A pretty brilliant piece...I was born the year Vietnam began,1965..I was 10 when it ended,1975 as a child I didn't understand it..as an adult I still don't..nor can I even try to..My only wish,for everyone who was involved both directly & indirectly,for those who went,and didn't come home..and those that did come home but the war for them is never ending...I wish none of it happened..
all this shit started coz you had to get involved when you didnt have to and then you came out with a load of shit when you didnt need to. the convo was nothin to do with you yet you give out a load of shit
@stardustdave85 "I'll be fucking ready wrap my boot around your head you little fucker" - I fucking loled hard. You idiot internet hard man... I bet you are a fucking pussy in real life. You talk hard but I can almost guarantee you are fat in real life and were bullied at school.
@SpamBanjo well you just made a complete and utter twat of yourself sunshine for guaranteein somethin you were wrong for!! lol.Nice to see i had a reply to my comment.you wasted 10 mins of your life answerin back with such a lame comment.what a dick!
@stardustdave85 Yeah that's right internet rude boy... you fucking hardcore keyboard flexer! You are right, it was me, and not the uneducated pussy who acts like a bad man on the internet behind the safety of his CRT monitor who made a twat of myself. lol. You are ridiculous.
You think it takes 10 minutes to input 3 sentences? Really? Do you type by hitting the keys with your puny little dick or what?
Go listen to your Ronan Keating songs like a good boy.
If the French and Americans had just left them alone the "communist party" would have proven itself ineffective and clumsy and would have been voted out of power by the Vietnamese on their own. Once you attack a country with lots of Leninists or Maoists they get the excuse to make their stupid dictatorship. So many people died and were poisoned by agent orange and got PTSD, missing limbs, etc.. I respect the military people who had to fight very much but I just wish we picked our battles better.
This was a precursor to Dub. Using both Funk and newly discovered ways to use electronica keyboard sounds So, this is considered unique at the time. This is why 40 something year olds consider the Dub and new music nothing too new.
@truvelocity "Dub was pioneered by Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Errol Thompson and others in the late 1960s." - from Wikipedia.
This song serves to remind that most war is absolute bullshit, and completely unnecessary. (My apologies to all that have fought and / or have been injured or died for these causes. Also to their families; You have my upmost respect.) But, the War on Terror? What is that about? Terrorists live all over our planet. Cut of one head and and two will grow back in its place. Are these minority groups that will not cease to exist, worth the bloodshed of great young men?
Mike Oldfield had nothing to do with this tune he apparently sued hardcastle for a similarity between this and tubular bells Oldfield must be a complete moron because it sounds nothing like tubular bells!!!!
...big mouths have no idea what it's like to be dropped into a hot zone and made to kill...no idea what horror is about and nightmare thoughts that won't pass...be thankful to vets.
You stupid communist pig, were it not for God, the world's anti-Communist movement and the U.S. military, you would fertilizer in some fucking kolkhoz.
Typical. Frenchman from a rich bourgeois family that had never experienced communism in your own skin, supports communism ...
You dirty pig, had come to Poland, the Ukraine, Hungary or the Vietnamese neighborhoods in the U.S., and say what you wrote, and you laugh first and then cutting your throat.
what opened me to techno-music stuff. only found out now it was produced by Mike Oldfield who recorded "Tubular Bells" used as the theme for THE EXORCIST.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: marks the official start of the second world war; well, technically. War demoralizes humanity, if anyone will notice most of the ideals of industrialization comes from the post-Great Depression era, and the world war destroyed that idealism. this here about the Vietnam war depicts that atrocious point in American history.
I have 3 reasons for believing no MIAs were held inside Vietnam past the war's end: That gov't would not want to ruin its stature in the eyes of the world if it were discovered; there is no shortage of peasant labor inside Vietnam, so the gov't wouldn't need to use any captives as slaves; and that gov't has wanted better trade relations with the USA for years. They learned that sheer communism doesn't make money, so they sometimes return the found remains of our troops for proper ID and burials.
@MiLLwallpaul231258 It seems to have been just a hot battlefield in the overall Cold War, with the United States wanting to frustrate the Soviet Union and Red China by eliminating the growing communist threat in Vietnam. It was also feared that a communist takeover there would have a "domino effect" and spread throughout all of southeast Asia. But, as the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions...and the US assumed that the war would be relatively easy to win.
Simon Fuller (the Producer of American idol) was Paul Hardcastles manager at the time of this hit, 1985. Fuller named his production company 19 ENTERTAINMENT because of its success.
@kirstylouwoo30 I appreciate your interest in my writings here, but I must first admit that I'm just an amateur historian, and not exactly an expert on the Vietnam War. I just offer up an outsider's view on different aspects of the conflict. There are some other posts I've made here over the past few months (if you haven't read them already) and I will probably write some more in the near future. Thank you.
Some people here won't agree with me, but I believe that the idea (furthered by Hollywood in the '80s) of the Vietnamese gov't still holding American POWs captive even after the war officially ended, is just a myth. I think all of the MIAs were killed in the dense jungle of the combat zones, and their bodies could not be recovered in time before the remains were completely overgrown. The MIAs are probably long dead, but of course never forgotten by their families and others for their sacrifices.
The ABC News anchor in the video is Frank Reynolds. He later became the anchor of ABC World News Tonight. In 1980, at the end of one of his broadcasts, he endorsed Ronald Reagan for President of the United States. It was a shocker of an announcement. A couple years later he died from hepatitis-induced liver failure, or so they say.
I took JROTC all 4 years of high school and our sgt. major severed 4 tours in vietnam and go 2 purple hearts. He died a few years ago but I will never forget him,he was a good man and a great leader. R.I.P Sgt. Major Lee Dudley
Hi all, I apologise if this has been posted before. You may want to check out "I was only nineteen" by Australian band Redgum. There is also a remake by The Herd, made in collaboration with members of Redgum. Both quite moving, worth a look and a listen. Whenever I listen to them I always play both, they seem to compliment each other. For something a little harder (on topic) you might also check out "Khe Sanh" by Cold Chisel.
I was in an apprenticeship when this was going on I worked with a guy who had been really badly injured in Korea i ask him many times if he thought I would be called up but he told me that the PM Harold Wilson was so friendly with the RUSSIANS COMMIES that I had no chance Syd was right
Vietnam.. home of Vietnamese communist flea bait, the western world did them a favour given them the space to live their pathetic worthles lives, After all thats what nukes were for right ?
only part about this song I've never liked, is the singing - makes it a bit cheesy imo, and up to that point and afterwards - the track works well without it.
Can somebody help me? I'm trying to find a mix version of 19 that opens up with the soldier talking about 'we came back and we were different' before the music ever starts and at the 'he was 19' part it gets slowed down and then sped up again, I've gone through a lot of mixes for 19 but I haven't been able to find that one again.
Also if the media was used to report the Iraq Afghanistan war and other conflicts the way it was in Vietnam then there would probably be a much stronger call to end it. Although having said that , the Vietnam war went on for twenty years or more; I'm not an expert.
@batsman38 It's definitely true that all high-ranking politicians knew to keep their sons away from Vietnam, because they had inside information on what a non-stop meat grinder situation it was. I don't blame them for being protective, although that just meant more ordinary conscripts would be sent in their place.
@skynett1000 That is not the point! The point is what threat to the USA was the country of Vietnam? I don't think anyone would complain if it was a just war, but it was not.
One more paragraph. I was 15 years old when this song was released, and immediately impressed by the bold combination of dance funk and educational documentary tracks on such a serious subject. There was much effort in the 1980s to understand and make amends for all that had gone wrong in the Vietnam era. A big thank you goes out to Hardcastle and his crew for this all-time classic, and for helping America to heal (at least a little bit) from the legacy of the Vietnam War.--------9/11/01-9/11/11
@stillonly35cents did you know not one son of any senter was sent to vietnam, or they joined the national guard to avoid being sent there, but this was all before the us changed from a conscript army to wahat we have today
@jamesbond504 Tubular bells is Mike Oldfields first soloalbum from 1973. He played virtually all instruments by himself. You can call it progressive rock or something like that. This piece of music was used in the horrorfilm "the exorcist"
I just learned via email that Pres. Obama is planning to soon award Hanoi Jane Fonda as one of "The 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century," despite her unbelievably treasonous actions against American POWs held during Vietnam. Those actions are well-documented, and many POWs were beaten and killed as a result. If you are against her receiving this honor, and as well you should be, spread the word one way or another so that the politicians can hopefully know your opinion of her. Thanks.
Wasn't there a version of this same record done not so long ago by some one or other but from a modern , Iraq / Afganistan standpoint. I shoul have remembered who it was done by cause it is clear that it's happenning again , this time in the middle east.
That's whay it's such a crime that this reimagineing of the track wemt by the way side and didn't have a simmilar impact on society.
History is set to repeat its self. this is the proof.
The Vatican played both sides against each other in this Vietnamese Civil War. They controlled Diem in the South while advising and making secret deals with Ho Chi Minh in the North. President Kennedy’s attempt to halt the bloodbath incurred the undying wrath of the instigators of the war — the Jesuits of the papacy.
@28Zeppelin Religion is of the devil as is this world but true biblical christianity is the truth. REVELATION 17 is being played right now as I speak.
should have been handled with the vote. Ask the South if they wanted to be part of the North and if they didn't they should have stayed western. Should have been given weapons and training, and if they couldn't defend themselves, then they didn't want to be part of the west enough. No way US could have won that fight. Both sides taking causalities - it comes down to attrition and nothing else. US public less willing to take deaths over a foreign country than Vietnam public over their homeland.
@geoffart Yeah but unfortunately some foreign power always thinks it knows better. Oh and by the way I am already a big fanatic of The Dalailama. I don't see many wars started in his name.
Wasn't the First World War surposed to be the War to end all wars! Unfortunately Vietnam proved that to be horribly untrue. Such a senseless waste of life. Now the name Vietnam is forever associated with the war rather than the beautifl country people and culture that it should be associated with.
R.I.P.
Groovy song
elel70 3 hours ago
and now, just as many gullible 19 year olds enlist to fight on foreign soil. For another lie.
dervishmadwhirler 2 days ago
A pretty brilliant piece...I was born the year Vietnam began,1965..I was 10 when it ended,1975 as a child I didn't understand it..as an adult I still don't..nor can I even try to..My only wish,for everyone who was involved both directly & indirectly,for those who went,and didn't come home..and those that did come home but the war for them is never ending...I wish none of it happened..
MrTevB 5 days ago
all this shit started coz you had to get involved when you didnt have to and then you came out with a load of shit when you didnt need to. the convo was nothin to do with you yet you give out a load of shit
stardustdave85 6 days ago
Great stuff....
Slamayer 1 week ago
God bless the American people. Fuck the American government
Clempt90 1 week ago
America doesn't care about it's soldiers.
TheChristChris 2 weeks ago
Sto pezzo l'ha sculato..
Cosmopavone 2 weeks ago
yeh noddy thats cos all music is just rehash of music thats already bin made in the past..especially now
realcomedylinx 3 weeks ago
may 13th 1985
0pheIiac 3 weeks ago
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0pheIiac 3 weeks ago
Number 1 when i was born...sounds like daft punk warming up for one of their earlier gigs :-s lol
noddyz2795 3 weeks ago
Number 1 the day i was born!
stardustdave85 3 weeks ago 2
@stardustdave85 same here
SkyValleySpaceCadet 3 weeks ago
@stardustdave85 Thats cos your a gay.
rureadyboots 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
@rureadyboots Who the fuck are you rureadyboots? I'll be fucking ready wrap my boot around your head you little fucker!
stardustdave85 2 weeks ago
@stardustdave85 Seeing that you ve got Ronan Keatings "Lovin each Day" in your favourites I doubt thats likely.
rureadyboots 2 weeks ago
@rureadyboots so you're tellin me that you judge someone by a song they like.how pathetic.
stardustdave85 2 weeks ago
@stardustdave85 "oooooooooooooo
I'm loving each day
As if it's the last
Dancing all night
Having a blast
woooooo"
rureadyboots 2 weeks ago
@stardustdave85 "I'll be fucking ready wrap my boot around your head you little fucker" - I fucking loled hard. You idiot internet hard man... I bet you are a fucking pussy in real life. You talk hard but I can almost guarantee you are fat in real life and were bullied at school.
SpamBanjo 1 week ago
@SpamBanjo well you just made a complete and utter twat of yourself sunshine for guaranteein somethin you were wrong for!! lol.Nice to see i had a reply to my comment.you wasted 10 mins of your life answerin back with such a lame comment.what a dick!
stardustdave85 6 days ago
@stardustdave85 Yeah that's right internet rude boy... you fucking hardcore keyboard flexer! You are right, it was me, and not the uneducated pussy who acts like a bad man on the internet behind the safety of his CRT monitor who made a twat of myself. lol. You are ridiculous.
You think it takes 10 minutes to input 3 sentences? Really? Do you type by hitting the keys with your puny little dick or what?
Go listen to your Ronan Keating songs like a good boy.
SpamBanjo 6 days ago
@SpamBanjo you have wasted your time yet again with another lame reply.You got fuck all on me!
stardustdave85 6 days ago
@stardustdave85 You keep telling yourself that Mr Denial.
SpamBanjo 6 days ago
If the French and Americans had just left them alone the "communist party" would have proven itself ineffective and clumsy and would have been voted out of power by the Vietnamese on their own. Once you attack a country with lots of Leninists or Maoists they get the excuse to make their stupid dictatorship. So many people died and were poisoned by agent orange and got PTSD, missing limbs, etc.. I respect the military people who had to fight very much but I just wish we picked our battles better.
ProgLiberty 3 weeks ago
@ProgLiberty Are you American? If you are why are you talking sense?
rureadyboots 3 weeks ago
11 22 63 If this did not happen 50000 American boys and 2million men women and children from Vietnam would have lived!
tool5150 3 weeks ago
like if eddie durkan brought u here!!!
AoifeBxxx890 1 month ago
nineteeeeeeeen!!!!
johnnysafc1993 1 month ago
Eddie Durkan.
AEIOUsometimesWhy 1 month ago 2
1:33 OH GOD OH FUCK WHY
sparkey989 1 month ago
This was a precursor to Dub. Using both Funk and newly discovered ways to use electronica keyboard sounds So, this is considered unique at the time. This is why 40 something year olds consider the Dub and new music nothing too new.
truvelocity 1 month ago
@truvelocity Precursor? Dub had already been around for at least a decade when this came out...
thatawfulsound 3 weeks ago
@thatawfulsound I didn't know that. Dub had been around since 1975?
truvelocity 3 weeks ago
@truvelocity "Dub was pioneered by Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Errol Thompson and others in the late 1960s." - from Wikipedia.
thatawfulsound 3 weeks ago
This song serves to remind that most war is absolute bullshit, and completely unnecessary. (My apologies to all that have fought and / or have been injured or died for these causes. Also to their families; You have my upmost respect.) But, the War on Terror? What is that about? Terrorists live all over our planet. Cut of one head and and two will grow back in its place. Are these minority groups that will not cease to exist, worth the bloodshed of great young men?
tpeterb 1 month ago
0:35 - " Git Some, git some ! "
M4OON 1 month ago
Mike Oldfield had nothing to do with this tune he apparently sued hardcastle for a similarity between this and tubular bells Oldfield must be a complete moron because it sounds nothing like tubular bells!!!!
radiocrash 1 month ago
@radiocrash Interesting... except it's not true. Hardcastle was sued by the ABC for using clips from their news shows without permission.
Andrew4TOD 1 month ago
@Andrew4TOD Ahh
radiocrash 1 month ago
n-n-n-n-n-9-11 was inside job :)
hideandseeknews 1 month ago
no matter what peoples politics lots of people died.....on both sides..it was a horrible war...
decka71 1 month ago 15
last we forget...19, n-n-n-n,19.19
Codgamer248 1 month ago
@Codgamer248 Oh Yeah?
Did they play it in the mix with Timex Social Club too?
JRCKFSH 1 month ago
It was a rough TIME
MarsFlowke 1 month ago
blood the last.........................
moonon51 1 month ago
anyone know the name of the soldier featured in the vid??????
dannyh7676 1 month ago
...big mouths have no idea what it's like to be dropped into a hot zone and made to kill...no idea what horror is about and nightmare thoughts that won't pass...be thankful to vets.
DavidDietzII 1 month ago 10
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fleetwood1111 1 month ago
@84heroes1
You stupid communist pig, were it not for God, the world's anti-Communist movement and the U.S. military, you would fertilizer in some fucking kolkhoz.
KristVladic 1 month ago
Death and the struggle of these people were not in vain! Of course, sending 18 year old boys into the jungle's crazy ...
But Communism is crap, it is poverty, rape, murder, the censorship ..
Who has never lived in a country of real socialism, does not understand.
KristVladic 1 month ago
May I recommend the book 'A Concise Guide To Eighties' Music' by Karl Vorderman. The author is a big fan of this track.
garyw930 1 month ago
yeahh vietnam
Codgamer248 1 month ago
let's go north vietnam i'm for the communist
cimiez1 1 month ago
@cimiez1
Typical. Frenchman from a rich bourgeois family that had never experienced communism in your own skin, supports communism ...
You dirty pig, had come to Poland, the Ukraine, Hungary or the Vietnamese neighborhoods in the U.S., and say what you wrote, and you laugh first and then cutting your throat.
KristVladic 1 month ago
what opened me to techno-music stuff. only found out now it was produced by Mike Oldfield who recorded "Tubular Bells" used as the theme for THE EXORCIST.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: marks the official start of the second world war; well, technically. War demoralizes humanity, if anyone will notice most of the ideals of industrialization comes from the post-Great Depression era, and the world war destroyed that idealism. this here about the Vietnam war depicts that atrocious point in American history.
crutchead 1 month ago
The internet is amazing.
Smithpolly 1 month ago
I fondly remember when this song was released. It is now an eerie parallel to the war in the middle east.
Bless all those serving and who have served there. Let's end this war soon!
eyespy8088 1 month ago
@84heroes1 as much as that
1701wanker 1 month ago
Puff the magic dragon!!!!!!!!!!!!!
helmandtigers 1 month ago
What a tune! Way ahead of it's time
pankop 1 month ago
cannon fodder
goritsaman 1 month ago
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AnAutumnsDay 2 months ago
65 people are 20.
lilmamagc 2 months ago 2
Who are the 65 sad bastards (so far) that have thumbed this classic down?
carltheplasterer 2 months ago
I wasnt really sure what was going on.. Happy days !
imissthe80s100 2 months ago
I have 3 reasons for believing no MIAs were held inside Vietnam past the war's end: That gov't would not want to ruin its stature in the eyes of the world if it were discovered; there is no shortage of peasant labor inside Vietnam, so the gov't wouldn't need to use any captives as slaves; and that gov't has wanted better trade relations with the USA for years. They learned that sheer communism doesn't make money, so they sometimes return the found remains of our troops for proper ID and burials.
stillonly35cents 2 months ago
Becouse of this and U96 - Das Boot im still listenin' to Electronic Music...
Raydensheraj 2 months ago
@Raydensheraj maybe you should calm down on the electronic and learn how to spell
samst3rs 2 months ago
@samst3rs
Okay F-U-C-K Y-O-U...is that better?
Raydensheraj 2 months ago
@Raydensheraj you carnt be that mature then let alone clever
samst3rs 2 months ago
@samst3rs
Whats "carnt"...lol
Raydensheraj 2 months ago
@Raydensheraj cant then is that better?
samst3rs 2 months ago
@samst3rs
By the way im German so I guess I can make mistakes buddy...
Raydensheraj 2 months ago
@Raydensheraj oh your German hows the world on your side of the planet?
samst3rs 2 months ago 2
@Raydensheraj please ignore the ignorant n for sam3arses nout else to 2 but look spelliong mitakes idioot
winner1299 1 month ago
@samst3rs it's can't - just saying.
SpamBanjo 1 week ago
it was the melody and the message that was attractive. Yet both makes me sad to this day.
papiblatino 2 months ago
I saw this many years ago on MTV.....Been stuck in my head for at LEAST 20 years...thank you for posting.
papiblatino 2 months ago 2
rest in peace all soldiers who suffered in vitnam, iraq, afghanistan....
InnerCityGirl1 2 months ago 3
Apparently more soldiers died by committing suicide after they came back from fighting in Vietnam, than the amount who were actually killed there.
SuperZubz 2 months ago 4
a classic anti-war dance-track..
mahnoyev 2 months ago
freedom isn't free
TheNewfyman 2 months ago
11/11/11 - Least We Forget
torontothegood 2 months ago 29
It was all about the body count,
mtmmike 2 months ago
questo ragazzo non e' morto,compare a 3:24 con un brevissimo filmato.
mascalzonelatrin 2 months ago
great old dance music!
Simoneprato74 2 months ago
i am nineteen 19 now and i have only just found this song
ironmaidenhaydem 2 months ago
I found out about this song when I was 19...
dekerstmann 2 months ago
In Vietnam it was 19....
mannygiancarlo 2 months ago
@MiLLwallpaul231258 It seems to have been just a hot battlefield in the overall Cold War, with the United States wanting to frustrate the Soviet Union and Red China by eliminating the growing communist threat in Vietnam. It was also feared that a communist takeover there would have a "domino effect" and spread throughout all of southeast Asia. But, as the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions...and the US assumed that the war would be relatively easy to win.
stillonly35cents 2 months ago in playlist Liked
Someone from America answer me this.....what was this all about (some geezer in England wants to know)
MiLLwallpaul231258 2 months ago 2
@MiLLwallpaul231258
mtmmike 2 months ago
Simon Fuller (the Producer of American idol) was Paul Hardcastles manager at the time of this hit, 1985. Fuller named his production company 19 ENTERTAINMENT because of its success.
mallor69 2 months ago
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went to war based on a lie
goritsaman 2 months ago
I like the part where he says 19
gillywilly13 2 months ago
@kirstylouwoo30 I appreciate your interest in my writings here, but I must first admit that I'm just an amateur historian, and not exactly an expert on the Vietnam War. I just offer up an outsider's view on different aspects of the conflict. There are some other posts I've made here over the past few months (if you haven't read them already) and I will probably write some more in the near future. Thank you.
stillonly35cents 2 months ago in playlist Liked
TUNE!
gillywilly13 2 months ago
Some people here won't agree with me, but I believe that the idea (furthered by Hollywood in the '80s) of the Vietnamese gov't still holding American POWs captive even after the war officially ended, is just a myth. I think all of the MIAs were killed in the dense jungle of the combat zones, and their bodies could not be recovered in time before the remains were completely overgrown. The MIAs are probably long dead, but of course never forgotten by their families and others for their sacrifices.
stillonly35cents 3 months ago
@stillonly35cents Being someone of little understanding of the Vietnam war,due to age and location, I however am very interested in you thoughts.
kirstylouwoo30 2 months ago
The World Series MVP, Freese stated that; "I couldn't sleep but about 45 minutes after the 6th game, cuz I didn't really know what was going on..."
ALL of the returning and other American Veteran's are MVP's!
I wish we could ALL show them the same Respect and Honor that Mr. Freese Got!
None of theViet
stevenprice1959 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Paul Hardcastle
@stellalegs72 they don't glorify the war you munch. This video and song is ANTI-war. Are you really that stupid??
nilbog44 3 months ago
I wasn't really sure what was goin on
Purple Hearts.
imissthe80s100 3 months ago
I wonder what the song for our current war will be.
Rtfune 3 months ago
My oldest living uncle was a front line medic and has suffered from post traumatic stress ever since- he was awarded a Purple Heart.
Rtfune 3 months ago
The ABC News anchor in the video is Frank Reynolds. He later became the anchor of ABC World News Tonight. In 1980, at the end of one of his broadcasts, he endorsed Ronald Reagan for President of the United States. It was a shocker of an announcement. A couple years later he died from hepatitis-induced liver failure, or so they say.
jbranstetter04 3 months ago
Poor bastards, another war founded on a lie.
caxtonman 3 months ago
@caxtonman poor bastard? they are the master of the world.... for now
omega7164 3 months ago
@omega7164 I was talking about the soldiers who fought and didn't return.....
caxtonman 3 months ago
@caxtonman understand... and you are right: war sicken...
omega7164 3 months ago
@omega7164 Gracias
caxtonman 3 months ago
@Tiiggii Thanks for responding anyway.
stillonly35cents 3 months ago in playlist Liked
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Was it worth it.
ghylltarvoke 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Paul Hardcastle
I love this song and I've still got the 12" single to prove it.
eddiebear100 3 months ago
I took JROTC all 4 years of high school and our sgt. major severed 4 tours in vietnam and go 2 purple hearts. He died a few years ago but I will never forget him,he was a good man and a great leader. R.I.P Sgt. Major Lee Dudley
Irishknightable 3 months ago
Great song.
Trashcansam123 3 months ago
interesting fact....Simon Fuller (of Spice Girls Fame) managed Paul Hardcastle and on the back of this track formed his agency "19"...
MusicStudyMan 3 months ago
@MusicStudyMan I've heard this fact yea.Very interesting.good fact!
stardustdave85 3 weeks ago
whatever happened to the drum fill? two bars and the da-dada on the snare.
PhobiaGuy 3 months ago
@3:39 whats the name of that video clip that started????
anoniem1725 3 months ago
@anoniem1725 "I know yu" LOL. Probably another song from the 80s.
opaltopaz98 3 months ago
its a shame kenedy had to die so LBJ got his war....
pitkinator 3 months ago
awesome track,forgot all about this until it popped up on your profile,thanks for adding
song was destroyed when some asshole added the man utd team to it after they won 19 league titles
4dger 3 months ago in playlist More videos from explodingfirst
hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today!!!....remember KENT state ...
minsk1996 3 months ago
Hi all, I apologise if this has been posted before. You may want to check out "I was only nineteen" by Australian band Redgum. There is also a remake by The Herd, made in collaboration with members of Redgum. Both quite moving, worth a look and a listen. Whenever I listen to them I always play both, they seem to compliment each other. For something a little harder (on topic) you might also check out "Khe Sanh" by Cold Chisel.
Rommel
Rommel88AK 3 months ago
I was in an apprenticeship when this was going on I worked with a guy who had been really badly injured in Korea i ask him many times if he thought I would be called up but he told me that the PM Harold Wilson was so friendly with the RUSSIANS COMMIES that I had no chance Syd was right
Bobinsherwood 3 months ago
19
nabarro31 3 months ago in playlist Liked
Vietnam.. home of Vietnamese communist flea bait, the western world did them a favour given them the space to live their pathetic worthles lives, After all thats what nukes were for right ?
lawmar69 3 months ago
I love this song! Haven't seen the video in years.
RDorthyWayneright 3 months ago
damn this brings back some memories run d mc, the beastie boys and this piece of crap
avibrother 3 months ago
un simbolo en su letra y en su musica, con esta cancion empeze a bailar break dance. un saludo a todos.
MrQuino845 3 months ago
champ19ns
DaVoPL100 3 months ago
only part about this song I've never liked, is the singing - makes it a bit cheesy imo, and up to that point and afterwards - the track works well without it.
SonarYT 3 months ago
i luv the melody....
NenaSwitch 3 months ago
the guys in the trenchs were only 15
ballygeale1 3 months ago
@ballygeale1 Or younger even , cause some were so desperate for glory that they broke the age limit .... so terribly tragic.
28Zeppelin 3 months ago
Can somebody help me? I'm trying to find a mix version of 19 that opens up with the soldier talking about 'we came back and we were different' before the music ever starts and at the 'he was 19' part it gets slowed down and then sped up again, I've gone through a lot of mixes for 19 but I haven't been able to find that one again.
TheBookWorm1718 4 months ago
Also if the media was used to report the Iraq Afghanistan war and other conflicts the way it was in Vietnam then there would probably be a much stronger call to end it. Although having said that , the Vietnam war went on for twenty years or more; I'm not an expert.
28Zeppelin 4 months ago
LOL. Actually the average age was 23. But T-T-T-T-WENTY THREE Doesn't sound as cool.
Scuf 4 months ago
RIP Adolph G Flores.... PTSD - 19
I miss you
tissa1020 4 months ago 6
This is too fun in my history lesson.... Too many jokes!
OfficialAlfieGreen 4 months ago
@batsman38 It's definitely true that all high-ranking politicians knew to keep their sons away from Vietnam, because they had inside information on what a non-stop meat grinder situation it was. I don't blame them for being protective, although that just meant more ordinary conscripts would be sent in their place.
stillonly35cents 4 months ago
play it 4 all the troops in afghanistan and irak---and listen!
00cathy08 4 months ago
how could the american governement send kids so young ti war?have they no shame?
skynett1000 4 months ago 2
@skynett1000 That is not the point! The point is what threat to the USA was the country of Vietnam? I don't think anyone would complain if it was a just war, but it was not.
ParagramTree 4 months ago
Fucking great tune.
matrags 4 months ago
history mofo!
hpd99 4 months ago
PITY!
singlespeedfiftyfive 4 months ago
That's the rawest, but true song from one of my favorite smooth jazz artist
lonedragon79 4 months ago
They were only kids fighting a war for God's sake
Atlantikshield 4 months ago
One more paragraph. I was 15 years old when this song was released, and immediately impressed by the bold combination of dance funk and educational documentary tracks on such a serious subject. There was much effort in the 1980s to understand and make amends for all that had gone wrong in the Vietnam era. A big thank you goes out to Hardcastle and his crew for this all-time classic, and for helping America to heal (at least a little bit) from the legacy of the Vietnam War.--------9/11/01-9/11/11
stillonly35cents 4 months ago
@stillonly35cents did you know not one son of any senter was sent to vietnam, or they joined the national guard to avoid being sent there, but this was all before the us changed from a conscript army to wahat we have today
batsman38 4 months ago
calvin harris needs to do a remix of this.
Britain at war in a compeltely uselss feekin war.
WE NEED PEACE TIME.
God I miss the 90s and 80s.
F12011cm 4 months ago
send the rioters to afghan bunch of twats
MrLeenhelen 4 months ago
Today (sept 7th) i am now the average age of a soldier in veitnam... really opens yer' eyes :/
BOT101st 4 months ago
00:06 lol frankie boyle!
logom0 4 months ago 2
Holy shit - sooo maaany connoootaaations
SiegePerilous11 4 months ago
DAMN,,, 1 MILLION VIEWS I DIDNT THINK THAT MANY PEOPLE NEW ABOUT HARDCASTLE
jamesbond504 4 months ago
Mike Oldfield sued Paul Hardcastle because the melody-sling is almost identical to Oldfields Tubular Bells
stalledrangen 4 months ago
@stalledrangen WHAT IZ OLDFIELDS TUBULAR BELLS
jamesbond504 4 months ago
@jamesbond504 Tubular bells is Mike Oldfields first soloalbum from 1973. He played virtually all instruments by himself. You can call it progressive rock or something like that. This piece of music was used in the horrorfilm "the exorcist"
stalledrangen 4 months ago
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jamesbond504 4 months ago
b b bbc2!
JackHollTV 4 months ago
Respond to this video... 21 SECONDS ,DUDE LOOK LIKE ELI MANNING
jamesbond504 4 months ago
Paul Hardcastle may not have gone far, but FRONT 242 did sprout out of his head.
TheJameslehr 4 months ago
I just learned via email that Pres. Obama is planning to soon award Hanoi Jane Fonda as one of "The 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century," despite her unbelievably treasonous actions against American POWs held during Vietnam. Those actions are well-documented, and many POWs were beaten and killed as a result. If you are against her receiving this honor, and as well you should be, spread the word one way or another so that the politicians can hopefully know your opinion of her. Thanks.
stillonly35cents 4 months ago
and all based upon a lie
goritsaman 4 months ago
Classic tune, so sad though!!!
especially when "none of them received a hero's welcome"
kimbo3899 4 months ago
Wasn't there a version of this same record done not so long ago by some one or other but from a modern , Iraq / Afganistan standpoint. I shoul have remembered who it was done by cause it is clear that it's happenning again , this time in the middle east.
That's whay it's such a crime that this reimagineing of the track wemt by the way side and didn't have a simmilar impact on society.
History is set to repeat its self. this is the proof.
28Zeppelin 4 months ago
CLASSIC. It's just too bad we don't have a song today that is indicative of our current occupation.
SwingItLikeMoe 5 months ago
The Vatican played both sides against each other in this Vietnamese Civil War. They controlled Diem in the South while advising and making secret deals with Ho Chi Minh in the North. President Kennedy’s attempt to halt the bloodbath incurred the undying wrath of the instigators of the war — the Jesuits of the papacy.
JacquesBeard 5 months ago
@JacquesBeard . Please don't get religion involved in the whole thing. Religion has been the cause of enough wars since biblical times.
28Zeppelin 4 months ago
@28Zeppelin Religion is of the devil as is this world but true biblical christianity is the truth. REVELATION 17 is being played right now as I speak.
JacquesBeard 4 months ago
@JacquesBeard LMAO Christians and there diluted stories that have no proof.
FadFlow 2 months ago
should have been handled with the vote. Ask the South if they wanted to be part of the North and if they didn't they should have stayed western. Should have been given weapons and training, and if they couldn't defend themselves, then they didn't want to be part of the west enough. No way US could have won that fight. Both sides taking causalities - it comes down to attrition and nothing else. US public less willing to take deaths over a foreign country than Vietnam public over their homeland.
geoffart 5 months ago
@geoffart Yeah but unfortunately some foreign power always thinks it knows better.
28Zeppelin 4 months ago
@geoffart Yeah but unfortunately some foreign power always thinks it knows better. Oh and by the way I am already a big fanatic of The Dalailama. I don't see many wars started in his name.
28Zeppelin 4 months ago
Even today there must be hundreds of thousands of men still fighting the Vietnam war
lshaw17 5 months ago
...this song reminds me of Manchester United
chad6258 5 months ago
Wasn't the First World War surposed to be the War to end all wars! Unfortunately Vietnam proved that to be horribly untrue. Such a senseless waste of life. Now the name Vietnam is forever associated with the war rather than the beautifl country people and culture that it should be associated with.
And