THANKYOU all for comments this song still touches my heart in the original recording ,and when we do it live....my first song written,still havnt managed to beat dis one (-; Tim is amazing to work with and Guy Sigsworth was a magical moment .x
ah, those glorious days of deep, beautiful, meaningful dance music... Opus III's It's A Fine Day, Adamski & Seal's Killer, Rozalla's Everybody's Free, The Shamen's Move Any Mountain, Zoe''s Sunshine On A Rainy Day and this beautiful tune were all somewhere in the Top 40 one beautiful late summer's evening when I listened religiously every week on my granddad's old radio..... magical tunes, magical times.
@@sp4rtavus244 When I’m entertaining a ‘younger’ lady, I’ll put a playlist on with some older, random, more obscure tunes from times past. Over the years every time without fail, they’ve commented positively and usually ask ‘What music is this, it’s really good?’.
@@captainchaos3667 Yeah me too. I still find it strange that when it came out in 1991 my friends didn’t think much of it but really rated it. I think if that tune was released today it would have a better reception.
I lost my baby son in July 1983 age 17 Weeks old, you can always find a song or a story that relates to a heartbreaking tragic loss of someone unbelievably special and so much more,this moment in my life will always be ...." Winter in July", sleep tight always... my precious son James Nigel Patrick Maguire,you left us for eternal life in a place where the sky is always blue ,the sun Always shines and pain no longer exists in your life and everyday is brand new filled with love, hugs,smiles and laughter ...miss you more than words can ever say X X X
This is a timeless classic..... Thank you..... Touches ur heart and soul. Pure genius. Im 44 now and still love it as much now as i did when it first came out x
My good friend passed away 3 weeks ago. He was one of the good one's. This song was played when his photo's were shown on the screens. I'd never really listened to the lyrics properly but oh my, it had me crying at the service. I've just got the strenth to listen to it again (funeral was only 4 days ago) What a beautiful song. Very poignant lyrics, beautifully sung. Rip my lovely friend. Heres to this song & your memory ❤❤😢
Played this at my Dads funeral. I remember sitting with him when he played this song as we were grieving loosing my grandmother (who might as well have been my mother too) Now I'm sat listening to it alone...... fuck.
Hope things got a little easier for you ❤ My good friend just passed away, this song was played for him at the service when his photos were shown to us on the screens. What poignant lyrics. Beautiful song & sung incredibly. Sending wishes & hope you're doing alright ❤
Such an amazing but underrated song! Quite untypical "Bomb the Bass" track but still my favorite of them! 2:44 goose-bumps everytime I hear that part, even after almost 30 years! 😎😍 Video-version 2 slightly is my favorite over V1, about 54 : 46.
When I was told my brother died aged 46 I drove from work put on my music and this played.... This is forever my brothers song.... I try not to cry but I can't..
I lost my mum in January due to other complications through a battle with lung cancer and I know what you mean by certain songs have meaning choosing the right songs for mum funeral pick her four favourite singers
When I heard it for the first time, I recorded it on tape. I didn't know the name of the song, so briefly after, I went to the local library and checked every compilation CD that came out in that year. After hours of searching, I finally found the name, I remember me being in the clouds. I miss that era. I mean, watching this back here on RU-vid has it's charm, but I miss hunting down for good songs in the older days when I was still visiting high school.
Ahh, the thrill of the chase, eh - it's like how we don't have to hunt for meat any more, unless it's to find a supermarket open after 4pm on a Sunday...
That reminds me of my 'Winter in July' story. When I was 14, I was in a youth drama group called 'Salt and Light'. Some of the others did a modern dance/drama to music sequence to this song and it was just beautiful. I loved the song, but I was so painfully shy at that age that I never plucked up the courage to ask what the song was called. I didn't have access to the internet (it was the 90s), so, I hummed the tune and sang the tiny bits I knew to my (closest friends), hoping they'd know it. Eventually, I remembered the song and typed the lyrics into Google and found it!
Ahh the memories. I grew up in the 70's and 80's. Spent hours and hours searching in record stores for 7" singles. As you say part of the fun was the hunt.
It's been raining here today in Stockholm with couple of thunders ⛈⚡🌤 and suddenly I found myself remembering this wonderful song that I haven't heard in years 🎼. The lyrics not only describes perfectly the weather outside now - Winter in July. But also, it describes perfectly the inner weather - the soul atmosphere as well, which in these days of global corona crisis is even more important than ever. . Wishing us all better days of health, wealth, prosperity and happiness 🙏 . "Make the best of whats given you, Everything will come in time. Why deny yourself, Don't just left life pass you by Like winter in July."
This, along with a few other songs of the time, just hit me at the right time. THE LYRICS. I have LIVED by the lyrics and they’ve served me well - ‘Make the best of what’s given you. Everything will come in time’. Needed to hear that then. Another song that saved my life.
This is the DEFINITION of a great song, was an early teenager when it came out and I LOVED it, and as time goes on, and Winter in July becomes more perceivable, its meaning just gets deeper. I’m going to feature this on my series soon.
2024, mid-July, UK. 3pm and it's winter temperature 8°C!, overcast, misty, worst July I can remember. And this song is perfect. Not heard it since 1991... Don't let life pass you by
"We're born into this world, where a man only lives to die and his story left untold" oh god, those words are exasperating! I feel at this stage in my life currently! this speaks to my soul on such a deep level! I was always the weird aspergian red head growing up, and never really did fit into the stormy waters of the oceanic currents and I always caught the torrents of the exhaustive waves so to speak!
Totally timeless. Has not aged a bit, in the ... 32 years !? Still brings a tear to my eye. "We may not know the reason why, we're born into this world, where a man only lives to die, and his story left untold. So make the best, make the best of what's given you everything will come in time why deny yourself ? Don't let life pass you by, Like winter in July." A beautiful performance of a totally epic song, and as relevant now as it was back then.
Fantastic BTB track! Loretta Heywood your voice is amazing! Tim Simenon's musical composition tremendous wish we had the 90s and 80s again so glad to live my best years through them!
I was 17 when this was out! it haunted me then the lyrics haunt me now! But love it!!! Took me twenty seven years to fully appreciate and understand it!! Love it!!!
oooooh .... forgot all about this one .... it just hit me like a ton of bricks ... brings back memories ... and the goosebumps to go with them lol ... great track !
1st heard this on smash hits 1991 album .or it may have been a Now album.i had never heard such an amazing beautiful song before (I was 11) and just thought it was wonderful.great lyrics and stunning voice.TUNE!!!!!!!
Such an emotion to listen to this song again after many years. I was 16 in 1991 and the memories you build at this age last for ever. Winter in July is one of this memories. It was one of my favorite tracks of this era. So underrated, as other said in comments. I am sure it would be successful again if it was out today because it sounds timeless. And this « end of the world » atmosphere... so early 90’s, like in some KLF songs movies or even Terminator 2. Last but not least, Loretta looks a bit like Sigourney Weaver in a Ghostbusters scene. In more pretty 😘!
Its one of the best songs ever.:-(... I lost my mum and my father in law.....and it hurts really... but the song keeps me always on track.after listening to the song and thinking about them .. to all people out there who lost as well loved people... be strong and keep on track...Life is to short......
Loretta I am Andrei from Romania and I am a big fan of u.k. music from 30 years ago but I want to underline that I consider this song as being the best one that I have ever listened and Tim Simenon is a kind of musical supreme guy for me due to his absolutely brilliant compositions not to mention your totally genuine type of woman and singer.
I was suicidal back in the day. (Abuse). Then I heard bomb the bass . It took me to a place I never been before. Don't make me wait saved my life.i still listen to this song today I'm 50 now and all is good. Thankyou bomb the bass. Your a life saver. Respect 🙏
c est magnifique , je l ai entendu la 1ere fois en 1991 et je suis tout de suite tombé sous le charme de cette chanson , un chef d œuvre Loretta Heywood : une voix sublime
I go to a dance event in Stirchley of Birmingham, and really, I feel that this song would be a perfect fit, as I feel that spiritual vibe with a nice tantric feel thrown in. The music is so expressive. I first heard this song on top of the pops in August 1991 at age 13.
I also sense a bit of a Balearic feel to this wondrous song that surrounds all our vicinities with an air of tranquility. I need more songs like this, so that I can utilise it for my creative fantasy writing aided with philosophy.
I was and i'm steel one of the first fans of bomb the bass. The "megablast" treasure, i've understood his message "date the History" on this videosong as well as the "well i'm not agree for " with those "la la la" in arabian. Such great intelligent vibes ! Signed a fan from France. I was Always replaying this song on my last past emission on a local french radio called "sel et poivre"
I remember before this album coming out we run into Kerry Hopwood (Tims then progammer) to swap a Waldorf Microwave synth for a Roland MKS70. What a lovely humble guy he was. I met the band on BBC Radio 1 Sound City gig in 1992 in Norwich. Loretta Heywood was awesome. This track was one of the first ever to use RSS "3D" sound.
Whatever happened to Rowland Sound Space? I remember the song featured on Tomorrow's World back then with a live demo. It promised to revolutionise the way we listen to music with incredible tricks like instruments moving around behind your head sitting in front of a pair of speakers. Why on earth 5.2 speaker systems caught on I will never know. Wasteful consumerism perhaps? As you said, this track was going to be one of the first encoded with RSS. If I'm not mistaken, that version, never got into general circulation? I lost count how many stores I visited where the 'mad about music' experts didn't have a clue what I was on about. In the end, however, I did manage to buy a pre-release recorded with RSS.
Sid James RSS just wasn't consistent. The psychoacoustics only worked for half the people who listened to it. You'd go into a room and say 'Listen - it's above you' and people would go 'WTF. Just sounds irritating and out of phase'. I seem to remember Q-Sound was a similar trick. It was a really expensive piece of kit too - it wasn't just the groovy sound steerer thing (that looked like a drum machine) but it had stacks of rack mounted units which worked together. It was a bit of a flop but they then shoved the algorithm into their other effects processors.
The power of this song is not the vocals or instruments! Its the lyrics, the meaning behind it!...That's what makes this song... This particular line - "And we may not know the reason why we born into this world...where a man only lives to die and his story left untold..." strikes like a thunder in the Mojave desert, when you stop to think and suddenly realize how short of a life-span human life is!...
I heard this on one of those compilation tapes (remember them? the cassettes?) centuries ago (it seems...). Loved it straightaway! Had to get the album, of course, and then Clear...amazing sounds...
Does anyone else remember this being featured on (I think) Tomorrow's World, as a demonstration of surround sound??? I remember my Dad setting up his crazy hifi and us both sitting down to listen to the broadcast together. It blew my tiny 12 year old mind. Some years later I decided I wanted to make electronic music, but had no equipment to do so. I told my Dad how the moment we listened to this track together shaped my desire to make electronic music, and convinced him to buy me a sampler, synth and mixing desk (after Christmas dinner in 1999 if I remember correctly - he'd been drinking Buck's Fizz since mid morning). He drunkenly agreed to help finance my ridiculous plans for a career in music. I then spent the next couple of years smoking old school weed in my bedroom, making weird loops of nonsense , but somehow managed to get two tracks released on a little label, tunes which probably only a small handful of people have ever heard. He quite rightly thought they were a bit shit, but was proud of me, and I think appreciated that if it wasn't for our bonding over this track I would probably just be cluttering up his house with my constant weed smoking and wanking. No, wait...that's exactly what I did. Sorry Dad. Essentially this tune brings families together.
I remember it well. It was marketed as new 3 dimensional sound. I listened to this for the first time on a Hitachi 3D Super woofer in 1991. Elements of the track sounded like they were coming from behind you...... from stereo speakers. Never heard anything like it at the time.
