Richard Ashcroft - The Drugs Don't Work (Live on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky)
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- Richard Ashcroft performs a stripped-back version of The Verve's The Drugs Don't Work, live on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky on Virgin Radio UK.
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100% live... no miming, no backing track, no cr*ppy vocal autotune.... HUGE Respect!
Exactly pure live
lol bold of you to assume those vocals aren't filtered. they sound great. but that's a highly filtered vocal.
Interesting Geoff...I'd assume some EQ, Compressor (to take out the high end hissy stuff), and a smidge of reverb... I can't hear much else to be honest but you obviously know your stuff @@Geoff-pi3pb
i would be very surprised to learn that among the dozen or so filters it passes through, an autotune isn't one of them. even if 10% auto tune - still auto tune - i'd argue an SM57 running directly into a monitor would sound wildly different than what we get here, and that's not a bad thing@@BobHoopClassic
❤
one of the greatest songs of the 20th century.
Hearing it for the first time today.
27 years ago..when I was in university..
Amen!
This is one of the best songs ever written. Richard Ashcroft is always amazing to listen to.
I think the expressions on the faces of the other musicians in the room tells you that this is one hell of a performance.
Mate this is real shit, RA underrated af. This song is the purest of pain
What a voice, doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, top class musician
Because he puts on this horrific American accent when he sings.
Clearly one of a kind voice! Beautiful.
Was he not voted the best singer in the world a while ago?
I think he does it for the right reasons, never took to much spotlight and came back to it in his prime
Legend
Urban Hymns in it's entirety is just a masterpiece.
Nicely put
One of the greatest and most complete albums of the last 30 years.
Sad the RS earnt most out of it
James Edwards It really is. Stunning album.
Top 5 of all time
I'm 84 and I listen to this every night before my bed in case I die in my sleep.
🙏🏻
You still living Stewie?
Hey Stuart how you’re doing?
If you’re listening to this song you have a long way to go my friend……
@@georgematkin2658 I am indeed my young gentleman
My brother knew the drugs don't work he stopped taking them telling me to tell no one ,motor neurone disease took him a year later RIP bro this was our song.
man. love to you bro.
So sorry
The drugs certainly do not work. 8 years clean & sober!
That's good bro. The drugs and drink aren't worth it. Setbacks
Good for you 👍🏻
good to see your sober..
Proud of you brother!
Well done Brandon,massive achievement 👏work it coz your worth it 👍
Oasis used to open up for 'The Verve' let's not forget that Richard Ashcroft is a fucking legend and one of the best singers in the world.
I went to watch Oasis at Earls Court in 97, just after the release of Be Here Now. The Verve supported them that night and absolutely blew Oasis out of the water! One of the finest live performances I've ever seen from Richard Ashcroft that night
Amen to that..... Timeless.... And you haven't got to be in a pub load of pissed up lads to sing along..... Proper, heartfelt.
The pain in the voice is pure. Love the new song, bring on the lucie
Damn straight ,mate !
@@MrSteviethom ,WOW wish I'd been there !
I Like to see the red hair singer, totally happy to be there! we can feel it!
This song came out as my Mum (only 52 years old ) had been given just a few months to live as cancer ravaged her body and brain, the drugs didn't work and 26 years later I still can't hear this song without crying but this version particularly brings it all home, just superb
Tocante ...
Paix amour bonheur soyez béni au nom de Jésus de Nazareth le Christ rédempteur Amen amen amen.
she lives through you mate ❤
My sincere condolences - but what a wonderful way to bring back the essential memories. I use this song for its angst and positivity to clear my kind of dark thoughts of loss. It's a way to get the demons out into the open. Grieving is good as long as it doesn't take over your life. As you say, superb version.
@@stephenmonaghan6030 thank you and sorry for your losses too, i'm at the age my mum was now and my Father has also passed having spent the last 5 years of his life in a care home with Lewy body dementia, that was actually worse than my mum as he just wasted away over time, however I am actually a positive person because i have a lovely family including two grandchildren which make me laugh and have fun, the circle of life eh, so like you say grieve temember but don't let it take you down.
Who else is watching this about to turn 40? Time flies hey, take me back 😔
54 - operation 3 days ago - lights went out , I’m back !
i was 40 yesterday lol .........sigh
The music and memories will get us through brothers and sisters 🥰
@@gmcintyre15 amen to that 😜
42 but hey... Who's counting?
This is insane.
I have listened to this song for over 20years, and I cannot believe this version stirs up the same feelings in me like I'm listening to it for the first time again.
+1
TheMingsee best version I ever heard tbh and I followed these since I can remember 30 years now
My favourite method of time travel
You ain't lying
It happens the same to me when listening to this song . Probably I will never get sick and tired of listening to it.
Holy crap, this is an absolute masterpiece.
Probably the only singer capable of recording a whole album in one take. The man is simply perfection. The best in my lifetime.
Kurt cobain
@@pattyleonard9807 come on
Liam galagher. Jamesarthur .pink
@@alessandrocomin2659 👌 🆗️ ok
The Beatles did please please me I one day
Such an underrated songwriter, singer and performer. His music is from the soul.
Simon thinks everyone should be auto tuned.
Not underrated by people who actually know good music, especially other musicians. I saw him in Boston with Liam, brilliant show.
@@cwills1985 Simon wouldn't know it if it crawled up his ass and had a hootenanny .
Ha ha there's always one to jump on the such an underrated singer song writer etc bandwagon.. 😂..
I don't think Richard is a great songwriter, the songs he did on The Verve (and solo as well) aren't that beautiful or inspired as I used to think. But, his perfomances are absolute soul and passion. That's for sure.
His voice is like perfectly aged smooth whisky on a cold winter night. Amazing.
Perfect description sir x
Beautifully put
I got arrested for drink driving after listening to him in the car.
His voice is deeper. Só cool to listen to
All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down, my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm coming down
And I hope you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
But I know I'm on a losing streak
As I pass down by your street
And if you wanna show, then just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
'Cause baby, oh
If heaven falls, I'm coming too
Just like you said
If you leave my life, I'm better off dead
All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down, my Lord
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm coming down
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
'Cause baby, oh
If heaven falls, I'm coming too
Just like you said
If you leave my life, I'm better off dead
But if you wanna show
Then just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again, oh, Lord
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again, oh, Lord
I'm never coming down now, I'm never coming down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more
RIP Andy...
Thank you.
Terima kasih orang baik
Surely, one of the best male vocalists of all time
Totally agree ❤❤❤
Let's not get carried away..
top notch songwriter and performer i would say ,hits a nerve with the lyrics for the commoner ..
LOL.
@@duds1916 who else sounds this good? I've always said his voice is like the hit from heroin.. so smooth end enjoyable
Jesus, he is singing this better than he did 20 years ago.
He is sounding amazing!! Superb vocal!
"Jesus".... Yes, he'll judge you one day for blasphemy my brother.
@@GraftedOliveBranch stunning and brave
I haven’t heard Jesus’s version tbf mate, but I’d say this takes some beating.
Saw him live in Athens at Release Festival two.summers ago. Many Greeks actually didn't think to go or didn't really care. After the gig, it was talked about for days. He was amazing live and it was really great to see him performing better than the last time I saw him at V2000. He was simply brilliant.
Was lucky enough to be a teenager in the 90’s, love this song.
Born in 80, happy as hell to know the music in our time and slightly before is and will be the best generations of it ever.
Me too... Nothing comes close now...
Ditto
I was lucky enough to be in my 50s in the 90s and I loved this music, as I still do.
Being surrounded by the 90s zeitgeist as a kid gets more and more special each year.
It's that line "just let me know and I'll sing in your ear again" that gets me every time.
Pure perfection, a true musician. I feel privileged to have heard this.
Played this at my sisters funeral she died of leaukemia bless her the drugs didn't work ,loved this song always but now so much more...
Bless xx
Bless x
That sucks, sorry mate. Wishes to your sister.
Sorry for ya loss.. This is an amazing song..
Wow, sending you love..💓💓💓💓
Man, I f*cking loved the 90s.
E,s
I still mourn them...
Wow,thought it was just me,!!!!
2019 is dire.
@Anthony Fisher Know what you mean mate,I am more late 80,s early 90,s
Happy days eh?
I sing this in memory for my grandad and my mum, both died of cancer, the drugs don't work but I know I'll see their faces again 💔😭 they always loved it when I sang, so I always think of them when I sing the line "I'll sing in your ear again" miss them so much. Oh and also, erm Richard ashcroft, what a 🙌 legend!
🥺
❤️❤️❤️
hope you're doing okay mate x
Sure u will do. 😌
Going through this now with my dad, so awful.
A masterpiece performed by a legend.
The sound engineer did an amazing job with this mix. Richard's voice is simply amazing. Glad to hear he finally get the royalties for Bittersweet Symphony...
Yeah 20 years later after the stones squeezed every penny out of it. The joke is that they didn’t even compose the piece, but that’s another story
That was all down to Allen Klein their manager, being a greedy so and so. I’m pretty sure if he wasn’t around and instructing The Stones of what to do, they’d have signed over the rights to the song back to Ashcroft much earlier than they did.
He lives in my borough. I saw him in the street about 18 months ago and I was staring cos he looked familiar but I couldn't place him. He saw me staring and smiled and then I realised who he was. I smiled back. Hes aged very well.
@Lemon Grass richmond upon thames
@Lemon Grass yes I know it. I saw him near Tesco, george st, richmond, parking his car near the flower stall.
@Lemon Grass in the centre of Richmond, near santander bank is where I saw him.
Haha very interesting. I wish I saw him 😪 he is my favourite artist cause his songs are just describing my feelings and me totally - Bittersweet Symphony my favourite song forever.
@@jovanas5099 his voice melts my heart
Possibly one of the best performance I’ve ever seen
I can't stop watching this!
Completely satisfying at every level, and Richard singing his voice is better now than when he sang this 20 years ago
This production is superb!
If this was the last tune I heard , I’d be happy.
What a voice!!! Now I got why Chris Martin said about Richard: the best singer in the world!
Never in doubt. Seen Ashcroft live a few times and gets better with age. Last year he supported Liam Gallagher and blew him away in Dublin.
Not sure how I landed here, but Mr Ashcroft has a new fan. This is a fucking gem of a performance
The only song that can make me cry. If you've lost a loved one to an illness then it's impossible not to relate to this. Sending out a virtual hug to everyone who has. Keep strong ❤
He wrote this song for his father died by illness
Thanks, Bobby.....Have a beautiful life......😺😺😺
Totally agree mate, well said
5 years today that my dad has passed away and I'm listening to this song... I means so much. Total respect to Richard for sharing his pain through this lyrics...
@@irenepfister7610my daddy has been gone for 27 years on Aug 28th. Doesn’t seem possible 😢
To all my Doomer brothers from the late 90s to early 2000s. Hope you are all well and living your best lives.
Peace and love brothers and sisters
Thanks man
Very sweet. Doing alright over here.
Very nice, you speak to my heart, best wishes from Germany.. :)
All good Brother
He sings like no one else is around, therapeutic for him and everyone listening. Simply beautiful!
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Definatley
Even the guy downstairs from me loves this
Im 65 and hes 100 yrs old goes to show we're never too old to appreciate the finest music has
This is surely it
Jenny, Guernsey 🇬🇬 ♥❤
That’s beautiful to hear. Our spirits are eternal they know no age.
Shine on…
@@bugiggy01 Thank-you Listened to my favourite playlist with this on 3 times ,getting out of bed this morning
Also Radiohead ,Creep ,hey I'm an odd Granny
Hoping to get my Guitar and amp back from Police very soon 🥴🙄😱
Richard singing this song just actually makes me cry. And think of my parents and now how they’re both gone. A phenomenal creation. Thanks guys. ❤💕❤️💕❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Paix amour et bonheur pour vous soyez béni
One love@@rossmartin8263
I think this is better thn the studio version
Fantastic
Totally agree
Fantastic song! I think the line, “like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown” is so powerful a description of feeling helpless.
Andrew, I thought that exact same thing, what a way of putting it.
It’s about having cancer
@@jungle5507 his mum dying of the disease and the drugs making her more ill.
Big Daz I didn’t know it was his mum. Even more heart breaking
Big Daz it’s actually about his father in law dying of cancer. He saw him as a father figure to him
Simply brilliant. The UK knows about him, and those in the know across the world do too, but this guy is, for me, the most underrated singer and writer of songs in the world.
Man. What. A. Voice.
Every so often there's a song that punches you in the gut, leaves you emotionally exhausted. This is such a song.
He made this song for his father
factss!
This is Ashcroft at his best so so good I am learning this on the guitar at the moment bring it on
This is Ashcroft at his best I am learning this on the guitar at the moment so so good
But that raw emotion, that unleashing of the pain and tears when it does punch you in the guts... That emotion is so pure and addictive. Just like the drugs. (yes I know the song isn't actually about drugs).
He 'Feels' the songs more now he's older... These were all great versions. One of the best albums of the last 30 years IMO.
Agree Chris...it is rightfully UP THERE.
He always sang it with a lot of emotion, it's about his father dying. He just sings it with more experience and perspective now. One of the best songs ever written.
Velvet stuff. Boss man status here - this is an incredibly moving song sung not by a person but by a soul.
50 years old here listening this 4 days off a new decade. ✌️
Sensational stuff, his voice has matured like a fine wine.
What a difference to the pish we hear every day on radio etc🇬🇧🏴🙏🙏🙏😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋
What an era for music, I started the nineties as a 15 year old Mancunian and ended the decade in my mid twenties. Through that time (in no particular order) i enjoyed acid house, old skool raves, nirvana, Madchester, oasis, the verve etc. wow how lucky I was.
Wow, his voice has matured beautifully. Maybe the drugs do work?
Drugs work very well my friend
Probably wouldn't of written it without them.
AFAIK, Richard Ashcroft has never used drugs himself. If my memory serves me accurately, Richard wrote this song in reaction to friends of his dying from drug use.
@@daveadams8828 The rasp probably comes from Richard Ashcroft being a longtime smoker. That's all.
SallyTheSeahorse pretty sure there’s a clip of him dropping a bag of gear on Soccer AM?
**WARNING** ONLY WATCH IF YOU WANT GOOSEBUMPS
Or tears
Must have been a UK thing.
But the Verve Pipe is ok.
@@Toe3de or both
true
You said it. The minute he opened his mouth the hairs on my neck stood up.
One of the best performances I’ve ever watched. Just bloody amazing 👏
Sweet Lord… this took me back a few years….when times were the best
What a performance... Wow. He sounds as good as 25 years ago.
My heart goes out to the fellow peeps on here cos they miss their parent. Richard ashcroft perfectly describes the horror of seeing a parent going through cancer and not being able to do anything to stop it. When all hope is lost its crushing. I sang this song to my dad and held his hand. I hope more than anything i see him again.
On point, your correct. i'm still suffering 20 years later, i thought thing's got easier but i guess not :-(
One of my favourite male vocalist. What a voice!
It’s a fucking disgrace that this guy isn’t as highly regarded, mainstream-wise, as others in his field, but maybe that’s a good thing - those that know, know…
@@obsolise8063 he said he wouldnt swap one of his songs for coldplays whole career...he's doing well and he's happy :)
This guy is real God
@@obsolise8063he isnt looking for the fame. He is real
hits me harder now than it did half a lifetime ago
I was 16 when this song came out. It touched me so deeply back then, and it still does! I am so grateful to have been alive for songs and performances like this! 💜💜
This man voice is unique.
Just discovered this version... omg. Absolutely brilliant. The lyrics. His voice. Goosebumbs
People in the comments saying he is criminally underrated ...He never was and never will be ...Rule Britannia
Ridiculously talented, under rated, brilliance... I’ll be listening to this in 30 years time and still finding his voice incredible ..
What a song
How the fuck is he under rated? Seriously.
A good voice doesn't ever sound not good. Sure the sound quality is bad on some recordings from the 30s/40's but you can still hear how good the singing is
Was around when he made the scene...be 20+ years now...Glad to hear you'll still be listening, but don't call someone under-rated because you just heard of them.
xzysyndrome - cheers for the reply.. But sorry mate, ashcroft and the verve were a big part of my musical upbringing when I was a teenager. I just always felt like he/they never got as much attention as oasis or others at the same time.
Anyway, Imo guys a legend. Was simply sharing a thought.
I will be right there with you Awesome song Got a ticket for playing it too loud on my car stereo The neighbours dont like it on my guitar with the amp on rock the walls volume Im only 62 They need to get used to it And Creep and Gangstas paradise Jenny 😘😀
Probably the best version of this song, ever. So glad Richard got the rights back. And what a time to grow up the 90s were.
As a middle age man now, all these songs have so much more meaning; Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Shed Seven, Verve... Damn. What a great time to be alive.
He never lost the rights to this song you doofus- it was bittersweet symphony you’re confusing it with.
@@thomasedmundrichards 😂
Phenomenal, his voice has actually got better after all these years. Can't help think of my grandparents whenever I hear this song, most of them died after horrid battles with cancer of one form or another. I have only two vivid memories of my dad's dad, one of which is seeing him in his bed hooked up to breathing apparatus, too weak to move, and even as a kid I could see the suffering in his face. I was older when my mum's parents passed a few years apart, both of them suffered terribly and it was so awful to see not only their health declining but their will to live. The song is right, the drugs don't work, they prolong the suffering. One of my favourite.songs.of all time but it always put me in such a rubbish mood after 😅 fuck cancer.
It's not just nasty drugs it's so called helpful drugs too my brother had this song at his funeral antidepressants didn't work they were worse he ended his life x
He signed my guitar, same model he's playing. What a legend!
that's pretty cool but you are also an annoying prick 😆
What kind and what is the tuning that he has it?
Sure.
Gibson J200 sounds like it’s normal tuning .
'And baby ooooohhh'- melts me 20 years later
Totally agree love that bit
The music drops a little and 15 secs of hairs standing on end
Best version I've ever heard of this song. I can certainly relate to the lyrics as well.
If you ever lost a loved one, this song is one of the deepest ever
As soon as he hit the first word.....HOME.
WOW....his vocal is mighty.
This takes me right back to my high school days arguing with my pal who is better Oasis or the Verve 13 years later he passed away and this was played laying him to rest RIP Alan my good friend.
Ashcroft has got such a great strumming style.
This is the song that made me appreciate music again,stopped listening as it was painful,took a long time to realise there is no joy without pain,oh Lord ❤️
Richard Ashcroft needs so much more recognition, what an absoutle legend them lyrics hit you right in feels 😥
No he doesn’t ... he only needs recognition from the right ones !!!
remember, only few can see what they hear !!!
@@Sxtnstn well said my friend 💚
Eternal love for this song and the decade, the 90’s, what a time to be alive! Quality music, unbelievable memories.
ages like a fine wine doesn't he
Damon Minchella playing the bass too... always loved this song and he still sings it great...
Awesome version of this spectacularly beautiful timeless classic!!!! This song always gets to me... Always touches my heart...
In the starting days of global pandemia of coronavirus,the persons i think about are the nurses and doctors in Spain and Italy... love u guys...keep on!.....A scrub nurse from Greece!
Well said my friend there doing a grand job some tidy we nurses were i am keeps me up 😄🙏
My Grandma died of cancer when this album came out, its nearly 25 years later and this song still makes me cry, brilliant song
One of the greatest songwriters of our generation. 90s kids will know this...
Shame the verve couldn't do more but suppose that's the beauty of the band..
Their sum is greater than the parts.
It's SO GOOD to hear Richard Ashcroft singing live... he's sounding great.
Glad to see he never lost his soul.
I lost mine for a while, but I'm slowly getting it back.
this is real music. It's like I can observe the aura of him, I can assure you that the boy is pure. Pure like his lyrics, pure like his beautiful music. Can you perceive? In a world of deception and wickedness, where even music no longer has value, it is only produced for careerism, this boy has always made music in an authentic and non-conformist way, reaching the point of touching the soul strings of anyone who has listened to him. Precisely because he himself is a true soul. He is an Azzurra blue soul. These are the angels that God sends to earth, thanks Richard. Yes, you're right, drugs don't work, say it loudly, let it reach young people!
Could listen to this all day so glad i grew up in the 90s this generation is rubbish
Modern life is rubbish.
Vastly underrated singer & songwriter. We in the UK must have some of the best singers and songwriters in the world.
I know this song is about his mother that was dying, and now i just realised the lyrics " the drugs don't work, they just make YOU worse, but i know i'll see your face again" is about the pills that keeps her alive
About his father*
This is one of the best mixed things I have ever heard in my life. Good job sound engineers jesus christ
One of the best indie voices and bands ….. ever …. Huge respect mr Richard Ashcroft ❤🤩 amazing then and still amazing now!!
What a voice, what a beautiful flawless performance! This gave me goosebumps! Just incredible.
Honestly this song brings me to tears, so glad I grew with music that makes you feel like this. I miss the 90s so hard.
Cor that sounds so good, the good old days, miss em
simply love this song, and richard's voice is so perfect here ♡
Cannot believe how well he’s still singing this, ridiculously brilliant.
What a voice! Note perfect from start to finish.
He has gotten better as he has gotten older.
Pure Genius
Unbelievable isn't he? Legend
Captain rock! Along with Paul Weller and Ian Brown, Ashcroft is one of the most influential and respected musicians of our generation and his legacy will live on forever.
You can tell how great this is just by watching all of the people in the room. They are so into it, and so am I. ☺️
Wud like to be into you
2020 just turned 50..fkn love this song.. Times hurrying on... 🇬🇧❤️
That line "times hurrying on" just made me well up and i have no idea why.
Vya2 boang ikaw tune
Looking good for 50 honey fancy a bottle of wine and a nice meal on me 😘
@@calrobbo2713 😂 god loves a tryer
@@charliegriffiths7990 🤭 got to try matey u never know lol