@@ElKaiserOMB He IS their manager. Ben Carr is his name. He used to dance at all their shows before they were huge and kept up the tradition by dancing on stage once they started playing bigger events
Fun facts for the commentariat: 1. The "dancing guy" got into the band because he was friends with them and couldn't get into their early bar gigs because he was under age, so they just said he's part of the band and he danced through their sets. I saw them live two years ago. He's got to be in his 50s now, and he can still move. Really impressive. 2. The singer is the announcer for the Jimmy Kimmel Show now. 3. The guitar player left the band, became an A&R man, and discovered and signed the Weeknd. 4. This band still totally rules.
5. Funnest fact five: Let's Face It is their best and most complete album and should have gotten the tour it and sell out venues anniversary tour routine.
That is exactly what happened. Back at the beginning, he wanted to see their shows, but he was too young to get into a bar, so they just said he was in the band, and he danced through their sets. I saw them two years ago. He's got to be in his 50s now, and he can still move. Really impressive.
We had one. Well, two if you count our "bassist." But one pal couldn't play anything and was completely tone deaf when singing. We had him bring out his turntables and randomly scratch and play samples, lul.
Sadly. We had generations upon generations of people sometimes living with authoritarianism in various forms, for thousands of years, and then i'd argue the industrial revolution happened and with "purchasing power", that added this element of a human dilemma: "quality of life" rivaling human degeneracy, not even in direct relation to eachother but in relation to where we spend our money -- the element of capitalism and consumer neglect. Now we're several generations deep of an everyman who voted for tyrannical government and rallied for corporations and inequality. The "Right side of history/lockdown/mask everyone" 2020+ period? the wealthiest got wealthier -- not just that, it was the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the ultra rich in history. Growing up before 2000 I'd argue is a thing of it's own and significant, though I wish I was born a bit earlier. If you were born in the 40, 50's, 60's, 70's, you'd have benefitted from various other things economically environmentally/geographically and so on. The public education system was peak probably prior to the 1980s, if not prior to the 1970's. The world is too continuously subservient towards both government and corporatism. We have overexhausted our idea of what education is and should be in it's entirety and now we're overfinancing it. Capitalism(in relation to consumer spending/ultrawealth) and Socialism are equally the problem, and the neglect of this reality is the lack of quality I think a lot of us relate on describing; the going to shit-ness of things. TBH a lot of aspects of my 90's childhood made me a victim. I'm grateful for my time outdoors in a backyard... looking at bugs... just wondering.. but if the adults in my life weren't preoccupied by government and consumer behavior derived problems, I think we would have been better off. I think we would have had more culture as a family and less negative energy at home. IMO the best path to the American Dream nowadays is to move somewhere your money goes farther.@@DC-bx8ww
My guilty pleasure of ska punk started with the Bosstones and they have remained at the top of my list all these years! What a great band full of great song writers.
Not awesome. He forced the growl and the texture to get the gravely sounding voice and as you might be able to tell in some lines, he can't quite use his voice correctly because he's completely ruined his vocal cords.
@@TheBenoonjamingo I am sure you are used to some people pandering to your self-perceived superiority and smug opinions, but I am sick of pieces of shit like you trying to find a negative in everything and bring people down. Fuck right off.
@@eggsandwichification Umm, ruining vocal chords is pretty common with muscicians. Especially if they don't take care of it. Look at Maynard James Keenan from Tool. He can barely scream now, especially in his later albums. He ruined it by his constant screams he did in his older songs. If you listen to the newer a perfect circle album, it's much softer compared to his older music. Or a better example, James LaBrie from dream theater. He struggles to hit his high notes. It's pretty easy to tell with his re recordings.
@@eggsandwichification Medically speaking Homie Pandos is totally right. His voice is absolutely wrecked here. The human voice isn't ever supposed to sound horse or breathy, that's a sign of damaged vocal folds.
Listen to their early stuff. It's not metal, but it's more metal and a lot harder. And watch the music video for "Don't know how to party" to see how their concerts were in the mid 90s
I thoroughly remember knowing like 2 songs from this band thanks to 90s radio I listened to with my dad growing up, but I met someone who asked me if I had ever heard of Deftones.I just remember middle school me in complete confidence saying to this person “oh yes, the Mighty Mighty Deftones”. I don’t think they even heard what I said tbh, but I think about it often. I am now a huge Deftones fan who physically cringes every time I think of that memory.
And now by sharing your shame you've convinced a random stranger to type "mighty mighty deftones" into the search bar to find that yet another random stranger has of course made a mashup of the two for this exact song, because youtube is a beautiful place. Circle of life, now your cringe has looped around to being fine art!
There is totally a whole new fourth wave of Ska! Lots of new bands coming out, I actually happen to play in one! Check out Millington, Skatoon Network, The Interrupters, and Just As Well!!
It never went away. Scene took a hit from 1999-2003 but it is still there. Hell, Amy Winehouse dabbled in the genre (Just Friends, Our Day Will Come, live performances with The Specials) and she was massively popular.
Wow.. that’s all I could say. Haven’t seen this video in at least 18 years I forgot how in awe I was when I’d saw this. Bought this and reel big fish “turn the radio off” the same weekend on cd (because I only had cassettes originally, I remember being little, I was about 8 when these came out but I said I loved the sound so my mother, god bless her and my father for never censoring my music and keeping me well supplied, asked our local cd store for this on cd and another ska recommendation for my 9th bday. Ahh I could still see my airwalks dangling over the side of the bed as I listened and dreamt and sang along. It feels like yesterday yet a lifetime ago (if that makes sense to anyone else) but those memories of singing along In the car with my family as we drove around will always be my most treasured possession, I wouldn’t give them up even if I’d lose all my other worldly ones. Sorry I rambled a bit, it’s funny how a song can strike up so many feelings all at once. I miss the 90’s :(
Yeah man.....back when everyone wasn't some kind of activist and control freak. You could definitely say what you want and (sometimes) do what you want.
Great comment. You transported me through time to a similar time in my life. Having a good family to grow up in is irreplaceable. Sounds like you had one.
Absolute legends. One of the greatest Ska bands ever to do it. For some bands their number one hits can get overplayed but The Impression That I Get is one of the finest-crafted pop songs ever written. It deserves to be their biggest hit and be listened to for years to come.
When this came out in 97 I was in high school and had gotten into the Bosstones' via their 2nd album More Noise and Other Disturbances (the one with Where Did You Go?). I, being a teenager, considered success equal to selling out. Teenagers suck. Pretty easy to see for a long time now that this is one of the greatest hits of the last 30 years. Timeless.
LMAO!! This is the best reply ever!! I'd love to have that guy dancing around my casket while Judas Priest's "Living After Midnight" is playing as they roll my casket out the door
awesome music like this would never gonna happened again,i love to belong to that decade of many good music and bands,that still make my heart jumping and dreaming.
I still recall staying up until nearly 2 AM for this. And, until now, that was the last time I saw this performance by the band that changed the musical course of my life.
One the best ska punk bands of all time! So bummed they split, but so stoked I got to see them perform one last time at Ska Brewing last September. They were as good as ever…and haven’t had that much fun in a mosh pit!
my ska phase is long over but the Bosstones still rule. sometimes they'll do a silly song about the devil or something and you're laughing along with them, but then they'll stop you dead in your tracks with some incredibly hard-hitting lyrics. they really knew their way around a melody too, no wonder this song was such a hit
This is how I was introduced to Ska and this band. I ran out the next morning and found all of their then current albums on CD at a local record store.
I helped set up the skate ramps at the warped tour in Boulder Colorado. As payment I got a meal voucher. I ate lunch with this band. That was pretty cool.
Ce groupe est juste fantastique.Nous avons partagé l'affiche eux avec Skaferlatine en 92 à Wuppertal.Joe Gittleman m'avait offert un t shirt car j'avais joué un titre de Gang Green à la balance he said: free shirt for the Gang Green Fans!! ha!ha!.Un des plus beaux moments de ma Jeunesse.
This song is the question I ask myself - when thinking about our War Veterans - there is not a lot that would compare to Falluja, Tet, Chosin, Ardennes Somme, Gettysburg, Baltimore, Bunker Hill - “makes me wonder if I could”. God Bless our Veterans and Fallen Hero’s. 👏
i honestly hope you wouldnt have the moral flexibility to invade another country and butcher people who have done nothing to do. i also hope you stop worshiping those thugs. murderers shouldnt be celebrated.
Nostalgia doesn't make the song good....it's good on it's own...but this song puts me right back in 7th grade. something about this one in particular and I don't know why.
Some bands sound good in the studio but not so much live, and others who thrive performing live, then there are bands who are solid both in the studio and live - like these guys!
