It has to be one of the best of all, right?! I mean... I don't want to split hairs or anything, but is there a better breakdown than, "MEDIOCRITY IS THE KILLER!!!!" ?!?!?!
I was like 13, blasting this song and writing lyrics in math class. It's insane how I play this song and a natural smile just springs upon my face like im seeingz an old friend. Love those days bro.
I think my buddy brought it up back in the day, said who it was, but I forget. I always wondered who it was. I never heard that band, I dont think. God, wow...the hardships, respite, and memories during this time with N.J. and other greats as the soundtrack to life. I love it.
Lmao man this was on my sports track in middle/high school and then was in the first batch of test tracks on the Sennheisers I got. I wish I was a kid now for all this tech
This sing slaps way harder than most metal/death core to date. It is raw, emotional, it was recorded live in 1 take. It is dark, but not overly so. 10/10.
@@hybrid4117 You can tell by listening. When my band recorded our first studio album we brought in this song as reference for our guitars and the producer immediately said "That was recorded live".
my dad was one of the first people to get these guys a gig back in the day when they were known as Luti-Kriss. on a few of their old CD’s there’s a thank you note to him. found that pretty cool!
I got into the scene in 94 with Living Sacrifice. I was 24. Got into Norma Jean some years later. Tore my right rotator cuff at a NJ show at Tremont music hall some years later. I'm 53 now. Still listening.....🤘
Im now 31 years old, married and have migrated to New Zealand. but I still love this song like I was still 17 years old... I will never forget this song, I love Metalcore no matter how old I may get ❤️ cheers to Norma Jean! Great band ever 💚💚
I remember I had downloaded a bunch of my father's music onto my iPod and accidentally put this song on it as well. Taking a nap and suddenly hearing this blare into my headphones was a shock. Now I love heavy metal. Weird how things work out.
I used to jam to this every morning before school with knights of the abyss, job for a cowboy and number 12… can’t believe I forgot about them… Still dope in 2024
Being a young teenager at the mall wanting to buy a cd but had all the good ones already so I just grabbed this album hoping I would like it. And this song became my JAM. I can't believe I didn't keep my eye on this band. I now downloading it all !
@@BlackTongue. Norma Jean's first vocalist, Josh Scogin, went on to found The Chariot - would highly recommend them (especially their first record) for fans of this song and album, all the boulder-heavy Botch-isms you can shake a stick at.
32 years old now I’ll never forget when I was 12yo sitting on my buddies bed and we heard this. I’m now a rap head but NJ just scratches my brain differently still.
I will still remember the first time I ever heard this song. I was a wee lad and in the car with a bunch of really hot scene girls. It was like a dream come true but then this song came on while they were driving on the highway and literally everyone and the driver started freaking out and banging into things. I was so confused because this was my first taste of this kind of music.
If you like these guys you might like Between the Buried and Me. Listen to their album Alaska - if you don't already know them and haven't already. Also, you might enjoy Being Me the Horizon. Only This is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For, Count Your Blessings, Suicide Season, and There is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It...
Bro. One of THE FUNNEST songs to play. I remember it note for note. I'll always have that connection w this composition which is cool. You spend time tryna perfect it. N one day your sooo stoked you got it. Great memories jamming to this song in my buddies basement
@@JayDillDrums Nice your story dude. In fact, it is very interesting how songs we heard at certain times stay in our memory and bring us good memories.
Dude this is the first hard-core song I ever heard...and now like 5 years after, being an enormous fan or both Norma Jean and mewithoutyou...I actually watch through the whole video and the vocalist of mewithoutyou is in it. I've come full circle.
Another fun fact: Norma Jean's vocalist in this video is not the vocalist in the recording. The audio is actually Josh Scogin from The Chariot/68. He was the original vocalist for Norma Jean
What makes this song a masterpiece in Metalcore music and very unique in terms of artistical vision is the part that starts at 3:12 until the end. It gives the whole song a different dimension and triggers feelings like despair, disarray, desolation. At least that’s what happens to me. I don’t think this album (the only one with Josh Scogin) is given enough credit but I feel it could gain more recognition in the years to come.
Wow I never knew there was an official video for this lol … This song immediately had me hooked on them thanks to a friend having it in their ICQ away status ages ago. Checked it out and kept tabs on them since. Their newer stuff is pretty good, but this album is top shelf Norma Jean material that will always be in rotation for my playlists. “Pretty Soon I Don’t Know What But Something Is Going to Happen” and “Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste” are chill inducers.
@@sarahstaats9734 to a love so unrefined we know not what it is, until like a dullen wine we pour into a grief we've known before but never quite like this
I was at a music festival called Purple Door in 2003 or 2004 and Norma Jean and Mewithoutyou were both there, so I got to see this performed complete with Aaron's verse and it was a borderline life changing performance that I'm very lucky to have been present for
Gosh dang it, I freaking love the fact that I listen to such an absurdly large number of bands from all genres that from time to time I literally forget a particular band even exists or that I once yrs ago (im 37 so...😂) possibly even played their albums obsessively until I played them out beyond further sonic pleasure..well that just happened and omg am I glad I get to rehash this band, so many good songs and so so good
[Intro] Ahem, yeah! [Chorus] Waltz around the room With a glaze in your stare In your tuxedo suit I'll give it a name Lower defenses I'll lower the casket Open the door Open the grave [Bridge] Murder, murder Murder, murder [Verse 1] Now you're doing the waltz with your murderer Doing the waltz with your murderer Doing the waltz with your murderer You're doing the waltz with your murderer Doing the waltz with your murderer You're doing the waltz with your murderer You're doing the waltz with your murderer You're doing the waltz with your murderer Woah, yeah [Chorus] Waltz around the room With a glaze in your stare Tuxedo suit Give it a name Lower defenses Lower the casket Open the door Open the grave Meow [Verse 2] Mediocrity is the killer Mediocrity is the killer Mediocrity is the killer Mediocrity is the killer [Verse 3] You find yourself helpless, oh Christ is not a fashion Fleeting away [Bridge 2] Fashion, fashion, fashion [Verse 4: Aaron Weiss] He laid emeralds in her eyes Oh, but I'd already tied A bracelet made of gold And scarlet thread around her wrist And everything was wrong So we sang sentimental songs Oh, how seldom we belong But how elegant our kiss And we painted crooked lines But we danced in perfect time To a love so much refined We know not what it is So like the dullen wine We pour into a grief we'd known before But never quite like this Never quite like this All I know now is regret She follows like a silhouette On the cobblestone behind me She has nothing left to say Except to innocently ask Her voice delicate as glass "Do you see me when we pass?" But I I continue on my way
33 and still come back to this song. So good. I loved this track back in 2006 high school. I was lucky enough to of met and played with them on warped tour with my old band. We never made it big (we were all time low style pop punk rock) but love to relive the good times ⏲️
. . . .I watched this video on TVU when I was 12 on an old beat up wooden Zenith console television in my bedroom in Columbus Ohio and I didn't know what I was watching. . .I just now randomly found this. Crap.
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2024. still here.
And everything was wrong so we played sentimental songs?...
How seldom we belong.
#metoo still here
yep 👏🏽🙏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽
Yep. Still at it.
Still here :/
The Freebird of Metalcore
Instead of the infinite solo, infinite breakdowns. I can get behind that.
hahaha hell yea
@DTB yes it is…
@@noesunyoutuber7680 and dissonant chord
This breakdown is historic.
HISTORIC! YES
def one of the best metalcore anthem of all time
Gave me my respect for this kind of music when I was younger and hated it
It has to be one of the best of all, right?!
I mean... I don't want to split hairs or anything, but is there a better breakdown than, "MEDIOCRITY IS THE KILLER!!!!" ?!?!?!
@Bernie I'm 36 and can confirm 👍🏼
When I listen to Norma Jean..so do my neighbors😉
This song is just one huge intense breakdown
lol it really is...
Damn never looked at it that way lol
Insane how this song is 20 years old. This band were pioneers of metalcore.....
I was like 13, blasting this song and writing lyrics in math class. It's insane how I play this song and a natural smile just springs upon my face like im seeingz an old friend. Love those days bro.
Nah, too many bands like Earth Crisis, Starkweather, Deadguy, Integrity, Shai Hulud, Disembodied came before
@@DRUNKWOLFSOFFICIAL and coalesce
@@yusa4467 that's right!!!
And mewithoutYou were pioneers of spoken word
Aaron Weiss coming through at the end with that awesome verse makes this a masterpiece.
Holly crap dude I never knew that was Aaron
Thanks to this song I discovered the greatness of Mewithoutyou
we love some aaron
I think my buddy brought it up back in the day, said who it was, but I forget. I always wondered who it was. I never heard that band, I dont think. God, wow...the hardships, respite, and memories during this time with N.J. and other greats as the soundtrack to life. I love it.
Heard this over the algorithm and came to this comment to confirm Aaron
This sounds A LOT better on my 2020 headphones.
right? lol thought i was the only one
Right? Still a banger
I'm 19 again and give zero fucks. Fuck you kids, Daddy's spin kicking
Lmao man this was on my sports track in middle/high school and then was in the first batch of test tracks on the Sennheisers I got. I wish I was a kid now for all this tech
@@ianmccarty6064 lol yessssss!!! Show the children the way!
2:10 MEEOOOOOOWWW
nobody:
hungry cats:
thought that was my cat asking for water for a sec there
Hahahaha I can't ever unhear that now. Fucking ruined the song for me 😂😂
With the millions of times I’ve heard this song I’m surprised I never heard it
Hahaha, I thought I was the only one!!
This sing slaps way harder than most metal/death core to date. It is raw, emotional, it was recorded live in 1 take. It is dark, but not overly so. 10/10.
wait a minute, 1 take? that's badass
can i have the source, please?
Metalcore/mathcore
@@hybrid4117 You can tell by listening. When my band recorded our first studio album we brought in this song as reference for our guitars and the producer immediately said "That was recorded live".
@@hybrid4117 It says it on the CD jacket. The whole album was recorded that way.
No it wasn't it was Just mixed to sound super vinyl and raw
my dad was one of the first people to get these guys a gig back in the day when they were known as Luti-Kriss. on a few of their old CD’s there’s a thank you note to him. found that pretty cool!
that’s so sick, tell your dad the norma jean fans appreciate him so much for believing in them. i have a norma jean tattoo haha love to your dad ❤
Wow that's crazy, or should I say ludicrous?
That's like our generation music history absolutely awesome...
Douglasville area?
Just here to pay my respects.
wym?
me too
I got into the scene in 94 with Living Sacrifice. I was 24. Got into Norma Jean some years later. Tore my right rotator cuff at a NJ show at Tremont music hall some years later. I'm 53 now. Still listening.....🤘
Hell yeah bro, same. Well the music part.
My God this song aged like the finest wine
Im now 31 years old, married and have migrated to New Zealand. but I still love this song like I was still 17 years old... I will never forget this song, I love Metalcore no matter how old I may get ❤️ cheers to Norma Jean! Great band ever 💚💚
Terese Izquierdo I saw them and The Chariot in 2005. So good
Also 31 here, and I only appreciate this song even more with every year that passes.
haha exact same other than I'm 35. Still my best driving song.
Welcome to NZ it's a beautiful country right
Right? I am 32 and still love it too. Brings back all sorts of memories.
I remember I had downloaded a bunch of my father's music onto my iPod and accidentally put this song on it as well. Taking a nap and suddenly hearing this blare into my headphones was a shock. Now I love heavy metal. Weird how things work out.
This was the first song/band I was in a mosh pit for. 2007 Norma Jean and Underoath concert. Amazing memories
🔥those were the days
I had this CD in 2002 when I was 12. I remember skateboarding and listening to this on my boom box. Fuck we are getting old
What a first show to be in a mosh pit! I saw that same tour at Rocketown in Nashville and the pit during Norma Jean was intense to say the least!
one of the greatest albums ever
3ore you’re god damn right.
AGREED!
Absolutely
I still get chills down my spine
Im almost 40...this song /band is still amazing! 20 years ago my ears were blessed with this band!
same! a few years from 40 and this album is still in constant rotation!
Happy 4th bro!
Same, bro. 39 this year.
The drums at 3:15 give me chills every time
🔥
The first breakdown chug part always gives me chills
Still hits in 2023
Still after all these years this song is still as amazing as it was when it was first released ❤ Norma Jean
The whole album is still one of there best to me but this is the best song on it for sure
I used to jam to this every morning before school with knights of the abyss, job for a cowboy and number 12… can’t believe I forgot about them…
Still dope in 2024
holy fucking god I could never get enough of this song
Being a young teenager at the mall wanting to buy a cd but had all the good ones already so I just grabbed this album hoping I would like it. And this song became my JAM. I can't believe I didn't keep my eye on this band. I now downloading it all !
You know, the singer in this song, and this album, is gone. After this album it's a different singer. Idk their names
Listened to this and jammed to this before...15 years ago
@@BlackTongue. Norma Jean's first vocalist, Josh Scogin, went on to found The Chariot - would highly recommend them (especially their first record) for fans of this song and album, all the boulder-heavy Botch-isms you can shake a stick at.
He Had the best scream in the biz.
That's not even Josh Scoggins..
@@timothychristopher9307 not in the video, but on the record it is Josh
Josh scogin is god on the mic
Listen to 68. Still kickin’.
Still has one
NOW YOU’RE DOING THE WALTZ WITH YOUR MURDEREEEEER
32 years old now I’ll never forget when I was 12yo sitting on my buddies bed and we heard this. I’m now a rap head but NJ just scratches my brain differently still.
This is a fucking masterpiece.
I thought Norma Jean was going to be a female country singer, boy was I wrong
Lol
Now u know u know theres no walls with ur murderer
@@BRYKNM huh?! It's "doing the waltz with your murderer"
And we hope you weren't disappointed
Norma Jean is amazing!
your doing the waltz with your murderer. main line of the song. how do you fuck that up? millenials i swear.
I will still remember the first time I ever heard this song. I was a wee lad and in the car with a bunch of really hot scene girls. It was like a dream come true but then this song came on while they were driving on the highway and literally everyone and the driver started freaking out and banging into things. I was so confused because this was my first taste of this kind of music.
I wish I was there
Either driving to the mall or a party lol fellow brother
Hey man scene girls at least in my day (2004 to 2012) loved to bang. And not just their heads to music.
@shiftyrightnow I know right, i just want bang bang bang!
Still my favorite.
I have jammed this for years. Always come back and blow my stereo out with it to get my mind right.
This song actually changed my life
I'll always come back for this song time and time again.
Livejournal soundtrack. I still have this CD to this day.
Call me late to the party, but this is the first time I’ve heard these guys, and it’s bad ass.
Welcome!
If you like these guys you might like Between the Buried and Me. Listen to their album Alaska - if you don't already know them and haven't already. Also, you might enjoy Being Me the Horizon. Only This is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For, Count Your Blessings, Suicide Season, and There is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It...
Listen to everything from Norma Jean, then check out The Chariot, and then MewithoutYou
This song is what started it all for me!
For me it was this song, and When The Sun Sleeps by Underoath. And maybe Pillar Of Salt by Poison The Well.
First metal song i ever heard, it holds a very special place in my heart
My fav song, had the chance to the scream the breakdown at The Door (Fort Worth) what a time 2003!
i saw this on headbanger's ball in like early 2003 and mind was blown!!! i was in 7th grade and jammed norma jean all through high school
2:10 MMMEEEEEOOWWWWWW!!!!
cant unhear this!
this one always comes back to mind and it takes me a moment to remember who does this.
This video is so 2002.
So
This year is 2020.
They really had the aesthetics down in those days. This shit looks so good
Late 90's / Early 00's was a great era
Still here 2024.
'all i know now is regret, it follows like a silhouette'
Oh what memories this song brings back.
Discovering this at 20, so heavy how have i missed this
Blasted these guys in my car driving way too fast in highschool. Still goes hard af.
I’m an atheist and this turned me BIBLICAL 🤷🏼♀️ I’d fawn over that drum 😮
Was 14 when i first heard the song, now I'm 33 and every time i hear it is like the 1st time :)) chillz
Toured in a pop punk band... Before EVERY show would listen to this. Lets say i broke things with my bass.
This drums are absolutely insanes. This whole album is amazing
Bro. One of THE FUNNEST songs to play. I remember it note for note. I'll always have that connection w this composition which is cool. You spend time tryna perfect it. N one day your sooo stoked you got it. Great memories jamming to this song in my buddies basement
@@JayDillDrums Nice your story dude. In fact, it is very interesting how songs we heard at certain times stay in our memory and bring us good memories.
Dude this is the first hard-core song I ever heard...and now like 5 years after, being an enormous fan or both Norma Jean and mewithoutyou...I actually watch through the whole video and the vocalist of mewithoutyou is in it. I've come full circle.
I was a huge fan of mewithoutyou but never put 2 and 2 together. Or I did and just forgot. Feels like a lifetime ago
Another fun fact: Norma Jean's vocalist in this video is not the vocalist in the recording. The audio is actually Josh Scogin from The Chariot/68. He was the original vocalist for Norma Jean
this exact same thing happened to me except we're talking like 15 years after haha
I see several people reacting to Norma Jean, and it not being this one and it makes me sad. Such a great song.
What makes this song a masterpiece in Metalcore music and very unique in terms of artistical vision is the part that starts at 3:12 until the end. It gives the whole song a different dimension and triggers feelings like despair, disarray, desolation. At least that’s what happens to me. I don’t think this album (the only one with Josh Scogin) is given enough credit but I feel it could gain more recognition in the years to come.
Wow I never knew there was an official video for this lol …
This song immediately had me hooked on them thanks to a friend having it in their ICQ away status ages ago. Checked it out and kept tabs on them since.
Their newer stuff is pretty good, but this album is top shelf Norma Jean material that will always be in rotation for my playlists.
“Pretty Soon I Don’t Know What But Something Is Going to Happen” and “Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste” are chill inducers.
The best of a genre
STILL BUMPIN
Honestly I saw 68 open at at show and from that learned about Josh which has led me down a Norma Jean rabbit hole... Crazy where music takes you
He laid emeralds in her eyes!
But I already tried a bracelet made of gold and scarlet thread around her wrist.
@@robc6022 AND EVERYTHING WAS WRONG
So WE SANG SENTIMENTAL SONGS
OH, HOW SELDOM WE BELONG
@@speluniarz-2045 but
how elegant our kiss. and we painted crooked lies but we
danced in perfect time
@@sarahstaats9734
to a love so unrefined
we know not what it is, until like a dullen wine
we pour into a grief we've known before
but never quite like this
@@knockoutconcepts777
All I know now is regret
She follows like a silhouette
On the cobblestone behind me
She has nothing left to say
So many 0000000s, love it.
this is one of the most influential heavy albums of all time
One of only a handful of perfect albums ever created. Everything was flawless.
This song still bangs
Got chills listening to this in 2020 and still knowing all the lyrics for the ending.
Makes me miss mewithoutyou
@@TheMEXICANBEEF Just saw them on their farewell tour. It was amazing.
3:28 -- featuring Mewithoutyou's singer 😘
Mewithoutyou forever
No way how funny I was just about to YT Mewithoutyou after this song ended and wasn’t sure why exactly but no wonder lol 😅
Aaron Weiss with the HEAT. BARS MAN. Such a sick collab
This band and poison the well were def my top bands
This video was the absolute pinnacle of artistry to me as a 15 year old in 2004.
I was at a music festival called Purple Door in 2003 or 2004 and Norma Jean and Mewithoutyou were both there, so I got to see this performed complete with Aaron's verse and it was a borderline life changing performance that I'm very lucky to have been present for
I had this song on the background of my MySpace page. Breakdown still gives me goosebumps
Gosh dang it, I freaking love the fact that I listen to such an absurdly large number of bands from all genres that from time to time I literally forget a particular band even exists or that I once yrs ago (im 37 so...😂) possibly even played their albums obsessively until I played them out beyond further sonic pleasure..well that just happened and omg am I glad I get to rehash this band, so many good songs and so so good
That's why I have 150 gigs of music that I've collected over 20 years. Some of the files are literally 20 years old.
[Intro]
Ahem, yeah!
[Chorus]
Waltz around the room
With a glaze in your stare
In your tuxedo suit
I'll give it a name
Lower defenses
I'll lower the casket
Open the door
Open the grave
[Bridge]
Murder, murder
Murder, murder
[Verse 1]
Now you're doing the waltz with your murderer
Doing the waltz with your murderer
Doing the waltz with your murderer
You're doing the waltz with your murderer
Doing the waltz with your murderer
You're doing the waltz with your murderer
You're doing the waltz with your murderer
You're doing the waltz with your murderer
Woah, yeah
[Chorus]
Waltz around the room
With a glaze in your stare
Tuxedo suit
Give it a name
Lower defenses
Lower the casket
Open the door
Open the grave
Meow
[Verse 2]
Mediocrity is the killer
Mediocrity is the killer
Mediocrity is the killer
Mediocrity is the killer
[Verse 3]
You find yourself helpless, oh
Christ is not a fashion
Fleeting away
[Bridge 2]
Fashion, fashion, fashion
[Verse 4: Aaron Weiss]
He laid emeralds in her eyes
Oh, but I'd already tied
A bracelet made of gold
And scarlet thread around her wrist
And everything was wrong
So we sang sentimental songs
Oh, how seldom we belong
But how elegant our kiss
And we painted crooked lines
But we danced in perfect time
To a love so much refined
We know not what it is
So like the dullen wine
We pour into a grief we'd known before
But never quite like this
Never quite like this
All I know now is regret
She follows like a silhouette
On the cobblestone behind me
She has nothing left to say
Except to innocently ask
Her voice delicate as glass
"Do you see me when we pass?"
But I
I continue on my way
33 and still come back to this song. So good. I loved this track back in 2006 high school. I was lucky enough to of met and played with them on warped tour with my old band. We never made it big (we were all time low style pop punk rock) but love to relive the good times ⏲️
forever childhood music
One of the greatest songs ever!
2:28... DAMN!! 😵😵
I just found a new band... sweet!!
🤘💀🤙
Welcome my son!! Welcome to Norma jeeeAaaannn!
(Pink Floyd: welcome to the machine)
Man this shit is mad old. I had this CD in 2002 when I was 12
Welcome to ultimate bliss
I miss these days.
its almost 2020 fam
It is.
We 🇧🇷❤️💪
[2020] Not Only Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste
And what a shit year it is.
What an ominous comment
Pure energy
first song i ever learned on drums back in 2004. such a classic
New jersey 4 life
every band that hasnt broken up has gone corporate and or soft. the early 2000s was the peak of music, hopefully it will peak again.
Could you imagine 1,000,000 years in the future and Man knows nothing of our culture but happens to find this album in the ruins of a Denny's??
They mustve been angry about something called a grand slam breakfast..
I remember my band performing this song for my high school talent show, truly a first for that school lol broke lt down
shocked this slaps even harder in 2023
Here’s to 2024 😂🎉
I first saw this on tv in 2004 and I’ve never stopped coming back to it. I thought it was about all the war at the time quantified in a song.
2:10
meowwww
Christ is not a fashion fading away
I seen this comment at the exact moment he screamed that shit 🤘🏽🤘🏽
Hell yeah goes hard
. . . .I watched this video on TVU when I was 12 on an old beat up wooden Zenith console television in my bedroom in Columbus Ohio and I didn't know what I was watching. . .I just now randomly found this. Crap.
I had this CD in 2002 when I was 12. I forgot about this band myself
One of the greatest metal songs of all time! I think it's actually safe to say... top 50! Yup I said it!
All my years listening to the genre and ive never heard this band 😢 glad i found them now atleast
Man I remember listening to these guys back in year 8 for the first time and being blown away - still blown away 13 years later.
This will never cease to be epic
MEEEEEOOOW!!
Farewell mewithoutYou. Thanks for contributions to absolute classic, Aaron
So happy to have seen them live! What an experience I would like to relive❤️
Got to hear this live last week
Poetic