love this man so much

wonderful

This makes me want to live in Gainesville, Fl

saw them at a tiny club in bloomington, IN many moons ago. great show, really wonderful guys

always out of place. dig it.

Heard this for 1st time on Bruce Springsteen's radio 2 show last night.

great song!

My commuter song in the 90s...

I don't know how to love this song any more

They have both an Indiana connection and a Florida connection. A gem of a band, and this song is a hall of famer.

Dale Lawance and Robert Ray

Love the vulgar boatmen

Man. Westerberg does it every time.

I remember them playing the clubs in Gainesville from my days at University of Florida (Class of 1982).

time machine! i see everything clearly now, as it once was

I knew them when.... What a wonderful time

One of my faves from the 90s All around great jam tune that takes me back. Only on WXRT here in Chicago could you hear it. Bless them for turning me onto a great band and great tune.

Does this band have a Bloomington, In. connection? I used to hear a band by this name a few long years back.

I used to go to all their concerts in the mid-1980s in their hometown of Gainesville, FL. Loved em.

Fucking brilliant and beautiful.

How had I never heard of this band?! I found them by accident whilst looking up the Russian song after which they are named, “The Volga Boatmen”.

get better Slim

This is the great Paul Westerberg at his worst.

I heard, liked, n need to listen to numbered release on Sound cloud but missed this. Great words and flow.

Lemme sing a stupid harmony with you Paul. Please. You can take the credit.

If you like this you will probably like the early Silos as well. The two bands share a common genesis as well as songwriting and composition styles.

OMG ! what a great surprise to hear this wow !

Totally Digging this

Oh shit, this is great!

One day it will be on some millennial show.....then it will have 10 million views.....then we will have lost another gem to 'them'.

My name is Katie, and my mom would always have this song playing in her car and she said it reminded her of me

Really solid song!!!

thanks to "all songs considered" for bringing me here.

loved this song since from back in the day when I was a young lad.

love this

How am I just finding out about this?

These californian guys have just released one of best PURE Power guitar records of this year. The whole "Fall off the world" album surewill blow your mind and ears. And this song is sooooo... Yeah, like a fountain of eternal youth... Let's go

Time for these guyrs to be rediscovered!

Outstanding,you guys! Really good. You have definitely turned me into a fan.More,please! :-)

im from england and we have a old sitcom called chance in a million and the vulgar boatmen were mentioned,ive just dropped on this song by google search and im glad i did what a track

Great song, I went and seen them at the Beat kitchen in Chicago, sure brings back memories.thanks!!!!

that's right. and better is not to buy some records and not to have them. better is not to drive when knowing how nor where and superbly, nor having of what to drive on. one or two old tires from old avto it isn't of vehicles driving, although creating of illusion of motion, motivation, destiny and destination. and better is not to suggest nor to request of landing of vehicles such as boeing or concord or something else of mighty sort, when traveling on paper boat, on paper plane, on art and craft of raft named plot, on would could should dream wooden log. nor anything of sort. what else is better. just hanging out at home when you don't have job and don't have to, when you don't have school and don't have to. school where you don't have to learn how to make papier mache hyppo pot amuse from old paper, glue, and air ballon, to turn it into piggy bank. to make it look like you school teacher. (it is of elses' thoughts, of shared opinons, yet I don't work and I don't visit schools. there is enough of good superb and of bizarre to see about on internet, and or learn of what is good superb (not counting the piggy bank of not to count on) without going into troubles of visiting and socializing). (what am I ? mlle leo tolstoy or mlle guy de Maupassant or something sort of ? no no no ! biss sonets and bee sonets of bissonette are probably somewhat all right. i'd love to listen to, yet how many are there. and who are they. and who am I. and where each want to be (besides the luggage section of concord or boing, in suitcase).

This song SO holds up after (holy shit) a quarter century.

Any more?

Being a van messenger here in Chicago, this tune is quite appropriate......and a catchy, infectious tune...if you don't like it, you're from another planet....utterly timeless and mesmerizing.

I remember being absolutely floored the first time I heard this. Not only because it was like nothing else i'd heard but because they were not getting played on the radio. More people need to hear this...

They're playing it now :)

I had this album on cassette when it came out, and was very impressed with it. Nice soft alternative rock.

Where did you get the video footage?

This is so pure and honest. The Silos (who were vaguely related to The Boatmen) of course also did a nice live version of this.