@joshansley , your bass playing on that album changed my life as a musician. You will be an inspiration for me forever, and I played this album to my kids and we still listen to it and sing along. Thanks man, you're the GOAT ❤
I used to watch Catch-22 play at a juice bar named The Cove in Roselle, N.J. in the late 90's and I also went to high school with Jim from Streetlight. There was a decent ska / punk scene in central jersey at that time for a teen me. Bouncing Souls, Lifetime, Bigwig, The Royalties, Inspector 7, IDK, and a whole bunch I forgot about.
Oh yeah 90s NJ ska/pop-punk was a whole thing. Went to so many Catch shows, OCG, Youth Ahead, Prof Plum. Also my first “emo” show was Thursday, before they blew up. Good years man
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - "They Provide the Paint for the Picture-Perfect Masterpiece That You Will Paint on the Insides of Your Eyelids" would be a fun one to do (though not fun to type)
I've seen a few set lists in the past and, interestingly, they usually just wrote "paint", "they provide the paint", or "TPP" because it's certainly one of the song titles of all time.
When Mark said he he's checking out SM's Humble Beginnings I chuckled because I know he has no idea about the mid 90's NJ scene to realize that's another great band from that same era.
@Ddeamorin Skater's World in Wyane, The Cove in Roselle Park, Wayne Firehouse, Garfield AM. Legion, all those awesome shows. I was from NY state but ventured to NJ to see and play shows back in the day, and I promoted shows in Nyack, NY for almost 2 decades. I played in Stick Figure Suicide for a bit in the early 00's.
Had the pleasure of opening for these fantastic gentlemen back in the day at just a small venue in Ottawa. Seeing them for the first time in MTL, watching Josh effortlessly play on that fretless is absolutely masterful! Ryan and Kevin are beautiful humans, too!! Hello from The (late) Rude Dudes!! 😎
Walking away is definitely the time for bass to shine on this record. Also, as the footsteps fade away, and the closer 1234 1234 have some killer bass. Also, ya know, the whole record has memorable moments. Sergio, 9mm, and on and on. Literally, its a 10. No skips. All the bass slays. Much love. Walking away is definitely the highlight in a sea of highlights.
catch22 were one of those bands that meant so much to the NJ scene that people who wouldn’t otherwise be caught dead at a punk/ska show would go to a Catch show. Their follow up record Alone In A Crowd blended more hardcore elements with their sound. Check out “Bloomfield Ave.” and “Hard to Impress” (feat. Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed)
I first heard this song on a Victory Records compilation album, Victory Style III. It was a little jarring to hear a ska song amongst a bunch of hardcore, but what a banger.
@@LowEndUniversity Awesome! The Bosstones are one of my all-time favorites. I know it's been said numerous times but the punk takeover of this channel has been so much fun!
Cool guys. Back in 2000, I took my friends down to see them (a two hour drive) . The venue gave age 21+ attendees priority to try to make more bar money. It was absolute horsesh-t. They sold out and my friends were pissed. They snuck around back of the venue, found a few of the guys from Catch 22, told the band the deal, and the band let them sneak in free with them through the back door. Super cool of them. And where was I? I was in a park nearby having an argument with my girlfriend and missed the whole thing. 😅 High school is a wild time.
I actually got into Catch 22 not too long ago and they've quickly become a favorite of mine. I adore ska punk, and this song in particular resonates so deeply with me
You are running through all my 90's and 2000's favorite bands! Dig deeper into the singer... Tomas Kalnoky. Catch 22, Bandits of the Acoutic Revolution, Streetlight Manifesto, and Toh Kay (solo). You won't be sorry. There's band drama in the lyrics :)
Josh Ansley’s playing on the first Catch 22 and the first Streetlight are some of my favorite ever. I mourn the loss of his skills on the rest of Streetlight’s albums.
I got this CD shortly after it came out and fell in love with it. I went to see them and was so disappointed that Tomas Kalnoky was no longer in the band. Catch 22 came into their own without him, but I'm glad he came back in Streelight Manifesto.
Your next Ska react should be Mad Caddies. My favorite song by them is Drinking for a 11, but I think you'd have a really fun time with Monkeys or Souls for Sale
Ive listened to this album and Out Come The Wolves by Rancid more than ive done anything in life lol Many nights playing this on guitar with everybody singing along. Some of the best memories of my life.
The drummer from Streetlight was in another great NJ punk/ska band from this era called One Cool Guy. Definitely recommend checking out the album “From Downtown”
I always learn something from you about bass and usually chime in about punk, but being as I don’t know ska-punk, as well as the other punk subgenres, this is the first time I actually learned something from you about the band! I was this minute years old when I learned that Catch-22 and Streetlight Manifesto were the same folks. So thanks for that!
I used to see this band play in firehouses and VFW halls when I was in high school! The Ska and hardcore scene was the only good thing about growing up in NJ.
I have to agree. I played shows in the late 90's early 00's with hard-core bands, pop-punk, horror-punk, and ska bands all on the same ticket. The mix of people as well as the bands supporting each other was awesome. It was a time and place that doesn't come often.
Refused - Deadly Rhythm Fun fact: The lead designer of Cyberpunk 2077 _specifically_ reached out to the Refused to play the band SAMURAI Other than that they are known for the record "Shape of Punk To Come" from 1998, and pretty much broke all the rigid rules of what punk should be, because they thought the underground scene had gone stale. They were right and disbanded a few months later with no one giving a shit. A few _years_ later they slowly changed not only punk, but modern rock Or to quote Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park in an article titled _Was Refused’s The Shape Of Punk To Come Actually The Shape Of Punk To Come?_ in Stereogum back in 2018: „_Coming up, while we were trying to define our band’s musical style, I remember often referencing The Shape Of Punk To Come… And since then, many people, myself included, have tried to capture the same kind of intensity, craftsmanship, and imagination that album has._”
I got the chorus of the song tattooed on my back, from side to side. This album changed my life. I still listen to it like once a week. Especially this song got me so hooked, i started to play bass "seriously" after years of mediocre bass playing. Not much into ska anymore but this album is on my top 3 list forever.
I am from melbourne Australia, seen streetlight twice. I hope you know how lucky you are to be right there. Edna's Goldfish must be awesome live, they seem like such a fun band
Would love to see you do "1234, 1234" from their live CD (Live At The Downtown, Farmingdale, NY / 8-30-2004), that baseline is way amazing and feels almost impossible to play.
Catch 22 might be the one band Ive seen the most! Not cus I like them but for a while there it seemed like they were opening up for every band I was going to see. Either way, cool to see them on the channel!
There is acually an earlier album that Tomas wrote back when he was 15-16 years old called smiles for macavity when he played in a band called gimp. The full album is on TH-cam and it holds up pretty well. The track “mrs butterworth’s indestructible bomb shelter” sorta reminds me of an earlier version of the catch 22 sound. It’s definitely worth checking out even if you don’t make a video on it
Just subbed on Patreon! Can't wait to watch the full Somewhere in the Between album review! I'm seeing them tomorrow in Jersey for the 30-something-th time, so this review was pretty much perfectly timed lol Everything Goes Numb is definitely more stripped back compared to SITB, but still incredibly epic in it's own way. Their latest album The Hands That Theive is also a step down in production from SITB, but it's my favorite album by them, as they experiment with combining tons of different styles and influences. They're incredible man. They've never put out a bad song, and it's all due to the meticulousness of Tom Kalnoky's songwriting. Just sucks we have to wait forever for new tunes! 😅
This brings me back. Have been listening to this album for over 20 years, finally saw them live last year (wore my three piece). Would love to see you do a reaction to any Mustard Plug. Gave my bass instructor a copy of Big Daddy Multitude because I felt it’s the MP album with the strongest bass parts.
I'm not going all the way back through the comments to see if anyone else said this but... they were (almost) all teenagers when they cut this album. Catch-22 has some lineup changes as some of them go on to become Streetlight Manifesto, but the remaining lineup is also really good and goes off to do their own more hardcore-inspired thing. "Motown Cinderella", "What Goes Around Comes Around", and "The Purge" would be reasonably representative samples of what they sound like after the divergence.
Been binging your videos today (just found your channel today). Love seeing your break down the various songs (especially punk / ska). I know you get a lot of suggestions. ;mostly really big popular bands from the ska / punk genre) but I have a band you may really enjoy experiencing that wasn’t really big. (They played the warped tour sets for years and had some mild success on some movies and in LA). A band called “the Briggs”. I think you’d dig their compositions and set ups. They always had great hooks. A very sort of Clash feel imo. Anyways thanks for all the great videos (can’t wait to check out more). Subscribed! (One of my new fav music channels up there with trash theory)
Thanks for the love for my comment on the other video! 😊 I've been really enjoying following along with your punk/ska-punk exploration, and would like to recommend the album "This Machine" by the JB Conspiracy (and the song by the same name).
My cd got played until I would forget if it was in the car, portable player, etc. Then I got an MP3 player and I lost the cd! Loved this album so much though. Loved finally seeing Streetlight not long after they started too Also I struggled playing those bass lines. I can’t even imagine trying to hit those notes on a fretless. So much respect
Great song. I always forget the name lol I skip through looking for it but never find it until I realize. I love this punk journey your on. Brian’s lament. Bouncing souls. Not complicated. But I sat back…. Just listen to it man
Oh yeah, you gotta Keasbey nights and Point /Counter Point mash at some point!!! Live version only for now. Thomas would probably take a decade to mix a studio version. hehehe
Eh. It's a good song, but the real good bass on this album is Walking Away. This is the single that everyone knows. EDIT: On Walking Away you can hear more how he's playing a fretless.
Yea, unfortunately the majority of people don’t actually know music and will reliably suggest only the most well known songs. Cost of doing business, I guess.
I wholeheartedly support doing Walking Away. It’s insanely good all around and really highlights the bass. This is a bass channel after all, and if it exposes people to songs they’ve never heard before, it helps everyone.
Have been loving your videos, even though I don't play bass. Your reactions have helped me notice really cool stuff from songs I thought I knew well, where the bass plays a super crucial roll. In the Ska Punk world, would love to hear your reaction to The Interrupters. Popular yes, complicated maybe not? But I feel like the bass really drives some of their songs. She Got Arrested, In The Mirror, The Prosecutor, or of course their hit She's Kerosene all have driving bass lines that I feel like make the song what it is...
I think you might really enjoy Streetlight’s first full-length album, “Everything Goes Numb”. That album, to me, feels like a follow up to “Keasbey Nights”, with multiple members from Catch-22 playing on the album, including Josh Ansley. Anyways, I enjoy your videos - keep crushing it!!!
This is crazy, I've seen a lot of your videos and recently saw J.A.R., and noticing you've been doing a lot of punk I came to your most recent video to recommend Streetlight and your most recent video is just that!!! That's insane hahah I seriously recommend 'As the Footsteps Die Out Forever'. Great bass and a deeply emotional song overall. Great work!!! Edit: I didn't know you did Streetlight Manifesto a few months back. No idea how I missed it! But As the Footsteps Die Out Forever is still something I'd recommend
Technically theres an older band too with the same mastermind of music behind it. The band is called GIMP with their casette Smiles for Macavity which was released when Tomas was 15
As somebody who’s been into both bands for 25+ years: Streetlight folks will tell you that Catch 22 sucked when Tomas left, but honestly Catch may be my favorite ska band from that era.
Idk if you only take suggestions from Patreon, but imma throw this band out again: Rocket From The Crypt. RFTC are the link between your classic rock background and your punk education. And man, if you love horns… (I recommend literally anything from Scream, Dracula, Scream.)
Catch 22 (along with Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Mad Caddies) were among the first Third Wave ska bands I heard. Streetlight Manifesto knock it up a notch, cloesr to skacore than these earlier bands, more similar to Capdown from the UK. If you check out Capdown, Cousin Cleotis is worth a listen.
Keasbey is the only song I can think of that has a sequal. The song "point counterpoint" on Streetlight - Everything Went Numb album literally is more from the "protagonist" of this song. Just fun and interesting writing by Toh Kay.
Since the nostalgic punks have taken over Low End's channel lately, how about checking out: Voodoo Glow Skulls - Delinquent Song. It's even got horns 😮
"When they come for me I'll be sitting at my desk with a gun in my hand and a bullet proof vest, singing my my my how the time does fly when you know you're gonna die at the end of the night!" One of my favorite choruses of all time, it's so intense and fun haha
Wow. What an honor. Thank you for your kind words.
@@joshansley this comment needs more likes! 🤘
@@DabbaRanx lol 😂
@joshansley , your bass playing on that album changed my life as a musician. You will be an inspiration for me forever, and I played this album to my kids and we still listen to it and sing along. Thanks man, you're the GOAT ❤
Dude...so many memories because of your work back then. Thank you for that.
legendary recordings sir!
Dude that first pause killed me!! Right before you were about to get blasted by the best part!!
Exactly!
Love when Streetlight Manifesto does Point/Counterpoint into Keasbey Nights - two songs that are different but fit so well together
rumor is Point Counterpoint was written with similar cadence as Keasbey on purpose.
@@goatzee69420they're literally one song.
My fav mashup they do live.
The first time I heard them play Point/Keasbey/Counterpoint absolutely blew my mind
I used to watch Catch-22 play at a juice bar named The Cove in Roselle, N.J. in the late 90's and I also went to high school with Jim from Streetlight. There was a decent ska / punk scene in central jersey at that time for a teen me. Bouncing Souls, Lifetime, Bigwig, The Royalties, Inspector 7, IDK, and a whole bunch I forgot about.
SGR!
Oh yeah 90s NJ ska/pop-punk was a whole thing. Went to so many Catch shows, OCG, Youth Ahead, Prof Plum. Also my first “emo” show was Thursday, before they blew up. Good years man
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - "They Provide the Paint for the Picture-Perfect Masterpiece That You Will Paint on the Insides of Your Eyelids" would be a fun one to do (though not fun to type)
This is possibly the best, and most complicated, of all the songs in the Toh Kay Muscal Universe
Totally plus you can compare the Streetlight Manifesto Cover from 99 Songs of Revolution Vol 1!
I've seen a few set lists in the past and, interestingly, they usually just wrote "paint", "they provide the paint", or "TPP" because it's certainly one of the song titles of all time.
Uhh I hate that song so much
Respect. Don't die for anything less than the best of life.
Seen these guy so many time being from nj high school in the 90s we took for granted how many awesome bands we had access to.
When Mark said he he's checking out SM's Humble Beginnings I chuckled because I know he has no idea about the mid 90's NJ scene to realize that's another great band from that same era.
@@edwillock vintage vinal records
@Ddeamorin Skater's World in Wyane, The Cove in Roselle Park, Wayne Firehouse, Garfield AM. Legion, all those awesome shows. I was from NY state but ventured to NJ to see and play shows back in the day, and I promoted shows in Nyack, NY for almost 2 decades. I played in Stick Figure Suicide for a bit in the early 00's.
I went to high school in union NJ the cove was like 5 mins away crazy how you can go so long without thinking about this shit.
Every song on this record has incredible bass work
It's so funny to hear that the delivery in the chorus is quick and rapid fire. Wait til you hear Streetlight's rerecording of this haha!
Yeah I prefer the SM version
I prefer the C22 version of the whole album, but SM as a band 🤷
Keasby Nights(the record) is an all timer indie record
One million percent correct
Josh Ansley playing this album on fretless is such great work, especially as a teenager.
Thanks man!
Had the pleasure of opening for these fantastic gentlemen back in the day at just a small venue in Ottawa.
Seeing them for the first time in MTL, watching Josh effortlessly play on that fretless is absolutely masterful! Ryan and Kevin are beautiful humans, too!! Hello from The (late) Rude Dudes!! 😎
@@diegokluver That's awesome! I've played some sets with some Ryan doing solo sets and he's a rad guy.
@@joshansleykeasby and egn baselines are the dopest. Brilliant stuff.
Walking away is definitely the time for bass to shine on this record. Also, as the footsteps fade away, and the closer 1234 1234 have some killer bass. Also, ya know, the whole record has memorable moments. Sergio, 9mm, and on and on. Literally, its a 10. No skips. All the bass slays. Much love. Walking away is definitely the highlight in a sea of highlights.
good shout out. When I saw Catch 22 my immediate thought was "no walking away?!"
catch22 were one of those bands that meant so much to the NJ scene that people who wouldn’t otherwise be caught dead at a punk/ska show would go to a Catch show. Their follow up record Alone In A Crowd blended more hardcore elements with their sound. Check out “Bloomfield Ave.” and “Hard to Impress” (feat. Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed)
It's true, they had a big hc following.
I first heard this song on a Victory Records compilation album, Victory Style III. It was a little jarring to hear a ska song amongst a bunch of hardcore, but what a banger.
Also Vinny’s solo on bloomfield is amazing. Same guy did the bone solo for sublime’s “wrong way”
“Someday I suppose” -mighty mighty Bosstones
Joe Gittleman on bass
That’s next!!
@@LowEndUniversity awesome! 😀
@@LowEndUniversity Can't wait! such an awesome song!
@@LowEndUniversity Awesome! The Bosstones are one of my all-time favorites. I know it's been said numerous times but the punk takeover of this channel has been so much fun!
Joe Gittleman the Bass Fiddleman!
You should check out “Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution” it’s a 16 piece entirely acoustic ska group with Tomas Kalnoky and Jamie Egan of Catch 22
Seconding this
Thirding this
Taking me back to my teen years, what an epic, catchy song and album.
I grew up in NJ when these guys came around as Gimp. Amazing bunch of guys, amazing musicians.
Cool guys. Back in 2000, I took my friends down to see them (a two hour drive) . The venue gave age 21+ attendees priority to try to make more bar money. It was absolute horsesh-t. They sold out and my friends were pissed. They snuck around back of the venue, found a few of the guys from Catch 22, told the band the deal, and the band let them sneak in free with them through the back door. Super cool of them.
And where was I? I was in a park nearby having an argument with my girlfriend and missed the whole thing. 😅 High school is a wild time.
I know there’s a clever Catch-22 pun in here somewhere…😂
I actually got into Catch 22 not too long ago and they've quickly become a favorite of mine. I adore ska punk, and this song in particular resonates so deeply with me
Whole album is excellent, and then follow up with Streetlight Manifesto
This was my first Catch 22 song I heard, and I’m super excited that you covered it
AHHHH I WAS GONNA ASK FOR THIS!!! I love Catch 22 sm
You are running through all my 90's and 2000's favorite bands! Dig deeper into the singer... Tomas Kalnoky. Catch 22, Bandits of the Acoutic Revolution, Streetlight Manifesto, and Toh Kay (solo). You won't be sorry. There's band drama in the lyrics :)
Josh Ansley’s playing on the first Catch 22 and the first Streetlight are some of my favorite ever. I mourn the loss of his skills on the rest of Streetlight’s albums.
I love Catch 22. I hope you do more videos about them!
Intro always reminds me of Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard. I love both of them!
I got this CD shortly after it came out and fell in love with it. I went to see them and was so disappointed that Tomas Kalnoky was no longer in the band. Catch 22 came into their own without him, but I'm glad he came back in Streelight Manifesto.
Your next Ska react should be Mad Caddies. My favorite song by them is Drinking for a 11, but I think you'd have a really fun time with Monkeys or Souls for Sale
So much fun to play this on bass!
Ive listened to this album and Out Come The Wolves by Rancid more than ive done anything in life lol
Many nights playing this on guitar with everybody singing along. Some of the best memories of my life.
The drummer from Streetlight was in another great NJ punk/ska band from this era called One Cool Guy. Definitely recommend checking out the album “From Downtown”
He was not in OCG, Chris T was in the NJ hardcore band Groundswell
This one took me a while to figure out all these lines, but so much fun to play!
I always learn something from you about bass and usually chime in about punk, but being as I don’t know ska-punk, as well as the other punk subgenres, this is the first time I actually learned something from you about the band! I was this minute years old when I learned that Catch-22 and Streetlight Manifesto were the same folks. So thanks for that!
Ha! Love it!! 😎
I used to see this band play in firehouses and VFW halls when I was in high school! The Ska and hardcore scene was the only good thing about growing up in NJ.
I have to agree. I played shows in the late 90's early 00's with hard-core bands, pop-punk, horror-punk, and ska bands all on the same ticket. The mix of people as well as the bands supporting each other was awesome. It was a time and place that doesn't come often.
On & On & On ...the bass line is a vibe
Refused - Deadly Rhythm
Fun fact:
The lead designer of Cyberpunk 2077 _specifically_ reached out to the Refused to play the band SAMURAI
Other than that they are known for the record "Shape of Punk To Come" from 1998, and pretty much broke all the rigid rules of what punk should be, because they thought the underground scene had gone stale. They were right and disbanded a few months later with no one giving a shit. A few _years_ later they slowly changed not only punk, but modern rock
Or to quote Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park in an article titled _Was Refused’s The Shape Of Punk To Come Actually The Shape Of Punk To Come?_ in Stereogum back in 2018:
„_Coming up, while we were trying to define our band’s musical style, I remember often referencing The Shape Of Punk To Come… And since then, many people, myself included, have tried to capture the same kind of intensity, craftsmanship, and imagination that album has._”
100%. That record changed heavy music.
Cool story, but how does that relate? haha
Just saw Streetlight the other day. 20 years later the Point-Counterpoint/Keasby Nights medley still makes me go nuts
I got the chorus of the song tattooed on my back, from side to side. This album changed my life. I still listen to it like once a week. Especially this song got me so hooked, i started to play bass "seriously" after years of mediocre bass playing. Not much into ska anymore but this album is on my top 3 list forever.
A brass section makes me smile like that too!
I’m from Long Island… I’ve seen Catch like a million times. They were always playing Long Island shows with Edna’s Goldfish.
I am from melbourne Australia, seen streetlight twice. I hope you know how lucky you are to be right there. Edna's Goldfish must be awesome live, they seem like such a fun band
Well now I gotta download this album and listen to it again lol. Great vid bro
Would love to see you do "1234, 1234" from their live CD (Live At The Downtown, Farmingdale, NY / 8-30-2004), that baseline is way amazing and feels almost impossible to play.
Catch 22 might be the one band Ive seen the most! Not cus I like them but for a while there it seemed like they were opening up for every band I was going to see.
Either way, cool to see them on the channel!
I swear I accidentally saw them 6 times one summer when I was living in Poughkeepsie.
@@l_ROAR_l Same, but I was in the Rochester area.
This song got me into streetlight. I heard the streetlight version first and down the rabbit hole I went lol
I must have seen them close to 100 times at local shows in the late 90s. The horn section even played on my brother's band's, OS101, 2nd album.
Been almost two decades I've known and listen to Catch 22. Still listen to them daily
i go back and forth all the time about which version of this album i like better, even still its one of my favorite albums of all time
Alriiiiiiiiiight! 😎 I think you now covered all the important bands.
There is acually an earlier album that Tomas wrote back when he was 15-16 years old called smiles for macavity when he played in a band called gimp. The full album is on TH-cam and it holds up pretty well. The track “mrs butterworth’s indestructible bomb shelter” sorta reminds me of an earlier version of the catch 22 sound. It’s definitely worth checking out even if you don’t make a video on it
Oh yes, now we must get him into Gimp.
Just subbed on Patreon! Can't wait to watch the full Somewhere in the Between album review!
I'm seeing them tomorrow in Jersey for the 30-something-th time, so this review was pretty much perfectly timed lol
Everything Goes Numb is definitely more stripped back compared to SITB, but still incredibly epic in it's own way.
Their latest album The Hands That Theive is also a step down in production from SITB, but it's my favorite album by them, as they experiment with combining tons of different styles and influences.
They're incredible man. They've never put out a bad song, and it's all due to the meticulousness of Tom Kalnoky's songwriting. Just sucks we have to wait forever for new tunes! 😅
This brings me back. Have been listening to this album for over 20 years, finally saw them live last year (wore my three piece). Would love to see you do a reaction to any Mustard Plug. Gave my bass instructor a copy of Big Daddy Multitude because I felt it’s the MP album with the strongest bass parts.
I'm not going all the way back through the comments to see if anyone else said this but... they were (almost) all teenagers when they cut this album.
Catch-22 has some lineup changes as some of them go on to become Streetlight Manifesto, but the remaining lineup is also really good and goes off to do their own more hardcore-inspired thing. "Motown Cinderella", "What Goes Around Comes Around", and "The Purge" would be reasonably representative samples of what they sound like after the divergence.
I got turned on to Catch 22 just the past year or two. Somehow missed them back in the day. They're great. (Very Zeppelin intro guitar lol)
Wow, brings back memories like a slap on the face 😅! Cheers! ❤ Next: The O.C. Supertones - Little man.
Yesssss what an incredible song.
Been binging your videos today (just found your channel today). Love seeing your break down the various songs (especially punk / ska).
I know you get a lot of suggestions. ;mostly really big popular bands from the ska / punk genre) but I have a band you may really enjoy experiencing that wasn’t really big. (They played the warped tour sets for years and had some mild success on some movies and in LA). A band called “the Briggs”.
I think you’d dig their compositions and set ups. They always had great hooks. A very sort of Clash feel imo.
Anyways thanks for all the great videos (can’t wait to check out more). Subscribed!
(One of my new fav music channels up there with trash theory)
Absolutely I love this song so Good
Bought this record the day it came out. So many choices bass bits.
If only in memories from streetlight is one of my favorite songs ❤
Thanks for the love for my comment on the other video! 😊 I've been really enjoying following along with your punk/ska-punk exploration, and would like to recommend the album "This Machine" by the JB Conspiracy (and the song by the same name).
So good. Could have picked any song off this album. All flawless. One of my top 10 albums for life
This is my jam, it's the song that got me into ska punk.
Gaht DAMN I love this song. If I had a jam, this would unquestionably be it.
My cd got played until I would forget if it was in the car, portable player, etc. Then I got an MP3 player and I lost the cd! Loved this album so much though. Loved finally seeing Streetlight not long after they started too
Also I struggled playing those bass lines. I can’t even imagine trying to hit those notes on a fretless. So much respect
The snack that smiles back- goldfish~
Great song. I always forget the name lol I skip through looking for it but never find it until I realize. I love this punk journey your on. Brian’s lament. Bouncing souls. Not complicated. But I sat back…. Just listen to it man
Oh yeah, you gotta Keasbey nights and Point /Counter Point mash at some point!!! Live version only for now. Thomas would probably take a decade to mix a studio version. hehehe
Gadjits - Tell Yourself at Night
Eh. It's a good song, but the real good bass on this album is Walking Away. This is the single that everyone knows. EDIT: On Walking Away you can hear more how he's playing a fretless.
Yea, unfortunately the majority of people don’t actually know music and will reliably suggest only the most well known songs. Cost of doing business, I guess.
@@mitchellhedden1978I am amazed how your arrogance completely overshadows your self awareness.
Mitch is right, these types of channels mainly go for the singles.
Walking away was the first full song I learned in bass in highschool haha, love it
I wholeheartedly support doing Walking Away. It’s insanely good all around and really highlights the bass. This is a bass channel after all, and if it exposes people to songs they’ve never heard before, it helps everyone.
Have been loving your videos, even though I don't play bass. Your reactions have helped me notice really cool stuff from songs I thought I knew well, where the bass plays a super crucial roll.
In the Ska Punk world, would love to hear your reaction to The Interrupters. Popular yes, complicated maybe not? But I feel like the bass really drives some of their songs. She Got Arrested, In The Mirror, The Prosecutor, or of course their hit She's Kerosene all have driving bass lines that I feel like make the song what it is...
Thanks so much for the kind words!! I actually have them coming fairly soon. Stay tuned!
I think you might really enjoy Streetlight’s first full-length album, “Everything Goes Numb”. That album, to me, feels like a follow up to “Keasbey Nights”, with multiple members from Catch-22 playing on the album, including Josh Ansley. Anyways, I enjoy your videos - keep crushing it!!!
This is crazy, I've seen a lot of your videos and recently saw J.A.R., and noticing you've been doing a lot of punk I came to your most recent video to recommend Streetlight and your most recent video is just that!!! That's insane hahah I seriously recommend 'As the Footsteps Die Out Forever'. Great bass and a deeply emotional song overall. Great work!!!
Edit: I didn't know you did Streetlight Manifesto a few months back. No idea how I missed it! But As the Footsteps Die Out Forever is still something I'd recommend
Thanks pal! I’ll see what I can do!
@@LowEndUniversityPersonally I prefer the Streetlight Manifesto version over the Catch 22 version. Same song, different production.
Mighty mighty boss tones - The impression that I get.
Less Than Jake has so many epic songs featuring the bass. 🤘🏻
Let's arrange an Interview mate, I'm excited by the idea of talking to you about all this stuff !
I'm smiling so much RN
Technically theres an older band too with the same mastermind of music behind it. The band is called GIMP with their casette Smiles for Macavity which was released when Tomas was 15
Hard to Impress is one of the best songs and basslines ever!
Check out Skankin’ Pickle - Rotten Banana Legs!
What an amazing band, I love every thing Mike Park is a part of !
MU330 - Hoosier Love
As somebody who’s been into both bands for 25+ years: Streetlight folks will tell you that Catch 22 sucked when Tomas left, but honestly Catch may be my favorite ska band from that era.
I feel similarly about TBS with and without Nolan
Has anyone mentioned King Apparatus? They were incredible. The song, "Uninvited" is super technical and has some fun time signatures.
This one!
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How has no one recommended or requested anything from Title Fight yet? One of the best hardcore punk fusions ever!
We need another damn Streetlight album.
Idk if you only take suggestions from Patreon, but imma throw this band out again: Rocket From The Crypt. RFTC are the link between your classic rock background and your punk education. And man, if you love horns… (I recommend literally anything from Scream, Dracula, Scream.)
You should check out Ska Wars by Capdown
Consider reviewing Streetlight's remake of 1234 1234. The bass is very prominent in that recording
Catch 22 (along with Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Mad Caddies) were among the first Third Wave ska bands I heard. Streetlight Manifesto knock it up a notch, cloesr to skacore than these earlier bands, more similar to Capdown from the UK. If you check out Capdown, Cousin Cleotis is worth a listen.
Keasbey is the only song I can think of that has a sequal. The song "point counterpoint" on Streetlight - Everything Went Numb album literally is more from the "protagonist" of this song. Just fun and interesting writing by Toh Kay.
Streetlight’s version of that album is amazing
Since the nostalgic punks have taken over Low End's channel lately, how about checking out: Voodoo Glow Skulls - Delinquent Song. It's even got horns 😮
The album so good they re-recorded it has Streetlight
Id love to see what you think of the rerecord streetlight manifesto version.
They completely redid this album
Yes please DO listen more of Streetlight Manifesto songs. I recommend A Better Place A Better Time which is my all time favorite SM song ❤
The Toh Kay version never fails to make me cry
9mm and a Three Piece Suit would have been my choice off this album, but Keasbey Nights is great too.
I always felt that this song had a Paul Simon influence to it. Specifically Me and Julio down by the schoolyard.
This remind me of spring break '99.
"When they come for me I'll be sitting at my desk with a gun in my hand and a bullet proof vest, singing my my my how the time does fly when you know you're gonna die at the end of the night!" One of my favorite choruses of all time, it's so intense and fun haha
Good ska bands know how to effectively use a horn section
You should see them play point/counter point into keasbey nights back into point counter point
Tom Kalnoky is a genius
are we getting into Choking Victim, Link-80, Voodoo Glow Skulls era for Low End University?
All 3 are on my list!
I feel like someone should tell him that Catch 22 never broke up and became Streetlight, they're still a band and put out more albums!