'I saw the rain dirty valley You saw Brigadoon' Brigadoon is a fictional Scottish village that only appears once evry hundred years. What hes saying is basically 'Im a bit rubbish, but youre great arent you?' The bang sound is the comet!
@thefalloutshelter7799
Жыл бұрын
Fisherman’s Blues is a great Waterboys tune too
@aaronherbison7316
Жыл бұрын
The whole Fisherman's blues album is brilliant
@thefalloutshelter7799
Жыл бұрын
@@aaronherbison7316 agree
@alesank1621
7 ай бұрын
Masterpiece
@richardfordham931
Жыл бұрын
The keyboard player, Karl Wallinger eventually left and started his own project called World Party, and it's worth checking out as well.
@peteraldred1851
Жыл бұрын
My 2 fav bands right there
@rickb.4168
4 ай бұрын
Passed recently. Awful. 😢
@joeclay5511
Ай бұрын
I thought Karl was the catalyst to the beauty of this song…… not taking anything away from the final release…. Simply Sublime and challenging. A Classic ….. were they an Irish Band….?
@joeclay5511
Ай бұрын
Vocally and delivered just in time for me……🎉
@rickb.4168
Ай бұрын
@@joeclay5511 No, not Irish. Mike Scott is Scottish (Edinburgh) Anthony Thistlethwaite is English (Leicester) Karl Wallinger is Welsh (Rhyll) Chris Witten is English (Blackpool) Roddy Lorrimer is Scottish (Glasgow) Steve Wickham is Irish (Dublin)
@tnightwolf
Ай бұрын
Such a great song!
@rogerdaly6326
Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the album this song is from , This Is The Sea. I've been lucky enough to see The Waterboys and have met Mike Scott. Had a 15min conversation with him about music & songwriting. Really nice & friendly guy. One of my favorite songwriters.
@rickb.4168
4 ай бұрын
Snap! 😂
@rickb.4168
4 ай бұрын
Fan since I was 14 in ‘85
@vals_loeder
Жыл бұрын
This song remains one of my all time favourite songs, however many times I hear it. When it was first released in 1985 I used my tape recorder to record it from radio and I played it again, and again, and again. For me the lyrics have always meant that we all have our own views, lives, experiences, ideas ... that while one sees the crescent of the moon, another sees the whole of the moon and it doesn't make one better that the other.
@Timinator2K10
7 ай бұрын
A truly brilliant song, A LOT to like about it. Decades ahead of its time, but otherwise timeless and amazing each time that I listen to it..
@kylewoolsey6635
9 ай бұрын
One of my favorite records since its release. Mike Scott was onto something with the creation of the Big Music - another good song I might add. Lyrics are complicated with this one. His struggle to see clearly, compared to someone he admired who seemingly had it all together. The price paid for experience can often be too much too soon for some who are loaded with talent, but maybe unable to keep their wits about them when their success starts to be realized - like the cautionary tale of certain young athletes, or musicians. And maybe the issue for the song's narrator was seeing the world through a dark lense - "I saw the rain dirty valley" while the other is more optimistic, seeing "Brigadoon" - an idealized realm of beauty and wonder, helping them achieve success more quickly. There are several other great tracks on the album - Don't Bang the Drum, The Pan Within..or even Trumpets. Don't just limit yourself to the popular single.
@recoleto5288
9 ай бұрын
Agree. This is a song about a talented artist praising a genius who is in another level.
@cdwoodward1975
5 ай бұрын
aparently he was singing about Prince who was at the height of his fame during the mid eightees. Bob Dylan mentioned that the text was the best he had ever heard!
@kylewoolsey6635
4 ай бұрын
@@cdwoodward1975 Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
@carlsmuck284
Жыл бұрын
That same group The Waterboys but with a different lineup is still around, still touring and still making new albums.
@peaceofiona9198
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for reacting for this band and song . Shame radio plays only two of their songs. They have literally some many masterpieces and Mike Scott is still one of the best lyricists in the business
@haemongill9203
Жыл бұрын
Thanks to whoever mentioned this song I'd forgotten it. Great song 😍
@PepeA79th
25 күн бұрын
The only concert I was thrown out of before I got in.
@rian202003
Жыл бұрын
Oh no way! 🎉 this is my all time favourite song ❤
@frenschi68
8 ай бұрын
Dito
@michaelowens3507
6 ай бұрын
Great song!! Amazing lyrics
@bspg53
3 ай бұрын
The song is a tribute to a woman who naturally grasps all of the knowledge and insight that the guy has been striving for his whole life, but is still only able to see part of the picture.
@tabb5818
2 ай бұрын
No it’s not it’s written to no one. It’s written to highlight how much more there is in the world you don’t understand. The writer considered himself a young unknowing person in a complicated world. It’s only directed at someone to tell the story.
@user-ky5kv6sl2p
6 ай бұрын
Great British band from the 80s
@thomasbelmont9509
11 ай бұрын
The sound that you couldn't identify was the Comit !
@LucasAndrade-vz6yb
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful, just beautiful 😊
@097534
5 ай бұрын
That drummer played with Paul McCartney.
@lucilovecraft1621
3 ай бұрын
Fellow Scot Mike Scott
@leons1434
5 ай бұрын
This song make the good example about one thing : There's no way 2000's pop music can beat the 80-90's in composition, mood and soul inside the song. Today musicians were to much depending on computer to make the tunes. They've synthesized almost every sound & tune they made with DAW and other programs. Yes they were fast & easy to composed, yes they were nice to heard......but much of them sounded so robotic and plain. No pop up background melody No sudden improve of vocals or instruments No Soul and Mood in every chain of notes Just sounded like automaton everyday alarm clock... Nice but easy to forget I really miss the old days music, when composers really composed the music from their heart.....not from CPU & Microchips
@joeclay5511
Ай бұрын
@@leons1434 Hear, Hear !!!
@omiltonvisconde8837
11 ай бұрын
genious!!!!!!!!
@bobbypignotti2789
5 ай бұрын
Amazing
@goodehands5388
11 ай бұрын
Always loved this, even own the cd
@NickJewlachow-of3yh
6 ай бұрын
Rest in power, Karl Wallinger
@millhill46
Жыл бұрын
Brings back memories
@PoliticallyPink
Жыл бұрын
Dunno how you wandered across this song, but it brought back memories! I loved this song! But, it sounded different a bit, I thought maybe it was a live version -- but no. Thanks for checking it out! I also have a couple suggestions from similar genres: Forever Young - by Alphaville Don't Go, or Only You - by Yaz AKA Yazoo Heaven, or Pretty in Pink - by the Psychedelic Furs Bring on the Dancing Horses, Lips Like Sugar, or Killing Moon - by Echo & the Bunnymen
@meheuck
10 ай бұрын
It is quasi-live. The band didn't want to just mime playing their instruments and lip-synching to the studio version, so the vocals and the violin are all live while the primary piano is pre-recorded.
Man, this takes me back. At college when I was 16-18, this was on the jukebox in the 6th Form common room and someone put it on *a lot*.
@J.OKRoadrunner
Жыл бұрын
I saw the Crescent …
@lindofabio1
2 ай бұрын
Linda música. Infelizmente não tão conhecida.
@derhampaul2182
5 ай бұрын
ha ha very cool are you serious lol
@itscrazyal
4 ай бұрын
Why did they replace "scimitars and stars" with "saddlebags and stars"? Was it a p.c. thing that you can't mention a middle eastern weapon? Only guessing
@rpulley01
8 ай бұрын
The moon is a metaphor for insanity. As in lunatic. The Dark Side of the Moon. His friend is Icarus. Touched by genius and insanity and it’s hard to tell them apart. He/she saw too much of the moon. I don’t think it’s a romantic song
@rickb.4168
4 ай бұрын
No it’s not. Sorry. 😂
@rickb.4168
4 ай бұрын
A girlfriend asked him how hard it was to write a song, he looked around and saw the moon. It started from there.
@yesfan56
Жыл бұрын
Dead Or Alive - My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor) [Live In Japan]🎧🎶
@pvv3868
11 ай бұрын
Saw live in 1989
@BaldusCattus
9 ай бұрын
Great to see someone encountering and enjoying this beautiful song for the first time. Weird though that the 'official' music video is a random live performance, and not the studio recording that was released into the charts that we all grew up listening to! Don't get me wrong, this version is great, but if you're looking for the 'original' recording, it's here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/0attp4ZmZniDpaQ
@justitia257
Жыл бұрын
Ciao Inna Buona serata
@davidjb-750
10 ай бұрын
So did you google ‘Brigadoon’? 😊
@DavidTate-nn5ie
Жыл бұрын
Have a listen to The Big Music, an early song.
@derhampaul2182
5 ай бұрын
Why did you pick this song to review its rubbish
@kellymaher3355
Жыл бұрын
Omg you got the parallel lyrics immediately
@kellymaher3355
Жыл бұрын
This is not the best version of the song. By far the vocals are better in the other
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