I even remember the first time hearing this masterpiece on the radio sitting in my car. I was stunned by it meticulous production, being a musician myself. Mixed with the self deprecating lyrics it shines on in history as one of greatest songs of the 80s, maybe ever!
This is such a beautiful song. Weirdly, I go through phases of listening to it obsessively and then forgetting it exists completely. I'm always struck by how fresh it sounds though, even now
This band, this song, and their style are the proof that a certain decade doesn't end or start with numbers. This is a mid-nineties song made at the end of the eighties.
Yeah I thought it was a 90s song until they featured it on Vh1 100 greatest one hit wonders of the 80s. She seems and sounds like a 90s girl like Jewel, Alanis Morrisette or Lisa Loeb.
Only young people think this. If you were around when it came out then it's late 80s. I would never mistake this as a mid 90s song because I had the cassette when it came out. Millennials. Lol
@frontliner2 yeah. Like Starbucks coffee shop, windows 95, browsing on the cd rom encyclopedia kind of music. What's the frequency Kenneth by R.E.M gives me a similar vibe.
+RySenkari She was one of the pioneers of what, for lack of a better term, became known as simply "chick music" or "chick rock." Melissa Etheridge, Lisa Loeb, Tori Amos, Alanis Morrisette, Sarah McLachlan, Brenda Khan, were all among those starting that whole thing (oh, and DEF! Suzanne Vega--don't want to leave her out, or even The Breeders for that matter, though they were group oriented, not so much just a chick on an acoustic guitar, or a piano). I could name another 20 probably that belong in that same group of women who paved the way for far, FAR less talented women to break into the business, but yeah... Edie is/was amazing!
+Art Scott Though they call it that it sounds good and look at the band, it is mostly men except for Edie as the lead singer. The music actually has a good melody that can help someone forget other songs they don't like. It is always nice to know of a few catchy songs to help rid your mind of crappy ones that never get out of your head.
+RySenkari Alternative music of this ilk was alive and well in the mid to late 80s and certainly ahead of it's time. R.E.M and 10,000 Maniacs were also revolutionary.... and definitely don't sound 80's. Best part is the timelessness.
Oh yeah, just happened to listen it on the radio and had to find out who this was by. Couldn´t believe it was this old. My teenage years, too! great song, great lyrics!
@@SysPoppythat claim is lame AF. These musicians were real musicians and not performers. Used to have bootlegs of the band playing clubs/bars under another name, or so it was told. All that and covering some intricate Grateful Dead material before they had any interactions. Too bad she married Paul Simon and basically vanished while truly talent free singers hogged the spotlight.
I heard Edie got on stage for an open mic one night in her hometown of Dallas and she brought the house down. She wound up in a band and the rest is history
A superb 80s one hit wonder 👏 Released back in very late '88 November 1988 Still sounds good today in July 2024 as it did when it was released almost 36 years ago 😀
Yes I remember because a Hip-Hop group called the Brand Nubians sampled it and it made me buy the cassette. A classic indeed. Circle is still something that opens my eyes when I hear her lyrical artistry. She should take a bow
Come on Gen X ! Get off the Geritol. Better days are ahead. Speak for yourself but I’m not going quietly into that dark night. I’m going to skid sideways into the box and leave this body a dried up husk! Forge on X. My little circle of friends had such high hopes for Edie, then she married Paul and disappeared. My 18 old self had such a crush on her🌹Every song on that first album was good. Rare!
@@jyellowhammer true but "hits" are almost entirely fabricated by the music industry. The highs and lows of a band are usually all about how much of a push the record companies wanted to give them at the time.
Impressive. It's like they time traveled, peeked into the 90's and then went back. With this song, they anticipated musical style, look, attitude. Absolutely incredible!
Except this was released around the same time that Costello's 'Spike' and Sugar Cubes' 'Life's Too Good' were. At the time it was all just lumped together as "Alternative" but yhe "90's" as people know them now we're *already* here in the late 80's.
They not only peeked into the nineties (true comment), they peek into human soul ? I think.... Love the name of the band. Thanks Edie & Crew. . .Still Loving ya 😘💗✌️🌍🌏💘
I thought this song was from the 90s for my entire life. It was definitely ahead of it's time by a few years and maybe even helped shape the coming sound of 90s alternative.
@@uuajck1624 @Uuajck I'm inclined to disagree. The 1990s saw a move towards deeper, more artistic popular music. This song sounds more like popular 90s artists such as Fiona Apple, 4 Non Blondes, Sarah McLachlan, or Paula Cole than it does like 80s acts Debbie Gibson, Bananarama, or the Go-Go's.
No doubt. I remember this song when it came out and it was way ahead of its time. It didn’t fit in the 80s pop, new wave, 80s industrial dark wave, it was its own sound.
I'm familiar with a lot of 80's and 90's songs but somehow I only just heard (or noticed) this song for the first time today. It sounded like a mid-late 90's style song but am surprised to see it was actually made in 88. Definitely ahead of its time and still sounds good today.
This spoke to my artsy fartsy self in my Junior year of high school when I was lost in the world of Theatre. We did so many shows a year I often joke and call who we were "East Noble Repertory Theatre" instead of East Noble High School Theatre. I miss those days and long for a way back in to that world.
I remember this band 1988 I was 17 can't believe that long ago I'm 50 now and I still love this song my daughter was listening to this song I laughed so hard I told her I was 17 when I heard this she looked at me and said you grow up in a great time of music when music was cool and it was real yes I did daughter yes I did
I hear you brother 50 in October is a bit hard to get into when im still interested in living and busy just trying to keep up with everything and everyone = i aint got time to be 50 dang it ! Great song , I didn't realize it was from the eighties - it has a nineties feel to it so props to em for pushing a new sound . Also you get the award for coolest name - after hearing that a thousand times you already know .
76 years old here. That voice in 1988 was sexxxxyyyyy. It took the song for me to purchase here album shooting rubber bands at the stars. Was totally different but smooth. Glad someone posted it out here today. Thank you.
I only know 2 tracks off it but i remember it was a big thing at the time. Both tunes i know, this and circle are certainly both great tunes@LiamGoodison
What the. I never would’ve thought to check the year… I distinctly remember this being played like a new single like around 92-94. Just blew my mind a little with this. What’s next, Tom’s Diner isn’t an early/mid 90s hit either?! Get outta here.
Also aphex twin and autechre were also active at this time and their music was light years ahead of this. And how is this any more ahead of its time than sweet dreams by the eurythmics from years earlier?
@@Darrenski sweet dreams SOUNDS like an 80s song. It was perfect for its time. as for aphex twin, I agree, a lot of music he made was ahead of its time. idk about autechre though.
This song foreshadowed the 90’s. Edie was ahead of her time with this album. This and circle sounded like 90’s songs. From 1988. What a time to be alive.
Edie had a voice like no other and I had a crush on her big time. I have almost all of her material on disc. Guess I will have to go and reacquaint myself with Edie...
My dads birthday today. My mom passed away when I was 17. I am now 25. He just told me her favorite music so this is what I'm listening to.. 12:31 a.m. October 6th, 2019.
Music Is Life Simple. I was in a Coma back in February 2023 and my Family was be there every day and apparently I kept moving to this track and my Sister told them and they said Don’t Get Your Hopes up it’s probably involuntarily Movements but they bought me out of it and here I Am Now. I had an Accident Suffered A Bleed On My Brain And Was In The Coma For 2 Months People. Just Wanted To Share That With You. And that’s “WHAT I AM”.
@@whitehorse1959I fell down a flight of stairs in a block of flats late at night and I was lying unconscious for 10 hours and an old lady emptying her rubbish out in the morning found me and called the Ambulance. Thanks ❤
She had a music video in Microsoft Plus! 98. Do you remember this one? Good Times..... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iqL1BLzn3qc.html
They went way beyond the nineties. There are still so many bands today that seem to base their stage presence off of this video. For nearly 25 years now this song has sounded like it could have been released yesterday!
Yes, its an 80's song with a 90's zeitgeist, decades seem to blend into each other and overlap, like disco didn't die out until 82 but the murmurs of what was to be the 80's sound were happening back in 78. So too with the 80's, it's influence was meandering until it received its dead blow in late 91 from Nirvana.
Picked up a girl hitchhiking at 3 AM in the morning in Southdale Winnipeg in 1986. Her boyfriend just kicked her out of the car she said. I drove her home which was about twenty minutes away in St Norbert. This song came on and we both just listened to it. I hope she remembers me every time she hears this song because I surely remember her when I do.
@@hardluck8732 Maybe I was wrong on the exact dates. I moved to Banff from Winnipeg in 1988 I still have the bus ticket. Trust me it was a long time ago and I honestly thought it was 1986. Looking into this I see you are correct. I moved to Banff 1988 and was driving a ford Comet. I picked her up in a 1974 Celica which I eventually crashed and wrote off. . So my dates were off but trust me this is a true story it is hard to remeber exact dates 35 years ago. All I remember was she was super cute and she didnt want a ride at first then softened up, and accepted the ride . When we arrived at her house at about 3AM he rmother thanked me and said I was a good person. To this day all I remember was she was so hot young and very nice. never saw her ever again.
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@@gwendolenyoung4198 I know. I specifically said that this song was a few years ahead of its time, because to me, this song and videoclip APPEAR LIKE they are from the 90s, even though they are not.
Do not underestimate how influential this song was on everything in the 90s. That Dead vibe resonated with the most-unlikely folks, and it set the stage for what was to come...
The whole Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars album has aged very well. Actually i like it even better now than i used to like it back then. It's really really good.
The way this girl sings this song is so captivating and she is so into the rhythm of it with her facial expressions. Just love it! This song is still a hit after all these years.
That's a Boss TW-1 Touch Wah pedal on the solo. It's sensitive to how hard you pick the guitar strings - light picking causes minimal wah effect, and heavy picking gives a strong wah sound. Definitely a unique pedal.
Edie Brickell definitely laid the foundation for the female rockers that followed with this song - Alanis Morissette (who was making bubble gum pop at this time in Canada), Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Paula Cole - all the greats of 90s alternative rock.
I had no idea she's been married to Paul Simon for 30+ years, but she sure looks a lot like Carrie Fisher in this video that I never noticed before since I've never seen her video. I had only heard her on the radio at work back in the day. Now I'm googling her and finding out she's married to Carrie Fisher's ex, Paul Simon. It makes me wonder if Edie reminded him of Carrie but a more laid back and cooler version from the music world rather than Hollywood. Interesting.
Amazing, I heard this song yesterday driving car (Warsaw POLAND) , I know this song from past....but first time see today this VidClip ;-) She looks so natural and feels easy, crazy see it now in Plastic dolls era.
Shooting Rubber Bands At The Stars is an album that never ages. No filler songs, the whole album is good. This is original "alt rock" when the genre was relevant and actually had some balls.
ikr. It's just that laid-back mellow groove, and her awesome voice. I love the guitar bridge (or whatever its called) at 2:10 , i like that style. Edie, yup she was hot imho. That wild hair, nice dark eyes and a cute smile. And unlike todays "artists" she didnt have make-up plastered on with a trowel.
I literally came here to say that. I just saw it on a "Totally 80's CD" commercial and was POSITIVE it was from the 90's. Wow. I could easily see Eddie Vedder or Chris Cornell singing this song too.
If this came out in 2024 this girl would be one of the biggest stars on the planet!! She has the natural voice and sound people try and fake in todays world!!
they played a small venue in Chicago in '88 or '89, and in between songs Edie kept talking off-mic, and I shouted 'i love you!' She laughed and smiled and said 'i love you too!' and went into this song. Outstanding!
Kirsten loves this band andhot guyworldnever changedhow does a guy get anything she'sa girl andshe learned to play a guitar not tennis a older guy had one andthey fucked enough while she at ea and alol the womonin womyn in the universe got so fat she stolehis guitar finaly finally i'm out of my case of saltines and Saltines without buttter butter cigerette without a umjmm butter idea is like no salt anyway she had it forgot she stole it had sex with this onep person and the real duet of two penis men is the oldest sad last stump for my girl baby shoes without a sock missing they were friends and she stole a guitar and learned to play for a dad she found a photo of and it is this she gave God
That is what makes this era of music the very best... The diversity and the ACTUAL talent!!!!! I said what I said!!! Musical talent and creativity 💪🏾💯👍🏾
I have her album on cassette and it did not have this version you hear here. My cassette had a longer version of this and you can hear the solo at its fullest. This was the version that when she starts with "I'm not aware of too many things.....", she sings it twice instead of once. I like that version better.
I actually agree with E Drew, this does sound ahead of its time. THAT doesn't mean it's a good song, but I would have called this a 90's song, it has that shitty 90's mass market college rock sound. But it came out in 88, so to me it sounds like they were surfing way out on the bleeding edge of a shit wave, foretelling the shiticane to come.
Yes! Me too! The sound (I guess it's an Auto-Wah) and the solo itself. Nice to read that others also appreciate that. Don't know any other guitar solo in pop history that sounds like that.
