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  • great song

  • @2.41, 2.55 a "Carnival Coach" of Viareggio (Italy). the name of the coach was "Esorcista" and was built in 1976 by Silvano Avanzini. Silvano has passed away years ago, his son Alessandro is still making huge carnival coaches and is a very talented artist

  • its hard to imgaine he was in the same band as that no talent wanker phil collins

  • kate bush on backing vocals how cool is that

  • quanti ricordi♥

  • great singer songwriter

  • What awfull stuff appears at the min. 2:42!!

  • Is it the Cantinflas's sphynx at the minute 3:05??!! O.o

  • @chompypunk890

    Dont you think it looks a bit like Tony Blair ?.

  • She's so funky yeah!!!

  • Great song! 

  • Mel gibson? 0:13

  • where is Kate ?

  • ......futile thing to do) I still found that discovering that the song contains 'everybody gets to play' interesting and got me thinking again about meaning. (Probably just my own personal meaning in reality)

    Like the words origionaly got the mind thinking about the words again. 'Games Without Frontiers' conjured play conjured up up in my mind, Territory, boundaries or lack of. Wheras Everybody Gets To Play conjured up people or leaders and their behaviour.

  • pure class

  • Several postees have wrote that 'Jeux Sans Frontiers' means 'Games Without Frontiers'.

    It doesn't, it means :

    'Everybody Gets To Play'.

  • @1fgeofrey Which pretty much means the same thing, it is just symantecs to be so nit picking.

  • @Dermacrosis

    rightfully there is interest in the meaning of the song

    for many of us discovering that the song sings 'Jeux Sans Frontiers' not 'She's So Popular' was a revelation and put a new light on our curiosity as to the songs meaning.

    Being aware of this now through people pointing it out is welcome, and changed my interpretations and suprised me greatly (admitedly attempts to interpret meaning in a song like this or songs in general can be wide of the mark or a futile thing

  • @1fgeofrey "Games without frontiers" and "Everybody gets to play" means pretty much the same thing, This is the music of my growing years. Interpretation of songs will always be personal, and changes with the generations. As such we are both right and wrong.

  • But 'Jeux' means 'games', 'sans' means 'without' and 'frontiers' means 'frontiers' (lol that's the same) so it does mean 'Games without frontiers'..... doesn't it? At least, that's what I learned...

  • @1fgeofrey

    no , it means exatly the same thing in french or in english.

  • really really great... it's a good thing that he didn't change style... no offense with genesis after his departure, they were still awesome.. but genesis with peter gabriel was better...

  • urban legend time, I heard Lisa Kudrow was actually one of teh little girls in teh video

  • not only dont they make music like this but they dont make videos like this too...

  • uhm, Creepy video.

  • This video is the original version I have watched the very first time...("Plays The Video" DVD is slightly changed). But lyrics is not the original version?

  • @PSBGeorge this is the original version i had original released on beta in 1981 or 82. if the video lyrics differ from the original album lyrics then it was all changed by Peter Gabriel himself. as to my knowledge botht the video and the album version are the same.

  • @h8ste25 At 2:30 says, "Whistling tunes we kiss on baboons in the jungle"(I think that lyrics are the same as 1st verse). But the same part of "another" version says, "Whistling tunes we piss on the goon in the jungle". Please let me know what is the "another" version... Album, demo, unsensored,...or something(if it was exised)??

  • @PSBGeorge It was only changed for radio (and music video) play. The album versions always used "piss on the goons".

  • @Morality124 Thank you for your help.

  • @PSBGeorge No problem. :)

  • war without tears ....

  • Kate Bush is the female voice here...wonderful

  • jeux sans frontieres!

  • Love this song.

  • This song is a masterpiece by Peter and proves how much he had progressed musically since his days with Genesis. He was too brilliant to keep doing the same old prog. rock.

  • its amazing music videos were so much better back in 80s, 70s, video directors knew how to encompass the song with images and camera placement with a pretty small budget, there is much more creativity when you do not have a whole whack  of money to work with

  • Ah, Kate Bush - She can make a song magical any day

  • Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt Adolf built a bonfire, Enrico plays with it -Whistling tunes we hid in the dunes by the seaside -Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle It's a knockout If looks could kill, they probably will In games without frontiers-war without tears Games without frontiers-war without tears
  • Enrico macht auch mit :) She's so frontya!

  • I love this song. I also loved it to the power of 10 when it came out. In addition to the other comments, I also 'see' a reference to Dunkirk *whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside' *representations of frail humans are interspersed amongst the sand among violent explosions* one of the more harrrowing and intense pieces of war folklore of the 20th century.

  • @marmaloon but who knows for sure, I might be just talking out of my ass

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  • One of many examples of Peter Gabriel's mad genius. Great song. It used to scare me & haunt me when I was a young kid. Love it.

  • Is this the real video that used to be aired? Cause i can only download something similar but the parts of the kids at the table are switched for a white screen with birds flying across it in patterns, then there's a big scene with cars and trains... WTF?

  • Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt

    Adolf builds a bonfire, and his last name is Hit...........ler!

  • The lyrics to this song are the work of an absolute genius. Symbolism and hidden meanings are interlaced into his songs with the skill I have yet to discover in any other artist. A true inspiration and a wonderful human being. Rock on Peter!

  • It's actually funny to see what some people say when they don't understand what the song is about. Many get offended & I would guess that when it was released there would of been some that would have tried to stop it from happening.

    Either way PG was a GREAT musician, far better than 70% of the ones of today!

  • Does anyone know why Kate bush is not on this video?

  • @nicknnora she never intended to be on it from day one sadly

  • un mito.....

  • 3:03 es Cantinflas?

  • @VidaniLenin si. es lo que más se me grabó del video desde que lo vi por primera vez

  • First song I ever heard by Gabriel. For many years afterwards he was my favourite artist.

  • or I guess it's Kate Bush singing that part...(jeux sans frontiers)

  • @jellyfishstampede it is kate

  • He is singing "Jeux Sans Frontier," French for "Games Without Frontiers," which I believe was the French eqivalent for the Australian tv game show known as "It's a Knock Out," popular in the mid 80's.

  • @jellyfishstampede

    Thank You for that. I ignorantly, like many people, thought she was singing "She's so popular".

  • Chie son fond de culotte

  • its a knockout in England/jeaux sans frontieres, presented by the great Eddie Wareing (RIP) and Stuart Hall

  • Je Sans Frontiers...Games without Frontiers, this song is based on a tv gameshow....Its a Knockout in Australia. And Kate Bush sings the french in the background.

  • Does anybody know where the float with the menacing looking CIA cowboy is from?

  • “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

    (George Santayana, “The Life of Reason, Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense”, 1905-1906)

  • am I the only one who thought it was 'she soul-fucked the air' ?

  • Adolph builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it!

  • hahaha I was always sure it was "she's so popular"

  • @robandden it's french "jeux san frontiers". it means games without frontiers

  • @flyingninja92 I admit . . . when I first heard this in my younger days . . . I thought they were singing "She's so popular"

  • @DukeofColumbia what is he saying..lol I have no clue and too lazy to look up lyrics

  • @DukeofColumbia - So did I !!

  • @DukeofColumbia I think a lot of people did. I know i did.

  • @DukeofColumbia aint that what he says lol

  • @DukeofColumbia exactly

    

  • Moi aussi ;-)

  • @DukeofColumbia It took me 25 years to figure out that ol' Petey was singing French. I always thought he said "She is so poop-de-ay!" What the hell is that supposed to mean?! Once I got the cd, I figured out what was up. Great tune.

  • @TheWolfe666 Actually Kate Bush sings that line.

  • @TheWolfe666 French is my primary language and I never understood what she was saying until I read the lyrics. It's said pretty weirdly I must say : Jeux sans frontière.

  • @flyingninja92

    jeux sans frontiers translates into English as : Eveybody gets to play

  • @1fgeofrey

    nope, it translates in "game without frontier". You should learn french instead of spreading your ignorance.

  • Funny how the like about kissing baboons was edited in to replace the original line.

  • Why does he name someone 'Adolph' it's an illegal name.

  • Didnt the X-Games remix this song???

  • @m3sach1 as evident by your question, not a very good cove:P

  • @alienboal79 i know its not, but its weird how an sporting event can make a theme song using an song with an anti-war message

  • i love it is so cool to go back in time with good old tunes from the old days my teen girl says iam strange

  • The back-up singer is Kate Bush.

  • I personally love this video, but methinks the matured Mr Gabriel looks back on it and cringes. Hence, the new "improved" version on his video compilation DVD.

  • "jane plays with willy, willy is happy again" and "adolf builds a bonfire, and leo plays with it" little odd and suspisious lyrics dont you think?..........

  • Every time I hear this song it reminds me of a birthday party I had at around the same time this track was released. I invited all my class mates over even though most of them didn't like me it spread out all over even into the nearby wood they took my toy guns and played war hiding behind tree's and buildings a similar vibe to what this track is purveying, my parents had a hard time keeping it under control, all just a bunch of users. The next day at school I was still treated like an outsider.

  • @mrquackadoodlemoo It is Enrico, as in the person that invented the Atomic Bomb

  • @mrquackadoodlemoo: first verse refers to Hitler and Enrico Fermi: "Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Brit; Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it." Hitler started World War II in Europe, while Fermi's nuclear reactor enabled the nuclear weapons which ended the war in Japan. Additionally, Sacha is a Russian nickname for Alexandr, while Brit refers to Great Britain which allied with Russia during WWII

  • @smudger1973 oooooooohh

  • @mrquackadoodlemoo It's "enrico (fermi) plays with it"

  • @mrquackadoodlemoo Its to do with nationalism between countries and the 'games' they play meaning wars as a country and actually its adolf builds a bonfire and enrico plays with it, refering to enrico fermi.

  • @mrquackadoodlemoo It's "Enrico plays with it" (not "and Leo plays with it").

  • @mrquackadoodlemoo Only thing odd was your inability to get them right.

  • @mrquackadoodlemoo "Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it" is a reference to Enrico Fermi, who helped develop nuclear weapons for Hitler during WWII.

  • @mrquackadoodlemoo Actually the lyrics are "Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it." The fire is the war Hitler started in Europe, and Enrico was an American physicist who help develop the atomic bomb and end WWII

  • that whistling gets me every time...

  • FUCK! - Look at that cowboy...

  • @OleVanDole That cowboy float always gave me the creeps when I was a kid when the video was released.It's probably why I loved the video even more XD

  • shame sum ijitz underestimate diz zong!

  • *giggles at 2:41* I didn't know George W. Bush was in this video!

  • Ha! Haven't seen this in about 25 yrs or so when I was little. Forgot about this song and video. Heard at the grocery store yesterday. Video to come on the old HBO video juke box early 80s. One of the first rap/rock songs out , lol. Just kidding. Peter Gabriel usually had good songs a cool videos. This one use to scare my little brother, with the baby dolls crawling, lol. Another hidden gem on youtube. Kate Bush singing too.Thanks to youtube.

  • For the people who dosen't know what Kate Bush is singing at the beginning of the song and other times during the song. She said "JEUX SANS FRONTIÈRES" in english it means "GAMES WITHOUTS FRONTIERS". So how to said its "JEUX SANS FRONTIÈRES " (JEUH-SANH-FRON-TEE-AIR). If I can help you :)

  • awesome song

    its still cool and still 20 year old people listen to this

  • "Jeux sans frontieres' was the European name for the UK's "It's a Knockout" TV program shown in the 70's & 80's where teams from all over Europe competed by "dressing up in costumes playing silly games" like relay races filling up a tank with coloured water while dressed as a cartoon cow. A bit like Total Wipeout meets Takeshi's Castle with overtones of a World War II rerun....

  • Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush now that's what I call a collaboration. Riyana and Kanyay can stick that in their pipe and smoke it.

  • One of my fav.P.G.songs.thx for upload

  • @metamorphisis67 You and i thought the same! :)

  • 4 people don't like games

  • This song wouldn't be the same without Kate Bush's little part in this...

  • @sipodge Does she sing the line "She's So Funky Yeah" ? I always thought it was Gabriel.

  • @metamorphosis67 It's 'Jeux sans frontieres'. A lot of people think she sings 'She's so Popular'.

  • @biffthesortie French for games without frontiers I suppose?

  • 374 people need there lives looking at

  • @PatrickJProductions No, the music you like is shit, mate...

  • unfortunatly war will always exist and that is a fact! you cant have peace without war and vice versa, ying and yang

  • I just love Robert Fripp's guitar work on this.

  • @Biggus63 i think its paul weller

  • i usualy dont listen to such music but this song is just great

  • This music video confuses the fuck out of me.

  • @Frostiken he's talking about how people do things to harm others because those whom harm have no souls.

  • @Frostiken ,Join the club.....guzzle 2 nice cold and icy tall boys and you'll be fine!

  • bad things are coming in the future no one can stop

  • @MrZorro127

    ...but the good things hopefully will follow. There is always the possibility that one can win for losing....if you search for the bright side as well

  • possibly my favorite song of all time or in my top 3 for defo but its number 1 today

  • i didnt know paul weller playes guitar on this tune thats cool as toast

  • great song great singer niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eee

  • "Whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside"; "Games without frontiers - war without tears"... (he probes in the dark with a flash light to find a table of youth dressed like adults feasting on large piles of ice cream while the bird is left untouched on a T.V. table broadcasting Madd looking Uncle Sam with six arms) War has come to: "Games without frontiers - war without tears" by a mass produced rubber baby army. War is a game to youth, like a sport.

  • or maybe people just got sick of listening to poetic bullshit that they could not relate to, People forget that music in the 20's and 30's was a lot like music today....About a bunch of nothing....just every day stuff.....This song here is all deep and poetic.

  • Unmistakably Robert Fripp doing the guitar work.

  • It is the voice of the awesome Kate Bush. she is singing: Jeux sans frontieres

    If you listen carefully you can make out the words.

    For more info see here: en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Games_Without_Frontie­rs_(song)

  • @TheZeps We`ve tried to listen carefully; this is what I get for takin Spanish in high school, I guess. LOL. But thank you for the info, and thanx to Wikipedia, too.

  • Hadn't heard this in years, forgot how creative Peter is.

  • @DrXerify Hadn`t heard it in awhile myself; nice to see again. Two things: Is that Kate Bush I hear in there, like the rumor mill said, and, most importantly........what in God`s name is she sayin???

  • @estyle40 I always thought it was Peter Gabril's voice in a high pitch.

    What he / she's saying? "She's so Funkier"? Probably not.

  • @SushiSunshine2000 Jeux sans frontieres

  • @Jakomancer Oh, I didn't know he was singing that bit in French..

    Thanks!! Merci!!

  • @SushiSunshine2000 I'll be damned. I never knew, and I speak French! Back then I always heard 'She's... so popular'!

  • @SushiSunshine2000 LOL! That`s hilarious, and would be more so if it were true. But lets not hold our breath. LOL

  • Oh! god ! This is Europe .20yerts ago and now

  • epic

  • Games with out frontiers. Wars with out Tears = humans with out souls..brilliant!!

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  • sheer genius... still relevant

  • Jeux sans frontieres

  • Has anyone noticed, that he used makeup? Anyway one of my favourite songs

  • i noticed the links to AmazonMp3 store and Itunes to download songs.who the hell is gonna pay to download from them when you can get it for free???

  • I'm pretty sure the tags for this video should be "Epic" and "Win"

  • This is my fav video of his. I was sooo pissed when I bought this dvd and this version wasn't on it. But fuck it at least it's online. Thanx for posting this! Beautiful!

  • Does anyone know where that horrific caricature of imperialistic USA stereotypes parade float was from? That thing is the stuff of nightmares.

  • 2:15. yeah, im done with this vid.

  • i originally thought it was genesis :/ great song though!

  • wow shock the monkey solsbury hill in your eyes this is rock for those who feel

  • why did they change it for the dvd

  • Muy bonito mensaje en tu video, gracias Peter, eres uno de los mejores. Que bello seria un mundo sin fronteras, donde no exista la guerra y donde todos pudieramos abrazarnos como hermanos que somos, sin importar color, banderas o idiomas y asi vivir en una harmonia eterna.