My cousin Matt sent me this song in an email that I never remembered to open and read. We used to give each other recommendations but I started to slip on listening to the ones he sent me. He died suddenly last week and I'm hearing this for the first time and I'm not sure what it means, but I feel strange, disturbed, and okay all at the same time. Matthew Growhowski 1969 - 2022 RIP.
@MsGrosso2 жыл бұрын
I lost a dear friend named Matt who loved music a few years back. It still stings, but I can always find him in his favorite songs. I’m so sorry for your loss 💞
@ramslak Жыл бұрын
RIP both Matthews.
@genXcripple Жыл бұрын
Rest easy matt. i read the obit.. it says northampton ma? i lived there 20 years
@DrthGrth3 ай бұрын
Fuckin hell. Condolences.
@thatsamuelcooke2 жыл бұрын
one of the great songs. new, re-recorded version is great, but nothing will top this.
@AC-hj9tv11 ай бұрын
Seriously. Been listening to this ever since it was posted
@raver098yes98 ай бұрын
Why did Jens re-record these songs?
@SkullOfTheAbyss7 ай бұрын
@@raver098yes9sample clearance issues I would imagine. Tragic.
@AC-hj9tv8 ай бұрын
Best version
@weareclouds4 жыл бұрын
BUT IF U TAKE A RIDE WITH THEM......YOU MAY NOT COME BACK ALIVE. PETITION TO GET THIS SONG ON SPOTIFY. SO MUCH IF JENS' STUFF ON THERE. BUT NOT THIS AND IT IS CLASSIC.
@matty68783 жыл бұрын
funny enough there's a cover by Elin Bell on their (which is good but jens need to be there too!)
@jenisanamphibian96993 жыл бұрын
I totally agree! This is my favorite of all his songs.
@57PinkMoon3 жыл бұрын
How does one petition Spotify? The Left Banke brought me here.
@judgerussell23313 жыл бұрын
i'm sure it's because jens can't upload this record because it has so many unlicensed samples
@LolTollhurst2 жыл бұрын
Yes, everything old got taken down because of copyright claims. So Jens remade everything old. He put them back again on Spotify last week, May 2022. He sings them a little differently now - on purpose. Purpose is, the old versions live on through piracy and the new versions should be compared to the olds if you got the time. A sort of message in time. A conversion about the lives of the songs - and us
@vknfuj12 жыл бұрын
The sample is from the lovely 'I've Got Something On My Mind' by The Left Banke, for anyone who's interested!
@christopherthomas72533 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I don't know why I didn't make that connection until now.
@okyouknowwhatever2 ай бұрын
@@christopherthomas7253 It's not a sample as much as a complete rip-off.
@ErnestineG6 Жыл бұрын
I thought I had wildly misremembered the song when I heard the re-recorded version. This version is always going to be more meaningful to me.
@helenafrisk8787 Жыл бұрын
The first time I heard this song I stopped what I was doing and just started dancing. Swedish public radio, must havr been 2002-3. I freaking live this somg. ❤
@ToniJover7 жыл бұрын
Real story: I once lost the last train home while in Stockholm, and after having listened to this song many times I didn't dare to go into a cab -not even the regular ones-, so I started a long public transportation odyssey in the middle of the night (counting T-Centralen, "the central station"). Don't know if it was worth, but "you've all heard stories about the black cabs and the way they drive...". Just in case! Anyway, great song and good sense of humor from his side, always a pleasure to listen.
@thisisdiscodotcom6 жыл бұрын
As beautiful as it get. The greatest mixtape anyone ever made for me was a breakup mix with this standing out amongst perfection.
@johndamer97502 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard this was on an iPod in 2005 at an aimless time in my life. I was waiting for a train in an underground L.A. Metro station, unemployed, and trying to gain some footing in the city. So I *FELT* this song. I became a fan of Jens from that point forward.
@LolTollhurst2 жыл бұрын
He released a new version of it last week-ish. It's on the new-old album "the cherry trees are still in blossom"
@teddyb31329 жыл бұрын
Such a brilliant song. To help understanding, "Black Cab" in Sweden refers to unlicensed taxis offering shorter waiting times and lower rates than the official ones, but...
@jackfaulkner26886 жыл бұрын
Teddy B Thank you, it's always made me think of the Black Cabs of London, but we don't have trams and Jens is, Swedish. It's a small thing, but I've never got it.
@matty68784 жыл бұрын
so kinda like uber and lyft...
@cjs8834 жыл бұрын
@@matty6878 This was before Uber and that kind of organised taxi. Ordinary people with cars offering to drive you for cash money. Black in Swedish, when talking about money, refers to untaxed and white is taxed.
@felixvids72382 жыл бұрын
but...?!?
@teddyb31322 жыл бұрын
@@felixvids7238 Listen to the lyrics...! :-)
@mykelhalloway40784 жыл бұрын
Why is this not on Spotify. So upsetting to find it's not there
@Kanelkakan4 жыл бұрын
It was, sadly disappeared
@robothead35503 жыл бұрын
Guessing because the sample from The Left Banke’s Something on my Mind
@redcoulter2 жыл бұрын
@@robothead3550 wow. Today I learned. Tak
@e90172 жыл бұрын
What other secrets you got?
@ajg78102 жыл бұрын
@@robothead3550 You´ve just blow my mind. Thanks.
@barmyoldcodger12 жыл бұрын
I will always love this song.
@MoonAlongMyHead7 жыл бұрын
This album is magnificent, and I had very much forgotten about it
@danlaemmerhiry389410 жыл бұрын
Wow. This is such an amazing song! It's just so different from anything else. Lens has such a fantastic voice!
@pocketsocrates61402 жыл бұрын
Such an incredible song. Full of the most palpable apathy and yet life too. Beautiful.
@ojciecpablito36493 жыл бұрын
Oh no, God damn I missed the last train I killed the party again God damn, God damn I want to sleep in my bed I want to clean up my head Don't want to look this dead Don't want to feel this dread I killed the party again I ruined it for my friends "Well, you're so silent, Jens" Well, maybe I am, maybe I am Now at the central station No time for being patient I feel like going home But at the same time, I don't Black Cab And I've heard all those stories About the black cabs and the way they drive That if you take a ride with them You might not come back alive They might be psycho killers But tonight I really don't care So I say turn up the music Take me home or take me anywhere Black cab You don't know anything So don't ask me questions You don't know anything So don't ask me any questions You don't know anything So don't ask me questions Just turn the music up And keep your mouth shut Black cab
@somrigost6 ай бұрын
Probably tram, not train
@mcspongeicus5 жыл бұрын
Love love this song so much....haven't heard it in a while.
@gusterguy018269 жыл бұрын
soundtrack to my late teens
@esiotrot178 жыл бұрын
+RedYellow Blue are you me
@fernandolozano79306 жыл бұрын
Same asf!!!
@James-tc6nv5 жыл бұрын
Same here.
@vandelay105 жыл бұрын
Oh yes
@BrianSmith-vl7xu9 жыл бұрын
Sort of reminds me of REM when they were fresh.
@TerryDowne2 жыл бұрын
Aside from being excellent musically, this song is true to experience. I remember occasions when I was rolling home late in a cab drunk from parties where I had behaved badly, usually because I was in love with a woman there who wasn't in love with me. This song raises all the memories and emotions from those times.
@jend806 жыл бұрын
(It's been too long since I listened to this or the compilation album it's on) Crossfading the clock ending of this into the intro of the Left Bank's song still sounds amazing &then restarting this just as they're fading out to make a song loop.
@Tutta29029 ай бұрын
I came across Jens Lekman when my friend and I was at a frankly boring dinner party out on the town, where we were sent outside because we were being disruptive. We were 12, wondered further than we were allowed, and found a record shop and this was playing. Next week I went back with the money I had saved up and bought the album this track was on. Life was really hard but this was one of tge songs that got me through it
@fmilardo2 ай бұрын
Love It so much
@tgholmes13 жыл бұрын
Excited we can hear the tune you are reviewing, thanks for putting this up. I listened to it.
@leahsnotreal93243 жыл бұрын
taking a cab and listening to this in wind feels like roadtrip travelling, makes me miss Sweden and the carefree cold wandering days&nights
@debbiestaples76623 жыл бұрын
One of my favs. Thanks 👍😌
@allenu Жыл бұрын
So glad I found this. I was going crazy thinking, "Wasn't there a Jens Lekman song that sampled The Left Banke? Why can't I find it on Spotify?"
@MojoTheClown Жыл бұрын
Another classic I discovered from Indie Pop Rocks. Thanks, Elise!
@jargalo00986 ай бұрын
Rerecording unfortunately cannot hold a candle to this, sad
@karithatthought2304 Жыл бұрын
This takes me back 🌞
@lorenzoferlinghetti7 жыл бұрын
Well, you're so silent...Well, maybe I am, maybe I am...
@wutes00053 жыл бұрын
Why isn't this on spotify premium? Disappointing. An old gem!
@jesserondinelli20862 жыл бұрын
I feel like going home, but, at the same time, I don't.
@ingemarteljeback84802 жыл бұрын
So fricking Good tune mannen
@AntonioGarcia-vx1rd7 жыл бұрын
I fucking love this song
@FedeCavag7 жыл бұрын
Dvs Euro Dudes.
@WaterfallEnthusiast436 жыл бұрын
im tryna find the first skate vid i ever watched and im fairly certain its the vid youre talking about but i cnt find the right one. can you link me
@pumpkinhead66462 жыл бұрын
@@WaterfallEnthusiast43 kzbin.info/www/bejne/lau2qKmPhMlriLc found it with jens song
@MightyALX2 жыл бұрын
RIP Kristian Bomholt
@82degrees5 жыл бұрын
넘좋아 컬러링하구파
@dcvg51897 жыл бұрын
wonderful
@Koshirozation5 жыл бұрын
jens lekman lyric a day "jens lekman - black cab 29/11/2018 "And I've heard all those stories About the black cabs and the way they drive That if you take a ride with them You might not come back alive They might be psycho killers But tonight I really don't care So I say turn up the music Take me home or take me anywhere" this always reminded me of the grand anthem by the smiths - "there is a light that never goes out" i bet jens loves smiths and moz's solo work !
@Koshirozation5 жыл бұрын
i was wrong a bit
@keithklassen53206 жыл бұрын
Who else is here from the girl at the end of Sweet Summer's Night On Hammer Hill, insistently requesting "Black Cab! Black Cab! Black Cab!"?
@davidandersson92712 жыл бұрын
Bästa!
@82degrees8 жыл бұрын
아 감덩적이다..
@Koshirozation5 жыл бұрын
OH NO GOD DAMN
@daniellaemmerhirt20577 жыл бұрын
I have had this *goddamn song* stuck in my head for *three goddamn days.* I haven't even listened to this is years!!! I've resorted to making up silly lyrics to save my sanity: "I've gotta go to beh-eh-ed, I've gotta pee on my head."
@AC-hj9tv10 ай бұрын
Look out it's R Kelly
@johnbalto8 жыл бұрын
cool!
@jjjjjnjjjjhfstyb5 ай бұрын
holy shit guys, dont listen to the new one. cmon, jens....
@davidjones62622 жыл бұрын
Love this band 💙! This song so beautiful... I ain't the biggest Beatles fan... but of course love ❤️... But reminds me of "Here Comes the Sun" Love both.. but I got my Combat Boots" on... more Black Cab
@Lekkim762 жыл бұрын
google "I've got something on my mind - The Left Banke" ;)
@NostalgiNorden5 жыл бұрын
2019 version: Uuuubeeer, Ubeeeeeeeer
@christophwalters10 жыл бұрын
@Jeffrey Marsh: You are making me feel old with flashback Friday. I love this whole album, it reminds me of being in college. Oh, such simple days they were.
@BP-xk4hd5 жыл бұрын
5 years ago. How are they now?
@thepesos30756 жыл бұрын
magnetic fields anyone>?
@lupequijada67933 жыл бұрын
Did you play at the san Diego fair in maybe 2006??
@PIEKART20018 жыл бұрын
i've got something on my... oh hang on... it's stephen merrit... oh no its.. who is this?
@jimuren82237 жыл бұрын
There is no way Jens sounds like Stephen Merrit. No way.
@tobiasadolfsson90167 жыл бұрын
Not only is it blatantly obvious that Jens used a sample derived from that Left Banke song "I've got something on my mind" - bu the fact that you feel the need to point that out again and again is just sad. It's a great song on its own merit - with or without the sample used, however the sample adds an interesting flavour to the composition in its entirety.
@Lekkim762 жыл бұрын
The Left Banke
@82degrees3 жыл бұрын
또왓다
@Doug_Poppe5 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice the similarity to Brown Eyed Girl?
@christianb.28115 жыл бұрын
why not on spotify in Germany :(
@assemblerclouds5 жыл бұрын
Not here in New York either
@lorenzoferlinghetti5 жыл бұрын
I bought the CD because it wasn't on Spotify here either
@mariaandersson32925 жыл бұрын
It has to do with copyright i think. Jens samples an old 60s song by Left Banke who sued him for that, so I don't think it's legally available anywhere anymore. Except for on old CDs and vinyls then.
@felixvids72382 жыл бұрын
i neeeeeed this on vinyl ._.
@rishpanjeet7479 Жыл бұрын
What happened to this version? A new one is on Spotify but I don’t like it nearly as much!
@lukfawantrijati16543 жыл бұрын
Anjing ketemu, gw cari2 di spotify... gw sampe mikir apa gw yg salah klo ini lagunya jens lekman 🤦♂️
@user-mm2oi4cy5i3 жыл бұрын
What is black cab mean in this song?
@hedvigjohansson79643 жыл бұрын
unlicensed taxi
@hope68405 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah yeah
@bernardoalves29702 жыл бұрын
DVS - dudes, dudes, dudes
@MightyALX2 жыл бұрын
RIP Kristian Bomholt
@zjuanpablo4 жыл бұрын
Why the fuck this song is not on Spotify
@davidjones62622 жыл бұрын
Just turn the music loud and keep your mouth shut ☠️ Not a mioginous but just want to listen to this song
@danuk40009 жыл бұрын
jens reminds me of bob dylan in the way that his songs are stories..except jens can actually sing
@jimuren82237 жыл бұрын
I think it's a pretty big argument to say that bob dylan can't sing.
@fitzbuhn7 жыл бұрын
I think more that he's not a conventionally good singer. I think he's amazing, but that doesn't make him conventionally good.
@kiptok7 жыл бұрын
he reminds me of jonathan richman but swedish
@daniellaemmerhirt20577 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Jens can sing better, but Bob still has a great voice too in my opinion!
@3000A.D5 жыл бұрын
ooooooo shade
@caylyn1115 жыл бұрын
tpuds dvs
@jonhanlan4 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember the video of James Franco painting to this?
@pumpkinhead66462 жыл бұрын
Where lol?
@jonhanlan2 жыл бұрын
@@pumpkinhead6646 It's long gone into the multiverse now.
@pumpkinhead66462 жыл бұрын
@@jonhanlan You should remake it
@Koshirozation4 жыл бұрын
oh no, god damn i missed the last tram my punctured bicycle in the rain i killed the party again oh no i want to sleep in my bed i want to clean up my head don't wanna look this dead don't wanna feel this dread i killed the party again i ruined it for my lovers "well, you're so silent, segi" well maybe i am, maybe i am now i am the central station no time for being patient i feel like going home but at the same time, i don't