Visage - The Damned Don't Cry

[ickleshouse]

I remember that "that style " for the want of a better term was unusual because people took time and dressed well? if anyone gets me?. There was effort in what they did.

Now its just off the shelf stores like super dry and we all see the label so we know, we know. They went there and all dress just like a manakin with the undone boots look.lol they cant do them up on the manakin its too awkward , i asked the one manager. Now........ its fashionable.

[yoenace]

amazing song...not fair enough they are just recalled for that ' fade to grey'

[watzizname]

I loved the way this would flow straight into The Anvil (Night club school) on the album of the same name, my neighbors didn't..

[silvashiva]

amo..................minha infancia!!!



[fotoxx]

Fenomenal song !!!

[adrianberrocal]

2 damet not cry



[madrill666]

One of the best by Visage! Awesome!

[112640769]

Unbeatable! 80's for life :)

[fuckamericanidiot]

i'll give it to him (them, whatever) he has great sounds in his songs at least

[RagePeople87]

de mis canciones favoritas de Visage, extraido del album The Anvil de 1982 me parece que es pura belleza el Beat y la letra es Preciosa, todas las bandas de esa epoca New Wave de Inglaterra marcaron mi vida, Visage,Ultravox,Duran Duran etc... buena musica!!!!!1

[AnyColourTheyLike]

Strange and sad song

[ronyorellana226]

I see all my lonelyness reflected in this song.

[deancook07]

I wish people would stop using the term newromantics,they didn,t give them selves that name.They were just a bunch of about 200 who met at The Blitz,designers,artist,musians etc, then after the press jumped on the band wagon the kids started to copy.Most of the Blitz Crowd had then moved on.

[wallyinwales]

@deancook07 Bullshit it was called New R I didn't hear them cry about the name when it got them notice with their style,music and press. It seems the damned do cry to this day. Bowie etc was dressing in the 70s started it, it was up & down the UK this club never started nothing they were just part of a scene that was happenin everywhere. Pete Burns in Probe (record shop) in Liverpool was dressing way bizzare in the 70s than anything that club could come up with. I remember it all like yesterday

[kirbsnz]

there is definately Duran duran influance here

[deancook07]

@kirbsnz don,t think so ,Duran said they were Newromantics like idiots,the press used the term newromantics 1st.Visage had thier own sound which Midge and Billy used with the new Ultravox line up ie Midge on vocals.Visage were a collective of people like Rusty the Blitz dj, Midge and Billy from Ultravox, and Barry Adamson,Dave formula,John Mcgeogh of Magazine,then later Steve Barnacle who took over on bass, And Steve strange on vocals some times shared with midge in the early set up.

[jose101965]

JUST WONDERFULL

[themachman19691]

thumbs up if you bought this song first time round,so paid the royalties,therefore we shouldn't have to look at shit ads and pop ups!!!

[winner1299]

@themachman19691 bought all his LPs n singles a long time ago but saw him live at arena newcastle a couple of years ago and still awsumexxxx

[JoanKale]

Video directed by Midge Ure and Chris Cross!

[enigmacuture1]

GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT­TTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[jspjohnson1]

sounds like Passing Strangers !!!

[rtmnmk]

Vevo puts a Lady KAKA advertisement in a holy Visage page

- That's a CRIME!!

[citizenpaparazzo]

Billy Currie is the unsung heroe of the eighties.

[helena2001ful]

I was groun up with all new romantic scene, I still like this music and of corse Visage is on the top of my some kind of a music list...

[watzizname]

Ha.. I played The Anvil only the other week for the first time in years, listening to your upload seems almost odd, not having to suffer all the crackles I'd gotten so used to hearing.

Guess i really ought to stop being such a tight arse, get my head out of the eighties and buy it on CD.

[italocarlito]

such an amazing synth pop masterpiece

[Fabio19972001]

Musica inesquecivel, marco da decada de 80 !!!

[1969DMK]

Songs when you used to 'feel' the music not just sing it....

[xportmusic]

This was, for me, the begining of eternal love for electro music...respect 4ever

[TheGodParticle]

I hope when i die theres a New Romantic heaven.

[division1974]

@TheGodParticle i love it

[flaxonx3]

This was the swansong of New Romanticism.

[seanio100]

I used to put this on the video jukebox in my local along with DD's Girls on Film on a friday night before hitting the town in my zoot suit, haha happy days

[chaski68]

Fué una de las canciones en ponerme los pelos de punta...y aún lo sigue haciendo, más de 25 años después...

[Thatwasthesummerofsv]

Just how good is this song...??!!

- If you're new to Visage, check out 'Love Glove' A seriously kicking tune as well..!

[nuggetsII]

@Thatwasthesummerofsv I Was around 10 years old when I heard Visage and fell in love with them, But i would honestly say - love glove was not a very good song. Too Duran Duran to say the least. Too out of place.

[synthiepopboj]

one of the top songs of the band. For me it's Visage Barcelona Football

[helena2001ful]

@synthiepopboj HA<HA HA right on the target!!!Bravo!

[lufillolufilli]

All the things must pass ok but that times about ending '70 to go lates '80 was all very new , fresh and sparkling.

Today music is now a product  for supermarkets and gangstas.Oh don't forget the violence and the nihilism inside.

[drPSXdr]

FADE TO GREY ON MUSIC200 (PSX) my version ;] watch?v=1_3m0kX3Wlk

[seekingnewhorizons]

-it would be impossible to find a band that give us a bit of those huge creations...The 80s rules and also Visage..Dammed dont cry and Visage not died also!

[MrBRIT234]

i wonder where it filmed

[BlackSkyThunder]

Song written by Steve Stange, Midge Ure and Billy Currie, heroes of the new romantics, a time when music could be pure and take you to other places with just a look in your face; those images and mysterious sounds cannot describe better this paranoid era, this times are something of the past appreciated for the ones that can meditate about themselves

[TTLTOY1]

@BlackSkyThunder . Perfectly said!

[cesaregomix]

i love this  songg ...

[ambermum]

Love it! The early 80s ruled for music :)

[09SRILANKA]

This is quality.

[louluvscats]

A hauntingly awesome song,by the ever so true and talented and authentic new romantic, steve strange. Complimented by this simple and masterful vid. Brings a chill down my spine every time i hear it. Nice post. Benja :-)

[FilinaLeo]

epic!! yey ;)

[vixie72]

Love this song, great video too, filmed by Midge Ure and Chris Cross of Ultravox :-)

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

I adore the sadness of this track. I so relate to this track, I could just drowned in this. The 12"... is especially AMAZING. ANother track from The Anvil which is just

stunning is "Whispers" +

[MyOutloud]

I love this song and video, one of the best ever <3 beautiful and sad.

[09SRILANKA]

Quality track. Cracking early 80's video. Just quality....

[nikfazirudean]

Totally remarkable Steve Strange fare

[chrisnoaro1]

gorgeous song, the bass line is sublime.

"...for all it's brisk electrodisco rhythms, Visage's music was sepia-toned and at times almost funereal, with Strange's vocals exuding a fey sadness. Songs like Fade To Grey and The Damned Don't Cry conjured what Mark Fisher called "the Euro-aesthete's 'exhaustion from life' ", especially in tandem with the videos which evoked a pre-war desolation derived from Cabaret and Fritz Lang" - from 'Rip It Up & Start Again' by Simon Reynolds