I'm really about to cry. This song came Out when I just was a Kid, at that age I could not remember the name of the band or the song either. For many years I was triying to put the littles details of the video that kept in My memories: the tapes, the car, the man with the glasses... Anything that would helps me to search the song, until one day I gave up of my search. A really funny coincidence brought me here and in this moment, you can say with no error: I'm the happiest man alive, what many good memories in just one song.
Me too Marco! I have been looking for this song for decades and I finally found it via Spotify/best of Semisonic / first song on that playlist was this song. Sigh of relief.
When I was a teenager, I paid a friend a king size Twix bar for a mix tape. This was on it. It's been one of my beloved songs ever since. I still have that tape.
@@phantomtennisasmr it was 1998. It took a while to find the tape. Here goes. Side A: Man or Astro Man Heavy/Collective Soul Run/Collective Soul Back Slider/Toadies New York City/They Might Be Giants Brick/Ben Folds Five Dollar Signs In Her Eyes/The Dead Milkmen Why Are You So Far (I requested that he put something from Pinkerton on the mix) Got You (Where I Want You)/The Flys Given To Fly/Pearl Jam Insomnia and the Hole/Live Alright (Enough)/Local H Never You Mind/Semisonic I Burn/Toadies 10 Crazy/Pearl Jam Side B: Man or Astro Man American Music/Violent Femmes I Come From the Water/Toadies Lead Pipe Cinch/Local H Heaven's Here/Collective Soul Johny/Violent Femmes Singing to Me/Semisonic Leech/Eve6 High/Toad the Wet Sproket Lullaby/The Cure The Rascal/Mighty Mighty Bosstones Untitled Sub Track/They Might Be Giants Hope it was worth the wait. I found it so.
"Feeling Strangely Fine" was one of the best underrated rock albums of 90s imho. I can honestly say I loved EVERY track on that album and knew all the lyrics, once upon a time. Its a pity more people dont know about these guys.
My mom always sang this to me before I went to bed back when I was younger. It was her favorite song when I was born and she’s always sort of known me by this song. It has such an importance and the song is just so beautiful and I’m so happy to always have a song like this to come back to if I ever need it
That's an amazing story!! I sing a song to my daughter everyday (Lullaby by Billy Joel) and she is three and knows it and loves it. I hope she always feels that way about the song that you do about this one. And if I have another kid I'm totally doing this with this song :-)
I remember back in 98 when this song played on the radio. Never could remember the band or the name of the song, but the keyboard melody stuck with me for over 25 years now. I'm really happy that I managed to find this song so many years later and still enjoy it.
Proud to say I grew up in the 90s when these bands were on the radio waves.I dont listen to radio anymore...I jus look for and listen bands with real talent!!
insane_assailant Sadly the talented musicians don't get any airplay on the radio these days (mostly) but you can still find a lot of great music if you search the internet.
Anyone else feel like giving this son a million views and then buying it on iTunes so that it influences the pop charts enough that it gets some airplay just to let the guys in Semisonic know we still love em and want to hear more of their amazing work?
this song will always bring me back to such a specific night in high school, a party at a friend's house during the summer, when i felt so carefree and happy. whenever i want to feel that way again, i listen to it and i'm right there at that party. the power of music is amazing.
I was always playing this in my walkman back then in highschool, and no one really knew or heard of the song yet since "Closing Time" was the more popular Semisonic song... ...and then MTV played the music video for the first time one weekend. ...Monday after, I heard it playing in the school canteen's loudspeaker, and the kids were liking it. I felt so cool at that moment. :-) ..one of the songs that eventually helped me get laid. Thank you Semisonic!
I had that keyboard riff stuck in my head off and on for about 12 years. I heard them perform this on tv at a winter X-games, I assume in 1998 or 1999. It took me till 2010 when I heard it in a grocery store and thankfully they have those apps now that recognize a song and tell you what it is. I finally solved where that keyboard riff was from after years of searching.
That would have been right around the time that Music for the Morning After was getting the respect it deserved. That and Feeling Strangely Fine still sound like they could come out today and hold their own.
2022 and still listening to this song. Back in the when this was released, it was only mtv or a casette tape or the local rock radio station who would play this song
I know this comment is super old, but that is something that kids now just wont ever understand. Being able to make a good mix tape could literally be the difference of landing that chick from science class as your girlfriend or not. What's the equivalent now? Sending them a link to your spotify playlist? Truly a lost art form... .
Got your tape and it changed my mind, Heard your voice in between the lines, Come around for another time, But nobody ever goes. All alone on the overpass, Wired and phoned to a heart of glass, Now I'm falling in love too fast, With you or the songs you chose, And all the stars play for me, Say the promise you long to keep. I can hear you singing to me in my sleep, I can hear you singing to me in my sleep. I've been living in your cassette, It's the modern equivalent, Singing up to a Capulet, On a balcony in your mind, In the city the lion sleeps, Pray to Sony my soul to keep, Were you ever so bright and sweet? Did you ever look so nice? And all the sounds dream for me, Mmm hmmm. I can hear you singing to me in my sleep, I can hear you singing to me in my sleep, I can hear you singing to me in my sleep, I can hear you singing to me in my sleep. And all the sounds dream for me, Dive me down in a soul so deep. I can hear you singing to me in my sleep, I can hear you singing to me in my sleep, I can hear you, I can hear you, I can hear you singing to me in my, I can hear you singing to me in my sleep.
Such an brilliant song. It's the embodiment of not just the 90's rock scene but also the general culture of the time. It's so hard to do that but these guys pull it off so effortlessly.
One of the greatest tunes of the 90's that explained a lot of feelings we were not really allowed to say back then. I still have a hard time expressing myself. Great tune.
my dad dedicated this song to me. im 38 he is about to turn 60 we rarely see each other as we live interstate and international for a bit too... always makes me feel special
I frigging love the lyric "I've been living in your cassette It's the modern equivalent Singing up to a Capulet On a balcony in your mind" for those who made mixed tapes in the 90's you can totally relate.
If you like semisonic, you should check out the band that 2 of the 3 gentlemen were in before this one.....trip shakespeare (Dan & Matt Wilson, John Munson & Elaine Harris)
My brother had the the album with this one it. But for some reason I was the bigger fan. All these years later I am still listening to this still strikes a chord with me. Bring back the 90's.
I've been listening to Semisonic since the mid to late 90s while cutting grass in the summer to earn money and even still to this day I think they're one of the most uniquely sounding bands I've ever listened to. I don't see any upcoming tour dates but I really hope to listen to them -- please come to Gainesville, Florida, or at least somewhere near!! Love you guys!
'I've been living in your cassette, It's the modern equivalent Singing up to a Capulet, On a balcony in your mind' - what happened to such lyrics these days?
alternative- balcony beach.. i blame not only the uprising of pop commercialization... but more so of steve urkle and that fuckin accordion, ie mass popularity of the sythephone... And from what i can remember, the possibkl. downfall of t-pain... and thus birthd the new age of electro americana pop noise..no?
How is it Kutztown University in 1998 and I remember this song closing time being played a lot and they're both very good songs... Never heard the whole album though so I found it in a little record store for a few bucks... I'm only three songs in, the first two I mentioned and a song called made to last. And I'm already thinking this is going to be a fantastic album
Reminds me of the day I bought it in 99' when I was a senior in high school driving over the Chuska Mountains on the New Mexico/Arizona border on the Navajo Reservation. This song is so underrated! I wish more new music was like this! Hoozho 'i shaa' to all! (Walk in Beauty)
I really like this song but what really fascinates me is the video. It's basically just guys in a room but the way they use selective framing is so cool.
This came out during my first year of highschool. This was just one year shy of American pie. These final few years of the 90's shaped my world and my life. It is thanks to music like this, and movies like American Pie, that I found my teens, my friends, and helped me become the bloke I have grown to be. Crap today just is not memerable.
This song deserved to be way bigger than it was.
Most of that album, & the band in general.
Yes indeed
Seconded.
@@cbacigaluppi Absolutely
A perfect piece of pop
I'm really about to cry. This song came Out when I just was a Kid, at that age I could not remember the name of the band or the song either. For many years I was triying to put the littles details of the video that kept in My memories: the tapes, the car, the man with the glasses... Anything that would helps me to search the song, until one day I gave up of my search. A really funny coincidence brought me here and in this moment, you can say with no error: I'm the happiest man alive, what many good memories in just one song.
It's not even a good song, What a shitty childhood.
You're a doubebag 'seth'
Me too Marco! I have been looking for this song for decades and I finally found it via Spotify/best of Semisonic / first song on that playlist was this song. Sigh of relief.
SethMcFartlane the song wasn’t about the guys childhood his life was the song is just used for memories
Cheers Marco, ffff Seth.
Still here in 2018, semisonic is still painfully underrated
Wait for 2020. That will be their big coming out party!
listening from Japan in 2020
Listening during a pandemic, and still one of the best albums I've ever heard top to bottom in my lifetime
Dan Wilson is still a fantastic songwriter, collaborating with tons of people: Andrew Bird, Weezer, Adele, Celine Dion, (Dixie) Chicks. Lots more.
... this band receives my 3 B AWARD --- BEYOND BLOODY BRILLIANT !!! ... the music is TIMELESS !!!
This is a brilliant song . Didn't get the recognition it so deserved .
Semisonic
1998
Universal Music Group
Geffen
Semisonic - Singing In My Sleep 1998
When I was a teenager, I paid a friend a king size Twix bar for a mix tape. This was on it. It's been one of my beloved songs ever since. I still have that tape.
Do you remember the rest of the tape? Actually curious what he put on it!
@@Revidescent84 Not all of it, but I will dig it up and post the track list.
Any word on that mixtape track list? I actually am curious what kind of mix a Twix got you in 2001.
@@phantomtennisasmr it was 1998.
It took a while to find the tape. Here goes.
Side A: Man or Astro Man
Heavy/Collective Soul
Run/Collective Soul
Back Slider/Toadies
New York City/They Might Be Giants
Brick/Ben Folds Five
Dollar Signs In Her Eyes/The Dead Milkmen
Why Are You So Far (I requested that he put something from Pinkerton on the mix)
Got You (Where I Want You)/The Flys
Given To Fly/Pearl Jam
Insomnia and the Hole/Live
Alright (Enough)/Local H
Never You Mind/Semisonic
I Burn/Toadies
10 Crazy/Pearl Jam
Side B:
Man or Astro Man
American Music/Violent Femmes
I Come From the Water/Toadies
Lead Pipe Cinch/Local H
Heaven's Here/Collective Soul
Johny/Violent Femmes
Singing to Me/Semisonic
Leech/Eve6
High/Toad the Wet Sproket
Lullaby/The Cure
The Rascal/Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Untitled Sub Track/They Might Be Giants
Hope it was worth the wait. I found it so.
So sad kids today will never experience anything like that
"Feeling Strangely Fine" was one of the best underrated rock albums of 90s imho.
I can honestly say I loved EVERY track on that album and knew all the lyrics, once upon a time.
Its a pity more people dont know about these guys.
Shit do I miss the 90's.
My mom always sang this to me before I went to bed back when I was younger. It was her favorite song when I was born and she’s always sort of known me by this song. It has such an importance and the song is just so beautiful and I’m so happy to always have a song like this to come back to if I ever need it
That's an amazing story!! I sing a song to my daughter everyday (Lullaby by Billy Joel) and she is three and knows it and loves it. I hope she always feels that way about the song that you do about this one. And if I have another kid I'm totally doing this with this song :-)
@@rtoblin Semisonic
1998
Universal Music Group
This clip has that 90´s feeling and color! What a time :)
brasileiro ??????
Along with the mall the only way to get clothing and DVD stores to get movies lol!
What a time!
*sigh
I would do anything to go back
I dearly miss this time
Still love semisonic in 2025!!
I remember back in 98 when this song played on the radio. Never could remember the band or the name of the song, but the keyboard melody stuck with me for over 25 years now. I'm really happy that I managed to find this song so many years later and still enjoy it.
"You don't love someone for their looks, their clothes or their fancy car, you love them because they sing a song only you can hear."
BEYOND BRILLIANT & TIMELESS !!!
Some of us are old enough to remember the power of winning someone over (or trying to) with a mixtape. Kinda miss that era.
@@NevrSilent Aww, I love that, so true❤
Yes ,both parties need to bring something to the relationship if not is considered a one night stand not love
Hi! I read this quote a week ago and it has stayed on my mind. Please tell me, where is it from? I love this song btw.
who's listening in 2024
Right here! Still a great song :)
Meeeeeee!!!! And my hubby!!!!
Yep!
Semisonic still singing it in my sleep in 2024
I always thought this was a better song than "Closing Time."
love you xxx
lol looking through my old (sometimes drunken foolish) comments n ai came over this one (not a pun) lol anyways x
Secret Smile is better than both.
@@krashd Not familiar with that one, but I’ll check it out. I also love their song “Basement Tapes.”
Same here
Proud to say I grew up in the 90s when these bands were on the radio waves.I dont listen to radio anymore...I jus look for and listen bands with real talent!!
Good luck with that these days...
insane_assailant Sadly the talented musicians don't get any airplay on the radio these days (mostly) but you can still find a lot of great music if you search the internet.
Amen!!!! Born 87 grew up in the damn 90'sssss!!!!!!
Semisonic, Fastball, Deep Blue Something........
My favorite underrated song of all time!!
It is excellent
I am always shocked at how many people do not know this one. It's one of my all time favorite songs.
@@WarriorVinyard Semisonic
@@dognadoes 1998
Universal Music Group
Anyone else feel like giving this son a million views and then buying it on iTunes so that it influences the pop charts enough that it gets some airplay just to let the guys in Semisonic know we still love em and want to hear more of their amazing work?
MUCHHH MOREEE
I'm for it. Their lyrics alone put them above 99% of all bands ever. Underrated is the right word.
who is Asspetty?
If only I was rich
this song will always bring me back to such a specific night in high school, a party at a friend's house during the summer, when i felt so carefree and happy. whenever i want to feel that way again, i listen to it and i'm right there at that party. the power of music is amazing.
We are roughly the same age. Class of 97 here. I miss the 90s
@@dougfield4472 1998
Semisonic
I was always playing this in my walkman back then in highschool, and no one really knew or heard of the song yet since "Closing Time" was the more popular Semisonic song...
...and then MTV played the music video for the first time one weekend.
...Monday after, I heard it playing in the school canteen's loudspeaker, and the kids were liking it.
I felt so cool at that moment.
:-)
..one of the songs that eventually helped me get laid.
Thank you Semisonic!
fdwafr aratattG
Penemuelish What was the song?? Secret Smile ? :D
akash kumar "Nobody knows it..."
:-)
Penemuelish hipster
g68unit ...before hipster had a name.
Took me 25 years to realize the numbers on his shirt keep changing!! (need decode, please)
Closing time was a good song.
This one is better, deserves to be rediscovered.
Love how Dan can hum in falsetto (and hit a note). Just a terrific singer!
feeling strangely fine is one of the greatest 90s albums ever!
Most underrated song ever.
It reminds me of a rainy night in Seattle searching for the love of your life.
It buckets down in bloody Seattle!
@@pauljordan4452 Semisonic
1998
Universal Music Group
This song kicks the ass out of Closing Time, this is the song that they should have gotten notoriety for.
True music lovers know how good this is.
That album is highly underrated.
So is your mum
@@Chief_Brody I mean, you're not wrong. She's a great lady.
@@cbacigaluppi 1998
Makes me think of a special someone from years gone by. Good memories.
Same mayne
This song is so much better than Closing Time.
The numbers on his shirt change throughout the video because they probably represent how long different songs on that cassette tape are .
Now this song has even more meaning to me. Thanks.
🤔
@@DevinDeCremer I agree!!
Now the ultimate question: What were the songs?
@@JustinKork the lyrics refer to some of the songs, I think.
We really were blessed in the 90's, music, films, culture. Brilliant.
Semisonic is no one-hit wonder!
One of the best bands without a doubt. He actually still writing songs for different people out there.He's VERY talented.
I bet he got fat paid for that Adele song
Absolutely fantastic band. Dan Wilson is a songwriting phenomenon. I'll keep watching and listening to these guys for a long time to come.
This song came on at Wegmans today and I forgot what day it was, when I was born, why I was there, and that this wasn't a Sloan song. Absolute gold!
I was 16 when this song came out, boy...those were the days
This has always been my favorite track from Feeling Strangely Fine.
Semisonic (and Dan's Solo/duets) are always a lovely blend of melody/lyric/Musical Statement!!!
I had that keyboard riff stuck in my head off and on for about 12 years. I heard them perform this on tv at a winter X-games, I assume in 1998 or 1999. It took me till 2010 when I heard it in a grocery store and thankfully they have those apps now that recognize a song and tell you what it is. I finally solved where that keyboard riff was from after years of searching.
What's the app that you used called?
+Sinnamon_Roll Shazam.
thanks :D
Me too it was killing me... i was able to play it on piano but nobody knew it! then I heard it in the grocery store
Enchurito It was one of my favourite songs in 2000's.....Never forget...
where are this kind of music? please God bring it back
very underrated band. all of their work was fantastic. saw them live in Lawrence, KS in 2001 with Pete Yorn. Great show
That would have been right around the time that Music for the Morning After was getting the respect it deserved. That and Feeling Strangely Fine still sound like they could come out today and hold their own.
2022 and still listening to this song. Back in the when this was released, it was only mtv or a casette tape or the local rock radio station who would play this song
:: The long lost art of the mix-tape cassette...
I know this comment is super old, but that is something that kids now just wont ever understand. Being able to make a good mix tape could literally be the difference of landing that chick from science class as your girlfriend or not. What's the equivalent now? Sending them a link to your spotify playlist? Truly a lost art form... .
@@Jester_The_Jynxster the closest thing they could compare, would be a TH-cam Playlist.
That melody has been stuck in my head for years but I couldn't remember the artist or song name! Classic 🎉
Got your tape and it changed my mind,
Heard your voice in between the lines,
Come around for another time,
But nobody ever goes.
All alone on the overpass,
Wired and phoned to a heart of glass,
Now I'm falling in love too fast,
With you or the songs you chose,
And all the stars play for me,
Say the promise you long to keep.
I can hear you singing to me in my sleep,
I can hear you singing to me in my sleep.
I've been living in your cassette,
It's the modern equivalent,
Singing up to a Capulet,
On a balcony in your mind,
In the city the lion sleeps,
Pray to Sony my soul to keep,
Were you ever so bright and sweet?
Did you ever look so nice?
And all the sounds dream for me, Mmm hmmm.
I can hear you singing to me in my sleep,
I can hear you singing to me in my sleep,
I can hear you singing to me in my sleep,
I can hear you singing to me in my sleep.
And all the sounds dream for me,
Dive me down in a soul so deep.
I can hear you singing to me in my sleep,
I can hear you singing to me in my sleep,
I can hear you, I can hear you,
I can hear you singing to me in my,
I can hear you singing to me in my sleep.
Semisonic
1998
Universal Music Group
❤
the 90s were the best not just for the music ... life was so much simpler ... no fkin twitter, facebook, handphones, blackberry's, internet ...
2022 and this song still melt my heart💚💜
semisonic is the best band you never heard of
Such an brilliant song. It's the embodiment of not just the 90's rock scene but also the general culture of the time. It's so hard to do that but these guys pull it off so effortlessly.
God it was good being in High School during the 90's!!
This and 'Closing Time' are two of the best songs to come out of the nineties. For a little-known band, they left a pretty big mark.
chemistry ❤
One of the greatest tunes of the 90's that explained a lot of feelings we were not really allowed to say back then. I still have a hard time expressing myself.
Great tune.
A tune that is timeless and never gets old nor dated.
no no no, every 30 years or so theres a musical revolution, its been eh...20 so far right? just another 10 years give or take =]
7 more years
Brillant band,one of the best from the 90s.
my dad dedicated this song to me. im 38 he is about to turn 60 we rarely see each other as we live interstate and international for a bit too... always makes me feel special
Found this song because of the album Closing Time was on. But this song deserves so much recognition on its own. So beautiful.
I always thought they were Canadian. They had that 90's sound from there.
very underrated song. Probably Semisonic's very best track.
Todays music is missing what this band has an abundance of,,,,,, talent!
By far their best song
I frigging love the lyric
"I've been living in your cassette
It's the modern equivalent
Singing up to a Capulet
On a balcony in your mind"
for those who made mixed tapes in the 90's you can totally relate.
How have I just discovered this band? They are great!
If you like semisonic, you should check out the band that 2 of the 3 gentlemen were in before this one.....trip shakespeare (Dan & Matt Wilson, John Munson & Elaine Harris)
My favorite love song of the 90's.
Jesus, cassette tapes ... haven't seen them for a while ...
Agreed who needs them any more?????
I’m here because they played this song on the radio at my local Panda Express today.
Love this song
Great band and some classic stuff indeed
we all know the song is perfect, but the video is also tremendous and deserves more credit. What a great aesthetic in that first portion.
I really miss this song back in the 90's from the airwaves of NU107 home of new rock. Ohh man.. high school days.
My brother had the the album with this one it. But for some reason I was the bigger fan. All these years later I am still listening to this still strikes a chord with me. Bring back the 90's.
I've been listening to Semisonic since the mid to late 90s while cutting grass in the summer to earn money and even still to this day I think they're one of the most uniquely sounding bands I've ever listened to. I don't see any upcoming tour dates but I really hope to listen to them -- please come to Gainesville, Florida, or at least somewhere near!! Love you guys!
@@thevindex I'll check them out, thank you!
Maan...This Song will forever be one of my personal Fav songs....😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓
'I've been living in your cassette, It's the modern equivalent
Singing up to a Capulet, On a balcony in your mind' - what happened to such lyrics these days?
+Patrick Lau Dan Wilson (the singer) actually still writes songs behind the scenes. He co-wrote some stuff with Adele
+Patrick Lau I bet you love Starbucks.
+Patrick Lau I whip my hair back and forth, that's what happened.
The 2010's happened...
alternative- balcony beach.. i blame not only the uprising of pop commercialization... but more so of steve urkle and that fuckin accordion, ie mass popularity of the sythephone... And from what i can remember, the possibkl. downfall of t-pain... and thus birthd the new age of electro americana pop noise..no?
This song deserves more views!
1998 I started to street skateboarding.......now im 34.......shit I miss those days!!!!!
Wow !! This song is better than ever in 2024 !! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😃😃😃😃😃 2:32
God this music hits me like a truck. I am 17 again. I miss the 90's so much. Graduated in 1999. Another time indeed...
Stick this song on your minidisk and boom you've got a time machine right there.
I had this on my minidisc. highfiver!
Omg those memories !!
What memories
This song makes me cry indeed
Gracias al cielo crecí oyendo música como ésta...
Amen amen, aleluya amen!
How is it Kutztown University in 1998 and I remember this song closing time being played a lot and they're both very good songs... Never heard the whole album though so I found it in a little record store for a few bucks... I'm only three songs in, the first two I mentioned and a song called made to last. And I'm already thinking this is going to be a fantastic album
Still watching this in 2016
2017, now.
welp, 2018.
lovely 90's i miss so much, i gotta go to see you when i've a time machine.
Seventeen years later, and i'm still sad that they never became a household name :(
BEST UNDERRATED SONG EVER!!!!
my favourite,secret smile was great too
any time I here this it brings me back to college
Reminds me of the day I bought it in 99' when I was a senior in high school driving over the Chuska Mountains on the New Mexico/Arizona border on the Navajo Reservation. This song is so underrated! I wish more new music was like this! Hoozho 'i shaa' to all! (Walk in Beauty)
this is basically the plot to High Fidelity in song form
Well now I need to go watch that movie
he really has such a nerdy gentle look but i'm here for it
" I've been living in your cassette.
It's the modern eqivalent
of singing up to a Capulet on a balcony in your mind."
I really like this song but what really fascinates me is the video. It's basically just guys in a room but the way they use selective framing is so cool.
One of the most underrated songs ever!!!!!
23 years ago.
Heard this overhead in a Frys grocery store. I had forgotten all about it. Immediately pulled it up on YT when I got out to my truck. Thank you Frys!
Angie we went our separate ways but i hope you see this one day and smile. Never forget that a part of me will always love you. -Your MD Crab 🦀
This came out during my first year of highschool. This was just one year shy of American pie. These final few years of the 90's shaped my world and my life. It is thanks to music like this, and movies like American Pie, that I found my teens, my friends, and helped me become the bloke I have grown to be. Crap today just is not memerable.
when i was 10, i know how to play the tune by piano. i still love the song after 2 decades, although i don't play piano anymore
Hadn’t thought about this song for 20 years, suddenly needed to hear it at 4AM.