I was 13...I blinked...and I am almost 50. Time flies. What a decade the 80's were.
@richardsmith704
3 жыл бұрын
Not the only one
@scottmurdock01z
3 жыл бұрын
I spent the 80s as a US Marine.Best years of my life. (So far)!
@mikebennett6421
3 жыл бұрын
I feel ya, buddy
@williammassey2156
3 жыл бұрын
Happens fast
@peterallison290
3 жыл бұрын
Yup, me too. Just turned 50. Loved this song.
@LadyLakeMusic
Жыл бұрын
My husband was alive and healthy and we were driving to New England and this song was playing and I thought I’ll remember this forever. I did ❤️💕
@icystreams9561
Жыл бұрын
ohhh thats sounds so great what happened to ur husband he sounds like a true blue
@haydenburridge8643
Жыл бұрын
That sounds wonderful so sorry to hear about your husbands death what did he die of sounds like a true blue
@netoluna1
Жыл бұрын
Do not doubt that he continues to hear it in heaven and remembering the same moment
@funtimes8296
11 ай бұрын
Just please promise me you won't get alzheimer's 😜
@hendrikdebruin4012
11 ай бұрын
@@funtimes8296 Do not be flippant. Life is strange my friend. Greetings from darkest Africa.
@AldenRDavis
3 ай бұрын
#DreamAcademy #LifeInANorthernTown #80sMusic.. anyone still loving this in the new year 2024 with the awesome old school music power of classic MTV?
@philgee7249
2 ай бұрын
Yup. I have all Dream Academy's stuff. Great band.👍
@billielittle
4 жыл бұрын
This song takes me straight back to the eighties. What a wonderful time to be young. I wouldn't trade places with young people today for anything.
@fabiotonto2310
4 жыл бұрын
👌
@rillloudmother
4 жыл бұрын
for real, i would happily go back to regan / thatcher and the threat of global thermonuclear war over this sh*t...
@fobbitoperator3620
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, being a weee lad in today's garbage education culture, I'd probably be a crackhead with man-boobies, in high heels & a vajay'jay hat on my skull. No thanks, I'm just fine being a fit 50 year old Vet, who identifies as a gaw'damn MAN!
@runningrabbit11
3 жыл бұрын
Neither would I
@rillloudmother
3 жыл бұрын
@@tomhollis3700 easy to say in 2020...
@Wyldone6984
9 жыл бұрын
Anyone ever get overwhelmed with nostalgia the tears just begin to fall? That's what this song does to me. Thumbs up if you agree.
@israelruelas5756
9 жыл бұрын
Yes it happens. It just reminds me that it's never going to be as good as it was. I'd give my soul to be child once more. Not in these times but in the 80s-early 90s. We didn't need tech (I know I'm using tech right now lol) but seriously... All we had was bikes and a huge imagination. We were poor but so fucking happy...
@Inventerguy16
6 жыл бұрын
I'm with you 100% when you say this song brings tears and memories. you're lucky if you got to live in the 80s I never did but I do know exactly what people talk about when they say how the world is not the wonderful place it used to be in the 80s. It would give up so much if I could just live a life in the 80s and be able to experience the happiness, fellowship, great music and love that was available in the 80s. Just thinking about what it might have been to live in the 80s makes me want to cry because I can only imagine how amazing it must've been.
@twotone3070
Жыл бұрын
I just don't understand why though.
@chrischamberlain4846
Жыл бұрын
@@Inventerguy16 I was lucky enough to live , laugh, and love in the 80s. It was absolutely magical . It really was . I can’t explain it but it was like being on a totally different planet back then . There wasn’t anything negative. I was born in 1973 so I spent my childhood and most of my teenage years in the 80s. The world will never be the same . The music was unbelievable back then and everybody danced . Micheal Jackson was a phenomenon along with prince and many others . Everything was cheap and hardly anyone had money problems . If they did , there was always people willing to help out . School was even awesome . Nobody cared about name brand clothes . You just wore whatever you had . I could go on for hours about it but it was definitely the best years of my life .
@chrischamberlain4846
Жыл бұрын
@@twotone3070 what don’t you understand? Can I help ?
@mattyian1208
10 ай бұрын
I’m 24 and I love this song. They don’t make music like this anymore.
@sherylsimmons8111
2 ай бұрын
One of my favorite songs from the 80s! Nostalgic! I was a teen! Lucky me! 😊❤
@roncarroll4136
3 жыл бұрын
This song always makes me think of the people who I will never see again.
@monkjimmy2031
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly💯 And how I miss those loved ones💔
@dionysus4778
2 жыл бұрын
I'm sure you will see them again someday
@goldenratio5117
2 жыл бұрын
They left you memories
@sharonfitzgerald3286
2 жыл бұрын
Perfect description
@BaldricksTurnip1
2 жыл бұрын
That's sad,you can always see me.
@1982cherrydrops
Жыл бұрын
My dad played this a lot and I mean a lot! Lost him in 2016 and this came on the radio the other day and it floored me. What a beautiful song. Cherished memories. Can still hear him singing along. X
@haydenburridge8643
Жыл бұрын
bet hes listening to snoop dog
@icystreams9561
Жыл бұрын
@@haydenburridge8643 or nirvana
@barrydavid6634
6 ай бұрын
so sorry for your loss! I lost my mom in 2018 and! she loved this kinda music from the 80s!
@barrydavid6634
8 ай бұрын
this was from 1986! I was 12! it is now 2023 and I'm 50! the 1980s was an awesome decade for the best music ever! this is just one of many awesome songs!
@mickeymilam2014
4 жыл бұрын
I may sound stupid, but this is one of those songs that i just love and cannot really explain why.
@lauriesolonka2477
4 жыл бұрын
It's a great song!❤
@reMARKably_me
4 жыл бұрын
nothing to explain and it's not stupid to love this beautiful song!
@luisangeles8295
4 жыл бұрын
Me too
@johnrobinlucido7491
4 жыл бұрын
same here....love this song since the 80's until now.......still not knowing why
@GreenLantern1916
4 жыл бұрын
There's no need to explain anything. You love the song, so just enjoy it. :)
@paulcolbourne5555
3 жыл бұрын
I love reading the comments on 80s music videos. I dint feel so alone.
@cathyreed6005
3 жыл бұрын
I was born in County Durham, West Hartlepool in 1963 and left at 6weeks of age for Australia. We went back in 1972 for 12mths and even though I didn't know the place I felt like I was home. I loved the country, the people even the accent. It broke my heart to leave again. I'm 57 now and still in Australia and this song takes me back home every time. How I wish we never had to leave.
@HellBoundsOnMyTrail
Жыл бұрын
This song is a tribute to everything that is good in life.
@jackilynpyzocha662
3 ай бұрын
Massachusetts rocks!
@lenraby5920
3 жыл бұрын
Great song, we were poor, jobless, no future it seemed, but we lived, loved, cried and laughed. Thank god we had beer and music 😃😂
@adayinthelife5772
3 жыл бұрын
And we didnt cry about it, just dealt with it and looked for ways to improve.
@danielbergonzi7319
3 жыл бұрын
In this covid hell we don't even have that.
@gtfc18676
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve never been so happy as we was back in the North in the 80s , and we never had a lot to piss in 😂
@chelseac2190
3 жыл бұрын
Who's loving this song in 2020?
@johnnybravo2905
3 жыл бұрын
Me!
@ShimizuHideo
3 жыл бұрын
me
@karenlee1095
3 жыл бұрын
Still , it's like the world stopped still on this song and it never gets stale!
@lisacunningham9514
3 жыл бұрын
This will always be one of my top favorite songs of forever.
@mattbk1yn
3 жыл бұрын
in love.
@vincepham2997
7 жыл бұрын
This has got to be one of the greatest songs of the iconic new wave pop era of the 80s.
@Orange6921
7 жыл бұрын
Its been one of my favorites for 30 years now. Simply majestic even in 2017.
@davew6949
7 жыл бұрын
It holds up well! I asked above, do we have new '80s style songs' anymore? I don't know about country, I like some 'club/trance' (ex. Laura Aqui - After Dark or any Emma Hewitt), but newish pop songs seem to veer away from the kind of vibe the '80s' songs had, but I guess we have Retrowave now?
@Jairgifr
7 жыл бұрын
Lo mas impresionante de todo es que al menos en mi pais no sonaba mucho pero la cancion tiene algo único es un apieza rara de belleza extraordinaria 80S RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Angelica-bt4hh
6 жыл бұрын
Vince Pham I agree!
@ooooo3999
8 жыл бұрын
I discovered this song in 2016 and it makes me nostalgic for a time and place I never even experienced
@rbeygarcia
8 жыл бұрын
It always made me sad when they bring up JFK, and that happened waaaaay before I was born. The chords lend themselves to sadness and retrospective reflection. Where we've come from, where we've been, and what we've lost along the way. But the chant heals you and makes it alright again. It's almost religious.
@devonferris
8 жыл бұрын
I know right?? Me too. I was in my teens in the 80's but whenever I heard this song I feel like I'm traveling thru another time and place. It's so moving.
@yolandasnyder9730
8 жыл бұрын
Couldn't say it better myself...spot on!!! Songs like this don't exist anymore.
@anjeanetteharris7837
7 жыл бұрын
Yolanda Ruiz You've got that right!!! And it's really sad, too!! All we have now is nonsensical, crappy music that I wouldn't listen to with anyone else's ears!!!😡😝
@balanair3011
7 жыл бұрын
try listening to Belfast Child by simple minds
@janellebellard1913
3 жыл бұрын
This song always hits me in the guts twofold. First off, the haunting and ethereal beauty of the song itself. Secondly, it has the power to instantly take me back to my glorious childhood; I'm 13 again and watching King of the Hill happily and naively with my father and brother. Untouched innocence and absolutely all is right with the world. Adding to the poignancy is that we back then lived in Kodiak, Alaska whereas I now live in the deep south. "Life in a Northern Town", indeed. All these things together inevitably bring me to my knees, and every single time I shed a few tears.
@mikejohnson2638
4 ай бұрын
it's about a northern town in the uk,
@T2Z
3 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful and evocative song. No matter where you grew up, it brings up nostalgic, longing feelings.
@icystreams9561
Жыл бұрын
you tripping fr
@haydenburridge8643
Жыл бұрын
you trippin balls man
@heatherIsla
7 ай бұрын
I grew up in a small, northern town in the US. I live in the south now. I was 10 when this came out. Such a haunting melody.
@dustout1
7 жыл бұрын
Shortly before my dad died when I was a kid he asked me if I could find him a copy of this song on the internet and record it from my computer to a cassette so he could listen to it during his commute to and from work. I did and he loved having it to listen to. Shortly after he was killed in a card wreck during his commute. This may have been one of the last songs he heard.
@cranebeg
7 жыл бұрын
Gamble aware.
@patrickmcdonough7883
7 жыл бұрын
Good God that story makes me want to weep.
@september1683
7 жыл бұрын
You gave your dad some joy. RIP dad!
@STUKASHOCK
7 жыл бұрын
Like Dad, you are a good soul, Mr. Bolton.
@all.the.same.iProductions
7 жыл бұрын
+cranebeg can't tell if trolling or sincere. sorry for your loss OP.
@redknight1825
4 жыл бұрын
This is one of those songs that penetrates the soul and pulls at the heart. It evokes a feeling of a lost time which has gone forever. A time that had its struggles and troubles, but underneath, there was a sense of freedom in which we all shared and long to return.
@RADLADRICK
3 жыл бұрын
So true,
@nateblack972
3 жыл бұрын
Very poetic. Well said.
@StormShadow1500
3 жыл бұрын
Memories of years gone by...
@Polocruz81
2 жыл бұрын
Well said...👌
@bash8257
2 жыл бұрын
Bravo. Well put
@stantastic4866
8 ай бұрын
I was five in 1963, living in a northern town during the 'Big Freeze' mentioned in the song though I can't remember it.. I do remember The Beatles breaking through that year, such was their impact at the time. So this song takes me back to two very good eras of music, the 60s and the 80s. .
@jackilynpyzocha662
3 ай бұрын
I live mostly in Massachusetts, but was in Georgia during "The Blizzard of 1978"("Big Freeze")
@echoravenrider932
Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1963. This song just speaks magically to my soul.
@haydenburridge8643
Жыл бұрын
yeah no shit you were born in 1693
@icystreams9561
Жыл бұрын
its kinda mid ngl listen to system of a down
@groaningupright
10 ай бұрын
Me too! Incidentally, this song was co-produced by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.
@malcolmkawerau4736
9 ай бұрын
I was born in 1989 this was way before my time but I love it
@dedpxl
7 жыл бұрын
what a timeless song. something special was happening in the 80's.
@blaze1148
7 жыл бұрын
My fav music decade........the 70's comes a very close 2nd though.
@popechucky
7 жыл бұрын
dedpxl yes it did
@stud105
5 жыл бұрын
Cocaine and AIDS. The 60's music peaked.
@patriciahealey2927
5 жыл бұрын
@Louise X really ?
@patriciahealey2927
5 жыл бұрын
@Louise X please check out Liverpool vocalist Mick ROACH. Has a track Meantime an a track Good in blues both on Spotify the VOICE is unreal bluesy yet still so English
@thememoryhole9355
3 жыл бұрын
This song, like a lot of old songs these days, made me cry. Made me think of where I was when the song came out, made me think about could've beens, about never was's, about lost opportunities. A lot of time has passed since then. The last lines of the songs were so perfect for the way I've been feeling. "Take it easy on yourself. You're so hard on yourself." Great song I had forgotten about. Thank you for posting.
@negativenarwhals
3 жыл бұрын
Same with me, but my life is still barely starting and I get sad thinking one day I'm going to be having those exact thoughts, remembering the good days as a kid.
@thememoryhole9355
3 жыл бұрын
@@negativenarwhals Pay close attention to those feelings! They are trying to tell you to get started on your dreams right away. Also .. stick with it when you do start pursuing your dreams. It's too easy to start things and then neglect them after awhile. Time is more valuable than money.
@negativenarwhals
3 жыл бұрын
@@thememoryhole9355 Thank you! I'm working to get money for my pilot's license then after that I want to be a fighter pilot, then an airline pilot from there. I always feel like my feelings are trying to tell me something but I just don't know what it means until someone decrypts the code, thank you :)
@thememoryhole9355
3 жыл бұрын
@@negativenarwhals Happy to help! :)
@thememoryhole9355
3 жыл бұрын
@@negativenarwhals Btw .. what is extremely interesting is I was very interested in aviation when I was young. I even took an introductory course in high school where I got to fly in a Cesna 2-seater and take the wheel for a little while. I also wanted to be a fighter pilot, my father was in the Air Force (but didn't pass pilot training .. although he got a solo license). There are so many disciplines that I was very interested in and didn't pursue formally. I am still interested in science and engineering (technology, robotics, AI, etc.), writing (particularly sci-fi), music (I play guitar and dabble in other instruments) and I also feel like I would have been perfectly happy being a biologist, astronomer, archaeologist or all of the above! Good luck to you! You can achieve all of your dreams. Just be aware of the passage of time, and act accordingly.
@Jairgifr
3 жыл бұрын
I've been looking for this song for 30 years!!!!. I'm in tears.
@PhaQ2
3 жыл бұрын
O.M.D.: If You Leave. Level 42: Something About You Talk Talk: It's My Life Tears For Fears: Working Hour
@leafcat07
3 жыл бұрын
Takes me back to my very short period of time , night math courses at community college, daytime, full time factory work in Washington DC, and an eventual apprenticeship , and dropping the college studies...25 then 61 now. Really not the music I would had intended to listen to, but I must had been tuned into the right FM station, at the right time where it set a small but permanent time line marker in my life. Every time I think of the night classes, and being cold outside, or by chance here this song I think of the other.
@lolamcallister6244
10 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else come here just to read reminiscent comments while listening to the song and attempt to gather more shreds of their early childhood? My memories are fragmented but music gives me back such specific moments.
@Inventerguy16
6 жыл бұрын
although I mainly listen to the music I have read the majority of these comments and commented as well but I understand what you're talking about music like this is a key to opening the doors in your mind that have been locked but when they are opened memories flow out in such vivid detail. Enjoy yourself while reminiscing and listening to this amazing song.
@unavailablenaturally4792
5 жыл бұрын
Yes...that's definitely my reason...losing my mother very recent, already lost dad years ago...even though i am an adult: makes me feel like an orphan. Thanks to music: indeed this is one of my childhood songs, music brings back the best of memories...this is 1 of those.
@greggmireau9279
5 жыл бұрын
Oh Yes.
@jamesmcallister5729
5 жыл бұрын
great song
@Arsenico971
5 жыл бұрын
I was a teenager in a small italian town when this came out, now I'm 48, and listening again to it takes me instantly 30 years back. With an undescribable nostalgy. God, the 80's... we should never have allowed them to end. If we only knew better back then...
@chrisfreeman2017
5 жыл бұрын
Filmed in Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire where i first met my wife.
@ashyclaret
4 жыл бұрын
I live about 15 miles away,pass through on the train every now and again.It's like going back in time to a world forgotten(In a good way).
@chriswright5502
4 жыл бұрын
Worked in Sowerby Bridge seems very similar really different from were I'm from wolverhampton
@TaroutCommodore
4 жыл бұрын
You lucky bastard
@geoffpriestley7001
4 жыл бұрын
Thought i recognise some of it is the church the one up the turning circle heptonstall
@dazboyce1
4 жыл бұрын
was the church/ castle ontop of a hill ??
@sung-ryulkim6590
10 ай бұрын
This song brings me memories of growing up in the UK, even though I haven't been there until I was 40 yrs old.
@angelawatson2123
3 жыл бұрын
Wow... Goose bumps and something in my eye 😢😢
@grimatongueworm
10 жыл бұрын
1985, freshman at NC State, driving my '76 Volkswagen Rabbit to the 4am shift at UPS to make ends meet, listening to this on the radio.
@albertjohn1473
5 жыл бұрын
...some of the best times of yer life. Never will leave you. ;).
@jimdartouzos2127
5 жыл бұрын
1985...Junior at Easton Area High School.....Listening to this on the radio while working 4 to 11 pm...washing dishes at Webster's Restaurant. ...at the local mall...Awesome times man.
@syteanric1868
8 жыл бұрын
an under rated classic! beautiful!
@SuperNevile
8 жыл бұрын
the whole album is a classic
@dedgeroo4665
7 жыл бұрын
Jason MacDonald , hell yes. A fantastic tune!!
@willritter4076
7 жыл бұрын
I'd greatly appreciate it if fans of 80s music would view my cover version of Life in a Northern Town, done on piano & vocal, which you can find by clicking on my channel dedicated to 1980s acoustic covers. Thanks and long live the 80s!
@tinahall5959
7 жыл бұрын
Jason MacDonald damn straight....this song deserves alot of kudos for brilliantly smooth lyrics n sound...
@canadaman1786
7 жыл бұрын
amazing piece. hints of classical, folk mixed into pop, new wave with a tribal vocal hook...it's music like this that simply can NOT be pigeonholed into any one catergory. unfortunately, that's the reason it's not as popular as it should be. high five to everyone who enjoys this, because you, too, won't be categorized...
@shirleymorisi2854
Жыл бұрын
Love this song forever. It always makes me cry.
@claireannejohnson2188
4 ай бұрын
I’ve always loved this song. I was 15 at the time, I was happy, but I didn’t realize it.
@kaiasmith5210
3 жыл бұрын
Loved this as a 15 year old in 1985 and still do now that I'm 50. I've always found it very stirring and nostalgic. If we could turn back time, I think everyone who lived in the 80's would be there in a flash.
@john5389
3 жыл бұрын
51 and boy time does fly! Excellent song, throwback to the 60s and today still 'awesome'. I had no idea how great I had living my teens in the 80s. So thankful for KZitem to reminisce!
@robertsenecal9104
2 жыл бұрын
Right there with your sentiments. My soul is like a snail trail as I continue travelling away from the 80s.
@tyronejackson832
2 жыл бұрын
I'd love to go back to the 80's especially if I don't have to return
@kelvinbryant7602
2 жыл бұрын
@@john5389 read ur comments on the song Life in the northern town. Ur so right. The song came out the year I graduated from school sad n happy all at the same time. Sad that I would never see alot of my friends again n a new beginning with new friends. This is a great song it take me back
@mikeawesome9212
Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1985. So that's the year this song came out?
@deandeibler8363
2 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous. The beauty of this piece of work will haunt me to the day I die.
@haydenburridge8643
Жыл бұрын
that day will be soon right?
@icystreams9561
Жыл бұрын
whats good dean deibler you sound like a divorced dad sipping a jimmy beam
@scottleipski1015
3 жыл бұрын
Love this song, feel like crying......missing home, and being younger......
@cuppycakey5013
3 жыл бұрын
Me too, and having grandparents
@matrimcauthon7937
3 жыл бұрын
Everybody misses their youth. It seems like only yesterday that all 112 of my graduating class were together for the last time at our graduation party in1989 before going our separate ways... ah the nostalgia.
@johnsneddon6619
3 жыл бұрын
Same here I miss what the world used to be...a bit more innocent and kind woke up one morning and don't recognise the world I live in anymore , maybe i"m going senile in my old age but the world is becoming a lot like George Orwell'S 1984 destruction of a sane and civilized society!
@mega77CHAVEZ
2 жыл бұрын
I'm 50 now. To the Millennials and Zoomers the 80s must seem like ancient history. But to us, one good 80s song makes it feel like yesterday. What a magical time🥰
@blastradius7193
Жыл бұрын
Idk, some of these zoomer kids get it. I met one of them who does his own music, and to my surprise he sampled this into his modern music. They crawl music in a way that's similar to crawling record crates looking for timeless music. The ones who have informed big brothers uncles grand pas. Some of them get it. Honestly I came here because a kid played this for me in his own creative way. Proof that a good thing doesn't die, it may sleep. But it cannot die.
@blastradius7193
Жыл бұрын
I'm 44 now and that kid made me feel like I was a kid again myself
@1969spooge
7 жыл бұрын
A classic 1980s British rock song. It takes me back 30 years when I close my eyes and hear it. Thank God for British rock in the 1980s!
@codytime4530
6 жыл бұрын
I've been suffering a fierce depression and this song is a mighty weapon. Edit: Thank you for being so nice.
@andrewsstation6436
4 жыл бұрын
Cody Time I hope you are feeling better!
@tracegates8841
4 жыл бұрын
Hope life is good for you... stay well.
@loungelizard7000
4 жыл бұрын
I'm with you. Stay strong. I know it's not easy. It's hard.
@Caperhere
4 жыл бұрын
♥️
@Caperhere
4 жыл бұрын
Kevin Rodgers ♥️
@yourbootyholeisyourbeautyhole
3 жыл бұрын
it doesn't matter what year you were born in or what generation you're from: this song is nostalgia personified. you can be 12 or 82; it's gonna remind you of home, or your favorite sweater, or anything else regardless.
@toddcampbell9044
4 жыл бұрын
Love this song. I’m from Ashland Kentucky. Remember this on a snow day in my youth. 49 now
@MrMccoy2412
3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Martin County..... Born in 1969 in Louisa!! Awesome song!!
@kenmcdaniel5027
7 жыл бұрын
Dream Academy members Nick Laird-Clowes and Gilbert Gabriel wrote this song, which is dedicated to the singer Nick Drake, who was 26 years old in 1974 when he died of an antidepressant overdose which may have been suicide. His work was very influential to many British musicians and songwriters, and his legend grew after his death. The song was not specifically about Nick Drake, as some suppose, but merely dedicated to his memory. Laird-Clowes recalled to Mojo magazine in a 2011 interview: "The song was created in a Southgate bedsit where Gilbert Gabriel had a room. We wrote it while sitting on a floor. Just two guitars - one nylon strung with just three strings on it, while the other was the same guitar that was on the cover of Nick Drake's Bryter Layter. We had the idea, even before we sat down, to write a folk song with an African-style chorus. We started it and when we got to the verse melody, there was something about it that reminded me of Nick Drake, who I had been turned on to in 1972 by Roundhouse DJ Jeff Dexter. It was Jeff who first informed me what a brilliant record Bryter Layter was. He claimed, 'I know where that guitar is and one day we'll get hold of it.' I was working at the RCA record factory in Ladbroke Grove at the time and bought Nick Drake's guitar for £100. When the single was completed I dedicated it to Nick." "Northern Town" started life with a different title. Laird-Clowes told Mojo that he had befriended Paul Simon at one point and the two stayed in touch. He recalled: "I played him the song and he asked, 'What are you going to call it - 'Ah Hey Ma Ma Ma?' I told him that we intended to name it 'Morning Lasted All Day.' 'That's no good,' he said and so I came up with 'Life In A Northern Town.' which he thought was a great title." The song's subject matter was inspired by the time Laird-Clowes spent working on a music TV program that was produced in the north east England city of Newcastle. He recalled to Mojo: "The lyric emerged because I was an early presenter on The Tube and Geoff Wonfor, who went on to shoot The Beatles Anthology series, showed me the long lines of people unemployed and the shipyards that were closed down. That's what 'Life in Northern Town' is really all about." David Gilmour from Pink Floyd helped produce The Dream Academy album with Nick Laird-Clowes. Dream Academy's record label didn't want to release this song, they felt it needed more drums. The band refused and it became a worldwide hit. This was covered by country acts Sugarland, together with Little Big Town and Jake Owen on the Sugarland Change for Change Tour. Their performance was played live at the 2008 CMT Music Awards and this rendition began receiving airplay on country radio. Three months after debuting on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, it entered the Hot 100 listing. This represented the first Top 40 chart entry for both Little Big Town and Jake Owen. More songs from The Dream Academy More songs that had different titles when they started More songs that mention other musicians in the lyrics More songs inspired by places
@kerkiraz
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very informative and simply written on point. It’s nice reading a little of who and what is behind a good song 👍
@curlybrownk9
4 жыл бұрын
You would figure in Southgate bedsit, one would sit on the bed and not the floor.
@patrickeffiom97
4 жыл бұрын
I got the impression that the blonde woman (who is a really a serious classical musician) was a bit embarrassed about her time in the Dream Academy.Just an article I read in a magazine several years ago.The journo mentioned that she was in the Dream Academy and she started rolling her eyes and becoming red faced.
@homersimpson7068
3 жыл бұрын
@@patrickeffiom97 She seems enthusiastic enough in the video, I suspect there is a lot of snobbery in classical music mags and more on the journo making something of nothing
@WonderWhatHappened
3 жыл бұрын
@@patrickeffiom97 Interesting I would thought she would be amused or proud to incorporate the cor anglais and oboe into pop.
@qewr4231
5 жыл бұрын
Many people don't know this. This song was written as a tribute to Nick Drake. It talks about his short life, his battles with depression and substance abuse, his music career, his relationship with his parents, where he lived, and how he died.
@bobdavis4848
2 жыл бұрын
I am a huge fan of both Dream Academy and Nick Drake. I've bought all music I could find of both. One radio station I worked at played this song many times, but wouldn't touch any music of Nick Drake because it hadn't been successful enough. I study Nick's lyrics and I used Nick music to help me through my worst illness times.This is my 10th Christmas alone since my parents died. All my mother had to say about Nick Drake's music was "Oh it's so morose!" My uncle acted disinterested, too. I gave my sister every Nick Drake album as gifts and she refused to acknowledge them. I don't understand how people cannot feel to be touched and moved by Nick Drake's music...as well as many songs of Dream Academy.
@bobdavis4848
2 жыл бұрын
@@tylerwong8583 I am very glad you feel better. My last therapist told me she thinks I don't have clinical depression the illness, but understandable emotional depression, because so much has gone wrong as in really bad luck in my life. I think your and my cases show that Nick's music can be helpful to those going through different kind of life and emotional "feeling down" type challenges. Near the end of Nick's second album, before his depression worsened, and at the end of a documentary on him, is his "Northern Sky." (There's that word "Northern" again, which I think should actually be said about "Life In a Northern Town.") I hope the mood and maybe some lyrics of Nick's "Northern Sky" can be of some relief to you and others. As for "never self reject," I think self rejecting is like defeatistism, and I try to urge others to not be defeatist when they are suffering. I wish best for your bipolar coping. You're welcome and thank you; have a nice day.
@sodthelotayou3712
2 жыл бұрын
@@bobdavis4848 stick with Nick Drake, just one of the best musicians and song writers of the last 60 years.
@bobdavis4848
2 жыл бұрын
@@sodthelotayou3712 Yes; I've bought 13 Nick Drake related CDs plus the Molly Drake album; want me to list them? I just tried to order Nick's "Under Review" DVD but was told it is out of print.
@StarsandBarsRecords
5 ай бұрын
No, it's not. Not at all. This song was simply inspired by Nick Drakes style of writing. The lead singer and songwriter Nick Laird Clowes said so in an MTV interview. The song itself is about exactly what it says Life In A Northern Town...North England to be exact.
@danielthompson6511
Ай бұрын
Love 80s music I'm 65 and I thank youtube for having this music on there websight
@garygrace8658
3 жыл бұрын
I live in a northern town. Only 8week to Xmas 2020...we will never forget this year of the Corona Virus.. Stay safe every body. 👍
@janellebellard1913
3 жыл бұрын
The Spanish Flu lasted 2 years 2 months and we'll provably remember more than this year of it unfortunately. 😢
@infinityotto
8 жыл бұрын
*AN '80s DREAM CLASSIC.* I love this song! It reached #7 on the US charts 30 years ago in February. To be a free-spirited kid again. :)
@RiseofTaitoShirei
10 жыл бұрын
Buckley's Angel brought me here.
@jennieharris3935
10 жыл бұрын
meto
@yellowcoffeecup1028
9 жыл бұрын
King of the hill is what my sister and I would watch every morning. Catherine Ward. Sep.4-July 3. I will love you always Catherine. I miss you as if I want to die as well.
@yellowcoffeecup1028
9 жыл бұрын
That episode came on this morning. I haven't watched k.o.t.h. Since she died.
@Amber_MM_
9 жыл бұрын
Ditto :)
@tamaraholloway9634
7 жыл бұрын
Your reminder of Buckley's Angel made me smile. :D
@psementalist
3 жыл бұрын
All i have to do is close my eyes and listen to this song I'm instantly transported back to the 80's. I'm 48 yrs old now and still listening to this it brings back so many memories for me
@HVYMETL
3 жыл бұрын
I get chills remembering the wonderful mood the country was in in 1963 . . . with Kennedy . . . and the Beatles . . .
@themystagogue4542
4 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised this doesn't have a higher KZitem count after 10 years. This is considered a true 80s classic, but even more so TIMELESS. A very underrated group.
@deanosaur808
Жыл бұрын
I don't think this is the original version. Look for the official video version. It has double the amount of views. This version seems faster and less engaging. Probably the US mix.
@DomPeriod
6 ай бұрын
@@deanosaur808 The official video is far too quiet and has another song playing at the end that is loud as hell.
@AldenRDavis
5 жыл бұрын
Anyone still loving this in 2019 with the old school power of MTV? 😎🎼🎶🎤🎧🎵
@wiepdewitte6938
4 жыл бұрын
Yes still listening 80 music, saw Dream Academy in 1984. Good memories that year
@mariebrown5292
4 жыл бұрын
Yep, 28/6/2020 still fab and to me one of my faves
@goatroper100
4 жыл бұрын
2020
@cjjenson8212
3 жыл бұрын
2020
@DougSConfederateHammer
3 жыл бұрын
2020, Aye laddie
@robb2000lancs
4 жыл бұрын
Born in a Northern town in '65 and can remember as clear as yesterday the ''sally army'' band coming round at xmas. Excellent song, and amazing nuances in the video - the jack russell legging it down the cobbles, the washing hanging out, the tonka toy truck on string.........happy memories
@ralph6968
3 жыл бұрын
thouse were the days.
@roylennie8117
2 жыл бұрын
It was filmed in Hebden Bridge, nice footage.
@christopherkeane2295
Жыл бұрын
A lovely song about growing up in a northern English working class town in the 60s. It tugs at our heartstrings.
@mickeybowmeister1944
5 жыл бұрын
There's something hauntingly English about this music in a good way, a beautiful song.
@toomuchinformation
3 жыл бұрын
But the chorus sounds like an African chant; it shouldn't work, but it does.
@hannahdyson7129
3 жыл бұрын
@@toomuchinformation A lot of Northern England had a big part in the slave trade i.e Liverpool , the Three Graces . Also some very old black communities up here as well . Some of the music made it into the local genre
@oddcharacter6891
3 жыл бұрын
@@hannahdyson7129 - aside from Liverpool, the 'old black communities' trace back to Windrush in 1948. Not old at all. We were never asked!
@hannahdyson7129
2 жыл бұрын
@@oddcharacter6891 Windrush did make up a large population latter on yes . I never said he had large communities. But there were some before then x
@XxowendanxX
10 жыл бұрын
it's mid-april 1985, and it's still cold...driving home with a buddy of mine...after bowling league, we hit some bars and shot pool, and drank until 2 a.m....he was kick-ass at pool AND bowling...the sign of a wasted youth??...we're passing a joint back and forth on the drive uptown through Central Park, no one else is on the road...going up to my apartment on the upper west side, he's dropping me off...R.I.P. Bill Ordy you mad man...
@rick3747
4 жыл бұрын
Dedicated to Nick Drake. Nick is not mentioned in the song but one of Nick's beloved acoustic guitars is used on the recording. The lead singer(could pass as Nick's younger sibling) owns the guitar. RIP Nick
@whisthpo
3 жыл бұрын
I remember [in a Northern Town] all of us being sent home from school at midday in that '63 storm.... The snow was up to my knees! Life, was So much simpler then...I look at the World of today and, at 65, I despair for my Grandchildren's Future.... The song/video brings back so much of my childhood... And That, is the Magic of the Internets....
@joegriego3091
7 жыл бұрын
Ive always fantasized about opening an 80s music themed bar/night club. Lots of 80s memorabilia, neon colored lights, staff dressed in 80s styles, televisons playing 80s sitcoms or news events from that era. 10% discount to customers dressed in 80s wear!
@markwalker8028
7 жыл бұрын
Joe Griego yes I've had these dreams to. if you ever do it I'm there. lol
@slantsix6344
7 жыл бұрын
The style of the 1980s was called the "Memphis Group Style"
@DJ-ob8sk
7 жыл бұрын
Do it and let us know when and where!
@paragon84
7 жыл бұрын
Open it in Miami, near the beach. I'd travel to go there (in a Mercedes 560sec)
@joannenugent8495
7 жыл бұрын
Joe, Me too. I love stuff from the 80's. I think part of it,too,is that it takes you back to a more carefree time.
@coindude69
9 жыл бұрын
If any song transcends time and space, it is this one. It just does!! For all of the the fans of this song, you know what i mean!! :-)
@Inventerguy16
6 жыл бұрын
You are absolutely right!
@mascotrules12
6 жыл бұрын
I know exactly what you mean
@noneofthisisreal75
5 жыл бұрын
Yes yes it does
@Peter-yc2uh
5 жыл бұрын
yes.
@neogenjh
5 жыл бұрын
It's that time. Things were screaming for freedom and this is was the ballad !
@peachbellini2615
4 жыл бұрын
When this song first came out.. I was in Junior High School and we had a very bad winter that year.. I remember being in the backseat of my parents car while my mother was driving in sleet to pick up my dad from his factory job the day he got laid off and this song always reminds me of that day.. I miss my parents.. I miss my youth.. 😭
@BullyG1
3 жыл бұрын
The pure harmony on the hook of this song is off the chain!
@tomhicks4097
3 жыл бұрын
This is one of the rare songs that makes you feel it's going to be all right even if it isn't. I could weep for what the British elites have done to Britain. They call us "the problems of the legacy culture." Damn them to hell.
@kurttoogs1378
3 жыл бұрын
Same for the elites across the pond in the USA...
@gwendy2858
3 жыл бұрын
Elitist m$uckers and they're useful idiots! There are more of us than them! In the end they will fail! Hands off my Freedom/history!
@echenoweec
3 жыл бұрын
That's why we declared our independents.
@hislatestflame7861
3 жыл бұрын
Cody Chenoweth yeah and how’s that working for you under Trump?
@echenoweec
3 жыл бұрын
@@hislatestflame7861 well, my 401k is looking good. The economy is looking good. In spite of the worst epidemic in a century. Sleepy Joe doesn't even know what town he's in. Yeah, looking good. I can't wait to back to mt.Rushmore when Trump, the greatest president in our lifetime is carved into that mountain. Snowflake
@jorgenadernazur4770
2 жыл бұрын
I was a teenager...Beautiful song. When life was so simple in those days.
@garypaur8988
3 жыл бұрын
This was the actual "first cut" video that was eventually shelved in favor of a more upbeat visual one that was used on MTV.........to be honest, I prefer this one over the other one!!!
@antmer3954
4 жыл бұрын
One of those 1980s songs that wasn't a typical "era" song. Great now as it was back then.
@watcher8408
3 жыл бұрын
This instantly takes me back to my teenage years! OMG I love this song!
@lukerogers151
8 жыл бұрын
Legitimately makes me cry.
@collinnc2001
7 жыл бұрын
me too
@lukerogers151
7 жыл бұрын
You must be really intelligent.
@dwightwilliams5892
7 жыл бұрын
This song does the same for many of us. Never feel shame. As for those who demand it of you...they can shove off.
@lukerogers151
7 жыл бұрын
It's a beautiful song that will always rank as one of my all time favourites. I'm not ashamed that it makes me cry. At all.
@dwightwilliams5892
7 жыл бұрын
Good.
@robertsenecal9104
3 жыл бұрын
So beautiful. Still kills me. I was nostalgic before I had reason.
@mickeymunkchunk4512
3 жыл бұрын
Young people in this country don't know what they missed, late 70s and 80s were the best times ever, proper summers, snow every winter, great music, girls without tattoos, plenty of jobs around with time and a half for overtime and double money for working Sundays.
@wrinklies2167
3 жыл бұрын
Moving forward things should get better but seems they just don’t 🤔
@edward8597
3 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with a girl having tattoos. Let's leave our prejudices back in the 80s, shall we?
@mckessa17
3 жыл бұрын
Still double time if your in a union
@wrinklies2167
3 жыл бұрын
@@edward8597 I personally don’t like the look of tattoo’ s the art work can be brilliant only something about it for me that it’s done on skin I keep getting flash backs of the Woman in the James Bond film that got sprayed with gold and had died but each their own 🙂 I was more agreeing that life should you would think get easier for each generation but sadly it doesn’t 😔
@TK-jf9gt
3 жыл бұрын
@@edward8597 completely agree, people should be able to do what they want without being judged.
@JohnathanLingo
10 жыл бұрын
This is one of very few '80s songs I like better now than I did when I was young. I think it is because this song epitomizes nostalgia, and I am much more nostalgic now than I was at 15. I guess I miss the 80s.
@JoJo-nv8jy
6 жыл бұрын
Time stops for me every time I hear this beautiful song. Somehow it's just hypnotic and i can almost travel back to my youth. Sweet and sad at the same time. I wonder if anyone else feels that way bout thus song.
@alfieholloway
3 жыл бұрын
Jo Jo absolutely. Magic in this one
@JRStephens5005
3 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@ziweiyuan
4 жыл бұрын
Every 80's video shot outdoors in England makes it look like the most dismal place on Earth. The sun does come out there sometimes! It really does!
@Julian-bq9qv
Жыл бұрын
Still bring tears to my eyes for so many reasons, not the least of which is the sorrowful story behind it. But a masterpiece it is.
@icystreams9561
Жыл бұрын
i like ur dog how much?
@haydenburridge8643
Жыл бұрын
bro your def 70 years old no one listens to this rubbish also your dog is ugly
@almostfm
9 жыл бұрын
There are very few songs that are perfect--there's nothing you could do to either the words or melody to make it any better. This is one of those songs.
@jackymullins4144
7 жыл бұрын
Haven't heard this song in years. Wish I could go back and do it again.
@cjjenson8212
3 жыл бұрын
Don't we all. The 80s was the funest most energetic time we've known! Today is just bland and colorless compared.
@scottslotterbeck3796
2 жыл бұрын
We all do. A better time. Music better, less hate.
@psychoknot3958
3 жыл бұрын
Listening at 52 and remember seeing this vid on MTV when I was a teen. I loved it! Now I listen as tears run down my face remembering those beautiful times.
@leongorero
2 жыл бұрын
When life was then not complicated, easy and the musics uplift your soul and your whole being.
@tommymclaughlin3203
4 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing this in 86 when I was 10 living in Worcester Mass. This was literally the first song my dad (rip Sir) listened together. He loved the words.
@treehustler13
8 жыл бұрын
Now w a wife n three beautiful kids I regret nothing but I will always treasure my youth. I was a teen during the 80's n back then I didn't think much of it then but world was a lot nicer place to live in. The friends I had then have all moved on n are busy w lives of their own. I like to think they think about those days as well now n then & smile as I do. Just another blast from my past I guess ...
@jennuellibutan5675
8 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1876
@xanthe2291
8 жыл бұрын
+jennuel libutan Are you sure? :)
@barcodeboy13
8 жыл бұрын
+Mark Isabell Good for you man. seriously. Thats the ideal life. to be a teen in the 80s.. I was born in 1990. I was a fairly happy child.. but as much as the 90s were amazing for being a kid, the 2000s were horrendous for being a teen. scared parents, terrorism, the style of music that came out (yucchhk. thats the worst part!!) The entire culture was heinous. shallow and meaningless... However, Im glad i wasn't born post 2000. thats a stale childhood and adolescence... Oh well. i wish them luck! cheers bud.
@goosefarm99
8 жыл бұрын
I agree, I was 17 in 1985 when I first heard this song, just brings back fun memories
@Inventerguy16
6 жыл бұрын
barcoadeboy13 I know where you're coming from I was born in 1997 right before the world went to hell it really does suck having been born at the time I was because I never got to experience the beauty, happiness, grate music and fellowship of the 80s and I also didn't get to enjoy the technology that we have today so I guess I can say I didn't get the best of either worlds but hopefully someone will make a new band like Dream Academy and help put the world back the way it was in the 80s.
@brianambrosemcmahon8531
3 жыл бұрын
The lyrics evoke such strong emotions and memories of our youth , happy times yet melancholy moments .
@billmcdevitt2649
3 жыл бұрын
This song is indeed one of the great joys in life.
@ka7niq
10 жыл бұрын
By Far the very best quality video/audio of this classic song. Kate St. John is beautiful, with an Angelic Voice to go with her good looks.
@deanosaur808
Жыл бұрын
But it's a remix! The official video version is superior!
@deanosaur808
Жыл бұрын
Also the video seems more cheesy
@smokeyhaze1000
7 жыл бұрын
from when MTV played music....great song
@STUKASHOCK
7 жыл бұрын
Aye, smoke.
@TheGodParticle
7 жыл бұрын
I've heard many people say that.
@scottshelton9660
4 ай бұрын
The best 80s song...one of the best SONG ever...❤
@Christian_Girl120
4 жыл бұрын
I was in my twenties when this song came out. I'm almost 55 and still love it. Dream Academy had a very unique sound. It made them great in my books. It's too bad they are not still active. But I have great memories when they were!!!!
@robfirefly
6 жыл бұрын
Some songs appear out of nowhere and burn a bright light in Top40's, Top50's or Top100's around the world for a while. While other songs have the same success these bright light songs are not only given to the generations that can listen to them in the here and now, but also to all generations yet to come. This is one of them. Even if you haven't been in the place and time of what the song is about one can imagine how it must have been like listening to the words and because of the great and unique melody one can even feel how it must have felt like by quietly and softly immersing oneself in the great melody of the song. This is one of the greatest pop classics in the English Songbook.
@chumbersdee
9 жыл бұрын
I started drinking and decided to listen to my favorite music of my childhood. This was my second choice of song. Im getting sad, goosebumps, nostalgia, you name it. I am so priveledged to have grown up in a great time. For the record, my first song was All i need is everything by Aztec camera. That one will give you the same feeling. Peace and love to all
@markgoodyer9030
9 жыл бұрын
Strangely, without the alcohol i am doing the same, i started with nena 99 red balloons.
@chrisbyrne4087
9 жыл бұрын
i started in about 1970 when i first heard bowie on space oddity,and still going strong try memory of the free festival.
@michaelcampagna4797
3 жыл бұрын
80s......Elementary School.....Junior H.S......High School. Great music....1st kiss. Very important time in my life. God i'd go back in a heartbeat. And as a kid growing up.....my only worries was having my homework done and being in the house before the street lights come on. I will never forget the 80s....NEVER!!!
@gypsyrose7554
3 жыл бұрын
Christmas 2020 and this song takes me right back to the 80s when I was a kid and life was great. My grandparents and other family members were still around and family was everything.
@bryanw91178
3 жыл бұрын
Listening to this song while reading your comment brought a tear to my eye. Stay safe my friend and hope for a better 2021
@alanbateman8009
7 жыл бұрын
Classic song from when life was much simpler. Makes me feel old
@thecardboardboxl3922
5 жыл бұрын
I first heard this song years ago on an episode of King of the Hill at a hotel room in Cleveland, Ohio. I always meant to look up this song, but didn’t have the capabilities at the time. It’s still just as beautiful now as it was back then.
@lippythelip7388
4 жыл бұрын
I always loved this song, makes me hope for better times. My hope is alive !
@onlybosslion9267
3 жыл бұрын
This northern girl appreciates this song. The north is my life where the winters are long winter days and nights are snowy. Great snuggling weather just relaxed and watching the snow!
@diane5689
5 жыл бұрын
This song takes me back to a happier time when my mother was still alive .....but yet it makes me weep.
@blackcallalily6540
7 жыл бұрын
..I was about 15 when this song came out.. I only remember this video for it.. this is my absolute favorite song of the 80's
@Purple1984Rain
7 жыл бұрын
You have good taste :)
@Inventerguy16
6 жыл бұрын
your lucky you got to live through the 1980s when life was so simple and people cared for one another and the music was beautiful and wasn't about drugs and other bad things. I wish I worry you I never got to experience the 80s because I didn't exist I got stuck having to inherit such a crappy world. I'm glad this song still exists because it is one of the only things that allow me to experience what the 80s were like and judging from the song it was a beautiful time to be alive. today all I ever think about is how I'm going to die because life now is so much worse than it was back then all people do today is get angry at each other spend time playing video games and the sense of having an native community is all but extinct. Cherish your memories while you still can because they'll get you through the hardships of today like this song memories are precious.
@conqururfear
5 жыл бұрын
yes mam it is bad zzzzzz song, i was also 15 in 1986
@solinvictus39
4 жыл бұрын
I was 16. Hard to believe I will be 50 in a few months... life just flies by and so many people don't even make it to 40 or 50. Too bad we didn't know at the time how special those years in the 1980s were and how nothing afterward would ever equal them.
@solinvictus39
4 жыл бұрын
@@Inventerguy16 Don't be so naive about the 1980s... life was just as hard as it is now, maybe harder. There were plenty of the things you don't like, it just wasn't as out in the open as it is now. I was a skinny, introverted teen during the 1980s and for many years I got bullied mercilessly. I'm sure for some people it was the best time of their lives, but for me I have mixed feelings as those years weren't the best for me. What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't romanticize that time and picture it unrealistically. There was plenty of crappy music, drugs and bad things going on back then as they are going on now.
@TheManaSource
4 жыл бұрын
Almost Christmas 2019 and this song still pierces my soul.
@timo5532
4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, mesmerizes me.
@Aritul
3 жыл бұрын
It is a great song.
@junius4828
3 жыл бұрын
Feel good song ....😎
@martinelouise1854
3 жыл бұрын
I'm listening to this now. And it is 9 weeks and 6 days to go to Christmas 2020! ☺ xx
@jezamae
3 жыл бұрын
And now I'm listening to it and it's 9 weeks 0 days until xmas 2020. Wtf world! Wow!
@stubobish
3 жыл бұрын
I always liked this song. I was 19 or 20 when it first was released and here I am in 2021 at the age of 56 still liking this song. My wife doesn't understand why I like 80s music so much. It was just really great music! I always thought the blonde woman was cute.
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