Galaxie 500 - When Will You Come Home (Live) 

Whoa, I was there! That was at my tiny high school of 112 students in our gym that also doubled as a cafeteria. There were only like 40 or 50 kids there... my friend's older brother who was friends with them set it up, and got the school to pay them like a hundred bucks or something. My friend and I were one of the only kids in the room who had heard of them and knew their music; we were standing dancing in the back while everyone else sat on fold up chairs.

this song makes me weep like baby

these guys could build a few chords into an amazing thing of a solo jam. I wish they made more music than they did back in the 80s and 90s. but the re-releases of Today and On Fire have really special unreleased stuff worth buying.

Nostalgic. Dreamy. Numbing. Morphinic. Perfect for a quiet lonely evening.

What I love is how Damon and Naomi, no matter where Dean goes, glide along sedately and beautifully, like Maureen Tucker split into a bassist and drummer. :)

Galaxie 500; please come back.

Galaxie 500 is a one of a kind band. Absolutely beautiful.

Yeah, pretty much brilliant music right here. It really can't be topped.

Just brilliant!

I have just discovered this band.. Velvet Underground & Pixies are my favourite bands of all time. This is an amazing thing to discover at 30. Fantastic!!

a blessing

I was lucky to be in Boston and in Radio when Galaxie 500 got going. Today record release party at The Rat and shows at the Green St Station in JP.

this is my favourite video on youtube.

This footage is quite possibly my faveourite thing on RU-vid....beautiful song and such an intimate performance. Saw Dean Wareham play a bit ago and it was great, but if I was honest, not a patch on this.....

Thanks so much for posting this! They are always in my top 5 bands of all-time. Naomi on her bass - the riffs - the lyrics - the memories. Pretty much brilliant music indeed.

Right Time, Right Sound. Lucky to be in Boston as G 500 starts and even enjoyed their record release party for TODAY at the Rat.

most beautiful tune ever

Brilliant, brilliant song. What a great performance.

drunk and dancig to this tune fuck yeah.

Fabulous band. Special song that has stuck with me since I heard it. Thanks.

this song makes me cry

I don't even know what to say. their sound was unique. they didn't get what they deserved. it makes me so sad.

they tore it up ... even in a sports hall . loved this band ... 3 perfect records

They make such a beautiful racket.

imagine missing this day lmao

Awesome footage. I always saw his voice as just another instrument adding to the glorious din.

I last saw this band 20 years ago at the Glastonbury festival on the main stage 1990. God that makes me feel so OLD!!!!

It makes the proceedings seem all the more authenticle.

awesome find. thanks for posting. loved Galaxie 500.

Great rhythm section!

makes me sad and happy. staring at the wall waiting for you call when will you come home

Had the pleasure of seeing them twice at the wisky and when they opened up for they might be gaints at the wiltern.. miss those days...

awesome, I'm glad that I found this! thanks for putting this up! :)

This sounds amazing live.

god, it's weird to think that i was gaining shape in my mothers utero they played this yet i love it as if i had listened to it for 21 years.

late nights 1991, auto reverse on the car tape player, round and round, never tired.

This was my fifteenth birthday!!! What a gift to find it!

I still remember when they appeared on MuchMusic (Canada's MTV) and had the misfortune to be interviewed by Erica Ehm, who was sometimes guilty of seeming doing little preparation. She asked if they were deeply influenced by the Velvet Underground, and the whole band pretended not to know who that was, and Erica seemed to believe them. This was just after Fourth of July was out, with Here She Comes Now on the B-side, for goodness sake! Who did they learn it from, if not the Velvets, Erica?

GREAT voice

So beautiful!

I love this song!

wow

This is so cool

what a great find.

I miss the days when real musicians could afford to buy the gear that these guys are playing. Now you have to be a collector and drop thousands of dollars. I bet the Ampeg B-15 bass amp Naiomi's playing alone would go for two grand. She probably paid a few hundred bucks for it. What a great band, though...and playing in a gym. Crazy. And at the same time Poison was playing in some arena somewhere. Is there any justice in the world?

The Velvet Underground of the late eighties

Awesome band

@kg2104 it's an 80's Gibson ES 335 Studio, which didn't have F-holes or fingerboard binding. He also had a late 70's MIJ Epiphone Riviera as a back up.

buenos recuerdos

on fire reminds of The Velvet Underground third album

They are all on the DVD

@fusedsilica a comment that actually made me laugh audibly. these guys really were amazing weren't they? i listen to "tell me" everyday still.. i love on fire as a whole tho.. great highway driving album

@CalumnMcAulay not to mention their gut wrenching guitar solos!

abortive, but eyeopening version of what will become one of my favourite 'ive had enough-lets slow down' records ever made. decomposing trees, strange and of course blue thunder..but my most memorable moment is hearing them cover ceremony by joy division- perhaps the best song j.d. wrote after shadowplay.

cool

Gibson ES-335 Studio

Any song that references watching Kojak is absolutely a classic! To the dude who talked about Naomi and his tongue is that anyway to talk to a beautiful talented lady?

@pixiescam You might also enjoy The Verlains... Make no difference, slow sad love enjoy...

are these conan's drums?

o os velvet

@kerdubennak are you saying they are like the velvet underground or the music is velvety? either would be correct

Naomi wearing cool earrings as usual.

Love the discription, noisy guitar solo at the end but still don't get this band.

If you guys like G500 maybe you like the Vulgar Boatmen too?

@micheelvis Nobody gave Galaxie 500 their gear. They bought it. I'm glad that you believe in fate and magic and faires and wishes. But you know what? Wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which fills up first. Clearly you're way more special than everyone else because the universe has seen fit to bestow upon you crappy vintage equipment, which I'm sure you love and will argue is just as good as all the stuff I'm talking about. Play for 20 or 30 years and see how you feel then.

Anyone know the chords to this?

Galaxie 500 were a gem of a band - the guys voice was a little whiney but their guitar playing and their song writing was absolutely beautiful!

Cloney Island baby clone

Three people should go back home.

Clone on the wild side clone

desde os my bloody? o madredeus?

heh heh 666 likes

Haha, bass is not properly tuned.

ahaaaaaaaa his voice sucks but it's alright :)