“gordon ramsey rickrolls you with the help of the sinners’ souls he’s trapped in his giant chessboard” is my favorite musical 🥰🥰🥰

@MareeWatkins

2 жыл бұрын

I laughed for real, thank you lol

@dureduck

Жыл бұрын

same

@whoeverest_the_whateverest

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@strawberyfish4908

Жыл бұрын

Yus

@somepersonontheinternet6879

Жыл бұрын

absolutely

This is the most 80s thing I’ve ever seen. It’s absolutely amazing

@daveross3642

5 жыл бұрын

Uh something tells me you haven't seen the Elaine Paige/Barbara Dickinson "I Know Him So Well' video from Chess. I don't think there's any more way to cram the 80s into that video. The hair, the dresses, the wool scarves, the fuzzy lens, just everything. Please go watch it and thank me later :-)

@screamtoasigh9984

5 жыл бұрын

@@daveross3642 I don't think he lived through the 80s if this is the most 8ts thing he's seen... Adam Ant? JELLY Wrist bands, acid washed jeans...

@themeshow1011

3 жыл бұрын

if you haven't seen it yet, look up Automatic Man by Michael Sembello. THAT'S the most 80s thing out there.

@kyachdistent1301

2 жыл бұрын

@@themeshow1011 No, there's too many picks, but I hate to think slagdonna the untalented and evil is it. We know it isn't. You can't pick one act.

@robertplattner1636

Жыл бұрын

Nah, the Phantom of the Opera music video was the most 80’s thing ever…

As an official representing the Chess Federation, shirts are strictly prohibited.

@MmeKastaffiore

7 жыл бұрын

What are they supposed to wear? Tank tops?

@joshneedle111

6 жыл бұрын

MmeKastaffiore No, no shirts, just super tight abs

@KAF128

6 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to Garry Kasparov's obscure bare-chested Nimzo-Indian variation, as played at Butlins, Skegness in 1999 ?

The Arbiter doesn't believe in shirts and lives in the mirror dimension. And he SEES ALL.

@screamtoasigh9984

6 жыл бұрын

ouijacorn KIND of reminds me of new wave version of LABYRINTH.

@roguishpaladin

5 жыл бұрын

Does he see this?

@RAnderwill

3 жыл бұрын

this, but jojo style

@mariajohansson4210

3 жыл бұрын

I'm perfectly happy with Björn Skiffs without a shirt 😜

@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me. What's the rent like in the mirror dimension? Seems like it would be either really low or really high.

The Arbiter is HOOKED ON A FEELIN'!

Björn Skifs is one of the best male singers Sweden has produced, and there's a lot of competition.

They didn't even bother to record the Broadway cast version of this song. They always cut this one and it's such a great song and needed plot wise.

Björn is also the same singer who sings the song "Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling" in Guardians of the galaxy.

@majormarco

3 жыл бұрын

And represented Sweden twice in Eurovision (1978 and 1981), just like Tomme Korberg (the Russian) did in 1969 and 1988. Videos can be found on YT

If you didn’t know the show, you’d think he was the leader of some weird 80s dystopia.

the entire album/musical is so underrated I'd say it's up there with Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar in terms of quality

@njdenney69

6 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite musical soundtrack of all time. Utterly brilliant :)

@roguishpaladin

5 жыл бұрын

I like several songs in it. Part of the problem with the musical is that most of the (IMO) best songs are...um...story optional. This is a great "I am" song for a character who's mostly unimportant for the plot, and Bangkok is barely an "I am" song for the American. I don't see the rest as rising to the level of these songs with the exception of "Nobody's Side", which just works on all levels. Mind you, they're good, but not quite the same. To me, it's as if the best song in Phantom was Magical Lasso.

@willlarche

5 жыл бұрын

Can we just make it about something more exciting than chess?

@this_Joe_Smith

5 жыл бұрын

Agree

@thefonzkiss

4 жыл бұрын

Lol. It’s a mess. Even the guys who wrote it say that.

Basically 80s ABBA. Super underrated song.

@cheeseandonions9558

3 жыл бұрын

it was an entire opera by Abba that somehow misfired...

@NickSmith-ll3si

2 жыл бұрын

just needs new lyrics and Agnetha and Frida 😉

@RebeckadV

Жыл бұрын

​@@NickSmith-ll3si Why would it need new lyrics?

@LogoMan7777

Жыл бұрын

@@NickSmith-ll3si What's wrong with Tim Rice?

Imagine if the ref of every sport did this before the game. ~:~

@roguishpaladin

5 жыл бұрын

It would be an amazing charity event if they got Ed Hochuli, Wes McCauley, Jim Joyce, and Joey Crawford to do this song.

@davidholmgren8156

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Dean should do this

With amazing songs like this, Chess should have been an even more huge success. I'd love to see the show with this sci-fi feel for this song and a mixture of other aesthetics for the rest. Really create a unique image.

@tsitracommunications2884

3 ай бұрын

If it weren't for critics especially those from stereo receiver blasting the chess album saying it was "overproduced" BULL DOO DOO!!

He sounds like a parent who has to deal with children.

@davidliu4134

7 жыл бұрын

agreed

@kingrat1

6 жыл бұрын

Pretty much.

@mikeober9773

5 жыл бұрын

Not far from the truth. The world chess championships were really intense and having the US & USSR players competing for the title just upped the ante.

@emilsoderman3691

3 жыл бұрын

Considering the insane stuff people tried to pull of during chess chapmionships... (bring hypnotists and counter-hypnotists, accusing the others of sending messages in yoghurt, etc.)

@gilian2587

3 жыл бұрын

People have been known to be childish.

Still can't believe this was #1 for 7 months in 1984

@kellymathews6615

Жыл бұрын

As someone attracted to men and who was young back then, I'm not.

God I love this. The very conception of the musical is ludicrous and fascinating. I’ll take _Chess_ any day over Lloyd Webber’s entire career.

@kyachdistent1301

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Nice one.

@Stiffd1

2 жыл бұрын

Simply said on a complex game : D

@RAnderwill

2 жыл бұрын

Spicy

@gilian2587

Жыл бұрын

Complex game? It's just a memory game... permutation and thinking more moves ahead than your opponent. That's why computers beat people at it.

@snorpenbass4196

Жыл бұрын

@@gilian2587 That's...kind of not true. Humans generally beat the computers - even the best chess-playing AI has predictable patterns, and a really good chess player can see right through those. There's been a couple incidents where the AI won, but generally the stories leave out how they lost badly in the rematches.

You know, it's a shame that people who think that One Night in Bangkok is just "pop" miss out on jams like this.

@mikeober9773

5 жыл бұрын

It's the only "pop" song on the album.

@this_Joe_Smith

5 жыл бұрын

I give thanks because liking that song LED me to know the album 💕 Goldmine.

@TimeandMonotony

3 жыл бұрын

@@this_Joe_Smith Same here.

I love playing on xbox with this guy

Always loved this song and its fabulous 80s sounds. Don't mess with the arbiter!

❤grattis till björn skifs på🎉 namnsdagen idag 18juni 23 🎉kram från pia 🎉

Here are the lyrics to the third verse: As you settle down behind your pawns Power passes to me You can play like Fischer, Capablanca, Tal combined I don't mind - Please feel free! They all thought they were the big fromage But they don't have my clout I control the match; I start it, I can call it off Kasparov found that out

@jimcat68

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@combatcook

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they all thought they big homies and that they down to bang it out, but they were playing like lil Tooka homie got ground and smoked em out.

I felt my life was complete when I heard "One Night in Bangkok" in a Bangkok bar

The guitar solo at 1:16 is still epic.

Love this remix of the song with its dance groove. The bassline is pure Abba: think ‘Summer Night City’ and ‘The Visitors’.

@NorthSea_1981

2 ай бұрын

The whole song is quite ABBA-ish - as far as I know it was originally planned for ABBA, had they continued in the 80s after things were mostly put on ice in late 1982. It was just restructured with Tim Rice with a different singer for the Chess musical.

It's my job to find deficiences While I'm walking around On behalf of all our clients I report to you Which I do -- But there's a catch I don't care that you're the customer No one messes with me I am ruthless in upholding What I know is right In march time -- or code three I got my case Got my tools Doing inspections At hotels and schools I'm the alarm technician, I know best We're offline and all systems are now on test You got your tricks Good for you But there's no shortcut, I don't see through I'm the alarm technician, I'm on tour From Zone One I'll be walking on every floor If you're thinking of a jury rig Like I've seen in the past Fake detectors hiding cameras Cheap resistor tricks And T-taps -- Not so fast There's no batts in this FACP Not a red box in sight This entire install is horrific so Now I know -- what to write I got my case Got my tools Doing inspections At hotels and schools I'm the alarm technician, I know best We're offline and all systems are now on test You got your tricks Good for you But there's no shortcut, I don't see through I'm the alarm technician, I'm on tour From Zone One I'll be walking on every floor

Björn Skifs - Epic history in the making.

We need to bring back music videos like this. So over dramatic. I love it.

This song is a bop

2:30 This is like the strangest combination of cheesy and creepy but I love it. 😂 ~:~

Having been long familiar with this song since the 80's, I was surprised to hear additional lyrics in this version (made necessary by taking out of the context of the Opening Ceremonies track). Knowing the history behind the Karpov/Kasparov championship series, made hearing these added lyrics quite the surprise

I love this song so much. This musical is amazing, I wish more knew about it!

This is pure Genius...The production was Genius...The Game involves genius...Especially at 'Champion' stakes.A masterstroke indeed!! 19.9.2020. New Zealand.

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Lyn ! Hope you're well and safe. 🙄 I was never a massive fan of ABBA, but as I've gotten older I've learned to understand the complexity of the music. Now I love most of their songs. (I was 12 when ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974. "Waterloo" was so different it sounded like from outer space. But in a good way !) 😊 So when Chess was introduced, it happened again... Planet Chess had been discovered !!!😍 I've listened to Chess, the entire musical, about a million times over the years. So now both the music and the lyrics are tattoed on my mind.... I couldn't shake them even if I wanted to ! 😆 (Did you know that Chess was made in both english and swedish ?! The swedish version is a little longer, as it contains a few more songs...) Both are brilliant ! 🤗 Love from Oslo, Norway 💖 ❄⛄

I think this song sounds like it would be insanely hard to sing, but he does a fantastic job.

@kimberlygabaldon3260

3 жыл бұрын

@Margareta Holmgren He's incredible!

@gilian2587

Жыл бұрын

Not so bad. Some practice would help. It has none of the dynamic range of 'Till I hear you sing' or 'Pity the Child'. A reasonably skilled baritone with a good ear can handle the Arbiter -- in contrast, you really need the likes of Adam Pascal or Ramin Karimloo to stand a chance at the behemoths that require obscene dynamic range.

@jacobfeldman364

5 ай бұрын

@@gilian2587 Pffft, Lower it a bit, and I think that Michael Buble can do this.

@gilian2587

5 ай бұрын

@@jacobfeldman364 Buble is pretty skilled too, imo.

Ich höre es immer noch gerne!

This video is ridiculous but also pretty awesome. Also the song is great of course.

Still good 2022

there's more lyrics in this video than on the album! ... so sad, because now I want this version of the song!

@amused6415

6 жыл бұрын

This is the version I grew up with.

@ExperimentIV

6 жыл бұрын

Unreasonable Reasons just find the 7" or 12" version, or get the Chess Pieces CD

@discogareth

6 жыл бұрын

You'll need the 12" single for this version with extra verse.

@thethirdversionofalex3398

5 жыл бұрын

The song is like 10 minutes long and it is originally opening ceremony, they just split the two songs for the music videos I guess they changed it other ways too.

Великолепно! Обожаю мюзикл "Шахматы"

That was so cool. How did I miss this growing up? And I watch again and again. . .

Amazing

Someone should honestly make a film of Chess and film it EXACTLY in this Cold War/80s/MTV style

@ArturGlass.C

4 жыл бұрын

Omg yes some stage director need to make an "80's MTV music video" adaptation of Chess.

@1987VCRProductions

4 жыл бұрын

It would be a lot better than the Cats film adaptation.

@JF-sh2sm

3 жыл бұрын

And cast Brendon Urie as The Arbiter

@markjolley3768

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully if they do it won't end up like !! CATS they turned that into a film.. absolutely trashed by critics.. even got loads of razzies!!

@kosmos6467

2 жыл бұрын

Considering the chess boom we're having right now, partly due to the success of the Netflix show Queen's gambit, I think this is the right time for a movie based on Chess. I don't know about making in an 80's MTV style though...

Some new words (since the late 80s) I'm trying to learn here ! Love It !

@ThirteenthFriday

5 жыл бұрын

this is my problem also why did they randomly added the whole verse i'm so tired

@HLRxxKarl

4 жыл бұрын

Can you tell whose name they say after Fischer and Karpov?

@sportsjefe

3 жыл бұрын

@@HLRxxKarl It's Capablanca, not Karpov. "As you settle down behind your pawns Power passes to me You can play like Fischer, Capablanca, Tal combined I don't mind - Please feel free! They all thought they were the big fromage But they don't have my clout I control the match; I start it, I can call it off Kasparov found that out"

1:16 the best guitar solo riff ever!!!

@nilsisberg5445

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Lasse Wellander is a legend.

@joebragg3114

3 жыл бұрын

sick "lick"

At 1:55 , In that pose he pauses in, makes him look like Tim Allen.

i NEED this in HD

Having designed and worked on a number of Broadway shows and having seen the original Broadway production of this yeah way back when, It is still my favorite “problem” musical. It has great songs and intriguing concept but has never been able to really work on stage that well - Especially the actual chess game scenes which are always stage there’s a kind of awful Ballet It’s worth checking out the London concert version that was done with Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal that may be the best version I’ve ever seen Of the show

@simonholmqvist8017

3 жыл бұрын

I have to recomend you searching for the 1984 concert version.

@Toast0808

2 жыл бұрын

Only the Broadway version was a problem. The original London version was great.

@CJFerg81

2 жыл бұрын

Surely one of the streaming networks would do Chess justice by adapting it into a one-off series.

I saw CHESS in Louisville, Kentucky in 1990.

80s Gordon Ramsey

@dragonofcosmos

3 жыл бұрын

Thats hilarious! Thanks for making my day!

So is anyone gonna to talk about how the Abiter somehow gets the best song

incredibly divine and timeless!!

Amazing song

Why don’t they do chess again ? Never seen it but I like the songs and concept.

Good song for ABBA !!!

@iansmith1369

7 жыл бұрын

not sure if b8 or just uninformed

@PFVideoAce

7 жыл бұрын

heist bass WHAT ?!

@thethirdversionofalex3398

5 жыл бұрын

PFVideoAce This isn’t ABBA...

@davidholmgren8156

4 жыл бұрын

It is Björn+Benny though

Strange how this is so true today, the older you get, the more you hear the meanings

"From square one, I'll be watching all sixty-four." Good luck, humanity. Be mindful, be watchful... and be wary of cheaters.

Sang this in the Original Cast, CHESS!!!.

@Ashtree81

3 жыл бұрын

Really? Thats awesome!

@nelsonclub7722

3 жыл бұрын

I saw you then.... awesome - '84?

@LogoMan7777

Жыл бұрын

West End or Broadway?

Basically mid-80s ABBA…and that’s not a bad thing.

Now, how did he not get the role based on this performance alone?

@vfr492

5 ай бұрын

Great question. And it wasn't as he was unknow before. Maybe you've heard him in this tune before? kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWmezaOknZewnbA.html

I'm not as big a fan of Chess as most people in this comment seciont are (Sorry, just not my thing), but this and One Night in Bangkok are fucking amazing and I love them

The Arbiter contains parts of ABBA's 1982 song 'I Am The City'.

@seu6238

7 жыл бұрын

what bit?

@AdamDawson3

7 жыл бұрын

The melody of I Am The City is used in the backing track.

@markwalton4383

7 жыл бұрын

Adam Dawson parts of I Am The City were used only in the demo of The Arbiter. No parts what-so-ever are in the finished version.

Damn, thanks to the comments, I can't unsee Gordon Ramsay

@sportsjefe

Жыл бұрын

What if I told you that was actually Tim Allen.

00:53 why does he look like Gordon Ramsey

@janettaylor2444

7 жыл бұрын

He Doesn't ??

@aleynasurname8172

7 жыл бұрын

Ha, he does a bit!

@tophat.productions

7 жыл бұрын

Potterhead Aleyna he actually does lol!!!

@freddietrumper7205

6 жыл бұрын

A. Person a good looking version.

@Hellforsa

5 жыл бұрын

björn skifs. famous swedish artist famous here in sweden for maaany song. including hooked on a feeling:)

Am I the only one that liked CHESS?

@darkprose

7 жыл бұрын

No. I am obsessed with it. Many people are. It's...I think it's fantastic.

@nickforbes-warren6602

7 жыл бұрын

I loved the music so much I auditioned for and ended up in a production of CHESS in Newport 2 years ago and enjoyed it so much!!

@darkprose

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Forbes-Warren Horrorshow! Who did you play?

@nickforbes-warren6602

7 жыл бұрын

I played various chorus roles - The Mayor of Merano, a Russian in several numbers, a tourist in Bangkok, one of the Merchandisers("Whether you are pro or anti . . . ") and a civil servant(the defecting song), and backing vocals on stage stood still in NOBODYS SIDE.

@darkprose

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Forbes-Warren Excellent. That must have been fun.

I had the record (s); yes something real, to hold. God, I miss the older time s

Todd in the shadows?

Und wer hats geschrieben- ABBA!!

I don't know what's up with the hands.

Was this cut from any of the stage versions?

the only time ' the russian's name is actually mentioned

So this says copyright 1984, but Kasparov didn't "find out" about the match being cancelled until Feb. 1985, so presumably the last verse came later. Voice sounds a little different too. Was this added later?

@HLRxxKarl

4 жыл бұрын

Do you know whose name they said after Fischer and Karpov?

@Mxyzptlksac

4 жыл бұрын

This single was released later, in 1985

@sportsjefe

3 жыл бұрын

@@HLRxxKarl It's not Karpov. It's "Fischer, Capablanca, Tal combined".

An enemy stand!

Stefan Dennis was originally asked to sing this but the producers couldn't afford his fee so Bjorn Skifs got the job.

Darn it. I'll never have that hairdo.

Has the same feel of 'I Am The City'. Would have been a good Abba song, on a never to be 9th studio album, with a slightly different arrangement (and better voices of course)

@JF-sh2sm

3 жыл бұрын

ABBA is ABBA, Chess is Chess, just enjoy both of them

@PFVideoAce

2 жыл бұрын

Listen to Gemini "Ghost Town" !!! (by Benny & Bjorn)

@user-mb1ts7zj8z

2 жыл бұрын

@@PFVideoAce Haha, I have every single song B&B composed, so of course I know this song, which I like a lot :-)

🙏🙌🏃‍♂️🕺🌄

Did they make any of these videos with Tommy Körberg?

@AMcGrath82

6 жыл бұрын

That's a good question. For the main star, he seems suspiciously absent from most of the videos (though Murray Head is amazing in quite a few of them).,

@Sitkan16Abba

6 жыл бұрын

I thought they would do some with the mountain duett, I think he is great in Chess. Both the orginal and in the sweadish one

@GIMMETHEWRISTBAND

6 жыл бұрын

i WISH they did... :’( i heard they were going to do one for anthem (because it was released as a single) but clearly they didnt. they really robbed him of his chance didnt they

@Sitkan16Abba

6 жыл бұрын

YES they did!

Anyone know why this track isn't on the concept album?

@tonyyoung2854

8 ай бұрын

It is, it’s just truncated (pretty sure we only get the first two verses in the album). It’s part of the track “Opening Ceremony”.

Zeus from Tron learned from this guy lol.

Life after Blue Swede

Why am I getting tim Burton vibes from this?

@thematt523

Жыл бұрын

Might be the very white (in aesthetic), surreal, fun but surreal and sinister feeling.

Tim Allen?

Azorius be like

He kind of looks like Lawrence Trent...

20 potatoes per-diam.

PLAY HOOGA CHACKA!

it's even funnier if you know somethign about chess

Putin fancies himself as the new arbiter.

@gilian2587

Жыл бұрын

He's a plumber, waste deep in sewage that came when he was working on a set of pipes -- he tweaked the wrong "doohickey" and is currently desperately trying in vain to clean his mess.

Gordon Ramsay.

Andrew Maze Esq

How cool would it be to get Gordon Ramsay to actually make a music video of this?🤘

Official WINE LAB review Video - 5/10 Song - 4/10 Comments - Today I learned about the much lesser known ABBA musical. Thank you for that. The Arbiter looks like Neal Patrick Harris and Gordon Ramsey had a love child. Catchy rhythm, bad lyrics.

.

It all sounds like someone covering an Abba song.

@StarIsNotOkay

Жыл бұрын

Technically, this was written by ABBA

Chess: The first Broadway musical written, staged, acted and performed on drugs.

@kingrat1

6 жыл бұрын

First?! Check out the stuff all the way back to the 1920s... how many WEREN'T written on some of the good stuff?

@screamtoasigh9984

6 жыл бұрын

Um I'm going to go no on that... have you not heard of Hair? Equus (not a musical but still... I'm sure they "heard" music...) has no one heard of absinthe as well... It's like a liquid drug. How much of all of the written arts have been produced under a magical elixir?

@kimberlygabaldon3260

5 жыл бұрын

what about "Hair"?

@Xebelan

2 жыл бұрын

Oh sweet summer child...

@gilian2587

Жыл бұрын

Starlight Express, anyone?

Meanwhile in the Ukrain...