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VAST — Lost
Album: Nude
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6.9

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Total ratings: 879









Released: 2004
Length: 3:37
Plays (last 30 days): 0
There's no angels here
Just a sun to light the way
To places where my friends
Turn to strangers

Oh my lover on a long long empty road
Oh sweet lover I got lost

There's no angels here
Just a light to lead the way
There's no innocence
Only stangers

Oh my lover on a long long empty road
Oh sweet lover I got lost

And I
I need to get back home

Oh my lover on a long long empty road
Oh sweet lover I got lost

And I
I need to get back home
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Love it...

Sublime with subtle intensity, I love VAST...
U2 like....
I don't know. 

I prefer the band "Small" on their album "Clothed",  doing the song "Found".  
 CoYoT51 wrote:

Nio, this is niot Bonio.

 
jeez, brutal. pretty unforgiving crowd for typos. sheesh. i thought it was boner.
 ziggytrix wrote:
 seemingly everyone wrote:
something something Bono
 
But to me the guitar sounds more like The Edge than the vocals sound like The Bono.

 
I agree.  That was just a lazy throwaway comment.  Raise the bar, people.
What's Jon Crosby doing these days? Haven't heard anything in ages.
Hmmmmm....
 seemingly everyone wrote:
something something Bono
 
But to me the guitar sounds more like The Edge than the vocals sound like The Bono.
 CoYoT51 wrote:

Nio, this is niot Bonio.

 
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 Poacher wrote:
I am really liking what I hear with Vast. 
Clever and inspiring music - check 
A distinct sound - check
Great band name - check
Great album art - check

9
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Agree with Poacher - check. {#Mrgreen} 

 sajitjacob wrote:
Is that Bonio on vocals?
Sounds good.

 
Nio, this is niot Bonio.
This captured me from the first note; then the lyrics took over; then I thought it was Bono; great song!
Is that Bonio on vocals?
Sounds good.
 Barman wrote:
Thank you very much, RP, for introducing me to this some time ago. I brought it with me in the middle of Africa. And boy, did I feel lost. But somehow, it didn't feel that bad.

 
Wow. Did I really write this?
But somehow, it was true. 
Jon Crosby is such a phenomenal artist -- all of his songs sound such high-quality, I'm surprised he isn't more well-known...but maybe good for us? 
..this song makes me want to get nekkid-!..or maybe it's just the disc title..whatevuh!..8! at the outset..
Enough of this Bono crap....listen to more of Vast and you'll hear Mr Jim Morrison.
That's a good thing to me.
Vast. Lost. Nude. What's not to love about that?!
 Poacher wrote:
I am really liking what I hear with Vast. 
Clever and inspiring music - check 
A distinct sound - check
Great band name - check
Great album art - check

9
 
Agree with Poacher - check. {#Mrgreen}
I am really liking what I hear with Vast. 
Clever and inspiring music - check 
A distinct sound - check
Great band name - check
Great album art - check

9


Is it still nap-time?
 handyrae wrote:
Every single time I hear this song my first reaction is that it's an obscure U2 song that I'm not familiar with and then I think, "Oh wait, it's really that band that sounds just like U2."
 
I'm with Fred on this one: any audible similarity you may find between VAST and U2 must be solidly located between your ears because I can't find it between mine. . . 
 
I know VAST since the very fist album (amazing!) and never thought I would listen on a radio ever.

If I'm not wrong, VAST is a single man band, called Jon Crosby. He is a genious. All my admiration to his sensibility to write a compose songs.

VAST stands for Visual Audio Sensory Theatre.

My recomendations: "Touched" and "Pretty When You Cry", from the first album "V.A.S.T." (1998)

Once again, congratulations to Radio Paradise for broadcast so amazing music.
 handyrae wrote:
Every single time I hear this song my first reaction is that it's an obscure U2 song that I'm not familiar with and then I think, "Oh wait, it's really that band that sounds just like U2."
 
We must have very different  hearing perception, then, because I can't hear any similarity between Vast and St Bonio's MOR has-beens. VAST are a big sound using a range of instruments and sounds, not driven along by some guy whacking a guitar as hard as he can. VAST do have a strong religious influence, evident on the album of theirs that I've got, although whether they're religious or using religious imagery as a metaphor I don't know. In that sense they remind me a lot of Depeche Mode.


Every single time I hear this song my first reaction is that it's an obscure U2 song that I'm not familiar with and then I think, "Oh wait, it's really that band that sounds just like U2."
I think that this is the sound U2 has been trying to go for for their past couple of albums.
 davin wrote:
U22?
 
My thoughts exactly!

Good music!!!
Nice!!
Thank you very much, RP, for introducing me to this some time ago. I brought it with me in the middle of Africa. And boy, did I feel lost. But somehow, it didn't feel that bad.
U22?
Outstanding!
I do like Vast, but I don't think this is one of their better numbers. The background plainsong is out of place, IMO, and the whole sound is a bit too U2. Nice enough, but they can and do do much better. 5 from the Nottingham jury.
joevicc wrote:
We created a special site for discounts on digital downloads of our music. www.buyvastmusic.com is a site we created for people who learn about VAST from RadioParadise or YouTube. We only sell full albums of mp3s delivered as a .zip file. Its our way of saying thanks. So..ummm..thanks!

Awesomesauce. It's been purchased and it's going in the car with me tonight.


 joevicc wrote:
We arranged for NUDE to be on sale as a digital download at Amazon for $3.86 for the whole album.

Please buy through the RadioParadise links!
 

Bought it.  It's absolutely superb.  Thanks a ton!
 trekhead wrote:

i have a hard time understanding how coldplay and U2 are mega hits, and this guy Jon Crosby gets almost no air play on the radio. Thanks RadioParadise for playing more than top 40 and giving talented artists at least one channel to be heard.
 


 joevicc wrote:
We created a special site for discounts on digital downloads of our music.

www.buyvastmusic.com

is a site we created for people who learn about VAST from RadioParadise or YouTube. We only sell full albums of mp3s delivered as a .zip file.

Its our way of saying thanks.

So..ummm..thanks!
 

Thank YOU!

Good stuff.

KUTGW!
Or, you can buy it directly from the band from anywhere in the world at sonicfreight.com.
joevicc wrote:
We arranged for NUDE to be on sale as a digital download at Amazon for $3.86 for the whole album. Please buy through the RadioParadise links!
yeah AMAZON for Americans!
We arranged for NUDE to be on sale as a digital download at Amazon for $3.86 for the whole album. Please buy through the RadioParadise links!
crinky wrote:
Cold Play is pop crap compared to Vast, there is no accounting for taste!!!
We created a special site for discounts on digital downloads of our music. www.buyvastmusic.com is a site we created for people who learn about VAST from RadioParadise or YouTube. We only sell full albums of mp3s delivered as a .zip file. Its our way of saying thanks. So..ummm..thanks!
accordionista wrote:
Coldplay called- they want their grandiose synth chord progressions back...
Thank you RP for introducing me to Vast, this has become on of my favorite CD's. I only wish that is came in surround sound.
Not the usual VAST fare, but nothing special either...
Coldplay called- they want their grandiose synth chord progressions back...
No bono. And really, really good. rubenbeagle wrote:
bono or no bono, this is really good.
Dante_Angelo wrote:
Ok, cutting against the grain i guess, but i really like the song. Vocals are compelling, has a lot of Bono, agreed, but the most interesting stuff goes unsaid. Nice landscapes painted (and i don't necessarily mean the artwork but the music) and nice chorus too...
I am with stupid, too
bono or no bono, this is really good.
daveesh wrote:
i don't get the bono comparisons either.
Me neither. I guess some people clutch at every possible opportunity to express their hatred for U2.
i don't get the bono comparisons either.
This sounds like a a band I heard in a bowling alley lounge....
Er, this guy doesn't sound like Bono.
Ok, cutting against the grain i guess, but i really like the song. Vocals are compelling, has a lot of Bono, agreed, but the most interesting stuff goes unsaid. Nice landscapes painted (and i don't necessarily mean the artwork but the music) and nice chorus too...
I think I don't have to explain why I think this sucks. I don't like this at all.
BKardon wrote:
Who are you and what did you do with Bono?
BKardon wrote:
Who are you and what did you do with Bono?
Yeah...who are you and what did you do with Bono? lolololol
Who are you and what did you do with Bono?
After falling in love with "Music for People", I was pretty disappointed with this album overall. The melodies just do not catch my ear like so many of the songs on MfP did.
The voice reminds me a bit of Grant Lee Phillips.
Interesting, soothing, quite likeable..
snurfer wrote:
From a long time i like Vast...Miss "Pretty when you Cry" and "Free" on RP's air.... More this very good new zealand's stuff please....
Wish I'd said that...
BEAUTIFUL, DEEP & MYSTERIOUS VOICE...... HE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES!
Nah...It's an a guy from California, called Jon Cosby, Still very nice :D
It's Kiwi? Very nice
From a long time i like Vast...Miss "Pretty when you Cry" and "Free" on RP's air.... More this very good new zealand's stuff please....
This song is awesome! The way the music builds is just incredible. Thanks RP.
I thought it was Bono too..... wierd...
hannahbanana wrote:
Hah funny stuff..I thought is was Bono too. enjoyed the song. I would like to hear some more from Vast.
I am glad it is not Bono. Buy the album. It's mainstreamy, but does not disappoint.
JokesandJokesandJokes wrote:
Don't talk about the dead. Sonny sounded nothing like this guy
Hah funny stuff..I thought is was Bono too. enjoyed the song. I would like to hear some more from Vast.
The intro sounds like enigma - myth or enigma - rain forest The vocal sounds like Pete Yorn + Bono
newwavegurly wrote:
Anyone else think the vocals sound a bit like Bono?
Yeah, and he's one of about twenty singers now that sound like Bono. We should start a forum dedicated to that topic alone!
newwavegurly wrote:
Anyone else think the vocals sound a bit like Bono?
Don't talk about the dead. Sonny sounded nothing like this guy
In many songs he does, I never thought so on this one though.
Anyone else think the vocals sound a bit like Bono?