Rational Youth - City of Night (1982)

[MoonshadowCaz]

Is it sad that I hadn't heard of this song till Darkseed 2?

[Failomate5000]

@MoonshadowCaz your not the only one ;D

[WeezerBieropfer]

Mike Dawson approves of this song.

[crazyrabbits]

This video explained everything.

[GoldenFox22]

City of Night == Dark World.

[ZLFaurora]

@GoldenFox22 Commenter, did you kill Rita?

[SlowJowCrow]

"Heyyy ya missed, pal" Rational youth. Did you kill Rita?

[djmusicjac]

awesome, "my cup of tea"

[nredo1]

que buenooooooooo



[WOWdrops]

I used this song on a new mix

You can hear it here mixcloud(dot)com/NTT/scarlet-c­ity-side-i/ & mixcloud(dot)com/NTT/scarlet-c­ity-side-ii/

[Tonsurton100]

Rational Youth's City of Night is my all time 80's hit. This track is well made compare to other tracks, but I am surprised that its an underground hit, not public mainstream!!!

[NewYorkSk8r]

My friend Mep Mep showed me this song and now I fucking love it. So many memories to this song just in this past summer. :)

[SweetSweetWaldo]

Amalgam of Kraftwerk and OMD. I went nuts for this stuff when I was 14!. Yeah, I got hell for it because it defied the suburban boy Heavy Metal diet. Well, tough. I still love it today!

[darinjaddison]

I loved Rational Youth. They got lots of airplay at CFNY. Still have the self-titled EP with Holiday In Bangkok. Saw them at The Ascot Inn across from Woodbine racetrack circa 1982/83. Can't remember the name of the bar. Saw Platinum Blonde there when they were still a Police tribute band.

[ggh7664]

Holy memories of senior year of high school! Thanks so much for posting this, as I haven't heard it for almost 30 years.

Long live synth pop!

[CandyAppleBlueTV]

F A N T A S T I C !

[eawalpurgis]

o_O uuuuhhhhhh

[Dart9001]

Another classic. I love it. Thank you!

[ppdix]

Amazing! I just discovered them. Gotta get some mp3's asap!

[Nokturnal1999]

~ So Nostalgic ~

[ve7hlo]

Just love this song. I have the LP myself. Just love the whole album.

[bluepuppydan]

one of the first new wave 12in. i bought in 82 along with B-Movie's Nowhere Girl, The Mood- Don't Stop, and the Berlin album. always a classic cold synth tune.

[TrainmasterCurt]

you tube dot com/watch?v=z1vDJ98gl6I&fmt=18 The first version of Cité Phosphore, City of Night from the Musi-Video show from late 1981, classic!

[italokid80]

( from the full cold-war era memories )

[TrainmasterCurt]

I have the analogue extended mix, check out Cite Phosphore on Musi-Video on YouTube for the best one!

[cairsahr]

I thought I had heard the 80's before. But this song is better than what comes on the radio. Even Depeche Mode cannot outdo this song!

[theinnernerd]

@cairsahr Welcome to the club! Check out our channel, playlists and blog for more awesome stuff!

[MaliBootyz]

@cairsahr Depeche Mode has outdone & will always outdo anything out there... Good song but will never compare to DM, not even close.

This sounds like OMD and so many more other 80s bands... it's not original, DM is.

[Marg555]

@MaliBootyz I can agree to a certain degree, but DM at the time (1981-82) were not very original!

And for me in 1984 - men without hats, flock of seagulls, images in vogue, thompson twins, tears for fears were at least as good.

[uppers25]

@MaliBootyz well, you're obviously a DM fanboy that has been clouded by their massive crappola advertising, DM can be "good" (comercially speaking) but they are far from original my friend.

[CanadaTruth]

omg...i haven't heard this in YEARS!!! thanks for the flashback!!!

[italobastard]

Thanks for sharing, CFNY Toronto many years ago, The Spirit of Radio, what ever happened?

[cactusmush]

I had this album on cassette tape (not a copy but the cassette version of the album) . This is when Sony Walkmans ran tapes.

This was a great band. Amazing music to dance to.

I remember that they got alot of play on the various University radio stations that I would tune into - but not much play on the big commercial stations. They were very under-appreciated.

Thanks for posting this.

[bessarion123]

I've been looking for this song for 27 years! I've heard it in 1982 in Detroit (Canadian radio from Windsor "On the edge with Charlie O'Brien" and couldn't find it ever since! Thanx!!!

[SteveSpicerPortsmuth]

These guys deserved a bigger audience.

Anyway their Cold War Night Life has been reprinted.

[TarnakeDusty]

Standing Waltz - Cité Phosphore

The definitive cover of this magnificient song - published in 2009 !

[theinnernerd]

Were there other covers made? If so, who? I'm not sure I'm into the Standing Waltz cover, although I'm happy to see the song reincarnated.

[Luigi499]

Voyager - City Of Night

[tittiperaz]

Concordo pienamente!

[gipedj]

certo sentito cosi a 45 giri NON CI SIAMO ma rallentato sapientemente a 33 giri e tutta un altra cosa un gran pezzo di musica elettronica....provate per credere

[inasafeplace]

Rational Youth cest l'un des plsu grand band que le Québec a connu

[Loegalf]

Tu as bien raison

[boudai31]

J'aime mieux la version de Standing Waltz

[theinnernerd]

I actually like Rational Youth's first version of this track (Cité Phosphore) better, but the Standing Waltz version is far too bubble gum aggro poppy. Did you hear the Standing Waltz version first?