We’re celebrating 15 years of The Sunlandic Twins with a brand new Red and Orange Swirl vinyl edition complete with a re-designed gatefold jacket interior and 5 additional bonus tracks on side D to round out this superlative 23-song 2xLP. Order your copy today from the Polyvinyl Store (ships February 3) and bundle with a new t-shirt collaboration from David Barnes & JLP: polyvinyl.ffm.to/the-sunlandic-twins-15
@dkusa216 жыл бұрын
gotta say... Of Montreal has a unique talent for working some of the most obscure English words and literary references into their music. "I've been a gloomy petragogue..." "With a quill as weepy as Dido..." Vegan in Furs is the best song of theirs for that, though. good stuff.
@MaddestMousse Жыл бұрын
*Petrarch
@dominicofmontrealfan267211 жыл бұрын
This song was for his daughter called Alabee, such a great way for Kevin to show his love for his family.
@starcharm14 жыл бұрын
this song is about his daughter, the birth of his daughter. he does not want to disappoint her as a father and shes brought so much into his life. a really beautiful song, wish my father dedicated a song to me. haha. im in love with this band
@ahappyimago Жыл бұрын
He has a daughter??
@angelbonezz59 Жыл бұрын
@@ahappyimagoI was surprised too when I found out lol
@Mugiwara2k11 ай бұрын
Anytime I hear this song I instantly think of one of my old friends. He’d had this song as his wake-up ringtone and I’d hear it practically every time I hung out/crashed at his house around Summer 05’… Good memories (Miss ya Barch!)
@XAntiViolenttX16 жыл бұрын
every time i listen to this song i feel like jumping, screaming.. gives me so much energy. yess, it's just soooo good.
@MrItsalie2 жыл бұрын
I had not listened to this song for 10 years or so and I suddenly got it stuck in my head today. Interesting how the mind works. I am really glad it happened though, I will add of Montreal back on to my playlists now.
@madmaxoftherails15 жыл бұрын
IF i didn't know Of Montreal, and someone told me this was from the 80's, i wouldn't question it for even a second
@p00nsofth3w0rld16 жыл бұрын
this is one of my favourite songs everrrrr the chorus just gets me going!
@parilovesulots Жыл бұрын
my mom named me after this song. my name is alabee
@Jobdart14 жыл бұрын
what an incredible song. just phenomenal.
@yea86113 жыл бұрын
this song makez me so weirdly sad- does anyone else feel that way ? so good tho
@Joselyn54815 жыл бұрын
of montreal's music is like a drug I just can't stop listening to their songs. I mean is been like a year now of listening over and over the same songs!!!!
@isabelfabian83542 жыл бұрын
Did you ever stop?
@LauraPradodeAssis16 жыл бұрын
that is so true! Shins have an amazing vocabulary in their lyrics, and put to good use, too. Their poetry is just unbelievable.
@lwest6815 жыл бұрын
Me too...I am now forever lost in Montreal:)
@woodlie16 жыл бұрын
he has cool dance movements imo
@xtinacorrigan16 жыл бұрын
first heard of this band about a year and a half ago and just found out theyre coming to ireland in january!!i canNOT w8 2 c them!!!gotta go get a ticket rite now!!!
@TheMangoqueen13 жыл бұрын
FAVORITE OF MONTREAL SONG. HANDS DOWN! c:
@lulu-zo6jz3 жыл бұрын
definitely one of my fave oM songs
@jts22416 жыл бұрын
haha i started watchign this and thought my friend slipped somthin in my drink. trippy.
@ryanwilhite16 жыл бұрын
Love it, sounds so 80's
@nikkyb15 жыл бұрын
Agree 100%. Just saw them on Friday and I am already looking for the next live opportunity!
@chickenflicker17 жыл бұрын
Most amazing song in existence.
@ScottSnowdenart15 жыл бұрын
I feel the same way too, they're so addicting.....
@VenusAsABoyFilms15 жыл бұрын
Of Montreal does amazing visual pieces...love it.
@izzyp703 жыл бұрын
Banger
@Snarlez15 жыл бұрын
man good song! not many people know this band. this has to be the most Interesting band.
@VenusAsABoyFilms15 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to see them in July...at the Hollywood Bowl...who else is going???? Let's go together...would love to meet some new fans...email me...fans of Of Montreal.
@slugsdungeon70236 жыл бұрын
I love how the comment section on most of their videos are just pissing contests of "I'm a bigger Of Montreal fan than you"
@yoshij6 жыл бұрын
yeah wtf where did all this competitiveness come from haha
@AlephYobby4 жыл бұрын
@@yoshij i think its bc after their magnum opus hissing fauna alot of ppl nd critics wrote everything else they did off, so its a warped form of defensiveness
@stop08it15 жыл бұрын
polyvinyl has so many great bands
@irishchamp1814 жыл бұрын
the song is the odyssey = )-'''
@fashionandmusic92115 жыл бұрын
Alabee better be thankful that she has Kevin of Of Montreal to write her a groovy song. Srsly.
@ninjaspoonmastr716 жыл бұрын
hahaha, listen to the shins lyrics to, they use some good ones, same as LCD Soundsystem. I love bands that actually put a lot of thought into their words.
@tecneon15 жыл бұрын
awsome song
@Lameeeee16 жыл бұрын
but then your name wouldn't be alabee and you wouldn't have this amazing song about you!
@B33fisGud14 жыл бұрын
Gah i fucking love the sunlandic twins.
@carolaynstewartraitt99549 ай бұрын
Ésta y An Eluardian Instance de momento mis favoritas de Of Montreal. Me está gustando mucho esta banda y pienso que están infravalorados al igual que Apples in Stereo también del proyecto Elephant 6. Sin embargo Neutral Milk Hotel con sólo dos discos y cuyas canciones son todas iguales no entiendo cómo pueden estar mejor valorados la verdad. Incluso hay gente que les gusta más Neutral Milk Hotel que Belle and Sebastian... 😭
@mlemmleppy7 ай бұрын
Mis favoritas son Suffer for Fashion y Paranoic Intervals/Body Dysmorphia :D
@MackProductions16 жыл бұрын
Very, very fun.
@Sorrow82311 жыл бұрын
I was supposed to do something but after watching this I forgot that it is that Im supposed to do...
@procerus47894 жыл бұрын
Did you figure out what it is yet?
@Joselyn54814 жыл бұрын
What does he says at 2:35 ?? People .... they're dreaming???? (or something like that)
@Snazzgasm12 жыл бұрын
I heard that the album was released before his daughters birth
@dominicofmontrealfan267211 жыл бұрын
And no one is a bigger Of Montreal fan then me i know that now
@smoothcactus92798 жыл бұрын
I know your username points otherwise, but I can sing every word he has ever sung. And I met him in Seattle
@GoatDust7 жыл бұрын
Smooth Cactus what about alternate versions in extremely limited releases and collaborations
@tawkinhedz5 жыл бұрын
Every Kevin barnes fan thinks this lol
@neglectoid15 жыл бұрын
the new albumb is phenominal
@augustaoliva9739 Жыл бұрын
LYRICS And so begins begins our odyssey And we begin begin our odyssey And so begins begins our odyssey The aria is bleeding and the boyish voice is leaving I've been an evil tenor I filled the innocents doe eyes with glue You're my only softness you're my only pleasure it's true And I never want to be your little friend the abject failure And so begins begins our odyssey And we begin begin our odyssey And so begins begins our odyssey The chrysalis is breaking and the super ego's waking I've been a gloomy Petrarch with a quill as weepy as Dido You're my mousy aesthete you're my buoyant cherub it's true And I never want to be your little friend the abject failure
@JakeObBeren15 жыл бұрын
Alabee is his daughter, and I think he wrote this song about her, that she is "his odyssey". Not entirely sure that's the reason for the "odyssey" but it would make sense (:
@Lameeeee16 жыл бұрын
i wish he was my dad!
@Binglesquirk2 жыл бұрын
wowza! i am the 888th like!!, best part is, i really like the number 8!
@Binglesquirk10 ай бұрын
woa i didn't know i already found this 2 years ago hehe
@mycatpetra17 жыл бұрын
trippy maaan.
@blackmath815 жыл бұрын
i like their older stuff better like sunlandic twins album....
@thedenzel87715 жыл бұрын
well... that really helps, thx ^_^
@benhewerdine94398 жыл бұрын
Director obviously likes I heart huckabees...
@8cmn15 жыл бұрын
I think I'm too sober for this video. In fact, I think I'm too sober for all of Of Montreal's videos.
@lpoolfan0816 жыл бұрын
my friend had a siezure from this. No im kidding.
@Ryuco16 жыл бұрын
this video deeply scares me X_X so much color!!!! XD good work tho
@trevorwhite93212 жыл бұрын
the christalis is breaking and the super eagle's waking
@8cmn15 жыл бұрын
@rmassassin Actually, no, it's not. It's a common misconception; unless the word both ends with an s and is plural, you add apostrophe s. Thus, it's Barnes's, because Barnes isn't plural.
@thedenzel87715 жыл бұрын
they are saying odyssey, but i forgot why alabee is in the title instead
@carolaynstewartraitt99549 ай бұрын
A mí de Elephant 6 no me han gustado ni Neutral Milk Hotel ni Olivia Tremor Control o algo así (me parecen iguales que los Neutral y con los mismos arreglos y además tienen también muy pocos discos). Por el contrario Apples in Stereo son mi segunda banda indie favorita (detrás de Belle and Sebastian) y Of Montreal según lo que estoy escuchando de momento prometen y mucho 😉😉
@TheNoVaEmpire12 жыл бұрын
Canada
@Zygiro15 жыл бұрын
Alabee is his daughter.
@PenguinJockey14 жыл бұрын
@neurotrash84 It does, but I think this shorter version of the song is better.
@trevorwhite93212 жыл бұрын
this would have helped Homer immensely
@plolde11 жыл бұрын
*The chrysalis is breaking and the super Ego's waking.
@lakai95814 жыл бұрын
@vpew same here
@eatsleepmusic16 жыл бұрын
I swear to God that these guys and the Decemberists are the only reason I broke 700 on the verbal portion of the SAT. They should cut out all of those training sessions and just have kids listen to Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? instead.
@kingjstin15 жыл бұрын
i love of montreal.. kevin barnes is truely a genious.. but it really depends on what you mean by interesting... like odd? because i can tell you a band that is far more "interesting"
@eatsleepmusic16 жыл бұрын
I would rather have him as a weird uncle, I think, but yes.
@freakindinosaur15 жыл бұрын
i know alabee ;D she goes to my school?
@AlephYobby4 жыл бұрын
haha
@zenocomplex16 жыл бұрын
haha, right on.
@ApplePickingAaron14 жыл бұрын
Why the fuck are people giving grammar lessons on such an awesome song? Listen to the song your birds and dance.
@jhk65585 жыл бұрын
Queue seizure mode in 3...2...1...@1:54
@daisyespindola48123 жыл бұрын
Ca
@Jender4215 жыл бұрын
to vid: don't give trigger me epilepsy lmao.
@Somone2315 жыл бұрын
dude.
@hartree.y7 жыл бұрын
2:50 Holy hell, they predicted Grillby.
@Binglesquirk10 ай бұрын
holy shjit grillby undertale
@woodlie16 жыл бұрын
2nd
@sebastianvelcro13 жыл бұрын
@neurotrash84 The hell you on about?
@jules444111 жыл бұрын
Well done, Captain Correct Grammar.
@tecneon15 жыл бұрын
Its really cool but It sound more like odessy than alabee
@AlephYobby4 жыл бұрын
The lyrics say Odyssey, title is Alabee, im replying to an 11 yr old comment, and
@HowJamp16 жыл бұрын
It's "gloomy Petrarch".
@katyjuno4207 жыл бұрын
Its so Gemini ♊
@trivium666fan17 жыл бұрын
no they dont. but they should at least have something to do with the song, haha "wraith pined to the mist" has nothing to do with the song, its so abstract its just stupid, at least this one matches somehow, haha