Car Seat Headrest - America (Live on KEXP)

KEXP.ORG presents Car Seat Headrest performing "America" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 29, 2015.
Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Scott Holpainen & Justin Wilmore
Editor: Jim Beckmann
kexp.org

[@mateostenberg]

Best goddamn car seat headrest song and easily one of the best songs of all time. The lyrics, the chords, that damn voice! Ugh, what a great song

[@MichaelTurner856]

ABSOLUTELY

[@thc_freebaser]

Not best. That's discounting so much.

[@sheaiscontent4023]

i dont see it like you do, especially when there's songs like famous prophets and plane crash blues out there

[@bren9jo]

6:10 I love those smiles so much

[@nussymussy]

doesn't have the 12345678 :/

[@niamhstimpson]

that ending was iconic

[@zoecotton9494]

I want this specific version on spotify without stupid local files SO BAD

[@sohji9412]

Ethan viscously playing the base is my favorite thing

[@sandwichyourself4481]

Sohji i love you profile pic!

[@probably-cate]

do u mean viciously or was the bass playing actually thick and sticky

[@valty3727]

andrew popped the fuck off w those drums

[@alternativedepressioncult6869]

I love how even though this isn’t their best live performance by any stretch of the imagination, they still are having fun with it.

[@sandwichyourself4481]

The trio was the best line up

[@nikiyerbamate]

i think the newer lineup with ethan on guitar and seth on bass makes live tracks a lot fuller. a lot of the time during this kexp performance in particular on songs like the ending of dramamine moments that are meant to hit harder dont really because will has to play the melody and the only rhythm guitar is the bass

[@jertspleen1464]

Honestly I think their best lineup was when they had the naked giants join in, it made their sound so much more full and will could focus on singing rather than guitar

[@marthamaclaren]

@@jertspleen1464 and will could do his weird dances

[@DavidMitchellTheStickman]

No wonder this performance is so shaky. They upped the tempo so much

[@midkills]

them hi hats be crispy

[@50ShadesOfEndo]

Ooooo damn this I like

[@samdreams1890]

22222

[@EnderGirls24]

why is he wearing my high school band uniform

[@LukeSpaceA]

...which one

[@MAGNETOPLASTICO]

Niente male . Continuate così siete sulla buona strada .On the right track .

[@jackfrost2673]

I like norm Macdonald

[@ryf3905]

WHY IS IT SO FAST

[@ayyykassie]

Is this Q from the James Bond movies?

[@quarryqwerty]

yep

[@davidbowie2745]

You can drive across the whole thing in four days if you really wanted leaving custom thank you notes in all the houses you ever haunted in this whole solar system we've only met one type of life it's the living kind of life and it's not one I recognize America I said "excuse me" to the ocean because I thought I had got in its way at first I didn't think it heard me but then I saw it wave you can spend every living moment thinking how can I get out alive? but is it really then, can you really call it hey man, just shut up and drive I thought we'd be on the road all night when that ice storm hit in Texas and when we pulled into the gas station it was like a frozen oasis oh, sweet mama, does that neon sign shine for me? Is there a street where my name glows all through the night? and I've never read (America) no I've never been (America) I just never went (America) I have never seen (America) all my fantasies are faking orgasms they're only in it for the money I made up for them I trade in ideas, opinion and artistry and my face is on every dollar this is heaven but heaven is here this is heaven but heaven is hard because your lover is listening to music you don't know and you're tangled up in the headphone wires you know our problems, they don't end just because we get boy/girlfriends is this your salvation plan? there's only one type of love it's the loving kind of love but when you're mad at me it's the end of times and I'm mad at you all the other times have I ever really been in love? I guess I've never really been in love have I ever really not in the way I'm thinking real life's a mess but at least you're not paying rent you've been making it, maybe even breaking even you oughta be content it doesn't make sense you're still sitting on the fence when the yard is yours and it was money well spent and I've never read no, I've never been I just never went I have never seen America America democracy biographies civil rights! basically bright lights! living in the city second prize in a beauty pageant 200 dollars, this is life, this is your life! America! this is heaven this is the place

[@nonozens]

Am I the only one who thinks he has a very julian casablancas tone to his voice O.o?!

[@briannarae6562]

I thought the same thing!

[@MrGaxiolaX]

he definitely cites them as an inspiration

[@nikiyerbamate]

@@MrGaxiolaX when has he done this

[@thenaut2111]

@@MrGaxiolaX he has never done that lol, he's said he only really got into them after he started getting the comparison. I'd say it came more from Joy Division or Guided by Voices