Sleeper - Sale Of The Century (Video)

Music video by Sleeper performing Sale Of The Century. (C) 1996 Indolent Records

[@davejohnson3376]

I was 17 when this came out, then I blinked and I’m 45!

[@johnwatson4801]

This ^

[@jamescollinson4575]

Yep

[@I-T-S-M-E]

Yep, great isn't it.

[@PaulDavies-wv9el]

What a journey

[@domfjbrown75]

I was 22. Whippersnappers lol

[@fodsaks]

I spent my 20's in the 90's. Thank you God.

[@domfjbrown75]

Same. Thank fudge!!!

[@simmadpaul2880]

Same 80s and 90s music is fantastic

[@robgrassby7742]

Yup same same. Shawn Ryder once said in an interview if you remember the 90s you weren't at the party!

[@ExcaliburDawn]

Same here mate I was 18 in 1990!

[@zolfodor4835]

Same here mate 🎸🎸👌👌 fucking loved it ❤️❤️

[@michaelkennedy8270]

That guitar riff is just stunning.

[@JohnPeel3904]

The first 13 seconds of the song is based on the Motors' Airport song and the guitar riff is based on Neil Young's Mansion On The Hill track

[@Hellwyck]

@@JohnPeel3904 The intro is The Passenger by Iggy Pop.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

Never heard anything better or at least as good?

[@simonpearn479]

I saw Sleeper last Friday at the Phoenix in Exeter - They were great, and I got my photo taken with Louise!!!

[@Nmoore866]

We were there too! Great gig

[@TheHongKongHermit]

Forever in love with 1996 Louise Wener. An absolute icon.

[@tinofapples]

She had an attraction to her, no doubt. 😍

[@copenhagen8099]

One of the most underrated songs of the 90's, shows the level of musical talent from that era.

[@SimonTimoney-74]

Total indie rubbish ffs

[@FuriousGibbon]

I listened to this when I was 43. Now I'm 20.

[@shootmcrunfast]

Nice, same.

[@breezeout]

Lol'd

[@black76561]

Me too

[@303g]

yeah ,a great tune ...another one of those tunes ,that is timeless ,it never loses its energy ..too me anyway ,and takes me back like all those tunes do ,even if you wernt born at that time i.e 60s music is the same etc good music is good music

[@ROCKYSURFERX1]

good taste FuriousGibbon aka Mr B Button.

[@geoffreygoodyear3746]

I was 22 when this was out...my stomach sinks when i think how much better things were then to how things are now!,, great memories❤

[@domfjbrown75]

Same here... That's find bloody quick... Still got the cassette copy of my mate's CD of the album (though did buy it on CD!).

[@michaelairley2015]

It's because you are around 50 and you were 22. No kids, no loans. No back pain. It's logical

[@aikighost]

social media destroyed everything.

[@dean6816]

💯though I turned the big 'one eight' that year!

[@zaftra]

@@michaelairley2015 no, 95, 96 was vastly better in every way.

[@majorrsole7355]

Back in the mid 90s, i remember my dad (who had his teen years in the 1960s) telling me that he normally didnt like modern music but what was in the charts at that time was really good. Looking back, he was right. So many great acts and almost forgotten tunes.

[@wowcher7996]

I’m 45, Born in the 70s Grew up in the 80s, Lost my virginity in the 90s, Then had the pleasure of listening to this, as I was trying to find my way in life, Wouldn’t swap it for the world

[@kevb9253]

Seen a good amount of 'britpop' bands during the 90's and like others, Sleeper were massively underrated. Seen them in the 90's 3 times and Newcastle and Manchester in 2019 and hoping for Knebworth too - fantastic band. Thanks for the memories Sleeper, past and present and hope to see you in 2020. Great new album too. God bless Britpop - most underrated period in British music. Seeing these guys this year brought it all back and fantastic (drunken!) memories. Thanks Sleeper

[@Hellwyck]

Nah, try Senser, crosser rap/punk/techno.

[@darrendix1196]

2022 and I'm still in awe of this amazing song, take me back to the britpop mid 90s please

[@simonallen6298]

The it girl album is a masterpiece

[@rachelhowsham7870]

I listened to this tune literally 5 mins ago! Took me back to the time when life was so much simpler

[@red84icj]

Saw them 4 weeks ago. They were fantastic. Met Louise ,absolutely great person

[@philcotswold5940]

Grew up in the sixties listening to the Beatles and the kinks. Then Led Zeppelin. But I love the rawness of this track superb.

[@garethmaguire4898]

It is class😂 I love the tune!!!

[@markpaver9710]

Such a great song & band, their 2017 gigs were absolutely fantastic. The band played really tight & Louise Wener's voice is even stronger than back in 1996 when i last saw them play.

[@青猫屋廉二郎]

本国と時差あるかもだけれど、自分は前年の「inbetweener」が衝撃だったな。 たぶん日本だと、映画の「Train spotting」のカバー挿入歌で知名度が上がったくらいで Sleeperって、一部の洋楽ファンにしか認知されてなかったのが残念だった。 洋楽誌での情報も少なかったし、MTVでPVが観られるくらいだったからね。 それでもタワーレコードやＨＭＶが、日本に進出してきた時代だったから 「 ATOMIC」や、この曲、「Nice guy Eddie」くらいまでは ＣＤを買えたから、まだマシだったかな。 聴きたくても、MTVでしか聴けない曲とか多かったんよ。

[@manjulajayakody4741]

I went to see Sleeper at Watford Colosseum.nearly 30 years ago.....Louise Wener was incredible great band, a great night when life was simpler.

[@andrewn111na]

December 02 1996 ? I think Munsun was the supporting band

[@manjulajayakody4741]

@@andrewn111na blimey you have a great memory....I don't recall the support acts, but remember it was an amazing night!

[@bertie_magoo]

Never tire of listening to this, takes me back to a time when life was simpler and music was so much better.

[@kevinstone3743]

Totally agree

[@philipd4466]

The mid 90s was probably the best time of my life so it's nice to be transported back there for a few minutes.

[@EtherealUKMusic]

Agreed!!

[@sensational_cellar8606]

Wish I could meet a few people for a night out from the 90s

[@rachelhowsham7870]

90’s was the absolute best!

[@realityrebel]

Oh Louise Wener how I loved you

[@bensmith1689]

Such an interesting face. Had such a major crush on her when I was at college

[@sbarnett1113]

had such a thing about her i still have lol

[@elizabethmcfadyen3641]

realityrebel

[@elizabethmcfadyen3641]

realityrebel

[@s5living.262]

join the club,...shes a babe,,..

[@alicemoon7987]

I am here because of Liam's tweet!!

[@trustwithin7188]

Forgot how good Sleeper were 💋

[@chrishuston1992]

Cute little thing 😍😍😍😍💋💋💋💋

[@leighwhite]

Listening to this on a plasterers radio in Manchester back in 96 when i was a sprightly 42 year old. Still feels like only a year or two ago.

[@SleepCove]

Song is about a relationship. Video director - “I’m feeling a swimming pool vibe”.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@morpheus_laughing]

That's the 90s for you.... "let's make her....... Wet!"

[@MyDrugHell]

With bicycles.

[@tedbunny1487]

Louise is such a great, great lyricist. She should writing more songs.

[@kevb9253]

Sleeper at the time were in a deluge of bands craving for popularity and the music was outstanding at the time, lots of bands dropped off because the competition was so tight. What happened? Music went back big time since these days, a few bands here and there who stood out but the 90s was an explosion of talent. Proud to have been a part of it in my younger days. Happy memories.

[@raymondoakford8357]

Nineties was an explosion of talent,,,, Brooks and Dunn, The Judds, Alan Jackson,,, yep the good days.

[@yutehube4468]

Atrocious garbage like Pop Idol ruined it all.

[@SimonTimoney-74]

Total CACK!

[@exeterjedi6730]

Somehow those 90s songs carry nostalgia even for me. I was young, but I wasn't invited to parties in those days. I was in my 20s. However my 30s and 40s have been so much better.

[@fiachraswaz]

Aaaah louise, the woman who made my young self realise i fancied girls

[@raymcdonald6734]

Real music, real bands, the Brits at their very best!!!!

[@thrasher1889]

90's Britpop AWESOME!! I first heard this great song on Clyde 1 FM (UK radio) in 1997. Louise Wener is gorgeous, I first seen her on a 1996 episode of Shooting Stars gameshow with Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer. I didn't know she was the singer at that time. Back when pop sounded decent and not shit like today.

[@007bondspy]

I used to work at Clyde 1 FM as a Pan Technician.

[@xfoolsgoldx]

This is a amazing and a ridiculously sexy tune💙👌 One of the best bangers of the Century😀

[@opaleiris829]

Great video & great music ! Yet until recently I didn't know this band ... discovered thanks KZbin !😊

[@bodg2093]

Liam Gallagher tweeted the link - thanks for the reminder. Always loved it since ‘96. Check of Louise Wener’s performance of ‘Life’s a Gas’ on TFI Friday from the same year - seductive!

[@NibberKSmooth]

90's were incredible.

[@arsemonkeys147]

yep

[@Caelen-Fae]

New Thought Hell yea but I'm a 2000's kid

[@yereverluvinuncleber]

They were OK, nothing special musically, looking back it had so much promise that failed to deliver.

[@robertmcmillan3638]

@@yereverluvinuncleber Yeah, there was a lot better bands in the 90's than this lot.

[@johnmcclelland849]

Yes 90's. Loved louise wener. Blur were great too

[@sco467]

Im 44, Every now and again i go back to this whole album... EPIC

[@zolfodor4835]

Always loved this song,but why cant i find a guitar tab for it anywhere ffs.😡😡

[@cjwhiterabbit1]

28 yrs later (? please correct if i I'm wrong) still love the song : still have a stupid schoolboy crush lol

[@robquayle2164]

Love Louise Wener, no music like this anymore

[@MickeyMichaels348]

Still bouncing about in the living room listening to 90's songs!

[@MyMadChemist]

Saw them at Manchester Ac, and had a picture of Lou on my wall at uni. Great band.

[@Shalamalabingbong]

I wanted to be Louise and Shirley Manson so bad!! A brilliant music era

[@thomasalber8609]

I'm English, and so proud of britpop...Love Sleeper,Echobelly, etc. NOTHING ON BLONDIE. But hey the Beatles started this, so still proud to be U.K Love England so much, we are the best.

[@Robadine-he7cp]

It's 2020 and I have this on full blast and singing along to it at the top of my lungs. I love you Louise.

[@Small_Boxes]

Loved songs like this and Nice Guy Eddie back in the day, really looking forward to the new album :)

[@llanellboy]

A new album!?!?!? *furiously googles*

[@lalalandlife9294]

WELCOME BACK SLEEPER

[@Serreski]

I saw them this evening at Rough Trade. Small gig with just 100 people. They were introducing their new album. Awesome. I'm going to see them a couple more times next month. Can't wait :)

[@Canniman]

20 years ago..... Damn!!! I was 13 in Year 9 and it was just a fantastic time to be alive. The soundtrack of 1996 brings back so many brilliant memories including this. I heard the phrase 'Sale of the Century' earlier today and his song popped into my head for the first time in over a decade.

[@carlvincent3462]

yeah I still think this clip is one of the sexiest on youtube...

[@jamesmason8436]

96 was a great year for me. Iwas 16 and doing what 16 year old boys do. The Spice Girls came along and did their best to ruin it all, though.

[@RZPPAA]

I'm in your year. Love, Amin Yayear

[@mancunian4eva332]

96 what a year. I was an 18 year old mancunian. The IRA bombed the city centre but the scene just carried on regardless!

[@joeylittle3535]

I was 13 aswell miss them times, these, oasis, blur, the verve and supergrass what the fuck happened to music I partly blame x factor and the internet

[@NYSkinsFan82]

Great tune and Louise 😍

[@Keatipannn]

Its 2024 and still listening! ❤

[@thereapersperch]

The 90s was the last great decade!

[@josephking1947]

I'm so glad I lived and breathed the youth expression of the 90s

[@matthewc.419]

Ahhhh brit pop in the 90s .....and my heroin addiction ...... She is sooooooo cute though 💋💖💕💖💕💖💕

[@seancoppinger432]

Just got tickets to go and see them in a few months... stoked!

[@ohmy4275]

In the Britpop documentary she makes the best observations. She's brilliant

[@Alfeco-dm7uk]

Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by John Dower.

[@DeFiSiYT]

I just remembered she was one of my 90s crushes... Along with Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star. But damn! All of those guitars in water... That was a really 90s thing to do. Blur also did a video (IIRC) with lots of water and guitars... I feel sad for the waterlogged guitars. Great to see 2 telecasters in the video though. I remember Strats and Les Pauls being more popular in those days.

[@CTScenic]

Heard a great 90s brit mix in a restaurant yesterday, including great stuff i knew like james and supergrass (lol or some other 'super' band?) and this great song that i never heard before. It's great liking something new even if it's something old...

[@bruce5799]

I was still young enough then........oh well!.

[@badgerswood78]

Remember listening to this for the first time at The Crypt, Hastings. #greattimes

[@joe1205]

I was -9 when this song was released, and now I've just received my A level results. Feel old now?

[@DanielePais]

Wonderful

[@jimboBFC1]

A great tune from yet another under-rated brit pop band. The likes of Sleeper, Shed 7 and the Bluetones never got the credit that they deserved

[@Bigchris72]

jimboBFC1 absolutely 100% agree 👌

[@trevormerren3651]

Very note worthy comment, the Vaccum of Glory during that period went to Oasis, Blur and the Manics.

[@huxleypig69]

Shed 7 were incredible.

[@jerhetherington9744]

Going to see Sleeper and the Bluetones in a couple of months time. Can't wait!!

[@matthewadams1874]

The blue tones especially

[@greg16266]

Fantastic Choon; their new album is spot on too...

[@bazsuperbi]

Go on, keep telling me truths ❤ 😊 Yeah, I remember the moment I met her. 💍 now. Cheers 🥂

[@Starkalicious07]

This underlines how much the quality and sincerity in mainstream pop music has just fallen off a cliff.

[@salvadormarley]

+John Starkie Too fucking right mate.

[@shevenganza6598]

John Starkie blame X factor and other reality shit although it started with Robson and jerome the pricks

[@johnmcclelland849]

Music now is pish

[@jackjude]

what has xfactor got to do with it? Its a family telly program, go to some gigs ffs.

[@thisbliss81]

@@jackjude there's that argument or I could also say why should I be arsed trawling a load of clubs when a record company should send a rep to seek out good music and present it to me instead of manufacturing shite bands with zero chemistry or musical experience. There's still plenty of music fans who appreciate well crafted genuine music. Just cos the music industry got burned by the internet doesn't mean they have to play it safe forever

[@FuriousGibbon]

It's never gonna be this good so... Damn, she was right.

[@paddyeejit1954]

Still sounds good. Better than Menswear

[@modifidious]

I love Louise!

[@craiginnes8919]

🇬🇧 happy days 🛵

[@Samariapain]

Just checking South Africa were still picking up my calls

[@Lowlander-ci7is]

Hey man, maybe heaven is going back to the era when you where young, everything was new and you were carefree, great music great times... 🙏

[@ronanminguy1109]

How come I've never heard of that band before Liam Gallagher's tweet today ??

[@marcelloromano3275]

Who's listening to this in 2021? I can't get enough of this gem every time...

[@piegadgie]

2024😂

[@tony1019]

2024...just randomly found this. It's fantastic

[@leewicheard2772]

love these people always for makeing amazing music love them forever

[@Jey9K]

The drummer`s dad in this band was my science teacher at school :)

[@Alfeco-dm7uk]

We step through London The streets holding on to us We'll stand where the river bends I hope we fall in So this time maybe Lets take a photograph We'll burn all the negatives I hope we fall in Its never gonna be this good so just climb in How long till reason makes us small again? And it feels just like we just got started Its still you Taking me under We turn to be scared Then decide that we don't care Wear ourselves out on the way down Its still you And the moment you left me you said I was cheap You were the sale of the century Grease ourselves up on the way down And now I touch you I don't know where you begin Sometimes you're a piece of me I hope we fall in Its never gonna be this good so just climb in How long till reason makes us small again It feels just like we just got started Its still you Taking me under We turn to be scared Then decide that we don't care Wear ourselves out on the way down Its still you And the moment you left me you said I was cheap You were the sale of the century Grease ourselves up on the way down Its been too long, so it could just be something ate It feels just like we just got started.. Its still you Taking me under We turn to be scared Then decide that we don't care Wear ourselves out on the way down Its still you And the moment you left me you said I was cheap You were the sale of the century Grease ourselves up on the way down

[@biggingeryeti]

Thanks for this because outside of the "And the moment you left me you said I was cheap You were the sale of the century" I literally can't understand a single word she is saying.

[@Carolyn1705]

Amazing song love sleeper, what do I do now also amazing my twenties relived lol!

[@kevothunder6478]

It's still you, taking me up there !

[@dravalanche1997]

Louise I luv u!

[@leewicheard2772]

allways loved

[@briannourse133]

Im 43, at 50 she is still a babe.

[@83moonchild]

Women artists actually had some talent then and didn't resort to soft porn videos for fame

[@Captain_Rhodes]

the water effect getting rinsed

[@MistyBay]

GREAT song. Forgotten how much I loved this song, and indeed Sleeper. Love it.

[@biblical1982]

Liam is having a strange day today

[@danrandlehandle]

Tell me about it

[@stevebiggins]

2019 anyone?

[@B4ndwidthBandito]

never heard of it

[@drey8]

when I make my semi-autobiographical movie about a young lad in the 90s trying to find a way in life, this will be the track for the montage where he's walking down the road looking in shop windows and replying to "help wanted" ads.

[@TheGodParticle]

Where does the time go people.

[@eddiewalsh5109]

Manchester Academy mid 90s what a line up - Octopus, Longpigs and Sleeper headlining! Those were the days.

[@iaindoherty3994]

Music for da trainspotting generation ha

[@FloatingOnAZephyr]

This was the level back then. Every other week there was a really good song and solid video coming along. The music industry really lost its way at some point.

[@jrr3613]

Thank you Simon Cowel

[@Alfeco-dm7uk]

Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by John Dower. The documentary is a study of popular culture in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1990s. The focus of the piece is the main movement in British popular music during that time, which came under strong media attention and was dubbed Britpop.

[@timbirch4999]

There aren't the revenues anymore. You can make and pass around perfect digital copies of music. And so it's now a much more throwaway item. Time moves, things change. Music used to really mean something, and now it doesn't. I feel a little sad about that, but everything moves on...

[@FloatingOnAZephyr]

@@timbirch4999Yeah I agree with you except for the moving on thing. If we've moved on from music, we have a bleak future.

[@gcvrsa]

I have no idea how it is that I've never heard of Sleeper before 2023.

[@southerner4566]

Where are you from ?

[@PWEIcom]

You were not a teen in the UK in the mid 90s?

[@poppaluv]

surprised i never heard this before.

[@lisasayers8201]

Excellent band. Probably only one I never managed to see live. an louise was the best looking brit pop babe x

[@MichelleGilmore76]

underated

[@nicolawest1017]

2018 here.......

[@riotjohndoe]

and will be in 19 also.

[@Waffledogchat]

I was twenty six. I saw Louise Werner on TV performing this and I bought the CD the same day. I still play it after another twenty six years have gone by.

[@bobbins53]

Fuck me this is one of the best song of the 90's! Louise needs to return to the public eye IMO

[@nickwhatcott8798]

Think she's a writer / journalist now

[@piegadgie]

They were touring till covid came along

[@howardbyrne2881]

Wow Louise is 57 right now! And I'm 54! How did THAT happen?!

[@theredcowpoke3424]

great addition to the brit pop fad

[@markakers3540]

How I miss Britpop..... sigh°

[@arsemonkeys147]

was a great time to be in to music. its still there just need to look a bit harder

[@arsemonkeys147]

me too, but Noel Gallagher, Richard Ashcroft, James, Travis, Suede all released great NEW albums, Stone Roses great new stuff. The 90's live on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lisasayers8201]

Mark Akers yeah fantastic days for me. fezzy beer more fezzy n more beer. An MUSIC

[@arsemonkeys147]

Late 90' s . I wish I could go back there. Music actually fucking mattered!!!!!

[@stevebb2915]

not like then tho, there was something in the air. 3rd division bands writing catchy stuff like this. it was unbelievable

[@robertkelly9508]

class act , nice song and a very nice gentile intelligent lady apparently, britpop was ace right? :¬) uncle Rob, somewhere near Afghanistan.