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  • WHY DID YOU CHANGE YOUR NAME? IT WAS SO MUCH BETTER BEFORE

  • bad ass band name. lol

  • this is awesome!

    

  • They WERE awesome...they ARE awesome. They've just rocked right from the get-go!!!

  • I like all of Finger 11's stuff. From when they were the RBM's, and right up until now.

  • Finger 11 fuckin sucks. But this song is pretty bad ass, they never should have changed

  • @yankman22 Anything before Us vs You vs Them is great.

  • Van Hammer Smith introduced me to this. Top marks VHS. You've done yourself proud.

  • I saw them in college as RBM in 1995, great band then and even better now.

  • This stuff was way ahead of it's time!!..One of my top 5 fav's!!

  • So last week, for no reason at all, the chorus to this song surfaces in my mind. "Walkin' around in your circles, circles...." And I almost go nuts trying to remember the rest of the song, never mind the band.

    Tonight, I find "Toy Train" by Rymes With Orange, and there's "Rainbow Butt Monkeys - Circles ( finger eleven )" in the Suggestions column. "No way," I think. "Could it be...?" And it is.

    This is the happiest I've been for days. Thank you.

  • much better as rainbow butt monkeys then finger 11. This song reminds me of red hot chilli peppers

  • I remember seeing their name on a marquee in Collingwood back in the day. Funny name.

  • Sounds like the 70s

    Years of the Rock Gods

    Cool

  • The Finger!!!

  • This is BOSS. 90s were the best years. Too bad I was born in '94 instead of '80.

  • this is still the best!!! 5 STARS!

  • Why does everyone think that when a band musical style evolves they are "selling out"? It's not like they went mainstream. Nobody else is making music music quite like they are. It's funky (Livin' in a Dream) and heartfelt (Whatever Doesn't Kill Me). I've been a fan since "Grayest of Blue Skies," and while I like that album start to finish, it lacked the true standout tracks their riskier experimentation of recent years has lead to.

  • Seriously if you think a song like "Paralyzer" was "selling out" rather than experimental epiphany then you're not paying much attention. It's got disco influences in it for god sakes! It's not my favorite F11 tune (that would probably be between One Thing, Sacrifice, Quicksand, Whatever Doesn't Kill Me, and Thousand Mile Wish to name a few...) but it's anything but a sell out. If you like their old sound then listen to their old stuff rather than wasting time bashing the new.

  • Do yourself a favor though and check them out live before you write off their new sound.

  • This music was way better than how they sound now.

  • They actually still play this song on the radio, haha legitttt

  • Rainbow Butt Monkeys is the best name ever chosen for a band. In the early 90's when RBM, Our Lady Peace, I Mother Earth, and a lot of other Ontario bands were just starting to get noticed, They all used tyo play at Front 54 in Thorold. Every time, this was the best set of the night. They're still a good band, don't get me wrong, but back then, these guys were the shit. This is one of those great songs that makes everyone nostalgic.

  • WTF is wrong with them seriously?

    Rainbow butt monkeys!!?!?!?!???

    No wonder they changed the name lol

  • @phsycoblah Yeah, cause Rainbow Butt Monkeys sounds so much more demanding of respect than a euphemism for a penis.

  • you can stil recognise this as f11 music if you compare the chorus to songs from the album tip

  • Why, oh why did they sell out :'( They were so epic, especially their self entitled album "Finger Eleven"

  • All Night...All long...!! LMAO!

  • This video reminds me of how much stronger the force of gravity was in the 90s.

  • Back before they sold out.

  • rainbow butt monkeys.....lol

  • does anyone know where I can find this song? Its not on Itunes or any of the MP3 download sites

  • Hey you guys use to play with a band fron St.Catherines,called Bad Habbit then they changed to Slang. The guitar player is my brother.Travis Ranger.He has nothing but great things to say about ya.

  • Ahhh Toronto rock at its best. I bet you the director for this video did a video for 'The Odds'

  • I loved this whole cassette...yes cassette!!!!

  • Hey Seth Rogan, how are you on this fine day?

  • it's weird watching a band evolve like these guys did. this album was a huge influence on me when I was first learning how to play the guitar. It was just so rad and funky. Then they became finger 11 and all started dressing in black and started screaming a lot. then they got huge, and some of their hits now are back to being a little funky. They shoulda kept the name imo. Sure, it was a horrible name, but it was horribly unique and awesomely hilarious

  • I freaking hate being older, HATE IT....but ....I wouldn't change my teenaged years for anything. I would never want to be a teenager now. These songs make me smile so much. We had some great music to go with those great memories.

  • Rocked out with them back in the "90s when my friends band opened for them at a bar

  • Definitely 90's reminds me of RHCP....where they a major influence?

  • and F1NGERELEVEN can you please post Danananana music video? apparently they have made one but i have been looking for a few years but i cant find it

  • Yeah i can understand why they changed there name to Finger Eleven, the name Rainbow Butt Monkeys kinda sounds like a name that a joke band would use like Bloodhound Gang lol, i seen on there Finger Eleven Us vs Then vs Now DVD Scott said that they wanted to be taken more seriously.. which is understandable because when i first heard Finger Eleven used to be Rainbow Butt Monkeys i thought they started as a joke funny band lol

  • I saw them in Montreal in 1995 and they were fringing awesome...Wish I could have seen more of them at this time....

  • Very cool... funky AND aggressive... SERIOUSLY, this is friggin COOL, if they stuck to this formula and the hard stuff they did later on, they'd be, like, the best band in modern music today! And then the poprock formula happened... >:O

  • Fuck, still love this song. I remember when they won the contest on what was it, Q107 or 97.7? Have loved them ever since. A wonderful staple of my high school memories.

  • Slight change of definition here. .Sly and the family stone is funk. Prince is funk. This is alternative. Unfortunately this band went the way of the treble charger and out of our interest when turned pop. One less finger and in much richer color and song writing. How the $%^^ one song "Paralyze" won them an award over a far better album "Hospital music" with non sell out Matthew Good i have no idea.

  • they should re do this song and put it on their next album

  • they kicked even more ass back then. this is fucking awesome.

  • Finger Eleven... well I think they were good in their first couple albums... but then the got weird... and not as cool or nice to listen to...

  • this is pretty fuckin awesome

  • I loved letters from Chutney. IMO it owned finger11 in the face with repeated face palms. Funk metal? Thats just genius and they threw it all away. I was sad

  • Be Seein Ya On The 19th Guys ROCKOUT

  • damn this is badass i wish i wrote this song lol

  • I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT iTUNES DOESN'T HAVE RBM! IT SHOWED NO RESULTS FOUND!!!!!! WTF!?!!

  • why would you change such a sweet name to the lameness that is finger eleven.  Real clever boys.

  • Wow, this video sucks! Music is great. They really needed a better image than this.

  • @SoulVotik the video aint that bad pretty good for a band that just started at the time Haha but yes the music is great keep it brutal

  • I just got an invite on FB for them playing at Riverfest in my hometown Brockville in July!!! I couldn't fucking believe it!!! They are the band of my youth!!! The highlight of the 90's!!!

  • @myeyesburn84

    im from brockville too..

    so going!

  • it's trippy seeing them before they changed and became finger 11.

  • The band kind of went back in a funk direction, I think? I guess they've gone full circle.

  • The band has a definite chili peppers vibe while the singer sounds a lot like Scott Anderson :-)

  • @reavertor i thought that was scott anderson haha

  • @reavertor the singer IS scott anderson

  • @ketchup373 I know, sarcasm doesn't translate well, that's why I included the happy face...

  • @reavertor my bad

  • THIS A BAD ASS SONG

  • well that and im pretty drunk

  • nah what's even creepier this would be seths voice if he was like 100 pounds thinner lol

  • damn he really does look like seth in alot of shots haha

  • they were even ahead of their 90's time lol

  • This song rocks..first heard it on that Senior Trip movie lol

  • fuck yes! I remeber the first time I saw them in burlington. good times. they were so edgy before, now they're too mainstream

  • i like how ya used the word "edgy" ....  very nice ;)

  • sooo 90's....loving the massive glasses on Scott....does he wear contacts now? LOL

  • Scott got laser eye surgery doesn't need glasses anymore

  • Scotty has one of the best male voices this was in a time where Canadian music was at a peak...man I never been able to retain all of my clothing at one of their shows...the band goes off! A friend of Scotts', now one of my best friends, first introduced herself to me because she thought it was funny I absolutely hammered that CD in my discman (remember those things?) through our college years as if they were some massive band - I was right. Very proud to hear them played worldwide!

  • This song and video are both so '90's and that's a really good thing. And yeah, I never liked Finger Eleven.

  • this song fuckin rocks. They rocked then and they're still rockin now, a little different style but still kickin ass.

  • i also dont like finger eleven..but rainbow rocked.... fun grungy cd :D

  • I don't like fingereleven but MAN are the Rainbow Butt Monkeys good =D

  • lol

  • 1:30 reminds me of an ipod advertisement

  • lol

  • I was never big on finger 11, though I thought Tip was decent, but I loved them back than when they were RBM, more fun in my opinion.

  • Got into Finger Eleven's music a few years back, this is a great song which I've been looking for for ages. Cheers!

  • OK I had NO idea, that finger eleven was the RBMs WOW. i saw these guys Music West in Vancouver and was super impressed. I think I even had a CD around here. Had no idea! neat!

  • Awesome song. :)

  • who names their band the rainbow butt monkeys?

  • this song is actually better than almost all of the new rock music (except for a few bands including F11)

    F11 should release this i think.

  • They did release it in Canada. I've never actually saw the CD before though.

  • goes to show, everyone was better in the 90's

    god damn i hate finger 11...

  • Dude..totally..

    F11 suck soo much knob juice!

    RBM's were the shit tho!

  • I saw the Rainbow Butt Monkeys play a free all-ages show at a club called "The Hideaway" in St. Catharines (at the corner of Grantham and Linwell) in 1994 I think it was.

    Wow. That's going back.

  • I remember the Butt Monkeys playing in Sault Ste, Marie a long time ago, then years later I saw Finger Eleven on television, and I was like... woah, it's those guys... man they suck now

  • :) ......

  • Will this ever make its way to itunes? Probably not, eh?

  • My response was to sulfur1976 by the way. Saw them three times as RBM and not once as finger eleven. They were molded too much rather than being themselves like this vid!

  • Love it. I wish rock was still like this today.

  • THey had a rehearsal studio in stoney creek in 1999, as I had the room under them. They are extremely under appreciated

  • It always blows my mind how people think a band that has been together since what, '89, can continue to keep up the songs with sick and twisted lyrics. People grow up and grow out of that stage, including musicians. Hell, even Blue October is a lot less deranged now than they were in their previous albums.

  • Everybody says they are from Burlington, but I know that most if not all went to Waterdown District High School with my brother.

    I even met Scott when he was still working at the Cango? gas station on Guelph Line and Derry Road.

    Great band love their stuff!

  • Scott transferred to waterdown senior year but he still lived in Burlington

  • I hate Finger Eleven, but I love Rainbow Butt Monkeys. Does that make any sense?

  • nope

  • it makes perfect sense.

  • Good. Thought I was crazy for a second there.

  • Yes it does, this cd was/is great. I saw them when they won the 97.7 HITZ FM rocksearch at the Hardball in Milton that spawned this cd. Every song is great from start to finish!!

  • @sulfur1976 FUCK YEA!!!!!!!!

  • @sulfur1976

    i am almost the same way. they were local (i live across the border in niagara county), and more accessible back in the 90s. i dug their sound back then. i just wouldn't say i hate them. i just do not like them nearly as much as i used to like them.

  • sweeeet songg. <3

  • hey dude if you could upload the song da na na na na by the Rainbow Butt Monkeys that would be fuckin awesome:D

  • this song is fuckin awesome thankyou sooo much for posting it:D finger eleven rule:D

  • pelotudos transtornados

  • If I ever ran into the lead singer of this band on the street and he tried to tell me that he thinks "One Thing" is a better song than this, I would have to kick his nuts up through his face.

  • i agree 100%, their older stuff was way better.

  • You guys should come back to the Burlington Sound of Music Festival!

    Those were awesome times.

  • saw them at a 97.7 chtz anniversery festival in hamilton ont never even heard them blew evryone else that day off the stage

  • they were cool, the went from like funk, to hard rock and now they're mainstream rock pop. what a shame.

  • christ i love this song

  • i don't know if he's struggling. he's gotten incredibly stoned at two of the shows he's played in my hometown, both times causing a lot of problems on stage. they still rocked, though, once things got going

  • You guys are crazy

  • Do you represent the band or by any chance are you in the band?

  • he got stoned at summerfest also. it must be his thing. it was kind of a disappointement to milwaukee. we did boo the hell out of them for bailing on us in '07. that was funny. other than that the concert was awesome, james rocks on the guitar, and sean is awesome on bass.

  • that's what i want to know. he came out stoned at summerfest.

  • Sorry didn't mean send that twice, too bad I can't erase one of them.

  • This song brings back many fond memories! I remember the days from Manhattan Rocks, No Rules Cafe and countless shows in the gazebo at Spencer Smith with good friends Gleet. Congrats on your much deserved success.

    Danielle

  • Rainbow Butt Monkeys is a really weird name, but I like it and the song... Thanks for the upload...

  • totally 90's man

  • lol, 97.7 HTZ FM.

  • yep rock search 94 winners :)

  • rainbow butt monkeys are way better than the band they turned into (finger eleven)

  • its hard to believe this band turned into finger eleven. what a transition in style. they seem to be moving back a little bit in this direction with paralyzer. rub some funk on it!!

  • Awesome song, it rocks.

  • dude. this songs kicks ass.

  • Despite how often we called Burlington "Borington" lets face it, we had it pretty good. St. Marys, Friday night live, even the Lions. It was all about the local bands. The highlight of my teen years in Burlington. Rainbow Butt Monkeys, Smoother, even Euphoric Crush. I'm a fan of Finger Eleven, you guys get my thanks for your hard work and determination doing what u do not only now, but back in the day for making just another burlingtonites teen years bearable, even enjoyable.(Nelson High).

  • good stuff! saw them live in south fl over a year ago. right about when the new disk was to come out. they rocked and hinder sucked! well i went to see finger 11 anyway. got to get my ticket signed by some of the band and rambled on with scott about the weather or something? nice guys! i hope to see them headline a show. should have seen them last summer in lancaster pa. oh well anyway i like the rbm stuff besides the name and i hope they put that stuff out again. -neil

  • Better band back then. Well, better writing.  More musical talent now.

    Yeah.

  • COME TO HALIFAX!!!!!!

  • I remember they played in Carleton Place, Ontario at the local arena, upstairs. They had three opening bands and there was probably about twenty of us there the whole time. By far the best show I've seen to date. The amount of energy and emotion was incredible. They played a cover of AC/DC's Back in black too. I still have the blue shirt with the yellow monkey in the center of it.

  • Central High school baby!

  • Hey F1nger do you remember the RBM shirt with the monkey on the front??? I saw them at AJ's Hangar, wish I sto=ill had that shirt!!!

  • do y'all do this song in concert still?

  • nope

  • You guys seriously should, its a kick ass song! Good on ya still though, keep rockin

  • Are you guys going to be touring Australia again soon as i'd love to see you playing live your music rocks

  • not anytime soon, there isn't enough of a following there to merit a finger eleven tour now if a bigger more well known band to Australia were the headliners then it would be more plausible

  • i seen finger eleven in ottawa with ozzy. i've always liked the band and moreso after seeing them live. not sure what his name is but the lead guitar guy kicks ass live...what a fuckin' awesome show he puts on

  • That would be james black

  • dude finger eleven is good did they change or something first there like rock in 'DRAG YOU DOWN' and in ONE THING and PARALYZER i think they changed did they have a new singer or something lol what name is RAINBOW BUTT MONKEYS its a sick name but totaly weird

  • already answered your question in the other vid

  • i seen them in windsor in 1996, backing up i mother earth....i love this song....the guitar player on the left is fucking nuts in concert....that fucker never stops jumping around....excellent

  • I bought this album when it came out.. Was disappointed when they changed to Finger Eleven. This vid is sooooo 90's. Love it.

  • haha he wears glasses! thats ghetto!

    rbm is sweet.  why did they lose the funk?

  • haha yeah thats when he was still blind lol he got laser eye surgery to correct that...

    And they still have some funk ;)

  • has finger eleven ever toured outside of amarica

  • yes they have toured in europe and australia and mexico

  • really how long ago did they toured in Australia? i would of went and seen them that pissed me off 1 and a life time opportunity and i missed out

  • 3 and a half years ago they were on tour with evanescense down under

  • why did Rob Gommerman leave the band anyway? .... did he wanted a normal life?

  • He was an excellent drummer but really shy didnt fit in with the rock star life.. Plus right after they released their first album (tip) as finger eleven in canada in 1997 their record label dropped them, so rob decided to head back to school to become an engineer, he has a great job now and no regrets cause that life really wasnt for him..

  • god i love  hard funk rock music i cant believe how young Scott Anderson is there

  • yep is was 20 years old in this video

  • thats what i wanna know for ages how old is scott now 32?

  • Yeah he's 32, his birthday is March 27th 1975

  • where the hell did ya get finger eleven biography from.... u got all the info

  • Well I should hope after almost 14 years knowing the guys and being their #1 fan I would retain a couple useless facts lol

  • i wish this band is still doing funk rock now its pop rock

  • I wish youtube would ban spammer skanks!

    I guess I have to do everything myself... EL BANNO!

  • This song is amazing! I gotta go out and buy the album.

  • yeah it is a great record... hard rock funky songs :)

  • I love bands that are able to incorporate funk into their songs. It adds so much more depth and fullness to the music. I'm happy Finger Eleven kept a lot of that through their albums.

  • it made it to like #13

  • How did this song do on the Muchmusic chart?

  • i though they used to call them self butt monkeys to be an another weird all.... i though they were another mocking band i don't even know why they called them selfs that

  • I really like this song!, i dont ever thought they have a video.

  • With a name like Rainbow Butt Monkeys, they have to be good.

  • and then they became Finger Eleven ...