If your listening to The Ataris in 2024 you're probably old enough to remember when MTV played music videos 🔥

"Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up" is 100% accurate.

At the age of 39, this song brings a tear to my eye. I miss days like this , and I still haven't got it right!

I first heard the lines "Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up" 15 years ago. Never really knew how true it was until it happened. I still hope to eventually get it right.

This was a nostalgia song for me when I first heard it. I'm about to turn 40. Our generation lived and did the stuff they wrote about. :-)

It’s hard to believe how many emotions flood through you when you are considered grown up when that chorus hits

This song will never stop being relevant, because even as a grown up, you'll never stop growing up, and you can always still make now the best days of your life.

I was 29 when this came out in 2003 but it was one of my faves then and still is to this day. I'm 46 now and have a 17 year old daughter and I always think about how time flies. Where did it go? How did I become an old man? lol

This song is absolutely timeless and rings true for every person in every generation. Time is fleeting. Spread love.

大人になることは、大人になるまでの半分も楽しくない マジで天才だろこの人

久々に聴いた。泣いた。

I was 17 when this song came out. I'm now 37. Twenty years on, when that chorus kicks in it STILL hits me the exact same way.

It’s crazy how the best and worst memories can flood in with just a simple melody from the past! ❤

I listened to this song in year end of 2005 , i was 17 back then , and now i'm now 33. All those sweet memories and heartbreaks i can think of still brings me back here.

I'm 31, I'm gonna cry.

broke as can be and in college with only 300 dollars to our names, I woke up one morning and decided to take my ex and I to a remote place in Nebraska just to see the Milky Way how it was meant to be seen, we drove about 2,000 miles non stop(both ways).. funny story, we didn't make it there before morning.. but what I remember the most is how close we were during that time.. what's even more funny is that she's a total stranger now.. it's crazy what love does to you.. I'm dead inside now, but at least I now know how it feels to be alive.. nothing lasts forever, so follow your heart and never skip the chances to do the things you may never get to do again.. one day your entire life will consist of only memories.. the risks you take are the ones that you'll remember, no matter the outcome

This song, and entire album, has gotten me through some of the toughest times of my life.

This song reminds me of senior year. Class of 2002. Besides having my son, that was the greatest time of my life. I've partied all the way from Cancun to Afghanistan. Nothing beats senior year. Best days of my life.

This entire album is one of my favourite and most listened to in my entire life, I'm 23 now and been listening to it ever since it came out. Can't fault a single song on the album!

I loved the So Long Astoria album, I listened to it on a daily basis when it came out. Those were the best days of my life, my teens... I'm 30 now WTF... time flew!

Over 10 years later and the Ataris still kicks ass. Good music NEVER expires! Love and miss this kind of music.

I can't believe that I am still listening to this song. Reminds me about my high school time. Now I am ready to get married and still going to listen to this amazing song.

Just saw The Ataris Saturday in my hometown Crescent City, CA and it was a wonderful trip down memory lane. Kris still sounds amazing and i love how his story telling between songs just makes the show so much better. This song will always be a tribute to simpler times and will always remain a classic.

I first heard this song from my favourite teacher. He was someone who believed in me way before I started believing in myself. RIP Mr. Gerritson. I miss him every day

I used to listen to this when I was 18 applying for college now I'm just a 26 working class adult! I just can't fight the tears

This song will always remind me of when my son graduated from high school, 2002. These guys were one of his favorite bands. They bring lots of emotion on several different levels.

One of my best friends introduced me to The Ataris 19 years ago. I'm currently writing his Eulogy as I'm listening to this. This song fits him so much. Semper Fidelis, brother.

A part of me wants to cry every time I hear this song.

The whole album make you wanna cry

Whose still listening this 2019? I really love this song.😊

I'm from Brazil and I found this band about 2 or 3 years ago, but their music makes me feel like I know them my whole life. I just love to listen to this album, it's a masterpiece

I remember listening to this when I was in the 7th or 8th grade, walking to the pool at the lodge of my neighborhood with my three best friends. Arm in arm, we sang this out loud to one another. I'm 22 years old now, and this song just reminds me of my early teenage years and how incredibly naive and childish I was. I really wish I could make a time-machine and go back because it's true: being grown-up isn't half as fun as growing up.

Being grown up isnt half as fun as growing up these are the best days of our liiivesss!!

This was THE defining song of my teens.. it brings me such a rush of nostalgia, along with vivid memories of friends I have long since lost contact with... Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up. They were speaking truth there.

Heres the thing everybody, the lyrics still mean the same even in our advanced age....I'm 37 for example, and I'm still growing up. I'll look back at 37 when I'm 50 and think how much more fun/easy it was. Live now, nostalgia will tell you these were the best times in good time.

just saw them last night, and they are still rockin hard

I saw these guys live one of the most underrated bands out

I'm 30 now and this hit me with some overwhelming nostalgia, I love it. ♥😭

This will always be a summer time anthem, for sure. One of the best albums from the decade.

My encounter began in a shop's listening corner, where I put on headphones and hit play on track three. The sensation that ran through my entire body was unforgettable. I was compelled to purchase the CD and could hardly contain my excitement, cracking open the packaging on the train and loading it into my CD walkman, disregarding the stares of those around me. I went on to scour the racks for more albums, eventually buying two copies of the same CD due to overuse. この曲に会えてよかった。

20 years passed so quick and I still listen to this song. :')

I listened to the Ataris and wished high school years would be over. Now in my 30's I listen back and though I still don't wish to be back in high school, I thank this song for getting me through!

GOD I STILL LOVE THIS DAMN SONG! MUSIC WILL NEVER BE THE SAME :(

I was in my 20's when this came out. I am now 46 and I still get the same feeling. When will I grow up? I think I missed the bus or didn't get the memo. All the kids I went to school with are teachers, cops, doctors, or work in the courtroom.

37 now and he was right. Back then the only thing that mattered was following my my heart don’t know if I got it right or not but I do know now what truly matters. Hold this song very close to my heart. Love you guys. This song just came on PlutoTv

Never stop growing up. You grow once, then you're grown forever. Never stop learning, never stop going, never accept that this is how far you go and your best days are behind you.

I discovered this album ten years after its release. And it has become my favorite pop-punk album of all time.

I was 16 when this song was released and thought at the time "I've got years to go before I turn 30." In that time between then and now I've got blasted out of my mind at festivals and gigs, summer drinking outdoors with my mates, winter drinking in pubs with my mates and all sorts of other hijinks. Now I'm 34 with a 3 year old daughter. Life has slowed down a bit compared with the last 15 years or so and I still miss those days but at least I feel like I did it right. A lot of really good memories to look back on.

Being grown up is hard, still trying to get it right and I'm in my 30's. This album was on repeat in my cd changer.

Years fly so fast... I'm old and these days were the best of my life :') miss them a lot! I grew up.

each age has its ups and downs. this is still one of my fave bands. but lately i change lyrics to, "being grown up, it is just as fun as growing up- these are the only days of our lives."

this was our song graduating from high school back in 2005 and still listening and playing it on my guitar on this day.

Kris Roe.... I remember when we were in class back in 7 grade. You always said u would make it. You drumming on the desktop. Those were the days.....!!! 😊

was 12 years old when i first this song. am now 27 and it never gets old. thank you ataris!

One of my favorite bands growing up, saw them live in 2004, what a experience.

Another famous artist from Indiana expressed the same sentiment with the lyrics, “Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone” (John Mellencamp)

Minha música preferida. 🇧🇷

This song "still brings a smile to my face" 🎶✨

Damn this album was such a guilty pleasure

Kris Roe, you made my high school existence suck less! You're right, being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up! Rock on!

Here in this diary I write you visions of my summer It was the best I ever had There were choruses and sing alongs And that unspoken feeling of knowing That right now is all that matters All the nights we stayed up talking Listening to 80's songs And quoting lines from all those movies that we love It still brings a smile to my face I guess when it comes down to it Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up These are the best days of our lives The only thing that matters is just following your heart And eventually you'll finally get it right Breaking into hotel swimming pools And wreaking havoc on our world Hanging out at truck stops Just to pass the time The blacktop singing me to sleep Lighting fireworks in parking lots Illuminate the blackest nights Cherry cokes under this moonlit summer sky 2015 Riverside, it's time to say goodbye Get on the bus, it's time to go Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up These are the best days of our lives The only thing that matters is just following your heart And eventually you'll finally get it right (Get it right) Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up These are the best days of our lives The only thing that matters is just following your heart And eventually you'll finally get it right

Song makes me sad 8[ I miss ages 16-21. Them some wild times right there, so enjoy em they only come round once!

Was 13 when this came out, God I wanna go back so bad.

The thing I like about The Ataris, especially So Long Astoria, is that it seems to really sink into peoples lives. Yes of course mine, but every time I scroll down on comments for videos from the ataris, is that people always say "so many memories with this song," or "I love growing up, this song is my life." I love seeing that! So knowing that when I think of this song 20 years from now, I'm going to have all you guys to salute to memories with! Long live The Ataris and long live our memories!

the whole album is a materpiece, everytime i listen to it, i get so melancolic and happy at the same time :')

saw them live last night for the first time. still just as good and brought back so many memories

I'm 35, I heard this song for the first time in years a few months ago and just stopped what I was doing and had an emotional moment. I had a really weird, unconventional, abusive childhood, and music was one of my only outlets. I used to live in gross motels when I was in high school (mom made really bad decisions), and I have vivid memories of literally hopping the fence to the pool with my cousins at 1am. That southern California teenage era was both the worst and best time of my life. Now I'm married and live in rural Minnesota and haven't seen a motel since I went back to LA to clean out my old storage unit in 2020.

Being 35 now…this song hits in the feels for sure…good times I’m glad I grew up with the music that I did

I got this album in a random care package when I was in the war when I was in my teens. It made feel like I was a kid and being back home. Alpha Co 1-125! 2008!

This song never fails to take me back to 2003 and remember all the great times I had with my friends. This song really does describe my teenage years. Thank you so much for this Ataris.

Im 35 this song makes me remember good ol high school days. No songs from today can compare songs around 2000s Sad in a good way.

I like this song☺️

Still love this song

Enquanto muitos sofrem, eu AMO essa música porque me traz energia oposta! De nostalgia como a música mesmo diz... As memórias do passado que eu tenho TODAS são incríveis e as mais especiais. A vida de adulto não é a coisa mais linda, mas ela também é especial... Mas sim, ahhh nada como a infância/adolescência! 🫶🌹😍

Underrated song 😢 this is a master piece

dude i take it back, being grown up is AMAZING

Can’t believe I stumble upon this gem. Now I’m going to play it 20 times a day. Lol

skating, vandalism, staying up all night long, gigs to gigs, pissdrunk, get high, the more your outfit look weird, the more you look goddamn cool. tbh, those are the best time of my life.

31 años de edad. Remember. sigue viva esta excelente rola, Go! The Ataris. Desde México.

This song deserves more views

The only thing that matters is following your heart...and eventually you'll get it right! How I love this song on so many levels.

Damn this is a sad song..reminds me of my friends and my mom...so many memories in this song! Im from the Philippines and we also did almost everything he said now on our mid 30's...I lost my mom...my friends have there own family here and abroad...playing this song brings back all those good times!

35 years old me listen to this masterpiece. what a song.

About to turn 41...😢 miss those days. I show my 5 kids these bangers now and they can feel the difference betwen this and the new garbage thats being put out.

2022 and im still loving this song, that mean's an excelent moment in my life

We had corny songs on our high school class-song ballot (almost 7 years ago!) and I loved this song so I got my group of friends to make fliers and spread the word to petition this song on the ballot. It worked and the song of course won. We were all tired of that Green Day graduation song! This song was perfect and still brings back so many memories when I hear it.

29, remember seeing these guys 10 years in bakersfield, i wish they'd just put more music out

This song (and album) always brings me back to the summer of 2003, dating "the one that got away" and all the crazy shit my friends and I got away with. That summer really was the best I'd ever had. "Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing old, these are the best days of our lives."

I met Kris Roe tonight, he's a really humble dude!

Who's listening to this in Summer of 2021? Shout out to my older sister Chelsea for showing me these songs!! Time flies.

Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up These are the best days of our lives The only thing that matters is just following your heart And eventually you'll finally get it right....

I’m 34 and I was at a dead end job got married had 2 children whose now 2 and 4. I got an opportunity to work in another country with a massive increase in salary but I had to leave my little family. I took it and now I’m homesick everyday. This song hits different when the right moment comes damn..

This is probably the best coming of age song I've heard it makes me think of the hard spots in life ive been going through and helps alot!!!!

"The only thing that matters is just following your heart and eventually you'll get it right" That line getting me through some shit rn

Holy crap I have fond memories of listening to these guys while hanging with friends down in Lake Havasu, AZ while on spring break in '03. We would lay on the blacktop in the neighborhoods while cranking up this song and looking up at the stars at 2 in the morning. Haha now I'm 26, happily married, and have two kids. It's amazing how fast life goes. I think the problem is that all of us are so eager to look for what is beyond the meadows rather than running towards the meadows to just have fun.

im a metal kid and this is my dirty secret song i love lol

I'm 32, and I still haven't gotten it right. The sad truth is, life may never allow you to get it right.

The only thing that matters is just following your heart and eventually you'll finally get it right. Took 19 whole years... But I did it. Thanx Atari's!!!

I saw this band play an acoustic set when I was like 15. Was surreal & layed back, I won't ever forget it.

the childhood album..miss this sound