The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer

[Irisheddy]

Martha Davis always reminded me of a Night club singer (Like Billy Holiday) then a Rock singer

[loreroad]

ty long sexy legs

[cristobalmartinn]

suddenly last summer / the motels

summer never ends ! la recuerdan ?

[mattyclass]

I used to have XM radio and I miss it mainly because of that 80's on 8 station. All the old MTV VJ's take turns hosting it. It was great. I must say that a few of then..ahemm.. Nina Blackwood... sound like they aged a bit.

[mattyclass]

Is that Lou Ferrigno?

[longsexylegs]

@mattyclass NO, Robert Carradine

[caviper1]

I want back my 500 days summers...

[drgcanal]

sonaba en Z rock and Pop del Peru

[loreroad]

Is that Robert Carradine?

[longsexylegs]

@loreroad Yes it is!!

[barrydeez]

Suddenly WHAT!!!

[caviper1]

@barrydeez - read the novel...

[warfare5150]

OH YEAH, Brings back alot of memories saw Martha Davis and the Motels at the Universal Amplitheatre in !984?? It was a good concert Sax player is really good.

[tra1031]

2:55 ... "you people ??? who & what are you doing here ??? This isn't the Wizard of OZ ... " 2:58 ... "I'm over it" ... HA ... oh and anyone else notice the guy she's on the beach w/ is the main character in the "Nerds" movies ???

[ausfuhrpramienjagar]

@tra1031 ....Them people at the foot of the bed staring at her as she awakes, depicts her feeling guilty for losing her virginity (everyone knows what you did) so to speak.... She was so infatuated with sex at that point, she would dream about it after only one time and they are the townspeople frowning down on her in bed......"Jagar"

[yomamas177]

@tra1031 great call never noticed skolnic makein out on the beach, awsome hahahaha



[mrsolofeo]

A lot of songs from the eighties could be described as cheesy--this song is not one of them.

[pinduro1618]

42 dislikes? What's wrong with some of you?

[TheSnake4149]

@pinduro1618 They're stuck in the 30s

[rshankle56]

This song is soooo sexy. Still great...a classic.

[killchain187]

This is the song that will play as the world dies.

[1234567806027]

cant wait for the summer time,to get a really nice tan.

[Murfinias]

this song isnt forgotten, i still got it on one of my "k'tel" records../lol

[RoC1909]

@Murfinias Oh how I remember K-Tel...wow..talk about bringing back a memory! :)

[culiacan929]

Cuando andaba de reven en Pto Vallarta!

[mrfunderful]

Best music ever!!

[1234567806027]

perfect day at the beach it takes all of my will then ,suddenly last summer, true words.

[covaan101]

@Steve Kucha, It was!

[eriesurfer10]

her feet r cute! lol Loved the part with the birds running away from the waves! great song

[jdewitt77]

It reminds me a lot of carefree days spent at the beach during the summers of my youth.

[JRobert2000]

i like cheese

[AlanSessler]

you can say it sounds "dated" because of the recording techniques (tons of reverb/fx and synths), but that's not the same as cheese. now the videos may have been borderline cheese, but that's because music videos were still a relatively young art form, and not everyone had the eye for it.

[freedom1575]

Suddenly feeling nostalgic ;-)

[respiratoryed]

I have never forgot about this band! They were awesome!!!

[METALRAT1000]

Beautiful music.

[stevekusha]

was that robert carridine as the beach boy?

[Jacksparrow1869]

oldschool

[mimesshouldbeshot]

PURE GENIUS.

[MrMikeb1958]

YOU call this 'more '80s cheese'? Seriously??? I would just love to hear what you call this crap out nowadays.

[MrOilyDischarge]

@MrMikeb1958

I think it's that it is a very sentimental song aka cheesy, not necessarily production of musical value.

I like this song because it reminds me of a particular bar in a particular time and place.

[jimjago]

It's amazing how people now idolize the 80,' the way people 20 years ago idolized the 50's. I hope things aren't so messed up in 2025 that they idolize 2011. That would be messed up.

[looneybineastman]

not cheese - but dreamy and great music

[InfinityToOmega]

Great song.

[jdewitt77]

Great song. It's amazing how a song can conjure up all kinds of poignant memories of the past. A movie can do that also. I wish it was the 1980s again. such a fun time for me with great music too.

[MrStylezy]

With you all on that,mid ninties it went down the plug hole for me,I have been back peddling ever since,emotion and depth dont seem to be issue these days,just ipods and compressed music files that sound like shit,VINYL FOR EVER SUCKERS

[03August1991]

This song/video makes me feel nostalgic.

..I'm feeling nostalgic for a time when I didn't even exist. Hah.

[t40onbass]

This wasn't "cheese' at all. It was a great song. Had a definite dreamy ambiance. 1983 I think it was. There was a movie with the same title many years before.

[bigdsears]

Hey young wippersnappers, believe it or not, MTV used to have Music Videos. This was one I used to watch a lot. I taped it on my VCR from Friday Night Videos. Videos used to rock so much and this time frame, the early 80's will forever be gold to me.

[sungodrah]

@bigdsears oh my god ,Friday Night Videos!! now how cool was that.haven't even that title since forever ..well done! excellent video..

[nanharvickfan]

@bigdsears The first music video I ever saw!

[breto20021]

@nanharvickfan

[jdewitt77]

@bigdsears Yes. You are so right. I agree 100 % with you. The 80s rocked, especially the rock.

[mocus1]

The Big 80s !!

[mikemichael0]

Martha Davis is a cancer survivor.  Anyone knew that?

[shefellout]

@mikemichael0 no but thanks for sharing lol

[TkrB]

1:53 Is that Dustin Hoffman?

[hatmap]

Martha's daughter is beautiful! Wonder what she looks like today in her 40s?

[foxyrella]

for some reason when I hear this song i remember streets of my hometown, i think the blue skies of summer, a cool breeze, for that instant I am free and happy as when a child

[blackkitty1509]

love the 80s:)

[beowulven]

Wow, "cheese" ? Really?!

[gregoryy2010]

thts freaky all those old nd young peeps looking at her in the bed

[SuperJoshig]

...i have to agree with rbcurti, this voice was truly expressive, just listen to the greatest hits album, unbelievable :) ....i love that they were so popular down under, not so much here, the rest of the world knows good music....

[lakings13]

is that The Hulk she's making out with?

[rbcurti]

When I was a child, I remember exactly where I was and what happened when JFK was killed, also MLK and RFK. I remember where I was and what I felt when the Challenger exploded. And I remember where I was and what I felt at the moment I heard Martha Davis had vocal nodules. I was devastated and rooted for her. She had the best, most expressive voice of any female vocalist all the way up to Grace Potter today. That is a long reign. And I miss them.

[Hiwatcher1]

Beautiful Woman with a beautiful voice

[thecoolestdad]

Only those of us that were born at the right time and lived in the 80's can really appreciate this kind of great music and so much more also.These idiots that bad mouth the 80's music are just that idiots.They know it was the best music but they are too stupid to admit it because the crap from the 90's and 2000's has warped their brains so bad that good quality music can't enter in.So all they can do is run their stinkin mouth thinking they are somebody when they are nothing.80's was tops baby!

[fallsdeep]

It's got a dark dreamy undertone to it which I love. Haunting is the word....

[wbPy]

Right on scarrmd

[scarrmd]

Like a fine wine, this music only gets better with age. Especially since the crap artists put out today is just plain awful.

[honkpimpie]

Great point. If you can spit and abuse an LP on a turntable, you're a stah

[Lumotaku]

shes pretty fugly

but the song is great

[Bonneville462]

The was once a time when people had feeling...

[LouieBlu]

this video maybe cheessy but it brinngs you back to a place

[Archie4]

This isn't cheese, this is scary.

[RockenDokkenlover91]

I'd like to buy the factory where this cheese is produced. Would do anything to of had a piece of the 80's in my life! sadly born in '91 wish it was '71 :(

[Morcaiden]

If this is cheese, serve me a heaping platter.

[redroversk]

Oh sweetheart, let me sprinkle some parmesan cheese on that mullet.

[SuperJoshig]

...i dont know about 80s cheese, maybe more about teenage angst, something we have all been through :) ...either way, she is a good looking girl, this is a very awesome track, and i love chunky monkey ice cream(ben and jerrys)...

[fishnchix1]

AND SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER MY DAM BOAT SANK BUT I LOVE THIS SONG

[TheD1763]

Good song,good band, good time, where are they? Forgotten...not by me!

[ausfuhrpramienjagar]

@TheD1763 ....Martha Davis is alive and well living near Portland, Or. She still plays gigs here and there, and down the coast to Cali....."Jagar"

[TheEmergencyExitKids]

We love the motels no matter what<3

[raudiboy]

the Motels, nicht vergessen, sondern nur zu selten gespielt, immerhin waren ihre Songs "Suddenly last Summer" und "Only the lonely" 1982 und '83 Platz 9 in den US 100 Billboardcharts ... danke für den Song und das Video

[submersibleone]

What a time that was!!!

[wbPy]

I'd replace your "last ten years or more" with last twenty or more!

[MrSanford25]

well its nice to know no one has any bitches or moans left over from the 80s name the actress shown for the fist 3 second cut in the pillow scene good luck ..............................­..80s my ass

[stucat06]

Great interview on SiriusXM this am with Mark Goodman. Releasing an album that the record company refused to back in the day.

[mattjames62]

not forgotten by a lot of us

[7thheathen]

When you see todays music hits and their accompanying videos, the line between cheese of the past and the cheese of the present gets increasingly blurred

[honest413]

Those guys in ths vids look Italiano just wondering?

[pickydeer]

Martha Davis was hot. I love curvy women with pretty faces.

[25411959]

@pickydeer You said it exactly, my friend!

[elsoda]

It amazes me how some people call the 80's CHEESE when actually it was MOST probably the LAST DECADE when it was a PLEASURE to listen to the radio and sit and watch MTV for hours? the last ten years or more? NOTHING BUT GARBAGE!

[progjunky]

@elsoda yeah, i mean, you have a point, but can you really watch this video and say it's not cheesy?

[OldMusicFan83]

@elsoda Not only were the 80s the last decade when it ws a plesure to listen to the radio & MTV actually mattered, I maintain it was the peak of the 20th Centry. Turning on the radio then was hit after hit after hit. Not like the pop crap that American Idol seems to generate... In fact, some of these 80s songs are still in heavy rotation on the radio now.

[classy1973]

@elsoda Yeeees, I totally agree! Old school music is the best! THE RADIO NOW IS DISGUSTING...

[TheFallToRise]

@elsoda Actually it's last 20 years. And I'm sure they play the 80's music in heaven.

[elsoda]

@TheFallToRise I HOPE SO!!! (, cause if i listen to rap or hip hop or any shit from the last 20 years i will rather go to hell!

[3535kevin]

@elsoda exactly

[shefellout]

@elsoda it may help if mtv still showed music



[clare1061]

@elsoda I hate the radio these days. After being blessed with the 60's, 70's and 80's music, i can't call the crap thats out there today music. NO TALENT TRASH is more like it. Seems like 99% of the so called artists wouldn't be able to make it as a garage band seeing they can't play a giutar, drums Etc. Computer RAP crap just doesn't cut it..

[keensmustard1]

@elsoda Yeah...cheese it may be, but VINTAGE cheese it is!

[SocratesTheGadfly]

@elsoda TRY THE LAST 20 FUCKIN YEARS! ever since the piece of shit called grunge was still born with groups like 'nervana' music has SUCKED !!!!

[ausfuhrpramienjagar]

Martha is still alive and rockin' in Portland, Oregon!......"Jagar"

[brainsareus]

some cats just think they are too manly to like this. hey, i like zepp,and the who,but this is great stuff too.

[rockabilly541]

this band is by no means forgotten. only one of so many truly great bands from the 80's which was a great time for female vocalist.

[AB5L]

So this is the result of eating too much ice cream before bed?

[Spentbrass]

This song/video creeps me out.

[gigi3su]

@FunnelIntoOblivion hahaha Right? lol

[lilyr270]

this was NOT cheese....its a beautiful song! :)

[SJYNYC]

I always thought it was a girl losing her virginity, hence the scene with everyone around her bed.. looking at her, judging her, as she felt the whole town seemed to know. However, I'm told I'm way off (makes sense to me, though... it happened one summer for me, too)

[ausfuhrpramienjagar]

@SJYNYC .. You're not wrong. Losing ones virginity is exactly what it's about. Martha came up with the lyrics when she was living in Berkeley, Ca. back in 1975. The girl reading the romance novel and falling asleep and dreaming is supposed to be a young Martha. Even the ice cream trucks are there for a reason. It was a cool fall day and Martha saw one go by and thought that with winter coming soon, this might be the last time she sees the ice cream truck for the rest of the year......."Jagar"

[arkady714]

The 1980s...what a hell of a time to be young. Take it from someone who was there and in the thick of it. The 1980s were more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

[MrStuckinatimewarp]

I know what she did last summer

[apple4777]

omg all those people were in her bedroom while she had sex,man no privacy at all.

[j1001s27sw]

I saw this video at a young age and had a crush on this girl. At 1:05, now I remember why!

[lgm83]

great song! not so great video

[kbdevo1962]

Music is still music . People running around like chickens with their heads cut of screaming " I miss the - Insert the decade of your choice here - That was real music." Big deal , Good music is still around , You people complaining are just too lazy to switch off your commercial radios and hunt for new bands on the internet - (Seriously search) . There are a lot of unsigned bands that are better than this band ever was . But no one has ever heard them because they like to be spoon fed .

[booterspaw]

@kbdevo1962 How do I find this ?

[kbdevo1962]

@booterspaw Meaning ? If you are stuck on one group then I would suggest buying music at Amazon or E-Bay Otherwise try an internet radio station like Last.FM . It is a social site . Between the recommendation engine on the site ,along with the friends recommendations and the tons of blogs and links to other sites ,I guarantee you will find something that you like. or even love. Also Jamendo is an excellent site full of unsigned artists trying to make a name . Lots of them are very good.

[elpajaro21]

awesome all around ,when music was music.

[KB4QAA]

Great song, instantly places me back in steamy Florida near the beaches in the 80's.

[eightiesguy62]

@KB4QAA Great song....all the 80s songs were great....and you're right each song brings back a memory of that wonderful decaed.....at least it does for me!! 80s RULE!!

[gijoe989]

ilove the motels,suddenly last summer,gijoe989 

[bigsixxraven]

I like that Martha placed her daughter in this video. I absolutely adore The Motels.

[TTYumYum]

What are you guys talking about, this song IS TOTALLY CHEESY...and that's not a diss, that's fact.

[ausfuhrpramienjagar]

@TTYumYum ....Wow! It sure is obvious that you have never been in love before..lol ......."Jagar"

[Satchel334]

I wish sometimes I could go back in time to when I was younger and have been an only child without a nasty, stupid, biatch sister and been from a more upper middle class family. Instead of being the awkward douche I was with the biatch sibling from hell I had and in the stupid family I was in. I would have appreciated growing up in the 80s more.

[BohemianConspiracy]

yes it's just a lil' cheesy... but i know other singles by the Motels who are even more full of cheese... quite original their new wave cheesy spray music.... or they could be called "the Mayonnaise Splash Affair" as well... as cool and original than an older band called... The Peanut Butter Conspiracy...

I think that i've found my vocation... to find real good name for bands... after some serious listening... (i've gag my ego before this mail...promess!)

[TheSunsetfairfax]

Cheese typically isn't this atmospheric.

[da959]

At least what they produced, you could actually listen to!

[tuliusxp]

FASCINATING SONG FROM AN UNDERRATED BAND...WHERE ARE THEY? WHAT HAPPENED?

[TheMslaura811]

@tuliusxp They are still playing...I saw them last night in Lake Arrowhead, CA...they were amazing.

[bumperu]

I love cheese.

[mabrown730]

or the 80's, for that matter......

[mabrown730]

Never forget.........The Motels:)

[jarumikanashiroful]

soy de los 80s

[Jangocat]

Remember to keep things in context of when they were released. This was a beautiful song and most definitely not cheesy. They didn't have CGI back then.

[Koolazo]

She's just dreaming of having a bf.

[MrPPALCALDE]

CUANDO LAS CANCIONES SON COMO ESTA QUIERE DECIR QUE SIEMPRE SERAN APRECIADAS CON EL MISMO PUNTO DE VISTA SIN IMPORTAR EL TIEMPO QUE HAYA PASADO NI EL LUGAR EN QUE ESTEMOS.

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[billnseattle]

This is my favorite song from the 80's!

[Nanpiper]

go see on youtube....Berlin.....The Motels.....Quarterflash!...oh hell yeah!...Til Tuesday?.....oh how about Nick Gilder....Hot Child in the city.....oh....I have it.....here is one of the best....Frankie...Goes To Hollywood.....ultimate.....

[Nanpiper]

oh for god sakes.....this is NOT cheesy.....its music of the time.....mediagod, you must be of a later time. even my own kids is in love with music from this era.....its not just YOUR opinion.....

[sp00kynek0]

saw this on cracked...i dont get what's so scary about the video lol

[DeltaCat67]

Nope, never forgitten. The '80s was my generation.

[iluvrachellef]

This was released in Sept.1983 not 1982.Great H.S. tune for me also.Looong time ago :)

[rainstormz28]

If this is cheese, give me more cheese....

[NateSean]

For years I thought this was Til Tuesday. This lead sounds so much like Aimee Mann.

[wildturkey1960]

@NateSean I can see how that can happen. Aimee and Martha both have an awesome voice.

[jakeryan37]

Todays music is a damn joke next to this.Iwas 16 when this aired and still love it.20years from now no one will remember the plain white tees

[mick0438]

This is one of the good ones.

[majorlizzy]

It seems so natural

[FunnelIntoOblivion]

Those people at the foot of her bed caught her right in the act of masturbating to her wet dream! Ah, youth!

[mediattackrecords]

@FunnelIntoOblivion wow now thats odd

[FunnelIntoOblivion]

@FunnelIntoOblivion Well that's what those damn cheap romance novels get you!

[serpentsally]

the video is def cheesy the song is great

[gijoe989]

the motels-suddenly last summer is one of my favorite songs .gijoe 989.

[johng669]

I enjoy listening because, of course she has a nice voice but you can make out the words when she sings and you can get into the meaning of the song too. So many singers mask the lyrics when they sing and you have no idea what the heck they are saying.

[Tarrant1976]

This is better Cheese than the mouldy crap they're pumping out these days!

[64Albere]

@Tarrant1976 Agreed !! , for the likes of me, I can,t fiqure out what todays music is trying to say .

[RockoJulian]

@Tarrant1976 Good point bc even though 80s stuff is old, most of it hasn't gotten moldy with age.

[milincoln]

I always thought this song was about her being raped for some reason.

Someone recomend a good CHEESY 80's movie for me please.

[johng669]

@milincoln gremlins

[mrkeptate]

i kissed with martha on her tour bus sept 29 1985 in harrisonburg va!

[5171967cafk]

This song is pure 80's High School summer memories...particularly '82...the Summer it debuted. Awesome. Mmmmm ...have always loved that ending: 3:25.

[tessasbaxter]

I have always liked this band!

[DaveWollenberg]

We've still got an ice cream truck that comes 'round our neighborhood. The Motels hit #9 in Billboard, 11-19-83. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

[johng669]

@DaveWollenberg There are ice cream trucks still.

[tall32guy]

I KNOW that girl at 2:55! I swear I've seen her in other stuff! I just can't think of it!

[tall32guy]

This song is about Martha getting pregnant when she was too young and KNEW she was too young.

[TheNdnstud]

great romantic song

[micfishevyt]

Either this is psychotic ridiculousness.....or it is so deep that it is legendary.

[Okie72Dokie]

not also is it cheesy ,its shit.......(now herecome the hate messages)

[larryluvewf]

THats Lewis from the Revenge of the Nerds!!! I thought i recognized his face!! They said in a magazine he had a ponytail and drove a harley before accepting the role on the Revenge of the Nerds!!!

[RadioChief52]

agreeing with AmericanRuffian. I appreciate the upload mediagod, but you need to sit back and reevaluate the material. "Cheese" is a word that will be applied to what is being produced today. If you lived and loved in the 80's, you would recognize this material as being so on the mark. I know, I was there.

[bunataj]

@RadioChief52 - totally agreed. And i was there too. 1983. Loved this song back then and still do today.

[eightiesguy62]

AHH the 80s!!! Great times!!! Great music!!! Nothing more to be said!!

[kutcroxx]

I like the song and the video.

[topcatroar61oliosc]

this song still gives me chill all over everytime i listen to it, love the motels, PEACE ALL :)