Thompson Twins - We Are Detective

[lincbond442]

This great song is one of the many reasons why I love those Reagan years.

[Mariogamerduenaz]

This Thompson Twins song is just so amazing

[TheBookWorm1718]

@Mariogamerduenaz It's addicting is what it is!

[andrew1236]

I love this video and song when it came out - AND I love it now!

[taffyvw]

only 2nd best to pet shop boys when comparing 80's new wave music

[Dashland13]

This is THE BEST quality of this video I have ever seen. Thanks for posting it!

[machina37]

Awesome 1983 year,awesome band and music !!!

[1966buttons]

Adore Thompson Twins

[bonghitt]

i still think allanah currie is hot

[AXABOD]

I felt in love with this again! thanks

[JohnnyLovely2]

i love this song, sidekicks is a great album

[endorphinz]

Alannah is ridiculously sexy to me in this video lol :)

[celinapink7]

I love the thompson twins but this just is not their best.

[cheznoel]

I watch this over and over and over... ; }

[freak0n8ure]

Absolutely beautiful!!!

[thompson03]

dude get perfect day by thompson tiwns! love that song lol

[uksnootyfox]

The Eighties really were a golden age for music, and music videos... Brings back memories for me (was at college). There's a generation for young people now who just don't know how good "pop" music can be!

[marc08110]

@uksnootyfox YOU SAID A MOUTH FULL BROTHER

[EatinCactus]

I love this group, I love the hair, and the videos!!! OMG, I did find a hat like hers too! Mine was red and yes I wore it!

[TVWriterGuy]

Alannah was the cake behind the frosting.

[sorencable]

Fab memories..buying Smash Hits mag on a saturday so i could get the lyrics!!!

[mclenkaful]

Nice song ....

Once I worked around this job ....

[bryanm1734]

i agree audio and video quality is great just like HQ was back in the day :)

[elsoda]

soooooo darn infectious! the days when it was a pleasure to listen to the radio and watch MTV..unlike now..nothing but garbage.

[manboobbear]

While that video is cheesy by today's standard, I just LOVE "Sidekicks", its LP. I guess in the UK it was called something else. Also, wikipedia said Joe of the Thompson Twins was biracial. I always thought he had two Black parents. Go figure.

[OldishMusic]

I do so enjoy listening to this song. Never would have known of it if my mate hadn't got me the Top Of The Pops 1983 CD. Whatta great load of tunes!!!

Oh my, how that singer is gorgeous.... Nom nom nom xxx

[OriginalMsNewBooty]

tom could be my daddy but he's still hott lol

[jdohe]

That's nothing.. Tiger Woods could be the daddy of hundreds of kids! Tiger should get an endorsement from Exxon and wear a shirt saying "Filling Station".

[Rolanoid]

so awesome to see and hear this fabulous song again!

[machina37]

I remember this -was a summer of 1983!Thanks for posting it! Stunning song !

[judebert]

I haven't heard this in SO long. And I'd never seen the video. Thanks for posting it!

[bloodrunsclear]

Tim Burton started a band O_O

[seanie222]

Id like the first 19 seconds of this as my ringtone! :)

[JoseMad1981]

It´s Abba´s "Head Over Heels" Part 2

[WaddeDarinDarin]

( The ideal of this video came from an experience from france.)

 Thompson Twins-Theme Song

[TVWriterGuy]

the 80s. great fun we had. Thmpsn Twns put on great shows.

[ColumRogers]

I watched this a couple of hours ago on Synth Britania so i just had to look it up.

Love it.

[wombatmore]

i got goose bumps, but i love it

their looks are quite current ; )

[fyfytj]

It's not that their looks are current, but people in the present day look eighties.

[davehmfc1]

you should do more of these vids, the quality of this one is superb

[jmetal88]

Do you mean more from the Single Vision VHS?  I just figured most of the rest of them were already uploaded, but I suppose I could record a few more if there's a demand.

[shooterwall]

its Hugh Grant

[scidriver]

Alanah does a good siouxsie sioux

[Blamberweiserscheise]

Oh, you consider her as Siouxsie, but maybe you're a good detective...

An eighties hit I regret, we love them all.

I just would love to have news from Tom, Alannah and Joe, just to know everything is ok with them.

But I mis the trio.

[maraisreq]

Alannah Currie - the hottest drag queen EVER !!!!!

[RoMeOHoMeO]

@maraisreq I believe this was meant as a compliment (and I'd wager a guess that Alannah would take it that way as well!)

Those eyes are just so over-the-top dramatic! If I'm not mistaken, it's the ONLY Twins song from the '80s (there's some lesser known early '90s songs she may have backed up on, and then, of course, her GORGEOUS songs as Babble!!) that she sings in, and it's just purely delightful!

[charmedcripchic]

such a piss take {parody, spoof} of the old spy intrigue films

[Obadiahstrangetroos]

I am so bloomin old, used to love these nutters back in the day!!

[SimonDolan]

Terrible lyrics - we are select.....come to collect!

[SimonDolan]

This song came free with packs of Weetabix.

[lambie22]

tom bailey looks cooler than usual in this vid....

[crazylikeafox416]

This song never charted in the US - Did it chart in the UK??

[Northern1961]

Released: 16 april 1983, highest position No7, nine weeks on the chart.

[mobyboy]

yes ! Also in Isreal was quiet a big hit , but vanished unfortantly over the years...

[thenutter2003]

always like the girl with the mad hair the 80.s were and will always be the best thanks for posting

[DelosFive]

Thanks for making the effort and taking the trouble to post this ;)

[mobyboy]

pitty not enough people remember this song ! she used to frighten me

[mortimerbraxis]

sucks unless the standard is sth diff from music...

[MIGUELSAGITTA]

1983

[vaf88]

this is a silly song by todays standards. its like a childrens song "we are detective..." heh

[brycedavid]

This song plays with the band's name, Thompson Twins, which are the Thompson and Thompson detectives found in Tintin cartoons so of course it's supposed to be like a children's song. Geez.

[RoMeOHoMeO]

@brycedavid Well said!! Plus, there's nothing wrong with being like a children's song anyway!!!

[TheBookWorm1718]

@brycedavid I was so surprised when I found out that's where their name had come from, I vaguely remember watching Tintin when I was a kid and those two dumb detectives always meddling in everything, it was so funny.

[equinoxranch]

KillerSammy.....

Love ya, pal... The answer is that back then, it was Reagan and Thatcher (!!!!), not to mention women who (thank God) didn't tattoo, pierce or shave, today it's (perniciously) obi wan obama and odingo (with, sobs.....) women who tattoo, pierce and shave. Small wonder!

[killersammy1]

I will send $50 to anyone who can tell me once and for all why they don't make music like this anymore. Today's music is C-R-A-P

[kenshin8486]

Probably because people are to obsessed with sex and drugs and thereofre listen to the music that condones it such as rap and rock. Rock today is crap and not like what it use to be. African Americans pretty much own music now. I love thompson twins so much that I got a pair of vivienne westwood pirate boots that tom wears.

[tapdancingtess]

one of my favorite thompson twins songs. thanks for posting!

[AvelinoOrnelas]

gracias, obrigado, thanks, merci!!!!

[80sfan1]

Love this, thanks a ton for the vid!!!

[eggnogonthebog]

Thompson Twins tour 2009 we wish

[elsoda]

STOP IT!...dont say that! for a moment i got all excited!! we wish....!

[markyme66]

brings back loads of memories would love to go back then for a week or 2.

[duranie91]

Cool! didn't think they had a video for this!

TT are awesome!

[GAZZA251170]

School disco's,jumpers for goalposts,playing footy till you can't see,first kiss,first cig,first drink,bike rides in the school summer holidays,10p cakes from the tuck shop,Farahs,Ivan Lendls,Sergio Tacchini,Fila,exams,first heartbreak,first girlfriend,school uniforms,paying £3 to watch football,no MTV,proper pop music,Top Of The Pops,The Tube,Grange Hill,Cold War,Now Thats what I call Music i & ii,all these memories tied up in 3 minutes of music!!!

[technoturnip1]

cold war & good music those were the days better than cctv & hoodie scum.