Visage Damned Don't Cry

[MOVIEMASON]

@brightbite I think music nowadays has pleanty emotion as far as the synth goes, but i do think the vocals are totaly boring and repitive. Its almost always the same, and when it does sound decent, its just a sample from old songs.

[mistomen]

No., the Damned don't cry. But they have got a lot of kick-ass tunes. I love Wait For the Blackout.

[CodyRicheson]

My girlfriend and I made this "our song" a few years back. Visage represents some of the best music from the 80s.

[GoldenDiamond101]

@CodyRicheson It does. It's one of the best well known :)

[mozzer35]

I agree this song is way better than Fade to Grey

[GoldenDiamond101]

@mozzer35 Can't argue with that. :D

[cybercondreact]

I agree with the above comment about synth sounds. Everything now sucks and is boring,nothing stands out or the feeling. Its over complicated. glad I am not alone...I am sure music is more than listening for you, its something that opens up more than what is on the surface.Thats the best way I can put it in worrds.

[Styxhexenhammer666]

What a wonderful song

[jumpinspringheeled]

Thanks for providing this New Romantic video, I loved it.

[johnlovesbridge]

I wish we still lived in a time where people dressed nicely when going in public.

[arivera3426]

@johnlovesbridge ...the slob-ification of Americans is in full swing. Everyone thinks the flip-flops with nasty toes look is "in".

[jumpinspringheeled]

@arivera3426 Don't forget the dregs of society wearing pajamas in the stores. Will this fashion trend nightmare ever end?

[Tamerlain]

The defitionion of my youth...This (Perhaps) is where I found some of the most intersting people I have ever come across.

[MsVeronik]

y love les années 80

[cokipu]

la mejor de Visage, me pone los pelos de punta...

[TrainmasterCurt]

Great video, love those old luxury carriages too, very charming

[NikCreep13]

damned don't cry > fade to grey

[JuanLorenZerimar]

Yes! This was their best track...It was the blueprint for a thousand club hits over the next 10 years.... :)

[sinfulloveandlust]

I agree. I prefer this song, though I find most of their work rather enjoyable all over. =)

[enrikoide]

The best song of Visage.

[creten69]

2nd best,dude,fade to grey ;~^

[nouveauxdecadence]

THis is great quality so fear not.

Damned Don't Cry is like drowning in a pool of beauty, mystery and such a sad yet so immaculate place.

Damned Don't Cry should have been just as popular as Fade To Grey. THis track m akes me so emotional and mystical.

Wonderful, Wonderful and more Wonderful...

The 12",,, version of this is just totally CLASSIQUE ***** + *****

[brightbite]

I miss when synth was as aesthetically utilized as this. Nowadays synth sounds all the same- boring, emotionless and cold as an old brick wall.

[redmartian]

@brightbite I agree .. a lot of the virtual analog stuff that is out there has no character. Even the new Roland Jupiter-80 has 'piano' samples. And why??

[brightbite]

@redmartian Perhaps because it is all about being as lazy as possible when writing and producing a song? It also all seems to be about the money these days. People tend to think of the '80s as style without substance. I disagree. There was a lot of creativity in music then. 

[GoldenDiamond101]

@brightbite Yes indeed! It's like the 50's when Elvis and all those artist came out... new sound, new music (good music too). I mean that's when Michael Jackson became a legend! :D

[survived007]

ahh the 80s. fantastic times-- bloody good music---

[datafilemusic]

I am so thankful, Cherry Red Records released a remastered CD version of the album »The Anvil« accompanying almost all 12" Versions from that period. I dearly wish, Polydor/Universal would dare to release their debut record in expanded and remastered form. Visage have the label »classic« stamped all over their name. And that's just how they should be treated.

[w84vin]

really love it....not those times then alone, still so superb!

[DrRocky666]

i love this song

[Aristoclash]

Born to be New Romantic

[dara1874]

Getting old...my brother and i were on hol in France 1986 - had this on the old "box" player. Memories...

[FreeekUnique]

Best of the 80s! Visage... one of my fav bands. This song is by FAR an amazingly brill song and one of the best songs to come from the 80s :) Love Stevey in this too! Looks great as always. This is mine and my bf's song cos we both love this band. Dont ask why its a love song to us tho hahaha! Just reminds me of when we got together :)

[thisisdirtwerk]

I discovered this CD in an old stack of albums that my mom accumulated over the years. She got this from an old gay friend of hers, and it rules. "Fade To Grey" is another Visage track worth mentioning.

[themachman1969]

thanx wigs.this to me is visages best song...

[geoffolehane]

I have to agree with wigs7's description. I have always loved this song.  I have a 6 minute dance version of it in my vinyl collection.

[JenJenEL]

fantastic record....so different

[BlackSkyThunder]

One question , where are they from? French,English..?? Ok, does anyone can find a best forgotten song? This video cannot match better the meaning and the mystery the song has, it´s a real shame that the 80´s monopolize this sounds and no one seems to be able to reproduce it again. Why the 80´s were so romantic? Sometimes, I cannot explain it

[LukeLewisme]

steve Strange was a bit of a social butterfly & clothes Horse.

Fade to Grey, the biggets hit, was written by Midge Ure (Ultravox).last time I heard, SS was living in abedsit in wales. So to answer the question, they're British.

[1aonline]

the 80s were energetic, original, full of experimental efforts to create new music - with the full risk of a failure. but most of the music worked, found its niche and in that that niche its fans. these fans still love their music from whay back when, cos that shit from today is too commercial!

and this applies for nearly all what is going on nowadays - money rules, the end justifies the means...

the spirit of the 80s is not asked for any longer - but it is still alive!

[yexey]

Every musical style ever has had someone say "it was better back in the day". Check out CutCopy. They're a great current band who do the 80s sound fantastically.

[umbongostu]

yexey is right , there are some great bands out there today like cut copy , crystal castles , MGMT , Digitalism..... u just have to search that little bit harder for them than u did in the 80's !!!

[bondbug73]

I have this early 82 hit on 12" single. The synth appregator (pulse) still sounds great with that ghostly backing music. Night train was next and the last proper hit I remember. Don't remember Pleasure Boy's,

[VJTwinFlamesVJ]

I LOVE it!

[doridisasterdolly]

best visage song. love the foggy video

[DAZA1965]

Your right mate even though the 70,s stuff was pretty good but for me the 80's up to about 1985 was such a top time for music and we had a bit of style to.

[jonsdiscofever]

The 80's were the best time musicaly I think, Steve Strange was such a leader in the New Romantic period he was certainly the one with the most class, this track is excellent, was nice to see him on TV recently and still very stylish!

[DarthRobin]

I like this song better than Fade To Grey, too. :) Has a more profound effect, I feel.

[gummybits]

I agree

[Paulkiotobjj]

good song but I agree it's more moving

[gouvyrock]

beautifull!!!!! 80's clip are the best!!!!!!!!!!

[Wolfangle48]

YESSS

i cant stop dancing ......

[autumnbubz5]

also I'm looking for'malpaso man' as well...can't find it anywhere !!!!!!

[autumnbubz5]

in the 8o's the problem was mainly putting the soul back into the synthesizer, this song was a good attempt at that + eerie 'drifting off with the angels' 'interlude' at 2:50-3:03 really caps off the 'soulness' of this song.....

[EnnioRome]

Track inspired from the masterpiece of Luchino Visconti's "The Damned",with Dick Borgade,a icon of New Romantics.

[80sRenaissance]

WONDERFUL ^^!!!

[amsterdammed71]

march 1982... it brings back memories of having my arm in plaster after an accident at school! love this track, hauntingly beautiful!

[DerVampyrEngel]

after The Anvil and Fade to Grey one of the best songs from Visage, a hauntingly beautiful dance track 15 when this came out, memories

[offthelinegt]

Agree'd Wigs7, Fade to Grey is great, but I also prefer this one. Love that digital sampler riff, drives the song!

[medavog]

Lovely!

[analogboy3]

Pick up the needle. Move it back an inch. Drop. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat...

[vampiro2881]

love this song

[StuffedMannequin]

This is god damned art

[maxy0084]

Love it!

[hmcs2]

Sorry Minkipinky. Dont give us that crap. The record IS TOP

[minkipinky]

I love visage. They capture a moment in time in which you feel pain and sorrow. No joy -just deep thoughts.

[onecharmingbastard]

Spring of '82 - me 16 years old and the first of my friends to have cable, and thus MTV. Still a damn fine three and three quarter minutes of time to spend with my fave Blitz Kids.

[holmanmi]

I was 14 when this classic came out....

my fav Visage song

[LuxX63]

Molto bella più di FADE to GREY ma entrambi una lezione di DISCODANCE raffinata e malinconicamente evocativa!In oltre,con queste cose,imparai a suonare le tastiere(Il mio povero MOOG pace all'anima sua!)ed ad...amare!!!Amare il crepuscolo,la nebbia,i bei cappotti,le gentili donzelle in bei vestiti da sera,gli amici che mi prendevano in giro,ma soprattutto...LA MUSICA!Avevo 19 anni allora,ora ne ho 45/46,ma quei due album dei fantomatici VISAGE li conservo molto gelosamente!!!Furono messaggi!!!

[salvatorekea]

Bellissima!Bella quanto Fade to Grey!!

[odpo]

whats up with the end

[Argamae]

Imho even more hauntingly beautiful than "Fade to Grey". This exemplifies the best in Wave from the 80's.

[funmonsterUK]

Couldnt have put it better my self :) When i first heard this track it was like a smack in the chops... i went and bought the 45 the very next day.

[Argamae]

Thanks, funmonster. And later the Longplayer just blew me away. :-)

[corpsvalue]

Holy wow! This songs just screams MTV! I remember seeing this in MTV's infancy. I lived MTV from its inception!

[harkerlana]

What a great unit these guys made up.

Certainly some (most for me) of the best music from the 80s came from Visage and Japan.

Fade to Grey is the one track that says it all for me.

[80sRenaissance]

Young people have not forgotten 80s culture! At least not all of us, I'm 22, as my boyfriend, and we both LOVE the 80s!

By the way, we LOVE VISAGE, and THIS IS MY FAVE VIDEO PROBABLY, TOTALLY LOVE THIS SONG!!

Thanks for wigs7 for sharing it with us ;)

80S FOREVER!!! ^^

[Blackpig3]

42 years old and honoured to have experienced the 80,s.

Lets go back..

[earvesicle]

I am 22 and I love Visage.. and I love the 80's.

[MindSimple34]

This 80's time is go away, by now, all this culture is forgotten by young people.

Cette époque des années 80 est parti en poussière, cette culture oubliée des jeunes gens;

quel dommage!!!

[Quartet82]

I think when I bought this in early 80s, it cost 75p. Still love it. Every thing Midge Ure touched, turned to gold.

[80sRenaissance]

This song and video are so wonderful, 80s FOREVER!!!! Steve Strange is great!

[LuxX63]

Hi great NEW Romantic Androids one!!!!Are you in synths again???No the Damned don't cry!Never never die....That was then,that's again today...Bye Steve Strange...you're in this mad world I Know that...I was an your adept!

[zackyko]

These kind of music don't fade, you are all right...arrangements and compositions are far from what the music of today...they sing!!!!They are not mad as much as some do!!!They are happy..I think!

[warriorvet]

One of the best groups of the 80,s by far ! If only we coud go back in time but at least we have our memories, ashes to ashes!!!!

[IvanSorath]

dust to dust

[DX5]

I'm so lucky for having the 12 inch vinyl of this track :)

Love specially the cover.

[sonicksyn]

Yes, this Visage album is better: The Anvil... I never found it on CD ever -- every song on it killer...... my fave was a non single track "Look What They've done to me"

[Artaxerxes333]

The Anvil is re-released on CD TOMORROW!!!!!!!!

[Jacko032k]

about fucking time too eh! :D

[Vinylized]

"Look What They've Done To Me," is a GREAT track too.

[TTLTOY1]

the new romantics sound is making a comeback! THANK GODDDD!

[sakichirox]

Oh My God!  I love you! Even though I didn't grow up with this music, it is so great! So expressive! So emotional! Thank you so much!!

[Kain625]

love this song, Mind of a toy and Fade to Grey.

[aristogigolo]

New Romantic for ever! God bless Steve Strange and the Blitz kids!

[TimeWarper75]

simply a classic!

i love steve strange!

[kafka27]

nowdays they even can't make a videoclip..not to talk about music.

[twiner3]

This is, hands down, their best song! The video is amazing as well. Oh, to go back in time and hit the dance floor again (sigh).

[rnewport]

In Los Angeles there are a ton of clubs that play classic and modern new wave. My favorite is Blue Mondays. They even have old Atari 2600s you can play with.

[Nightporter]

Ah memories, blasting down the motorway in an old Audi 4000S with Visage on the "Cassette" deck.... I too prefer this song to Fade to Grey.

[greg11273]

this is one of the best new wave song!

[mruresm8]

Brings a tear to my eye also, the early 1980's if only one could step back in time!!!!!!

[hairyprairiebear]

sounds very similar to ultravox..there again they were behind some of visages stuff. Nice to hear this again after so long,just never ages

[Demeterloves42]

Oh Steve S. I love you!!!

Best new romantic music ever....miss those days.

[sannyasi17]

Anyone notice how this song from the very early 80's set the blueprint for much of the trance of the 90's??? Very cool!

[valentinerome]

Bellissima ! I can remember listening this cool song. 1983 I was 15's and I danced and danced ...

[PumPumSpy]

This brings a tear to my eyes. The 80's were the best decade and Visage were one of the best groups of the early years. Dancing to this at the under 18's disco...halcyon days!

[crazyhr41]

also check out night train really atmospheric

[Patek3919]

Visage is the one of rarest find in the new romantic/wave sound during the 80's. I can't believe I can re-live the sound and mood again from that era!

[pulidotony]

What an awesome song!

[PStegman84]

I really like this clip, All of the Visage's music, it's soothing for my mind. Wish they would bring back the eighties...it's over, but not in my heart.

[kittyprison]

this isn't and wasn't "weird shit" it's all around awsome!

[UrbansoulJunkie]

Being brought up on all this weird shit was class! I remember the hair spray days!I have indulged in lifes wonders because of the influence of the likes of Visage.I am now just a normal funk DJ Dad!

[PrincessEdinburgh]

Thanks for uploading - my favourite Visage track too (along with Pleasure Boys). Still sounds good after all these years. Had a crush on Stevie-Boy at that time (yikes!) but I was only about 13 so didn't know any better... :0(

[ctspf]

Please REMASTER THE ANVIL ON CD AGAIN!!!!

[chimp1964]

excellent classic,remember pleasure boys? top memories but i would not want him cutting my hair on celebrity scissor hands!!? Alergies... hmmmmm

[VernianProcess]

Hands down Visage's best song. Although Mid of a Toy, Visage, their cover of In the Year 2525. and Malapaso Man are up there too.

[lgwsteve]

More than a hint of Midge Ure in this. A taste of what was to come from Ultravox. Excellent track which sits up there with Night Train and Fade To Grey, which believe it or not is my 5 year old's favorite track of the moment! Must try and get some vid of here doing her dance and singing.

[Pirrock]

Classic 'Peacock Punk Rock' track as it was known! Hairspray by the truckload and as many colours as possible were the trend! Post New Romantic forerunner and unsurpassable! Pity drugs ruined Stevo - waste of talent but still a masterpiece of the 3/4 minute hit scene!

[death2hiphopnRnB]

What the 80's are all about. One of Visage's best tracks, a wonderful sublime and mysterious effort. Fade To Grey cannot be touched, but this is a fantastic track that deserves recognition.

[wehavejoy]

i was into punk at this time

but i (secretly) loved this song

[theone6142]

i remember good times at twenty+ being in the thick of the new romantics a new age how expressive and wonderful!

[BorlandRIP7]

Better than FADE TO GREY..incredible new wave song with thiq typical 80's sound

[rainstormy2]

Yesss I am LOVING this video. It's beauty cannot be disputed... Wow. Thanks for sharing this awesome 80's artifact of sound and visual beauty. Incredible

[DerSisko123]

This is even greater than Fade to grey

[96337935PM]

q buen grupo los scucho desde 1988 hasta hoy. paul d lima peru....

[shin1258]

excellent

[ProfErgonomics]

I much loved this PV in the years of 80s. Thanks a lot, from Japan.

In Japanese fan site, one wrote that this video was directed by Chris Cross and Midge Ure, so, colleagues of Steve.....it it right?

If it is, how they were creative and still they are.

[ianharleygraham]

Midge Ure and Criss Cross are from Ultravox. This is a side project for them with Steve Strange.

[WBA1965]

Sort of, if I remember it right. It was a Steve Strange project, with friends. But I can't help feeling, that it in reality is Midge who is in control. As I Remenber it Steve Strange's claim to fame at this point in history was a night club in Camden, Camden Palace, or something. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[lgwsteve]

Was it not the Music Machine, or maybe that was it's name before Steve took it over.

[InSynthesis]

WBA is right, the club was the Camden Palace. Before that Steve Strange and Rusty Egan, Visage's drummer, ran a club called the Blitz, from which originated the title Blitz Kids.

[ebenezergoode]

I'd forgotten how much I like this track. It might be just me, but I could swear that this song "inspired" Orbital's "Chime"

[Kirhel]

Yes, I agree, for me too ! The melody is too good and makes me go to another place.

Someone knows the name of the girl who sings the chorus ?

[TerySK]

The best of Visage for me.

[lauder64]

Coño Que Bolas...!!! Que tiempos aquellos... Gracias por colocarlo... saludos desde Caracas, VENEZUELA.

[rubenv6]

Grandes recuerdos de mi infancia con Visage... ¡Y que bien sonaban los 80s'!

[goblinko]

Love the rhythmic bass synth on this whole album, very distinctive!

[squiffysquirrels]

Haven't heard this for 26 years - WOW

Gott sei dank fuer 'You Tube'

[RheingoldxxL]

One of the best of VISAGE!

[thedesiresymposium]

Good track.

[IDLF]

THANK YOU for posting this!! It is my fav Visage song. (I had this song as a 12" single "back in the day.")

[jordanshark]

excellent song from visage. my second fave song from the group after 'fade to grey'.

[putirecords2006]

KISSES FROM SPAIN,PUTIRECORDS.

[autumnbubz5]

stiff strange does a wonderful job.....

[gapont2]

Such a GREAT single!!

[SaBracaSam]

I LOVE that f.....g sh.t

[Lechovitz]

this is one of the best visage tracks and i think the anvil is a classic. Recently i bought the best of DVD with all the hits on video. Its great

[SHUKOKAI1967]

Brilliant 80's track. The Anvil album is fantastic. Year 2525 is a classic tune.

[ucfbtm]

I'm sure the original quality was the same.thankyou very much for sharing.(Good to see that they got to use so much of that footage in the subsequent Night Train video - incidentally one of my real favourite 12 inch remixes.Damned don't cry was an exciting change of direction,since it heralded the arrival of The Anvil.Doesn't mean that Fade to Grey and Mind of Toy are not still classics though.I agree with the sad part - Steve never really achieved happiness.

[martinbizarro]

What was it with the New Romantics and railway stations?

[imagangster4sho424]

haha, that's so true!

[holoki]

I LOve the whole album ``The Anvil`` one of my favorites in generally. Great song great music style

[woodzeeuk]

I love fade to grey and had forgotten this track until recently an updated version. Punx Soundcheck vs Visage.

[cashmere2873]

My favourite Visage song and a brilliant and stylish video. Thanks a lot!!

[holmanmi]

pure visage better than fade to grey

[culbuteur3]

It reminds me when I was 13 ...good old days..

[therezabizarre]

i LOVE LOTS OF VISAGE TRAKS THIS ONE IS A CORKER I LOVE IT!!!

[Lechovitz]

Visage has always been one of my favorite bands and i must say that i lkie the second album better than the first one. The quality is o.k. and for those who want to see it in a better quality, there has just been a dvd release of all the visage video's. Its the same as the video release way back in the 80's

[therezabizarre]

it is quite sad in a way i think it might say a little something about how lonely steve felt with all the hangers on's etc...great stuff thanx a lot...

[riordan9]

forgot how brilliant this video was,thank you for posting.

[purplewoodentops]

fantastic do you have nighttrain????

[pessimystica]

I agree, this is an awesome song, just as good as "Fade to Grey", I think! & I think the picture quality is pretty good :) Thanks!

[missilva17]

Quality is great especially since I hadn't seen it for 20 yrs. Thank You!!!

[MangoNinja]

The quality is just fine! Thanks so much. This is my favorite Visage song also!