Mel smith as a new romantic is fucking hillarious

It's actually a remarkably accurate parody of early '80s new wave groups, and a decent track in its own right

@marguskiis7711

3 жыл бұрын

All New Romantics are spoofed (Ants, Duran, Dolby, Depeche, Visage, Ultravox, ABC, Seagulls, Bowie, Spandau etc)

@th8257

6 ай бұрын

Except "new wave" is an Americanism that was used to describe American post punk groups such as Blondie. These British groups were something quite different - called "new romantics" because of their specific inspiration from historic romantic culture. They were quite distinct from the American "new wave" groups.

@owenlewis8006

9 күн бұрын

That's what I meant. Was probably drunk when I wrote that

40 years later vividly remember how catchy this was! It really was top telly

I actually like this song.

@hossoneninesixtwo

3 жыл бұрын

It is just as good and - no more cheesy or pretentious than what was in the charts then :)

My Dad used to sing this, when we watched the top 100 charts songs

Literally every video in the early '80s looked like this. And it's a really decent song!

Lyrics: Let's spend our honeymoon in East Berlin And though like lemmings, we will never swim The devil's lunar craft makes waves in time My Asian brother says, "spare me a dime" Nice video, shame about the song Nice video, shame about the song Subconscious prejudice, a way of life 'Cause all the citizens of sin are rife Our friends are castaways, the ship went down The storm clouds gather in and statesmen drown Nice video, shame about the song Nice video, shame about the song By the river of blood, the children cry Their egos ruined by an alibi The cruel sea of a heartless earth, oh This must mean something to me Nice video, shame about the song Nice video, shame about the song Huh huh Nice video, shame about the song Huh huh Nice video, shame about the song Huh huh Nice video, shame about the song...

@bowlsie7641

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers

RIP Mel,you were one of my heros,thanx for all your comedy......

Irony of this video was it was a really good song.

@nuclearuranium235

3 жыл бұрын

Much better than 21st-century’s shits....ehm songs. 😂

@baxtronicxavier

2 жыл бұрын

Gahahahaahah

@baxtronicxavier

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@richardfranks2232

Жыл бұрын

let's not get carried away now

After all these years, I still love it.. funny :)

The early 1980s beautifully parodied!

Could so easily have been number 1 top of the pops . And how beautiful was pamaula was

Rip Mel, brilliant talent

Nice video and nice song. Ntnocn was way ahead of its time.

Come on BBC. Lets see some COMPLETE reruns and maybe a similar DVD BluRay.

@spaceodds1985

3 жыл бұрын

It’ll never happen sadly. BBC are scared of cancel culture.

Whoever has remastered the sound on this has done a bloody good job

It catches the 80s.

I think this is where Human League got the idea.

That verse is just SO Bowie!

so funny... and the way it references acts of the time (visage, human league, ultravox) is so clever and it must have cost a fortune to produce!

And the worse thing is - compared to today’s standards, the video AND the song are great!

@NB-gu9rs

5 ай бұрын

Except that's exactly what people were saying in the 80s because they were determined there hadn't been any good songs since the 60s. And now I see millennials saying the same thing about the 00s. This is just a cycle, and we all just like what we grew up with. There's good music if you bother to look. (You might like Kenny Hoopla? He's basically proof the kids haven't forgotten about synthpop. Reminds me a lot of New Order.)

Reminds of the brilliant track by British band Classix Nouveaux "Is it a dream" 1982.

0:10 singer with barette looks like Duran "A View to kill" but it appeared years later; 00:12 Lene Lovich something 00:20 Adam Ants anything, 00:25 Soft Cell "Bedsitter", 00:28 Ants "Stand and Deliver", 00:35 Bowie "Ashes To Ashes", 0:37 A Flock Of Seagulls 00:39 Spandau Ballet "Cut the Long Story", 0:48 Soft Cell "Say Hello", 0:53 Ultravox "Vienna", 1:00 Visage "Fade to Gray", 1:07 Classix Nouveaux "Is It a Dream", 1:17 Human League "Open Your Heart", 1:21 Visage "Mind of Toy", 1:19 Toni Basil "Hey Mickey"/Lene Lovich something, 1:22 Depeche "I just cant get enough", 1:26 Adam Ants or Lene Lovich something, 1:28 David Bowie "Ashes"; 1:56 looks like ABC had they released any video so far?

@Tevildo

3 жыл бұрын

The primary reference for the opening scene is "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League.

@marguskiis7711

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tevildo but it came out after the video!

@Tevildo

3 жыл бұрын

@@marguskiis7711 No, the Not The Nine O'Clock News video is from S04E01 (1 February 1982), the Human League video is 27 November 1981. [EDIT[ Incidentally, thanks for making me feel young again.

@marguskiis7711

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tevildo OK, "Don`t" video was really released Dec 1981. But it seems to me that here are many Lene Lovich hints and she had some videos with car driving too.

@staceygrove5976

2 жыл бұрын

Opening scene reminds me of the 'Souvenir' video by OMD!

So like it. Incomprehensible songs, weird videos and everyone looking dead hard and miserable.

That stately home I see in every BBC production ever

@red1964

7 жыл бұрын

Knebworth Hall, mate. There's no one the Lytton family won't hire it out to.

@simonblake60

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty certain its Rhinfield House hampshire.

Decades later still remembered

brilliant. and so many years on ...

R.I.P Mel Smith.

Such a catchy tune !

So true I was an 80s blitz kid

It’s a cool song!!

Genius!

Its an actually great new wave song xD

I remember watching this first time around I was only a kid and loving it and still do amazing song and cool video will be singing this forever

Let spend our honeymoon in East Berlin 😂

@KenFromBeara

3 жыл бұрын

I did. But it was in 2017 haha

@marguskiis7711

3 жыл бұрын

Very Neue Romantiker!

Beautiful song man

This video is set in the New Forest, Hampshire, UK

"...honeymoon in East-Berlin.." LOOL!

If inserted between actual music videos of the time, you’d have a hard time spotting the imposter.

@joylunn3445

8 ай бұрын

Duran Duran,The Chauffeur, Japan, Night Porter and Visage, Mind of a Toy (all personal favourites) spring to mind.

There were so many songs sounding and looking like this, back then....Toyah, The Passions, Bowie, Lene Lovich etc

I actually think this is quite a good song. Written by Howard Goodall who wrote Blackadder and some rather fine classical music. He also made a great documentary on the Beatles which you should see on u-tube.

@markgreet3543

7 ай бұрын

How about crap video shame we love the song 😂

@markgreet3543

7 ай бұрын

Only kidding the video is funny as well. But to be honest i love 1980 early period music it was later in the decade it went wrong.

I can't believe this song has stuck with me all these decades. Ironically, I remember the song but nothing about the video.

Fucking genius on every level

Thanks for uploading. I've always wanted to see a version with the credits and the laugh track.

A wonderful send-up of the more pretentious videos some of the pop acts used to put out in early 80s (note I used to like the songs often that came with such video! )😆🎩

@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361

Жыл бұрын

like that ponce Ricky Gervais . . .

The Bowie is strong in this one

@graemestarkey7524

3 жыл бұрын

Unfair. Bowie was good.

@darylperrins820

2 жыл бұрын

@@graemestarkey7524 Westgoten means the video for 'Ashes to Ashes' not Bowie's opus.

R.I.P Mel

However archaic it may seem now, it was cutting edge satirev in 1982.

They should've released this as a single.

Mashallah. They certainly captured the essence of the modern music industry .....

LOL yeah I remember this Willobi, thanks for the link LOL

I remember when this first came out and still at primary. We ran to the record shop the next day to buy it. Guy had no idea what we were banging on about! Shame it wasn't released.

Very good parody of a lowpoint in Bowie's career xD

@danielthompson4463

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was more Peter Gabriel

Mad think about this it wouldn't be out of place on an 80s greatest cd

The beginning predicted Simon Le Bons outfit in The View To Kill.

Awesome. Funny

Come on Dave! Show these!

RIP Mel.

Not only a wonderful parody of new wave music of the time, but also the title is a parody of a punk song by the Monks. Nice Legs, Shame about the face

@richardgregory3684

4 ай бұрын

And it's actually a pretty good song!

I just heard this for the very first time. Thanks to nostalgia central for recommending.

I would of loved a holiday in east Berlin. With the Stasi police watching my every move...heh heh heh

hilarius i love not the nine o'clock news

Irony here is that this song would pass for good and would probably make it to top 10 without any effort today!

This was the last video of the entire show...in 1982. I was there watching it.

@notdaveschannel9843

6 жыл бұрын

+Chester Fields Wasn't the video at the end of the series finale "the memory kindalingers"?

@robmortimer4150

4 жыл бұрын

Not Dave's Channel yes. kinda lingers was last one. Maybe this was last of series 3?

@fiddleandfart

3 жыл бұрын

@@robmortimer4150 Quite agree... It was all over. But the memory... kinda lingers...!

FYI the video was shot at Rhinefield House hotel in Brockenhurst - not much changed other than the prices!!

this has "meme potential" written all over it

Nice Video, Shame About the Quality...... But thanks for uploading This great stuff. I am really impressed that the kick so high!

ah yes, the theme tune of TikTok

Me and my friend are making a comedy series for college atm, we're really based on NTNON and Alas Smith & Jones skecthes, we're defo gonna use this!!!

@spaceodds1985

3 жыл бұрын

Did it work out? Anyone who is inspired by NTNON is worth listening to IMO.

@MikeSparrow

3 жыл бұрын

@@spaceodds1985 Wow, 9 years later and I wasn't expecting a reply! Haha. Unfortunately it didn't! I wrote lots of scripts for a comedy project while we studied media at college. Sadly, my friend took the credit for all of my work!

@jamesthecat

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeSparrow That happens an *awful* lot in comedy! Hope you weren't too discouraged!

Wish this was actually released as a single. Maybe one year they could release it for Comic Relief, as a nostalgic comic effort. The songs today for Comic Relief are alright, but there is comedy in them, it's only in the video. I would buy this!

Brilliant - LOL

I love 80s music; they've got the best songs so much that I feel like I was born in the wrong decade. But I still don't understand why 80s music videos look like horror films, the irrelevant creepiness of which, complete with big hair, ironically still never fails to make me laugh 😂 Now this brilliant parody gives me the answer. If I hear this on the radio on a Sunday afternoon (or these days, Throwback Thursday) I wouldn't notice that this is fake! Truly decent track here 😂

Filmed at Rhinefield House in Hampshire.

Pam did her own nice video shame about the song in Landscape’s Norman Bates😅

I think the song is pretty good too

Wish they would release the rest of the series in the U.S..

Not only is it a wonderful parody of New Wave groups of the 1980's, it's actually a damn good song and video! "Fried Eggy Weggy" on the Scrabble board LOL

@th8257

6 ай бұрын

Describing them as "new wave" is an Americanism that doesn't fit in a British context. These British groups were "new romantics". New wave was a term used in America to describe post punk bands such as Blondie. These British groups were something quite different and very specific - inspired particularly by romantic culture, and people usually frequenters of clubs such as the Blitz club in London. They were very different and distinct from the American new wave groups.

@Sharmilka it's only an egg lol

Do I hear a little of David Bowie's "China Girl" in there? Hard to pinpoint!

I could easily list 100 songs from the 80's that this is much better than....... :>

Very Visage!

Well now I know it was not Michael Jackson who originally did the head left to right move! Go Pam!

This has to have been majorly influenced by Classix Noveaux's Is It A Dream?

I have always wondered about the location and name of the Manor/Hall as featured?!

One thing that's annoying about not the nine o'clock news is how there's is a million different way each sketch links and that right now the only way to watch is the best of DVDs

@ajs41

6 жыл бұрын

I've managed to get hold of a lot of the programmes.

@user-ec8cg1nx8x

6 жыл бұрын

please tell how, it really kills me that there's so much i haven't seen and can't remember.

G.O.L.D Just brought me here ;)

The thing is, most songs are like this today

@quasarsphere

Жыл бұрын

Most songs were like this back then, too. What you need to understand is that EVERY era has a small amount of awesome music, and a huge amount of shit music. EVERY era. On that count, today is no different from any other time. It's just that after 40 years, all the shit music is forgotten, and only the good stuff survives. But the airwaves were flooded with the shit back then just as much as they are now.

Mel: Proud to be Stout!

@red1964

7 жыл бұрын

So you've got to be fat to be stout now???

@jamesthecat

3 жыл бұрын

@@red1964 I think you always did!

@Stephen_Iff

9 ай бұрын

"I have a friend who thinks he maybe stout"

RIP Mel a funny guy , gone too soon

RIP MEL SMITH... DID NOT HAVE BIG BONES!

Clever words to

Nice video, shame about the song...’😜

very Bowie

Gotta be the most dead-on parody they ever did; or possibly a pastiche since they're not sending up a specific song. Or at least I don't think there's a specific song or video they're lampooning -- a bit of nose-thumbing of Ashes to Ashes' video with all the Quantel Paintbox colour flooding, and some fun-poking at Vienna in the lyrics, perhaps. I'm probably missing half a dozen others...

I'm sure this song sounds different on the dvd, still great though

The roads have been awesome for cycling, the supermarkets largely passable through with added excitement of the possibility of actually dying, people I would always prefer to forget must have been looking up to me or feeling jealous of my allotment and save for the first couple of weeks where the idiots that they are acted like barbarians people have actually been nice. I feel this is the greatest possible song for the coronavirus!

Didn't the credits used to run through this segment?

And it's actually a pretty accurate depiction of early 80's New Wave videos. The song is also rather catchy.

@th8257

6 ай бұрын

Describing them as "new wave" is an Americanism that doesn't fit in a British context. These British groups were "new romantics". New wave was a term used in America to describe post punk bands such as Blondie. These British groups were something quite different and very specific - inspired particularly by romantic culture, and people usually frequenters of clubs such as the Blitz club in London. They were very different and distinct from the American new wave groups.

was this a song in the 80s?? lol classic comedy

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