Red Box - For America

[nlawrenceflavs]

Been trying to find this for ages, love it. Thanks

[OnbekendGHC]

I used to be for america, but then I took an arrow to the knee

[RhiannonPeggy]

That was a very good video. Loved Red Box.

[mposte]

<3

[TheSatletijo]

Glad I have discovered this pearl!

[lhawkerNZ]

Listening to this song for the first time after 25 years, not quiet as I remember, but I guess I liked it when I was eleven :D

[RhiannonPeggy]

@lhawkerNZ I was 9 or 10 and loved it. :0) It hasn't diminished in time for me... still think it's awesome and the videos were amazing for the time.

[MsLukassD]

Uwielbiam ta piosenke! :P

[retorical62]

Anyway while you're all swearing at each other I'm digging the atmosphere of this tune especially a capella chorus

[oitown007]

search for : attaboy - for america :-)

[JocoChoco19]

12 people havent been to America :D

[wyjcus]

the best song ever!

[Radament123]

This song reminds me childhood so much.

[modchick77]

@Radament123 And me. Im 34 and this was on a lp my mum and dad owned and I used to make them play this for me all the time.

[coratris]

Obama must have been\ thinking of this song..

[hawkeyepierce12]

Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy the vampire slayer) sings backing vocals on this song (and Lean on Me).

There a useless piece of info for you!!

[sjcommander91]

B24Paul, what the flying fuck are you talking about? Those are the song's lyrics.

[runnerartful]

love the uralie bit or something lol love it :D

[runnerartful]

I am 13, and i love like this song.... i don't think many people my age would like this :/

[mathiasvanacker]

@runnerartful

im 14 and i also like this

[flymoair]

Wonderful song from when the world was a nicer place, the Interweb was a baby and Newcastle had a good football team. What the hell happened????

[flymoair]

Wonderful song from when the world was a nicer place, the Interweb was a baby and Newcastle had a good football team. What the hell happened????

[TheHQAUDIO]

EXCELLENT !!! .

[alid12d]

Blast from the past just heard this on the radio....good tune leaving the politics out...

[B24Paul]

scooterboy you are a million miles from reality, stop blaming others for your shortcomings.

[marsiozo]

I can cry when listening to this song....it's a direct shortcut my childhood which was really great....

[SCOOTERBOY40029]

deviate to contemplate this audio visual opiate one hundred years from now title fights and human rights we're satellites - you're parasites hey yah ya! now I've got to tell you that I've been down down so low that I bit the ground let's hear it from the heart of America ya da dee yeh - yeh ee oh in America urelei USA for America

[yourzzzz]

America!! <3

[podajmopa14]

I heard this song 4 years ago, the memories come back

[ramoon1978]

My boyfriend and i(both 31 years old) just heard it on the radio...and we started singing at the same time haha....for about 4 minutes back to childhood :D Love the 80's

[ritchie69]

well cool song ...........reminds me of the 80;s when i was at primary school........

[Jodysteinmeijer]

Go Jadzia! Love this song, back then and now.

[jadzia7911]

I love the track, but I don't like some of the comments, why don't you just listen to great music instead of jibbering about recession and all that crap. LOL from Poland by the way:)

[scottyflynn21]

your dead right what a great song

[jadzia7911]

thanks, I like the whole album of "Red Box" :)

[scottyflynn21]

cant beat the eighties for anything

[jadzia7911]

TRUE, though my absolute No 1 of the

80's are Ultravox. Went to see Midge Ure acoustic live in Poland a month ago, unforgettable:)

[scottyflynn21]

my view best band of the 80's madness . great to clear your head

[jadzia7911]

I like Madness too, especially 'Our House'

[IJustWatchEm71]

@jadzia7911 I like Ultravox, too. But MY #1 choice for '80s bands:  Alphaville.

So much more in their repetoire than most people think!

[Muzzer27]

SCOOTERBOY, pissed off cause you can't get a job and still sitting home living off mommy's pension? You'd better get your fat ass off the couch and get a life you uneducated working-class lowlife.

[SCOOTERBOY40029]

Muzzer27,Was there any need to swear? Its not big or clever.

I do have a job, but i have started to save for my own pension, you see, its all the poles coming to the uk, and stealing our money&benefits, having kids and living off my taxes.

thank you.

regards alan

[sarah19766]

@SCOOTERBOY40029 100% ith you on your statement Alan, the uk is so screwed and what you say is true. Well put,  Jamie

[theflyingmouse]

Poland?

WEird how times change.

60 years ago every bastard wanted to get into Poland, now no fucker will touch it with a pointy stick.

Anyway, back to the point, great song.Reminds me of days gone by.

[Muzzer27]

I wouldn't touch your's you xenophobic shithead. Keep your comments to yourself and to yours alike...And yeah, the song's really good!

[kasiaaa131]

@theflyingmouse

How you do not like it Shut up. I'm from Poland and I'm proud!

[pezzad09]

cant believe i remember this when it was in the charts also lean on me..help im an old ....

[piporypina1996]

I'm from Poland. I agree with Bongojuana and mcnitrox,. If you complain about Poles who steal your jobs, why don't you move to Poland and steal our jobs?

[Bongojuana]

SCOOTERBOY40029, do you know why are they doing this? because you don't want to move your own fat ass and work for your country. Even if you do, you won't be so effective as they. So there are free work places for everybody who suits requirements. Go to school, learn something and then look for a job and complain about how hard your life sucks.

[SCOOTERBOY40029]

@Bongojuana well said thaT MaN.

[Bongojuana]

@SCOOTERBOY40029

ow.. and Alan, guess I was a little bit rude back then(sorry about that)... but it's true, and it goes all the same for other countries, even Poland...(guess where i'm from..?)

by the way... reunion after 1year :) For America! ;)

[MUSICMAN77000]

One of the most underated acts of the eighties thank god for you tube love this track and lean on me brill !!!!!!!!

[chrizzie23]

terrabytes?

[Fifta1989]

my childhood;)

[mcnitrox]

I'm from Poland and probably i would rather move to Canada or Australia than to USA.

[Antygona]

And I prefer stay in Europe ^_^

[SCOOTERBOY40029]

mcnitrox ,why don`t you come to the uk,half of all polish people are here,stealing our jobs,and claiming benefits.

[mcnitrox]

Well...let me think...i'd never get used to left-side traffic. About Polish ppl...well English people didn't want to work, so Poles took their jobs - now when it's the recession you want those jobs back. I don't know how it is in England, but in Poland it's not fair. We have a proverb in Poland: The one who gives and takes back goes to hell (it's a straight translation).

[mcnitrox]

Man, you're 38 years old and act like a child. Just calm dawn, I don't want to argue with you. I don't work in UK and i won't because i don't have to. So why r u talking this to me? Is it my fault that everybody goes to UK? The next thing is that recession has much bigger impact on UK than on Poland so probably Poles by the next few months will have started coming back.

[LoveCurtSmith]

Funny!

[TheRealRoutemaster]

This reminds of good old 80's time before my parents got divorced. I now live in the US and uraly uraly uraly aye, it's freaking great!!

[keeprighton2007]

shame you moved to a warmongering nation, but good luck to you.

[02blodders]

id like to get out ov this hole tooooo (lucky bastard)

[02blodders]

great music fuck ur political comments!!!!!

[grzesi0pl]

fucked nationalists

[godjei]

Read the lyrics! And I believe this band is british actually.

[Antygona]

Yeah....they are british :-)

[blade0954]

simply a great 80s track,actually compared to most old songs this stands the test of time,nice to see it,thanks for post

[allenreavie]

is thaat the Russian president?

[spammerslot]

My favorite song from the 80's. :-)

[123xxrobertx]

80's are unforgettable ! Lots like this one rocks me by now

[Silverymoony255]

This song always cheers me up, and it is stuck in my head x :)

[sussexmews]

Were they botters?

[haeltacforce]

omg:D

[theevhorscope]

I loved this song. Quite an example of british irony.

[hitmanhatton11]

America peace and understanding...HAHAHAHAHAAHAH­...MY FAT ASS.

[craigie101101]

thank god the eighties are gone!!!!!!!!!!!!

[amdorPL]

urelei urelei urelei urelei urelei urelei yay :P

This stuck in my head for a couple of days. One of these songs you don;t want to stop listening.

[TCHendo]

This was the first 7" single I ever got!

[1987LOZ1987]

Red Box are a British band not American, the song was written to try and get the band more famous in the USA, the Americans hated it

[theevhorscope]

Of course, they was joking them!

[1987LOZ1987]

It was a publicity stunt not a joke, the idea was to get famous in USA but I guess the Americans thought it was a mickey take

[SHAYDJ08]

brilliant song

[makasheli]

i love love love this fucken song its mad ,real different.the vids class too

[mafkees59]

What a great song , Maybe one of the best!!!!!! And I'm not even from the USA , I'm from Europe.

[andy47432]

heard this on the jukebox playin pool yesterday - must be 20 years since i last heard it - zoomed me straight back to the 80s. How i wish someone would invent a Delorean that really could go back to the future!

[patbirder]

Man, thanks for posting! Havent heard this in so many years!! Brings back great memories

[Ukon14]

Buahaha this is the worst song of i ever seen :/

[southsidebanjo]

The worst song you have ever "seen" ?

That makes no sense !

Its a classic !

[JasieK0]

Yeh you can't see song I belive :/

[pete24779222]

One of the best opening lyrics ever !

[Lordgoring0]

Excellent !!

[TINYS1]

I Love this song.....1986 Happy Times :)

[noel101082]

love it. You go Sue. the lyrics are bloody all over the place but the point is a good one...and sadly very relevent still. nowts changed.

[Lee1940master]

nice:)

[skwarczanmiedzi]

I like this song :)

I remember thats melody from

Fairy tales

[alfonzzo151106]

I'am happy that i'am not living in the us of a

[dannyboycorby]

its the greatest place on earth

[back2frinky]

I was happy in 1986.

[hamster700]

Benjamin franklin American

write Bros American

typewriter American

coca cola America

cluckin bell American

burger shot American

well stacked Pizza American

microprocessor American

[Sku91]

atom bomb - America...

[vonsjnr]

lol

[radek1552]

super muza!! pzdr POLSKA!!! POL

[JANUSZ1FROM1POLAND]

oczywiscie ze super ;)

ale mi tak szczerze to mi w tej najbardziej podoba sie muzyka...

hello from Poland;)

[kixxgazetapl]

Stare "dobre" czaasy

Kaczkowski i jego audycje

[daun123456]

nie rozumie

[silveriada]

And if u wanna dead scientists, maybe u heard about them: B. Franklin B. Emerson A.Hall C. Tombaugh J. Van Allen Ch. Kowal P.Lowell S. Nicholson H. Pickering ever heard of THEM? and these are only astronomers.

[ThePhunckyOne]

Sorry if this sounds brusk but FUCK AMERICA! Why would anybody write an ode to a country whose only contribution to the world is the hot dog?

[silveriada]

And you are what, retarded? How do you think the greatest number of scientists come from, huh? Still thinking? well, yeah that would be America..

[lewis72]

I don't know what they teach you at school but I'm struggling to think of a US scientist Gauss - Germany Einstein - Germany Daimler - Germany Benz - Germany Newton - England, UK Babbage - England, UK Whittle - England, UK Royce - England, UK Stephenson - England, UK Brunel - England, UK Ronald McDonald - USA ;-)

[silveriada]

I dont know why they teach you only about the dead scientists? So listen, the tense I used in my 1st comment suggests that Im talking about the LIVING scientists. Not necessarily about those great, whom everyone knows, but about the people who work hard for the common good. Heard about NASA and their achievements? So, America has the single biggest base of young and earger scientists. WHy? because they are paid great amount of money, contary to other places, eg. europe. sad but true.

[lewis72]

Yeah, I thought that that may get a rise!

;-)

Science/engineering is definately not seen by the stupid UK Government as being important. As for the greatst number? Well, I really can't be bothered to work that out.

[zuraw88]

remember who helped Europeans to kick Nazis out, 'm not talking 'bout SU ;)

[Makitk]

Canadians.

[LustfulMind]

I thought the whole idea of this song was based on TOTAL sarcasm, and not meant to be understood literally?! Oh well, we all learn something new everyday, dont we? :p

[mixy111178]

What a song been trying to think for ages who sang it and now i remember!! Quality

[fibre1980]

this song SUX big time

[Yakubu86]

WSPANIAŁA piosenka ... old school z najwyższej póleczki jak dla mnie :)

[bidziniak]

Great song :)

I was searching it for ages.

[kevinvanhoutvin]

me too

2 years. everybody knew it.

but not the titel or the group.

[venezianna]

thts cool!!!!

[xXzurawinkaXx]

I love this song :P

[SzPiwowarczyk]

Almost like an American Dream.

[ala1304]

strasznie mi sie ta piosenka podoba mimo ze jest juz stara..:)

[marchissimo]

exactly LOL

[g00nerz4eva]

My name is Ricky Collyer from Tumble, West Wales. Been searching for this song for 15 years and I've just found it in the last week. All my friends thought I had lost the plot when miming this song, now they will all believe in Americ-coola-coola-coola yey! hahah!

[cleric727]

The same happened to me mate.

I was just saying In America Yurali Yurali Ye.

My mates said I was bonkers!!

Then one day someone said RED BOX and that saved my sanity and on Youtube low and behold there it was.

So glad we finally found after all those years.

[frankwh99]

I'm assuming everyone knows this is a British band attacking American foreign policy?

[LennertG]

Haha it's funny that he says: "all this peace and understanding" while there is an airplain dropping bombs on the background (1:50) LOL

[Frin44]

God Bless America,and i'm from the UK.

[virgile85]

I Love America USA USA!!!

[grahamseers]

What a great pop song, they dont write them like this anymore. Anyone who dosn't like a song case the mentions America is a dick.

[Rumpleproofskin]

Red Box is coming back with a new album. A different direction -- paired down, acoustical with swirly strings and impeccable songs. No deal as yet but they plan a few homegrown YouTube videos in the near future. Watch this space!

[kenny4375]

love this song

[kipervarg]

Thanks for your perspective, you Dick.

- From California, USA.

[marcinand]

GREAT !!!!!

[maniekboy]

Piosenka jest naprawde wpaniala (this song is really wonderful)

[hinkel1980]

dit is echt super!!!! oude tijd,en als ik het hoor blijf ik aan sharon denken

[paulinkalip87]

ja też 20 lat szukałam tej piosenki... nareszcie!!!!!!

[74blemish]

wikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkked

[JanSwinkels]

Old. But nice!

[cendres20]

Très bon souvenir de Red Box 20 ans après !

For America... oui mais avec Obama et les Démocrates !

[hellooldchap]

20 years I've been looking for this song!

[piiiiiiiit]

Havent heard this song for about 20 years even though i´ve been looking.

One of my alltime favorites!

Fan, man ska ha lite tur ibland...och en smula skicklighet också förstås :-D

[sarnieken]

Excellent tune. Haven't heard this for years. Many thanks for posting. Takes me back to my childhood. :)

[1975DCS]

I wish they would release DVD singles of classics like this!

[bjddavies]

This is one video I thought I would never see again but I am constantly amazed by this site.

What great lyrics! E.g. 'title fights and human rights, the satellites get parasites' and 'magazines and gasoline, and made in Taiwan western scenes'

[fribert1]

Over all the coolest. I have not been so happy since I saw this video on TV many many many years ago. A 1961'er. Regards /fribert

[robertb700]

love this song, wish they`d release the album on cd again

[rorytwin]

i like this song

[marchissimo]

love them! and i lve in Americaaaaa

[gilstrap1969]

great song from the past its a pity redbox never broke into the big time

[desertlonghair]

You can currently (2007) get the EXTENDED REMIX of this song on the CD "Retro: Active 5" ... it's a must-have!

[mario19991]

I love this song :)))

[neukbal]

the new iraki anthem

[theglove78]

WOW!!! I have the vinyl single of this!!  Bit of a cheesy track but great nostalgia!

[bmused55]

WOW!

I've not heard this since I was about 12!

Was only 6 when it came out... but there was always a radio or Hi-Fi on around me as my Parents love music. This song with its catchy tune is hard wired into my brain!

[supreno]

Great song, good memories from winter 85. But very naive lyrics.

[andywarren1001]

AMAZING!!! Not heard this for years love to try get hold of the CD!!

[partypolatics]

cheers IKE66 fantastic song 1st time ive seen the vid thx alot

[sarahdavies22]

No, if George Bush had an iPod with this brilliant song on it, he'd think that was the WMD that he had been looking for. The guy is clueless so why waste good music on him? I agree, Red Box should have been massive, it has always baffled me as to why they weren't as The Circle & The Square is a stunning album. When I put my CD-R of it into my Mac, iTunes lists each song, so it must be in some online CD database???

[paggan]

He probably has a higher IQ than all of you together.

Why aren´t you a president? Or a first lady?

Bad education?

[YappyMan99]

Because she wasn't born into the club.

You don't have be be intelligent to sign what they tell you to and make blundering speech after speech.

[smithdream]

A classic song from a classic 80's band.

Someone tell Bush to get this on his IPOD and listen to the lyrics.

Still very relevant.

REDBOX should have been MASSIVE!

[ajdesq]

Superb! Enjoyed this very much, thank you for posting.

[vroom81]

IKE66 thanks'a'lot for msg me :) Another great on from red box :)

[marchissimo]

for Americaaaaaaaa

[Mrrraauw]

i knew this song but never could find out the title thanks so much!!!! xx :)

great song btw :)

[tequilacrush]

omfg - this was one of my favourite songs... erm... a very long long time ago. i only managed to find the song recently - and this is the first time i've seen the video - so thanks :)

[marchissimo]

very rare to find: always loved it!

[sheldonpl]

I never thought that it has a video ;-)

[Yuhas]

Exactly:D

[Hikew]

I'd forgotten this super song even existed. Excellent!!

[duran2k]

Excellent, never thought id see this :-)

[gphil1975]

Spot on fella, thanks for letting me know about this!!