The Decemberists - The Sporting Life (from Picaresque)

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Комментарии • 73

  • @themessengerofmusic
    @themessengerofmusic Год назад +10

    My favorite thing about this song is that it's nearly five minutes long but it's just one event happening in slow motion over the course of- at most- ten seconds

  • @Modusiticate
    @Modusiticate 4 года назад +27

    this song is so melancholy. in the sense that it's sad, but in a warm way.

    • @netforce0
      @netforce0 4 месяца назад +1

      Yeah I think the lead singer says he likes finding happiness in sadness

  • @davetye
    @davetye 4 года назад +34

    That big major 7th chord when the keys come in is glorious.

    • @a7xeyo
      @a7xeyo 2 года назад +2

      Yup that's what gives it the warm, but sad texture. So fucking good

  • @kevinriel8631
    @kevinriel8631 5 лет назад +43

    I fell on the playing field
    The work of an errant heel
    The din of the crowd and the loud commotion
    Went deafening silence and stopped emotion
    The season was almost done
    We managed it 12 to 1
    So far I had known no humiliation
    In front of my friends and close relations
    There's my father looking on
    And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
    With the captain of the other team
    And all of this is clear to me
    They condescend and fix on me a frown
    How they love the sporting life
    And father had had such hopes
    For a son who would take the ropes
    And fulfill all his old athletic aspirations
    But apparently now there's some complications
    But while I am lying here
    Trying to fight the tears
    I'll prove to the crowd that I come out stronger
    Though I think I might lie here a little longer
    There's my coach he's looking down
    The disappointment in his knitted brow
    "I should've known"
    He thinks again
    "I never should have put him in"
    He turns and loads the lemonade away
    And breathes in deep
    The sporting life
    The sporting life
    The sporting life
    How he loves...
    There's my father looking on
    And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
    With the captain of the other team
    And all of this is clear to me
    They condescend and fix on me a frown
    How they love the sporting life
    The sporting life
    The sporting life
    The sporting life
    How they love

  • @n0denz
    @n0denz 4 года назад +20

    It reminds me of early football when they wore those leather helmets.

  • @stephenmason3900
    @stephenmason3900 3 года назад +13

    This song really captures my life being pushed so hard in sports all of the time. No matter how hard I played it could
    Never be enough....... unless my girlfriend was proud of me

  • @jamiemasters7401
    @jamiemasters7401 4 года назад +89

    Sports Songs For People Who Don't Play Sports

    • @Arbiter099
      @Arbiter099 3 года назад

      It's this and Adam Sandler's song "The Lonesome Kicker"

    • @dubyah7308
      @dubyah7308 3 года назад +1

      "Worthless Comments By Idiots Who Capitalize Everything"

    • @Flagz69
      @Flagz69 3 года назад +4

      @@dubyah7308 lol, you must be fun at parties, poor baby

    • @dubyah7308
      @dubyah7308 3 года назад

      ​@@Flagz69 damn bro you go me so good
      did you think of that urself
      ps man nice username 666 so cool man wow

    • @rcr257
      @rcr257 3 года назад +1

      @@dubyah7308 calm down

  • @unsubscribedanimation
    @unsubscribedanimation 2 года назад +15

    Far from my favorite Decemberists song, but the line "I think I may lie here a little bit longer" hits so hard. Barely carries any meaning, but it sounds so pretty.

    • @netforce0
      @netforce0 4 месяца назад

      Lol yeah it's kinda funny cause he's more hurt than he wants to be lol

  • @mo482
    @mo482 8 лет назад +17

    I LOVE THIS SONG
    The Decemberists are so fun to harmonize to

  • @kittenvsrabbit
    @kittenvsrabbit 5 лет назад +30

    Verse rhythm feels like an homage to The Smiths, but it is an old simple gospel beat.

    • @Joel00123
      @Joel00123 4 года назад +6

      Smiths was the first thing I thought too!

    • @georgeowens7046
      @georgeowens7046 2 года назад

      These guys even interpolate some of "This Charming Man" into their version. ruclips.net/video/ff3RieOmDKA/видео.html

  • @hungrybois5954
    @hungrybois5954 4 месяца назад +2

    Drums are addicting. Reminds me Lust for Life.

    • @tomalophicon
      @tomalophicon 2 месяца назад

      Addicting isn't a word

    • @hungrybois5954
      @hungrybois5954 2 месяца назад

      @@tomalophicon Is English not your first language?

  • @Friedegger
    @Friedegger 3 года назад +2

    I went off the Decemberists for a few years, but this classic is bringing me back.

  • @ChristopherBingham-xx8xl
    @ChristopherBingham-xx8xl 3 месяца назад

    This might be the most relatable song the Decemberists have ever done. I also like how the song rocks really hard, yet feels sad at the same time.

  • @3ggztr3m3b33tz
    @3ggztr3m3b33tz 4 года назад +5

    I can just imagine the music video now.

  • @marcelolaraalvarez
    @marcelolaraalvarez 3 года назад +4

    Me encanta esta canción y no entiendo por que ya no puedo ver el video ese donde un adolecente practicaba diatintos deportes y en todos le iba mal.

  • @AndromedaHadoukenbreakherlegs
    @AndromedaHadoukenbreakherlegs 5 лет назад +6

    This whole album is just so fantastic.

  • @masonb9788
    @masonb9788 3 года назад +2

    This is fitting considering current affairs related to the Olympics.

  • @brandenlikesbeer
    @brandenlikesbeer 7 месяцев назад

    I've got a lust for life and this song

  • @greyalien9265
    @greyalien9265 5 лет назад +4

    2019... 💞💞

  • @foreignrifles
    @foreignrifles 9 лет назад +10

    johnny manziel rookie season

  • @__lemonade
    @__lemonade 2 года назад +1

    2:12 Hey! Get your hands off of me!

  • @petercaffrey5533
    @petercaffrey5533 2 года назад

    All thanks to WPRB, Princeton.

  • @vicism3375
    @vicism3375 4 года назад

    I can smell the rapid station when I listen to this.

  • @m1ke1981
    @m1ke1981 8 лет назад +23

    The drum pattern reminds me of Iggy Pop - Lust for Life..LOL

    • @kinseymilkbone
      @kinseymilkbone 8 лет назад +5

      It goes back as far as The Supremes "You Can't Hurry Love", and probably to some old gospel record before that.

    • @davidc5962
      @davidc5962 6 лет назад +3

      the doors "Touch me"

    • @mightguy123456
      @mightguy123456 5 лет назад

      Michael Björk ie. The most generic drum beat ever.

    • @xerosfear
      @xerosfear 4 года назад +1

      Philip Larkin shut the fuck up

    • @FragmentedR_YT
      @FragmentedR_YT 4 года назад

      Philip Larkin nah, the money beat is objectively the most overused drum beat in existence.

  • @toneohm
    @toneohm Год назад

    Hmm.. the Decemberists.. i like it

  • @andykinsella8921
    @andykinsella8921 8 лет назад +14

    i like this band because i like to read books and

  • @AnthonyRosas
    @AnthonyRosas 4 года назад +1

    pathos over a killer groove

  • @johancandela9773
    @johancandela9773 5 лет назад +12

    2019 ?

  • @pretendone9012
    @pretendone9012 7 лет назад

    sesso tra donne

  • @naffy3327
    @naffy3327 8 лет назад +8

    groovy es fuk ayy lmao

  • @Frizzchik1
    @Frizzchik1 5 лет назад +2

    here in 2018...love me some Decemberists.

  • @angbad123
    @angbad123 2 года назад

    What happened to the fan made music video by some high schoolers?

  • @larryinc64
    @larryinc64 3 года назад

    I'm walking on the sunshine, WOAH OHOH

  • @oceanside8034
    @oceanside8034 8 лет назад +1

    if this song isn't me-

  • @furiousmagician5912
    @furiousmagician5912 Год назад

    homestar runner

  • @stevew5146
    @stevew5146 2 года назад +1

    Sounds like a little Amy Winehouse riff

  • @delavan9141
    @delavan9141 3 года назад +1

    When I first heard this on the radio around 2001 or so, I thought it was such a cool composition, but now sounds not so great at all to me. Maybe i heard a different recording, one that emphasized the instrumental part more. I guess his voice just grates now.

    • @trystero1729
      @trystero1729 2 года назад +7

      First of all, this song didn’t come out till 2005. Second, it rules

    • @tomalophicon
      @tomalophicon 2 месяца назад

      2001? Try again smart guy.

  • @mrrationality2213
    @mrrationality2213 4 года назад

    Am I the only one who thinks this song is kinda sad?

    • @ChristopherBingham-xx8xl
      @ChristopherBingham-xx8xl 3 месяца назад

      You are not. It's supposed to be sad. It's about a guy who plays sports because his father makes him do it, but he's no good at it and he feels he's letting everyone down

  • @firstlasterson1213
    @firstlasterson1213 7 месяцев назад

    Dudes a flake

  • @Flagz69
    @Flagz69 3 года назад +1

    Boring