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I knew a guy in Ireland struggling in problems with disability and depression, who wrote a letter when he was a teenager to Henry , Henry replied with the kindest and most sincere hand written letter to this total stranger on the other side of the world. My guy had it framed in his bedroom. Cannot knock Rollins for that

My young brother has ASpergers and is painfully shy. I encouraged him to get into punk like me. He loved it and started a fanzine but he didnt think anyone would talk to him. I said who would you talk to if you could, number one pick. He said rollins. So I said contact him. Whats the worst that happens he says no. Guess what? Rollins did the interview. Rollins is a moody guy but he is a good guy at heart.

Never stop making these Finn. You can even do 70’s and 80’s

You’re right Finn, we all need to be more like you. Even successful musician/actor/writers need to get on the Finn program to become truly well rounded humans. Maybe, if we all try real hard, we’ll have sponsors paying us to sell their crap like you do!

Gotta give Henry a credit for quitting music in early 00s.

The song Liar talks like a narcissistic psychopath is describing himself, that's Henry's idea I think, and he conveyed it pretty well.

I always found it interesting that “Liar”was a hit, yet one of the more inaccessible songs the Rollins Band had.

No one can cross arms like Henry Rollins back in the days...

Henry Rollins has said many times that he'll do anything for cash. On this video you support a company called Dave; probably a high interest loan company; I'd rather be in a GAP commercial...But the songs not all that great.

You came dangerously close to telling Henry to “pull himself up by his bootstraps” 😆

*_”I Wish” by Skee-Lo samples Bernard Wright’s song “Spinnin’”. The reason it’s so funky is because Marcus Miller played bass on the original song. Marcus is considered to be one of the best bass players to have ever lived._*

I work at Target and was training some new girl one day. Some college kid came in and asked if we sold poncho's and she was offended that he called it a poncho. She then complained to me for 20 minutes about how insensitive it was that he wanted one, but proceeded to call it a drug rug instead of a poncho. I was very confused and never spoke to her again.

eminem showed his lyrical versatility is the first line of his first hit song... like clearly MTV was like you can't ask kids if they like violence on our network... and instead of just bleeping the line he easily changed it to primus and it fits perfectly and doesn't take away from the song at all. Genius ]

Henry Rollins gets unfair treatment here. He's a long way from being an incel-sympathetic misogynist. Liar is a clever little piece of juxtaposition that demonstrates the failings of toxic masculinity - I have seen radical feminists praise that song! Rollins' interviews are interesting and more often than not he comes across as an optimist. According to this video Rollins should be a miserable self-loathing Morrissey clone. Also - If we wish to be in opposition to the objectification of women, it probably isn't the best idea to repeatedly say 'That dude has slayed so many tens'.

90s rap holds up better than most other genre's of music from that era. Wu-Tang, Dre, Nas, Snoop, 2Pac, Cypress Hill, etc. They are still sound great today and are still making great music.

Finn, you crack me up and not always intentionally. I was laughing along with you regards Rollins adverts and then BOOOM!!! "But first lets talk about "insert product" so I can do my own advert" I laughed and laughed at the unintentional hypocrisy...

Let’s be real about songs like Liar, the lyrics are bad but in a fun way. To me songs like this come off as goofy; not serious. If he meant it serious, that’s fine. But my interpretation of the song makes it fun to listen to for me

I always thought My Name Is is a goofy song by design and adding the 90s references will of course turn it a little corny, but for once I do not consider “corny” to have a negative meaning, I’d still bump it every now and then for some quick fun

Oh man I’ve always referred to my aesthetic as “late 90s headshop” but Finn just made me realize it’s actually “loser core” 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤣🤣🤣

Re: Rollins & growth (or lack thereof) - thing is, he did make himself into that guy (biggest transition occurring between Damaged and My War where he totally turned from Henry Garfield into ROLLINS Inc.) As a HUGE former fan myself, that was a total inspiration when I was an unwanted, damaged teenager - that you could make yourself into something more than what your circumstances had dealt you. As an adult, I can see that his approach is blinkered and leads to limited results, but it's better than NOT doing anything, which is the default for the vast majority.

Liar is fantastic, you can't change my mind. It's perfectly weird and very 90s, nothing else like it, and a pretty good jam.

I met Rollins over 30 years ago before a spoken word show that he did in SF and we talked for about 45 minutes. He is very attractive in person and if he had hit on me I would have totally gone for it. Just saying. I agree with you about him. He has been stuck in the same mental state for decades and it's sad. He's not a stupid guy but hanging on to that trauma drags him down.

Darius and his merry band of blowfish hold up weirdly well for such a bland sound. Vedder vocals, vaguely country sounding, evokes mental imagery of 0% APR financing until 1997 on a brand new Ford truck... completely and utterly not my thing, but for some reason, I never skip their songs when they come up on 90s playlists.

Finn's truest hypocrisy is loving gotees on the buttrock bois from the 2000s, but hating it on men from the 90s lmaooo

Barenaked Ladies have a dark, serious side and their first album Gordon is mind-blowing.

I don’t like “One Week” at all, but the mere fact that a goofy ass song like that was fair game for the top of the charts is exactly what makes the 90’s the greatest decade for music, and for life, ever.

That's totally the edited version of My Name Is. If that first "violence" is replaced with "Primus" you got the nerfed version. lol

I recently got to meet Henry Rollins and he was actually super nice. One of the local libraries in my area had him as a speaker and had a book signing after. It was a great free event that was open to the public which is rare now days

The best usage of Liar was on Beavis And Butthead

I like a few Rollins band songs. They were a product of their time. I've heard he slayed women back in the day- Before & after sets. Once he got outta music he's done some really cool stuff. Travels the world, does his brand of spoken word, "comedy." Wrote a book- Acted. Kind of a lone wolf- Especially after al the gnarly things dude went through. Liar holds up to me just fine. Give the guy some slack. He's just eccentric.

"'I spend 30 years writing song about how miserable I am' I think it's unhealthy and it's a terrible message" I agree with you on that. That's why I like your video about Hatebreed makes me appreciate the band even more because there message is essentially "shit sucks sometime but keep your head up and you can overcome it".

I wonder how good this kind of content will hold up two or three decades from now.

As an 11-year-old I loved only wanna be with you by hootie and the blowfish so God damn much that I bought the single on cassette tape and listened to it in my walkman constantly.

I imagine Quinton Tarantino is to blame for the suits being cool aspect of the 90’s

Wait.... Henry Rollins, the voice of Mad Stan on Batman Beyond, was in a band? When did this happen?

I was a big fan of Rollins Band as a kid and still enjoy many of those songs. Weight was a great album, Liar is the outlier on the record. It was 30 years ago, it was a different time and got then alot of notoriety. I know people love to bag on Rollins but there was alot of excellent music he was behind.

Fuckin' LOVE that Ugly Kid Joe song! I think it holds up. :D

I completely forgot how the My Name Is music video perfectly encapsulated the 90s, wow

I'd have to disagree with you on Henry Rollins. If you follow him on social media, you can see that he's definitely become a lighter hearted and more self aware person, and I feel like songs such as "low self opinion", he directly criticizes that loner incel mindset. Plus he talks a lot about growing as a person and ditching that nihilist mentality in his stand up routines.

I think you're taking Henry's lyrics WAY too literally. Do you think he's really singing about himself? lol

The slow fade to a white screen had me laughing so hard.

I swear man everything you say is everything I've ever thought. been in the hard-core scene since I was 13 and now 38. your content takes me back to the good days and then realize they weren't always that great of days in any genre of music lol. keep it up.man.

"I hate rap, but Eminem is cool," has the same energy as "I don't read J.K. Rowling, but I like all her Tweets."

Sounds like you're still mad about Henry not giving you an autograph when you went to one of his spoken word performances in 2003.

As Finn points out.....say what you want about Henry Rollins, he knew how to employ some great musicians to give that sort of funk-meets-Black Sabbath sound. Chris Haskett is a damn good guitarist and both Melvin Gibbs and Andrew Weiss are killer bass players.

Dude Liar was one of my favorite songs of the 90’s. It’s not Cringe whatsoever. The lyrics literally explain a Narcissist Liar. It’s Great

"Liar" is a piece of art, i'm not a big fan of him but he got the energy, the lyrics, the passion. I don't care if in some part of the song says "i'll burn your soul"' I think it's part of the whole that makes the song come together. Take for example all the metal songs that talk about the soul and burning the soul and etc. They mean that they are embarrassing ? He knows about how to be a frontman, he have everything, inlcuided the theatrical faces and movements cos that's why we called the "scene".Btw he never wanted to be a singer and frontman, Black Flag came to him.

We had to do calligraphy art for the school halls in 92. "I hate everything about you" - ugly kid joe. with a great drawing of the tazmanian devil everyone accused me of tracing, which i did not. Didn't win any fans or friends. 😂😂

I think Weight was the Rollins Band best album... so many bangers on that album, especially Civilized and Alien Blueprint.

Ah I've gone down a happy memory rabbit hole of Ugly Kid Joe, still sounds great! When I was at school my dad would sing 'she was a good witch, she was a bad witch, but all I really wanted was a cheese and pickle sandwich' when he was making my lunch :)

Don't underestimate us Canadians, Finn. We love rallying around our music artists that are on the verge of breaking through the American mainstream glass ceiling no matter how cheesy and corny they are. It's just a damn shame that the Barenaked Ladies broke through and not the Tragically Hip.

My Name Is doesn't hold up for the same reason why a lot of rap (especially humorous rap) doesn't hold up. It makes a lot of references to the time it came from. His serious songs definitely hold up and really any rapper that's seen as god tier talks more about serious topics

As someone who has been really into Bodybuilding for years Finn couldn't beat more right about Bodybuilding when it comes to the inscure aspect unfortunately. I mean thats I how discovered both, Bodybuilding and Rock/Metal music the 2 things I love most, so I guess in the end it was for the best lol😆 Bodybuilding actually has alot in common with the rock and roll lifestyle believe it or not. The biggest example probably being that both activities do big paycheck shows a couple of times a year for Bodybuilding that would be competing at The Mr. Olympia, Arnold Classic, NY Pro, or any smaller shows and vise versa for rock and metal musicians.

My Name Is is so different from the rest of the album. It portrayed Eminem as a goofy Beastie Boys-style white boy rapper. Then you listen to the rest of the record and its all gangster stuff and murder fantasies.

Hell yeah the drummer from Hootie was happy! They went from bar band in 5 Points area in Columbia SC, to making videos with Marino and playing Coliseums in like a year and half.

- High My Name is Will be the Rosetta Stone for a future archeologist studying 1990's pop culture. - Bare Naked Ladies and the suits is I'm guessing influenced by the movie Swingers.

The bit about Rollins was so cringe. Chad, incel? Jeez, you have a lot of pre-rolled opinions about the world, don't you? And the rest isn't much more interesting. I really love the "I forgot how 90s this song is" about songs in the nineties part. Such insight.

I love these videos. It gives us a chance to show the masses artist that they would never have heard of otherwise (Henry Rollins, etc). I love this channel. I love revisiting these videos. Do more videos like these. There are tons of one hit wonders and era (90s, 2000s) songs etc that would be good content to review if you ever need content.

I interviewed Rollins for a free alt weekly paper in Boston in the early '00s, ran out of both sides of an 90 minute cassette tape and he was still talking - cool guy, great stories but I had to excuse myself to get back to my office job at Emerson College. Also saw Jello Biafra do a spoken word thing at Emerson in the same era and left 2+ hours after, he was still going...got to see Rollins Band with Keith Morris fronting doing Black Flag songs for a West Memphis Three benefit, that was pretty alright. Eminem is inarguably talented but even at the time I thought a lot of his references would age terribly - "My bum is on your lips" etc, oof. I graduated high school in '96 - thanks for the Ugly Kid Joe reference. I'd also submit Green Jelly "Three Little Pigs," King Missle "Detachable Penis," Jackyl "The Lumberjack" (featuring lead chainsaw). I remember a favorite band poll a teacher took in class my senior year, and the overwhelming response was Hootie & the Blowfish if we're talking about "the real 90s." People like to think that "Nevermind" came out and hair metal etc all went away but I don't remember kids throwing away their cassingles of Warrant's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

I think if you'd have done the Ugly Kid Joe version of "Cat's in the Cradle" it most definitely would have held up. I remember that one from my childhood and just loving every single second 🤗

Just started the video (only seen the Rollins one). Everyone has troubles and trauma. It took me years to get "just okay" after responding a coworker r***d and murdered (in prison), going through a bout with alcoholism and suicidal thoughts (that event isn't the only part of that, but it's a big catalyst). You can let negative experiences define you and ruin your life, or you can accept it for what it is and grow. Terrible things happen, there's no denying that, but letting trauma, etc. drive you into negative thoughts, drug abuse/alcoholism, suicide, and so on does nothing for you. Processing your trauma, your bad childhood, your mental health issues, etc. is a necessity for growth and overcoming those negative experiences.

Eminem would be cancelled instantly if My Name Is came out anytime in the past decade pretty much lol.

"do you like primus?" is the censored version lmfao it's "violence" ...did you really not know?

Skee Lo's "I wish" is still one of my favorite 90's hip hop/rap tracks

I believe in My Name Is Em is actually saying, “Hi kids, do you like violence?” Do you like Primus is from the edited version….I think.

Rollins is talking about being in a relationship with a sociopath

Bevis and Butthead said Liar was cool so that's means it's cool.

My wife and I debated on the Hootie line “the dolphins made me cry” we weren’t sure if they meant the team or the animal. But when we looked up the lyrics “dolphins” isn’t capitalized. So that leads us to believe they mean the animal. Which makes that line hilarious 😂

The real lyric to that em song is "hey kids do you like VIOLENCE". Not primus. Not sure why they changed the lyrics from the album version

Oh man! In '95, Hootie and the Blowfish was everybody's dad's favorite new band. I called it golf rock. Also, I would say Darius was a "soft yarler", like a more mom-friendly version of what you'd hear in 2000s butt-rock bands. Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20 also comes to mind.

I forgot what podcast I was listening to but some comedian used to live near Henry Rollins and said he would see the odd girl leave Rollins' house every once in a while. And I guess he meant odd as in strange because Rollins' virgin energy is too strong to deny.

One Week holds up in my opinion. Listen to it still almost every single day. Defines apart of my childhood. Also goated for being on the Digimon movie soundtrack

Henry Rollins was the Ayn Rand of the 90’s.

My family was driving home one Christmas Night through a little town in Ohio. My Mom and Sister were asleep so my Dad and I were listening to the radio quietly. A song ended and the DJ confidently proclaimed, "...and up next, Hooty And The Blow Shits...Fish...Ohhhh". My Dad and I laughed so loud that my Mom and Sister woke up panicking. We had to explain what happened and they began laughing their asses off. The Radio Station played pure silence for close to 5 minutes. It was one of the funny things I've ever witnessed.

I do think that Barenaked Ladies’ song holds up because it is still being played more than 20 years its release, whereas most mumble rap will be forgotten like a fart in the wind after a few years or months

The first time I saw the "My name is" video, I legit thought it was a joke commercial. I had a bad taste in my mouth for a few weeks until my friend JR who was a big rap fan played me the entire album and I was blown away.

The 90s! What a time to be alive

I didn’t know Henry Rollins did a gap ad

Next 90s video you do should include Kid Rock Bawitdaba, Serial Joe Mistake, Prozzak Strange Disease, Matchbox 20 Bent, B44 Get Down, Len Steal my Sunshine, etc..

I used to love Henry, being on the spectrum and not having the best upbringing I related to him in many ways, but looking back that was teenage me relating to a middle-aged man... dunno it seems like he may have missed a lot of opportunities to grow in a healthier way as opposed to being uptight and stern all the time. Don't know the dude but I completely get what you're saying Finn! P.S. I know a dude who has a very similar intensity to Henry (and a solid physique) and it's amusing to see him not knowing how to talk to all these women who are interested in him

Ha ha yeah calling Darius Rucker Hootie is like when Bravia and Butthead kept calling Phil Anselmo “Pantera” 🤣

There's a Key and Peele sketch where they keep calling Darius Rucker, Hootie. It's hilarious.

11:39 If you can't tell by that strange noise this is the TV / radio edit. The actual lyrics are: "Hi kids. Do you like violence?" There were a couple other changes in the part you played as well. And yes, this song is very 90's.

As huge fan of HR, Personally I would consider Henry Rollins more “try hard” rather than cringe,

I used to be kind of a drug abuser, in the way that I still got through school, but I also just went nuts when I had the chance. This one day on Roskilde Festival 2013, I had been messed up for days, I woke up at about 5 am, got outside in the camp where some people hadn't gone to bed yet, opened a beer, and then literally puked blood, pure blood, nothing else. I tried the entire day to get better, I tried juice, salt, food, and a lot of wine, and I just kept puking. I ended up alone in my tent at night, shaking, sweating, having severe anxiety, and hearing Metallica tear up the Orange Stage in front of all of my friends. I was insanely low. The next day, I felt a little better, and I was determined to go see Henry Rollins spoken word. I managed to keep some rice and chicken down, and I went in the tent. All I knew about him was, that he was in a legendary punk band, that I never listened to, but inspired every band I did listen to, so I was gonna check him out. I sat in that insanely hot tent, sweating pure misery out of my body, almost fainting a couple of times had it not been for people giving me water, but I couldn't leave. The things he said were so motivating, they made me so hopeful, and I left that tent so invigorated that it's impossible to describe. It was an amazing experience, Henry Rollins is nothing short of brilliant, and now, having dug deeper into the man in the years since then, I also think he is an insanely cringe, incel, borderline asshole, who only learned how to be a sufficiently decent human being in his 50's. But because of that one day, I still absolutely love him. What a paradox ..

Hootie & The Blowfish are still LEGEN-DARY down here in the South. My wife & I spent our 10th anniversary in 2015 at a Darius Rucker concert, and it still jams and folks are still into it both young & old.

Why the Vegas style suit aesthetic, Finn...? Three words. Cherry Poppin' Daddies. Don't deny it.

“I don’t know what the spectrum is, but you better get off it pronto”. -Johnny Lawrence

"I dont like rap but I like Eminem." Raysizm

Henry is writing a song about shitty dudes here. I don't think he's an incel or Chad. He is just a healthy level headed guy, Finn.

A video on “conservative core” rappers would be interesting from your perspective finn. Their fans are often times just as bad as the opposing side that they claim to be against. Alot if just comes off as whiny and not sincere. The comment section would blow up as expected 😂😂😂.

I got a "drug rug" when I was in high school but never wore it because it itched to no end.

Yk. I never realized it but Finn does have a point about battle rappers becoming their own artists. I used to love Mac Lethals music when I was a teenager but These days I can definitely look at his music and say that it's objectively bad. Great and talented guy but certainly not a good songwriter.

I love the shout out to the sample for "I wish". RIP Bernard,"Spinnin" is a great track

I've never understood why people praise Gorilla Biscuits so much. They always just sounded like they were trying too hard to sound like Minor Threat to me. CIV is the exact same thing. If you wanted a copy of Set Your Goals in the 90's all you had to do was walk to your nearest pawn shop.

Bro, your gonna get me in trouble with these videos. I cant hold in my laughter. UKJ was my jam back in the day. So bad. So funny. I had to pause and wait till i get home to fi ish watching

The hootie thing was a Key and Peele skit

The NF slander is just uncalled for. 😂 Dude writes some really solid music and tons of his less popular songs have meant a lot to me with things I’ve had going on in my life!

I remember "Liar" from Beavis and Butt-Head 😂