We were all rocking out to grunge during this time and thoroughly enjoying that and then these guys just kind of came out of nowhere with this awesome beatnik style of music and zoom zip I was a soul coughing fan! And still am! ✌️💜
These guys are insane in the coolest way possible. It has sort of jazzy, free form, avant garde, silly aspects... but none of them too intrusive to make it unlistenable. At the core of it is an amazing and crisp bass and drum duet that is the glue that holds the madness together. Really great, glad I found out more about this band. All I knew was super bon bon before this.
I fell in love with this band from the moment I heard "True Dreams Of Wichita" for the first time!! It was one of those rare songs that I got addicted to and could listen to it on infinite repeat without ever tiring of it. It became a significant part of the soundtrack to my life back in the post-Grunge mid '90s. Every time that I hear it later in life, in my mind I am instantly transported back to my early 20s and where I was and what I was doing in my life back in that time period!
This is SOOOOOOOOO AWESOME to see!!!! Soul Coughing filled a significant yet unsuspecting place in my music life that I would have never known was missing if I hadn’t found it, being a chem-appreciative teen marching band/snowboarding nerd in the 90’s. Totally funky, absurd, thought provoking, and such SICK SICK groove. They’re like a whole vibe, and we are so damned lucky to be here to experience it💜 Does anybody else’s vocabulary among friends include various Soul Coughing lyrics? Because mine does, literally all the time… “GET ON TO THE BUS!!” “The 5% Nation of *ad lib*” , “I’m rollin’Im rollin’ I’m rollin’”, and plenty of others…. Would feel amaze to know we aren’t alone!
he is so good, and it’s unique in like a subtle jazz type of complexity that someone who has never played a beat on a drumset could never fully appreciate or identify the difficulty and how impressive it is to produce such compatible jazzy percussion throughout the transitions
Soul Coughing is one of my favorite bands, Down to This, "you grab the ankles and i'll get the wrists.."..getting rid of a body. Listen to this jazz, rock, funk.....
Maybe the best live recording I have heard yet on UA-cam. It's the only one so far that properly demonstrates the booming bass. Most of the other recordings have the bass way back in the mix.
A whole year since this was posted, and I can confidently say I’ve watched this video every day since It’s upload day. It’s very difficult to describe how awesome this is.
they all got along, mike doughty hated everyone, you can go and read any interview and nobody has any ill will towards him or whatever he does now, yet all he does whenever someone talks to him about it or mentions soul coughing at all is bitch for an hour and threaten to leave
@@bobtis apparently they've all made amends as of 2022 and sebastian has played bass for him on some solo gigs (videos of which are on youtube)- it would be fucking great if they could get their shit together and make music again, they had a really unique sound and it blew my fucking mind when I first heard them as a kid, even people I know that have never heard them always end up thinking they're amazing when they finally listen to them.
@@EricHaugen four times at 1st Ave in Minneapolis in the 90’s. Mike always said it was his favorite venue outside of hometown New York. Best times of my life. Early 20’s for me. Where that hot tub time machine?
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been watching videos of this performance for years with the audio out of sync with the video but this is AMAZING!
@@enochronnie8312 I do not but I highly recommend getting a big ass antenna if you're anywhere near broadcast stations. I canceled cable twelve years ago.
i thought the same thing almost immediately when i saw him rocking out and really grooving, then his quick “queen bee barbecue” response to the question of what kinda barbecue it is just reinforced my first impressions😂. i don’t get it, but i like it
Live listened to this performance probably a dozen times and I thought the list of people they wanted to think was just random words / inside jokes only after googling did I realize they were all bands... Sunny Day Real Estate, Cibo Mato, Drink Me, Low, Randy K(?), Shudder to Think, Cop Shoot Cop
Randy Kaye was the guy who signed Soul Coughing in 93', RIP. Funny thing about Cibo Matto, they hadn't even put out their first album yet (2 years later). Sebastian ended up recording bass on their second album.
Thank you a million times over - this was nothing short of incredible and helped to complete my 20+ year SC 'journey' - or perhaps helped to start it :)
I googled cacophony, yeah that's a good description of their sound! I always thought their music was rhythmic and un rhythmic somehow at the same time. I think it's the unusual drum timing or something that has kept me listening. That and the oddball lyrics.
“what kinda barbecue is that, Sebastian?” “queen bee barbecue” ) (i think?) i thought he said green bean barbecue the first time i heard it and it made me let out an amused “wtf” kind of chuckle😂
We actually filmed about 8 songs. The songs we've uploaded are the ones broadcasted in 1994. Have to check for the raw tapes, would say we still have them as our archive is pretty much intact.
Mike Doughty put out a book in 2012 about it, "The Book of Drugs". It's in great detail of the disfunction of the band members individually and also Doughty himself growing up with an abusive household and being eventually a junkie. It was a bad marriage basically that he felt he couldnt' get out of, being the young kid vs. the other established band members and the "equal" royalties they wanted, though Doughty claims most of the songs were his brainchild. The stories are hilarious and also unsettling. But I'm glad it's out there. A good read regardless.
It’s funny. I’ve had Ruby Vroom for decades and never once seen them live or looked up live videos. But for some reason I pictured a WAAAY different front man. I guess in my head I always envisioned a balding guy in his 30s that drinks coffee while doing slam poetry in some bad in downtown Chicago white slum area. I always envisioned someone who looks and acts like David Cross
They were much better as a band instead of the acoustic guitar bullshit he's doing now. I realize he "wrote" the songs, but it's much better as a band.
This band just looks sooooo bored playing together…. No energy, no psssion, no flow or drip…don’t listen to their music, because if they grab your ankle, you’re done!
YES! THEY’RE BACK!
Hell Ya
I will be there opening night in San Diego.
Saw them last nite in MN. Sounded good but pretty low energy compared to old days
Well they are older now. They sounded great to me!
We were all rocking out to grunge during this time and thoroughly enjoying that and then these guys just kind of came out of nowhere with this awesome beatnik style of music and zoom zip I was a soul coughing fan! And still am! ✌️💜
Yup. Great comment! My thoughts exactly!!
@@davidchenault3462 Thanks David! ✌️
These guys are insane in the coolest way possible. It has sort of jazzy, free form, avant garde, silly aspects... but none of them too intrusive to make it unlistenable. At the core of it is an amazing and crisp bass and drum duet that is the glue that holds the madness together. Really great, glad I found out more about this band. All I knew was super bon bon before this.
they are always on my playlist.
My man, imagine watching this live 25 years ago
@@jonathanboswell2336 did four times at 1st Ave in Minneapolis. Was excellent every time. 👌
I fell in love with this band from the moment I heard "True Dreams Of Wichita" for the first time!! It was one of those rare songs that I got addicted to and could listen to it on infinite repeat without ever tiring of it. It became a significant part of the soundtrack to my life back in the post-Grunge mid '90s. Every time that I hear it later in life, in my mind I am instantly transported back to my early 20s and where I was and what I was doing in my life back in that time period!
i think these are one the best words used to describe Soul coughing, it was truly madness held together by lighting in a bottle.
This is SOOOOOOOOO AWESOME to see!!!! Soul Coughing filled a significant yet unsuspecting place in my music life that I would have never known was missing if I hadn’t found it, being a chem-appreciative teen marching band/snowboarding nerd in the 90’s. Totally funky, absurd, thought provoking, and such SICK SICK groove. They’re like a whole vibe, and we are so damned lucky to be here to experience it💜 Does anybody else’s vocabulary among friends include various Soul Coughing lyrics? Because mine does, literally all the time… “GET ON TO THE BUS!!” “The 5% Nation of *ad lib*” , “I’m rollin’Im rollin’ I’m rollin’”, and plenty of others…. Would feel amaze to know we aren’t alone!
I can remember listening to this song doing my income taxes in the parking lot of the my library,
I would also like to thank Sunny Day Real Estate for being so damn sunny.
So excited that they're going to tour again!
Absolutely!
My absolute favorite drummer.
Yuval is like Bill Bruford or Keith Moon or John Bonham whom you can immediately identify by his drum sound.
he is so good, and it’s unique in like a subtle jazz type of complexity that someone who has never played a beat on a drumset could never fully appreciate or identify the difficulty and how impressive it is to produce such compatible jazzy percussion throughout the transitions
8,374 years from now these lyrics are unearthed and deemed a prophecy.
Yuval, so under appreciated.
Saw them last night at Brooklyn Steel, prior time in July '97 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. Such an amazing band. I hope they keep going.
One of the best bands EVER!
Love this man's ♥️. He took the soulevator to the mezzanine fo sho!
love his voice
His comic timing is great - "for children around the world to be happy...that's my special wish" like it's a fuckin Hallmark movie.
you’re easily amused and that’s okay
@@allegorx58 what a condescending thing to say
This is like the quintessential art pop ensemble.
alternative rap, thats hgow i see them
Soul Coughing is one of my favorite bands, Down to This, "you grab the ankles and i'll get the wrists.."..getting rid of a body. Listen to this jazz, rock, funk.....
"And I'll take the risk"
Maybe the best live recording I have heard yet on UA-cam. It's the only one so far that properly demonstrates the booming bass. Most of the other recordings have the bass way back in the mix.
A whole year since this was posted, and I can confidently say I’ve watched this video every day since It’s upload day. It’s very difficult to describe how awesome this is.
Man I’m glad this was on the archives website because now I have this on CD
@@9vbattery297 I want children around the world to be happy. what a dose of energy.
Damn, they were so good. I hope they still got it as I'm planning on catching one of the shows (if I can get tickets).
Music peaked in this era
Great post thank you. These guys were great loved their style. Too bad they didn't get along.
The best sex was always a wreck of a relationship. Seems bands run the same. Glad they made the tunes though. Cheers
they all got along, mike doughty hated everyone, you can go and read any interview and nobody has any ill will towards him or whatever he does now, yet all he does whenever someone talks to him about it or mentions soul coughing at all is bitch for an hour and threaten to leave
@@InfiniteRhombus well I must have dreamt this but I thought I saw him say, well it was my fault. How were those guys supposed to deal with an addict
@@bobtis apparently they've all made amends as of 2022 and sebastian has played bass for him on some solo gigs (videos of which are on youtube)- it would be fucking great if they could get their shit together and make music again, they had a really unique sound and it blew my fucking mind when I first heard them as a kid, even people I know that have never heard them always end up thinking they're amazing when they finally listen to them.
@@InfiniteRhombus yeah they are one of my favorites. No one really sounds like them.
My favorite band from the '90s.
Please post more soul coughing! We want more!!!
I thought I will never see Soul Coughing in such a high quality again... excellent video.
Genius
Jazz-Punk is the Word who comes in Mind
You're getting there! ❤
Beat punk.
Yuval Gabay taught me what “groove” was.
YEAH! What fine energy!
I watched these guys live in the mid 90’s and it was an incredible show! La Luna- Portland, OR.
I was there, it was amazing!
@@EricHaugen Everyone in the crowd was doing Mike’s arm dances with him😆
@@4stomper right? It's still at the top of the list of concerts I've been to.
@@EricHaugen four times at 1st Ave in Minneapolis in the 90’s. Mike always said it was his favorite venue outside of hometown New York. Best times of my life. Early 20’s for me. Where that hot tub time machine?
Love the shout out to Cop Shoot Cop. Great band.
I LIVE HIS WISH🤌❣️🥰
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been watching videos of this performance for years with the audio out of sync with the video but this is AMAZING!
I know I'm quite off topic but do anybody know a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?
@@enochronnie8312 I do not but I highly recommend getting a big ass antenna if you're anywhere near broadcast stations. I canceled cable twelve years ago.
And Cleveland loves them back!
Mike kills me! 😹☘️🏴🐊👍🏿
Damn the band is locked in@
Goddam the bass player seems like a such a cool dude
i thought the same thing almost immediately when i saw him rocking out and really grooving, then his quick “queen bee barbecue” response to the question of what kinda barbecue it is just reinforced my first impressions😂. i don’t get it, but i like it
How could they be so flaming hot yet ice cold?
This is amazing. Just finding it. Been a fan for a long time. Thanks for posting.
Sebastian's really feelin' it lol.
Love the random quotes from Airplane at the end!
Live listened to this performance probably a dozen times and I thought the list of people they wanted to think was just random words / inside jokes only after googling did I realize they were all bands... Sunny Day Real Estate, Cibo Mato, Drink Me, Low, Randy K(?), Shudder to Think, Cop Shoot Cop
Randy Kaye was the guy who signed Soul Coughing in 93', RIP. Funny thing about Cibo Matto, they hadn't even put out their first album yet (2 years later). Sebastian ended up recording bass on their second album.
please upload more from this session!
@2metersessions , will you guys be releasing the rest of the Soul Coughing session?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA mazing band.
Thank you
Thank you a million times over - this was nothing short of incredible and helped to complete my 20+ year SC 'journey' - or perhaps helped to start it :)
Just starting for mee
Fantastic post! Have not seen this session with /I/this/I/ fidelity.
This is so fucking great. All hail the Gen X-er experimental not giving a fuckness.
I can’t believe the Breaking Bad fandom hasn’t glommed onto “Down to This”
I see a thousand screaming clip compliations
Just ridiculous. How do you keep that cacophony in rhythm with itself. Live, even. Thirty years later it still sounds cutting-edge.
I googled cacophony, yeah that's a good description of their sound! I always thought their music was rhythmic and un rhythmic somehow at the same time. I think it's the unusual drum timing or something that has kept me listening. That and the oddball lyrics.
Their random sound is meticulously planned out.
"Bus to Beelzebub"
BABE THE BLUE OX SHIRT
❤🙂🎉🥁🌟🎵 love it
“what kinda barbecue is that, Sebastian?”
“queen bee barbecue” ) (i think?)
i thought he said green bean barbecue the first time i heard it and it made me let out an amused “wtf” kind of chuckle😂
LOL years before they were an AMAZING band 😹🙏🏼🙈🔥⚔️🍊🤷🏻👹☘️❤️🎭⚡️⚜️🎂™️🤞🏽🏃🏻👋🏻
WHERE'S THE REST??W PLEASE! WE NEED THEM!
THE SHIT! STILL!
Fresh boom bap imma touch it
sebastian's faces are great, i see why they thought of themselves as a live band
Sebastion is killing ir!
Down to This is such a hard song, mmmh
Babe the Blue Ox was a fantastic band as well.
7:33 Mike with the Airplane! reference
Yuval Gabay’s snare drum sound is the greatest snare sound in the history music.
It truly is.
yeah well too bad about his disgusting pro genocide attitude towards palestinians
@@crazydavey1983 you are out of your damn mind.
@@sebastiansteinberg7287 israeli zionists are out of their damn mind. And no, im not an anti semite.
7:25 - Airplane! Jive talk! Cut me some slack, jack.
Do you guys have any more songs from this sessions? Apart from "Screenwriters' Blues", we would love to see it
We actually filmed about 8 songs. The songs we've uploaded are the ones broadcasted in 1994. Have to check for the raw tapes, would say we still have them as our archive is pretty much intact.
@@2metersessies That's really awesome! I hope someday we'll get to see it!
@@2metersessies Please, please keep us posted if you do! Your uploads are by far the best live Soul Coughing videos I've seen!
@@2metersessies AWESOME!
@@2metersessies would be amazing to see them.
thank you!
Man...does anybody know exactly why these guys broke up? Cause they were awesome!!
Mike Doughty put out a book in 2012 about it, "The Book of Drugs". It's in great detail of the disfunction of the band members individually and also Doughty himself growing up with an abusive household and being eventually a junkie. It was a bad marriage basically that he felt he couldnt' get out of, being the young kid vs. the other established band members and the "equal" royalties they wanted, though Doughty claims most of the songs were his brainchild. The stories are hilarious and also unsettling. But I'm glad it's out there. A good read regardless.
Have you guys got the full session on video? I would pay actual money to see it.
It’s funny. I’ve had Ruby Vroom for decades and never once seen them live or looked up live videos.
But for some reason I pictured a WAAAY different front man.
I guess in my head I always envisioned a balding guy in his 30s that drinks coffee while doing slam poetry in some bad in downtown Chicago white slum area.
I always envisioned someone who looks and acts like David Cross
"Cashier toothpick stuck in the ground ".... how on earth did they come that!?!?!?
the first song in this is "uh, zoom zip", and then down to this plays
Thanks!
Down to This starts at 3:20.
3:43 Sampling Smokestack Lightning by Howlin Wolf makes them 100X cooler
And the Andrews Sisters. And Robert Fripp!
una locura
Abrahams and the Zuckers bound to get some royalties after all the Airplane quotin' 😉
I don't know if they get it or dont.
3:04 lol, he is imitating with his voice the drum that imitates voice (cuica)
7:04 Industrial Penetrating Oil
i hear ragga/dancehall vibes at 1:36
His voice has a Trent reznor sound.
You get the ankles and I'll get the wrists ...
Fuck yeah Cibo Matto!
What kind of BBQ?
airplane JIVE references... ha
this nigga said "recombination and viacom safeway" 💀💀💀💀
Alsof het gisteren, herinner me de sessie nog heel goed.
They don't make them like they fucking used to....
skeet up stunt the runt smoking buddah blunts
6:48 Whats the sample?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Sit_Under_the_Apple_Tree_(with_Anyone_Else_but_Me)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokestack_Lightning
@@matlefflerschulman Thanks, but I was referring to the stuff Mike was lip syncing.
ua-cam.com/video/nJq7J2uzSlc/v-deo.html
jesaron Seriously thanks. I’ve tried searching for this for months.
They were much better as a band instead of the acoustic guitar bullshit he's doing now. I realize he "wrote" the songs, but it's much better as a band.
Where is this guy now?
Mike Doughty is still performing solo.
This is where Mr Doughty is at the moment. ua-cam.com/channels/9LjH_c-_Wpu0ZlxbO6KJ4Q.html
We combination viacom safewY.......yea!!!! 😆 why????!!!! I dont know!!!!!! But Yeah!!!!!! 😆 🤪😜
Money
menomenon
nanah, nanana
This band just looks sooooo bored playing together….
No energy, no psssion, no flow or drip…don’t listen to their music, because if they grab your ankle, you’re done!
Perceiving music as a visual phenomena is seriously skewed.