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  • sweet, a Swirlies shirt

  • I found this song back in 2003. I have no idea how though? Was it in a movie or something? I need to download it again. It just popped on my mind out of fucking nowhere. lol

  • top song

    

  • Poof!!! I'm 20 years old again! ;-)

  • @scobratec amen. My little brother and i loved this video, he called me and left this vmail about 'analyzing "Crazy Town." Killed himself (sorry), i think of him whenever i see this now.

  • @emu314159 Truly sorry about your brother. My brother and I had slightly different tastes in music (he liked Classic Rock and Metal, I liked New Wave and Alternative Rock.)

  • such a simple video. love it<3

  • At 1:09 are they playing sega? The controllers are black...soooo, I'm just saying.

  • Could have been shot in West Philly. Thought this one was long, long lost. Nice work !

  • How do you upload VHSs to the computer O.O

  • i love this song

  • WOW! i love this album,, and video. but i NEVER NOTICED THE SWIRLIES SHIRT!!! sweet.

  • Will someone upload "Its alright with me"?

  • wow,,, first concert leamonheads feat. velocitygirl @ treesdeepelum dallas.. never forget that

  • I saw these guys in the 7th Street Entry on a Sub Pop tour - Sunny Day Real Estate opening. One of my favorite concerts ever.

  • Such a great song, album and band.

    I still play "Copacetic" to this day on my Ipod.

  • Swirlies t-shirt!

  • Guy at 0:35 on the left looks like John Carmack

  • Sarah Shannon and the Silver Spring Sound Machine!

  • she i so hot!

  • i saw her in concert

  • This is one of those songs that makes me wish I appreciated that time more (the early 90s). I thought it would last forever.

  • @fizzygillespie - man how damn fuckin right you are...

  • @fizzygillespie Those days aren't coming back again, are they?

  • @DecimusIunius I don't think they are...but then I hear new music from bands like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart...and I start to wonder...

  • @fizzygillespie Well, I was speaking more about life in general: How different it was then. But yeah, musically too, definitely.

  • what the fuck?!

  • Lol... Well I guess things and people change!

  • I had a crush on the singer. I saw them live in Chapel hill at the Cradle.. then the singer jumped off the stage and french kissed some other hot chick. That ended my short crush! Shes a lesbian boys... lol.

  • Just don't tell her husband and her kid...

  • I saw this video way back in the day on 120 Minutes around 1993. I had a crush on the singer, but could you blame me? I was 15. I still have this 45. Man, music was great back then and I wish it would go back to that way. There is some good stuff out there today, though none of it is on the mainstream.

  • Beautiful. music these days is so shit I have to search back to find anything decent, but am so glad I did, VG are fantastic. Please reform???!!!!!!!!!!

  • /watch?v=Wva074MGZi8

  • Nice dream pop. Cute lead singer

  • This is the single best song I've ever heard from any group from Maryland, excluding the D.C. area. Great band.

  • Copacetic changed my life....

  • So fucking wonderful.

  • swirlies shirttt

  • SHE'S SO HOT! gorgeous music also...

  • She walks with determination

  • Tracking [ l ]

    :o)

  • The tits.

  • där e en hel del volocity i denna låten

  • lofi 8 track, still ruled

  • I saw them (for the 1st time) opening one of the HFStivals @RFK staduim in DC- I think The Posies, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Iggy Pop, Stereo MC's & (the real)INXS were at the same show... Great night. I think I was in 10th grade at the time? Geez.

  • That HFStival was a fantastic show that year.

  • hey! dude's wearing a swirlies shirt! i have that same one!  great to see these videos again...

  • Wow, you transferred this from VHS? You're a hero!!!

  • ...and my hero as well.

  • @coyotemoon722 I miss VHS's... they were so awesome! If you ejected it, it would stay right where you stopped it! Stupid DVD's...

  • @Ghostshepard  lol, i guess that's where dvds messed up on

  • @tiana1017 that and a lot of places! Like you can't fast forward through warnings, it takes hours to get to the main menu!! if there's one scratch, forget it, it doesn't work, and they're easy to scratch!

  • I've seen them proform many times in Albany, NY. They put on a great show everytime and the singer was so pretty. Guys would melt while listening to her sing. Great songs from a great band!!!

  • I heard of the group but forgot this song now its stuck in my mind arrrgh!!!

    What a great era for back to basics music :o)

  • Hey I lived in Oxon Hill and my experience was nowhere near as beautiful as this! Seriously though Velocity Girl is one of the best things to happen to me musically and I wish they were still around. I only caught one show at Sapphire Supper Club in Orlando FL in 1996 right before they broke up.

  • I had there cd back in like 9th grade and its really good

  • This song so remind me of staying up late in high school and watching 120 Minutes where I heard this years and years ago.

  • BLACK TAMBORINE!! VARIANT!!!

  • So, ignoring the squabbling...great song, great video, great band. :D

  • VanCityKyle and FuckingStanz you're like an old fuckin married couple

  • Saw them at the 9:30, in Phoenix, in a buncha places on their Sympatico tour. Sarah Shannon was such a hot woman. And I loved Archie's Heartworms LP.

  • what would you say is the best Velocity Girl album?

  • Copacetic. I loved 57 Waltz and ALL THE TRACKS

  • when i was a teenager our band opened for them for there last show at the 9:30 in d.c. 96 maybe? i can't remember. it was my 2nd show ever in front of 900 plus people.

    i miss my youth and the district.

  • no..this is velocity girl

  • Crazy Town (the band) is corny shit.

  • You've been listening to top 40 for too long.

  • Limp Bizkit? Hahahahahahaha. They only sold to confused 14 year old boys with hyperactive problems and disappeared a year later. Indie sells to music lovers.

  • I did check out your page, and i will agree that Matthew Good Band is a great, great band!

  • Britney Spears and The Backstreet Boys also sold millions.

  • Yeah because they had mass appeal. I mena if you have mass appeal than ur doin something right, right!

  • Hahahah wow... you can't be serious.

  • The way you typecast and stereotype millions of people into 1 pile of "MOTHERFUCKERS' pretty much explains away how 1-dimensional your thought process is. The radio plays some good music, but it's played into the ground. Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, are good bands, but I don't need to hear the same 5 songs everyday for 20 years. Try expanding your horizons beyond "U VS ME" and get a little bit more musically intelligent, because you seem to like corny cliche music thats marketed to TEENAGERS.

  • I guess you're right though. Ashlee Simpson and the Backstreet Boys are musical geniuses and deserve our respect. They were marketed well, so they are musically talented by default

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR WISDOM

  • Haha. Fred Durst. Dude, you're a douchebag in every sense of the word. Velocity Girl is not the greatest example of indie, this song doesn't do that much for me, but Limp Bizkit took their influence from early 90s grunge/alternative and old school rap. All of that is indie. So kill yourself.

  • So far nobody is buying your albums! Never even heard of this shit outside of Youtube! Yeah my favorite artists are Eminem, Coldplay, U2, John Mayer, is there anything wrong with that!

  • Who the hell says I make albums? You're so reactionary. It's ironic that you say "open your ears to everything" when you're the one that's shut off and refuses to acknowledge anything outside the mainstream whereas I embrace music from any corner, including the mainstream. It's not my fault that the percentage of phony non-musical shite in the mainstream is considerably higher than that of outside.

  • You are just kind of beyond hope. You are so far from being "enlightened". You strike me as a real "average Joe" that is scared of what he doesn't understand. This single video/song does not embody indie music. It's ridiculously diverse. All of the mainstreams ideas came from either underground music or classic/old music from back when the mainstream actually embraced real ARTISTS up until the 80s or so when novelty commercialized shit started to dominate, s'why the underground exists

  • Oh give me break, thats just another cliche cop out! If a song is catchy and has a good beat and its a good song than who the fuck cares. Listen if you have a problem with Maintstreem America than go live in a fucking cave. "Close Minded Fucks"......... Just shut up and deal with it! Im so beyond hope, yeah right!

  • It's funny that you're so proud of Eminem, Coldplay, U2 and John Mayer as examples of commercial music, failing to realize that they themsleves do not agree with your logic. They all would tell that a large majority of what influenced them and what they listen to on their spare time is a lot of obscure music. U2, for instance, worships Joy Division. Coldplay were influenced by Jeff Buckley. Eminem would list countless underground rappers.

  • Hey news flash, i listen to Jeff Buckley and Joy Division. They werent/arent that underground! Yeah but U2 worshiped the Stones too. And Coldplay worshiped the Beatles and Oasis. Eminem also was into 2pac and Biggie! Oh and i never said that underground is all negative, but the reason alot of these acts are underground is because there music isnt on a certain level yet. You just keep on opening one can of worms after another! Theres nothing you can say to prove me wrong. im shaming you to death.

  • You've got it wrong. It has nothing to do with being "on a certain level." Lmfao. You are so clueless to how things work.  It's marketability. When you're predominately marketing faux-coolness to predominately to kids, sheer quality of music is less than important. A song also has to fit into the verse chorus verse structure, and nothing that goes over the heads average Joe. You see, mainstream music always takes in the lowest common denominator. It has to be as watered down as possible.

  • If you honestly are 'black and white' or 1-dimensional to believe all mainstream music is on "another level of greatness", I sincerely hope you aren't looking for a career in music or considering breeding. A lot of incredibly technically, melodically, dissonant, pure, artistic, music doesn't make it on the radio for all those reasons - it's too complicated for mass audiences. They just wanna hear an average rock song. Recycled ideas. Predictability. Something that they will eat.

  • The Killers are a generic new wave clone. They are all style, no substance. Interpol shit all over them.

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  • If you have to ask...

  • of all the bands that used to come up to boston & play tons of shows, they were the most real & fun to be around. again, i'd help haul their gear up the any amount of middle east stairs or through any blinding vermont snowstorm. y'all probably missed the velocity girl, swirlies & kudgel show in Burlington, VT. too bad, i guess most of you kids were busy being born. i ride into battle in slumberland every night upon my trusty velocity girl pillow case. ride on for beauty! ride on for chimp rock!

  • didn't the madelines play that show too?

  • I want a time machine to go back and bone you.

  • Ah Velocity Girl. So much talent, so much promise but not so much success in the mainstream, which is fine by me. Velocity Girl was like my favorite secret and always a big hit when I played their singles at gatherings and parties. Good stuff then and even better stuff now!

  • That last was directed toward the one generation is all that is good people out there. As for VG, there good, but they never put anything out that mad me look twice. It was nice to hear, in a time filled with heavy distortion, some clean guitar, but they were so, I suppose, uninspired...

  • timleery: you're right on. The whole shoegazing scene was terrific but velocity girl were one of the better bands stateside. But why bother classifying them into a genre? They made very likeable, unpretentious indie rock that stands the test of time. The good old days....I'm kinda happy I caught them while they were at their peak

  • I wouldn't classify Velocity Girl as shoegazer. Shoegazer's guitars were a lot more fuzzed out (such as My Bloody Valentine, early Lush or Ride). As far as British musical styles go, VG is probably closer to the C86 scene (which makes sense given that they were named after a Primal Scream song).

    Maybe it's just me getting old, but I'm beginning to think of the late '80s/early '90s as the glory days of college radio (where the likes of VG were in good rotation)

  • I want to cry when I remember...

  • i have never heard of them but they aren´t so bad

    i like the riff

  • pop heaven...is anybody making music this good anymore? i feel sorry for kids today...the 90's had the greatest music...EVER. everybody thinks theyre bad-ass metalheads or gangstas these days, but don't know how to play a fuckin instrument...my advice:put down the guns, pick up a guitar, and for God's sake, DON'T SHOOT UP THE SCHOOL!!!

  • You're right, to a certain extent. As Bill Drummond (ex-KLF) said, there's nothing more sad than a middle-aged man thinking the music of his youth was the pinnacle and that there's nothing worth listening to now. I still love VG, but I'm also loving the Long Blondes, VHS or Beta, The Kills, Los Campesinos!, etc.

    That said, Coheed is a trainwreck. I'd rather listen to Nickleback.

  • well i'm only in my early 20s, and i still think the early 90s seen was a lot more vital and creative than anything coming out now, minus a few exceptions.

  • scene*

  • Agreed. Im 20 and I feel the same exact way =/

  • Sarah Shannon's tasty. Still hot today too.

  • jangle-pop, soft and sophomoric, in my opinion. Perhaps for a different era and time, but oh my, kids today are listening to much more sophisticated stuff; violent, hard, emotionally dark...and the "jangle pop" or indie scene today is obsolete; hybrid music has taken over and so has the business machine.

  • If by sophisticated you mean over-produced I would agree with you. I'll go along with violent and dark too but don't forget self-pitying and self-loathing. All those things don't make today's music any better than this "jangle-pop". While VG wasn't complex it was fun and original. Dark music has it's place (I'm a huge fan of Adore), creativity and originality does as well and in my opinion, it's exactly what most modern music is lacking in.

  • Perhaps, "sophisticated" may not have been the best word-choice to describe the characteristic of what I deem as modern music, especially within the context of comparison. May I also stress that I'm not saying one is "better" than the other either. I was harsh on VG (this vid p'ed me off actually- what is this? "Suburbanite Bash 2000"!? Your points are well taken. We'll just say, there once was a time when VG ruled the world - a gentler place then politically, socially, and psychically.

  • Last year that Kelly Clarkson song 'Since you've been gone' was a huge hit and when I heard it the first time I flipped out because it sounded so much like a bad VG rip. There will always be all sorts of music being produced, but to me from post-punk to 1992 was kind of a golden age, now most new bands I hear sound like a version of something from this time period.

  • LMAO people are confusing the BAND Crazy Town with VELOCITY GIRL?!?!? cause of the song name?

    thats beyond fucking laughable...serioulsy LMAO...its offensive to Velocity Girl there is a band that bad even REMOTLEY connected to them LMAO

  • isn't this velocity girl from subpop...

    the song is called crazy town..nothing to do with the band crazy town.

  • i believe they were on slumberland

  • Alright - the band Crazy Town is one of the worst bands ever. And to shut up all of you mornons who are so in love with that shitty band, just know that the lead singer is a straight up basehead - the dude smokes rock. And a lot of it. So basically, you guys love a crack head.

  • I have to agree with you, i dont even know if you could classify them as one hit wonders... btw, what is a mornon?

  • the band Crazy Town is a shit band that got stared for me and other people to take a hot, steamy shit on.

  • what an absolute loser!

    I mean you've searched a band that you dislike and are actually taking the time to speak shit on them...when are you going to slit your own throat and die...please inform me...i would like to see you suffer and splutter

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  • been years. never got their full due.

  • lol

  • Learn to read the title, then think about it.

    Then do us all a favor, and off yourself.

  • The actual Crazytown? The awful, horrible band who had the hit butterfly? You embarrass me with that statement. What are you 16? Is this 1999?

    Who cares about that band anymore. You're an ass.

  • Crazy Town Rocks.. you suck

  • You know if I were 14 that statement would very insulting. Let me guess though, another idiot who wanted to see a video by a band that 20 people care about? Sorry you stumbled onto a GOOD band, must be weird hearing good music coming at you from anything titled Crazytown.

  • Whatever happened to this band?

  • They broke up a few years later. Pretty much just a few months after I saw them in Philly. The singer has a few solo albums out, though.

  • that's rad that the one dude is wearing a "Swirlies" T-shirt!

  • the 90s  what a beautiful time to be a teen!

  • You got that right partner.

    Damn right.

  • Yes, the girls actually wore clothes that fit them! Just lovely!

  • I don't mind girls clothing today, I think it's sexy and more attractive, but whatever I love the 90's.

    Best years of my life..

  • One of my favorite songs ever. Any idea on the lyrics though? Ones online are woefully incorrect. I'm still trying to decide if she says "I got so close but it's not enough" or "I got a clue but it's not enough"

  • If you are out there VG, please, please, please reunite!!!! Some of the best music!!!

  • Awesome video and song. Sarah is so gorgeous! My heart breaks...

  • Mixooso, thank you. I have such fond memories of seeing VG at Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill. I wasn't there to see them, but Superchunk (I think)... I asked someone what band was opening, and I think he said The Frosty Girls. Lucky for me it was actually VG.

    I think their best song was My Forgotten Favorite. You can hear it at the website for Slumberland Records.

    Ciao!

  • I was at those shows! I probably saw them three or four times at the Cat's Cradle. The first time, opening for Belly, then they headlined every time after that. They were always really nice to the fans, too. Too bad the college kids don't have stuff like this anymore.

  • Youtube has saved my collegiate memories and placed them in this delightful series of tubes called the intarweb. Bless them and bless mixooso for posting this. As for Sarah Shannon, search for her on myspace. She's still singing but in a whole different genre.

  • I actually freaked out when her music was featured on NHK, the Japanese PBS, to some train traveling program.

  • fantastic, they sure don't make music videos like this anymore I'm afraid.

  • I miss this band so much. 57 Waltz was my favorite song for the longest time. What's Sarah Shannon's up to these days. (Plus they're from my home town!)

  • She's released a couple of solo albums, with more of a jazz influence.

  • Ohhhh, shit, who are you and why are you my unknown brother.

  • Awesome band......Loved them then still love them now! Has it been that long................!!!

  • Thanks for posting this.great band

  • now u started readin this... fuck you

  • A truly amazing band...three perfect albums.

  • One more thing..."Copacetic" is perhaps one of the strongest fuzzed-out, sub-pop release during the 90's. N'est-ce pas?

  • Another 120 minutes classic! Thank goodness for youtube and, major kudos to mixooso for posting it. I miss Velocity Girl.

  • You know, I've been walking around this crazy town, and all I've found is the same old thing...

  • that bloody banner telling me i've won a plasma tv is ruining my enjoyment of this video. how - how, pray - can i put a bullet through the head of that damnable banner?

  • time is running fast. but there are those great bands that remains...

  • OMG!!!! I was this video only once on 120 Minutes back in 93' or 94 and they never ever played it again. Thank you for posting this. Would it be cool if you sent me a copy?

  • God this takes me back! I feel old too...thanks for posting this. Superb song, haven't heard this for like 5 years

  • Thank YOu! This is one of the great ones for me.

  • copacetic is stll one of my favorite albums of that era. believe it or not, i've never seen these VG vids. thanks!

  • Another trip down 90's nostalgia lane with bubblegrunge heroes Velocity Girl. One of the best bands on Sub Pop

  • I am so f*cking old. I cannot believe this was made 14 years ago or something.