Tame Impala: Live In The Early Years (2008-2011)

This is how Kevin Parker's Tame Impala use to sound before things went downhill with 2015's dodgy "Currents" album.

[@RMoocher]

I've edited the "rough description", so all you butthurt fans can leave me alone about that now! It was an old opinion.

[@PoeticNixon]

garbage edit

[@RMoocher]

@@PoeticNixon = garbage comment.

[@joelgranby6739]

It’s true. Currents is how he exited. He had an amazing run. Thanks kevin. 2008-2015 . Best years to be alive for tame impala

[@allora7544]

Coward

[@RMoocher]

@@allora7544 Muppet.

[@ryanzacharyortiz]

It’s amazing being able to watch the progression of a band like this.

[@coldacre]

they really are the most amazing bunch of musicians. think about it. opening song: Half Full Glass of wine. Jay on bass, Kevin on drums, Dom on guitar. mixing it up from Kevin on guitar, Jay on drums, Dom on bass.. how the other songs were played that gig. then the following year Nick joins as second guitarist. they play as a 4 piece, then Innerspeaker is released and Dom & Nick swap instruments. now Nick is bass player, Dom second guitarist. next album comes out; Julien joins to play drums and the drummer (whos already played guitar & bass in the band) Jay is moved to keyboard. next album comes out (Currents) and long serving guitarist (who was the original bass player) Dom is now moved to keyboard! MEANWHILE.... in this 5 years period of 2008-2013, Jay & Nick have made 5 albums with Pond, with Kevin drumming on one of them. Mink Mussel Creek - featuring Kevin on drums, and Nick on vocals / guitar have recorded a stellar debut not once but twice in 2008 and 2011 respectively... Nick & Cam recorded an album together in 2011... and Jay has released FIVE solo albums under the name of GUM. what. the. faarrk.

[@charliekirby_]

Currents is his best work, how can you make serotonin filled pop music sound so psychedelic and musical? I thought it was shit at first but then I got to the looping part of let it happen and it felt like I was on acid. Kevin is a genius

[@tarakabuddha]

Cuz we ❤ psy-rock

[@angelilly]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ignacio7789]

setlist: 1. Half Full Glass of Wine (00:06) 2. Skeleton Tiger (06:23) 3. Remember Me (13:24) 4. The Bold Arrow of Time (19:50) 5. Sundown Syndrome (23:32) 6. Half Full Glass of Wine (30:08) 7. It Is Not Meant to Be (35:08) 8. Solitude is Bliss (40:32) 9. Desire Be Desire Go (45:32) 10. Alter Ego (53:29)

[@MattSmith-sf3sl]

hero

[@michealcarney853]

Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind 58:30

[@TrulyOutrageous]

the description is rough

[@RMoocher]

I've changed my opinion since then, lol

[@charliereadclarke5277]

lonerism is amazing, currents is horrific

[@josh05683]

Charlie Read Clarke Currents is horrific? Dude, that album has grossed more money for Kevin than any other and has gotten so many awards and nominated for more. Far from horrific.

[@gabriel-xc8hp]

@@josh05683 miley cyrus probably sells much more than kev and that doesn't mean she's better

[@josh05683]

Gabriel Medeiros Yeah, but Miley had a platform to start on. Kevin started from the bottom up. She was born into fame because of her dad. Then she got to Disney and now she’s where she’s at now. Apples to Oranges.

[@swtoni4464]

Currents is awesome album.

[@Gabriel2oh6]

It’s a good album. Just not a great one. Kevin Parker has made great albums before. Innerspeaker and Lonerism are great Tame Impala albums. Kevin Parker-produced Melody Echo Chamber LP is better. Currents just isn’t all that interesting in comparison.

[@louisaddeo-weiss5690]

If Kev were around in the late 60’s, he’d be on the level of Keith Moon, Mitch Mitchell for greatest rock drummer

[@RMoocher]

Keith Moon was overrated and sloppy. Mitchell Mitchell was awesome, but Kevin has a different style. Although, yes, there is a old-school 60'a style is Kevin's playing.

[@Youngstrawhatjit]

R Moocher doesn’t touch bonzo tho

[@coldacre]

@@RMoocher I like your comments man, you're on the ball. I think Kevin has the Bonzo about him. he likes the straight up 4/4 with a bit of groove. Kev has to hit the saturation inside the DAW to get to Bonzo.. but thats the era we live in

[@coldacre]

@@Youngstrawhatjit nobody does. but Kev's got a song called "Led Zeppelin". I think he nails it better than just about anyone has. the Page riff, the JPJ bass, the Bonzo stomp. its all there

[@rosco9254]

@@RMoocher I feel like Kevin's drumming sounded generic compared to the likes of John Bonham and Mitch Mitchell. He uses a similar style of fills. At least on his lonerism and Innerspeaker stuff anyways.

[@allenpascalkramerwhocares]

Sick, thank you for posting this ❤

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

Parker has transformed this into a sensational experience all the way through, his music has always sounded so loving and beautiful, he really knows how to use pop melodies and be sentimental and moving

[@coldacre]

it was a sensational experience seeing them in 2008-2012! the audio might be less than great... but we loved seeing them live back then. look at Kevin playing from 4:40 on... thats a man in his element. expressing himself on the instrument he was born to play. he's always been a drummer, from day one

[@aeureka5022]

currents is sick

[@TeamAcXa]

Thank god this is back nice one dude

[@myfriendgoo2816]

Thanks very much to the OP for posting. This should have 6-figure total views and be an essential-collection video for them. Yes, they're changing, and I can't help but be reminded of early R.E.M. (which may be too old a reference for many TI fans) Chronic Town -------> TI self-titled EP Murmur --------> Innerspeaker Reckoning ---------> Lonerism Fables of the Reconstruction ---------> Currents Life's Rich Pageant -----------> ??? Eeerie how it lines up, quality-wise and career-wise. Fables was a turning point and not in the best of ways, but at that point in their career they could tour globally and play to midsize halls. R.E.M. went on after Fables to make a lot of good music and even had their biggest commercial hits afterward, but stylistically it was never the same and they never put out anything afterward that was in the same line as the first 3 records, much as the early fans wished they could/would. Fables was a half-and-half transition. Again, so far eerily similar. I think "Elephant" may have been the snake in the garden of Eden. Though Kevin did say it paid for half his house. "Currents" showed he's plenty talented enough to write pop songs (as was REM), but we knew that. The real gift-that-keeps-on-giving are the records that can be played over and over with a new thing coming out each listen, and that's how you can build a fan base even in the absence of new material like TI has been doing. 2019 could be a pivotal year, though. I'm not sure 2 new songs and a static setlist will be enough to wow the hordes of new fans.

[@bernardroullet2939]

At 34:45, one of my favorites. Plus, in this song, this is for me THE ultimate and eternal TI combo / setup: those four, no more, no less. Parker, Allbrook, Simper and Watson, that's it. Nota:Nick Allbrook is sorely missed on bass (but Pond won a frontman).

[@jackelineloaiza8827]

Wow. Kev playing the drums.

[@flyk3n]

As a fan of Kevin and Tame, i'm glad he doesn't sound this rough anymore lmao. His voice is all over the place in the early years of Tame. Lonerism if my fave, but Kevin has never disappointed with delivering a solid album. People just gotta stop being boomers about his change in style. If it ain't your type of music then that's totally fine, just no need to yell at a cloud about it.

[@noods3979]

Wym, his real pyschedelic rock age is fuckin awesoooomeeeee

[@macnwewe4324]

@@noods3979 ok boomer

[@connorjoseph6565]

Lol facts

[@lameahhhh]

@@macnwewe4324 no taste then

[@IsaacRossMusic1]

That's because he uses autotune now, I respect that. But maybe kevin could make that sound less apparent when he plays his older stuff, so it sounds more akin to what it sounded like on his older albums. I think kevin even used some sort of pitch correction while recording the albums anyways. I love his newer stuff, but favour Lonerism.

[@finniganbaker2500]

After extensive research of this guys old work you’re right. His old shit will always be the best.

[@charltonkelly5426]

Currents is one of those albums like Rumors by Fleetwood Mac or Remain In Light by The Talking Heads that will last forever. People just don't like when artists do new stuff. That's why Animal Collective is my favorite band, every album is a switch in the style and no two albums will ever sound the same.

[@mirajaldzahabi3086]

just like the arctic monkeys

[@patricklewis9787]

I like seeing artists change over time but I just happen to prefer the psychedelic rock era Tame Impala more so

[@coldacre]

"Lonerism" is the Tame album that will last forever. the peak in Kevin's crown. its got nothing to do with artists doing new stuff. change & growth is great. writing boring synth pop that Rihanna covers is simply boring music. do yourself a favour and watch this video here at the 10 minute mark... Jay is absolutely cooking on drums. this is a band jamming, vibing, exploring. in sync with each other. they dont play that way anymore.

[@blib3786]

@@coldacre Currents isn't just "boring synth pop", the songwriting is actually pretty interesting on most of it, not at all like something you'd hear on a typical synth pop record. I mean sure I prefer Innerspeaker and Lonerism 100% but cmon Currents is still a good album.

[@A1varoRubio2004]

W animal collective reference they’re my favourite band too

[@IvroudRammstein]

Nooo jajja mira lo que eran los locos, y lo que son hoy en día! Son lo más! Tame Impala Forever |m|,

[@JuliosRodri777]

[@pipi.de.los-inconscientes]

SIII

[@paveldubrovsky7866]

Why musicians over 30s can't never beat up what the did in their 20s?

[@maximus5679]

I mean yeah is lonersim and innerspeaker my favorite compared to currents? Yes. But currents isn’t a bad record at all. I just the drums are a little weak

[@erichomsy]

how to make my guitar sound like the first song? i already have big muff. i want it to sound like its ripping through the front of the amplifier like the fucking scene in alien

[@iriemusic5971]

You need a fuzz not a muff, zxev is great/ fuzzface and crank the fuzz and bias

[@respincycle2582]

Awesome video but how has someone not made an enter text here joke?

[@OHHnoYOUdidntMAN]

What happened to the AAA Aardvark Getdown Services video?

[@RMoocher]

KZbin shut down my other account. I still have a copy of it on my hard drive.

[@EduardoGonzalez-fj4ul]

Onta el wey que hace el setlist?

[@di3g0nat0r]

goal set list

[@Alexroux78]

Lonerism is the best album

[@angelilly]

❤❤❤JESUS❤❤❤

[@kevinstoya1835]

what song starts at 6:30

[@brunoselles2]

Tiger Skeleton

[@kevinstoya1835]

bugyourfriends good call. Totally blanked.

[@alejandrorojas3022]

I love Tame impala then and how it sounds now, whatever the slow Rush or currents are, I like them like any other daft punk album or any pop album really, I jsut like to see how you exposed the way kev used to sound with the band and is really weird how everything changes but I still believe and feel is really cool

[@thenewcuriouscity]

rolls eyes

[@fiqihmohamad4076]

The last video in indonesia

[@szmug]

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[@tmccullough1251]

Would have upvoted, but did the opposite after reading the description

[@RMoocher]

I should probably edit that. Wasn't really downhill until Currents.

[@ParaSpikyHyperGoomba]

@@RMoocher don't worry i agree with you, lonerism is my fave album of all time but currents was quite possibly the biggest disappointment of my life

[@RMoocher]

@@ParaSpikyHyperGoomba most people don't agree, hey. They love currents, and even these two new tracks a lot. New album is gonna be more currents by the sounds of it.

[@andrewdomonic6603]

@@ParaSpikyHyperGoomba what do you think of the new singles? I have a feeling you're gonna hate the new record. Dude has been hanging out with too much hollywood. Shit's weak.

[@RMoocher]

@@andrewdomonic6603 on the 14th, it will be coming out and we shall hear what I suspect will be currents part 2. Yeah, the dude has fully sold out to pop mainstream. Producing records with lady Gaga and Kanye West, lol.

[@darrenbrown7037]

Description is accurate

[@filliteast]

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[@joelgranby6739]

Kevin Parker got sucked back into the world with the fame and money. We’ll sadly never see this kevin again. Don’t boo him tho he gave an amazing run. There’s gotta be someone he passes the torch to.

[@jtrautman1011]

Currents is his best album

[@martinfariasberrios4943]

this should be real tame impala, not what they are now. I miss the psy-rock :(

[@martinfariasberrios4943]

the last album isn't bad tho

[@IsaacRossMusic1]

I don't want to call u a boomer because I agree. But it's not like currents is bad

[@DEAKY3GAVUEL]

​@@IsaacRossMusic1 currents is awesome the slow rush is shit

[@IsaacRossMusic1]

@@DEAKY3GAVUELwhat makes you think that?

[@DEAKY3GAVUEL]

@@IsaacRossMusic1 a big downgrade in quality It's too poppy, no guitar, no jams

[@PoeticNixon]

Yeah man lonerism was wayyyyy downhill

[@RMoocher]

Changed my mind since then. Currents is where he went down hill.

[@aledum1815]

@@RMoocher not true

[@MixMasterSplinter]

Currents is probably one of the greatest albums.of the decade fuxk you mean

[@RMoocher]

@@MixMasterSplinter don't be silly!

[@aarongl2605]

All Tame Imapala albums are good asf. The "problem" here it's that not everybody have the same opinions of things, like Tame