Absolutely does paint an accurate picture of what it was like. And it DID shake things up as it was meant to. Although it was short lived it was SO much fun for those of us lucky enough to experience it.
Ptolemy Punk actually started in 1974 when Malcolm Mc Laren( may be misspelled) got the Sex Pistols together clothed them with clothing from his fetish shop Sexx. This was fueled by the NYC bands like Patti Smith, Ramones and plenty of great bands. Sorry too numerous to mention.
Almost took off a star for the inaccurate video showing HILLBILLY HERION as the yellow pills. I WAS THERE THE YELLOW PILLS WERE.. drum roll please . . DESOXYN - (speed) END OF DISCUSSION. This song very much hits the nail on the head for what was going on in of all places New Orleans, Louisiana. And NOT in Ca. much to my dismay. Looking back it makes sense as Punk/ New Wave hit the east coast first. By the time it got to Ca. it (Punk) was pretty much over. But IT DID shake things up dramaticall
@MirandaRights008 "Looking back it makes sense as Punk/ New Wave hit the east coast first." Punk never "hit" the East Coast' - it started on the East Coast. New York City, to be exact.
This is not the official video for this song. ("...Oxycodone first came to the U.S. in 1939, but it wasn’t until Purdue Pharma began manufacturing OxyContin in the United States in 1996 that it became widely used...." ~The History of OxyContin by Bethany Winkel.) There are many anachronistic visuals in this montage that prove it was created long after 1979. It's still nicely done, though.
This is not the official video for this song. ("...Oxycodone first came to the U.S. in 1939, but it wasn’t until Purdue Pharma began manufacturing OxyContin in the United States in 1996 that it became widely used...." ~The History of OxyContin by Bethany Winkel.) There are many anachronistic visuals in this montage that prove it was created long after 1979. It's still nicely done, though.
This song, released in 1979, captures the spirit of the time quite well.
Then, with 1980, 'The Future', The Eighties, about to arrive there was a palpable sense among many people under 30 that the USA was going to be a better, more futuristic place.
The view was that music was going to change, move into the future, drop the dinosaur Classic Rock bands and create something new, wonderful and exciting.
"Everybody feels like they were just made by - the creator."
I am from Vancouver,Probably My Favorite Album in 1979 to Turn up in My 67 'Stang and escape in,Impossible to be down with this Music ! along with all the Other new Music, which is Played on Classic Radio and The stuff like Shoes,The Beat, The Plimsouls,Off Broadway etc which was not.,with Bands like Motels,Cars,Knack,Dire Straits,Romantics,Billy Idol,Boston,CheapTrick,John Cougar,Kingbees,Loverboy,Police,Queen,Records,Tom Petty,Rollers Music was Fresh and exciting ! Much like '65 must have been
Listening to this song in 2011 and it still Rocks! Even if you were'nt a kid in 1979 with fond memories of how these "power-pop" and new wave bands changed the face of Rock & Roll. Even if you were'nt out in front of it all with strange clothes, going to "underground" clubs to hear this music on the dance floor, This song stands on its own as a GREAT TUNE. is anyone here under 30? Let's hear what YOU have to say...
They have a huge fan base back in Wisconsin. As an East Side Kid I know we loved covering some of there songs, especially "remember the lightning". Saw them at waterfest a few years back, almost didnt recognize them
I met them in a small club in Hollywood after their peak. Only a few people in the club other than my friends and I. They talked for a while. Told them I was from Wisconsin and that all of my friends back home loved them. Not sure they even believed me. Their manager sat with us. Her name was Cherie. I asked her if she was "the" Cherie. She smiled and said maybe. I'll never forget that night. Or this band.
@honeywelliphone Of course they believed you, they loved when they heard that kinda stuff from their fans; great guys too. Their manager's name was Shelly Heber, not Cherie.
I grooved to this band 20 20 in the early 80's and am so glad I found them again here on Youtube. I saw them live in 2006 in Oshkosh, Wis . We covered a couple of there songs in my band East Side Kids.
@southshorebits no, oxycontins bad stuff. this song was out far before that crap, i think its in the vid because it happens to be yellow and when you google yellow pills image you probably find the same various yellow puills in the vid,
Rodney also debuted Madness. I was at KROQ with a friend visiting Rodney on his show. She'd brought back a bunch of their 45's from the UK. And there it was, history being made live in front of our eyes (and ears!) as Rodney played one of them on his Rodney on the ROQ one Sunday evening!
fucking cool song...yellow pills, cheri, and Remember the lightning were my picks from the 20/20 album. damn shame they couldn't have gotten the attention that say for instance, The Cars, did. these guys from oklahoma rock.
Oh, man, I loved being a teenager in L.A. during this era -- 20/20, X, the Bangs, the Plimsouls, KROQ, the Penetrators, the Starwood, Madame Wong's...
I want to say that the legendary Rodney Bingenheimer on 106.7 KROQ debuted this song. He was responsible for the "success" of many un-known punk and new wave bands from the 70's and early 70's. The Ramones, The Bangles, Missing Persons, 20/20, etc..., awesome song, great guitar.
Wow I dig it. I loved this song back in the day and I always wodered who it was until I stumbled upon it when I searched Nuclear boy. Isn't this the coolest party /club song early 80's?
my band The X-Statics used to cover this song all during the 80s.....thanks for putting it up! i haven't heard it in years. this was one of my favorite covers we ever played. LOVE IT!
I don't understand why this "remix" kept showing pictures of oxycotin, that opiate wasn't even on the market when the song came out, "yellow pills" refers to benzodiazapam specifically valium #5
OMG I havent thought about these guys in ages. This was my favorite band back in the day. Have every album, yes, I said album...Ha Ha and saw them in concert
Yep bACK IN THE DAY i WON A DANCE CONTEST..THIS WAS MY FAVE SONG,/...FAVE BAND ...THEY RULED.I RULED I WAS YOUNG AND IN LOVE WITH LIFE....AND I HAD THE GOLDEN TICKETS TO ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS EVER!!!
Such a catchy little ditty that was so hot when it came out and then.....nothing was heard again from this band that has so much more promise. 20/20 was a hybrid of The Plimsouls & The Monroes neatly woven into one tight unit. Timeless track.
Is there any place where I can download/buy this song? I have tried a lot of places but no store has it!? I've tried some online stores as well, but can't find it....:(
(4 days not fast enough) i think.. that yellow pills is a street name for Extasy tablets, because i've seen pink ones, white ones, blue ones. why not yellow? they were popular in the 80s disco scene.
Did you think that anybody would believe that this big shit could be an official video??hahaha lol
Remix version??there's no remix version for that song, this is the original and unique version...oh, and do you call yourself musician? you may call yourself trickster, or swindler, humbug...but never musician...
I absolutely love this song. This song has never been overplayed and played only by Rodney Bingenheimer in the days when KROQ was born. Reminds me of when getting high was fun.
I love this song. I love it so much couse i always here it on the game Scarface the world is yours LOL. I still play that game thats why. And it looks so ugly compared to GTA 4 right LOL. By the way i have GTA 4 also
Now this is true power pop perfection. Steve, Ron , Chris and Mikey had this shit so down that there were very few bands that could keep pace with 'em. I feel sorry for all of you who never got a chance to see them, cos they were fucking fabulous.
Great tune, man!!! Couldn't remember the name of the group that did this song, but I remembered the title. Been almost 30 yrs. since I've heard this tune...really cool!!! thanks......
Absolutely does paint an accurate picture of what it was like. And it DID shake things up as it was meant to. Although it was short lived it was SO much fun for those of us lucky enough to experience it.
MirandaRights008 2 weeks ago
Ptolemy Punk actually started in 1974 when Malcolm Mc Laren( may be misspelled) got the Sex Pistols together clothed them with clothing from his fetish shop Sexx. This was fueled by the NYC bands like Patti Smith, Ramones and plenty of great bands. Sorry too numerous to mention.
MirandaRights008 2 weeks ago
Almost took off a star for the inaccurate video showing HILLBILLY HERION as the yellow pills. I WAS THERE THE YELLOW PILLS WERE.. drum roll please . . DESOXYN - (speed) END OF DISCUSSION. This song very much hits the nail on the head for what was going on in of all places New Orleans, Louisiana. And NOT in Ca. much to my dismay. Looking back it makes sense as Punk/ New Wave hit the east coast first. By the time it got to Ca. it (Punk) was pretty much over. But IT DID shake things up dramaticall
MirandaRights008 3 weeks ago
@MirandaRights008 "Looking back it makes sense as Punk/ New Wave hit the east coast first." Punk never "hit" the East Coast' - it started on the East Coast. New York City, to be exact.
ptolemny 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for 20/20
Nobody would understand.
MyLittleDiscolite 1 month ago
I always thought this is about 5mg Valiums...
OneMetaphysician 3 months ago
@OneMetaphysician It certainly fits the feel of the song...
ptolemny 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for 20/20
A favorite of "Spacin Scott Mason" of KROQ.
MrAxeEdent 4 months ago
Remember This 1!!!
When I Was a Teen I Liked the Part,
"Everybody's Feelin' Groovy;
Everybody's Got Their Hair Short...,
... YEAH Right!!!!!
There Was NUTHIN' But LONG STIIL Hair!, Still @ That Tyme!!
NOW It Just Means..,
Vicatin...,
My Knee KILLS!
LONGBEACHPUNKROCK 5 months ago
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This is not the official video for this song. ("...Oxycodone first came to the U.S. in 1939, but it wasn’t until Purdue Pharma began manufacturing OxyContin in the United States in 1996 that it became widely used...." ~The History of OxyContin by Bethany Winkel.) There are many anachronistic visuals in this montage that prove it was created long after 1979. It's still nicely done, though.
AliceMarsupi 5 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for 20/20
This is not the official video for this song. ("...Oxycodone first came to the U.S. in 1939, but it wasn’t until Purdue Pharma began manufacturing OxyContin in the United States in 1996 that it became widely used...." ~The History of OxyContin by Bethany Winkel.) There are many anachronistic visuals in this montage that prove it was created long after 1979. It's still nicely done, though.
AliceMarsupi 5 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for 20/20
Valium came in a yellow pill back then.
squozzer 5 months ago
LOVE IT! Best song on the Scarface vid game by far!
smojo55106 6 months ago
This song, released in 1979, captures the spirit of the time quite well.
Then, with 1980, 'The Future', The Eighties, about to arrive there was a palpable sense among many people under 30 that the USA was going to be a better, more futuristic place.
The view was that music was going to change, move into the future, drop the dinosaur Classic Rock bands and create something new, wonderful and exciting.
"Everybody feels like they were just made by - the creator."
Yep, that's what 1979 was like.
Knepperify1 6 months ago
This can't really be the "official" video of this song?
TNCreature 6 months ago
5 mg. valium
rockovage 7 months ago
I am from Vancouver,Probably My Favorite Album in 1979 to Turn up in My 67 'Stang and escape in,Impossible to be down with this Music ! along with all the Other new Music, which is Played on Classic Radio and The stuff like Shoes,The Beat, The Plimsouls,Off Broadway etc which was not.,with Bands like Motels,Cars,Knack,Dire Straits,Romantics,Billy Idol,Boston,CheapTrick,John Cougar,Kingbees,Loverboy,Police,Queen,Records,Tom Petty,Rollers Music was Fresh and exciting ! Much like '65 must have been
ballisticsports 7 months ago
Listening to this song in 2011 and it still Rocks! Even if you were'nt a kid in 1979 with fond memories of how these "power-pop" and new wave bands changed the face of Rock & Roll. Even if you were'nt out in front of it all with strange clothes, going to "underground" clubs to hear this music on the dance floor, This song stands on its own as a GREAT TUNE. is anyone here under 30? Let's hear what YOU have to say...
juliet1978ful 8 months ago
They have a huge fan base back in Wisconsin. As an East Side Kid I know we loved covering some of there songs, especially "remember the lightning". Saw them at waterfest a few years back, almost didnt recognize them
5589daniel 10 months ago
I met them in a small club in Hollywood after their peak. Only a few people in the club other than my friends and I. They talked for a while. Told them I was from Wisconsin and that all of my friends back home loved them. Not sure they even believed me. Their manager sat with us. Her name was Cherie. I asked her if she was "the" Cherie. She smiled and said maybe. I'll never forget that night. Or this band.
honeywelliphone 10 months ago 2
@honeywelliphone Of course they believed you, they loved when they heard that kinda stuff from their fans; great guys too. Their manager's name was Shelly Heber, not Cherie.
djsmontanes 3 weeks ago
I grooved to this band 20 20 in the early 80's and am so glad I found them again here on Youtube. I saw them live in 2006 in Oshkosh, Wis . We covered a couple of there songs in my band East Side Kids.
My other favorite by 20 20 is Tell Me Why.
5589daniel 10 months ago
oh i love this song its awesome i always put it when im cruising in scarface withthe trans am
MrJsperez 10 months ago
what pills do you think their talking about is it really oxycontin?
southshorebits 11 months ago
@southshorebits no, oxycontins bad stuff. this song was out far before that crap, i think its in the vid because it happens to be yellow and when you google yellow pills image you probably find the same various yellow puills in the vid,
NEDEERC 11 months ago
prob X, depending on the year of the song
afullhalfgramofacid 9 months ago
@southshorebits Twas Valium
MaceMn 10 months ago 2
@southshorebits
Could Be...,
It's GOODE Stuff But Be Careful!!!!
LONGBEACHPUNKROCK 5 months ago
This song changed my life...I mean it man!!!
deanpapiernik 11 months ago
Rodney also debuted Madness. I was at KROQ with a friend visiting Rodney on his show. She'd brought back a bunch of their 45's from the UK. And there it was, history being made live in front of our eyes (and ears!) as Rodney played one of them on his Rodney on the ROQ one Sunday evening!
arianecrvan 11 months ago
Why no live video of this band performing the song??
arianecrvan 11 months ago
fucking cool song...yellow pills, cheri, and Remember the lightning were my picks from the 20/20 album. damn shame they couldn't have gotten the attention that say for instance, The Cars, did. these guys from oklahoma rock.
DjJohnnyM68 11 months ago
Oh, man, I loved being a teenager in L.A. during this era -- 20/20, X, the Bangs, the Plimsouls, KROQ, the Penetrators, the Starwood, Madame Wong's...
Blisterina01 1 year ago
@Blisterina01 Fuck Yeah!!!
aupsychobilly 11 months ago
~~80's love this song thanks ..:D
PEREZLINDAANNETTE 1 year ago
esta aparece en scarface game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
acdcmoneytalks 1 year ago
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blackLaidback 1 year ago
cars look too new for this to be a 1982 video.
was anyone in this group part of the canandian group the kings who had an xmas song out in 1982?
The096757 1 year ago
One of my favorite bands when i was a kid.
chadcarrier 1 year ago
Thank you Rodney on the Roq for playing this song for the first time on the airwaves! Long live Rodney Bingenheimer!
Squeaky1423 1 year ago
yea!!
greiguar 1 year ago
I want to say that the legendary Rodney Bingenheimer on 106.7 KROQ debuted this song. He was responsible for the "success" of many un-known punk and new wave bands from the 70's and early 70's. The Ramones, The Bangles, Missing Persons, 20/20, etc..., awesome song, great guitar.
greeenroooom 1 year ago 9
@greeenroooom yes, he did, in the late 70's and early 80's i think you meant
NEDEERC 1 year ago 5
@NEDEERC EXACTLY...
aupsychobilly 1 year ago
@greeenroooom Rodney Bingenheimer was this teenagers salvation, was there any other radio station that existed besides KROQ?!?! ;)
ericsrebel 1 year ago
SCARFASE BRAZIL!!!
arlindo010 1 year ago
killer tune. Brings back memories. Thanks for posting
1greekspartan 1 year ago
great music! but not better than super freak ... (Scarface)
hellraiser0302 1 year ago
great music! but not better than super freak ... (Scarface)
hellraiser0302 1 year ago
I wish I hadn't sold that game.
QQ
sven209 1 year ago
SCARFACE HEHEHE :D
Bielokodasul 1 year ago
Wow flash back! I saw them at Magic mountain many years ago!
jdsongwriter 2 years ago
Wow I dig it. I loved this song back in the day and I always wodered who it was until I stumbled upon it when I searched Nuclear boy. Isn't this the coolest party /club song early 80's?
brucetrueasblue 2 years ago
my band The X-Statics used to cover this song all during the 80s.....thanks for putting it up! i haven't heard it in years. this was one of my favorite covers we ever played. LOVE IT!
roccotanto 2 years ago
I don't understand why this "remix" kept showing pictures of oxycotin, that opiate wasn't even on the market when the song came out, "yellow pills" refers to benzodiazapam specifically valium #5
DavidJuly291992 2 years ago
Thes song reminds me of the game Scarface....
kroniick 2 years ago 5
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One of the great lost bands of the new wave movement...In fact, one of the best power pop bands period....*
DreamPark9 2 years ago
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DreamPark9 2 years ago
cool tune
123rickar 2 years ago
remix? its the same as the original
Diablo666Daemon666 2 years ago
I love this album, I have it in vinyl, cassette, cd and mp3 formats (had to update thru the years as technology marched on). It's timeless.
CobraGirlSVT 2 years ago
lol
Kiethstien 2 years ago
loll same heard it on scarface
Dillster909 2 years ago
I heard this song for the first tima in Scarface game, simply wonderful!
blueyesITA 2 years ago
Yea, same here!! I love that game even though its older.
Sarcasticscum 2 years ago
Official video? Yeah right. Great song though
MuzzikLvr 2 years ago 2
OMG I havent thought about these guys in ages. This was my favorite band back in the day. Have every album, yes, I said album...Ha Ha and saw them in concert
about 5 times..I MISS TEHM...
gangsterP009 2 years ago
great song....the singer from cheap trick couldn`t beleive it was not him singing!
sheraton114 2 years ago
damn & im bared out damn this shit is throwed lolz
much love to dat H-TOWN
TEXAS
n DA SUR 13
lupio013 2 years ago
yea scarface! one of my favorities songs!
Darkened1980 2 years ago 4
"what thhe fuck you talkin bout huh?"
Diablo666Daemon666 2 years ago
@Diablo666Daemon666
this song is in scarface game for ps3, xbox360 and ps2, and this song is one of my favorities
Darkened1980 2 years ago
i know. lol
Diablo666Daemon666 2 years ago
@Diablo666Daemon666
ho! great! huasss...
Darkened1980 2 years ago
2:35 is the best
CORPSVIDS 2 years ago
Yep bACK IN THE DAY i WON A DANCE CONTEST..THIS WAS MY FAVE SONG,/...FAVE BAND ...THEY RULED.I RULED I WAS YOUNG AND IN LOVE WITH LIFE....AND I HAD THE GOLDEN TICKETS TO ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS EVER!!!
electronicspark 2 years ago
very nice comment but if back in the day was 1980 how could you be 23, Jenn?
CORPSVIDS 2 years ago
SCARFACE!
greatgames148 2 years ago 14
good music on scarface :)
admingeneralyt 2 years ago 13
Back in the 1900's I dug this. It seems smaller now. I am still high...
darvon63 2 years ago
Such a catchy little ditty that was so hot when it came out and then.....nothing was heard again from this band that has so much more promise. 20/20 was a hybrid of The Plimsouls & The Monroes neatly woven into one tight unit. Timeless track.
anacondanoir 2 years ago 3
These are my yellow pills xD
GennarinoX1 2 years ago
wtf do u think a pill is u fagot
smithy6662 2 years ago
what do you think grammar is you moron?
wyldpunx 2 years ago
what you fuck evry night?
smithy6662 2 years ago
Do you have a functioning brain?
wyldpunx 2 years ago
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Grantalonus 3 years ago
This song is cool
NuttyThug 3 years ago
Pills & (Coke) Especially Were Big in the Early 80's!!!
@ the End of the Gig the Lights Would Come On..,
& Nuthin' but Black Beauties (& Change & Blood & Beer) on the Floor In the Pit!!!!!!
LONGBEACHPUNKROCK 3 years ago
Is there any place where I can download/buy this song? I have tried a lot of places but no store has it!? I've tried some online stores as well, but can't find it....:(
MynameBorat100 3 years ago
which drug is the yellows PILLS plez someone ???!!! tell me fast
pitch30320 3 years ago
(4 days not fast enough) i think.. that yellow pills is a street name for Extasy tablets, because i've seen pink ones, white ones, blue ones. why not yellow? they were popular in the 80s disco scene.
theTuniversity 3 years ago
too early
JimmyJizzbag 2 years ago
Pecadan by Endo 133 or 122 which had oxyiecodone in it and aspirin later with Ibuprofen called Pecacet.
Endo was the oringnial manfacture.i think they got upgraded to a schedule 2.
vfgproductions 2 years ago
Mr Neederc...why are you so stupid lier??
Did you think that anybody would believe that this big shit could be an official video??hahaha lol
Remix version??there's no remix version for that song, this is the original and unique version...oh, and do you call yourself musician? you may call yourself trickster, or swindler, humbug...but never musician...
alexjmroy 3 years ago 4
This was in scarface the game.I put it on one of my custom mixes.
Neji191 3 years ago 3
yer same it's in my first custom mix i also like the song "passenger"
smittyboy012 3 years ago
same here but i also have both jonnycash lol and am trying to save up for the sunray hotel
rustythecool 3 years ago
the main people i listen too in my mix are these guys, the wire, ll cool j, and flava flav.
to get money i just kept doing felix leads, enforcer missions and distribution missions.
Neji191 3 years ago
i never played that game in like 3 month lol all i did was ride in the jeep wen holding i think L1 becuz its a controld speed
rustythecool 3 years ago
i let my friend borrow mines...at the beggining of the year.Have u ever seen the movie.I saw a dvd of it that my dad had.
Neji191 3 years ago
yes i watched the movie of it my favrite part was wen tony gets mad and kill his frend becuz tony thought thay were going out
rustythecool 3 years ago
80's is still alive chico
what7psp 3 years ago 3
and everything in it! hahaha!
mriorgute 3 years ago
this was in the Scarface Video Game and I really like this song.
ecmulder 3 years ago 5
I so want this song. Reminds me of my youth!
SandraDee1696 3 years ago
I absolutely love this song. This song has never been overplayed and played only by Rodney Bingenheimer in the days when KROQ was born. Reminds me of when getting high was fun.
greeenroooom 3 years ago
I love this song. I love it so much couse i always here it on the game Scarface the world is yours LOL. I still play that game thats why. And it looks so ugly compared to GTA 4 right LOL. By the way i have GTA 4 also
Jeremiahmillan 3 years ago 3
Now this is true power pop perfection. Steve, Ron , Chris and Mikey had this shit so down that there were very few bands that could keep pace with 'em. I feel sorry for all of you who never got a chance to see them, cos they were fucking fabulous.
maxeythecat 3 years ago 2
0:36, Torrance Beach...awesome!
chumbersdee 3 years ago
There must be some real footage of 20/20 out there somewhere. If anyone has anything please post it.
pernicketty 3 years ago 4
3:12 is too obvious!
rashef18 3 years ago
not the official video
bumhaskins 3 years ago
it much beder on scarface
rustylas 4 years ago 4
i totally agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)
alpacino98 3 years ago 3
Great tune, man!!! Couldn't remember the name of the group that did this song, but I remembered the title. Been almost 30 yrs. since I've heard this tune...really cool!!! thanks......
ludwigdrummer1 4 years ago
so happy this is hear ,napsters a bumme.love this song. rodney on the kroq use to play this. a old dj southern cal. rodney on the kroq
brianlowdown 4 years ago
I was addicted to KROQ way back in the 90's when I lived in southern cal...I never missed a flashback lunch!
hiracktoman9 4 years ago 2
Thanks again!
Theedwarfdrummer 4 years ago
This was such a cool song...some alien a billion miles away is tapping his foot right now.
careing57587 4 years ago 4
if there are any cats from echo park /silverlake that remember the on klub and this 1 song,cool and I need the plugz 1 st record call mw e
vegasguy13 4 years ago
remix... phhhtttt
thesethingz 4 years ago
Better
jztoon 4 years ago