Newman, Randy - It's Money That Matters Lyrics

Really love this song and the video- the 1980's hair doos, the high thigh-cut thongy bathing suits, the fat rich dude lyp-syncing, Randy as a little boy searching for answers....brilliant piece of work by the permanently underapreciated Randy Newman.

Fish need love!

TOY  STORY  HUH?

Happy Birthday!

where are black people ??

💲🙌

Well, this hasn't unfortunately, as it has very fortunately not taken a wrinckle ! Randy Newman is Randy Newman, ever GOOD ;-) !

What song is Knopfler in that isn't groovy as hell?

I said "That looks kinda funny",
He said "I know it does too."
Pretty deep, when you think about it...

One of my favorite lines in all of music, right there. There's something transcendent about it. It gathers everyone together, right at the heart of a song which seemingly takes a bold, cynical stand against something. Plus, it's phrased in such a quintessentially whimsical way. Love it.

When you're that rich, it don't matter!

Thank you for selling out future generations of Americans, including US born Americans to American parents to foreigners like China. I really hope this time it's not too late and that not too many things like weapons development and security information have fallen into the hands of foreigners.

what a duo, this is one of those songs I sing in the car, and really enjoy doing the guitar part.

Good shit...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/threelly-ai-for-youtube/dfohlnjmjiipcppekkbhbabjbnikkibo

Not to to the Gods, Jew Pig.

Nazi Bro says what, now?

4:24 I wonder what General Westmoreland has to do with this video.

I've known her since she was a baby lol always loved his stories through music Randy Newman is a national treasure

Excellent vid, brings back good memories! So much of this is still true, though looking at it in 2019, at 3:55, instead of Japanese flags on top of all the foreign owned buildings, they'd be Chinese. Ironic, isn't it, of how some things don't change all that much in 30 years, huh?

Cc OoFeR gAnG ...actually Japanese interests lost big money in LA ..SF ..SD..Honolulu..on tgese bldgs...This was shot just prior to R.E bubble collapse...American interests bought these same properties bsck at .50cents/dollar

No one can deny it..

this song does not fit on my classic rock playlist, which makes me feel pretty good about myself.

Oh yeah you gotta friend in me

Too bad the Progressive Liberal Randy Newman thought it was about American ( - Indians).
Borders MATER more in 2019 than in 1988. So much propaganda!!!

My Gibberish-to-English translator being on the fritz, I'm at a loss here with this.

Clawing my way back.

In the immortal words of my beloved Friend The Cream Rises !

Randy completely nailed America in this song.

He's right! Until Jesus gets back here, Money is the all powerful deity.

God Bless Robin Leach. Rest well, friend.

Randy- from the Old School.......what a song.And the whole album is good too.
As someone said down below,this should be our national anthem. You got no money? You got no rights,no freedom,no nothing.

And in some cases your life will be so much better.Nobody's trying to get something from somebody that got nothing.

That USED to be common logic.Now some idiot WILL kill you for a cigarette,your phone

at $10.00 a pack, it's almost justifiable.AT $500 a phone- you become a target.

3rd dimension to the way YOU 13 eme ....

i haven´t seen this video for 30 years...thanks for uploading it....the voice of Newman is very similar to Huey Lewis

walter enrique flores bulnes Lewis is a better golfer.

You *seriously* need to get your hearing checked !! 🤣

that 90,s atmoshphere and 90,s sunlight......

It was 1988

This song sounds nothing like 90s

fucking genius

I'm working for the cause...."cause I'm f***ing drunk

Should be our real national anthem...

Among the many things that make me happy about this is the thought that there was a day in the late 1980s where you might have seen Mark Knopfler playing guitar while being driven though Los Angeles sitting on a chair strapped to a truck.

Is the way you think single? Please pass her my number.

I see he brought-back that "big nasty redhead."

I love this. It's all bullshit. Religion, politics, you name it...it's about the money. No more USA as the greatest whatever. Settle down, have a drink, and enjoy.

Quick little cameo from Mark Knopfler

Bottom line : "MONEY" All else is BS & SOSDD---------- PUNT !

Isn’t that the big nasty redhead from “I Love LA”?

No, Laurie Howard Granito moved about 1000 miles from Los Angeles, and popped up on a discussion board about this girl from _It's Money That Matters_ and _Falling In Love_ . This girl is a very nice copy, but Laurie's nose is a little perkier.

Telling like it is!

Seeing Mark Knopfler always makes me smile. The man has tone.

The whole song is great. Takes back to a great time to be alive.

Thanks for posting Randy.

I just realized Weird Al parodied this in the UHF music video.

Ah yes the song wherein lies the crux of why the planet is doomed. Those" working for the cause", the righteous, those concerned for the common good are powerless before those who really matter ..those with money.

The Boogie and McCall days. The carefree 80's. The happy times.

4.20 :)

studied you at USC man. I love LA

Well Done!

wonderful

Money isn't the most important thing in Life..BUT if you don't have Some.
What'IS Important....Won't go out with you..

thatchers children love this song

nice song

wonderful

What a life! Good tune 👌

Money is the god of America and the entire consumer capitalist world. People worship money more than life itself.

@erigor11 Yep, so is vinegar.

Like the free phone I'm using on my free wifi. Money sucks. Everything should be provided for free. Stay home, don't go to work.

​@adamfirstman Your full of shit dude... i slept in my van for 2 years of my college, and worked fucking hard at 3 part time jobs through it. I can probably buy and sell you 10 times over now . But that's not the point man. i got lucky! There is nothing wrong with helping the less fortunate, but nobody is entitled to anything in this world . We shouldn't let people starve. or die because of no health care. We should all try our best though ... Someday that old homeless person might be you. Chip into society while you can ! We all need each other! ''Nobody ever helped the poor by becoming one of them'' Abraham Lincoln

@Robert Morgan Oh f*ck off, junior.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Yes, comrade sprouts, it is the anthem of krapitalism... btw, the Ambassador LA on Wilshire blvd, built in the 20's was torn down in 2005 or something. Demolish and Replace! I think some things happened there. Who? What? Hahaha!

Puts a smile on my face every time.

Someone remix

Got a great big pool in my backyard, and a great big pool beside it. LOL

Who is the military man shown with Nixon at 4:22?

If I'm not mistaken it's General William Westmorland

looks like General William kill anything that moves Westmoreland

Thanks. I was about to post the same question.

The King of Satire!

He does satire too ???

avec mark knopfler a la guitare....... trop cool !!!!

the pursuit of happiness by money caused improved the human condition more than any violence prone ideologies.

It is a violence prone ideology, dude. Unbridled capitalism turns people into commodities.

Those ideologies exist because that money is provided just to selected factions of the world population.

Many a truth is said in jest. Randy Newman's pretty good at it.

The memories...

Fall '88...driving to classes at FAU on either the Florida Turnpike or I-95...having the radio on and hearing this.

Thanks for posting this, Randy!.

I, myself, started a group called "Save the Eskimos" in high school!

ia that a cameo from Mark Knopler ( DIRE STRAITS) playing guitar????

Raul E Zuleta The one and only. :)

This is one of my favorite songs by him. There's so much verve and muscle on his playing here!

Randy Newman is as American as anyone and he speaks his mind. God save Randy Newman.

Workin 4 Trump re election.... how's ur wallet

@Big Boy Stupid comment, but not surprising.

this is exactly what i needed. Thanks Randy.

Gawd Dam thats a great song!

it's knopfler that matters!

Dang he is so young :) Of course, so is Randy.

This comment is not fair.

Damn straight.

@Arthur Capozzi Accept no substitutes.

...... "Money for Knopfler and Randy got him for free" .......

100% true

Randy et mark au top.....les meilleurs. ..j adore😆😆

I love how the big nasty redhead is still by his side.

i think thats his real wife

Brian Nealon This is not the same redhead from _I Love LA_ . She is a nice copy, but _Land Of Dreams_ was 10 years after _I Love LA_ video from the _Trouble In Paradise_ album.

Laura Howard was in the 1983 video for _I Love LA_ . She is now married and living 1000 miles or so from Los Angeles.

This actress may be the same actress in the video for _Falling In Love_ , but I do not know this new actress' name.

Here's a thread Laura Howard contributed to, and clarified she wasn't *Big Nasty Redhead* 2.0

http://neanderpundit.com/?p=6227

I know now they were made 5 years apart, but on seeing the thumbnail, I thought this video must have been done on the same day as I Love LA.

That proves absolutely nothing, since anyone can claim to be anything on the internet @Lewis Young

davedzone Its good to have a good smelling side kick ! lol

“If it’s a policy that benefits the rich, then it doesn’t have to be paid for, should last forever and is good for America. But if it benefits the poor, we can’t afford it, should end it as soon as possible and it will destroy our nation from within. Because if you give money to people who don’t have it, it corrupts them. But when you give it to people who are already rich, they have a money immunity built up already. Handouts don’t hurt them. Money is the root of all evil for people who don’t have any.”--Jon Stewart.

Correction: The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.

Everybody 'll have recognised mark Knopler playing guitar in the car !

I did not, but as soon as I read your comment, it became crystal clear. yep, that is MK.

Great tune. Like he says in his lyrics, "Now you know that it's true".....

Randy Newman is one of the best

A true gem he is

I can only hope those are Randy's actual children in the video.

Knopfler for president.

taking the colonies back

So True

It's actually from Trouble in Paradise (1977)

+Bogframe Huh? Trouble in Paradise is from 1983 and this track isn't on it.

It's from Land of Dreams.

I think he used music videos as an excuse to live your classic superstar fantasy. I'm glad he got a sardonic little taste of it.

I thought it was Mark Knopfler distinctive sound the master

Knopfler produced this record...:)

He played guitar on this tune also so you are right

Knopfler produced a couple of tracks on "Land of Dreams" but not all of them. Newman actually used several different producers including Jeff Lynn, and James Newton Howard, since he intended the album to be an autobiographical story of his life, from spending part of his childhood in New Orleans with his mom's family whilst his dad "fought the Germans at Sicily" in world war two to being reunited with his father after the war and his father flying his mom and him back to LA because Randy's father Lionel didn't like the easy going lifestyle of those in New Orleans and wanted Randy to know the hard work necessary to survive in the real world. And to Randy's time in Buffalo, NY as a teen. All of which required several different musical arrangements to songs which Newman knew that one producer alone wasn't capable of doing.

He even appears in this video

mark knopfler is king.

Why isn't this our national anthem?

#garyp4205 "That means we are all of superior breeding." That's the single most pathetic thing I have read this month. You're atrociously pathetic, kid. Go finish middle school.

Perfectly describes rich white daddy's self entitled bully narcissist son Donald Trump another baby boomer born in 1946 who sat comfortably back home in the United States in 1968 who never had to see a day of Vietnam service like many of the poor unfortunate drafted young American men yet mass hypocrites still support him today.

So that explains why the economy is doing so great! Heck, even when the market dips a bit it is still way better than it ever was with 0bama's economic policy.

@garyp4205 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA yeah, Biff is a left-winger. And I am the Easter Bunny. My god, what a stupid comment.

Because nobody in America ever tells the truth.

OMG!!! Haven't seen this since it came out... And Knopfler there too :-)

Dani Grossman Shved .....i thought thas was M Knopler.....killer maaaan!!! awesome

It's money that matters in the USA, and everywhere else!!!

If you're poor, then yes.

Yep. Even in ancient times. Things never change.