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This is what I love about your videos. YOU listen to the song, you don't interrupt and make comments. Other reaction videos interrupt and comment and sometimes laugh and make fun of the music. You, sir are the real deal and a class act.
I was thinking the same thing you listen to the whole song without any interruptions . The others don't do that & they just act silly ! You Sir are by far the best there is on here ! 💖 🎤🎶🎼🎺🎻🎹🎧🎵🎷🎸
Just want to say, most of the reasons is for copyright/keeping it on youtube reasons that most interrupt the videos. Not trying to burst any bubbles, but it really is the biggest reason for interrupting.
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I remember last December when my dad’s cancer was getting worse, he sung this song in the car. Everytime I hear this song I now get extremely emotional😭
Bruce Hornsby's piano sound is his alone. I can tell a song of his in the first 3 notes. Tupac did use him for his song but this is about 15 years older. If you like this song, check out Long Valley Road. Great song with a good story to it. Sad but good.
I was only 3 years of age in 1986, but this record man! Whatever I say will fall entirely on its arse when trying to do Bruce Hornsby justice by expressing my absolute gratitude for introducing The Way It Is into the human consciousness. From the very first notes played, it's like a stab in the heart and then he opens his mouth to sing.... One of the finest records ever produced by one of the most talented artists, songwriters, producers, arrangers, singers and of course pianists in Bruce Hornsby. Those fingers just glide effortlessly like ballerinas across the ivories.....stunning! There isn't anything more to say than this song gives me life everytime I hear it, period! Beautiful! Chris (UK).
My older brother passed in the late 80s, he turned me on to Bruce Horsnby, REM, Sade and so much music.. love you just listened to this song, and commented after.. best man :)
Hi from Scotland, i know you have many requests but if you ever got the time,i hope someday you would review Phil Collins,Take Me Home live in Paris....and Chris Rea Nothing To Fear...Happy new year when it arrives,and best wishes from Bonnie Scotland,Peace my friend.
A real renaissance man is open to everything and judges it by a set of standards of excellence that he has developed; he embraces it when it matches those values and rejects it when it doesn't. You are a real renaissance man, Modern Renaissance Man!
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was used of God to make a difference. Now a days people don't respect his memory like they should, or use to.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Song is Legendary being able to be so nuanced in meaning from all racial angles over time. Having diversity quotas today it makes that 'line on the color bar' lyric hit different. Also there are now minority only spaces which fits perfect with the "Hey, little boy, you can't go where the others go 'Cause you don't look like they do" lyric. I hope we will all be able to live together one day without racism.
30+ years later and this is still one of my favorite songs. Lyrically and musically it takes you to another place... Check out his later stuff. Incredible jazz musician as well.
I love this song because even though it's 30 or more years old, the lyrics are more relevant now than they were when the song first came out. These songs are timeless.
Negative they're not more relevant today even brainwashed by woke people in CNN and liberals that want a white liberals and want to make you feel like miserable so now it was more prevalent back in the day it's not prevalent at all actually today
I was born in 1979. I grew up hearing this song on the radio ALOT. Bruce grew up in Williamsburg Virginia. i grew up in Newport News/Hampton Virginia. Although Bruce is old enough to be my dad... Pop or Adult Contemporary radio stations always gave him a "shout out" or played his music all the time. Not only because his music fantastic, but also because he was a native to the area I grew up in. People tend to put "natives" on pedal stools, whether they're a singer, an athlete, or actor. Nothing wrong with that, but thats how I knew about him.
To my surprise I'm doing a reverse here. I never heard 2Pac's version until you mentioned it. I found it chilling. Amazing how Hornsby's song was made current during 2Pac's time. Thanks for exposing me to something new.
I got to see Bruce Hornsby in the late 80's at Red Rocks in Denver. He was there as a contributing artist to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for their "Will the Circle be Unbroken" tour. There were lots of famous artists there that day. We were sitting in general admission (first come, first served), so I got there 3 hours early to get good seats. Bruce came out about 2 hours ahead of the concert to warm up on the piano, and there was probably 20 or 30 of us in the seats. He would ask us "What do you want to hear?", and we would tell him. He played at least 45 minutes for us, it was just unreal. Our own private concert. One of those times...
Please share this with all of your relatives and friends who may not know, break down those boundaries. As someone who grew up in the 80s listening to rap and rock I love watching people discover these crossover samples. Music is a universal art, it is the voice of humanity. So much to be loved and discovered
Haven't heard this Bruce Hornsby song in so long. Fell in love again. Fantastic piano, and lyrics the whole ball of wax. Thanks for playing. I also listened to the Tu-Pac version....really enjoyed it...my problem is my hearing is getting worse. I am 71 and when there is rapping of any kind it seems to go so fast and I miss some of the words so usually read lyrics. I have more than one Tu-Pac records.....a shame about him and Biggie. BTW: Don't laugh..but I wrote what I wanted to be rap lyrics...no music really. About the world and our intolerance etc. I thought it was pretty good. But have kept it private..for fear of being laughed out. I am a singer btw...and a BIG music lover. MUSIC HAS SAVED MY LIFE IN MANY WAYS. Thanks for listening. Hugs Anita
I'm sorry to hear that I'm sorry you been brainwashed by the rap song which is stolen and which is b******* compared to Bruce Hornsby in the reigns version which is the true s*** the record you should have I would burn that rap crap if you still had it
This song still holds true today! Powerful lyrics. I thought that we had come so far. I was feel disappointed. Peace and love to all people! Thanks MRM God bless you too!
The fun thing to note is everyone got music from someone/someplace else. People pick it up and incorporate it into their music. Music is a shared experience.
Bruce burst on the scene and captivated us. I saw one of his first shows at the Rainbow in Denver. It was a one-of-a-kind emotional experience. The Rainbow has long since been torn down, but I cannot drive by the corner where it was without remembering this amazing concert.
Mandolin Rain - one of my all time favorite albums. Bruce Hornsby and The Range was a great ensemble. I still set down and listen quietly to this day when I hear these guys.
Bruce Hornsby did a show years and years ago here in Columbus, Ohio. There’s a little pizza joint called Vick’s Pizza where he had a pie and signed the wall, (along with all the other scrawls and artwork). On the rare occasion I’m there I always sit in that booth.
This song was so popular Bruce got tired of playing it. He finally stopped playing it at his concerts. Bruce lives in Williamsburg, VA. I lived about 30-40 miles from Bruce. He is down to earth, lives close to the land. As you could see he is a tall man. He use to hit the public basketball courts to play pick-up games. He is a prolific song writer and has written songs, I know, for Huey Lewis and the News, maybe others too. I don't know. He still makes music and plays on small circuits. He usually plays a couple of dates in Norfolk, VA. They love their Home Town Boy, though he is probably between 55-60 years old by now. I've never met him, but I followed his career a little. I've read magazine articles about him, and I know how the people in his area thought of him. Down home, good guy.
It was a trip watching this. It started of with MRM having a bit of moment with him thinking it was Tupac. Then the lyrics hit him and you can see him taking it in and understanding. And then when Hornsby started hitting those ivories, I was looking at him and he was reacting to how I was to it. These songs were so good for the soul. Songs like these literally made you feel emotion with the melodies and lyrics.
Some musicians are very disciplined, and will play a song exactly the same way, every single time. Bruce Hornsby isn't one of them. Bruce has the kind of talent that allows him to ad lib each time he performs. Bruce has a great story he tells about working with Don Henley on a collaboration.
Sir Elton John is one of Bruce Hornsby's biggest fans, real admirer of his skills on the piano as are many of us myself included!😊🥰 The way BH tinkles those ivories gives you goosebumps but is very relaxing and mellow. Brilliant pianist and very underrated. I gather too that he's also good buddies with Springsteen aka The Boss.
During the 80s we were exposed to alot of different music...Disco, Jazz, rock, pop, country, r&b, rap, etc. There weren't a limit to what we would listen to.
Bruce Hornsby wrote this song as a protest song about the constitutional racism in American culture and their excuse of "That's just the way it is" when he addressed those people about their behavior. So Hornsby added the line "But don't you believe them" as a defiant "We can change this!" message and in doing so gained the respect of Hip-hop community who took that song and what it said to heart. Tupac's version of this song basically shows it from the black perspective, having to deal with constitutional Racism but also about how the black community themselves also puts in very little effort to change those things around. Hornsby himself said that he really loved what Tupac did with the song, Tupac took that song back to the people it was about.
@@SpaceCattttt Which is also why Tupac's version ranks as good as it does because he goes "Hold on, what are we as the black community, actually doing to change the situation?" and comes to the sobering conclusion of "Not a whole lot actually." Which shows that he had the sobering clarity of mind to go "This needs to come from BOTH parties."
@@SpaceCattttt sorry that's just not true. Racism is a term of power, it is systematic and institutional...when the controlling group has unfair access to economic, educational, and media resources that ensure "that's just the way it is" these are deep deep generational principles at work. Which is why it's so evil. Its why you have sweet little old grannies who can't deal with their interracial grandbabies. It's the ability of one group to gain an automatic advantage over and over again bec of race. White guilt is real too although on some level it's just a pretty useless emotion. At the end its knowing you have white privilege but can't figure out how to change it so you just shame spiral over it. Racism has very little to do with how we feel about each other. It's how a group can take those feelings and keep another entire group of people from progressing. Chris Rock said something really important, lot of things but in particular he was talking about his neighborhood. He had busted his butt to become a world famous comedian and actor and had achieved crazy wealth and moved himself into a very nice neighborhood...and his white next door neighbor is a very ordinary dentist. Not a commentary on the dentist but more about what it takes each person to live there. Rock also said that it's prosperity has nothing to do with money and everything to do with wealth. Thats a whole 'nother conversation. Racism is also why so many more non whites are incarcerated. Things are changing a little in pockets of society. That's good but it doesn't mean racism goes both ways.
@@lethiapage4767 Doesn't go both ways? Seriously? I'll give you an example I dealt with personally growing up. I'm not racist, never understood why people would be. It's just a skin color. But I'm white. I had black kids acting like I was just as much to blame as the people who enslaved their ancestors. Racism ABSOLUTELY goes both ways. Idiotic, small-minded white people think other ethnicities are below them because of skin color, language or just a general sense of self-importance. Plenty of black people blame ALL whites for what a number of them do. So don't you ever tell me it doesn't go both ways. It may not be as dangerous for a white person, but we still take the heat because some white people are racist. People assuming I hate black people just because I'm white is absolute bullshit. And it DOES happen. What makes it worse is I have terrible people skills, so I tend to make mistakes I don't realize are mistakes. I'm more than happy to acknowledge that not all black people are this idiotic, racist stereotype. Why can't black people admit not all of us white people are racist or out to get them? I'm a firm believer in letting people live life how they want, as long as they don't hurt anyone, or impede someone else's ability to live the same way. We all keep letting ourselves get divided or the dumbest things. Until we wake up and realize we're all stuck here on this ball of water and mud together, we'll never get anywhere.
Christopher Cross is not only a great singer, but also a REALLY good guitarist/lead guitarist. Very few people know about his guitar prowess. Check this out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A6UlyyQjAtM.html
Being someone of an older generation (old!..lol) I often get a bit cross that younger folk think that 'their' music is original and fresh when in fact a heck of a lot of it is sampled from earlier stuff that truly was 'original' ...more credit should be given to the original artists in my opinion..
It is amazing though that some songs we loved from the 70's also had been done by someone in the 50's. I think every generation finds something from the past and wants to put their spin on it. Nothing wrong with keeping good songs alive!
this song is one of many that proves we are not so far apart. since i started listening to your reviews, you have opened my mind to a whole different genre of music !
Before hitting the pop charts, Bruce Hornsby was an accomplished Jazz master He was discovered by Huey Lewis who used Bruce's song "Jacob's Ladder" on his album "Fore." Bruce also wrote the song "End of the Innocence" for Don Henley.
Louis Cyfear- you have it entirely wrong, and backwards- it's the 90s samples that keep the 80s originals alive, or at least make the originals accessible when it otherwise wouldn't be. Mindless nostalgia seems to be epidemic, especially on the internet. It's absurd, mawkish and clouds judgement.
Both Bruce and Tupac put very profound lyrics to this melody, I really like both versions!! And you are right about one thing, there are dozens of mostly early rap songs that sampled from previous hits, especially Will Smith's stuff.
When I was a kid back in 86/87 I would wake up every Saturday morning at 6am to watch Saturday morning cartoons. For those who weren't around back then, the local stations would go off the air at night and it would just be color bars on the screen until morning. Anyways at 6am the station would come back on the air and this song would always be played to start the day. I get chills every time I hear it now as 2pac did an incredible sample of this song which wasn't released until after his death.
@@veddyveddygood, decent song by her, but that wasn't remotely her best work. Back In the City is a good one to listen to , or Almost Over You if you like her slower stuff.
@@veddyveddygood , I apologize, I was thinking Sugar Walls for some reason. Yeah Strut was very good. Sheena was one of the hottest women on the planet back then too, with a top 10 voice. A lot of power out of that little Scottish Lass.
@@veddyveddygood , Don't forget, she played Sonny Crocket's ( Don Johnson ) love interest on Miami Vice. She played a singer that he was hired to protect, that he didn't like at first.
God. This is one of my favorites. 1987. I was fresh out of the military. Driving down route 96.....summertime......windows down in my Buick Skylark...this song playing on my radio....on my way home from work - headed home to my wife who hadn't broken my heart yet. Even 35 years later, every time I hear this song I shed a tear.
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes is one of my all-time favorites. It's odd, even for Paul Simon, but so beautiful in parts and so much fun overall to listen to.
I think it’s only odd in North America. Mr Simon showed his diversity....and how! I think it’s quite beautiful. The song Homeless was also a fantastic musical composition. My Aunt bought me this tape when it came out. All my friends were listening to rap. As soon asI went home, It was this tape that lulled me to sleep. I saw Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo in concert 4-5 years later. It was incredible. 🙏
@@bennettmusiccollective3218 What's also impressive (and at the time controversial) about Graceland was that the album was made from inspiration and collaboration with South African musicians during apartheid. Simon was widely criticized for breaking the boycotts and embargoes imposed on South Africa in the hope they would change to a more just, less racist political system. Simon said that he felt like he absolutely should reach out to artists who are living in oppression because amplifying their voices helped them instigate change. You can't deny the genius of the album, or how it positively impacted all of the musicians (particularly Ladysmith Black Mombaza) who worked on it with him.
It also positively affctected my life. Paul Simon proved that love is the ultimate beacon and cannot be extinguished. Just because a few troglodytes are in power doesn’t mean the common man should suffer. I hope one of these reactors takes the time to listen. I’m sure they will have the same epiphany as I did. It would be fun to watch. 🙏
Sorry to say it...but the most memorable parts of many big mainstream hip-hop hits are stolen hooks samples from other artists. That’s one reason some people remain so closed minded to the genre and its contributions.
It is a small wonder rap has partially driven itself to the dead end. They need to compose the hooks by themselves and learn to sing too which they partially have done. You can only get that far with mere beat and lyrics especially if there's nothing in the lyrics to connect or relate to.
onsese joo That is why I have a hard time seeing the talent in rap music. And some of the rappers have beautiful voices. Like Ceelo Green. I had no idea he could really sing. Why rap when you have such a beautiful voice like his? Well. Now that I think of it. I guess he raps because he enjoys it. Lol
@@BelindaTN Please check out Live at Darryl's House featuring Ceelo Green. They perform a version of Hall & Oates song "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" among others.
onsese joo. Oh my, that was awesome! Ceelo and the others did that song so well. I love the jam sessions where the artist are singing and playing just to entertain themselves, and know one else. I think Ceelo could sing a lot of different styles of music, if he wanted too. The one that he did that really showcases his talent is, "Mary Did You Know". Oh my. He sung that as good or better than anyone I have heard sing it. Made my heart sing right along with him.
Taking a tune/hook from a classic song feels like stealing...cuz it is ! How bout if the rap "stars" try and come out with some all original stuff on their own and then see how far they can go.Know question their is some talent in the rap community but by grabbing a classic hook half of the work is already done for them.Love your reactions keep up the great work !
There are so many great songs by Bruce Hornsby. I like a funky one called candy Mt run. It reminds me of that old RBsong no diggety. Hahahh but his ballads are really sweet. He started off with a lot with of southern country influences but he is also thoroughly a jazz player. As he took off he got real jazzy and slick, improvisational, dropped the twang a little bit. he has collab with a bluegrass player named Ricky skaggs and he has also sat in on tour with the grateful dead. One more trivia...his son is a pro basketball player.
The great thing is when you look at the message of the original song - a critique of poverty, inequality, prejudice and racism - you can see why it ended up being sampled for a song like Changes. As well as this, the fact the song was sampled by Tupac essentially makes the song a collaboration between black and white artists, reinforcing the message that we need unity to address these issues that affect us all in one way or another as human beings - ‘more black and white are smoking crack tonight’. The concept is called intertextuality - referencing or incorporating another piece of work in order to draw on those themes and in this case, build on them. Excellent all round imo.
Once again another theft by a rapper. Terrific song by Hornsby known by many as a pawn off from a rapper. And Hornsby was ripped of and never really paid for it.
Bruce Hornsby WAS paid and still receives royalties from the Tupac sample. He also started listening to Tupac and really liked the song "Changes". "The Way It Is" has been sampled by several rap artists. This song is iconic and much admired by rap artists.
Bruce has to say that otherwise he would labeled a racist by the pc crowd.Rap artists take the easy road, they take familiar song riffs and build onto them.
Led Zep has been sued many times , they were notorious for stealing from old blues and folk songs.Doing covers is not stealing but its very lazy , youre not creating anything,just modifying a song that already exists.I will accept a cover if it better than the original,like cheap tricks cover of aint that a shame, a fats domino song, or Cyndi Lauper's cover of Robert Hazards Girls Just Want to Have Fun.Bands that do noting but covers are the worst,because their whole career is based upon pretending to be somebody else.
That someone in this century is celebrating Hornsby and the Range is enough to give your video a like at the start. I highly recommend most of Hornsby's work, old and new.
