All these commenters talking about how much they loved it as little kids! This song popped up in the car as I collected my 4yo granddaughter from preschool today, first time she'd heard it, and we ended up playing it about five times. Every time the song finished she'd yell "Again! Louder!" Clearly the magic is still there.
@@nhmooytis7058 Well, I know I certainly enjoyed going out every Friday & Saturday night & dancing until four in the morning then going for something to eat before arriving home just as the sun was coming up. Good times.
Same! And I recently watched a Boy George documentary type video where he was actually talking in it and his mum was in it, he's showing old venues he'd go to in the 70's etc anyway he mentioned Haysee Fantayzee so Im here!
IKR ! ! ! "wuf ticket"- yer mama - one of the fifrst rap songs lol. my dad played it when i w3aws a kid, iw as like wtf?!? checked it out on here, found it, killer early 80s shht.
The first time I saw and heard Haysi Fantayzee was on Richard Blade’s video music show “Video One.” I had never heard or seen anything like them. I was hooked, but I could never find their album. Until I walked into Licorice Pizza at the Puente Hills Mall about 8 months after seeing them on that show and boom! LP had one copy. I was so stoked. I dropped $9.99 and it was mine. The album was a rare find in the US. It was so imaginative and unusual, but incredible. I met Kate years later when she became an in demand photographer. She walked into the photo developer business I worked at and she was surprised I knew who she was. I was a fan boy of hers. She was lovely and that moment was unforgettable. The 80s will always be an amazing era to have lived through. I, like many here, feel lucky to have been a teenager then.
I heard this song once when I was probably 8 years old; 51 now. Ever since then that chorus has been ingrained in my brain. I haven't been able to find the song again until tonight. A voice came to me and said "Google, 'shiny shiny don't jump behind me'." This was the first thing that popped up. It feels like a full circle moment for me. 😊
This was the very first single I ever bought, lol. I think I was 8. I played it so much one day that my dad ended up frisbeeing it out of the window. Not happy! My mother bought me the album about a week later and I made sure my dad got to know every single track on it.
😂, i like ur story. That’s how crazy I would drive my parents during the 80’s with D🌹M, The Cure, INXS, New Order, well it’s a long list but my dad will scream at me tell me lower that volume. Those were the happiest days of my life👍
Love that story and this song. I drove my parents to distraction with heaps of 80s singles, dressing up like Boy George scared the shit out of them. I mainly remember my Toot Toot in 1985 as I had no idea it was about some oversexed jealous woman going on about her vajayjay.
I remember that when this came out, my best friend and I were obsessed with how beautiful Kate Garner was. Watching this again now, over 40 years later, I can see we had excellent taste even at that young age. What a stunning woman, and such great style. 💛 🔥
Love this kind of crazy, creative, New Wave stuff. I recently found out that KROQ has a HD station that plays all of this "ROQ of the 80's" that I grew up with. in LA area 106.7 My life is almost whole again!
Yeah,my collection has grown epicly. Music of that time was SO much better. I still listen to my collection LP,cassettes and CDs all the time. Everything from Exploding Parakeet to Dada to Polyrock to Class Action to The Quarks. New wave to the nth degree. At least some bands like Fantastic Plastics,The Epoxies,The Polysics,The Cinema Eye,etc. are/were still trying to keep things alive. Even "lost" bands like Scream Bloody Murder from Dayton,OH merged industrial/new wave REALLY well.
Born in 69 grew up a true valley kid. San fernando valley lived in northridge. Lost my first studio aprtment to the northridge earthquake. The 80 and 90 were the best for music. New wave and goth was actually cool.
What a great time to be a teenager. Everything was new, exciting, and cool, especially the music. I remember these time through the music. You can always visit, but you can’t stay.
As did I, and you are right. Much diversity of great genres, like Madness, Duran Duran, Iron Maiden. But, at the same time, that time bequeathed abysmal musical drivel like Soft Cell (execrable), Billy Bragg (hateful), Pet Shop Boys (beyond contempt).
1982! 42 years ago. She was born in 1953, me too, we're old now. Such amazing music and style coming from my generation. I don't think the early 80s have been equaled.
Back then I thought this song was just annoyingly catchy, listening to it now I realize it's actually quite a unique, well crafted and well produced little pop song. Wow, Kate's body is so incredibly lean and fit! She's very sexy in this, her whole attitude. I like how he moves too, with the whole gypsy tramp thing he has going on. They made an interesting duo, visually and sonically. The 80s were such an expressive time of experimentation and style, I miss it!
Great analysis! Was thinking the exact same same but prols couldn't have put it so well. ....but I was thinking more Dickensian ne'er-do-well rather than Gypsy tramp. 😀
I understand what you mean! I heard this for the first time a couple weeks ago and first thought it was cheesy and a song which should have stayed buried in 80s obscurity, yet I found myself listening to it again...and again...and again. Before you knew it I listened to 3 or 4 different versions of it (such as Top of the Pops and extended remixes). Something VERY ADDICTIVE about this song!
For those who weren't around at the time, this might look a bit bazaar. But remembering that this was out around the same time as Boy George and Dexy's Midnight Runners and suddenly it makes sense 😉
This masterpiece of a song along with this this video has been stuck in my head for months! I was 10 years old and heard it maybe twice on the radio. It stayed with me. I tried to get my sister to see, but she couldn't get past the first minute. The beauty of this song is that is annoyingly addictive. My only gripe is that this gem wasn't longer. It's a crime that in the US this only made it to #74 in the summer of 83. Still better than anything out today. This is one of those videos that you play once and watch a dozen times before you're satisfied. (-:
Corrcet on your last bit of sentence, but there are far better things to listen too, fun or not, and I am alowed to give my opinion, since it is a comment placed platform.@@anonymiss495
In the US military at the time, I was on temporary duty in England when this song was popular, and I remember adults commenting how riveted their kids were by this song. It wasn't nearly as popular in Germany. And, here I am over 40 years later.
About a week ago my dad heard this song on the radio and told me this was probably the 3rd music video he ever remembered watching. He showed it to me and it's been stuck in my head ever since then haha. I feel like a crow watching a gold necklace swing around in the wind, this video is like crack cocaine.
I've been looking for that song for yeeears. I haven't heard that since early 80s. I could not recall neither the title nor the artist. And finally- YES!
Good ol' MTV. I could not wait till this Video would come on. We complained back then that there were not enough videos... little did we know these days would not last.
Cool song and such an underrated band. I have the album and every single song is a good one. Very clever, fun lyrics. I wish they made more music, though the music they did make never, ever, ever gets old. I'll throw on the CD every now and then, to this day, and it's as exciting as when I first heard it.
This song/video used to mesmerize me. Still, to this day, I think: what incredible, unclassifiable music this is. So alive, poaching from every genre. And visually: you can see the group’s influence on the looks of someone like Perry Farrell and Linda Perry.
A song about nuclear war. Teenage me in the 80s used to worry all the time about this. At the height of the arms race, the USA and USSR between them had enough warheads to kill us all multiple times over. Songs like this were part of the resistance that any decent human felt.
The 80's where amazing musically not just because the music was amazing but unlike any other time there was no musical "Direction" after the punk explosion anything you wanted to try people where experimenting . Between 1977 and 1984 I must have seen over 200 gigs. From the "PIL "to "Tangerine Dream" and everything in between .(The Jam . the Smiths Pig bag ,The Toy Dolls etc) often more than one a week. For the record the best in concert was the Toy Dolls and the worst where new order (Twice) ,you got a hello and at the end thank you goodnight with no encores and The Iconic Bias lines , well forget it He plays the entire gig with his back to the crowd.
Brilliant New Wave Song and great music video. Peaked at No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July of 1983, their only ever U.S. hit. Off of their album, Battle Hymns For Children Singing, which I own on CD. I own the 12 inch single of this song, released on RCA Records. This crazy tune is literally all over the frickin’ place. LOL. But I love it.
Such an odd title for the album. I heard somewhere, not entirely certain if it's true, that the title came about because when they were first touring and being interviewed on shows, someone asked Jeremy what the album was to be called, and they had not considered that question yet. Supposedly he made the title up on the spot.
American, from the Seattle area. Remember when this song came out in about 1983. It was an earworm for over 30 years, as I could never find it anywhere and nobody played it, but I could remember the sound. Couldn't remember the words or the title. Just the beat of the chorus and a couple lines, running through my head just often enough to drive me nuts. Finally skimmed the top 40 charts for 1983 and played on UA-cam anything I couldn't recognize. When I came to this one, I knew it immediately, within about 10 seconds.
When I played this song at our record store, I fell in love with it. I knew it was going to be a hit, too bad it was a one hit wonder. I love this guy, h effr reminds me of Boy George.
One fave memory was shopping at the FLIP store on Melrose Ave. in LA as a teen and watching this music video played on the TV monitor by the in-house "video DJ" - love the "scratching" effect at the end! #80s classic
I were 8 years 1982 and I remember my cousin had this on a mixtape. The words shiny shiny and the spoons never left my head and then in 2000 when you know Napster was big I looked it up and found it again - What à brilliant tune ❤️
Now all you hear on Seattle radio these days is dreck. The once-solid KNDD that used to play all sorts of acts in the early 90s is reduced to throwing out some dry-as-a-bone Grunge glop and a mess of unknown contemporary noise; KEXP is NOT the same as KCMU (shame that Shake the Shack finally died); and Bellevue College's KBCS is about all that's palatable. I used to listen to KNHC's "Save the Wave" ages ago, and was a bit surprised to see that it's still going, but that's not much to counter all the automated, repetitive JACK track programming on the dial. Thank dog that WFMU streams all over the planet, as do Canadian college stations, like CFUV, and CJUM, with actual DJs.
Kate Garner: trend-setter in music and aesthetics throughout the 80s, internationally-renowned photographer, my favourite contemporary artist in acrylics and oils. Important vital voice in animal rights.
At nearly 50 I still love this song so much , I learned to play the spoon solo when this came out and I can still play it now lol. Fantastic upbeat fun song 🙂
If you like songs that made no sense try songs from the psychedelic 60's. eg.."I looked in the sky where an elephant's eye was looking at me from a bubble gum tree"
I've just turned 60 years young, and I cannot tell you how obssessed with this song I was when it came out, and how much I wanted to be this gorgeous skinny biatch!! This was considered very alternative...not mainstream at all, and prob influenced by Boy George, whom I also loved, and still do. I really miss the 80's.
I am 64 years old so I was 23 when this came out. An hour ago I could not have told you who did this or what anything about the song sounded like except the "SHINY SHINY SHA NA NA NA" that has been stuck in my head for 40 years and pops up occasionally. Usually when I hear the word shiny. I dont know why I just thought to look up what it was. I have no memory of the video.
When this came out in the 80s, I used to have my portable cassette stereo (running on D cell batteries) set up at our home made BMX track that me and my brothers had made and at the 2:07 mark when he goes "Do, Do, Do....Cop on the line..." That's when I would launch off the scariest jump we had, but this song gave me the confidence to jump it. Mind you I probably stacked more times than I care to remember.....
Good times come to me now Good times come to me now I ain't lying 'cause there ain't no time No city, it's a pity, 'cause I dress divine City smokes, people choke Big meanie, he's a genie, and we ain't got a hope No chance, no chance Well, I feel fine, no, it ain't no crime I was dreamin' of a demon, and I ate a dime The dime floats, the colonel boasts Send 'em up the hill, boys, this ain't no joke No chance, no chance, no chance, no chance Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na Your sure look fine, your shoes - they shine I taste your face, your love is mine Mercury Dan with a spikey hand I'm a hot retard, marquis de sade No chance, no chance, no chance, no chance Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na Saw a cop on the line, machine gun shine I was dreaming, not believing, that I was alive My mind broke, the cop - he choked Get out of here, boy, or I'll use the colt No chance, no chance You sure look fine, your shoes - they shine No heat can compete with this blue-eyed liar The child spoke, "We ain't got a hope press the button Press the button, it's all remote" No chance, no chance, no chance, no chance
Mercury Dan with a spikey hand ???? I am not sure this is right, he says something different , can't understand but is not spikey hand, nor Mercury Dan it sounds like ''merit to them in Vietnam'''. although the first word could not be "merit".
This was on a mixed tape we had when I was growing up! It was my lil brother, Shane's favourite song on the tape, he is no longer with us so I just added this to my 80's mix playlist. We used to sing Shaney Shaney....the ending is unique for the times!
Got here from the Janet Jackson "Life in Looks," British Vogue video that dropped on 9/12/24. She talks about this duo's style and cites this song. Never heard of it, but LOVE it!
Oh wow! I was at the Hollywood Palladium during then too! Fantastic times! We would drive from Torrance to go there. One time my cousins, who are my age, came to visit me from the Central Valley, they couldn’t believe they were in an actually Hollywood nightclub! Lol I think they were shocked how people looked and dressed! Lol I miss that place. A lot of movies were filmed there, too. 😁
This song never reached Canada back in the day as far as I know, so I guess this band was never a North American sensation like Adam Ant or Bow Wow Wow became. Some music from the 80s stands the test of time, others such as "Shiny Shiny" lived in the 80s and never left!
I'm here in 2023, still love them, still throw on the CD every now and then. Every single song is great, not one bad one in the bunch. I like the Sister Friction and Holy Joe EP too.
All these commenters talking about how much they loved it as little kids! This song popped up in the car as I collected my 4yo granddaughter from preschool today, first time she'd heard it, and we ended up playing it about five times. Every time the song finished she'd yell "Again! Louder!" Clearly the magic is still there.
Thank god they still play it on the radio instead of all this other crap including Ta Ta
another one that can get the kids is 'bunny hop'.
As a college kid in the 80's I loved this song then and I LOVE your story today! Just lovely!
Just hope you're not teaching her the lyrics! Lol. It's a fun bop but not quite a song for kids.
My niece was like that with the hucklebuck
The 80s was an unforgettable time to be in your teens. They were some of the best years of my life.
I was in my thirties, awesome time for me too!
@@nhmooytis7058 Good to hear. The music was great & the introduction of VCRs changed everything.
@@6ixConfessions New Wave ruled!
@@nhmooytis7058 Well, I know I certainly enjoyed going out every Friday & Saturday night & dancing until four in the morning then going for something to eat before arriving home just as the sun was coming up. Good times.
@@6ixConfessions yup! Dancing at the disco all night next to 7 foot speakers is why I’m partly deaf in one ear 🤣
I knew this song existed. I remember listening to it as a child in the 80s. UA-cam is amazing for finding lost musical gems.
True. There isn't a song yet that I haven't been able to find on UA-cam.
Same! And I recently watched a Boy George documentary type video where he was actually talking in it and his mum was in it, he's showing old venues he'd go to in the 70's etc anyway he mentioned Haysee Fantayzee so Im here!
There were songs I wanted to hear again and videos I wanted to see again but I never dreamed that UA-cam could exist.
IKR ! ! ! "wuf ticket"- yer mama - one of the fifrst rap songs lol. my dad played it when i w3aws a kid, iw as like wtf?!? checked it out on here, found it, killer early 80s shht.
One of the most memorable songs of the 80’s. She has the most beautiful eyes, so captivating.
Another gem 💎 that pre-dated MTV
And abs. Sheesh...
@@IamScoHo Abs most athletes and models dream of
They were hard to forget (compliment btw) and Kate Garner... Gorgeous 😍
The first time I saw and heard Haysi Fantayzee was on Richard Blade’s video music show “Video One.” I had never heard or seen anything like them. I was hooked, but I could never find their album. Until I walked into Licorice Pizza at the Puente Hills Mall about 8 months after seeing them on that show and boom! LP had one copy. I was so stoked. I dropped $9.99 and it was mine. The album was a rare find in the US. It was so imaginative and unusual, but incredible. I met Kate years later when she became an in demand photographer. She walked into the photo developer business I worked at and she was surprised I knew who she was. I was a fan boy of hers. She was lovely and that moment was unforgettable. The 80s will always be an amazing era to have lived through. I, like many here, feel lucky to have been a teenager then.
Me too!
They say you shouldnt meet your heroes but I genuinely feel happy for you. That must have meant a lot. Thanks for sharing
I heard this song once when I was probably 8 years old; 51 now. Ever since then that chorus has been ingrained in my brain. I haven't been able to find the song again until tonight. A voice came to me and said "Google, 'shiny shiny don't jump behind me'." This was the first thing that popped up. It feels like a full circle moment for me. 😊
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Lol, is there any relevence in your statement, or was it just your run of the mill non sequitur?@@ijustdidahugeshit
@@gaskellr44 I am a woman
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This was the very first single I ever bought, lol. I think I was 8. I played it so much one day that my dad ended up frisbeeing it out of the window. Not happy!
My mother bought me the album about a week later and I made sure my dad got to know every single track on it.
😂, i like ur story. That’s how crazy I would drive my parents during the 80’s with D🌹M, The Cure, INXS, New Order, well it’s a long list but my dad will scream at me tell me lower that volume. Those were the happiest days of my life👍
Love that story and this song. I drove my parents to distraction with heaps of 80s singles, dressing up like Boy George scared the shit out of them. I mainly remember my Toot Toot in 1985 as I had no idea it was about some oversexed jealous woman going on about her vajayjay.
my folks were felt like this about the B-52s and Duran Duran
OMG 🤣🤣🤣
Just a bigger frisbee for him, no??
This clip brings back the feeling of life in the 80s.
Yeah. Fucking depressing ain't it?
Absolutely not, and you know that.
@@guiltyascharged4125 You know what the song's about, right? nuclear war
@@travcollier Of course, ... but so funny!
I remember that when this came out, my best friend and I were obsessed with how beautiful Kate Garner was. Watching this again now, over 40 years later, I can see we had excellent taste even at that young age. What a stunning woman, and such great style. 💛 🔥
on the contrary, I heard of the name but looking back 40 years on, there were much better bands that didn't give me rice cake choke.
Yes, I remember her having a profound effect in me at the time too
She must be 70 now!!! How crazy is that??!!??
She’s on Instagram and is a photographer
@@shubr66 yeah I saw that . She’s done well
Love this kind of crazy, creative, New Wave stuff. I recently found out that KROQ has a HD station that plays all of this "ROQ of the 80's" that I grew up with. in LA area 106.7 My life is almost whole again!
Not Always P C IHeart80’s 103.7 FM always plays New Wave music on Friday nights from 8-12. Heard Trans-X, JoBoxers, and Belouis Some on there.
Yeah,my collection has grown epicly. Music of that time was SO much better. I still listen to my collection LP,cassettes and CDs all the time. Everything from Exploding Parakeet to Dada to Polyrock to Class Action to The Quarks. New wave to the nth degree. At least some bands like Fantastic Plastics,The Epoxies,The Polysics,The Cinema Eye,etc. are/were still trying to keep things alive. Even "lost" bands like Scream Bloody Murder from Dayton,OH merged industrial/new wave REALLY well.
KROQ is a music log of youth in So cAl for me back then!
NOSTALGIA is a trap :P
WLIR fan from 82 thru 87 here. 92.7.
Dare. To. Be. Different.
Born in 69 grew up a true valley kid. San fernando valley lived in northridge. Lost my first studio aprtment to the northridge earthquake. The 80 and 90 were the best for music. New wave and goth was actually cool.
What a great time to be a teenager. Everything was new, exciting, and cool, especially the music. I remember these time through the music. You can always visit, but you can’t stay.
I grew up in the Greatest time of music and highschool 1981-1987... 😊😊😊
As did I, and you are right. Much diversity of great genres, like Madness, Duran Duran, Iron Maiden. But, at the same time, that time bequeathed abysmal musical drivel like Soft Cell (execrable), Billy Bragg (hateful), Pet Shop Boys (beyond contempt).
Funny how everyone thinks the objectively best music came out in their formative years. Hmm.
No you didn't.
1982! 42 years ago. She was born in 1953, me too, we're old now. Such amazing music and style coming from my generation. I don't think the early 80s have been equaled.
I was looking for that song for 20 years. Internet times helped a lot, 10-12 years ago I have found it on YT. :)
Her mesmerizing eyes!So beautiful!
she's gorgeous. Arya Pride 101.
absolutely bonkers mental!! what a tune and what a gorgeous babe love it.
Who`s now 69 yrs old ...lol
@@davidhaney1394 And still a looker!
Back then I thought this song was just annoyingly catchy, listening to it now I realize it's actually quite a unique, well crafted and well produced little pop song. Wow, Kate's body is so incredibly lean and fit! She's very sexy in this, her whole attitude. I like how he moves too, with the whole gypsy tramp thing he has going on. They made an interesting duo, visually and sonically. The 80s were such an expressive time of experimentation and style, I miss it!
Totally agree. SHINY SHINY. Gets better with age. 😍😍😍👏love it.
Incredibly lean and fit??? Dude!!! She is a dude!!!
@@akizmetkat999 lol yep
@@akizmetkat999 no she's not, lol. Where did you come up with such dribble?
Great analysis! Was thinking the exact same same but prols couldn't have put it so well.
....but I was thinking more Dickensian ne'er-do-well rather than Gypsy tramp. 😀
This song is strangely hypnotic, i feel like this is what a child feels when watching barny or the teletubbies sing and dance
I understand what you mean! I heard this for the first time a couple weeks ago and first thought it was cheesy and a song which should have stayed buried in 80s obscurity, yet I found myself listening to it again...and again...and again. Before you knew it I listened to 3 or 4 different versions of it (such as Top of the Pops and extended remixes). Something VERY ADDICTIVE about this song!
Got to love those random vintage images in the background of this music video. Cool stuff.
This always cheers me up when I'm feeling down 💖
God I missed this band in the 1980s. I love 😍 Ms. Kate Garner she's amazingly beautiful 😘🥰🤩 Sister Friction rocks too 👍😁
This was popular when i was nine! I am turning 50 in a few months and have recently become obsessed with this song and watching other videos they did!
For those who weren't around at the time, this might look a bit bazaar. But remembering that this was out around the same time as Boy George and Dexy's Midnight Runners and suddenly it makes sense 😉
I have No Clue what’s going on, but I love the flow of the song. So bouncy and fun! I need more.
I'm 56 and I haven't heard this cool song for about 32years. Cool!! 👍
Yet another absolute bop about nuclear apocalypse. At least our generation got some good music.
This masterpiece of a song along with this this video has been stuck in my head for months! I was 10 years old and heard it maybe twice on the radio. It stayed with me. I tried to get my sister to see, but she couldn't get past the first minute. The beauty of this song is that is annoyingly addictive. My only gripe is that this gem wasn't longer. It's a crime that in the US this only made it to #74 in the summer of 83. Still better than anything out today.
This is one of those videos that you play once and watch a dozen times before you're satisfied. (-:
F*****g Masterpiece.Please tell us what you are taking introvenously.
@@gaskellr44 it's called joy ,a harmless bit of fun not hurting anyone that we desperately need more of in this terrible place called the World
Corrcet on your last bit of sentence, but there are far better things to listen too, fun or not, and I am alowed to give my opinion, since it is a comment placed platform.@@anonymiss495
Cannot believe I missed the gem for all these years. Better late than never.
In the US military at the time, I was on temporary duty in England when this song was popular, and I remember adults commenting how riveted their kids were by this song. It wasn't nearly as popular in Germany. And, here I am over 40 years later.
John. McCormick is my name. You alright kidder?
RAF Fairford?
Always loved them! And this video!! Kate became quite the celebrity photographer through the 90/00s. No surprise she is very gifted.
And the bloke is Jeremy healy.huge DJ from the dance scene.
1982?? Ahead of it's time! Thank you program director McManara, of 92.7 WLIR-FM
About a week ago my dad heard this song on the radio and told me this was probably the 3rd music video he ever remembered watching. He showed it to me and it's been stuck in my head ever since then haha. I feel like a crow watching a gold necklace swing around in the wind, this video is like crack cocaine.
I remember when I saw this as a teenager I thought they were weird. But I see it now and I think they're really cool.
Remember this being in the charts. 1983 I think ? She is so fit ❤. I love old 80s tunes.
I've been looking for that song for yeeears. I haven't heard that since early 80s. I could not recall neither the title nor the artist. And finally- YES!
Good ol' MTV. I could not wait till this Video would come on. We complained back then that there were not enough videos... little did we know these days would not last.
The best set of female abs in music history!!
Pity that music history is not made by abs. For which reason this "band" is not even a footnote.
@@offbeat65 You must be fun at parties . . .
@@davewhitmore1958 He's right though. Some people are far more focused on appearance than the quality of the music.
@@CB-xr1eghave you seen their image? Image was very important in the 80s. Still is but the 80s really went wild with so many different images.
@@davewhitmore1958 Exactly...welcome to the modern generation.
Cool song and such an underrated band. I have the album and every single song is a good one. Very clever, fun lyrics. I wish they made more music, though the music they did make never, ever, ever gets old. I'll throw on the CD every now and then, to this day, and it's as exciting as when I first heard it.
Ah yes, within the 1st 10 seconds of this song, memories of that time came flooding back.
It's stood the test of time, and always struck me as a song Robbie Williams could have made a fantastic cover version of .
Kate Garner still looks just as good today. What a spunk. Great choreography. This song should be played more
This song/video used to mesmerize me. Still, to this day, I think: what incredible, unclassifiable music this is. So alive, poaching from every genre. And visually: you can see the group’s influence on the looks of someone like Perry Farrell and Linda Perry.
Ad a small child I thought this was the most amazing song in the world it took me twenty years to find it again and it still has the same magic !
A song about nuclear war. Teenage me in the 80s used to worry all the time about this. At the height of the arms race, the USA and USSR between them had enough warheads to kill us all multiple times over. Songs like this were part of the resistance that any decent human felt.
Best quality musical genius on 80 s creations makers
Loved their force and art. Real good
The 80's where amazing musically not just because the music was amazing but unlike any other time there was no musical "Direction" after the punk explosion anything you wanted to try people where experimenting .
Between 1977 and 1984 I must have seen over 200 gigs. From the "PIL "to "Tangerine Dream" and everything in between .(The Jam . the Smiths Pig bag ,The Toy Dolls etc) often more than one a week.
For the record the best in concert was the Toy Dolls and the worst where new order (Twice) ,you got a hello and at the end thank you goodnight with no encores and The Iconic Bias lines , well forget it He plays the entire gig with his back to the crowd.
I remember this song I'm in Australia .This was a huge song down under.
I remember seeing this on Countdown many times. Good days.
Brilliant New Wave Song and great music video. Peaked at No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July of 1983, their only ever U.S. hit. Off of their album, Battle Hymns For Children Singing, which I own on CD. I own the 12 inch single of this song, released on RCA Records. This crazy tune is literally all over the frickin’ place. LOL. But I love it.
Such an odd title for the album. I heard somewhere, not entirely certain if it's true, that the title came about because when they were first touring and being interviewed on shows, someone asked Jeremy what the album was to be called, and they had not considered that question yet. Supposedly he made the title up on the spot.
eauhomme Heard something about that. If you don’t mind me asking, are you British or American? I’m an American fan of Haysi Fantayzee.
American, from the Seattle area. Remember when this song came out in about 1983. It was an earworm for over 30 years, as I could never find it anywhere and nobody played it, but I could remember the sound. Couldn't remember the words or the title. Just the beat of the chorus and a couple lines, running through my head just often enough to drive me nuts.
Finally skimmed the top 40 charts for 1983 and played on UA-cam anything I couldn't recognize. When I came to this one, I knew it immediately, within about 10 seconds.
eauhomme This music video is cool as well. The random vintage images and imagery.
One of the greatest weird songs from the 80s.
next to The War Song
Next to Kyrie 😜😉
If you can figure out what the lyrics mean - you let me know.
Its not weird todays stuff is utter crap , entertainmrnt is supposed to be weird , work & normal life isnt today normality is weird
@@sexobscura Indeed. It was so off-the-wall for Culture Club...
My first song I frikken loved at the gay bar in fall of ‘83. I even bought the 45 at the record store!
"at the record store"...not at the fruit & veg stall?🤔
When I played this song at our record store, I fell in love with it. I knew it was going to be a hit, too bad it was a one hit wonder. I love this guy, h effr reminds me of Boy George.
He was a friend of Boy George, they fell out because BG stole his "look".
An anthem for those of us brought up in Shiney Row.
One fave memory was shopping at the FLIP store on Melrose Ave. in LA as a teen and watching this music video played on the TV monitor by the in-house "video DJ" - love the "scratching" effect at the end! #80s classic
I were 8 years 1982 and I remember my cousin had this on a mixtape. The words shiny shiny and the spoons never left my head and then in 2000 when you know Napster was big I looked it up and found it again - What à brilliant tune ❤️
❤😂🎉😮😢❤❤
It's one of those songs hear it once and you never get it out of your head.
I remember hearing this song on a Seattle radio station long time ago - 1983 or 1984 or so. Catchy as heck.
Now all you hear on Seattle radio these days is dreck. The once-solid KNDD that used to play all sorts of acts in the early 90s is reduced to throwing out some dry-as-a-bone Grunge glop and a mess of unknown contemporary noise; KEXP is NOT the same as KCMU (shame that Shake the Shack finally died); and Bellevue College's KBCS is about all that's palatable. I used to listen to KNHC's "Save the Wave" ages ago, and was a bit surprised to see that it's still going, but that's not much to counter all the automated, repetitive JACK track programming on the dial. Thank dog that WFMU streams all over the planet, as do Canadian college stations, like CFUV, and CJUM, with actual DJs.
Kate Garner: trend-setter in music and aesthetics throughout the 80s, internationally-renowned photographer, my favourite contemporary artist in acrylics and oils.
Important vital voice in animal rights.
Wow!!! That was a blast
Ah yes the cream of the 80s. All you young ones, this is what you missed out on
I loved this entire album, ever song was amazing
It took me like 3 months to find this song! FINALFUCKENLY!
Me too🤣
3 months?! It took me 35 years!
Oh really You can Download Shazam
FaaaaaaK 3weeks of playlists all excluded ..... finally !!!! 🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤹🤹🤹🤹🤹
Kate's hot AF 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@islandjefe6097 You all should have come to my house, it's in my CD collection. LOL!
OMG! I finally found this song stuck in my head 😀
Barely remember this song. Been drinking for a while trying to recall 80's songs. Cheers then.
At nearly 50 I still love this song so much , I learned to play the spoon solo when this came out and I can still play it now lol. Fantastic upbeat fun song 🙂
I'm 56 and I love it so much I rewrote it as an anti-Coronavirus song. if you want a link to the words, let me know.
@@shiroibasketshoes That's fantastic I'd love to hear it. 😊
@@cindyr4363 Thanks...It's at this link, combined with a photo I took... www.flickr.com/photos/emotiroi/50247149992/in/dateposted-public/
😱 I was crazy about this song and I’m here in 3/2021 listening to it. I ❤️ it!!!!!🙏
Sums up the start of the 80’s, who cared if a song made any sense, so long as it had a beat.
If you like songs that made no sense try songs from the psychedelic 60's. eg.."I looked in the sky where an elephant's eye was looking at me from a bubble gum tree"
Without a second thought: Battle Hymns For Children Singing is an LP I still have left after all these years!
I used to love this quirky lil song, found the mv fascinating , couldnt stop watchin the people
I've just turned 60 years young, and I cannot tell you how obssessed with this song I was when it came out, and how much I wanted to be this gorgeous skinny biatch!! This was considered very alternative...not mainstream at all, and prob influenced by Boy George, whom I also loved, and still do. I really miss the 80's.
I am 64 years old so I was 23 when this came out. An hour ago I could not have told you who did this or what anything about the song sounded like except the "SHINY SHINY SHA NA NA NA" that has been stuck in my head for 40 years and pops up occasionally. Usually when I hear the word shiny. I dont know why I just thought to look up what it was. I have no memory of the video.
80s music is the best ❤
When this came out in the 80s, I used to have my portable cassette stereo (running on D cell batteries) set up at our home made BMX track that me and my brothers had made and at the 2:07 mark when he goes
"Do, Do, Do....Cop on the line..."
That's when I would launch off the scariest jump we had, but this song gave me the confidence to jump it.
Mind you I probably stacked more times than I care to remember.....
Kate garner is a very succesfull photographer now. i was so lucky to work with her
@KLM669 70 this year
I have a job for her
it's like Adam Ant and Bow Wow Wow had a love child.
Chas & Dave and Madness in there too!
But I thought Adam
& The Ants + Bow Wow
Wow already had a love child: REPUBLICA
You could throw in Boy George also
@@clemsontobyyes but little less gay
@@atomic_lime No need for homophobia, it's 2024 you know.
'Good times come to me now' my daily mantra.
Good times come to me now
Good times come to me now
I ain't lying 'cause there ain't no time
No city, it's a pity, 'cause I dress divine
City smokes, people choke
Big meanie, he's a genie, and we ain't got a hope
No chance, no chance
Well, I feel fine, no, it ain't no crime
I was dreamin' of a demon, and I ate a dime
The dime floats, the colonel boasts
Send 'em up the hill, boys, this ain't no joke
No chance, no chance, no chance, no chance
Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me
Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na
Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me
Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na
Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me
Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na
Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me
Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na
Your sure look fine, your shoes - they shine
I taste your face, your love is mine
Mercury Dan with a spikey hand
I'm a hot retard, marquis de sade
No chance, no chance, no chance, no chance
Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me
Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na
Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me
Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na
Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me
Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na
Shiny, shiny, bad times behind me
Shiny, shiny, sha-na-na-na
Saw a cop on the line, machine gun shine
I was dreaming, not believing, that I was alive
My mind broke, the cop - he choked
Get out of here, boy, or I'll use the colt
No chance, no chance
You sure look fine, your shoes - they shine
No heat can compete with this blue-eyed liar
The child spoke, "We ain't got a hope press the button
Press the button, it's all remote"
No chance, no chance, no chance, no chance
Mercury Dan with a spikey hand ???? I am not sure this is right, he says something different , can't understand but is not spikey hand, nor Mercury Dan
it sounds like ''merit to them in Vietnam'''. although the first word could not be "merit".
Its so catchy
@@egvNY marquis de sade
Ale jaja to jest bez sensu ,ale brzmi fajnie .
Love this fun, silly weird song....and the absolutely beautiful Kate!!
I had no idea who did this song, so happy it popped up!
The song came into my head but I couldn't remember who sang it. Thanks UA-cam.
Alright, I'M IN ! 😊 Fun!
I love everyone who loves this song!
Oh ya?
Trump has stated several times this is one of his favorite bands from the 80's.
Love you too mate ❤️
@@Bhatt_Hole Trump is overhated.
💋
The single hottest woman in history. I'll bet she has a great sense of humor as well. Definitely of eastern european decent. A decendendant of mine...
Oh I loved this!!! And yes, I was quite jealous of Kate Garners twee little figure!
I loved this song back in the day. Here blue eyes. Wow wow wow
Love this song! 😊
Met Miss Garner 82 ...Love Haysi Fantayzee xxxx
I wish I had met her in 82 miss lee love her too xxx
Her Father was The Late Chas Hodges ❤
I’m 64 and it’s bloody beautiful
This was on a mixed tape we had when I was growing up! It was my lil brother, Shane's favourite song on the tape, he is no longer with us so I just added this to my 80's mix playlist. We used to sing Shaney Shaney....the ending is unique for the times!
Wow I so remember this song. My sister played them a lot. ‘John Wayne Is Big Leggy, ‘Holy Joe’ were the other ones on repeat lol
Great taste, I love those songs too! "Holy Joe" I'd play over and over and over before I went out in my younger years.
All hail K-Rock - rock of the 80s!
Got here from the Janet Jackson "Life in Looks," British Vogue video that dropped on 9/12/24. She talks about this duo's style and cites this song. Never heard of it, but LOVE it!
same!
same!!!
Michael was inspired by Adam ant
@@arlenemartinez9416real 😏✌️
Love that bird!
Then I’m 18 again, dancing to this at the Hollywood Palladium.
Oh wow! I was at the Hollywood Palladium during then too! Fantastic times! We would drive from Torrance to go there. One time my cousins, who are my age, came to visit me from the Central Valley, they couldn’t believe they were in an actually Hollywood nightclub! Lol I think they were shocked how people looked and dressed! Lol I miss that place. A lot of movies were filmed there, too. 😁
Luv this song, took me a while to find it! So glad I did! I was getting a headache!
Very catchy tune. Kate Garner was really gorgeous
She never misses abs days.
This song never reached Canada back in the day as far as I know, so I guess this band was never a North American sensation like Adam Ant or Bow Wow Wow became.
Some music from the 80s stands the test of time, others such as "Shiny Shiny" lived in the 80s and never left!
Bloody hell - don't think I've heard this since '82!!
I was 15 when John Wayne Is Big leggy came out and I loved that. Then this came out a few months later and I loved it even more.
Was there when this was big and I still am, anyone else year 2021? Got this on vinyl!
I'm here in 2023, still love them, still throw on the CD every now and then. Every single song is great, not one bad one in the bunch. I like the Sister Friction and Holy Joe EP too.
First group i got into as a kid i drove my mom mad singing it shame never gets much radio play theys days