Against Me! - Pints of Guinness Make You Strong

[dalto15]

it's also him saying to his grandmother that he is going out to probably do the same things and the chorus could be sung from both points of view grandfather and grandson if that what youre saying this is about

[whoatheremyah]

This song just isn't long enough . . . Oh, well! At least there's a replay button!

[ermm95]

Congratulations from Barcelona (Catalonia)!

anarchy!

[isaacwe]

@CroweChristina amen to that my punk brother <3

[28gsinazone16inalb]

pints of guinness make you strong, real spit.

[nomicealoud]

@konsoloman meant for you

[nomicealoud]

What workers protest? The strike and lockout?

[saligari666]

for who is this song about?

[bitteroblivionhazza]

@saligari666 James. He's Irish

[konsoloman]

@saligari666 The song is about a workers riot in Ireland, and James just represents one of the protestors who died

[Smegz337]

@konsoloman Dude... What? James and Evelyn are Tom Gabel's grandparents. That's what this song is about, his grandparents and their love.

This album is even dedicated to Evelyn's memory, she had just died when it was being recorded and was basically the person who raised him.

[Sora657]

@Smegz337 dude that is sad makes me my grandfather so much right now closest thing to a father I had.

[nomicealoud]

@Smegz337 yeah that's what I'd always thought. There was no worker's protest in 64. Not a major one anyway

[Rambito123]

Can someone explain me what is an a.a card?

[StilettoSilhouette1]

kameron mcworkman, kameron bodell, kameron carl arnold bodell mcworkman, i love you. listen to the first few albums of this band. read the lyrics. then look at the news and the world. look up gerald celente. i wish i could teach you like i used to every single day of our lives. we should have never been taken apart

[isaacwe]

Soo I have been thinking about this for quite some time and was wondering what is the TRUE meaning of this song? Like the story behind the lyrics

[Chrazzari]

@isaacwe I think only Gable knows the true meaning

[bayside319]

@isaacwe @isaacwe Its about Tom's grandparents Evelyn and James and how James died and Evelyn had to go on without him. note "If I would have know just how things would have end up, I just would have let myself die"

[jennifawasherr]

If we're never together

if I'm never back again

well I swear to god that I'll love you forever

[BackInOrbit]

this pop punk is really gay why would you put axl rose on the cover? hes a beast lets go listen to choking victim

GG ALLIN

[agentakb]

@BackInOrbit Dude, get off this page. You don't deserve the right to listen to this.. By the way, GG Allin is a disrespectful sexist asshole

[GuitarsRgood]

@BackInOrbit these guys are actually a hardcore punk band, and one of the greatest punk bands. but obviously it's okay to put out some softer songs, you ass

[UnrelentingSS]

This song is epic on so many levels, you will probably never understand. Haters.

[littlemisseager]

TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

[Guruman9182]

Love this song. THIS is music.

[YZFMX256]

I'll be drinking Irish tonight :)

[PoorBirdie]

@SomeIrishKid777 It wasn't made in 2007, The song itself was made in 2002, and it will be timeless. One of the greatest songs ever made.

[lovegiigoo]

Such a sad and beautiful song! I love it. (:

[themousemaster]

As quoted by my friend "i like what i'm hearing"

[lorenzosa3]

sounds like gogol bordello - this is great

[webbalex5774]

i remember being like 9 and not knowing what this is and loving cause my older cousins were listening to this now i listen to it all the time its amazing

[seabassmonster]

who esle if fucking drunk right onw?

[Twatzorz]

@seabassmonster

Well, I'm fucking high. Does that count?

[IAINoodle]

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[jessicaxox00]

@IAINoodle :P

[BlastedPeanutbutter]

This is such a good fucking song. *puts on repeat*

[Ikki1604]

To anyone who ever said that punk rock had no depth and poetry to it, I invite you to listen to this. So so so beautiful. I listen to it at least weekly and I am still almost moved to tears every time.

[ijurcough]

@Ikki1604 LOL.

[treetrain]

i love how this song has a chorus longer than all the verses combined. that is the genius of against me, Gabel. love you Gabel!!!!

[brenttonic2]

This is beautiful, love this band!

[Hister333]

I can't tell you what an honor it is for this to show up in my related videos. I've seen this band 20-30 times, and love them, and this is in my top five of their favorite songs.

[NikolaTesla21]

I remember seeing these guys play in a room of about 40 ppl. I'm happy for their successes but I still do love the old tunes. I hope they continue to play old stuff at their concerts so we can all sing along

[blueridger28]

Damn picked this up on Vynal some years ago still doesnt get old.

[lavathian666]

im only 17 born and raised irish i drink irish every night :) hello jameson whisky and bottles of guinness

[thegreenclover1]

Being from an Irish background, I really love this song. Just like I love my Guinness. Thanks AGAINST ME!

[wwcmatt]

Don't give a f.uck about this band anymore but this song will always stay up there. Still makes me squint.

[90VoltBatteryLicker]

they opened with this song tonight I lost my shit just amazing I love this band

[Laidleypunk12]

@90VoltBatteryLicker Pity almost all their new material is the kinda of pop-rock they play on the radio ... to think a brilliant punk band like this changed to absolute crap so quickly

[HellnawthatsmyOJ]

I'm drinking Irish tonight.

[vorheiz]

Jesus this song is good, hits home talkin about all the alcoholic stuff.

[ea283216]

63 people won't be drinking irish tonight

[TomPirate1]

@ea283216 You're not clever.

[HaganNetwork]

My ex girlfriend would probably never listen to this but this reminds me of my first and last love... and that was her...no one will ever replace her and ill wait for her as long as it takes

[InsaneAnarchy94]

@HaganNetwork GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY !!!

[imnothere17]

@HaganNetwork i can related, man. my first love died in a car wreck last week, she was only 17. all i can do is drink, listen to this song, and think about better days

[topdogfella]

@imnothere17 Thinking about you buddy, Man up, plenty of days ahead, good ones too. Drink wont land you up know that!

[tatd4life]

This song reminds me of my true love, Jarret Hoehman...R.I.P.

[PeaceWiseMusic]

This has to be my favorite song by Against Me!

[BryanFielder]

63 people are sour aboot life

[Laidleypunk12]

@BryanFielder What are you, canadian?

[mitchaalds]

against me! <3 :D

[SkateAllTheDay]

ohh boy me and my friends used to jam to this hammered

[Hister333]

62 people never had a good relationship with their grandparents. On my mom's side I hated all of them. On my dad's side, I love my grandfather, and his second wife. Even my dad admits she was a better woman than his mom.

[ChristBurner]

@Hister333 HAHAHAHAH fuckin nice man ! dad's side for the win :)

[BigCF89]

/watch?v=BIjS9xAj_IQ

good shit

[raisin4]

These comments all seem pretty irrelevant to the song. Every since my friend introduced me to this song and told me about its meaning it's been on my mind. I think it's moving and beautiful, and one of the only songs in the world that can actually bring me to tears.

[jimxevil]

What happened? Such a good song and album. Now they sound like Journey or something.

[awesomechicky97]

Saw them in January and again at Warped Tour(: I LOVE AGAINST ME!

[AlwaysAlone97]

beautiful song until you look at the comments and see stuff about bieber and arguments about stupid stuff. guys can we please just stop arguing and listen to the music? is it too much to ask? because the only comments that should be on this vid and any other song vid is a comment about how good a song is or how well the person who made the vid did. i look for these vids just to enjoy the music... can't everyone else do that too?

[usedbread]

Pot. Kettle. Heroin.

If that's too complicated for you to grasp, your post = what you're bitching about. You've created a bawww paradox.

[AlwaysAlone97]

@usedbread i just want the arguments to stop thats all, its just stupid to find so many arguments and discussions about stupid shit. i wouldnt want any stupid comments on my vids (if i had any). so i dont think anyone else does either.

[RupDudley]

@AlwaysAlone97 "I look for these vids just to enjoy the music..." So if your only here to enjoy the song, why are you posting and trying to get 'Thumb ups' ? Stop Trollin' Bro.

[AlwaysAlone97]

@RupDudley

1: im a chick...

2: im not trolling im just speaking my mind...

3: im not trying to get a thumbs up

4: why the fuck do ppl assume that im a dude from my username?!?!?!

[pyrokidss]

@AlwaysAlone97 dude if you are a chick right on. you are one badass chick for even listening to this music. it fucken boggles my mind that people are even giving justin bieber credit and why he is mentioned in literally every punk video i try to listen to. fuck that no talent piece of shit, autotune doesnt make you good. im glad that you actually know what music is. punk is all i want.

[AlwaysAlone97]

@pyrokidss dont hate on bieber... im not a fan or anything but all ppl have diff taste in music... we say punk is good music while someone else might say classical is good music (i happen to be a big fan of beethoven and mozart myself)

[Laidleypunk12]

@AlwaysAlone97 cause ur always alone, and allegedly ur 97? idk ...

[AlwaysAlone97]

@Laidleypunk12 i put 97 cuz its the year i was born

[MrBatManIsAPunk]

@AlwaysAlone97 Must have been a year of awesome because that's the same year I was born.

[CriticsConfession]

@AlwaysAlone97 You're being contradictory, by talking about all that shit, stated below, in a positive fashion. Shut up.

[AlwaysAlone97]

@CriticsConfession how am i being contradictory????

[LACthe3]

@AlwaysAlone97 Hey, If you don't like the comments DON'T FU(k!N& READ THEM!!! Just listen to the music, is that too much to ask? This is America last time I checked and people have the right to say anything they damn well please. For the record this bieber kid is talented, but his parents and producers use his powers for evil. If her were raised on Guinness and hardship it would be a different story.

[Hister333]

@LACthe3 This is new.  Last I checked, it was "Don't Watch It," which is kind of impossible if you're trying to explore new things. But now it's "Bieber is talented." Well, I just watched him on CSI, and NO.

[LACthe3]

@Hister333 Look closer and you will see that I said listen to the music and don't read the comments. I don't like this bieber kid, or his music, but he is more musically talented than you or I. Never saw him act, nor do I wish to. The pattern of jealousy that attaches to young famous males in the form of bashing their success or calling them gay says more about the person saying it. You don't have to listen, watch, or like beiber but be enough of a grown up to respect his accomplishment.

[Hister333]

@LACthe3 You're absolutely right. We all know that you don't get your music heard unless you're talented. Rebecca Black is proof of that. 20 years from now, we'll be bowing to shrines of Bieber, just as we bow to shrines of Joey McIntyre now.

[Laidleypunk12]

@Hister333 Or perhaps people will start listening to good music again?

[alex125adtr]

@LACthe3 you're an idiot.

[Globalsedition]

@AlwaysAlone97 Still a beautiful song

[ttthhheeerrrooonnn]

@AlwaysAlone97 dont have to read the comments mate! if you dont like them just dont read them.

[CallMeDumbo]

@ttthhheeerrrooonnn Weeeell...pretty hard to know you don't like'em if you don't read'em isn't it? And, fact is those comments are pityful, people were not enjoying music, more bitching music they didn't like. But now, seems better :P ( His comments is 3 months old)

[johnnypocketable]

bieber bieber bieber bieber biebr biebre ibrebire

[SpiderShane1]

@AlwaysAlone97 Why read them then? It's pretty harmless stuff, seeing as it's, you know, a youtube comment section.

[moodsdark]

@AlwaysAlone97 my friend in anarchy there are no rules

[AlmostaFlipinSkater]

@AlwaysAlone97

you intentionally made a Bad Religion reference

[TheVelocirapture]

uncle tom sell out shit bags. you broke my heart. atleast we still have mischief brew

[Hister333]

@TheVelocirapture I looked them up. Annoying. I guess Against Me! aren't annoying enough for you.

[Hister333]

I'm sorry. It's a beautiful song. I won't back down from against me, but old time mem'ry is a good song.

[Brognor]

Fuck Justin Bieber! Get the fuck out of here bieber bitches!!!

[jsbizkitfan]

62 people are spineless liberals

[Kindahuge]

@jsbizkitfan Agreed, but does Against Me have any anti-left political slant? I honestly only know this song from them.

[achilleselbow]

@Kindahuge They're not "anti-left" - the song goes "Baby, I'm an anarchist, you're a spineless liberal". The point is that most liberals today are indeed spineless and not willing to risk their comfort to get shit done.

[EddieR541]

@achilleselbow Nope, that's not it. That song is kind of a satire on how many more narrow-minded anarchists think that refusing to participate in overt, objective revolt is compromising one's ideals as a radical. I believe that outsmarting the law and proving that one can live without it is a much more productive way of subverting authority. Establishing your own somewhat lawless subsistence does much more to subvert power than any brick through some random Starbucks window ever could.

[7777independent7777]

@NeonLitesMusic

dude you spelled 'spelt' wrong.



[zage513]

@7777independent7777

spelled and spelt are interchangeable.

[bryleyballs]

This reminds me of high school. I know they're from Gainesville. But they played in Gulf Breeze and had a huge following back in the day..I moshed tough in their pit in P'cola..then ended up seeing them in Rolling Stone... they're legend .. come back to us!

[materkev]

@bryleyballs that pensacola show was sick

[littlebabycyclops]

britney spears in the suggestions. infinifail.

[bleh534]

Trend ass mother fuckers...you go to hell you go to hell and you die

[fiko000006]

does anybody knows why this album calls "reinventing axl rose"?

[eastcoaster54]

@fiko000006 Because axel rose is some ducebag who was incredibly musicaly talented

[NeonLitesMusic]

@eastcoaster54 dude you spelt "untalented" wrong

[timinni]

@fiko000006 yeah



[GrieferPunk]

If I would have known

just how things would have ended up

I just would have let myself die..........

[ImRiCkJaMeSbItCh84]

they aren't sell outs, i just think that they were better in any album before New Wave, but i still love these guys so, ah shit who could blame them, fuck if i was as talented as them i'd do the same thing

[deadhorsex]

i agree with toms message still, but the new music is dogshit.

[Pettigrew88]

Against me kick ass live. Go see them when they come near you, its a blast.

[Markism1]

@Pettigrew88 Saw them 13/05/2011 on friday night in Melbourne:-)

[DublinSyndrome]

Sell outs? Who the fuck cares? Are you in Against Me!? No? Thought so. Shut the fuck up, whitey. How the fuck did they sell out, I ask you? Going to a bigger label? Changing their sound? New material to sing about? How? Shut the fuck up about their goddamn message and listen to their good music.

[gillysooses]

@DublinSyndrome

Don't worry, none of these nerds have ANY idea about how the record industry works. Classicalwarlock still lives in his mothers basement. She fellates him every night before bed.

He warlock, hows the V card coming along? Find any cheap hookers to make you a man yet?

[ClassicalWarlock]

SELL OUTS

[gillysooses]

@ClassicalWarlock

Haha you 46 year old geezer. You wouldnt know good music if it slapped you in the face.

NOBODY IS A SELL OUT.

Classicalwarlock is just sad that his shift supervisor job at McDonalds doesnt pay him as much as Tom Gable makes in royalties.

You cant call someone a sellout if you have NO idea what the details of their contract entail.

But I wouldn't consider classical warlocks opinions to be valid seeing as he is an NFL fan.

NFL is for faggots.

[Hister333]

Punk kinda sounds like the Ramones. If you're looking for a more "naughty" analogy, then check out EVERYBODY. Woody Guthrie, Chuck Berry, the Sonics, and millions more, including a lot of boy bands like the Raiders.

[lakaiguy35]

if it aint cheap, it aint punk.

[davidoffon]

St Hatricks pay was dependent on him scoring at lest three vestral virgins.

[renegrenade]

Lyrically and many other ways, this is by far the best song I have ever heard, hands down

[BassGtr94]

@renegrenade without a doubt dude, i love the acoustic version more though

[renegrenade]

@BassGtr94 i shoulda posted my comment on the acoustic version of this song. cause you're right, it is better.

[AEgamesFtw]

@renegrenade Ouch. I'd hate to be you then.

[s70glt100]

who is Evelyn and James?

[penpenvadax]

@s70glt100

evelyn and james are tom's grandparents.

[everSLO6]

@penpenvadax

That I did not know ... Great to know, thanx.

[s70glt100]

@penpenvadax

thanks bud

[Bdizzleyootoob]

Such an amazing song.

[deamondeathstone1]

Now if only a traditional Irish folkband would do this song.

[zeroarmy27]

@deamondeathstone1 Flogging Molly would do a great job, I think.

[Ikki1604]

@deamondeathstone1 The Tossers or the Dreadnoughts would be SOOOOOOO good

[tashpointoh]

why does everyone feel the need to compare every single song in the universe to Justin Bieber? It's really not fair...

[Hister333]

I don't mind Justin Bieber. He's better than Rebecca Black. But, no, he doesn't hold a candle to this, and I hope he never claims to.

[MarcadamiaNut]

@Hister333 well, he's already claimed to be "our generations Kurt Cobain" so I can imagine him doing that

[Hister333]

@MarcadamiaNut He what? Are you sure it wasn't his press people?

[MarcadamiaNut]

@Hister333 Im pretty sure he did but you can look it up for yourself

[Hister333]

@Hister333 I looked it up. It's unverifiable. The quote was posted next to a picture of him. Either way, I doubt (or hope) we won't hear much more of him now that he's gotten his haircut.

[abondonallhope]

This songs bad ass,its been on my list of late night drinking songs since wayyyy back when!Im not coming home tonight!!!!

[tvcrunkfool]

people who like to argue what punk is punk is whatever you want it to me as long as its not comercial bullshit

[brianisonfiree]

quit debating on what kind of music this is just listen to it

[Crystallinetenor]

You can't have ska without a horns section.

[innercityfunnyfarm]

@Crystallinetenor Err............. yeah you can

[dak879]

Why did they stop making country/folk-style punk? Their new material is very arena-rock oriented. Its catchy and fun to sing along to, but it has none of the unique sound of their earlier sound. I know that bands evolve over time, but I hate when a band comes up with something relatively distinctive, and it gets watered down and then goes away completely. I mean, they don't even do acoustic songs anymore. I can't understand why

[discountlaundry]

@dak879 I have to say I still find their new sound unique in the sense that when I hear it I know it's against me. That is probably mostly due to Tom Gabels vocals but regardless, they still make good music and they still put effort into what they do. I love the old stuff but new wave is a good record regardless.

[franza94]

@dak879 sell-outs

[forrestjake1]

Geeeeez people, its not ska. It is punk. Its Folk Punk... Ska has more of a funky jazz thing going on this has a more of a follk feel.

[peasandcarrots138]

@longjumps r u talking about the right show? cuz the show i went to the venue is called "The Nile" theater or it used to be "The Underground" or something..but its now the Nile.

[peasandcarrots138]

@back720sk8er it was the Mesa, AZ show

[steviemack212]

how do you get a one armed punk out of a tree? toss him a beer!

[Rakaizombie]

As of yesterday, it's been FORTYseven years since James died.

[AJJihad69]

def not fucking ska....ska is the shit but there totally different kinds of music

[AJJihad69]

Against Me! isnt ska

[jimmiepatrick]

Happy St Patricks Day

[SuperMonkeyGo]

happy st patircks day

[chukj07]

@aHaikuDaily ME too but been drinking like that every day for 3 years.... lol

[elcampesino22]

this is on repeat all day today

[RevolutionofDespair]

Saint Patirck's Day!!! This song works for it perfectly. Will you have your Irish on?

[17PAT17]

No one should disrespect fucking Tom Gabel!!!

[crazyjoker11291]

saint pattys day bout to be sick

[Brubiant]

yay for this song

[katelovesyou666]

47 years now...