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  • What can i say , excellent What a Fifer

  • One of my fav Big Country songs. Brilliant!!!!!

  • Class!

  • This song is just awesome and The Crossing is a fantastic album. It's 10 years on Dec16th since stuart died, but his music will live on for ever. Sadly missed, thanks for all the great memories going back 28 years. Sounds even better than it did then. RIP Stu, never forgotten.

  • @Sunburst75 a very sombre day indeed yesterday,i saw big country in april of this year with mike peters on vocals,he pays full respect to the big man. Stuart's lyrics still mean as much now as when he wrote them,such a sad loss. r.i.p big man

  • Makes you proud to be Scottish. Perfect song to go with perfect country. Great band!

  • wow man.

    just found out about this band 5 minutes ago.

    so good.

    i hate having been born in 1984.

  • could listen to that intro all day min

  • stu adamson was special

  • Beautiful song and what a drummer :-)

  • This must be one of the best songs ever written. Thanks for the post.

  • Incredible song with one of the (if not THE) best intros ever in the world of music. Even better live than on album.

  • what can anyone say but just brillant

  • superb

  • i defy anyone not to be pumped up after listening to this, music to stir the soul!

  • one of the finest guitarists of all time, no question.....the man's sorely missed by all who truly love real music!

  • if theres one word to sum up Stuart Adamson, its LEGEND.

    even my kids love B.C, his soul lives on in his music and will always be etched in my mind thanks to the film Restless Natives, cheers Stuart !

  • true bro this song especially

    felt like stu being stu to me

  • tres tres belle chanson et que dire de la voix de stuart je me lasserai jamais d ecouter. l intro est magnifique magnifique

  • the sound of big country will live on forever R.I.P. stuart.

  • Great tribute!

  • terriblement beau !!

  • the Crossing is een van die elpees die altijd in je blijven ..bij je blijven

    Big Country thanks

  • Brillant song. Doran44, I was also surprised that Big Country was not HUGE back when. This was my favorite song from a Big Country cassette I bought sometime in the mid-1980s. Still have the cassette and dust it off ocassionally. Big Country is awesome!

  • Can't put into words how much I love this song, and have done since I bought the album in 1984 when I was aged 14.

  • Absolutely brilliant song from a great album. The Crossing is clearly one of the best. Nice job on the vid, btw! Many Thanks!

  • One of the most truly brilliant songs ever. Has always been my favourite. RIP SA

  • hauntingly beautiful.

  • What a beautifully haunting song and one of the best intros to any song ever period

    Big country forever

    RIP Stuart Adamson

  • Night hangs on the city like a blanket on a cage...

    That's some poetic sh*t right there.

  • Very cool that a BC vid has captured 91,000 hits

  • Most underrated band of all time, in my opinion. And this song has been blowing my mind since I first bought The Crossing in middle school in the 80's.

  • Great song! I had this CD.. thanks for posting!

  • A brilliant band and a unique sound. Always makes me proud to be Scottish and a Fifer!

  • favourite BC track .. keep badgering local band Rawkuss to do it  ... guitar is awesome

  • I fuckin dont get this that Big Country were not appreciated ???they sold out concerts for years and always had a great following , ok u2 and simple minds were the big boys at the time we all cant be, but big country had great fans and following lets not forget that RIP Stuart thanks for the great times saw use at your best four times , thanks for the great times man

  • Why? Stuart. Why!!!

  • well done well done, i never even heard of this band, tho i was named after a callum, abd my dad raves over this, THIS IS A AWESOME VIDEO AND I LOVE THE BC SOUND froma 26yr old

  • i LOVE this song

  • fucking masterpiece

  • My biggest disappointment was that they cancelled a scheduled concert in 84 or 85 in Australia i was going to see, i love this band still the crossing is unique and timeless classic , the band had a great chemistry and wrote song great songs so underrated.

  • Truly remarkable piece of music, almost identical live how FAB!! Not many bands pull it off but these sure did every time FACT!!! =D

  • @babyblue1878 ......couldn't agree more!

  • First cassette I ever owned was "The Crossing": a friend bought for my birthday, because he knew I liked the song "In A Big Country". I think I wore at least 3-4 cassettes before getting it on CD-many nights I spent listening to this song and the others on the album-to me there wasn't a bad song the album, and decades later I'm still listening to the music and the band-that to me is timelessness.

  • From 5:13 to 5:30 sounds very similar to RUSH's totem from 1996. Big fan of both bands, with a slight lean to Big Country. I always thought RUSH was underrated and underappreciated. They might be to some degree, but not like BC. I feel for them and Stu. Long live BC.

  • @wilbert916 I agree with your entire statement. Big Country (like Rush) knows how to absolutely JAM during "musical breaks". You may have already heard it, but just in case...check out the song "The Crossing" which didn't make it to the original album until many, many years later on a re-release. This song is VERY techncial and yet maintains a melody throughout (unlike many prog rock bands). About half way through the song, it goes completely instrumental...and it is awesome!

  • @padraigmarcus. Yes, very beautiful song. Thanks for the suggestion nonetheless :) Truly amazing music by BC. Absolute pleasure to appreciate time and time again.

  • Exhiliarating song how sad Stuart is no longer here :((( Had the pleasure of meeting him after a gig. What a Gentleman! :) R. I . P

  • The Crossing was the best album of the 80s. My favourite track from it, although the whole album's fantastic! Sorely missed.

  • Greatest band ever to set foot on a rock stage! Brilliant!

    The MUSIC WILL NEVER DIE!

  • I'm glad I got to see them live. Ahh, the golden years in Austin.

  • This band had such unique individual talent: Brzeziki was a regarded as the finest session drummer around through the early 80's; Stuart's passion charged vocals; ruce Watson's talents on the ebow and Tony Butler's fine bass wich perfectly completed the accord. The intensity which developed from the chemistry was for me a deeply euphoric and spiritual experience. In a strange way, the experience was so intense, I found I could not enjoy the music freely and had to keep the exposure contained.

  • 04:56 Awesome! Thank you Stuart for touching our lives with through your music.

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  • "night time is on the city like a blanket on a cage..." if you don't get it...well too bad.

  • The greatest song I've ever heard.

    RIP Stuart

    11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001

  • Can't listen to this masterpiece without thinking of John M.. 1984, up in his room :) still smile when I walk up his Mums road and look up at the window ha ha !!! best days ever !!!!

  • Beautiful,

    looking forward to the gig featuring Mike Peters at the Islington Academy

  • although it makes me so nostalgic for simpler times, when you step back it is just a wonderful work of art. i love this whole album and the band

  • Try to imagine any of the so-called modern 'rock' bands attempting to write or perform anything like this! BC was a tremendous band, very underappreciated.

  • hope someone uploads a version without these audio glitches, please!

  • I remember my friend telling me about Big Country and his step dad laughed when I asked if it was a "country music" band. No, not country western. Scotts country! Hup! Now my favorite band next to The Doors, and The Lords of The New Church, and The Circle Jerks, Blind Melon, and all Seatle Bands!!!!!!!!

  • What did we loose to The Porroh Man? A brilliant song writer..............

  • this is their best song in my humble opinion!

  • Why oh why don't they make music like this any more!!

  • @y16amp 1. Stuart is dead. 2. Too underappreciated.

  • A great effects mix..saw live 7 times,never to be forgotten..real good 4 piece rock band giving everything,vocals stunning and a real connection with fans.Sadly missed....OAKERS..SHREWSBURY.

  • Stunning track by the best band ever!

  • Excellent band from the eighties. Still got my CD. Wish they still made music like this. Props to Big Country, Simple Minds, BoDeans, Midge Ure, Hooters, and the like.

  • aye very underated song

  • STILL the best song

  • Excellent music, as is just about everything this band has produced. Thanks!

  • Songwriter fucking extraordinaire, thanks laddie for all the masterpieces.

  • This is just kick ass! Love this editing.........you're a genius! ;)

  • class

  • RIP stuart we miss ye x

  • "The Crossing" was the second cassette(yea, that's my age) I ever received (I don't remember the first at the moment :D)...I wore out 4 copies of this album. I too listened to this song an night on my tape player. Amazing band, too bad they never really made it huge in North America other than "Big Country".

  • @Tinalera Yeah, i can remember having to open up cassettes and fixing the tape with sticky tape...great when it worked but devastating if it didn't and i had to sit in front of my tape player picking it out of the wheels and such. Great track from a great album \m/

  • Great vid of one of my BC favs!

  • topp !!!

  • I remember laying in bed with my headphones on listening to this at night. Awesome!

  • Love Big C, we miss you all Stuart , the best R.I.P

  • Hypnotic . . .

  • Oh, how I loved this back in the day. Still sounds awesome.

  • porrohman, the storm,where the rose sown top3

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  • wha is a porrohman?

  • @ddandyy . . . . .. . . A South African witch doctor, or even just African witch doctor . .

  • love this song my dad downloaded the cd and i loved the whole of the album

    but this is the best

  • def great band sreen them live barrowlands in glas sadly missed stuart

  • watch restless natives on youtube big country soundtrack is awesome, rip stuart miss ye x

  • Great clobber Brucie boy.

  • Porrohman and Just a Shadow-- my all time faves.

  • brings back memos:)

  • My dad showed me this song and ive luved it ever since!!:)

  • i listened to this tonight with my friend, and she was reallie astounded. i have to say, me too! i did not know this band before the introduction here...and i was alive in the 80's! ...not listening to wondrous music apparently.

    ~stuart adamson, i barely knew ye.

  • awesome song

  • Stuart R.I.P

  • This band was one of the finest of the 80's good on records and brilliant live under rated and overlooked. the best guitar sound live you could ever hear rip big man

  • BRILLIANT

  • BRILLIANT

  • RIP

  • I agree with you 100% levy98.I have never understood the unfairness of what happened to Big Country in relation to their talent and body of original work and the recognition they received.And the tragedy of Stuart just compunds that.

  • we miss you big man....

  • Questo BRANO è la massima espressione artistico musicale di tutti i tempi creata dall'umanità ed il suo apice viene raggiunto tra i minuti

    1,45 e 1,55.

    This song is the best musical expression humanity created and his top is between minutes 1,45 and 1,55

  • I meant to say real big country fans know genious when we hear them

  • Theres three bands that never got the credit they derserved Thin Lizzy, Kings x, and Big Country. Big Country was truly underated, they had 100 times more talent then U2 could ever dream of but somehow they just werent as popular, but real Big Country knows genious when we hear them

  • Absolutely Brilliant.

  • one of their live anthems with the storm

  • Hell, yeah, man/ thats wy we keep coming back! WE LOVE BIG COUNTRY!

  • this song is just too powerfull man !!!!...like a woman you so want to hold but cant..

  • i STILL love this song

  • superb !!!!!,,,we all miss big country

  • scotlands finest r.i.p stuart for all people new to big country check out teacher or hold the heart.. AWESOME

  • Will never forget the fantastic concerts I attended.. as Stuart used to close the shows: Stay alive!

  • seen them support david bowie at sunderland years ago if it wasnt for big country waste of time going

  • Oh yeah- you're so right!!!!

  • i'm a rocker from way back but never paid much attention to 'Big Country' till i heard this by accident at a party a few years ago .. now, i'm a 'late developer' devotee .. Great band!

  • Great Tribute Vid...10/10 :)

  • mee too

  • I miss them

  • Stuart was the finest guitarist to ever use an e-bow, hands down.....A great but underappreciated band. Lucky for us the music lives on.............

  • @badbrains1969 not just that but mark was/ is the best drummer, bruce was/is also great guitarist and tony is the best bassist. Best band all around.

  • @badbrains1969 i always feel sorry for bruce.......no one ever seems to mention his part..he is probable the most underrated guitarist ever..stuart is a legend though! :O)

  • Sound quality on this is brilliant! Good job its a good song! Yeah I like it too!

  • La banda de sonido de mi adolescencia.

    Grande Big Country!!!

  • ...was für ein großes Genie mit einer facettenreichen Musik- kann sie ständig hören!!

    DANKE Stuart für dieses riesige, musikalische Geschenk!!

    Vielleicht hörst du uns ja- ganz egal, wo du sein magst!!

  • I, top class, RIP Stu :(

  • Fantastic... thank you for this...

  • Hi Stu- whereever you may be- YOUR GREAT MUSIC WILL LIVE FOR EVER!!!!!!

  • I love the shiver down the spine at 2.03

  • ....and the goosebumps on the arms. ;-) . His name will never die,his songs will last forever!! RIP Stuart.

  • HAUNTING.... Stuart RIP...... Only the good die young!!!!

  • Long live Stuart & his music. Long live Big Country!

  • bc is way better than u2 especially the crap they put out now. if they were just starting out they would never get signed. hail to the 80's

  • my favourite song

  • First time I saw Stuart Adamson was in the video for "Into the valley" by punk band the Skids and he was awesome then. BC are one of the greatest bands of all time

  • prachige unieke sound

  • my first real passion and love for music is BIG COUNTRY

  • Oh man I loved this band when I was a kid. The Big Country video was TOO epic. Bono is a sanctimonious asshole, I can't STAND him.

  • superb scotlands finest miss you stu such a waste of a talented telented man...

  • BC have got to be contenders for the best band ever. Like kumug78 says, they're underrated and getting a placing of #87 or something on the Billboard US didn't help... Damn you America, he might still be alive if it wasn't for that.

  • When you listen to this you realise how crap U2 really are.

  • Well not really, but compared to this it makes U2 look like... McFly..?

  • AMAZING

  • Absolutely fantastic!!

  • Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks what everyone else wrote. I can't say anymore. Stuart is greatly missed.

  • 4 mins 57 seconds in! Bliss.......

  • This has got to be the most under rated band in history..

  • Exactly

  • Bono cannot multi-task. Seen them both, the wrong one is dead, IMO

  • emotionplus: couldn't agree more, though we would still be hearing about it, and Ireland would have had a national day of mourning and called an airport after him after making him a saint......and our Stuart could have lived....If only, but only the good die young so we will have Bono for a long time yet!!!

  • LOL but alas so true. Nicely put though. Alas the longevity of Bono is a pain in true musics side.

  • they come anny beter than this realy a top band

    Big country 4 ever

    Freddie Holland

  • Mate check your spelling .

    I do agree that BC were a top band. I was 16 - 17 years of age when they were at their height. I loved them.

    Regards

    Glen

  • AWSOME JOB!

  • This song would be brilliant with a postcard never mind a video.

  • This is brilliant!!very well done vid/

    cheers,

    Jan.

  • good home made video well done to an excellent song

  • some of Stuarts songs can make you sad, and some joyful....his country is both tragic and glorious....ha-ha if you want real sadness just support Scotland in World Cup

  • met this guy in dunfermline 1985 just amazing (the guy and the music) sadly missed

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  • I remember when I loved this album. I recorded to a 60 min tape, and this song got cut off at the end cause it just keeps going on, and on, and on. A really great song otherwise.

  • Hee hee, I remember doing the same with a tape way back then too. Thank God when CD's came along

  • I can't beleive somebody out there did the same thing as me. I kept rewinding the tape!!!

  • Best band i ever saw live-just awesome

  • Stuart Adamson - RIP......one of the saddest days was when I heard he was no longer with us......these boys were the drain of most of my pocket money in the mid-80`s..........

  • these tunes shouldn,t make me sad but they do.see you soon stu.r.i.p.

  • beautifully done. lovely.

  • Check out from around 2:20 to around 3:20. Pretty cool.

    Q:  How do you know if a song is by Big Country?

    A: If the singer sings "CHAUK!!" (see 4:57)

    potential problem: it could be After the Fire, not BC.