At The Drive In - Invalid Litter Dept.

At The Drive In - Invalid Litter Dept.

[@thesicknessuntodeath7126]

A timeless song that still has meaning to this very day that scream at the end I feel is for all the victims in a endless cycle of violence

[@ricardochavez4555]

And it still remains true

[@SONICgokuverine]

Great music transcends ages. This music will be just as outstanding long after I die.

[@moonstatue9657]

Wise words SONICgokuverine wise words indeed

[@DiscipleAsscrack]

This was the first album I ever bought, I heard One Armed Scissor on guitar hero and wanted to hear more, I was 12 in a HMV in Exeter - I remember this so clearly because this album changed my life, I'm 27 now

[@theexpresidents]

Philips Exeter?

[@patspillane314]

Exeter NH? I first heard ATDI riding home from a high school poker game in Bedford as we drove past a field of cows. Life changing.

[@jonbbaca5580]

This song blew my freaking mind when I was 16 years old and was a drummer in my own band. It was like first hearing Pink Floyd in 1969.

[@TheRealBobSaget]

Honestly, this song has the most haunting guitar I have ever heard. sends chills down my spine every time I hear that first riff....

[@ddragon9210]

That outro, my God, the screaming, the melody, its so epic.

[@shitchops]

I hear you brother

[@NahzBio117]

+GetNice The scream ruins the song, stupid.

[@shitchops]

NahzBio117 google what "opinion" means

[@NahzBio117]

shitchops "opinion (oh-pin-yun) to state a fact that others might be to stubborn to accept as fact."

[@ddragon9210]

NahzBio117 Bravo, you just proved you dont know how to use google.

[@llamasarus1]

You know there's something crazy about this bands when their ballad is the most intense song on the album

[@arbi9506]

Dude, I'm not sure you've listened to the rest of the album...

[@paj81]

but this one is the best on that album as I remember it to this day in september 2023

[@irotinmyskin]

its been 11 years since ive been listening to the song... and those final screams still give me the chills...

[@annatiller5653]

I swear I can listen to this song a million times and every time it still gives me chills

[@patspillane314]

Imo the best scream in rock history, you can hear every slain Mexican woman in it.

[@karenrachelle970]

It is 2021 and this song still touches my soul!

[@rw7975]

2004 - freshman in college 19 years old... one of the most chaotic years of my life My roommate would play At The Drive In and I always asked for this song - will always transport me back.

[@paj81]

Music is the best teleport to happy days of our youth.

[@D4V3.0H]

Amen brother... Nothing even comes close

[@BanditoRios]

I found this album by mistake, a while ago, and I can say I am glad I did.

[@ThePromisedWLAN]

I distinctly remember when this song was released as a single every radio station that played it cut it right at 4:40 - total ruined orgasm for those of us who bought the album and were just about to rock tf out.

[@DaleHagger]

Very Minutemen until the switch around.A vital album,pinnacle of an entire Genre.

[@bridgeyboo4952]

this!

[@MrNickshelton]

Seeing them tonight (6-8-16) in Seattle, for the first time!!!!!!! They have been one of my favorites since ~2001!

[@Hattorii009]

I MISSED THEM!!!!!!!

[@stormysmurf]

Very very lucky.

[@whateveryasaypal5022]

I will never not be in love with this album, it's perfect in every way

[@brandongriffith2010]

Best song of the 2000s hands-down.

[@utubedestroysmytime]

Those screams at the end. I rewound it and listened to a man straight up yell the last 10 minutes

[@irotinmyskin]

im doing that right now

[@billMcLatentspace]

When I first heard this I was 16, about a month from finishing high school. Before that I'd been listening to old rock and metal, then 90's mainstream punk stuff, then nu metal and all kinds of hip hop and just the kind of stuff you'd expect a teenage kid from a nowhere town to know in 2000. Neither me nor my friends had internet access at the time so we just had TV, mixtapes from friends and the occasional free CD with a magazine as our only ways of hearing new music. The radio here wasn't worth jack shit. When my buddy came into school and played Relationship of Command for me on his Discman it was like a fucking earthquake that knocked everything else into piles of rubble on the ground. I still get goosebumps listening to this. It's simply genius.

[@theburden1]

For many people this band will be timeless.

[@radiosurgery]

This is one of the all time great breakdowns in any song ever. Gives me goosebumps every time.

[@storingjazzinmycheeksforth5319]

5:28 holy shit that scream is inhuman

[@chuckresnick4668]

The most creative lyrics ever in a song from such a great band at the time there will never be a song like this ever again enjoy may this song live for centuries to come!!!!

[@MrBlick76]

@4:49 OMGGGGGGG ONE OF THE SICKEST HARDEST HEAVIEST ENDINGS EVER WRITTEN! THEY FUKIN KILLED IT ON THIS ONE

[@ClintEatswood]

Probably one of my favorite parts in an ATDI song.

[@cliffsousa4184]

You need to be blessed by a supernatural force to create art like this from the bottom of your soul.

[@josuedelatorre35]

Cedric Bixler-Zavala is an underrated singer.

[@TC-lk2ev]

Fuck yes he is. Listen to Vedamalady by Mars Volta. He's so good in that.

[@alvinduran5540]

he sucks ass live tho.

[@chainsherlock6268]

This statement is underrated!! He’s our García-Marquez, Che Guevara, antipode of everything we know; I love CBZ, a true artist; Grammy-winning and then some

[@ZanAzoth]

Was* Was an underrated singer Dude clearly took zero care of his voice his entire career and now sounds fucking abhorrent live. Still love his music though, but my god there's a LOT of studio work behind it

[@Throughtheeyesofalegend]

And a lyrical genius

[@nichan2475]

Kind of a classic. Listened to this song a lot as a teenager, feels like it means a lot now.

[@IaraKiara]

The pain and sorrow in Cedric's voice in those last screams...it just so fucking amazing

[@themarginalizedproject]

Para todas las mujeres mexicanas y en especial las de Juarez

[@CharismaStrategies]

That chorus is killer!

[@juliocesarestaba]

truee it isss my friend

[@CharismaStrategies]

masa galactica :)

[@pascolla1]

there is very few bands that move me like they do. I think this will inspire for years to come, and remains underground enough to where only the seekers of the finest music will discover it.,

[@davec.3129]

As a kid this was my go to when gaming like in Unreal tournament. Intense song. I woke up thinking about it from a dream today. This album. Interesting

[@Turtleproof]

For all the spitballing they did with their lyrics, "And they made sure that the obituaries | Showed pictures of smoke stacks" and, "When the company of wolves | Was a stretcher made of cobblestone curfews" are absolutely brilliant. More pertinent than ever: there's a curfew because of the Coyote's and other predators out there, cobblestone means the roads are broken up, that those roads are a stretcher means going out is a death sentence. Or worse.

[@Tobeck21]

Me an a very good friend of mine have seen the official videoclip to this song at the same time. We were trying to give each other a phone call, because we wanted to make the other turn on the tv and experience this incomparable music. And now after I've heard to it again, I ask myself, where are those 11 Years gone? Now it doesn't matter, because they have reunited. Come to Europe, me and my friend will be there, even if we have to travel across the whole continent and we will be young again.

[@shanecampbell4920]

just read this 11 years after you posted it. Where are those 11 years gone?

[@hrlnmlclm]

Took me years to find this song. All i can search was wishing well.😂 Who would've thought that that was the title?

[@zagyex]

Don't loose it then. Maybe my comment helps if you already did.

[@jasonisfamous6544]

i thought it was invalid letter dept

[@dustintuesday4310]

really? years?

[@victorylanel3150]

me too Abra! after the two Aussie surfers were murdered last year in Mexico I had to hear this song again:(

[@xeotech1]

It was the walkie talkie that knocked the pins down

[@hikemalliday6007]

EVERY SINGLE SONG ON THIS ALBUM IS A BANGER

[@rickgoethe]

Just a masterpiece.

[@elwhyify]

yeah

[@BMXorHOMICIDE]

This ending is more heartwarming than any film. More saddening than any obituary. More real than any feeling. ATDI Always..

[@SkinnyEMedia]

"Dancing through the corpses ashes." Never gets old. Remember hearing this CD multiple times as a child in the car to school. Weird kid I were?

[@jamesboyd985]

such a beautiful song

[@milesschmidt3285]

That outro has a nice change from the original, definitely the best cover I've heard of this song.

[@akiramado9198]

This isnt a cover..

[@milesschmidt3285]

@@akiramado9198 Yeah, no shit. Pretty sure when I was typing that, I was driving (don't text/comment while driving), it was actually the song I was listening to before this. However, my hockey team would listen to this album before every game back in 2002-2004, miss those days. Thanks for pointing out the fact I put this comment on the wrong video tho lol.

[@milesschmidt3285]

@@akiramado9198 I think it was a cover of a Kate Bush song, either Hounds of Love or Running Up that Hill.. Fuck, I'm trying to go back in my history far enough to figure it out lol, so I can least recommend the song I was listening to at that moment. Or Xiu Xiu- Sharp Dressed Man.

[@milesschmidt3285]

@@akiramado9198 still a great cover tho....... :) Lol.

[@midoent]

this is one of the best songs ever imo

[@fatherdrew]

if you ever saw these guys in concert....PURE ENERGY

[@Peepholecircus]

I love this track, i listen to it over and over. What a great ending to a song as well, last min and a half is great.....great band.

[@calebo56]

scream section is one of the greatest parts of any song i've ever heard

[@househosted]

I knew Enfilade from these guys from Limewire. Went out and bought the album, and honestly didn't think much of this song for the longest time. It did sit on my computer for a long time though. But one day I listened to it the whole way through, and it immediately became my favourite by At the Drive-In. I don't know when, but eventually, attributed to my old age, I found some songs would make me tear up. They just make you feel emotion. The end of this song does that to me.

[@formaldefeat14]

There's just so much raw emotion for those women at Juarez in the last minute of this song. I've never heard a song just feel so fucking painful before. This is my favorite AtDI song too, but for a long time it wasn't at all.

[@onceagain77]

They used to play At the Drive in locally here in Jersey on the radio. The only thing that has changed is time.

[@pizzylee1978]

the last minute is the most epic end of a song ever. thats passion homie.

[@Lifelong_Lesson]

This song is profound. I still remember the very first time I've ever heard it. Stopped me in my tracks. Never heard anything like it.

[@leC0rbusier]

14 years later and I'm still dancing on the corpses ashes!

[@least_favorite]

leC0rbusier AMEN! THE BEST COMMENT FOR THIS SONG....EVER!

[@thetonzaruberman938]

leC0rbusier fkn true dude 👊🏽

[@benderbender9946]

im about to make a better one scroll down

[@toxicgamer5621]

Still dancing to the corpse ashes

[@stephengonzalez9910]

Thats not a good thing to say bud. Try and figure out what the songs about before you say something. This songs about women in Mexico who are killed everyday. No dacing on the ashes thats disrespectful, sir. But I forgive you.

[@BlackxMystic]

RIP Justin. You were hilarious, kind, handsome, and had a great taste in music. You were too young to go but I'll see you in another life

[@dylansloan]

I grew up to this being "Invalid Letter Dept." and thats what i knew it as. Ive heard this song at least 200 times. Back in the days where CD's were everything. Like 2005 and before

[@fozzifoster26]

not heard this in years, such a great track

[@18617s]

so happy the band is back together.

[@skelfily]

stranded at the drive in, branded a fool, what will they say, monday at school?

[@GuitaristInProgress]

If this is what the youth of today are into, they have my full support. Never heard these guys before, really great stuff.

[@theexpresidents]

This is from 2000.

[@martychills817]

That piano solo with the guitar leads

[@TE72Touge]

Love this band I remember then they broke up and I was devastated...but thank goodness they got back together

[@lichaalhamdulillah2245]

5:30 I feel your pain/anger my friend

[@21350ctw]

yup quintanero

[@bleachno9]

All those mid 2000s crappy emo and scene bands stole everything from ATDI and took it in all the wrong directions

[@mnwa_mnwa]

ADTI are the goats of post hardcore. there's no other that compares.

[@MichaelToussaint1]

At the drive in came before 2000, if your talking about them then that must be pretty idiotic of you to say.

[@blackcross4433]

I'd say a mix of different (but actually good) bands unintentionally influenced the creation of that whiny emo sound that became popular in the mid 2000s. You could say Mike Patton made it kind of an appealing idea for men to sing in that really high nasally register in alternative rock/metal, and then there were bands like Deftones, Glassjaw, and ATDI that mixed the very melancholy themes/vibes with a tenor vocalist. All great bands, that were obviously admired by kids with no talent who wanted to emulate them.

[@endoffate5475]

From Thursday too..

[@warrenburger9907]

Listen to Creation Song by Lungfish.

[@MegaBrandOn]

Atdi and The Refused changed music for a decent period. If only there were such amazing bands today.

[@BobbySacamano]

... prez and I'm also a member born on the cusp in the month of November. That breakdown near the end is absolutely gorgeous. I never felt so good about dancing on corpses' ashes.

[@ericjohnson6869]

25 people have never danced on corpses ashes.

[@andydufresne87]

Završni dio je tako sjetan, nostalgičan i tužan... Čista emocija kroz Cedricov vrisak...

[@basic919]

slažem se!!!

[@lancasterquell5703]

The "dancing on the corpses ashes" parts sound like they're sung by Jimbo, Kearny and Dolph from the Simpsons.

[@bridgeyboo4952]

😂😂😂

[@MSNGR415]

ahhhhhhhh i miss these guys. need more bands like this.

[@lydiapfpbylittlenursegirl4314]

I'm in love with this song, one more time

[@kif411]

Lyrically haunting. Musically beautiful.

[@jameyinegypt]

That guitar is sooo Pink Floyd and a so eerie..

[@PingingAndThat]

Can't believe At The Drive In are back together! So happy!

[@zackstaal5965]

the guitar rift in the verses is chilling

[@carlosisais3952]

Followed a link to this.. Completely new to me.. Very good. I really enjoyed this!

[@matthewrivera451]

ugh geez. if all y'all were close I mean we could dance and sing to this all day in that one house. tear it down. he'll look at cage the elephant in that in one ear music video. we could be that XD

[@jtsta666]

Saw them a cpl days ago in Cleveland at the Agora and they did a superb job on this....

[@thedarkforce9596]

I'm listening to at the drive-in .at the drive-in lol

[@jameyinegypt]

Amazing intro and overall melody in the whole song, very bluesy and Pink Floyd influence i find in part's from 0:20-0:51. Singer sound's similar to Zac Le Rocha with his angry scream's and shouting.

[@hoovy1163]

To me he sounds like both Zack and Gerard Way lmao

[@Whitetrashhero44]

Always goes out to Evan and Solomon from El Paso Texas my homeboys

[@JOSEARRIETA6360]

❤❤El Paso Texas ❤❤

[@Bryanmelin_]

the ultimate song that got me into so much shit!!! ^^ love it!!!

[@haolihfaioefh]

It's taken me YEARS.... after hearing this once on MTV2...... BUT FINALLY I FOUND IT!! *dies a happy man*

[@Simplemente_D]

I love this song, my favourite of them.

[@edwarddawson42]

If there's any songs that get me hyped, this is one.

[@ZitiPatrol]

My cat jams out to this. Every single time.

[@hateswhitewhales]

2020 and still killing it

[@stevendern2543]

It was 2001, I was on acid, I first heard this, I thought it was a dream. The sound, colours escaping from the stereo, doing a Jackson pollock in my garage. Amazing, intense experience. I do not condone the use of lsd. But I've done it.

[@reneebeverly676]

I like this song so much

[@tandown1000]

Started smoking weed when this came out, I went to bed and now im 26....Shit!

[@tandown1000]

29 and I'm still dancing on the corpses ashes

[@frankgrimes465]

Now you're 30. :(

[@akiramado9198]

Smoke weed and listen to the mars volta

[@lilc9407]

4.36-6.05 is pure awesomeness!!!!!!!!!

[@espiquitin]

Wonderful song!!!!

[@RAINBOW-PARADISE]

Este es un discaso!!! No tiene deserdicio!💞🚀

[@quietdoesmusic4029]

The greatest song ever made

[@gS0yeUE0udz7d]

Radiohead Feels 💜💜

[@aarondorris7639]

ffffffffffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelz

[@Meshuggapeth]

Kennyknows But more explosive!

[@gcgcgcg]

Currently watching "Beef", feel like this should be a credits song

[@BurnsidesAP]

I watched them last night, and I cannot remember them playing this song... :/

[@trancedsailor]

I miss the years between 1997 and 2004...I was adventurous, ignorant, and happy. Now I'm an agoraphobic hermit.

[@danielmijares2558]

scaaaalpels, scaaalpeeeeEEEELS YEAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

[@catastrophiasco]

There's something haunting about all the comments about everything or whatever forever

[@treykearns4867]

The music video for this song flat-out gives you the formula to figure out the song and for the life of me I still cannot find the meaning behind a single one of the many, insane metaphors deployed

[@scottherf]

Great live band.