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.
@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)
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!
I have no idea what this video is about but it's a really good video as well as the song. First saw this video when it came out some 40 plus years ago and glad UA-cam has it so I can watch over and over again.
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
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!
I know Dave. Him & Louie used to work at my brother in law & sisters record store in Cerritos, Ca. in 1982 or so. He worked at the Cerritos store & Louie used to work at the Anaheim store. The stores were called Best Records & that was some of the best times of my life. We had quite a few known musicians go in that store & do in store appearances which you probably already know about, but yeah, Dave was always really cool to me. Those were the best times 🙏
@@SCrepresent How great that you had those experiences! Being from Paramount, we always went to Wenzel’s in Downey. They had a little recording booth in there, and as long as you paid, anybody could use it. Quite a few famous bands, or at least local bands, made demos in there at the time. Later, Licorice Pizza opened in Downey, but further away. Wenzel’s eventually opened a branch in Hollydale, but they finally sold it to Middle Earth. Once they left, it has never been a record store again to my knowledge. But then, I’ve lived in Mexico for nearly 45 years now. Did you ever go dancing at Golden West in Norwalk in the ‘70s?
@MexicoDigDoctor Oh my, I didn't know that 😔 Life is just too short. I'm 60 now & no I never went to the Golden West Ballroom,wasnt old enough at that time. I use to live in Bellflower by Kaiser hospital at that time. A lot of time had gone by since. I moved to South Carolina 2 years ago & love it here. People are different. That Southern hospitality really exist & I love it. I'm so sorry to hear about Dave, what a nice guy he was. R.I.P. Mr. Pahoa 🙏
@@SCrepresent I’m so sorry you weren’t old enough to have the Golden West Ballroom experience, I saw every great band there ever was when they were just starting out, playing all their biggest hits for just a dollar to get in! I will be 66 at the end of this month, and I think you used to be able to get in when you were 17, maybe even a little younger. But if you were old enough to drink, they put a bracelet thing on you and the bar was upstairs, but we danced like crazy every Thursday night! You are right, it is a shame about Dave. But you will be glad to know that Rick, his kids and grandkids and the whole family are all fine and doing well. I’m happy that you are living in a place you enjoy. I live in a small village about five minutes away from the large pyramids where I work, and everybody is just wonderful! I have never been sorry that I made the decision to move here. I am an archaeologist for the Mexican government, and I have worked all over the country. I’m pretty tired and worn out now, but I have had a great and exciting life. That includes the Hollydale days. God bless you and your family, and may you continue to be safe and healthy. 🏄♀️
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.....
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!
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.
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.
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😢😢😢
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!
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!
In the early 1980s The Plimsouls used to play at our campus pub and at other large campus parties (UC Riverside). They were GREAT live as a bar band. Some of my very best college memories.
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.
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.
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.
I was at UCLA rush party in 83 and they played at a frat house. God those were the days!! I'm 60 just remembering the good old 80s! God what a time to be alive back than. Surfing, partying and going to punk gigs in LA and Hollywood. What blast!
@@ricardomerluza687 i can't remember. We had to have rush cards to get in the houses. I was at the time going to PCC. All I know it was a blast. I had to lay in the quad at PCC the next day cause my hangover was so bad! Lol. Great times back than.
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!🥁🎸🎤❤️
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!
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.
Remember cruising around with the music blasting out this and other great music with the top off the Jeep me and my friends enjoying life to the fullest.
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.
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....
My uncle used to hang out with The Plimsouls back in the early 80s in OC and Redondo. He also told me about Valley Girl. Nothing has changed. I am here to resist the tide, Boomers. I am your purest child.
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
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. 😊
This video absolutely RULES! I gave quite a few cassettes away of these guys- I wanted to make sure my whole crew was covered- this album is OUTSTANDING! Thanks for the UP- GOOD TIMES! :)
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.
1983 to 1987 I was a paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg; I used to listen to this song often. Long before I deployed to the Middle East, I was a Million Miles Away, and there's nothing left to bring me back today... 🎶
"I graduated in 1983 and this was out and the video was constantly shown on MTV and i was more into hard rock,but also liked other types of music as well, the Plimsouls were one of many bands that came out during the 80's with that independent new wave sound and while I was not totally into new wave I grew to like some of it over the years and still do, the types of music I like have become quite eclectic having interests in many types of music these days ranging from hard rock to heavy metal to new wave to southern rock and many others from around the world as well,I'm 56 now and with UA-cam I can watch & listen to today what I couldn't back then without the internet but now I can,thanks."-🌐🌏🌎🌍🌐..
They were a great new wave band. I can recall getting to see them play in a little dive bar on Foothill Blvd. in Rancho Cucamonga back in the early 80's.
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’s one of the things I miss about the 80s music videos, they were like mini stories with everyday people or people acting out the theme of the song. The 80’s really did have the best music videos, and so many talented bands and solo artists, so many concerts to choose from and when MTV played nothing but music videos 24/7 🩷😊
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
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!!
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!
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!!
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)
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.
I have no idea what this video is about but it's a really good video as well as the song. First saw this video when it came out some 40 plus years ago and glad UA-cam has it so I can watch over and over again.
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 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!
I know Dave. Him & Louie used to work at my brother in law & sisters record store in Cerritos, Ca. in 1982 or so. He worked at the Cerritos store & Louie used to work at the Anaheim store. The stores were called Best Records & that was some of the best times of my life. We had quite a few known musicians go in that store & do in store appearances which you probably already know about, but yeah, Dave was always really cool to me.
Those were the best times 🙏
@@SCrepresent How great that you had those experiences! Being from Paramount, we always went to Wenzel’s in Downey. They had a little recording booth in there, and as long as you paid, anybody could use it. Quite a few famous bands, or at least local bands, made demos in there at the time. Later, Licorice Pizza opened in Downey, but further away. Wenzel’s eventually opened a branch in Hollydale, but they finally sold it to Middle Earth. Once they left, it has never been a record store again to my knowledge. But then, I’ve lived in Mexico for nearly 45 years now. Did you ever go dancing at Golden West in Norwalk in the ‘70s?
@@SCrepresent Also, I don’t know if you knew (and if not, I hate to be the one to tell you), Dave passed away a year ago this month. 😞🎸
@MexicoDigDoctor
Oh my, I didn't know that 😔
Life is just too short. I'm 60 now & no I never went to the Golden West Ballroom,wasnt old enough at that time. I use to live in Bellflower by Kaiser hospital at that time. A lot of time had gone by since. I moved to South Carolina 2 years ago & love it here. People are different. That Southern hospitality really exist & I love it. I'm so sorry to hear about Dave, what a nice guy he was.
R.I.P. Mr. Pahoa 🙏
@@SCrepresent I’m so sorry you weren’t old enough to have the Golden West Ballroom experience, I saw every great band there ever was when they were just starting out, playing all their biggest hits for just a dollar to get in! I will be 66 at the end of this month, and I think you used to be able to get in when you were 17, maybe even a little younger. But if you were old enough to drink, they put a bracelet thing on you and the bar was upstairs, but we danced like crazy every Thursday night! You are right, it is a shame about Dave. But you will be glad to know that Rick, his kids and grandkids and the whole family are all fine and doing well. I’m happy that you are living in a place you enjoy. I live in a small village about five minutes away from the large pyramids where I work, and everybody is just wonderful! I have never been sorry that I made the decision to move here. I am an archaeologist for the Mexican government, and I have worked all over the country. I’m pretty tired and worn out now, but I have had a great and exciting life. That includes the Hollydale days. God bless you and your family, and may you continue to be safe and healthy. 🏄♀️
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
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
That was the rerelease. It hit # 11 the year before
Getting old sucks, but at least we'll have great music when we go down with the ship.
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 :)
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
👊🏼
Exactly
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.
@@harleydude-xo8punah .. there more to it than that .. Everything from Slayer to Stevie Ray Vaughn to Husker Du to Prince .. much more to offer
@@SGED392 To me the only music of the 80's I remember as impact music was Metallica and Guns and Roses for that era.
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!
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!
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.
The 80s were hands-down the best decade in my 54 years
I agree. I am 52
I disagree. Lived on a farm and had no money or car.
I'm 53, gimme the 90's😂
@
Narcissistic Stacy. Talking about me not you.
Create your own post
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. 😁😁😁
A timeless classic that never gets the channel changed when this song is playing!
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!
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 Cars and the Plimsouls are my top two late 70s, early 80s NW bands. Great era in music.
Wow. Just cruising through UA-cam and found this forgotten gem😊 probably been 20 years since I've heard this 😮 🎶🎶👏👏👏
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.
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!
One of the all time classics that defines the 80's forever! One of my favorite songs of all time.
Timeless. Wish we could hit 'Reset' and go back to this more carefree time.
Yep.
I can't even say how much I love this song - even 40 years on.
one of the greatest songs ever...
1983....one of the best years for music in my lifetime!! I agree, this should have way more views!
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
Beautiful song, with haunted melodies and upbeat rythm, a strained yet beautiful juxoposition, and an very appro-video- a real triumph!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the early 1980s The Plimsouls used to play at our campus pub and at other large campus parties (UC Riverside). They were GREAT live as a bar band. Some of my very best college memories.
This song, this era, feels a million miles away.
Well done GenX !!!
A great song. Nobody writes songs with hooks like this anymore.
How this song wasn't a massive hit single is beyond me.
No substitute for that CLASSIC Rickenbacker jangly guitar tone!!!!
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
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.
The true value of a song is its longevity, and this is it!
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!
such an awesome song
It feels like my youth is a million miles away. I miss it
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? 😂
Still liking this tune 30 years later. That's the sign of Quality Music.
"That techno pop you listen to is gutless!" -Randy
The drums are so good in this song. Total 80's punk vibe.
I was at UCLA rush party in 83 and they played at a frat house. God those were the days!! I'm 60 just remembering the good old 80s! God what a time to be alive back than. Surfing, partying and going to punk gigs in LA and Hollywood. What blast!
Which house? I was at SC and those times were the best.
@@ricardomerluza687 i can't remember. We had to have rush cards to get in the houses. I was at the time going to PCC. All I know it was a blast. I had to lay in the quad at PCC the next day cause my hangover was so bad! Lol. Great times back than.
Quite possibly the single best written rock song of the entire decade!
The Pilmsouls-A MILLON MILES AWAY, YET ANOTHER SONG, AND BAND THAT MAKES ME SAY THAT THE 80'S HAD THE BEST OF.....EVERYTHING!!!
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.
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😢
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!
Revival of the stratocaster guitar sound of the 60s.
EVERY Rock fan has this song amongst their "favorite" collection. Perfection in every way!
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....
😞😩😭
can't believe Valley Girl was so long ago. This song just seems to live forever...almost like new everytime I hear it.
The 80’s produced another hit
Still one of the best songs of the 80s
Remember cruising around with the music blasting out this and other great music with the top off the Jeep me and my friends enjoying life to the fullest.
This is really good music, I recorded this on cassette in the 80's , still sounds great. Good songs are gone forever after 2000.
Miss these types of bands. Great memories of high school. Never thought things would change and this type of music would stop
Saw the Gin Blossoms in concert last night and this was their closing song. Blew my mind! They sounded great performing this song.
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.
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....
Nothing like the sound of a Rickenbacker guitar!
One of my favorites from the early 80's. Now that I'm older the lyrics have more of a
meaning to me than back when I first heard this.
Absolutely love this. Thought it was phenomenal the first time I heard it circa 1982.
Nothing can bring it back.
My uncle used to hang out with The Plimsouls back in the early 80s in OC and Redondo. He also told me about Valley Girl. Nothing has changed. I am here to resist the tide, Boomers.
I am your purest child.
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.
My entire teenage years began in 1980 & this song/video ** IS ** the 80's
This is the music i grew up on. They were before REM and Modern English
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. 😊
Growing up in the 80s was the best.
A Rock and Roll Nugget of Gold is a hit that is as good as anything ever and this song in my opinion hits the mark. This is perfect rock and roll.
This video absolutely RULES! I gave quite a few cassettes away of these guys- I wanted to make sure my whole crew was covered- this album is OUTSTANDING! Thanks for the UP- GOOD TIMES! :)
One of the most under appreciated rock songs ever.
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 discovered this band when I saw Valley Girl back in the early 80s.
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
This song thrills me EVERY time I hear it.
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"
Watched Valley Girl today this song is THE sound track for that part of the 80s
1983 to 1987 I was a paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg; I used to listen to this song often.
Long before I deployed to the Middle East, I was a Million Miles Away, and there's nothing left to bring me back today... 🎶
"I graduated in 1983 and this was
out and the video was constantly shown
on MTV and i was more into hard rock,but
also liked other types of music as well,
the Plimsouls were one of many bands
that came out during the 80's with that
independent new wave sound and while
I was not totally into new wave I grew
to like some of it over the years and still do,
the types of music I like have become quite
eclectic having interests in many types of music
these days ranging from hard rock to heavy metal
to new wave to southern rock and many others from
around the world as well,I'm 56 now and with UA-cam
I can watch & listen to today what I couldn't back then
without the internet but now I can,thanks."-🌐🌏🌎🌍🌐..
Love this freaking song! The Plimsouls rule!
2023 and this song still takes me back to a better place in time.
An staple during the early days of MTV, which is 40 this year. Thanks for 14 years of music MTV
They were a great new wave band. I can recall getting to see them play in a little dive bar on Foothill Blvd. in Rancho Cucamonga back in the early 80's.
this is a forgotten gem from the good old 80s!...great song!
Kind of like the early Church records mixed with the Replacements. This is a shining pop nugget. More people should know about this.
I grew up in the 80s and this song still gets me.....
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.
That’s one of the things I miss about the 80s music videos, they were like mini stories with everyday people or people acting out the theme of the song. The 80’s really did have the best music videos, and so many talented bands and solo artists, so many concerts to choose from and when MTV played nothing but music videos 24/7 🩷😊