the MODERN LOVERS "Government Center" 1972

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video for the song 'Government Center'
by the Modern Lovers
Jonathan Richman, Jerry Harrison, Ernie Brooks, and David Robinson
originally recorded 1972,
released on Beserkley records 1976.

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@joshphillips1526 Жыл бұрын

American dad brought me here I've listened to this song twenty times this week

@coloredgentleman Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure if I want to work for you…Erastus

@edwardjone218 6 ай бұрын

American dad brought me here to lol!

@pepepantuflas1 5 ай бұрын

This song turned me into a C.I.A agent

@andyramone3882 4 ай бұрын

Same here bruh!!

@CHESSZILLA Ай бұрын

The band is amazing though listen to lesbian bar and hospital shit I can’t even remember

@philbailey2330 Жыл бұрын

AMERICAN DAD BROUGHT ME HERE!!!

@yoelwasserman6066 7 жыл бұрын

This is my driving to work on Monday morning song, and I work at a government office.

@loriellison7663 10 жыл бұрын

Jonathon Richman is a genius.

@thebetbetunderground9548 8 жыл бұрын

I fuckin' love this song! One of the best two-minute bits of pure rock genius. And this is fuckin' '72 man. It's way ahead of its time, too.

@johnstewart7025 6 жыл бұрын

I agree, but it also reminds me of songs by The Who ("Who Sell Out") or The Kinks ("Well Respected Man")

@kelechi_77 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnstewart7025 Reminds me of The Kinks Tin Soldier Man with that guitar/bass and I can hear The Who Sell Out sound a lot in this

@Alsatiagent Жыл бұрын

@@kelechi_77 It is predated by Iggy Pop and Velvet Underground. They are all over this album.

@doogindoogin61 Жыл бұрын

Fuq yeah

@pepepantuflas1 7 ай бұрын

If u told me this was made today I'd believe you

@funktron4 2 жыл бұрын

You had one of these guys join the Cars and another one join the Talking Heads. And Jonathan continued being Jonathan. The influence he had on 80s and 90s music was astounding.

@hirepimike Жыл бұрын

I like that we can hear Velvets and Talking Heads in many of their songs.

@summerof67 4 ай бұрын

I can hear a little of the Cars in this song

@gssheriff7278 5 жыл бұрын

So underrated band, big influence on punk and new wave.

@kelseymariel2127 Жыл бұрын

I never realized how lucky we were growing up in the Boston area until I looked back on this stuff. I love the old footage of Boston and I’ll miss it when I’m gone.

@1800allyoucaneat 7 жыл бұрын

Happy Administrative Professionals Day today! Shout out to all the hard-working secretaries, receptionists, and administrative support personnel making that office environment magic happen.

@paulsouth1338 7 жыл бұрын

One of the happiest songs I've ever heard

@perryiampietro5785 8 ай бұрын

Lotta great desks & chairs there!

@girljuice Жыл бұрын

Thank you American Dad ♥

@Cwnidog 8 жыл бұрын

The soundtrack of my youth on WBCN.

@BenCulture 8 жыл бұрын

+John Leonard -- I can only imagine hearing the Modern Lovers (or even Jonathan Richman solo) on FM radio. I wish I'd been alive during the era of disc jockeys choosing their own playlist. Wasn't WBCN the station that started playing the Cars's demo tape before they even had a deal? Sounds like a magical time to me!

@perverseosmosis9799 3 ай бұрын

Incredible material that crosses a lot of genres (as shown in the comments). My blackened thrash band loves it so much, we covered it. Keep on listening, all you modern lovers out there.

@sir.public Жыл бұрын

Wow hard to believe that just 15 years ago this song could have been released and fit right in with the whole indie rock scene of the late 2000s, could have probably even charted. However, the song itself is from 1972 and was recorded in 1973!

@ajamelio3338 7 ай бұрын

Yea it’s crazy that this is more than 2 decades before the strokes

@sCulturefan 5 күн бұрын

Modern Lovers, the original “dance band of the highways”

@bretterin11 Жыл бұрын

wow...1972!

@rekocastren923 8 ай бұрын

All good when The Modern Lovers is on the radio

@Lol_Pig 11 ай бұрын

Discovered this band in a Joseph Finder book, "Buried Secrets" Not my cup of tea, but I love discovering things I might've otherwise missed.

@kaewonf8 11 жыл бұрын

It's a shame the Lovers never really achieved celebrity, JR has such an infectious personality, and his songs are so alternately silly and urbane.

@InfiniteRhombus 4 жыл бұрын

spotify played a bunch of modern lovers songs for me one day in my car and i was blown away by all of it, even moreso when i found out this shit was from 72

@mj.l 4 жыл бұрын

celebrity is overrated. richman's catalogue couldn't be better with all the money and attention in the world.

@johndotcue 3 жыл бұрын

He would have hated it if he got super famous. He seemed more okay with being low key.

@gc5907 Жыл бұрын

That's because J.R. is super weird and his music is portrayed in a comical way. He is lJr. A Tiny Tim jr.

@thursoberwick1948 Жыл бұрын

Bowie and the Sex Pistols covered them.

@RIASSL888 6 жыл бұрын

makes me feel better!

@beatakozlowski 6 жыл бұрын

god, I love Jonathan Richman

@tchamp77 9 жыл бұрын

I always wanted to know what Mr. Ahearn looked like.

@2n2equals5 8 жыл бұрын

+tchamp77 he looks a lot calmer than i expected

@timwenburg3393 7 жыл бұрын

tchamp77 Herb Voland, legendary character actor.

@1thepner 6 жыл бұрын

FINALLY! Some film footage of Johnathon Richman. By the way, now (April 2018) this song was featured in an episode of the weekly tv show, "A.P. Bio."

@evanwolf6618 11 ай бұрын

Is that some kind of a Telethon for John ??

@DefffYT Жыл бұрын

American dad, season 19 C:

@Flyingjos 10 жыл бұрын

Yeaaahhhh....Thank you man for this...It seems there are about 1.000 JR &ML songs hahaha...i'm collecting all of them...

@deepdivegaming6127 9 жыл бұрын

love it

@hirepimike 2 жыл бұрын

Inspired. Mr Ahern still dancing

@phil2268 2 жыл бұрын

I got to meet him and hang out with him one night after his show in 1976. Great talent and this is one of my favorite songs. He's quite a character in a vegan way.

@coreyray5785 5 ай бұрын

American dad brought me here also....it was the last time that feature worked on my shit ass phone 😅

@BM-vi5hk 7 жыл бұрын

Listen to this song and you will know were the Cars got their sound 5 years later...

@HawgWyld2 6 жыл бұрын

True, and the drummer wound up in the Cars. Not coincidental, then.

@stevelacroix2626 5 жыл бұрын

or the clean

@simplypodly 2 жыл бұрын

Early talking heads too had a similar sound

@BM-vi5hk 2 жыл бұрын

@@simplypodly Jerry Harrison was the Modern lovers' organist

@Drumguitarman 6 жыл бұрын

Greatness

@dougsmith7083 4 жыл бұрын

Almost expect JR to give a "second verse, same as the first" shout out here...definitely a CARS influence...IMO Ramones cribbed here too

@MattAttack54 11 жыл бұрын

Classic Proto Punk !!

@lloydaneroticlifecuratedby7306 6 жыл бұрын

Whoever gave the 👎🏻needs to reassess their life before contributing to anymore comment sections

@diegoneyraruiz4349 7 жыл бұрын

MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER

@gsixties 7 жыл бұрын

OUT OF SIGHT!

@jeffreywhitelaw3809 Жыл бұрын

Yes

@TheDenman47 11 ай бұрын

Luv

@paulwallis2495 9 ай бұрын

Got here from American Dad; You are here S18 ep15

@coloredgentleman Жыл бұрын

He looks like the band leader from “There’s Something About Mary”

@darylcumming7119 4 жыл бұрын

👍

@vanessawanderlingh7408 2 жыл бұрын

Is this about government center in Boston? Haha I love it. The only other JR song was I was “dancing at the lesbian bar”. His music is fun

@HardcoreJesus100 Жыл бұрын

I fucking love American Dad and I can’t get this song out of my… but I don’t mind it

@165Dash 2 жыл бұрын

LOL…in 1972 “the secretaries” probably would have preferred Tom Jones and instead got nerdy garage-rock savant Jonathan Richman. Who knows is he actually managed to make them “feel better”. Great song! A classic!

@sureiguess1 Жыл бұрын

Mr. Javitz's indominable spirit??

@Tundigirl 8 жыл бұрын

make the secretaries feel better when they put the stamps on the ... letter...

@robothunter1035 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and back then you had to lick them.

@scharlesworth93 5 жыл бұрын

Ledger?

@steveconrad8857 3 жыл бұрын

Write it out in the ledger

@funktron4 2 жыл бұрын

@@scharlesworth93 BOTH! He covered both in the same song, LOL. Genius.

@yournamehere1886 2 жыл бұрын

@@robothunter1035 No, they've had those moist sponges in a little packet for the longest time, lol! Put the stamp on the sponge, and "put the stamps on the... Letter!"...

@StephenWitharose Жыл бұрын

Anybody seen Mr. Javitz?

@pepepantuflas1 5 ай бұрын

He out looking for a hook store for the mall

@StephenWitharose 5 ай бұрын

@@pepepantuflas1Niiiiiccccee! Took a year but someone finally caught my drift. 👍👽👍

@benjaminrollison4929 5 ай бұрын

American Dad brought me here.

@BooBoe 7 жыл бұрын

Sean Spicer sent me here.

@lloydaneroticlifecuratedby7306 7 жыл бұрын

BooBoe same here. Must be in the shitegeist

@Atomicsuplex 5 жыл бұрын

Never heard this raw version, what is it from? I only have the cleaner sounding version from the chartbusters compilation.

@mj.l 4 жыл бұрын

it's a demo that wasn't released until many years later

@phil2268 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the one off The Modern Lovers album.

@sCulturefan 5 күн бұрын

This version was on the late 1980s Rhino reissue of the Modern Lovers demos released originally on Beserkeley Records in 1976

@getoffmywifi969 Жыл бұрын

Lol. I think the Blue Line still has the same trains 😂

@jean-louisberlatier3433 4 жыл бұрын

Jonathan is Buddy Holly's son

@satansearwax5374 4 жыл бұрын

Hey wasn’t that General Clayton ..... ??

@aaroncone6778 3 жыл бұрын

It was!

@noodlam 3 жыл бұрын

A dictaphone!

@thenobullshtchannel8768 Жыл бұрын

BoMb was here from - the PiSs ☠️

@thenobullshtchannel8768 Жыл бұрын

Hi BoMb it’s me 8 months later again with this silly song

@thenobullshtchannel8768 Ай бұрын

Hi me 1 year ago, I’m still post Covid

@BenCulture 10 жыл бұрын

They say the whole Modern Lovers is made of recordings intended only to be demos, not the final versions. This song is fucking great, but you can hear that Jonathan's voice is going "into the red" -- too much gain, causing distortion. Surely not intended for final release when they recorded it! I love the echo on his voice, though. Considering he barely even allows reverb on his voice these days, it's a novelty to hear this song.

@natetheguitarkid 9 жыл бұрын

Ben Culture Actually its delay on the vocals (which is basically a form of reverb), ive been playing with reverb for awhile trying to get this kind of effect and just realized today its delay lol, tried it on one of my vocal tracks to be sure.

@tsvtsvtsv 7 жыл бұрын

Um? Sounds pretty intentional to me...

@scharlesworth93 5 жыл бұрын

still sounds great

@johndotcue 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure Richman didn't like these releases, he might have looked for clearer sounds, but I love how messy and noisy it is. It adds more to the fun.

@exploringmind7648 Жыл бұрын

the garage sound on this is one of it's charms. "in the red" is a good place to be.