YouTube is bristling with hidden gems, and it’s recently dropped us an undiscovered moment of pure musical gold: the moment a crowd of pub patrons burst into song, delivering a side-splitting rendition of Savage Garden’s “Truly, Madly, Deeply.”
This 1.9 million-times-viewed clip has resurfaced to reach a new generation of listeners. Music Man readers can watch the performance in the video below…
And, just in case you can’t remember the original version of this song too clearly, you can revisit Savage Garden’s 1997 hit in the official music video further down this page.
The differences are absolutely wild. Savage Garden’s US #1 captures that classic, cheesy boy band sound that seemed all but inescapable back in the late ‘90s; an aesthetic which the pub patrons utterly gut from their own rendition.
This pub rendition all begins with one patron singing a line in a thick, cockney accent, soon joined by his mate who fleshes out the song’s impact like a football chant taking over a stadium.
Before long, the entire packed pub has burst into song; some serving the main lyrics, others backing the lead ‘singers’ with a series of ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs,’ with all of the men getting a little too excited as they hit the word ‘faithful,’ raising their pints into the air.
But, as the unlikely choir hits the first chorus, the true magic of this clip erupts. While none of the men are pro singers, their voices weave together into a pitch-perfect moment, delivering some of the most surprisingly wholesome energy you’ll feel today!
A moment of pure community spirit unfolds as the group comes together in song, with everyone joining in the chorus.
After 15 years of this clip hovering around on YouTube, fans are only just coming to terms with how epic this pub cover is. As one viewer joked, “And they say England doesn’t have a culture…”, and another called it a “harmonic masterpiece,” yet another yearned, “Can we get these lads together for a 15 year reunion and run it back? Bloody brilliant stuff even today.”