My mom used to wake me up Saturday morning's to Rough Trade! She'd be cleaning the house and dancin at the same time. I remember this being a one of the songs that would often wake me from my slumbers!!! .........I LOVE IT!!!!
I grew up in the eighties in Toronto, Canada and never realized that most of the best 80's music is Canadian. Now I know why it was so good, if I lived in the states wouldn't have heard half this stuff........GREATNESS.
I used to see Carol playing in the backdoor room at a pub here in toronto, was it the Colonial? She and kevin staples were the most rocking outrageous act immaginable. These people really blew away the boundaries at the time, Rough Trade, indeed
@Nitro1970-Yes, sad but true. HSC is actually tied with All Touch as being Rough Trade's biggest hit in Canada (both peaking at #12). But that "cream my jeans" line put the kibosh on any success for HSC here in the US.
Rough Trade was just too "out there" for American audiences. This was their only pop chart appearance in the US (#58 January 22, 1983 Billboard Hot 100). They were way more successful in their native Canada.
I remember just how titillated we were knowing that this crooner was a lesbian...gave songs like High School Confidential and All Touch a whole new meaning...deep in the bowels of clubs, darkened rooms packed with humanity on a dance floor, throbbing bass, deafening music, thick with smoke and reeking of whisky, ganja, poppers and semen...promises of eternal love whilst groping and thrusting in hallways.....oh sweet Jesus was it 25 bloody years ago???
remember mid eighties Midday several prominent songwriters protesting the going rate of dividends in Canada. They deserved more then, and so do today.
Rough Trade was a Canadian new wave rock band in the 1970s and 1980s, centred on singer Carole Pope and multi-instrumentalist Kevan Staples. The band was noted for their provocative lyrics and stage antics; singer Pope often performed in bondage attire, and their 1981 hit "High School Confidential" was one of the first explicitly lesbian-themed Top 40 hits in the world.
Proof that "pop" was better when looking like a model wasn't a prerequisite for getting signed. Can you imagine someone looking like Carole Pope, or Kevin Staples, or even Geddy Lee getting a record deal now? It would never happen.
This song makes me wish I was around in the 80's. Popular music now a days is such a horrible thing. Once upon a time, there was talent in the world, I guess.
@Ghastlyteaparty I was raised on eighties music...born in 75...there will never be a time like the 80's again...best time of my life and I was just a kid.
Last Saturday night on "Rage" - I also saw the repeat of the old Countdown Episode from October 1982 (Australian Music Show 1974-1987, kinda like Solid Gold but without the cheesy dancers). The lead singer of this group hosted, she seemed a little out of it.
@typoded lol, me too, but after learning it was a woman, I could tell it was a woman singing.:) She does have a great voice, though. Love Rough Trade!
@denisethepainter I didn't realize this person was a woman until you pointed this fact out to me. In today's day and age some men look like women and some women look like men. Justin Beiber looks like a girl, and Carole Pope looks like a man to me.
All Touch was a minor hit in Australia in 1982-83 and then it and Rough Trade were more or less never heard of again in this country. But I loved the song at the time & bought the record, which I still have. Thanks for posting the clip: it brings back happy memories.
I saw this on Rage the other night, they were showing old Countdown episodes from 1982 and the lead singer hosted the show then sang this song at the end, i had never heard it before but now i love it, great song.
I used to see this album in cutout bins all over Houston in the mid-80s. Had I been familiar with the song at the time, I'd have taken a copy home. The CD's on the wishlist...
No, they shouldn't. But most Canadians that hit it big feel they have to aboandon their roots & move south. Ask Pam Anderson, Jay Leno, Dan Akroid, Michael J. Fox and so on. At least the Trailer Park Boys are still here!
I disagree. They move to the States because they have bigger opportunities there. Do you think the Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, and the rest would be as rich, as popular, and as big had they stayed here? Not a chance. There are very limited options in Canada. Our film industry is very small. There is nothing wrong with being ambitious and moving to the States. I respect that more than I do some people that stay here and act like a big fish in a small pond. I don't consider it "abandoning"
I don't know, I do see your point, but I'm tired of watching TV shows filmed here, but the American production co. is affraid to say its Toronto or B.C.. I just think if we keep the stars here, they'll have to accept Canada as part of the Entertainment Industry.
It's not that they are afraid to say it's Toronto; a show is written to take place in a certain city, once production starts, it could be filmed anywhere. Usually in the city that has the best tax incentives.
How do you propose we "keep the stars here"? The Canadian Film Industry has a Jan Brady Complex, "Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!" You should be be more upset that we produce home grown shows that copy American shows, Canadian Idol? So you think you can Dance, Canada? "Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!"
I understand when the show/movie is supposed to be Chicago. I mean, to use a goofy example, the first Police Academy Movie. Clearly it's Toronto, you see the CN Tower in the background. The License plates all have The Crown in the center, but "Ontario" has been blotted out, and there are U.S. flags everywhere. They are affraid to set a show in Canada because a US audience won't relate to it. Anything Canadian has to conform, or they won't do it. Look at "Bon Cop, Bad Cop".
Why was it not released in the US? Americans could relate given the Spanish/English culture in the States. And I do get upset over "Canadian Idol". We're never going to have a respectable reputation in the industry if we keep letting "Marsha" set our standards.
I agree with you, however, American Idol is a copy of a UK show called Pop Idol. SYTYCD's creators and producers are Brits. Plenty of US sit-coms are taken from/based on UK ones. For example: All In The Family, Three's Company, Who's The Boss, The Office, Sanford and Son, etc.
One of my favorite songs of all time. That band had style up their a**!
They were far too sophisticated, musical, and ahead of their time to hit it big in the US, but the select few afficianados knew them.
A friend of mine was in a band that had a minor Canadian Hit in the late 70's. An American A&R man checked them out and said they would have to dumb down their music for the US market. That explain why Rough trade wasn't bigger in the US?
They had everything that should have made them MTV Gods. 80's new wave sound, wild looks, & style. Alot of great Canadian music just never caught on down south. This is one of my favourites too.
It may interest you to know, if you are'nt already aware, that this groupe makes an apearance in a movie tittled One Night Stand. I hapend to rent it once on video.
I too had initialy thought that this singer was a man because she's so masculine looking and sounding. I took her for one of those male gender bender singers like David Bowie, Tim Curry, Boy George ect. Was'nt till I'd heard the name Carole that I realized it was a woman. Good singer though. Great voice and lots of dramma in her delivery too.
Thats a little mini moog that guys playing in the middle there. Pretty cool. Those things were neat and I dont think they'r ever used in music anymore.
The sound is probably a moog. It's a bit of a dry humor joke... the instrument he's miming with is actually a Casio toy that sounded very tinny, not the blazing multi-oscillator analog sound we hear in the solo. The German group Trio actually used the little Casio for it's corny thin chirps.
i think what ms. pope was saying to me in this song is that she was offended by my lack of participatory involvement in popular paid-music in the 80s..:(
She sighs. "But, you know, I think the younger audience today would get what we were trying to do. They're very big on irony these days."
In fact, some of the kids of today have turned on to Pope, thanks in part to her music appearing on television soundtracks from The L Word to The Trailer Park Boys. She even recorded a new version of her anthem of horniness, "High School Confidential," for Queer as Folk.
sorry i speak english french german so knowing 3 tongues makes me stupid? please don't be offended if i say do go to school in america and learn only one language.
From what I recall, I don't they really made it outside of Canada possibly because of what was considered a controversial song (High School Confidential).
Canada was a little more accepting of gays than the Americans were in the 80's. Even today gay rights are still not possible in the US.
But their songs have grown more popular in the states since the 80's due to commercial radio.
I find it interesting that Dusty Springfield had a relationship with her.
Hummmmmmmm didn't know anything about that until I was reading
about Dustys life, career on Wikipedia.......we don't realy know
anyones inner-most feelings & desires.
desert3347 2 weeks ago
This song is about camping in close quarters.."I pushed...her tent space...away from me...
zortation 1 month ago
..."The Anti-DIVA!!!",Pope Was Bad Way B4 GaGa or Spears!
wabankik 1 month ago
Rough Trade still plays gigs these days. Check them out. \m/ \m/
247Therocker 1 month ago
She is mystical and mysterious to me..damn I miss the 80's
SuperSteelydanfan 1 month ago
My mom used to wake me up Saturday morning's to Rough Trade! She'd be cleaning the house and dancin at the same time. I remember this being a one of the songs that would often wake me from my slumbers!!! .........I LOVE IT!!!!
roadapples72 2 months ago
I remember when I was like 12, this was popular...love it!!!
judybatstn 3 months ago
love love love...
imajeepster 3 months ago
Carol was a real singer, unlike the singers now who can only sing with a computer. Fuck all those idiots, this is real music.
aegisgfx 4 months ago
Real good stuff!
AngelChester914 4 months ago
.....hit me like a bitch slap.....
MrWestdene1972 4 months ago
attitude music!!!!! ;)
whitiedave 5 months ago
Girl can that boy sing haha
6h967 5 months ago
i got this album for a buck today. great intriguing song writing. I can totally hear Grace Jones singing this
JANXDPDX 5 months ago
i think she was the third to die in blade
MrChiffy 6 months ago
hit me like a bitch slap ...lol...my sis had this album
MrWestdene1972 6 months ago
What a hammer of a jam this is.
vixapphire 6 months ago
Carol you timeless icon !
NicaZan 6 months ago
I'd love to see what Carole Pope would do to someone like Taylor Momsen or any of those other "product" singers Lady Gaga or Katy Perry
baudalair1 6 months ago
@baudalair1 SO, SO TRUE!! Carol would smash them to pieces, and hopefully Bieber as well!!
80sOldSkool 4 months ago
"Bubbs, she's just trying to hustle me for lap dances and drinks"
"Julian she's on FIRE!"
Christianfaith1 6 months ago
Great lead-off single from perhaps their best album ever! Either this one or "Avoid Freud"--I can't choose!
kentgraovac 7 months ago
Great song...love it. Is she a Lez?
jamesbondaygee 7 months ago
I grew up in the eighties in Toronto, Canada and never realized that most of the best 80's music is Canadian. Now I know why it was so good, if I lived in the states wouldn't have heard half this stuff........GREATNESS.
mtsafaroff 7 months ago 3
@mtsafaroff The very first song of the 80's was Canadian: Spirit of Radio by Rush
TOSportsFan1990 3 months ago
8 peeps have no clue
MysticKnight38 7 months ago
I love how she sings this!! Now if someone can add The Sacred and the Profane on here.
amberfwn 8 months ago
looks like fred mercury lol
Ritzy87 8 months ago
Good old song, but DAMN she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch!!
Mofokker 8 months ago
I used to see Carol playing in the backdoor room at a pub here in toronto, was it the Colonial? She and kevin staples were the most rocking outrageous act immaginable. These people really blew away the boundaries at the time, Rough Trade, indeed
fubar50cat 8 months ago
Love this chorus!! She was vogue!
jamesbondaygee 8 months ago
Carol pope was a guy.......sex change .......early eighties....god how I miss em. If yo u like this try Goddo
scousedonnacooke 8 months ago
@scousedonnacooke WTF are you talking about? SHE has always been a WOMAN!
Oxmustube 8 months ago
she kinda looks like robert smith with that make up, lipstick and hair >_>
boonswuigle 9 months ago
@boonswuigle i totally agree
Ritzy87 8 months ago
is this a man or a woman
TimeWarp80sMuzik 9 months ago
I can't get this song out of my head AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!
vinny20000 9 months ago
AMAZING, all touch 'n all touch and no-oh con-tact!!!!
dannoj98 9 months ago
"God this place makes me frisky"
iFedericoFellini 10 months ago
Thank god my parents listened to this when i was a kid , so now i actually know what true music sounds like
kyle842842 10 months ago 6
@kyle842842
I like this song, but it was still pop music and not "real music".
user98xp 4 weeks ago
@user98xp What is real music?
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That's hard to answer. I've been thinking about it for a while, but all I can come up with is "not cheesy pop".
user98xp 3 weeks ago
@user98xp This is real music don't worry.
newromantic888 1 day ago
waaay before her time.
ooponsecondthought 10 months ago
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Is the singer male or female?
Nandun5 10 months ago
This is the song I awoke to on my very first day of high school in 1986.
jedijs 11 months ago
Carole Pope can kiss me all night lshe is sooo sexy
6h967 11 months ago
nice
amcanmike 11 months ago
@Nitro1970-Yes, sad but true. HSC is actually tied with All Touch as being Rough Trade's biggest hit in Canada (both peaking at #12). But that "cream my jeans" line put the kibosh on any success for HSC here in the US.
hoffenpot 11 months ago
Rough Trade was just too "out there" for American audiences. This was their only pop chart appearance in the US (#58 January 22, 1983 Billboard Hot 100). They were way more successful in their native Canada.
hoffenpot 1 year ago
@hoffenpot - Really? High School Confidential never charted in the US?? Wow, That was more popular than this one I think (In Canada at least)
Nitro1970 11 months ago
Oh yes...sweet,sweet, sweet Carole Pope...
I remember just how titillated we were knowing that this crooner was a lesbian...gave songs like High School Confidential and All Touch a whole new meaning...deep in the bowels of clubs, darkened rooms packed with humanity on a dance floor, throbbing bass, deafening music, thick with smoke and reeking of whisky, ganja, poppers and semen...promises of eternal love whilst groping and thrusting in hallways.....oh sweet Jesus was it 25 bloody years ago???
mysweeteventhorizon 1 year ago 5
Someone please upload "What's The Furor about The Fuhrer?"!!
7beers 1 year ago
"Jullian! She's looking over here! SHE'S ON FIRE!"
defleppardfan69 1 year ago
remember mid eighties Midday several prominent songwriters protesting the going rate of dividends in Canada. They deserved more then, and so do today.
bossmarion 1 year ago
Do ya'll know that THIS woman has a role in the recent vampire flick titled Suck?
Skulldini 1 year ago
Wow. That was good for a laugh
cgraham1976 1 year ago
Stop @ 2:41. My god, a face only a mother could love.
RayD8or1 1 year ago
oooooooooooooooo i cant believe i had forgotten about this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Laras420 1 year ago
Rough Trade was a Canadian new wave rock band in the 1970s and 1980s, centred on singer Carole Pope and multi-instrumentalist Kevan Staples. The band was noted for their provocative lyrics and stage antics; singer Pope often performed in bondage attire, and their 1981 hit "High School Confidential" was one of the first explicitly lesbian-themed Top 40 hits in the world.
futuristfood 1 year ago
This was a big here in Australia, this and High School Confidetial
bjmob66 1 year ago 2
Great classic, thanks for having it :)
sithlord1271 1 year ago
great song - timeless.
ggbarber 1 year ago 2
Rockin
tridenthardnlife 1 year ago
ahh, neon geometric shapes at the back of stark dark sets....MUST BE NEW WAVE. MUST BE ROUGH TRADE. TAKE HEED KIDS...MADAME POPE IS IN THE ROOM.
Treebot1 1 year ago 2
"Challenging eyes over the rim of a cocktail glass, hoping I'd react"
my favourite part!
PirateMrTyler 1 year ago
quality canadian new wave ... killer!
Blassmasta 1 year ago
Wow! Thx for this. I had the cassette ( Yes, I said cassette) and misplaced it a couple of decades ago. Love it!
UltraDuskyJewel 1 year ago
@UltraDuskyJewel nice!
sicilianotoronto 1 year ago
Lady Gaga and all these dumb modern female pop singers owe everything they have to Carole Pope. She was a pioneer for sure.
TOSportsFan1990 1 year ago
THAT SONG MAKES ME FEEL ALIVE! I LOVE THAT WOMAN! THE SONG IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. GOD BLESS THEM!
JosephDuque 1 year ago
THAT SONG MAKES ME FEEL ALIVE! LOVE THAT WOMAN! THAT SONG! EVERYTHING!
JosephDuque 1 year ago
Was she ever a member of the Marxist Leninist Party?
nydwarf 1 year ago
Proof that "pop" was better when looking like a model wasn't a prerequisite for getting signed. Can you imagine someone looking like Carole Pope, or Kevin Staples, or even Geddy Lee getting a record deal now? It would never happen.
orchidtender 1 year ago
LOL, "I pushed his hand away from me" No shit Carol
MikeDiamond69 1 year ago 2
@MikeDiamond69 No shit indeed! What guy would be fool enough to grab the titty of an obvious butch lesbian in the first place?!
Skulldini 1 year ago
when I first heard this, I thought she said "I pushed her ten spades away from me."
skyferret1 1 year ago 2
@skyferret1 lol
alanisized 1 year ago
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@skyferret1 lmao :)
alanisized 1 year ago
This song makes me wish I was around in the 80's. Popular music now a days is such a horrible thing. Once upon a time, there was talent in the world, I guess.
Ghastlyteaparty 1 year ago 2
@Ghastlyteaparty I was raised on eighties music...born in 75...there will never be a time like the 80's again...best time of my life and I was just a kid.
VeronikaE1 1 year ago 2
1:14 (freeze) Imagine waking up to that all up in your grill !!
buffaloblows 1 year ago
@buffaloblows ..lol..no way man, that is one of the best "coke" faces in the industry! Awesome!
HalfLifeAMD 1 year ago
"I pushed her tent-space away from me"...
hehehe
buffaloblows 1 year ago
@buffaloblows i pushed her tense face away from me
TOSportsFan1990 1 year ago
GREAT song. Hidden gem.
canuckman87 1 year ago
This song is so amazing. Carol Pope still rocks all these years later.
mravka9 1 year ago 2
I still have the original album! Bought it new back then..
Carole coaches todays young talent....
Thanks for posting!
RetroCaptain 1 year ago
Awesome. Dyke rock!
Northernrebel666 1 year ago 4
man evey song is a gem in these posts memories lol another tune that never got much attention was thomas dolby , i scare myself , awsome lol
cale23 1 year ago 2
Another classic from the 80's. Love the song!
aek1928 1 year ago 20
Luv this song,but this woman wore a lot of war paint back in the 80's,Then again,most women had the trashy look to them.Good song.:)
DrunkenGirlfriend 1 year ago
Last Saturday night on "Rage" - I also saw the repeat of the old Countdown Episode from October 1982 (Australian Music Show 1974-1987, kinda like Solid Gold but without the cheesy dancers). The lead singer of this group hosted, she seemed a little out of it.
Tarrant1976 2 years ago
I always loved this song. I was a kid when it came out....
mygreatlovenova 2 years ago 2
God-I forgot how much I LOVE Rough Trade. Carole Pope's got such a sexually - charged, edgy sound to her voice. Great band-great song!
denisethepainter 2 years ago 27
@denisethepainter i thought it was a dude singing the first time i heard 'high school confidential'
typoded 1 year ago
@typoded lol, me too, but after learning it was a woman, I could tell it was a woman singing.:) She does have a great voice, though. Love Rough Trade!
sexylittledragon 1 year ago
@denisethepainter Yes, Carol Frank-n-Furter has a great voice. Love this song.
RayD8or1 1 year ago
@RayD8or1 totally, i always thought she was like franknfurter
futuristfood 1 year ago
@futuristfood hahahahaha that's so true
glamourXparty 1 year ago
@futuristfood LOL good call!
koestenbraumstar 1 year ago
@denisethepainter I didn't realize this person was a woman until you pointed this fact out to me. In today's day and age some men look like women and some women look like men. Justin Beiber looks like a girl, and Carole Pope looks like a man to me.
bagobuilder 10 months ago
@bagobuilder Could it be that it's because she's gay?
MissEvalyn 9 months ago
@MissEvalyn Yes that could be the reason. I didn't know she was a lesbian.
bagobuilder 9 months ago
@bagobuilder lol thats like not knowing you need air to live
TOSportsFan1990 9 months ago
"Challenging eyes above the rim of a cocktail glass". It don't get any better.
Rickertsred 2 years ago 2
A classic song - love it!
Jonks1010 2 years ago
@7beers, one more on me...so melodramatic. Even if it were by an American outfit it wouldn't boded any better.
unkonkrable 2 years ago
@unkonkrable Actually this song was a big hit in Canada...#5 in Dec '81 and #45 for the whole year.
kentgraovac 1 year ago 2
Solid song. If this were an American band, it would have been a hit. The usual fate of Canadian tunes.
7beers 2 years ago 3
Let them have Britney and Kanye.
mapleavenue77 2 years ago 3
Bit harsh, M. Nobody deserves that fate.
mtflesruoytsacdaorb 2 years ago
SICK
yanfrom1987 2 years ago
All Touch was a minor hit in Australia in 1982-83 and then it and Rough Trade were more or less never heard of again in this country. But I loved the song at the time & bought the record, which I still have. Thanks for posting the clip: it brings back happy memories.
glee2460 2 years ago
I saw this on Rage the other night, they were showing old Countdown episodes from 1982 and the lead singer hosted the show then sang this song at the end, i had never heard it before but now i love it, great song.
colemann76 2 years ago
I used to see this album in cutout bins all over Houston in the mid-80s. Had I been familiar with the song at the time, I'd have taken a copy home. The CD's on the wishlist...
kingofgrief 2 years ago
This was once my favourite song in the 80's...Thank you for the memories!
lilbrowncat 2 years ago 2
Trannies?
mallamoozoo 2 years ago
Great song, scary Carol.
Gladman 2 years ago 2
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GayTubeJack 2 years ago
lol
GayTubeJack 2 years ago
lol
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how bout no touch,no contact....what a sorry lookin bunch!....not a bad tune though
bujwik 2 years ago
I haven't seen this in years! Thanks for posting this!
TCall2004 2 years ago
Sorry, got that backwards. He's an American that Americans want to send to Canada!
Rickertsred 2 years ago
Iluv this............Canada forever. U see people see this stuff. I love Canada.
newromantic888 2 years ago 3
No, they shouldn't. But most Canadians that hit it big feel they have to aboandon their roots & move south. Ask Pam Anderson, Jay Leno, Dan Akroid, Michael J. Fox and so on. At least the Trailer Park Boys are still here!
Rickertsred 2 years ago
I disagree. They move to the States because they have bigger opportunities there. Do you think the Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, and the rest would be as rich, as popular, and as big had they stayed here? Not a chance. There are very limited options in Canada. Our film industry is very small. There is nothing wrong with being ambitious and moving to the States. I respect that more than I do some people that stay here and act like a big fish in a small pond. I don't consider it "abandoning"
fukimotoz 2 years ago 4
I don't know, I do see your point, but I'm tired of watching TV shows filmed here, but the American production co. is affraid to say its Toronto or B.C.. I just think if we keep the stars here, they'll have to accept Canada as part of the Entertainment Industry.
Rickertsred 2 years ago
It's not that they are afraid to say it's Toronto; a show is written to take place in a certain city, once production starts, it could be filmed anywhere. Usually in the city that has the best tax incentives.
How do you propose we "keep the stars here"? The Canadian Film Industry has a Jan Brady Complex, "Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!" You should be be more upset that we produce home grown shows that copy American shows, Canadian Idol? So you think you can Dance, Canada? "Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!"
fukimotoz 2 years ago 2
I understand when the show/movie is supposed to be Chicago. I mean, to use a goofy example, the first Police Academy Movie. Clearly it's Toronto, you see the CN Tower in the background. The License plates all have The Crown in the center, but "Ontario" has been blotted out, and there are U.S. flags everywhere. They are affraid to set a show in Canada because a US audience won't relate to it. Anything Canadian has to conform, or they won't do it. Look at "Bon Cop, Bad Cop".
Rickertsred 2 years ago
Why was it not released in the US? Americans could relate given the Spanish/English culture in the States. And I do get upset over "Canadian Idol". We're never going to have a respectable reputation in the industry if we keep letting "Marsha" set our standards.
Rickertsred 2 years ago
I agree with you, however, American Idol is a copy of a UK show called Pop Idol. SYTYCD's creators and producers are Brits. Plenty of US sit-coms are taken from/based on UK ones. For example: All In The Family, Three's Company, Who's The Boss, The Office, Sanford and Son, etc.
BettySlocombe68 2 years ago
dan akroyd moved south but he still loves canada
foxshey81 2 years ago
Yes, so much he became a US Citizen in 1983.
Rickertsred 2 years ago
I like the drum line in the verses. A bit like the Meters or "Making Plans for Nigel".
jon1156 2 years ago
why am i attracted to you ms. scissorhands?
unkonkrable 2 years ago
Be sure to check out Carole Pope's biography " Anti-Diva"
technosis 2 years ago
Never mind the USA. I'm wondering why this band wasn't a hit in weird cosmopolitan places like Berlin and Prague.
mosquitobight 2 years ago 3
because the they were left.
newromantic888 2 years ago
they had this sing called censorship. They had an Iron Curtain.
newromantic888 2 years ago
Haha, good point. I have their appearance on SCTV on tape. Seems perfectly suited for Germany.
bubbabubba20042004 2 years ago
nice piece of 80s
machineil 2 years ago 3
This song is briliant new wave. It just gets better everytime I hear it.
newromantic888 2 years ago 2
Its all about the bass and synth.
newromantic888 2 years ago 2
my brother used to play this song 100 times a day...lol
hatedarich 2 years ago
One of my favorite songs of all time. That band had style up their a**!
They were far too sophisticated, musical, and ahead of their time to hit it big in the US, but the select few afficianados knew them.
A friend of mine was in a band that had a minor Canadian Hit in the late 70's. An American A&R man checked them out and said they would have to dumb down their music for the US market. That explain why Rough trade wasn't bigger in the US?
martbook 2 years ago 7
They had everything that should have made them MTV Gods. 80's new wave sound, wild looks, & style. Alot of great Canadian music just never caught on down south. This is one of my favourites too.
Rickertsred 2 years ago 2
All funny crap aside, This is a great song.
squid200 2 years ago
Rough Trade (Carole Pope and Kevin Staples) are featured in the movie "Cruising", with Al Pacino.
leftatalbuquerque 2 years ago
how do you get this song on itunes
rykerkimball15 2 years ago
forget about itunes download tubesucker!!
gertski772 2 years ago
It's been ages since I heard this. Thanks.
Braktooth 2 years ago
It may interest you to know, if you are'nt already aware, that this groupe makes an apearance in a movie tittled One Night Stand. I hapend to rent it once on video.
Skulldini 2 years ago
I too had initialy thought that this singer was a man because she's so masculine looking and sounding. I took her for one of those male gender bender singers like David Bowie, Tim Curry, Boy George ect. Was'nt till I'd heard the name Carole that I realized it was a woman. Good singer though. Great voice and lots of dramma in her delivery too.
Skulldini 2 years ago
OH NO, TIM CURRY IS GAY????
j/k
Nina2560 2 years ago
Thats a little mini moog that guys playing in the middle there. Pretty cool. Those things were neat and I dont think they'r ever used in music anymore.
Skulldini 2 years ago
The sound is probably a moog. It's a bit of a dry humor joke... the instrument he's miming with is actually a Casio toy that sounded very tinny, not the blazing multi-oscillator analog sound we hear in the solo. The German group Trio actually used the little Casio for it's corny thin chirps.
CharlesFVincent 2 years ago
Canadian Icon par excellence ,and one dead sexy bitch .
TehRealMirShady 2 years ago
oh i didnt know she died.. RIP
ScrewAttackChina 2 years ago
Don't worry, she didn't die, she's alive and well.
Daneelfan 2 years ago
i think what ms. pope was saying to me in this song is that she was offended by my lack of participatory involvement in popular paid-music in the 80s..:(
Canaboy12 2 years ago
For the last 30 years I thought she was saying " I pushed her Tent Space away from me'. I have major song dislexia. Still love this song.
carpenjo 2 years ago 3
haha i thought she was saying all touch and no cunt act
ScrewAttackChina 2 years ago 5
no contact with me babe for sure!!!! ;o((
sergeipopov66 3 years ago
I remember this song and this band. They had some moderate success here down under in the early 1980s.
AustralianRoadshow 3 years ago
yeah it's funny what one forgets, but then remembers! Thinking back to this time, when i was 14 is getting weirder.
gonadmore 3 years ago
Such a great song,I can't believe this video has only had 27 000 views!
Only thing that sucks,is the lead singers makeup,way too much...
But in the 80's,everything was in excess.lol
DrunkenGirlfriend 3 years ago
She sighs. "But, you know, I think the younger audience today would get what we were trying to do. They're very big on irony these days."
In fact, some of the kids of today have turned on to Pope, thanks in part to her music appearing on television soundtracks from The L Word to The Trailer Park Boys. She even recorded a new version of her anthem of horniness, "High School Confidential," for Queer as Folk.
frenchy994 3 years ago
Carol Pope rocks so what she is a lesbian i like early Elton Jhon
frenchy994 3 years ago
Yeah, I guess they're right up there with Rush & Neil Young.
Rickertsred 3 years ago
it is shure you have not know or deprived of modern music. Do you masterbate alot on the ranch LOL!!! or just milk em with your mouth LOL!!! shithead
frenchy994 3 years ago
What language is that?
Rickertsred 3 years ago
sorry i speak english french german so knowing 3 tongues makes me stupid? please don't be offended if i say do go to school in america and learn only one language.
frenchy994 3 years ago
Lo siento mi amigo.
Rickertsred 3 years ago
Anybody outside of Toronto heard of Rough Trade?
Rickertsred 3 years ago
What you should be asking is "anyone outside of Canada heard of Rough Trade". This band was popular Canada-wide.
Canadiantalentshines 3 years ago
so do you *know* if they were popular anywhere outside Canada?
lucite11 3 years ago
From what I recall, I don't they really made it outside of Canada possibly because of what was considered a controversial song (High School Confidential).
Canada was a little more accepting of gays than the Americans were in the 80's. Even today gay rights are still not possible in the US.
But their songs have grown more popular in the states since the 80's due to commercial radio.
Canadiantalentshines 3 years ago