The Rentals - Friends Of P. (Video)

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  • @SteveEdwardCooper
    @SteveEdwardCooper 7 років тому +2420

    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.

    • @ChrisEbz
      @ChrisEbz 6 років тому +64

      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.

    • @colinclayton8042
      @colinclayton8042 6 років тому +41

      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.

    • @monicar4967
      @monicar4967 6 років тому +9

      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 😂

    • @miguelship3
      @miguelship3 6 років тому +17

      lol! Decades ago I recorded this song from the radio, the first time I saw this video was 5 years go

    • @MrMykl71
      @MrMykl71 6 років тому +6

      @@ChrisEbz I have the CD single .. proof

  • @yurdp
    @yurdp 11 місяців тому +278

    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!

    • @abelmontalvo4052
      @abelmontalvo4052 9 місяців тому

      Distortion guitar 🎸

    • @oranjuly
      @oranjuly 7 місяців тому +18

      It sounds like a bass guitar through a Big Muff pedal paired with a Moog synthesizer

    • @carlr2259
      @carlr2259 7 місяців тому +15

      Yea it’s a bass

    • @dopey473
      @dopey473 4 місяці тому +2

      It's a bass

    • @janath9118
      @janath9118 2 місяці тому

      @yurdp Yes, you are exactly correct about the tone of that guitar! I agree with your view.

  • @betsiscott
    @betsiscott 12 років тому +867

    "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 :)

    • @williamtheriault4090
      @williamtheriault4090 4 роки тому +7

      Awesome 👏🏽🙏🏽

    • @nickswaim672
      @nickswaim672 4 роки тому +15

      That is some inside shit!

    • @johanlieb1231
      @johanlieb1231 4 роки тому +28

      Friends of pp

    • @betsiscott
      @betsiscott 4 роки тому +19

      @@sethschiller832 not according to the aforementioned rock biography from Weezer...

    • @betsiscott
      @betsiscott 4 роки тому +29

      @@sethschiller832 I’m just repeating what I read. I cited my source...but, okay. Whatever...

  • @BaseballPlayer0
    @BaseballPlayer0 10 місяців тому +43

    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

    • @Benevolar
      @Benevolar 2 місяці тому

      Oh yeah, oh yeah, what's that your hear... If you're friends of P then you're friends with me!

    • @SinEater_
      @SinEater_ 2 місяці тому +2

      The bassist from Weezer is in this as well. It was in between The Blue Album and Pinkerton. They did not know that Weezer was going to make it.

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice Місяць тому +1

      Me too. First time since High school. This track is dope. Especially the beat. @0:33 I'm all faded at this pizza place blasting it happy Thanksgiving weekend.
      If you're down with P....
      If

  • @brianmckenna1111
    @brianmckenna1111 8 років тому +374

    I just love the sound of that Moog.

    • @patricialambert3110
      @patricialambert3110 6 років тому +18

      Any song so catchy that you can whistle along to the Moog synthesizer is a hit in my book!

    • @jpcodnia9133
      @jpcodnia9133 4 роки тому +5

      @@patricialambert3110
      Moogs are awesome instruments even the early ones

    • @tomturek9682
      @tomturek9682 4 роки тому +5

      Is it the keyboard?I'm not musically inclined.

    • @moresnare
      @moresnare 4 роки тому +2

      @@tomturek9682 Yup. : )

    • @MrOuchiez
      @MrOuchiez 3 роки тому +7

      @@tomturek9682 - And it's pronounced with a hard O sound. Rhymes with rogue.

  • @trlongwell
    @trlongwell 11 місяців тому +38

    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.

    • @kellysue8597
      @kellysue8597 3 місяці тому +3

      Shout out to Matt Pinfield! Lol
      120 Minutes Was All That AND a Package of Mentos! 😂😂😂

    • @kristopherguilbault5428
      @kristopherguilbault5428 2 місяці тому

      ​@@kellysue8597Footos ;)

  • @kungfew1396
    @kungfew1396 6 років тому +567

    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.

    • @julialuanna
      @julialuanna 5 років тому +22

      Both bands are still great, i love the rentals new stuff

    • @flamingcabbage8359
      @flamingcabbage8359 4 роки тому +34

      That's badass, although technically you didn't see the original lineup, as Brian Bell was aa replacement for Jason Cropper.

    • @kungfew1396
      @kungfew1396 4 роки тому +9

      @@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?

    • @flamingcabbage8359
      @flamingcabbage8359 4 роки тому +39

      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

    • @flamingcabbage8359
      @flamingcabbage8359 4 роки тому +12

      Sorry, that was much longer than necessary, but I'm a big fan and I'm stoned

  • @b3naqua
    @b3naqua 6 років тому +602

    *almost 25 years later and this still slaps like it's day one*

    • @erikarimes
      @erikarimes 5 років тому +12

      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.

    • @genedrakes686
      @genedrakes686 4 роки тому +4

      Thanks for the reminder that this was 1/2 a lifetime ago!😀 Still a great song!!

    • @koonjar
      @koonjar 4 роки тому +2

      Omg for real ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @b3naqua
      @b3naqua 4 роки тому

      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

    • @davediamond245
      @davediamond245 4 роки тому +1

      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
      💞😎✌

  • @BradTheDCUniverseGeek
    @BradTheDCUniverseGeek 6 років тому +428

    I love the awkward ending of this video. Just standing there. This video was pure nineties alt-rock hipster gold.

    • @xmxkx1
      @xmxkx1 5 років тому +16

      Good point. On closer inspection, Petra Haden simply standing there chewing gum and appearing uninterested is also pure gold, for a similar reason.

    • @jpcodnia9133
      @jpcodnia9133 4 роки тому +1

      @@norikomoser
      With a Russian touch instead of a swedish one

    • @bellahoughton84
      @bellahoughton84 4 роки тому +7

      This was b4 hipsters became pretentious and unoriginal

    • @bellahoughton84
      @bellahoughton84 4 роки тому +3

      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.

    • @ricardomello1956
      @ricardomello1956 3 роки тому

      HISPSTER IS YOUR ASS!!! RESPECT MY 90S GENERATION!!!! ASS HOLE!!!!

  • @ekhays104
    @ekhays104 3 роки тому +322

    I still love this song as much at 50 as much as when I first heard it at 25.

    • @POPNDOUGH
      @POPNDOUGH 2 роки тому +19

      You're lucky you didn't break down at fifty.

    • @CaidicusProductions
      @CaidicusProductions 2 роки тому +1

      @@NathanielKrefman We're all dying, just some of us are dying slower than others. :P The question is, how are you living?

    • @casebarreoltt5990
      @casebarreoltt5990 Рік тому +5

      ​@@NathanielKrefman I heard he's not quite a stallion 🤭🤏🤭

    • @wuhaninstituteofvirology
      @wuhaninstituteofvirology Рік тому +2

      but are you dying @ 90?

    • @MichaelSmith-990
      @MichaelSmith-990 Рік тому +1

      Absolutely 💯

  • @TacoKicker
    @TacoKicker 11 років тому +152

    Don't forget Pat Wilson on drums. That makes TWO Weezer members on the "Return of the Rentals" record. ;-)

  • @Ezekael2517
    @Ezekael2517 2 роки тому +26

    I saw The Rentals at an in store performance in Philadelphia right after this came out. The 90's were a whole vibe

    • @jdancause
      @jdancause 2 роки тому +3

      I miss the 90 so much

  • @Marends34
    @Marends34 Місяць тому +5

    Saw this once on an MTV show in the 90s... Been looking for it ever since. 30 years later, I have closure now. OMG

  • @menswear2112
    @menswear2112 6 років тому +90

    My college years, buying cds instead of studying. So worth it, it was a great time for geek rock

  • @ottomatic3123
    @ottomatic3123 4 роки тому +141

    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. 🕺🏻

    • @andream138
      @andream138 3 роки тому +1

      How are we OLD

    • @kidwajagstang
      @kidwajagstang 3 роки тому +1

      Same. I LOVE 120 minutes!! Midnight Sundays on MTV Classic is a must tune program.

    • @JeremyQuijano
      @JeremyQuijano Рік тому

      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.

    • @abelmontalvo4052
      @abelmontalvo4052 Рік тому

      ​@@kidwajagstangyes we are old this song came out in 1976

  • @alotl1kevegas860
    @alotl1kevegas860 4 роки тому +67

    Where has this band been my whole life. This song is a gem

  • @Superninjasam
    @Superninjasam 12 років тому +34

    That fuzzy bass is sooooo amazing!!

  • @billick6589
    @billick6589 Рік тому +33

    If I had one pick for the most underrated song of all time, I think this would be it.

    • @leglesswarveteran
      @leglesswarveteran Рік тому

      Yeah

    • @UPBEATFOREVER
      @UPBEATFOREVER Рік тому

      Not true!

    • @veryrealperson3694
      @veryrealperson3694 Рік тому

      @@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

    • @gsuhz41
      @gsuhz41 Рік тому

      @@veryrealperson3694 Top 7? Are you sure? Where can I find this information?

  • @pinkhouse3251
    @pinkhouse3251 5 років тому +206

    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.

    • @stevemiller1626
      @stevemiller1626 4 роки тому +2

      "Vintage"

    • @JOEYBTUBE
      @JOEYBTUBE 4 роки тому +5

      Did you buy the shirt

    • @ponch2100
      @ponch2100 4 роки тому +1

      Are you a " so'er " lol good for you for finding out some good music...?

    • @paulinehili169
      @paulinehili169 2 роки тому

      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.

    • @m.j.c.6969
      @m.j.c.6969 2 роки тому

      "Googling"???? LMFAO!!!!!!!!

  • @urbsinhorto
    @urbsinhorto Рік тому +12

    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.

  • @oscaroscar2778
    @oscaroscar2778 2 роки тому +68

    We need more of this on the radio.

    • @Gaeilgeoir
      @Gaeilgeoir Рік тому +6

      Hop in your time machine and set the dial to 1995. 😄

    • @mjhilps
      @mjhilps 9 місяців тому +1

      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

  • @maxhoe
    @maxhoe 10 років тому +582

    How are people saying this is a ripoff of Weezer since Matt Sharp was in Weezer

    • @DylanKarbo
      @DylanKarbo 6 років тому +109

      and patrick, he was the drummer in this album. also, correction. matt sharp WAS weezer

    • @HectorVII
      @HectorVII 6 років тому +61

      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

    • @StreetSceneLive
      @StreetSceneLive 5 років тому +84

      @@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.

    • @MasterGaryFan
      @MasterGaryFan 5 років тому +12

      Because other than the keyboard, the vocals, harmonies, melody, drums, and guitar sound EXACTLY like Weezer.

    • @wackyruss
      @wackyruss 5 років тому +5

      Kebert Xela this song also has a surprise fiddle solo!

  • @mrgeerocks
    @mrgeerocks 7 років тому +42

    I can't love the awkward silence at the end enough. :)

    • @DaveDaShrubber
      @DaveDaShrubber 6 років тому +1

      I guess the director forgot to yell "Cut!"

  • @williamcutting5224
    @williamcutting5224 4 роки тому +23

    I recorded this onto a VHS in the 90s, along with Beavis and Butthead episodes, ozzy's "Perry Mason", and some Chris Farley skits.

  • @MikeAmerika
    @MikeAmerika 10 років тому +44

    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!

    • @miskatonicrich2556
      @miskatonicrich2556 Рік тому +1

      I saw them opening for Silverchair and Red Hot Chili Peppers. God I miss the 90s.

    • @gcgangsta8556
      @gcgangsta8556 Рік тому +1

      We used to see so many concerts for $10-24. Lucky 🍀

  • @don_lauk
    @don_lauk 6 місяців тому +11

    Every now and then this song emerges from the depths of my memory and lodges itself in my brain for days and days. This is one of those times.

  • @thetriumphofthethrill2457
    @thetriumphofthethrill2457 7 років тому +23

    Classic. Unique and fantastic song and unforgettable video. One timeless example on why the '90s is the last great decade.

    • @wendysumpter715
      @wendysumpter715 Рік тому +2

      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!🔚🧀

    • @thetriumphofthethrill2457
      @thetriumphofthethrill2457 Рік тому

      @@wendysumpter715 Good point. What we really need though is great music. It's the one defining factor that will cut through all the bullshit. :-)

  • @ikeyschultz4969
    @ikeyschultz4969 2 роки тому +16

    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.

    • @FUY735
      @FUY735 2 роки тому

      Dropped ? Pretty sure only retards use that word.

    • @ikeyschultz4969
      @ikeyschultz4969 2 роки тому +1

      @@FUY735 It’s the word your mom
      used when I “dropped” a load on her chest back in ‘96, son.

    • @lukekingsley4383
      @lukekingsley4383 Рік тому +1

      Rock Chalk!

  • @phearz0r
    @phearz0r 10 місяців тому +4

    great song and video concept. executed fantastically. the russian also works, as im a native speaker.

  • @davidstrickler5362
    @davidstrickler5362 Рік тому +53

    90s chicks in glasses and black stockings. A great time to be alive.

    • @sana-cm7oc
      @sana-cm7oc 8 місяців тому +2

      they would wear jean shorts with black stockings and white t-shirts.

    • @richevans609
      @richevans609 6 місяців тому +1

      Banged plenty of em...

    • @charlottecorday8494
      @charlottecorday8494 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@richevans609LMAO yeah you didn't. Unless you dressed your hand up, which you likely did.

    • @heinrichmerkwurdigliebe9471
      @heinrichmerkwurdigliebe9471 23 дні тому +1

      I’m convinced that humanity peaked right about this time.

    • @davidstrickler5362
      @davidstrickler5362 23 дні тому

      @@heinrichmerkwurdigliebe9471 I think GenX is the luckiest generation in the history of the world. We didn't get churned up in a world war, we got to experience endless hours of great music and television, we grew up before cell phones and screens dominated our childhoods, yet got to have them later in life, and we'll be gone before AI and misinformation and wars over oil and resources take over.

  • @jillconner5062
    @jillconner5062 2 роки тому +4

    I haven't heard this song in over twenty years. Forgot it existed. And it's in my recommendations today.

  • @notsusan
    @notsusan 7 років тому +55

    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

    • @jonsrecordcollection7172
      @jonsrecordcollection7172 2 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @lhooq27
      @lhooq27 2 роки тому +3

      @@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.

    • @ryangossett8211
      @ryangossett8211 Рік тому +1

      @@lhooq27 Ugh, according to Cherielynn's wikipedia page she is listed as a past member of the Rentals.

  • @caflagel
    @caflagel 13 років тому +24

    Very unique music video, I love how still and emotionless they are. Song is awesome!

  • @crazycatman5928
    @crazycatman5928 Місяць тому +2

    How could I have forgotten this catchy little gem? My mind at 50 isn’t what it once was….guess I’m breaking down at 50.

  • @williamwixon
    @williamwixon День тому

    I just happened to hear this on Amazon Music. I hadn’t heard it in ages, 25 years, maybe more I had *completely* forgotten about this song! to me I t’s quirky and silly and strange but I used to love to hear this on the radio and it’s really great to hear it again.! Thank you so much for posting!

  • @Deadok5803
    @Deadok5803 8 років тому +13

    wow, even the lyrics in subtitles are translated correctly
    really adds up to the video's atmosphere

  • @jayworner795
    @jayworner795 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @RandomAverageCat
    @RandomAverageCat 6 років тому +18

    1990s alt-powerpop jewel.
    I miss things like these, I miss the 90s

  • @Elphyrafire
    @Elphyrafire 8 років тому +31

    so glad this song lives on via youtube

  • @glittergirl1063
    @glittergirl1063 3 роки тому +145

    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. ❤️💔

    • @Rbenson1979
      @Rbenson1979 3 роки тому +7

      My condolences 🙏.

    • @mirzaghalib8659
      @mirzaghalib8659 3 роки тому +2

      how rad were the 90s, son? I miss them more than I probably should...

    • @Rbenson1979
      @Rbenson1979 3 роки тому +3

      My condolences 🙏 🌺🌹🌻💐. Some 90s songs bring tears to my eyes.. memories.

    • @m.j.c.6969
      @m.j.c.6969 2 роки тому

      "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!

    • @DUMBERTHANYOUTHINK
      @DUMBERTHANYOUTHINK 2 роки тому

      💔

  • @superrok420
    @superrok420 9 років тому +124

    Soooo this is what my friends and I looked like playing Rock Band.

  • @sana-cm7oc
    @sana-cm7oc 8 місяців тому +5

    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.

  • @alistabruno
    @alistabruno 6 років тому +6

    I love this guys...
    Good song good memories Cherielynn ... you look amazing!!

  • @gustavouchida1
    @gustavouchida1 2 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @billm8627
    @billm8627 4 місяці тому +2

    The drummer makes the video the way it's simple taps. This song will never get old...

  • @Proclivitytolife
    @Proclivitytolife 2 роки тому +8

    Ahhh...the friggin' 90s.

  • @Warrchild777
    @Warrchild777 11 місяців тому +10

    Okay, it blows my mind how nobody ever gets this but “Friends of P” refers to Friends of Psychics which is the old commercial on TV from back in the 90s in which they advertised psychic services over the phone for like $0.99 a minute or some sh*t like that. Miss Cleo? “Call me now for ya free reeedin’…?” Ring any bells? The whole song is a blatant psychic reading. Anyway, just go look at the lyrics again with that in mind - and I don't care what Wikipedia says, I was always right on this one 😎👍

    • @oacho3
      @oacho3 5 місяців тому +2

      If listened using your interpretation the lyrics makes very very much sense. Way to go! Your comment should get some thousands likes. Thanks!

    • @Warrchild777
      @Warrchild777 5 місяців тому +1

      @@oacho3 Haha - thanks oacho :)

  • @Neville60001
    @Neville60001 7 років тому +255

    They look like your typical Soviet rock band...

    • @MrGenXer
      @MrGenXer 7 років тому +21

      It looks like an indoctrination video, lol.

    • @taigaokubo8155
      @taigaokubo8155 7 років тому +3

      GainedSalmon 3 that’s why I’m here

    • @jones2539
      @jones2539 6 років тому +6

      @@MrGenXer wait, it isn't?

    • @MrGenXer
      @MrGenXer 6 років тому +4

      @@jones2539 it's badass!

    • @hangingwithmatty9465
      @hangingwithmatty9465 6 років тому +4

      Lol
      It could pass as that ha

  • @violashaver
    @violashaver Місяць тому +1

    I listened to this song like three years ago and then I forgot about it. Five months ago I've been trying to find it but I had forgotten the name and the lyrics. Somehow on this fateful day I have found the song that changed my life a while back. I had no idea how much I wanted to see it, to hear it, again.

  • @HurricaneHamilton
    @HurricaneHamilton 6 місяців тому +3

    Only just learned the brilliant Maya Rudolph was in this band. 🤯. This was before she joined Saturday Night Live when was a backing singer (1995-1999) and briefly a keyboardist with them, touring as well. She’s in videos for "Waiting" and "Please Let That Be You", sang backing vocals for "Barcelona" and "My Head Is in the Sun". In 2004, she recorded a track with the Rentals frontman Matt Sharp, including a cover of Tegan and Sara's "Not Tonight".
    At the time of this songs video release this song was a bit of a one hit wonder, quirky and cute, and somewhat was part of the peak synth revival movement where suddenly every indie band had to have a vintage Moog which drove up prices and inspired the Moog company to create new classic models, an overall an analogue synth music movement which the mighty Stereolab had initiated, showing the world a group of mostly women could polish rough rock into a gorgeous hypnotizing jewel, an untouched legacy that lives on today. (At the time to have that many prime female members was rare, and to this day still isn’t acknowledged for being groundbreaking and hugely influential).

  • @curiousgemini
    @curiousgemini Рік тому +6

    Poppy music with deadpan singing. Love it.

  • @hailmaryrecordings8255
    @hailmaryrecordings8255 3 місяці тому +3

    My baby-brother bought me this album and the first Foo Fighters for Christmas 1995 & I still have both of those amazing albums.
    Weezer lost their edge when they lost Matt.

  • @charliebe28
    @charliebe28 6 років тому +10

    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.

    • @jpcodnia9133
      @jpcodnia9133 4 роки тому

      @Jesse Simpson you could also watch it on the weekly top 20 or alternative hour before singled out

    • @williamlamphere9686
      @williamlamphere9686 7 місяців тому +1

      120 mins was the best

  • @flxsantillan3786
    @flxsantillan3786 5 років тому +1

    In 1995 I heard this song on the radio, from there I was looking for it. I found you

  • @user-hi3iy9me4e
    @user-hi3iy9me4e Рік тому +2

    I miss the 90s. When life was easy and social media didn't exist. Gen Z will never know the utopia of the 90s n early 2000s..

  • @zenjon7892
    @zenjon7892 9 років тому +173

    Ahhh...sneaking MTV and sugar cereal at 11:30 at night in 5th grade...

    • @danielapaolateresa
      @danielapaolateresa 9 років тому +3

      +Zen Jon Im agree with you :C

    • @GTV-Japan
      @GTV-Japan 7 років тому +5

      120 minutes. Sundays at Midnight!

    • @BlueDragonBot
      @BlueDragonBot 6 років тому +1

      Just watched this last night on 120 minutes lol

    • @aaronscottjockers4490
      @aaronscottjockers4490 6 років тому +2

      Zen Jon the feels

    • @williamsanders2348
      @williamsanders2348 5 років тому +3

      Getting wasted at a party because I probably already dropped out by that point. I'm a bit older.

  • @wendellmakilanw.researchde7312
    @wendellmakilanw.researchde7312 10 років тому +15

    Большое спасибо THE RENTALS!!

  • @zachfazzio5055
    @zachfazzio5055 Рік тому +93

    Fun fact: the blonde on the keys (Cherielynn Westrich) is now 57 years old and a Republican representative for the state of Iowa!

    • @pedrocruz4409
      @pedrocruz4409 8 місяців тому +34

      That wasn’t very fun :/

    • @HaakonAnderson
      @HaakonAnderson 8 місяців тому +2

      Da fuq? 😅😂

    • @Michael-pq4wd
      @Michael-pq4wd 8 місяців тому +25

      Good! Smart woman!

    • @Sonny-e4o
      @Sonny-e4o 7 місяців тому

      So she sucks....ok got it!

    • @robertlover64
      @robertlover64 7 місяців тому +8

      lmao imagine going from a band to politics 😭 what a switch

  • @ChristianHoffmann-ck7vv
    @ChristianHoffmann-ck7vv 2 роки тому +1

    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!

  • @BasqueNYC
    @BasqueNYC 11 років тому +6

    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

  • @jasonpeters3558
    @jasonpeters3558 6 років тому +14

    1995, Absolute peak in music

  • @jdancause
    @jdancause 3 роки тому +4

    It's always one of my favourite 90 song for the last 2 decades

  • @marksnexus
    @marksnexus 4 роки тому +15

    That fuzzy bass is badass! 🎸

  • @bernieflores6350
    @bernieflores6350 6 років тому +4

    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.

  • @fred21679
    @fred21679 10 років тому +20

    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!

  • @edwardprice140
    @edwardprice140 8 місяців тому +3

    2024 and i just now heard this on WTSQ ?

  • @tomlemole4164
    @tomlemole4164 7 років тому +7

    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".

  • @HectorDCasas
    @HectorDCasas Рік тому +6

    Fun fact. Actor/ SNL Alum Maya Rudolph was a member of the Rentals👍🏼

  • @mcbigswig1569
    @mcbigswig1569 2 місяці тому +2

    Love this song. It's like The Cars and Weezer had a baby. P is Paulina Porizkova, (probably many of you already know that). I'm thinking that delicious distortion guitar sound is coming from a combination of Matt's (Fender Precision?) bass and Rod Cervera's (Silvertone?) guitar running through distortion FX. Love Petra Haden's short, simple, but effective violin solo. If you're lucky enough to have the original vinyl pressing in good condition, it should go for high dollar. The masters were destroyed in an accident, so the original album will never be re-pressed on vinyl. There is a rare bootleg vinyl out there, currently 1 copy on Discogs, going for $75 plus shipping. That's for a bootleg most likely just mastered from the CD. I had that Moog like Cherielynn Westrich is playing when I was in a band, wish I still had it. This looks like a video that Fred Armisen would enjoy.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 2 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @ceebler
    @ceebler Рік тому +3

    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😢

    • @ceebler
      @ceebler 10 місяців тому +1

      hey me

  • @asparagusbear3323
    @asparagusbear3323 6 років тому +4

    I met Petra (violin) a few times at Spaceland right when this stuff was taking off. She was super nice and friendly. She was totally normal. Hope you are good, Pet : ))) I had that same buzz all around haircut and she mistook me for her brother Josh (Spain) from a distance. It was a fun time, lots of great bands.

  • @Goombrah
    @Goombrah 3 роки тому +3

    I love that violin part so much

  • @e.916
    @e.916 3 місяці тому +1

    this music video is EXACTLY what i had envisioned in my head its crazy

  • @elgatogordo9523
    @elgatogordo9523 2 роки тому +1

    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 😎

  • @pacificrain2016
    @pacificrain2016 7 років тому +260

    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.

    • @krakenfury
      @krakenfury 6 років тому +55

      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.

    • @JoelCR2
      @JoelCR2 5 років тому +12

      @@krakenfury It was a critical failure at the time, and became acclaimed much further down the line

    • @swazilandandbotswana8856
      @swazilandandbotswana8856 4 роки тому +22

      I thought green was a good pop rock album, but they really messed up at make believe.

    • @workingtitle7049
      @workingtitle7049 4 роки тому +5

      They've made some great albums post pinkerton white and red album etc

    • @psychobilly42069
      @psychobilly42069 3 роки тому +10

      @@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

  • @eduardozagut1172
    @eduardozagut1172 9 років тому +3

    WOW !!!!!
    I `d been looking for this song for some many years!!!
    :)

  • @pipersdreams
    @pipersdreams 4 роки тому +4

    I have no idea why this is so good.
    All I can say is that I'm happy this popped up in my recomendations.

    • @MonkyMonk729
      @MonkyMonk729 4 роки тому

      It's the chicks going, "ooh woo hoo hoo". That's what elevates this song to exceptional greatness.

  • @troygaspard6732
    @troygaspard6732 3 роки тому +2

    This is not hip or nerd, just pure 90's alt rock. The video is perfect.

  • @NotSolmportant
    @NotSolmportant 2 роки тому +1

    Probably among my favorite songs from The Rentals, along with "Waiting".

  • @StephanieCrawford333
    @StephanieCrawford333 10 років тому +13

    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.

  • @leonardc.middelkamp1797
    @leonardc.middelkamp1797 6 років тому +6

    Love this song ! I have been playing it constantly.

  • @gitarkin
    @gitarkin 7 років тому +21

    Also, this is easily the greatest music video ever recorded.

    • @blindriv3r
      @blindriv3r 7 років тому +1

      Yeah, lol did you see the moment around 2:25 when the blonde Moog player broke and cracked a smile?

    • @eltrucc9091
      @eltrucc9091 11 місяців тому

      I like buddy holly by weezer more

  • @davidstevens5980
    @davidstevens5980 10 років тому +1

    I'm a longtime Friend of P - great to revisit this.

  • @bradd9326
    @bradd9326 6 років тому +5

    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!

  • @chasemakesvideo
    @chasemakesvideo 3 роки тому +3

    quite literally my favorite music video of all time

  • @infinite_vortex
    @infinite_vortex 4 роки тому +15

    25 years ago...still a good song

  • @davojtek
    @davojtek 9 років тому +7

    Loved this. Great memories of my early teens.

  • @timmayer7248
    @timmayer7248 2 роки тому +1

    For make benefit of glorious motherland, may I present the Rentals

  • @michaelwtapp
    @michaelwtapp 8 років тому +14

    Holy shit, this song has been stuck in my head for WEEKS. Thank you for the relief!

  • @MargaritaMalfoy
    @MargaritaMalfoy 6 років тому +23

    Удобно, что есть субтитры))

    • @atlasi5872
      @atlasi5872 5 років тому +1

      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

    • @jpcodnia9133
      @jpcodnia9133 4 роки тому

      @@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

  • @101Volts
    @101Volts 6 років тому +52

    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."

    • @ruselargentum2936
      @ruselargentum2936 2 місяці тому

      i think it might be "some modest fame and fortune", the russian subtitles dont make sense in the case if it is "somebodys".

  • @shadowcappi415
    @shadowcappi415 5 років тому +4

    Who is listening. nov 2019? 24 years later! Good Gawd. 24 years later.

    • @williamwixon
      @williamwixon День тому

      2025 now. great song, so glad I rediscovered it.

  • @FoxobeyShepard
    @FoxobeyShepard 8 місяців тому +1

    I heard from the podcast Q with Tom Power that Maya Rudolph played keyboards in touring with The Rentals.

  •  9 років тому

    hey I am 40 yrs old and I love this music, reminds me of my skater years

  • @MrBhugh81
    @MrBhugh81 7 років тому +3

    Man, I loved this album back in 8th grade. Memories!

  • @JisINSANE3
    @JisINSANE3 9 років тому +11

    I love the early 1960's school text book music class look this video has.

    • @theheartlandgroup757
      @theheartlandgroup757 4 роки тому +1

      What? This video is clearly influenced by 1980s Soviet/Eastern European style in mocking fashion.

    • @JisINSANE3
      @JisINSANE3 4 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @williammatthews693
    @williammatthews693 5 років тому +5

    This song is total madness... I love it!

  • @scottmartin6479
    @scottmartin6479 7 місяців тому

    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!

  • @jonrose6019
    @jonrose6019 Рік тому +1

    I needed to hear the sisters harmonize! Should of done more together