yeah ,a great tune ...another one of those tunes ,that is timeless ,it never loses its energy ..too me anyway ,and takes me back like all those tunes do ,even if you wernt born at that time i.e 60s music is the same etc good music is good music
It was brilliant because all the birds started picking up guitars instead of just doing the historical vocal part! Edit: Yeah,we don't have negatives anymore 😢
@@ephebo2027 Just before that she says "let's take a photograph" Edit:Sorry,I'm presuming your my age.Before digital cameras,old school photographs were printed from "negatives"😉
I was twenty six. I saw Louise Werner on TV performing this and I bought the CD the same day. I still play it after another twenty six years have gone by.
Seen a good amount of 'britpop' bands during the 90's and like others, Sleeper were massively underrated. Seen them in the 90's 3 times and Newcastle and Manchester in 2019 and hoping for Knebworth too - fantastic band. Thanks for the memories Sleeper, past and present and hope to see you in 2020. Great new album too. God bless Britpop - most underrated period in British music. Seeing these guys this year brought it all back and fantastic (drunken!) memories. Thanks Sleeper
20 years ago..... Damn!!! I was 13 in Year 9 and it was just a fantastic time to be alive. The soundtrack of 1996 brings back so many brilliant memories including this. I heard the phrase 'Sale of the Century' earlier today and his song popped into my head for the first time in over a decade.
@@jackjude there's that argument or I could also say why should I be arsed trawling a load of clubs when a record company should send a rep to seek out good music and present it to me instead of manufacturing shite bands with zero chemistry or musical experience. There's still plenty of music fans who appreciate well crafted genuine music. Just cos the music industry got burned by the internet doesn't mean they have to play it safe forever
Such a great song & band, their 2017 gigs were absolutely fantastic. The band played really tight & Louise Wener's voice is even stronger than back in 1996 when i last saw them play.
Amazing! I remember listening to Sleeper in my teens (I'm 39 now) and always enjoyed the music. Googling now, they are still together and making music, awesome! I also had a thing for Louise as she is extremely pretty!
This was the level back then. Every other week there was a really good song and solid video coming along. The music industry really lost its way at some point.
Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by John Dower. The documentary is a study of popular culture in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1990s. The focus of the piece is the main movement in British popular music during that time, which came under strong media attention and was dubbed Britpop.
There aren't the revenues anymore. You can make and pass around perfect digital copies of music. And so it's now a much more throwaway item. Time moves, things change. Music used to really mean something, and now it doesn't. I feel a little sad about that, but everything moves on...
Back in the mid 90s, i remember my dad (who had his teen years in the 1960s) telling me that he normally didnt like modern music but what was in the charts at that time was really good. Looking back, he was right. So many great acts and almost forgotten tunes.
I was 35 but got mistaken for a lad in his 20's back then. Great memories played this one today. Louise Wener lived the life & dream of a Britpop star.
No matter how down I am if I listen to this it makes everything ok for a couple of minutes. Even better if I can watch the video. That look at 1:29 melts my heart.
I just remembered she was one of my 90s crushes... Along with Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star. But damn! All of those guitars in water... That was a really 90s thing to do. Blur also did a video (IIRC) with lots of water and guitars... I feel sad for the waterlogged guitars. Great to see 2 telecasters in the video though. I remember Strats and Les Pauls being more popular in those days.
I’m 45, Born in the 70s Grew up in the 80s, Lost my virginity in the 90s, Then had the pleasure of listening to this, as I was trying to find my way in life, Wouldn’t swap it for the world
I'm reading Louise's book Different For Girls, an excellent memoir of growing up in the eighties and what it was like being in a band in a long vanished era
We step through London The streets holding on to us We'll stand where the river bends I hope we fall in So this time maybe Lets take a photograph We'll burn all the negatives I hope we fall in Its never gonna be this good so just climb in How long till reason makes us small again? And it feels just like we just got started Its still you Taking me under We turn to be scared Then decide that we don't care Wear ourselves out on the way down Its still you And the moment you left me you said I was cheap You were the sale of the century Grease ourselves up on the way down And now I touch you I don't know where you begin Sometimes you're a piece of me I hope we fall in Its never gonna be this good so just climb in How long till reason makes us small again It feels just like we just got started Its still you Taking me under We turn to be scared Then decide that we don't care Wear ourselves out on the way down Its still you And the moment you left me you said I was cheap You were the sale of the century Grease ourselves up on the way down Its been too long, so it could just be something ate It feels just like we just got started.. Its still you Taking me under We turn to be scared Then decide that we don't care Wear ourselves out on the way down Its still you And the moment you left me you said I was cheap You were the sale of the century Grease ourselves up on the way down
Thanks for this because outside of the "And the moment you left me you said I was cheap You were the sale of the century" I literally can't understand a single word she is saying.
Always liked sleeper, this was their best song. Went to a Mansun gig in 98', the singer Paul Draper said the last time we were here we supported Sleeper, to which someone yelled out where are they now? He said yeah....
I saw them this evening at Rough Trade. Small gig with just 100 people. They were introducing their new album. Awesome. I'm going to see them a couple more times next month. Can't wait :)
Sleeper at the time were in a deluge of bands craving for popularity and the music was outstanding at the time, lots of bands dropped off because the competition was so tight. What happened? Music went back big time since these days, a few bands here and there who stood out but the 90s was an explosion of talent. Proud to have been a part of it in my younger days. Happy memories.
when I make my semi-autobiographical movie about a young lad in the 90s trying to find a way in life, this will be the track for the montage where he's walking down the road looking in shop windows and replying to "help wanted" ads.
Somehow those 90s songs carry nostalgia even for me. I was young, but I wasn't invited to parties in those days. I was in my 20s. However my 30s and 40s have been so much better.
90's Britpop AWESOME!! I first heard this great song on Clyde 1 FM (UK radio) in 1997. Louise Wener is gorgeous, I first seen her on a 1996 episode of Shooting Stars gameshow with Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer. I didn't know she was the singer at that time. Back when pop sounded decent and not shit like today.
I was 17 when this came out, then I blinked and I’m 45!
This ^
Yep
Yep, great isn't it.
What a journey
I was 22. Whippersnappers lol
I spent my 20's in the 90's.
Thank you God.
Same. Thank fudge!!!
Same 80s and 90s music is fantastic
Yup same same. Shawn Ryder once said in an interview if you remember the 90s you weren't at the party!
Same here mate I was 18 in 1990!
Same here mate 🎸🎸👌👌 fucking loved it ❤️❤️
Im 44, Every now and again i go back to this whole album...
EPIC
It's one of my lifetime favourites. I might forget it for a year or two but ill always come back to it again.
I listened to this when I was 43.
Now I'm 20.
Nice, same.
Lol'd
Me too
yeah ,a great tune ...another one of those tunes ,that is timeless ,it never loses its energy ..too me anyway ,and takes me back like all those tunes do ,even if you wernt born at that time i.e 60s music is the same etc good music is good music
good taste FuriousGibbon aka Mr B Button.
Never tire of listening to this, takes me back to a time when life was simpler and music was so much better.
Totally agree
The mid 90s was probably the best time of my life so it's nice to be transported back there for a few minutes.
Agreed!!
Wish I could meet a few people for a night out from the 90s
90’s was the absolute best!
That guitar riff is just stunning.
The first 13 seconds of the song is based on the Motors' Airport song and the guitar riff is based on Neil Young's Mansion On The Hill track
@@JohnPeel3904 The intro is The Passenger by Iggy Pop.
Never heard anything better or at least as good?
Forever in love with 1996 Louise Wener. An absolute icon.
She had an attraction to her, no doubt. 😍
"We'll burn all the negatives" ...it truly was a different era.
It was brilliant because all the birds started picking up guitars instead of just doing the historical vocal part!
Edit: Yeah,we don't have negatives anymore 😢
@@ExcaliburDawn lol i thiought she said `burn all the negative ebbs`
@@ephebo2027 Just before that she says "let's take a photograph"
Edit:Sorry,I'm presuming your my age.Before digital cameras,old school photographs were printed from "negatives"😉
One of the most underrated songs of the 90's, shows the level of musical talent from that era.
Total indie rubbish ffs
Its 2024 and still listening! ❤
I was twenty six. I saw Louise Werner on TV performing this and I bought the CD the same day. I still play it after another twenty six years have gone by.
90's were incredible.
yep
New Thought Hell yea but I'm a 2000's kid
They were OK, nothing special musically, looking back it had so much promise that failed to deliver.
@@yereverluvinuncleber Yeah, there was a lot better bands in the 90's than this lot.
Yes 90's. Loved louise wener. Blur were great too
Seen a good amount of 'britpop' bands during the 90's and like others, Sleeper were massively underrated. Seen them in the 90's 3 times and Newcastle and Manchester in 2019 and hoping for Knebworth too - fantastic band. Thanks for the memories Sleeper, past and present and hope to see you in 2020. Great new album too. God bless Britpop - most underrated period in British music. Seeing these guys this year brought it all back and fantastic (drunken!) memories. Thanks Sleeper
Nah, try Senser, crosser rap/punk/techno.
20 years ago..... Damn!!!
I was 13 in Year 9 and it was just a fantastic time to be alive. The soundtrack of 1996 brings back so many brilliant memories including this. I heard the phrase 'Sale of the Century' earlier today and his song popped into my head for the first time in over a decade.
yeah I still think this clip is one of the sexiest on youtube...
96 was a great year for me. Iwas 16 and doing what 16 year old boys do.
The Spice Girls came along and did their best to ruin it all, though.
I'm in your year.
Love,
Amin Yayear
96 what a year. I was an 18 year old mancunian. The IRA bombed the city centre but the scene just carried on regardless!
I was 13 aswell miss them times, these, oasis, blur, the verve and supergrass what the fuck happened to music I partly blame x factor and the internet
This underlines how much the quality and sincerity in mainstream pop music has just fallen off a cliff.
+John Starkie Too fucking right mate.
John Starkie blame X factor and other reality shit although it started with Robson and jerome the pricks
Music now is pish
what has xfactor got to do with it? Its a family telly program, go to some gigs ffs.
@@jackjude there's that argument or I could also say why should I be arsed trawling a load of clubs when a record company should send a rep to seek out good music and present it to me instead of manufacturing shite bands with zero chemistry or musical experience. There's still plenty of music fans who appreciate well crafted genuine music. Just cos the music industry got burned by the internet doesn't mean they have to play it safe forever
Hey man, maybe heaven is going back to the era when you where young, everything was new and you were care free, great music great times...
Such a great song & band, their 2017 gigs were absolutely fantastic. The band played really tight & Louise Wener's voice is even stronger than back in 1996 when i last saw them play.
本国と時差あるかもだけれど、自分は前年の「inbetweener」が衝撃だったな。
たぶん日本だと、映画の「Train spotting」のカバー挿入歌で知名度が上がったくらいで
Sleeperって、一部の洋楽ファンにしか認知されてなかったのが残念だった。
洋楽誌での情報も少なかったし、MTVでPVが観られるくらいだったからね。
それでもタワーレコードやＨＭＶが、日本に進出してきた時代だったから
「 ATOMIC」や、この曲、「Nice guy Eddie」くらいまでは
ＣＤを買えたから、まだマシだったかな。
聴きたくても、MTVでしか聴けない曲とか多かったんよ。
I'm so glad I lived and breathed the youth expression of the 90s
In the Britpop documentary she makes the best observations. She's brilliant
Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by John Dower.
I was 22 when this was out...my stomach sinks when i think how much better things were then to how things are now!,, great memories❤
Same here... That's find bloody quick... Still got the cassette copy of my mate's CD of the album (though did buy it on CD!).
It's because you are around 50 and you were 22. No kids, no loans. No back pain. It's logical
social media destroyed everything.
💯though I turned the big 'one eight' that year!
@@michaelairley2015 no, 95, 96 was vastly better in every way.
Can I come back to these times
いちばんbritpopにハマってた時のいちばん好きな曲とmv
20年経って当時のまんま復活してくれて嬉しい！
Amazing! I remember listening to Sleeper in my teens (I'm 39 now) and always enjoyed the music. Googling now, they are still together and making music, awesome!
I also had a thing for Louise as she is extremely pretty!
One of those great 90's 4 chord singalong chorus'
This was the level back then. Every other week there was a really good song and solid video coming along. The music industry really lost its way at some point.
Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by John Dower. The documentary is a study of popular culture in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1990s.
The focus of the piece is the main movement in British popular music during that time, which came under strong media attention and was dubbed Britpop.
There aren't the revenues anymore. You can make and pass around perfect digital copies of music. And so it's now a much more throwaway item.
Time moves, things change. Music used to really mean something, and now it doesn't. I feel a little sad about that, but everything moves on...
@@timbirch4999Yeah I agree with you except for the moving on thing. If we've moved on from music, we have a bleak future.
I am here because of Liam's tweet!!
A great tune from yet another under-rated brit pop band. The likes of Sleeper, Shed 7 and the Bluetones never got the credit that they deserved
jimboBFC1 absolutely 100% agree 👌
Very note worthy comment, the Vaccum of Glory during that period went to Oasis, Blur and the Manics.
Shed 7 were incredible.
Going to see Sleeper and the Bluetones in a couple of months time. Can't wait!!
The blue tones especially
2022 and I'm still in awe of this amazing song, take me back to the britpop mid 90s please
The it girl album is a masterpiece
I listened to this tune literally 5 mins ago! Took me back to the time when life was so much simpler
Saw them 4 weeks ago. They were fantastic. Met Louise ,absolutely great person
20 odd years later and louise you still melt snow flakes ....gorgeous...
The 90s was the last great decade!
GREAT song. Forgotten how much I loved this song, and indeed Sleeper.
Love it.
Excellent band. Probably only one I never managed to see live. an louise was the best looking brit pop babe x
It's never gonna be this good so...
Damn, she was right.
One talented and seriously gorgeous woman 😍
I have no idea how it is that I've never heard of Sleeper before 2023.
Where are you from ?
You were not a teen in the UK in the mid 90s?
Who's listening to this in 2021? I can't get enough of this gem every time...
2024😂
2024...just randomly found this. It's fantastic
Grew up in the sixties listening to the Beatles and the kinks. Then Led Zeppelin. But I love the rawness of this track superb.
Most underated indie song of the 90s.
Manchester Academy mid 90s what a line up - Octopus, Longpigs and Sleeper headlining! Those were the days.
Back in the mid 90s, i remember my dad (who had his teen years in the 1960s) telling me that he normally didnt like modern music but what was in the charts at that time was really good.
Looking back, he was right. So many great acts and almost forgotten tunes.
Thanks God for my old love ❤❤
A very cool, and great song - so under-rated, I will always love this.
I was 35 but got mistaken for a lad in his 20's back then. Great memories played this one today. Louise Wener lived the life & dream of a Britpop star.
I’m glad I got to listen to one of the most influential decades of music history
Listening to this on a plasterers radio in Manchester back in 96 when i was a sprightly 42 year old. Still feels like only a year or two ago.
No matter how down I am if I listen to this it makes everything ok for a couple of minutes. Even better if I can watch the video. That look at 1:29 melts my heart.
I saw Sleeper last Friday at the Phoenix in Exeter - They were great, and I got my photo taken with Louise!!!
We were there too! Great gig
I just remembered she was one of my 90s crushes... Along with Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star.
But damn! All of those guitars in water... That was a really 90s thing to do. Blur also did a video (IIRC) with lots of water and guitars... I feel sad for the waterlogged guitars.
Great to see 2 telecasters in the video though. I remember Strats and Les Pauls being more popular in those days.
I was on them from
The Smart album , such an underrated band , and Louise is amazing , they were better days ! ❤❤❤❤
ultimate indie chick and a totally underrated band. Seen them early 90s twice and recently too - classic band
I’m 45,
Born in the 70s
Grew up in the 80s,
Lost my virginity in the 90s,
Then had the pleasure of listening to this, as I was trying to find my way in life,
Wouldn’t swap it for the world
She is seriously pretty
Louise is such a great, great lyricist. She should writing more songs.
1996 was one of the best ever years for music. So many of my favourites come from that year, including this one.
Me too. Though The Spice Girls did their best to ruin it all.
There was so much variation in music in 1996, I've got your back on it totally.
The beauty of this song is it had the right amount of instruments to constitute both a song and music
I'm reading Louise's book Different For Girls, an excellent memoir of growing up in the eighties and what it was like being in a band in a long vanished era
The drummer`s dad in this band was my science teacher at school :)
Saw these lot yesterday and they were fantastic
We step through London
The streets holding on to us
We'll stand where the river bends
I hope we fall in
So this time maybe
Lets take a photograph
We'll burn all the negatives
I hope we fall in
Its never gonna be this good so just climb in
How long till reason makes us small again?
And it feels just like we just got started
Its still you
Taking me under
We turn to be scared
Then decide that we don't care
Wear ourselves out on the way down
Its still you
And the moment you left me you said I was cheap
You were the sale of the century
Grease ourselves up on the way down
And now I touch you
I don't know where you begin
Sometimes you're a piece of me
I hope we fall in
Its never gonna be this good so just climb in
How long till reason makes us small again
It feels just like we just got started
Its still you
Taking me under
We turn to be scared
Then decide that we don't care
Wear ourselves out on the way down
Its still you
And the moment you left me you said I was cheap
You were the sale of the century
Grease ourselves up on the way down
Its been too long, so it could just be something ate
It feels just like we just got started..
Its still you
Taking me under
We turn to be scared
Then decide that we don't care
Wear ourselves out on the way down
Its still you
And the moment you left me you said I was cheap
You were the sale of the century
Grease ourselves up on the way down
Thanks for this because outside of the "And the moment you left me you said I was cheap You were the sale of the century" I literally can't understand a single word she is saying.
Always liked sleeper, this was their best song. Went to a Mansun gig in 98', the singer Paul Draper said the last time we were here we supported Sleeper, to which someone yelled out where are they now? He said yeah....
Most underrated band of the Britpop era.
totally agree
Saw them at Manchester Ac, and had a picture of Lou on my wall at uni. Great band.
my favorite video of them !
Watched Sleeper at the Academy in Manchester either late '95 or early '96: best concert I've ever been to.
Thanks for Liam.
Not heard this for so many years.Fab.
Greatest thing watching this... I watched them perform this live a few weeks back ;) never thought i'd see that again.
Saw this band live last month and I'm even more in love with them now
I saw their live unplugged performance in Nottingham. Amazed at Louise’s rich, but mellow voice.
I went to see Sleeper at Watford Colosseum.nearly 30 years ago.....Louise Wener was incredible great band, a great night when life was simpler.
December 02 1996 ? I think Munsun was the supporting band
@@andrewn111na blimey you have a great memory....I don't recall the support acts, but remember it was an amazing night!
The It Girl is still one of my all-time favourite albums - so many great tracks.
Feel lucky to have been a student when all this was out. Great times with great music.
Great video & great music ! Yet until recently I didn't know this band ... discovered thanks RUclips !😊
This is one of the most nostalgic from back then.
I saw them this evening at Rough Trade. Small gig with just 100 people. They were introducing their new album. Awesome. I'm going to see them a couple more times next month. Can't wait :)
Seen this band in Glasgow in 96 and what a gig it was
This is an icon of the day
its never going be this good so just climb into the 90s back catalogue
Like many 90s bands, so under-rated. Sleeper were absolutely brilliant. My female guitar hero.
I had this song on a Shine compilation album I bought in around '97. Sigh those were the days...
Sleeper at the time were in a deluge of bands craving for popularity and the music was outstanding at the time, lots of bands dropped off because the competition was so tight. What happened? Music went back big time since these days, a few bands here and there who stood out but the 90s was an explosion of talent. Proud to have been a part of it in my younger days. Happy memories.
Nineties was an explosion of talent,,,, Brooks and Dunn, The Judds, Alan Jackson,,, yep the good days.
Atrocious garbage like Pop Idol ruined it all.
Total CACK!
GREAT video
I was -9 when this song was released, and now I've just received my A level results.
Feel old now?
Love it.
Takes me back to a very happy period of my life.
Heard this on the radio earlier put in all my playlists!
Love it!!! Play it again and again.Love the lyrics drums and guitar!Amazzzzing
Damn, such a great song. This song is the sale of the century in my opinion. Never tire of it. Brit rock kicks my arse!
Just saw them two weeks ago! Amazing!
when I make my semi-autobiographical movie about a young lad in the 90s trying to find a way in life, this will be the track for the montage where he's walking down the road looking in shop windows and replying to "help wanted" ads.
This is a amazing and a ridiculously sexy tune💙👌 One of the best bangers of the Century😀
It's 2020 and I have this on full blast and singing along to it at the top of my lungs. I love you Louise.
Loved songs like this and Nice Guy Eddie back in the day, really looking forward to the new album :)
A new album!?!?!? *furiously googles*
Somehow those 90s songs carry nostalgia even for me. I was young, but I wasn't invited to parties in those days. I was in my 20s. However my 30s and 40s have been so much better.
“I knew you’d go far cos we both share the people we hate”
I miss the 90s.
Saw them in Glastonbury. Fulfills my heart..
Saw them last night. Louise is still gorgeous and the songs are pretty good too
wonderful bird !
90's Britpop AWESOME!! I first heard this great song on Clyde 1 FM (UK radio) in 1997. Louise Wener is gorgeous, I first seen her on a 1996 episode of Shooting Stars gameshow with Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer. I didn't know she was the singer at that time. Back when pop sounded decent and not shit like today.
I used to work at Clyde 1 FM as a Pan Technician.
I had forgotten all about Sleeper - brilliant 90s throwback. Happy days.
Listen to this I get the same feelings I did back in 1997 when I was 13-14 amazing memories 💯😊