HIT ME IN MY SOUL (First Time Reaction) Chris Rea - The Road To Hell 1989 Full Version
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One of the great and rare British blues slide guitarists
The story of the "pink" guitar is pretty awesome too! Chris brought me to Snowy White as well.
@@terrybeige5038'Bird of Paradise' proved Snowy's Blues guitar prowess.
Chris is 73 now and still putting it out there.......one of the UK's great blues singers / slide guitar player
One of the world's best slide guitarists.
@@gershman23the best one I allow me to say ❤
FINALLY!!!! Goin' down the Chris Rea rabbit hole!!! One of the greatest guitar players ever!
A master slide guitar player along with his low, gravelly voice. The man has a great catalog. Dig deep, it will not disappoint.
His entire catalog is a lost treasure definitely worth exploring…Respect…
Fantastic artist. One of my long term favourites. From "Fool if you think it's over" to "Blue Cafe" and beyond. Years worth of top quality music to discover. Enjoy the journey. Chisel Hill is a special favourite.
His whole Auberge album is fantastic. Great for driving.
I still listen to it driving,it's awesome!
Highly underrated artist from my home town Middlesbrough. First saw him head down writing, face hidden by his long hair at the time, in one of his fathers ice cream parlours. I was just a kid my mother was a cleaner and I asked who he was. She said "that's Mr Rea's son he wants to be a musician", but I don't think his family thought he would make a living from it. It took time for him to make it in the UK however he was very popular in Europe first of all. I love all of his music and feel priviledged to have seen him working on his music when he was starting out.
71 year old English woman here and this is one of my favourite artists. Love this song especially. Glad you enjoyed it.
One of my favourite Chris Rea songs, and I'm so glad you've reacted to both parts of the song! Yes, it is very atmospheric and haunting and the first part always gives me goose bumps! Chris Rea's voice is incredible, the song is about the M25 or London Orbital Motorway, I can imagine him being stuck on this road many times so he wrote a song about it! 😊😊
We just call it the biggest car park In THE WORLD
Chris has tons of great songs....Fool if you think it's over, Driving home for Christmas, I can hear your heartbeat, Loving you again. Great guitarist, great singer and i wish him good health
_Very_ underrated guitarist....
Underrated singer as well 😮
"This ain't no technological breakdown" I used to get in trouble for playing this over the phone system whenever the server went down! 🤣
This song is even more relevant today in the world we live in.
Chris “REEEUH”
Such an amazing guitar player and oh, his voice! "Working on It" is a real banger.
Chris Rea a definite O.G.
This entire album is fantastic
That whole album is 🔥
My sister met Chris back then in Dublin. She said he was one of the most down to earth people she had met. Fantastic song!!
without doubt the GOAT of intro's
This is an amazing song! No wonder he and David Gilmour are friends! That slide guitar is KILLER!!! Always loved this song. The rest of the album is pretty good too!
Had the pleasure of seeing him twice in concert in Belfast Northern Ireland and to this day they're the best concerts I've been to. This song live was fantastic. One of if not THE best slide guitarists around. Sadly he's had a lot of health issues.
Cliff, when you said "special" I was reminded of another goosebump creating song/video, also from the UK. it is 'The Specials - Ghost Town [Official HD Remastered Video]'. A timeless classic, which originally reached the UK number on in June 1981. If you don't know, The Specials were an English 2-tone & ska-revival band formed in 1977. You'll love their beats. I find the video incredible and still find it hard to imagine how they turned East London into a ghost town to film the video.
We never had a video and without it it is even more spine tingling
Til the morning sun shines... chris rea
Do It... ENJOY!
Great artist! More to explore in his catalog.
Middlesbrough's finest.
Love, love, love Chris Rea. I'm so happy you reacted to the full version as the intro sets up the whole song. At the time of release radio stations wouldn't play long songs which is why the record company divided it into two parts and it was only the second part that got played which is criminal. Lyrics still so relevant today.
Chris is one hell of a musician and singer songwriter. An absolute legend.
The meaning seems clear to me. The road to hell is a metaphor for the track society is taking. Prophetic in the end.
checkin in...
Chris Rea's "Nothing to Fear" should be your next song. You will love it.
Dude you hit a honey hole to dive down Chris in considered one of the best slide guitar players ever. You seriously can’t go wrong with any song that you pick next I would recommend the song call on the beach keep up the great work
Road to hell album very good worth a listen to
Nice one pal for doing parts 1 and 2 absolute tune... Would love Old red eyes is back by the beautiful south a song about an alcoholic 👍 👍
He was inspired ( as a NorthEast guy who had to move south to Londistan for media work) by the ultimate 'road to Hell', the M25 orbital nightmare!
This is one of THE timeless classics and very relevant at any stage of history. The Berlin Wall came down in 89 but probably nothing to do with the song. The saying goes the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Great song great reaction he has lots of great songs up there withEric Clapton whom you should also hear if you haven’t! Well greetings from Ireland enjoy the beats.
I kinda hear Leonard Cohen in the lyrics and voice too. As well as playing the guitar, good stuff.
It’s amazing that Chris is even still alive with the amount of surgeries he’s had to keep cancer at bay, Stainsby Girls is a favourite of mine.
Pure Quality Right There Cliff. Chris Has A Discography Of Many Quality Tunes.
Another great tune by Chris Rea if you haven't heard already is "Fool if you think it's Over"
So sweet! You pick some great ones! Thanks for sharing. All the best!
Apparently, the idea for this song came from him driving on the M25 motorway in England, I drove on it every weekday. Some days were indeed HELL !!!!
Banger!!!
My hometown guy! Chris is a legend! I love that this is the full version!!
👏👏 Boro lad
I am very thankful that you reacted to the song. It's a bit creepy, but it has a good beat.
my interpretation is that we all as humanity are on a road that will lead us to ruin and I also think the message is even more significant because of what is happening in the world right now.
Took me a while, but I liked the beat. Guitar👏👏👏. ❤️❤️👵🏼 Gmaw
"And all the roads jam up with credit..." He foresaw the global financial crisis of 2008 eighteen years before it happened. Everyone was living beyond their means, buying things, especially cars, on credit and overstretching themselves on mortgages, "all just bits of paper flying away from you...", and thinking they were, in the vernacular of the day, 'upwardly mobile'. "Look out world, take a good look what comes down here, You must learn this lesson fast and learn it well. This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to Hell".
It's pronounced Chris Re-Ah.
Yeah the song is about the M25, the circular road around London which was expected to alleviate the traffic problems, but as its accessed by several hundred thousand vehicles every day no-one gets anywhere fast and its a nightmare road system, however Chris is a poet with imagination and he reckons if there were a road to Hell it would be similar to the M25. Incidentally Chris wrote Driving Home for Christmas, one of the best Christmas tunes out there,
His song Texas is my favorite of his.
Underrated guitarist as well..
Kind of a Spanish David Gilmour style.
72 year old English guy here. I was lucky enough to see Chris live a couple of times in the 80's and when he played this it was something special. So glad you enjoyed it.
Can I suggest that you react to a track called "Steel River". It was written about his home town, which produced most o fht esteel in Britain which was exported all over the world and the decline of that industry and then his moving out of it and trying to make it in the music business... I have attached a link to a live version if that would help. If you would rather do the studio version it comes frome an album called "Stainsby Girls". Keep on Rocking.
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underrated artist. 😀
You now have to react to "Working on It" He enjoys Dire Straits. You can hear nuances of him in the guitar. ❤
He did a song called “Let’s Dance” which I particularly love, but he has a good catalog.
Im lovin you stuff more n more man, keep it happening.
An artist that doesn’t get enough eye-work is Gerry Rafferty RIP, his amazing track Baker Street is about all the exposure he gets.
I have two suggestions, if you care that is lol, Get it right next time & North & South.
All the best and go well my friend - from New Zealand.
The Road to hell Chris references must surely be the M25 that circles Greater London…. It just goes round and around and is ‘The Road to Hell’
This one might be his best song, but he's had a number of other quality tunes including:
'On The Beach'
'Josephine'
'Driving Home For Christmas' (still a staple for the holiday season on the radio around these parts)
'I Can Hear Your Heartbeat'
'Fool (If You Think It's Over)'
I've always had a soft spot for 'Candles', too.
Side note, the award for "song title most of its time" goes to 'Shamrock Diaries'. ( _Shamrock_ was a popular brand of budget reel-to-reel tape in the 1960s to 1980s, apparently selling all kinds of Ampex B-stock.)
You need to pronounce the A at the end of his name-Re ah. Hes from Middlesbrough UK.
Chris has a great voice, Try 'On the Beach'
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The highways/freeways likewise, I should think. Kudos to Chris Rea for that early warning we never heeded. But here we are 36 years later, and the electric cars are still competing with gasoline-run cars...
Lyrics as relevant now as they were then.
You need to listen to his big hit "Fool If You Think It's Over" from the 1978 if you haven't already. The official video is the best version imo. One of my all-time favorites from that decade.
Mine too!
It's Chris 'Ree-ya'. You 'aint the first person to have the shit scared out of him in Part 1 but luckily, Part 2 more than makes up for it! Please check out his other 'biggie' 'Stainsby Girls'
If you were a northern musician or singer you had to move south to London to make it big artists such as Paul Rodgers also from Middlesbrough, Mark Knopfler and Sting from Newcastle, David Coverdale of Whitesnake came from near Middlesbrough a place called Redcar all went down South for fame. There are many more as well. As a side note he is car crazy especially Ferraris he had replica's built of his favourite F1 Ferrari and produced a movie about them.
yup, eerie indeed.
Btw, why is there a highway to hell, but just a stairway to Heaven? Traffic expectancy?
If you switched his voice for Mark Knopfler's, it could easily be a Dire Straits song.
Please take a listen to Chris Rea - "Tell me there's a heaven"
Chris Rea sold his soul to release this song.....you fraking know it...
Still relative today
It's 'Chris Ree-ah'
Sorry for nitpicking.
Anyway - loved your reaction to this. He's always been a great musician, but 1989 is when he really went above and beyond. Okay, so I love The Blues, but when he appeared on UK TV music show Top of the Pops, playing 'Nothing to Fear', I perked up right away. If nothing else, I wanted to see what the hip kids in the audience made of it; and I was right - like 'Road to Hell', 'Nothing to Fear' has quite a lengthy intro. However, unlike this song, NtF's intro is a slow instrumental. and those kids were absolutely baffled....
Recommendations:
Nothing to Fear
God's Great Banana Skin
Auberge
Stainsby Girls
Black Dog (not a single, but a great tune.)
Do some more chris reah
This song was written about the M25 😂
We're all ultimately losers. Good observation. Something many Americans need to take on board and consider, rather than just denounce.
Try 'Auberge' , I think you will like it. :)
36 years old,better late than never mate,, lol please remember how old this is he does not have that hairline now 🤣
Dire straits influence in there
Cliff mate your overthinking things. This tune is about sitting in a traffic jam on the M25 London ring road. It's always nearly at a dead stop so it's a road to hell. I've been in it a thousand times trust me. By the way, is there any chance you can get Karen to react to chinchilla 1-5 live. peace from England ✌️
Thats the M25
This song is about the most dangerous highway in UK M25 it’s not about hell at all
My name is stevie and I have ms
It's pronounced Ree-ah
Rea is pronounced rear.
Not Chris RAY. It’s pronounced Ree-urr.
chris what mate?? ray??? its pronounced REEYA!
It’s not pronounced Ray it’s Ree yuh
Sums up America with trump as president. Road to hell
Way to completely kill a classic track!
Chris..... REEEE-AH