Based off this performance's sound quality from this video, they sound very good live. This live performance of "Real World" sounds as good as the studio version, just in another way. ✌😎👌
Impossible to sound any better LIVE than this tremendous performance by Matchbox 20… There are zero flaws compared to the studio version!!! Even better than the Real Thing as Bono would say!!!
It’s hard to choose between this song and 3AM for my favorite Matchbox Twenty song. I wanna say this song wins out just a little bit because of the riff at the beginning of the song that’s also heard at other points throughout the song as well as the chorus when he starts saying Straight Up What Did You Hope To Learn About Here?
Well I wonder what it's like to be a rainmaker I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on every one And you can come and see them when I'm done When I'm done I wonder what it's like to be a super hero I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown, yeah From some other planet, I'd get this funky high on the yellow sun Boy I bet my friends will all be stunned They're stunned Yeah, yeah Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here If I was someone else, would this all fall apart Strange, where were you, when we started this gig I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me And you, and you, and me Well I wonder what it's like to be the head honcho I wonder what I'd do if they all did just what I said (That's what I said) Well I'd shout out an order I think we're out of this man get me some Boy don't make me wanna change my tone My tone Yeah, yeah Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here If I was someone else, would this all fall apart Strange, where were you, when we started this gig I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me Please don't change, please don't break 'Cause the only thing that seems to work at all is you Please don't change, at all from me To you, and you to me hey, hey Yeah, yeah Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here If I was someone else, would this all just fall apart Strange, where were you, when we started this gig I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me And you, and me
Watched them in Aus just then they were so good as expected but wish the crowd was like this, rod laver didn’t deserve matchbox I was only one up and about in my section
It's ironic that Rob wonders what it's like to be the head honcho and wonders what he'd do if they all did just what he said. In this setting he IS the head honcho and they WILL do just what he said.
At some point between 1996 and 2003, it seems that someone pointed out to Rob that the T-Rex arm flailing thing is an off-putting affectation, and it’s better to just stand or gesture like a normal person while you sing.
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This is one of my favorite songs/performances of all time!!! It rocks
This is my jam!.....Summer 2023
Based off this performance's sound quality from this video, they sound very good live. This live performance of "Real World" sounds as good as the studio version, just in another way. ✌😎👌
I just saw them last night in Noblesville, IN. They sound just as good if not better 20 years later!
Impossible to sound any better LIVE than this tremendous performance by Matchbox 20… There are zero flaws compared to the studio version!!! Even better than the Real Thing as Bono would say!!!
Cant believe the lack of views and comments
Still one of my favorite songs.
The song still holds up
I'm going to see them in March. I cannot wait to see them blow it out of the water live.. they stand the test of time.
It’s hard to choose between this song and 3AM for my favorite Matchbox Twenty song. I wanna say this song wins out just a little bit because of the riff at the beginning of the song that’s also heard at other points throughout the song as well as the chorus when he starts saying Straight Up What Did You Hope To Learn About Here?
I also really love Rob Thomas’ songs Lonely No More, Little Wonders (from the movie Meet The Robinsons), and his duet with Santana (Smooth)
They're a very solid, and very genuine live band.
Superb performance from the lads❤
"Head honcho", love that line.
Great sound quality 👌
Wow theyre incredible live. Amazing. Whoa.
The lead guitarist must have a matchbox of 20 hash cookies backstage at all times.
Every time I see him, he’s high as fu*k!
what??? what says hes “high”?? you sound like a goof
If it wasnt for cannabis we would have but a small percentage of the great music we enjoy today. Pot & great music go hand in hand.
Wow what a great live show this would have been to see!
Dayum that chick at 1:44
Yeah, she wanted some for sure. Lol!
2000s were it
The way I loved this band for my entire life
easily my favorite Matchbox 20 song
One of the best songs in history
The drummer absolutely fucks
Well I wonder what it's like to be a rainmaker
I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain
I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on every one
And you can come and see them when I'm done
When I'm done
I wonder what it's like to be a super hero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown, yeah
From some other planet, I'd get this funky high on the yellow sun
Boy I bet my friends will all be stunned
They're stunned
Yeah, yeah
Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
If I was someone else, would this all fall apart
Strange, where were you, when we started this gig
I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me
And you, and you, and me
Well I wonder what it's like to be the head honcho
I wonder what I'd do if they all did just what I said
(That's what I said)
Well I'd shout out an order
I think we're out of this man get me some
Boy don't make me wanna change my tone
My tone
Yeah, yeah
Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
If I was someone else, would this all fall apart
Strange, where were you, when we started this gig
I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me
Please don't change, please don't break
'Cause the only thing that seems to work at all is you
Please don't change, at all from me
To you, and you to me hey, hey
Yeah, yeah
Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
If I was someone else, would this all just fall apart
Strange, where were you, when we started this gig
I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me
I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me
I wish the real world, would just stop hasslin' me
And you, and me
Gotta love it 😋
dang they sound good
Watched them in Aus just then they were so good as expected but wish the crowd was like this, rod laver didn’t deserve matchbox I was only one up and about in my section
Epic!
Used this song on my new video just today.
Where were you in 2021 when we started this game?
Bad to the bone 😎
It's ironic that Rob wonders what it's like to be the head honcho and wonders what he'd do if they all did just what he said. In this setting he IS the head honcho and they WILL do just what he said.
At some point between 1996 and 2003, it seems that someone pointed out to Rob that the T-Rex arm flailing thing is an off-putting affectation, and it’s better to just stand or gesture like a normal person while you sing.
What are you referencing?
epic
These guys all look high as shit hahaha I love it man what a sick band
WHAT!!
I went to school with Kyle cook
Thats cool! which school was that?
So off
What’s off?