this guy flawlessly incapsulated the emotional state of a lonely drive home after a break up, missed connection, or bad night with a girl in whatever way. I always still feel it even at 36 yrs old.
Hearing this today, has feelings and memories rushing back, like a tsunami. It’s so visceral. I was 18 when Swiss Army Romance was released. I took a trade job, over going off to college, like my gf and all my friends did. I remember driving alone damn near every weekend, 8 hrs round trip to see them. That lasted almost 2 years, along with driving to dozens of shows, to see Chris perform. I shamelessly listened to this song on repeat sometimes 10x, during long drives home at night. It’s kind of bizarre, seeing live shows on YT, in what looks to be arenas. The shows I relate to, were at places like St. Andrew’s church, in PG County, MD ( College Park ), where there couldn’t have been more than maybe 200 people? Such great memories!
This makes me remember a friend I learned to play guitar with. We were newbies trying to get the aggressive strumming down from the original recording, and I got to "Please send me anything but signals that are mixed!" before I heard a loud TWANG! and broke one of my first strings ever, haha. I never did learn the rest of this song after that, but I did come back for Standard Lines!
Standard lines was my white whale as a teenager. I spent weeks listening and trying to learn it. I can still play it like 15 years later lol. It's a great go to, when someone asks you to play something, randomly, in front of people, lol.
@@TheBlackSpastic Haha, same here friend! Me and a friend spent literal weeks on that one song just trying to learn the intro. By the end of it we got it all down but couldn’t do the octaves that are on some of the notes, so it sounded a little thin, but it was good enough for us! I can still play it too, never forgetting that one :)
Been aboutb30 years since i played this cd, and i still know everybword by heart. You really gave a lot of meaning to my teen years. Glad youre still doing it.
This song is what taught me alternate tunings on guitar. There's a whole world of beautiful music to be made on guitar with these open tunings. This album fired off my love for music. It's still my my rotation. I've been playing and writing acoustic songs for 20 years now because of it.
We moved to the US from the Philippines in my teens, and culture shock would be an understatement for what I experienced. This album was one of my favorites then and helped me get thru tough times. I even learned some of the songs and played them at school ❤ thanks for the memories!!
Thanks for treating us with this track and the memories that come with it. I hadn't heard this track for a while. Nicely done. Love you Chris. All the best for you and your family.
Easiest dashboard song to play, but you need to tune your guitar to every string but the a string to d flat a string to a flat , can find the tabs for it pretty easy on ultimate guitar just look for one with the correct tuning
Wonder why he switched from those old jumbo body Gibson guitars that use to resonate so beautifully??? Not to say this isn’t amazing, purely curiosity.
Chris not that you need it but I recommend the herb Kudzu to every singer. It is the only herb I have ever heard to have the effect of improving/fortifying one's singing voice. It also helps cure alcoholism but hopefully that is not something you need help with. < 3 KUDZU root. It is quite a popular herbal extract available on the market.
Here I am re-living my teen years at 40 🫠
this guy flawlessly incapsulated the emotional state of a lonely drive home after a break up, missed connection, or bad night with a girl in whatever way. I always still feel it even at 36 yrs old.
Even at the age of 42 🤟♥️
I love this song. Good memories. This was awesome. Definitely singing along here
Hearing this today, has feelings and memories rushing back, like a tsunami. It’s so visceral. I was 18 when Swiss Army Romance was released. I took a trade job, over going off to college, like my gf and all my friends did. I remember driving alone damn near every weekend, 8 hrs round trip to see them. That lasted almost 2 years, along with driving to dozens of shows, to see Chris perform. I shamelessly listened to this song on repeat sometimes 10x, during long drives home at night. It’s kind of bizarre, seeing live shows on YT, in what looks to be arenas. The shows I relate to, were at places like St. Andrew’s church, in PG County, MD ( College Park ), where there couldn’t have been more than maybe 200 people? Such great memories!
This makes me remember a friend I learned to play guitar with. We were newbies trying to get the aggressive strumming down from the original recording, and I got to "Please send me anything but signals that are mixed!" before I heard a loud TWANG! and broke one of my first strings ever, haha.
I never did learn the rest of this song after that, but I did come back for Standard Lines!
Standard lines was my white whale as a teenager. I spent weeks listening and trying to learn it. I can still play it like 15 years later lol. It's a great go to, when someone asks you to play something, randomly, in front of people, lol.
@@TheBlackSpastic Haha, same here friend! Me and a friend spent literal weeks on that one song just trying to learn the intro. By the end of it we got it all down but couldn’t do the octaves that are on some of the notes, so it sounded a little thin, but it was good enough for us!
I can still play it too, never forgetting that one :)
Been aboutb30 years since i played this cd, and i still know everybword by heart. You really gave a lot of meaning to my teen years. Glad youre still doing it.
This song is what taught me alternate tunings on guitar. There's a whole world of beautiful music to be made on guitar with these open tunings.
This album fired off my love for music. It's still my my rotation. I've been playing and writing acoustic songs for 20 years now because of it.
Black Balloon for me, although this one came shortly after
Just amazing. This album start to finish. Gold. Thank you.
We moved to the US from the Philippines in my teens, and culture shock would be an understatement for what I experienced. This album was one of my favorites then and helped me get thru tough times. I even learned some of the songs and played them at school ❤ thanks for the memories!!
Thanks for treating us with this track and the memories that come with it. I hadn't heard this track for a while. Nicely done. Love you Chris. All the best for you and your family.
35 never felt so much like 16
Glad to see I'm not the only one giving the strumming pattern a mix up now 😊
Classic. Wish I knew how to play it.
Easiest dashboard song to play, but you need to tune your guitar to every string but the a string to d flat a string to a flat , can find the tabs for it pretty easy on ultimate guitar just look for one with the correct tuning
@@TheOneTrueOlc thanks
Can’t wait to see chris again in Sacramento this fall! We bought the vip tix and my wife and I are so stoked!
I never get tired of listening to this guy 🫡🤟🤘
You still got it Chris ❤❤❤
Music is the closest thing humanity has to a time machine.
Such a great song.
This dude hasn't aged in 20 years, voice or looks. He just turned 49!
Hi, Chris, from Boca Raton. 😊😊😊😊😊😊
I can hear the drums rolling and banging ahhaha
Thanks so much for this brother.
Keep rockin' dude.
Incredible, per usual.
Show de bola! Esses vídeos caseiros são muito bons
love the hair, chris!!!
Great music and vocals !
I have your vinyl of this song. And i always play it.
Always dig the tunes man. 🤙🏼
my sideburns haven't been shorter than the bottom of my ears since 2002...
I had the unplugged sideburns my last two years in high school, lol.
love you man
I'm bringing back old memories too. Boca Ale House to bad Pete Rose's is out of business.
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Wonder why he switched from those old jumbo body Gibson guitars that use to resonate so beautifully??? Not to say this isn’t amazing, purely curiosity.
In college I used to have this as my wake up music. It worked really well because of the intro…a little too well. Sorry Brett!
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How many strings we all broke trying to learn this song on the guitar
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So you stopped aging, what... around 1995? :D Looking good, kid.
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damn, elliot page is super talented
It's out of his range.
Chris not that you need it but I recommend the herb Kudzu to every singer. It is the only herb I have ever heard to have the effect of improving/fortifying one's singing voice. It also helps cure alcoholism but hopefully that is not something you need help with. < 3 KUDZU root. It is quite a popular herbal extract available on the market.
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