Christ what a band. Lost my husband to covid three weeks ago. He was a big fan. Am getting major comfort listening to Big Country now. God bless you all fans xxxx
@@grahammccready2647 Hi Graham. Thanks for good wishes. Am just past first anniversary of his death. Am keeping going and life looking a lot better. Hope all is well with you. Happy Xmas and New Year
I literally close out every karaoke I host with a different live version at full volume to send folks out the door in a happy place whilst I put up chairs.
Listening to this on the island of Jura with a glass of 10yr old Jura single malt in my fist and it’s just sublime as if it could have been written for this place, Slainte!
Fucking Big Time. Unbelievable Live Band. Big Tone cracking out the Bass Lines with Mark as a Rythm section, plus the Legend that is Stu and Bruce's Bag Pipe Guitars! 😁❤ I know everyone says this shit on here but This Lot are a properly underrated Band.
I’m sooooo SAD for this guy! I’ve been there & did it,... thank God that I didn’t do it right!! Bless your heart Stuart Adamson & your soul!! ♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻 RIP ♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻🙏🏻
THIS is my all time favorite video!! They are such fun to watch, they are all fantastic! RIP Stu Adamson 😢🙏🏻😢🙏🏻 YOU are sorely MISSED! I’m sure your singing ur heart out up in heaven!! ♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻
They really didn't like that comparison. I've seen it brought up in an old interview somewhere here on youtube & the whole band sort of groan in unison at the suggestion. As a guitarist myself, I suspect they're just using a similar scale to classic bagpipe music & that's where the similarity comes from. Whatever it is it's awesome, & unique in rock guitar playing. Phenomenal band.
@@myfrequencies1912 More than just the use of major scales and trills. The guitar tone in particular is evocative of pipes. Lots of compression before distortion, to create smoothly sustaining tones that don't lose harmonics over time. And the pitch shifter detuning also creates thickness like a chorus slightly detuned pipes. It may not have been intended, but I can see where it comes from.
For 25 years, I thought they had a piper in the band! And I thought "What a fantastic piper! Comes on on time and on key every time and plays his notes and drops off!"
@@myfrequencies1912 somewhere in the bowels of YT i have seen a cover where some of the members of The Alarm do a cover of this. in some ways, its even better
Я был 18 летним пацаном, до армии.И был я на том концерте. Наши группы, тогда ещё в СССР , были поти все на разогреве, кроме одной..."Бригада С"! Она выступала после Big Country." Бригада" зажгла так, что я до сих пор не могу, и не хочу оправиться о т этого оркестрового "мощя" энергии, ВСЕХ ДУХОВЫХ и ЭНЕРГЕТИКИ ВОКАЛА и Гарика.
WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW INTENSE! my eyes water every time i hear this i want to runout the front door and sprint full speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whenever I am tired with everyday work and people, I need to plug in my earphones and keep looping this song. Thank you Stuart to make this song. Thank you very much.
I suffered three strokes after taking an overdose of drugs to delete myself, and I have residual effects from it, but I’m glad I failed because I’m still alive to take of my mother who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. I wish Stuart was still alive for his children to one day take care of him.
I just wish that I had not been so pissed out of my mind during the whole of the 80s and had got off my arse to go and see this brilliant band.I am still pissed because of my loss.JimLiverpool.
A super hit by big country, excellent sound, I was unaware of Stuart's unfortunate death, a tragic loss , too often we seem to lose great talent way too soon
Just to add...ordinarily speaking, this would be a phenomenal concert to be at, but the significance of WHERE and WHEN it was just gives me the chills. Imagine being one of those audience members...one of the first to attend a rock concert by a real live western band inside the soviet union...wow.
"In A Big Country" Ha I've never seen you look like this without a reason Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you Shock I never took the smile away from anybody's face And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered Shock, 1, 2 I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive In a big country, dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive Ha Shock
God love you always Stuart! Fantastic performance from these boys! I will never forget seeing them in twice when I was 18 and how amazingly powerful and brilliant. I still do not understand why they didn't become huge here (America) when so many other crap bands did.
Oh I love Stuart & I love Tony Butler!! They are so much FUN to watch!! ❤️💃🏻❤️💃🏻❤️💃🏻 I’m so sorry that Stuart couldn’t beat those demons w/alcohol!! He had his whole life ahead of him!! 😢😢😢 Thank goodness that we have these videos to ENJOY! 💖💕💖💕
I love HIM!!! I’m sorry he had so many problems in his life, (don’t let your own wheels’ drive you crazy!! However, I can totally understand!! (I have been there & done that),: it’s ALWAYS better in the ‘ morning’..♥️
What a great band! To make that guitar sound like a bagpipe, just incredible. If you're so inclined, check out Pete Townsend's video for let my love open the door. With a young Tony Butler.
What this song says is, if you're Russian be proud if you're American be proud if you're from any nation, be proud most of all we should care and love each other ❤
Oooh I love Steuart Adamson!! Gota tell you, I LOVE Tony Butler!! OMG!! I love this group & this song!! It really breaks my heart w/what happened to Struart... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I will always feel that Lindsey Buckingham was the most underrated guitarist of my lifetime but in Stuart Adamson for energy, charisma, and stage presence. Lindsey met his match. This comment is meant as a compliment to both. My best friend hung himself in 1986. My heart is crying, "Why?"
just a thought. when I first heard this song at age 16 I was totally shocked. the threat of a world nuclear event was real. I remember worrying about it. then i heard this song and thought - this ain't U2. I realized after hearing Chance that BC was a band I could never fully understand, but I wanted to, and the music & lyrics were so brilliant, I just thought - go for it. BC has been a true friend. Inspiration. Mirror. I don't credit Stuart for everything, as much as I miss him each day. I credit Mark, Bruce and Tony and Stuart. Listen to that bass line. Listen to perfect beat and fills that would make Peart envious. And rhythm that matches anything. Wonderland still makes me stop breathing.
Thank you for replying,you're a very nice person! Now I got what you meant! It's so good to talk with intelligent people here...sometimes it's impossible,most of them are trendy fashion bandwagoners :)
This is only available as a VHS tape, but last year they were going to release it as a remastered DVD, unfortunately they lost the master tape, criminal!
From Prowestern YUGOSLAVIA i say Welcome Scottish in Moskva(Proud to grew up with english,scottish punk ,new wave in 80-thies in FREE Yugoslavia..today in pretty occupied Serbia from Russian neoconservatismus...)
Stupid comment to say anyone member is the band, Stuart was the driving force but he wasnt Mark Brezicki or Tony Butler or Bruce Watson all of whom created the bands unique sound between them collectively and realised with Stuart a fine sound indeed.
Paul Ockenden Absolutely, while Stuart indeed deserves credit for some fine songs and performances, it is INDEED the ENTIRE BAND that makes BC SO special. A fact that is too often overlooked or simply under acknowledged.
@@cejannuzi it goes way beyond the music, but the sound of the band is made up of four instruments and two voices. the other three members of the band are not bit players. they are integral - every one of them - to the magic that happened when their best music was created. stuart is irreplaceable because he was a unique vocalist, a unique and extremely gifted guitar player AND the poet delivering the message driven by the music created by himself and the other three. what happened to the band after he died proves nothing. would Stuart's impending solo career have been a success? the band was the vehicle that allowed him to be the supreme performer he undoubtedly was. Bruce Watson is himself a fantastic player; his parts are original as hell and he hardly ever fucks up. and as for Mark and Tony, they are the engine. both players are technically top drawer and they created some truly unique sounding music. you are talking about a rare chemistry that exists between members of a band which creates an energy that one person alone simply cannot create.
Christ what a band. Lost my husband to covid three weeks ago. He was a big fan. Am getting major comfort listening to Big Country now. God bless you all fans xxxx
I'm sorry to hear about your husband. Please accept my sincerest condolences.
God bless sorry about your loss..lost my little sister to covid.
oh no that is horrendous, best wishes to you Catherine. i hope you find some better days down the road.
@@grahammccready2647 Hi Graham. Thanks for good wishes. Am just past first anniversary of his death. Am keeping going and life looking a lot better. Hope all is well with you. Happy Xmas and New Year
Your husband had good taste in music. God bless you.
Who else is listening to Big Country in 2024?
Man, these guys rocked
I literally close out every karaoke I host with a different live version at full volume to send folks out the door in a happy place whilst I put up chairs.
@@blakeandtim937 Cool 👍👍👍
Never get tired of this song.
Me either. That’s why I covered it. ua-cam.com/video/1A4oyNL8Mys/v-deo.html check my version!
Same!!!
The KGB!!! Freak...
You just cannee ❤👍👊
Listening to this on the island of Jura with a glass of 10yr old Jura single malt in my fist and it’s just sublime as if it could have been written for this place, Slainte!
Just frickin' mega talent in every instrument. One of the all time great bands.
Love this clip especially.
Me too!! Awesomeness!!
9/23/20 ♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻
Tony Butler looks like he’s LOVIN it too!! Such a great video!! Thx for sharing!! 👍🏻👍🏻
Fucking Big Time. Unbelievable Live Band. Big Tone cracking out the Bass Lines with Mark as a Rythm section, plus the Legend that is Stu and Bruce's Bag Pipe Guitars! 😁❤ I know everyone says this shit on here but This Lot are a properly underrated Band.
I’m sooooo SAD for this guy! I’ve been there & did it,... thank God that I didn’t do it right!!
Bless your heart Stuart Adamson & your soul!! ♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻 RIP ♥️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻🙏🏻
Likewise.
Absolute brilliant "Big Country" They made history in music !!!
THIS is my all time favorite video!! They are such fun to watch, they are all fantastic!
RIP Stu Adamson 😢🙏🏻😢🙏🏻
YOU are sorely MISSED! I’m sure your singing ur heart out up in heaven!! ♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻
I reckon Him and Phil Lynot are making music together- imagine that?!!!😂 enjoy Your Bank Hols Weekend.
Extremely AWESOME energy and the beautiful sound of bagpipes from a guitar.
Right on nick, stuart adamson was an amazing guitar player!!@
They really didn't like that comparison. I've seen it brought up in an old interview somewhere here on youtube & the whole band sort of groan in unison at the suggestion.
As a guitarist myself, I suspect they're just using a similar scale to classic bagpipe music & that's where the similarity comes from.
Whatever it is it's awesome, & unique in rock guitar playing. Phenomenal band.
@@myfrequencies1912 More than just the use of major scales and trills. The guitar tone in particular is evocative of pipes. Lots of compression before distortion, to create smoothly sustaining tones that don't lose harmonics over time. And the pitch shifter detuning also creates thickness like a chorus slightly detuned pipes. It may not have been intended, but I can see where it comes from.
For 25 years, I thought they had a piper in the band! And I thought "What a fantastic piper! Comes on on time and on key every time and plays his notes and drops off!"
@@myfrequencies1912 somewhere in the bowels of YT i have seen a cover where some of the members of The Alarm do a cover of this. in some ways, its even better
Your name will never die, Stuart Adamson
Christ! You can see the pain and the love in his eyes... makes me cry.
This is one of my all time favorites. Sometimes I put it on repeat when I am on the treadmill!
I wish i was there. Moscow was fabulous back then...
Я был 18 летним пацаном, до армии.И был я на том концерте. Наши группы, тогда ещё в СССР , были поти все на разогреве, кроме одной..."Бригада С"! Она выступала после Big Country." Бригада" зажгла так, что я до сих пор не могу, и не хочу оправиться о т этого оркестрового "мощя" энергии, ВСЕХ ДУХОВЫХ и ЭНЕРГЕТИКИ ВОКАЛА и Гарика.
Wish it could still be this way. But the powers that be want to destroy us all for there own gratification and are so stupid to be going down with us.
WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW
INTENSE! my eyes water every time i hear this i want to runout the front door and sprint full speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What an incredible band all around, Tony Butler is brilliant on the bass!
Peace and love to all our brothers and sisters in this wee planet ❤
Stuart, you are a wonderful person with a beautiful soul. An incredible talent. Breaks my heart you had to leave us. RIP
These songs just make u go crazy air guitar
Stuart is my hero. This song made me love music again. RIP
Just hearing Bruce's guitar. Brilliant. Never got recognition he deserves.
Saw them in Bristol twice, never to be beaten, saddens me greatly to realise , never again 😢 RIP.....
The ‘signs’ were ALL THERE!!
Awwww all -the ‘lyrics’,. I heard him sing,.. he was speaking of his ‘own’ life!!! 😢🙏🏻😢🙏🏻😢
One of the best live bands I've ever seen!
I love Big Country.
👊💥🎤🎸🥁 ❤️👍 X
Whenever I am tired with everyday work and people, I need to plug in my earphones and keep looping this song. Thank you Stuart to make this song. Thank you very much.
this song gives me the strong energy in order to live each day here in philippines.
gilbert leguro dude, one of my favorite new wave tracks of all time.
gilbert leguro stay cool mate. From Scotland.
me too
I also like the cover of Dashboard Confessional, hearing this song and singing this during these pandemic times elevate my energy
I feel the same way but here in the USA! The radio at work plays this song every day! Customers get a chuckle, as I jam to it!!!
I suffered three strokes after taking an overdose of drugs to delete myself, and I have residual effects from it, but I’m glad I failed because I’m still alive to take of my mother who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. I wish Stuart was still alive for his children to one day take care of him.
Can't beat this man ❤ What a talent and Scottish
Says it all ☝️🤲❤🎸🎸🎼👌
What a band !!! They are incredible live performers
I just wish that I had not been so pissed out of my mind during the whole of the 80s and had got off my arse to go and see this brilliant band.I am still pissed because of my loss.JimLiverpool.
I saw them and they were brilliant. No worries, mate.
What a band. I still draw strength from this powerful music.
Brings me back lots of good memories
Too me❤️😁
I love everything about this song and this video: the energy, the myriad of emotions, the band amazing performance
One of the best drummers but soooo underrated
A super hit by big country, excellent sound, I was unaware of Stuart's unfortunate death, a tragic loss , too often we seem to lose great talent way too soon
Wow, I think this is the best live performance that Ive heard of this song. Awesome.
Love love love!! ♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻 9/23/20
Love you Stuart!! 😢😢♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻
Love you Tony!! ♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻
Love you, Bruce?!?! ♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻
Wow!!! What a. Blast from the past. It’s as good now, 2018, as it was then. 30 years!!!
To our Celtic roots.
Outstanding. I really miss these guys. Talent deluxe! Thanks for posting this gem.
Just to add...ordinarily speaking, this would be a phenomenal concert to be at, but the significance of WHERE and WHEN it was just gives me the chills. Imagine being one of those audience members...one of the first to attend a rock concert by a real live western band inside the soviet union...wow.
you are absolutely right .... historical. I am sure the band members realize that.
these are comments i make sure to remember every time i play this song. humbles me real quick. to be apart of this moment would be otherwordly.
Exactly!! History in the making!
this is the best version of this song on video !
I said this before, Stuart loved his fans. RIP
Surely this band and the Skids are two of Scotland's finest ever groups!!
My absolute favourite band of all time
Thank you UA-cam algorithms! Great clip, good video and really good audio, must have been through the board. Well done whoever. SUCH a band
Awwwww, I WISH Stuart took his own ‘advise’ & STAY ALIVE!!
RIP Stuart Adamson 🙏🏻😢🙏🏻😢
"In A Big Country"
Ha
I've never seen you look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you
Shock
I never took the smile away from anybody's face
And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child
In a big country, dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime
In a big country, dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
In a big country, dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered
Shock, 1, 2
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime
In a big country, dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
In a big country, dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
In a big country, dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
Ha
Shock
God love you always Stuart! Fantastic performance from these boys! I will never forget seeing them in twice when I was 18 and how amazingly powerful and brilliant. I still do not understand why they didn't become huge here (America) when so many other crap bands did.
This song makes me strong to live the hard life here in the Philippines which was full of corruptions everywhere.
Excellent sound quality... Hi -Fi
Class all the way takes me back to good times
LOVE, LOVE THIS BAND AND THIS SONG!!
Enormous!!!!! A big band four a big CONTRY.....THANKS SO....
Tony is infectious all his bouncing about awsome
20 dislikes ,you sad people big country still going strong stay alive popickers ❤❤❤
Oh I love Stuart & I love Tony Butler!! They are so much FUN to watch!! ❤️💃🏻❤️💃🏻❤️💃🏻
I’m so sorry that Stuart couldn’t beat those demons w/alcohol!!
He had his whole life ahead of him!! 😢😢😢
Thank goodness that we have these videos to ENJOY! 💖💕💖💕
I love HIM!!! I’m sorry he had so many problems in his life, (don’t let your own wheels’ drive you crazy!! However, I can totally understand!! (I have been there & done that),: it’s ALWAYS better in the ‘ morning’..♥️
What a MONUMONTAL SONG.... BILLIARD THANKS.
only time ah ever heard the 'pipes' played on the 'geetar' wiz when Big Country played :-)
WONDERFUL
Yes they do...Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful post. Priceless ;->
So awesome!
What a great band! To make that guitar sound like a bagpipe, just incredible. If you're so inclined, check out Pete Townsend's video for let my love open the door. With a young Tony Butler.
Wow, awesome performance
Superb.......👍
the production values are well executed
Incredible
3:17 to 3:30 chorus are Amazing, like if you realize of it ❤
Epic. 🙌
What this song says is, if you're Russian be proud if you're American be proud if you're from any nation, be proud most of all we should care and love each other ❤
YES! THIS IS MUSIC! FUCK YEAH, GAVE ME GOOSEBUMPS!
Cool!!
‘BRUCE’!!! 👍🏻👍🏻 ♥️💃🏻♥️💃🏻♥️
Great!
A Pure rare genius
Oooh I love Steuart Adamson!!
Gota tell you, I LOVE Tony Butler!! OMG!! I love this group & this song!! It really breaks my heart w/what happened to Struart... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
AMAZING!!!
What a powerfull sound...Why Stuart,why you made us so sad....
Simply the BEST!
I will always feel that Lindsey Buckingham was the most underrated guitarist of my lifetime but in Stuart Adamson for energy, charisma, and stage presence. Lindsey met his match. This comment is meant as a compliment to both. My best friend hung himself in 1986. My heart is crying, "Why?"
Devil is pork, dirty. He or she is with God now,
very Nice!
WOW!
GREAT post
just a thought. when I first heard this song at age 16 I was totally shocked. the threat of a world nuclear event was real. I remember worrying about it. then i heard this song and thought - this ain't U2. I realized after hearing Chance that BC was a band I could never fully understand, but I wanted to, and the music & lyrics were so brilliant, I just thought - go for it. BC has been a true friend. Inspiration. Mirror. I don't credit Stuart for everything, as much as I miss him each day. I credit Mark, Bruce and Tony and Stuart. Listen to that bass line. Listen to perfect beat and fills that would make Peart envious. And rhythm that matches anything. Wonderland still makes me stop breathing.
mongo88now88 They blow U2 away....
me too feel like attackin these low life indoctrinators
will doing that move get shut of my syatica
Pity wonderland wasn't used as meant to be in the car chase in the film against all odds
Severely overlooked band.
Thank you for replying,you're a very nice person! Now I got what you meant! It's so good to talk with intelligent people here...sometimes it's impossible,most of them are trendy fashion bandwagoners :)
“Bruce” great drum beat as Stuart goes into the audience
there's songs that never gets old, here is one of them. this band was so full of energy and life. why stuart why???
Totally agree. His time had only begun, gone way to early. SENSELESS
😢😢😢😢 Sad sad sad!! 9/23/20
Such a bittersweet monument😢
“Come up screaming”
Such a great band, so sorry Stuart left us before his time 🌹
This is only available as a VHS tape, but last year they were going to release it as a remastered DVD, unfortunately they lost the master tape, criminal!
OMG, NO! I know this is so many years later but still. So sad.
Here you can hear the drummer, improvising at about 2;00 GREAT
B I G C O U N T R Y
In a Big Country
I miss the unique sounding guitar of this band and the very excilent frontman Suart Adamson.
From Prowestern YUGOSLAVIA i say Welcome Scottish in Moskva(Proud to grew up with english,scottish punk ,new wave in 80-thies in FREE Yugoslavia..today in pretty occupied Serbia from Russian neoconservatismus...)
Big country is the best band ever
Agreed! ua-cam.com/video/1A4oyNL8Mys/v-deo.html check my version!
Spaceba!
Stupid comment to say anyone member is the band, Stuart was the driving force but he wasnt Mark Brezicki or Tony Butler or Bruce Watson all of whom created the bands unique sound between them collectively and realised with Stuart a fine sound indeed.
Paul Ockenden Absolutely, while Stuart indeed deserves credit for some fine songs and performances, it is INDEED the ENTIRE BAND that makes BC SO special. A fact that is too often overlooked or simply under acknowledged.
Charles Jannuzi Sorry, but you're wrong.
@@cejannuzi it goes way beyond the music, but the sound of the band is made up of four instruments and two voices. the other three members of the band are not bit players. they are integral - every one of them - to the magic that happened when their best music was created. stuart is irreplaceable because he was a unique vocalist, a unique and extremely gifted guitar player AND the poet delivering the message driven by the music created by himself and the other three. what happened to the band after he died proves nothing. would Stuart's impending solo career have been a success? the band was the vehicle that allowed him to be the supreme performer he undoubtedly was. Bruce Watson is himself a fantastic player; his parts are original as hell and he hardly ever fucks up. and as for Mark and Tony, they are the engine. both players are technically top drawer and they created some truly unique sounding music. you are talking about a rare chemistry that exists between members of a band which creates an energy that one person alone simply cannot create.