TV Smith was in my opinion the best and most under rated performer /lyricist to emerge from the Punk era ,he still performs with the same passion as when i first clapped eyes on him in 1977 ,brilliant !
Agreed Pal, I caught his live solo set in Manchester at 'The Peer Hat' a couple of years ago, and met him afterwards for meet and greet, he was Great! I have loved his music since I was 13, I am now 56! Cheers dx
you know, I think the Adverts were one of the real stand-outs of the first wave of English punk. they were one of the best ones. There were alot of people who just jumped on the band wagon because it was the cool thing to do, but they were genuinely great. In the end , there were about five really killer groups out of about a hundred.
John Lydon's autobiography brought me here. Did you know The Adverts were one of the few 70's punk bands that Rotten actually liked? He hated The Clash and Ramones but loved The Adverts, and I can see why.
I think that has more to do with The Ramones and Clash being actual rivals while the Adverts were no threat. Plus the Adverts singer tried to act just like Rotten, Rotten was probably flattered.
*@José Aquino* __ "Too American" ..which The Clash were now & then....... Lydon himself became Uncle Sam's two (one ?) party state most ardent afficionado , and lost his disdain for the inbred royals..... He didn't think much of Patti Smith also......who stole some of his thunder. How good the Pistols were ,they were just like The Clash ,somewhat "rock" which was great , I wished Lydon had made more songs like the amazing "Public Image" track , instead of all that noodling about.........
Because Adverts broke more codes, they are free. Ramones and Clash were more like rock'n'roll lovers, or lovers of an idea (their idea) of rock'n'roll, something romantic and rebel. But that's John Lydon's tastes, not others Pistols. Steve Jones is really like Ramones and Clash, a rock'n'roll lover, rock'n'roll tradition. Rotten hates this kind of tradition, or new traditions
@@grimblegrumble3192 I agree with you.Rotten wasn’t a fan of orthodox rock n Roll which is ironic as Steve Jones regurgitated Chuck Berry on his guitar solo parts.
my ex boss and also a former old skool punk saw tv smith a few months back and said it was the best live act she had ever seen - and she has seen them all ..
I saw TV in nyc backed by 6HE MIDNIGHT CREEPS... ...solid ric bass ( boy) very simple tbut loud telecaster ( girl) brutal ,4 on the floor drums ( boy) Who all knew understood and loved what they were privileged to be doing..so they meant it !! And TV out front DOIN THE WORK !! Don't remember which Adverts songs they played..but it did'nt matter .It might as well have been them !! Just wonderful . Close as I'll ever get .
We're talking into corners Finding ways to fill the vacuum And though our mouths are dry We talk in hope to hit on something new Tied to the railway tracks It's one way to revive but no way to relax We're just bored teenagers Or should I say emotional rages Bored teenagers Seeing ourselves as strangers We talk about the whys and wherefore Do we really care at all? Talk about the frailty of words Is rarely meaningful When we're sitting watching the 'planes Burn up through the night like meteorites We're just bored teenagers Or should I say emotional rages Bored teenagers
Very few singers can create a vision in the mind's eye just with his lyrics like this man can-perhaps Phil Mogg from UFO as well but not many have that gift.
I am commenting because I am just in awe of all the songs that the adverts created....I mean they're just astonishingly brilliant-- it's so obvious isn't it but I never heard them oh I don't know maybe the last 20 years of my life, but 1978?!
Love Gaye Advert's aloof image which launched a ten thousand punkettes , (although Joan Jett might've been there first), but 1:05👈🏼 she had a very gurly way of playing the bass. Rather than play from the wrist , it looks (and sounds) like she plays from the underarm .
look at the hippies and metallers in the audience.classic.thats what punk was all about.and the old greay grey whistlers big punk fans that they werent maaaannnn.ha ha ha great band and tv smith and gaye still around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!gerry dublin
*The above being a short extract from Stormy (PHD, Esq.) McCloud's longer thesis, 'Signifiers of Identity as Noumena in the Meta-Phenomenon of the New Wave considered as imposed Taxonomical System of Meta-Culture Within the Wider Context of Language as Arbirtrary Metaphysical System'. Published by NME Books, 1985.
Thanks to my younger brother Peter I discovered this band. Man I love this song. It is still relevant to me and I was born in '81 therefore I'm 36. Rock n Roll Forever please God. Amen.
Great music, but no one has ever noticed that the "special effects" out of focus 0:22 seconds are a bunch of disk ceramic capacitors !! I guess you'd need to be an electronic fan to notice such trivia ;-) (Google Disk ceramic capacitor and you'll know what I mean).
We're talking into corners. Finding ways to fill the vacuum. And though our mouths are dry. We talk in hope to hit on something new. Tied to the railway track. It's one way to revive but no way to relax. We're just bored teenagers. Looking for love, Or should I say emotional rages. Bored teenagers. Seeing ourselves as strangers. We talk about the whys and wherefores. Do we really care at all? Talk about the frailty of words. Is rarely meaningful. When we're sitting watching the 'planes. Burn up through the night like meteorites. We're just bored teenagers. Looking for love, Or should I say emotional rages. Bored teenagers. Seeing ourselves as strangers. Bored teenagers.
For me in the top 3 punk bands ever. But the Adverts are not as well known as the Clash and the Sex P. I think Tim was the best lyricist of the punk era.
@sharkattacksteve I liked the look of Siouxsie when she was at her longer hair stage, about 1983, thought she looked her best then. Nice cheek bones. Didn't think much of her hairy arm pits though, on the Dear Prudence video. Also I didn't like the fact that she seems a bit stuck-up, and seems to think her and her Bromley mates invented punk. But that's another conversation. haha
I feel the Adverts would have had more success if Gaye had been more centre stage, rather than off in the shadows. After all she was their stand out image difference to all other bands at the time. ❤
I'm not sure if I'd classify Adverts as punk in the classic sense they have more in common with post punk I think. They remind me a little of Gang of Four or vice-versa.
@colinridiculous Classic punk would be something like the Ramones, or Dead Boys, or maybe even the Adicts, minus the violin of course. The singing style is more pop. Maybe you don't know what post punk is.
"Post-Punk" describes that time between the end of the uk punk scene and the mid -80's. It took punk's attitude and mixed it up with synths, pop, reggae, disco, funk, glam - everything! Also, the 2nd Adverts record is NOT punk at all and their sound began to change completely...
Both the Damned and Motorhead considered the Adverts one of the best bands they'd ever seen. And all with one chord!
Well she held a bass guitar and she was playing in a band and she stood just like Gaye Advert now I am her biggest fan
Brilliant. I’m 62 now and this still seems so good. My type of punk before the fashion police took control
Perfect observation there.
TV Smith was in my opinion the best and most under rated performer /lyricist to emerge from the Punk era ,he still performs with the same passion as when i first clapped eyes on him in 1977 ,brilliant !
Agree!
Agree that his lyrics were among the best and very different subject matter.
@@divergencefilms he had an amazing voice
Agreed Pal, I caught his live solo set in Manchester at 'The Peer Hat' a couple of years ago, and met him afterwards for meet and greet, he was Great! I have loved his music since I was 13, I am now 56! Cheers dx
One of the best songwriters of the 77 british punk wave
Tv smit still kills it live in 2023.
you know, I think the Adverts were one of the real stand-outs of the first wave of English punk. they were one of the best ones. There were alot of people who just jumped on the band wagon because it was the cool thing to do, but they were genuinely great. In the end , there were about five really killer groups out of about a hundred.
John Lydon's autobiography brought me here. Did you know The Adverts were one of the few 70's punk bands that Rotten actually liked? He hated The Clash and Ramones but loved The Adverts, and I can see why.
Ramones and The Clash were too american for his taste, I guess! lol Anyway, he liked dub more
I think that has more to do with The Ramones and Clash being actual rivals while the Adverts were no threat. Plus the Adverts singer tried to act just like Rotten, Rotten was probably flattered.
*@José Aquino* __ "Too American" ..which The Clash were now & then.......
Lydon himself became Uncle Sam's two (one ?) party state most ardent afficionado , and lost his disdain for the inbred royals..... He didn't think much of Patti Smith also......who stole some of his thunder.
How good the Pistols were ,they were just like The Clash ,somewhat "rock" which was great , I wished Lydon had made more songs like the amazing "Public Image" track , instead of all that noodling about.........
Because Adverts broke more codes, they are free. Ramones and Clash were more like rock'n'roll lovers, or lovers of an idea (their idea) of rock'n'roll, something romantic and rebel. But that's John Lydon's tastes, not others Pistols. Steve Jones is really like Ramones and Clash, a rock'n'roll lover, rock'n'roll tradition. Rotten hates this kind of tradition, or new traditions
@@grimblegrumble3192 I agree with you.Rotten wasn’t a fan of orthodox rock n Roll which is ironic as Steve Jones regurgitated Chuck Berry on his guitar solo parts.
S'funny just how much fun and great, memorable times we had as "bored teenagers" back then.....
I bought this album the day it came out on vinyl. It runs perfectly.
I Love you Gaye,The Adverts one of my fave punk rock bands
Love You bass player
One of my Favorite Punk Songs of All Time!
I was never a bored teenager when I had bands like this to watch, and listen to!
This Band is underrated.
my ex boss and also a former old skool punk saw tv smith a few months back and said it was the best live act she had ever seen - and she has seen them all ..
This stuff seems it from another age. I'm 60 soon and look on at this stuff with a tear in my eye as the years roll on.
I'm 63. Was the lead singer of one of the 1977 UK punk bands that did not make it, The Unknown. Are you UK?
I saw TV in nyc backed by 6HE MIDNIGHT CREEPS...
...solid ric bass ( boy) very simple tbut loud telecaster ( girl)
brutal ,4 on the floor drums ( boy)
Who all knew understood and loved what they were privileged to be doing..so they meant it !!
And TV out front DOIN THE WORK !!
Don't remember which Adverts songs they played..but it did'nt matter .It might as well have been them !! Just wonderful .
Close as I'll ever get .
He was so cute and nice voice too
We're talking into corners
Finding ways to fill the vacuum
And though our mouths are dry
We talk in hope to hit on something new
Tied to the railway tracks
It's one way to revive but no way to relax
We're just bored teenagers
Or should I say emotional rages
Bored teenagers
Seeing ourselves as strangers
We talk about the whys and wherefore
Do we really care at all?
Talk about the frailty of words
Is rarely meaningful
When we're sitting watching the 'planes
Burn up through the night like meteorites
We're just bored teenagers
Or should I say emotional rages
Bored teenagers
The perfect punk song does exist.
Very few singers can create a vision in the mind's eye just with his lyrics like this man can-perhaps Phil Mogg from UFO as well but not many have that gift.
Those drum rolls were epic
Wrote and recorded some absolute classics
Love everything about this! Thanks
I am commenting because I am just in awe of all the songs that the adverts created....I mean they're just astonishingly brilliant-- it's so obvious isn't it but I never heard them oh I don't know maybe the last 20 years of my life, but 1978?!
Criminally underrated
Now THIS is Punk ! I know- i'm from back then !!!!
Yesterday night there was a german television film with the adverts!
--It was called Bored Teenagers--
Absolutely Brilliant always brings back memorable memories of my early punk 📎🧷⛓🔒
I was once a bored teenager! Ha Ha! Love the Adverts
This was the first song/performance by a punk band on the OGWT...this video misses out Gaye Advert saying "finally,the 1978 show"
This was the year NME magazine was full of different punk band gig dates all over London
Love Gaye Advert's aloof image which launched a ten thousand punkettes , (although Joan Jett might've been there first), but 1:05👈🏼 she had a very gurly way of playing the bass. Rather than play from the wrist , it looks (and sounds) like she plays from the underarm .
@kelsmart I have never heard of this group & I lived thru the PUNK era - I'm impressed - great analogy on your part!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome performance!
Absolutely brilliant
Great. The year of 1977. School and politics.
look at the hippies and metallers in the audience.classic.thats what punk was all about.and the old greay grey whistlers big punk fans that they werent maaaannnn.ha ha ha great band and tv smith and gaye still around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!gerry dublin
Silence Is No Reaction brought me here!
*The above being a short extract from Stormy (PHD, Esq.) McCloud's longer thesis, 'Signifiers of Identity as Noumena in the Meta-Phenomenon of the New Wave considered as imposed Taxonomical System of Meta-Culture Within the Wider Context of Language as Arbirtrary Metaphysical System'. Published by NME Books, 1985.
Classic....
Thanks to my younger brother Peter I discovered this band. Man I love this song. It is still relevant to me and I was born in '81 therefore I'm 36. Rock n Roll Forever please God. Amen.
Beautiful.
Is this John Towe, the original drummer of Generation X? Wow!
Yep
Bored Gaye Advert
shes a almost a one chord wonder
2022 i nadal dreszcze !!!
Awesome '77 band and a great classic punk song.
Great show!!
@DoctorDoBuggerAll
back in '77 I was like forget Siouxsie... It was Gaye Advert and Penelope Houston, those were my Punk sex symbols.
fantastic.
Weird, no frontal shots of the Adverts star bassist, Gaye Advert, but lots of shots of the drummer? What?
best punk of the 70s great footage
thanks! awesome band.. too much props to the pistols.. and not bands like these
nice one!!
Great music, but no one has ever noticed that the "special effects" out of focus 0:22 seconds are a bunch of disk ceramic capacitors !! I guess you'd need to be an electronic fan to notice such trivia ;-) (Google Disk ceramic capacitor and you'll know what I mean).
At long last, the 1978 show!
a brilliant clip. thanks for posting
They're so good!
The Adverts were great...talking about the frailty of words is rarely meaningful"
Last gig was Slough college
classic track.
Classic early punk !
best adverts song
Great story gaye told me about how she was in a filthy mood filming this as someone nicked her leather jacket
Love her
We're talking into corners.
Finding ways to fill the vacuum.
And though our mouths are dry.
We talk in hope to hit on something new.
Tied to the railway track.
It's one way to revive but no way to relax.
We're just bored teenagers.
Looking for love,
Or should I say emotional rages.
Bored teenagers.
Seeing ourselves as strangers.
We talk about the whys and wherefores.
Do we really care at all?
Talk about the frailty of words.
Is rarely meaningful.
When we're sitting watching the 'planes.
Burn up through the night like meteorites.
We're just bored teenagers.
Looking for love,
Or should I say emotional rages.
Bored teenagers.
Seeing ourselves as strangers.
Bored teenagers.
The bass player is like "can someone hurry up and invent shoegaze?"
sick song
Fucking awesome!!!!! One of my fave bands
Long live the directness!...
Haha, I like how he says "Bored Teenagers on T.V."
@glengal I just looked, they're out there. I'd never seen them before. hehe
This comment absolutely made my day if not my week.
this is just too fucking great
Gaye Advert is so goddamn hot.
You learn something new every day ! Have you seen Hazel O'Connor's eew fuckin' awful !
@kingofpunk1977 oh my god .i was gobsmacked. didnt realise she had done stuff like that. superb stuff. thanks a lot mate
"At last the 1978 show" scowl scowl scowl - The Punk Dylan.
@dinaklarisse itsTV smith but his christian name is actually tim
everything soundZ oh so-o-o fuckin' mid 70's!
Where is Laurie Driver? They were already their tribute band.
Sounds a lot like the song structure of "Hell Bent for Leather".
God we were blessed, now teenagers have..........one 'fucking' direction........who said we have progressed?
Real Punk.
Sorry mate, I'll send it back next week. - Paul Simonon
😍
For me in the top 3 punk bands ever. But the Adverts are not as well known as the Clash and the Sex P.
I think Tim was the best lyricist of the punk era.
going for the Michael Jackson one glove look?
@sharkattacksteve I liked the look of Siouxsie when she was at her longer hair stage, about 1983, thought she looked her best then. Nice cheek bones. Didn't think much of her hairy arm pits though, on the Dear Prudence video. Also I didn't like the fact that she seems a bit stuck-up, and seems to think her and her Bromley mates invented punk. But that's another conversation. haha
This is what real teeth look like. Some oldies might remember them from the pre-orthodontics era. Gape in wonder.
hey a reply!thanx!haha so youre stutter77,im arelle76.but gaye looked way better in 'looking through gilmores eyes'.HOTT!
i was wondering how a punk could afford a rickenbacker... :D
Saving....working, monthly payments, or ask mum and dad to guarantee a loan ?
Some British "Behs" player brought me here.
I feel the Adverts would have had more success if Gaye had been more centre stage, rather than off in the shadows.
After all she was their stand out image difference to all other bands at the time. ❤
The stand-in drummer here - the guy from Eater I think? - is much better than the real guy!
I’m always baffled how all these Brit punk bands could afford Rickenbackers.
We're just bored teenagers.. looking for love... or should I say emotional rages?
donutman
i am 43 and have loved the adverts since i was 12.
do the math,
btw you have good taste!
The single was recorded in Worthing where people go to die.
I'm not sure if I'd classify Adverts as punk in the classic sense they have more in common with post punk I think. They remind me a little of Gang of Four or vice-versa.
@colinridiculous Classic punk would be something like the Ramones, or Dead Boys, or maybe even the Adicts, minus the violin of course. The singing style is more pop. Maybe you don't know what post punk is.
@colinridiculous You seem to be commenting on an 11 year old thread. You'll figure it out someday. Thanks for showing up. I'm done here.
@colinridiculous good for you troll. c ya.
@Proxylfc I have made yr day google vintage erotica forums & look up gaye advert...I had no idea!!!! And she looks fantastic
"Post-Punk" describes that time between the end of the uk punk scene and the mid -80's. It took punk's attitude and mixed it up with synths, pop, reggae, disco, funk, glam - everything! Also, the 2nd Adverts record is NOT punk at all and their sound began to change completely...
Gaye advert is so prettyyy