In case anyone was curious, the director of this video is Jake Scott. The son of Ridley Scott(director of Alien, Bladerunner, Legend, and many other amazing movies)
Live was one of the best (and one of my favorite) bands from the 90s. They probably were playing already in the late 80s, but they exploded with radio hits in the nineties.
Hey Jamel/Jamal. Your channel is awesome. It's great to see young folks discover great music. But I have an idea that can make this even more interactive. It would be terrific if at the end of each video you suggested a modern hip hop or R&B song that us old farts might like once we discover it. Then we can really come together as a RU-vid family. All the best to you.
Along these lines I have a great suggestion for you. Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls live in Buffalo. The depth of the song is similar played in a pouring rain storm. Incredible video.
If you want a kid... quit trying. Make it most inconvenient to have a child... and you'll have one. It's actually science that trying too hard can make it not happen... just stop trying and just enjoy life. It'll happen. Good lord willing. Best of luck! Children are a blessing. Though in this world today I hope things get better soon for everyone... scarry to bring a baby into this world right now.
*Another incredible MUST experience song by the group Live is "I Alone."* It is powerful but not sad. It speaks of the bond and the love a man has for his woman. Originally inspired by a Bible verse where Jesus calms the sea. It is an homage to yourn lovers facing an unknown future, but with lyrics like this... "I alone love you. I alone tempt you..." it will make you want to beat your chest and go make love to your woman passionately... right NOW damnit! Lol*
The baby didn't die. The baby was born. But at the same time an old mother dies. So in the same hospital there is birth and death. Cycle of life. Celebration and mourning.
"Lightning Crashes" was released as a single on September 2, 1994, and to this day I can't listen to it without the tears streaming down my face. Such powerfully moving song...thank you, Brother Jamal.
Yes, it reminds me of the OKC Murrah building bombing. A local radio station made a version that contained excerpts of the events during and after the bombing. Makes me cry and and I remember the events all over again. Never Forget!
I lost a son two years ago and a day the day it was released, and when I heard it for the first time, it brought me back to that day and the emotions came rushing out of me and everytime I hear this,I think back to that day 😢😭
There are riots and hate all around me tonight. i needed some calm and some joy. so here I am . Watching my brother from the race of mankind, discover the music of my youth. Wearing a TEACH PEACE shirt too! Thank you Jamal
I think "White Discussion", one that wasn't even a single from Throwing Copper due to it's apocalyptic nature, is the most overlooked, but utterly epic song of it's era. If you ever want to just hear a band leave it all on the stage, or the studio floor I guess, that is the song in my book. It cannot be listened to at anything short of apocalyptic volume levels if you want to appreciate it though.
Hahaha literally the best that can be put. I remember listening to throwing copper on my walkman tape player (1996?) laying in the sun thinking I needed a tan. And I've never felt such a perfect sense of "this is as good as it gets" again. It was a little spiritual to tell the truth, felt like eternity.
It's pretty cool to see these songs you've grown up with through the eyes of some one who has never heard them. Really makes you appreciate how great they are. There was so much excellent music in the 90s that we just took so many of these songs for granted. Thanks for you reactions man.
With so many people jumping on the bandwagon of reaction videos, this is the only person who does it right. Entertaining and educational. Love this channel.
This review is how people should hear songs they don’t know.... by actually listening and feeling what the writer wanted them to emote. When you find a song with an actual story (the boxer Simon/Garfunkel - In my life Beatles- lightning crashes) and the listener actually listens... that’s the power of music. Well done sir. Ps- listen to their whole album throwing copper (it’s on RU-vid). Great album.
I saw them in Pittsburgh last year and they were great. I'm glad Ed Kowalczyk rejoined the band because vocalists are the one thing that completely changes a band. Could have just been a bad day when you saw them.
@@222valas if you saw them a few months back, that's still 23 years after this recording. I want to see you sing as good in 23 years as you do now. Not to mention, not every show is perfect
Thats a wonderful song. One of my favorites but this song is definitely deep and i never seen the video before..made me cry cus when i had my son i had preeclampsia and we nearly both died from it so it hits home with me.
This song came out the year my son was born. It haunted me up to the moment of his birth, both mother and son in full health. At that same time, my own mother was in the hospital in another wing battling cancer. She lost that battle six days later. This was September, while doctors earlier in the year said she wouldn't last the summer. She lapsed into a coma that day, waking with a vision of a baby boy with a head full of brown hair. My son. That day was spent moving back and forth between the maternity ward and the cancer ward. A living version of what this video represents. The song has kept a steady place in my heart. I'm glad you saw this, I'm glad I watched. Keep up the great work.
How interesting that you too were haunted by this song. This song was all over the radio when I was pregnant...my son was born in 1995. It also haunted me up to the day he was born. By pure fluke, childbirth proved to be very difficult for both of us and we both almost didn't make it. Thankfully we both survived, due to modern medicine. It was once commonplace for the mother or baby to die in childbirth; childbirth is an intense, intense experience. As flawed as it still is, I deeply deeply appreciate our modern medical system. I can still feel the deep, frightening, yet beautiful ache of that time when I listen to this song. On this day, International Women's Day, I want to appreciate all the mothers (and all women) young and old who give so much of themselves in so many ways and on so many levels.
The often forgotten band of the 90s. They've got a lot of great songs that got lost in the grunge onslaught. But they are just as noteworthy. Some really great songwriting and lyrics in their catalog.
Another good song dealing g with a close one's passing is Angel's Son by sevendust. Would be a good reaction. This band's song was about the old lead singer who were all friends died in a car accident, so the new singer joined the band, wrote this song in memoryand released it. Another great video, but also sad. All friends and family members of the lost one in the video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-56fPSbkzMCI.html
Jamel bro, here is the real meaning to the song: The band dedicated the song to a high school friend, Barbara Lewis, who was killed by a drunk driver in 1993. Ed Kowalczyk the singer envisioned it taking place in a hospital, where all these simultaneous deaths and births are going on, one family mourning the loss of a woman while a screaming baby emerges from a young mother in another room. Nobody's dying in the act of childbirth, as some viewers think. What you're seeing is actually a happy ending based on a kind of transference of life.
Without even knowing the back story I could tell the lyrics where bouncing back and forth from a baby being born and an old woman dying. I also assumed it was maybe hinted at some level of reincarnation. Like for every life being lost there is another being born. Not entirely backed up by statistics as the population has been growing over all, but still an interesting idea.
Live was one of those really underrated alternative rock/post-grunge bands that had songs that really got to you. Another incredible one is The Dolphin's Cry. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you and your wife, by the way! ♥
This is what the song is about from the writers words. "While the clip is shot in a home environment, I envisioned it taking place in a hospital, where all these simultaneous deaths and births are going on, one family mourning the loss of a woman while a screaming baby emerges from a young mother in another room. Nobody's dying in the act of childbirth, as some viewers think. What you're seeing is actually a happy ending based on a kind of transference of life." - Ed Kowalczyk
That's how I've always heard it. The old woman dies - her intentions fall to the floor; the confusion that was once hers belongs now to the baby down the hall.
I had heard this band before, loved their rockin' radio hits. The day my mom passed away, I heard this song for the first time while I was driving. I was immediately stricken with grief and burst into tears, had to pull off the road and ball my eyes out. I was near my favorite record store (we still had those back then!), so I pulled in and bought a copy of this CD, Throwing Copper. I played it endlessly in my car for at least a month, and every time this song came on, I burst into tears. It was the first step at healing myself from the grief of losing my mom. Just now was the first time I've listened to it in years, and my face is covered with tears. I'm a mess. I LOVE YOU, MOM. I MISS YOU SO MUCH!!
Awww, I'm so sorry for the loss of your mom. I can see how this song could just break you up. My mom's been gone 14 years ago yesterday, and the pain can still pop in. I understand and I wish you peace.
My granddaughter Madelyn didn't have a left ventrical. We knew this from an ultrasound for 6 months before she was born. She had heart surgery within 24 hours but it was worse than they thought. She was Live for 2 months. I cut the cord and then held her while she was baptized. Witnessing my son, daughter in law and granddaughter live this was torture. This song came on when I drove home from the hospital.
Wow, I watched this video just now for the first time, and it also made me think of when I lost my mom, which will be two years at the end of August. I cried too because it made me realize that at the same moment she was slipping away, new life was just entering the world. It's the cycle of life, which can be painful when your loved one is on the "losing" end of it. I'm sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss. I had a similar reaction my first time hearing it, I was driving on my job, song comes on and I'm bawling and hit with an overwhelming sense of dread and loss. No one I knew had passed but I called all my relatives convinced that I'd felt someone close to me was gone.
The whole album (throwing copper) is great. Waitress is a great and funny song. You should listen to Neil Young and I noticed no one has told you to listen to Stone Temple pilots yet.
When Throwing Copper came out my roommate played it day and night to the point that I could sing every damn song word for word...and I'm glad he did...lol
This song came out as I found out I was pregnant and I miscarried months after. It's a devastating experience. This song gave me hope that "her" soul passed on and lives now.
Oh man, I can't believe I stumbled upon this. Through my tears I will try to finish this comment. My great niece Karla gave birth to, my great, great, niece Nadalee, eight years ago this, May. Even though our Nadalee is fine now, she was born addicted to meth. What started out to be such a great thing to celebrate, quickly turned out to be bad. Karla was, able to hold her baby for only minutes before, she was taken away. It took a while and hard work but the two have been reunited
Live's first studio album called "Mental Jewelry" was a masterpiece in my mind. I couldn't remove it from my Walkman for over a year... every song was amazing!
@@suzanneanderson6921 - I once asked Ed Kowalczyk (Singer/Songwriter of Live) what his fascination is with water. Damn near every song on "Mental Jewelry" had something to do with water in the lyrics. He acted like it was the first he had heard of it... nice guy though.
Fishing, the beauty of gray is so relevant. I think it's a great suggestion. So is Pain lies on the riverside, 10000 years, Mirror Song, I could go on and on! OMG you actually spoke with Ed...I am such a fan of this band. I will soon be 60 years old and will never ever stop listening! Peace, friend.
Great to see someone covering Live. I've been waiting a long time. They were really niche in the 90's and it's great to see that you're listening. I'd like to suggest Lakini's Juice by Live.
My reaction to this suggestion is YES! and NOOO! haha. That video destroyed me as a kid. The old lady abused, the baby getting stolen.. ahhh! Killed me. But great great song.
*"Lightening Crashes"* is about the circle of life. A baby... a new life comes in and an old life goes out. In this story the mother and child are alright, but it still makes this old retired Marine shed tears every time. It is an incredibly emotional song touching all who experience it.
All Over You, Beauty of Grey, Good Pain, I Alone, Iris, Operation Spirit, Pain Lies on the Riverside, Selling the Drama, Shit Towne, Waitress are all also totally kicking and meaningful.
While I know what the song is about, the circle of life, your reaction made me cry. I lost my son when he was 2 days old and you’re right, it causes irreparable Damage to the heart. Some people, like my kids father, never really recover. Thank you for your reactions, I always enjoy them.
Powerful song. I love how you really listen to songs.. I’ve heard this song 10,000 times, but watching your genuine reaction makes me feel like I’m hearing it again for the first time.
This video is about the circle of life. An "old" mother dies...a "new" mother cries. One dies who is older and the same time a baby is born to a new mother
Jamel is the truth. This is why I keep tuning in and sharing his link. This dude has a good heart, and a good soul. World needs more people like Jamel💯
I think it is talking about the moment when the older person dies, the baby is born. Life lost and life born. The awe of life and death. Seems spiritual in it's message. Just my opinion.
*Another incredible MUST experience song by the group Live is "I Alone."* It is powerful but not sad. It speaks of the bond that a man has for his woman. Lyrics... "I alone love you. I alone tempt you..." will make you want to beat your chest and go make love to her passionately... right NOW damnit! Lol*
My cousin had this experience, first she had 3 miscarriages, then the 4th was stillborn, he had a heartbeat right into labor, but was born without a life. She was devastated, but decided to give it one more try. She had a boy, health and strong. Followed by 2 more, just as strong. I just recently seen her husband, I asked how the kids were doing. He gestured tall, then pointed in front of him. There stood his son DJ, this kid was 6'4'', taller than me or his father. I was stunned to say less. The stillbirth is a very difficult thing. We also have family friends who can't have children, a tough situation as well. But they have many nieces and nephews, plus all of us knew them as aunt Sandy and uncle Doug, as far as we were concerned they were family, and respected them as much. She was as good as a real mother, and he was a strong male role model with a great sense of humor. The almighty doesn't always bless the good people with children.
I watch a fair amount of reaction videos. Your comments after this one took you from one of my favorites to my favorite. You get it. Lots of people don't. Parenthood isn't easy, at any stage. I have three children, three healthy, wonderful children. I lost two in between child 1 and 2. I also lost a sibling before my youngest brother was born. Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here has become my song for those losses. I've wailed uncontrollably to that song and whenever I feel the weight of those losses, I put that song on and just let the emotion out and it helps, it really does. Its crazy, I remember seeing someone carrying this CD back when it was released. I always liked some of the songs that I'd heard, but in the past 5 years or so, whenever i have a major Amazon purchase, I find a used copy of a classic album used with free shipping and grab it and just live in that album for a while. Throwing Copper is very very solid throughout, just a great album. And I remember when I figured out what this song was about and how much more it meant to me ever listen after.
In a 2004 interview included on the DVD for Awake: The Best Of Live, Kowalczyk said, “To this day I have no idea where that song came from - and I love that.” Lyrically, ‘Lightning Crashes’ is a meditation on the cycle of life, death and reincarnation. Kowalczyk’s vision of the song was a hospital emergency room where people died and babies were born, a never-ending transference of life energy: “Lightning crashes an old mother dies/Her intentions fall to the floor/The angel closes her eyes/The confusion that was hers/Belongs now to the baby down the hall.” ‘Lightning Crashes’ was recorded and produced with Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison as part of the sessions for Live’s sophomore effort, Throwing Copper, at the famed Pachyderm Studio in Minnesota, during the summer of 1993. Around this time, Barbara Lewis, a longtime friend of the band, was killed by a drunk driver while fleeing from the police after a robbery in York. The band dedicated the song to Lewis, who was only 19 when she died. “It was something that we hoped would honour the memory of a girl we grew up with and help her family cope with the sorrow - which it seems to have accomplished - keeping with the theme of the song,” Kowalcyzk said, in a 1995 interview in Spin magazine. Lewis was also a registered organ donor; when she died she helped save the lives of many people, including a ten-month old baby who received her liver.
This song still rips my heart open. It came out right around when my Dad was dying of cancer, and I was pregnant with my daughter. I know you did a fantastic job with the reaction video. I'll watch it again when I'm alone and can ugly cry.
"You know you're in trouble when people stop listening to sad music." - Thom Yorke I have some suggestions of songs that at least make *me* cry: Radiohead - I Will Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack Portishead - Roads Talking Heads - Heaven Thom Yorke & Flea - Daily Battles
I've been thinking that about our messed up culture for a long time. What happened to the sad songs? Thom Yorke has always known the score. Then again, I've been a diehard fan of The Cure for decades, so we do know our sad songs! I second your suggestions, btw. Good stuff.
The song is a great introduction to Live, and to my man EddieK's lyrics. This one is about the cycle of birth and death; an old mother will be dying somewhere else well and new life is being born at the same time. Almost everything he's ever written is about something spiritual, which is why he's my favorite lyricist of all time. People act like their only album is Throwing Copper, they have seven studio albums just under that name, eight if you count the album they made before they were under that name, and he has three solo albums. Absolutely incredible, every single ounce of every one of them. I should probably stop gushing, but there is absolutely nothing that EddieK has written that isn't amazing. Lots more Live where that came from.
Live is one of my favorite bands. Blue October is another favorite that’s so underrated. Their song Hate Me, hits me in my soul every time. Empath struggles...
