fuck yes!

Yess, that’s really true!!

Hell yeah!

I talk about them!

lol, 2,7 Million views = nobody?

Me too! Hauntingly beautiful

The song is about his sister's suicide. 'Will you take me where you're going if you're never coming back'.

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@@unofficialmajima617 i don't know, that was 4 years ago man. I'll delete it

I would. :*

I've had the exact same thing! But with the song Flyswater..

My song of mystery was Bran Van 3000 drinking in L.A. I kind of knew the hook but didn't know the name of the band and for many years couldn't get the song. Oddly I was scrolling through 107.7 the End top 100 of 1998 and ther it was!! Not a bad song, check it out!

Haha, dirtydirk. I am well familiar with the 'van. Who could forget the glee album cover with the deer and rabbit. Got hooked on it after reading review of it in a newspaper back in the day. Couch surfer was one of my favs on that one.

Saddiq Yahya I thought the hook went " now tell me what the hell am I supposed to do, feels like I'm stuck here in L.A, it's like I'm stuck here, feels like I'm stuck here in L.A, it's like I'm stuck here.

Haha cant remember. I really ought to add glee in my spotify account.

The turntable scratching has, really put it in an era.

Very touching

Yeah

Bad ass observation man ❤

Damn...

Because Mark is a beautiful freak. ;)

You've got a beautiful summarization for melancholy there. "Life is funny, but not ha ha funny" (the Eels) is another one.

How was the tour?

I love this song, but it hits different after losing someone you love.

Another one of those pop songs where the lyrics or message is masked behind fun, upbeat music. Great song, lovely lyrics.

He wrote a lot of his songs about his family and his own depression. Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor from the same album is another one about his sister. Most of this album is.

@@Succubus1982 Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor is devastating. Beautiful, but really sad.

J. Ericson, upbeat? This is Melancholy music.

@@jeffcase7827 Yeah it's by far the darkest (and best IMO) album by The Eels, and Beautiful Freak wasn't exactly upbeat. As for songs about Elizabeth on Electro-Shock Blues, there's also Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor, Going to Your Funeral, My Descent into Madness, 3 Speed, Electro-Shock Blues and Climbing to the Moon. Not sure about Hospital Food, that could be about his mother.

What about now?

and now ?

I cannot stop either

Facts

@@romaryasir def facts

That was a very mid 90s thing wasn't it? Wonder whatever happened to that style?

He wrote that album after everyone in his family died. His dad died of heart problems when he was young, and then when he was an adult his mom got cancer and his sister committed suicide. This song is about his sister.

You do realise he's the son of Hugh Everett, dude who came up with the Many Worlds Theory. You know, what Mr Clarke mentioned on Stranger Things?

no its about when he faked his own death in nirvana and how easy it was the world would truly believe any thing its scary really

I agree :)

You didn't name her "Spunky" surely?

Come on… tell us her first name…. please!

Daisy?

@@franohmsford7548 ha!

@@Vikface1978 Daisy 🌼

genius or brilliance - is different, but same - i get it, i know some of the backstory, . There's a book that i started to read but stopped. he did some things and saw others, some good some not, that's as far as i got, or was willing to go, more like.

His dad was also called a nutter

+TerminusEst HaHa.... carrot robot..... maybe if you said 'cloned hybrid carrot' he would have known exactly what you are talking about... :-) I never saw the video before, but I do remember it being played on the radio.

Same. I saw this music clip only once, but it was stuck in my head. I found it via google 2 days ago :-) Frequently I looked for this song in radio, tv and internet but fail. I am living Eastern Europe.

Someone catch me up "weapons grade autistic" became a thing. This is no question.

Honestly, i've had much weirder conversations then this.

TerminusEst “weapons grade autistic” has to be the best thing I’ve seen in the comments section yet

Happy 53 years soon!

59 this year! (Jan 20th, 2024)

Happy 2022 everyone!

and in 2021, and in 2022, and in 2023, and in 2024. Guess what my new year's resolution will be for 2025.

Still here every few years

... difference?

Same. You can feel the pain and grief coming through the notes. A beautifully sad touching tribute to his sister and one of the best depections of grief in music.

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Dork lol

Also, thanks for the incredibly good video. Totally kickass, and even more so with consideration of the context.

If you notice, the vast majority of comments that specify any one particular era's music as being *The Very Bestest Music Ever, Infinitely Superior to EVERYthing That Came Before and EVERYthing That Followed* indicate that The Very Best Era just HAPPENED to coincide with the years that commenter was coming of age. What ARE the odds, I ask you? SO MANY supremely lucky ppl, to happen to have been born at JUST the right moment to grow up when music was At Its Best Ever!

@@smartalek180 nice thought!

Yeah I'm with smartalek180 here, I won't deny that there were some amazing bands from past era's but I will deny that music "stopped being good". In fact, I think 2016 is easily up there with 1967 and 1993 with one of the best years for music. 2016 had some incredible releases, admittedly most of which are hip hop, examples being Atrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown, Run The Jewels 3, We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service by A Tribe Called Quest etc. but even then albums like A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead (alternative rock), 22 A Million by Bon Iver (electronic indie folk), Blackstar by David Bowie (jazz rock), Puberty 2 by Mitski(indie), Malibu by Anderson .Paak (soul/funk/R&B), Teens Of Denial by Car Seat Headrest (indie rock), The Glowing Man by Swans(post-rock), Redbone by Childish Gambino (soul/funk), Bottomless Pit by Death Grips (idk honestly, like industrial sort of hip hop but I never like putting it in the hip hop category), Bonito Generation by Kero Kero Bonito (electropop). All of these albums were landmarks in their genres, and honestly If 1967 didn't have both Beatles and Hendrix releasing 2 albums and if 1993 didn't have Nirvana, Snoop Dogg, Wu Tang, Tool, Tribe Called Quest and Bjork all releasing classic albums I might even make the argument that 2016 has been the best year for music from my perspective with confidence. Stuff like this happens pretty often, people from the generation before you complained about the direction music was going, people did it with the Beatles. Hell, literally Socrates has said “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise." Generalization of the modern age is as old as humankind, I sort of understand why it happens, because even I catch myself complaining about how boring radio music has gotten (kind of funny how I'm remeniscing to Call Me Maybe, a song that was ridiculed at the time, because I do find it an interesting song while what I'm hearing on the radio is just a bunch of whiny semi-R&B artists) but those are mixed in with Charli XCX, The Weeknd, Dominic Fike and truth is: Those will most likely be the ones remembered as opposed to "guy sings about how he messed up the relationship but still loves her No. 4920", same as what happened with the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s etc, which all undeniably had some shitty but popular music that people just ended up forgetting about

Me neither!

+crapparc I feel ya !

I can't believe it... 20 years already. wow. :-(

+crapparc Yep. I already feel like that haha

+crapparc I'm also considered "old" (I'll be 30 in a nearly 1.5 years), and I remember this song being super new and awesome for it's time. Heck, I still listen to it now not only because it's a great song, but also it takes me back to simpler times before I had to actually worry about stuff like rent, bills, other adult stuff.

And now 21...