This is the song you should play to your little boys...parents...this is the kind of thing that makes them a real man...gives them confidence, dreams...its perfect...no bitches/hoes/violence...abuse...fear...NO Prince CHARMING ridicule is NOTHING to be scared of! Dont lower yourself forgetting all your standards!"
@KAMEP2 There is nothing sexier than a man who isn't afraid of the glam, dandy, and prince charming within. Some of the most heterosexual icons of film and music (i.e. Marlon Brando, Miles Davis, Timothy Dalton, Johnny Depp) are secure enough in their manhood to really turn on the dandy in their work or in real life. I miss the 70s/80s when fashion was highly androgynous, esp. in the music scene. The New York Dolls, Bowie, Siouxsie, Annie Lennox, and Prince all pushed gender roles.
I rather thaught this was quite awsome, for the 80s. I love the 80s full of life, joy, and things that brings a whole new meaning to expression...through music.
Absolutely hated Adam and the ants when I was a kid. Now I love everyone of their hits. And I cannot believe I didn't realise that all their videos were bloody pantomimes hahaha. Oh and feck off all you museos who go on about the ants being better before they were big and when they were punk, total shite, because at the time when the ants formed('78'ish) punk was dying and you can also look to blondies' back catalogue to see they also realised this and chose to diversify to pop to survive. Anyw
His very early stuff was classed as punk, but it got a bit more pop as time went on. Either way, its all fantastic, and this is a fab, theatrical video!!!
@spectergohan He wasn't exactly new-wave not enough synthesizer and not the extreme punk of the sex-pistols hard to catagory maybe new-romantics the whole love of the French I just think Adam n the Ants are cool have a good one!!!
@americanmonarchist bwahahahahahaahahaha Adam and the ants Post punk. lol funny shit. Adam and the Ants are more New Romantic than Post Punk, stupid yank.
@munyman07 Stupid yank I catch holy -hell here in the States for my love of all things British all right I may of classified Adam & the Ants in a wrong category I apologize. You cannot find a greater Anglophile than I. Stupid yank I am writing in clear language using proper grammer, spelling, and punctuation. What is a bwahahahahahaahahaha surely not anything HM the Queen would be saying I hardly doubt it's in an English Dictionary so God Save the Queen and the Windsor Dynasty!!!
@americanmonarchist *Sigh* Just ignore him/her, friend - no doubt s/he's about as popular here in the UK (or anywhere else, for that matter!) with THAT kind of attitude as the proverbial rattlesnake in a lucky dip. Good on you for taking the flak you must get for your views - God Bless Her Majesty indeed, and she'd be the first to apologise for the rudeness of "munyman07", I'm sure! Be assured we Brits aren't all ignorant "Yank"-haters, so thanks for your kind comments, from Across The Pond! :))
@NellJSmith I'd like to apologize to HM for the "temper tantrum" the American Colonies had in 1776. I live in Original Thirteen Colonies territory State of NY and may have the blood of a Baronet in my veins off topic one of my favorite older British sit-coms is Are You Being Served Mr. Humphries ruled!!! Now if I said hey Adam belongs in the same genre as Ozzy, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, and Robert Plant then yes I am a daft-wanker who went off the rails a long time ago!!!
@americanmonarchist ... and because I ran out of space, may I add that Adam's music was always hard to categorise - in a class of its own, really - but, growing up as I did in the UK, in the 80s, and with a MAJOR Adam obsession, I can assure you that you could easily classify various of his tracks as either/or Post-Punk AND New Romantic, depending on your definition of either - and indeed on which track(s) you're referring to - so you weren't even wrong :)
@munyman07 You're not making us Brits look good, you know. Were you even around when Adam wrote this track...? His style is actually unique, rather like Pink Floyd, so you can't really categorise it at all, but various of his tracks can be said to be either Post-Punk OR New Romantic - or neither - so please know of what you speak before you be so rude. Take it from someone who DID grow up in the 80s and owns every track Adam ever wrote, if you'd be so kind. Bwahahaha? Super Mario, anyone? ;)
P.S... One thing worth mentioning is that this is one of the few times you ever see Adam Ant WITHOUT extensive make-up and costumes... and even as a scruffy kitchen-servant, with no make-up at all, he's still as sexy as, well - words fail me! Can't say the same for pretty much any other "sex idol", male or female. Genuinely gorgeous, even in rags - and I love his charmingly innocent smile :)
On a different note from my persistent ranting about Adam's beauty... I've just checked out Rolf Harris's "War Canoe" and yes, out of fairness to Rolf, for sure "PC" is a direct copy, even with Adam's talent added, together with the trademark Antmusic drumwork, Native American influence, etc. What a shame Adam didn't publicly state this and avoid Rolf needing to sue. Listen here: watch?v=xWi98GTGXH0 - definitely the same song. Still, this video's genius, and Adam greatly improved the original.
Good God!! I had forgotten HOW amazing this (and HE!!) is. I fell in love with Adam at age 12, when Stand and Deliver came out, and never got over it, and can you blame me?! He even managed to be sexier as Clint, Valentino AND Alice - ALL of whom were ALSO damned sexy - than THEY were! Honestly, the ulitmate in S.E.X. - with talent too!! And Diana Dors, well... sexy AND CLASS!! Wow, how I pity modern teens... we had this, then rave too... what do they have?! Ah, those were the glory days!! :)))
im 16 and i HATE my generation. Its by far the shittiest. I so desperatly wish i couldve have lived in the 60's 70's and early 80's when music&movies were at their BEST and people acctually had style. Most music today is complete shit, and the music that is worth hearing, is hard as fuck to find. My friends think im lame because i only listen to old shit like led zeppelin & shit but its A MILLION times better than fucking "ke$ha" or the fagget jonas bros.
@skunkidy009 I wish I could teleport you back there too... I'm 41 now and was a teen in the 80s and a young adult in the 90s, so I got the best of the 80s mega-talent in music PLUS the best of the raw energy and talent of the HUGE early-to-peak rave/techno scene, and I count myself damned lucky. I see and hear what's on offer now and you're right, it's dismal in comparison - a few gems to be found, but buried deep. Wish I could give you my memories. Hope you find something good soon.
@skunkidy009 Heh... I'm 41 too!!... I guess that makes me pretty much a fossil in your eyes! Still, it's great to see that good taste, as ever, knows no age boundaries, and one thing you bright young things have now that we didn't in the 80s is the Net, so at least the great 80s and 90s musical classics we loved so much get to be enjoyed by the new generation too, even if not precisely at "first-hand", which can't be bad! :)
@skunkidy009 Hey, at least you have musical tastes, and that will spill into other areas of you life. Keep exploring great things. There's 50s jazz, Brazilian, tango, vintage salsa, etc. to discover and some of it is current and pretty great. Avoid the top 40 shit of today. It's downright tragic and time wasted.
Can anyone confirm something. At the end im sure ive seen a version where Adams dressed as The Godfather too. That one used to be on MTV occasionally in the 90s but I havent seen it for years. Im sure it was this song unless im going mad in me old age.
@MrTincho84ar Weird...?! Only if you don't understand (a) the long-standing British classic tradition of pantomime (complete with men playing Ugly Sisters, Dames and other "female" parts and girls playing "male" leads such as Aladdin), (b) a humorous role-reversal (here, Cinderella being a boy instead of a girl), and (c) the wonderful glam culture of the 1980s - oh, and also Adam Ant's typically EXTRA-glam (and sexy!) image. In THOSE contexts, it's simply wonderful - and far from weird :)
@NellJSmith excuse me, I don't mean to offend anyone, I just find it weird, because I don't put everything in the context you say, I'm not particulary intrested in british pantomime, or 80's pop culture, that is why I find it weird and not interesting, again I'm not trying to offend anyone, It's just an opinnion..
I think it's a way to avoid ped's...or possibly peds shopping. And or to male friends of the same age. When I was 14 I listened to Adam, and I preferred the company of people who liked the same music and were within my age range. I'm 43 btw and really think that kids should hang with kids. Maybe for safety sake, we should all be asked to post our age.
Big fan of Mr Ant, and have been for a long time. It never occurred to me that he might have been gay though.. It's ok if he is, I'm not judging... It just seems that gayness may be the underlying current in this video.... Maybe it was the directors vision and Mr ant had nothing to do with it...?? Who knows, this song is great, Kinhs of the wild frontier was a great album, fantastic drumming, creative arrangements and hardly any gay-ety at all... Not that there's anything wrong with all that..
Gay pop at its best and-- megafor whatever it is his BEST song --gay pop is my description of the best of glam new romantic and stuff like divine--tight fit-baltimora etc and at close to 60 years old I have been party to the best music this planet has ever produced--believe me GAY POP is the best
@GARCOOPY So wear them! Do you think most of us in the 80s were accepted for dressing like that?! The recent view of the 80s... basically the one in this video... makes people think EVERYONE had the nerve to dress outrageously back then - not so, not at all!! I did, albeit in a rather more punk style, as did my (small) group of friends, and believe me we were in a minority and were ridiculed. Just DO IT!! We did, and it was great. As the song says: "...Ridicule is nothing to be scared of"...! :)
I just think todays kids wanna let us older folks know that they like this stuff.. I think it's cool that our generations music is appreciated just as we appreciated the stuff from generations before ours! Kids, you go ahead and brag you like this kind of music! I love to read it, and it makes me glad kids today have good musical taste!
@johnjturner1 I'm not actually the youth of yesterday like you say, I'm actually 20. I just sometimes wonder if I'm the only person my age who appreciates old music and rock music because everyone else my age seems to like the shite on the radio.
@herroyalbitterness Absolutely - what a great reversal of the usual "half-naked dancing girls" featuring in most music videos, eh? Give us ladies something to drool at, I say! :D
Oh for the days of creative, innovative and interesting music to return; our nation is starving hungry for something more than rappers and cheesy synthetic TV show losers. Who buys that sh*t? Simon Cowell needs to die! He is putting the fire out and seems very happy to do so... (And when you say his name out loud, somewhere/somewhen a kitten dies!) So shush! And stop buying his w*nk...!
@johnjturner1 I don't keep up with the charts either. Pixie Lott is just another young female singer designed to appeal to teenagers who seems to appear on every single TV show running. And as regards to what Pixie Lott sings......nothing special, put it that way.
@johnjturner1 I don't really care much for today's music either, in fact most of it is a load of shit, too much electronic editing, shitty songs they had zero input in and dreadful lyrics they didn't even write!!! Prime example of the electronic editing- Pixie Lott. Heard her on the radio and thought she sounded quite good. But live she sounds like she has just had her tonsils out or something - she sounds fucking terrible!!!
Why do teenagers feel the need to announce their age on older videos? How old you are doesn't matter. Just because you're 14 and like Adam Ant doesn't make you any better than a 14 year old who likes whatever the hell is popular now. Different tastes for different people. I'm not trying to start shit, but this whole thing is annoying and pretentious -_-
@snogmyarse2890 I know what you mean about pretentious 'kids' mentioning their age when they comment on old music. At first it was cute then it became common place, now it's frigging annoying!!!
@BlakeVII To be frank, I never found it cute or even remotely amusing for that matter. I always thought it was an irritating. I'm just fed up with it at this point and felt the need to say so. What's more irritating, is that a perfect example of this nonsense happens to be a top rated comment.
@snogmyarse2890 I agree completely but heres something that might really get you annoyed... I don't think those 'kids' who right those sorts of comments, announcing their age are as young as they say they're.
@snogmyarse2890 What's pretentious is someone who I assume is an adult from the 80's like myself getting mad at kids who say they like our music and announce their age. If you guys who are annoyed with them really are adults, grow up and embrace the fact that these kids like these videos. When I was a teen in the 80's, my peers made fun of me because I loved 50's music like Elvis and Little Richard. Lighten up on the kids.
@novusmundi Like I stated previously, I wasn't trying to start shit. These are simply my opinions on the matter. You don't have to like them or agree with them. 14 year olds can like whatever they please, I honestly couldn't give a damn. I just think that announcing their age is an annoying means to bring attention to themselves and try to feel important. That's all I have to say on the subject. You're free to disagree, I harbor no ill will.
@snogmyarse2890 Come on, tell me you would not want to be 14 again? What is pretentious about the kid announcing his age? I am an old hag of 58 and played with Zappa. Most people say to my grandchildren, " Who was Frank Zappa?" When they see the picture of us on his wall. My favorite Grandson always says, " Just some freak my Nanny played music with a hundred years ago, as he plays the latest whatever on his guitar." Don't get so uptight. Music is to have fun, so have it! Love & Peace Patty
@MsPatty1952 Sigh, I will say it again. These are my views, you don't have to agree with them. I happen to think it's annoying as hell. I respect that you don't. If you want to think I'm uptight, hey that's cool, I honestly couldn't care. You can feel however you want, and I will do the same. Mmks? Fabulous.
@MrsPoodle78 That is Miss Cranky Pants, I'll have you know ; ). And to be frank, I'm over the whole thing. This is how I feel about it, if you don't agree, ok that's fine.
@snogmyarse2890 I think that there is a difference actually. Because I am only 8 years old and I think that droogs are bad and we should all come to an agreement because the only thing that will make us happy is the musics of this earth. I know this because I have learned everything I need to know about..maturity. I'm only 6 and I also like you.
@snogmyarse2890 Exactly - it makes it seem as if they only listen to music like this so they can brag about "I'm 15 and I'm awesome because I listen to this!!"
i do disagree young sir ,i think young people who seek out there own taste in music should be commended ,if not as Don McLean said thats the day music died.Music died for me in 1990!!!Keep your ears open kids
@bowlandboy Why do people assume that I'm a boy? I am very much a lady -_-
Anyway, I feel like some people are missing my point entirely. Not like it matters. I made this comment over 3 months ago, and honestly could care less about it. What I say isn't going to change anyone's behaviors. I was simply stating my opinions and my point of view. I wasn't condemning anyone. This is actually the last time I'm responding to this comment. I'm exhausted with it.
@snogmyarse2890 : I think if they want to say there age is fine....I would think they are cooler- Adam ant is way better than the garbage they put on the radio today.
@snogmyarse2890 Art becomes classic when it survives it's generation - when it's timeless. I think the point the kids are trying to make is that this has become a classic.
@snogmyarse2890 Art becomes classic when it survives it's generation - when it's timeless. I think the point the kids are trying to make is that this has become a classic.
This is still SO good! I loved it as a teenager back in '81 - his music was brilliant. And yes it was the late Diana Dors....
'Adam Ant' has had severe mental health (depression) issues since his golden years of success and didn't blow it all as some believe. He's still an awesome guy...
i was 13 when i first heard the ant's , now 43 i still love there music ( which was way out of anyones league then) it was this era that i was going into puck with the sex pistols, souxie and the banshee's ,ect those days where soooo electric ,loved them xxx
@pwincessletta yeah they were good times,,, we knew how to have fun,, kids smiled more ,,, still got mt ant records,,, and my pistols,,,,im 43 so i knopw what your talking about and how you feel
i'm nearly 40 and i remember my dad taking me to the local record shop in middlesbrough to buy this record i can honestly say it sounds as good today as it did back then. i'm over the moon that a 15 year old can appreciate a good record. well done peppremintglow hope you carry on appreciating good music
Apparently he played at the star pub in Reading when he was still a punk. Shame I missed it, and sadly the pub has long since been pulled down. Yes... you guessed it they built more office blocks. This town has lost it's soul just like Adam Ant lost his looks and reputation, Shame really!
I'm 16, and grew up listening to music like this. Where has the amazement disappeared to ? Now the 21st century are stuck with annoying people like Justin Bieber ):
@gemmahorne - Your tone is unnecessarily patronising. Knowing more than this song doesn't mean you're superior to anyone who loves this hit record - it just makes you an Adam Ant fan. & he isn't a punk. He was previously in a punk bad,yes, like everyone else of his age was once but that doesn't make him a punk as the idea was mainly a commercial buzzword of the pre-Thatcher years. If you prefer his other songs than listen to those instead. Simple
@BurningStarFire You said it, and I've been saying it for years! Someone should pass a law stating that all men should dress like Adam in this video - or in "Stand and Deliver", for that matter! - and that they should all then come round to my house for... tea :D :D
I'm 41 now and I've STILL never seen anyone more beautiful - male or female!
Oh, and yes, this WAS probably Adam's most "pop-py" song and video, but it still showed his great talent, just as his darker/more "out there" stuff did.
@myfairyking1 Thought so, everything in the video seems kinda' like the tipping point od glam just before it lost its charm and when to one noisy guitar killing hair band after the other. Marc Bolan, Led Zeppelin and Adam Ant started it, bad taste killed it.
@TheNinetySecond no love for the new york dolls? oh wait, they were american so clearly they just ate everything and started wars and were ignorant didn't have any influence on anyone ever.
@TheNinetySecond Go listen. They're amazing. Listen to Looking for A Kiss or Personality Crisis or Jet Boy first. They inspired the glam metal look more directly than any of the glam rock bands... and they also were one of the biggest influences on early punk. They're probably one of the most influential rock bands that ever was but basically no one knows who they are. Goes to show, it's all about marketing.
lol Yeah, our democracy is fucked up. It's actually pretty much not one anymore.
A time when artists tried to communicate something through music, sometimes it is not possible to understand what but at least they tried it in this paranoid period
Hey Antpeople! The Ants have released their first album since 1982..!
'Mantra 2 featuring The Ants' is out NOW. Marco Pirroni, Terry Lee Miall, and Chris Deniro contributed between them to the tracks: 'Werewolves of London', 'Confusion', 'Angels are Forever', 'Those Crazy Demons', & 'Don't we Miss you Now!'
Go straight to itunes, amazon, or whatever your fave site is. You will fxkng love it! We do.x
how can you not truly just love this...insane if you do not...this is fun fun fun
Simon4642 5 months ago
why'd ya have to go crazy, Stuart...
laydeeintrigue 5 months ago
*sigh* awesome.
skepticalsinner 5 months ago
bowie should have been this in the 80s
rhinonose 6 months ago
Just...unf.
sweeneytoddlover13 7 months ago
~~80's rule esp our adam ant..FOLLOWING ME ON FB..LINDA A PEREZ..IN CLUBS..HUN,,,THANKS O}O
PEREZLINDAANNETTE 7 months ago
I miss the 80s :'(
LyndaHudson 7 months ago
Animal Collective completely sounds like them....Now I know where they got their music style from
kriptonitekaya 7 months ago
Look at those special effects!
gabriellagorey1 8 months ago
The guy on the right at 0.26 is really good-looking
AkiraChan24 8 months ago
what the hell.
good song though...
ratlover35 8 months ago
I miss the era of the puffy shirt!
emmers57 9 months ago
@emmers57 Jerry Sienfeld would be proud!
Xcorgi 8 months ago
Is this Prince William's theme tune?
onydozie 9 months ago
@onydozie hahhahaha
heartpumpsdeisel 8 months ago
GIT PLAYER KILLED HIMSELF - SHOW THAT TO YOUR KIDS - IDIOT
mARCO
otto3663 9 months ago
Amazing.
karimba45 10 months ago
This is the song you should play to your little boys...parents...this is the kind of thing that makes them a real man...gives them confidence, dreams...its perfect...no bitches/hoes/violence...abuse...fear...NO Prince CHARMING ridicule is NOTHING to be scared of! Dont lower yourself forgetting all your standards!"
KAMEP2 10 months ago 2
@KAMEP2 Great comment. I agree 100%!!!!!!
chalklava 9 months ago
@KAMEP2 There is nothing sexier than a man who isn't afraid of the glam, dandy, and prince charming within. Some of the most heterosexual icons of film and music (i.e. Marlon Brando, Miles Davis, Timothy Dalton, Johnny Depp) are secure enough in their manhood to really turn on the dandy in their work or in real life. I miss the 70s/80s when fashion was highly androgynous, esp. in the music scene. The New York Dolls, Bowie, Siouxsie, Annie Lennox, and Prince all pushed gender roles.
miapatagonia 4 months ago
can't believe this hasn't even had one million hits, what the hell is wrong with people!
lordlewis9 10 months ago
nightmarrers...
candyisfuntoeat 10 months ago
hahahaha love it!
daniellasmith255 10 months ago
Man, wish i could go back to those days!!!!
00040ful 10 months ago
Why didn't I get into this band sooner? I am really starting to like! :)
silvermoonsicle 11 months ago
DIANA DORS <3
Gdev02 11 months ago
LOVE IT!
shreyajackass 11 months ago
Best video clipn ever !
Iantorchwood94 11 months ago
I rather thaught this was quite awsome, for the 80s. I love the 80s full of life, joy, and things that brings a whole new meaning to expression...through music.
navybabyengo 11 months ago
Absolutely hated Adam and the ants when I was a kid. Now I love everyone of their hits. And I cannot believe I didn't realise that all their videos were bloody pantomimes hahaha. Oh and feck off all you museos who go on about the ants being better before they were big and when they were punk, total shite, because at the time when the ants formed('78'ish) punk was dying and you can also look to blondies' back catalogue to see they also realised this and chose to diversify to pop to survive. Anyw
szorbino 11 months ago
His very early stuff was classed as punk, but it got a bit more pop as time went on. Either way, its all fantastic, and this is a fab, theatrical video!!!
themorph72 11 months ago
I have no idea why, but this song reminds me of Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews.
daryathebamf 1 year ago
dammit I love this song
Hardrada88 1 year ago
Adam is so hot - then and today....I wish he could come to NY for a concert.... I believe he still performs in the UK.
UR HOT ADAM ANT!
siouxise82 1 year ago
ANYWAYS....... song is freakin amazing =]
mmytornadoisresting 1 year ago
Adam Ant is the King of Post-Punk some would say Billy Idol But I say Adam!!!
americanmonarchist 1 year ago
@americanmonarchist You would call adam ant post punk?
spectergohan 1 year ago
@spectergohan He wasn't exactly new-wave not enough synthesizer and not the extreme punk of the sex-pistols hard to catagory maybe new-romantics the whole love of the French I just think Adam n the Ants are cool have a good one!!!
americanmonarchist 1 year ago
@americanmonarchist bwahahahahahaahahaha Adam and the ants Post punk. lol funny shit. Adam and the Ants are more New Romantic than Post Punk, stupid yank.
munyman07 11 months ago
@munyman07 Stupid yank I catch holy -hell here in the States for my love of all things British all right I may of classified Adam & the Ants in a wrong category I apologize. You cannot find a greater Anglophile than I. Stupid yank I am writing in clear language using proper grammer, spelling, and punctuation. What is a bwahahahahahaahahaha surely not anything HM the Queen would be saying I hardly doubt it's in an English Dictionary so God Save the Queen and the Windsor Dynasty!!!
americanmonarchist 11 months ago
@americanmonarchist *Sigh* Just ignore him/her, friend - no doubt s/he's about as popular here in the UK (or anywhere else, for that matter!) with THAT kind of attitude as the proverbial rattlesnake in a lucky dip. Good on you for taking the flak you must get for your views - God Bless Her Majesty indeed, and she'd be the first to apologise for the rudeness of "munyman07", I'm sure! Be assured we Brits aren't all ignorant "Yank"-haters, so thanks for your kind comments, from Across The Pond! :))
NellJSmith 11 months ago
@NellJSmith I'd like to apologize to HM for the "temper tantrum" the American Colonies had in 1776. I live in Original Thirteen Colonies territory State of NY and may have the blood of a Baronet in my veins off topic one of my favorite older British sit-coms is Are You Being Served Mr. Humphries ruled!!! Now if I said hey Adam belongs in the same genre as Ozzy, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, and Robert Plant then yes I am a daft-wanker who went off the rails a long time ago!!!
americanmonarchist 11 months ago
@americanmonarchist One of my fav comments ever I think.
Bionic3333 11 months ago
@americanmonarchist ... and because I ran out of space, may I add that Adam's music was always hard to categorise - in a class of its own, really - but, growing up as I did in the UK, in the 80s, and with a MAJOR Adam obsession, I can assure you that you could easily classify various of his tracks as either/or Post-Punk AND New Romantic, depending on your definition of either - and indeed on which track(s) you're referring to - so you weren't even wrong :)
NellJSmith 11 months ago
@munyman07 You're not making us Brits look good, you know. Were you even around when Adam wrote this track...? His style is actually unique, rather like Pink Floyd, so you can't really categorise it at all, but various of his tracks can be said to be either Post-Punk OR New Romantic - or neither - so please know of what you speak before you be so rude. Take it from someone who DID grow up in the 80s and owns every track Adam ever wrote, if you'd be so kind. Bwahahaha? Super Mario, anyone? ;)
NellJSmith 11 months ago
P.S... One thing worth mentioning is that this is one of the few times you ever see Adam Ant WITHOUT extensive make-up and costumes... and even as a scruffy kitchen-servant, with no make-up at all, he's still as sexy as, well - words fail me! Can't say the same for pretty much any other "sex idol", male or female. Genuinely gorgeous, even in rags - and I love his charmingly innocent smile :)
NellJSmith 1 year ago 3
On a different note from my persistent ranting about Adam's beauty... I've just checked out Rolf Harris's "War Canoe" and yes, out of fairness to Rolf, for sure "PC" is a direct copy, even with Adam's talent added, together with the trademark Antmusic drumwork, Native American influence, etc. What a shame Adam didn't publicly state this and avoid Rolf needing to sue. Listen here: watch?v=xWi98GTGXH0 - definitely the same song. Still, this video's genius, and Adam greatly improved the original.
NellJSmith 1 year ago
Good God!! I had forgotten HOW amazing this (and HE!!) is. I fell in love with Adam at age 12, when Stand and Deliver came out, and never got over it, and can you blame me?! He even managed to be sexier as Clint, Valentino AND Alice - ALL of whom were ALSO damned sexy - than THEY were! Honestly, the ulitmate in S.E.X. - with talent too!! And Diana Dors, well... sexy AND CLASS!! Wow, how I pity modern teens... we had this, then rave too... what do they have?! Ah, those were the glory days!! :)))
NellJSmith 1 year ago
Diana Dors. Nuff said.
flatleythebard 1 year ago
im 16 and i HATE my generation. Its by far the shittiest. I so desperatly wish i couldve have lived in the 60's 70's and early 80's when music&movies were at their BEST and people acctually had style. Most music today is complete shit, and the music that is worth hearing, is hard as fuck to find. My friends think im lame because i only listen to old shit like led zeppelin & shit but its A MILLION times better than fucking "ke$ha" or the fagget jonas bros.
skunkidy009 1 year ago 2
@skunkidy009 I wish I could teleport you back there too... I'm 41 now and was a teen in the 80s and a young adult in the 90s, so I got the best of the 80s mega-talent in music PLUS the best of the raw energy and talent of the HUGE early-to-peak rave/techno scene, and I count myself damned lucky. I see and hear what's on offer now and you're right, it's dismal in comparison - a few gems to be found, but buried deep. Wish I could give you my memories. Hope you find something good soon.
NellJSmith 1 year ago
@NellJSmith haha yeah i think the closest ill ever get to the 80's is my 280zx and my mom whos 41 hahahah
skunkidy009 1 year ago
@skunkidy009 Heh... I'm 41 too!!... I guess that makes me pretty much a fossil in your eyes! Still, it's great to see that good taste, as ever, knows no age boundaries, and one thing you bright young things have now that we didn't in the 80s is the Net, so at least the great 80s and 90s musical classics we loved so much get to be enjoyed by the new generation too, even if not precisely at "first-hand", which can't be bad! :)
NellJSmith 11 months ago
@skunkidy009 Hey, at least you have musical tastes, and that will spill into other areas of you life. Keep exploring great things. There's 50s jazz, Brazilian, tango, vintage salsa, etc. to discover and some of it is current and pretty great. Avoid the top 40 shit of today. It's downright tragic and time wasted.
miapatagonia 4 months ago
Can anyone confirm something. At the end im sure ive seen a version where Adams dressed as The Godfather too. That one used to be on MTV occasionally in the 90s but I havent seen it for years. Im sure it was this song unless im going mad in me old age.
bryemycaz 1 year ago
this is a really weird video....
MrTincho84ar 1 year ago
@MrTincho84ar Weird...?! Only if you don't understand (a) the long-standing British classic tradition of pantomime (complete with men playing Ugly Sisters, Dames and other "female" parts and girls playing "male" leads such as Aladdin), (b) a humorous role-reversal (here, Cinderella being a boy instead of a girl), and (c) the wonderful glam culture of the 1980s - oh, and also Adam Ant's typically EXTRA-glam (and sexy!) image. In THOSE contexts, it's simply wonderful - and far from weird :)
NellJSmith 11 months ago
@NellJSmith excuse me, I don't mean to offend anyone, I just find it weird, because I don't put everything in the context you say, I'm not particulary intrested in british pantomime, or 80's pop culture, that is why I find it weird and not interesting, again I'm not trying to offend anyone, It's just an opinnion..
MrTincho84ar 11 months ago
dressed like adam danced like adam greenhut disco gaynor and aidrians birthday happy days
dazza1973daheed 1 year ago
I think it's a way to avoid ped's...or possibly peds shopping. And or to male friends of the same age. When I was 14 I listened to Adam, and I preferred the company of people who liked the same music and were within my age range. I'm 43 btw and really think that kids should hang with kids. Maybe for safety sake, we should all be asked to post our age.
Blessings,
David
maybe safe is becoming cool, now that would rock.
sidiagung 1 year ago 2
Big fan of Mr Ant, and have been for a long time. It never occurred to me that he might have been gay though.. It's ok if he is, I'm not judging... It just seems that gayness may be the underlying current in this video.... Maybe it was the directors vision and Mr ant had nothing to do with it...?? Who knows, this song is great, Kinhs of the wild frontier was a great album, fantastic drumming, creative arrangements and hardly any gay-ety at all... Not that there's anything wrong with all that..
chadwicklooloo 1 year ago
Ahh this song, This song <3
Adam, come back to the business?
You are truely missed :(
12Maat21 1 year ago
Gay pop at its best and-- megafor whatever it is his BEST song --gay pop is my description of the best of glam new romantic and stuff like divine--tight fit-baltimora etc and at close to 60 years old I have been party to the best music this planet has ever produced--believe me GAY POP is the best
noproblem53 1 year ago
Not one of his better songs.
megaforcemedia 1 year ago
Is that Diana Dors?
ShakespearesFool 1 year ago
PIMMS ADVERT!
TherymasterWidnes 1 year ago
great
TheFionnualacollins 1 year ago
I Long for these Fashions again!!!
GARCOOPY 1 year ago
@GARCOOPY So wear them! Do you think most of us in the 80s were accepted for dressing like that?! The recent view of the 80s... basically the one in this video... makes people think EVERYONE had the nerve to dress outrageously back then - not so, not at all!! I did, albeit in a rather more punk style, as did my (small) group of friends, and believe me we were in a minority and were ridiculed. Just DO IT!! We did, and it was great. As the song says: "...Ridicule is nothing to be scared of"...! :)
NellJSmith 1 year ago
Top tune that still rings true .. ANTMUSIC all the way
ANTFANTASTICO 1 year ago
I wish my life was this video!
nubystardust 1 year ago 18
One of the best eras of music 1977-1983.
cnykee 1 year ago 29
I just think todays kids wanna let us older folks know that they like this stuff.. I think it's cool that our generations music is appreciated just as we appreciated the stuff from generations before ours! Kids, you go ahead and brag you like this kind of music! I love to read it, and it makes me glad kids today have good musical taste!
tiranchula 1 year ago 3
arr me school days wish i was back. been a lot of changes in life sins then. but not
realy for the best in my appion. bring back the innocence and morels people had then eh!
zippy5081 1 year ago
Remember kids; "Ridicule is nothing to be scared of..."
theblkxtc 1 year ago 3
@johnjturner1 I'm not actually the youth of yesterday like you say, I'm actually 20. I just sometimes wonder if I'm the only person my age who appreciates old music and rock music because everyone else my age seems to like the shite on the radio.
AngelRasmus3 1 year ago
@AngelRasmus3 No need to wonder, hon. You're not.
deborahsuewho 1 year ago
I think the best part of this video is the oily dancers on the cloud.... just throwing that out there.
herroyalbitterness 1 year ago
@herroyalbitterness Absolutely - what a great reversal of the usual "half-naked dancing girls" featuring in most music videos, eh? Give us ladies something to drool at, I say! :D
NellJSmith 1 year ago
Im 83 years old and Ive been listening to Adam Ant since bout '43 or '44.
dwilmer7 1 year ago 2
Yum yum i will take a bite of that!
MatildasCrown 1 year ago
Mizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Doors WOW
anthonynewsome 1 year ago
I love the reversed take on Cinderella here, Great! Be flamboyant, be original, be yourself, ridicule is nothing to be scared of!
brightphoebus 1 year ago 2
Oh for the days of creative, innovative and interesting music to return; our nation is starving hungry for something more than rappers and cheesy synthetic TV show losers. Who buys that sh*t? Simon Cowell needs to die! He is putting the fire out and seems very happy to do so... (And when you say his name out loud, somewhere/somewhen a kitten dies!) So shush! And stop buying his w*nk...!
drodga 1 year ago
@johnjturner1 I don't keep up with the charts either. Pixie Lott is just another young female singer designed to appeal to teenagers who seems to appear on every single TV show running. And as regards to what Pixie Lott sings......nothing special, put it that way.
AngelRasmus3 1 year ago
@johnjturner1 I don't really care much for today's music either, in fact most of it is a load of shit, too much electronic editing, shitty songs they had zero input in and dreadful lyrics they didn't even write!!! Prime example of the electronic editing- Pixie Lott. Heard her on the radio and thought she sounded quite good. But live she sounds like she has just had her tonsils out or something - she sounds fucking terrible!!!
AngelRasmus3 1 year ago
15 tae and lovee it snap fucken lefhaal x/x
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Ghostmilkuk 1 year ago
The time passed for this in 1989 :-(
alphavilleusa 1 year ago
SKINS!
mitoria 1 year ago 35
@mitoria ...what?
tommiisan 1 year ago
@mitoria which one or are you refering that this song reminds u of it
manlykblaze 1 year ago
@manlykblaze It's is on the SKINS original soundtrack
LissaApplesauce 1 year ago
GREAT STUFF
nymkga 1 year ago
Are the ugly sisters are the aunts of Emily "I'm a lady" Howard?
twistedmahogany 1 year ago
the songs could be a tad iffy(eg ant rap)but the videos were works of genius.Diana Dors forsooth
TimthedogLinehan 1 year ago
Why do teenagers feel the need to announce their age on older videos? How old you are doesn't matter. Just because you're 14 and like Adam Ant doesn't make you any better than a 14 year old who likes whatever the hell is popular now. Different tastes for different people. I'm not trying to start shit, but this whole thing is annoying and pretentious -_-
snogmyarse2890 1 year ago 56
@snogmyarse2890 I know what you mean about pretentious 'kids' mentioning their age when they comment on old music. At first it was cute then it became common place, now it's frigging annoying!!!
what do they want... a medal???
BlakeVII 1 year ago
@BlakeVII To be frank, I never found it cute or even remotely amusing for that matter. I always thought it was an irritating. I'm just fed up with it at this point and felt the need to say so. What's more irritating, is that a perfect example of this nonsense happens to be a top rated comment.
snogmyarse2890 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 I agree completely but heres something that might really get you annoyed... I don't think those 'kids' who right those sorts of comments, announcing their age are as young as they say they're.
BlakeVII 1 year ago
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snogmyarse2890 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 What's pretentious is someone who I assume is an adult from the 80's like myself getting mad at kids who say they like our music and announce their age. If you guys who are annoyed with them really are adults, grow up and embrace the fact that these kids like these videos. When I was a teen in the 80's, my peers made fun of me because I loved 50's music like Elvis and Little Richard. Lighten up on the kids.
novusmundi 1 year ago 2
@novusmundi Like I stated previously, I wasn't trying to start shit. These are simply my opinions on the matter. You don't have to like them or agree with them. 14 year olds can like whatever they please, I honestly couldn't give a damn. I just think that announcing their age is an annoying means to bring attention to themselves and try to feel important. That's all I have to say on the subject. You're free to disagree, I harbor no ill will.
snogmyarse2890 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 Come on, tell me you would not want to be 14 again? What is pretentious about the kid announcing his age? I am an old hag of 58 and played with Zappa. Most people say to my grandchildren, " Who was Frank Zappa?" When they see the picture of us on his wall. My favorite Grandson always says, " Just some freak my Nanny played music with a hundred years ago, as he plays the latest whatever on his guitar." Don't get so uptight. Music is to have fun, so have it! Love & Peace Patty
MsPatty1952 1 year ago
@MsPatty1952 Sigh, I will say it again. These are my views, you don't have to agree with them. I happen to think it's annoying as hell. I respect that you don't. If you want to think I'm uptight, hey that's cool, I honestly couldn't care. You can feel however you want, and I will do the same. Mmks? Fabulous.
snogmyarse2890 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 Ooooooh, Mr. Cranky Pants : )
MrsPoodle78 1 year ago
@MrsPoodle78 That is Miss Cranky Pants, I'll have you know ; ). And to be frank, I'm over the whole thing. This is how I feel about it, if you don't agree, ok that's fine.
snogmyarse2890 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890
Word!
atleewing 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 Word!
atleewing 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 I think that there is a difference actually. Because I am only 8 years old and I think that droogs are bad and we should all come to an agreement because the only thing that will make us happy is the musics of this earth. I know this because I have learned everything I need to know about..maturity. I'm only 6 and I also like you.
lollers 1 year ago
@lollers -_- sigh, losing faith in humanity on day at a time.
snogmyarse2890 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 Exactly - it makes it seem as if they only listen to music like this so they can brag about "I'm 15 and I'm awesome because I listen to this!!"
mirahvk 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890
i do disagree young sir ,i think young people who seek out there own taste in music should be commended ,if not as Don McLean said thats the day music died.Music died for me in 1990!!!Keep your ears open kids
bowlandboy 1 year ago
@bowlandboy Why do people assume that I'm a boy? I am very much a lady -_-
Anyway, I feel like some people are missing my point entirely. Not like it matters. I made this comment over 3 months ago, and honestly could care less about it. What I say isn't going to change anyone's behaviors. I was simply stating my opinions and my point of view. I wasn't condemning anyone. This is actually the last time I'm responding to this comment. I'm exhausted with it.
snogmyarse2890 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 : I think if they want to say there age is fine....I would think they are cooler- Adam ant is way better than the garbage they put on the radio today.
siouxise82 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 THANK YOU!! I wish this comment could be on every video where someone says that
wildly123 1 year ago
@snogmyarse2890 Art becomes classic when it survives it's generation - when it's timeless. I think the point the kids are trying to make is that this has become a classic.
mrschneideriii 11 months ago
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@snogmyarse2890 Art becomes classic when it survives it's generation - when it's timeless. I think the point the kids are trying to make is that this has become a classic.
mrschneideriii 11 months ago
been stuck in my head many months now. ¬.¬
i can't help liking it though...
KittyLilyy 1 year ago
This is still SO good! I loved it as a teenager back in '81 - his music was brilliant. And yes it was the late Diana Dors....
'Adam Ant' has had severe mental health (depression) issues since his golden years of success and didn't blow it all as some believe. He's still an awesome guy...
DonnaDoolittle33 1 year ago
o really?
sandandsunli 1 year ago
was that Diana Dors?
shandifox 1 year ago
@shandifox yep,,, god bless her
twostix67 1 year ago
this is so good. they where so good.....
He had it all! he had it all!!!!!! and blew the lot......
Rincewind1978 1 year ago
oh this take me back..! I used to be such a huge Adam Ant fan, and I can proudly say
I have ALL his albums(and 45's) on cd and vinyl.
catcookie 1 year ago
dance is the cherry on the cake, love it!
andwaaa 1 year ago
all time fave to be honest!
crkerrison 1 year ago
i was 13 when i first heard the ant's , now 43 i still love there music ( which was way out of anyones league then) it was this era that i was going into puck with the sex pistols, souxie and the banshee's ,ect those days where soooo electric ,loved them xxx
pwincessletta 1 year ago
@pwincessletta yeah they were good times,,, we knew how to have fun,, kids smiled more ,,, still got mt ant records,,, and my pistols,,,,im 43 so i knopw what your talking about and how you feel
twostix67 1 year ago
one for the boys in the christmas play
thanhwashere 1 year ago
Adam Ant Is brilliant.
weeboys2 1 year ago
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this is actually such a purely great song
MFGdance 1 year ago
and there is always diana dors....good god she was a babe in her day
ModellersMemorabilia 1 year ago
i'm nearly 40 and i remember my dad taking me to the local record shop in middlesbrough to buy this record i can honestly say it sounds as good today as it did back then. i'm over the moon that a 15 year old can appreciate a good record. well done peppremintglow hope you carry on appreciating good music
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gingerevo1 1 year ago 4
skins, season 1 episode Chris. <3
twilight9966 1 year ago
haha im like 13 and i loooove this :D! we are doing it at our school panto , cinderella ;).
the whole repeating over and over is kinda scary tho?
emmaj043 1 year ago
These Brit pop songs were true little art pieces. Nothing like it today.
marburg6 1 year ago
@buggy2550
Agreed
meggzybayybee 1 year ago
I only heard this song this summer on VH1 classic but like I was in my aunties kitchen watching this on the telly trying to the dance XD
googleyeyesrule 1 year ago
Apparently he played at the star pub in Reading when he was still a punk. Shame I missed it, and sadly the pub has long since been pulled down. Yes... you guessed it they built more office blocks. This town has lost it's soul just like Adam Ant lost his looks and reputation, Shame really!
martinaloony 1 year ago
@martinaloony Adam has not lost his looks
satori03 1 year ago
I'm 16, and grew up listening to music like this. Where has the amazement disappeared to ? Now the 21st century are stuck with annoying people like Justin Bieber ):
LeahhhhDaniell 1 year ago
Reminds me a lot of Animal Collective.
braydonthepirate 1 year ago
if you , like me, where a teenage r in the 80s - you wlda had a great time! It was a very creative time.
claudine121 1 year ago
This music is tribal and fascinating to listein too.I love all his songs.
LILBUBBArawr 1 year ago
I want his coat!
SpaceDan3000 1 year ago 2
i hate the fact that most people know adam and the ants purely through this song.
first, he is a punk, this is the most pop-py song he has made
second, it isnt really his best song either to be honest
i love adam ant, he is much better than this i can tell you.
gemmahorne 1 year ago
@gemmahorne - Your tone is unnecessarily patronising. Knowing more than this song doesn't mean you're superior to anyone who loves this hit record - it just makes you an Adam Ant fan. & he isn't a punk. He was previously in a punk bad,yes, like everyone else of his age was once but that doesn't make him a punk as the idea was mainly a commercial buzzword of the pre-Thatcher years. If you prefer his other songs than listen to those instead. Simple
xMadelienex 1 year ago 4
@xMadelienex --As true Adam Ant fan,who has followed his amazing career through all of it's phases, thank you, i couldn't have said it better.
weeboys2 1 year ago
just realised i've been doing the dance slightly wrong for years! lol
moojuice08 1 year ago
he looks hot in the shiek/rudolph valentino outfit
franzchick66 1 year ago
this band is the reason I'm obsessed with the 18th century, haha.
all men should look like Adam Ant in this video to be honest.
BurningStarFire 1 year ago
@BurningStarFire You said it, and I've been saying it for years! Someone should pass a law stating that all men should dress like Adam in this video - or in "Stand and Deliver", for that matter! - and that they should all then come round to my house for... tea :D :D
I'm 41 now and I've STILL never seen anyone more beautiful - male or female!
Oh, and yes, this WAS probably Adam's most "pop-py" song and video, but it still showed his great talent, just as his darker/more "out there" stuff did.
NellJSmith 1 year ago
Om nom! He's so hot, I would tap that any day. This song will go down in history :D ....mmm *drools* he is lush tho!
lottie405 1 year ago
80's in a nutshell. Fooking brilliant.
DELORNODEL 1 year ago
Diana dors can be my fairy godmother anyday . Great video
rarebutgreat 1 year ago
Prince chaming blasts a vampyre's ball.
waxyway 1 year ago
I would have sex with Adam Ant (back in these days) :D
JokerInThePack909 1 year ago 2
silk or leather... or a feather... respect yourself and all of those around you..... timeless brit eighty's music words of wisdom...
bluciano67 1 year ago 3
awesome song and vid but i find it a bit scary its just so weird
sheepdog2c7 1 year ago
I gotta ask you -as a newly aquired fan- Was Adam Ant before Marc Bolan? If not, he has definetly taken a LOT of good inspiration from him :D
TheNinetySecond 1 year ago
@TheNinetySecond Adam Ant was after was Marc Bolan, who Adam admired.
myfairyking1 1 year ago
@myfairyking1 Thought so, everything in the video seems kinda' like the tipping point od glam just before it lost its charm and when to one noisy guitar killing hair band after the other. Marc Bolan, Led Zeppelin and Adam Ant started it, bad taste killed it.
TheNinetySecond 1 year ago
@TheNinetySecond no love for the new york dolls? oh wait, they were american so clearly they just ate everything and started wars and were ignorant didn't have any influence on anyone ever.
ashoftomorrow 1 year ago
@ashoftomorrow I sadly don'y know the New York Dolls, but I've been referred to them by many music lovers that enjoy the same music as I do.
I don't think America is fucked up :)
...Except for your democracy, it's just weird :/
TheNinetySecond 1 year ago
@TheNinetySecond Go listen. They're amazing. Listen to Looking for A Kiss or Personality Crisis or Jet Boy first. They inspired the glam metal look more directly than any of the glam rock bands... and they also were one of the biggest influences on early punk. They're probably one of the most influential rock bands that ever was but basically no one knows who they are. Goes to show, it's all about marketing.
lol Yeah, our democracy is fucked up. It's actually pretty much not one anymore.
ashoftomorrow 1 year ago
@ashoftomorrow Will do. Thanks for the tip :D
TheNinetySecond 1 year ago
A time when artists tried to communicate something through music, sometimes it is not possible to understand what but at least they tried it in this paranoid period
BlackSkyThunder 1 year ago
Talk about looking like Rudolf Valentino!!!! Spitting image!
johnmik67 1 year ago
always thought Marco Pirroni the Ants guitarist never got any credit for his work .. classic stuff
psb20367 1 year ago 2
Hey Antpeople! The Ants have released their first album since 1982..!
'Mantra 2 featuring The Ants' is out NOW. Marco Pirroni, Terry Lee Miall, and Chris Deniro contributed between them to the tracks: 'Werewolves of London', 'Confusion', 'Angels are Forever', 'Those Crazy Demons', & 'Don't we Miss you Now!'
Go straight to itunes, amazon, or whatever your fave site is. You will fxkng love it! We do.x
thefokkerbrothers 1 year ago
I'm 15 and I LOVE this... where'd this kind of music go, people?! :[
PeppermintGlow 1 year ago 57
@PeppermintGlow the computer took over and ruined it
luisRRR69 1 year ago
@PeppermintGlow i was 15 too hwhen it was cool and up to date !!! so 30 years ago !!
redrozes1964 1 year ago
@PeppermintGlow check out thompson twins too and sousie and the banshees
immortalcelsius 1 year ago