“Shine” by Final Placement from sharity world on Vimeo.
I love the Internet. When I saw this last night, it had about 200 views. Now it’s 27 thousand. That’s a lot of people enjoying one of the worst songs of all time. The video is almost definitely a birthday present from his dad who believes you have to follow your dreams, even if your dreams are to make terrible songs with videos like a guy doing his paper route. I will admit however, that I can’t get “This is your life / This is your time” out of my fucking head.
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-JESSICA K
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The lyrics remind me of the Cro Mags…
Hard times are comin your way
You’re gonna have to rise above it some day
Organize your life and figure it out
Or you’ll go under without a doubt
Hard times are coming through
But if your hard they won’t get to you
They’re gonna try to drive you into the ground
But never surrender, never go down!
02.23.10 at 11:10 am
I guarantee you the singer’s dad owns that warehouse. It houses dirt bikes and snowmobiles and they are in Colorado. His dad is worried his son is having a boring life because they moved from Venice when the kid was 4 and he’s never lived anywhere fun. The kid sees dad’s surf pics and all the chicks he had and wonders what life would’ve been like if they never moved to Longmont.
02.23.10 at 11:12 am
This is what rock n’ roll is all about.
I just got their 7′ split with deerhunter, it rules.
02.23.10 at 11:22 am
Holy shit!
02.23.10 at 11:27 am
this could be a decent band if that lead singer guy was replaced with anything else. am i wrong?
02.23.10 at 11:40 am
hahahah fuck this sucks. if you cant play your instruments properly, be a punk band. then u can still be cool and sound like shit and its ok!
02.23.10 at 11:40 am
The video is too slick for a bunch of amateurs, the music is too crappy for professionals, and they don’t have their instruments plugged in. I say this is some sort of viral, cooked up by someone disturbingly overpaid.
02.23.10 at 11:49 am
i used to be like these guys, but then the satan worshipper at my school spiked my diet mountain dew with acid.
02.23.10 at 11:49 am
If they just add a fuckload of reverb, and get their asses to Brooklyn, they can become the latest hot band from Williamsburg
02.23.10 at 11:52 am
obviously sucks “on purpose”
also, a little late w/ this one SBTV
02.23.10 at 11:53 am
all my bands suck ,….but not on Purpose…. .stick to what ya know…..writing pavement rip offs….of pavement ripping off the fall!!!!!!! booooo yah indie rock !!!!! so in !
02.23.10 at 12:02 pm
Is this the new Green Day video?
02.23.10 at 12:03 pm
The opening sounded alot like the Mary Tyler Moore theme…
Love is all around, no need to fake it
You’re gonna make it after all!!!!
They should have went with that.
02.23.10 at 12:13 pm
some of the youtube comments are great:
“nothing says rock and roll like a red polo shirt and a north face? jacket.”
“If there were no African? influence on American culture, this is the type of music that would be produced far and wide”
I like it. I don’t think there are enough clean guitar bends + reverb in music today.
02.23.10 at 12:16 pm
LEAD GUITARIST IS A GOD. FUCK CLAPTON.
The SOLO is a must-listen.
02.23.10 at 12:19 pm
Put these guys on “America’s Got Talent” so that David Hasselhoff will throw up in disgust all over Sharon Osbourne .
02.23.10 at 12:28 pm
You know while they were filming the video, that lead singer underbite piranha kid was all, “Yeah, we’re about to hit the bigtime.”
02.23.10 at 12:30 pm
The guitar tone is the only thing that would indicate “bad on purpose.” There are plenty of kids in bands that think they should start shopping demos around after like a week of practice.
For example:
http://www.myspace.com/lydiasracket
Place I worked got about a dozen tapes from the band above. And that was two years ago when they weren’t so amazingly polished.
02.23.10 at 12:31 pm
that was in-cred-ible!!!!!!!!!!
02.23.10 at 12:43 pm
must be a joke
02.23.10 at 12:45 pm
When they first started playing it sounded like The Brady Bunch when they formed a band. Then it got worse…
02.23.10 at 1:00 pm
Set it as my new ringtone. So awesome, guitar solo made me cum.
02.23.10 at 1:28 pm
it isn’t the guitar ‘tone,’ geniuses. the fucking thing is out of tune.
02.23.10 at 1:32 pm
There is a genius madness in being so bad you become awesome!
02.23.10 at 1:32 pm
STFU! This is the HEART of America. If it weren’t for us, the gays would’ve taken over by now.
02.23.10 at 1:39 pm
this got taken down a few days ago, so they’re onto us. here’s the info i saved from the first time:
Final Placement is a Christian Rock band from Midland Tx. It consists of four guys from Midland Christian School. They are currently playing shows. They dream of scoring a record label one day.
The philosophy of FP is, ” The world is gone but not lost it can still be saved, all it takes is the people to listen. Maybe if they will hear the message and change.”
02.23.10 at 2:00 pm
This is the music we would have to listen too if the gays took over:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU
02.23.10 at 2:01 pm
Final Placement sounds more like a name for an Skinhead punk band.
They could open for Cleansing Tide.
02.23.10 at 2:06 pm
islands
02.23.10 at 2:16 pm
If you think they made this to be purposefully funny you are a complete dullard, and should probably be locked-up, or relegated to working the checkout lane at Wal-Mart for eternity.
02.23.10 at 2:30 pm
this sounds suspiciously like those ‘creed shreds’ youtube videos from a few years back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipy58SaIRhs
02.23.10 at 2:31 pm
One of these guys has a Family Guy poster in his room.
02.23.10 at 3:03 pm
where do they even still sell jeans like that?
02.23.10 at 3:42 pm
this shit is better than vampire weekend
02.23.10 at 3:52 pm
It could just be my shitty speakers or it could be that the bassist didn’t realize he wasn’t plugged in when they recorded his part. That or they figured a song with such refined guitar lines didn’t need a bass to pull it together.
02.23.10 at 3:52 pm
nice. a subtle fake.
02.23.10 at 4:21 pm
You can laugh all you want, but there are a couple of cheerleaders from their school that saw this and are plotting how to get these boys in the sack. EVERYBODY wants a guy in a band.
02.23.10 at 4:29 pm
i bet they still get laid a lot by christian groupies
02.23.10 at 4:37 pm
Everyone in the office thinks im outta my fucking mind. Really shouldn’t have opened this full volume and played the whole thing start to finish. NSFW
02.23.10 at 5:38 pm
This is terrible, but, so what? They’re in high school.
02.23.10 at 6:01 pm
dey need to tuck dey teeth in.
02.23.10 at 7:22 pm
someday you will find the words you’re looking for, oooooor… shaky b-roll footage of an oil derrick
02.23.10 at 9:00 pm
video’s down…
02.23.10 at 11:26 pm
Bad lip-syncing? Backwards Abercrombie hat? Fake anger? Ugly girlfriend? Checks all around….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVX-y4wOrAo&feature=related
02.24.10 at 12:20 am
Also you can find the video from the original post at: http://vimeo.com/9625670
Since it was taken off you tube.
02.24.10 at 12:54 am
Every girl reading this post has had an ex boyfriend exactly like this.
02.24.10 at 5:10 pm