I was born in 1966. We are very lucky to have memories of those good ol days. Today's kids are like zombies staring at their phones. We are so blessed.

​@@frdo66brings back my cruising days 1985, I want my MTV 😂

Amen on that my Friends

Amen!

Amen buddy totally tubular! ❤

Um yeah

Hell Yeah!

Hell yeah! Class of 85' kick's it live

@@Frank-km6ig Amen

thats because at the time we didnt have anything to compare it to. everything that has followed his been (insert word here).

@@SillyGoose2024 shit

Amen. With you on point brother. born 67. 80's were coming of age excess, lawless fun

@@keithhunt4475 so many things about the 80s were great, I can't name them all.

FN Right Brotha! (or sis ... best ONE hit Wonder gen ... with no antisocial media, iphones, or Mass Shootings! Love my Xgen!

Great song. I love thousands of 80's songs, but this one in.particular is very😊 nostalgic to me. It's pure magic isn't it??.

@@angelsapparent it's brother, my son changed my name and pic on here, lol. 80s kids didn't need all that social media. All I needed was my bike or some friends or even by myself and I'd be outside all day and night. Simple life back then. Great music, great movies.

Ain't that the truth!

Ummmm, yes we are quite aware. Can't buy a house today without 400 thousand dollars. Could have bought a mini castle back then, even with accounting for inflatation. It's not the part of having it "better", you old people had it so much _easier_

@@SillyGoose2024 30 years ago I brought my house for 60 grand. Last year a family member brought theirs for 600 grand.

Yeah, shame on them

People who grew up in the 1950s told us the same exact thing in the 1980s.

Well, thanks very much for that kick in the emotional balls, Captain Buzzkill.

Well said!!😊 and having said that..feel we are lucky!!

Music is the only time machine we have.

I am definitely with you on that

With you, dude

Oops just your probally a girl

Loved this album! They defined my high school experience!

For real! Has anybody come up with a time machine yet?

This takes me back. Used to see Hooters playing at Cavanagh's Bar on Sansom St in Philly back in 1984.

Absolutely agreed. One of the greatest best happiness songs of the 80’s. I have been there as well (literally with having someone in the boot). I miss the drive in days. As for the back seat, well…….

Makes me HATE people from nowadays even more... 🔥😡🔥

I remember first seeing them on the broadcast of the Live Aid show.

Born in 84, this song just feels natural to me

Did we just become best friends?

@@cvcubbington Looks like it

Nah bro, the best song ever!

@@whenlifehitsdifferent Don't let Kanye Ye West know that's your opinion.

Sorry, not to poop on your parade, no where near one the 80s best, pretty w*nk if you ask me, just my opinion though :)

Memories of a life well lived. Awesome experience. One of my favorite songs of the 80s. Gets better with age as only classic songs do. Great story thanks for sharing.

Ah BIG SIGH!

yes!! 80's is so timeless

Exactly

Ja ich u.daß immer wieder gerne!❤

Me

july 20 2024. NYC

Here I am!

Sharing this with my 21 year old son.

oh yeah they were....

Do not let the troubles of what we have now take away from the joy we all had then! We lived it, captured it in our hearts, it is our duty to pass it on. Life is trading time for experience. I so love guitar driven rock from the 60s to present and love the intensity it can bring to enriching our lives and others. Never forget to enjoy moments, whether alone or with that 30+ year guy with whom you get to hang out... and rock, and remember! Cheers to both of you! dg

What a nice thing to say, dg, thanks

Congratulations!! 🎉❤️

Here’s to another thirty for you and your husband Amy!! I lost my one because I didn’t appreciate her enough for how awesome she truly is, hold him tight🙂

@@davegordon3935 well said brother!

You nailed it!!!...nothing like it...no internet anything..the thrill of liking girls..fun and good times..1975-85 was an amazing time to be young and alive.

Me too!! 🥰

If I could find my way there.....I'm stayin

I recapture part of my youth (I turned 50 in 2021) in the gym. Squat, Bench Deadlift. Rinse repeat!!!

I’m 66 and feeling this again. Such an exciting time for me though eyes being wide open due to life. Biden 🤮

I remember seeing them open for Bryan Adams in ‘87

The Spirit is Alive & Well &. I play this & fly.outta bed like a rocket & dance into my jeans & eyeliner & dance outta my home into my car & just keep dancing ~ Very American Spirit outta the gut ~ gals & guts. ~ 👞👠👞🌹

And the bearded hippie at the concession stand is WMMR's own Pierre Robert.

I remember seeing them at a local college in the Poconos, I think it was after the Nervous Nights cd came out.

I know the area well. Sadly, Pierre has retired and gone.

@@lairdcummings9092 Pierre Robert? No, he's still doing the midday slot for MMR.

Me

Present.

Where was that at? Very awesome experience and memory.

willow grove mall 1982

That’s awesome!

Agree ... They left for a tour once from our church/school parking log on Paoli Pike ... very nice to the kids who came out to meet them. (PS ... went to the Exton Drive-In quite often way back when!)

I’m doing a research project about a distant relative for school and my dad told me about the bassist, Fran Smith Jr. Apparently he is my dad’s second cousin and a really awesome dude. I remember meeting him once when I was really little and he had one amazing smile. The coolest part of this to me is that I also play the bass which makes me look up to him more than before. Unfortunately I can’t visit him very often but I do miss him

You said it. Every time I listen to these songs I get a gut wrenching feeling that those days are long gone. As Eddie Money said, I Wanna Go Back!

You betcha maggies farm and btw, i ain't gonna work on your farm no more!

@Maximilian Schnabel I wanna go back too...but with foreknowledge I'll actually use. Like, say, inform the IRS about the dealings of a certain infamous New York estate tycoon...

😢

I know EXACTLY how you feel. This world as it is today is NOT meant for me. We didn't understand back then

Well I think you have just about hit the nail on the head with that one. Yay Rock on Man. :)

Absolutely spot on - infinitely better than the world as it is - so much for progress 🙈🙈

Wow! That's me! Very on point my friend 👍😎

Born in the late 60’s

You are spot on!! 🇦🇺🇦🇺What a wonderful youth we had! I was born in 1971!!

I'm able to do that, too... to go to a certain time in my life, concentrate a little, and feel what I was feeling at the time.. it's a powerful thing, and I have often wondered how many people can do it... wondered if it's an unusual ability, or if it's commonplace..

Same

And im only 17

I have a hard time also I get very sad and would love just one more day to go back to this time

The best times man. This work is right dickered now

We would have been great friends!

Yea, i missed this times👍👍👍

Great song😊

It's like a better Bruce Springsteen song! HAHA! I totally agree with that! I was born in 78 and I have never heard this song before in my life. That is exactly how I would describe it too though.

I was born in 77

Did you ask her to dance? I hope you did.

The Hooters used to play in State College when I was there, just a bit before you.

Seriously! Is it just me, or does it seem like the 80's were just yesterday? Good times, people were more laid back - society was better then. It was a whole different era.

@@0329Christine I too saw some great bands when I was at university. It seems your contemporaries were more carefree than I was.

1986--A good year for Penn State on the gridiron! 😊

How fun! ❤

Please tell me that was at a clearing in a cornfield or at a farm/wild space and not a Walmart parking lot!

@@msgypsylady100 at a rival school parking lot after a football game...who knows who won.

I've never heard of dudes getting in a circle and dancing.

Dudes, dudettes, our school, their school, anyone who wanted to join.

Ever heard of The Beatles (60s)

Right on!!

Cuse I can't Speel

The BEST !!

You must have missed the 70's... such a shame.

So many good, original bands and songs back then.

@@danhughes8669 yeah and so much garbage today

​@@rockandroller8352actually, I think about the last 10 years or so music has been making a comeback.

Couldn't agree more!! I too grew up on the eighties, turned 13 in '83, perfect timing!!!! High School, girls, parties and the music!!!

Would have been late 70's for me but yah same thing, late 70's and80's great music, and people just got along, didn't really care what the other thought, or dressed like or any of that sjw shit. You showed up, rocked out and had fun.

from a former Czerwinski who married a Wisniewski to an olszewski - YES!

Love the wink big girl gives to her potential suitor! He's so nervous & shaken up. Cute clip..The Hooters were amazing!

Same here!

Me too!

Very well put girl!! 👏 . We did the same thing here in Wisconsin.

Dawn Nadjani The Exton Drive-In on 100 near 30 is long gone. 25+ years :(

Dawn Nadjani My cousin is in the audience too.

My husband's kid brother was sound guy for a local band called Borrowed Time and he told us about this filming.

+Dawn Nadjani Yes the drive in has been gone for a long time. The area it was is across from the Exton Square Mall and its a shopping center. Go to google maps and type in 40°1'47"N 75°37'56"W.

+Dawn Nadjani Luck!! Yea I miss the 80's and the Drive-in movies.

Deloreans are expensive these days........

I'd go back for much more than a day at this point.

could never go back for one day, would love to spend the rest of my life in the 80s

One day? I'd want at least a year (1985, if I had to pick, but as an adult).

I would run away and never come back

Wish someone would invent a damn time machine already!

@@derekkess5988 Oh, I could never pick a favorite! We were spoilt for choice in the eighties. But, possibly, one of the best songs with a performance video for it (clips of the singer and band performing onstage, pieced together) a song that spoke to so many people, was Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. And then the animated video for Take On Me by the band Aha . Born To Run was the seventies, but the video was the eighties, if I remember correctly, but we are so lucky to have KZfaq to be able to watch and hear the wide range of so many different musical styles that the eighties brought us. Truly a remarkable era!

@@derekkess5988 Hi, I don't really like giving out private information, but I hope that you have a very nice weekend and enjoy your summer.

So damned true.

And they were never afraid to write great songs for other artists either!

They also launched the solo career of one Cyndi Lauper. Let's not forget that.

@@jameswilson7790tell me more?

And We Danced, Day By Day, All You Zombies

G. Love & The Special Sauce

It surprises me to find my kids listening to so much of this music. I really don't play much of it, so they are digging it up themselves. It makes me happy thinking they are creating so many memories that they too will fondly reflect upon in later years.

I was born in 85 so I don't remember any of the 80's culture but most of the music I listen to is pre-1990. And I am sooooo not ashamed!!

@@franmiller1381 the culture was as amazing as the music.

I was born in 1995 so missed the 80's and the 90's but i absolutely love the 80's music so many great songs lol i call myself an old soul

I am the same as your kid. I'm 16 but I really should've been born in the 60s or 70s so I could enjoy this music that I love

A portion of the 70's and the whole of the 80's might be America's best era ... and not just music ... but the music will live on because what followed was a slow decline that morphed into the rapid decent we have today. There are no poets. No true musicians. No real artist, just the lowest common denominator of clownish entertainers :-(

Jody Titus Could not agree more

@@ronpeacock91 Well said Ron.

The video looks like it came from The Outsiders movie.

@@ronpeacock91 well put

Greatest song ever written? LMAO

+Tony W life has worked that way for alot of people..

+Laurie Solonka i miss the madhouse on madison as much as 1985 too

Amazing how much fun you can have with little money and fewer cares. What a great time to grow up.

Lol..yes wasn't it wonderful...

now your old, broke and the blackhawks suck

The Hooters were/are a great Philly band ! ... Check them out ! .... VERY enjoyable tunes !!

I first saw this on a programme called 'No Limits' with Jenny Powell presenting it (in the UK) way way back in the good old days.

I saw them live twice in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. 1985 and 1986. In '85, the British band , The Outfield opened for them. Was such a good time.

yup...it was an original time for sure...my era

I love music of the 80's, but going by decade, I'll take the 50's, 60's, and 70's over the 80's.

Brian - zzzzzzzz

The 60's were pretty special as well. lol

sorry you missed the 70s hahahahah

I was just a little girl in elementary school but I love my 80s music.

There never was, nor will there ever be, a decade with better music!

Lots of us would rather be somewhere else mate. Keep your chin up and remember it's the happy hearts who spread the love.

do you mean like a peoples collective?

More like the proletariat

Thank you!

They wouldn't know what to do with it. They're all completely lost without their phones and all the technology the Terminator warned us about. We're living in the end days/years...can't you hear the trumpets?

But is an iconic 80's song. Everybody remembers it.

ladyjedi21 Rob Hyman, Hooters keyboard player, wrote 'Time After Time' (Cyndi Lauper) and made LOADS of dosh off of it. The Hooters also played on Patty Smyth's album and co-wrote the title track 'Never Enough', which is also a great song.

Baji Kimran The music scene in the 80's was brutal and divided. It was the Rise of AC/DC, Metal. The birth of hip-hop also caught on big in 1985 with RunDMC going mainstream. Some great artist got kinda lost in the shuffle.

Baji Kimran is it 30 years already? I thought maybe late 80s, but yea 30 years wow

Yep, it makes you wonder where all the time went. It's all fun and games till you learn it takes more than monopoly money to survive.

Thats awesome!

Joseph Hopper very cool!! Congratulations!!

LOVE THIS!!! That's sooo freaking AWESOME!! God bless you and your family!!

That's so cool. Some people are just meant to be together. 💕

That is cooler than cool.

Coming back to their home theater, the Keswick in November! Got tickets the day they were released, can't wait ! Only a few dates in the US, most of the year they're in Germany.

Well said freddie, the 80's were a cool time a lot of good music back then. It was upbeat even a little innocent but it made you feel good, no matter what your circumstances.

It really was we will try to make it for you again Keep the Faith!

It's called Anemoia Nostalgia. Nostalgia for a time you never experienced. I feel it too watching this video. It's the notes played in the song and the visuals crafted together to make everyone even those who did not live in the 80s experience nostalgia. Whoever made this video and song knew how to tap into this stuff it's pretty amazing.

You’re honorably admitted

Ohhh...San Diego, California, USA!!...You must be proud to be American!!...Greetings of a Chilean Rocker!

I'll be 45 next month April 9. Still rocking to the Hooters

"...chasing 60 and love them. Always in my playlists somewhere."

I’ll be 45 in August! Loved this song...to be young again :(

I'm 45 and greetings from Oklahoma City

Unfortunately truer words have not been spoken, at 53 now wishing I had known how good life was in the 80's and 90's. Making the best of what I have, but always wonder what could have been

I love the riffs in this song as someone said before femos and karens and having to watch your tongue. The 80s what a time.

Your writing made me yearn for something. I tell the young folks I know, the years will run, don't waste them. Take care fellow Gen Xer.

@@montylorenz7150 Same. A bit older than you, and the same generation. I loved the late 80's and the entire 90's. I never wanted it to change.

Your message just hit home hard, bro. I had a few similar moments while growing up on the island of Tasmania (Which, coincidentally, has a Smithton, Somerset, Latrobe, Elizabeth (town), Scottsdale, and Exeter, all in a line along its northern border, just as Pennsylvania does on its southern border). Time is a strange thing: you can’t touch it, see it, or find it occupying a space in a specific location…. Yet, it affects all things and can be observed by its effects on those things…. It has no borders whatsoever, but completely blocks us from reconnecting with all the things, people, and moments it has taken away from us. Seen in this light, your advice about ‘biting off the big chews’ is a characteristic essential for a good life but not fully realized by most people…. I sure did ignore this fact, much to my own detriment…. But finally woke up to it by the time my daughter entered toddlerhood. I’ll never regret quitting law school to give her the quality dad time she deserves. I sincerely hope that one day, once again, the world will be your oyster, just as it was when you & your mate rounded the bend, hit the gas, as this song kicked into gear on your radio…. …. If there’s no such thing as a coincidence? Perhaps that moment was to be remembered as, once you pass through your dark night of the soul, it is a metaphor which contains a kernel of truth, that, when realized, is symbolic of the mind and energy you need to live your life by?… … like now.

No better feeling for a guy when a girl looks at you like that.

@@alanchamberlain9902 When he's gynophilic and single, anyway.

Amazing singer nice memories back home still listening to his song... How are you Ashley ?

@@ericsmith1786 er, do I know you?

@@ashleylambert1236 Hi. Not really. How are you ?

Good melody, good beat, good musicians and the song tells a story. It doesn't get any better than that.

Makes you forget your troubles and dance them away.LOVE THIS SONG TO DEATH

Lisa Walz yea,itsuredoes.

Mike L Saw at UCONN @1987 and was amazed at the versatility of their instrumentalist-many played multiple pieces

Poor you

1985. I... graduated High School, lost my virginity, and joined the Yoonighted States Navy!

I'd be honored if some 80s fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal performances of 80s classic songs on my YT channel. Covers include Sting, Prince, George Michael, Phil Collins, Tom Petty, Kenny Loggins, the Hooters, Billy Joel, Earth Wind & Fire, plus a couple of '010s classics from Bruno Mars and Coldplay. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.

I was a kid in the 80s... even better

@@fml5910 so true

✌

Every era says that! It's all good! Just depends when you grew up!

Bassists rock too.

80s was the best for music fashion and last decade for happiness and fun.

@@jonesroberts3640Yep. Then the heroin addicts from Seattle in the 90s took over and ruined it.