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  • Who's here because of Limmy's Show?

  • ahh blast from the past !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • "they really were good" - my dad.

  • @DaveWBedford It must have been pretty nasty stuff to make you not want to listen to music like this. I hope you have recovered!

  • Hi all,the man playing the sitair is my Uncle.He played in a very famous Indian band in the 80's.So yes it is asian music,and it is really good.

  • Im up t' bloody tree!

  • well done to you and blancmange for getting over half a million hits

  • The heads on the video recorder need cleaning.

  • Well said

  • Look up Blancmange "Concentration Baby" it beats this in every way - especially the cover art. All Brits will get it at once - others will be of the WTF? persuasion.

  • Come on guys lets put this music back in the charts

  • @Pearlwig yes i'd like to see this back up the charts, so many of the 80's song could still cut it with the latest generation in the songs original formats , they were so good you couldn't better them by making god awful re mixes

  • i thought pete burns sang this , you tube put me right

  • the middle 8 is good

  • this guy is from uk. a place called darwen .he was 2 yrs below me in school. i never knew

    him . we went to moorland high...

    its the ethnic music that i love

  • Yanks, no culture no nothing, mugs

    

  • happy dayz lol

  • And I'm so tall, I'm so tall. I'm too fucking tall.

    Like a lad whose legs are too long for his bed, like anyone who's not a local in Lillyput.

    Welcome to appreciating being too big.

    For smaller statured people, everything fits, or is too big. For bigger statured people, everything is too small. Small people, try living your life where everything is too tight and unobtainable.

    You have nothing but space to make adjustments upon.

    Big people, your yearning, yearn for what you take for granted.

  • if i were to LISTEN to this song and not watch arabian belly dancers accompanying the music, this song would be bollocks. from 2:34 until around 3:20 nothing happens, its just the same loop over and over. thats almost a minute of filler material. it sounds as if somebody just forgot to add the keyboard solo or whatever it is that electro pop bands had in place of the fret wanking heard in so many sub genres of rock

  • @sholto7 that's cos this is the 12 inch version of the original track, something you do not often see on music videos, a 12inch version of a video I mean.

  • GTA Vice city stories & berocca

  • I'm t' blood tree

  • Weird song

  • i love middle eastern sounds, anyone know of more music with this sort of sound ?

  • @cherylw1958 I have never seen the video before just now and I am surprised as the sound is more Asian than Arabic, yet I know all those places in Cairo it seems!

  • @Cheryl1958 check this out Mauro Picotto - Trance Arabe if you like Arabic influence hope it helps.

  • @cherylw1958 try Temple of Love by Sisters of Mercy, or Im Nin Alu by Ofra Haza.

  • @mattjreid thank you i do know of of Ofra Haza have loved her since the 80s but i will check out the other song. btw i also love some Moroccan pop music but i will have to get my vinyl out to tell you who, once again thank you

  • No, You're not old, we simple have more experience in good music !! :)

  • Gta Vice City Stories :)

  • THIS TUNE RULEZ BALLZ CANT STOP LISTENING TO IT

  • Thekla Bristol Tonight, shame im missing it,

  • I remember blancmange. I was a kid at the time and remember taking an instant dislike to them and closing my mind to their music. Because my gran used to make a disgusting blancmange with a thick skin on it which she insisted I ate.

  • @DaveWBedford See - I had the complete opposite reaction cos I LOVE the skin off a blancmange

  • @DaveWBedford did she smack you round the head with a wet dish cloth for not eating it? mines did!

  • @DaveWBedford pmsl

  • IM UP T'BLOODY TREE

  • @martinhendry Me too, I'm up t'bloody tree.

  • Found it thanks to Lazy Jones. Check it out by searching "Instant remedy", great version there.

  • yee I love to see Blancmange but I live in California maybe in the next life? thats sad but hopeful>>..

  • See Blancmange LIVE at Komedia in Brighton on Tuesday 29th November!!! Tickets available on the Komedia website..

  • @LoutBrighton I'll be there

  • some parts of this video makes me think of Visage's "love glove" and "horseman" videos, I assume Egypt was a popular destination/setting for music videos during the early 80's...

  • LOL, the berocca ad!

  • 22 people like better justin bieber

  • dirty smelling paki

  • @MrDman1233211 these are english dummass

  • who compose this song is clever and genius ,absolutely adore it

  • i havnt heard this for years..still sounds great! :))

  • Still listening ! :) Also check out depeche mode, some real classics there. Lovin' it.

  • GOOD TUNE !

  • Blast from the past!

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  • And I'm so tall, I'm so tall

    You raise me and then you let me fall..!

    I'm so small, I'm so small

    Wrap me round your finger, see me fall..!

    Here we go!!

  • I found this on complete accident but this is fuckin' awesome.

  • FUCKIN A!!

  • absolute classic

  • My dad loves this song! lol

  • @benjoe111 same problem here...

  • I would have totally missed this on musical Jeopardy, if there is such a thing. I would have said Oingo Boingo as the group who sings this. I had to google search the entire lyrics to find an answer, and I couldn't believe it. BLACMANGE!!! But it made sense, I have their Blind Vision on 12" vinyl from back then. I'm cool.

  • awesome 80's tune. Can someone invent a time machine please, I wanna go back!

  • Reminds me of a Duran Duran video (Hungry Like the Wolf that they played 10,000 times on MTV)...but I'd much rather listen to these guys.

  • fantastic music from the sitar, i,m sure that is spelt wrong but you know what i mean.

  • Who's playing keyboards ? 6th form at school when this came out. 45 now, still like it !

  • Who's playing keyboards ?

  • @Speedcuffs100 Hey there. I was so into this band. Neil Arthur sings and Steve Luscombe is the guy on keyboards. Check out Blind Vision and Waves by these...... they also wrote "the day before you came" which was covered by abba.

  • @bom2boy nope was written by Benny/Bjorn and cover was by Blancmange

  • Saw Blancmange play live at Bestival, they played a bloody good gig actually, LOTC and Blind Vision were especially awesome & great when accompanied by loads of lazers & strobe lights ;)

  • @TVTuna I was there as well. Thought they were bloody brilliant.

  • I remember hearing it for the first time on TOTP, but apart from being old enough to see that, who cares how I found it, great tune and good that the next generation think that too, the lead singer had great stage presence, all good, where are they now??

  • Ahhhh brilliant stuff this was. recently bought the new album Blanc Burn, and sadly its not a patch on their 80's music.Great to hear this again though!!!!!

  • By eck this is good

  • @YellowYoshiEgg Everyone discovers music in different ways, but all that matters in how they feel about the music. NOT "I heard them before you did, im better than you blah blah blah" shut the fuck up please...

  • @GilbyDoo Your right!! But when your older and find music that was soooo not the norm when it came out originally and you were a true fan, then and Only then, will You fully understand.

    It transports one soul for a few moments and it's AWESOME.

    Now, thatsomethingman

  • @GilbyDoo So true! I love this song with a passion but I wasn't born when it came out, so by some peoples' reckoning I'm a poser.

  • Nice song remember GTA yo'

  • Great song. Strange video.

  • Classic KROQ!

  • essentially 1 hit wonders, but a song with great ryhthm........

  • Good times...

  • Always loved Blancmange. I listen to this song everytime I visit Egypt. This long version is also...EXCEPTIONAL !

  • we are moving..we are moving!... bounces around the room.

  • Thanks for posting this :)

  • this song was in the commodore64 game lazy jones

  • @commodore64fan

    thanks.. I was wondering where I had hear this melody before!

  • One of the normal sounding synthpop songs. not like the early depeche mode and yazoo which are too weird

  • @fabiancarini1

    If by 'too weird' you mean "brilliant, cutting edge genius", then yes...

  • awsome then awsome still.

  • Vic Vance

  • I'm up t'bloody Vice City

  • Has more meaning now than then...mental as anything.

  • I love the 80's sound

  • would you believe this hero lives just down the road from me?

    

  • Awesome song. The cunts from WMG have blocked the video where Blancmange performed on The Tube in '82. Does anyone have the original to reupload?

  • @YellowYoshiEgg What Advert? My friend show'd this to me :)

  • @ReplaProductions that ad that would get you kicked out of most gyms

  • @TheHairybaz Haha

  • my all time favorite song and group..... mega

  • I also remember this coming out. I loved that heavy sitar riff. I was hoping it would start a trend using sitars in music more often. Sadly it was not to be.

  • @rob16248 . Hey rob. Someone already tried to start that trend. A guy called Graham or Gerry Harrison or something in the 60s with a band called the Monkees or something like that. Didn't take off, though. Don't know what happened to him and the rest of the band. Presumably they just ended up in obscurity...

  • @AlastairSnaresbrook Haha!  A smartass better-than-thou reference to real music. Love it. But I think it was the Rutles, not the Monkees. The Monkees had that Davey Bowie guy that later became Nine Inch Nails or some such obscure pop/metal band in the 90's.

  • I remember this coming out. Damn, I'm old.

  • @jasonsharples1 Me too mate! lol

  • @jasonsharples1 Me too mate!

  • I'm going to run through the street if Cairo in a zoot suit, holding a briefcase in one hand, I phone in the other hand blasting this.How cool is that!?

    Then I'll be captured by the Muslim Brotherhood, tortured (not so cool) then released into the waiting arms of Bill Clinton.

  • Namaste! I love that Song and i still have the 12inch and also MIXING on a Ceiling (a B side)

    My message to this Track:

    CHILD to Parents: "You RAISE me and then You let me FALL!

    That is what we will still hear, if WE/Parents are under pressured by Politic and Lobbyist! If just a few are BRAVE enough to SEE and TELL what is going wrong, WE ARE LOST IN SPACE, and some will "Living on the Ceiling", may some "very sad" FIXED on a LINE :o(

  • Love the barber scene (and the dancer in orange!!)

  • Fantastic Jupiter 8 sound

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  • This is the epitome of 80's music! Any fan of 80's or New Wave MUST check out electro kill machine. They are a new band also from Basildon (same town as Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure) and I saw them in London last month. They are awesome...like being taken back to the best decade ever!

  • You keep me runnin' round n round well that's all right that's alright with me up n down I'm up the wall I'm up the bloody tree ;)

    This Bad Grrrl ( Maneater Blonde ) ...

    Blk clothes fish nets dark sinister blue eyes pouty lips I dated back then.

    This song I dedicated to Danger Grrl ;) Mmmm Thanks for the memories Woof !

  • limmy - im up'ta bloody tree lol

  • @RosaFrikkinFranklin

    Yea thats funny as feck lol in fact im gonna hav a wee peek after this piece of coolness has finished.....

  • Blanc Mange.....seriously UNDERRATED new wave band that produced some of the best music from the era, period!!!! much respect.....

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  • GENIUS track from a critically underrated synthpop outfit [in America, anyway]! Though they enjoyed an enthusiastic following on the other side of the pond, I love

    this track best with the Indian tablas and sitars set against an insistent electro beat.

    Add the visuals from the Subcontinent and you have a syncopated GEM!

  • @SpiritOf1989 I agree - completely cool. Just to be picky: it's Egypt, not India (or Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc) The Pyramids at the end of the video are in Egypt and most of the street scenes are in the old market district in Cairo. I do wonder why they didn't film in India, given the sitar and tablas. Doesn't detract from the amazing music and great video, though!

  • They were supporting Depeche Mode when I saw them at the Village Bowl in Bournemouth way back when , fantastic show !

  • I bought the extended version LP the day it came out

  • OMG!! Thanks so much this was awesome!!

  • OH the 80s!!

  • GOOD !

  • me doing recieving

    that one thing has got to be man ,sorry

  • me doing recieving

  • LIMMY

  • I'M UP T'BLOODY TREE

  • I'm up t'bloody tree!

  • brings back wonderful memories when musicians were actually musicians ;-)

  • Wow...I haven't heard/seen this in FOREVER!!!!!! Thanks for the upload!!!!

  • The star in this video is the barber!

  • @Ashley19721 Yeah,,,he's like what the fck you on about mate?

  • @endgammer Ha ha ha, you've got that spot on, the look on his face says it all really!!

  • Back only 2 years ago,I was watching an eighties era movie I haven't seen in along time since maybe the begining of the '90s on cable.It was call,"No Man's Land"(1987,starring Charlie Sheen).There's a nightclub scene in this movie where this same song was being played and I was thinkling it sounds alot like the band who does,"Blind Vision".

  • @beepollen1 I swear that the 'boom boom boom' guy sounded just like Blancmange at the time though! LOL  xD

  • Saw them at "The Studio" , Bristol ,1982

  • Did Blancmange do that song Boom, Boom, Boom, Let's Go Back To My Room?

  • @YellowYoshiEgg

    I play football with Neil Arthur.

    It was an epic revelation when I found out he was the vocalist from Blancmange

    

  • @JSJ1992 Whhooooooo!!! must have been ace

  • I'M UP T'BLOODY TREE

  • @YellowYoshiEgg does Grand Theft Auto count?

  • I remember the '80s. All of those moron British pretending to be an imperial power dressed like it was 1907. Yeah, those were the days..

  • work the new york show for them in the 90's---brother john worked for RECORD WORLD--so we had new bands and songs all the time ---the english invasion

  • Up t' bloody tree. FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OK!

  • Ahhh...I haven't heard this is sooo long, just big smiles and lots of teeth over here!!!!

  • LOVE THAT SONG BRING ME BACK IN THE DAY'S !!!!

  • Limmy's Show brought me here. p.s I too am "Up T Bloody Tree"

  • I LOVE HUMAN LEAGUE!!!

  • Up t'bloody tree

  • Class, really catchy tune, you canny get it out of yer head.

  • I still have this on vinyl......

  • @27wingnut

    pretty sure i do too (in my treasure-box of vinyl) - in fact pretty sure i had the 12" - have to say it stil sounds great - LUV that middle eastern vibe :)

  • thumps up if you know from gta vice city stories

  • Wow what a song it still sounds great 30 years on How many songs of today can you say about that?????? and sad as it seems i did buy this record when it first came out. But how lucky iam to hear this before most of you and not because of the stupid advert.

  • WOW so damn great this track... brought back so many memories .. thanks "Blancmange"...

    for this fab track... so refreshing to hear you

    vic x

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  • Shit no. However, I am perky as fuck yet can't explain why/

  • will this video now be banned in Fraance?????

  • Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories!!!!

  • Saudi Arabia

  • Ah back to the 80's when music was good!

  • @YellowYoshiEgg

    giving away my 'old-bag-ness' here ... but i actually bought this on 7" single when it came out :) need i say more!!! (except to say i think i also had the 12" remix - PARTY ON!!)

  • @soozipuss I bought Mange Tout and the 12" of this and Blind Vision on vinyl when it first came out! I guess I'm showing my "old-bag-ness' right along with you LOL!!

  • @mta415 yay i am not alone - some truly MEGA times were had in the 80s :) :) in fact wish i could do it all again ... right bloody now!!

  • I like the part..."why you up in the tree?" and he says "why you down there"?

  • love it! saw them in dc around 1985.....they were so much fun!

  • Classic song

  • Great Music and Great video..they r the best and soooo Cute!!! I love the 80's wish all the music now was as good. Looking forward to their new album. Hope they come to California!!!

  • The new BLANCMANGE album 'Blanc Burn' is due out on the 7th March 2011 and will be supported by a UK tour. Check out blancmange.co.uk for more details and to download a FREE MP3.

  • best song evey loved it :)

    

  • First time I've seen this video - thanks. Brings an air of Indian and African mystery to the song. The TOTP version is more exciting and foot tapping though.

  • Ageless. Love it.