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    The debut single from 1985. A rocking cover of The Temptations' hit which wasn't originally on the UK album, Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven, though it's on all the reissues!
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  • @kristinamoneyhun3646
    @kristinamoneyhun3646 3 роки тому +352

    Sad almost forty years later and this song rings more truth than ever

    • @ChrsSprs
      @ChrsSprs 3 роки тому +46

      Even sadder ... it's a cover from many years before that :(

    • @moondog7774
      @moondog7774 3 роки тому +1

      @@ChrsSprs and even sadder how bad this song is. Pop music!

    • @Tacit_Tern
      @Tacit_Tern 2 роки тому +4

      ....still stollen from the Temptations.

    • @ALCH2112
      @ALCH2112 2 роки тому +9

      @@ChrsSprs and even SADDER is the high probability that the confusion will remain indefinitely.

    • @renaysari6631
      @renaysari6631 2 роки тому +34

      @@Tacit_Tern It wasn't stolen, they redid it. I think they did a great job. Sometimes songs like this need to be redone in whatever type of music is popular at the time in order for people to hear it and understand why it was written.

  • @jjgalletta66
    @jjgalletta66 3 роки тому +168

    "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" is a 1970 hit single for The Temptations written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. I first heard the L&R version and loved it thinking it was their song. But, we must credit those who deserve it. Peace.

    • @davidcrock7068
      @davidcrock7068 2 роки тому +11

      Yeah temptations original song but L@R perfected it, big up to the temps though

    • @GoldenBoyFlorida
      @GoldenBoyFlorida 2 роки тому +4

      THANK YOU for saving me the research! Didn't Tina Turner cover it, too? I honestly thought she sang the original. Also, I believed it was a 70's era song, and had to retract that statement when my sister called me out on it with the "Reagan" reference.

    • @flyingfishsurf
      @flyingfishsurf 2 роки тому +5

      @@davidcrock7068 As much as L&R's version is great, the Temptation's version remains the perfect version. David Ruffin was a demi god. ua-cam.com/video/LpUxgahyViI/v-deo.html

    • @harmonicsball89
      @harmonicsball89 2 роки тому +2

      Ruffin didn’t sing on BOC

    • @DurbanNiks101
      @DurbanNiks101 2 роки тому +1

      @@flyingfishsurf I love every body's love for the various version. It is the best for who you love. I mean it is a fantastic song from all of them.

  • @Erin-uz2gf
    @Erin-uz2gf 4 роки тому +99

    one of the most kick ass covers ever!

    • @1974mikeymix
      @1974mikeymix Рік тому +1

      I dare say Bauhaus’s cover of Ziggy Stardust is just as good if not better

  • @davidbarrett1072
    @davidbarrett1072 3 роки тому +136

    An incredibly talented band. So underrated.

    • @robintaylor485
      @robintaylor485 Рік тому +5

      They didn’t even write this song

    • @elyneburns2224
      @elyneburns2224 3 дні тому

      Whatever - it's 3/4's Bauhaus (and that's good enough for me)

  • @paulhunt4690
    @paulhunt4690 28 днів тому +4

    Found a stack of Mowtown 45’s in a box in an attic in the early 70’s. What a treasure trove that turned into.

  • @rhondamadgirl
    @rhondamadgirl 3 роки тому +66

    I’m in 2021 and still loving some Love and Rockets.

    • @ALCH2112
      @ALCH2112 2 роки тому +1

      "And the beat goes on!!" In 2022.

    • @fredtracy3931
      @fredtracy3931 2 роки тому

      Back in the day, I loved cranking this song up on the ghetto blaster! 80's remakes of older songs rocked.🎸🎧

    • @TheOnKnee
      @TheOnKnee Рік тому

      ball of confuison extended version, sounds a bit better being played @.75.

    • @blossomz8253
      @blossomz8253 Рік тому

      2023 still love it

  • @liverpooloflife8731
    @liverpooloflife8731 Рік тому +28

    Temptations were one of my favorite Motown groups. This is an incredible cover. Sad to see our current world has even more problems than back in the late 60’s & early 70’s…

  • @sixtosilxtra4842
    @sixtosilxtra4842 6 місяців тому +16

    The 80¨s were good indeed !!
    We were all humans enjoying !!

  • @valeniusthekat
    @valeniusthekat 3 роки тому +69

    STILL HERE IN 2021 AND HOW THIS SONG STILL HOLDS TRUE!!!!!!

    • @martinehugenel452
      @martinehugenel452 Рік тому +1

      In 2023 too

    • @TheKinoEye
      @TheKinoEye 6 місяців тому

      ​@@martinehugenel452 2024 Update: Today everything's different. Nothing's changed.

    • @brianmorris1410
      @brianmorris1410 Місяць тому

      @@valeniusthekat i think ill add it to my funeral mixtape!

  • @photoshoott2022
    @photoshoott2022 Рік тому +22

    We saw them at the Rits, NYC in the 80s. We knew about them already and that is why we went to see them. I can't recall the opening act, but the fact that we were this close to them and enjoyed the show, was amazing. Loved and love their music.

  • @amelia4545
    @amelia4545 2 роки тому +31

    Love this band! Love the Bauhaus! Dalis Car, Peter Murphy! All amazing!

  • @jamespuleo3269
    @jamespuleo3269 Рік тому +8

    Feb. 2023 ~ RIP Barrett Strong, co-writer of this piece.
    As well as War (What Is it Good For?), Cloud Nine, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, many more.

  • @Debrolley
    @Debrolley 6 місяців тому +7

    Heard this last night for first time. It's amazing!!!!

  • @Ladyofthering4
    @Ladyofthering4 4 роки тому +73

    Almost all the lines in this song talks about how the word is today!

    • @craigdrury4756
      @craigdrury4756 4 роки тому +1

      Its been this way for a long time

    • @darkmantis69
      @darkmantis69 4 роки тому +5

      @@craigdrury4756 just a common sense song singing about what's always been here.. never gonna change...same in 2020 as it was when I first heard this back in the 80s..

    • @tomasitapazos3363
      @tomasitapazos3363 4 роки тому +3

      Black Lives Matters F-UK TRUMP !

    • @jjgalletta66
      @jjgalletta66 3 роки тому +3

      Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it EVER WAS!

  • @kimmergonzales9792
    @kimmergonzales9792 3 місяці тому +4

    I like it!! Always liked this song by the Temps. It stands true today.

  • @brianmorris1410
    @brianmorris1410 4 місяці тому +7

    This song is timeless

  • @gregclark3162
    @gregclark3162 8 років тому +195

    This song suits the state of the world today!!!

    • @52barney
      @52barney 8 років тому +4

      more like the 60th anniversary

    • @TheWaxworker
      @TheWaxworker 7 років тому +11

      If anything, this song is even more relevant today than before! Society is way more a "ball of confusion" than it was in the 60s when it first came out.

    • @TheWaxworker
      @TheWaxworker 7 років тому +2

      Sorry. It came out in 1971.

    • @mountaindew7190
      @mountaindew7190 6 років тому +11

      This is the state of the world yesterday, today, and forever. The human condition.

    • @Margaret2332
      @Margaret2332 6 років тому +3

      Artist: Love and Rockets - Album: Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven - Released: 1985 - Genre: New wave/post-punk - - - Ball of Confusion - Other recordings of this song - The Temptations · 1966 - Tina Turner · 1982 - Anthrax · 1999 - Go West · 1985 - Leon Bridges · 2016 - The Undisputed Truth · 1969 - - - Tom Jones - This is Tom Jones TV Show 1971 - - - Duran Duran · 1995 - - -

  • @henrymalus1762
    @henrymalus1762 9 місяців тому +4

    The genius of the temptations is not to be denied AND Daniel Ash is a rock god.

  • @JohnnyThorNMEnumber1
    @JohnnyThorNMEnumber1 11 місяців тому +7

    nice cover..
    (The Temptation)

  • @waynegagnon474
    @waynegagnon474 4 роки тому +15

    one of the greatest covers... Word

  • @scottnyc6572
    @scottnyc6572 Рік тому +11

    History rhymes as time goes by....And the band plays on!!!

  • @michaelbarbolla9461
    @michaelbarbolla9461 7 місяців тому +10

    Great song still holds up even in today's society 😢

  • @kosherpickle
    @kosherpickle 8 років тому +46

    more then ever, so relevant to our times

  • @mannyenviado137
    @mannyenviado137 10 років тому +183

    This was written by the "The Temptations" released by them. originally, in 1971. This song could be released at any time ALWAYS

    • @Nora1968
      @Nora1968 7 років тому +8

      Sadly, you're absolutely right!

    • @thachakal
      @thachakal 6 років тому +6

      This was not written by "The Temptations". Norman Whitfield wrote it

    • @Margaret2332
      @Margaret2332 6 років тому +5

      Artist: Love and Rockets - Album: Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven - Released: 1985 - Genre: New wave/post-punk - - - Ball of Confusion - Other recordings of this song - The Temptations · 1966 - Tina Turner · 1982 - Anthrax · 1999 - Go West · 1985 - Leon Bridges · 2016 - The Undisputed Truth · 1969 - - - Tom Jones - This is Tom Jones TV Show 1971 - - - Duran Duran · 1995 - - - "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" is a 1970 hit single for The Temptations. It was released on the Gordy (Motown) label, and written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.

    • @Margaret2332
      @Margaret2332 6 років тому +8

      "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" is a 1970 hit single for The Temptations. It was released on the Gordy (Motown) label, and written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.

    • @genedrakes686
      @genedrakes686 4 роки тому +3

      @@Margaret2332 Told someone from that time that this was a Temptatioms re make and they refused to believe me! So did not even to bother to tell them the awesome of Ziggy Stardust!

  • @hanskloss1331
    @hanskloss1331 4 місяці тому +6

    David J and his BASS LINES 😊

  • @teresamoreno3526
    @teresamoreno3526 4 роки тому +12

    One of the best bands ever !!! He's so beautiful talented !!!!! Love him !!!!!

  • @cornflakegirl1718
    @cornflakegirl1718 6 років тому +19

    Daniel rocks 🤘!!! And the beat goes on!.

  • @williamhilinsky3465
    @williamhilinsky3465 7 років тому +54

    Great interpretation of an all time great. Tremendous cover.

  • @XcanaryinacoalmineX
    @XcanaryinacoalmineX 4 роки тому +53

    Absolutely the best cover of this song ever.

    • @JazLikesBobaTea
      @JazLikesBobaTea 4 роки тому

      U still listen to this?

    • @sheydoll
      @sheydoll Рік тому

      Shit I'm a hardcore music lover and had no idea this was a cover🤔🙃 I 💕 Love & Rockets

  • @indcore
    @indcore 8 років тому +31

    I'd love to see these guys live...one of my favourite bands of all time...!

    • @paulal271
      @paulal271 5 років тому +1

      One of my favorite bands of all time as well

    • @askalice7222
      @askalice7222 5 років тому

      Mine too!! ♥️⭐🌙🍄🌈

    • @gloriastroedecke2717
      @gloriastroedecke2717 4 роки тому +1

      Scott Magee They give you your money's worth. Saw them 89 or 90 at the Beacon Theater.

    • @Formula-602
      @Formula-602 4 роки тому +1

      I saw them in London in the summer of 88

  • @biglouie964
    @biglouie964 3 роки тому +13

    250 People have no musical taste. This song rocked in the 80's and it rocks in 2020.

  • @chriswhite2553
    @chriswhite2553 16 днів тому

    One of the best songs on Miami Vice and still sounds good in 2024!!

  • @ramonlopezdelhoulle3391
    @ramonlopezdelhoulle3391 4 місяці тому +1

    J'adore ... trop bon cette version

  • @moiregarner1494
    @moiregarner1494 2 роки тому +4

    My Dearest Friend, Mark Pearson, called me up and told me about this song when it first came out. Back in the 80’s! Love him and this song!

  • @mrfry3
    @mrfry3 3 роки тому +9

    David J Killing that bass, awesome!

  • @IVR02
    @IVR02 7 років тому +23

    Of all the covers of this song, I think this one's the best...

  • @ilsa.GOGO.port.
    @ilsa.GOGO.port. 9 місяців тому +2

    My beloved Dad ( i Miss U!) Showed me this perfect Coverversion. And the Beat goes ON. ❤

  • @marysalisbury9270
    @marysalisbury9270 7 років тому +35

    This is Smokeys favorite cover of this song according to his son.

  • @marmieRH
    @marmieRH Рік тому +3

    I saw them in Montreal in 1989 what a show!!!!❤

  • @kilburnvideos
    @kilburnvideos 2 роки тому +6

    Love the Temptations version, but this one of the few remakes I love.

  • @joannaprevost426
    @joannaprevost426 11 місяців тому +20

    Love this version ! Here we are on a verge of War, it's October of 2023 everything in this song still rings true today ! History repeating itself in real modern times. We didn't learn anything , the world is still a 'Ball of Confusion"... and the beat goes on .....round and round and round we go , where the world stops , know one knows and the Band Played On .......................

  • @andregonsalvez9244
    @andregonsalvez9244 3 роки тому +7

    Great song in today's uncertainty ( 2021 ) . I wish I could go back to the 80s the world was more simpler .

  • @valeniusthekat
    @valeniusthekat 3 роки тому +12

    Ahhhhh, the days of good looking mullets
    Miss you Danny

  • @beden-dq5jt
    @beden-dq5jt Рік тому +3

    one of the greatest, hardly a parallel

  • @krissdiasp6182
    @krissdiasp6182 7 років тому +89

    Daniel is the goth crush...

    • @aydenjenkins8760
      @aydenjenkins8760 4 роки тому +5

      I'm straight and I think he's very attractive.

    • @teresamartinlorenzo5741
      @teresamartinlorenzo5741 4 роки тому +4

      He is sooo sexy

    • @mzpinkeyez407
      @mzpinkeyez407 4 роки тому +9

      You are going to hate me!!. My mum was his neighbor in Ojai CA!!. & He's is as beautiful in REAL LIFE AS HE IS IN PICTURE'S!!!. 😏😉😘

  • @MzBsg999
    @MzBsg999 9 років тому +5

    The Temptations, this is a very creative cover

  • @mikec752
    @mikec752 9 місяців тому +2

    Real nice remake and yet very original.

  • @ameliastratton8051
    @ameliastratton8051 3 роки тому +20

    If they thought the world was a ball of confusion in the 80s... They would not have believed it if we could go back and tell them how bad it is now. Society is a mess.

    • @harmonicsball89
      @harmonicsball89 2 роки тому

      That’s because we still had the Fairness Doctrine in affect during most of the 80’s. When it went away in 1987, all of this craziness started w regards to hyper politicized media. The Fairness Doctrine was holding sanity in place.

  • @Dejotaerre
    @Dejotaerre 2 роки тому +4

    This drum like a hammer!

  • @guillermoantoniocorreareye3407
    @guillermoantoniocorreareye3407 10 місяців тому +2

    I LOVE THE BAND

  • @sabritebourski9486
    @sabritebourski9486 5 років тому +7

    My favorite version of the song

  • @MyHairyChin
    @MyHairyChin Рік тому +3

    Remember this on the radio as a young teen boy, grade 7, was epic

  • @markastoforoff7838
    @markastoforoff7838 5 років тому +6

    This song will always be relevant.

  • @raquelf.1962
    @raquelf.1962 4 роки тому +9

    great song! one of my favorite bands!

  • @laurastevens7607
    @laurastevens7607 6 місяців тому +1

    Great cover, arrangement and production on this one.

  • @obscure_alternatives
    @obscure_alternatives Рік тому +13

    Absolutely amazing cover

  • @JavadMajeed
    @JavadMajeed 2 роки тому +5

    I really love this song never heard before. Now I become the fan of "love and rockets"

  • @danicook8071
    @danicook8071 Рік тому +2

    And the best goes on!

  • @Maliilse75
    @Maliilse75 Місяць тому

    Impossibly cool cover. That guitar screeching in the background epitomizes the angst of the lyrics.

  • @unclebillmusic
    @unclebillmusic 5 років тому +4

    The first time I heard this song was in 1988. A friend of mine turned me on to a station that played new wave. IT BLEW ME AWAY !!!

    • @ritaperison6960
      @ritaperison6960 5 років тому +1

      This song was originally performed by The Temptations

  • @dannyflores5694
    @dannyflores5694 Рік тому +5

    Excellent version 👌 🎸

  • @bobbyfeather1
    @bobbyfeather1 4 роки тому +4

    Dig it. Happy I saw L&R, BAUHAUS, David J., & Peter Murphy a combined 25 times.

  • @nmacog
    @nmacog 7 років тому +4

    World has gone mad - thank fook for this track again 32yrs later - my boys from my hometown Northampton bless em x

  • @TheWaxworker
    @TheWaxworker 7 років тому +5

    This is one of the first songs I heard when I started listening to VH1 Classics back in the mid 2000s. I'm amazed I hadn't heard this back in the 80s when it came out.

  • @jodeejingles
    @jodeejingles 3 роки тому +14

    2021 and still this is so perfect 👌

    • @ALCH2112
      @ALCH2112 2 роки тому

      Absolutely.

    • @TheKinoEye
      @TheKinoEye Рік тому

      And still perfect in 2023 ✊🏿

  • @DurbanNiks101
    @DurbanNiks101 2 роки тому +5

    Oh my That base. Such a groove. Just like the original.

  • @ceciliarusso6520
    @ceciliarusso6520 Рік тому +4

    Excelente version!!! Amo❤

  • @nope5445
    @nope5445 Рік тому +2

    I haven't seen Love & Rockets since 1984 when they played at the Longhorn Ballroom... where the Sex Pistols played in 1977 on their ill-fated North American tour. I will see Love & Rockets again on June 15th here in Dallas. 2023. Quite a bit older now but I have great hair and am still quite handsome.

  • @SS-wk1lx
    @SS-wk1lx 3 роки тому +2

    Amazing description of 2020

  • @letthetruthbetold6716
    @letthetruthbetold6716 2 роки тому +19

    I know the original was the temptations But I think the love and rockets Put extra punch to the meaning of this song It sends chills down my spine And how a lot of this Explains today the left right paradigm ball of confusion Order out of chaos total control.

    • @amandaburleson2035
      @amandaburleson2035 2 роки тому +2

      Life is supposed to be chaos. Enjoy your short time here average age of an empire is 250 years America is 244.

  • @1970BOROMIR
    @1970BOROMIR 3 роки тому +8

    DE LAS MEJORES BANDAS DE LOS 80 !!!!!

  • @rouguy1972
    @rouguy1972 7 років тому +8

    Love love love this song!

  • @laurencereeve9118
    @laurencereeve9118 Рік тому +2

    Very appropriate to today's world almost prophetic. All done with an awesome style. Still good almost 40 years on. Good effort!

  • @Carlos-rr4wu
    @Carlos-rr4wu 2 роки тому +10

    If you're listen to this in 2022 you are a legend

  • @carinafinoli3636
    @carinafinoli3636 8 років тому +12

    I loved this song, I do

  • @KittyClaw13
    @KittyClaw13 4 роки тому +3

    I was lucky enough to see this band play a small venue in DC back in the 80's. Sigh.

  • @MU0371
    @MU0371 Рік тому +4

    Time flies like a wounded bat

  • @ca77721
    @ca77721 7 років тому +5

    This song is so relevant today

    • @debraforbes5701
      @debraforbes5701 7 років тому

      111 000 11111 000 11 000 This is a 1960's song, or early 70's, but it fit for this 1980's version, as well as for NOW, meaning, it never changes.

  • @kevinbennett7329
    @kevinbennett7329 5 років тому +5

    still dope to the ears like veins

  • @manoloxines9113
    @manoloxines9113 3 роки тому +4

    If they weren't who they are I probably would even like this more...but I keep going back to Bauhaus and consequently it stops being so great...having said that it is still brilliant!

  • @MnRProdMariolaur
    @MnRProdMariolaur 3 роки тому +3

    it's now 2021 ball of confusion that world is today and the band plays on!!!

  • @christielast
    @christielast Рік тому +2

    i hope everyone is loved

  • @benzell4
    @benzell4 Рік тому +3

    L&R came from Bauhaus, as this song came from Temptations original. Timeless music always rings true🤘🏽❤️‍🩹☮️

  • @paulahillier1390
    @paulahillier1390 4 роки тому +5

    This sums up 2020.

  • @thomasheidsma2276
    @thomasheidsma2276 4 роки тому +4

    this song reach #26 on the old neilson sound scan the chart 1986 in canada 4 years before so alive was a hit in us

  • @jonanjello
    @jonanjello 4 роки тому +2

    Awesome. They boys bringing their brand of lean, cool, funk

  • @one-stopgodshop2171
    @one-stopgodshop2171 Рік тому +3

    The world is still a ball of confusion, it's like nothing changes.

  • @yixnorb5971
    @yixnorb5971 4 роки тому +8

    In 2020 this is timely now more than ever.

    • @squirrelguirrel7010
      @squirrelguirrel7010 3 роки тому

      If only the masses actually listened and acted upon the state of affairs. How many generations will be able to cover this song before the freedom to do so has been lost?

    • @yixnorb5971
      @yixnorb5971 3 роки тому

      @@squirrelguirrel7010 Such loss dose not have to be inevitable, yet we must be on guard against those who would impose their ethics against ours, for their own selfish reasons.

  • @Christopher1889
    @Christopher1889 7 років тому +4

    One of the most awesome songs and videos!

  • @carolineharrison4568
    @carolineharrison4568 2 роки тому +1

    Sic. Best piece if vinyl I ever bought

  • @fessendenful
    @fessendenful Рік тому +1

    Great cover from a great band.

  • @starfed64
    @starfed64 4 роки тому +4

    Wow.... Glad I watch this thank you so much guys excellent work I needed to see this...❤️✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏾✌🏿✌🏻🎶

  • @mybijou4411
    @mybijou4411 8 років тому +1

    Love And Rocked. Ball Of Confusion. Excellent. Guitar

  • @Basketfiller
    @Basketfiller 3 роки тому +1

    I will always Love And Rockets

  • @TheAlfakitty
    @TheAlfakitty 3 роки тому +1

    Spring '87 in SF. I gotb home at 6 AM on a school night. David J is the best.

  • @ZeroCool3257
    @ZeroCool3257 4 роки тому +8

    Que más agregar??? TEMAZO

  • @karenward267
    @karenward267 4 роки тому +7

    A beautiful stripped down version of one of the best anti-war songs.

  • @garygaither4382
    @garygaither4382 3 роки тому +1

    My fav band!

  • @yixnorb5971
    @yixnorb5971 5 років тому +7

    Ist. cassette tape I ever wore out.

  • @vin10954
    @vin10954 5 років тому +2

    Just timeless!