My absolute favourite Blancmange track. Simply brilliant!

80s was and is the best and will never be matched

@bigbear1499

21 күн бұрын

How does this comment only have 3 👍up unbelievable

I'd forgotten just how good this is!

There are songs that never get boring, no matter how often you listen to them over the years! This is one of them! Thank you Neil and Stephen! 🙂

@christopherwest4580

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely right.

@susanbircumshaw8601

Жыл бұрын

A classic

@DannyAnzaldua

6 ай бұрын

Blancmange definitely kicked ass with this song and video

@1derfullBeast

5 ай бұрын

You"nailed" it!😊

This is just fkn brilliant, this was in the charts when I was teenager.. I'm 57 now, damn where does the time go.

@zamaz99

10 ай бұрын

I'm the same age with the same perplexity about time.

@elizabeth9134

10 ай бұрын

Into everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

@HTJB60

10 ай бұрын

Wait till you pass 75 ! LOL

@Meowbay

6 ай бұрын

Same here. Almost 58.

@melthebell33

4 ай бұрын

yeah im 54, i had it on a tape taped off the charts when it was out as a kid

I was in England when all this music was released. What a time to be alive.

@user-um1xt3kh

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely.

@zindi1138

3 ай бұрын

i was in shuswap bc canada.. brilliant times!

Summer 1983 classic 👌.

@michaelmoore.5167

Ай бұрын

😂😂😊

Oh mein Gott!!! Blancmange in den 80er...wie konnte ich sie vergessen🤧, manchmal hat der Algorithmus doch etwas Gutes an sich.War damals eine Art von Hymne für mich...🖖

Hello. Super ! This song is neat. Thank you !

Das ist Wave von den 1980'er....einfach nur Mega..wenn man 1968 geboren ist.. Eine ganz tolle Zeit

underrated band

Stephen was such a talented multi-instrumentalist.

@BlueEmulsion

2 ай бұрын

Very underrated.

@synth1002

2 ай бұрын

@@BlueEmulsion Vince Clarke's brother :D

This was one of those songs that just seemed completely original and fresh at the time in 1984. The first half of the 80s was superior to the second half regarding pop music!

The best song. The yuo Peter Bauman !!!

I love this song. And most of the music that these two men who called themselves Blancmange created. Brilliant.

Stephen was a talented multi-instrumentalist, very underrated

Always loved this since I discovered it on one of my parents old cassettes back in about 1995. Still sounds amazing after all these years.

@garc0113

7 ай бұрын

Uhuh I lived for cassettes

Great tune for sure-I remember it at the time in 1983, although I was only 15 then at the time! Thank you though too!

Saw them live just after this came out. They were soooo gooood live!!!!!! One of the best live.

@jones1068

6 ай бұрын

I'm going to see them In May in Manchester.

I’ve loved this song for 10+ years and I still can’t tell if they hate or love pudding yet

This video always kicks ass when I use to watch it on MTV my all time favorite video without a doubt

Absolute 80s,nostalgie new wave is radios

@jurepotokar9068

27 күн бұрын

I need a DeLorean

i stupidly listened to my boyfriend 26 years ago to put my vinyl out for a garage sale. Somebody with great taste bought my blancmange album and a few others. I was HORRIFIED and pulled my vinyl back inside and never forgot losing my blancmange vinyl. love it!!!

@rl3799

7 ай бұрын

Hope you put your boyfriend out in the next garage sale?!

@badarsebitch1888

3 ай бұрын

Hope you put the BF out for collection

Make no mistake, this track is bloody brilliant. It honestly is. And it's one of those tunes that begs to be played loud. So do. You won't regret it. Every nuance hits you. 2024 music? Nah. Not interested. Take me back four decades instead please....

@garthkearney5600

20 күн бұрын

Absabloodylootely!

@Lee71England

13 күн бұрын

@@garthkearney5600 Good to know I'm not alone! 👍🏻

Ein echter Hammer-Song der wunderbaren 80er Jahre. Genau das richtige Lied um sich auf der Tanzfläche auszupowern. Ich liebe diesen Song. Oh yeah! 🎸👽👍

I just discovered this a few days ago, and I am absolutely obsessed with it! And the woman in the video reminding me of a very young Edith Bunker only makes it more fabulous!!!!!!

Seeing this classic vid again has made me wonder if it was just me who had a teenage crush on the scary blancmange lady...

@brendakendig

Жыл бұрын

I read somewhere she is Neil's mother. Not sure if it is true or where I read it.

@nickpriech

Жыл бұрын

Yeah tell me about it dude 🤣

@neilwardle9283

10 ай бұрын

She was good looking

Fu*k#ng love this track, this and running thin are my fav blancmange tracks of all time.

Love this, underrated song 💚💙💜❤

love this one

I wish all their songs were like this.

Absolute banger even now......never grow tired of these guys 👌😍.....cant beat a dance round the kitchen to this 😂

@HAL9010-sv1gh

7 ай бұрын

Hahaha -- absolutely 🎯 comment, there -- totally agree with you👍!!!

I love Blancmange so much. Bowie would have gotten 5 songs out of each of theirs. 😎♥️

Used to love this, but now, I stil love is just as much. It never will die this one

Blind Vision a sentence that can't get out of my head.

Best dang thing they ever did!

my best 3 80's songs are this, heaven 17 temptation and Eurymics sweet dreams...BEST ERA EVER...personal opinion of course :)

@thomasschafer7268

10 ай бұрын

Icehouse. Hey little girl!😊😊

Great band.

Not from this world, goose bumps, thx. ❤️

One I always stream - nice to know I can stream from the official channel now though - and you, like other artists are not blocking it for streaming from YT - I loved this as a kid playing in my local Youth Club - always been one of my all time faves - & so good live in Birmingham in 2021 !

This I have asked for often to be played on the radio it never does and gets overlooked

Intense song. I'm feeling classic Talking Heads elements.

@oscargamboa5793

2 ай бұрын

I hear a bit of Oingo Boingo as well.

Great song, they still sound great!!🔥🔥

Blancmange music still totally works for me. So good!

This video reminds me very much of Yello's videos. What a fantastic track this is.

@richardrickford3028

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting you say that because I am a big blancmange fan and also a big yello fan too. Both bands hit a really special spot and both bands have not performed in the UK charts as well as they ought to have done. The songs blancmange have released after around 2010 deserve a great deal more attention. They include a lot of really thoughtful synthpop music and also some true blancange stonkers like "Western" "Paddington" and "What's the time?"

Wow, another nice track ....I only knew Living in the Ceiling which I love and I almost forgot about it .....this band was not played around Philly! Wished it was ....thanks YT for having all of this music for me (fan of 80s alt music) 💖🎵👍🏻🎶

I remember you a long long long time ago with my bro in Newport Costa Mesa

Blind hope...blind visions...blind centre...one centre Blind living...and seeing...blind hell...blind hell Blind visions...and no reasons...for action...blind words Blind visions...and no reasons...for action...blind words Blind visions...and no reasons...no reasons...for actions In a dream when I'm reading pages full of words The harder you look...it's getting hard...it's getting hard...it's not A dream's a dream In a dream when I'm reading pages Pages full of words It's It's getting hard...it's not It's not It It It's getting hard It's getting harder Ooh, it's getting hard Hold me closer now Hold me closer...that's blind vision(blind vision) Push me harder now Harder Push me harder...that's blind hell(blind hell) Keep me spinning around and around...the blind centre(blind centre) Now I'm turning miles above the ground...that's blind hell(blind hell, blind hell) Blind hope...blind visions...blind centre...one centre Blind living...and seeing...blind hell...blind hell Blind visions...and no reasons...for actions...blind words Blind visions...and no reasons...for actions...blind words

This is a very creepy song. Musically it's fabulous but for some reason it reminds me of my mental health problems. I think it's one of the best songs ever written - but every time I hear it I get a shiver down my spine. Too many bad memories!

We Gen X had the best of life ❤

@larsfillmore4765

2 ай бұрын

Or boomers.... its close

OmG!!! Best it was, bestit is, beest ever!!!

Still have the 12" vinyl in the loft.

Still a tune.

There’s some David Lynch feel to this vid

Bless you, Neil.

Blancmange didnt do well in the US. A real shame. I remember first hearing them on 120 minutes, not any radio station or pop video broadcast. Never even heard them in the clubs. They have a lot of solid tunes.

@greenman6141

8 ай бұрын

I lived in London when Blancmange was releasing most of their famous tracks, so I didn't know whether they were successful in New York City or anywhere in the US. BUT someone who was living in NYC & going to dance clubs just told me that this song and Living on the Ceiling were HUGE club hits in NYC in the early 80s. Which I was inordinately pleased to learn.

@megmcguigan3857

6 ай бұрын

The alternative clubs in the SF Bay Area always used to play Living On The Ceiling 35 years ago.

@thecocktailian2091

6 ай бұрын

I didnt make the clubs til the early nineties. Thats probably why I didnt here them in the clubs. In the city as well- The Troc, DNA lounge, Philips. Good times. @@megmcguigan3857

You are not quite sure why this is so damn brilliant and catchy - it just is. A brilliant answer back to those who claim that Blancmange was just a one hit wonder with Living on the Ceiling.

@user-yc5um2pl5v

2 жыл бұрын

"Blind vision" was a Top 10 hit (hard to believe but true)! Those proclaiming them "one hit wonders" are just ignorant snobs.

@richardrickford3028

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-yc5um2pl5v It actually got to number 10 - the other song besides living on the ceiling to get to top ten status was don't tell me - which got to number eight and has a marvellous video based round a Spanish carnival. Also has this marvellous bit in the instrumental break where Neil says "No" and it starts slow and then gets sped up and he also goes "I can't get a grip on - no no can't get a grip on". That part of don't tell me reaches its full potential on the awesome 12 inch version. If you ask me Blind Vision should have penetrated much deeper into the top ten. The sense of phobia and torment in the song - along with its simple but deeply wonderful keyboard melody are deeply arresting. I start to really feel like someone who is getting emotionally locked in because their sight is failing. Although the blindness could easily be metaphorical too.

@jefflugg7815

11 ай бұрын

i think if you look deeper there many more catchy songs...

@richardrickford3028

11 ай бұрын

@@jefflugg7815 I think you are absolutely right. I think of especially catchy songs from the Blancmange Renaissance from 2010 like Western and Paddington. Also "Acid tongue" has a wonderful catchy dark vibe to it. And looking to more recent albums songs like What's the Time and Some Times these still show Neil Arthur at the top of his game. The Albums these came from - Blancburn, Semi Detached, Unfurnished Rooms and a Private View deserved much more attention than they have had. But what I very much enjoy about Blancmange as well as the wonderful strangeness of some of their lyrics is the often dead pan sense of humour which can show signs of really grim fun. I hope Neil Arthur and the musicians supporting him never retire.

@JaniceLalla

10 ай бұрын

Every single song is number one in my book I listen all day long

Going to see these guys tonight here in Glasgow.cant wait.

There is still something like 70ies Disco in it merged with 80ies synthies❤😮

I bought this album and played it endlessly when it came out. I will often return to Blancmange in certain moments. For the first time just now it struck my how this track almost has a crossover feel to Talking Heads' Remain In Light. I love this track and the album. Thanks Blancmange!

how this didn't chart in australia is beyond me it is darn catchy

@christ5826

2 жыл бұрын

I was in high school when it came out, Loved them and all new wave at the time, but this country was all pub rock then, australia has NEVER embraced nor appreciated either eccentricity or art or synths really...

@lhair02

2 жыл бұрын

@@christ5826 damn right!

@rommix0

Жыл бұрын

It did well in other countries. In the UK and an underground hit in North America.

@80snewwavemusic-synthpostp80

Жыл бұрын

@@christ5826 Just like US, they also had lame music. British were absolutely talented.

@clivejones5880

Жыл бұрын

@@christ5826 Pseudo Echo?

My ALL TIME FAVORITE song to dance to in the 1980s, Sacramento, CA

There is a fantastic vaporwave remix of this called "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt. It brought me here, definitely give it a shot

This song gives me goosebumps.

Oh my god, this song is amazing.

Buena música 🙂🇵🇪👍🏼

I came here after hearing Gloomcvlts version.. holy shit.. Gloomcvlts cover may be one of the sickest covers of all time.

Love this song

Wow taking me back to Atlanta circa 1992 @the Armory. 👍

Big ups to Gloomcvlt for sampling this song and introducing me to this fantastic song.

EXZELLENT 💖

What a song!!! Reminds me of a happier and more innocent time, plus my wife went to school with Neil Arthur!! Sure it was a better time but every generation probably thinks that, sometimes just have to admit you're an old fart!!!

en un rincon de mi mente se ha escondido el sol

How was this not a big hit? wow

@debra1232

11 ай бұрын

It reached N0, 10 in the UK chart (the only chart which mattered in the marvellous '80s). To chart so high how can it not be considered a hit?

@vsander09

5 ай бұрын

@@debra1232it was unknown in America even though it’s better than their songs that were. Even the retro stations don’t play this.

Check the 12" version out - it's ace!

My favorite songs

A reet belter😊

My daughter in her 20s plays 80s and 90s music. There is nothing memorable with todays artists. I was 16 when this came out.

💥💫

Crazed 50s housewife: go!

I'm lucky❤❤❤❤❤❤

I love strange Blancmange lady.

Does it have a Talking heads feel to it?

I've found them after years

I swear Nitzer Ebb, Front Line Assembly and probably a bunch of other bands got their inspiration from Blancmange. and Trent Reznor took inspiration from those bands I bet.

Re release this please.

🙂✨

2022.06.20

ep7 Rabbit Hole

Goofy Video. Goofy Song. Goofy Times. You gotta luv the 80s.

Why didnt i realize this band. I was busy listening to Eurythmics Aha and Michael Jackson. Lol ❤💘

cocaine is one hell of a drug

EVEN WAVES IS BETTER!!!!!!!!! XD

No actual instruments were used in the production of this music.

I can barely hear it. And I am not deaf.

I love Blancmange, but this has to be the worst record they made. It's aweful