ridiculous this is" I am 53, and you know what? It still kicks ass!"
@@HerrinSchadenfreude Nina is perhaps the first female punk rock vocalist/performance artist/comedienne/musical innovator and trend setter I can recall......her voice is as unique as Dale's...
I love this song! I actually met the lead singer Dale Bozzio years ago in LA. My friend and I were shopping at a beach shop on Venice Beach and I saw her in the store. I instantly recognized her blond/pink hair. I went over and just told her I was a big fan and loved her music. She was extremely friendly and gracious and she spoke with my friend and I for about 10 minutes. She introduced us to her children who were with her. She told us about the upcoming plans the band had and what they have been up to. She was really cool and sweet. I didn’t expect her to be so chatty and friendly. I always appreciated that.
I’m 50 years old and I still sing this out loud in the car, including the high pitch squeaky bits, while my wife looks at me over her glasses and wonders if it’s too late for an annulment.
I love seeing comments like this. I was 8 years old when this came out, and it’s still so awesome. I get really nostalgic when they break it down at 2:09. Such an amazing 80’s sound!
Legend has it that the weekend before he died, Prince walked into a used record store in Minneapolis and bought 4 albums, with one of them being the Missing Persons' "Spring Session M". His Purple Majesty always had impeccable taste.
Dale's husband is the drummer in this video, Terry Bozzio, who was in the top tier of great drummers in the late 70s and 80s. As someone else pointed out, he cut his teeth on some of the most difficult music ever written with Frank Zappa, then later with UK and Jeff Beck and many, many others. Amazing talent.
I am 79 and I still love to sing that song . At a Missing Person concert I got squeezed against the metal fence who separated the public from the band as people from far behind the stage pushed everybody forward, and here I was up front about to faint, a good Samaritan helped me to move to the side. Thank you Sir, I was relieved to be able to get some fresh air. This memory never left me. Vive le rock and roll!
Damned right. I was eight when this came out and I prefer it today. I think my mother (Same age as Dale) is shocked I know who these people even are, but I remind her my memory is long and just because I wasn't a working adult with bills and problems in 1981/82, I WAS still there.
The magic of the 80s was you didn't even realize you were living through them until the ×%$* music of the next decades came along. It was just another week with the latest fantastic hit.
@@paul6925 Yup, running over to the boom box near the end of the previous song, putting your finger on the record button, and hoping the song you want comes on next 🤣🤣🤣
What's brilliant about this video is that they performed it "live." no overdubbing and could easily pass for a studio recording. Zappa told Dale to not perform anything in the studio she couldn't replicate live. They were the best and taught by the best in the biz. Still one of my favorite bands of that era and go as far as saying of all time.
Had a minute after a show in Colorado where Dale told me she "fell out of a second story window and landed on my head" then Zappa and his wife helped get her on her feet/start a band... kissed her cheek and got hair in my mouth 🤣😎
Zappa's ! Opinion ! I just that ! Nothing more ! And has nothing to due with this video. Some ! Songs are basically studio songs and that's the way it is. They were good ! But so we're dozens of other groups at this time era. Basta !;!
I saw them in 82 and 95. They jam playing live. I think they sound better live than recorded. Terry’s drum solo was out of this world. I had front row seats in 95. A lot of people arrived late so I was one of the few people sitting in front and she waved to me a few times. Good times.
Seeing all the comments, the 80's were the best time to be alive. Coming home when the street light came on, smoking refer and just having a great ole time. I wish this generation could live how we did. I'm 54 and love every minute of my childhood especially listening to Missing Persons.
Moved to LA in 1981 from San Diego, fell in love with KROQ radio... Traveled to Hawaii in 1982 and fell in love with MTV (back when they were a video music station worth listening to). I Loved this song, not to mention the girl singing it. A young conservative kid, loving the life in LA back then. Worked with some beautiful women in TV back in those days (behind the camera). Amazing people back then. People today can't hold a candle to what they were all about. Great song, thanks for sharing.
In 1982, I went to the Coconut Grove in Honolulu to hear Martha Davis sing for The Motels and a little known group called the Flock of Seagulls. On the same bill during that week was even a lesser known band called Missing Persons. I hadn't heard them yet, but later in the same week, I met a fairly drunken couple at the Ala Moana Beach Park that had extremely fair skin and totally east coast accents. They introduced themselves, rather loudly, that their names were Dale and Terry. To be honest, I couldn't remember which was which. So I'm fairly certain that I called Dale "Terry" and Terry "Dale" for most of the afternoon. It made sense at the time. They were totally unequipped for 85 degree beach weather, so I loaned them a spare beach mat and some 50 spf sunblock. That's the first time I've really met anyone without filters or volume control but they were totally delightful people. Honest and open to a fault. They invited me to their gig and I was a dedicated fan from the first lick. Glad they're experiencing a revival with their 80's tour. Good people. Good times. Good music.
+oldsarge101 The wife & I were attacked by a Flock of Seagulls on the Halifax Waterfront. whilst eating fries. Not much to do, but Run... Run away! LOL
+oldsarge101 Great story! '82 was a great year for new music in Hawaii. I graduated from high school that year and practically lived at the Wave Waikiki. (Back then drinking age was 18!) I credit their djs for turning on the island to the best music out there. Saw Romeo Void, Icicle works and many other awesome bands there. Brings back some fun (and a little hazy) memories.
Hi, This was a great shoot at A&M Records on La Brea. I was the SPL Visual Effects cameraman at MC2 part of Kramer Rocklin who got the production. Great Band and fun people Great music.
ray wojdynski Wow great work! So was this for MTV? Or was it promo to shop around? Also- did they play this down live for the vid? Any lip sync involved? Thanks!
How wonderful. You are not forgotten. To b part of this shoot that has attempts but no real copies. I adore her more than anything. I wanted to be her so badly. Still do.
Evan Michael Here’s the thing although Dale should be much richer today. She knows in her heart and when she sings today that she is the Rock singer all these bitches take after.
We loved them, we listened to them, had their albums and enjoyed the music and that time period. The 80s was the best in the music and in entertainment in general. Her voice and the music was amazing and still enjoy it up to this day. I just turned 57 and this music makes me nostalgic and I enjoy it even more knowing that it was the best era in music.
Remember this from the 80s. The amazing thing is they actually did it live. No lip syncing and no pre-programming instrumentation. They may not have had a lot of hits, but this song is a classic.
Interesting - I always assumed this was a conventional lip-synched music video, but indeed the differences between this and the studio album cut are clear.
Only a few years prior to this, Terry was playing The Black Page, singing homoerotically about Punky Meadows, and chugging along with whatever weirdness Frank Zappa threw down on his music stand, not counting (or discounting) his UK stint. Truly a versatile dude, and these folks were tight. \m/
I've seen Missing Persons live twice, both times in Santa Cruz, CA in the 80s. First at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and then at the Catalyst... All I can say is WOW!... Dale and her band mates were just awesome... I still remember it as if it was yesterday...
@@jlay9944 Terry bozzio is one of the best drummers on the planet I think you need to go and find the Justin Bieber or the Katy Perry page zoomer dip 💩
Yesterday, I sang this chorus to my wife because her head was stuck in her phone. She asked me if this was real song. i found it on YT and played it for her. I have not heard it 30+ years. I dont know why my mind remembered this song.
This is not "oldies but goodies"...this IS the golden age...the apex of creative music, art, culture. Since the early eighties it has been a downhill slide into the dark ages.
I'm a musician and yes you are correct. The amount of skill and work bar none has been sliding since the 90's. Unfortunately this is the sign/decline of a society. Was a fun run though. :) (and no I was just a kid when this stuff was big)
The 90's marked the beginning of the internet age and the end of the musical age. Learning an instrument was replaced with video games and social media. So very sad.
I was 11 and seen this on mtv with all my cousins when mTv was just videos and they had the rocket ship . I think we saw it come online live . All the grown ups were getting hammered in another room , lol . Life is wonderful, “ I think I ll dye my hair blu “ 😊
Back in the early 80's when I was like 8 or 9 years old me and my uncle were walking by some Dance club in Long Beach California. He let me look inside at all the people dancing around with all the crazy 80's fashion and 80's dance moves! This song was what was playing in that club and that whole scene I witnessed will forever be tattooed on my mind. Wish I could go back in time and go in that club so I could get shit faced with all those 80's folks!
Terry Bozzio is a Zappa alumnus and world class talent. It's no wonder they had lasting popularity. Dale is a beauty that puts Gaga to shame and she invented her style without ripping it off.
I swear. Bands like Missing Persons and Devo are from the future. They must have traveled back in time after they realized the music from their time lost its soul. Or to warn us.
Devo. Crap now I have to go find the song, I remember but can’t think of the name. I can only remember some of the lyrics but as a teenager I absolutely loved it. Hey little girl with the four red lips never knew love could be like this. They were awesome too.
I hate what MTV has become, but thank the gods for the 80's version. There is just about no way I would have been exposed to great bands like this on my own.
I remember when MTV played music videos with no commericals, just Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman and Martha Quinn during the few breaks. Kind of like UA-cam in the beginning. Ads ruin everything.
This LIVING BARBIE DOLL was drop dead GORGEOUS..her frown,her smile,body,voice,everything about her was PERFECT! I had such a crush on her and the song Rocks!!!
@@paulvon2378 You said by 10 years? So you mean 1991? when Grunge, House and Hip Hop music were the most popular Genere's of the time. You must be High as i'm hearing. LOL
Love this song and want to call to attention that Terry Bozzio on drums is one of the most gifted drummers/percussion players on the planet. Classically trained in San Fran., and of course played with Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, etc., too.
stop touching your pickle , my uncle is a dental floss rancher in montana and he bet me and Fauna that we couldnt find his zircon encrusted tweezers underneath a sears poncho, down at Joes garage...();}> BUNZ UP from the Ike'ettes
Dale Bozzio was such a natural beauty! I was 15 when I saw this on MTV & I'm not ashamed to say, I crushed on her immediately! Up to that very moment I had never seen a girl wear a skirt made from solar panels? She wore them well though? HIGH VOLTAGE STUFF right there!
i remember the day mtv played this for the first time and also walking in l.a,after hearing other songs on this album i went and bought the album,every song on this album is great.
I never took this band seriously until I learned that it consisted almost entirely of former Frank Zappa band members, at which time I immediately checked out Spring Session M - it's a really good album. The musicianship is so tight. Almost every song has a hook. They were an interesting band.
You had to learn that to take them seriously? I took them seriously just by listening to them. It was later that I learned Terry Bozzio, one of the best, was the drummer. This just reaffirmed what my ears already knew.
@A L yeah well I was a super young little kids so I had no idea what I was looking at. Perhaps you older people knew what was up but I was just too young
@ KoolGrannie Nance - Bingo! I think so too. See US Festival '83 - broad shoulders, flat back, no hips, Adam's apple (8:04 and elsewhere). See recent photos as well. Btw, Gaga's a male, also.
@@fusionhead1 Gaga was born female. So was this one. I still can't believe men can't tell the difference between men pretending to be women and actual women.
Such a beautiful young lady She also made her own outfits and as musicians they were extremely underrated very technical they never missed a beat was some great fun back in the 1980s. !!!!
I was 18 living on Fort Lauderdale Beach, She was playing at the then called "Candy Store" A night I'll never forget. She had the longest legs a teenage boy can dream off.
This song is so true yet today, whether you try to talk to kids in the age of cellphones, where they text everything and hardly know what it is to have a real conversation with people, or also the great political divide, where you cannot talk any sense to people that have been brainwashed. This song is constantly coming up in spirit for me for so many reasons..I just came here to hear it after so many years! Much love to all 🌟
It unfortunately isn’t just “kids”/ millennials!!! No one LISTENS anymore means no one!!! This song was way ahead of it’s time and actually quite prophetic.
Hell yes. Sadly the young ones aren't able to have a conversation face to face with another. I'm 59 and I have wonderful memories of shooting the s___ with my friends while waiting for the school bus. When we went to concerts we were mesmerized by the band performing every moment. No phones to diminish the experience. Will those times come again??
Audrianna B. I've always thought that "social media" had the wrong name . It really should be called anti social media. Cause it takes out the human element.
Yeah it's hard to convince people set in their ways - No matter how much evidence you give them. It's becomes battle of patience... Watering the plant in their head bit by bit every day, keeping careful not to overwater and overwhelm them.
As a 40something guy, I remember my parents and grandparents generation say the exact same thing about any new and scary phenomenon. It's the old boomer refrain.
I was 16 when this came out, and I remember watching it when my step dad was in the room, and he said, incredulously, "you like that stuff? Just wait until you get older, you will see how ridiculous this is" I am 53, and you know what? It still kicks ass!"
I was a young mom when this came out & I still listen to it a lot. Dale Bozzio is so original.
I'm 64 yo & still get a kick out of this video. In my opinion, Stefani & Gaga are pale imitations, no disrespect intended.
Agreed. Still awesome today. Your step dad sounds like my dad back in the day.
I'm 56 and I finally fully appreciate this. It's also clear what a talentless hack Lady Gaga is.
damn right!!
I have to laugh when people say Lady Gaga is so "innovative" when Dale was 30 years ahead of Gaga's persona.........
she's just one of the ppl gaga stole their style from.
Just said the exact thing to my wife.
Nina Hagen was doing this even before Dale. There's a long line of them but yeah it's totally true. Gaga is not innovating here at all
@@HerrinSchadenfreude Nina is perhaps the first female punk rock vocalist/performance artist/comedienne/musical innovator and trend setter I can recall......her voice is as unique as Dale's...
@@ryanbarker5217 *inspired by
I love how Dale just jumps all over the vocal range like a boss who gives zero fucks. Quite possibly the most underrated 80's "pop" band.
I love this song! I actually met the lead singer Dale Bozzio years ago in LA. My friend and I were shopping at a beach shop on Venice Beach and I saw her in the store. I instantly recognized her blond/pink hair. I went over and just told her I was a big fan and loved her music. She was extremely friendly and gracious and she spoke with my friend and I for about 10 minutes. She introduced us to her children who were with her. She told us about the upcoming plans the band had and what they have been up to. She was really cool and sweet. I didn’t expect her to be so chatty and friendly. I always appreciated that.
That's cool! Thanks for sharing that.
I met Lita Ford and same thing. Very down to earth and friendly. We snapped a photo that I lost in many moves across the USA
@@susannpatton2893 that’s so awesome! I love Lita Ford, too, she is fantastic.
She was arrested for animal cruelty. Google it
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Missing Persons, Berlin, QuarterFlash, Motels, Blondie... great and unfortgeteable part of our adolescence soundtrack...
You got it man. All in my 80's download playlist✊
Stacey Q, Ultravox, The March Violets, Tryangz, Tubeway Army, TransX, David Bowie, Prince, Billy Idol, A Flock of Seagulls.
Ah, and don't forget The Specials!
Altered Images, Pretenders, The Photos to name a few more good ones..
@@crapple009 and X, of course
I’m 50 years old and I still sing this out loud in the car, including the high pitch squeaky bits, while my wife looks at me over her glasses and wonders if it’s too late for an annulment.
😂😂😂🥰😘
I'm 57 and if my wife looked at me for a divorce after hitting those high squeaks I'd grant it.
@@ge2623 - I didn't bother waiting for the high notes. lol
the squeaks are the best part
LMFAO...i can relate..my wife always ask me if i need to goto the hospital
I’m 73 in 2023 and still digging Dale Bozzio.😍
Her Hustler spreads back in the day...
🤘🏼 Rock On
😍🥰😍
yeah baby
I love seeing comments like this. I was 8 years old when this came out, and it’s still so awesome. I get really nostalgic when they break it down at 2:09. Such an amazing 80’s sound!
The sound, the costumes and make up, the edditing made this one the greatest videos of the 80s.
"What are words for; when no one listens anymore?" So appropriate for 2020.
Voughers
@S.M.C. Kennels Thanks. Corrections made.
With that outfit, I think there was more watching than listening.
"Do you hear me? Do you care!?"
@@belladonnat4866, That's good, too.
"NO one notices, I think I'll dye my hair blue". Sums up this decade. We did it first. Sincerely, Gen X
Pretty sure Dale was a boomer.
She is 68, soooo..... 🤷♂️
@@jakovasaurI think she is Generation Jones- too old to be a GenX-er but too young to be a Baby Boomer.
The boomers invented punk, new wave AND grunge. Sorry
@@reya346Born in 1955. The baby boomer generation includes everyone born between 1945 and 1964
This kids, is what the ‘80s was all about!!!
Legend has it that the weekend before he died, Prince walked into a used record store in Minneapolis and bought 4 albums, with one of them being the Missing Persons' "Spring Session M". His Purple Majesty always had impeccable taste.
I’m 50 now...still love this song and all 80’s music. These are real musicians.
51 here. And I totally agree with you. Best decade of music.
I have the Roku stick. I'm watching this video right now on the channel:
Flashback 80s
And you are damn beautiful!
@@Peter8Luigi 😆😆😆😆😆
spontanuity is a lost art. the atrophied 2020's.
I am 57 years old and loveing this music 🎵🎶
86' grad here!
Me too🤘💚
@@keithinaz9769 Omg! 85 here. I had this album and I played to the enth degree.
I love the little squeak at the end of those verses
Me too!!
Hell,I'm still listening in August 2023. 70 years old and still rocking.
I'm 92 years old and I just discovered this song, and I love it!
Im 72.Just a numbo.I feel like 5 years old !
i invented the moon landing and have always love most portions of this song if im in the mood to be hearing it
@@pladtoeputh pump up the mars landing
Welcome to the music !
so happy to have you here! :D
80s had the best music..PERIOD
Amen to that!!
I have to disagree with you the late sixties and in particular the 1970s had the greatest music and the greatest bands.
were not better than the 80s.
Neil Parga and Reagan was one of the best
I second that
Dale's husband is the drummer in this video, Terry Bozzio, who was in the top tier of great drummers in the late 70s and 80s. As someone else pointed out, he cut his teeth on some of the most difficult music ever written with Frank Zappa, then later with UK and Jeff Beck and many, many others. Amazing talent.
She’s an amazing performer. She’s totally in the character of the song’s narrative.
Dale Bozio wearing a solar panel g-string....leading the world in green energy since ‘81👍🏻😂💗
Yes if Greta Thunberg, looked liked this I think even the most avid climate sceptic would surrender!
@william bush lol
And sheer to waist pantyhose too.
I love it Denise, the Music Artists of 2day think they invented it!!!
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This tune was ahead of it’s time , her outfit is perfect.
Wow this started the transgender movement, amazing!
She made her own outfits.
100% agree
She used Starbuck’s mocha coffee lids as a bra before Starbuck’s was even born!
I thought it was an Album cover 🎶🎵🎼 seriously 😝🤪
I am 79 and I still love to sing that song . At a Missing Person concert I got squeezed against the metal fence who separated the public from the band as people from far behind the stage pushed everybody forward, and here I was up front about to faint, a good Samaritan helped me to move to the side. Thank you Sir, I was relieved to be able to get some fresh air. This memory never left me. Vive le rock and roll!
How terrifying. Glad you were rescued!
Better than the music we're hearing in 2023.
How true back in time music today not impressed 12 5 23
And 2024!
Damned right. I was eight when this came out and I prefer it today. I think my mother (Same age as Dale) is shocked I know who these people even are, but I remind her my memory is long and just because I wasn't a working adult with bills and problems in 1981/82, I WAS still there.
The magic of the 80s was you didn't even realize you were living through them until the ×%$* music of the next decades came along. It was just another week with the latest fantastic hit.
This ^
I miss MTV of the 80’s and American Bandstand. Look at the garbage MTV is today. It breaks my heart at what it has become.
The 80's were just as good as the 70's. Amazing music released on a daily basis!
When your grandkids ask what the 80s were like just put this video on and walk away. Nuff said.
Hey Mark that's the cool or groovy part of the 80s Nu-Wave was coming in we were loving it !!!!! Well some of us were. 🤓
Very well put lol
Yup
Yup
I just watched this for the first time a few nights ago.I love it!
I've played drums for 43 years. I can't do that synth bridge then the synth theme at the start of the second verse. Thank God for bands.
This band was groundbreaking. Great music, great fashion, and great musicians.
Dale Bozzio! The REAL Punk Princess!!! She was amazing! No one can touch her!
Memories of trying to record this song from the radio onto a blank cassette tape!!
Hah remember waiting and waiting hoping the song would come on... it was much easier if they were playing a top 10 or top 5
Yup...did the same thing back in the day.
Ha!!! 😋
@@paul6925 Yup, running over to the boom box near the end of the previous song, putting your finger on the record button, and hoping the song you want comes on next 🤣🤣🤣
@@LittleLulubee 😂 I never thought I'd say this ... but kids these days don't know how easy they have it!
12 years old with my Walkman and my Spring Session M tape...this band still rocks to this day. Thank you Dale, Terry and Warren!
the 80's without Missing Persons arent 80's
Who STILL thinks this rocks as hard in 2024 as it did in 1981?
2022 here still rocking it
Very underrated band.
Myself definitely! Far ahead of their time, but also very much in punk/New Wave scene in the early 80's/ late 70's, Missing Persons!
FUCK YES!!!!
Yep
What's brilliant about this video is that they performed it "live." no overdubbing and could easily pass for a studio recording. Zappa told Dale to not perform anything in the studio she couldn't replicate live. They were the best and taught by the best in the biz. Still one of my favorite bands of that era and go as far as saying of all time.
Had a minute after a show in Colorado where Dale told me she "fell out of a second story window and landed on my head" then Zappa and his wife helped get her on her feet/start a band... kissed her cheek and got hair in my mouth 🤣😎
The tempo is slower.
Zappa's ! Opinion ! I just that ! Nothing more ! And has nothing to due with this video. Some ! Songs are basically studio songs and that's the way it is. They were good ! But so we're dozens of other groups at this time era. Basta !;!
@@schnellfahren911 yea !;! Right !;!
I saw them in 82 and 95. They jam playing live. I think they sound better live than recorded. Terry’s drum solo was out of this world. I had front row seats in 95. A lot of people arrived late so I was one of the few people sitting in front and she waved to me a few times. Good times.
Seeing all the comments, the 80's were the best time to be alive. Coming home when the street light came on, smoking refer and just having a great ole time. I wish this generation could live how we did. I'm 54 and love every minute of my childhood especially listening to Missing Persons.
Amen
After 42 years, I still adore this band. Dale you are the best female singer entertainer ever!!!!!
Moved to LA in 1981 from San Diego, fell in love with KROQ radio... Traveled to Hawaii in 1982 and fell in love with MTV (back when they were a video music station worth listening to). I Loved this song, not to mention the girl singing it. A young conservative kid, loving the life in LA back then. Worked with some beautiful women in TV back in those days (behind the camera). Amazing people back then. People today can't hold a candle to what they were all about. Great song, thanks for sharing.
This video was very important to an 11 year old boy in 1982.
Also important to a 23 year old USC Medical Student in 1982.
I was 10 and very happy
Every time i saw this video on MTV when it was an actual music channel i was a young boy i noticed something going on in my pants.
@knuckle sammich They used to play this and Destination Unknown on WHFS back around 1981 back while they stsrted playing a lot of New Wave.
Was she who you modelled your drag queen character after?!
Still here for it in 2023 💙!
for my dear friend Heather Valentine who has passed away. We used to rock out to this gem 💎
RIP, Heather Valentine. 🙏
Great song and band. Still relevant lyrics, probably more than back in the 80’s.
I'm 54 it's hilarious how many 50 somethings are commenting here. Our music is the best and always will be!!!
this is boomers. you are gen x.
@@hitakkjismith3115 Boomers AND X'ers music.
You got that right!
55 here, and well said!!
46 here and yes the best lol
In 1982, I went to the Coconut Grove in Honolulu to hear Martha Davis sing for The Motels and a little known group called the Flock of Seagulls. On the same bill during that week was even a lesser known band called Missing Persons. I hadn't heard them yet, but later in the same week, I met a fairly drunken couple at the Ala Moana Beach Park that had extremely fair skin and totally east coast accents. They introduced themselves, rather loudly, that their names were Dale and Terry. To be honest, I couldn't remember which was which. So I'm fairly certain that I called Dale "Terry" and Terry "Dale" for most of the afternoon. It made sense at the time. They were totally unequipped for 85 degree beach weather, so I loaned them a spare beach mat and some 50 spf sunblock. That's the first time I've really met anyone without filters or volume control but they were totally delightful people. Honest and open to a fault. They invited me to their gig and I was a dedicated fan from the first lick. Glad they're experiencing a revival with their 80's tour. Good people. Good times. Good music.
+oldsarge101 awesome I also liked Martha davis she was great
No shit, Don. And back then she certainly wasn't hard on the eyes, either.
***** LOL! Only in Hawaii. If you couldn't find a Aloe Vera kiosk with 50 spf, you weren't in Hawaii.
+oldsarge101 The wife & I were attacked by a Flock of Seagulls on the Halifax Waterfront. whilst eating fries. Not much to do, but Run... Run away! LOL
+oldsarge101 Great story! '82 was a great year for new music in Hawaii. I graduated from high school that year and practically lived at the Wave Waikiki. (Back then drinking age was 18!) I credit their djs for turning on the island to the best music out there. Saw Romeo Void, Icicle works and many other awesome bands there. Brings back some fun (and a little hazy) memories.
At 60 years old i remember rockin to this gem when it first came out, still am today.
Hi, This was a great shoot at A&M Records on La Brea. I was the SPL Visual Effects cameraman at MC2 part of Kramer Rocklin who got the production. Great Band and fun people Great music.
ray wojdynski You lucky bastard.
Thanks for all your work, I was in high school at the time !!!!
Cool!
ray wojdynski Wow great work! So was this for MTV? Or was it promo to shop around? Also- did they play this down live for the vid? Any lip sync involved? Thanks!
How wonderful. You are not forgotten. To b part of this shoot that has attempts but no real copies. I adore her more than anything. I wanted to be her so badly. Still do.
Criminally underrated band. And Medford, MA's own Dale! She was a blueprint 30 years before she eventually got ripped off. Ladies owe her a debt.
Evan Michael awe ok just listened to an interview of her from a couple years ago and couldn’t place her accent thx
Evan, I agree, I can name so many that copied her and never admit it. She was original.
Agreed. They do ! Dale rules!
Evan Michael Here’s the thing although Dale should be much richer today. She knows in her heart and when she sings today that she is the Rock singer all these bitches take after.
Dales all girl for shure
We loved them, we listened to them, had their albums and enjoyed the music and that time period. The 80s was the best in the music and in entertainment in general. Her voice and the music was amazing and still enjoy it up to this day. I just turned 57 and this music makes me nostalgic and I enjoy it even more knowing that it was the best era in music.
One of the best drummers of all time! Absolute legend
Back in the day when pelvis solar panels were in style, and no one wore them like Dale. Damn I miss the 80s.
STILL got mine--I wear it when I shop at Walmart
Good one
So which side of the panel provides the energy?
Lol. Both if it's a top notch panel
" Edgy" before "Edgy"
I’m 53. Radio announcer for 20 years. This album is top 5 all time for me.
Really? I'd like to hear what the other 4 are?
Top 5?? Of All Time? I love Missing Persons but that's a bit much man.
@@user-xk6dn7tu5d- He said “for him.” His choice.
Im 74 years old, by crackie!! I loved them then and I love them now. Great song and GREAT lyrics.
How true is that! Everybody listens, ..but, nobody speeks, listen to the music,.. and there you have it,.! Michael.
Remember this from the 80s. The amazing thing is they actually did it live. No lip syncing and no pre-programming instrumentation. They may not have had a lot of hits, but this song is a classic.
Never heard of this band, good though
LOL the amazing thing is mostly how she looked in that outfit. It's a great tune though. They had something snappy.
yep this is live...sounds VERY much like the actual single release but slightly different take. Goes to show how good musicans they were
Interesting - I always assumed this was a conventional lip-synched music video, but indeed the differences between this and the studio album cut are clear.
This song will never get old
The 80s synth Pop will Never get old.
Only a few years prior to this, Terry was playing The Black Page, singing homoerotically about Punky Meadows, and chugging along with whatever weirdness Frank Zappa threw down on his music stand, not counting (or discounting) his UK stint. Truly a versatile dude, and these folks were tight. \m/
The Bass player is Duran Duran
I've seen Missing Persons live twice, both times in Santa Cruz, CA in the 80s. First at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and then at the Catalyst... All I can say is WOW!... Dale and her band mates were just awesome... I still remember it as if it was yesterday...
Youth is fleeting.....I see these videos and I think about all of the crazy things we did back in the day.....Life goes by real fast...enjoy it
I sometimes remember I'm in my 60's and I ask myself,
Where does that highway go to? Am I right, am I wrong? My God, what have I done?
Terry is an amazing drummer. This whole band was absolutely awesome too.
Is this Terry...😂
@@jlay9944 Terry bozzio is one of the best drummers on the planet I think you need to go and find the Justin Bieber or the Katy Perry page zoomer dip 💩
@@jlay9944 this band and these guys are a protege of Frank Zappa's you don't have a clue what you're jabbering about young one
Totally
@@jlay9944 What you mean?
Yesterday,
I sang this chorus to my wife because her head was stuck in her phone. She asked me if this was real song. i found it on YT and played it for her. I have not heard it 30+ years. I dont know why my mind remembered this song.
I can't get enough of the syncopation in this song against that steady synth bass. So good!
This is not "oldies but goodies"...this IS the golden age...the apex of creative music, art, culture. Since the early eighties it has been a downhill slide into the dark ages.
Every. Single. Generation. We all say this. And, it's truth. To each one of us.
I'm a musician and yes you are correct. The amount of skill and work bar none has been sliding since the 90's. Unfortunately this is the sign/decline of a society. Was a fun run though. :) (and no I was just a kid when this stuff was big)
I agree but even if I am(only) 50 I also think the 1960s/70s are art and pure expression of one's true emotions!
man wearing make up and a purple haired woman. I dare say the 80s were the beginning of weimerica.
The 90's marked the beginning of the internet age and the end of the musical age. Learning an instrument was replaced with video games and social media. So very sad.
This is when music was not bullshit , it was meaningful .
Ha I say that about the 60s. But I get it.
@@4406bbldb these guys were in Frank Zappa's band during the 70s. Hard to believe but true. So you know they can play. You take care and stay safe 😷
SJW and all the censors say otherwise. because they take out the good stuff from any who try and put real talent up on the limelights.
says every generation ever... stop being a cliche.
I love this when it came out. I spent every day after school watching MTV just to catch this video.
I was 11 and seen this on mtv with all my cousins when mTv was just videos and they had the rocket ship . I think we saw it come online live . All the grown ups were getting hammered in another room , lol . Life is wonderful, “ I think I ll dye my hair blu “ 😊
back when MTV was watchable
Yep! I was there from the beginning when MTV played its first video. What a ride. So much creativity and color...now MTV is reality trash. :(
As was I. I was only 15. And I had a mad crush on Martha Quinn!
I Was 21 And Had A Crush On Martha Quinn
brian leblanc or Nina Blackwood
I did too
Back in the early 80's when I was like 8 or 9 years old me and my uncle were walking by some Dance club in Long Beach California. He let me look inside at all the people dancing around with all the crazy 80's fashion and 80's dance moves! This song was what was playing in that club and that whole scene I witnessed will forever be tattooed on my mind. Wish I could go back in time and go in that club so I could get shit faced with all those 80's folks!
+Spyder Fweek very cool story!!! :)
Very good song.
I would not be surprised if you saw me in there at that time you looked in there. I hope I didn't etched too bad of a image for you...LOL
+Dan M , if you were indeed in there I would only have to say one thing! Thanks!
You are welcome. Take care.
My cover band had this song constantly in rotation through the 80s. A lot of 80s music has not aged well, but I still love this one.
Terry Bozzio is a Zappa alumnus and world class talent. It's no wonder they had lasting popularity. Dale is a beauty that puts Gaga to shame and she invented her style without ripping it off.
Dale's look is absolute perfection, ahead of its time, and would be rock star fire today.
I swear. Bands like Missing Persons and Devo are from the future. They must have traveled back in time after they realized the music from their time lost its soul. Or to warn us.
An alternate 80s created in 'Back to the Future II'
Devo's band name is short for de-evolution (for real) - and they must have been from the future because their prediction was spot on!
Huh..so...too late?! 😕
Devo. Crap now I have to go find the song, I remember but can’t think of the name. I can only remember some of the lyrics but as a teenager I absolutely loved it. Hey little girl with the four red lips never knew love could be like this. They were awesome too.
I hate what MTV has become, but thank the gods for the 80's version. There is just about no way I would have been exposed to great bands like this on my own.
If it weren't for MTV these bands probably would never be known. MTV made alot of these bands in the 80s
I remember when MTV played music videos with no commericals, just Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman and Martha Quinn during the few breaks. Kind of like UA-cam in the beginning. Ads ruin everything.
Can't believe this song idea was before smartphones... now I really want to "pull the plug" and shout, "do you hear me?" Great stuff.
5/16/2024 How was this band not absolutely huge? Terry Bozzio on drums, Warren Cucurrulo on guitar, and the delicious Dale Bozzio out in front.
This LIVING BARBIE DOLL was drop dead GORGEOUS..her frown,her smile,body,voice,everything about her was PERFECT! I had such a crush on her and the song Rocks!!!
She was definitely unique. You saw her incredible raw talent. I thought the same thing. She knew how to perform. She knew what she was doing.
Very underrated band that was ahead of their time. No band looked or sounded like this in 1981. #1
AHEAD OF THEIR TIME? SO WHAT DECADE SHOULD THEY BE IN? THE EARLY 80'S IS YOUR ANSWER...PERFECT TIME
@@pepsiq11965 by 10 years kiddo
Underrated by who??? 5 top 100 charted singles. Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo played with Zappa. You’re high.
@@jumpinjojo you are too
@@paulvon2378 You said by 10 years? So you mean 1991? when Grunge, House and Hip Hop music were the most popular Genere's of the time. You must be High as i'm hearing. LOL
Man did we have fun in 1982 ! I was playing my drums, watching UCLA football, and enjoying all.
This video was my life circa 1982. I would wait for HOURS for MTV to play it.
Yes....the 80s were the best time to be young indeed. MTV in the 80s were the best unlike the garbage they play now.
Katrina Corine amen
Fap
Katrina Rosiak Same here...I would try to mimic Terry Bozzio's drum licks
This songs "Words" by The Missing Persons is an absolute classic and one of my all time favorite songs from the 1980's. I love this song.
Ernest
"We gave ghost"
Brought me here.
I remember this song.
I'm a Gen Xer... was a teenager and so glad they put this in the movie.
Have*
Nothing was more 1980's than Mall Life and New Wave music 😊
Nina Hagen, Siouxsie, Bozzio, Lene Lovich, Blondie, Diamanda Galás... what a wonderful ladies...
Aimee Mann, Martha Davis, Deborah Iyall.
love Siouxsie
add one more, Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics. R.I.P. doll
Don't forget DEVO and the B-52's!
@@uldi1s yes love the B52s
Love this song and want to call to attention that Terry Bozzio on drums is one of the most gifted drummers/percussion players on the planet. Classically trained in San Fran., and of course played with Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, etc., too.
UK
stop touching your pickle , my uncle is a dental floss rancher in montana and he bet me and Fauna that we couldnt find his zircon encrusted tweezers underneath a sears poncho, down at Joes garage...();}> BUNZ UP from the
Ike'ettes
@Jesse Taylor Me, too. I'm moving to Montara soon, going to be a dental floss tycoon, too. Going to raise it up and wax it down, too
I saw terry Bozzio drum clinic here maybe 5yrs ago ! one the best things i have ever seen , an was only $25.00.
@@johns8848 righteous
Dale Bozzio was such a natural beauty! I was 15 when I saw this on MTV & I'm not ashamed to say, I crushed on her immediately! Up to that very moment I had never seen a girl wear a skirt made from solar panels? She wore them well though? HIGH VOLTAGE STUFF right there!
Is that what that thing is? It looked like an optical magnifier or something
i remember the day mtv played this for the first time and also walking in l.a,after hearing other songs on this album i went and bought the album,every song on this album is great.
I never took this band seriously until I learned that it consisted almost entirely of former Frank Zappa band members, at which time I immediately checked out Spring Session M - it's a really good album. The musicianship is so tight. Almost every song has a hook. They were an interesting band.
So many great original songs too
She's also a unique singer
And the album title is an anagram of "Missing Persons."
Her ex-husband, Terry (whom she met while working with Zappa), went on to make Guitar Shop with Jeff Beck - one of his best albums.
You had to learn that to take them seriously? I took them seriously just by listening to them. It was later that I learned Terry Bozzio, one of the best, was the drummer. This just reaffirmed what my ears already knew.
No way!!
All 3 of the Missing Person original records were catchy, well played and well arranged. Great band overall.
Ny and LA new wave from the beginning of the eighties to 1984 is the best! Missing persons and Berlin were the most important groups
Hi, love her! Her voice is like no other! Brings back so many memories, of the younger years!
Almost 40 years later and this song is as relevant now as it was then. Perhaps more so..
Even more so - way more. When this song came out people would use a phone (landline) to talk. There way no texting or even email yet
It is Unbelievable how much talent was in that group and we did not really even know at the time
Yes…all zappa guys…unbelievably talented
Um.....open your eyes I knew watching them I didnt need someone to tell me they played with someone else
@A L yeah well I was a super young little kids so I had no idea what I was looking at. Perhaps you older people knew what was up but I was just too young
I had this on cassette in my 69 Chevy Ss 396 on repeat when I was 16 in 1983 😅
Dale and Wendy O. Williams blew people away....they were so avant garde. I love Missing Persons. The awesome Terry Bozzio drumming!
I'm 87 yrso and I love this song....... although I'm not so young I still kick assess around with dancing 😊❤❤
When I was a kid growing up in the '80's, this is what I thought the future would be like......how disappointing to see how the future turned out.
Very true. If it's anything I miss from my youth, it is the sense that the road ahead of me was wide open. Now, not so much.
@@rickmartin6817 Because our freedom and liberty keeps getting taken away....one lie at a time....
@@reesedaniel5835 Sadly, you are right. When I was a kid, the only censorship was not cursing in front of your mama.
What an absolute doll Dale is.
And a real sweetheart from all I've heard.
Saw at US Festival and in the Bay Area.. blown away then and still now.
I was a freshman in HS, the future of Rock. Iconic Great Band...
She's percolating at 30 seconds. Bubbly. Squeaks like Lauper, rattles like Hepburn. Versatile. Better than a cup of coffee.
Also has the vibes of Marilyn Monroe
A man?? With those legs?? Give me a break!
@ KoolGrannie Nance - Bingo! I think so too. See US Festival '83 - broad shoulders, flat back, no hips, Adam's apple (8:04 and elsewhere). See recent photos as well.
Btw, Gaga's a male, also.
KoolGrannie Nance
Yes. Great comment. Witty.
Love that HHC troika.
@@fusionhead1 Gaga was born female. So was this one. I still can't believe men can't tell the difference between men pretending to be women and actual women.
Such a beautiful young lady
She also made her own outfits and as musicians they were extremely underrated very technical they never missed a beat was some great fun back in the 1980s. !!!!
not without all the make up. And her Hustler spread is one of the grossed things of her. She is a pig.
2024 anyone??? 🔥🤘
Great album
Ninija22. Never stopped. Been here since the beginning. Squeak.
Me, from Mexico City
Our year, 3077. WE ❤ this song. 👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽
This is so 80s I had to mop a puddle of 80s of the floor, my polo turned into a jean jacket, and I found bandanas tied around both my legs.
I love it!
eeeeyyyyy -fonzie thumb-
I was 18 living on Fort Lauderdale Beach, She was playing at the then called "Candy Store" A night I'll never forget. She had the longest legs a teenage boy can dream off.
That's interesting 'cause she's only 4' 11" tall.
I can dream about her legs quite a bit.
those legs went all the way up
She’s absolutely gorgeous.
I grew up there. I remember the Candy Store.
This song is so true yet today, whether you try to talk to kids in the age of cellphones, where they text everything and hardly know what it is to have a real conversation with people, or also the great political divide, where you cannot talk any sense to people that have been brainwashed. This song is constantly coming up in spirit for me for so many reasons..I just came here to hear it after so many years! Much love to all 🌟
It unfortunately isn’t just “kids”/ millennials!!! No one LISTENS anymore means no one!!! This song was way ahead of it’s time and actually quite prophetic.
Hell yes. Sadly the young ones aren't able to have a conversation face to face with another. I'm 59 and I have wonderful memories of shooting the s___ with my friends while waiting for the school bus. When we went to concerts we were mesmerized by the band performing every moment. No phones to diminish the experience. Will those times come again??
Audrianna B. I've always thought that "social media" had the wrong name . It really should be called anti social media. Cause it takes out the human element.
Yeah it's hard to convince people set in their ways - No matter how much evidence you give them. It's becomes battle of patience... Watering the plant in their head bit by bit every day, keeping careful not to overwater and overwhelm them.
As a 40something guy, I remember my parents and grandparents generation say the exact same thing about any new and scary phenomenon. It's the old boomer refrain.