Limmy Analyses The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony Video 

I love how he goes from supporting him to going on about how he'd fuck him up if he bumped into him like that hahahahaha

He's walking the wrong way down a.....you know the rest.

This is the Limmy content i'm here for

My dad hated this video because he thought that it was rude. Would love to see my father and Limmy discuss this nearly 3 decade old video.

Bittersweet Limmphony

Limmy is world class at noticing stuff 99% of folk would never notice. I bloody love it.

"five guys out for a drink who work at the same place but you can tell they're not pals pals." is such an incredible statement about my favorite band as a kid. i think that really sums up their struggles to stay together and the tension in their music.

I mean, the whole “I can chaaange , I can chaange” while being a massive prick is kinda brilliant

I'm a 6ft2 wall of a bloke. People never get out of my way. So pretty much as soon as I was old enough to hit the 6ft mark, and I realised that this was going to be a trend, I figured out a specific tactic: Stop. Immediately stop. When someone's about to keep walking and barge into you, come to a complete halt. Either they notice, and stop, and you end up with this gloriously awkward moment where they're really, painfully conscious of you looking right at them... ...or they walk into you. And because you weren't moving at the time, it was a clear-cut case of them walking into you, and you can proclaim "It's over, Anakin. I have the high ground."

Hear hear. Entitled people walking three abreast yapping expecting everyone else to part like the Red Sea.

I'm sure that's a trolley bag, not a pram.

Basically as a wheelchair user this video perfectly describes my experience going through town lol

Dying at "Somebody will get them."

Only just now realizing, after all this time liking this song, I've never watched more than the first few seconds of this video.

I'd never seen Limmy before today, so I thought this was going to be a Wings of Pegasus style analysis video. Not even half-way through, I literally had tears streaming down my face. Thank you Limmy! Instant fan!

Is nobody gonna mention this man is half giraffe half human?

4:58 - Limmy somehow manages to rewind the video he's watching... and rewind this video at the same time

that lad needs a decent meal and some sunshine

Walking down Oxford Street a few years ago, and got shoulder shunted by Claude from the Apprentice. Strong lad. Shame about the heart attack. Would probably knock him to the ground now.

Do this for as many music videos as possible. Quality.

Huge Verve fan. Fun fact for you Brian, in the original sketch Ashcroft wanted to have his character battered at the end. However it was ruled as being too dark so decided that he would meet up with the band instead. Also at the end of the video it leads into the Drugs don't work video as he approaches a vending machine. "Imagine the future I woke up with a scream I was buying some feelings from a vending machine"

This video is genius because it perfectly captures my mood when I'm walking down the street and listening to music on my headphones and a belter of a tune comes up on the playlist.

Pro tip: if you see Limmy walking towards you on the pavement get the fuck out of the way

To be honest, I've definitely considered walking across the hood of cars when people just pull up onto the crosswalk like that. Well deserved

i nearly got punched in the face in glasgow for walking down the street.

the amount of analysis Limmy puts into something like this... Like the art analysis plus looking at the directorial choices... checking to see if the girl has her keys, lookin at the band's body language... really brings a blahem to my eye

I’m crying with laughter! Tears streaming down my face. “Go, get ‘em!…Put the fag out in his fucking eyes!” My sister told me Limmy was funny, but its taken me this long to finally watch one.

2:55 completely unhinged

Seas of pedestrians walking towards me part like the Red Sea. The trick? Well timed coughing.

This is just Edinburgh during The Fringe.

Look for the alt version were he gets the shit kicked out of him!

If Ed Sheeran did this he'd apologise to everyone afterwards. It wouldn't occur to him to launch that baby out of the pram. Rock is dead.

I'll take you down the only one way street I've ever been down

Limmy should do a remake of this as Dee Dee with The Proclaimers 500 Miles but he's apologising to anyone he bumps into

Didnt know I needed this content. Superb

Once got knocked by this by Pete Burns of all people, 7ft tall in boots in Camden

It's 5am in Edinburgh and I'm shaking the bed laughing while trying not to wake up my wife.

Bittersweet Blahemphony

Finally someone's said it. It's like he's reading my mind

Maybe he just found out Jagger & Richards are gonna be takin all this song's royalties for the next 25 years.

I was randomly thinking about this song today. Me and Limmy are in sync lol

4:34 Been dreaming of her for over a quarter of a century.

Limmy : " i like this video" whole video is nothing but him picking it apart and insulting the singer, amazing.

I remember myself at the age of 6 walking in the street like that after seeing this video. It must have looked very daft... but I was just haunted by this song

I sometimes think about watching this, but then I just watch the Vindaloo video instead.

I remember this music video as a man walking down the street being ignored, I never noticed anything unusual about his behaviour. This is the first time I've seen it since I was a kid.

High level analysis as usual! 👍

The guy deciding whether to fold his arms or not is typical of musicians. They're a shy breed dedicated to their art. That's why the front-man is almost never a musician by vocation, he's always a performer who soaks up the attention, so that the musicians can do their thing in the back. You need a cool, confident guy like Richard Ashcroft to "lead" the band (at least on stage).

At a train station in London I once saw this big bloke in an expensive looking suit bump into this small bookish looking woman and almost knock her over. He said "Move for fuck sake." then went back to talking on his phone. He acted like she was SO beneath him. I could feel my pulse thumping everywhere. I'd never gone from totally calm to raging so quickly. I timed it perfectly so that he was next to a wall when I smashed my shoulder into his and started shouting "MOVE! MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!" hahaha. He was like "WHO ARE YOU!???" I wish I would have said "I'm batman baby!"

"well, she was nae lookin..." *Facts*

The two bouncer guys who laugh at him are my favourites, they see right through his insecurites. I feel sorry for his mate at the end who is incredibly self conscious about having to walk down the street next to Richard Ashcroft as he knows that he will be the one to get punched.... again. You can see him considering whether to confront Ashcroft about it when he folds and unfolds his arms, but as always its just a passing thought, which may or may not come out in a future alchohol and amphetamines ramble.

0:03 vs 1:46 and generally everything had me screaming laughing for several minutes this is gonna be a big one i can feel it 😂

Sometimes you just gotta hold your ground and stamp your right to take up some fookin space and own it "I got as much right as you coont!"

Wrong way down a one-way street.

Stating the obvious here but every single person he walked into expected him to get out of their way. Because he didn’t he’s the piece of shit. Brilliant video

"Greener, right oan his dish" very articulate Limmy, that was fucking class

So sick of people who walk *at* you with the presumption that *you* should move out of their way. I think Richard Ashcroft taught us all a lesson here - *fuck* them. Don't move out of their way. Straight through, let them deal with the results of their own bad decisions. And manners!

“I bet that jacket’s fucking stinking, man.” 😂

The worst thing is when you try and move out the way and you’re wearing a backpack and you just swing into them with it

Ah bet THEY SHOOOOOES are stinkin 🤣🤣🤣

Some boy... A well thought out route and plan to catch him in the crosshairs of his drive by groggerin. 🤣

So busy reminiscing in his own violent behaviour that he completely misses that woman casually land a shoulder.

The work pals walk side by side with each other because they aren't comfortable enough to show that they arent paying attention to each other 100% of the time in order to be friends. They also do the speedwalk because the enjoyment of their experience isn't just being in the company of each other so they kinda want to speed up the night to get it over with.

11:15 there were guys back then late 90's early naughties that were into studenty indie music that thought they were hard as F and this was the standard look. Skinny fat bloke body, big coat, scruffy hair and a not giving a F body language. Attitude absolutely stunk. Im so glad that trend is long gone. Liam gallagher and Ian Brown have a lot to answer for. they created these c***s

draws the line at pram, he's got a good heart has old Limmy

0:03 me age 4 picking up Jurassic Park in Blockbusters in 98

The bit where he's mouthing something but you can't hear is actually because they recorded this music video before the official release of the song and they had an earlier version with a short bridge section with the lyrics: "I'm not a big Cilla Black fan, but she would get one from me"

Limmy's VAR analysis of this video is fucking killing me.

Pissing myself laughing here big man 😂😂

I always imagined shoulder barging someone in Glasgow would be a death sentence. Or at least the start of a sectarian riot of some sort.

This is timely for me. Last week in Glasgow this enormous woman wouldn’t make any effort to get out the way as we approached each other so I got forced on to the road. Was fuming.

LOL the 'windae bit' 😂

I read somewhere a few years back that the original idea was for the whole band to be walking down the street. Limmy would’ve lost it!

There is a Alternate Version where he gets beaten up around 5:27 Pretty sure its on youtube.

I swear I've seen a version of this where he gets battered at the end and is singing on the deck, and no it wasn't Fat Les.

Looks like a typical day walking down sauchiehall street

2:56 YAAAAAS! GET THAT PRRRRRRRRRIIIICK!!!!!!!!!

Wow. Limmy just made me laugh at the phrase ''man stabbed 20 times in the street''. How did that happen?

You can see him give a wee smirk after he gets it wrong and sings when he shouldn't be.

Limmy's such a chilled out pacifist.

The Millport Story 😆

Limmy, watch the alternative version of this video. You'd prefer that one I think.

He's tellin the story aboot the guy overstayin his welcome again lmaoooo

peak limmy that he would get fixated on the guy being rude 😂

I always wondered what “im here in my mo “ meant. But now I don’t care

9:02 - I thought this back then, I think it now. Ashcroft just looks like he's slept at the Biffa depot

That wasn't a pram it was just an auld Biddy's shoppin'😂it's cool 😎

This is the greatest analysis of a video ive ever seen.

Boring point here: Must've been shot on film as it's in HD now. See, I said it was boring.

I love how hard Limmy goes.

Has anyone mentioned to Limmy the uncut version where he gets the shit kicked out of him?

Limmy when this vid came out I was a quiet and shy 23 year old. I probably would have apologised if the div had gone into me!! Just turned 49 today and I'm with you.....I woulda put everything into whatever shoulder was gonna make contact with him! Hated this video back then! You've just made it a lot more bearable (for this one view only!!). Thanks!

He's got an intelligence of a certain kind

Summer '96, moccasin shoes were the bomb, man. Lim does realize the video is an extended and rather laboured metaphor, doesn't he? Not an obnoxious bastards' guide to walking around town.

This should be a regular thing

I'm not sure but I'm sure he says 'I'll barge if I want!!'

Gotta love that macho manc walk. And those 2 guys he walks into, think the white guy just says like "alright mate?!" He's a lad, up for bit of trouble maybe, they're up for it, but they find it funny that he barged through so they're just like fair play mate keep going

fascinating pronunciation of jacket at the end there

That was a shopping trolley/ buggy that the Ole dears put their bags in

makes me think about those groups say in a line of 6 that don't move asside for you and expect you to move. Walk through them i say!!!