Man I remember being an angsty 15 yr old and screaming along with this on the radio in '96. Credit to Yellowjackets for reminding me that this song existed!
Lol. I just posted bc Yellow jackets brought me here. Man I had loved this song and I was almost 40 to your 15. But a younnng 40 still rockin as I still do. Hehe
Yes, 30 years this September. We saw Tracy play with Blue Man Group several years ago. We were at the front of the stage, and I held up a photo of her from our wedding. She pointed to the side of the stage and yelled to ho backstage after the concert. She looked at the photo closer and said "I borrowed those clothes from my mother". I had her autograph the photo for me.
My big sister and me were both adopted at birth. When our mother. finally had two children of her own, my sister and I were no longer needed. We were both kicked out before either one of us we're 15. This song means the world to kids like us. Thanks for giving us a voice Tracey
Holy crap, dude! If you still use this youtube channel, hope you are good! That is f**king nuts! She didn't deserve kids. Life is generally unfair. But you can mould your life as you wish, now. Just don't stay in one place if it sucks. I know.
This is the worst thing I have read in a super super long time. Im so sorry, I hope they got in lots of trouble or karma got them. This is a great song, I was living on campus in college and I would lie to my mom and dad exactly like in the song. I became addicted to heroin my 2nd semester of my junior year and my life was a mess. Thank God I got far away from that sh!t
I haven't heard this song in over 25 years, then today, out of nowhere, the melody popped in my head. Slowly through out the day the rhythm of the lyrics turned into the wrong lyrics and screaming "Everything's fine!!" Five hours of me screaming "Everything's fine" randomly while working with my bf landscaping, he was fed up with me and told me to find the song so he could listen to it instead of me, or shut the hell up before i made his anxiety worse! I don't know what caused me to have this ear-worm out of nowhere, but im glad i did! I'd not only forgotten great it was, but that it even existed!
@Mark Astoforoff; It was the last great decade of truly good & fantastic music!! But the 90's were ultra-great because Alternative music, both the mellow & the more hard rocking versions, got unified together into specialized TV & radio airplay forums. It was precisely because of programs like "120 Minutes" & "Alternative-Nation" that this silvery-amazing genre of music became so grand! There needs to be specialized airplay on distinct stations & shows, that focus just on the genre & type of music at hand. Alternative should NOT have had to share its space with any other kind of music. The glorious era of Alternative died a swift death, once the idiot powers-that-be in the music industry decided to kill such specialized forums, and moved to mix-up & muddle-up every other music genre that there was, throwing it all together into one gigantic, messy, sloppy, flavor-destroying shlop of a music soup/playlist, which was awful, & pleased no one. As a horrible by-product of all that, was a hip-hop/rap takeover of the entire music world, a stranglehold upon it that it has never been abated from. Alternative, both the rock & the mellower variation of it, should be a unified ticket in its broadcasting, in my opinion. But even if you sub-divided it into hard-rock Alternative & mellow Alternative, the one thing that is absolutely needed for the success of the genre is that it gets a separate TV show or radio station or other forum devoted exclusively to it. It should NOT have to share its space NOR its airtime with hip hop/rap! If that happens, then the whole Alternative music genre dies, because of being stifled, getting no airplay, & being made scarce, since it can't stand out & be heard. If it has to compete & clash with the other completely different genre or with different genres. Sure, such 'all-things-to-all-people' stations/programs can exist, but things work out much better if they're separate. After all, Country usually gets separate airplay & distinct formats, and hence it gets to prosper, reaching its fans without interruption!
They still rock. I remember too many people being derogatory and calling this angry chick music while it was new. I was a kid hearing that and it stuck with me to this day. People will always find a way to dismiss women making music with any kind of emotion.
@@Aster_Riskit WAS angry chick music!!! And as a dude I fuckin LOVED it!!! Not sure how old I was when this came out, I was 15 in '90, but all the strong women artists were rockin back then. Granted I leaned to the harder music variety.
She was popular… college radio station popular, not mainstream popular but who cares as long as you jammed her songs in the 90’s along with Veruca Salt, Magnapop, Whale, check out Whale’s song “hobo humpin slobo babe” 90’s to a T lol
1996? I was only 12 listening to this on my local rock station (when the station actually played really good stuff all the time) and got my cassette tape to record my favorite songs on the radio! I miss 90s alt rock.
My mom used to play this cd in the car when I was little and she'd yell out the chorus and I'd crack up because I thought it was hilarious. She'd also play The Rose by Bette Midler too.
How can this be 23 years ago? I was 25 and loved listening to this while driving....and I listened to it on CASSETTE!! Now I will be 49 in a few weeks. Shoot me, please.
I just heard this on the radio while driving today and I turned it way up and probably scared some people at red lights singing along. Haven’t heard it years and it felt like it was only a day or two
Mother mother how's the family? I'm just calling to say hello How's the weather? How's my father? Am I lonely? Heavens no Mother mother are ya listening? Just a phone call to ease your mind Life is perfect never better Distance making the heart grow fond When you sent me off to see the world Were you scared that I might get hurt? Would I try a little tobacco Would I keep on hiking up my skirt? I'm hungry I'm dirty I'm losing my mind Everything's fine! I'm freezing I'm Starving I'm bleeding to death Everything's fine! Yeah I'm working making money I'm just starting to build a name I can feel it around the corner I could make it any day Mother mother can you hear me Sure I'm sober sure I'm sane Life is perfect never better Still your daughter still the same If I tell you what you want to hear Will it help you to sleep well at night? Are you sure that I'm your perfect dear Now just cuddle up and sleep tight I'm hungry I'm dirty I'm losing my mind Everything's fine! I'm freezing I'm starving I'm bleeding to death Everything's fine! I miss you I love you ❤️
I remember this song from back in the day and honestly relate to it now more than ever. 37 years old, no kids just floating along a little lost. And if my mom only knew the shenanigans I get into lol 😆
Omg.... I recently heard this in the showtime series "yellow jackets" ! I was instantly transported back to 1994 🤣 when I was a senior in high school. The song truly stands the test of time 🥰
Thank God for RUclips because I never would've heard this song again without it. Heard it on the radio during a weird time of my life (over and over again) but I was only 12 and didn't pay attention so I never knew what it was called. Sent chills down my spine to hear it again after so long.
Yellowjackets brought me back here. I remember jamming out to this song SO HARD back in the 90s. Whoever had the idea to put it on that show and whoever cleared the usage of it thank you so much for reminding me of such a legendary track.
True story: I heard this song once on the radio in 1996 and dreamt it that same night note for note, word for word. My brain had obviously sucked it in immediately, never again have I experienced such perfect audiographic echoic memory as I have done with Mother Mother.
I was 20 years old when I first heard this song on the radio. It was on a Valentine's day and I was on my way to my boyfriend's place at the time. When I got to my boyfriend's house, I couldn't stop talking about this song. She was playing at a local club but we couldn't make it. Later, in the summer, she was playing at another club and I made sure to get tickets in advance. I'll be 47 next month and I've been losing things here and there. This morning I thought, "I'm losing my mind." then automatically came Tracy Bonham's angry shouting "EVERYTHING'S FINE!" Haha. Brought back so many memories. I feel like no time has passed yet that was about 27 years ago!
I had regrettably forgotten about this amazing song until the episode of Yellowjackets which had it right before the title card of the episode. Thank you Yellowjackets and thank you Tracy Bonham.
I saw Tracy Bonham in Pittsburgh in the late 90s when she opened for spacehog. I remember thinking that she was so cool and different. Then years later I saw her with blue man group. She should have been bigger as a solo artist . she certainly had the talent. Wonder what happened?
Great song. Love how the verse progression is tied together in the "everything's fine" part. Great to find out that Tracy is the sole songwriter. Nicely done! I recently listened to Sheryl Crow and there's like 5 other songwriters on her stuff. Respect to Tracy.
To be fair to Crow, her writing partners on the debut derived from The Tuesday Night Music Club jam sessions with the members of then defunct David + David. Her second album was produced solely by Crow and written mostly by her. Most of Crow's subsequent albums were almost entirely written by her.
In 96, I was recently single living my mid life adolescence. I had a room mate who did sound at the local rock Venue (a converted movie theatre). We regularly had bands stay over in their sleeping bags. One morning I woke up and Tracy Bonhamand band were sleeping in our living room. I would have loved to stay and talk with them, but I had to leave to go to work. Came home and they were gone to the next gig.
I RE-discovered this song in a cRaZy way. Earlier this year, I bought a used 8th Edition of Joel Whitman's "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 1955-2003." This Sunday morning, I was listening to a re-broadcast of Casey Kasem's American Top 40 on WGRR 103.5 in CINCINNATI. I ended up looking for the Bee Gees' "Love So Right" 1976 rank, p54, and this song, "Mother Mother," caught my eye as I was thumbing through the pages, p73. Then I came here. I love this blessed world! I forgot how awesome this song is. Man, I think I haven't heard this since it was on the charts, on the radio, back in 1996.
My mom showed me this song when I was a kid, and now that I’m an adult and recently moved out, I suddenly relate to it so much. I never want her to worry about me so I always try to sound like I have my shit together when I’m actually going through hell. I love my mom and this song so much.
Mourning my mother. She passed a year a half ago. We had a very complicated relationship. Just Volatile. It just doesn't matter the nature of the relationship losing a parent is hard. I thought of this song. Sweeping out the nooks and crannies of my grief on my walk among the trees this morning, I listened on repeat. I found it oddly comforting. "I miss you. I Love you".
Wow!!! So many memories... I really miss the 90's... I can't believe this song is 20 years old....where the hell did the time go? on my period crying Friend: are you- Me: "EVERY THINGS FINEEEE"
I heard this today on Q101 on mothers day!! And it had dawned on me that I Have never seen the video!!! I use to love this song!! Haven't heard it probably in 15 plus years!!
Dang, I forgot about this song! I was watching a random self-produced RUclips video where the girl used this song at one point and it all came back! EVERYTHING'S FINE!!! 😂
In my teenaged years, i thought this was just a teenage female anthem. As an adult... i realized that it’s just universal for a mother daughter bond overtime lol
I remember being a 10 year-old kid from the suburbs of Boston, listening to _107.3 WAAF_ when Opie & Anthony were at the top of their game, this song hit around this time of year (mid-September) I had a white Made in Mexico Fender Stratocaster with pickups swapped into it from a 1969 Stratocaster which my dad received as part of a trade for a 10” speaker he had from his Silverfaced _Fender Super Reverb_ (he had had an idea to switch the stock Fender 10” speakers to Jensen C12K 12” speakers (I don’t remember the _exact_ result, but it was too much & they detracted value off the amp for having replaced speakers when he traded it in on a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier…) so I was playing my ass off learning what I could dreaming of having a Marshall Stack & a cool guitar… now I have a Fender EVH 5150-III Mini stack at the foot of my bed, and a Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster with a 24-Fret neck, Reversed enlarged headstock, locking tuning machines, a black Floyd Rose Original Tremolo, a Schaller Sure Claw, Noiseless tremolo springs, Red DiMarzio X2N high output Humbucker w/ black rails in the bridge position, a Veyz Sustainer Single sized Sustaniac style pickup in the middle position, a red DiMarzio D Activator X neck in the neck position, black pickguard, CTS B500K Volume pot, Fender TBX Tone Control _Tone pot #1,_ CTS _No-Load_ 500K _tone pot #2_ the reverse, enlarged headstock is finishe the same color red as the body, the black 1968 style CBS Fender logo is upside down & backwards just like Jimi Hendrix, it sits inside a molded Fender hard case with a huge Fender logo molded into the plastic (which I’ve put red vinyl inside each letter) and when the case open, red EL wire makes the open case flow red…
I met her the first time she came to MTV where I worked and she seemed REALLY REALLY angry. She is very short in height. But, she looked very cute. I met her right around the time when this video was made.
This is awesome! This is going to force me to really get super comfortable with bar chords. I can do them but for almost a whole song?....Love it!!!! Hand cramp...hand cramp....LOL!
This song will be an A+ FOREVVVEERRRRR. So unique and strong and catchy and meaningful. An argument can easily be made that it’s Top 5 of the 90s. And that’s saying something.
Man I remember being an angsty 15 yr old and screaming along with this on the radio in '96. Credit to Yellowjackets for reminding me that this song existed!
Lol. I just posted bc Yellow jackets brought me here. Man I had loved this song and I was almost 40 to your 15. But a younnng 40 still rockin as I still do. Hehe
YELLOW JACKETS!!!
SAME! Just watched Episode 2 and immediately looked up this song and was like Ohhh yeahhh!!
Me too!!!
Same
Her screaming "Everything's FINE!" has lived rent free in my head for 20 years.
Same. 😂
Such a badass little tune
Same 😂😂😂😂😂
30..
Tracy played at my wedding in 1994. She was lead singer of a band called New Life. A year later she had a record contract.
That Awesome
Freakin’ awesome!!! Did the marriage last?
Yes, 30 years this September.
We saw Tracy play with Blue Man Group several years ago. We were at the front of the stage, and I held up a photo of her from our wedding. She pointed to the side of the stage and yelled to ho backstage after the concert. She looked at the photo closer and said "I borrowed those clothes from my mother". I had her autograph the photo for me.
@@stevenmyers3139awesome story thanks for sharing
The Anger in the “EVERYTHINGS FINE” is so unmatched.
My big sister and me were both adopted at birth. When our mother. finally had two children of her own, my sister and I were no longer needed. We were both kicked out before either one of us we're 15. This song means the world to kids like us. Thanks for giving us a voice Tracey
Holy crap, dude! If you still use this youtube channel, hope you are good!
That is f**king nuts! She didn't deserve kids. Life is generally unfair. But you can mould your life as you wish, now. Just don't stay in one place if it sucks. I know.
Wow that’s some bullshit... hope you’re doing well.
This is the worst thing I have read in a super super long time. Im so sorry, I hope they got in lots of trouble or karma got them. This is a great song, I was living on campus in college and I would lie to my mom and dad exactly like in the song. I became addicted to heroin my 2nd semester of my junior year and my life was a mess. Thank God I got far away from that sh!t
You're all survivors. God bless yous 💝💝💝
I was told since 8 or 9 I was out as soon as I was old enough to be kicked out. Extra respect to all the awesome MOMS. :))
Holy mother mother of god...
I've been trying to figure out who sang this song and what it was called for SIXTEEN YEARS
I can die happy now
Same..
Lol pro tip: google the lyrics well enough itll b there. Ive found the most obscure, 10 yr old german synth shit ever that way
@@elizabethbennet4791 what do you do when the lyrics are do doo doo doo doo do doo
@@gh0stdaughter then you're stuck with doo doo lol
@@gh0stdaughter 😂😂😂😂
This song’s a banger I wish more female singers did screams like this
Only a small number are allowed to scream, otherwise we would never stop
that's how she fucked up her voice lol
Allowed? Screw it, let it rip ladies
@@cjmars822 this energy 🔥
@@annedroid1460 Us girls can have a voice
I haven't heard this song in over 25 years, then today, out of nowhere, the melody popped in my head. Slowly through out the day the rhythm of the lyrics turned into the wrong lyrics and screaming "Everything's fine!!" Five hours of me screaming "Everything's fine" randomly while working with my bf landscaping, he was fed up with me and told me to find the song so he could listen to it instead of me, or shut the hell up before i made his anxiety worse! I don't know what caused me to have this ear-worm out of nowhere, but im glad i did! I'd not only forgotten great it was, but that it even existed!
best SNAFU hymn)
The 90's had some of the best angry music. Last great decade for music.
@Mark Astoforoff; It was the last great decade of truly good & fantastic music!! But the 90's were ultra-great because Alternative music, both the mellow & the more hard rocking versions, got unified together into specialized TV & radio airplay forums. It was precisely because of programs like "120 Minutes" & "Alternative-Nation" that this silvery-amazing genre of music became so grand! There needs to be specialized airplay on distinct stations & shows, that focus just on the genre & type of music at hand.
Alternative should NOT have had to share its space with any other kind of music. The glorious era of Alternative died a swift death, once the idiot powers-that-be in the music industry decided to kill such specialized forums, and moved to mix-up & muddle-up every other music genre that there was, throwing it all together into one gigantic, messy, sloppy, flavor-destroying shlop of a music soup/playlist, which was awful, & pleased no one. As a horrible by-product of all that, was a hip-hop/rap takeover of the entire music world, a stranglehold upon it that it has never been abated from.
Alternative, both the rock & the mellower variation of it, should be a unified ticket in its broadcasting, in my opinion. But even if you sub-divided it into hard-rock Alternative & mellow Alternative, the one thing that is absolutely needed for the success of the genre is that it gets a separate TV show or radio station or other forum devoted exclusively to it. It should NOT have to share its space NOR its airtime with hip hop/rap! If that happens, then the whole Alternative music genre dies, because of being stifled, getting no airplay, & being made scarce, since it can't stand out & be heard. If it has to compete & clash with the other completely different genre or with different genres. Sure, such 'all-things-to-all-people' stations/programs can exist, but things work out much better if they're separate. After all, Country usually gets separate airplay & distinct formats, and hence it gets to prosper, reaching its fans without interruption!
@@smeltriver09 You're absolutely right. You encapsulated the cause and effect of 90's alternative music's rise and fall perfectly. Well done.
alanis, meredith, tracy, Kurt, Chris. The best
The 2000’s: am I a joke to you?
I can verify this
This is why the 90's were so freaking awesome... Damn the girls rocked it so hard.
l7 rocked harderer
90s were the shit !!!! Best ever
They still rock. I remember too many people being derogatory and calling this angry chick music while it was new. I was a kid hearing that and it stuck with me to this day. People will always find a way to dismiss women making music with any kind of emotion.
Yup. Tracy, Liz Phair, pj Harvey
@@Aster_Riskit WAS angry chick music!!! And as a dude I fuckin LOVED it!!! Not sure how old I was when this came out, I was 15 in '90, but all the strong women artists were rockin back then. Granted I leaned to the harder music variety.
Totally forgot about this song and how much I loved it back in the day until I heard it in Yellowjackets yesterday! 🤘🏾❤
Yessssss!!! 🙌🏼
Me too
same
Yep!!
Same! And the entire yellowjackets soundtrack… pretty much lighting me with good memories from the 90s teen years
Oh my god. Yellowjackets brought me here. Memory unlocked.
Same! Totally forgot this song existed
Who are Yellowjackets?
Same
@@hstephens78 a tv show
I can't believe this song is 20 years old....where the hell did the time go?
Yeah no kidding hard to believe isn't I remember when the album came out it is a great album too.
I thought more like 22 years ago. Kennedy used to introduce it on MTV.
Welp, jeepers, right at the end of the video it says "1996," so... ya don't really have to guess.
The fuck if we're old, though! Still young, just waaay better!
75% of that time went off just procrastinating in youtube... I know that!
This is the music the 90's should be remembered for.
'90s.
@@siler7 the nineties
She is such a brilliant singer. Shame she wasn't more popular.
She was popular… college radio station popular, not mainstream popular but who cares as long as you jammed her songs in the 90’s along with Veruca Salt, Magnapop, Whale, check out Whale’s song “hobo humpin slobo babe” 90’s to a T lol
When you call your parents during quarantine.
I've been going around screaming everything's fine for two weeks. 🥴
🤣🤣 Yeah!!!
Lol nice
No dear. Nowhere close.
@@HumanimalChannel I hear ya
1996? I was only 12 listening to this on my local rock station (when the station actually played really good stuff all the time) and got my cassette tape to record my favorite songs on the radio! I miss 90s alt rock.
C-Wad1984 I miss the 90s alternative scene, too! I came of age during the 90s, this era of music holds a lot of meaning for me.
That's what is great about siriusxm satelite radio. Modifying channels like lithium to your preference. Brings back to best of the 90s alt rock.
CPW1109 I miss 90s music. I was 12 when this came out too
>my cassette tape
Your what?
I'm sure a doctor has a cure for that now.
90's was the best
My mom used to play this cd in the car when I was little and she'd yell out the chorus and I'd crack up because I thought it was hilarious. She'd also play The Rose by Bette Midler too.
Sasha Bowman oh the rose too, do you want me to cry jesus. my mom sang that and landslide by Fleetwood mac
That sounds like a good memory :)
Geez. Pass the tissues.
Sounds like me. I like your mom
We have the same mom i guess
Just saw her tonight at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. 20 years later, she still rocks the shit out of it! And her new music is great too.
And now this is 12 years later and I’m still here listening.
I didn’t remember this song until I did. Every word of it. 17, lonely sad and angry. Just screaming along was so healing. Still is ;)
Props to people who could still remember such a great song
I was looking for the band Mother Mother and found a gem.
59 and still relating to this.
EVERYTHING'S FIIIIINE
*divebombs into quicksand*
+SkilesHasFun Divebomb?
IM NOT THE ONLY ONE
How can this be 23 years ago? I was 25 and loved listening to this while driving....and I listened to it on CASSETTE!! Now I will be 49 in a few weeks. Shoot me, please.
Unfortunately life pass through our eyes in a blink...
I just heard this on the radio while driving today and I turned it way up and probably scared some people at red lights singing along. Haven’t heard it years and it felt like it was only a day or two
I remember being a 21-year-old college student and hearing this song. I had no idea who sang it - until today.
Happy 50th! I am close behind. This song is STILL relevant. Talked to my mom today! LOL
I was just reminded of this song after finding it on a mixtape from 1997. Shoot me also pls.
The soundtrack to being a human.
Mother mother how's the family?
I'm just calling to say hello
How's the weather? How's my father?
Am I lonely? Heavens no
Mother mother are ya listening?
Just a phone call to ease your mind
Life is perfect never better
Distance making the heart grow fond
When you sent me off to see the world
Were you scared that I might get hurt?
Would I try a little tobacco
Would I keep on hiking up my skirt?
I'm hungry
I'm dirty
I'm losing my mind
Everything's fine!
I'm freezing
I'm Starving
I'm bleeding to death
Everything's fine!
Yeah I'm working making money
I'm just starting to build a name
I can feel it around the corner
I could make it any day
Mother mother can you hear me
Sure I'm sober sure I'm sane
Life is perfect never better
Still your daughter still the same
If I tell you what you want to hear
Will it help you to sleep well at night?
Are you sure that I'm your perfect dear
Now just cuddle up and sleep tight
I'm hungry
I'm dirty
I'm losing my mind
Everything's fine!
I'm freezing
I'm starving
I'm bleeding to death
Everything's fine!
I miss you
I love you
❤️
Thanks!
Thanks, dear 🤗
Thanks for posting the lyrics!
What’s the title of this song? Thanks
DWG Herkemasnurdbird
Mother Mother
Is there a Hallmark card that plays this when you open it?
Idk, but I would buy it lol.. I have sung this to my mum
Lol
No, but there should be
OMG best comment ever. I NEED about 1000 copies of that card.
😂😂
I remember this song from back in the day and honestly relate to it now more than ever. 37 years old, no kids just floating along a little lost. And if my mom only knew the shenanigans I get into lol 😆
I was in university, living on my own, going out every night when this came out. It really spoke to who I was
I relate!
Just to hear the scream . Love it . Should have been more longer
That scream part is so great! Gets me pumped every time
Omg.... I recently heard this in the showtime series "yellow jackets" ! I was instantly transported back to 1994 🤣 when I was a senior in high school. The song truly stands the test of time 🥰
Thank God for RUclips because I never would've heard this song again without it. Heard it on the radio during a weird time of my life (over and over again) but I was only 12 and didn't pay attention so I never knew what it was called. Sent chills down my spine to hear it again after so long.
Spotify?
Right! I loved this song when it came out
I just heard this on the radio today. Pulled into the office parking lot screaming "everything's fine!" XD
Yes 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼
This is one of my favorite songs. It perfectly illustrates the struggle we all deal with in leaving the nest.
This whole album was just....*chef's kiss* 💋
Yellowjackets brought me back here. I remember jamming out to this song SO HARD back in the 90s. Whoever had the idea to put it on that show and whoever cleared the usage of it thank you so much for reminding me of such a legendary track.
True story: I heard this song once on the radio in 1996 and dreamt it that same night note for note, word for word. My brain had obviously sucked it in immediately, never again have I experienced such perfect audiographic echoic memory as I have done with Mother Mother.
Great song. I'm losing my mind, everything's fiiiiiinnnee
For all the mothers out there who are never too old to rock and roll into the day.... may everything be more than fine for you all :)
This Cd and Poe's Hello album were my ultimate favs back in high school.
I was just thinking the same thing.. loved Poe as well! Sneaker Pimps too!
MOM: How's everything?
TRACY: EVERYTHING'S FINE!!!!!!!!
MOM: Honey you don't have to raise your voice...
Hahaha 😂
lol
LOL!!!!! Hilarious!!!
😂
Jejeje
One of the best of the 90s.
Welcome to Adult Life MFer!🎉
Everything's Fine!
Looking for nice mother's day songs to play, and here's a suggestion from my algorithm. WOWMOMWOW
I was 20 years old when I first heard this song on the radio. It was on a Valentine's day and I was on my way to my boyfriend's place at the time. When I got to my boyfriend's house, I couldn't stop talking about this song. She was playing at a local club but we couldn't make it.
Later, in the summer, she was playing at another club and I made sure to get tickets in advance.
I'll be 47 next month and I've been losing things here and there. This morning I thought, "I'm losing my mind." then automatically came Tracy Bonham's angry shouting "EVERYTHING'S FINE!" Haha.
Brought back so many memories. I feel like no time has passed yet that was about 27 years ago!
Always called this my period song ❤️
Haven’t heard this song since it was first circulating, but I still remember EVERY WORD!
I had regrettably forgotten about this amazing song until the episode of Yellowjackets which had it right before the title card of the episode. Thank you Yellowjackets and thank you Tracy Bonham.
Wow!!! So many memories... I really miss the 90's...
You're not the only one...
m.facebook.com/rock90sandmore?_rdr lmL
I saw Tracy Bonham in Pittsburgh in the late 90s when she opened for spacehog. I remember thinking that she was so cool and different. Then years later I saw her with blue man group. She should have been bigger as a solo artist . she certainly had the talent. Wonder what happened?
Great song. Love how the verse progression is tied together in the "everything's fine" part. Great to find out that Tracy is the sole songwriter. Nicely done! I recently listened to Sheryl Crow and there's like 5 other songwriters on her stuff. Respect to Tracy.
To be fair to Crow, her writing partners on the debut derived from The Tuesday Night Music Club jam sessions with the members of then defunct David + David. Her second album was produced solely by Crow and written mostly by her. Most of Crow's subsequent albums were almost entirely written by her.
In 96, I was recently single living my mid life adolescence. I had a room mate who did sound at the local rock Venue (a converted movie theatre). We regularly had bands stay over in their sleeping bags. One morning I woke up and Tracy Bonhamand band were sleeping in our living room. I would have loved to stay and talk with them, but I had to leave to go to work. Came home and they were gone to the next gig.
I RE-discovered this song in a cRaZy way. Earlier this year, I bought a used 8th Edition of Joel Whitman's "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 1955-2003." This Sunday morning, I was listening to a re-broadcast of Casey Kasem's American Top 40 on WGRR 103.5 in CINCINNATI. I ended up looking for the Bee Gees' "Love So Right" 1976 rank, p54, and this song, "Mother Mother," caught my eye as I was thumbing through the pages, p73. Then I came here. I love this blessed world! I forgot how awesome this song is. Man, I think I haven't heard this since it was on the charts, on the radio, back in 1996.
I love the frustrated, explosive emotion of this song.
My mom showed me this song when I was a kid, and now that I’m an adult and recently moved out, I suddenly relate to it so much. I never want her to worry about me so I always try to sound like I have my shit together when I’m actually going through hell. I love my mom and this song so much.
I still scream this. Lol and my daughter looks at me funny. I tell her when she's a teenager she'll get it haha
when you amputate your coaches leg with an axe…EVERYTHINGS FINE
90's: This and is an incredible album
2022: It still is
Mourning my mother. She passed a year a half ago. We had a very complicated relationship. Just Volatile. It just doesn't matter the nature of the relationship losing a parent is hard. I thought of this song. Sweeping out the nooks and crannies of my grief on my walk among the trees this morning, I listened on repeat. I found it oddly comforting. "I miss you. I Love you".
I was blessed to hear this masterpiece when I was 6. Still know all the words😅 Thank you for this gem💜😎
SO VERY VERY GOOD 👍
I was fifteen years old when I first saw this video I was in love with her then I am still in love with her now and forever 💙
*on my period crying* Friend: are you- Me: "EVERY THINGS FINEEEE"
Perfect!
Y e s
SOOOO underrated....
Love how the Veronicas acted like they wrote the damn thing.
Only a few seconds in Yellojackets, I knew this great song/artist from the 90s, but it was sooo good to hear it again in a serie
I use this song as my mother’s ringtone 😅
Crying. This was my theme song when I moved out at 18.
Thank you Yellow jackets for remembering this song. Check it out on Showtime if you graduated in the 90's! Brings back memories.
Totally forgot about this song....thank goodness the series Yellowjackets has a killer 90's soundtrack.....happy dayzzzz
What a good voice she has!
Yes.....Love this song....Found it!.. This and sharks don't sleep.... That's ME!...Tracey Bonham was 90s gold..
16 year old when I was introduced to Tracey's music.
43 today and her music still plays loud as hell in my house!!!
Haven't we all felt this way some time...yet, she was the one to yell for us!❤
This always made me think of Alanis Morrissette's evil twin or something....
God, me too. The first time I heard it, I thought it WAS Alanis Morrissette's early stuff.
Like Alanis' little sister who hasn't lived quite long enough to be as jaded and damaged yet.
I literally thought Alanis Morrisette sung this-
Lol
She's an awsom chick
Her screams lived in my mind from 1996
Ugh! Takes me back to high school!
me too! :)
And me too, just love it :D
Yep.
you're so old. me too. :D
Looks like you had a hard time of it in H.S... 😉
It’s 2022 and I just happened to remember this song today
Wow!!! So many memories... I really miss the 90's...
I can't believe this song is 20 years old....where the hell did the time go?
on my period crying Friend: are you- Me: "EVERY THINGS FINEEEE"
I heard this today on Q101 on mothers day!! And it had dawned on me that I Have never seen the video!!! I use to love this song!! Haven't heard it probably in 15 plus years!!
I fukkin miss the 90s.
Dang, I forgot about this song! I was watching a random self-produced RUclips video where the girl used this song at one point and it all came back! EVERYTHING'S FINE!!! 😂
In my teenaged years, i thought this was just a teenage female anthem. As an adult... i realized that it’s just universal for a mother daughter bond overtime lol
Yep this time 10 years later still, EVERYTHINGS FINEEEE!!!!
I just rediscovered this 90 classics today and I opened a great smile when I listened to it!!! OMG this song is insane!!!
Loved this song by The Veronicas and then just found out it was a cover of this, a great find!! 💝
Same! Someone quoted this song and I was like, "Oh yea. Veronicas." They looked at me like an idiot.
@@jaffar721 Their mother died recently.
@@pauljordan4452 🥺Aww no
Great song. Whenever my daughters call I tell them don't give me any of that mother mother shit, give me the skinny. They know exactly what I mean.
I love her scream! This song has the perfect mix of tough and tender. ❤️
still the best song
she still rocks
Dang I love ❤️ listening to her Tracy Bonham rocked in.1996 to bad she wasn't noticed more
Sounds like my mother. Not everyone is blessed with mothers that care or give a crap.
winogirlll or when they give a crap too late...
Bet you’re fun at parties
sorry about that kiddo. I;ve had many therapy sessions over my parents treatment of me. I can relate!
aint that the sad reality,...mines a bad seed whom has taken all the sweetness out of every breath i breath
Regina- Yeah, my mom just told me to go to hell 😆
I remember being a 10 year-old kid from the suburbs of Boston, listening to _107.3 WAAF_ when Opie & Anthony were at the top of their game, this song hit around this time of year (mid-September) I had a white Made in Mexico Fender Stratocaster with pickups swapped into it from a 1969 Stratocaster which my dad received as part of a trade for a 10” speaker he had from his Silverfaced _Fender Super Reverb_ (he had had an idea to switch the stock Fender 10” speakers to Jensen C12K 12” speakers (I don’t remember the _exact_ result, but it was too much & they detracted value off the amp for having replaced speakers when he traded it in on a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier…) so I was playing my ass off learning what I could dreaming of having a Marshall Stack & a cool guitar… now I have a Fender EVH 5150-III Mini stack at the foot of my bed, and a Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster with a 24-Fret neck, Reversed enlarged headstock, locking tuning machines, a black Floyd Rose Original Tremolo, a Schaller Sure Claw, Noiseless tremolo springs, Red DiMarzio X2N high output Humbucker w/ black rails in the bridge position, a Veyz Sustainer Single sized Sustaniac style pickup in the middle position, a red DiMarzio D Activator X neck in the neck position, black pickguard, CTS B500K Volume pot, Fender TBX Tone Control _Tone pot #1,_ CTS _No-Load_ 500K _tone pot #2_ the reverse, enlarged headstock is finishe the same color red as the body, the black 1968 style CBS Fender logo is upside down & backwards just like Jimi Hendrix, it sits inside a molded Fender hard case with a huge Fender logo molded into the plastic (which I’ve put red vinyl inside each letter) and when the case open, red EL wire makes the open case flow red…
I met her the first time she came to MTV where I worked and she seemed REALLY REALLY angry. She is very short in height. But, she looked very cute. I met her right around the time when this video was made.
There was a HS dance team which used this song for their State competition.
This is awesome! This is going to force me to really get super comfortable with bar chords. I can do them but for almost a whole song?....Love it!!!! Hand cramp...hand cramp....LOL!
Tracy, you were a favorite of MTV ... Remember?
This song will be an A+ FOREVVVEERRRRR.
So unique and strong and catchy and meaningful.
An argument can easily be made that it’s Top 5 of the 90s. And that’s saying something.
It's been years. I heard it on Ticktock. Unlocked memories
THIS is one of my FAV joints from the 90's!!! THIS IS FOREVER DOPE!!!!
My mom bought me her album at Circuit City when I was 16. I was listening to lots of rock and some metal in the mid 90s.