My dad died recently and I’ve been listening to all his old vinyls. Soft cell features a lot. Dad was a looker back in the day and had a bedsit in Islington. I can only imagine what he got up to there because mom looked at him daggers whenever he reminisced. This song was always on on long drives as a kid. Love you, dad. ❤
@fredericnassen3634
Жыл бұрын
Not my prefered song from them. If you don't know very well ,try ¨Torch.... Or simply Marc almond
@babyface7625
Жыл бұрын
Sorry 😞 for your loss hope your OK 👍
@TomRipley7350
Жыл бұрын
@@babyface7625 Thank you. It’s hard at Christmas but you just gotta get on with it. Xxx
@babyface7625
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍 babe 😘 💓 💕 for ❤ 💙 💜 😘 you.
@JWD77
Жыл бұрын
Your dad had good taste in music bro most of the 80's was awesome so much talent that decade 👊
@silkeriekeit9675
2 ай бұрын
One of my favourite Songs. Was around 18,now 55 and still feel the same
@AdrianTether
Ай бұрын
same was living in a bed sit when this came out . grim...
@richardspeed7135
8 ай бұрын
Camp as row of tents but these lads are brilliant, great song.
@johnvine5731
3 ай бұрын
Lmao
@antonywayneplumpton9613
Жыл бұрын
42 yrs old this song still sounds great
@stevewright9482
11 ай бұрын
Yep.
@fergussonphotography6407
2 жыл бұрын
A got detention at school in middle of winter in Aberdeen. I was meant to go home at 3.30pm but was there until 5pm and by this time it was dark and a blizzard outside. The teacher Mr Robb had radio on and this song was playing and it totally lifted my spirits for getting home. I was only 10 and bus was over an hour late so I got home at about 7pm. I will always remember this song from that night. Thanks Marc for some great music over the years.
@emilysowter8077
6 жыл бұрын
As a 27 year-old, single, childless human who's working, studying & living in a bedsit at the moment (it's quite a cute one as cheap bedsits go!), this has always been one of my favourite songs. :)
@chelseapoet3664
2 жыл бұрын
Are you still in ths bedsit? I want a life update! ☺️
@mikeprice9826
6 жыл бұрын
still sounds so seriously cool after all these years I'm so lucky to have been a teenager in the 80s brilliant decade for music
@fizzywack
5 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more Mike. Today's kids have nothing but utter sh*t!
@olenkaflowers8078
5 жыл бұрын
Funny teenager in 2019))
@geoffreyjonathanwilson5826
5 жыл бұрын
Great singer !
@johnthorley8162
4 жыл бұрын
80s was good, but it was better being a teen in the 70s :)
@padijeff5675
4 жыл бұрын
Great 80s! I knocked on a red phone box and said hurry up mate! Out came a famous boxer looking pissed off!☺️
@warweezil2802
3 жыл бұрын
This really sums up being young single and gay living on your own in a rundown part of a city. It teaches you self reliance and self awareness. It’s a part of “education” that is sadly missing now,.
@michaelmoore.5167
10 ай бұрын
1981 😊 awesome music films 🎥, tv shows sports, unforgettable 👌 ♥️.
@robhingston
5 жыл бұрын
From a more sophisticated time when music told a story..
3 жыл бұрын
True!!!
@jeanettedevereux7664
2 жыл бұрын
Squeeze.....as well!
@jason4001uk
Жыл бұрын
This song is so fabulous it changed my life…I wanted to be Marc so I wore eyeliner to school and was beaten up by 10. But I carried on, so brave.❤
@jason4001uk
Жыл бұрын
Bedsitter!
@DavidPittman15
29 күн бұрын
this song is absolutely ace...best track for the weekend 📱🔊🎵😼😎💀🌹
@leoniemarks4594
4 жыл бұрын
I've always found this song very poignant. 40 years ago was a different world.
@paulcrisp9861
3 жыл бұрын
A world now changed not for the better, get the time machine ready and re live some of those golden days. ❤ eighties forever ❤ aug 2021🙏💎🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧
@nxnw2058
2 жыл бұрын
All gone! Bugger. Bit of real anger at Thatcher on the way out. Now? Ho hum - he'!! slope off eventually won't he? No - Thatcher made him
@ukqwerty999
2 жыл бұрын
i Agree Leonie, The confusion of youth, is how i see it, Love Marc's songs ❤️
@CathyKitson
9 ай бұрын
Bedsits were still a relatively new concept then. There'd been flat shares right back to the 50s and 60s but then you suddenly had thousands upon thousands of these tiny little rooms with perhaps a sink, a cooker, a shower and loo. And you had multitudes of young people living alone in the metropolis...The music and lyrics sum up it so perfectly, "Kid myself I'm having fun....the battle scars of all the good times..." It always brought shivers to my spine when I was a kid.
@melaniereid6778
9 ай бұрын
This song kicked me out of depression. I realised I wasn't alone. I could resonate with every lyric and I find humour in how I was living my life. He has the most beautiful vocals and music. The video is fun to watch. Thank you Marc for turning my life around. You are a legend and I am sure you have saved many lives from the devil of depression and have made your fans so happy 😊
@biocreature2196
5 жыл бұрын
The combination of Mark & Dave is still unparalleled. The genius of Dave's music paired with the madness voice Mark has impressed me for almost 4 decades now. For me, song like Bedsitter or Soul inside are milestones of music. Greetings from Germany
@chrisChris6969
2 жыл бұрын
Lennon /McCartney Simon / Garfunkel Noel /Liam Roger / Dave Morrissey/Marr Gahn / Gore Still unparalleled ??
@victoriashellard528
2 жыл бұрын
Best decade ever I was a teenager then so glad I was
@mikefellows3901
7 жыл бұрын
Hugely underrated , superb group , banging song !
@markedwards9874
7 жыл бұрын
Mike Fellows great tune
@6581punk
6 жыл бұрын
Underrated by whom? :)
@fredrickaappletree3402
5 жыл бұрын
Mike Hardly underrated its a well known classic. Respected and loved by so many. Especially those of us who lived in “bedsit land”
@6581punk
5 жыл бұрын
@MDT UK probably a regional thing. After all, in the US they consider numan to be a one hit wonder.
@geoffreyjonathanwilson5826
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely Mike! I loved Soft Cell and always will. I turned 8 in '81 and what a great year it was for British music I think!!! Great singer too I think.
@louiseboulton9486
5 ай бұрын
bloody love it....classic...bet you know all the words
@mistermatix8241
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing song, and fantastic lyrics. Soft Cell were one hell of a band! So many great songs
@jonbutcher8784
5 жыл бұрын
I love this record. It was a song about the old kind of unrewarding hedonism, which yet managed to make you feel angrily energised. Unlike the contemporary form of depressive hedonism which makes you as whingingly miserable as the singer.
@zeddeka
Жыл бұрын
Soft Cell captured a real moment in time with this song and video. London back then was an incredibly dark, seedy and dangerous place and I'm sure there were some knowing nods to it in the video. It depicts Marc Almond walking round Piccadilly Circus which was notorious back then as the 'meat rack' - the nickname it got because groups of young male prostitutes used to congregate in the area. The branch of Wimpy that the video shows was where many would gather when the weather got colder. Very sadly, a number of those boys were underage runaways and had incredibly tragic lives. A number of paedophile gangs also operated in the area, including the 'Playlands' gang who would pick up kids in the nearby amusement arcades, and the notorious Sidney Cooke gang.
@bigprob8744
Жыл бұрын
I was going to write a simaler comment you said it all for me,as much as i like the song i actually find it all eerie thinking of the days of the piccadily meatrack the young teenage runaways attracted to the bright lights of the west end preyed upon by peedo gangs mostly in positions of power and youve right wimpy in the video was a big hangout spot also, the backstreets of soho ect were very dark seedy and dangerous.
@jonneym
Жыл бұрын
Yes back at a time when people had real jobs and London looked and sounded like London. Who the hell would want to live there now.
@Paulco67
10 ай бұрын
Human trafficking is still with us. Horrendous
@genomizer2763
3 жыл бұрын
Oh God, those good old times, so many great memories....I´d love to go back to those days, when this was the thing, for me, this track still is!!
@garriemcallister8161
3 жыл бұрын
The lyrics are still relatable to this day
@safirarebeca7128
Жыл бұрын
Adoro demais essa banda e essa música. Inveja de quem viveu essa década.
@welshlad6427
4 жыл бұрын
Great Tune. Arguably Soft Cells best.
@dlamiss
3 жыл бұрын
Say hello wave goodbye was a masterpiece although this was pretty good
@paulfletcher9333
2 жыл бұрын
Definitely up there with their best. Only Sex Dwarf dwarfs it.
@chelseaguy70
2 жыл бұрын
Saw them at the Apollo in London tonight Nov 2021 and they are as relevant today and they were before. Such an amazing voice, it seems to have improved with age.
@trevorastley1727
10 ай бұрын
There always seems to be a dark and dramatic theatrical thread that runs through all of their songs, Seedy undertones that are so cleverly performed. Deliciously Timeless.
@CathyKitson
9 ай бұрын
There was a terrible melancholy and tragedy to it. It was the same with a lot of the New Romantics / synth. The lyrics are actually unbelievably dark. Staring out of the window, writing to his mother who thinks he's getting better....And the biting ache of loneliness.
@skguy7
3 жыл бұрын
First time I've heard this song since the 80s when I had all their songs on 12 inch vinyl. What a time to be in my late teens and starting work. Still sounds perfect now
@waz3128
4 жыл бұрын
Dispels the romanticism associated with being young and single, when the reality is you're living in a dump, lonely, dirt poor, starving and most likely hungover
@seanp8220
4 жыл бұрын
Also dispels that people enjoy starting the nightlife all over again.
@hastekulvaati9681
4 жыл бұрын
Spot on.
@neilsun2521
3 жыл бұрын
When you're young though, you don't care. As long as you're a) living in London; and b) got enough money to go out partying.
@bamberlamb6512
3 жыл бұрын
I think a lot of people bought the Album non stop erotic cabaret, on the strength of the cheery bubble gum pop of Tainted love, not realising just how dark and seedy the rest of the album was, it's a cracking album though I think sex dwarf is the last track on it and it really sets the tone off nicely
@machomanrandysavage866
3 жыл бұрын
True youth is amazing but you don't have connections and social skills. Some will never develop or have those things. It is sad but until those that rule this world develop a heart
@blueeyedboy-official2630
2 жыл бұрын
What an incredible song this is. I remember meeting marc almond in the kitchen of a west end studio around this time and telling him how blown away i was with this song - and the b-side 'facility girls' - equally great. I remember him looking at me in a kind of bemused confusion, what with me with my long hair and black sabbath t-shirt haha!
@davebellamy4867
Жыл бұрын
I had a schoolmate who was into ACDC, Jethro Tull, Visage, The Human League, Def Leppard and fancied Siouxsie Sioux of the Banshees. Eclectic tastes. All around 1981. There was so much around then. Very shortly after that, he was the first person I ever heard mention U2. Oh yeah. He liked Adam and the Ants as well! And Black Sabbath. He was the first person to play me any Sabbath. Children of the Sea. His mum was divorced and had no money. His room was like a bedsit, being the end room in a crappy council flat in a crappy block of crappy council flats. There was a The Cure poster on the wall. He never used to put his records back in their sleeves and would get cigarette ash on them.🤣 (Yes Simon Lee! It was you mate.🤣) His mum used to take us to airshows in her beaten up, rattly old Vauxhall Victor estate. Those were great times. Epitomised by the way Rick Mayall would shout, "THATCHER!"
@davebellamy4867
Жыл бұрын
Never heard 'Facility Girls.'
@fiendishfugs
2 жыл бұрын
this is still the grungiest song ever
@fiendishfugs
Жыл бұрын
@kyfaydfsoab clearly you don't understand 'atmosphere' never mind eh.
@fiendishfugs
Жыл бұрын
or what ''grunge' means.
@ianskewisEditor
4 жыл бұрын
I'm 50 and still living in a bedsit!
@Kblog777
3 жыл бұрын
44 and moved back in with my parents.
@neilsun2521
3 жыл бұрын
I'm not far off that. Can't afford Ldn anymore though. Jus' not practical, unfortunately :(
@bragget
3 жыл бұрын
Got a nice house in my 50's. Manchester bedsitland in the early eighties was much more fun!
@thedude8046
3 жыл бұрын
Bedsitter, and surf my couch up and down daily
@geo6519
3 жыл бұрын
Just 50 ...
@paulwalsh8959
2 жыл бұрын
I always remember the wink Mr Almond gives to the camera after all these years 😉
@davidwaterhouse2552
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant tune! Two amazingly talented lads from 'The North' ! Hoping to see Marc at the Goth Weekend at Whitby in October! dx
@marikamboutloukos8931
2 жыл бұрын
Bought the extended version....love the part " do you look a mess, do you have a hangover, did you overdo the limonade, cut short on the soda...did you tha dance your docter told you shoulnt do,, but you're still young , you should do the dance twise over, I know its earley but you stil look great, Just ready for the beauty that tje makeup will create, take a little blusher, take a little paint, put on the silver dress that makes the young boys faint" and that end,,, push the tea leaves down the drain and start the night live over again...I used to live like that in the 80's
@andycuthbert2763
2 жыл бұрын
Certainly experienced a few of the things Marc sings about here in my early 20s! Excellent stuff as always!
@rachelclark9422
5 жыл бұрын
When my daughters were little they would say " mum ive cleaned my teeth and combed my hair" i would always reply back singing " look for something near to wear" they were bought up on listening to 80's music so didn't take long for them to catch on to the reference , they 21 & 17 now and love Eighties music more than todays music 😀
@lalalalalala8147
8 ай бұрын
I remember listening to this album on the train from south London to my work in west London (Gucci) on my soft touch Sony Walkman (the really expensive one, that took me ages to save up for). Happy days!
@steffanhoffmann8937
4 жыл бұрын
Imo Dave and Marc were class leaders and most of their music still sounds fresh! They both touched subjects containing real life opinions. Dave was an extraordinary arranger with just a simple keyboard, if compared to what was around at that time. Marc was a different type of vocalist. Dramatic art up front! This type of keyboard genre in Britain, at that time; was just a small piece of 1980s British diversity in pop music. Always way ahead of the USA; stuck in the "rock past" at that time. No wonder there was another British invasion!
@Brentford-rf5sh
4 жыл бұрын
I genuinely like this song (though I wouldn't class myself as a huge Soft Cell fan), however I particularly love this video as it bought back some of my teenage memories, and especially at the time of this song hitting the UK charts, my brother had just left home to go and live in a bedsit. His room was so similar to the one on this video.
@gusanocc51
2 жыл бұрын
recuerdo haberla grbado en un cassete hace decadas atras por los 80, hoy los sonidos solos lo recordo mi mente...que buen temaaaa!!!
@andrewhillis2269
3 жыл бұрын
AND NOW I'M ALL ALONE IN BREXIT LAND ! ! !
@geoffreyjonathanwilson5826
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely Mike oh yes! 1981 a great year for music I think!
@BLINDTUBEMARES
4 жыл бұрын
Bedsit land is sadly out of reach for most young people these days. The prices are unaffordable
@neilsun2521
3 жыл бұрын
Yup. UK overcrowded by about 1,000,000 folks. All by design to keep us on that hamster-wheel; too busy to reach elightenment.
@BLINDTUBEMARES
3 жыл бұрын
@@neilsun2521 no mate, I think the problem is the mega-rich not the ultra-poor
@amethystcrome6115
3 жыл бұрын
Both. The World is indeed overpopulated.
@M.C.P.
3 жыл бұрын
@@amethystcrome6115 there are resources for everyone but the redistribution is terrible ... an elite of 2,153 "world toffs" is richer than 4.6 billion people
@nedeast6845
3 жыл бұрын
but we can dream
@martinvegas1327
7 ай бұрын
Reminds of when i lived in a bedsit in Grenoble Gardens in Palmers Green in the early nineties, paranoid coming down off Dennis the Menace👀👍
@stuartmorris8771
4 жыл бұрын
The 80"s still remember the words at 54
@tutts999
3 жыл бұрын
Every word.
@simonbarber5440
3 жыл бұрын
I was at University there at the time. I had a pal who always sang it as "headless bodies on the floor.. memories of the night before..." I always wondered what happened to him ...
@karenjohnson2720
3 жыл бұрын
I sung this in my head whilst cleaning stairwells of bedsits
@andrewhillis2269
3 жыл бұрын
Same here ! ! !
@murphyspattaya
3 жыл бұрын
555 steaming Topmtinebtip top tune 👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻🍀🍀☘☘☘🍀😎✌
@StuMorley
27 күн бұрын
Got the 12 inch single of this ... top tune 😊
@darrenlincoln9016
6 жыл бұрын
Clothes & records on the floor! Take that millenniums
@DanielFranc35
5 жыл бұрын
Generation x here
@bossman1905
Жыл бұрын
Oh! Great memories
@RichardSykes-py8xy
8 ай бұрын
They don't make tunes like this anymore ❤
@RalphWiggum.1
2 жыл бұрын
An uplifting take on a sad realistic take on being a young man living in a bedsit. Still hits home now in 2022 living in a bedsit with no money
@MarmaladeStex
6 жыл бұрын
Great Tune from this English Synthpop Duo!, Apparently it Explored the underbelly of the London Club scene of the time (Early 80'S), but I always feel there is more to this tune than that because it takes Me somewhere Nostalgically Melancholic!.
@andreaknibbs441
Ай бұрын
What a Choon ❤
@cryptofreddy8409
2 жыл бұрын
All the moves I see the alternative people do come from that video.... amazing
@oldmacisback
6 жыл бұрын
What a classic song about those horrible 1980s. Legend Marc.
@colinwright4139
6 жыл бұрын
As it came out in 81 it was probably more likely about the mid-late 70s. Supposedly about London, but since SHWG features the Pink Flamingo, it may be about the Dickson Rd, Talbot Rd area of Blackpool.
@plepplop
4 жыл бұрын
His voice oozes like a M&S advert
@riverbank7347
3 жыл бұрын
Love this song and the video is brilliant, especially Marc’s various shirts matching the different wallpapers. I remember the lights on the Underground escalators, it all looked so grimy then.
@rosyorose1061
6 жыл бұрын
Bedsit Land...back in the 80's ....it was today's version of 'houses of multiple occupation'!!
@montygemma
4 жыл бұрын
Come to Bournemouth we still got a bedsit land and they're still advertised as bedsits.
@rolandrothwell4840
2 жыл бұрын
Still sound brilliant 👏
@jonathanmowat8576
4 жыл бұрын
Only 9 when this came out, but years later, it's still one of my go to tunes! Class!👍😎🎶🍺
@deerheart87
Жыл бұрын
He wrote some great songs ❤
@officialreginageorge3507
6 жыл бұрын
What a cutie! Pretty boy
@anna-rexia
6 жыл бұрын
I had that very same feather filled quilt :-) Brilliant, brilliant Soft Cell xx
@justanotherlyd2325
3 жыл бұрын
Still listen to this album! & Still love it..
@kathleengreenlay7861
6 жыл бұрын
This song tells the truth when l use to live in beds it land great song x
@kathleengreenlay7861
2 жыл бұрын
It was horrible bask in the day when I use 2 live in bedside land my rooms were so small I felt trapped
@richardawrhodes6965
3 жыл бұрын
Living in a bedsit when this came out, great memories
@GhostshadowShadowghost
6 жыл бұрын
Mesmerising...💙
@andyshaw9497
4 ай бұрын
Their best.
@blowduke
4 жыл бұрын
I fancy a wimpy burger now ,not had one since 1985
@michaeljohn2826
4 жыл бұрын
There is still a decent whimpy in Huddersfield.. Chose it for my birthday meal last year much to everyones bemusement.. Still tastes the same as it did
@jdee8267
3 жыл бұрын
Addlestone Surrey
@Kblog777
3 жыл бұрын
I last had one in Lowestoft in 2011.
@kamuroshiryu8453
3 жыл бұрын
So far the places I have been to for a Wimpy throughout the late 2010s in my early 20s are Margate, Faversham, Chatham and Ashford. Always the greatest times of my life, no matter how young I was back then.
@andrewbridgman1965
3 жыл бұрын
Head to Andover , wimpy still there
@jarrodfurminger5352
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant follow up to Tainted Love !!!
@seanp8220
4 жыл бұрын
Way better
@jarrodfurminger5352
4 жыл бұрын
@@seanp8220 Yea I'd agree with that as it's an original song and not a cover !!!
@adeh503
4 жыл бұрын
@@seanp8220 always better when it's not a cover of another song 👍
@yamaha89558
6 жыл бұрын
I like Soft Cell . Me i were 15 year young 1982 listing much them study in college
@kirstiehiorns2702
2 жыл бұрын
brilliant musical theartre
@HiThailand-g7l
6 ай бұрын
Im 62 and straight , im a builder , always drank in rough pubs and always had 1 or 2 gay customers or gay bar staff and we would all mix with absolutely no problems
@warpspeedchic
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for telling us you have no problem with gay people I guess. Listen to the music!
@HiThailand-g7l
3 ай бұрын
@@warpspeedchic gay men I never had a problem with , it was the lesbians I never liked !
@warpspeedchic
3 ай бұрын
@@HiThailand-g7l And why is that? What was your problem with lesbians?
@HiThailand-g7l
3 ай бұрын
@warpspeedchic there was a womens army camp in Guildford that was closed and many of the creatures that left the camp got jobs working in the rough pubs as barmaids, they were rough and horrible with it , a few of them got laid out trying to fight like men
@warpspeedchic
3 ай бұрын
@@HiThailand-g7l "creatures", all I need to know, elaborate on your usage of this word.
@paulsteele2266
2 жыл бұрын
I'm 17 again. We had the best music to grow up with
@toomanysecrets7121
Жыл бұрын
Only came across this song. I wonder how many gems I have missed out on from this amazing era
@CathyKitson
9 ай бұрын
If you like urban authenticity, try The The.
@samanthakhan8419
6 жыл бұрын
The old days
@mp3ste1
6 жыл бұрын
Best days
@stefanoforcellini4875
Жыл бұрын
@darrenwalshe8513
5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful memories of this time, this rare tune brings me back xx
@Nick_Turpin
4 жыл бұрын
If anyone young ever asks me what the 80`s sound was i`d say listen to Bedsitter ..
@jarrodfurminger5352
4 жыл бұрын
Yea I'd agree with that mate 👍
@seanp8220
4 жыл бұрын
Or Dexys Geno
@kazzagm
2 жыл бұрын
Genius lyrics ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@deborahclayton6072
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant .
@dianeclaytondunn6304
3 жыл бұрын
absolute masterpiece love it
@pablozewoppa
3 жыл бұрын
As far as I'm aware I've never met Marc Almond and yet here I am! This IS my life! Factor Covid in and it's 100% accurate.
@danytoon
2 жыл бұрын
He is living it so much, that he finally resests the Vic20 at the end
@bowbutter7608
2 жыл бұрын
bed sit land 80s so true great times
@stephenroche5107
Жыл бұрын
These were v good
@aidramalware569
5 жыл бұрын
La traigo top ten número 1 en mi cabeza! Saludos desde México. 💋
@robertoconti1796
Жыл бұрын
Such a great Singer!!
@martink9785
5 жыл бұрын
Very under appreciated song. I love it!
@timmytimkins4379
3 жыл бұрын
It doesn't need the video to get the picture ..Classic
@jugendstilfee77
Жыл бұрын
oh i love it
@marciojunior3749
3 жыл бұрын
Show top se e louco tinha 16 anos melhor época obrigado Deus .
@andrewmcdonald9758
8 ай бұрын
I still hear this played in clubs sometimes, especially goth clubs
@tebtwis-ys8fx
7 ай бұрын
lol that people still do '' goth ''
@antonjodicoste1393
9 ай бұрын
Amazing and unmatchable music
@Mark-ij2nh
2 жыл бұрын
Songs need simplicity and passion rather than obsession with money
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