true story: was a teenager. saw this vid on tv. didn't know who it was. forgot about it. fast forward years later, sudden flash of memory: try to find that vid of that carrot with a dudes head. thought it was keyworded as 'carrot on spaceship' for some reason. couldn't find jack! fast forward years later. went on spotify. was on 90's playlist. scrolled down. saw name of band 'eels'. sounded familiar. maybe... just maybe... searched on youtube. saw carrot! chuckled. watched vid. had closure. life is good. thanks for reading.
My song of mystery was Bran Van 3000 drinking in L.A. I kind of knew the hook but didn't know the name of the band and for many years couldn't get the song. Oddly I was scrolling through 107.7 the End top 100 of 1998 and ther it was!! Not a bad song, check it out!
Haha, dirtydirk. I am well familiar with the 'van. Who could forget the glee album cover with the deer and rabbit. Got hooked on it after reading review of it in a newspaper back in the day. Couch surfer was one of my favs on that one.
Saddiq Yahya I thought the hook went " now tell me what the hell am I supposed to do, feels like I'm stuck here in L.A, it's like I'm stuck here, feels like I'm stuck here in L.A, it's like I'm stuck here.
I just found an old video of my friend and I skateboarding to this song. I'm guessing it was around 15 years ago. He passed away about four years ago and I hadn't seen the video since I made it back then. I never paid attention to the lyrics "are you missing the dearly bereft?" until just now. It's sad that he died so young, but it made me happy to find the video and watch us having fun as teenagers. RIP dude.
Nominated for a 1999 MTV Video Music Award in "Breakthrough Video" category, work done by the absolutely phenomenal Hammer & Tongs crew. '90s were truly a magical time to live in.
This is the first time listening to this song since my dad's passing last year... I've been afraid to listen to it because of it's depressing, haunting themes of death... But this is a lovely song so I must face that fear now. Wish me luck... This one's for you, dad.
I'm really pleased to see you summed up the courage to give this a whirl, and completely understand your apprehension, yes, it's a lovely song by a lovely, honest human being....like yourself! My brother decided to say goodbye 2 years ago and Mark's music is certainly a comfort. As requested, I wish you luck, and happiness in your memories of Dad ❤
Ps I highly recommend Mark's autobiography Things To Tell The Grandchildren, I honestly think you'll get a lot out of it, it's very honest, dryly funny, incredibly thoughtful and touching, and surprisingly very upbeat in a way. Perhaps a good tonic for you at this time. I finished it with an overwhelming feeling of 'things maybe a bit shit sometimes, but overall, i reckon Im going to be alright, I just need to keep working on it'.
You're dead but the world keeps spinning Take a spin through the world you left It feels so sad when you remember he wrote this song about his sister's death
He wrote a lot of his songs about his family and his own depression. Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor from the same album is another one about his sister. Most of this album is.
@@jeffcase7827 Yeah it's by far the darkest (and best IMO) album by The Eels, and Beautiful Freak wasn't exactly upbeat. As for songs about Elizabeth on Electro-Shock Blues, there's also Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor, Going to Your Funeral, My Descent into Madness, 3 Speed, Electro-Shock Blues and Climbing to the Moon. Not sure about Hospital Food, that could be about his mother.
This is probably my favorite song ever made. Every aspect is extremely well perfected. It's extremely memorable to the point I know every drop and lyric. My favorite part is : Taking a spin through the neighborhood And the neighbors scream what you talkin bout Cause they don't know how to let you in And I can't let you out
"Hey, so it just made this album. It's was made after everyone in my family died within a month of each other." "Okay, what should we do for the first video?" "I was thinking we make a clone of myself out of a carrot and giving it a robot body."
I've loved this song since it first came out...of course I didn't know what it was about until a friend showed me the whole album. I like how E adds a poppy melody to his dark lyrics. Love his face at 2:47. :]
I still think this is one of the greatest songs of the 90s. And the video was absolutely groundbreaking at the time. One of the best live shows I ever saw was Eels at the Metro Chicago when they had a mime open for them (yes a F'n mime who was awesome). Waited outside after and got to meet E and get this autograph on my ticket stub.
Beautiful song from a beautiful album. "Electro Shock Blues" helped me get through tough times in the mid-00s and I love it for being a concept album moving through the stages of grief in a way. "Going to Your Funeral Pt 2" and this song represent the turning point where the music starts to feel more hopeful, as if the speaker is beginning to accept and make peace with the tragedies he's faced.
This song always makes me think of my late father. The album "Electro Shock Blues" is a true maste piece who helps you through the mouning and even makes you believe in life at the end - genius.
He wrote that album after everyone in his family died. His dad died of heart problems when he was young, and then when he was an adult his mom got cancer and his sister committed suicide. This song is about his sister.
The most underrated and that came out in the 90's. Astonishing set of such varied albums they can be hard to pin down. I love them so much my daughter is named after an Eels song. E was very touched when I told him at a gig in Glasgow. Long live Eels 🌼
I don't belive it. I found this song nearly twenty years, when I saw this music video on tv when I was a teenager. I saw this music video only once. I wrote "singing carrot" at google and that's it! I am happy very well "-)
Dad bought a Gateway Computer back in the 90s (cow print on the box). Came with a disk meant to demonstrate the machines computing power. Along with a Henry Rollins spoken word set, as well as various other media, there was THIS song with THIS music video and THAT damn carrot. All this time, I thought it was a fever dream.
This popped up in my Spotify Discover Weekly list and I've had it stuck in my head ever since. Little did I know until now that it had an AMAZING video to go with it.
This song kind of hits me a little bit, almost brings tears to my eyes when I really think about it. "you're dead but the world keeps spinnin', take a spin through the world you left." I've lost a few friends, young, late teens, early 20's, they died way before their time. Both in motorcycle accidents. I know this is about his sister, but it stlil reminds me of them. They were fun people, I want to remember them as that.
I remember catching a glimpse of this video on MTV years ago as I was rushing off to catch my school bus and it was stuck in my head all day. When I got to school I asked my friend "Hey, do you know that song that has the carrot robot in the video?" He stared at me for a good five seconds before pushing past me like I had gone full weapons grade autistic. Memories.
+TerminusEst HaHa.... carrot robot..... maybe if you said 'cloned hybrid carrot' he would have known exactly what you are talking about... :-) I never saw the video before, but I do remember it being played on the radio.
Same. I saw this music clip only once, but it was stuck in my head. I found it via google 2 days ago :-) Frequently I looked for this song in radio, tv and internet but fail. I am living Eastern Europe.
Ever since i saw "on skateboard summer issue 2000" when it first came out this have been a song thats been stuck in my head and comes along every once in a while ever since.
You're dead but the world keeps spinning Take a spin through the world you left It's getting dark a little too early Are you missing the dearly bereft? Taking flight and you could be Here tomorrow Taking flight, well, you could get Here tonight I'm gonna fly on down for the Last stop to this town What? I'm gonna fly on down then fly away Well, alright Taking a spin through the neighborhood The neighbors scream What ya talkin' bout? 'Cause they don't know how to Let you in And I can't let you out What if I was not your only friend In this world Can you take me where you're going If you're never coming back I'm gonna fly on down for the Last stop to this town I'm gonna fly on down Then fly away on my way Why don't we take a ride Away up high Through the neighborhood Up over the billboards and the factories And smoke I'm gonna fly on down for the Last stop to this town Yeah I'm gonna fly on down Then fly away on my way Fly away
Life is a carousell... there is no particular meaning... we try to make it more than it is, but it is a blink of the eye... and then we are gone. And yet it is so hard to make something of it.
genius or brilliance - is different, but same - i get it, i know some of the backstory, . There's a book that i started to read but stopped. he did some things and saw others, some good some not, that's as far as i got, or was willing to go, more like.
The eels..what can one say? Either their songs were really magical and made you feel or their songs were really bizarre and disconnected. I lived in silverlake when they were hitting their peak music wise and I know where alot the inspiration comes from. In fact my favorite thing to do was ride my bike early in the mornings around silverlake listening to the eels on my Walkman.
Same. You can feel the pain and grief coming through the notes. A beautifully sad touching tribute to his sister and one of the best depections of grief in music.
In 1999 I lived in a tiny town in Nevada with no radio stations or music stores but I heard this song on my satellite radio. I kept a cassette tape on record/pause waiting for this song to come on!
I felt an instant connection to this song since the very first time I heard it...it reminds me of my father who died on me when I was only 7. I had forgotten about till now scrolling through gplus and bumped into it..
This was one of those songs that could have only come out of the 90's: this sort of experimental mishmash of genres with lyrical stylings that were nothing more than brief statements that sort of had tenuous connections to one another. It's hard to know if music will ever be that creative ever again, but I'm glad I lived through it.
WolfysEyes creativity and innovation and weirdness are my things, been trying to reach out to people directly at random, see/hear what you think of my channels.. peace!
I was in 8th grade Christmas break . Stayed up all night and saw this .. forgot all about it . I need a time machine to go back to that time before all this internet mess took control
This clip is a piece of art. I enjoyed it when it just came out, and l am enjoying it now together with my 3 and 6 year old kids. Props to Eels and the makers of this clip
- It took me literally 18 years to get here but I finally made it and I couldn't be happier, just goes to show, never, never ever give up on those childhood memories of yours, they can last forever!!! Thank you ON Skateboarding Video Magazine- Summer 2000 and MTV.....
I remember this video from ages ago. It was loaded onto a computer game called "Trespasser" I still play that game and occasionally watch this video on there. EPIC!
