That's been an anthem for me for years! Saw them in London back in 82 twice, and going to be seeing them next month in Christchurch NZ. Go The Members!
Thanks so very much for uploading this timeless classic. I have been a Members fan for decades and this is the first time i have seen this video. Great video, great song, lyrics. "and ye know no one so ye don't go out, and ye eat outta tins and ye watch television"
Leningrad Cowboys Go America is a 1989 road movie by Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki about the adventures of the Leningrad Cowboys, an eccentric band that travels to the United States to become successful, and combines their brand of polka music with various American styles as they make their way to Mexico.
I don't know about never being broadcast till it was uploaded here. I definitely remember seeing a clip for this song back in the early '80s and I remember the scene of him stirring his baked beans. Maybe there were two versions.
Great song and I think the video really captured the song. The views of the subway look fuckin' scary. No cameras, lots of corners, dark with trash strewn along.
Great upload! I love the sonic elements of The Members due in part to Steve Lillywhite's production. It has a crisp, new wave, 1979 feel to it. If you like this song then check out the fantastic "At the Chelsea Nightclub" album, chock-full of classics including "Soho-A-Go-Go" and "Love In A Lift".
I had to order this from England when I lived in Canada. It cost me $18, which was a helluva lot of money, slightly more than double the price of a regular lp. But well worth it!
I was held hostage in Bislig in the Southern Philippines once a few years ago ... I doubt I would have got out of there if I didnt have my "best of the members" CD with me ... Solitary confinement ripples through the jungle like nothing else :-D
quelle bonne musique passé à l'epoque dans mon lit des heures durant quand j allais me couche et encore beaucoup de morceau a trouver dont 1 des members uniquement a la basse que je ne trouve pas. help me. merci.
just tryingto think have i got the 12 inch version of this away somewere. reggae song on the other side, cant reme.... o yes off shore banking business. serious. having a look now.
Well, I learned something today. Laugh if you will, but I never knew the Newtown Neurotics' "Living with Unemployment" was a Members cover. No, go on. Laugh it up.
i always figured Living With Unemployment by the Newtown Neurotics was an original, but apparently was taken from Solitary Confinement by The Members. Newtown Neurotics - "Living with Unemployment"
im doin solo isolation in NZ, made me think of this track. i remember seeing these kids in a downtown basement club in auckland, cant tell ya what year, dont remember that bit.
@@johnietaylor1817 hi bro ... im in auckland .., remember this song so well ... was it at mainstreet nightclub .... top queen st ., used have all the bands back then ... you know AK 79 days .. toy live ..marching girls proud scum .. terrorways ,, remember them all so well .im 60 ...
These would have been great lyrics for old Rudy Hess to have recited or a great tune for him to have hummed whilst still alive in Spandau Prison. Perhaps someone should have sent him in a record player and some vinyl 45's.
...whatta band...i just heard the PEEL SESSIONS version of "Love in a Lift" and had to dig out my copy of the "FLYING HIGH" ep to get the STINCH of the Peel Session Version OUT of my head...GLAD they did NOT stick with the Hard Rock / REGGAE version...YUK...but whatta HIT that diddy iz...!!!
THE MIGHTY FINE PUB IN PORTSMOTH WELL KNOWN SKINHEAD/PUNK/BIKERS/SAILORS BAR THIS WAS THE LAST RECORD EVERY NIGHT ..FIGHT OR GO HOME TIME ,,INTO THE SOUTHSEA NIGHTCLUBS FULLY PUMPED UP..GREAT DAYS
The original single of this was released on Stiff before they signed to Virgin.Their first released song was "Fear on the Streets" which was on a compilation called "Streets" released in 1977
i love the part when they say "! on your own by yourself by yourself on your own.... buy yourself this record.... genius"
Yeah me to ..... classic line ....
"By yourself, by yourself, buy yourself....THIS RECORD"....and we did. :-)
@@scottleft3672 remember ... magazine SOAP ... .?
@@mikes6970 No, sorry...Sniffin Glue, absolutly....i didn't read TV week either.
Uhhh I think this comments is 8 years old.......
RIP Nicky Tesco Thanks for the music and everything x
I LOVED PUNK AND THE SEVENTIES, WISH WE COULD GO BACK.
Oh yes.
I'm 63.
Fucking love it.
That's been an anthem for me for years! Saw them in London back in 82 twice, and going to be seeing them next month in Christchurch NZ. Go The Members!
Another kiwi ... i remember this song coming out .. loved it then ... still great now ... didnt realise they toured here 6 yrs ago ...
From another Kiwi who moved to London in '80 and remember this song so well - it fitted me at the time..
🇳🇿👍
Great song, great album. Still on my iPod after around 40 years (well vinyl, then cassette, then CD, then iPod)
……then back to vinyl, love it!
So many hooks in one song, always loved it 👍
i can never get enough of two mlnutes and a bit on this video youthfull passion brilliant . Nicky Tesco.
golly, nicky and the band look soooo young! memory time!
One of my fav songs from the Punk era. First time to see the vid, brilliant. Thanks for posting a true classic.
A whole lotta love for punk underground 💗
what year is this song?
It's only been like a year since I heard this song, but I felt the necessity of just playing it three times in a row.
It has been 35 years sin e I have heard this!!! Brilliant!
SOLITARY CONFIRMENT i bought myself this record and felt solonely coz noone hads heard of this GREAT CLASSIC CHELSEA NIGHTCLUB lp timeless classic
Loved the album- thrashed it!
Thanks so very much for uploading this timeless classic. I have been a Members fan for decades and this is the first time i have seen this video. Great video, great song, lyrics. "and ye know no one so ye don't go out, and ye eat outta tins and ye watch television"
Absolutely love this song
God damn love these guys for tge last 15 yrs , heard theyare touring please come to the USA
Very apt at the moment! Class band and track!
Leningrad Cowboys Go America is a 1989 road movie by Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki about the adventures of the Leningrad Cowboys, an eccentric band that travels to the United States to become successful, and combines their brand of polka music with various American styles as they make their way to Mexico.
This was a must play, in the day.
One of my favorite songs!
I feel lucky to have been exposed to this record when it first came out.
great band .still got suburbs in clear vynil,i have the twelve inch version of this,great times.
A brilliant song by an amazing group. The choice was mine.
Brilliant and honest song. Great to see the video made for it, thanks.
Awesome. This toon, so good, is one that dabblers are unsure as to who put it down!! Truly....,,,,Mistress Bex 💋
I don't know about never being broadcast till it was uploaded here. I definitely remember seeing a clip for this song back in the early '80s and I remember the scene of him stirring his baked beans. Maybe there were two versions.
Great song and I think the video really captured the song. The views of the subway look fuckin' scary. No cameras, lots of corners, dark with trash strewn along.
Great upload! I love the sonic elements of The Members due in part to Steve Lillywhite's production. It has a crisp, new wave, 1979 feel to it.
If you like this song then check out the fantastic "At the Chelsea Nightclub" album, chock-full of classics including "Soho-A-Go-Go" and "Love In A Lift".
spot on.
I had to order this from England when I lived in Canada. It cost me $18, which was a helluva lot of money, slightly more than double the price of a regular lp. But well worth it!
Mind blowing.
I was held hostage in Bislig in the Southern Philippines once a few years ago ... I doubt I would have got out of there if I didnt have my "best of the members" CD with me ... Solitary confinement ripples through the jungle like nothing else :-D
Been to Philippines many times, but never had an adventure quite like that!
Gosh….is Bislig not safe?……I have a fiancé and daughter there……I hope it’s changed from when you posted this comment 😮
Rest in peace Nicky.
I love this song from the member thank you for having it for my listening pleasure. Awesome
Great song about life...
Great stuff. Haven't listened to The Members before, but being a Kaurismäki fan, Nicky Tesco's a familiar face. Glad I gave this a try.
brilliant track, I had this on 12 inch vinyl extended with "Pennies in the pound" excellent
Same as , went on longer with the sax, brilliant.
Great band!!!
I haven't heard this in 20 or so years. Thanks for the upload!
quelle bonne musique passé à l'epoque dans mon lit des heures durant quand j allais me couche et encore beaucoup de morceau a trouver dont 1 des members uniquement a la basse que je ne trouve pas. help me.
merci.
Terrific tune!
Brilliant!
Chrissake. Another one of us gone.
R.I.P
love this song thanks for posting the vid
Que temazo, no pasan los años
come back to Dublin!
just tryingto think have i got the 12 inch version of this away somewere. reggae song on the other side, cant reme.... o yes off shore banking business. serious. having a look now.
Wicked just love em!!. . . If anyone knows chords for any members songs could they post them pleeeeease!!!!
Did they do this first . I thought it was the Newtown Neurotics with living with unemployment.
The Members did it First! The Neurotics were also Great!
Genius!
I want the live version with the singer wearing a cast!!!
I never even knew a video had been made for this....thankyou youtube
70s magic, love it!!!
For Si Parry..love you ❤️
And you are under lockdown...Love this song, thanks! Stay safe. :)
They were from the next town or village from where I grew up. Viva la Yateley. Lol. Top tune
+Steven Wheeler Camberley ahoy! :D It's like this song is about me!
What the world needs right now
Brilliant
THE MEMBERS ROCK
So true
Could do with being re-digitised with the correct interlace field order, so you don't get the comb effect on motion and pans
This Was Rescued from a Damaged American Umatic Tape... it is what it it is
excellent, ça ne vieillit pas!
“I’ve got a crush, she’s got a 40 inch bust”.
"this is great!" .. my Quadrophenia quote
i wish they could attach the original recording to this video.
This is a reworking of the Newtown Neurotics song called Living with unemployment!
Incorrect - this came first -
Nicky Tesco sorry to hear
Well, I learned something today. Laugh if you will, but I never knew the Newtown Neurotics' "Living with Unemployment" was a Members cover.
No, go on. Laugh it up.
Anthem!
R.I.P Nicky Tesco 27-02-2022
i always figured Living With Unemployment by the Newtown Neurotics was an original, but apparently was taken from Solitary Confinement by The Members.
Newtown Neurotics - "Living with Unemployment"
1981 in Canada!
RIP Nicky Tesco
@gillesmathonnet
Le seul morceau instrumental des Members que je connais c'est Handling The Big Jets.
Par contre y'a pas que de la basse.
Who's here for coronavirus lock down
Songs like this keep you going though! Strange times!
im doin solo isolation in NZ, made me think of this track. i remember seeing these kids in a downtown basement club in auckland, cant tell ya what year, dont remember that bit.
@@johnietaylor1817 hi bro ... im in auckland .., remember this song so well ... was it at mainstreet nightclub .... top queen st ., used have all the bands back then ... you know AK 79 days .. toy live ..marching girls proud scum .. terrorways ,, remember them all so well .im 60 ...
Ifount myself singing it quietly a week or 2 ago....when the neibors started abusing each other over pettier than usual shit...lol.
Sound quality is crap whomever uploaded this though...I'm on a 12 hour work shift lockdown😂
Classic!
Reminds me of that song sound of the suburbs...not sure who sung it?
the members sung it
#onlyinSurrey! Camberley! Nicky Tesco!
These would have been great lyrics for old Rudy Hess to have recited or a great tune for him to have hummed whilst still alive in Spandau Prison. Perhaps someone should have sent him in a record player and some vinyl 45's.
does anyone have the lyrics?
Excellent as it always has been, J.C.!!!
yep
...whatta band...i just heard the PEEL SESSIONS version of "Love in a Lift" and had to dig out my copy of the "FLYING HIGH" ep to get the STINCH of the Peel Session Version OUT of my head...GLAD they did NOT stick with the Hard Rock / REGGAE version...YUK...but whatta HIT that diddy iz...!!!
1:06 he looks good in a beard. he should have kept it.
Is that Old Street tube station near the end where he's running out?
these people made a shit out of my house one night in Los Angeles, and drank all the good stuff.
rupertps yeah but America deserves it 👍
Tesco rules!
THE MIGHTY FINE PUB IN PORTSMOTH WELL KNOWN SKINHEAD/PUNK/BIKERS/SAILORS BAR THIS WAS THE LAST RECORD EVERY NIGHT ..FIGHT OR GO HOME TIME ,,INTO THE SOUTHSEA NIGHTCLUBS FULLY PUMPED UP..GREAT DAYS
lucky you
Not only is this song fantastic, but the Newtown Neurotics cover Living with Unemployment is great, too
Not quite a cover, more a reimagining, to use the vernacular
Fuckin brilliant
The Members did a great job of pretending they were punky for a short time! Good shit!
This is why we unionize
😍
sounds like the original on stiff one off
love it !
Fucking brilliant!
♥♥♥
did anything change in all those years? No man, it`s still the same.
I found the lyrics on songmeanings. net. Try to search on google this query: solitary confinement living in a bedsit.
Good tune, but I think I prefer the other version of it. They released another version on Stiff Records.
The original single of this was released on Stiff before they signed to Virgin.Their first released song was "Fear on the Streets" which was on a compilation called "Streets" released in 1977