The Beta Band - Assessment (Official Music Video)

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[@markatejones]

One of the most underrated British bands ever!

[@shivabert]

Scottish :)

[@kennyturner583]

Also said by Radiohead & Oasis 👏

[@leej70]

@@shivabert Pretty sure Scotland is part of Britain.

[@spockmandia]

@@leej70 Not if you ask them.

[@leej70]

@@spockmandia Then they would be wrong.

[@talkinggiraffe7790]

I discovered The Beta Band today.. I'm never leaving

[@testcardgirl26]

Its never too late (:

[@Themonkeymartin]

The more the better I say

[@vasilis1963]

I guess you saw High Fideity

[@Themonkeymartin]

Mark Richardson Who? The Beta Band?

[@Themonkeymartin]

then most certainly yes

[@danielgranate2007]

best music video of all time

[@zvonomirzuboronovic8662]

I was just thinking that it surely has a fair claim to that title.

[@colinwilkes8957]

As well as being a fantastic tune!

[@strongtony9412]

damn right pal

[@multipolare]

This song is simply perfect...how can I say? You feel it inside, there's nothing more to say

[@user-yx4wx4oq4g]

i feel so good right now. i love everything

[@stevendenny5667]

I think I cracked my skull on the way down I think I lost my head when I lay down The fear of facts presented in the cold light of day I say the time has come for decision Better steer my boat for a reason Lost the way I went over horizon She went out of sight The girl lost me a lifetime Sometimes I feel, ['m washed up under] Sometimes I feel, [I'm washed up under] I say the time has come for decision Better steer my boat for a reason Lost on the way I went over horizon She went out of sight The girl lost me a lifetime And when I step back from all this I see that I'm fighting I can't help myself, there's no reason for lying Truth and fiction they all become one Help me from the sea to the beach to the laaaaa Sometimes I feel, I'm washed up under baby

[@Dreamskater100]

Thanks.

[@Kainlarsen]

"Truth and fiction, they all become one Help me from the sea, to the beach, to the la-aaaaand" This is how the world feels today. You don't know who or what to believe. One of their best tracks, imo

[@satchelsatchel]

No. It is clear. Believe the facts. Believe in knowledge, education, truth, art, science, love, unity, equality, harmony, inclusion, peace, openness, difference, variation, forgiveness, sharing, acceptance. Beware hatred, fear, ignorance, discrimination, prejudice, judgement, closed minds, closed borders, aggression, war, selfishness, greed, abuse, exploitation, inequality, "freedom" to take advantage of those who have fewer resources or less intelligence or less experience or fewer advantages or worse fortune or smaller stature or less strength or less tradition or less acceptance. If one suffers, all suffer. If one is hungry, all are hungry. If one is cold, all are cold. The advancement of the entire world is not worth the mistreatment of one person.

[@jasonspurs]

The best underrated bandever

[@fantomaeronautics1148]

Just brilliant.

[@Kabukithefox]

how in the hell are there not 5 million views on this video? wtf

[@osufan77]

+Matthew Rampenthal No shit.

[@Shortbrain]

One of my favourite music videos.

[@nickthelick]

LoL! That caveman at the beginning is my old mate Jason... Long time ago now... I remember my friend Charlie telling me about it (and then showing me a few weeks later!). Charlie helped do the makeup for the caveman/men, and probably a few more people too! Can't remember where it was, but I remember them saying it was FUCKING COLD and they're wearing just loin cloths! LoL!

[@kentjl22]

i need this in my every day life

[@wotchatalkinboutwillis4577]

Good to discover this brilliant song again.. don't know who I managed to forget this f***in awesome video!!! Great Band

[@bbtb785]

Wow...what a time capsule of a video.

[@ballsack6547]

Good wee tune , always liked the Beta Band EPs.

[@arunmanivannan9499]

Love this song!

[@georgekaplan4696]

A great song. A great message too

[@dustjunkey]

Finally a good version of this ! Much love for The Beta Band

[@markottewell8897]

Another underrated band

[@jeromealexandre4162]

Yep - this would be their last release as a result :(

[@cyberinsekt7942]

Bonny Scotland. Great epic music just seems to seep out of the old sandstone walls.

[@kevandalzell7906]

Bless this FUCKING band!!!!!!!!

[@kevandalzell7906]

Canada.

[@model_number_band]

First saw BB open for Radiohead a few weeks before 9/11 at Liberty State Park. Mind blown, NASA suits, sick!! Ripe for a reunion!

[@MrFixter80]

I was one of the Tommies in this video great day out down camber sands

[@mibi2999]

That's awesome man... 👍

[@dt6615]

Oh my gosh what a video!!! SuPERB!!!! 🤯👏🙌

[@smellmycheese77]

great video, great tune, great band .. Nice

[@dimsum9994]

Whoever put this song on the scene Thankful..

[@Lupocide]

The bit with the Samurai always gets me lol.

[@yourithecat4385]

Can't. Stop.

[@Dreamskater100]

Sublime.

[@mondegreen9709]

Band, song, video; so underrated. It's unfair.

[@solidifiedmilk571]

cxu vi estas esperantisto? :)

[@mondegreen9709]

@@solidifiedmilk571 Eble... ;)

[@solidifiedmilk571]

@@mondegreen9709 kiel bone! I know some esperanto (thanks to my language loving brother), and thought i recognized la verda stelo! but, seriously, an esperantisto and a beta band fan - i tip my hat to you good sir!

[@Mewzickchannel]

Great stuff guys !!!

[@b3spacecadet]

back to when I was 15

[@andrewm5612]

throwback

[@DaveTerrasidio]

Excellent

[@stoonybridge]

Wow! was uploaded exactly 5 years ago today!

[@s.l.2227]

Right here right now! Right here right now!

[@elissah6873]

Wonderful underrated band!

[@Dreamskater100]

Great video, great song & band.

[@comeonyouyellows]

Musical gold

[@dannyking3060]

I was one of the tommies on this filmed it in a day on camber sands

[@russellben1234]

They tell the truth

[@emilianoortega-guerrero2925]

the soundtrack our lives... rock n roll yeah

[@emilianoortega-guerrero2925]

ALTERNATIVE ROCK AWESOME

[@brucegilchrist5336]

Might as well be the chorus line version of *A Canticle for Liebowitz*. Great video, last hurrah for the BB.

[@steveforest8385]

The history of mankind from the stone age to nuclear apocalypse.

[@victorpons2588]

❤️

[@michaelonell4248]

Lifetiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime

[@raulribeiro888]

great stuff, what a surprise, found them from a unicorn profile

[@DrunkenPostie]

The Knowledge of Conflict.

[@grahamjenkins7488]

Genius

[@clickbaitcabaret8208]

great!!Q

[@yespls4184]

Not going to lie-- i heard this on the OC recently. But this is definitely the kind of music I like

[@saranxdiane]

sameee, i love the OC, definitely one of my fave shows

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

▶🎧▶

[@luiscastro4417]

Great bands disband sooner every year!

[@videodeculto]

this video say the truth

[@matachresis]

The Zulus are the best.

[@PjMeh]

It was the Doughboys, for me.

[@biekgiek]

The Samurais didn't even draw their swords. SoZen

[@peppergod]

Secret of the ooze

[@ajaygiri9746]

[@Bewareofthedog69]

Brilliant vid

[@Itsyrm8]

There should be some cyber ninjas popping out of nowhere too

[@robertpritchard4156]

Love this band ! And what a video that makes you really think about the stupidity of the human " race ".

[@MrRudyfizzle]

2556 views for this. How low is that? Shocking. Beta Band need to reform.

[@jkb1O5]

I like mgmt too

[@romanyharman9250]

106,283 views but broke up because no one bought into them ,,,, nice one

[@deciocavallo7332]

Same guitar riff of U2 "I Will follow"

[@EVERTONFC.]

Boss. On 10 on my bose. Sorry neighbours I'm annoyed.

[@TheFakeyCakeMaker]

Video's deep, bass is bad. How can you not love this song?

[@ethanc4603]

4:32 CRT monitor =)

[@commandere.784]

This VIDEO has a Very "DEEP Concept" Can anyone tell me the meaning behind it !

[@zapproowsdower]

the rod represents the technological progress of man, or more specifically the weapons that man creates. The end of the road is where it becomes nuclear weapons. the general activates it, killing everything. and it ends just as it starts, with man as a primitive.

[@elgostine]

Son of Will thought the historian nut in me wonders why vikings come BEFOE the romans (vikings came 1000 years after) the message still holds up extremely well

[@38Gaucho]

elgostine They were actually much closer together than that if we're talking about the end of the Roman Empire, roughly 300-400 AD period, in relation to the Viking age, from 800-1000 AD. So only about 500 years. And there were Germanic raiders from Denmark attacking Britain while the Romans were still there, although they were not exactly ancestors of the Vikings they were cousins. They would become the English after migrating/invading and displacing the Roman-Celtic British.

[@pessimystica]

Thanks to you guys for actually talking about the song/video instead of the usual YT net fights :-P I'm so oblivious to lyrics that I don't notice the meanings most of the time, but have noticed that a lot of music I like ends up having some deep meaning. Very interesting "assessment"... now I gotta look up the lyrics.

[@goa9034]

This video aged very well...on the way to WWIII

[@MrDalevich]

That's probably a Scottish beach. There's no way that any of them were warm ever again.

[@julianjohnson7908]

Are they carrying the t-virus?

[@ballsack6547]

Maybe the C -virus instead ?

[@Interbasser]

So English... great

[@upyirma.1177]

Scottish actually

[@neeps9596]

Get it right up ye

[@scottfraser7118]

Ha Yeah! Easy mistake 😂

[@davidmccarthy5352]

Behave yersel 😆

[@s.l.2227]

They went from caveman, to medieval, back to Romans??

[@cameracamera4415]

Not a single woman Beta Band?

[@adsomuch]

Great idea of a music video, but I thought it was well done only since starting from the WW1 soldiers. before that, looks a bit too much amateur, not really convincing. And the car tracks in the sand, that's a pity, it draws attention and spoils the quality of the whole, IMHO.

[@jellyroll6008]

yeah, they could have held the camera up higher to distract from it

[@SuperShhitTalk]

this video is trying way to hard to be deep and heady, but it really has no point.

[@werliverpooltralalalala1988]

Drunk Viking Has no point? You look at the world around you today and you're telling me the video has no significance. If anything you've gone a long way to prove how much ignorance plays a pivotal role in 21c society.

[@SuperShhitTalk]

trying too hard. the video and your post.

[@shortyrags]

the point seems obvious. Warring factions and escalation leads to the end. Only for it begin and recycle again. Whether or not you find that deep is a different question. But there's certainly a point.

[@thebillyhunt9216]

It's all so beautiful, what's the point in it all?

[@earthlifecrisis]

C R • you're a waste

[@goa9034]

This video aged very well...on the way to WWIII