Poll: What is your pick for best lyric of the 80s?

To Live and Die in LA is the greatest Wang Chung song. Underrated song for an underrated movie.

"Dance Hall Days" is by far my favorite Wang Chung song. Not only was the video in heavy rotation but it was different.

Great interview! It's funny that my 20-year-old son heard this song on the radio while we were driving one day recently. He instantly said, "Oh, this is Wang Chung!". And I was like, "How did you know that?". He said, "I love 80s music!" I said, "You were born in the wrong decade!"

I just love Wang Chung. One of my favourite movies is To live And Die in LA with their awesome music and a movie with Willem Defoe.

Wang Chung's popularity peaked during a very hectic time of my life (just married, kids...). I loved their groove with Dance Hall Days, but Everybody Have Fun Tonight was the party anthem!! Thanks for this review!

"Dance Hall Days" is great in so many ways ... I just really like the many layers of respect that it pays to the way music should be experienced. I think we should all be relieved that they kept it and shaped it themselves.

They caught my ear several months earlier with "Don't Let Go", which remains one of my favorites. I had the pleasure of meeting them in Birmingham (AL!) at Front Row Center during the Mosaic tour. I had gone to high school with their touring guitarist's brother, so we got to spend a bit more time with the band: the guys were great, I can't say enough positive things about that interaction! To this day, every time one of their songs come on, I tell my wife "Personal friends of mine!"

They're my favourite band of all time and can't go a day without them. Thank you Jack and Nick! Oh, and GREAT video!!!

Jack Hues is a cool guy. Back in1984 I won a contest and got to DJ on WLIR-FM (along with their dj of course) on Long Island one Sunday morning. It so happened that Hues was doing a taped interview in the studio when I went up there and he couldn't have been nicer or more down to Earth.

Professor, I continue to be amazed. I hover over the thumbnail, a video about a song I can't remember ever hearing, by geezers I don't care about (yet), when I'm in a state of mind where I can't really concentrate on things that aren't exceptionally shiny. And before long, you get me to smell the roses that people once found in the song, you present the people behind it as heroes of their story, and you keep me waiting for the titbits like a dog for treats. Not every time: my depression-fuelled ADD (yep, I may be 57, but still) is a very steep uphill battle. But you are very good at telling things in an engaging way, and I am often pleasantly surprised to find myself engaged. 3 chords and the truth!

I love these guys! Wang Chung was so original when the music at the time was starting to become bland and predictable. As much as I enjoyed Dance Hall Days and Wang Chung, I was floored by To live and die in LA. The keyboards are haunting and precarious, fitting the mood of the movie. Underrated song and underrated movie.

🎶 When I, you, and everyone we knew, could believe, do, and share in what was true 🎶 👍🏽😎✌🏽

Your interviews are so refreshingly good.

Jack Hues mentioned going to London to get his albums- I lived in NJ (USA) and had to go to NYC to get the music I wanted. Bleeker Bob's, Golden Disc to name a few where shops I frequented to buy albums. That's how I met John Lennon who checked out the records I had purchased and told me I had great taste. he was kind enough to give me an autograph that I since lost (crying in my beer). Love hearing these stories from the source! Thanks Professor of Rock!

Wang Chung ruled the radio for a while, great memories.

I remember when this family moved here to Las Vegas do to the State Department. The 3rd eldest son and I became pals . His name was Wang Chun people use to tease . I taught him how to Dance and 3 of his other siblings. They treated me like family lots of Yelling and shoe 👞 throwing. Still to this day whenever I walk into a home or business with the aroma. I am always on my toes just incase. Thanks ProRo and classmates. GOD BLESS

"To Live and Die in LA" is the best Wang Chung song

Awesome episode!!! Miss Wang Chung!!! The soundtrack for “To Live and Die in LA” is my all time favorite album. One of my first concerts, at Kelly Park, Fort Bliss, Texas. I think they were with The Smithereens.

Thank you, once again, for shining the spotlight on another very highly talented, underecognized group! Have loved "Dance Hall Days" from the first time that I had heard it on a video rotation show called "Night Tracks"! Thank you again, Professor, for a very enjoyable interview!

Dance Hall Days, Fire In the Twilight, To Live And Die In LA, Let's Go, Everybody Have Fun Tonight, they really were huge in the 80s!!!

The Brits strike again! Jack and Nick are both nice, unassuming guys who deserve their success. Great story behind this tune and yet another example of a song that appeared out of the blue. Thanks, Adam!

I went most of my life thinking they were singing "dance all dazed" lol. I've known the real lyrics for a few years now, lol. I love it that you get to talk to these guys. So cool to see how these long loved songs got their start.

I love this song, it has a lighthearted, whimsical vibe, which is probably why it's appeared in many works set in the 80's, since it evokes nostalgia and carefree times.

I remember this band because of "Everybody have fun tonight". "Dance Hall Days" is also great. I remember hearing it on the radio a lot as a kid in the 80's. Thank you.

I COULD NOT IMAGINE ANY OTHER PERSONS DOING THIS SONG OTHER THAN WANG CHUNG! I'm an 80's Lady and love Wang Chung!

When we graduated high school in California in the late 80s, we had the option to go to Disneyland on graduation night. It was about a 4 hour ride from my school to Anahemi. It would just be kids around 17 to 18 years old at Disneyland all night long, and the only pleasant visit to that park I ever had (a lot less crowded than daytime). A couple bands were playing, one of which was Wang Chung. I remember stopping to watch them for awhile because I had always liked a few of their songs that were on MTV.

I just saw Wang Chung at The Arena Theater in Houston, TX this past Fri. 08/19/22 as part of the Lost in the 80s Live tour - they were phenomenal! All the acts were so enthusiastic - had a fantastic time traveling back to the 80s!

These guys did a great job for the 1985 movie "To Live And Die In L. A." 🔥🌴

Before "Dance Hall Days" hit it big, there was "Don't Let Go," which I loved and is a highly underrated song, and I was excited when it cracked the Top 40 Countdown (made it to a mere peak of 38). Then "Dance Hall Days" was released and the rest is history. Both were #1 on the dance charts at the time. 🙂

What's up professor, I've been gone a long time in and out of the hospital, I used to enjoy this channel so much and I've missed it , gonna check out this episode, I remember dance hall days well ! Lol ,anyways, it's great to be feeling human again Adam!!

Dance Hall Days...Everybody Have Fun Tonight...loved those tunes. Let's Go was my favorite from them.

You bring out the best in the artists you interview. Awesome work Adam. Long live the Professor

It's funny that Jack mentioned being influenced by Carl Jung ("Synchronicity"), since I always used to think that he looked a lot like Sting, another Jung fan around that time. Great interviews!

I had totally missed this song when it came out. It was when I saw "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" I opened my eyes to the group. By chance I was talking to a friend about them and he asked if I had heard "Dance Hall Days". Thanks Carl! 👍

What an interesting turn of events for them. It such an interesting thought to wonder what if they changed their decisions back in the day. Thank you for this!

Such a great channel you have, Adam! Nothing quite like this anywhere! Great interview and insight on a great song. Brings me back to sitting on my parents large vinyl sofa watching MTV on the console TV all summer!

I remember this playing at one of my high school dances when I was talking to a guy that I liked at the time. Brings back good memories!

really loved their work, especially their work on the To Live and Die in LA score/soundtrack

Adam, you lucky duck to interview in person Jack Hues and Nick Feldman. The deep cuts off Points are just of the more finer moments of the band's ways of their sound on the waves, talk it out and even their 1982 record with China and rising in the east

Great interview. And I LOVE that he mentioned Adam and the Ants and the Burundi beat. I’m gonna AGAIN BEG YOU to do a video of Adam and the Ants. They were under appreciated in their time and wrote off as a novelty or a joke/ but in truth their music is AMAZING and complex and full of heavy beats with 2 drum sets and so much hook.

Super underrated band. To Live and Die in LA is one of my favorite songs, not just of the 80s. Like the Fixx, INXS, The Outfield, criminally underrated and underappreciated bands of the era.

This is one of the greatest songs of my youth. There are many that go hidden in time because of people thinking Wang Chung, they think of "Everybody Have Fun Tonight". Just like thinking Flock of Seagulls, People think of "I Ran" when they had another great forgotten track, "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph)". There are many great forgotten songs out there or maybe not forgotten, but tracks that just don't get any airplay today like this one. When I first heard this song as a kid, I fell in love with it instantly. I went out and bought the 12 inch single and still have it in my collection today. I wish music was still this good today. Thank you Wang Chung, and thank you Adam for this interview or I'd never know they did their 2019 cover which was just great.

Love Wang Chung! "Dance Hall Days" is my Wang Chung favie! I also love Michael Jackson(with The Jackson 5\The Jacksons and solo as Michael Jackson), but never knew he loved and wanted to include this song on "Thriller". Wow! I never knew there was more than the one video. The only one I'd ever seen(known about!) was with them performing in the club, with the suitcase running away at the end.

Wang Chung-- Let’s Go. ❤️

Even though it should have been way off of my playlist "Dance Hall Days" became a song I really loved to hear, and I still do. Great video.

I loved the soundtrack they did for To Live & Die In LA which included Dance Hall Days & Wait & new material for the excellent film.

Great stuff, Professor. Thanks for all that you do.

points on the curve was their second album (though their first as wang chung; they were originally huang chung), they're such an underrated band. as many others have mentioned in the comments already, to live and die in la is such a great soundtrack.

Dance Hall Days and Everybody Have Fun Tonight are quintessential 80s songs. I still "Wang Chung" at night.

A song that is a nostalgic nod to the 20s has become a nostalgic echo of the 80s.

You are the best my friend! Thank you for all your hard work.

Besides "Dance Hall Days",I also like "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"-Those are their two greatest songs.

I love to hear all of the stories behind all of the songs from that time. Regardless of whether they were amongst my favorites or not!!!!! ❤️❤️

Really like that song, along with "Everybody Have Fun" and "Let's Go", must explore more of Wang Chung's music outside of the singles.

I am a HUGE WC fan. Nick was cool enough to talk to a wide-eyed crazed teen fan in '87 at the front of the stage at Disneyland. I will never forget that moment. At the time I had everything they ever did, and hold "Huang Chung" still to this day as one of my favorite albums ever.

70’s best decade for music.

I want to thank you for this interview because I thought I was the only guy in the world who had a connection to Dancehall days there was unexplainable I just thought it was the best music out and in the entire decade of the 80s

Can't believe this was almost an MJ song! No doubt it would have been great, but things turned out how they were supposed to because it's just perfection as a Wang Chung song.

Professor, you're a gentleman and a kickstarter of so many conversations, thanks and I never appreciated this song in its first release. Now, I love it.

Growing up in the 80's when MTV came out and getting to watch all the different genres of music was unbelievable and it moved into the 90's. But MTV just fell of the planet into the leftist shit hole it is today. I remember watching this video so many times and this interview is ridiculously outstanding. What the real shame is what music has turned into today. Bunch of shit. It's all pop and rap. No rock and roll. Bummer but thank goodness for YT and channels like this one. Well done professor 💯

Remember seeing this one on Friday Night Videos. I would always confuse the song with The Kinks "Come Dancing" which I also loved.

🤣😂 i also thought he said, Christ! 🤣😂

I only became aware of Wang chung through dance hall days. I heard it on the radio and loved it. I taped it from radio and was still playing it right until late 2018 when I moved from England to Thailand and had to leave everything behind.

Love the incredible videos. You have a great voice for radio.

That song came and smashed! Everbody wanted to hear it, to dance iyi had my album and again i regret dont keep it. Time when i started to go some parties in my teen years.. When the song was on i looked for a girl to hold his hand and dance, Great video again.

Ah, yes, hasn’t everyone been in the recording studio and Paul McCartney walks in to lend you his bass for your song?

Dance Hall Days is such a feel good song. Everybody have fun tonight Everybody Wang Chung tonight!

I became familiar with Wang Chung in 1986-87 with the hits "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," "Let's Go," and "Hypnotize me" and I remember MTV playing a song called "Praying to a New God" in 1989 by Wang Chung that was a big departure for the group as far as sound goes (but still a great song and cool video).

To me Wang Chung is "To live and die in LA". It's my favorite.

I remember the first time I listened to the "Mosaic" album and was surprised by the bluntness of "The World in Which We Live". They seemed so squeaky clean up until then. I loved how they put the wrong lyrics to the songs in the album sleeve.

I'm glad they kept Dance Hall Days as is for themselves.

You should do "Come Dancing" by The Kinks, which is another dance hall nostalgic classic.

Dance Hall Days is Amazing!

I love how he has Beethoven on the mantle and African figures behind him. What influences!

Simply a great song.

Love the Tshirt. I has a black one with the same white grid and "Las Vegas" with the same font in Miami Vice blue.

What a story! No disrespect to the King of Pop, but I'm glad it worked out the way it did.

Spotted The Ocean Blue! Have that and several others from them.

Too cool. Truly a song that epitomizes the '80s.

I saw these guys in concert in 1985. How fun it was!

Somewhere I have a cassette that has a 12" Extended Mix that I recorded from Kev's All-Night Record Cafe" that aired on 97 WLAV-FM in Grand Rapids, MI. Kevin Matthews was doing overnights and eventually ended up in Chicago.

Blackfoot is a huge town ..lol..I'm from Kuna,id..but its cool to watch someone on here from home

truly a great 80s classic that is better than everything in the past 10 years...I'll probably think of other lyrics from the 80s that really moved me in about 6 months from now but... 1) I don't care where we go, I don't care what we do, I don't care pretty baby, just take me with you 2) when i leave i don't know what i'm hoping to find, and when i leave i don't know what i'm leaving behind

Love this song!!!

Also cool that Wang Chung referenced Joni Mitchell's "The Hissing of Summer Lawns", a magnificent album. Supposedly, Prince once told a journalist that it was the only album he could listen to all the way through. Not sure if it's completely factual, but an interesting thought.

Wang chung is definitely a staple of the 80"s !

What cool guys. You’ve got the best job on earth.

I forget whose radio show I heard this on, but it seems it was either in the late 1990's or early 2000's, and Wang Chung did an acoustic version of Dance Hall Days that was just simply perfect, considering the environment. It was a talk show, and they just broke out this song.

"Everybody Wang Chung Tonite!"

Wow, released in 82 near time of the Kinks' "Come Dancing". The new sounds of the day were maybe installing a nostalgia for days when people could go out dancing to music that wasn't Disco ?

What a great blast from the past, thank you. Nostalgia for a song about nostalgia for an earlier time. Getting double reverse jetlag just thinking of it Lol

Saw them open for The Cars on their Heartbeat City tour... Still remember the cool stand up drumming they did and how good they were! They interacted so well and got the crowd going. Then, The Cars came out and did the opposite. I guess it was just their style...

I believe there are three truly special songs from the 80s. Obviously there are hundreds if not thousands, but I mean truly magical songs that set themselves apart for eternity. All time classics like the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun", and the Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want" ...... SHE'S A BEAUTY by The Tubes MELT WITH YOU by Modern English And this song. There's magic in them thar lyrics/🎶

3:08 Joachim Phoenix !

such a fun song. always enjoy hearing it.

I saw them open for the Cars back in the 80s. I thought they were better than the Cars.

Got a suggestion for a new video, how about something on Vitamin Z? I loved them and completely wore out the cassette of the album Sharp Stone Rain Thanks for all you do keeping the awesome memories alive!!

Ah yes one of my favorite songs to sing and emulate the voice it's an added bonus as an 80's classic

"You Better You Bet" and "Whats Love Gotta To Do With It" are some of my favorite lyrics.