Chris Rea - The Road To Hell (parts 1 & 2)
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2009
- This song is one of my real 'guilty pleasures' so I was saddened not to find a video on CZcams for the full- length album version.
I've used some of the footage from the original video here (made in 1989!), together with other timelapse and driving sequences to make the soundtrack length. There isn't as many shots of Chris Rea this version as there were in the original version... There's unquestionaly something about 80's fashion that can date a perfectly timeless piece of music making it less accessible to younger audiences... And this is an absolute classic! - Hudba
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The proper version ,with the rain/wipers/radio still gives me goosebumps
I love Chris Rea's voice!! WOW, what a great talent
As a kid, the opening part of this song used to seriously scare me.
Up there with Dire Straights " private investigations ". Chris is a genius so underated and unapreciated
Jeremy Bartlett I just cane upon his music today. I was thinking similarly, he’s like mark knopfler meets Tom Waits to me
Suprise he hasnt done any music with knopfler,considering dire straites had a big influence as a guitarist. Maybe the Joke Direrea put them off.😀
We’re appreciating 🙂
My late brother loved this song. I listen to it time to time ja think of him. R.I.P dear brother.
Masterpiece. As a kid, the intro part of this song used to seriously scare me. As an adult , now I know what it means. I think songs that can make you feel different emotions are special. Well done to Chris Area and many other artists.
His Masterpiece !!!!!!!!!!!!!!Love Chris Amazing Vocals,Lyrics,& Guitar !!!!!!!!!
The opening part of this, the radio, wipers and rain has always scared the shit out of me. It's an amazing piece of music though
Will always love this your amazing deep husky voice❤
Chris Rea is great...This song is super great...! 👍...👌
With "The Road To Hell" I experienced the fall of the Iron Curtain as a soldier with the East German Border Army! An eternal memory!
Porter Thomson - You were an East German Border Guard??
the fall of the USSR was a very sad thing.... truly the road to the hell of the 'modern' world :/
All the roads jam up with credit - so true! I will be spending the rest of my life paying off loans, mortgages etc. Loans are money under false pretences, short-term gains for long-term hassle. Don't touch unless essential.
Difficult to think of something better than this.
Chris Rea some boy 🎸🎸🎸
This song is just dynamite. Chris Rea is just a rock legend. Love the longest version of this song. Road To Hell! The guitar playing is just sensational this is or has to be Chris’ greatest hit of all time. What a voice too love it fantastic!
I remember the first time I heard this when it had just been released - I honestly thought I had interference on my radio🙈 Became hooked on Chris after this and still am today. What a talent he is.
This really needs to be played on a good sound system, preferably with a decent subwoofer. It has a terrific bass line.
Hello Chris...!
Very good song
Pure class.
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS VERSION. ON THE ALBUM "THE ROAD TO HELL - PARTS 1 & 2" ARE SEPERATE TRACKS. ON SOME CD & 12" SINGLES PARTS 1 & 2 ARE ONE TRACK. SO, A MILLION TIMES THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS VERSION OF "THE ROAD TO HELL". YOU ROCK!!!!!
One of the greatest songs ever,
Exceptional song
This is brilliant. No need to say anymore.
Nice to have the full version at last. I like the excerpts of old radio stations in various languages during the intro.
Great piece of musical work. When I was a kid, the intro of this song used to really scare me. I had the cassette years ago and the reel got messed up and I heard this song played backwards, it sounded so creepy.
Absolute masterpiece
The truth.
For me this song is a more sublime better than the hotel california
Что трогает хотя бы одну душу - гениально, что трогает всех - классика
3:57 last lyric fades and the lone guitar kicks in ......chills.....
J'adore
Such a very telling piece...Stood still on a Highway...(It reverts to English eventually)
And when played through a top notch Bose system it is just ...............................
We need Dolby Atmos versions of Chris' songs!!!
I travel or rather PARK on the M25 every day, and this is SO TRUE! Didn’t Chris write this about the M25?🤷🏼♂️ The slide intro using the bottleneck is AWESOME!
He prob just said it was about the m25. I however think it was meant to be a bit deeper than that.
A warning for us all
Pure class go
Awesome.
Part 1 of this song is reminiscent of a Stephen King story (or the SKU, for Constant Readers).
Epic
i cant play it the way they do yet lol thx
Ruuhka-aikoja ja ruuhka-suuntia pyritään välttämään. Työt kestävät noin viikon, ja sitten on autoilijoilla taas-.
well said....
Throughout the album there are repeated references to increasing societal dissolution and rising violence, including riots, murder and their irresponsible depiction on television news (You Must Be Evil), and "the perverted fear of violence" on city streets (The Road to Hell (Part 2)), where "it's all gone crazy" amid fears that "someone's gonna get killed out there" (Texas). Rea also targets industrial polluters' destruction of rivers (which "boil" with "poison"), and Thatcherism (which he also criticised on Shamrock Diaries' Steel River), dismissing notions of an "upwardly mobile freeway", or that promises will be delivered on (That's What They Always Say). A sense of suffocating doom suffuses the title track. Rea cries "We gotta get outta here!" (Texas) and "I'm getting out!" (That's What They Always Say), and struggles to find an escape in Texas and Looking for a Rainbow. A prominent theme is the impact all of this is having on his daughter, who was six at the time (You Must Be Evil, Tell Me There's a Heaven).
In an interview for the deluxe edition of the album (2019), Rea said You Must Be Evil was inspired by a journalistic friend of his recounting that a report on someone having been necklaced in riots in South Africa would only make the television news if footage of the horrific event was obtained. "You start to see news as pornography," Rea said. "'If we have something horrible, it's news!'... And I hate it, to this day." He recounts how his daughter saw the television report, and how his father-in-law tried to console her by saying that there is a heaven, which prompted Rea to write the song Tell Me There's a Heaven, which was subsequently used in a 1991 public information film for the NSPCC. Over the years, Texas has been played on classic rock/AOR radio stations in Texas, and is sometimes played as background music before Texas Rangers baseball games at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Daytona is about the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona (Rea races a different model Ferrari), in which he sings about the car metaphorically, with the engine and tyre noise from the car fading out toward the end of the song.
Also instrumentally a masterpiece of sophisticated and mature, absolutely moving slide guitar technique.
(Auf dem gesamten Album finden sich immer wieder Anspielungen auf zunehmende gesellschaftliche Auflösung und zunehmende Gewalt, darunter Unruhen, Mord und deren unverantwortliche Darstellung in den Fernsehnachrichten (You Must Be Evil) sowie „die perverse Angst vor Gewalt“ auf den Straßen der Stadt (The Road to Hell ( Teil 2)), wo „alles verrückt geworden ist“, aus Angst, dass „da draußen jemand getötet wird“ (Texas). Rea nimmt auch die Zerstörung von Flüssen durch industrielle Umweltverschmutzer (die vor „Gift“ „brodeln“) und den Thatcherismus (den er auch in „Steel River“ von Shamrock Diaries kritisierte) ins Visier und weist Vorstellungen einer „aufwärts beweglichen Autobahn“ zurück, oder was dies verspricht (Das sagen sie immer). Ein Gefühl von erstickendem Untergang durchdringt den Titeltrack. Rea schreit: „Wir müssen hier raus!“ (Texas) und „Ich komme raus!“ (Das sagen sie immer) und kämpft darum, in Texas und Looking for a Rainbow einen Ausweg zu finden. Ein herausragendes Thema ist die Auswirkung, die das alles auf seine damals sechsjährige Tochter hat (You Must Be Evil, Tell Me There's a Heaven).
In einem Interview für die Deluxe-Edition des Albums (2019) sagte Rea, `You Must Be Evil` sei von einem Journalistenfreund inspiriert worden, der erzählte, dass ein Bericht über jemanden, der bei Unruhen in Südafrika an einer Halskette gefesselt wurde, nur dann in die Fernsehnachrichten gelangen würde, wenn über dieses schreckliche Ereignis Filmmaterial vorhanden wäre.
„Man fängt an, Nachrichten als Pornografie zu betrachten“, sagte Rea. ,‚Wenn wir etwas Schreckliches haben, dann ist das eine Neuigkeit!‘ …
Und ich hasse es bis heute.“ Er erzählt, wie seine Tochter den Fernsehbericht sah und wie sein Schwiegervater versuchte, sie zu trösten, indem er sagte, dass es einen Himmel gibt, was Rea dazu veranlasste, das Lied `Tell Me There's a Heaven` zu schreiben, das später in einem Film von 1991 als Öffentlicher Informationsfilm für das NSPCC verwendet wurde. Im Laufe der Jahre wurde Texas auf klassischen Rock-/AOR-Radiosendern in Texas gespielt und wird manchmal als Hintergrundmusik vor Baseballspielen der Texas Rangers im Rangers Ballpark in Arlington gespielt. In Daytona geht es um den Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona (Rea fährt ein anderes Ferrari-Modell), in dem er metaphorisch über das Auto singt, wobei das Motor- und Reifengeräusch des Autos gegen Ende des Liedes ausklingt.
Auch instrumental ein Meisterwerk ausgefeilter und gereifter, absolut bewegender `Slide- Gitarrentechnik`.)
80s knew the road to hell 90s bloat did not end well millennium took said road and decade after there was still a war.
New decade began and worst is yet to come.
thanks!
Can anyone else hear Leonard Cohen's 'The Future' in this?
no but YES 🎇 Thanks to you
I can!
Hell Ya
There is a posting on here now which shows the full song and the video which went with it. Featuring Chris's very own Jaguar XJS and there are no gaps at any point. What has happened is that none of Chris Rea's early back catalogue is available for mp3 download any more. Almost like it has been deleted - including both parts of this song. I only managed to get Part 2 in 2010 before this happened and I now wish I hadn't been so short sighted! As far as my own personal 'Road To Hell' goes ... You don't drive upon 'Bipolar Disorder' but it can drive you into some very hellish places and situations. Remember if you have this that you don't have a 'disability' or a 'problem' but you have 'A Fact Of Life' instead that you live / contend / get by with and look after every day. Anyone says otherwise ... Then send them to me for a slap and a sharp 'GET REAL' for being ignorant or uncaring. Many many 'Roads To Hell' are often surrounded by stigmas and the expectations of others. Put yourself in the centre of the equation and say audibly that 'You Do Not Want This or To Be Here' before going for your coping strategies or contacting assistance for the next step. This works for me ... Give it a go sometime :o) :o)
People acting like the whole climate change/pollution thing is new. 'I'm standing by a river but the water doesn't flow
It boils with every poison you can think of..'
This was written decades ago.
And will stand the test of time for decades to come
Lord of images , Are you there ?
Dame of gates, I concur.
yes
Part 1 is really cool I love it, has anyone got any recommendations for similar songs I could look in to? Thanks!
Telegraph Road by Dire Straits.
Nothing To Fear also by Chris himself
Alussa on suomea
työt kestävät noin viikon xD
....... More bad news for you folks on the freeway 😋😋😋
You missed the wiper motor sounds grrr
Not a 3 minute pop song
More bad news !!!
yeah 80's aesthetics are crap