Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Cursed Sleep"

[RoofRack2]

It's the string arrangements that remind me of Drake - which of course weren't Drake.

[mnhypercam]

beards <3

[chad7chad1]

This is the first I've heard of him and..................WOW. Just...........WOW. Goosebumps, breathless, speechless, Lanegan, and MORE!!!

[meinLiebsterFeind]

@chad7chad1

lanegan of the screaming trees?

[furor93]

ah 240p, so we meet again...

[DrSchmi3d]

What shall I say but amazing. Guess there is no word in any language to describe the charm of his voice and his work.

[ThirteenDeadTrees]

this is one of my favorite song ever. A dream came musically true

[humanfly1973]

goosebumps ...



[oliviamaet]

This gives me shivers

[dannyhood66]

@oliviamaet I wish i could get shivers from this..

[SmGrGo]

@dannyhood66 I'm sorry

[dannyhood66]

@SmGrGo  Its okay, not your fault

[manu0325manu]

Looking for Bonnie Billy fans across the world to share passion for the Great Man's music - Look for me on Facebook, I'm: "Arise Therefore".

[ScottyJaxKirkwood]

In the words of Biffy Clyro "Will Oldham's In the Corner Moaning Can't You Write Your Own Lines" LONG LIVE THE PRINCE

[evilhairdo]

love you will

[MyLightMusic]

I just don´t care about the video... the song it´s just amazing and blows my mind...what else do i want? :)

[MyLightMusic]

I care a shit about the video... the song just blows my mind.

[randomxyz3]

I'd like to hear the dude with the falcon sing - he looks like a real badass.

[eatthemoon13]

@Manoficeandsnow I agree but that is prob the point..

[bigphil2695]

bonnie prince billy is the dog sex monster

[CTYFOLK]

omy goodness! i actually had a professional-grade E.T. mask as a child. i wore it every year for halloween. that is, until MY head grew to size distorting the shape of his.

[azelllllll]

hola!!!! will vonito video me impreciona lo lo q ace soy julio de El Salvador

[SmellyTubeWorm]

cursed love

[soulsoup159]

nick drake respecked Ö

[soulsoup159]

nick drake 

[ScenesFromPalacio]

What an ace atmospheric song...So cool :)

[aridal68]

like :-)  ... sandalwood.ie

[mickydgirl]

he looks like a young Alejandro Jodorowsky

[palace77]

GENIUS with SOUL

[aridal68]

we did a bonnie prince billy cover and dedicated it to don van vliet... youtube.com/watch?v=GfmZ7vbJFf­U

[redbeakman]

louisville.

[IOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIO]

Powerful stuff

[KrisBuckleMusic]

Just found out about this dude! Frikin sweet.

[deerbeerdeerbeer]

i first heard this song on an oddball channel on sirius. i was like whoa.

[TobiasMuray]

Milk stache 

[aaboeggild]

7 seconds in to the song, i fell in love with it

[bowsnflowers]

@aaboeggild same same SAME.

[milesdavies]

reminds me of moondog. never a bad thing

[randomh3ro1]

sounds like sufjan stevens took a few pages out of prince billy's book.

i was laughing at this mans beard last night. now im cherishing that fact that i found it.

[meinLiebsterFeind]

@randomh3ro1

sufjan stevens sucks...

[AmBeera4]

Brilliant lyrics

[liakos8624]

boring

[rendofarend]

Reminds me of Nick Drake

[cavern9er]

@rendofarend totally. good call - i would have never made that connection.

[NAIVADA]

Wonderful images serving an alegory standing for the human being coming to life. symbols show this raising of a new born, from out of nowhere, an innocent soul appearing one day. we're alive into particular unchosen circumstances, places & people who set off our surroundings, in time we learn, discover all the joyful & hurtful aspects that come along living among them. always tied to mysteries of love, longing, still ruined by envy, misundestandin

[MichaelZodok]

I dig this. I stumbled upon this by accident!! This blues track has garnered Bonnie 'Prince' Billy a new fan.

[ryanadamsfan1]

will oldham is a genius!

[livinglite]

the ending is like the tomb, the resurrection, no longer there...enlightened...he thinks he has to be like the others, but realizes all they can do well is control what is his freedom, as they do with controlling the birds....so he returns to what he was, realizing those who tried to supress him learned from him (hence the mask) but yet never truly understood why he was there with them afterall.

[TheAndrewBarrington]

He falls from a tree as a wild animal, alone and with very little humanity. The family brings him in and teaches him to be human again. The son begins to feel alienated because the family is showing him all the attention and finally, after a tumble with the son, he returns to the wild.

[destino123]

para dormir bien vale

[NexCarnifex]

i don't get the video, explain it to me guyz

[craneflyband]

It's a dream. It's up to you.

[3213242]

He fell from a tree, was adopted by a family, shed his skin, was introduced with birdship and took off with his alien friend in his old skin.

[12InRuin]

OOf Now thats a good song.

[brund1ef1y]

There is no "Band" or "These Guys". This is, and has always been, the songs of one guy.

[Southlyric]

Love this song..

[sixthlife]

love this band - been listening to them 4EVER - inspiring and influences the music i record at home ----->i post check my channel out

[WhoAteTheHotPepper]

wow i've heard a lot about these guys but this is the first time i'm listening and they are sweet

[chuckademus]

love you will, hope you have a great christmas mr oldham you rock my world

[marcuslobb]

what happened to will oldham?

[tallendy]

one of my favorite songs of his

mr prince billy, your music amazes me

[pilkingtonphil]

I've been trying to figure out for about a week who Bonnie 'Prince' Billy absolutely resembles. I couldn't figure it out for ages, at first I thought it might be that guy out of 'Mythbusters' - but now I've got it.

He's the spitting image of Emile Durkheim - the founder of modern sociology. Fucking bizarre!!!

[proposals]

They've got very similar fantastic beards, but they don't really have the same features.

However, HOLY SHIT, are you ever right about him resembling Jamie from Mythbusters! They actually look freakishly similar, I can't believe I never noticed that before.

[fireandashes36]

Very well done! Evocative.

[Stealthkettle]

FLOOD WOZ HEER.

[tobi123man]

flood is a f**k tard

[theholypope]

tremendously beautiful

[missjoes]

your mint some random guy introduced you to me...... still you sing from the soul and settle mine ...x

[Guinizelli777]

Great! Greetings from Norway.

[fleetfox88]

surreal

and

terrifyingly

beautiful

[StevenFrancisCasola]

Thank you.

[annahathis1]

It should be Bonnie King Billie. Will Oldham is a genius and this is song is sublime.

[jymiurine]

@annahathis1 well i'd say he's humble and thats why its prince and not king instead

[lordofthejungle]

@jymiurine Also because "King Billy" is a sectarian term for William III (of Orange) in Northern Ireland and Scotland, a warmongering imperialist from the Netherlands who asserted British rule over Scotland and Ireland, and who's grandchildren were the focus of Bonnie Prince Charlie's repudiative efforts some time later. To name himself "King Billy" would be in direct contradiction of this and the outlaw sentiment he gets from the wordplay of Billy and Bonney, the real name of Billy the Kid.

[liamsdad33]

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." Sigmund Freud, speaking about the Irish. ...

[convulsionaire]

Sigmund Freud...leader of the notorious Viennese child abuse ring? He said that about the Irish? Wow.

[earthflattener]

...sadly for Freud it turned out that the statement had no need for restrictions. The correct phrase is 'Psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever'

[liamsdad33]

oh come on your just Irish arnt ya jk you are 100% right my friend

[Wankshaftsbury]

Time to dream...

[SunsetRubdownz]

where was this filmed? it's one of the most beautiful scenes i can fathom... oh and oldham is my hero.

[missjameson]

Atascadero, CA (near San Luis Obispo)

[DrEyebrows]

Fuck psychologists, aka masters of just stating the obvious.

[painful100]

Sometimes people cant see the obvious

[FunBoy15]

in that case we need somebody to state it no?

[NotoriousElderly0]

I like how the CAPTCHA thing asks "Can't read?", makes no sense.

Anyways, anyone know what happened with the person in the E.T. suit and the dead bird? Kinda got lost, but maybe I'm just overthinking it.

[trippster68]

All answers could be found in Sigmund Freud's notoriously overwrought "Interpretation of Dreams" or you could just go with the line from Goethe's "Faust": "The feeling is everything, name is but noise and smoke."

[Fepsi92]

love this song

[madelynnwin]

this guy went to my high school. A long, long, long time ago.

[xxkrydxx]

so your a louisville native as well i assume? just saw him at the red mile barn in lex am month ago...FANTASTIC!!

[madelynnwin]

yep, Brown School!

I saw Neutral Milk Hotel at that venue in February, I think it was. FANTASTIC.

[SvetlanaIndustries]

what was he like?

[zarbar2]

@madelynnwin I wish I went to high school with people like him! Lucky you! I graduated high school last year, and I knew this one guy who went on to California to pursue a singing career. But he ain't nearly as good as Will Oldham!

Ha ha.. no I love that guy.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

@madelynnwin I dont know why....but I found it really funny that simply stating the fact that Oldham went to your High School generated 18 (so far) Thumbs up! LOL!!....Eh...what the Hell, I'll make it 19! I'd be proud of the fact that he went to my H.S. too!

[burkhartkevin]

@frankensteinmoneymac WOW mabey madelynnwin (comment above) is Madelein- Mary from the great Bonnie Prince Billy song!!!

[frankensteinmoneymac]

@burkhartkevin Hmmmm.......perhaps so?

[burkhartkevin]

@madelynnwin Mabey you ARE Madelein- Mary great Bonnie Prince Billy song!!! Wow. I bet he wrote it for you!

[Margiempar]

@madelynnwin

Now you miss him or what? xDD

so late..

[rampamifi]

@madelynnwin congratulations

[HayBelly]

@madelynnwin WOW that's amazing were you the only two people there? He went to HIGH SCHOOL wow

[horseloverfatjr]

@HayBelly You sound like a real jackass.

[BirdieButter]

Beautiful. :)

[subsamadhi]

Will Oldham is among the few musicians putting out talented, accomplished music these days.

[lemonkittens]

Great to see you living up to your name!

[Greenhorsemanship]

wow. what a well thought out, wonderful comment!

[Bigpineapple]

please say you're joking : /

[kmorarity]

god I cant stop listening to this song such a great artist and so weird at the same time love it!!

" I dreamed of her inside of me"

[loversneverloose]

mola! :)

[elvin211]

yeaa

[MrEdyoulis]

That was a Prairie Falcon. The arrangement kind of reminds me of Rufus Wainright.

[Velocirappa]

apparently will comes into the record store where i work on occasion (in Louisville).

[babefamfade]

delta spirit's bass player playing ET?

[mrpharmacist29]

He does rock hard live, I just saw him in Urbana

[BroNora]

In fact most his albums are very good. One of my favourites is "Superwolf" although one of the more recent ones. He is a fucking weirdow, yes, but ingenious in what he does. Apparently he rocks live.

[ryanadamsfan1]

i didn't know bonnie "prince" billy and will oldham were the same person with two different names, will oldham being his real one.

[ryanadamsfan1]

this would be a great song for a duet dance.

[Pitt412050]

Who does this guy think he is?  Frank Zappa?

[ryanadamsfan1]

he is way better than zappa but great like dylan and young.

[harvard11]

Maybe like Ryan Adams?

[ULfan808]

I am pretty sure Will Oldham has been around longer than Ryan Adams

[nutherefurlong]

Just found out about this guy. Great stuff. I keep forgetting what's possible in music, and am happy when guys like this remind me :)

[uncleruckus516]

it would be cool if he toured with phosphorescent

[kristiantheheathen]

What a rare and beautiful artist this man is. I'm buying that CD today. Thanks for posting. I have two other Cd's of his - "Ease Down the Road" and "I See a Darkness". Check them out if you don't know them, they're both brilliant.

[alkrin]

fucking spellbinding, i miss him every time he tours too =(

[swuzly]

love <3

[beastie978]

He is fucking amazing. I love how this video juxtaposes it's funniest image, him wrestling with ET, with it's saddest, the dead bird.

[jaredflaherty]

anybody know where this was shot?

[jeddieb85]

does anyone know where this is filmed? it looks southern, like Shenandoah valley or somewhere in Virginia or Kentucky. Maybe even NC?

[memo8774]

It looks like California..

[liz147782]

i assume it was probably shot near Louisville, KY, where he lives

[memo8774]

You obviously haven't ever visited Louisville, KY. It looks nothing like that.

[dannyames88]

one of the finest music videos I've seen in a long long while.

[DennisWhydam]

What a super track! I can't get enough of this. I feel very, very satisfied when listening to this!

[naranjaskonfitadas]

perfect

[polyiconoclasm]

I can't stop listening to this.

[francfortois]

I was going to write the EXACT same sentence!!! I've been listening to this 10 times in a row now...

[Farvayon]

That's the sound I adore.

[revoloser65]

genial!!!

[backstabbinbastard]

This album helped me a lot as my father died.

True and deep.

[altebaran]

SYMPATHIES MY FRIEND

[maidmyriad]

beautiful

[iowaidaho66]

"I trembled electric." Brilliant, beautiful song.

[cheesynips]

I can't possibly begin to say how much i love both this song and this video...

[Aberjan]

amazing

[toytoyted]

BpB helped me through my dark days after my divorce. This song makes me cheerfull every time I hear it. Grt Brt

[obldst]

really strong

[allanmk25]

I saw BpB on the Roskilde Festival, Denmark. I was really looking forward to this concert, but the sound was so bad that I left half way through the show... I still love this song and this album.

[FlabbergastYourMom]

Tell me about it. I was standing halfway out the tent and couldnt hear a thing. Brilliant music gone bad.

/FYM

[retailjesus]

yeah what the hell? I got to see them in Lexington, KY and the sound was horrible.

[bmantx929]

Buy this cd. Every song is as great as this one. Dawn McCarthy is the female voice that you hear. She and Will combine beautifuly throughout the cd.

[alkrin]

awesome

[StridingMan]

musical fap!

[lamadameteve]

wow!

hypnotic show last night in madrid!!!!

[thpriest]

just saw him tonight in madrid. immense. one of the best concerts i've ever seen. pure music and feeling. first time i've been at a concert in madrid and people haven't talked though it. they were all mesmerized.

[mmmmae]

this video is so beautiful.

[gentleman2605]

What a great voice and a great song. Thank you for sharing this video. He's playing at Joy Eslava great venue in Madrid on 10/07. Gig of the month from In-Madrid newspaper. I would like to discover more of the music of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.

[MsFreakingBorje]

he's great! :D my horse's name is Bonnie Prince <3

[djoystein]

i am from estonia and dont understand enlish very good. can someone shortly tell my what he is singing about?

[JKryanX]

where can i buy bonnie 'prince' billy stuff?

[RxFiction]

Oh will, how you be so amazing?

[stigmaticwinky]

Fucking good

[ayeyeyeyeye]

if you like bonnie prince billy download(is free)"quando arriva la gente si sente meglio" that is an italian band's Ep. This band is called "Numero 6" and bonnie sing the first song: "da piccolissimi pezzi". Bye from Italy

[a2bm4wm]

Damn that ET... always fucking w/ people's minds!

[shaneboltz]

heavy stuff, man

[redfaceblue]

anyone know how to play this?

[rugshort]

Capo 2nd fret

Em F#m (or 044200 sounds good) Gm (again 055000)

Bm A G F#m E

That's about it roughly.

[rugshort]

Actually make that capo 1st fret