Absolutely!!! Fantastic song, and it SOUNDS awesome, too- 2thumbs WAY up to whomever recorded and produced it! That haunting slide guitar solo gets me every time!
I love when this song comes on and I'm in my car. I turn up the radio and just melt back into my seat cruising. In my 60+ years, I'm so blessed to have so many favorite tunes I absolutely love! There's nothing better than when a great rock song comes on the radio!
@oldschool8432 Well, no, not living in no time machine here. I'm just living in 2024! Well, maybe you need to listen to the radio more often, and then maybe you'll be caught up!
Well, you there in your 60 + years you need to move to the South then, where we know how to rock to those older tunes cause our local dj's still know what we like!
that's the first time i ever heard it and love it ! Driving through the Texas Hill country at night 6 years ago and heard it on Sirius XM Classic rewind, That shit was epic !!!
@@rodleckemby3008 I think often about being a teen during the hair band revolution and feel quite lucky to have lived through such an amazing and transforming of music. It makes me sad that we are no longer in that era and that most "music" now (the result of 98% of pop music being written by only a couple of people) is lacking. We also are young enough (in mind and spirit at least) to appreciate the existence of symphonic metal like Nightwish, Blind Guardian and Dark Moor and it is so gratifying to have found current music that makes me feel like I did in the heady decade of the '80s! :)
Lunatic Fringe I know you're out there You're in hiding And you hold your meetings We can hear you coming We know what you're after We're wise to you this time We won't let you kill the laughter Lunatic Fringe In the twilight's last gleaming This is open season But you won't get too far We know you've got to blame someone For your own confusion But we're on guard this time Against your final solution We can hear you coming (We can hear you coming) No you're not going to win this time We can hear the footsteps (We can hear the footsteps) Way out along the walkway Lunatic Fringe We know you're out there But in these new dark ages There will still be light An eye for an eye Well, before you go under Can you feel the resistance Can you feel the....thunder
@@andrewdavy9921 It is like the writer is pure-corporate, politically inert. This is like East German Stasi-police lyrics. Report on your neighbor! Record their apartment! Monitor the public! hey thanks a lot, Tom. 'Glad that worked out for you.
This song, Twilight Zone by Golden Earring & In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins, the intro & buildup to these songs are so powerful. They grab you & hold you to the point where you have no choice but to listen & by then it's too late, you're hooked. I love it. 80's forever.
I agree 👍 and speaking of Golden Earring, when I was driving in my '66 Mustang and playing my 8-tracks, if I heard Radar Love, I couldn't help speeding up a little. It's like that song made my heart race, and my engine, too. Another song by Bachman Turner Overdrive, Taking Care of Business, was another song that pushed my foot to the metal. Different times! Gas was 35 cents a gallon and I'd drive rural roads around the lake listening to great music. I wasn't even really a BTO fan, but that sang got my blood to flowing. Honestly, though, Radar Love was meant to be driving to.
Wow. Just 58 yrs. I'm 58 and I hope to live 'til I'm 100. I can't bear the thought of leaving my kids and grandkids. My condolences to you and your family.🥀❤️🪽
Vision Quest memories... in the 80s I taped this song off a radio station, isolated this one song and made a full 90 minute Maxell Gold tape (45 minutes per side) of just this one song to lift weights to using my Walkman. Now that’s motivation 😂😂. And I never got sick of it. The 80s were the best of times
i will never change my style of listening to 60's 70's and 80's classic rock music. i am 43 years old and always listened to this music. i followed my dad's footsteps. he passed away in 2006. i love you dad and i will always miss you.
@@shanemitchell477cool tid bit I was born 1961 so I was immersed with that and an acoustic, electric with distortion, drums and it’s been a great ride, so far thanks to that maverick couple of decades. Then disco got in the way ❤️🇨🇦😂
I'm sorry for the last of your father. I'm 37 going on 38 and I lost my father to cancer in 2016. Sunday was always music day for him and I and we always started the morning with 60 70s and '80s classic rock😊
First time I heard this song was on an episode of Miami Vice...the episode was titled "Smugglers Blues"! Not only did it feature this song, but the title song from Glenn Frye, who also had a part in the episode!!!
TODAY we can Order THIS EPISODE and Stream IT... But, having The ORIGINAL in your Libraries will be BEST! It's Available as a CD and TOM COCHRANE likely Features It on his Website. Thanks For Supporting TALENTED Artists, TOO! ❤
The greatest era in music. I remember in about 1983, I asked my friend, why he loved Rock n Roll music. He said because it will never die. So far he has been right... knew his music
I was a teen in the. Late 70's and early 80s. The most memorable, great times of my life were in the 80s. Great music of all genres. Fun clothes. Actually doing something with friends. Picnics in the park, cookouts, bike trips, wiffle ball, touch football, dancing, house parties with a band, gin rummy, euchre, just talking, we would go to help out in crisis, bagged sand,got together to make meals for hardships in the community...I could go on and on. If you wanted to see someone you called or just drove by. Nobody fought, got killed, stabbed. If someone acted a fool you got them home and lived to see another day. Did bad things happen? Yes but not like today because people weren't malignant,narcissistic assholes.
i’m 54 still rockin new wave old wave punk grunge. we had the best concerts. i show my friends kids’ clip and they’re like i grew up in the wrong era all they got is mumble rap. even in rap we had public enemy run dmc nwa. WE HAD IT ALL. & WE WE HAD IT FIRST MUSICALLY it was like being on a train and every car you moved to was the newest out there: NIN ministry pig face. i’m hi pnna be on you youtube or my computer listening to music all night. the only disco getting played is im your boogie man by white zombie
What a phenomenal song! The opening synthesizers by Peter Wolf! Start it out right! & the slide guitar solo by Ken Greer is an astounding musical accomplishment in itself!
@@boston7704 Different Peter Wolf. Composer and producer from Austria. J Geils' Peter Wolf is from NYC. Both are greatness in different ways. Research the lesser known (at least by the public at large) Austrian. He touched a lot of great music, rock and otherwise.
nothing wrong with the new alternative music, can't stay in a box, life is too short not to experience all the new music out there. i too love the old classic rock and motown, but, not all the time. just my opinion.
100 years from now 1968 to 1988 will be considered the Golden Era of music, never to be forgotten, never to be surpassed, and still played and enjoyed by those who enjoy music made by musicians.
HARD NOT TO... Such perceptive Lyrics and AWESOME Songwriting by TOM COCHRANE with Stellar Supportive Musicianship thay inspired Microsoft to Licence THIS to promôte Windows' Launch! WHAT A TUNE! Thank You RED RIDER for Many WICKED MEMORIES associated with Enjoying THIS CLASSIC! ❤
Born in the 50s, raised in 60s and rockin n rollin 70, 80,.......20s! I can relate to almost every comment! We survived, and continue on! Peace and Aloha from Hawaii MK
I’m listening and thinking about all those lunatics out there! This is more relevant today than when it came out. I’m 72 and now understand much more than I did back then. Thankful for every day of life & freedom. Pray we don’t lose it. ❤🇺🇸🙏
As a high school old wrestling champ..vision quest a great movie. Our team watched one day..the whole team..was cool times in highschool..I'm a real district wresting champ.
Lunatic Fringe, Drivers Seat, Twilight Zone, Broken English, Fox On The Run, Riders On The Storm, Paranoid, Running With The Devil, Hair Of The Dog, Kashmir, Tusk, Moving In Stereo, Rhiannon, Don’t Fear The Reaper, Cat Scratch Fever - Side 1 of “My Ultimate Playlist”
Thats my play list too I have so many over 300 on Spotify had to break it down to each classic songs list depending on the mood im in I pick a play list and jam out also have a romantic classic list for on dates ❤❤
@@AFullNelson especially at this year's Olympics. Three gold medals (Mensah-Stock, Taylor, and Steveson) two silver (Gray and Snyder), and three bronze (Margolis, Dave, and Hildebrandt). Go Team USA!!!!!🇺🇸❤🏅🥈🥉😎
@@david84ss Yep, my work buddy bought a brand new 87 Monte SS. Beautiful car, just didn't have much under the hood with that lil 305. Damn shame chevy didn't have a 5.7 tuned port option with that car......
i alway though it would be cool to take guitar solos from songs and isolate them from all the other music and vocals and use them in a guess this solo game ,, other great solos are the ones n KISS DR LOVE, DIESEL SAUSALITO SUMMER NIGHT,, molly hachets dreams, and ,,, niel youngs cinnamon girl lol that last ones a joke,
Sergio Ortiz , it doesn’t have to be played by itself, it’s still a guitar solo. Guitar solo is a section of the song which it is focused just in the guitar it doesn’t have to be played by it self. It can have other instruments in the background of the guitar while the solo is played. The solo of the song is the part where the guitar is played horizontally, if you didn’t know what a guitar solo is.
@@manny3447 The word "solo" literally means by itself. I realize we're living in the time of relative truths, but that's simply wrong. It's a guitar riff, but not a solo.
This was the song I used to get pumped up with before crushing people on the football field. It still makes me feel like I need to hit someone!! 🤘One of the best songs ever!!!🤘
This song is like a prophesy, a nightmare come true, the sum of all fears. I feel uncomfortable whenever I go out, if the thing that this song talks about is paranoia. then I am paranoid and need to be on some strong meds. But I am not paranoid, the things that this song talks about are happening every week. We are in a war that nobody wants to talk about, when I was just a kid we saw the war every night at 6:30, we knew that young men,teenagers,kids were dieing everyday. When everyone knew at least one person,"somebody's son", who had died over there. At the end of the 6:30 news they stopped rolling credits and started listing the names of all of Americans who died that day, and WE the people stood up to The DAM GOVERNMENT, "WE THE PEOPLE", STOPPED THE WAR!!! But now no one seems to care, just who are the lunatic fringers anyway? Tricky Dick Cheney or his flunky GW, Obama maybe ? or some fool with a gun? One of them walked into a Church,"A CHURCH ! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT, A CHURCH ! and just started shooting up the place?! Where next ? Wal-Mart ? a real smart one would do something like that, he wouldn't run out of ammo. Hell if he got hungry, he could just make himself a sandwich. If his gun jammed he could walk over to sporting goods and just pick up a new one. And where does that leave my crippled ass ? Trying to get away on a Wal-Mart electric scooter. Paranoid ? No, I'm just afraid !!!
“Sometimes, music crackles with an energy that transcends sounds, scenes and songs. I remember hearing this song and it still resonates a trembling sensation… it goes beyond everything that it may have stood for! My Lunatic Fringe was my life back in Ontario”!
I can’t believe in my almost 23 years I’ve never head this song until I was tearing down a dirt road in western md when it came on the radio, I was so into the music driving through the dark up and down the ridges when I realized I had never heard the songs before. Luckily my iPhone was able to tell me the name bc I could never figure it out exactly with my staticky old truck radio. What a banger! Especially when it’s late night and you’re tearing through the woods in your old pickup!
I remember back in 1997 when I was a jr in high school I use to listen to this song before my cross country races every Saturday morning and got a tradition going on this. We use to crank this up on the radio cruising around South Texas every Friday night. I absolutely 💯 agree with you. This song was just a masterpiece
I expressed somewhere in the comments of how the lyrics reflected how little time has changed things in our world in the political, economic, social change, humility, and lowered the flashpoint of cultural wars and misunderstandings. This classic song is more than 40+ years old and we have learned squat, and it's up to us to listen and learn damn it!!!!!!😮
We've learned the lunacy is being peddled to destroy Western Civilization. Our dark overlord elites know what's best for us all. An ancient text predicted all the anarchy we now see : a one world govt., religion and economy. See the Book of Revelation for further details. CRV!!!
@@LisaBusch The lyrics are unambiguous. The expression "final solution" is a clear reference to ultraconservative fascism. If you look closely at the writings and history of Qanon, it is juvenile and pitiful. How have grown adults become convinced that Qanon has even the most remote claim to legitimacy? It is a mystery.
Turn this up loud, listening in August 2024
I'm still listening to this classic jam in 2024.
Me too
✌️😎
September 21st 2024 here.
11111¹@@jameskreisher5386
2023 and that's still a great song it's one of those that cannot be turned up loud enough
Absolutely!!! Fantastic song, and it SOUNDS awesome, too- 2thumbs WAY up to whomever recorded and produced it!
That haunting slide guitar solo gets me every time!
I totally agree!❤
Sounds sick in my new trucks 15 speaker sound system!!
So funny! I just turned this on and I have my headphones on and just b4 I read your post I turned it all the way up. 😎🤷🤣
one of my favorite songs but who ever mastered the audio for this video sure got it wrong. May just have to redo it myself
This is a great song. It's 2024 and I'm 62 and still rocking this one
62 here also .. These were great days .. These really suck.
True to life an rock !😊
39 and i love 80s Music ❤
Right here
61 and still digging this righteous tune.
I love when this song comes on and I'm in my car. I turn up the radio and just melt back into my seat cruising. In my 60+ years, I'm so blessed to have so many favorite tunes I absolutely love! There's nothing better than when a great rock song comes on the radio!
always be a good road tune to blow up volume to
You must be driving a time machine because I haven't heard this on the radio in over 20yrs in my 60+yrs ✌️
@oldschool8432 Well, no, not living in no time machine here. I'm just living in 2024! Well, maybe you need to listen to the radio more often, and then maybe you'll be caught up!
Well, you there in your 60 + years you need to move to the South then, where we know how to rock to those older tunes cause our local dj's still know what we like!
Rock on!😊
65 yrs old and I still love this song.
For sure! Great one hit wonder.
I’m 65 too and I love it!
Party on Grandpa!
66th like
I concur, the debates about the best songs of the era at rest homes in the coming years are going to be, in the current vernacular, lit AF!
This was one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs until I realized it wasn't Pink Floyd. :P
+1108chuck Lol for a long time I thought it was by Golden Earring so trust me I feel your pain.
Wow, now that you mention it, it does sorta sound like "Another Brick In The Wall". Nice catch.
2:25 sounds like Dave Gilmour's guitar work a bit.
Same. I knew it wasn't Pink Floy but it it's right in that style + some 80's cheese. Love it.
1108chuck - That is so funny, thanks for sharing. A Great song for sure! Crank it!
One of the most underrated songs of the 80’s
I can assure you it was never underrated
You are spot on
It was originally done in 1979 and then released in '81
Rhis song was released in 1997 you idiots
Rhis song was released in 1997 you idiots
I still get chills when this comes on at night while driving a backroad...and I love it!😳🖖🐢
Exactly why I'm here! This happened to me last night in the car and I was immediately taken back to 82 when this played on MTV.
yeah, .. . rahk awnnn 😙
Dude, I've been there a few times, it can make your skin crawl.
that's the first time i ever heard it and love it ! Driving through the Texas Hill country at night 6 years ago and heard it on Sirius XM Classic rewind, That shit was epic !!!
Turtle onahottinroff you silly ❤️ luna I kno you're out there
I thank God I was alive and experienced the 70s and 80s music. No better time.
Thank people, not a pretend entity.
Anna WE did have the best music to grow up with
@@rodleckemby3008 I think often about being a teen during the hair band revolution and feel quite lucky to have lived through such an amazing and transforming of music. It makes me sad that we are no longer in that era and that most "music" now (the result of 98% of pop music being written by only a couple of people) is lacking. We also are young enough (in mind and spirit at least) to appreciate the existence of symphonic metal like Nightwish, Blind Guardian and Dark Moor and it is so gratifying to have found current music that makes me feel like I did in the heady decade of the '80s! :)
The 80's was a mixed bag. Part shit show part awesome 3d fashion show of what humans were capable on all fronts!
@@the-trustees How is God a pretend entity?
Could someone please teleport me back to the eighties!!
I am with you. Take me back now.
I'm going with you guys too! and NEVER coming back!
If only that wish could be granted.
Can someone please get rid of Vevo?
Best decade ever!
If you listen closely at 0:24 he says, _"See you on the other side.."_
I've been listening to this for 40 years and never knew that it is sure as fk in the song I'll be dmd
Cochranes tribute to John Lennon lunatic fringe needed to be re-recorded after the first master got ruined. So he added that
Lunatic Fringe
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
We can hear you coming
We know what you're after
We're wise to you this time
We won't let you kill the laughter
Lunatic Fringe
In the twilight's last gleaming
This is open season
But you won't get too far
We know you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we're on guard this time
Against your final solution
We can hear you coming
(We can hear you coming)
No you're not going to win this time
We can hear the footsteps
(We can hear the footsteps)
Way out along the walkway
Lunatic Fringe
We know you're out there
But in these new dark ages
There will still be light
An eye for an eye
Well, before you go under
Can you feel the resistance
Can you feel the....thunder
2020 !!!!!
@@siegeworks1281 this song fits so well in these times
Another clown drumming up likes foe cutting and pasting from lyrics freak. Take a bow buddy. You earned it.
@@BUSTRCHERRI I like being able to read lyrics to songs while I’m listening on UA-cam. Who gives a flyin’ fornication how they got put here. 😃
@@andrewdavy9921 It is like the writer is pure-corporate, politically inert. This is like East German Stasi-police lyrics. Report on your neighbor! Record their apartment! Monitor the public! hey thanks a lot, Tom. 'Glad that worked out for you.
This song, Twilight Zone by Golden Earring & In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins, the intro & buildup to these songs are so powerful. They grab you & hold you to the point where you have no choice but to listen & by then it's too late, you're hooked. I love it. 80's forever.
Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone" was one of my favourites at the time as well !!!😊
They are both kinda hauntingly awesome in similar ways
Stranglehold by Ted Nugent, LA Woman by the Doors as well
three badass songs
I agree 👍 and speaking of Golden Earring, when I was driving in my '66 Mustang and playing my 8-tracks, if I heard Radar Love, I couldn't help speeding up a little. It's like that song made my heart race, and my engine, too. Another song by Bachman Turner Overdrive, Taking Care of Business, was another song that pushed my foot to the metal. Different times! Gas was 35 cents a gallon and I'd drive rural roads around the lake listening to great music. I wasn't even really a BTO fan, but that sang got my blood to flowing. Honestly, though, Radar Love was meant to be driving to.
It's 2020 and this is where the whole world is at right now!
True! Music definitely helps though.
Oh yah!
Inauguration day 2021, and the last week has felt exactly like the lyrics of this song.
I couldn't agree with you more.
This song is so much more relevant today.
I'm 74 & still Rockin to the 60s, 70s, & 80s classics.
Rock steady 😊
Music back then had so much artistry
Music today is pretty much garbage
69 still rocking. Taking my son to school
Rocking and all kids in love it when I drop off at school
Amen brother
Who knew this song was going to be so topical in the 2020's.
Still a great song, though.
My dad past away last year at age 58. This is one his favorite songs. I remember listening to this on his cassette in his truck. I’m here for him
Passed away. Sigh.
👍 hold those memories close
Wow. Just 58 yrs. I'm 58 and I hope to live 'til I'm 100. I can't bear the thought of leaving my kids and grandkids. My condolences to you and your family.🥀❤️🪽
Vision Quest memories...
in the 80s I taped this song off a radio station, isolated this one song and made a full 90 minute Maxell Gold tape (45 minutes per side) of just this one song to lift weights to using my Walkman. Now that’s motivation 😂😂. And I never got sick of it. The 80s were the best of times
That is sooo funny, As the song was starting, I'm thinking "they should play this on a loop at every gym in the world."
That's 1 of those great 80's song's you never tire of hearing !!
Louden Swain
That might be the most 80s thing I've ever read!
Thats just kind of dumb
i will never change my style of listening to 60's 70's and 80's classic rock music. i am 43 years old and always listened to this music. i followed my dad's footsteps. he passed away in 2006. i love you dad and i will always miss you.
AI has concluded music from 1955-1975 was the best according to acoustics ratings
fine then!!!
same
@@shanemitchell477cool tid bit I was born 1961 so I was immersed with that and an acoustic, electric with distortion, drums and it’s been a great ride, so far thanks to that maverick couple of decades. Then disco got in the way ❤️🇨🇦😂
I'm sorry for the last of your father. I'm 37 going on 38 and I lost my father to cancer in 2016. Sunday was always music day for him and I and we always started the morning with 60 70s and '80s classic rock😊
It's 2024. Anybody still listening to this classic??
People keep posting the same ???question on every vid since it was posted on YT.
There is no reason not to
im still here in 2029
Yes indeed
Yup! Brings back lots of memories!
I don't always listen to Red Rider, but when I do, my neighbors do too.... Yeah baby!!!!
Hahahahahaha!!!!!! I love it.
This song and Twilight Zone by Golden Earring are intertwined in my brain for some reason. I cant hear one without needing to hear the other.
Loved Twilight Zone from Golden Earring
this song & "Red Sky" by the Fixx, are tied together for me, & I have no reason why.
Literally same lmao
Same! I listen to both this evening so my brain could differentiate between them, even if only temporary.
There’s something about these two songs that just mix well in my head and I got them I repeat all day everyday 😂😂😂😂
What a great piece of music.. 40 years later still a classic.. One of my all time favorites
First time I heard this song was on an episode of Miami Vice...the episode was titled "Smugglers Blues"!
Not only did it feature this song, but the title song from Glenn Frye, who also had a part in the episode!!!
And the perfect opening for that particular episode. CLASSIC
TODAY we can Order THIS EPISODE and Stream IT...
But, having The ORIGINAL in your Libraries will be BEST!
It's Available as a CD and TOM COCHRANE likely Features It on his Website.
Thanks For Supporting TALENTED Artists, TOO! ❤
@@ericwilliams1575 It was also on the sound track for the movie, Vision Quest With Mathew Modine. It was about wrestling
remember that episode glen frey was in it
@@chrisholley4406 Shute man this is a classic movie..Linda Fiorentino
is hot..
61yrs old still Rockin to 60s,70s & 80s classic rock
The greatest era in music. I remember in about 1983, I asked my friend, why he loved Rock n Roll music. He said because it will never die. So far he has been right... knew his music
🙋♀️ 64
Hell yeah brother
68yrs here! 🤘😎
IM 62 AND I HEAR YA BROTHER!! ROCK ON!!
I'm 62 and will never lose the Ability to Rock!
Whos stil listening 2020
Just popped in my head early in the morning and I had to hear it
Yeah me too .ive also listened to donnie iris ah leah!
Lololo....still here... they still werent meant to be on film.
I'm still out here listening...01/09/2020...
and I will keep listening 'til the twilight's last gleaming.
Still digging it !
Had forgotten about this classic...glad I came across it as another reminder of why 80's can't be beaten
I was a teen in the. Late 70's and early 80s. The most memorable, great times of my life were in the 80s. Great music of all genres. Fun clothes. Actually doing something with friends. Picnics in the park, cookouts, bike trips, wiffle ball, touch football, dancing, house parties with a band, gin rummy, euchre, just talking, we would go to help out in crisis, bagged sand,got together to make meals for hardships in the community...I could go on and on. If you wanted to see someone you called or just drove by. Nobody fought, got killed, stabbed. If someone acted a fool you got them home and lived to see another day. Did bad things happen? Yes but not like today because people weren't malignant,narcissistic assholes.
our generation need to remind todays youth of these aspects of life.
@@HermitCamper I do. Every chance I get.
Amen sister
@@michaelkelly7395 I also grew up in the early 80's there is more history for this video
exactly (I was a teen then too). 1983 HS grad
May 25,2024 Still listening to this i am 59 years old still rockin❤❤❤
June 7 2024 I'm listening too ,. Takes me back to the 80's
June 7, 2024 I'm listening on repeat!!!
Same at 52 - this my theme song wrestling in high school - Vision Quest!
i’m 54 still rockin new wave old wave punk grunge. we had the best concerts. i show my friends kids’ clip and they’re like i grew up in the wrong era
all they got is mumble rap. even in rap we had public enemy run dmc nwa. WE HAD IT ALL. & WE WE HAD IT FIRST
MUSICALLY it was like being on a train and every car you moved to was the newest out there: NIN ministry pig face. i’m hi pnna be on you youtube or my computer listening to music all night. the only disco getting played is im your boogie man by white zombie
59 too..right there with you bro
Heh, 2020? Who's still listening in 2024?
Listening from Delaware
This guy!
Fuck yeah!!!
2024
Me
This is one of the songs from back in the day that NEVER gets old
What a phenomenal song!
The opening synthesizers by Peter Wolf!
Start it out right!
& the slide guitar solo by Ken Greer is an astounding musical accomplishment in itself!
Peter Wolf as in J Geils Band?
@@boston7704 Different Peter Wolf. Composer and producer from Austria. J Geils' Peter Wolf is from NYC. Both are greatness in different ways. Research the lesser known (at least by the public at large) Austrian. He touched a lot of great music, rock and otherwise.
@@abnormalnorman64
You aren’t kidding! A cursory search was fascinating.
Thank you for sharing.
@@boston7704 You bet! Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Mike Hitchcock; I always 1dered who did the slide guitar solo. Thanks again 4 mentioning his identity (Ken Greer).
I'm 65 in 2024, this is my theme song! BOSS MUSIC!
👍
I'm 53 and I love real rock. The music, if I can even call it music these days is mostly all crap.
The slide guitar solo is epic
Phenomenal tone!
I think it’s actually a pedal steel guitar solo. Or slide steel. But not just slide guitar.
i never saw this video until today. wow never knew it was a slide guitar. truly well done song.
I know it’s pedal steel but it sounds very Floydish. In a good way
Amen, had no idea was steel guitar til seeing this. Secret weapon!
This song needs to be played very loud. excellent lyrics 👍
A genuine Rock anthem.
BTW, loved your talk show on NBC!
Stay out of my yard though!!!
I'm playing it very quiet. The family is asleep. :-)
You just cant beat classic rock. My Dad would always listen to all of it. I grew up to love it. 🥰❤
Hell yeah, i took my 11 year old daughter to Bob Segers final tour 3 years ago.
She has been singing his tunes since she was in kindergarten.
Agreed!!! Me too!!
Edwina, I tried to say your last name, and my nose started bleeding
This is appropriate song for our world today
We know what to expect now though....game changer.
Hard to believe this is the same guy who sings Life is a highway LOL!
Both great songs...SLIGHTLY different vibe.
@@patrickq7489 🤣
@Joe Ann Yes, the original Tom Cochrane version, not the Rascal Flatts cover ua-cam.com/video/U3sMjm9Eloo/v-deo.html
@Joe Ann, LMAO!!
I don’t care for Life Is A Highway . This is far superior
We used to ride the dirt roads and blast this and sing all night long.Miss those crazy nights
I grew up in the 80s..still love this music...Gen X!!!
Gen Xers ROCK!!
Right on
I’m 54 I’ll be listening until I’m gone from here ❤
This song should have been on the "heavy Metal" movie soundtrack...
Love that Movie! But I don't think the women could have walked let alone fought with those Huge Freakin' breasts!
Still...great movie
It mainly wasn't cause this song came out a year after the movie itself did, but I could see why it would be a good fit.
I actually agree. This song fit that movie. All we got was Vision Quest, haha. Liked that too, so did you, don't pretend.
Fuck yeah ... Replace blue oyster cult
@@bo12white34 BOC helped make that soundtrack...wrong answer.
One of the coolest songs from the 80's.
Thank God for classic rock radio.
No doubt
Going down to get up I know what its like
nothing wrong with the new alternative music, can't stay in a box, life is too short not to experience all the new music out there. i too love the old classic rock and motown, but, not all the time. just my opinion.
birdorienteering I agree
AMEN TO THAT!!!!
My late husband introduced me to this song! I still listen to it as it reminds me of him..he died tragically in "in "'08..RIP David
😔 so sorry for your loss.
2024, and this is still a banger!! Good lord what happened to music!
It's nothing but crap. I miss real music
The same thing that happened to food film and fun. Greed.
one of the best thing to happen to my ears is this masterpiece
Good song. Watching with law enforcement and park and rec and other people in my neighborhood
If they could only see 2020. They are out there.
Amen brother!
Oh hell yeah!!
I totally agree, just don't know if we are on the same side of the fence. 🤪
LOVE THIS SONG. LOVED IT IN THE 8O'S AND LOVE IT IN 2024
This was a great song to listen to while driving at night!
It was sampled in Kurt Angles theme in Tna
Looking for people to run down.
Done that many times when the classic rock station would play it. You aren’t kidding.
Definitely a good road song
The ambulance sound always throws me off when I’m driving
Had to see the movie ""Vision Quest''. 1984 to appreciate this song!
I'm on a Vision Quest... I wanna wrestle Shute.
rock my soul me too! Loved that movie too.
That's odd sparkytdg, on my vision quest I wanna wrestle Carla :D
underrated soundtrack
I am a wrestler from Oregon. I watched this move because I heard it was good.. It gave me the mindset to be strong, stronger than everyone else
I fucking love this song!
They were warning us of what was to come in American politics. Pity we didn't listen to the words closer.
Alot of older songs warned us stay strong God bless
What we can learn from history is that men never learn from history
Idiots
Does this song seem especially appropriate at this moment?
Yep
very much so
still relevant
This song reminds me of a creepy stalker !
100 years from now 1968 to 1988 will be considered the Golden Era of music, never to be forgotten, never to be surpassed, and still played and enjoyed by those who enjoy music made by musicians.
You damn skippy
Who's still listening 2024
Yes...
HARD NOT TO...
Such perceptive Lyrics and AWESOME Songwriting by TOM COCHRANE with Stellar Supportive Musicianship thay inspired Microsoft to Licence THIS to promôte Windows' Launch!
WHAT A TUNE!
Thank You RED RIDER for Many WICKED MEMORIES associated with Enjoying THIS CLASSIC!
❤
This is fire...
Badass doesn't fade over time, it still sounds as good as the first day you heard it.❤
I can't believe how BORING this video is, for such a COOL SONG 😢
Music videos like these are the closest thing we’ve got to a time machine.
Wrong. Operation Løøking Ĝlass
Great song! The 80’s had so much great music.
This song is an absolute masterpiece ❤
Hold up. Wait a second….Are you tellin me this is wasn’t Pink Floyd. I feel stupid. My childhood was a lie.
It was red rider
Like my older songs always
Lot's of them 😮
i thought the same thing heather.😮
This song was soooooooooooo far ahead of its time. A true classic
Tom Cochrane still holds the Guinness World Record for most finger points in a music video shorter than 5 minutes.
Did anybody find this because of that video of the man walking away from the fire?🤔
Yes..lol
Yup, and what a banger. Thanks to that pyromaniac
I did
I’d forgotten how great this song is until I heard it on an episode of Mind Hunter. This deserves more radio play these days.
Born in the 50s, raised in 60s and rockin n rollin 70, 80,.......20s! I can relate to almost every comment! We survived, and continue on! Peace and Aloha from Hawaii MK
Aloha from Philadelphia PA
@@nievespon peace to my philiy brothers and sisters! Aloha from paradise!
I used to tell my mom when I was a kid I wanted to hear the "Lunatic Fred" song.
🤘😙
Damn your....s e x y. Just sayin..........;)
That's funny as shit 😅
I always liked my Lunatic Friends...lolol
😂😂😂😂
Ya, same here. The song had a whole different meaning when I thought it was Lunatic Fred.
57 and still LOVE this one. Makes speed if driving though....
Why does everyone confuse this with Pink Floyd? They sound nothing like them.
Freakin A? I love these guys! Never thought they sounded like Floyd any I smoked a lot of doub-age.. before God gave me Sobriety anyway
I’m listening and thinking about all those lunatics out there! This is more relevant today than when it came out. I’m 72 and now understand much more than I did back then. Thankful for every day of life & freedom. Pray we don’t lose it. ❤🇺🇸🙏
Fight fight fight! We can’t just hope anymore ❤
Now featured in the end credits of Mindhunter S02E06
JUST GOT HERE FROM THERE
That's what brought me here. When it asked to play next episode or watch credits, I clicked watch credits (technically I just listened).
Right choice. You should watch credits when songs like this are played. Next episode won't go anywhere:)
@@Durriya07 ME TOO!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
Discovered this in Vision Quest. A wrestler named Louden Swain warming up to this song. This song has balls of steel.
Getting ready to wrestle Shoots.
As a high school old wrestling champ..vision quest a great movie.
Our team watched one day..the whole team..was cool times in highschool..I'm a real district wresting champ.
Lunatic Fringe, Drivers Seat, Twilight Zone, Broken English, Fox On The Run, Riders On The Storm, Paranoid, Running With The Devil, Hair Of The Dog, Kashmir, Tusk, Moving In Stereo, Rhiannon, Don’t Fear The Reaper, Cat Scratch Fever - Side 1 of “My Ultimate Playlist”
Cinnimon girl! Neil Young! Turn it up!!!!🎶🎶🎵🎵🤦♂️😆
What? No Dire Straits? You gotta have Sultans of Swing or Brothers in Arms to be serious.
Thats my play list too I have so many over 300 on Spotify had to break it down to each classic songs list depending on the mood im in I pick a play list and jam out also have a romantic classic list for on dates ❤❤
“Voices”,& “Sausalito Summer Nights”!
I heard this beauty of a classic today and it took me back ❤
This song was ahead of its time given all the current events going on in this day and age.
Yes it was ahead of its time but one of my all time favs. Crank it up!
DesertDigger1 i agree 100 % dude
Exactly!
Exactly.
There's a lot of lunatic fringe these days.
I use to think this song was,"Lunatic Friends "😂😂😂Cause I'm sure evabody knows one.😬😬😬I just broke away from one.🤪🤪🤪
all i can see is Louden Swain warming up to wrestle shoot... Never goes away
@@AFullNelson especially at this year's Olympics. Three gold medals (Mensah-Stock, Taylor, and Steveson) two silver (Gray and Snyder), and three bronze (Margolis, Dave, and Hildebrandt). Go Team USA!!!!!🇺🇸❤🏅🥈🥉😎
LOVE the 80's. The music, 5.0 mustangs, IROC's and the bad ass Buick Grand National. What a great time to be alive.
The GTA.. Don't forget the GTA!!
Monte Carlo SS too
@@david84ss Yep, my work buddy bought a brand new 87 Monte SS. Beautiful car, just didn't have much under the hood with that lil 305. Damn shame chevy didn't have a 5.7 tuned port option with that car......
@@libfab1 Always liked them, and the 350 Formulas were pretty quick too!!
@@ct87gn25 how a bout the car Spicoli wrecked in fast times. Camero?
It's almost like they said "hold your guitar, but under no circumstances play it"
Ya, I sat there wondering when the hell he was going to actually play it.
Lololol
Great song, very stiff, posed-looking video. This is from the infancy of music video. But the song holds up very well.
Love that song!
One of the coolest guitar solos of all time.
i alway though it would be cool to take guitar solos from songs and isolate them from all the other music and vocals and use them in a guess this solo game ,, other great solos are the ones n KISS DR LOVE, DIESEL SAUSALITO SUMMER NIGHT,, molly hachets dreams, and ,,, niel youngs cinnamon girl lol that last ones a joke,
Cool idea.
What guitar solo? There is literally no guitar playing by itself for more than a second or two in this entire song. Unless you mean guitar riff.
Sergio Ortiz , it doesn’t have to be played by itself, it’s still a guitar solo. Guitar solo is a section of the song which it is focused just in the guitar it doesn’t have to be played by it self. It can have other instruments in the background of the guitar while the solo is played. The solo of the song is the part where the guitar is played horizontally, if you didn’t know what a guitar solo is.
@@manny3447 The word "solo" literally means by itself. I realize we're living in the time of relative truths, but that's simply wrong. It's a guitar riff, but not a solo.
this has a 'thinking man's' stoner rock vibe. Love this song.
Cool point
Thanks
Saw them in '81 ('82?) just after this was released. They opened for Jefferson Starship. Great show!
i saw that tour
This was the song I used to get pumped up with before crushing people on the football field. It still makes me feel like I need to hit someone!!
🤘One of the best songs ever!!!🤘
Back when people had no freaking clue what to do in videos! Great stuff!!
Back when the music was so good, they didn't HAVE to do anything in the video!
This song is like a prophesy, a nightmare come true, the sum of all fears. I feel uncomfortable whenever I go out, if the thing that this song talks about is paranoia. then I am paranoid and need to be on some strong meds. But I am not paranoid, the things that this song talks about are happening every week. We are in a war that nobody wants to talk about, when I was just a kid we saw the war every night at 6:30, we knew that young men,teenagers,kids were dieing everyday. When everyone knew at least one person,"somebody's son", who had died over there. At the end of the 6:30 news they stopped rolling credits and started listing the names of all of Americans who died that day, and WE the people stood up to The DAM GOVERNMENT, "WE THE PEOPLE", STOPPED THE WAR!!! But now no one seems to care, just who are the lunatic fringers anyway? Tricky Dick Cheney or his flunky GW, Obama maybe ? or some fool with a gun? One of them walked into a Church,"A CHURCH ! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT, A CHURCH ! and just started shooting up the place?! Where next ? Wal-Mart ? a real smart one would do something like that, he wouldn't run out of ammo. Hell if he got hungry, he could just make himself a sandwich. If his gun jammed he could walk over to sporting goods and just pick up a new one. And where does that leave my crippled ass ? Trying to get away on a Wal-Mart electric scooter. Paranoid ? No, I'm just afraid !!!
+david burns Right On David.
Never knew this was inspiration for Kurt Angles TNA theme song.
“Sometimes, music crackles with an energy that transcends sounds, scenes and songs. I remember hearing this song and it still resonates a trembling sensation… it goes beyond everything that it may have stood for!
My Lunatic Fringe was my life back in Ontario”!
Vision Quest!
You're a nut.
Tom Cochrane is a great artist.
I can’t believe in my almost 23 years I’ve never head this song until I was tearing down a dirt road in western md when it came on the radio, I was so into the music driving through the dark up and down the ridges when I realized I had never heard the songs before. Luckily my iPhone was able to tell me the name bc I could never figure it out exactly with my staticky old truck radio. What a banger! Especially when it’s late night and you’re tearing through the woods in your old pickup!
Dude you're 23 ROTFL and you never grew up in the 70s, 80s or even 90s. No shit buddy! Hillarious
It's always good to know of a younger generation loving this kind of music.
My favorite song of the Series MINDHUNTER💯
Wow. I cannot believe I'm the only one here in June 2020! If anyone else drops by give me a shout out, it's lonely out here with all the lunatics....
I agree!
Yo!
This song Deserves to be cranked to the highest volume with a 100 foot wall of amps!!!! Love this song. A pure work of ART
I remember back in 1997 when I was a jr in high school I use to listen to this song before my cross country races every Saturday morning and got a tradition going on this. We use to crank this up on the radio cruising around South Texas every Friday night. I absolutely 💯 agree with you. This song was just a masterpiece
I thought they were saying lunatic bitch lol. Great song, but terrible video, almost uncomfortable to watch Haha.
The very beginning is the best-5 note guitar and up the neck to come get last note. Powerful. But you're right the rest is pretty amateur.
My great grandmother rocking this tune
All the Power to her !!!
I expressed somewhere in the comments of how the lyrics reflected how little time has changed things in our world in the political, economic, social change, humility, and lowered the flashpoint of cultural wars and misunderstandings. This classic song is more than 40+ years old and we have learned squat, and it's up to us to listen and learn damn it!!!!!!😮
We've learned the lunacy is being peddled to destroy Western Civilization. Our dark overlord elites know what's best for us all. An ancient text predicted all the anarchy we now see : a one world govt., religion and economy. See the Book of Revelation for further details. CRV!!!
Oh, We The Awakened Person's ABSOLUTELY HAVE.
The Great Awakening IS UPON US.
NOTHING can Stop what IS HERE.
WWG1WGA.
I don’t think you understand the meaning of the song….too bad….please don’t include me in any of the things you mentioned….
@@LisaBusch The lyrics are unambiguous. The expression "final solution" is a clear reference to ultraconservative fascism. If you look closely at the writings and history of Qanon, it is juvenile and pitiful. How have grown adults become convinced that Qanon has even the most remote claim to legitimacy? It is a mystery.
Th hi s song is written about antisemitism. Google it.
This song never gets old..a simple video but a huge song
This edgy song would have died badly, without Tom Cochrane's voice...
no, it wouldn't have.
It’s 2047, are we still listening? I can’t believe I’m 60 years old right now, but I’m still listening!
,66
@@lavernerusso9122 Man we’re getting older!
@@lavernerusso9122 yes the song is 5 years older than I am
Me too gonna be 60 in a few days love this tun
I'm 59 bro and I will be listening in 2047 if we're still here 😊
Super Hit. Blows me away the talent I grew up with. Thank God I grew up with not just good, but Awesome music.