@@CanadianReacts your welcome, I know you did a request of mine, but another great song is .... I was only 19, by redgum..... it’s a heart jerker about our Anzacs ,
good reaction, 90's british music was so much better than 90's american music, but both have so much talented condensed into 10 years, something so lost this days
Aahhhh the verve. Richard Ashcroft is the singer. It brings me back.theirs a few bands of that era you react to. Oasis, suede, pulp, happy Mondays, stone roses. All worth checking out👍 stone roses are probably my favourite, depends on the mood and situation
All in my top fav bands, well Bowie too Suede would be the one I go back to the most, their new album, newer I should say was fantastic! Love the Roses, can't go wrong there.
Just an FYI on this, Richard Ashcroft wrote this song with a double meaning. It’s to do with his Fathers passing from Cancer and his Father saying that “the drugs they give me aren’t working, they’re making me feel worse” as well as touching upon the lyric “I know I’m on a losing streak, as I pass down my old street” in relation to Richard’s drug use
Richard Ashcrofts father passed away when he was eleven from a brain tumor I think. His father in law passed away from cancer. The song is about neither. It was as you said in the video his longing for his then ex girlfriend as he spiralled into heavy drug use. Ask him I'm sure he'll straighten it up.
@@Turdbassist this song is very clearly about someone he loves dying, and his suicidal intentions. If heaven calls, I'm coming too? How can that be about his missing his girlfriend. Singing quietly in her ear, hoping she is thinking of him as she lies on her side, drugs don't work they make you worse (not me). 'Like you said, without you in my life I'm better off dead' suggests a light hearted, jokey comment made in a different context during happier times which now takes on new meaning and haunts him. It probably has more than one meaning but that is clearly the predominant one. Based on his experience of losing loved ones to cancer but, for the purpose of the song, about losing a partner (unlikely he'd call his father baby).
@@Rob_Reed it's about losing the love of your life through a break up and taking more drugs to see her face again. It's that simple. Richard was using heavy. His girlfriend left him . Now his wife. When he says the line if heaven calls I'm coming too. It means if heaven calls he's coming around in heaven because he's dead because he can't live life without her. It's like Nielsen's I can't live any more without you kinda vibe. Why don't you ask him? I'm sure he'll straighten it up.
@@Turdbassist Yeah you said ask the artist before but that's a rather silly thing to say once isn't it, let alone repeat. I do know though that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. And I'm done here. I've made my point, long Internet arguments are so lame.
