This song is good! I hadn't heard it until now! I was exposed to the 80's through my parents so the only album I've heard is Fade to Grey. Any recommendations?
@GoldenDiamond101 Check out Vienna by Ultravox, More Than This by Roxy Music, Such a Shame by Talk Talk, Love Song by Simple Minds. All great songs and amazing videos.
@GoldenDiamond101 Other great new Romantic Songs from this period: 'Guilty' by Classix Nouveaux and 'To Cut A Long Story Short' off of Spandau Ballet's first album.
I discovered Visage a few years ago, and "The Damned Don't Cry" quickly became the song my girlfriend and I chose to be "our" song. This group was too awesome. This song is great too, but I question if anything can top "The Damned Don't Cry."
I really, really envy the people who grew up with the music of the past decades. If I could, I think I would've chosen to be born in the late 70's and be a 30 year old today. I just sometimes think it would've been cooler to be a 22 year old back then and not now. Sure the technology of now is better, but just about everything else sucks.
This song came out in 1980-81, the late 70s in the UK was pretty dominated by New Wave esp with Blondie , Gary Numan , JAPAN, the late 70s to early 80s were a very creative time in terms of music and fashion (1978-1983). To experience this music it would be preferable to have been born in the early 60s.
@ramboram03 Yes, I know. What I said was actually supposed to be a separate comment, not really pertaining to this video or anything. I was only saying that if I had to chose, I would have liked to at least be a kid in the 80's, a teen in the 90's, and an adult now. BUT if it were possible, I would be the age I am now and live in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. I also would have loved to experience the 60's, but the 70's (esp. late 70's), 80's, and 90's are my favorite decades.
ooh ok sorry . I was a teen in the 90s it was nice ! Music was more exciting than it is now , and people loved dressing in fashionable clothes esp at my high school , it was fun!
@ramboram03 No worries. :) Cool. Yeah, I was a kid in the 90's and it was perfect, but there were some things I missed out on because I was too young to know or care about them. It's a shame.
@ramboram03 I was exposed to Visage, Ultravox, Gary Numan, Elvis Costello at a local roller rink in the late 70s so I'd say you'd not have to be born in the 60s to appreciate it. That DJ is probably what got me to buy Duran Duran and Devo singles with my petty allowance in the early 80s.
The big ‘spacious-in-demand reverb production' sensibility of the mid 80’s killed the New Romantic movement. Also the waning popularity of analog synths at that specific time as a production tool. What a shame.
oxfam and other second hand shops certainly upped their image - was a great source for all sorts of mix matched period stuff - yes wonderful wish i had taken it it extreme
oxfam and other charity shops certainly raised their profile then - thats where you got all the interesting clothes - mix matched period stuff etc - yes it was fun
where has all the talent gone these days, I just don't know! 80's are definately the best by far..and steve strange certainly represents this breath-taking music era.
I was looking like HIM,I was a fan of NEW ROMANTICS,I played SYNTHS like this,and I Proudly say the new stuff are only a boring situation.All for college boys and girls but nothing of very interesting,like this new youth age.
Please play yours cells and Ipods and I'll play my sinths!!!!!
artists today should take a cue do they not realize REAL stuff like this exists?todays music is so trite and unimaginative its embarrassing and infantile.
It's funny to me that a lot of our top designers listen to this album when creating....what more than a million people are going to be wearing the next year.
I love this band from the 80s - they only had about three albums but all were brilliant - they were really a concept band and never did concerts - always mimed but who cared?
Lets not forget Billy Currie who was responsible for that "trade mark" haunting synth sound on many 80s tunes with visage ,ultravox ,jon foxx etc... ...............
You can clearly hear the influence of Adam and the Ants which predated by a year or so... Looking back is easy to see the chronology - at the time just seemed explosive.
The VISAGE poster looks like a NESCAFE Coffee Jar Label/Advert. You were ahead of your time, VISAGE, and advertising vultures landed to feed on your talent, no doubt.
Absolutely I fell in love with this track when I first heard it.Fade to Grey was ok I still think Visage is one of tha top 80s bands they had a lot of influence as well.
yeah am afraid these were the best times....fashion .... music ...clubscenein manchester liverpool and london they were great times youle never repeat them
I never forget Kraftwerk, they were way ahead of their time in the 70's in Deutschland, but also, dont forget David Bowie, the 1st New Romantic-Glam innovator
@strupcza I consider myself very lucky to have been in my early- and mid-20s during this period. We in the US did not have the kind of scene they had in the UK, but we had the records and were very aware of what was happening there. We had interesting clubs even in the US.
@Artaud1957 yeah they started calling it the second British invasion i was born in 76 but i have a nearly photographic recall of the 80's the TV the music the fashion and events..photographic for a childs understanding.. luckily with age i figured most of it out.. now i feel cheated i wasnt in MY 20s in the 80's girls were hotter
Cannot get enough of Visage, this track is absolutely epic, along with my all time favourite song FADE TO GREY.I miss the whole 80's electro genre, Yazoo,early Depeche Mode,Human league etc
before the world degenerated into a pile of cowshit of skanky std-ridden whores "singing" about their ass and how jiggly it is, and retards who cant speak english (and its their so called first language!!!) toting guns and spitting hatred.
Hate to burst your bubble Alfresco but i was a teenager in the 70s and in my 20,s in the 80's . I was part of the punk/newwave thing as well as a soulboy. The punks went to the soul clubs and the dress was a cross of the two styles. The punk clubs played reggae as in the early days there were not enough punk tunes on disc to play a whole evening.I used to walk home 8 miles from londons west end clubs at 4am to Crystal Palace without a hint of trouble. I would only do it now in an armoured car !
Im constantly saying that, i just dont get what is inside these kids heads now days.. The priority in my day was , to make sure your hair looked perfect and go and pull a girl !!!
Exactly - a lot punks used to like reggae and ska too. Even some of the hard funk.. whatever had that driving beat or made you want to ''jump around' ha ha
pretty much in a nutshell, but Steve does insist on mentioning the french vocals in fade to grey were his idea. Plus he gave us billy's, and blitz. BLITZ. he gave us blitz. he was even cooler than bowie.imho
una delas mejores canciones techno compuestas para los amantes de visage desaparecida pero que siempre estra en nuestros corazones, por cierto tengo este vinilo lo guardo como un tesoro gracias steve
I still have this album on vinyl! their use of the synthesizers was innovative (ahead of its time).. now it sounds kinda cheesy but alot better than the garbage out today! I even thought the clothes were cool ... at the time, heehe
Yeah, well we know that Visage was Midges baby, and Ultravox played a heavy part, though I suppose as an image Steve Strange was pretty cutting edge at the time.
80s is like the best era! The fashion is just so awesome! (Very individual) and the music is really really amazing!
I think tbh, that 80s music kind of brought everyone together! Because now you have so many different types of music, and people do argue over it! But in the 80s the music is for everyone!
And it was just the best type of music, and its just awesome that everyone of any age can love 80s music no matter how old it is!=D
i know what you mean. if you listen to a certain type of music nowadays your classed as a chav or an emo or whatever and it's just stupid. whereas 80's music, they had none of this sterotyping going on.
Hate to burst your bubble but...... nah! In the 80s you had Teds, Punks, Skinheads, New Romantics, Rastas...and with a few exceptions, everyone hated each other's guts and there was actually a damn sight more violence than today. Trust me...I was born in the 70s so I'm ancient enough to remember. :D Actually just believe me! lol Don't "trust" me...never trust anyone over 30. :D
The white outfit on the runway at 3:09 and 3:10 is just so immaculately FANTASTIQUE and so CHIC *
I adore Visage, one of THE most innovative and experimental outfits to come out of the magical Early 80s. 1979 to 1985 period is just SO special. Music with edge, unstopable ideas, creativity, vibe, technology matched with stunning visuals and a lovely escape from the the doom and gloom of horrible reality ...
love this song. visage were a very influential band (albeit only a studio collaboration). they knocked out some very memorable songs, that still sound good today.
Steve Strange certainly did ride on the back of Billie (Tandoori) Currie and Midge(t Gem) Ure. But they soon put a stop to it when he started refusing to get off. However Strange really was and still is the face of British Late Seventies Style .... albeit - a celebrity-hairdresser, booze-addled, substance-abused, swig faced one at that ....
Steve Strange had some interesting ideas and illusion... great introductions.
Many collaborate and are great to impliment some stage presense for artists. Many times new bands do not have their style developed early on, and creatives such as these really bring things aboat. These help to bring a diversive croud of listeners but help promote the impact of a bands music while the bands writer & musicians reach out to their fans.
I dont know about you but I think film is the coolest format you could make a video in. It looks so classy. It certanily looks better than most of the digital video type grains. Awesome song!!
emories of Camden Place (owned and run by Steve Strange) Make up, weird clothes and mascara running, and that was just the blokes.. Visage were well ahead of their time but troubled by legal battles and Steve's drug problem. I hated the way the music press condemned him but sucked up to Boy George. Anyway still have all their vinyls including 12". My fave is The Horseman.. Ure, Egan and Currie are geniuses and the videos have that "vienna" touch.
I was around then started secondary school what a great era, painted my face but too young to go to Blitz. New Romantic era the best ever 1979/1984 too brief special era, Once 85 came it ended.
Yes, it ended to quick.. The milestone sounds for me were Floyd's - Brick in the Wall, Specials - Gangsters & Visage - Fade to Grey, then, something terrible happened, it came from the dark side it was evil (sorry I can't talk about it I'm so traumatized) Actually I can, it was sodding Stock, Aitken and flaming Waterman churning out rubbish from their so called Hit factory (notice the "S" is missing from somewhere).. I will now go and build a time machine to prevent their birth, wish me luck.
I can remember dancing to the 12" of this at Helden on a Thursday night at the Camden Palace, in N London, back in the early 80's. Rusty and Colin Favor on the decks. What a track and what a time for music and fashion. Whally wierd, in the video doing what he does best, posing, (badly). Full credit to Midge for this track, the Simmons drumming is unreal..
I think it should be pointed out that the underlying force behind Visage were Billy Currie and Midge Ure. Egan and Strange purely roade on the backs of their talent
Steve Strange... the catalyst of the new romantic scene was my inspiration in the early 80's.Next to Pete Burns.this video and song is great! I especially love the bass sound on the "12"in. version.Ultravox did a good job with Visage.
I thought I was tha only one who thought that eventhough many people still think that this WAS UltravoX !! I just wish music of today could be like this!! Visage among many of my favorites had that sound that made u HAVE to buy tha album!
arafat76, go and fuck your whore of a mother neither are you, you skunkfucking pleb wanker, you don't like Visge then fuck off to the shitty pleb music your crawling lice ridden bubonic plague ridden carcass can handle ratfucker
The whole album is great from start to finish. I was just a "Fade to Grey" fan until recently.
Neptuneman07 1 month ago
This song is good! I hadn't heard it until now! I was exposed to the 80's through my parents so the only album I've heard is Fade to Grey. Any recommendations?
GoldenDiamond101 3 months ago
@GoldenDiamond101 Check out Vienna by Ultravox, More Than This by Roxy Music, Such a Shame by Talk Talk, Love Song by Simple Minds. All great songs and amazing videos.
retrotubedotnet 3 months ago
@GoldenDiamond101 Other great new Romantic Songs from this period: 'Guilty' by Classix Nouveaux and 'To Cut A Long Story Short' off of Spandau Ballet's first album.
dwtime 1 month ago
@dwtime Wow! They all sound so interesting! Thank you (:
GoldenDiamond101 1 month ago
EXPERT!
22ndWave 9 months ago
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
boogiepop14mc 1 year ago
More than any band, Visage takes me back to those days. And they were incredible. *sigh*
bookbabe001 1 year ago
I discovered Visage a few years ago, and "The Damned Don't Cry" quickly became the song my girlfriend and I chose to be "our" song. This group was too awesome. This song is great too, but I question if anything can top "The Damned Don't Cry."
CodyRicheson 1 year ago
I really, really envy the people who grew up with the music of the past decades. If I could, I think I would've chosen to be born in the late 70's and be a 30 year old today. I just sometimes think it would've been cooler to be a 22 year old back then and not now. Sure the technology of now is better, but just about everything else sucks.
HAL0INREVERSE 1 year ago 2
@HAL0INREVERSE it was a great time, i remember it fondly. Some things are better now, but the "feel" of things was a lot better then!
georger64 1 year ago
@HAL0INREVERSE
This song came out in 1980-81, the late 70s in the UK was pretty dominated by New Wave esp with Blondie , Gary Numan , JAPAN, the late 70s to early 80s were a very creative time in terms of music and fashion (1978-1983). To experience this music it would be preferable to have been born in the early 60s.
ramboram03 1 year ago
@ramboram03 Yes, I know. What I said was actually supposed to be a separate comment, not really pertaining to this video or anything. I was only saying that if I had to chose, I would have liked to at least be a kid in the 80's, a teen in the 90's, and an adult now. BUT if it were possible, I would be the age I am now and live in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. I also would have loved to experience the 60's, but the 70's (esp. late 70's), 80's, and 90's are my favorite decades.
HAL0INREVERSE 1 year ago
@HAL0INREVERSE
ooh ok sorry . I was a teen in the 90s it was nice ! Music was more exciting than it is now , and people loved dressing in fashionable clothes esp at my high school , it was fun!
ramboram03 1 year ago
@ramboram03 No worries. :) Cool. Yeah, I was a kid in the 90's and it was perfect, but there were some things I missed out on because I was too young to know or care about them. It's a shame.
HAL0INREVERSE 9 months ago
@ramboram03 I was exposed to Visage, Ultravox, Gary Numan, Elvis Costello at a local roller rink in the late 70s so I'd say you'd not have to be born in the 60s to appreciate it. That DJ is probably what got me to buy Duran Duran and Devo singles with my petty allowance in the early 80s.
redmartian 9 months ago
The big ‘spacious-in-demand reverb production' sensibility of the mid 80’s killed the New Romantic movement. Also the waning popularity of analog synths at that specific time as a production tool. What a shame.
Koeningsplein15 1 year ago 3
I want that hatttt
patrickjaden 1 year ago
very stylish
goombabear 1 year ago 2
goodd soundd,
the best band new wave yeahh
Visage forever.........~*'¨¯¨'*·~-.¸☆
cesaregomix 1 year ago
oxfam and other charity shops certainly raised their profile then
TheMistermies 1 year ago
oxfam and other second hand shops certainly upped their image - was a great source for all sorts of mix matched period stuff - yes wonderful wish i had taken it it extreme
TheMistermies 1 year ago
oxfam and other charity shops certainly raised their profile then - thats where you got all the interesting clothes - mix matched period stuff etc - yes it was fun
TheMistermies 1 year ago
Fashion SICK! check Song is so fucking DOPE! CHECK! Peace BomB! :)
JHits23 1 year ago
@JHits23 totally rad man totally tubular.
NewWaveFan1 1 year ago
((Waves arms joyfully))
AtticusStount 1 year ago
¡Un súper clásico de la New Wave!
A New Wave super classic!
Max1baL 1 year ago
I nearly forgot *how great* this tune is!
Molzen 1 year ago
This is one of my most favourite songs EVER EVER EVER!!!!!
cramlacy 1 year ago 2
where has all the talent gone these days, I just don't know! 80's are definately the best by far..and steve strange certainly represents this breath-taking music era.
SurreyGirl2009 1 year ago
I was looking like HIM,I was a fan of NEW ROMANTICS,I played SYNTHS like this,and I Proudly say the new stuff are only a boring situation.All for college boys and girls but nothing of very interesting,like this new youth age.
Please play yours cells and Ipods and I'll play my sinths!!!!!
lufillolufilli 1 year ago 4
Today's music is stale in so many ways.
teddyballgame406 1 year ago 2
Música sofisticada en un envoltorio de las mas glamourosa y sofisticada moda. Un grupo mítico para mi.
andypeor 1 year ago
what a fantastic kind of music!! I love it!! this sound rules still today..
OnlyYouDnn 1 year ago
I like how he just catches the attention of everyone in the club. That's how Steve Strange really was back in the day, you jus't couldnt ignore him.
yuyuhaki1 1 year ago
artists today should take a cue do they not realize REAL stuff like this exists?todays music is so trite and unimaginative its embarrassing and infantile.
iggydanzig1 1 year ago
Steve Strange is the expression of a deity.
LittleMrsRhodes 1 year ago
God I wish I had gone to the Blitz, just once.....The Barn in Worcester...didn't quite...do it....
dshelleyic 1 year ago
It's funny to me that a lot of our top designers listen to this album when creating....what more than a million people are going to be wearing the next year.
MrGlenMorris 1 year ago
The era before Lady Gaga crap!
yeomanrycavalry 1 year ago 2
Now we're cookin'. Hit it.
jeffdeanable 1 year ago
My favourite Visage track :-)
mustanghovercraft 1 year ago
Love it !!!!!
numanettetrish 1 year ago
One of my favourite early 80's songs. It's a pity Ure and Currie didn't stay working with Egan and Strange, even as a studio only project
ClareLouiseJohnston 1 year ago
google adds are so f. annoying
caviper1 1 year ago
I love this band from the 80s - they only had about three albums but all were brilliant - they were really a concept band and never did concerts - always mimed but who cared?
LiteracyLabyrinth 1 year ago
There is a Donna Summer "I Feel Love" like part, around 2:03
goblinb 1 year ago
Love Visage's version of In The Year 2525! Great tune!
TrainmasterCurt 1 year ago
Lets not forget Billy Currie who was responsible for that "trade mark" haunting synth sound on many 80s tunes with visage ,ultravox ,jon foxx etc... ...............
THEKTMMAN625 1 year ago 3
@THEKTMMAN625 Kudos for that - Billy was, and still is, the man..........
dreamyyak 1 year ago
You can clearly hear the influence of Adam and the Ants which predated by a year or so... Looking back is easy to see the chronology - at the time just seemed explosive.
snotmale 1 year ago
The VISAGE poster looks like a NESCAFE Coffee Jar Label/Advert. You were ahead of your time, VISAGE, and advertising vultures landed to feed on your talent, no doubt.
VeryRidDotCom 1 year ago
Is anything sexier than this track? Seriously.
VeryRidDotCom 1 year ago 3
Genuine Classic. Groundbreaking talent of it's time and onwards. Glorious!
VeryRidDotCom 1 year ago 3
Forgot to add my thanks for posting this trip down memory lane!
Now, where's my old China Crisis Lp? ;)
Allpoofsmustdie 1 year ago
I remember prefering this to Fade to grey.
Allpoofsmustdie 1 year ago
WHATS WITH THE HOMOPHOBIA YA MONG
12seagulls 1 year ago
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Who? Me?
Allpoofsmustdie 1 year ago
Absolutely I fell in love with this track when I first heard it.Fade to Grey was ok I still think Visage is one of tha top 80s bands they had a lot of influence as well.
thuggin83 1 year ago
Please will somebody invent a time machine and take me back to the 80's in Manchester and London (I'll bring my own slap and hairspray!) thanks!
rickytinsel 2 years ago 7
@rickytinsel All you need is a flux capacitor and a car that will do 88mph
97awsomest 1 year ago
yeah am afraid these were the best times....fashion .... music ...clubscenein manchester liverpool and london they were great times youle never repeat them
Mr1ROYHUGHES 1 year ago
Join wih some ones (including me) let´s rent a big car and go there....right now.
alexandertinjaca 1 year ago
to the 80´s
alexandertinjaca 1 year ago
So futurist at 2:38 it hurts!!
TrainmasterCurt 2 years ago 2
Fantastic. New CD Coming March 8 ~ The Very Best of Visage
moorlock2003 2 years ago 2
u forgot kraftwerk. godfathers of electronic music.
tool619 2 years ago
I never forget Kraftwerk, they were way ahead of their time in the 70's in Deutschland, but also, dont forget David Bowie, the 1st New Romantic-Glam innovator
TrainmasterCurt 2 years ago
This era was absolutely incredible.Those clothes,fashion,make-ups, music, clubs...
strupcza 2 years ago 75
@strupcza I consider myself very lucky to have been in my early- and mid-20s during this period. We in the US did not have the kind of scene they had in the UK, but we had the records and were very aware of what was happening there. We had interesting clubs even in the US.
Artaud1957 1 year ago
@Artaud1957 yeah they started calling it the second British invasion i was born in 76 but i have a nearly photographic recall of the 80's the TV the music the fashion and events..photographic for a childs understanding.. luckily with age i figured most of it out.. now i feel cheated i wasnt in MY 20s in the 80's girls were hotter
brithael138 1 year ago
@strupcza i still believe it was the best time ever.
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dot4design 1 year ago
@strupcza there will never be anything like it, an explosion of creativity in every respect.
georger64 1 year ago
Cannot get enough of Visage, this track is absolutely epic, along with my all time favourite song FADE TO GREY.I miss the whole 80's electro genre, Yazoo,early Depeche Mode,Human league etc
cyberdyne11 2 years ago 20
I agree with you!! Visage, early Depeche Mode etc were the best! 80's were the best! love Visage!!! :)
1996beau 2 years ago 7
@cyberdyne11 amen!
mysteryboy1982 10 months ago
Style Class Imagination Originality.
Just so we dont forget these words exist.
Thanks for posting this great video.
merkury06 2 years ago 2
before the world degenerated into a pile of cowshit of skanky std-ridden whores "singing" about their ass and how jiggly it is, and retards who cant speak english (and its their so called first language!!!) toting guns and spitting hatred.
JeuneFilleaCarnival 2 years ago 4
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I could never agree more!....thank you
sergiodelacroix 1 year ago
this video preserves a great era and time in music, fashion and art
love visage
sheyda212 2 years ago 8
I still rate this as a much better song than Fade to Grey.... Malpaso man was class too! Bring on the 80's choons :) ha ha
kiwijohn01 2 years ago
THEKTMMAN625 i agree with u and i cant see where your coming from Alfresco as its way worse now.
Ospreying 2 years ago
Ps, in those days we used knives for eating with....................Not stabbing people to death for "dissing us"..............How pathetic !
THEKTMMAN625 2 years ago 3
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THEKTMMAN625 2 years ago
Hate to burst your bubble Alfresco but i was a teenager in the 70s and in my 20,s in the 80's . I was part of the punk/newwave thing as well as a soulboy. The punks went to the soul clubs and the dress was a cross of the two styles. The punk clubs played reggae as in the early days there were not enough punk tunes on disc to play a whole evening.I used to walk home 8 miles from londons west end clubs at 4am to Crystal Palace without a hint of trouble. I would only do it now in an armoured car !
THEKTMMAN625 2 years ago 6
@THEKTMMAN625
It is terrible how badly things have changed in even the last decade. :(
oc5nsli341nforce4 2 years ago
Im constantly saying that, i just dont get what is inside these kids heads now days.. The priority in my day was , to make sure your hair looked perfect and go and pull a girl !!!
THEKTMMAN625 2 years ago 2
I can say that in my city it is the opposite, but then again, London's gotten shittier and shittier over the years.
jazzpsalti 2 years ago 3
Exactly - a lot punks used to like reggae and ska too. Even some of the hard funk.. whatever had that driving beat or made you want to ''jump around' ha ha
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chilenazo7 2 years ago
What about it? CAMPESINAZO...
alexandertinjaca 2 years ago
Chilenazo comemierda, maricon sos vos...
alexandertinjaca 2 years ago
Bowie knew how cool Strange was - that's why he appeared in the Ashes to Ashes video.
biddendensue 2 years ago 3
I love this song because takes me back into my past when I was free and everything brand new, Oh, what a time so fab...
alexandertinjaca 2 years ago 8
your present is how you make it. if you are not free and everything is old, that is by your choice. discover more, be free, no matter what the age.
disconnect4 2 years ago
I still would call this the doorstep into the 80ties.
I still love to play the 12 version.
warminator 2 years ago 3
milo sie slucha,mimo 30 lat....
penetrator9 2 years ago
Strange was the Visage`s face, Midge Ure did the the rest.
the13er 2 years ago 5
pretty much in a nutshell, but Steve does insist on mentioning the french vocals in fade to grey were his idea. Plus he gave us billy's, and blitz. BLITZ. he gave us blitz. he was even cooler than bowie.imho
lonchecaliente 2 years ago 2
@the13er yes, with a little help from one William Currie........
dreamyyak 2 years ago
una delas mejores canciones techno compuestas para los amantes de visage desaparecida pero que siempre estra en nuestros corazones, por cierto tengo este vinilo lo guardo como un tesoro gracias steve
javitecno 2 years ago
I loved that song and the video years ago, still like it. (: One of the best Visage songs.
Doriana58 2 years ago
visage's best song, raw and powerful...
MrRocamorra 2 years ago
I still have this album on vinyl! their use of the synthesizers was innovative (ahead of its time).. now it sounds kinda cheesy but alot better than the garbage out today! I even thought the clothes were cool ... at the time, heehe
sheppytim 2 years ago 5
and they think the indie crap videos are original ...
kobraxskarlata 2 years ago
Film is not obsolete, WTF are you talking about?
BooksMusic 2 years ago 4
@ 1:15 the guy on the far right i believe is Rusty Egan, the co-creator of The Blitz club along with Steve Strange
TrainmasterCurt 2 years ago
yep...am pretty sure Rusty is still DJing in East London (shoreditch??) ...
amsterdammed71 2 years ago
This is probably the best real video I have seen in the last two years on YouTube - brilliant!
raymondfurley 2 years ago 3
They actually watched their own videos? ;^)
NuGanjaTron 2 years ago
Not too far from Ultravox' Astradyne on the Vienna album in parts. I think the whole band joined in on this track?!
thenavajoknow 2 years ago 4
Yeah, well we know that Visage was Midges baby, and Ultravox played a heavy part, though I suppose as an image Steve Strange was pretty cutting edge at the time.
wildenfree 2 years ago
this makes me realise how bad a lot of music is today
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dot4design 1 year ago
Endgeil! Super zeitlose Musik!
bermudas1964 2 years ago
Best part of this song is Midge Ure on the chorus. His voice elevates the song. Bet that's him on guitar, too.
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starrygal07 2 years ago
The thing i love about 80s music...it never gets old!
I wasnt even born in the 80s, and i prefer 80s music over a lot of modern music!
I adore 80s fashion...its so original, and completely insane, but so amazing!
Go the 80s!=]
starrygal07 2 years ago 12
oh my gosh i completely agree with you. i wasnt born in the 80's either but I wish I was! x
StarringHilary 2 years ago 2
I know=]
80s is like the best era! The fashion is just so awesome! (Very individual) and the music is really really amazing!
I think tbh, that 80s music kind of brought everyone together! Because now you have so many different types of music, and people do argue over it! But in the 80s the music is for everyone!
And it was just the best type of music, and its just awesome that everyone of any age can love 80s music no matter how old it is!=D
starrygal07 2 years ago 3
i know what you mean. if you listen to a certain type of music nowadays your classed as a chav or an emo or whatever and it's just stupid. whereas 80's music, they had none of this sterotyping going on.
80's music will always be the best music. x
StarringHilary 2 years ago
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Exactly what I mean!=]
starrygal07 2 years ago
Hate to burst your bubble but...... nah! In the 80s you had Teds, Punks, Skinheads, New Romantics, Rastas...and with a few exceptions, everyone hated each other's guts and there was actually a damn sight more violence than today. Trust me...I was born in the 70s so I'm ancient enough to remember. :D Actually just believe me! lol Don't "trust" me...never trust anyone over 30. :D
AlfrescoBulimia 2 years ago
great era abd great album wish john mccegoh would have done more with them
effigyofflesh 2 years ago
yeah this shit is fucking bad ass!! Anvil is another really cool song of theirs
henryvamp 2 years ago 3
The white outfit on the runway at 3:09 and 3:10 is just so immaculately FANTASTIQUE and so CHIC *
I adore Visage, one of THE most innovative and experimental outfits to come out of the magical Early 80s. 1979 to 1985 period is just SO special. Music with edge, unstopable ideas, creativity, vibe, technology matched with stunning visuals and a lovely escape from the the doom and gloom of horrible reality ...
nouveauxdecadence 2 years ago 6
So hard to get clothes and outfits like that these days. It's sooo... creative and magnificent.
puppylover4ever 2 years ago 3
love this song. visage were a very influential band (albeit only a studio collaboration). they knocked out some very memorable songs, that still sound good today.
RandyJedi1919 2 years ago
Anyone that remembers Visage should know that they certainly weren't just known for Fade to Grey
lyn10807 2 years ago
Steve Strange certainly did ride on the back of Billie (Tandoori) Currie and Midge(t Gem) Ure. But they soon put a stop to it when he started refusing to get off. However Strange really was and still is the face of British Late Seventies Style .... albeit - a celebrity-hairdresser, booze-addled, substance-abused, swig faced one at that ....
TheFartGallery 2 years ago
Steve Strange had some interesting ideas and illusion... great introductions.
Many collaborate and are great to impliment some stage presense for artists. Many times new bands do not have their style developed early on, and creatives such as these really bring things aboat. These help to bring a diversive croud of listeners but help promote the impact of a bands music while the bands writer & musicians reach out to their fans.
TriumVirateABAP 2 years ago
I dont know about you but I think film is the coolest format you could make a video in. It looks so classy. It certanily looks better than most of the digital video type grains. Awesome song!!
SynthWho 2 years ago
wow --- i never knew they made a video for this.
Excellent, thanks a lot.
I loved to hear it again :)
progress2007 2 years ago
Style and substance!!! You don't find the two together in today's "scene".
chalklava 2 years ago 2
I miss music like this!
themainthing1974 2 years ago 2
Magazine, Rich Kids, Ultravox - members come together with a young singer called Steve Strange as "Visage" - a very European sound (o;
hairycub69 2 years ago
emories of Camden Place (owned and run by Steve Strange) Make up, weird clothes and mascara running, and that was just the blokes.. Visage were well ahead of their time but troubled by legal battles and Steve's drug problem. I hated the way the music press condemned him but sucked up to Boy George. Anyway still have all their vinyls including 12". My fave is The Horseman.. Ure, Egan and Currie are geniuses and the videos have that "vienna" touch.
stevecrt401 2 years ago 3
I didnt know he owned that. I used to go Camden but it was in the 89-90's and it was all ACID
lilandoz 2 years ago
I was around then started secondary school what a great era, painted my face but too young to go to Blitz. New Romantic era the best ever 1979/1984 too brief special era, Once 85 came it ended.
nwlman 2 years ago 2
Yes, it ended to quick.. The milestone sounds for me were Floyd's - Brick in the Wall, Specials - Gangsters & Visage - Fade to Grey, then, something terrible happened, it came from the dark side it was evil (sorry I can't talk about it I'm so traumatized) Actually I can, it was sodding Stock, Aitken and flaming Waterman churning out rubbish from their so called Hit factory (notice the "S" is missing from somewhere).. I will now go and build a time machine to prevent their birth, wish me luck.
stevecrt401 2 years ago 2
i was born well too late. (nineties.) :'(. thanks mum. lool joking. love visage & steve strange is - just amazing.
StarringHilary 2 years ago
stylish and ice cool video and fresh sounding music.
Ghorkhun 2 years ago 2
cool song!
villesangel69 2 years ago
classic...
BOYCOTTLETTERMAN 2 years ago
I want to o back in time, DAMN IT!!
jessi1971 2 years ago 6
I can remember dancing to the 12" of this at Helden on a Thursday night at the Camden Palace, in N London, back in the early 80's. Rusty and Colin Favor on the decks. What a track and what a time for music and fashion. Whally wierd, in the video doing what he does best, posing, (badly). Full credit to Midge for this track, the Simmons drumming is unreal..
ilbangers40 2 years ago 2
I think it should be pointed out that the underlying force behind Visage were Billy Currie and Midge Ure. Egan and Strange purely roade on the backs of their talent
ilbangers40 2 years ago
Steve Strange... the catalyst of the new romantic scene was my inspiration in the early 80's.Next to Pete Burns.this video and song is great! I especially love the bass sound on the "12"in. version.Ultravox did a good job with Visage.
queenroyalty323 2 years ago 2
Midge Ure is one of the most underrated musicians ever.
Spleen65 2 years ago 6
What a wonderful time the 80s were for music. Glad that I was able to experience it first-hand. Damn, I feel old. LOL
martinihoudini 3 years ago 2
thats Phil Bloomberg from the Polecats, Jacquie o'sullivan from Shillelagh Sisters/Bananarama and Jo Hargreaves from something or other......
danielhartscreen 3 years ago
Visage sounds as good today as they did back when they were recording.
Vinylized 3 years ago 4
Where have the 80's gone...
BartManNL 3 years ago
About 30 years ago.
Menkha 3 years ago
Some would say they are making a return...
SynthWho 3 years ago 2
definitely a return to the 80's has been for a while. listen to "electro" thats happening right now. oh! look up Kavinsky - The Cruiser.
CrazyUncleCarl 3 years ago
This clip is brilliant
taxiclub90 3 years ago 2
love the track great midge and the gang
trousersnake12000 3 years ago
midge ure is very unnoticed. brilliant musician. going to see ultravox in april.
dermotoblong 3 years ago
I saw this on The old whistle test and had to buy the album.
Yahatacookie 3 years ago
Sorry that should be The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC 2).
Yahatacookie 3 years ago
Midge is the man. Steve Strange is the Visage man!
Cougari72 3 years ago
You can really hear that ultravox sound in this track! Gotta love Midge Ure!
sotonsmut 3 years ago 4
I thought I was tha only one who thought that eventhough many people still think that this WAS UltravoX !! I just wish music of today could be like this!! Visage among many of my favorites had that sound that made u HAVE to buy tha album!
thuggin83 3 years ago
make up make up and fantastic close!!!!!! is great to look different from each other ......now every one look the same.....but is the fashon .....
fiesta00 3 years ago
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idiot posers
arafat76 3 years ago
@ arafat76, fuck off you pleb wanker
DerVampyrEngel 3 years ago 10
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may a rain of shit cover your usless body and let you die in suffocation. U rot forever, scum
arafat76 3 years ago
arafat76 i dont see you making any better music.
J0HNH0P 3 years ago 2
arafat76, go and fuck your whore of a mother neither are you, you skunkfucking pleb wanker, you don't like Visge then fuck off to the shitty pleb music your crawling lice ridden bubonic plague ridden carcass can handle ratfucker
DerVampyrEngel 3 years ago
written by midge ure i believe.
WIMPOLE 3 years ago 4
great track.. good quality sound too! thanks for posting.
thregar 3 years ago 4
fantastic playback on sound. well done.
synthetikhuman 3 years ago 3
Man This is Soooo cool almost 30 years and this song still kicks ass! I still have the 12" single!!
killerpop00 3 years ago 4
Blitz! Damn they should bring it back.
HarijukuMindf0ck 3 years ago 3
NO! Leave as a good memory, if we bring back the Blitz club it'll be overrun with Plastic Parisites before we know it!
kingcroak 3 years ago