On April 13 2020 my father passed away due to a massive heart attack. This was one of his favorite song tht we would listen to and sing on long rides in his truck. Now he is a million miles away, i know you're still looking out for me dad. You'll always be my best friend. Miss ya man
I was 14 as well. The scene in Valley Girl when this song plays, Randy and Julie (and sidekicks) have taken some shots at each other’s styles, but there’s still much drawing them together naturally, and the scene frames their silhouettes talking and falling for each other anyway. It’s just a little inexpensive film, but got some parts so right that it’s magic.
I agree. I saw them open for Elvis Costello. It was the first time I had heard/seen the Plimsouls and they were the band that I remember from that concert, not Elvis Costello (who was great, BTW).
I agree, they should have been huge. I was a bouncer at a bunch of clubs around LA in the 80's. My very first night was a club that had The Plimsouls playing that night. I still remember them fondly because of that. Another band that should have been bigger than they were was "X". I bounced for quite a few of their shows, but then they just kinda disappeared. Glad to see them back together and touring again.
I was lucky enough to go to school with and know some of the Plimsouls. None of you have any idea how absolutely wonderful the Pahoa family is. We were all so proud of them, and we still are!
This song is like tripendicular, YA KNOW? Seriously the 80s were the BEST TIME to be in high school. Valley Girl is one of my favorite soundtracks EVER. Highly recommend it!
THIS IS MUSIC. TAKE NOTE. Not sampled, not copied by mindless punks with autotunes . Not the same recycled crap. Glad I’m 60 and heard all the best music
@Robaatosensei Oh, you're "edgy." Ironic quotes are fun! Especially when they actually apply. (A comment, no matter how hypberbolic you find it - also ironic given your penchant for sarcastic overreaction - nonetheless remains a comment)
I remember watching Valley Girl (Which is Nicolas Cage best performance by far) and hearing this song just summed up the 80's for me. MTV was very watchable and the VJ's knowledgeable...then sadly our youth died.
This takes me back to my freshman year at UCLA. They came to campus for a lunch time concert and we were all wondering "Who are these guys?" They killed it on stage.
A meaning of this song came to me today ... "A million miles away" means the lead singer is wrestling, not always successfully, with depression and alienation. "Holding on to the hands of the past, and you" ... he wants to reconnect with the friends that make up "the crazy world." He's "drifting to a different place ... falling off the edge" in that more often than not, he's been imagining the world to be, if not better without him in it, not appreciably worse either. He's fighting against this feeling with everything in him, but he can't see any compelling reason keeping him here. At first, the line "And there's nothing left to bring me back today" is a quiet resignation; thirty seconds before the end, however, the weight of realization slams into him. His previously flat tone becomes fearful and desperate as he pleads with God, the Universe, what have you, "Bring me back today!", knowing that if he's not brought back right that second, he never will be. Heavy, heavy stuff ... But a damn good piece of music.
Only peaked at #82 forty years ago, August 1983. Why it didn’t make the top 10 that year really boggles the mind. Top 40 radio was so open to the New Wave genre in 1983. One of my top 5 songs of the entire decade.
.....suspect for WHATever reason, DIDN'T get GOOD distribution (believe it was on Geffen?) - I do still have the single with picture sleeve, though.....
Yes KROQ! Raymond and the Blade on the way to school in the morning. KROQ, MV3, MTV & cassette tapes after school. I could never understand why my dad always wanted to listen to '50's music, makes total sense now.
ONE of the best songs from the 1980's ..!! GOOD MUSIC IS ALWAYS ...TIMELESS. Such an underrated band; they deserved more recognition. Just watched the new Valley Girl movie / musical; with Josh Whitehouse. Glad they played this song; as they did in the original "Valley Girl" movie. I still have good memories of driving to west hollywood with friends and dancing on friday nights ..!! what a blast; those days were. Dancing at the Odessey and other places in L.A.
Seeing that "Flashdance" billboard at the beginning of the video totally reminded me of 1983. In the fall of '83, I was a senior in high school and had a '66 Mustang that had a Pioneer (or was it Alpine?) car stereo into along with Jensen Triaxial 6x9 speakers, (remember those! ) and I would put the old Maxell XLII in (that I made from a record on my big brother's Nakamichi tape deck) and cranked this song up along with the rest of the soundtrack from "Valley Girl". Then "Repo Man" came out and I ended up cranking the shit out of that soundtrack too!
Holy shit. I too jam out to the soundtrack of valley girl AND repo man!! I think Repo Man has one of the best soundtracks of all time just because of the emphasis on punk it shouted.
To my sister Carmen my only sister my baby sister we had a hard childhood as we grew older we could talk for hours on the phone she moved to Mesa, Arizona she loved it there i would visit her and she would still visit Texas. We would talk about movies and music and about sports she loved her Cowboys. I didn't know our phone calls on Saturday in December 2023 would be our last she suddenly passed away on December 2023 to say the least i am 💔. I would sing songs to her and this was the last song i sang to her...She would end our phone calls with I love you sis Mwah😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 Love you Carmen😢😢😢
The interplay of the guitars in this song is so freakin' incredible! The Rick and the Strat - their different sounds - and the simple, yet killer phat lead, and how it intersects with the return of the lyrics - this is compositional genius!
Saw them at a Long Beach house party over 30 years ago. I remember their setup. Love the first shots of them grabbing their instruments. Those were crazy days for me... Hollywood on a wim. all nighters doing anything available... I am still alive to testify!
I Worked Security at KROQ Los Angeles 1987 to 1989 Best Job Met So Many Bands and went to Over 500 Concerts. I Would Sunday Nights Go Up and Visit The Swedish Eagle get on the Air Richard Blade, Poor Man. Doc on The Rock Rodney Bingheimmer Jed the Fish Great Memories. Screaming Scott Mason RIP
Peter Case is a true American story teller and a great soul. We had the honor of meeting and dining with him before an Atlanta performance, years ago. He LIVES the songs he writes and inspires my songs today. Thanks for the music & memories, Pete! Rock on!
I’ve Seen Peter Case Play Live 7 Times At Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza In Columbus Ohio & He’s Totally Awesome! I Have His Hand Written Lyrics For A Million Miles Away Framed On My Home Office Man Cave Wall! Love The Plimsouls!🥁🎸🎤❤️
Back around 1989 my brother in law and I started doing the city bar scene in Fell's Point Baltimore (when it was safer to do so) and we started getting into the music of a local band called "The Sway" who played alternative music covers along with this song spot on cue and we would go ape-sh*t screaming when the guitar player covered the solo which always kept the band smiling and other fans losing it, later after finding out who the original artist was I went right out and bought the Plimsouls CD as well as many other groups that they covered, the band later broke up sometime in the '90s and went their separate ways, but I still cherish those memories as an old timer nearing 72 soon. 😊
Best electric 12-string Rickenbacher sound since Roger McGuinn. :) R.E.M. may have sold a ton more records in the mid-1980s with the same approach, but that doesn't make this song any less significant.
drummer1965usa is it a 12 string? I can't tell for sure but I thought it looks like a Rick 6 and it's jangly but I don't really hear that chimey octave sound. Still great.
Friday night, I'd just got back I had my eyes shut and dreaming about the past I thought about you while the radio played I should have got loaded, some reason I stayed I started drifting to a different place I realized I was falling off the face of the world And there was nothing left to bring me back I'm a million miles away A million miles away I'm just a million miles away And there's nothing left to bring me back today Took a ride, I went downtown The streets were empty, there was no one around To place that we used to know Been all the places that we used to go I'm at the wrong end of your looking glass Just trying to hold on to the hands of the past and you And there was nothing left to bring me back I was a million miles away A million miles away I'm just a million miles away And there's nothing to bring me back today Bring me back today, bring me back today I started drifting to a different place I realized, falling off the face of the world And there was nothing left to bring me back I was a million miles away I'm a million miles away I'm a million miles away And there's nothing left to bring me back today Bring me back today, bring me back today Bring me back today
My opinion, this is the best new wave song. It’s really relatively complex. Great vocals and great chord structure. Just an incredible song and a hook. That is just gold. The chorus.
A Million Miles Away, Johnny Are You Queer? The Fanatic, Girls Like Me, Electric Avenue, Love My Way, Who Can It Be Now? Jukebox, I Melt With You, She Talks In Stereo.. And of course, Eyes Of A Stranger.. Good 80's mixture, "Like totally.. Fer sur".
I remember cruising TELEGRAPH RD. in Dearborn Heights Michigan in my 1972 Mustang Mach 1 and hearing this tune for the first time....funny how you remember things from music.
I'm a 83 grad also. In fact I was working at a movie theater at this time. We had this movie Fast Times Risky Business Flash dance Sixteen Candles and tons more. I wouldn't give up those years working there for anything. 👋
Saw them at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach last. Always loved them. Had drinks with Doug Feiger of Knack fame. He had just opened for them with his new band Taking Chances.
Joey Kulkin They could try, but fail miserably. And probably modernize it....like that flop of Footloose, Fame, Friday the 13th and all the ther 80s teen remakes....
12 yrs ago my 21 yr marriage was done, over with! I was with a few buddies at a bar and I saw my wife with another man and THIS song was being played. Sorta bitter sweet moment where a part of my heart died on that night.
After kicking around the LA/SOCal area since 1978, 1983 was finally gonna be The Plimsouls breakthrough year: Appearing in the movie Valley Girl & on the soundtrack, national release of their second album...But by 1984, they had broken up. Thankfully, their songs are eternal....
I used to produce and engineer punk/power pop and this is the closest thing to a perfect rock song there is. I only got to see them once, when they backed up the LA based band I was F.O.H for at the time.
I had graduated Wilson high school in Long Beach California 1981. This has always been one of my favorite songs and super cool band amazing that I have never seen this video ever before. I guess this was on MTV back in the day. I didn’t watch it as long every day like some of my friends haha. Soon we’ll be rockin the ‘80s in our 80s!
Boy, the times really sucked back then. Here's a group that when they were in the studio finishing this song they must have known they recorded one of the greatest pop songs ever crafted. A spectacular piece of music. So they finish it, listen to the playback, are happy as hell, pat each other on the backs over such a brilliant song. And then what? Back then a song like this was relegated to two or three new wave stations across America. No chance of the brilliant tune ever reaching the masses' ears. Had The Beatles released this song, the song would have been LEGENDARY! Plimsouls were born twenty years too late. Such great work unheard and unappreciated.
On April 13 2020 my father passed away due to a massive heart attack. This was one of his favorite song tht we would listen to and sing on long rides in his truck. Now he is a million miles away, i know you're still looking out for me dad. You'll always be my best friend. Miss ya man
Sorry for your loss bro.
I'm sorry for your loss ☹️ hugs to you.
:(
Sorry for your loss hun, he is always with you, I too LOVE this song
Extraordinary
This is a 40 year old song now. It definitely stands the test of time. Its still great. Never tire of it.
I was 14 in 1983.
21yo Here! 😉👍❤
I was 18
LOL. I was in my early 20's...
God, I feel old.
I was 14 as well. The scene in Valley Girl when this song plays, Randy and Julie (and sidekicks) have taken some shots at each other’s styles, but there’s still much drawing them together naturally, and the scene frames their silhouettes talking and falling for each other anyway. It’s just a little inexpensive film, but got some parts so right that it’s magic.
@@abbeykroeter Right! It's a Cult Classic! 😉👍
Sitting here watching _Valley Girl_ and this song just popped up and grabbed me. Gawd I miss the 80s.
Nick Cage at his finest
@@bradlafferty6076 "Is this movie in 3D?"
"No..... but your *face* is!"
WTF?!? Such a great movie!
Great movie. Love the scenes in the club with the Plimsouls playing.
Nicholas Cage drunk af.
I miss them every single day
Aren't we all still this young and beautiful?
yes
Yes
Oh yeah! I'm rocking!
We’re trying
If you're beautiful on the inside, you're beautiful forever. Cheers!
A classic example of just how good the 80's music was.
Exactly! But I can't help but thinking these guys were somehow influenced by the Byrds, because this song reminds me of Eight Miles High.
@@truthseeker2321 they were part of an LA 80's movement that was called the paisley underground
@@stewartwilbanks4294 Ok, I forgot about that. Thanks.
@@truthseeker2321 some really good bands came out of that movement.
Yes it was!! That and the 70’s!!
IMHO, The Plimsouls were a band that should've been HUGE
Steve Labuski .. EVERYWHERE At Once was an AWESOME album. I would highly recommend it. Especially if you can find it on Vinyl... GREAT BAND!!
I agree. I saw them open for Elvis Costello. It was the first time I had heard/seen the Plimsouls and they were the band that I remember from that concert, not Elvis Costello (who was great, BTW).
I Agree..
I agree, they should have been huge. I was a bouncer at a bunch of clubs around LA in the 80's. My very first night was a club that had The Plimsouls playing that night. I still remember them fondly because of that. Another band that should have been bigger than they were was "X". I bounced for quite a few of their shows, but then they just kinda disappeared. Glad to see them back together and touring again.
#100 in the like department!! i first saw them from the movie VALLEY GIRL!!
If you missed the 80's you missed the greatest decade.
If you can remember the 80s you weren’t there 😂
I lived through the 80's 70's 60's and remember all of the music.
Sorry, when it comes to music, 60's, 70's and early 90's were the greatest decades for music. Unless you think hair bands were the greatest.
I'm a black man for Detroit and I like this song.
I’m a black man from New York and I like this song. 😂
You have good taste
I’m a Black man from New Jersey and I also like this song.
Detroit has contributed a lot to the history of Rock (and, of course, Soul) music over several decades now
Im White👀 but I got Black friends in Detroit😉
This did get decent radio play there at one time. I share your opinion.
I was lucky enough to go to school with and know some of the Plimsouls. None of you have any idea how absolutely wonderful the Pahoa family is. We were all so proud of them, and we still are!
This song is like tripendicular, YA KNOW? Seriously the 80s were the BEST TIME to be in high school. Valley Girl is one of my favorite soundtracks EVER. Highly recommend it!
ThankYou🙏From the bottom of my💜For using the word"TRI-PEN-DI-CU-LAR!"🔮🤣
The '80s were the best time, even for people that weren't in high-school!
Valley Girl is probably the best soundtrack of all time !!!!!!!!!
Fer sure....,
"Is this movie in 3D?" "No, but your face is." I don't know why that's one of my favorite lines.
THIS IS MUSIC. TAKE NOTE. Not sampled, not copied by mindless punks with autotunes . Not the same recycled crap. Glad I’m 60 and heard all the best music
Ok, boomer
@@PaulLamens Did you write that one?
Just think. There were some who were 60 then who didn't think this music, was real music.
Nah that's music too. it's just a question of what *you* like. no need to worry about what other folks enjoy.
@@default7950 - no, he sampled it from someone else. it's part of this generation's DNA.
I loved growing up in the 80's those were the BEST times!!!
More like Spitefulmichael........ some people see a shrink for that shit 😉
I would love to go back to the 80s again they were some great times I am 51 years old graduated 1983, spent 22 years in the Navy Retired Senior Chief.
cograds&!!
Moron!
you got that right :)
One of the greatest rock 'n' roll singles of all time. It's just that simple.
agreed, i remember when it came out and still love it just as much today
This 'comment' is one of the most ridiculous instances of overwrought, ill-considered hyperbole of all time. It's just that simple.
@Robaatosensei Oh, you're "edgy."
Ironic quotes are fun! Especially when they actually apply. (A comment, no matter how hypberbolic you find it - also ironic given your penchant for sarcastic overreaction - nonetheless remains a comment)
Getting old sucks, but at least we'll have great music when we go down with the ship.
I was a metalhead in the 80's, but I always loved this song - it just hits you in the heart.
Ditto 🤘
I was a total punk in the 80's and it was the same for me. Some music just cuts across genres and preferences.
A great cross over song that everyone could get into... It is surprising it didn't sell more than it did...
Same.
Me too
I remember watching Valley Girl (Which is Nicolas Cage best performance by far) and hearing this song just summed up the 80's for me. MTV was very watchable and the VJ's knowledgeable...then sadly our youth died.
fuck yeah 1983....
What a sad thing to see our youth go a million miles away.
From 20 to 55 in the Blink of an Eye...
@@demolished1000 Me too! turned 55 last week, shit, TIME really does fly by....
😞😩😭
Valley girl! Better than pretty in pink or Sixteen candles. Great high school movie
David Coleman Yes!
Um, no.
@@bothefallen ikr? I like them all, but I think Sixteen Candles trumps all.
@@rebeccaperkins2605 I agree!
Completely agree! Love that movie and am so old we saw it in the theater. "it's like Sushi, you know? fer shure"
80s videos sure had a lot more roles for iguanas than in modern times.
did mexican radio have one?
@@jimmyeagle5545 I believe it was on the spit being barbecued! LOL But a later WoV song, Far Side of Crazy, had a two-toned one in it.
Nice. 😁😁😁
This takes me back to my freshman year at UCLA. They came to campus for a lunch time concert and we were all wondering "Who are these guys?" They killed it on stage.
LUCKY. LUCKY PEOPLE. You a d them FRED 8m BRAINTREE
I loved those lunchtime concerts. What year was this?
I was a freshman in high school when they played in our basketball gym.
One of the greatest songs to ever play on KROQ.
I miss the old KROQ with Richard Blade.
Equal Opportunity War Criminal Me too.
Equal Opportunity War Criminal I know !!!!!!!!
Wow kroq isn't that California! !?
Good times! 91X 1983
A meaning of this song came to me today ...
"A million miles away" means the lead singer is wrestling, not always successfully, with depression and alienation.
"Holding on to the hands of the past, and you" ... he wants to reconnect with the friends that make up "the crazy world."
He's "drifting to a different place ... falling off the edge" in that more often than not, he's been imagining the world to be, if not better without him in it, not appreciably worse either. He's fighting against this feeling with everything in him, but he can't see any compelling reason keeping him here.
At first, the line "And there's nothing left to bring me back today" is a quiet resignation; thirty seconds before the end, however, the weight of realization slams into him. His previously flat tone becomes fearful and desperate as he pleads with God, the Universe, what have you, "Bring me back today!", knowing that if he's not brought back right that second, he never will be.
Heavy, heavy stuff ... But a damn good piece of music.
You ever heard of Marilyn Chambers or Linda Lovelace? 😂
How these guys didn't make it big is beyond me. Great band, great music!!
They were big in LA. But ya...
They were big in LA. But ya...
no follow up could be a reason
they where 999,999, 999 away.
They broke up in 1984. Peter Case, the lead singer, went on to have a moderately successful solo career which garnered him some Grammy nominations.
Only peaked at #82 forty years ago, August 1983. Why it didn’t make the top 10 that year really boggles the mind. Top 40 radio was so open to the New Wave genre in 1983. One of my top 5 songs of the entire decade.
.....suspect for WHATever reason, DIDN'T get GOOD distribution (believe it was on Geffen?) - I do still have the single with picture sleeve, though.....
Agree. One of my all time faves!
#11 in May 1982
Kroq 106.7 The roq of the 80's.
Who's with me?
💓
And I thought that I was the only one. Yeah K.R.O.Q. out of Pasadena I believe.
Yup! I still listen to KROQ in L.A. even now... Their #2 satellite station still plays the 80's stuff, can't get enough of it ;)
Magic 94 was ours
Yes KROQ! Raymond and the Blade on the way to school in the morning. KROQ, MV3, MTV & cassette tapes after school.
I could never understand why my dad always wanted to listen to '50's music, makes total sense now.
This may be my favorite song of all time. It can make me instantaneously happy no matter what crap I’m going through.
i agree... I feel the same way
👊🏼
Nothing like the sound of a Rickenbacker guitar!
Dear Lord! That seemed like yesterday at 63 years old. How???😊
That chick Julie.... she's truly dazzling.
Fa'sure😍
I'd pay top dollar to get her in bed for an hour.
Best line in the movie
Oh, yeah!😀
SID.......
ONE of the best songs from the 1980's ..!! GOOD MUSIC IS ALWAYS ...TIMELESS. Such an underrated band; they deserved more recognition. Just watched the new Valley Girl movie / musical; with Josh Whitehouse. Glad they played this song; as they did in the original "Valley Girl" movie. I still have good memories of driving to west hollywood with friends and dancing on friday nights ..!! what a blast; those days were. Dancing at the Odessey and other places in L.A.
went dancing at various underground in la,,, suburbs,,,
a great time for life,,,
Yeah the Oddysey!! Woah, so many memories from The Valley and Hollywood! I was 21 then!
Seeing that "Flashdance" billboard at the beginning of the video totally reminded me of 1983. In the fall of '83, I was a senior in high school and had a '66 Mustang that had a Pioneer (or was it Alpine?) car stereo into along with Jensen Triaxial 6x9 speakers, (remember those! ) and I would put the old Maxell XLII in (that I made from a record on my big brother's Nakamichi tape deck) and cranked this song up along with the rest of the soundtrack from "Valley Girl". Then "Repo Man" came out and I ended up cranking the shit out of that soundtrack too!
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
Holy shit. I too jam out to the soundtrack of valley girl AND repo man!! I think Repo Man has one of the best soundtracks of all time just because of the emphasis on punk it shouted.
Repo Man was a much better soundtrack.
I was a freshman in High school. Loved Repo man
Jensen!
one of the greatest songs ever...
Nicholas Cage in Valley Girl: I Love this Song!
Yes Sir !
We've forgotten more great music than young people will ever know.
Exactly. As I like to say "I am not old your music is bad!"
Absolutely correct. I cant listen to the radio these days at all !
@@owenjackman426 awesome !
isnt that the truth
Best comment of utube music
Love Valley Girl . . . I think it is the quintessential 80s film . . . and the soundtrack . . . Second to none!
+Ch'iidii I can agree with that .... Both great movies!
Damn, I can’t believe I found this gem after 34 years.
Welp I am 13 and heard this at like 8
To my sister Carmen my only sister my baby sister we had a hard childhood as we grew older we could talk for hours on the phone she moved to Mesa, Arizona she loved it there i would visit her and she would still visit Texas. We would talk about movies and music and about sports she loved her Cowboys. I didn't know our phone calls on Saturday in December 2023 would be our last she suddenly passed away on December 2023 to say the least i am 💔. I would sing songs to her and this was the last song i sang to her...She would end our phone calls with I love you sis Mwah😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 Love you Carmen😢😢😢
The interplay of the guitars in this song is so freakin' incredible! The Rick and the Strat - their different sounds - and the simple, yet killer phat lead, and how it intersects with the return of the lyrics - this is compositional genius!
Saw them at a Long Beach house party over 30 years ago. I remember their setup. Love the first shots of them grabbing their instruments. Those were crazy days for me... Hollywood on a wim. all nighters doing anything available... I am still alive to testify!
I might have been there
Bru! I was at that house party!!!
Kook
They're from Paramount so that makes sense that they'd be at a party next door in long beach
such an awesome song
It feels like my youth is a million miles away. I miss it
I Worked Security at KROQ
Los Angeles 1987 to 1989
Best Job
Met So Many Bands and went to Over 500 Concerts.
I Would Sunday Nights Go Up and Visit The Swedish Eagle get on the Air
Richard Blade, Poor Man.
Doc on The Rock
Rodney Bingheimmer
Jed the Fish
Great Memories.
Screaming Scott Mason RIP
John-Paul Nagel That must've been the best, good times
Did you ever notice that the longer Richard Blade stayed in the States, the thicker his British accent got? Should have been the other way around.
Still one of the best songs of the 80s
"Is this movie in 3D?"
"No, but your face is."
Seriously the best line of the move.
Oh damn!!! That made my day ya know like a val girl could.
Lol! Great line!!
"If they attack the car, save the radio."
I'm SO Sure!!!!
Peter Case is a true American story teller and a great soul. We had the honor of meeting and dining with him before an Atlanta performance, years ago. He LIVES the songs he writes and inspires my songs today. Thanks for the music & memories, Pete! Rock on!
A timeless classic that never gets the channel changed when this song is playing!
I’ve Seen Peter Case Play Live 7 Times At Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza In Columbus Ohio & He’s Totally Awesome! I Have His Hand Written Lyrics For A Million Miles Away Framed On My Home Office Man Cave Wall! Love The Plimsouls!🥁🎸🎤❤️
Awesome! Love that Place.
Timeless. Wish we could hit 'Reset' and go back to this more carefree time.
Yep.
One of the all time classics that defines the 80's forever! One of my favorite songs of all time.
Revival of the stratocaster guitar sound of the 60s.
This song, this era, feels a million miles away.
Back around 1989 my brother in law and I started doing the city bar scene in Fell's Point Baltimore (when it was safer to do so) and we started getting into the music of a local band called "The Sway" who played alternative music covers along with this song spot on cue and we would go ape-sh*t screaming when the guitar player covered the solo which always kept the band smiling and other fans losing it, later after finding out who the original artist was I went right out and bought the Plimsouls CD as well as many other groups that they covered, the band later broke up sometime in the '90s and went their separate ways, but I still cherish those memories as an old timer nearing 72 soon. 😊
Best electric 12-string Rickenbacher sound since Roger McGuinn. :) R.E.M. may have sold a ton more records in the mid-1980s with the same approach, but that doesn't make this song any less significant.
drummer1965usa is it a 12 string? I can't tell for sure but I thought it looks like a Rick 6 and it's jangly but I don't really hear that chimey octave sound. Still great.
These guy's should have been bigger, or at least this album should have been
Published on Jul 14, 2007
Music video by The Pilmsouls performing Million Miles Away
(C) 1983 Geffon Records Inc
Derek we shared 25 years together Everytime I hear this song I still cry you're so very missed RIP Derek Guy Suinn 1964- 2014
gah ... this made me so sad. I wish you well Lisa
I’m crying right now😢
"That techno pop you listen to is gutless!" -Randy
The Cars and the Plimsouls are my top two late 70s, early 80s NW bands. Great era in music.
1983....one of the best years for music in my lifetime!! I agree, this should have way more views!
A great song. Nobody writes songs with hooks like this anymore.
Rolled up checkerboard headband, jet black Wayfarer's, Yamaha FJ1100 and Hwy 1...the fragrance of her hair when she said yes...a million miles away.
Most perfect Power Pop song ever.
Yeah, I'm 45, and just ran into my high school sweethealrt this AM. All of this shit makes my heart hurt. All that shit can come back in a flash.
Thank you
I thought I was the only one.
Peace Bro
It gets better.
I know the feeling....I still get sad and cry....
Love it when those guitar cords hit.
Beautiful song, with haunted melodies and upbeat rythm, a strained yet beautiful juxoposition, and an very appro-video- a real triumph!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still love this shit. Brings back the best memories of the best decade.
Friday night, I'd just got back
I had my eyes shut and dreaming about the past
I thought about you while the radio played
I should have got loaded, some reason I stayed
I started drifting to a different place
I realized I was falling off the face of the world
And there was nothing left to bring me back
I'm a million miles away
A million miles away
I'm just a million miles away
And there's nothing left to bring me back today
Took a ride, I went downtown
The streets were empty, there was no one around
To place that we used to know
Been all the places that we used to go
I'm at the wrong end of your looking glass
Just trying to hold on to the hands of the past and you
And there was nothing left to bring me back
I was a million miles away
A million miles away
I'm just a million miles away
And there's nothing to bring me back today
Bring me back today, bring me back today
I started drifting to a different place
I realized, falling off the face of the world
And there was nothing left to bring me back
I was a million miles away
I'm a million miles away
I'm a million miles away
And there's nothing left to bring me back today
Bring me back today, bring me back today
Bring me back today
Thank You 🙏🏻
How this song wasn't a massive hit single is beyond me.
This song rules and so does VALLEY GIRL!
phunkydrmmr666 I watched it last night!
Watchn it now, love it!
Hell yes!!!!!
i love that movie... This song was _perfect_ in it
the feels for reals
The drums are so good in this song. Total 80's punk vibe.
My opinion, this is the best new wave song. It’s really relatively complex. Great vocals and great chord structure. Just an incredible song and a hook. That is just gold. The chorus.
This is the music i grew up on. They were before REM and Modern English
The good old days
A Million Miles Away, Johnny Are You Queer? The Fanatic, Girls Like Me, Electric Avenue, Love My Way, Who Can It Be Now? Jukebox, I Melt With You, She Talks In Stereo.. And of course, Eyes Of A Stranger.. Good 80's mixture, "Like totally.. Fer sur".
I La La La Love You by Pat Travers
I remember cruising TELEGRAPH RD. in Dearborn Heights Michigan in my 1972 Mustang Mach 1 and hearing this tune for the first time....funny how you remember things from music.
❤❤❤ 41 years old and still kicks ass!!!!
Such an underrated band.
Why do all the underrated bands and/or solo artists have all the good music? That’s what I would like to know.
I LOVE that when he steps off of the bus, the sign behind him says" We're everywhere at once"!!
Comment or "like" if you understand.
Name of there album this song debuted on
if you're a million miles away, i guess you're everywhere at once. love has no bounds
@@frankmessina6132 I LOVE YOUR COMMENT ❤❤❤💯🤙
'Valley Girl' brought me here 👌❤🍻
Valley Girl is an awesome movie! As a 83 grad., God I love the era music!
I'm a 83 grad also. In fact I was working at a movie theater at this time. We had this movie Fast Times Risky Business Flash dance Sixteen Candles and tons more. I wouldn't give up those years working there for anything. 👋
1989 grad it's cool
Go gos
Saw them at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach last. Always loved them. Had drinks with Doug Feiger of Knack fame. He had just opened for them with his new band Taking Chances.
EVERY Rock fan has this song amongst their "favorite" collection. Perfection in every way!
I MUST watch #ValleyGirl now. I absolutely LOVE this song!
They couldn't make a movie like that again if they tried.
Joey Kulkin They could try, but fail miserably. And probably modernize it....like that flop of Footloose, Fame, Friday the 13th and all the ther 80s teen remakes....
Alyx Louise Friday the 13th was a piece of junk to begin with imo. It's essentially a carbon copy of Halloween with added blood and guts.
Theeeee greatest movie w killer tunes!
Alyx Louise , Awesome Movie, Great Soundtrack, Beautiful Time in Life..!!
I can't even say how much I love this song - even 40 years on.
12 yrs ago my 21 yr marriage was done, over with! I was with a few buddies at a bar and I saw my wife with another man and THIS song was being played. Sorta bitter sweet moment where a part of my heart died on that night.
I dedicate this to beautiful bar maid Amber who asked me who this band was when i played it on the juke box.i miss you little girl.r.i.p.
I grew up in the 80s and this song still gets me.....
Kind of like the early Church records mixed with the Replacements. This is a shining pop nugget. More people should know about this.
Still liking this tune 30 years later. That's the sign of Quality Music.
After kicking around the LA/SOCal area since 1978, 1983 was finally gonna be The Plimsouls breakthrough year: Appearing in the movie Valley Girl & on the soundtrack, national release of their second album...But by 1984, they had broken up. Thankfully, their songs are eternal....
The true value of a song is its longevity, and this is it!
Now this is punk music!
This is really good music, I recorded this on cassette in the 80's , still sounds great. Good songs are gone forever after 2000.
Quite possibly the single best written rock song of the entire decade!
Valley Girl, one of the best movies ever
can't believe Valley Girl was so long ago. This song just seems to live forever...almost like new everytime I hear it.
My entire teenage years began in 1980 & this song/video ** IS ** the 80's
One of my very favorite 80's songs.
I freaking love this song!
I used to produce and engineer punk/power pop and this is the closest thing to a perfect rock song there is. I only got to see them once, when they backed up the LA based band I was F.O.H for at the time.
I had graduated Wilson high school in Long Beach California 1981. This has always been one of my favorite songs and super cool band amazing that I have never seen this video ever before. I guess this was on MTV back in the day. I didn’t watch it as long every day like some of my friends haha. Soon we’ll be rockin the ‘80s in our 80s!
The 80s in our 80s!
Boy, the times really sucked back then. Here's a group that when they were in the studio finishing this song they must have known they recorded one of the greatest pop songs ever crafted. A spectacular piece of music. So they finish it, listen to the playback, are happy as hell, pat each other on the backs over such a brilliant song. And then what? Back then a song like this was relegated to two or three new wave stations across America. No chance of the brilliant tune ever reaching the masses' ears. Had The Beatles released this song, the song would have been LEGENDARY! Plimsouls were born twenty years too late. Such great work unheard and unappreciated.
That pretty much sums up all the great bands of the 80s. Some persevered into the 90s and then got recognition, others simply faded away.
Valley Girls 🎥 brought me here .
Love that movie 🍿 watching it now ⛱️