In A Big Country

[Hunt4576]

Please, don't wake me I'm still in the 80's and lovin it!!!!!

[Broadsidejohn]

Great song. Those pics of Scotland sure make me miss her. We went over with our Fraser Clansmen(Clan Fraser of Southern California) while Simon (Lord)Lovat was still alive. An incredibly beautiful country and people. You have to wonder what manner of men these were who scratched out a living in the rugged hills and took up Lochaber axe and Claymore when called out by the Chief. Anyway, thanks for the posting!

[chrissybeeable]

Botty boys.

[4yules]

this is also one of the best albums ever made ;)

[43lochness]

this always brings a tear...........magic!!!

[kmandew]

okay. where the hell is the original video. i am tired of seeing all the home-made shit.

[rohretproductions]

The Band Shear Water is tapping into Big Country's sound very well. If you like Big Country, check them out. Especially the song YOU AS YOU WRE.

[bogymas2]

Too much talent in such a short decade.

[MrXacruz]

Ah the 80's...I would mos def travel back in time given the chance. Music was so expressive and varied..unlike the drivel they have on the radio these days. Pop clones like Gaga make Madonna look like a virgin.

[loriannedc]

I was supposed to go on vacation to Scotland this year, but my friends crapped out on me, DAMNIT! I LOVE this scenery! :)

[gingersmack]

Every time I hear this song makes me want to just jump, stomp, dance hard; no wonder I was in good shape, always dancing to this awesome music--I love this Scottish sound, especially when they wore their kilts. I think men look good in kilts. hmmmm!

[4444ThinLizzy]

Thank you ! Memories of my Brother (sweet baby!) jammin" out to when I was still in high school and he was most likely awaiting "court" for another DWI ! The damn idiot! Appreciate while they're here !

[joshsnyder20000]

yeah these guys were a strange phenom!



[ekpp60]

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THIS SONG WAS GREATEST SONG OF THE 80'S!! THANK'S FOR THE POSTING!!

[lisahalstead1974]

Awesome song ! Luv it !

[butthefollowing]

It's Better One Hit Wonder than 1000 crapy bieber noises...

[tonyzackery]

Epic sound.

[kermitcintronsucks]

I want my rock stars dead - bill hicks

I agree with this sentiment.

[Necromalix]

Is it me or is that bass playing being made up on the spot? its all over the place.

[TheWelderman1962]

awesome song celtic rock

[patroutangler]

i love scotland

[austinmerriott7]

oh and whover called this bland is gay



[austinmerriott7]

this song rocks man im 14 and snow board in colorado 2 it

[ellesetta]

THIRTY YEARS?????? oh my god, i'm OLD!!! I'll love this song to my last breath!

[crazze6163]

I remember going to Disco-O-mat Records and getting this lp! @GedKelly1999 thirty years, seem like yesterday to me.

[cortevens]

I can be in the most down mood and this song picks me right up when I listen to it?

[FutureFilmDirector14]

kinda bland needs a little more footage other then green fields

[bobafettfan32]

I would give everything I have ever had and will ever have just to go back for one week to the 1980's. I never realized growing up during that decade that I would look back on it with such a reverence. Everything was just better back then, fast food, toys, u rocked your Atari 2600 all day long, television shows were good, cartoons after school and on saturday mornings.

[dmicheal1]

@bobafettfan32 ur not alone

[schultz970]

@bobafettfan32 could'nt agree with you more.

[aeopmusic]

"It's shite bein Scottish!" - Spud

[harleypiper]

Proud to be a campbell!

Inverness Rocks!!!

[rachaelcheddie]

i love this slide

[Retardo60]

I love this song. Quite possibly, the greatest song of the 1980s...

[GedKelly1999]

Good God, next year this album will be 30 YEARS OLD. How did that happen?

A glorious, unique, irreplaceable sound.

[jdc11710]

@GedKelly1999 I don't know either.

[dmicheal1]

great band brings me back

[okkie187]

@HeroSavage jeez watch yo language ye 10 year old

[HeroSavage]

@okkie187 Haha, does derrogatory language make your vaginal wall hurt? Man-up ya damn fool.

[alfalfa19]

@HeroSavage thank you. that is exactly what i wanted. hopefully you and your channel will soon be removed from you tube. PS: get a life, little boy. sitting behind mommy's keyboard spewing hate and your homosexual fantasies do not equal a life.

[alfalfa19]

@HeroSavage dude, you are a moron.  case closed. good day sir. PS: get a life!

[alfalfa19]

such wonderful music

[HMACDONALD69]

My family home, makes me wonder how my grandfather ever left this beautiful country.

[beebeeguy69]

@HMACDONALD69 Cause it's effin' cold and dreary! But a simply breathtaking place... and

Scots are the greatest. 

[FCSPVinobox]

Great video, makes you proud to be Scottish :D BIG COUNTRY <3

[247191147]

Simply stunning. Now I want to hear the drone of the bagpipe just before battle.

[TheCrisco68]

Oh I agree, nice song, I will never forget it...

[cptsquish]

After hearing this song I've decided to becom Scottish.

[bretroable]

I need to visit the homeland.

[MisterBeaucoup]

@bretroable So do I. Scotland is on my bucket list :)

[mclemoore1]

@ revol148, My wife is second generation off the boat from Scotland, I have an English Irish, German mix, But my favorite time of year, is when its cool and a light rain, in the fall! The grass is still green, but its cool and rainy! I get out the most then!

[aarlevanbram]

It's the tune! Steve Lillywhite and Big Country!

[colmcarrigg]

Thank you for this Video, reminds me of my own travells around the west of Ireland! Brilliant song! Scotland is a good country!

[ThatsaCryinShame]

honestly this is one of the best songs ever made sorry

[ceojas]

@ThatsaCryinShame ... how correct you are. Its really one of the best songs

[philmilson]

@ThatsaCryinShame

why "sorry"?

[philmilson]

@ThatsaCryinShame why use disclaimers "honestly"(as though you normally are dishonest) and "sorry"(apologizing for what? your opinion?)

[ThatsaCryinShame]

@philmilson hey, i yeah i'm usually dishonest, its true, honestly. and sorry to all the other songs I like, because this ones better.

[stjohnsriverrat]

This takes me back many years while serving in Bamburg. The 80's Rocked.

[suepedie1]

Listen to this while reading Outlander by Diana Galbaldon...awesome

[revol148]

00:40-00:46 - I love that opening part of the song!

[ajlowe9494]

17 ppl live in a little country

[mclemoore1]

Yes! this is wonderful!! Ewan McGregor compared everything beautiful to Scotland! He said God made the earth like Scotland! In the motorcycle show, This song is wonderful!

[revol148]

@mclemoore1 and yet he chooses to live in north London! Rather like all those Welsh exiles - they love their country so much that they live in Los Angeles (Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey)!Sean Connery loves Scotland from the warm confines of his Marbella golf course! Scotland on a clear sunny day (preferably in autumn) is paradise though - especially the highlands - the best scenery in Europe bar none.

[UndergroundSteampunk]

Irish > Scottish. True facts

[lewisarmstrongjr]

AYE!

[7855waldo]

Stuart Adamson, another natal Venus 180* Pluto casualty…

12/16/01: Rest In Peace.

TN Mars 45* Sun; TN Venus 45* Neptune; & TN Sun Conjunct Saturn (next day 3 am).

Oh we Scots.

[AlvesdaTrasher]

BIG Country Always from love.PORTUGAL

[j93barca]

Stuart...we miss you...R.I.P

[thegreatbungholio21]

Great video.  I was there three years ago and I am returning next year. Beautiful country...no other place like it on earth...

[1994g0]

@thegreatbungholio21 U got it Mate.It`s awesome........it`s Scotland!

[lakindo1]

This song just makes me smile..everytime I hear it

[peetief]

i love this version with the extra beginning this song connects me to the joy of life so beautiful

[mickleem]

Its a fantastic song yes... RIP Stuart..We are missing a great musician.

[aprilglaspieable]

What sort of moron would dislike this?

[susansmith44]

1st band i seen in 83 iwas 13

[RetroJenny]

I love this song so much!  Lovely pictures too.

[Growlertrim]

Beautiful pics! Thought at first that was Stuart with very short hair :-D

[joesef777]

sixteen people have no dreams and there souls are dead.

[gsm1881]

Amazing country. Check out also the' Restless Natives' soundtrack, if you wanted to describe Scotland to a blind man just play that to them and they would understand, bloody amazing!

[Thompsonf1001]

@gsm1881 could not agree more my freind!!

"come up screaming!!" 

[bababooeylover]

I once bed a woman in big cuntry. She was prudent.

[Fraeg]

one of my favorite bands, and a country i have not been in since 1983 :(

a trip to the NW coast of scotland is something i have been planning for year.

Stuart RIP

[rocknrollhoocheecoo]

This group blew INXS away with just a couple hits!

[Sirkinney]

This song is the Sh*t! And Great guitar licks.

[Sirkinney]

This song is the Sh*t!

[bubbles19991000]

good going jeff healy i luv this song, NOTE:to people that hate this song why would u listen to it, like stop being nieve.

[GunTownTheMovie]

best 80's song ever. well done.

[marcoilbiauto66]

fantastico .....

[GODIKAAA]

adoroooooooooooooooooooooooooo­o s2

[aeopmusic]

"thumbs up" if this song sends chills up your spine that subliminally command your brain to travel to Scotland.

[jenx30]

@aeopmusic and Gerard Butler !!! lol :)

[MaleBolge980]

@aeopmusic SODIUM BICARBONATE (Baking Soda) + water + drink = Cancer CURE

Youtube -

They Sold Their Souls For Music

[Kkrouton]

@MaleBolge980 Sodium bicarbonate is a cancer cure? Seriously? Not hardly.

[ECsponger2]

Amazing song, how could anyone get to this song if they never heard of it forreal?

[shell35tastic]

beautiful.

[aj2871]

Respond to this y you guys rock from a a mex/scotttr 

[RogueGoverment]

Where's nessy

[Chuckonbass67]

I was never certain, are there bagpipes in the song or do the guitars sound like bagpipes? I love that hook there!

[thegreatbungholio21]

@Chuckonbass67 It's an electric guitar run through some fancy equipment to make it sound like a bag pipe. I read an article about it awhile ago, but can't remember exactly how they did it though. Brilliant song and one of my favorite bands too.

[Musistify]

i'm so tempted to make a video for sing with pictures of Canada... Canada seriously outdoes most countries regarding mass ... "vast and rugged" don't see it any grander than Canada

[friginhell123]

@Musistify COME TO THE AUSTRALIN OUTBACK

[Musistify]

@friginhell123 ... maybe someday... ya never know... my sister has been to there (Aussi outback)... she did the fruitpicking backpacking thing years ago... told me stories about giant spiders etc...

[scott29298]

@Musistify cant beat the kimberly outback in australia champ

[mrsuperterd]

@scott29298 can't beat northern ontario buddy.

[ChingChang148]

great song, great country..and if I was ever in a battle and I had to pick one group of men to fight beside me, it would be Scots...

[Manwithjeep]

@ChingChang148 Hell yeah!

[typestter]

@ChingChang148 The Scots Gaurd, Irish Brigades, and the Canadians were the Most Feared by the Germans WWI & II! The Dough boys of WWI and the Yanks of WWII were also underestimated by the Germans and their "English" allies

[Dakfreak]

I'm not from Scotland (besides having brother in law from Scotland), but I must say Scots rule! From James Watt, James Maxwell, Dunlop, Graham Bell, Fleming, ... to Big Country, Simple Minds, Texas,... Twilight Sad....

[sandeeray]

VERY BEAUTIFUL PICTURES!!!

[BOSKYZEN]

It is a dear tune.

It is corresponding to a terrible image and is very good.

Postscript

Because the translation software is used, English might be amusing.

[younggunsfan]

I wasn't even born in the 80's and I want to go back there....

[Musistify]

i made a typo... i meant to say that i've never expected my bush to grow flowers in a desert (be content with the average man)... i need Slim Shady is all... *sigh... xox

[Musistify]

i love this song cos it also feels like Eminem's penis... ya know... i mean, if i'd ever felt it... i imagine it likely feels like this song ... "dreamy in my cunt tree - i am Canadian so my twat is a "cunt tree" of a ride... ha ha ha haaa!!!! ... hee hee hee... xox... i've never expected by bush "to grow flowers in a desert" (be content with the average man)... i need Slim Shady is all.....

[Musistify]

i've never been to Scotland... tho i have Scottish ancestry on both sides of my family... i love this song cos it feels so much like "Canada" for me personally... the 80's ...there arent' very many countries "bigger" than Canada... i've been to PEI once... Canada is massive... beautiful & massive

[mrsuperterd]

@Musistify vast and rugged.

[TheSTAZZ69]

cheers from canada ,,great band ,,i drink to that ,,

[mrsuperterd]

wonder how it feels to be one of the fifteen duchers that dislike this song?

[mrmikespence1964]

HONKY!!!!!!! TERRIBLE!!!!!!!

[Nemetona233]

Nice song and beautiful views.

[SolarTiger]

Out of all the groups paraded on MTV back in the day, for some reason this band stood out for me...still have their first album in the collection...and I watch their "Ships" video and tear up...kinda wish they got more airplay, but that can also be a curse, no?

[5hitter]

Beautiful country and people Scotland. Good fighters also-FREEDOM!!! to an independent Scotland from the UK

[janetarie]

I have a Scottish first name, and a family hotel named after my grandma's family up in Balleter...yay for the blue n white!

[andrewcoook420]

how could anyone not like this song.

[megapawnstar]

They don't make songs like this anymore - and won't since Stuart Adamson committed suicide about ten years ago.

[robfergusonjr]

15 people live in a small country.

[hollywoodsheraton]

early 80's Kroq fm and mv3 we had no cable

[mikey42]

@hollywoodsheraton Yup. And everything was just great.

[34LOLWTF]

this song makes me really sad but happy at the same time:) anyone else?

[ccg1171]

15 people live in a small country, I love the song..R.I.P. to the lead singer !!!!!!!!

[supersonicbird11]

Loved My time spent in Scotland, Loved Inverness and the Highlands, and of course Edinburgh...Lucky Man, to live in such a Beautiful Country....!

[The7legacy]

Great Song.

[cougarsfl]

Makes the hair on your neck stand up. If I could do a vid then this would be it !! Brill !!!

[mattyrm]

Fucking mint tune! 

[shugster2631]

this song just makes me wanna conquer engerland again !!!!!!!!!!!!

[simplemindbelive]

flash back to 12 years old

[Seligman2005]

this song makes me feel alive

[magotiburonoz]

todos tenemos nuestra gran pais :D

[shugster2631]

4 get red hot chilli pipers this is the real deal!!!!!

[durro55b]

I like just one,better

[guysan]

I have been all over the world when I spend 20 years in the Marines and this song always played on my tapes, cd, dvd-r, mped4, avi. and now ipod and really any format that will be coming out during my lifetime...simply put this song rocks with me until the end@@@

[happystudio1]

beautifuckingfulll!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[ll4891]

Beautiful, reminds me of County Clare, Ireland. Thank you!

[MrSnaggle1]

The intro to thos song just makes me weep...maybe with personal nostalgia, but the music industry is creatively bankrupt....DEAD, when compared with the music up to the 80s. In the 90s things became derivative and greed-based mediocroty took over. Simon Cowell take note: music like this ( which shows your empire of crud for what it is ) stays alive forever, even when those who created it are not with us anymore. I love 'The Crossing' album in all its Celtic glory.

[kkinggolf]

@MrSnaggle1 WELL SAID!!!!! RIP STU!

[ccg1171]

Too bad the singer is dead, he was awesome..

[breadbaker226]

@ccg1171 Really, so sad

[johng9322]

The best intro to a rock song ever period.

[2048rocker]

been to Scotland and bought land there.I love it there. So pretty and the people are so sweet and nice.

[2048rocker]

been to Scotland and bought land there.I love it there. Sp pretty and the people are so sweet and nice.

[Ronbo710]

Scotland is AWESOME!!! I am from Yorkshire but LOVE the North!!!

[SpiritOfRadio2112]

only a scottish singer could sing verses and sound like he's kicking the living shit out of someone in a recording studio during a song.

[joeswineford1]

this band was going to be the next U2 I remember at the time

[joeswineford1]

this band was supposed to be the next U@ at the time I remember

[kbinco]

They sure don't make songs like this anymore.

[BrickLaneBetty]

lovely pictures! thanks so much

[SolarTiger]

Of all the slew of videos that MTV played at the time...this one caught my attention...and it did make me go out and buy this great debut...

[nonotc]

ciao stuart ...see you later ..............

[trikerj1]

the most underated band ever , fantasic rip stuart

[SirCrouch1]

Going to see them live soon! They are doing a tour, just without Stuart :/

[BikerMike7381]

Performers who love what they do for the pur love of the artform are always refreshing to see/hear. This was back when song writers wrote becuase they were moved by the emotion to write songs for the sake of the art....

[hydr0ponicxx]

@BikerMike7381 I'll drink to that, good sir.

[JCS954]

great song and lovely video, I love Scotland :)

[Roxyvar71]

Great song !!! I love it !!!

[240ups]

Lucid imagination endures on an expansive horizon, most similarily to an intimate relation's words traversed against a promnent butte!

[240ups]

@240ups Say it 5 times fast, Bitches!

[Monicais40]

Great song! Great Country !

[BlaiseTheSlayer]

this song is too awesome

[EverSoTired]

sweet intro

[happystudio1]

they dont make em like this anymore...pure dynamite!!!!!!!

[happystudio1]

yeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[escdelesp]

My mom didnt know a lick of English but after I told her what the chorus says she loved this song.

Cheers from El Paso, TX!!!

[lollipop9869]

i <3 this song i first heard it off of rock band