Friends of P.
The Rentals Lyrics

Oh boy, find out what's up with me.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Tell me more of what's gonna be.
If you're friends with P.,
Well, then you're friends with me.
If you're down with P.,
Well, then you're down with me.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends...
Somebody's fame and fortune is gonna come to me early.
I get two loves in my life, and I'm dying at ninety.

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: MATTHEW KELLY SHARP

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There are two bands charting as The Rentals:

1.) An American alternative rock band fronted by Matt Sharp, former bass player for Weezer. The Rentals have released four LPs, Return Of The Rentals (1995), Seven More Minutes (1999), Lost in Alphaville (2014), Q36 (2020) and four EPs, The Last Little Life EP (2007), The Story of a Thousand Seasons Past (2009), It's Time to Come Home (2009), and The Future (2009). The 2009 EPs make up the musical end of the Songs About Time project Read Full BioThere are two bands charting as The Rentals:

1.) An American alternative rock band fronted by Matt Sharp, former bass player for Weezer. The Rentals have released four LPs, Return Of The Rentals (1995), Seven More Minutes (1999), Lost in Alphaville (2014), Q36 (2020) and four EPs, The Last Little Life EP (2007), The Story of a Thousand Seasons Past (2009), It's Time to Come Home (2009), and The Future (2009). The 2009 EPs make up the musical end of the Songs About Time project, which also includes daily photos and weekly short films entitled Resilience (2011).

Band members on Return Of included Patrick Wilson (also of Weezer) on drums, Rod Cervera (guitar), Tom Grimley (moog), Petra Haden (violin, vocals), and Cherielynn Westrich (vocals, moog). Petra's triplet sister, Rachel Haden, appears as an additional vocalist. After Sharp left Weezer, Wilson's studio replacement on the drums was Kevin March and Mike Fletcher was the band's most frequent touring drummer. Maya Rudolph, of Saturday Night Live fame, also briefly toured with the band as a keyboardist. They are known for their quirky Moog-driven melodies. The single "Friends of P" off their first album was a modern rock radio hit, peaking at #7 on Billboard's Modern Rock Chart and #92 on the Billboard Hot 100. After touring for Seven More Minutes the band disbanded.

Yet on October 24, 2005, the tenth anniversary of the band's formation, Matt Sharp announced he was bringing back The Rentals after a six year absence. The new lineup includes founding member Rachel Haden on bass/vocals, Sara Radle on vocals/multiple instruments, Ben Pringle (from Nerf Herder and now Yearbook Pictures) on synths/multiple instruments, Lauren Chipman on viola/synth/vocals, and Dan Joeright on drums. Sharp stated on his website that "there are no current plans" for ex-Rental Cherielynn Westrich "to be involved in the future of The Rentals."

Sharp states: The essential elements of The Rentals will be there. Our fascination with vintage synthesizers, violas, violins, female harmonies and all the rest will continue. But, I'm guessing, we'll most likely veer off the path that would lead us into the realm of becoming our own tribute band.

2.) A late '70s Boston area Punk band featuring Jeff Hudson, Jane Hudson, and Pseudo Carol. As a trio, they released the songs "Gertrude Stein", "Low Rent", "New York", "I Got A Crush On You" and "Elephants".

In 1980, Jeff & Jane joined The MANHATTAN PROJECT, followed by the Electro-Punk act simply known as Jeff & Jane Hudson in 1981.

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Austin Lucas

5y↑38

Lyrics:

"I'm a good guy for a gal,
So won't you look my palm over?
I've got time for a chat,
So won't you tell me my future?
I'm gonna break down at fifty,
And I'm not quite a stallion.
I'm a good guy for a gal,
And I'm mentally slipping.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Oh boy, find out what's up with me.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Tell me more of what's gonna be.
If you're friends with P.,
Well, then you're friends with me.
If you're down with P.,
Well, then you're down with me.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends...
Somebody's fame and fortune is gonna come to me early.
I get two loves in my life, and I'm dying at ninety."

Hanging with Matty

4y↑3

I'm a good guy for a gal,
So won't you look my palm over?
I've got time for a chat,
So won't you tell me my future?
I'm gonna break down at fifty,
And I'm not quite a stallion.
I'm a good guy for a gal,
And I'm mentally slipping.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Oh boy, find out what's up with me.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Tell me more of what's gonna be.
If you're friends with P.,
Well, then you're friends with me.
If you're down with P.,
Well, then you're down with me.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends...
Somebody's fame and fortune is gonna come to me early.
I get two loves in my life, and I'm dying at 90

timt183

LYRICS!
"I'm a good guy for a gal,
So won't you look my palm over?
I've got time for a chat,
So won't you tell me my future?
I'm gonna break down at fifty,
And I'm not quite a stallion.
I'm a good guy for a gal,
And I'm mentally slipping.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Oh boy, find out what's up with me.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Tell me more of what's gonna be.
If you're friends with P.,
Well, then you're friends with me.
If you're down with P.,
Well, then you're down with me.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends...
Somebody's fame and fortune is gonna come to me early.
I get two loves in my life, and I'm dying at ninety. "

Source: LyricFind

All comments from YouTube:

SteveEdwardCooper

5y↑1.5K

Decades ago, I fell asleep on the couch one night with the TV on. Woke up at three AM, watched this video, wondered what the Hell I was looking at, fell back asleep. I spent the next few months, in the pre-internet era, trying to find this again. No one knew what I was talking about and some thought I had dreamt it. Finally I saw it a second time and found out the name of the band. It was such a relief to not only figure out who they were, but to buy the album and play this for my friends so they wouldn't think I had pulled the whole thing from a weird dream.

Karey-Anne Foster

This song is a hoot and a half I tell you

Kelly ryan

@Herr Engels ahhhhh, back when Mtv played Music. So much cool music, not popular enough for prime time, was found this way

Kelly ryan

@John Brown I too had a friend like that ❤️🖤

Kelly ryan

@Colin Clayton absolutely...BUT WAIT, THERES MORE...does not include shipping and handling...back when 1-800 #'s began with 1-800 (I sound like Willy Nelson in 'Half Baked' "I remembered when a dime bag cost a dime"

Derek Pillers

4w↑2

Similar story, but not as cool. I saw it on MTV & spent the next two weeks trying to understand why I like it..

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Roselynne

Back in 2013 I fell asleep on the bus with this song playing on Spotify on repeat and when I figured out what the hell I was listening to I told my bus driver to listen to this song. All grades I rode the bus have memorable stories, like that time my 4th grade bus driver turned around and took me to build a bear, or that time I met my 5th grade bus driver at the theater

Eric Hays

2y↑121

I still love this song as much at 50 as much as when I first heard it at 25.

caidicus

@Nathaniel Krefman We're all dying, just some of us are dying slower than others. :P The question is, how are you living?

Nathaniel Krefman

18w↑1

But you’re dyin’ at 90.

POPNDOUGH

36w↑3

You're lucky you didn't break down at fifty.

kung Few

5y↑336

I got to see the original Weezer lineup front row standing room only at the metro in Chicago when they released Pinkerton. They played every song off both albums and were awesome! I yelled out as loud as I could HEY SHARP! He looked at me and I screamed RENTALS! While giving him the rock hand symbol, he smiled at me and nodded to me thanks brother. Best concert of my life bar none and It sucks Sharp left, but Rivers is still awesome and I loved the green album.

rockandrollpt3

@flaming cabbage i need friends just like you

kung Few

3y↑6

@flaming cabbage No dude, thank you very much for the info, I absolutely love all things Weezer related and I am always stoned if possible my brother lol.✌❤

flaming cabbage

3y↑2

Oh god, I completely forgot this was a Rentals video and then went on about Weezer, I'm so sorry Matt :(

flaming cabbage

3y↑4

Sorry, that was much longer than necessary, but I'm a big fan and I'm stoned

flaming cabbage

3y↑17

I'm not really sure. There aren't many recordings of Jason with Weezer beyond the demos where he mostly plays an acoustic. Jason was known for being really good at fingerpicking, which is pretty impressive. Jason was fired when the Blue Album was almost done, so Rivers rerecorded all of his guitar parts in a single take. Brian Bell was hired before they took the cover photo, and they had him sing on a few songs, but all of the guitars on Blue are Rivers. Considering that Jason co wrote "My Name is Jonas" and helped develop the sound of the whole album by contributing all of the iconic guitar intros, and that Brian Bell didn't write anything for Weezer until Red, a compelling case could be made that Jason is more important to the classic Weezer sound, despite only being in the band for a little over a year and never getting to play any venues with them bigger than dinky clubs.
Tl;dr there's not much evidence, but what evidence does exist seems to point to Jason being slightly better

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Pinkhoûse

3y↑167

So I found a vintage Rentals shirt at Goodwill today. I was like “hmm this band sounds familiar” and after some Googling I discovered a lost musical moment from my youth. Luckily I had a cool older sister in the 90s back when I barely had an understanding of music, let alone life in general, and I distinctly remember hearing this track being blasted from her room repeatedly and just thinking how cool it sounded, looking up to my big sis and hoping one day I could be in the know and belong with all the cool adults. So today after hearing this and “The Love I’m Searching For” a rush of nostalgia flooded me with emotion and I’m left longing for those simpler days but also feeling incredibly grateful that I was exposed to this music and can forever cherish those boyhood memories.

Joey Bastian

@Kelly ryan i wish i had a thrifted rentals shirt :/

Kelly ryan

8w↑1

@Joey Bastian as a fan of the Rentals, even having seen them in concert, I'm likely to assume he bought the shirt. Thrift store clothes are the general style for that time and that genre of music.

Kelly ryan

8w↑1

@Joey Bastian I wondered the exact same thing!!

M.J. C.

25w

"Googling"???? LMFAO!!!!!!!!

Pauline Hili

29w

Oh I'm so hearing you. Memories flooding back like they were minutes beforehand. Great memories etched I to my heart. My mates call me P that's my nic name, so when I heard this song, I couldn't believe it.

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Glitter Girl

1y↑103

Me and Diane used to sing this song together. She passed away a few weeks ago, and today would’ve been her 43rd birthday. I’m thinking of you Diane. ❤️💔

DUMBERTHANYOUTHINK

💔

M.J. C.

25w

"Me and Diane"?????? It's "Diane and I" FFS! Would you say "Me used to sing this song" OR "I used to sing this song" Use your fucking brain and speak proper English dumbass!

Russell B

My condolences 🙏 🌺🌹🌻💐. Some 90s songs bring tears to my eyes.. memories.

Mirza Ghalib

how rad were the 90s, son? I miss them more than I probably should...

Russell B

1y↑4

My condolences 🙏.

Betsi Scott

10y↑464

"The actual "p" in the song refers to Paulina Porizkova, the wife of Cars guitarist Ric Ocasek who produced the first Weezer album, known as The Blue Album.[2] Paulina made a claim that no one had ever written a song about her, therefore Matt took on the task. Ric Ocasek noted that he found the subject matter of the song a bit odd" -- from the book "The River's Edge/ The Weezer Story". I'm into rock star biographies :)

Vanir Traditionalist

Ric Ocasek claiming something is odd. Dude was pretty strange himself.

Lazy Crockett

24w

The Rentals were huge fans of Prince, but he changed his name to 0(+> so after several dinners and nights out they wrote this song to honor him. Change my mind.

Seth Schiller

28w

@Pop Corn you make no sense and you write like a first grader so buzz off

Seth Schiller

28w

@Pop Corn grow up you should use your own advice and practice what you preach and stay out of conversations that do not include you

Pop Corn

28w

@Seth Schiller your so mad that I know what your doing your trying and failing to gaslight stop crying and grow up

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Ben Aqua

4y↑488

almost 25 years later and this still slaps like it's day one

Ben Aqua

36w

@Hans Tun whatttt nooooooo. She’s crossed over to the dark side 💀

Hans Tun

36w

Except the girl on the, keyboards is now an republican, anti vaxx, pro gun Iowa state rep aligned with Trump ... Not kidding, she actually is. If anything can ruin a song, that would be it for me. :)

Caius Madison

40w↑1

Yep like a boat, in the deepest water. It's gonna make it.

Mark Laechel

Love it, love the video with its anti hair metal aesthetics...a bunch of people from the IT department in the early 90s...love it!!!

Mark

1y↑2

Anyone who still uses the words "slaps" should be strung up

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Otto Matic

3y↑61

This is one of those songs that was very catchy but I didn't heard very often and I had forgotten about. I tuned into 120 Minutes on MTV Classic and it came on. Wow, the nostalgia it brought on was intense. I'll have to tune in when I can. I'm so glad I heard it again; now I have it on my playlist. 🕺🏻

kidwajagstang

1y↑1

Same. I LOVE 120 minutes!! Midnight Sundays on MTV Classic is a must tune program.

Andrea M

How are we OLD

notsusan

5y↑38

in junior high school my friend wanted to remake this video, we all loved the shit out of it.
great album, the whole moog revival in the 90s was a lot of fun

LHOOQ 2

@Jon's Record Collection You're referring to Cherielynn Westrich. Rachel Haden was the keyboardist here. Whoever uploaded the photo of Westrich on the Weezerpedia page mistakenly uploaded one of Haden.

Jon's Record Collection

16w

I just learned from Politico that the woman playing the Moog is now a Republican state legislator in Iowa. Anti-vaxxer too... I'd rather have the Moog revival back.

Mike Amerika

8y↑7

Just saw the Rentals at the Union Transfer in Philly! Unbelievable band chemistry! They rocked hard and blew me away with awesome force! Great show! Way over my expectations, I suggest seeing them as soon as you can. It was worth way more than the ticket price. Matt is on top of his game!

Jonathan Payeur

4y↑37

My college years, buying cds instead of studying. So worth it, it was a great time for geek rock

relaxinandchillaxin

40w↑2

all music in general it turns out...

Pacific Rain

5y↑222

For the guys who say Matt Sharp's departure messed up Weezer, it's not that incident that almost destroyed Weezer. It's the failure of Pinkerton. The failure of Pinkerton made Rivers Cuomo think the critics want to make him write generic pop songs. If Pinkerton did well, there will be no hiatus, more Pinkerton and Blue sounding albums instead of generic pop albums.

Laith Hermiz

32w

I mean we’ve got a few good albums since then though. White album, Everything Will be Alright in the End, Ok Human, And especially maladroit

Colette Nicoll

46w

@Jeremy Martin , yes! Along with the Blue album, I generally play all my signed copies in chronological order. The only reason I remember that is because I got them all signed when the band toured Pinkerton & had asked if they were going to play Jaimie off the DGC compilation. They said no,but then squeezed it in the first half of the set!

Jeremy

46w↑1

@Colette Nicoll high rotation while I'm at work they just fit together!

Colette Nicoll

46w↑1

I loved Pinkerton at the time it was released! It came as a huge surprise later to find out it was considered a failure. Return of the Rentals & Pinkerton were both on high rotation in my house

Brandon Beil

47w

he's recording Toto covers, sooo.... yeah god point.

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Hurocy Fine Art

18w↑10

We need more of this on the radio.

AlotL1keVegas

2y↑23

Where has this band been my whole life. This song is a gem

Steven Pratt

12y↑8

Very unique music video, I love how still and emotionless they are. Song is awesome!

Frank Brenner

4y↑19

Knew about these guys back in the day, but wasn't a huge fan. But honestly, if this came out today in 2019 it would still be cool and fresh. Way ahead of its time.

Ikey Schultz

18w↑4

This song still sounds great and I actually got to see them live, in Lawrence Kansas, shortly after this song dropped. They played the songs off the album and ended by saying “that’s all the songs we have.” I miss the 90’s.

Quint

8y↑6

This song at the time of it's release had everything needed to change and influence our culture and become a footnote in rock history! But sometimes history has other plans!

Ezekael2517

22w↑5

I saw The Rentals at an in store performance in Philadelphia right after this came out. The 90's were a whole vibe

JDancause

I miss the 90 so much

Brad The DC Universe Geek

5y↑297

I love the awkward ending of this video. Just standing there. This video was pure nineties alt-rock hipster gold.

SaulTFry

27w

I like how Pat itches his nose.

Bella Houghton

28w

@RonJomero "....that was a good drum break."

Damn that Beck song RAWKED when it dropped in summer 96.
"novacaine" my FAVORITE Beck song.

Bella Houghton

28w↑1

@Pop Corn Then u r prob part that "1%" that ride cycles for fun.
I mean I'm sure alot guys do but lol....you can't tell me their not thinking "also a good way meet chicks."

Pop Corn

28w

@Bella Houghton either you crashed or have never riden a motorcycle because they are actually super fun

Randalstilskin

41w

@Aldo Williams LOL Cherielynn Westrich the girl playing the Moog is the REPUBLICAN representative of the Iowa State House of Representatives and is known to get sexually aroused by fast sports cars, I dont think she gives a Fk about hipsters.

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El Gato Gordo

11w

Wow! I have'nt heard this jam 4ever and a day! I recall playing this jam for my friends while we were partying big time at Lake Havasu. They loved it so much that we played this jam while we cruising with the boat near London Bridge. Great times and great memories 😎

John Paul Breese

9w↑1

3:42 They're just standing there, menacingly

Austin Lucas

5y↑38

Tim Mayer

For make benefit of glorious motherland, may I present the Rentals

Found Windows

15w

So I always loved the unique sound of this. Recently heard a guy making music that has some of the same vibes. Mad Robot. Check him out if you like gritty melodic pop power punk stuff. He sings with an accent but it just makes it that much more authentic I think.

Damian Vojtek

7y↑5

Loved this. Great memories of my early teens.

Tom Lemole

5y↑3

An amazing song for an amazing band. This song came out in the 90s but it was one of the main anthems of my college years in the early "oughts".

leonard c. middelkamp

5y↑3

Love this song ! I have been playing it constantly.

Colin Warde

4w↑1

My brother and I had very dissimilar tastes in music when this came out. Oddly enough, we both liked this. I bought the cassette single (just found it, BTW) and we played it when I took him to school a lot of days. Binding.

David Lee

1y↑4

Everybody in this group is a genius. Author, drummer since age 5

Brad D

5y↑4

I just heard this one last night on Classic M-tv. I loved it! It's a cool sounding song, I think the two females in the band are cute as can be!

Sean Gallagher

2y↑11

25 years ago...still a good song

btetschner

37w↑2

Great song!
Just heard it for the first time, as referenced from an article I read today about Cherie Westrich.
Thank you for the video.

HMAR MOBILE TECH

7y↑4

Great song and great video!!! Love It!!!

Micah Buzan ANIMATION

It's so weird to hear Matt Sharp not singing falsetto, having grown up with the Blue Album. But this is extremely nice - I don't know why The Rentals aren't more popular. I like this a lot more than most of Weezers other albums.

Гитаркин

5y↑18

Also, this is easily the greatest music video ever recorded.

blindriv3r

5y↑1

Yeah, lol did you see the moment around 2:25 when the blonde Moog player broke and cracked a smile?

MrBhugh81 Hughes

6y↑2

Man, I loved this album back in 8th grade. Memories!

rknprs

6y↑3

This song is the biggest earworm i've had since I'm Gonna Be by The Proclaimers. Killer band!!!!

WENDELL MAKILAN: W.RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LTD.

9y↑6

Большое спасибо THE RENTALS!!

Kelly Moon

4y↑4

Gotta love Petrad Hayden's vocals and violin. Great song!

Mark Baer

4y↑2

I remember this song on the alt chart but I never really dug any deeper with this band. The song did pop in my head for whatever reason in 2018... and for the record, I am down with P!

NoseTale

17w

Probably among my favorite songs from The Rentals, along with "Waiting".

Deadok5803

6y↑4

wow, even the lyrics in subtitles are translated correctly
really adds up to the video's atmosphere

Don Vito

50w↑3

This is a masterpiece!

Michal Augustyniak

12y

Beautiful. My mom tells me this exactly how pretty much all public life was behind the Iron Curtain. Robotized, automatonic and specifically un-expressive, PERIOD. Love the tune and vid.

StillAtMyMoms

7y↑261

That moment when you realize hipsters lived in the 90s. If only they continued to sound like this, though. Killer track.

Chris RJ

1y↑1

@Gigi Laroux - The most hipster thing you can do is to not call yourself a hipster.

Gigi Laroux

If I understand hipsterism correctly, the most hipster thing you could do is to not be a hipster.

D Escalade

4y↑1

Nobody called them Hipsters at the time. Initially “hipsters” were the posers copying the style but there was no substance to them. So being called a hipster was an insult, and then nobody gave a shit and the 2000s hipsters were like the shitty Star Wars remakes of something that was actually, legitimately cool.

GoldenHairPygmalion

You sound like you listen to a lot of top 40 radio and have never listened to an actual album the whole way through, except for the times your parents would play Rumours by Fleetwood Mac in the car. Indie kids or 'Hipsters' as you call them have been making awesome and original music since the 60s with groups like The Velvet Underground and then in the 80s it exploded with acts like Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, The Pixies and lots of other great bands. Then in the 90s you got stuff like Slowdive, Mazzy Star, They Might Be Giants, Sleater-Kinney, and Radiohead. Oh, and there's still indie acts like Sufjan Stevens, Beach House, and St. Vincent making great stuff today. You really need to educate yourself lol.

Rich De Leon

4y↑1

We were cooler in the 90s..

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Peter Richardson

10y↑1

it is SO incredibly easy to see from this video exactly how much influence matt sharp's style had in and over weezer's direction in their first three albums (yes, i wrote "three" because he did have a decent level of input on the green album). props to the person below who said that this video is "more weezer than weezer." couldn't have put it better myself.

saloon_man

11y↑3

That fuzzy bass is sooooo amazing!!

Captain Howdy

2y↑4

That fuzzy bass is badass! 🎸

The Triumph of the Thrill

Classic. Unique and fantastic song and unforgettable video. One timeless example on why the '90s is the last great decade.

Josh Payne

2y↑1

Me my mom and my dad love this song!!

Freedom

10y

Love this song.....Matt Sharp was the heart and soul of weezer.......PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make one more album with weezer........Blue album fav of all time for me.....U can tell by this song that this is the power chords and bass missing from weezer ever since hes left......river and sharp are the modern day mcartney and lennon....good apart but GREAT together

onizuka sensei

3y↑1

One my most most cherished / bittersweet memories is The Rentals kicking off their return in 2007 at Spaceland.

ribble simpkin

2y↑4

Ah. Geek rock. The complete antithesis of Van Halen. I remember in my mid 20s in the mid 90s alternative music took over. But when this hit the air in 1996, this was pretty much the peak of alternative music as it went mainstream. So interesting. So anti 80s. Which is exactly the point.

Matt Kovacik

10y↑1

I looked up Matt Sharp's band 'cause I was amazed by his live performance with Weezer and his falsetto, and I really love this song

Ready Reckoner

5y↑1

One of my favorite music videos of all time. Concept by way of anti-concept minimalism.

chasemakesvideos

2y↑3

quite literally my favorite music video of all time

joeyboogenz

9y↑2

Moogs are super cool.Would be fun to mess around with one ,even though I'm only a Guitarist. I love this band.It reminds me of New wave ,but better. Matt is amazing.The whole "Nerds on fire" thing ,is interesting.

JDancause

2y↑3

It's always one of my favourite 90 song for the last 2 decades

domlui0614

12y

I love the way they play the instruments.

superarisu

12y

The song still makes me want to jump around and wile out. Love that synth.

Matt McCabe

Funny, I was so hypnotized by Sharp's guitar playing in the wide shot I didnt even notice Pat Wilson in the background until the very end. Love those guys

William Matthews

3y↑3

This song is total madness... I love it!

ed stahl

3y↑1

GREAT SONG FROM A GREAT BAND! THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAVE IS TRYING TO DECIDE WHICH HONEY IS HOTTER !🙂

Josh Payne

2y↑1

I love this song

Davis Ortiz Távara

I love this song!

Josh Payne

2y↑1

When I listen to this song i ALWAYS imitate their faces! My parents laugh so much!🤣

ClassicTVMan1981X

The Rentals were, in a way, like Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). Both evolved from other bands (The Rentals from Weezer, and ELO from The Move). Both frontmen initially had no intention of disbanding their main groups while these side projects were formed.

Josh Payne

2y↑2

Me my mom and dad love this song!

Justin Perilli

10y

Love this jam.

似鳥健三

12y

One of the bests in the 90's.

mnap128

12y

saw this band open for Silver Chair and RHCPs back in 95/96 it was friggen EPIC!!!!

Leza Samuda

12y

love this song<3

Sarah Caumont

The first album I ever purchased.................The Rentals.....I still have it and I've listened to it a million times

Zack Martin

3y↑1

I don't know how the hell I found this song all by myself but a couple years after I recorded it, I was listening to it and a friend of mine thought it was so fucking cool that I had even heard of The Rentals. I'm not gonna lie, It made me feel pretty cool. I guess the rest of y'all are, most likely, pretty cool, too.

Lacrymosa1685

10y

I can still remember hearing this for the first time back in 95.' It feels like it just came out a little over 17 years ago!!

Lacrymosa1685

10y

I remember hearing this back in 95' It feels like it just came out a little over 17 years ago!!

no #2 Sherlock!

48w↑1

This song and video rocks!.

JANIQUEism

11y

i love this song!!!!!!!!!

MattM

4y↑3

In a word, brillant!

RoyaleInliner

12y

I just heard this on my favorite radio station. Thank god they have Throw Back Lunch so I can discover classic songs like this!

Gus U

33w↑1

Thanks Fabio Massari for introducing this song to my generation, at a time internet was years away and I'd never had seen this if not thru the music television.

Lacquerware

2y↑12

In their time, The Rentals were described by the music press as "nerd rock." It's where I first heard the term. It's fascinating to see everyone in the comments now calling them "hipsters," but I'll let y'all in on a secret:

"Nerd" and "hipster" mean the same thing. Some portion of nerds finally found some semblance of confidence and contentment, which tracks as coolness, so people found a new way to hate them.

8 barbies

@kidwajagstang hey kid, i love that story about the vinyl and why you did it, yeah in my mind the word 'hipster' has morphed into 'old guy who tries too hard', i remember the whole vinyl re-phase in the 90s, couldn't stand 90% of the people into it...again trying to fkn hard. you are the 'REAL' whatever the fuck hipster was supposed to mean until it got douchey, i love when someone does something outa lack of dough that ends up accidentally being cool. like all the old 501s i had laying around when alice & nirvana hit:)))-barbie

kidwajagstang

Always proudly wore the “Nerd” badge on my sleeve. Always had the same fashion sense since high school as well as my taste in music hasn’t changed. Noticed that as I got into my early 30’s, I wasn’t “that grunge guy” or “the long haired nerd” but suddenly was now “that hipster” which confused the hell out of me as nothing I’d previously done or liked was considered as “hipster”. Mostly it was enjoying things when they weren’t popular until they were popular again.. for instance, I started listening to vinyl records around ‘96-‘97 because I discovered new albums were still available on vinyl and were CHEAPER than CD’s, my folks had a player they weren’t using, so they gave it to me. Years later and my choice made for economic reasons years ago made me into a “hipster” when years ago people just called me a dinosaur

8 barbies

1y↑2

Lacquer, i remember watching this video in the day & for a split second thinking it was devo in suits. i always felt like devo was the epitome of nerd rock, but damn, i just can't remember when i first heard the phrase.

CrandMackerel

9y↑137

Fun fact: After this, Russell Crowe went on to have a high profile career as an actor.

_Texas_Pete_ Beats_The_Meat_

4y↑5

Random but true... lol

Mike Gutierrez

5y↑5

CrandMackerel lol...I was about to mention that. Made romper stomped after this video.

Ma Ab

4y↑10

1990s alt-powerpop jewel.
I miss things like these, I miss the 90s <3

Hanging with Matty

4y↑3

Brad D

45w

A totally different look, but a cool, catchy tune with easy lyrics. A song that you can sing along with and not realize it.

Stephanie Crawford

9y↑13

I remember making music videos at sleepovers to Return of the Rentals, really fun times. :) Also, Matt has always reminded me of Joel from MST3K.

Who am I

47w

Wow, it's not often you'll see an actually good russian translation or text in media! And it's even a nice literary translation.

timt183

Eric Foster

31w

The drumming at 3:22 really sets it off for a dope outro

William Cutting

2y↑13

I recorded this onto a VHS in the 90s, along with Beavis and Butthead episodes, ozzy's "Perry Mason", and some Chris Farley skits.

palmer

The fact that this is the same man who sang in falsetto in say it ain't so will never cease to astound me

Mr. T

30w↑1

Lyrically and musically prolific!
If your friends with P... READ.
Thomas C. Stuhr
THE WORLD'S MOST UNDERGROUND AUTHOR. ❤☠

StormLaker1975

4y↑3

This song reminds takes me back to being a 21 year old newlywed in college, first apartment together, the whole nine yards. My wife still HATES this song, and only in recent years has taken a liking to Weezer.