I was obsessed with this song back in 98. Absolutely obsessed. I remember being 17 driving around in my car for hours just listening to this song on repeat. Jesus, where does the time go?
ShoNuff- bro I'm right there with you dawg! I fell in love with a girl when this album came out and I cannot believe it's been 25 fucking years that have evaporated since all that happened. Terrifying how fast time flies isn't it!!??? And Jesus Christ, Katie looks smokin in this video!
I was a kid in 97, but I did the same thing when I was 19 in 2005. Driving aimlessly listening to that *one* song that you associated with whomever you were crushing/obsessed with at the time. I miss how simpler yet overly chaotic that time seemed, where DOES the time go? Youth is truly wasted on the young...we took everything for granted because we had so little life experience. I don't think I would want to go back, but I would like back the sense of everything just *felt* at that time, y'know?
How we take our younger years for granted. So grateful for those memories with such great music I’m smiling right now. ❤ thought those summers would never end.
You guys shoulda been around in the late 70's and early 80's, oh man was that something, by the time you guy's got into high school they were like prisons with uniformed security guards and metal detectors. We were bad kids but no one got shot, no one ever dared to bring a gun to school and just about every teenage boy had a pocket knife on him that his dad gave him around the age of 15, by the 90's if you had one in school the principal would call the police on you. Back then we came and went from the school as we pleased, in the 90's the high school I had gone to built a 12 foot high chain link fence around it, just like a prison has, and in the center of the school was a courtyard that we were allowed to smoke in, you were only supposed to be able to if you were 18 (legal age for tobacco products back then) and you had a slip signed by your parents giving you permission but that was never enforced. And the drugs? OMG did we have and use them, a friend I grew up with was screwing a gangsters daughter (not inner city type gangster I'm talking the real thing), her mom was a Quaalude freak and had a wall safe full of them, every time he'd go over to her place before he left she'd get into her mother's stash and give him literally a hand full, oh God were we wacked out all the time, so much for a quality education. Yep, it was that lifestyle that the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High was based on, that movie's more of a documentary on high schools in that time period than people realize.
Silent Lucidity Queensyrche... My understanding about dreams but, my mindeyes. Death, a remembence of those loves have past. Keep on moving n grooving, Lady Love. Reality a New Beginning... Love Hugs n Kisses-Adios
lisa finn I lost my dad last year and although the hurt is still there it does get better with time but you will start to notice things that were always there but now they stick out like this song for instance. Bless you luv
This song breaks me down hard every time I hear it and no matter where I'm at. My sweet little step daughter would sing this song every single time it played while we were driving. I still hear her voice as clear as a bell in her car seat as we were going down the road. She was taken to Heaven shortly before her 3rd birthday in 1999. Even after all those years it still hurts.
The melody is so beautiful. I can imagine her singing it and nodding her head to it. That pain never goes away, but sometimes when we hear songs like this, they can make us smile and remember the good times.
@@melissaanderson7010 I'm an odd one, I cannot go there, I cannot look at pictures, listens to songs, or revisit anything that has to do with someone I knew who is no longer here. The pain is too great.
@@hihi15yearsago56 Your mom is 8 years younger than me if she's 28.I was a teen in the 90s so your mom would've been around 8 years old in 99-00. So more of a 90s baby and teenager in the mid 2000s.
As a kid in the 80's we didn't worry about kidnapping or being shot and if we needed to talk we would tell a friend to tell a friend to call. No cellphones no tweets no Facebook. Life was great.
This was the song that was playing at the bar when my mom and dad met. This was one of his favorite songs ever too. He passed away when I was 3 in 2002. They played this song at his funeral too... I was just thinking about him and this was in my recommended. I love you and miss you dad! Thank you the flys
Sorry for your loss. What a beautiful song to meet your better half to. I just posted a min ago that this makes me think of when I fell in love with my best friend. Good and bad times but were still close today!
I wasn't expecting the attention on the comment, thank yall for the kind words. Tomorrow is Father's day, and of course I came back to listen to his song. Love yall, thanks
You say "tavern"...was it possibly a "saloon"? I like to think it was a wild west saloon in the mid-1850s...a bunch of outlaws are playing poker and blackjack at various tables when a dude playing the saloon piano in the corner starts playing this riff...
Same here, I was born in 69 and my parents listened to Blondie, Bee Gee's, Blue Oyster cult, and The Eagles. Graduated in 88. Moved to Bradenton Fla. Wouldn't trade a minute.
80s baby and I graduated in 2000. So spent my childhood and teens in the 80s and 90s and literally became an adult in the year 2000. Sometimes wish I had been born a little bit earlier so I could have experienced the 80s more rather than only vaguely remembering bits and pieces of the latter part of the decade but just glad I got to experience them at all. The 90s had some great music and movies but I'm obsessed with just about anything 80s.
You're raising her right. Hate hearing young kids who are 18, 19, 20 years old and they don't even know artists such as Nirvana, Madonna, Green Day, Hole, Korn, System of a Down and so on. Keep on introducing her to the classics.
Viva La Rosa In 97 i was 37 And my mother died that June Unexpectedly I ended up cari g and managing childhood home for the summer Alone I used to dance to Peter Murphys solo cds (I believe he came out of another huge band. Gang of 4..or Bauhaus?) Those three brilliant albums And i swear it was a transcendent experience. It healed me and was my medicine in grieving loss of Mom. The irony was; That shit was already More than 15 yrs old In 1997!!!😭😪👋💛😂😳😒 But not for me!!! Never think you will never find magic again in current music Its waiting right there for you Keep the Faith!##
It was definitely interesting having grunge rock and rap go mainstream in Jr high then alternative and gangster rap during high school with pop punk and third wave ska all thrown into the mix. I turned 18 the summer of 97.
No way this song came out 25 years ago! 25 years ago, I was 25 years old, single, didn't have 4 kids, and was at the bar all weekend long, every single weekend! Lol Almost 26 years ago now. Damn!
I was 10 in 97. Being my age throughout the 90s was great I still believed in Santa the best system was the first Playstation, it was a special event to go see a movie in a theater. It was a special event when your favorite band dropped a cd. Ahh the new cd booklet smell with all the lyrics inside to sing along. When you dated a girl it was more special because we couldn't constantly text and face time with them. Hell going to the playplace at McDonald's was special especially when they had the ball pit. Watching MTV all day with your buddy while playing with wrestling action figures waiting for our favorite songs to come on. Miss the days of going down to my friends basement that was finished and play video games and clown around
I can't believe I'm 43 damn time "Flys" 18 yo High School Grad! Life with friends hanging out having fun, not thinking about tomorrow, just living in the moment, songs like this playing! Yes good times. Now a days songs like this are played on Oldie Radio Stations 😬😪 makes me smile, but then I say to myself DAMN MAN, YOU GOT OLD!!! WTF LOL!!!!
I'm 42 and I don't remember hearing this before this year. I opened Pandora; i sure am glad got you flys flovesjesus. We are all brothers like got you flys flovesjesus.@@bjkarana ....how time flies, like a bjkarana. bzzzz joke
Cheers from another 1980 baby (or '81). Will never be lost on me how fortunate we were to be young when this music (and country too) was the sign of the times. Different then what's new. The last of an era before social media and technology changed us so much that humanity straight left the building. Our innate need is connection. They lied when they said social media bled that. It stole it. Connected in the flesh not connected to the onlinr, edited, 1%, exaggerated lie we share. It's a disease that is irradicating us as a species. Measuring our worth with the phony currency of clicks and views and letting that be what determines our value. That is terrifying. Sorry, I'm told I am longwinded and "too much." Long story sorta short...music is that universal language. It holds memories of experiences. Ones most often shared that connect us on another level. We fill arenas by the tens of thousands where our differences suddenly aren't a threatening matter. Which they shouldn't be anyway but you get my meaning. 43 years old. This music erases 20. It also pulls at the strings of who I was. So easily. It taps into the unjaded fearless gung hoe of being young. We ain't dead, though. So let's get back to really connecting. Perhaps a revival of real music that matters and says a thing could help that along. Meanwhile I'll give props to the RU-vid comment section for allowing 40 somethings a chance to remember we ain't dead. ❤🤙🏼🎶✌🏼
I truly believe if this band had made other songs with double microphones they would have been HUGE. I love this song. It's one of those that give you chill bumps.
They did... Adam patented his setup.. "The Paskowicz Nebulizer".. and they released a couple of excellent albums. Adam did some Queen and Bowie covers with his own separate band that are just divine.
People who lived through the 60s and 70s probably said the same thing 20 years ago. Every generation sees theirs as the last great one, it’s all about perspective and where we are individually on this imaginary line of time. With that said I miss the sh*t out of this and my youth
It sounds as good today as it did back in 1998!! That bass riff at the end of the song has always sounded like FN cool!! Thanks for the memories the Flys!!
I don’t know what it is about hearing “old” 90’s songs that makes me not want to go on for one more second, yet never want to “leave” all at the same time 💔
I fell in love with this song in the summer of '99 at age 16 when I moved from Illinois to Florida that summer. This song was like a coming of age for me, and The Deftones as well.... I totally miss the day's of innocence 🤔😅
I don’t know about everyone else but 1994 through 2004, that 10 year span was the best time of my life. From 28yrs old thru 38. Great music..great times. I’d love to go back and experience it all over again. 😢
I remember singing this in the shower at my friends house after a very long night of drinking. He was playing the CD in the bedroom... Being young was awesome.
Awesome fucking song!!! Love this alternative style back in the mid-to-late 90s. This song brings back so many memories. God, I cannot believe how old this is ... I know I'm NOT alone on this ...
This song reminds me of when my husband and I first met.. I was bartending, and he came in and sat at the bar and we talked all night. When we got married, his nickname for me was Sweet Thing. I always told him our daughter got her brains from him, and he would say she got her brains from both of us, and tell me, I was smart.. He passed away 10 years ago. No other song, touches my heart, in so many ways, like this song!!
I love it when I come across a song I'd totally forgotten about but really liked at the time. This song came out the year after I graduated from college.
The 90's were most definitely my favorite era of music so far. I knew it when it was happening. This is no hindsight / glory days crap. I could feel the 90's were special while the music was happening. I was born in the mid-60's and so I did not really get to jam on that music until I was older but appreciated what a great time the 60's and 70's were for music. I was a teenager in the 80's and honestly very little at that time did anything for me musically. But the 90's... And this tune sort of exemplifies the beauty of that time and that music. Such great music and great times. I really wish that people and music would connect more universally like we all did in the 90's.
@ Never too late:) But, yeah, I agree... I have regrets, missed chances at love, all of that... But then... The universe knows exactly what's supposed to happen, so... I guess we didn't screw up.
I had just graduated Highschool in 1998 when this song came out. I ran to Best Buy for the CD. It was an awesome summer of that year. We didn’t know what the future unfolded. Wish I can go back!
The 90’s BABY!!! Growing older now and feeling really good. Realizing how fortunate I am for growing up in that time period. Everything was just...I don’t know ...just better lol. Great song btw. Peace love and unity to everyone in the comment section!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Just bought a new car...it doesn't have a cd player, so I took out all my cd's & was going through them. Came across this cd, and honestly couldn't remember why I bought it. Read all the names of the songs, immediately recognized "Got you where I want you", but couldn't remember the tune or words. Came here, found it & have played it on loop mode for the last hour! I will never forgot this song again. What an INCREDIBLE, AMAZING song!!
Lyrics Hey, what's the point of this Oh, hey, what's your favorite song Maybe we could hum along Well, I think you're smart You sweet thing Tell me your name I'm dying here Ah-ooh, got you where I want you, oh yeah Ah-ooh, got you where I want you, oh, yeah Hey, maybe just a smile Oh, hey, did you know that I can dance Could we talk for a while Well, I think you're smart You sweet thing Tell me your sign I'm dying here Ah-ooh, got you where I want you, yeah Ah-ooh, got you where I want you Where I want you, I want you, yeah Suffer, suffer Me don't get no rougher Rub it up, baby girl, torture me like no other Suffer, suffer Me don't get no rougher When me rock me, baby, put me pain on me, lover Suffer, suffer Me don't get no rougher Rub it up, baby girl, torture me like no other Suffer, suffer Me don't get no rougher When me rock me, baby, put me pain on me, lover I think you're smart You sweet thing Tell me your name I'm dying here Ah-ooh (suffer, suffer, me don't get no rougher) (Rub it up, baby girl, torture me like no other) Got you where I want you (suffer, suffer, me don't get no rougher) Yeah, I've got you where I want you (suffer, suffer, me don't get no rougher) Yeah, I've got you where I want you, want you, want you Got you where I want you I've got you where I want you Got you where I want you
Hey, what's the point of this Oh, hey, what's your favorite song Maybe we could hum along Well, I think you're smart You sweet thing Tell me your name I'm dying here Ah-ooh, got you where I want you, oh yeah Ah-ooh, got you where I want you, oh, yeah Hey, maybe just a smile Oh, hey, did you know that I can dance Could we talk for a while Well, I think you're smart You sweet thing Tell me your sign I'm dying here Ah-ooh, got you where I want you, yeah Ah-ooh, got you where I want you Where I want you, I want you, yeah Suffer, suffer Me don't get no rougher Rub it up, baby girl, torture me like no other Suffer, suffer Me don't get no rougher When me rock me, baby, put me pain on me, lover Suffer, suffer Me don't get no rougher Rub it up, baby girl, torture me like no other Suffer, suffer Me don't get no rougher When me rock me, baby, put me pain on me, lover I think you're smart You sweet thing Tell me your name I'm dying here Ah-ooh (suffer, suffer, me don't get no rougher) (Rub it up, baby girl, torture me like no other) Got you where I want you (suffer, suffer, me don't get no rougher) Yeah, I've got you where I want you (suffer, suffer, me don't get no rougher) Yeah, I've got you where I want you, want you, want you Got you where I want you I've got you where I want you Got you where I want you
I don't know why this song makes me so nostalgic. I thought it was ok back in the day but it was no where near my favorite song at the time. Something about it just gets me now though. I listen and I'm back there, when life was good and everything hadn't gone completely off the rails yet. The 90's were an extremely exciting time in music. Artists were doing things that would've never been attempted at any other time. It was an amazing musical Era to live through.
Brings me back to watching MTV while getting ready for high school, telling mom I _don't_ need to wear that flannel she dug out of the laundry basket because I'm wearing my Nirvana shirt today with my good jeans, and I have to be cool.
People tell kids & teens these are the best years of your life and kids want to grow up. Once we grow up and so many friends & family are gone away (some dead), we wish we could go back.
I just turned 29 last month, fortunate enough to have spent the first 10 years of my life in the glorious 90s. For me, it was the era of playing Sonic on the Sega Genesis, Super Mario World on the SNES, etc., and then later it became Twisted Metal 2 on PS1, Golden Eye on N64. It was a decade of great comedians like Jim Carey, Adam Sandler, and Chris Farley to name a few. It was the decade of email and the internet ... I can remember sending my first email at the bank my aunt worked at at the age of 5 (1995). And for music, the 90s was truly a golden age. I'm glad that songs like this got radio play; that way I can listen back on them and remember just how different the world felt during this decade not long past. Whenever I hear this song, I am (for some reason) reminded of waiting in my parent's car outside of a local Massachusetts pizzeria one night, when this song came on the radio and I began singing it to myself in the solitude of an empty vehicle. I was 8 years old and in the 3rd grade, and there was a girl named Dorian that I had a crush on; for some reason this song reminded me of her. "I think you're smart, you sweet thing. Tell me your sign, I'm dying here." Pure nostalgia ... kind of surreal in a way to remember back on these times, almost like they never actually happened and it was all just a nice dream.
The 90s. I was sooo lucky to have grown up in this AMAZING AWESOME decade!!!!! Everything about the 1990s was amazing, the movies, the music, the tv shows, even school was cool back then. None of this bullshit technology now a days like cell phones, internet, social media. Thank God there was NO social media!!!!! Kids these days missed out big time. For real tho, the 1990s was a really amazing decade. I really miss it
Every single one hit wonder from the 90's is 100 times better than the music coming out now. What's really crazy is that no one is one hit wonder anymore.
Woke up hearing this beaudy this morning. Probably haven't heard it in over a decade! The lyrics, the sound, the vibes go straight to my heart and soul
The Midnight Club Brought me here such a great soundtrack. I was 18 when this song came out and instantly felt teleported back to the 90s when being a young adult was some of the best times for me. The hangouts with many friends, the heartaches, the tv shows, movies, books, and the music created what I am today. I hear this and man did we have the last great Era just pass us by too fast.
Man the lead singer had a million dollar voice. I wish I could sing like that! I was driving back cross country, moving back east after trying the west, November 1998. All I had was my car stereo and they began playing this song on a few stations. I liked it instantly, 90's rock then wasn't as good as it had been for a couple of years, and this song sounded good. I saw them on Conan a little later and loved it!
As a child we were told these are the best years of your life, We wanted to be grown. Those were the best years. I wish I could go back just once for just a little while. As Fleetwood Mac says, Can't Go Back.
Oh hell, this song fell off my radar ! YES, one of the best of the 80's/90's. THE BEST DECADES to come of age in America. I loved every single minute, every band, every song. We weren't hipsters, not rebels for changes, didn't hate our country........we were just kids trying to get through school. And lo and behold, the great bands and musicians were right there, to guide us.
I can't help but smile because I was fortunate to spend my teenage years in the last, great, American decade - THE 90'S ! And that's not typical nostalgia talking. You feel it, I feel it. Everyone knows it. The 90's was the last decade of simplicity and there was a cultural fabric in music and movies that united us. Even one hit wonders had a heart and passion that today's names couldn't even come close to replicating.
This resonates deep with me. I didn't always feel like my childhood was happy at the time, but looking back at life in the 90's, I see so much that's missing from today. I can't help but feel that something important is lost and gone forever.
R Channe I agree. I remember the 80's and 90's very well (I'm 40) and the 90's was the evolution of the 80's. Culture today is something else. I now understand, and have for some time, the nostalgia that my parents felt, and that I thought they were crazy for feeling. Each generation to its own, I suppose.
Although The Flys were a one hit wonder, this song takes me back to remember an entire generation. The 90's trumped the 70's or 80's and was the last decade that could be associated with a style, a way of life, etc.. Music now-adays makes no sense, it sucks, and its expected due to the Internet coming in and destroying any motivation for great artists to express themselves. Cargo pants, chunky shoes, experimentation, and Alternative music, DAMN I miss the 90's!
Never heard of this song until today and immediately thought that this sounds like 1999 in the US..the year I was an exchange student in Minnesota..the best year of my life...I was 17...love this song
I think it's very clear to me we all just miss our youth days or eventually do. Whether it be in the 90s, 80s etc. I was born in 2001 and still heard some good jams on the radio as a child and I'll admit the songs nowadays are not what they used to be. However, that's just mainstream wise. I've found a lot of good up to date music just searching through RU-vid and whatnot. You just have to look for it. Times aren't the greatest but have they ever truly been perfect? There's always going to be problems in the world and we can only try to improve ourselves as people little by little...song kicks ass btw ^
I worked two jobs back in 1982. One was for a computer forms company. The other was Jack in the Box. These guys came through my drive thru one late night. Told me they were in a band called The Flys. Gave me a sticker with "The Flys" printed on it. Only time a band has given me a sticker as a memento. Please don't ask me what they ordered. It was the 80's, man. You dig??
@@Unethical_Ethical_HackTipsthere are definitely some GREAT pieces of music out there now but not like this. The hits of the 50s through 90s are just in a class of their own. They just are.
A car passed me today playing this song. I'd forgotten all about it. Love this song.....so good to hear it again. Brings back memories I tell ya!!! Thank you for posting. Xoxo