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  • Love this,classic 8o`s

  • Jeez. Haven't heard this in about 35 years!!! Brings back memories of bopping round Thrybergh Comp youth club. Keyboard player, Andy Beaumont, went to same school plus played flute in same orchestra as me (v small claim to fame-lol)- remember everyone freakin when he turned up in new garb plus make-up. Still think its a stunning tune though.

  • I've had this on a C60 audio tape since the 80's and was amazed to have found it on here.

  • 1982?? This is not possible !OMG.

  • OMG!!..I cant belive i found this lol...Good tune.I listened to this ages ago always rememberd the song they were from rotherham uk wernt they

  • great track brings back so many good times , a timeless classic

  • You british and your good music.

  • amazing song amazing

  • 7 people are god's friend

  • 7 people are god's friend

  • God I usd to love this song, The Vines down Sadlergate in Derby, was it really nearly 30 years ago.......

  • They used to pump this out in Vines in Sadlergate, Derby; loved it then, love it now.

    Simply an all-time classic!"

  • saw them at steeleys in sheffield around the time of its release..later to have gary steadman on guitar....from classix nouveaux.....good tune along with love dance..

    

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  • Wow. It's not often I discover a new (old) 80s synthpop band, and it's even rarer for them to be this great. A real forgotten gem.

  • I meet in Milton Keynes in 1983/84 at Virgin Stores and saw them at the Joint :)

  • Many a night danced to this at Loughborough union bring back those vodka promotion nights

  • 4 dislikes? Err, I dread to think what their 'taste' in music can be!

  • Club 6400 Houston Texas in the 80's - and then Numbers :)

  • its matt smith!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! does anyone think otherwise???????????? i would say hes too young to have been around to have a pop career in the eighties but has capable of time travel!

  • is this available on CD yet?

  • omggggg clearing attic found me old records.....this being one of them...demanded hubby played it on his decks right away ...( hes a hiphop dj).....to say he looked lost as i sung my head off is an understatement !!!

    bloody loved this way back when and still now!!!

  • I loved them back then...nice to see it after so long...

  • Brings back some great memories. Great tune

  • fuck it.. to me it was the Lucifer's Friend band.. lol

  • Hey is that the "you spin me right round" guy? Sounds like him.

  • Man this takes me back, I've got it on vinyl somewhere collecting dust might have to dray it out again. I just love You Tube

  • Remember this from years ago and I meet these guys in Virgin summer 1983, think you played The Joint in Milton Keynes if any of you guys are there and remember that :)

  • Strap on Korg M500 :)

  • dint think i would ever hear this again.its great.the good OLD days ! ! !

  • ahh the goth days

  • Rebecca's in Barnsley....got the track for the DJ after seeing the Vision at the LImit Club in Sheffield...The Vision were from the line of great 80's electro bands....Seen them as goths and new romantics.....nah just a great sheffield electro band

  • @GlyndaBlade man the limit club on a monday night and pennys on a wednsday a night fuckin great great memories from 1979 to 1984 :)

  • What a great flashback! Takes me back to Numbers in Houston and Backstreet in Austin dancing with my best friend Esther. Anyone found a CD release for this song?

  • @dillingersdriver Funny, there was a Backstreet club in Ft. Lauderdale back in the 80's. I do not know if it was a gay dance club or not because there were gay people and straight people like me -- and it was incredible. The energy of that place!

  • i paid $30 for a 12" of this song back in 1992. at the time it seemed like a good idea with it being out of print and all. thank god for mp3s :) hell of a lot cheaper.

  • y is it called lucifers friend when the actual band (lucifers friend) made the song first,and its nothing like it, dont u hate that when a band makes the same song title but completly change it its really confusing. but still the songs still good but is it me or does the keyboard parts sound like sonic the headgehog?

  • Cinderellas Northampton, brilliant! 45 now but takes me back to 1982. Awesome

  • brilliant remember dancing to this at tiffany,s in rotherham

  • think there's a bit more than a touch of goth romanticism, this is full on goth if you read those lyrics. They're pretty funny stereotypical vampire stuff, catchy keyboard

  • fuckin queers

  • wooooooooooow !!what a song great!!!

  • Knew Bruce and Robert well along many others. So many memories for this 45 year old. Numbers was a home away from home. Soooo much fun and the best music ever. After listening and viewing this video I remember the after parties My heart is racing thinking about those days in my early 20s and I dated the bartender Joey..too fun.

  • @deemcful I'm 45 as well, but don't have the old memories of this song. Living in the US I didn't hear it till about 10 years ago when I was searching for songs I didn't have by the band Lucifer's Friend. Loved it from the first. Most of my friends that heard it got into Vision as well. Great group.

  • He sounds a lot like Frank Tovey

  • brilliant, one of my all time favs !!

  • Here's a lost classic for you dark legions- Mr Clarinet by Birthday Party, now then!

  • Fantastic! The rhythm-track evokes the very Devil himself dancing joyously on the tin-roof of your pitiful soul.

  • andystag and muckhauler, you both right, 8 bells and the jockey in Mansfield, ...AND every sunday even till the early and mid 90's this "always" came on at the John Cockle in Mansfield, I bought the single from st Josephs at sutton, great song, great memories

  • Wow. This brings back some memories

  • my goodness i have the 12" single of this in my loft ... used to love it ! ... still very good though !

  • takes me back to the 80,s days of trench coats pointed shoes and lipstick

  • lets get sanctuary records to re issue this classic. get it in the charts

  • muckhauler glad u remember 80s in mansfield beer cellar wot a place !! great music great atmosphere !! r u stags fan !

  • OMG!!! Mansfield in the 80's in the Eight Bells and the Horse & Jockey!!! those who were there would remember!!!

  • really love the goth lifestyle any guys want to date a goth girl then talk to me

  • They played this live as well as the follow up song Love Dance at Peartree bridge Milton keynes... One of eddie Richards nights ;) Great times ............

  • Fucking love this have it on 12" vinyl, love dance on the A side. Awesome, 15yrs old wtf 23yrs l8r n it still rox.

  • anyone remember harveys nightclub in mansfield this track was massive in there it rocked black clothes long crimped hair whooooooooooooo

  • Oh yes!! I was there... followed up with B52's .. Planet Clare!!! great times :)

  • I remember this , i have this on the original 7" Vinyl .

  • i am totally into the goth lifestyle btw any guys want to meet up with a goth girl like me

  • Does anyone know of a CD that this might be on?

  • @Baldvampireski

    You can download it from a site called Retro Wonderland

  • You are a bloody star...Many thanks.

  • fook me cinderella rockerfella with Bill + Dale and Dales Fiat, those were the days

  • does anyone know if this available on cd anywhere as i have been asked to play it at a wedding next month

  • Loved this single and have an old 7'' of it. Used to dance to this at the under 18s night at Rebecca's nightclub in Barnsley when I was 15 (1982)....

  • @dazzule Couldn't resist replying - (ex-Barnsley boy!) Loved Lucifer's Friend as well. Used to sit in the Wellington pub disco (?) in Athersley with a girl I was seeing and couldn't wait for them to put this on. I was 19 - last vestiges of punk rock..I'm Asst Headteacher now down south..if kids only knew how cool I was..ha. Did Stables n/club as well - but preferred Rebecca's. Better kebabs after!

  • Vision led me into my goth phase as 17 year old and to get into synths and drop out of my degree to pursue my music ambitions!!

    I want to get hold of the In Sight album and all the videos. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    I've got Lucifer's Friend 7" & 12" and Love Dance 12", I've trying to complete the collection for literally decades!

  • i am goth myself so i like the video any single gothic guys out there

  • oh montreal i visit that city at least 10 time a year

  • Brittisnow...wow the memories of Numbers in Houston circa early 80's for New Wave night....sanwiched between gay nights. The BEST music evah!

  • @flgirlaol I loved Numbers! Do you remember that club NRG? Great music there too back in the eighties!!!!

  • Sweet Eighties

  • was there a similar version cos the one i have sounds a bit different, unless its been speeded up a little.

  • wow fab group from rotherham, ive got this on vynal too, great stuff

  • Numbers Nightclub in Houston remixed the song with short loops of that girl from the exorcist projectile vomiting to make the video more fun lol

  • omg this song is fucking awesome!!!!! i fucking love dancing to it at Numbers

  • Hi all vision fans, saw these guys a few times while at college and visited them at the studio. Lucky enough to have all their material and cleaned it up and put onto disc.

  • Been looking for this song forever...where can I download it? I used to dance to this in the clubs back in 1990

  • did you manage to get  copy if so can you let me know thanx

  • R.I.P RUSS

  • does anyone know where to find the version that samples the exorcist and the omen? i have searched on soulseek and shareaza to no avail.  please help!!!!!

  • SO MANY MEMORIES..AWESOME

  • classic goth electro,saw them at sheff uni octagon in 82,me n me mate gary both got pissed for only a fiver.them wur the days.used 2 c the band regularly walkin up n down me mums road in hillsborough.think they wer livin in sum empty houses at the time just b 4 they made the big time.well done boys u is quality!!!!!!!!!!!

  • well they were from sheffield, but one of them used to go out with a girl called karren who lived on our old road in hellaby rotherham, i could tell you her sisters name, cos she was one of my conquests, maybe too much information there eh?

  • My eyes burn in the darkness Waiting outside your home A life that's truly immortal A lord of the unknown I only go out in the evening Never seeing the sun Draining the blood from my victims To give me the strength to go on Vanishing just as the dawn comes In vaults below the ground Taking life from the humans
  • A circle that goes round and round I'll never strike when expected I'm just a shadow at night My victims' eyes full of horror As they feel the terror and fright My eyes burn in the darkness Waiting outside your home A life that's truly immortal A lord of the unknown I only go out in the evening Never seeing the sun Draining the blood from my victims To give me the strength to go on
  • there's the lyrics for you all - read my oldest post first though!

    I've had this on white label for nearly 20 years, not knowing either the artist or title!

    Just found out today...at last

    I just love this song - now to find it on CD as my single is rather well played...

  • Go to my channel to see their other hit Love Dance...

    Watch it in Youtube High def mode

  • classic aw great memories.

  • So this is where V.N.V. Nation got their sound from......

  • Sounds a bit like 79 80 Human League.

  • Hi

    andy beaumont-keyboard

    russell bonnell-vocals

    gary gillott-drums

    paul statham-guitar

    from what I can remember!It's all a bit of a blur now!!xxx

  • can anyone tell me the line up on this clip please!.

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  • did you find "love dance" by vision on 7" ? been after the b-side "vision by vision" for decades

  • Go to my channel to see Love Dance.. I have just found copies of the master tapes and they have been in storage for over 20 years....

  • R.I.P. Andy??? he is alive and well and this morning told me he might be releasing visions old tracks again.. R.I.P. Russ, it is sad he died back in 2000.

    Go to my channel to see Love Dance.. I have just found copies of the master tapes and they have been in storage for over 20 years....

  • dont suppose anyone can give me a link to this song i like it very much

    thank you in advance

  • is this christian goth?

  • How would you get that interpretation?

  • ng lost classic!!!!

  • another ok sheffield band, not quite cabaret voltaire ! monday nights at the limit club they'd all be hangin out there

  • I use to dance to song at Numbers nightclub when I lived in Houston.

  • I've got the 7" and 12" versions of this. Shed a tear of envy

  • Loved this song . Used to dance to this at the Hoochie club in Edinburgh . All that silk and puff shirts . Only trouble was what colour of eye shadow to wear that night and that WAS JUST US BLOKES.

    Happy days indded

  • great vid.did they do any other songs?

  • GOD bless the keyboards. Gave birth to all the best music genres. Hi Energy, Disco, , Eurobeat, Italo , Freestyle(Old Skool) and our beloved New Wave. and they made Pop & Rock sound good.

  • I love it!!!

  • It was me (fly fishing) at Steeleys not Lee (my son whos made me repost)

  • I remember dancing (fly fishing) to this one in Steeleys in Sheffield, i rebought the single off Ebay. Happy days indeed.

  • Steeleys!!!! Oh my God!!!! I'd forgotten about that place!!!

  • Does anyone else remember dancing to this track in the Limit nightclub on West Street in Sheffield on a Thursday and Saturday night?? Happy days!

  • HA! I loved dancing to this song at #'s in Houston. I got a cd with this song, "you take me high" and "don't walk" for forty bucks at Record Rack.

  • Hey i danced to this at #'s too!

  • as did i ;-) if NO other song brought me to the dance floor cuz i was feeling like a song snob, THIS one always does :-D that synth line is soooo friggin catchy...

  • Does anybody know if this track is available to download anywhere? Any info gratefully received!!

  • LOVED this then, love it now - cracking tune!!!

  • they came from rotherham and andy beaumont went to thrybergh school i saw them perform this at spurley hey school before its release i expected them to go on and be massive but the music scene changed

  • Sheffield music - as good today as it's always been! I have very fond memories of dancing to this at the school disco. Vision were brilliant and way ahead of their time.

  • It didn't come together with Love Dance at all. It was much earlier. I have all their releases on vinyl - including their own remake of this track. I'm not sure where they were all actually born - but they were very much a Sheffield band. They lived and played and practiced in Sheffield and had a Sheffield manager.

    They were without doubt very influential - despite a lack of chart success. Like a Gothic Depeche Mode - when Depeche were a boy band making Just Can't Get Enough.

  • classic track.got 12inch vinyl.great memories.

  • fucking fabulous song. #'s made me love this great piece of work. :)

  • "Numbers"? Are you from Houston?

  • Oh my God!

  • Blitz.... It came together with "Love Dance"

  • Peter Hudson from Wallace Road, if you remember this tune then contact me please. Northampton.

  • Was this just a Northampton tune??? Loved this all those years ago at Cinderellas...still have it on vinyl. Julie -Weston Favell

  • Nah, he was a good friend when I was younger who gave me a copy of the song on vinyl. I used to go out with his sister. lol :)Cinderella Rockerfellas, I was too young for there I think, although remember the neon sign outside.

  • because they selfironic

  • SYNHTPOP

  • seriously top pure synth track. bought it all those years ago and still as fresh. why cant music be this good always?! forget leona lewis haha, THIS is what the kids of today should be exposed to!

  • If you are the same plonker who posts rubbish on Miller's Mad I can understand where that last statement came from.

    Great tune!

  • They played this (with the video) at #'s in Houston. They spliced this video along with scenes from the Exorcist (most notably the slime-spewing from Reagan's mouth) to make it coincide with the 12" version of the song. was always one of my favorites.

  • Hey jpplaster, do I know you? If you were at #'s between 1982 and 1984, then I knew you, and we probably banged some of the same girls. All of us used to dance to this like crazy. Bruce Godwin was such a lunatic when he would re-mix videos. He was one of Houston's greatest club DJ's. I understand #'s still draws a huge crowd on 80's night. It was, and still is, the best dance music around!

  • I doubt it...the first time I went to #'s was in '91 when I turned 18. in the 90's i spent countless Fridays's there for "Classic #'s (80's night) and on Wednesday for nickel beer. I did know Bruce (he also owned the Record Rack) but around that time he doesn't DJ'ing anymore, he just kind of ran the club. Unfortunately I don't go anymore because the place is like 14 & up, they let ANYONE in. But I agree, best music around.

  • hahaha, word... i used to go a LOT in the 90s too. 1 time i overheard some dude say to this girl "really? you're only 15?"

    eeeeeeek...

  • you rock,i love #s,im from corpus christi,wentthere all the ol skool time,its still kool.....

  • Way better than the cover. Great tune!!

  • Keyboards by the odd andy boughmont, or something like that. Would like to find the follow up video "love dance" i was in it, what a twatt

  • love the synths!

  • i am smiling so big right now.

  • A quality song I'll never forget

  • grow up, Idiot

  • haha alright buddy

  • We had an excuse for our taste in music. It was called "Medusa" and we shoved it up our nose by the bottle full!

  • Fantastic.

    Have wondered what this brilliant tune was since everybody at Oakwood Comprehensive School was dancing to it at youth club discos in 1982.

    Followed a link from Gino on the Millers Mad Rotherham United website and hey presto its the tune I have been looking for.

    Great memories of a very special time.

  • Unbelevable ..but not enough of this kinda stuff ..thankyou Youtube FFS , There seems to be something missing these days - musically..No question .. it'l never be the same god-damit..tsk

  • great video the first time i have ever seen it, miss you dad r.i.p, makes me proud to be his daughter, love Chantelle

  • Great, Great !!

    They were like Bauhaus + Depeche Mode.....

  • OMG!!!! I never thought I would find this song when I typed it in, but here it is. Takes me back to school in Rotherham and Vision being top of the local charts before the charts went national.

    Thanks so much for putting this on!

  • \Hi Guys, I'm looking for a track by vision called, 'Tears idle tears' I think it was released around 1986. Is there anyone out there with a copy?

    Thanks

  • I never thought in a million years that when I searched for this tune I would actually find it! Was just remembering the 80's with the wife and trying to remember all the South Yorkshire bands. Thanks for posting it!

  • hello my friend.I saw these at a club in doncaster years ago.Has your list finished?have you got cabaret voltair?The Sheffield sound was awsome back then.Heaven 17s Penthouse Pavement album was very influencial.

  • This takes me back to the days back in Rotherham when I saw Vision, then met "Chippy" in the local fish & chip shop in Eastwood. Not really sure whether he went to Spurley or thrybergh.Does anyone have any idea of their whereabouts these days

  • I think they were from Shirebook.

  • Rotherham

  • I lent my Yamaha CS15 synth to the keyboard player when these guys were just started. Do you remember Steve Martin form Milton Keynes?

  • brill song never seen video before but remember dancing many a time to it thanks

  • Thank you so much for posting.  What a blast from the past! :-)

  • Hi,I'm looking for an old track from 1984 by Vision, fro the lucifer's friend album. It's called Tears idle tears.

    Can anyone guide me in the right direction?

    Many Thanks

  • I have it, but only on vinyl mate.

  • The sound quality is poor, but you can find here most Vision songs, (posted by a member of the band): you just have to search in google "This is a page about my hidden past"

  • the video played at 'numbers' was a special extended mix created by 'house' dj (at the time) - robert the brit. he also did one of gary numan's "change your mind" (mixed with parts ripped from the flick 'altered states'). i would love to get my hands on those!!! memories.

  • "Depeche Mode with a touch of Goth romanticism. You know, songs about vampires and such..."

    Nope, sorry.