What does this have to do with emo? it's just a terrible attempt at fusing New Romantic and Goth styles, somehow missing the middle-ground that already existed between the two. Emo (or "Scene"), as we know it in the 2000s, is just a bastard child of 90s pop-punk and 90s goth.
Anyway, i think this video should be the new Rick Roll. lolz
@Ntron933 - Ew please don't ever draw a line between goth and emo... I mean, I know it's technically there but bleh.... they're so different there really shouldn't be... emo was the worst thing that ever happened to music youth culture. -- It cheapened everything with strong emotions in it.
emo was invented in the 80's thats true but all tho bands like fugazi and sunny day real estate all suck! so i don't see why you or i sould defend it.
It's a bit amusing how some are vehemently defending "emo"...
It was not known as such back then. I remember some used to wear fluorescent colors layered with black lace and of course...converse shoes. Today's emo followers are attracted by what is, now, clearly a fashion trend. Tons of look-a-likes is all I see.
The song and video on the other hand, was quite boring.
emo was known back then but was linked to bands as hüsker dü (zen arcade) and rites of spring.
though this bands were also only rarely linked to the definition emo. also "old" emo was something completely different then nowadays emo. (still nowadays emo is covering a far spread and sometimes totally different styles of music. for example emo core and indie-emo)
The video is fairly boring. It's another New Wave fashion show.
As for fashion, most music fanatics tend to emulate the fashion sense of the genre they follow. You (or whoever your avatar is) are dressed like the typical pretentious,artsy fartsy,european (usually French or German) darkwave/industrial musician.
@Americansince91 : Yes, that is, me. But I'd have to say that's a very presumptuous opinion, and all from an image the size of 3/4 of an inch? I happen to not follow any particular trends. As for the genres, my taste is not fixated! but rather, broad.
That being said, I have no idea what your point was, in the end.
Sorry,Boner Symphony...this song was worlds better when Three Dog Night did it back in 1983. And just who in the hell were they,anyway??? Obviously some late last minute new wave joke that never made it.
'Boner Symphony' hur hur hur that was funny, and by funny I mean fucking retarded. I agree that Three Dog Night did it better but please don't attempt comedy again, you unfunny idiot.
No,no,nOOOOOOO!!! What is this? Howard Jones with a goth wig? C'mon... no-one sees through this? Sure they might be good musicians and all but why try a genre to be "hip" or "cool" when you don't even understand the genre to begin with!
Emo actually is older than you think. It first started as "emotional hardcore" in the early 80's following the hardcore punk movement. Rites of Spring and Embrace were some of the first "emo" bands, it wasn't until the 2000s when it changed it's sound to what it is now.
Emo is from the mid-80's post-hardcore scene in Washington DC, formed around bands like Rites of Spring, Embrace Gray Matter, Moss Icon and Fire Party.
Later it went to be evolve into bands like Fugazi.
Emo in the 00's has nothing to do with real emo.
I like this music, but don't brag about music knowledge if what you are saying is wrong
@nouveauxdecadence Actually, emo was invented in the mid 80s by post-punk bands like Rites of Spring, and innovated by bands like Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate (All good bands by the way). Past 2000, basically critics use emo as a genre to throw around to a band that doesn't fit anywhere. Which is why Coheed & Cambria are mislabeled as emo all the time. Emo is basically just music with confessional or expressive lyrics. And you claim you know more about music than whoever you say that to?
you have no idea what emo is...clearly. emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace. it became a trend because little kids were whiney bitches.
@bigolballsacks Good explanation of Emo as it did have its roots in hardcore. Screamo is often grouped in with Emo, but it stayed closer to hardcore punk. Actually, not all Emo is bad, and some decent musicianship can be found there.
CRAP, there is NO sound? There was last week. Bloody You Tube are doing this ALOT, copyright issues. It is SO unfair!!!! To many laws in this world...
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Apparently in the early 80's, you did not need talent. You just had to be weird as fuck and coked out of your mind. These guys saw Blade Runner, then went shopping for clothes.
SOCCERSPAM - Are you really this stupid? Can't you recognize a joke? Way to e-thug me hoser, I hope you feel like a big man now. Not only do you fail at the Interweb, but by defending this Euro-faggotry, you fail at life too. The only thing worse than soccer is Canada.
Yes i am defending this 'piece of shit' and i'm proud of it. Maybe i should defend that ugly grunge music that came out of sewer in the beginnings of '90s?? Or maybe 50 cents or i don't know what shit kids listen these days? If you don't like melodic music and are a homophobe retard afraid of your feelings try UFC, maybe some beetings will clear your thoughts... peace
Best examples of New Wave would be early Simple Minds, The Fixx and Flock Of Seagulls. Best examples of Italo would be Righeira, Ryan Paris and Fun Fun. I'd call this Synth Pop. Same catagory as Real Life, Reflex and Wang Chung.
Scott Wilk did an album called "Scott Wilk and The Walls". I have the vinyl of it but would LOVE to have it on cd. He was so brilliant, such a great talent in THAT group AND Bone Symphony, but Scott Wilk and The Walls was a little "rougher", not quite so electronically infused.
Great song though, bad makeup - but great song. LOL :-)
Oh my God! I can't believe someone posted this! I used to have this EP. I got it and You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess by Yello in trade for In The Garden by Eurythmics. (Mind this was all on vinyl.) My favorite song on the Bone Symphony EP was Everything I Say Is A Lie.
Hmmm.. this ones new to me. I can totally hear where the OP gets the Oingo Boingo, and Shriekback references. don't really hear the soft cell though? It also kind of reminds me of Kon Kan, and Secession.
I love this song! I used to have the cassette ep of this and have oft lamented the fact the tape self-destructed. Anyone know how I might find this on cd?
mono?
Khyrid 2 months ago
All I want to know is.. where is the sound!!
VarnaVix 2 months ago
\o/
26271892 2 months ago
they must have feeled stupid when they see it now
1111111111sword 4 months ago
I got no sound when I played this!!!
syderwarp 4 months ago
This came out in 83 I can't understand the hate.
TwoGiantLeftFeet 5 months ago
Uhhh totaly butchered. Bonnie Tyler is much better.
lilmissltap 8 months ago
Wow this brought back a lot of memories.
marinedad2112 9 months ago
What does this have to do with emo? it's just a terrible attempt at fusing New Romantic and Goth styles, somehow missing the middle-ground that already existed between the two. Emo (or "Scene"), as we know it in the 2000s, is just a bastard child of 90s pop-punk and 90s goth.
Anyway, i think this video should be the new Rick Roll. lolz
Ntron933 11 months ago
@Ntron933 - Ew please don't ever draw a line between goth and emo... I mean, I know it's technically there but bleh.... they're so different there really shouldn't be... emo was the worst thing that ever happened to music youth culture. -- It cheapened everything with strong emotions in it.
IHVHandmind 4 months ago
Fantastic video.
I watch this video a few times a month and don't feel very strongly to the song at all.
Medazzone 1 year ago
emo was invented in the 80's thats true but all tho bands like fugazi and sunny day real estate all suck! so i don't see why you or i sould defend it.
majesticflesh 1 year ago
LOL @ The Andrew Eldritch look-a-like at approx. 1:50
TheLeatherNunn 1 year ago
good for you
piguezapig 1 year ago
does sound like oingo boingo
TymexPyres 1 year ago
It's a bit amusing how some are vehemently defending "emo"...
It was not known as such back then. I remember some used to wear fluorescent colors layered with black lace and of course...converse shoes. Today's emo followers are attracted by what is, now, clearly a fashion trend. Tons of look-a-likes is all I see.
The song and video on the other hand, was quite boring.
BeautyinDiatoms 1 year ago
@BeautyinDiatoms
emo was known back then but was linked to bands as hüsker dü (zen arcade) and rites of spring.
though this bands were also only rarely linked to the definition emo. also "old" emo was something completely different then nowadays emo. (still nowadays emo is covering a far spread and sometimes totally different styles of music. for example emo core and indie-emo)
iwannawatchrratedvid 1 year ago
@BeautyinDiatoms
The video is fairly boring. It's another New Wave fashion show.
As for fashion, most music fanatics tend to emulate the fashion sense of the genre they follow. You (or whoever your avatar is) are dressed like the typical pretentious,artsy fartsy,european (usually French or German) darkwave/industrial musician.
Americansince91 1 year ago
@Americansince91 : Yes, that is, me. But I'd have to say that's a very presumptuous opinion, and all from an image the size of 3/4 of an inch? I happen to not follow any particular trends. As for the genres, my taste is not fixated! but rather, broad.
That being said, I have no idea what your point was, in the end.
BeautyinDiatoms 1 year ago
Sorry,Boner Symphony...this song was worlds better when Three Dog Night did it back in 1983. And just who in the hell were they,anyway??? Obviously some late last minute new wave joke that never made it.
liveup5 1 year ago
@liveup5
'Boner Symphony' hur hur hur that was funny, and by funny I mean fucking retarded. I agree that Three Dog Night did it better but please don't attempt comedy again, you unfunny idiot.
Americansince91 1 year ago
good electronic
necronominate 1 year ago
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No,no,nOOOOOOO!!! What is this? Howard Jones with a goth wig? C'mon... no-one sees through this? Sure they might be good musicians and all but why try a genre to be "hip" or "cool" when you don't even understand the genre to begin with!
blzbug242 1 year ago
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blzbug242 1 year ago
i need to know how she did her hair like that, me and aquanet are best friends but damn i cant get my hair to look that cool :(
vxtip556 1 year ago
I bet they had a difficult time in high school. hee hee
BipolarBowler 1 year ago
i love finding videos i never even knew existed :)
newwavepop 1 year ago
oh shit fuck!!! mtv plays music videos!?
birinbirinbirin 2 years ago 44
@birinbirinbirin Yeah I know what you mean!!!
necronominate 1 year ago
@birinbirinbirin HAHAHA! Yeah, and back then, the videos that they played actually had some sort of talent. It wasn't that mindless thug crap.
DarthVil 1 year ago
@birinbirinbirin
Once upon a time, yes
CesMan83 11 months ago
damn right
paloriggs 2 years ago
...disorder and confusion everywhere?
K4800M3R5 2 years ago
...a jungle.......out there
paloriggs 2 years ago 3
it certainly is
paloriggs 2 years ago
More like Human Leagues meets Patty Smythe meets Flock of Seagulls... "not that there's anything wrong with that."
xrayzebra 2 years ago
Waaaaaaaaaaait a minute, I was expecting Monk.
FiloVanMewa 2 years ago 5
me too
KiwNT 2 years ago
@FiloVanMewa
lol me too ..but instead i found a bunch of freak show .
SarahAlkumi 1 year ago
Puta q esta bueno este video tuve este disco por muchos años nunca lo tome en cuenta ni se donde quedo es mas ni sabia q tenia video
fetoveryfun 2 years ago 2
Fabulous, METHODS OF DANCE ion evry way imaginable!
People born 1990 and after should all be killed, they don't know SHIT about musik*
nouveauxdecadence 3 years ago
Thanks...
You know...we're not All stupid fucks.
PsychedOut17 2 years ago
hahah your a sad lonely prick ha haaaa
theboyfromwoy 2 years ago
Blah, Blah, Blah
nouveauxdecadence 2 years ago 3
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bitch i know more about music than u do probably... and this music makes me think about pussy emos
FilthyStooge 2 years ago
Blah, Blah, Blah.
This track is 80s love, Emo is a stupid trend invented in the 00's, and believe me.... I know more about music than you ever would!
nouveauxdecadence 2 years ago 25
hahaha i really doubt that :)
FilthyStooge 2 years ago
Yeah, I love u 2 darling
nouveauxdecadence 2 years ago
@nouveauxdecadence
Emo actually is older than you think. It first started as "emotional hardcore" in the early 80's following the hardcore punk movement. Rites of Spring and Embrace were some of the first "emo" bands, it wasn't until the 2000s when it changed it's sound to what it is now.
Teknoskan 1 year ago
@nouveauxdecadence
then you'd know emo actually was an underground scene in the early 90's (:
but i dislike the new hot topic emokids, and i know what you're talking about.
Glowb0t 1 year ago
@nouveauxdecadence
Emo is from the mid-80's post-hardcore scene in Washington DC, formed around bands like Rites of Spring, Embrace Gray Matter, Moss Icon and Fire Party.
Later it went to be evolve into bands like Fugazi.
Emo in the 00's has nothing to do with real emo.
I like this music, but don't brag about music knowledge if what you are saying is wrong
Shuei5 1 year ago
@nouveauxdecadence Actually, emo was invented in the mid 80s by post-punk bands like Rites of Spring, and innovated by bands like Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate (All good bands by the way). Past 2000, basically critics use emo as a genre to throw around to a band that doesn't fit anywhere. Which is why Coheed & Cambria are mislabeled as emo all the time. Emo is basically just music with confessional or expressive lyrics. And you claim you know more about music than whoever you say that to?
kkkisgay75 1 year ago 2
@kkkisgay75 THUMBS UP! I'd say our friend nouveauxdecadence confused fashion with music at some point :D
Vinfested 1 year ago
@nouveauxdecadence if you did know so much emo started in te late 80's and went gay in the 2000's emo use to be strait up punk
ABMayweather 1 year ago
@nouveauxdecadence Emo was invented in 1985. Silly.
OSWNOSWNOSWN 1 year ago
@nouveauxdecadence
Well if you'd know that much about music you'd know that emo came in 90-91.
You seem to have no clue what emo even is
Symbton 3 months ago
@nouveauxdecadence
you have no idea what emo is...clearly. emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace. it became a trend because little kids were whiney bitches.
bigolballsacks 3 months ago
@bigolballsacks Good explanation of Emo as it did have its roots in hardcore. Screamo is often grouped in with Emo, but it stayed closer to hardcore punk. Actually, not all Emo is bad, and some decent musicianship can be found there.
mrsolofeo 2 months ago
@mrsolofeo
Yea, I basically see screamo as a emotional hardcore punk haha.
bigolballsacks 2 months ago
@nouveauxdecadence Nailed it!!!!
stvtron 1 week ago
If you are thinking that, then you obviously DON'T know more about this music than they do. Do you even know what New Wave is?
RFrayo 2 years ago
why is there no sound? or is that just me???
a0217 3 years ago
CRAP, there is NO sound? There was last week. Bloody You Tube are doing this ALOT, copyright issues. It is SO unfair!!!! To many laws in this world...
nouveauxdecadence 2 years ago
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Apparently in the early 80's, you did not need talent. You just had to be weird as fuck and coked out of your mind. These guys saw Blade Runner, then went shopping for clothes.
DRUED0WN 3 years ago
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what a faggot
uobert 3 years ago
Yes, I agree, that singer is totally flaming.
DRUED0WN 3 years ago
yea because music now is just so fucking talented
those jonas brothers and hannah montana rule right? you make me sick
vxtip556 3 years ago 4
DRUED0WN You'd better listen to your Hannah F. Montana CD kiddoo. what do you know about music and talent?
Soccerham 3 years ago
SOCCERSPAM - Are you really this stupid? Can't you recognize a joke? Way to e-thug me hoser, I hope you feel like a big man now. Not only do you fail at the Interweb, but by defending this Euro-faggotry, you fail at life too. The only thing worse than soccer is Canada.
DRUED0WN 3 years ago
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Agree with DRUE, this song is fucking stupid. :P
And they do look like queers... Hannah Montana sucks balls too btw... xD
FilthyStooge 3 years ago
Well she does now lol!
Thebookguy1 3 years ago
You are stupid dumbass so shut the F up and go and listen to Nirvana, that suits your kind anyway
AORCrazy 2 years ago
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you seriously defending this piece of shit.. -.-"
FilthyStooge 2 years ago
Yes i am defending this 'piece of shit' and i'm proud of it. Maybe i should defend that ugly grunge music that came out of sewer in the beginnings of '90s?? Or maybe 50 cents or i don't know what shit kids listen these days? If you don't like melodic music and are a homophobe retard afraid of your feelings try UFC, maybe some beetings will clear your thoughts... peace
AORCrazy 2 years ago 4
Hahahaha no joke... there was some really good music from the 80's but this is not even close.
BMFahrtz 3 years ago 2
This song is pretty good!
emmiemonk 3 years ago
Sorry m8 but italo disco and new wave are not the same types of music, similar yes but not the same!
AORCrazy 3 years ago
I agree.
Best examples of New Wave would be early Simple Minds, The Fixx and Flock Of Seagulls. Best examples of Italo would be Righeira, Ryan Paris and Fun Fun. I'd call this Synth Pop. Same catagory as Real Life, Reflex and Wang Chung.
Paardekut 3 years ago
funny we called New Wave what the Europeans called Italo. They are practiacally peas in a pod.
drnrg31 3 years ago
always a fun song to listen to
SOHASDEAD 3 years ago
wow a true gem!!!
SPOON007a 3 years ago
I love the Three Dog Night version of this. It holds up better and doesn't sound dated like this one.
MuzzikLvr 3 years ago
dated isn't the right word considering this is new wave and three dog night was active in the 60s
uobert 3 years ago
Scott Wilk did an album called "Scott Wilk and The Walls". I have the vinyl of it but would LOVE to have it on cd. He was so brilliant, such a great talent in THAT group AND Bone Symphony, but Scott Wilk and The Walls was a little "rougher", not quite so electronically infused.
Great song though, bad makeup - but great song. LOL :-)
happyhead64 3 years ago
does anyone have the version of bonnie tyler? it's great!
allcatslover 4 years ago
wasn't this used in some d.b. porno? i remember it well
peace0ff 4 years ago
Great video, I love it's mood...much more better than the music itself.
poisondoor 4 years ago
the song has to grow on you. its not that catchy for nowdays standards and has many chord and arrangement changes.
Jauly 3 years ago
Oh my God! I can't believe someone posted this! I used to have this EP. I got it and You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess by Yello in trade for In The Garden by Eurythmics. (Mind this was all on vinyl.) My favorite song on the Bone Symphony EP was Everything I Say Is A Lie.
stvartak 4 years ago
For Icelandic 80s overkill see
Fóstbræður - MogoJacket
EQlizer 4 years ago
I wish someone would post "Every thing I say is a lie" from Bone Symphony.
sync5controller 4 years ago
Hmmm.. this ones new to me. I can totally hear where the OP gets the Oingo Boingo, and Shriekback references. don't really hear the soft cell though? It also kind of reminds me of Kon Kan, and Secession.
VernianProcess 5 years ago
I actually have this in my iPod ... I thought I was the only person that remembered this song!
groovedigger00 5 years ago
Great song, great EP, I think I have the 12" Extended Version as well... have not seen this video in over 23 years! :-)
vespaboy2006 5 years ago
I love this song! I used to have the cassette ep of this and have oft lamented the fact the tape self-destructed. Anyone know how I might find this on cd?
Deepwatermusic 5 years ago
Thanks for posting this - haven't seen it for 20 years (I'm the guitar player!) Don't know whether to laugh or cry... :)
mlevinthal 5 years ago 2
Nah really?
Timinator62 5 years ago
Marc? Seriously?
Well, don't cry! It's been twenty years since I've seen this video too, but I still think you're cute!
JenKatZen 4 years ago