at the drive-in - hourglass (08-28-1999)

[@wasperminingco]

Jim Ward is and was the heart and soul of this band. His presence just rounded them out perfectly.

[@toypianos469]

Jim wrote all the best stuff.

[@xxxtootoofreakxxx]

me and my ex used to cover this song acoustic as a duo. we arent together anymore so everytime i hear it, in any form, i get an awful feeling in my gut and goosebumps. You go at the drive-in.

[@jessieHORRIFIC]

agh, Cedric can't even shout any more these days.. damn. Love Jim.

[@oui2611]

zoey?

[@Knieghtz]

Jim Ward is F****** BAD ASS!

[@robertcordova91]

this is one of my favorate atdi song.. i love the emotion and what he is talking about

[@lucioarias4773]

what is it about??

[@oliverkalamata2753]

@@lucioarias4773 smoking pot with aliens

[@communionshaped]

@@lucioarias4773 i think heroin addiction, idk tho

[@oxygenpoisoning]

@@communionshaped Enfilade and Pattern Against User are the addiction songs. This is Jim's song, and he only ever drank. To me, I've always thought about this song being about escaping things you don't want to deal with. The shitty town you live in, the toxic significant other, your own feelings and emotions. Given Jim's interviews that for the longest time he wanted to leave El Paso, and his talks about his own mental health struggles, getting ulcers when they started getting big from anxiety, I'd wager that's what it's about.

[@buzzz970]

Bixler "Height hours.. Bitterness" God I love his screams..

[@wasperminingco]

I like Jim's even more.

[@adrianb2232]

I thought it was eight hours

[@thewormkingalex]

i felt it back then and still feel it now...emotional music as omar put it, you cant make music without emotion behind it. ATDI

[@bjory311]

I'm so glad this video exists :)

[@xantam23]

Imho their best song. :D

[@radneyspot]

I think that if At The Drive-In had another record after Relationship... They would have create the effect like Nirvana did with Nevermind

[@wasperminingco]

Few people realize this, but this is the correct response to this band.

[@michaelgraham9774]

I so wish we could've got another ATDI album when everyone was still young.

[@johnnyscifi]

They already did that...with relationship, but unlike nirvana, they broke up shortly after

[@lrigydruh]

I miss atdi what a cracking band

[@xthexcorx]

best band ever.

[@brandoa330]

Che cafe back in the day 😢❤

[@halfie25]

THANKS FOR POSTING THIS!!!!

[@sininyourheart]

Ahh Jim

[@Oneupsalesman]

Man, I really hope they play this at one of their reunion shows.

[@sedd1234]

Fuck I wish I was there >_> this song is one of my favorites.

[@MattRyanIsCool]

I wonder if those kids in the crowd even knew...

[@regularsamaritan]

thx for upload

[@fallingskyline]

goosebumps!

[@sinvin]

@MattRyanIsCool I am still kicking myself for skipping a show they did in Detroit from this same era. Totally skipped the show to get loaded with my ex-girlfriend. They played a room to like 60/70 peeps. Arr!!

[@outlawgordee]

kinda looks like the crowd have no idea what they are witnessing... kinda like when i saw them... some crappy little rave club, trying to push el gran orgo. never saw them again either :( who knows where these guys could have gone, if they'd have stayed together. oh well... as long as there's clips like this here, they will live on. cheers, and thanks for the upload.

[@everymoss09]

@radneyspot yup, i think they would be in mcr's place right now, defining a whole generation's out look in music. somebody told me that the signing of all these "pop bands" are to compensate the early loss atdi

[@johnhenryjocson7790]

I agree

[@Tyrannosaurine]

MCR? My Chemical Romance? Defining a generations view of music? I really don’t want to disparage someone’s music taste just because, but I think you are vastly overestimating how many people view a band like that after they’ve gotten out of their teenage years. I would wager I’m roughly the same age as you, grew up in this music scene, and I am positive many of the people I know would consider the coolest thing MCR ever did was be mentioned in the comments to an ATDI video on KZbin. Also I don’t understand why you would link these two pretty diametrically opposed bands together. MCR was punk music for people who didn’t like punk music. They achieved much of their success by aping the types of bands (queen, the smashing pumpkins, etc) that were staples of fm radio. Pop with a capital P and happy to employ every tried and true tactic they knew to make their music something your little sister would like. While ATDI were all about subverting those tropes in order to create something that sounded distinctly NOT derivative. I suppose MCR could be considered a better version of what everyone around them was doing. Songs about angst, relationships, and how your parents could never understand you…standard fare. Whereas ATDI used impressionistic lyrics that avoided all those cliches. Basically MCR was career minded and happy to do all the things that chasing success entails, while ATDI prided themselves on NOT being those things. I can picture the direction that popular music would’ve taken if MCR became bigger than Taylor Swift. Alternately, if ATDI had done the same, their influence on what would become popular music afterward is much less predictable musically, thematically, ethically, and so on. ATDI were great because they presented a breath of fresh air from the common denominator world of bands that MCR inhabited/inhabits. To compare the two favorably is to miss the entire point of a band like ATDI. Those dudes are the types of people who will consider a 20 minute long song with an impossibly dense backstory and borderline nonsensical lyrics their greatest work as an artist. They’re not operating in the same universe with people who care about a magazine cover, or a chart position or a number of zeroes on a check.

[@Cpost01]

I think of all people, Cedric wouldn't let it get awkward.

[@dankdank7088]

I was born 8 26 98

[@postshanna]

were you at this show?

[@maskedcrusader]

I have to disagree with the guy down below. I think its really cool when a lead singer lets a guitar player or someone else in the band sing a verse or 2 or 3. Cedric didn't make it look awkward.

[@idonteatcheetos]

Cedric did, trust me, just because it wasn't exactly like it was 10 or more years ago doesn't mean he himself did not put any passion into the music. Omar certainly didn't, but Cedric said if he didn't have any passion for the music he wouldn't have done it at all

[@charleslarson5983]

idonteatcheetos This waasss 6 years ago, but i doubt your dumbass has gotten any less dumb

[@MozsQuiff]

@outlawgordee Dude, jealous. Just curious, can you remember what they played when you saw them?

[@lysol19]

2:20 !!!

[@高橋一平-g7l]

ジム、もっと吠えて俺を泣かせてくれ。

[@Jax0hicks]

i just tried to listen to my chemical romance. they suck. AT THE DRIVE IN!!

[@VideInfra]

MCR first album is pretty great.