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  • sigh...i miss how good everything went numb was...

  • so thomas went from emo ska, to GREAT ska, then back to emo ska with somewhere in the between? too bad.

  • song for soul:)

  • So a lot of u guys said he doesnt want to play it cuz he is embarrassed of it, but didnt he remake other songs he was embarrassed of? like all of keasby nights and they provide the paint... his voice has changed a lot since then and many of the high notes he cant hit anymore, so i think that him saying hes embarrassed is just an excuse and he may really b worried he would not b able to sing the song as well. Who wants to make a song you wrote when u were young even worse? thats more embarrassing

  • It's like Sublime. I mean, it's exactly like Sublime. As in I thought I was accidentally listening to Sublime.

    I love it.

  • @superjudge3 how?

  • @skunkpep idk. just has that guitar-only ska and thrashy punk-rock feel

  • this is true talent, bieber isn't even in leage

  • Halfway through this I thought to myself "WOW this is surpisingly great". My next thought was "no, not surprising, everything Tomas has ever done has been amazing."

  • We all love you man!

  • I want this cassette but I can't find it anywhere online D:

  • @Youtubican make your own! i downloaded the album online, and they have templates that people have somehow miraculously found. just record it on cassette and make your own cover from google!! i plan on doing so for the car and listen to it in its true form!! (sort of)

  • Fucking beautiful... I really hope SM covers this in 99SOR2.

  • It's a shame that this song goes unkown to so many people... Then again, my generation would likely say something like "Needs more autotune" or "I like Bieber more." :/

  • @CGrayArea Don't just go around making those assumptions, sir.

    Fuck that fake mainstream bullshit.

  • @JenkinzFilmz I'm not alone! :D

  • My god. Tomas Kalnoky, wherever you are, please hear my prayers. Make a small boy happy and PLEASE put this song on 99 Songs of Revolution Vol. 2!

  • people have to get off his back, he doesn't want to play it, get over it. leave the dude alone, don't you guess get that you are irritating the shit out of him?

  • I swear, next time I see Streetlight live, I'm going to try to get a bottle of Mrs. Butterworth's syrup there and get it signed by a ton of people there, and then give it to Tom with a note that says "Please Play Me"

  • I watched it in full screen.

  • Catchy.

  • No, Orlando. I'm going to the one at the House of Blues.

  • I'm gonna either get a picture of pancakes with something that says "You know what this needs..." with everyone's signatures on it, or get Aaron Barrett of Reel Big Fish to get everyone sign a syrup bottle.

  • @LoudmouthSeth By any chance, do you live in Miami? 

  • I want to ask him to sign my syrup bottle at my Streetlight show in Orlando.

  • I was at a Streetlight show a while back and when someone shouted "Play Butterworth!" Tomas said "shut up" and everyone started laughing :L

  • he wrote this song when he was 9! that just blew my mind!

  • @summerofska actually, no... i'm pretty sure i heard him say he wrote it when he was 16 hehe

  • @LeperMessiah247 on the liner notes on smiles for mcavity it says thathe wrote it when he was 9

  • @summerofska ..and i believe during bamboozle he said he wrote it when he was 15/16. he's an amazing artist, but it wouldn't really make sense for him to have written it at 9

  • @LeperMessiah247 all i know is that i have a cassete of smiles for mcavity and it says that on the liner notes,,,,,

  • if i had one last wish....if i could take one last opportunity to hear one last song before the arms of death swept me away... i would want to hear this performed by tomas and the 2 members of gimp.

  • i wanna learn how to play this song on guitar, i cant figure it out tho :'(

  • @TheMetalupyourass83 Same, i think theres a bass tab out for it, which is great cause the bass in this song is fantastic to learn. But no guitar as far as I know, maybe one day :/

  • Why does Tomas hate this song so much?

  • @blindfire7unloaded He's 'embarrassed' of it, hes a super perfectionist so in his eyes this song sucks lol

  • I get the feeling that he secretly likes to hate this song. After all most artists tend to have a song that they hate, but the fans love (Radiohead and Creep) (Reel Big Fish and Sellout).

    Only how long till he makes a song about not playing butterworth?

  • 99sor v2

    i demand this.

  • @Bazooka043 DEMMANND IT.

  • can someone please explain why everyone at concerts asks Tomas to play this song but none of the others from Smiles for Macavity?

  • @MrNickeh I think it's just reached inside-joke status by this point. No other reason than that.

  • I don't get why he hates this song so much it's really not that bad

  • Next time I go to a streetlight show I'm gonna yell "play butterworth" just for the hell of it

  • In Palatine last month a group of kids were yelling PLAY BUTTERWORTH right when they got on stage. I'm glad Kalnoky didn't hear hah.

  • @MLGBandit Oh boo hoo. It's funny and a good meme for Streetlight shows.

  • Streetlight March 13th D.C.

    So Stoked!!!

  • @VQQDQQCHILD Me too, can not wait.

  • Does anybody have the guitar tab for this song?

  • @BlakeMDavis the chords are G, B, C, D, tomas varies it a lot but they're all you really need to know

  • @S0ckless Thanks ;D

  • @BlakeMDavis no problem, i figured out the song by looking at the bass tab on 911 tabs

  • @S0ckless lol, can't believe I didn't think of that.

  • How is it possible to be so damn talented? He was 15 when this came out. Now he's in Streetlight Manifesto. I wish I was as awesome as Tomas.

  • @doctorkong He was supposedly even younger (9) when he wrote this.

  • Do you have a download of the album? If so i would love you. Ima huge Tomas fan.

  • @Dragon22mj I can't send the url, but Google the RISC Group Fansite. Once there, go to Downloads (on the sidebar) then Music. It should be the first download.

    I love you too.

  • @ownagepie24 Thanks so much man!

  • @Dragon22mj No problem. Always a pleasure to spread the Toh Kay.

  • Tomas probably hates the fact that this exists, haha.

  • @xr3druM lmao I bet you're right

  • I say Mrs. Buttersworth's for 99 Songs of Revolution Vol. 2!

  • @ColinTheButthead OMG My names Colin too. But I'm not a butthead :/

  • @ColinTheButthead agreed

  • @ColinTheButthead there isnt going to be a 99 songs of revolutution vol 2 thats just dumb

  • @alphabettsoup66 even tho its a project he is working on and he said there is going to be another one....

  • @alphabettsoup66 99 Songs of Revolution is called 99 Songs of Revolution because eventually between Streetlight, BOTAR, and other Kalnoky acts 99 Songs will be covered.

  • @SMfan199 Yep, 2 volumes by Streetlight, 2 volumes by BOTAR, and the others by 2 other un-named bands.

  • @alphabettsoup66 The band themselves want to do *99 Songs* They will probably do more than one

  • @alphabettsoup66 its an eight volume project, watch the interveiws

  • @alphabettsoup66 It's funny, cuz it's a multi-album project that's called 99 Songs of Revolution, it's called that because there's obviously more than one album. And Streetlight has already confirmed that they're in the process of creating 99SOR part 2.

  • @ColinTheButthead

    Not likely, unfortunately. Tomas hates this song apparently xD

  • @Youtubican if you request this song at a streetlight concert tomas walks off the stage it happened to my friends friend

  • Everybody has been saying that Kalnoky was fifteen when he recorded these. I was actually thinking about it, Kalnoky was born Dec. 24 1980. This was released 1995, more than positive before Christmas. That means he was 14 at the time! Am I the first to catch that? O.o

  • Hopefully one day Streetlight will play this at one of their shows.

  • haha I love the throwing th mrs. Butterworth's syrup bottle on stage comment. Excellent.

  • Everyone really wants him to play this song lol i went to go see Streetlight a couple months ago, and someone had a big paper saying "butterworth" tomas just looked and said "no put that paper away, im not going to play that" i never knew what he meant until i heard this song :/

  • @vanditjohnny Tomas regularly says at shows he is embarassed by this song because he wrote it so many years ago, and I sort of see where he was coming from, not that its bad, but he has grown a lot as an artist since he wrote this, he wants people to appreciate his newer and more current work, not what he wrote in high school.

  • anyone know the chords?

  • Why is tom so ashamed of this song?

  • @Carpenella he said since he wrote when he he was a kid i think idk, this song is amazing

  • goooooo!

  • I want a streetlight/BOTAR remake or at least a remastered release of the whole Smiles For Macavity album :(

  • @palkian90 Yea, but Tom took the courtesy to bring back Macavity from his new clothing line last month. WOOOOOOOOH FOR THE RESURRECTION OF MACAVITY!!!!

  • @goodtimesontoob yeah, the macavity culture co things :)

  • There's always someone at Streetlight's concerts yelling "BUTTERWORTH! BUTTERWORTH! BUTTERWORTH!" haha

  • steetlight should rerecord this and just improve on it

  • @leftovercrunch even better they should *improv* on it

  • @leftovercrunch i like your name man.

    Leftover Crack for life dude

  • I just took a bottle of Mrs. Butterworth's syrup with "Play Me" written all over it to the Streetlight show in Portland last night... I threw it to Tomas and he just shook his head laughing.

  • @norwegianfisher gonna have to do that saturday hahah

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  • @AustiNoTexas Blazing. I remember they kept having sound difficulty and were calling out the Satyricon owners for not having AC... haha

  • @norwegianfisher Whoa, you were at that show? I was too! I was right in front of Tomas :D

  • @norwegianfisher LMAO! I SWEAR TO GOD was gonna do that at the Anaheim show, but I forgot. Damn you beat me to it! XD

  • @goodtimesontoob I had another idea that just didn't materialize in time... I was going to make a sign with a picture of pancakes on it and something along the lines of: MY PANCAKES CRAVE BUTTERSWORTH!!!

  • @norwegianfisher Yea, I was gonna do the Butterworth bottle idea and heve a sign with a enlarged picture of Mrs. Butterworth saying "Play me Tomas!" hahaha we have similar minds! instead I got to touch his shoe when he walked in front of the horn line and in front of me hahaha

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  • @norwegianfisher well, it wont work... this is what Mike Brown said,, "as you know already, nothing will work. that song will not be in the rotation... i don't think anyone in the band knows it... not even tom. it's done." :(

  • @goodtimesontoob booo... :( well, somebody needs to get the tabs to this, put it to the lyrics, and send it to them with a plea note... lol

  • @norwegianfisher I know the song 100% on the guitar I can write the tabs lol. Actually me and my band is recording a cover of Mrs. Butterworth over the weekend to show Mike Brown. But what I think he means by that is that Tomas doesn't know that the song will ever see the light of day, I mean I'm sure he knows how to play it. He just chooses not to (obviously):

  • @goodtimesontoob yea could you tab this shit out :)

  • @skimmer538 Yea, I'ma hopefully get around to it sometime this week. I will let you know when I finish! :D

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  • @goodtimesontoob Did you ever get around to writing the tabs? If so I would be interested in them ^_^

  • @Conchobear Oh yeah, funny story... I started writing the tabs out back in April and I got bored and frustrated and stopped working on the tab after the second line. I never realized how much of a pain in the ass it is to write them... Anyways, I can always make a cover video or a REALLY LAZY Tab, I'm just unsure when I'll get around to it. I've neglected the internet lately also... I'll get around to it someday..

  • @norwegianfisher I wish i could like this every second of every day

  • @norwegianfisher Good Stuff! I'm heading to see streetlight tomorrow night in Pomona actually! Might try that lol!

    Got bit of his acoustic encore jan 26th of this year on my channel if anyones interested- fun stuff- love toh kay <3

  • @norwegianfisher I would thumps up that comment but I dont want to ruin the magical 69 that is going on there.

  • @MightyIronHead i was thinking the exact same thing!!!

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  • anyone know the lyrics to this?

  • @Dudeman23ufc I do! xD It took 5 months for a reply.

  • Only Tom Can make a Vegue song about Pan Cakes. :)

  • If you take any modern Streetlight Manifesto recording and speed it up, Tomas's voice will sound like this again!

  • Anyone know the chords to this? So far I got Barre G, B, C. Can't figure the last one.

  • @heyavtonewyork I'm pretty sure the last one is D

  • @heyavtonewyork If you're still wondering, its G B C D

  • Someone requested this song at one of Streetlight's concerts and he was just like "What? I wrote that when I was like nine..."

    And on their website, during The Four Out of Seven In Three Before Nine Tour, at the very end of the part where they mentioned that they would be taking requests, they wrote in all caps: "NO MRS. BUTTERWORTH"

  • @MrHiMyNameIs18 I was at the show where he said that, most of the jersey hometown shows people do it

  • 99sor!?

  • i think the reason this isnt on 99 SOR is because it really isnt a song that was imortant to him, and if he did put it on 99 sor he just do it cause people wanted him to and that would be selling out and he knows that is wrong

  • @RidingThe4thWave isnt it about his mom?

  • @RidingThe4thWave selling out isnt giving the fans what they want. it CAN be. only if you dont want to do it. it wouldnt be selling out if they decided to do it for their fans. if they did it for money. which they never would. because yeah your right, he knows its wrong, it would be.

  • @RidingThe4thWave I know but it would still be sweet.

  • @RidingThe4thWave its not selling out to put a song on an album because people requested it. its selling out to do anything specifically for money only.

  • They should have covered this on 99Sor.

  • you know what i find amazing? how much he progressed musically in about 3 years. i know this tape came out when he was 15, i think i read it was '95. in '98 keasby nights came out, which has been hailed as the best 3rd wave punk/ska album ever!

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  • @andyottito It's too bad Catch 22 SUCKED after Kalnoky left.

  • @andyottito Smile of Macivity came out in 1996, so he would have been 15 or 16.

  • Is it just me or is like..every one of gimp's songs out of tune? I've tried playing along with this and it's really off xD

    still amzing though :D

  • @theforsakenpiggies It's not just you. : P

  • The Annie of the last generation ;)

  • haha i never thought about that, another song with a girl thinking about suicide

  • confusing enough title o.O

  • you know tomas wrote this when he was 9

  • thats just a rummor... no one really knows for sure.

  • noooo once @ a live show the crowd wanted him to play it and he was like "gah, no! I wrote that when I was like, 9! It's so embarassing!"

  • 15.

  • Lyrically great. Musicaly, not so much.

  • but for some reason incredibly catchy

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  • He was NINE when he wrote this!?

    These lyrics are deeper and more meaningful than most of the stuff you hear on the radio i think

  • people say he was only nine, just cause in that video with the acoustic set, someone shouts out mrs. butterworth and he says "can you please stop saying butterworth, i was like 9, its the most embarressing thing i have ever written" and people took the message wrong. when really hw was just over exagerating how old he was.... wich is 15.....still impressive tho

  • why would he be embarrased by this? its amazing i feel

  • i agree, but im 17, thats only 2 years away from the age he wrote it... im sure when im his age (30) i will have a different opinion on this song... pluss i have some music i did when i was 14 that im really embarresed of...so i guess i see where hes coming from

  • Good point. I dont know maybe I won't like the song as much but I doubt ill like cringe upon hearing it. And its defenitly not corny or anything but I guess I can understand it being annoying to get requests for a song you did in your teens

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  • @alwaysblinkin182 So true man. Not being a cocky douche, but I've had some people ask me to play some of my old songs that I wrote when I was 15 and damn it's so embarrassing.

  • ya but mabe you should play them.... think about it, be a bigger man than kalnoky and play them....haha.

  • @alwaysblinkin182

    Haha no ones bigger than kalnoky.

  • @thesoftsquid haha that sounded so wrong, but i agree with you.

  • yea i get that. i compare the band i was in when i was 13 to the band im in now (im 17 as well) and it is quite embarassing.

  • Anyone else think "Mrs. Butterworth" and the mother from "As the Footsteps Die Out Forever" are the same person?

  • no, like it fits and everything but i think as the footsteps die out forever is true, and when he wrote mrs. buttterworth i think he was just trying to write a sad song. ....... but ya never know.

  • fuck he was 9 and he still writes better songs than me

  • He was nine? NINE?!

  • Nine. Even if it was a fragment of an idea, he still STARTED it when he was 9. It even checks out with some of his interviews. I don't remember what I did when I was 9, but I can tell you now that I didn't even know what Ska was yet...

  • Makes one feel inadequate...

    Ah well, I could go into various existential reasons why it doesn't bother me but I can't be bothered.

  • if i had a voice like that i'd get a giant boner everytime i hear myself talkin :D

  • @boooooyakasha meeeee 22.

  • @boooooyakasha so are you saying you get a boner when you here tomas sing hahaha

  • @boooooyakasha he was 15 back then you sick bastard

  • @boooooyakasha You get a boner for a 15 year old boy. I'm not one to judge...

  • @ownagepie24 i think he's just complementing his voice

  • How old was Tomas exacltey when he wrote this? Some people say he was twelve, and some say he was nine. which is it? :O