The band put an ad in a local Portland newspaper letting people know that the video shoot was taking place. A number of local high school kids ditched school that day to participate The director gave out a number of 8mm film cameras to the kids, and let them film the band. The band played the song several times. The footage was then edited together to make the finished product The students were later suspended from school, and Everclear received a nice little note from the Portland School Board
Heck, the suspension would totally be worth it! Whoo hoo! Gotta love my P town, it's awesome! What part of town was this filmed in? I have a hunch that it's Old Town.
I'm 35 years old and stationed at Misawa Air Base in northern Japan in the middle of nowhere and Everclear is about to play on this base in October. This was the first song I ever fell in love with. The first CD I ever bought. And Santa Monica was the first song I ever learned on guitar. I have never seen them live before. It's a dream come true. Thank you Everclear for coming to Misawa. PLEASE play this song.
I'm 40 now You should have bought some CDs before you turned twenty or thirty or whatever bro. Some cassettes tapes freaking vinyl I don't know something. But hella this was some good stuff back in the day wasn't it! Still killer to this minute
I’m a Portlander and Everclear has been meaning more and more to me. I can’t help think of the line “just another overdose” when the 8 people overdosed of legalized fentanyl in the park blocks of Downtown Portland…… the whole city shrugged it off
Art is sober, and has been for a long time. This song was their first hit, completely under rated. I saw them at Maxwell's in Hoboken then, 20 people at show. Priceless.
Ehhhh.... Yyyyeeeahh... He sings about using Mexican Black Tar Opiate Sludge with a lover. Art then in real life moved to Southern Mexico to "hang out" off grid for years. Hope he was walking safely on black tar concrete. Or.....sumthing
Same, the song that launched them...still the best.. I have same thing from Australia's 'the living end' the very song made them heard 'from here on in' was forgotten once the first album put half its songs on radio..but the first one is still my favourite.
NATEHERMAN PRODUCTIONS they are. their first two albums are really solid in my opinion. if more people gave them a chance I think they'd be pleasantly surprised.
Hell yea they are, I honestly think Sparkle and Fade is the best rock album of the 90's. To me it blows Nevermind and Dookie out of the fuckin' water. But that will never be a common opinion
I know, but their new stuff is just crap. Two first albums are pure gold. Lets hope people finds out soon, its a loong road when you have released twice as much crap than gold :(
This song makes me get a little teary eyed, reminds me of when I was strung out, lost a lot of friends to it and almost lost myself!! Glad I made it out alive!!
This is one of my favourite songs, have had my own struggles with substance abuse but it always reminds me of my best friend who sadly passed away a number of years ago. I love the honesty in this song of how being a used up junkie and finding another person in the same shit as you makes you feel like you found a friend. RIP Rozzy, I remember singing this song with you 😢
A lot of people apparently don't like them because of the lyric in father of mine "wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy in a black neighborhood" just taking that lyric out of context of the whole song... really stupid if you ask me
I mentioned Everclear to a young buddy and he was like "wait there's a band called Everclear?" I showed him this song because the lyrics from the bridge are some of the most hauntingly beautiful I've ever heard. "I heard the police man say just another overdose, just another overdose" messes me up every time.
+Natalee Oz My beautiful "heroin girl" didn't come out of it, either. I have survivor guilt to this day. The casualties are usually the best of us, unfortunately. 40 years in and I'm still being chased by the fucking dragon. A cautionarey tale to all you "bulletproof" youngsters.
Instead of the police saying Just another overdose about me, it was a doctor in ICU 2 years ago. They thought I wouldn't make it. Been clean (ish) ever since
I remember listening to the doctors make jokes about me convulsing and it being Darwin's theory of natural selection..... I took an amount that wouldn't be fatal of prescriptions pills for most people but was nearly for me and they just made it like they would rather have left me to die and forget like I was even a living person
I also remember a different overdose hearing were losing him and my heart going out of rhythm and a kind nurse holding my hand until they got the defibrillator and gave me a zap to shock my heart back into rhythm my family wouldn't even come along with me
@@kurtvanriemsdyk4548 Wow Josef Mengele would have been proud of them. What garbage. Moralizing in some skewed way over treating. So many presidents were "legal" junkies it isnt even shameful. Just common to them now.
So basically the doctors words had little to no effect on you. LMAO ! 🤣 you're basically asking for a cookie and a pat on the back, or recognition for not changing anytjing.... wait that's a little harsh.... I forgot you totally changed....(ish) you traded your daily habit for a weekend warrior type of relationship with drugs.... YOUR SUCH AN INSPIRATION (ish) P.s. And before you even try to accuse me of not understanding addiction, let me start off by telling YOU that I have been strung out on heroin on and off again since I was 13 years old and am now 37 years old.... my only periods of sobriety were from either being locked up ir forced into sobriety by an abusive boyfriend/husband. . However I did choose to stay clean and sober for 8 years once... back when I was still a mother to 2 beautiful children that were taken away from me because I beat the shit out of my room mate when I caught her abusing them. I was 8 uears clean and sober and the state took the only reason I've ever had to not want to be completely numb to the world. After they took my kids from me, I had no reason to stay sober because they didn't just take my kids they took my rights away from me as well and made it so that I couldn't see them until they are 18. Idk why im telling yo u all this or why im so pissed off and offended by your idiotic statement trying to sound like you accomplished some amazing feat by litterally doing nothing different with your life........ but whatever..... enjoy your delusions of having had an epiphany after overdosing and turning your life around...ish. I bet those 45 likes on your comment made you feel super accomplished and totally cool. Me? Well I'll just keep being a loser piece of shit and not pretending to be anything that I'm not.
When this song comes on the radio at work, I literally HAVE to stop doing what im in the middle of and just listen to the brutal chord changes, perfect mix and fantastic timed lyrics. It gives me chills. IT FUCKEN PUMPS!
This was filmed at a skate park in Portland, Oregon, where Everclear hails from. I went there in 1999 in a stolen car, it was a blast. It was (is?) under the Burnside Bridge I think.
"they found her out in the field about a mile from home. her face was warm from the sun but her body was cold." those words cut soo deep, with a cold sweat on my back, I'm dying with you
Chris T. The problem is there is too much greed/fast money to be made in the unregulated/illegal drug trade (Though I do agree drugs should be decriminalized), and the subsequent police/prison system payout from the astronomically high arrest and recidivism rate of drug offenders - the state makes millions off of that guaranteed demographic yearly in the US pathetically. Second, OTC opiates/opiods, even stronger ones like oxys, are far pricier (espec "legally") and quite fast to build tolerance so that the average user either begins shooting them or buying gear/street heroin for less money (in theory - it's still a crazy expensive habit). Sure, pharmaceuticals like Fentanyl are stronger than street heroin, but produce no euphoria and are far too risky to take even as an experienced user bc of the high overdose potential/certainty. I was a H user and had surgery for a broken wrist - I woke up from anaesthesia screaming from pain so much that they shot me up w Fentanyl 5x and it was like taking a Tylenol bc my system was so out of wack after years of substance abuse that they were baffled. Point being, I started w oxys and morphine, legitimately prescribed, got cocky and thought I could handle it, then it was no longer enough and my life became a hellacious loop of scoring and using street bullshit. I'm lucky I didn't end up worse than I currently am, but the things I saw and respect for myself I threw away still linger. Morality becomes shockingly "flexible" when you're basically a slave to that crap, not even to get high but just so you can function and not get sick. My very long winded point is, in theory, I agree with you that substances should be regulated and decriminalized, but it's sadly not a likelihood. There are too many greedy people profiting, as the drug trade is capitalism in it's rawest, grimiest form, life is cheap in that world, the dollar speaks loudest, and even a "responsible" or legitimized user can slip...fast. I wish it were different, but it's supply and demand at its quickest and most base. Thanks for enduring my rant and God bless...
@@hguest8488 pharma fentanyl "produces no euphoria"? As a heroin/fentanyl addict of 10 years, sober for 2...I must object. After I got ahold of fent after my heroin binge of 8 years I would throw heroin back in the dealers face until they found some fent. Seriously, i would throw a fit if they tried to sell me heroin disguised as street fent...a patch of fent is ridiculously hard to get ahold of ever since the DEA slammed the hammer down on pain clinics...for better or far worse since all my OC/pharma opioid user peers ran straight from the dr to the dope/heroin man when they did and OD deaths skyrocketed out of control, but anyway...pharma fent definitely absolutely produces a euphoric high. I dont know what fent you used...???
CD on his shirt is the Civil Defence logo. When this came out it was one of my favourite songs and taught myself to play it on guitar. Completely underrated song, disappointed it doesn't have more views than most other Everclear songs.
This band deserves their flowers for this masterpiece of an album. I didn’t like any of their other stuff that much, but Sparkle and Fade is a genius, depressing autobiographical perfect piece of art.
And stay moved on, the whole time mocking the mockingbird system! One Hit Wonder, So Much For the Afterglow, and Sparkle n Fade's whole album. World of Noise was another I listened to.
One of my favorite songs from what I think is a classic album. The thing I like so much about this song is that it tells such a tragic story. I wonder if it is based on a real life experience. He certainly makes it sound convincingly so.
I saw Everclear at a concert in DC around 2003 where the tickets were only $1. When I grew up listening to them I lived in a small town and never expected to see them in concert one day. I lucked out.
I love those kids Don't let society dictate your feelings Do what you know But don't let stupidity rule your life Live and let live No more school shootings Stay punk be joyous don't hurt your friends Ask for help Love you kids be safe Love one another Enough all ready
Man. I remember seeing this on VH1 on Insomniac Music Theatre and fell in love with it. Haven't heard it in almost 5 years and it pops into my head, out of the blue, while I'm on the freeway. I miss those days, and this group. Rock on.
i am 51 years old and i just now heard/watched this... what a fucking great song! i cannot believe i had never heard this. as good as any song ever recorded. now i'm about to share with others that i know have never heard it and knock their fucking socks off.
Definitley under rated. I love this song and this band. I saw them a few years ago when they where promoting "Welcome to the Drama Club". They were awesome in concert and played a lot of there awesome old songs as well as the new ones. Art is a trip. I got to meet the band after the show it was awesome. They were all really nice people. Got to let Art know his writing inspired songs that I wrote. Would love to see them again. It was worth the wait the first time.
Everclear was my first ever concert experience. A national radio station held a contest for a free concert, and our town won. It took place on a local football oval. I was about fifteen at the time; too young to get the most out of it or really appreciate what it was all about, but I still appreciate everything about it.
NA and outpatient programs and the police were the only things that helped me stop... NA has some of the nicest people you will ever meet! thanks whomever for that one!
Great heavy song - I was working on Korea when this album came out - I bought it on cassette. Because of Korean censorship laws, every time Alex sang the word ‘heroin’ it was beeped out. Oddly, it made the song even heavier and cooler- I miss hearing that’ locked inside my ‘beeeep’ girl ‘. You have to hear it to know what I mean lol.
I remember seeing on the news that they shot this video at Burnside. Of course, being the lame ass that I was, I missed it but I still think its cool that they did it there.
Many thanx emimusic for to upload this GREAT Everclear´s song & video!....this is my very first time to see and hear this stuff here in TH-cam...GREAT JOB!...greetings from Santiago, Chile. PS: Remembering the good 90´s :-)
Shit, I almost forgot how damn good a song this. Lost my brother to H back in '94, & I was clean for years, but fell back into it a few years ago after a back surgery & those damn oxycodone pills just wet my appetite, which quickly turned into full blown addiction once again. DON'T MESS WITH THE HORSE, YOUR RIDE WILL ONLY END ONE WAY & IT'S NOT GOOD.
I heard this song and these guys in a dive bar in Pioneer Square Seattle. I think it was 92 not sure. Long before Santa Monica and all their fame. Just a local band from Portland on the road. I went up to them while there packing up and said they were great. Hope to see them again. They said thanks and asked me to buy a CD. I was young and broke, so I didn't. I wish I had and could show people.
I feel a.. I was taking 400mg of Oxy, plus 30-50 vicodins a day... my stomach is still effed up.. had addictions from opiates and benzos... benzo withdrawals can kill you, literally, just like alcohol and barbituates wd's... just got into a program and im going to meetings 7 days a week and meeting the greatest people that ive ever met. They all genuinely care at meetings... That's the place to be f your struggling with staying clean, no embarrassment at all...
Reminds me of this Russian girl i used to date who turned me on to heroin when i busted up my knee & ankle. We would snort heroin all day & it'd take the pain away,til she tried the needle and overdosed 1 night when i was at work. Fucks with me still but the song always makes me think of her. Rest in peace sweet Elizabeth
The saddest part about Everclear was that they were a great band. One of my favorites growing up honestly. I had the opportunity to see them about 2 years ago, and it was a huge disappointment. Art has completely lost his voice. You couldn't even hear him during the show, and he just looked fucked up. Sad really.
That's a bummer. My friend actually dated Dave French back in the early 2000s, and I do remember her saying they'd had some issues with backsliding after getting sober. Here's hoping he was just tired from life on the road, and not strung out again 😕
This song brings back so many good memories my sister was obsessed with everclear. She would blast this song on repeat a lot of the times while I tried to do my homework lol.
gettin ready to spike black tar.battled opiate addiction for 15+ years. 5 year stint a Done clinic. have Suboxone appt.next Thursday. SICK N TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED
+Chris Watson.. Thanks man. I know it will. This'll be the 4th time I'll go on it. Last time was on 4 of the 12mg films. I got pregnant with twin boys even though I was on the shot in a monogamous 5 year relationship. So I tapered off FAST. Got hooked again after having twins,that 1st shot of DemaMorph. November is a bad time in my area to find a Dr who isn't maxxed out on Sub patients. So January was as close as I could get. Been a 17 year junkie. Hope this ends it. Thanks man.
TheDon101277 Suboxone is EXACTLY what Subutex is. Except it's got Nalaxone aka Narcan in it. When somebody overdoes on like Oxys or Fentanyl at the hospital they give them a shot of Narcan. It bloccs opiates, immediate detox. Been there,felt it. The reasoning behind adding Naloxone to Subutex = Suboxone. Example: an 8 mg strip of Suboxone has 8 mg Buprenorphine and 2mg Naloxone (Narcan). Its not so you Wong flip out it's cuz the Naloxone neutralizes other opiates equalling no buzz. Also depending on a persons tolerance, Suboxone dose etc, say you skip your Suboxone for 1 day and do H, Oxys,Fentanyl-something good , you could still have enough Naloxone in your blood to send you into immediate detox. Basically Naloxone was added so junkers can't use other opiates AND be on Subs. I've been on Suboxone since 2010. Two 12mg films and one 8mg film my current Rx. I been on it long enough and know my body well enough I get ten 100 microgram Fentanyl patches 1x a month and skip Subs. And an Rx of 80mg OxyContin. Hoped this cleared it up.
I was a heroin girl for 5yrs but thankfully got clean in '97 and been clean since. My best friend-more like chosen sister killed herself due to her overpowering heroin addiction, she slit her wrists and throat. I'm the person who found her dead for at least 2 days in the bathtub in an abandoned apart(she had several places like this to hide and use). Rigor had set in, her body was like ice, all shades of blues and purples with clotted blood stuck to her like glue. The second I laid eyes on her I already knew what happened and why. I crawled into the tub with water still in it and pulled her into my arms while I screamed at the universe, God, EVERY God, how could you let this happen. I found her suicide note and it said what already knew. I called the people and had to send some "not exactly happy ppl" over to the present to for them to take her body for proper autopsy. My Best Friend Nemi had no bio family or any family wanted her back feeand was going to thrown into an indigent grave. Not while I'm alive. All the homeless ppl stepped up and offered what they could because she was one of US we were her real family. So 0we moved heaven and earth to make sure she could have a safe place to lay her weary head down and sleep the long sleep she'd been needing. The police do not care about homeless, street rats, why they ended up that way. Another heroin addicted friend was on his last leg, and shread of sanity. No one ever gave their real names(save this 1 time). I'm worried and go to check on him. The opened the door to hear a shotgun explode and ripped his face. I was wearing the shirt she gave me and as I picked up the injured.
My husband put this on repeat in the background the other night whilst he rearranged my guts in the living room with the curtains open. Bought memories flooding back, very emotional.
+Jennifer F Remember its mostly in the head. when u do give in and get some its NEVER the high you've been telling yourself your gonna feel. Its such a cliche but so true "ALWAYS CHASING A HIGH U FELT WHEN U STARTED" and no matter how long clean trying it again is NEVER the same. STAY CLEAN
Me too. I have a choice today and won't do it because I'll lose everything. However, I still miss the feeling of banging a bag. That's just honest. And the truth is I know everything that comes behind that hit: the f-ing devil.
Jennifer F - why? I've been there and there becomes a point where death becomes more appealing than living as a slave to that crap and spending every cent you have/pawning once meaningful possessions simply so you can not feel the onset of sickness for a few fleeting hours. The fun is short-lived and you wake up one morning a shell of a human. I was disgusted by what it made me. Even vague memories of when the highs were knee-buckling can't erase the shame that still contaminates my memories of what I lost for a sort lived false promise of freedom from pain. I'm not knocking you or your specific experience, but we need to stop romanticizing this soul crushing affliction - if not for you, for someone inexperienced who might read well meant nostalgia and misinterpret that life as more fun than misery and not make it out like we did...
I take 4 80 milligram oxy extended a day along with 4 30 milligram of oxy instant release a day. So so roughly 450 milligram total a day. That is what is prescribed to me. All I can say is knowing the control it has over my life I feel bad for you if you really bang heroin on the regular. Its not worth what it takes to get off of it.
Nowhere in my previous comments did I ever say "I bang heroin on the regular" or that I use the drug at all for that matter. David Merrell, I'm sorry to hear about your situation, and unless you have aids, cancer, or some other excruciatingly painful disease, the amount of opiates you are prescribed is ungodly. I hope things work out for you. Honestly I was just kinda poking fun, looking for a reaction.
![Everclear - Heroin Girl [Live At The Whisky A Go Go]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rj68atiZnDs/mqdefault.jpg)
The band put an ad in a local Portland newspaper letting people know that the video shoot was taking place. A number of local high school kids ditched school that day to participate
The director gave out a number of 8mm film cameras to the kids, and let them film the band. The band played the song several times. The footage was then edited together to make the finished product
The students were later suspended from school, and Everclear received a nice little note from the Portland School Board
That is so punk rock
Heck, the suspension would totally be worth it! Whoo hoo! Gotta love my P town, it's awesome! What part of town was this filmed in? I have a hunch that it's Old Town.
Listen to the lyrics. This is an education in life. One school can't give a person. FUCK the school bored.
@@mondoshredder5783 lmao totally.
Punks not dead!!
I'm 35 years old and stationed at Misawa Air Base in northern Japan in the middle of nowhere and Everclear is about to play on this base in October. This was the first song I ever fell in love with. The first CD I ever bought. And Santa Monica was the first song I ever learned on guitar. I have never seen them live before. It's a dream come true. Thank you Everclear for coming to Misawa. PLEASE play this song.
Small world. I was stationed there in 2008. Now dealing with my own heroin girl back on the block.
Did they
I'm 40 now
You should have bought some CDs before you turned twenty or thirty or whatever bro. Some cassettes tapes freaking vinyl I don't know something. But hella this was some good stuff back in the day wasn't it! Still killer to this minute
i was in Misawa from 1985 to 87!
Hell yeah brother...Everclear is badass and Misawa is cold af! 😆
I’m a Portlander and Everclear has been meaning more and more to me.
I can’t help think of the line “just another overdose” when the 8 people overdosed of legalized fentanyl in the park blocks of Downtown Portland…… the whole city shrugged it off
Sparkle and Fade is an absolute masterpiece! It’s perfect from start to finish! One of the best albums ever created!
this is the truth.
Bloody oath mate
Without a doubt
Real talk
yes i agree 100%
Art is sober, and has been for a long time. This song was their first hit, completely under rated. I saw them at Maxwell's in Hoboken then, 20 people at show. Priceless.
You lucky sod you
Ehhhh.... Yyyyeeeahh... He sings about using Mexican Black Tar Opiate Sludge with a lover. Art then in real life moved to Southern Mexico to "hang out" off grid for years. Hope he was walking safely on black tar concrete. Or.....sumthing
Same, the song that launched them...still the best..
I have same thing from Australia's 'the living end' the very song made them heard 'from here on in' was forgotten once the first album put half its songs on radio..but the first one is still my favourite.
I envy you. I believe this was their best album
I was the only kid at the local bowling alley from Indiana paying money to listen to this song on the juke- box and exposing my Chicago friends to.
This band is so underrated
i agree. personally my favorite band
NATEHERMAN PRODUCTIONS they are. their first two albums are really solid in my opinion. if more people gave them a chance I think they'd be pleasantly surprised.
Hell yea they are, I honestly think Sparkle and Fade is the best rock album of the 90's. To me it blows Nevermind and Dookie out of the fuckin' water. But that will never be a common opinion
NATEHERMAN PRODUCTIONS all of a sudden I can't just leave a comment, only reply. Anyone else ever get that?
I know, but their new stuff is just crap. Two first albums are pure gold. Lets hope people finds out soon, its a loong road when you have released twice as much crap than gold :(
This song hits even harder a couple decades later. 🔥
For me too.
So true, the more that things change the more they stay the same 😢.
This song makes me get a little teary eyed, reminds me of when I was strung out, lost a lot of friends to it and almost lost myself!! Glad I made it out alive!!
Sparkle and Fade was, and still is, 1 of The Best damn albums from the '90s, of which there were, and are, a lot of from that Decade.
Is it just me, or is this the best Everclear song?
Indeed it is possibly one of the best songs ever!!!!
no, your right, best Everclear song eva
You are right dude Heroin Girl*s the bomb!
I would like to thank everyone for the comments and +1s.
Only everclear song I ever listen to voluntarily.
90's west coast thrash grunge. Best way to describe it? Love these guys..
makes me want to try skateboarding on a half pipe, even though i would probably fall immediately and break my forearm
This is one of my favourite songs, have had my own struggles with substance abuse but it always reminds me of my best friend who sadly passed away a number of years ago. I love the honesty in this song of how being a used up junkie and finding another person in the same shit as you makes you feel like you found a friend. RIP Rozzy, I remember singing this song with you 😢
I have my own Hester. clean since 2007
Storytelling seems to be lost in all music, these days. That's why i love Everclear.
Highly suspect is a good one to listen to for that
Face was warm from the sun but her body was cold.
@ChrisHallett83 no you dont
Even country and that's ridiculous
First Everclear song I ever heard and still my favorite. Powerful vocals.
Back then Everclear was a whole different kind of sound.
This is the only Everclear that matters to me. I lost interest when they became a pop band
and that's the truth....
@@ProperlyPsychotic obviously the album after this one
This is one of my favorite bands. Don't understand why this band is so underrated.
They are anti establishment of the music industry. Watch One Hit Wonder video.
Heinrich Himmler @Carlos Vasquez This song is from their secret album.
A lot of people apparently don't like them because of the lyric in father of mine "wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy in a black neighborhood" just taking that lyric out of context of the whole song... really stupid if you ask me
@@jessiechester1337 what? I’ve never ever ever heard anyone take offense to that line? Did you just make that up
Once upon a time you couldn't turn on 90's Rock radio without hearing "Santa Monica".
Heroin addiction started in 96. Recovery 2006. A retired grateful ex heroin girl
I mentioned Everclear to a young buddy and he was like "wait there's a band called Everclear?"
I showed him this song because the lyrics from the bridge are some of the most hauntingly beautiful I've ever heard. "I heard the police man say just another overdose, just another overdose" messes me up every time.
Thank God I'm not dead or that girl anymore!!!
+Joan Lynn -Maroszek I hear that!!! but goddam it was fun ; )
Unfortunately, my heroin girl didn't make it out alive.
yeah, the exchange gives out narcan now. I save lives like an emt
same here..five years clean
+Natalee Oz My beautiful "heroin girl" didn't come out of it, either. I have survivor guilt to this day. The casualties are usually the best of us, unfortunately. 40 years in and I'm still being chased by the fucking dragon. A cautionarey tale to all you "bulletproof" youngsters.
Instead of the police saying Just another overdose about me, it was a doctor in ICU 2 years ago. They thought I wouldn't make it. Been clean (ish) ever since
I remember listening to the doctors make jokes about me convulsing and it being Darwin's theory of natural selection..... I took an amount that wouldn't be fatal of prescriptions pills for most people but was nearly for me and they just made it like they would rather have left me to die and forget like I was even a living person
I also remember a different overdose hearing were losing him and my heart going out of rhythm and a kind nurse holding my hand until they got the defibrillator and gave me a zap to shock my heart back into rhythm my family wouldn't even come along with me
@@kurtvanriemsdyk4548 Wow Josef Mengele would have been proud of them. What garbage. Moralizing in some skewed way over treating. So many presidents were "legal" junkies it isnt even shameful. Just common to them now.
So basically the doctors words had little to no effect on you. LMAO ! 🤣 you're basically asking for a cookie and a pat on the back, or recognition for not changing anytjing.... wait that's a little harsh.... I forgot you totally changed....(ish) you traded your daily habit for a weekend warrior type of relationship with drugs.... YOUR SUCH AN INSPIRATION (ish)
P.s. And before you even try to accuse me of not understanding addiction, let me start off by telling YOU that I have been strung out on heroin on and off again since I was 13 years old and am now 37 years old.... my only periods of sobriety were from either being locked up ir forced into sobriety by an abusive boyfriend/husband. . However I did choose to stay clean and sober for 8 years once... back when I was still a mother to 2 beautiful children that were taken away from me because I beat the shit out of my room mate when I caught her abusing them. I was 8 uears clean and sober and the state took the only reason I've ever had to not want to be completely numb to the world. After they took my kids from me, I had no reason to stay sober because they didn't just take my kids they took my rights away from me as well and made it so that I couldn't see them until they are 18.
Idk why im telling yo u all this or why im so pissed off and offended by your idiotic statement trying to sound like you accomplished some amazing feat by litterally doing nothing different with your life........ but whatever..... enjoy your delusions of having had an epiphany after overdosing and turning your life around...ish.
I bet those 45 likes on your comment made you feel super accomplished and totally cool.
Me? Well I'll just keep being a loser piece of shit and not pretending to be anything that I'm not.
When this song comes on the radio at work, I literally HAVE to stop doing what im in the middle of and just listen to the brutal chord changes, perfect mix and fantastic timed lyrics. It gives me chills. IT FUCKEN PUMPS!
When did this song ever come on the radio let alone in the last 20 years lol
@@theredditreview3486 Like every single day in 1995 lol
From a recovering 49 year old, this song, band, just Awasome!!! Yeah?❤
I believe this is what the kids these days describe as a “banger” (& by these days I mean last year). Was a banger then, still a banger today.
In my town a banger can be one of two things. Either an old, worn out car that's practically ready for the scrap yard. Or a sausage.
This song is a masterpiece and the video and stories behind it and it's location are a true personification of Portland in the 90s
This was filmed at a skate park in Portland, Oregon, where Everclear hails from. I went there in 1999 in a stolen car, it was a blast. It was (is?) under the Burnside Bridge I think.
One of the most underrated bands. Everclear is always going to be in my top 5 bands.
same here though
i miss my little heroin girl, a lot.
and, yes.
she would do ANYTHING.
What would she do bro
@@julesyyz ;)
me2man..I was somekindofhappy in our diludedsureal hell
Anything but wear a short-sleeve shirt, am I right?
I miss my heroin boy, but he wouldn’t do everything..
"they found her out in the field about a mile from home. her face was warm from the sun but her body was cold." those words cut soo deep, with a cold sweat on my back, I'm dying with you
Obviously a prohibition-induced suicide.
Re-legalize opiates in pure cheap safe form over the counter NOW!
Chris T. The problem is there is too much greed/fast money to be made in the unregulated/illegal drug trade (Though I do agree drugs should be decriminalized), and the subsequent police/prison system payout from the astronomically high arrest and recidivism rate of drug offenders - the state makes millions off of that guaranteed demographic yearly in the US pathetically. Second, OTC opiates/opiods, even stronger ones like oxys, are far pricier (espec "legally") and quite fast to build tolerance so that the average user either begins shooting them or buying gear/street heroin for less money (in theory - it's still a crazy expensive habit). Sure, pharmaceuticals like Fentanyl are stronger than street heroin, but produce no euphoria and are far too risky to take even as an experienced user bc of the high overdose potential/certainty. I was a H user and had surgery for a broken wrist - I woke up from anaesthesia screaming from pain so much that they shot me up w Fentanyl 5x and it was like taking a Tylenol bc my system was so out of wack after years of substance abuse that they were baffled. Point being, I started w oxys and morphine, legitimately prescribed, got cocky and thought I could handle it, then it was no longer enough and my life became a hellacious loop of scoring and using street bullshit. I'm lucky I didn't end up worse than I currently am, but the things I saw and respect for myself I threw away still linger. Morality becomes shockingly "flexible" when you're basically a slave to that crap, not even to get high but just so you can function and not get sick. My very long winded point is, in theory, I agree with you that substances should be regulated and decriminalized, but it's sadly not a likelihood. There are too many greedy people profiting, as the drug trade is capitalism in it's rawest, grimiest form, life is cheap in that world, the dollar speaks loudest, and even a "responsible" or legitimized user can slip...fast. I wish it were different, but it's supply and demand at its quickest and most base. Thanks for enduring my rant and God bless...
@@hguest8488 pharma fentanyl "produces no euphoria"? As a heroin/fentanyl addict of 10 years, sober for 2...I must object. After I got ahold of fent after my heroin binge of 8 years I would throw heroin back in the dealers face until they found some fent. Seriously, i would throw a fit if they tried to sell me heroin disguised as street fent...a patch of fent is ridiculously hard to get ahold of ever since the DEA slammed the hammer down on pain clinics...for better or far worse since all my OC/pharma opioid user peers ran straight from the dr to the dope/heroin man when they did and OD deaths skyrocketed out of control, but anyway...pharma fent definitely absolutely produces a euphoric high. I dont know what fent you used...???
@@hguest8488 my man wrote a whole fucking essay
@@aloysiusfranzen7244 darned literacy
CD on his shirt is the Civil Defence logo. When this came out it was one of my favourite songs and taught myself to play it on guitar. Completely underrated song, disappointed it doesn't have more views than most other Everclear songs.
Such an iconic riff! Loved this album. Influenced me so much.
This band deserves their flowers for this masterpiece of an album. I didn’t like any of their other stuff that much, but Sparkle and Fade is a genius, depressing autobiographical perfect piece of art.
when you learn the meaning behind the song, its amazing the willpower the front man had to move on.
And stay moved on, the whole time mocking the mockingbird system! One Hit Wonder, So Much For the Afterglow, and Sparkle n Fade's whole album. World of Noise was another I listened to.
It is the ULTIMATE Everclear song. 90s music shook the planet
One of my favorite songs from what I think is a classic album. The thing I like so much about this song is that it tells such a tragic story. I wonder if it is based on a real life experience. He certainly makes it sound convincingly so.
I saw Everclear at a concert in DC around 2003 where the tickets were only $1. When I grew up listening to them I lived in a small town and never expected to see them in concert one day. I lucked out.
I love those kids
Don't let society dictate your feelings
Do what you know
But don't let stupidity rule your life
Live and let live
No more school shootings
Stay punk be joyous don't hurt your friends
Ask for help
Love you kids be safe
Love one another
Enough all ready
Man. I remember seeing this on VH1 on Insomniac Music Theatre and fell in love with it. Haven't heard it in almost 5 years and it pops into my head, out of the blue, while I'm on the freeway. I miss those days, and this group.
Rock on.
Absolutely the Fkn best Everclear song.
i am 51 years old and i just now heard/watched this... what a fucking great song! i cannot believe i had never heard this. as good as any song ever recorded. now i'm about to share with others that i know have never heard it and knock their fucking socks off.
W song
Definitley under rated. I love this song and this band. I saw them a few years ago when they where promoting "Welcome to the Drama Club". They were awesome in concert and played a lot of there awesome old songs as well as the new ones. Art is a trip. I got to meet the band after the show it was awesome. They were all really nice people. Got to let Art know his writing inspired songs that I wrote. Would love to see them again. It was worth the wait the first time.
I remember listening to this song when I was dope and didn’t think I would come out of it
My buddy and I used to listen to kufo radio 101 on our way to work in Portland OR, brings back memories.
Losing KUFO is when old Portland died
Art asked one of my best friends to join him tomorrow to sing this on stage at his show. YOU ROCK IT, SERENITY!
Everclear was my first ever concert experience. A national radio station held a contest for a free concert, and our town won. It took place on a local football oval.
I was about fifteen at the time; too young to get the most out of it or really appreciate what it was all about, but I still appreciate everything about it.
NA and outpatient programs and the police were the only things that helped me stop... NA has some of the nicest people you will ever meet! thanks whomever for that one!
Great heavy song - I was working on Korea when this album came out - I bought it on cassette. Because of Korean censorship laws, every time Alex sang the word ‘heroin’ it was beeped out. Oddly, it made the song even heavier and cooler- I miss hearing that’ locked inside my ‘beeeep’ girl ‘. You have to hear it to know what I mean lol.
Kids- this was the 90's. Be jealous.
Amy Herrmann be VERY jealous.
Haha wtf happened? I feel like I'm stuck in the 90s
Amy Herrmann im 12 and i had yo grow up listening to these types of song because of my mum and step fad
Oh God, how do we let them know How Good it was, them 90s~
Proud to say I remember when these dudes came out, music was actually decent back then, hear that?
I’d forgotten all about this track. Awesome riff
I remember seeing on the news that they shot this video at Burnside. Of course, being the lame ass that I was, I missed it but I still think its cool that they did it there.
Many thanx emimusic for to upload this GREAT Everclear´s song & video!....this is my very first time to see and hear this stuff
here in TH-cam...GREAT JOB!...greetings from Santiago, Chile. PS: Remembering the good 90´s :-)
I have never done any drugs, stories like this I knew long before I left the nest helped me stay 100% clean through it all.
Yeah, Yeah Yeah etc. Woooo !! Lovin it !!
Shit, I almost forgot how damn good a song this. Lost my brother to H back in '94, & I was clean for years, but fell back into it a few years ago after a back surgery & those damn oxycodone pills just wet my appetite, which quickly turned into full blown addiction once again. DON'T MESS WITH THE HORSE, YOUR RIDE WILL ONLY END ONE WAY & IT'S NOT GOOD.
how are you doing ?
I heard this song and these guys in a dive bar in Pioneer Square Seattle. I think it was 92 not sure. Long before Santa Monica and all their fame. Just a local band from Portland on the road. I went up to them while there packing up and said they were great. Hope to see them again. They said thanks and asked me to buy a CD. I was young and broke, so I didn't. I wish I had and could show people.
2017 and still jamming out to this shit
2021 and same
Man, this has been a band I've always heard of but never truly listened too before. I've been missing out.
such a bad ass song!
Love Ever clear been rocking out to them since I was a teenager they from my town RIP CITY ❤️🖤
‘I wish I could go back, back in time’
One of the greatest bands of all time
I feel a.. I was taking 400mg of Oxy, plus 30-50 vicodins a day... my stomach is still effed up.. had addictions from opiates and benzos... benzo withdrawals can kill you, literally, just like alcohol and barbituates wd's... just got into a program and im going to meetings 7 days a week and meeting the greatest people that ive ever met. They all genuinely care at meetings... That's the place to be f your struggling with staying clean, no embarrassment at all...
Hope you're still good king
Summer of 95'
One of my favorite shows ever.
I heard the police man say just another overdose.
Just another over dose!!!
A Dimayev All this time and I can't listen to this without crying.
True story except it was singer's brother and not a girl who OD'd and a policeman really said that.
This was the first album I ever owned.
This song breaks my soul,I lost my only true heart to heroin...like the song says,just another overdose.
She was the best thing I ever felt but she totally reduced my to a cold painful depression.
Reminds me of this Russian girl i used to date who turned me on to heroin when i busted up my knee & ankle. We would snort heroin all day & it'd take the pain away,til she tried the needle and overdosed 1 night when i was at work. Fucks with me still but the song always makes me think of her. Rest in peace sweet Elizabeth
Love this song. Guitar tone is epic on top
The saddest part about Everclear was that they were a great band. One of my favorites growing up honestly. I had the opportunity to see them about 2 years ago, and it was a huge disappointment. Art has completely lost his voice. You couldn't even hear him during the show, and he just looked fucked up. Sad really.
He must be dwelling on life and drug and or alcohol relapsed as a result... because that shit will mess up ones voice. Cigs too.
this guy always looked like a junky, and must really be one. too many deamons. band played extremely good rock.
DISOBEY NWOrder 。。。▲ To the best of my knowledge, Art screwed up his voice by not allowing himself to adequately recover after vocal surgery.
That's a bummer. My friend actually dated Dave French back in the early 2000s, and I do remember her saying they'd had some issues with backsliding after getting sober. Here's hoping he was just tired from life on the road, and not strung out again 😕
Zebediah Roberts seen them last night and Art sou fed great better than a number of years ago when I seen them
The 1990s man needs a comeback
I was just another overdose.... 18 times... then i got clean
This song brings back so many good memories my sister was obsessed with everclear. She would blast this song on repeat a lot of the times while I tried to do my homework lol.
gettin ready to spike black tar.battled opiate addiction for 15+ years. 5 year stint a Done clinic. have Suboxone appt.next Thursday. SICK N TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED
Hey Brandi suboxone will save your life!! It is a miracle drug, hope everything worked out for you. Stay strong and good luck girl.
+Chris Watson.. Thanks man. I know it will. This'll be the 4th time I'll go on it. Last time was on 4 of the 12mg films. I got pregnant with twin boys even though I was on the shot in a monogamous 5 year relationship. So I tapered off FAST. Got hooked again after having twins,that 1st shot of DemaMorph. November is a bad time in my area to find a Dr who isn't maxxed out on Sub patients. So January was as close as I could get. Been a 17 year junkie. Hope this ends it. Thanks man.
+Chris Watson whats suboxone is it same as subutex (a blocker tablet that can make u feel withdrawl symptoms if u use. sort of flipping it ??
TheDon101277 Suboxone is EXACTLY what Subutex is. Except it's got Nalaxone aka Narcan in it. When somebody overdoes on like Oxys or Fentanyl at the hospital they give them a shot of Narcan. It bloccs opiates, immediate detox. Been there,felt it.
The reasoning behind adding Naloxone to Subutex = Suboxone. Example: an 8 mg strip of Suboxone has 8 mg Buprenorphine and 2mg Naloxone (Narcan). Its not so you Wong flip out it's cuz the Naloxone neutralizes other opiates equalling no buzz. Also depending on a persons tolerance, Suboxone dose etc, say you skip your Suboxone for 1 day and do H, Oxys,Fentanyl-something good , you could still have enough Naloxone in your blood to send you into immediate detox. Basically Naloxone was added so junkers can't use other opiates AND be on Subs.
I've been on Suboxone since 2010. Two 12mg films and one 8mg film my current Rx.
I been on it long enough and know my body well enough I get ten 100 microgram Fentanyl patches 1x a month and skip Subs. And an Rx of 80mg OxyContin.
Hoped this cleared it up.
I wish you the best Suboxone saved my life !! 6 months clean from living hell !! was at deaths door . If i did it so can anyone .. goodluck!!
One the all time greatest love songs. It's still in my top 5.
does anyone know what that shirt is he has on?
Don't Feed the Trolls it's a Cavil Defense logo
+Don't Feed the Trolls It's the Civil Defense logo.
is that burnside skatepark???
Best thing they did by a country mile. Pure acid
Great album!!
im in this video standing on the ledge with my brothers & sisters************************************
epic!
My Favorite song they made! Loved it Back then and Still do!
Thank God I'm not dead or that girl anymore
Lost but not forgotten
This just gets 832, 000 and Justine Beaver get millions. Let's fix this.
Saw them tonight this song rocks still in 2023
I was a heroin girl for 5yrs but thankfully got clean in '97 and been clean since. My best friend-more like chosen sister killed herself due to her overpowering heroin addiction, she slit her wrists and throat.
I'm the person who found her dead for at least 2 days in the bathtub in an abandoned apart(she had several places like this to hide and use). Rigor had set in, her body was like ice, all shades of blues and purples with clotted blood stuck to her like glue.
The second I laid eyes on her I already knew what happened and why. I crawled into the tub with water still in it and pulled her into my arms while I screamed at the universe, God, EVERY God, how could you let this happen.
I found her suicide note and it said what already knew. I called the people and had to send some "not exactly happy ppl" over to the present to for them to take her body for proper autopsy.
My Best Friend Nemi had no bio family or any family wanted her back feeand was going to thrown into an indigent grave. Not while I'm alive. All the homeless ppl stepped up and offered what they could because she was one of US we were her real family. So 0we moved heaven and earth to make sure she could have a safe place to lay her weary head down and sleep the long sleep she'd been needing.
The police do not care about homeless, street rats, why they ended up that way.
Another heroin addicted friend was on his last leg, and shread of sanity. No one ever gave their real names(save this 1 time). I'm worried and go to check on him. The opened the door to hear a shotgun explode and ripped his face. I was wearing the shirt she gave me and as I picked up the injured.
Damn! This is why I moved to Portland and played in 5 bands. I hate that Portland is no longer the music Mecca. 😢
this song always reminded me of nirvana
This song sounds nothing like nirvana. Lol
Love this song, thank you for the video.
This song remind anyone of Jesse and Jane on Breaking Bad?
Jane is my fav
Why?
John Chappel it’s been 4 years and he still hasn’t answered your question
My husband put this on repeat in the background the other night whilst he rearranged my guts in the living room with the curtains open. Bought memories flooding back, very emotional.
"That's not just another overdose... that's my baby."
To a cop it's just another overdose
Don’t worry I wish I can go back in time too.... miss the 90s
My teacher showed me this today😂✌🏼️
kick ass!
your teacher sounds awesome
Ikr meto
I hope you're an adult (or were at the time). I love this song, but I would sue nowadays if my kids learned this in music class
love Ever clear!!! one of my cat's
im glad im clean...but damn i miss it so fing much sometimes..
+Jennifer F Remember its mostly in the head. when u do give in and get some its NEVER the high you've been telling yourself your gonna feel. Its such a cliche but so true "ALWAYS CHASING A HIGH U FELT WHEN U STARTED" and no matter how long clean trying it again is NEVER the same. STAY CLEAN
@Jennifer F -- Listen to Master of Puppets is about taking heroin. Metallica are warning us not to take it!
Me too. I have a choice today and won't do it because I'll lose everything. However, I still miss the feeling of banging a bag. That's just honest. And the truth is I know everything that comes behind that hit: the f-ing devil.
there's at least one thing I'd like to bang here
Jennifer F - why? I've been there and there becomes a point where death becomes more appealing than living as a slave to that crap and spending every cent you have/pawning once meaningful possessions simply so you can not feel the onset of sickness for a few fleeting hours. The fun is short-lived and you wake up one morning a shell of a human. I was disgusted by what it made me. Even vague memories of when the highs were knee-buckling can't erase the shame that still contaminates my memories of what I lost for a sort lived false promise of freedom from pain. I'm not knocking you or your specific experience, but we need to stop romanticizing this soul crushing affliction - if not for you, for someone inexperienced who might read well meant nostalgia and misinterpret that life as more fun than misery and not make it out like we did...
"Just another overdose!!"
Been loving you guys since I was 18 and I’m 38
The only Everclear song I've ever liked.
this rocks.I always come back to this.
I am a heroin girl
I take 4 80 milligram oxy extended a day along with 4 30 milligram of oxy instant release a day. So so roughly 450 milligram total a day. That is what is prescribed to me. All I can say is knowing the control it has over my life I feel bad for you if you really bang heroin on the regular. Its not worth what it takes to get off of it.
do you drink that Mexican beer? do you live on Mexican food?
yuck
slutr yuck heroin girls
Sid Kain bet u she gets the runs, and complains
Nowhere in my previous comments did I ever say "I bang heroin on the regular" or that I use the drug at all for that matter. David Merrell, I'm sorry to hear about your situation, and unless you have aids, cancer, or some other excruciatingly painful disease, the amount of opiates you are prescribed is ungodly. I hope things work out for you. Honestly I was just kinda poking fun, looking for a reaction.