If you get the chills from this, you'll be happy to know that ALL of The Longest Johns songs have this effect. Might be another rabbit hole for you to go down.
Been listening to them for a long time now, I love how they take these lesser known(to the average person) folk songs and really breathe new life into them with their wonderful voices.
The Longest Johns - Santiano with the singer from Skald is a great place to go from here and then Skald's cover of Seven Nation Army is a nice place to start with them
Thank you so much for this Ken! I've been hunting for a suitable rendition of this to play at my daughter's funeral; she has terminal cancer and not long to go. I feel blessed to have come across this. My smile of delight matched yours! Keep on doing what you do, it's a ray of light on TH-cam 🙂💕
When I first saw that 'The Parting Glass' video I was feeling truly wretched. As I wrote in the comment on that video "I was 4 pounds of anxiety in a 2 pound bag", then I listened to the song and burst into tears. Everything I was feeling came out in those tears, and I felt so much better. I felt the emotional power you were talking about in this song.
I'm from Ireland. For me, this is a funeral song, and it's meant in my mind to be the bit at the end of the funeral-mass that says "we're going to do some serious drinking as soon as we get out of this church and graveyard and tell a lot of nice stories about the person who we buried today" For me, the Liam Clancy version is the main one, or maybe Ronnie Drew, they both did it the right way. It's pretty much the saddest song I know of, but Irish funerals are tricky. We want to celebrate the good things about the person who we lost. We all want a party in honour of our memory when we die, but at the same time, losing friends and family is horrific and it's not always easy to party when we are that upset and sad.
It was a Scottish hogmanay Song sung before everyone adopted auld lang syne. I think you could interpret it in different ways, feels like a beautiful funeral song to me which is the way the Irish have interperated it
JD (the one in front of the open door) does bass, Robbie (the one in the hat) is the tenor and the other 2, Dave (with the glasses) and Andy are baritones
It was an absolute pleasure to watch everything on your face transpire from 0:56 to 1:40, where you settled into your opinion on what you heard until you took that break to talk about it. The song hit me that fast too, and it's always interesting to see where the chills kick in on different people. A little late to the viewing, but I enjoy the content! It's also been really helpful to learn all of these new things. :)
This piece was played at my fathers funeral service and that is why it has such an emotional importance to me it is also a traditional Irish funeral peace the meaning is you will always be loved and remembered by your family and friends and to wish you good luck in the next life
3 years ago I lost a friend to suicide after he lost his fight with depression. This song made me sob. A goodbye that was never spoken and will always haunt me.
I'm sorry you've had to suffer that kind of loss, dude. I know it never goes away, but it does get easier to carry that weight. And really, it shouldn't go away, because if it did we'd risk losing the fond memories along with the pain. Be well, friend, and bless you. May your friend rest easy, and find his peace.
Just found your reaction to this. I love this song and was so glad I found this version a while back. It is beautiful. If you want some more incredible harmonies, I highly suggest The Wild Reeds. The second song they did in their NPR Tiny Desk concert, Everything Looks Better in Hindsight, is amazing. It starts a little over 5 minutes in. Them doing their song Fruition at Paste Studios is phenomenal. And though the audio isn't quite as good, Let No Grief at Sofar is incredible.
While it IS technically a Scots folk song, much like Hurt now belongs to Johnny Cash, I think we Scots need to cede this one to the Irish. It's not that many awesome Scots versions don't exist, George Donaldson does an excellent version for example, but all the best versions tend to be the more Irish influenced ones. That said, Natalie Holmes is (I believe) English & I actually adore that clear English folk voice on this track, it really works to give this kind of ethereal effect.
If you're interested in a different (but also beautiful) take on this same classic piece, check out Face Vocal Band's arrangement of it here: th-cam.com/video/2Sql9X4H0VY/w-d-xo.html
The longest John's are incredible, but my favorite song by them recently is "bones in the ocean" if you find yourself looking for something to react too and your not opposed to more of these fellows give it a whirl.
I subscribed. :-) I've also been listening to Longest Johns videos since about 2017 (?) I think... It's part of their style to have such tight harmonies on the chorus that their voices blend into one, though each also has a cache of songs where one takes the lead on the verse. One of their more haunting songs is their rendition of Robert Lewis Stevenson's "Christmas at Sea," for which they composed a new melody. A video of which is here: th-cam.com/video/VDjbUJxVw84/w-d-xo.html -- there, two swap solo verses, and the other two fill out the harmonies. (I'm not sure how to describe who's who -- I can't exactly say: "The guy with the beard," or "the one sitting in his kitchen. :-)
On a totally different note (badaboom), could you please do a reaction on Woods of Ypres - travelling alone OR Lightning & snow. The frontman and singer died before their last album, which was excellent, came out. I want this hidden gem to get some love on the youtube reaction circuit to honour the memory of amazing talent the went away too soon.
I wish you could make a reaction to Czesław Niemen's "Dziwny jest ten swiat". He was a Polish songwriter, instrumentalist and most notably a singer with a very powerful and unique voice that I honestly can't find a comparison for.
Yo my man I am loveing your reactions I will really like to hear some anapantsu like her cover of prince Ali And also also a song idk if you have done this but Johnathan young's and peter Hollens winds of castomere and hands of gold
If you liked that you’d like Luke Kelly. No one has done a good reaction to Luke Kelly. He’s considered a national treasure in Ireland and no one sings like him. I’d recommend is version of Raglan Road.
If you like this style of music, you should absolutely take a listen to Colm McGuinness. He's done a cover of _The Parting Glass_ just a week back where he does vocals and instruments. And while _Óró 'Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile_ is fun, and _The Rains of Castamere_ is great for some serious bass singing and some haunting harmonizing, I think _I See Fire_ is a better showcase of the range of his talent.
I kinda feel the same way about this rendition, as I do with all other great versions of The Parting Glass that I've stumbled on. It sounds absolutely great, and it might even evoke real emotion(as this particular rendition certainly does), but it doesn't manage the emotional impact of the version from AC: Black Flag. That said, great video as usual. :)
I just subscribed. I love your insight into the music you react to. Please react to Joe Bonamassa featuring Beth Hart, live, covering Etta James' "I'd rather go blind".
Please listen and review the song 'Shiv Tandav Stotram' by Shankar Mahadevan. I am from India and I watched many of your videos, they were very much informative. I request you to listen the song that I mentioned. Please please please
Parting glass is a very old Scottish ayre. Was supplanted by Auld Lang Syne, unfortunately. I love Robert Burns, However, I would choose Parting Glass every time.
Till Lindemann just released a new single! It's a song in Russian, called "Любимый город". Which is a cover from an 1939 Russian Movie called "The Fighters", this version will be part of the soundtrack of a movie called "V2: Escape from Hell", getting released soon. Would be great if you could react to it. And while you're at it, please do also finally react to "Alle Tage ist kein Sonntag", which was released in December of last year. I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy both a lot, so please check them out.
Hello i have some interesting reaction sugestiom: Huckle x H-has x Hiss - Necromancy It's really beautiful and musical beatbox track I hope you'll see this, peace 😁✌️
I find this version of the parting glass a bit static and lacking, tbh. Im having this song sang at my funeral, and if this is how my friends did it, I'd be turning in my coffin.
aww i am cryyying, how lovely to see you listen and react to this, thank you Ken for taking the time out of your day to share
You did some really good Irish ornamentation on this. I live in Clare that breaths traditional music, and it was one thing that stood out for me
If you get the chills from this, you'll be happy to know that ALL of The Longest Johns songs have this effect. Might be another rabbit hole for you to go down.
including moby duck?
Been listening to them for a long time now, I love how they take these lesser known(to the average person) folk songs and really breathe new life into them with their wonderful voices.
The Longest Johns - Santiano with the singer from Skald is a great place to go from here
and then Skald's cover of Seven Nation Army is a nice place to start with them
Thank you so much for this Ken! I've been hunting for a suitable rendition of this to play at my daughter's funeral; she has terminal cancer and not long to go. I feel blessed to have come across this. My smile of delight matched yours!
Keep on doing what you do, it's a ray of light on TH-cam 🙂💕
I'm very sorry for your daughter's illness. God bless your family.
@@garret_thorne thank you 🙂
I hope the best for your family! I played this song at my best friends funeral who commited suicide in January. It is a beautiful piece of music :)
@@vdq thank you 🙂
So sorry to hear about your friend
I wish you the best, genuinely. Enjoy your times together and remember that you're never alone c:
Kenway’s smiling to this one
(Seriously though this song at the end of AC 4 is amazing)
When I first saw that 'The Parting Glass' video I was feeling truly wretched. As I wrote in the comment on that video "I was 4 pounds of anxiety in a 2 pound bag", then I listened to the song and burst into tears. Everything I was feeling came out in those tears, and I felt so much better. I felt the emotional power you were talking about in this song.
This is very Clannad to me, beautifully emotional & evocative...It's both serene AND solemn & melancholic.
I'm from Ireland.
For me, this is a funeral song, and it's meant in my mind to be the bit at the end of the funeral-mass that says "we're going to do some serious drinking as soon as we get out of this church and graveyard and tell a lot of nice stories about the person who we buried today"
For me, the Liam Clancy version is the main one, or maybe Ronnie Drew, they both did it the right way.
It's pretty much the saddest song I know of, but Irish funerals are tricky. We want to celebrate the good things about the person who we lost. We all want a party in honour of our memory when we die, but at the same time, losing friends and family is horrific and it's not always easy to party when we are that upset and sad.
I feel like that depends on the exact words used... Can also be a farewell.
I LOVE the Clancy Brothers! Haul away Joe, and the video of Johnny we Hardly Knew Ye make me smile every time.
Had a piper play it a my Da's funeral a couple of weeks ago ☘️🇮🇪
It was a Scottish hogmanay Song sung before everyone adopted auld lang syne. I think you could interpret it in different ways, feels like a beautiful funeral song to me which is the way the Irish have interperated it
@@thequietman760sorry for your loss, brother. May your dad rest easy, and all y'all who loved him live well.
JD (the one in front of the open door) does bass, Robbie (the one in the hat) is the tenor and the other 2, Dave (with the glasses) and Andy are baritones
Incredibly fine harmony in this performance. Cold chills ran throughout the song thanks and bow
It was an absolute pleasure to watch everything on your face transpire from 0:56 to 1:40, where you settled into your opinion on what you heard until you took that break to talk about it. The song hit me that fast too, and it's always interesting to see where the chills kick in on different people. A little late to the viewing, but I enjoy the content! It's also been really helpful to learn all of these new things. :)
As soon as they all come in I got goose pimples, wow those harmonies!! Very used to these being Scottish/celtic. Gorgeous!
That song never fails to make me tear up.
I get goosebumps everytime I watch this video from Longest Johns. My god.
One of my favorite songs. It is used equally at weddings and funerals. Also the song that brought me to my favorite Irish whisky :)
Whiskey in Ireland....Whisky in Scotland.
I can't wait to see you reacting to the longest jonhes wellerman massive choir
Nice reaction Ken. Such a beautiful moving song. I was rather teary eyed thinking of my dad 😌😇
I love this one.
please please please please please go down TLJ rabbit hole. PLEASE.
This piece was played at my fathers funeral service and that is why it has such an emotional importance to me it is also a traditional Irish funeral peace the meaning is you will always be loved and remembered by your family and friends and to wish you good luck in the next life
I want this played at my funeral.
@The Longest Johns - "There is some special kind of magic going on"
More the longest Johns reactions please
Please do their "Rufford Park Poachers" (JD [the bass] steals the show on this one) or "Bones in The Ocean" (this one is BEAUTIFUL)
JD : aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@@jacqf3583 JD's aaaaaaaah is immense
3 years ago I lost a friend to suicide after he lost his fight with depression. This song made me sob. A goodbye that was never spoken and will always haunt me.
I'm sorry you've had to suffer that kind of loss, dude. I know it never goes away, but it does get easier to carry that weight. And really, it shouldn't go away, because if it did we'd risk losing the fond memories along with the pain. Be well, friend, and bless you. May your friend rest easy, and find his peace.
Yes
Just found your reaction to this. I love this song and was so glad I found this version a while back. It is beautiful. If you want some more incredible harmonies, I highly suggest The Wild Reeds. The second song they did in their NPR Tiny Desk concert, Everything Looks Better in Hindsight, is amazing. It starts a little over 5 minutes in. Them doing their song Fruition at Paste Studios is phenomenal. And though the audio isn't quite as good, Let No Grief at Sofar is incredible.
got me with this incredible performance
This Dude is nice.
React to Bones in the ocean by them if you really want chills.
While it IS technically a Scots folk song, much like Hurt now belongs to Johnny Cash, I think we Scots need to cede this one to the Irish. It's not that many awesome Scots versions don't exist, George Donaldson does an excellent version for example, but all the best versions tend to be the more Irish influenced ones. That said, Natalie Holmes is (I believe) English & I actually adore that clear English folk voice on this track, it really works to give this kind of ethereal effect.
Please react to the Wellerman Community project 🙏🏿
If you're interested in a different (but also beautiful) take on this same classic piece, check out Face Vocal Band's arrangement of it here: th-cam.com/video/2Sql9X4H0VY/w-d-xo.html
The longest John's are incredible, but my favorite song by them recently is "bones in the ocean" if you find yourself looking for something to react too and your not opposed to more of these fellows give it a whirl.
I subscribed. :-) I've also been listening to Longest Johns videos since about 2017 (?) I think... It's part of their style to have such tight harmonies on the chorus that their voices blend into one, though each also has a cache of songs where one takes the lead on the verse. One of their more haunting songs is their rendition of Robert Lewis Stevenson's "Christmas at Sea," for which they composed a new melody. A video of which is here: th-cam.com/video/VDjbUJxVw84/w-d-xo.html -- there, two swap solo verses, and the other two fill out the harmonies. (I'm not sure how to describe who's who -- I can't exactly say: "The guy with the beard," or "the one sitting in his kitchen. :-)
On a totally different note (badaboom), could you please do a reaction on Woods of Ypres - travelling alone OR Lightning & snow. The frontman and singer died before their last album, which was excellent, came out. I want this hidden gem to get some love on the youtube reaction circuit to honour the memory of amazing talent the went away too soon.
I have subscribed and I'm addicted... you need to do a reaction to th band queens of the storage.. the singer has a pretty interesting voice
I wish you could make a reaction to Czesław Niemen's "Dziwny jest ten swiat". He was a Polish songwriter, instrumentalist and most notably a singer with a very powerful and unique voice that I honestly can't find a comparison for.
Can you check out tool - no quarter
Ed Sheeran covered this, which is my favourite version. Peter Hollens has also done it, if you wanted different perspectives :)
for me the favorite singer for this masterpiece is sarah greene when she was the voice of anne from another masterpiece
Also shadow of the colossus ost. Any of them
I recommend ABEL PINTOS - EL ANTIGAL LIVE IN RIVER PLATE from Argentina. It will give you the chills
Yo my man I am loveing your reactions I will really like to hear some anapantsu like her cover of prince Ali
And also also a song idk if you have done this but Johnathan young's and peter Hollens winds of castomere and hands of gold
If you liked that you’d like Luke Kelly. No one has done a good reaction to Luke Kelly. He’s considered a national treasure in Ireland and no one sings like him. I’d recommend is version of Raglan Road.
If you like this style of music, you should absolutely take a listen to Colm McGuinness. He's done a cover of _The Parting Glass_ just a week back where he does vocals and instruments. And while _Óró 'Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile_ is fun, and _The Rains of Castamere_ is great for some serious bass singing and some haunting harmonizing, I think _I See Fire_ is a better showcase of the range of his talent.
I will check out Colm for future videos. Thanks for watching and commenting!
So when are you doing Geoff's newest video? Country Roads. He really slams on that one.
whatsup Ken!
Can you watch, Johnny Cash - Hurt. It's SO good. The emotions!
I kinda feel the same way about this rendition, as I do with all other great versions of The Parting Glass that I've stumbled on. It sounds absolutely great, and it might even evoke real emotion(as this particular rendition certainly does), but it doesn't manage the emotional impact of the version from AC: Black Flag.
That said, great video as usual. :)
Agreed sir!
Us Celts know how to make a song. Hundreds of years of sorrow produces such things
I just subscribed. I love your insight into the music you react to. Please react to Joe Bonamassa featuring Beth Hart, live, covering Etta James' "I'd rather go blind".
Please react to Prófugos by Soda Stereo (Gira Me Verás Volver)!! Pleaseee
Sir, react to Felix Irwan " with or without you". Im sure your fans and everyone will love it!
Please listen and review the song 'Shiv Tandav Stotram' by Shankar Mahadevan.
I am from India and I watched many of your videos, they were very much informative.
I request you to listen the song that I mentioned. Please please please
Lamb of god - laid to rest or walk with me through hell
Please you must react to Heat Above by Greta Van Fleet it’s such a beautiful song
Parting glass is a very old Scottish ayre. Was supplanted by Auld Lang Syne, unfortunately. I love Robert Burns, However, I would choose Parting Glass every time.
- The Longest Johns - could be a porn title XD
For a bit of feeling, watch the end of assassins creed black flag
Till Lindemann just released a new single! It's a song in Russian, called "Любимый город". Which is a cover from an 1939 Russian Movie called "The Fighters", this version will be part of the soundtrack of a movie called "V2: Escape from Hell", getting released soon.
Would be great if you could react to it. And while you're at it, please do also finally react to "Alle Tage ist kein Sonntag", which was released in December of last year.
I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy both a lot, so please check them out.
Hello i have some interesting reaction sugestiom: Huckle x H-has x Hiss - Necromancy
It's really beautiful and musical beatbox track
I hope you'll see this, peace 😁✌️
Sir please react to pandit bhimsen joshi's raag puriya dhanashree.please sir don't ignore it.👍👍👍👍
They are so off , they feast on their voices , but ignore the context and original sense of origin
I find this version of the parting glass a bit static and lacking, tbh. Im having this song sang at my funeral, and if this is how my friends did it, I'd be turning in my coffin.