Generation X - Kiss Me Deadly (HD Best Version)

[patrickleary]

"what is it, Bob?" "It's new"

[showmegodofficial]

soon as the song starts. that guitar....some days this song is all I listen to...loud...on repeat....freedom...here's to life

[danpeter]

This song gathers everything what Punk made outstanding and touched our soul and mind.

[RobertRNPeace]

My favorite of his anthem songs that spoke for our generation

[CPDheadstomp]

This is my favorite song ever. It still makes me get the “feels”.

[SiK]

Amazing footage never seen this before, thanks for posting

[kevinadams]

Found this looking up unrelated 1980s music... I was in the USAF in 1980 and I bought an original Generation X vinyl album with a relatively unknown and very attractive and very young Billy on the cover.. I wonder what that would be worth today... Until now I hadn't heard this song since Spring of 1981.

[philipholmes]

Incredible stuff... even though it's not what they're playing...funny to see Derwood with a Gibson...

[markunpanser]

The greyhound's rocking out tonight To maximum rockabilly When two punks chose to risk the subway For a tube to Picadilly And the Zephrys stir fast gangs for glory Another dumb casualty Having fun In South West six When a hidden flick knife flicks Kiss me deadly tonight

Another battle was won and lost Down The Bishops End last night Spotlights pick the kids in triumph With a thousand scarves in flight, see how they run Spring from the terraces in black and white Young and old into the fight Having fun In South West six With violence for a fix Kiss me deadly tonight

Seven o'clock they stand in rank For the thirty bus uptown And later in a downstairs room She pulls her lover down In ecstacy but they can't make a sound Case her mother might come down Having fun In South West six Discovers teenage sex Kiss me deadly tonight

The snooker hall is empty

'Cause they're all out playing pool Hustling down the Fulham Road Doing deals with Mr.Cool They're on the waterfront now instead of school Too old now to dig pinball Having fun In South West six Having fun When a hidden flick knife flicks With violence for a fix Discovers teenage sex Tried shooting up for kicks

[beccag]

Every song is so good - but this one was a huge favorite!

[michaelshelton]

Generation X is the best generation. We aren't the forgotten generation. We want to be left the fuck alone

[BlorbusUnimax]

for me this is the greatest punk song of all time

[greenmagicdragon]

So iconic! Peak Billy Idol before Billy Idol.

[pepsiq]

I will use this term only one time and here it goes. "This song is way ahead of its time" This song could be from 1991 during the Grunge period. Incredible

[SisSherryGoodlin]

They are so young. I can imagine them in The English Army fighting Germany just 20-plus years early.

[DVDvision]

This version doesn't exist on vinyl, only on CD. You need to get Generation X Chrysalis – VK 41169 CD, US Released 1987 to find it, it the CD that starts with Gimme some truth. Why is this unique? The song is varispeeded (ie pitch controlled) back and forth to keep in sync with the film. There are other variant versions on this CD, which makes it a collector. Get in because no reissue is coming, until someone from the Billy Idol team read this and get a Record Store Day off the ground. (If you do that, give us credit!).

[albertmunn]

One of THE great London songs, it's right up there with Waterloo Sunset imho

[wagonhound_official]

"I guess when all is said and done, I was nothing but a goddamn trendy-ass poser"

[michaelgraham]

These guys were dismissed as lightweights back in their time. They seem just as legit as everyone else throwing around the punk label these days

[GeorgeReyna-yq]

Okay, I finally finished hearing the WHOLE SONG, I think only the intro, some of the very first words sung (their melody) and then the recurring Mama I'm Coming Home theme that keeps popping up have that same sound as Ozzy's song, I think Ozzy did have this song in mind as he wrote his, it's just too much. It tickles me because this is punk rock and Ozzy is heavy metal, but they're both Rock and Roll, so they're both good, they both rock. I don't know what Ozzy woulda looked like if he had gone on to switch his persona to punk after he split from Black Sabbath. But there's NO DENYING that Billy Idol is the VERY FACE OF PUNK ROCK, that for sure I don't even wonder what Billy woulda looked like if he was hard rock, rock and roll, or heavy metal, no need to, he's the perfect spittin' image of Punk Rock and all of it's glam from back in the day. I wonder what ever happened to Adam Ant, that was another guy who at the time I thought would really go somewhere & he just disappeared?