The Waterboys - This Is The Sea

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  • Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025

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  • @nioushaakbari778
    @nioushaakbari778 5 лет назад +1106

    John Murphy and his good taste in music...

    • @JensenP12
      @JensenP12 5 лет назад +22

      From being locked up in the lighthouse for 86 days. But yeah, good taste.

    • @martinalopez675
      @martinalopez675 5 лет назад +3

      Os good

    • @hopeok2023
      @hopeok2023 5 лет назад +3

      благодаря Мёрфи слушаю эту песню)))

    • @rushokim
      @rushokim 4 года назад +5

      I got here for the Music...banging drums like its 1979

    • @XvieriazulX
      @XvieriazulX 4 года назад

      A year 1 you made this comment to yourself and I'm barely seeing it how it is possible that I knew the future of the 100 series I know it was in 2018 but until this moment on April 6, 2020 the west series came out-cap all This season I do not understand how how do you know that you know the future that is you do not understand this you do not answer the comment but it is very difficult that you are to remove the doubt Iker write comment.

  • @gencydefen
    @gencydefen 5 лет назад +1959

    John Murphy sent me

    • @tribbleq
      @tribbleq 5 лет назад +12

      :D

    • @l0uisable
      @l0uisable 5 лет назад +29

      same, makes me feel so apocalyptic. What's your favourite end of the world song ?

    • @lancelotfernandes6279
      @lancelotfernandes6279 5 лет назад +11

      Me too :)

    • @vonnejvr4540
      @vonnejvr4540 5 лет назад +10

      Me too😂

    • @demoncleaner80
      @demoncleaner80 5 лет назад +59

      I never thought I'd love a character as much as I do, when I hated him so much in Season 1

  • @nikoli7
    @nikoli7 4 года назад +512

    I first heard this song parked at an old cemetary on the north side of my small home town in Iowa. It was playing from an 'alternative' college radio station in 1986. I was a junior in high school, I was desperately alone, I was angry at the world , I was drunk, and this came over the waves. I'll never forget the moment. I tried to play and sing it the best I could for years when drunk and lost, then sober and lost. It still means more to me than any single song has. Moments are like that.

    • @snow11wolf
      @snow11wolf 3 года назад +15

      I graduated high school in the late '70's. I had never hear this song until the spring of 2020. And then it was a just a wee bit of what John Murphy of "The 100" displayed. What a new view revealed to me!

    • @veyablack
      @veyablack 3 года назад +21

      Damn, your comment hit me hard. So much nostalgia.

    • @farzanamughal5933
      @farzanamughal5933 3 года назад +4

      👍👍

    • @mianfarooq8827
      @mianfarooq8827 3 года назад +2

      Hey u there?

    • @killercasting1113
      @killercasting1113 3 года назад +6

      Thanks Nik. Beautiful words. Heartfelt. Honest. Mike and Karl would approve ! ❤️

  • @kencurry7224
    @kencurry7224 6 лет назад +787

    The WATERBOYS most underrated group in my lifetime. I will be 71 soon.

    • @superfek24
      @superfek24 6 лет назад +17

      No question about that

    • @applesandoranges1624
      @applesandoranges1624 6 лет назад +9

      So right. Where is the love?

    • @marypr26
      @marypr26 6 лет назад +25

      I'm 51 and have never agreed so completely with a comment like this one. Underatedly best lyrics besides Van in my lifetime. Brilliant.

    • @luizabanks6339
      @luizabanks6339 6 лет назад +5

      my mother dancer she 72 I'm 52 young lonely.

    • @luizabanks6339
      @luizabanks6339 6 лет назад +2

      I wanna talk

  • @wvgrrrrl
    @wvgrrrrl 10 месяцев назад +32

    RIP Karl Wallinger. Waterboys are part of my musical DNA.

    • @JayG-y9y
      @JayG-y9y 3 месяца назад

      @@wvgrrrrl Who is Karl Wallinger?

    • @Jaydit7
      @Jaydit7 Месяц назад

      @@JayG-y9y Karl Wallinger played keyboards...Mike Scott was the driving force in the band

  • @Gerano61
    @Gerano61 10 месяцев назад +38

    I raised my son on the banks of the Elster River in Thuringia.
    Now he lives on the Baltic Sea and works on his small sailing boat.
    Soon he will be setting off on a longer tour on the seas with his wife and my grandchild.
    It would be a lie if I didn't say I'm scared for them.
    But at the same time I'm incredibly proud.
    Because this is the sea and I taught you to steer our little red rubber boat across the rivers.

    • @JayG-y9y
      @JayG-y9y 3 месяца назад

      Are they doing alright? Tell us on your Channel.

    • @quogir1
      @quogir1 2 месяца назад

      Thanks for sharing.god bless und Alles Gute😅

    • @quogir1
      @quogir1 2 месяца назад

      Thanks for sharing.god bless und Alles Gute😅

  • @marknogueira6425
    @marknogueira6425 5 лет назад +673

    The 100 fans will be coming

    • @thedojodjsx9605
      @thedojodjsx9605 5 лет назад

      Nope.

    • @izpozpeeps
      @izpozpeeps 4 года назад +3

      @@thedojodjsx9605 well they are. Isn't it banging the drum for this great song to have exposure to a wider audience.

    • @zahirrihaz9265
      @zahirrihaz9265 4 года назад

      Hhhhhhhh

    • @reui6320
      @reui6320 3 года назад

      I’m not fan but the 100 shares this song with me! and I liked it not because the series no but this song like my other mood

    • @MrGreenBot
      @MrGreenBot 3 года назад

      And I am one lol

  • @Luismiguel417
    @Luismiguel417 5 лет назад +421

    The 100 brought me here but I stayed for good music...

  • @herbertluthe6850
    @herbertluthe6850 9 месяцев назад +349

    anyone listening to that wonderful song in 2024?

    • @HelmeT509
      @HelmeT509 8 месяцев назад +5

      Yep

    • @donnahurley9893
      @donnahurley9893 8 месяцев назад +7

      Yes, Today~ Mother's Day (May 12, 2024)

    • @busgreaser
      @busgreaser 8 месяцев назад +5

      Yes, love it.

    • @xoombug830
      @xoombug830 8 месяцев назад +3

      👋

    • @Yenalenav
      @Yenalenav 8 месяцев назад +6

      Came from John murphy

  • @SouthwestNtive
    @SouthwestNtive Год назад +25

    I got sober in 1992. I swam the river, to embrace the limitless sea. The Waterboys and The Pogues are the soundtrack of my life. 2023.

  • @ruiribeiro833
    @ruiribeiro833 2 года назад +179

    Literally... How many lives has this song saved?... It sure saved mine. My story is short: in some night of january 1995... already in bed, in the dark... with the phones in my head... This starts to play and... some kind of light has opened my path... Full of strength and will to live, I moved away from the most dangerous depression of my life! Almost 30 years have gone by... and I'm still here. Life changed forever. I owe it to myself, it's true... but this song sure helped a lot! Thank you so much, Mike Scott! And thank you everybody for sharing your thoughts. Long may you run!

    • @legin3753
      @legin3753 2 года назад +10

      agreed it saved me too depression all my sad life have a 15 month old baby and a girlfriend now never been so happy long may it last thanks for ur message xx

    • @CHARLZ_FERRARI
      @CHARLZ_FERRARI Год назад +5

      Amazing, truly inspirational x

    • @jonbarker92
      @jonbarker92 Год назад +3

      Wow. Powerfull story

    • @carpediem470
      @carpediem470 Год назад +4

      God bless. Hope you've found new meaning in life - wishing you all the very ebst Have you seen the in-depth analysis of this beautiful song & incredible album?

    • @lotus65
      @lotus65 Год назад +1

      ❤ I'm hoping it will reach my brother at least one moment before it's too late.

  • @rorycannon
    @rorycannon Месяц назад +4

    Grew up in Ireland with the Waterboys as my soundtrack!They lived and recorded a lot of their art in County Galway in the west of the country!Great Times❤️

  • @stillhotterthanyours
    @stillhotterthanyours 5 лет назад +1280

    watch everyone coming here just after 6x01 of the 100 airs

  • @kathylopez6767
    @kathylopez6767 4 года назад +152

    JOHN MURPHY.
    THE MOST UNDERRATED GUY EVER

  • @kathylopez6767
    @kathylopez6767 4 года назад +206

    John murphy.. hated by everyone at the start and ended being loved by all!

  • @roybramley688
    @roybramley688 4 года назад +83

    I'm here because I like the Waterboys.

    • @livheidivervoll9820
      @livheidivervoll9820 4 года назад +6

      Me too

    • @snow11wolf
      @snow11wolf 3 года назад +4

      Most recently brought to light by John Murphy from the 100! Thank you!

    • @tuffgonggbUNCTION
      @tuffgonggbUNCTION 3 года назад

      SOULJAHZ ROCKERZ

    • @mattiemclean9882
      @mattiemclean9882 3 года назад

      did anybody ask you why you were here? Don't lower yourself to the "i'm here because..." brigade

    • @roybramley688
      @roybramley688 3 года назад +1

      Did anyone ask for your opinion?

  • @chaosandisorder68
    @chaosandisorder68 3 года назад +147

    This is my recovery song,recovering from a hopeless state of mind & body.39yrs of active addiction & 9 months free.
    That was the river & sobriety is the sea.First heard this aged 17,still playing aged 53.
    Anyone in early recovery,keep on keeping on.Life IS truly & amazing experience.

    • @mikehiltz2117
      @mikehiltz2117 3 года назад +7

      Found this song watching the series "The 100" and i cant agree with you more. 7 days away from reaching 1 year of sobriety (11/3/20 sober date) and this song moved me tremendously.

    • @mianfarooq8827
      @mianfarooq8827 3 года назад +5

      Amazing man great job

    • @mianfarooq8827
      @mianfarooq8827 3 года назад +4

      Amazing mike. Keep it up . its worth iy

    • @mvg2x34
      @mvg2x34 2 года назад +1

      Daily Bread Andrew

    • @joepaul1644
      @joepaul1644 2 года назад +1

      Thank you, Sir.

  • @MiguelBaptista1981
    @MiguelBaptista1981 11 лет назад +463

    When life kicks you in the soul... multiple times, and you end up with the emptiest heart you ever had to carry around, listen to this song once a day when you wake up.

    • @soniak7713
      @soniak7713 7 лет назад +17

      Beautiful comment .. I will give it a go :)

    • @tonylong4601
      @tonylong4601 7 лет назад +23

      this song got me through a very dark time in my life.It should be free on prescription

    • @anthonygort8789
      @anthonygort8789 7 лет назад +14

      What excellent advice Miguel, thanks - hope you are having a good life now - take it easy

    • @roelsteringa1078
      @roelsteringa1078 6 лет назад +11

      Miguel Baptista best therapy for the worst period of my life

    • @belenmartinez7503
      @belenmartinez7503 6 лет назад +9

      That's exactly it!....thanks Miguel for expressing it so accurately and so nicely :-) :-)

  • @celebritylife6054
    @celebritylife6054 5 лет назад +300

    murphy s playlist is awesome hahahaha

  • @seafox61
    @seafox61 3 года назад +70

    Damn...36 years later and still goosebumps. What a song. I still have the album.

    • @carpediem470
      @carpediem470 Год назад +1

      I've got he album on vinyl. Took me decades to really 'get' the meaning. Have you seen the in-depth analysis of this beautiful song & incredible album?
      Reply

    • @novak-wq9dw
      @novak-wq9dw Год назад +1

      Ageed

    • @MHerbert351
      @MHerbert351 Месяц назад +1

      I love you ❤

  • @vivekbhardwaj2786
    @vivekbhardwaj2786 5 лет назад +310

    Just after The 100 season 6 premiere😍 loved it

  • @alli5009
    @alli5009 6 лет назад +325

    This song is for Maggie, my dog for fifteen years. I had to put her asleep this morning and my heart is breaking, she was my family. I pray she is in the sea now.
    I love you so much Mags

    • @angelosantaniello4113
      @angelosantaniello4113 6 лет назад +7

      Allison Fruet I'm so sorry

    • @KatKrueger
      @KatKrueger 6 лет назад +5

      XOXOXOXO Peace.

    • @izpozpeeps
      @izpozpeeps 6 лет назад +10

      💗 to you trying to make sense Maggie says that was the river.. Behold the sea 💗

    • @rohan-ghosh
      @rohan-ghosh 6 лет назад +2

      o no...you made me.......much love Mag

    • @roxnpennies
      @roxnpennies 6 лет назад +17

      When I put my border collie and best friend of 17 years to sleep, I felt so alone because we were practically inseparable. Took a while for me to realize that he was finally free to roam wherever he wanted to. Now I also realize he is with me, wherever I may walk. My sincerest sympathies. It will get easier.

  • @colettecolette4802
    @colettecolette4802 Год назад +30

    This is heartbreaking... Played at the funeral this week of a man who I loved.. I will never forget you😢.. This song will now always remind me of you.. Always..... Rest in paradise, goodnight AW.. ❤

    • @JammyGit
      @JammyGit 4 месяца назад +2

      Hope you're doing better, stranger ✌️

    • @colettecolette4802
      @colettecolette4802 4 месяца назад

      @@JammyGit thank you

    • @JammyGit
      @JammyGit 4 месяца назад

      @@colettecolette4802 I wasn't expecting a reply but I always wonder about the person. I've been getting into the Waterboys again after listening to the This is the Sea album back in the 90s. Your love had good taste in music ✌️

    • @colettecolette4802
      @colettecolette4802 4 месяца назад

      I was introduced me to a whole range of music that id not heard before

  • @victormatheusdeo.martins7482
    @victormatheusdeo.martins7482 5 лет назад +35

    John Cockroach Murphy brought me here and I'll repeat again and again... What incredible song

  • @snow11wolf
    @snow11wolf 4 года назад +26

    35 years later? and here we are? well that was the river! THIS IS THE SEA!

  • @MrPge1970
    @MrPge1970 5 лет назад +62

    I was 14. I went out and bought this record. Where have 39 years gone? I still have and listen to this record.
    So do my kids.

    • @pauljeffs2529
      @pauljeffs2529 5 лет назад +1

      when I listen to this - the neighbours do as well....

  • @Kobieyou
    @Kobieyou 6 лет назад +70

    Still listening to Waterboys from 1979 to today

  • @taff554
    @taff554 5 лет назад +72

    This magnificent song represents to me being pulled out from a gray life, a life of constant discomfort, depression, a life with no meaning. Thanks to God I've turned my back on my soulless days, and I'm free because that was the river but this is the sea! Bless.

    • @ruiribeiro833
      @ruiribeiro833 2 года назад +3

      Same here! Exactly the same here... Thank you.

    • @markwalker483
      @markwalker483 Год назад +3

      🙏

    • @ORDWIFEY
      @ORDWIFEY 5 месяцев назад

      ME TOO!!! PRAISE YAH!!

  • @philbydsan
    @philbydsan 2 года назад +26

    I heard the whole of the moon on the radio when it was first released and thought it was great…I then got lost in the fog of living and bringing up a family found it again this week and all the other water boys music what the hell did I miss a fantastic band

    • @metafuel
      @metafuel 2 года назад +4

      It's never too late...

  • @trevorparks7326
    @trevorparks7326 6 лет назад +139

    How this song had eluded me my entire life I have no idea. Amazing piece.

    • @superfek24
      @superfek24 6 лет назад +7

      The entire album is this good. One of the best albums of all time across all genres in my opinion

    • @JAMAICADOCK
      @JAMAICADOCK 5 лет назад +3

      Yeah - this is up there with Lennon, and Dylan - perhaps better. It amazes me how it never became a classic. But all the more precious for that reason I suppose.

    • @carlosmpereira56
      @carlosmpereira56 5 лет назад

      you're all there!

    • @andrewjames1542
      @andrewjames1542 5 лет назад +3

      The music industry godfathers would discourage Celtic spirituality stirring up human consciousness, but this is an enduring wake-up call. Surely their greatest song.

    • @ryanlasenbby3974
      @ryanlasenbby3974 2 года назад

      Right? I'm stealing that quote thanks for finding the words I could not

  • @1963johnbhoy
    @1963johnbhoy 5 лет назад +68

    One of the few songs that makes one cry with utter joy.

    • @JemSquash94
      @JemSquash94 Год назад

      ... it's about suicide mate. One in the river and together in the sea

  • @barringtongilbert9230
    @barringtongilbert9230 Год назад +3

    Most underated band of the last 40 years. Just fkn genius.

  • @Iliadic
    @Iliadic 5 месяцев назад +5

    I don't know the meaning of this song, but I've always looked at it like this:
    I'm 20 years old. I've been going downstream in the river of my teenage life, but I'm heading into the sea of adulthood.
    The river is safe, but confining.
    The sea is freedom, but dangerous.
    That was the river. And this is the sea.

    • @patiodee
      @patiodee 3 месяца назад +1

      Seems like a perfect interpretation to me and largely in line with my thinking. I don't know if it is about the transition to adulthood specifically or not, but it fits well. It could be about any change where you go from something confined and safe to something bigger and with more promise but also more danger.

  • @Alan-m3z
    @Alan-m3z 6 месяцев назад +4

    Went out fishing last weekend, over a wreck , where we scattered a true friends ashes a few years ago. Played this in memory and had a beer for him.

  • @ellenforbes8948
    @ellenforbes8948 2 года назад +10

    I always associated this song with my uncle. I never told him this though.
    Last year as l was watching his casket come into the funeral home, this song played over the speaker. This song will forever connect us. I miss him so.

  • @yvonoukens6660
    @yvonoukens6660 2 года назад +8

    Together with Talk Talk the most underrated band... Still feel blessed I got to see them both on the same day at a Belgian Festival in 1986

  • @dionysusfilms165
    @dionysusfilms165 4 года назад +68

    I’m sorry, but in my humble opinion, this is the greatest song of all time. (Second is under pressure)

  • @clieb5811
    @clieb5811 Месяц назад

    We loved you, Tom. Keep dancing.

  • @latvians13
    @latvians13 3 года назад +32

    One of the best soundtracks of my life.
    "That was the river
    This is the sea... "
    Much love & peace to all 🌊❤

  • @zezinho592
    @zezinho592 Год назад +3

    I think the 100 should have ended in season 5. However, if it hadn't been for season 6 I'd probably never discover this masterpiece. Thank you John Murphy

  • @isalei3570
    @isalei3570 10 лет назад +158

    Extraordinary, a feeling almost like vertigo. Like having the contents of your mind read back to you. The first time I heard this I sat bolt upright in the dark and stared at my CD player like it had just BIT me.

  • @rickb.4168
    @rickb.4168 4 года назад +32

    Been in love with them since I as Fifteen, I’m 49 now. It still gets me.

    • @rickb.4168
      @rickb.4168 3 месяца назад

      Just saw my post 4 years later. Still love it. ❤

  • @petermosherthepoet
    @petermosherthepoet Год назад +3

    I found this song from a comment made on a song by Airborne Toxic Event. This song is indeed as powerful as that song, as I was told it would be, but in a different way. The lyrics in the Airborne song leave you wallowing in the anguish and despair that is experienced when unrequited love is at your doorstep, and the Waterboys song provides an escape from your river, into the sea. Get it? No philosopher go I, but that’s how those 2 songs hit me. Now I’m off to DCforC’s “Where body meets soul,” another song mentioned somewhere in the comments of both of the previous tracks.

  • @johnknottenbelt2727
    @johnknottenbelt2727 2 месяца назад

    No, this is not a song of despair, it is a song of So much Hope, like the Sea. As long as the sea moves, nothing will die for it is the heart of the world & the wind, it's breath, that keeps it Alive. As long as there is Hope there is Life. ❤

  • @MaureenPortella007
    @MaureenPortella007 11 лет назад +57

    goose bumps all over....it doesn't matter it just happens every time.

  • @RODGERwebb-s2p
    @RODGERwebb-s2p Месяц назад

    that was the river this is the sea , fucken brilliant , this song never dies in my heart

  • @Seabree
    @Seabree 7 лет назад +53

    The climax of this song is just incredible.

  • @valterbiasetti5089
    @valterbiasetti5089 5 месяцев назад +1

    È stata la prima canzone che avevo sentito dei Waterboys. Un colpo di fulmine! Era il 1986 e subito sono andato a comprare l'album. Meraviglioso!

  • @lorivandertholen5026
    @lorivandertholen5026 9 месяцев назад +6

    This song has saved my life and is saving my life once again.

    • @lamorna
      @lamorna 8 месяцев назад

      Love and peace sent from a stranger - hope you are doing well 💛🧚🌻

  • @christopherwayman4023
    @christopherwayman4023 3 года назад +16

    Never heard a more powerful song than this breathtaking

  • @Fortyball
    @Fortyball 4 года назад +116

    "This Is The Sea"
    These things you keep
    You'd better throw them away
    You wanna turn your back
    On your soulless days
    Once you were tethered
    And now you are free
    Once you were tethered
    Well now you are free
    That was the river
    This is the sea!
    Now if you're feelin' weary
    If you've been alone too long
    Maybe you've been suffering from
    A few too many
    Plans that have gone wrong
    And you're trying to remember
    How fine your life used to be
    Running around banging your drum
    Like it's 1973
    Well that was the river
    This is the sea!
    Wooo!
    Now you say you've got trouble
    You say you've got pain
    You say've got nothing left to believe in
    Nothing to hold on to
    Nothing to trust
    Nothing but chains
    You've been scouring your conscience
    Raking through your memories
    Scouring your conscience
    Raking through your memories
    But that was the river
    This is the sea yeah!
    Now I can see you wavering
    As you try to decide
    You've got a war in your head
    And it's tearing you up inside
    You're trying to make sense
    Of something that you just don't see
    Trying to make sense now
    And you know you once held the key
    But that was the river
    And this is the sea!
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
    Now I hear there's a train
    It's coming on down the line
    It's yours if you hurry
    You've got still enough time
    And you don't need no ticket
    And you don't pay no fee
    No you don't need no ticket
    You don't pay no fee
    Because that was the river
    And this is the sea!
    Behold the sea!

  • @annaomara4532
    @annaomara4532 2 месяца назад +1

    This song saved me! And will be the last song heard on my exit from this life!❤

  • @stevenshannah2001
    @stevenshannah2001 4 года назад +32

    I can’t believe the 100 ends tonight. 5 years of my life. I’m gonna miss it so much.

    • @rc_gamer2605
      @rc_gamer2605 4 года назад +7

      May we meet again

    • @mollyjaneg13
      @mollyjaneg13 4 года назад +1

      I believe there are rumors of a prequel coming out!!

    • @jonathancooper4914
      @jonathancooper4914 3 года назад

      One of the strongest casts I’ve ever seen.

    • @hiyourerickrightimnegan.3788
      @hiyourerickrightimnegan.3788 3 года назад

      ha ha s7 was TRASH im glad it ended fuck that garbage season

    • @jonathancooper4914
      @jonathancooper4914 3 года назад

      @@hiyourerickrightimnegan.3788
      Bar a handful of episodes I really did like, I can’t help but agree with you. I’m glad they ended it before Rothenberg could do any more damage.

  • @chumchumanon3435
    @chumchumanon3435 4 года назад +30

    This song was a comfort when I was younger. It still is.

  • @dog9700
    @dog9700 2 года назад +19

    James Gunns favourite song right here

  • @MrBaxterrify
    @MrBaxterrify 11 лет назад +88

    This is poetry in motion, by way of vibration and emotional bliss. Kudos to The Waterboys.

  • @strictlynorton
    @strictlynorton 6 лет назад +36

    Mike puts it all out there lyrically. What a poet.... What a band!

  • @elleallison4975
    @elleallison4975 2 месяца назад +2

    Just discovered this song recently. An epic song

    • @athitayastirling8259
      @athitayastirling8259 2 месяца назад

      If you liked that listen to Church not made with hands from A Pagan Place by the same group.

  • @robertmicklewright985
    @robertmicklewright985 5 лет назад +29

    We were the opening act for this great band, several times in the 1980s. Great fun, great memories for a guy almost 60years old. My daughter loves the stories! She is my new headliner!!

    • @annbinns615
      @annbinns615 4 года назад

      Top man,class brother

    • @frangarcia7774
      @frangarcia7774 4 года назад +2

      What was the name of your band?

    • @MariaK1004
      @MariaK1004 4 года назад

      @Robert Micklewright Ah that's so lovely. What is (or was?) the name of your band, because I saw The Waterboys many times, so maybe I saw you too.

    • @ryanlasenbby3974
      @ryanlasenbby3974 2 года назад

      Very cool what was the name of your band?

  • @cat_tastrophic
    @cat_tastrophic 2 месяца назад

    my dad's best friend played this at his funeral yesterday. he was the sea 💔

  • @jonathanmilner9057
    @jonathanmilner9057 6 лет назад +76

    I've heard some great music in time, but this group is one of the finest.

  • @SysterEuropa
    @SysterEuropa 10 лет назад +118

    God, how I miss the 1980's. I assumed that such beautiful music, art, literature and humanity would last forever. How wrong I was.

    • @woppite2932
      @woppite2932 10 лет назад

      These thing wrde keep

    • @andytim
      @andytim 9 лет назад +7

      SystemCo People have been saying the same thing forever. Our glimpse of time really isn't indicative of any real change in culture. The future yields more than the past.
      "God, how I miss the 1880's, I assumed that such beautiful music, art, literature and humanity would last forever. Now in 1915, how wrong I was."

    • @mrbump28
      @mrbump28 8 лет назад +10

      Na music is not nearly as good today as the 80s or 90s and the kids are lame as fuck

    • @SysterEuropa
      @SysterEuropa 8 лет назад +7

      Thanks for your thoughts. Greatly appreciate what you say but I disagree. Over the long stretch of many wonderful and creative decades something terribly wrong has happened to our music in these recent years. A certain profound rot has taken hold. I pray that true creativity does return in future generations and that real soulful beauty is reignited. But today there is a void of beauty, originality, creativity, and that powerful spark that urges everyone "Come! Let's dance and sing!!"

    • @lisamynigga2525
      @lisamynigga2525 7 лет назад

      +SystemCo I blame the Simon/Louis of hijacking the airwaves..there's some quality shit out there thought

  • @TheAlyxx89
    @TheAlyxx89 5 лет назад +105

    Favourite Murphy's song

  • @michaelking9772
    @michaelking9772 3 года назад +17

    One of the most underrated band's still going strong..!!!

    • @tommyross1872
      @tommyross1872 Год назад

      Going to see them tonight in my home town of Glasgow..

  • @hanzuglam
    @hanzuglam 5 лет назад +116

    John Murphy brought me here 😍 The 100 squad

    • @snow11wolf
      @snow11wolf 3 года назад +1

      Ah yes! Me Too! (not related to the me too movement), Just that I too was brought here by John Murphy

  • @laurencewinch-furness9450
    @laurencewinch-furness9450 6 месяцев назад +3

    Listened to this last week while coming back from an amazing week of freediving in Cornwall. The perfect anthem!

  • @aidanbadenhorst9195
    @aidanbadenhorst9195 7 лет назад +56

    This brings tears to my eyes

  • @dianecarney3142
    @dianecarney3142 5 лет назад +6

    I listen to this song several times a week. For me, it's synagogue and church and mosque and temple. It's all that is good from the human soul.

    • @arafjan7488
      @arafjan7488 Год назад

      As a Muslim I could not say Mosque but this is a brilliant song crafted both lyrically, musically and soul nourishing.

  • @janmcintyre8595
    @janmcintyre8595 Год назад +8

    What fabulous images to complement this wonderful song! Beautiful! Those powerful, crashing waves announcing The Sea! Thank you very much!

    • @VanessaHape
      @VanessaHape 11 месяцев назад

      Yes, awesome video. Stunning.

  • @ThatTablerockmatt
    @ThatTablerockmatt 2 года назад +2

    Riding Giants brought me here. The Waterboys kept me here......

  • @shawneavis4802
    @shawneavis4802 3 года назад +12

    Fantastic song. Like I always say bout the 80's - a low point for fashion, but a high point for music.

  • @ketutprihadi7272
    @ketutprihadi7272 6 месяцев назад +2

    I am a fan of the Waterboys since 80's

  • @aeylarain
    @aeylarain 7 лет назад +26

    Got turned on to this song by a wonderful man I know. This song feels like an opening up and has a lot of meaning. No more is there music that holds so much spirit and soul within it as back in the days.

  • @TheCrashf100
    @TheCrashf100 7 лет назад +37

    45years old. Been blown away by soooo much. But this is on another level.👊

  • @jasonmonteverde4304
    @jasonmonteverde4304 6 лет назад +32

    This song saved my life

    • @carlosmpereira56
      @carlosmpereira56 5 лет назад +1

      Indeed my friend?

    • @turnleftaticeland
      @turnleftaticeland 5 лет назад +2

      me too

    • @izpozpeeps
      @izpozpeeps 4 года назад

      plans that have gone wrong? you.
      Hang in there for the sea. that was the river something that don't make sense now.

    • @redemptionredeemed
      @redemptionredeemed 4 года назад +2

      And tonight, 10 past midnight, I know exactly what you meant by this.

  • @vsgunning
    @vsgunning 3 месяца назад

    when I first heard this song I cried. i still cry when I hear it. This will be my funeral song. I have decided long ago.

  • @mskan283
    @mskan283 5 лет назад +499

    Anyone from the 100?

    • @victorfacundotexeiranunezd1894
      @victorfacundotexeiranunezd1894 5 лет назад +5

      all of us in 2019

    • @dottore3870
      @dottore3870 5 лет назад +4

      I'm from when this was fresh and new, and when I heard the song on The 100, it gave me goosebumps. Good to know that this song will last two ends of the world and a space colony 300 hundred years after it was made.

    • @izpozpeeps
      @izpozpeeps 4 года назад +2

      I'm from the 4020s hello space traveller 🙏

    • @Matt2ykYT
      @Matt2ykYT 4 года назад +2

      Yes

    • @snow11wolf
      @snow11wolf 3 года назад +1

      Indeed! Hello!

  • @slackstarfish8133
    @slackstarfish8133 7 месяцев назад +2

    This song really makes me feel something everytime I hear it.

  • @itsme-gl1fb
    @itsme-gl1fb 4 года назад +6

    I guess I'm part of the 100 fans cuz I'm also here from Murphy's good taste in music

  • @ninjackunited6609
    @ninjackunited6609 3 года назад +1

    The 100 brought me here right now...Jamaica to the world.

  • @TheCrusaderRabbits
    @TheCrusaderRabbits 5 лет назад +10

    My excellent taste in music brought me here

  • @jessewallace12able
    @jessewallace12able 5 лет назад +6

    One of the best songs I’ve ever heard in my life.
    Riding Giants brought me here.

  • @MJ.71
    @MJ.71 5 лет назад +10

    This is the sea.... One of the best albums ever made

  • @deirdremynes5920
    @deirdremynes5920 3 месяца назад

    This song is my comfort song

  • @stephendawe1079
    @stephendawe1079 6 лет назад +9

    I am sure this album can physically change you through sheer emotion.

  • @rolandsteinhauser241
    @rolandsteinhauser241 3 года назад +1

    oh man / girl this is so free nobody can imagine

  • @jean-pierredewaal2081
    @jean-pierredewaal2081 8 месяцев назад +3

    TO MY BEST FRIEND FOREVER THAT INTRUESTED ME TO THIS BAND IN PLETTENBERG BAY IN 1991 I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU MARK YOUR FRIEND FOR LIFE RGDS JEAN-PIERRE AMEN 🙏

  • @ANZRocknRoll-bp6xd
    @ANZRocknRoll-bp6xd 3 месяца назад

    I've just heard " THE WHOLE OF THE MOON " ...now it's time to smell that special salty scent of " THIS IS THE SEA " ...whats next ? a Pagans Place ,December, Somebody might wave back , or any of the other FANTASTIC songs the WATERBOYS have shared with us ...& there have been many ? .

  • @ddpg3
    @ddpg3 2 года назад +4

    Listening to this song for the first time here in Nova Scotia, where we are literally surrounded by the "sea. Know it's beauty, it's force and it's terrors. It's in your blood, it's just there, omnipresent and for centuries here in Nova Scotia the sea gives and takes. The rhythm of life, the ebb and flow of the sea that never leaves and is always there. Obviously I LOVE this song!!

    • @aidenfermanagh6207
      @aidenfermanagh6207 2 года назад +2

      Spent a lotof time along the South Shore as a kid. Still have family there.

    • @ddpg3
      @ddpg3 2 года назад +2

      @@aidenfermanagh6207 It really is a small world, a guy I work with is from the "South Shore"!!

  • @OGMillwood
    @OGMillwood 2 месяца назад

    Best song ever written. Not sure what more you could say.

  • @lancefoley4687
    @lancefoley4687 7 лет назад +31

    darn right it's good....... Here I am at 46 first heard the song when I was 15- still listeningat my age and still as good as when I first heard it

  • @Bailebhoy
    @Bailebhoy 3 месяца назад

    Has to be one of the greatest songs ever

  • @seanmcintyre5185
    @seanmcintyre5185 4 года назад +21

    I guess "Fisherman's Blues" was suggested to me based on my video history. How in the good fuck have I never heard of this group?!?!?! This song along with several others have hit me right in the spot. Seriously, its an injustice this group isn't more well known.

    • @sandymcnair5726
      @sandymcnair5726 3 года назад +1

      hey Sean, the good things in life cannot be revealled all at once ... we are all on the same voyage my friend

    • @lanemcginty64
      @lanemcginty64 10 месяцев назад

      Oh lad with yer good proud name there and all tis an injustice and a mystery ye havnae heard of these bassads. A Scotsman he is who now lives in Ireland with only one other consistent band member who is a very talented Irishman?
      Half of it's magic the other half nonsense 😁

  • @JayG-y9y
    @JayG-y9y 3 месяца назад

    As a Teenager in the 1980's it was a terrifying stormy sea 😢. Now my life is becoming a calmer river. It's a beautiful video ❤

  • @michaeldowd5545
    @michaeldowd5545 7 лет назад +80

    Off the radar good. Ironically I think they would have been a bigger band today. They are not really a genuine 80s band. They are timeless.

    • @ze_rubenator
      @ze_rubenator 6 лет назад +5

      Mike hated the 80's music scene, so you're not wrong.

    • @alfieplaze145
      @alfieplaze145 6 лет назад

      Your correct sir!

    • @turnleftaticeland
      @turnleftaticeland 5 лет назад +3

      production was 80s as hell but everything else - transcendent

  • @ste2442
    @ste2442 2 года назад +1

    1988 when I was 14 these came into my life , they’ve never left

  • @anthonymorris8840
    @anthonymorris8840 2 года назад +3

    probably one the best songs i have ever heard vastly underatted band

  • @somanyfeelz
    @somanyfeelz 11 месяцев назад

    This song hooked me last night, it punched me in the gut and took my breath away. I cried without making a noise so as not to wake my daughter. A beautiful man is untethered and free. He's banging his drum, absolutely free, and I miss him dearly. I thank the Universe for this song.

  • @fernandosalascarrion9189
    @fernandosalascarrion9189 3 года назад +5

    I think this is one of the best songs I've ever heard. Seriously.

  • @samyuktasharma6812
    @samyuktasharma6812 Год назад +1

    came from 'The 1OO' murphy's show and now listening it everyday🌺🌺♾