That's an amazing take on both versions - gave me goosebumps, like you nailed it.

Well said

this comment sounds like a retard saying retarded things but they're too retarded to not say retarded words.

i don't remember if i've heard elliot's version but i agree.

Don’t forget the earlier Heatmiser version, which has the youthful optimism of “I’ll get thru this somehow, someday. This is just a tragic bump in the road…”

That's fucked man

I'm sorry. You will collide at some point

I'm so sorry to hear that, But believe me he is in a much better place, and closer to u now then he was before.

so sorry for your loss.. its a beautiful Elliott Smith song originally

I'm unsure of what comes next too. I feel that regardless we will meet them when our time comes. I hope we all meet up someday beyond.

I just discovered Elliot Smith myself and then was like what the hell I've heard this before? And it was this in like 07. Blew my mind. I can't believe how talented he was. Just incredible

Unfortunately for him

it's often suggested that the 'bad dream fucker' might refer to abuse in his past by his stepfather, which makes perfect sense in the remainder of the song.

@@blikjekattenvoer this is 1000 percent about his step father.

just qotsa fer me, this was how i found out about elliott? smith

Same, I just discovered this

​@@dEAthlikEstAticSo, not digging Elliott Smith?

❤❤❤

Daniel • it's perfect

Shit...it's so fucking sad.

GooGuGajoob Its catchy though. I love it. Didn't used to be such a huge fan of this song. Now it's one I my favorite QOTSA songs. Still havent list end to the original somehow though

Find the version Elliot recorded with Heatmeiser. It kicks this version's ass.

Stephen Wik I really like it, and I think the other guys a good musician but I prefer this version. It could just be that I love Josh so much that personal bias is blinding me.

@@Klausinator451 that makes sense. You prolly like music with a lot of songs with a lot of repetition. Not a diss, that's what Queens does a lot. Little Sister, Song For The Dead, Feel Good Hit Of The Summer, all and more have basically the same thing note-wise. For example, Song for the Dead has two notes for the intro (if you wanna count a harmonic as a note then you get one, which isn't musically correct because it's still a frequentey of a note, maybe higher in pitch or flat) Elliott is the opposite, you need to take time and understand the song, because he usually doesn't repeat a lot. I mean he had the verse, chorus, verse structure, but he always added or excluded notes. Josh loves that (No One Knows), so that's why I'm guessing he likes Elliott. Elliott though of chords as puzzle pieces and that's why he ends up with chords that are like make you wonder what the fuck he's doing, and he will just go to the next one, and so on. He made me quit drugs and to play guitar again. Yeah I would shoot up a Mexican 8 Ball of Smack and listen, but it gave me hope and it's awesome.

Amen to that.

Well said, I agree!!

There is a third version of this song, sang by OSI, but it's way different.

Pete Bensen, you are absolutely correct. I rarely click on a link to an ES cover - when I heard Queens did this I waited a while before checking it out because I've always loved Queens, and they don't come close to ES - but with this cover they almost do.

yea I feel a little more of a punk fight on this version too... Elliott is my favorite artist ever but near impossible to listen without going into a bout of depression

seems very plausible. I think the blinking might also refer to remembering or re-experiencing his trauma.

I know too little about the original and this cover, but I know this comment hit me the hardest while listening to this, even if my experiences aren’t nearly the same…

Update: I think I can pinpoint how I feel after listening to both now. The original is like Elliot finally put into words what was wrong growing up. It’s clear, sad, defiant and with some hope that things will get better through booze and suicide. Queens’ version doesn’t offer the same hope. In fact paired with your comment, it felt like it was made when Elliot couldn’t put everything into words. The lyrics yet to be truly heard under their tragic notes as the louder buzzing of instruments plays a constant looping tragedy endlessly. There’s still enough pain and naivety for him to ask ‘why me…?’. My experience with dating a gaslighting sociopath online will be fundamentally different from Elliot’s… but hearing that ‘he seemingly was only abusive to Elliot’ brought those feelings of total looping entrapment flooding back to me. There was nothing Elliot, or I, could do. We only knew this was wrong.

That's where I heard it first just tonight. Can't get this song out of my head now.

the OSI cover of this song is absolutely massive. definitely my favorite version.

Very well said - could not agree more, even if it is 11 years later...geez, where has the time gone?

Danielle Marin You’re telling me, I was 19 when I posted that comment. Just turned 30 last month. Lol

@@RushAnthem69 it's pretty wild you're still using the same KZfaq account!

@@wormxdream I’ll probably use it until I die or the world ends. Whichever comes first. Amazing to think I was 17 when I created it, makes me feel old asf already.

I feel the same. It's quite incredible as it rarely happens, if at all?

It's there now as of 2021. B-side of Sick, Sick, Sick single.

@@IronRevolution I can’t find it :( is it not available in the US

Cásate conmigo

KingThrillgore Did you write this about getting triggered over Trump winning the election? ROFL. Incredible!!

Astronomy Fan Hehehehehe.

why alcoholism?

@@astronomyfan1421 OMG - this is absolutely hilarious. I read this comment and was trying to think of what was happening 3 years ago - I know KZfaq doesn't always nail how long ago a comment was made because I discovered this coming across some of my own old comments. I would never have realized this was pertaining to the 2016 election between Hillary & Trump. What a terrible thought to attach to an amazing song - now I'm afraid I'm going to picture those 2 big ugly heads when I hear this again, dang. Time for this guy to get triggered again in less than 2 months, lmao.

@@MrPlati2 I don't think he wrote this about alcoholism, that is a stretch. He was going through a phase where he was having nightmares and found that alcohol-induced sleep (he was drinking Christian Brothers brand wine) helps you basically pass out and have the kind of sleep where you don't remember your dreams.

nick stephens Not that you are wrong but you could say the same thing about MANY Elliott Smith songs. A really transparent example comes from when a formal intervention was organized by some friends and his management in the late 90s, which yielded "Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands" on the album XO. Also these silly KZfaq comment flame wars about who is a better vocalist or player or writer or whatever are obviously silly (and appear on basically every music related video on KZfaq). Come on, young'uns, it's music. Just enjoy it. Don't take a picture, don't write a dissertation, don't hector someone at a party, just connect with it. As Elliott said once (paraphrasing) "If you like it, there must be something good about it because...well, you like it." QOTSA and Elliott Smith and Heatmiser, etc. are apples and pineapples and beautiful oranges.

true most of his songs are about addiction but the lines of this song like fake concerns are whats are a matter man and you think i ought shake your mother fucking hand i know i'm paraphraing but they really reminding me of they atmosphere of rehabs and meeting or at least what i felt being in those places at least i might be reading to much into it

nick stephens He wasn't even addicted to drugs when he wrote this song. He said himself numerous times that his songs weren't "about" specifically what he was writing about. He enjoyed using symbols for bigger pictures, bigger ideas. You people just want to write every song off as being about drugs, even ones written when he wasn't using.

You people? Who? Did you ever meet Elliott Smith? Have you ever had an addiction problem? Sure, no art is strictly "about" one thing but honestly there's a difference between being open to wider intepretation and being utterly naive. Drugs and addiction are suffused into his songs because they were a part of his life. To suggest otherwise is naive.

Nothing is ever classic coke.

Haywood Jablome appreciate your opinion but I disagree. I don't think there's been a musician like Homme in the last 50+ years at least when it comes to rock

HesperianHorsePower Frank Black

+HesperianHorsePower Jack White r in Homme's level for sure.

There sure are as many opinions as there are people. I think saying that Homme is the best in rock in the last 50+ years is an exaggeration and to OP's comment - I also think the beatles are the most overrated band in history. Agree to disagree.

The boss is god. You'd have to be sick, sick, sick to understand. Blink on and off....god is never reliable (our view of it).

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