Yeah -- me too. On the way to a night shift in 1992, I heard a 30 minute national radio promo for the album broadcasting out of NYC, and fell in love. Finally, (at the time) someone was making real American rock and roll again! I sat in my car listening ...and was late to my shift!
@@markpetersen8135 Grow WHAT? Smashing Pumpkins, "1979" hit this attitude pretty well, also. Neil Young never grew up either, "Keep on rocking in the free world"!
Hard to believe this masterpiece is going to be 30 years old soon!!! The entire album is a musical work of art with its raw energy! As a person who had a “To hell with everything and everybody” attitude, this album just really resonated with me. Not only Teen Angst (or in my situation, early 20s angst), but such powerhouse tunes like Someday, I See the Light, Mr Wrong, and (Don’t Fuck Me up with) Peace and Love had so much raw energy and emotion to them that sometimes I felt David Lowery knew exactly how I felt at times! And when my blood was pumping from the energy, Cracker brings you down to earth and calms you with the slow paced Dr Bernice. Just brilliant!!! Nearly thirty years later, I’m a far cry from that angry early 20s person. But I still love to blast this CD a couple times a year and enjoy Lowery’s energy and emotion. This album is not just one of the best 90s albums, but one of the best ever.
This was one of the first albums I bought after I really started into to rock as a guy of about 14 or 15. Haha, this was always one of my favorites to just chill out to, and it still holds up today!
There was just as much then as there is now. "Alternative" music was just a marketing scheme. I mean Macy's was selling ugly cardigans and flannel shirts(marketed as grunge-wear) for christsakes & MTV had their Alternative Nation show. It was very much allowed to exist because it generated A LOT of $$$, and us Gen Xers gobbled it up. That's not to say that there wasn't any good music, but there was a lot of tripe thrown in with the good stuff.
43. Born in 1980 as a tail-end Gen X (no way I'm a Millennial), and I still believe in truth, justice,.and the American way. That's what the world needs now. Rock on!
My favorite song of the 90's. Love the line about Frank Sinatra a CLASSIC. When I used to hear this song in my car on the highway I would hit the gas peddle a little harder.
I was born in 68 so I was a kid in the 70s, a teen in the 80s and in my 20s in the 90s. I love the 90s but everything wasn't cool in the 90s....Achy Breaky Heart, The Macarena, Ace of Base, Chumbawamba, wannabe baby deadheads, the return of ugly 70s clothing, JNCO jeans with 50" leg openings, Saggy jeans, jorts, Mullets, bowl cuts, the Caesar haircuts...which was only made worse when wearing Turtlenecks. Every decade has really cool shit and really awful fad driven popular shit.
And the '70s. Saw Little Feat with Lowell George back then. I saw these guys in Madison, Wisconsin around '90ish as Camper Van Beethoven. We always went to concerts tripping our brains out.
This is my favorite music vid of all time. Shot here in the South, and the action is spot on. As an actor and screenwriter myself, you guys nailed this version. The bikes, the trains and the aeroplanes made the difference.
In 1992, it seems like Cracker could already smell what the Teen Spirit was cooking. Both singles were released in the same year (and nominated for the same Grammy). Pretty prophetic considering alternative was just about to bust wide open.
what you fail to realize, is that these guys were out of a box with a sound that was desired by someone else even back then. you reminisce for your youth when things seemed simpler, because you were simpler -- were not so experienced in life, though you thought you knew everything already. if this circus goes on another 20 years, there will be a bunch of 40 year olds yearning for the simple times and raw talent and honesty of justin bieber.
The best years of my life were spent in the grunge era, when it was cool to do your own thing as long as it was in the same way that everyone else was doing it.
Johnny Hickman is one of the greats. Tone for days, hooky melodies, riffs up the wazoo. His entire work with Cracker is fire and he's still doing it, thanks be to god!
The first band I ever exposed to my then Japanese girlfriend, later wife, later ex-wife, was Cracker at Lee's Palace in downtown Toronto. Full circle predictable?
That location was probably used also for some Sparklehorse video ("Someday I WIll Treat You Good", "Hammering the Cramps"). The dog and the motorcycle are the same.
If you were born in 61, then you're a year older than me. I love this song too. What I love about RU-vid is that you can find music that they don't play on the radio. I found another song by the Arctic Monkeys that I love also...called No Romance. I plan to keep rock'n till I'm dead...around 120 or so...LOL!!!
Believe it or not, this song is still played just in a very niche way. A talk radio show called Armstrong and Getty has been using it as one of their standard bumper themes for at least 12 years...that I know about. The melody alone is pretty catchy so I had to look it up, and so I'm here.
These guys and School of Fish Way more credit due. Three Strange Days and this this tune are my favorite rock out tunes. Oh and Santa Monica! We could live beside the ocean!
@@philhelm1318 "This is War," by Steven P. Richards. I play a soldier/father who is killed in action, and how it affects the family I leave behind. It's up here on RU-vid.
I love this video! It is so fun to watch, and the end is just totally awesome. Someone please tell me where this was shot. Looks like Virginia or NC, but definitely Southern Appalachia.
It’s on Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) farm It’s his dog and he’s tooling around on the quad They covered one of Mark’s songs on their Kerosene Hat album R.I.P Mark
Ironically the guy singing, David Lowery, was one of my UGA music business professors, and passed away after an acute case of hole-in-the-head-itis.......He will be missed.....
It’s not the problem of quantity, it’s a problem of quality. We could all use good quality hip hop from intelligent rappers. But there’s too much garbage and money and egos that unfortunately people think is hip hop and is not
I don't know what the world mayneed, But I'm sure as hell that is starts with me. And that's a wisdom, I've laughed at. I don't know what the world may want, But a good stiff drink it surely don't. So I think I'll go and fix myself a tall one. Cause, what the world needs now Is a new kind of tension. Cause the old one just bores me to death. Cause, what the world needs now Is another folk singer Like I need a hole in my head. I don't know what the world may need, But a V8 engine is a good start for me. Think I'll drive to find a place, To be surly. I don't know what the world may want, But some words of wisdom could comfort us. Think I'll leave that up to someone wiser. Cause, what the world needs now Are some true words of wisdom Like La La La La La Cause, what the world needs now Is another folk singer Like I need a hole in my head. I don't know what the world may need, And I never grasped your complexities. I'd be happy just to get your attention. And, I don't know what the world may want, But your long, sweet body lying next To mine could certainly raise my spirits. Cause what the world needs now Is a new Frank Sinatra So I can get you in bed. Cause what the world needs now Is another folk singer Like I need a hole in my head What the world needs now What the world needs now Is another folk singer Like I need a hole in my head What the world needs now What the world needs now Is a new Frank Sinatra So I can get you in bed What the world needs now What the world needs now Is another folk singer Like I need a hole in my head What the world needs now What the world needs now Is another folk singer Like I need a hole in my head
I heard the song for years in HS but I'm not sure I ever saw the video. Now that I don't live where it snows regularly, no one has ever heard of it. Does the 3° setting of the video mean that it only really hit airwaves back in the homeland???
I spent a lot of time listening to songs like this in the 1990s but I don’t ever remember seeing this crazy ass video. What in the heck was that? (Did the biker almost run over the dog or am I seeing things?)
My Band.... Now RIP😢 I wanted to do this Tune.. It was on the list.... WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW! Is a New.....President Cause...... The Old One Bores Me To Death......
