Standing in a nightclub in the 80s.This absolute goddess tells me I look like Edwyn Collins in this video.Very embarrassed but secretly over thr moon.Her name was Maria Wolstenholme,she was English,Im Irish,we met in Dublin.We lost touch and it was my fault.Ships that pass and all that.Good times brilliant song
I have a very different memory of this song. Me and my mates would go out driving about listening to this song when (sad mad) Don decided to climb out the window and hang on to the roof. He was a total wanker tbh and he wasn't mates with anyone for very long.
Absolutely, thanks to all the replies adding more great Scottish bands to the list. The Associates were unique, some dark sounds and Billys voice was haunting. That keyboard sound on party fears 2 is just beautiful
This is the first ever record featuring the Roland TB-303 (the bass synthesiser that became a foundation for acid house music) to enter the UK charts. Feel free to use this information to impress your friends and others, who are into music.
This still sounds great decades later. The TB 303 bass was an inspired choice that kicked off a massive trend and the homage to Buzzcocks' Boredom was just so classy.
Saw them at the Royal Court in LIverpool in about 1984. There was a national strike and no transport. I was a student in Liverpool and walked there- must have been less that 100 in the audience but they still played.
Played 80"s to younger asian friend recently. He loved it. His words, "real music." Forgot this one, found today, 2024 Great composition with the acid synth, which is why i liked it and b-line. Ah...good times.
Myself and my best friend mark were both painters and decoraters at the time this song came so you can imagine the crack we had at our customers homes stripping wallpaper off the walls and singing RIP it up and start again . Just brilliant.
Earlier today “a girl like you” came on and was telling my co-worker how Edwyn suffered cerebral hemorrhaging. After work i scroll through youtube and this song shows up. Always listening, always watching.
A little Dust a day keeps reality away. We’ve never need the slightly-delic sounds of Space Dust so desperately… Aktown needs ya’ll to come back and kick out the jams. Set the controls for the heart of the sun and lets get dusted baby!
I heard this song a couple months ago on a random playlist on Spotify and was thoroughly convinced it was a new band trying to sound Retro, Which is wildly popular these days. My mind is completely blown!! What an amazing song. I hope it catches on!!!!!!
I have been following Edwyn Collins's music since Orange Juice, so listening from the beginning, I'm sure you won't be disappointed. I believe the reason he never became a "household name" was that he fell out with music companies in the eighties who wanted him to churn out commercial pop music. and he didn't.
j'ai retrouvé ce morceau, enregistré à la radio, sur une cassette (1984?) Il déchire sa race encore 40 ans après. J'ai eu une vie assez merdique, mais tellement heureuse d'avoir vécu les années 80! merci les gars. 🙏 I came across this song, recorded on the radio, on a cassette (1984?). It's still kicking ass 40 years later. I've had a pretty shitty life, but I'm so happy to have lived through the 80s! thx, guys
Haven't heard this one in nearly forty years! Saw it a couple times on MTV back in the day, then tonight I stumble across it on my feed. Glad I clicked on it-brought back some childhood memories. Didn't realize that the lead singer had a big hit in the '90s with "A Girl Like You", one of my favourite '90s songs.
There's a new year coming up...wish 'radio' would get its act together and RIP it up and play majestic songs like this...each day,not too muck to ask.😊
When I first heard this track I was so impressed with Orange Juice - I just knew Edwin was made for greater things, his talent outshone his somewhat initial‘geekiness’, if that makes sense Hope you’re keeping well Edwin. All my best to you. Thanks for the vid. xx Jane Russell
Edwin is so very beautiful in this video - looks just like the first love of my life, Colin... The music and lyrics are awesome - Edwin, along with Jeff Lynne, is one of my favourite music-makers...
The best time ever, we were so lucky. Carefree times with no pressures. I would not swap them times for anything. Thank goodness we grew up without today's technology. 😀😀
Absolutely Epic song!!! What a timeless classic this really is, it still sounds as fresh today as it did all those years ago. Total respect to Edwyn Collins. 🙏✊👏👏👏👏
When I look at the mess the world is in today I feel so grateful I grew up in the 80s. Such a magical time of freedom of expression and creativity. We all had such hope in our hearts that the future would be one in which we all could live together as one family enjoying a Christmas party. Instead the banksters stole our dream of freedom, ripped it up and threw it in the bin.
@@nosnilor If you remember the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - like I said; we had hope for the future. I hope your sad view of life becomes more brighter too.
I absolutely love this song! Ive been working in the hospital basement all day thinking of this and I couldnt wait to get out and stick the headphones in and have a listen! Tapping away on my seat like an idiot on the train! 😁
In the 70s and 80s, Scotland seemed to produce loads of cool popstars, actors, footballers, and so on. I haven't noticed so many recently. Am I missing something?
I'm a 21 year old american man, and even I have noticed that britain has really dropped the ball musically in the last 20 years. You guys gotta get your groove back!!!
Student Union disco 1986. If you were dancing to Rip It Up on last orders you were well in. Sharing a kebab and a taxi home, probably. Ripping It Up and Starting Again.... again, after ten pints. For the night. This song reminds me of why so many fifty-somethings are still ripping it up and starting again.
the fantastic Zeke Manyika on drums also sessioned on Matt Johnson's The The -Soul Mining and Infected albums plus with the Style Council - superb talent, many thanks
Ah the early 80s trendy Glasgow West End Set with a hint of Glasgow School Of Art thrown in for good measure- Orange Juice, H20, Altered Images, Strawberry Switchblade
1:13 I'm suprised American Express and Diner's Club logos basically look almost the same today! Everything else in the video though is like from a different world. Head scarfs, the cars, the clothes.
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Simply one of the greatest pop songs of all time.
Standing in a nightclub in the 80s.This absolute goddess tells me I look like Edwyn Collins in this video.Very embarrassed but secretly over thr moon.Her name was Maria Wolstenholme,she was English,Im Irish,we met in Dublin.We lost touch and it was my fault.Ships that pass and all that.Good times brilliant song
@jeffbyrne6785
You're sadfishing. Sad really.
@@cquilty1 You're dense. Sad really.
@@RQBtv
I don't recall talking down to you, sadfisher defender. Sad really...
And you replied, "Edwin WHO?" 😅
I have a very different memory of this song. Me and my mates would go out driving about listening to this song when (sad mad) Don decided to climb out the window and hang on to the roof. He was a total wanker tbh and he wasn't mates with anyone for very long.
Now I hit forty and realise what a fucking great record this is. It has it all. Still fresh af after four decades.
Deserves to be played once.
A day.
Ah hour at least😁😁🎶
A minute in my case!
For the rest of your life ..
😂😂😂
John peel quote?
Some damn fine bands came out of Scotland in the 80's Orange Juice, Big Country, Altered Images, Texas just to name a few, brilliant.
Yes they did including Simple minds and Blue Nile
Hue and Cry
Josef K
The Associates
Absolutely, thanks to all the replies adding more great Scottish bands to the list. The Associates were unique, some dark sounds and Billys voice was haunting. That keyboard sound on party fears 2 is just beautiful
This is the first ever record featuring the Roland TB-303 (the bass synthesiser that became a foundation for acid house music) to enter the UK charts. Feel free to use this information to impress your friends and others, who are into music.
Hearing that bass sound in such a chill track when you're used to hearing it in acid house is weird, but it's sure interesting!
I mentioned this at a party and have been banned from sex forever henceforth
Also probably the only successful song where the 303 is doing what the guys at Roland intended it to!
lol this is the only reason to know about this song
@@santisan6925 & u are here listening to it...? lol
This is the first single I ever bought. Still sounds fantastic. God the 80's were awesome 👌
I know! I was but a wee kid back then but I miss it so much.
It's amazing
Your so wrong....they were better than awesome!
I have this on 12 inch
Nothing will compare to the eighties. Feel sorry for the kids growing up today.
Why can't music be like this again ....
Because talent is a rare and precious thing.
Because today its all manufactured and original genuine talent with new ideas does not get a chance in that kind of environment.
I suppose LCD Soundsystem is quite close to this sound.
Agree ❤🎉
There is still music like this
The best music ever the late 70s early 80s
100 percent
Was sad to discover the challenges Edwin has had with his health in recent years. Love the 80s, all the best.
There's a video of Edwin performing "Rip It Up" live relatively recently
He's fought back ❤
2:43 "I'm sorry, you can't film in here, please."
@@ChrisJones-ij3xp I try to understand what this has to do with the singer's health.
The 1980's a wonderful time to be alive.
Yes we were spoilt for choice, great era
Sure was! Wish I could go back there!
Can we go back pls
Agree and people weren't so ignorant and clued to their phones
Agreed
Manc' Poly 83 - flat tops, a Certain Ratio, Laura's locks, the Dolphin LP cover, sockless sandals down Oxford Street. Welcome Edwyn, forever welcome.
I met Edwyn and his wife in a train station in Luton once….I almost cried.
Luton can do that to you
Lisa,..I just inhaled cucumber..never done that before... the beers are on me!
@@alibullen7178 glad you got one of your 5 a day
@@lisajohnson1528 What? The beers?
You're a dude, right? Just call me old fashioned.
March/April 1983 - when I was a 7-year-old boy watching Top of the Pops. Yep, childhood memories. Like the guitar riff.
The level of detail in this old school TARDIS recreation is impressive.
I want to go back to 1983😊
The kind of band that makes me glad to be Scottish.
You bawbags certainly punch above your weight.
Cocteau Twins, Big Country, AWB, Orange Juice, Twilight Sad etc etc etc
This still sounds great decades later. The TB 303 bass was an inspired choice that kicked off a massive trend and the homage to Buzzcocks' Boredom was just so classy.
More like 4 decades
I'm 73 years old, I love this song! How did I find it? Watching the movie, GOLD, it was played in it, the rest is history.
73!?!? Wow
Awesome Movie as well !
@@garybreyjr353 Yep!
"I hope to god you're not as dumb as you make out"
What a line. Just a fucking great song.
That's the stand out line for me too
“And I hope to God I’m not as numb as you make out.”
Yeah and the response.... "I hope to God I'm not as numb as you make out"... Great lyrics writing
Was in Hackney at the time at the bad times great song from Glasgow band
It's awesome and it's SCOTTISH
There's 80s music and then there's this. I like it!
1983. Sounds like yesterday.
my favorite thing about old music videos is them not knowing what to have the drummer doing
This is just a wonderful observation :)
I literally had NO IDEA that this was Edwyn Collins, same guy who sang "Never Known A Girl Like You Before".
ladycplum
🤘🏼✌🏼😘 sometimes give two many ways II
Me neither ,at all.
Yes, his original band. Lots of great stuff - check out What Presence as well
I recognized the voice instantly... But couldn't believe he looked like this.
I've known "A girl like you" all my life, but I had never seen his face.
WHAT!!
When my mother died from covid in 2020 I kept playing this over and over again. I guess it just fit my mood at the time
Died from COVID? OR MURDERED?
I'm so sorry ❤
What about your mother who just wanted PEACE?
Omg this takes me back ..loved the 80s .A much nicer time and so much simpler.
how have i gone my entire life without hearing this???
I don't know.
Was 6 years old in 1983 when it came out. Remember hearing it being played at Woolworths in East Ham
I grew up in East Ham too.
@@gregoryeze7111 that's great to know fellow East Londoner
This came out in '82
40 years ago! Yet still so refreshing.
Saw them at the Royal Court in LIverpool in about 1984. There was a national strike and no transport. I was a student in Liverpool and walked there- must have been less that 100 in the audience but they still played.
Ah, the Royal Court. First ever gig was there - Killing Joke '83.
Played 80"s to younger asian friend recently. He loved it. His words, "real music." Forgot this one, found today, 2024 Great composition with the acid synth, which is why i liked it and b-line. Ah...good times.
This was one of the top bands out of Scotland
Myself and my best friend mark were both painters and decoraters at the time this song came so you can imagine the crack we had at our customers homes stripping wallpaper off the walls and singing RIP it up and start again . Just brilliant.
amazing!
Aw, that makes me want to cry.. ❤
I love peoples memories ❤️
Up the painters,great song
Earlier today “a girl like you” came on and was telling my co-worker how Edwyn suffered cerebral hemorrhaging. After work i scroll through youtube and this song shows up. Always listening, always watching.
stumbled upon this song while tripping on mushrooms and it was just incredible, a memory i hope i always remember
The love between Edwyn and his mrs is special ,seen them on a few interviews on tv ,and truly a thing to behold
Grace
@@alanoneill3065 cheers
Oh, little Edwin, you did good.
Loved this track & still listen to it - lyrically appropriate!
JaneR
My whole life is ripping it up and starting again, the only thing I'm truly good at
🤣🤣🤣
We can be friends
Oh, we're supposed to start again?
No wonder
Nah.
All I do is rip.
...and sleep.
Snap lol
A little Dust a day keeps reality away. We’ve never need the slightly-delic sounds of Space Dust so desperately… Aktown needs ya’ll to come back and kick out the jams. Set the controls for the heart of the sun and lets get dusted baby!
I heard this song a couple months ago on a random playlist on Spotify and was thoroughly convinced it was a new band trying to sound Retro, Which is wildly popular these days. My mind is completely blown!! What an amazing song. I hope it catches on!!!!!!
I think Miami Horror samples this in “Leila”
If Kate Bush can have a massive comeback in the 2020s, I'm sure bands like this could too.
SPOTIFY
can’t believe i just discovered this band a few weeks ago, they’re so catchy!!!
I have been following Edwyn Collins's music since Orange Juice, so listening from the beginning, I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
I believe the reason he never became a "household name" was that he fell out with music companies in the eighties who wanted him to churn out commercial pop music. and he didn't.
Scotland's finest, awesome, haven't heard this since the eighties.
The coolest band ever... with the coolest song.
*I am suddenly very attracted to this band.* Totally going to check out their whole discography!
You won't be disappointed!
My favorite part is the sax solo. I first heard this song on college radio driving in my car in Rutherford County, TN!
I'm 66 and song makes me feel younger 🙂
I was 17 in 1980 and my decade to have a blast, had more than my fair share of cars, bikes, gigs and girls!
wow 42 years ago so you 60 age now
I had a Bike . Was 15
blimey, Edwyn was extremely cute when young 😍
"rip it up and start again" , the best book about post punk. And a marvellous song!!!
Cracking song still loving this in 2024
j'ai retrouvé ce morceau, enregistré à la radio, sur une cassette (1984?)
Il déchire sa race encore 40 ans après.
J'ai eu une vie assez merdique, mais tellement heureuse d'avoir vécu les années 80!
merci les gars. 🙏
I came across this song, recorded on the radio, on a cassette (1984?).
It's still kicking ass 40 years later.
I've had a pretty shitty life, but I'm so happy to have lived through the 80s!
thx, guys
Haven't heard this one in nearly forty years! Saw it a couple times on MTV back in the day, then tonight I stumble across it on my feed. Glad I clicked on it-brought back some childhood memories. Didn't realize that the lead singer had a big hit in the '90s with "A Girl Like You", one of my favourite '90s songs.
Love the guitar riff
There's a new year coming up...wish 'radio' would get its act together and RIP it up and play majestic songs like this...each day,not too muck to ask.😊
I've never, ever heard this song in my whole new wave synth pop life...
RIP it up and start again
Classic
Let's hope Edwyn is ok
One of the greatest living Scotsmen.
jason kingshott
Yes
This is a hit!!! Base line crazy. Vocals are amazing. Hook is catchy. Still hits in 2019
Still love just tune
The bass line is also one of the earlies known uses of a Roland TB-303 synth - so it's proto Acid!
a lot of early 80s songs used the TB303 for what it was intended as a bass substitute, all that Imagination stuff etc., but this is a great track
The shots of the sullen, unimpressed spectators is *chef's kiss*.
It's a funk pop masterclass!
When I first heard this track I was so impressed with Orange Juice - I just knew Edwin was made for greater things, his talent outshone his somewhat initial‘geekiness’, if that makes sense
Hope you’re keeping well Edwin. All my best to you.
Thanks for the vid. xx
Jane Russell
Edwin is so very beautiful in this video - looks just like the first love of my life, Colin... The music and lyrics are awesome - Edwin, along with Jeff Lynne, is one of my favourite music-makers...
Legendary Album
First heard it while watching sexy sport clips on DSF in 2009 or so. Still listening to it
I drove my mum off her head playing this over and over again.....🤣 Still one of my favourite songs ever 👏
A song that evokes great memories.😊❤
Takes me back ❤❤❤❤What a great time to be a teenager the music was outstanding .
The best time ever, we were so lucky. Carefree times with no pressures. I would not swap them times for anything. Thank goodness we grew up without today's technology. 😀😀
This is an absolute unit of a song!
Flipping heck, Edwyn Collins was gorgeous...and all that time I was in love with Nick Heyward of Haircut 100.
Dude! I thought this was a new band trying to sound retro. Holy $#!!!! this is dope!
Michael Smith it's the 80's at her best
this song is credited as the first top 10 to have 303 in it. Truth.
Yeah, dope.
Wasn't this known as "sophisticated pop" ?
Blancmange, Kane Gang, Pete Wylie, Blow Monkeys, Aztec Camera...
Dude I remember this being on top of the poops back in 83! I would have been 15!
Popped up in my recommendations one day and can’t stop listening
Same
Absolutely Epic song!!!
What a timeless classic this really is, it still sounds as fresh today as it did all those years ago.
Total respect to Edwyn Collins. 🙏✊👏👏👏👏
Classic song of the 80’s!
When I look at the mess the world is in today I feel so grateful I grew up in the 80s. Such a magical time of freedom of expression and creativity. We all had such hope in our hearts that the future would be one in which we all could live together as one family enjoying a Christmas party. Instead the banksters stole our dream of freedom, ripped it up and threw it in the bin.
Grow a pair of bollocks
@@pappamojovchero9797 bit harsh don't you think?
banksters? you bought into a scam bro. crpyto knight lmao
Thatcher, global depression, nuclear threat, cold war, reaganomics... FFS
@@nosnilor If you remember the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - like I said; we had hope for the future.
I hope your sad view of life becomes more brighter too.
Shout out to the Roland TB-303 bassline, the first ever!
is it really the first though?
@@crieverytim yes
when people actually used 303s for their intended purpose of bass guitar replacement... bless
@@DylanPank71 Hmm despite being Indian I didnt know about this. Albums arent really popular here
My breakfast is always Orange Juice!
Once told by a girl called Marie Woltsenholme that I looked like the lead singer of Orange Juice.I wish!!!Superb band,very much underappreciated
Sorry,her name was Maria Wolstenholme not Marie.Ships that pass etc
in times when life was much simpler......
I absolutely love this song! Ive been working in the hospital basement all day thinking of this and I couldnt wait to get out and stick the headphones in and have a listen! Tapping away on my seat like an idiot on the train! 😁
One of the forgotten greats
In the 70s and 80s, Scotland seemed to produce loads of cool popstars, actors, footballers, and so on. I haven't noticed so many recently. Am I missing something?
I'm a 21 year old american man, and even I have noticed that britain has really dropped the ball musically in the last 20 years. You guys gotta get your groove back!!!
Franz Ferdinand, darlings
@@PirateofTarrytown They were 20 years ago.
Sleaford Mods mate
@@TheMarkyMarx Sleaford Mods aren't from Scotland
Student Union disco 1986. If you were dancing to Rip It Up on last orders you were well in. Sharing a kebab and a taxi home, probably. Ripping It Up and Starting Again.... again, after ten pints. For the night. This song reminds me of why so many fifty-somethings are still ripping it up and starting again.
This record should get more recognition because it’s an old Classic ✌️
Devilishly catch song by Orange Juice. Love it!
I never heard of this band before but I like this song a lot
That is one low-budget TARDIS! Great song and one of the first top-ten hits to ever use the Roland TB-303 bass synth.
the fantastic Zeke Manyika on drums also sessioned on Matt Johnson's The The -Soul Mining and Infected albums plus with the Style Council - superb talent, many thanks
Brings back so many 80s memories. Typical 80s vibe. Music videos that were fun & creative really inspired my art work. ❤❤❤
Ah the early 80s trendy Glasgow West End Set with a hint of Glasgow School Of Art thrown in for good measure- Orange Juice, H20, Altered Images, Strawberry Switchblade
I remember singing this to me late wife Alison x
Takes me back happy memories as a teen ❤❤
The Possibilities Are Endless. Edwyn Collins, you are a f****** inspiration!
From the days when video was so modern and important. A great song
He looks so youthful and fashionable for the time.
Just lifts you when ever it’s played, as you get older less & less music can do that!
Criminally underplayed.
The soundtrack to drinking Orange Juice
Bright, cheerful and sweet but not too sugary:)
Song for today !
Scottish music is exquisite
1:13 I'm suprised American Express and Diner's Club logos basically look almost the same today! Everything else in the video though is like from a different world. Head scarfs, the cars, the clothes.
This song sounds like it could have been made today. Really great band :)
It's far superior to anything written/produced today.