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  • I love this song, track 14 on CD 1 (Ultimate collection)

  • GREAT SONG.....lousy video!

  • there is something about you, baby, so right.... love this song soooooooo much!!

    Heard it on my sisters wedding day for the first time 25 years ago and its still one of my most favourite songs.

    We're only human after all..........

  • wonderful!!!

  • gosh i love this friggin song!

  • I had a SERIOUS crush on Mark King. Le sighhhhhhh. Level 42 played The Apollo and received standing ovations. Love this band

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  • ORIGINAL MUSIC AND VIDEO CLASSIC!

  • "because there is something about you... baby.. so riiiiiight!" I love Level 42 <3

  • I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. But I have to keep looking up the lyrics because I have no idea what's he's saying. Also does anyone know what the video is about?

  • This was my all time favorite song in 1985! And both of my brothers' too. Every time I listen, or watch the video, my memories of that year and that time are so incredibly vivid. Music so profound as this doesn't exist anymore, and may never again.

  • This song is about ZIDANE

  • The 80's totally had the best pop music. I love Level 42!

  • Just saw Level 42 in concert in Pittsburgh 2 days ago. I'm only 22 years old and was in a crowd of 40 - 50 year olds. A few approached us (my brother and I) and said it was great that someone from our generation appreciated quality music. Our dad made sure we listened to REAL bands. It's a shame that bands like this seldom exist anymore. It was a pleasure to see them in concert.

  • @radiotete1e2 I'm one of those 40 somethings that'll be seeing them in San Francisco this Friday. Taking my 16 year old son. Turn the next generation on to Level 42. Good on you for being open to music like this. Those were simpler times, I miss them.

  • its very sad to day you dont have to know how to sing to have a hit song and be a instant millionaire for instance lady ga ga or whatever shes called. bands like this are something we might never see agon not to forget THE VIDEO IT MENT SOMETHING IT WENT WHIT THE SONG LIKE A MINI MOVIE .they should take a page from the 80s it would be a better place

  • This song and video takes me back to my childhood, a time when there was SOME innocence. I miss those days:-(

  • this song caused me to bcome bi, i think? thanks anyways level 42!

  • what happened to great music like this??? fuck you MTV FUCK YOU BUBBLEGUM POP!!! FUCK YOU WANNA BE THUG C-RAP!

  • Just remeber this...all this people that are down 80's music just need to remeber that most of us (such as my self, i was born in 1983) was concieved off this music so if it was not for 80's music most of us probaly would not be here...lol...

  • I had the pleasure of see them live when this song first came out. It was great!

  • Btw; When the black dude said this music was "the shit", it was meant as a compliment! Peace.

  • massively underrated band in the states. Thanks so much for uploading

  • Why the battle of rap versus brit pop versus such and such? The only thing promised in life is death and change! Old school hip hop was brilliant (KRS1), thought provoking (Public Enemy), Humorous (Biz Markie), and so much more. Today 75% of it is trash! Just as Hair bands went out with the on set of Grunge, Hip Hop too was done in by THE BIG $! Madonna's legacy can be stunted by the likes of an imitator (Gaga!) all because of suits. Such has become the music industry. Sad sad sad.

  • @DooranDooran As observant as you are, today's music has no soul, no substance to begin and maybe that's why there is a big comparison.

  • Don't take it personal. I do love so called rap. Hip-Hop but the older stuff. I was raised in the 80's and I have a fetish for 80's music.

  • awesome :)

  • Never got much airplay where I lived but they showed this alot on VH1. I taped this among other songs on an old VHS tape and watched it alot till the tape went bad years ago.Thanks for posting this so I can relive those great memories again.

  • Fashion by fate, had suffured so hard!

  • I agree, this was intelligent pop music with older musicians. You don't see musicians in their late 30s/early 40s doing top 20 videos anymore. Today's corporate-packaged bullshit caters to the lowest common denominator and is right in the fucking gutter. Good music television died after MTV Alternative Nation went off the year.

  • @getshorty75 You are so right. In the 70s and 80s you had people in their 30 and 40s making great music. Now it is all teenagers and twenty somethings.

  • I remember this song back in 86 on night track i only 12 yrs old

  • these were good back in the day. reminds me of my youth

  • Ah now this is music with such a great base line to it. A great catchy foot tapping song we all know remember and bought the 45 or 12 inch version of back in 86. And look no gangster rappers with guns knives home boyz selling drugs while doing a drive by shooting were needed to make this video. Its a shame music of today only promotes so much ego violence and all that is bad in the world. Bring back music like this. JUST BRING BACK THE 80'S...I lived them and miss those years so much.

  • These changing years, they add to your confusion...

  • This is awesome. But. Why is the song, video cut short? There is still like 20 seconds more. Why is it cut??????

  • 80's Rule there was so much good music cant stand the noise today must be getting old

  • will today's kids be watching lady gaga music 25 years from now, with the same nostalgia as we do to the music we grew up with???

  • @josez1 I truly truly doubt it. L 42 is top in all respects. All you have to do is to read the comments of people who did not grow up with them, and are at present, discovering them!!!! They are 2nd to NONE:

  • I just love the lady on queue at 1:00 - classic and so 80s :D

  • I grew up listening to Level, I even met my wife at a dance where this song was being played. Damn I'm getting old....Things made more sense in the 80s and this song illustrates that. If that means I am an old codger than so be it. I rather be old now and of had the great 80s music to live by than be young now and stuck with a roster of empty, soul-less music that says nothing to anyone.

  • @MrRedrocket42 i am a blackman and i think thay level 42 ,duran duran, tears for fears, talking heads are all the shit

  • @Tre404 I need to check it out then.

  • Another great hit out of Generation X. 80's-90's.

  • The one dude in the video looks like the lead singer from A Flock Of Seagulls. Is it?

  • I am in support of the uploader of this video. I want to know why "Vevo" has monopoly on just about EVERY video uploaded these days on YouTube? If "Something About You" was a popular song of the time, VEVO would swoop in and ban this vid.

    What is VEVO to YouTube? That is something we all need to ask ourselves before its too late. Only "VEVOI" can upload modern day videos to YouTube. Why is this? I don't know. Thats a VERY good question indeed...........

  • @finaltits Again, it is all about money. :(

  • Anyone..... is this Cherie Lunghi?

  • @badboy10ize

    She is indeed...I loved her as Guinevere in "Excalibur"

  • This was when music was great not a sample in sight. Rap is only good when they use a hook from another artist. yeah some rap is good i'll give you that but most rap artist use samples from artist to give their song a riff that people will like because face it it's all talk, talk, talk......boring!!!

  • I grew up listening to Level 42 :). Awesome bass line by the way

  • Does anyone know what he is saying or singing towards the end of the song after he has the dream?

  • Love this song..SiriusXM 80's on 8..

  • Mark the King of bass!

  • That's pretty stupid to blame Yo! MTV Raps for MTV going to shit. Everyone knows MTV was ruined because of those reality shows. By the way, Yo! MTV Raps was a good show.

  • love this

  • When this first came out, it was called bubble-gum pop.

  • I remember vibin' hard to this back in the day

  • whats going on with his mouth? Looks like an inverted anus!

  • Wow who in the world is playing that bass? whoever it is they are slamming.

  • This IS a beautiful song..Coffee in the mornin..Sun in your face..

  • Thank God for the Shazaam app. I was in a store today and heard this song being played over the speakers. The sweet nostalgia of 80s music swept over me. The Shazaam app helped me to find out the name of this song I recalled enjoying in the 80's. I immediately downloaded the song in itunes. There will never be a music era like the 80s again. There seemed to be a great pers. onal soundtrack for whatever was going on in your life. Music was much more global at that time. Lots of foreign bands.

  • chainbluelightning1, I love your comment. I am 42 now and I remember being in highschool when this song came out and I was 18 at the time. When I first heard it I thought it would stand the test of time. I think it did. The 80's was so great. So much of today's music just lacks soul (not all of it, but so much of it). Bring back the seventies and 80's when musicians wrote their music and actually performed it with their own instruments!!! 80's rules!

  • i love the bass line

  • @randyseraphin305 ....Mark King is one of the most underrated and most soulful bassists of all time!

  • @Tre404 ur right bt i like victor wooten as well!!!!

  • @Tre404 True

  • @Tre404 yea bt theres more better than mark king though

  • @randyseraphin305 ....um..... that's why I said "ONE OF THE..." ...capisce?

  • @Tre404 I agree.  Mark is one the best.

  • finally found out the name of this band after so long not knowing who sings this I've loved this song since I was a kid and still do! awesome song

  • *Shuffles my feet*

  • It's not wrong to be human, but it is wrong to abandon music like this for the flavorless bubblegum pop and I-should-be-in-a-damn-prison-c­ell gangster rap of today. At least I have my VHS tapes of this on MTV. It's always nineteen eighty something at my house.

  • @chainbluelightning1 I feel the same way. I love 80s Pop & R&B, and cannot stand (so-called) "rap" and today's manufactured "pop" music

  • @OldSchoolTracks10 I grew up with MTV since 1981 when the first video "Video killed the radio star" came on in August 1981. Martha Quinn was on there then. I miss the old days of new wave,punk,etc. Gone all gone. Sad isn't it?

  • @chainbluelightning1 awesome post tbh

  • @chainbluelightning1 Good points dude. I wish we all could just pick a certain time frame (mine is early 80's) to live in, that way we could all avoid this crap of today. I just can't even get into The Jonas Bros, and WTF is up with all these Vampires. Shit, The Lost Boys would crush the Twilight boys... I even miss my mullet and my El Camino ride. I mean, is it a truck or a car? come on man..... it was schweeeet

  • @bigdsears Yeah, a bit sick of Vampires now, both the weepy romantic kind and the badass goth punks who ride Harleys. Sometimes you'll get a writer who tries to be all sly and puts his weepy Romeo-with-fangs on a chopper so he can be some kind of undead James Dean. And remember when trucks were made of metal and looked like they could navigate any crater on the Moon? I mean, today they're made of plastic, but they still guzzle gas and oil, so the air is still thick with pollution. :/

  • @chainbluelightning1 "It`s always nineteen eighty something at my house"!!! Perfection. This just put the most genuine smile on my face and tons of happiness in my heart. Thank you.

  • @GroovySistah I'm glad I made you happy. Makes me want to leave more comments. :) Is it always nineteen eighty something at your house, or do you ever break down and allow the 90s in? Sometimes I'll go early 90s, sometimes late 70s, but I gotta say, the 21st Century and all its garbage does not have a key to the front door. Facebook and reality TV (cringes). That's all I have to say about the 21st Century.

  • @chainbluelightning1 Yeah, you should definitely leave more comments because you just hit the spot with what you say and how you say it. "... the 21st Century and all its garbage does not have a key to the front door." is another good one :) It is mostly nineteen eighty something at my house as well. I am not speaking of music only but movies and fashion also. And yes, I do let other decades to enter the house.

  • @chainbluelightning1 Hey man thats true even from France, definitively poor country in world pop songs...

  • @chainbluelightning1 and dont forget that heavey metal rock crap also

  • @buggeazy102 death 2 u homo metal 4 ever

  • @chainbluelightning1 how you gonna discrminate on a certain kind of music and no one else cant do the same so what if i dont like that satin praticing metal music crap fuck youu!

  • @buggeazy102 What the fuck are you trying to say? Your comment makes no sense. Fucking idiot.

  • @chainbluelightning1 You know their touring the US for the first time in 23 years this month. Catch 'em while you can because it is a killer show

  • @slubber They would be great to see live. I haven't seen anyone live since Aerosmith back in '99. Think they'll do a Steven Tyler and throw their jackets into the crowd?

  • @chainbluelightning1 "It's always nineteen eighty something at my house" that is GOLD!

  • @chainbluelightning1 and god bless you :)

  • @chainbluelightning1 It's not wrong to be human, but why must we take things for granted? Isn't it enough that we were granted great music? I shutter to think that only a portion of good music is left among us.

  • MTV was great when they used to play music on it!! Hey, do you remember when they used to show music videos? Why is it when something works well some arsehole comes along and changes things?

  • Great song, funk, video not so good...

    One of my favs from the 80s,,,

    Love to see them...in Toronto..

  • Awesome vid and music, but I have to say that you did cut the video short by like 10 seconds.....Why??

  • This song has been stuck in my head for a week, I've probably listened to it at least 50 times in the last two days. I was 8 when it came out :) Can't get enuff!

  • kenco lady!!!

  • @pranky4 is it not gold blend ? or something like that

  • there's something about the 80's man.

  • this dude could do a really scary clown or stalker lol....but i do love this song, i was only 5 when i came out....but i love 80's music. and thank you again for posting the original version.

  • thank you thank you thank you for the post!

  • good stuff...thanks!

  • I've always loved this song! Thanks for posting.

  • Back when this first came out and I didn't know any better, I actually thought this was Tears For Fears.....:)

  • AC FTW!!!!

  • Mark King is a sick sick bass player

  • I grew up in the 80's and miss my time then. This was one of the songs that take me back that direction...... I am now 40 and wish I could go back with what I know now....

  • Love this song! :-)

  • classic

  • i was six when this song came out and was rockin it like i knew wat it was all about..somethin about this song!!

  • I can't really put a finger on why I'm so fond of this song, but I just am....and I'm pretty sure that most of you feel the same way about it, too...a good song is a good song, period..no matter what "genre" people classify it under, and this is a good song!

  • mark king is my role model

  • such a cool song

  • I just LOVE Mark King!!!

  • Geesh. This is a great level42 playlist. How do I save this playlist to my favorites?

  • @Tarn1968 The clown symbolizes jealousy. Just watch the video and you'll figure it out.

  • @mjfbush ...damn, you're right! I was a teen when this came out, and loved it! I was always of the mind that it was something somewhat more sinister, though.... in fact, I'd get chills when he roared—it seemed anguished to me, ghostly.... and therefore rather deep, in my young mind... but yeah, I see it now. Jealousy, definitely. (slappin my forehead) Thanks! lol...

  • love this song....80's rock

  • Oh... the ambassador of love can be humors, charming and synical.

  • Hit #7 pop, #10 AC, #45 rock in the US. How'd it do in the UK? God bless!

  • the video isnt in sync with the words...the video is like ahead of the lyrics by a minute or so....it dont match up

  • este grupo marco con fuerza ojla nunca se pase esta musica nunca asta que la vida se me balla del cuerpo

  • This is my favorite Level 42 song and I can't imagine them having a better one.

  • @TLDRNYOUNG .... I didn't think so either until I heard "Children Say." Check that one out! Absolutely beautiful as well.

  •  it's something about kenneth too,he is that human baby.

  • MTV rocked from 1981 to 1992. Then it went to shit because of Yo! MTV Raps garbage came on. That ruined it. Totally ruined it.

  • @robbiesyohn uhhh dude MTV raps hit around 1988 at full force. MTV really started falling apart in the late eighties when they became genre centric. Focusing on hair bands, boy bands, and of course MTV rap. Everything became manufactured. Whereas in the early eighties they were just looking for different acts and creative sounds. That died in the late eighties.

  • @robbiesyohn Actually Yo! Raps came on in 1988. I find 1988-93 or so a great transition period for MTV; gradually going downhill. Even if classic MTV was still around, today's bad music just wouldn't cut it.

  • @robbiesyohn .... C'mon, man... "Yo!" had been on for a long time (since '88) when MTV, in my estimation, actually went to shit (completely) in late 1990, early 1991. It was showing signs of shittiness throughout 1990, but it finally just became unwatchable in 1991. Ironically, I'd give just about anything if it returned to its 1991 shittiness standard, rather than today's COMPLETELY INTOLERABLE mess. But you can't blame it on "Yo!" Grunge is what really killed it. That and greed. Just my 2c.

  • @robbiesyohn actually YO saved MTV-what killed MTV was Real World-after its success they went completely reality TV! do they even play videos anymore?

  • @robbiesyohn

    STOP BLAMING RAP MUSIC..BLAME THE ASSHOLES that RUN the CORPORATE MUSIC AND MEDIA!

  • @robbiesyohn What do you expect from most black people.Drive thru a black neighborhood and see what it looks like.They destroy everything.

  • @helimech60 NO, it's mind frames like yours that destroy everything. This is so fucked! I came here, first video I chose when opening YOU TUBE, to listen to this brilliant song. Loved it since the 80's. I am a black women. Duran Duran is my favorite band in the world. I am 38 years old and the first thing I am confronted with is, not surprising, the racist rants of some PC troll! Last I checked trash comes in every color and LOTS of neighborhoos aren't top notched. Ignorance is so very sad.

  • @DooranDooran I'm sorry I left out one word in my first comment.And that was "welfare".I just stick to the facts mam.You have not seen the things I've seen with my own eyes,and yes,it comes in all colors.I've been around alot longer than you.I'm 43.Have a nice day.

  • Level 42

  • I WANT MY MTV

  • This is by far one of my favorite 80's songs..along with Simply Red's Holding back the years.

  • Awesome this songs just captures the music essence of the 80's. I remember listening to this on july of 1986 wow.

  • One of the greatest songs of the eigties...

  • LOVE the look on his face at 1:48- so evil looking. Classic!

  • aWeSoMe!

  • @bluntedNcali: He's not a clown. He's dressed as a baggy-pants, old time burlesque comic; these guys would come on between the girls and distract the crowd before the next act came on.

  • Oh shoot I been looking for this for so long. Thanks poster.

  • This song is the shit...

    WERE ONLY HUMAN AFTER AAAAALL...i can do without the creepy clown guy.

  • Good song. Lame ass video. Thanks for posting it though. I haven't seen it since 1989.

  • LOVE THIS SONG!!! One of my favorites!!!!

  • I lose 20 years on my life every time I hear this cut...

  • OldSchoolTracks10 thank you soooooo much for this. I listened to this music in highschool and loved it. The best line in the song is write at the beginning: "Is it so wrong to be human after all..." great song.  Thanks.

  • been looking  for this mtv doesnt play music videos

  • Il brano è ottimo, uno dei miei preferiti, peccato non sia sincronizzata fedelmente!!!

  • simple........................­.....the best.

  • Your audio is like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off on this video!

  • 80's music rocks 4 eva

  • Otimo som..manda muito bem no contra baixo

  • wtf happened at the end?! :O

  • Thanks for posting this OFFICIAL video of this jam! I remember seeing this when it was on MTV in '85/'86 as a 10 years olg ang this "clown" creeped me out, esp. where he's out in the field as the lights dim out. Damn!!!

  • Love this video because it brought bak some good memories and that there is always something about someone

  • Moi j'ai une Nana et c'est pour elle !

  • i love this song i can listen to this song over and over again

  • One of my favorite songs, and videos, from the 80's. The woman in the art studio is

    beautiful, and her eyes blow me away.

  • CLASS OF 86 O.P.R.F H.S  IL

  • I can never get enough of this video! This is the best video of all time!

  • Great song!!

  • Mark is the King of bass!!!

  • Wow I never knew who sang this after all these years I finally know. Brings back alot of childhood memories when I was 12

  • One of the best tracks of the 80's when i was a Kid growing up. I was born in 1980! ;)

    My Mum loved this Group, she was only in her early twenties at the time and played there stuff all the time.

    So now when i hear this it brings back great memories and just shows that this song was a classic! ;)

  • This song is in a class by itself.....it is sentimental and fun and musically genius!!!! Does anyone know if this was their only charting single?

  • this kind of music is so gay, but the bass lines are awesome, mark has such a nice funky unique feeling in his attack

  • Another nice 80's song that is uplifting. Great time period.

  • my ex got me that cd cos of this song and i loved them thanks sarah great present.miss you always.x

  • I always loved this video!

  • Especially as part of it was set on a train. They don't have carriages like this any more except on the continent. Much more comfortable than the airline style seating with hardly any leg room.