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  • 90's were the best. now all u gotta do is make a corny dance and even worse song or sell ur soul

  • 90's were the best

  • Memories of childhood from 2:42 to 3:29

  • Thanks for the post.. Every word out of his mouth is pure gold... And I'm a country guy, so....

  • Roseanne Episode :D

  • @JimmietheCynical jackey thinks gloria is about her.roseanne tells him.lol sorry for my 2 cens.

  • @halonafaithg no...its easy to make a harp sound sexy...he makes it sound downright sinful. :)

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  • god he makes that harmonica sounds sexy

  • I love this song...and how it's about nothing at all....

  • @JeepRuby101 this song does have meaning..it talks about how musicians have a tendency to speak of absolutely nothing at all and fans don't notice/care because of "the hook" it brings you back to the song time and time again..

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  • 90's music was the best, they were actually musicians and didnt sample music or use computer made crap beats, being in a band myself i stay away from the new crap music like that and i love to play this song. listn to the words of this song its about how the music industry went to hell, its kind of like a big "fuck you" to the music industry.

  • canon

  • ha ha.very nice comments,esp. the top rated commments .however the beauty of this song is the very fact that it draws these types of responses.well just listen to the lyrics.its actually a song about the typical song "MADE FOR THE RADIO" by whichever industry,it really doesnt matter because "THE HOOK BRINGS YOU BACK". lol well done Blues Traveler.

  • I just cannot stop listening to this song. It's like an addiction. A healthy, beautiful, relaxing addiction.

  • Blues traveler. the best rappers ever to exist. and they can play instruments as well.

  • What a lot of people that bash today's music in favor of music from the 90s fail to realize is there are still a lot of great bands out there. Just because they don't get as much coverage doesn't mean they're not out there. Bands like this are still around, still kicking, so don't shit on the year or the era.

  • @ravenhermit But it's the fact that these bands were all around in the 90's, and it is what lots of people listened to and loved. These were the songs that were on the radio all the time, not shit like Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, or Chris Brown. Sure, there's still great music today - Dave Matthews Band is my favorite artist - but I miss the times when stuff like this was played all day, every day.

  • @ravenhermit this era sucks ass.. fuckin tools

  • they are awesome and this is what i consider a real music band. I like alot of new music but i have to agree with Jonas Clark, people put blood sweat and tears into their music back in the day and now they just need some machines to cover up that they cant sing and have someone to back them. I believe some of those guys are still out there . Friends check out Ryan Andreas he is excellent and needs all the support his band can get ....thanks

  • This song is fucking excelent.

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  • Any band in the world would sound better with John Popper on harmonica.

  • @160ofthe90s or on vocals

  • 90s music is the greatest in my opinion. it was a great decade of lots of change in the world and well music was just another beautiful thing. Been rocking out to 90s since '91 when i was just a baby lol

  • @jburoker the 90's were an artistic renaissance that died when pop took over the world

  • @DashingTrout So fucking true. God bless you, sir.

  • Pachelbel will never find me at HORDE Festival!

  • I want to find a harp player to play this blues traveler stuff with me and also the Alanis tunes that had harmonica in it as well.

  • I'll say one thing to those commenting on how today's music is crap. Every single generation has felt and opined that their music was good and that which followed sucked. 1930s and 40s music was the best, and then that gosh-awful rock'n'roll came along, no talent and no creativity, and ruined music. 80s and 90s music was awesome and now this new crap just sucks. It repeats and repeats. Every age and genre of music has merits to a group of people.

  • @JonasClark True, every generation has their good and bad, and every following generation sucks. But look at the music industry now compared to in the past. There was such a heavy emphasis on talent and songwriting in the past, compared to now, where most artists shouldn't even be considered music. I've heard bands with far more musical merit who are lucky to be playing at VFWs than a lot of the stuff I've heard on mainstream radio. Maybe I'm just biased. I do envy the music of the 60's and 70's

  • I did check around on Wiki and other internet sources and although I love this song I am not actually sure I understand the meaning of the lyrics. I get the words but the meaning behind is a bit unclear for the non-native speaker that I am... a little help please?

  • @EtiamSiOmnesEgoNon he's singing about how it doesn't matter what he sings about in his song because we are going to listen to it anyway since the song's hook is so good it will keep bringing us back.

  • by no way is this a racist comment because i myself am biracial. but this boy can rap. i love the way he mixes a lil pop, rap, country. man this is a hit. i love the blues travelers. a classic for all times

  • pachelbel's canon

  • Glad you caught on to that phatato. That goes over a lot of people's heads

  • @phatato yep!

  • i watched them play live across the street from me when they played at southwestern college, 1994 0r 1995

  • I love this song !!!!! <3

  • 90s baby 90s baby.. I wish I was in college for this shit. Nowadays there isnt any good live music.. FML lol

  • I CAN"T STOP!  THE HOOK!

  • Love this song :)

  • :) 

  • this song is official... "familiar heroes from long ago".......

  • Im not a huge Blues Traveler fan really.... Just into different things :) But this is defiantly one of my all time favorite songs.

  • I grew up with The Doors, Dylan, Pink Floyd and the Allman Brothers: John Popper is second to none. Good jamz iz good jamz !!!!!

  • Any one confident enough to wear a bandolero full of harmonicas is hilariously kick ass in my book!!! Blues Traveler is a great band, of real personality and musicianship!!! A lot of 90's music was like that. It was great decade that had many complete musicians in it, not one trick ponies generated by a corporate music hype machine.

  • This is one of my favorite songs of all time, if only because it's about how nobody listens to the lyrics as long as he sings like this, so he might as well BS his way through the song...

  • It really eats me up when i see ppl from older generations trash talk the newer up and coming. I am from the newer generation being 20 years old. I love all types of music. Music is a privilege to all of us. I just find it the most perplexing that older generations, who are from eras of music who don't judge and exile other music for being different would discriminate on som1 because individuality. I doubt all you are listening to opera and old gospel music. Just sayin, music is music, love it!

  • the man must have lungs like a blue whale.. how can/could ANYONE sustain

    continous harmonica that long without passing out?? UNBELIEVABLE talent!!

  • @nexus169 he doesn't smoke? :)

  • @supaultrapimp wat u talkin bout, u don't know.

  • @nexus169 Lots of practice, when you practice enough you can learn to use your diaphram to control your air and there is a lot more than you think you can sustain when you do this, it's not that hard although it takes a while to master. I learned this from my 8th grade band teacher

  • Great song, I hope Big John is doing well!

  • gives me chills then, and gives me chills now.

  • John Popper is a brilliant Madman.. that Voice that Mouth Harping... he is amazing! Does not get much better!

  • this hooked me then when I was 17, it hooks me now, I guess it forever will. Who still plays harmonica like this?

  • The harmonica is so underused, but it takes actual talent to play it, which is very lacking these days.

  • All starts at 2:43 & ends at 3:28..

  • 0:12-0:24 best harmonica riff ever XD

  • @rockman399 Someone's never heard any Zeppelin...

  • @ptcala99 nah. our childhood music was better because most of it involved actual MUSIC, not synthesized garbage. yeah you're right with the whole LL Cool J and Madonna thing, but jesus, don't you wish you could go back to that over hearing a faggy little canadian kid and a bitch whole rolls around in arts and craft supplies as a wardrobe? come on now. 90's music was superior to the nonsense now. case closed.

  • @teh0wenzor11 Your Rebecca Black reference, it made me lol. No one makes me lol.

  • @teh0wenzor11 Preach it!!!

  • @teh0wenzor11 amen to that mate. though there's lots of good tunes out today you just gotta dig around a little bit.

  • @teh0wenzor11 90's music had soooo much lame shit, can anyone say Limp BIzkit

  • @phatato the only thing that is limp is your dick fag go troll somewhere else

  • @teh0wenzor11 I agree with you except i like lady gaga. Her voice is brilliant, and she's very creative. She also pays tribute to a lot of the the legends (did a duet with Tony Bennet, and the late great Clarence Clemons played a sax solo on Edge of Glory).

  • @Iwishiwerethird fuck lady gaga. shes just a face.

    

  • @teh0wenzor11 yessir.. fuckin synthisized bullshit,,, theres no talent in that.. every song that is mainstream has the same garbage techno beat... bmp tsk bmp tsk bmp tsk.. repeat repeat repeat.. good lord this generation sucks.

  • @teh0wenzor11 Holla Back!!!!!*highfive* and the 80's......dont get me started LOL XD!

  • Reminds me of riding the loop around my town when i had just turned 16. Windows down, music up, and friends everywhere.

  • this is the BEST SONG EVER composed!

    

  • 3:29-4:15 fuck a Bitch

  • The first time I heard this song was May 17, 1996 - 15 years ago! WOW!!

  • I love how this is a song about how it doesn't matter what a song is about. It's delightfully meta.

  • the best harmonica player EVER!!!.. not opinion..FACT!!

  • This brings a wave of nostalgia from my childhood, you know, when radio stations played more than just Katy Perry or Justin Beiber pop crap

  • @sinisterkat44

    everyone needs to stop saying this. music on the radio during your childhood was no "better" in absolute terms than it is now. Your memory is distorted by the positivity effect, a psychological phenomenon associated with aging that causes us to recall old autobiographical memories more fondly than more recent ones.

    To prove my point, take a look at the Billboard 100 in 1996, when "Hook" was at 60. ahead of them: LL Cool J, Joan Osbourne, and MADONNA. but no "pop crap," i guess.

  • @ptcala99 "Better" being a matter of opinion to each individual. so... yeah. This music was indeed BETTER than today's crap, in both my and many other individuals opinions.

    What the billboard says does not dictate what I say.

  • @ptcala99 You're going to judge the quality of music based on a Top 100 billboard? Fuck those sell outs, go listen to Run Around.

  • @sinisterkat44 I hope to god you aren't saying Justin Beiber is as good as Joan Osbourne or Madonna

  • @sinisterkat44 Madonna maybe, she's garbage.

  • i keep coming back!!!! :) LOVE THIS SONG WITH ALL OF MY BEING!!!!!

  • This is not a rip off of Canon in D in any way shape or form. Not even in the same key.

    D, A, Bm, Fm, G, D, G, A Canon in D

    A, E, F#m, C#, D, A, D, E Hook

    Any questions?

  • @JayRebel

    The song's own hook is the familiar harmonic structure of Pachelbel's Canon in D, which forms the basic chord progression of the song.[1][2]

    straight from wikipedia and the band's mouth

  • @Casan0vaFrankensten

    thank you for saying what a million other posts have already stated..........

  • @JayRebel

    It's pretty much the same chord structure/progression except being in a different key though. Instead of being in D, it's in A. Just a quick Transpose will suffice. Keys don't matter much when you learn the patterns of chord progressions. I can play Canon in any key because I know the patterns of scales and their relative chords.

  • Fucking love this band

  • I heard some guy blasting this in his car today. I started singing it and he looked and laughed at me. lol

  • @LifeIsSimplyMusic don't you hate when that shit happens haha

  • I've not sure if I've found a song that's, at the same time, so boring and yet so much fun to play the guitar at the same time. It's a strange song.

    I don't care a bit that they stole the whole song, I still enjoy it.

  • @FleetAdmiralHog who did they steal the song from?

  • @gibnumba4 Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D."

  • with this song I realized.. I have to learn to play the harmonica!

  • im pretty sure its MTV bcuz if you lsiten to the lyrics and break them down it seems he is singing about how lyrics dont really matter in music, as long as the melody or the ''hook'' is nice..bcuz the hook brings us in

  • @gibnumba4 I agree to an extent, but I think it extends past just the music business. I think this song goes toward our entire culture, where everyone is more concerned with appearances than substance. Just watch the music video, it shows the song pertaining to music, politics and even a miss America pageant! Utterly class track.

  • @rahvin89 good point!

  • great tune

    

  • I love the beat at 3:17-3:38. The higher the note goes...gives me chills...

  • it's what made the pan refuse to grow up :D

  • @donnypunani420 Great username.

  • It really brings back better times to my head when you was younger you don't give a damn about nothing at all...And now. I miss have fourten years again passing the day listen radio.

  • @pwnage333 actually, it's not!  It's MTV.

  • This dude can play one HELL of a harmonica! :DDD

  • @3:35 - This MTV is NOT for free - it's SO P.C. it's killing me!!!!

    Such a sad but true commentary on our times, Mr. Popper - Rock on -

  • @teachrz2 its actually "this empathy is not for free". =p

  • Pachelbel's Canon indeed.

  • A song about nothing that kicks ass. I geuss that why I like Sinefeld. 5 People lack musical taste buds.

  • Bellissima,nn smetto mai di ascoltarla!

  • 3.29 I CAN HEAR OVER AND OVER I LOVE THAT VERSE HE SPITS SoOoOoOo clean!!!!!!! i love it!..,,.,.

  • Nice song to load and smoke a nice big bowl of flo and a little hash on top.

  • pachelbell rules!

  • 2 people shouldn't have landed on this page

  • <3

  • popper's vocals and harmonica playing are excellent! such a cool song!

  • I love this song, and the hook keeps bringing me back,... I need to buy the album! Popper is a legend! love his lyrics and the music vid, the man plays one MEAN harmonica,... oh, and looks like the vocalist from Nickelback on the drums, hahaha! :)

  • This one has the cool ass guitar into that vevo cut off....so fuck vevo.

  • @Anymajordude5 Actually I think thats done in the actual video, vevo had nothing to do with it but still... fuck vevo

  • did they play this song on snl

  • First time I heard this was at the end of She Fought Alone and it made me want to find this song and play it again and again.

  • May 17, 1996 - That's what I think of the second I hear this song! Thanks for posting a great memory and a great day in my life!!!

  • I love this song, it never gets old. <3

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  • @ChucksandTogs Right! that's kinda "the point" of the hook!

  • absolutely will never get old!!!!!

  • i like relaxing to this :D

  • Man I heard this on the radio a day ago, I forgot how awesome this song is :) thanks for posting this

  • I've had this song stuck in my head for the past 3 months. But there are many worse songs to have stuck in your head.

  • what movie is this song from?!?! its driving me crazy?

  • LEAD GUITAR ON A HARP ! ! !

  • @stonybrookchief you have no idea about chicago blues its not lead guitar on harp its the lead instrument!!

  • this may sound fucked up. but popper needs to get in another accident so he can be bed ridden again and write another fucking amazing album. their new shit is kind of . well.... shit. 

  • I never get tired of hearing this song!!!!

  • When the song first came out, I always thought he said "the heart will bring you back" ... thought he was singing about recovering or something.... Great song!!!!!!!!

  • @milanf07 LOL I did also dont worry I did for years until i got cd and read lyrics ROFL it sounds like the heart brings you back and actually it should be the heart. That would be better word.

  • "It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sing with inflection that makes you feel I'll convey some inner truth or vasy reflection. But I've said nothing so far, and I can keep it up as long as it takes."

    "This MTV is not for free. It's so PC it's killing me."

    And he thought the music industry was bad years ago, when he wrote this. Geez. It's about 5 million times worse, now. (Not universally or anything, but geeeeeez.)

  • @Vamphaery There is something amiss, I am being insincere. In fact, I don't mean any of this. Still my confession draws you near.

    The lyrics are why I love this song!

  • I swear to God, I've listened to this song atleast 100 times this week. And it sounds just as good as the first time I heard it years ago.

  • Pachelbel's cannon in D, boooooooo! Write your own song mofos

  • @phatato That was the point. To rip off the simplest, catchiest progression they could think of, and sing about how rife with that kind of simplicity and lack of sincerity the music industry is.

  • @phatato

    um dude... do you have no understanding of irony?

    cut the classical and try to comprehend the simplest form of insult.

    best of luck :D

  • @phatato --lol...i thought i wan the only one on here who noticed that...haha

  • So hmm, this is a song making fun of his own style of music or that people dont care about the lyrics?

  • I So love this one...Blues Traveler is awesome! :o)

  • I can't believe I never knew this was thier song. I've heard this song forever and I could never find out who it was...wow. Great song.

  • @axlrose9951 lol its always nice to find out who does a song.... (tho the harmonica shoulda been a dead give away)  ; )

  • who's baked and listening to this right now

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  • @thekooj shit! i thought i was the only one :D

  • @thekooj  absolutely

  • @thekooj YOU ARE THE MASTER FOR COMMENTING THIS BAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!

  • @thekooj omg how did u know?!?

  • @thekooj I am

    !

  • Good work boys. I'd buy ya a drink at any bar.

  • yes he is a good singer and a amazing harmonica player but i liked him better as a fat blob.

  • Shit...i play the harmonica and it's no doubt in my mind...Popper is the freaking Master!

  • canon in d!!!! stop following me. i see your ass in hell pachelbell!!!!!

  • @gezsgz I just made the same connection but, still like the song.

  • @gezsgz That was hilarious.

  • awsome - i love it!!

  • greatest harmonica solo evar

  • thats amazing...

  • One of the best songs ever. Takes me back to better days. Thanks for the post!

  • EASILY one of my all time favourites.

    Popper plays one helluva harmonica.