Another amazing hit from "Some kind of wonderful", one of the best movies and best era in music and entertainment in general, the 80s. Loved it then and still love it. I just turned 57 recently and this music is timeless, so are the movies. So great.
I feel bad for the current youth, they will never know what is like to live in the 80's: its music, cultural influence, movies, shows, everything was just better.
every video from the 80s has a version of this commentary. The "youth" is busy LIVING and you have NO IDEA WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY LIVE AND EXPERIENCE LIFE. you just got old and now you spend your time worrying about how "bad" life is for young people -- just like some old people did when you were young
@@ManuelBorge I believe in you. I believe that you are still going out, dancing and having fun.... I believe that you travel. But you also spend your time worrying about how "bad" life is for young people -- just like some old people did when you were young. Again: you have NO IDEA WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY LIVE AND EXPERIENCE LIFE.
The eighties. Best music ever. Best years ever. I want the eighties to come back. The world is shit right now. It’s all changes. People are not the same either.
This guy was way ahead of his time. He was maybe 17 in this video. Better looking, better guitarist and better singer than most of his peers. Plus he was way cooler. I followed him since the 80's and Will too.
cool af too! That's how teens were back then. We had more freedom to be our true selves and not be dictated like the youth seem to be, today, bunch of confused followers.
I am not young anymore (71), but I fell in love with Charlie Sexton so long ago. The 80's were sure the best and he fit in so well. He always appeared sad to me, maybe that was the attraction, I don't know. I absolutely love his music, then and now.
I heard he was playing a club in Austin, Texas with bandmates of Stevie Ray Vaughan after Vaughan's passing. As a tribute to their beloved friend, they named the band after him "ARC ANGELS." I think they are together now. He played at the club in the movie Thelma & Louise. I really thought he never got the attention he deserved. He's FABULOUS!
@@sheriszajna-mckeon9902 ua-cam.com/video/SN9HbAmm2Gk/v-deo.html All these folks know each other. Add Stephen Doster and James Stephens and Bill Carter and of course, Will Sexton, into that mix.
@ "sheri" ... Of course you should check out Charlie Sexton's band "Arc Angels" (with the great Doyle Bramhall II & "Double Trouble") 😇 and their lone 1992 studio album "(self titled)". 👍😎👍 Their hit "Living in a Dream" is flat out AMAZING !! 😃 🍻
If kids in Germany knew about him and listened to it , it was pretty much of a success, no ? Me and my friend did so in Bingen am Rhein / Germany. 🎙 🎸 🎶 🥁 🇩🇪
@@ritahorvath8207, not necessarily, as many times particularly great songs, which don't fit the usual mold, make it big elsewhere but NOT in the USA. Look at (Ike and) Tina's (and Phil's) "River Deep Mountain High," a deservedly huge hit in the UK, but nothing here in the US...
True Story! I was working out in the Gym 2 weeks ago and heard this cool tune playing...They also were playing the music video posted here...I had never heard it before so I wanted to see it up close (TV mounted on the wall close to the ceiling) went up and checked it out...I was like 'DAMN, this dude sounds good and he is really taking it back with that 80's retro look and sound. Took a pic..Came home and went to youtube only to see everyone's comments about Charlie making this song in 1985...I was like...where the heck was I in the 80's????? AWESOME Tune...getting the Album as well!
@@sugarnads ..I know you are probably joking, but.. there are over 20 CD copies of Charlies's "Pictures For Pleasure" 1985 album available right this moment, on *ebay* . 😏 Pretty pricey, though. 🤑 .."FYI".
Check out the stuff he did with the Arc Angels as well. He's one of those guys that never makes "the list" even though he is better than some of the people on it.
+DallasWhiteGuy Ok - I miss them too ... I would like to hear your perspective on what kind of world/society we live in now , how would you describe it?
Still one of the greatest songs, 36 yrs ago sitting with my radio trying to catch it so I could record it on a cassette tape.....and I still love it in 2023
That's funny. The other night I was going through a cassette of songs I'd recorded off the radio in December, 1986. I love hearing the DJ's talk about contemporaneous events as they lead into and out of the songs.
This is just a suggestion, but have you heard of YTMP3? If you have a computer, you can copy and paste the url of this video and download the song to your computer. Hope this helps!
@@BethPaige He's in the Arcangels...they got together right after Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed. Two of the original or current(?) band were in SRV's band. You should look them up. Last I heard, they're still together! (I'm from Austin and "sort of," knew Charlie, but I knew his little brother, Will better. Will had a band called, "Will and the Kill," back then...Charlie was 17, Will 15, and I was 14 back in 1986. I know Will has a solo career. Maybe Charlie has/does, too? And, BTW: Arcangels spelled that way is after, "Austin Recording Complex," on S. Congress in Austin. I've been in Colorado since my mid 20's so I don't know about the Austin Scene anymore, but I think it was probably much more fun before the city became, "L.A. Pt 2."
I remember getting the 45. It was not in the Top 100 and sometimes the record store would have a box in front of the register selling these 45's. I remember getting Just another day by Oingo Boingo and the girl who I knew who worked there, insisted I get the Charlie Sexton 45 for free, cause I was regular customer since the store opened in 1980. I never heard the song before on the radio. I thought it was okay. Then in 1987 it was in the movie Some kind of wonderful. I saw it at the theater so I started to like the song better. I got rid of a lot of my 45's, but I did keep this record.
Most "under-rated" rocker ever... He didn't fall for LA or the glam, just wrote and played and still does.. Name 10 people who are still doing it today on a nightly basis.. If you know where he is playing anytime and will promise he will sing "beats so lonely" please post it on there..It's on my bucket list to see this guy play in person!!!
I met him a few years after this song came out, with Doyle Bramhall + Arc Angels, they were the coolest, nicest guys you could ever imagine. I asked him about his cameo in "Thelma and Louise" and he was really shy about it. You can't ask for a nicer guy.Charlie, when are you coming back to Montreal?
Same here! I remember this Video coming on a local Request Videos TV show back in early 1986. My jaw dropped when I heard the guitar riffs! I was like WHOA!!!
It's the 1980's.....about 5am......jump in the V8 ute ....off to BELLS Beach with my mates for a sunrise surf.....and this BOOming out of the speakers. Brings back fantastic memories..............
@@dmotta2811 Matt Dillon from Something About Mary. Ben Stiller: How much does Mary weigh now? Matt: Deuce....Deuce and a a half. Billy Idol isn't bad either!!!!
gasoline mixed with whiskey...and Texas oil and Texas rock and roll...with a Ray Vaughn vibe...combined with Bowie..you get Sexton...with the all time greatest song in the 80’s...I will fight to the death to defend him..just an unbelievable talent in his teens....god is his music good.....
did i ever comment on this? I LOVED Loved Loved this when it came out. Then Slowly I learned about him. then In 2008. I met him. He did a great little record W/ Shannon McNally (look it up). I asked him why he wanted to make the 1st Record he made when he Came Directly out of the Stevie Ray Vaughan school of Blues guitar playing. He told me; "Stevie would Leave the Stage, hand me HIS guitar .. i'm 14, 15..and I would Play w/ HIS Band w/o him even being on Stage. He did that w/ NO One Else.. Other people who 'sat in' Sat IN w/ Him.. which was a Thing.. BUT.. When it was time for me to make my record I wanted Keith Forsey. Keith did Billy Idol's stuff.. I wanted to BE Different than Stevie Ray Vaughan.. I wanted to be NEW! I was 17. I was not an OLD Blues Guitar kid.. I was ... " (that's a paraphrase, I wasn't taking notes.)
Confirmed he was 16 years old when he cut this song. Not only did he have that talent, but look at the smoking! Can you imagine today a smoker in a music video; let alone one under age? Rock on, Charlie!!! I was a smoker when I played a cop on TV. F the PC crowd!
In 1985 I was dirt poor. Loved the video and mentioned to a casual female friend I would buy the cassette if I had two dimes. The next day she bought and gave it to me. Great song and great story. Think of her every time I hear it.
My late husband knew Charlie Sexton and his parents very well from the Austin, Texas area. I came across this video and it brought back great memories. Charlie had a song in the top 40 back in the late 80's, hard to believe it's been that long ago that I was a young rebel listening to that song on the radio.
YES! So very long ago, and it DID feel rebellious. I lived near San Marcos, didn't have a car yet, and DREAMED of getting my license so I could catch a show of his in Austin. Never did. Cried about it. In 1987.
Followed Charlie back in the 80’s as well. A friend said Charlie broke his wrist or arm horsing around. That is what essentially ended his career. Is this true. So sorry hear of the loss of your husband.
Finally! I fell in love with this song in "Some Kind of Wonderful " but never knew who it was. My daughter, who now has children a couple of years from my age when I first heard it, was looking for a song from one of the John Hughes' movies. After rattling off the obvious ones that weren't the one she was looking for, I went on a deeper dive and finally found this gem!! Oh, this song gives me all the feels! All my Gen X friends, we were so lucky to grow up in a time where the evolution of music was so exciting. John Hughes knew how to elicit teen angst with a perfect soundtrack every time! Priceless memories here! 💖
Some kind of wonderful movie was John Hughs classic. It was like yesterday that I was watching it. I still have the record album Charlie sexton's pictures for pleasure ' after all these years or decades should I say..
Was at his first show internationally in Montreal. Small club . Sick. Early 80s. New him in Austin. We had a big laugh of how random life is. Charlie and his brother are dynamite
Loved this song. Funny thing I`m watching Thelma & Louise which I have not seen in over 30 years and Charlie Sexton does a song in the bar scene in the movie..
He was scheduled to come to a hole in the wall called Iroquois in Roanoke, Va back in the day. A bar/young spot, underage drinking and all that. Being a high schooler at the time it was a great place to be. Lots and lots of bands, pool tables, chicks. [not meant to be derogatory in any way]. Had a ticket. and it was cancelled. I'm still sad about that........ Man O Man. The 80's!
My twin..liked him..in 1986 or 87..and I got mad and was tossing the cassette out the window..she said..no..no..noooo! Today it brings her back to me...r.i.p. mel
He digs OK,,, I'm class of 89, Alamo Heights TX, this is what we jammed,,, when he joins Arc Angels,, he fuckin rocks..." Living in a dream " is The Jam.... Who agrees?
Saw him playing in Jimmy Barnes band in Australia, I don't think I looked at Jimmy all night. Couldn't take my eyes of Charlie, so mesmerising to watch and very easy on the eyes
I'm a 1971 chick and remember my teen years consumed by you....listening tonight and I'm still loving you...my 4 kids are hiding but I will make their ears bleed with my youth!! You are amazing and I hope you're life has treated you well :o)
I remember a group of girls in my grade were totally into him in 86’. He is hot, ahead of his time, fo sho. That’s how I got introduced to Charlie Sexton, not record store, magazines, anything like that. That was so hard back in the day without internet.❤
@CharlieSextonMusic I’m very well thank you. I’m just saying hello about Charlie Sexton because I was reminiscing about the time in ‘86 when I -by word of mouth-first heard about Charlie Sexton. He was always really good looking, and is Good Looking Still. Hot!🖤🖤🖤
Coming from the 80's as a kid.. my older brother and cousins all agree.. this was the greatest song EVER.. I do agree after hearing it after so long.. The meaning is such a part of every single human being out there.. Being at the TOP is what we all crave for... thank you Charlie Sexton!
I just want to know how I managed to forget about this song, and this album, and Charlie in general. I know he never got big, but this was definitely a favorite song of mine back then, and I only rediscovered it a couple months ago
I haven't heard this song in 30 years since I last heard it in a bar in Orlando, Florida in 1994. It really takes me back to 1986. A lost hit from the 80's but not to those who appreciate great music.
Would liked charlie to have done more songs i bought this single . I saw him when he toured australia with my childhood idol david bowie may ge RIP sydney australia ,2/6/2023
Duncan was the man coming through the door saving the day and plunking off that rich kid while this song played in the background. The extended version of this song is even better.
十代なのにあの声とギターテクニックにしびれたな😆日本雑誌ではチャリ坊と呼ばれ可愛いがられたな😃
1986 I worked at a small town radio station I remember when we got this song thought it was awesome still is after all these years
It is!!!
Good then! Still good today🎉
Another amazing hit from "Some kind of wonderful", one of the best movies and best era in music and entertainment in general, the 80s. Loved it then and still love it. I just turned 57 recently and this music is timeless, so are the movies. So great.
I'm thirty-seven years old and I'm envious of you
ALL I SMELL IS 🐔💩🤣😎
I am 51 and I 100 percent agree with you.
Can't pull it off of the top of my head but I also love the song that plays at the very end and over the closing credit
@@Stacy-r8m "Can't Help Falling In Love" by Lick The Tins. One of the best remakes of Elvis' classic tune!
I feel bad for the current youth, they will never know what is like to live in the 80's: its music, cultural influence, movies, shows, everything was just better.
I want to go back 😢
True. A great decade.
every video from the 80s has a version of this commentary. The "youth" is busy LIVING and you have NO IDEA WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY LIVE AND EXPERIENCE LIFE. you just got old and now you spend your time worrying about how "bad" life is for young people -- just like some old people did when you were young
@ludugarin, I don't know about you..I am older than you and I am still going out, dancing and having fun....and now I added traveling
@@ManuelBorge I believe in you. I believe that you are still going out, dancing and having fun.... I believe that you travel. But you also spend your time worrying about how "bad" life is for young people -- just like some old people did when you were young. Again: you have NO IDEA WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY LIVE AND EXPERIENCE LIFE.
Who's listening in 2024
Me... man...... yeah!!!!
Never stopped listening...
and me
✋️yes
Me!
Some Kind of Wonderful brought me here, one of my fav 80s movies!
It's the party scene. Keith gets rescued by Duncan 😎
The eighties. Best music ever. Best years ever. I want the eighties to come back. The world is shit right now. It’s all changes. People are not the same either.
Totally. How lucky were we...
Longing.....
Austin Texas had a great New Wave and punk scene in the late 70s and early 80s, Charlie Sexton to me was like our version of Billy Idol
Yes. I always thought of him as the dark haired Billy Idol.
Go Houston! Go HSPVA! 😮❤
Always wanted to see him walking The Drag but never did :(
This guy was way ahead of his time. He was maybe 17 in this video. Better looking, better guitarist and better singer than most of his peers. Plus he was way cooler. I followed him since the 80's and Will too.
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He wrote that song at 16.
HECK YES HE WAS WAY AHEAD OF HIS TIME :)
cool af too! That's how teens were back then. We had more freedom to be our true selves and not be dictated like the youth seem to be, today, bunch of confused followers.
I had the album.
Charlie created these incredible sounds in 1985, ..when he was only *SIXTEEN* years old !! 😲🤯 🤘😎👍
Self taught at 11 🤘😁
With a cig! Only in the 80s! 😂
@@donperry8627Teens still smoke, they just exchanged cigarettes for vapes.
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That guitar solo is still killer 32 years later!
I thought the same thing!
Yes it is....
I thought this solo was so creative and new sounding when it came out with harmonics and dive bombs sounds like r2d2 singing kareoke
that's what I'm talking about.
@@bobbychub9991 Thar's awesome.
I still have a crush on Charlie Sexton even now. 😂
Move over sister so do I 😁😉.He was so handsome and still is.What a singer?
@StaceyJesso ha ha. I never met anyone who had a crush on him but me. It's nice to meet a "sister in the love of Charlie" lol
Who wants to go back??? To the 80z with me I have to go back to July 1 1983??? Y?😮
All we need is that Delorean.
I need a do over...so many things I am smarter about.
On a quest for a song from a dude smoking walking by a train, heard it first and saw the video in 87. I'm 50 and I found you Charlie Sexton!
I'm in 😅
Or a fully imported Datsun 200B 😊@@djsubculture2111
I am not young anymore (71), but I fell in love with Charlie Sexton so long ago. The 80's were sure the best and he fit in so well. He always appeared sad to me, maybe that was the attraction, I don't know. I absolutely love his music, then and now.
You go Loretta!!!!!
Its lonely at the top!!!
2 thumbs up Loretta!!
Omg….your 81 now and you love the 80s! 🫡🔥
Sadly Loretta probably isn't with us anymore 😔
2020 and still listening to this song!
Me 👍
I ａｍ from japan‼︎
Never forgot it !
Classic and oh such a talent.
Of course you are..80's are the best with the exception of Pink Floyd 😉
This guy has been working non stop since he was 16. Extremely sought after guitarist! He has been Bob Dylan's guitarist for decades
I'm told by those who know that he does a DSP impression of Bob too.
Check out his duet with David Bowie. AWESOME
I heard he was playing a club in Austin, Texas with bandmates of Stevie Ray Vaughan after Vaughan's passing. As a tribute to their beloved friend, they named the band after him "ARC ANGELS." I think they are together now. He played at the club in the movie Thelma & Louise. I really thought he never got the attention he deserved. He's FABULOUS!
@@sheriszajna-mckeon9902 ua-cam.com/video/SN9HbAmm2Gk/v-deo.html
All these folks know each other. Add Stephen Doster and James Stephens and Bill Carter and of course, Will Sexton, into that mix.
@ "sheri" ... Of course you should check out Charlie Sexton's band "Arc Angels" (with the great Doyle Bramhall II & "Double Trouble") 😇 and their lone 1992 studio album "(self titled)". 👍😎👍 Their hit "Living in a Dream" is flat out AMAZING !! 😃 🍻
230 people should be bloody ashamed of themselves for disliking this masterpiece....
Hearts 💞
@@cyndisalathe1517 you're a legend for listening to this in 2021 🤟
For many reasons, this song, as done by Charlie Sexton, should have been a MONSTER hit.
Remind me of Billy idol
If kids in Germany knew about him and listened to it , it was pretty much of a success, no ?
Me and my friend did so in Bingen am Rhein / Germany.
🎙 🎸 🎶 🥁 🇩🇪
@@ritahorvath8207, not necessarily, as many times particularly great songs, which don't fit the usual mold, make it big elsewhere but NOT in the USA. Look at (Ike and) Tina's (and Phil's) "River Deep Mountain High," a deservedly huge hit in the UK, but nothing here in the US...
@@paititi The snobby thing is, some people think if it's not big in the US, it's not a hit. How snotty is that?
@@ravenstrange8466, it's not really clear if you are trying to be silly.
True Story! I was working out in the Gym 2 weeks ago and heard this cool tune playing...They also were playing the music video posted here...I had never heard it before so I wanted to see it up close (TV mounted on the wall close to the ceiling) went up and checked it out...I was like 'DAMN, this dude sounds good and he is really taking it back with that 80's retro look and sound. Took a pic..Came home and went to youtube only to see everyone's comments about Charlie making this song in 1985...I was like...where the heck was I in the 80's????? AWESOME Tune...getting the Album as well!
Good luck getting the album.
I got the last one in existence about 10 years ago. Took the store 6 months of faffing about
@@sugarnads ..I know you are probably joking, but.. there are over 20 CD copies of Charlies's "Pictures For Pleasure" 1985 album available right this moment, on *ebay* . 😏 Pretty pricey, though. 🤑 .."FYI".
Check out the stuff he did with the Arc Angels as well. He's one of those guys that never makes "the list" even though he is better than some of the people on it.
Damn.... I remember this on MTV when I was in High School.....Oh I miss the 80's
+DallasWhiteGuy Ok - I miss them too ... I would like to hear your perspective on what kind of world/society we live in now , how would you describe it?
Yes , our 80”’s were awesome ❤️
I was just out of high school when this came out
@@tracydrennan3296 totally awesome! 😎
Me too
Had the pleasure to meet Charlie and of all people Bob Dylan in little old Perth, Western Australia in 2001. One of the best days of my life..
He and Bob are buddies.
Still one of the greatest songs, 36 yrs ago sitting with my radio trying to catch it so I could record it on a cassette tape.....and I still love it in 2023
That's funny. The other night I was going through a cassette of songs I'd recorded off the radio in December, 1986. I love hearing the DJ's talk about contemporaneous events as they lead into and out of the songs.
This is just a suggestion, but have you heard of YTMP3? If you have a computer, you can copy and paste the url of this video and download the song to your computer. Hope this helps!
John Hughes was a genius at matching contemporary music in his movies. Some Kind of Wonderful every time I hear this.
Phillip Corbin best scene in that movie
directed by howard deutch
Yes!!!! The party scene!!!!
Jeez no wonder I love that movie so much!!! Tis and Flesh for LuLu
Jenns house with Duncan!
Had a huge crush on this guy back in '85. Still remember him now.
Looking up his info. He was 17/18 at the time of this.
@@BethPaige He's in the Arcangels...they got together right after Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed. Two of the original or current(?) band were in SRV's band. You should look them up. Last I heard, they're still together! (I'm from Austin and "sort of," knew Charlie, but I knew his little brother, Will better. Will had a band called, "Will and the Kill," back then...Charlie was 17, Will 15, and I was 14 back in 1986. I know Will has a solo career. Maybe Charlie has/does, too? And, BTW: Arcangels spelled that way is after, "Austin Recording Complex," on S. Congress in Austin. I've been in Colorado since my mid 20's so I don't know about the Austin Scene anymore, but I think it was probably much more fun before the city became, "L.A. Pt 2."
I remember getting the 45. It was not in the Top 100 and sometimes the record store would have a box in front of the register selling these 45's. I remember getting Just another day by Oingo Boingo and the girl who I knew who worked there, insisted I get the Charlie Sexton 45 for free, cause I was regular customer since the store opened in 1980. I never heard the song before on the radio. I thought it was okay. Then in 1987 it was in the movie Some kind of wonderful. I saw it at the theater so I started to like the song better. I got rid of a lot of my 45's, but I did keep this record.
Most "under-rated" rocker ever... He didn't fall for LA or the glam, just wrote and played and still does.. Name 10 people who are still doing it today on a nightly basis.. If you know where he is playing anytime and will promise he will sing "beats so lonely" please post it on there..It's on my bucket list to see this guy play in person!!!
It's been 11 years. I hope you got to see him.
Me too!.on my bucket list to see Charlie live one day😎🤘
I'd like to see him. Seen him in 78 Hollywood CA badass guitarist. Had the look🤘😎🎸
This song changed my life.. im a musician because of it....
That's cool
I met him a few years after this song came out, with Doyle Bramhall + Arc Angels, they were the coolest, nicest guys you could ever imagine. I asked him about his cameo in "Thelma and Louise" and he was really shy about it. You can't ask for a nicer guy.Charlie, when are you coming back to Montreal?
I think if INXS and Depeche Mode had a baby you'd have Charlie Sexton.
And, yes, that's a good thing.
Through in a lil Adam Ant
I remember this song on Countdown (Australia) and thinking this guy is cool! I have the D,V.D when he toured/ opened for David Bowie in Australia.
I wish Charlie Sexton had gotten bigger than he did. He's an incredible talent! To me, his vocals always had a kind of John Cafferty feel to them.
I was just thinking the same thing....Charlie and the Cruisers ?
I agree 100% an underrated talent and this song is so awesome!
@@tjmurray6549 Well he plays in Bob Dylan's band.
Collaborating with Bowie and Dylan... that's big enough for me. But yeah it would be nice to see this remarkable talent be more widely recognised.
Tom Petty flavor
I'm 47 and this has always been a fave of mine! Cheers!
+nate smith He was so young, and so were we :))))
+nate smith I'm right there with ya, man.
I'm the same age as you! I love this song too. I don't know why Charlie isn't a bigger star than he is. Unbelievably underrated.
Now you’re 50! I did math!
Same here! I remember this Video coming on a local Request Videos TV show back in early 1986. My jaw dropped when I heard the guitar riffs! I was like WHOA!!!
He was the first pick to play Eric Draven in the original Crow movie. James O Barr said that he fit the description of Eric in the comic perfectly.
Good tune ! I haven't heard this in years. I remember when this first came out , it's gotta be 40 years ago. 👍👍 Good stuff !!
Hit the Hot 100 on 12/14/1985 and the top 40 eight weeks later. Yep it's been a long time.
He's the most 1985 looking guy ever
I think he’s wonderful, but I think Howard Jones things can only get better 1985 has him bested on the look of 85’
This song reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1986 when he was age 17.
I'm 56 and I still love this song.
he is not a one hit wonder,well respected in the music industry .
Feedback?
Plays for Dylan, that’s enough!
@@JoeyLevenson Huge Bob fan. Bob loves him and yes, that's enough!
Yup, great blues guitarist.
Well, he still had only one hit himself. And that my friend is a "One Hit Wonder!"
It's the 1980's.....about 5am......jump in the V8 ute ....off to BELLS Beach with my mates for a sunrise surf.....and this BOOming out of the speakers. Brings back fantastic memories..............
I'm 23 and this is one of my favorite song!!!!!
GREAT !!!!!!!!
Boom!! Great Tune
I like the vocals in this song. Charlie sounds a bit like David Bowie...& looks more like a British punk rocker than a guy from Texas.
Bowie/Idol mix!
YeeeHaaaaa
Looks like John Taylor and Matt Dillon
@@johnyang1420 Two of my 80’s crushes.
@@dmotta2811 Matt Dillon from Something About Mary. Ben Stiller: How much does Mary weigh now? Matt: Deuce....Deuce and a a half. Billy Idol isn't bad either!!!!
Was the number 1 cover band song from 1984-1985!
Oh, totally was!!
Reached #23 this week, March 2-8, in 1986. 35 years ago.
What a cool song and music video. This was reality in a music studio back in the day.
2023 and this song popped into my head for some reason. This is one of my all-time favorites. The whole album was excellent, too.
gasoline mixed with whiskey...and Texas oil and Texas rock and roll...with a Ray Vaughn vibe...combined with Bowie..you get Sexton...with the all time greatest song in the 80’s...I will fight to the death to defend him..just an unbelievable talent in his teens....god is his music good.....
did i ever comment on this? I LOVED Loved Loved this when it came out. Then Slowly I learned about him. then In 2008. I met him. He did a great little record W/ Shannon McNally (look it up). I asked him why he wanted to make the 1st Record he made when he Came Directly out of the Stevie Ray Vaughan school of Blues guitar playing. He told me; "Stevie would Leave the Stage, hand me HIS guitar .. i'm 14, 15..and I would Play w/ HIS Band w/o him even being on Stage. He did that w/ NO One Else.. Other people who 'sat in' Sat IN w/ Him.. which was a Thing.. BUT.. When it was time for me to make my record I wanted Keith Forsey. Keith did Billy Idol's stuff.. I wanted to BE Different than Stevie Ray Vaughan.. I wanted to be NEW! I was 17. I was not an OLD Blues Guitar kid.. I was ... " (that's a paraphrase, I wasn't taking notes.)
Confirmed he was 16 years old when he cut this song. Not only did he have that talent, but look at the smoking! Can you imagine today a smoker in a music video; let alone one under age? Rock on, Charlie!!! I was a smoker when I played a cop on TV. F the PC crowd!
and Texas(where he grew up) was one of the few states at the time where you had to be 21 to buy cigarettes.
What a voice wow I'm 55 I remember I was only a teenager reading Dolly magazine and still listening in 2025
In 1985 I was dirt poor. Loved the video and mentioned to a casual female friend I would buy the cassette if I had two dimes. The next day she bought and gave it to me. Great song and great story. Think of her every time I hear it.
Where’s she at today?
Saw Charlie last night playing with Elvis Costello. I can say with confidence that he was the best thing about Elivis' set.
My late husband knew Charlie Sexton and his parents very well from the Austin, Texas area. I came across this video and it brought back great memories. Charlie had a song in the top 40 back in the late 80's, hard to believe it's been that long ago that I was a young rebel listening to that song on the radio.
YES! So very long ago, and it DID feel rebellious. I lived near San Marcos, didn't have a car yet, and DREAMED of getting my license so I could catch a show of his in Austin. Never did. Cried about it. In 1987.
Followed Charlie back in the 80’s as well. A friend said Charlie broke his wrist or arm horsing around. That is what essentially ended his career. Is this true. So sorry hear of the loss of your husband.
So sorry for your loss. 🙏🏼
@@ashepherd7922- I’ve often wondered what happened as well. I got the idea that he didn’t like the games being played in the music industry. 🤷🏻♀️
Finally! I fell in love with this song in "Some Kind of Wonderful " but never knew who it was. My daughter, who now has children a couple of years from my age when I first heard it, was looking for a song from one of the John Hughes' movies.
After rattling off the obvious ones that weren't the one she was looking for, I went on a deeper dive and finally found this gem!! Oh, this song gives me all the feels!
All my Gen X friends, we were so lucky to grow up in a time where the evolution of music was so exciting. John Hughes knew how to elicit teen angst with a perfect soundtrack every time! Priceless memories here! 💖
Some kind of wonderful movie was John Hughs classic. It was like yesterday that I was watching it. I still have the record album Charlie sexton's pictures for pleasure ' after all these years or decades should I say..
Amen...my band played this song Live in 1986...💯
AMEN 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I think it's safe to say that this party is about to become an historical fact.
He also had one of his songs on the Lost Boys soundtrack. Cry Little Sister. I still have my vinyl I bought when it 1st came out😉💕🔥
This needs to be a hit again! it's timeless
,,,, yep !
Sexton with Bowie, Dylan!!!!Masterpiece 👏👏🔝🔝🎸🎸💙💞
My cousin and I snuck in for his soundcheck at the Elmocambo in Toronto. He was so cute we had to see him! 😅
Exactly 35 years ago, Beat So Lonely was new on the Top 40 radio. It would hit #17 in 1986 🖤🤍💖💜💚💙💝.
I miss the 80"s ❤ music was magical
Was at his first show internationally in Montreal. Small club . Sick. Early 80s. New him in Austin. We had a big laugh of how random life is. Charlie and his brother are dynamite
This song still rocks after all these years and the vocal is awesome.
2022
2023 👏👏👏
2021 would really suck without this. Still rocks me. I'm 66. Yeah...
What a great memory from my childhood. I know his brother WIll here in Austin. Both perfect guitar players. Who knew they could sing, too?
Growing up in a badass era brought me here.
Long live the 1980’s …..
I think it's safe to say that this party is about to become a historical fact
Bernie McComiskey this must be a hen house because I don't see nothing but chickenshit!
And you know it and everybody knows it....and you deserve it. Ahahhaha........
L. Du hardy was scared while amanda was loving it lol
You want the truth? You want the plain truth? You're over.
Bernie McComiskey
4 years later I read your comments and laugh at this 30 years old quote.
Loved this song. Funny thing I`m watching Thelma & Louise which I have not seen in over 30 years and Charlie Sexton does a song in the bar scene in the movie..
He was scheduled to come to a hole in the wall called Iroquois in Roanoke, Va back in the day. A bar/young spot, underage drinking and all that. Being a high schooler at the time it was a great place to be. Lots and lots of bands, pool tables, chicks. [not meant to be derogatory in any way]. Had a ticket. and it was cancelled. I'm still sad about that........ Man O Man. The 80's!
Still watching ,and he’s a lovely looking man, xox
This song kicks ass.
My twin..liked him..in 1986 or 87..and I got mad and was tossing the cassette out the window..she said..no..no..noooo! Today it brings her back to me...r.i.p. mel
Some Kind of Wonderful: VERY underrated film.
Charlie Sexton...one of the most talented and stunning musicians ever been on earth!!
the guitar solo is classic. one of the best
The harmonics on the live version is to kill for
Yhep
He digs OK,,, I'm class of 89, Alamo Heights TX, this is what we jammed,,, when he joins Arc Angels,, he fuckin rocks..." Living in a dream " is The Jam.... Who agrees?
I had a huge crush on him growing up. He still can rock it.
Oh God, me too.
Dude was 17 yet sounded 30+.
Incredible
It was probably because of all the cigarettes.
Saw him playing in Jimmy Barnes band in Australia, I don't think I looked at Jimmy all night. Couldn't take my eyes of Charlie, so mesmerising to watch and very easy on the eyes
I remember this song vividly! Brilliant song! He was in the same vein as Billy Idol.
I'm a 1971 chick and remember my teen years consumed by you....listening tonight and I'm still loving you...my 4 kids are hiding but I will make their ears bleed with my youth!! You are amazing and I hope you're life has treated you well :o)
I remember a group of girls in my grade were totally into him in 86’. He is hot, ahead of his time, fo sho. That’s how I got introduced to Charlie Sexton, not record store, magazines, anything like that. That was so hard back in the day without internet.❤
@CharlieSextonMusic I’m very well thank you. I’m just saying hello about Charlie Sexton because I was reminiscing about the time in ‘86 when I -by word of mouth-first heard about Charlie Sexton. He was always really good looking, and is Good Looking Still. Hot!🖤🖤🖤
This guy should have made it all the way to the top..I remember this song from the 80's.
Hey Charlie.. met you at a club in the early 80s in Austin. You told me you were a Leo. You were very sweet. And very beautiful...!
I remember seeing him in the 80's as a teen and was IN LOVE with his music and style. He is still as talented as ever and still easy on the eyes.
I'm hearing this song for the first time in 2021. I am.43 years old.
Coming from the 80's as a kid.. my older brother and cousins all agree.. this was the greatest song EVER.. I do agree after hearing it after so long.. The meaning is such a part of every single human being out there.. Being at the TOP is what we all crave for... thank you Charlie Sexton!
2022
Listening in 2022
Have this on my iPod, He was inDavid Bowie's band in the 90s
Some Kind Of Wonderful...… Great 80's movie!!!!
I just want to know how I managed to forget about this song, and this album, and Charlie in general.
I know he never got big, but this was definitely a favorite song of mine back then, and I only rediscovered it a couple months ago
I haven't heard this song in 30 years since I last heard it in a bar in Orlando, Florida in 1994. It really takes me back to 1986. A lost hit from the 80's but not to those who appreciate great music.
I'm 47 also . I remember the Charlie sexton days :)
Charlie was only 17 when he recorded this album and he played all of the instruments.
Would liked charlie to have done more songs i bought this single . I saw him when he toured australia with my childhood idol david bowie may ge RIP sydney australia ,2/6/2023
Duncan was the man coming through the door saving the day and plunking off that rich kid while this song played in the background. The extended version of this song is even better.
that was a great scene. :) I love the extended version too
Elias Koutas is the MAN.
Some kinda wonderful movie brought me here💖
The producer is so hype, studio is rocking!!!!
In 1986 I was a senior in high school and though there was nobody cooler than this dude :)
He’s a legend wish he would start making music again and touring
He’s guitarist and singer for Arc Angels you know
He tours a lot with Bob Dylan and does shows with The Wallflowers.
Angels Sing brought me here...if you haven't seen it please do!! Great movie with lots of Texas talent
I was born in 68,loved this track growing up,cool black &white clip as well.thanks for posting.
March '68 here.
71 u legend!