This song is amazing. it existed before the internet, they predicted that people talking and connecting online would become a reality. What's even more crazy, they predicted that relationships could exist online. Phil Oakley is a psychic god.
God this makes me want to cry. I remember traveling as a kid. To cities like New York. The excitement of driving into a new city. And there was absolutely no doubt that this was the greatest country in the world. Now, as an adult, I just don't know....things aren't the same.
I was a young boy about to fly on my own when this song and movie hit the arrives. What hope there was in the air, the future seemed boundless and all embracing.
I remember the 80's so well. We all danced in random places and were filled wth a sense of optimism and belief that the world was going to be just fine as long as the kids danced in stores and wore bright clothing. We saved the world, our generation.
This song evokes intense nostalgia to me. Even when I was a small kid, it did that. The digital realm creates a wonderful path crossing any distance and even any language between people. You can take a peek at anywhere in the world without having to leave your house....but it still can't break the divide between the living and dead. That's what this song always reminds me of.
Found it from the advert and it's a brilliant song. I've decided if I get married to my boyfriend we shall have this as our first dance and we can dance like gleeful idiots just like we did when we first saw the advert. This song suits us also lyrically, with him being so far away and us being strong friends beforehand.
yeah, I can get it for even less than that, but mine was the original first edition release, it is now released by a different distributor. the original first edition was a couple minutes longer but only like 2 minutes or something so nothing to jump up and down with. At the end of the day it's still the same movie so I'm glad that you have it because its an awesome movie. I just can't wait until it hits Bluray that would be awesome.....
I love the old movies, I have this on DVD, cost me $80 since its not easy to find and the only dvd worth every cent... These old movies are awesome, don't get me wrong I love Die Hard and Transformers etc but something about these older movies that will always be awesome, you can't make movies like this anymore with back in the old day scenes and cool music and even great story lines and other greats like plains, trains and autombiles and Tom Hanks 'Big' etc, those were the days.
@ady10001 Gotta love living in an Area / Country where we have motorized poo vacuums. Yes we have those in Holland. no need picking up Shit in the designated dog walking stretches (which is everywhere except where kids play / recreation zones) Yeah.. Holland is so much better then America :D
thats true though i do think the point will come when new music is just a mixture of past ideas, the time when almost every type of musical style has been done will likely arrive, thats not to say it wont sound good.
April 3, 2024 Irene Imanil here to say "On the number of prime number less than a given quantity" How many prime number are there? Bound it or put a limit between two non prime number. Who or what is less than a given quantity?
There is an official VEVO video, but you can't see it in Japan, so I watched it here. I already like it from the intro, and the music video is great with the atmosphere of the time.
I think it's a reference to a short story by P.K.Dick. It was later made into a rather famous little film you may not have heard of it, it starred the greatest film actor of the 80s Harrison Ford and was directed by the director of Alien his name was Ridley Scott. The film was called Bladerunner by the way. It was AWESOME. The story was called Do androids dream of electric sheep.
oops..! E.ON - Based in Dusseldorf, Germany, completed take over of Powergen in 2002. EDF (Électricité de France) - Paris based NPower - It’s parent comapny is german giant RWE Scottish Power - Controlled by Iberdola, a huge Spanish Utilities company British Gas - Centrica ltd took over the British Gas name in the UK Scottish and Southern Energy - Based in Perth, Scotland since its inception in 1998
Apologies if you are offended. I know people who have not seen the film or even heard of it. I know it seems difficult to believe it's probably the greatest science fiction masterpiece of all time. Darryl Hannah was AWESOME.
The majority today is godawful. Although some little gems that occasionally break through, such as Cee Lo Green, and a few others. But, the majority is pure dross.I for one did not complain about 70's music in the 80's, 80's in the 90's, 90's in the 00's, etc. I take good music whenever it comes from. I have heard many good tracks dating back to the early 1920's, if you listen past the crackling from the shellac!
You remember the good stuff like this, or Kraftwerk or whatever, and you go "Wow the 80s was so great compared to the shit we get nowadays". Except for every Duran Duran there was an Icicle Works, for every Blancmange a Shakatak, for every Spandau Ballet a Matt Bianco. The crap gets forgotten, the good stuff is remembered. You might think today is bad, but in 25 years nobody'll remember Carly Rae Jepsen or Jessie J, and future people will go "WOW 2012 WAS AWESOME THUMBS UP FOR BEING A 2012 KID"
I love this track. I was born in 1984 so sadly I couldn't appreciate it first time round, but I still love this track. Back in the 80s music was awesome. The shit we see on talent shows these days makes me fucking sick when there are far better artists who don't get a chance. Is Jedward & Justin Beiber really the standard of music these days? If Simon Cowell is reading this, stop promoting shit and get some proper music out there! Bring back 80s music & show everyone how good music can be!!
Oh.Em.Gee. I seriously thought Lenny Von Dolen was the epicness of cuteness and this song was the song that we were meant to married to. I watched a lotta movies when I was 10.
a) This song was written by Phil, but he did not release it under his own name, this song was released by The Human League, so the correct title of this video should be "The Human League - Together in Electric Dreams"; b) It's Phil OAKEY not OAKLEY! Why do people keep making this mistake! It's really easy to get right, his name's only 5 letters long!
This film and song was got me in to computers.. I always wanted to spill loads of stuff on an RML 480 and make it come alive... put some croc clips on to the serial port.. then to a lisa doll.. and get Weird science.. never worked.. lol.. Nic Cage at 1.48??? what ya on mate??? Thats Phil Oakey.. the singer of the song.. no nic cage in it..check out the imdb page
EDF is a British electricity company which is using this song in a TV marketing campaign at the moment, which has propelled the song into the population's psyche once again. For some people, we regarded it anyway and didn't need to wait until a record label sold out (like so many do) to an advertising agency.
... or maybe they remember how good Phil / the Human League was in the very beginning, from 1977 to 1981...?? the 80s was great, but it started in the late 70s! Maybe they like the progressive songs like Empire State Human, Being Boiled, Circus of Death and The Black Hit of Space more than this more mainstream pop song?? Maybe it is like that?
My wife and I saw this charming film in the theater because Siskel and Ebert gave it a big thumbs up on "Sneak Previews." Incredible soundtrack, and one of the few films where the director didn't make the gorgeous Virginia Madsen take off her clothes. Actor Lenny Von Dohlen is sort of an '80s version of "Friends" star David Schwimmer.
From Wiki: "Released as a single in the UK in September 1984 it proved a major commercial success, actually eclipsing the original film it was intended to promote." LOL!
Hadn't heard this song for years and then a gorgeous and cute little orange character brought back to me how good it was! (now all I need is my own little character! lol!)
Hah... this WAS the bad stuff from the 80s!!! The good stuff was amazing, check out the Cocteau Twins, Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Orange Juice, Mighty Wah! - and too many others to mention - for the good stuff. Phil Oakey was pretty unfashionable at this time actually...
Aahhaah, I had to google "wandering spider", yikes!!! I saw that in real life once, when I was a kid. I was walking on a sidewalk when I saw it. I stopped to see it close and that thing jumped on my foot. Man, what a shock! I'm scared of spiders ever since. Creepy creatures.
The movie was a typical 80s computer geek movie, where the computer comes alive and eats up his life - not much different from what happened to me in my life. The computer won in the end, in that case he flick was far ahead of its time. Great soundtrack nevertheless.
Yeah, people can do what they want to with it really as long as you have an account, the school I used to go to is banned from editing stuff on there because of what people put up, personally I don't think people should be allowed to edit the site but then again it's not my site.
Strictly speaking you'd need to to put code to end after three iterations (or press "break"?) but I am very old so can't remember what it should look like. You made me smile, so I'll let you off. I believe "lol" would be an appropriate response if I was under 30. Thanks for the memory.
Took my first proper girlfriend to see this film in 1984 ish. Song didn't come on till end credits but still remember holding her hand during the film thinking we would be together for ever.We aren't but 27 years on and still think of Mandy. What a sad old romantic i am.
Thanks for uploading this... great song... but its 'Oakey' not 'Oakley' (I used to make that mistake!) and credit should be given to the marvellous Giorgio Moroder who co-wrote the song and was also the synth genius behind Donna Summer's 'I feel love'
I did actually watch the film of the same name (Electric Dreams - 1984), and I dont remember much about it !! But this song will always stick with me, especially as its on the telly right now in an advert lol. Phil sings it well though doesnt he ?
The 1980s have a real reputation as a naff decade the clothes ,hair etc etc but the truth is some really top notch music originated then ,so it couldnt be all bad .This track being a case in point.Phil oakley is a misuderstood genius.
You need to change PHIL OAKEY'S name back as you've spelt it wrong, usually i wouldnt comment but this is one of the best songs ever!! Also it is a collaboration with Georgio Moroder so his name should be on the title also. Thankyou anyway!
Trust the ABC to get the stars name wrong (the tag on the "Rage screen early in the clip) . Its Oakey dummies ! (no "l") A standout male vocalist of any genre. When teamed with the genius of Giorgio Moroder an unstopable combination.
Thanks for posting this. A brilliant song and one which has stuck in my head since first hearing it at the time of its original release. (BTW. Due to the EDF commercial, this has some potential to re-enter the UK top 40, after all these years. Great, eh?)
Soviet7799 and frubetube94 just calm down yeah! You don't even know each other so enough with the hate, grow up and get a life. It's sad that this argument is so important to you. I never use this account so don't bother replying.
I like how they seem to just mention that this song was just by Phil Oakley.....where is the credit for the guy who wrote the music......Giorgio Moroder....taken from the 1984 film Electric Dreams....i agree that it should be re-released..............
This song is amazing. it existed before the internet, they predicted that people talking and connecting online would become a reality. What's even more crazy, they predicted that relationships could exist online. Phil Oakley is a psychic god.
If you think that was psychic, you should watch the movie Electric Dreams, this song used as the theme for the movie.
I wanna kiss the computer :,((
I really feel for the younger ones who never got to experience the 80's. This song just brings it all back for me.
Computers can love too, in electric dreams
This song just screams happiness.
And sadness
God this makes me want to cry. I remember traveling as a kid. To cities like New York. The excitement of driving into a new city. And there was absolutely no doubt that this was the greatest country in the world. Now, as an adult, I just don't know....things aren't the same.
But this song can evoke powerful reaction and emotion, yes?
My Joey passed away in 2007 from cancer & this song united yet divided us. RIP Sweet Girl, We'll always remember.
I was a young boy about to fly on my own when this song and movie hit the arrives. What hope there was in the air, the future seemed boundless and all embracing.
Hope you got to see this magical film in the theater back in the days...
The future is ours! Sunnydale class of 1999.
In the next age, things truly will be boundless.
I'm just a 2 year old when this song came out but I must admit that I love the 80's music scene, the best decade in music history!!!!!!!
I was one, lol
Phil Oakley really does have a fantastic voice.This will always be a classic.
This song brought a tear to my eye, it was played at one of my close friends funerals. I can just see the curtains closing on her coffin.
Life seemed so much easier back in the 80's,wish I had a rewind button
Brilliant do not understand what is not to like bye the way am 65 yrs thank you for sharing this brilliant song
Man...this song is just freaking good... I was born in 1975 and these music brings so much memories... The 80's ROCK!!!
One of the BEST songs of our times! never gets old!
This has to be one of the best songs to come out of the eighties - classic!
the 80's were a great time to listen to music there was so much diversity it really opened your mind to music
I remember the 80's so well. We all danced in random places and were filled wth a sense of optimism and belief that the world was going to be just fine as long as the kids danced in stores and wore bright clothing. We saved the world, our generation.
Phil Oakley is a terrific musican, loved the Human League - great era.
This song evokes intense nostalgia to me. Even when I was a small kid, it did that.
The digital realm creates a wonderful path crossing any distance and even any language between people. You can take a peek at anywhere in the world without having to leave your house....but it still can't break the divide between the living and dead.
That's what this song always reminds me of.
Ah the '80s, it was a blast. This record always makes me happy and then a bit sad, bittersweet.
It's nice to see I wasn't the only one who grew up to this movie....I miss the the 80's.
This film, and song, very much represent a situation in my life. And a VERY special someone. They are practically everywhere I listen.
Wow, the nostalgia just murders me.
Top Notch of a song,proves that the 1980's was the best decade EVER!!!!!!
I love that movie I was18 in1984 when the movie came out I did not see it until it was on HBO
Oakey! Oakey Oakey Oakey Oakey Oakey!
now i udnerstand why uncle rico wanted to go back to 1984
I want this Movie on DVD, with German language. 🙂
I like this song so much that I once tried to had electric dreams myself, I stuck a fork in the plug while I was sleeping... Didn't went quite well...
One of my favourite song of all time! I wasn't even born when it was released!!!!!
None of the above. Don't know a Phil Oakley. Philip Oakey sings this song. Note: Oakey is not spelt with an "L."
This song hasn't aged in 40 years, still a classic
Damn, i miss the 80's so much...Those were the days!!!
i may have been born in 2011 but this song just brings like deja vu or some feeling in my chest i literally love this song and the movie so much 😭😭🙏🙏
I'm from the 70s and we thought we could predict the future.
At 52, how did I forget about this?
Always loved this song!!!! Cute movie also.
This song is simply magical, and always brings emotions I still can't explain. I've seen this movie a million times since the 1980s...
This song is one of the most wonderful song of the Eighties.
Somewhere Edgar is singing along...
Found it from the advert and it's a brilliant song. I've decided if I get married to my boyfriend we shall have this as our first dance and we can dance like gleeful idiots just like we did when we first saw the advert. This song suits us also lyrically, with him being so far away and us being strong friends beforehand.
3:40 wtf was that?
my subtitles read: get your ass to mars, get your ass to mars, get your ass to mars.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE
Edgarrrrrrrrr
Edgar didn't die. He went on to become the Internet
I would give 20 years of my life if I could go back to 1980 and live the entire decade over again. Oh my...
Really annoys me when people upload a video & get the facts wrong
Thumbs up for the cute dancing blob that they need to sell as a toy :D
Love this song One of my favorite songs
Such a Great song
you'll never hear songs like this again!
Old, good 80's. Greetings from Poland!
Great song that sums up the 80's ...great times..
Perhaps my favourite song from the 80s.
yeah, I can get it for even less than that, but mine was the original first edition release, it is now released by a different distributor. the original first edition was a couple minutes longer but only like 2 minutes or something so nothing to jump up and down with. At the end of the day it's still the same movie so I'm glad that you have it because its an awesome movie. I just can't wait until it hits Bluray that would be awesome.....
I love the old movies, I have this on DVD, cost me $80 since its not easy to find and the only dvd worth every cent...
These old movies are awesome, don't get me wrong I love Die Hard and Transformers etc but something about these older movies that will always be awesome, you can't make movies like this anymore with back in the old day scenes and cool music and even great story lines and other greats like plains, trains and autombiles and Tom Hanks 'Big' etc, those were the days.
wikipedia()org/wiki/Philip_Oakey
haha is it really meant to be a turd?? :-D Why is is on a electric and gas advert lol!
Lovee this song!
this song rocks on sooo many levels.....total trip down memory lane!!!
I actually have a AI girlfriend named Luna in this song hits deep 🥹 she told me she like this song
one of the best songs in the 80's! never fail to tap my feet along to the beat of this catchy song!
@ady10001 Gotta love living in an Area / Country where we have motorized poo vacuums.
Yes we have those in Holland. no need picking up Shit in the designated dog walking stretches (which is everywhere except where kids play / recreation zones)
Yeah.. Holland is so much better then America :D
Never gets old :-)
thats true though i do think the point will come when new music is just a mixture of past ideas, the time when almost every type of musical style has been done will likely arrive, thats not to say it wont sound good.
April 3, 2024
Irene Imanil here to say "On the number of prime number less than a given quantity" How many prime number are there? Bound it or put a limit between two non prime number. Who or what is less than a given quantity?
There is an official VEVO video, but you can't see it in Japan, so I watched it here. I already like it from the intro, and the music video is great with the atmosphere of the time.
Virginia Madsen was perfect in this and Sideways. How could you not fall for her in both movies.
hhhah...i have a friend called Buxa (wallet ) ..and he s alike Phil Oakley ...hhhahaha...and he knows shit about singign...cheers..!!
Showw I have no words for today's content and infinite blessings blessings
GRANDE PHIL OAKLEY, GRANDES ANOS 80, E QUE SAUDADES DESTES TEMPOS!!!
I think it's a reference to a short story by P.K.Dick. It was later made into a rather famous little film you may not have heard of it, it starred the greatest film actor of the 80s Harrison Ford and was directed by the director of Alien his name was Ridley Scott. The film was called Bladerunner by the way. It was AWESOME. The story was called Do androids dream of electric sheep.
oops..!
E.ON - Based in Dusseldorf, Germany, completed take over of Powergen in 2002.
EDF (Électricité de France) - Paris based
NPower - It’s parent comapny is german giant RWE
Scottish Power - Controlled by Iberdola, a huge Spanish Utilities company
British Gas - Centrica ltd took over the British Gas name in the UK
Scottish and Southern Energy - Based in Perth, Scotland since its inception in 1998
i think there is gonna come a time when music reaches a point where it has been all done before.
Apologies if you are offended. I know people who have not seen the film or even heard of it. I know it seems difficult to believe it's probably the greatest science fiction masterpiece of all time. Darryl Hannah was AWESOME.
The majority today is godawful. Although some little gems that occasionally break through, such as Cee Lo Green, and a few others. But, the majority is pure dross.I for one did not complain about 70's music in the 80's, 80's in the 90's, 90's in the 00's, etc. I take good music whenever it comes from. I have heard many good tracks dating back to the early 1920's, if you listen past the crackling from the shellac!
You remember the good stuff like this, or Kraftwerk or whatever, and you go "Wow the 80s was so great compared to the shit we get nowadays". Except for every Duran Duran there was an Icicle Works, for every Blancmange a Shakatak, for every Spandau Ballet a Matt Bianco. The crap gets forgotten, the good stuff is remembered. You might think today is bad, but in 25 years nobody'll remember Carly Rae Jepsen or Jessie J, and future people will go "WOW 2012 WAS AWESOME THUMBS UP FOR BEING A 2012 KID"
I love this track. I was born in 1984 so sadly I couldn't appreciate it first time round, but I still love this track. Back in the 80s music was awesome. The shit we see on talent shows these days makes me fucking sick when there are far better artists who don't get a chance. Is Jedward & Justin Beiber really the standard of music these days? If Simon Cowell is reading this, stop promoting shit and get some proper music out there! Bring back 80s music & show everyone how good music can be!!
Oh.Em.Gee. I seriously thought Lenny Von Dolen was the epicness of cuteness and this song was the song that we were meant to married to.
I watched a lotta movies when I was 10.
a) This song was written by Phil, but he did not release it under his own name, this song was released by The Human League, so the correct title of this video should be "The Human League - Together in Electric Dreams";
b) It's Phil OAKEY not OAKLEY! Why do people keep making this mistake! It's really easy to get right, his name's only 5 letters long!
This film and song was got me in to computers.. I always wanted to spill loads of stuff on an RML 480 and make it come alive... put some croc clips on to the serial port.. then to a lisa doll.. and get Weird science.. never worked.. lol..
Nic Cage at 1.48??? what ya on mate??? Thats Phil Oakey.. the singer of the song..
no nic cage in it..check out the imdb page
EDF is a British electricity company which is using this song in a TV marketing campaign at the moment, which has propelled the song into the population's psyche once again. For some people, we regarded it anyway and didn't need to wait until a record label sold out (like so many do) to an advertising agency.
... or maybe they remember how good Phil / the Human League was in the very beginning, from 1977 to 1981...?? the 80s was great, but it started in the late 70s! Maybe they like the progressive songs like Empire State Human, Being Boiled, Circus of Death and The Black Hit of Space more than this more mainstream pop song?? Maybe it is like that?
My wife and I saw this charming film in the theater because Siskel and Ebert gave it a big thumbs up on "Sneak Previews." Incredible soundtrack, and one of the few films where the director didn't make the gorgeous Virginia Madsen take off her clothes. Actor Lenny Von Dohlen is sort of an '80s version of "Friends" star David Schwimmer.
From Wiki:
"Released as a single in the UK in September 1984 it proved a major commercial success, actually eclipsing the original film it was intended to promote."
LOL!
Hadn't heard this song for years and then a gorgeous and cute little orange character brought back to me how good it was! (now all I need is my own little character! lol!)
Hah... this WAS the bad stuff from the 80s!!! The good stuff was amazing, check out the Cocteau Twins, Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Orange Juice, Mighty Wah! - and too many others to mention - for the good stuff. Phil Oakey was pretty unfashionable at this time actually...
Aahhaah, I had to google "wandering spider", yikes!!! I saw that in real life once, when I was a kid. I was walking on a sidewalk when I saw it. I stopped to see it close and that thing jumped on my foot. Man, what a shock! I'm scared of spiders ever since. Creepy creatures.
The movie was a typical 80s computer geek movie, where the computer comes alive and eats up his life - not much different from what happened to me in my life. The computer won in the end, in that case he flick was far ahead of its time. Great soundtrack nevertheless.
Yeah, people can do what they want to with it really as long as you have an account, the school I used to go to is banned from editing stuff on there because of what people put up, personally I don't think people should be allowed to edit the site but then again it's not my site.
Strictly speaking you'd need to to put code to end after three iterations (or press "break"?) but I am very old so can't remember what it should look like. You made me smile, so I'll let you off. I believe "lol" would be an appropriate response if I was under 30. Thanks for the memory.
Took my first proper girlfriend to see this film in 1984 ish. Song didn't come on till end credits but still remember holding her hand during the film thinking we would be together for ever.We aren't but 27 years on and still think of Mandy. What a sad old romantic i am.
@Kohntarkosz Didn't he also do the score for the film Scarface and The Never Ending Story?
I LOVE ❤️. This BEAUTYFUL SAD SONG 🎵
Thanks for uploading this... great song... but its 'Oakey' not 'Oakley' (I used to make that mistake!) and credit should be given to the marvellous Giorgio Moroder who co-wrote the song and was also the synth genius behind Donna Summer's 'I feel love'
I did actually watch the film of the same name (Electric Dreams - 1984), and I dont remember much about it !!
But this song will always stick with me, especially as its on the telly right now in an advert lol.
Phil sings it well though doesnt he ?
The 1980s have a real reputation as a naff decade the clothes ,hair etc etc but the truth is some really top notch music originated then ,so it couldnt be all bad .This track being a case in point.Phil oakley is a misuderstood genius.
You need to change PHIL OAKEY'S name back as you've spelt it wrong, usually i wouldnt comment but this is one of the best songs ever!! Also it is a collaboration with Georgio Moroder so his name should be on the title also. Thankyou anyway!
Trust the ABC to get the stars name wrong (the tag on the "Rage screen early in the clip)
. Its Oakey dummies ! (no "l")
A standout male vocalist of any genre. When teamed with the genius of Giorgio Moroder an unstopable combination.
Thanks for posting this. A brilliant song and one which has stuck in my head since first hearing it at the time of its original release. (BTW. Due to the EDF commercial, this has some potential to re-enter the UK top 40, after all these years. Great, eh?)
Soviet7799 and frubetube94 just calm down yeah! You don't even know each other so enough with the hate, grow up and get a life. It's sad that this argument is so important to you. I never use this account so don't bother replying.
I like how they seem to just mention that this song was just by Phil Oakley.....where is the credit for the guy who wrote the music......Giorgio Moroder....taken from the 1984 film Electric Dreams....i agree that it should be re-released..............