Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes - TOTP 1984

[jonescathy051]

HOLLYS NAME IS WILLIAM JOHNSON AND HE CAME FROM WELLINGTON ROAD IN LPOOL COS I KNO HIM LOL

[lozman67]

@jonescathy051 I wouldn't begrudge him a thing then, as that road was always a shite hole

[GeertOetelaar]

This number was on number one when i was born, lol! @ Anouk You've found it! Love You and will keep in touch :)

[camshanks]

@GeertOetelaar Me too!

[cyberstrike2027]

Love old TOTP when they mimed haha! mic in his hand, and adjusts his hat, putting mic behind his head, right in the middle of a line and it comes out completely consistent haha! :P Love this tune, real driving tune! Awesome beat!

[pakitovillanueva]

good dancing,fabolous playback,another single of frankie

[jamesjfk1963]

I Never had this record of my Hi Fi in the 80's !!!!

Thanks

[micky4422]

fucking great bassline

[muffinlee1]

holly i want u sex now.

[chucku00]

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and, LIFT OFF !

[Dalek44]

The narrator for the intro of this song was Patrick Allen (the narrator for TUGS) :D

[cortez33459]

go vice city!!!



[VisorTM]

after that song I wanna be a gay too

[Greatest1981]

The Kings of 1984, the year of Frankie!

[Robert27962]

We all love you Holly, regardless of sexuality, you a genius dude.

[Robert27962]

Now, I play Frankie when I need motivation.

Welcome to the pleasuredome, at max vol, with a long mirror.

Shooting stars nevr stop!

Try it sometime.

[Robert27962]

No E needed with this.

[Robert27962]

Haha, when I was growing up a uni student in lil ol NZ we never new he was gay.

How naive were we?

Would it have mattered then? Yes.

Does it matter now? No.

Some of his band members look VERY gay.

Hey, I didn't even know Village People were gay, like most people in NZ in the eighties.

[peter007taylor]

...are they Gay?

[blagger56]

@peter007taylor mostly...

[davemacc904]

You can play that bassline to anyone who's ever heard the song and they will tell you it's TWO TRIBES. It's that distinctive and powerful. Love seeing Paul mincing around, his little turn at 3:09 is class, then he claps his hands and kicks a balloon. Great stuff, where is the Frankie for the 21st century?

[haitchbomb]

@davemacc904  Feltcher

[davemacc904]

@haitchbomb Get yourself over to mine big boy, i've got a greased up cucumber and a box of straws.

[Conradm]

@davemacc904 you should try my choice, double fists nice and deep.

[coolbassjim]

CLASSIC

[rolodub]

SAVAGE BASS LINE!

[coreystuart]

@Foleyesque @chris2002Rocklin Actually it may be a combo of both real AND synthesized/sampled bass. Producer Trevor Horn (FGTH, Art of Noise, Buggles, Seal, etc) used a Fairlight CMI Series III mega sampling keyboard for many of these classic songs. I own a virtual software version of it, and this bass sample was stocked as a "factory preset."

[tsimmer777]

It's such a good song! I wish I could sing along audibly! (Damned Strep Throat!)

[dylanfloyd777]

..AND NOW HE IS DIEING IN IBIZA OF AIDS...VERY SAD LIFE CAN BE...from No1 to Bottom....peace!

[chris2002Rocklin]

The "bass line" is a loop. If you want to hear true "relentless" bass, try some of The Who or Led Zeppelin tracks.

I love the guy playing air guitar with a black Strat, choked all the way up the neck as if he is cranking out a Jimi Hendrix solo.

I have NEVER seen such pathetic air guitar with no pretensions of knowing how to play.

Also late in to the track, at around 2:45, the "bass player" is using alternate picking without fretting any notes (just gripping the neck).

[freakunique]

@chris2002Rocklin Everyone knows that TOTP was synched and mimed. It's practically along the lines of 2+2=4.

[Foleyesque]

@chris2002Rocklin Careful Chris, anyone would think you're taking this clip seriously. I'm with 44deluxe- Awesome 80's pop tuneage, they don't make 'em like that anymore!

[44deluxe]

Awesome pop tunage.

[ajs41]

I've uploaded a combination of the original mixes of Two Tribes at my channel.

[spottydog4477]

sooo progressive - it kickes the whole music world upside down!

Still raises the hairs on the back of my neck

[NITROPERSON]

A REAL CLASSIC WHAT TIMES WE HAD

[superemposed]

nice bass sound

[freeqeemethefirst]

good-better-best-FGTH

[RichardPears]

I love Holly, he really went for it! A proper Queer darling! All power to him! X

[SuperSonicAnime19]

that bbc studio must have been god damn hot

[stickcell337]

Not that the lip-sync is obvious , still a great song however

[julieanddavid]

Holly maybe gay but he is a lovely bloke

[RichardPears]

@julieanddavid

WTF is that supposed to mean! ???

[julieanddavid]

@RichardPears what i said

[forfearstears]

great old frankie!

[norwichtillidie]

REMEMBERS PEOPLE HOW THE 80S WAS THE GAYIEST DECADE EVER, GREAT MUSIC BUT FULL OFF POOFS

[panagiotouchris]

this was a smash hit . stayed nine weeks at number one in britain. and it was like a bomb . culture club tried to immitate this at war song but failed bitterly

[Lynnie245]

Love ya Frankie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jumponthebandwagon]

Village People!? F... the Village People, Frankie Goes to Hollywood! Gawd those guys rocked.

(of course VP had their place too {:>

[jreddihough]

they didn't even try to hide the fact they lip-synced in those days

[theekatie]

Wow. And to think I never took the Cold War seriously until this song.

[sh47cn]

Mine woz Ride on time - Black Box lol...My sisters z this one

[bostanflower]

FB thing.....

[seaarcane]

I did that facebook app determining most popular song on your b-day. Looks like most everyone else posting here did the same thing. Yay we all have roughly the same b-day. XD

[xXflava01Xx]

@seaarcane number on my birth date too lol

[britmod84]

no1 when i was born too

[erocgibe]

me too

[zapacila000]

no 1 when I was born too:))...not to bad :D

[nemaru]

same, did you do the Facebook thing?

[matija0808]

@zapacila000

no1 when i was born too

[TaffyBoy]

this was number one the day i was born :D

[Zizzification]

then we were born on the same day...

[bolabus]

holly cool ????bah, only in a will and grace type environment dude .

[sid77ie]

Holly was so cool

[DAROMARIO1]

best song of the 80s

[fortheloveoftunes]

auu auu auuu .... .-)

[horne556]

"Where sex, horror are the new gods" i love the the way this song ends. This was a time when single releases were an event!

[killerwaz88]

LOL @ the end.... 4 gay white gays singing "WE GOT THE FUNK, WE GOT THE FUNK" !! hahaha

great song though!

[jamer99]

Can only straight black people 'have the funk' then? Moron.

[davemacc904]

3:14 "Something must give now"

Not "Sock it to me biscuits now" or "Soggy biscuit now". HAha

[RadioGta]

WHEN TWO TRIBES GO TO WAR...

[Stewartp]

In denial?

[PPLUIS80S]

How i use to listen to this

cassette then cd in my place

so loud and sing till neighbors

close their windows . . . ha ha ha

i was 18

[s17007]

: )

[memattatu0nda]

PLAYBACK SUCKS

[wigs7]

And ?

[discothief]

Cool but Trevor Horn made them sound this good. I saw them on the Tube doing this before Trevor made it sound like this and even though it was cool it was weak as piss compared to this version. 80's was so good for music but no all we have is factory produced shit from the likes of Simon X Factor.

[surosanz]

I get this feeling that this was mimed..

Still go Frankie <3

[liverpool80000seater]

83 remember it well

[6666mark]

84 knob

[lp32862]

This song and relax were very creative and influential when they came out.

[JaayPeey]

Cheers...

[firefighterno1]

Frankie Say: Ban the Bomb and start the War Cry

[Adnoydal]

holly is still dead

[saykomab]

no bad

[ME67JULE74]

when i die this will b played at the wake. this is wot the world is..... WAKE UP...............

[simplyeighties]

Trevor Horn programmed the bass sound for this single version, but live versions are played by Mark O'Toole and Frankie came up with the original bassline.

[jawzmarkboyz]

m8 yer maw shagged yer uncle n thats how u wear conceved

[iwantL]

but if his mum shagged his uncle then his uncle would be his dad and his dad would be his uncle

[jawzmarkboyz]

no ur mum shagged your uncle and that makes ur da yer uncle and yer granda touched yer little cousin thats u he in jail ??

[Fokkae]

shut the fuck up

[Phoceen08]

at 1:00 im sure its chris kamara lmao

[PiontekThaMod17]

haha!

[simplyeighties]

Trevore Horn was a good producer, but frankie were playing this live long before they met Horn. Mark O'Toole invented the bass line and Holly Johnson wrote the lyrics.

[GaryNull]

But Trevor made the bass sound like that.

[chris725144]

love and life

[phillcook74]

Fucking tune

[lillylilic]

fcuk 20 odd years ago!!!!!!!!!!! frankie hope u got to hollywood! where are u now!!!!!!!!!!! thought u would last forever!

[lyonnich]

very good

[campagnol1]

this is the best bassline EVER!!!!!!

[GaryNull]

Trevor Horn's producing probably had a lot to do with it.

[nicknasty14]

@campagnol1 reminds me of dead or alive and their classic synth sounding bass lines! frikin cool.

[The235528]

@campagnol1

can you tell me what a bassline is?

[imonlyhumantoo]

Love his "AW AW AW".... LOL!

[firefighterno1]

What a f*cking classic relentless bass line . FGTH motivated some backside in 1984

[ViolenceBeCool]

its obviously lip synced... just sayin :P

[xlztt]

You obviously find it hard seperating fact from fiction in which case.

[xlztt]

Absolute rubbish. Ignorance and paper talk of the time. Of course they played their own instruments.

[geordieboy79]

Frankies finest. Excellent tune.

[peterksp]

just gotta love it,best times ever,i like the drummers reaction at 1.16

[hillbilly1339]

Great stuff...........

[BunsticleBill]

FGTH we absolutely amazing.Trevor Horn was their producer and this was his best project. The "Welcome" album was class. Unfortunatly their subsequent album was rubish, with only Rage Hard being up to the standard.

However, Relax, 2Tribes & welcome are still amazing today.

[anch0rman13]

music company's say downloading and copying is killing music they should take a long hard look at what made us buy this in the 80s and it was not stock atkin and waterman it was we all want to own good sounds not shit they put out today

[iveco321]

spot on. pete waterman destroyed pop music with endless manufactured singles with instrumental b sides. thank fuck we had the likes of frankie goes to hollwood to keep us on the dance floor

[ixiruxa]

best song ever!!!! Long live Frankie!

[peggymount]

Yes! I don't know why I think this my favourite song. Perhaps it's because it has stood the test of time and is still relevant today as it was 20 odd years ago. Only there's more than two tribes now trying to get us all blown to bits. Why do all those people with power want to fight. Creed, colour, religion and stuff doesn't matter. Down on the ground we're all trying to get on with each other. I'm as scared of 'The Bomb' now as I was back then. That can't be right.

[insaneforjulian]

Loved Frankie and loved this song. Nasher was sooooooooooooooooooHOT :))

[iveco321]

bands just don't have this originality anymore, no wonder cd sales are plummeting.

music like this comes from the heart, it has a point, a reason and a groove.

[lazarus0202]

My first concert!! 14 years old. Beacon Theatre, Manhattan. They did "relax" twice, having only 8 or 9 songs in their repetoire at the time. Or ANY time.

[Bl4z3r82]

This song once again means a lot since we seem to be reliving the Reagan administration.

[ajs41]

Hearing this for the first time must have been such an iconic moment for anyone listening and watching it. I was only 5 years old at the time, so I kind of missed out on that great experience.

[iveco321]

i was a club deejay at the time and yes it was a very special time. the club culture was about dressing up, going out and having fun. things were'nt perfect we did have some drug culture but it was amongst a minority. also we did'nt get ripped off by taxi drivers, we did,nt get ripped off with extortionate beers prices and admission fees and there were very few violent incidents in comparrison to today.

[alastair415]

That just about sums it up.

[thebasslover]

One of the best bass lines in modern popular music & I suppose popular culture given Holly's iconic status - thanks for posting!

[WoodRatGirl]

I managed to find a near mint copy of their album on LP.

The whole album still sounds amazing today.

[barkingbasher]

Brilliant.

How many bands today have their stage Presence?

[arthurmex]

any one

[whiskeysam]

Their first week on TOTP at No1 with this track. Got this on VHS somewhere - havent't managed to dig it out yet but Thank You for posting it - ahhh memories ...