THAT ORCHESTRA!.. | FIRST TIME HEARING The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony REACTION

The more I watched this video the more it made sense to me. He is simply walking down the sidewalk trying to keep his stride. Not threatening, not doing a thing to anyone. As he tries to get to his destination, everyone and everything gets in HIS way without any regard for him. Some are angry, some are forceful, some aren’t even paying attention. It’s brilliant. We are born with a purpose and a focus. The “longer we walk” the disruptions and distractions are many and varied. We tend to lose our focus trying to adjust for others. It’s really very deep and I love this video as well as this song.

This song in the final scene of Cruel Intentions always gave me chills.

This song ALWAYS sounds to me like it could have just come out. It is one song I can say is truly timeless.

One of my favorite songs. “Trying to make ends meet, your a slave to the money, then you die” One of the truest lyrics ever written!

Nothing screams 90s music quite as loud as bittersweet symphony

The music video is an homage to a video of the English group Massive Attack's "Unfinished Symphony" from 1991. In that video, the singer walks down a street in a single shot confidently and not caring mostly with her eyes closed and never bumps into anyone or anything. Here, the singer walks down the street in a single shot with his eyes open, confidently and not caring, and bumps into lots of people and things. To me, the song is basically saying you're born, you're alone, you try to find someone, scratch for money, and you go down the only road you know, and then you die and you can't change that path. So, he's going down that road and he doesn't care about anything.

I love this song and it's very deep. Even the video has meaning. His walk is a representation of the path of life, the people he encounters are the people and events that we encounter through our lives. The guy with the fridge on a dolly is like a big life altering event that was narrowly avoided. The people he bumped into are the little speed bumps that help shape our lives. The girl in the car is a bad relationship, the car is the large event that he was able to cross and move on from but she didn't move on as easily and followed representing how a love can effect your life long term even after it's ended. The lady he knocked down was like an encounter where he hurt someone else's life in some way and he was recognizing that but still life continues without looking back. The girl that checked him out was like a perfect fling that came and went and left only a fond memory. The car that actually made him pause was a major life event that held him in place for a while, maybe good maybe bad but significant enough to make his life take pause but in the end it too did pass and life continued as always. And the end when the other four followed with him is like the people in your life who are there for the long haul whoever they may be they stick with you till the end while still living their lives respectively.

The history of this how this song and how it came to be is interesting. The Staple Singers recorded" This May be the last time" in 1951, The Rolling Stones liked the song and added their interpretation to it via their style and lyrics because no one owned the rights to the song at the time. The Andrew Oldman Orchestra took the Stones interpretation and made it orchestral obviously, the Verve took the orchestral element from Andrew Oldham and made their interpretation, which was tied up in a legal battle for around 20 years give or take, in which the Verve couldn't use or profit from the song until very recently. Interesting journey for that one song and it's many styles.

Wow, Amber! After over 20 years of seeing this video I finally understand why he's bumping into everything, eyes lifeless. Thanks to you talking about not enjoying the little things in life and only living to work, he goes through life like a zombie. Your fresh insight is really amazing quite often! I always have conveyed to coworkers that family and friends are most important, not the job.I retired early last year, and my final email was "Work so that you may live, but don't live to work."

Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Now you have found a true gem of a band! This track, The Drugs Don`t Work, Sonnet, Lucky Man, Velvet Morning...ah, who am I kidding? Every track is pure GOLD, This is in my top 5 best albums of the 90`s... There is also a track from their first album called "On Your Own" that is just so good! Richard Ashcroft is a Wordsmith, one of the best of his generation!

Cannot hear this without thinking of the end of the movie "Cruel Intentions". Perfect song to match that end.

This song contains one of my favorite lyrical passages ever - "Well I never pray, but tonight I'm on my knees, yeah. 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 airwaves are clean and there's nobody singing to me now." I identify so much with that - feeling the power that music has to take me on a journey and change me, but knowing that the realities of life will still be there when the musical escape is over.

This was one of my favorite songs of the 90s. I still love it. And can listen to it over and over again.

This is one of my all time favorite songs. It’s actually my ringtone for my text. I love this song Lyrics are powerful.

They are bumping into him. "Obstacles". He is just walking on his path, straight ahead. Getting through the obstacles of life. Sometimes, he was able to avoid them.

The Verve are incredible, 110% recommend their music x

This song is 24 years old and still relevant. Drugs don’t work and lucky man are 2 of my favorites.

The video is metaphorical, swimming upstream, against the crowd, searching for a new way that works better, my favorite line, "I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me" Music heals all.

People seem to miss the fact everyone else are actually bumping into him....

Massive Attack next please.They have so many great songs like:"teardrop" , "Live With Me" , "Unfinished Sympathy"