Love all songs by Ultravox, and am a good friend of Midge Ure who I have met many times.
I am a musician and was in a lot of bands in the 80's. I was lucky enough to tour with quite a lot of other bands from the time, including many of the one's you have said you like.
I still tour at the moment with a band playing 80's music and love it.
I even buy 80's vynyl and have over 32000 records. I drive an Escort 1600 Mexico, so I am truly MR 80's
I would like to ask anyone who listens to this song and other songs from the 1980's if the music only affects the people who were young at the time the music was released, in the same way it does me, or if anyone can feel the sense of connection I do.
A track to remember ! wonderful music ! Gary and Eddie got it right ! Listen to the start, drum beat shall take you away "forgive me for asking" what a track ! I watch the day go by ! music these days are no comparison ! i have a video for this track in my mind soon to be real.... beautiful ! excellent ! China Crisis i love you !
This brings back memories a lot of people rememising of times when they were young but remember even a human being that is 100 years old is only a nano second compared to the history of the universe!
@edmail2992 I just want to say that it is not important how long the history of the universe may be, it is our own lifes and events in it (like these songs) that create the nostalgia in us all, so regardless of how long a person is on the earth I doubt very much that anyone would turn down the chance to return to their youth.
A beautiful song that encapsulates how I felt when I was 18 and lived a life worth living, We all grow old too soon and it is true that youth is wasted on the young. Oh how much I wish to go back and live once more, but all I am left with is sad nostalgia and a pain inside for the want of my youth.
@SuperTomo1965 I feel exactly the same way. The pain inside from those long gone days is with me like a feeling of homesickness. I long to go back to the days of my youth where i was happiest but i know i can never go back home again no matter how much i want it.
If i had known then how my life would turn out and how i would never experience such happiness and carefree days as then, i would have chosen to end my life when i was most happiest.
@Time71Team It is sad that we all have to get old, and I so long to feel alive again like I did when I was 17/18. Now I suffer with angina, arthritis and asthma, couldn't get up and have a good time if I tried. Oh why can't someone invent a time machine so I can return to the happiest days of my life.
@SuperTomo1965 I wish also a time machine could be invented to whisk us back to those far off days when we had our health and vigour and life was so carefree and happy.
Like you i have a number of chronic illnesses and i can only dream of having the health i had in my youth.When i was 15 my great grandmother said to me "it is lucky people cannot see into the future because they would not be able to live with knowing how their life will turn out".
@Time71Team Thanks for replying again. I understand completely how you feel and I think that time is mans eternal enemy. I never thought much about how life would be when I was older and now wish that I had paid more attention to my health, but one consolation is the fact that we both have these songs and the everlasting memory of the good old days.
@SuperTomo1965 It is funny how when you are young you never pay much attention to the future as it seems so very far away. As you say at least we have the good music from those happy long gone days and time can never take away our memories.
@Time71Team Hi again, I am replying once more because I wish to find out what other songs from the period you also like. Email my spare mail address, tomo1965@mail.com.
Having been a teenager in the early 80`s i would gladly give up all the remaining years of my life if i could have just one day back from those happy days.
I never realised then that they were the best days of my life and i would never again be as happy as i was then.
Now those days are gone along with the family and friends i once held dear and as i get older life stops giving and starts taking more of those people who were in my life but my memories will never be taken from me.
@SuperTomo1965 Oh I see SuperTomo if someone has audacity to collect it means they can't get a shag! lol. So what about you Super Tomo apart from your ego it appears you dont have a sense of humour. You are probably one sad git that dreams about yesterday when things were better for you, but now your feeling sorry for yourself. You should not judge a book by it's cover Tomo! Smile I will pay for the damages!
@CoolCollectableToys Very good CCT you have sussed me out, I actually am a musician and I collect guitars. I was in lots of bands in the 80's and 90's and was lucky enough to tour with many of the bands from the era. Ok pay for the damages and we will call it evens, at least then I reserve some pride. Yours "well put in my place" Tomo
I like the bit where he tricks the girl whilst hiding in the hay, she giggled they kissed, so nice, do that to a girl nowadays and she would probably headbutt you and you'd get 5 years in the Joy from the human rights crowd in the EU.
@ganyuehan Wiki says: "Wishful Thinking" is a song by English pop group China Crisis, released as the third single of their 1983 album Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two. It reached #9 in the UK charts in early 1984, becoming their only top 10 hit single in that country. The song is included on numerous compilation albums.
One of the best to come out of the new romantic /synth bands 80s mode ,the clrinet in between the vocals /solo always gets to me ..a beautiful song ,thanks
Like a few others here, China Crisis was part of the soundtrack to my University years. Listening to them always connects me back to that hopeful time.
I was almost homestretch with my Accounting & Economics degrees when this song exploded to the top of the charts. Ah, the 80s indeed were full of niceties.... some people hated that generation but who cares, you can't walk to the 90s without passing through the 80s... Love it !
thatcher solved fuck all the bitch was evil ! she ruined the uk plc shut pits ruined car manuafacture the woman would have sold her granny for 2pence!
@als1uk I agree mate the woman was a fucking Banshee she took the shackles of the City of London sold people what they already owned in the utilities, privitiesed the railways and fuck me are we paying for it all now.
I hope she goes straight to Old Nick, mind you she'd probably fit in there
Spent 25 years in the Royal Marines, fought all over the planet, always listened to china crisis. Especially D,S,A,P,R,S,P,T,I,F,T,E, If you know CC you'll know the album
when asked by a young boy , whats the worst thing about getting old to his old man , he said son , the worst thing about getting old is forgetting those fantastic memories from when you were young . never a truer work spoke .
Just hearing China Crisis again sends all my memories of the 80s flooding back. I was at teacher training college at the time, full of hope and excitement for the future. I was going to make a difference..................now I am a deflated sad old g*t!
@ohmygosh77777 Aren't we all, my friend? Still a tremendous era for music - even the one-hit wonders were great - though there is regret and other things forever attached to it. Lost youth? Unfortunately I drank mine. Best Wishes.
what can i say....i wish we can all go back to the 80's.....hmmm..??? where can we get a flux capacitor???? and a delorian....lol...back to the future!!! awesome movie
nice music bring back the 80's,,but when i saw them perform in the mall in las pinas,,never took second chance to get the ticket,,and took some group pictures with the band ,the feeling is awesome,,
I wish that China Crisis would perform again here at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, here in Manila, Philippines. But then again, i am happy for this kinds of song. Such great memories gone by.
This song makes my heart ache to be young again in the 80s, I'm 44 now but wish with all my being to be able to go back. Great music, great times, great friends.
I spent time in the forces and these songs remind me of where i served good and bad, so i have mixed emotions for most of the tracks but i adored china crisis.
just watch their concert yesterday, people get up in their feet when they hit this song..so awesome..bring back the old days..tnx to the producer to make this happen
Some stranger felt the need to mock me B'cos I had listed this as a favourite. This song takes me back to a time when I had never known what true heartache & misery felt like so this nobody can mock me all they want but they can NEVER take away my nostalgia that transports me back to a time when I hadn't a care in the world & when I read ilmajc's comment it really brought it home how important our memories are, and to quote ilmajc. . . Beautiful x x x x x x
i'm also in my 40's and when i look back through the decades, nothing like the music in the 80's come close...so much memories and i wonder why there were fonder memories in the 90's or 2000's....
Scousers rule!!! A great band..from a great era...Futurists.....some great bands and great memories.....for a time it was as if music had been re-invented its self!!
@Supersweetguy I don't need to prove a thing, it happened. Felt really sorry for him too, everyone made his life hell. Kids can be cruel, but main thing is he went on to greater things, and had the last laugh.
The 80s were difficult times. The Irish Republican Army were bombing London, Argentina invaded the Falklands, Ninoy Aquino of the Philippines was assisinated. But everytime you hear China Crisis' "Wishful Thinking", the 80s turn into a time we always yearn for... our youth.
@iceblue1973 In a way, me too..life was simple then..fell in and out of love so easy. Some of the music was sooo pure and innocent..like we were...oh to be a teenager again in those times...sigh..
I want to give respect to the writer, it's just a marvelous , both lyrically and musically
SuperTomo1965 3 days ago
Goslar and my Berlinoise ! Galeries...Remenber.
hoaraujg 4 days ago
To " Time71Team"
Hi there Time71Team,
Love all songs by Ultravox, and am a good friend of Midge Ure who I have met many times.
I am a musician and was in a lot of bands in the 80's. I was lucky enough to tour with quite a lot of other bands from the time, including many of the one's you have said you like.
I still tour at the moment with a band playing 80's music and love it.
I even buy 80's vynyl and have over 32000 records. I drive an Escort 1600 Mexico, so I am truly MR 80's
SuperTomo1965 1 week ago 5
I would like to ask anyone who listens to this song and other songs from the 1980's if the music only affects the people who were young at the time the music was released, in the same way it does me, or if anyone can feel the sense of connection I do.
SuperTomo1965 1 week ago
@SuperTomo1965 i love the 80`s i still listen to them, but life moves so i only reminese the 80`s coz we cant go back to that era,
xxxcrow26 1 day ago
i was only 16 lol
jonescathy051 1 week ago
i concieved my dauta to this nearly 30 years ago wow
jonescathy051 1 week ago
Saxaphone is wonderful !
touches the heart each time !
Kevin Green i believe
very expensive to hire but worth it !
MrBazz77 1 week ago
MrBazz77 1 week ago
@MrBazz77 It isn't a saxaphone its a cornet.
SuperTomo1965 1 week ago
@SuperTomo1965
SuperTomo1965
thank you letting me know
great track indeed.
I fly to the Philippines a few years ago to see China Crisis live.
never got to speak with the band sadly
great show!
MrBazz77 1 week ago
me lleva a muchos recuerdos
marjaclowns 1 week ago
muchos recuerdos
marjaclowns 1 week ago
This brings back memories a lot of people rememising of times when they were young but remember even a human being that is 100 years old is only a nano second compared to the history of the universe!
edmail2992 2 weeks ago 2
@edmail2992 I just want to say that it is not important how long the history of the universe may be, it is our own lifes and events in it (like these songs) that create the nostalgia in us all, so regardless of how long a person is on the earth I doubt very much that anyone would turn down the chance to return to their youth.
SuperTomo1965 1 week ago 2
This great tune takes me back to the 80's when I did not have a care in the world
1965adamant 2 weeks ago 2
Good to hear Atlantic Radio in Cornwall playing this iconic 80s song every now and then? Good memories
discotruroman 2 weeks ago
pobożne życzenia ...o tak codziennie je mam
TheAneta73 2 weeks ago
so beautiful
FiresignSongs 3 weeks ago
Some tune. Great to hear it on the Radio earlier on today.
fac5c1981 3 weeks ago
best to hear on a rainy day !!!!!!!
snx92 3 weeks ago
the gaturist looks like keanu reeves
zenoheaven 3 weeks ago
A beautiful song that encapsulates how I felt when I was 18 and lived a life worth living, We all grow old too soon and it is true that youth is wasted on the young. Oh how much I wish to go back and live once more, but all I am left with is sad nostalgia and a pain inside for the want of my youth.
SuperTomo1965 3 weeks ago 2
@SuperTomo1965 I feel exactly the same way. The pain inside from those long gone days is with me like a feeling of homesickness. I long to go back to the days of my youth where i was happiest but i know i can never go back home again no matter how much i want it.
If i had known then how my life would turn out and how i would never experience such happiness and carefree days as then, i would have chosen to end my life when i was most happiest.
Time71Team 3 weeks ago
@Time71Team It is sad that we all have to get old, and I so long to feel alive again like I did when I was 17/18. Now I suffer with angina, arthritis and asthma, couldn't get up and have a good time if I tried. Oh why can't someone invent a time machine so I can return to the happiest days of my life.
SuperTomo1965 2 weeks ago
@SuperTomo1965 I wish also a time machine could be invented to whisk us back to those far off days when we had our health and vigour and life was so carefree and happy.
Like you i have a number of chronic illnesses and i can only dream of having the health i had in my youth.When i was 15 my great grandmother said to me "it is lucky people cannot see into the future because they would not be able to live with knowing how their life will turn out".
It is only now i understand what she meant.
Time71Team 2 weeks ago
@Time71Team Thanks for replying again. I understand completely how you feel and I think that time is mans eternal enemy. I never thought much about how life would be when I was older and now wish that I had paid more attention to my health, but one consolation is the fact that we both have these songs and the everlasting memory of the good old days.
SuperTomo1965 1 week ago
@SuperTomo1965 It is funny how when you are young you never pay much attention to the future as it seems so very far away. As you say at least we have the good music from those happy long gone days and time can never take away our memories.
Time71Team 1 week ago
@Time71Team Hi again, I am replying once more because I wish to find out what other songs from the period you also like. Email my spare mail address, tomo1965@mail.com.
Thanks
SuperTomo1965 1 week ago
Classic..
SimplyLee1980 3 weeks ago
the best song in the world ever ! no buts no whaever is the best!
als1uk 3 weeks ago
i enjoy listening to 80's new wave songs
MrNil3000 3 weeks ago
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Having been a teenager in the early 80`s i would gladly give up all the remaining years of my life if i could have just one day back from those happy days.
I never realised then that they were the best days of my life and i would never again be as happy as i was then.
Now those days are gone along with the family and friends i once held dear and as i get older life stops giving and starts taking more of those people who were in my life but my memories will never be taken from me.
Time71Team 3 weeks ago
How can there be forty nine dislikes? China Crisis are a wonderful band and they write excellent songs.
eynon82 3 weeks ago 3
@eynon82 that's because they don't prefer "real" music. They'd rather listen to some trash.
tactac75 3 weeks ago
Great song and group!
TheJarvo41 3 weeks ago
Loved this song and still do. Lovely to listen too :)
starrydaze 4 weeks ago
I thought this was actually optimistic opinions on the crisis with China. I was horribly disappointed.
fatcatband 4 weeks ago
Great stuff. ;-)
blakdave69 1 month ago
this song stays fresh after all this time
duncanrs 1 month ago
Sorry, its not New Romantics or New Wave! just opposite! Another tide from early 80's. Vocalist should be Garry.
gerry6668 1 month ago
I totally love this song. I'm delighted to see that this video has over 1.5+ million views. It deserves it.
PetraNova1 1 month ago
God...did I shag to this song....or was it just..wishful thinking ?
CoolCollectableToys 1 month ago 7
@CoolCollectableToys if you collect toys, then i would say it is just your wishful thinking.
SuperTomo1965 3 days ago
@SuperTomo1965 Oh I see SuperTomo if someone has audacity to collect it means they can't get a shag! lol. So what about you Super Tomo apart from your ego it appears you dont have a sense of humour. You are probably one sad git that dreams about yesterday when things were better for you, but now your feeling sorry for yourself. You should not judge a book by it's cover Tomo! Smile I will pay for the damages!
CoolCollectableToys 2 days ago
@CoolCollectableToys Very good CCT you have sussed me out, I actually am a musician and I collect guitars. I was in lots of bands in the 80's and 90's and was lucky enough to tour with many of the bands from the era. Ok pay for the damages and we will call it evens, at least then I reserve some pride. Yours "well put in my place" Tomo
SuperTomo1965 2 days ago
@SuperTomo1965 lol.....so what bands did you play and tour with?...I was knocking about in the 80's so may have seen you or the one of the bands.
CoolCollectableToys 2 days ago
Simply MAGIC!!
alanespana1 1 month ago
OMG!, I love love love this music, AWESOME, I miss the 80's!!! ^_^
jazz84xoxo 1 month ago 3
Beautiful x
amnesiacradar 1 month ago
Love the 80"s songs especially the NEW WAVE ERA!!!!
jbjavier1975 1 month ago 2
Beautiful sooooong
ingaros74 1 month ago
Moje młodzieńcze lata :) 80 :)
arcio69 1 month ago
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All they do is kiss each other and the tombliboos pants always drop off
Mr309GTi 1 month ago
nostalgia.. i love 80's It reminds me of my grade school days. love it! : )
erix011 1 month ago
KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, ST KEVINS SCHOOL,,,,WELL DONE LADS
i8tevverist 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
what a nice song
hiddetimmer 1 month ago
I like the bit where he tricks the girl whilst hiding in the hay, she giggled they kissed, so nice, do that to a girl nowadays and she would probably headbutt you and you'd get 5 years in the Joy from the human rights crowd in the EU.
kurtmartial 1 month ago 3
another of the great scouse band,s
MrBluenose57 1 month ago
One of the most beautiful songs written and recorded. End of story.
ulujain 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
the best 80s
TheGabrielangel777 1 month ago
nice
michelle80863 2 months ago
mooi.om naar te luisteren........
josinelovecats 2 months ago
What year would this be? I'm guessing '85, maybe?
ganyuehan 2 months ago
@ganyuehan 84, i think.
MrTokedo 2 months ago
@ganyuehan This was released in 1984. This was their only Top Ten hit in the UK (1984).
Supersweetguy 1 month ago
@Supersweetguy I was close. Thanks!( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ。
ganyuehan 1 month ago
@ganyuehan Wiki says: "Wishful Thinking" is a song by English pop group China Crisis, released as the third single of their 1983 album Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two. It reached #9 in the UK charts in early 1984, becoming their only top 10 hit single in that country. The song is included on numerous compilation albums.
Supersweetguy 1 month ago
@Supersweetguy think it was 83 same year as u2,s ''war'' album
1860george 1 month ago
@ganyuehan 1983
1860george 1 month ago
80's music tells a lot about the time. It wasn't easy, but it was fun, colourful, stylish and opulent in many ways :)
TheFallToRise 2 months ago 13
Blijft mooi om naar te luisteren. Tijdloos.
lancethegreat4 2 months ago
super super super ! ! !
TheASTRALICO 2 months ago
One of the best to come out of the new romantic /synth bands 80s mode ,the clrinet in between the vocals /solo always gets to me ..a beautiful song ,thanks
luxyaltz219 2 months ago
Like a few others here, China Crisis was part of the soundtrack to my University years. Listening to them always connects me back to that hopeful time.
echorich 2 months ago
VEVO aint touching this one :@
ojojtj 2 months ago
This song is so much better than today's rubbish and I'm not the biggest fan of New Romantic stuff either....
GibbyGibbyGibb 2 months ago
OHHHHH I LOVE THIS SONG..IM A 90S KID BUT I CARE FOR THIS COZ I LIKE IT
ovioviful 2 months ago
Never a lovelier sound . . wonderful, wonderful stuff . .
blokerama 2 months ago
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were FIVE, now we are SIX 41/41
169 - WE ARE ALL THE SAME
170 - and return to Hawaiki.
171 - Havaiki, HAVAII'KI, ONES.
172 - HAWAI'IKI, HAVAII, IKI, others.
173 - HAVAI'I, HAVAI'TI MORE OTHERS ...
174 - Returning home, EVERYBODY.
175- WE WILL BE SIX .
were FIVE, now we are SIX 1/41
Moses - Our Revolution (We Just)
celesiotube 2 months ago in playlist the first list
Yes! indeed. They are the memories that keep me going. I'll always cherish this band for the love that remains in my heart,.... ;-}
Dandelion9621 2 months ago
this reminds of the man that got away....I miss him, listening to this song. Thank you YouTube world...I needed a smile and tear.
Dandelion9621 2 months ago
@Dandelion9621 Yeah - those memories just come back eh? x
henry707 2 months ago
I was almost homestretch with my Accounting & Economics degrees when this song exploded to the top of the charts. Ah, the 80s indeed were full of niceties.... some people hated that generation but who cares, you can't walk to the 90s without passing through the 80s... Love it !
mannygiancarlo 2 months ago
It took me two fucking weeks to find this song . . . Fuck !
lazyfreedom98 2 months ago
@lazyfreedom98 You should have just asked we would have told you it was here !! :)
Richientracie 2 months ago
OK she stole a laptop and bounced ALL OVER THE PLACE. i still want to skip this Ad !!!!
nwmrt 2 months ago
brilliant old song ov my teens,classic !
chromegrifter68 2 months ago
Have these guys ever done any soundtrack work I think their music has a wonderful evocative quality that would really work with film.
I've got to say this is in my 80s top ten indie tunes.
Happysundaze 2 months ago
Es el tema de mi adolescencia.Una de las mejores canciones de mi vida.Gracias.
42Luisss 3 months ago
basically this band and the Cocteu Twins resulted in much of the 'shoegaze' and indie stuff we hear now...
MrChubbleyWarner 3 months ago
teens nowadays doesn't know how great the music of the 80's are..
TheRangerloft 3 months ago
I LOVE THIS. GREAT GUYS
meerfisch1 3 months ago
very handsome nice guys. respect, great romantic song
meerfisch1 3 months ago
loved it then - still love it.
pashasmum 3 months ago
what a tune memorys of the 80s.what get time we had.
radox501 3 months ago
bless.xxx
rose4464 3 months ago in playlist Liked
Yaaaa..my son just told me to stop singing!! He has no taste..he is 15.
MsCadreHershey 3 months ago
this music just ooze's innocence.brilliant !
43lochness 3 months ago
This is a 30 year old 'new romantics' song....so cool, such great music the days of the 'new romantics' OMD, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet etc etc.
DavidRNAU 3 months ago 30
@DavidRNAU couldnt agree with you more, those were the days
busterskin1967 3 months ago in playlist my tunes
@DavidRNAU
Oh no ... please don't tell me it's 30 years ago ;)
reminiscent83 3 months ago
@DavidRNAU This is a 27/28th year-old song. This was released in late of 1983 and went to the Top 10 of the Brit Top 40 hits.
Supersweetguy 3 weeks ago
80s music still rulez
rino19ny 3 months ago
Heard this song being played on BFBS Radio (British Forces Broadcasting Service) this morning. What a nice blast from the past. Love this song.
discotruroman 3 months ago
The 80's was the best decade because that's when discovered AIDS....
Bot23 3 months ago
guys, chill out ... i was having a laugh, Thatcher was a heartless cow
joostisabelle 3 months ago in playlist eighties
thatcher solved fuck all the bitch was evil ! she ruined the uk plc shut pits ruined car manuafacture the woman would have sold her granny for 2pence!
als1uk 3 months ago
@als1uk I agree mate the woman was a fucking Banshee she took the shackles of the City of London sold people what they already owned in the utilities, privitiesed the railways and fuck me are we paying for it all now.
I hope she goes straight to Old Nick, mind you she'd probably fit in there
erko62 3 months ago
@erko62 If Thatcher went to old nick, he would be livid. Lets face it she would end up shutting down all of his blast furnaces!!!
VanninEllan 3 months ago
80's - what more to say
marais75012 3 months ago
no better decade than the 80s
joostisabelle 3 months ago
love this , we were so lucky to have had the eighties and this great music .
whirlygirly36 3 months ago
80s music is the best compared to 50s,60s,70s,90s,00s and present.
BillboardClassic 3 months ago
The 80's..truly the decade of musical genius!
GreatKM 3 months ago
lovely song :)
kiuhy8 3 months ago
my hubby introduce me to this song..thats y it means a lot to me..It's so true 80's music are so timeless...
PerlMitchTe1784 3 months ago
i love dis song vry much, one of my favorite song.
jedidia888666 3 months ago in playlist jedidia888666's Favorited Videos
i love dis song vry much, one of my favorite song
jedidia888666 3 months ago in playlist jedidia888666's Favorited Videos
a cassetteplayer from grandpa, one tape. This song was one of them. played it time after time again.. i was 13.!! such good memories.
diodepio 3 months ago
I didn't know Keanu Reeves sang in a band...
andyhendricks11 4 months ago
@andyhendricks11 I thought it was Bruce Lee??!!!
atalaya1980 3 months ago
This video is like 'Last of the Summer Wine: The Early Years.
markkeogh18 4 months ago
the like and dislike button must be far away from one another....
HLYRD 4 months ago
i watched them in eat bulaga...loves my 80's day.
robnewyorkpoge 4 months ago in playlist robnewyorkpoge's Favorited Videos
man this song takes me back great memories of being a teenager in the 80's
TheSeanm102 4 months ago
Wonderful music. The 80s will never die. Thanks for uploading.
DeeJac66 4 months ago
Would it be 'Wishful Thinking' of me to think that 49 people have no taste?
yemieko 4 months ago
very good stuff..! love it then, love it now
matthewrahardja 4 months ago
Reminds me of a time long gone. :(
Planetoxo 4 months ago
@Planetoxo same here
1860george 4 months ago
I can't believe they categorize the 80's as classic songs now a days. Well, call me an old fogie but i'm still into white slacks and birkenstocks.
ookidokee 4 months ago
Fuck yeah!!!! Always loved this song!!!!!!!
tasboli23 4 months ago
Spent 25 years in the Royal Marines, fought all over the planet, always listened to china crisis. Especially D,S,A,P,R,S,P,T,I,F,T,E, If you know CC you'll know the album
phyxius47 4 months ago
when asked by a young boy , whats the worst thing about getting old to his old man , he said son , the worst thing about getting old is forgetting those fantastic memories from when you were young . never a truer work spoke .
deedas333 4 months ago
seen the boys play mathew street festival, still best band to come out of liverpool
utting121 4 months ago
Just hearing China Crisis again sends all my memories of the 80s flooding back. I was at teacher training college at the time, full of hope and excitement for the future. I was going to make a difference..................now I am a deflated sad old g*t!
ohmygosh77777 4 months ago 10
@ohmygosh77777 - I know exactly how you feel!
Diddlydewdrop 4 months ago
@ohmygosh77777 Aren't we all, my friend? Still a tremendous era for music - even the one-hit wonders were great - though there is regret and other things forever attached to it. Lost youth? Unfortunately I drank mine. Best Wishes.
paullavan2011 3 months ago
@ohmygosh77777 never know what you might discover lead to a new horizon
dylan3657 3 months ago
LOVELY!!!!
ourgadgie 4 months ago 2
Well its my favourite , a classic pop song that is timeless.
bardo0007 4 months ago
Arguably, one of my tenth greatest song ever. Unforgettable and iconic.
jdfc5 4 months ago
what can i say....i wish we can all go back to the 80's.....hmmm..??? where can we get a flux capacitor???? and a delorian....lol...back to the future!!! awesome movie
BeStillSOY 4 months ago 4
nice music bring back the 80's,,but when i saw them perform in the mall in las pinas,,never took second chance to get the ticket,,and took some group pictures with the band ,the feeling is awesome,,
acilegna1221alliver 4 months ago
gorgeous tune,got it on vinyl somewhere
mrmister102 4 months ago
i love 80's! but sadly, i didnt see them perform at the araneta =( but still china crisis one of the best of the 80's!!!
44thepistol 4 months ago
I wish that China Crisis would perform again here at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, here in Manila, Philippines. But then again, i am happy for this kinds of song. Such great memories gone by.
Supersweetguy 4 months ago
This song makes my heart ache to be young again in the 80s, I'm 44 now but wish with all my being to be able to go back. Great music, great times, great friends.
parkega 4 months ago 3
I have seen them perform in SMX in Mall of Asia and they are as magnificent as back then. Thank you China Crisis! Thanks to Simple Minds too!
I hope The Cure will perform next in Manila!
morethanever100 4 months ago
I spent time in the forces and these songs remind me of where i served good and bad, so i have mixed emotions for most of the tracks but i adored china crisis.
commando591 4 months ago
I love this song from the heart....brings tears to my eyes....its beautiful
ilmajc 4 months ago in playlist ilmajc's Favourited Videos
theyve been here in the phils. last friday.
xXairsupplyXx 4 months ago
they were at sm southmall(philippines) a little while ago. their voice and songs were amazing!
whateverwhenever11 4 months ago
just watch their concert yesterday, people get up in their feet when they hit this song..so awesome..bring back the old days..tnx to the producer to make this happen
hellboydlc 4 months ago
Some stranger felt the need to mock me B'cos I had listed this as a favourite. This song takes me back to a time when I had never known what true heartache & misery felt like so this nobody can mock me all they want but they can NEVER take away my nostalgia that transports me back to a time when I hadn't a care in the world & when I read ilmajc's comment it really brought it home how important our memories are, and to quote ilmajc. . . Beautiful x x x x x x
debi1405 4 months ago in playlist Liked
I watch them also in Eat Bulaga here in philippines!...... Missing new wave songs!!!!
macoy20081 4 months ago 3
9/9/2011, "THUMBS UP KUNG DINALA KAYO AT PINA-ALALA NG TV SHOW NA "EAT BULAGA" ANG KANTANG ITO SAINYO".
1stkits 4 months ago 5
just watched eat bulaga , love this song!!
jonjonsalas 4 months ago
me too! thanks to eat bulaga!
greatlookingguy 4 months ago 4
Eat Bulaga brought me here.
yeheyz 4 months ago 13
@yeheyz ako din... ganda kanina
michaeleugene89 4 months ago
@yeheyz me too!
dewang07 4 months ago
hahaha! love this song very much!...happy to hear it once again...
TheWTACE 4 months ago
seen them once at telfords no band just the two guys on guitars
doolep1 4 months ago
great song i still listening this till now mabuhay new wave!!!!!!!!!!
15noen 4 months ago
one of those tunes that takes me back for sure
bearmanmr 4 months ago
i'm also in my 40's and when i look back through the decades, nothing like the music in the 80's come close...so much memories and i wonder why there were fonder memories in the 90's or 2000's....
oceansevens 5 months ago 4
Scousers rule!!! A great band..from a great era...Futurists.....some great bands and great memories.....for a time it was as if music had been re-invented its self!!
khorrumg 5 months ago
great song great era fuck i miss those days didnt have a care in the world
gengw69 5 months ago
I went to school with the lead singer of this band, he was caught in the toilets having a wank.... true story
RyanDunnsLostSneaker 5 months ago
@RyanDunnsLostSneaker hmm, and how can you prove it?
Supersweetguy 4 months ago
@Supersweetguy I don't need to prove a thing, it happened. Felt really sorry for him too, everyone made his life hell. Kids can be cruel, but main thing is he went on to greater things, and had the last laugh.
RyanDunnsLostSneaker 4 months ago
what a great song
lowerfarm65 5 months ago
Una canción de mi juventud, cuantos recuerdos de los hermosos años 80's, muchas gracias por compartir este video.
Bombal1967 5 months ago
The 80s were difficult times. The Irish Republican Army were bombing London, Argentina invaded the Falklands, Ninoy Aquino of the Philippines was assisinated. But everytime you hear China Crisis' "Wishful Thinking", the 80s turn into a time we always yearn for... our youth.
kensarmiento1 5 months ago 3
My heart sinks when I hear this song, I wish it was the 80's now. An era of proper music, music that had meaning and a sense of innocense.
iceblue1973 5 months ago 67
@iceblue1973 We all wish it was 1986 again... :(
Planetoxo 4 months ago
@iceblue1973 In a way, me too..life was simple then..fell in and out of love so easy. Some of the music was sooo pure and innocent..like we were...oh to be a teenager again in those times...sigh..
clarence47a 3 months ago
@iceblue1973 I concur
miletjs 3 months ago