It was superstition... Tom had collapsed before this was to be released as a single. He thought it was a bad omen. Most of the singles were destroyed. Too bad, great song!! One of their best!
Gimme DRUM!... i always loved this song. and still sing it. i just turned 50 on sunday. the irony is my wife was sliding on dirty sheets when i met her.
Essa música é muito a cara da minha infância! Eu tinha esse disco do Thompson Twins e adorava colocar pra escutar quando chegava da escola. Uma canção muito nostálgica pra mim! Adoro!
Wow! This is a really good song, I never heard it before today because it wasn't included on their 1996 Greatest Hits compilation, but the extremely mediocre "King For A Day" was. I don't care for that one. IMO, it was the band XTC that did the best ever song called "King For A Day"!
I have a great station in my area that plays a lot of great new wave and 80s. I only became aware of this song a few years as well thanks to that station. Now it's one of my favorite tunes by TT.
@DerVeet This is the original version, at least this was the version that was released on the reissue CD of Here's To Future Days. There is an alternate version of BMG's Greatest Hits album though.
Yes, this is the original version of the song that was released back in 1985 on USA pressings of the CD by Arista Records in the USA. Since its original1985 release, Arista Records has gone through several ownership changes. First, being an independent label run by Clive Davis, then tied to RCA Records when Birtlesman Music Group (BMG) bought both labels in the 1990's, and now as part of Sony since they bought BMG's music division.
This is definitely the original. I bought the cassette when it came out, and it sounded exactly like this! I was 16 at the time and must have listened to this whole album hundreds of times... until the cassette wore out and the tape broke.
Still in my rotation 35 years later
Thompson twin tunes always had a kick ass bass sound.
If there ever was a perfect song, this one is very close.
its shocking at how powerfully this song and album brings back memories from that time. makes me feel a weird melancholy
Same
Thompson Twins always had a great groove in their music.
Great artists
Well said
Love Steve Stevens and his raygun guitar!
This album was a must have for road trips. This is my favorite song off of it.
It's my favorite song by them.
I can't stop listening to this song!
Did you grow up Catholic?
Well done music production.
80s classic's , last of the great 80's, romanticism movement. ... gone forever. all we have now is bubblegum bull shight. now....
I don't why Tom hated this song and didn't want it on the Album? Gladly, it made it in the US but not the UK album version
It was superstition... Tom had collapsed before this was to be released as a single. He thought it was a bad omen. Most of the singles were destroyed. Too bad, great song!! One of their best!
This is some of their finest work.
Love this one! great arrangement and surprising emotional resonance. thanks!
Gimme DRUM!...
i always loved this song. and still sing it. i just turned 50 on sunday. the irony is my wife was sliding on dirty sheets when i met her.
It would have been polite to at least clean the sheets.
Or only true love might not come her way...but it did, lucky her!
Great song & can't stop your feeds
Essa música é muito a cara da minha infância! Eu tinha esse disco do Thompson Twins e adorava colocar pra escutar quando chegava da escola. Uma canção muito nostálgica pra mim! Adoro!
Wow! This is a really good song, I never heard it before today because it wasn't included on their 1996 Greatest Hits compilation, but the extremely mediocre "King For A Day" was. I don't care for that one. IMO, it was the band XTC that did the best ever song called "King For A Day"!
I have a great station in my area that plays a lot of great new wave and 80s. I only became aware of this song a few years as well thanks to that station. Now it's one of my favorite tunes by TT.
never released. pulled a day before it should have come out.
@DerVeet This is the original version, at least this was the version that was released on the reissue CD of Here's To Future Days. There is an alternate version of BMG's Greatest Hits album though.
Yes, this is the original version of the song that was released back in 1985 on USA pressings of the CD by Arista Records in the USA. Since its original1985 release, Arista Records has gone through several ownership changes. First, being an independent label run by Clive Davis, then tied to RCA Records when Birtlesman Music Group (BMG) bought both labels in the 1990's, and now as part of Sony since they bought BMG's music division.
@weiner1988 This is the original. At least this I elieve so, as this version was released on the reissue CD of Here's To Future Days.
This is definitely the original. I bought the cassette when it came out, and it sounded exactly like this! I was 16 at the time and must have listened to this whole album hundreds of times... until the cassette wore out and the tape broke.
# giveadrum
Your welcome.
Is that not the original one? I didn't know.
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great song writing