I get the feeling it was mostly Yuval & Mark that had the most problems with Mike as Sebastian seems the most comfortable with Mike naturally on stage. I get a strong feeling of contempt from everyone else though just by looking at their faces, especially Yuval.
There was, and never will be, a band even remotely comparable to Soul Coughing. I feel we’re all lucky to have Mike Doughty, even though his great solo stuff isn’t like what he did with SC. He’s the most underrated singer songwriter in history.
they were absolutely on fire live - unique blend of jazz , rock , sample sounds , great bass and drums & guitar . I saw them 3 or 4 times in the 90's - it was a must to see them ....full of good humor and divine grooves .
I discovered them probably just around the time they broke up. I was 6/7 in 2000, and Cartoon Network played videos for Circles and Rolling set to classic cartoons during commercial breaks. I was always particularly mesmerized when they would come on. Years later as a teenager I listened to the rest of their stuff and got really into them, even saw Mike play Ruby Vroom with a full band in 2019. I wonder how many other kids my age developed a love of Soul Coughing from those videos as well.
I can't say enough of how awesome this band was. Mike Doughty should do everything in his power to put this quartet back together, if only for a reunion tour and then see where it goes from there.
+IHeartButtercuts I would love this as much as the next person, but Mike apparently hated his time in Soul Coughing and hates his former bandmates to this day, so hell would pretty much have to freeze over for this to happen.
+IHeartButtercuts He was robbed for the rights to his own songs. These former bastions of music are cashing and laughing, for shit. Why would he? They are more leeches than mates.
IHeartButtercuts I hear you though, if all this shit WEREN'T true, I would've loved to see where this band went. They were original and creative, and somehow made catchy and super listenable tunes while blending so many different genres of music with unique, cryptic, poet lyrics. There aren't a ton of bands that could pull that off, so it was sad to see them disintegrate in the 90's. They were one of my favorites.
He made a great joke at 2:30. He said "Don't need to,.. with Ercil,..... walk in circles" maybe I heard that wrong but I listen to it multiple times. Pretty she that was a joke about someone he knows.
Mike sure knows how to write a stick-in-your-head kind of tune... Jackhole bandmates notwithstanding. I like this one even more now that I know what it was really about [read the book]
Jackholes they may be but it wouldn't have happened without them. I mean that musical chemistry and sound. With other guys it would have been a bit different but from my understanding it was Doughty who was the creative force there. Not to mention the outright douchery of taking all the credit by his lowly as a result bandmates.
According to Mike, Band broke up due to bad blood between the members, drug abuse and finances. Either way, Mike does not speak of them glowingly. In fact, sounded more like an abusive relatonship than a band. And as you said, the second job while airing a hit video on Mtv.
@@ericnevYT Really? He ended SC back in 2000 and it sounded like he wanted nothing to do with them. Even years after the acrimonious split he still harboured animosity towards them...essentially calling SC Nickelback. Soooo.... I really doubt that he tried to reunite them.
@@explore2265 Mike was a heroin addict and a scapegoat for the other 3 members of the band. They abused him psychologically and physically until the band broke up in 2000. They would constantly tell him he was a fuckup and sometimes they would even get in fistfights. He doesn't even refer to them by their names when he talks about them.
definitely a fender, coronado. they dipped into the semi-hollow market now and again, typically with 'thinline telecaster', but also coronado and starcaster. there was also a thinline jaguar for a short while
1:53 is Doughtys secret marketing plan for Zumba fitness, founded 3 years after this video. What he's saying is "Zum-ba Zum-ba Zum- you got the boy, got the boy" which tells insecure women to join 'Zumba,' to 'get the boy.' "Don't need to walk around in circles" is said several times, which itself is going in circles. He doesnt need to, but he does, giving in to his primal instinct. You dont need to buy Zumba but you will. Source: Lies. I made it up. Fuck Zumba. Long live reptilians.
"Better". Better than what? The smell of hot garbage in July? Yeah. MD's mediocre Coffeehouse Rock career and material blows the mind and genre-bending brilliantly original music of Soul Coughing out of the water. I agree with non sequitur. You are higher than a Georgia pine.
Don't ya love shadowbanning people, Thiemon76? Thanks for deleting my last comment lol. Just because you can't accept reality you don't have to be a child and delete whatever doesn't suit you agenda. Cheers buddy!
![Soul Coughing - Down to This [March 1995]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/En6tSCcUD3w/mqdefault.jpg)
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Cant wait to see them in a couple months
indeed
I love this band, I hate they were so dysfunctional...there will never be another Soul Coughing. Glad Doughty is free and happy but I miss this sound.
Same here
Not to be redundant but I couldn't agree more. Uncommon sounds that defy catagory. But not just aberent noise.
I get the feeling it was mostly Yuval & Mark that had the most problems with Mike as Sebastian seems the most comfortable with Mike naturally on stage. I get a strong feeling of contempt from everyone else though just by looking at their faces, especially Yuval.
They reunited for a handful of shows.
They're back baby
One of my biggest regrets of the ‘90s was never getting to see Soul Coughing
Always loved the drum & bass grooves on their tunes. Not just another band making the same noise as every other band.
Yeah that fusion of alt rock, jazz, and drum and bass is so good
@@Karmy. ..and some *Electronica* . 🎹
There was, and never will be, a band even remotely comparable to Soul Coughing. I feel we’re all lucky to have Mike Doughty, even though his great solo stuff isn’t like what he did with SC. He’s the most underrated singer songwriter in history.
That there is fax.
One thing that puzzles me is why doesn’t he get a bassist, drummer and keyboardist to play with him and do all the old songs.
@@nathanlewis42 he does, like all the time
@@lumpynehar1581 I would love to see him then. The only post SC videos I have seen of him have been playing solo.
@@nathanlewis42 I saw him in Cleveland back in 2017 and he was with a full band :) its pretty amazing tbh
One of the sweetest tunes Mike wrote ......
soulcoughingscreenwritersbluesisthenumberonesongwrtersanthem.today.on2023.2024.futurecds.numberones.sincemoderntimes.
This was fantastic! Thank you youtube, when I'm in a pickle, you never cease to give me fire recommends!
they are back for the 30th Anniversary of " Ruby Vroom " & will be playing together again in the Fall , In Usa
wow he sings it just like on the album
This music was 20 years ahead of its time. Like if you agree.
Driving home in 1996 in my Audi 4000, Mike changed me forever.
Doughty slips in a Urkel at the end...so brilliant !
Walk around w/Urkel
The real reason the broke up, they couldn't agree on outfits to preform in
There's everybody looking like a unified band showing somewhat of an affiliation...and then there's Yuval. Fucking Yuval..
Yuval was just warm… and he had drumming to do.
1998? wow i was 2, i missed out on some great music but im finding it now :)
they were absolutely on fire live - unique blend of jazz , rock , sample sounds , great bass and drums & guitar . I saw them 3 or 4 times in the 90's - it was a must to see them ....full of good humor and divine grooves .
2000 here
They were the first concert I saw in 1997-1998!!!
I discovered them probably just around the time they broke up. I was 6/7 in 2000, and Cartoon Network played videos for Circles and Rolling set to classic cartoons during commercial breaks. I was always particularly mesmerized when they would come on. Years later as a teenager I listened to the rest of their stuff and got really into them, even saw Mike play Ruby Vroom with a full band in 2019. I wonder how many other kids my age developed a love of Soul Coughing from those videos as well.
Just a great band. Some great music of the 1990's.
Making me feel old. This was college baby, college...
Family Matters was awesome, erkle kicks ass!
This is good music right here.
Im glad the backing chord is more in tune in this version
I can't say enough of how awesome this band was. Mike Doughty should do everything in his power to put this quartet back together, if only for a reunion tour and then see where it goes from there.
+IHeartButtercuts I would love this as much as the next person, but Mike apparently hated his time in Soul Coughing and hates his former bandmates to this day, so hell would pretty much have to freeze over for this to happen.
Are you unaware of the toxic relationship between Doughty and the other members of the band?
+IHeartButtercuts He was robbed for the rights to his own songs. These former bastions of music are cashing and laughing, for shit. Why would he? They are more leeches than mates.
IHeartButtercuts I hear you though, if all this shit WEREN'T true, I would've loved to see where this band went. They were original and creative, and somehow made catchy and super listenable tunes while blending so many different genres of music with unique, cryptic, poet lyrics. There aren't a ton of bands that could pull that off, so it was sad to see them disintegrate in the 90's. They were one of my favorites.
@@wax-noetic Soul Coughing was one of a kind
Saw these guy play in Omaha Nebraska years ago , only band/song I really remember from the concert
Love this tune...fun
1:22 Yuval was gonna go for the crash and said “nah..”
How did I miss these guys in the 90s?
Song is fire
Those *maniacal* little laughs by Mike at 3:05 ! 😄
they are back together for a small Fall Tour celebration of the " Ruby Vroom " 30th anniversary in the Fall ( Only Usa so far )
It's just too bad they broke up, this song is awesome
they are back in the Fall for a " Ruby Vroom " 2024 tour
Matt Skiba stole this dudes style in 2017 lol
He made a great joke at 2:30. He said "Don't need to,.. with Ercil,..... walk in circles" maybe I heard that wrong but I listen to it multiple times. Pretty she that was a joke about someone he knows.
Walk around with Urkle
..🎶 "F**k around with Urkel"🎵 2:32 ...Steve Urkel ! 😃 🤓
Here we are in 2019.
2:33 I don’t need to (blank) around with Urkel
.. 👂! ... 😆 !!
2:34 - Did he say "Around with thirclthz?" with a lisp? xD
@Dave J. West It's was mainly because they recalled it sounding like it so I guess It was a wink and nod to an inside band joke thing.
@@crudecube yea and pigs can fly and deliver boxes of poptarts on my mailbox
Francisco Orozco And gargantuan Roman officers roam the earth and discipline sarcasm on the internet my severing the fingers of the commenter.
@@crudecube lmaoo bro come on thats never gona happen, you crack me up, speaking of clowns thers a pig outside my box of poptarts, hold up
CrudeCube lmfao speaking of monkeys, yeah and I’m the pope
3 Mike is amazing.
Then.. Mikey D. just bugged out 🐞 and *wigged* . 1:53 😀 👏
Wish they would get back together
Mike sure knows how to write a stick-in-your-head kind of tune... Jackhole bandmates notwithstanding. I like this one even more now that I know what it was really about [read the book]
Jackholes they may be but it wouldn't have happened without them. I mean that musical chemistry and sound. With other guys it would have been a bit different but from my understanding it was Doughty who was the creative force there. Not to mention the outright douchery of taking all the credit by his lowly as a result bandmates.
1998 - looks like HD ... holograms everywhere!!
Wow cool didn’t know Dave Matthews Band was around back then.
No it's not, it's a Fender Coronado II...
According to Mike,
Band broke up due to bad blood between the members, drug abuse and finances. Either way, Mike does not speak of them glowingly. In fact, sounded more like an abusive relatonship than a band. And as you said, the second job while airing a hit video on Mtv.
And because I dig me some acoustic guitar =P
Looks liks a Fender Coronado. I don't think they make them anymore...
la mejor cancion de todos los tiempos
Sure, "Soul Coughing" Your right... Sabastian was the heart of "Soul Coughing"
Sample masters
2:35 walk around with erkel
walk around with erkel
i lold
check out 2:34 that is what he is talking about.
How do you figure?
its one of those 60's tesico guitars
He's touring doing Ruby vroom with another band right now
Yup...saw him in a little club in Novato. Basically Wheatus is his backing band. Sounded pretty good!
@@mbrew3244 I'm seeing them tonight in Phoenix
Sounds like he tried to get SC to reunite for the tour, but, perhaps unsurprisingly, they wouldn't.
@@ericnevYT Really? He ended SC back in 2000 and it sounded like he wanted nothing to do with them. Even years after the acrimonious split he still harboured animosity towards them...essentially calling SC Nickelback. Soooo.... I really doubt that he tried to reunite them.
It's so sad knowing how much abuse there was going on behind the scenes. This band was in utter turmoil at this point.
zepps88 wait what? Tell me more, what happened to them?
@@explore2265 Mike was a heroin addict and a scapegoat for the other 3 members of the band. They abused him psychologically and physically until the band broke up in 2000. They would constantly tell him he was a fuckup and sometimes they would even get in fistfights. He doesn't even refer to them by their names when he talks about them.
is they alive??
Coma?
Does anyone know what guitar he's using? Judging from the headstock it looks like a fender, but I don't think they've ever made semi-hollows.
definitely a fender, coronado. they dipped into the semi-hollow market now and again, typically with 'thinline telecaster', but also coronado and starcaster. there was also a thinline jaguar for a short while
1:53 is Doughtys secret marketing plan for Zumba fitness, founded 3 years after this video.
What he's saying is "Zum-ba Zum-ba Zum- you got the boy, got the boy" which tells insecure women to join 'Zumba,' to 'get the boy.'
"Don't need to walk around in circles" is said several times, which itself is going in circles. He doesnt need to, but he does, giving in to his primal instinct. You dont need to buy Zumba but you will.
Source: Lies. I made it up. Fuck Zumba. Long live reptilians.
God where did you go cartoon network....
2019-20
Shame he considered his band mates jackasses to work with. I would have love to have been in this band.
After hearing other accounts from other members and people who were around them...no you would not have loved being in this band
His Solo work is better. THERE. I said it.
Luke Schwartz Doughty's solo work is better? Are you high, dude?
Luke Schwartz I realize your comment was made 4 years ago so hopefully you're not still high. Hahaha Do you still think his solo work is better?
I respectfully disagree.
"Better". Better than what? The smell of hot garbage in July?
Yeah. MD's mediocre Coffeehouse Rock career and material blows the mind and genre-bending brilliantly original music of Soul Coughing out of the water. I agree with non sequitur. You are higher than a Georgia pine.
I always hated this song lol
Then wtf are you doing here
@@VIFG Stockholm syndrome perhaps
great song. Too bad about the drummer . Clear this guy doesn't have the talent required.
Don't ya love shadowbanning people, Thiemon76? Thanks for deleting my last comment lol. Just because you can't accept reality you don't have to be a child and delete whatever doesn't suit you agenda. Cheers buddy!
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