Go Wild In The Country
Bow Wow Wow Lyrics

@lemsip207

I quite fancy the drummer now (later was the drummer for Republica) and even though I was aware of Bow Wow Wow and Annabel in particular at the time I didn't look at the rest of the band. Probably because I didn't have a TV set of my own then and there was no living room where I lived. I didn't read teen magazines and music magazines then. Now I wish I had gone to see them and met them.

@Polo-xm9xk

I was waiting for you to say you got in on with Anabel lol

@lemsip207

@@Polo-xm9xk I wouldn't mind getting on with the drummer if I could go back in time and looked like I did then and he did as well. But then I was a different person then with different value and didn't know of his future. It was difficult to notice him in photos of the band when he's behind the others.

@robskibulletmovement8998

I was 10 when this was song was released.. I was in love with her 👍🏿

@freetrailer4poor

Never hard this song in the 80s, but I agree with the lyrics. I reject the city and private homes, I want to go wild in the country in a home with no foundation.

@amauryegazarain3890

I saw them the first time in 1982 at the Mud Club. OMG! A mad house! Sold out and over pack. I saw them a number of times after a lot of fun.

@whatthefl0ck

I got a Walkman recently and my dad gave me one of his old cassette tapes, this was the first song on it and I'm in love

@hjillumi880

oh gawd

@discosecret6363

That’s amazing. Your dad is f’ing cool, let him know.

@whatthefl0ck

@@discosecret6363 I'll let my dad know though I'm sure he already knows he's f'ing cool

@maureenstott5530

This actually made me smile so much ! Your dad has good music taste

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

Good band for a Walkman seeing as C30 C60 C90 Go is about home taping

@misti7766

God bless the eighties!!

@jutwilton7363

Purrrŕrrrrr Annabella Lwin...you never forget your schoolboy crushes 😊

@Nooziterp1

The only thing I didn't like ab out her was the mohican.

@jonathanokeefe9783

One of THE iconic TOTP performances!

@lemsip207

Unfortunately I didn't own a TV at the time and there was no living room with a shared TV set in it where I was living then so I didn't see this on TV only heard it on the radio. I remember singing this and doing a little jig in the warehouse at work and one manager came up to me and jokily saying "No dancing in the warehouse." So I started to imagine the bosses at work dancing to this at a workplace party in the canteen while the warehouse workers and office staff sat around watching while clapping and cheering.

@davemiller6055

Sometimes I miss the 80s. Especially the early 80s.

@steveforest8385

I agree - in the very early 80s yes - when a lot of chart music had a typically British, post-punk craziness about it. For me, the mid 1980s turned into a nightmare of transatlantic, suit-wearing gits trying to crack America and MTV by making utterly bland music.

@happentodie8776

Cooooor she was a right beauty ...wonder how she looks these days ...gorgeous as a young lady

@traceydaizy

Brilliant 😁 I didn't realise how brilliant when I was 14 but I do now 😊

@dougsteel7414

Christ I fancied this woman when I was a kid

@rayva1

I would’ve never believed she was still in her teens at the time, she has such excellent control over her vocals.

@sophiew1967

Me too..lol.

@didsthecat1503

I still do fancy her

@dougsteel7414

@@didsthecat1503 Yeah...same!

@clarissablue9026

Let's be real she was a kid, too. Only freaking 16 here.........

@stevebrazilio

What fantastic energy! Love this song, as a teen in '82 I loved AL! if you know what I mean. Brings back great memories.

@ullibaumgarten6212

Unbelievable. Sie waren richtig gut - eine der besten New Wave-Bands.

@mvitulano

Everything they are all wearing here(Westwood) would be worth a fortune today!

@ShikiraPressley

Annabel so cool - kind of get my childhood kicks from this!

@lindaCB25

✨🎶One of the best '80's songs, ✨ever.✨🎶💫

@Sally-lg1vn

Remember this song! Love seeing Matthews guitar, if you look closely he's wrote a love note to his then girlfriend gabriella palmano, loving matthew, God bless, he would have been 60 this November

@TheKatyc

Sal G that’s brillliant

@amandawilson7412

Thank you for sharing this

@justinkavanagh4678

Love this comment xx

@craigsimons817

I love the way Annabel sings the line
“I don’t want a picnic cos I get sick”
Just like any stroppy teenager!
Absolutely brilliant stuff.

@argonaut6386

Well that's because she was a stroppy teenager at only 15yrs old 😉

@lemsip207

At that age, you would normally be a hungry teenager with hollow legs unless you had a sluggish metabolism for your age, were overweight, or had an eating disorder.

@davidmartin9346

Loved this, King Trigger, Pigbag and Hayzee Fantazee- John Wayne is Big Leggy. 80's was mad, much better than it's made out to have been.

@christianowens7544

Come on, be honest, Hayzee Fantazee were rubbish

@tvtitlechampion3238

@@christianowens7544 absolutely, but that song was pretty dang catchy

@TheAdambright

Only song about anal sex that I can remember!!

@lemsip207

I remember it all going synth pop and yuppie in the second half though once the New Romantic era was over. The Style Council had their preppy look on The Lodger's Song video.

@123smotz

I am an old hippie from Holland but happened to hear this song during a video from Scooter Mods. WOW !!! great song.... snakes in the grass are absolutely free.........

@markottewell8897

Super song super singer and super bass line!

@clarkmgb9389

One of the best rhythm sections ever!

@adammitchell1290

all of this still kicks!

@TheIamtheoneandonly1

A great song, and a great time to be young as well (bearing in mind that she was only 15 when this came out). On the other hand, I still can’t hear this and not think of Cavegirl!

@hopsail

Annabella wasn't 15 here. She was 19.

@TheIamtheoneandonly1

Kathy Richards Hi. I must be getting confused! As I understand it, Annabella was born on 31 October 1966. If the date of this performance is March 1982, then surely she would have turned 15 the previous year. Just saying.

@gabemcknight8933

@@hopsail she was 15 at this time

@safeashouses211

@@hopsail This was the 11th March 1982 and she was born on the 31st October 1966. That's why there was so much controversy about the photo used for the album and single cover which was taken when she was 14.

@johnmccormick1602

Who cares how old . She rocked

@stenna9274

THAT BASS.

@josephalvaro5244

Killer player,Leigh Gorman,on that Wal bass.

@guko67

@@josephalvaro5244 Great bass player. If you listen to 'Golly! Golly! Go Buddy!'. Ahead of his time. 
Some four, five years later Paul Simon would release his 'Graceland' with the same kind of 'African' bassplaying.

@geoffreyjonathanwilson5826

Great song from '82

@Decimator-jh4gu

Great song today, too.

@discosecret6363

I come here often. The high point of pop/art.

@flashtheoriginal

Had the privilege of seeing Bow Wow Wow at West Runton Pavillion circa 1981. Superb live and no... they didnt use tapes. Anyone still own "Your Cassette Pet"? Yep me too, I am 58 and still listening, thanks so much for posting

@MontagZoso

You are very lucky! I am 50 plus but never got to see them live. Love those early 80s days! The best music! 😎

@135Ops

Yep got the NME Cassette Pet im 57

@chrisbarnes5845

Me too.

@sophiew1967

Me too when they played in Larks In The Park music festival in the beautiful Sefton Park Liverpool & Echo & the Bunnymen were on the same bill..the smell of weed permeating from the audience was intoxicating ..but Liverpool was weed central in those days .lol

@sophiew1967

If you're interested here is the performance in Liverpool I went to in my local.park https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YSFSEflt7lU

@danielranson1528

Great song

@Crazybug777

Loved Annabelle

@Crazybug777

I loved this still do xxx

@johnknowles1382

Lovely looking

@stevehoward3475

Still love this girl sazzy with plenty of swag😎

@trevorwright9801

Love it

@Usurped

Having been woken at 5am as daughter having smoke let dog out and he found a snake in my pond and barked enough to wake neighbourhood, this song came to mind.

@jasonwilliams7752

Had the 7" vinyl of this when it came out

@seansands424

I still got the 12 ,, vinyl

@leesag6776

Love this wonderful lady shes still fit

@reggieongoogle3583

She was so punk! And her performance was perfect for this song.

@boofuls

Adam called he wants his band members back 😧😂😂

@lemsip207

Dave Barbarossa was the drummer before Adam & the Ants made it big. I thought he was the only ex member of Adam and the Ants who joined Bow Wow Wow but there is one other as well. He later joined Republica. So he went from New Wave-pop crossover to Britpop. He is from Mauritius so was either born there and then moved to London where he grew up or was born in London with one parent from Mauritius.

@rayva1

I like what she’s wearing.

@RobertOrgRobert

The end of decent music begins here !

@jasonpfinch

Nothing better. I was 12

@Anglo_Saxon1

Malcolm was a genius

@williambeaver4448

And as genius goes, manipulative and a dick..

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

Late '81 and Adam has hands-down won the war with Malcy. BWW finally score a couple of consolation goals on the Goofy Bunny's behalf - I Want Candy being the second of two.

@mattierara

Was such a cynical move by McLaren. All he wanted was pretty much what they were already doing but with a female singer that he could control.

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

@@mattierara Still a great band and Annabella and her powerful glassy voice was a big part of that.

@mattierara

@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 for sure!

@markzee6331

@@mattierara …and Malcolm would have agreed with you 100% 😂

@lemsip207

@@mattierara He was very much a Svengali manager among a long line of them in the 60's and 70's as well including Sharon Osbornes' father. John Lydon absolutely hated him and was reluctant to join the Sex Pistols because of him. He stood up to McLaren, refused to be controlled by him and eventually was sidelined and thrown out of the band which led to the band breaking up after just one album. Lydon ended up being put into the same hotel as the roadies instead of the rest of the band to get him to leave.

It turned out that Lydon was recruited by mistake by McLaren through somebody else who was supposed to ask Sid Vicious to join but that person got the wrong John. Sid Vicious's real name was also John. So McLaren got rid of Glen Matlock in order to replace him with Sid Vicious. By then Glen Matlock could play bass reasonably well but Sid Vicious couldn't. McLaren wanted Sid Vicious in the band because he was more easily manipulated. John Lydon did too as they were close friends and Sid was a heroin addict. Lydon thought that being in the band meant that he could keep a closer eye on him and get him off the heroin but that never happened.

@steved1593

Doesn't get wilder!

@MizzSparkle90

Great song. We younger ones will remember it from Cavegirl on CBBC

@messenger8279

Wild times I lived it and I think in this video she wa 14. !

@colinfaragher5373

This is what we so called old people do when we retire: we go wild in the country where snakes in the grass are absolutely free!!!

@moreodat479

i love it that 100 year olds are on here

@darranphelps5740

The original lyrics were changed because they wouldn't get any airtime on the radio. "Where sex in the grass is absolutely free" Much more sense than snakes, but you can understand it sounds very similar when you sing it.

@RisforRockit

@@darranphelps5740 Interesting! Where did you learn that tidbit?

@lemsip207

@@darranphelps5740 Especially as there aren't poisonous snakes in the British Isles. I have held glo-worms though and allowed them to wrap around my wrist.

@Usurped

😂

@chefdeth7993

Wow. Has Geddy or Claypool ever heard of this bassist?

@saniyaspaneverydayrecipesi6333

Watching complete video👍🏼🤝

@jettyjumper21

I don't like you
I don't like you, town
I don't wanna like you
I'll shop around

I don't want you
I don't want you, town
I don't wanna want you
I'll shop around
Yeah, I'll shop around
I can get a train
I don't need no hamburgers
No take-away
I want my own game
No bake and take
No strawberry milkshake

I want a picnic
I'm sick! Sick of seeing signs to eat
Walking down these dark, lonely streets

Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country
Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free
Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country
Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free

I don't know you
I don't know you, town
I don't wanna know you
I'll shop around
I'll shop around

I can get a train
I don't need no hamburgers
No take-away
I want my own game
No bake and take
No strawberry milkshake

I do better
Hell! I'll do better
Swinging from the trees
Naked in the breeze
But I got no boiled chicken
I wanna go hunting and fishing

Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country
Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free
Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country
Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free

I can get a plane
I don't need no suitcases
'Cause truth loves to go naked

Wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country
Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free
Go wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country
Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free

I don't want a picnic
'Cause I get sick
Got no boiled chicken
I wanna go hunting and fishing

Go wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country
Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free
Go wild! Go wild! Go wild in the country
Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free

I can get a train
I don't need no hamburgers
No take-away
'Cause I want my own game

@Crazybug777

Takes me back loved Annabelle cool days 😮😅

@jamesjames2070

Matthew shreds!

@yarbles67

I was lucky back in 84. Dated a flip with a Mohawk and fish nets. I think she resented the fact I always said how much she looked the spitfire from bow wow wow.

@GoodMrDawes

One of Kiedis Dogs modern inspirations I think. Ahead of their time

@onlyme219

Happy days :)

@blaznfattyz

the style was amazing

@joepollitt7671

Bow Wow Wee, I was 12 nearly 13 and loved her stuff. This song is the best and gives me confidence when I love dealing with African Artists without European Degrees but are Superior in every way....Snakes in the grass is all too true. Thanks X P.S. Ari Up sends her love.....Of course I know she is DEAD, but she would love your energy...she was never mean like Patti Smith...at the Chelsea Hotel.

@joepollitt7671

Check out www.africanartists.blogspot.com I want to write out AFRICAN ART HISTORY...Loving you ALWAYS!

@marypetrie930

Eh?

@johnmccormick1602

Patti Smiths meanness made her awesome.

@telboy1965

Long live the eighties 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

@Philmoscowitz

Annabelle is Great Britain. The product of British Empire and Colonialism come back to the metropole to represent and be a mirror to all Britons.

@lemsip207

Same with Dave Barbarossa the drummer at the time who is of Mauritian descent as well as British.

@trevorwright9801

Awesome

@lemsip207

Then just several weeks later the Falklands Crisis started when Argentinian troops invaded the Falklands Islands and the Royal Navy was sent out to battle in the South Atlantic.

@andrewburgess633

youth incarnate

@susiea9058

I searched this as if said Malcolm McLaren took Adam Ant's backing group to make Bow Wow Wow. Is that Job Moss from Culture Club on drums?

@peterclarke6191

David Barbe, or Barbosa from the original Adam and the Ants. Incredible drummer. Check out their first album Dirk wears white Sox. The drum recording is pretty mushy but he’s doing amazing stuff!

@CallumFinlayson

Is that Matt Smith's Dr Who dancing in the background? 0:32-0:35

@danielwilder7835

amazed he got away with that T-Shirt on the BBC LOL

@michavandam

- Why does this video start with a messed-up Adam & The Ants logo?
- Great band.
- Nice prints on their clothes.

@SlapdashEden

Because I put it there. Its the theme of this channel.
If you have a problem with it then move on. It's simple??

I'm sure you could find similar footage elsewhere that wouldn't outrage you (or miss the fucking rhetoric of this YouTube channel).

Enjoy or fuck off

@michavandam

@@SlapdashEden I see it's very hard for you to answer a question without getting rude. And for no reason. Thank you for the answer, but not at all for your aggression.

@garywoollard810

Adam Ants band.

@jacobboehme783

Stuart Goddard wasn't well mate thats why he was pushed to one side by Mclaren

@sheranjanebolton4713

This ones for george o dowd xs

@djyess1

cool

@1000shoeswoman

SHE WAS BEFOR HER TIME SHAVED HEAD BACK IN THE DAY

@jenniferevans3688

That's what I said the other day!! Lol

@user-kl4bh4lq6r

Snakes in the grass she sounds like a right posho the way she says sings grass

@collywobbles7514

I was 16 when this was released and get why I used to love watching her. At 58, I now realise she was not a great singer.

@jimwelsh126

Just noticed some one said earlier on what has Adam ant got to do with this record

@ayebeemk2ayebeemk285

Therest of the band were Adam's origional ant men.

@theeT.I.F

I wanna go wild in the country with you too Annabelle but... If you only knew what a PICK-NIC was...

@allsorts7049

So underrated

@markgill7651

Sexy women, maybe 5 or 6 year younger than me, I loved that song she was wild, I hope she’s still ok 🙏🏻

@union310

No fake lips no silicone jus natural beauty

@lemsip207

Just some weird make up and hair styles and colour but make up can be cleansed off and hair styles grow out. I miss those days. Now they are doing irreversiable damage to their bodies with tattoos and plastic surgeries. Lip fillers look terrible for the most part.

@union310

@@lemsip207 wait till those lips go down and they look like ja ja binks lol

@union310

@@lemsip207 Yeah, fillers stretch the skin so when it is eventually allowed to go back down and the filler reduces, there will be an excess of skin on the lips.

@lemsip207

@union3109  There were concerns about Michael Jackson overdoing it with the plastic surgery. His older brothers looked better than he did after a few operations as they had no work done. If he stopped keeping up with the face lifts his face would sag a lot worse than with someone in later life who never had a face lift. I thought Michael Jackson's surgeries would have served as a lesson to us all, but apparently not.

@J_Posh1000

We don't need no hamburgers!

@raylicense363

Annabel was terrific wasn't she?

@marktooze3169

Snakes in grass o know a couple I work with

@christianowens7544

Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free.

@markcollins6578

visually it looks like members of 2 groups put together with neither wanting to change their looks

@user-xu2wr9ls1b

time warp me please.

@kevinprior3549

Annabel was a woman with balls...
The British Grace Jones?

@israelruelas5756

Killer legs

@trevorwright9801

I'll shop around

@johndaarteest

I don't think the top that bloke's on the left is wearing would be allowed nowadays on TV. Oh how far we've come and gone backwards lol.

@Crazybug777

Actually got hair cut similar brother did it mum want pleased xxxx or school

@scottnever8732

guitars the size of a double bed? lol tune

@dooniskea

White Falcon

@robocop5935

This lady has more energy than beyonce. And ga ga.

@lemsip207

Exactly. Less manufactured as well though McLaren was a Svengali manager. Better singer. No autotune used.

@lainecheriton4904

Cool as fuq

@williamfisher5749

Annabella 15 I think

@anthonyspaltro3643

Too short!

@wretch1

Lwin was 14 here.

@danielwilder7835

no she wasnt she was 15, born in 1966 on october 31st... this was transmitted march 11th 1982, making her 15. the exact age 15 years, 4 months, 11 days . incidentally she was only 13 when they had their first hit with c30 c60 c90 go

@fooman65

Lol that boobs t shirt....its a classic.....producers must have missed that one.

Plenty of snakes in the grass