I played this song so many times to hear his speech, he was part of the biggest decision I've ever made. I quit my shitty journalism job and started to learn how to tattoo, I was about to turn 30... it's been 6 years since I started... feel so thankful and blessed everyday... best change ever... that's the power of word... ❤ 0:48
One of the tracks that helped pull me through losing my Dad recently, he grafted all his life, nearing retirement, mortgage finally paid off, house completely renovated, gone before he was allowed to enjoy it, bastards. This song means so much to me, absolutely brilliant, timeless.
@kyfaydfsoab I'm in the oldest year of the decade we call Generation x. There's great music in every decade (past decades get better the deeper I explore) but with a couple of exceptions the new music I've heard is lacking originality, individuality, substance, and sadly enough, art. "Bittersweet Symphony" has all of that, which gives it life, years to age like a fine wine, and us all a chance to taste, savor, and remember how bittersweet life really is.
I was there in the crowd. Off my face. Late 20s. I'm now 40, and the ups and downs of life make this song even more powerful than it was when I stood in that field.
i grew up with pink floyd,santana,dire straits,black sabbath.people still listen to their music.how many will remember one direction and others in 40 years time? ZILCH.
“I want to thank Emily Eavis for inviting us to play Glastonbury,” he declared. “I hope her dad realises why she booked us now, I think he was a bit worried we wouldn’t be as good as Keane or something. But, no, God bless Keane, I don’t care, love and peace to all bands. It’s a struggle, life’s a struggle! Monday morning may be a struggle for a lot of you, doing a job that you despise, working for a bastard you despise, a slave to money then we die. God bless Ya!”
One of the greatest tracks ever written. A true british anthem. Wherever i am in the world this tune brings me home. Anyone who has felt any sort of pain in their life can relate to this powerful tune. LEGEND LONG LIVE RICHARD ASHCROFT as real as it gets.
I’m an Aussie and have always loved this! This song for you Poms is like Powderfinger “These Days” for us, wherever we are in the world. Makes us homesick!
as Noel Gallagher once said when asked at the height of Oasis fame if they could now say they were the best band at that time "we aint the greatest band, it's a band called The Verve"....and then well this arrived!
I’m a full on metal head, but his song is an absolute classic along with lucky man. It’s an era defining song. I hear this on the radio and boom! I’m back in 1997…..
Ikr! I noshit cried when he raised up sunglasses to show the world he is STILL here and STILL can't change his mould. same person same passion. Only sexier.😅
+pokefan100 so true it's been there for days still can't get it out trying the hair of the dog that bit you method! (: no but I seriously don't want to get this tune out of my head it's really really good!!!
@@brianpeck4035 Thanks for the advice, but since I have a security team and have coodinated over 100 concerts events I still think this was a great one. Over and Out !!
I can't explain why, but this is one of my all time favorite piece of footage from a live concert. He makes the crowd know that he pays attention. He enjoys what he is doing. That, my friends, is good music. Have a great week folks!
I think this is the best live performance I’ve ever seen. Extraordinary. The snare, the guitar textures are made for huge venues and he never plays the same thing twice ever, the vocals, the frontman, that bass. The crowd, audience.. spiritual. Oh! And that snare (again)! Perfection. I miss good music so much.
This song was an earthquake while I was suffering from adeep, deep depression. No one understood why I clinged on to this song and a friend of mine tried to analyze the text to understand why I just cried and cried everytime I heard this song. Today, I still struggle to hold back tears listening to it.
Hello from another who's been helped by music during rough times. Sounds like your friend doesn't get that the message in music doesn't come from the lyrics alone.
''I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now But the airways are clean and there's nobody singing to me now" That is bittersweet. A good song is like a good friend.
When you listened this as a kid you just loved it for the music. When you listen this now as an adult you appreciate the lyrics on a different level. I think I’d take 1997 over 2020 any day at the moment!
Saw this song for first time on VH1. I guess it was 2009. I was a highschooler. This song means so much, I didn't understand english well back then. Now it's 2024. Damn, time flies.
Simple concepts must frustrate someone as feckless as you. How you can interpret that I'm impressed with anything other than the fact that he maintains a "pretty simple drumbeat" (no shit) for a good amount of time, is beyond me.
Scanned a bunch of comments and none mentioned the Rolling Stones and that the Verve didn't make a penny on this song. Sad story because it its one of the greatest of that periode. Truly bittersweet.
Watching this in 2021 in a covid-19 social media crazy world got me feeling mad nostalgia for the late 00's. What a prime time to be alive and we didn't even realise it.
One of the biggest good stuff who was maked by the Britons: their superb rock music and rock bands. Thaks for all lads, for all of your rock music 🇬🇧✌🏻
My goodness , the sheer amount of fantastic music that came in the 90’s ! And some already established bands/artists stepped their game up to give the new ones a run for their money. All to the benefit of us music lovers.
The present world economic system is obsolete and long past its sell by date. It is time to dump this dog eat dog rat race into the trash bin of history. Then humanity will no longer be wage slaves till we die.
Yes indeed william. Food is Not grown to eat but to realise a profit. This is why we have the contradiction of vast stockpiles of food , farmers even paid set aside amidst starving humans. what insanity is this ,another example there are more empty houses than homeless people the list goes on. we are all slaves worldwide to the monetary system, but only because the majority do not realise we have an alternative.
William the evil you talk about in europe Do you mean the former soviet bloc. What collapsed in the eastern bloc was state run capitalism. The workers in these nation states remained wage slaves selling their labour power to the state in return for a wage/salary. That is not a marxist idea but a distortion by the likes of lenin/stalin. Even adolph called his nazi party the national socialist party what a sick joke nothing very social about them, very evil indeed william.
Richard Ashcroft is one of the most underrated phenomenal lead singers. Any band would be LUCKY to have him as their front man !~ It's a pity he made no money on this great song,
Kalid Rooble Lol well the real reason is because The Verve obtained permission from the Rolling Stones to use part of the famous strings riff in this song, even though the rolling stones never wrote any part of that, they still and the rights. Rolling Stones waited until the song became successful and then, all of a sudden, decided that 'oh, the song has become very successful, let's sue them and say they used more of our song than they should have', which is bullshit. Ultimately they took it to court and Rolling Stones won, so every penny made on this song goes to them. Cunts.
I remember when HMV in Chester used to have an in house DJ that played this before anyone had heard it and you couldn’t buy it. First album I can remember preordering in my life.
I remember reading about Nick McCabe that he was difficult to work with because he never plays the same thing twice (though he is talented). Well, I sure do appreciate his riffing on this version of the tune. Adds so much to the atmosphere, especially cause within this four chord structure, improvisation elevates everything
Impeccable performance! Ashcroft is brilliant. The whole band are brilliant. Sound mix is great and so is the camera work/editing. Possibly the best live performance ever captured on film.
Was at a U2 concert in Miami in Nov 1997 and this song came over the speakers a few minutes before U2 took the stage and I couldnt believe what I was hearing . I thought I just heard the greatest song ever.
My happy place, used to be my ringtone. After 35 yr marriage ended- didn't want it but couldn't stop it...this is where I go to feel "good" again. Know it's silly but the best I have nowadays...still healing from having my heart ripped out. Sorry to be neg but this music is the best I have now. Peace, Mark, Maumee - Ohio.
"Life’s a struggle! Monday morning may be a struggle for a lot of you, doing a job that you despise, working for a bastard you despise, a slave to money then we die. God bless Ya!” Richard Ashcroft (The Verve), 2008
The most importantly honest song of our times. Wonderful song we enjoy hearing, yet it dares to speak the truth of our lives. So true! The best song, perhaps ever.
This song makes me wanna stop doing what school and parents try force upon you, all for your future, never living in the present, literally just waiting to do die. Live life how you wanna, if you do what you love, something will always come from it.
