And the drummer is arguably the best at his craft to have emerged from this golden era of British music. To my mind the best era in terms of musical creativity and both sophistication and social awareness in lyrical content. Nine or ten years of what seemed like endless treasures of musically diverse output.
The drums and bass definitely shined through in this performance, showing that it wasn't just the voice and guitar. However, I missed the parts where the keyboard drops those two notes and makes the song more haunting
Hypnotic. This was one of those songs you listened to while laying on the bed and trying to figure out how you were going to successfully ask out the girl at school. I miss the 80s so much. I had this singer’s haircut, and also a list of girlfriends. Lol.
I sent a girl in school a note on day. She wrote me a note back. She politely declined my offer. She went on to marry that guy. So close and yet so far away.
Absolutely fucking perfect. I saw them in London that year (or maybe 85) and they blew my mind. I was 16. Still listen to them every day. This makes me sadhappy.
What an incredible live performance I wish I had seen them back then one of the few well known bands of that era I did not get to see. Definitely my loss
Saw this tour in San Francisco (I was a student at Berkeley) with Let's Active opening. Earlier in the tour Billy Bragg opened I believe. 0h the 80s.....
• It is one of the band's most successful singles, peaking at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, and is widely regarded as their best song. • According to frontman and guitarist IAN MCCULLOCH, he woke up one morning with the phrase "fate up against your will" in mind. McCulloch said: "I love 'THE KILLING MOON' all the more because I didn’t pore over it for days on end. One morning, I just sat bolt upright in bed with this line in my head: 'Fate up against your will. Through the thick and thin. He will wait until you give yourself to him.' You don’t dream things like that and remember them. That’s why I’ve always half credited the lyric to GOD. It’s never happened before or since." He added, "When I sing 'The Killing Moon,' I know there isn't a band in the world who's got a song anywhere near that."
Brilliant song, great musicians and a lead singer blessed with one of the greatest voices in pop/rock music history. Fellow Liverpudlians, The Beatles, never created anything better than you're hearing right here, or even better, the extended all night version of the same.
Yeah, it's 100% live! Bands used to actually play their own instruments and sing their own tunes, all the time, and sound like they did on their albums. What a concept uh?
Americans miss out on so much wonderful music, often from Australia too. People there need to investigate for themselves and not rely on what the Billboard charts or local radio says, sadly that can make people musically ignorant.
Not a band I listen to except for this song. However, they are tight. They play live like it's a studio recording. Shows their knowledge of timing and working as a group rather than individuals. They must have minimal egos all around, I assume.
I remember this on The Tube at the time, Will’s guitar solo is just magical and I got so pissed off with the director cutting to a tambourine ffs rather than showing him play. The solo from Silver from the same show is also astonishing and outdoes the studio version.
Under blue moon, I saw you So soon you'll take me Up in your arms, too late to beg you Or cancel it, though I know it must be The killing time Unwillingly mine Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him In starlit nights, I saw you So cruelly, you kissed me Your lips, a magic world Your sky, all hung with jewels The killing moon Will come too soon Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him Under blue moon, I saw you So soon you'll take me Up in your arms, too late to beg you Or cancel it, though I know it must be The killing time Unwillingly mine Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him You give yourself to him La La, la, la, la La, la, la, la La, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him You give yourself to him La, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him La, la, la, la La, la, la, la
Que pena que a voz do Ian mudou tanto com o passar dos tempos. Nessa versão ao vivo de 84 ela se assemelha muito a versão de estúdio. Claro que existem algumas variações nas versões ao vivo comparado a de estúdio devido a todo "tratamento" dado na mixagem, mas, se você ouvir as interpretações com ele mais velho, e não digo muito mais velho, me refiro ao começo dos anos 90 para frente, verá como é perceptível que esse timbre meio dark (na falta de um adjetivo melhor) já não existe mais. Ainda assim, o Echo & The Bunnymen é uma das melhores bandas da história!!! Com o bônus de terem conseguido fazer o cover de clássico que ficou tão bom quanto o original. O Echo conseguiu isso na versão de People are Strangers do The Doors!!!! Raríssimas bandas conseguem tal feito.
You know this comforting kind of ''Shivers down my spine'' beginning @ 01:53 ?
Hi thanx for love. Great proper musicians from my city. Peace to you .
I feel that during the entire theme
What instruments are those? Guitar??
аааа, действительно, мурашки
It’s akin to Roland’s solo in “Shout”
One of the best songs ever written
it's partly the vocal. It doesn't work without his voice and delivery.
@@transamination the whole band is firing tho
Absolutely. The way he annunciates and delivers is it.. @@transamination
...if the total number of best songs ever written is about 1 million.
@@transamination right! and without that arena reverb, no go.
this is crazy AF, no lip sync, no auto tune, just raw mic and acoustic guitars, and sounds better than studio release..........unreal
His voice was unbelievable
Don’t google him singing from 2010 on, just remember the magic that was.
This rock band was performing this song in 1984, after many years, in 1996 I was born and in 2023 I am listening to it. What a masterpiece
Well said, Goku! It's a great song.
Everything about this sound is brilliant but for me the bass takes the biscuit. The bassist is just so cool.
Making love to that thing
And the drummer is arguably the best at his craft to have emerged from this golden era of British music. To my mind the best era in terms of musical creativity and both sophistication and social awareness in lyrical content. Nine or ten years of what seemed like endless treasures of musically diverse output.
He was particularly commanding in this performance
The drums and bass definitely shined through in this performance, showing that it wasn't just the voice and guitar. However, I missed the parts where the keyboard drops those two notes and makes the song more haunting
I think I just fell in love with his voice
All perfect: vocals, lead guitar, rhythm, bass, drums...he'll yeah...one of the best songs ever written.
It’s a fantastic performance
Hypnotic. This was one of those songs you listened to while laying on the bed and trying to figure out how you were going to successfully ask out the girl at school. I miss the 80s so much. I had this singer’s haircut, and also a list of girlfriends. Lol.
Simp
@@fellafreedom7210 Lifeless fektard new age waste. Typical throwaway society waste you are.
I sent a girl in school a note on day. She wrote me a note back. She politely declined my offer. She went on to marry that guy. So close and yet so far away.
An ode to simpler times. Loved the 80’s.
@@dougmiller7643 made my day seeing that
On top of their game on this one
I had no idea how good they were live! Wow
Hauntingly beautiful
Absolutely fucking perfect. I saw them in London that year (or maybe 85) and they blew my mind. I was 16. Still listen to them every day. This makes me sadhappy.
Sadhappy: a perfect way to sum up the emotions this song evokes
"Fate...Up against your will...Through the thick and thin..."
@@xneapolisxThe 'sadhappy' is the emotion we call nostalgia...
This song reminds me of a crisp fall night driving with a with a hoodie on and a cool breeze rolling through the sunroof with a joint fired up.
80s is one of the best decades for talented voices…we need more of this today
That bass is so crispy
Just found this . What a fantastic live version. I had no idea they were that good live
Excellent vocals! To me the song is a timeless masterpiece.
Every one of them killing it 🖤 this is phenomenal live. What a song!
Great song, great band! 👏🏻🙏🏼
This is the best live version ..In their PRIME please release this as a CD Album , with DVD one of Liverpools finest
His voice sounds exactly same excellent 👌
Saw them on this tour and it was so good. I was 15 and was at the front! Such a great time for music .
Killing it!
I just doesn’t get any better than this.
Such a GREAT SONG!! One of the ABSOLUTE BEST Songs Ever!
Just saw them doing this on Liverpool arena Saturday night - fantastic.
Nice voice and vocals technique. The best i ever seen.
BEAUTIFUL SONG.. GREETINGS FROM MEXICO
What an incredible live performance I wish I had seen them back then one of the few well known bands of that era I did not get to see. Definitely my loss
best song ever written
Saw this tour in San Francisco (I was a student at Berkeley) with Let's Active opening. Earlier in the tour Billy Bragg opened I believe. 0h the 80s.....
Billy Bragg, the dopey socialist or useful idiot to borrow from Stalin.
Billy Bragg Saw him in the Peppermint lounge in 16 street 5th ave NYC
They played in my country a couple of years back and they played this twice!!!
what a masterpiece. one of the most beautiful songs ever made and Ian's voice is magical! so are his lips! 😋😍😍😍
wonderful
One of my favorites...love this version...good job...as always...😍🎵🎶🐰
Timeless
Had to be seen to be believed. Beautiful then and now.
• It is one of the band's most successful singles, peaking at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, and is widely regarded as their best song.
• According to frontman and guitarist IAN MCCULLOCH, he woke up one morning with the phrase "fate up against your will" in mind. McCulloch said: "I love 'THE KILLING MOON' all the more because I didn’t pore over it for days on end. One morning, I just sat bolt upright in bed with this line in my head: 'Fate up against your will. Through the thick and thin. He will wait until you give yourself to him.' You don’t dream things like that and remember them. That’s why I’ve always half credited the lyric to GOD. It’s never happened before or since." He added, "When I sing 'The Killing Moon,' I know there isn't a band in the world who's got a song anywhere near that."
80s forever !!!!!
Obviously this is too magical to be real.
Wow, I never realized how good this band was back in the '80's. What an amazing live performance. I wish I was there.
I like this better than the studio version
A great live performance of one of my favorite songs! Got to love the 80's.
Espetacular
Brilliant song, great musicians and a lead singer blessed with one of the greatest voices in pop/rock music history. Fellow Liverpudlians, The Beatles, never created anything better than you're hearing right here, or even better, the extended all night version of the same.
SUPERMOON 🌕
listening 🎧 from Philippines
Spectacular. So perfect.
Love this song
underated video. beautiful song and performance
Best song ever written!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
take me again.....wave me back in time...............
Is this seriously a life performance? If so, WOW. Better than the studio version.
Live , not Life !!
Yeah, it's 100% live! Bands used to actually play their own instruments and sing their own tunes, all the time, and sound like they did on their albums. What a concept uh?
INICIO DE UMA GRANDE CARREIRA DO ECHO, MARAVILHOSO!!!
Just haunting
Wow.Great version
I played this at a personalized speed of 1.15, and now it sounds like an epic live presentation at Albert Hall in 1983.
My best friend and I recently share our best songs ever list. This was top of mine.
The best song of all time
Can't recall these guys being all that big in North America. But I've always been fascinated by this tune and the poetic lyrics. Sounds great live!
Americans miss out on so much wonderful music, often from Australia too. People there need to investigate for themselves and not rely on what the Billboard charts or local radio says, sadly that can make people musically ignorant.
Fantastic job Dex.... cheers
sarap sariwain ung panahon ko,,,sarap pakinggan...
pete de freitas... gratidão
Cracking tune from my youth 👍❤️
Not a band I listen to except for this song. However, they are tight. They play live like it's a studio recording. Shows their knowledge of timing and working as a group rather than individuals. They must have minimal egos all around, I assume.
Have you heard " the cutter " ?
@@soulerflare7 No, but I'll check it out. Thanks!
@@NoirHammer "Ocean Rain" is one of the best songs ever written dude
Lead singer has a big ego. He has claimed that this is the best song ever written.
@@transamination hes not wrong though 🤭
Awesome chorus!!!
xoxo The Clarences
WTF Awesome video!
Gotta be in the top 5 best songs ever written this.
Ians vocals were made to sing that.
Outstanding.
Guitars with the "least" amount of "bass" that I've ever heard. "Echo" is all about "treble"! Great song! Wahi' Valleys
I always said the same thing Treble is what made the bunny men great
Ian's ancient Gaelic/Scandinavian vocal affect, a common affect with singers from Northern England and Scotland.
I don't even know what to do with you if you can't recognize the merit of this one.
Love this theme
I remember this on The Tube at the time, Will’s guitar solo is just magical and I got so pissed off with the director cutting to a tambourine ffs rather than showing him play. The solo from Silver from the same show is also astonishing and outdoes the studio version.
This is the only song to ever exist
He's got a nice voice
Thanks Amanda :-)
Just amazing, so glad I was born in the sixties, never liked The Beatles.
This was soooooo good in the eighties.
Me too!!!
linda musica
How good is that??!!:) wow
Yeah man!!!
Quem tá ouvindo em 2021?
Sucha cool song
Under blue moon, I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms, too late to beg you
Or cancel it, though I know it must be
The killing time
Unwillingly mine
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
In starlit nights, I saw you
So cruelly, you kissed me
Your lips, a magic world
Your sky, all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
Under blue moon, I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms, too late to beg you
Or cancel it, though I know it must be
The killing time
Unwillingly mine
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
You give yourself to him
La
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
You give yourself to him
La, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
Que pena que a voz do Ian mudou tanto com o passar dos tempos. Nessa versão ao vivo de 84 ela se assemelha muito a versão de estúdio. Claro que existem algumas variações nas versões ao vivo comparado a de estúdio devido a todo "tratamento" dado na mixagem, mas, se você ouvir as interpretações com ele mais velho, e não digo muito mais velho, me refiro ao começo dos anos 90 para frente, verá como é perceptível que esse timbre meio dark (na falta de um adjetivo melhor) já não existe mais. Ainda assim, o Echo & The Bunnymen é uma das melhores bandas da história!!! Com o bônus de terem conseguido fazer o cover de clássico que ficou tão bom quanto o original. O Echo conseguiu isso na versão de People are Strangers do The Doors!!!! Raríssimas bandas conseguem tal feito.
Eles tentaram cantar Turquoise Days, acho que 2018, Ian quase não conseguiu terminar a música
Wow wow wow 👍👍👍👍👍👍🥂🥂🥂🥂
Great... the guitar leader is critical
Perfectly placed 17 yrs later in the opening scene of Donnie Darko
Tis the season....
1980’s at its best
The bass ( in certain parts ) p is like man of the moon from Rem , coincidence ?? The moon only knows ...
Chulada
great fucking song
hard to believe this is a song created by humans
This is the theme song for my pretend dark wave podcast.
Epic
Les was giving Steve Hanley a run for his money on that base. You figure it out
2:20 Pete de Freitas R.I.P
❤️💜❤️
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