I had the privilege of recording the cello part on this track. I even got to wear the green bird suit in the video. We shot it in summer, and those suits were so damn hot. Haha. It was really special being in the studio with Grant, Joey, and Paul. Wonderful people and stellar musicians. Grant’s songwriting is unsurpassed.
The 90s really was a great time for music. Alot of people say that but it really was. Just in the "alternative" genre you had such a huge variety. From the big commercial hits like nirvanas smells like teen spirit and pearl jams alive to the lesser known gems like sweet 69 by babes in toy land. And then there was the epic moving songs like this one and fade into you by Mazzy Star. It really was the best time to be a teenager/early 20s.
hell yeah. In 1990 I turned 11, and in 1999 I turned 20, so the 90s are my whole adolescence, the years that formed me. Sometimes I just ache for those times.
Music transports us to past places in time. I remember staying up watching 120 minutes on MTV and seeing this video for the first. I was college kid, not a world weary middle-aged dude pushing 50. Love this song today as much as that kid long ago.
I saw it on MTV back then and wished I could listen to it again so I figured I just go buy the album. The next day I had forgotten the name of the song or band and it wasn't like I could just do Google or RU-vid detective work with song fragments because Google and RU-vid didn't exist yet. I forgot about the song and never heard it again. I just stumbled onto this video while surfing around RU-vid and instantly thought "oh shit, that's that song I liked but was too lazy to find it."
@@marcus_ohreallyus had the same with theme track from Spkie's Lee " Mo' Better Blues" ... it took me like 15 years to accidentaly hear it on the local jazz radio...
One of the most refined songs ever aired on MTV. Perhaps too highbrow for the many people: only 9 comments and less than 5k views (March 2020). However, it's nice to be part of a small but good club :-)
I used to wonder if young people in the 60s knew how great the music was and how blessed they were. Then, I realized as a young person in the 90s I did the same thing. Took it for granted and thought things would be like that forever. A great album coming out every month or so.
All these years later I still can't get enough of this song. Was lucky enough to see him in concert last week and when he played this song I got chills down my spine for the whole thing. Just wonderful.
Love GLB! I had a birthday party in the late 90's stemming from my love for GLB. And fast-forward to NOW, and my love is just the same as very big, and love enmeshed. x
you know what's "the best"? when you're watching an emotional video with interesting scenery, and just as it reaches the end, your screen is plastered with a bunch of pictures immediately in the path of you watching the video... thanks Chrysalis...and thank you RU-vid, for offering this "functionality", allowing users to buckshoot themselves in both feet.
heard this song on mtv around 94/95, love it, said to myself 'no need to wrote down the name probably ill show up frequently' never to be seen again, and as a constant ear worm for years. once the internet came i start to look for it ..birdsong, eggsong, pinguins song etc.. nothing for years. fast forward to 2019 and in one of my bent on alternative music on youtube i saw the thumbnail so press it and finally could listen to it... i wrote the name that time, now even my children know it by heart XD still have a second ear worm from the 2000 with a song with a girl that turn into robot by the end of the song kind of jungle industrial type no potato
Lol actually started watching Beavis and Butthead music videos instead of skipping them. As soon as this one played I knew I had to pause the episode and listen to this song properly. Not disappointed in the least. This song is so 90's it hurts.
Years and years searching for this song and band, just googling all sort of search combinations to no avail: weird 90s music video with birds and such, no results. Finally yesterday as I was on the porcelain throne reading reddit posts about birds my brain clicks! MOCKINBIRDS! LOL
From Beef Netflix movie first time to hear it brilliant song , they share a spot with attic monkey video and Coldplay yellow video as best simple creative master pieces
You might not ever find his comment but if you do I'd like to thank you, Dad... For introducing me to some amazing songs like this, you have a great taste in music ❤
Devastation at last finally we meet After all of these years out here on the street I had a feeling you would make yourself known You came along just to claim your place on the throne And I have been overthrown Overthrown And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine Devastation my door was left open wide You brought me into your heart then you swallowed my pride I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts I made a note to myself I nearly forgot Now I am overwrought I'm overwrought And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine One day this ground will break And open up for me I hope it will I hope it will Salutations at last down on my knees I heard the bugle this morn blast reveille Woke from a dream where I was in a terrible realm All my sails were ablaze I was chained to the helm And now I am overwhelmed I'm overwhelmed And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last) But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last) But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last) But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last) But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
I remember turning people on to this back in the 90s, also, another underrated, hidden gem of a band called VAST, and everyone loved both! It's a small, but magical club,lol.
"Why did you drop the egg?" "Look man its what all the artsy people were doing at the time. Dropping things and breaking things and shattering things in slow motion."
How is possible that im the first comment?... anyway, GLB has always been so underrated. I wish to turn back time & do something anything, to make people stop and listen with their ears not their eyes.
while GLB was opening for his band on the 'monster' tour, michael stipe of r.e.m. called them the best band in the western hemisphere (presumably radiohead, also opening for r.e.m., being his pick for best in the eastern hemisphere). he was not wrong. GLB also opened for pearl jam and smashing pumpkins but never broke big. very unfortunate. 4 superb albums before they called it a day. i was at their last (?) show before they broke up on halloween in chicago. grant dressed as a vampire and drummer joey peters was in kiss makeup
I saw this on MTV when I was 15. Thought it was so weird and i sang it at school. People looked at me weird but I was different from most. I felt like the song sounded. I discovered it here years later. I'm still weird at 43! Ty 😘 P.S I know what they meant by mockingbirds.. They're everywhere
It's like I remember this song but I also don't I mean before I began actively searching for Grant Lee Buffalo in 2015 and discovered how great Fuzzy and Jubilee are It's like this is one of my primordial songs from when I was a baby Thank you, Mr. Grant-Lee Phillips, for this.
This is late Beatles era stuff. This song makes me feel. There are no more artists like this anywhere. GLB grossly under appreciated, but they carved out a spot with me that stuck. I got to see them play the very first show at the new Boston Garden in 1995 opening for REM
The only song frm the 90's. I suppose the vid mocks...I used to believe they came bfrom buffalo where I'm orig from. I had moved to La in the 90's. Then after I got Moon and jubilee I learned they were from the Lankershim area, 1 mile from us on Whittset, holy $$#*! My love for this tune cannot be charted.
De fato e corrigindo um dos comentários, o começo dos anos 90 foram o último suspiro de vida no mundo da música. um verdadeiro e triste fato a se lamentar.
