THE 80's!| FIRST TIME HEARING M - Pop Muzik REACTION
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To this day, if I hear someone say "New York, London" I shout back "Paris, Munich." This song is guaranteed to get people on the dance floor.
Same dude, same.
🎶 _everybody talk about mmm pop music!_
So true, same thing!
You have to, right? 😂
Shoobiedooa
This track is 44 years old and still sounds ahead of its time. A pure new wave classic. Imagine a 44 year old song in 1979. It'd be a gramophone record from 1935.
I knew this song would come on this channel one day. I think it's as iconic as the song "Video Killed The Radio Star", the first video on MTV. And songs that you haven't heard yet: "Wordy Rappinghood" (1981) by Tina Weymouth's Tom Tom Club, Lipps Inc. with "Funkytown" (1980) and "Pump Up The Volume" by M/A/R/R/S (1987).
let's not forget genius of love.
Love Missile F1-1
funky town also 79 lol
This song is a jumpstart to the 80’s ❤️🔥❤️ The Cars, Gary Numan, Blondie,Herbie Hancock,Devo,(New wave) Evolution of music from the 60’s to the 70’s to the 80’s was so dynamic ❤️ I’m glad I got to experience it all 🔥 …….not silly music Jay, creative Pop Muzic ❤️🔥❤️ P.S. Roller skating Jam back in the day ! 🛼🛼🛼🛼
sorry mike, but no. devo and the cars came before. devo was born from the kent state massacre. so were the pretenders, actually. do a little research.
@@houngandave 🤡 I put them all in a group , that’s why I listed them all together 🤡 boy ! I know who came first or second 🤡 boy…… I’m from Boston and seen the cars in 1977. They are in fact from the Back Bay in Boston…… M was just 1 of the bands 1979 before the 80’s 🤡 boy ! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Settle guys, play nice :)
cars was number 1 in 1979 in the UK
Now you NEED to hear “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” by The Human League. It’s the true epitome of 80s ❤
And "Mirror Man"
Human league was definitely different.
Don't You Want Me, Louise
Yes! My favorite!
When I was young I absolutely loved the song don't you want me because it felt like a movie story I still love that song
One of the one-hit wonders from 1979.
Turning Japanese- the Vapors
Baby it’s You, Promises...
@@scottlaughlin9897 YES!! @robsquadreaction you need to do the vapors turning Japanese!!!!
M was A Radio DJ.
Not a one hit wonder in the UK. Moonlight & Muzak was another M hit song here and in Europe.
I love how Amber "gets it" and almost immediately starts doing some funky chair dancing and Jay is like "what the ...??" Watched it 3 times already and laughed each time.
Back then we had never heard ANYTHING like this: not just synth-pop but just the bounciness, the voice, the background vocals, it was simply out of the box amazing.
As I always say, I never left the 80's, the 80's left me. Lol long live synthpop ❤
It was released in 79, but you can have it. Mindless dreck.
The 80s was for those who missed the 60s
Same! I tight rolled my jeans (and other pants) probably until 2000!
@@stevenjohnson4190 True, I was born in '64 and spent a chunk of the 80s riding a Lambretta around England wishing I'd been old enough to be a Mod and a Hippy. In retrospect I think if you were a teen in the 60s, 70s or 80s you were damned lucky...Very very happy days.
@@paulhanson5164 happy happy days indeed
When this song came out, it was so different. If any song put a end to the 1970’s, and ushered in the 1980’s, this was one of them. Heavy rotation on MTV at the time. In my opinion, we need this creativity, catchiness and quirkiness back in music. Music now is in such a bad state of affairs.
The 80’s were so fun! I’m so fortunate I lived through this music time period!!!
Its from the 70s! Came out in 1979...
Just a few months from the 80's. Basically the 80's started in '78-'79 music-wise. It's when you began to see music branch out in all sorts of directions. Electronics opened up a whole other world from metal to hip hop.
@@kingjulien8699 Yeah, basically an 80s song. By 79 we were already into the 80s, musically speaking.
Plastic Bertrand
Absolutely... when the F word was FUN! 75-85, the greatest decade in pop! 😎
M was a guy called Robin Scott. He retired very young with the royalties from this massive #1 Hit song. This is one of the smartest songs ever written. DEVO & The B-52s were already in full flight in 1979.
This song is so catchy you can’t help but bop to it, lol…Another quirky cool 80s band y’all should check out is The Escape Club, “Wild, Wild West”
Yes!!
YES! I love that song!
Yes
Great Suggestion ☺
"Wild, Wild West" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in November, 1988, making them the only British artist to have a number one hit in the U.S. without charting in the U.K.
I was 10 when this song came out. My 5th grade music teacher was so cool! He would give us 5 choices of songs. We would write down which one we wanted. He would then count the votes and play the song that had the most votes. This song was so fun! Imagine a bunch of 9&10 year old kids singing and dancing around the big music room. Ahh...thanks for those memories, J & Amber!! ❣️
I was 12 and had just started secondary school (UK). All the trendies thought it was so "Eww!" and terrible. Most of us LOVED IT ❤❤❤and didn't care as did it!
Imagine how many kids were dancing around the house to.. Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na back then 😂
@@DeAnne1233, I was one of those kids!
@@DeAnne1233 Presume you mean the MCR song? (kzhead.info/sun/mMuAZ8qhfGpvfI0/bejne.html). My kids (10 and 7 at the time) did because they loved how shouty it was ... and was an excuse for them to be LOUD! My daughter became a massive MCR fan as a teen.
@@joannecunliffe8067 No, I wasn’t… I was talking about This song, M- Pop Music. Here try this… La La La La La La La La La, La La La La La La La… as a 9 year old I always sang it as Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, it was funny.
Don't know any kid who didn't love this tune immediately upon hearing it on the radio in '79 or seeing that video on the earliest days of MTV in like, 1981.
VIDEOS KILLED THE RADIO STAR THE BUGGLES 1979 ROCK LOBSTER B52S 1979 LOTS AND LOTS OF 79 GREATNESS
I was 9 years old, and my parents just bought me a "Walkman". I remember listening to this song, in the bus home from school.
This was HUGE here in the UK 🇬🇧 back then. A great song to dance 💃 to. ❤
In the US it was huge also.. At the place we went to party it was played on the bar jukebox way too much by the girl crowd and the guys were sick of it after a month or more and asked the bar owner to take it out of the machine ..lol. The 45 single had to have been carved out after that many plays ..
We loved it here in the states as well. I’m surprised M never had any more hits here after this one. I always liked “Moonlight And Muzak” as well.
This was huge in the US as well! Great beat!
When I think of this song, I always think of Cars by Gary Neuman for some reason. I don't know of they were the same year, but they go together in my brain.
I'm pretty sure they were because they were both on an album I had called "Rock 80" but I think all the songs were from '78-80.
@@kelqueen9998 I think so too...great years for music!
also Are Friends Electric by Numan.
"Der Kommissar" by Falco is another 80's oiginal sound and "mexican radio" by wall of voodoo, and The Vapors - "Turning Japanese", and Soft Cell - "Tainted Love", and Kajagoogoo - "Too Shy", and Animotion - "Obsession", and Thomas Dolby - "She Blinded Me With Science" to name a few of the iconic 80's one hit wonders
In the late 90s, U2 opened their concert on their Pop Mart world tour with a cover of this song. It was great!
That was actually the only context I’ve ever heard the song in. And I’m 46!
I was there 🙌
So happen to have a vhs copy of that concert and was fortunate to see that concert in Vancouver
@@kenbongaards554 one of the most craziest concerts I've ever been to. I went to Wembley Stadium, and I swear, I was shifted from one side of the stadium and back to the other side over the course of the show without my feet even touching the ground.
@@Problembeing i have fond memories of that concert for sure when i saw them in Vancouver
So glad I was hitting the night clubs when music like this was big. Need to give "Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing" a listen
An absolute classic!
That song is absolute banger
For many of us this song and Gary Numan's "Cars" were the first "synth" songs we'd ever heard -- pretty sure it was 1979 for both. Earlier stuff I didn't hear until later were songs by Kraftwerk ("The Robots" and "Trans Europe Express") -- the pioneers of electronic music -- but also Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" which came out in '77. Of course the 70s synth stuff doesn't really sound "80s" -- but I tend to like it more.
Pop Muzik is from 1979 Cars is from 1980.
@@rickycole6327 Actually, Cars came out in 1979.
Soft Cell Tainted Love was the first I remember.
I had a couple of Kraftwerk's cd's back in high school.
@@screwyootube1 I think Ricky is right in that Cars was released/charted in the US in 1980 - but ‘79 in the UK
The earliest days of MTV...
This song has the 80s sound, but it is actually from 1979, which is when it was released and reached it peak on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
NOOO LATE 70s sound the 70s made the early 80s
Well, as a 54 yr old woman I can tell you this was a huge hit back then! Brings me wayyyyy back! 😅 Thanks for reacting to this song! 😊 And as a request, please React more to some Dr. Hook!! 🙏 They're my favorites. 💜
I'm the same age you are. It's funny to think of how this song came out when we were 10 years old and we were bopping to it! Didn't the song Born To Be Alive come out around the same time? And yes to more Dr. Hook!
I just turned 57 feels weird to be this old doesn't it
I just turned 56. I miss the older music
58 here, and I don't care, I still listen to all this great stuff, as most of today's music leaves me cold. 60's, , 70's and 80's is my go to. Lots of radio , apps,etc. have music that suits me. Rap / hip hop etc just has no appeal for me, and I've tried, for my nephew's sake.
@@wendyjenae it is! I loved music since I was a toddler, and being raised with 5 older siblings, 70s music was a huge part of my listenings. Imo, 70s & 80s music was the best of all time!! 🥰
This Song was a Sensation back in the day, different from everything else on the radio. Glad you found this one !! it made me Smile. !
Same time as "Cars" by Gary Neumann
Wow, haven't heard this one in YEARS! When it came out, pretty much everyone was influenced to move to it. Nice to know it still has that impact, all these years later.
You guy have to remember in April 1979 when this came out the charts had been full of Disco & Punk Rock so this new sound blew our minds. The following month "Are friends Electric" hit the charts and shot to Number 1, Tubeway army were fronted by Gary Numan and this was the start of the deeper full on synth music in the UK. However the German group Kraftwerk are widely credited as being the innovators and pioneers of synth music and they would finally get a UK number 1 hit record in 1982 with "The Model".
The Model is great.
Whilst what you say is quite true, if you listen to Kraftwerks stuff like Autobahn, Trans Europe Express and Tour de France. You'll hear music that was literally EVERYWHERE in the 70's and early 80's!
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars Yes but you also have to remember that Autobahn was first recorded in 1972 & The Model in 78, all before Pop Muzik.
Yes, I was there. I was riding in the car with friends in 1979 and this came on the radio and we were like What? Damn this is awesome! True story.
The 1980's were FUN. A booming economy, low crime, lots of good entry level and mid level jobs. The pop music reflected the times. It was a great time to go clubbin' in the cities where you found tons of young people who were riding this wave. No cynicism, no dystopian culture, no woke, no cancel, no polarism. Just fun times.
You don't even no what woke means and the 80's weren't great for everyone. Take off your rose coloured glasses. It's embarrassing.
I take it you’re not from the north of England
@@charmaine1884 No I am not. That is why I have plenty of room for groups such as The Clash. When it comes to art and music I believe we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
I always thought of it as Europop---so many of the songs in the genre came through European groups. Back in 1979 we didn't classify it as "synth pop" ; it all seemed as if electronic-oriented groups like M and Kraftwerk were stepping in with their own take on disco/new wave---it was made for dancing, and very catchy. Giorgio Moroder, as a German-Italian, contributed a lot to a European interpretation of electronic disco.
I was 11 when this came out. My mom just looked at me, with her mouth open, when I played this on the record player. Love the way that Amber just immediately drops into enjoying this.
“Record player”” says it all
Love Amber dancing on this video 👍
This is high school. What a time to be a kid!!! There was such a variety of music to "choose" from. Imagine music tastes going from classic Led Zeppelin and Hippie Music to Bubble Gum, to Nu Wave to the beginnings of Rap with Country sprinkles going on the whole time. A lot like myself, just went ECLECTIC!!! I LIKED EVERYTHING!!! Peace, guys...😊😊😊
We had the best music to grow up with
I was an elementary school kid in a bowling league when this was popular. To this day, I can’t hear this song without hearing bowling pins being crashed into in the background- that’s how strong the connection is
That's the neat thing about music. Certain songs can give you that nostalgic feeling when you get older. For example, if I hear "Woman" by Legs Diamond, it reminds me of when I lived in San Antonio and Cibolo.
Now that's a unique childhood memory!!
Really? It's a roller skating rink for me.
Robin Scott has a career that goes over six decades, this is probably his most famous song, it was even covered by U2! The backing singer is his wife Brigit Novak (in the blue dress), the dancers in the video didn't actually sing. Bernice Scott is Robins and Brigit's daughter and is a singer who has performed with Simples Minds amongst others. The thing you have to remember about this song is it was released at a time in the UK that when you look back could have seemed quite grim, there was no internet/Social Media/Cell Phones, in the UK we had three TV channels of which one spent most of the day off the air. Kids generally met up in Youth Clubs and the highlight would be the Youth Club Discos, On a Thursday night would be the Top of the Pops music show on BBC1, and every Sunday we would listen to the Top 40 Music chart on AM radio! Trying to record our favourite songs with a tape recorder and a C90 tape trying to make sure we didn't record the DJ!
In 1977, the synth pop sound showed in Donna Summers, "I Feel Love" truly a classic, the driving baseline was the standard for the sound. Kraftwerk was around then too.
Been asking for "I Feel Love".
other songs in the mid 70s also
Talking about M, there was a fabulous group from the 90s called M-People. "Moving On Up" 1993. "Search For The Hero" 1994. 2 of their biggest hits for you to start with. ❤🎶🎼🇬🇧
Heather small fantastic voice 🎤
@@shaunsmith2914moving on up is fantastic 😊
I love m people
talk about pop music..Spring Session M, the 1982 album by Missing Pesons is another stunning 🎉 work of art y’all should check out-some of those hits where seminal MTV and new wave hits. They’ve got some excellent live KZhead videos (former players with Frank Zappa).
This song was so insanely popular because it was so different. We'd heard nothing like it before. even us metalheads were into it. Many tried to imitate it afterwards but none even came close.
The 80s was a time of musical tech innovation. I've over 45 years as a session musician working in studios and the invention of MIDI (musical instrument digital interphase) and digital synths such as the Yamaha DX7 really changed everything., Being able to connect a limitless amount of keyboards, drum machines and samplers together with a sequencer or a bit later a computer was an absolute blast. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
For another piece of addictive synthpop you should try "Einstein a Go-Go" by Landscape and "The Model" by Kraftwerk, who are widely considered the fathers of synthpop and also Techno and Trance
I just recommended Einstein a Go Go in my comment too !
I would recommend Monsoon with Ever So Lonely.
Great catchy song. The bass player featured on this song is the great Mark King of Level 42! They has released their debut album that same year.
Love Level 42!
@@coolcpa3321 Level 42 would be a good '80s group for them to hit soon.
Unlike most other synth-pop songs, this one hit #1 and stayed there forever. It reached #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 on November 3, 1979, and continued to sell well into 1980, finishing in the top40 songs of that following year (1980). If one looks back at the singles from 1980, there was nothing like this one. It was completely against popular norm. 1980, the "Call Me" year, is one of the best years of singles in modern music
I loved it when I first heard it and played the 45 over and over until my mother told me she was banning the song in the house, but yeah Robin Scott is very instrumental in opening the door for New Wave
Now, get your kids dancing to... Pop Muzik. Thanks for the smile.
I remember hearing this song for the first time. Coming from the disco age, it was quirky and rather refreshing, and I fell in love with it. Bought the 45 (how many kids know what that means these days) and played it over and over.
I remember it was a yellow label.
Yes! I heard this on the radio when I was in 8th grade, and it was so completely different than those disco songs that had been so dominant in the four years prior. I also had the 45. When my big brother and sister didn’t love it like I did, well, that was the first hint that our music tastes had diverged. They never liked synth-pop or New Wave, whereas that was my jam!
Same here! Played it on my faux denim portable record player :-D
Me too-- MY JAM, and nobody in my family got it! But I did not care.
My older brother sent this clip to me, because I replayed the 45 relentlessly.
We really bopped to this... I had just moved from Anchorage, Alaska to Oakland, California... Culture shock...
This song came out in the 70’s . I got the 45 record when I was 11. Yes I still know every word💯🤣⭐️
Totally hear ya - led the way for 80s music!
@@davidbenkert1062 ⭐️☑️
Takes me back to my teenage years. Please, The Force M.D'S!! Their songs "Tender Love" and "Love is a house" were big hits in the 80's😢
U2 used to come out of the back of a venue thru the crowd with this blasting as they made their way onstage 💥
That was the intro music as U2 took to the stage on their Pop Mart tour. 👍
YES during their PopMart Tour. Pop Muzik right into opening song “MOFO “🎸 🔥
Yes, that’s the tour I saw them on. Still have my shopping cart T-shirt 😄
Pure Brilliance. There will never be another decade in music like the 80s.
...though this is from the 1970s! It came out in 1979.
Thanks a lot guys! I haven’t heard this song for many years. And now thanks to you I haven’t been able to get this ear worm out of my head. It was one of the first big MTV hits for a reason.😂
We used to sing this during school choir practice to annoy our teacher. 😄 Try "Love Plus One" by Haircut 100.
Ah man, "Love Plus One" one of my all-time favs!
@@mkmstillstackin Mine, too. 🙂 I watched the video about two weeks ago, along with a few other favorites from the 80s.
@@LMmccallL57 very cool. Always a treat listening to good 80s classics
@@mkmstillstackin I agree. 👍🏽
Robsquad, try 'Mental Hopscotch' by Missing Persons. Have you tried 'Cars' by Gary Numan? How about '19' by Paul Hardcastle? How about 'A E I O U' by Ebn Ozn?
This came out in 1979. I was about 5 or 6 when my uncle played this song for me a year or two later on his old record player at my grandparents house. I loved it so much, he gave me the record to play on my record player at home. He died about 10 years ago, but I’ll cherish this song and dedicate this song to him, forever
I watched this again this morning, and noticed something I didnt last time. If you watch Ambers face you get one of the best natural reactions ever. When the song comes on you can tell she has no idea what shes hearing. Then the lyrics start and slowly a smile starts to appear, then you can almost catch an exact moment when the song gets in her soul and she just starts dancing! One of the catchiest songs ever, you cant help but sing along and bob your head!!
This is one of the songs that anticipated the 80s a little early- M was essentially the brain-child of producer Robin Scott who tried his hand at the synthesized textures and anything-goes spirit that the new wave era offered (similar to what producer Trevor Horn did with The Buggles). Plastic pop music (sorry, "muzik") was never so joyous as the "New York-London-Paris-Munich" album, where this came from ("Cowboys And Indians" is another great song from this album). I remember seeing this video in 1979 (I was 7) on a local Chicago TV show that played really early music videos, and being transfixed by it.
Great memories and insight ❤
This song, even when first released, became an earworm! Don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing
My thoughts exactly! I was a total hippy rocker in the seventies, but this song got in my head! LOL
Its why we called it The New Wave...
This is one of those few songs that come along and completely changed things. I heard this in junior high and it was instantly my favorite and opened me up to an entirely new genre - truly a new wave pioneering track.
This came out at the tail end of disco. It was absolutely a fresh new sound and made people excited about where the 80s would take us. It went to #1 here in Canada and lots of other places.
M wasn't really a group it was a project headed by one person Robin Scott. He wrote, produced, and performed his own songs with people helping him. For example the woman singing backup in that song was his wife. The guy playing the bass was his brother.
Ah yes. I remember it well. In the charts the same year we had "Can you feel the force" by The Real Thing. "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. "Hit me with your Rhythm Stick" by Ian Drury. "Cool for Cats" by Squeeze. "Olivers Army" by Elvis Costello. Not forgetting Queen who were in they heyday. So much good music in the 1970s
Smile ✓ Dance✓ Sing along remembering the words even now😊✓ Feel good all over ✓ This has it all ❤
This was always being played in our aerobics class! This is quintessential 80’s! 😁 Life was so much simpler and fun back then. I’m so happy I was a teenager in the 80’s ❤This was the first decade where you were free to be totally weird and man did we get weird! 😆
Badass song!! I miss the 80s, I really do. I’m 53 in my husband’s 56 and we were talking about it the other day how much we miss the 80s and we would love a time machine just to go back even for a day.
This piece of crapola was in 1979. But you can have it. Right up there with Disco Duck.
I was in high school and this song was AWESOME and fun to dance to. It seemed like the period roughly 1979-1982, the early New Wave years, were full of fun and exploratory music. As New Wave became more mainstream it began to mature. As a young person, it was those early New Wave years when it was the most exciting.
Couldn't agree more, new wave, dark wave, post-punk, synth, new-romantics. Everybody was trying new sounds with the brand new "toys" and all of it was regularly played in commercial radio.
Me too!
To me all of the 80's music was about having fun, even rap music. In the 90's, alot of music, especially rap, turned more dark.
The 70s created almost all 80s music .
Same!
I remember this track when it was new- and it was very different from what else was about! "New York, London, Paris , Munich......" has to be folowed by "Everyone talkabout Pop Muzik!"
Banger..best ever 80s
📜Y'all are ticking down my list! Thanks! X -Heart and Soul - T'Pau X -One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head X -Our House - Madness X -The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats In a Big Country -Big Country Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox Wild Wild West - The Escape Club X-Pop Muzik - M Under The Milky Way - The Church Tainted Love - Soft Cell She's So High - Tal Bachman Wouldn’t it Be Good - Nik Kershaw Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo 99 Red Balloons 99 Luftballons -Nena
Great list of songs
Great list, can I add " Unguarded Moment " by The Church " as well ? Mexican radio fo sure !!
Yes, Mexican Radio!
this is a great list. I add Der Komissar by Falco and Amedeous by Falco ~ the first synth-pop-rap in German
love your list. In the same vein... Tarzan Boy Somebody's Watching Me West End Girls and also, while not goofy like these, I never miss a chance to promote "Life in a Northern Town"
A song that was way ahead of its time and was basically the 70s sound turning into the 80s sound was Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”. Well worth a listen.
I was a child when I heard this song for the first time. Everyone loved this song for what is was, a super fun song in the disco music era. You heard it everywhere.
💃 🕺 Pop 🕺 💃 Pop 🕺 💃 Pop Musik. Great track and great reaction. It was a huge hit at the time.
The fact that Devo and Rock Lobster were just on the tip of your tongue is just so awesome. Loved this vid from y'all. It reminds me of your One Night in Bangkok and then Vangelis's Friends of Mr Cairo 😂
Herbie Hancock's "Rock it" changed the game
Thank you. Had this in my head but couldn't remember who did it!
A great video, too!
Like everyone else, this song was such fun to sing to and dance to on the disco floor even in Melbourne, Australia. I haven't heard it for ages, so it was great to hear it and see you guys bopping to it too 😂😊
The guy behind M was Robin Scott and they had a couple of quirky minor hits but this one was huge in 1979 and a number 2 hit in the UK.. Unbelievably catchy and almost a parody of the electronic music that was starting to become popular. An 80s hit before the 80s had started ..Infact 1978 and 1979 in the UK was the start of 80s music. There were so many quirky tracks like the M track back then.. Seek out the band Quantum Jump and the track The Lone Ranger and After The Fire with the song One Rule For You...Examples of the 80s in the late 70s. British music then was just so inventive. There are so many great tracks you've yet to discover from that era but loved your reaction to M because it kind of blew your minds. 😂❤👍
Having been conditioned to every genre of music being legendary in the 1970s, I embraced it for its quirkiness & futuristic vibes.
I loved this when it came out and still do! We loved dancing to it. Another British song from about this time was Cockney Rebel who had a huge hit with “come up and see me and make me smile….”
Indeed, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's "(Make me Smile) Come up and see me" is a great track! However, it appeared in 1975 almost four years before "Pop Muzik" was a hit.
I was born in 77 but remember hearing this as a kid, to this day I find my self bouncing in my seat to it..and I'm 26 by now...lol
Anyone else notice that the lyrics are basically rap style?? in 1979 I was playing bass in a cover band doing Genesis, Pink Floyd, prog stuff. We heard this and just went WFT. Fun little synth tune for sure. Thanks Jay and Amber. Love you two!! Peace and happiness to all my family here.
Jay, Amber, if you like 80s synthpop then PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do Fascination by The Human League! It was a hit and it was a real earworm! Great bass riffs included! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
A classic of its time. Closer to spoken word or rap than singing (other than the backing singers). Cool to hear it for the first time in forever.
From the good old days of MTV! And yes, 80s synthpop is the best! 🖤
This was one of my favorite songs growing up! I’m a child of the 80s so of course everybody song is awesome but this one I love so much
I've said it before and am going to say it again, you can not have a synth pop playlist without Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?, Ultravox - Vienna, Visage - Fade to grey, OMD - Enola Gay & Maid of Orleans, Blancmange - living on the ceiling, Bronski Beat - Smalltown boy & Why and Kraftwerk - The Model. Having lived though the synth/new wave era these were the game changers along with Eurythimcs - Sweet dreams which you have already reacted to 🙂.
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I think the man behind M was more of a music producer than a band, so I can't think of any other tunes but this hit was HUGE! RSR has already featured most of the synth pop I could think of, but there are still a few in the same range: Dead and Alive, "You Spin Me Round" or my ultimate Synth Pop hit, weirdly, Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." Female Friday Electronic Jam!!!
OMG you listened! WOOOHOOOOO!!!
When I was in the navy in Hawaii, a favorite hangout for us was a small hotel bar called Ferdinand's. They had a juke box in the bar that had all kinds of music, I guess, to try and please the variety of people who might visit a hotel in Waikiki. At any rate, Pop Muzik was a selection on that juke box and any of us who put money in for songs usually played it because there wasn't a lot of music on it that we actually cared for. I'm sure the bar staff must have gotten sick of the song, considering how much we played it. I have fond memories of sitting around, drinking and talking about everything under the sun with my friends and crew mates while that song played in the background. Thanks for bringing back some fond memories.
This song was a huge hit.
Yes Worldwide. I remember ☺
I remembered and sang the whole thing but was cracking up watching yall! 😂😂
A lot of the early synth pop like this wasn’t always played on regular mainstream radio stations 1st, & the records weren’t always available in every record store either. They were played on indie or college radio stations that were already playing some experimental music. My older brother is a musician who also worked in an indie record store, back then was into lots of the early synth music/musicians - Switched on Bach, Fripp & Eno, early Kraftwerk, so my ear was already in tuned to listening to what was then some unusual sounding music. He was able gift me some amazing music of bands that never really hit big but were very vool (Nervus Rex, The Flirts, Josie Cotton) Then when this kind of music broke into the mainstream w/MTV videos it was like an explosion of sounds, colors, fashions, design & decor that was ushered into very futuristic themes that went into everything from mall design to hairstyles, amazing time to be a teenager
I never really thought the song was "silly" back then, it was just REALLY REALLY cool! (But watching the video now, I can see why you might think that.) This song hit #1 on the charts in the US and lots of countries. The only other song by M that I know is "Moonlight and Muzak" which was on the B side of the 45 - nice, but kinda weird. Try also "Being Boiled" by The Human League and "Fade to Grey" by Visage for other great synthpop tunes.
Should have also included "Looking from a Hilltop" by Section 25.
@@jgreen6772Fade to Grey is without any doubt one song that best describes the beginning of the 80's.
That was such a huge hit . those were the days
A great 70's song that you can't figure out the lyrics but will have you singing the chorus is Manfred Mann's "Blinded by the light" it gives off Pink Floyd journey in your head vibes.
I still prefer Springsteens original...
@@john-daviddennison2862 I don't know about that. Manfred Mann took it to No.1.
@frankbustamante6833 sure they did... they made it very catchy and popular,... it's a personal preference of style I guess... after hearing both versions play pretty much since they debuted .... I will still get right into Bruce's version, but at same time if MM.'s version comes on I'm usually hitting skip...
I was a teenage when this song came out and I still remember all the words! As soon as it came on, everyone would get up to dance and we'd all be singing along, bopping away.
techno pop reminds of being a kid at high school , at the time it was way ahead of its time....and seemed amazing. still fills any dance floor even just for a laugh.😄
That is the definition of a one hit wonder
More synth pop like Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short, Ultravox, Vienna, would be great! ❤
Brings me such joy. Reminds me of roller skating at the rink.
I was waiting to see if it would grow on Jay because his face said it all, lol! Get your quirk on. Yep! It is just one of those songs. I was 9 when this came out but I don't remember it really being a thing until MTV launched in '81 and then everyone saw the video.