Steve Winwood's The Finer Things

[moparmanx]

I want this song to be played at my funeral. I think of laying in my casket while the beginning notes play.

[SoulRythm]

damn i miss the 80's. music like this just doesn't exsist anymore.

[cindy85123]

Keep shining~♥

[amers83]

the beginning still gives me chills.

[NK7Prime]

@amers83 That era of pop music is mostly gone. The way they used synth to not just make pretty good music but some of the songs had a very haunting mood set. It wasn't just Winwood, Peter Gabriel uses this to great effect and even some RnB songs into the mid-90s had it.

[amers83]

@NK7Prime agreed.there's something about that beginning=)soul stirring.

[jtaylor12080]

He's just so damn good.

[rgaviere]

Pop Songs from the Elvis era to the time the Berlin wall fell down are the best in history.

[msknighttime]

This is my all time favorite song

[JamesThomasBand]

Talent and Music is Timeless.

[RRLB74]

I remember this was used in the first episode of 21 jumpstreet when Depp(Tom Hanson) walks into the church for the first time. When I bought the dvd it had been replaced with some scrub song, along with other great 80's tunes used during the shows run..I guess they couldn't afford the rights!!

[ganogrlshop]

I remember this song from the 80s movie "Date with an Angel" with Phoebe Cates. Ok, I just realized I am officially OLD, lmao!

[rennie411]

@ganogrlshop hahahahaha... DITTO!

[phantomwriter05]

Date with an Angel!

I love that movie ... to bad I can't seem to find it anywhere anymore.

Love the whole cheese montage with this song.

[ganogrlshop]

@phantomwriter05 i own a copy of it

[Sayeeda1]

Mr. Winwood's voice and his songs were made for lovers --"let's go out and try everything." Only real lovers would dare to go forth and enjoy life.

[mediterraneanqueen]

i remember being a little girl, going through my parents albums and coming across stevie winwood, and reading the lyrics to this song and just feeling so enchanted by this song, and then hearing the very beginning, sounds like you're being whisked away by a knight in shining armor, very whimsical song.

[mediterraneanqueen]

@mediterraneanqueen also i have to tell this story, as i stated above, this was a time when both my parents were going through addiction, drugs and alcohol, i was a kid, about 11 or 12 and i'd go down in our florida room and listen to their albums, and again this song just stuck with me for a long time, i felt like there was hope, the music just kind of took me away from all that hard family stuff. so thank you stevie winwood and all the other incredible artists out there that took my pain away.

[meanmark1]

I thought Pantera was badass, then I heard this.

[PaytonBulmer]

Amazing lyrics. Thanks Mr. Winwood.

[nrgize100]

this song gets me through the worst of times. thats the magic of music!

[Choudyschell]

Takes me back to 86, was 20 in college and had all my hopes and dreams ahead of me.

[TheTuckerBoggs]

I remember spending hours trying to learn how to play the first 45 seconds. It's one of my favorite intros ever

[jewel1260]

Great music with great lyrics. Sadly, they don't make them like this anymore. Today's stuff is junk by comparison. Sorry if people don't like to hear that but it's true!

[MyQuesnel]

I'm a girl from the 80"s. LOVE IT

[whaaser]

Well it reminds me of watching pearl dancers on vanilla ceilings

[dlh60]

@whaaser Pearl dancers on vanilla ceilings......... sounds beautiful. Is that code for wanking? Just curious.

[whaaser]

When I listen to this song I take a trip back to the 80's, I was young and care free. Boy do I wish for them days again.. :)

[MrMARVIN1952]

One night while playing the Lone Star Cafe, N.Y.C. with Jr. Walker, my friend Steve Ferrone brought Steve Winwood to see me play keyboards. When I got to the gig Jr. wanted me to play guitar. They came to the dressing room to talk to Jr. about playing on this album, but Jr. refused as he's done so many times in the past, except Foriegner, whom I had talked him into doing their record. Anyhow, Steve was so inspired he played a grest solo on the end of "Finer Things" , thats all Jr.& Finer Things

[mwduck]

I GOTTA HAVE MORE COWBELL!!!!

[sammygaz1]

Awesome....Stevie Winwood !

[ELLDEE321]

the intro for this song is awesome

[RAIDERS7009]

great song

[JezXtheXgoddess]

I heard this song in the movie Date With An Angel. I fell in love with this song and the movie. :)

[rennie411]

@JezXtheXgoddess Me too! lol!

[draagyn1]

how could you not like this song it is bit cheesy and simple but thats part of its charm

[anterpants]

We can only be so lucky as to have been born during a time when music like this was made.

[anterpants]

everybody is badass.

[kcalbraeb]

I live this song...love this song and listen to it as often as i can!!!!!!!!! While there is time.....

[nrgize100]

sooo uplifting on a bad day

[lautour]

omg this song is beautiful

[mathmid]

This Song takes me back to my childhood days,when I was 6 years old . It is a beautiful composition, that brings back, old memories and calms your mind. Thanks Steve for this wonderful song

[cactusjoe188]

I remember.. my dad worked on the project that created the TouchTunes, a digital touch screen jukebox. We had a bunch of fun 80's songs like this on there, and we used to listen to it every Saturday night and just... have fun. I remember this song. I remember being frikkin eight years old.. listening to this, laughing and having fun. That's what this song is for me. ^^

[RetroJenny]

@CorporalTeddyDuChamp Me too. Every time I hear this song, I think of that movie.

[whataname01]

this song always picks me up when I'm down ;-) thanks Steve..,

[chaddavidroberts]

Steve Winwood's 80's music was the best.

[72melp]

I forgot how great this song is until I heard it again

[wspanic88]

Voice of an angel

[danthemain]

this song means so much to me on so many levels, that opening.... WOW!

[wspanic88]

Most beautiful song ever written

[pa6ya6ya]

Winwood"s masterplce!

[benvolio15]

This song is keyboard/synthesizer heaven!

[laughter837]

thanx for all the music you introduced to me Dad... Love you, and miss you, so very much.

[FightingCookie]

Great song.

It´s played in the pilot episode of 21 Jump Street. That´s where I know it from!

[Moviefreak2010]

great old song!

[PutYourFaceOn]

The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be! KEEP SHINING :)

[radiomike151]

1987 and Steve Winwood ruled.



[scs2000able1]

@radiomike151 I was born in that yr. I LOVE THIS SONG! 1987 RULE!

[bully3628]

The opening to this song is completely badass.

[MissTerri1979]

@bully3628 The whole song is "badass" ;-)

[tyranist]

@bully3628 Not a HUGE fan of the entire song but the intro is epic.. wish he would have made an entire song with the tempo etc...

[poachmunkey]

this song is badass

[MissTerri1979]

@poachmunkey I agree :-)

[hotdognobun]

@MissTerri1979 All 138 people are badass!!!

[abarczak]

@poachmunkey Hell yeah. Totally 80s.