Matt Sweeney from Chavez on guitar, brother on bass, Jim White from Dirty Three on drums and Classicly trained andrew wk on piano. WOW. That is an amazing line up.

crazy lineup. fantastic rendition of a great song. oldham has some strangely powerful stage presence.

Jim White...always great

2023 and listening for this great piece of live music

Only Conan has the taste and stones to put an artist like this on his show. There is no way NBC would support this kind of music and BPB's performance without the support of O'Brien.

Kurt Vonnegut described the combined effect of artists across all disciplines to bring about the end of the Vietnam war through their work as that of "dropping a flan from a step ladder". This led him to conclude that the new function of art is let you know you are not alone. Will Oldham works for me...

Holy shit this is a supergroup! Matt Sweeny and the Dirty 3 with BPB! Wow.

You gotta love this guy!... Nobody rocks a bald dome like him!

One of my favourite youtube moments. What a band, the definitive version of this song

Remarkable how much Jim White’s drumming completely influences the sound on anything he plays, whether it’s with Will, Cat Power, or Dirty Three.

A genius is the one most like himself.- Thelonious Monk

Amazing version . I bought Jim White a tequila shot once

this Music touched my heart.never felt so moved by Sound and words. this is the best song playe, yet. my best wishes to bonnie . greetings from Berlin

So out of his element here. An impossible task. Not his best, but him beautifully.

Todo mi amor y respeto a ese gran músico, Will OLdham

I saw that gig at the Spiegeltent too - what an incredible touch the man has. Awesome to see him here with Oldham, Sweeney & co too.

Jim White is so much fun to watch.

Genio, gracias por tu música!

Day after day, moment after moment.. I long for this song.

bonnie 'god' billy

Why doesn't this video have 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 views?

band is paul oldham playing bass, matt sweeney playing guitar, andrew wk playing piano, and jim white playing the drums.

just fantastic music.

Andrew WK on piano!?!? this is so good!!!

Genius.

Got to see White and Mick turner back him at Bard quite a while ago - wasn't my fav. show (Get On Jolly is not one of my favs of Billy's overall), but have loved every other time I;ve seen Oldham - gonna see him in May at the Iron Horse again , woo-hoo. Great video, thanks for posting!

Gotta love BPB. I gotta start staying up later! I would've pooped my pants had I caught this while flippin through channels.

What a line up and a great performance. Would love him and Sweeney to do a follow up to Superwolf. That is one of my favorite WO albums.

!GREAT!

hahah i love Conan, i cant believe i never saw this!!! amazing.

I really like Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, especiallly live! It's funny how he forgets the lines of his song here at 2:05 Oh, this is such a grat song!!

awesome

Increíble versión en directo de una canción propia : " Strange form of life", tan diferente de la versión oficial en disco. Dos cosas llaman la atención. Por el tamaño del escenario y del propio instrumento, el piano no está visualmente muy presente pero es omnipresente en la canción. Oímos y vemos todos los instrumentos en directo pero hay algo que falta, esa desazón es todo un descubrimiento. Y una idea futura. Por otro lado, los coros vocales finales arrítmicos son geniales e hipnóticos. Gracias a la persona que colgó en youtube esta canción, vuelvo a ella periódicamente.

I love you Will, haha

What kind of guitar is Will Oldham playing?

Makes zero sense that this man isn’t selling out stadiums.

ANDREW WK!?

Either conan has a great taste in music or bonnie prince billy can really pull some strings

He's cool

woooooow :)

For some reason he really reminds me of Nick Cave

Fucking Fantastic!!!!!

Sick. Sick. SIck.

Great performence, very different to the album version which is nice. But with a 'tache like that it's pretty impossible to be bad.

@MrBrianojee Well put

so heavy

Okay, BPB is great and all, but the "End of the Show" song always slaps for me. Also neat to see John C Reilly on drums!

lol thats funny keep up the good fight my friend

@Swingfinger Reminds me of Nick Cave also.

His name is Will Oldham.

Does anybody know similar music like this amazing magical version? Thank you!

@schnemaa1 compared to the hellish crap people listen to these days, this song is brilliant.

What kind of guitar is PBP playing? I love the short scale neck.

Is there a way to get this version as an Mp3, its amazing

where is Andrew W.K.? It's hard to tell.

swaying while warbling. yeah. B\

So is the band Will, Andrew WK, Jim White, Paul Oldham and Matt Sweeney?

Paul Oldham's wailing reminded me of Robert Smith, and this is a fantastic performance. Those two comments are not related.

What's the name of this song?

hey rev. did post the same message twice,maybe he shitted himself twice lol.

STRANGIE... t_ t

Strange Form Of Li... Line-Up (Andrew W.T.F. on piano... WTF?)

Dude is deeply strange...

Do you just leave the same comment on all videos, trying to seem deep?

i hate letterman

The worst!!!! Seriously.