I was born in 1961 which means I grew up listening to Beatles, Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones etc all through the vibrant 60’s, bizarre 70’s and 80’s and interesting 21st century and I can say that of all the music that I have listened to, all of it, the Shins have in my opinion authored and published the most beautiful,, affecting and profound music I have ever heard. Treasure.
Much of this is filmed around Portland, Oregon. That beautiful bridge is the St John’s Bridge nicknamed the Cathedral Bridge and people are often getting married there in Cathedral Park. If you haven’t been there I highly recommend you visit. Especially in Autumn, but every season is lovely. St John’s used to be its own small town, but was incorporated into Portland and to this day (mostly because of location) it still feels like a separate town.
The first scene of the video is in North-Central Oregon I think, around route 97 maybe? I've driven it several times and that's what the first scene reminds me of.
Yep. I just found out that it was filmed in and around Dufur, Oregon. That first shot is of the historic Nelson House: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Nelson_House
The only reason I listen to this song is because of the way Portland looks in this video. I moved to Stockholm because America was not it, but Portland is in my home and I miss it like you miss your first love.
A soundtrack to the many reflective and contemplational drives that everyone should take regularly throughout the course of their lives. Your older self riding passenger, relinquishing the helm to your inner youth to recollect as many of the mental pictures which shape your memories and feelings as possible. This is me.
*"I think The Past and Pending is my favorite. I just feel like it's...I don't know, lyrically really strong & it's got an interesting melody & some interesting chord changes. It just works on me more than other songs do."* *_James Mercer_* _on his favorite track from 'Oh, Inverted World' ; 10 years after its release_
As someone sets light to the first fire of autumn We settle down to cut ourselves apart Cough and twitch from the news on your face And some foreign candle burning in your eyes Held to the past, too aware of the pending Chill as the dawn breaks and finds us up for sale Enter the fog another low road descending Away from the cold lust, you house and summertime Blind to the last cursed affair, pistols and countless eyes A trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running Feed 'til the sun turns into wood dousing an ancient torch Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love Your name on my cast and my notes on your stay Offer me little but doting on a crime We've turned every stone and for all our inventions In matters of love loss, we've no recourse at all Blind to the last cursed affair, pistols and countless eyes A trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running Feed 'til the sun turns into wood dousing an ancient torch Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting Lose yourself in lines dissecting Lose yourself in lines dissecting Lose yourself in lines dissecting Lose yourself in lines dissecting Lose yourself in lines dissecting
What makes The Shins so good is their lyrical prose and beautiful melodies. Lyrics these days are rarely as musically and verbally complex as The Shins.
I love how the two men, one younger, one older, drive wordless over the countryside, as if words are unnecessary between them and the mere presence of one another is enough. I love too, how the young man acts like a collector of memories, regathering them via a relic of a camera and silently sharing the captured images with the older man. It's a learning and a reclaiming of someone's past and a creation of another's. Where has such art like this gone? Why do I see little if not nothing of it anymore? Such a beautiful song and by far my favorite from this album.
This video recalls memories of driving with my dad. He passed last year but I imagine that he's still there sometimes. Like you say, it would often be wordless, our bond enough to seal the moments. Love that The Shins capture that so magnificently, that respect for the past and what hasn't happened yet.
I desperately want to listen to this song when i’m 80 and just sit on my rocking chair with my husband on the porch. Just looking at the sunset in the middle of nowhere.
Something about this song. So bittersweet and special. I can't listen to it deeply enough or too many times.. and it never fails to make me cry. I like the Shins, but this album, in particular, is so unlike any of their other work.. so genuine and emotional. Grateful to have it in my system.
I have listened to this song a zillion times. Takes me back to a certain place and time. Such beautiful melancholy. Genius. On par with Neil Young’s Sugar Mountain -and that’s a helluva compliment
So glad to see this re-uploaded. One of the best tracks on the album, and my favorite video. I'm always going to wonder who the man is in this video, and where it was filmed.
Check out The Magical World Of The Strands Album. The most beautiful album ever made that hardly any ones heard of. A Liverpool band that quite never made it big time but should of been massive. This song could of been on that album.
Amazing song, never seen this video, I'm glad y'all uploaded it! Truly beautiful musically, lyrically, and visually. Always seems to give me a little peace of mind.
I've driven by these exact spots when I lived in Washington. I like the association of driving an old man around sightseeing with recounting lost love. Thats what it feels like.
This song is a GD masterpiece... causes a lot of good and bad flashbacks but it’s all reminiscent. Sad to see those times are gone but we must move on to better and brighter events. Beware of the negative but strive for positivity and peace.
The Shins truly tethered me to the ground and offered me comfort within escapism through some of my darkest times. Will never not be forever grateful I came across this band several years ago. 🧎🫡
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gonna watch this at 240p for old times' sake
for that double hit of nostalgia
Me who has literally shitty network.
There's 144p for even older times sake
Authentically enjoyed
@@ankit99ize There is actual, physical turds on your network?
I was born in 1961 which means I grew up listening to Beatles, Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones etc all through the vibrant 60’s, bizarre 70’s and 80’s and interesting 21st century and I can say that of all the music that I have listened to, all of it, the Shins have in my opinion authored and published the most beautiful,, affecting and profound music I have ever heard. Treasure.
1969 here. I agree. James Mercer is one of the most underrated songwriters of our time.
Yeah I see you didn't mention Pink Floyd, LZ, David Bowie, Queen, or the Who...
He didn't need too. All you have to say is the Beatles, from which every thing else descends
This song makes me happy and sad, depressed but hopeful, nostalgic yet longing all at the same time
That’s a lot of stuff
Classic Shins
I agree.
Wisdom is holding hope and despair in one’s hands
I just found this song for the first time the other day and for some reason i feel the same.
20 years ago was listening to this on the bus to school. still brings back the same feelings.
Oh god
20 years ago I was listening to this tending to a heart break. Still brings back the same feelings.
ME TOO, THIS WAS ON REPLAY, THESE DAYS WERE SO MUCH SIMPLER FOR ME...IT WAS 12 YEARS FOR ME WOW
Old-head here (1969). Didn’t discover them til 2012. Love the Beatles, Floyd, Beastie Boys… but The Shins hit me deep in the feels boi.
Bus rides to SubPop in the summer of 2002 interning there
Arguably one of the best songs of all time.
You guys really are one of the best music groups ever
SERIOUSLY I FEEL ALL OF YOU GUYS.
Much of this is filmed around Portland, Oregon. That beautiful bridge is the St John’s Bridge nicknamed the Cathedral Bridge and people are often getting married there in Cathedral Park. If you haven’t been there I highly recommend you visit. Especially in Autumn, but every season is lovely. St John’s used to be its own small town, but was incorporated into Portland and to this day (mostly because of location) it still feels like a separate town.
The first scene of the video is in North-Central Oregon I think, around route 97 maybe? I've driven it several times and that's what the first scene reminds me of.
Yep. I just found out that it was filmed in and around Dufur, Oregon. That first shot is of the historic Nelson House: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Nelson_House
The only reason I listen to this song is because of the way Portland looks in this video. I moved to Stockholm because America was not it, but Portland is in my home and I miss it like you miss your first love.
I just love the French horn on this song!
These musicians don't get enough air time. I am 66 years old and they would play this variety of music back in the 70s & Early 80s. They are unique.
When I pass away one day, I want humanity and AI to know that the Shins was ONE of my FAVORITE bands.✌️🎵🎶🌻🌼💐☺️💖
I think it's time we all could use a new album from The Shins to heal our wounded souls.
A soundtrack to the many reflective and contemplational drives that everyone should take regularly throughout the course of their lives. Your older self riding passenger, relinquishing the helm to your inner youth to recollect as many of the mental pictures which shape your memories and feelings as possible. This is me.
Oh, Inverted World is one of the best albums of all time.
If there's an afterlife, I look forward to discovering it again.
*"I think The Past and Pending is my favorite. I just feel like it's...I don't know, lyrically really strong & it's got an interesting melody & some interesting chord changes. It just works on me more than other songs do."*
*_James Mercer_* _on his favorite track from 'Oh, Inverted World' ; 10 years after its release_
I hated my teen years because of depression... but God and songs like this give me a bittersweet viewpoint of those days
I just showed this to my dad and he said it made his day. He's been listening to the shins for 18 years. Love you dad :)
Damn your comment hit home! I've been listening to the Shins since I was 13.
Now I am nearly 31. Kudos from one father to another! Take care, Cat.
I listened to them and I’m over 60.
Be honest, who else likes this band and is also super into Wes Anderson films
AKA white people
@@alexanderboulton2123 …well, you’re not wrong
@@alexanderboulton2123 cliche comment
@@lotuseater7247 Balls
don't forget Zach Braff films too
I love that I can finally listen to this song and feel zero pain in my heart.
I love that you can too :)
same, because i figure the guy that put this on a mix tape for me was a bigger a-hole than the a-hole i married.
I enjoy it with all the pain in my heart. Congrats though!
Woah good on you! Lots of pain but it's almost numbed by the wondrous beauty
This has to be one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard
As someone sets light to the first fire of autumn
We settle down to cut ourselves apart
Cough and twitch from the news on your face
And some foreign candle burning in your eyes
Held to the past, too aware of the pending
Chill as the dawn breaks and finds us up for sale
Enter the fog another low road descending
Away from the cold lust, you house and summertime
Blind to the last cursed affair, pistols and countless eyes
A trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running
Feed 'til the sun turns into wood dousing an ancient torch
Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love
Your name on my cast and my notes on your stay
Offer me little but doting on a crime
We've turned every stone and for all our inventions
In matters of love loss, we've no recourse at all
Blind to the last cursed affair, pistols and countless eyes
A trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running
Feed 'til the sun turns into wood dousing an ancient torch
Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
you house --> your house
Feed 'til the sun --> Feet to the sun (two places)
love loss --> love lost
What makes The Shins so good is their lyrical prose and beautiful melodies. Lyrics these days are rarely as musically and verbally complex as The Shins.
Agree, James is a true poet.
Sheer genius. Poetry in motion. All that.
I love how the two men, one younger, one older, drive wordless over the countryside, as if words are unnecessary between them and the mere presence of one another is enough. I love too, how the young man acts like a collector of memories, regathering them via a relic of a camera and silently sharing the captured images with the older man. It's a learning and a reclaiming of someone's past and a creation of another's.
Where has such art like this gone?
Why do I see little if not nothing of it anymore?
Such a beautiful song and by far my favorite from this album.
This video recalls memories of driving with my dad. He passed last year but I imagine that he's still there sometimes. Like you say, it would often be wordless, our bond enough to seal the moments. Love that The Shins capture that so magnificently, that respect for the past and what hasn't happened yet.
Never knew this song had a music video. Somehow missed this one back in the day!
Man this song hit hard. In high school when life felt so complex this album and others were the intimate feelings I needed.
Yebba brought me here. What a great song! Her cover is great too.
I desperately want to listen to this song when i’m 80 and just sit on my rocking chair with my husband on the porch. Just looking at the sunset in the middle of nowhere.
That is a worthy goal in my opinion. It encompasses so much more than your words.
I want to be your husband. hahaha. No, like really.
I believe this will happen. 🌅
Stunningly gorgeous.
Thank god for "The Garden State". Introduced me to my favorite band.
This is one of Heath Ledger's Favourite Song of All Time which also played in his Funeral.
One of my favorite bands to this day ❤
I can’t imagine my life had this band existed during my first heartbreak.
One of the greatest songs from The Shins
the horns at the end are so bittersweet. James Mercer is genius!
James Mercer is a National Treasure
If he and his band were Brits they'd been knighted a long ago already
Not sure about that but as a Brit I love this song!
This is my favorite shins song ever ❤
Have I been under a stone all this time, this song is great!!
Everything is clear , the arrangement and sound is just sublime songs a masterpiece ✌️
Shins are so underrated I tell everyone I know about them
I cry every time I hear this song. It's lovely
This video has a nice Wed Anderson feel. This is definitely my favorite song on Oh Inverted World Side 2.
oh, guess it’s time to go down my bi-annual Shins nostalgia hole again 💙
"bi-annual Shins nostalgia hole" is how i call my semesters
I know that hole very well.
Shins = nostalgia. Especially this song.
I’m there now. They’re coming to Seattle and I desperately want to go
Detailed
still one of the best songs i've ever heard
@theshins please continue to make songs.. dont stop. Earth needs to heal and your songs like this wouldbhelp
A perfect song in every way. I never get tired of listening to it. Hits especially hard when the days start getting shorter.
Good luck exploring the infinite abyss everyone. These guys will change your life. ❤ Still sounding so good in 2021
I love this song.
unmissable work of art
Something about this song. So bittersweet and special. I can't listen to it deeply enough or too many times.. and it never fails to make me cry. I like the Shins, but this album, in particular, is so unlike any of their other work.. so genuine and emotional. Grateful to have it in my system.
I have listened to this song a zillion times. Takes me back to a certain place and time. Such beautiful melancholy.
Genius.
On par with Neil Young’s Sugar Mountain -and that’s a helluva compliment
So glad to see this re-uploaded. One of the best tracks on the album, and my favorite video. I'm always going to wonder who the man is in this video, and where it was filmed.
Majority of it is shot in Portland, Oregon. The field shots I can only assume are rural eastern Oregon
@@spencerandjakevids yeah, that looks like Sherman or Gilliam County to me. Somewhere around there.
It looks like California used to look before the population exploded. Even more a reason to be bittersweet.
one of the best song on the Earth
As a Liverpudlian, there is definitely a Liverpool type sound coming from this wonderful tune.
Check out The Magical World Of The Strands Album. The most beautiful album ever made that hardly any ones heard of. A Liverpool band that quite never made it big time but should of been massive. This song could of been on that album.
So nostalgic, warm and familiar but hits like a new tune each time you hear it....
It’s crazy I have photos of that rusted boat in St John’s from 20 years ago
Love the tone and feeling and still the most perfect voice ever. 🎼🎤🎶🎸
Beautiful and just.... Beautiful ❤️
I heard Yebba sing this and didn't even know it was a cover. So glad I found this!
I love this video with this song so much, master piece
Amazing song, never seen this video, I'm glad y'all uploaded it!
Truly beautiful musically, lyrically, and visually. Always seems to give me a little peace of mind.
Love this one. Such a classic, song and video both!
I recognize and have memories in a lot of those specific places. I think I saw Sauvie Island and Kelly Point in there.
Great 2 hear this again. Thanks, guys
I've driven by these exact spots when I lived in Washington. I like the association of driving an old man around sightseeing with recounting lost love. Thats what it feels like.
One of the great tracks on an album filled with them.
I adore this song
This song, as recorded, is a masterpiece, and the video is apropos. Both are worthy of a great deal of pride.
I love love love this track what melody, favorite driving music
My favorite Shins song
This song will be played at my funeral (too much info/dark?) - perfect mood with the right amount of wistfulness and serenity.
This song is a GD masterpiece... causes a lot of good and bad flashbacks but it’s all reminiscent. Sad to see those times are gone but we must move on to better and brighter events. Beware of the negative but strive for positivity and peace.
I love this music video, just so well done
another great tune!! His lyrics and arrangements are just so always solid! LOVE THIS TUNE!!
A classic.
Dang this was a sweet gift
I so miss you and wish you would play again - beautiful song and video
Their *Masterpiece*
Gotta love The Shins.
I love this song
The narrows bridge has been updated since this video was filmed. Cool seeing it how it was 20 years ago!
That's actually St. Johns Bridge in Portland Oregon
Beautiful and relaxing
The perfect notification to wake up to on a Monday morning 🌄🤙
This was nostalgic to me when I first listened to it, now I feel nostalgia for that first time.
what a beautiful song and video
Que banda maravilhosa
This song brings me so many memories. I am soaking in nostalgia😭
Love y’all 🤧💚
This brings back memories.
TheLove Lajoie’ Benjamin good tune and video brother
Great sound!
amazing sound quality!!
es increible la cantidad de emociones que transmite esta cancion, mi favorita de todas
The Shins truly tethered me to the ground and offered me comfort within escapism through some of my darkest times. Will never not be forever grateful I came across this band several years ago. 🧎🫡
It feels personal. Thank you. 💝
I've taken packfilm polaroid shots at a few of these locations. The Shins giving all the feels.
Oh wow. Lovely vibes
Love this. Song,video,both.
Makes me feel some kind of way....
Beautiful.
So beautiful. Got lost there for a couple of minutes.
this is the best music video ive ever seen