Someone commented on this video that Stuart blends into the mointain at the end - how apt. Stuart, to me was mother nature bringing Scotland to life, to live among us for 43 years. Now he is the mountains, the rain, the wind in the trees of Scotland, go there and you will feel his presence.
I have yet to hear anything from this band that I DON'T like... I think I'm just going to give up on music of today period and just go back to basics.... This is it, just plain good music.
BC was a great live band but were produced badly in the studio for the most part ,they sound great in this video but there live performances were always much better and more hard edged! The record companies never showed them the respect they deserved. Rock on guys!
Stuart Adamson and the band, so MISSSSED. Buffalo Skinners CD is hard to find. Thank goodness I have one. They did a free show in San Francisco which I will never forget. The incredible new sounds they created with bagpipes streaming through guitars....So untouched.
"Anos 80,Sampa,loja Mesbla...Me lembro como se fosse ontem:perguntei ao vendedor se já havia chegado o último LP(é isso mesmo,LP) do Big Country,e ele se dirigiu ao setor de...bandas de música country,e ele estava lá!"
Big Country....ABSOLOUTE QUALITY!! Real music, real lyrics...and QUALITY GUITARS!! Stuart, you had so much more to offer!!...keep the dream alive boys!!
the crossing was a great album desrved to be on the list of the top albums of all time and a completly original sound ..wow great band i have a imported clear 12 " vinyl of this single:)
I was a teenager in the 1980s. I listened to this band before my friends did. They thought I was nuts. Big Country was a band before its time, much like a number of bands in the 80s. I'll probably still be listening to BG decades from now. I mean, what else am I going to listen to besides old Jazz hits that were before my time? Very few bands catch my attention today.
was fifteen when i got "the crossing" and loved it. Somehow i forgot about them. Rediscovering them again. Wish i knew how completely great they were live back in the day. I would have gone to every show i could. Too bad i won't get the chance. What mind blowing talent. They never got huge here in US. They should have. Ive been turning everyone i know onto "come up screaming" cd, young and old. Are any young folks gettin into these guys? learning something about great music and songs?
@saharrison David Bowie was not in any way bad that day. He had Peter Frampton and Carlos Alomar on guitar duties that day. He was good enough. However, Big Country were on explosive form that day and I think they would probably have pretty much upstaged anyone.
I saw Big Country in 1987 at Slane Castle near Dublin. They were brilliant. I actually think that it was the first time that i saw a support act upstaging the headline act. At that gig Big Country were supporting David Bowie in front of 70,000 fans. No disrespect to Mr Bowie but Big Country were truly in a league of their own. I wish more folks today would discover Big Country's amazing catalogue of good songs.
I stood on the top floor of the carpark on Westgate Street to listen to them then went to the pub before Bowie came on :-) Got to see them in Newport-fantastic band and Stuart was such a wonderful genuine guy.Still feel so sad when I think about his death :-(
If you like this stuff go look at The Skids on YT - they were Stuart's first band. I just saw them recently in Glasgow with Bruce Watson (of Big Country) filling in for Stuart - a brilliant night.
Any owners..ie,music producers that remove this group,will be banned from further purcases from me and the people that like Big Country...be advised...
This video kicks ass. Big Country is one of the most overlooked, underrated and under appreciated rock acts of the 80's. I guess people don't know what they've missed. It's too bad they took down the videos for "In A Big Country" and "Just A Shadow". I love those.
I see Mark Brzezicki is now drumming with 'From The Jam'. I first saw BC as a support act to The Jam in 1982. Never thought 28 years later I'd see an amalgam of both bands in one act. I Miss Big Country Big Time. 'In a Big Country dreams stay with you'.
Great song - Mark Brzezicki's drumming still forces me to air drum to it as soon as I hear it! Shame they were of the era where poor old Stuart feels the need to do some George Michael type dancing!!
Being from the US, they are only known for "In a Big Country." I heard this when I was 13 from a greatest hits album. I played it over and over, and remembering this, I love it all over again.
Depends on which part of the US you were in, I think. In southern California at the time, this song actually saw a lot of airplay, and I was able to find the Wonderland ep in a local record store because of that. But the albums that came after were harder to find and received less airplay.
I lived in Montana and remember only being able to find the crossing and wonderland lp......i had them in casette tape and literally wore them out and was desperately waiting for new music that never came.........For me they literally dropped off the planet until i saw by chance the album "Why the long face" in a record store in the mid 90s and it re lit my hunger for their music............
Good as I say, creci in them 80s desperte in them 90s I live in 2000 but groups of the quality as BIG COUNTRY with his(her,your) own(proper) stamp and style already is not ysi they them are very pocos.un greeting from PERU!! Land of the INKAS
BIG COUNTRY gran banda de los 80s llegue ha escuchar esta banda por los años 90s en el 94 cuando ingrese al colegio militar en LIMA-PERU solo en RADIO DOBLE NUEVE la unica !!!! radio de peru q pone toda esta movida europea !!!
im sad they will no longer be making music that moves me ..i love their sound and style and content that inspires ...thank god we have a testament to his life
and so few of us gave the world civilization, this is not false pride, read HOW THE SCOTS INVENTED THE MODERN WORLD by Arthur Herman, an American historian.
Yes, and In a Big Country. Then you can't buy their CD's in most stores here in the states anymor either. Cd's you can't buy, videos you can't watch. I don't see the logic.
After watching this video you should all listen to this song on a proper stereo so you turn up the bass, jump up in the air like Stuart at the end of the video and go aaaaaahhhhh.
We only have their greatest hits, but this is one of my favourite songs off it. Also like Just A Shadow. Well I like them all, but that one particularly.
Was around to see them but never did one of the big regrets. "The Crossing" is one of the best albums I've had the pleasure of listening to and still regard it as one of the most unfortunately undiscovered seminal albums.
This is such and awesome song! Love "In a Big Country" too. One of the songs I will always remember from the early 80's. Heard it standing in line at the grocery store the other day amazingly enough...I couldn't help but sing along! :)
They are not shit without bagpipes, they never even used bagpipes.
Bruce Watson came up with a guitar sound, which they, ironically enough, call "The Seagull". The sound is of course headed towards bagpipes on purpose, however they never used real bagpipes in their music.
I had the priveledge of seeing Big Country in Daytona Beach (free concert), spring break 1984. These guys were very good! I will never forget the sound, it was incredible! Just so happened I was 17 years old and skipped school, me and some freinds drove to Daytona about 20 miles away, low and behold Big Country and Modern English, were getting ready to take stage, We got a parking spot and the rest is history! Also I must add that Modern English was good! concert was at the Band shell!
Had the priveledge of seeing BC in Cambridge back in 2000 when I was stationed there...I was fucking blown away...Never knew much about them besides "in a bg country"...Now one of my favorite bands of all time...Wish more people in the states would listen...RIP Stuart...you are surely missed my friend...
Awesome!! - nothing like blasting out Big Country on my stereo- my kids hate it and im in middle aged heaven lol,some sounds are classic and never lose their appeal
Am proud to say that i had Big Country on last weekend and found my 12 year old daughter singing along and she knew the words!! hopefully ive passed on the love to the next generation lol
I was hit by BC in 1983. Wonderland was, simply, shocking. It took The Crossing into another land. I was so inspired by it. It made me feel important as a stupid 17 year old. I watched that pride be torn apart beneath a darker sky? How could a 17 year old understand this epic journey. When Steeltown emerged I became an adult overnight. My dear friend Stuart. I miss you every day.
Listen...and listen close. Hear the way that the drums double back on themselves, the way that our Stu sings with meaning, the guitar, the whole dammed thing. Wow...just wow....
True, most americans dont know anything from BC except, "Big Country" I had the pleasure of experiencing a BC show in Cambridge when I was stationed there...I was fucking blown away...one of the, if not the most underated band from my generation....nobody writes songs like Stuart did...God RIP...songs today have zero meaning...
one of the best years ever for music bands and singers the 80s they will play on foreva not like the shite played now will be forgotten the 80s music will live on
My dad described Editors and Morrisey meets Big Country (which, in his opinion, isn't good! (well, the Morrisey part at least)). I'm not a fan of Morrisey myself but Big Country seem to be pretty darn good.
thought it was u2 new years day ist second cant remember bc doing this video but then again when you get to 42 you cant remember much but i do remember this band as they are the best thing that ever came out of scotland my 1st ever cd was the crossing mind u i had that on vinyl but cds were just coming out try listening to their cover version of paranoid its on here have to say am a big fan of ozzy but he would be paranoid himself listening to stuart singing that version
Like the Jam/StyleCouncil/Paul Weller, BC had a hard time getting much exposure in the US. So Americans think of them as one-hit wonders. Most Americans have never heard anything after the first album. Still, they did manage to get that one song into the folk memory.
Oh yeah--I'm in the US and I remember being a young boy in this era--Simple Minds, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, all of those were considered 1-hit--I relocated to Dubai in '87 and their top 40 radio/chart was modelled on the UKs so I got be exposed to bands like Transvision Vamp, the Farm, Happy Mondays, et al-amazing bands that were unheard of here-the fact Transvision esp. never 'made' it here is criminal and a tribute to shitty American musical taste (I mean...country? ugh)
some of the comments are just pathetic.lets get back to what it's all about children and that is to revel in good music and happy memories big country big sound pride of scotland
Fantastic! stirs up so many emotions.. so many memories.
Tyke63360 1 year ago
Someone commented on this video that Stuart blends into the mointain at the end - how apt. Stuart, to me was mother nature bringing Scotland to life, to live among us for 43 years. Now he is the mountains, the rain, the wind in the trees of Scotland, go there and you will feel his presence.
gsm1881 1 year ago 9
My 11 year old daughter loves listening to their Undercover album. They did some great covers in addition to their own beautiful music.
yugitso 1 year ago
me old man absolutly swears by these, got to say i agree......
joey15ism 1 year ago
How sad and unexpected that this handsum, talented man, did wot he did :-( x
helyn01 1 year ago
Found this band by accident and so glad I did. What a load of superb songs they've done.
suburbansoftrocker 1 year ago
Crank this up loud and sing along at the top of your lungs! Fills me with such joy...
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gillo69 1 year ago
The whole IS greater than the sum of its parts but - oh - those Brzezicki drums...
SixStringGirl2106 1 year ago
I have yet to hear anything from this band that I DON'T like... I think I'm just going to give up on music of today period and just go back to basics.... This is it, just plain good music.
Wildpurpleink 1 year ago
@Wildpurpleink I've been a fan since 1983 and couldn't agree more. Check out my Youtube page as I have a few hundred of their videos there.
bfbjr 1 year ago
great song, homey sweaters :)
hokbu 1 year ago
this guy writes unbelievable music
ThatsaCryinShame 1 year ago
BC was a great live band but were produced badly in the studio for the most part ,they sound great in this video but there live performances were always much better and more hard edged! The record companies never showed them the respect they deserved. Rock on guys!
selousify 1 year ago
@selousify couldn't agree more!!!
oceancoloursubsea 1 year ago
Flippin' good song.
suburbansoftrocker 1 year ago
did he really need to wear is dads jumper?
moakley 1 year ago
@moakley This was 1984 - those sort of jumpers were fahionable then!
CraigG1960 1 year ago
True talent when it is not being appreciated must be a terrible thing. Mix this up with a lifestyle of drugs and alcohol and this is what happens.
Rest in peace Stuart.
reilly1926 1 year ago
Oh my goodness I feel like I am in 1990. Awesome!
lsouix1 1 year ago
@lsouix1 It was 1983-84!
bfbjr 1 year ago
@bfbjr Perhaps she/he became a fan then mate.
guyfromnewcastle 1 year ago
@lsouix1 lol
domothemetalgod 1 year ago
@domothemetalgod 98
gillo69 1 year ago
i have never figure out why this group wasnt hotter than other's of the era. great sound, great lyrics.
bwayne6 1 year ago
Stuart Adamson and the band, so MISSSSED. Buffalo Skinners CD is hard to find. Thank goodness I have one. They did a free show in San Francisco which I will never forget. The incredible new sounds they created with bagpipes streaming through guitars....So untouched.
AtlastAtlastAtlast 1 year ago
Rest in Peace Stuart. Listening back to this reminds me of my youth, when life was simpler.
forcefedvw 1 year ago
"Anos 80,Sampa,loja Mesbla...Me lembro como se fosse ontem:perguntei ao vendedor se já havia chegado o último LP(é isso mesmo,LP) do Big Country,e ele se dirigiu ao setor de...bandas de música country,e ele estava lá!"
RJPaulista 1 year ago
FREEDOM......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
38foxglove 1 year ago
Best Band EVER!! you where my youth.
kymcey1 1 year ago
God bless stuart adamson....a true musical legend!!
sgtwilkosbarmyarmy 1 year ago
Big Country....ABSOLOUTE QUALITY!! Real music, real lyrics...and QUALITY GUITARS!! Stuart, you had so much more to offer!!...keep the dream alive boys!!
sgtwilkosbarmyarmy 1 year ago
the crossing was a great album desrved to be on the list of the top albums of all time and a completly original sound ..wow great band i have a imported clear 12 " vinyl of this single:)
4yules 1 year ago
1965 twat...do you talk crap with difficulty or does it come naturally to you?
headwork2008 1 year ago
65bluegreen...do you talk shit with difficulty or does it come naturally?
headwork2008 1 year ago
I was a teenager in the 1980s. I listened to this band before my friends did. They thought I was nuts. Big Country was a band before its time, much like a number of bands in the 80s. I'll probably still be listening to BG decades from now. I mean, what else am I going to listen to besides old Jazz hits that were before my time? Very few bands catch my attention today.
eclecticinfidel 1 year ago
god bless you stuart
joy2559 1 year ago
God i love this band!
They should easily have been as big as U2. RIP Stuart, you were a proper legend.
jamesgdavies2 1 year ago
was fifteen when i got "the crossing" and loved it. Somehow i forgot about them. Rediscovering them again. Wish i knew how completely great they were live back in the day. I would have gone to every show i could. Too bad i won't get the chance. What mind blowing talent. They never got huge here in US. They should have. Ive been turning everyone i know onto "come up screaming" cd, young and old. Are any young folks gettin into these guys? learning something about great music and songs?
MrJkizzy1 1 year ago
never seen this before thanks!
charltonspinney 1 year ago
Great Band Shame they are not still around, Poor Stuart.
scarlettsguy 1 year ago
What a band,what a song and what a jumper!!!
cassidybridie 1 year ago 2
@cassidybridie the jumper is legendary :)
jamesgdavies2 1 year ago
listen to their whole catologue of music. they laid their own tracks of originol music. the world could use their words today.
bryjag1965 1 year ago
Big Country...Awesome band !!!
Silatman2 1 year ago
Holy Shit this band is Amazing! Haven't found a band in a long time that has given me the shivers like this 1.
art123abc 1 year ago
@saharrison David Bowie was not in any way bad that day. He had Peter Frampton and Carlos Alomar on guitar duties that day. He was good enough. However, Big Country were on explosive form that day and I think they would probably have pretty much upstaged anyone.
lancashirehotpot434 1 year ago
I saw Big Country in 1987 at Slane Castle near Dublin. They were brilliant. I actually think that it was the first time that i saw a support act upstaging the headline act. At that gig Big Country were supporting David Bowie in front of 70,000 fans. No disrespect to Mr Bowie but Big Country were truly in a league of their own. I wish more folks today would discover Big Country's amazing catalogue of good songs.
lancashirehotpot434 1 year ago
@lancashirehotpot434 I totally agree with you, i saw them on the same tour in Cardiff Arms Park, what an anti climax Bowie was.
saharrison1970 1 year ago
I stood on the top floor of the carpark on Westgate Street to listen to them then went to the pub before Bowie came on :-) Got to see them in Newport-fantastic band and Stuart was such a wonderful genuine guy.Still feel so sad when I think about his death :-(
welshexile 1 year ago
When music was Music!!!!!! god i wish i was in my Teens again
Andsaca1 1 year ago
This lovely man sang from his heart and upbringing...Wonderfull and honest..I miss him and his band and sound..glorious!
kezzer2 1 year ago 3
If you like this stuff go look at The Skids on YT - they were Stuart's first band. I just saw them recently in Glasgow with Bruce Watson (of Big Country) filling in for Stuart - a brilliant night.
CombatRocks 1 year ago 2
@CombatRocks Glad it was good...nobody can fill in for Stu...
kezzer2 1 year ago
My dad used to carry stuarts guitard around, for quite a long time whenever they were playing a gig etc.
MrPurplehouse 1 year ago
@MrPurplehouse Why?
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Any owners..ie,music producers that remove this group,will be banned from further purcases from me and the people that like Big Country...be advised...
kezzer2 1 year ago
@kezzer2 sorry..purchase..I think we all know what I mean...great band! Dont be greedy guys...we still buy them...
kezzer2 1 year ago
One amazing song. One amazing band. This is my favourite. Check out the You Tube video - 'In a Big Country -Then and Now'.
Nick15505 1 year ago
I like the key he is singing in.
hjmcgill 1 year ago
The Guitar Stuart used for this video and some early songs was sold on ebay a few years back...i should have bought it!
oldhawkins 1 year ago
RIP, Stuart!
ReinaAntilles 1 year ago 2
This video kicks ass. Big Country is one of the most overlooked, underrated and under appreciated rock acts of the 80's. I guess people don't know what they've missed. It's too bad they took down the videos for "In A Big Country" and "Just A Shadow". I love those.
joytotheworld76 1 year ago 5
big country uma otima banda , infelizmente seu vocalista ja é falecido , mais esta ai as obras primas da banda para nós ouvir
davidmassola 1 year ago
I see Mark Brzezicki is now drumming with 'From The Jam'. I first saw BC as a support act to The Jam in 1982. Never thought 28 years later I'd see an amalgam of both bands in one act. I Miss Big Country Big Time. 'In a Big Country dreams stay with you'.
Izzetafox 1 year ago
Great song - Mark Brzezicki's drumming still forces me to air drum to it as soon as I hear it! Shame they were of the era where poor old Stuart feels the need to do some George Michael type dancing!!
daveclarke68 1 year ago 3
looks like stuart doesnt feel the cold like the others heh lol
jammedgunner 1 year ago
looks like stuart doesnt feel the cold like the others heh lol
jammedgunner 1 year ago
Being from the US, they are only known for "In a Big Country." I heard this when I was 13 from a greatest hits album. I played it over and over, and remembering this, I love it all over again.
AlexAsperger 1 year ago
@AlexAsperger
Depends on which part of the US you were in, I think. In southern California at the time, this song actually saw a lot of airplay, and I was able to find the Wonderland ep in a local record store because of that. But the albums that came after were harder to find and received less airplay.
bleuroo 1 year ago
@bleuroo I am from So Cal, so thanks for the heads up!
AlexAsperger 1 year ago
I lived in Montana and remember only being able to find the crossing and wonderland lp......i had them in casette tape and literally wore them out and was desperately waiting for new music that never came.........For me they literally dropped off the planet until i saw by chance the album "Why the long face" in a record store in the mid 90s and it re lit my hunger for their music............
oldhawkins 1 year ago
God he was absolutely gorgeous !! I am mesmerised by his beautiful face and voice and screen presence. Love this song too.
74posy 1 year ago
Play Big Country at Murrayfield tomorrow amd we will beat the wan//// excuse England.
locheelad2 1 year ago
As we'd say in the 80's- "This song rules".
bfbjr 1 year ago
Good as I say, creci in them 80s desperte in them 90s I live in 2000 but groups of the quality as BIG COUNTRY with his(her,your) own(proper) stamp and style already is not ysi they them are very pocos.un greeting from PERU!! Land of the INKAS
adamx78 1 year ago
BIG COUNTRY gran banda de los 80s llegue ha escuchar esta banda por los años 90s en el 94 cuando ingrese al colegio militar en LIMA-PERU solo en RADIO DOBLE NUEVE la unica !!!! radio de peru q pone toda esta movida europea !!!
adamx78 1 year ago
Peru rules.
locheelad2 1 year ago
Love this song...love old songs...wish I could play this on guitar....Thanks for posting
bolnalamo 1 year ago
brilliant band, brilliant song
rip stuart
JACoz 1 year ago
I never heard this before now It rocks
oceanbelow 1 year ago 2
Another great song by a very underrated band. Thank you for sharing this video.
Mominator 1 year ago
"With innonnce, within ourselves we sing the same old song" - still awesome, makes me mourn my own childhood!
djmacdonald73 1 year ago 3
Listening to a few BIG Country classics just reminds me how crap 99per cent of music is today!
65bluegreen 1 year ago 53
@65bluegreen all new Music is CR*P bluegreen Sadly
Andsaca1 1 year ago
@Andsaca1 Not quite 'all'. Just 99% of it!!
CombatRocks 1 year ago
@65bluegreen aint you so right! big metal fan myself but i know tons of us that thought these were ace!
kreatorste 1 year ago
superbly innovative guitarist
you are indeed missed Mr Adamson
Pacquaio 1 year ago 4
im sad they will no longer be making music that moves me ..i love their sound and style and content that inspires ...thank god we have a testament to his life
4yules 1 year ago 4
im proud 2 b scottish,we do rock as a nation!
ckyable 1 year ago 6
and so few of us gave the world civilization, this is not false pride, read HOW THE SCOTS INVENTED THE MODERN WORLD by Arthur Herman, an American historian.
locheelad2 1 year ago
fantastic!
dirtyjew1974 1 year ago 2
"I feel the Winter too!"
rewindbttn 1 year ago 4
One of my favourite bands. I discovered them only recently.
TheManOfTwoWorlds 1 year ago 19
@TheManOfTwoWorlds ~~ same here. took 25 years for this song to reach my ears on staten island. i bet it hasn't changed a bit since then ;)
ThatsaCryinShame 1 year ago 2
You will be missed Stuart.
louisvilleslugger 1 year ago 3
It sucks they took down the video for Fields of Fire.....
HumanPuddingPgh 1 year ago 3
Yes, and In a Big Country. Then you can't buy their CD's in most stores here in the states anymor either. Cd's you can't buy, videos you can't watch. I don't see the logic.
bfbjr 1 year ago 3
Andy Murray - if you need any inspiration for tomorrows final then listen to this - LOUD! It fuckin' rocks!!
iainb333 2 years ago
My favourite BC song if thats possible,
kymcey1 2 years ago 2
I see it.. Yah totally.
redhead16 1 year ago
After watching this video you should all listen to this song on a proper stereo so you turn up the bass, jump up in the air like Stuart at the end of the video and go aaaaaahhhhh.
anytunes 2 years ago 3
We only have their greatest hits, but this is one of my favourite songs off it. Also like Just A Shadow. Well I like them all, but that one particularly.
MissGreyDay 2 years ago
just a shadow, brilliant song RIP Stuart
THECutto 2 years ago 3
Check out my youtube page, I have over 200 Big Country songs there.
bfbjr 1 year ago 2
love them saw them in London once rip
pattaya97 2 years ago
Was around to see them but never did one of the big regrets. "The Crossing" is one of the best albums I've had the pleasure of listening to and still regard it as one of the most unfortunately undiscovered seminal albums.
TheLummer66 2 years ago
This is such and awesome song! Love "In a Big Country" too. One of the songs I will always remember from the early 80's. Heard it standing in line at the grocery store the other day amazingly enough...I couldn't help but sing along! :)
Memoryburst 2 years ago 2
hey
i think it"s great
i know how you feel!
sydissyd 2 years ago
they had a rich powerful sound...big drums big voice big country yes!!!!!!
4yules 2 years ago 2
A great band, this brings back some fantastic memorys.
TheDolmen 2 years ago 2
classic song to leave school too !!!
Chinablu1969 2 years ago
happy memories of my teenage years and saw them live
the 80s rocked!
BarbaraFanDallas 2 years ago
makes we wanna cry I'm so jealous of people who were born earlier than me and got to see bands like THIS LIVE! Fuck!
tracehazarrrrd 2 years ago
one of the best bands of the 80s
wayne109 2 years ago
this band was just pure class if you ever got to see then you wood now how good thay were
peecogs 2 years ago
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They are shit without bagpipes, the pipes made the band complete
shimmyshimmy8989 2 years ago
They are not shit without bagpipes, they never even used bagpipes.
Bruce Watson came up with a guitar sound, which they, ironically enough, call "The Seagull". The sound is of course headed towards bagpipes on purpose, however they never used real bagpipes in their music.
Chefen92 2 years ago
46 years young and these guys still invoke imotion.
whoperman 2 years ago 4
Stuart Adamson and Big Country were the best!
Frannie69 2 years ago 2
Take's me back to being 17, great, great band. Stuart sadly missed.
cassy2802 2 years ago 6
BIG COUNTRY 4 EVER!!!
theangryrockstar 2 years ago
I had the priveledge of seeing Big Country in Daytona Beach (free concert), spring break 1984. These guys were very good! I will never forget the sound, it was incredible! Just so happened I was 17 years old and skipped school, me and some freinds drove to Daytona about 20 miles away, low and behold Big Country and Modern English, were getting ready to take stage, We got a parking spot and the rest is history! Also I must add that Modern English was good! concert was at the Band shell!
DEK981967 2 years ago
kanye and little wayne where not areound then..
odinmp5 2 years ago
Had the priveledge of seeing BC in Cambridge back in 2000 when I was stationed there...I was fucking blown away...Never knew much about them besides "in a bg country"...Now one of my favorite bands of all time...Wish more people in the states would listen...RIP Stuart...you are surely missed my friend...
sgetty58 2 years ago 3
RIP Big man you are in my soul,you will live forever and a day.
kymcey1 2 years ago 3
Great sound,sorely missed,a true countryman,tradition,mountains,and song....beautifull....miss his voice..............
kezzer2 2 years ago 2
Had the Honour to see them supporting Queen in the 80's - amazing. He is sorely missed !!
Stibb1968 2 years ago
U2 good? well, maybe they were good back in the 80's and until Achtung baby..after that, a total decline. Now they're just SHIT.
Big Country over U2 big time.
Prizak1 2 years ago 2
@Prizak1 bc were more successful than u2 until liveaid.the promoter heard they had split and didnt schedule them in.if you watch the liveaid video
baconland 2 years ago
Love your jumper, Stu! ;-)
I'd quite forgotten just how anthemic and grand this is.
Should've been the 11th track on "Steeltown".
"I am an honest man,
I need the love of you,
I am an honest man,
I feel the winter too ..."
Don't we all ...
"If you could feel how I must feel ..."
AndrewAnthonyHyde 2 years ago 8
Awesome!! - nothing like blasting out Big Country on my stereo- my kids hate it and im in middle aged heaven lol,some sounds are classic and never lose their appeal
simmynz 2 years ago 10
Glad to find out i`m not the only one !!.
When dad goes on an 80`s trip the kids roll their eyes and the neighbours complain about the noise !!!
ArmouredCharmer1 2 years ago 2
Am proud to say that i had Big Country on last weekend and found my 12 year old daughter singing along and she knew the words!! hopefully ive passed on the love to the next generation lol
simmynz 2 years ago 2
I was hit by BC in 1983. Wonderland was, simply, shocking. It took The Crossing into another land. I was so inspired by it. It made me feel important as a stupid 17 year old. I watched that pride be torn apart beneath a darker sky? How could a 17 year old understand this epic journey. When Steeltown emerged I became an adult overnight. My dear friend Stuart. I miss you every day.
FoghornLeghorn66 2 years ago 6
As much as i love this song it still makes me feel so sad. Stuart, i hope you did find your Wonderland. Miss you.
brownfaye 2 years ago 7
U2 & Big Country created the great celtic rock sounds...
U2 went the Brian Eno way....
But Big Country went the...same way the Big Country way.
Big Country & Stuart stay true to their celtic rock.
Thanks for the music guys...
teletropolis 2 years ago 3
Respectfully, I cant believe you would even put U-2 and Big Country in the sentence. Big Country by far is the better band.
FROGMOUSE 2 years ago 11
Haha, respectfully i am refering to U2 before Brian's Eno influence.
Both Stuart & Bono's voices are celtically raw & nomadic.
U2 & Big Country are big bands no one should ignore or undermine their music
creations.
:)
teletropolis 2 years ago 3
i have not listened to Big Country in years until tonight i decided to do a we search, god they were good.
TheWeedoggie 2 years ago 6
Makes me wish I could go back in time.........
gusswardson 2 years ago 10
great band! happy memories of seeing them live in Glasgow
BarbaraFanDallas 2 years ago 5
the dogs nuts so t speak
jamesjnr67 2 years ago
You can tell they're scottish by the way they can still play guitar in subzero temperatures. Respect.
bluelightcycle 2 years ago 3
BEST BAND EVER
FROGMOUSE 2 years ago 7
Some of these videos the drummers like "im not in the fucking stray cats!"
Perilcrown 2 years ago
Best band there ever was.
biggles132 2 years ago 8
Sick F'in song. I'm sold like a mother.
nnaegerdesign 2 years ago 7
True class this wipes the floor of all the shit in the charts now a days
arrowsf1 2 years ago 7
agreed!
brilliant stuff -
saw BIG COUNTRY live and every time they were "AWESOME!"
dogfart666ok 2 years ago 4
Listen...and listen close. Hear the way that the drums double back on themselves, the way that our Stu sings with meaning, the guitar, the whole dammed thing. Wow...just wow....
paul20motorbikes 2 years ago 4
Always thought this may have been thier best song.
Never saw the video untill now! Don't know if it was ever released in Canada.
I had an EP (on cassette!) with this as the title track. I really really miss BC music!
mikedo6 2 years ago
Yes, this is a fine tune mikedo6. I play BC music on bandcouver.
bandcouver 2 years ago
Brilliant !
SuperMonty007 2 years ago
ouvi a 2 anos e tenho procurado por esse som todos os dias. achei agora, e tenho certeza que se trata
da musica da minha vida, chorando litros aqui...
aceplant 2 years ago
Still sounds fantastic to this day
Corkcitygirl1970 2 years ago 3
True, most americans dont know anything from BC except, "Big Country" I had the pleasure of experiencing a BC show in Cambridge when I was stationed there...I was fucking blown away...one of the, if not the most underated band from my generation....nobody writes songs like Stuart did...God RIP...songs today have zero meaning...
getty910 2 years ago 4
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41gibbo 2 years ago
one of the best years ever for music bands and singers the 80s they will play on foreva not like the shite played now will be forgotten the 80s music will live on
41gibbo 2 years ago 7
stfu
nnaegerdesign
chillfmdude 2 years ago
Sick song... all you pricks that don't appreciate it can rot in the depths of hell.
nnaegerdesign 2 years ago 2
Mark Brzezicki was a fantastic underrated drummer. And this was a great song in 1984 awash with crap.
daveclarke68 2 years ago 14
My dad described Editors and Morrisey meets Big Country (which, in his opinion, isn't good! (well, the Morrisey part at least)). I'm not a fan of Morrisey myself but Big Country seem to be pretty darn good.
AJMac93 2 years ago 2
thought it was u2 new years day ist second cant remember bc doing this video but then again when you get to 42 you cant remember much but i do remember this band as they are the best thing that ever came out of scotland my 1st ever cd was the crossing mind u i had that on vinyl but cds were just coming out try listening to their cover version of paranoid its on here have to say am a big fan of ozzy but he would be paranoid himself listening to stuart singing that version
stormyok67 2 years ago
Like the Jam/StyleCouncil/Paul Weller, BC had a hard time getting much exposure in the US. So Americans think of them as one-hit wonders. Most Americans have never heard anything after the first album. Still, they did manage to get that one song into the folk memory.
cejannuzi 2 years ago 2
Oh yeah--I'm in the US and I remember being a young boy in this era--Simple Minds, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, all of those were considered 1-hit--I relocated to Dubai in '87 and their top 40 radio/chart was modelled on the UKs so I got be exposed to bands like Transvision Vamp, the Farm, Happy Mondays, et al-amazing bands that were unheard of here-the fact Transvision esp. never 'made' it here is criminal and a tribute to shitty American musical taste (I mean...country? ugh)
666IronMonkey666 2 years ago
fucking band and a half, enjoy cunts, i am scottish and relate to the feeling, i am a working man ..........
natschavez 2 years ago 4
Only the Scot's can say the word "cunt" and actually make it sound - well - good! lamo
U2 owe these guys everything
octipied1967 2 years ago 3
Stuart shook my hand during this song at a concert in Nijmegen Holland. While i am writing this i am there again.
sempermagister 2 years ago
Aha is a fucking joke, big country is real music, simple is that.
godgloeiend 2 years ago
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Good video. Reminiscant of U2's New Years Day. Gem track. The Crossing was the second album I ever bought, I'm too embarrassed to reveal the first!
TyroneJJ7 2 years ago
Good video - reminiscant of U2's New Years Day. Gem song. The Crossing was the second album I ever bought. I'm too embarassed to reveal the first!
TyroneJJ7 2 years ago
I love Scottish music and Big Country are so good. They also can fuse bagpipes in the music and do it well.
wpaulvandyk 2 years ago
some of the comments are just pathetic.lets get back to what it's all about children and that is to revel in good music and happy memories big country big sound pride of scotland
vwarn83 2 years ago 3
i agree, some of the comments are so idiotic!!!!!!!!!! big country are very underrated!
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