Wreckless Eric - A Pop Song

[TheBierwas]

he kinda looks like arshavin

[ogdroadsong]

wow, youtube recommended me this, sometimes they actually get it right!

[rockinkitten]

Thanks for sharing!!! <3

[Walk54about]

After spending several years in retirement, Wreckless Eric returned to music in 1985 with Captains of Industry, a group he formed with several former members of Ian Dury's Blockheads

[john131349]

@k8fan is one of the guitarists Glen Matlock?

[jimmy47202]

2:23 Keith Moon!!!!

[vennecia29]

OH M G I like this song good love it.

[gsspecialist]

Graham Parker on Guitar.

[Harvey3rdman]

I still have my old Wreckless Eric "Popsong" button on my jacket.

I have an idea; A film about the career of Eric Goulden with Michael Cera in the lead role.! Whadday a think?

[narrowsbasscat]

Dwight Twilley T-shirt is perfection.

[MsKrien]

hou van deze man

[cdanteg67]

I noticed the graphic at the end of the video said "Rock World." Dude! I remember seeing that show on local TV before the advent of MTV! Do you have any more videos of that show? And if so, are they're posted on your accout?

[rockinkitten]

Priceless!!

[erikdiaz111]

this is why i love the internet. you get to see things you would never have otherwise

thanks for uploading this

[PoireauMan68]

@erikdiaz111 yes and photos of naked women as well...

[diskochimp]

Never seen this before, it's bloody great! x

[jasonwhitedrum]

FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!

[TheKeithcoleman]

Why oh why wasn't Wreckless a world superstar ? Anybody remember him at The Van Dike Club in Plymouth UK ?...and check him out in The Len Bright Combo !!...Good Memories !

[ksb78]

Ah yes...recording music videos from the TV. Those were the days. I got a bunch of VHS tapes with a mixture of cartoons, TV shows and LOADS of music videos. Good times, good times.

[Mouldytone]

k8fan you are a dead-set legend! I bought Eric`s LPs back in the day but this is the first time that I`ve ever seen this clip! How good`s the song!

Thanks for the upload. My crappy week has just disappeared!

Tony

[236091]

what a cutie

[Ghostmonsters]

hes adorable

[DarbyandGill]

Fabulous! I remember this video.

[ArthurSproat]

Great stuff.

[FaceInTheRain]

I remember Rock World. Great show that aired just a couple of years before emteeve took off.

[bgrrrlie]

I recognize this video! I must've seen it somewhere yonks ago!

[krunkisdead]

he kinda looks like val kilmer...

[bloomaxxx]

im gonna have 'final taxi' played at my funeral

[shortofalength]

Saw this guy in Sydney Australia in 1979 and he was great. Not sure he remembers much about it but the band rocked and so did he. Great hear he is till rockin!!!!

[bzzzzap]

Just saw Wreckless Eric in Brooklyn with the A-Bones. He looks like my dad now, but it still rocked it!

[BlackMonk66]

Were the A -Bones backing him? That would have been something to see.

[bzzzzap]

YEs! They did Wooly Bully of all songs. Lots of fun.

[BlackMonk66]

I wish I'd seen that. I've never walked away disappointed from either an A-Bones show or a Wreckless Eric show, so I can only guess how good they were together.

Do you remember if he's still doing "Shicker Dicker Dum Dum?"

[Barnface1]

If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f**k!

[Monsterpop]

magic!

[zunathanzu]

i only like this guy's song "Whole Wide World"

He was kinda a one hit-wonder? or am I wrong

[Principalies]

All songs sound great. But it's something with Whole Wide World that is so great.

[xXscumXbagXx]

it really depends on how you look at it he had i guess you could say "main-stream" song but he was defiantly against everything main-stream so maybe he just didnt want to make another "one hit-wonder" i think pretty much all of his songs are amaizing though

[najtrows]

i dont really know anything good with him except the "hit".

could you enlighten me with some good songs?

[channy8]

i love 'just for you', it's here on youtube

[peregrinatious]

semaphore signals, reconnez cherie, walking on the surface of the moon, and there are later albums with great songs too!

[peregrinatious]

yeah you are wrong. he wrote LOTs of great songs! AND he's a great performer.

[Ropepope]

Yeah you're wrong. He has loads of great songs.

[manykarz]

I think the issue is that he looks somewhat like Dana Carvey who played G. Bush senior on SNL.

[manicmacintosh]

...Or more famously Garth out of Wayne's World.

[namussi]

Is it my imagination, or does Eric look a little like George W Bush?

[soulsong47]

love the song and the vid..

[brhodes0]

HAHA smc well fucking 'pwned' as you useless friendly-fire John Wayne fat arsed burger muching yankee CUNTS are so fond of saying.

[bardofely]

Brilliant song and video from one of my favourite acts!

[apollozero]

Sounds like Pump it Up by Elvis Costello.

[k8fan]

They were pretty much contemporaries, and label-mates at Stiff Records.

[bezerker5051]

@k8fan Mega thanks for uploading this. I was 15 when this song was released--when it would be played on late-night Australian TV music programmes. It's been three decades since I've seen this video and actually heard the song, but the line "hell's bells, buckets of blood, you've got me reaching for my tranquilizers" has remained carved into my memory. Once again, huge thanks k8fan.

[apollozero]

yeah i know :)

[ortleyman]

@apollozero He was supposed to be as big as Elvis Costello. I guess things did not pan out for him.

[PoireauMan68]

@ortleyman cos he answered the question wrong. All STIFF artists were asked : Rich or famous? all said FAMOUS but Elvis MacManus said RICH please ! soon after Goulden hit rock bottom. Costello now plays to american crowds telling them what cunts they are...did I just swear?

[Yorkmackem]

Which came first, this or XTC's "This is Pop" ?

[smc12364]

Wow, such a great gurner.

[smc12364]

Wow, check out that hot hot bod. God, I can't wait to go to england.

[crankfrank76]

Go eat another burger fatty bum bum

[dougzilla]

Way cool. Thanks for posting.

[cowman57]

are they irish?

[EclecticWarrior]

Great posting...saw Eric many times incl the brilliant 5 live sTiff tour with larry wallis,ian dury,elvis C...........but eric was always me favourite.............god love him

[jahtez]

Had the Big Smash LP for years, then lost that somehow. Then I found a 'greatest hits' CD recently, but the mix is apalling and half the songs I loved are missing.

I gotta find a quality mix of Big Smash someplace.

[drlovepants]

let's just make this 16 comments and 120 favourites...the bad thing about eric is when you try to put your albums and cd's in alphabetical order. wreckless eric, the captains of industry, the len bright combo, the hitsville house band....he's all over the place.

[hildrethbird]

Stiff has been bought by ZTT part fo the Trevour Horn Stable Ethergirl.

Remember Eric from the stiff days...good guy.

[SPIRITOFCAMDEN]

a fine thoroughbred from a great stable!

viva the legends of stiff (its my royalties if they use *the legends of stiff* for a compilation album title) !

robin:)x

[Ethergirl]

Thanks for posting that, that was cool! I'm in the States, was an Elvis Costello fan as a kid, and loved Nick Lowe also. Found out more about the Stiff Records scene when a friend gave me the Stiff Records box set several years ago. So many great, unique artists.

Does anyone know if Stiff Records has come back? Theres a video up on youtube for a song by The Producers, and its says 2007 on Stiff Records.

[hildrethbird]

see comment on youtube re stiff

[TheRaceAce]

Definately John Brown on bass.

[coulhandluke]

Forget That Manc Idiot THIS IS THE TRUE KING ERIC

[herefordianaccent]

great thanks. I saw this on weird pop show Max Headroom" and remembered the 'buckets of blood' scene but found no trace of the video since then. at last it exists once more!

[TheGrantis]

he really is a mess....But a clever mess and what great recollection of a great time !!!!

[Rebecca263]

I remember hearing this when I was in school, at the local music shop. I used to beg my dad to take me to the record shop, and they had a telephone line called "song & dance"- they would put up a new song every day, you just telephoned the number and listened to the message- how I heard so many of my favorite bands for the first time, as a little kid! I miss the 70's!

[UncleTeffs]

Been an Eric fan since 1977, and I've never seen this before. Excellent! Looks like the video was filmed in the Stiff offices.

[k8fan]

No problem...glad to make it available. Stiff Records had the most amazing lineup of artists of any label right out of the gate. Some, like Elvis Costello, are famous. But all were good.

[COL321]

Oops- was looking at the wrong album... Doh! Haven't got a copy of "Big Smash" to hand, but I think that's John Brown on bass and Malcolm Morley (the non- balding bloke) on Guitar.

[COL321]

Excellent! What a star Eric is. According to the back of the album; Malcolm Morley- Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Brady- Electric Guitar (this guy could really play, live he was outstanding), John Brown- Electric Bass Guitar, Geir Wade- Drums, Pete Solley- Keyboards (ex Procol Harem). Thanks for Posting the clip!

[AmyMeacham]

Thank you thank you!!! I love this song and it is amazing!

[k8fan]

Anyone recognize any of the players in the band? I'm pretty sure that a couple of the guys were in the Blockheads.

[PoireauMan68]

@k8fan Nope there ain't no blockheads in there...unless John Turnbull can play leftie and Watt-roy bought himself a pointy bass. Also the drummer looks like Ed Tudor-pole's brother...I guess these guys feature on the wreckless goulden album released around 79-81. Is this post STIFF? STIFF RECORDS = Big crooks not at all what people think they are....were