The Ruts - In A Rut

[harty2912]

Saw them at Stonehenge.; that were when we were allowed to touch the stones 1981........mental

[chrisnorth27]

Henry Rollins sent me here

[yallop9]

He died around the same time as that Ian Curtis. Never understand why Curtis has been virtually canonised since but Malcolm Owen forgotten. Joy Division couldn't hold a candle to The Ruts.

[GodfreyTempleton]

This song man was on a serious mission to top himself.Note

[WhelkDoctor1]

I remember John Peel played this every night on his show for months when it was first released.

[Swaggs303]

worse thing ever did wuz sell my original copy with h-eyes on b-side twas the bees fuckin knees

[KurtMcGowan]

FUK YEH x

[jackandned1]

I saw the ruts in one of my first gigs aged 15 in the troubedor Port Talbot south Wales

scarey and fantastic the rodie coming on and singing his song jar war or thats how i remember it.

jer

[rusromans1]

STILL HAVE THE SINGLE, GREAT.

[sara301]

first heard this on John Peel show late at night on my crappy little radio. Never got to see them play which was always one of my great regrets. When Malcom passed away, JPeel played the funeral march or something equally moving when his 10pm show started - he could hardly talk.

[MrDgraham64]

some people with good taste,LOVE IN VAIN ,what a song.

[giggie]

fookin great !!!!

[RebelRadius]

I love this band. Hey, your'e in a rut - 20 years down the track and your still in it.

[hulud99]

great, awesome footage

[Viperclarkx01]

I got into the Ruts because Henry Rollins suggested them, and he has wonderful taste

[5stringdropout]

out of it



[TwoDogsX2]

Im 40 now, prolly woulda necked me bad self 25 years ago if wasnt for the positivity this song actually generates, and maybe a few times again, the lyrics may seem negative to the ignorant, but to the lamentor they are salvation

[ragl1]

A proper, real fuck-off band!!! Attitude a-plenty & such a together sound!!! Never Topped. Killing Joke make a good stab at it. So very missed.

cheers

Alan

[mikekadas]

In A Rut - The Ruts [Rotherhithe, England] - 1980 - "AMG pick. One of their BEST. GREAT punk vocals. GREAT guitar HOOKS, drums." - Something That I Said (The Best Of The Ruts) (EMI Gold)-1995.

NOTE: One of my better Punk band finds from this period.

Also check out these 5 star songs: Babylon's Burning, S.U.S.

With their unique blend of raucous punk rock laced with reggae and dub, the Ruts were one of the most exciting bands to emerge from Britain's late-'70s scene.

[danielsjeff]

Fuck a duck ... Sooooooo good.

[harty2912]

Theyr'e tops saw them at Stonehenge; if you want to see some classic punk go and see the UK SUBS with Charlie Harper, he's a diamond geezer and so down to earth at 66, and he'll have a chat with you, best live band u'll ever see.

[mikehunt3743]

1:48 thats right beat the shit out of him and get that guitar!

[teameymelli1]

this is amazing

[millionhells]

incredible.

[gazwilwah]

What a frontman! love it

[GAREMPOTS]

had every record they did even the twelve inches i was too young when they came too edinbutgh 1979 but an older friend was there and malcom owen came out clouds in edinburgh and a friend spoke too him true story

[LessAiredvanU]

The record I am possibly proudest of owning - bought on release, when recommended by a guy at the local record shop; "You might like this one..."

Damn right. I do.

[toopercentmlk]

I could have used this band a couple of years ago.

[wolverine37x]

I'm taken back in time to the late 70s listening to the nightime John Peel show on a crackly AM signal on BBC Radio 1......Good times.

[banditbronable]

Thankyou! Some one who edits this to marry the original song to the French "La Verve" concert ( is what you see) and put the very end of the song with Malcom hitting the cymbals..You've just made my evening. Thank you and God bless the Ruts forever.

[potace]

Lovd them in the same way I love the Clash. They transgressed the 3 chords into many musical forms. Never got the respect they deserved.

[marynightshade]

Before today, "Babylons Burning" was the only Ruts song I'd heard-listening to these other songs makes the singers heroin overdose seem even more sad...

[rp61wasinnocentok]

@marynightshade In that case; and if you haven't heard it already, search for their 'Love In Vain' track. That'll have you in tears, a very moving song even today.

[Pacquaio]

@marynightshade the passing of Malcolm was undoubtedly the passing of a prodigious talent

all the best to both hm and Foxy

[MrSKINFLICK]

i never watched a Ruts video before - i didn´t know that they had such beefy well built hunk singer.....uuummh - i´m gettin a bit sexist i suppose.......all the different surprising sides of punk........

best german wishes........

[nsmith4cg]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh the ruts - way better than pistols or the clash

[harty2912]

One of the few REAL punks saw em at the Colston Hall Bristol, this was the gig and the Damned had to follow; then I saw thm at Stonehenge 1981 Malcom was gone by then shared a spliff with the guitarist.

[malibumut]

@harty2912 Can totally relate, would have been filth, I shared a spliff & a 4xxxx with Angus Young from ACDC, front row, Brisbane Ent. Centre, singing TNT, while my best friend was greeting the toilet bowl, hahaha, how good is it ?? ;-)

[DAVWAVE]

@malibumut Please elaborate on this Angus story. I am an Easybeats/George Young fan. thanks.

[malibumut]

@DAVWAVE nothing else to say,,, Cheers! :-)

[harty2912]

I actually miss his guy, I've seen em all but Malcom Owen took the buscuit a true punk. supportedthe damned at The Colston Hall Bristol 1978;and stonehenge but he was dead by then and the ruts without owen was a no go. he was the ruts

[anotherwelshboy]

Fantastic tune.

[colutd1]

You brain dead , i blog on records , with a name like owen , im sure hed come smash bankers with us , you punks do you fight the banksters , standing army or mob , its your choice , i stand with anything that spiritually fights the banksters, do have any brothers in this world or have you all been micro chipped already . Feck your danelaw , us saxons will have a fit and riot .. if we let the bankers carry on its hyperinflation time and starvation for mny britons , your in a rut , stand .

[Enquiringmind777]

@colutd1. I know where you're coming from here mate, like being microchipped and all that. I suppose you know that in France they're protesting about having to retire at 62, general strikes and all that. Here in England my generation are going to have to work till 66. Where is the quality of life man? It's a case of work and die.

[mentalfive]

@Enquiringmind777

the american response to colud1's comment: " ...huh?"

[kristalklass]

Momentous xxx

[Magnum6700]

I met Malcolm after a gig at Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent. He'd taken a lot of drugs, and wasn't ashamed to tell anyone. Great talent. Still sends shivers up my spine.

[ZLUGGO]

One of the highlights of their career.

[TheElasticJesus]

Probably the best yet most under-rated punk band.

Saw Ruts DC, but sadly never saw Malcom Owen.

[taffiuk1969]

wot a cracking band, discovered them in my early teens, good times!!!

[src456]

my fave Ruts song - wish i had been old enough to see them live. Great vid too, where is footage from?

[rp61wasinnocentok]

Sorry, not sure where they're playing.

Chorus TV is all I can tell you...

Which is French TV is it not?

[Raaww1964]

@rp61wasinnocentok

Yes Chorus was a total live program

[GAREMPOTS]

@src456 JUST SEARCH YOU TUBE ITS FOOTAGE FROM A GIG DONE 78 79 YOU CAN HERE THE LIVE STUFF ON YOU TUBE FOM THIS SHOW THE BIT WERE HE TAKES THE GUITAR IS GREAT ITS A SHAME THEY WILL NEVER BE ONLY 2 OF THEM ALIVE DRUMMER AND GUITAR PLAYER BUT MAYBE GREAT THINGS SHOULD BE LEFT ALONE RIP

[damned7535]

m,o, kicks ass,god bless

[rubitchen]

true punk never dies.

[Enquiringmind777]

Incidentally I saw this band in Bristol 79 at the Colston Hall supporting the damned.

Man the Ruts stole the show!

[SHErocks1929]

@Enquiringmind777

I bet they did- they were ace!! I fckn loved the Ruts then, n still do now-Well pleased to find so many tracks I'd 4got about..I'll 'fav' them all...good ol Utube.

It HAS 2b malcom owens' Ruts tho-( not Rollins)!!!.... ;p

[TheLooby101]

@Enquiringmind777 It was brill.... i was at the same gig... .: )

[0114owl1867]

reading comments makes me realise how much this band was loved and i can see why

[Enquiringmind777]

Next time you're in some crappy dead end job which I've been in quite a few times. I start to sing this song. And I mean it dudes, if you're in Rut for damn sake get outta it. Don't waste away the years being taken for a ride. Better sometimes to walk straight out of the door of some jobs even without another to go to than get stuck in a RUT.

[panicbeach69]

Too fucking right!

[ellycat]

So true, mate.

[RHutton2710]

@Enquiringmind777: personally I like to sing 'It's raining men'. It's not sociopolitical, but you have to admit its a pickmeup.

[spudcustardx1]

@Enquiringmind777 soo true

Mr Spud

[scrappy5011]

@Enquiringmind777 hmm I wish you had posted this comment 20 years ago!haha

[rumpraisin]

@Enquiringmind777 I have walked out of crappy jobs in the past. It's easier to do this when you're only looking after number one. I think Malcolm Owen might have been singing about his heroin rut.

[punkbabydoll77]

good video...nice harmonies...

[andrewlewis963]

think i might be

[bedsitbogie]

Soul had James Brown! Punk had The Ruts!!!!

[TonySlug]

these guys were awesome live

[missbabydoll187]

i loved the song since the first time i got a ruts cd...

[orangesfromlondon]

My favorite vocal harmony of all time. "You're in a rut... and you've gotta get out of out of it..."

[NineShagnasty]

Anthem of our times.

Nicely edited vid btw.

[antc65]

Loved this when heard on John Peel show. Bought the single original on People Unite records

[ecopunk66]

RIP Malcolm and Foxy!

hats off to em all!

good of henry rollins, molara, john robb and countless others to do the benefit gig!

[ecopunk66]

I wonder if any of the NME from newcastle are watching this?

[tony2329]

saw them a few times in my younger days, when i lived in london.

sad loss, malcolm owen r.i.p

[davemcteer]

Superb. I always loved this song.. Punk never dies people just look older.. Funny though the title is so apt in todays credit crunch.

[ojisensei]

Great stuff, like a lot of the other posters here I saw them supporting the Damned, Digbeth Civic Hall in Birmingham in 1979, 15 years old, cracking gig. At the end Malc jumped into the crowd, had his red triangle T-Shirt ripped off him .... got a bit I kept in my singles box for years after. Sad loss, saddest song, Love In Vain. Nice video, thnx

[rp61wasinnocentok]

Yeah 'Love In Vain' is truly a great song.

It still annoys me a little how out of all the many bands I seen around this time, the Ruts are one of the bands I never managed to get to see live.

[pcornish77]

@ojisensei

Yep, I was there that night too - tanked up on Watney's Starlight from the bar. Didn't Owen come out during the Damned's set to deal with someone in the crowd who had annoyed him earlier?

[shonuffido]

@pcornish77 He said in the NME a couple of weeks later that he got jumped by skins in the crowd, Have a reproduction from one of those 25 year Punk Anniversary specials produced in 2002.

[shonuffido]

@ojisensei ha ha ha... was 15 and at the very same gig too mate. tomorrow 14/7/2010 is 30 years since his death in 1980. Cant believe that. Great memories of that night though with The Damned. STILL the best of the second wave bands

[Enquiringmind777]

I remember seeing the Rut's at Colston Hall Bristol, back in 79/80, supporting the Damned. UNFORGETTABLE.!!! They stole the show. I'll never forget it, there was this smell of deoderant, and people were gobbing at Owen, he didn't give a toss, man he was outa it. Yes in those day's the punks used to gobb at the bands. Process that. And then the Damned walked on afterwards, a bit of a let down after Owens warm up.

[roddy76to86]

The wonderful gobbing craze ! I saw The Clash in Dundee about 1979, and they were covered in a sea of gob, kept having to towel their guitars down so they could play them...ah, the nostalgia !!

[MISTRA77]

I saw them on the same tour, I think, at Exeter Routes(?). Owen head butted a symbol, cut his head real bad, splashed blood over the front row and fainted - gig cancelled. In later pics you can see the scar between his eyes.

[allhull]

saw them at hull uni with our kid (sorry my brother) he was into them I was more damned..memories eh!

[colutd1]

spot on roddy , where is the ruts song your so young you take s m a ck for fun, whats it called. my team colchester play milwall tonight , need to play this before the match, good luck col u.

[rp61wasinnocentok]

That track is called H-Eyes

[roddy76to86]

They would need to play this at the stock markets at the moment !!

[daipunker65]

what a great great band then and now.

[willzz2007]

R.I.P PAUL FOX

[2206sharosa]

saw them so many times at 14-16 and they were better than the clash by a mile and yep if malcolm had lived they would have smashed them all - i wear the badge with pride and god i miss what he and they would have become and what they would have sung but what a moment in history they all remain....best band ever....ever

[ZenGangster]

Played support to them at Cheltenham and Newport - they were really decent to us given what a bunch of wankers we were. Foxy was amazing live, climbing up onto the rafters and balancing 12ft off the ground still playing. Absolute nutter. I think they should be really proud of all the memories they left behind.

[bnk9294]

saw them at Newcastle and had a drink with them, grat bunch of lads. Sasdly missed Malcolm, they were on the verge of being huge!!!

[cider06]

missed em just, but loved em none the less, great soudtrack to me young shit.

[rozkendal]

15 in 1979 saw the ruts supporting the damned at blackburn king georges hall, the best gig ever!!!!!!!!EVER

[bastardluv]

Absolutley Anthemic!!!

[stupidxx]

...Southall Festival - only 3 bands and no one came...... I got to fix Paul Fox's Copycat Echo... we jammed a set together with a 10 year old singing.... ha ha - out of it

[flanneryged]

Mally Owen knew he was in big Heroin trouble

when he wrote this song,as it all comes from

bitter times of going "cold Turkey".He got clean and had "one last dig" to celebrate,his

poor Mother found the kid dead in the bath.

R.I.P Malcolm Owen.

[BANDITBRON]

thanks for vid... i saw original, but this is a good bit where the vid slows down and shows you malcolm in slow motion, apart from titties bouncing in slo-mo....this is brillant! Malcolm RIP

[shrinkhed]

much more than just another punk band. CLASSIC

[andywessington]

They were a fantastic band. I wish I had seen them live. This brings back memories of sitting in my bedroom late at night listening to john peel. There was so much original music about at that time

[kirkwanglers32]

Rip Owen Regards CJ.

[drstevie]

fantastic.saw them at Redcar Coatham Bowl,few months before Malcolm died.