I had the double of your age first time i listened to this masterpiece and listening just now Stepping out is like having a flash back and coming exactly to '80... Great memories and good times... Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹
Same Louie, same... the best decade ever to be a teenager in, we were so spoiled for choice with our music back then, so lucky to have lived through that :)
12 years old and had been playing drums already for a few years. I played along to this song endlessly. Drum machine or not, it taught me how to groove. Thanks, Joe.
I was 13 when this song was released back in 82. Great memories. Immediatly loved this song. Then at the end of spring, in 83, we were really steppin' out, on a huge boat, at night, with a red-haired girl I loved, during a school trip. Level of emotion was so high it certainly burnt my nerves permanently !! It still shakes me to hear Joe Jackson playing this.
64 here and forgot this song until a few weeks ago ... Thank you Shazam ... it was playing in our "rest room" It's now on high rotate in the car - THIS song is GOLD
This was one of my bandmate and friends favorite songs. He always wants us to do a cover of it. Sadly he passed away last year after a brave fight with cancer. This song came out before either of us were born but I have some wonderful memories attached to it. thank you Joe! R.I.P. Matt ❤️
Lifelong Joe fan here - i saw him do the same routine, with the same old drum machine, at a concert on 4 June 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Glad to see both old boys (Joe & the machine) still going strong.
I lived this album back then. Every track a beauty. Saw Joe at Millersville College that year too. Tight band and brilliant performance. Nice to see Joe so ebullient.
Joe Jackson, one of the all-time supreme weirdos of music that too few have experienced. See him live and you've seen something. The chord voicings on this song alone are so simple and novel that nobody has ever come close. Also see "Breaking Us In Two" for a similar execution. Nobody like him ever. Sure, he had hit songs, but mostly unfortunately forgotten to history outside of our little rabid fan base. Lesser artists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for sure.
Love that they brought out the drum machine and plugged it in, lol. Such a classic song, loved Joe Jackson's work in the 1980s. Fantastic. Big World was/is one of my all-time favorite albums from the 1980s. Or any other time.
Watching this is Therapeutic and Exciting. Straight Artistic Achievement.....Benedict, you got down with this Comment........I LOVE how he waits a few moments before singing the Verse, giving it a different feel than the Original, but still POWERFUL. Definitely one of the Masterpieces from the 80s.....
@@Smudge4199 Especially considering Joe played all of the different instruments, minus the snare drum, by himself. I feel that this song qualifies as a real musical masterpiece. Fred
*So Eighties Glorious! So New York! So Cosmopolitan Lifestyle! THE TIMELESS ROMANCE OF THAT EPOCH!* And that oh so glorious driving synth melody, made sweeter indeed with Das Glockenspiel. *This song is absolutely close to the top of my Glorious Eighties Playlist. Accompanied by Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots and Evelyn "Champagne" King - Love Come Down.*
My music teacher in my first year of high school (1983) made us learn this song. It has been with me ever since and has become my fave JJ song of all time and of course made me a massive JJ fan to this day. Thank you Miss Jammison.
I was 5 years old when I first heard this song in 1982, when I heard it again years later, my mind immediately reverted back to that time of the early 1980s and my early childhood memories!
OMG! This is fantastic! I absolutely love this!! One of my all time favorite "haunting" songs being reproduced "Live". It does not get much better than this for me!
I wish more musicians would explain their songs,i know it would take up time,but at least 1 or 2 so we could step into their minds at the time they made that tune! This is just great,thanks Joe,saw you in Houston Texas back in 1985 at the old Astroworld amusement park outdoor theater!!
What a gentleman, what a musician. WIth this record he traced a line in my musical life. There is a before and after N&D. Thanks Mr. Jackson and sorry for bothering you in Venice after an unbelievable show, for the autograph on N&D CD: you were very kind, and talking with Sue and Graham was amazing. Forever, thanks.
That was very cool. Still have the album I purchased in 1984. Saw Joe in concert years ago when he shared a bill with Todd Rundgren. Talk about two powerful and still relevant voices.
This is too cool. I was working long hours in a startup at the time, and every one in the lab nodded knowingly when they heard the intro to this song. Takes me back 4 decades. Thanks!
ESSA MÚSICA FEZ PARTE DA MINHA ADOLESCÊNCIA AQUI EM GOIÂNA BRAZIL. ISSO EM 1982 . ERAM AS RÁDIOS ARAGUAIA FM E RADIO CIDADE FM. MUITO BOA. OBRIGADO JOE.
This was the song that finally pushed me over the edge to start buying his albums (the year it was released)...it remains my favorite song by him and this is the first time I can think of that the arrangement came this close to the album...wow...a swift kick in the pants to me...JJ is still The Man.
Bought this on cassette when it first came out. It found its way into the testing area of Sanyo where I worked at the time. We used it to test various components on-the-line (decks, ghetto blasters, etc). And unfortunately the tape got left behind when I left the company.
Thank you! Amazing memory, I was in the first row on the right at the concert in Milan, when he got back on stage with the drum machine... goosebumps!!!
I have been waiting for a long long time to hear this version again. This song is almost 40 years old, and it’s just as beautiful now as it was back then!
I sent an email 8 years ago or so to his management asking for an autograph. I felt heartbroken when they declined my inquiry. it’s still my favourite song of all time.
We're perhaps old, perhaps like all old people we just preferred what we listened when we were young, but as a musician with all the objectivity and honesty I can give, there is not photo between current music on radios and internet and music of the 80's. This title of JJ is a legend of course, but listen to that sound, that sense of melody and harmony, that voice and this uniqueness... Making great music is to make more with less like any form of art, JJ did this title all alone (apart the snare !). And it is still best that all this (c)rap music of today produce with a tons of people like credits at the end of an Hollywood film ...
Now The mist across the window hides the lines But nothing hides the colour of the lights that shine Electricity so fine Look and dry your eyes We So tired of all the darkness in our lives With no more angry words to say can come alive Get into a car and drive To the other side Me babe, steppin' out Into the night Into the light You babe, steppin' out Into the night Into the light We Are young but getting old before our time We'll leave the T.V. and the radio behind Don't you wonder what we'll find Steppin' out tonight? You Can dress in pink and blue just like a child And in a yellow taxi turn to me and smile We'll be there in just a while If you follow me Me babe, steppin' out Into the night Into the light You babe, steppin' out Into the night Into the light Me babe, steppin' out Into the night Into the light You babe, steppin' out Into the night Into the light Me babe, steppin' out Into the night Into the light
Got creasy the first time I heared this in...... yesssss .... 1982. Since then a big fan of Mister Joe Jackson. Saw Joe in the same year in Rotterdam at North Sea Jazz. He than didint play this part
La canción con la que comencé a amar la música del gran Joe Jackson...yo era un niño de once años por entonces...Y mi admiración simplemente no ha parado de crecer.
Aimee Nolte sent me. Carry on, Joe.
Aimee sent me too! 😄
Gianni❤
Same here.
Been here before, revisited because of Aimee
Me too. But I got to Aimee through the song! I did grow up with it. I've always loved it so much.
What they said
This song always makes me want to stand on top of tall building in a city at night and just watch everything happening below
wow his voice is still so bright and powerful :)
My 7 year old brain was blown when I first heard this song...37 years later, I still get goosebumps. A true masterpiece 😊
I had the double of your age first time i listened to this masterpiece and listening just now Stepping out is like having a flash back and coming exactly to '80... Great memories and good times...
Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹
Same here! This song is timeless.
I was the same age as you were when this came out in 1982. Whenever I hear it, I right away think about winter time in Chicago.
Likewise. 1982 forever
Totally agree. 1982 I was 10 y/o & I always loved this song. & this version is awesome!
One of my favourite songs of all time!
This still sounds as fresh as the day I first heard it...
How I miss the 80s'..
there was so much magic in the 80s'...The movies, the music, the computers (original Mac shipped in 1984)
Magnificent performance!! Bravo Joe Jackson! Thank you for this fabulous song. Still listening in 2024.👍
Of the thousands of videos played on MTV , this simple unassuming ditty is still one that is near and dear to my heart .
Wow! Sounds great.
How I miss the 80s. I remember when this came out and had my life in front of me!
Same Louie, same... the best decade ever to be a teenager in, we were so spoiled for choice with our music back then, so lucky to have lived through that :)
Me too, I was 8 when this came out. Heard it on the radio a lot, I think I had the 45 vinyl. I have this album on CD and have the song on iTunes.
Sears 6404 I was about 17 when this came out. We sure danced to this song! 😀
I was just thinking about that
1984 here 👍
12 years old and had been playing drums already for a few years. I played along to this song endlessly. Drum machine or not, it taught me how to groove. Thanks, Joe.
I was 13 when this song was released back in 82. Great memories. Immediatly loved this song. Then at the end of spring, in 83, we were really steppin' out, on a huge boat, at night, with a red-haired girl I loved, during a school trip. Level of emotion was so high it certainly burnt my nerves permanently !! It still shakes me to hear Joe Jackson playing this.
I was around 14/15 I have the LP 💃
Still singing it in the original key! Way to go, Joe!
So funny and refreshing to see a singer trying to recreate the song as exactly as it sounds in the studio version! A blast!
After 40+ years he sounds pretty goddamn good! I still play this song on regular basis! I remember watch his video back in 82 on MTV!!
Joe came wit the machine from 82 and many started crying:)...included me...
64 here and forgot this song until a few weeks ago ... Thank you Shazam ... it was playing in our "rest room"
It's now on high rotate in the car - THIS song is GOLD
This was one of my bandmate and friends favorite songs. He always wants us to do a cover of it. Sadly he passed away last year after a brave fight with cancer. This song came out before either of us were born but I have some wonderful memories attached to it. thank you Joe! R.I.P. Matt ❤️
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This was so faithful to the original that it gave me goosebumps. One of my all-time favorite songs.
I-AB-SO-LU-TLY-LO-VE-THIS!
Go Joe Jackson! Go!
*Yes, we are old, but who cares!*
Y cada año que pasa....se pone mejor ajjajajjajajaaja
Very Cool. saw you at the Apollo in Harlem NYC 2024
Lifelong Joe fan here - i saw him do the same routine, with the same old drum machine, at a concert on 4 June 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Glad to see both old boys (Joe & the machine) still going strong.
Aimee Nolte sent me also. Great work JJ and the band.
The man's voice hasn't changed a bit! What a delightful trip back in time.
I lived this album back then. Every track a beauty. Saw Joe at Millersville College that year too. Tight band and brilliant performance. Nice to see Joe so ebullient.
One of my all-time favourite songs, always brings a tear. A happy tear
Hearing the opening notes, a flood of precious memories come back to me every time.
Joe Jackson, one of the all-time supreme weirdos of music that too few have experienced. See him live and you've seen something. The chord voicings on this song alone are so simple and novel that nobody has ever come close. Also see "Breaking Us In Two" for a similar execution. Nobody like him ever. Sure, he had hit songs, but mostly unfortunately forgotten to history outside of our little rabid fan base. Lesser artists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for sure.
those are 2 of my favourite songs.
Very well said! I couldn't sum Joe and his band up any better.
Love that they brought out the drum machine and plugged it in, lol. Such a classic song, loved Joe Jackson's work in the 1980s. Fantastic. Big World was/is one of my all-time favorite albums from the 1980s. Or any other time.
Big World 💕🌎 I totally agree.
BIG WORLD YESSSSSS!!!!!
"Musicians" today shouldn't even be in the same room with this genius.
Brilliant! Thanks. One of my all time favorites. Song and Performer.
I’m crying tears of bitter happiness
Proof that music doesn't need to be complex or over-produced to be amazing.
Watching this is Therapeutic and Exciting. Straight Artistic Achievement.....Benedict, you got down with this Comment........I LOVE how he waits a few moments before singing the Verse, giving it a different feel than the Original, but still POWERFUL. Definitely one of the Masterpieces from the 80s.....
Would say that this song is pretty complex
@@Smudge4199 Especially considering Joe played all of the different instruments, minus the snare drum, by himself. I feel that this song qualifies as a real musical masterpiece. Fred
@@Smudge4199 yes
I'd also say it was very complex when Joe recorded it. Very skilled at his craft and visionary, like so many of the 80s musicians were.
*So Eighties Glorious! So New York! So Cosmopolitan Lifestyle! THE TIMELESS ROMANCE OF THAT EPOCH!*
And that oh so glorious driving synth melody, made sweeter indeed with Das Glockenspiel.
*This song is absolutely close to the top of my Glorious Eighties Playlist. Accompanied by Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots and Evelyn "Champagne" King - Love Come Down.*
Absolutely loved this!!
Very cool that he gave the breakdown of this song and how it was created. All Hail the 80's era drum machine!
Gave me a smile on my face just hearing again. So enjoyed this album in high school.
My music teacher in my first year of high school (1983) made us learn this song. It has been with me ever since and has become my fave JJ song of all time and of course made me a massive JJ fan to this day. Thank you Miss Jammison.
I was 6 in 1982 when "Steppin' Out" was on mtv and i love it.
I was 5 years old when I first heard this song in 1982, when I heard it again years later, my mind immediately reverted back to that time of the early 1980s and my early childhood memories!
One of the greatest songs of all time. Just brilliant.
SUCH a unique song, it gets into your DNA just like so many great books or movies with that classic 70s-early 80's happy/poppy/melancholy THING.
Joe wrote the soundtrack of my life.
A truely underrated musician. Always entertaining!
I listen to this song every day almost. Especially when im going out
A good song stands the test of time. The simplicity of it's creation makes it more the richer. Joe's still got it, a true talent. Bravo.
OMG! This is fantastic! I absolutely love this!! One of my all time favorite "haunting" songs being reproduced "Live". It does not get much better than this for me!
I've always liked this song but never had a word to describe it until just now.
HAUNTING is the perfect word to describe this tune.
I wish more musicians would explain their songs,i know it would take up time,but at least 1 or 2 so we could step into their minds at the time they made that tune! This is just great,thanks Joe,saw you in Houston Texas back in 1985 at the old Astroworld amusement park outdoor theater!!
What a gentleman, what a musician. WIth this record he traced a line in my musical life. There is a before and after N&D. Thanks Mr. Jackson and sorry for bothering you in Venice after an unbelievable show, for the autograph on N&D CD: you were very kind, and talking with Sue and Graham was amazing. Forever, thanks.
That was very cool. Still have the album I purchased in 1984. Saw Joe in concert years ago when he shared a bill with Todd Rundgren. Talk about two powerful and still relevant voices.
This is too cool. I was working long hours in a startup at the time, and every one in the lab nodded knowingly when they heard the intro to this song. Takes me back 4 decades. Thanks!
One of the greatest song of the 80s.
Remember my 17 years old,time flying i listened that song about 40 years ago and stiil rock,thanks Joe.
I've loved this album since I first heard it as a teen in the 80s. Fantastic to see this version! Keep rockin Joe ❤️
Graham Maby is the man!
Korg KR-55. Also used (in it’s KR-55B guise) by Depeche Mode on their earliest material.
DAMNED I'M OLD!!!!!!!!
maybe man , but with an impeccable taste for good music !
Old ? What do you mean, and what does that got to do with this song ?
We all are. We certainly aren't getting any younger either.
I still have this album, which I wore out. One great tune after the next. And this groove, one could play it on a loop all night.
LEGEND.
ESSA MÚSICA FEZ PARTE DA MINHA ADOLESCÊNCIA AQUI EM GOIÂNA BRAZIL. ISSO EM 1982 . ERAM AS RÁDIOS ARAGUAIA FM E RADIO CIDADE FM. MUITO BOA. OBRIGADO JOE.
This was the song that finally pushed me over the edge to start buying his albums (the year it was released)...it remains my favorite song by him and this is the first time I can think of that the arrangement came this close to the album...wow...a swift kick in the pants to me...JJ is still The Man.
Just love this guy...I finished my high school in 1982, a phenomenally underrated talent and performer. Steppin' Out my favourite!!
I've loved this song since it debuted. His live performance from his 1980-1986 album is amazing.
Pure '80s. I love it!
Me too the 80 best of the best.
Can't get over how good he still sounds. Loved this but my favorite remains Breaking Us Into.
Oops...In Two 😆
This drum machine is a reliquia
This guy is a genius !!!
One of my favourites musicians and frontman
Hey Joe , you too nice person !
Oh my GOD, hearing this takes me back and makes me so happy! :)
Bought this on cassette when it first came out. It found its way into the testing area of Sanyo where I worked at the time. We used it to test various components on-the-line (decks, ghetto blasters, etc). And unfortunately the tape got left behind when I left the company.
Was that the Night & Day album?
Souvenir de ma jeunesse. Beaucoup d’émotions, jeunesse et illusions obligent...
J’avais 13 ans quand j’ai découvert Joe.... je m’organisais des concerts privés .....qui devenaient réalités .....
Que de souvenirs my love ❤️
Excellent song, always loved it!
Love it! And Joe's voice is still pretty good.
like old wine, the older the better, Joe Jackson a sharp dress man
@@johncarter6238 hahaha a sharp dress man. You know what, I agree. Only a real man can pull off a good lookin' sharp dress XD
It's so so lovely Joe:)
Grande emozione. Peccato non esserci andato. Grandi ricordi. Vidi Joe Jackson nel 1986 durante il tour di Big World.
Thank you! Amazing memory, I was in the first row on the right at the concert in Milan, when he got back on stage with the drum machine... goosebumps!!!
Now this is showmanship right here..
LOVE THIS MAN!!!!!! WOW What a freakn treat! That was one of the last true cover-to-cover albums.
Aimee Nolte sent me here for this great song 😊
I have been waiting for a long long time to hear this version again. This song is almost 40 years old, and it’s just as beautiful now as it was back then!
Joe recorded this song a little over eight months after I was born.
@@MrKGetz I was 9 when this came out. I still remember watching the awesome video of this song on MTV.
@@ChefRonnieBoy I worked at Staples full-time and got to hear it everyday over the MUSAK.
@@MrKGetz I love it!
It's 40 cause I graduated High School in 1982.
His best and the album was one of the all time great albums-fabulous
Not many tunes still make my hairs stand on end after one billion listens! I bought the 7" in picture bag! I've kept it near mint!
A JJ's classic...
He's the man... He rocks...
Now I've definitely got to listen to the original again.....
A true artist
I sent an email 8 years ago or so to his management asking for an autograph. I felt heartbroken when they declined my inquiry. it’s still my favourite song of all time.
His voiiiice what a voice 😍that hasn t got old at all 👍🍀
Love. Joe. Jackson. 😊
We're perhaps old, perhaps like all old people we just preferred what we listened when we were young, but as a musician with all the objectivity and honesty I can give, there is not photo between current music on radios and internet and music of the 80's. This title of JJ is a legend of course, but listen to that sound, that sense of melody and harmony, that voice and this uniqueness... Making great music is to make more with less like any form of art, JJ did this title all alone (apart the snare !). And it is still best that all this (c)rap music of today produce with a tons of people like credits at the end of an Hollywood film ...
Now
The mist across the window hides the lines
But nothing hides the colour of the lights that shine
Electricity so fine
Look and dry your eyes
We
So tired of all the darkness in our lives
With no more angry words to say can come alive
Get into a car and drive
To the other side
Me babe, steppin' out
Into the night
Into the light
You babe, steppin' out
Into the night
Into the light
We
Are young but getting old before our time
We'll leave the T.V. and the radio behind
Don't you wonder what we'll find
Steppin' out tonight?
You
Can dress in pink and blue just like a child
And in a yellow taxi turn to me and smile
We'll be there in just a while
If you follow me
Me babe, steppin' out
Into the night
Into the light
You babe, steppin' out
Into the night
Into the light
Me babe, steppin' out
Into the night
Into the light
You babe, steppin' out
Into the night
Into the light
Me babe, steppin' out
Into the night
Into the light
Thank you for the lyrics
I always sang it as WE ARE....STEPPIN OUT!!! After nearly 40 years finally figuring that out 😂🤣
Got creasy the first time I heared this in...... yesssss .... 1982. Since then a big fan of Mister Joe Jackson.
Saw Joe in the same year in Rotterdam at North Sea Jazz. He than didint play this part
Very very cool.
The beginning of Maniac by Michael Sembello and Whip It by Devo always reminded me of this song.
Steppin' out into the fabulous 80's
Brilliant. Happy memories of my youth.
Awesome!!!!!! One of my all time favorite songs!!!
I love this song.
Just amazing. This video should have a billion views and even more likes.
this is the bees knees what a freakin legend!!!!!
Memory lane 👌🥂
La canción con la que comencé a amar la música del gran Joe Jackson...yo era un niño de once años por entonces...Y mi admiración simplemente no ha parado de crecer.
That man made a masterpiece
Super cool!