The Chameleons - Second skin

[Sevenseasdreamer]

Unbelievable, wonderful - since 28 years this is the best song when being and feeling in solitude. Yes, this is the stuff dreams are made of! I dedicate this melody to you...

[visage78]

stupendaa.....

[pamelapap]

amazing band just found them n so glad too.

[cyberenric]

Sin lugar a dudas una de las mejores bandas de los 80, para mi  la mejor. Inconmensurables

[freudastaire]

just my all time favorite Chameleons song!!!!!!!

[TheUnicornio7]

no encuentro las palabras exactas para describir esta musica......me transporta al universo infinito

[stanleyfreeze2011]

New solo-artist,Ransley.Check out all uploads on this channel.

[Tripp426]

These guys sound similar to The Cure. Maybe that''s why they're so awesome :)

[csgonzalez4p]

@Tripp426 No the Cure sound more like the Chameleons, and their sound is original crosses many genres of style and musicianship. The Cure are in a category of their own.

[monicase7en]

Este grupo es una joya. Me encanta =)

[karziflora]

Dave fieldings your guitar tunes are simply ENCHANTING!!

[ikkuna]

Un grupazo, para mí el mejor de post-punk.

[kelamg95]

BURGESS Y CIA,LO MAS GRANDE!!! SALUDOS DESDELIMA,PERU

[LowShantyTown]

Esto es música de verdad dios mio!!!!!!

[viewmore100]

@LowShantyTown klfvkn,rijvlsvlsnv skelskdvowin !!!!!!

[orpancho]

clasico

[Psychedelia1969]

i got here from the movie "Beneath the dark"!!!

[Euro3urger]

wow

[Biorazvr]

But is this the stuff dreams are made of?... Goosebumps...!!

[cyberenric]

Mi banda por excelencia, este album no tiene desperdicio alguno, todavia los escucho y se me ponen los pelos de punta................ love the Chameleons

[jaysen71]

Saweet !!! Love this era of music !!! Oh to be young again :)

[IDisorder7]

Que piezón! Mi preferida de The Chameleons!

[TheAlexrockmetal]

No conocia esta banda me la paso mi hermano y son muy buenos la verdad ya no hay grupos asi lastima .....que bandon acabo de descubrir ....

[tudoretsimon]

que de souvenir en reecoutant cette chanson dans lemition pultion sur r b o en 1986 de quimper 29

[maderock666]

La verdad llevo poco escuchando este grupo del genero, clasico y uno de los padres, sabia de su existencia pero no daba el paso a introducirme en ellos, ya lo hize y creanme que no puedo salir. Esto si que es un grupo que se merece estar en la historia de la musica. Grande chameleons.

[smithsfan86]

ibelieveicansoar, Yeah, I know what you mean. The Smiths, The Chameleons, Sad Lovers and Giants, all gave us timeless music that takes us back to a time, or a place, or to that special someone. Music that could play endlessly in our souls.

[StevOR9]

My Fucking Good, bien jugado a quien subio este video, The Chameleons, una de las mejores bandas.. de la VIDA ENTERAA!!!!!!!!!

poca gente en realidad sabe apreciar lo bueno y siempre es grato ver que aun hay gente que conosca musica de verdad!

saludos desde Lima - Peru !

[deeray41]

I recall the liner notes for Script of the Bridge, which stated the album was "meant to be played loud." Boy, they weren't kidding.

[gigagoldfinder]

LOVE this tune so much!!!

Also love 'Convalescence kid: nothing left to lose' :)

[cesarvilcapoma]

joya es komo un tesoro en el mar solo ke no lo puede hallar nisakar porke dejaria de ser preciado! post punk!

[ScooterCoy]

Which year this was released ???

[ScudX]

@ScooterCoy 1983 on Script of the Bridge, but it had been kicking about as early as 1982. Dreams in Celluloid is an earlier version from before Mark overhauled the lyrics to take a different, darker meaning.

[JJoneEIGHTY]

Iv lived in middleton all my life and grew up with the Chameleons,

reg ives round the corner from me on york road east if your interested! and now works for B&Q! damn shame!

[dwaynedmullins]

@JJoneEIGHTY What is B&Q? (sorry, in the States) ... Love these guys ... saw them on tour a few times here in University. Stellar show!

[Ranger4564]

One of my favorite songs, love the sounds in this song. What a great voice. :)

[JoyDivisiongirl]

my favorite song by them..but it is so bloody hard to choose!

[theirishtony1]

@JoyDivisiongirl Yep.......i have the same problem.Can't seem to decide between this or Less Than Human or Don't Fall or.........?????????? I just love them.Thank the gods for ManchesterLancs.

[dixonite]

@JoyDivisiongirl ...this is one of my very faves as well.....but I put this neck and neck w/ One Flesh......

[missionpants]

I really don't feel ppl know what The Chameleons did to my soul.... Pls keep posting...

[punkminchen]

I used to work in a club called Subway in Osnabrueck, Germany and I got the chance to see the Chameleons there when I should have been working Hmm.. Fat chance!! Absolutely loved their gigs, lyrics and all and still do!!!

[gwrscoob]

i love this track to bits !!! it brings me so many good memories , as great music !!! and great times , thanks bro for the introducing to the chameleons 16 years ago !!!

they still rock

[rabriga]

chidooooteee

[rabriga]

chingon grupo esta si era buena musica me cae lastima ya no hacen buena musica como antes saludos

[lauraalba71]

Excelentes, uno de los mejores grupos de todos los tiempos. Me alegra ver a paisanos que también los aprecian. Gracias por subir el tema...

[lauraalba71]

Uno de los mejores grupos de todos los tiempos... Me alegra de encontrar paisanos que los aprecien como se merecen, gracias por subirlo

[Lonegan63]

@lauraalba71

Gracias a ti ;) The Chameleons (y su álbum Script of the bridge) fueron una de mis preferencias ochenteras

Saludos!

[smithsfan86]

Why does this song even have to end? It could just go on and on and on..........

[ibelieveicansoar]

@smithsfan86 I often feel the same about "How Soon Is Now?"

[rabriga]

@lauraalba71 si estan chidos de hecho estos y ximox estan muy chidos escuchalo si no  has escuchado a ximox camara hay de rato.

[badgerboy1974]

Scooter have done a great cover of this tune, and its amazing!!!!

[ScooterCoy]

@badgerboy1974 Yeah so true. It's so fantastic. My anthem :) THE BEST !!!!

[abogadokayakista]

sin duda chameleons junto the sound deberian estar en todos los posters de los adolescentes de los 80 a los MM,but live in this comunity, thanks lonegan.hay unas grabaciones tipo peel sessions de horrible calidad, pero son ellos.aguante manchester

[Kenbutimalo]

such a wonderful song. I love it. Grüsse aus Deutschland!

[darthsaya]

@Kenbutimalo totally a great song, but what about  X mal Deutschaland??? kick ass german band! Das ist gut musik! Tschuss!

[AndyTheNihil]

LEGENDARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for uploading this one my friend!

Cheers

Andy

[jpl7676]

jpl

[kemicon]

I love that hollow sounding guitar riff, gives me fricken goose-bumps. One of the more haunting Chameleons tracks and I think that's saying something.

[doomfour]

i emerged from my cocoon burgess the bolox

[carolinesfingers]

saw them live at Fengers Ballroom in Long Beach CA. It's no longer there but the music is

[mrshankly213]

yeh under an influence, this song is truly amazing!

[frauensslin]

I have to cry every time when I hear this song. I heard it at my holidays last year with my father again and again. Three months later he died. I always must imagine that he might felt this way it is described in this song, the evening he died. It comforts me, thinking hes still there "floathing on air", watching me and my mother.

[xreddragonx]

@frauensslin Wow, you nearly made me cry reading this. Sorry about your loss.

[2ambrokennail]

The best band ever IMO...but hey, I grew up to their sound since 1982 - the gigs, the albums, the people who followed them, the highs, the lows. This song still holds so much emotion and passion. I'm glad there are people out there that connect to this wonderful music! Cheers all! Bracknell pete.

[JoyDivisiongirl]

so many many memories when i listen to them...especially great times with my friends driving around in the car...this blasting..doing some acid..smoking a joint...just good good times...very nostalgic music for me...so bloody good!!!

[xreddragonx]

@JoyDivisiongirl Sorry, but do you really have to attach such a beautiful song to your drugging/partying memories? It doesn't seem fitting at all. In fact it doesn't even seem like a "social" song, but rather a song you absorb in solitude. Just saying.

[Hexogenik]

@xreddragonx it means what it means to who it means something to.

[JoyDivisiongirl]

@xreddragonx it can be..and still is a beautiful song...whether my friends and i were high or not...and,actually,i did and still do listen to them alone..but it was my best friend who introduced me to them and we shared many many amazing times together,drugs or not...and the music made us even closer..that is the power of the music...have you not shared this music with your friends and created beautiful memories together...if not,you should try it.it will bring you that much closer.

[woohoolf]

these guys r simply amazing. no words.

[christospapan]

A masterpiece to be played constantly LOUDER AND LOUDER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MsCyclamen]

carina..

[ecuanalo]

excelente rolaaaaa!!!

[AndyTheNihil]

if this is the stuff dreams are made of...no wonder I feel like I'm floating on air....!!!

One of the best build ups ever made

Fantastic!!

[MarcoGelido]

no preguntes, siento como si flotara sobre el aire

asi me siento al oir esta maravillosa cancion.

[PiedadOrtiz1]

Esto es caerse en el tunel del tiempo.

Lo mejor!!!!!

[thesound59]

The bands entire Catalogue is fantastic.! Mark Burgess is a great writer. Both Fielding and Smithies are wonderful guitarists. Too bad Fielding has a personality disorder.

[TheK9Charlie]

Heard this for the first time in `87 and it sill gives me goosebumps.

[TheK9Charlie]

This is stunning! Mark Burgess is god!

[1dragonleader]

erinnert moch irgendwie an cure ;O)

[MMJyyyMORPHMEN]

... endless tears of joy and pain i cried to this...

[CrimsonGhost85]

I cant think of any other words to describe this than TOTALLY FUCKEN AWESOME

[javierarmando09]

Este si que es un super ROLON!!! De mis favoritas de todos los tiempos!!!

[micasa65]

années 80 toute ma jeunesse

buenisimo !

[montse1350]

Precious! 5***

[AndyTheNihil]

If this is the stuff dreams are made of....no wonder I feel like I'm floating on air!!!!!!!! What a lyrical hook yeah?!!!!.... Pure Brill!

[00x98pd]

when i frist heard this group on radio i use 2 think it was U2

[gladbecker82]

I like the new Version of Scooter better, sorry

[montse1350]

Ya la puntué hace un tiempo, pero vuelvo a ello! 5***

[IamUberStein]

This is one of the most beautiful songs by The Chameleons. Rainy day music.

[SiouxsieSehnsucht]

Wow !!! I loved it! That unique sound and wonderful! Thanksss

[Lonegan63]

many thnx! Sioux

[ThePbatty]

Such an old boy now, saw them at leeds uni in 87 - stunning still a gem!

[175taylor]

You lucky sod, very jealous. I only managed to see them as The Sun and the Moon in Nottingham , still superb.

[mobyboy]

these guitars are so delight !

[lrrlrr]

Amazing band live

[ErikVilardo]

wow, I used to think this was a Jesus On Extasy song, but this must be the original.

[175taylor]

I had never heard of Jesus On Extasy. Their version grows and grows on you. Thanks for the introduction to a new band for me and one I really like. I will listen to more, try more Chameleons, you will neve be the same again !

[ErikVilardo]

yeah I have been listening to a lot of Chameleons :)

I think im going to say I like the original better, but I also like the JoE version a lot, and was also the first JoE song I heard, not knowing it was a cover then.

[harebellish]

dedicated to a starman who fell to earth

[shreivox]

I have not yet focused on the lyrics (I'm greek), but I'm conviced that it has to do something with death and rebirth.

[175taylor]

I remember logging on to a Chameloens site 18 months ago and it had their songs lyrics and some of the explanations.

However, whatever this song means to you is the real meaning. To me its the realisation that time doesnt go backwards, past happy times and loved ones are just that, the past. When you understand the past then the present and future fit. A load of bollocks, I hear you say, but thats what it has meant to me since the first day I heard it. The greatest song by a great band.

[shreivox]

@175taylor , thanks for the information

[exzealient]

I always listen to this as I turn off the lights on my motocycle and throttle up on the M4 (anytime around 3am)....the greatest song of all time

[johnisdead316]

I discovered The Chameleons this year and am pretty happy about it. This is probably the song of theirs that cuts through me the most. It has a timeless feeling to it, and yet critically if there is no afterlife, the song only beams more with a dark credibility.

[DonnieDarko1]

folks, have you seen the actual stats on these guys, in the past month or so, there has been a surge in people's interest in this band from sooo long ago, I LOVE THE CHAMELEONS, i cannot forget the original youtube upload of these guys and have been hooked on them EVER F@#$ SINCE, am soo glad and so angry it has taken me 20YRS to find em. my veins are filled the chameleons juice.

[osomahoney]

Welcome to the club. Listening to The Chameleons for the first time in the 80s was like falling into a familiar, fortifying dream. I lived in Manchester in '84-'85 and know the veins The Chameleons inhabit.

[fiscornioman]

Did you know that Mark Burgess did a research about near-death real testimonies to write this song?

[jenlikeshorses]

I am so asking him if thats true lol

[fiscornioman]

Do it!

And tell Mark that hes the fucking best.

Is he aware of the insane amount of Chameleons "through youtube" fans that exist?

Cheers!

[Kamon67]

my favorite song from the Chameleons uk

beauty

[Sandboge]

My god...what a wonderful song and what a wonderful band!!!! :-)

Floating on air here....

[cosmicrider287]

one of the best 80s bands,period.

[WayToSaveTheWorld]

"If this is the stuff dreams are made of, no wonder I feel like I'm floating on air" has to be one of the best lyrics ever written.

[dubokoon]

Una de las mejores canciones de su época, de esas que se cuentan con los dedos de las manos. Desde que nació no me he cansado de escucharla... Gracias por el vídeo!

[montse1350]

buenisima!!!

[aloisseimum]

suckaaaaaaaaaaaaaz

[arminjohnert]

what a brilliant tune this still is after all that years I love it more every day, everytimje I hear it. THANKS, guys!!

[frearrifo]

este grupo es lo mas parecido a la música que e deseado tocar desde que soy roquero!!!

[SirDunlop]

No me estraña para nada, eso dice mucho de tu alta calidad en la musica, puesto q son inigualables. Suerte.

[ikey76]

The feeling this song gives me is so intense. Like sad and happy at the same time. This song makes me feel great to be alive!! It evokes so much feeling its simply sublime!

[TheDiscoLemon]

Yes, that's how I feel right now as I am listening to this song. It has a strong dreamlike feel and a strange melancholic beauty to it... definitely sublime. Songs like this are rare...

[twinks76]

@ikey76 Couldnt have put it better myself. x

[miskiabicha]

@ikey76 simply sublime!!! precise comment.

[carpenoctem66]

Wow! I can't believe I've never heard this! I've been listening to the Chameleons for years!

[TheDiscoLemon]

Have you listened to the rest of Script of the Bridge? It's an awesome album.

[carpenoctem66]

Yes! I have nearly every album they released. My favorite has to be Strange Times.

[karziflora]

The Guitars sounds so Dreamy....I'm hooked to this sound...Fielding & Smithies are UNDERRATED!

[alfajuj]

This was by far my favorite band as a teenager in the eighties. They really had a very special, atmospheric sound that is still unique and appealing after all these years. They've stood the test of time.

[akkira377]

Je te rejoins 13MARY pour moi c'était en 90 que l'on ma fait découvrir THE CHAMELEONS QU'ELLE CLAQUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

que de soirée a s'endormir avec leur musique dans les oreilles...... NOSTALGY ...............

[13MARY67]

"Script of the Bridge" l'album le plus émouvant qu'il m'ait été permis d'entendre, et ce depuis sa sortie, j'étais toute jeune !

[kitdrige]

esta es la musica que espero escuchar en los cielos musica para los dioses

[toomuchpablo]

he publicado una respuesta a tu video, a ver que te parecen las guitarras de los lords :)

[toomuchpablo]

QUE TEMAZO POR DIOS

[AllErikaEclectica]

Estoy de acuerdo. Es una joya.

[karziflora]

SIMPLY DIVINE!!!

[soulsickbastard]

what you mean to say that the Muslims??

[m17r]

theres a special place in my heart for this song,it reminds me of being 17 and being free and wild.

[zerocoolminx]

Mesmerizing....one of the best songs ever!

[Apocalypsion]

In one word; the best song in the world. It gets me hypnotized, really. His voice and I know what he means in this song..

[mellifiedman23]

WAAAYYY longer than one word!!!

[creasesofhope]

Interestingly, it is not what the song means, as much as it is the way it is said. It is, oftentimes, easy to intellectualize a concept, quite another to feel it. Kudos to the Chameleons for pulling it off.

[deineelectro]

this song are the most inspire dream do i feel , whent i was listened , thats the reason to live, the reason it´s the music

[cosmicrider287]

these melody is what dreams are made of.

[fiscornioman]

I like the fact that Mark did a good research about near-death experiences to write this song.

Thats being an artist.

[rubbersouth]

lucy en el cielo con diamantes flota en el aire detras de los chanchos voladores buscando una escalera al cielo para llegar al lado obscuro de la luna donde se esconde el sargento peppers con sus ojos kaleidoscopicos

[ale9164]

makes me float in the air

[ale9164]

I was born at their time, in the 80's. but never heard of them cause the majors.

This is a band I really appreciate.. and the song makes me float in the air...

[ale9164]

è un gruppo che ho stranamente conosciuto da poco tempo, nonsotante abbia scoperto essere degli anni ottanta..

spiace che si siano sciolti dopo pochi anni, è un gruppo che apprezzo moltissimo

[clavisisback]

It's my favorite song of this fantastic band !

Chameleons for ever ! ! !

[darinnear]

perfect

[beauty8116]

Simply brilliant! The band that should have been.

[jenlikeshorses]

<3 <3 <3

[suurferoo]

desde luego que es una joya , que recuerdos

[GHBenny]

This song was touched by the hand of God, possibly greatest song ever written?

[THEREEGS]

The Reegs [D Fielding/Reg Smithies] 2 cd album out today

my space thereegsdefinitivecdset

[blackbird56000]

cette chanson me rapelle que de bons vieux souvenirs !!!!!!!!!

[LOMBRADY71]

The Chameleons best song, and one of the greatest ever written by any band.

[Ghostorchid2]

Great song!! Thanks J-C for the share!

Thanks for posting Lonegan63! 5/5!!

[Daviltiago]

amazing band!!!!!!!!!!!

[triffle69]

great song great band .....chamelons.EATB, forever

[Gloomshadow1]

I love these guys, they had a very "Gothic" sound to them, they remind me of "The Mission" sometimes