Everclear - AM Radio

[@psychicrenegade]

Now, that "portable CD player" is in a frickin MUSEUM!!! AND Art was talking about that like it's the coolest music tech of the future! 🤣 After the Walkman...there was the Discman...then there were portable MP3 players...and now, we have little cell phones that connect to the internet and can access music on youtube wherever we go! No more waiting for your favorite songs on the radio, trying to record songs on cassettes (or later, blank CDs,) or standing in the music section of Walmart looking for the latest CD by your favorite artist! I actually miss the old music stores! We had one in my hometown called The Warehouse...it always had the latest and greatest music tapes/CDs right after they were released to the public! After first playing on MTV for a couple of months! I miss Carson Daly, too, and watching him host the Top 20 music videos after school! Circa 2000!

[@jeromeglick]

Or, if you're my dad, still recording the radio onto cassettes until 2022, then continuing to record off radio onto WAV files. He's got 3,000 off-air cassettes since 1983.

[@Winters_Folly]

No more owning songs either. I prefer something physical I own.

[@angeladudley1211]

I was eleven years old when I got a secondhand alarm clock with AM radio. It was my first opportunity to choose the music and I was so stoked!! ❤❤❤😊

[@XenMaximalist]

80 years young and I LOVE THIS

[@stewartdeerfield]

Twas a better world.

[@juno4494]

What a great homage. This song is really a step back into the reality of that time. I remember listening all day on AM. You had to wait, but they'd play every hit once every hour. Once you heard your song end, you were bummed because you knew you had another hour before you could hear it again. Then, if you could stay up late enough, the King Biscuit Flower Hour came on at like 11pm or midnight and that was a stone groove for us 70s kids, man.

[@Steven_Lee_Music]

Exactly as I remember it too. ;)

[@renorocker64]

I remember going to sleep with the AM radio on as a child great memories of early 70s hits

[@casey4602]

Yep we made our play list with a cassette and recorder waiting for dj to play your fav song.

[@AJHart-eg1ys]

It wasn't quite every hour, but I do remember that they didn't mix them up that much, and we would often know the next song because of the song we were currently listening to.

[@jeromeglick]

And not to forget that AM radio signals can travel hundreds of miles at night, so pulling in distant stations from all over the place.

[@philkleinman7002]

This really nails it, I grew up listening to AM radio.

[@mrgoblueguy]

I saw them in concert in 99 and it was the best show ever. I still love them.

[@RandomNonsense1985]

I saw them in 2022 and they still had it!

[@bearing_aficionado]

​@@RandomNonsense1985I just watched them last night with Jimmie's Chicken Shack and Marcy Playground. It was awesome!

[@lisamichelle9425]

July 2024, twenty three years after I bought it , still listening. Still love it. Classic album.

[@mariewaring8965]

77 years old and still rockin'... What a great song! Everybody's getting older, but you don't have to get old. Peace, Love & Flowers.

[@MsBrynnElizabeth]

Had this in my head all week - out of nowhere. Still one of my absolute favorites

[@kirkhotopp828]

What a cool band never knew we would miss the 90s. MTV was worth watching

[@stevenjm12]

this was 2000

[@BlazeDuskdreamer]

Back then it was. It isn't any more.

[@psychicrenegade]

When MTV actually stood for "Music Television!" It was all music videos, all the time! Not these stupid, assinine reality shows!

[@eddieschwab864]

And don't forget MTV came out in 79

[@LeadMe2TheBliss]

@@stevenjm12 Yes, Learning How To Smile was released in 2000, but Everclear was all over MTV during the mid-to-late 90's.

[@DesertRainReads]

This was far and away one of the most clever samples of "Mr. Big Stuff", they took it and turned it into an outright homage to the 70's, and it's catchy as hell to boot. Great video, good song, much respect to Everclear for pulling this one off.

[@queenstixxzz]

I agree so much :) I may be 22 but sometimes I feel so much older, like I would have been happier at a different point it time like the 60's, 70's, or 80's but I would have hated to have missed bands like Everclear :)

[@RTEHeydrich]

IcedEarthaholic Just superbly done - Music AND video during that small window in the '90s when BOTH aspects were important and valued - greatly underrated band👍🏻😊

[@daelen.cclark]

It’s lightning that shall never strike again. Especially not live.

[@matt8863]

Agreed...I love it.

[@stephh.7314]

Just heard Mr Big Stuff on the DAB Radio!

[@Intheclouds-ru5rp]

Story about this song is I had a portable cassette player hid in my room (my parents were strict) and I would wait for hours for this song to play on the radio. And it was like heaven when it played. Very vivid memory

[@ajjackson1526]

That's exactly what I did, lol. Sitting up late at night listing on the FM radio to hear "AM radio" Edit: I still have the tape btw, I got curious, and I found it in my box with the same Sony recorder, but a battery blew up inside unfortunately.

[@stevemann4645]

If you were a kid in the 70's (I graduated in '75)...this really hits home. Every reference is right on. Initially there was no FM, you listened to the music on the AM radio. Best friend had a Pinto we got busted in. Had a Van we got busted in as well, lol. I took up guitar in 1970 because I wanted to play the stuff I was listening to. I mean, all the TV references in this song are so right on, including arguing about what to watch. lol. And we did hate Disco, but went anyway... cuz that's where the girls were. If someone asks what it was like growing up in the 70's...I send them a link to this video. Cuz I'm too damned old to explain it anymore :)

[@lawrencegarcia6819]

I also remember 1977 I was 7yrs old and that was the year Elvis died everybody and thier mommas were crying except for me

[@dpergram]

I ran outside to tell my mom Elvis had died and she was like oh well , she could’ve cared less

[@rynehall9990]

I was 14 my freshman year.

[@rvboyett]

This song doesn't get old..

[@Matanumi]

Its certainly timeless but the VCR? THE DVD player? Damn talk about how quickly shit gets dated

[@Squirrelconga]

I still hear it...on...on the...A.M...Radio...🤭

[@babu357]

@@Matanumi With tech sh*t gets dated after a year. lol

[@jeromeglick]

@@babu357 Your house quickly becomes a museum of old tech.

[@DDRocker]

Especially since it was ripped off of Jean Knight's "Mr. Big Stuff" (for the intro, in any case).

[@DemonWarp65]

2:51 RIP Mr. Rogers. Thanks for making our world a little brighter. Wherever you are now, it's gotta better than it is here.

[@dguy0386]

he's in heaven now

[@unclebillmusic]

EXCELLENT time peace depicting the 70's !!! GREAT lyrics, GREAT video !!!

[@300300831]

Best ever! Thanks for the memories Everclear!

[@azchappy2527]

Me too, grew up on it too. yes, the AM radio. We waited on our colorful radio shack small transistor radio for our favorite song to come on and we would stay up late, hoping to catch it again. They were innocent times, we did not know anything different. good times. My pic is current, 53 years. old.

[@barbaralavoie2642]

"There wasn't any place that I need to go, there wasn't ANYTHING THAT I NEED TO KNOW". Classic. Love this song! I played it on my AM 📻 RADIO! 🙏❤️📻

[@barbaralavoie2642]

@ArtAlexakis9183. It's great to meet you too! Virtually!

[@barbaralavoie2642]

Ummmm, yes 😊​@ArtAlexakis9183.

[@barbaralavoie2642]

How's life?

[@RafaLisbon1986]

This song and video is a masterpiece!!!!

[@Dreamstalker8002]

Thanks to this song, the 70's will be 4 Everclear 😜

[@womanwonder10]

I love this song!!! They don't play this one enough, anywhere!!

[@carolynprince1181]

93KHJ ! Brings back memories growing up in So Cal. Then we moved to Portland, but never lived in the West Hills - hahah. I wonder if he ever bought that house in the West Hills.

[@dyanaalcazar5798]

Ahhh, the good ole' days!!!

[@charlenemack7040]

My favorite radio station in the world it’s a university radio station they just played a.m. radio by Everclear it’s April 24, 2023. Thank you DJ Mark. ❤‍🔥

[@cwawwots]

One of my absolute favorite most fun, feel good songs & videos!

[@stephenburton1276]

Just heard Mr Big Stuff play at the end of a Mrs Maisel episode and Everclear immediately came to mind. What a brilliant song, used to love this and still sounds super fresh for a song from 20 something years ago written about the 1970s. Everybody.... We like pop, we like soul, we like rock but we never liked disco ...

[@timothysullivan6783]

Extra credit for HR Puffenstuff, Jimmy, witchypoo, and the magic flute.

[@wyleecoyotee4252]

Witchypoo freaked me out

[@alixyates-orr1072]

This song never gets old, love it.

[@southernlady75-Amy]

I loved this song! Everclear is awesome

[@alexandraasbury9974]

Aww, good song, taking me back to some great days. Loving it.

[@jackwhite7317]

A few minutes ago I accidentally turned on the AM in my car.... This song popped into my head I haven't thought about it in years and years!

[@DruDixon-vj6lo]

AM was dead by the time these guys made this song.

[@spideydew20]

Takes me back to the awesome days of my youth. LOVE this song and video!!

[@ahhwe-any7434]

portable cd player and walkmen wever.. :/ i forgot the terms

[@lukethomas658]

I'm an 80s kid, but thanks to those endless VH1 shows in college, I got all references. I'm not sure how to feel about that, but I still love this song.

[@queenemma5823]

Oh, that’s how I know about the 70’s and the 80’s too, from those shows (I’m an early 90’s baby)

[@LukeKhaing]

A salute to the greatest decade in Rock Music.

[@redhead5150]

This was the best Everclear line-up!!!

[@michaelmcauliffe6955]

My absolute band from the 90's Shit still holds up to this very day

[@michaelmcauliffe6955]

Meant my absolute Favorite band

[@kitsunelee007]

I never get tired of this song. I remember the exact moment the switch for AM to FM like it was WW3. No 8 tracks for me!

[@stevenmandl4920]

had a pretty decent AM radio station here in milwaukee wi till the late 2000's. WOKY 920 AM. it was in stereo too.. played stuff from the 60's to the early 80's if im not mistaken. could even pick the station up in muskegon michigan

[@MoiraRussell]

OH MY GOD THE SHOW WITH THE FREAKY TALKING FLUTE. I seriously just had like a non-acid flashback and remembered _so much_ of it.

[@alexandraasbury9974]

That's funny, but "non-acid", OMG. Never touched acid.

[@yvetteowens6924]

Old skool fan who saw them in concert last night still loven these guys

[@oxpolitik]

Me, listening in 2022...being nostalgic for the year 2000 when 16 year-old me listed to this song that waxed nostalgic about the 70's...

[@nobullman5853]

Want this song and video everyday.

[@pharaohneptune5032]

I graduated from high school in 1975 and I absolutely love this video, it's hilarious. Oddly enough after growing up listening to AM radio stations I avoid them like the plague now because satellite radio is a million times better in both sound quality and variety.

[@Steven_Lee_Music]

Same year I graduated high school. Not many of us that get every-single-reference in this song. They totally nail it ;)

[@evynnlourim3118]

I really loved this song I really miss listening to the am songs but when ever I go to work with my dad I put music on and make jewelry in my dads truck and dance to the song on the radio

[@dawsoncounty]

I can't listen to this song without singing "Mr. Big Stuff" along with it under my breath! Mr. Big Stuff, who do you think you are?

[@brightscales30]

when i hear that song I am reminded of Mighty Ducks 2

[@carlabamford9154]

I could watch a ten hour version of this video. My family moved from San Francisco to Idaho in 1976 and yeah it was straight up AM radio for YEARS

[@JunSebastian]

OMG! I remember the days when this song playing on the radio while cruising down the road...nice...

[@I_Drank_WHAT_TTV]

Still one of my favorite songs from this band LOL And the fact that they used Mr Big Stuff as a back beat always made it a great track for me!

[@portlandfan]

I remember listening to Black Sabbath in the dark on my AM radio in the 70's ... Love it!!!

[@ntom5579]

Saw Everclear days before college graduation...whenever I hear this, we're all right back at that concert, fist pumping and making those last days count.

[@davestang5454]

The opening beat is from "Mister Big Stuff" by Jean Knight in 1971. Footage of Saturday morning kids shows of the era include 'Sigmund and The Sea Monsters","H.R. Puff n,Stuff" and "Land of The Lost". The video game era arrived with "Pong" screens in bars,restaurants,arcades. Indoor shopping malls were becoming more popular every year in the 1970s, especially with teenagers. VHS tapes made both the porn industry and the home video industry take off as well as the emergence of pay-TV (HBO). Before MTV, "Radio Stars" were all the rage and radio programs like "American Top 40" hosted by Kasey Kasem were among the most popular. Personally, I would have included footage from 1970s shows like "Cannon", where William Conrad tries to impress the audience with his mounted car phone with cord in his ginormous 10 mpg beast of an automobile.Those cars had such big back seats that it was easy for people to "recline" together in the back, if you get my drift.

[@DesertRainReads]

Right, the opening and the horn samples are from Mr. Big Stuff, and the way it's integrated into the song is just brilliant. Art Alexakis is a serious talent to be able to take that and make it his own.

[@MattLeger]

Another '70s kid here still enjoying the everloving crap out of this song and video 23 years (!!!) later. I only wish they'd left the KHJ jingle from the album in the video. I hadn't realized until now that Art Alexakis was only a little over a year older than me (April 1962 vs. May 1963). I remember all the stuff he mentions, except that we DID have an 8-track player and I got a few tapes to play in it. (Made more than a few mixtapes with them, too!) Thanks, guys, for giving us a great trip down memory lane.

[@angelasaavedra1747]

I used to love this song so much! good old 90's

[@shanitrahan2959]

I love this song too much

[@timmckinney8038]

Everclear is unreal every song tells a story. They can take you up and bring you down. .love rollercoasters.

[@richardblanco5455]

Still listening Dec 2024

[@richardsalinger]

Best song and Video ever !!!!!!

[@robertpoole5652]

2024 nearing 2025 and I am just sitting here reliving my childhood. Listening to the music on my....

[@Silvermoonstarlet57]

It's kind of difficult to explain. Rock and Roll was really going strong, in the late 1960's and early 1970's. There were a lot of young people then that were dedicated to only rock & roll. When disco came out, some people thought it was silly, too repetitious, not even bass,or hard rock sound, etc. There were bumper stickers on many vehicles that said: Disco Sucks. I was a teenager when all of that happened, but I LIKED DISCO ALSO, I like a large variety of music. Peace

[@gr33n3ggs4]

I ❤❤ disco & country too

[@NotReallyaPlanet]

Daz how lame music is right now

[@robsemail]

I hear ya! I grew up with a dad who liked country and easy listening music and a mama who liked everything dad didn’t. In those days I would listen to AM for the funny morning shows, then switch to FM for my favorite AOR station, which played mostly rock but also a smattering of country, soul, funk, R&B, blues and pop. One thing I remember that a lot of young people don’t seem to know we had is FM converters. You’d stick one under your car’s dashboard (they were about the size of a couple McDonald’s hash brown patties laid side-to-side), wire it to the car’s AM radio, tune the AM to a specific frequency, then use the tuner on the converter to tune in FM radio stations at full AM quality, haha. So if your car didn’t have a fancy, expensive FM stereo, you could still listen to FM, and people did. The converters were very popular with my generation of kids, probably as popular as 45 record players had been for the generation before us.

[@garyjackson3531]

There were some great disco songs.

[@hollydatsopoulos7998]

I was watching Behind the Music about the Bee Gees, and they had Alice Cooper on it, saying that during their fall during the Disco Sucks craze, he actually loved their disco album, even though he was Alice Cooper! 😂

[@RayChiTown]

I was born in 1965, so I certainly remember listening to music on the AM radio. I remember hearing pop, soul and rock on the AM radio. Come to think of it, I don't think I ever heard disco on the AM radio. I think that was strictly on the FM radio!

[@WineNationTV100]

RayChiTown They did play disco on our AM station, KIDD 63, as it was top 40 then. I kinda miss the sound of the music on AM, had a neat tone to it!

[@RayChiTown]

***** Thanks for the reply. I remember listening to music on the AM radio mostly in the early 70's. Back then, a lot of radios were AM only. Such as car radios and portable transistor radios. But disco didn't really take off until the late 70's. By then just about everyone had an FM radio. And why wouldn't you listen to music on the FM radio if you had one. Although, some AM radio station refused to give up at first. Here in Chicago, we had a very popular top 40 AM station, WLS, 890. And although, they included talk in the late 80's, they refused to give up on music until 1989, when they finally became full time talk. I don't think they played disco, but I could be wrong. Anyone?

[@LMSUNSHI]

Lol...the good old days...I listened to Howard Stern and Don Imus on my AM radio in the early 80s in my first Camaro that only came with an AM radio then

[@thespeez]

+RayChiTown I can think of two all-disco AM stations in the late 1970s: WZZD (990) Philadelphia and WDON (1540) Wheaton (suburban Washington) MD.

[@thespeez]

+RayChiTown AFAIC WLS kicked @$$ right about 1981-82 when they segued to a 'Rock-40' format; IOW a 'rock-hits' format! They were more aggressive than the most aggressive top-40s of the day, but were not as aggressive as the album-rock stations of the time; an excellent station to DX if you lived a distance away!

[@hollydatsopoulos7998]

I always loved this song mainly because it's all true! Born in 1970, and grew up in probably one of the best times for a kid! As soon as someone builds that time machine, I'm heading back!

[@BlazeDuskdreamer]

You and me both - but can I go back to youth too and have this old body rejuvenate along the way? Ah, youth is wasted on the young and all too fleeting.

[@gregkozak4535]

i remember the year 2000 14 yrs old and listening to american top 40 with casey kasem so glad i was born in 1986 june 1.

[@deaneiden6646]

Going to see Everclear this weekend in Ocala, FL

[@losira13]

I remember a lot of this stuff! I used to "borrow" my Dad's radio to listen to it under my pillow too!

[@truthtrumpsdumbness638]

magnificent use of a sample - with its own screaming invention - fantastic!

[@DannyBeans]

I'm a sucker for production that starts big and just keeps getting bigger.

[@MadihaA123]

This video is perfect, everything about it, from Craig's shirts to Art's invasion of the Brady Bunch.

[@RodericSzasz]

I just LOVE this song and its video clip!!!

[@SunStevens]

An absolutely beautiful and soulful approach to one of the grooviest songs from my childhood. Love the original Beatles version...love this one as well.

[@Uhohlisa]

?????????? not a Beatles song

[@Prometheus1st]

Classic song. Makes me think of the other classic 'Summertime' and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's Summertime. Summertime is magical...it belongs to nobody, so keep making those songs. I'll keep listening.......

[@eleanorrigby924]

Gosh!! This was my childhood in 3:57...

[@SonicsniperV7]

This has to be my new favorite music video...

[@chickasawstarrmountain9747]

I love this I remember back in the 70s listening to the am it's all there was in our car

[@robertcombs8542]

I was born 1967 and i know i still find my happy on the radio hard to find am station anymore lol

[@poppawheelie59]

In your old car with one broken rattling fuzzy speaker and it was still priceless.

[@setxbubba6334]

Back in the early 80s, had to make a LONG drive in a company pickup...only AM and only ONE spkr to my left (with a slight loss already there!)....I was SOOO glad to get back home after 12 hours driving...made me appreciate FM even more then...when 97.9 KFMK Houston switched from Christian to Top40, it earned a spot on my 5 pushbuttons along with 790 KULF and 610 KILT...

[@slikchik58]

2021 still listening and thanks for great memories!

[@georgiezmama]

I love this song, my parents were young when they had me and I grew up listening to this kind of music

[@portlandfan]

Wearing my #50 Blazers Jersey as I listen to this.. Portland Oregon rocks!!

[@alibra68]

I cant believe how cool this video really,REALLY is!!!!...

[@JasonRoggasch]

AM radio and TV of the late 70s

[@dragontales1999]

It's so weird how I was born in 2002, and thus born over 30 years too late to relate to this song... and yet I still love this song

[@bsadewitz]

I was born in *1980*--yes, apparently, I am ancient --too late to relate to this song! No one listened to music on AM radio, ever. I remember when this came out, I thought to myself, "Wow, that must have sucked." 😂 Really, though, we DO relate to it. Otherwise, we wouldn't be listening to it. Simply because you weren't born yet doesn't mean that you can't relate to something from a given time. Tbh, the sample from "Mr. Big Stuff" is what makes the song, and is why it's so catchy. You could probably play a pack of walruses barking along with that hook and it would be catchy. Also, FM radio has been a thing since the 1930s, but wasn't used for popular music much until the 1980s. I can't really figure that out, because AM is HORRIBLE, but it's true.

[@EntertainMe463]

listened to Wabc AM in NY on my Panasonic Toot a Loop radio! those were the days!

[@paddy7812]

Keep em coming ART!!! Thanks man!!!!!!

[@josef1987-nov]

I have been searching for this song for ages! All I could remember was the line where he said “ah mom I don’t wanna watch that show” I was beginning to think I made it up or it wasn’t real, now I finally found it!!

[@rachelatwood9555]

huh. According to Wiki, Art Alexakis was born in 1962. I'd always assumed he was a decade or so younger, given how well he & Everclear connected with teenage fans in the 90s.

[@Dubhain]

right?! he's old enough to be my father- literally, born the same year as my mom. but this gut is practically my spirit animal. Everclear has always been one of my faves because of how easy it is to relate.

[@redhead5150]

Born the same year and I remember everything in this video. When I first heard Santa Monica I knew Everclear was for me.

[@AhNee]

Almost 60? He'll be 54 this year! He's the same age as a lot of 90's artists, and he wasn't making these hits at 40+, late 20's, early 30's. Does no one math?

[@steveg8171]

No he isn't the same age as a lot of 90s artists, he was almost 9 years older than his bandmates Craig Montoya and Greg Elkund during that period.. When sparkle and fade came out he was 33! When this song came out he was 38 years, 5 months old.. So almost 40.. Do you know how to count?

[@steveg8171]

And he'll be 55 this year in 2 months.. not 54.

[@dguy0386]

this video is just trippy enough to fit the song perfectly

[@boc234]

Great song and telling it like it was. Listening to top 40 hoping you'd hear some real rock, and staying up lat to watch Don Kirshner's Rock Concert or the Midnight Special and suffering through The Captain and Tenille in hopes of seeing someone cool like Alice Cooper or Led Zeppelin. Good Times.

[@ckendall67]

Good Times with Chico and the Man, right? ;-)

[@teresasloan1187]

I Kant get enough of this@ should bee more like it.....

[@mrflynn01]

Who still love the music from the AM radio in 2020?

[@RinJackson]

That's a thing still?

[@eleanorrigby924]

I still listen to AM radio..

[@christopherboone9802]

My stereo AM station in 2017...owned it from 2015 to 2019...now in legal battle to take it back after buyer defaulted... drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-BMXlxNE7-uLVl6T3Fuc3R6Mjg?resourcekey=0-l2OA25IIyGW_jxN0q3fxdA&usp=drive_link

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

Nice song, thanks! I have always thought that EVERCLEAR was so under rated.

[@ToyInsanity]

RiP Jean Knight

[@BlingToYoRing]

Hey I was born in 1984. Closing in on 30 years old, lol. I can appreciate the classics; my 5yo son and I bought a HR Puff n stuff DVD off eBay and we watch it a long with our He man DVD and our PeeWee's playhouse on VHS and our classic WWF wrestling tapes. We respect time-honored greatness!

[@melissamullinator]

Such an awesome song!

[@Vophsigem]

Yep, good music in 2021.

[@HanasDad]

Hmmm... I am thinking... You have to be over 50 years old now in 2023 to get all the references in this video. Wow... time flies faster than you think. Enjoy your life while you still can

[@philipdefibaugh5683]

That was the Jam back in 2000. Back then people where on a 70's kick like today people are on an 80's kick.

[@greyeyed123]

Meta-nostalgia: having nostalgia for a time when you were having nostalgia for an even earlier time.

[@PoliticalTalkAbout]

Everclear is Rock N Roll Hall of Fame -Bound, no matter how long it takes.

[@Squirrelconga]

I think my fam thinks I've had a nervous breakdown...I've had this on rotation like a teenager! 🕺💃👯

[@jmackenroth]

Absolutely brilliant. Brings back lots of memories.