This reminds me of my sister Robin who died at the young age of 24 seven days before her 25th birthday.......she always saw .....The whole of The MooN.....you saw it My angel.....Lovingly j 🕊
Saw them a few weeks ago. He's still unbelievable. And it is amazing how he pronounces every syllable perfect. His beautiful lyrics are there to pick up. Even for a non native speaker, every sentence he sings is spot on to enjoy.
you will probably never have any idea how much this type of music means to poor people in third world countries or people anywhere who are disadvantaged. may God bless you
Brilliant. Utterly brilliant. Stand up and take a bow. 30 odd years on, it's as fresh as the first time I heard it. This is part of the soundtrack of my life.
Well said sean,a gem of a song/set of lyrics it brings a feelin of singin AT someone..they dont exist but you care enough to warn em! Lol...(that is more after a few pints tho lotta finger-pointin goin on!)
I’m a 46 year old guy. I LOVE 80s music but only heard this song for the first time last week watching the finale of The Affair. I’ve been totally captivated by this song. I must have listened to it 100 times over the past week via all the TH-cam versions. It’s such a beautiful song and makes me pine for younger days. It’s my new favorite song. I’m sad that it too me this long to discover it. ❤
guess about me: I heard it first time when I was 24, on the radio. then I lost any connection: I could not recover the title, the group, anything. 2 years ago by chance I heard it again, this time with the credits. try to guess how I felt. :-) (oh, forgot: now I am 65).
@@russcornfield4241 Real musicians, that's for sure. When you think of what they had to work with back then, their creativity was off the charts. No Pro Tools, no unlimited tracks, no digital recording, plug-ins, etc. They were limited in what they could do and they did it tremendously. We, who lived through the 80s, know how fortunate we are.
This isn't a love song. It's an appreciation song, and maybe it was going to be the first. The lyrics, let alone the tune or the performance, are wonderful.
I was 15 when this song came out in 1985 -i also saw the whole of the moon. I miss those days so much , chasing girls and drinking beers smoking weed and long hot summer nights-oh dear ive given myself a lump in my throat thinking about others that saw the whole of the moon to many times -RIP you guys
Love this song...I hear it on the final series..The Affair...it brought tears to my eyes. It was played at Whitney's wedding and at the ending. Bravo to the writer!!!!
I've watched this video loads of times and I've only just noticed at 4.41, Mike Scott uses the microphone to push his glasses up. Brilliant. Amazing song ❤️
I saw The Waterboys several times in the 80s. It was always impressive to see how well they played their instruments and how good they were live, and that they were able to put a new spin on their excellent songs. This song is the only Waterboys song that ever gets played on the radio, and much as I love it, it gets tedious when there is so much excellent music from them to choose from. I would be a bit disappointed if they were still playing this song in 2014 exactly the way they recorded it in 1985, when they had other band members including Karl Wallinger. I loved this.
What a great song from the water boy's I grew up in the eighties and I like the idea of the song whole off the moon we'll done for the singing and the Irish Celtic song ❤ Richard McGeechan 😊
Mike Scott is a treasure! He is unbelievable song writer. He is definitely pure natural talent when it comes to song writing . Thank you Mr Scott you are amazing in my book . Great Song writer , did not go unnoticed with me ...love you brother!
This is a great version of a classic 80s tune it’s not only brilliant it’s beautiful and I love it and I’ll always love it and the 80s the best times forever
Loved the Waterboys ever since I heard this song 30 years ago. Great new arrangement! Saw them play this almost 30 years ago in 1986. What a mind trip.
I've just revisited them and need to give myself an uppercut for not been with them for the last 10 years. So much great music here. I'm now totally committed.
Love this laid back mellow version. Mike Scott timeless. I heard it for the very first time last night on "The Affair". What a really great song. Oh My My!
You should never judge a song or what a band sounds like live by a video. A bad TV mix can ruin everything.I have seen the band several times over the last years and they always sound AMAZING, you may like them or not but live, they are a total blast!
I have no idea where I was when this song first came to the airwaves but somehow I missed it! I just found it and I am so deeply moved by what I interpret to be the meaning of the stunning lyrics! It is one of the most whole-brain intelligent songs I've ever heard! I just read that this beautiful piece was written as a tribute to Prince! What a complete honor from Mike Scott, the front man! Wow!
I like everything about this, seems in the comments people are being overly critical - the mix sounds good, the lyrics are great and Mike Scott is dressed wonderfully!
Saw them at Slanes' Castle in '79 supporting Bowie's Spider tour.. I was impressed then.. My oldest sister was pissed one night when I visited, she fell over when saying goodnight and she had less on than was decent.. It was a warm night and it was very late/early.. I saw the whole of her moon and then some... My sister died in 2015 and I sang this to her as she lay in her hospital bed because it was a joke we shared. She was unable to answer any of us but, I will always link it to her and so I will always have it with me... Hey Vicky.. X
This is music! I've been a fan since 1986 (Pinkpop festival together with The Cult & The Cure, to name a few). Fabulous song, and Mike is a fantastic song & lyrics writer. There, now you probably now how old I am.
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I am 63 now, this is one of the most perfect songs ever.
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I’m 43 and I play this song for the younger kids I work with. They don’t sing along with me but you can tell they appreciate it lol. Timeless
I can't tell you how much I love your post. It's perfect.
How can you not love that song ?? Impossible,,,
Heard this song last 2019 during U2's concert...nice song.
Those little 💩s do not know music if it knock their cell phone out of their hands. They only know what is trending.
Ich bin nun 54 und finde das ist ein fantastischer Song für die Ewigkeit 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼😁
This reminds me of my sister Robin who died at the young age of 24 seven days before her 25th birthday.......she always saw .....The whole of The MooN.....you saw it My angel.....Lovingly j 🕊
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@@GaryGrace-pl6si❤
all my love
god bless
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Someone needs to let the crowd know they’ve chosen to be there. They’re allowed to enjoy it😂
Probably one the greatest songs ever written...I want this to be the last song I ever hear before I shuttle of this mortal coil !
How good is his voice still?.. This song is and always will be a classic... An amazing tune.
It's never changed has it !
Saw them a few weeks ago. He's still unbelievable. And it is amazing how he pronounces every syllable perfect. His beautiful lyrics are there to pick up. Even for a non native speaker, every sentence he sings is spot on to enjoy.
you will probably never have any idea how much this type of music means to poor people in third world countries or people anywhere who are disadvantaged. may God bless you
Can u explain why
@@Mikamichae music is the only thing that some people in this world can afford
@@diegeeleel interesting
RIP Karl Wallinger. Thank you for the music
Brilliant. Utterly brilliant. Stand up and take a bow. 30 odd years on, it's as fresh as the first time I heard it. This is part of the soundtrack of my life.
Well said sean,a gem of a song/set of lyrics it brings a feelin of singin AT someone..they dont exist but you care enough to warn em! Lol...(that is more after a few pints tho lotta finger-pointin goin on!)
My life too.
Absolutely ❗ I Agree The Waterboys still sounds as good from the 70's. Yes Definitely "Take A Bow"🎶👏🎙🎸🎹🎶
Typo, Meant The 80's 👏🎙🎸🎹❤🌙🌕
Such a wonderful song and the original just has a beat that re-energizes your spirit
I’m a 46 year old guy. I LOVE 80s music but only heard this song for the first time last week watching the finale of The Affair. I’ve been totally captivated by this song. I must have listened to it 100 times over the past week via all the TH-cam versions. It’s such a beautiful song and makes me pine for younger days. It’s my new favorite song. I’m sad that it too me this long to discover it. ❤
guess about me: I heard it first time when I was 24, on the radio. then I lost any connection: I could not recover the title, the group, anything. 2 years ago by chance I heard it again, this time with the credits. try to guess how I felt. :-) (oh, forgot: now I am 65).
It's just as good as it was way back in the 80s when it was first released. And it had that captivating quality to it back then as well.
Great music the 80’s some great bands real musicians 💪💪
@@russcornfield4241 Real musicians, that's for sure. When you think of what they had to work with back then, their creativity was off the charts. No Pro Tools, no unlimited tracks, no digital recording, plug-ins, etc. They were limited in what they could do and they did it tremendously. We, who lived through the 80s, know how fortunate we are.
This should have a million likes ….perfection right here
This song has stayed with me for 30 years, it was absolute class live back then, and here it is now...still class.
totally amazing! Scottish people always have great songs with very strong lyrics! awesomely in poetry! ♡ greetings from the Netherlands!
This is about Ireland Dublin to be precise
@@irishking1414 no it’s not
I am 74 and heard great music This is my favorite
I watch this video 4-5 times per day every single day. It's beautiful and pure, honest magic.
This isn't a love song. It's an appreciation song, and maybe it was going to be the first. The lyrics, let alone the tune or the performance, are wonderful.
Drummer kills it in this performance! 👌👌
I was 15 when this song came out in 1985 -i also saw the whole of the moon.
I miss those days so much , chasing girls and drinking beers smoking weed and long hot summer nights-oh dear ive given myself a lump in my throat thinking about others that saw the whole of the moon to many times -RIP you guys
andrew R Wow, I was 16 and did the same.. Nice memories. Happy new year :)
andrew R lol I was 12! 😂 ♡
AC R yubètube
I was in my 20's, very naughty and loved every minute of it!
Big Tasty, why RIP? They aren't dead.
THE GREATEST SONG EVER WRITTEN.
A song that you can’t hear enough - lovely version
My wife absolutely adored this tune so I did too and still do. Once heard, never forgotten.
Dang, his voice is still so perfect
Absolute masterpiece
😊😊😊😊
Love this song...I hear it on the final series..The Affair...it brought tears to my eyes. It was played at Whitney's wedding and at the ending. Bravo to the writer!!!!
I love this song epic
Totally agree! I recorded the scene on my phone and the song is just sooo moving!
Yes it was wonderful, in the last episode.
top of the pops
The song of my youth - so many memories - when the time comes, I will take it with me to my grave
For Debby ,I loved you but you let me go ,36 years later I still think about you when I hear this song,
Really nice. What a marvelous song. Classic.
I've watched this video loads of times and I've only just noticed at 4.41, Mike Scott uses the microphone to push his glasses up. Brilliant. Amazing song ❤️
That’s SO amazing
the mans a legend
One of my favourite songs ever!
Good to see my old band still rocking.I was 17 then in 1985 cranking this in my car with friends...priceless
I was 16 back then.🤔
I was 18.
Sure it charted twice too! 1985 and 1989?!
Love this song
I saw The Waterboys several times in the 80s. It was always impressive to see how well they played their instruments and how good they were live, and that they were able to put a new spin on their excellent songs. This song is the only Waterboys song that ever gets played on the radio, and much as I love it, it gets tedious when there is so much excellent music from them to choose from. I would be a bit disappointed if they were still playing this song in 2014 exactly the way they recorded it in 1985, when they had other band members including Karl Wallinger.
I loved this.
84 I got a job, she traveled on and saw the whole of the moon. Goodnight chesty where ever you are.
Go find her!
Lol. Who else is here after the finale of The Affair? Great song! 1985? I guess I’m better late than never.
Me :-) I can't get enough of this song after listening to it on The Affair
Me too!!! Great end!
@@lolazamorano2384 Me Too!
Awesome
Ditto, now gotta learn that flash mob dance routine!😁
I'll always be back here to say this song is a masterpiece
Nice one :)
What a great song from the water boy's I grew up in the eighties and I like the idea of the song whole off the moon we'll done for the singing and the Irish Celtic song ❤ Richard McGeechan 😊
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard!
Saw them play this almost 30 years ago in 1986. What a mind trip.
Simple Minds at Milton Keynes???
@@dangermouse6561 Rock am Ring. Simple Minds were there too.
Mike Scott is a treasure! He is unbelievable song writer. He is definitely pure natural talent when it comes to song writing . Thank you Mr Scott you are amazing in my book . Great Song writer , did not go unnoticed with me ...love you brother!
One of the best tunes ever made! 🌙 🌚 🙌🏻
So rare bands really sound like they did when they first released their tracks, but this! Brilliant :)
I was just thinking the same..
How tho
No way it's exactly the same. His voice lost some power, his performance is more discrete, he can't reach the higher notes like before.
This is a great version of a classic 80s tune it’s not only brilliant it’s beautiful and I love it and I’ll always love it and the 80s the best times forever
Really? have another little listen....
I love this song ,a masterpiece.
Song of my youth
Saw them two nights in a row opening for U2 way back when. Amazing band!
The Affair brought me here, Fiona Apple does an amazing cover & there is a flashmob wedding dance in the Finale Cheers you Waterboys!
You gotta hear the Prince cover of this. 🔥
nah too angry - denies the marvelling and light in this song
this is the song that got me hooked to the water boys
I heard it for the very first time last night on "The Affair". What a really great song. Oh My My!
This is still such a great song after all these years. Remarkable and profound.
All these years later, such a fabulous live performance of a stand out song by a poet/singer extraordinaire and his merry men.
Estou no Brasil e não acredito nisso, que maravilha, meu DEUS.
The Waterboys created the ultimate pop song with this.
It's more than a pop song. It's an anthem.
Love this laid back mellow version. Mike Scott timeless.
Merci the 🧷🧷🐞waterboys je flotte.tout parait si calme.et je me laisse entrainer par ce fabuleux rythme ......
Timeless masterpiece. John Malkovich is pretty good on guitar, too.
Haha, spot on.....and Jack Nicholson is drumming away pretty well.
@@janjonsson6851 and Steve Buscemi on vocals
Steven Spielberg on the Violin too
Are you not sure it was not the lead singer REM on guitar Michael stripe
@@johncampbell2979 yeah Michael Stipe for sure
Loved the Waterboys ever since I heard this song 30 years ago. Great new arrangement!
Saw them play this almost 30 years ago in 1986. What a mind trip.
This song is for a love I had and losed.for 30 years ago. But still love the song. Thanks you water boys...
How can anyone who has reasonable hearing not like this Masterpiece.?
I absolutely Love this song! Such amazing lyrics 😊
This song will be played for ever - timeless.
It brings a joyful tear to my eye
Gorgeous song. Timeless. It topped the charts when I was barely out of nappies but still magnificent.
calam Calam related to Lawleys?
masterpiece
Perfectly summed up in one word.
George Harrison darkness
THIS MY BEST SONG EVER SINCE EVEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!!!!!
Age does not weary class 👏
God damn the years!
Beautiful song, brings a tear to my eye.
This SONG is on of the greatest EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love this song, my soul be peace while i listen this.
masterpiece
Probably one of the best songs ever written and performed as perfectly as 1984.....
Brilliant one of the best bands to come out of Scotland.
They are Irish
Timeless
Love the way he adjusts his spectacles with the mic
Brilliant and Beautiful!
Perfect music perfect lyrics
I've just revisited them and need to give myself an uppercut for not been with them for the last 10 years. So much great music here. I'm now totally committed.
Loved the Waterboys ever since I heard this song 30 years ago. Great new arrangement!
6 years past, I still remember I were there in the faceless crowd.
A great song, performed by mind blowing band. I was hooked back in the 80's and it still lifts the spirit 30+ years later.
Thank you Waterboys. This is way too much. And so few at the same time. It makes you go seraching for the stars.
I LOVE this song so much!!!!💕
Amo a esta banda justamente por este tema. Esta versión es grandiosa, épica! Aguante Mike Scott, Steve Wickham y Ralph Salmins!
Forget the affair - this used to be played in the Rainbow Bar, San Antonio, Ibiza in the 80’s. God I’m getting old !
Love this laid back mellow version. Mike Scott timeless.
I heard it for the very first time last night on "The Affair". What a really great song. Oh My My!
Still.... It's one of a handful of tunes that sometimes moves me to tears.
Reminds me of my grandmother. Passed last year at 84. She was the Whole of The Moon. A wonderful lady lost.
The mellow version. And still better than the shite that's being pumped out nowadays.
Will Scarlett + hey Great
Will Scarlett I'm tuned into that Will. So sad. Who's gonna replace these dudes?
Agree,hate modern music
sheer class......saw them back in the late 80's here in Ireland and were one of the best bands live I have ever seen....
You should never judge a song or what a band sounds like live by a video. A bad TV mix can ruin everything.I have seen the band several times over the last years and they always sound AMAZING, you may like them or not but live, they are a total blast!
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Yo les he visto en vivo tres veces y no me canso
Wow his voice without changes!! Love this song kind of nostalgia!
I have no idea where I was when this song first came to the airwaves but somehow I missed it! I just found it and I am so deeply moved by what I interpret to be the meaning of the stunning lyrics! It is one of the most whole-brain intelligent songs I've ever heard! I just read that this beautiful piece was written as a tribute to Prince! What a complete honor from Mike Scott, the front man! Wow!
Mike Scott said this is untrue.
It wasn't a tribute to Prince.
Die Waterboys sind für jeden was. 👍
Ob Teenie oder oder semester: mitreißend und einfach nur klasse. Meer hören. 🌊
I like everything about this, seems in the comments people are being overly critical - the mix sounds good, the lyrics are great and Mike Scott is dressed wonderfully!
We gotta love those Northern Bands and their unique lyrical point of view.
From to argentina love song ❤❤
such a fantastic song!
Saw them at Slanes' Castle in '79 supporting Bowie's Spider tour.. I was impressed then.. My oldest sister was pissed one night when I visited, she fell over when saying goodnight and she had less on than was decent.. It was a warm night and it was very late/early.. I saw the whole of her moon and then some... My sister died in 2015 and I sang this to her as she lay in her hospital bed because it was a joke we shared. She was unable to answer any of us but, I will always link it to her and so I will always have it with me... Hey Vicky.. X
Love this ❤
Loved it on radio.
Oh man was I in love when this came out...can't tell anymore whether more into the song or the girl ,D - but for sure it was the best of times
This is music! I've been a fan since 1986 (Pinkpop festival together with The Cult & The Cure, to name a few). Fabulous song, and Mike is a fantastic song & lyrics writer. There, now you probably now how old I am.