I like how this song is deceptively upbeat while covering the subject of depression. It reflects the irony of feeling down and out of place in society, but having to pretend everything’s ok at the same time.
And the music video reflects on the song's tone well as it's a happy-sounding song with sad lyrics and the video has a sad restaurant worker in a goofy environment where everyone is dressed like Steve from Blue's Clues and are all dancing like idiots
Or maybe it's about apathy. The guy working the restaurant hates his life, all the customers are dressed in prisoner outfits, everyone's just fucked and trying to figure out what the point is.
That was really a gutsy lyric, but I agree it worked great. I tried it on my wife and she didn't fall for it. She just replied with one of my oft used lines: "I have no idea what you're talking about."
@@LC-ht7sg It's not just the line, but also how well it works in the context of the song and the BNL personae. It was really gutsy to put such a trite, juvenile, corny line into a song destined for the top 40. In Beatles parlance it was "cheeky." When you hear the line you admire the courage of the song writer and it also fits with the image of the BNL as a borderline novelty act. The fact that the song made it to the top 40 only solidifies your admiration. On top of that, the line works well with the footloose and fancy free world the rest of the lyric has built. All of that combines to make it a great line, in addition to the funny, whimsical face value. An analogy would be Andy Warhol making a high profile work of art out of soup cans. The soup can itself has limited value, but when placed in the context of Andy's ouvre and placed in an art show, it becomes something more, and made Andy a star.
4 Days ago on October 9th, 2019 I lost my son Jordan. I do not know if he liked this song or even knew it. This morning I woke with this song in my head. Jordan was a good kid and caring young man. My pain, hurt is at the level I’ve never felt before. Rest In Peace my son. Daddy misses you.
I listened to this song a lot as a kid, a time when i was comparatively happy and knew this as a good tune. This hits very differently as an adult with crippling depression.
Yes, if you listen to the lyrics carefully it is clear. Also, note in the video that despite the world being all happy thumbs up, all he sees is thumbs down.
This was a great time to be a kid. I feel so Greatful. Yet still longing to relive it. But this band helps me do that. Back when people weren't buried in their phones.
"Pinch Me" was, I think, the last song to be written for the record. I wrote it up on the third floor of my house, just feeling a bit melancholy; sometimes you look around, and things are great, and you just kind of feel down, and there's no reason for you to - you have an inability to appreciate your surroundings sometimes. That's what I was trying to get at, some of the boredom of pristine suburbia and the potential lying under every yawn. I had a basic framework in mind, but couldn't finish it off, really. It was a hard one to write, because of the sort of quick singing/rapping; I was so scared people were gonna go, "Oh, it's like 'One Week,'" which it isn't. But I was so paranoid people would think that that I almost didn't write it. ---Ed Robertson
Awesome Lyrics... They're LEGENDARY... But the Video sure Adds to its Intrigue and our, the Listeners' association to its reflections and perspective! In addition, the BARENAKED LADIES' international Fame from stellar Songs [like This] makes "Us Canadians" Extremely Proud! Thank You SIR ED ROBERTSON! ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
@@jeffreybarkin3177 I'm sorry Sir Ed Robertson? Did Mr. Robertson accept British nationality? I was under the impression that Canadian citizens could not accept titles of nobility. You would need to become a British national to be knighted.
@@msamour "Sir" is RESPECTFUL... Admired ARTISTS deserve our RESPECT and Canadians should NOT be requiréd to involve The British Crown to Compliment our Stars... Thank You for your Comment, but We're "NOT so Formal"! [LOL]
I always smile whenever I hear this song because it reminds me of the good old days of the early 2000's! The beat of this song was so awesome back then!!
for how happy-go-lucky and pop-y BNL's sound often is, it's amazing how many of their songs have such deep meanings; a really, genuinely fantastic band, God bless 'em
"If I packed the car and leave this town will you notice that I'm not around" this hits me hard everytime.. Wish I could leave this town and start all over again. Love this song! For me the perfect autumn song
I love just how stylistic the setting of this music video is. I like how everyone wears the same outfits and how generically happy the restaurant is, it perfectly encapsulates what the song is really about
Ian Rea it makes it not seem so bad personally helps you get along another day but glad you copied all the other comments and what we all know the songs about depression
This song will always remind me of those days as a kid where times were much easier and the summers felt like they lasted forever. Sometimes I imagine I'll wake up as a kid in my old bed again, in my old house, and this whole growing up thing was just a dream.
It's the perfect time of year Somewhere far away from here I feel fine enough, I guess Considering everything's a mess There's a restaurant down the street Where hungry people like to eat I could walk but I'll just drive It's colder than it looks outside Like a dream you try to remember but it's gone (Pinch me) Then you try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn (I'm still asleep) When you try to see the world, beyond your front door (Please God) Take your time, is the way I rhyme gonna make you smile (Tell me) When you realize that a guy my size might take a while (I'm still asleep) Just to try to figure out what all this is for It's the perfect time of day To throw all your cares away Put the sprinkler on the lawn And run through with my gym shorts on Take a drink right from the hose And change into some dryer clothes Climb the stairs up to my room Sleep away the afternoon Like a dream you try to remember but it's gone (Pinch me) Then you try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn (I'm still asleep) When you try to see the world, beyond your front door (Please God) Take your time, is the way I rhyme gonna make you smile (Tell me) When you realize that a guy my size might take a while (I'm still asleep) Just to try to figure out what all this is for *Pinch me, pinch me, cause I'm still asleep* *Please God tell me that I'm still asleep *On an evening such as this* *It's hard to tell if I exist* If I pack the car and leave this town Who'll notice that I'm not around I could hide out under there I just made you say "underwear" I could leave but I'll just stay All my stuff's here anyway
To me, I think mostly every Barenaked Ladies song sounds like they could've been TV sitcom theme songs. Their 2015 hit songs "Say What You Want" and "Silverball" sounds exactly like they came from any TV Sitcom show.
Man IT was such a blessing to wake up in the 90s and listen to one of the greatest periods of great music. The nostalgia is real, I tear up whenever I catch o. of those songs on radio, then I go to RUclips and put it repeat all day. Nothing but pure excellence! !
Great song, then and now. The 90s were the best - not because the decade ignored pain or suffering, but because it was dealt with in more mature, nuanced, and intelligent ways. It's all laid bare today thanks to social media and changing cultural norms, and it's brutal.
Years ago, around the time of Pinch Me's release, I saw lead singer/guitarist Ed Robertson interviewed. I remember him talking about the song in cautionary terms, something about how the promise and potential of your life can easily slip away from you if you can't get yourself out of your room. He was right; the bouncy, feel-good tempo notwithstanding you can't look at this video without thinking of the Henry David Thoreau quote: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Even on Christmas Eve, my parents say come on over but never do. I’m avoiding the best people in my life thinking I have it set. I am in quiet desperation at age 21. Doesn’t want sex but the more fetish side, nothing crazy and I say I’m all alone, addicted to video gaming at the age of 5. But I choose solitary and now I’m empty
Dr. Pain well then dude, I know this is late, but you know the problem. Time to fix those problems because no one is coming to save you; not because they don’t care, but because they are desperate for their own salvation.
I was a Kindergartner staying up late watching that show. The transitions scared the crap outta me, but the videos and the music were all kickass It also, coincidentally, got me into Björk. lol
Went and saw these guys last night in Indianapolis on the Lawn. Cant tell you how amazingly down to earth and funny these guys are. Had a great time, awesome show, if you get a chance to go see them live, DO IT!
Its a joke on "fast food" uniforms.. an opinion from someone who wore MORE than 1 in life to get where I wanted to go. :-) ENtire song.. is an inner thought while looking out a drive thru window.
Great guitar, catchy and great lyrics. See you in 100 years, I bet the kids will agree. Perfect context for someone depressed but carrying on as if everything is great. The song captures this perfectly
And one day, we'll be hearing young adults complaining about music while we're old men. "Man. Remember Anaconda by Nicki Minaj? That's song was so much better and tasteful then what they play on the radio now"
qwikshot16 Never said it was tasteful. But nostalgia has a way of making people think their music is better then it really is. The last generation will always hate the next generation's music.
Growing up with this song, I listen again in 2021 as an adult and this is simply what makes music beautiful. Combining the sounds you love to hear with the message you want to send.
Derek Pettifer no the video came out relative to the time the album was released. back in the day musicians used to make videos for mtv to promote their music. these days (cuz MTV is a dead horse) people do it on youtube. ;)
I first heard this song when I was about nine or ten years old, I think it was even my first BNL song. Even before I knew what depression was or that I might one day potentially have some form of it, a song about feeling bad even when everything is okay kind of blew my mind. I think even those of us who don't suffer from depression have had times like that. Still one of my favorite songs ever.
I can't put my finger on WHY but this song reminds me of an uneventful day in late September some 30+ years ago on the farm where I grew up (somewhere between summer and autumn). More inexplicable still, I can't identify WHY I remember this particular day at all. Perhaps I wouldn't have-had this song not come out. It's weird how music works sometimes.
This song makes me so happy. The beginning reminds me of enjoying the simpler things in life like getting early, enjoying a beautiful morning, and drinking from a hose.
Song came out when I graduated high school and we were really facing trying to figure out what all of this is for. Tiny tiny North Carolina Mountain town, I go back but it just is not the same. The outside world finally found it and came in. Now it is like anywhere else nowadays. And still have not figured out what all this is for.
The song is based upon a person suffering from depression. In the lyrics they address several instances of what a depressed person might feel. The key ones are "sleep away the afternoon", "on an evening such as this, it's hard to tell if I exist". I've been down this path before but I appreciate their lyrics and I do love the Barenaked Ladies.
I just heard this in Cumberland Farms 8/29/24... Stood near the coffee machine and sang it in my head b4 i cashed out. Such a cool song that brings be back to simpler times when i could put the sprinkler on the lawn, run thru with my gym shorts on. Take a sip right from the hose and change into some dryer clothes. Walk up the stairs to my room and sleep away the afternoon. Why can't i do that now.😢
I had depression because of many personal reasons and am still getting it under control by learning to appreciate how much harder other people have to go through life and from good positive vibes and inspiriational heroes.They say nothing beats depression(anger) than working it out of your system with laughter and learning to make compromises and learning to be mature and willing to help others less fortunate so they can be successful in defeating their problems so they can be even more inspired and reciprocating on and on and on.
"Please, God, tell me that I'm still asleep." That line is just soul crushing. Beautiful lyrics.
The highlight for me is "try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn"
"I Just made you say underwear" 😥
It makes the song for me!😩
So begins my day...
You beat your dick off to them or something? Lol.
Man, this place really is booming when the Blues Clues convention is in town.
Exactly what I was thinking!
💀 underated
I like how this song is deceptively upbeat while covering the subject of depression. It reflects the irony of feeling down and out of place in society, but having to pretend everything’s ok at the same time.
👍🏻😆👍🏻
Being Canadian in a nut shell. BNL is Canada's musical voice, as Men at Work is to the aussies :)
Also shows how being depressed can bring about meaning in one’s life
And all many of the listeners can hear is the underwear joke.
Pretty much on par for BNL.
One of the greatest songs ever written about depression.
And the music video reflects on the song's tone well as it's a happy-sounding song with sad lyrics and the video has a sad restaurant worker in a goofy environment where everyone is dressed like Steve from Blue's Clues and are all dancing like idiots
It’s good but not the best look up my immortal evenessance
Or maybe it's about apathy. The guy working the restaurant hates his life, all the customers are dressed in prisoner outfits, everyone's just fucked and trying to figure out what the point is.
@@nickharharharh2515 Apathy and depression go hand-in-hand
I thought it was about burgers and fries
“I just made you say underwear”, one of the great lines in pop music.
That was really a gutsy lyric, but I agree it worked great. I tried it on my wife and she didn't fall for it. She just replied with one of my oft used lines: "I have no idea what you're talking about."
Just a joke from childhood. Good he used it but not one of the great lines in music.
@@LC-ht7sg It's not just the line, but also how well it works in the context of the song and the BNL personae. It was really gutsy to put such a trite, juvenile, corny line into a song destined for the top 40. In Beatles parlance it was "cheeky." When you hear the line you admire the courage of the song writer and it also fits with the image of the BNL as a borderline novelty act. The fact that the song made it to the top 40 only solidifies your admiration. On top of that, the line works well with the footloose and fancy free world the rest of the lyric has built. All of that combines to make it a great line, in addition to the funny, whimsical face value. An analogy would be Andy Warhol making a high profile work of art out of soup cans. The soup can itself has limited value, but when placed in the context of Andy's ouvre and placed in an art show, it becomes something more, and made Andy a star.
@@TheLarryBrown mo
The one right after it hits hard with ppl ive lost
Barenaked ladies songs always transport my brain to the late 90’s/early 00’s. What I would do to actually go back..
These guys and Sugar Ray
I’d do anything to go back to the 90s and early 2000s. It would be like a breath of fresh air
I just want to go back as well. Hate the present and I have no hope for the future.
Yep, Barenaked Ladies, Sugar Ray, Smashmouth, Alien Ant Farm instantly transport me to the late 90s/early 2000s
@@99jarjarbinks
Geez, that’s dark. Seek some help, friend
4 Days ago on October 9th, 2019 I lost my son Jordan. I do not know if he liked this song or even knew it. This morning I woke with this song in my head. Jordan was a good kid and caring young man. My pain, hurt is at the level I’ve never felt before. Rest In Peace my son. Daddy misses you.
I’m so sorry
Jesse Castro my heart is with you this song got me through the pain of losing my parents.
I wish you the best of luck man
RIP
My name is Jordan and I lost my brother Jesse a couple years ago
I listened to this song a lot as a kid, a time when i was comparatively happy and knew this as a good tune.
This hits very differently as an adult with crippling depression.
I know what you mean !! you will get through this brah .... nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain
Same!
I could hide out under there! ;)
There you go.
Great tune love it you’re so right
I'm 38 years old and this song will never fail to take me back to when I was much younger and just make me feel good
So your talking about the year 2000😊
Great song
Ditto
Same age 😎✌️
Same age 😅
Very underrated band.
Took me a while to really appreciate these guys. 🇨🇦
Very much agreee with this comment
Agree on the very underrated comment. I was hooked when I heard Gordon.
highly skilled musicians
This song is actually a masterpiece.
This is the most cheerful song about depression ever. Or maybe ennui.
Inside Out reference
There aren't enough happy songs about crippling depression
You gotta listen to more punk music my friend.
Try Sleepyhead - Passion Pit, it's about a coma/death. but pretty close...
Stay Bullish Duff July
seechris 33 WAIT!! This songs about crippling depression
Yes, if you listen to the lyrics carefully it is clear. Also, note in the video that despite the world being all happy thumbs up, all he sees is thumbs down.
Yay for happy-sounding songs about crippling depression!
+FinalFirebrand Don't forget about the overwhelming apathy.
I think it's more about people being complacent, not depressed lol, though that may be involved.
+FinalFirebrand I liked you from the moment I saw your profile pic
I have crippling depression! I have osteoporosis!
I KNOW... THIS IS MY LIFETIME SOUNDTRACK.
How does this only have 7 million views? Where all the 90s kids at?
I'm watching as hard as I can
We're suffering at the hands of the American system. 👍🏻
This was a great time to be a kid. I feel so Greatful. Yet still longing to relive it. But this band helps me do that. Back when people weren't buried in their phones.
Yes
Yea
buried is the right word
I can literally taste Autumn 2000 when i hear this song.......Amazing times!!!
What does it taste like?
Salty milk and coins :)
Wish I was older in those times I was too young to enjoy the end of an amazing era of music
Really bad too!
Yes.
"Pinch Me" was, I think, the last song to be written for the record. I wrote it up on the third floor of my house, just feeling a bit melancholy; sometimes you look around, and things are great, and you just kind of feel down, and there's no reason for you to - you have an inability to appreciate your surroundings sometimes. That's what I was trying to get at, some of the boredom of pristine suburbia and the potential lying under every yawn.
I had a basic framework in mind, but couldn't finish it off, really. It was a hard one to write, because of the sort of quick singing/rapping; I was so scared people were gonna go, "Oh, it's like 'One Week,'" which it isn't. But I was so paranoid people would think that that I almost didn't write it. ---Ed Robertson
They should pun this comment.
Thank you for writing this quote down. It adds some extra perspective to the song.
Awesome Lyrics... They're LEGENDARY...
But the Video sure Adds to its Intrigue and our, the Listeners' association to its reflections and perspective!
In addition, the BARENAKED LADIES' international Fame from stellar Songs [like This] makes "Us Canadians" Extremely Proud!
Thank You SIR ED ROBERTSON!
❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
@@jeffreybarkin3177 I'm sorry Sir Ed Robertson? Did Mr. Robertson accept British nationality? I was under the impression that Canadian citizens could not accept titles of nobility. You would need to become a British national to be knighted.
@@msamour
"Sir" is RESPECTFUL...
Admired ARTISTS deserve our RESPECT and Canadians should NOT be requiréd to involve The British Crown to Compliment our Stars...
Thank You for your Comment, but We're "NOT so Formal"!
[LOL]
I love how in 90s/early 2000s music videos they all party at the end, its like they knew they were in the good times.
musicnight even when the song's about crippling depression
Well they are pretty creative about it. !
👍👏👍
Not really.
"I could walk, but I'll just drive
It's colder than it looks outside."
Too true.
Canadian winters
Liam Carroll has nothing to do with winter
Winnipeg winter.
Just made u say under where
"Climb the stairs into my room, sleep away the afternoon."
This song is so perfect. It kind of puts life in perspective. When life gets you down you just go and see something beyond your front door
I loved this song as a kid. It was only as an adult that I realized how much I can relate to it...
its colder than it looks outside
Sure is Tim
Deep.
Canadians know how that is haha
@@feral7094 Fuckin right I live in New Brunswick, Canada and it's cold as fuck in the winter time.
As a Minnesotan, I get that snarky Canadian humor too.
I remember listening to this as a child, while laying on my bed with my cat and the sun shining in on me.
The early 90s were the best time to grow up.
I always smile whenever I hear this song because it reminds me of the good old days of the early 2000's! The beat of this song was so awesome back then!!
I miss those days!
Simpler times ;)
Yes and watching it on TRL miss those days.
for how happy-go-lucky and pop-y BNL's sound often is, it's amazing how many of their songs have such deep meanings; a really, genuinely fantastic band, God bless 'em
So true, well said! Thank you Cameron...
It's hard to believe this song is 20 years old. I still remember hearing it on the radio as a kid. I miss my childhood so much. 😭
Me tooooo
Same here
I hear ya 😢
So do I 😞
And me
"all my stuffs here anyway"
lol. i know that feel.
Best line in the song.
"If I packed the car and leave this town
will you notice that I'm not around" this hits me hard everytime.. Wish I could leave this town and start all over again. Love this song! For me the perfect autumn song
Do it bro.
I did it last year....didn't plan on it but it beat sleeping in my car....but it was for the best
then just do it and quit whining
Only problem is that I am not sure anyone would notice if I wasn't around.
As someone who used to work at a drivethru, I can safely say that they nailed it down perfectly in this music video
I doubt someone could have composed this music and lyrics without having "gone through it."
Official song for lockdown 2020.
Most surreal comment I've seen yet.
@@metalxthrashingxmad1 yup
lockdown 2021*****
Colder than it looks outside. This line reminds me that summer comes to an end soon. I need to go outside and touch grass more often.
The song really hits you as an adult
I love just how stylistic the setting of this music video is. I like how everyone wears the same outfits and how generically happy the restaurant is, it perfectly encapsulates what the song is really about
That joke about underwear still makes me smile after al these years 😊
hola podrias explicarme esa expresion? Porfavor, no entiendo 😬 varios dicen que es su frase favorita!
@@gaelnokautt Hola, significa que si alguien dice "¡mira ahí abajo!" y tú dices "¿debajo de dónde?", está diciendo ropa interior
This song has a calming effect on me when I have a situation I need to get through.. It makes me think life isn't so bad after all.
funny considering this song is about depression xD
+Galilaohumpkins I just made you say underwear
Jeff same dude
Yep
Ian Rea it makes it not seem so bad personally helps you get along another day but glad you copied all the other comments and what we all know the songs about depression
This song will always remind me of those days as a kid where times were much easier and the summers felt like they lasted forever. Sometimes I imagine I'll wake up as a kid in my old bed again, in my old house, and this whole growing up thing was just a dream.
ME TOO!!!🙏🏼
Yeah man, that hit deep.
Indeed
It's the perfect time of year
Somewhere far away from here
I feel fine enough, I guess
Considering everything's a mess
There's a restaurant down the street
Where hungry people like to eat
I could walk but I'll just drive
It's colder than it looks outside
Like a dream you try to remember but it's gone
(Pinch me) Then you try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn
(I'm still asleep) When you try to see the world, beyond your front door
(Please God) Take your time, is the way I rhyme gonna make you smile
(Tell me) When you realize that a guy my size might take a while
(I'm still asleep) Just to try to figure out what all this is for
It's the perfect time of day
To throw all your cares away
Put the sprinkler on the lawn
And run through with my gym shorts on
Take a drink right from the hose
And change into some dryer clothes
Climb the stairs up to my room
Sleep away the afternoon
Like a dream you try to remember but it's gone
(Pinch me) Then you try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn
(I'm still asleep) When you try to see the world, beyond your front door
(Please God) Take your time, is the way I rhyme gonna make you smile
(Tell me) When you realize that a guy my size might take a while
(I'm still asleep) Just to try to figure out what all this is for
*Pinch me, pinch me, cause I'm still asleep*
*Please God tell me that I'm still asleep
*On an evening such as this*
*It's hard to tell if I exist*
If I pack the car and leave this town
Who'll notice that I'm not around
I could hide out under there
I just made you say "underwear"
I could leave but I'll just stay
All my stuff's here anyway
Its been waaaaay too long since I 've heard this song. Instantly put a smile on my face...its a vibe. 😁
Yeah especially the I just made you say underwear 😂😂😂😂
heard this song for the first time on the OG Charmed growing up, loved it ever since
one of the best songs about depression i have ever heard in my entire life, that still stands true today
Funny ....song is aboot crippling depression but I feel happy when I hear it
why is it that every barenaked ladies song sounds like it could be in a Shrek movie? man they're awesome
To me, I think mostly every Barenaked Ladies song sounds like they could've been TV sitcom theme songs. Their 2015 hit songs "Say What You Want" and "Silverball" sounds exactly like they came from any TV Sitcom show.
Because it came out the same time as the rest of the music used in Shriek,
That era of music was awesome! That era was awesome in general!
Ahhhh memories.
Good memories of high school, hanging with friends, having parties every weekend, smokin weed. Good ol days
Just saying, if that was a real restaurant, I would totally spend all my money there... Love the Barenaked Ladies. You guys rule!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man IT was such a blessing to wake up in the 90s and listen to one of the greatest periods of great music. The nostalgia is real, I tear up whenever I catch o. of those songs on radio, then I go to RUclips and put it repeat all day. Nothing but pure excellence! !
dennis monroe I miss it!! Born in 1990 and the nostalgia feels are unreal make me sad but happy lol
Great song, then and now. The 90s were the best - not because the decade ignored pain or suffering, but because it was dealt with in more mature, nuanced, and intelligent ways. It's all laid bare today thanks to social media and changing cultural norms, and it's brutal.
Perfectly said.
Years ago, around the time of Pinch Me's release, I saw lead singer/guitarist Ed Robertson interviewed. I remember him talking about the song in cautionary terms, something about how the promise and potential of your life can easily slip away from you if you can't get yourself out of your room.
He was right; the bouncy, feel-good tempo notwithstanding you can't look at this video without thinking of the Henry David Thoreau quote: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
DEEP
Even on Christmas Eve, my parents say come on over but never do. I’m avoiding the best people in my life thinking I have it set. I am in quiet desperation at age 21. Doesn’t want sex but the more fetish side, nothing crazy and I say I’m all alone, addicted to video gaming at the age of 5. But I choose solitary and now I’m empty
Dr. Pain well then dude, I know this is late, but you know the problem. Time to fix those problems because no one is coming to save you; not because they don’t care, but because they are desperate for their own salvation.
Jeeze this hits too close to home
Has been a favorite song since childhood. Brings so many memories back.
I'm on a 90s oldie binge...thanks to this quarente.
Enjoy is my friend , things change so fast who knows where we will end up!
same bro its the best vibes ong
Oldie binge? 😭 Thanks for that now i feel old 😂
Technically this song is 2000s because it came out in the year 2000, but I guess late 90s and very early 00s were pretty much the same era.
The best era for music videos
I remember this video came on endlessly on Insomiac Music Theater, back when Vh1 still showed music.
omg! ur awesome for knowing that show! when vh1 was actually good
I was a Kindergartner staying up late watching that show. The transitions scared the crap outta me, but the videos and the music were all kickass
It also, coincidentally, got me into Björk. lol
YES!!!!! Omg good times
As soon as this beat started I got so excited lol. Nostalgia like crazy
Went and saw these guys last night in Indianapolis on the Lawn. Cant tell you how amazingly down to earth and funny these guys are. Had a great time, awesome show, if you get a chance to go see them live, DO IT!
Yup! Me too. It was an amazing show!
I love how everyone background dancing is dressed like a Steve from Blue Clues flash mob.
i just noticed that XD hahaha
Its a joke on "fast food" uniforms.. an opinion from someone who wore MORE than 1 in life to get where I wanted to go. :-) ENtire song.. is an inner thought while looking out a drive thru window.
Funny I have a outfit like that in purple n green like them, i had it way after, but no copycat.
@Kunt Destroyer I was just about to say that!! This is ironic!!
Totally made me actually lol!!!😂
Classic song for sure.
the 90's were awesome music like this n 64 and ps ones.
This is '00s
Or 2000.
madara uchiha Don't you look the fool
madara uchiha don't forget Sega.
How does this have only 6 million views? This deserves millions more!
Great guitar, catchy and great lyrics. See you in 100 years, I bet the kids will agree. Perfect context for someone depressed but carrying on as if everything is great. The song captures this perfectly
EXACTLY
This song is life changing! I love the attitude and the people dancing on the floor. I love you bare naked ladies!
This is ten times better than what they play on the radio these days.
Couldn't agree more
And one day, we'll be hearing young adults complaining about music while we're old men. "Man. Remember Anaconda by Nicki Minaj? That's song was so much better and tasteful then what they play on the radio now"
Kawaii DMX lolololololololololol
Kawaii DMX nothing about that ... creature ... is even remotely "tasteful"
qwikshot16 Never said it was tasteful. But nostalgia has a way of making people think their music is better then it really is. The last generation will always hate the next generation's music.
So underestimated and way ahead of its time. I miss this era of music so much
Best depression song of all time
Always go straight to Island in the Sun after this. Good chill, sad tunes.
This song perfectly conveys what it's like to deal with depression without once even uttering the word "depressed"
A timeless classic
110 percent
Growing up with this song, I listen again in 2021 as an adult and this is simply what makes music beautiful. Combining the sounds you love to hear with the message you want to send.
I would always watch this video on VH1 right before school when it came out, what a flashback!
This is just as good or better than the day it was released! Thanks to everyone in this band for everything!
the memories of this song, underrated
been searching for this music video half my entire life ... got to see this when I was a kid , ah nostalgia MTv and Ch.V days ....
THUMBS UP if you're still digging this almost 10 years later!
+tadshackles You mean 15 years later ;)
+James Biggar yea what's up with the 2006? this album came out in 2000. i had it. xD
+Kewl Beans maybe when the video was made
Derek Pettifer
no the video came out relative to the time the album was released. back in the day musicians used to make videos for mtv to promote their music. these days (cuz MTV is a dead horse) people do it on youtube. ;)
I remember downloading this song on napster when i was a kid solely because of the name of the band.
This song isn't about depression it's about life. It's a casual expression of life! Nice.😀🇨🇦
Lol the 👍 middlefinger part always makes me laugh
These guys can spit those lyrics holy shit!
...the perfect time for 🤨🍔😐 lunch...
just a very cool song ... love it... 👍
just a ...pinch... indeed
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Beings me back to a summer evening in a the late 90s. Windows open, warm air. Good times.
God Bless the 90S!!!
I first heard this song when I was about nine or ten years old, I think it was even my first BNL song. Even before I knew what depression was or that I might one day potentially have some form of it, a song about feeling bad even when everything is okay kind of blew my mind. I think even those of us who don't suffer from depression have had times like that. Still one of my favorite songs ever.
I can't put my finger on WHY but this song reminds me of an uneventful day in late September some 30+ years ago on the farm where I grew up (somewhere between summer and autumn). More inexplicable still, I can't identify WHY I remember this particular day at all. Perhaps I wouldn't have-had this song not come out. It's weird how music works sometimes.
This song makes me so happy. The beginning reminds me of enjoying the simpler things in life like getting early, enjoying a beautiful morning, and drinking from a hose.
I can't believe how old this song is. I guess that means I'm getting up there in years.
Song came out when I graduated high school and we were really facing trying to figure out what all of this is for. Tiny tiny North Carolina Mountain town, I go back but it just is not the same. The outside world finally found it and came in. Now it is like anywhere else nowadays. And still have not figured out what all this is for.
This song just came on the radio.. first time i've heard it in like 11 years..i forgot how awesome it is
This got me through my early 2000 something when I was delivering pizza. Love this band.
The “just made you say underwear” part has been stuck in my head for weeks… so here I am 😉
hola podrias explicarme esa expresion? Porfavor, no entiendo 😬 varios dicen que es su frase favorita!
Generation before: Sad song about staying in your house in a small town.
Millennials: wait you have a house?
Still listening to good music in 2019 almost 2020
Take a drink right from the hose................... hahahahaha. Always makes me laugh.
2:09 is sendinggg me. 🤣💀
The song is based upon a person suffering from depression. In the lyrics they address several instances of what a depressed person might feel. The key ones are "sleep away the afternoon", "on an evening such as this, it's hard to tell if I exist". I've been down this path before but I appreciate their lyrics and I do love the Barenaked Ladies.
I just heard this in Cumberland Farms 8/29/24... Stood near the coffee machine and sang it in my head b4 i cashed out. Such a cool song that brings be back to simpler times when i could put the sprinkler on the lawn, run thru with my gym shorts on. Take a sip right from the hose and change into some dryer clothes. Walk up the stairs to my room and sleep away the afternoon. Why can't i do that now.😢
One of my favorite bands. You can't be in a bad mood when listening to them.
Except the one about crippling depression… you know-this song. Listen again
Craziest part of this song is that it's about depression. You would never guess that based on how up-beat the song is.
Things are different now that we are old 👴
I had depression because of many personal reasons and am still getting it under control by learning to appreciate how much harder other people have to go through life and from good positive vibes and inspiriational heroes.They say nothing beats depression(anger) than working it out of your system with laughter and learning to make compromises and learning to be mature and willing to help others less fortunate so they can be successful in defeating their problems so they can be even more inspired and reciprocating on and on and on.
Such a unique amazing band
My sister always loved this tune. I like it but it's one of her faves!
Two together, Is better than one alone.
During quarantine, this song is more true than it ever was.
This is a great song, love the melody and harmonies