Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato (REACTION!!!)

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[@Brombit]

Hey, this is me again ;) Let's start from the most important thing - my name ;) The problem is that this name is not "compatible" with English :P maybe I could explain it by writing "Noh-ahm" :P Hebrew has only five vowels, so try to read "noam" in the most basic way you can ;) and for the music! I didn't pick the song because it has "sister/sistah", but it might be in my sub-conscience ;) Post Orgasmic Chill is by far my favorite (or favourite ;) ** ) album by them. and I think this song is the best to introduce the album. Here's the story of how I came to know this band :) I was in a vacation in Italy, with my family. We were in a pool with water from hot springs. I can't even remember if I was in the water or outside, but I heard a cool tune from the TV there. I hurried to look and see the name of the artist/song. I saw it and remembered "Anais". That was enough for KZbin to find Skunk Anansie :) It's was a single from their comeback compilation (this was one of the three previously unreleased songs on it) - "Because of You". I heard it and loved it. Later I was bored with this song and focused mostly on Post Orgasmic Chill ;) I have no idea about the lyrics, as usual :P I need someone else to explain. ** I spell "favorite" when I write to someone from the USA, and "favourite" when it's for UK/Australia :P that's not my language anyway ;)

[@WolfKain]

Ok so we already shot the Igorrr reaction so your name will be wrong there too sorry, but I promise we'll get it right when we do the Gathering lol! After watching the video again I think it's about child abuse. Perhaps the phrase refers to the Dad imposing his power over the kids.

[@Brombit]

​@@WolfKain The mispronunciation is more funny than disturbing ;) thank you for the input about the lyrics :)

[@HalfLifeSistah]

Darn it! I just KNEW that I had the pronunciation right! 🙄🙄🙄🙄 All this time I've been saying it wrong?🙄🙄🙄 Sorry, baby. Thank you so much for the backstory!☺ This is a group that I would love to hear more from. You are so awesome! 😊😚🤗💖✊🏾🤘

[@Brombit]

@@HalfLifeSistah You were much closer in the Pain of Salvation video! :P

[@HalfLifeSistah]

@@Brombit lol c'mon... Cut a sistah some slack, lol!😒😅 I won't forget, uhkay?😬💖

[@danikcr]

Skin always blow me away with her passion and emotions in her singing. And with the band sound it blends perfectly. She is one of a kind.

[@daisho13]

Man, we need more Skunk Anansie reactions. One of my faves from back in the day. Awesome group.

[@216trixie]

This is a surprise! In the mid '90's, in Denver we went to a small theater to see a band I can't remember the name of, but I do remember Skunk Anansie opening for them. They blew the lid off the roof!

[@slipknot95maggot]

Years later and I still have no idea how this song isn't soooo much bigger Skunk is my jam, but how can everyone not at least agree that this one song is just...... Aww man....

[@binx2882]

I love skin her voice is so powerful, you will also like there song Weak and Hendoism

[@mikestewart2520]

I seen these guys back in 99. Never heard of them til then. They were killer live. Been a fan since.

[@PeturHinrik]

Skunk Anansie - Little Baby Swastikka is a heavy song that I never hear people talk about

[@ChrisPage68]

Skunk Anansie are touring again, for their 25th anniversary. "Charlie Big Potato" is a British phrase for someone who acts like they are more important/tougher than they actually are. Deborah Dyer is Skin's real name.

[@Brombit]

thanks for the explanation of the phrase ^_^

[@HalfLifeSistah]

Thank you so much forthat information!☺🤗😙💖✊🏾🤘🏻

[@HalfLifeSistah]

@@Brombit hi, beautiful!🤗 thank you again for this request✊🏾🤘🏻💖

[@FormByFirelight]

Thanks from a Belgian French speaking ! Never knew it had a meaning !!! Sending you love 💕

[@m000Theevilcow]

Ive seen them live twice might be me being bias but damn they´re awesome and epic live cant wait until November 20th to seem them again this time in Lisbon in this small theather that was told to have awesome acoustic.. lets see.. gj on the reaction guys !!!

[@lungfulldrummer8921]

The singer skin did a great track with sevendust called licking cream. Well worth checking out.

[@SketchyMagpie]

Ah so excited you’re reacting to this! I saw them live last week and they were incredible. I’d recommend the song “Selling Jesus”

[@Kratos40595]

Such an underrated band - Skin is amazing 🔥

[@patrickowens4294]

Yes. She is one of the best vocalists ever.

[@whatever9554]

For me this is probably THE voice. Chills everytime, and they have so many amazing songs (Charlie Big Botato, Weak, Hedonism, Secretly, Twisted - Everyday hurts...etc.) Also not only is her voice super intense, but their music has so many other cool and strange things going on. Like those strings in the background, and all those strange sound effects.

[@ronsaltz6391]

They have a lot of great songs! Also check out "Army of me" by Bjork, Skunk Anansie backs her up on it.

[@ct5625]

Skunk Anansie are amazing. And they are still touring. I watched them in Brixton, London, just last month. I go to one of their gigs every time they're touring because I know it's gonna be great. Her voice is phenomenal live. To give you an idea of how underrated they are (even in the UK) Paul Weller (of The Jam) arrived on stage just to sing one song with her. When you have a rock legend like that guy wanting to make a surprise appearance just for one song, at their gig, you know how respected they are. I'm not a patron but I would like to suggest you check out "Secretly", that'll give you an idea of how amazing her voice is and how diverse they are as a band. The video for Secretly is also pretty great :).

[@TheGerminatorQC]

I want to thank you so much, with all your reaction, you make mie discover new very great rock music and i can finally fall in love with my favorite style of music, Rock, Metal, Prog!!!!! you are an essential service!!!

[@ct5625]

Skunk Anansie are one of the best, but if you're looking for more British rock/metal with an interesting twist I'd also suggest Skindred.

[@jsc315]

Loving the editing this episode.

[@mattwilcoxuk]

I miss the 90s music. Only really heard I Can Dream by Skunk Anansie, but you can’t mistake Skin’s voice anywhere.

[@naikjoyx4291]

well.. she sang alongside Pavarotti............... and her singing made him happy

[@Vetis213]

Love skins voice. Played their first album to death when it came out

[@Jaymze9370]

I’ve been trying to plug these guys for ages....to me she is the greatest female vocalist of all time, ridiculously underrated! I mean she sang with Pavarotti!!! Check all their songs pleeeeese!

[@20rileybob]

Every time i listen to Charlie Big Potato, my neighbors do too 🤘🤘

[@veew6890]

Incredible live

[@robmaher42]

You should also look into Weep and Little Baby Swastika, among others.

[@aintnobody3000]

Weep is brilliant - one of my favorites

[@jackskellington9570]

@@aintnobody3000 definitely

[@kevinmoppett4760]

Saw these guys in the 90s in Cambridge in the UK. They were supported by a little up and coming band from the West-country in England called MUSE!!!!!! Best damn gig I've ever been to!!!!😁

[@senselessapologies]

I highly recommend checking out a Skunk Anansie live performance. They are in their 40s ot 50s now but still kick ass! And Skin's voice is still amazing. But the 90s performances are unbelievable!

[@ThomasKnip]

Yep, one of the best videos and one of the best songs I've ever heard. And Skin is just smashing and slashing it with her performance! Thx for the reaction. ^^

[@wickedindividual6619]

This was my first time ever hearing about this band, and I saw this post on Patron. I'm now obsessed with this. Thanks for new music guys! Her voice is so weird, I love it!

[@WolfKain]

❤️✊🤘

[@ncoppens]

Good to see Skunk Anansie again. I love Skin's voice. I was 20 in 1995 and instantly bought the album "Paranoid and Sunburnt". They had several hits in the Netherlands. One of the big ones was Weak, but my absoloute favorite song was Charity.

[@jackskellington9570]

This song song was in a movie too. Hollow man. I couldn't believe it when I saw it last time. I recognized the song where I hadn't seeing the movie many years prior

[@NeonNights80]

Another great vocal performance from Skin can be found on Tony Iommi's 2000 album "Iommi", she handles vocals on a Song called "Meat".

[@ruisantos502]

One of my favourite bands!!! I highly recommend listening to all of their albums, however you can always choose to skip it and jump right to the live acoustic album. Thank you guys for another great reaction video. Much love and respect.

[@pyssy123]

Always liked the band, Nice choice! Have a nice weekend Sistah and Wolf! ❤

[@HalfLifeSistah]

🤗😙💖✊🏾🤘🏻

[@martinabernathy205]

The sweetness of the voice and the saltiness of the band. It's going on my playlist. Great request.

[@HalfLifeSistah]

So glad you enjoyed it!😀💖✊🏾🤘🏻

[@andreaspedersen3952]

I believe she is bisexual. In 1999 I went to visit my brother when he lived in Oslo (Norway), and during this week I also was invited to a friend of his was running a studio and retail on PA and studio equipment. At this time he had an open relationship with Skin who he met at a local festival where they played.

[@richardctaylor79]

I've seen Skunk Anansie three times in concert and festival.... they blew me away every time.... her voice live is outstanding..

[@Vain737]

Deborah and Skunk Anansie has blown me away since early 2000s. She is something else, and every collab she does is an improvement.

[@zookuki]

just found this channel. Watching from a relatively sunny Cape Town 🇿🇦

[@86BlackRider86]

This song I first learned from the hollow man movie and it became my ringtone for many years.

[@countgeekula9143]

Skunk Anansie are brill and Skin is awesome! Hedonism is probably my fave of theirs.

[@finniganmcasscrackin373]

NICE can always coun on you guys to react to music a lot of people don’t know, I freakin love this song

[@xxXCHELLEXXx1]

Skin has such an amazing voice, Skunk Anansie was one of my favourite bands growing up. She's just amazing!

[@EllakGr]

Thank you for the Skunk Anansie reaction and analysis! I bought their debut album ’Paranoid and sunburnt’ in 1995 and I still listen to some of its songs sometimes. The version of the band I’m familiar with started out as a funk and soulinfluenced alternative rock band with a metallic edge. Their singer skin has a really unique voice and precense. If you haven’t them i recommend their earlier songs ’Weak’, ’Charity’ and ’Brazen (Weep)’. Ps I like your stylish dress HalfLifeSistah and for getting really into the music. Skin’s voice definitely is something else :) Ds

[@AkelasanAK]

..one of the most memorable voices... if you haven't yet please check at leas for yourself how she sang with great L. Pavarotti [it's still somewhere on YT]. Maestro really liked her voice ...

[@216trixie]

Dang!!!!

[@MrJordiBaby]

This would be a PERFECT James Bond theme, just sayin'

[@Gouhllit]

skunk anansie are great and if you like this, you will like prolly most of their stuff over the decades that band is around. their 90s stuff is grand and so is their latest albums as well.

[@viniciusribeiro7279]

Last to Know by Three Days Grace, it's a very powerful song with a deep meaning, I love this song

[@Metal_Archaeologist]

One of my wife's favorite bands and one I really dig. Although I was aware of them, I'd never listened to them till the wife played 'em. She made me type that... MY top 3 tunes are Charity, Intellectualise My Blackness, and Selling Jesus. Skin, the lead singer, did a great duet with Lajon and Sevendust with Licking Cream from their album Home. Recently got the Live 25 cd. It's an excellent Live 2 CD set in which Charlie Big Potato kicks it off. Great vocals, lyrics and musicianship. My wife always asks why you don't hear, Skunk, Tracy Chapman, Noisettes on Black Radio Stations??? Anyway, thanks for doing this, and I hope you dig a bit deeper into their catalog. Peace!!! (Wife says check out Her top 3... Little Baby Swastikkka, All In The Name Of Pity and Victim)

[@216trixie]

The mythological Anansi reminds me of the North American Native Coyote.

[@louiegarcia1848]

Yo Strange Days is the SHIT! LOL I didn't know she was an actual act🤘

[@LtSlapnutz]

The voice, the power. Best part, its just as good live.

[@mikestewart2520]

You need to check out the skank heads by them. My fave from them. Killer track.

[@Pickersgill48]

Kevin Bacon’s character listens to this in his car in the film ‘Hollow Man’

[@hayleychable1085]

It’s weird because l was watching something on the telly the other night and she was on it talking. Spooky because I’ve never seen her on the telly apart from music videos. And here you are reacting to her, very fast click for me 😂

[@hellsbunniestv584]

The war paint, in Selling Jesus wasn't a video thing. That's what she wore, at gigs. SA went from a small band in 10994 to massive, festival deadlines in 1996. That is what she wore to gigs. Check out Little Baby SwastiKKKa

[@NotSuitableForMum]

I Just commented you should do this band and you did! My favourite band of all time. They are amazing live so if you ever get a chance to see them please do so. Trust me when i tell you that you will be blown away. I been lucky enough to meet them a couple of times and they are all nice people. Skin is Lovely to talk to but i din't you'd ever want to be on her bad side, lol. I believe this song is about abuse, basically the abuse revealing he control he has over his victim. Charlei isnt the person name as more their persona and how they present themselves. Dark as you say but there's not many subjects they don't tackle. Hope that helps and please check out more of their stuff as they are still making music and touring.

[@kitsugami4987]

Listenin to some Shinedown might be up Sistah's likes too maybe enemy or monsters. All the love 🤘

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

I love this song,especially from the movie Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon Rules

[@diciple9224]

😂😂😂 Strange days, WoW that is a flashback😳😳😳🤭🤭🤭God I'm old, wasn't there another chick in that movie other than Angela Bassett though. I feel there was another reason I watched that movie? I think I only watched it twice. Now I'm thinking of movies like Strangeland, Judgment Night, and Hackers. Awesome movies😂😂😂sorry I'm weird 😜😜😜😜. song is different, sistah definitely got into it, so awesome sauce to that. Nice choice 👍👍👍

[@HalfLifeSistah]

Lol you are adorable!😂🤗😙💖🤷🏾

[@aintnobody3000]

Juliette Lewis absolutely killing a PJ Harvey cover -

[@Li_bruh]

This was such a good reaction and music video. I love skins voice and please react to "Secretly" by Skunk Anansie it's literally one of my favorite songs and I have never seen any reactors in their lane. Much love and keep it up guys.

[@bhurzumii4315]

You really, really NEED to hear Skin singing "You do something to me" (live cover) - it'll destroy you! Her voice is beyond perfection! Edit: I could be wrong but I think I remember reading somewhere that the song is about child abuse. Could be wrong though...

[@aintnobody3000]

Hello - I love this band, you should check out more of their stuff. FYI... Martin = Ace the guitarist-- Richard Lewis = Cass on bass -- you are correct, Mark is on drums. - Deborah Ann Dyer = Skin, the singer/lyricist.. also if you’re getting vibes from the lyrics that they are going into uncomfortable territory, you are on the right track regarding the song meaning.

[@jellybathwater]

I felt that you felt her.

[@andrewcole7149]

He's like the scientist off the fast show. lol

[@tnightwolf]

Watched them live 2 years ago, and not only it was one of the best live performances i've ever watched (if not the best) but i can confirm that Debora Dyer is still, to this day, probably, the best female voice and singer ever in a Rock band.

[@jackskellington9570]

Oh my God yes. Such an awesome band. What a sound and voice. The feeling. I might request brazen from them

[@ivi13]

Skins the best, skunk is tremendous, I went to see Rollins band and skunk anansie in mid 90s NYC..skunk didn’t show,I was pissed never got to see em,thank god for youtube.

[@mangafreak923]

Okay I think you two are ready for TesseracT. Please react to the song Exile, you will fall in love with the vocals and the music.

[@mrcemoss]

You should do some more Skunk Anansie reactions. Skin is a mega talented singer, she's collaborated with many artists including Bjork, Tony Iommi and even sang with Pavarotti. 🤘

[@flickerman68]

As a band they defy all labels.

[@melvinvandegraaf2738]

Mark my words: listen to the song "You'll follow me down". Sistah will cry. Fo sho. :)

[@kevytmelankolia3395]

Maybe the live version with Pavarotti?

[@melvinvandegraaf2738]

@@kevytmelankolia3395 Nah, I prefer the original version. But hey, that's just me.

[@aintnobody3000]

Amazing song

[@vulture3874]

Wolf', I think I can say without any fear of contradiction, that you have definitely landed on your feet.

[@flickerman68]

Skunk Anansie is the band. Skin is the singer.

[@ACR_BOX]

Was that your first musicgasm? I remember mine when this came out... It drove my neighbors mad.

[@HalfLifeSistah]

Haha, no. My first musicgasm was so long ago; I was a child. I have always had an emotional response to music; however, heavy metal music took it to the next level. My first musicgasm from heavy music was Cradle of Filth. Although, I cried to songs from SOAD, Slipknot, Muse and Linkin Park, Cradle of Filth, made me feel something different. Hard to explain. Megadeth "Holy Wars" (which you won't find on youtube anymore, since I hid it xD) was the song that opened me up even more; from that, music just... felt different. :) ♥

[@xxXCHELLEXXx1]

Please do more reactions to Skunk Anansie!!

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

I compare this to "Zombie" by the Cranberries... a really heavy song compared to the band's typical sound, and often the first song a potential fan hears. The fan either falls in love with the band, or rejects the rest of their songs for not sounding like the heavy one. It's unfortunate so many miss out on the great music cause they're only looking for a single sound.

[@warfare73]

Hellos... can you react to Sonique - It Feels So Good

[@hellsbunniestv584]

I used to know Skin, in the 90's. How tall is she? Your monitor should say, 'Actual size.' :P

[@nevillesam8526]

100 WAYS TO BE A GOOD GIRL CLASSIC SKUNK ANANSIE

[@EessaTube]

You really should react to other songs from their catalogue. Weep, Weak, Rise Up, 100 Ways To Be a Good Girl etc.

[@zookuki]

A little tool in there? Oh nonono!

[@hellsbunniestv584]

Not only the first black female to headline Glastonbury but the first black gay lass to headline too!

[@ilesalmo7724]

Try "Carmen Queasy" by Maxim and Skin

[@riffgroove]

I think she fell in love...

[@liviocavedon3438]

Hi guys, next react of nightwish, sleeping sun. (Floor live) Incredible ballad, whrote from tuomas to celebrate the eclipse of 1999

[@Brombit]

Also, Skin is bisexual ;)

[@HalfLifeSistah]

😁😁😍😌😬👍🏾👀💃👭🙃😘🙆🏾🌈🦄💕✊🏾🤘

[@Brombit]

@@HalfLifeSistah Did you just break the record of most different emojis in one comment? 😉

[@HalfLifeSistah]

@@Brombit LOL😂😂

[@black4pienus]

I've been watching tons of react vids on Nightwish and Floor Jansen, and I only subscribed to you. I like that you do some research before making the video and I like you together. You come across to me as opposites attract. Wolf as the thinker and Sistah as the feeler. Great team. And now Skunk Anansie. I listened to that as a teenager. There are way better songs than Charlie Big Potato imo. 'Weak' and 'Brazen' for instance.

[@robertpetre9378]

Skin is extremely progressive.

[@lordbeaski3006]

Hmmmm, got a semi on, what a reaction.

[@ronperlman9438]

Just compare their reactions: they were both listening but only she could "hear" it...

[@steinbjermeland724]

With this progresivnes... Are you talking about no roots ?.

[@joshuad30]

Dear lord this is terrible.......its a shame.

[@ncoppens]

Good to see Skunk Anansie again. I love Skin's voice. I was 20 in 1995 and instantly bought the album "Paranoid and Sunburnt". They had several hits in the Netherlands. One of the big ones was Weak, but my absoloute favorite song was Charity.