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[@Calenrandir]

This song has lived rent free in my head for 26 years

[@mightypopkorn]

Nice to see someone from 2024

[@PepTV_]

This song strikes a huge chord with me. Been on a huge Fastball binge lately.

[@voidmystic3419]

Never left the fastball binge. Been listening since all the pain money can buy

[@johnnie2638]

Me too. I only recently, as in the past couple of months, discovered this band & almost instantly became a fan. Where the heck was I in the 90s when they were new? Love their sound.

[@HarryHydro]

Me too. I only just heard of Fastball a few days ago when Shazam told me the name of a song I heard playing on the PA at a Home Depot. Now, I’m hooked!

[@zyxwut321]

This band always should've been bigger and for longer. So much pop music from the 90s is relatively disposable now but their stuff still holds up. Cross between rock, country, roots, latin, just a great sample of the Austin music scene. Simply good music.

[@ja8ames]

Definitely agree on Fastball. At the same time, at least for me, I think that a lot of music from the 90s has held up pretty well looking back. But certainly there are bands who deserved more attention.

[@bandwagonDan]

Nada Surf, Jamiroquai and Spin Doctors to name a few that I've been jamming!

[@sofistasurfista]

too bad that crazy fan killed them all (?)

[@MissPopuri]

Austin? You mean Texas? Is that where Fastball is from?

[@CyPhaSaRin]

this band is still going - just no one gives a shit about mediocre crap

[@sageparra4956]

How does this only have 82K views? These guys were huge for that year.

[@GreenEclipz]

I heard this song playing in the grocery store today and came home and immediately looked it up. I had totally forgotten this was a Fastball song! What a great 90's band!

[@avedic]

I've always loved this song. But I only discovered today it's by Fastball. For *_years_* now, easily over a decade, I've always assumed it was a Foo Fighters song. It just has that....vibe. Especially on the line "How 'bout you?" That sounds like a pitch perfect snippet of a Foo Fighters song. Am I crazy or has anyone else made this mistake? Or if you haven't....can you hear what I'm saying?

[@jman1749]

Underrated band, underrated song, underrated video. #underrated

[@JCStorm76]

J K Shinske Very

[@TheMikester307]

Yes!

[@JohnnyBox1983]

Came here to sacrifice myself over this.

[@michaelrichardson1898]

The 90s was a great decade!

[@disasterdinosaur2925]

I can listen to this entire album start to finish. No idea why it wasn't more popular. Gold start to finish

[@disasterdinosaur2925]

@Paul WT So are you saying their next album was just as good?

[@disasterdinosaur2925]

@Paul WT By your comparison of this album to the next one I thought that is what you were getting at.

[@johnd5931]

An album selling 1.25 million copies isn't very popular?

[@ninja_tony]

@@johnd5931 in comparison to a lot of other albums from the 90’s that sold TENS of millions, yeah it should have been much bigger than it was.

[@JCStorm76]

@@johnd5931Yeah it was pretty big

[@jnorris528e]

Was re watching Buffy and this popped up in Season 3....Brought back tons of memories

[@ranman5491]

Miles nailed this one, best song they ever did.

[@selahharmon2624]

Awesome songs like this define the 90s perfectly The underrated songs and bands are usually the ones that are the best.

[@SoundsAndMore7766]

The bands from the 1990s were required to have actual musical talent. This song could easily rule the charts in 2020.

[@noB313]

Yeah so UNdERRatTEd. They're still touring. You dumbass.

[@TheMike1979]

I always thought this was The Gin Blossoms. Great tune. Love Fastball.

[@grantzelenick8200]

I heard the song right after my ex wife’s funeral in a restaurant where our daughter works. I haven’t heard it in years and now when I listen to it I’ll be reminded of her. She gave me my world in our kids. Fly high Michele I’ll take care of our babies

[@Brandon-qp7gq]

Such a classic from the 90's

[@phantom0456]

There’s a simultaneous optimism and sadness to this song that really hits me in the feels. I was a sophomore in high school when this song came out, and I had actually forgotten about this gem until I stumbled across a comment referencing it, and then the memories came flooding back. Funny how that works.

[@wallace8190]

🥳🥳🥳 Been looking for this jewel for years, didn't even remember the name, the band or the song itself, only remembered the part "I don't wanna be superman" and that I loved it.

[@muffythevampirelayer_]

Man, 0:43 hit me hard with nostalgia. Old computer screen - old school online chatrooms. I was 15 when this video came out. I really miss those days :( I wanna go back. Even for a day.

[@mgaeeeee9150]

Yeah, me too. I must have been around the same age. Fuck. They were better times. I saw the Netscape logo the other day, got hit with that same sense of nostalgia

[@madmanszalinski]

@@mgaeeeee9150 ICQ logo for me

[@mgaeeeee9150]

@@madmanszalinski yeah, that must have been around 97 to the early 2000's? If I remember correctly

[@madmanszalinski]

@@mgaeeeee9150 that's exactly when it was :) if you ever figure out how to go back to those days, take me with you

[@mgaeeeee9150]

@@madmanszalinski deal.

[@Boblobblaw88]

Albums w great song after great song dont really come along that often but this was one of them. Saw them in St Louis and then the following night in Carbondale. Just a fantastic album and a great live band.

[@stephenmessina8743]

Just saw them last year and they are still amazing

[@SoundsAndMore7766]

My favorite Fastball song.

[@amandawilson9555]

Wow, '98!!! 😥 I miss Fastball's music.

[@RileyAudio]

Catchy as hell. This is my favorite fastball song but also like "Out Of My Head", "You're An Ocean" and "The Way."

[@johnnie2638]

Yes! All of those.

[@trevour]

So, all of their singles. 😂

[@victorg5856]

Great song and great band as well, fan of 90's music forever ❤️

[@europeantinbeater]

The most underateted song on KZbin today!if you agree 👍

[@jamesa.fitzpatrick1566]

I have such a deep love for these guys and their music.

[@SoundsAndMore7766]

This song takes me back to 1990s in a most amazing way. I am instantly back to being in my 20s by listening to it.

[@lonelysith66]

This is so 90s, I love it!

[@sewardcountysaints1973]

Saw these guys in Dodge City a few weeks ago. The still got it.

[@ecmorgan69]

I always loved this song.

[@jaysonmcewen4056]

I love that cut-out of the band. Old school.

[@Lommadogg]

Just a perfectly crafted pop song. I love it.

[@winter7564]

Absolutely perfect

[@jaysonmcewen4056]

Truth.

[@JCStorm76]

Criminally underrated

[@Strik9]

This still holds up! They never got enough cred. Better than Soul Asylum, etc. Just as good as most 90s stuff

[@delycan4912]

Literally only found out about this band because of some old Smallville videos where there was music with clips from the show. Great Band :,^D

[@delycan4912]

Really hope I can find that channel again

[@TheNESevolution]

Kinda forgot about this song from the late 90’s..I’ve always liked this band though but I just heard it on an episode of Buffy the vampire slayer…definitely triggered my memories of this song

[@davidwiser3883]

Awesome! I remember this song. I had no idea it was Fastball. To bad these guys didn't get more recognition

[@TheMikester307]

I bought the DVD just for "The Way," but that opening guitar riff on "Fire Escape" just reached out and grabbed me! Love the song! And the video is typical of the very clever music videos that were being made once upon a bygone time!

[@jeffreybryant4942]

This is such an awesome song and video

[@lindzs2467]

Man I love 90's music videos, always tell the story to the song, and most people were fully clothed 👍

[@boriszakharin3189]

How is this video telling the story of the song?

[@ALinn-vr3nl]

@@boriszakharin3189 Ha, you're right. There's the song, and then the story of the video.

[@611Anime]

I was food shopping at Tops Friendly Markets today and they were playing this song on the speakers.

[@neuvocastezero1838]

Francis! I can't work like this! It was pretty great that they somehow backed the camera through door to the outside, right into a crane shot.

[@johnnie2638]

She's really cute. I wonder if she ever became a star? The video is great. I love the concept of the crazed fan.

[@ALinn-vr3nl]

@@johnnie2638 Yeah, I think she's cute, too, and did such a great job with this. I love her energetic but bored, ho-hum, just-another-day attitude. I've seen her on TV, playing someone's little sister, I think. Anyone know what show she was on? I love her suit and bob in this.

[@drumsno]

I still remember being obsessed with the way and then hearing this for the first time and being so giddy. Loved the band and especially this album

[@avedic]

Two things.... 1. I've always loved this song. Of course it came out in 1998...that was a great year for music. 2. I only discovered today it's by Fastball. For *_years_* now, easily over a decade, I've always assumed it was a Foo Fighters song. It just has that....vibe. Especially on the line "How 'bout you?" That sounds like a pitch perfect snippet of a Foo Fighters song. Am I crazy or has anyone else made this mistake? Or if you haven't....can you hear what I'm saying?

[@nicolejttmom6061]

Now that you mention it, I totally hear the Foo Fighters. Such an incredible song.

[@kylepena8908]

Yes this definitely sounds like the Foo fighters

[@JohnnyBox1983]

I think it sounds like Big Me, yes. That's why it's so good. Cause it's made right. It's just got a bit more in the minor chord department which I love. That E minor is the pivot point.

[@robertmunoz7543]

Caught them in 2024 still sound just as sharp as in 94!🤘 Jman

[@tach409]

Such a great tune!

[@surfyonderbreaks]

great video! Way ahead of its time!!

[@longtallshorty5791]

Ahead of it's time how? Like pretty much everything, it was completely OF it's time. But people say things like "Way ahead of it's time!" in an attempt to sound smart. And idiots click like on it.

[@BOBGARDNER-re5rh]

I+ expected more from these guys; the Way was good, this song was outrageous reminds me of Ringo's It Don't Come and REM'S ,Me And Honey

[@bradhutton3093]

Every now and then you run into a metaphor that just takes your breath away. "The rain on your fire escape" is pure genius.

[@willardspears8914]

2023 and still 🔥🔥🔥

[@davidmatthews1710]

Freaking 90’s man!!!!!!🤘🤘

[@annyoung4567]

This band is one of the best from the nineties!! Where is music today?

[@annyoung4567]

Bring them back!!!!

[@vladuly]

I suppose th@ 2day's music is evolving.....

[@Martimano]

Temazo! I liked it before and now. 👏🏻

[@Madmok128]

This song more than any song and I know almost every song brings me back in time to a berry very colorful time in my life. It was that summer of 98 just graduated high school I still had that feeling of misbelief that my life had changed forever a mix of sadness that I’d never share the day with so many friends under one roof many whom I grew up with since the first day of kindergarten but yet with that feeling of freedom and excitement knowing the possibilities of my life were near infinite that feeling of being new yet a man who was on top of the world and could attempt to be whatever I wanted to be. A man who had an abundance of time at his disposal. This particular song playing over the Sears intercom everyday I went to work selling computers and cordless phones lol wearing my dress clothes and new ties omg I have to stop

[@jeffersonmp4]

Where are you now? Did you become in what you wanted to be?

[@ckelley63]

It's allgood just the power of a good song shining thtough and its called life memories and thats a good thing.!

[@SoundsAndMore7766]

I graduated in 1990 but I can completely feel what you are saying. The song gives me the same feeling.

[@abzd6535]

It’s funny that you mention this song played everyday at your job in 1998…. it is now 2021 and it’s played every day at my job too 😭

[@rockhillfarmsllc]

​@@abzd6535yes, but you're not working at Sears!

[@ttesfay6]

This song was played from the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie, Johnny Tsunami.

[@arybrunengo2051]

me encanta este tema ...😎

[@johnshelhorse]

3-man bands are pure rock and roll

[@alanwingo9703]

Awsome group 😀

[@Dragon4Fire]

This video...and many other aspects of knowledge of the time...really makes me wish I lived in Austin in the late 90s at a college or similar age

[@kriscarver-seaboyer9204]

Great song. Was watching an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer some time ago and this song was on it - and I realized I hadn’t heard it in over twenty years. This was the follow up to The Way, and if you weren’t around in ‘98 then you have no idea how saturated that song was on the top 40 radio format. A smash hit like that for an unknown band usually results in a one-hit-wonder status because the follow-up usually isn’t as strong. This is a great song, but not in the same way The Way was.

[@thebullgod7446]

The album this is from is fucking awesome.

[@malinwj1167]

Yes it is. Every track is a gem

[@kylebatteson9572]

Here from Buffy. Awesome track.

[@kendall6515]

I always liked this and you’re an ocean better than the way and out of my head. So many from the 90s that were short term that had talent and so many from today who had longer careers that aren’t so good.

[@jedrogers211]

Where was I when I first heard this song? Parked in front of the Continental Club over 20 years ago. I knew it was great as soon as I heard the first 3 notes.

[@blown22]

GREAT song and video! Reminds me of the Beatles "If I needed Someone".

[@thomaskurnas6582]

Excellent connection.

[@eagles5to10]

They're so good...

[@anyasviews8415]

Clever video!!

[@TheLiamster]

I first heard on this on the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode “Homecoming”

[@steveconn]

Very Beatley song (bridge from Eight Days A Week) but tougher harmonies.

[@charlessudom288]

Love the news flash "simeine should show them the way" is hilarious. Love the song, very carchy and timeless.

[@rodneylewis6104]

Such a timeless and amazing song!

[@JamesHerington]

Saw these guys when they opened for Collective Soul in Boise. God both bands were a mind scramble in different ways. I would have to say fire escape was the best concept video in the 90's. Sadly under rated

[@JeanReno309]

Amo esta cancion

[@jocio]

um dos clipes favoritos em todos os tempos, muito bom que vocês estão no youtube. One of my favorites videos in all time, great you are finaly in youtube

[@jmcadavid]

Enormes Fastball

[@Dragon4Fire]

Holy shit, how dated is this video - a Saturn??? Love the song 😁

[@ALinn-vr3nl]

They no longer make Saturns? lol

[@Dragon4Fire]

@@ALinn-vr3nl nope, afaik

[@WeazelnFilms]

I first heard this on Buffy the Vampire Slayer back in the day 😊

[@mauriceortiz8817]

Love this song but I just discovered that it shares the same chord progression as a Jefferson Starship song called Find Your Way Back. And Fastball has a song called the Way. Hmm

[@katiestait8138]

💕 My fave! 🤘 🔥

[@SilverBulletOBW]

Fond memories! Imagine.. late teens, I used to play this song in my head while working in the local hardware store, probably while fantasizing about a fellow cashier that I worked with. Now realistically, this single, as good as it was - and arguably better than The Way - was probably the “death” of fastball, because they had another dude singing. Mixed messaging from breakout acts is ballsy at best and would’ve required Beatles level of sensation, which it wasn’t.

[@shawnieBaby]

I still love them so much! I played the hell out of that album and now it’s a forever favorite. Even my sixth favorite song is so good, right? I was a bit excited to see that they’re on tour, but they’re appearing with 3 other bands that were slightly less appealing overall? I mean, I wouldn’t mind seeing any of those other artists supporting Fastball, but…🤔 Okay. It’s pretty cheap and local. A definite maybe. 🙏

[@turkeybowlwinkle4440]

I believe this video is a single shot. However the inside camera is a handheld while the outside camera is on a crane. My guess is the handheld cameraman stepped onto the crane when the actress was trying to open the car door. Either that or it's 2 shots with the cut being where the camera pans back to the closing front door and briefly shows only a white stucco wall.

[@leviathan_is_me]

Called a whip pan and yes there are several in this. Typically any 1 shot that has an erratic fast camera "whip" is a break to a seperate shot without breaking flow. Great example is the 1st person scene in "Doom". There was only 1 in the whole 4 minute sequence. Or in "Serenity" the tracking shot that goes throughout the entire ship and introduces the crew has a good one that is seamless and puts 2 entirely different sets together as one.....yes I am a nerd and a wealth of useless knowledge.

[@ALinn-vr3nl]

I don't know anything about camera work, how it's done, but I love the way it is done, the look, in this vid.

[@jorge_1978]

It reminds me a little bit of "Eigth Days a Week" of the Beatles.

[@johnnie2638]

Yes, I think if one could go back in time to the 60s & spin this on a turntable in an old radio station it would fit right in with the rest of the playlist. It's got that bounce and 60s-era harmonies.

[@cob16220]

I'll be the rain falling on your fire escape

[@happyami102619]

Love ❤️

[@okjeffy6581]

This music video was shot in one take. No cuts.

[@gianpaolochighine3907]

Grandi, ragazzi!!

[@winter7564]

In my top 10 videos ever

[@eljuez9474]

agree ;)

[@SoundsAndMore7766]

It was done so well.

[@jeff7764]

Heard this on 88.5 WXPN in Philadelphia

[@SCL8294]

Does anyone know who that actress is?

[@sevans2140]

Don’t know but reminds me of the actress who plays Paris on Gilmore Girls.

[@Petefx86]

She kinda looks like Lili Taylor. But she'd be about 30 years old in that video.

[@screenwriterjohn]

@@sevans2140 Looks like Liza Weil

[@davidl570]

Piper Pearabo.

[@brunoaliaga1354]

Gran canción

[@miblik]

released like 5-6 years too early. So good in retrospect.

[@JCStorm76]

I always knew it was good

[@isilder]

My kids like this song, I'm going to call them fire escape goats.

[@wangota]

Who is the actress in this video?

[@thecharlesfoley]

I don't think I've ever wanted to be stalked to badly🤣

[@Will_Viana]

Bons tempos. Booons tempos...

[@theprinceoftides6836]

FkN brilliant. Oh, I miss the 90s.

[@cc8389]

What movie did they play this on I'm thinking Never Been Kissed

[@svdorme]

c c it was also in Buffy

[@lucaspsouza]

2:58 Oh my good... They killed the Kenny! You bastards!

[@ALinn-vr3nl]

Who is the actress? She looks familiar, from some TV show. She's cute. I love her suit and bob.

[@jaimemorales5359]

Remember me the years 98-99...whoaaao

[@helenl3193]

Loved this song at the time, don't remember this video though! Dark! (in the good way 😉)

[@neuvocastezero1838]

The ending makes it all pretty light though.

[@ALinn-vr3nl]

Does anyone know who the actress is? I recognize her from a TV show. She was someone's little sister, if I recall. I love her suit and bob in this, and she plays this perfectly. Great attitude.