"How loud the mouth when the heart don't care". What a brilliant line.
@douglasgordon61652 жыл бұрын
One of Nick's finest. Great harmony vox and piano work by Paul Carrack. Especially love Paul's piano work during the fade.
@pretorious7004 ай бұрын
Perfect song start to finish.
@phillipbaker5095 жыл бұрын
The man's a genius. Beautiful British pop.
@stevewynne51454 жыл бұрын
Stiff records and that good stuff
@stevewynne51454 жыл бұрын
Cornwall.ie.indian queens.x welcome
@liamhowe18973 жыл бұрын
Q
@dancapriotti88962 жыл бұрын
Our generation’s Cole Porter
@fabjen19612 жыл бұрын
Pure pop dopamine.
@timbuckxxi96903 жыл бұрын
Maybe my favorite Nick Lowe song.
@jacquismith32772 жыл бұрын
Yes, Nick Lowe is brilliant. Rose of England is a particular favourite. xx
@RoyPage19703 ай бұрын
This track is epic
@davewhyte-1004 Жыл бұрын
Lowe is a genius and it might be a crime to suggest that I prefer Oysterband's cover of this.
@donaldbutcher6442 жыл бұрын
just saw him at wolftrap in vienna virginia....dude's a genius and a marvelous entertainer....articulates every syllable of every song, ie Sinatra ...
@denislaw83 жыл бұрын
Another in a long line of brilliantly crafted songs by Nick.
@rivelino8463 Жыл бұрын
Yes go England!
@YI-pf6yy5 жыл бұрын
i like this song
@neilwatson68164 жыл бұрын
The songs wıll lıve on and on! Magıcal!
@annemariefleming4 жыл бұрын
Look for Rose Of England, sung by Vera Lynn. This song title was STOLEN from a much better song.
@TheToughBaby4 жыл бұрын
@@annemariefleming That song sucks
@wj24542 жыл бұрын
Just realised how much this song resembles "Call it a loan" by Jackson Browne. I prefer this one, but it's fair to say that the other one was released before.
@Cabochon13604 жыл бұрын
I love this song; but when I play it in my head, some lyrics from "I Fought the Law" get in.
@gorgecoach3 жыл бұрын
I will make that a medly--totally works for me
@kingbeauregard3 жыл бұрын
I hear it as "I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock and Roll". Except in my version, it's "I Knew the Bride When She Used to Shit Her Pants".
@trikinosis2 жыл бұрын
Preciosa canción!!
@Raelspark9 жыл бұрын
If you play this song right next to Zevon's "Excitable Boy", it'd be a super concert.
@helenmcnulty47068 жыл бұрын
I agree
@philsteakfreeman5 жыл бұрын
I just did that on FB without knowing your comment.
@thiscorrosion9005 жыл бұрын
Raise muster gainst the foreign hand ......but, DON'T JOIN
@jeremyroxursox8 жыл бұрын
wow .....early 80s young dumb and pretty happy
@stevewynne51454 жыл бұрын
Taters out in it
@SteveBarton136 жыл бұрын
Feckless. Oh no, I don't mean this song.
@Amphy0028 жыл бұрын
I love this song, but can anyone tell me what the lyrics are about?
@t.burkeedwards35197 жыл бұрын
It seems to me it's about young men brainwashed by society to rush into war, believing they are serving their country when they are only serving the interests of the "military/industrial complex". It contrasts youthful idealism and perceived courage going in and the actual realities of war, and a young man's belief in his own bravery as opposed to his innate fear and cowardice which is much more common: "Hot potato, drop it and run... He'd die if he ever found out we knew."
@randallstarling24256 жыл бұрын
about a good boy gone bad!!
@dougmisantoni43846 жыл бұрын
...Still get shivers listening...Classic... Thanks Nick
@atrain51976 жыл бұрын
It's about a deserter- the singer knows he had to make a choice after his mother had already given her son up to the war in horror and now he has run away, and now he is alive years later, guilty. but alive. No hero, but alive...
@pretorious7005 жыл бұрын
@@t.burkeedwards3519 ..very good, but more concisely put, "false bravado", which would be a great name for a Punk band.
@annemariefleming4 жыл бұрын
Rose Of England is a song from many years ago. THIS is a pop song, and bears NO resemblance to the REAL Rose Of England.
@thiscorrosion9004 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming you mean this one? That was kind of a pop song, too, of its time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_of_England It claims Vera Lynn also covered it but way into the mid 1960s, and not during WWII. I don't know that song but I will investigate. I do, however, adore the Nick Lowe song and was just playing along on my 12-string finally learning it tonight. As with most great songs, it's not nearly as simple as it sounds. Easily one of the finest songs of the 1980s, and criminally underrated and underheard at the time.
@TheToughBaby4 жыл бұрын
Oh, you mean Nick Lowe wasn't the first person to use the image of a rose to symbolize England or Englishness? Wow, that's amazing, I thought he had invented that concept
@bobmcconn Жыл бұрын
as did HP Lovecraft @@TheToughBaby
@pretorious7004 ай бұрын
@@TheToughBaby KZbin is replete with stupid comments. It's amusing.