This song brings back so many memories. So sad the show is gone, it really was genius. The intro song screams Portland. I lived there for a year and I miss it a lot.
@@glass_gravy I lived there for a year back in like 2008. It really was gorgeous. I don’t believe the hype, but I’ve seen a lot of videos of these far left Progressive cities. A lot of them are doing too well. I think Portland got a lot better in the last year or two. But Seattle I think is a different case no?
Just started watching this show yesterday on Netflix. I had been meaning to watch it since it started, but man, I never regretted not watching it as I do now. This show is the bomb, man.
Funny coincedence- I started watching this yesterday on Netflix- not bad, pretty funny and silly, which is good!!!@ I especially liked this opening song part!!!@
@@Viva_la_naturaIt was genius at the time because the show was describing something believed to be fringe. It’s less funny now because the fringe culture the show described has become mainstream and we’re all living it. It’s pretty depressing.
i LOVE living in Portland! I'm telling you, "the dream of the 90's is alive in Portland." I moved here from the LA area a few months ago & I will never ever look back. Oregon is best state I've ever lived. it's perfect to me, I've lived in a few different states & I will say Oregon is the best state of them all.
+Sarah Ann Aboueljoud people in Portland are way different than in Cali, Oregon is the only place I've ever been where the people are more understanding & tolerant of each other. I'll never live anywhere else as long as I live.
+cali_ kush70 Dude you are seriously so lucky, I've been wanting to live in Portland forever now but I'm just stuck here in Sac maybe I should go for college next year I dunno
Walked by a maybe 30- or 40- something white lady yesterday talking to some dude about how she's just always wanted to go to Portland and live there and RETIRE there. Successfully suppressed the urge to sing "The dream of the nineties is alive in Portland" as I passed her. #LifeGoals
Nicoli Dominn . Likely two bars into your singing that tune would have ignited her to either dance, or finishing the tune herself with her pinkish-brown plaid shirt, flowing in the wind as she glanced across the street where her next internet cafe rest break will go dwon.
Ah yea, don't move here. I've lived in Portland all my life. Please please please, go away. It really used to be the place to retire, but now it's over flowing with wannabes and crime.
when to Portland, Oregon about 10 years ago, and I from New Zealand, love the song, and the city, such a nice place, and love Portlandia series, hope it keep,s going, from Rick, Dunedin, New Zealand
Yes, what Wise Wizard said. Is Portland still a thing?.....now that we know Russ Bruv is alive and working with boats, we need to know if the dream is indeed still alive in Portland?
I was born and raised in Portland and ever since this place got popular its been a mecca for hipsters. Hipsters. From all over the country, mostly from California, with a high expectation for Portland to be their hipster home for their hipster accessories. Wide-rimmed glasses, beards, piercings, prius or bicycle. And everyone is an elitist about something. Because of Portland's high residential demand from these hipsters, its become too expense for Portland natives to live here. The traffic is so bad it takes me an hour to drive less than 10 miles after work and the area is expecting another 100,000 people within the next couple years.
+AJAENGR I live on FOPO, and if its 4Pm it take 45min - hour just to get across the Ross Island, the struggle is real brother I understand your feels. It's fucking nuts how many of my Neighbors are from the mid-west and if you say you where born here its supersizing to them. "you have never lived in another city?" no I have not sorry to disappoint.
+aaron4820 people that are actually from Portland own cars, most likely a 1999 Subaru outback that there parents bought them there senior year of high school and now there 30 and still have the same car.
I recall a time when anyone could afford to live downtown Portland - if you wanted to. Up until 2007 I had a 2 bed close to downtown in the South Burlingame district for $450 - yes the entire apt. Up until that time before housing crisis homes were selling and apts sat empty. The unit I found had been empty for 6 months. This would never happen now. Hipsters took over and now can’t afford it. Million dollar condos etc. So crazy!
Is hipster some kind of catch-all term these days for anyone who's a little quirky or "different"? Just trying to understand. Though it kinda sucks people are so judgmental like that :-/ Especially in this so called "progressive" day and age. And don't get me wrong, I wouldn't call myself a hipster, but it still seems like it'd be better than being one of those Type A, wannabe "alpha" types who act like they've got their shit all together, like how most of the people are where I live and most of the people on the net :-/ Someone should do a show parodying them - its only fair, right? :-) Hey, I tried being like them for years - just didn't work out. "If you can't join them, do your own thing". At least the characters on Portlandia stay true to themselves and seem like individuals I can somewhat relate to as a human being. Well, some of the characters, haha. Others are a bit out there, I agree. But who are we to judge? Doesn't seem like they're hurting anyone. Live and let live. Wish I could find more people like that. If that makes me a "hipster", so be it. Sorry for the rant and long post, just get tired of being called things like "pretentious" by internet douchebags who don't know a thing about me. If they don't like me and don't want to even try to understand, they should just leave me the fuck alone and ignore me like most people in my life and like people did to my other post on here (I'm used to it, so whatever) :-/ Yet for some reason I keep trying to put myself out there (even with a busted keyboard, took forever to type this lol) and do something positive with my life... Since no one else seems to stick up or care for people like us. Please check out my Channel if anyone relates to what I'm saying (made it for people like us) - Thank You.
Yeah it's definitely hit and miss for me but they do have some really good bits and I personally like the overall concept of the show, I mean at least it's original. I can definitely see why a lot of people don't like it though you really can't take it seriously and there are a lot of unfunny bits p.s. nice user name haha
This show might be part of the reason of 55 thousand new Portlanders in the past decade. Not saying it's THE reason, but this show turned heads to this city, no doubt.
"That girl" is Carrie Brownstein. She was born in Seattle, and has always lived in the pacific northwest. She moved to Portland about 13 years ago. That may not make her a native, but it's a lot closer than most of the people that live here these days.
She’s from Olympia! She went to Evergreen State College, and the name of her band is Sleater-Kinney. I only know this because I live in Olympia and I love her and when I read her wiki page I was overjoyed when I read she is from the same city as me
90's the next decade of nostalgia. But in all seriousness I would have liked to move to Portland in another life but California hipsters have made it so damn expensive.
@@charlottek2074 ill compare whatever the fuck i want Charlette. Heres why, education is not based within a memorized form of slogans, true education....is the true polar opposite spectrum to any topic,.the area of degrees, of variables that recognize the how to intercept the understanding.
My daughter is watching Portlandia on Netflix and now I miss living there :( even though I only lived there for a couple of years because that’s where the work was
Remember when Portland was "cute"? It's sort of like when parents sigh and say "Well, there were signs, symptoms really, but we really didn't pay enough attention." Then they find out about the string of murders.
"Remember the 90s when Tre Arrow climbed the Portlandia building? Underage goth kids could dance to Bauhaus at the Paris Theater, and Courtney Love filmed a music video at Mary's Club, where she stripped when she was fifteen?" "It's like Enron never happened! Voodoo Donuts hadn't been invented yet. And Coffee People was way more popular than Starbucks!" "In Portland you could have danced all night at Club Z and then ate chili cheese fries with gutter punks and drag queens at the Roxy".
If you hate extremely hot or cold weather Portland and the pacific northwest in general is the place to be. I will say that a lot of people don't realize how miserable 38 degrees and rainy can be though, that shit has teeth. I would rather be in 10 degrees and snowy.
why do people who live there always complain about the weather being rainy and cloudy? well i am from miami florida and i always complain about here being too hot and too much sun so there's that... i guess everyone complain about their city's weather one way or another.
I gave up clowning years ago. The delivery is so spot on, hilarious
Well in Portland, you don't have to.
We’re just as far removed from the filming of this as this was to the 90s
First of all, how dare you point out that time exists
@@samanthanash6370it doesnt though
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, noooooo 😅
😲
fuck...
Any time I hear the mention of Portland, this song immediately pops into my head, and I come back to watch this video.
Their chemistry is remarkable and this show never gets old
Now old... Did not age well.
Shit, it got old the day it came out.
when I lived in Portland I got on the tram and there was a guy dressed like a jester for no apparent reason lol
did you ask him if he had any quests?
When he got home he probably told the story about how he saw someone on the tram dressed like a normal person for no reason.
Average Tri-Met occurrence
I have yet to visit Portland, but this song makes me soooo happy. Oh, the 90's...I miss you.
Its a homeless first shithole
"Portland is a city where young people go to retire."
Bags are packed guys! See ya in Portland!
Be there soon!
! !
oatis111 Catch y'all there
+Kirsten Quigley I live in portland an my old elementry school was on portlandia
Insane lynx x really? that's awesome.
***** Do you live in Portland?
This song brings back so many memories. So sad the show is gone, it really was genius. The intro song screams Portland. I lived there for a year and I miss it a lot.
Hey. Little secret. The show isn’t gone. It’s alive…
In Portland.
@@glass_gravy lol omg this comment I made. I had no idea what a shit hole Portland would become.
@@The_Primary_Axiom it’s still a beautiful city. Very livable. Don’t believe the hype. Portland is what you make it.
@@glass_gravy I lived there for a year back in like 2008. It really was gorgeous. I don’t believe the hype, but I’ve seen a lot of videos of these far left Progressive cities. A lot of them are doing too well. I think Portland got a lot better in the last year or two. But Seattle I think is a different case no?
Man, miss this Portland. I lived there when this video and Portlandia came out. What a ride.
sammee
Yeah it's nothing like that anymore
I can't believe this is already over 5 years old.
phuturephunk What's sorta funny is flannel shirts took off again.
7 years now.
Bill Davis 8 years freaking old! I can’t believe how fast time has been flying. Seems like every few months it’s 4th of July again.
hello from end of 2019
phuturephunk I remember I didn’t get this at all at the time. Now, 9 years later it’s aged nicely.
Portlandia is a legit documentary about Portland.
+arose1027 i thought it was about gays in portland!
it's not a documentary, it's a heavily improvised mockumentary sketch comedy hahaa
arose1027 true that is just the way we are
Says the person who visited Portland once for two days, I'm sure.
cali_ kush70 no shit
This song sticks in my head.
Just started watching this show yesterday on Netflix. I had been meaning to watch it since it started, but man, I never regretted not watching it as I do now. This show is the bomb, man.
Funny coincedence- I started watching this yesterday on Netflix- not bad, pretty funny and silly, which is good!!!@ I especially liked this opening song part!!!@
it is!
This is a legitimate banger.
where young people go to retire. lol!
my favorite! LOL
Old folks go to Florida , aka God's waiting room .
I feel like this show will serve as a time capsule for 2010s. It is so good
Just got back from Portland last week. It was ... it was exactly as this video described. God it was beautiful!
10 years ago 😢 😭
How about now?
They are making fun of liberalism...not saying it's good. I'm not a conservative but it is a monumental smackdown of liberals.
@@Viva_la_naturaIt was genius at the time because the show was describing something believed to be fringe. It’s less funny now because the fringe culture the show described has become mainstream and we’re all living it. It’s pretty depressing.
"I gave up clowning years ago" lmao
I'm moving to Portland's "little sister" Olympia, WA. I hope the dream of the 90s is alive there as well.
Seattleeeee
+SeaTown206 the mayor would prefer if it didn't sound like it came from Seattle.
+Jaylie Piatt I would say Eugene Oregon would be Portland's little sister.
I live in Olympia, Wa and it is Portland's little sister. and the dream of the 90s is completely alive here.
+Jaylie Piatt That's actually, Seattle.
"My flannel shirt still looks fly," lolololol
Northen California, Oregon, and Washington should secede from the US and become the nation of the 90s.
+Diego Candia Already a thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement)
I'd be all over that.
I wish I could hug you right now hosank. Thank you for letting me know of this.
Diego Candia We're already a nation of clowns.
It will be fucking awesome.
they need to make a portlandia 2, they'd have endless material these days! Portland is a city where young people go to lose their catalytic convert.
Yeah that only happens in Portland
that damn caterpillar convert!
It would be way too depressing
lol in Portland you don't need a car
Bikes... And double decker bikes! 🎉
"My flannel shirt still looks fly!" Ohhh shit we're going to Portland.... lol...
i LOVE living in Portland! I'm telling you, "the dream of the 90's is alive in Portland." I moved here from the LA area a few months ago & I will never ever look back. Oregon is best state I've ever lived. it's perfect to me, I've lived in a few different states & I will say Oregon is the best state of them all.
Yea it's pretty sweet. I'm heading back there in a month or so. Been there twice, it's pretty tight
+cali_ kush70 go home
That sounds so awesome. omg, what are the people like?
+Sarah Ann Aboueljoud people in Portland are way different than in Cali, Oregon is the only place I've ever been where the people are more understanding & tolerant of each other. I'll never live anywhere else as long as I live.
+cali_ kush70 Dude you are seriously so lucky, I've been wanting to live in Portland forever now but I'm just stuck here in Sac maybe I should go for college next year I dunno
Love this song still after all these years. Great show.
I love the song and sooooooo miss the 90's!
Despite everything I stand for, this is a great song.
Hipster.
Such a great song!! Fred is so talented.
"Portland is a city where young people go to retire".
"All the hot girls wear glasses" 90's 4ever
i lived in Portland for years and i love this song!
Walked by a maybe 30- or 40- something white lady yesterday talking to some dude about how she's just always wanted to go to Portland and live there and RETIRE there.
Successfully suppressed the urge to sing "The dream of the nineties is alive in Portland" as I passed her.
#LifeGoals
mistake
YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BOMB.COM!
I think this was me...
Nicoli Dominn . Likely two bars into your singing that tune would have ignited her to either dance, or finishing the tune herself with her pinkish-brown plaid shirt, flowing in the wind as she glanced across the street where her next internet cafe rest break will go dwon.
Ah yea, don't move here. I've lived in Portland all my life. Please please please, go away. It really used to be the place to retire, but now it's over flowing with wannabes and crime.
Sort of sad to see 2010 as the date. Anyone else feel like time is going by too fast :(?
late 2000s and early 2010s were the best (maybe because i was a teenager back then) now i gotta face reality and time's not coming back
Aeon stay strong
i had this stuck in my head all day at work lol
I drove Uber for 5yrs in Portland... And wow the show was spot on... I miss it so much... Tukrrrrr
when to Portland, Oregon about 10 years ago, and I from New Zealand, love the song, and the city, such a nice place, and love Portlandia series, hope it keep,s going, from Rick, Dunedin, New Zealand
If only Portland was this fun today.
I have never been to Portland, but the music and the video clip are 100% 90's spirit!
(shit...i comment 8 years after that video uploaded)
You know all joking aside, this is almost 100% accurate XD I've live in Portland all my life, and I was like "Oh, is this our new city anthem?"
This actually makes me want to go to Portland.
+PT568 I live in portland and my elementry school from a few years ago was on portlandia
Now you can retire hhhhhh.
I just went and it was dope. This vid is pretty accurate
What about now ? Still wanna be there? Or are you there now lol
Yes, what Wise Wizard said. Is Portland still a thing?.....now that we know Russ Bruv is alive and working with boats, we need to know if the dream is indeed still alive in Portland?
I was born and raised in Portland and ever since this place got popular its been a mecca for hipsters. Hipsters. From all over the country, mostly from California, with a high expectation for Portland to be their hipster home for their hipster accessories. Wide-rimmed glasses, beards, piercings, prius or bicycle. And everyone is an elitist about something. Because of Portland's high residential demand from these hipsters, its become too expense for Portland natives to live here. The traffic is so bad it takes me an hour to drive less than 10 miles after work and the area is expecting another 100,000 people within the next couple years.
+AJAENGR Your mistake is that you decided to drive when you could just trade a few vinyl for a double decker unicycle and use it on the sidewalk...
+reversehalo777 Hipster bullshit and uniformity IS "adventure" to hipsters
+AJAENGR I live on FOPO, and if its 4Pm it take 45min - hour just to get across the Ross Island, the struggle is real brother I understand your feels. It's fucking nuts how many of my Neighbors are from the mid-west and if you say you where born here its supersizing to them. "you have never lived in another city?" no I have not sorry to disappoint.
+aaron4820 people that are actually from Portland own cars, most likely a 1999 Subaru outback that there parents bought them there senior year of high school and now there 30 and still have the same car.
+AJAENGR It sucks when your private nirvana gets "discovered". Watched this happen to Providence and SLC. Looking for a new home oeo...
Thank You!! I am 53 and so sick of people not being able to understand HUMOUR!!! We need to laugh to survive!!
GOD DAMN IT FRED YOU FUCKED OUR CITY UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lmoa
Were all on our way!! So Cal sucks now, were coming!
William Seroyer Booohahhaaha!
this portland came before portlandia
I know, that is why they made a TV show about it.
I recall a time when anyone could afford to live downtown Portland - if you wanted to. Up until 2007
I had a 2 bed close to downtown in the South Burlingame district for $450 - yes the entire apt. Up until that time before housing crisis homes were selling and apts sat empty. The unit I found had been empty for 6 months.
This would never happen now. Hipsters took over and now can’t afford it. Million dollar condos etc. So crazy!
I still remember a friend showing me this promo when the show was just coming out. It was pretty much the coolest thing ever, haha.
"where all the hot girls wear glasses, yeeeeeahh"
Where everyone is a hipster.
Is hipster some kind of catch-all term these days for anyone who's a little quirky or "different"? Just trying to understand. Though it kinda sucks people are so judgmental like that :-/ Especially in this so called "progressive" day and age. And don't get me wrong, I wouldn't call myself a hipster, but it still seems like it'd be better than being one of those Type A, wannabe "alpha" types who act like they've got their shit all together, like how most of the people are where I live and most of the people on the net :-/ Someone should do a show parodying them - its only fair, right? :-) Hey, I tried being like them for years - just didn't work out. "If you can't join them, do your own thing".
At least the characters on Portlandia stay true to themselves and seem like individuals I can somewhat relate to as a human being. Well, some of the characters, haha. Others are a bit out there, I agree. But who are we to judge? Doesn't seem like they're hurting anyone. Live and let live. Wish I could find more people like that. If that makes me a "hipster", so be it.
Sorry for the rant and long post, just get tired of being called things like "pretentious" by internet douchebags who don't know a thing about me. If they don't like me and don't want to even try to understand, they should just leave me the fuck alone and ignore me like most people in my life and like people did to my other post on here (I'm used to it, so whatever) :-/ Yet for some reason I keep trying to put myself out there (even with a busted keyboard, took forever to type this lol) and do something positive with my life... Since no one else seems to stick up or care for people like us. Please check out my Channel if anyone relates to what I'm saying (made it for people like us) - Thank You.
SilentLaughter8 here is the truth : we all are a hipster to someone's eyes
Gotta relax dude! Don't stress yourself over shit that doesn't really matter.
fav line: brownstein: "so, from what i can surmise from what ur positing, portland is....."
This never gets old! Love it
What sucks is that this is probably the best part about Portlandia. I wanted this show to be so awesome...and it just comes up short too often for me.
Yeah it's definitely hit and miss for me but they do have some really good bits and I personally like the overall concept of the show, I mean at least it's original. I can definitely see why a lot of people don't like it though you really can't take it seriously and there are a lot of unfunny bits p.s. nice user name haha
Yeah man, I completely agree. When it starts like this I was so hopeful, then... Nope.
Its a decent show. C+ for me...
You probably haven't watched the show much. It's a success.
Season 5 is pretty good, love the gothic will bit - I laughed - out loud, even ARRRH.
This show might be part of the reason of 55 thousand new Portlanders in the past decade. Not saying it's THE reason, but this show turned heads to this city, no doubt.
"That girl" is Carrie Brownstein. She was born in Seattle, and has always lived in the pacific northwest. She moved to Portland about 13 years ago. That may not make her a native, but it's a lot closer than most of the people that live here these days.
She’s from Olympia! She went to Evergreen State College, and the name of her band is Sleater-Kinney. I only know this because I live in Olympia and I love her and when I read her wiki page I was overjoyed when I read she is from the same city as me
gotta Love Portland. Just returned and it's a city with it's own vibe for sure.
Wait until you see the year 2 0 2 2
I could, and do, watch this constantly.
I am sold, gonna pack up and move to Portland!
90's the next decade of nostalgia. But in all seriousness I would have liked to move to Portland in another life but California hipsters have made it so damn expensive.
Now featuring a reboot of the 92 LA Riots
😂
They should bring this show back.
Fond memories of three years spent in Portland. I mean, I live in Paris now and love it, but I miss Portland in many ways.
Sold! I want to to Portland to recapture my youth
LOL, "In Portland you can go to a record store and sell your C.D's".
JohnQ1127 BEST LINE! 😂😂😂😂
In Portland, you can go to a record store.
June 28, 2024...I still love Portland
I still love this song!
Vancouver is Portland with Health care.
Vancouver BC ?
I would love to leave the US for Canada.
***** This is the greatest comment of all time.
***** Hahaha, I have upwards of 100 conclusive statements as to why you are incorrect.
+fuck your .monitering systems --->can't compare Vancouver to Portland. Portland is a whole different trip.
@@charlottek2074 ill compare whatever the fuck i want Charlette. Heres why, education is not based within a memorized form of slogans, true education....is the true polar opposite spectrum to any topic,.the area of degrees, of variables that recognize the how to intercept the understanding.
My daughter is watching Portlandia on Netflix and now I miss living there :( even though I only lived there for a couple of years because that’s where the work was
Remember when Portland was "cute"? It's sort of like when parents sigh and say "Well, there were signs, symptoms really, but we really didn't pay enough attention." Then they find out about the string of murders.
Why Spotify don't have this song yet?
Okay why am I finding this show in 2021 and why is it fucking perfect
This is stuck in my head😅😅😅
I just started this show and I love it
Too bad the final season is this year :(
"Remember the 90s when Tre Arrow climbed the Portlandia building? Underage goth kids could dance to Bauhaus at the Paris Theater, and Courtney Love filmed a music video at Mary's Club, where she stripped when she was fifteen?"
"It's like Enron never happened! Voodoo Donuts hadn't been invented yet. And Coffee People was way more popular than Starbucks!"
"In Portland you could have danced all night at Club Z and then ate chili cheese fries with gutter punks and drag queens at the Roxy".
Never realized she said "put a bird on something and call it art" lol
The nightmare of the 40's is alive in Portland
this still makes me want to live in portland #the90srule
I fucking miss the 90's so much. What a time to be alive.
“In Portland you can put a bird on something and call it art”
I wish the weather were better! I'd live there in a heartbeat >.
Shhhhh....don't let everyone know. Yeah, the weather in Portland is unbearable! Don't move here, everyone.
It was nice one day. I think it was a Wednesday a few years ago.
If you hate extremely hot or cold weather Portland and the pacific northwest in general is the place to be. I will say that a lot of people don't realize how miserable 38 degrees and rainy can be though, that shit has teeth. I would rather be in 10 degrees and snowy.
why do people who live there always complain about the weather being rainy and cloudy? well i am from miami florida and i always complain about here being too hot and too much sun so there's that... i guess everyone complain about their city's weather one way or another.
@@stevens1041 Exactly what I was thinking....
I'm definitely moving there. and is the dream of the 80s alive in Miami?
And will never die.
crazy to think this is already 12 years old! "the dream of the oughts"
Just perfect, what an amazing show, thanks for this!
Portland sounds awesome.
I watched this show when I was a kid, how many memories
God you're young
I love this song! Sounds like my kind of city.
Oh man I miss Oregon so much
Had to revisit this after reading the first chapter of Chuck Klosterman’s new book “The Nineties”
Thank you Dodger for introducing me to this song
I can't believe how old this is....
I thought And hoped this would have been the series intro
66 people are from San Francisco.
90s started 30 years ago. Boy, I feel old.
I'm from SF so the ending always cracks me up
I went to Portland this weekend because I saw this video and it's all true!!!
Can't wait untill this show is on air!
My flannel shirt still looks fly
95 to 2000 in Portland 🙌🏽💗
This music is great!
what kind of jacket is Fred armisen wearing? the brown one
One a hipster would wear.
probably felt or corduroy
Sheepskin
There's 3 instances where the voices are different from the original episode and now I feel like I'm from an alternate universe.
Anyone else watching this in 2020?
Been to Eugene, and in my book that is quite literally one of the top ten most beautiful spots on the face of the earth. Lucky you.
I agree with BPStPaul2. I moved from Portland, and now I'm moving back. What can I say? I love Portland.