Mansun - Wide Open Space

[mralan1969uk]

That moment you want to watch the video , but you have to endure the advert ......

[TheWiggz22]

Love it nuff said.

[intavent]

amazing really

[intavent]

damn this doesn't seem like its 15 or 16 years ago! the lead actors attire wouldn't look out of place today ,the song too hasn't aged that much.

[D0S81]

@intavent he used to be in the show hollyoaks

[ineedanewhead]

i still play this like it just came out. love this song.

[TheChristChris]

Awesome song that brings back that nostalgic feeling.. But I recognise the main guy in the video, the one with the red hood. Who is he, and what has he been in?

[intavent]

@TheChristChris he was an actor in grange hill

[supertiler1]

god only knows why bands like mansun dont get to be super stars,i got a few albums n theyre brill.instead had to listen to shite like blur

[VadgeChels]

This is SUCH a choooon! Forgotten just how haunting and fabulous it is.

[jimuck83]

love this wee piece of nostalgia

[TheTuneful]

Is that George Best in the cafe near the end?

[Eoinposse]

Mansun deserve a number one hit single.

[Morgenius]

8 people look pretty lonely, I'm joining the 1,108 and adding my "like" to this great track!!!!

[smiggypaul]

did the bloke in the video use to be in Hollyoaks?

[sissie711]

1 of my all time top 10 !!! just fantastic !!!!!

[lemsdarkapprentice]

A simply awesome song!



[MoscowTheBand]

Sheer class, and such a beautiful melody. :)

[sophiesgem]

Just a beautiful classic track... just excellent...

[mralan1969uk]

I was in my 20's and single back when this came out. I was cool back then and i was THERE!!!! ......

[splotty777]

@mralan1969uk Me too...used to play this all the time...still do...great days, great days...

[TobinPT]

This music makes me nostalgic... is that good or bad?

Great song!

[sidle]

@TobinPT Good!

[NJSProject]

Damn! I love it!

[bellydancingdream]

If you think i'm going to thank you for this, and you know who I mean, then you are very wrong.

[Eoinposse]

Paul Draper looks a bit like Paul Weller

[RobbieBSweet]

The re-release has all the B Sides on. The B Sides are very good. Mansun were noted for quality EP's.

[SFO14]

wow! they finally uploaded the studio recording, I always looked this song up and found the live versions, which are great, but this tune is just so fucking awesome!

[pablokino71]

classic

[wolfybmx1]

if ever i got famous and was on desert island discs this would feature in the top 10 tracks i would take with me. thanx to 6 music for playing munsun today as i have now discovered a masterpiece and an amazing band. quality

[hannahbufton]

@wolfybmx1 6music are ace- love them for reminding me & introducing me to new music

[TheLunaticjoker]

im keepin mine... unbroken history.

[interpolluter29]

@TheLunaticjoker I'll find the UK version eventually. They always turn up in local used stores. :-)

[yourma2000]

@interpolluter29 Discogs is your friend

[interpolluter29]

Anyone looking to trade their UK version of Grey Lantern for my US? Or should I just hunt it down, and send the US version to the Goodwill?

[nickthelick]

@interpolluter29 What's the difference between the two then? Also, I'm guessing it overdue for a re-release with extras...

[nickthelick]

@nickthelick Just noticed, a collectors edition came out in 2010!

[interpolluter29]

@nickthelick The one in the UK is the original one. Apparently, the album is built to be a concept album. But the US version is scrambled a teensy bit to be like just a regular album. I heard that the UK one is much better than the US sequence-wise, and I have a thing for concept albums. Plus, the difference is while we do get a b-side on the album ("Take It Easy, Chicken"), I don't have "Stripper Vicar", which is supposed to be a part of the album and its story.

[Mantcer]

Underrated 90s... my adolescence!!!

[HiderFire82]

this track takes me back to the times when i played Gran Turismo...lol

[fishlip3]

Brilliant song, excellent vocals :-)

[cloudbuster66]

great album,great band,

[Littlestevieboy]

The album this is from - Attack of The Grey Lantern - is amazing... check it out - you can probably pick it up for a fiver !!!

[neilmac991]

still think the video would have been better if it showed fell/mountain running after it was supposedly inspired by Joss Naylor (a true legend)

[erickblopez]

The fast (Club/Dance) version is better.

[keyna7]

The whole album at one hit is cool 'cos the songs merge into one another and build tension to make a symphony.

[jollyzz]

this song means sooo much to my wife who once spent a year in prison ! I can see why!

[EnglanEOfficial]

Also, "You'll never get to heaven with a smile on your face from me" is one of the sexiest lyrics ever... <3

[EnglanEOfficial]

I love how both this video and this song still sound and look great after all these years! I adore Mansun, Paul Draper is a gorgeous genius. <3

[4FingeredJay]

For me it's the only good song they did. It is a belter tho. Paul Oakenfold used to play it every set, the remixed version that is!

[kayla9567g]

OMG I love this track,brings back fond memories of a good friend that got killed. RIP Chris.xxxx wkd tune!!

[Nietsnebarg]

this song makes my anus bleed.

[onthemoveagain]

Great Track

Robert Nix Rock/Pop Artist

[seansgirlthesequel]

Top tune of the time, and one of my all time favourites, Grey Lantern album fantastic, went to see them ages ago at Wolverhampton Civic, tremendous.

[MrMhaywood]

Damn this song takes me back. Back when music actually meant something!

[TheQneb]

@MrMhaywood It still does.. theres just sad fact, american mainstream music sucks these days. Luckily american mainstream shit is just like 1% of all music.

[MrMhaywood]

@TheQneb I meant more on a personal level of meaning. This song brings back so many memories for me and I just find it very hard to imagine any recent song having that much of an impact on me in 15 years time.

There is still a hell of a lot of musicians/singer/songwriters who are making amazing music filled with plenty of meaning these days but I sometimes wonder if I'll remember those songs in the same way I remember songs like this.

Any artist who can do that is someone very special.

:-)

[OSAMA1732]

finally i found it !!

[Lukege15]

@OSAMA1732 And it looks like S.E.A.L. finally found you!

[nonix824]

I was looking for this for so many years!!!!!!!!!!So happy right now!!!! :D

[safedavepoet]

this was on the first cd i bought when i was 14 or so, now i sing it at work when im making the poshest food for the richest people,- im surrounded by toffs but im still in a wide open space, dreaming.

[silentevil77]

riding in a car going to school and a rainy cloudy day

[mysadsong]

just, it's my favourite band! i love them! <3

[Hoge74]

I remember when I heard this song for the first time. Loved it since that. No one else didn´t like this or even cared. But I still love this one :)

[criddskovich]

Man , i used to go clubbing to this stuff... shoe gazing music.. love it

[henry60808]

goddamn advertisment. It ruin the atmoshere of my blog post  embedded with this link

[wazir3]

last time i heard this im still in skool, still cool as i remember it.

[stguns79]

Im sooo glad I found this!!!!

[wazir3]

talk about a classic sweet.....

[Radioheal]

Vaya temazo!!!

[kirdot2011]

just saw the vid for the first time...this is NOT how I imagined it...

[SauzeeGod]

My favourite song of all time & i'm a 43 year old biker/punk.

[fishlip3]

TOP TUNE :-)

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

i actually really think this is the best song of its decade. and certainly one of the great albums and bands of the genre. but stephen wells knew best. c**t

[jesamine1996]

good song i only just hurd it on the radio and wow pretty good lol

[jungfrukallan]

I used to have a massive crush on the actor when this song/video was on all the time. He was in Genesis' No Son Of Mine too. That's all I've ever known about him lol

[iim0rpheus]

@jungfrukallan he also played alex in hollyoaks. real name Martino Lazzeri

[lingsbord]

Still BRILLIANT after all these years.......

[buffalobabe1986]

100,000th view! Woohoo! :)

[familybarry1]

10 years!!!!!! 10 years ive been looking for this. i heard it in the gym about an hour ago and i came home straight away to look for the band name on google. IM SO FUCKING HAPPY I FINALLY FOUND IT HAHA!!!!!!!!!

[SweetDisorder84]

@familybarry1 I totally couldnt remember the name of this song/band havn't heard it in a bout 10 years, Was looking again for it the other day... then accidently just stumbled across it now in suggestions on a supergrass video, lol. :D

[MrAof4life]

@familybarry1 six is the best album. attack of the grey lantern second best, then kleptomania then the 3rd album. can never remember the name though lol ...... little kix thats it lol !

[kyussgre]

@familybarry1 this is a joy that many will lose with all the Shazam-like applications. You win some you lose some as the great Lemmy said!

[SuperEverton1974]

@familybarry1 im the exact same i knew paul oakenfold had a cover but couldnt find this

[JonLewisFallows]

@familybarry1 Wtf people out there with ears that work...rejoice rejoice for I am no longer alone in the world....

[chasbo13]

awesome overcoat

[cloudbuster66]

fuck me they dont make em like this anymore,god i hate todays shit,like the twat advertised on vevo dave guetta,but still got my memories when music was good

[Prejudice54]

oh and i thought darren hayes sang it..great great great!!!

[SpaceMonkey1983]

Imho, both the song and the video are about loneliness.

[butiamthedoctor]

It's whatsisname from Hollyoaks!

[win32terminator]

F*ck! I am In bad mood right now... who's that ugly girl near the video?

[mikezazworsky]

paul draper, mad genius, highly underrated, great tunes

[chelle1976ify]

hows this got so little likes ?? underrated 

[ladyclyro11]

best listened to with stereo headphones!

[jclaussftw]

I can't think of any other band that sounds like this. This is great!

[tomhwoods]

This is really something quite bizarrre and original....... And who are we, back in the house to comment, I cannot see.....It's freezing.......

Who has done anything near this recently...not i......

[Louizaki7]

I remember when I was 13 and daydreaming on winter days with this one...

[mrcelada]

The music is great, but it is something gay in the video...

[EleanorAlys]

Does anyone else think that he kinda looks like Ted from How I Met Your Mother?

[Lorryize]

come back Mansun!!!

[SheffieldBeagles]

17 & homeless. Great days....

[TheDayfornight]

what actor is he? was he in hollyoaks

[embojitsu]

@TheDayfornight Martino Lazzeri. Must find out what happened to him. I had a huge crush on him in the 90's.

[29robzombie]

left school in this year,good times.

[666vampyreheart]

^V^ This song is Awesome ^V^

[electrotech3000]

That's not original video 

[CatQueen1980]

a great song spoiled by a poxy advert in front of it....

[trueplayer367]

such a funny memory.

dentists chair, major fear of needles in the mouth, so the Dentist suggest i take these pills, and plug into some music.

so there i am, off my face 8am in the morning, listening to this track, wearing yellow tinted glasses (Dentist suggestion), right out of it...

took 3 days to come down !

[666vampyreheart]

@trueplayer367 Oh thats too funny- we are sat in the studio & my bass player has just put this on while we were on a break & i saw your comment- thanks for the smiles- Summer :)

[BeccaJrockadale]

Amazing track! I haven't listened to this for ages! It is still as fresh as a daisy! I can't believe it is 14 years old! It could still be sooo current! I'd buy it again, today! A true Gem and a true classic! Hopefully never forgotten! Just beautiful!

[silkyskilz]

still sounds fookin awesome!!!!

[wildmanchris200]

f they're gonna sstart all these goddamn spamvertisements INCLUDE MY VIDEOS SO I CAN FUCKNIG GET PAID TOO, goddammit!

[BeccaJrockadale]

@wildmanchris200 There is only 1 kind of vert on here! Try making your language a lot less offensive and you might have at least 1 leg to stand on!

[wildmanchris200]

@BeccaJrockadale Fuck! Fuck! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! THINK I give a fuck! Fuck! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!? Goddammit...

[BeccaJrockadale]

@wildmanchris200 Nice! ;0)

[10timx]

is that ted mosby?

[Scrumpywolf]

Great song been looking for this for ages, but i was spelling it wrong. Do'h!

[danverschoren]

@TheBoyUpstairs-Hollyoaks,but after this video

[TheBoyupstairs]

@danverschoren of course! but when hollyoaks was slightly acceptable :)

[TheBoyupstairs]

classic :D the guy in the video looks familiar. what TV shows was he in around the same time?

[henryfrankenstein]

@TheBoyupstairs .....grange hill!

[bornstrangers]

check out Strangers In Chaos new band sound like mansun

[rabbitheartfatm]

THank you for the video!

[mthraves]

Love this tune, first heard the club version a few years ago. I do think they sound very similar to Tears for Fears.

[crypify]

song is amazing and clip is very real and touchy...

[scottulster]

How has this song only got 49,000 views?

[XnadezhedaX]

I remember this playing on the tape machine driving to Aberdeen when I was little, 4 at the youngest...looking out the window at a grey, foggy cold day at fields and road that just stretched forever and ever...the song's made a lasting impression on my life

[RustyCanadien]

@XnadezhedaX good time right

[memmori1]

@XnadezhedaX Yes I understand you so much... I also remember all those old songs playing in our car while i was watching the window...it's strange how these minor things still live in our memories

[hannahbufton]

@XnadezhedaX God you make me feel old ! when I was that age is was Rolf Harris on cassette in a blue Austin Princess all the way to Scotland ...

[jorgemorciu]

GRANDIOSO TEMA!!!

[anlu30]

tu español no es malo jajajaj

[anlu30]

nose quien eres...

[anlu30]

es una muy buena cancion!!!!!!!!

[forestlee67]

@anlu30 does that mean its very good or is my espanyol mal

[anlu30]

esuna muy buena cancion!!!!!!!

[MsBrit78]

Wow, 2nd year of univeristy, 1997...Those were the days...:(

[smartboyrob]

what a tune

[lostris01]

Ahhh, the old pup jukebox...way back in 97...lovebites, cigarettes, park benches...lol

[tiffneedle]

of course they had that CHESTER link with hollyoaks.

[tiffneedle]

good video for 1997 - not sainsburys cola can and wasnt the guy in it ex grange hill and hollyoaks

[Danikhasoft1401]

Es una gran canción me trae muchos recuerdos de la escuela secundaria

[WD860]

Is the video based on a vampire based TV programme?

The boy who turns into the vampire, looks very much like my friend.

[zuhaelter82]

I have always loved Mansun. Best song ever!

[evelinabeatrix]

love that songgx

[PlayDavePlay]

Anyone else of the opinion that the woman who wrote twilight got her idea for sparkly vampires from this video?

[emeraldseer]

@PlayDavePlay I drew the same conclusion

[dendeve]

Great song, great clip...love it :-) !!!

[MaxSuzuki]

This was my first ever MiniDisc!

[yikepcpro]

well...this brings back memories!

[qwertyqeys]

I remember when I was 7, my mom would play this song on our new computer while I played that food fight game on postopia. XD I also kept playing the first harry potter game on the computer and kept thinking of this song.

[jakkaify]

got this on 101 trance anthems its number 6# out of 101 , top tune!

[puchia2]

thats awesomee first time i heard of this band

[PoulPikhat]

I'm not sure I've ever heard a finer pop song!

[TheGeordie555]

nice one 

[tylerdurden3grd]

the actor is out of hollyoaks from way back

[007thelastlover]

long before twilight ...

[JayWolf28]

Awesome.

[bainmacbain]

tre bloody mendous

[bainmacbain]

tre blooy mendous

[archer064]

madchester astrabluefi you know what i mean best tunes, best times!!!!



[christinaof2]

This song reminds me of some wild time I LOVE IT!!!!!

[andie267]

i love this song :)