Thoughts on this song?

[anhedonia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs

Just a song I found totally by random and it sort of hooked me and I looked it up.

Wondering what your thoughts are? :P

Could raise some interesting discussion, especially if you watch the video and do a little research on what they were trying to say.

[Dynash]

I remember this song. It doesn't seem like 3 mins long when you listen to it.

[Yun]

"This video is not available in your country." :\

[anhedonia]

"This video is not available in your country." :\

Whoops sorry, it's 'Handlebars' by Flobots.

[Nug]

I really like it, even though it's not really my kind of music. Are any of their other songs good?

[themoose]

Heard this song a couple of years ago, it's getting pretty big here. Great song if you listen to & understand the lyrics, but popularity is ruining it :( I'm so pretentious.

[notnamed]

This entire album is incredible. Ben sent the song to me a little while ago and I immediately obtained the album, and I recommend that anyone else who likes this song do the same. I rarely listen to hip-hop type music, but the simplicity of their music combined with their lyrical stylings is very interesting to me.

On the other hand, I saw a kid wearing a baseball cap backwards and a Hollister shirt talking about how this was his ringtone and it made me die a little bit inside.

[themoose]

This entire album is incredible. Ben sent the song to me a little while ago and I immediately obtained the album, and I recommend that anyone else who likes this song do the same. I rarely listen to hip-hop type music, but the simplicity of their music combined with their lyrical stylings is very interesting to me.

I wouldn't say incredible but yes, a very good album. Nice unique blend of classical with hip-hop. (We're talking about Fight With Tools, right?)


On the other hand, I saw a kid wearing a baseball cap backwards and a Hollister shirt talking about how this was his ringtone and it made me die a little bit inside.

Exactly my point with it's popularity ruining the song :p

[DavidsAwesome]

I really like this song. I haven't heard much from them, but I like the message behind this particular song.

[notnamed]

I wouldn't say incredible but yes, a very good album. Nice unique blend of classical with hip-hop. (We're talking about Fight With Tools, right?)


I suppose "incredible" is a bit much, but "more incredible than I expected it to be" - I was fully expecting them to be one-hit wonders, and they were not.

[Zombie]

I love this song. Simple as that

The lyrics are great and the beat is awesome :)

[Ben]

I like it.

But it's now on heavy rotation among the prep squad members, so I hear it too much blasting from the car next to me at stop lights.

That's when I turn on some angry music.

[anhedonia]

I really like it, even though it's not really my kind of music. Are any of their other songs good?

It's not really my sort of music, either (although I do listen to a bit of everything). I listened to another song of theirs, it was OK but didn't grab me. I might nab an album and give it a listen.


Heard this song a couple of years ago, it's getting pretty big here. Great song if you listen to & understand the lyrics, but popularity is ruining it :( I'm so pretentious.

I know what you mean. I think with a song like this, the more people that hear it, the better - but only if they understand it. It's NOT just another crappy, meaningless song - the message is one that if everyone listens and understands - and thinks about it for even a second, that can only be a good thing :).




On the other hand, I saw a kid wearing a baseball cap backwards and a Hollister shirt talking about how this was his ringtone and it made me die a little bit inside.

Mmm :/. It might be pretentious but I hate seeing that sort of thing too. All the.. I guess you guys would call them preppy? But all the b!tches at school used to listen to this once they decided stuff like Spice Girls weren't cool enough anymore. I guess they never understood that all the, uh, "angsty" music was directed at people like them who went out of their way every single day to make everyone else miserable because we had the wrong brand of shoes, or some sh!t. Making someone cry for petty crap like wearing their hair differently was a bonus to these people..


I was fully expecting them to be one-hit wonders, and they were not.

I was hoping they weren't. This song shows a great potential.


I like it.

But it's now on heavy rotation among the prep squad members, so I hear it too much blasting from the car next to me at stop lights.

That's when I turn on some angry music.

Yeah, it sucks when you find a good, unusual song and then the radio/people totally kill it.

[Nug]

What's the album called?

[themoose]

Fight With Tools. I think they had an earlier one too.

[Ben]

It was originally on "Platypus", although I like the "Fight With Tools" version better because it sounds angrier towards the end.

[Gayowulf]

I hate this song more than anything in the world.

that is all.

[Inviative]

*This video is not available in your country*

What the hell?? What kind of restriction does Youtube have?

[Dynash]

*This video is not available in your country*

What the hell?? What kind of restriction does Youtube have?
Copyright issues set by UMG - So YouTube has to follow.

[Inviative]

Copyright issues set by UMG - So YouTube has to follow.
Copyright issues are affected depending on country?? LOL

[Dynash]

Yeh, if UMG says only UK and Americans, and some other EU countries can view the content, YouTube has to only allow that IP range, relating to those countries. UMG owns the copyright, so they can say who gets the view it - and who doesn't. In this case, you can't. (Some videos by UMG can't be viewed in the UK either. - Take a look at the SouthPark or Hulu, most videos in that aren't avaliable to UK residents, USA only - since they say only US residents can view the content. - until they say otherwise that is)

[Inviative]

Yeh, if UMG says only UK and Americans, and some other EU countries can view the content, YouTube has to only allow that IP range, relating to those countries. UMG owns the copyright, so they can say who gets the view it - and who doesn't. In this case, you can't. (Some videos by UMG can't be viewed in the UK either. - Take a look at the SouthPark or Hulu, most videos in that aren't avaliable to UK residents, USA only - since they say only US residents can view the content. - until they say otherwise that is)
Hmm.. Thats a strange restriction which I never encounter before, maybe something new for me to learn haha