James Mercer of The Shins - New Slang (Bing Lounge)

[@beebop333]

james has probably sang this song a millon times, and he makes it sound like this could be the first time! love ya james

[@apaggful]

he's got such a control of his voice!!!!!!!!!!

[@The-End-Of-The-Line]

Absolutely brilliant song and brilliant performance!

[@Todtel]

Still one of the best songs ever written... Awesome!

[@baconlatte]

Flawless performance. Alone with voice and acoustic guitar in a quiet room... there is no margin for error.

[@mitsukosuki]

so beautiful... almost made me cry..

[@Nammm37]

Great song, great live quality, great singer!!! Go JAMES MERCER!!!

[@MrBbb57]

the control he has over his voice is insane. no doubt one of the best singers ever!

[@willcoxnick]

I don’t know if any person with any instrument has ever sounded better than that. He is absolutely incredible

[@Jooleywoo]

I could really listen to this guy sing on a continuous loop, beautiful!! Great song, love The Shins, cheers for the post.

[@heathercarter7086]

i love his songs he's amazing ...so cool

[@winifredwaters5642]

KZbin should really have a repeat button for videos like these

[@ROMANEMPIRE69]

Winifred Waters and an ad skip. 🤪

[@trippmiller6199]

Very simple tune and unexplainable lyrics. Perfect hipster tune. I love it.

[@herbertshake2814]

serious? I thought this guy was in his 20s by his voice. first time I've seen him. amazing artist! true talent. real music.

[@CallisonNashOfficial]

The king of songwriters

[@selfdefenseman]

Haunting and beautiful.

[@ShengyingXu]

So wonderful!! also, some part of the song reminds me of Belle and Sebastian.

[@bezilliox]

greatest live session ever.

[@MannyVazquezmannyvazz]

James you are up there with my favs...Robert Smith and Morrissey. Patiently waiting for a next Broken Bells album.

[@manlybucko]

Manny Vazquez Good Luck

[@jhaas6618]

Awesome song, very talented.

[@josejimenezone]

Amaaaaaaaaazzzzzing!!!!!

[@shoninanen6938]

I want to marry his voice

[@user-vf8ti4dq3d]

man that melody at 3:33, he should make that into a full blown song, just that melody for the chorus

[@michaelanderson3426]

You mean the part of the guitar solo....

[@user-vf8ti4dq3d]

@@michaelanderson3426 no the voice over the guitar

[@luv2mx]

WOW, Thanks Kink!

[@commissioner1969]

I'm so glad he never got really big. The shins are a diamond in the rough. The type of band you want to bury their cds in the sand on a beach and have a young kid stumble across them and change their life hopefully

[@pendragonU]

This was sublimely well done and shared generously. James could play this in so many ways, and in this rendition he chose to reach within for something more filled with own feeling as only an author knows, and polished his so well cherished gem by so many with special emotions invoked and freshly hashed in the moment, very intimately he realized and noted in his brief intro the place deserved his best (which usually are, no mater where he is playing, always at 100%) and he was very generous to not just play it in any pro manner with tech and method, this was more into. This was a gift delivery, if I was in the audience I will cherish for Life. Like I still do from seeing Peter Gabriel walk into the restaurant we were eating and on request from the owner seemly friends, and very pleased fellow patrons regaled us with 2 songs not just sang a capella, but he added sentiment to transformed while he was singing his 2 masterpieces like none. One of those rare and true to the soul renditions with full surrender from audience and artists connected as one

[@boobop007]

All of these videos are amazing! and under-appreciated apparently! spread the word

[@chrishappe9272]

Memorial day 2021 love this

[@loitersquadbaconboy]

I wish I was James Mercer

[@ccramit]

Amazing.

[@MYMICHELLE70]

smmmmoooooooooth! hypnotic!

[@treeoneseven]

so good.

[@alexjackson4257]

Just perfection.

[@lukewalker06]

You brilliant man.

[@RemoteAbductionArm]

I see/pray/hope see awesome things coming in James Mercer's gerneral direction.

[@jessicagreene2649]

his voice...his voice!

[@eempeee]

If this song was only 20 secs long, with just that humming bit - it'd still be brilliant

[@GrimPlaysMC]

Most talented musician alive imo

[@sarahzentexas]

Oh, my. Exquisite. -3

[@pcetime]

I didn’t want that to end. Chills.

[@randomguyoudontknow]

Bing is my new favorite search engine.

[@calebcustombricks2631]

ok

[@DanOfAwsome]

Ben Gibbard and James Mercer are my favorite artists. they should make a record together.

[@JM4LAJF]

Goddamn, this is awesome.

[@NormtheGenome]

...But my head's to the wall and I'm lonely... Good GOD. That makes my body radiate with emotion!

[@affanfadillah1200]

that's a very clean bass line

[@JamesCarmichael]

My taste in music just got upgraded. I must restart my brain and install updates.

[@the420god3]

Magical

[@Bsquez0129]

I was hoping he'd do that for the solo :)

[@joo8878]

bagus om.. bella

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

Neat room!

[@et13603]

I swear I was writing that till I saw two comments below you wrote the exact same thing!

[@grantmacmillan4218]

Wow!!!!

[@MYMICHELLE70]

like a gull takes to the wind...

[@adrishad]

nice

[@kerchydaproductions6384]

Hear that voice see that face That's the man who's experienced heartache

[@rjbeals]

I'm not even sure I understand the lyrics, but they are pretty deep! And why does gangham style have 1 billion views and this less than 100k? It's really not right.

[@nonsens8]

his voice has grown so much

[@aurelianocapone]

Does anybody know which pickup microfones they are using there?

[@aimtcb]

Damn breaks like a bull thru the hall

[@husbandofbecca]

Kevin Spacey + Hugh Jackman = James Mercer

[@AnskiMusic]

That is one hell of a ratio. So many feels. Only one person so far has never been in love.

[@rupman27isback]

love you kevin spacey!!!!!

[@watcherofthings]

BROKEN BELLS" HOLDING ON FOR LIFE"( SINGER JAMES MERCER OF THE SHINS) RESULT ( AMAZINGNESS)

[@themnewromantics]

we'be just covered this great song, give it a listen?

[@adammcquade3139]

Nah man, that's vsauce.

[@wakeskatebumTX09]

That J-45 sounds awesome 😎

[@didoma73]

It's wheezywaiter!

[@garnetred02]

[@thomassedlacek9627]

I went to go and play this song on my guitar after listening to it.... but I had to clean all the gunk off my pants first

[@ubfjvszdbfvjsdnxl]

Zero dislikes? Damn straight.

[@angusmcleod9400]

Fucking sensational

[@jaredvillasenor3257]

Am C F C G C Am G x4 C [Verse 1] Am C F Gold teeth and a curse for this town C G Were all in my mouth C F Am G Only I don't know how they got out, dear Am C F Turn me back into the pet C G I was when we met C F Am G I was happier then with no mind set [Chorus] G C And if you'd took to me like F C G A gull takes to the wind G C Well, I'd jumped from my trees F C F C And I'd have danced like the king of the eyesores F C G And the rest of our lives would've fared well [Verse 2] Am C F New slang when you notice the stripes C G The dirt in your fries C F Hope it's right when you die Am G Old and bo...ny Am C F Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall C G Never should've called C F But my head's to the wall Am G And I'm lonely [Chorus] G C And if you'd took to me like F C G A gull takes to the wind G C Well, I'd jumped from my trees F C F C And I'd have danced like the king of the eyesores F C G And the rest of our lives would've fared well [Solo] G G C F C F C G C G C F F C F C G C Am G C (hang and walk down to Am) [Verse 3] Am C F Godspeed all the baker's at dawn C G May they all cut their thumbs C F And bleed into their buns Am G 'Till they melt away [Chorus 2] G C I'm looking in on the good life F C G I might be doomed never to find G C Without a trust or flaming fields F C G Am I too dumb to refine? C And if you'd took to me like F C F C Well I'd have danced like the queen of the eyesores F C G And the rest of our lives would've fared well [Solo] G G C F C F C G C G C F F C F C G C Am G C (hang and walk down to Am)

[@062829648]

I was complimenting your comment, while slighting the people that do make comments like the ones in *quotation* marks in mine. Sorry if that was lost on you.

[@yoursir100]

No dislikes? Shhhh... the trolls are sleeping

[@bluejacket2112]

i hate it when there is dirt in my fries.

[@062829648]

And also, I didn't say "hilarious", so I don't know who you're quoting.

[@user-vf8ti4dq3d]

3:33 - 3:40

[@aimtcb]

@aimtcb Dawn

[@NOVIAURAH]

It looks like its pretty hard to hit those hight notes lol

[@immad60]

NOVIAURAH Not for him

[@Zizzyyzz]

He chooses to exhale into the note rather than sing it in one roll. Easier to do.

[@062829648]

Could it be?! A funny comment?! One that isn't: "HAHA NICE JOB KEVIN SPACEY! YOU KNOW THAT GUY FROM AMERICAN BEAUTY?! YEAH HE LOOKS LIKE HIM! HAHA!"

[@Safeness07]

Got 99 likes and the dislikes got none

[@leerumbley]

Wish he'd have done a little Walken before he left.

[@didoma73]

vsauce IS wheezeywaiter IS James Mercer

[@johajoha460]

young Frank Underwood

[@NLNLNLNLNL]

.

[@vitaminmusic890]

you fail your own fail. you are wrong

[@ModestMousekateer]

Lol fail, it wasn't Natalie Portman's character that said it, it was Zach Braff's.

[@Zizzyyzz]

It actually was Natalie's line.

[@AubreyGrahamMaster]

Gangham style is just substance-less garbage that all the dummies consume while crying about how "there is no good music out today." They fail to listen to people like The Shins, Alexi Murdoch, and other good musicians like Elliott Smith since they are dunderheads. The real atrocity is how a lot of Nick Drake songs uploaded back in 2006 have less than a million views.

[@roundtheoutside16]

Because there's a stupid dance associated to it. No talent required.

[@TheDudezer]

Talented guy, great musician....but I ask you what the hell were you thinking breaking up with the shins...are you mad? this song just seems odd and incomplete without the original band members. sure u had your personal issues so what...u put that aside with the guys for the sake of great music. now since the new album, the shins suck....mercer i don't know what u were thinking but big mistake breaking up the shins.