The Streets - Weak Become Heroes (Official Video)

[@nickhards986]

I'm 33, and feel so privileged to have been 'old enough' for the era of Mike Skinner and The Streets.

[@rubygrace4732]

Nick Hards I agreee

[@koont666]

I'm 53 and still play the remix in my set total Banger.

[@robinhooduk8255]

lol, i guess. but the rave era he is talking about you missed.

[@philll68]

@@robinhooduk8255 yeah I'm the same age as the first poster. We were the nu rave generation in our early 20s. Justice, Simian Mobile Disco, Soulwax, etc. This song is more about 90s early 00s clubbing. We didn't really have raves but we had some warehouse parties in North America in the late 00s.

[@Albrecht_Dürer_Restposten]

Same here, mate. Same age as you, different country, though. Somehow made me study English and become an English foreign language teacher, haha.

[@oliwhyte]

44 year old here, off to see the Streets tonight in Perth, Australia. Been a fan for 22+ years. Skinner is a voice of our generation. Respect.

[@lukeberrie3942]

“Then the girl in the café taps me on the shoulder. I realise five years went by and I'm older. Memories smoulder, winter's colder, but that same piano loops over and over and over.”

[@matthewfarris9759]

Makes me instantly go back to the time

[@funkyjaguilera]

I realize 19 years have gone by and i'm older 😣😭

[@funkyjaguilera]

@Beeblebrox One thank you! Same to you bro!

[@ps3man091]

This one hits hard man, beautiful song

[@dab5141]

The same piano has been looping over and over, to this day, always will.

[@allanbomersback]

17 year old American living in Aberdeen, Scotland, when this released. Best of times, best of friends, legendary memories. Catching a wave of the purest nostalgia as I listen at 38.

[@markmcglashan2336]

Big up the Dons!

[@isaacshaw9964]

This gives me heavy feels. Nostalgia!

[@gargle56]

28 year old Dublin native, never met yous, but my names European bob, sorted. A PLEASURE.

[@lindsayrogers6690]

@@gargle56 brilliant 😂

[@barrysmith4674]

Good lad 😉

[@lindsayrogers6690]

Well this may shock. I’m 67 and caught clubbing in the 90’s. My mate was Tony Wilson, Factory Records. They were the best years of my life and this tune echoes them. Superb lyrics, urban poetry.

[@lindsayrogers6690]

@Chris Davis jeez, where do I start? They were wonderful days, Chris. The music and the people were pioneering. Got to say though I bloody loved getting over to Sheffield and spending time with the Crasher kids in Gatecrasher. Scott Bond on the decks banging out sublime trance. I started as a Mod riding a Lambretta SX200 listening to Tamla and Northern Soul in the 70’s, The Twisted Wheel and Wigan Casino and moved on to jazz funk in the ‘80’s. When acid house and Chicago house hit we were all blown away and then ended up in Cream. I’ve got tickets for James Zabiela in Liverpool in November but after that may have to hang up the glow sticks on the Zimmer frame. A lifetime of wonderful music has meant a lifetime of meeting wonderful people. I’ve reached for the lasers in Centrofly, NYC with Roger Sanchez on the decks and seen the sun come up on the terrace @ Space, Ibiza whilst Sasha provided the soundtrack. I have been privileged.

[@TheMaxHancock]

@@lindsayrogers6690

[@lindsayrogers6690]

@@TheMaxHancock ?

[@paulkemp6314]

YES MY BROTHER! Get in there my son 💯👍🤣🔥

[@mrdamianbriscoe]

Fantastic story 👍🏻

[@owenhickey7064]

37 now, still feel like a pilled up teenager listening to this one. Great tune.

[@Torbelini]

we 40 now :) cheers

[@scottschiess1440]

This is the greatest celebration of rave life ever. This tune is so powerful it really speaks to anyone who is a live music/festival/club person reaching the end of their 20s.

[@JL-nk1pc]

end of 20s lol pussy

[@scottschiess1440]

@@JL-nk1pc i'm such a pussy for being my age! oh dang!

[@JL-nk1pc]

@@scottschiess1440 rave culture was dead by that point ur generation sucks

[@scottschiess1440]

@@JL-nk1pc I go to great shows all the time :) there are great events in SoCal all the time, esp in LA warehouses

[@JL-nk1pc]

@@scottschiess1440 na the music is dead from the rave era of hardcore, jungle, house & garage. your generation sucks for music even the kids now play the 90s stuff cos they know its better.

[@MegaMd76]

Mike Skinner is a poet. He should be listened to for generations.

[@pauldekrock485]

'my life has been up and down since i walked from that crowd' how true mr Mike Skinner

[@collapsiblechair9112]

I'm 50 and this seems as beautiful as it did when I first heard it.

[@jonnyellis3134]

36 iam know but remember going to Amsterdam at 18 with my mates and this album. I will never forget...

[@JakeT89]

Can't believe this album came out 18 years ago! I'm 31 now but still remember my mate in the year above at school playing it. Great album.

[@lindsayrogers6690]

I left a comment earlier praising the quality of this music. It is indeed urban poetry. I have recently retired from teaching troubled lads in a PRU. I was privileged to be one lad’s best man at his wedding. Unfortunately I stood at one of my lad’s graveside, he was out of reach and took 8 bullets to the chest. I am now recovering from surgery for cancer but would have used this in my classroom. Urban poetry, indeed.

[@wankerwanker1977]

Legend keep going 💪

[@sparrow-does-stuff]

"Then the girl in the café taps me on the shoulder I realise five years went by and I'm older Memories smoulder, winter's colder but that same piano loops over and over..." Gives me chills every time

[@MerlynMusicman]

Well put, and I feel the same

[@nicholasbyford428]

❤

[@filedeput6129]

This song has an unexplainable vibe to it. Magical.

[@jazznolan]

No one had ever captured real life especially in a city like Mike can..peerless genius ......God bless you for giving us this man

[@melancholy5131]

If you're in your 30s now this group single-handedly explains your youth.

[@paulgaubert7923]

Am 50 and was into us hip hop at the time and thought what is this shit... Years later living away from the UK this brings tears to my eyes, joyful and sadness. The power of music!

[@andrewgrimwood6280]

Yes man 👍 love that

[@Konverteraren]

this is london to me. 100%. This track is the reason I moved to london and survived in this city for 8 years.

[@noa2613]

How can I miss a scene that I've never been a part of? Hell of a song.

[@SuperCholdi]

Your profile pic tells me you were there in spirit.

[@nonlinear7915]

was one the few American students at my school that was up on this track and album back in 03...man...so much love for his music

[@fightingirish3084]

[@t.c.bramblett617]

Me too! Jumped on this as soon as I heard it. One of the greatest

[@funkyjaguilera]

I was living in Virginia, in the Navy at the time 22, this was my JAM!! 😭😭😭 it would remind me of the Summer of '00 in the Mediterranean. Had this whole CD on repeat

[@soulfly4076]

lmao , i was friends with DJ Sumo in one of the biggest clubs in new orleans when this shit came out , he played it. fucking school? wtf

[@allanbomersback]

Relatable with a twist. One of many Americans at an international school overseas and one of the very few who had this tape on repeat in the Spring of 02.' Best of times rampaging through Aberdeen.

[@siobhanbrady4717]

This brings me back to such a happy time. I love The Streets. I remember driving around London on a hot summer day with this blasting out of the window. Mike looks so young here.

[@DZ-fk7ji]

He looks like a baby compared to now, probably the same as everyone, including me, who loved The Streets at that time in history.

[@siobhanbrady4717]

@@DZ-fk7ji Wish we had a time machine cause I would love to go back to those times :)

[@oijimmyslay]

I remember the moment I listened to this at 6am after a night out and it changed my life. Great to have you back Mike.

[@benthilwind6908]

Still loving this album.. Still relevant for life tunes

[@stevenr3952]

I remember about 20 years ago waiting in the car while my mum went into some shop. Original Pirate Material came on the radio & it instantly hit me, & ever since then I’ve loved that song this song.. the whole album is a masterpiece.

[@freemusictiltheend]

Pure genius... been listening too the streets for as long as I can remember, 33 today, this never gets old

[@danfielden9739]

34 and feeling exactly the same as you 👌

[@catherinejohns9972]

had so many of these nights loved every bit of it 36 now and still love banging this tune out 😁

[@ovobegzino275]

What was the best thing about going out back then?

[@theashdey9383]

" The night slowly fades and goes slow motion, all the commotion becomes floating emotions." 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@kaiyncowlishaw3161]

23, bouncing around the staff room in Costa with my earphones in. Clock on in 15 minutes, cheers Mike. You get us through it👍

[@prodbyconscious]

Man what’s crazy is when you look at Mike Skinner in these older videos is he was like me or you living in Britain. But the way he could translate what was going on in the 2000s into music is just mental.

[@iamtimi3798]

"That same piano loops over and over and over" I still love this shit! been listening since Original Pirate material When I was 12! only kid in my school bumping one of the albums that shape my music taste for ever! I Love Mike for that man saved my life with music

[@jay_ok]

Pure nostalgia... Just something about this tune that is timeless and captures an era

[@Aleksandr-ms2dg]

I remember listening to Mike skinner back when I was 18, used to listen to the streets on repeat. I’m 35 now, and this came up randomly in my suggestions, I haven’t listen to any of his music for years…. but hearing this again, it felt like I’d gone back in time and I was 18 again.

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

right now i have a lump in my throat and the tears stream, when your a young man with a good heart we had not a care in the world, it was like a dream, now 44 divorced and homeless I see them all now, yeah I see em all , All who are spineless😪😥

[@wtfuchattin]

My mate Mel loved emptying ferrets to this song. RIP Mel. You're caretaking in heaven now. xx

[@slydogg1988]

Not much better than the nostalgia this song brings me and I would say anyone who lived this life, grew up with the streets and or were heroes in their own right, I love you ❤️

[@musicguy20]

I was lucky enough to be up late one night watching MTV (USA) and discovering The Streets when I was a teen back then. Never saw them again on TV but kept them in my music collection.

[@murtonben]

Who’s still listening to this in 2020? 👌

[@westldn6125]

Common bro

[@coll1nz229]

I’m here

[@danielcohen4987]

great memories. UK early 2000's. loved it.

[@Bananna_Wintour]

mate, every month since "the days"

[@adrian_j_jones]

Yep 🤙🏻

[@andyminister8677]

Ah man I could cry reminiscing about these times. Skinner is an absolute treasure, legend ❤️

[@Katie-rx8ql]

I absolutely love the streets...38 year old mummy here and still raving 🤣👍💕

[@markpoland5748]

Nichards, with you all the way alot of my mates were into rave, dance, you know how it was but me I liked alot of different stuff I to feel privileged to have grown up when I did to respect this music for what it is. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES AND THE REWIND, Mike was a poet. Stay safe and well pal..

[@hankscorpio3917]

Greatest song ever made and so relatable. Sums up my teenage years to a tee 🎯

[@gavinbarnes8935]

This song is timeless

[@corriganwalshfamily5926]

Piano on this 🙌🏻👌🏼

[@hekaterose7307]

Catching up with an old friend, I've not Got my daughter. This tune. Spot on.. Hope u get to see this. Every good time over the last 10 years, you've been there! Massive amount of love. Thanks for the good time tunage!!

[@houktanhdanhi2352]

This was filmed in the works nightclub in Kingston, great track, I was only like 16 years late coming across this track, didn't know it even existed, I just used to listen to the 'original pirate material' track, the choice of words are excellent, something we can all relate to especially if your brought up in the 1990s/2000s. Last shot is on the Richmond road looking towards Kingston near the Isha Bar.

[@charliecrosthwaite9531]

That nightclub shut down last year

[@TheScottGillies]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535247/Nightclub-shut-police-discover-half-210-people-witnessed-30-man-brawl-criminal-convictions.html

[@michaelhobbs3105]

I did pass it once but since it got closed down it’s kind of spooky I wonder have they turned it into a shop or just left it to be torn down into a ghost town building where bad people hang round now a days

[@LunaMoona-ll7pj]

I’m 30 now, I listened to him when I was a young teen. I swear this is making me emotional; so glad I found the band again and can listen to all the music!

[@bambamoyv]

Mike, you made a record that stand the test of times - it’s so good, love it just as much after all these years

[@JimmuClarku]

Royksopp's remix brought me here. The original is a different animal. I'm hooked. Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷

[@amazinangelic]

I'm 29 and still felt the anthems, the euphoria, the randoms, the comedown and the next night!

[@altron4443]

I simply can not thank you enough for my young lost childhood. You had me going man.

[@ste9474]

Such a pleasure to listen to this

[@neilba1]

One of the greatest albums of all time…

[@ABlive-h3z]

Timeless music, I’m only 25 but I’m glad I have knowledge of the multiple cultures and genres people line the streets have left for our generation to find, fuck the charts 🎉

[@MerlynMusicman]

Fuck the charts. Commodification of art is so harmful to humanity

[@MoorlandsVale]

Hitting home this one after going through a rough patch, soon be behind me, im hoping. The world keeps turning and the people keep moving.

[@scott3874]

Me too friend. It brings back so many floating emotions. Mike's best tune. It's an inspiration of peace and unity 🫶🏼

[@wumpagames82]

This song reminds me of the first time I did acid 7am it came on sun rising on a beach in Australia, everyone happy loving each other. Best times of my life! So relavent at the time

[@wozza8531]

This song makes me reminisce on every college and uni sesh or night out

[@jaisalmm]

sort it out Woz

[@scotgirl778]

Yeah I know me too, not uni though just more like every night out in my 20's almost! Lol x

[@symbolitical4158]

@@scotgirl778 "anything that paws or hoofs" well I guess that's my catfish out then

[@KarloCarl]

Thank you for your extraordinary music, Mike Skinner. You were the soundtrack of my youth and still make me cry like a baby in my 30s

[@MusicSpeaks]

Those opening strings are powerful

[@davidhyndman3240]

One of those tunes you only appreciate when you get older

[@danash8067]

Would have to disagree there Dave sorry, album is in a league of it's own appreciated it from first listen and still get same excitement listening all these years on

[@dannad1759]

@@danash8067 definantly the whole album was a gem and is now a diamond!

[@spaceboy2095]

Loved it in my twenties, but you know...

[@ratastewie91]

@@danash8067 I never got it when I was a kid. Was only 12 when this came out mind. Stumbled back onto this album maybe three years ago and was just blown away

[@archieledger]

​@@ratastewie91 shout out to pops bringing me on to Skinner from early

[@chad0x]

This track and album changed my life. Them days were golden.

[@k2damen]

This is and has always been my Favourite Streets song and yet it took until now for me to realise there was a video lol!! Best surprise of the year! Absolute Classic… I’ll be listening to this for decades to come ❤

[@gabivagner]

2024. I remembered this song now, played it after God-knows-how-many years, just brilliant!

[@eskimosinthedesert7777]

Ah man this is so powerful and drags me back to those nights... That European Bob bit is spot on, makes me smile so much and a little nostalgic ❤️

[@chrisleigh8989]

I was in college when this album came out. I could relate to most of the music and I'd listen to it over and over. Now years on I've never stopped listening...sign of a great album.

[@kc5493]

Unreal song, unreal artist, unreal performer

[@Spectoral_on_SPOTIFY]

One of my favorite gigs ever was hearing Mike Skinner drop this live mere feet from my face in a heaving, sweaty, sardine canned sweatbox of a club in Melbourne

[@elgordo111]

I wish I would have heard this song when I was young, the sheer poetry of it. What a wonderful song.

[@bluedeano]

I remember listing to the album many years ago in my early 20s and loving this song in particular... “we all smile... we all sing”

[@aussieguy1012]

Daaamn this was my weekend every weekend. Yep I'm 33 those were the days! He nailed it details so exact!

[@sogopatch2244]

I'm addicted to this ,such unique writing and vision

[@michaelhobbs3105]

This song is a very sad tearful one though what describes is like you let your time go by, went off did the wrong things or joined the wrong crowds, when you could have been doing the things you wanted like Adventure, travel the world, go to college college party’s instead to get more friendships, but you let that past by with a horrible up and down life and that song just brings me to tears when I first listened to it it’s not happy and pretty it’s full of sad emotions that will teach tho the hard facts of life when you got into trouble or kicked out of school/college and you miss out on those things.

[@Third_eye559]

The Streets……I was 16/17 when these blew up……amazing. Great memories!

[@fede22081]

Today I went out for a walk and it's been the most spring-like day I've seen so early on in February. I felt like hitting the record shop cause I had no record that matched such a powerful weather. Once there, the clerk saw I was looking at this album and offered to put it on... The way it lights up a room is brilliant. I chose the "Lamb" selftitled eventually, but next time I might consider The Streets, for sure...

[@Lfimagery]

we used to listen to this in the car at wkends driving to and from clubs all over the UK 20+ years ago (another life time), it perfectly described everyone of those nights. "Known you all my life i don't know your name..." so many strangers who became friends for the night sharing the same experience.

[@thepodbaydoorshal]

"Only one choice in the city, done voicing my pity, now let's get to the nitty gritty..."

[@shanonhayes6834]

When I bought this album I didn't realise how much it would help me through the low times , thanks mick

[@joeshepherd2920]

June 2023. Still listening 🎶.

[@jackpalmer8250]

this song takes me back to every night of laughs with my friends, in times like this I miss those moments too much, nights out coming home way too late, things id do to get on the dancefloor and forget about the past year, step with you again sometime my loved ones

[@theodarcyhill3926]

This has to be one of Skinner's best

[@stewartyearsley9557]

Talking to my m8 about this tune tonight, a lot of people don't realise the importance of this tune at this moment in time

[@newbornsound]

First time doing x was to this song and “blinded by the light”. When it first came out, and I was still young. Forever great memories

[@crazyfool4325]

Man this tune gives me butterflies, takes me back to the good ole dayz!!!

[@Shepstreets]

This track still rips my heart out. Just wow

[@dianehoughton5555]

Yeah man...

[@djslewis]

One of the best songs of my youth. Love from across the pond.

[@rhysherlock594]

20 fucking years and i still get that feeling that i did all them years ago. Fucking gem

[@fridastwin]

Amen. Sophisticated, timeless track!!!

[@connorellis591]

We all smile. We all sing. The most mesmerising, wonderful, lyrics a track has ever heard. Simply phenomenal. Would give my left bollock to hear this track for the first time again! xxxxxxxxxxxx

[@JeromekJerome1972]

How have I never seen this video? Captures the vibe perfectly. Was a child through 2 Tone and early hip hop. In London clubs and fields as a teen during Acid House and Mike Skinners first album up there with any of that. Top stuff

[@will9055]

The Streets headlined my at my uni graduation party. I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. Ten years later I listen more carefully. He's a lyrical genius.

[@matthewmurphy6139]

"Pleased to meet ya, Likewise a pleasure"

[@senorxcoldhands9671]

Love this line 😄😄

[@dominicoliver1339]

I was 13 when this came out i can remember my brother banging it out in his s1 escort rs turbo with me in the passenger seat i loved my childhood 😍😍😍

[@djhillfinger]

Is that you brother? Actually no i had a series 2

[@emilywilliams3191]

Why lie? 😂

[@ndr3473]

SR Nova driving like a joyrider

[@LOG1CDS1GN]

@@ndr3473 speedin' to the corner, your mother warned ya, it's a sound system banger

[@HarveyWB]

this song is sooo sick just makes me wanna go mad and party feels like summer is coming and its still winter haha !

[@catchfeelings8459]

We all smile, we all sing!

[@cockneyred9910]

I will never forget coming out of a club in Berlin feeling like pure shite and just putting this on and it just being exactly what we needed

[@leejohn7777]

2020 and this still bangs 🔥🔥

[@Terry-Fire]

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥not a phone in sight I can’t believe original pirate material is over 20 year old now wicked album I had the joy of seeing you guys live in Glasgow a few years ago awesome night ❤️‍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@socialpiratekeyboardwarrio6546]

40 and still listening to this one loved my twentys

[@pleasedeletepasswordkemp8082]

THIS ALBUM IS PURE CLASS.MY 20S !!! EVERY TUNE BRINGS BACK CLASSIC MEMORYS.

[@verityjane2337]

Still a track to evoke so many memories! Nearly 20 years on!

[@rickyletts]

The mad tune from when we were kids.. ❤❤ 😍 lovely

[@bigbambamb7053]

im 43 this year this takes me back 95-01