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  • Who the hell could hit dislike!!!!

  • I never realized the message in this video! now it makes sense to me being a first nation

  • Canuck Treasures.

  • i would like to know who the native canadian girl is who is wearing the head dress!!!

  • More timeless Canadian Rock...!

  • so true todays music is all smoke and mirrors let the 80s live again

  • @ moontoot .. ur post is already a status on my FB ; )

  • This song just sends shivers through the spine! I find it one of their most under-rated hits, definitely the best one I ever heard, like Thin Red Line and Some Day right after on their top 3 of all-time.

  • God, the guy at 4:01 is hot!!!

  • @waivedwench It's Eric Schweig.

  • I have XM, I don't listen to the fuckin' crap from todays songs.

  • you guys are totally right about how bad the music is these days. music was definately better and much more positive back in the 80's. this song is awesome!! when you go camping or cottaging in northern ontario, canada, this is all you hear........good friggin music

  • Love this song so much!!!!!

  • I can't remember if this song was somewhat related to the movie Yougn Guns? The setting of the video sure does make it look that way. Anyway, great memories... I was 17 and full of hopes.

  • I personally can guarantee that Nobody in this band have ever needed a boob job... ;)

  • My cuz'n directed diz video, filmed inda Badlands of Alberta n Toronto Ontario.

  • @TAT2DJAX Dinosaur Provincial Park. I was just there this weekend and saw where they did the badlands scenes

  • This is ART ahead of its time, way better than 95% of the crap

    on the radio these days. I was just getting Honorably Discharged

    from the US Army when this album came out, and I love it. :D

  • God I love this f#cking music

  • Reminds of the good days I spent in Toronto from 1981 to 1994 as a student. Live in Singapore now. Loved canadian music then and still do. By the way, the tall guy in the hat walking around was my room mate..he went to U of T and I went to York. Now this guy is a huge musician in Nepal. Just search for Robin Tamang to find music videos featuring him and his songs. He is not native indian :)

  • this song just makes me feel so sensitive! but i loove it! who can't????oxoxox

  • This group alway's put's a smile on my face,their full of life and alway's happy in their video's^^

  • This song just rises above so many others. Why is it not more well known!

  • beautiful,meaningful,talent,an­d great passion for music.

  • This is a great song from Glass Tiger. Very good video also :)

    The landscape looks like the Badlands in Alberta.

  • A track that will always stick out in my memory... Guys who sang from the heart... Brilliant...

  • masterpiece, but a fluke for Glass Tiger, their music was very activist oriented in general.

  • KEEP IT GOING PLEASE, GIVE US FANS, SOME MORE GREAT MUSIC, AFTER ALL YOU ARE CANADIAN, EH! Just a hope, no Pressure.

  • I still get cold chills from this song whenever I hear it :) awesome! this is the real music people, cant beat the 80's for the tunes ;)

  • @libralady24 Same here :D

    God was in a good mood when she created Canada :)

  • This one song is worth a million of songs of today. I love that this is a Canadian band, and filmed in Drumheller, Alberta!

  • Beautiful song..video.. love glass tiger just a music fan:)xo

  • im agree with you guys i miss those beautifull years.

  • first concert I ever saw was this tour @the Halifax Metro Center ...one of my favorite childhood memories....even had a tour shirt....hahha....I hope I see them again some day....

  • Was this a hit in the USA?

  • ♥♫♥ beautiful ♥♫♥

  • That native indian with the black hat use to be the door man at Still Life in Toronto.

  • The Lyrics are Beautiful! Great Song!

  • 3:29 -so beautiful and perfect! This song and video really can't be improved upon.

  • I think the best music came out of the 80's

  • Agreed about the positive tone of the 80's, so different than now. Hope we are out of this slump in a few years. It probably will take a bit of time, because with music being so horribly crappy these days, I think people have actually stopped listening to the music only looking at the tits, abs or butt. I am serious about this, the difference between then and now music is like day and night. God, I love this song!! (In my heart, I believe, someday the sun will shine, you shall be free!)

  • Great vocal.

  • * Raises Hands to the Sky with Thanks ! *

  • Wow, what a band, and what a song...sure takes me back. I agree with moon and trav (two posters on the top) -- music from the 80's just had a message and evokes memories in a way that no music from today can do.

  • I remember watching them in concert back in 1989

  • This song makes me think of Leigh Bowery...the boy from sunshine !!...hee hee !!

  • God was in a good mood when she/he created Canada :D

  • very very god song!

  • Pathos Rock from 80's. I love it!

  • Pay particular attention to the little girls head-dress...

  • Wow -- this song still gives me chills (even all these years later). Definitely one of their best. No, sorry...it IS their best song EVER. Amazing song...thanks for the memories...

  • Great song & video.

    Ever notice the perhaps "accidental" prolife lyric in this song? I never noticed it before. "Oh, Love gives Life, and Life is Love" - almost Catholic like as a succinct phrase summing up Catholic teaching on sexuality (pro-creative & pro-unitive- Love linked to Life) & the Ideal Life. Amazing - if just a coincedence.

  • Definitely a coincedence. This song and video is about native american/first nations people and their struggle with the take over of their lands, and the lies the white people bestowed upon them. Not a sexual prolife meaning, certainly not catholic, but rather the struggle of a nation of people, to be strong and overcome the wrongs that they have endured.

  • Parts of this video was recorded in Dinosaur Provincial Park near Brooks AB.....our tour guide showed us where Glass Tiger played! Cool...

  • 3:16 to 4:00

    GOOSEBUMPS!

    Very inspirational n best part of the song.

  • This song sparked a boycott of local radio station three hours after it was aired because 'outraged parents were offended by this song.' Basically cleared up in my dad's laymen terms 'Women who had nothing better to do decided this song was offensive to their religious beliefs,picked up their bibles,donned their Quaker Sunday Best Clothes and Marched Protesting the line 'We are in bondage' claiming it meant we are in sexual bondage.'

  • this album was with me when I was so very young, we listened to it on family vacations as well as rick astley and journey.

  • @brenthoser99 So you don't mind being Rick-rolled?? ;-)

  • Thanks GT for inspiring me to be a musician!

  • WOW!!!! I LOVE THIS SONG!!

  • Tybeeguy1, you are so right! This was a phenomenal album. I'm really glad I came across this video! It's awesome!!

  • How! me Kota's !!!!

  • i kinda like boob jobs and tiny skirts myself, thongs arent bad either

  • This album "Diamond Sun" just didn't get the commercial success it deserved--maybe some tunes just "too deep" for the "radio gods?" Songs with meaning...and "I'm Still Searching" so passionately rocks--fully expected it to make a climb on the charts, but I've heard it play on the radio only once at the time...it just didn't get the success and exposure it deserved--thought it was one of the best albums from that year...often excellent music just doesn't get commercial success-this definitely one

  • @tybeeguy1

    Do you know how much copies of this fantastic album were sold more or less?? :)

  • vintage glass tiger from the 80 s

  • great tune!

  • I absolutely love this song!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i met the singer in late 07 when he was promoting his book. i got a pic and his autograph on a glass tiger cd

  • and?

  • nice song.

  • I used to live next to Allan Frew in Newmarket Ontario and my dad used to take him for drives in his classic car when he was just a kid!!

  • @chelle9503 hey chelle, i lived in aurora when glass tiger played at aurora high. live in los angeles now. it's nice to see a comment from someone from my home town. thx for posting  :-) just yesterday i was telling a friend about this video as we were driving back to la from yosemite nat'l park.

  • Wow...absolute classic. This is one of the first records that I was allowed to buy as a young boy; I looked forward to it for weeks, and Glass Tiger remained one of my most favourite bands throughout the 80's...thanks for the memories!

  • music seemed to positive in the 80s, everything now is about how bad of a thug you are, how much of a sl#t you are...pretty lame, im sure it will come back again, people will get tired of the garbage.

  • so true. i'm getting quite sick of music not being about talent, but about how good you look in a tiny skirt and if you had a boob job.

  • @travpoet most of em are pretty good - after the boob job...lmao...nice...lost diamond in the rough here!!!

  • @moontoot I agree and I hope so. Cheers.

  • Its just cuz its all said already..... they have their own words to say and they happen to make it sound nice..... dont get me wrong this music from the 80's are awesome! but its just what people have to say in their own way....

  • @moontoot

    Peter Gabriel still sings about love. :D Sting... well, he covers a littel bit of everything these days. Lol.

  • @moontoot ..You are sooo right man. So Right. Best to you, -S

  • @moontoot your listening to the wrong music these days but your right pop music in this modern day is garbage

  • @moontoot

    Good comment! Music was mostly positive back then. I miss it too.

    I miss the good times of the 80's don't you?

  • forgot this was them too, lol dam..

  • Canadas version of Midnight Oil

  • They're best song

  • Frew looks like McCloud from the Highlander original movie. This is a great song.

  • A U2 is a pilotless observation aeroplane.

  • No, a U2 is piloted. Google Gary Francis Powers.

  • You are right. I must have been confusing it with another aircraft.

    Thank you.

  • Nice Music

  • when this song came out I was 12 years old....loved it then and appreciate it now...thanks for the memory !!!

  • They are totally trying to be U2 here.....

  • What is a U2?

  • U2 is a band.....but i like glass tiger more

  • The girl in the last scene must be a grown woman by now.

  • I think someone asked me for Canadian Bands (or individual singers) which may be known internationally:

    Brian Adams, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Sarah Harmer, Alanis Morrissete, Nelly Furtado, Blue Rodeo, Susan Aglugark, Buffy Ste-Marie, Leornard Cohen

    Thank you.

  • More bands to add...

    Avril Lavinge, Sum 41, Celine Dion, Barenaked Ladies, The Tragically Hip, Shania Twain, Sarah McLachlan, Kardinal Offishall, Rush, The Guess Who, Feist, Simple Plan, Three Days Grace, Finger Eleven, Sloan, Deborah Cox, Jully Black, Jan Arden, Our Lady Peace, Sam Roberts, K-OS, Tom Cochrane...

  • Thank you :-)

    I have met Jann Arden and Ton Cochrane. Very nice people :-)

  • @GemmBakko Rush, Paul Anka, Heart, Loverboy, April Wine, Trooper, Gordon Lightfort, Trooper, The Guess Who, K-os, D,O.A, Dayglo Abortions, Skinny Puppy, Vovoid, Bruce Coburn, Bare Naked Ladies, BTO, Tragically Hip, Rough Trade, , Sarah Macglaclan, Aldo Nova, Tom CochraneShania Twain, Alannah Myles, 54-40,Pursuit of Happiness, Grapes of Wrath, Spoons, Ashely McIsaac, Colin James, Jeff Healy, The Tea Party, Mathew Good, I mother Earth, Our Lady Peace, Bif Naked, Avril Lavigne Feist Arcade Fire++++

  • Not a fan of Canadian "prog" like Saga, Gowan, Prism and FM?

  • Saw these guys at the Ehibition in Toronto in 2000 or so.  They still rock

  • I saw these guys in Kingston, like um...1984...I feel old suddenly...lol...they have great tunes, real innovators,they really were ahead of their time...Nice to hear they're still rockin!!!

  • Love this song.

  • This is now one of my top 20 favorite 80s songs!

  • I've always love these guys although I haven't been to any of their concerts. They will have a free concert with gate admission at the PNE on the 23rd, if any of you guys are in driving distance to Vancouver, BC :).

  • I saw them at the PNE on Saturday.

    They rocked.

    I always kinda liked them since I was a kid, but after seeing them live I have become a big fan.

    I had totally forgotten about this song.

  • Canadas best 80s band and there still good today! =D

  • Love it. I saw Glass Tiger last summer and they can still rock it!!

  • I like it..

  • Man, the 80s mullets...

  • The introduction to the Lonely Planet Guide to Canada states: "The Creator must have been in an especially good mood when designing Canada."

    We are very lucky to live here. :-)

  • The badlands are in Dinosaur Provincial Park in southern Alberta woot woot

  • *hugs* for sexibabe25

  • Can anyone defend Winnipeg?

  • shoulder pads hehe

  • Are the city scenes in Winnipeg?

  • im 25 f british columbia :)

  • For sexibabe25,

    I have not been in Central Canada yet, neither in Manitoba, nor in Sasquacwechan. I have met great people from there.

  • Sorry to sexibabe25...

    Is sexibabe25 from Central Canada?

  • No, she said British Columbia, that's on our west coast

  • I rrrrreally love this song!!! the guy is totally HOT and sexy!!!

  • The guy at 2:39 and 4:00 is SO hot!!!

    If you want to see more of him, check out my channel!

  • SUPER--THANKS...

  • I saw Glass Tiger on this tour for the 2nd time in June 1988 at The Boathouse in Norfolk, VA. In November 1986, I saw them when they opened for Journey on the Raised on Radio tour in Hampton. They put on a good show both times. Did anybody else see these 2 tours. I like to hear from you if you did.

  • life is love , got to love this song thanks cause i do love this song

  • Great memories; Haven't heard GT in quite a while. I remember buying the cassettes for a friend of mine for his b-day and he ripped it open in two seconds. Yes, cassettes, it was back in the 80's so don't be poking fun! :p

  • Anyone who likes this will probably also like "The Dead Heart", by Midnight Oil, another band which, apparently, are no longer together.

  • very good video.. it explain well the meaning of the song. someone have the video of 'someday' please?  i've been searching it as one of my best memory of 80

  • Great song, great band, pity they've been gone into oblivion...thanks for the post - good memories from the 80's..

  • Actually I never reffered to anyone as Indian Even those from India. I say Native as it refers to the first of the land. O Canada! Our home and Native Land. The Early U.S. Settlers and Western Frontiersmen Reinforced The faux pas. Generally.

  • Christopher Columbus's error, I believe. Not sure though...

  • I love this video 'cause it was filmed at my fav camping spot- Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta

  • Canada does not have many landscapes like this.

  • great music.. great style!!!

  • Aboriginal people is called "indians" here because Christopher Columbus thought he was in India when he reached Canada. The name stayed until today!

  • no surrender aus

  • Please explain

  • Awesome song about the Aboriginal people in Canada! The Australian versions would be Midnight Oil's Beds are Burning, or Goanna's Solid Rock.

  • very nice video. It was a great idea to upload it. The melody of glass tiger invades my soul and gives me force for life.

    Sincerely

    Neil Alata

  • niceeeeeeeeee

  • love this song .

  • good dam song . thank uploading it

  • Nice song ,, but the French version are Better ,,, i think

    :)

  • Um, sorry to correct you, but 4 out of the 5 original members (Sam, Michael, Al & Wayne) were born and bred in Canada. Only Alan is originally from Scotland.

    How do I know? DUH, I have met them all back in the late 80's at a Junos party!

  • You are correct, but glass tiger has a very special style. Music of Scotland, i like it too.

    Neil Alata

  • dude wikipedia them it says they're Canadian and formed in Ontario, they may have scottish ancestry but they're canadaian.

  • They are, few of them are half Scottish.

  • lead singer Alan Frew is the only one I know of ! He lives in Toronto Canada !

  • um ....they are not a Canadian Band ,they are all from Scotland.Just setting the facts straight. :O) Oh ps they did hit it big in Canada,but they are all scottish lads, ever hear any of there songs with the bagpipes playing! ok peace.

  • this band is from canada

  • de de de

  • Good Song.

  • it was filmed in bc and they live mins away from me

    newmarket

  • Where in Newmarket are they located? My mom lives off of Mulock/Cane!

  • by the way whats important here is that this song is beautiful and like everything else is connected

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

  • Do you consider the fact that as the years went by things were better merchandised advertised times had changed the messages were different people and fans in general were different as well the way people looked at music was different

    Nevermind was so overlooked as to what it was and would be nothing without the styles predecessors

    Record Sales?

    oh Yeah Kurdt would have really consider that as victory in expression

    this is not a plausible comparison or arguement really

  • Guys ? Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum were huge back in 87-88. They even made it onto the cover of Time for Pete´s sake !

  • the lyrics is about native americans?

  • i meet them all in gan ontario canada

  • I grew up on the band & i love them to death, but than again Alan Frew is my uncle. Holy. check out that hair! lol

  • The greatest canadian band of all times!!

  • BHAHWHAH LOOK AT THEIR STYLE! aheiuhaeiuahe

  • This is so awesome...i'm having a good evening 2day...listening to the great tunes back from the day...:)...They were great in concert...

  • This is 1988, right ? Amazing the impact The Joshua Tree (1987) had on music. This stripped down, back to basics, socially conscious Glass Tiger is so

    "Joshua Tree".

  • "Joshua Tree" is overrated. Hindsight is 20/20, but at the time - 1987 - JT (and U2 in general) was totally overshadowed by, for example, INXS' "Kick".

  • No friggin way dude. U2´s Joshua Tree was the biggest friggin thing to hit rock since Bob Dylan.

  • As I said, hindsight is 20/20. But let's take 1987 and compare albums. INXS' "Kick" sold more copies, had a higher chart position, and had more hit singles.

  • Joshua Tree was the first "indie" shot heard around the world. You can see how their socially conscious,

    "wearing-their-hearts-on-their­-sleeves" demeanor started to influence bands worldwide (ie:Glass Tiger, Midnight Oil, Tragically Hip, etc).

  • Oh I agree 100%. It's a very important album in rock history. I was just saying that, back in 1987, it wasn't seen as the big huge deal it eventually became. It took time. It wasn't the instant cultural shock that "Nevermind" by Nirvana was.

  • True. "Appetite for Destruction" and later on, "Nevermind" blew the lid right off the rock world.

  • Right. G'n'R and Nirvana produced instant change. The influence of Joshua Tree is evident over time but not at the time. I should also mention George Michael's "Faith" also outsold JT that year. In fact it was the #1 album of 1987.