| Youth of Today | |
| Cover: | Musical Youth Youth of Today single.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Musical Youth |
| Album: | The Youth of Today |
| B-Side: | Gone Straight |
| Released: | [1] |
| Recorded: | 1982 |
| Genre: | |
| Length: |
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| Label: | MCA |
| Producer: | Peter Collins |
| Prev Title: | Pass the Dutchie |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | Never Gonna Give You Up |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
"Youth of Today" is a song by British-Jamaican reggae band Musical Youth, released in November 1982 as the second single from their debut album The Youth of Today. It peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart, and was a top 10 hit in the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland.
Reviewing for Smash Hits, Neil Tennant wondered "if it was a good idea for Musical Youth to have to produce a follow-up quite so quickly. This is warm and bouncy but lacks the array of hooks the formidable array of hooks that "Pass The Dutchie" possessed".[2] John Shearlaw for Record Mirror described it as "a more or less original composition strongly reminiscent of Pat Kelly ('I'm In Love With You') that stays sweet and neat but is nothing like hard enough to bash the charts. Or indeed the ears".[3]
The music video for the song was directed by Don Letts and was filmed in London in October 1982.[4]
7" single[5]
12" maxi-single
| Chart (1982–83) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[6] | 99 |
| Spain (AFYVE)[7] | 12 |