The Shins - Simple Song (Last.fm Sessions) 

Thank you so much to our Lord and Creator for making James Mercer

How can a man and a guitar do that. He makes the world a better place.

one of the greatest song writing geniuses of our time

Tyler Joseph and James Mercer are my two favorite singers.

I cannot stop watching this video and all his other performances on last fm I have watched about every performance he is done that is on RU-vid in these are my very favorite out of all of them

he's so amazing!!!!! ahhhh♥♥♥

He is amazing

"One ticket to farhampton please" since no one commented it yet. Anyways. Great cover. I wish I could learn this strumming

This is what honesty sounds like when sung.

No one is going to care. But this just made my whole day that much better. Well played, now I’m looking hard at your hands to work out the composition. In need to play this . Cheers buddy.

This is great! ❤. I probably should have mentioned it 10 years ago.

he is best

god, he sucks at not being awesome.

incredible, the music of my future marriage!hahahaha

♥

James Mercer what a voice.Love the shins , although there is no stability in the line up they are basically James Mercer and guests. Lyrically he can be rather surreal although I think I have the depth and measure of this one!!

When will the shins release a new album?

he makes me want a j45

Anyone know the strumming pattern for this? I'm trying to learn it

there is new album coming out you will see

I love his performance but the editing for these types of videos is always god awful. Really you only need one stationary camera with himself and the guitar in frame. What is the point of jump editing back and forth between all the shots when he is the sole performer? It's an acoustic performance, not a music video. If you're going to go with such pretentious editing, may as well show him tapping his foot, or the back of his head, or inside the soundhole of the guitar.

he almost sounds like the guy from the real bans