Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - "Take Off Your Sunglasses"

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 26 гру 2024

КОМЕНТАРІ • 84

  • @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos
    @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos 2 роки тому +9

    This song perfectly encapsulates what it feels like to unknowingly take out your depression on a loved one.

  • @Babeoftheabyss
    @Babeoftheabyss 4 роки тому +61

    Wow
    I discovered this song while washing dishes at an apartment I lived at in Upland, in about 2009. This song came on the stereo on 88.7 kspc. I fell in love with it and have listened to it almost religiously since. I can't believe it's the end of April, 2020 and it's less than 100,000 views
    Come on people. This is the epitome of good music

    • @Misslovelyrita3
      @Misslovelyrita3 3 роки тому +10

      I used to DJ at KSPC in college and would play this song all the time! Maybe you were listening to my show!

    • @jackhegarty6646
      @jackhegarty6646 3 роки тому +2

      same

    • @FromIronbark
      @FromIronbark 3 роки тому +3

      2021 and just discovered this song washing dishes at home... why I haven't heard it before I don't know. I need to wash more dishes.

    • @Babeoftheabyss
      @Babeoftheabyss 2 роки тому +2

      Lmao. Kspc is zee best. Still listen to the videogame music show. Appreciate you guys!

    • @Babeoftheabyss
      @Babeoftheabyss 2 роки тому +1

      @@FromIronbark lmao

  • @rachstone9491
    @rachstone9491 5 років тому +84

    This song is some kind of genius I'm too dumb to understand all I know is I can't stop playing it

    • @user-ip8rk9tp8j
      @user-ip8rk9tp8j 4 роки тому +4

      Same! Obsessed

    • @mateusz3162
      @mateusz3162 3 роки тому +15

      everybody can't stop playing every each song these days

    • @danterosenberg7506
      @danterosenberg7506 3 роки тому +1

      Facts. That's exactly how I feel.

    • @DarlaJeanDarltonIII
      @DarlaJeanDarltonIII Рік тому

      It seems like hilarious and groovy nonsense at first right but I eventually came to believe the sunglasses are a metaphor for his [negativity], the shoelaces are likewise an aspect or complex of her personality that he incorrectly assumed she would have just as stubbornly refused to let go of, but in a wholesome, depressing, profound turn of events, she does it.
      I used to laugh to this song and now I legitimately cry.

  • @mikarosen
    @mikarosen Рік тому +7

    I love her so much
    Her new album is so good

  • @byg0lly
    @byg0lly 9 років тому +45

    I FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS SONG

    • @kobalt3095
      @kobalt3095 2 роки тому

      who asked

    • @byg0lly
      @byg0lly 2 роки тому +1

      @@kobalt3095 why r u a cyber bully

  • @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos
    @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Рік тому +4

    For years, I felt like this song spoke to a deep, personal understanding of my own struggles with depression. In that time, both Ezra and I have come out as transgender. Maybe there was something to that feeling.

  • @giotapapazisi7593
    @giotapapazisi7593 3 роки тому +24

    Lyrics
    My baby went out with her family to a ski resort in Colorado
    Well she put on her skis and she slid down hill
    Yeah she slid downhill in her bright red mufflers
    My baby went out with her family to a ski resort in Colorado
    And left me all along for a couple of weeks,
    Well she called me up, she said I love you in the middle of the night
    I said In the middle of the night everybody loves everybody else these days
    She said Oh, in the middle of the day I love you very much
    I said Everybody loves each other these days
    I said I don't ever get to go on any vacations
    I said I've gotta go to work every day
    I said You get to slide downhill in your bright red mufflers
    She said I love you, oh I love you in the middle of the day,
    And she said
    Take off your sunglasses
    I don't wanna take my sunglasses
    Take off your sunglasses
    I said baby the sun is bright
    I need my sunglasses
    And then I woke up in the middle of the night
    One night and I felt so unworthy
    I said I woke up in the middle of the night
    One night and I felt so unworthy
    It didn't bother me too much, I think I am unworthy
    And everybody's unworthy of everybody else these days
    Everybody's unworthy of everybody else these days
    And I don't need to think about things I don't want to think about
    She called me up in the middle of the day
    She said I love you in the middle of the night
    I said In the middle of the night
    Everybody loves everybody else in the middle of the day
    She said
    Take off your sunglasses
    I don't wanna take my sunglasses
    Take off your sunglasses
    I said why don't you take off your sunglasses
    She said I already have
    I don't want to think about
    Things I don't want to think about in the middle of the night
    In the middle of the day I don't want to think about
    Things I don't want to think about in the middle of the night
    I don't want to think about it
    I don't want to think about it
    I don't want to take off my sunglasses
    Everybody's unworthy and
    Everybody loves everybody else and
    Everybody takes off their sunglasses
    Oh baby I don't want to fall into the patterns
    Oh baby, she said
    Take off your sunglasses
    I don't wanna take my sunglasses
    Take off your sunglasses
    I said that's like me asking you to take out your shoelaces
    So she took out her shoelaces

  • @chrisburdett2460
    @chrisburdett2460 2 роки тому +6

    Summer 2022 and just discovered this song from Ezra. Thanks Stuart at FM4 in Austria for playing on my morning commute. Now I see the video and just love how many pairs Ezra wears during the “interview”!

  • @danvelina
    @danvelina 6 років тому +20

    I always come back to this song, I love how it doesn't have dislikes and it's been 8 years since it was published lol

  • @lilly3ls
    @lilly3ls 5 місяців тому +1

    I got into her last week and there's so much good music going back
    The thing she does with the vocals here reminds me of like, roky erickson - sweet honey pie. Theresnoassociationorcombinationofatomsthatdontagree

  • @nickjames628
    @nickjames628 Рік тому

    This should have more views than anything else on the whole dumb internet. The comic timing and genius in this music video is un-nameably and uncannily good. All these years later is it just as thrilling

  • @PitMaravich
    @PitMaravich 5 років тому +8

    I NEVER FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS SONG

  • @sabinejonathanjordan-lott3268
    @sabinejonathanjordan-lott3268 9 років тому +10

    I love this song, sooooooooooo funny!!! Love the whole Retro Bob Dylan thing too, great song & concept!

  • @gerryradford4812
    @gerryradford4812 Рік тому +1

    How is this person not HUGE !! Dylan. Bowie. Bolan esq Plus original stuff. A STAR IS COMING. GX

  • @cliterally1791
    @cliterally1791 10 місяців тому

    I'm so thankful for some music without crazy metaphors. just a straightforward story about a girl and her sunglasses!

  • @ckv954
    @ckv954 2 роки тому

    2:34 omg I’m in love with this part

  • @werewolfteeths
    @werewolfteeths Рік тому

    This is my favorite music video of all time

  • @leme2794
    @leme2794 3 роки тому +2

    puuff años que no escuchaba este temon, Inside the human body excelentísimo disco escúchenlo completo

  • @matthewaustin7458
    @matthewaustin7458 Рік тому

    What a talent! Amazing. Keep rocking Ezra!

  • @cryyourangerout
    @cryyourangerout 3 роки тому +1

    ahh this song 💘

  • @katebarsod
    @katebarsod 4 роки тому +2

    Great song! Great video, it looks like a deleted scene from Pink Flamingos!

  • @kjeltinger9076
    @kjeltinger9076 Рік тому

    What a great song and such a funny video! :D

  • @scottshaw1070
    @scottshaw1070 7 років тому +8

    Lou Reed + Pixies = Awesome!

    • @TheMightymolar
      @TheMightymolar 2 роки тому

      Indeed. With a large helping of Bob Dylan.

  • @Kilaga
    @Kilaga 9 місяців тому

    Got the same vibe when I heard first time “hurricane” by Bob Dylan and it’s awesome

  • @shawntingstad4254
    @shawntingstad4254 Рік тому

    Dig it! Thank you KK!

  • @gothwhiteinc
    @gothwhiteinc Рік тому

    Great tune 🍻

  • @borcz100
    @borcz100 4 роки тому +1

    Wow - I believe this!

  • @jw66jw
    @jw66jw 5 місяців тому

    Still a great song after all these years, a shame the band never made it big, they were quite talented. Guess Ezra decided to take off his\her\their\its glasses.

  • @dikshantaluitel752
    @dikshantaluitel752 4 роки тому +12

    If it weren't for Sex Education, it would have taken more than 11 years for me to come across this song.

  • @Pixie.Plumeria
    @Pixie.Plumeria 4 роки тому +4

    Why does this give me the same vibes as a Beatles interview??

  • @jordive7736
    @jordive7736 10 років тому +1

    I Love that song! Boníssimaaa

  • @juanfranciscobrizuela
    @juanfranciscobrizuela 2 роки тому

    Ezra was here back in 200 fucking 9, what a legend

  • @williamcreech405
    @williamcreech405 9 років тому +6

    i walked in on this guy giving it to my boy jay clark in the middle of the day... he ain't unworthy ;

  • @mjwade6085
    @mjwade6085 4 роки тому +5

    "I said, I never get to go on any vacations I gotta go to work everyday!"

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631
    @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631 Рік тому +1

    Take off your sunglasses!

  • @daveyplinth
    @daveyplinth 10 років тому

    LOVE IT!!!

  • @laughlater4562
    @laughlater4562 3 роки тому +4

    Found this song on accident and my life was changed hehe

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631
    @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631 7 місяців тому

    I love you too much love you love you

  • @markecklund5725
    @markecklund5725 3 роки тому +3

    Cool song. I hope the Warren Zevon estate doesn't sue. Sounds an awful lot like "Splendid Isolation "

    • @Miguel-pd3no
      @Miguel-pd3no 3 роки тому +1

      lol.. really? I'm familiar with Zevon. Seriously?

  • @RemyGriffinTrans
    @RemyGriffinTrans 5 місяців тому

    Mod vibes x

  • @margaritanajera6655
    @margaritanajera6655 3 роки тому +1

    Ya

  • @Mlikes
    @Mlikes 6 років тому +2

    MAN I LOVE THIS GUY , HIS LYRICS AND VOICE (AND A LITTLE LESS THE MUSIC) MAKE ME ADORE THE MUSIC STYLE :P

    • @77sebaseb
      @77sebaseb 3 роки тому

      it's a "her" or "they". Ezra Furman indeed is a woman!

    • @jared_wp
      @jared_wp 3 роки тому +3

      @@77sebaseb just to clarify ezra is a transgender woman, that’s not to say that reduces the legitimacy of her womanhood. however, as of the recording of this song she was living as a man and so the original commenter was correct in their gender assumption. indeed even at the time of them commenting ezra identified as genderqueer and so, again, they were correct in their comment. however, now she identifies as a woman. (of course their is the point to be raised that she was always a woman but only realised this in her life due to societal pressures, norms and an eventual journey of self discovery - however for the contexts of the original commenter in terms of which pronouns are correct at their time of commenting and the time of recording the song and filming the music video, they were correct in the usage of pronouns). i hope that clarifies it for you and please feel free to let me know if any of my information is wrong as i’m always happy to learn :).

    • @77sebaseb
      @77sebaseb 3 роки тому

      @@jared_wp no, your information is not wrong. :) Thank you very much at this point for your effort and the clarification of the facts. Of course, I was already aware of all this. My comment, that should be clarified here, was less a "rebuke" of the commentator than a clarification. Statement. Passing on information. Call it what you like. In fact, while writing my original post, it had not occurred to me that my statement could be seen as an affront or reproach. Sorry at this point, also to "PFH". The main thing is that he/she/they has achieved and touched us somewhere with his/her/their music.
      And that is a good thing.
      Stay safe.

  • @samirahoseini1608
    @samirahoseini1608 4 роки тому +3

    Such a tired music video😂 but i looooove this song 😍

  • @rigomoscoso7939
    @rigomoscoso7939 4 роки тому +2

    Twin showed me this long time ago...

  • @askidbarrett
    @askidbarrett Рік тому

    I wonder how the Ezra of today rates this masterpiece

  • @cliterally1791
    @cliterally1791 Рік тому

    and she never did 😎😎😎😎

  • @canerkus5508
    @canerkus5508 5 років тому +6

    like bob dylan - like a rolling stone

  • @jackdandy
    @jackdandy Місяць тому

    Id heard of krill but never his siblings band. I get heavy the clean and dylan vibes from this.

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631
    @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631 8 місяців тому

    Can't you take me

  •  6 років тому +20

    ezra without lipstick noo wayyyy

  • @cryyourangerout
    @cryyourangerout 3 роки тому +1

    🐦

  • @0002pA
    @0002pA 2 роки тому +1

    Are you telling me this song is nearly half my age... and yes I do feel exceptionally old ok.

  • @chrisgotachannel
    @chrisgotachannel 2 роки тому +2

    i'm not the marrying type but if I were I would want this to play at my gay wedding

  • @chrissarles1686
    @chrissarles1686 3 роки тому +2

    This guy is EXACTLY like the violent femmes. If you’re here because you like Ezra, go, NOW and listen to blister in the sun by VF’s you’ll love it

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631

    Sunglasses

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631

    Oh, guesses high? Everyone is.... Huh? Take off your sunglasses

  • @zuckmeoff3035
    @zuckmeoff3035 5 років тому +1

    COREY WORTHINGTON

  • @hiltun3n
    @hiltun3n 4 роки тому

    ok

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631

    Take off your sunglasses

  • @MikeSmith544
    @MikeSmith544 4 роки тому

    Channeling Bob Dylan and Jacob Dylan

  • @Tanasoulmusic
    @Tanasoulmusic 4 роки тому +1

    Casey Neistats himm

  • @MrKellyHiggins
    @MrKellyHiggins 11 місяців тому

    There is no way that stupid band is better than Ezra.