Wow congratulations for getting this song into the Writers Hall of Fame! Just saw Neil receive the award virtually on the Toronto morning BT . Congrats again! ✌❤🇨🇦🎶 🇨🇦🐈
chrishenderson421. me too. it's the first song I like to listen to....over and over until I can see or stop seeing what I don't want to see. WHen I first heard 5440 do it I thought the first 4 verses of I go blind were sung in a boring way like sarccasically. Then when I listened to the lyrics they are amazing. "Little child did you know that there's a light? And it's gonna shine right through your eye..." love the ending, the whole song. There are several covers out there but I like this the best. so far.
I woke up with this song stuck in my head today, of course Alexa played the Hootie and the Blow Fish. I then had to clarify the band and she played “I go blind” by 5,540 (Five thousand five hundred forty 😅).
It's always a Canadian band that gets 1/100th the airplay they should. 88,000 views/plays for a song that should easily have over 20 million views/plays given the status of this band.
If anyone in America knows these guys, it's because Hootie covered this song. I don't think one of their albums ever received a formal release here, and that's a damn shame. They have that '80s college rock sound that I've always been a big fan of.
Honestly, I never knew the Hootie version was a cover. Now, I love both versions. I love darius's voice in the hootie version, but also love the free spirit in this version. Makes me think of stuff like kids in the hall, and pete&pete
Totally under rated song in my opinion. Whenever it comes on in my mix people say "Cool song, catchy" or something like that ---- non-Canadians, or weren't around in the 80s.
I never knew this song didn’t originate from Hootie and the Blowfish until recently! I guess I am so used to their version that this version seems so different without Darius Rucker’s voice in it.
Damn I wish they would have played more Canadian music videos and songs in the US back in the day and now. I got satellite radio with Canadian channels and there are so many bands and tunes that never make it down this way. This version is way better than hootie and the blowfish version!!
I lived in western New York in the 90s and got to hear all the excellent Canadian rock from across the border. I urge you to check out I Mother Earth, Limblifter, The Tragically Hip, The Gandharvas, Age of Electric, Edwin and the Pressure, Blue Rodeo, Big Wreck (they're like half-Canadian), Our Lady Peace, The Sheepdogs, Sam Roberts Band, Ryan Dahle's solo stuff, Wintersleep, Sloan.... I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of others...(By Divine Right, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Feist)
@@serotoninsyndrome I've heard of and been a fan of our Lady peace for a long time but I will definitely give the others you mention a listen!! Thanks!!
@@serotoninsyndromeand there is Chilliwack, prism, the box, Jerry Doucette, red rider, Bachmann Turner Overdrive, Burton Cummings, Barney Bentall, trooper, The spoons, the arrows, Gowan
@@TheAbele992 No not this time. It poured down rain for about the last 1/3 of the show. Luckily it quit before the show was over. I've been to that TopGolf twice and it's a lot of fun.
"I think it's that because I have seen all the fuss And it's no big deal" YES! Alanis Morissette said "My brother's never went blind for what they did but I may as well have." Are they both songs about masturbation? Great song.
Robb Mosher. I interpret it differently. Whoever put up this video, which seems to be the official music video shows a different story. I go blind or I stop seeing problems and I just want to feel good, get higher and higher. Or it could be such an intense attraction you go blind. But I don't think that is what is going on in this song. the lyrics are about disappointment and a better future and at the end, the need for a love that makes you feel good, takes you higher. "I feel more confused by the deal love has shown me." "....I've seen all the mess and it ain't no big deal..."
@@chriswscott7640 So? What's your point. Bob Dylan wrote Knockin on Heavens Door, but are you telling me Clapton's version isn't superior? Or Guns n Roses? I can think of many artists who've sang songs better and or at least equal to whomever wrote it.
@@christianhafer9819 Yeah Bob Dylan's version of Any of his songs are better than anyone else covering them. Especially when The Band was backing him, certainly better than anything Crapton's covered! ✌❤🇨🇦🎶🙏 🇨🇦🐈
