nonono that is exactly the wrong thing to focus on, by this mindset you are adding to the problem, you should be focusing on the part "and not enough love to go around" and by your love to your fellow man, you will solve all problems.
@@jokerguycz yeah and you are one of those guys, who go to a war with a knife... People like you are the fn problem!!! If someone is causing problems, tell em! But I guess that could offend or hurt feelings... -.-
I will never forget when I saw this video in 1986, but I never imagined that in april 2024 we would live in a Land of Confusion, this masterpiece came true..
if anything the world is infinitely dumber (smart phones make stupid people) and the current crop of baddies are a joke compared to the past, yet we act like and buy into it being the worst of times. Humanity is so fucking stupid.
Finding myself listening to this song again these days. Scary how accurate the lyrics are even so many years later and especially during the last days!
"There's too many men, too many people making too many problems, and not much love to go round..." So very right!!! Thirty-six years on...sadly the lyrics still make sense.
I‘m so thankful that I grow up in the 80‘s with this powerful music! At this time i thought, music like this is normal and it will go on like this forever. Now i know, that this were special times with very special, everlasting music.
Such excellent, iconic 80's imagery. Miss those times so much it hurts. Nothing like the 1980's. ......and Prince eating his own tongue like a hotdog is pure art.
It's also a massive problem when people think they know how to make it right but it just creates more issues when they try to force others to comply. Current culture wars come to mind.
Phil Collins' generation is still alive but as long as there's bad people it'll never be put right I think that every generation has at one time or another say that line
Heard this for first time since I was a kid in about 1990, and THAT line was the one that really stood out to me too. But at least there was hope back then - there's none right now, and aww man do we need a 'hero' to come along...
just heard it on radio after years no listening to it , up loud i was pretty impressed by the drum programming and oomf the sounds have . hope it was phil collins himself doing the drum programming , would be cool , the kick drum is very cool
You and me both. Same age, and I was really disturbed by this video when I was a kid. I always thought maybe when I grew up, it wouldn't be so scary. Now I can laugh about it, but it's still scary.
To anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed right now, I hope you find the strength to keep going. May your struggles turn into victories, your pain into growth, and your doubts into confidence. You are stronger than you realize, and brighter days are ahead.
I just saw that Genesis retired, yesterday (26/03/22) Genesis played their last show in London. I love Genesis and this song so much!! We're in a land of confusion!! Thank you Genesis for all.
Yep, I remember the first time I watched this video I was recovering from a nose surgery, it was so disturbing that I actually thought it had been some kind of hallucination produced by the anesthesia. I love this song, I love Phil Collins' voice but I truly hate this video.
I'd argue that this era of Genesis was part of the decline of the group. This is a pop song by Phil Collins and band. Although a big fan of Genesis including 4 post-Gabriel albums, I walked out of the Invisible Touch tour gig at Wembley when it dawned on me how dire the music was becoming - not all of it, but most tracks. The subsequent album was worse. More worthless than timeless, IMO.
As a kid in the 80’s, the design of the puppets always scared me. Today, I absolutely friggin love this song, the arrangement is fantastic as well as the lyrics. Truly love Phil Collins.
I totally agree with you, I'm glad I'm not the only one that can see that, I wish more people would speak out, it's like a conspiracy of silence nowadays, nobody wants to tell it like it is, this society we live in is an even bigger confused and directionless mess now than it was in the 1980's when this was in the charts, at least back then we still had some semblance of a plot, now it's like the plot has been thrown in the bin. The only thing that is saving society from going under and into total anarchy today is the technology, mobiles, internet etc, which even the poorest can afford, unlike decades ago when such technology was something you had to be a Yuppie or very wealthy in some other way to afford, having access to this greater technology is helping us to cope with all the even bigger complications we face nowadays, although I suspect that this technology is a double edged sword and can work just as much against us as for us.
John, the technology is the reason why the powerful ones are pulling our strings and making us deaf and blind. Anarchy is the only way to save human kind.
Then again it's so easy to sit back, fault pick, offer no solutions just sing about problems. Meanwhile raking in cash by the million, sitting in their Ivory Tower(s), offering nothing but cynicism.
One of the most iconic music videos of all time,right up there with Smooth Criminal and Thriller and spitting image was one of the best things on tv back then.
"My generation will put it right, we're not just making promises that we know we'll never keep." Great fucking job with that. EDIT 2022/11/05: I was wrong. The world is far from where it should be and there’s a lot more to be done, but there’s so much good that’s overlooked because hatred and unfairness resonate so well with our focus. Things that plagued the 80’s such as the HIV crisis, extreme global poverty, and children dying of starvation in Africa, are now largely a thing of the past due to the efforts of the previous generation. There’s a lot more to overcome, and there probably always will be - but life keeps getting better and we’ll figure it out. Have faith and do what you can.
Yeah, my generation and the ones before that have messed up . But we must have hope we CAN change, never give up, never surrender! ( I know it's from a comedy Sci-Fi film, But I think it works)
Lyrics: I must've dreamed a thousand dreams Been haunted by a million screams But I can hear the marching feet They're moving into the street Now did you read the news today? They say the danger's gone away But I can see the fire's still alight Burning into the night There's too many men Too many people Making too many problems And not much love to go 'round Can't you see this is a land of confusion? Ooh this is the world we live in (Oh-oh-oh) And these are the hands we're given (Oh-oh-oh) Use them and let's start trying (Oh-oh-oh) To make it a place worth living in Ooh Superman, where are you now? When everything's gone wrong somehow The men of steel, men of power Are losing control by the hour This is the time, this is the place So we look for the future But there's not much love to go 'round Tell me why, this is a land of confusion This is the world we live in (Oh-oh-oh) And these are the hands we're given (Oh-oh-oh) Use them and let's start trying (Oh-oh-oh) To make it a place worth living in I remember long ago Ooh, when the sun was shining Yes and the stars were bright All through the night And the sound of your laughter As I held you tight So long ago I won't be coming home tonight My generation will put it right We're not just making promises That we know, we'll never keep Too many men There's too many people Making too many problems And not much love to go 'round Can't you see this is a land of confusion? Now this is the world we live in (Oh-oh-oh) And these are the hands we're given (Oh-oh-oh) Use them and let's start trying (Oh-oh-oh) To make it a place worth fighting for This is the world we live in (Oh-oh-oh) And these are the names we're given (Oh-oh-oh) Stand up and let's start showing (Oh-oh-oh) Just where our lives are going to
Come on, the puppetry in this is goddamn outstanding. So many different puppets, so geniusly designed, and decently animated. The number of those puppets I think is what amazes me the most. These aren't drawings, you can't easily come up with them on the spot according to necessity, you gotta draw them, build them, perform, and some of them are only on screen for fractions of a second.
To be fair, only two of these puppets had to be made for this video specifically (two of the band members), the rest was taken from the Spitting Image show
*This song should be played in the headphones of all at the united nations, especially the line, there's too many men, too many people making too many problems and not much love to go around*
The story I heard was that the spitting image lot had to make a new puppet out of phil Collins because the old puppet didn't have eyes, because the old phil puppet was always crying into his arms and was "so sad". Then they thought, well we already have the old puppet might as well have him pop up in the background and have him do a bit of drumming where the audience can't notice that the puppet don't have eyes.
I liked the part where the guy is putting ketcup on his tongue and Reagan gets hit on the head by Nancy. Today's politicians are more dangerous than the 80's ones were.
@@borinakoune1803 I like that scene as well. I think the puppet was the artist "Prince". I never got if that scene had any deeper meaning, "we are eating our own words" Todays politicians are not more dangerous than the 80's ones were, their evils are just more out in the open and the peoples outrage is nonexistant. We have 24-7 news which makes secrets impossible, but makes the people in a constant state of blasèd jadedness. Believe you me the evils of most politicians in the 80's is still 30-35 years later the main cause of our troubles.
@@borinakoune1803 i wouldn't consider them more dangerous, it's that everyone as a whole moved more to the right Today's democrats are yesterdays Republicans
Is it? I don't see how. Seems to me more about like, the media and politicians are lying to the people, saying things are better when they're not; and that it's time for the people to rise up and force change to happen. That the world won't improve until we make it better. I suppose that's kinda close to what you described.
It's actually the opposite, which makes it more depressing. They make it very clear that this is meant to be the turning point. That their "generation will make it right" and that they aren't making empty promises. 35 years later and we see now they instead got absorbed by the machine and let things get worse. In retrospect its' a song about stasis, how nothing changes. But at the time, I don't think that was the intention.
@@Crawver No, I'm prety sure this was meant to be timeless not just for Generation X. If that generation fails, its up to the next one, if that generation fails, so forth and so forth. Names changes, identity changes, actors change...but the aspects of ego, greed and what i like to call "sport mentality" is pretty much constant and can take any form. You're not gonna turn this entire rock around, but its still important to strive. We can't knock of every dictator, strongman and autocrat of the planet(exceptions are called for with all the good and bad that follows). But if we get enough people to stop putting "Supermen" on pedestals, then at the very least we won't make it worse. So...nothing changes?...not true...it could be worse.
Teenager here, funny how this song is so true today I also have no clue how todays kids don’t like this music and judge my music taste for liking this stuff, it’s bloody awesome and so much better than most of the mainstream trash today.
This world was always the Land of Confusion, we just didn't see it until a few years ago. I'm amazed that some of the greatest songs from the 80s gave so much detail about the world we were completely oblivious about. But the good part is that now most people can see it and want it to change, so now we are on the right path.
I just saw the version of this by "Disturbed" and I'm feeling very, very sad because nothing at all has really changed has it? I bought this when it came out (I'm 47 now) and my 20 year old son is living in a world that's no different than it was back in 1989 when I was 20. When the Berlin wall fell my dad was full of hope that our generation would be the one that saw a world at peace but now I think it won't happen in my son's lifetime or for that matter his children's if and when they come along. I bet someone could release this in 2043 (when my lad will be 47) and it will STILL be totally relevant. What a crying shame.
We are making slow progress with medicine, science, crimefighting and peace. It's hard to say how much of the enviroment can be saved but there are definitely hopes there too. Sure, there will always be too many people making too many problems so it can be hard to be hopefull.
Amen brother. Same age and I agree. If anything, it's worse today? Gadgets and Internet is better, but that's about all. Employers treat us like dirt, nobody can trust our Leaders.. I do worry about the future for our kids?
I doubt it will be relevant in 2043. At that point in human history mankind will look back, yearning for the era of peace. Enjoy while you can. The clock is ticking.
For those of you who are wondering, here's a guide to some of the puppets featured in this video... 0:06 Nancy Reagan, Bonzo (from Bedtime for Bonzo) and Ronald Reagan 0:21 Tony Banks 0:23 Mike Rutherford 0:41 Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher 0:44 Phil Collins 0:51 Henry Kissinger 1:09 (briefly) Meryl Streep 1:48 (on the screen) Ayatollah Khomenhi 1:53 (on the screen) Colonel Gaddafi 2:45 Richard Nixon 2:50 Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock 2:54 Bob Hope 3:17 Sylvester Stallone as Rambo 3:38 Prince (with the tongue) 3:42 Tina Turner, Madonna, Grace Jones 3:47 Pete Townshend (Michael Jackson in the background) 3:50 Hit by a falling bone - David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan 4:04 Left - Ian MacGregor Right - Lord Lucan, Edward Heath 4:21 Cliff Richard, Tina Turner (again), the Queen 4:25 Left to right - Clint Eastwood, Sting, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson 4:30 Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Mr T 4:40 Bette Midler, Princess Diana 4:43 Paul McCartney, Pope John Paul II The book Nancy Reagan is reading in bed is 'His Way' by Kitty Kelley.
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Temazo de 1986, como siempre phill con su voz espectacular y junto a genesis hicieron esta melodia que a mi juicio es una de las mejores de la decada de los 80s.
While I've heard the song plenty of times this is the first time I've seen the music video. Often I listen to music without really thinking too much about the lyrics, but listening to them along with the music video really put them and the theme into focus. Clearly people were just as skeptical about their leaders then as they are now, and clearly totalitarianism was just as big of a threat then as now. It's eerie how the issues this song highlights seem just as relevant today, but what disturbed me a little was the following verse: I won't be coming home tonight My generation will put it right We're not just making promises That we know we'll never keep They've not managed to put it right, we still face large societal challenges and issues, perhaps even bigger problems with environmental issues and an aging population. A part of me thinks it's demoralizing, are we destined to suffer the same fate, struggling for change just to see the same challenges in 40 years? Or what the more optimistic part of me believes: They faced challenges and societal issues and made change and pushed progress, things got better although all problems weren't solved.
LYRICS; I must've dreamed a thousand dreams Been haunted by a million screams But i can hear the marching feet They're moving into the street. Now did you read the news today They say the danger's gone away But i can see the fire's still alight There burning into the night. There's too many men Too many people Making too many problems And not much love to go round Can't you see This is a land of confusion. This is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given Use them and let's start trying To make it a place worth living in. Ooh superman where are you now When everything's gone wrong somehow The men of steel, the men of power Are losing control by the hour. This is the time This is the place So we look for the future But there's not much love to go round Tell me…
The visuals aren't too disturbing to me. For those who aren't aware, the video was made by the producers of a British satirical show called Spitting Image - which used latex puppets to mock politicians and celebrities of the time. It was a running joke that Reagan was so 'out of it' that he could hit the 'nuke' button by mistake at any time.
"Too many people making too many problems" - the single quote relevant throughout the ages. I'd honestly love to see a 2019 version of it, with no punches pulled.
@IcIcle As awesome as their cover was, a 14-year old song is hardly "new". And what I meant is not even a new version of the song, but more a '19 version of the videoclip, showcading our current "too many people making too many problems".
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It feels relavant today
Like We Didn't Start The Fire, also.
You should listen to "Crossfire" by German rockband Scorpions off of their 1984 album "Love At First Sting". Its lyrics are also relevant to this day.
very relevant , other heads ..
Yeah, the same bleeding azz libs voting for communism. 40 years later.
this song will stay relevant unless we change the way we give certain corperations and individuals too much power
For me, still one of the best songs of the 80’s
Patrick Bateman certainly agreed with you on that.
"too many people making too many problems" Damn right!!!! One of the best songs ever....
nonono that is exactly the wrong thing to focus on, by this mindset you are adding to the problem, you should be focusing on the part "and not enough love to go around" and by your love to your fellow man, you will solve all problems.
@@jokerguycz yeah and you are one of those guys, who go to a war with a knife...
People like you are the fn problem!!!
If someone is causing problems, tell em! But I guess that could offend or hurt feelings... -.-
@@chrisbee9643 No, god is the problem and all of this is the consequence!
@@esteelvauce7288 they are part of the "to many people making to many problems" part of the song. ;)
The saddest part about this song is that it doesn´t matter when you hear it, things are still the same :(
This Should be The Number 1 Hit for 2024 . We are in a Total. LAND OF CONFUSION !
World of Confusion more like 😀
Total world
Video a bit obscure!!!
Listen to the lyrics!!!!!
There's no confusion if you know who rules this world.
This music video use to creep me out as a kid 😬but today it’s a work of art 👏🏽
I will never forget when I saw this video in 1986, but I never imagined that in april 2024 we would live in a Land of Confusion, this masterpiece came true..
totaly agreed with u.
Maybe thé fear is not terrorisme , but Politics is the scaryest.
Man we all live in lands of confusions and wrong causes,but wait we must winn rhem
I miss the 80’s……
@@Timbo6669 Imagine the BC and BCE times then AD,, how beautiful the world is once
rightly said, especially after the plandemic covid, suddenly the cold war was on full steam, orchestrated by these too many men...
37 years later Spitting Image is still a thing and the world has not learnt anything from its mistakes
if anything the world is infinitely dumber (smart phones make stupid people) and the current crop of baddies are a joke compared to the past, yet we act like and buy into it being the worst of times. Humanity is so fucking stupid.
Does it ever?
Didn't realise Spitting Image was still a thing. The horror, the horror.
Agreed 100%
Same thought.
It still rings true in 2024
very much so
It'll ring true in 2124
Finding myself listening to this song again these days. Scary how accurate the lyrics are even so many years later and especially during the last days!
Other than the lyrics, the song is super catchy.
Free Ukraine! Sława Ukrainie!
Gran pezzo dei migliori Genesis!!!!!
This one and _Russians_ by Sting.
@@kasperchristensen8416 Yes, You both are right!
"There's too many men, too many people making too many problems, and not much love to go round..." So very right!!! Thirty-six years on...sadly the lyrics still make sense.
" We didn´t start the Fire.."
Then start loving more
Never more so 😥
All this time i thought it was "and Not much logic around"
They'll always make sense.
The expressivity of the characters is absolutely outstanding
Creepy
The most truthful music video of the late 20th century!
3:39 - 3:47 yeah, about that....
I‘m so thankful that I grow up in the 80‘s with this powerful music! At this time i thought, music like this is normal and it will go on like this forever. Now i know, that this were special times with very special, everlasting music.
Well said! I wish I got to grow up in that decade!!
There's great music and crap music in every decade.
This song has been my mind lately with what’s been going on.
me too, buddy... me too
same!
yep, more accurate now than ever!
Just out of the blue I've been singing it in my head all day today...
Look at this version(if you never seen): ua-cam.com/video/YV4oYkIeGJc/v-deo.html
100% one of the best music videos of all time.
one of millions of it
The lyrics of this song are very LOUD & CLEAR. The world we live in now is in total confusion
amen brother. Time for the "leaders" to grab a pair and do something about it!!
Relax dude. The confusion is in your mind.
Newbie
Such excellent, iconic 80's imagery. Miss those times so much it hurts. Nothing like the 1980's. ......and Prince eating his own tongue like a hotdog is pure art.
Feets ?
Pete Townshend's nose makes me happy
@jn4756But many, many people who lived then feel that too. It was simply a better time in general.
Immer noch aktuell, auch in 2024.
*Phil Collins is in a league of his own! 100% pure talent! Voice, drums, writing, he does it all!! He is a gift from God!🙏*
Dude did wanders for tarzan!
Too much. Tune it down
Steffi is going on Brenton Ellis
Gift from what now?
@@Zastrutzki Jesus H Christ.
one of the best music videos ever made.
I still feel like this song is so relevant today. We truly do live in a land of confusion
"My generation will put it right. We are not just making promises that we know will never keep. " Yeah, about that....
Ciao...by..gio..sss..primo..miami..florida..ciaoo
It's also a massive problem when people think they know how to make it right but it just creates more issues when they try to force others to comply. Current culture wars come to mind.
Phil Collins' generation is still alive but as long as there's bad people it'll never be put right
I think that every generation has at one time or another say that line
Heard this for first time since I was a kid in about 1990, and THAT line was the one that really stood out to me too. But at least there was hope back then - there's none right now, and aww man do we need a 'hero' to come along...
@@nicktaylor8032Jesus Christus 💒✝️✨
it's frightening how these lyrics are still accurate in today's world...
Youre very easily scared. I suggest you see a therapist
Eh, through the whole human history... :)
Didnt find to god , he is love , humans are evil.
👍👍👍
@@Palmen1990 the rapist
Diesen tollen Song sollte man in diesen Zeiten 24 Stunden im Radio spielen… !!
This is the coolest music video I've ever seen in my 54 laps around the sun
Thats a heck of a cool way to tell your age, Imma be using this further on
It continues being a land of confusion.
david garione : You right david, it is def. the land of confusion, unfortunately. Lets hope all will be sorted, "Sad Face" but I doubt it :-(
Now Its a World of cofusion
As a kid I was scared by the visuals.
As an adult it's the lyrics.
me too. The puppets where very scary.
wow. we live in a society moment.
both are too true for comfort
if you knew how to understand symbolism, you would be more afraid.
And your Name is Mobutu😁
This song never gets old
This song was ahead of its time ❤😢
just heard it on radio after years no listening to it , up loud i was pretty impressed by the drum programming and oomf the sounds have . hope it was phil collins himself doing the drum programming , would be cool , the kick drum is very cool
Toda la vida fue igual, nunca cambiarnos!
it's timeless.
And so is your comment.
I’m 40 years old and this still freaks me out.
Ha,ha,ha, I'm 73 and it still freaks me out !
Because the lyrics are even more relevant these days.
You and me both. Same age, and I was really disturbed by this video when I was a kid. I always thought maybe when I grew up, it wouldn't be so scary. Now I can laugh about it, but it's still scary.
сынок, мне полтинник))
I m 17 and love this song
i am 14 years old, german and i LOVE this song. I heard it with my father and... i still love it... Great song! ☺
Hier auch!Einfach ein Meisterwerk
Hör dir mal die Version von Disturbed an.
@@Chillmatik genesis version>Disturbed version
👍
ok now try to handle early Genesis...
To anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed right now, I hope you find the strength to keep going. May your struggles turn into victories, your pain into growth, and your doubts into confidence. You are stronger than you realize, and brighter days are ahead.
I just saw that Genesis retired, yesterday (26/03/22) Genesis played their last show in London. I love Genesis and this song so much!! We're in a land of confusion!! Thank you Genesis for all.
Very sad.
Oh my beloved 80's.... 😢
Even after so many years, this clip is still nightmare material.
Yep, I remember the first time I watched this video I was recovering from a nose surgery, it was so disturbing that I actually thought it had been some kind of hallucination produced by the anesthesia. I love this song, I love Phil Collins' voice but I truly hate this video.
@@poisonjjivy i saw it on MTV when i was a little kid and I was confused and terrified
@@poisonjjivy haha omg I can imagine:)
Best Video ever🤪🤪🤪😂😂
Its funny, I was very easy to scare as a kid, but I loved this video
I see that unfortunately, after 19 years we still face the same problems. Genesis were way ahead of time.
This is MUSIC, my friends. Not like the trash today.
This song is more relevant than ever.
A timeless song like many others by Genesis.
By Disturbed*
I'd argue that this era of Genesis was part of the decline of the group. This is a pop song by Phil Collins and band. Although a big fan of Genesis including 4 post-Gabriel albums, I walked out of the Invisible Touch tour gig at Wembley when it dawned on me how dire the music was becoming - not all of it, but most tracks. The subsequent album was worse. More worthless than timeless, IMO.
@@vitorananias2353 disturbed? Originally by Genesis!
This clip is so epic. Never gets old.
'The men of steel, the men of power are losing control by the hour.' Sadly accurate in 2023...
2024 and soon 2025 too😂
I first heard this song when I was 15. But in today's times it somehow fits more and more as time goes on.
The relevance of it is constant. It was always like that, blind fools.
Planned Global Agendas
As a kid in the 80’s, the design of the puppets always scared me. Today, I absolutely friggin love this song, the arrangement is fantastic as well as the lyrics. Truly love Phil Collins.
me too with those puppets
i was scared
Always thought that I am the only one who was scared
Me too!!!! 🤣 (Could never see til the end... scary!) 😂
They still look frightening
watching them in 2023 I don't think there is any cgi better than those puppets, it's a fucking amazing work
There will never be artists like these anymore....
Why do songs preach? Nobody practices?
Gotta love baseless comments...
The perfect song for this "time of confusion".
Same here same here!!
Disturbed version is slightly better
Is time of confusion since the beginning. Lol
Yea it's all just to true that it seems sinnister that they even told us
Jes
timeless lyrics. sad but true.
No that was metallica
Still love this song in 2016!
Brings me back to the good old days!
Big like.
& not much luv 2 go round???
listen the disturbed cover
:))))))))
@@eclairsama6938 Still love it in 2021 :D
Love it in 2022
This will never be an oldie😞
Nothing changed over the last 35 years, this nightmare never ended.
It's just beginning 2020
derhallofrosch Don’t be ridiculous, things have changed - they’ve gotten worse
Of course not, even the people who wrote this Genius song, ironically, fight for more and more confusing times and lands.
Yes absolut.
@@sarahclifford2442 You had to jinx it.
Most important message to human kind: nothing changes. Same shit, different year.
Yep....nothing new under the sun.
I agree
Nothing changes unless people do something to make it change.
Nothing changes but music.
That's what happens when you give up your government and culture to different ((people))
I am at 51 i worship genesis and phil David charles Collins one ov my favourite artists ever genius and ledgend his vocals are perfection ❤❤❤❤
Шедевр, просто нет слов..Фил,ты просто супер на все времена.Создать такой клип в те времена это на веки
This song is still so relevant.. This is still a land of confusion in 2016..
totally agree...
spot on if this goes on the worlds people will suffer again under the dispute's of a few egocentric assholes!
I totally agree with you, I'm glad I'm not the only one that can see that, I wish more people would speak out, it's like a conspiracy of silence nowadays, nobody wants to tell it like it is, this society we live in is an even bigger confused and directionless mess now than it was in the 1980's when this was in the charts, at least back then we still had some semblance of a plot, now it's like the plot has been thrown in the bin.
The only thing that is saving society from going under and into total anarchy today is the technology, mobiles, internet etc, which even the poorest can afford, unlike decades ago when such technology was something you had to be a Yuppie or very wealthy in some other way to afford, having access to this greater technology is helping us to cope with all the even bigger complications we face nowadays, although I suspect that this technology is a double edged sword and can work just as much against us as for us.
oh yeas
John, the technology is the reason why the powerful ones are pulling our strings and making us deaf and blind. Anarchy is the only way to save human kind.
still relevant today
The lyrics are so on point. Unfortunately this song will be relevant until the end. Love you all.
Then again it's so easy to sit back, fault pick, offer no solutions just sing about problems. Meanwhile raking in cash by the million, sitting in their Ivory Tower(s), offering nothing but cynicism.
Yes, the end could be when the Nuke button will be pressed accidentaly...
The end......is near.
@@grenville64 well they are singers. Nowdays, anyone can spread a message about today problems, it's just harder to fix them.
What a Classic..... no words..... incredible melody and clip.....
And... SO ACTUAL
Its true,hi from Ukraine
One of the most iconic music videos of all time,right up there with Smooth Criminal and Thriller and spitting image was one of the best things on tv back then.
"My generation will put it right, we're not just making promises that we know we'll never keep."
Great fucking job with that.
EDIT 2022/11/05: I was wrong. The world is far from where it should be and there’s a lot more to be done, but there’s so much good that’s overlooked because hatred and unfairness resonate so well with our focus.
Things that plagued the 80’s such as the HIV crisis, extreme global poverty, and children dying of starvation in Africa, are now largely a thing of the past due to the efforts of the previous generation. There’s a lot more to overcome, and there probably always will be - but life keeps getting better and we’ll figure it out.
Have faith and do what you can.
boomers had it too good. hence why they shIt on younger generations with ease.
Why don't we fight for it nowadays??? Are we lost?... Don't we have concepts at all???
Maybe the point of that lyric is that every generation wants to change everything but they end up doing the same thing. The cycle repits itself
@@franciscovilches4358 God that's such a negative outlook 😕 have some hope .
Yeah, my generation and the ones before that have messed up . But we must have hope we CAN change, never give up, never surrender! ( I know it's from a comedy Sci-Fi film, But I think it works)
I really miss the times when I was playing in my room as a child while mom was cleaning the household listening to Genesis or Phil in general.
And that's why music is so great, it takes you back there.
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This is really too good for our world) one of the best songs in the whole world. The best by words.
Lyrics:
I must've dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street
Now did you read the news today?
They say the danger's gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
Burning into the night
There's too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go 'round
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?
Ooh this is the world we live in (Oh-oh-oh)
And these are the hands we're given (Oh-oh-oh)
Use them and let's start trying (Oh-oh-oh)
To make it a place worth living in
Ooh Superman, where are you now?
When everything's gone wrong somehow
The men of steel, men of power
Are losing control by the hour
This is the time, this is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go 'round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion
This is the world we live in (Oh-oh-oh)
And these are the hands we're given (Oh-oh-oh)
Use them and let's start trying (Oh-oh-oh)
To make it a place worth living in
I remember long ago
Ooh, when the sun was shining
Yes and the stars were bright
All through the night
And the sound of your laughter
As I held you tight
So long ago
I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know, we'll never keep
Too many men
There's too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go 'round
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?
Now this is the world we live in (Oh-oh-oh)
And these are the hands we're given (Oh-oh-oh)
Use them and let's start trying (Oh-oh-oh)
To make it a place worth fighting for
This is the world we live in (Oh-oh-oh)
And these are the names we're given (Oh-oh-oh)
Stand up and let's start showing (Oh-oh-oh)
Just where our lives are going to
2021: it matches…. 😤
2022: still a match
thank you. I am Japanese. Sting's "Russians" brought me here. I understand the meaning of this song in your lyrics.
yeah, did you notice the Bill Clinton look a like ?
@@kaori-himawari How awesome, this song has universal meaning, I think it deserves world wide attention and recognition.
Words still relevant today and will be in another 30 years no doubt.
Come on, the puppetry in this is goddamn outstanding. So many different puppets, so geniusly designed, and decently animated.
The number of those puppets I think is what amazes me the most. These aren't drawings, you can't easily come up with them on the spot according to necessity, you gotta draw them, build them, perform, and some of them are only on screen for fractions of a second.
man i wish they brought spitting image back
Yeah, they are great works of art and craft
@@Victor-jx7lt they did last year
To be fair, only two of these puppets had to be made for this video specifically (two of the band members), the rest was taken from the Spitting Image show
We're still living in a land of confusion!
Beautiful example of a song who's original and remake were both perfectly unique and can be listened to back to back
One of the best songs of the 80s with one of the absolute weirdest music videos of the 80s.
definitely
Shit song. Great video
It's called Spitting Image it was a program that took the pee out of everyone.
Good music ,1990s tanga taakudyamari
Baba vaiva nayo tisati tati pfee
*This song should be played in the headphones of all at the united nations, especially the line, there's too many men, too many people making too many problems and not much love to go around*
do u read quran ,
this is never outdated
daily more current than ever
and what does mankind learn from it? Nothing. It wants to perish.
2:17 - I always liked that little nudge to the audience, that there are 2 Phil's puppets - one singing and one drumming.
Lol, never noticed that before!
The story I heard was that the spitting image lot had to make a new puppet out of phil Collins because the old puppet didn't have eyes, because the old phil puppet was always crying into his arms and was "so sad". Then they thought, well we already have the old puppet might as well have him pop up in the background and have him do a bit of drumming where the audience can't notice that the puppet don't have eyes.
I liked the part where the guy is putting ketcup on his tongue and Reagan gets hit on the head by Nancy. Today's politicians are more dangerous than the 80's ones were.
@@borinakoune1803 I like that scene as well. I think the puppet was the artist "Prince". I never got if that scene had any deeper meaning, "we are eating our own words"
Todays politicians are not more dangerous than the 80's ones were, their evils are just more out in the open and the peoples outrage is nonexistant. We have 24-7 news which makes secrets impossible, but makes the people in a constant state of blasèd jadedness. Believe you me the evils of most politicians in the 80's is still 30-35 years later the main cause of our troubles.
@@borinakoune1803 i wouldn't consider them more dangerous, it's that everyone as a whole moved more to the right
Today's democrats are yesterdays Republicans
I’m 16 but this is my favorite song!! It’s very relevant and I hope that the songs today are much like this. ❤️❤️ I wish I lived in the 80s ☹️
So cute you will be more than 40 years old now, respect your 2000 Ager
Feets ?
man of steel losing control by the hour, hey, the bill clinton look a like
Solo culturalmente
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This was epic song in the 80's.... LONG LIVE THE 80'S ❤
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...and it is still an epic song today. Probably will ever be!
This Synth-Bass Rhythm kills me every time. It’s gold!
This is not a song…it’s an incredible forecast!!!
Well what he sings about was the past, present and future. We're animals, we'll never change.
Nos vamos todos a tomar por el culo, con ésta gentuza que gobierna el mundo. Que pena habiendo para todos.GENESIS O APOCALIPSIS TOTAL.
I would say it's a commentary that's ever valid.
Those people saying "this fits 2020 so well", the WHOLE MESSAGE of the song is that nothing changes, ever. Year in, year out, it's all the same shit.
Is it? I don't see how. Seems to me more about like, the media and politicians are lying to the people, saying things are better when they're not; and that it's time for the people to rise up and force change to happen. That the world won't improve until we make it better.
I suppose that's kinda close to what you described.
Actually thinking about it some more, you're dead right. Nothing changes unless we make it change; and we never make it change.
It's actually the opposite, which makes it more depressing. They make it very clear that this is meant to be the turning point. That their "generation will make it right" and that they aren't making empty promises. 35 years later and we see now they instead got absorbed by the machine and let things get worse.
In retrospect its' a song about stasis, how nothing changes. But at the time, I don't think that was the intention.
@@Crawver No, I'm prety sure this was meant to be timeless not just for Generation X.
If that generation fails, its up to the next one, if that generation fails, so forth and so forth.
Names changes, identity changes, actors change...but the aspects of ego, greed and what i like to call "sport mentality" is pretty much constant and can take any form.
You're not gonna turn this entire rock around, but its still important to strive. We can't knock of every dictator, strongman and autocrat of the planet(exceptions are called for with all the good and bad that follows).
But if we get enough people to stop putting "Supermen" on pedestals, then at the very least we won't make it worse.
So...nothing changes?...not true...it could be worse.
@@RupertAndCheese cry more its funny
One of the few BEST MOST POWERFUL songs out there... Everything about this song... TO BAD not many people listen
Love it so much 💜
Real talented musicians genesis are LEGENDS
Genesis have always been intelligent, talented and up with what was going on in the world.
One of the most iconic tunes of my childhood
Favourite band
Teenager here, funny how this song is so true today
I also have no clue how todays kids don’t like this music and judge my music taste for liking this stuff, it’s bloody awesome and so much better than most of the mainstream trash today.
im 18 and this goes absolutely hard. and i also love the messages genesis makes in this song or "jesus he knows me" for example. Absolutely timeless
You've got taste ❤
Collins' vocs & drums cuts the whole mix through! Real virtuoso!🎸🥁🎹🎙👍👏
This world was always the Land of Confusion, we just didn't see it until a few years ago. I'm amazed that some of the greatest songs from the 80s gave so much detail about the world we were completely oblivious about.
But the good part is that now most people can see it and want it to change, so now we are on the right path.
I just saw the version of this by "Disturbed" and I'm feeling very, very sad because nothing at all has really changed has it? I bought this when it came out (I'm 47 now) and my 20 year old son is living in a world that's no different than it was back in 1989 when I was 20. When the Berlin wall fell my dad was full of hope that our generation would be the one that saw a world at peace but now I think it won't happen in my son's lifetime or for that matter his children's if and when they come along. I bet someone could release this in 2043 (when my lad will be 47) and it will STILL be totally relevant. What a crying shame.
I'm afraid the clocks are in danger of turning even farther then that, 70-110 years even.
Fucking hell please let me be wrong.
Human nature doesn't change. So you get the same old problems and conflicts over and over again down the ages.
We are making slow progress with medicine, science, crimefighting and peace. It's hard to say how much of the enviroment can be saved but there are definitely hopes there too. Sure, there will always be too many people making too many problems so it can be hard to be hopefull.
Amen brother. Same age and I agree. If anything, it's worse today? Gadgets and Internet is better, but that's about all. Employers treat us like dirt, nobody can trust our Leaders.. I do worry about the future for our kids?
I doubt it will be relevant in 2043. At that point in human history mankind will look back, yearning for the era of peace.
Enjoy while you can. The clock is ticking.
2022 now it's a whole World of Confusion. Stay strong everyone. LOVE, POWER and HOPE to you all out there!!! ❤💪❤
Thank you Michelle. God bless you 🙏💙
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Thank you so much ❤️✌️
And Jesus Christ
oh the Reagen look a like, the Clinton look a like, the Queen look a like
This video clip is absolute fantastic. The puppets are amazing.
I love this song still so fresh
This is my 8 year old son's favourite song and video. Yes!!! I was a kid of the 80's!
Tjisi is my favorite song and i' am 13 year old
For those of you who are wondering, here's a guide to some of the puppets featured in this video...
0:06 Nancy Reagan, Bonzo (from Bedtime for Bonzo) and Ronald Reagan
0:21 Tony Banks
0:23 Mike Rutherford
0:41 Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher
0:44 Phil Collins
0:51 Henry Kissinger
1:09 (briefly) Meryl Streep
1:48 (on the screen) Ayatollah Khomenhi
1:53 (on the screen) Colonel Gaddafi
2:45 Richard Nixon
2:50 Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock
2:54 Bob Hope
3:17 Sylvester Stallone as Rambo
3:38 Prince (with the tongue)
3:42 Tina Turner, Madonna, Grace Jones
3:47 Pete Townshend (Michael Jackson in the background)
3:50 Hit by a falling bone - David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan
4:04 Left - Ian MacGregor Right - Lord Lucan, Edward Heath
4:21 Cliff Richard, Tina Turner (again), the Queen
4:25 Left to right - Clint Eastwood, Sting, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson
4:30 Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Mr T
4:40 Bette Midler, Princess Diana
4:43 Paul McCartney, Pope John Paul II
The book Nancy Reagan is reading in bed is 'His Way' by Kitty Kelley.
lol, thanks bro
The Spitting Image must have had a garage sale
0:47 Leonid Brezhnev
0:41 this is not Mikhail Gorbachev
Congratulations. You just copy and pasted Inspector Javerts comment from over a year ago.
Do the 27 likes you have from someone elses effort make you feel special?
@@TravisJones812 or worked on the video. That was Spitting Images
Temazo de 1986, como siempre phill con su voz espectacular y junto a genesis hicieron esta melodia que a mi juicio es una de las mejores de la decada de los 80s.
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😊Totalmente, es una super pieza
De chiquito uno le da miedo las imágenes
Ya de adulto ya te da miedo cada lírica
While I've heard the song plenty of times this is the first time I've seen the music video. Often I listen to music without really thinking too much about the lyrics, but listening to them along with the music video really put them and the theme into focus. Clearly people were just as skeptical about their leaders then as they are now, and clearly totalitarianism was just as big of a threat then as now. It's eerie how the issues this song highlights seem just as relevant today, but what disturbed me a little was the following verse:
I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know we'll never keep
They've not managed to put it right, we still face large societal challenges and issues, perhaps even bigger problems with environmental issues and an aging population. A part of me thinks it's demoralizing, are we destined to suffer the same fate, struggling for change just to see the same challenges in 40 years? Or what the more optimistic part of me believes: They faced challenges and societal issues and made change and pushed progress, things got better although all problems weren't solved.
The 80s, better music, better politicians.
One of the best videos in history.
Isn't it? I sort of feel bad that I had to watch it twice before I realized that was Ronald Reagan though...
Mr Mattemoe yes
Bella Rocco!
RoccoSoundTube #no just fucked up xD music is good though
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Camilo asestó
LYRICS;
I must've dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But i can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street.
Now did you read the news today
They say the danger's gone away
But i can see the fire's still alight
There burning into the night.
There's too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can't you see
This is a land of confusion.
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in.
Ooh superman where are you now
When everything's gone wrong somehow
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour.
This is the time
This is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go round
Tell me…
thank you for the lyrics
Thank you so much
Il en manque une partie.
The Best Musicvideo ever made
The visuals are more disturbing than disturbed. Imagine the disturbed song w these visuals.
+Vaas Montenegro YES
And replace the eighties leaders with modern ones. Potential gold there.
The visuals aren't too disturbing to me. For those who aren't aware, the video was made by the producers of a British satirical show called Spitting Image - which used latex puppets to mock politicians and celebrities of the time. It was a running joke that Reagan was so 'out of it' that he could hit the 'nuke' button by mistake at any time.
That is actually a pretty good idea
This aged like fine wine.
Yup. A lot of disinformation about covid. Too many people making too many problems, expanding the virus and all....
:)
any one in history saying humanity fails its potential end up being right. Its as old as history
Maybe a little Chablis ? 😊
I have 😁
@@femstora what about renaissance era?
Well. Exept the "Out Generation will make it right Part" exept its meant to Meta.
It's incredible that it seems even cooler to me now than when I saw it as a Kid.
3:45 - this guitarist gesture is oddly satisfying for me, i can't help
Yep
I hope that gesture is in fortn...
*someone pulled a gun out*
Most under rated song of all times!
Buona..notte..da..by..gio..sss..primo..e..gio..sss..terzo...Milano.. italy..ciaoo
"Too many people making too many problems" - the single quote relevant throughout the ages.
I'd honestly love to see a 2019 version of it, with no punches pulled.
@IcIcle As awesome as their cover was, a 14-year old song is hardly "new".
And what I meant is not even a new version of the song, but more a '19 version of the videoclip, showcading our current "too many people making too many problems".
Still have the chills and tears to my eyes ❤
2025 I'm still here
Oh, Superman, where are you now?