@MetalMommaKy78 the last I heard they Tom and Allanah have broken up. :-( Allanah designs furniture now and goes by another name. I can't recall it at the moment. And Tom records music now with a group called International Observer
new wave, no wave, puke wave . . . who cares, early eighties synth pop . . . . nice enough at the time but just as disposable as Britney and the Bieber boy . . . . they weren't Kraftwerk not to mention Joy Division /New Order . . . well balanced comment RainPoetry person
The Thompson Twins will live on forever as one of the greatest 80's bands to hit the Top 40 charts. The 80's will never die. That decade was incredible and touched so many in different ways. I was so fortunate to be teenager in during those years. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
It is 2AM on the 14th of December and GOOD HOPE STILL SUCKS! Note to self: chemtrailing begins at Good Hope High at 8AM...oh good just in time for homeroom. BOO-YAH..
i am so lucky i grew up in the 70 and 80s before cell phones were fuckin up our kids brain cells and senses. i dare the idiots out there of any age to stop texting for a minute. how about when your in the cross walk with your baby in rush hour traffic. lets start there and another thing. i dont think my marriage could have survived with all this constant communication. i mean shit,talk to you when i get home, not every five minutes till we see each other again.
LOVE THIS SONG...AND THE ERA IT REPRESENTED...THE 80'S WERE A GREAT TIME TO BE YOUNG...AHHH...IF ONLY WE HAD TIME MACHINES...I'D GO BACK AND NEVER GO FORWARD AGAIN
These three looked like a much prettier more mature-looking Cyndi Lauper, a much less goth-looking Robert Smith from the Cure and a shorter Yannick Noah (French Open tennis champion).
The "three" English dynamos called the Thompson Twins swept through the States in the 80's with a sound and style that made New Wave mainstream. It set the bar for artists like Depeche Mode, Morrissey and New Order. TT were like the manuscripts of New Wave for the 1980's by which every other group copied in some form or greatly benefitted from in their time.
@happyhoman Are you saying the great artists Depeche Mode and Morrissey, e.t.c. aren't as deserving of our respect as TT should be, one root of their inspiration?
Just trying to decipher the purpose of your comment.
@happyhoman New Order is not New Wave. Depeche's (very) early stuff could qualify as New Wave, but they developed in a very different direction from Thompson Twins. Morrissey and the Smiths are not New Wave at all, and quite different from all the other artists mentioned. Thompsons Twins were always the most mainstream (in the U.S.) and more overtly 'pop' than all the above mentioned artists, who were considered alternative.
@happyhoman I would also very strongly disagree that the Thompson Twins were the "manuscripts" for those bands, which have all have very different and unique sounds. :) Having said that, TT were brilliant in their own right.
@happyhoman Very well stated indeed! For, along with the Talking Heads, The Cars, Devo, Talk Talk & Gary Numan these guys were definitely one of the Founding Fathers of New Wave music, establishing, as you wrote, these well defined, vibrant & largely synthesizer driven templates for all others to build upon! Cutting edge pioneers indeed!!!
@mattison007 Agreed. Thompson Twins were one of my favorites (though I never cared for Doctor Doctor and Hold Me Now). I saw them in concert in 1985 (with OMD opening!). But they had no influence on how Depeche Mode, New Order or Morrissey (the Smiths, really) came about. Thompson Twins may be New Wave, but those other three are most certainly not.
@mattison007 He didn't say that TT influenced DM, Morrissey and NO. He said that the TT "set the bar" for them, and the rest of the new wave bands of the 80's.
@mattison007 And I can't believe you got out of a nap to check a message you received from YouTube. And you're talking shit on me?? Sounds like you need to get a life!
CCCCCCCRRRRRRAAAAAAPPPPPP SONG IM GLAD NO MORE THOMPSON TWINS GOD IS GOOD HE GOT RID OF THAT SHOWER OF WASTERS TIME AND FRESH AIR WAS WASTED ON THEM THINGS
@39manpat fuck off you drunk Irish fag....Thompson were trail blazers...but then you wouldn't know that 'cause what has come out of Ireland? U2? Is that the best you got?
this is brilliant and much underatted song, the Thompson Twins shoulv've carried on longer, but Music Industry got too Greed obsessed and Simon Cowell and the likes took over.
What yr was this? Born in'81 but with a sister 11 yrs older I remember all of these ...bring back the 80's! A time of good beats,melodies, individualism ....and no charts crammed full of crappy r&b!
Great music from a great time, one of the best from the 80's, saw them opening for the Police. Catchy tunes, great keyboards (Thomas Dolby played on some of their records,) and what about their visual style. Too bad they are not interested in getting back together.
I'm so glad that I was a sexy teen in the 80's, when awesome songs like these were popular. It was such a fun time. The music today is so lacking. It's sad.
@FashionedUp You call today monotunous songs music ... :p ... I'm too glad I was a teen in the 80s ... ppl seemed friendler back then, even strangers.
Thompson Twins and King For A Day. A mythology of Britain, what would you do, if you were king for a day? These singers would give it all away. Me, I dream of being among the Constitutional Fathers of the United States, I want more amendments guaranteeing the American Way of Life in liberty and freedom: I want an amendment that says the electoral votes shall report to Congress the actual vote of each electoral district, the States cannot take it away (right to vote is very important): Dreams.
See, there's this thing called the Internet, where crazy people can post their nonsensical rantings in virtual anonymity. All the kids are talking about it on their text phones.
(P.S.--don't you love it when you get a YouTube response months after your original post. I'll bet you get this and say to yourself, "Hey yeah, that was the day I posted something on the Thompson Twins video." Anyway, i hope this message finds you well.)
This stuff just sustains and enlivens my soul. So, so, so, glad I lived in the 80's. Best time of my life - and it taught me we can dance beneath the mushroom cloud, joyously.
Yo Marsha doll....no i'm NOT the "next big thing"...i'm too old for that... far beyond the years that allow that illusion to take over one's daily life... i love my family... i love ordinary things too... i just DO get very excited... ya know... and prolly will should i get "more"... of "you"... happy excited energy ... i am very expressive is all... give me YOUR heat and you'll get mine right back all over you (XOXO)
Guys... NEVER hesitate to tell a gal how you feel about her... you may not win her, but at least you tried. And one day something will remind her of you, and on that day you will win....
@CollectorOfMusic Ye I love the twins too.Was a fan, still am.Joined their fan club in the 80's only to be told they were about to close!! One regret I had was not to see them play live.Wouldn't it be great if they did a reunion tour.Good luck mate.
@CollectorOfMusic I totally agree with your comment on the twins.I'm still a fan too.I always regret not seeing them live.Let's hope they get back for a reunion tour at some stage.
eheino99,..you are such a dork,..these three met in the underground playing for pennies and smiles,.then they grew and became,..so shut up and leave the real success stories alone,..pick on,..Paula abdule or something,..lol
They got the name from the inept detectives the Thompson twins from Tintin. The white guy was called Tom Bialey, the woman Alannah Currie and the gay black dude was Joe Leeway, who was half Irish and half Nigerian.
I guess that "UK" world view made me feel a bit closer to what inspired alot of great 80s music as opposed to my white but American friends whom had no real connection to England but a fake accent and Victorian settings. But at any rate lots of incredible music came out of the UK in that time, but now u got Brits taking inspiration from American rappers, so i guess the tables have turned.
This is a song you randomly get in your head one day to enjoy it allover again. Not sure if you can do that with Myley Cyrus. I remember being a kid in the 80s and was so enamored or "enamoured" with everything British back in those days. It just so happens that my 'rents came from a British colony so I got to experience first hand what its like to wake up and see British spellings, government, people and social order everywhere.
I was a teen when this came out. This was my generation's Motown. I agree with Aldernagon3: there was a brief flurry of good music in the 1990's, but overall music was better in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. 1987 was the end: Information Society's "Pure Energy" was the final good song.
Reason: musicians are musicians and should look like musicians, not models. MTV demanded musicians look like models, then stopped playing music altogether. MODELS CAN'T MAKE MUSIC. MUSICIANS DO.
I am 41 and am a Gen X-er. Maybe to those who like guitar-based music, grunge bands were interesting, but speaking for those of us who were into the keyboard-based new wave/new romantic movement The Thompson Twins were part of, Information Society's "Tell Me What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)" in 1987 was very much the last good song. No one I know my age who was a waver during this era enjoyed the grunge era that followed. It was nearly as unbearable as music is today, as I recall.
The reason music today sounds the way it does is simple: music does not come out of reality stars or models; it comes from musicians - but musicians are no longer allowed on music television.
In the late 1980's, corporate labels and networks, run by Baby Boomers, realized new wave often criticized corporatism and fascism, and that people were listening to those lyrics. Thus new wave had to be replaced. REM and Guns n Roses were quickly promoted as the next wave.
The Boomers were certain Gen X would fall right in line and the majority of us would embrace guitar-based music with nonspecific subject matter and hedonism as lyrics, but when Gen X rejected it, the Boomers responded with contempt:
1) New wave was completely removed from U.S. radio stations and replaced with grunge, spearheaded mainly by Kurt Cobain, whom corporate America thought they could manipulate. When Cobain became difficult in this regard, he conveniently died and was made a poster.
While Cobain's poster sold, Michael Stipe was also discovered to be less pliant than the labels and radio stations liked. His sexuality was soon outed, cutting fan numbers in half and silencing REM.
2) The Boomers deliberately then skipped over Gen X and began libeling us as "slackers" and "worthless" in their media. They focused their retail eye upon their children, Generation Y, and Hanson, The Spice Girls and Britney Spears were immediately "discovered and promoted".
I personally would rather see Generation X rise up and return pop music to its earlier quality standards. Labels and stations, however, now consider us "old" -- we can't be Photoshopped to look like sexy naked teens, you see -- and we have too much intelligent discourse to say, so we're a threat. It would require a complete culture revolution from the bottom up to "fix" today's music.
Sadly, Gen X will never do it. The torch has passed. Fin.
do u mean to say that music today does not come from musicians but rather reality stars and models- your words seem backwards. If todays music was truly creative, it would have that 80s feel, keeping u on the edge, anxious for the next single or group, however
Very Good! Nice song, Good Voices, Wonderful Beat, couldn't ask for any More!! :-)
Frspirit89 9 months ago
It seems like yesterday I was watching this on MTV.
Now I can't watch MTV.
Things change.
Thanks for posting
Bobby....
palonejr 9 months ago
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この曲はトンプソンツインズの数あるなかでも
すごい名曲だと自分は思います１３歳で聴いてる人いるのかな？
MsKumityou 9 months ago
この曲はトンプソンツインズの数あるなかでも
すごい名曲だと自分は思います１３で聴いてる人いるのかな？
MsKumityou 9 months ago
この曲はトンプソンツインズの中でも名曲だと思います！！！
かっこよすぎです！！！
MsKumityou 9 months ago
Yeah, I got some high-end top-dollar electronics laying aroundon the floor. So what?
rutten187 10 months ago
dimond rings...and all those things...they never sparkle like your smile....<3
long
live
thompson
twins!
KPP2008A 10 months ago 2
Awsome 80s song.Postive high energy dance song.That girl is so beautiful.
timdance2 10 months ago
buenos tiempos
cesar72876 11 months ago
Even in our greatest moments. our days are numbered.
gumbyman540 11 months ago
y muchooooo me gusta
frt2422 11 months ago
If I'm not mistaken - the lead singer and that lady had married each other and started a family. I think they live in New Zealand, too.
MetalMommaKy78 11 months ago
@MetalMommaKy78 the last I heard they Tom and Allanah have broken up. :-( Allanah designs furniture now and goes by another name. I can't recall it at the moment. And Tom records music now with a group called International Observer
Dashland13 11 months ago
@Dashland13 Well, that's a shame. At least they made good music together!
MetalMommaKy78 11 months ago
This song is such a feelgood love song that I have to smile. I miss this band.
Shadowdancer21b 1 year ago
Exactly! I've always said that this was a fun video! 31 people don't know how to have fun, though...
sonickchri 1 year ago
When the chocolate guy left, The Thompson Twins just disappeared. Whyy did he leave? I'd like to know.
kja427 1 year ago
The blonde lady lives in New Zealand & has been for a number of years now.. Peace!
OriginalMangereBoy71 1 year ago
I'll match the New Wave music from '81-'86 with the best time you've ever had, and it'll still be more fun.
Blastbarnacle 1 year ago 3
One word fantastic love the twins happy eighties times !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
choc8 1 year ago
new wave, no wave, puke wave . . . who cares, early eighties synth pop . . . . nice enough at the time but just as disposable as Britney and the Bieber boy . . . . they weren't Kraftwerk not to mention Joy Division /New Order . . . well balanced comment RainPoetry person
oldredun 1 year ago
Billboard's #96 song of '86. The Twins hit #8 pop, #13 AC, #35 rock, in the US. How'd they do in the UK? God bless!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
The Thompson Twins will live on forever as one of the greatest 80's bands to hit the Top 40 charts. The 80's will never die. That decade was incredible and touched so many in different ways. I was so fortunate to be teenager in during those years. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
wickedout2010 1 year ago 4
Everybody's with me. GOOD HOPE IS LIKE A CANCER THAT NEEDS TO CUT OUT OR JUST SPRAYED TO DEATH WITH SOME MONSANTO PESTICIDE.
happyhoman 1 year ago
It is 2AM on the 14th of December and GOOD HOPE STILL SUCKS! Note to self: chemtrailing begins at Good Hope High at 8AM...oh good just in time for homeroom. BOO-YAH..
happyhoman 1 year ago
que hermosa época
92461528 1 year ago
Completely Fully Sick :-)
rcafqz 1 year ago
i LOVE this song! :D
babsygirl1 1 year ago
i am so lucky i grew up in the 70 and 80s before cell phones were fuckin up our kids brain cells and senses. i dare the idiots out there of any age to stop texting for a minute. how about when your in the cross walk with your baby in rush hour traffic. lets start there and another thing. i dont think my marriage could have survived with all this constant communication. i mean shit,talk to you when i get home, not every five minutes till we see each other again.
babsygirl1 1 year ago 6
@babsygirl1 i'm right there with you.
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MrEtagllothserf 1 year ago
LOVE THIS SONG...AND THE ERA IT REPRESENTED...THE 80'S WERE A GREAT TIME TO BE YOUNG...AHHH...IF ONLY WE HAD TIME MACHINES...I'D GO BACK AND NEVER GO FORWARD AGAIN
Meschell113 1 year ago 4
@Meschell113 I am so with you!
flightcentre 1 year ago
It's a shame the 80's ever ended.
timeforachange1000 1 year ago 3
@timeforachange1000 The closthes were pretty bad... Spandex and Neon Colors just had to go away!
TVfanfanatic 1 year ago
@TVfanfanatic Spandex could be hot!!
timeforachange1000 1 year ago
@TVfanfanatic hey spandex is hot lol. just not on everyone haha jk
JasonLizForever 1 year ago
These three looked like a much prettier more mature-looking Cyndi Lauper, a much less goth-looking Robert Smith from the Cure and a shorter Yannick Noah (French Open tennis champion).
happyhoman 1 year ago
I love this song! Love the Thompson Twins! BRING BACK THE 80'S!!!!
TheRiffMaster78 1 year ago
The "three" English dynamos called the Thompson Twins swept through the States in the 80's with a sound and style that made New Wave mainstream. It set the bar for artists like Depeche Mode, Morrissey and New Order. TT were like the manuscripts of New Wave for the 1980's by which every other group copied in some form or greatly benefitted from in their time.
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@happyhoman Are you saying the great artists Depeche Mode and Morrissey, e.t.c. aren't as deserving of our respect as TT should be, one root of their inspiration?
Just trying to decipher the purpose of your comment.
MrEtagllothserf 1 year ago
@happyhoman So well said.
flightcentre 1 year ago
@happyhoman New Order is not New Wave. Depeche's (very) early stuff could qualify as New Wave, but they developed in a very different direction from Thompson Twins. Morrissey and the Smiths are not New Wave at all, and quite different from all the other artists mentioned. Thompsons Twins were always the most mainstream (in the U.S.) and more overtly 'pop' than all the above mentioned artists, who were considered alternative.
RainPoetry 1 year ago
@happyhoman I would also very strongly disagree that the Thompson Twins were the "manuscripts" for those bands, which have all have very different and unique sounds. :) Having said that, TT were brilliant in their own right.
RainPoetry 1 year ago 2
@happyhoman Very well stated indeed! For, along with the Talking Heads, The Cars, Devo, Talk Talk & Gary Numan these guys were definitely one of the Founding Fathers of New Wave music, establishing, as you wrote, these well defined, vibrant & largely synthesizer driven templates for all others to build upon! Cutting edge pioneers indeed!!!
sxlfkta 11 months ago
@happyhoman ...... sorry, but DM, Morrissey, and New Order were not influenced by them, though I love this song
mattison007 11 months ago
@mattison007 Agreed. Thompson Twins were one of my favorites (though I never cared for Doctor Doctor and Hold Me Now). I saw them in concert in 1985 (with OMD opening!). But they had no influence on how Depeche Mode, New Order or Morrissey (the Smiths, really) came about. Thompson Twins may be New Wave, but those other three are most certainly not.
mobycat 10 months ago
@mattison007 He didn't say that TT influenced DM, Morrissey and NO. He said that the TT "set the bar" for them, and the rest of the new wave bands of the 80's.
n6vhf 9 months ago
@n6vhf I cant believe you got me out of a nap just to tell me that. Get a job! Or a better lover.
mattison007 9 months ago
@mattison007 And I can't believe you got out of a nap to check a message you received from YouTube. And you're talking shit on me?? Sounds like you need to get a life!
n6vhf 9 months ago
i want to cry
javakenzo 1 year ago
CCCCCCCRRRRRRAAAAAAPPPPPP SONG IM GLAD NO MORE THOMPSON TWINS GOD IS GOOD HE GOT RID OF THAT SHOWER OF WASTERS TIME AND FRESH AIR WAS WASTED ON THEM THINGS
39manpat 1 year ago
@39manpat fuck off you drunk Irish fag....Thompson were trail blazers...but then you wouldn't know that 'cause what has come out of Ireland? U2? Is that the best you got?
Starbuckfsd 1 year ago
@Starbuckfsd : Hey, they got Westlife as well!
belpernews 11 months ago
CCCCCCCRRRRRRAAAAAAPPPPPP SONG IM GLAD NO MORE THOMPSON TWINS GOD IS GOOD HE GOT RID OF THAT SHOWER OF WASTERS
39manpat 1 year ago
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39manpat 1 year ago
fame only satisfies you for a while
GriefTourist 1 year ago
These was the Days
dhardge100 1 year ago 2
this is brilliant and much underatted song, the Thompson Twins shoulv've carried on longer, but Music Industry got too Greed obsessed and Simon Cowell and the likes took over.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
The last video with Joe Leeway was their follow up called "revolution" which did not chart in the US but hit #56 in the UK.
jameshagan75 1 year ago
Hey....was that a 386 cpu unit.?@ 1:40!
Love the 80s....can we return Obama and get the 80s back.
LRjohn65 1 year ago
@LRjohn65 I suppose you want to bring back Reagan? That's one big part of the 80s I am glad is gone.
humboldtus 1 year ago
Just a fun song!!
ibstyln1 1 year ago 17
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oh boy!! college days memories from late 1985!
sbtrnfla 1 year ago
oh boy!! college days memories from late 1985
sbtrnfla 1 year ago 2
@sbtrnfla Shit load of coke huh?? Hell yea!!
Brando1274 1 year ago
I love this video it is one of my favorites songs of all time
edburrocaled 1 year ago 2
Hi there, I'm pretty sure they started off with seven, ended with two, no relations!
Cheers, Chris.
sodneic 1 year ago
I had never noticed before how much Tom Bailey looks like John Taylor. Have they ever been seen together?
NMPagan 1 year ago
@NMPagan John Taylor is Much taller...lol but ya some........similarities
Griff1319 1 year ago
This song reminds me of my single, military days overseas, lots of fun !!!!
e081194eng 1 year ago
80's forever, baby! love the hair, love the music, love the sound. they just don't make it like they used to! :(
justicevue 1 year ago
i used to love singing this song to Jesus Christ. What a great song and sound.
skot424 1 year ago
i like the song who killed the clown or you killed the clown. wish i could find that song on youtube
babsygirl1 1 year ago
i like the song.....i think its called who killed the clown or who killed the clown. i wish i could find this on youtube
babsygirl1 1 year ago
i love this song. it is so cute!!!!!
babsygirl1 1 year ago
super video for all.
michaux6000 1 year ago
Apparently she is a spitter. (1:58)
beathatazz 1 year ago
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beathatazz 1 year ago
Did you see the Jurasic LAPTOP in this video? My fucking God!
It feels like it was only yesterday...... Times flies!
westpalmbeach5 1 year ago
@westpalmbeach5 That's not a Jurassic laptop. It's barely even a Jurassic desktop. That's a terminal to access a mainframe.
kpghardie25 1 year ago
That's it! Stop looking for the best song of Thompson Twins.......
This one is that one!
I bet a lot of you will agree!
westpalmbeach5 1 year ago 2
What yr was this? Born in'81 but with a sister 11 yrs older I remember all of these ...bring back the 80's! A time of good beats,melodies, individualism ....and no charts crammed full of crappy r&b!
jesseavenue 1 year ago 2
@jesseavenue I will say 1985
MrDRUID27 1 year ago
Exquisito Tema. 10 Puntos!
amtq2010 1 year ago
will always remind me of decorating for Grad......
mccoobs 1 year ago
Great music from a great time, one of the best from the 80's, saw them opening for the Police. Catchy tunes, great keyboards (Thomas Dolby played on some of their records,) and what about their visual style. Too bad they are not interested in getting back together.
johnhpo 1 year ago
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johnhpo 1 year ago
This is better than the official Sony music upload..
AussieRoadshow 1 year ago
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e081194eng 1 year ago
@e081194eng duam is a thing that comes out of yor tube.
yoktor 1 year ago
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e081194eng 1 year ago
Are you SURE they aren't twins? lol!
arn0ldaar0n 1 year ago
I wanna king oops I mean queen!!!!! luv this
TheTrinigirl15 1 year ago
The most sincere declaration of love in a song I have ever heard. Absolutely wonderful.
tazie45 1 year ago
I'm so glad that I was a sexy teen in the 80's, when awesome songs like these were popular. It was such a fun time. The music today is so lacking. It's sad.
FashionedUp 1 year ago
@FashionedUp You call today monotunous songs music ... :p ... I'm too glad I was a teen in the 80s ... ppl seemed friendler back then, even strangers.
robfergusonjr 1 year ago
What a tune. Takes me back. A great band.
toplad73 1 year ago
Thompson Twins and King For A Day. A mythology of Britain, what would you do, if you were king for a day? These singers would give it all away. Me, I dream of being among the Constitutional Fathers of the United States, I want more amendments guaranteeing the American Way of Life in liberty and freedom: I want an amendment that says the electoral votes shall report to Congress the actual vote of each electoral district, the States cannot take it away (right to vote is very important): Dreams.
WOWJBEOWULF 1 year ago
@WOWJBEOWULF what in the world does this have to do with the video?
massguardsman 1 year ago
@massguardsman
See, there's this thing called the Internet, where crazy people can post their nonsensical rantings in virtual anonymity. All the kids are talking about it on their text phones.
(P.S.--don't you love it when you get a YouTube response months after your original post. I'll bet you get this and say to yourself, "Hey yeah, that was the day I posted something on the Thompson Twins video." Anyway, i hope this message finds you well.)
stryker1121 1 year ago
I love how she's rockin the pre laptop lol
SkankExpose 1 year ago
This stuff just sustains and enlivens my soul. So, so, so, glad I lived in the 80's. Best time of my life - and it taught me we can dance beneath the mushroom cloud, joyously.
TomAnderson19 1 year ago
@TomAnderson19
Take a look on my channel and you go back to the eighties!!!!
Thanks....
dot4design 1 year ago
Hit #8 pop, #13 AC. #35 rock in the US (Billboard). How'd it do in the UK? God bless!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
I love this band the 80 were da best i wish i could go back in time
TheLuis786 1 year ago
@TheLuis786
Go back in time and take a visit at my channel!!!!
Thanks!!!!
dot4design 1 year ago
Just lovin' how all the 80 music videos on Utube are getting all the praise they deserve.
YAAUFA 1 year ago
@YAAUFA
More ´80´s videos on my channel...Take a look!!!!
Thanks....
dot4design 1 year ago
This band rocks!
rainerius 1 year ago
didnt care for babble either
jjiiiivii 1 year ago
how about a song called queen for a day??lol i love the thompson twins
barbj7121 1 year ago
This was the very first tune I heard from this interesting group way back! Good song!
JoeyMars1 1 year ago
Yo Marsha doll....no i'm NOT the "next big thing"...i'm too old for that... far beyond the years that allow that illusion to take over one's daily life... i love my family... i love ordinary things too... i just DO get very excited... ya know... and prolly will should i get "more"... of "you"... happy excited energy ... i am very expressive is all... give me YOUR heat and you'll get mine right back all over you (XOXO)
XOX..... X
JeSuisMonAmiPourTu 1 year ago
Guys... NEVER hesitate to tell a gal how you feel about her... you may not win her, but at least you tried. And one day something will remind her of you, and on that day you will win....
mccoobs 1 year ago
The thompson twins take me back to my child hood days and they still sound good everytime i listen to them.
MsSarah1001 1 year ago 2
This band takes you right back to the eighties and makes you feel good again.
mikecosgrove 1 year ago 2
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CollectorOfMusic 1 year ago 45
@CollectorOfMusic international observer is cool
jjiiiivii 1 year ago
@CollectorOfMusic Ye I love the twins too.Was a fan, still am.Joined their fan club in the 80's only to be told they were about to close!! One regret I had was not to see them play live.Wouldn't it be great if they did a reunion tour.Good luck mate.
MrLucyball 1 year ago
@CollectorOfMusic I totally agree with your comment on the twins.I'm still a fan too.I always regret not seeing them live.Let's hope they get back for a reunion tour at some stage.
MrLucyball 1 year ago
one of the best awesome bands of the 80's!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tom bailey is so hot!!!!
jletofan333 1 year ago
They should be called,"The Thompson Quadruplets!" CUZ they're LIKE DOUBLY GOOD!******
earldog1 1 year ago
Still the best 80's band....
TheDiamondtwins 1 year ago
one of my favorites from the 80's. was always destined to be a classic, and I love the way she spits the pearls out of her mouth :)
jbirdbombs 1 year ago
I used to have a little robot, just like the one in this vedio, when I was a kid. LOL!!!
LaserDarkDX 1 year ago
eheino99,..you are such a dork,..these three met in the underground playing for pennies and smiles,.then they grew and became,..so shut up and leave the real success stories alone,..pick on,..Paula abdule or something,..lol
jagxjsc12 1 year ago
@jagxjsc12 You don't get the joke? What a dork! LOL.
eheino99 1 year ago
My favorite TT song. British "New Wave" was so cool. Too bad there are a lot of haters, both older and younger, than the original fans.
humboldtus 1 year ago
good band in the time least not copyed like now
lonewolf4108 1 year ago
It's hard to believe that Boris Williams formerly of the Cure used to be their live drummer.
darkpoet25 1 year ago
feel bad for the black guy
shadowcg2 1 year ago
You can live now and still enjoy nostalgia! I'm entering my late 30s and have missed my '80s tunes for nearly the last 20 years!
kris6694 1 year ago
Awesome!!!
DerVeet 1 year ago 2
dont mis teenage years...live now!!
valmhont 1 year ago
another great 80s song. Boy i miss those teenage years!
shuyuyu 1 year ago 7
None of them have the last name of Thompson, none of them are twins and they had a hit song called Lies. Go figure...
XMLarry 1 year ago
I can tell people generally think you're a dickwad.
Do some research twit.
You might come up with some info about the bands influence and history
jonnytt1 1 year ago
They got the name from the inept detectives the Thompson twins from Tintin. The white guy was called Tom Bialey, the woman Alannah Currie and the gay black dude was Joe Leeway, who was half Irish and half Nigerian.
princette 1 year ago
@princette Joe lives in LA now working as a theripist - I emailed him last year and was real suprised to get a response. Cool guy!
traywilson 1 year ago
This was a great song back then, too bad the video is so lame haha!
KatsPurr 1 year ago
It's the mid 80's ya fackn twirp
jonnytt1 1 year ago
was trite and formulaic, yet for all that, twas pure crustaline perfection.....
necarum 1 year ago
I love it, if its from the 80s and has synthesisers and convincing vocals, I will listen to it.
princette 1 year ago
Hit #8 in Billboard. How'd it do in the UK?
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
number 22
Brickwall2468 1 year ago
...and I love the lyrics too...
BlackMytilus 1 year ago
i have also heard that none of them are called Thompson
footwearfish 2 years ago
After much study of this video, I have come to the conclusion that these three people are not twins.
eheino99 2 years ago 75
Nice!!!
dwhubenak 1 year ago
@eheino99 LOL =)
OMGEHEHELOLz 1 year ago
@eheino99
What was your first clue Sherlock holmes.
happymike44 1 year ago
@eheino99 XD it was the first thing that came to my mind when i discovered this band
sonnetxi 1 year ago
lets give you the genius award this year.
asianpussy90210 1 year ago
@eheino99 ;-)
jayci68 1 year ago
@eheino99
" Thompson Twins " are the 2 geezers in the comic book " Les adventures de Tintin ".. :-)
alexandranummerett 1 year ago
@eheino99
Maybe they're triplets! LOL!
AncalaMan 1 year ago
@eheino99 visit to opticians not needed then?
technoturnip1 1 year ago
@eheino99 ..... that was funny :O)
jaycenwise 1 year ago
@eheino99 lol
KershawNik 1 year ago
@eheino99 Wow, really?
TheBigPicProductions 1 year ago
My hair hasn't had bangs since the 80's. Well, I don't have that much hair left anyways if I wanted to do it again. :(
nismoblue 2 years ago 2
This album was produced by the legendary Nile Rodgers
porcaro75 2 years ago
Miss this style of music!
octoysruskid 2 years ago 5
Still rocks after all these years !!!!
007isagent99 2 years ago 18
I guess that "UK" world view made me feel a bit closer to what inspired alot of great 80s music as opposed to my white but American friends whom had no real connection to England but a fake accent and Victorian settings. But at any rate lots of incredible music came out of the UK in that time, but now u got Brits taking inspiration from American rappers, so i guess the tables have turned.
coolmatterstome 2 years ago
This is a song you randomly get in your head one day to enjoy it allover again. Not sure if you can do that with Myley Cyrus. I remember being a kid in the 80s and was so enamored or "enamoured" with everything British back in those days. It just so happens that my 'rents came from a British colony so I got to experience first hand what its like to wake up and see British spellings, government, people and social order everywhere.
coolmatterstome 2 years ago 3
Be honest, everyone tried to style their hair like that in the 80s.
AussieRoadshow 2 years ago 3
Ah, a great song from a great decade when MTV actually still played music videos. This has made my day.
spiff2268 2 years ago
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raposofan 2 years ago
I was a teen when this came out. This was my generation's Motown. I agree with Aldernagon3: there was a brief flurry of good music in the 1990's, but overall music was better in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. 1987 was the end: Information Society's "Pure Energy" was the final good song.
Reason: musicians are musicians and should look like musicians, not models. MTV demanded musicians look like models, then stopped playing music altogether. MODELS CAN'T MAKE MUSIC. MUSICIANS DO.
raposofan 2 years ago 2
NO! Early 90's was the end of good music. AIC, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, etc. Gen Y still wouldn't have been w/ this genre of music.
Gen X rules!!!!
nismoblue 2 years ago
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raposofan 2 years ago
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I am 41 and am a Gen X-er. Maybe to those who like guitar-based music, grunge bands were interesting, but speaking for those of us who were into the keyboard-based new wave/new romantic movement The Thompson Twins were part of, Information Society's "Tell Me What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)" in 1987 was very much the last good song. No one I know my age who was a waver during this era enjoyed the grunge era that followed. It was nearly as unbearable as music is today, as I recall.
raposofan 2 years ago
The reason music today sounds the way it does is simple: music does not come out of reality stars or models; it comes from musicians - but musicians are no longer allowed on music television.
In the late 1980's, corporate labels and networks, run by Baby Boomers, realized new wave often criticized corporatism and fascism, and that people were listening to those lyrics. Thus new wave had to be replaced. REM and Guns n Roses were quickly promoted as the next wave.
raposofan 2 years ago
The Boomers were certain Gen X would fall right in line and the majority of us would embrace guitar-based music with nonspecific subject matter and hedonism as lyrics, but when Gen X rejected it, the Boomers responded with contempt:
1) New wave was completely removed from U.S. radio stations and replaced with grunge, spearheaded mainly by Kurt Cobain, whom corporate America thought they could manipulate. When Cobain became difficult in this regard, he conveniently died and was made a poster.
raposofan 2 years ago
While Cobain's poster sold, Michael Stipe was also discovered to be less pliant than the labels and radio stations liked. His sexuality was soon outed, cutting fan numbers in half and silencing REM.
2) The Boomers deliberately then skipped over Gen X and began libeling us as "slackers" and "worthless" in their media. They focused their retail eye upon their children, Generation Y, and Hanson, The Spice Girls and Britney Spears were immediately "discovered and promoted".
raposofan 2 years ago
Pop music has circled the drain ever since.
I personally would rather see Generation X rise up and return pop music to its earlier quality standards. Labels and stations, however, now consider us "old" -- we can't be Photoshopped to look like sexy naked teens, you see -- and we have too much intelligent discourse to say, so we're a threat. It would require a complete culture revolution from the bottom up to "fix" today's music.
Sadly, Gen X will never do it. The torch has passed. Fin.
raposofan 2 years ago
do u mean to say that music today does not come from musicians but rather reality stars and models- your words seem backwards. If todays music was truly creative, it would have that 80s feel, keeping u on the edge, anxious for the next single or group, however