Big Country - In A Big Country
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Music video by Big Country performing In A Big Country. (C) 1983 Mercury Records Limited - เพลง
Lets just respect that someone in this band figured out how to make a guitar sound like bagpipes and make it sound awesome
Tony Marshall so true
Listen Sumo crua chan the best guitar emulating a bagpipe
Yeah wondering how that was done back then.
Yes and it still sounds so damn awesome in 2019
there were numerous bands trying to get a proper bagpipe drone guitar sound back then -- Big Country was the only one to perfect it, while U2 took it in a different direction -- Tears For Fears, The Call, & The Alarm were also experimenting with it
Who’s listening to this great song in 2024 & beyond
Hello😊
Not me... just thought I'd REPLY 😂😂😂
..... kidding 😊😊😊
CLASS OF ROCKIN 84 HERE. HIGH SCHOOL AND MTV MEMORIES. IT WAS ALL GOOD TO BE ALIVE AS A TEEN DURING THAT ERA. ROCK ON GEN XER'S !!!.
I bought this album in the super saver discount bin at “The Listening Booth” in the Rockaway NJ mall. I expected nothing from it and was so pleasantly surprised. Loved it then and still do!!!
I am nudging 70 years of age and this song makes me feel alive to this day. I just love it 💕💕💕💕 powerful stuff 👌
Yay 🎉
I am 64.I was in the Marine corp stationed at MCAGCC in 29 Palms Calif when this song came out.Different and better world then.
@@navigatorjack6969when did times change for Bad?
I'm "nudging" 70 I remember seeing the boys at Wembley and next day seeing OMD at Hammersmith, seems a million years ago and just yesterday at the same time, so glad in retrospect I saw Stuart Adamson, a life unlived
This song is 40 years old and still sounds fresh.
Fr
Omg yesss❤❤❤❤❤
Brilliant songs never age
Exactly. The music style is so timeless it’s difficult to tell from what decade it came.
@@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living yessssss
I was 14 in 1982. My dad took off that year and we plunged into poverty. My teen years were all about working after school jobs to keep us afloat. I was suicidal much of the time. Hearing this helped me through my brother's suicida attempts as well. Now I'm in my 50"s and still love the song.
Respect sister
Much respect.
Is your brother still around?
How are you today Amanda?
Glad you are still with us 🙂
Hope life is better 🙏🏻
R.I.P Stuart Adamson................Thank you for leaving us this hit song (it will live forever my friend !)
Not to mention the music he played with the Skids as well!
I was turned on to this song after my first suicide
5 attempts later am thriving in my 50's.
Sadly, it seems it is not uncommon for the most vibrant, talented people to suffer other debilitating conditions, which lead to unfortunate endings!!
No decade will ever be better than the '80s. You just had to be there to know. 🎉
Born Feb 18, 1980. I was a teen in the 90s, the height of grunge, I still listened to the 80s. It will be remembered as a pinnacle of artistry in music. It was the culmination of the late 60s, feeding the early 70s, the labels got so over the top, they went disco, which was a very short lived genre. Going into the 80d they realized dance music was a hit, but synthesizers were the answer . Usher in the greatest decade of music. Then grunge killed the record industry.
@@tylerao I agree with you. Best music ever
Yes, you had to be there. And fortunately I was. Lol.
As well as the 60s and 70s. music all good.
Dam right. Grateful to have been a child of the 80s
The 80s were such a magnificent period for music. We're all very grateful.
💯 😊😊😊😊
@@joeleonard2847couldn’t agree more
Yes
Absolutely❤
I definitely think it was the most diverse decade of music, the variety in the weekly top 40 is unmatched, I was 10-20yrs old in the 80's so yeah, you can say I grew up in the 80's LoL
The 80's were so much simpler and fun. I'd give anything to go back.
Take me with you, bro. I want my mullet back.
Besides the constant uncertainty and threat nuclear war lol
@@haleykeen6379 at least the music was good
I agree, the 80's were awesome!
Go forward. Enjoy now.
I was born in 1994. My father always played this song. He told me that the song made him feel nostalgia for something he always wanted. When he died we played this at his wake ❤️
Peaches i am so sorry for your loss.
GOD BLESS HIM
I was born in 92. When my dad found out that I listened to emo music, he made me listen to this because it's "the opposite of that crap about suicide and breakups". It is a really good song and is more timeless than a lot of the stuff I grew up with.
There is a God sized hole that all men try to fill with everything but that which alone is wholly other.
What is the chief end of man ?
Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
There is a reason why there is something rather than nothing and it is predicated on the uncaused, non contingent, first cause of all contingency...
God
Seek Christ Jesus the Redeemer
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You are his tribute as you have shown here, well done
Anthem of my life . Best song ever written . God Bless all Big Country fans , wherever you are. I see the sun in winter time ! SHA
This album always made me feel happy.
AMEN💗💕
Love big country fans!!!!
Honestly these days we really need music like this
It's wouldn't be permitted now. Music like this would allow us to be happy, feel free and enjoy ourselves. Today we are meant to be living in fear 24/7. All by design. Socially engineered.
Yes! We certainly do
Yesssss❤❤❤❤
@@CelticSaintwell said 😢😢😢😢but we are rising above this e...v..!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@CelticSaint100 percent SPOT ON!
It’s 2020. And I STILL love this song.
Me too . Big song for such a small island to sing .
And I always will!
80's forever!!!
Meee toooooo!!! Still dancing to it!!
As the song says "In a big country, dreams stay with you"
“Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert but I can live and breathe and see the sun in winter time”
I fucking love this lyric
You know it!
It's about as good as it gets I reckon.
I actually grow flowers in the desert, and crack up silently inside every time I listen to that specific lyric. They may not be expecting it, but that doesn't mean it cannot be done.
I have always wanted to track down something by the band that explains what this song is all about. There are so many enigmatic lyrics that I sometimes wonder if there isn't something way deeper than we realize going on.
@@glenchapman3899 I'm with you bro, apparently the previous commenter isn't so open minded and actually thinks they are claiming it's impossible to grow plants in a dry environment
well who else is still here ???? 57 in the uk an this is still fkin awsome!!!!
I'm here 😄....& Still KKKAAYYYEEEMMMMM
🇬🇧 48 🎉
I'm a few days shy of 58..still loving The Skids and Big Country 😁👍
2024 - 65 next week and still here!
69 still here! Boise, Idaho!
67 year old here listening in 2024-makes anyone who likes this song a little bit Scottish
I've been looking for this song for over 25 years. Alast, my search has ended and finally this 25 year old earworm can go to rest. I just heard it on the radio one day back in the early 90's as a teenager while travelling in a car way before internet and cell phones were a thing and never heard it again. I could remember it perfectly, exactly where I was, the time of day, the street I was on as if it were yesterday. Sadly all I remembered about the song was a 5 second bagpipe rift which I'm now understanding wasn't bagpipes at all. Just that 5 second rift haunted me every day since. For years I searched and searched for 60's, 70's, 80's & 90's songs with bagpipes to no avail until eventually I forget about it. Recently I started getting back to some classic 80's tracks and just happened to come across it just now. Like a long lost dog that came home or that last piece of puzzle you never found. Now I feel complete. I'll never forget this feeling.
Now what are you looking for?
25 years? 25 years! But it was only like yesterday 😨 Brilliant music..
Congrats man
❤
Very wholesome. Congratulations on finding this song.
I'm 46 and this song makes me miss being a kid.
Haha... 53, and ditto that sentiment.
I definitely feel the same 55,and I still love the music of the 80's, good times and great memories...
I'm 45 and it still gives me goosebumps.
49... ditto. Proper music.
Yeah me too!! This song was Gold for me as a child... sweet memories.
Im Irish and i think this song should be the national anthem of Scotland. There is something profoundly Scottish about it, even the lyrics.
RIP Stewart Adamson and may God Bless you and bless you.
Amen💗✝️
HELL YEAH!!!!!
RAISE A PINT, OR SEVERAL!
Just found out I'm 30% Scottish....
According to 23 and me anyway.. just sayin
Amen 🙏 RIP 🌹
"I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert but i can live and breath and c the sun in the winter time" poetry at it's finest
Yes 💗🌸
Agreed. I love the song, and that's my favorite line from it. ♥
Great lyrics!
Right on..
Very,very true.
i'm going back to the early 80's, who wants to join me?
Class of 82 joining you
@@georgiasmith64 class 0f 83 right behind u!
Five y.o.here. I'm already sitting on my carpeted living room floor watching He-man, but if you head to Turtle's grab me this on cassette, well you?
Rather go to the ‘70s
Stephen Conlon bit of both decades would be lovely ✌🏻
If you are reading this comment you have great taste in music! Plus I love you!
Check out my music video “Silhouette”, Mark Brzezicki plays drums on the track!
I love you too. Peace.
I love you too my friend. Songs bringing people together.
Smoke and Mirrors love you back!!
You bet your ass I do.
Hi i am 60 yrs old now. My best mate and i saw them at the showerings hall in shepton mallet somerset uk. RIP stuart adamson.
RIP✝️
I wish I could tell Stuart how much him and the rest of Big Country helped me. They saved my life and got me through one of my toughest times.
What times???
One to say you're welcome by hanging himself...
@@maricvernon6152 the times I kicked yer head in
@@maricvernon6152 covid
Me too!
Who else was watching and listening to this on MTV in 1983!
Ruben Delgadillo
Hey. I was. And into the gap.
Me. I was 13 and bought the tape which I listened to constantly.
I had to watch it on Night tracks, didnt get MTV until 85
Ruben Delgadillo I was
I was!
One day people will realize the 80's had the best music ever
Not really. That respect would go to the 60's /70's
80's had good music but 60's and 70' was better. they pave the way for the 80's music
the two people that replied to your comment obviously have yet to realize the 80's were the best decade for music in human history, here's hoping one day they get it...
Ain’t that the dang truth! Music like this always brings a smile! Even in college in the early 90’s, we would go listen to old 80’s night every Sunday. Was it me or was it actually fun hanging out overnight to get a new album or concert tickets? Simpler times.
80s had a few good bands but the decade does not come close to the 60s and 70s. ..and gr ew up in the 80s
I was going thru serious alcoholism while living in Thailand when I read the article about his final days and death. At that moment many lines of this song suddenly had a new meaning for me. Something happened and even though it was a nightmare I gave up drinking 100% soon after. "Stay alive."
Hope it's going good for you, everyone has a breakthrough moment, I hope it has worked out for you, remember in the hardest of times the best times follow 🙏
Keep fighting dude. 4 years sober myself. Not looking back just forward!
8 yrs 1/20/24 sober....life is Good.
We had the best music in the 80’s! What a wonderful time to have grown up in!!
Agreed.
This scottish band are singing about a small country scotland but in scottish minds its a big country
'70s and '80"s!
Take me back
♡
I'm a broadcaster and musician, in my entire life I must have listened over than 50,000 different songs.
This is my favorite one!
I've been debating with myself for years whether I could actually pick my most favorite song, particularly from the 80s era. If I had to, I'm pretty sure this one might be it.
Think I may agree, the best to come out of Scotland 🏴
"What have I done to deserve this" by Pet Shop Boys. Talking Heads, Ice House, Billy Idol, Simple Minds"alive and kicking"
@@suzi-c I just love Scottish bands, one of my favourites Big Country and the Skids, best wishes from Wales.
Voices of Babylon the outfield, Der kommisar after the fire, shooting shark Blue oyster cult. Many more I can name?
I'm 60 years old and still love this song!
Me too. Just turned 53. Reminds me of a school tour to Israel in 1984.
62
Me too!
63!!
69
I’ll take “80s videos that make no sense, but are still awesome” for $1000 Alex. 😆. This was in heavy rotation on MTV back in the day.
Well said!!!❤😊
How does this not make sense? Perhaps a Tool video would change your mind.
@@ellzedd4113 well Tool isn’t 80s, but yeah. Their videos make no sense either.
Who is HERE IN 2024!!!! Classssic!!!!
have the cd playing in the car today!
One of steve wright's favorites 👌🏼
Hell yeah!!!!!!
Still love it!
R.I.P Stuart Adamson Rest in Peace never forgotten
So very sad.......we hide depression from those that love us, I’ve been there at the edge of the pit......Step back from it as you’ll just put your pain on to the ones that love you the most.
Such a shame he didn't feel like staying with us, I'd still pay to go see them today if they were performing
Wow. I didn't know he committed suicide. How tragic. That deeply saddens my heart. He was a great musician and a great person.
@@MonasticSolace I believe it was back in the late eighties. Depression can be hidden easy.
Yes he left us way too soon may God bless him and his family. Rip🙏
Missing the 80s sitting here in quarantine and uncertainty.
i'm here too
We survived the 80's baby.... Coronavirus ain't Shit... 🤘🇺🇸🤘
@@mikebressler8951 The 80s were the best times! Cold War over, great music, no pandemics...
@@techboysf I agree... ✌
We’ll make it through this together with this great music!
Happy 40th anniversary to this song! 🎉🍾May 19, 1983 - May 19, 2023
40 years already!?? (sigh I figured)😔
@@jbawesomevideos3556 Yep...
Me at 14 years old as a dumbstruck high school freshman....me as a young drummer getting influenced and finding my grooove....me at 55 years old being so very grateful! So many thanks.
Show of hands if your still listening to the greatest band in 2020? Rip Stuart
Allways. Since 1984.
Jim Bowie eccomi!
most days :)
Who Stuart?
Be listening to Big Country till am deaf 😂
Love how the guitars sound like a cooler version of bagpipes...one of my all time favourite songs and so sad about Stuart Adamson....RIP mate :(
Nicki Reynolds
A real shame he was one in a million. Hawaii is such a great place , but with Stuart checking out there it's changed now . Absent Friends.
he was a depressive.. shame help wasnt at hand.. or if it was it didnt help.. preferred him in the skids though.
Great comment.thanks for the insights on the bagpipe sound.
Nicki Reynolds .......actually, Stuart *hated* folks saying that but it’s hard not to hear it, he was a fabulous guitarist nonetheless. RIP Stuart Adamson.
There's nothing cooler than the pipes!
You can’t stay here when every single hope you have is shattered…a lot of us left our homes
I was 11 in 82 I was moved to a gladiator children's home and had many battles to big country soundtrack I later met the band while in British army and were utterly great guys second best thing to come out of Scotland after the K.O.S.B
One of the best lyrics in rock history, 'You can't stay here with every single hope you have shattered.'
Agree! Although this whole song is a lyrical gem.
Heard this song a gazillion times and only know the lyric "in a big country"
"You can't expect to grow flowers in the desert."
One of the BEST songs of the 80s......EASILY.
Great track,my favourite of theirs ahead of 400 Miles (Fields of Fire). I always have to turn the volume up as loud as possible when playing it,shake the neighbours' foundations and be damned.
Quite underated too
There had to be someone out there disappointed to see that snorkeling wouldn't be part of the show.
Close , bro . Real close .
songs today are much different from the 80s songs
I wish the entire population of Scotland would come to America for a visit. Such lovely accents.
It would probably be easier for one American (you) to visit Scotland. We're not here to keep you entertained with our accents.
Brogue.🏴
😄 so typically Scottish. God bless ya.
This song is like a bottle of wine. It gets better with age!!
I was 13 years old the first time that this song, caused a chill that ran all the way up me. I am 51 years old, and I still feel the hair on my neck rise. Makes me want to get up, run thru a wall, a bottle of courage in a song. Music that fires the soul does that. RIP Adamson.
💯💯💯💯💯❤❤❤❤❤
I know exactly what you mean.
Legend
@@serenan920 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Bro spot on! Same here!
One of the greatest songs ever created in humanity’s existence.
big call there.....but I like it ;)
Yeap
Don't forget the video is awesome too
100%
Thought that was Porrohman 👍
It is now 42 years ago , I met my English husband while travelling Tunisia .
Moved to UK and being married since .
This song will always remind of those early time together .
💪
At the height of my 61 years, I still feel like a teenager, listening to BIG COUNTRY, the band that marked my youth, I listen to it every day, it invigorates me, I still miss Stuart Adamson a lot, but life goes on BIG COUNTRY, stay alive ...one of the many Brazilian fans
"I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can look and breathe and see the sun in winter time."
Peregrine C funny, just as i was getting to this comment the part came on love it
@@imissthawwf94 Cool, Baby. Very cool.
I always thought they were singing "I'm not expecting to grow pharaohs in the desert."
If they had shot the video at Mountain Warfare Training Center, Staff Sgt. Frankenberger would have been standing at the bottom putting a stunned Adamson in his place--Frankenberger would have went upside his head for that sorry display of stealth and speed like he did mine @ Bridgeport.
I live in Phoenix Arizona and we are seeing the sun in winter.
This man was an absolute genius and should be respected as such, he is truly missed
I agree
He died?
@@TobeyStarburst
Hanged himself in Honolulu on December 16, 2001.
Toast and Marmalade
I didn’t know he hanged himself; I know Stuart was found dead in that hotel room after going missing for a month; not even contacting his wife and family but had no idea about c.o.d... RIP Stuart Adamson 🖤
Praying for him still.RIP Stuart
This reminds of my late brother who died a in hiking accident. Life always ends, mourning never does.
I've loved this song ever since it came out 40+ years ago. Thank you, Stuart Adamson- RIP bro.
This song has the 80's DNA all over it.
Ah, yes, a jizz joke.
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This was back in the 80s when Scotland took over the world with Big Country, Simple Minds, Cocteau Twins, Proclaimers just to name a few. Good ol days lads
Today I was told by my mother that I am insufficiently Scottish because I'd not heard this song before.
😂
Lol (: I'm half
Every one from the 80's and The real MTV!! Who's with me in 24!!!!¡ wasn't it Great Guys!!! Ms T Ellis
Three wheelers AND a Jetski....it’s like they won an 80’s lottery
You forgot to mention the dual purpose bike...
I remember watching this in '83 and wondering if it wasn't a commercial for the Honda ATC disguised as a music video...
And BTW, I had an ATC90 as a kid.
I'll take that 1982 Honda XL250r bike!
James Peck #
They were on Bullseye and won big.
I saw Big Country at Dingwalls in the early 1980s. After they had finished playing Stuart came up to the bar and bought me and my friend a drink. Such a nice bloke. Never forget that
Coming from someone who was born in 1999. We really do wish we got to experience the 70s and 80s!
My teenage years were late 70s early 80s so glad I grew up in those times would go back in a instant if I had the chance.
So glad I grew up in the 80s! Best decade of music...EVER
Big Country, U2, The Call, Tears For Fears, & The Alarm were all toying around with the bagpipe drone guitar sound back in the day -- Big Country really perfected it on this track though
I love The Call .. Michael Been was a musical genius
Dude
Your Soo kool!!!
me and my sister's had a strict child hood. Church bullshit and verbally abuse sob dad. Music made us happy !!!!
Bullshit...only big country wanted a bagpipe guitar sound as it suited their Scottish culture and the ethos of a sound of the big open Scottish landscape...u2 only used a real bagpipe in the song "Tomorrow" and they weren't even the ultraload mouth blown marching band pipes...but native Irish elbow bag powered uilean pipes used for traditional Irish cielle sessions and standard pub and stage venue performances
Just to clarify that all those other bands weren't Scottish bands or Irish Gaelic inspired bands...U2 are more an international everyman's band than an Irish nationalistic band...bono is against nationalism anyway....the alarm were Welsh..they don't do bagpipes in Wales and the other bands you mention are all English....
@@Maguirearch thank you for the clarification -- but i was referring more to the experimentation with the sound than to these band's heritages, & wasn't trying to delve that deeply into the origins as much as simply into the use of the sound. Obviously, Scottish or Irish bands would be more prone to use a bagpipe sounding guitar or keyboard drone, but non-Scottish & non-Gaelic bands & groups have used actual bagpipes or bagpipe-like sounds in their music
Probably one of the most lyrically powerful songs if you break it down. Such a shame their lead singer was struggling with depression and alcoholism that bad while making people get out of that same darkness with his music. Like a Robin Williams type of guy. Trying to help others not feel like him. RIP.
it has its moments ,like lots of pop songs. get over yourself.
Totally. I remember listening to this as a kid and not appreciating it. Then I read the lyrics as an adult...........Amazing. Absolutely incredible lyrics.
‘Trying to help others not feel like him ‘ damn. 😓
100%
I think it's lost in a wronged presentation. They've other songs than this, especially in the 90s, that worked so much better.
No joke but Whenever I do a 🎤 test, I always say these words, "I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert but I can live and breathe and see the Sun in winter time"
21 years since he left us, hope you're in a better place big man x
I just sympathize with anyone who didn’t grow up hearing the music of the 80’s and 90’s. There’s an energy throughout that is unparalleled.
80's correct----90's not so much--imo
@@chriswirth9484 The early 90’s maybe.
I was very confused in the 80's. I didn't know what Pronounds to use/S
Agreed! We didn't have the choices that the newer generations have nowadays for ways to spend their downtime. Music was everything to us! It was our main outlet for expressing our individual personalities.
I grew up with 60s, 70's, 80's & 90's & early 2,000's too, How lucky am I! I feel sorry for kids these days...
R.I.P - William Stuart Adamson
11 April 1958 - 16 December 2001
Alucard Hellsing, he's 1 of my heroes.
He died on my birthday. Such a great performer!
So young
Alucard Hellsing only 43 years, not a Canada standard.
Anthony Ivan Aglugub Jr. ......not sure I understand a Canadian connection but if you simply meant Stuart’s age, he was far too young.
I would have listened to this song hundreds of times since childhood and I'll never get tired of it. Masterpiece! 🙏🏾
Amaaaaazing ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
teenagers today missed out on the greatest era of music. New Wave or Heavy Metal, they missed it. Wish we could go back when things were simple
If you really listen to the lyrics, this is like the perfect anthem to send to a friend on down times.
"Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded"
He is literally saying- stay alive.
"Come up screamin' !"
But he didn't stay alive. He strangled himself!
@@jmack8767 except the singer died by suicide…
Dear reader: You can’t stay here with every single hope you had shattered.
Stay alive! ❤️
Still love this song in 2023!
Grew up in the 80s and I have Scottish ancestry😀 so this this song is special to me.
One of my favourite songs as a teen, I had this posted on my wall, I loved this part of the song.
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime
One of my favorite songs as a 27 yr old. I've lived in t/Mojave Desert for 48 of my 60 yrs, and Yeppers, I do "grow flowers in the desert"; a great metaphor, and literal quote. Growing flowers in the desert is an unbelievable challenge. If the freezing nights, burning long summers, or desert squirrels don't take out those flowers, the 60 mph winds, and flash floods followed by wildfires will. :-) Breathing in the desert of Mojave is as bad for ones lungs, as living next to LAX or a major airport, due to a high volume of dust in the air. However, while the rest of the nation goes thru a deep freeze during winter, one can get a suntan in these S.W. deserts.
Yes..
I feel the same in Yuma, AZ...he described desert life perfectly
Gina Litchfield
this one, and "Hold Your Head High", Argent
OMG...The 80s...You had to be there and live in the 80s to REALLY APPRECIATE THE 80s!!!
Proud member of The Class of 88
The greatest era of music, clothes, MOVIES, & fads ever in my opinion.
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The Last American Virgin
Jeckyl & Hyde Together Again
Top Secret
Real Genius
Vacation
Ghostbusters
Dr.Detroit
1941
Caddyshack
Easy Money
Back To School
Harlem Nights
Coming To America
Return Of The Jedi
Rocky 3 & 4
Volunteers
Who's Harry Crumb
Uncle Buck
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
16 Candles
Weird Science
Pretty In Pink
Stand By Me
Parachute Pants
Big hair
Leg Warmers
Swatches
Rubiks Cube
Atari 2600
Pac-Man
Centipede
Berserk
Journey Band/The Game
Walkmans
Break Dancing
Ocean Pacific Clothes
Panama Jack Clothes
A LOT of great 1 hit wonders were from the 80s...
Send Me An Angel...Real Life
In America...KBC Band
1 Night In Bangkok
Baby Love...Regina
Let The Music Play...Shannon
In Cars...Gary Numan
Take On Me...A-Ha
Safety Dance...Men W/O Hats
Let The Day Begin...The Call
I'll Melt W/You...Modern English Red, Red Wine...UB 40
Crying In The Rain...OranJu Jones
I Can Dream @ U...Dave Hartman
Don't Forget Me...Glass Tiger
Life In A Northern Town...Dream Academy
Let's Go All The Way...Sly Fox
Mexican Radio...Wall Of Voodoo
Come On Eilene...Dexy's Midnite Runners
I Ran...Flock Of Seagulls
867-5309...Tommy Tutone
Salt In My Tears...Martin Briley
Centepedr...Rebbie Jackson
Pac-Man Fever
99 Red Baloons...Nena
Heart & Soul...T'Pau
AND I COULD GO ON AND ON
One of the best Scottish bands ever.🏴
@Kreuhn Kohrman Fun fact, Scotland is part of Britian, regardless of whether they are indeed ENGLISH.
Bad synthesizers, for the bag pipes, as my my cousin once stated.My reply was " True, however, the lead singer has a great voice."
' my"- forgive my repetition.
@Kreuhn KohrmanREALLY WHO FRIGGIN CARES SAME SHIT BUDDY ENGLAND V SCOTLAND GEE MATE YOUR CLUTCHING ON STRAWS THERE WHO THE F CARES .
SIMPLE MINDS.
I'm 35 and just discovered this through a XTC playlist - absolutely incredible. I love the "bagpipey" guitar work. The melody of this could've been written yesterday, that's how fresh it is.
My daughter is 11 and she loves it. Keeping the eighties alive!!!!
The bagpipe guitars. This is the music I grew up to, even though I'm still growing up. THANK YOU DAD
dad must have been a man \m/
You lucky little shit :)
I prefer to play acoustic, it feels more real to me, but I need to buy an electric (I sold my last because I never played it) and learn how to get that effect.
@@treycarter6736 Stuart used a MXR pitch transposer (MXR M-129 I believe) that would take his original note after its played and raise it a full octave or more
Stuart was a great singer and a great man. Dunfermline miss you
Very, sad. I offer my Condolences to Stuart's Family, Friends, Bandmates, and The Millions of Big Country Fans.🙏❤
Dunfermline’s number one son❤❤❤❤❤❤RIP THE BEST .
Stuart Adamson RIP
1958 - 2001 (aged 43).
I count myself fortunate that, living in Nashville, I saw Big Country preform at the Cannery Ballroom in 2000. They sounded as good as ever and played their heart's out! It turned out to be their last tour before Stuart's passing.
Wow, I bet was incredible!!!! You are so lucky!!!! 🍀
Lots of the old bands hit the Cannery. I live in the Gulch, so it isn't far. If you don't get shot
That shit is sad
He was actually living in Nashville at the time, too.
Nice. I wonder how long places like the Cannery and Exit/In will last...
I think it's safe to say hits like this will last forever. Not this short lived rap and hip hop garbage that poisons our youth.
It is absolutely poison. It sounds like the tunes you'll hear as you plunge into hell.
Today's children have a lot of work to do to find trustworthy music. The west is a nasty monster eating its own tail and the music it moves to shows that to be a fact.
I may be wrong on this but in my opinion this song is one of the top 5 greatest one hit wonders of all damn time!!!!
In fairness, they were basically just a one hit wonder on this side of the pond. They had a good string of top ten albums in the UK. They never broke out internationally as they should have, but it's not as if the UK is a tiny market.
It's funny how that works sometimes, sometimes a band will be great, but never quite crack another market. Take a band like the Tragically Hip.
A huge string of hit songs and albums in Canada.You couldn't turn on a radio without hearing one of their songs. Still can't actually. They would be playing stadium tours here to 30,000 people and their albums each sold 100,000 in Canada.
Then they cross the border and they are playing 3,000 seat theatres, and would sell 50,000 copies in a country ten times the size.
Just funny how things work.
lol one hit wonder? this band was massive in the 80s.
I was expected to hear more from them on this side (US) on the pond. GREAT GROUP.
One hit wonders?The world is bigger than the USA.They sold over 5 million records.Over a dozen top 40 singles and multiple top 10 albums in the UK.
Not a one hit wonder and still a popular touring act here in the UK.
I was a huge fan of Big Country, they were a wonderful high energy unique wall of sound that most people in the US seemed uninterested in the early 1980s. The death of Stuart Adamson in 2000 was heartbreaking, I had gotten sober 7 year before and it was so sad that this talented man struggle so hard until he took his own life. Stuart I know some of your pain and I like to think that you and the Big Country kept me alive long enough to overcome my addiction. Peace to you and my the Lord heal the hearts of those you left behind. We we will all see each other in the future.
Stuart Adamson. We Love You Always.🙏❤
His death in 16 December, 2001
🙏🏾💜🙏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾😪😪
Other than this song, I really don't know any others? What are the other good 1's?
I miss these days. The kids today will never know how good we had it.
@cerclesvicieux
That's what all rubbish old people say:)
What Incredible Song Writing - Stuart Adamson - Scottish Genius
RIP Stuart...one of the best songs in the 80's era. It rocks with the bagpipes on the background
This song is great, but this band had so many other great songs. WHAT A MAGNIFICENT!!!!! BAND. RIP Stuart
That's a brilliant guitarist , love , not bagpipes
It’s actually a guitar - echoing the sound of a set of bagpipes was his signature tone.
@@kimberlitelewisham6414 I always thought it was pipes! Lol
And here I was proud that someone finally put pipes in a current song lol
there are no bagpipes..its guitar effects...not too difficult to do with the right effects pedals!...sounds like the pipes...sounds good to a scotsman!!!!!!!!
1983....... Wanna go back!
Fucking aye r8
My favourite year from my youth because it was the year I left school and had a memorable holiday romance 😂
ME TOO
I was born in 85 but yes I would go back with you.
I was a freshman in high school. ☺
First day of Spring 2024 and this tune still rocks !!!
This song will never get old absolute banging tune from the golden era of the 80s.
This song helped me survive a point four years ago where I ALMOST wanted to die and the song kept me alive. (Bows down to BC....)
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Anyone remember when you could watch this vid on MTV in 1983, followed by Judas Priest "You've got another thing coming", oh, and then David Bowie with "Ashes to Ashes"????? The Golden Era.
@J PM They were big in the UK and Europe and have a huge cult following in the USA to this day. That makes me happy that Stuart's music lives on.
I still want my MTV!
It’s Christmas 2023 and this song still rocks !!!!!
Glad you got through those times. Music saved me many times. 80's. Am 53
_what people understand:_
_what people feel:_ *IN A BIG COUNTRY, DREAMS STAY WITH YOU, LIKE A LOVER'S VOICE'ACROS THE MOUNTAIN SIIIDE-- STAY ALLIIIVE*
damn...I'm sixty two now and still think about Stuart Adamson.
Just bought tickets to see them at Bradford in February, what a group, takes me back to the 80s, great times.
Who's singing for them? The guy in the video died a while back
Stuart you are still adored.
GUTTED I never saw you but all these songs such as this 1 will continue forever.
How lucky I am to have this band from the same small town in Scotland as me. They might be a huge band but to me and many others in my home town they’re just a band from Dunfermline and that fills us with so much pride. RIP Stuart
Hoot Mon!
Scotland's greatest export!
What is it about the Isle of Great Britain ? Pretty big world impact, yet Scotland and England aren’t very big countries… 🤷♀️
@@miahconnell23 Scotland. The only greater country than England 😊
@@MobiusBandwidth Competing with whisky and Irn Bru.
I just heard this song playing on the radio at my gym. It brought tears to my eyes. I was just standing there, sweaty, covered in chalk and surrounded by bros, crying my eyes out.
Do you A) flex in the gym mirror and go 'RAAAAAARRRGGHHH' or B) laugh at those who do?
Aww, keep strong 😢❤❤❤❤❤