🎵 Everclear - Father Of Mine REACTION

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[@stevebailey6645]

I will never be safe I will never be sane I will always be weird inside I will always be lame Of all the lyrics I have listened to in 60 years, this verse might hit home the hardest.

[@flyonawall6521]

100%

[@bellyfulochelly4222]

Ikr

[@merkitten953]

And the tragic thing is so many people feel like that, & feel theyre the ONLY people who feel that way, when tons do. Some just hide it better.

[@christianjohns8352]

I used to live just a few blocks from him.... this is a real story of his life and his feelings about his father. Hits me very hard because my story isn't much different. My bio wasn't violent but he was an addict. It leaves a hole in a person when they have to ask why drugs were more important than their children. I am one of the lucky ones that was able to figure it out and move forward, but many never recover. Pray for these people.

[@bX-rk2oo]

Right there with ya man. Happy fucking Fathers Day.

[@richardhenderson9767]

"Santa Monica", "I Will Buy You A New Life", and "Wonderful", are good songs by Everclear...😀

[@MikeDest]

AM Radio is a good one too. Sadly I saw Everclear was playing at some small family fun center last year when I was visiting family. Picture Dave & Busters, but with mini golf too. Kind of bummed me out.

[@JPDillon]

"Wonderful" is another great song along a similar theme, but even heavier. One of the best broken home songs out there.

[@lh1678]

This whole damn Tape/CD rocked.

[@THEDEEPDIVE]

A very relatable song and the final lines about not showing your own kids the pain you have known get me choked up sometimes. Very specific message and very real.

[@chasechevy8933]

100% relatable and did that very same thing, coming from a broken home myself

[@promontorium]

Everclear performed on my Navy base in Japan back in the day. Absolutely great show. After the show they told everyone where to meet them for beers out in town.

[@wendydotson8891]

Parents can be divorced and still be in their kids lives. And this song was about a dad abandoning the family. He says in the lyrics “father of mine, how do you sleep, with the children you abandoned and the wife I saw you beat” then in the video it shows the dad getting in the car and driving away. This is more than a divorce. Then he goes on to say that he’s going to break the cycle so his daughter never feels the pain of not feeling good enough. I love everclear and I’ve always connected to this song because my dad was never around much, he didn’t completely abandon me but pretty close and it leaves a hole in your emotional funcunallity that never really goes away. Wondering why you weren’t good enough and if your not careful it can affect every relationship not just romantic ones.

[@__abby]

and the line 'my daddy gave me a name. then he walked away'

[@nealamesbury1480]

Sometimes the divide between parents is hopeless.one of them believes this,and it’s a done deal.that person has no recourse and is screwed.the other person.teaches the attitude in this song….no one wins,.brad is right…it’s complicated,and until is experienced,can’t be understood,not really.two sides to every story indeed.

[@Chris-rh9ej]

Absolutely. I can’t stand my childrens mother but I have 50/50 custody and wouldn’t have it any other way. I also didn’t grow up with a father. I have an adoptive father but we were not close at all til I was nearly an adult. Ever since my mom died he barely talks to me. So I know what it feels like when your dads not around or present in your life, and would never put my children through that

[@richard_n]

Fathers leaving is definitely a root cause of a lot of our society's problems

[@sopronunciareglignocchi7255]

A lot are forced to leave via the mothers and the court system.

[@Uziavenger]

​@@sopronunciareglignocchi7255 thank you for mentioning what most people refuse to acknowledge. You're exactly right

[@paintedhorse6880]

Abandonment in general. I know kids that grew up eithout mothers and they grow up just as messed up. Its just usually fathers that run away.

[@gregclarke2183]

Everclear, through this, and other well written emotional songs, taught me empathy as a teenager in the 90’s. Queen of the Air is another of their songs that really hit me hard.

[@CCDzine]

I absolutely love Art Alexakis and this three-man Everclear lineup with Greg and Craig.

[@mikekooz475]

This song is me. I'm a Jr. no memories of my father. He left us when I was 5 (1973) . Then one day age 43 (2011) he friend requested me on FB. I accepted. Met him once. Heard his story and went home to my 2 adopted daughters and my wife of 21 years at that time. Married 32 years now. NO WAY IN HELL would I leave my family. No one deserves a broken home. I know there are reasons but for me. I will be here for my girls. They depend on me and that is a wonderful feeling.

[@oinkmoomakemoneyonline]

They used to call us Latch Key kids...because we would come home from school with the key to the house around our necks (mom was working). I remember getting wrecked by this song first time I heard it, looked like a re-run of my life except mine got kicked to the curb when I was 6 months old and I have no children even now. That Little League thing actually happened for me. It was tough being "the star" of the big game..and then watching all the kids walk off with a parent and family after the game for ice cream etc... I was resentful/bittter/hurt... BUT...as I grew older than my parents were when they had me... it started to dawn on me how young and immature they were when I was born... I forgave him in my heart. I found out last year he died. Never met him, never knew him. I would have liked to tell him I had no hard feelings about it...anymore. Maybe he heard me anyway...:)

[@zippymacadoo6336]

Ever lose your key? I did. I climbed in a 2nd floor window for a year so my Mom wouldn't know. It was in the lost and found.

[@oinkmoomakemoneyonline]

@@zippymacadoo6336 I probably did, must not have been too big of a deal ...lol

[@miconis123]

I made sure my kids wouldn't have to experience this. Their sperm donor never wanted anything to do with them so I became dad when they were 5 and 7. That was 17 years ago and now I'm papaw to the youngest one's kid.

[@oinkmoomakemoneyonline]

@@miconis123 Good on you! :) I think I would probably do the same...Keep up the good works...

[@bibbyboxx2219]

Thanks for sharing your story. Hope you’re well.

[@dmitrykarkov4747]

No matter how many times I hear it, it still makes me cry

[@ronparsons8786]

Love this song. Sad but cathartic material. Everclear have a lot of great tunes. Wonderful Heartspark Dollar Sign Santa Monica Heroin Girl

[@christikirk7265]

Just a great song...defining our generation. The words make me wanna hug that little boy in him...

[@RyTrapp0]

THIS is why the '90s is the best - this is the kind of thing that was all over the radio, getting played everywhere back then! Killer catchy melodies, legitimately talented musicianship, and actually meaningful lyrics about subjects that should be talked about. The labels have ran away from this music though; generally speaking, we don't cover real subjects, hard topics(like a lot of Korn's earlier stuff) in popular music today, it's gotta be as vanilla and inoffensive as possible, cuz we gotta hit as wide of an audience as possible. Gotta get them clicks, gotta get them plays. Also, dat frosted hair tho! Peak '90s!

[@FightingIrish327]

This song hits me in the feels.. even at 35 yrs old still gets to me. It’s almost like this song was written exactly off of my life 😢

[@Facade13]

Sadly very relatable to a lot of people growing up... Only now just healing from my childhood at 24

[@arnoldcox9128]

Such a relatable song it must be hard for so many kids to not have a parent in their life

[@amysikkema7435]

I absolutely love Everclear. My husband and I saw them in February of this year. Yeah that's what we did for our 27th anniversary. It was a great show.

[@gregscottfordemocracy]

He was talking about him being a kid in the 70s. Notice the clothes and the cars in the video. This was about his real experience growing up as a kid without his father in the 70s

[@jasonokinawa6596]

your child is so lucky, you two are going to be awesome parents!

[@kenrogers1948]

Never had a lot of time for this group but this song always made me pay attention. Good choice.

[@browntabproductions]

Not a bad song from this band. Crunchy Poppy Tunes w/very relatable Lyrics. Great Live too.

[@theinsanelogic]

yes they are great live!

[@matthewhawkins517]

Everclear has several great songs: Wonderful, Santa Monica, AM Radio, Sex with a Movie Star, Volvo driving soccer mom, Heroin Girl …

[@corksauve4949]

Not a bad song on this album. Lots of emotion in the whole album.

[@gregclarke2183]

I’ve listened to that album, start to finish, too many times to count.

[@__abby]

Everclear's 'Wonderful' is about divorce while 'Father of mine' is more about the dad abandoning the family. Lead singer I believe had a pretty painful childhood and life. I have a lot of respect for him turning his life around and trying to help others.

[@wandameadows5736]

Great music in 1990's.

[@reedrothchild7966]

70's & 80's that trend started. We were called latch key kids because kids had there house keys to let themselves into their own home when they got home. It was crazy how kids were left to themselves while their Mom's were so busy with all the added duties.

[@sgnMark]

There is something about music that brings up important conversations and I'm very glad that is you guy's job

[@jerrykeck1494]

1979 my father left us christmas morning, I'm a junior , he was abusive, we became latch key kids before people locked they're door. MY LIFE...

[@jaemyrick5277]

This one is a tearjerker.

[@nosafespaces2558]

Being from this generation. It’s a trip listening to the current gen. Life is what it is. Learn to be thankful for whatever life gives you. Everything happens for a reason.

[@adriennefegan2962]

This song always hits close to home.

[@jamieterrell289]

The songs back then made you feel the pain. Gone forever.

[@nicholasives8816]

The song goes back to gen.X we all actually denied racism and wanted no part of it because we all loved each other no matter, so wish we could be back to those days, news media pushes racism so much now😔

[@mathewkeipert6021]

So thankfull you reviewed this great song. Finally saw this great band in 2019 at a tiny gig in Adelaide. Thank goodness. Please revisit these guys. "Wonderful", "Everything to Everyone" etc....

[@Trifler500]

I remember Everclear coming to play at my university back when I was in college.

[@livefree1030]

As a kid that knew his 5 older siblings, and knew his father but yet was adopted, this song hit my hard when I was in High School

[@Bekka_Noyb]

Powerful song! ♥ Everclear!

[@elizabethfranco1284]

Your observation is spot on

[@pridehunter2507]

I love this song. I appreciated the honesty & vulnerability expressed in the lyrics.....particularly the line about being a scared whiteboy in a black neighborhood. Not sure how that lyric would go over now. 2 thumbs up

[@FireflyPDP]

“Wonderful” by Everclear is another good one. Find it hard to listen to sometimes

[@Roh_Echt]

*Here's to hoping you'll react to: I Will Buy You a New House__Heartspark Dollarsign__Heroin Girl__Wonderful__Everything To Everyone__Volvo Driving Soccer Mom. After a rough start in life living in the LA area...his (Art Alexakis) older brother died from an OD and a girlfriend committed suicide, then Art (singer) attempted suicide. He was shooting up at age 13 yrs. Later, Art moved here to Portland OR and formed Everclear in 1991. The rest is history.*

[@brandi_with_an_i]

Thanks for the reaction!! Everclear is my all-time favorite band. They got me through many difficult days as a teenager. Art Alexakis, Greg Eklund, and Craig Montoya produced some amazing albums, after they split, it was just not quite the same.

[@jasonremy1627]

They have another great song called "Santa Monica". Worth a listen.

[@rdub9767]

Now you gotta follow this one up with their song "Wonderfull"

[@mumuspain2086]

This song hits hard ngl. I haven't seen my dad since I was 4 because he gave up visitation rights and moved to another state.

[@angelinasway]

I will say this, the time the video is depicting is in the 70s, there were a lot of dads in the 70s and 80s where men were not penalized for not paying support. So this video is actually about dads abandoning their children.

[@stevenolsen3162]

A masterpiece of pain release...

[@runninginharran]

2:28, "Prison"😂😂😂

[@pleasehelp2446]

My father left when I was 11. I would see him maybe 5days a month until I was 20 then I moved away now I see him 3 days a year.

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

I love this song because it hits me deep because of my father who the couple of years my parents were married he was an alcoholic abusive piece of 💩, which caused me problems through life with abandonment issues and depression, anxiety and suicide attempts

[@calypsogrove]

70s changed the nuclear family, Not that it was a bad thing because there were a lot of people living in abusive relationships that couldn't get out because divorce wasn't an option. This song resonates with me so much because my father voluntarily never contacted us again after the split. In fact he even told his mother never to contact us and said my sister wasn't his even though she looks just like him. I totally get this song my favorite line is "when you look back on your wasted life and you don't see me" .. This song actually helped empower me a lot lol.

[@tonkatoy3636]

Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide

[@daydreamer415]

Everclear is amazing! Try "Wonderful" or "I Will Buy You A New Life" or "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom" or "AM Radio" I can go on and on!!

[@ScumBagInFL]

Heroin girl, you make me feel like a whore, Summerland are also some really great songs. This band is Hella relatable to me as I've gone through life lol

[@trumphatesyou]

"Songs from an America Movie part 1" is pretty good. "World of Noise" is one of the greatest records that most people have never heard.

[@msmilder25]

Still one of my favorite albums. So Much for the Afterglow. I used to listen to that album over and over and over again, every song is perfect, no filler. Every one emotionally rich, acoustically interesting, musically on point...wide range of subject matter, but killer album.

[@sumonjamal1653]

Art Alexakis of Everclear was one of so many musicians who grew up without their fathers... or had fathers who split on them as kids... Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue was another, he changed his name from Frank Ferrano because his father refused to acknowledge he had a son... James Hetfield of Metallica also had his father split when he was a kid, and his mom soon died from cancer after that... Chris DeGarmo (Queensryche) wrote the song 'Bridge' after his estranged father died... Roger Waters of Pink Floyd lost his father to World War II... Dave Mustaine of Megadeth had his father menacing and stalking his family after his mom divorced him and moved away w/ his older sisters... Liam & Noel Gallagher of Oasis were actually glad when their mom Peggy left their father as kids, because he was an abusive wreck. They wanted nothing to do w/ him as adults... John Lennon (The Beatles) also grew up without either of his parents - he was raised (mostly) by his aunt and uncle, and when he started to reconnect w/ his mom Julia in his teens, she was killed by a drunk driver... It's a sad reality when fathers do not realize the selfishness and damage they inflict on their children by abandoning them as kids... Then again, some people were not meant to be parents.

[@jeremydean6210]

Brad! I don’t know where they went!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@digressor]

Everclear’s Wonderful is even sadder and emotional than this. It’s so relatable to a lot of people.

[@elizabethgurdian1702]

The other F word is a great documentary about gen x rockers becoming fathers and how their childhoods impacted their music and parenting.

[@magneteye]

You have to do Toadies - Possum Kingdom!

[@cormacmcrandom6164]

I relate to so much that everclear put out l, and although a sore subject, I find a lot of happiness and solace when I hear them, especially the song "Wonderful" glad you liked it

[@Kilo80Kilo]

Seeing this video again after decades....It's so...90s...lol

[@mettfury6204]

great band , many great life songs.

[@jaysanchez5804]

Still have this cd

[@jimgeorge9476]

There is a movie/documentary "The Other F Word" featuring Art Alexakis (lead singer) and others from the punk rock genre. The other F word is family. I thought it was interesting how their lives changed when they had kids.

[@neillenet291]

Another great song by them is Santa Monica

[@scottstewart5784]

yes!

[@_LVC]

They did that reaction 🎸

[@scottstewart5784]

@@_LVC ok, thanks for letting me know.

[@emberlooten1333]

So Thankful by Nahko and Meficine for the People had an incredibly happy sound with some of the saddest lyrics about the lead singers life

[@chestrockwell8328]

To me, this might be the beginning of the "Whiny Ass" rock that has pretty much continued since.

[@tjmctube]

"Santa Monica" is a must.

[@otakumagnet8106]

My parents divorced in the mid 70s when the government was giving 0 down new houses to single mothers. Over half of my friends growing up had the same story.

[@jhawk1912]

The good ol' government. Always helping.

[@TonsMoreCowbell]

How the US was destroyed in two sentences.

[@craigholfeld9179]

I just wanna be another person that says to do "Wonderful" (or/and AM Radio). It's their best song.

[@cParman9]

The dads all went to the store for some milk and never came back.

[@anthony91688]

Nostalgic

[@mikelsaltym2676]

One of my all time Favorite bands. they do a cover of Brown Eyed Girl check it out

[@richbauer9531]

HeartSpark DollarSign…best song name and fantastic song!

[@hello-qd8rf]

fact everclear was in the house of pain

[@jennaowens6008]

Sex and Candy by Marcys Playground or The Way by Fastball would be a good listen for you

[@DarkMadamX83]

Sparkle And Fade, full album. You're welcome

[@theinsanelogic]

this song hits like a ton of bricks for so many! everclear had a lot of good, harsh meaning songs. brings me back! for good and bad!

[@kuraban1]

Let me add my voice to those calling for Wonderful. Such a good follow-up to this.

[@bX-rk2oo]

Thanks to all of the Mom's out there that did the job of both parents, thanks to the dead-beat assholes who walked away.

[@etessier87]

"...listens to corpse" - nik 😅 sounds good

[@chrisbeaty309]

As a child of domestic violence this song hits a little close to home. My father was an abusive, lying, deadbeat of a dad/husband.

[@argaven]

Request: I really want you guys to listen/react to Al Green's Love and Happiness. Talk about a vibe, if you haven't heard it already you simply won't believe it. Greatest voice of his generation.

[@shagbabyyeah]

Great choice.

[@TheJoshuaPimentel]

It’s by Gods grace that my dad and I are so close. He booked up when I was about 3yo.

[@stevethomas5495]

'Everything to Everyone' 'I Will Buy You a New Life'

[@denniswoodruffshow2487]

The Flaming Lips- She don't use jelly

[@nicquinn7291]

The best band at making a sad song sound happy is Bastille. If you want to check them out “good grief” or “happier” or “things we lost in the fire”

[@taracallaghan377]

Wow, Brad... geez.

[@zippymacadoo6336]

It's a catharsis for him. It's his story.

[@markclark4795]

"isn't everything Wonderful now?"

[@wompa70]

Everclear. It’s been so long since I’ve heard them.

[@shagbabyyeah]

Waiting on this for a minute

[@benjaminmurphy7402]

The boy in the video was beans from even Stevens

[@bjam27]

Everclear is the sound of my college years.

[@erika1976EJC]

Yes, Brad is right. Prison. So many of them in the 90's. My daughter's father was imprisoned for being dumb and making really bad decisions. Because of that, he never bonded with her and then I grew out of him so it got weird and difficult to keep them connected. His fault in my opinion even though we had been together since we were teenagers. Anyway....yes, not war but prison. That is what happened a lot in the 90's.

[@RavensTheNextDynasty]

Beans from even stevens lol didn’t know

[@xtldc]

4 out of 5 wives agree that my father is a difficult and emotionally unavailable man and have thus divorced him (my mother was #2). Number 5 is hanging in there, but the odds are against her sticking around for the long term.

[@andreww1225]

The Sword!!!!! put them on your list