Decades ago, I fell asleep on the couch one night with the TV on. Woke up at three AM, watched this video, wondered what the Hell I was looking at, fell back asleep. I spent the next few months, in the pre-internet era, trying to find this again. No one knew what I was talking about and some thought I had dreamt it. Finally I saw it a second time and found out the name of the band. It was such a relief to not only figure out who they were, but to buy the album and play this for my friends so they wouldn't think I had pulled the whole thing from a weird dream.
I could have pulled out my friends of P single cassette tape to show them. Too bad...The only problem is, nobody knows that cassette tape exists and i can't prove it now either.
I thought this was gonna be a “i once watched this video and (long story short) 5 years later I hear something in my drawer and it was this video!!” Comment 😂
The real unsung hero of this song is the beautiful tone of that guitar. It sounds like really warm TV static but it is so well controlled with delay and buzz. It just carries the song so well!
"The actual "p" in the song refers to Paulina Porizkova, the wife of Cars guitarist Ric Ocasek who produced the first Weezer album, known as The Blue Album.[2] Paulina made a claim that no one had ever written a song about her, therefore Matt took on the task. Ric Ocasek noted that he found the subject matter of the song a bit odd" -- from the book "The River's Edge/ The Weezer Story". I'm into rock star biographies :)
I got to see the original Weezer lineup front row standing room only at the metro in Chicago when they released Pinkerton. They played every song off both albums and were awesome! I yelled out as loud as I could HEY SHARP! He looked at me and I screamed RENTALS! While giving him the rock hand symbol, he smiled at me and nodded to me thanks brother. Best concert of my life bar none and It sucks Sharp left, but Rivers is still awesome and I loved the green album.
I'm not really sure. There aren't many recordings of Jason with Weezer beyond the demos where he mostly plays an acoustic. Jason was known for being really good at fingerpicking, which is pretty impressive. Jason was fired when the Blue Album was almost done, so Rivers rerecorded all of his guitar parts in a single take. Brian Bell was hired before they took the cover photo, and they had him sing on a few songs, but all of the guitars on Blue are Rivers. Considering that Jason co wrote "My Name is Jonas" and helped develop the sound of the whole album by contributing all of the iconic guitar intros, and that Brian Bell didn't write anything for Weezer until Red, a compelling case could be made that Jason is more important to the classic Weezer sound, despite only being in the band for a little over a year and never getting to play any venues with them bigger than dinky clubs. Tl;dr there's not much evidence, but what evidence does exist seems to point to Jason being slightly better
Totally! I bought The Rentals cd as soon as I could get it. Huge Weezer fan, but was fascinated about Matt Sharp on his own music career - loved The Rentals. My friends in highschool thought this was a group from the 60s.
Matt is a buddy of mine and I agree with what you said, in fact I just added this funny little tune to my repertoire .I asked Matt once when he was in town does Friends of P mean on the sly mean friends with *p***y because I kinda sorta lost my virginity on his waterbed next to the Slayer,Iron Maiden and Kathy Smith posters in 1984.Anyway,I figured friends with P or p***y meant not just in the physical sense but in the spiritual sense as in you protect women because they are important, not because they are weak.Hardly.He said that's pretty good and it is kinda sorta is general sense but it's really about his friend Paulina,wife of the late Ric Ocasek from the Cars who produced Weezer's first couple records maybe idk. Great tune but it needs guitar and that's where Dave Cousins comes in ...Phil is my handle on YT 💞😎✌
2021, people WHO DON'T have piercings everywhere tattoos and dyed hair are more original than those who do. 98.9% of guys that get tattoos or ride motorcycles do it cuz they are so boring they can't get laid without some sort "crutch." Yeah, getting tattoos and riding very dangerous motorcycles is what every guy in they're early-mid 20s wakes up in morning craving. Lol, no..it's cuz those guys need some sort vice to break the ice with equally insecure female. Early-mid 90s is by far the most influential time period in everything. I mean just 10 years b4 that Baby Boomers were listening to souless disco music and dressing up like it was Halloween every day. Almost 30 years later and 1991-96 is more vital today in all areas pop culture.
This is one of those songs that was very catchy but I didn't heard very often and I had forgotten about. I tuned into 120 Minutes on MTV Classic and it came on. Wow, the nostalgia it brought on was intense. I'll have to tune in when I can. I'm so glad I heard it again; now I have it on my playlist. 🕺🏻
people always are like, matt sharp didn't write any of the songs for weezer, even if he didn't this rentals album shows that he had a huge influence on the songs even if he didn't write them
@@HectorVII He actually did co-write some of the biggest Weezer hits with Rivers... But didn't receive the proper credits.. Later when Sharp filed a suit due to that, Rivers and Co. settled with Sharp... Pure admission that Matt co-wrote those golden oldies... As the band never sounded the same after he left.
So I found a vintage Rentals shirt at Goodwill today. I was like “hmm this band sounds familiar” and after some Googling I discovered a lost musical moment from my youth. Luckily I had a cool older sister in the 90s back when I barely had an understanding of music, let alone life in general, and I distinctly remember hearing this track being blasted from her room repeatedly and just thinking how cool it sounded, looking up to my big sis and hoping one day I could be in the know and belong with all the cool adults. So today after hearing this and “The Love I’m Searching For” a rush of nostalgia flooded me with emotion and I’m left longing for those simpler days but also feeling incredibly grateful that I was exposed to this music and can forever cherish those boyhood memories.
Oh I'm so hearing you. Memories flooding back like they were minutes beforehand. Great memories etched I to my heart. My mates call me P that's my nic name, so when I heard this song, I couldn't believe it.
First time hearing this in almost 30 years, for three decades this would pop into my head occasionally but I had no idea what it was. Now I am in tears because I am hearing this again after 30 years, I’m a teen again. God bless you, UA-cam, and godbless those who post classic billboard charts, which is how I found this again
Just saw the Rentals at the Union Transfer in Philly! Unbelievable band chemistry! They rocked hard and blew me away with awesome force! Great show! Way over my expectations, I suggest seeing them as soon as you can. It was worth way more than the ticket price. Matt is on top of his game!
Me and Diane used to sing this song together. She passed away a few weeks ago, and today would’ve been her 43rd birthday. I’m thinking of you Diane. ❤️💔
"Me and Diane"?????? It's "Diane and I" FFS! Would you say "Me used to sing this song" OR "I used to sing this song" Use your fucking brain and speak proper English dumbass!
I bought this album when I was 14 when it came out. To this day I'm not sure I've ever recaptured the instantaneous love I've had for a record than i did with the Rentals debut record.
@@UPBEATFOREVER i agree, it is a good song, but it actually went top 7 around when it released, so yeah, definitely not underrated, just forgotten in a current lens lol
in junior high school my friend wanted to remake this video, we all loved the shit out of it. great album, the whole moog revival in the 90s was a lot of fun
I just learned from Politico that the woman playing the Moog is now a Republican state legislator in Iowa. Anti-vaxxer too... I'd rather have the Moog revival back.
@@jonsrecordcollection7172 You're referring to Cherielynn Westrich. Rachel Haden was the keyboardist here. Whoever uploaded the photo of Westrich on the Weezerpedia page mistakenly uploaded one of Haden.
It's the last best decade for Rock Music. Well Rock Music literally had a good 50 years (50s-90s). This era has Emo rap (which is ok they're rappers wanting to be rock stars & it's got F#$kin Taylor Swift and her overly populated "Swifties" . She's overrated completely - but I blame social media like Instagram and Facebook for that. There once was a mystique about your favorite rockstar. You didn't see family Vacation pics of them you didn't see what they were eating for breakfast on a Saturday. It's made and turned everyone into these cheesy version of themselves. Everyone's smiling now and big cheese balls I didn't know anything about my fav rockstar only what I would read or hear or see in an interview nothing else. I mean we now know Madonna has a chandelier in her bathroom & art hung on her walls of Frieda Kahlo . That's the problem with today you can't take your rockstars seriously that's why we have the cheesiest music out there because society itself is cheesy therefore we will never have any new bands like this. 👆 that's why rock ruled the airwaves and no longer does. Rappers can get away with it because they always talked about ridin in their Lambo's or in a private plane or iced out etc. But our rockstars had a mystique can you imagine us seeing the inside of Robert Smith's bathroom or what he & his wife were eating or wearing for date night...NO Ppl let's stop capturing every minute of our lives and showing it off I haven't posted anything or liked anything on Instagram or Facebook for 2 yrs! Let's just live each moment as it comes I did that whole thing for 10yrs was to busy taking the perfect picture instead of living in the moment, like we used to do in the 90's. I like UA-cam though because of videos & tutorials it's very beneficial at times the others are a complete waste of time. End the Cheese Please!🔚🧀
This song still sounds great and I actually got to see them live, in Lawrence Kansas, shortly after this song dropped. They played the songs off the album and ended by saying “that’s all the songs we have.” I miss the 90’s.
This song at the time of it's release had everything needed to change and influence our culture and become a footnote in rock history! But sometimes history has other plans!
For the guys who say Matt Sharp's departure messed up Weezer, it's not that incident that almost destroyed Weezer. It's the failure of Pinkerton. The failure of Pinkerton made Rivers Cuomo think the critics want to make him write generic pop songs. If Pinkerton did well, there will be no hiatus, more Pinkerton and Blue sounding albums instead of generic pop albums.
Ironically, Pinkerton is their best record. It's funny because when it came out, I thought it was a success. All of my friends were listening to it, but I guess I didn't realize or care that it wasn't as widespread as Blue.
@@swazilandandbotswana8856 yeah green and maladroit are great albums, make believe is when shit fell apart lmao. They've had some good albums since then though I'd say even some great ones such as the white album
Lyrics: "I'm a good guy for a gal, So won't you look my palm over? I've got time for a chat, So won't you tell me my future? I'm gonna break down at fifty, And I'm not quite a stallion. I'm a good guy for a gal, And I'm mentally slipping. Oh yeah, oh yeah. What's that ya' see? Oh boy, find out what's up with me. Oh yeah, oh yeah. What's that ya' see? Tell me more of what's gonna be. If you're friends with P., Well, then you're friends with me. If you're down with P., Well, then you're down with me. Friends of P. Friends of P. Friends of P. Friends... Somebody's fame and fortune is gonna come to me early. I get two loves in my life, and I'm dying at ninety."
Thanks Fabio Massari for introducing this song to my generation, at a time internet was years away and I'd never had seen this if not thru the music television.
@@atlasi5872 me neither! I can read a little but not as fast as the subtitles go throughout the song :/ I asked my dad back then to verify for me... Sometime around 12-1995. Amazing
Saw them at Roseland,NYC years ago and Matt and and one of the girls were earring a Rush shirt and went into a melody of old Rush moog era songs it was a blast I'll never forget that
I SEARCHED-THROUGH OVER 100 COMMENTS HERE, and I was surprised that no-one mentioned watching this video back circa 1995 on the MTV show "120 Minutes". If-memory-serves-me-correctly, this song and video did not have an very wide appeal, so its airings on "120 Minutes" were probably one of the prime ways that people would have seen it.
A long time ago, I worked with a person who had a sex change (male to female), and in that transition she gave herself a new name, which I won't mention, but was hard to pronounce and began with the letter P. Later on we hired a black lady who just had the darndest time trying to enunciate her name, until finally she gave up and said, "I'm just gonna call you P," to which P...replied, "uhhh, yeah, I'd rather you not do that." Anyhoos, a couple of years later this song came out, and whenever I hear it (which is pretty much never anymore) I always imagine (to amuse myself) that the song was about my transgendered co-worker. Not a real knee slapper, but still makes me chuckle a time or two.
I heard this song along time ago in 1995 when I was 14 and now I don’t remember where did I here this song from. All I remember now is that this song got stuck in my head and I liked it.
I love this song and video. The blonde girl is now an Iowa state senator. The brunette girl is Petra Haden. She is still performing and has worked with many musicians. She is still a hottie.
Wow! I have'nt heard this jam 4ever and a day! I recall playing this jam for my friends while we were partying big time at Lake Havasu. They loved it so much that we played this jam while we cruising with the boat near London Bridge. Great times and great memories 😎
Got ya beat. I heard this playing at First Ave in the 90’s and I heard the background girls woohoo hoo in my head till 2012 when I heard it on the radio during a renovation I was doing. Dropped my tools and called the radio station till someone answered like twenty minutes later and then found out. LOL.
Finally!!! This song has been in my head for so long and all I could really remember about it was the girls singing in the background. Now I can move on with life!
Knew about these guys back in the day, but wasn't a huge fan. But honestly, if this came out today in 2019 it would still be cool and fresh. Way ahead of its time.
Bin über die Sendung "Stahlwerk" auf Radio Fritz hier gelandet, in der DJ Jan Schwarzkamp in einem Nebensatz erwähnte, dass The Rentals eine Nebenband von Weezer seien. Geht gut und beschwingt ins Ohr, der Song, vor allem mit der Synthie-Melodie!
@@theheartlandgroup757 Right russia has always been 20 years behind. If you were in a after school music instrument program during the 1980's and 1990's they still used books from the 60's with guys looking exactly like this in photo illustrations.
Decades ago, I fell asleep on the couch one night with the TV on. Woke up at three AM, watched this video, wondered what the Hell I was looking at, fell back asleep. I spent the next few months, in the pre-internet era, trying to find this again. No one knew what I was talking about and some thought I had dreamt it. Finally I saw it a second time and found out the name of the band. It was such a relief to not only figure out who they were, but to buy the album and play this for my friends so they wouldn't think I had pulled the whole thing from a weird dream.
I could have pulled out my friends of P single cassette tape to show them. Too bad...The only problem is, nobody knows that cassette tape exists and i can't prove it now either.
We've all had those moments, waking up late at night, totally dazed and wondering where and what the hell you are doing. Nice story.
I thought this was gonna be a “i once watched this video and (long story short) 5 years later I hear something in my drawer and it was this video!!” Comment 😂
lol! Decades ago I recorded this song from the radio, the first time I saw this video was 5 years go
@@ChrisEbz I have the CD single .. proof
The real unsung hero of this song is the beautiful tone of that guitar. It sounds like really warm TV static but it is so well controlled with delay and buzz. It just carries the song so well!
Distortion guitar 🎸
It sounds like a bass guitar through a Big Muff pedal paired with a Moog synthesizer
Yea it’s a bass
That's what sharp played in Weezer
"The actual "p" in the song refers to Paulina Porizkova, the wife of Cars guitarist Ric Ocasek who produced the first Weezer album, known as The Blue Album.[2] Paulina made a claim that no one had ever written a song about her, therefore Matt took on the task. Ric Ocasek noted that he found the subject matter of the song a bit odd" -- from the book "The River's Edge/ The Weezer Story". I'm into rock star biographies :)
Awesome 👏🏽🙏🏽
That is some inside shit!
Friends of pp
@@sethschiller832 not according to the aforementioned rock biography from Weezer...
@@sethschiller832 I’m just repeating what I read. I cited my source...but, okay. Whatever...
I just love the sound of that Moog.
Any song so catchy that you can whistle along to the Moog synthesizer is a hit in my book!
@@patricialambert3110
Moogs are awesome instruments even the early ones
Is it the keyboard?I'm not musically inclined.
@@tomturek9682 Yup. : )
@@tomturek9682 - And it's pronounced with a hard O sound. Rhymes with rogue.
I got to see the original Weezer lineup front row standing room only at the metro in Chicago when they released Pinkerton. They played every song off both albums and were awesome! I yelled out as loud as I could HEY SHARP! He looked at me and I screamed RENTALS! While giving him the rock hand symbol, he smiled at me and nodded to me thanks brother. Best concert of my life bar none and It sucks Sharp left, but Rivers is still awesome and I loved the green album.
Both bands are still great, i love the rentals new stuff
That's badass, although technically you didn't see the original lineup, as Brian Bell was aa replacement for Jason Cropper.
@@flamingcabbage8359 No shit? I did not know that but since I don't know do you believe Brian Bell to be a better guitarist than Jason Cropper?
I'm not really sure. There aren't many recordings of Jason with Weezer beyond the demos where he mostly plays an acoustic. Jason was known for being really good at fingerpicking, which is pretty impressive. Jason was fired when the Blue Album was almost done, so Rivers rerecorded all of his guitar parts in a single take. Brian Bell was hired before they took the cover photo, and they had him sing on a few songs, but all of the guitars on Blue are Rivers. Considering that Jason co wrote "My Name is Jonas" and helped develop the sound of the whole album by contributing all of the iconic guitar intros, and that Brian Bell didn't write anything for Weezer until Red, a compelling case could be made that Jason is more important to the classic Weezer sound, despite only being in the band for a little over a year and never getting to play any venues with them bigger than dinky clubs.
Tl;dr there's not much evidence, but what evidence does exist seems to point to Jason being slightly better
Sorry, that was much longer than necessary, but I'm a big fan and I'm stoned
I still love this song as much at 50 as much as when I first heard it at 25.
You're lucky you didn't break down at fifty.
@@NathanielKrefman We're all dying, just some of us are dying slower than others. :P The question is, how are you living?
@@NathanielKrefman I heard he's not quite a stallion 🤭🤏🤭
but are you dying @ 90?
Absolutely 💯
*almost 25 years later and this still slaps like it's day one*
Totally! I bought The Rentals cd as soon as I could get it. Huge Weezer fan, but was fascinated about Matt Sharp on his own music career - loved The Rentals. My friends in highschool thought this was a group from the 60s.
Thanks for the reminder that this was 1/2 a lifetime ago!😀 Still a great song!!
Omg for real ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Erika Rimes omg yes!! The kind of 50s/60s aesthetic mixed w the future synth rock sounds was so forward-thinking. Still love their 1st album so much
Matt is a buddy of mine and I agree with what you said, in fact I just added this funny little tune to my repertoire .I asked Matt once when he was in town does Friends of P mean on the sly mean friends with *p***y because I kinda sorta lost my virginity on his waterbed next to the Slayer,Iron Maiden and Kathy Smith posters in 1984.Anyway,I figured friends with P or p***y meant not just in the physical sense but in the spiritual sense as in you protect women because they are important, not because they are weak.Hardly.He said that's pretty good and it is kinda sorta is general sense but it's really about his friend Paulina,wife of the late Ric Ocasek from the Cars who produced Weezer's first couple records maybe idk. Great tune but it needs guitar and that's where Dave Cousins comes in ...Phil is my handle on YT
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I love the awkward ending of this video. Just standing there. This video was pure nineties alt-rock hipster gold.
Good point. On closer inspection, Petra Haden simply standing there chewing gum and appearing uninterested is also pure gold, for a similar reason.
@@norikomoser
With a Russian touch instead of a swedish one
This was b4 hipsters became pretentious and unoriginal
2021, people WHO DON'T have piercings everywhere tattoos and dyed hair are more original than those who do.
98.9% of guys that get tattoos or ride motorcycles do it cuz they are so boring they can't get laid without some sort "crutch."
Yeah, getting tattoos and riding very dangerous motorcycles is what every guy in they're early-mid 20s wakes up in morning craving. Lol, no..it's cuz those guys need some sort vice to break the ice with equally insecure female.
Early-mid 90s is by far the most influential time period in everything. I mean just 10 years b4 that Baby Boomers were listening to souless disco music and dressing up like it was Halloween every day. Almost 30 years later and 1991-96 is more vital today in all areas pop culture.
HISPSTER IS YOUR ASS!!! RESPECT MY 90S GENERATION!!!! ASS HOLE!!!!
This is one of those songs that was very catchy but I didn't heard very often and I had forgotten about. I tuned into 120 Minutes on MTV Classic and it came on. Wow, the nostalgia it brought on was intense. I'll have to tune in when I can. I'm so glad I heard it again; now I have it on my playlist. 🕺🏻
How are we OLD
Same. I LOVE 120 minutes!! Midnight Sundays on MTV Classic is a must tune program.
I remember seeing this video debut on 120 Minutes. Back when I would record VHS tapes and just have hours and hours to playback and have good music.
@@kidwajagstangyes we are old this song came out in 1976
My college years, buying cds instead of studying. So worth it, it was a great time for geek rock
all music in general it turns out...
Mat sharp invented geek rock.
How are people saying this is a ripoff of Weezer since Matt Sharp was in Weezer
and patrick, he was the drummer in this album. also, correction. matt sharp WAS weezer
people always are like, matt sharp didn't write any of the songs for weezer, even if he didn't this rentals album shows that he had a huge influence on the songs even if he didn't write them
@@HectorVII
He actually did co-write some of the biggest Weezer hits with Rivers... But didn't receive the proper credits.. Later when Sharp filed a suit due to that, Rivers and Co. settled with Sharp... Pure admission that Matt co-wrote those golden oldies... As the band never sounded the same after he left.
Because other than the keyboard, the vocals, harmonies, melody, drums, and guitar sound EXACTLY like Weezer.
Kebert Xela this song also has a surprise fiddle solo!
Where has this band been my whole life. This song is a gem
Don't forget Pat Wilson on drums. That makes TWO Weezer members on the "Return of the Rentals" record. ;-)
We need more of this on the radio.
Hop in your time machine and set the dial to 1995. 😄
It was playing on my gym’s radio last week. Funny because I played it an hour earlier at the gym on my phone before it came on. Thought I was tripping
90s chicks in glasses and black stockings. A great time to be alive.
they would wear jean shorts with black stockings and white t-shirts.
Banged plenty of em...
So I found a vintage Rentals shirt at Goodwill today. I was like “hmm this band sounds familiar” and after some Googling I discovered a lost musical moment from my youth. Luckily I had a cool older sister in the 90s back when I barely had an understanding of music, let alone life in general, and I distinctly remember hearing this track being blasted from her room repeatedly and just thinking how cool it sounded, looking up to my big sis and hoping one day I could be in the know and belong with all the cool adults. So today after hearing this and “The Love I’m Searching For” a rush of nostalgia flooded me with emotion and I’m left longing for those simpler days but also feeling incredibly grateful that I was exposed to this music and can forever cherish those boyhood memories.
"Vintage"
Did you buy the shirt
Are you a " so'er " lol good for you for finding out some good music...?
Oh I'm so hearing you. Memories flooding back like they were minutes beforehand. Great memories etched I to my heart. My mates call me P that's my nic name, so when I heard this song, I couldn't believe it.
"Googling"???? LMFAO!!!!!!!!
That fuzzy bass is sooooo amazing!!
Fun fact: the blonde on the keys (Cherielynn Westrich) is now 57 years old and a Republican representative for the state of Iowa!
That wasn’t very fun :/
Da fuq? 😅😂
Good! Smart woman!
So she sucks....ok got it!
lmao imagine going from a band to politics 😭 what a switch
I saw this on MTV, probably 120 Minutes, circa 1996, when I would have been fifteen. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
First time hearing this in almost 30 years, for three decades this would pop into my head occasionally but I had no idea what it was. Now I am in tears because I am hearing this again after 30 years, I’m a teen again. God bless you, UA-cam, and godbless those who post classic billboard charts, which is how I found this again
I saw The Rentals at an in store performance in Philadelphia right after this came out. The 90's were a whole vibe
I miss the 90 so much
I can't love the awkward silence at the end enough. :)
I guess the director forgot to yell "Cut!"
Just saw the Rentals at the Union Transfer in Philly! Unbelievable band chemistry! They rocked hard and blew me away with awesome force! Great show! Way over my expectations, I suggest seeing them as soon as you can. It was worth way more than the ticket price. Matt is on top of his game!
I saw them opening for Silverchair and Red Hot Chili Peppers. God I miss the 90s.
We used to see so many concerts for $10-24. Lucky 🍀
1990s alt-powerpop jewel.
I miss things like these, I miss the 90s
so glad this song lives on via youtube
Me and Diane used to sing this song together. She passed away a few weeks ago, and today would’ve been her 43rd birthday. I’m thinking of you Diane. ❤️💔
My condolences 🙏.
how rad were the 90s, son? I miss them more than I probably should...
My condolences 🙏 🌺🌹🌻💐. Some 90s songs bring tears to my eyes.. memories.
"Me and Diane"?????? It's "Diane and I" FFS! Would you say "Me used to sing this song" OR "I used to sing this song" Use your fucking brain and speak proper English dumbass!
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I bought this album when I was 14 when it came out. To this day I'm not sure I've ever recaptured the instantaneous love I've had for a record than i did with the Rentals debut record.
I recorded this onto a VHS in the 90s, along with Beavis and Butthead episodes, ozzy's "Perry Mason", and some Chris Farley skits.
If I had one pick for the most underrated song of all time, I think this would be it.
Yeah
Not true!
@@UPBEATFOREVER i agree, it is a good song, but it actually went top 7 around when it released, so yeah, definitely not underrated, just forgotten in a current lens lol
@@veryrealperson3694 Top 7? Are you sure? Where can I find this information?
Soooo this is what my friends and I looked like playing Rock Band.
Ahhh...the friggin' 90s.
Ahhh...sneaking MTV and sugar cereal at 11:30 at night in 5th grade...
+Zen Jon Im agree with you :C
120 minutes. Sundays at Midnight!
Just watched this last night on 120 minutes lol
Zen Jon the feels
Getting wasted at a party because I probably already dropped out by that point. I'm a bit older.
1995, Absolute peak in music
That fuzzy bass is badass! 🎸
wow, even the lyrics in subtitles are translated correctly
really adds up to the video's atmosphere
in junior high school my friend wanted to remake this video, we all loved the shit out of it.
great album, the whole moog revival in the 90s was a lot of fun
I just learned from Politico that the woman playing the Moog is now a Republican state legislator in Iowa. Anti-vaxxer too... I'd rather have the Moog revival back.
@@jonsrecordcollection7172 You're referring to Cherielynn Westrich. Rachel Haden was the keyboardist here. Whoever uploaded the photo of Westrich on the Weezerpedia page mistakenly uploaded one of Haden.
@@lhooq27 Ugh, according to Cherielynn's wikipedia page she is listed as a past member of the Rentals.
Большое спасибо THE RENTALS!!
Very unique music video, I love how still and emotionless they are. Song is awesome!
Classic. Unique and fantastic song and unforgettable video. One timeless example on why the '90s is the last great decade.
It's the last best decade for Rock Music. Well Rock Music literally had a good 50 years (50s-90s). This era has Emo rap (which is ok they're rappers wanting to be rock stars & it's got F#$kin Taylor Swift and her overly populated "Swifties" . She's overrated completely - but I blame social media like Instagram and Facebook for that. There once was a mystique about your favorite rockstar. You didn't see family Vacation pics of them you didn't see what they were eating for breakfast on a Saturday. It's made and turned everyone into these cheesy version of themselves. Everyone's smiling now and big cheese balls I didn't know anything about my fav rockstar only what I would read or hear or see in an interview nothing else. I mean we now know Madonna has a chandelier in her bathroom & art hung on her walls of Frieda Kahlo . That's the problem with today you can't take your rockstars seriously that's why we have the cheesiest music out there because society itself is cheesy therefore we will never have any new bands like this. 👆 that's why rock ruled the airwaves and no longer does. Rappers can get away with it because they always talked about ridin in their Lambo's or in a private plane or iced out etc. But our rockstars had a mystique can you imagine us seeing the inside of Robert Smith's bathroom or what he & his wife were eating or wearing for date night...NO Ppl let's stop capturing every minute of our lives and showing it off I haven't posted anything or liked anything on Instagram or Facebook for 2 yrs! Let's just live each moment as it comes I did that whole thing for 10yrs was to busy taking the perfect picture instead of living in the moment, like we used to do in the 90's. I like UA-cam though because of videos & tutorials it's very beneficial at times the others are a complete waste of time. End the Cheese Please!🔚🧀
@@wendysumpter715 Good point. What we really need though is great music. It's the one defining factor that will cut through all the bullshit. :-)
This song still sounds great and I actually got to see them live, in Lawrence Kansas, shortly after this song dropped. They played the songs off the album and ended by saying “that’s all the songs we have.” I miss the 90’s.
Dropped ? Pretty sure only retards use that word.
@@FUY735 It’s the word your mom
used when I “dropped” a load on her chest back in ‘96, son.
Rock Chalk!
This song at the time of it's release had everything needed to change and influence our culture and become a footnote in rock history! But sometimes history has other plans!
They look like your typical Soviet rock band...
It looks like an indoctrination video, lol.
GainedSalmon 3 that’s why I’m here
@@MrGenXer wait, it isn't?
@@jones2539 it's badass!
Lol
It could pass as that ha
For the guys who say Matt Sharp's departure messed up Weezer, it's not that incident that almost destroyed Weezer. It's the failure of Pinkerton. The failure of Pinkerton made Rivers Cuomo think the critics want to make him write generic pop songs. If Pinkerton did well, there will be no hiatus, more Pinkerton and Blue sounding albums instead of generic pop albums.
Ironically, Pinkerton is their best record. It's funny because when it came out, I thought it was a success. All of my friends were listening to it, but I guess I didn't realize or care that it wasn't as widespread as Blue.
@@krakenfury It was a critical failure at the time, and became acclaimed much further down the line
I thought green was a good pop rock album, but they really messed up at make believe.
They've made some great albums post pinkerton white and red album etc
@@swazilandandbotswana8856 yeah green and maladroit are great albums, make believe is when shit fell apart lmao. They've had some good albums since then though I'd say even some great ones such as the white album
I haven't heard this song in over twenty years. Forgot it existed. And it's in my recommendations today.
Lyrics:
"I'm a good guy for a gal,
So won't you look my palm over?
I've got time for a chat,
So won't you tell me my future?
I'm gonna break down at fifty,
And I'm not quite a stallion.
I'm a good guy for a gal,
And I'm mentally slipping.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Oh boy, find out what's up with me.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Tell me more of what's gonna be.
If you're friends with P.,
Well, then you're friends with me.
If you're down with P.,
Well, then you're down with me.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends...
Somebody's fame and fortune is gonna come to me early.
I get two loves in my life, and I'm dying at ninety."
Poppy music with deadpan singing. Love it.
I love that violin part so much
This sounds way better than I remembered!
Holy shit, this song has been stuck in my head for WEEKS. Thank you for the relief!
this is about my friend peter :)
It's always one of my favourite 90 song for the last 2 decades
I love this guys...
Good song good memories Cherielynn ... you look amazing!!
The Devo of the 90's
And just like Devo, their first album is better than the second one
25 years ago...still a good song
Matt Sharp always looks so depressed lol
Thanks Fabio Massari for introducing this song to my generation, at a time internet was years away and I'd never had seen this if not thru the music television.
Удобно, что есть субтитры))
Yes, but it's not easy! I've not read in Russian for a long time! So I can't keep up with the lyrics! :D
@@atlasi5872 me neither! I can read a little but not as fast as the subtitles go throughout the song :/
I asked my dad back then to verify for me... Sometime around 12-1995. Amazing
An amazing song for an amazing band. This song came out in the 90s but it was one of the main anthems of my college years in the early "oughts".
I remember making music videos at sleepovers to Return of the Rentals, really fun times. :) Also, Matt has always reminded me of Joel from MST3K.
I remember when I was little and my dad always used to show me this video 10+ years ago it’s crazy how time flys😢
hey me
I told myself i would revisit this at 50🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😎🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓✌🎼🎧❤🤠
Also, this is easily the greatest music video ever recorded.
Yeah, lol did you see the moment around 2:25 when the blonde Moog player broke and cracked a smile?
I like buddy holly by weezer more
Loved this. Great memories of my early teens.
Saw them at Roseland,NYC years ago and Matt and and one of the girls were earring a Rush shirt and went into a melody of old Rush moog era songs it was a blast I'll never forget that
Fun fact. Actor/ SNL Alum Maya Rudolph was a member of the Rentals👍🏼
A very brief stint.
I SEARCHED-THROUGH OVER 100 COMMENTS HERE, and I was surprised that no-one mentioned watching this video back circa 1995 on the MTV show "120 Minutes". If-memory-serves-me-correctly, this song and video did not have an very wide appeal, so its airings on "120 Minutes" were probably one of the prime ways that people would have seen it.
@Jesse Simpson you could also watch it on the weekly top 20 or alternative hour before singled out
120 mins was the best
A long time ago, I worked with a person who had a sex change (male to female), and in that transition she gave herself a new name, which I won't mention, but was hard to pronounce and began with the letter P. Later on we hired a black lady who just had the darndest time trying to enunciate her name, until finally she gave up and said, "I'm just gonna call you P," to which P...replied, "uhhh, yeah, I'd rather you not do that." Anyhoos, a couple of years later this song came out, and whenever I hear it (which is pretty much never anymore) I always imagine (to amuse myself) that the song was about my transgendered co-worker. Not a real knee slapper, but still makes me chuckle a time or two.
But the question remains, where you down with P? If so, you're down with me!
yeah, P was cool.
A shame your friend P hated their body so much they chopped of the ol' penis. :(
It was.
LET PEOPLE BE WHAT THEY WANT
quite literally my favorite music video of all time
Love this song ! I have been playing it constantly.
I heard this song along time ago in 1995 when I was 14 and now I don’t remember where did I here this song from. All I remember now is that this song got stuck in my head and I liked it.
I just heard this one last night on Classic M-tv. I loved it! It's a cool sounding song, I think the two females in the band are cute as can be!
I loved this song in high school ❤️
I love this song and video. The blonde girl is now an Iowa state senator. The brunette girl is Petra Haden. She is still performing and has worked with many musicians. She is still a hottie.
Man, I loved this album back in 8th grade. Memories!
And I'm dying at ninety
Probably among my favorite songs from The Rentals, along with "Waiting".
Wow! I have'nt heard this jam 4ever and a day! I recall playing this jam for my friends while we were partying big time at Lake Havasu. They loved it so much that we played this jam while we cruising with the boat near London Bridge. Great times and great memories 😎
Fun fact: After this, Russell Crowe went on to have a high profile career as an actor.
CrandMackerel lol...I was about to mention that. Made romper stomped after this video.
Random but true... lol
This song is total madness... I love it!
Got ya beat. I heard this playing at First Ave in the 90’s and I heard the background girls woohoo hoo in my head till 2012 when I heard it on the radio during a renovation I was doing. Dropped my tools and called the radio station till someone answered like twenty minutes later and then found out. LOL.
2022 and I’m still friends with P……
This is a masterpiece!
Gotta love Petrad Hayden's vocals and violin. Great song!
Finally!!! This song has been in my head for so long and all I could really remember about it was the girls singing in the background. Now I can move on with life!
I'm a longtime Friend of P - great to revisit this.
+David Stevens good ol pavlina.
great song and video concept. executed fantastically. the russian also works, as im a native speaker.
Knew about these guys back in the day, but wasn't a huge fan. But honestly, if this came out today in 2019 it would still be cool and fresh. Way ahead of its time.
2:38 I LOVE THIS PART SO MUCH
Bin über die Sendung "Stahlwerk" auf Radio Fritz hier gelandet, in der DJ Jan Schwarzkamp in einem Nebensatz erwähnte, dass The Rentals eine Nebenband von Weezer seien. Geht gut und beschwingt ins Ohr, der Song, vor allem mit der Synthie-Melodie!
Great song and great video!!! Love It!!!
Everybody in this group is a genius. Author, drummer since age 5
In 1995 I heard this song on the radio, from there I was looking for it. I found you
man i miss the carefree 90's.
I love the early 1960's school text book music class look this video has.
What? This video is clearly influenced by 1980s Soviet/Eastern European style in mocking fashion.
@@theheartlandgroup757 Right russia has always been 20 years behind. If you were in a after school music instrument program during the 1980's and 1990's they still used books from the 60's with guys looking exactly like this in photo illustrations.
Nothing better than 90s Rock
For make benefit of glorious motherland, may I present the Rentals
The Russian translation is flawless!!!
What does it say?
It says urlocallordandsaviour is not a friend of P
@@Urlocallordandsaviorit’s the lyrics lmfao
Friends of 🅿️
Great song!
Just heard it for the first time, as referenced from an article I read today about Cherie Westrich.
Thank you for the video.
Petra Haden standing there and chewing gum is goals. Truly.
Goddamn, I haven't heard this song since on the radio way back in the 90s!