alone poll

i feel like one of these merits a sub-poll:

no one to fuck with my mind

- there is no one he can fuck, in a physical way
- there is no one he can fuck mentally, with his mind
- he doesn't have anyone there who will fuck with his mind, in a figurative way
- he doesn't have anyone there who will fuck with his mind, in a mental sex kind of way

Voted alooooo-whoaone looooOOOOOOOOwhoawhoaoooone alooowhoaoone alooowhoaluhwhoaooone.

I predict a landslide.

How is he getting rain on his desert island, though?

I thought "no one to fuck" would be the obvious answer, but it was a true unexpected LOL when he hits "....and the RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN" so going with that.

the edit on the climax really sets it over the edge

i feel like one of these merits a sub-poll:

no one to fuck with my mind

- there is no one he can fuck, in a physical way
- there is no one he can fuck mentally, with his mind
- he doesn't have anyone there who will fuck with his mind, in a figurative way
- he doesn't have anyone there who will fuck with his mind, in a mental sex kind of way

― Karl Malone, Monday, January 31, 2022 11:39 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think its clearly 1 and 3 but not sure he's smart enough to figure out what he did there.

the edit on the climax really sets it over the edge

it does. i wonder if that's in the original or if it's a catatonic edit? either way, it leaves a lasting image

i thought it was rage, not rain, but either is great obviously

thank you to spottie for creating this poll

man, that argument that plays out during the long alooooooones, where she slaps him.
some intense footage throughout, you can see why he was driven to this

i thought it was rage, not rain, but either is great obviously

yeah, i don't know! he doesn't do either, he just goes raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy-eeah-yeah!

i'm assuming that he's going for the exact rhyme opportunity, pain/rain, but it's true that it would be more fitting for the song if it went to rage, because he's been feeling a lot

i can't help but like this soul patch country guy in spite of everything

i feel like its clearly "rain" just cos it rhymes yeah

many fans are saying that the reason they broke up is because of the way he was leaning on her in that one scene, just before she disappears (another clue)

he was "leaning on her" for support, and he depended on her, but that's what made her leave.

i just watched it again and focused only on his hands... highly recommended

Substitute this for Colin Newman’s “Alone” in Silence of the Lambs.

i thought it was rage, not rain, but either is great obviously

Ditto!

it's definitely 'rain'. which is much more poetic, good choice.

soul patch country guy looks to be groping his way toward reinventing country music from the ground up, first by deconstructing it into all its constituent parts, then stitching them back together again exactly the same way as they were originally, except for the massive blood loss and trauma they suffered in the process.

I think my favourite bit is the head swivel during the OOOoowhoOOO section of alooowhowhoalOOOoowhoOOOOOOOOOooooooone.

I didn't think of him as country, I thought he was like Staind recorded at home.

to me he's the next scott stapp

yaaaaaaaaaaah-yeaahuhhh with his girl running off with the blood is a solid deep cut

during the slapping scene, who is that sitting on the couch to the right?

doesn't matter i guess, just a regular party scene

haha, "he stood up, time to make my move!"

each detail confirms that this guy is feeling super alone

I'll need some citations for that claim.

I didn't think of him as country, I thought he was like Staind recorded at home.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, January 31, 2022 1:02 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yah i get no country vibes from this guy. hes clearly a late 90s/early 00s rural stapp/staind type of lad.

during the slapping scene, who is that sitting on the couch to the right?

― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 January 2022 20:06 (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

doesn't matter i guess, just a regular party scene

― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 January 2022 20:07 (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

So not gonna happen.

the part where theres an echoey cause you left me here, a pause, and then what is clearly supposed to be the crescendo but the weak lil drum machine just comes back in like normal lmao

that's how you earn a key change

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Oh goddamn it

ive listened to this too many times now

it holds up

we need to find the full video

you'd think a search for "no one to fuck" and "with my mind" would lead you to it, but it doesn't

i am saving the audio, at least, and will refer to it on my mixtapes as

alone (no one to fuck with my mind)

got it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-egyS2Jrwo4

only 6000 views, somehow

https://i.imgur.com/JrdmVMC.png

ahh lmao yes thank you

trapped and buried beneath the sand
standing in a field beneath the pouring rain
there's no easy way to deal with the pain
oh the pain
oh the pain
and the raaaaaaaaaain, whoaayeaah

the crazy flashing on the "RAAAAAAIN!" is in the original, no editing needed by catatonic youths

really enjoyed them toasting champagne on two huge leather chairs

live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljlHxrYVBPQ

https://i.imgur.com/Hi2JIZv.png

https://i.imgur.com/OgEeMI3.png

https://i.imgur.com/IPo0Q7C.png

lol, 3:04 into the live cut: https://i.imgur.com/mSPvD3x.png

https://i.imgur.com/o3RnCG7.png

2 refills later

https://i.imgur.com/JrdmVMC.png

thread delivers

OMG, it's nearly 5 minutes long.

i feel like one of these merits a sub-poll:

no one to fuck with my mind

- there is no one he can fuck, in a physical way
- there is no one he can fuck mentally, with his mind
- he doesn't have anyone there who will fuck with his mind, in a figurative way
- he doesn't have anyone there who will fuck with his mind, in a mental sex kind of way

There's a fifth option, that he AND his mind have a double-dating situation where they EACH pick up a girl.

i'm giving a pass to anyone who wants to call this song "a vibe"

many are speculating that the flashing strobes on "the rain" are an allusion to LIGHTNING striking

The full-length version of the song comes off more pensive and less dramatic, maybe because it wanders aimlessly.

omg the eye zoom in/out on the og video lmaooooo

even more creepy hand action, just what i needed today lol

https://j.gifs.com/MZWN0R.gif

very nice

i can't stop looking at that

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― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, January 31, 2022 6:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3dxdIn3rc

oh fuck

For some reason, I don't recognize that Chicago tune.. no trombones I guess

the other guy dressed up as chris cornell and hes just wearing an eddie vedder shirt lmao

lmao yes. honestly i love those couple dudes in the crowd being all pumped for it. v wholesome.

This is the new Liam Gallagher tune right

this is gonna turn into a "so gonna happen" style podcast, isn't it

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

And we have a tie!

77 strikes again

solid tie there.

and two of the alones alone at the bottom with 0 votes.

alooowhowhoalOOOoowhoOOOOOOOOOooooooone was robbed. Sometimes I just don't understand this board.

i just watched it at least ten more times due to the bump lmao

same

i watched all the different versions and edits and cuts of them, to go for the total rewatch

that homeboy with the bandana, hanging with his girl.. man, I wouldn't mess around with that dude

the pain......and the rain oh yeahhh yeahhow

https://i.imgur.com/k4wadGb.png

i think i subconsciously saw the thread before i really saw it cause the song popped into my head then a minute later i was like oh hey the thread for the song

a yeeaaaaaaaah yeaaaaaahhhrrrr

i lost track of it, yesterday. i couldn't find it on here, and then my googles were coming up empty. i kept searching for stuff like "pain and the rain"+"creed guy" and "catatonicyouths"...it was harder than it should have been

then out of nowhere i remembered "no one to fuck...with my mind" and i immediately found it. some trivia for Alone-heads is that there's one other song where "no one to fuck with my mind" comes up, and it's a song by the Electrocutes called Doombuggy that's actually pretty good. will be looking forward to the third instance of "no one to fuck with my mind" to see which direction it tilts!

https://j.gifs.com/MZWN0R.gif

something about the way her makeup is there makes it look like when one paints an eye on their closed eyelid

https://i.imgur.com/LrAzJRr.gif

samesies

this one resonates because it's also how i feel at the lake

https://i.imgur.com/nf8sQVv.gif

I keep thinking this is about the Colin Newman song

i feel like a lot of this guy's unhappiness could be averted if he just stopped disappearing his girlfriend

or if he pulled himself inside out thru his eye, thus re-transforming into her

I see I said nearly the same thing 10 months ago, but in my defense I totally forgot about this song.

i have never forgotten this song for even one second

i feel like a lot of this guy's unhappiness could be averted if he just stopped disappearing his girlfriend

what's he doing out there all alone in the rain?

he's burying his dead girlfriends. some say he keeps the shovels in his pockets and that's why he keeps putting his hands in there

His Superhero power is that he can make girls disappear by touching them