I had the privilege of recording the cello part on this track. I even got to wear the green bird suit in the video. We shot it in summer, and those suits were so damn hot. Haha. It was really special being in the studio with Grant, Joey, and Paul. Wonderful people and stellar musicians. Grant’s songwriting is unsurpassed.
The 90s really was a great time for music. Alot of people say that but it really was. Just in the "alternative" genre you had such a huge variety. From the big commercial hits like nirvanas smells like teen spirit and pearl jams alive to the lesser known gems like sweet 69 by babes in toy land. And then there was the epic moving songs like this one and fade into you by Mazzy Star. It really was the best time to be a teenager/early 20s.
hell yeah. In 1990 I turned 11, and in 1999 I turned 20, so the 90s are my whole adolescence, the years that formed me. Sometimes I just ache for those times.
Sorry but the 70's and 80's were WAY better, not by just a little bit by A LOT. By '94 all good music was OVER. Folk thru heavy metal to alternative, nothing touches the 70s and 80s.
Music transports us to past places in time. I remember staying up watching 120 minutes on MTV and seeing this video for the first. I was college kid, not a world weary middle-aged dude pushing 50. Love this song today as much as that kid long ago.
I saw it on MTV back then and wished I could listen to it again so I figured I just go buy the album. The next day I had forgotten the name of the song or band and it wasn't like I could just do Google or TH-cam detective work with song fragments because Google and TH-cam didn't exist yet. I forgot about the song and never heard it again. I just stumbled onto this video while surfing around TH-cam and instantly thought "oh shit, that's that song I liked but was too lazy to find it."
@@marcus_ohreallyus had the same with theme track from Spkie's Lee " Mo' Better Blues" ... it took me like 15 years to accidentaly hear it on the local jazz radio...
One of the most refined songs ever aired on MTV. Perhaps too highbrow for the many people: only 9 comments and less than 5k views (March 2020). However, it's nice to be part of a small but good club :-)
I used to wonder if young people in the 60s knew how great the music was and how blessed they were. Then, I realized as a young person in the 90s I did the same thing. Took it for granted and thought things would be like that forever. A great album coming out every month or so.
heard this song on mtv around 94/95, love it, said to myself 'no need to wrote down the name probably ill show up frequently' never to be seen again, and as a constant ear worm for years. once the internet came i start to look for it ..birdsong, eggsong, pinguins song etc.. nothing for years. fast forward to 2019 and in one of my bent on alternative music on youtube i saw the thumbnail so press it and finally could listen to it... i wrote the name that time, now even my children know it by heart XD still have a second ear worm from the 2000 with a song with a girl that turn into robot by the end of the song kind of jungle industrial type no potato
Years and years searching for this song and band, just googling all sort of search combinations to no avail: weird 90s music video with birds and such, no results. Finally yesterday as I was on the porcelain throne reading reddit posts about birds my brain clicks! MOCKINBIRDS! LOL
All these years later I still can't get enough of this song. Was lucky enough to see him in concert last week and when he played this song I got chills down my spine for the whole thing. Just wonderful.
Devastation at last finally we meet After all of these years out here on the street I had a feeling you would make yourself known You came along just to claim your place on the throne And I have been overthrown Overthrown And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine Devastation my door was left open wide You brought me into your heart then you swallowed my pride I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts I made a note to myself I nearly forgot Now I am overwrought I'm overwrought And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine One day this ground will break And open up for me I hope it will I hope it will Salutations at last down on my knees I heard the bugle this morn blast reveille Woke from a dream where I was in a terrible realm All my sails were ablaze I was chained to the helm And now I am overwhelmed I'm overwhelmed And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last) But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last) But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last) But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last) But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
Lol actually started watching Beavis and Butthead music videos instead of skipping them. As soon as this one played I knew I had to pause the episode and listen to this song properly. Not disappointed in the least. This song is so 90's it hurts.
you know what's "the best"? when you're watching an emotional video with interesting scenery, and just as it reaches the end, your screen is plastered with a bunch of pictures immediately in the path of you watching the video... thanks Chrysalis...and thank you TH-cam, for offering this "functionality", allowing users to buckshoot themselves in both feet.
Love GLB! I had a birthday party in the late 90's stemming from my love for GLB. And fast-forward to NOW, and my love is just the same as very big, and love enmeshed. x
You might not ever find his comment but if you do I'd like to thank you, Dad... For introducing me to some amazing songs like this, you have a great taste in music ❤
How is possible that im the first comment?... anyway, GLB has always been so underrated. I wish to turn back time & do something anything, to make people stop and listen with their ears not their eyes.
while GLB was opening for his band on the 'monster' tour, michael stipe of r.e.m. called them the best band in the western hemisphere (presumably radiohead, also opening for r.e.m., being his pick for best in the eastern hemisphere). he was not wrong. GLB also opened for pearl jam and smashing pumpkins but never broke big. very unfortunate. 4 superb albums before they called it a day. i was at their last (?) show before they broke up on halloween in chicago. grant dressed as a vampire and drummer joey peters was in kiss makeup
I remember turning people on to this back in the 90s, also, another underrated, hidden gem of a band called VAST, and everyone loved both! It's a small, but magical club,lol.
From Beef Netflix movie first time to hear it brilliant song , they share a spot with attic monkey video and Coldplay yellow video as best simple creative master pieces
I saw this on MTV when I was 15. Thought it was so weird and i sang it at school. People looked at me weird but I was different from most. I felt like the song sounded. I discovered it here years later. I'm still weird at 43! Ty 😘 P.S I know what they meant by mockingbirds.. They're everywhere
"Why did you drop the egg?" "Look man its what all the artsy people were doing at the time. Dropping things and breaking things and shattering things in slow motion."
It's like I remember this song but I also don't I mean before I began actively searching for Grant Lee Buffalo in 2015 and discovered how great Fuzzy and Jubilee are It's like this is one of my primordial songs from when I was a baby Thank you, Mr. Grant-Lee Phillips, for this.
This is late Beatles era stuff. This song makes me feel. There are no more artists like this anywhere. GLB grossly under appreciated, but they carved out a spot with me that stuck. I got to see them play the very first show at the new Boston Garden in 1995 opening for REM
The only song frm the 90's. I suppose the vid mocks...I used to believe they came bfrom buffalo where I'm orig from. I had moved to La in the 90's. Then after I got Moon and jubilee I learned they were from the Lankershim area, 1 mile from us on Whittset, holy $$#*! My love for this tune cannot be charted.
De fato e corrigindo um dos comentários, o começo dos anos 90 foram o último suspiro de vida no mundo da música. um verdadeiro e triste fato a se lamentar.
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I had the privilege of recording the cello part on this track. I even got to wear the green bird suit in the video. We shot it in summer, and those suits were so damn hot. Haha.
It was really special being in the studio with Grant, Joey, and Paul. Wonderful people and stellar musicians. Grant’s songwriting is unsurpassed.
What a claim to fame. Amazing song. Amazing lyrics. Love the cello bit.
This song has always meant so much to me. All I can say is, thank you.
Most underrated band ever
You are a living legend!
That Cello added such a rich dimension and underpinned the whole song. Mighty Joe Moon should be in the Library of Congress.
GRANT lee BUFFALO : criminaly underrated band of the 90 's.
Right
Yes, you should look into eleven if you haven't.
Such an amazing song and video. Tragedy it wasn't the smash it deserved to be
@@karlhilton6641 .....ahhhhh, NATASHA - just SUCH a LOSS :(
Yeah but they made some weird ass videos though.
They definitely were different.
Lead singer of Live said it was great and underrated
Here for the same reason. Its a slow burner but i get it. Beautiful!
Here too... umm it's shit
Well said
I listened to this track nonstop for at least three years.
You two should have spent that time baking things for men
@@SeanP7195 the comment of a depressed troll
I just discovered this song today and it instantly became one of my all time favourites.
My high school song 93- 95 still own the cd.
The 90s really was a great time for music. Alot of people say that but it really was. Just in the "alternative" genre you had such a huge variety. From the big commercial hits like nirvanas smells like teen spirit and pearl jams alive to the lesser known gems like sweet 69 by babes in toy land. And then there was the epic moving songs like this one and fade into you by Mazzy Star.
It really was the best time to be a teenager/early 20s.
I agree! And they don't make quality movies like they used to as well.
hell yeah. In 1990 I turned 11, and in 1999 I turned 20, so the 90s are my whole adolescence, the years that formed me. Sometimes I just ache for those times.
@@SnazzyDetritus 1979 😉👍🏽
Sorry but the 70's and 80's were WAY better, not by just a little bit by A LOT. By '94 all good music was OVER. Folk thru heavy metal to alternative, nothing touches the 70s and 80s.
@@zoocru67 Im sorry but i will strongly disagree with you there.
This song makes me smile with a tear in my eyes
all time underrated, one of the greatest songs ever writter
Best sleeper band of the 90s.
Life changing
Music transports us to past places in time. I remember staying up watching 120 minutes on MTV and seeing this video for the first. I was college kid, not a world weary middle-aged dude pushing 50. Love this song today as much as that kid long ago.
I saw it on MTV back then and wished I could listen to it again so I figured I just go buy the album. The next day I had forgotten the name of the song or band and it wasn't like I could just do Google or TH-cam detective work with song fragments because Google and TH-cam didn't exist yet. I forgot about the song and never heard it again. I just stumbled onto this video while surfing around TH-cam and instantly thought "oh shit, that's that song I liked but was too lazy to find it."
@@marcus_ohreallyus had the same with theme track from Spkie's Lee " Mo' Better Blues" ... it took me like 15 years to accidentaly hear it on the local jazz radio...
Most beautiful voice of the last 2000 years
What a total 90s classic. The best song on a terrific album. Only 40K views makes me die a little inside.
One of the most refined songs ever aired on MTV. Perhaps too highbrow for the many people: only 9 comments and less than 5k views (March 2020). However, it's nice to be part of a small but good club :-)
A little late but pretty sure that this same video had over one million views on another channel but got deleted. Not that it matters.
I used to wonder if young people in the 60s knew how great the music was and how blessed they were. Then, I realized as a young person in the 90s I did the same thing. Took it for granted and thought things would be like that forever. A great album coming out every month or so.
@SeanP7195 who cares. The world is not better for hearing this. And you should have spent that time baking things for men
@@shawn1928 Don't hit on me gay boy.
Pure brilliance....
Grant-Lee Buffalo opened for REM (my favorite band at that time) here in RVA. I fell in love with their sound. Nostalgia 🖤
I totally dug his voice. Kinda haunting. I had all of their CD'S.
One day this ground will break
And open up for me
I hope it will
heard this song on mtv around 94/95, love it, said to myself 'no need to wrote down the name probably ill show up frequently' never to be seen again, and as a constant ear worm for years. once the internet came i start to look for it ..birdsong, eggsong, pinguins song etc.. nothing for years. fast forward to 2019 and in one of my bent on alternative music on youtube i saw the thumbnail so press it and finally could listen to it... i wrote the name that time, now even my children know it by heart XD still have a second ear worm from the 2000 with a song with a girl that turn into robot by the end of the song kind of jungle industrial type
no potato
I know!!! She got a black belt in karate!! Yoshimi. Won't let those evil robots win
Years and years searching for this song and band, just googling all sort of search combinations to no avail: weird 90s music video with birds and such, no results. Finally yesterday as I was on the porcelain throne reading reddit posts about birds my brain clicks! MOCKINBIRDS! LOL
The world is not better for hearing this.
@@SeanP7195 I disagree.. the power of porcelain peristalsis ...had many an ' AHA' moment whilst on the throne of 'enlightenment'
@aza morales ha I know that feeling! frustrating as hell
@@SeanP7195 the comment of a depressed troll
@@shawn1928 And you comment on it so.......
All these years later I still can't get enough of this song. Was lucky enough to see him in concert last week and when he played this song I got chills down my spine for the whole thing. Just wonderful.
Devastation at last finally we meet
After all of these years out here on the street
I had a feeling you would make yourself known
You came along just to claim your place on the throne
And I have been overthrown
Overthrown
And I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
Devastation my door was left open wide
You brought me into your heart then you swallowed my pride
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself I nearly forgot
Now I am overwrought
I'm overwrought
And I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
And I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
One day this ground will break
And open up for me I hope it will I hope it will
Salutations at last down on my knees
I heard the bugle this morn blast reveille
Woke from a dream where I was in a terrible realm
All my sails were ablaze I was chained to the helm
And now I am overwhelmed
I'm overwhelmed
And I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
And I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last)
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last)
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last)
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
And I thought if I towed the right lines (devastation at last)
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
Lol actually started watching Beavis and Butthead music videos instead of skipping them. As soon as this one played I knew I had to pause the episode and listen to this song properly. Not disappointed in the least. This song is so 90's it hurts.
you know what's "the best"? when you're watching an emotional video with interesting scenery, and just as it reaches the end, your screen is plastered with a bunch of pictures immediately in the path of you watching the video...
thanks Chrysalis...and thank you TH-cam, for offering this "functionality", allowing users to buckshoot themselves in both feet.
TikTok suggested this was one of the most underrated bands of the 90s
This album got me through some lonely nights at Millersville University of PA.
Love GLB! I had a birthday party in the late 90's stemming from my love for GLB. And fast-forward to NOW, and my love is just the same as very big, and love enmeshed. x
You might not ever find his comment but if you do I'd like to thank you, Dad... For introducing me to some amazing songs like this, you have a great taste in music ❤
There's something very Beatles about this one, sooo good
Yes, and The VU too
She’s Leaving Home vibes
.....reminds me a LOT of Emmit Rhodes.....
was searching for this comment to see if I needed to make the same one...😀
Also very Mick Ronson / Life On Mars / Bowie.
Wonderful Grant Lee Buffalo, hugs from Brazil
The 90s🔥
Saw them on this tour in 1994.
Was amazing 🔥
GLB forever❤
How is possible that im the first comment?... anyway, GLB has always been so underrated. I wish to turn back time & do something anything, to make people stop and listen with their ears not their eyes.
I was thinking the same. 1,400 views only? Come on man.....this is really, really great music and it needs a lot more views
while GLB was opening for his band on the 'monster' tour, michael stipe of r.e.m. called them the best band in the western hemisphere (presumably radiohead, also opening for r.e.m., being his pick for best in the eastern hemisphere). he was not wrong. GLB also opened for pearl jam and smashing pumpkins but never broke big. very unfortunate. 4 superb albums before they called it a day. i was at their last (?) show before they broke up on halloween in chicago. grant dressed as a vampire and drummer joey peters was in kiss makeup
Best comment ever... listening with their ears and not their eyes... love it
I still own the CD.
grew up in the nineties and just now discovering these guys. but his voice is so familiar I wonder if I heard them before and didn’t realize.
This particular song / video was a moment of epiphany when a teenager. Relevant as never before now.
The very Best of many tracks in the early 90, loved Them then and now 👌😁
Such a great song
I remember turning people on to this back in the 90s, also, another underrated, hidden gem of a band called VAST, and everyone loved both! It's a small, but magical club,lol.
God this song is so good!
Congrulations from Brasil!
🤘🇧🇷
✌🏽😽
From Beef Netflix movie first time to hear it brilliant song , they share a spot with attic monkey video and Coldplay yellow video as best simple creative master pieces
The bands of the Seattle era. Where were they from
Temazo , tiempo que lo escuchaba
Gracias doble 9 y Canal 33 por disfrutar en 1994 de este TE-MÓN!!
@@percyosorio6109 La RAdio Rock en Lima
Edd Kowalczyk brought me here
Same!!
Me too
Ditto!
😂 same
I saw this on MTV when I was 15. Thought it was so weird and i sang it at school. People looked at me weird but I was different from most. I felt like the song sounded. I discovered it here years later. I'm still weird at 43! Ty 😘
P.S I know what they meant by mockingbirds.. They're everywhere
"I felt like the song sounded." That sounds so beautiful
Mockingbirds?
My go to song for many emotions. It’s on repeat this morning.
same here, it brings me back to a safe place
I still have a love affair with this song !!
How does this song, one of the best songs of the 90s only have 70 comments and 898 likes? Also, this only got posted to TH-cam 3 years ago?
Great band
This is my first time seeing this video. I used to hear this song on the radio constantly back in the day. I really miss the early 90s. 😭
Same.
This guy is fantastic. I just don’t why he sounds so much different as Grant Lee Phillips.
Excellent song from the 90's. A Beatles influence of "I'm the walrus"
Come here after watching Beef 😊 soooooo freaking gooood, but a bit sorrow inside idk why 🤨
Lovely ❤❤❤❤
44 This year and discovering good music
Love , love , love them ❤ They ate sooooo underrated too
Faz muito tempo que procurava esta música.... obrigado por compartilhar
Man this takes me back to freshman year of high school
"Why did you drop the egg?"
"Look man its what all the artsy people were doing at the time. Dropping things and breaking things and shattering things in slow motion."
It's beautiful ❤️
It's like I remember this song but I also don't
I mean before I began actively searching for Grant Lee Buffalo in 2015 and discovered how great Fuzzy and Jubilee are
It's like this is one of my primordial songs from when I was a baby
Thank you, Mr. Grant-Lee Phillips, for this.
This❤
Linda musica, me transporta!!!
So legend Grant Lee
Im here because Ed from LIVE mentioned this band.
Me too, and this sucks.
This is late Beatles era stuff. This song makes me feel. There are no more artists like this anywhere. GLB grossly under appreciated, but they carved out a spot with me that stuck. I got to see them play the very first show at the new Boston Garden in 1995 opening for REM
By late beatles you mean it had a cello.
Good one!
xoxo The Clarences
That is cool.
Saw them sometime in the nineties (?), having heard this track.
The only song frm the 90's. I suppose the vid mocks...I used to believe they came bfrom buffalo where I'm orig from. I had moved to La in the 90's. Then after I got Moon and jubilee I learned they were from the Lankershim area, 1 mile from us on Whittset, holy $$#*! My love for this tune cannot be charted.
De fato e corrigindo um dos comentários, o começo dos anos 90 foram o último suspiro de vida no mundo da música. um verdadeiro e triste fato a se lamentar.
Came here from Beef because I recognized the voice, didn't even know it's Grant Lee Phillips from Gilmore girls too!
They actually used this song in Gilmore girls quite a few times!
WXRT Chicago - this band was showcased on that station
This has got a Beatles sound to it.
thank god for spotify shuffle
Accurately rated
De puta madre! ,Que recuerdos de los 90's ♥️
Anyone out there got any beef?
Birdy num num , Peter sellers in the party
miss quality songwritting from the 90s
Nobody made music like they did.
Except the Beatles
@@jamesteh2729 yes of course
BEEF brought me here... what a melody
timeless....
Beavis and Butt-Head years back
@2:02 in somebody in scuba heels.
Beavis & Butthead commanded me to come here!
Hearts
I heard it in 2023 ❤
No sabía que gaston acurio tenía una banda en su juventud
You can tell this is from the 90s because mockingbirds are eating a high-carb breakfast of toast, oatmeal, and OJ.
Just found this after watching Beavis and Butthead react to it. Lol
Me too 😍
Same here. Mike Judge actually featured a lot of alternative/indie on that show.
Here from Beef
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There is always something………
Unbelievable this has less than 20k views. Any shitty video today can reach it in a few hours. Kind of sad, like something slowly disappearing.
Who came here after watching Beef?
here🎉
Me me me
Me. Beautiful show
Yes!
Damn, now i'll have to watch Beef again, drats!
Howdy!
It's funny how I discovered this masterpiece thanks to Beavis and Butthead.
I might be the only one in the world saying Gilmore Girls brought me here?
Girlmore Girls brought me here. Moreover, if you're here, that means you have exquisite taste in music. :)
...But horrid taste in television.
This is a classic, Beavis and Butthead has mocked the concept of this video thinking of Big Bird
Than a big bird drop a big turd
Beavis and Butthead brought me here