To Live and Die in LA is a great movie, and Wang Chung did an amazing job on the soundtrack. It's so dark compared to the mainstream hits of Wang Chung that are so upbeat and fun, like Everybody Have Fun Tonight. Good interview, PoR!
Everybody Have Fun Tonight is a song that permeates many generations. I heard my 20 year old son tell some of his friends over a video game they were playing that they had to Wang Chung tonight. That woke me up.
@@deantoso5376 The video games today have a lot of older music! My 24 year old nephew and his crew do karaoke sometimes and I've wondered HOW they know the songs they do!!
I saw them open for The Cars in 1984. They were fantastic! They were more dynamic and fun to watch. With as much as I love The Cars, I thought Wang Chung put on a much better show. I was 4th row on the side in the floor seats. From where I was sitting, I could see the band on the side of the stage during The Cars' performance. I waved to them and they waved back. Kind of cool of them.
Same here, except it was Wang Chung opening for Tina Turner. Going in I would not have cared if I saw them or not, but they were amazing! They were just one of those bands where "seeing was believing". Definitely one of the top live bands I've ever seen.
I remember that I thought that the song was silly at the time, but in hindsight it is always a mood lifter to hear it now. Definitely frames a time period when life seemed to be better. The video is just over the top cool, especially after hearing how low-tech the production effects were with manual cutting and splicing to get the stop motion!
I love this song, and Wang Chung. And Walk Like an Egyptian. This band helped make the 80's so great. I would always crank up the volume when ever I could, and sometimes lip sync in my room. Great memories. Thank you.
Just a trivial point, because I actually love this song, BUT...the band Talk Talk had the song Talk Talk with the line "All you do to me is Talk Talk" (used as a verb) in 1982, well before Everybody Have Fun Tonight.
@@RalphTaylor-e8m Until Gwen Stefani covered "It's My Life" I never realized it wasn't a big hit as it was in L.A. The airplay here is likely why she & No Doubt did it as a one-off single.
@@greg.murphy He did say "used band name a a verb" which these don't really count, but great to mention them. Also I believe "Bo Didley" by Bo Didley was the first instance of an artist mentioning themselves in a hit song.
People love to crap on songs that are pure fun. It’s a well made song. The only thing you could possibly complain about is the lyrics aren’t deep. But music is more than just the lyrics. If the lyrics are your only criteria for judging “MUSIC”, you have no business being a critic of “MUSIC”.
WANG CHUNG!! Everybody Have Fun Tonight. It's not a worst song at all. Love it........ it's catchy! And when the heads went fast, I just thought I was drunk.🤷 Thanks Professor. Happy Hump Day 🐪🐫 And were you Tom or Jerry?😂
Wang Chung, Tubthumping and Wake Me up Before you Go Go were played nearly every day as I took my children to school, they just about drove me mad with Go Go, worst song definitely was Who Let the Dogs Out.
I remember putting Wang Chung on my name tag at work. I worked part-time at an independent video store all through high school and college. The owner was never there and allowed us to do stuff like that. One of the guys had Fletch on his. We would change it around and if anyone pointed it out, they go some free rentals. I took two weeks before it was noticed. Unfortunately it was an old Jewish lady who wondered why I had an Asian last name. A co-worker, god I can’t remember his name, told her I was adopted by an Asian family. Of course he didn’t tell me this and it took a while to connect the dots on that one. Her and I had some really strange conversations, that when I figured it out, finally made sense. We never did correct her. Man those were good times. I was born in 1968, the best year to be born when it came to the eighties.
Right? I like what he said though about "a game to be played" and how if you didn't want to play it you should be doing something else. And yet they did manage to make a song which was both catchy and interesting.
@chrisbenson6683 A catchy pop song with an actual bridge! There is movement to the song, musically speaking. Maybe not breaking new ground or anything, but definitely well constructed and executed. Not a cookie cutter, formulaic bubblegum track at all.
Peter Wolf (the producer rather than the singer for J. Geils band) was one of those hidden game changers who helped define the sound of the '80s. The man who basically helped Wang Chung find their sound on this album also arranged "Night Shift" by The Commodores and "We Built This City" by Starship. He was the driving force behind Heart's self titled album from 1985 where they redefined their sound. Genius.
I used to go to a lot of Orioles games in the mid 90’s, and they’d sometimes play the Frasier clip late in games to get the crowd roaring (and it always worked).
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My wife and I were discussing '80's music yesterday, and we agreed that Everybody Have Fun Tonight, despite its detractors, was actually a fun song that we both enjoyed. Then ,lo and behold, comes today's video! Actually, while I do like this song, Dance Hall Days is easily my favorite from these guys.
It really is such a fun song. I was a senior in high school when it dropped and it just felt like the epitome of a good time tune. It remains as one to this day.
"Fire In The Twilight" from The Breakfast Club Soundtrack. Great Wang Chung song. From the scene with John Bender running down the hallway if I remember right. "I got you for two months, Bender. Two months"
My dad bought our 1st CD player and Mosaic as the 1st CD. He wanted to see the clarity of this new technology. Needless to say this CD got played a LOT and has burned itself into my childhood.
I don't give two craps about what ANYBODY says. This is one of the greatest songs of the 80's and one of my all time favorites! I like good music that makes you happy.
True; while this isn’t one I would go out of my way to listen to, it’s also not one that made me immediately change the radio station, or walk off the dance floor…
"We built this City" is so bad, its a given. When you talk about worst songs of the 80s, the category is automatically "worst songs _other_ than We Built this City" "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is a distant second.
Was a Wang Chung fan well before Mosaic came out and love this record! My favorite track is "The Eyes Of The Girl". Thanks for another great episode professor!
Out of curiosity... Since you are a big fan of theirs, have you heard Strictly Inc.? It was the collaboration between Jack Hues and Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks. I've heard from plenty of Genesis fans' opinions on it, but never from a Wang Chung fan.
@@illegal_space_alien Haven't heard of this, but will definitely look it up! Actually was a fan of Genesis, and Phil Collins prior to being exposed to Wang Chung. Was aware that Tony had a side project, but never checked into it. Thanks for letting me know about Jack's involvement in that!
@@illegal_space_alien UPDATE: Just googled Strictly Inc. and the song, "An Island In The Darkness" popped up. Beautiful song! Really love Tony's distinct style of playing. Thanks again for turning me on to this.
As a disc jockey in early 82, a record promoter gave me Huang Chung's first album. I told everyone at the studio, they were going to make it big. Our program director thought I was nuts. (He didn't last long.) I still have it today and in almost new condition. Still, after listening to their first effort, I was hooked. I'd crank up "Hold Back The Tears" in the production studio and just rock out with my girlfriend, whom I've been married to for 41 years. So many memories. So many good times when life was young. Thank you Adam. Consider me a fan!
Loved “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”!!! Such a happy song. And loved “Dance Hall Days”. Pretty sure I still have the 12” vinyls in my DJ collection.
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We saw Wang Chung at Disney's EPCOT last year. They sounded really good. To Live and Die in LA is a great movie and that soundtrack is awesome. Also, like how their "Space Junk" song came in at the end of the first episode of the Walking Dead when Rick is in the tank. Such a great band and a great interview as always Professor. Thank you.
Saw Wang Chung, The Motels and Naked Eyes back in May… it was such an energetic and fun concert. Want Chung was a band that was in a way a band I was lucky to find as to I had bought The warmer side of cool (from a budget bin) which for me was just a purely great record with deep lyrics. It would send me on a path to acquire the bands other records. All of which I love… especially to live and die in LA! They have much deeper songs to find but the hits are great.
This is another 80's classic with Wang Chung and their MTV hit videos and great songs Wang Chung, Dance Hall Days and To Live and Die in L.A. as well as a great interview with the band members i saw the video on MTV and heard it on top 40 radio stations in the 80's here in Oklahoma and as always another awesome interview and episode Professor.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Some years back I decided to listen to their entire discography. Worth mentioning. From the begging of their catalog back in 1979 or so is "Holding Back The Tears". Then from other end of their Catalog in 1988 or so is "Warmer Side of Cool".
Favorite underrated Wang Chung songs: Let's Go; Hypnotize Me; Wait; and At the Speed of Life. Then there are several off their 2021 album Tazer Up! that are noteworthy: City of Light; London Orbital; and Stargazing.
Great song. Saw them live in the mid 2010's and they were great. You should do a video on the song "Living years" by mike and the mechanics. Thats another classic.
I saw Wang Chung at the Philadelphia Spectrum. They opened for the Cars and put on a great show. Tons of energy and they had the Spectrum rocking. The Cars got boos after they finished their one set and did not come out for an encore ... hey, it's Philly!!!
The sitcom Cheers once used the song title in a joke-the character Frasier(the great Kelsey Grammer)mocking someone for a bad idea(paraphrase): Oh yes, that's great, everybody have fun tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight--in Frasier's snooty and condescending tone/facial expression
I LOVED these guys…In particular I liked Dance Hall Days but this one was always fun and my husband and I still will say to each other ‘What are we gonna do tonight?” “Oh I don’t know…we could Wang Chung tonight!’ Still funny…
My favorite musical bit of that song is the "On the edge of oblivion..." part. I blast that in my car. I wish they had a song developed with a melody built solely around that line.
When it was originally out, in that part of the song, his voice sounded a lot like the the opening of The Out fields Your Love. To me it did, at least. In my head, the lyrics would be more like "On the edge of oblivion, Josie's on a vacation..."
This song embodies 80s fun and the people dumping on it are the usual pretentious music snobs that were sent up so wonderfully by the Kids in the Hall sketch with the record store years ago. And the guys from Wang Chung seem rather fun and cool themselves. Great interview as always.
PoR, I was glad that I bought Wang Chung's Greatest Hits CD because I found a great song that most people don't know about titled "Hypnotize Me." This song should've been a major hit.
That was the year I was starting to feel disenchanted with Pop music and I started to get into Heavy Metal so I didn't think much of the song at the time. As I've grown older I've come to appreciate it and how catchy it is. While I didn't hear too many people using the phrase at the time I've heard it much more over the years.
As a kid I kind of dismissed this song, thinking it was too poppy. But recently I'v gotten way into it, I love it and the video, what a blast!! Thanks for covering it.
I had become aware of the band two years earlier through a friend. I really liked the song I Never Want To Love You In A Halfhearted Way, Hold Back The Tears, and Dancing. The sound was unique and Jack had this really cool voice. So when they started having commercial success I was quite happy for them!
Totally NOT the worst song ever. There are a lot of bad songs out there but this one isn't it, by a mile. One of my top "suck" songs is KC & The Sunshine Band's "Please Don't Go."
That song was also the theme song for a tv show called Video Hits, which was broadcast across Canada before MuchMusic (Canada's version of MTV) and during the early days of MuchMusic. For many kids, it was the only source to see music videos for a few years.
This song isn’t as bad as all that, but Dance Hall Days was a better, and much cooler, song. I actually got to meet Jack Hues when I won a contest and got to do a DJ set at WLIR. Good, down to Earth guy.
I love all the Wang Chung tracks that charted big, but there will always be a special place in my heart for "Wait" and "Don't let go." Those two songs absolutely defined the 80s for me. 💕
If I had a chance to interview them I would have one question for them: "What in the world does Cool on Cries mean?" (growing up I always misheard it as Cool on Christ)
Man there are lot of songs that are bad for a lot of reasons. I'm surprised anyone thought this was one of them. It's a great feelgood song, as distinct from trite, fluffy feelgood songs.
I'm so old I remember when they came out in the UK they were called Huang Chung, but changed their name to Wang Chung as they assumed Americans wouldnt get it, but bizarelly i knew the song as I watched Casey Kasem's top 10 video show (showed bizarely in the UK at like 4am in the morning, I always recorded it), but it only got no 76 in the UK, I'm so happy that I'm one of the few UK people that know this classic
PoR had to show the clip of Susanna Hoffs' eyes in "Walk Like an Egyptian"! Lol! Everyone "knows" what I am talking about if saw the video back in the day. As for Wang Chung, everyone wondered exactly what was meant by everybody wang chunging tonight.
August 1984, the old Exhibition Stadium. Wang Chung opened for The Cars. What a frigging show. Wang Chung opened with Wait. The song ended, and there was silence, then we erupted. It was a unique experience.
Thought "We Built This City" was the worst song as voted by critics etc.? Never knew anyone thought Wang Chung fell into that category. I remember them well and they were great.
Seeing them a couple times live now, they're such a great combo with many great songs, and more recognizable hits than most realize. Fire in the Twilight (Man Who Leads the Way) as featured in the chase scene from Breakfast Club, is another banger! And yes, EWCT is a bit of fluff, but there's nothing wrong with that if that fluff makes you feel good!
I remember they played Wang-Chung for the Pizza Hut party commercial at the beginning of The Land Before Time VHS. I always wanted to have a party at Pizza Hut after that. Lol.
I remember this about the video. There was concern it could cause Photosensitive Epileptic seizures. I was tested for that in Seattle. I had a different kind, but yeah I took all the tests. In fact I was in Bellevue and someone I knew was really into them and Oingo Boingo and just sawthe latter at the Tacoma Dome. This song was great. Loved it.
Saw Wang Chung on the 80s flashback tour- they were fantastic! " Let's go" and " Fire in the Twilight" from "the Breakfast Club" soundtrack are their best ❤️
I saw the same duo in alpine valley, WI. Loved both bands but the cars never did a "show". Outside of technically perfectly played music, Rick Ocasic said "we're the cars" to open the show and that was it. They were great though, just different.
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Poll: What is your pick for the WORST SONG of the 80s?
"We Built This City" Starship
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Wang Chung's "Dance Hall Days" will always bring me back to the magical summer of 1984.
Great song!
I’d say dance hall days definitely brings me back instantly the most, along with what’s love got to do with it. Still love em
@@Fregulus5 This is the one I recall.
Great song!
Same here... Dance Hall Days takes me back to 84 as well. A catchy fun little tune that deserves more retro airplay than it gets.
To Live and Die in LA is a great movie, and Wang Chung did an amazing job on the soundtrack. It's so dark compared to the mainstream hits of Wang Chung that are so upbeat and fun, like Everybody Have Fun Tonight. Good interview, PoR!
So true!
It was a pretty dark movie. Breakout roles for William Petersen(an Idahoan just like The Professor) as well as Willem Dafoe and John Turturro.
I love that movie and soundtrack and I cannot find it anywhere to stream. Any ideas?
Took the words out of my mouth! EXCELLENT MOVIE AND SONG!! My favorite of their songs for sure!
To Live and Die in LA is their best single imo. Great song.
This is a good reminder that I really need to Wang Chung tonight. Thank you!
Everybody Have Fun Tonight is a song that permeates many generations. I heard my 20 year old son tell some of his friends over a video game they were playing that they had to Wang Chung tonight. That woke me up.
@@deantoso5376 The video games today have a lot of older music! My 24 year old nephew and his crew do karaoke sometimes and I've wondered HOW they know the songs they do!!
Back in the 80s I had a scrappy tom cat that just appeared at my house and stayed,I named him Wang Chung.I loved their music.
Ha! That's cool. (And the cats that just show up, whether they're strays or ferals, always turn out to be the best ones!)
To Live and Die in LA and Dance Hall Days are such great songs. I never understood why they didn’t get more attention.
They sadly got overshadowed by “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” because radio DJ’s think they have to play the same song over and over ad nauseum.
I saw them open for The Cars in 1984. They were fantastic! They were more dynamic and fun to watch. With as much as I love The Cars, I thought Wang Chung put on a much better show. I was 4th row on the side in the floor seats. From where I was sitting, I could see the band on the side of the stage during The Cars' performance. I waved to them and they waved back. Kind of cool of them.
Same here, except it was Wang Chung opening for Tina Turner. Going in I would not have cared if I saw them or not, but they were amazing! They were just one of those bands where "seeing was believing". Definitely one of the top live bands I've ever seen.
Great song, great video and a great interview. Thanks Professor! Everybody Wang Chung Tonight!
Thanks Steve!
I remember that I thought that the song was silly at the time, but in hindsight it is always a mood lifter to hear it now. Definitely frames a time period when life seemed to be better. The video is just over the top cool, especially after hearing how low-tech the production effects were with manual cutting and splicing to get the stop motion!
I love this song, and Wang Chung. And Walk Like an Egyptian. This band helped make the 80's so great. I would always crank up the volume when ever I could, and sometimes lip sync in my room. Great memories. Thank you.
Just a trivial point, because I actually love this song, BUT...the band Talk Talk had the song Talk Talk with the line "All you do to me is Talk Talk" (used as a verb) in 1982, well before Everybody Have Fun Tonight.
Nice! Ten years later, Guns N Roses had the line "Funny how ev'rything was roses When we held on to the guns"
Killer Queen, This Is Radio Clash, Stray Cat Strut, Alarm Alarm. There's lots out there.
And what a great song talk talk had in form of It's My Life.
@@RalphTaylor-e8m Until Gwen Stefani covered "It's My Life" I never realized it wasn't a big hit as it was in L.A. The airplay here is likely why she & No Doubt did it as a one-off single.
@@greg.murphy He did say "used band name a a verb" which these don't really count, but great to mention them. Also I believe "Bo Didley" by Bo Didley was the first instance of an artist mentioning themselves in a hit song.
Worst song?! Pshaw! It's fun, danceable and pure 80s, definitely one of the best songs released.
Thanks Christine!
worst song but at the same I never ever heard of both the band and the song in question but then again I'm from Europe
I agree. This song lifts me up.
@ Wang Chung is British. Closer to you than it is to me in The Great White North. Wang Chung never hit in Europe? Interesting.
People love to crap on songs that are pure fun. It’s a well made song. The only thing you could possibly complain about is the lyrics aren’t deep. But music is more than just the lyrics. If the lyrics are your only criteria for judging “MUSIC”, you have no business being a critic of “MUSIC”.
I still text friends at random every once in a while asking them if They will be Wang Chunging tonight
....hell, my Friends want me to STOP! ...ha-HAAAA!
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Proper English is Wanging Chung.
@ ....a dirty sod like me could go MANY ways, with that phrasin'! ...ha-HAA!
@JW...-oj5iw came here to say the same. It seems only natural
Always liked the music to Dance Hall Days. This video for this song was on all the time
I totally remember that video!
There were like two separate videos for the song.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Cool! I only remember one. Will check that out :)
I never realized how much I DIDN'T know about this fun 80s tune. I got Wang-Chunged!
It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!
@@Code.Name.V😂
At least you didn't get Rick rolled.
Lol. This song popped up in my head this morning and I started singing it. Now POR is making a video of it.
Awesome!
How coincidental!
WANG CHUNG!!
Everybody Have Fun Tonight. It's not a worst song at all. Love it........ it's catchy!
And when the heads went fast, I just thought I was drunk.🤷
Thanks Professor.
Happy Hump Day 🐪🐫
And were you Tom or Jerry?😂
Happy hump day and I was neither Tom or Jerry lol
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TOM all the way!
I don't think it is either.
Wang Chung, Tubthumping and Wake Me up Before you Go Go were played nearly every day as I took my children to school, they just about drove me mad with Go Go, worst song definitely was Who Let the Dogs Out.
I remember putting Wang Chung on my name tag at work. I worked part-time at an independent video store all through high school and college. The owner was never there and allowed us to do stuff like that. One of the guys had Fletch on his. We would change it around and if anyone pointed it out, they go some free rentals.
I took two weeks before it was noticed. Unfortunately it was an old Jewish lady who wondered why I had an Asian last name. A co-worker, god I can’t remember his name, told her I was adopted by an Asian family.
Of course he didn’t tell me this and it took a while to connect the dots on that one. Her and I had some really strange conversations, that when I figured it out, finally made sense. We never did correct her. Man those were good times. I was born in 1968, the best year to be born when it came to the eighties.
In no way should they be embarrassed about writing and recording one of the catchiest hooks in music history.
Right? I like what he said though about "a game to be played" and how if you didn't want to play it you should be doing something else. And yet they did manage to make a song which was both catchy and interesting.
@chrisbenson6683 A catchy pop song with an actual bridge! There is movement to the song, musically speaking. Maybe not breaking new ground or anything, but definitely well constructed and executed. Not a cookie cutter, formulaic bubblegum track at all.
This was a great interview! Thank you very much Professor!❤
Thanks!
Peter Wolf (the producer rather than the singer for J. Geils band) was one of those hidden game changers who helped define the sound of the '80s. The man who basically helped Wang Chung find their sound on this album also arranged "Night Shift" by The Commodores and "We Built This City" by Starship. He was the driving force behind Heart's self titled album from 1985 where they redefined their sound. Genius.
He sure did! Good call.
I Wang Chunged once. Still in recovery 😁
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...they have meds for that, yknow! ...ha-HAAA!
You require medical insurance to do that stuff😅
@@RBS_and special creams and ointments
@@RBS_ - I had a bad reaction to the medication and ended up with a bad case of Cat Scratch Fever. 😜
My favorite Wang Chung song is "Let's Go"
The sax riff gets me every time.
The chorus of "Let's Go" was really staccato, almost like a cadence. That was pretty rare back then.
I had to look it up. Man I can't believe I forgot all about that song! Thanx for reminding me. 👍
I love this band! Love saying their name! Sounds cool just like their sound! Awesome Professor!
Thanks Cheryl!
I used to go to a lot of Orioles games in the mid 90’s, and they’d sometimes play the Frasier clip late in games to get the crowd roaring (and it always worked).
As a Chinese American myself I love Wang Chung ! So do millions of Chinese Americans who were teens like me in the 80s !
Awesome!
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WTF? Nobody in the band was Chinese, just like Panda Express.
@ lol 😂
@ just like PF Chang’s- but the franchise certainly Wang Chung every night for dinner
My wife and I were discussing '80's music yesterday, and we agreed that Everybody Have Fun Tonight, despite its detractors, was actually a fun song that we both enjoyed. Then ,lo and behold, comes today's video! Actually, while I do like this song, Dance Hall Days is easily my favorite from these guys.
It really is such a fun song. I was a senior in high school when it dropped and it just felt like the epitome of a good time tune. It remains as one to this day.
"Fire In The Twilight" from The Breakfast Club Soundtrack. Great Wang Chung song. From the scene with John Bender running down the hallway if I remember right.
"I got you for two months, Bender. Two months"
My dad bought our 1st CD player and Mosaic as the 1st CD. He wanted to see the clarity of this new technology. Needless to say this CD got played a LOT and has burned itself into my childhood.
Dance Hall Days was their best song imo ...
I don't give two craps about what ANYBODY says. This is one of the greatest songs of the 80's and one of my all time favorites! I like good music that makes you happy.
It sit at the table with the very best 80's songs.
No way is this a worst song. There are literally hundreds just from the 80’s that are a-lot worse.
True; while this isn’t one I would go out of my way to listen to, it’s also not one that made me immediately change the radio station, or walk off the dance floor…
Safety Dance,
and I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls., I've hated those songs Forever. Far far worse.
"We built this City" is so bad, its a given.
When you talk about worst songs of the 80s, the category is automatically "worst songs _other_ than We Built this City"
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" is a distant second.
To Live and Die in L.A.!I Still Have This Extended Play Big Record!Mint Condition,nah!❤ Wang Chung Tonight!Its Allways in My Playlist!😊
Was a Wang Chung fan well before Mosaic came out and love this record! My favorite track is "The Eyes Of The Girl". Thanks for another great episode professor!
Out of curiosity... Since you are a big fan of theirs, have you heard Strictly Inc.? It was the collaboration between Jack Hues and Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks. I've heard from plenty of Genesis fans' opinions on it, but never from a Wang Chung fan.
@@illegal_space_alien Haven't heard of this, but will definitely look it up! Actually was a fan of Genesis, and Phil Collins prior to being exposed to Wang Chung. Was aware that Tony had a side project, but never checked into it. Thanks for letting me know about Jack's involvement in that!
@@illegal_space_alien UPDATE: Just googled Strictly Inc. and the song, "An Island In The Darkness" popped up. Beautiful song! Really love Tony's distinct style of playing. Thanks again for turning me on to this.
@@vincereynolds6092 You’re welcome! Enjoy!
As a disc jockey in early 82, a record promoter gave me Huang Chung's first album. I told everyone at the studio, they were going to make it big. Our program director thought I was nuts. (He didn't last long.) I still have it today and in almost new condition. Still, after listening to their first effort, I was hooked. I'd crank up "Hold Back The Tears" in the production studio and just rock out with my girlfriend, whom I've been married to for 41 years. So many memories. So many good times when life was young. Thank you Adam. Consider me a fan!
A really cool interview
Thanks for watching!
@ProfessorofRock no problem I enjoyed listening to your show when I am at work
Loved “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”!!! Such a happy song. And loved “Dance Hall Days”. Pretty sure I still have the 12” vinyls in my DJ collection.
We saw Wang Chung at Disney's EPCOT last year. They sounded really good. To Live and Die in LA is a great movie and that soundtrack is awesome. Also, like how their "Space Junk" song came in at the end of the first episode of the Walking Dead when Rick is in the tank. Such a great band and a great interview as always Professor. Thank you.
Great episode. Glad you brought me back to this.
Happy hump day Professor and friends. Everybody Wang Chung!
I only Wang Chung on the Dance Hall Days when I Live and Die in L.A.!
@Code.Name.V - 😂 stop stealing my lines 😂. Have a great day, Code.
Happy hump day music junkies
@@Code.Name.Vgood one 🤣
Happy Hump Day! Get us to FRIDAY!
Saw Wang Chung, The Motels and Naked Eyes back in May… it was such an energetic and fun concert. Want Chung was a band that was in a way a band I was lucky to find as to I had bought The warmer side of cool (from a budget bin) which for me was just a purely great record with deep lyrics. It would send me on a path to acquire the bands other records. All of which I love… especially to live and die in LA! They have much deeper songs to find but the hits are great.
This is another 80's classic with Wang Chung and their MTV hit videos and
great songs Wang Chung, Dance Hall Days and To Live and Die in L.A. as well as a great interview with the band members i saw the video on MTV and heard it on top 40 radio stations in the 80's here in Oklahoma and as always another awesome interview and episode Professor.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Love Dance Hall Days!
Some years back I decided to listen to their entire discography. Worth mentioning. From the begging of their catalog back in 1979 or so is "Holding Back The Tears". Then from other end of their Catalog in 1988 or so is "Warmer Side of Cool".
Favorite underrated Wang Chung songs: Let's Go; Hypnotize Me; Wait; and At the Speed of Life. Then there are several off their 2021 album Tazer Up! that are noteworthy: City of Light; London Orbital; and Stargazing.
This was so much fun.🎶🎶🎶
Thanks Professor👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
7:57 Finally! I'd always thought the Peter Wolfe mentioned was Peter Wolfe from the J. Giels band. 😅
I always thought the very same thing!
....same here! ...little did WE know! ...ha-HAAA!
Yep, played keyboards for Frank Zappa in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Two different guys!
Crazy!
Great song. Saw them live in the mid 2010's and they were great.
You should do a video on the song "Living years" by mike and the mechanics. Thats another classic.
Thank you Professor! Have a great day everyone! ✌🏼😊
Have a marvelous day
You too!
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I wish you a wonderful Wednesday Yvette!
been watching you for a few years and just got my first pair of Zenni glasses!! Thank you!
I saw Wang Chung at the Philadelphia Spectrum. They opened for the Cars and put on a great show. Tons of energy and they had the Spectrum rocking. The Cars got boos after they finished their one set and did not come out for an encore ... hey, it's Philly!!!
Brings back such nostalgia and good times! Enjoyed the interview and insight into Wang Chunging. Ha!
My favorite by them is To Live and Die in LA.
Same!
I think their City of the angels from the To Live and Die in LA soundtrack is one of the top 10 best instrumentals ever.
I clicked on this being 99% positive this episode would be about "We Built This City On Rock And Roll".
That just Wangs Chung!
To Live and Die in LA was a brilliant and fit the movie perfectly
The sitcom Cheers once used the song title in a joke-the character Frasier(the great Kelsey Grammer)mocking someone for a bad idea(paraphrase): Oh yes, that's great, everybody have fun tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight--in Frasier's snooty and condescending tone/facial expression
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody watch news tonight
-Wang and Connie Chung
I LOVED these guys…In particular I liked Dance Hall Days but this one was always fun and my husband and I still will say to each other ‘What are we gonna do tonight?” “Oh I don’t know…we could Wang Chung tonight!’ Still funny…
Love it!
My favorite musical bit of that song is the "On the edge of oblivion..." part. I blast that in my car. I wish they had a song developed with a melody built solely around that line.
Love that part too!
It’s my favorite part too, it’s great.
When it was originally out, in that part of the song, his voice sounded a lot like the the opening of The Out fields Your Love. To me it did, at least. In my head, the lyrics would be more like "On the edge of oblivion, Josie's on a vacation..."
The bridge is really cool.
This song embodies 80s fun and the people dumping on it are the usual pretentious music snobs that were sent up so wonderfully by the Kids in the Hall sketch with the record store years ago. And the guys from Wang Chung seem rather fun and cool themselves. Great interview as always.
PoR, I was glad that I bought Wang Chung's Greatest Hits CD because I found a great song that most people don't know about titled "Hypnotize Me." This song should've been a major hit.
I love that song!
My favorite Wang Chung song!
Oh yeah! Great song.
That was the year I was starting to feel disenchanted with Pop music and I started to get into Heavy Metal so I didn't think much of the song at the time. As I've grown older I've come to appreciate it and how catchy it is. While I didn't hear too many people using the phrase at the time I've heard it much more over the years.
Worse song ever is Roxanne by the Police. One of the very few songs that I will turn off the radio over...just irritates me to my core.
So you put on a red light for that song? Ironic. But a different type of red light than in the song.
As a kid I kind of dismissed this song, thinking it was too poppy. But recently I'v gotten way into it, I love it and the video, what a blast!! Thanks for covering it.
Hey, y'all! Everybody Wang Chung.
Too late...I already did!
@@Code.Name.V Hey, you can always Wang Chung again.
Good morning, Ms. Whisper 😊
@@Whisper_292 You'll go blind if you Wang Chung too much!
Everybody Wang Chung Tonight everybody Wang Chung Tonight.
Thank you! I still love this song today!
If you can make the name of your band a verb that everybody sings, I call it a win!
Agreed!
For sure!
I had become aware of the band two years earlier through a friend. I really liked the song I Never Want To Love You In A Halfhearted Way, Hold Back The Tears, and Dancing. The sound was unique and Jack had this really cool voice.
So when they started having commercial success I was quite happy for them!
Totally NOT the worst song ever. There are a lot of bad songs out there but this one isn't it, by a mile. One of my top "suck" songs is KC & The Sunshine Band's "Please Don't Go."
@@RSGill1903 Awful, just F-ing awful song. I had forgotten it and then Netflix revived it when they did a movie about Jeffrey Dahmer.
That song was also the theme song for a tv show called Video Hits, which was broadcast across Canada before MuchMusic (Canada's version of MTV) and during the early days of MuchMusic. For many kids, it was the only source to see music videos for a few years.
Fun songs will always be popular & this one will always make you smile! Happy hump day everyone! 🤠
@CowGirlKat8691 - Too true to bring a smile 😃. Have a great day CowGirlKat!
I'm going to be Humpty Humpin'!
An underrated band - Dance Hall Days is one of the 80s absolute best
This song isn’t as bad as all that, but Dance Hall Days was a better, and much cooler, song. I actually got to meet Jack Hues when I won a contest and got to do a DJ set at WLIR. Good, down to Earth guy.
He reminds me of Sting!
@@ProfessorofRock I can definitely see that.
Any chance on getting you to cover Dance Hall Days?? Also great video as always. Greetings from Boise Idaho ^_^
@@keithseratt5926 As the Professor says, "Stay tuned."
I love all the Wang Chung tracks that charted big, but there will always be a special place in my heart for "Wait" and "Don't let go." Those two songs absolutely defined the 80s for me. 💕
If I had a chance to interview them I would have one question for them: "What in the world does Cool on Cries mean?" (growing up I always misheard it as Cool on Christ)
Lol it was actually "Cool on Craze", meaning they were ok with trend setting! 👍
@@simplysteve68 Got you!!!! Most translations say "Cool on Cries." That makes a lot more sense
Like you, I distinctly remember watching the Cheers episode with Frazier. ❤
Cool!
My favorite was To live and die in L.A.
So many people love that one!
That album was a masterpiece!👍
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I do also!
Great movie too.
That’s a great one!
Everybody...😮😮😮
Man there are lot of songs that are bad for a lot of reasons. I'm surprised anyone thought this was one of them. It's a great feelgood song, as distinct from trite, fluffy feelgood songs.
Everybody can wang chung tonight, but I'm still going to wan wan (わんわん)!
Rock on Gunther!
I'm so old I remember when they came out in the UK they were called Huang Chung, but changed their name to Wang Chung as they assumed Americans wouldnt get it, but bizarelly i knew the song as I watched Casey Kasem's top 10 video show (showed bizarely in the UK at like 4am in the morning, I always recorded it), but it only got no 76 in the UK, I'm so happy that I'm one of the few UK people that know this classic
Everybody in the comment section had fun tonight
Nice.
Bad Company did a song called Bad Company in 1973
PoR had to show the clip of Susanna Hoffs' eyes in "Walk Like an Egyptian"! Lol! Everyone "knows" what I am talking about if saw the video back in the day. As for Wang Chung, everyone wondered exactly what was meant by everybody wang chunging tonight.
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YES! Love it.
...yeah, yeah, YEEEEEEEAH, I know whut'cha TALKIN' 'bout! ...ha-HAAA!
Iconic 80s moment for sure.
I unironically jam to Everybody Have Fun Tonight... back in the mid 90's and still this song to this day gets me so happy
Cool!
This song and Everybody Wants to Rule the World.
August 1984, the old Exhibition Stadium. Wang Chung opened for The Cars. What a frigging show. Wang Chung opened with Wait. The song ended, and there was silence, then we erupted. It was a unique experience.
Forgot they opened that night. I was there too. I think of The Cars live performance often.
Thought "We Built This City" was the worst song as voted by critics etc.? Never knew anyone thought Wang Chung fell into that category. I remember them well and they were great.
Damn I miss the 80s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loved Wang Chung, Thompson Twins and so many more!!!
The album display changed after the intro at 1:08. That tripped me out.
Trippy! Lol!
Seeing them a couple times live now, they're such a great combo with many great songs, and more recognizable hits than most realize. Fire in the Twilight (Man Who Leads the Way) as featured in the chase scene from Breakfast Club, is another banger! And yes, EWCT is a bit of fluff, but there's nothing wrong with that if that fluff makes you feel good!
I was just looking up Wang Chung due to the LA fires. Theme song: To Live and Die in LA.
I love Wang Chung!!! Their soundtrack for To Live and Die in L.A. is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Thought it was gonna be something by the b-52s
In the movie To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout says she's" walking like an Egyptian."
I remember they played Wang-Chung for the Pizza Hut party commercial at the beginning of The Land Before Time VHS. I always wanted to have a party at Pizza Hut after that. Lol.
There are 3 empty Pizza Hut restaurants where I live and I’m a bit sad when I drive by 🥺
I remember this about the video. There was concern it could cause Photosensitive Epileptic seizures. I was tested for that in Seattle. I had a different kind, but yeah I took all the tests. In fact I was in Bellevue and someone I knew was really into them and Oingo Boingo and just sawthe latter at the Tacoma Dome. This song was great. Loved it.
It's good to hear new 80s songs I haven't heard before.
Saw Wang Chung on the 80s flashback tour- they were fantastic! " Let's go" and " Fire in the Twilight" from "the Breakfast Club" soundtrack are their best ❤️
Oh Dance Hall Days…. Forgot about that song. Takes me back…..
very underrated. a coworker once told me she saw them open for the cars and wang chung really outplaeyed them. she said the cars were a real letdown.
I saw the same duo in alpine valley, WI. Loved both bands but the cars never did a "show". Outside of technically perfectly played music, Rick Ocasic said "we're the cars" to open the show and that was it. They were great though, just different.