Nation of Ulysses - "Cool Senior High School (Fight Song)"

[boflynn78]

the counter melodies are sublime

[sydbarrett5]

I'd love to see these guys back then with Fugazi

[paddygav]

I find their records to be quite interesting. This is kind of hard to make out though.

[garethac81]

This is what a song sounds like after your fat uncle has sat on it...what used to be words and melodies is now just a meaningless, amorphous splat.

Walk down the street, and give instruments to the first four teenagers you meet. Within an hour, they'll be able to make this noise.

[sydbarrett5]

@garethac81 "This is what a song sounds like after your fat uncle has sat on it." That's hilarious!

[spearleaf]

@garethac81 you're not listening

[garethac81]

@spearleaf

Correction: I did listen...then wished I hadn't. You could train monkeys to make this noise.

[Ayeetbolz]

@garethac81 this is raw energy being performed at its best... its about the atmosphere when you're at a show like this. maybe try listening to the studio version? and if you seriously think any teenager could play this balls out like this then you might want to get your head checked. but judging from all the music you listen to, i wouldnt expect you to understand a band so fresh and ingenious. try getting out of your comfort zone of music, and quit being so fucking judgmental.

[garethac81]

@Ayeetbolz

"if you seriously think any teenager could play this balls out like this then you might want to get your head checked"

Playing "balls out" doesn't require talent. Attitude without musicianship is nothing. Even the most famous "raw" bands (The Stooges, The Sex Pistols etc.) had musicianship, and knew how to write and perform a melody.

This is a musical belch. That's all it is.

[Ayeetbolz]

@garethac81 obviously you havent heard of at the drive in

[Ayeetbolz]

@garethac81 and if you think anyone could play a song like this why dont you try? do you even play an instrument?

[DrawOutTheLions]

@garethac81 thankfully no one gives a shit about your mindless idiotic and poorly worded opinion. otherwise amazing music like this might not exist. to say the sex pistols had more talent then NOU pretty much makes anything you have to say about music a moot point. more influential yes but more musically talented? sorry, not by a long shot.

[garethac81]

@DrawOutTheLions

"Poorly worded"? My posts are well above the standard of most of the grammatically incorrect, typo-ridden contributions on YouTube...probably because I'm a qualified English teacher. Oops!

"Mindless"? "Idiotic"? Now you're just throwing shit at a wall, hoping some of it will stick. What other hackneyed insults do you have in your locker? "Retarded", maybe?

Get back to me if you actually have a valid criticism which pertains to my posts. Thanks.

[DrawOutTheLions]

@garethac81 aw did someone breakout the thesaurus or have you just been looking for an excuse to use the word "hackneyed"? and come on. "...a qualified English teacher. Oops!" really? get out of here with that. my post could not have been any more valid or straight forward. but for your benefit allow me to simplify even further. You. Do. Not. Know. What. You. Are. Talking. About. shhhh. and yes...poorly worded, mindless and idiotic. an English teacher should know what those words mean....moron.

[garethac81]

@DrawOutTheLions

Me: "What other hackneyed insults do you have in your locker?"

You: "Moron."

Wow...you really got to me with that one! *LMAO*

[DrawOutTheLions]

@garethac81 you seem you have taken this away from or completely missed my original point and in doing so somehow have managed to come off sounding a 13 year old girl arguing about nothing. im done responding to this so i guess go ahead and count me (and yourself) making you look stupid as a youtube argument win for you. congrats. but i will leave you with this...a little bit of reading comprehension skill would do a world of good for you. especially since you're an "english teacher" and all...

[garethac81]

@DrawOutTheLions

Riiiight...you trot out every childish insult in the book ("idiot", "moron", etc.), and I'M the one who comes off "sounding like a 13 year old girl"?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

[SMIDJID204]

hes on meth

[spuffchops70]

Why are there so few vids of their second album 'Plays Pretty for Baby'? It was a lot better than the first one.

[sakuraba13]

What a bunch of D-bags......

[simpsons2170]

Oh Ian...you were cool in your pre-VBS tv days

[markowhisper]

...they had an awesome plan.

[ScreamingDeathPunch]

They were tongue in cheek.

[doughnutbreath]

Oh relax.

[pompadourssuck]

they were being ironic you fool

[Disappearer88]

Congratulations. You're cooler than everyone.

[halfsquirrel]

Maybe true, but they were fun!

[kisstheclowns]

they were a rock and roll band. Get a grip. Uber-political music is usually terrible, and always only preaches to the converted, rendering it benign. Bob Dylans political songs were just as veiled by style and image. The mystery they built could move mountains and is constantly ripped off too this day.

[cnicnac]

where are the suits

[igglot]

Oh D.C. space, yay.

[morphicresident]

this is a pretty good live version of this.

not a lot of video from this period - solid job posting it.

[justin2535]

I saw these dudes way back in the day. You couldn't make out a single thing they played, but they knocked a lot of stuff over, then later everyone said they were great.

[aaronfast]

sounds about right.

[TallFastLoud]

hahahaha

[waxanimalparts]

They were easily one of the best bands of the nineties.

[assgrassorcash]

they were only around for two years in the 90's.

[waxanimalparts]

i meant eighties. i was just reading about how they influenced unwound, who was in the nineties, so yeah. oops.

[assgrassorcash]

i wasn't trying to knock you or anything. it just struck me at first like, "i wonder if he means the make-up?" that's all

[waxanimalparts]

yikes, i just re read my reply. i didn't mean to sound hostile at all, sorry about that. didn't mean to sound like a douche haha.

[MarsHottentot]

They formed in '88 (which was news to me), but both of their LPs came out in '91 & '92. This makes you BOTH right.

[egeneric]

alive and well... WEIRD WAR !!

[MarsHottentot]

Good, but an entirely different beast... I was nuts about Make-Up. Their early singles are prime no wave scuzz.

[Symbiote234]

COOL!

[redshaftedflicker]

Off the fuggin' hook.

[ButterKnifeLtd]

Great footage!

[TheKnownUnknowns]

AWESOME!

[KMFCM]

Ian looks a little bit like Tim from Brainiac (R.I.P.) in this vid... . .

[LiveGoat]

Great to see someone who knows of Braniac. I used to see them in Cincinnati (they were from Dayton) all the time. I've still got a "demo" they made in the early days which was dubbed onto cassette tapes they got from salvation army stores. Mine has some christain dude preaching on it after their EP finishes.

[nach0s]

that's ian svenonius.. he had more success in The Makeup, I think.

[saigeyurpoo]

Who's the psyhcho running around and moving his head a lot?

[elowsky]

I'm glad kids are posting their old videos, I thought those days would be lost, on another note: check out the other videos this song's title pulls up for our convenience. hilarious

[tomorrowthemaker]

I liked this stuff in high school and like it even more now.

[HipHopJun]

thats the name of the band?? my name is Ulysses. thats the first ive heard of something/somebody else with my name.

[penduluum]

Um. Except for ... Ulysses. Right?

[HipHopJun]

that greek myth, yea....

[lewiscode]

...or the James Joyce novel.

[KMFCM]

my best bud is named that too

[HardcoreHowie]

read the illiad

[labronk]

You mean "read Marinetti"?

[whoislikejah]

yes! thank you!

[augustin099]

lol

[edotmdot]

I am jealous. Ian's the man and NoU are pretty much the best band everrrr. Someone up a vid of "Ulythium" if you have it

!!

[swardell]

Wow - Once talked to Ian Sv. that I never got to see Nation. his response "well there are always the videos" - I said "really?" He said "I was being facetious"

Guess I wasn't that naiive - cool!

[glassbowls]

LOL! wtf is this. HAHAAAH!

[merseyonme]

Yesss....total freak out. I wish there were more vids! Plays For Pretty Baby = perfection

[thecommentator001]

holy shit i can't believe it how so many people find this good... this is so shitty i'd rather listen to someone take a shit than this... and performance is even worse

[br4ve]

sweet

[PreciousJoe]

More Ulysses please!

[prettyluv3]

wtf how could every one like this i think its shit n borinnnnnnnnnnnnng

[realshocks]

thanks for sharing !!!

[sevendaughters]

This is so fucking good I can't think when it's on.

[medladam]

Maybe my favourite of all the bands that existed before I was old enough to appreciate music.

[MarsHottentot]

REALLY!!! For a band as far ahead of the curve as NOU, you'd think there'd be more. MORE!!! I second the Cupid Car Club request!!

[theforgottenkarl]

the only Ulysses stuff on tube....

[alsopatrick]

Is this available for purchase? I've run searches all over the place and turned up nothing. I, no...WE need more!!

And while I'm askin...any Cupid Car Club footage too?

[danieloquence]

yesss! more more more! especially cause its of such a great quality!

[shibby3030]

dude@!! post more NOU!!

[abracadaver]

more please!

[BigBenMyers]

More N.O.U.!

[sleepinspring]

anymore?