Many of these kids were recovered because of this song. 36 kids were profiled. 21 were recovered. This song was redone to help find more kids. And by the way. Most kids run away because of sexual abuse. In 1975, that was my beloved sister. She was gone for 18 months. Since then, there have been snippets where she’s shared what happened. As a family we were lucky. She CAME BACK.
I remember MTV running several different versions of this video ... Each having different missing kids. 😢These videos actually reunited many families as well! 💗
Was done twice in the Uk something like 20 years apart. America had the highest number of features missing children found. Unforuntetlly in the UK in the years since some of there bodies were found. Not sure of the number found alive and well in the UK.
This song has never lost its effect on me...it always brings me back to being 15, coming into my own...and wanting a better life for myself...it makes my heart ache.
Me too, I escaped a hellish upbringing, literally bought a one way ticket and off I went. I joined the Army, then the London Met Police, and I’ve never looked back.... you really can change your life and make things better.
Despite the alert to missing children, this is a song about depression according to lead singer Dave Pirner. Which makes a lot of sense if you ignore the video and actually listen to the lyrics.
I almost always tear up when I hear this song, especially because of the video. I had a good friend when I was in junior high school that ran away in 1979. I never knew what became of him. He was one of my best friends. Mark Cassius, I have missed you for nigh on forty years and wondered what became of you. I didn’t even get to say goodbye.
this song needs to be done every year! we need faces and posters... find these children. we should be ashamed as a nation that this happens and no one looks for them!
Some of these kids have been found due to this video (there are actually 4 versions with different missing pics). Sadly some were not found alive. They baby featured at the end was found dead buried in his backyard, murdered by his father...who was a cop :(
the little boy at the end Thomas Gibson, the police eventually arrested the father for 2nd-degree murder. He apparently beat the little boy to death. They still haven't found his body
Oh my god! Really. Oh that poor baby. When I first saw this I was 10 years old and it traumatised me. When that baby was taken from his mother at the end, I was scared for years, and to find out through these comments that it was the father who killed his little boy and his mother was still can’t burry her son makes it so much worse. 😭😭😭
This song & video is award winning material in my opinion. It provided an awareness & service plus great music at the same time. Some of the people who were missing in the video were found & some returned home because of it. ♥️
Yeah and it shows so many ways bad things can happen. Getting into the car with the old guy, being hauled into a van, the baby stolen in the end, kids in bad situations and so on. Even after all these years, that video still gets to me.
@@wilmascholte7607 you and me both this video hits me every single time because I grew up in a drug infested house hold and thought about running away but my mom decided to get clean god rest her soul
Thank you for reviewing this song Javaughn, sex trade, runaways, abuse, mental illness. You have brought your light to this gut wrenching but beautiful song. God Bless you my friend!
Five minutes before I watched this I got an Amber alert on my phone. 10 year old girl. White man in a white van. It never ends. I can't imagine the pain!
Iona, Got about six seperate ones in the last month in Fl. White panel vans for a long while now. Couple of years. It's heartbreaking. This is an old song. It's getting worse and worse. When I was in grade school( 58 now) was approached in the alley with others girls on Easter.promises of finding a bunny. Then he whipped his genitals out. Than walking home from school , only a few blockks away and someome asked me if I wanted icecream. And I lived in a pretty nice neighborhood. Sickening shit. Thanks for the video Jay, u nailed it.
While the video is about missing children he actually wrote it about his deep depression. I love that they used it for missing kids but also, mental illness is a great subject line as well. No matter what it makes me cry when I hear and see it. It wiped the smile right off Javon’s face. Much love Jay!
This is one of those songs that I love dearly but cannot add to my playlist. It breaks me every time I hear it. Shines a spotlight on the issues children face.
Grammy for Best Rock Song in 1993. The 90s had many great bands and singers that really tried to use their music to call attention to important issues--Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs), REM, Sinead O'Connor, Concrete Blonde, The Cranberries, Tracey Chapman--it was kind of like the late 60s all over again. It was the last hurrah before corporations completely took over music to promote nothing more than image. A few popular singers still try to create transformational music today, but not enough--there is much more to write about than getting laid or partying or being a "bad bitch."
damn it Jay, you've got me crying at this one, powerful music. More power to you , you are the best reaction man on you tube, and i am 56 and remember this one being released.. too.
I know you are going to do great things in your life Jovaughn.......You have such a caring heart and an empathy for others..... Take all the opportunities available to you and never lose that faith you have in love. ❤️
This song is one of my favorites. They didn't start off as grunge, but it was during grunge's heyday that they got their big break. This video got a LOT of airplay on MTV. I think there were even slightly different versions with different missing kids. It always gives me goosebumps.
Had this single on cassette when I was younger and listened to it over and over! Definitely remember this video being on all the time and that creepy lady stealing the baby at the end. Great song.
This song is like 25+ years old and it still affects me. I can’t watch this video or hear this song without crying. Happy you gave it a listen. I thought I read at some time that not al, but 18 or 20 of the children shown were found. I agree, I do not understand the evil that prevails in this and other countries regarding to abuses and abductions of children. It just pains my heart.
Great song! I ran away at age 15. Made it all the way to New Mexico, from Virginia. Luckily, I came back ok. This video always made me feel lucky to be unharmed, but also guilty for what I put my parents through.. many don't run away, they're taken.
Your reaction was honest n trying to make sense of missing or runaway young people is hard. You did your best thru being caught off guard. This was a great attempt to address the nightmare of abduction. Thanks for shying away from making sense out of it J.
I cant listen to this song without feeling so sad, ever since it came out in the 90s. Its beautiful & devastating all at the same time. Watching the video always gets me. 😔😔
Soul Asylum is legendary in MN. They remind of concerts & dancing at First Ave. 💕🎟 This video has such a strong message. I hadn’t seen it in years. Imagine having your child go missing in the age of no internet & no cell phones. 💔Somebody to Shove & Misery are really good too.
one of the greatest songs of the 90's, the most special. this got big in non-English speaking countries, even those outside of Europe, too. this one's touched so many people, soo many... the innocent 90s... last exit before the doom...
Lots of those shown as missing at least called home. They had no idea their family was still looking for them. Kudos to the band for doing this video in this manner. They used a popular medium to reach out to people of that age range to to see if they could find some of them.
When this song was released, two versions were made of this video. This one and another with the names and faces of children missing in the UK and mainland Europe at the end of it. Several countries then made their own individual ones.
This is one of the most powerful videos ever made, in my opinion. Such a real, strong message. I love this and I still get chills with this video. Thank you for this reminder.
This song and video are why I always look at the board at Walmart that has pictures of missing people. You never know if you might see them and could possibly help. This song resonates. Big time.
This band was outstanding. They brought awareness to the desperate situations some children are in. Still goes on today. People need to learn to love and respect each other. These kids didn't ask to be brought into this world. They deserve better.
Great reaction, Jay. I never heard of this song before tonight. You're right -- kids run away from problems at home, only to find far worse problems on the street from the people who take them in.
Being from Minnesota and Sol asylum being a Minneapolis band this song has a lot of feeling and meaning to me One of the missing girls pictured actually returned home because she saw herself on the video
800,000 kids go missing every year in America alone. 20,000 here in Australia. That's just recorded figures, actually a lot higher. This is extremely pertinent to what is happening in the world right now. So glad you reacted to this one
Great choice of song. Remember this when I was in Germany! Edit: A few of those missing were found dead and others rescued or just ran away and came back.
I was 15 in 94'ish when this came out. I remember I loved the song but didn't even realize what it was about till I saw the video. After that I'd cry every time I heard it, regardless of where I was or what I was doing. To be fair it doesn't take much to make me :'(...still so heartbreaking. I'm pretty sure some of those runaways came home. Idk how many, but even if it was just one...it was successful.
Some of those missing folks were running away from abuse, found & sent back to the abuse from this music video being so huge nationwide due to MTV & VH1 still being 98% music then.... I’m 40yrs young so I remember clearly as an authentic 80’s baby & 90’s teen, “Runaway Train’s” music video still makes me cry & as a parent since 2002 the music video sends rage through me also....
Know what you got me thinking of now? Gin Blossoms. I loved them a lot more than Soul Asylum. Soul Asylum was good, i won't challenge that but "Allison Road" "Hey Jealousy" "Til I hear it from you" and countless others were my go to for melancholy. Thanks for reminding me of them. Check out Gin Blossoms. Pretty please.
This song meant a lot to me as a teenager. I was basically a chronic runaway. I didn't have bad parents. I had really bad depression and honestly my parents did everything they could to help me. I still thought I could run away from my problems. No matter how far away I ran, there I was.
I was a pre-teen or early teen when this came out, it scared me... haven't seen this video for over 20 years, but some of the scenes are printed in my brain, I teared up watching it again, all the memories came right back, it was such an important video, actually many of the people were found because of this musucvideo
Many of these kids were recovered because of this song. 36 kids were profiled. 21 were recovered. This song was redone to help find more kids. And by the way. Most kids run away because of sexual abuse. In 1975, that was my beloved sister. She was gone for 18 months. Since then, there have been snippets where she’s shared what happened. As a family we were lucky. She CAME BACK.
I remember MTV running several different versions of this video ... Each having different missing kids. 😢These videos actually reunited many families as well! 💗
They did versions in UK, Germany, and Australia aswell
@@Shagyamum I didn’t know that! That’s amazing!!!
Was done twice in the Uk something like 20 years apart. America had the highest number of features missing children found. Unforuntetlly in the UK in the years since some of there bodies were found. Not sure of the number found alive and well in the UK.
This song has never lost its effect on me...it always brings me back to being 15, coming into my own...and wanting a better life for myself...it makes my heart ache.
Me too 🥺
I know how you feel. I left home at 15 and never went back. I knew there had to be a better life some place else.
Me as well
Me too, I escaped a hellish upbringing, literally bought a one way ticket and off I went. I joined the Army, then the London Met Police, and I’ve never looked back.... you really can change your life and make things better.
Power to you Anna, inspiring, you’re a true life hero
You’ve got a big heart, Javaughn; Bless you!
Despite the alert to missing children, this is a song about depression according to lead singer Dave Pirner.
Which makes a lot of sense if you ignore the video and actually listen to the lyrics.
Also, about heroin.
@@johnkasbohm7839 If you want to make it about that, sure. Pirner has only stated that it was about depression.
@@TucBroder Understood.
Whatever Pirners intentions were with the song he allowed it to be used as basically a lost childrens hotline...and that is fucking rock as fuck!
but... it is all of those things... it's always been.
Devastating. Can't hear or sing it without losing my breath. 😢
This song was played in the early 90's for a tv pogram looking for lost children at Hungary
Luckily most of them were found 😇🙏🙏🙏
This brought 20 something kids home from different countries becasue a different version of missing persons was shown from their own countries.
I almost always tear up when I hear this song, especially because of the video. I had a good friend when I was in junior high school that ran away in 1979. I never knew what became of him. He was one of my best friends. Mark Cassius, I have missed you for nigh on forty years and wondered what became of you. I didn’t even get to say goodbye.
This video was adapted to other countries with missing children from that country. Their other hit was ‘Somebody to shove’
27 years and still cry every time I watch it. Too personal
this song needs to be done every year! we need faces and posters... find these children. we should be ashamed as a nation that this happens and no one looks for them!
Some of these kids have been found due to this video (there are actually 4 versions with different missing pics). Sadly some were not found alive. They baby featured at the end was found dead buried in his backyard, murdered by his father...who was a cop :(
What a sad, and yet beautiful song this truly is.
This song breaks my heart and makes me cry. So sad.
the little boy at the end Thomas Gibson, the police eventually arrested the father for 2nd-degree murder. He apparently beat the little boy to death. They still haven't found his body
Well that is awful...thanks for that update
Oh man... 😭
😢😢😢😢😢
omg... my heart hearts
Oh my god! Really. Oh that poor baby. When I first saw this I was 10 years old and it traumatised me. When that baby was taken from his mother at the end, I was scared for years, and to find out through these comments that it was the father who killed his little boy and his mother was still can’t burry her son makes it so much worse. 😭😭😭
This song & video is award winning material in my opinion. It provided an awareness & service plus great music at the same time. Some of the people who were missing in the video were found & some returned home because of it. ♥️
Yeah and it shows so many ways bad things can happen. Getting into the car with the old guy, being hauled into a van, the baby stolen in the end, kids in bad situations and so on.
Even after all these years, that video still gets to me.
@@wilmascholte7607 you and me both this video hits me every single time because I grew up in a drug infested house hold and thought about running away but my mom decided to get clean god rest her soul
This song is so sad and deffinately rings true today. 800,000 children go missing every year in America. # saveourchildren! Runaway or not.
Thank you for reviewing this song Javaughn, sex trade, runaways, abuse, mental illness. You have brought your light to this gut wrenching but beautiful song. God Bless you my friend!
Five minutes before I watched this I got an Amber alert on my phone. 10 year old girl. White man in a white van. It never ends. I can't imagine the pain!
John Mulligan when a child goes missing locally we get alerts via text, email , news or signs on the highway.
John Mulligan yes. Started in the 1990’s. After a child named Amber was abducted and later found murdered.
John Mulligan it’s not easy......
Iona, Got about six seperate ones in the last month in Fl. White panel vans for a long while now. Couple of years. It's heartbreaking. This is an old song. It's getting worse and worse. When I was in grade school( 58 now) was approached in the alley with others girls on Easter.promises of finding a bunny. Then he whipped his genitals out. Than walking home from school , only a few blockks away and someome asked me if I wanted icecream. And I lived in a pretty nice neighborhood. Sickening shit. Thanks for the video Jay, u nailed it.
We have Amber alerts here in Canada as well.
I was 9 when I watched this video for the first time in 93. Now I have a daughter and I think about it every time I go out with her.
While the video is about missing children he actually wrote it about his deep depression. I love that they used it for missing kids but also, mental illness is a great subject line as well. No matter what it makes me cry when I hear and see it. It wiped the smile right off Javon’s face. Much love Jay!
I always loved Soul Asylum.
This is one of those songs that I love dearly but cannot add to my playlist. It breaks me every time I hear it. Shines a spotlight on the issues children face.
This is one of those songs that will bring me to tears !!
Such a deep song 😢
Grammy for Best Rock Song in 1993. The 90s had many great bands and singers that really tried to use their music to call attention to important issues--Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs), REM, Sinead O'Connor, Concrete Blonde, The Cranberries, Tracey Chapman--it was kind of like the late 60s all over again. It was the last hurrah before corporations completely took over music to promote nothing more than image. A few popular singers still try to create transformational music today, but not enough--there is much more to write about than getting laid or partying or being a "bad bitch."
this is my one of my fav songs.... a lot of these kids have been found... some not the way their families were hoping..... R.I.P
damn it Jay, you've got me crying at this one, powerful music.
More power to you , you are the best reaction man on you tube, and i am 56 and remember this one being released.. too.
I know you are going to do great things in your life Jovaughn.......You have such a caring heart and an empathy for others..... Take all the opportunities available to you and never lose that faith you have in love. ❤️
This song is one of my favorites. They didn't start off as grunge, but it was during grunge's heyday that they got their big break. This video got a LOT of airplay on MTV. I think there were even slightly different versions with different missing kids. It always gives me goosebumps.
You have a pure spirit JV. It's lovely.
I just never knew what this song was about, first time seeing the video although I've heard the song loads. Will never forget the ending
Love this song and the fact that it helped find some of those missing children A plus on this one thanks Jay
This song won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, and a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Had this single on cassette when I was younger and listened to it over and over! Definitely remember this video being on all the time and that creepy lady stealing the baby at the end. Great song.
This song is like 25+ years old and it still affects me. I can’t watch this video or hear this song without crying. Happy you gave it a listen.
I thought I read at some time that not al, but 18 or 20 of the children shown were found. I agree, I do not understand the evil that prevails in this and other countries regarding to abuses and abductions of children. It just pains my heart.
this song has always made me cry ever since i was a kid
Love love this song
Song still gives me goosebumps.
You never know what someone is going threw hold on to your loved ones a little tighter today✌
Great song! I ran away at age 15. Made it all the way to New Mexico, from Virginia. Luckily, I came back ok. This video always made me feel lucky to be unharmed, but also guilty for what I put my parents through.. many don't run away, they're taken.
I’m so glad you made it back safely. 💕
@@holyspacemonkey ❤
Your a genuine guy friend, best reactions on UA-cam xx
"Misery" "Black Gold" are Soul Asylum's best
Your reaction was honest n trying to make sense of missing or runaway young people is hard. You did your best thru being caught off guard. This was a great attempt to address the nightmare of abduction. Thanks for shying away from making sense out of it J.
Thanks for NOT...REPEAT NOT...shying away.
When I first heard this song I felt it in my heart. This is a really good song.
They leave one evil into the arms of another. Sadly everywhere.
One of my favorite songs from the 1990s.
Another great song
This song is just straight breathtaking, thats what makes it so awesome.
Never knew this until I watched the music video.
I cant listen to this song without feeling so sad, ever since it came out in the 90s. Its beautiful & devastating all at the same time. Watching the video always gets me. 😔😔
One of the most depressing but also impactful videos ever
Soul Asylum is legendary in MN. They remind of concerts & dancing at First Ave. 💕🎟 This video has such a strong message. I hadn’t seen it in years. Imagine having your child go missing in the age of no internet & no cell phones. 💔Somebody to Shove & Misery are really good too.
one of the greatest songs of the 90's, the most special. this got big in non-English speaking countries, even those outside of Europe, too.
this one's touched so many people, soo many... the innocent 90s... last exit before the doom...
Lots of those shown as missing at least called home. They had no idea their family was still looking for them. Kudos to the band for doing this video in this manner. They used a popular medium to reach out to people of that age range to to see if they could find some of them.
Almost all the kids shown in the video were found out came home. The great thing is they made multiple versions of the video with different kids.
I love this song.... never gets old ! And god bless those kids 💔. One of the best songs
I remember listening to this without ever having seen the video and imagining the train being life, and life was running out of control.
When this song was released, two versions were made of this video. This one and another with the names and faces of children missing in the UK and mainland Europe at the end of it. Several countries then made their own individual ones.
Happy Tuesday J, another good song from them is Somebody to Shove.
Love this song👍
I love this song, takes me way back ❤️
This is one of the most powerful videos ever made, in my opinion. Such a real, strong message. I love this and I still get chills with this video. Thank you for this reminder.
I'm a classic rock and roller,,,,THIS is a GREAT song. 👍👍👍😓
GOD bless and protect all these beautiful children 🤴🙏. Never seen the video to this song and man tears are flowing 😓
As a kid of the 90s I will always consider this to be a song of my youth
This song and video are why I always look at the board at Walmart that has pictures of missing people. You never know if you might see them and could possibly help. This song resonates. Big time.
When I first heard this song I thought it was a Tom Petty song!🤗
I heard Tom Petty too, but it seems they don't give subconscious credits... yet.
I did too.
...or Bruce Springsteen in one of his more chilled singing styles. But yeah, Tom Petty first.
This band was outstanding. They brought awareness to the desperate situations some children are in. Still goes on today. People need to learn to love and respect each other. These kids didn't ask to be brought into this world. They deserve better.
Great reaction, Jay. I never heard of this song before tonight. You're right -- kids run away from problems at home, only to find far worse problems on the street from the people who take them in.
Thanks so much for reacting to this song - Also please react to: Youth of the Nation by POD - Thanks
Heck yeahh.... love this song. December... Shine.... think I'm remembering the correct songs. Thank you.
Listening to this song brought me here. You really reacted in a very human way. God bless you.
Being from Minnesota and Sol asylum being a Minneapolis band this song has a lot of feeling and meaning to me
One of the missing girls pictured actually returned home because she saw herself on the video
Man, this video always, always makes me cry.
In the 90s there was a tv program looking for missing children in Hungary
It started with this video clip
It can make me still make me cry
I'm 35 😥
800,000 kids go missing every year in America alone. 20,000 here in Australia. That's just recorded figures, actually a lot higher. This is extremely pertinent to what is happening in the world right now. So glad you reacted to this one
Very touching song! One of the best. Miss the 90s!!!
this song is the epitome of 90's rock..love it
It’s a awesome song, this “Jaime got a gun “ and “Luka “ made me realize what I was living was jot normal
Great choice of song. Remember this when I was in Germany!
Edit: A few of those missing were found dead and others rescued or just ran away and came back.
A really good song, but so sad and heartbreaking too.
So many missing and runaway children. So sad 😭
Great song, powerful message.
One of the songs that always brings tears to my eyes.
I was 15 in 94'ish when this came out. I remember I loved the song but didn't even realize what it was about till I saw the video. After that I'd cry every time I heard it, regardless of where I was or what I was doing. To be fair it doesn't take much to make me :'(...still so heartbreaking. I'm pretty sure some of those runaways came home. Idk how many, but even if it was just one...it was successful.
I googled it. The original video for "Runaway Train" featured 36 missing children - 21 of them were eventually found. (Hopefully in good shape).
Pearl jam..."JEREMY " THE VIDEO, NOT THE LYRICS its a powerful video
Some of those missing folks were running away from abuse, found & sent back to the abuse from this music video being so huge nationwide due to MTV & VH1 still being 98% music then....
I’m 40yrs young so I remember clearly as an authentic 80’s baby & 90’s teen, “Runaway Train’s” music video still makes me cry & as a parent since 2002 the music video sends rage through me also....
This song was like the anthem for lost children association when it came out !
You're doing so many songs from my childhood. I was a teen and loved soul asylum!
Know what you got me thinking of now? Gin Blossoms. I loved them a lot more than Soul Asylum. Soul Asylum was good, i won't challenge that but "Allison Road" "Hey Jealousy" "Til I hear it from you" and countless others were my go to for melancholy. Thanks for reminding me of them. Check out Gin Blossoms. Pretty please.
It addresses so many issues.
Has been mentioned but you gotta check out the song "Misery" it was their first popular single.
This song meant a lot to me as a teenager. I was basically a chronic runaway. I didn't have bad parents. I had really bad depression and honestly my parents did everything they could to help me. I still thought I could run away from my problems. No matter how far away I ran, there I was.
I listen to this song at least once a day when I feel down.
I watched that video back in 1993.
Even today. I still can't stand those missing kids if they ever already found.
You have a beautiful heart!
Whether about missing and exploited kids, or the songwriter's profound depression, this is a very powerful song. Thanks Jayvee for listening.
I was a pre-teen or early teen when this came out, it scared me... haven't seen this video for over 20 years, but some of the scenes are printed in my brain, I teared up watching it again, all the memories came right back, it was such an important video, actually many of the people were found because of this musucvideo
You're so nice JVon