I moved to London in 1999 and this was on someone's mixed tape. Never forgot the song or the riff. Today, in 2021, I found it and added it to my playlist. Timeless track - fantastic.
The ENTIRE album overflows with totally amazing melodies, vocals, electronic touches....not afraid to call it a masterpiece! It's music for music lovers - insanely catchy hooks and stunning song craft! How many music fans that don't know of this album would eat it up - ZILLIONS🎸🎤🎶🎹!!!
I remember we skipped class at school and went to a cafe to play cards instead. As we were talking and laughing, this song came up on tv and everyone got completely mesmerised. Such a fond memory. Love from Athens, Greece
I was reading the comment and thought that elsewhere people skip classes too...and then Greece appeared!!!!κοπάνες για μουσική δικαιολογούνται πάντα!!!
First time I walked in to the Hacienda, Manchester, on a Thursday night in February for a stoned Love night this was playing, the floor was empty, it was just perfect, wide open dance floor with just me in my own wide open space.
Brilliant song. Attack of the Grey Lantern is one of my favourite albums, and I still play it often. I saw Mansun live supporting Suede in early ‘97 and have been a fan ever since.
I've been searching for this song for nearly 12 years (since 2007). My mind wouldn't let me sleep because of that guitar melody. Over time, I lost hope of ever finding it I just found it today, after skipping many songs on Spotify. As soon as I heard the first few seconds, I knew. And I lost it. I got emotional 😂 I know, it's just a song, but it's a song I've been searching for over a decade. It's like finding "the one who got away" and getting another chance. 💖
Omg, I bet you were *SO* freaking excited. It is the BEST feeling to find a long lost song after so many years. I would've cried tears of joy for sure. I still LOVE this song.
I totally feel you on that Wen I found this song again i literally got goosebumps and was flooded with a feeling of my youth and memories that for reasons unknown were lost into the back of my mind!! I found it again aged 35 after not hearing it since I was around 16!!! And wow the emotion I felt hearing it was overwhelming tbh Sounds mad Ino but I totally relate
This song reminds me of when I would see everyone around me succeeding while I continue to be a failure, but only a failure in the eyes of society. Because I'm perfectly happy with who I am.
Regalalternative , my dad used to say to me there are 3 things you need in life , health , happiness and contentment. I can't speak for the first two but it sounds like you're contented. Most people aren't.
I’m American, and it’s fair and only honest of me to say, the UK undoubtedly is the home of natural talent. I couldn’t even remember for the life of me how many good tunes have came from that little island, but I do know a large number of them if not all have gotten me where I am today.
I went to see Mansun at Reading 1999. Sunday night. They were playing in one of the small tents, and I didn't care who was on the main stage. Mansun were every bit of the best band you could imagine seeing live. I can hardly believe it was nearly 20 years ago.
An underrated song from an underrated band. Arrived about the time when ‘Brit pop’ was getting too fat. They ploughed their own furrow and good for them. They channelled their energy in a better direction....
This track was the first music my daughter ever heard. I use to play it to her as a new born as it stopped her crying. So, this song is not only great, it also has happy memories for me holding my baby girl and feeling the most intense love ever.
Pure class 👌 Unique sound 🎵 and (to me) Timeless ✨. The BEST song from one of the BEST albums EVER. Chester (UK) can be VERY proud of Paul Draper and the band. Massive talent. 😍
Bring back to my senior high school circa 1999-2002 when I always watching the show named MTV Alternative Nation where the host promised us "And we promised No boyband" 😢 really missee that show. Mansun, Ocean Color Scene, Muse (before being a hipster band), Cornershop, Coldplay (before being hipster band), and my most favorite Mull Hostorical Society
Songs that shaped your childhood and moved you along the path of the person you end up cant ever be forgotten. For me, this is one of those songs. Classic 👍
I can't begin to tell you how lucky I feel I was to be a Teenager in the 90's and to witness the birth of so many amazing bands and how youth culture was alive and kicking in the biggest way for us through tv and music. Mansun and this song are brilliant. God I miss this decade?
Happiest day of my life in July 2007 , listened to this 35 times on the way home from Stowmarket after the best round of competition golf I ever played. 28 years preceding, and 13 years after and still going, but that day was the best
It was 1997, I was one of Houston’s newest residents. I was listening to 94.5 The Buzz before it was 94.5 the Buzz.. maybe Z Rock 107.5?? “Save The Buzz” I was on the 610 loop around 5:45am headed to work on the Northside. Drove from sugar land to greens point. Heard this song for the first time and instantly loved it. Always thought the DJ said it was Marilyn Manson. Searched and searched my favorite music store. Never did find it. It wasn’t Marilyn Manson. It wasn’t until I met a guy that served his time at places like Club Sum and the likes that knew music. All I could tell him was the lyrics “wide open space” and he immediately said “oh thats Mansun. I said.. no it’s not. I’ve listened to every Marilyn Manson song there is and it’s not. He said no, it’s Mansun. M.A.N.S.U.N… he actually spelled it out. I ran to the music store in search of the album. They didn’t have it. Anyone remember Bear Share? That’s where I finally found it, downloaded it, and burned it to a CD. For whatever reason, the song was special to me.
Never forget I was driving back to work on a late Sunday evening, I heard this song on the jukebox in the pub a few hours earlier and I really wanted it (days when you had to go into shops to buy!). Then I put in disc 2 in the player by complete chance on one of those smash hits CDs with loads of random tracks on and it came on! Funny enough I used to play videogames at the Las Vegas arcade in this video! Whose the actor at 0:26 sure I recall him in something like eastenders.
i've been fascinated by the lyrics and sound of this for decades... literal decades.. My only reference was from Paul Oakenfold, Perfecto presents another world.. something? a torrent, rando hit, just searching for music back in the day. It wasn't until today that I've heard the original song.
Love this song so much. It reminds me of my first job after I left school. I would listen to the radio on my way in the mornings and this song would always be on. Mansun are massively underrated.
derek stocks most underrated songs are the most beautiful. those music that masses easily gets on are the music or songs that easily gone. just weeks, months but not in a year
I remember playing it on my casette digital walkman as i rode off in my mountain bike downhill during teen. I remember listening to it on my mp3 player when i just started working in my early 20's. I remember blasting this on bluetooth/mp3 player in my first car during my late 20's. I remember playing this on PC when i was online gaming at cybercafe during my early 30's Now i'm 43 and still loving this song.
a freind was killed in a road accident and I remember hearing this a few minutes later sat in my car in the rain........it always stuck in my mind and just reminds me of him always.....
I'm 14 years old, my dad played me 'six' in the car near the beginning of this year, when the 21st anniversary edition was released. I absolutely loved their music and immediately fell in love with the album, it was what I was missing my whole life. Later on I listened to 'Attack of the Grey Lantern' and I loved that too. I just wish more people knew about this perfect band and I've been trying my best to get as many people as I can to start listening to their music, Mansun was truely an amazing band.
Nicely said! Amazing band and album! Just sublime music from start to finish! Completely undervalued album - this is the definition of ear candy! GET ALBUM YESTERDAY!!!
The first time I heard this song, I was 14 as well. It was from a mixtape that my sister had. I did not know who the band was but I remember how captivating the song was. Then I completely forgot about it. Over the years it would pop up in my mind again. Today I'm 29 years old, and it popped up in my head again and bothered to type in the search bar a piece of lyrics I remembered from the song and found it. It still has that effect on me. Your comment has motivated me to discover more of this band. Thank you for your review.
Had this song stuck in my head for about 20 years. Never owned it, never deliberately listened to it until today. Yet, I've sang it to myself every day for two decades... Catchy bastard.
This song (for some reason) has stuck in my head since i was a kid. I never knew what it was called or who it was by. Literally haven't heard it since the 90s. And here I am, at the end of 2024 😅
It's almost 2023 and I come here cos I decided to randomly play my liked songs on Spotify and this came up and reminds me why I love it in the first place
This means so much. I can't go there . This track. This song . Blimey. Would I be going too far on saying it's a classic?? Young men struggle . I don't know . This for me resonates in relation to a young man's suicide . I have loved this song for so long . This is a work of art .
Bizarrely I missed the band in the 90s, when I was going to rock/metal/industrial clubs, and only hearing this in the early 2000s led to me falling in love and digging up the back catalogue. The lyrical style reminded me of The Smiths, but in a somehow more fun way, more sensitive way. This song always takes me back to a time when I felt a lot more alone in a room full of people, and yet having a good song articulate your loneliness makes you feel a lot less alone in the world, like you're not the only person stuck in that headspace. Even 20 years on, when I'm miles away from that headspace, it still resonates as a great song, powerfully emotive, and just a little bit daft towards the end.
used to see em a fair bit live at brighton beach mod nights in leeds , the old cockpit days . lovley chaps and great live . when musicians could do it live . no auto tune nothing , just talented blokes playing real instruments . as it should be
"Wide Open Space" I'm in a wide open space, I'm standing I'm all alone and staring in to space It's always quiet through my ceiling The roof comes in and crashes in a daze I'm in a wide open space, it's freezing You'll never get to heaven with a smile on your face from me I'm in a wide open space, I'm staring There's something quite bizarre I cannot see I'm on the top of a hill, I'm lonely There's someone here to shout to miles away I could be back at my house, for I care They do not hear me, it's the same old case I'm in a wide open space, it's freezing You'll never get to heaven with a smile on your face from me I'm in a wide open space, I'm staring There's something quite bizarre I cannot see I'm in a wide open space, I'm standing I'm all alone and staring in to space It's always quiet through my ceiling The roof comes in and crashes in a daze I'm in a wide open space, it's freezing You'll never get to heaven with a smile on your face from me I'm in a wide open space, I'm staring There's something quite bizarre I cannot see I'm in a wide open space, it's freezing You'll never get to heaven with a smile on your face from me I'm in a wide open space, I'm staring There's something quite bizarre I cannot see
Just listening watching old videos..saw Mansun play this at Rock City 1997 ? Still sounds bloody amazing, a fantastic band that never got the true recognition they deserved IMO 👍🙏
One of my desert island discs. Superb. I was running a retail shop at the time this was released and this came on the radio and some French customers were mesmerised and asked me who it was. I had to write all the details and they came back later - they’d bought the album
A song, A band that changed my life. Even In a mixed up to say the least family circle, I was allowed to hear and play this. Thank you for sharing this and Mansun. Crosses decades as timeless music does that. I miss them so much. Too ahead of their time gets thrown about.
One of the best things about the mid-90s was the absolute killer single, everyone seemed to be bringing them out. And this is one of em for my money !!
Somehow I mapped this and it's lyrics to my day job troubles. I seem to stand alone as the only bearer of truth. Yet nobody really cares what I think or say. (They don't need my smile to get to heavan). When they all push me forward as spokesman and I stand on top of a hill, but I still stand alone and they still don't listen to the truth. It's "freezing". I'm staring in disbelief at how I got here and how nobody else can see the elephant in the room. This is, I'm 99.9% sure, not what this song is about. I have felt many, many, many things through this song. I have re-interupted it 1000 times and found solace in each. This is the sign of mastery in lyric and poetry. That so little words can be intterrupted in so many different, but related ways.
The world is collapsing and my only solace are the songs of my youth. Forever.
Right here with u
You're not alone
Right?! It's 2022 now & hasn't gotten any better. Hell, now we have a war. Great. Ugh.
With you on that , there is no truth anymore it’s been high jacked by conspiracy theorists
Have you heard Yes by McAlmont & Butler? If you haven’t, I highly recommend
If I hadn't been a fan back in the 90s, I'd never believe this wasn't from 2023. So fresh.
This band deserves more recognition. They consistently created great tunes.
This was my first taste of live music 🎶 literally ❤
1998 the Guildford Guildhall
I moved to London in 1999 and this was on someone's mixed tape. Never forgot the song or the riff. Today, in 2021, I found it and added it to my playlist. Timeless track - fantastic.
same story - an old boyfriend made me a mix tape in 2001.. just found it today
Music like this is timeless! 👌
Check out the Mansun album this track is off. Attack of the grey lantern. X
Hi I recommend an indie song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
The ENTIRE album overflows with totally amazing melodies, vocals, electronic touches....not afraid to call it a masterpiece! It's music for music lovers - insanely catchy hooks and stunning song craft! How many music fans that don't know of this album would eat it up - ZILLIONS🎸🎤🎶🎹!!!
I remember we skipped class at school and went to a cafe to play cards instead. As we were talking and laughing, this song came up on tv and everyone got completely mesmerised. Such a fond memory. Love from Athens, Greece
I was reading the comment and thought that elsewhere people skip classes too...and then Greece appeared!!!!κοπάνες για μουσική δικαιολογούνται πάντα!!!
Great story! 😍
It takes me right back to.my.teenage years xxx
Τι ειπες τωρα ρε μαγκα...
Αγαπημένο
Under rated band, they made some classics
I listen to this and it nearly makes me cry because it's not the 90s any more, and music is not like this any more.
Well, I'm listening to this now lol
My song💕😍😥😀🥺😱👼.....
You need to look up Paul Drapers solo stuff, that pretty much proves that there is music like this now.
theres plenty of new music that sounds similar. just have to look for it
First time I walked in to the Hacienda, Manchester, on a Thursday night in February for a stoned Love night this was playing, the floor was empty, it was just perfect, wide open dance floor with just me in my own wide open space.
Brilliant song. Attack of the Grey Lantern is one of my favourite albums, and I still play it often. I saw Mansun live supporting Suede in early ‘97 and have been a fan ever since.
I've been searching for this song for nearly 12 years (since 2007).
My mind wouldn't let me sleep because of that guitar melody. Over time, I lost hope of ever finding it
I just found it today, after skipping many songs on Spotify. As soon as I heard the first few seconds, I knew. And I lost it. I got emotional 😂
I know, it's just a song, but it's a song I've been searching for over a decade. It's like finding "the one who got away" and getting another chance. 💖
I'm grateful I never went years without hearing it. Glad you found it in the end!
I didn't know the name of this track and actually stood in a record store and sang it 😂 badly but
Omg, I bet you were *SO* freaking excited. It is the BEST feeling to find a long lost song after so many years. I would've cried tears of joy for sure. I still LOVE this song.
I totally feel you on that
Wen I found this song again i literally got goosebumps and was flooded with a feeling of my youth and memories that for reasons unknown were lost into the back of my mind!!
I found it again aged 35 after not hearing it since I was around 16!!!
And wow the emotion I felt hearing it was overwhelming tbh
Sounds mad Ino but I totally relate
I know that feeling , as i had the same long experience with a tune from Lazarus named wild horses
This song reminds me of when I would see everyone around me succeeding while I continue to be a failure, but only a failure in the eyes of society. Because I'm perfectly happy with who I am.
Good for you. Respect to you.
Yeah that's been my experience, then I find out, I'm autistic, that I can't manage in an alien world.
Good for you, took me years to actually admit the same!
Regalalternative , my dad used to say to me there are 3 things you need in life , health , happiness and contentment. I can't speak for the first two but it sounds like you're contented. Most people aren't.
Will never grow tired of this song.
Me too . Never .
This is what happens with digital music. We all forget great tunes and have to re-find them. When you do, it's awesome. Bring back CDs!
My friend juggling fire here, he was busking in Picadilly circus when he was asked to be in this vid, can't believe how long ago this is!!
That's awesome.
I know Frank too 😂
I’m American, and it’s fair and only honest of me to say, the UK undoubtedly is the home of natural talent. I couldn’t even remember for the life of me how many good tunes have came from that little island, but I do know a large number of them if not all have gotten me where I am today.
Love me some Mansun. Got turned on to Mansun with Chicane's Visions of Ibiza. Love Wide Open Space.
Listening to it now. never heard.
Me too !
I’m a 2000s kid but songs like this were my childhood, all I used to listen too
I went to see Mansun at Reading 1999. Sunday night. They were playing in one of the small tents, and I didn't care who was on the main stage. Mansun were every bit of the best band you could imagine seeing live. I can hardly believe it was nearly 20 years ago.
Ya, me too. Went when Silverchair and Foo fighters played the first time.
I saw the parallel gig at Leeds. I think Red Hot Chilli Peppers were on main stage but there was no conflict in my mind.
Did Green Day or Blink 182 not play that festival as well? Great festival back in the day.
An underrated song from an underrated band. Arrived about the time when ‘Brit pop’ was getting too fat. They ploughed their own furrow and good for them. They channelled their energy in a better direction....
This track was the first music my daughter ever heard. I use to play it to her as a new born as it stopped her crying. So, this song is not only great, it also has happy memories for me holding my baby girl and feeling the most intense love ever.
I hope she is doing well. You're a cool dad.
She is at Oxford studying medicine. She still likes the song and has good taste in music. She has stopped crying now :)
One can only hope that One's children grow up to enjoy proper music.
what an uplifting story mate shows the love of music and the love you have for your daughter
Peter Neate 😁
Pure class 👌 Unique sound 🎵 and (to me) Timeless ✨. The BEST song from one of the BEST albums EVER. Chester (UK) can be VERY proud of Paul Draper and the band. Massive talent. 😍
Bring back to my senior high school circa 1999-2002 when I always watching the show named MTV Alternative Nation where the host promised us "And we promised No boyband" 😢 really missee that show. Mansun, Ocean Color Scene, Muse (before being a hipster band), Cornershop, Coldplay (before being hipster band), and my most favorite Mull Hostorical Society
Buenos tiempos, sobre todo en lo que a música se refiere! ❤
Songs that shaped your childhood and moved you along the path of the person you end up cant ever be forgotten. For me, this is one of those songs. Classic 👍
They were ahead of their time.. fashion, sound, truly underrated
After 10 or so years this song randomly popped into my head! Such a good song!
You will never get to heaven with a smile on your face for me !❤
I can't begin to tell you how lucky I feel I was to be a Teenager in the 90's and to witness the birth of so many amazing bands and how youth culture was alive and kicking in the biggest way for us through tv and music. Mansun and this song are brilliant. God I miss this decade?
Happiest day of my life in July 2007 , listened to this 35 times on the way home from Stowmarket after the best round of competition golf I ever played. 28 years preceding, and 13 years after and still going, but that day was the best
Pure partridge
@@jamesjameson4566 😂😂😂 ahhhh haaaa
I hope the guys from the band read these. We LOVE this song so much. AMAZING song.
Even after all these years, this is the ONE song I come and look for.
not happening lol. But fantastic song
God. I had forgotten how good this song was. Great lyrics, great band.
What lyrics.... it's two lines repeated over and over again... the music is okay but lyrics... nah.
It was 1997, I was one of Houston’s newest residents. I was listening to 94.5 The Buzz before it was 94.5 the Buzz.. maybe Z Rock 107.5?? “Save The Buzz”
I was on the 610 loop around 5:45am headed to work on the Northside. Drove from sugar land to greens point. Heard this song for the first time and instantly loved it. Always thought the DJ said it was Marilyn Manson. Searched and searched my favorite music store. Never did find it. It wasn’t Marilyn Manson. It wasn’t until I met a guy that served his time at places like Club Sum and the likes that knew music. All I could tell him was the lyrics “wide open space” and he immediately said “oh thats Mansun. I said.. no it’s not. I’ve listened to every Marilyn Manson song there is and it’s not. He said no, it’s Mansun. M.A.N.S.U.N… he actually spelled it out. I ran to the music store in search of the album. They didn’t have it. Anyone remember Bear Share? That’s where I finally found it, downloaded it, and burned it to a CD. For whatever reason, the song was special to me.
Love your comment
Someone needs to cover this track in 2024. I absolutely loved it then and I still do. Timeless. Fantastic.
Nooooo.. it needs to be left like this and just re-released..
Attack of the Grey Lantern.......excellent album 😊😊
2019 n still listening....... Who else??
Fuck Off mate.
Ra pom pom pom pom pom pa
2020 lol
almost every day!!!! it gets in my head and then i have to listen to it like twice lol
2020 n still :)
Whenever I hear someone mention Mansun, I have to listen to this track just to remind me of how bloody brilliant this is.
Never forget I was driving back to work on a late Sunday evening, I heard this song on the jukebox in the pub a few hours earlier and I really wanted it (days when you had to go into shops to buy!).
Then I put in disc 2 in the player by complete chance on one of those smash hits CDs with loads of random tracks on and it came on!
Funny enough I used to play videogames at the Las Vegas arcade in this video!
Whose the actor at 0:26 sure I recall him in something like eastenders.
i've been fascinated by the lyrics and sound of this for decades... literal decades.. My only reference was from Paul Oakenfold, Perfecto presents another world.. something? a torrent, rando hit, just searching for music back in the day. It wasn't until today that I've heard the original song.
Absolutely fantastic song..a typical 90s smash hit..it’s absolutely timeless
One of the best debut albums ever.
That must be one of the best tunes i have ever heard!!!!! .From a raver from the 80s to a lover to the 90s i still have that song on CD and love it.
Can't believe I went 27 years without knowing this song. Such an amazing song.
I was 26 feel old
Paul Oakenfold brought me here.
In 20+ years, I never heard the original. Wish I would have heard it sooner.
Same, it’s taken me twenty years to find this song
This is fabulous. Paul great but yea the original…..
Me too. I lived through the 90s alt-music scene. Never heard this.
I was 14 when this song came out, damn i'm old 😅
Love this song so much. It reminds me of my first job after I left school. I would listen to the radio on my way in the mornings and this song would always be on. Mansun are massively underrated.
how the fuck has this band - this tune - only had 81k views. Epic. Agree with below - underrated band. brilliant!
derek stocks most underrated songs are the most beautiful. those music that masses easily gets on are the music or songs that easily gone. just weeks, months but not in a year
I remember playing it on my casette digital walkman as i rode off in my mountain bike downhill during teen.
I remember listening to it on my mp3 player when i just started working in my early 20's.
I remember blasting this on bluetooth/mp3 player in my first car during my late 20's.
I remember playing this on PC when i was online gaming at cybercafe during my early 30's
Now i'm 43 and still loving this song.
wow just blew the dust off my cd collection in a box and found the cd single of this gem.... wow shame on me for forgetting. a classic
oh yeah? so why you listening to it on youtube eh? scratched was it? eh? EH??
I don't think people quite understand how influential this song was.
What is it about
@@mattlyon3488 Spaces that are wide open. It’s quite bizarre.
@@MareShoop 🤣🤣
a freind was killed in a road accident and I remember hearing this a few minutes later sat in my car in the rain........it always stuck in my mind and just reminds me of him always.....
tony tucker 😢
Sorry to hear this Tony
Oh Well
love
😥❤
Such a unique song.
Fantastic tune.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'm 14 years old, my dad played me 'six' in the car near the beginning of this year, when the 21st anniversary edition was released. I absolutely loved their music and immediately fell in love with the album, it was what I was missing my whole life. Later on I listened to 'Attack of the Grey Lantern' and I loved that too. I just wish more people knew about this perfect band and I've been trying my best to get as many people as I can to start listening to their music, Mansun was truely an amazing band.
Your Dad is a legend. Appreciate him, while he’s here. I’d love to listen to music with mine again…
Nicely said! Amazing band and album! Just sublime music from start to finish! Completely undervalued album - this is the definition of ear candy! GET ALBUM YESTERDAY!!!
The first time I heard this song, I was 14 as well. It was from a mixtape that my sister had. I did not know who the band was but I remember how captivating the song was. Then I completely forgot about it. Over the years it would pop up in my mind again. Today I'm 29 years old, and it popped up in my head again and bothered to type in the search bar a piece of lyrics I remembered from the song and found it. It still has that effect on me. Your comment has motivated me to discover more of this band. Thank you for your review.
crackin' song,but the 90's are long gone and I'm hitting 53yrs
I love listening to this walking down the street at night. Especially in winter. I can feel like I'm enjoying my solitude
Had this song stuck in my head for about 20 years. Never owned it, never deliberately listened to it until today. Yet, I've sang it to myself every day for two decades... Catchy bastard.
This song (for some reason) has stuck in my head since i was a kid. I never knew what it was called or who it was by. Literally haven't heard it since the 90s.
And here I am, at the end of 2024 😅
I heard this on Austin Texas Rock Radio in the 90's and never let the song go! So good!
God, i took the 90’s for granted....i loved this song when i first heard it in either 96 or 97...
Saw Paul Draper in Bristol several weeks ago. His solo stuff is absolutely fantastic!!!
One of them tracks you never get sick of listening to 🎸👍👍
Lived my prime in the mid nineties, simply the best music ever!
It's almost 2023 and I come here cos I decided to randomly play my liked songs on Spotify and this came up and reminds me why I love it in the first place
2024 and my first time ever hearing this song or seeing this music video
I'm obsessed ❤
Paul's 90' s mullet is amazing..hilarious because it's really fashionable again now..this is very Noel Fielding !
More like confessions of a window cleaner 😂
2018 , I'm still thinking about this song all the time.
Its hard to forget 😁
This means so much. I can't go there . This track. This song . Blimey. Would I be going too far on saying it's a classic?? Young men struggle . I don't know . This for me resonates in relation to a young man's suicide . I have loved this song for so long . This is a work of art .
Bizarrely I missed the band in the 90s, when I was going to rock/metal/industrial clubs, and only hearing this in the early 2000s led to me falling in love and digging up the back catalogue. The lyrical style reminded me of The Smiths, but in a somehow more fun way, more sensitive way. This song always takes me back to a time when I felt a lot more alone in a room full of people, and yet having a good song articulate your loneliness makes you feel a lot less alone in the world, like you're not the only person stuck in that headspace. Even 20 years on, when I'm miles away from that headspace, it still resonates as a great song, powerfully emotive, and just a little bit daft towards the end.
Looking back, probably of the best brit bands in the 90s, great live too
used to see em a fair bit live at brighton beach mod nights in leeds , the old cockpit days . lovley chaps and great live . when musicians could do it live . no auto tune nothing , just talented blokes playing real instruments . as it should be
This is timeless. I can't go into this,
Buy I say ... do not do it . All will eventually be well. Truly . Love is there .😘🤫🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️
I know what you mean. Hang on, things will change eventually. ✨🕊✨
This song is so therapeutic. The main guitar chords throughout are really hypnotic. Absolutely love it.!🎉
great band,great song.i miss them!
me too
Still feeling so fresh with this guys in 2018
Great music never dies.
"Wide Open Space"
I'm in a wide open space, I'm standing
I'm all alone and staring in to space
It's always quiet through my ceiling
The roof comes in and crashes in a daze
I'm in a wide open space, it's freezing
You'll never get to heaven with a smile on your face from me
I'm in a wide open space, I'm staring
There's something quite bizarre I cannot see
I'm on the top of a hill, I'm lonely
There's someone here to shout to miles away
I could be back at my house, for I care
They do not hear me, it's the same old case
I'm in a wide open space, it's freezing
You'll never get to heaven with a smile on your face from me
I'm in a wide open space, I'm staring
There's something quite bizarre I cannot see
I'm in a wide open space, I'm standing
I'm all alone and staring in to space
It's always quiet through my ceiling
The roof comes in and crashes in a daze
I'm in a wide open space, it's freezing
You'll never get to heaven with a smile on your face from me
I'm in a wide open space, I'm staring
There's something quite bizarre I cannot see
I'm in a wide open space, it's freezing
You'll never get to heaven with a smile on your face from me
I'm in a wide open space, I'm staring
There's something quite bizarre I cannot see
Cheers dude.
I too found this on a compilation cd and instantly fell in love with it ....
It was doing my box in who the guy wandering the city was. It's Martino Lazzeri (Joe from Grange Hill) thought I recognised the actor.
Classic.
miss the old days:(
The best rock song of all time
Memories of driving through the Scottish Highlands with this blasting. Such a long time ago.
Martino Lazzeri. I had such a crush on him, back in the day. A great song, and quite a nostalgia trip.
I am glad I am not the only one 😊
This song takes me....everytime...somewhere
I worked at HMV in Canada in the 90's and totally forgot about these guys. What a great song!
21 years ago in hospital having my first born remember this as all I could think about was not missing man sun on totps happy birthday Thea xxxx
Brilliant song & video. Guy in the video was also in Grange Hill.
Remember this song at a time I felt so vulnerable, still speaks now 22 years on.
Just listening watching old videos..saw Mansun play this at Rock City 1997 ? Still sounds bloody amazing, a fantastic band that never got the true recognition they deserved IMO 👍🙏
Great song, timeless. The end of the VC - 4:36 is me when this bloody winter ends and the sun comes out :)
getting goosebumps at the memories this track is brining back......good times
This sums up most my lonely younger life in the 90s more than any other song ever could
this song is a masterpiece., i feel the vibes...
One of my desert island discs. Superb. I was running a retail shop at the time this was released and this came on the radio and some French customers were mesmerised and asked me who it was. I had to write all the details and they came back later - they’d bought the album
A song, A band that changed my life. Even In a mixed up to say the least family circle, I was allowed to hear and play this. Thank you for sharing this and Mansun. Crosses decades as timeless music does that. I miss them so much. Too ahead of their time gets thrown about.
My favourite british band...Love & Respect!!!
There are 112 people with no taste for good songs, I think this is really good!
One of the best things about the mid-90s was the absolute killer single, everyone seemed to be bringing them out. And this is one of em for my money !!
The song transports me right back to the 90s and I'm there again. Its just like a time machine.
I played gigs with these lovely guys. I miss em' ❤️🌈
Brings a tear to my eyes every time I listen to this 😢
Always faded when this track came on.
What a fucking CLASSIC
This is a song I can trust, because it is ridiculously truthful. Thank you! Much love. x
Somehow I mapped this and it's lyrics to my day job troubles. I seem to stand alone as the only bearer of truth. Yet nobody really cares what I think or say. (They don't need my smile to get to heavan). When they all push me forward as spokesman and I stand on top of a hill, but I still stand alone and they still don't listen to the truth. It's "freezing". I'm staring in disbelief at how I got here and how nobody else can see the elephant in the room.
This is, I'm 99.9% sure, not what this song is about. I have felt many, many, many things through this song. I have re-interupted it 1000 times and found solace in each. This is the sign of mastery in lyric and poetry. That so little words can be intterrupted in so many different, but related ways.
Love the song didn't ear it for ages glad to found it 👌👂