There's a theory that something terribly catastrophic happened in the 80s that was so terrible, the timeline had to be completely reset. It's why the 80s were so extremely unique, and why the 90s didn't seem to follow, almost like someone intentionally reset the timeline. Everyone has a yearning to return to the 80s because that was the actual, original timeline.
@@validpoint9849 Many other great decades but something about the80s..Id gladly go back never to return. Have no use for all the tech and online garbage. Life was so simpler
I was 10 in 1983. I used to sit and braid my babysitter’s hair while she watched MTV. I’ve been searching high and low for this video and am so happy I found it in an obscure chat room after I googled “80s music video tarantula “
Holy $hit, you seen ELO live? Blessed! My favourite band of ALL time. And to think After the fire, opened for them. Must of been an epic day! Wishing you all the best.
Best era in music by far , and still kicking ass! Don't think I go a week without hearing an 80's song in some tv show or movie . If you didn't grow up in that time period, it's ok we got all the music on these new things called cd' s, they are great ! 😎🤘
Love it this era was just records on LPs then CDs and imgination. Same as movies after the turn of the century VHS tapes and imagination made my adolescense. Jean claude van dammes round houses, schwarzenneggers Ill be backs and get downs.. Bruce Willis' yippee ki yay mofo's I could go on forever and ever
Whenever I hear this song, and, it's rarely these days...it brings me right back to 1983 when I was seventeen and had my very first car. What great memories of freedom, as opposed to this song's lyrics - Der Kommissar (Commie Cop Commissioner); East Germany; Communism; or, Robert Ponger; Reinhold Bilgeri; Falco; British "After The Fire;" Laura Branigan; etc. Who cares! The song is great! I loved the song as a teen; we loved the song as teens...the song...not necessarily the lyrical meaning. Thank you for posting! :)
Lotta these great 80s tones I can picture myself somewhere in my world back then, on the beach, in the high school, or just hanging out at the arcade. Blink, and I’m 54.
This one hit wonder is still one of the best-and from early 1983. A cool song which is on THE AWESOME 80's collection. To grow up during the 1980's was wonderful.
They might be [Quote YOU] "a one hit wonder" [Unquote] where you live.... But in their own country of origin** they had several hits (Same nation as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, etc, etc) Might surprise YOU this, BUT, the entire world DOES NOT revolve around the USA
@@hawnyfox3411 This ATF version was a small one-hit-wonder in Denmark, mostly known in discoteques. The original German version by Falco was a bigger hit here but not a one-hit since his "Amadeus" song became a mega-hit, and then Falco and more of his songs became known to most people. I believe, After The Fire was a big name in the UK but not in the US as I cand understand.
By one-hit wonder, you must mean After the Fire, who recorded this English-language cover of Falco's 1982 hit 'Der Kommissar,' because in 1986 Falco himself became the first and so far only recording artist to achieve a #1 hit in both the US and UK charts with a German-language song, 'Rock me Amadeus.' He also charted with several other singles and albums in those two largest English-speaking markets during the '80s and '90s, which makes him arguably the most successful modern German-language pop star in the Anglosphere.
I love hearing these songs again. They take me back to a time where I would hear the songs while playing video arcade games at the same time. I was in my late teens then.
I was born in 1975 which I got to hear all the great songs from the 80s and early 90s. Also elementary , middle and high school all in the 80s.. take me back please 😥
It was composed by Robert Ponger for Reinhold Bilgeri, but Reinhold turned it down. Falco recorded it in 81 and After The Fire in 82. Which video came out first though I do not know
Steve Yancy: WTF are you talking about? You're not even close to correct about Falco's version. It IS the original recording of the song, and ATF then covered it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Kommissar_(song)
I watched this on t.v as a small kid...thinking back now, she has to be one of the major reasons for me being a white guy , that only fell in love or was ever interested in dark skinned beautiful gals, right up until today nearly 35years after😊 ❤❤
Great blast from the past! God, I miss the 80's, back when MTV was truly worth watching! By the way, did the bartender make sure that tarantula was of legal age to drink? Ha ha!
These songs create an ideal platform for us 50 plussers to reflect and share. What a time it was in the 80s. The last shreds of innocence. I shed a tear sometimes.They simply won't understand.
Yay! So glad this was in the playlist. Could not remember who played this. Cuz I am old. The knees/legs go first, then the eyes, and then the memory...
For all of us who listened to these songs in the 80's, this song is on my list of my favorites... Compared to today's music, where technology is far superior, this track is a masterpiece...
It's amazing how synths have come so far but the best music with them was made before the 90s, which makes it funnier to me that even with growth we can't beat the amazingly composed experimental music everyone was making with synths in the 80s
80s high school party: this song, beer, kids in the back room with a bong, parachute pants, preppy wanna bees with skinny Levi’s, deck shoes and polos with the collar flipped up, and a girl looking like a cross between Madonna and Siouxie Sue, then explaining to your parents what happened the next day....
@@meghan_. I did, and it was a lot of fun, but on the other hand everyone (at least, young people) was scared of AIDS, and the danger of a sudden nuclear holocaust was still looming over our heads. Remember "99 Red Balloons"?
@meghan: No, you don’t sound self consciously quirky, just make the era you are in the era you want to remember. Your youth will always be viewed with rose colored lenses.
Still one of my all-time favorite songs and videos, 35 years after hearing it for the first time. The Austrian artist known as FALCO did a more popular version of it. I used to buy CRT terminals form an American company coincidentally named FALCO, so I sang this song every time I bought one of their computer terminals.
I watched these guys open for Van Halen in 1982. They played 3 songs and were unceremoniously boo'd off the stage. You have to understand that Van Halen were absolutely the biggest band on the planet at that time. Great memories.
I've know about this song for years and liked it, but that said I think "Atomic Blonde" was a great movie and tied this song into its story very well and I'm glad they did that.
Randall Koch How did you know I do that? Play both as loud as my husband’s expensive stereo crap can go. Well, not quite because the really good speakers are in the basement. And dance around like a crazy person, or at least like I was a teenager again. Sometimes, I’ll add Kiss “Detroit Rock City” and “Radar Love” to the mix.
+RileyTVS Viennese is a dialect spoken in Austria. Yes in Austria you speak German, but there are many differences between "Austrian-German" and "German-German". Germans often don't understand Austrians but Austrians mostly understand Germans because nearly all foreign Movies and Series are synchronised in High German / "German-German" dialects and in Austria you receive many TV Stations from Germany. Also there is an Austrian dictionary. That's why I wrote "Austrian dialect".
If only we had appreciated what we had in the 80s more and didn't allow everything that we accomplished to be destroyed by some of our children. The 80s were as close to "The Dream" as this country will every get. We took it for granted and now look at the US
Man so many great memories.Some times I cry like a baby,just appreciate what we had and how good we had it.Such simpler times.Last of the great music genres.
I was going to a club back then. I recall telling the dj how good the music was and that the music making machine had gone insanely good at cranking out hits after hits. I also foolishly believed it would last forever. Then the 1990s happened and Nirvana killed it all...
I've had part of this song stuck in my head for years. Could not figure out who it was. And trying to spell it correct was very hard. I remembered more this morning and found it. lol
I remember 80s videos fondly. So odd. Usually someone gets thrown and breaks in slow motion. I got to see a couple being made, strong nostalgia for youth.
If I could go back to the 80s I would never come back
Just remember, it's one pellet one trip--unless you have a Mr. Fusion.
There's a theory that something terribly catastrophic happened in the 80s that was so terrible, the timeline had to be completely reset. It's why the 80s were so extremely unique, and why the 90s didn't seem to follow, almost like someone intentionally reset the timeline. Everyone has a yearning to return to the 80s because that was the actual, original timeline.
@@validpoint9849 Many other great decades but something about the80s..Id gladly go back never to return. Have no use for all the tech and online garbage. Life was so simpler
I'm with you. Still can't get enough of the 80's. I miss my life in the 80's. They were my BEST AND FAVORITE years!!!!!
I feel the same way. The 80s were the best!
I was 10 in 1983. I used to sit and braid my babysitter’s hair while she watched MTV. I’ve been searching high and low for this video and am so happy I found it in an obscure chat room after I googled “80s music video tarantula “
Man who remembers the 80's like I do?
Nothing compares to the original Version of the Legend Falco
Yeah! Wth I didn't even know another version existed. Wish I still didn't know, ❤ Falco !
Yes agreed But we needed a English version to help the song cross over to a larger audience
@@powerlocalmedia5130 nein this sucks
If You listen to Falco's version He does leak some English words.
I find them both unique.
80s was real music 😎
Agree 100%!
Saw them live in Bonn, West Germany 1982 they were warm up for ELO whose drummer was ill so Pete King stood in for him.
Holy $hit, you seen ELO live?
Blessed! My favourite band of ALL time.
And to think After the fire, opened for them. Must of been an epic day! Wishing you all the best.
Takes me right back to the high school days. Viva the '80s!
This song was in heavy rotation in my early 20s while in college. It still sounds good with such a great back beat.
I so miss this great time in my life
Me too.
Understandably one of the most significant tracks of the 80s
This song rocked my world in the old 80’s.. The 70and80’s were a great time to be young…
The singer has a very unique voice.
WHO ARE HERE TO LISTEN IT AGAIN IN 2024 💥💥💥💥
Me
@@springfieldmugshotshouser5113 me too
Me
I’m here 😂
brilliant.
Golden days of MTV, the 80's were a fantastic time to be alive! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Back when they actually played *Music* !
It was! MTV made the 80's Special.
@@LoneLee2022 Among a lot of other things...
@@SuperDavidmills Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll for me. 3 concerts a month.
Should've bin around in the 60's
I was an exchange student in Denmark when this was a hit. Always amazed me when I came home how many German songs were hits - loved the 80’s!!!
This song had a regular rotation on MTV back in the 80's. Loved watching it stoned I would just trip out on all the videos.
Thank you Falco, and this is the version we grew up with here in the US!
Best era in music by far , and still kicking ass! Don't think I go a week without hearing an 80's song in some tv show or movie . If you didn't grow up in that time period, it's ok we got all the music on these new things called cd' s, they are great ! 😎🤘
Love it this era was just records on LPs then CDs and imgination. Same as movies after the turn of the century VHS tapes and imagination made my adolescense. Jean claude van dammes round houses, schwarzenneggers Ill be backs and get downs.. Bruce Willis' yippee ki yay mofo's
I could go on forever and ever
@@jonw8435 it was great they was no political brainwashing in the movies well only against the Russians lol 😂
One of the BEST songs ever
Great song!! 👏
I'M AN 80'S CHILD!, 80'S FOREVER!.
YEAH! Me too!
ME TOO🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Makes me glad we have this technology so we can still HEAR the 1980's!
This was and still is the cutt from back in the day , chuck!!
The good old days! I love that hissing sound at the end of the video must be off the original VHS tape from MTV.
Same
One of the songs that was a part of making the 80's the great decade of music that it was. Also one of the best dance songs.
MTV memories from the 80's brought me here.
I'm from this generation of the 80s and including the 90s and I love reliving my generation through music for real
Whenever I hear this song, and, it's rarely these days...it brings me right back to 1983 when I was seventeen and had my very first car. What great memories of freedom, as opposed to this song's lyrics - Der Kommissar (Commie Cop Commissioner); East Germany; Communism; or, Robert Ponger; Reinhold Bilgeri; Falco; British "After The Fire;" Laura Branigan; etc. Who cares! The song is great!
I loved the song as a teen; we loved the song as teens...the song...not necessarily the lyrical meaning.
Thank you for posting! :)
Thank God I grew up in the 80s!! The music was the best, and still is!!xo😊💃🕺👍
... alles klar Herr Kommissar - Great 80's
I keep coming back to this song after all these years. Epic performance and video . A rap mix that I like and I don't like rap lol
The 80's, the best music era ever.....................
another classic 80's tune. Love it!
Hi Lisa…. Your comment is well recommended. How are you doing?
Lotta these great 80s tones I can picture myself somewhere in my world back then, on the beach, in the high school, or just hanging out at the arcade. Blink, and I’m 54.
This song makes me want to throw a dance party every time!
Heck yeah!!
This one hit wonder is still one of the best-and from early 1983. A cool song which is on THE AWESOME 80's collection. To grow up during the 1980's was wonderful.
them making us live in fear of nuclear war to keep sheep from turning into goats was wonderful
They might be [Quote YOU] "a one hit wonder" [Unquote] where you live....
But in their own country of origin** they had several hits
(Same nation as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, etc, etc)
Might surprise YOU this, BUT, the entire world DOES NOT revolve around the USA
@@hawnyfox3411 This ATF version was a small one-hit-wonder in Denmark, mostly known in discoteques. The original German version by Falco was a bigger hit here but not a one-hit since his "Amadeus" song became a mega-hit, and then Falco and more of his songs became known to most people. I believe, After The Fire was a big name in the UK but not in the US as I cand understand.
@@FlongowildVienna calling is also a hit apparently
By one-hit wonder, you must mean After the Fire, who recorded this English-language cover of Falco's 1982 hit 'Der Kommissar,' because in 1986 Falco himself became the first and so far only recording artist to achieve a #1 hit in both the US and UK charts with a German-language song, 'Rock me Amadeus.' He also charted with several other singles and albums in those two largest English-speaking markets during the '80s and '90s, which makes him arguably the most successful modern German-language pop star in the Anglosphere.
I love this song...Cutting edge of 80’s oh oh!
Cold war + new wave + rock ×German ×English Australia = this Gem
I love hearing these songs again. They take me back to a time where I would hear the songs while playing video arcade games at the same time. I was in my late teens then.
I am the 80’s❤
Anyone else dressing up in 2024?😊
I've had the phrase "The more you live the faster you will die" on my checks since 1990.
Have to love early music videos, with soft, hazey focus. Look of Love, I want Candy, Abracadabra, Love Plus One, The Motels, to name a few.
One GREAT song even in 2021. Der Kommissar. Love the beat....
Hello Ann hope you are doing okay
This song hits so hard with some woofers!!!
This song used to play a lot at Plato's Retreat in NYC in the 80's.
This song used to play a lot at George's Truck Stop and Drag Bar in Memphis in the 80s.
I was born in 1975 which I got to hear all the great songs from the 80s and early 90s. Also elementary , middle and high school all in the 80s.. take me back please 😥
Love this song !
this is the original video they played on MTV in the early 80s.
jasonwheel no not all
Yeah, this is the one that MTV played, but the song was recorded the previous year by Falco. ATF's version is a cover song
not.this came in 83.falco did it in 86
It was composed by Robert Ponger for Reinhold Bilgeri, but Reinhold turned it down. Falco recorded it in 81 and After The Fire in 82. Which video came out first though I do not know
Steve Yancy: WTF are you talking about? You're not even close to correct about Falco's version. It IS the original recording of the song, and ATF then covered it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Kommissar_(song)
Am I the only one that turns this song *all the way up* whenever they hear it?
Hello,1980s it's 2023
I watched this on t.v as a small kid...thinking back now, she has to be one of the major reasons for me being a white guy , that only fell in love or was ever interested in dark skinned beautiful gals, right up until today nearly 35years after😊 ❤❤
'80s kid here, I didn't find out this was a cover until YEARS later...
Found out today
@@rallo9635
Me today. I am an 80s kid/teen.
Great blast from the past! God, I miss the 80's, back when MTV was truly worth watching! By the way, did the bartender make sure that tarantula was of legal age to drink? Ha ha!
This used to play every day at my old Job at the supermarket 😂😭.
I wanna teleport back! And as an Adult and not just as a teenager.
Before you teleport back hook me up if you don't mind me tagging along.
Ya. Take me with you. This time sucks. Shit ass music, leaders, patriotism and overall way of life was better and more simplistic back in the 80's
Not really. The Cold War was a genuine thing, and we honestly feared being nuked by the Soviets.
PallyPowerXIX good times
me tooooo!!!!!!
These songs create an ideal platform for us 50 plussers to reflect and share. What a time it was in the 80s. The last shreds of innocence. I shed a tear sometimes.They simply won't understand.
Dude what is the chick's name?!!
Yay! So glad this was in the playlist. Could not remember who played this. Cuz I am old. The knees/legs go first, then the eyes, and then the memory...
For all of us who listened to these songs in the 80's, this song is on my list of my favorites...
Compared to today's music, where technology is far superior, this track is a masterpiece...
It's amazing how synths have come so far but the best music with them was made before the 90s, which makes it funnier to me that even with growth we can't beat the amazingly composed experimental music everyone was making with synths in the 80s
Have you ever heard the original version?
80s high school party: this song, beer, kids in the back room with a bong, parachute pants, preppy wanna bees with skinny Levi’s, deck shoes and polos with the collar flipped up, and a girl looking like a cross between
Madonna and Siouxie Sue, then explaining to your parents what happened the next day....
Vote Joe Biden✌🏿😱2020
not trying to sound “quirky” but i wish i could’ve experienced the 80s
@@meghan_. I did, and it was a lot of fun, but on the other hand everyone (at least, young people) was scared of AIDS, and the danger of a sudden nuclear holocaust was still looming over our heads. Remember "99 Red Balloons"?
Mango cat tail buds .... rainbow ACIDS.....BUD DRY....Magnum malt liquor.
.....Bud Balls ...( Fuckin' rip off!).....and yeah ...yellow pearl 🦪 ' cain.
@meghan: No, you don’t sound self consciously quirky, just make the era you are in the era you want to remember. Your youth will always be viewed with rose colored lenses.
the 80's....where people turned to the camera for no particular reason and looked very serious.
But still managed to have fun!
it was a time when nothing really meant something
Yes! Yes! You have encapsulated the zeitgeist of an amazing decade in one profound statement. Well played sir. Very well played. 😎
thanks
@@davidwilliams2279
I concur.
Very keen & sensible description of the intangible.
80s gem
My kids love it when the lady does her lipstick backwards. 80s parenting. I'm that mom.
The first couple years of MTV a lot of vids were shot in soft focus like this one
VH1 memories ,. But honestly I remember my mom playing that song great memories forever in my life
The 80's were the best! The music was awesome.
That blonde is gorgeous. I love 80s chicks. That look is coming back, any money.
She is pretty hot
love this one!
Friends flashback from the college party with Monica, Chandler, Ross, and Rachel
I came for that lol
Yeah I’m so glad I saw that episode otherwise I wouldn’t have known about this awesome song! 😂
this needs to be pinned
Glad I could find this song from friends 😂
I came for that too 😂 And also because I've listened to this song many times in the radio or in TV shows like Stranger Things.
Still one of my all-time favorite songs and videos, 35 years after hearing it for the first time. The Austrian artist known as FALCO did a more popular version of it. I used to buy CRT terminals form an American company coincidentally named FALCO, so I sang this song every time I bought one of their computer terminals.
I watched these guys open for Van Halen in 1982. They played 3 songs and were unceremoniously boo'd off the stage. You have to understand that Van Halen were absolutely the biggest band on the planet at that time.
Great memories.
dad tell there where 4 gigs where they got boo'd off what gig was that ?
Same here in Cincinnati. VH promoting Diver Down. These guy's promoting this song basically. Still, I rank this song as one of the best 80's songs.
I love the 80s so I guess that make me an eighteist
Wow I remember as a 15 year old whenever I saw this video on MTV which was on ALL day I ran to bathroom slicked my hair back and put on sunglasses lol
I've know about this song for years and liked it, but that said I think "Atomic Blonde" was a great movie and tied this song into its story very well and I'm glad they did that.
I wish MTV would have faded in to the sunset rather than to become what it is today. Great memories.
this and Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone" are great when seen back to back.
Word
YES!
That girl in the middle? 🍑 baby!!!
Randall Koch How did you know I do that? Play both as loud as my husband’s expensive stereo crap can go. Well, not quite because the really good speakers are in the basement. And dance around like a crazy person, or at least like I was a teenager again. Sometimes, I’ll add Kiss “Detroit Rock City” and “Radar Love” to the mix.
I remember when my parents first got MTV, and they played this video, Twilight Zone, Jeopardy(Greg Kihn) and Goodbye To You(Scandal) all of the time!
I like this cover more than the original song. After The Fire is so underrated. What a masterpiece.
This song has a lot more meaning today than we want to accept.
This is the early 80s distilled to an essence. It's all there!
I did NOT know this was a cover...but damn, I still find it so much better than Falco's. I just freaking love it.
Probably only because you don't understand Viennese (the Austrian dialect Falco is singing).
Nah, I just find the music itself more appealing. The other is still good though!
+MrAgent00i I think you mean German...
+RileyTVS
Viennese is a dialect spoken in Austria. Yes in Austria you speak German, but there are many differences between "Austrian-German" and "German-German". Germans often don't understand Austrians but Austrians mostly understand Germans because nearly all foreign Movies and Series are synchronised in High German / "German-German" dialects and in Austria you receive many TV Stations from Germany. Also there is an Austrian dictionary.
That's why I wrote "Austrian dialect".
MrAgent00i ok that makes sense, I wondered why i couldn't understand some of the things he was saying
The greatest time to have been a teen, great music.
If only we had appreciated what we had in the 80s more and didn't allow everything that we accomplished to be destroyed by some of our children.
The 80s were as close to "The Dream" as this country will every get. We took it for granted and now look at the US
This song is a classic, I remember watching the video on Mtv year 1983.
I'm glad up in the 80s
The Movie Wedding Singer brought me here.
Sierra Milano me too
Great one hit wonder!!
Love it !! Falco!!
LIke the Falco one but I cant understand German thank you for the English One
Atomic Blonde!
DIECAST43 that was a blast of a movie great soundtrack awesome fight sequences charlize is a boss!
DIECAS .T43
I was here from my dad!!
DIECAST43
Before atomic bomb
Yeah just watched it on HBO ,had to come here to get it out of my head......or not
80s best all time. When music was real.
I was absolutely in love with the piano player!!! LOL
Man so many great memories.Some times I cry like a baby,just appreciate what we had and how good we had it.Such simpler times.Last of the great music genres.
I was going to a club back then. I recall telling the dj how good the music was and that the music making machine had gone insanely good at cranking out hits after hits. I also foolishly believed it would last forever. Then the 1990s happened and Nirvana killed it all...
Der Kommissar was most likely the only appealing single out of their entire original album of ATF.when debut.
Hendrick Yee and its not even from them😂😂😂
This totally takes me back to ‘83. Best time to be around!! ❤️
They were very artistic 😊😊
I was 2 when this jam came out still rocking it
80's chicks were hotter.
THEY MUCH HOTTER.
jdessell And they weren’t thots either
Hottest women ever bruh.
@FASH THORRDON Liberalsim destroying western nations and the white race
Definitely
I've had part of this song stuck in my head for years. Could not figure out who it was. And trying to spell it correct was very hard.
I remembered more this morning and found it. lol
I remember 80s videos fondly. So odd. Usually someone gets thrown and breaks in slow motion. I got to see a couple being made, strong nostalgia for youth.
All ist klaa, der kommissar? Man I miss the 80's.