Kurt Vile - Freeway

[33Thadeus]

Great song.

[altrock17]

i love that percussion instrument that sounds like clapping in the background :)

" i got freeway in mind *clap, clap, clap, clap* let go of my head *clap, clap, clap, clap*

[Juli8991]

In a weird way- which many of you probably don't understand- am I happy that this song isn't in the world wide charts - because then everybody would hear and sing it all time and then after 2 weeks nobody would want to hear it anymore! And in the way it is now - I think it's perfect! :)

[arapsasuga]

i just want to go and take a random bus route and wake up in a place i dont recognize with this song playing

[gbcello]

I absolutely love this video. All emotions captured.

[gbcello]

I might see this cat at the Trabadour with Thurston Moore. good sound this one.

[MrMuddyBleach]

His guitar is a Teisco or a Harmony.

[BonesPeace]

Fuck people who dont know how to respect a song for its effort. its a good song. just chill.

[bejAmir]

the haters are probably deaf. this is fucking wonderful

[lovemysw]

like this!

[izzyinn]

love it!!!

[davederange]

goosebumpies

[Capsize22]

Yea, STFU and listen to the music play.

[000PetSounds000]

rock on Kurt Vile

[skippypoopface]

anyone know what kind of guitar he's holding in the picture?

[danielflynn6]

@skippypoopface

that style of guitar is called 'firebird'

[TheGingerBomb]

@danielflynn6 The headstock is Firebird, but the body looks more like a Jazzmaster with a custom pickguard and pickup configuration.

[xtianor]

@skippypoopface a pretty one

[Michaelman1990]

He and Thurston Moore are refreshing to hear after wading through the crap of today's singers.

[petkracken]

Whatever, I'm choosing to ignore the criticism and just say that I really enjoyed my first listen! Found it on the Warhol Museum site, looking for upcoming events and the artist looked interesting. I'm definitely going to see the show. ^_^

[rtenewsonone]

Savage!

That's Irish for excellent.

[llamasarus1]

i hear some tom petty inluence in this

[TheDarwinman]

I'm an old dude (51). Even oldsters know this is magnificent shit - WOW! Yes, this song needs to be 10 mins. longer...

[llamasarus1]

@TheDarwinman you don't have to be young to have a good taste in music. age doesn't matter. after all, its not like the "cool kids" are listening to this.

[irlboyy]

@llamasarus1

yeah they are. thats what this is.

[syregges]

very good!!

[therealrosskelly]

Is this a cover of Radio Gaga by Queen?

[nmcclure79]

Impressive amount of views!

[LaceyBellissimo]

This song needs to be like 5 minutes longer. 

[withease9]

@LaceyBellissimo I was just gonna post the same comment. It's too short! Guess that's how I keep playing it over and over.

[maxhate1]

love it when the second guitar kicks in at 1:12

[warmlights]

this song is awesome!

[atticbadger]

This guys music will almost certainly be the soundtrack to a film one day. I mean that in a good way. His music is really atmospheric and absorbing. I personally think it's brilliant!

[PRUNEDOG1]

@atticbadger this song was used in the new kink bmx movie, they used it for the new zealand clip

[TheKurtVile]

This is good stuff

[windrix1]

Hmmm....Kurt lives in my town....Oppourtunity for creative and searching 14 year old...This'll be intersting!

[Fiaganja]

@windrix1 where are you from?

[kandykanekaleigh]

good beach music

[Egamonex]

I got a freeway in mind,

Let go of my head,

Walk down my line,

Better be sure you'll be dead,

I got a trumpet,

I know where to dump it,

I'm glad that you came,

If the sound is the same.

[Egamonex]

Sometimes my reckless ways,

Shock my self system for days,

Now i'm channelling my faze,

In an anacin haze,

But it aint gonna do me in,

I know when to dump it,

A hole in my way again,

I'll surely just jump it.

[Egamonex]

There was a kid in a tree, Among the birds and the bees, Between bee hive and bird nest, And i think you know the rest, He wanted to be free with them, But they weren't believing, Pecking and stinging him, Till he wasn't breathing, But it ain't gonna do him in, He'll just go to heaven, Not done just a dreamer of ten or eleven.

[Egamonex]

*(not 'dumb' just a dreamer of ten or eleven.

[Egamonex]

I've got a freeway in mind,

Let go of my head,

Walk down my line,

Better be sure you'll be dead,

I got a trumpet,

I know where to dump it.

[1313brik]

hey world party called they wanted the vibe from "way down now " back

[quixotes]

@1313brik Nothing is original. "It's not where you take things from its where you take them to" - Jean-Luc Godard

[windrix1]

this was the number one seller at Repo Records

[supersigh70]

he wanted to be free w/ them

but they wern't believin'

quickly began stealin' him

till he wasn't breathin'

[sd1970kd]

"don't do me like that" wasn't that a Tom Petty song?

[fhurb]

unique sound, next big thing

[sunflowertheory]

this guy is fuckin dope..

[FormerlyKnownAsShun]

you fuckin assholes, stop arguing go make your own music. the music is good. STFU.

[waitingroom05]

@FormerlyKnownAsShun

Stop cursing you 15 year old twit

[mradamcooley]

worst shoutbox ever

[frat899]

Wow Kurt its been awile since I have heard any of your material, this song truly does have a sound that sticks.

[dilletantepickle]

This band can't play like a symphony but neither can a symphony play like this band.

A symphony cover would lay bare what this band does not do but a rock and roll band cover of a symphony would lay bare what that symphony does not do.

Can you imagine a symphony covering a Dylan song. It's called MUZAK. But no one would say those songs lack anything.

Th Freeway album isn't the best thing I ever heard by far. But it's exciting because it sounds the emergence of a new voice.

[dilletantepickle]

my apologies for calling you a dipshit.

[dilletantepickle]

don't litter my inbox with your worthless threats dengie dungheap75. we're on the fucking net so it's not like you can actually put your face where your mouth is.

[dilletantepickle]

who's dissing who buddy? Vile's hitmaker album holds a special place in my modest collection. I rocked out hard to it last fall. I clung it to it like a candle that burnt off my fucking arm, you dipshit. Doesn't mean I don't I have a fucking opinion on it. Not like I'm criticizing Jesus Christ on the fucking cross.

My highschool days were flooded with assholes pumping dance beats out of their trunks. So when I hear that metronomic thud through my subs it pisses me off cause the song rocks.

[dilletantepickle]

bought the cd and played it through some decent speakers fro the first time. I was surprised to hear a bass drum sound thumping through the whole song. The song is sweet but is there a version without that metronome bass beat? It takes away from the YEAAAHHHHHH!!!! factor.

(Besides the acoustic vrsn at the end of the album.)

[jacobjacobbruce]

I got a trumpet I know where to dump it.

[dilletantepickle]

KOL? he's playing w/ drum machine and his voice if anything sounds like Joey Ramone and Lou Reed or Iggy Pop with the Heartbreakers on guitar.

Caleb Followill sounds like Fogherty and whatshisname canuck from Steppenwolf.

[dengie75]

dont diss the wolf brother, ever

[posthumanhero]

it's just ok.......i don't think the hipsters will remember this music years from now because if a symphonic orchestra covered it the lack of substance would be laid bare: especially if the orchestra didn't look cool........on a positive note, it's good that music brings people together and brings them joy.

[dilletantepickle]

This band can't play like a symphony but neither can a symphony play like this band.

A symphony cover would lay bare what this band does not do but a rock and roll band cover of a symphony would lay bare what that symphony does not do.

Can you imagine a symphony covering a Dylan song. It's called MUZAK. But no one would say those songs lack anything.

Th Freeway album isn't the best thing I ever heard by far. But it's exciting because it sounds the emergence of a new voice.

[posthumanhero]

we should go to a restaurant that hipsters are fond of.......they serve big giant pancakes and heaping dishes of spaghetti, all smothered in butter........and they even play beethovans piano concertos on thursday nights, though those pompous europeans keep demanding rimsky korsakoff, bartok and stravinsky.

[YouthRoo]

lilSnubby: When did Kings of Leon ever sound like this? Sounds more like Springsteen doing Empire of the Sun or vice versa

[lilSnubby]

Trying hard to sound like early KOL

[reallygreatlife]

what a GrEaT song!!!! who IS this guy?

[FlowChart88]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeay

[motownJUNK99]

yeeeeeay.

[ascodemodernas]

great!