Amazingly we seem to have gone backwards in how we do music, I just cannot see anyone today producing a Musical masterpiece such as this, just wonderful every play :)
This song breaks my heart. Reminds of a friend that I've known since high school. He was brilliant, ahead of his time but over time he slipped into addiction and madness. I only saw the crescent, he saw the whole of the moon.
One of those albums that doesn't have a single bad or even mediocre note on it. Every song still sounds as strong as it did when I first took it out of its sleeve back in 1985.
I own several albums by The Waterboys and I have always valued and appreciated the meaning of the songs' lyrics. Mike Scott has very clear diction so you can understand the lyrics he is singing. I love everything about The Waterboys'. "Don't Bang The Drum" will make you very glad that they did......Bang The Drum. I met a Girl called Johnny in a Pagan Place, when she left I got The Fisherman's Blues where someone pointed out that This is the Sea. Great Bands have great Drummers.............
I have to say as an audio engineer, that's seen untold numbers of react videos. You have to be the first I've seen that commented on stereo imagery. Nicely done. :)
Dude, you can't just drop that without mentioning that after he left he formed his own band, World Party, who produced some amazing music. Ship of Fools, Is It Like Today and Way Down Now are all worth checking out.
Saw them at the Riviera in Chicago in the 80s - what a show! Has it been 36 plus years since! Decades later and the music still holds up! "Fisherman Blues" and "And a Bang on the Ear" Incredible songs.
Great choice, Laurie. Lots of second choices available. Suggest A Church Not Made With Hands, A Pagan Place, The Pan Within, Fisherman’s Blues, The Big Music to name a few. A band that truly deserved a broader appeal than they received. Cheers!
This is a great song! Bought the album when I saw the music video, the band (with violinist and a trumpeter to boot!) kind of reminded me of Dexy’s Midnight Runners in the way they performed it with such freedom and passion (especially with the last set of lyrics, from “unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers…” onwards…really singing from the heart and ringing out the emotion!)
I was 16 when this song came out, the musicality is beautiful, his voice is perfect for this song, I am a tad older now, as is this song, but it would be a top hit if re released today. Good reaction Laurie, you gave background, which most dont.
World class song. I think I read somewhere Mike Scott address rumours it was about Prince's talent and he said closer to Hendrix but it wasn't about him either specifically. Great reaction enjoyed it, thank you.
Karl Wallinger is just a beautiful human being. he suffered a from brain damage in the early 2000's and had to learn to talk and play again. so so sad.
@@gammaanteria Robbie Williams covering his She’s the one, helped massively in royalties for him. Otherwise he’s had to have sold the children (his words)
If you have a Dream and that Dream seems out of reach don't give up on it.Reach for the stars, clime that ladder, its only a finger tip away.You can do it and that is why i love this song so much.
I just want to duplicate what people are saying. The Waterboys have such a wonderfully varied music supermarket trolley of stuff. From fun tunes to deep spiritual songs. "Everlasting Arms", "Bring 'Em All In", "A Man Is in Love", "Too Close to Heaven", "Building the City of Light" then "Rare, Precious and Gone", "Saints and Angels". "Beverly Penn", "On my wat to Tara", its endless. Also try the album "Karma To Burn" and on it goes............
Check out ‘ A Church not made with hands’ especially at this time of the year, it’ll put a smile on your face and a glow in your heart. You don’t need to react to it, just listen to it, for yourself.
Thay are playing Glastonbury this year. Make sure you check that weekend out. Glastonbury is a unique experience for all. You are young my friend. Put it on your bucket list lol. Much love from the UK
This song make a 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
Hi, Nice reaction recently discovered you channel through your love of Freddie Starr (i knew Freddie for a brief moment in time, which I'll enlightening you on another more appropriate video). but the waterboys were a very under rated band i felt great songwriting and meaningful lyrics and this brings me to my point Waterboys wrote a song called STRANGE BOAT which has a great message if i feel, but i you do react to this song strangely i would recommend Tom Jones's version its probably my favourite of his songs. you have a great voice by the way.
If you want to check ouit more Scottish Songwriters, I'd recommend "The Modern Leper" by Frightened Rabbit/Scott Hutchison. I think you will like it. Great reaction here too!
Live versions of ‘Long Strange Golden Road’ and ‘Destinies Entwined’ I’ve seen on You Tube tend to be just a bit magnificent! You can never get what The Waterboys are about. Just when you think you have them pinned down and figured out they veer off in another direction!
Hi Laurie..I've searched for a review of the song "two rivers" by the adventures and there's no result...maybe you could try the song and share your thoughts 😊. Shout out from the Philippines 😅
If you like the song musically and lyrically, YOU WILL DEFINITELY LOVE MANDY MOORE'S cover of The Whole Of The Moon! Most definitely! By far, the best song Mandy Moore ever recorded in her career. And she does it much much better than The Waterboys. And Mandy has made many really good songs. And some great songs. But Whole Of The Moon is her finest 5 minutes.
Amazingly we seem to have gone backwards in how we do music, I just cannot see anyone today producing a Musical masterpiece such as this, just wonderful every play :)
Thanks, more people need to hear this body of work. Mike Scott is a master song writer.
Greatest song production ever!!!!! Perfect song!
This song breaks my heart. Reminds of a friend that I've known since high school. He was brilliant, ahead of his time but over time he slipped into addiction and madness. I only saw the crescent, he saw the whole of the moon.
Syd Barrett - Baby Lemonade
I’m 51 and these have been my band since I was 15. Roddy lorrimer on Trumpet and the incredible Anthony Thistlethwaite on Sax. My heroes.
One of those albums that doesn't have a single bad or even mediocre note on it. Every song still sounds as strong as it did when I first took it out of its sleeve back in 1985.
In my top 5 eighties albums!
I own several albums by The Waterboys and I have always valued and appreciated the meaning of the songs' lyrics.
Mike Scott has very clear diction so you can understand the lyrics he is singing.
I love everything about The Waterboys'.
"Don't Bang The Drum" will make you very glad that they did......Bang The Drum.
I met a Girl called Johnny in a Pagan Place, when she left I got The Fisherman's Blues where someone pointed out that This is the Sea.
Great Bands have great Drummers.............
I have to say as an audio engineer, that's seen untold numbers of react videos. You have to be the first I've seen that commented on stereo imagery. Nicely done. :)
I'm from a little village Ireland called Kilcoole , we used to sing this song & swap out Moon for Kilcoole :)
Had the good fortune to live near Mike Scott at one time. Nice guy and The Whole of the Moon really does capture his take on life
Fancy being lucky enough to hear this for the first time now.. Ship of Fools by World Party next...
The last line is sung by Karl Wallinger, who left the band afterwards. update: Karl died 2 days ago.
Dude, you can't just drop that without mentioning that after he left he formed his own band, World Party, who produced some amazing music. Ship of Fools, Is It Like Today and Way Down Now are all worth checking out.
Saw them at the Riviera in Chicago in the 80s - what a show! Has it been 36 plus years since! Decades later and the music still holds up!
"Fisherman Blues" and "And a Bang on the Ear" Incredible songs.
This song is so special!
Another great song by these...
Don’t bang the drum
Well he bangs those drums like they owe him 💵💵💵
Great choice, Laurie. Lots of second choices available. Suggest A Church Not Made With Hands, A Pagan Place, The Pan Within, Fisherman’s Blues, The Big Music to name a few. A band that truly deserved a broader appeal than they received. Cheers!
I'll second all of these but especially The Pan Within. I'll add a deep cut with poetry by Yeats, "The Stolen Child".
Excellent reaction! First time hearing of this band. Really cool song.
Do you live under a pile of rocks?
If you love horns, check out the Waterboys Red Army Blues. Anthony Thistlethwaite ‘Anto’ makes his saxophone almost explode. Fantastic.
This is a great song! Bought the album when I saw the music video, the band (with violinist and a trumpeter to boot!) kind of reminded me of Dexy’s Midnight Runners in the way they performed it with such freedom and passion (especially with the last set of lyrics, from “unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers…” onwards…really singing from the heart and ringing out the emotion!)
This song is why music was invented ❤❤❤❤❤
This is the Sea, is another great tune by them.
I was 16 when this song came out, the musicality is beautiful, his voice is perfect for this song, I am a tad older now, as is this song, but it would be a top hit if re released today. Good reaction Laurie, you gave background, which most dont.
Your day dreaming, there’s no rap or threats of violence in it.
Thanks for reacting I appreciate it so much
World class song. I think I read somewhere Mike Scott address rumours it was about Prince's talent and he said closer to Hendrix but it wasn't about him either specifically. Great reaction enjoyed it, thank you.
Just makes me tear up everytime i hear it. One of the few
Love Waterboys, saw them live in 1989 in Portugal ♥️♥️♥️
thanks for inspring....
I think this band had Karl Wallinger, who formed World Party…they had some cool songs too!
Yep, Karl sang at the end of this song. ‘how on earth did you see the whole of the moon’ great guy.
Karl Wallinger is just a beautiful human being. he suffered a from brain damage in the early 2000's and had to learn to talk and play again. so so sad.
@@rickb.4168 Wow, I didn't know that! Best wishes to him...
@@gammaanteria Robbie Williams covering his She’s the one, helped massively in royalties for him. Otherwise he’s had to have sold the children (his words)
You’d love ‘A Bang on the Ear’ by this band p.s. bang is an Irish reference for a kiss.
Great reaction to a GREAT song!!
Nice one Laurie! If it's gonna be Waterboys, you have to check out This Is The Sea. It's their greatest song ever, according to me! :)
Yes, that’s a great one! 👍
Probably, but ‘A Church not made with hands’ at the start of summer is hard to beat. Also don’t forget Gala. It’s up there.
I’ve been hammering Anto’s ‘Crawfish and Caviar’ album in the car recently. It’s a blinder.
If you have a Dream and that Dream seems out of reach don't give up on it.Reach for the stars, clime that ladder, its only a finger tip away.You can do it and that is why i love this song so much.
Can't wait for my Yes and other Kansas request!🙂🙂
Saludos desde uruguay buen video ❤💋😎👍🎤
Great reaction thank you.
I just want to duplicate what people are saying. The Waterboys have such a wonderfully varied music supermarket trolley of stuff. From fun tunes to deep spiritual songs. "Everlasting Arms", "Bring 'Em All In", "A Man Is in Love", "Too Close to Heaven", "Building the City of Light" then "Rare, Precious and Gone", "Saints and Angels". "Beverly Penn", "On my wat to Tara", its endless. Also try the album "Karma To Burn" and on it goes............
Check out ‘ A Church not made with hands’ especially at this time of the year, it’ll put a smile on your face and a glow in your heart. You don’t need to react to it, just listen to it, for yourself.
I love your accent. Best wishes from London.
Never noticed the likeness to David Bowie towards the end but Yes it was definitely Bowieesque. Great song with so many big moments!!
One amazing song that’s etched in history
Listen to their amazing cover of "Purple Rain!"
Thay are playing Glastonbury this year. Make sure you check that weekend out. Glastonbury is a unique experience for all. You are young my friend. Put it on your bucket list lol. Much love from the UK
It's good
FABULOUS
Keep doing the Waterboys, even if you don’t post it. You won’t regret it.
Love the song
All I can say is that it is THE song.
This song make a 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
Reminds me of college.
wow u know music
His voice have same vibe like John Cougar Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adam. IMO
🎼 You shot a hole in the Moon 🎼 🤣
Hi, Nice reaction recently discovered you channel through your love of Freddie Starr (i knew Freddie for a brief moment in time, which I'll enlightening you on another more appropriate video). but the waterboys were a very under rated band i felt great songwriting and meaningful lyrics and this brings me to my point Waterboys wrote a song called STRANGE BOAT which has a great message if i feel, but i you do react to this song strangely i would recommend Tom Jones's version its probably my favourite of his songs. you have a great voice by the way.
The end vocal you thought sounded like David Bowie, was Karl Wallinger, subsequently of World Party.
Can you please react to
Looking for Satellites by David Bowie
And
Where have you been by Rihanna
Audio reaction
Please
Sgoinneal ❤
If you want to check ouit more Scottish Songwriters, I'd recommend
"The Modern Leper" by Frightened Rabbit/Scott Hutchison. I think you will like it. Great reaction here too!
Anyone who likes this song- check out " asking Annie out" by Willie Nile
Proper music better than the crap you normally listen too.
Live versions of ‘Long Strange Golden Road’ and ‘Destinies Entwined’ I’ve seen on You Tube tend to be just a bit magnificent! You can never get what The Waterboys are about. Just when you think you have them pinned down and figured out they veer off in another direction!
Хорошая песня👍🏼
Hope you get to hear This Is The Sea. ❤
I love that song by The Waterboys. I think you’ll love this from the Manchester band James: ruclips.net/video/zPNw_2h0CnU/видео.html
🙏🕉🌸
Hi Laurie..I've searched for a review of the song "two rivers" by the adventures and there's no result...maybe you could try the song and share your thoughts 😊. Shout out from the Philippines 😅
Please do Afterglow from 3 sides live
Fiona apple Does a cover of this song 🎵
Badly.
No its awesome, she is a genius
there's a live on YT
Excellent
Apparently Bob Dylan really likes this song
i see you like 1980 british new wave
If you like the song musically and lyrically, YOU WILL DEFINITELY LOVE MANDY MOORE'S cover of The Whole Of The Moon! Most definitely! By far, the best song Mandy Moore ever recorded in her career. And she does it much much better than The Waterboys. And Mandy has made many really good songs. And some great songs. But Whole Of The Moon is her finest 5 minutes.
I've heard it, your insane. :-)
it wasn't called the Big Music for no reason
Hey there. Get some better headphones friend. Those gaming ones ain't good enough xx
Roddy Lorimer on the trumpet.