huuuuuummmm. reminds me of a trip I made to Kentucky lake back in the '80's, sitting on the shore, looking at the stars and, and , and well from there you must use your imagination
The eighties had lots of great music, but this is not it. Tired rock rhythm, and lyrics from the sixties, at least a year after they became entirely unpalatable.
I loved his music until he decided to use his fame as a political platform. I haven't listened to his music in decades....but what a beautiful high range voice! And the lawyers in love.... what a great parody of what used to be called yuppies..... JB always had a sense of the angst in the midst of material surfeit. (Having all this stuff (cars houses success) yet living in this modern routine doesn't quite make us completely happy.)
Jackson Browne is stunning! He has always been good in any decade in which he recorded. His 80s material really did dazzle me, especially the Lawyers album!
Jackson sounds like he is at his artistic best when he hit those high notes! The Balance album also took the cake!
I can see where both sides are coming from. I'm 28 and always loved the 80s (most of the 90s are cool too), so I can understand nostalgizing these old-school storyline videos they did up to '92/93, but I like a decent amount of new music too. Just look at things for what they are and don't compare it to the past.
Basically I hate when people get close minded either direction, lol.
LOVED this song from the first time I heard it, but this video is from hunger! Does no justice to the song at all. But I'm glad it's here, and grateful for EVERY JB post. Can never get enough.
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Yeah, I expected that. You're just another one of those overly-nostalgic losers who can't give anything new a chance. Why don't you go walk to the mall with your walk-man and play Pac-Man in the arcade, faggot?
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i just read where jb sued because the republican party played his song running on empty. he should be grateful that anyoneis listening to his music. x fan
Jackson Browne sings so well on this song. Then again, when did he not? It is just that the 1980s represented such a wonderful time for music to keep growing in so many dimensions. Perhaps the man was at his very best with the issue of "Lawyers in Love." He certainly keeps me very deeply inspired with this album. How did he do it?
Over the years, Jackson seems to just get better all the time. Each and every single one of his albums is worth buying and playing on a daily basis.
I remember reading about the inspiration for the song title. When Jackson Browne's Australian brother in law first visited Los Angeles, he remarked that "this city looks like it was built by lawyers in love." It was like Jackson Browne wrote the song to immortalize that hilarious comment.
Clear Channel did NOT ban the Dixie Chicks. I wish people would stop repeating that lie. Cumulus did that. Clear Channel was a promoter of their tour that and the following year. Clear Channel has problems but that wasn't one of them.
You're right, DO look it up. You'll find that the charges were false, no crime was committed, and the police found absolutely NO evidence of (I'm assuming you mean) Darryl Hannah being hurt.
Just because no charges were filed by either one means nothing. BOTH Daryl and jackson Brownes friends saw the bruises on Daryl and lacerations. Even if he wasn't charged, evidence shows he did it.
Until there is convincing evidence and charges are filed, you need to stop spreading rumor or give us (and the police) adequate & convincing evidence that he was beating his wife.
I went skiing last weekend and sustained some "bruises and lacerations" on a black diamond, but it doesn't mean my lesions must have been abuse. If his wife can show evidence and is emotionally ready to testify, then we have a different story.
I first remember this song when I was about 7 years old on the radio on a weeknight me and my older aunt were driving to Green Bay to pick up her first Shelty puppy. She was making fun of the song asking why would lawyers be in love. I didn't know what a lawyer was and replied "Maybe they quit there jobs."
The puppy subsequently was run over by farm equipment next week.
That was the saddest, yet funniest thing I have ever heard! My friends and I were in high school when this album came out. We would always trade cassettes back and forth. This one went back and forthe dozens of times. Only Blue Oyster Cult's Extraterrestrial Live was traded more.
But it was never run over by farm equipment. But it DID get eaten by our Irish Setter at the time.
This is a great indictment of the evil wrought by the freedom released upon the Soviet Union, but nobody will ever interpret this song that way. Is there anybody who can statistically prove that Eastern Europe is a BETTER place nowadays than when hospitals and universities were free and there were no theocracies like Poland around?
nobody will interpret this song that way because it was released about 6 years before the wall came down. so, unless brown was seeing the future, this song has absolutely nothing to do with your "freedom released upon the soviet union"
The Soviet Union was on its last legs when Jackson wrote this song. He depicts the USSR as an empty threat (the Russians landing in Washington) already earmarked for exploitation by smarmy legals in the mid 80's. Curious, there were no lawyers in the Soviet Union before the "fall". Afterwards, it had, like the States, one of the highest per capita of the vermin. That's what Jackson's hinting at. It's now their "vacation land".
ummm,this song came out in 82 or 83 nobody thought USSR was on it's last legs.You are looking back on this era taking into account what you know now.Music affects people differently and you can put your own spin on what the song means to you but don't be surprised when nobody shares your take on the song when you put in ideas and motives that just could not be there.
The thought that the West could drive the USSR to exhaustion was formed in the 1970s. Few people believed it could be done. Thatcher of England actively spoke of it. She is parodied by Pink Floyd about this in "The Final Cut". This song parodies what would happen had the USSR just gone away, as if that sort of thing were a fantasy, as it seemed then. The beautiful irony is that it's a pretty good prediction of the 1990's post Soviet era. History follows art ....
communism is a flawed system - it will never be successful simply because it puts the common good before the good of the people - government is here for the sake of the people - people are not here for the sake of government - in the ussr the people suffered and the government didn't - i am afraid that is what has been happening in the usa for too long we must change this - if you want to make america great - do for yourself not for the country
You sound a bit mixed up on a few things. The USSR was run according to communisnm for less than ten years before the workers had control taken from them by the state.
No country has been run along Marxist lines for a long enough period to be able to say whether it works or not.
Good! I like that: the common good is not the good of the people.
But I'm still waiting for some proof, preferably health and suicide statistics, that shows that Russia, after almost twenty years of freedom, is better for the AVERAGE person than it used to be.
As far as DIY government, pleeeese. Tell that to the banks, auto companies and other free market advocates.
Face it: neither you nor I would survive in a country where people did things for themselves. Well, Bernie Madoff did.
the common good is not the good of the individual - what is good for you might not be good for me - people turn to two things in time of need - god and government - one doesn't exist and the other is evil - it is not the government that will change humans it by each on of us standing up for justice!!! - and as for bernie madoff he is going to be thrown in jail - if you want the death penalty that is fine with me!!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss the Reagan era! (sigh). These days, things are just too Liberal. On TV you have these dumb celebrities like Sean Penn, Tim Robbins telling us what to think; not to mention bimbos like Tina Fey.
So you'd rather have imbecilles like Rush Limbaugh, the posterboy for conservative hypocrisy, Chuck Norris and Bill O the clown telling you what to think? Think for yourself and you'll see what a bunch of baffoons those morons are.
I was actually looking for another 80s song when I found this. I love this song it's great. But can anyone help me find another video? All I have to go on is two little girls talking on a space ship looking out a window and one says "she likes a certain guy" and the lyrics said something like "they fall in love" or "young somethings fall in love"... Any ideas? :)
i heard this song on the radio while at work today, just feel in love! but like loonmaniac says, it has noting to do with ahything, and thats why its just so freaking good. just love it. thanx for puting it up here
Thanks for posting this song; it's been a while since I've heard this song. As for the meaning, I always thought that it symbolized the greed and the quest for power in the '80's. You know, the "Yuppie Decade..."
I have no clue what the lyrics mean and I dont care to find out. I just know that the song reminds me of my first girlfriend and kiss when I was 14. It was late at night after watching fireworks 4th of July 1983. We then went to her house and watched MTV. This was playing.
some knob wrote "lawyers rock!". lawyers are the biggest dirtbags on the planet. and don't say until you need one. they created such a complicated system that makes you need one to get justice. get a real job ya leeches.
Franklin Raines the former CEO of Fannie Mae lied about earnings to receive bonuses. At the end of it, he collected hundreds of millions of dollars breaking corporate malfeasance laws. Fannie Mae didn't report earnings for 3 years as a result, and now they are essentially bankrupt. He kept 90% of his money.
Martha Stewart a billionaire went to jail for $40,000 of insider trading.
How well does the law work when somebody who has stolen 100s of millions of dollars walk away after paying a small fine and when somebody who stole something very inconsequential spends actual time in prison?
Lawyers are worthless.
What Franklin Raines did is part of the reaso 840 billion dollars was given to Hank Paulson, by a bunch of LAWYERS.
you try being one lets see how good you would be , do not generalise there are some of us who work hard for our communities and just one bad apple cannot justify calling us worthless .
I'd probably be a decent one, but I'd rather remain an engineer. It's a pointless existence to me to go through life creating nothing other than paperwork. I guess it could be worse, I could work in PR.
If it weren't for us lawyers insurance companies would run the world. You don't know what you're talking about so stop trying to be intelligent, your ken is far below most lawyers.
insurance companies??!! that's the other horn of the devil.
so who does run the world Mr. "intelligent" lawyer? you lawyers? free masons? oil companies? all of the above perhaps & what a wonderful job you've all done... bravo!!
you should really rethink your profession. feeding off the misfortune of others is no way to make a living & if there is an afterlife Lucy.... ju got some splainin to do.
Brings back a LOT of memories in my days right out of high school and the muted colors and feel reflect my ambivalent mood at the time facing a big world on my own. Strange how sounds, sights, & smells can recreate almost exactly a state of mind at a given time.
According to Pop-Up Video, Jackson was 35 when he made this, the shorter "alien" is his son, and the scene of the landing plane is actually footage of the Beatles' plane landing in America in 1964. Just a little trivia.
This video is so cool! Especially the part where Jackson is eating out of a t.v. dinner and the lawyer inside of the vehicle floating in the water. I love this song and I just don't hear it enough on the radio!
GREAT VIDEO, GREAT SONG, GREAT ALBUM! There isn't 1 SONG on this Album that is Bad, My Favorites are "CUT IT AWAY" "KNOCK ON ANY DOOR" "FOR A ROCKER" "TENDER IS THE NIGHT" "SAY IT ISN'T TRUE" and this one! JB and the BOYS, ROCK OUT HARD!
This was what, 14 years after "Doctor My Eyes"? And he looks about 20 years old.
ArnoldGallagher 2 years ago
huuuuuummmm. reminds me of a trip I made to Kentucky lake back in the '80's, sitting on the shore, looking at the stars and, and , and well from there you must use your imagination
browndog2233 2 years ago
I heard this in satellite radio and didn't remeber it or the video. But I do miss the days when musicians had something to say.
grykderf 2 years ago
The eighties had lots of great music, but this is not it. Tired rock rhythm, and lyrics from the sixties, at least a year after they became entirely unpalatable.
arsoys 2 years ago
I loved his music until he decided to use his fame as a political platform. I haven't listened to his music in decades....but what a beautiful high range voice! And the lawyers in love.... what a great parody of what used to be called yuppies..... JB always had a sense of the angst in the midst of material surfeit. (Having all this stuff (cars houses success) yet living in this modern routine doesn't quite make us completely happy.)
peachjwp 2 years ago
Jackson Browne is stunning! He has always been good in any decade in which he recorded. His 80s material really did dazzle me, especially the Lawyers album!
Jackson sounds like he is at his artistic best when he hit those high notes! The Balance album also took the cake!
sandinyourshoes 2 years ago
Remeber when there was MUSIC on MTV?
tgrunau 2 years ago 3
Jackson Browne's best record IMO. By the way, the comments here, just below this one, make me feel discouraged. But I'm weird that way.
thishereguitar 2 years ago
The single best song he ever recorded, yes. He had been improving release by release up until this, but he understandably never topped this one.
ArnoldGallagher 2 years ago
I can see where both sides are coming from. I'm 28 and always loved the 80s (most of the 90s are cool too), so I can understand nostalgizing these old-school storyline videos they did up to '92/93, but I like a decent amount of new music too. Just look at things for what they are and don't compare it to the past.
Basically I hate when people get close minded either direction, lol.
JPMcFly1985 2 years ago
LOVED this song from the first time I heard it, but this video is from hunger! Does no justice to the song at all. But I'm glad it's here, and grateful for EVERY JB post. Can never get enough.
GreatSongTraveler 2 years ago
Videos were cool and told a story. Not like today where it's a lot of CGI and some idiot Auto-Tuning about his bling.
loonmaniac 2 years ago 5
I think you need to give today's music videos another chance. OK?
fyfytj 2 years ago
I'm going to have to go ahead and say "no", on that.
loonmaniac 2 years ago
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Yeah, I expected that. You're just another one of those overly-nostalgic losers who can't give anything new a chance. Why don't you go walk to the mall with your walk-man and play Pac-Man in the arcade, faggot?
fyfytj 2 years ago
Right after I'm done orally satisfying your mom.
loonmaniac 2 years ago 2
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa !!!!!!!!!
newfport 2 years ago
So you like dead people then?
fyfytj 2 years ago
It had it's chance.
Illousion1 2 years ago
80's rocks. This garbage these kids listen to these days, rap, no comparison. feel sorry for their gangsta brainwashing. Especially the white kids.
acftmac 2 years ago
I agree. Can't stand all this other garbage out now. Sadly, it seems real rock n roll music is dead. It died sometime in the early 90s.
vanillapie 2 years ago
I haven't seen this since I was a kid.
Now I see it from a whole new perspective.
CaptainPillowMusic 2 years ago
i don't know why not sooner
but
i loved the song when it came out
was mad as hell when it was not of the greatest hits album!
thank you for the post
Peothra 2 years ago
cool song.. good post
chrisquick123451966 2 years ago
videos were videos in those days! not just a bunch of hectic, random, overloaded, much too fast-paced cut pictures as it is the case these days.
Dorfkanal 2 years ago
I wish I didn't love this song, but I do. Guilty as charged.
mpweingartner 2 years ago
Looks like alot of us are living in the past....mmmm, better than current times, isn't it? LOL
hovanti 2 years ago
Ah, the glory days of MTV...back when they actually used to play videos 24/7!
AdamsApple1963 2 years ago 5
I agree! Why are they still on the air? Certainly NOT to show videos.
donnafelledge 2 years ago
geat song !!! brings back soo many memories !! of the carefree days !! I wish I had a time machine !! So I can go back to these days!
nytterepos247 2 years ago
great song. i saw this on friday night videos. i was 8 and scared of russia and all out nuclear war.
bblokes 2 years ago 2
Last night I watched the news from Washington to the Capital. I enjoy this song and the Video I remember when it was played on MTV back in 1983.
pault112 2 years ago 4
¡Já, já, já!!!..nunca había visto este video, ¡¡¡es una locura!!!.Linda canción de aquel lejano año 83!!!
centellas07 2 years ago
I love this song...silly but fun!!
hystyker 2 years ago 2
"and i think the USSR will open soon...as vacationland for...lawyers in love..."
Jackson Nostradamus?...hmmmm.
NevadaBoss 2 years ago 2
mmmmm....the 80's, life was so reaganish and simpler than clintonism
ninahh125 2 years ago 2
I wish TV Dinners were still in the aluminum trays...they were so much better then! I love this song so much!!
Memoryburst 2 years ago 3
Why, bless my stars! Is that the Synchronized Briefcase Drill Team from the old Doo-Dah Parade in Pasadena, CA?
TheHardcase 2 years ago
Great great great. So college dorm room 1983, Like any great artist and song this is so ahead of its time
sindy46947 2 years ago
A great song, most underrated, and a fabulous video. This is so fall of `83. Great memories, thanks for posting.
jdbaes 2 years ago 2
This is so '80's!
Remember when videos used to be fun?
Nicecatholicgirl 2 years ago 9
Yes, I recall when life was fun.
Winky395 2 years ago 5
does jackson look like he could be iggy pop's better looking brother to anyone else besides me?
eydie57 2 years ago 2
eydie,
Yeah, his wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better looking brother, LOL.
tifjoking 2 years ago
A sure gem of a song from a versatile musician. Reminds me of when I was younger. I love this tune, almost as much as Tender is the Night
cheffy84 2 years ago 4
thanks for the upload :)
PinkPranker 2 years ago 3
haha, sweet. The light from the TV is in sync with the song.
Beatlesrule123 2 years ago
ha ha 3:05 my dad is the second guy who gets off the plane:p
PinkyGurl450 2 years ago
I like this song but the vid is kinda cheesy. No offense its good you posted this, thank you anyway
demoguy360 2 years ago
Bad
guitarplaya3673 2 years ago
i just heard this playing in my local grocery store..... what a great song to shop to LOL
JoannaSatana 2 years ago
Great video. Thanks for posting this, I couldn't find it!
Keeperelf 2 years ago
I remeber watching this video on MTV!
Definitely the weirdest lyrics from any of his songs!
kelso102970 2 years ago
the capitals are out of the playoffs.
edurtsnah 2 years ago
That sucks,
so are my 'Nucks.
Ovechkin's
o'golfin
blader45bc 2 years ago
Great lyrics.
Punktowner 2 years ago
A very tounge-in-cheek look at the Reagan era...seems like too long ago.
94cadillacfleetwood 2 years ago
A classic old video from back when mtv actually showed music videos
yahowa57 2 years ago 2
I move that this video be remembered nostalgically.
trespasstoland 2 years ago
That music re-mind me of 80's babes :-)
Now those lawyers are dancing. How about Jun Lozada is dancing on the Jail. You know the guy of the ZTE project here in the Philippines?
hilarioph 2 years ago
This song, in my opinion, is the most underrated song on the most underrated album Jackson Browne ever recorded.
mbwolf61 2 years ago 6
That's actually how lawyers dance.
iawake77 2 years ago 3
80s sound for ever
Pamicox 2 years ago 5
Last night I watched the news, from Washington, the capital
301AD 2 years ago 5
I love this!
cheripcr 2 years ago 6
this has been here on YT before I seen it last year,its a great video
rick5653 2 years ago
I thought this video was going to be two lawyers in love!!!!!! I hate this video!!!
sassytink97 2 years ago
haha,its not really about lawyers its about corporate greed and stuff like what AGI is doing these days,JB was way ahead of his time as usual
rick5653 2 years ago 3
woow the first time i listened this song i studied law...
now im a lawyer but not in love haha
Ok i like jackson browne music so much
Pamicox 2 years ago
..dear my lawyer......
ale67bianca 2 years ago
good memos !
mobyboy 2 years ago
This video is about letting multi-media, such as T.V., spoon fed us reality (or what they want us to believe is reality i.e, propaganda).
Good tune this. Jackson sort of faded away after allegations that he beat his girlfriend (wife?).
Does anyone know what he is doing now?
PierreLeCanadien 2 years ago
Yeah, ol Edward R Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather were a bunch of right wing Republicans out to brain wash America.
robbatkinson666 2 years ago
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i just read where jb sued because the republican party played his song running on empty. he should be grateful that anyoneis listening to his music. x fan
mudslinger54 2 years ago
I didn't get this video when it came out and I don't get it now
publica74 3 years ago
Jackson Browne sings so well on this song. Then again, when did he not? It is just that the 1980s represented such a wonderful time for music to keep growing in so many dimensions. Perhaps the man was at his very best with the issue of "Lawyers in Love." He certainly keeps me very deeply inspired with this album. How did he do it?
Over the years, Jackson seems to just get better all the time. Each and every single one of his albums is worth buying and playing on a daily basis.
sandinyourshoes 3 years ago
WONDERFUL...!
josephnexus 3 years ago
great song
359realpete 3 years ago
Good song!!!
anndddrrrreeeeesssss 3 years ago
I remember reading about the inspiration for the song title. When Jackson Browne's Australian brother in law first visited Los Angeles, he remarked that "this city looks like it was built by lawyers in love." It was like Jackson Browne wrote the song to immortalize that hilarious comment.
davehanson222 3 years ago 4
This song's excellent appeal is that the lyrics mean absolutely nothing. Like "Sweethearts" by Camper van Beethoven.
loonmaniac 3 years ago
Excelente. Qué se puede decir.
miminodelvalleverde 3 years ago
I think I saw, like, half of this video once before. Glad to see it now. It's pretty good.
uofmrules1 3 years ago
This rules, I have been looking for this one for a long time.
dereksemple 3 years ago
The video was great and adds so much to the song.
venyababe 3 years ago 2
Clear Channel did NOT ban the Dixie Chicks. I wish people would stop repeating that lie. Cumulus did that. Clear Channel was a promoter of their tour that and the following year. Clear Channel has problems but that wasn't one of them.
PaulNuz 3 years ago
You're partly right. Clear Channel owned two stations that banned them: WQIK 99.1-FM and WROO 107.3-FM in Jacksonville, FL.,
But your absolutely correct about the majority of them belonged to Cumulus which had a "burning party" of their CDs in Atlanta, GA.
Why do all the Bible Thumping nitwits live in the south? Isn't that where they burned Beatle stuff in the '60s?
oa 2 years ago
All insurance companies and Law firms need to be controlled by a Supreme Soviet in the USA
AIKevorkian 3 years ago
this song is about usa imperialism - it actually didn't work the way jackson portrayed it - if you ask me the commies still have too much control
FOAMER103061 3 years ago
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Jackson Browne likes to beat women. Look it up. Great song though. Too bad he beats women.
enzytebob 3 years ago
You're right, DO look it up. You'll find that the charges were false, no crime was committed, and the police found absolutely NO evidence of (I'm assuming you mean) Darryl Hannah being hurt.
dadduorp 3 years ago
Just because no charges were filed by either one means nothing. BOTH Daryl and jackson Brownes friends saw the bruises on Daryl and lacerations. Even if he wasn't charged, evidence shows he did it.
enzytebob 3 years ago
Until there is convincing evidence and charges are filed, you need to stop spreading rumor or give us (and the police) adequate & convincing evidence that he was beating his wife.
I went skiing last weekend and sustained some "bruises and lacerations" on a black diamond, but it doesn't mean my lesions must have been abuse. If his wife can show evidence and is emotionally ready to testify, then we have a different story.
ZombieCobain 3 years ago
Touche'. Well played! :)
enzytebob 3 years ago
Thanks:)
I first remember this song when I was about 7 years old on the radio on a weeknight me and my older aunt were driving to Green Bay to pick up her first Shelty puppy. She was making fun of the song asking why would lawyers be in love. I didn't know what a lawyer was and replied "Maybe they quit there jobs."
The puppy subsequently was run over by farm equipment next week.
ZombieCobain 3 years ago
That was the saddest, yet funniest thing I have ever heard! My friends and I were in high school when this album came out. We would always trade cassettes back and forth. This one went back and forthe dozens of times. Only Blue Oyster Cult's Extraterrestrial Live was traded more.
But it was never run over by farm equipment. But it DID get eaten by our Irish Setter at the time.
enzytebob 3 years ago
And you have friends who are both Jackson's and Hannah's?
dadduorp 3 years ago
I never said that. But thanks for playing!
enzytebob 3 years ago
You wrote, "BOTH Daryl and jackson Brownes [sic] friends saw the bruises on Daryl and lacerations."
So I'm asking again, you spoke with these "friends"? Or are you regurgitating the horrific "liberal" tabloid media?
dadduorp 2 years ago
This is a great indictment of the evil wrought by the freedom released upon the Soviet Union, but nobody will ever interpret this song that way. Is there anybody who can statistically prove that Eastern Europe is a BETTER place nowadays than when hospitals and universities were free and there were no theocracies like Poland around?
Freud55 3 years ago
nobody will interpret this song that way because it was released about 6 years before the wall came down. so, unless brown was seeing the future, this song has absolutely nothing to do with your "freedom released upon the soviet union"
carn333 3 years ago
The Soviet Union was on its last legs when Jackson wrote this song. He depicts the USSR as an empty threat (the Russians landing in Washington) already earmarked for exploitation by smarmy legals in the mid 80's. Curious, there were no lawyers in the Soviet Union before the "fall". Afterwards, it had, like the States, one of the highest per capita of the vermin. That's what Jackson's hinting at. It's now their "vacation land".
Freud55 3 years ago
ummm,this song came out in 82 or 83 nobody thought USSR was on it's last legs.You are looking back on this era taking into account what you know now.Music affects people differently and you can put your own spin on what the song means to you but don't be surprised when nobody shares your take on the song when you put in ideas and motives that just could not be there.
carn333 3 years ago
The thought that the West could drive the USSR to exhaustion was formed in the 1970s. Few people believed it could be done. Thatcher of England actively spoke of it. She is parodied by Pink Floyd about this in "The Final Cut". This song parodies what would happen had the USSR just gone away, as if that sort of thing were a fantasy, as it seemed then. The beautiful irony is that it's a pretty good prediction of the 1990's post Soviet era. History follows art ....
TalksWithDirt 2 years ago
communism is a flawed system - it will never be successful simply because it puts the common good before the good of the people - government is here for the sake of the people - people are not here for the sake of government - in the ussr the people suffered and the government didn't - i am afraid that is what has been happening in the usa for too long we must change this - if you want to make america great - do for yourself not for the country
FOAMER103061 3 years ago
You sound a bit mixed up on a few things. The USSR was run according to communisnm for less than ten years before the workers had control taken from them by the state.
No country has been run along Marxist lines for a long enough period to be able to say whether it works or not.
thommo988 3 years ago
Perhaps the fact that "no country has been run along Marxist lines for very long" says a lot about the reality of communism.
spudmustang 2 years ago
Good! I like that: the common good is not the good of the people.
But I'm still waiting for some proof, preferably health and suicide statistics, that shows that Russia, after almost twenty years of freedom, is better for the AVERAGE person than it used to be.
As far as DIY government, pleeeese. Tell that to the banks, auto companies and other free market advocates.
Face it: neither you nor I would survive in a country where people did things for themselves. Well, Bernie Madoff did.
Freud55 3 years ago
the common good is not the good of the individual - what is good for you might not be good for me - people turn to two things in time of need - god and government - one doesn't exist and the other is evil - it is not the government that will change humans it by each on of us standing up for justice!!! - and as for bernie madoff he is going to be thrown in jail - if you want the death penalty that is fine with me!!!!!!!!!!!!
FOAMER103061 3 years ago
My favorite Jackson Browne song...what a genius!
silverbirdsong 3 years ago
It seems like yesterday watching this on VH1 Big 80s show back in 1995. Thanks for posting this classic. Only heard this a handful of times!!!!
Neptuneman07 3 years ago
Thanks Rosa for the send. It's great!
mjw0047 3 years ago
Strange comments here for classic 80s music...hey, anyone, do you think this tune is cool or what?
hovanti 3 years ago
I miss the Reagan era! (sigh). These days, things are just too Liberal. On TV you have these dumb celebrities like Sean Penn, Tim Robbins telling us what to think; not to mention bimbos like Tina Fey.
ZeroWolf1985 3 years ago
Here's an idea: don't listen to them.
Fucking crybaby.
loonmaniac 3 years ago
Are you baiting us? LOL.
cochranexyz 3 years ago
thank you !! I thought I was the last one on earth that thought the same way you do. glad to see i am not alone !!!!
luzzgn8a 3 years ago
So you'd rather have imbecilles like Rush Limbaugh, the posterboy for conservative hypocrisy, Chuck Norris and Bill O the clown telling you what to think? Think for yourself and you'll see what a bunch of baffoons those morons are.
PhysicsProf1 3 years ago 2
Baffoons? Do you mean "buffoons, sir?"
hovanti 3 years ago
yes I do.
PhysicsProf1 3 years ago
jackson's new cd 'time the conqueror' is excellent. my fave of the year.
KCVROCKS2008 3 years ago
Many things have changed since 1983, but lawyers are still just as lame. Haha.
Ungaduha 3 years ago 2
First heard this song the day the USSR shot down KAL 800, September 1 1983.
spacerazer 3 years ago
Really ??? I remember this song came out around that time. Good call. Great song !!!
newfport 3 years ago
I was actually looking for another 80s song when I found this. I love this song it's great. But can anyone help me find another video? All I have to go on is two little girls talking on a space ship looking out a window and one says "she likes a certain guy" and the lyrics said something like "they fall in love" or "young somethings fall in love"... Any ideas? :)
davidscalling 3 years ago
i heard this song on the radio while at work today, just feel in love! but like loonmaniac says, it has noting to do with ahything, and thats why its just so freaking good. just love it. thanx for puting it up here
Rainb0wGirl 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this song; it's been a while since I've heard this song. As for the meaning, I always thought that it symbolized the greed and the quest for power in the '80's. You know, the "Yuppie Decade..."
TracyBeth87 3 years ago
Yeah, they nailed it!
fossefan 3 years ago
This song speaks of lawyers and bankers and selling us war and death.
How we need to wake up and see how they are selling us down the river.
happymike44 3 years ago
Jackson said this song has nothing to do with Lawyers...or love for that matter.
nicck 3 years ago
This song has nothing to do with anything, that's why it's so good.
loonmaniac 3 years ago
can anyone tell me the name of the song, where browne sings a bit in spanish something that goes like " entre abrasos y chingasos"?
andresoqueso 3 years ago
Hi, have a look at the song "lawless avenues"- Its on the '86 album Lives in the Balance- think this is what you are looking for.
sarahjinx 3 years ago
Its "lawless avenues" if my memory serves me right! the name of the album escapes me but it '86 anyway.
sarahjinx 3 years ago
That's "Lawless Avenues" from the "Lives in the Balance" CD/album. Great song BTW.
dadduorp 3 years ago
I have no clue what the lyrics mean and I dont care to find out. I just know that the song reminds me of my first girlfriend and kiss when I was 14. It was late at night after watching fireworks 4th of July 1983. We then went to her house and watched MTV. This was playing.
endgammer 3 years ago 5
This is from the glory days of MTV anything pre 83 !
muttilo 3 years ago
This is one of J Browne's best songs, never gets enough airplay!!!
ninjasaki8569 3 years ago 3
Lawyer's In Love is one of Jackson Browne's best! Thanks AppleLoony for the post!!!
flightofideas72 3 years ago 3
Cool song....TKS DDD for the info!
PBhip 3 years ago
Better watch the Russians!
wvben 3 years ago
some knob wrote "lawyers rock!". lawyers are the biggest dirtbags on the planet. and don't say until you need one. they created such a complicated system that makes you need one to get justice. get a real job ya leeches.
hebber1961 3 years ago
Sure they are.....you sound like a bitter guy that got hauled into court to pay child support. Fruitcake
MustafaHamsho 3 years ago
and you sound like one of those leeches. i've never been in court .i just watch their slithering movements.
hebber1961 3 years ago
> Sure they are.....you sound like a bitter guy
> that got hauled into court to pay child
> support. Fruitcake
Franklin Raines the former CEO of Fannie Mae lied about earnings to receive bonuses. At the end of it, he collected hundreds of millions of dollars breaking corporate malfeasance laws. Fannie Mae didn't report earnings for 3 years as a result, and now they are essentially bankrupt. He kept 90% of his money.
Martha Stewart a billionaire went to jail for $40,000 of insider trading.
fuzzywzhe 3 years ago
???what does that have to do with lawyers???
MustafaHamsho 3 years ago
> ???what does that have to do with lawyers???
How well does the law work when somebody who has stolen 100s of millions of dollars walk away after paying a small fine and when somebody who stole something very inconsequential spends actual time in prison?
Lawyers are worthless.
What Franklin Raines did is part of the reaso 840 billion dollars was given to Hank Paulson, by a bunch of LAWYERS.
fuzzywzhe 3 years ago
you try being one lets see how good you would be , do not generalise there are some of us who work hard for our communities and just one bad apple cannot justify calling us worthless .
cripitto 3 years ago
> you try being one lets see how good you would
> be
I'd probably be a decent one, but I'd rather remain an engineer. It's a pointless existence to me to go through life creating nothing other than paperwork. I guess it could be worse, I could work in PR.
fuzzywzhe 3 years ago
fuzzywzhe-
Most people with intelligence can connect the dots and understand what you're saying -- but MustafaHamsho isn't one of them.
oa 2 years ago
bankers and lawyers, the dregs of society, yet they run the world...badly
ITILII 3 years ago
If it weren't for bankers, our economy would still be at the barter level and we'd be trading silks, spices and sheep.
scotpens 2 years ago
wouldnt it be good ?
MalaTemporaCurrunt 2 years ago
If it weren't for us lawyers insurance companies would run the world. You don't know what you're talking about so stop trying to be intelligent, your ken is far below most lawyers.
BenBernacke 3 years ago
insurance companies??!! that's the other horn of the devil.
so who does run the world Mr. "intelligent" lawyer? you lawyers? free masons? oil companies? all of the above perhaps & what a wonderful job you've all done... bravo!!
you should really rethink your profession. feeding off the misfortune of others is no way to make a living & if there is an afterlife Lucy.... ju got some splainin to do.
hebber1961 3 years ago
Brings back a LOT of memories in my days right out of high school and the muted colors and feel reflect my ambivalent mood at the time facing a big world on my own. Strange how sounds, sights, & smells can recreate almost exactly a state of mind at a given time.
According to Pop-Up Video, Jackson was 35 when he made this, the shorter "alien" is his son, and the scene of the landing plane is actually footage of the Beatles' plane landing in America in 1964. Just a little trivia.
DingDongDaddy61 3 years ago 2
Best one by Mr Jackson!
Illousion1 3 years ago 2
love this song. Thanks for the post!
vfj67 3 years ago 2
This video is so cool! Especially the part where Jackson is eating out of a t.v. dinner and the lawyer inside of the vehicle floating in the water. I love this song and I just don't hear it enough on the radio!
wlt777 3 years ago 3
This is probably my all time favorite Jackson Browne song. "Somebody's Baby" ranks a very close 2nd though!
JORGEPSOUSA911 3 years ago
always loved this classic song, comes from a great album, thanks for the video !!!!!!
meeeee1968 3 years ago
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What a GREAT Song!!!!!
happyjack39 3 years ago 4
GREAT VIDEO, GREAT SONG, GREAT ALBUM! There isn't 1 SONG on this Album that is Bad, My Favorites are "CUT IT AWAY" "KNOCK ON ANY DOOR" "FOR A ROCKER" "TENDER IS THE NIGHT" "SAY IT ISN'T TRUE" and this one! JB and the BOYS, ROCK OUT HARD!
gimmeshelter64 3 years ago
Nice!This tune is One Of Great Numbers JB's All tracks.
restoration911 3 years ago
Great tune by Jackson.
orthopolus77 3 years ago
I love this song....it reminds me of my parents ^^;;
yamisakura 3 years ago
Theres alot of fuckheads here with dog arse opnions, just like the song, fuck me, so many space cadets!
gregkerrie 3 years ago
USSR??!! I have never heard of that country!
leodresselli 3 years ago
USSR is what used to be known as communist Russia There were a lot of republics/countries that it was made of
Thanks for posting this song A classic from the 1980's
zod65 3 years ago
Um....like I know that! I was yanking some chains here! Cheers!
leodresselli 3 years ago
Jackson has said this is his favorite of his own songs.
Malus1400 3 years ago
one of the better bitter songs about america and the legal profession ever written.