I can remember literally hearing this for the first time in 1982...the synth sounds were utterly new; there was almost nothing on the radio that sounded like this. One of the best pop hooks ever written. And excellent haircuts that set the trend for years to come!
During the 1970s I and a schoolfriend were big fans of Vangelis and Tomita and thought electric guitars were completely old hat. However, in the early 1980s it was amazing to see and hear synths go from a niche instrument few musicians could afford to the mainstream. p.s. Do you realise this was from The Human Leagues third album. However, both they, and Heaven 17 who were the "musical" part of the group got fed up with being niche and went for a full on Pop sound. It obviously worked as this was the U.K.s 1981 Christmas Number 1 single back when that actually meant something.
I'd be honored if some 80s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of SISTER CHRISTIAN by Night Ranger, IS THIS LOVE by Whitesnake, and RADIO GA-GA by Queen in tribute to the age of legendary power ballads. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Stay safe and keep on rocking in the '020s.
no, it didn't. It only ruled your mind. The guitar, the sitar, sampling, backmasking, and digital all existed. The thing that was super cool about the 80's, is that everything and every genre was were all exploding, all at once. I guess you missed that experience. For instance, Metallica and Skinny Puppy were both born in the 80's. Everything was available, everything was out there. I'm actually kind of sad you missed that. And glad I didn't.
"Don't forget it's me who put you where you are now; and I can put you back there too." --- one of my favorite lines in a song, such insecurity and resentment and bitterness!
Came here to say the same thing... a masterpiece of lyrical story telling. They waste NO time in setting up the story and bringing you into it, then (seamlessly) comes the other side and both are relatable. "Paradise by the dashboard light" also comes to mind as a terrific "back and forth" relating both sides of a story. Also an EPIC song.
The thing that freaks me out the most is that this song is 40 years old and I remember it vividly as as a 10 year-old kid. Someone telling me about a 40 year-old song when I was 10 would be someone telling me about a song from World War Two.
I had the same thought pattern. Music 30 years ago from TODAY is not TOO far removed from what we have today; Grunge, Hop/Hop, Pop, Rock. More or less on the same keel. But 30 years before from when I graduated high school in 1988, you were talking about a whole different world from '88: Kingston Trio, Chantilly lace, King Kreole, and Bobby Darin. It might as well have been from another planet!
Those synths, that eyeliner, the hairstyles, the girls singing and Phil as the lead - they made musical magic not only with this song, but the album(Dare) as well.
This song is so extremely well written, produced, and performed. The chord arrangement, 4/4 thump, bass groove, sound selection, call and response lyrics, storytelling. It's all excellent.
The song's distinctive intro The song's arrangement The very direct "stalkerish" lyrics The brilliant vocals The beautiful Rover SD1 car What does this all add up to? The perfect 80s hit!
Just like a beautiful flower be careful not To touch the torns they look beautiful and apart oeverything if you look at the two women in the human league And I'm not being sexiest now for a weak man when it comes down to putting up a fight if there looking for something
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up And turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet Success has been so easy for you But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down too. Don't. Don't you want me? You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't. Don't you want me? You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me It's much too late to find When you think you've changed your mind You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar That much is true But even then I knew I'd find a much better place Either with or without you The five years we have had have been such good at times I still love you But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own I guess it's just what I must do Don't. Don't you want me? You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't. Don't you want me? You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me It's much too late find When you think you've changed your mind You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! [REPEAT x3] Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh!
lyrics: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up And turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet Success has been so easy for you But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down too. Don't. Don't you want me? You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't. Don't you want me? You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me It's much too late to find When you think you've changed your mind You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar That much is true But even then I knew I'd find a much better place Either with or without you The five years we have had have been such good at times I still love you But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own I guess it's just what I must do Don't. Don't you want me? You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't. Don't you want me? You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me It's much too late find When you think you've changed your mind You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh! Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh!
Surprised this song hasn't been cancelled yet for implying domestic abuse and narcissistic toxic relationships😅😅😅 Truth is, that its how people talk, how they think. Its realism not a fake wishy washy bs lie world of beauty, and its all nicey nice.
@@neutraliserjanine A lot of relationships are like this, female who thinks grass is greener and an abusive guy that threatens her. I'm lucky none of my family or friends are like this...
@@HypocrisyLaidBare well, she ends up walking away from it regardless and i think the message here is clear: don't let yourself be owned by a guy who will not hesitate to put you down to get what he wants from you.
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up And turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet Success has been so easy for you But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down too. I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar That much is true But even then I knew I'd find a much better place Either with or without you The five years we have had have been such good at times I still love you But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own I guess it's just what I must do
Christmas 1981 and this was No. 1 in the charts. I was home on leave from the Navy. So was my best mate and we had a great Christmas leave. Last time I saw him as he was killed in the Falklands. He's still 22 and I'm nearly 60. Every time I hear this song I think of him.
@@colin-campbell Just the usual! Drinking too much, chasing girls, eating too much! I remember my mate getting very drunk one night and repeatedly running at a brick wall as he wanted to run through it! Even at the time we both felt it was a 'good' Christmas - one of those that stick in your memory forever.
I'm crying uncontrollably right now. I was born 1971. This music (80's) is life. I watched my wife and mother pass away just a month apart from each other in 2013. Then my oldest brother lost his father, then his oldest son, and finally he himself. And now my own health is failing. I find comfort on coming on youtube to listen to the 80's music I grew up on, although it can make me tear up. I long for the old days when life was so much more simple and happy.
God bless you. My dad was was born the same year as you. I have sadly lost him and I listen to his music collection. Please keep the faith. I’m sending healing thoughts from England. Where there’s life, there’s hope. Be strong.
I shed a tear now because I never got to experience the 80s and am so grateful for my amazing mother to show me all her favorite 80s songs. She constantly tells me, my brothers, and sisters how she wish she could take us back to the 80s because of how incredible it was. Thank you mother you never cease to amaze me, because of you i dive deeper and deeper into 80s music everyday.
It was a special time...before smart phones, personal computers (they were just starting to come out), and no Internet. People related to each other better, and weren't totally lost in their own little worlds....and then all of these music styles were popular all at the same time, from New Wave to Punk and ska and glam rock and doom glamor (early goth). Magical time to be a teenager for sure.
So sorry for everything you’re going through-I can understand why you’d like to go back to a better time. So many of us feel that way too. Hang in there 🙏❤😊
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change it for the world!🇬🇧
sorry to pee on your parade but 80's produced more stars in a decade than any other decade to date !! As for your 60's music theory even though there was good music to a point.It was not at the amount of the 80's !! and many became household names.....
I was born in 1983 and remembered hearing all these songs while my mother was getting ready for work. I listen to this playlist when I'm in a bad mood and it ALWAYS lifts my spirit! Remember the awesome 80's!
As a German teenager, I found this video fascinating. this sound - simply indescribably great. The protagenists had an incredible charisma on me. I wish something like that still exists today
Was only 5 as preschooler back then still listen to the song gives me goosebumps. Wishing children even that age and kindergarten cut down on dirty Hip Hop music.
Love it. Teenager in the 70s. Went thru my twenties in the 80s. Loved both decades. Everything was so simple then. People were nice and had decent morals.
Born in sixty six so all and only music from the eighties entered my world! if I had to choose which era I prefere(d) now, but also during the late eighties and early ninetees when I studied at college/university,, my choice would not be the violent by cocaine dominated 'ninetees', but hands down 'the 'sixties' better known as the flower power decade where pill popping acid dropping peace loving joints smoking hippies organized music and sex swing parties! But the EIGHTIES are the bomb!
@@8bert9 52 in Feb here 🤜🤛 such good years man and the middle school dances were good times plus I truly believe our Gen had the best movies too not just music
I recall enjoying this song back in the 80s when we first heard it. We went to work in the camp outside of Montreal and played it all the time. We loved it and so as many other kids working in camp with us. We were young teens and this song made some great impressions and memories for us. Still enjoy it now, just turned 57 years young and love this song and remember those days every time I hear it.
I miss the 1980's ...I graduated from high school and got my first driver's license and my first car and my first real job then and my first apartment then. It was the decade of growing up for me. I can't believe 1980 was forty years ago. Where has the time gone? In another decade I will be ready for Social Security. I get older but the music videos of the 1980's stay young and fresh to me.
I hear you brother, I turn 60 this year. When I hear music like this I feel like I am in my 20s again. The one mercy of getting older is that the bad parts of any part of your life are forgotten. The '80s now seem to be a glorious period of freedom, casual sex and a pocket full of money with no mortgage, daughter, aged parent and wife to support.
I was born in Dec 71 and to me music grew old with me as a kid in the 70's a teen in the 80's and like you said got all my first things except in the 90's .During this era music sort of got dark dealing with issues as I did. Now I am going to be 49 in 5 weeks but I wish I was older because life was better back then I just didn't know it was . Take care 💕
I'm young, but I listen to all these tunes half the time. The same thing is gonna happen to me in 40 years with the other music I like now lol. Nostalgia is insane
The Human League defined how LEGENDARY and IMMORTAL the 80's music is going to be. The Human League burst the dam wide open for the Second British Invasion to happen, with the likes of Duran Duran, The Culture Club, Wham (with George Michael), the Eurythmics (with Annie Lenox) and others following the wave of change.
I walked into a McDonalds on Queensway street near the Bayswater tube stop... and this was playing over the speakers in May 2024... now everytime I hear this song i think of my trip to London 😁🇬🇧
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up And turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet Success has been so easy for you But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down too.
The Human League are one of the most underrated groups in history!! Despite being slagged off by the music press, they kept going, and have produced countless classics!! I'm pleased to say they are still going strong, and sounds just as good now as they did in the 80s!! Thank you all!!
@Joe Owen I have lost count of how many times I have seen them live and each has been a good show. The funny thing is back in the 1980s they never toured as it was difficult with synths and they didn't need to. p.s. A US Billboard number one with Human proves they certainly weren't / aren't a one hit wonder. p.p.s Ever heard of Depeche Mode ? Another synth band who have had a bit of success.
Trouble is, all the good music has been made. There are no boundaries to push. Music is so easy to make and release to the public these days it has gotten lazy.
From 1981 and now its 2020 This will forever be a classic. Next year it will be 40 years since its release and nowadays people can't even listen to pop for more than weeks.
Whilst the 80s is actually derided a lot, a lot of todays music wouldn't exist without this new wave of synth foundation. As with any decade there are some really bad songs and really great songs. Regardless, beauty is in the ears of the listener. I like FRACTURED LOVE by INDTIKO which has an 80s vibe today. Listen to somethin else if you dont like 80s music!! :P
Like, that magical moment, just you and your memories?. (Me?, is 4 a.m., sunday) just wake up 2 hrs ago to verify my daughter return safe from a night out, yes, she was, all young, beautiful and happy (ugh i hate her), here i am,
@@awalkingman83 honestly that's not really plausible. For example you can watch or listen to 80s music and movies, but there is nothing new being produced. It's like saying you love the 20s, but that culture is as much gone as the 80s.
I put this on my own Vice City radio station. Did speaks and all. I like the song better than "fascination", maybe because the melancholic tone. Or Maybe because I am hopeful romantic.
It knocked me out in 1981 during the second wave of Britpop, when I was in junior high. We were hit with a blast of groundbreaking music and the birth of god knows how many new genres-New Wave, punk, synth pop, alternative rock, the beginnings of Prince’s Minneapolis sound, the birth of Hip Hop-not to mention the launch of the MTV era (when it was relevant and new). Also in 1981! And it seemed to last forever, but vanished all too fast with the introduction of disposable music-ProTools, low-fi downloads and the demise of music stores and Death of the Album. The thing that makes listening to this stuff a bit bittersweet is that I was too naive at the time to realize how lucky I was to be young, alive and a music fanatic during such a flood of innovation and creativity, the likes of which I’ll probably never see again in my lifetime. I’ve tried to describe that period to my nieces and nephews, and I’ve managed to turn them on to a lot of music from the eighties. But I can’t take them to see Prince and Sheila E. on New Year’s Eve in 1984 as I did in tenth grade, or describe the smell of the aisles and aisles of 12 inch singles at Bill’s Records and Tapes, or what it was like to drive around with the top down listening to “The Adventure Club” on THE EDGE 94.5 on winter Sunday nights in Dallas. I can’t explain the thrill of finding an obscure 12” of Depeche Mode’s “Shake the Disease” during my summer trip to Berlin in 1985 or what it was like to make fake IDs and dance to “The Politics of Dancing” underage at the Starck Club (that SOUND system! The MIDI-synched laser beams plunging down to the dance floor! A substance-free high like no other…). The payoff is seeing 150 million views of this vid and the thousands of comments assuring me that legions of others get it. To the folks who voted it down, share the music experience that gave YOU the thrill that mine did-music is the ultimate social catalyst, so pay it forward! ✌️
It's one of my favourites, stood in Bessemer pub (mainly 80's) in Sheffield and this comes on, what an atmosphere. 80's Sheffield band, in an 80's pub in Sheffield and everyone knows the words. Brilliant !
Inicia nos 0:20 You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you're got the world at your feet Success has been so easy for you But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down too Don't, don't you want me You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't, don't you want me You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me It's much too late to find, you think you've changed your mind You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry Don't you want me baby Don't you want me, oh Don't you want me baby Don't you want me, oh I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar That much is true But even I knew I'd find a much better place Either with or without you The five years we have had have been such good times I still love you But now I think it's time I live my life on my own I guess it's just what I must do Don't, don't you want me You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't, don't you want me You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me It's much too late to find, you think you've changed your mind You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry Don't, don't you want me You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't, don't you want me You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
Being a little kid playing with my toys while my Mom kept playing songs such as this ..even tho u didn't payed attention on listening but those songs just gets inside your Brain and soul and until now being 20 years old all i listen to is those type of music cause its just true music and quality.
I completely understand where you're coming from, I'm twenty-three these songs aren't part of our generation and other older folks would say something along the lines of "you weren't around for these songs" true but the songs where still around us thanks to our parents. When I hear these older songs and others I still feel a better connection and understanding compared to today's pop music, call me crazy but that's how I see it.
Yes, well said. i'm the same age and definitely as much brainwashed as you! Because my mom was a eighties kid I absorbed all these synthpop songs. They're overplayed on certain radiostations with a hugh audience bounded by nostaglia and have always sounded so familiar, like I knew them from a long time ago. So i asked her about it and she plead guilty :3
Couldn't be any more right, I'm only 17 and I like and relate to the 80's music more than today's music. I grew up listening to my nan and my parents always playing 80's music and that's why I love it so much. It's just pure, good quality, real music.
well said, its so awesome to see that a 20 year old is into this music - it is simply one of the best. its great to be open minded to different forms of music
The woman's verse really adds something special to the story being told. Kind of reminds me of "Somebody That I Used To Know" in that regard. The woman's vocals telling the other side of the story. Just brilliant.
The lyrics of that song is so interessing. The story is really sad and creepy but what I love the most is that we get the two side of it. And thanks to it we can clearly see that they're both not good person wich make them realy realistic.
Why is she bad? She may have been using him to get ahead but that’s not apparent in what she says. She may just feel like he’s controlling her career too much and she needs to feel more autonomous.
Trust me, you would hate it (particularly in the UK). No jobs, constant strikes. No internet, no computers, no smartphones, no smart watches, no smart ANYTHING & a choice from just THREE channels on TV. If your only concept of the 1980's is from music vids & Hollywood movies from the time, I can see how it might look glamorous, but for those of us outside of London who lived through it, it was anything but!
It was truly a great time to grow up in,the 80s for me turned child in to man in 10 short years but I knew it was special at the time but now realise how great it all was,no mobile phones,you used a payphone in a box,arranged to meet your mates after school on your bmx,ate as much junk as you wanted and didn't gain weight! Lol. The best of times believe me!
I remember hearing this song when it was released back in late '81 early '82 The lyrics of the song are incredible The human league were a great band throughout the 80s decade 👌 👏 You know i can't believe it when you say that you don't need me You know i dont believe you when you say that you wont see me These are incredible lyrics Phil oakey is an absolute songwriting genius 👏 🙌
Modern degeneracy already baked in that. 80's music is catchy, but as a kid I did not understand the lyrics. Now that I'm adult, I gotta say - Pop music with singers and rappers was a giant mistake. To hell with them all.
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That synth drop at the start always gives me chills
Me to and iam 64
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it makes my balls shiver in delight
the chorus?
I Agree ❤
I can remember literally hearing this for the first time in 1982...the synth sounds were utterly new; there was almost nothing on the radio that sounded like this. One of the best pop hooks ever written. And excellent haircuts that set the trend for years to come!
Amazing
Same.
During the 1970s I and a schoolfriend were big fans of Vangelis and Tomita and thought electric guitars were completely old hat. However, in the early 1980s it was amazing to see and hear synths go from a niche instrument few musicians could afford to the mainstream.
p.s. Do you realise this was from The Human Leagues third album. However, both they, and Heaven 17 who were the "musical" part of the group got fed up with being niche and went for a full on Pop sound. It obviously worked as this was the U.K.s 1981 Christmas Number 1 single back when that actually meant something.
This song officially started the Second British Invasion in the US
i first heard this when i was in hs; im varely getting aquainted with every song from my birth era✌🏻
One of the best songs of the 80s without question.
I'd be honored if some 80s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of SISTER CHRISTIAN by Night Ranger, IS THIS LOVE by Whitesnake, and RADIO GA-GA by Queen in tribute to the age of legendary power ballads. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Stay safe and keep on rocking in the '020s.
The synthesizer ruled 80s music .....im so glad it did 💯
Synth music is the best....
Woot!
no, it didn't. It only ruled your mind. The guitar, the sitar, sampling, backmasking, and digital all existed. The thing that was super cool about the 80's, is that everything and every genre was were all exploding, all at once. I guess you missed that experience. For instance, Metallica and Skinny Puppy were both born in the 80's. Everything was available, everything was out there. I'm actually kind of sad you missed that. And glad I didn't.
I love It
"Don't forget it's me who put you where you are now; and I can put you back there too." --- one of my favorite lines in a song, such insecurity and resentment and bitterness!
THEN she turns around and says "I still love you" but it's time to move on. Gets me in the feels every time.
If you are not a psychiatrist you damn sure sound like one
And pain.
PAIN my ex and I used to sing it on his car 🥺
@swlinphx don't forget the line, "you think you can change your mind? You better change it back or we will both be sor-ry" #murder-suicide 🤣🤣🤣
THe 80's everyone talks about.........These are the tunes right here.
Hell yeah
yes
For ever 80's . . Desde bs as Argentina
The 1980s was a mystery wrapped up inside of an enigma decorated with style, glamour, uniqueness like no other time ever felt , enjoyed or lived.
Perfectly said
@@greekb.9321 how so true
Sounds like a line from JFK
Never will be repeated either:)
Lets not forget soul Train. (70s 80s and all through the 90s )im wondering did they ever had human league on.🤔 i think they did.
November 2024! Always a classic
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Love it
Hell Yeah !!! I bought this 45 when I was 17. I am now 60 !!! :)
Is anyone talking about how well-written this song is? How many songs are there where you get both perspectives like this? It’s really a masterpiece.
Came here to say the same thing... a masterpiece of lyrical story telling.
They waste NO time in setting up the story and bringing you into it, then (seamlessly) comes the other side and both are relatable.
"Paradise by the dashboard light" also comes to mind as a terrific "back and forth" relating both sides of a story. Also an EPIC song.
Gotye Somebody that I used to know?
@@CraftAero Liberty X: Thinking it Over. Ha. 😁
Private Number by William Bell and Judy Clay.
I also think the storytelling Is really cool. Sadly i think that girl's part could have been better. Feels uninspired
The thing that freaks me out the most is that this song is 40 years old and I remember it vividly as as a 10 year-old kid. Someone telling me about a 40 year-old song when I was 10 would be someone telling me about a song from World War Two.
80's baby for life! They had great songs back then-oh the good old days~
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Pop new wave wow
This song makes me feel like a 15 year old again!
I had the same thought pattern. Music 30 years ago from TODAY is not TOO far removed from what we have today; Grunge, Hop/Hop, Pop, Rock. More or less on the same keel. But 30 years before from when I graduated high school in 1988, you were talking about a whole different world from '88: Kingston Trio, Chantilly lace, King Kreole, and Bobby Darin. It might as well have been from another planet!
The tragedy of growing up in the 80’s is you didn’t realize at the time how awesome it was, and when you finally do it’s already over.
The 90s were also great
Yup, great music, great movies, and big shoulder pads in everyones clothes...
Thats generslly about life, you are young and before you know it, you are 40. Enjoy the moment
Seriously. It was like a 10-year-long block party!!
Most people realized that it was awesome, if you didn't, you had issues.
64歳です。43年ぶりくらいに聴いてます。🎉😢懐かしい、ありがとう😢
We were lucky to be raised in this era
😻
We really were!
YES, me too, in Germany by the way
I wish I was raised in the 80s, too bad i grew up in the 2000s :(
J'avais une dizaine d'années à l'époque. Personnellement je dis que j'ai grandi avec cette période. Après, tout à commencé à se détériorer.
Those synths, that eyeliner, the hairstyles, the girls singing and Phil as the lead - they made musical magic not only with this song, but the album(Dare) as well.
I'm still having goosebumps and the song stopped 10 minutes ago.
You love this song because the 80s ruled.Doesn’t matter if it’s 2054. The 80s rule, enough said.
Im 50 years old now. But everytime i hear all these songs from the 80's, i instantly feel like im 15 again. I love it....
Me too. How strange it is. That this songs like take us back to those times in memories.
The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen. My kind of music...
The Cure, Echo And The Bunnymen. Thats my kind of music.
Yep.. great music.
I've been waiting to hear someone else say exactly what I feel like when I hear it.
This song is so extremely well written, produced, and performed. The chord arrangement, 4/4 thump, bass groove, sound selection, call and response lyrics, storytelling. It's all excellent.
Excellently described. Reminds me of why I liked H2O, Animotion, Prince, and many others of 80's fame and fortune.
It has come to pass😮 a jingle😢
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This song is excelent. Of the better of the 80's.
All electronic too.
The song's distinctive intro
The song's arrangement
The very direct "stalkerish" lyrics
The brilliant vocals
The beautiful Rover SD1 car
What does this all add up to?
The perfect 80s hit!
Just like a beautiful flower be careful not
To touch the torns they look beautiful and apart oeverything if you look at the two women in the human league And I'm not being sexiest now for a weak man when it comes down to putting up a fight if there looking for something
Those two women In the human league are Soo beautiful to believe And there's two of them talk about driv we you mad
Don’t forget that black jenson intercepter
The black car is a SAAB 99 Turbo, not a Jensen Interceptor.
That's a Rover? I thought it looked like a Citroen BX or something. It's kinda uncanny.
Nothing compares to living in the 80s best decade!!!
❤❤😊
The starting of civilisational decadence, but it was delicious ! 😂
To be in your 20s in the 80s: Cheap booze, fun girls, bands & music everywhere...
I hear ya,I was 20 in 82@@voiceofexperience
@@altor1964 Yes it was!! Debauchery at its finest!
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too.
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even then I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good at times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
[REPEAT x3]
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Forrest George thanksss ! up up up
Singing it here all these years later thanks George.
lyrics:
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too.
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even then I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good at times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Surprised this song hasn't been cancelled yet for implying domestic abuse and narcissistic toxic relationships😅😅😅
Truth is, that its how people talk, how they think. Its realism not a fake wishy washy bs lie world of beauty, and its all nicey nice.
We won’t let it be cancelled.
@@neutraliserjanine A lot of relationships are like this, female who thinks grass is greener and an abusive guy that threatens her. I'm lucky none of my family or friends are like this...
@@neutraliserjanine True
@@HypocrisyLaidBare well, she ends up walking away from it regardless and i think the message here is clear: don't let yourself be owned by a guy who will not hesitate to put you down to get what he wants from you.
This song was literally played on 5 different radio stations in Chicago at the same time every 2 hours in 1981-82. I was 14.
NEWZZCAFE that's kind of weird
wow 14 years old and livin in the 80s. Thats my dream :(
I remember those times.
When I was 14 The Kinks Lola was constantly on replay. I know every word..
I am jealous bro instead we hear drake every 2 mins on every radio station
this might be the most 80's thing I've ever seen, and I love it!
80s music, clothing and hair styles...simply the best
Love how this song tells the story from both sides.
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too.
I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even then I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good at times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do
@@mathewhorodner2000The song is messed up
@@cursedpyrogaming5176 The persona of the singer is that of a stalker. Creepy.
Christmas 1981 and this was No. 1 in the charts. I was home on leave from the Navy. So was my best mate and we had a great Christmas leave. Last time I saw him as he was killed in the Falklands. He's still 22 and I'm nearly 60. Every time I hear this song I think of him.
Berko Boy wow that’s tough
Berko Boy
What kind of antics did you get up to on leave?
@@colin-campbell Just the usual! Drinking too much, chasing girls, eating too much! I remember my mate getting very drunk one night and repeatedly running at a brick wall as he wanted to run through it! Even at the time we both felt it was a 'good' Christmas - one of those that stick in your memory forever.
Berko Boy
Sounds like you had some good times; I’m glad 👍🏻
Berko Boy. I'm sorry for the loss of your mate. Bless you both for what you did for your service to your county-from a Yank.
Its 2024 and I'm still listening to the 80s. They don't make music like this anymore 😢
A perfect electronic track that still sounds amazing - 40 years later!!. Brilliant tune.
You mean 30 years later I was born in 1989
@@alenaduplantier4505 this song came out in 1981 though so 41 years ago
Ohh I see
Yess 👏🏼👏🏼
@@alenaduplantier4505 Bye Alena from Lucky , Italy. 💖✌👀
I'm crying uncontrollably right now. I was born 1971. This music (80's) is life. I watched my wife and mother pass away just a month apart from each other in 2013. Then my oldest brother lost his father, then his oldest son, and finally he himself. And now my own health is failing. I find comfort on coming on youtube to listen to the 80's music I grew up on, although it can make me tear up. I long for the old days when life was so much more simple and happy.
God bless you. My dad was was born the same year as you. I have sadly lost him and I listen to his music collection. Please keep the faith. I’m sending healing thoughts from England. Where there’s life, there’s hope. Be strong.
Remember there is a God
@@TomRipley7350strength brother
interested in a new suit for tomorrow Mr. Eastwood?
Wow 😢. My Heart goes out to You at such a difficult time in Your Life. 🙏🏾
I shed a tear now because I never got to experience the 80s and am so grateful for my amazing mother to show me all her favorite 80s songs. She constantly tells me, my brothers, and sisters how she wish she could take us back to the 80s because of how incredible it was. Thank you mother you never cease to amaze me, because of you i dive deeper and deeper into 80s music everyday.
Not just the 80s music.(which is the best part of it) but the movies, TV, life itself and innocence. Long live the 80s.. Born in 1985
Send me a playlist haha
i was there
I wish more kids appreciated their nostalgic parents the way that you do! You belong in the 80s!
It was a special time...before smart phones, personal computers (they were just starting to come out), and no Internet. People related to each other better, and weren't totally lost in their own little worlds....and then all of these music styles were popular all at the same time, from New Wave to Punk and ska and glam rock and doom glamor (early goth). Magical time to be a teenager for sure.
The human league were such an underrated and humble 80s group
I am 64 now with p/state cancer, Dementia,I lost my wife of 40 years in January, take me back to the 70s - 80s and leave me there.
God bless you
I will go with you Mike take care
So sorry for everything you’re going through-I can understand why you’d like to go back to a better time. So many of us feel that way too. Hang in there 🙏❤😊
Consider it done!!!❤🕊️🙌✨✌️🌛👍❤
@@miket5763 I can understand how you feel. We will make the journey together.
There are certain 80's songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.
What are your other 80's songs?? Put the playlist 🖤
what other songs??
Facts!
@MLWATKK One of the best songs in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I'm not born in the 80's so this was the only way I found this song. :)
@@karanarora28 ua-cam.com/video/ry9AsSO7hTo/v-deo.html
I feel so lucky to have grown up in the 80's. What an awesome time.
I wanna go back... Teenage...
Same...I couldn't agree with you more! 😊
I'm still in the eighties
Me too!!😂
So lucky to have free access to this music in the 2020's
2021. Here I am. STILL listening to this song. Big part of my youth. Miss the good old days.
Still here
2021 & and forgot great tunes from my teens like these, yes i want you
January 31/2021 😉🤩
Add me to it... 2021.
Listen to a LOT of Roxette, George Michael, Prince. So much diverse music. I loved going out dancing! Can't to this stuff now!
I think the 80s was the most colorful years in music 🎶 I miss it.
I'm going back to the 80's. I've had enough of these crazy times.
Same here.
The 80s were even crazier
I hear that!
ME TOO, TAKE ME BACK!
me too
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change it for the world!🇬🇧
Yeah,
Thought it would last 4ever.
Born in 1985... whenever I listen to a '80s song like this one, it seems I know everything from that decade for certain! Indescribable sensation ;-D
I feel sorry for todays youth. So much they’re missing out on…
@@michaelkangas3437 you're right there brother
@@michaelkangas3437 Like what? lol
One of the greatest songs of all time. You can't think of 80's without this song.
Maybe you can't, but I can.
Timeless, just like Blue Monday with New Order
Raiden324 absolutely you can't think of the 80s without thinking of this great record,and so many others.
@@__MjG__😢
I feel like I was born in the wrong decade
No other song captures the 80's like this one
80's music is the best!
Yes sir
Nick Cathelyn heck yeah
Nick Cathelyn I prefer late 90's and early 00's
Of course, I'm agree
marionette gamer you look fucking 11 kid, most of the kids here just want to be called special i guess becouse they like 80's music
It doesn't get anymore 1980's than this. Great memories.
I most definitely agree with you! This was a great time for music fans!:😊😊
Wasn't there, but the music is unparalleled
Gen X confirmed.
Right on, we like the samec music,are wevold?
I ❤ 80s hair!
1980's we laugh about it but British Music brought us some of the best groups and solo artists ever !!
wow !! what a decade !!
who laughs about the 80's? I want names
You know a bunch of morons
Definitely!!
***** why the fuck are you here if you don't like it? Gtfo
sorry to pee on your parade but 80's produced more stars in a decade than any other decade to date !! As for your 60's music theory even though there was good music to a point.It was not at the amount of the 80's !! and many became household names.....
Yes I’m in and listening in 2024, awesome times the 80s & 90s, weren’t they? Bring it on 😅🎉
I was born in 1983 and remembered hearing all these songs while my mother was getting ready for work. I listen to this playlist when I'm in a bad mood and it ALWAYS lifts my spirit! Remember the awesome 80's!
Chris Ostrowski yup. I was born 1982 and remember a lot of these songs. Good times.
Are, yes, classic early 80s British synth-pop at its best.
Its no “Fade to grey” but its Incredible.
The Brits and Americans ruled rock in the 80s. But I have to say, the Brits had some very good rock songs in the 80s.
@@theamerican3970 yes yankee boy 🇬🇧
Excelent song!!
What state would music be in without the brits massive contribution???!!!! God save the brits!!!
As a German teenager, I found this video fascinating. this sound - simply indescribably great. The protagenists had an incredible charisma on me. I wish something like that still exists today
merkel and biden made sure it won't happen
Was only 5 as preschooler back then still listen to the song gives me goosebumps. Wishing children even that age and kindergarten cut down on dirty Hip Hop music.
I guess this band and song still exists! Elsewhere on this channel they posted a 2021 version of the hit.
It's a little more gothic but Blutengel has kept this kind of thing going, both English and German songs and all of them are great.
You may want to check out Drab Majesty
Love it. Teenager in the 70s. Went thru my twenties in the 80s. Loved both decades. Everything was so simple then. People were nice and had decent morals.
Ur lucky that you were alive then. I wish I was alive in that time range
1980s = HIV was "cocktailed"
Bro same, I’m 22 I’m like damn I’m jealous
Born in sixty six so all and only music from the eighties entered my world!
if I had to choose which era I prefere(d) now, but also during the late eighties and early ninetees when I studied at college/university,, my choice would not be the violent by cocaine dominated 'ninetees', but hands down 'the 'sixties' better known as the flower power decade where pill popping acid dropping peace loving joints smoking hippies organized music and sex swing parties! But the EIGHTIES are the bomb!
Totally agree. None of these crazy acts of 2024 in the media. Take me back to the eighties anytime. In my 20's then
Greatest song of my teen years, I'm 55 now. Thank you for one of the best songs ever!
56...Great times
53 years old, best times in my life!
Sad just heard Lisa Marie Presley has passed
@@8bert9 52 in Feb here 🤜🤛 such good years man and the middle school dances were good times plus I truly believe our Gen had the best movies too not just music
55 but it really does feel like yesterday.
I recall enjoying this song back in the 80s when we first heard it. We went to work in the camp outside of Montreal and played it all the time. We loved it and so as many other kids working in camp with us. We were young teens and this song made some great impressions and memories for us. Still enjoy it now, just turned 57 years young and love this song and remember those days every time I hear it.
57 years young 😂 , I've never read that before. Stay happy 😊
I didn't get the chance to live what it was living in the 80s
I miss the 1980's ...I graduated from high school and got my first driver's license and my first car and my first real job then and my first apartment then. It was the decade of growing up for me. I can't believe 1980 was forty years ago. Where has the time gone? In another decade I will be ready for Social Security. I get older but the music videos of the 1980's stay young and fresh to me.
I hear you brother, I turn 60 this year. When I hear music like this I feel like I am in my 20s again. The one mercy of getting older is that the bad parts of any part of your life are forgotten. The '80s now seem to be a glorious period of freedom, casual sex and a pocket full of money with no mortgage, daughter, aged parent and wife to support.
I was born in Dec 71 and to me music grew old with me as a kid in the 70's a teen in the 80's and like you said got all my first things except in the 90's .During this era music sort of got dark dealing with issues as I did. Now I am going to be 49 in 5 weeks but I wish I was older because life was better back then I just didn't know it was . Take care 💕
I'm young, but I listen to all these tunes half the time. The same thing is gonna happen to me in 40 years with the other music I like now lol. Nostalgia is insane
yeah, it's fucking ridiculous
I don't know
I’m 14 and I love 80s music. This is my favorite song!!
@@Zoomieb Great taste in music!
@@alicemcleod6149 thank you!!
thompson twins,aeiou by freeze, howARD JONES,DEPECHE MODE .
Terrific taste. Absolutely terrific
I am 39,very fine song
Songs like these still put tears in your eyes, because those times are gone.
And they went so fast. And we took it for granted.
@@easternyellowjacket276indeed
@@easternyellowjacket276 I agree with both of you
You know i dont believe you when you say that you don't need me
100% songwriting perfection 🥰
The Human League defined how LEGENDARY and IMMORTAL the 80's music is going to be.
The Human League burst the dam wide open for the Second British Invasion to happen, with the likes of Duran Duran, The Culture Club, Wham (with George Michael), the Eurythmics (with Annie Lenox) and others following the wave of change.
The Thompson Twins,..,.😊.
Damn right!
I walked into a McDonalds on Queensway street near the Bayswater tube stop... and this was playing over the speakers in May 2024... now everytime I hear this song i think of my trip to London 😁🇬🇧
One of the ICONIC songs from the 2nd British invasion (New Romantic/New Wave era) of the 1980's.
this is the sort of song you replay and it still rocks, this song cannot get old ❤
Love it now as much as i did then. Never dies.
90% of what I listen to is 80's music, with just a few modern songs.
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too.
Eyes of a Stranger is another song like that. I play it now and it sounds just as fresh as it did the first time I heard it.
The Human League are one of the most underrated groups in history!!
Despite being slagged off by the music press, they kept going, and have produced countless classics!!
I'm pleased to say they are still going strong, and sounds just as good now as they did in the 80s!!
Thank you all!!
@Joe Owen I have lost count of how many times I have seen them live and each has been a good show. The funny thing is back in the 1980s they never toured as it was difficult with synths and they didn't need to.
p.s. A US Billboard number one with Human proves they certainly weren't / aren't a one hit wonder.
p.p.s Ever heard of Depeche Mode ? Another synth band who have had a bit of success.
Sorry my english it s not good my you express all the generation of 80 s want to say..thanks for type that words
No they aren't.
bro what?
Underrated? Come on, that's such a cliché. Human League were big.
It ended 34 years ago and the 80s continue to carry the music in the world
As others say,the 80s was a fantastic time to be young.The music was simply the best too.
Im not even an 80's kid but even i know it was the best decade for music and the movies were not too shabby either!
You obviously never heard of lil pump or 6ix9ine🤦♀️ smh you guys are too busy living in the past when everthing is better now
@@blank6735 music is trash now and the times we are in sucks!
@@blank6735 I really hope you're being sarcastic.
If you really pay attention to the lyrics, the song is actually sad as fuck. I love it.
right
And he is not being very graceful.
F O! And don't bring any of your mental ablution here.
This is a happy song!
I would get out of a relationship too if my partner got me out of a waitress job only to steal all my makeup
It's quite creepy and scary. The video isn't much better, LOL
I was born in 87 and still heard these songs because of my mom . What it must've been like to hear so many hit songs released day after day
It was simply put crazy! Seriously day after day just incredible music.
I was born in 69........HAD TO BE THERE! lol......Oh man , where do I even start.......
Still to this day one of the best opening riffs to a song please take me back to the 80s
This song reminds me of my dad. We used to jam to it in his car. Miss him.
Sounds like a good memory :)
Aww. Good times, I'm sure 😊
:-)
:)
Joanna R txt
Music these days never compares to the 60s, 70s, 80s and even the 90s ✌🏻
True.
20th Century FTW!
There’s a few artists that have that older feel to them.
because now it's just manufactured noise, no longer music
Trouble is, all the good music has been made. There are no boundaries to push. Music is so easy to make and release to the public these days it has gotten lazy.
From 1981 and now its 2020
This will forever be a classic. Next year it will be 40 years since its release and nowadays people can't even listen to pop for more than weeks.
The 80s for me was a very nice time in music
80s Music: They knew we'd need it in the future.
God, I love 80s music
Not starting a comment war, but i really prefer 70s, 80s and some 90s stuff better that today's stuff
80s=best music
give carly rae jepsen's new album (emotion) or haim's album if you want some 80s ish pop songs.
Whilst the 80s is actually derided a lot, a lot of todays music wouldn't exist without this new wave of synth foundation.
As with any decade there are some really bad songs and really great songs. Regardless, beauty is in the ears of the listener.
I like FRACTURED LOVE by INDTIKO which has an 80s vibe today. Listen to somethin else if you dont like 80s music!! :P
No war I totally agree don't get me wrong there is still great stuff out there now but You can't get this good
I was born in 97 and I agree 80's music is awesome, this happens to be one of my favorite 80's songs.
99’ bro 80s songs is so fire 🔥
My favorite song of the whole decade!
I’m still with the company I started working for in 97 😂
Don't you miss this song in August 2024???
😂 right
Yes yes❤
Like, that magical moment, just you and your memories?. (Me?, is 4 a.m., sunday) just wake up 2 hrs ago to verify my daughter return safe from a night out, yes, she was, all young, beautiful and happy (ugh i hate her), here i am,
That makes no sense
Actually, the '80s stations play it all the time.
This is probably the most 80s song to ever exist.
You haven't heard many songs I assume.
@@concernedcitizen4933 That's fine if you disagree. It's your opinion.
Big Japan - Alphaville
Nice pick!
A-ha : take on me
Dead or alive : spin me right round (like a record)
Abba : dancing queen
Songs for thought.
I wish 80's culture lasted longer.
It did, It was the early-mid 90s.
Me too.
@@awalkingman83 honestly that's not really plausible. For example you can watch or listen to 80s music and movies, but there is nothing new being produced. It's like saying you love the 20s, but that culture is as much gone as the 80s.
What do you mean it has except we are older and not as attractive.
@@armandoreyna9228 It's not about attraction, it's about fun.
Unless you were a kid in 1981/82..you will never understand the greatness or influence this song had on the whole decade. Just amazing
huge influence it sort of took over
I was 14 years old in 1981 when this song was released. Heard this song on the radio back then in 1981.
Wouldn't go that far but a great piece all the same.
I was born in 1978, probably was 5 when I started getting lookin mags, had a huge collection at about 8
1 of the greatest songs of the 80 for real... bless up
British 80's music....the best
Who's still listening in 2024 great music and watching this video ❤❤❤
me !!! from CCS Caracas... 28 march 2024
👍🏿
One of my favs 🌹
@@hollynonya6991 👍🏿
Yes me listening 15th July 2024 from Swansea South Wales UK 🏴
A music video within a music video, within a music video... Damn...
Inception in the '80s.
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the person in the car at0:42 is sooo hot
The 1980's was the best time for modern music and for dancing.. This song was one of the greatest of that time!!!
Name the one song that instantly transfers you back to the 80s! This is it!❤
Or Rick Astley. Never Gonna Give You Up.
@@evelynmiks1045 nahhh
Hungry like the Wolf...Duran Duran
Depeche Mode.. Personal Jesus ❤
Released November 27, 1981. Still brilliant nearly 37 years later.
mark perry wow! I've always thought this song was late 80's, I don't know why... Thanks for pointing it out.
Thx nice info
mark perry classic and creepy 😅😍👍
I put this on my own Vice City radio station. Did speaks and all. I like the song better than "fascination", maybe because the melancholic tone. Or Maybe because I am hopeful romantic.
Number 1 the day I was born. I have a special bond with it.
The 80's is a phase we'll never get to live again...
80’s!!!! Great music everywhere!!!!
The amazing Human League. Never had a bad song ever. The girls in the group together - wow. Phil Oakey his voice is like liquid gold
🎼🎤👍🏻👏🏻😘
He’s a talented Human League with an amazing voice, I love this song.... hi 👋 I’m Gerald
I agree they were such a unique 80's band with a sound that still sounds fantastic today 👍😁
One of the greatest hits of the 80's..
when you played this song the dancefloor was always too small... 😄😘😄
my melody 😏😉
lol
@@dmitri9042 😂😇😉😇😂
my melody no wall flowers when they played this 😊
@@andrewmatthews6861 lol 😂😉😂 you are absolutely right, dear Andrew... 😂👏🎶😍
Is this the greatest pop song ever? I can't think of a better one. Iconic,fashionable and great song lyrics. Can't believe it's 40 years old.
Is it just me, or is the guy a controlling jerk?
It knocked me out in 1981 during the second wave of Britpop, when I was in junior high. We were hit with a blast of groundbreaking music and the birth of god knows how many new genres-New Wave, punk, synth pop, alternative rock, the beginnings of Prince’s Minneapolis sound, the birth of Hip Hop-not to mention the launch of the MTV era (when it was relevant and new). Also in 1981! And it seemed to last forever, but vanished all too fast with the introduction of disposable music-ProTools, low-fi downloads and the demise of music stores and Death of the Album.
The thing that makes listening to this stuff a bit bittersweet is that I was too naive at the time to realize how lucky I was to be young, alive and a music fanatic during such a flood of innovation and creativity, the likes of which I’ll probably never see again in my lifetime.
I’ve tried to describe that period to my nieces and nephews, and I’ve managed to turn them on to a lot of music from the eighties. But I can’t take them to see Prince and Sheila E. on New Year’s Eve in 1984 as I did in tenth grade, or describe the smell of the aisles and aisles of 12 inch singles at Bill’s Records and Tapes, or what it was like to drive around with the top down listening to “The Adventure Club” on THE EDGE 94.5 on winter Sunday nights in Dallas. I can’t explain the thrill of finding an obscure 12” of Depeche Mode’s “Shake the Disease” during my summer trip to Berlin in 1985 or what it was like to make fake IDs and dance to “The Politics of Dancing” underage at the Starck Club (that SOUND system! The MIDI-synched laser beams plunging down to the dance floor! A substance-free high like no other…).
The payoff is seeing 150 million views of this vid and the thousands of comments assuring me that legions of others get it. To the folks who voted it down, share the music experience that gave YOU the thrill that mine did-music is the ultimate social catalyst, so pay it forward! ✌️
It's one of my favourites, stood in Bessemer pub (mainly 80's) in Sheffield and this comes on, what an atmosphere. 80's Sheffield band, in an 80's pub in Sheffield and everyone knows the words. Brilliant !
Это не поп, а новая волна 😎😉
This and West End Girls I think are the top ones
When songs were coming from the heart. No obscenities, love stories. Close to reality 💔
Enquanto tiver gente de bom gosto musical essa música sempre será eterna.
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You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you're got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too
Don't, don't you want me
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find, you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me baby
Don't you want me, oh
Don't you want me baby
Don't you want me, oh
I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I live my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do
Don't, don't you want me
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find, you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't, don't you want me
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
Thomas Neves thank you😵💓
Thanks a lot for the lyrics: great!
Thomas Neves I don't get why people write down the whole lyrics. We don't need them you're wasting your time
Thomas Neves that was very rude and highly offensive
Being a little kid playing with my toys while my Mom kept playing songs such as this ..even tho u didn't payed attention on listening but those songs just gets inside your Brain and soul and until now being 20 years old all i listen to is those type of music cause its just true music and quality.
I completely understand where you're coming from, I'm twenty-three these songs aren't part of our generation and other older folks would say something along the lines of "you weren't around for these songs" true but the songs where still around us thanks to our parents. When I hear these older songs and others I still feel a better connection and understanding compared to today's pop music, call me crazy but that's how I see it.
Yes, well said. i'm the same age and definitely as much brainwashed as you! Because my mom was a eighties kid I absorbed all these synthpop songs. They're overplayed on certain radiostations with a hugh audience bounded by nostaglia and have always sounded so familiar, like I knew them from a long time ago. So i asked her about it and she plead guilty :3
Couldn't be any more right, I'm only 17 and I like and relate to the 80's music more than today's music. I grew up listening to my nan and my parents always playing 80's music and that's why I love it so much. It's just pure, good quality, real music.
well said, its so awesome to see that a 20 year old is into this music - it is simply one of the best. its great to be open minded to different forms of music
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The woman's verse really adds something special to the story being told. Kind of reminds me of "Somebody That I Used To Know" in that regard. The woman's vocals telling the other side of the story. Just brilliant.
Женский вокал напомнил мне историю О’Джей Симсона и его жены
Don't EU want me baby - David Cameron
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA okay, yes
shut up
i literally lold when I read this :v XD
Lol!!!!!!!!!
nice!
having an 80's jam session right now, NO REGRETS.
@TiqqerGoRawr
Mee too, tho I was born in 2011, so yea. Also, are you having an 80’s jam session in 2024?
let's all live in the 80's permanently!!
+Jorge Moran i grew up in the 80 s the best times ever
MY vision of Heaven.
+Jorge Moran From what I've seen and heard from my mom, living in the 80's would be fun.
But living in the 50's, now THAT would be interesting...
+Jorge Moran no.
pcocker100 Eh, we all got an opinion.
The lyrics of that song is so interessing. The story is really sad and creepy but what I love the most is that we get the two side of it. And thanks to it we can clearly see that they're both not good person wich make them realy realistic.
Why is she bad? She may have been using him to get ahead but that’s not apparent in what she says. She may just feel like he’s controlling her career too much and she needs to feel more autonomous.
As someone born in 2011
I honestly want to go back in time and experience times back then
They just look really cool
Trust me, you would hate it (particularly in the UK). No jobs, constant strikes. No internet, no computers, no smartphones, no smart watches, no smart ANYTHING & a choice from just THREE channels on TV.
If your only concept of the 1980's is from music vids & Hollywood movies from the time, I can see how it might look glamorous, but for those of us outside of London who lived through it, it was anything but!
No it was better
And in 1981, everyone was wishing it was the 60s. Grass is always greener and all that.
It was truly a great time to grow up in,the 80s for me turned child in to man in 10 short years but I knew it was special at the time but now realise how great it all was,no mobile phones,you used a payphone in a box,arranged to meet your mates after school on your bmx,ate as much junk as you wanted and didn't gain weight! Lol. The best of times believe me!
@@richardhaywood4123 thank you for sharing!
I remember hearing this song when it was released back in late '81 early '82
The lyrics of the song are incredible
The human league were a great band throughout the 80s decade 👌 👏
You know i can't believe it when you say that you don't need me
You know i dont believe you when you say that you wont see me
These are incredible lyrics
Phil oakey is an absolute songwriting genius 👏 🙌
Modern degeneracy already baked in that.
80's music is catchy, but as a kid I did not understand the lyrics.
Now that I'm adult, I gotta say - Pop music with singers and rappers was a giant mistake. To hell with them all.
I love The Human League, the lyrics of their songs are incredible 💜
Human League music still rocks in 2018. 💙💋🎵🎶
Nope, synth pops!
The fact that this is still happening should let us know we are not evolving emotionally
Some chose to grow up & mature, some REFUSE to to play eternal victims.
Awesome Song! I was very lucky to have grown up young in the 80's soaking all these great jams! It's not the same these days.