Big Country Just a Shadow NYC 1986
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@lotusmaglite Agreed. It's one of the bst songs ever that no one has heard. At least here in this crazy, poltitically fucked up place called America. :-(
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it's kind of hard to choose a favorite when a band has at least twenty 'greatest songs ever'-- wish i could find a live video of 'the sailor' on you tube here...got one to post?
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If you're ever feeling low, put this on at full volume have a few beers and then put Porrohman on..........you will be transported to a different plain! Never forgotten Stu.
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That Telecaster is so awesome. Not as awesome as this song though.
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Thank you for the upload!!!
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I wish I had a chance to see play live! Miss you Stuart!
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@lotusmaglite for me all you say holds true cept it isn't just there best song imo its the best song ever )
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@lotusmaglite It is funny but i get the feeling that if they had gone huge it may have been too much for Stuart and infact the great man may have cut out sooner than he did. He was never in it for the fame, rather a love for the melodey and the word...and for that he will ALWAYS be the best around. I have many happy memories of seeing them live and they will always be the ones in my head saying "stay alive" :)
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@lotusmaglite Great comment. Totally agree. I saw/heard this live for the first time, sadly without Stuart, last month. I was blown away by this song even though I have heard it hundreds of times over the years on Steeltown. I have been to many concerts and seen big names and have also an interest in classical music. The only comparable feeling I had when listening to this song live was not at any rock concert but opera, it has the same passion and emotion (esp around the 2.00 mark).
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I wonder how many people could say these lyrics apply to them ? More than you 'd imagine I reckon.
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This song may perhaps be their greatest. Maybe I'm overstating the case, but the slow and haunting beginning only gives way at the end, when the band tips their hand at the inner turmoil that brings about the subject matter, and Stuart gives vent to the tragedy the song describes.
It was Big Country, not U2 or any of their contemporaries who should have shot through the stratosphere, and this is coming from someone to whom The Joshua Tree is a take-with-you-on-a-deserted-island kind of album.
lotusmaglite 1 year ago 26
Brings back memories of a brilliant gig at Bristol Hippodrome. Big Country were superb live and the late, great Stuart Adamson, was and still is one of my all-time musical heroes.
God Bless You Stuart
markyp1965 2 years ago 9