Hi stevobath! I so agree with you and believe we're both right because it's really all about the music and those who love it. Thankfully there are many Americans with good taste, sometimes too many since I haven't gotten my hands on an NME in ages and almost missed the latest Vive Le Rock. Bloody Yanks! :)
(for stevobath) I feel tremendous sadness and outrage when other acts from that era--good or crap are heralded and and The Chameleons get, if anything a blurb in tiny print like an afterthought and no photo. So insulting! Pardon the rant, but I do know what you mean.
man chameleons spawned hipster music crap bands but their music is unforgettable! only good music can combine elevating rhythms to deep emotional and philosophical lyrics such as this band.
@killforfiend How can you even associate the two groups? Where do you get your sources from? Hipsters are Industrial posers spawned by soulless white-suites pumping out crap. this is not "emo" music. It has soul and structure.
@ChameleonsUKfan2012 Alot of Indie bands today consider the chameleons as their prime influence or at least one of them, you can research it if you like, I know this is not "emo" music I Said that only good music can Combine elevating rhythms with deep emotional and philosophical lyrics.
Before Oasis, before even The Smiths these guys informed everything you listen to from emo to tachy punk. It is what it is but what it is is beyond comparison.
I'm an original fan as well, in fact, "Strange Times" (on wax) is not only part of the soundtrack of my youth, the music is forever. I like The Strokes as well, but The Chameleons are on a level few achieve. It's unfortunate they're so underrated, I wish they had tremendous success for all the right reasons. So much easier to feed creativity when not worrying about feeding the stomach.
@stevobath You're right. But who knows what a little acknowledgement or recognition (songwriting award, Mercury Prize, etc.) could have done. Fans are wonderful, but appreciation from peers or "the industry" is usually better than money. I believe they were too intelligent and grounded to have become tainted or succumb to the demons. Their catalogue begining to end is so brilliant,
@myraelisa I agree, but in the end plaudits from peers do not make a band. Its the ability to touch real fans conciuosness in whatever way is possible.Im sure theyd rather have a hard core loyal fan base than a Mercury prize! They must be a great band as its more than viable for them to do tours in USA etc, where they seem to be better known & appreciated. Who said ALL Americans have no taste? LOL :)
Going to see Mark again in December at the Ruby Lounge in Manchester. Just absolutley awesome one of the best gigs I've been to in ages... and yes I was in the mosh pit
@Kowalskibfv My American friend went to see them in November last year, so theyre still touring.Im not sure if its the original line up though. I presumed they never really broke up more of a hiatus?
I hate how bands like the killers, franz ferdinand and kings of fucking leon claim they are somehow 'post punk revival' where is the feeling in their songs or even the atmosphere? Maybe they need to realise in all honesty how pretentious they are...
@DesperateJournalist I can agree on the killers and Kings of leon,,, but cmon Ferdinand have very nic songs, you should listen to jacqueline.. Ferdinand are more post punk than those two combined and actually double. THE CHAMS ROCK!!!!!!
Serious real bands of the 80's like these should never be compared to todays bands....apples and oranges, both have merit,but one the teacher the other the student.Its all good!
I FEEL CHEATED!!! I grew up in the eighties, attended college, got laid, got high--it is my musical casket, my emotional straight-jacket. I never heard of the Chamelons or Pink Turns Blue or the Sound or the Sounds or the Fall or Adult Net or Bill Pritchard or Comstat Angles (pre-Land) until l-a-s-t w-e-e-k (09AUG2011). I feel like a Rennasance Scholar in 15th Century Spain---everything hip and happening is like 1,000 years old (30 years old; same difference)!!! God Bless You Tube!!!
Who is Interpool? Is Interpool an 80's band? I've seen the Post-punk revivalist band Interpol and they are w-e-a-k; I will take 'She Wants Revenge' over them ANYDAY and they are the personification of 'Plastic Soul'.
busco baterista para banda de Los Angeles... tenemos lockout y nos late el kraut, post punk, y shoegaze. ahora es 8/30/11... ke onda?... tambien tocamos esta cancion de cover para calentarnos en el ensayo.
I just found my uncle's 20-something year old tape of the Strange Times album in my grandma's basement. Best post-punk band in my opinion. Terribly underrated. I'm angry that I didn't stumble upon that tape earlier.
They're from a town called "Middleton" or something like that? outside of Manchester. Is Monkeyland about their hometown or what's the story behind it. I suppose I can go on Home is where the heart is and look for it but if someone wants to answer for the sake of meeting other fans, let me know. I knew a few women/young ladies (teen years) who were from there.I always pictured it differently until the internet. Hulmes .. fucking depressing looking.
@coptersoisoi Yeah they're from Middleton, about 6 miles out of Manchester city centre but a place you'd still class as Manchester if you get me? This is what Mark had to say about it.
"By the late seventies Middleton had become a very dull and insular place to live. Although nearby Manchester has always been a fresh and interesting place to hang out, whenever I was skint, which was most of the time, I'd feel very trapped in Middleton"
@jason2kill Cool man. Just goes to show things in Europe and the USA are becoming more and more alike. I mean "We're all fat and stupid people" here because people became complacent and lazy. many kids from the 1970s to the 90s really slacked off in school in the US. but I'm starting to see change for the younger people now. Schools pushing for higher achievements to compete with China and such, but funding isn't there now. but that's off topic I guess. thanks for the info.
Ohh.. and I forgot to add that the Suburbs out here in Cali or anywhere else is just as boring. That's what I meant by being somewhat more alike. Suburbs don't want loud nightclubs and drunk younger crowds waking the sleepy communities up. I miss the big city, but now that I'm well over middle age I realize it's not for me anymore. Plus it's worth a drive in the summer into the big city once in a while; rather then living there all the time.
I understand why people say that the Chameleons are underrated, that they shoud have deserved more sucess, but I guess this band is mainly appreciated by enlightened music lovers, thus unable to top the charts.
I don't wish they were more famous, I like the way they were and I can relate more easily to other fans.
For some reason I've only just discovered this band through a friend at work and can't believe how they passed through my musical net, an absolutely brilliant band and I feel ashamed to not have discovered them earlier. Timeless music that stands up as well in 2011 as it did when written in the 80's!
They come from where I live which is Middleton :D And one of my friends who is also in a band knows the guitarist. He was texting him last night when we were in the pub.
@miskiabicha check out the guitar work on Interpols "EVIL"..Almost a direct lift..the influence is very obvious..wonder if they admit that in interviews..or if that question is even asked? In the end it could only be good for The Chameleons...
@DreadDeather Hey, can I ask you why you decided to listen to them? I'm in the same boat, and truthfully I'm an interpol fan, and long story short--it lead me these guys, and Joy Division... etc. But above all, I really REALLY like this! Although I think that Script.. is overall the more 'ambient' of theirs..
para mi este es uno de los grupos de los 80's que mas me llamaromn la atencion,buenisimos los vi 4 veces en directo y volveria a verlos si se terciase....
2:05 Just awesome I think they may have invented the so popular 80´s rock bit. That influence most melodic-rock bands inthe world. Thank you so much.=)=)!!
they have always been really big in Greece! This is my favorite song by far! They are so charismatic... I totally am touched by their music so bloody much and forever...
I was 15, i was kicked out of many schools. my friend listened to the chameleons so i listened too. These guys saved my life,made me realise i wasn't alone in the way that i thought about things. I can't thank you enough,chameleons.
I remember hearing this song with a british friend of mine around 84-85 in San Francisco. Us sitting in this park, drinking warm pink champaign and smoking large cigars listening to a sanyo (or sony) boom of a scratchy recording of this song, off of a college radio station.
superb- bleak n chilling. always used to get the urge to play this if I threw back the bedroom curtains and discovered a white snowy landscape- just to add to the mood!
the song is about middleton and how much of a shit hole it is not just in the 70's but even today its a massive inspiration for music look at the courteeners now
Nope! Check out their website for more information. Tom2253 was correct, although while looking this up I have seen the music industry idea but MArk himself said about what Tom said.
The Chameleons are just INCREDIBLE. I hate them being compared with Interpol. Interpol is quite a nice band, but I prefer the original to the copy. Unfortunately I was born in the early 1980s, so I missed a lot, but I remember when I saw The Chameleons in 2001. Support acts were The Dresden Dolls and White Rose Transmission, which is especially interesting, for White Rose Transmission was the latest (and last, RIP) project of Adrian Borland (The Sound).
Yeah they shouldn't even be compared to them considering they came first haha. I don't think there has been any other band like them. They're like the very dreampop shoegaze band that was intense.
recuerdo que en 1984 fui a la tieda de discos y me lleve el primero de los smiths y el de los chameleons,es una banda de esas que por mucho que pase el tiempo sus temas quedan siempre,magnificos.
Hace pocos días que conozco a este grupo y he de reconocer que son buenisimos, por cierto los he conocido a través de uno de los mejores grupos de la historia como son los SOUND de Adran Borland.
The Chameleons have always been one of my favorite bands and SCRIPT OF THE BRIDGE is my favorite album of all time. I'm in California. I never understood why this band wasn't huge. I push this band on everyone who loves music.
@zakkum67 They perform last year at the echo were you there? it was a good show and I met mr burgess and he said he'll be touring soon with chameleons material.
I was thinking the same thing. This sounds like it should be on "Turn on the Bright Lights". You're right. The more you listen, the more creepy it becomes.
GREAT DEMO!
neworder36 2 weeks ago
I looove The Chameleons, and like someone said before me, hipsters suck!
TheVascoPaiva 2 weeks ago
Hi stevobath! I so agree with you and believe we're both right because it's really all about the music and those who love it. Thankfully there are many Americans with good taste, sometimes too many since I haven't gotten my hands on an NME in ages and almost missed the latest Vive Le Rock. Bloody Yanks! :)
myraelisa 2 weeks ago
(for stevobath) I feel tremendous sadness and outrage when other acts from that era--good or crap are heralded and and The Chameleons get, if anything a blurb in tiny print like an afterthought and no photo. So insulting! Pardon the rant, but I do know what you mean.
myraelisa 3 weeks ago
Where's that synth coming from?
dklustick 1 month ago
This is my favourite Chameleons song.
dominickearney 1 month ago
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neworder36 2 months ago
WOW!!!
neworder36 2 months ago
man chameleons spawned hipster music crap bands but their music is unforgettable! only good music can combine elevating rhythms to deep emotional and philosophical lyrics such as this band.
killforfiend 2 months ago
@killforfiend How can you even associate the two groups? Where do you get your sources from? Hipsters are Industrial posers spawned by soulless white-suites pumping out crap. this is not "emo" music. It has soul and structure.
ChameleonsUKfan2012 3 weeks ago
@ChameleonsUKfan2012 Alot of Indie bands today consider the chameleons as their prime influence or at least one of them, you can research it if you like, I know this is not "emo" music I Said that only good music can Combine elevating rhythms with deep emotional and philosophical lyrics.
killforfiend 3 weeks ago
Before Oasis, before even The Smiths these guys informed everything you listen to from emo to tachy punk. It is what it is but what it is is beyond comparison.
TheRainingHands 2 months ago
I'm an original fan as well, in fact, "Strange Times" (on wax) is not only part of the soundtrack of my youth, the music is forever. I like The Strokes as well, but The Chameleons are on a level few achieve. It's unfortunate they're so underrated, I wish they had tremendous success for all the right reasons. So much easier to feed creativity when not worrying about feeding the stomach.
myraelisa 2 months ago
@myraelisa But sometimes worry & strife are the breeding ground for creativity.
Los of bands have proved this. Once they make it big, the struggles gone & they end up pumping out shite! IMO :)
stevobath 1 month ago
@stevobath You're right. But who knows what a little acknowledgement or recognition (songwriting award, Mercury Prize, etc.) could have done. Fans are wonderful, but appreciation from peers or "the industry" is usually better than money. I believe they were too intelligent and grounded to have become tainted or succumb to the demons. Their catalogue begining to end is so brilliant,
myraelisa 3 weeks ago
@myraelisa I agree, but in the end plaudits from peers do not make a band. Its the ability to touch real fans conciuosness in whatever way is possible.Im sure theyd rather have a hard core loyal fan base than a Mercury prize! They must be a great band as its more than viable for them to do tours in USA etc, where they seem to be better known & appreciated. Who said ALL Americans have no taste? LOL :)
stevobath 3 weeks ago
Going to see Mark again in December at the Ruby Lounge in Manchester. Just absolutley awesome one of the best gigs I've been to in ages... and yes I was in the mosh pit
Kowalskibfv 3 months ago
@Kowalskibfv
and I'm an original fan (42 yrs old) just wish I'd gone to see them before they broke up
Kowalskibfv 3 months ago
@Kowalskibfv They just played in Dallas a couple nights ago.
theeyeburninglight 2 months ago
@theeyeburninglight I saw them in Austin. One of the best nights of my life.
torimorph 2 months ago
@Kowalskibfv My American friend went to see them in November last year, so theyre still touring.Im not sure if its the original line up though. I presumed they never really broke up more of a hiatus?
stevobath 3 weeks ago
EXELENTE TEMA
porromerca 3 months ago
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Cure - Pornography
The Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Most amazing albums of the 80's and possibly of all time.
IMO :)
MrMerlin87 3 months ago 2
@MrMerlin87
You have very good taste in music spesh the Cocteaus
Kowalskibfv 3 months ago
Great driecting from 2:04 to 2:07.
charlie123abc360 3 months ago
The Chameleons are my favorite band of all time. They keep me alive and going. Thank you, Chameleons. You motivate and inspire me.
thisisnotjuniorhigh 3 months ago 3
The Chameleons, follow all links for one of the best bands in the last 30 years
dobbdidi 4 months ago
@dobbdidi Why 30 years? More like since the beginning of time :P
charlie123abc360 3 months ago
I hate how bands like the killers, franz ferdinand and kings of fucking leon claim they are somehow 'post punk revival' where is the feeling in their songs or even the atmosphere? Maybe they need to realise in all honesty how pretentious they are...
DesperateJournalist 4 months ago
@DesperateJournalist I can agree on the killers and Kings of leon,,, but cmon Ferdinand have very nic songs, you should listen to jacqueline.. Ferdinand are more post punk than those two combined and actually double. THE CHAMS ROCK!!!!!!
GabloFX2 4 months ago
@DesperateJournalist Yes exactly. The 80's came around once.
blarson12 4 months ago
My favorite Cham songs are Pleasure And Pain: Thursday's Child: Dont Fall.
Great band
cyrussv 4 months ago
Nah Chapel Club is still better
joshuavalencia1 4 months ago
I saw them back in 2000, I miss this band.
phyuckyeu 4 months ago
Mark looks so fucking sexy, my god <3
thefirstcolours 4 months ago
Serious real bands of the 80's like these should never be compared to todays bands....apples and oranges, both have merit,but one the teacher the other the student.Its all good!
TheNeogeo68 4 months ago
this was one of the truly great bands.........
ikingofmen 4 months ago
I FEEL CHEATED!!! I grew up in the eighties, attended college, got laid, got high--it is my musical casket, my emotional straight-jacket. I never heard of the Chamelons or Pink Turns Blue or the Sound or the Sounds or the Fall or Adult Net or Bill Pritchard or Comstat Angles (pre-Land) until l-a-s-t w-e-e-k (09AUG2011). I feel like a Rennasance Scholar in 15th Century Spain---everything hip and happening is like 1,000 years old (30 years old; same difference)!!! God Bless You Tube!!!
Armydicked 4 months ago
They sound like Interpol or vise versa
joshuavalencia1 5 months ago
@joshuavalencia1 haha, as you've allready figured you chameleons stole their sound from interpool and not the other way around :)
IStehSHIT 5 months ago
@IStehSHIT
Who is Interpool? Is Interpool an 80's band? I've seen the Post-punk revivalist band Interpol and they are w-e-a-k; I will take 'She Wants Revenge' over them ANYDAY and they are the personification of 'Plastic Soul'.
Armydicked 4 months ago
@IStehSHIT haha i was expecting this comment
joshuavalencia1 4 months ago
@joshuavalencia1 actually one of the biggest influences of Interpol is The Chameleons :)
thefirstcolours 4 months ago
busco baterista para banda de Los Angeles... tenemos lockout y nos late el kraut, post punk, y shoegaze. ahora es 8/30/11... ke onda?... tambien tocamos esta cancion de cover para calentarnos en el ensayo.
estereohed 5 months ago
7 people are monkeys
nikolaprim 6 months ago 2
it's just a trick of the light!
tourettes84 6 months ago 3
amazing.
tackyjesus 8 months ago
Stop comparing Chameleons to current bands like the Strokes that suck big time compared to them.
Staticnz 8 months ago 26
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@Staticnz And have done nothing but copy the past....
1Atomtan 6 months ago
@Staticnz WHOEVER THE FUCK COMPARED CHAMELEONS TO STROKES MUST DIE!
Silvade14 5 months ago
@Staticnz The Strokes don't suck THEY FIIING ROCK, but they are kind off shity compared to THE CHAMELEONS aren't they. Long live post punk.
GabloFX2 4 months ago
@Staticnz I can't even believe when they call Strokes "post-punk revival". Seriously, they got nothing on the genre, it's retarded.
Silvade14 4 months ago
@Staticnz The Strokes suck big time, no comparison necessary. Sorry, Julian, all your songs sound the fucking same.
genet13 3 months ago
@genet13 Spot on! :)
stevobath 1 month ago
this should be in the remake of planet of the apes. Even though I'm sure that movie will suck, at least there will be one good thing about it!
kemicon 8 months ago 3
My fav band ever. Saw them twice after the reunion early 2000 in German. Traveled from Sweden for those gigs"
riandata 9 months ago
INTERPOL ES UNA ESPECIE DE IMITACIÓN DE COPIA UN INTENTO DE ''THE CHAMELEONS''..
LowShantyTown 9 months ago
I just found my uncle's 20-something year old tape of the Strange Times album in my grandma's basement. Best post-punk band in my opinion. Terribly underrated. I'm angry that I didn't stumble upon that tape earlier.
rexosterkamp 9 months ago
They're from a town called "Middleton" or something like that? outside of Manchester. Is Monkeyland about their hometown or what's the story behind it. I suppose I can go on Home is where the heart is and look for it but if someone wants to answer for the sake of meeting other fans, let me know. I knew a few women/young ladies (teen years) who were from there.I always pictured it differently until the internet. Hulmes .. fucking depressing looking.
coptersoisoi 11 months ago
@coptersoisoi Yeah they're from Middleton, about 6 miles out of Manchester city centre but a place you'd still class as Manchester if you get me? This is what Mark had to say about it.
"By the late seventies Middleton had become a very dull and insular place to live. Although nearby Manchester has always been a fresh and interesting place to hang out, whenever I was skint, which was most of the time, I'd feel very trapped in Middleton"
I know how he feels sometimes. Suburban MCR...
jason2kill 10 months ago
@jason2kill Cool man. Just goes to show things in Europe and the USA are becoming more and more alike. I mean "We're all fat and stupid people" here because people became complacent and lazy. many kids from the 1970s to the 90s really slacked off in school in the US. but I'm starting to see change for the younger people now. Schools pushing for higher achievements to compete with China and such, but funding isn't there now. but that's off topic I guess. thanks for the info.
coptersoisoi 10 months ago
Ohh.. and I forgot to add that the Suburbs out here in Cali or anywhere else is just as boring. That's what I meant by being somewhat more alike. Suburbs don't want loud nightclubs and drunk younger crowds waking the sleepy communities up. I miss the big city, but now that I'm well over middle age I realize it's not for me anymore. Plus it's worth a drive in the summer into the big city once in a while; rather then living there all the time.
coptersoisoi 10 months ago
@coptersoisoi Monkeyland is about the record industry and how they got screwed over by there label
TheDempster 8 months ago
@TheDempster
How did they get screwed by their label?
ML199252 6 months ago
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@coptersoisoi Monkeyland is about the record industry and how they got screwed over by there label
TheDempster 8 months ago
Dynamics--one of the many reasons as to why these guys own.
redshaftedflicker 11 months ago
i never thought id see this on you tube great memories
Euro3urger 11 months ago
i very much appreciate the band from the early 80 until now. thanks for posting this rare document of brilliant music history
xrayspex22 11 months ago
Thanks so much for posting this song! Always loved this band, the lead singer's voice, the evocative nature of the music . . . perfectly lovely.
tayleress 11 months ago
Que banda!
desolator886 11 months ago
En Perú pocos conocen a este excelente grupo de vanguiardia en su tiempo.
taterbowie 11 months ago
geiler gitarrensound
perfeckt zum zähne putzen undvorbereiten
zum abendlichen
abrocken
tommi65
tomdjify 1 year ago
tiens! il y a 6 fans de j;bieber qui se sont égarés.
TheRATTLEHEAD75 1 year ago
sometimes the best bands are the least known.
seapockets 1 year ago
I understand why people say that the Chameleons are underrated, that they shoud have deserved more sucess, but I guess this band is mainly appreciated by enlightened music lovers, thus unable to top the charts.
I don't wish they were more famous, I like the way they were and I can relate more easily to other fans.
bernadotete 1 year ago 14
@bernadotete amen!
TheRATTLEHEAD75 1 year ago
For some reason I've only just discovered this band through a friend at work and can't believe how they passed through my musical net, an absolutely brilliant band and I feel ashamed to not have discovered them earlier. Timeless music that stands up as well in 2011 as it did when written in the 80's!
Verensark 1 year ago 2
They come from where I live which is Middleton :D And one of my friends who is also in a band knows the guitarist. He was texting him last night when we were in the pub.
blackiscooler33 1 year ago
This was my favourite band in the 80s. It still is now.
So very underrated, so very unappreciated....yet so very deserving.
ximmise 1 year ago
One of my favourite bands. (also on a side note, his hair is badassed:P)
charlie123abc360 1 year ago
Interpol blows..brooklyn posers..they is no comparison.
196177 1 year ago
@196177 but the influence is obvious.
miskiabicha 1 year ago
@miskiabicha check out the guitar work on Interpols "EVIL"..Almost a direct lift..the influence is very obvious..wonder if they admit that in interviews..or if that question is even asked? In the end it could only be good for The Chameleons...
196177 1 year ago
@196177 Yes, I noted it too, Chameleons are teachers and masters he he.
miskiabicha 1 year ago
@miskiabicha indeed! Rulers of the Universalmysticalpunkdom...
196177 1 year ago
@196177 Why are Interpol hated by so many?
MrDataCode 1 year ago
@MrDataCode probably cause they got pretty big?
TheOnkruidt 1 year ago
"i need to know what is real" such great lyrics man
morrisjuan 1 year ago
Geez - the Horrors lead singer ripped this off pretty blatantly on their newer material.
glimmertwin1977 1 year ago
still top...
DrKuurus 1 year ago
Remeber Loanhead!!!!!!!ps Roslin Club Ha Ha Wat a Night
aldobee345 1 year ago
Sheer brilliance!! Nuff said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
baldrickchich 1 year ago
recently i've been listening to the chameleons, every song i've listened to i've liked.
DreadDeather 1 year ago
@DreadDeather Hey, can I ask you why you decided to listen to them? I'm in the same boat, and truthfully I'm an interpol fan, and long story short--it lead me these guys, and Joy Division... etc. But above all, I really REALLY like this! Although I think that Script.. is overall the more 'ambient' of theirs..
LaMuerte018 1 year ago
para mi este es uno de los grupos de los 80's que mas me llamaromn la atencion,buenisimos los vi 4 veces en directo y volveria a verlos si se terciase....
vitplus88 1 year ago
So good dann Funky just awesome
guevaraul5 1 year ago
2:05 Just awesome I think they may have invented the so popular 80´s rock bit. That influence most melodic-rock bands inthe world. Thank you so much.=)=)!!
guevaraul5 1 year ago
Interpol and the rest of the wankers copied them. They are huge.
vktr17 1 year ago
the chameleons are huge bicouse they are in auer hearts sols
plejady 1 year ago
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anchormoth 1 year ago
I'm so grateful that an old friend turned me onto the chameleons, otherwise I wouldn't have discovered what real music is.
AnthonyDarnellHill 1 year ago
fucking stunning!!!!!!!!!!!
NMillar917 1 year ago 3
brilliant!
ep44 1 year ago 2
they have always been really big in Greece! This is my favorite song by far! They are so charismatic... I totally am touched by their music so bloody much and forever...
MinaLeBon 1 year ago 2
que buena música :D tengo 15 años, no soy de le época pero se sabe apreciar ;D geniales!
VaniaSe 1 year ago 2
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poor, pretentious lyrics.
Tengocuentadeyoutub 1 year ago
@Tengocuentadeyoutub poor, pretentious life....
clizzleable 1 year ago
@Tengocuentadeyoutub AMAZING music, awesome lyrics, best band ever!
trubies 1 year ago
They are playing FAC251 on 12th June
IpreferRocknRoll 1 year ago
Lol , the frontman looks like a complete douchebag in here.
Tengocuentadeyoutub 1 year ago
@Tengocuentadeyoutub You're obviously an ignorant American... Listen to the music you twat. 'Douchebag' grow some balls man..
guyfromnewcastle 1 year ago
@Tengocuentadeyoutub You're making yourself look like a complete douchebag here :P
0dxpx 1 year ago
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@0dxpx
Lol , the frontman looks like a complete douchebag in here.
Btw Mediocres musicians.
Tengocuentadeyoutub 1 year ago
@0dxpx indeed! :-D
MinaLeBon 1 year ago
Thanks for posting Martin. Script of the Bridge has been by my side since the early 80s.
landbaby1 1 year ago
a rant to recant...all the things we ain't
zomaa777 1 year ago
I was 15, i was kicked out of many schools. my friend listened to the chameleons so i listened too. These guys saved my life,made me realise i wasn't alone in the way that i thought about things. I can't thank you enough,chameleons.
elemental01 1 year ago
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FAKE AND GAY
u7alll 1 year ago
Un oldie des années 80!
phibri72 1 year ago
LO MAS... GENIOS TOTALES!!!
lepumpernic1 1 year ago
I remember hearing this song with a british friend of mine around 84-85 in San Francisco. Us sitting in this park, drinking warm pink champaign and smoking large cigars listening to a sanyo (or sony) boom of a scratchy recording of this song, off of a college radio station.
MrChameleon2010 1 year ago 20
@MrChameleon2010 to a boom box that is. :|
MrChameleon2010 1 year ago
@MrChameleon2010 I love nostalgic memories like this. isn't life just wonderful?
funeralhome 11 months ago
@MrChameleon2010 beautiful...just like this song, thanks for sharing :)
RE8978RETURN 5 months ago
This is amazing. Dreamlike.
TheOriginalWASTEMAN 1 year ago 4
I LOOOVE THISSS SOONG!!!! :D
CrChrissy1 1 year ago
What a feckin great song, one of the best bands ever !!!
chazzer61 1 year ago
excellent work
seapockets 1 year ago
My fave band - saw them at 9:30 club in Wash DC maybe 86 or 87. Went backstage after to give props. Very nice people - I said I wanted to visit
uk and he told me of the great moments they had running around Loc Ness in the middle of the night drinking and enjoying carefree times.
roboriver 1 year ago
So damn cool. Look at 'em... they're babies
TheDeans990 1 year ago
Reminds me of the very early The Church vids, like Bel Air etc.
mistersmith6000 1 year ago
great - what is THAT guitar?
pickinboy 1 year ago
One of the BEST bands of all time!
katydid26 1 year ago
i like peanuts, bowie and the chameleons but i don't like peanutbutter....
justlikehoney100 2 years ago
I like peanuts, butter, Bowie and The Chameleons, but I don't like peanut butter.
NUCLASH 1 year ago
los padres de interpol..
normanren 2 years ago 38
@normanren
De acuerdo ! Yo siempre e opinado que suenan muy parecido. Se nota claramente la influencia.
romemoz1980 11 months ago
@normanren What a great comment! Journalists always write about Joy Division as their inspiration, when it's clearly this.
mantra3000 10 months ago
@normanren Interpol habean muchas padres diferentes
OccidentalSoapbox 6 months ago
I don't like peanuts but I like peanut butter. I don't like Bowie but I like The Chameleons.
Salaminguana 2 years ago 3
Such a great song.. but I think Second Skin is even better.
DMPineau 2 years ago
superb- bleak n chilling. always used to get the urge to play this if I threw back the bedroom curtains and discovered a white snowy landscape- just to add to the mood!
fatheremmet2003 2 years ago
who killed sgt pepper?
antonfjordson 2 years ago
phil collins
Yellowcatz 2 years ago
gr8 SONG.....................
TheMuhammad08 2 years ago
the song is about middleton and how much of a shit hole it is not just in the 70's but even today its a massive inspiration for music look at the courteeners now
tom2253 2 years ago
@tom2253
I thought it was about the music business.
GriefTourist 2 years ago
I also thought it's about the music industry....
karziflora 2 years ago
@karziflora
Nope! Check out their website for more information. Tom2253 was correct, although while looking this up I have seen the music industry idea but MArk himself said about what Tom said.
Icantunderstandyou 2 years ago
Thanx for confirming that !!!
karziflora 2 years ago
not middleton - heywood - monkeyland...
still a shithole !
UnhingedMars 2 years ago
dear martin, your playing tonight was awesome!!! I wish I would played with a musician like you
shreivox 2 years ago
The Chameleons are just INCREDIBLE. I hate them being compared with Interpol. Interpol is quite a nice band, but I prefer the original to the copy. Unfortunately I was born in the early 1980s, so I missed a lot, but I remember when I saw The Chameleons in 2001. Support acts were The Dresden Dolls and White Rose Transmission, which is especially interesting, for White Rose Transmission was the latest (and last, RIP) project of Adrian Borland (The Sound).
Ephysee 2 years ago 2
Yeah they shouldn't even be compared to them considering they came first haha. I don't think there has been any other band like them. They're like the very dreampop shoegaze band that was intense.
XxsilentninjaxX 2 years ago
i wana kno more bands like this...
cron1077 2 years ago
Check out The Sound. It's not the same, but definitely a personal recommendation.
Ephysee 2 years ago
Spot on!
tomlandrymiddleschoo 2 years ago
recuerdo que en 1984 fui a la tieda de discos y me lleve el primero de los smiths y el de los chameleons,es una banda de esas que por mucho que pase el tiempo sus temas quedan siempre,magnificos.
pirralo 2 years ago
The Chameleons are definately in my
top five bands of all time. Along with
Joy Division, The Cure, The The, and
Bauhaus. Wish the music was near as
good today as it was then. It seems it had
more meaning and substance in those days.
jasonlrd 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
listen to the killers, they did a great cover of joy devision shadowplay.
azngreenteas 2 years ago
yeah
i am not a big fan of the killers but they surprised me with that cover
babyturtle079 2 years ago
Hace pocos días que conozco a este grupo y he de reconocer que son buenisimos, por cierto los he conocido a través de uno de los mejores grupos de la historia como son los SOUND de Adran Borland.
josepaularoberto 2 years ago
Extremely talented...all of them....Burgess, Fielding, Smithies and Lever...Manchester's hidden talent!
karziflora 2 years ago
great song legendary group
stefmagd 2 years ago 3
Adorable and EverEverEverEverEvergreen!
GirlWithWhiteGloves 2 years ago
this band never sold out to the music industry vampires----this song is about the music industry---listen to the lyrics
rhetorwit 2 years ago
Why werent these guys as huge as lesser talent? This song is about the music industry guys---listen to the lyrics---they never sold out
rhetorwit 2 years ago
great performance from a great band! thanks for posting this video..
vanap76 2 years ago
Thank you so much for posting this 8-)
LamourNeDurePas 2 years ago
The Chameleons have always been one of my favorite bands and SCRIPT OF THE BRIDGE is my favorite album of all time. I'm in California. I never understood why this band wasn't huge. I push this band on everyone who loves music.
zakkum67 2 years ago 42
Just got that album on your recommendation. Now another Californian has it!
ord1711 2 years ago 2
@zakkum67 same here!!! one concert (at least) would be nice!
thrash1legion 1 year ago
@zakkum67 They perform last year at the echo were you there? it was a good show and I met mr burgess and he said he'll be touring soon with chameleons material.
CizinManikThorns 1 year ago
All four albums are amazing - why does the world not know about this band - there is a strong following in the US though
DCrossland2 2 years ago 4
i adore this song, saw them at the international manchester amazing!!! 1985? BIT OF A BLUR
appoNo1 2 years ago
martind1000- thanks for posting this tune ..one of there best ... but they have so many good tunes
bumfie 2 years ago
I'm 100% convinced that Interpol is in actuality, The Chameleons. The similarities are so amazing, it's criminal.
Though The Chameleons have much better lyricism.
Arathnis 2 years ago 5
I was thinking the same thing. This sounds like it should be on "Turn on the Bright Lights". You're right. The more you listen, the more creepy it becomes.
cwphunky68 2 years ago
lovely video this of the lads. thanks
puppetmode 2 years ago