I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona in the 70's. I've never had the experience of a man capturing precisely my experience of torture in elementary and high school that lead to alcoholism until this album was published. Mercifully, I got sober at 24, but damn if this song didn't catapult me straight back to fifth grade. I was 8 when I got my bike that was stolen. It was green. So much gratitude to David for this work.
I never comment on youtube videos, but I have to say I cannot get enough of this song. Every time I listen it means something deeper and more personal to me.
The fact that Pedro The Lion is making a comeback makes me beyond happy. I discovered PTL in 2001 in high school and have never stopped listening to David (or TW for that matter). His work has helped me through some of the darkest parts of my life and touched me in a way no other music could. I've met David a couple times over the years at shows and each time he has been nothing but kind, polite and welcoming of everyone who wanted to meet him and share a few words. If anyone truly deserves to be successful in what they do its David. Pedro The Lion will ALWAYS have a place in my heart and my library.
Dear Dark Lord of the Sniff...les, Darth Sob, I feel you. Menos El Oso is for me one of those autobiographical bodies of music that's less a catalog and more a calender of the halcyon days of the millenial inaugural decade. It summons the image of her dilapidated but dauntless azure SUV, the stenciled spray paint of the enormous lion she lovingly applied across the entire hood("It HAS to be Goldenrod!"), the spot on the lion's bottom that both Bazan and T-Dub Walsh graciously autographed, and the sublime smile that kept until long after the hours of driving home. So much of my musical taste sprouted from those years spent with that Singular Woman. They remain my happiest memories. I shall regret nothing more in my life than foolishly squandering what we shared, followed closely by never having the guts to tell you how much I loved you, Furfer.
My favorite Dave moment was him telling an entire crowd at a San Francisco show to not feel superior to anyone else. He reminded everyone that they aren't there because they deserve it and that everything is luck. We weren't born with disabilities, into poverty, and that everyone has unearned advantages. Therefore, we shouldn't look down at the poor, homeless, and addicted all over the city. Such a powerful, impactful, sincere, and caring moment.
I’m glad the band is back together and making new music. I’ve been a fan since the “Winners Never Quit” album. I’m looking forward to the show at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC.
This song threw me right back into grade school in the 90s. I want to give my old self a hug and tell him he doesn’t have to toughen up and become so jaded.
Wonderful rock'n'roll indie riffs and fantastic guitar and drum sound, wonderful choruses and harmonies. Quietest Friend, Clean Up and Yellow Bike are the pearls of a great production. Everything is right where it belongs and without haste. Greetings from good old Germany.
Staving off rejection, which always hurt like hell I took the devil's bargain, made a stranger of myself If anything was wrong, I couldn't tell So I didn't see it coming but now it's pretty clear I traded my own wisdom for a jury of my peers I ignored you for thirty years You don't have to tell me How hard it must have been For you to let me in Nothing lasts forever Now I understand I hurt you again My quietest friend Fifth grade in the lunchroom, fickle friends were telling jokes Making you the punchline of some random thing I wrote They were looking to me to land the final blow Just to be included, went straight up to my head I thought the joke too stupid for it to matter what I said I was wrong but I went along with it You don't have to tell me How hard it must have been For you to let me in Nothing lasts forever Now I understand I hurt you again My quietest friend We could write me some reminders I'd memorize them I could sing them to myself And whoever's listening I could put them on a record About my hometown Sitting here with pen and paper I'm listening now
This is really good. I love the production, the guitar is special...wow. My friend just told me about this song and posted it in our music group on FB. So glad she did. This is just awesome. Pedro the Lion...ya...
The hallway and stage scenes were filmed at The Hotel Congress in Tucson, where on January 25, 1934 John Dillinger (along with some of his gang) was captured by the local police
"Goliath had tears in his eye." (...so David slayed him with kindness to not destroy his all seeing eye. An eye that did not disclude.) ,daniel' aka Goaleyeth
I just realized this song reminds me of one of the greatest unsung musicians ever playing shows while unv@xxed fans listen through the cracked front door.
Essentially as a boy he gave into peer pressure and joined in to the bullying and making fun of another person his age. This song is his confession to that and a public apology for his behavior as an adolescent.
I do believe that he’s talking about a relationship with the God of his childhood. He lost faith as a boy, turned away from God, and is now reflecting on the nature of this 30 year break in the relationship as he takes a moment to reconnect. “Phoenix”. Rebirth.
It was the summer of 2003, I had just lost my dog and my woman. The sunsets didn’t seem the same anymore. Just kidding, none of that happened. I was just seeing who this band was opening up for death cab.
@@jeromeislegend0569 ...was there a point to literally anything you've posted thus far? Great, he sounds old. Astute observation. Yes, some other singers don't sound old. Stop the presses!
heartfelt song. love me some bazan. but sorry to say: lame video. im sure it was easy to shoot. but the concept doesnt go anywhere. you need a better director.
Disagree. I freaking LOVE IT. Green hoodie protagonist Dave returns to his childhood apt building (I'm guessing that's the setting) and confronts his disowned feeling self/inner child, who runs from him. (The little boy on a bike doing circles around him is more literal, but also incredibly affecting.) It's that disowned (red hoodie) self who first picks up the guitar. In the end, they do come to face one another by the railroad tracks...my only complaint is that I probably would have had green hoodie Dave embrace red hoodie Dave...but that would have made me REALLY lose it (as if I hadn't already). In the end green hoodie Dave (having integrated the other) is singing about what the two of them are going to do together - write the Phoenix album. Did I say I FREAKING LOVE IT?
@@presentfuture7563 but that's just it. it doesn't GO anywhere. Nothing comes of the elements they set up. They don't embrace, or confront each other, or come to terms with each other or anything. NOTHING happens in the end. So the story elements I invested in as an audience member, are just signifiers with no journey. The director half baked a good idea. didn't follow through. This video director just didn't make or break any of the expectations set up in the story. in my books that's intellectually and aesthetically lazy. which is such a shame for this powerful song. PS I love this song. I love Bazan. I love this album.
@@michaelscholar Gotcha. Maybe it's enough that green finally gets a good long look at red. I'm big on the cathartic visual metaphors myself which is why I would have liked something more demonstrative, but what they did here doesn't really bother me, and maybe it's closer to the real experience. Healing doesn't usually happen dramatically and all at once.
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Eric Walters deserves an award for the guitar wizardy in the second verse of this song. So hauntingly beautiful!!!
" I traded my own wisdom for a jury of my peers". My Quiet Friend is some grown up shit, thank you Pedro the Lion
I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona in the 70's. I've never had the experience of a man capturing precisely my experience of torture in elementary and high school that lead to alcoholism until this album was published. Mercifully, I got sober at 24, but damn if this song didn't catapult me straight back to fifth grade. I was 8 when I got my bike that was stolen. It was green. So much gratitude to David for this work.
"Quietest Friend" debuted at #28 on the New Alternative 40 Chart this week!
I never comment on youtube videos, but I have to say I cannot get enough of this song. Every time I listen it means something deeper and more personal to me.
The fact that Pedro The Lion is making a comeback makes me beyond happy. I discovered PTL in 2001 in high school and have never stopped listening to David (or TW for that matter). His work has helped me through some of the darkest parts of my life and touched me in a way no other music could. I've met David a couple times over the years at shows and each time he has been nothing but kind, polite and welcoming of everyone who wanted to meet him and share a few words. If anyone truly deserves to be successful in what they do its David. Pedro The Lion will ALWAYS have a place in my heart and my library.
@Bstyles85 Have a great day :)
@Bstyles85 Nothing passive aggressive whatsoever, I don't care to argue or sling insults at somebody i don't know.
@Bstyles85
@darthsob I don't know what side of the bed this other person woke up on but I like your story :) Decided some positive vibes could be added here :P
Dear Dark Lord of the Sniff...les, Darth Sob, I feel you. Menos El Oso is for me one of those autobiographical bodies of music that's less a catalog and more a calender of the halcyon days of the millenial inaugural decade. It summons the image of her dilapidated but dauntless azure SUV, the stenciled spray paint of the enormous lion she lovingly applied across the entire hood("It HAS to be Goldenrod!"), the spot on the lion's bottom that both Bazan and T-Dub Walsh graciously autographed, and the sublime smile that kept until long after the hours of driving home. So much of my musical taste sprouted from those years spent with that Singular Woman. They remain my happiest memories. I shall regret nothing more in my life than foolishly squandering what we shared, followed closely by never having the guts to tell you how much I loved you, Furfer.
This song is haunting. A genius way of capturing childhood emotions. However rated this band is, it’s UNDERRATED. Been a fan past 10 years
I cry every. Single. Time. I listen to this.
I am the quiet friend. But I know ive hurt quieter friends. I love this song
This is so good that I'm crying.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
I just feel this song...all over and again....❤❤❤
My favorite Dave moment was him telling an entire crowd at a San Francisco show to not feel superior to anyone else. He reminded everyone that they aren't there because they deserve it and that everything is luck. We weren't born with disabilities, into poverty, and that everyone has unearned advantages. Therefore, we shouldn't look down at the poor, homeless, and addicted all over the city. Such a powerful, impactful, sincere, and caring moment.
Best song from 2019 so far..
I agree, I think this one will still be in my Top 5 at the end of the year.
icelander?
Sweden!
Awesome continuity with Yellow Bike! Love it.
The Red Hoodie Strikes Back
I love this song. Reminds me of my friend who ended his life and his lack of love and outlets. Such deep moving beautiful tones
I’m glad the band is back together and making new music. I’ve been a fan since the “Winners Never Quit” album. I’m looking forward to the show at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC.
Incredible Track - touches anyone who's lived.
This song threw me right back into grade school in the 90s. I want to give my old self a hug and tell him he doesn’t have to toughen up and become so jaded.
Man I haven’t listened to them since control came out. This is good. I didn’t know tom segura could sing and play either
I love Pedro the Lion, it's my all time favorite band... I know it's kinda cliché but, please come to Brazil. Hahahahahah
Sim
Siiiim
simmmmmm
Pronto, já tem 4 pessoas pra ir no show no Brasil hahaha
Tb vou.
Fun fact I hold this song very close to my heart.
You don't have to tell me
How hard it must have been
For you to let me in
Nothing lasts forever
Now I understand
I hurt you again
My quietest friend
This man is the biggest influence on my music.
It's not out yet lol almost
I LOVE THIS. This is an instant favorite songs. So much better than most of the music on the radio. This music does something to me.
Best song ever
I love this track.
How did I not know Pedro The Lion released a new album? Achilles Heel is one of my all-time favs. What an awesome surprise!
This reminds me of really good old Five-Eight, which is about the highest compliment I think I can pay!
Wow! Really respect his work, but first time his music really grabbed me! Dope song!!
Listen to Control.
Stoked. Ordered the LP.
This is the most beautiful song I've heard in a long time. Thanks.
Wonderful rock'n'roll indie riffs and fantastic guitar and drum sound, wonderful choruses and harmonies. Quietest Friend, Clean Up and Yellow Bike are the pearls of a great production. Everything is right where it belongs and without haste. Greetings from good old Germany.
In 2001 I named my cat after this guy.
your cat's name is david? lol.
DB
Staving off rejection, which always hurt like hell
I took the devil's bargain, made a stranger of myself
If anything was wrong, I couldn't tell
So I didn't see it coming but now it's pretty clear
I traded my own wisdom for a jury of my peers
I ignored you for thirty years
You don't have to tell me
How hard it must have been
For you to let me in
Nothing lasts forever
Now I understand
I hurt you again
My quietest friend
Fifth grade in the lunchroom, fickle friends were telling jokes
Making you the punchline of some random thing I wrote
They were looking to me to land the final blow
Just to be included, went straight up to my head
I thought the joke too stupid for it to matter what I said
I was wrong but I went along with it
You don't have to tell me
How hard it must have been
For you to let me in
Nothing lasts forever
Now I understand
I hurt you again
My quietest friend
We could write me some reminders
I'd memorize them
I could sing them to myself
And whoever's listening
I could put them on a record
About my hometown
Sitting here with pen and paper
I'm listening now
Love this ~ great stomper! Thanks KEXP...
David it is good to see the band back. I have not seen you in so many year.
Soo good vibes
Awesome song...cannot stop hearing it. Made me think alot about me and my regrets! Thank you for this masterpiece!
woo hoo, Pedro !!!!!
So... will you come to germany?
Please
Yo this reminds me of Twin Peaks when Cooper is being chased by his doppelgänger
this is really outstanding; awesome sound!
Simply, a great song!
Truly beautiful!
pedro revisits the suburbs of our lives!
This is really good. I love the production, the guitar is special...wow. My friend just told me about this song and posted it in our music group on FB. So glad she did. This is just awesome. Pedro the Lion...ya...
sonzera. pedro the lion is back to make us to dream again
can't wait to hear the album
This is fantastic ! We love your stuff ! 🔥🙌🏽🔥
This is so good.
Craaaaaaaaazy good.
Really good band ❤️
Really good profile pic :)
que belezura de música
Pedro the lion pls come to brazil
Thank you
Another rocking mutha truckin’ outro.
Never heard of them but this is surprisingly good
Listen to the Ep and the Control album.
me either unti my introvert friend showed me this track haha
Nice music✨
Nice work dudes.
VIVA PEDRO
Prob the best thing I've ever heard...compared to accident prone by jawbreaker
Criticism as inspiration was one of my all time favorites .
Great job man
this is so beautiful :')
dope!
The hallway and stage scenes were filmed at The Hotel Congress in Tucson, where on January 25, 1934 John Dillinger (along with some of his gang) was captured by the local police
SO f'n good
"Goliath had tears in his eye."
(...so David slayed him with kindness to not destroy his all seeing eye. An eye that did not disclude.)
,daniel'
aka Goaleyeth
true alternative
Fuck this song hits hard
I didn't know tom segura had a band
Nothing lasts forever, now I understand
Song still bangs. Hope we got some songs like this on Santa Cruz.
I just realized this song reminds me of one of the greatest unsung musicians ever playing shows while unv@xxed fans listen through the cracked front door.
Someone that could explain the song? I'm not american, thanks!
Essentially as a boy he gave into peer pressure and joined in to the bullying and making fun of another person his age. This song is his confession to that and a public apology for his behavior as an adolescent.
I do believe that he’s talking about a relationship with the God of his childhood. He lost faith as a boy, turned away from God, and is now reflecting on the nature of this 30 year break in the relationship as he takes a moment to reconnect. “Phoenix”. Rebirth.
Dayum!!! 💓
not even 100k, underrated...
Someone post the lyrics pls :) :(
wow didn't even know this guy was still around...
David e la sua anima
So, is that Hotel really haunted? Great Song, BTW
It was the summer of 2003, I had just lost my dog and my woman. The sunsets didn’t seem the same anymore. Just kidding, none of that happened. I was just seeing who this band was opening up for death cab.
Banger!
Oh, you're so trendy! Try expanding your vocabulary a bit.
sold out the plain black T for hoodies?
Nothing lasts forever.
2121 anyone?
Oh and anything by hayden
owo uwu iwi awa ewe
Come to israel!!!!
Anyone need 🔥 beats? I am a beat maker myself and used to work as a graphic designer as well.
@@GentleLentil127 Thank you I appreciate it 💯👍 KontactRecords.com
His voice sounds old.
I mean... people age. Weird, right?
@@kingcobrajfsofficial yeah but there are singers that sounds the same 20 years later. Weird right?
i dont hear old. i hear refined.
an aging voice is not a problem. leonard cohen is a good exemple
@@jeromeislegend0569 ...was there a point to literally anything you've posted thus far? Great, he sounds old. Astute observation. Yes, some other singers don't sound old. Stop the presses!
heartfelt song. love me some bazan. but sorry to say: lame video. im sure it was easy to shoot. but the concept doesnt go anywhere. you need a better director.
looks like funding issue
@@jamesjackson5569 its not the budget i have a problem with, or the production values. its the concept. it doesn't go anywhere.
Disagree. I freaking LOVE IT. Green hoodie protagonist Dave returns to his childhood apt building (I'm guessing that's the setting) and confronts his disowned feeling self/inner child, who runs from him. (The little boy on a bike doing circles around him is more literal, but also incredibly affecting.) It's that disowned (red hoodie) self who first picks up the guitar. In the end, they do come to face one another by the railroad tracks...my only complaint is that I probably would have had green hoodie Dave embrace red hoodie Dave...but that would have made me REALLY lose it (as if I hadn't already). In the end green hoodie Dave (having integrated the other) is singing about what the two of them are going to do together - write the Phoenix album. Did I say I FREAKING LOVE IT?
@@presentfuture7563 but that's just it. it doesn't GO anywhere. Nothing comes of the elements they set up. They don't embrace, or confront each other, or come to terms with each other or anything. NOTHING happens in the end. So the story elements I invested in as an audience member, are just signifiers with no journey. The director half baked a good idea. didn't follow through. This video director just didn't make or break any of the expectations set up in the story. in my books that's intellectually and aesthetically lazy. which is such a shame for this powerful song. PS I love this song. I love Bazan. I love this album.
@@michaelscholar Gotcha. Maybe it's enough that green finally gets a good long look at red. I'm big on the cathartic visual metaphors myself which is why I would have liked something more demonstrative, but what they did here doesn't really bother me, and maybe it's closer to the real experience. Healing doesn't usually happen dramatically and all at once.
nothing new here, move along....
That's the response we had about your comment, bucko.
You're going to get lambasted for this comment, but you're right. This is every PTL song and this album isn't breaking any new ground.
@@russelcow1793 I've earned my right to critique music
@@GentleLentil127 did you study music at a university level?
@@GentleLentil127 you do realize lyrics aren't music, right?
Damnnn i love this song