GREAT SONG and BAND but do appreciate that They're Mostly American as IAN THORNLEY met his Bandmates at Berkeley School of Music in Boston, I believe... We CDNs get SPOILED by getting to See Them LIVE, which is SPECTACULAR! But, YES they Sure DESERVE GREATER Recognition for Their AWESOME TUNEAGE... Most Definitely! 😂 ❤
I am an American. This song was not a hit in the States. I am grateful that in the 1990s I went to Western Washington University just across the border in Bellingham Washington, and that Rock 101 Vancouver was my soundtrack while there. I remember Rock 101 playing this greät song like mad in the Summer of 1998. So for one American, it *was* a hit in America. lol
Canadians are accustomed to Canadian songs receiving little to no air play in the US. It's intentional. They're being blocked. When you look at Canada's population size and how many great bands come from Canada, it's off the charts. A lot of Americans don't get exposed to Canadian artists until they visit Canada (where you can actually hear them on the radio) or when they make it into Hollywood movies and/or gain international fame. I remember doing a project back in music class and the goal was to pick a Canadian artist and do a bio on them. This was back when I was at an age where I didn't think about things like where the band came from. I thought it was going to be difficult to find a Canadian artist until I realized they were all pretty much Canadian. Canada probably puts out more top songs and top artists than any country other than the US. It's unreal. We punch way above our weight class musically.
@@taekwondotime Dude, I think that Canadians get a LOT of exposure, it's just that few make a big deal about the fact that they are Canadian. Look how many good bands in the States head to California to make it big and then are called a California band when they make it after a few years. Life ain't fair...
@@cantdrivefiftyfive Canadian artists get a lot of exposure in Canada and overseas, but it's typically the US market that is the last market on earth to be aware of their success because they do their best not to give any air time to Canadian artists on American radio stations. It's a "Made in America" bravado thing.
Universtiy of Buffalo got to listen to Canadian Radio stations found these guys and the Tragically Hip... hopefully you have already found them as well... if not well you're in for a treat.
The most ironic song in history. He describes how he gets a nostalgic feeling when he hears a certain song randomly out & about. Funny thing is i get that feeling when i hear this song randomly... Its awesome
Happened at Beerfest in Niagara Falls a few years back too! This is the song that introduced me to Big Wreck, along with so many other people. Thank you Big Shiny Tunes Vol 3!
First time I heard the album, we we're drinking around a fire. 13 years later, wife and kids, and im still playing this in my car. I love that song........
I live in Buffalo NY and we always had access to Canadian radio stations that always played songs the American stations didn’t play. I followed a local band who played this song….and I Love That Song! Best memories dancing to this!
Holy shit, so sad. I met Brian in Lockport NY. Man, so sad. I was looking forward to seeing him and the guys again soon state side. These guys defined my teenage and young adult years.
Now that I think of it, ironically, last time I saw Brian and Ian was with my buddy Paul who died from his cancer at roughly the same time and Brian. Not fair... it's not fucking fair. That's all I can think. Wtf
That Song, The Oaf, and Blown Wide Open; I listened to these over and over on my cd on repeat. These were popular during my early college years and really brings back great memories. Big Wreck were certainly a talented bunch!
Saw Big Wreck on Thursday night in Ottawa Dec. 21 2023 with Texas King and Danny Greaves (The Watchmen). Fanfukkintastic show. Incredible musicianship across all 3 acts. Virtuoso applies here and there 🎶😂🎵❤🎙🎸🎼
This song... is ironically or unironically That Song for me... forever. This song might be perfection or might not, but it is where I return to when I need to feel grounded to myself and home. Thank you to Ian Thornley and Big Wreck forever for helping this Canadian boy though it...
Got too see them live on Saturday for my birthday and i couldn't have asked for a better time thanks Big Wreck for coming to cranbrook BC on August 10th! Turely the best birthday ever!
I had never heard of them before, but always grew up a diehard Creed fan. When they recently announced their reunion tour, I saw that big wreck was opening for them. So I checked them out and i'm so glad I did! High quality musicians!!!
Wow. A "life long" Creed fan.What in the world does that involve? My goodness, tell me you despise music without telling me despise music. I'm glad they are "high quality". Thx
@tinnertinner2383 what makes music so great is that anybody can consider their favorite piece of music THEIR favorite. I think of couple of their songs are alright like One because that song has an actual message that the world is lacking today, but who am I to judge since my favorite song is Meddler by August Burns Red.
I was so confused listening to this song on Spotify after a while. I somehow expected Alberto, singer of the Italian rock band Verdena, to start singing. Very similar style. I like both. Greetings from Germany!
I thinks he's spot on when he says that songs only sound nostalgic when the come on unexpectedly in a car or like a bar or something; it can't be consciously put on...
The entire comment thread contradicts this theory. Nobody came here randomly to listen to this song, yet we are all getting nostalgic sitting here listening consciously. Of course, when he wrote this song, doing this wasn't an option..if you didn't have the tape, it had to be in some car across the street.
Saw them in Guelph last Friday. Such an underrated band. This song has much memories for me. I immigrated to Canada in 1997 and few months later this album came out. Those were hard days ….
It’s crazy to me that these guys aren’t seen as the rock heroes that they are! I hadn’t thought of them in years, but as soon as I read “Big Wreck” in the title of a video on YT, it all came rushing back like it was yesterday.. the oaf, that song, albatross, ALL badass songs that were my anthems back in the day, I’m an American, I thought these guys were HUGE, and as far as I’m concerned they will ALWAYS be huge to me! Their music just hits like nothing else.. a band kinda like Seven Mary Three that just was “there”.. the soundtrack of my life during that era.. love you guys, hope to get a chance to see you live here in ‘24 (come to Fresno Ca!, I’ve got a friend who’s a promoter who I know would bring you out, let’s do this!)
Yep. Ian Thornley left Big Wreck after their second studio album, went back home to Canada, and started Thornley. During touring of Thornley's second album Brian from Big Wreck played a few shows with Thornley. Not long after Ian and Brian reformed Big Wreck with Thornley. Big Wreck is now Ian, Brian, and the rest of Thornley.
Having grown up on a border town and driven into Canada for years, I SO miss the sound, vibe and talent I jammed to with Canadian music. This is still in rotation when I have a long drive! "While I sit and stare..."
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I remember I was at a party one time and all they were playing was rap and hip hop for 2 hours staright, later on during the party, this song starting playing and everybody was wondering what the hell was going on and I actually liked it since I was one of very few white people at the party. I still don't know who started playing that song on their phone, it was one of the most random things ever. Maybe the phone belonged to a white person at the party and it accidentally started playing from the person's music app or something
Thank God for MuchMusic back in the day. I discovered so much great music from our brothers and sisters north of the border. That channel was so influential in Cleveland that the former modern rock station here, 107.9 The End, used to do a MuchMusic Top 10 Countdown simulcast every Thursday at 5pm EST on the radio and TV. I truly miss those days, it was a great time for discovering new music!
Opens like a Cure song; verses and vocals like a Replacements tune; chorus explodes like an Alter Bridge rocker! Love this tune. So much texture and makes me reminisce on my late 80’s college days. ❤
my dad introduced me to this song about 3 years ago, and today i’m still listening to it, and every time i hear it, it still makes me cry. no particular reason. that song is just THAT GOOD
New Yorker here about 2 1/2 hours from Toronto. Like Rush, I’ve been proud to classify Big Wreck as my home team for the last couple decades. Fantastic song!
WOW…!!! I just heard this for the first time. LOVE THIS SONG!!! I wish instead of playing the same songs over and over (e.g. Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc.) we’d get more variety on the radio. AWESOME SONG!!! Love the deep, crunchy guitar in the chorus… 😎🎸
someone posted a few years ago "don't let this song be your 'that song' " I didn't quite get it until I broke up with my gf of 2 years and I played it over and over and now this song always reminds me of her and the breakup I went through. Still love it tho
my dad died 8/1/2012 big wreck came to lockport ny first time they wer in the states in ten years he said. it was the last concert i got to go to with my dad. he died two weeks later. i will always have the memorie of seeing big wreck with him. me and him both loved thornley! this music is bitter sweet to me. thnk you so much for coming to lockport it's a good last memorie to have.
It’s like a mirror reflecting itself endlessly. That song makes him nostalgic, but I get nostalgic when I hear this song which is “that song” … ad infinitum
I saw Big Wreck open for Dream Theater in Atlanta in 1999, and I'd never heard of them before. The front man must've known he had to win over a crowd of prog rock nerds, because they opened with an instrumental jam where he displayed MONSTER CHOPS. I dont know if this bands recorded music ever actually captured his guitar virtuosity, but I assure you this dude can absolutely shred live. Been a fan ever since and ended up seeing them a couple more times since then
I'm thankful that despite the fact that I live near the Mexican border, I discovered lots of good music through the local college radio station in my neck of the woods. This band was one of them. Much love from your neighbors down south.
I grew up listening to big wreck as a kid in the 90s. My mum was a big fan. I always heard this song on the radio, even as a kid I loved it. I was really shocked today when I had the random urge to listen to this, to find that big wreck really wasn't that well known, back then or now! This song is so powerful, amazing. Just fantastic composition from every standpoint. Lyrical, vocal melody, guitar/effects used. Ian thornley really is an amazing vocalist.
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There was a small number of people going wild in their Asheville, North Carolina show they did in 2022. They were the opening act for Daughtry. My dad, brother, and I came to the show just for Big Wreck. They were even better live.
The line " it just looks like you and me ,we're just standing there" gets me choked up every goddamn time. I still have the photo ( the only one I still have ) all these frikken years later of the last time someone took a picture of my former girlfriend and myself. Thornley's words are the perfect caption. Fractured nostalgia is painful yet I keep returning.
I really love that DUDE. lol. Funny story. I remember seeing these guys at a small venue back in the day. The crowd all sang, "I really love that Dude" and Ian chuckled as if to say, yup happens every time. 😂
I always used to hear this on the way back from the Trailer I'm the Kawarthas but one dad trucking with my dad I heard this on the 401 in Kingston at like 1am and ever since it's been a favourite. I understand completely. :3
+Amy Chambers do you mean his reputation precedes him!? as the old saying goes !! I don't know if I agree that he's in icon status really but I enjoy the music thus far!!
+pvtrichter88 He SHOULD be an icon.. but the masses have be brainwashed into loving crappy pop music. Oh well, they can have their processed cheeseburger while I enjoy steak :)
I was a rookie metro cop when this came out. I'd play it on a ..discman...under my helmet, get on my gsxr750 and hit the highway at about 160 mph.... Best riding song of the 90s.
I'm an American, from Kentucky. Heard The Oaf on FM radio loved it. Went and bought the CD right away. Was kick ass. Been a fan of them and Thornley since 90s. Keep rockin.
I saw them many years ago in a tiny club in KC. They were absolutely amazing! After their set, they played a ton of cover tunes just because they didn't want to stop playing... and tore it up! Ian was smokin on guitar that night! Like he was possessed with the spirit of Jimi!!
I've had this song in my ears since i was a young boy. Ill be an old man still screaming it as loud as i can to contnue being the man ive become. Theres just something about it that makes my heart beat faster....my palms sweat. And sometimes it makes me tear up. Mjsic is not the same.
Saw them in Baltimore while they were supporting "The Pleasure and the Greed." The club held about 50 people, and it was at about 50% capacity. Some weird industrial band made up of 17-year-olds opened for them, and they had these lighting effects that they'd trigger with pedals throughout their set. Then Big Wreck hits the stage, and Ian's already half in the bag. Didn't matter. Playing to 25 people, he put on one of the best shows I've ever seen. At the end of their last song, he handed me his bottle neck while nearly passing out drunk. I still have it 15 years later. Outside this hole in the wall was their massive tour bus, and me and my friend chatted with the rest of the bad for a half hour. It was one of the best - and saddest - music experiences I've had. I understand the addiction - if I were that great and only 25 people turned up to see me play, I'd drink, too. Hands down the greatest band - and greatest front man/guitarist - to almost make it. That's got to be a heavy burden to carry; they were about three years too late to the party, and it made all the difference in the world.
He’s a giant man in stature. I’m 6’3” and he was WAY bigger than me. One of the best song writers/guitarists/singers/frontmen ever. First two CDs are both play all the way through.
Always loved this tune...it reminds me of the day I got my old Dodge truck road worthy. Guess I was 18, and feeling young and free! I took it for it's first boot on the 401 going way past Bowmanville and back, This song had just come out, and I heard it several times on different radio stations during my ride. That was an awesome day. Love how a song can bring back memories like that. And the funny thing is the song is about who gets nostalgic when listening to a song in his truck! just how I feel when I listen to it
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They did play this and the oaf in the states on 120 minutes when I was a kid.. it lead me to buy the album, and I loved it... Then I never heard from them again till today.. strange world we live in
Went to the Galaxy in Garden Grove, California to see Dream Theater and these guys opened for them. Never heard of them but I was blown away! Went out and bought "in loving memory of" immediately!
The hairs on the back of my neck still stand up during that brilliant rolling riff through the chorus every time I listen to this track after all these years.
I really loved this song. Send shivers in my soul. Haunting voice. I am thankful I lived the 1990's music. Now that I am 42 this song still touches my heart
There is some great canadian music out there. Even if most of these classics may never get hundreds of millions of views on youtube, they remain memorable tunes for the world to hear. This song is undoubtedly one of those classics!
The depth to these lyrics is incredible. Not just verse chorus verse chorus pop candy. It is a well told story. I saw them at Burlington's Sound of Music Festival in 2013 and they did not disappoint!
This song is actually "that song" for me. The memory I get is sitting in my ex's truck in the morning with the worst hangover ever. This came on and he said "i like this song" and he turns it up, puts his hand on mine, and we just listen quietly.
I absolutely love these guys ! Ian Thornley , best singer / guitarist of all time ! And thanks great big wreck band to back him because without you we wouldn’t this amazing sound I love so much ! Gets me threw my day when I need a boost ! Thanks big TIME
I stumbled across this after seeing Big Wreck's latest album listed on Billboards recommended top Alt. Rock albums. Truly a hidden gem of late 90's Alt. Rock/Post Grunge style hard rock. That era really had such a defined sound and this capture's that 100%, pure nostalgia for the ears.
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This is how it's done. Great licks and guitar picks...the art of song writing -- sticks in your brain! It's not classix Stones or Who, but it's solid Canadiana.
