BoDeans - Closer To Free (Party of Five Theme) [Official Video]

[@brandonmaddox4862]

I thank the movie “Heavyweights” for getting me to this song, brings me back to a time when music just made you feel good God I miss the 90’s

[@jbetnar]

Damn I loved that movie. Just rewatched it on Disney+.

[@joezamarron4174]

Just watched it

[@lueezec358]

Google nest plays me 90’s music

[@jesseiese3976]

@southerncajuncharm wait dumb bus stop!

[@SacNuts99]

Do it to it Lars! lol

[@jeremiahakerman7333]

Party of Five was the number one show me and my folks always looked forward to watching in the evenings. This video brought back some good memories. Miss the series and the 90's altogether.

[@christopherwalker6056]

*my folks and I

[@christopherwalker6056]

Yeah, I miss this along with 'My So-called Life'.

[@les8922]

Christopher Walker when is it appropriate to use me first?

[@donnellcoleman7784]

Jeremiah Akerman mine was power rangers and WWF and nick 90s

[@jasoncase9481]

I grew up in the 90s and 2000s when the original Beverly Hills 90210, Party of Five, WWF attitude era, the WB channel still existed before becoming the CW, etc.

[@adampayne2088]

This song is truly a classic and amazing song 💯💯👑it always will be 💯👑

[@UpWithTheBirds23]

Can we please go back in time 20 years ago!?!

[@IanIsrael]

+UpWithTheBirds23 1995,Yes!!!

[@FireTiger941]

+UpWithTheBirds23 I'm working on constructing a time machine if you would like to join me!

[@sixstringwitchdoctor]

If you havnt already seen your self come back in time then you havnt actually suceeded in making the time machine in the future yet.... Provided that your motivation was to return to your past.... Or your time machine has/had/hashad the ability to make/travel to alternate time lines or deminsions....

[@teresarudolph1256]

30 to 35 years ago for me would be awesome. If only I could go back to that time, knowing what I know now . . .

[@blackmask9072]

boy i can't wait do it

[@1destined]

Been a long time since I heard this song! Forgot how great and catchy it is!

[@xennial_miracle]

"This is such a dumb song," I said, when I heard this on the radio in the 90s. Welp, it's lived in my head rent-free for 30 years and today I finally came back to hear it again. Well played, BoDeans. You won the long game.

[@stratslngr]

I have that same reaction when I hear any disco song from the 70's. Memories.

[@dequanemonroe2610]

My CHILDHOOD MEMORIES BACK IN THE 90'S I WAS 4 YEARS I WAS TRUNING AGE 5 I. 1995

[@dequanemonroe2610]

My DISNEY MOIVE IN HEAVYWEIGHTS 1995 FEBRUARY

[@cooper7031]

I think the theme song to stupid show Friends is lame!

[@A.F.Chimes]

Hahaha I was just singing this in the shower for some reason and was like "what is that?" No idea why it popped in my head.

[@larryhurley2314]

Those of us who were teenager's in the early 90's and came of age in the mid to late 90's are a damn lucky bunch of people. Everything was absolutely perfect about the 90's. It's truly indescribable. You would just have had to lived it like we did to understand how special of a time it was. Long live the Greatest decade in history !!!!

[@brandonmoon624]

Absolutely it was the best time ever

[@riverhigurashi8058]

I was just a little kid but man it really was a great time - wish I’d gotten to experience it as a teenager or adult.

[@thegrimmretails3777]

I grew up in the 90's and I don't know what parallel universe you came from but it was far from perfect.

[@michael_dv9225]

Well said.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

It may have been great for teenagers but the 90s were not the greatest decade by far. To be sure, there were some positive trends like low inflation due to very cheap oil which resulted in a small increase in real incomes (though still lower than they were in the late 70s) and strong job growth mainly due to the dotcom bubble. But hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost because of NAFTA and the WTO and personal bankruptcies soared to more than a million in 1996 despite strong economic growth. Also, the number of uninsured Americans increased to more than 40 million. IMO, it was not the best of times.

[@sherisshenanigans7464]

Loved this show!!! Loved the 90’s...my bar/clubbing years lots of great music and fun...no phones!!

[@Sunfadedlovejaded]

90's was a great time to be a teen

[@rockinrollinntrollin616]

Or a 40 yr old..living a dream ?.

[@diannaingram9545]

But 80’s were the best !

[@juliamcleod6277]

Agreed!

[@harryn3690]

Heard this song on season 5 ep 1 of riverdale

[@billc307]

Loved the 90's. I have the whole box set of this series on dvd. The song is the icing on the cake.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

The amazing thing about Party of Five is that it had consistently low rating throughout its six-year run. It never even broke in the top 50 (the highest it ever achieved was 56 in the Nielsens). TV Guide once called it, "The best show on television that you're not watching". Yet it launched the careers of Matthew Fox, Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Lacy Chabert. Like the (original) Odd Couple, the series found an audience in syndication. So I guess there is life after cancellation after all!

[@donnellcoleman7784]

St. Thelonious the Monk still a classic

[@DigiRangerScott]

And now, what was considered low ratings back then…would probably be considered great now

[@danarrington2224]

Yep. It almost got cancelled after the first season. Fans of the show wrote to Fox begging them to keep it going. I'm glad they did.

[@RocketRic14]

I enjoyed the show when it was on originally and coincidently was a BoDeans fan too.

[@cp2342]

Wow I never knew that I’ve just started watching it and find it very underrated definitely one of my favourite 90s shows

[@hermanpesina6328]

This song sounds like it could be played at the opening of every 90s movie

[@megasegafan3947]

Like Heavyweights lol

[@CuriousBean]

​@@megasegafan3947 What's heavyweights?

[@mrflipperinvader7922]

​@@CuriousBeanGoogle it

[@CarsonsVideos]

@@CuriousBean en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavyweights

[@HotAcidicDiarrhea]

​@@CuriousBean a great movie with Ben Stiller

[@bigbchilip6906]

I saw the Bodeans in 2010 in Chicago, I believe it was, with 2 buddies of mine, one of the greatest nights of my life.

[@richpeck11]

Saw them tonight in a small theater in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts tonight, Glad I went!

[@forrestbenson4517]

One must have grown up going to Summerfest every year to understand this song... One of the only songs worth a damn to have been written in Wisconsin

[@jaimeogas]

You mean better than "Blister In The Sun" by the Violent Femmes?

[@seancotter9156]

I saw them there in 2001

[@IanIsrael]

I miss the '90's.

[@David-zj3bp]

I grew up in the 80s & 90s

[@brockcureton2989]

MY Childhood

[@TimBurVlogs]

When we all were closer to free.

[@Sabrina96]

So much!

[@Jeff_Pryce]

I miss young Jennifer Love Hewitt.

[@josealba5027]

This song came out when I was in elementry school now I'm 34 years old .damn miss those days. Party of five finished a month before I finished the 8th grade . Damn.

[@ThePsufan001]

this is the type of song that makes me wanna go out in the woods with a bunch of people, drink, party, and enjoy life. just a different feeling that i have.

[@magicmike6961]

youre gay

[@ThePsufan001]

ik you are

[@magicmike6961]

phillyfan 90 I know you are you said you are but what am I?

[@philandtrish]

***** It's "I know you are but what am I?". Really. It really is.

[@philandtrish]

***** Oh, and please don't slander phillyfan 90. Happiness is not gay. Or maybe it is if you meant the original meaning of the word. Let's go with that! Phillyfan 90 - you're happy! I like it...

[@robfortin7287]

Great song today's pop shit blows..

[@lukesdoings7150]

Captain’s log: June 15, 2024. Waiting for my order at a new “hot chicken” place, this song came over the speakers. I hadn’t heard it in at least 20 years. All of a sudden my mind was transported back in time to the mid 90’s, and all the memories of my college days came rushing back. Happy thoughts of all the fun times. Then sadness when I realized how long it had been, and yet how quickly time has passed. I almost started welling up right then and there. When we are young, we never think about how we will miss our youth. I wasn’t even a real fan of this song. However, it unintentionally became a timestamp to my 90’s memories. I would love to go back for real, if I could. 😭❤

[@justincopple8222]

@@lukesdoings7150 yeah I hear ya on that one. I would give anything to go back to the 1990s.

[@georges.5612]

Nostalgia does that. In 20 years, this time right now will seem so perfect. The 1990s seem perfect to me as well at first glance; however, if I think real hard, I can just remember the anxieties I felt in my teenage years. It is so easy to forget the stress, not the freedom, of not knowing my future and what I would do with it. I forget the stress of figuring out who I was, of needing to stand out, of typical teenage lack of confidence, and of hard study in a competitive school environment (many all-nighters). College is similarly fantastic until I remember how excited I was to graduate and move on. The 1990s weren't a happy song any more than 2024 is. Memory just tricks us into thinking there was some more magical time in life. In reality, every moment we are breathing and healthy and able to have happy thoughts of other happy times is magic.

[@photoheathen]

real talk

[@Team996]

Thank you Party of five and Heavyweights for one of the best songs from the good old 90's

[@HiselMarjorie]

I miss the 90's

[@oscarleon8026]

same here :/

[@NOMI8638]

I don’t cuz I was born in 2010

[@mrkdavis22]

you know that old school good song you've been looking for for years but you can't remember the name, lyrics, or Melody but you know it exist this is one of them for me

[@ib_fame3595]

such a great song and show

I miss Party of Five, ı wanna back to 90s :(:( my childhood...

[@blackmask9072]

Zeynep Tunçer i know

[@donnellcoleman7784]

Zeynep Tunçer it on Netflix

[@TEKKENKING23]

Party of Five is on Netflix

[@rockyracoon3233]

Chris Wincek Best show of the 90s!

[@leekhan8948]

That’s me in my childhood and the girl next door that use to beckon me

[@johnmaccabi181]

The 90s brought me here. Bless you 90s. And I loved watching Party of Five, too.

[@shellywatson9845]

I will always love this song!

[@jonathanwood8575]

fast paced alternative feel good songs with harmonica were requirements to have a 90's Sitcom Theme song.

[@blebhan8213]

LOLZ. Now you got the theme to Spin City stuck in my head.

[@thealtchannel8653]

i play this on harmonica

[@atwoodsmariano]

was bingeing/getting through season 1 of Party of Five for the first time over the past week and finished the season finale so now I have this song stuck in my head

[@deeds6193]

"Heavyweights" got me here!

[@charliecoccia8875]

+Dakota Starchild Me too.

[@Gunerx182]

same lol

[@geraldjenkins7719]

I remember hearing this song for the first time i watched the classic TV drama"Party Of Five" it played as the opening theme song.Ah the 90s man how i so miss those days 😀

[@kirkswannjr8036]

I have the whole complete season of party of five this will never be old.90210 and Party of five was my top shows growing up

[@jojothepolyglot1866]

Great catchy song....makes you wanna sing out loud.Keeps you happy.Love it

[@Trader1.]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@librathefresh1]

Love this ! Takes me back to the good times! thank you for sharing!

[@johnnyola]

A song that speaks to each of us individually...no small accomplishment!

[@troybaugh4490]

Party of Five and the Bodeans! This takes me back to being 12, 13, 14...(was I really as young as Claudia in those days?). PO5 was about growing up, and the strength and love one can only find in their family. I love Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy as much as the next guy, but what happened to shows like this? What happened to the shows that made you want to BE the characters, or at least just "hang out" with them for awhile each week, regardless of the machinations of the plot?

[@DanielGennaro]

This song is in my Psyche. But definitely never seen the show!! Love the 90s for life

[@nevecampbell-ue6on]

Best tv show ever❤ the 90s, we were and did not know;/ awesome PArty OF Five👊✌🌹

[@ajgignac3918]

Best part is the guy going yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh at the beginning lol 😂

[@cmtaylor531]

For the longest time I thought this was "Closer to me." Way longer than I care to admit. Lol.

[@natestar6901]

Me to !! 😄😄😄

[@kathconserv]

Great show. I love Charlie.

[@JV-lo7ov]

BxGirl Blazin' BAILEY and CLAUDIA are my favorite characters.

[@brenthatesashley]

Charlie and griffen were my favorite characters. Baily was a selfish punk

[@VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM]

Heard this playing at the grocery store today. Oh 90's 👍👍 Also it's really strange hearing 90's songs with modern quality. I don't even recognize them sometimes, the songs sound so different because they sound so clean and crisp, it sounds more natural and instruments are separated so well and very distinct. Not that same flat over the air radio sound from the 90's.

[@pekoopekoo123]

I was born when the last season of party of five aired. I gave it a try and watched the first episodes, and now I found myself at season 6 😂

[@zwem6]

This song is perfect right now. Housing market blows, interest rates suck, stagnant wages, people struggling with payments, mental health, dating market is shit, people constantly stressed……we all need to be closer to free.

[@niroshakhan7836]

Party of five was the best😍😍😍😍

[@JamesJimmaHarding]

People always forget about "the other" big rock scene outside of grunge in the early-mid 90s - The BoDeans, The Rembrandt's, Hootie, Spin Doctors, Sheryl Crow etc. etc

[@gabrielcavalcantegonzagaal8331]

PARTY OF FIVE UMA DAS SÉRIES MAIS QUERIDAS DA DÉCADA DE 90.

[@putrasantoso5506]

Love good old days... When lives n music still simple... I start fell in love with neve c n jenn love hewitt from this series... Of course i love FRIENDS too... When jenn aniston still cute...

[@leonardoortiz5088]

The 90's closer to free in itself!

[@TB-om4dd]

One best theme song ever!!

[@ericpettyfishing]

Imagine how many movie scenes/intros/outros this song plays in. Its gotta be in the dozens.

[@MrBGB2012]

I remember this show! And,this theme song! Hard to believe it aired in FOX 20 years ago! I remember the cast:Matthew Fox(from LOST),Neve Campbell ,Scott Wolf,Lacey Chabert, and a very young Jennifer Love Hewitt!

[@screenwriterjohn]

This is a super 90s video, isn't it?

[@lynnaTN]

I had forgot about this song until I heard it on sirius 90's on 9 today.

[@woohooinwonderland]

Oh yeah brings back my younger days! Love these guys. Mmmmmm

[@PinkSunglasses50]

❤ Party Of Five

[@DiamondNtheDrought.]

This song is so beautiful

[@ashley35211x]

I just heard this in Publix and I had to look it up. ❤

[@dawnhennig4323]

This song reminds of my late husband he just passed away on August 27,2022 we are both from Wisconsin and saw these guys at the Wisconsin when we were dating we were married 30 yrs in March.....

[@optic_reviews2472]

I was 13 years old when first heard this song and also watch party of five absolutely the best time being a teenager during the 90s era .

[@springer90]

Heavyweights!

[@steamyboy69]

Never seen a single episode of the show but of course I know its existence but this song stuck in my head.

[@1031solidstate]

Did somebody order the 90's? :D

[@Wolf_The_Dentist_Stansson]

Heavyweights

[@stevecelestino7352]

Ah, ya beat me to it.

[@spinner9057]

Great movie!!!!!!!

[@quentinkaasa47]

Tim has blown a microchip!

[@bharrison3364]

Wolf The Dentist Stansson I heard you punch more teeth than goals

[@abeargie]

I'm with this guy. This is the heavyweights theme..fight me

[@volgirl2477]

I wish I could back to 90s.

[@heatherspears85]

I say the same thing all the time. The 90's were the best!

[@castlemania08]

The 1990's brought some awesome music that would always stand out in popular culture and always be recognised as theme tunes. The two that stand out the most would have to be Closer to Free by the BoDeans and I'll Be There by the Rembrandts

[@lateshiachilds3640]

castlemania08 Oh yes I agree. I love hearing songs like this make me tear up and think back to the 90s. I don't see todays so called sitcoms putting today mainstream music for theme songs. Then again most shows today don't even have a decent theme song.

[@sixstringwitchdoctor]

Anime is where its at for theme songs.. Check out the theme for RWBY its american so youll be able to u derstand the words. Great prog metal from a cat that grad. From berkley.

[@TheIgnoredGender]

Reminds me of the movie Heavyweights

[@radioactivel1609]

I have listened to this song 2.400 times if not more (i did the math). It's the bell at our school. When this song is over, everyone has to be ready at their desk.

[@chriswalls5831]

90s underated

[@MultiPOOMBA]

I just remembered how perfect this song was for the movie fat camp. Seeing all those fat kids' jelly rolls dancing to the chorus was hilarious 😆. Everytime I see a fat person shaking their big guts with all those rolls bouncing up and down I think of this song lol. I like to change the lyrics sometimes to: "everybody needs to fart, when want to fart, and everybody needs to poop once in a while, everybody wants to be, closer to pee" 😆.

[@mumfy3131]

Always found it weird there was Matthew Fox and Scott Wolf in it, shame they never got Ethan Hawke, Sheryl Crow, Michael J Fox in it too somehow

[@donnellcoleman7784]

Stephen Mumford Charlie is on lost

[@donnellcoleman7784]

scott norwood I was just saying he also on haunted

[@JV-lo7ov]

Stephen Mumford Why is it weird?😕

[@orgasmatronrickpsych]

fox wolf hawke crow fox get it?

[@anashreegovender5490]

:-D

Omggggg can we go back to this era

[@michaelconnelly2993]

I loved Party of Five

[@lancekiolbassa1731]

Great old fashion music

[@billc307]

I miss this show.

[@donnellcoleman7784]

it on netflix

[@EtoZheArseniy]

Очень классный трек👍

[@edmundoricse4454]

Party of five = the best years of my life

[@soythenesmaster]

Best TV Series all time by far

[@maning04]

probably one of my favorite movies when I was a kid

[@Dane_Youssef]

This is not a movie...

[@maning04]

@@Dane_Youssef I was talking about the movie 'Heavyweights (1995)' I forgot to point that out

[@DreFromMaine8472]

Never saw the show but I still really like this song!

[@ChocolateBarbie-p3i]

This song rocks everybody needs a friend. 90s rule

[@PicardSisko7]

The quality is so weird... I wonder if the opening was edited down, and if a motion filter was thrown on this video? Otherwise I love this!!

[@cristinacardoso4739]

Adoro muitooo essa música 🥰🥰🥰🥰💯💯

[@jazzc8734]

Great song

[@cgenovesi1503]

90s kicked ass

[@Bernard-yc5bb]

Definitely awesome decade and song closer to free heavyweights and biggest one otherwise party of five

[@danstar455]

This album needs remastering.

[@mitchberg8229]

Heavyweights? Pfft. This song says "Po5 is on!". Mmm. Neve Campbell.

[@milehighkid85]

Mitch Berg Heaveywieghts was THE FLICK. Go play in traffic.

[@JV-lo7ov]

Mitch Berg yeah, when I always hear this song I think about PO5.

[@tremorchristlester4688]

I remember hearing this song back in the early 90s as a kid. Randomly id just hear it in my head and didnt know who the band was but for some reason recently i thought this song was from Social Distortion lol

[@McBeagleHound]

uncle tony perkis

[@Noxx55]

"Hey, Jerry isn't that your bus?" "Great way to start the summer" "HEY WAIT, STOP THE BUS!" "HA HA RUN FAT BOY RUN"

[@Bennyboy1985]

First time I heard this song was in March '96, driving into San Francisco. Good times...

[@idigchickflicks8730]

MILK MONEY!!

[@vishnunaidoo3258]

I think this came out around the same time as Buffy and Charmed but seems to be the best out of the three shows because all the demons here are psychological like alcoholism,sexual abuse and peer pressure which makes it more realistic.Great show!Wish it was still running!

[@lateshiachilds3640]

I miss the 90s and TV shows theme songs.

[@cooper7031]

Better 90s show than lame Friends!

[@bigrig9749]

The 1990’s oh how I freaking miss it…..

[@c.m.l.184]

Sensacional

[@Jupiterxice]

I miss the 90s and early 2000s

[@robertschober1650]

Remember seeing Sammy and Rob play acoustics while we would eat dinner at Red Rooster. Maybe that's why they did a restaurant video. lol.

[@jwhoa1733]

This show and my so called life were my staples in the 90’s growing up being an awkward teenager

[@grabasandwich]

My daughter just got into this show 😁

[@iramayanti2577]

Ingat waktu masih remaja... Kelas 2 sma nonton ini 😚😉