Too sweet for us mere mortals! Thank you so very much!!!
@glenmorewong630
2 жыл бұрын
Plug this energy into our power grid and our energy problems are over!
@lassofyork
9 жыл бұрын
I fell in love with The Waterboys, in the 1980's. The Whole of the Moon, touched my very soul, and each song thereafter. Sweet Thing is another I fell for, even with his "Jerry Lewis" type additions. This is still a very successful band, mostly traveling throughout Europe. I am anxiously awaiting the day they come to the US. I will find a way to see them, somehow. I LOVE these guys!
@autom8ed
3 жыл бұрын
Its a vocal display of pure emotion in whatever sonic form. Something he does not lack for in any of his songs. Clearly he doesn't care if it sounds like a baby babbling.. lol! The Whole of the Moon is just grand! For me one of the shining examples of what music can inspire in a person. Cheers
@jamboernstl6189
2 жыл бұрын
The Whole of the Moon was the 2nd CD I ever bought, back in 1988....❤
@KittyCarlile-490
11 ай бұрын
Lol 😊 😂😅
@KittyCarlile-490
11 ай бұрын
Then he blows out at 3:50
@KittyCarlile-490
11 ай бұрын
I think they cut Mike's mike around 5:16
@robinriley9798
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant! I love Van Morrison but this version with Steve Wickhams violin takes it to the next level of soul music❤️
@paullindsay993
4 ай бұрын
Been a fan over 25 years at least. Spirit,. Did it for me… world party if I’m up for it….
@deemac7551
Жыл бұрын
That’s incredible. Thank you for sharing this.
@Check-it-out
14 жыл бұрын
His lyric and music come so close that i often wonder; is he me or am i him ? That's how real this music feels and his lyrics apply to life as a whole. From the deepest misery to broken relationships and new loves... Amazing. Listen to his solo-albums too. True gems !
@lassofyork
15 жыл бұрын
I'm in TOTAL agreement with "roncepelotas's" response. BRILLIANTLY done! xxxx' from South Carolina
@goindengo
13 жыл бұрын
The Waterboys are the best!!! I Live every day with their music for the last 25 years! Its the same as loving sombody it wi,ll never stop... Love The Waterboys for ever and ever!
@kennedydewitt3219
3 ай бұрын
A MASTER PIECE !
@nathanverni9143
3 жыл бұрын
The VM version of this is the best song of all time, but this distills some of the magic. Saw this down the first time when I was 21, 39 now, see you in 18 years
@artfulH
14 жыл бұрын
I have 100's of songs downloaded from KZitem, all genres, punk, folk, rock, jazz, soul, funk, r'n'b, indie, blues etc etc and THIS is my favourite. Keep on coming back to it. Mike Scott and The Waterboys, love it.
@Donbstard
15 жыл бұрын
You need to love the waterboys/ Mike scott to understand, love this version as it is truly his. He doesn`t mock the original but embraces it, you see and feel his passion for the song and lyrics. It`s Mike Scott genius at its best.
@mikeb4960
10 ай бұрын
Beautifully said and absolutely right!
@roncepelotas
15 жыл бұрын
I´m afraid I disagree with the negative comments...I love both songs, the original and Mike´s version. Actually, this is, in my opinion, a real version because it´s totally different. I´m tired of listening to bands making exact replica covers which do not contribute at all... At least this man takes risks and was able to make this song his...and that he transmits...I was lucky to witness this set live and gave me goosebumps!
@javiermoreirasmenor1528
10 жыл бұрын
this irish musician is just magic. His love and sensibility makes me almost cry. I think is very much inspired and in grace with all his companions in music. Thank you so much, you are just a gift to me.
@thisisthesea1
10 жыл бұрын
I think she's talking about Steve Wickam
@javiermoreirasmenor1528
9 жыл бұрын
I thought he was irish, sorry. Anyway he is got a pretty good voice.
@EoCEoCEoC
8 жыл бұрын
+Javier Moreiras Menor Easy mistake to make. His music has a strong Irish influence.
@eamonmcdonagh7061
7 жыл бұрын
check out their version of sweet thing in Milan...magic!!
@heatherhughes7467
7 жыл бұрын
ah Mike scott! this makes me recall glastonbury 1986 (i am old..well kind of as old based Mike scott so maybe that is cool after all! ) when waterboys headlined. most amazing gig. like you say, it's his emotion that comes through that is a total gift.
@YasminChoudhury
11 жыл бұрын
5:54 it starts. Mike & Steve let it rip. Wow. Astonishing, Divine. First time I heard this? I was in my teens. I stopped. And stared at the sky. Skies and clouds swirled around me. Quite a spiritual experience. Through the years, this song has been my go to - whenever the world seems lost of love. Lovely twist to this now. Last night had a random twitter chat with @MickPuck last night. Wonderful man. They are playing UK end Dec 2013. Reminded me to blog about my teens and The Waterboys!
@kevandfrank1
2 жыл бұрын
The brilliance of Sweet thing....To cover Van the Man surely he'd even like this!!
@jamboernstl6189
2 жыл бұрын
Lovin Van and lovin the Waterboys and loving this song especially...
@buurmanp441
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great upload. So Happy I was able to see them live in Holland almost10 years a go.
@maiteruiz5249
5 жыл бұрын
I just love them. They lift my soul.
@bodhichitta2
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.. A masterpiece....
@jeffgreen7696
5 жыл бұрын
How the fuck does this only have 100 thousand plus views? Spine tingling magic!
@tinacross1006
2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@jackemlyn062
15 жыл бұрын
The BEST song EVER, EVER, by the only man, bsides Van the man, with the SOUL to do it justice!!! Fantastic.... Thanks Mike
@yogavnture1
9 жыл бұрын
that is some serious unbridled creativity. bravo
@a.j.carter8975
7 жыл бұрын
many thanks for posting
@josrantoniosolivagomez8657
2 жыл бұрын
Love the music is love the love. Sorry I dont not the inglish. I love youssssss
@VampHammer1
14 жыл бұрын
Love this song. Great tune for a Saturday Morning. Sweet tune Mike.
@jerryfalwellsociety
15 жыл бұрын
A truly magical rendition of a VM classic. Thankyou MS, thankyou VM and thankyou marlym for resurrecting this after VM's purge on his songs on YT - freedom prevail..
@mikeaw5
12 жыл бұрын
I want dedicate this song to the love of my life Beth N. of Perth Australia, she'll forever be my Sweet Thing M.
@MsAnnestube
13 жыл бұрын
I was invited for a coffee by Van Morrison while leaving the glass doors to the venue he played in Rotterdam in 1986! sorry, but I just tagged along with neighbors that evening..who bought me a ticket for driving them to the gig! and when I mentioned one of my fave band's The Waterboys...Van said "they are all copycats, Everybody copies Me"unquote! This is a beautifully done version Man! and look at Mikes concentration/working at it!!! Precious....isnt it?
@niewieder
16 жыл бұрын
crazy lovely
@barbaradenvir5472
Жыл бұрын
amazing!!!!!
@tiffanigrande3873
7 жыл бұрын
Great drive song...across the Midwest. I'll be thinkin of ya.
@bodhichitta2
5 жыл бұрын
MATERPIECE
@alexpetty1742
4 жыл бұрын
😮👍oh my god!!!❤🎻🎸🎹🎶
@kennedydewitt3219
6 жыл бұрын
I am a huge fan of Van the Man but this guy puts a great twist on this song tons of emotion, love it
@CaptQuencher
15 жыл бұрын
Fantastic version of Vans song - well done Mike Scott and the boys!!!
@dazmalski
15 жыл бұрын
A triumverate of greatness from the Waterboys
@yogavnture1
9 жыл бұрын
sweet. i dont need coffee any more!
@margaritisschoinas5664
11 жыл бұрын
Absolute, pure magic. A million thanks for posting this!
@luvbotany
7 жыл бұрын
still the best version of sweet thing on KZitem. I'm guessing part is because the Irish in them, this song comes out of them so naturally.
@tiffanigrande3873
7 жыл бұрын
My all time favourite.
@AdieBurton
11 жыл бұрын
Steve Wickam is just a rock god fiddler, wish i could have him play on some of my songs?
@yogavnture1
9 жыл бұрын
this dude aint afraid. hes up thier front and center exposing himself. thats some guts.
@jerryfalwellsociety
7 жыл бұрын
Like Trump.
@ziggy1415
13 жыл бұрын
does anyone else share the opinion that this great great man, like many great men b4 him, might have gone totally bonkers? he looks like King Lear having a paddy!
@Start3The3Engine
14 жыл бұрын
Gloriously joyful
@thelovelytalie1
13 жыл бұрын
Simply Brilliant
@bsides44
12 жыл бұрын
oh what a perfomance !!!
@Stolarz1987
14 жыл бұрын
I LOVE VAN!
@HighlanderOne
3 жыл бұрын
Thats fucking class. Saw these dude at kelvingrove bandstand in 2017. Then Van Morrison the week after that. Then the following week was the Pixes. Good time s man
@luismendesfilms
11 жыл бұрын
Perfeito ! ! !
@jangler007
14 жыл бұрын
Actually, regarding the Waterboys opening for U2...I'm not sure if this happened, but I do recall sevaral shows, duing The Joshua Tree Tour when the PA blasted a few Waterboys songs before the show to warm up the crowd. These songs are usually chosen by the band and crew.
@StephenDavidgrr2u
16 жыл бұрын
played this at butlins with 2 friends in the talent contest....we came third..the song comes first
@AdieBurton
13 жыл бұрын
ty 4 posting, i never seen this version. a belief & passion for what you do is all here!! & Steve Wickam is just gr8 he is The Rock God Fiddler!!
@BilnBax
11 жыл бұрын
Got my tickets....Halifax....July!!!
@PattyLRM
12 жыл бұрын
Sends chills - never can decide what I like better - fiddle or piano - love how it all builds!
@leverbart
15 жыл бұрын
I totally love this song and this version especially, he has a good voice in spite of the strange outbursts at times. I love their fisherman's blues as well the violin rocks!
@Start3The3Engine
14 жыл бұрын
@AnyoneKnockingMikeScott. Listen to it properly. He's completely mad. But bloody hell you can feel the uninhibited happiness that very few can achieve!
@jzcc25
14 жыл бұрын
Mike and Steve are the best...
@karinstonner8988
7 жыл бұрын
love..devotion..surrender..for ever..
@aztec3d
13 жыл бұрын
cryin' good.
@babel1967
11 жыл бұрын
phenomenal!!
@Start3The3Engine
14 жыл бұрын
Put in Sweet Thing.mov to find the album version
@lightningleaf23
16 жыл бұрын
scott's a genius but can t help think steve wickham deserves more credit his fiddling is unbelievable and i much prefer this irish influenced stuff to the whole of the moon and the earlier stuff this was wickhams influnce in the band
@jasonrubin5545
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@shaybrad
15 жыл бұрын
great cover especially the album version
@chicoells
14 жыл бұрын
@powermichiel man i think it is fucking good
@jackc396
15 жыл бұрын
I think he's doing impersonations... Katherine Hepburn definite, also sounds like Henry Fonda's performance in on Golden Pond. Can't say I know why, just reminds me of their voices at that time in their careers
@michaelglover9354
5 жыл бұрын
they don't come much better than these guys - KEEP MUSIC LIVE!
@martinward5364
2 жыл бұрын
Steve!!!
@Rotateitbaby
14 жыл бұрын
Regardless of the fact that he may not be an amazing singer... He has such a charismatic voice, Tom Waits, Dylan to name a few others. I'd sooner listen to someone with a voice like this than the banal, dross you get with today's X-factor spawned sacks of boredom, who just because they can sing in a fake american accent and hit every single note on the head (majorly due to the use of pitch correction and auto-tune) seem to become the next best thing to Elvis or Sinatra according to the press!
@johncreach6217
8 жыл бұрын
hold nothing back is the only way to get to this level
@patriciareybaud2028
7 жыл бұрын
Magic--
@kc2dtp
14 жыл бұрын
There's Blackbird by the Beatles woven into Sweet Thing. Genius!
@deweypug
4 жыл бұрын
This guys sounds like the tripping baby of Yoko Ono and Jerry Lewis.
@yerbache
12 жыл бұрын
abso-bloody-lutely....best version of the song I ever heard...:)
@nmack75
16 жыл бұрын
Seperated at birth - Mike Scott and Ian "Monkey man" Brown?? Great version. Music to chase after the person you love to.
@vanbella48
6 жыл бұрын
They did the impossible! covering Vans tune equaling what he did! they poured their heart out! I don't understand the negative comments below these guys really laid it on the line
@verakm
14 жыл бұрын
ahh yeah!
@Lazairus
14 жыл бұрын
he is a good singer, i think he trying to breath life into a song he has sung alot.
@crazyirishdad
9 жыл бұрын
havin a blast
@AntzBandit12
14 жыл бұрын
I love this version; like a barely contained explosion!
@karinlourens5759
5 жыл бұрын
classic! They just don't makem like this anymore!
@yogavnture1
9 жыл бұрын
how else to cover a van morrison song but to do it up bigtime. he didnt disappoint.
@thomassherriff3535
7 жыл бұрын
spirit Waterboys
@KeithTheFishJones
6 жыл бұрын
Epic cover! ... Woo hoo ... Sweet thing! (:---
@sharck968
13 жыл бұрын
@MsAnnestube Van may be a grumpy old man, but you can tell here that Mike Scott loves Van Morrison
@faherty87
15 жыл бұрын
This cover is a traditional irish/scottish music reinterpirtation of sweet thing. It may not be your cup of tea but there's no need to go spouting venom because you don't like it. Have enough respect for the people who do appreciate music you don't like not to make childish remarks about the song and the band members appearence, it's childish. For a person who prides himself on having such "great" taste in music you should be less close minded.
@bodhichitta2
5 жыл бұрын
SUBLIME.
@ryanhessel
14 жыл бұрын
@bobcatal I don't think my opinion of this song says anything about my knowledge of Van Morrison or music in general. Sweet Thing is my favorite song and this version just makes me laugh. Come on. It's silly. I don't really care what Van Morrison has to say about this version anyway except that he doesn't recognize he did a better job. I'm not even the biggest 'Van the Man' fan. Certainly not big enough to call him Van the Man. He sucked after 1974 anyway.
@Mukkumukku
4 жыл бұрын
Just commenting because I think they have done particularly well on this one. People better would have been fokin happy on the night.
@washingtonbandeira3826
11 жыл бұрын
Swblime!
@lewars1912
13 жыл бұрын
@hugebooter I've listened to it and listened it and never got it lol. Much prefer Van Morrison's orginal.
@StevenGA1011
14 жыл бұрын
@rockchick80s Astral Weeks
@ryanhessel
14 жыл бұрын
@hornetsnest001 I don't see how that makes me shallow minded. And I'm sure Van Morrison wouldn't care the slightest about my opinion on this song.
@chicoells
14 жыл бұрын
@weretrees1 love it or leave it
@molemaninthemorning
15 жыл бұрын
Great Cover. That wierd thing he does before he sigs sweet thing is wierd :)
@Katy-ye1zr
10 жыл бұрын
Hand me the duct tape! - a few strips over his mouth would fix this up right quick- the vocals erupted and stuttered made my dog howl.... but the music ahhh- I think it is great and elicits such a riotous bubbling mood to the poets (Van) lyrics.
@nickflit
15 жыл бұрын
Your right, people who know nothing of which they speak should not converse on any matter, and it just so happens you have terrible taste of music AND sense of logic. Also, what kind of ignorant stooge comes to the conclusion that someone knows nothing about Ireland simple because they have great taste in music? Please explain yourself.
@happysufferer
4 жыл бұрын
That is too fast .The Cadence has no gravitas.Poor things ,so wanting to please.
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