Cliff, you really know what life is all about, brother. My very best to you and yours. Bravo!

The Boardwalk was a good place to meet girls in the '80s. I distinctly remember playing this album on cassette during a drive back home from there.

You are blessed 💗

@@Nerval-kg9sm first time ever on a roller coaster I was so scared but didnt show it because I wanted to impress her

💛💛💛💛💛 !!!!!

Yep.

I miss the 80's and the 90's

Hell yes!

For somebody who just listened to this song for the first time - i don't get it. It doesn't hold up to other hits from the same genre. I've no idea how this garbage became so popular.

Grubby bum obviously you weren’t there. This is the epitome of the 80’s

Well put ✊✊✊✊

We were cool with each other !

@@user-mj1tu2qs7q 4 sho!!

❤❤❤❤

Hey I'm 65 we were all together back then

Well said! We really are so lucky to be part of that time and carry it with us forever.

No musical era rocked like the 80's

1983! Remember it well. Reagan in the white house, Reaganomics going strong. $1.25 a gallon gasoline super supreme. 80¢ Big Mac, Whopper, Jumbo Jack. $300 a month rent for a 2 bedroom house with all utilities included except the corded dial phone at $6 a month. ET the movie in theaters all over USA. And this mega hit playing out of boom boxes every where. Great time to be alive. Different people, different era, different time, different styles, different values, different music, different country, different world. Never to return again. Glad I lived it.

@@truelies3690 I remember it well also. I am glad I lived it as well

@@truelies3690 I know I really sound like an old fart, but I came of age (born in 1959) through the late 70s and early 80s. In the 70s I was a rocker at war with disco!! With MTV and new wave, I found a new love in modern, European music. I loved this song! I saw Eurythmics, Berlin, Missing Persons, Psychedelic Furs, Blondie, and a few more. I do think we were lucky. We had enough electronics to have fun but none that would steal our brains and have us staring at our phones all day. I feel so sorry for kids now - we had it better and it seems like the socio-economics of our peers was pretty similar. Forgive me for yakking!!

i one hundred agree with that, goodjob

Ya when 🇺🇸 wasn’t overflowing with newcomers/illegal savages n a shi load of 🌚🗑

Don’t b a punk n just say that 🇺🇸 was yt safe prosperous n the world wasn’t in 🔥 …🌚🗑 = 🇮🇱🌈

Just wish it lasted forever

Way

that would be awsome wouldnt it that was the best of times

There will never be a better decade...Music, movies, TV and college sports were all so much better than today!!!

Perfect sentiment

I tell mines the same 35 34 33 30 27 17 an 8 grandkids I’m 51 best years of my life an you’re right for them I would always watch valley girl just to hear this song

Same !

I agree well said

The accent is actually fake he later says he regretted it lol

@@Joe-qm4yv legit lol

Their music making ability is amazing...

I'm originally from Northeastern England. We needed music so we could keep moving to stay warm. I came to the US for the central heating - but I still move to good music.

But 2080s won’t be that good,like 1980s:(

Yeah when I'm dead

Sounds legit! 👍

it's back now - the sound, not the date XD

It won’t be like 1980 tho

I suppose she wanted her daughter a single mother her whole life? She's fuckin lucky she found somebody to go through life with her and her mother better realize the alternative is awful.

Cheers. No kids here & yet. Though I couldn’t imagine a world without her. ❤️

awesome you made the best choice boss

Marco1985 ORVISINI What a fabulous story!! ❤️ ❤️

What if Marco1985 ORVISINI was 70 years old at the time he wrote of this seemingly innocent 83' story and hateful Mother? Not so fabulous now is It?

I graduated from high school in 83, at the end of that summer in September I went into the Army, February of 84 right out of training I was stationed in Germany, on June 6th of that year in the morning I got a Stars and Stripes magazine and the headline story was how it was the 40th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. Just the other day I was talking to an old Army buddy of mine who was there that day in Germany and told him "Do you realize that on this June 6th it'll be the same amount of time from D-Day to when we were stationed in Germany as from then until now? We are now as old as some of those WW2 veterans were when we were in the Army, good lord the years have passed by". Years back I heard an explanation about the perception of time passing by that a long time ago I realized was true and the older I get the truer it is, when you're 10 years old 1 year is one 10th of your perceived life, but when you're 50 years old 1 year is one 50th of your perceived life, that's why the older you get the faster time seems to go by, each day seems like it lasts just as long but when you look back is when time seems to be speeding up and the years seem to go by faster.

I think of those things too…certainly when reflecting on WW2. I remember when I was a little kid and someone mentioned it had now been 35 years since the war…it might as well have been a thousand…@@dukecraig2402

They still are

Stop whining

@@mikeyb5467 Yeah, ok Mom.

Great memory, thanks for sharing; I think we all have little memories/episodes like this in our past.

Find her, tell her.

Imagine what might have been if you got together with her.

Damn. I think we’ve all got a similar memory. God Bless all the Cindy’s in this world

​​​lol he's been imagining hooking up w her 40 yrs now ... eversince that party when he was a skinny freshman no car no license she's untouchable senior.

😁

Good stuff

Best comment ever well played sir

It was truly like time stood still, dam I sure miss the good ole days

@@jayhughes3168 now people will get triggered and say "OMG DID YOU JUST ASSUME THEIR GENDER YOU MISOGYNISTIC TRANSPHOBIC WHITE RACIST MAN" My generation is full of pussies.

My freshman year in highschool!! Lost my !!! To this song 💖💖 she was 18 me 14 !!takes me back !!!

Yo!

heyo!

❤

the futures open wide🎉

Awesome!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw

Take me back much love 🤗

Wow ❤❤ good memories

Maybe he scratched his head because you requested a song about being with your lover during nuclear war . . . LOL

How time flies, are you that old?

Happy late birthday Scott

@Scott Manning: Happy belated birthday! I'm one year older than you. We were blessed!

Belated Happy Birthday Scott!!

Happy belated birthday

So sorry for your loss😢

Ty,and God Bless You and yours ​@donnahoyle5928

@donnahoyle5928 Ty,and God Bless You and yours

I love you ❤

Born in 68, can relate Life is beautiful nonetheless And lets not forget, as a very wise man once wrote and sang, that Hapiness is a warm gun

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, I'm 59 and never been in love. Don't know what it feels like. Must be nice.

It will happen to u bro!!

The only time I felt real love is with my guy and still there even more today … but before that not such a great childhood

So sorry. I'm glad you have the great memories.

@@misplacedcajun2325 Thank you for that 👍❤️

Don't worry you will see him again in the next lifetime

@@paulgrieshop5024 Thank you for your uplifting words. I appreciate 👍

sorry for your loss, glad you have good memories

Great observation. I hope you saw them on the tour when they swung through the states. I saw them in Illinois. Got to talk to Robbie and Stephen before the show. They opened with 16 days and gathering dust.

Thanks for reminding me how old I am 👴🏽

Class of 85’

😳 wow 40 years!!!

Where were you in 1982!? Reaganomics underway, Aids scare running wild, Prince Charles and Diana's massive expensive wedding, 99¢ a gallon gas, 75¢ Big Mac, Whopper, Jumbo Jack. Great music, great country, great people, great era, great to be alive. If you were there at the time you know what I mean. A once great era country never to return again.

Here 5/2/2024

I'm with you I'm 56 and this was my song in the 80s

52..

Me too! I used to listen to this when I worked as a cook in a trendy vegetarian place in the 80's in Toronto.

Still love this

Yes it was

Still are.... i love that several 80s artist are doing quarantine versions, its like they know we need our music from a time when all we cared about was jean jackets, tapes, 8pm radio stations request lines, hanging out with our parents and hanging at the mall with our friends.

Lets go back and do it again

I see what you did there

Nowadays a lot of music manufactured garbage!

💖

I agree. Was a teen in the 80’s and no doubt the best years of my life.

Its a cool song

ME TOO !!! ;)

@@prepcastready YES ME TOO !!! ;) I FEEL THE SAME WAY !!! :)

That's. Cool. Nancy,. I. hope. He. never. forget s. how. much. you. care. for. him🥲

You're an amazing woman for that. That's so sweet. Beautiful

@@ZeranZeran What a kind response! Thank you.

@@BruceWall-gv4up Thank you so much. And he never has. 🤗

...I'm the parent part 🥺☺

That is beautiful

We should ALL be so lucky...Good on ya both!

Nothing better

Very nice story. Gave me goosebumps. Congratulations

Sweet, sounds like my parents honestly! They've been married for 35 years!

how often this song is playing on your radio? name the station...

❤️

@MythicalHippie: Your parents have awesomely rad taste, and I raise a toast to them.

I want that type of relationship

I love this ❤️

So true. We took things for granted.

It never stopped. Open your fucking ears child.

Not ended, just like fine wine. Better with age.

There's still great music coming out, it's just not on the radio much now. You have to look for it.

If you like this group you will also like (Modern Talking).... I 💕💕 both Singers/Bands...🎉🎉

Here are two more great bands from the 80's kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arRhnNqC3c-soqc.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9OBn6WX3c6Yhac.html

Yes you did!!!!

Lizzie Ball Thanks, I’ll check them out!

@@c0p.8 you're welcome! Here is another great one,the 80's were amazing for music,this song is by The Cure kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p5iRddFettu0hqs.html

Oppspwdro

I so agree!!!

Gen-Z kids?

And lots of very unhappy peeps that are jealous of all......

80s!!!!!!!!

dislike bots

that was the fun part.@D-jj5dy

It’s not even specific memories, it’s emotional time travel 🩵

Music was more than music back then for sure. It was everything.

​​@D-jj5dyHaaa, I thought the dancing was awesome. You just don't see it anymore 😉

My dentist plays all 80's music and likes to hum or low-key sing along. I loved growing up in the 80's and the music was break-thru into New-Wave>Alternative and really opened the door for exponential genres.

Right!?

Imagine what would happen to the world if we just went back to the 80s probably a lot more crack

Well you wouldn't be able to play 80s music in your hardware store without 2000 cassettes while replacing them every 2 years and you wouldn't be able to make such an inane comment on the internet that didn't exist. The murder rate would be 3 times as high. The Soviet Union would still exist. Nuclear warning drills would still exist. All of Eastern Europe would still be being ruled by the Soviets. We'd still be denying Japanese Internment. And every waking hour we'd still be worrying about a nuclear bomb stopping the world and melting us. Like the writers of this song were.

@@slippymadtadpole ….yeah and less fentanyl

+Darrin Magnus i was born in 1992, but this is definitely one of my favorite movies! my mom let me watch it when i was 13, which i think was too young of an age.... but Cage was awesome in it. And the ending makes me melt!!!!

mandalynn185 IN 1983 I was only 8 years old when this movie premiered, Mandalynn. It was a romance comedy whose plot was loosely based on Shakespeare's play of Romeo and Juliet. Needless to say the impression that it had on me no doubt had a hand in shaping who I am today. :) And yes, that's a good thing.

+Darrin Magnus sounds like a good thing! I never thought of the r&j reference. I think I'll watch the movie tonight too!! lol

mandalynn185 THINK I may do the same when I get home from work this evening. It's too bad you don't live close here in Pittsburgh, Mandalynn, or else I'd buy a good pizza pie and invite you over to watch it with me. :)

Kadmos Phoinikou Kanaanon So do I we ruled the world back then

Recently heard it in the film "Table 19" as a cover version

John S. true I also liked it the way stranger things used it

And the reason is, it was the most diverse decade of music ever put together on this planet.

It was the real first decade with independent labels... that really did things just for artistic reasons. But it is true, not only the sound, even many of the songs have an uplifting nature that perdures until today. I am thinking of The The's "This is the day", or A Flock of Seagulls "Space Age Love Song", The Waterboys ("The whole of the moon"), Prince ("1999") or so many tracks from the Cure, Depeche mode (but not tonight) or even the weirder stuff that is also amazing. Then you had all the early detroit techno, Acid House, New Beat... CRAZY. The 90's were pretty damn good too, but it was more of a continuation of the spirit of the 80's.

Very good.

The best decade I have ever lived :) A-lot of things took off but they didn't fly long. But this hit flies forever.

Best wishes to you and your family

God Bless You And Your Family 😊 From Florida

God bless your lovely dad🙏😘 And family 🙏

Your comments brought tears to my eyes.

That is an awesome story!

You've got great taste! Yes...parents did a good job.

Start writing songs from ya hart n life n get yaself a band start changing the world to better as we did in the 80s.

you are a loser

Thank you for reading... this song got me my wife....

80's were the BEST OF TIMES IF MY LIFE 54 now,stay positive kid the future is yours.

You said it, sis. 1980's and 1990's- best years of my life.

You are truly one of the lucky ones !

Spit that Truth Sis!! As a freshman in high school I was lucky enough to get asked to the junior prom by my best friend's older brother. I can still remember dancing to this song at his prom and loving the fact that I was an invincible fifteen-year-old who thought I was going to live forever

Im I'm glad I lived through the 80s as a kid best 10 years of my life

Truth!

When we're young, they always tell us how fast it will fly by, and we never believe them. I was 12 in 1983 when I first remember hearing I Melt With You in Valley Girl. It truly feels like only yesterday. BTW, you are very young to be retiring! Good luck to you.

@@Nightflyer720 40yrs at one job is a longtime, COVID is the reason why 100k's have been offered early retirement in America, I was one of them, just got a 2 year head start that's all, thanks and to you as well.

I only looked away for 5 minutes and when I looked back, 10 years had gone by...then 20...

@@DawnSuttonfabfour I WISH it were only a decade or two. Now I look back, and 30 and 40 years have passed. Scary!

@@Nightflyer720 Ahem yeah, about that...it is more than 20 years, in fact it is somethingy2. I just lie about my age. I was 19 in 1980, you do the math but don't tell me cos I'm in denial right now.

that's so sweet!

So what happened to her?

Why'd it end?

Cute. Cheers:).

I hope you can find her

One of the best songs of all time my friend

I used to do the same thing with my bros in the 80's at the RoseHills cemetery in Los Angeles except we were blasting SLAYER! 🤘

"A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetry gates Keats and Yeats are on your side..."

That's a nice memory. Also depeche mode. Wow.

When I ditched school, we’d smoke pot and go to arcade or just smoke pot.

I used to walk through the cemetery at my very old university, looking at the gravestones of students who had died of tuberculosis and drowning back in the 1700's. I wanted to remind myself that I I'm going to die one day.

Model- Man - Yay! Class of 81

Hell yeah....was a teen in the seventies and 20s in the eighties.. awesome time

The 70's L.A. punk scene was great with Rodney B. on KROQ paving the way for new bands trying to break through and cut their teeth in the industry. Black Flagg, The Runaways, The Circle Jerks, The Misfits and Social Distortion were on their way to getting fully established with T4he Ramones here in the States leading the way while Bauhaus, Bowie, The Clash and The Sex Pistols across the pond in Great Britain doing the same. The result? The perfect musical storm of various styles, tastes and flavors mixed, matched, shaken, stirred or just served straight up or neat to create the most badass decade ever.

I too am 55 and the 60s, 70s, and the 80s were the most magical and memorable decades of incredible music for me!! Thanks to KZfaq I can sit back and kick my feet up and enjoy the music and reminisce about the good old days and when it was a simpler time! ❤️🙂❤️

@@kaisersozshye2525 WOW!! I really LOVE the way you write! I really felt your emotions and appreciation for music!! I take my hat off to you, and very well said my friend!!! 👍😉

I hate the 80s ultra consumerism but god it was such a unique culture in music

Loved that era of music and entertainment and the fact that we realized then how great it was without realizing how unique we had it.

That’s rich from someone who can’t wait to get the latest slave made iPhone

One of my fav mini life hacks using this site. Reading people's reflections on classic songs. Always so uplifting, and heartwarming.

True that!!!

I'm also a huge metal head, since '84. My wife says I'm weird because I also love blues, 50s/60s doo wop and New Wave.

@@djay6651 same here, metal my true love, but music is music if it gets you thats it

Is this considered heavy metal? It ain't really that heavy pretty soft if you ask me

@@shrimppimp4509 what I meant to say that as a heavy metal fan,I even find myself listening to a song like this one...this song is far from been a heavy metal song.. nevertheless is a great song..

it was a great time

That's where the music was.

Yes. Me too. Pink Cadillac in Waikiki, Oahu. Wave Waikiki. Man those were the days

Yea, it was a great time to be young. This song more than amy song of that time really brings u back. The country was united, thr music was great. Now look,at things, well let's try and be positive

Gosh, didnt know u were married Morrisey. :D

🤣🤣🤣

I love you too Maria!

Awesome!!!

@@jongriggs85 LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE CREEPY ASSHOLE HATERS!!! I BET YOU ARE SINGLE!!!

@oh no no What a happy story,your mum has great taste!! It just goes to the fact that music DOES bring people together! HAPPY STUDYING!!!

@Blue Butterfly Thank you so much,I feel very lucky!❤❤❤

Rock on girl!!!

@@waynegouin939 Thanks! I am ALWAYS rockin' on...you do the same!!❤

Cool, keep rockin!

THANK YOU!!! I was trying to remember the name of that movie! 🫶🏼

Exactly what just happened to me tonight ❤

Awww, that's so sad, Allene B. I was class of '85, and it's terrifying to think life is that fragile. I'm sorry for your loss.

Sorry for your loss, Allene! Not close to fair. Be well and God Bless!

Awwww now I'm crying.

Same here ....

Allene B I'm very sorry he was way to young

Love to! I could right the wrongs of the past!!

Ready!

In a heartbeat....as long as I can be 16 again too.

Don’t forget the flux capacitor that makes time travel possible

I've been trying! I can't find a working DeLorean and my hot tub has a leak

Bob Dobalina I feel ya... tears for all the things that’ve happened since I used to hear this song.

I listen to the 80's music and takes me back to the days of innocence and happy times. Miss it soooo much.

So true hugs x

Bob, I must ask you. Did you get your KZfaq name from the Monkees song Zilch?

@@hoosiermyrek No, was he in there? No, mine's from that Del tha funky Homosapien song ;)

Your story is absolutely beautiful! I'm crying here very happy to read you and your wife are still happy together!

A great song and absolutely lovely story. Thanks for sharing.

It's always good to see people hit the lottery.

Well played

I love this song I'm getting married in Oct 27th and this song will be played.

snugglebear06 amen

Please do!!❤️💯🔥

Yes mam, Ken bordes I 53yrs old

Ya can't, no one can sing today without some sort of aid

classicgamr The future's open wide

lmao

That's about as bad as when I thought my sister had 8 Miles High by the Byrds on her iPod for years, until I finally looked it up and realized it was actually I Just Dropped In by Kenny Rogers :/

Eric Lamar it took THREE months??

Yup. I literally tried too look it up almost every day too

You could have tried googling the lyrics, or shazaming it.

Live every day like it is your last day. Follow your heart and your passions, life is too short to go through it unhappy. Cherish the ones you love, never let a day go by without telling them that you love them. Your 20s are the best time of your life, dont waste them on foolish things like drugs and drinking. I hope you have a wonderful life and do great things❤

Hi, same!!! Born in the early 2000s too and the first time I listened to this song was in a movie I absolutely adore (you probably know it, its called “Sky High”) and every time I hear this melody, I can only remember my childhood fondly.

I,m. glad. you. like. it,,. I. wish. you. could. know. how. far. out. is. was in. the. 80,s. 🥲

My kids were the 90's & still love this song cause I played it when they were growing up

Same, I was born in the early 90s (so obviously not alive when this song came out) but I remember first hearing it as a kid while I was shopping at an Old Navy store with my mom! I remember being mesmerized by it and then always associating it with Old Navy whenever I heard it. lol.

this is a song about two people making love and literally melting because a nuclear bomb hit them lol

@@hylwicks who cares...it’s the fact that he’s willing to die with her.

@@shesmoneja5478 I mean he has no choice lol

@@yougotgamesonyourphone6947 again... who cares 😂 I still feel the EXACT same way I did when I comment my comment. Nothing changed.

Thanks.

Awesome movie with a great sound track with Modern English, The Plimsouls, Josie Cotton, the P-Furs and more. My daughter told me that there is a reboot of Valley Girl that came out a year or so back but I have not seen it yet.

Wow, me too. I watched Valley Girls years ago and heard this song for the first time and have enjoyed listening to it ever since.

You need to be up on a hill looking down at Los Angeles at night.

I love Valley Girl 💞

@@guymorris6596 Mulholland Drive!

As a drummer, I really appreciate someone recognizing them in the background📺 thank you

Really, it'd be like striking gold to find a drummer to "play a song".

@@tlk6668 drummers are like filmmakers they don't get the appreciation they deserve

@@tlk6668 I'm obsessed with drums omgeeeeee

It's the theme, not the meme.

Give me other good titles

@@sunnym2458 love my way by the psychedelic furs

@@willd6215 that song is FIRE 🔥

@@sunnym2458 This is how it feels by Inspiral Carpets

@@sunnym2458 “under the Milky Way’ by The Church

The band them self just released a remake of it sometime in the last year, and I was actually much more impressed with it than I expected I was going to be - that generally does not go well.

If it hasn't got the humming during the bridge, I don't want it.

Agreed..........................

I agree the best

This and White Wedding right? And Born in the USA is about patriotism? You might want to reread the lyrics before you look like an even bigger fool. As the writer said, "This is a song about having sex during a nuclear holocaust."

D Thomas Good Grief! I’m 68! Great, fun, song! ❤️ ❤️

I'm older! lol

Love the alternative 80's music...miss it

it´s because you are so young in body and mind that you enjoy life as you where a teen. don´t you feel that way?

61 here still the love song i post on my wifes fb page (when im not in fb jail. lol)

You hit the nail on the head. Get yourself an old truck and it’ll be like a time machine.

@@duvessa2003 I actually just bought a 1983 F350 and I love it

Old soul stuck in a modern time. I feel ya😐

Rooster.. you can!! visit vintage record shops! Get that truck and listen to anything you want 🙌🏻🌹

I loved growing up in this time. Wouldn't change it for anything. Just listen and let the music take you back ❤

Danced this song too back then. The difference now is I dance alone - must be when my hair disappeared.

***** lol

stereopolice as long as I don't look at the chaps singing this song, it is still one of my favorites!!!!! (age 45 here)

Jordan Sutherland We grew up in a great time (the 80's); little did we know. Hope you have great memories too ... Oh, and yes, this chap is not a looker lol.

stereopolice Yes, I am so grateful for growing up when I did!!!!! Amazing memories here.... I'm sure you have great ones, too! :)