@@kceres Omg! I had my crush during this time period on girl named Christina. 32 years later and we both turned out to be gay. I'm friends with her wife and Chris is friendly with my husband. They're both baseball fanatics. Who would have thought? 😅😅🤣🤣
I didn't like the 80s. It kept feeling like it was falling just short all the time. Like the engine of a sports car that won't quite turn over. For me, things really took off in the early/mid-90s. The internet arrived. Computers _finally_ started living up to the promise they'd made 20 years before. Conservative politics in the Anglosphere was on the back burner and progressives were moving us forward again. The 80s were the prep to all that... but not that themselves.
The 1980's were great ♥ Probably because we had no cell phones or computers. We had each other & we had music and movies. That's all we needed. We had fun! 🎉💞
Graduated HS in 88. What a great time it was. I was a breakdancer, loved the 80's girls, big hair, no social media, plenty of actual talk and the movies like this were a big deal.
The nostalgia is so strong it hurts. This is just more prof that the 80's was really as great as we (Gen-X) says it was. I count myself to be very blessed to have been born in the 70's and been a kid in the 80's. Thank you.
Absolutely...from the age of 12-22...that was the 80s for me...started with the empire strikes back in 1980 and ended with batman in 1989....we had kick ass summer films during that decade
I'm a millennial, but from the far end of it. My young childhood was in the '80s. It really was a magical time. A pity we couldn't see it when it was happening.
Totally agree. I'm now 48 and a masculine contractor guy, but watching/listening to this always gives me tears of joy. Can we please go back to the '80s for one day please so that we can live and appreciate every frickin second of it because we now know that those days will be gone forever.
@@gregoryfujita8265 I hear you. 11-21 for me. We got everything from Star Wars and Indiana Jones...I personally got a Mets WS win and an Islander 'dynasty', and the NY Giants won twice also. Music was great, music videos were big, malls were social, and I went from Elementary School almost to getting my Bachelor's Degree...all while ultimately learning that the Soviets were more scared of us than we were of them and that our parents were NOT as smart and innocent as they pretended to be. Heady times. We went into the 90s and Clinton and the internet age LOVING every new thing...and now we are old enough to realize that the NEW THINGS NEVER STOP COMING!!!!
Life moves so quickly. The days can be long, but the years fly by and, eventually, you're only left with nostalgia for the past. This is a masterpiece and it brings so much emotion.
Is it just me, or did life zoom by after high school??? Graduated 1984. 4 adult children and 2 grandchildren later, I miss all those guys from school and wish they are all happy with life. ❤
@@christopherarner8322 wow I forgot about that, so did we. Nobody thought much about it..... I used to even carry a blade in my front pocket in the early to mid 80s and when I entered govt buildings/court house etc in Savannah I just put it in the tray with my coins and keys upon entering and grabbed them back up again. Nobody gave it a second thought
You're right! I was telling my brother the other day that Taylor Swift would never have been as big as she is now if she were in the 80's - because there was too much great music in the female pop world - Cindi Lauper, Madonna, Whitney Houston, etc etc etc from country to new wave and everything in between. Swift would be another average artist in the 80's.
@Norberto Fontanez music these days is just like Holly weird they reproduce a movie over and over again or add a number to it just like music they reproduce a bead and wrap their music over the beat nothing but stolen music of the past to their own words I mean just look at this generation a bunch of retards
@@ronaldojeras6760 Philippians Chapter 3 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
I just remember having so many cool friends. I never saw them as black, white, Spanish, or Asians... they were simply my friends. I love and miss all of them. ❤😢
Born in 74 in Calgary Canada, Loved the 80s of innocence and fun!❤ loved my parents music and stories from South America of the 60s 70s and i could say the 80s were so AMAZING!. Thats why so much music movies innovation Stars came about in the 80s! Even my daughters 19 and 12 love all of the stuff of the 80s...clothing movies music cd walkmans cassettes toys electronics😊. Greatest time of my life!❤
Music videos that’s what it brings me back to you know? Simpler times. To think MTV used to be about music videos as VH1 did as well.. and BET and we tuned in to see the music video of a film or of an artist’s latest album.. I miss those days and in the words of Eddie money I want to go back…
I was a freshman in college. First time away from home. Away from my first love. We stayed together 7 years. Like an idiot I was too busy to see the signs. That she wanted to get married. I lost her. The breakup tore me apart. Wherever she is- I wish her joy and immense happiness. This song takes me back
im 48, hung out with a bunch of friends when I was in my teens, from scotland. the line, we laughed, until we had to cry, breaks me everytime, for 28 years now I cannot listen to this song, ive never been the same since, I miss my first love.
I turned 14 in 1980, by 1989 I was 23. I grew up in the 80's. No one can understand how my generation lived our lives out without the Internet, cell phones, etc. But when we were young adults, it hit and we know that too. Last generation to play outside all day with no supervision...bike riding without helmets, no seatbelts. It was epic. I lived in the best of times, back then, now the Internet has poisoned our minds and lives. Oh well.
In every age " The good old days" were just a myth ! No-one thought they were good at the time , for every age has had difficulties that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them ! I was born in 1955 and do understand what you are talking about ! Take Care my friend
@@gustavomartinez6087 Sorry Gus, the 80's were unique. High energy music, dancing, people still dressed nice. Today is tattooed looking trash with the no social skills.
This song captured our lives beautifully in the 80s - 90s. I was in highschool and like the theme of the movie, the thought of being caught between young and what the future holds was just so true. Even now, those moments still hang around and we're still trying to figure out how to live the rest of our lives... Enjoy "life as it happens around you" because one day when it's gone, hopefully - if you're lucky - you'll have great memories to take with you when you go... ☺️
Easily one of the best songs ever. It does something to you that can’t easily be described. If this is the last song I hear before dying, I would be going out happy
Wow, UA-cam really knows me. I graduated high school and went to college in 85, so I saw this and Breakfast Club in the same year, straddling both experiences. I know you posted this years ago, and likely won’t see the comment, but thanks for the memory my friend. I need to watch this film again, it’s been too long.
The best decade of all time was the 80s! The songs were beautiful, perfect melodies and lyrics, with very rich arrangements. Everything is well done, the cars, the stylish and colorful clothes, the well-kept hair and the women are naturally beautiful, without plastic surgery, without botox, without sexual appeal and without this addiction to intimate waxing mandated by the media.
I lost one of my best friends of 40 years 7 months ago, and just about bawled my eyes out listening to this. I'm 51 and he would've been 50 this past May.
Oh man - so jealous. I turned 6 in 80 and love the decade just as much as you did. But so wish, looking back on how the world has de-volved, that I would have turned 18 in 1980. I would build a time machine to go 80-89 and then repeat.
I turned 16 in 1985. The party was on! Sum of the greatest times of my life. I miss the gr8 times and my gr8 friends! Kids put ur phones down and live a little bit.
Bryan Go ~ Why do people say it was "simpler" times, when it really wasn't? The same thing is said of the 60s and 70s. There was a lot of problems and complexities in the world in the 80s, that brought us to where we are now. It seemed simpler because we saw it through the eyes of youth, our view and fond memories of the time. We filter the bad. Do you think we'll look back on today in 30 years and say it was simpler times?
I don't buy it. Why do you call "simpler" a decade with financial crisis, a constant threat of nuclear war, no treatment for aids, no environmental consciousness, machism and homophobia? Why don't people just enjoy what this decade brought us instead of longing for past decades?
1985 My dad use to drop me off in my junior high at 5:30am i use to sit around the outdoor lunch area no one around sun barely coming out across the school yard . just myself, my backpack and my walkman… radio stations use to play this song every morning that year.. great memories growing up.. its funny i still havent seen the movie st elmos fire
Cause the 80s had the right balance of everything. A taste of technology but it wasn't over done. Family, hope, opportunity. Everything was in balance. That's why it was such a great time. Today everything is way way way out of balance. We choke on technology and family is now social media. It's out of balance. As a result everything is completely screwed up.
My God, where did the time go? 4 children, 2 grandchildren. I saw this on a date at the theater at a cost of $1.75. Thank you, 1980s, for all the memories. Love, us older guys and girls. ❤
I was in high school when this came out, perfect metaphor for being stuck between moving on with your life and at the same time not wanting to let go of your youth...having to say goodbye to the people that were the most important to you at the time and facing an unknown future...a lot to digest when your only 18...I miss that time...
The script of this movie was so brilliantly written, the days great movies depended on talented writers, actors and directors NOT special effects or CGI.
@@MsSparklesNGlitter The hype over some movies today confuses me. I’ll watch a movie that everyone is talking about and I am left feeling nothing, like there’s some part of the movie they forgot to put in. I walk away feeling like I missed something. Instead of having an impact on my emotions, it’s covered up with action and special effects. Unless, I’ve just become jaded as I’ve gotten older? 🤪🤯
I've been in a funk for so many years now since 2020 with all this craziness going on but man give me a brat pack movie soundtrack and I perked right up and get positive. Long live the 80s!
Thirty-six years have passed by now. Still a great favourite of mine to play on my sax. Sadly a few of my school & college friends are now leaving this life.
Sorry about your friends but you need to know there still out there. Its heart breaking to lose people, but the good news is there alive beyond what understand in the mainstream. Always wanted to learn the saxophone just to play this song!
The nostalgia that wells up , its unexplicable. Is it sadness? Loss of youth I guess😕? What a beautiful composition of music. Back again 2023. Just lost a friend yesterday we were friends during this era. If only we knew then, what we know now. Cherish your family and friends, tell them you love them....today, dont wait.💓
For me...having the best friends ever for decades..it's going through the loves and the breakups, the births and deaths, the good and the bad...always loving..never judging..unconditional friendships. Looking back and really how truly thankful to God I am and how blessed I have been to have such friends in my life!
Better to shed a bittersweet tear, than to have blinked and missed the moment. Everything being relative, a life with no pain would be as unbalanced as a life with only joy. There would be no boundary to make a distinction by which time could be measured. Much like the contrast of day and night, one needs struggle and pain to appreciate ease and comfort. Nostalgia is simply the mind crafting a space for those memories to live again. Child's play for an imagination stifled by the 9 to 5 grind, we sometimes are better time-travelers than we give ourselves credit for.
This song is like the love theme of the 80s. David Foster production, saxophone, from a famous film with full of 80s legends, it's kind of corny, it's beautiful, melancholic, dreamy, catchy, cheezy but yet unforgettable. The 80s were the greatest, really. Hit the replay.
Best thing about the 80s was President Reagan....rock and roll is from 1956 when Elvis started his legendary to career, to about 20 years later, when the evil disco crap started ruining music
I'm picking nits, but as a former sax player, someone should have told that chick how to hold one, how to fake play...not even close-lol,,,but will always love this song!
The 80’s Demi Moore, St. Elmo’s Fire, About Last Night, No Small Affair, Blame It On Rio, My 80’s crush!!😍😍😍😍 , but this movie made me glad to be young in the 80’s , great times!
I guess one would call "St. Elmo's Fire" a coming of age tale. When this movie came out, my undergrad years were long past and I had two graduate degrees under my belt. But, for reasons beyond my ken, I was drawn to this movie. The settings, the actors, the music all combined to make a great story. I still appreciate this cinema masterpiece.
I had 45 RPM records of this and Man in Motion, both from St. Elmo's Fire and both amazing pieces of music! It's a shame we can't get music like this from today's artists!
Today's artists seem to sample all the music from the 80's to make their songs. I have faith in music, originality and creativity will still shine through....eventually.
this is one of those songs that automatically take you right back to what was your life was like back then, mostly good times, good friends and your favorite place you would hang at, Sadly enough I lost my best friend due to his weakness of alcohol , Please folks if you know someone who has this addiction, do what you can to save them, drugs arent the only thing that can kill you
Whenever I listen to this or watch this movie, I am reminded about the fact that time doesn’t stand still. There will never be another today. Live it to the fullest and don’t always look back. Great piece of music, David Foster!
Usually, most people want to go back to a time mentally when they were young teens/adults, but I’m finding that the 80”s was an exception because whether you were a child, young adult, old etc.. they all want to cling to this beautiful era in time!
That scene where Andie MacDowell walks into the party and she’s fluffing out her hair (1:54)...she’s backlit and just looked stunningly beautiful! I’m a straight female but I’ve never seen a more gorgeous woman than her in that scene. Rob Lowe was awfully pretty too! Love this song and movie.
Really?! I don’t find her attractive at all. In my view all the other women In this film are way more beautiful than her, even the supposedly nerdy one. I find her irritating as hell, and could never watch her in any movie like four weddings and a funeral and that film with Gerard depardieu. She plays an objectified woman in pretty much every movie - empty and vacuous. Sad that people glamorise shallow women over women with substance. But each to their own. ✌🏽👍🏽
I was a senior in high school when this movie was released. I was struggling with knowing one chapter of my life was ending while another chapter was just beginning. This song reminds me of better days when my biggest worry was whether I’d get to see my girlfriend that day. This song reminds me of the time in my life when I was most happiest and when everyone I knew was still alive. Damn, I miss the 1980s. Hell, I miss my youth. I’ve seen this movie easily 50 times. I’ll watch it anytime it is being aired. This movie is the quintessential 1980s movie. This song conjures up unbelievable nostalgia.
...and yet it bombed when it was released didn't it? I was just a kid and I just wanted more fun brat pack movies.... I guess in hindsight it was a clever move having these characters grow up and move on instead of just repeating the same John Hughes formula over and over but, man.... I don't think people got it at the time.
"...and when everyone I knew was still alive." A truly profound insight and statement. I am 67 years old and spent 31 years in the army and air force. A lot of the ones I knew and served with are no more thanks to war. Truly sad.
@Jim Flanary thank you for your service and all your friends who made the ultimate sacrifice. I sometimes feel guilty because only by luck I wasn't sent to war. The luck being born in 66.
@@Smackgiverthank you for the compliment. I tell my kids all the time that writing is simply putting your thoughts into words. Anyone can write well, with enough practice.
If I ever get married, this is going to be my wedding song. I was born in 1968, grew up with songs of the '70s and '80s and this will be the song that I will get married to.
You’re 55 now. Chances of you getting married and having a happy life is slim to none because all the women your age are already married or divorced with lots of baggage. The ones who aren’t married are well…living with cats.
@@JohnLee-db9zt Of all the people who commented, you chose to come after me? I'm good with how things are now. I was being hypothetical with my response to the song, which is my right and everyone else's. I see you came here to be a disruptive force. Care to comment on the song or what?
Every time I hear this song it's almost as if I am hearing it for the very first time. It moves me in a way I simply can't describe well enough. It makes me feel very young and very old at the same time. Like I am watching someone's life pass before my eyes and sometimes I feel that life is my life. Wonderful music from a time that was so very different from today.
I was fortunate to grow up in the 80s. This is one of my favorite movies of all, and every time I hear the theme song I think about college and how much I miss it. If anything I learned, if you have to chase your dreams because they won't chase you back...
Every decade has its moments, but the 80s will always be the best for those of us that were fortunate to be able to experience it and wish we could go back.
So many memories of a short time in my life when I literally was as happy as you could be. We were all so young and full of promise and we loved each other. We were friends, brothers and sisters. We loved so much. We were perfect for " Just A Moment".... Bobby, Jason,John, Susan, Jimmy, Lisa, Julie, Janet, Bonnie, and most of all Valerie...I love you all and I will never forget any of you....
I literally would give anything to go back to the 80’s. Happiest period in my life.
We will never get another decade as great as the 80’s!❤
The 90s was magical 👍
The 70s music was better
You Are right. Love The 80S
@@weddingwiththewhitedove Nope, the 80s is still the best decade for music.
Amen
As an 80’s kid, I cry now hearing this. Those times are gone forever. But I’m so glad I was there. ❤😢
Same. 💖
Absolutely….so many great memories from just listening to the music….❤️
Ahí estuvimos y aquí estamos para recordar aún :)
Nada se va para siempre mientras haya un recuerdo....
@@kceres Omg! I had my crush during this time period on girl named Christina. 32 years later and we both turned out to be gay. I'm friends with her wife and Chris is friendly with my husband. They're both baseball fanatics. Who would have thought? 😅😅🤣🤣
I feel sorry for folks who didn't grow up in the 80's. This AMAZING decade will NEVER be duplicated..
Never
NEVER!!!
I didn't like the 80s. It kept feeling like it was falling just short all the time. Like the engine of a sports car that won't quite turn over. For me, things really took off in the early/mid-90s. The internet arrived. Computers _finally_ started living up to the promise they'd made 20 years before. Conservative politics in the Anglosphere was on the back burner and progressives were moving us forward again. The 80s were the prep to all that... but not that themselves.
So true!
@@loneprimateagreed
The 1980's were great ♥ Probably because we had no cell phones or computers. We had each other & we had music and movies. That's all we needed. We had fun! 🎉💞
Yes exactly that's why I loved my 70's and 80's the most
@@davidmay-jr4zfI agree!😊
Graduated HS in 88. What a great time it was. I was a breakdancer, loved the 80's girls, big hair, no social media, plenty of actual talk and the movies like this were a big deal.
This has to be one of the greatest instrumental masterpieces of all time🔥❤️
NOT EVEN TOP 100 HOMIE
The nostalgia is so strong it hurts. This is just more prof that the 80's was really as great as we (Gen-X) says it was. I count myself to be very blessed to have been born in the 70's and been a kid in the 80's. Thank you.
Absolutely...from the age of 12-22...that was the 80s for me...started with the empire strikes back in 1980 and ended with batman in 1989....we had kick ass summer films during that decade
I'm a millennial, but from the far end of it. My young childhood was in the '80s. It really was a magical time. A pity we couldn't see it when it was happening.
Totally agree. I'm now 48 and a masculine contractor guy, but watching/listening to this always gives me tears of joy. Can we please go back to the '80s for one day please so that we can live and appreciate every frickin second of it because we now know that those days will be gone forever.
This and Fast Times felt more like my older brother and sister's movies. Mine was more Ferris, Say Anything, etc.
@@gregoryfujita8265 I hear you. 11-21 for me.
We got everything from Star Wars and Indiana Jones...I personally got a Mets WS win and an Islander 'dynasty', and the NY Giants won twice also. Music was great, music videos were big, malls were social, and I went from Elementary School almost to getting my Bachelor's Degree...all while ultimately learning that the Soviets were more scared of us than we were of them and that our parents were NOT as smart and innocent as they pretended to be. Heady times. We went into the 90s and Clinton and the internet age LOVING every new thing...and now we are old enough to realize that the NEW THINGS NEVER STOP COMING!!!!
I was born in 1968...How thankful I am to God to be in this Eras 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000 of good movies, music, people and great memories.
Great decade but this film SUCKED !!!!!
@@ltahoe7195 whahahahaah yeah
tetap sehat dan semangat..GBU
70's and 80's were the best I feel
one of david foster's masterpieces ❤
The 80’s will ALWAYS be the best of the best!
Yes. Still the best! 👍
Damn straight yep
I miss this time so much.
I concur!
life was much simpler back then
As a 51 your old, this is my childhood, the feelings I get in this video bring me back to my childhood. David Foster captured my youth.
I’m so blessed and fortunate to have grown up in the 1980’s…leaves me with such heartfelt memories. Such a wonderful gift in life…Thank You, God☺️🙏❤️
Amen ❤ 🙏
Repeat... Thank you Lord!!!
Digo o mesmo uma saudade que dói, anos 80 e 90 maravilhosos
What a great time so sad we can’t go back
I was in my 30's in the 80's and I was still lucky to have even lived then.
Life moves so quickly. The days can be long, but the years fly by and, eventually, you're only left with nostalgia for the past. This is a masterpiece and it brings so much emotion.
Is it just me, or did life zoom by after high school??? Graduated 1984. 4 adult children and 2 grandchildren later, I miss all those guys from school and wish they are all happy with life. ❤
Perfectly worded…
I literally teared up listening to it!
I graduated HS in 1981. The music in the 80’s was the best. School shootings were non existent and no cell phones or computers
Class of 85, what a fkng decade it was
@@jl904404 class of 85 here too.... it still rocks
Class of 1980. Those were the best days
Yep, had guns in the rack in school property. No metal detectors, no cops, and knives in our pockets.
@@christopherarner8322 wow I forgot about that, so did we. Nobody thought much about it..... I used to even carry a blade in my front pocket in the early to mid 80s and when I entered govt buildings/court house etc in Savannah I just put it in the tray with my coins and keys upon entering and grabbed them back up again. Nobody gave it a second thought
The decade when almost every single genre of music managed to put a song on top of the billboard charts including instrumentals!
😮😮😮 Fascinating comment!
You're right! I was telling my brother the other day that Taylor Swift would never have been as big as she is now if she were in the 80's - because there was too much great music in the female pop world - Cindi Lauper, Madonna, Whitney Houston, etc etc etc from country to new wave and everything in between. Swift would be another average artist in the 80's.
DECADE OF CRACKHEADS WITH BAD HAIR
@@thepianist7084haha i like Billie Eilish she still had the 80s mantra in her music hoho TS yeah get the fck out mang😄😆
Kenny G : Touche '
I was sooo lucky to be a teenager in the 80’s! Best times of my of my life.
@Enjoyer ditto born 1969
2nd year of University and first love ahhhh
@Norberto Fontanez the music these days=sh*t
@Norberto Fontanez music these days is just like Holly weird they reproduce a movie over and over again or add a number to it just like music they reproduce a bead and wrap their music over the beat nothing but stolen music of the past to their own words I mean just look at this generation a bunch of retards
the best years
The 80's were the best! How I wish I could go back.. ❤
Gone forever...how can we go back ? tears in my eyes.
@@ronaldojeras6760 Philippians Chapter 3
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Us too!
We all do.
I just remember having so many cool friends. I never saw them as black, white, Spanish, or Asians... they were simply my friends. I love and miss all of them. ❤😢
Born in 74 in Calgary Canada, Loved the 80s of innocence and fun!❤ loved my parents music and stories from South America of the 60s 70s and i could say the 80s were so AMAZING!. Thats why so much music movies innovation Stars came about in the 80s! Even my daughters 19 and 12 love all of the stuff of the 80s...clothing movies music cd walkmans cassettes toys electronics😊. Greatest time of my life!❤
You're so right, there will never be another decade like this, the 80's!
This song brings me back. So haunting, timeless and beautiful.
Music videos that’s what it brings me back to you know? Simpler times. To think MTV used to be about music videos as VH1 did as well.. and BET and we tuned in to see the music video of a film or of an artist’s latest album.. I miss those days and in the words of Eddie money I want to go back…
So true!
It was apex peek culture. Never to be sceen again.
It’s unfathomable how much worse present day is compared to the 80s.
Hello how are you doing, hope you are enjoying your day?
Foster is a great composer. He knows how to go deep inside your heart with that combination of single notes and harmony.
100 percent
Saudades dos anos 80😢😢😢😢
This tune never gets boring
Blessed to belong to the 70’s and 80’s growing up. 20 years of amazing movies and music. This was one of my favorites.
X-ennials born in late 70’s to 83 grew up hearing this song at formal events in the late 80’s as the default song for retrospect slide shows
Fast forward to 2024 had no idea how good we had it back in the 80s.
I was a freshman in college. First time away from home. Away from my first love. We stayed together 7 years. Like an idiot I was too busy to see the signs. That she wanted to get married. I lost her. The breakup tore me apart. Wherever she is- I wish her joy and immense happiness. This song takes me back
*You chose wisely!*
im 48, hung out with a bunch of friends when I was in my teens, from scotland.
the line, we laughed, until we had to cry, breaks me everytime, for 28 years now I cannot listen to this song, ive never been the same since, I miss my first love.
I turned 14 in 1980, by 1989 I was 23. I grew up in the 80's. No one can understand how my generation lived our lives out without the Internet, cell phones, etc. But when we were young adults, it hit and we know that too. Last generation to play outside all day with no supervision...bike riding without helmets, no seatbelts. It was epic. I lived in the best of times, back then, now the Internet has poisoned our minds and lives. Oh well.
In every age " The good old days" were just a myth ! No-one thought they were good at the time , for every age has had difficulties that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them ! I was born in 1955 and do understand what you are talking about ! Take Care my friend
I miss the 80’s. Nothing will ever compare.
All the decades have good and bad things and music and films
@@gustavomartinez6087 Sorry Gus, the 80's were unique. High energy music, dancing, people still dressed nice. Today is tattooed looking trash with the no social skills.
80' was just a fun, fun decade.
Yea dats true
Patrick we need a time machine buddy
This is about as 80s as an 80s movie theme can get....after all, it was the 80s!!!! Wonderful!!!
I miss the 80's! The best music, the best fashion, what a decade to have been I miss it.😢
Sinto tbm esta falta😢😢😢
Tbm sinto doida esta falta😢😢😢😢
The fashion, I remember big hair and women that dressed like Romulans.
Thank you for this beautiful song. Love the movie too. well done & well received
Why was the 80's era so rich and colorful? I remember I was already savoring the moment when I was there..
This song captured our lives beautifully in the 80s - 90s. I was in highschool and like the theme of the movie, the thought of being caught between young and what the future holds was just so true. Even now, those moments still hang around and we're still trying to figure out how to live the rest of our lives... Enjoy "life as it happens around you" because one day when it's gone, hopefully - if you're lucky - you'll have great memories to take with you when you go... ☺️
Bang on mate ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤................
Well said!
Ah.. well said man. Made me kind of tear up.. I miss my childhood…
Damn, I miss the eighties so much. What a great time period I grew up back then.
Easily one of the best songs ever. It does something to you that can’t easily be described. If this is the last song I hear before dying, I would be going out happy
Ditto!
Yes it does something to u that can't be described.
Agree...💐
Agree on all counts. I get chills all the way through when I hear this song.. it’s truly a masterpiece!
It sounds like the 80's saying goodbye.
Wow, UA-cam really knows me. I graduated high school and went to college in 85, so I saw this and Breakfast Club in the same year, straddling both experiences. I know you posted this years ago, and likely won’t see the comment, but thanks for the memory my friend. I need to watch this film again, it’s been too long.
The best decade of all time was the 80s! The songs were beautiful, perfect melodies and lyrics, with very rich arrangements. Everything is well done, the cars, the stylish and colorful clothes, the well-kept hair and the women are naturally beautiful, without plastic surgery, without botox, without sexual appeal and without this addiction to intimate waxing mandated by the media.
I lost one of my best friends of 40 years 7 months ago, and just about bawled my eyes out listening to this. I'm 51 and he would've been 50 this past May.
I feel for you. May God bless his soul.
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NOBODY CARSS HOMIE
@@SteveDrenser You must be useless in every way, "Homie"
I Turned 23 in 1980 I believe the perfect age to take the whole decade in.There will never be another decade like the 80s! Music,movies,LIFE!
everything important in my life happened in the 80s, got married 1980, had my children in 81, 83, 84 ♥️
Oh man - so jealous. I turned 6 in 80 and love the decade just as much as you did. But so wish, looking back on how the world has de-volved, that I would have turned 18 in 1980. I would build a time machine to go 80-89 and then repeat.
This is the most beautiful song ever composed ❤️
Cool and you are from Alabama. Al. sort of connects me to this song. I was an exchang student to high school there for a year.
I concur
I turned 16 in 1985. The party was on! Sum of the greatest times of my life. I miss the gr8 times and my gr8 friends! Kids put ur phones down and live a little bit.
The 80's was a great decade! I'm glad I lived through it.
Simpler times, simpler people. Wish i had a time machine and go back to the 80s. Great movie, wonderful soundrack, great actors, and great story.
Bryan Go ~ Why do people say it was "simpler" times, when it really wasn't? The same thing is said of the 60s and 70s. There was a lot of problems and complexities in the world in the 80s, that brought us to where we are now. It seemed simpler because we saw it through the eyes of youth, our view and fond memories of the time. We filter the bad. Do you think we'll look back on today in 30 years and say it was simpler times?
I don't buy it. Why do you call "simpler" a decade with financial crisis, a constant threat of nuclear war, no treatment for aids, no environmental consciousness, machism and homophobia? Why don't people just enjoy what this decade brought us instead of longing for past decades?
Bryan Go I think what he meant is that there weren’t school shootings, shooting rampages, etc. I really don’t remember anything like that in the ‘80s.
CarNation Luv Yep. You can’t argue with angry liberals. They hate any era and simple, wholesome etc. They hate America. Great movie!
CarNation Luv you’re right about shootings in schools. But you forget that there was hijacking of planes back then.
Great song. Great movie. Entertainment and music hit it's zenith in the 80's. Glad I was a kid during this period.
❤️Used the sound track for my wedding Reception 37 years wow I still love 💕 it.
1985 My dad use to drop me off in my junior high at 5:30am i use to sit around the outdoor lunch area no one around sun barely coming out across the school yard . just myself, my backpack and my walkman… radio stations use to play this song every morning that year.. great memories growing up.. its funny i still havent seen the movie st elmos fire
I don’t know what it is about this song but it is captivating - and still is- after playing it so many times over a period of 30 years!
This movie captured college life, love, and all those little struggles that seemed big then …but now we wish we had again.
Yep, senior year in college at the same time; this movie/ music has always held a special nostalgia with me.
Why is it music and movies from the 80s are still the best? Seems like there is very little imagination in today music and movies.
I think Hollywood runs out of ideas or they try to remake a classic and it bombs. I loved growing up in the 80's. The movies were the best.
the 80s were a total special time.thankfully i was there to witness it all through my teen years.
@@davidpower7515 me too! It is still my favorite decade. I wish some of the fads would come back.
That, my dears, is what I call music ! From someone in his 50's
Cause the 80s had the right balance of everything. A taste of technology but it wasn't over done. Family, hope, opportunity. Everything was in balance. That's why it was such a great time. Today everything is way way way out of balance. We choke on technology and family is now social media. It's out of balance. As a result everything is completely screwed up.
This video illustrates so much the emotion I feel for my time in college in the USA. Thank you for sharing.
My God, where did the time go? 4 children, 2 grandchildren. I saw this on a date at the theater at a cost of $1.75. Thank you, 1980s, for all the memories. Love, us older guys and girls. ❤
I was in high school when this came out, perfect metaphor for being stuck between moving on with your life and at the same time not wanting to let go of your youth...having to say goodbye to the people that were the most important to you at the time and facing an unknown future...a lot to digest when your only 18...I miss that time...
Same here. This music takes me back if only for a short time.
The script of this movie was so brilliantly written, the days great movies depended on talented writers, actors and directors NOT special effects or CGI.
Same. Was a junior in high school in 1985. Fun year for me.
Well said Bryan
@@MsSparklesNGlitter The hype over some movies today confuses me. I’ll watch a movie that everyone is talking about and I am left feeling nothing, like there’s some part of the movie they forgot to put in. I walk away feeling like I missed something. Instead of having an impact on my emotions, it’s covered up with action and special effects. Unless, I’ve just become jaded as I’ve gotten older? 🤪🤯
The nostalgia has me in its grasp. A signature melodic song of the 80s.
The 80's were the best years of my life
This is really great music isn't it?
Totally and completely!
It's what makes the world go round.!!♥️
Still love it
It is the best! I love anything David Foster does. His music is amazing.
@@caseychristenson4056 : Its 2020 and it still fits so right and correct I cry.
Still one of the best movies of the time along with Flashdance...does anyone ever think friends was loosely based on St Elmo's
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I've been in a funk for so many years now since 2020 with all this craziness going on but man give me a brat pack movie soundtrack and I perked right up and get positive. Long live the 80s!
I was a teenager in the 80’s and I absolutely loved this movie,...........fantastic memories ❣️
Thirty-six years have passed by now.
Still a great favourite of mine to play on my sax.
Sadly a few of my school & college friends are now leaving this life.
Sorry about your friends but you need to know there still out there. Its heart breaking to lose people, but the good news is there alive beyond what understand in the mainstream. Always wanted to learn the saxophone just to play this song!
I love this so much. David Foster is genius.
This song is just FANTASTIC! It really tugs at your heartstrings!
Too bad the movie hasn't gotten very good reviews.
I am the same age as all of them. Miss good ole days
The nostalgia that wells up , its unexplicable. Is it sadness? Loss of youth I guess😕? What a beautiful composition of music.
Back again 2023. Just lost a friend yesterday we were friends during this era. If only we knew then, what we know now. Cherish your family and friends, tell them you love them....today, dont wait.💓
Agree
Beautifully stated!
For me...having the best friends ever for decades..it's going through the loves and the breakups, the births and deaths, the good and the bad...always loving..never judging..unconditional friendships. Looking back and really how truly thankful to God I am and how blessed I have been to have such friends in my life!
Yes you hit the nail on the head.
Better to shed a bittersweet tear, than to have blinked and missed the moment. Everything being relative, a life with no pain would be as unbalanced as a life with only joy. There would be no boundary to make a distinction by which time could be measured. Much like the contrast of day and night, one needs struggle and pain to appreciate ease and comfort. Nostalgia is simply the mind crafting a space for those memories to live again. Child's play for an imagination stifled by the 9 to 5 grind, we sometimes are better time-travelers than we give ourselves credit for.
This song is like the love theme of the 80s. David Foster production, saxophone, from a famous film with full of 80s legends, it's kind of corny, it's beautiful, melancholic, dreamy, catchy, cheezy but yet unforgettable. The 80s were the greatest, really. Hit the replay.
Best thing about the 80s was President Reagan....rock and roll is from 1956 when Elvis started his legendary to career, to about 20 years later, when the evil disco crap started ruining music
I'm picking nits, but as a former sax player, someone should have told that chick how to hold one, how to fake play...not even close-lol,,,but will always love this song!
Well put Bella
@@stephenwilson6832
It's true that Rob Lowe did a more convincing job of fake sax playing.
@Lugosi2006: Apt description.
Everything about the 80's was in this song. Classic.
So sad,,I wish I could go back the time,,and enjoy my youth age again😭😭
I can really relate to this movie, maybe im their age & a college dude that time. Will forever cherish 80s the decade, blood sweat & tears
I love this movie !! All the 80's great actors all in one movie 🎥 !!!
Who's still enjoying this in 2024?? 😃👍👍
Me!…From 1996 until now…
Who says you can’t go home again?
Never seen thus before
1985. Seems like a lifetime ago. This piece takes me back.
Me, from 1985. Regards from Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
Miss this music. 80's were great, met my love of my life, lost her after 30 years. This song lifts my heart an my memories of her.
So sorry to hear that Mike...The memories remain dude xx
Condolences, Mike, sorry to read this Sir.
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Sorry to hear about you loss, all the best.
Beautiful memories will always be in our hearts
Sometimes, there is a song that takes you back to a time, a place, a feeling like no other
I was forty when this came out, but I was still charmed by these talented young actors.
The 80’s Demi Moore, St. Elmo’s Fire, About Last Night, No Small Affair, Blame It On Rio, My 80’s crush!!😍😍😍😍 , but this movie made me glad to be young in the 80’s , great times!
I loved this music when I was a kid and it never gets old.
no it doesn't
Glorious decade of the 80s full of creativity in all musical and artistic fields
There is nothing like the 80s
The 80s 👍💙
If I could go back in time, I would put the whole decade on continuous loop and relive it for eternity.
Imagine a world of talentless hip hop. Without musicians 😢.
The 80s were awesome there will never be another time like that ever again
I guess one would call "St. Elmo's Fire" a coming of age tale. When this movie came out, my undergrad years were long past and I had two graduate degrees under my belt. But, for reasons beyond my ken, I was drawn to this movie. The settings, the actors, the music all combined to make a great story. I still appreciate this cinema masterpiece.
Was in College, ready to graduate when this came out. I completely agree with your comments.
a lot of Hollywood's leading actor's in this and they look all so young and vibrant......... God i'm old!
Yes lol we were all so freshed faced with lovely skin but now when I see myself in the mirror as a 56 yrs old I think where is that face
I had 45 RPM records of this and Man in Motion, both from St. Elmo's Fire and both amazing pieces of music! It's a shame we can't get music like this from today's artists!
Today's artists seem to sample all the music from the 80's to make their songs. I have faith in music, originality and creativity will still shine through....eventually.
Brings back many memories. Truly gorgeous and beautiful.
this is one of those songs that automatically take you right back to what was your life was like back then, mostly good times, good friends and your favorite place you would hang at, Sadly enough I lost my best friend due to his weakness of alcohol , Please folks if you know someone who has this addiction, do what you can to save them, drugs arent the only thing that can kill you
Whenever I listen to this or watch this movie, I am reminded about the fact that time doesn’t stand still. There will never be another today. Live it to the fullest and don’t always look back. Great piece of music, David Foster!
Usually, most people want to go back to a time mentally when they were young teens/adults, but I’m finding that the 80”s was an exception because whether you were a child, young adult, old etc.. they all want to cling to this beautiful era in time!
Because the times were simpler and the culture was better.
I envy those who lived through the 80’s, the 90’s were okay and I didn’t hate it but I so wish I lived through the 80’s.
Absolutely. Enough said.
For whatever reason people were happy then. Happier than they had been in the '60s and '70s and happier than they have been ever since.
No thanks!
That scene where Andie MacDowell walks into the party and she’s fluffing out her hair (1:54)...she’s backlit and just looked stunningly beautiful! I’m a straight female but I’ve never seen a more gorgeous woman than her in that scene. Rob Lowe was awfully pretty too! Love this song and movie.
Thanks for your sincere compliment and love, I’m not complete without you as my Fan 🌹 I have you to be most thankful for 🌹🌹💖📺💛
40 years later... she still has it.
Really?! I don’t find her attractive at all. In my view all the other women In this film are way more beautiful than her, even the supposedly nerdy one. I find her irritating as hell, and could never watch her in any movie like four weddings and a funeral and that film with Gerard depardieu. She plays an objectified woman in pretty much every movie - empty and vacuous. Sad that people glamorise shallow women over women with substance.
But each to their own. ✌🏽👍🏽
@@Rubylove48 watch "4 weddings n a funeral "
@@rubenyu593 hated her in that.
This is the movie that needs a sequel.
Yep... and it would begin with an older Kirby being paroled from prison for stalking Dale...😂😂
I’d like to see Dacre Montgomery play Billy!
This is one that I will never forget
I was a senior in high school when this movie was released. I was struggling with knowing one chapter of my life was ending while another chapter was just beginning. This song reminds me of better days when my biggest worry was whether I’d get to see my girlfriend that day. This song reminds me of the time in my life when I was most happiest and when everyone I knew was still alive. Damn, I miss the 1980s. Hell, I miss my youth. I’ve seen this movie easily 50 times. I’ll watch it anytime it is being aired. This movie is the quintessential 1980s movie. This song conjures up unbelievable nostalgia.
...and yet it bombed when it was released didn't it? I was just a kid and I just wanted more fun brat pack movies.... I guess in hindsight it was a clever move having these characters grow up and move on instead of just repeating the same John Hughes formula over and over but, man.... I don't think people got it at the time.
"...and when everyone I knew was still alive." A truly profound insight and statement. I am 67 years old and spent 31 years in the army and air force. A lot of the ones I knew and served with are no more thanks to war. Truly sad.
@Jim Flanary thank you for your service and all your friends who made the ultimate sacrifice. I sometimes feel guilty because only by luck I wasn't sent to war. The luck being born in 66.
Very well said, CM. You articulated what is going on inside my head and heart right now, but much better than I could've.
@@Smackgiverthank you for the compliment. I tell my kids all the time that writing is simply putting your thoughts into words. Anyone can write well, with enough practice.
One of my best theme songs of that decade
If I ever get married, this is going to be my wedding song. I was born in 1968, grew up with songs of the '70s and '80s and this will be the song that I will get married to.
You’re 55 now. Chances of you getting married and having a happy life is slim to none because all the women your age are already married or divorced with lots of baggage. The ones who aren’t married are well…living with cats.
@@JohnLee-db9zt Of all the people who commented, you chose to come after me? I'm good with how things are now. I was being hypothetical with my response to the song, which is my right and everyone else's.
I see you came here to be a disruptive force. Care to comment on the song or what?
I'm 53, female, never married, no kids, no cats, live in my own place, and am mostly okay with it. There are a few of us out there, but not many.
@@te7406 Exactly right, T E! 👍🏻👍🏻
@@brandonholmes8655 Thanks for replying.
Never watched the show but like the music.
I was 17 living in Canada unforgettable !!!!
Every time I hear this song it's almost as if I am hearing it for the very first time.
It moves me in a way I simply can't describe well enough.
It makes me feel very young and very old at the same time.
Like I am watching someone's life pass before my eyes and sometimes I feel that life is my life.
Wonderful music from a time that was so very different from today.
could not have said it better myself.
I was fortunate to grow up in the 80s. This is one of my favorite movies of all, and every time I hear the theme song I think about college and how much I miss it. If anything I learned, if you have to chase your dreams because they won't chase you back...
Every decade has its moments, but the 80s will always be the best for those of us that were fortunate to be able to experience it and wish we could go back.
Sana All
So many memories of a short time in my life when I literally was as happy as you could be. We were all so young and full of promise and we loved each other. We were friends, brothers and sisters. We loved so much. We were perfect for " Just A Moment"....
Bobby, Jason,John, Susan, Jimmy, Lisa, Julie, Janet, Bonnie, and most of all Valerie...I love you all and I will never forget any of you....
Had that Benetton hat in red! Then again what didn't I have from Benetton?!? 80s fashion, once in a life....
It is a breath of fresh air ...taking me back to my teens when life was uncomplicated