I wanna drink a beer with everyone who knows this song. The fact that this was released in 72 melts my mind, you can hear the Modern Lovers echo in bands like The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, early Arctic Monkeys, I could go on. Everyone talks about how the VU inspired the Modern Lovers, but we should also talk about how influential they are in their own right. They were revolutionary
@@dholwaycongrats on being technically correct. if you wanna nitpick; recorded 1972, first issued 1976. Still quite influential on the same generation of bands the op mentioned.
I've been to Boston three times and every time Jonathan's music is my soundtrack. Before you know it I'm in love with Massachusetts and I wanna rock at the Government Center with the radio on. Needless to say I love this video.
Boston's own Velvet Underground. I was in college in Bean Town from 76 to 80. I have never seen such an explosion of new bands playing original music like that since. I wish I knew where I stashed my trove of Xeroxed band posters. We used to travel back and forth to NYC and I swear the scene was better in Boston.
The band's drummer is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He left in the mid 70s and ended up in another Boston band called The Cars. Maybe you've heard of them.
I have herd soo many of these guys song and have been trying to find them for sooooooooooo long and this popped up on my recommended and I recenized the name
Sehr herzlichen Dank für diese geniale Aufnahme!!! Modern Lovers aus dem Jahre 1972, den kannte ich nicht & das kommt nicht mehr so oft vor. Danke fürs Hochladen.
I was talking with my daughter last summer. We used to live in/around Boston until 1995. She told me Road Runner was a favorite song of hers, which I didn't know since she was born in the 80's. We went back and listened to the whole record and I was thinking this was the first "rock Opera" if you will. The theme of sanity/insanity, love and rejection flows through all the songs wrapped in a vision of the world (Boston) in the 1970's. But still, the record is timeless. Isn't it. We have not escaped the insanity of the 70's. Just reliving in a different form in the 20's
Beautiful. This version and the montage of period home movies. The images are dead on authentic from where the song refers to and when it was made; end of the 60s - beginning the first years of 70s. This striking, wholly original vision & voice was a Godsend
A long time favourite song & the footage used here is perfect. Crazy about everything here, very well done!! Thanks for uploading this, really made my morning :)
How droll. I was commenting on a different singer and an English village. However after this one coming up I did wonder, why so adenoidal and then of 'vast conspiracy'?
Demonstrably years ahead of their time; this (and the rest of the classic bebut album) sounds so 'punk' it's uncanny. A pity the 1971-72-73 sessions weren't publicly released until 1976, but then by that time 'The Modern Lovers' sounded thoroughly contemporary with the Heartbreakers, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, the Sex Pistols, and the Voidoids et al. Monumental album, great song.
"The modern world is not so bad, not like the students say." Ever since this song was made, and even back a few years from that, the propagandizing of the schools has been inimical to anybody daring to say, as Jonathan does, "I'm in love with the USA." His proposed solution, dropping out, is as good advice today as it was back then.
I wanna drink a beer with everyone who knows this song. The fact that this was released in 72 melts my mind, you can hear the Modern Lovers echo in bands like The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, early Arctic Monkeys, I could go on. Everyone talks about how the VU inspired the Modern Lovers, but we should also talk about how influential they are in their own right. They were revolutionary
I'm ready for that beer
let's drink then!!
Well, it wasn't released in 1972.
@@dholwaycongrats on being technically correct. if you wanna nitpick; recorded 1972, first issued 1976. Still quite influential on the same generation of bands the op mentioned.
Drinking a Hamm's beer right now...
One of my all time favourite ever Record's. This album was hugely inspirational to the early Punk Scene.
Definitely that garage band punk feel
It’s 1968 to 2017. Cheers. They rocked it.
I've been to Boston three times and every time Jonathan's music is my soundtrack. Before you know it I'm in love with Massachusetts and I wanna rock at the Government Center with the radio on. Needless to say I love this video.
Boston's own Velvet Underground. I was in college in Bean Town from 76 to 80. I have never seen such an explosion of new bands playing original music like that since. I wish I knew where I stashed my trove of Xeroxed band posters. We used to travel back and forth to NYC and I swear the scene was better in Boston.
The Velvet's influence in Boston in the end of 60's and begging of the 70's was evident
Thundertrain.... DMZ... Real Kids... Nervous Eaters... Willie Alexander...
@@gojohnnygojohnnyand that just scratches the surface
@@gojohnnygojohnny Don't forget the Destroyed...amazing years ahead of Nirvana.
@@foundationdressage Were they from the 1970s also? Never heard of them ... any records released?
The band's drummer is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He left in the mid 70s and ended up in another Boston band called The Cars. Maybe you've heard of them.
The band's keyboard player is also in the Rock Hall. His name is Jerry Harrison and he later played in Talking Heads.
I have herd soo many of these guys song and have been trying to find them for sooooooooooo long and this popped up on my recommended and I recenized the name
he was 21 when he sang this!
I was only familiar with the Pablo Picasso song… but ho-Lee crap, I love this one to! I should definitely dive deeper.
Love the vintage footage of Boston.
Thumping. Still weird to get head around this is like 1972.
Sehr herzlichen Dank für diese geniale Aufnahme!!! Modern Lovers aus dem Jahre 1972, den kannte ich nicht & das kommt nicht mehr so oft vor. Danke fürs Hochladen.
some of the greatest lyrics ever written - a great story - I've been playing this song since the seventies and never grow tired of it
I was talking with my daughter last summer. We used to live in/around Boston until 1995. She told me Road Runner was a favorite song of hers, which I didn't know since she was born in the 80's. We went back and listened to the whole record and I was thinking this was the first "rock Opera" if you will. The theme of sanity/insanity, love and rejection flows through all the songs wrapped in a vision of the world (Boston) in the 1970's. But still, the record is timeless. Isn't it. We have not escaped the insanity of the 70's. Just reliving in a different form in the 20's
Aye, mate, you another one of those fans from those days? Crazy they only had about 20 fans at their shows too, eh?
Boston was so different in those days...Modern Lovers really nail the sound and the feeling.
Natick's finest. He really was straight. Nobody else was in the 70's.
3:29 RIP Boston Phoenix. what a great time capsule this video is.
Glad to see there's still some love for these guys. They eere great!
damn,, 1972 Boston, my stomping ground, any one of those kids could have been me
The footage you put together is so fitting for this track! Nice work 🙌
Beautiful. This version and the montage of period home movies. The images are dead on authentic from where the song refers to and when it was made; end of the 60s - beginning the first years of 70s. This striking, wholly original vision & voice was a Godsend
Just brilliant in every way! Timeless.
Love It All the Way.....Modern Loverssssss Hey Hey Hey.....Modern Today
A long time favourite song & the footage used here is perfect. Crazy about everything here, very well done!! Thanks for uploading this, really made my morning :)
Easily on of the greatest songs ever recorded.
O
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Great videos -- and great choices of music to accompany!
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame DOESN'T DESERVE JONATHAN RICHMAN AND THE MODERN LOVERS.
love all this old footage too
Timeless tune 🎶
Wow, amazing - the footage is priceless, thanks a million!
Jonathan .....👍👍👍👍👍
Why did this just come up again. Bought in the village after stopped touring?
How droll. I was commenting on a different singer and an English village. However after this one coming up I did wonder, why so adenoidal and then of 'vast conspiracy'?
it's so hard to find modern world live ..
Great stuff....!
It's a very good video.
Line um up!!..class!
Top 10 album.
Ice machines never change.
FAb!!
Definite velvets influence on this one.
IMO they were at their best when wearing Velvet's infulence on their sleeve
Different than Velvets. By far.
Produced by John Cale.
IMHO moree Stooges influence on this.
Televisión + Richard hell & the modern lovers ...New wave post punk
Demonstrably years ahead of their time; this (and the rest of the classic bebut album) sounds so 'punk' it's uncanny. A pity the 1971-72-73 sessions weren't publicly released until 1976, but then by that time 'The Modern Lovers' sounded thoroughly contemporary with the Heartbreakers, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, the Sex Pistols, and the Voidoids et al. Monumental album, great song.
Not really years ahead of their time, you can hear Stooges in there and pebbles collection pysch
When ice was ice and phone was a phone❤️❤️🎶👀
That little thing was brand spankin' new too
cooooool
"The modern world is not so bad, not like the students say." Ever since this song was made, and even back a few years from that, the propagandizing of the schools has been inimical to anybody daring to say, as Jonathan does, "I'm in love with the USA." His proposed solution, dropping out, is as good advice today as it was back then.
Those poor BU students...
Poor is not what I would call BU students. Affluent and from Long Island mostly. Some of us New England hicks snuck in
Stalingrad's résistance against hippies, long life American Punk ! Love to Punky Brewster☠️
Jerry Harrison!
I have always thought the Modern Lovers were the 1st punk band of 1970's.
Me too.
& NYDolls
forgot about the Playboy Bunny building...haha
JOJO
likeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Alright, if you say so, I'll drop out of BU
Nice, Emily!☺
LOL…film manages to hit almost half of IM Pei’s major Boston projects.
Jonathan's moaning is delicious makes me want to drop out of BU and meet him on the astral plane
Boston was so dirty back then.
Dig !
Stooges influence on this, indeeed.
Drop out of BU!!
Beantown Gems anyone?
A Pinto car in Boston. Lol
No don’t drop out of BU
0:32 a pinto
Sounds like The Strokes.
IMHO more Stooges influence on this ;-)
Actually the city scenes don’t excite me very much. Quite the contrary! The songs good though!