Kirsty MacColl - Walking Down Madison (Official HD Music Video)

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  • Опубліковано 26 лис 2024
  • Official HD video for 'Walking Down Madison', by Kirsty MacColl
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    Lyrics:
    Walking down Madison
    I swear I never had a gun
    No I never shot no one
    I was only having fun
    Walking down Madison
    Swear I never had a gun
    I was philosophising some
    Checking out the bums
    See you give 'em your nickels
    Your pennies and dimes
    But you can't give 'em hope
    In these mercenary times, oh no
    And you feel real guilty about the coat on your back
    And the sandwich you had, oh no
    From an uptown apartment
    To a knife on the A train
    It's not that far
    From the sharks in the penthouse
    To the rats in the basement
    It's not that far
    To the bag lady frozen asleep in the park
    Oh no, it's not that far
    Would you like to see some more?
    I can show you if you'd like to
    Walking down Madison
    I swear I never had a gun
    No I never shot no one
    Wouldn't do it just for fun
    Walking down Madison
    Trying to keep my head screwed on
    I was philosophising some
    Checking out the nuns
    When you get to the corner
    Don't look at those freaks
    Keep your head down low
    And stay quick on your feet, oh yeah
    The beaming boy from Harlem
    With the airforce coat
    The ones who died, the ones who tried
    The ones that sit and gloat
    From an uptown apartment
    To a knife on the A train
    It's not that far
    From the sharks in the penthouse
    To the rats in the basement
    It's not that far
    To the bag lady frozen asleep
    On the church steps
    It's not that far
    Would you like to see some more?
    I can show you if you'd like to
    Within every city and town there's a Madison
    Frozen lives for whom nothing's happening
    Hungry children is a mother's dilemma
    Dumpster diving to feed her baby Emma
    So you walk on by like it doesn't affect you
    The held out hand that you pay no respect to
    Nickels and dimes won't even buy your guilt
    Another wino dead, burnt to death in his quilt
    It's a cardboard city, newspaper metropolis
    The system can't cope or keep on top of this
    The authorities come as you're not for display
    Do they solve the problem, no, they move him away
    They're in a vicious circle of no fixed abode
    The social won't pay 'em the money they're owed
    When you've got no money you can't pay rent
    Hypothermia kills 'cause the system is bent
    From an uptown apartment
    To a knife on the A train
    It's not that far
    From the sharks in the penthouse
    To the rats in the basement
    It's not that far
    To the bag lady frozen asleep in the park
    Oh no, it's not that far
    Hey bro, you wanna see some more?
    I can show you if you'd like to
    From an uptown apartment
    To a knife on the A train
    It's not that far
    From the sharks in the penthouse
    To the rats in the basement
    It's not that far
    To the bag lady frozen asleep
    On the church steps
    It's not that far

КОМЕНТАРІ • 85

  • @aclark4life
    @aclark4life 8 місяців тому +17

    In the early 90s I remember cranking this up in my VW bus with speakers I mounted to a piece of wood under a bench seat in the back. Fast forward to 2024 and it's still one of my all time favorite songs! Thank you Kirsty, Johhnny, et al. ❤

  • @randyd5881
    @randyd5881 Рік тому +50

    So special. It’s not that far. RIP Kirsty. Gone too soon.

    • @clifffowler2581
      @clifffowler2581 Місяць тому

      If California/San Francisco had only listened 😢

  • @terrychristian2903
    @terrychristian2903 8 місяців тому +18

    Kirsty with her Manchester supergroup backing her on this - Johnny Marr on guitar , Jimmy Goodwin ( Doves) , Donald Johnson - A Certain Ratio - Drums and rapping by Aniff Akinola - Chapter& The Verse, Backyard Dog etc. Brilliant combo ( her dad Ewan was from Salford so maybe she wanted that dirty vibe)

  • @matthewbrunswick
    @matthewbrunswick Рік тому +14

    I have loved this song since I first heard it 32 years ago. I just listened to it as I was "Walking Down Madison" for the first time in my life and it made me cry.
    RIP Kirsty, Croydon's finest. ❤

  • @galenstone9097
    @galenstone9097 10 місяців тому +12

    Heroes are not born. They are made in the moment, and Kirsty was among the bravest of those.
    Godspeed for a remarkable human being.

  • @danieldaniels7571
    @danieldaniels7571 7 місяців тому +8

    I love this song. Never thought I’d get to see an HD video for it.

  • @debwelsh5595
    @debwelsh5595 11 місяців тому +10

    Good memories. RIP Kristy. You are not forgotten. ❤️

  • @kipperrepublic3568
    @kipperrepublic3568 11 місяців тому +13

    There's something about this song that just hooks me in every time. Kirsty had such a beautiful voice.

  • @pamela8329
    @pamela8329 Рік тому +9

    Such a gem, she was. RIP Kirsty.💔

  • @ronanmyles7482
    @ronanmyles7482 9 місяців тому +7

    Great tune, big fan of her music, R.I.P.

  • @stewartcohen-jones2949
    @stewartcohen-jones2949 26 днів тому +2

    Keep playing this over and over. Such a groove and the lyrics are so relevant to today.

  • @postmodernrecycler
    @postmodernrecycler 7 місяців тому +12

    New York in the early '90s was bananas. I miss this moment in music before grunge changed everything. This played on the college radio station in my town. Neat turn for Kirsty's voice.

  • @BillODriscoll-jo2ve
    @BillODriscoll-jo2ve Рік тому +7

    Rest in heavenly peace ✌️ 🙏
    Kirsty maccoll
    1959 to 2000
    Taken far, far, too soon

  • @chrishaps6846
    @chrishaps6846 5 місяців тому +10

    Very pretty and talented , so sorry to lose her so young .

  • @zombiemosher1139
    @zombiemosher1139 10 місяців тому +6

    I had totally forgotten about this tune til I recently picked up a Kirsty best of. So good.

  • @stevendurrant1724
    @stevendurrant1724 10 місяців тому +7

    Love you Kirsty ❤️

  • @josephdevlin7528
    @josephdevlin7528 Місяць тому +5

    Great track.

  • @alanoneill3065
    @alanoneill3065 11 місяців тому +8

    Brilliant...my favourite Kirsty song...timeless

  • @marcelor.5202
    @marcelor.5202 8 місяців тому +10

    I have a cassette that I recorded in '90 from FM radio Aspen - Buenos Aires, but I didn't know the name of the song,
    but now after 34 years I managed to identify him through Shazam and here I am watching his video for the first time.
    Tengo un cassette que grabé en el año '90 de la radio FM Aspen - Buenos Aires, pero no sabía el nombre de la canción,
    pero ahora luego de 34 años logré identificarlo a través de Shazam y aquí estoy viendo su video por primera vez.

  • @jamesnelson3926
    @jamesnelson3926 4 місяці тому +10

    Much missed Talent... RIP Kirsty..xc

  • @Shaunphillips1
    @Shaunphillips1 11 місяців тому +7

    How this hasn't got more views I'll never know, hopefully it reaches 1 million one day.

  • @IreneTresp
    @IreneTresp 3 місяці тому +11

    This is SO 1990!!!!!!🤩🤩🤩

  • @BillODriscoll-jo2ve
    @BillODriscoll-jo2ve Рік тому +7

    Kirsty looks absolutely beautiful in this video
    A gorgeous woman 👩 😍
    God only takes the very best 👌 👍
    Rest in heavenly peace kirsty
    Ar dheis de go raibh an anam dhillis

  • @galfriday4581
    @galfriday4581 10 місяців тому +9

    Recently heard this track on the radio program, “World Cafe.” It stuck in my head. Such a classic dance track with a poignant political, thinking man’s, through an Artist eyes, message. Such a hot track. Introduced me to Kristy, and I cried when I found out what happen to her. You have touched me and made me dance Kristy!

  • @ThomasFeerick-mi4uz
    @ThomasFeerick-mi4uz 6 місяців тому +6

    Loved watching this with my late bro. He loved the message from it. He thought it was re the difference s in society.

  • @josephubil
    @josephubil 5 місяців тому +9

    Greatness never dies 😎

  • @vinceraven1501
    @vinceraven1501 Рік тому +6

    This song was a part of my transition to my teenage years like so many between 1989 to 1992.

  • @larryenglish8900
    @larryenglish8900 11 місяців тому +8

    aw. so good. so pretty. so missed.

  • @TheSalinski
    @TheSalinski 4 місяці тому +12

    It just occurred to me watching this video that Kirsty MacColl looks a lot like Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched. She's beautiful and greatly missed.

  • @WATP1872
    @WATP1872 Місяць тому +3

    Has every sound an early 90s sound engineer could put in a song....still a great tune.

  • @djsoomo
    @djsoomo Рік тому +4

    Awesome track, one of her best, still sounds fresh!

  • @leejones8582
    @leejones8582 Рік тому +5

    Nothing has changed RIP Kirsty

  • @rockys201
    @rockys201 6 місяців тому +6

    I remember first watching this on a segment of kids tv show called Ghost Train back in 1991. I was only 7 years old at the time, great memories

  • @amneziaday
    @amneziaday 7 місяців тому +5

    love it classic rip kirsty i love you

  • @clarencejeyofficial
    @clarencejeyofficial 10 місяців тому +19

    Another genius Steve Lillywhite production. They were married at one point. Sad how her life ended and there was no accountability.

  • @PJChgo1
    @PJChgo1 8 місяців тому +17

    "From the sharks in the penthouse, to the rats in the basement.....it's not that far."
    Believe me, I know.....

  • @cinemar
    @cinemar 5 місяців тому +13

    Johnny Marr should've been playing guitar in this clip because that's who we're listening to.

  • @larryenglish8900
    @larryenglish8900 9 місяців тому +4

    good one kirsty!

  • @cuddlepaws4423
    @cuddlepaws4423 4 місяці тому +6

    Brilliant song !!!!!!!! Relevant then and now. The rapping at the end is excellent, sums up things so well, without any gangsta BS.

  • @JLF74uk05
    @JLF74uk05 3 місяці тому +5

    If you've got a long way to go... remember this song" it's not that far "

  • @arejay00
    @arejay00 11 місяців тому +8

    Catchy. Chorus = "Shoplifters of the world unite" by The Smiths. Johnny Marr involved in this by any chance ?

    • @clarencejeyofficial
      @clarencejeyofficial 10 місяців тому +8

      Good call!! Close on the melody. Yes Johnny Marr has this melody written and has given it to Kirsty to pen the lyrics. This was produced by genius Steve Lillywhite, her husband at the time.

  • @ScottWDoyle
    @ScottWDoyle Місяць тому +3

    Some of the production is dated. But the gentle soul of Kirsty's vocals and the bite of Johnny Marr's guitar are both timeless.

    • @jeff8ball
      @jeff8ball 15 днів тому +1

      Elliot Randall also is credited on guitar. (Steely Dan-Reelin in the years) Great track.

  • @jorgetorressolano7921
    @jorgetorressolano7921 4 дні тому +1

    Grand Band

  • @JLF74uk05
    @JLF74uk05 3 місяці тому +2

    Heard it this week... Been in my head ever since. Probably didn't appreciate it first time around

  • @Edgar-l3i4k
    @Edgar-l3i4k Місяць тому +1

    Me Encanta este Trak Grande Kirsty.

  • @ResidentBeagle
    @ResidentBeagle 6 місяців тому +3

    I love this tune!!

  • @davonjohnson6117
    @davonjohnson6117 15 днів тому +3

    So sad just google Kirsty and finding out that she pass away over 24 years ago, Just watch the video on 120 minutes. I like the song and the singer. I thought she was in Talking Heads...RIP Kirsty

  • @simonparry5958
    @simonparry5958 6 місяців тому +5

    Just got 8 disc full retrospective does Kirsty proud

  • @denisespencer6550
    @denisespencer6550 11 місяців тому +2

    Check out the album

  • @brindacockburn4033
    @brindacockburn4033 Місяць тому +4

    Written by the great Johnny Marr.

  • @ecastill0s.366
    @ecastill0s.366 4 місяці тому +2

    Esta canción tiene un sonido noventero increíblemente nostálgico... a pesar de no ser nostálgica, pero es una mini maquina del tiempo.
    This song has an incredibly nostalgic 90s sound... even though it's not nostalgic, but it's a mini time machine.

  • @BillODriscoll-jo2ve
    @BillODriscoll-jo2ve Рік тому +1

    I loved this song when I first heard it, and when it was released in 1991
    I dont know what month in '91 it was released
    If my memory serves me it was released in I'd say July or August '91 or maybe later on again in the year

  • @jammadamma
    @jammadamma 2 дні тому

    Electric Landlady is the best album title ever.

  • @Captain_Rhodes
    @Captain_Rhodes 5 місяців тому +10

    Its a fine line between cringe and getting away with it with a song like this but she definitely gets away with it.

  • @jensbaranek8322
    @jensbaranek8322 5 місяців тому

    Coool!

  • @SirAntoniousBlock
    @SirAntoniousBlock 2 місяці тому +3

    _"From an up town apartment to a knife on the A-Train it's not that far._

  • @oliverama3302
    @oliverama3302 Рік тому +3

    I’m in the UK but how about the US version.

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 Рік тому +1

      Please don't tell me they crapped it just to fly it over there?! Americans! Always having to change everything for them jerks. All for nothing anyway. They never change their own crap when they force it on us.

    • @shannonbluggenheimer5467
      @shannonbluggenheimer5467 Рік тому +1

      @@kyachdistent1301 somebody's triggered

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 11 місяців тому +1

      @@shannonbluggenheimer5467 Well if they WILL do it. Someone has to say it!

    • @danieldaniels7571
      @danieldaniels7571 7 місяців тому +1

      @@kyachdistent1301this is exactly how I remember the US radio single that my program director tossed into the trash sounded. So glad I snagged that one.

  • @josephubil
    @josephubil 4 місяці тому

    😎🙏❤️

  • @ThomasFeerick-mi4uz
    @ThomasFeerick-mi4uz 6 місяців тому

    Who is guy in video?

    • @hoibsh21
      @hoibsh21 5 місяців тому +4

      I can show you if you'd like to.

    • @cuddlepaws4423
      @cuddlepaws4423 4 місяці тому +1

      @@hoibsh21 Good one ............

    • @WITCHERY-uc8uz
      @WITCHERY-uc8uz Місяць тому +1

      Would you like to see some more?

  • @reytxatan8077
    @reytxatan8077 4 місяці тому +1

    horrible music since i heard it for the first time