What an incredible band. I hope they don't just drop 1 amazing album and then disappear

@taylorgibsoncooper

Жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

@yeastfreckle

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorgibsoncooper brUHHHH

@billyalarie929

Жыл бұрын

Stop STOP 😭😭😭

@taylorh4480

Жыл бұрын

I mean… They started making a second record and realize that it just wasn’t going to be a special so they opted to quit and shelve the material. it was never meant to be anything more than a side project and when they tried to push it they realized they were right in that decision

@rpriest9585

Жыл бұрын

Lmaooooooooo

And that, ladies and gentlepersons, is unabridged, timeless, raw talent captured at fifteen frames per second for prosperity and beyond.

@kgbinfo

Жыл бұрын

I think it’s more like 5 frames per second but yeah.

@victorkreig6089

Жыл бұрын

It's ladies and gentlemen get it right

@SandalwoodBros

Жыл бұрын

Maybe 15 frames per minute

@BennyOcean

Жыл бұрын

*Posterity, but yes.

@knighthaunter

Жыл бұрын

Truth

I love how Jenny doesn't over sing; she subtly adds her vocals where it needs an uplift to enhance the song. Bens lyrics are really the shining star in this band.

ahhh 2003, when every musician had a Line 6 delay loop pedal for every instrument.

@brandonp.9371

Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha Yes indeed

@Matt-mk8ph

Жыл бұрын

they just released the DL4

@mattwarbuckle

Ай бұрын

ahhh 2003, when every musician had a Line 6 delay loop pedal for every instrument. ahhh 2003, when every musician had a. ahhh 2003, when every m. ahhh 200. ahhh. a.

I remember watching this video when I was in high school in 2004. They meant so much to me then and still do! Just saw them play at The Hollywood Bowl. Loved it!

@stevea1236

9 ай бұрын

I was at that show too, man… it was great!!!!

I read these lines in a Pitchfork "Best of 2000s" review: "Give Up is mid-decade indie pop flawlessly preserved in amber .... Let’s appreciate the album for what it is: An exquisite time capsule that probably can’t-and probably shouldn’t-be duplicated." These words really struck me as perfect for The Postal Service.

I don't think I love anything more than Ben running for the drums mid-song.

@MWorsa

Жыл бұрын

Was happening as I read this 🤔

Omg Ben’s run to the drums is legendary

No one's going to complain about the frame rates because the recording itself is GOLD !

@hasbullabelgianfanpage

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@JordanGreene27

3 жыл бұрын

Makes it even more nostalgic, love it

It's been 16 years. I wish I could go back and tell my younger self how important this album would always be, and remember to listen to it when things got dark. It all holds up. The lyrics mean so much more after growing up and everything I've been thru. The heartbreak, the loss, the addiction. It's all represented in the lyrics here. I will be taking another journey with this album. Incredible.

@raynbillson2601

Жыл бұрын

Really puts how quickly time passes.. feels like yesterday, yet it's almost 20 years later. Will never get those years back but this takes you back for a moment.

@Widderic

Жыл бұрын

Sammmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeee

@leftovernoise

Жыл бұрын

My best friend and I used to listen to this album together all the time when it came out. He passed away two years, ago. This video is making my cry fuckin rivers

@UnderseaGreenMonkey

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, i feel you.

It's 2019 and this is still just wonderful to listen to.

@matthall1998

3 жыл бұрын

2021

@maliceentity

3 жыл бұрын

This performance beats the later years even with Dntel additives.

@redhotchilipapa5388

3 жыл бұрын

@@maliceentity it truly does. You can tell that excitement of discovering this sound has yet to fade within Ben’s many songs.

how does this not have a million views? this is probably the most on par performance in contrast to the album. since it was shortly after the album was done.

@cestlavegan5793

7 жыл бұрын

So friggin true!

@gonza55558

5 жыл бұрын

Think it positive. All the alternative music, since pop to experimental, is only reserved to a few people. It's not to fill a stadium. Is our treasure.

@seltonk5136

5 жыл бұрын

This was such a gem at the time , you could save the Audio to computer and play all day. The vid took forever to “stream” it drove me nuts

@brandonshaw7619

3 жыл бұрын

It's the way it is but go to a festival we are out there oh boy are we out there

@cazbiggie8215

2 жыл бұрын

Best part not having a million views I know every word!!!!!! And this is it going to a gig !! ‘!!!

How dare he speak at the beginning of "Such Great Heaghts!" Lol really good stuff Love it!

@NotoriousPirates

5 жыл бұрын

and he yapped over the guitar solo!

@bennybeyerle3054

3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to slap the accent off of him when he did that

@geebee380

2 жыл бұрын

That guy ruined it

I come back to this about once a year. Today is that day.

@nasty5634

8 сағат бұрын

Annnnnnnd I’m back.

Ben looks so adorkable in this video. I love it.

I loved listening to them back then when I was in the Army.

It's 2020 and this album has aged beautifully, feels like it could've been released yesterday.

@themule137

3 жыл бұрын

It's such a masterpiece. I'm glad they never released anything else. Quit while you're ahead is the winner's strategy and it's cemented their place in legendary epic status.

@cazbiggie8215

2 жыл бұрын

Exactamento.ive jus rememberd every band that jus rolled off my rambling!!!! U said it !!!

@Zacharysharkhazard

Жыл бұрын

It’s so timeless in it’s songwriting and it’s sonic aesthetic. 2022 and it still is one of the best and most influential electronic/indie projects

@CamKnoppMusic

Жыл бұрын

The video quality has not aged well though haha

@ccastaneda1535

Жыл бұрын

Seriously though💯

It's crazy what a great live singer he is. He sounds just like the album.

I miss his old young voice so much but its just a reminder that time does fly. Heres to 20 beautiful years of this masterpiece.

IT IS HAPPENING, EVERYONE! 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR WITH DEATH CAB 😭❤️

@turdferguson2982

Жыл бұрын

300 bucks a pop for the nosebleed section.

@Dilara_____

Жыл бұрын

@@turdferguson2982 tickets were a lot cheaper, at around $100 for in front of the stage, when they had just gone on sale, which I think is pretty amazing

@turdferguson2982

Жыл бұрын

@@Dilara_____it was like 1400 for the pit in Michigan.

Raw and intimate. Still sophisticated. Thank you so much for this upload and getting up so early ;-)

you cannot listen to the postal service without getting goose bumps every time.

@aethrya

Жыл бұрын

Literally had them as I just read this. What a trip 😳

@billyalarie929

Жыл бұрын

Or bawling hysterically?

I remember when this first came out,and watching this now gives me major flashbacks to a simpler time.

@cazbiggie8215

2 жыл бұрын

Yesss!! Read my band flash bak which jus rolled off th not so tooo amazing to shout out bands gigs !’!!

Jenny Lewis was just as vital to the band as Ben or Jimmy with her backing vocals alone.

@shadowoftime01

3 жыл бұрын

@Taylor Holloway by definition a duo is a band, anything more than a solo act is a band. Your pedantry is wrong. Moreover Jenny Lewis is billed as a member of their duo.

@bennybeyerle3054

3 жыл бұрын

I saw her in concert once and it was awesome

I could listen to TDSAT every day and never get tired of it. . .

This is FUCKING awesome .. Really really love this band ..makes me Cry ..thanks for upload this !!!

@cestlavegan5793

7 жыл бұрын

I get emotional too. Nostalgic as fuck!

These songs bring back some many memories and feelings. What an amazing album!

Wow, I am in a 4-days youtube cruise, putting together a radio show. Today's episode I started with shoegaze and at a ceratin point I ended up here. I can't express how happy I am with what I hear AND SEE. Not only the great age of internet, but this music... I never could really define the sound of the 2000's but somehow this and Sigur Rós does it for me. There are many others of course, I only named two. Wow. Thanks, you got some amazing archive, subscribed, no hesitation.

I love everything about Jenny Lewis. She is seriously the coolest person. She got to be an actress, be the front woman of Rilo Kiley, was in The Postal Service and then started a solo career. She’s an indie titan

@bobbycharleston

Жыл бұрын

Let's not leave out that she's on some of the best songs on Cursive's 'The Ugly Organ'. Her touch is on so much music, and it's always brilliant.

@Hauke-Haien

Жыл бұрын

And she's staying knowingly cool when Ben switches to go low on rpm early performance. I'd love to have that woman in my band.

@benjaminsamford8328

Жыл бұрын

I have the hugest innocent crush on her and have since the wizard. Of course she really had me when I heard her singing voice for the first time.

@suburbanindie

Жыл бұрын

Ditto. She's the coolest and beautiful too

@meatdraw

Жыл бұрын

man...I love Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kelly, and PS and somehow never knew that was her goddamn

Nothing has ever been captured in a bottle like this. It came and went but is alive in our hearts still till this day. ❤️

@JCsMyth

Жыл бұрын

Yes! 🥰❤️👍🏻

My god, Jenny Lewis is just absolutely divine.

i think this album became the blueprint for so many indie/pop/electronica that stole their vibe and rehashed it, over and over .

@billyalarie929

Жыл бұрын

Owl city being one of the most egregious examples.

@DazeyChaineMusic

Жыл бұрын

and over and over and over and over and over

@DazeyChaineMusic

Жыл бұрын

even death cab rehashed it

@DazeyChaineMusic

Жыл бұрын

@@billyalarie929 ew a what

2022 and still love them and listen to them all the time

Holy moly almost 20 years old... what a magnificent album

9:30 the drum solo part of we will become silhouettes is my favorite part of the song

36:33 Bens face when he's suprised that the backing track has him signing "and I"

@vaprex

Жыл бұрын

He almost busted out laughing....

The nostalgia is overwhelming. Thanks for posting

The best bands die young...

@PeremProzore

3 жыл бұрын

But live forever

Thank you, thank you, thank you. How lucky are we to have this beautiful rare footage!

wow just seeing this for the first time. unbelievable performance

Saw them live in Brooklyn during this period during a trip to NY. This brings back so many memories!!! Incredible stuff!

what's amazing is that they didn't have very much time to practice playing together, and how the songs needed to be played live. still blown away by the album, it's one of those that just fell together perfectly, smooth and effortless seeming, magic

@cazbiggie8215

2 жыл бұрын

Besttt raw STILL differ unique sound!!

Still one of the best trios. Everyone looks so young.

Just left the second 20th anniversary show in LA and man this holds up so well.

my favorite album. the soundtrack of the best moments of my life. pure beauty.

2023 and still lovely🖤

It’s great because the postal service has a movie soundtrack quality to the instruments. These songs will outlast me

Just...... perfection.... and I really mean that.

exceptionally underrated and largely forgotten to time and changes in taste. This and LCD Soundsystem deserve a dusting off semi annually for the purposes of mind and soul refreshment. The thoughtfully soulful lyrics and minimalist sound is like poetry- every note in just the right place.

@billyalarie929

Жыл бұрын

I feel like that last bit was specific 😉

@kittervision

Жыл бұрын

Next album will drop any day now....

This was my go-to study music back in the day

Reminds me so much of when I saw them live. My favorite band ever!!! Take me forever to find this video again..THANK YOU

@JohnnysMusicVideos

9 жыл бұрын

Keith Richards No problem, I found this on an old hard drive, unfortunately I grabbed it off a low quality web stream, but the audio is pretty good. Amazing artists and great to watch live. Cheers!

Glad this popped up. Reminds me of the first time I was in love and the first time I was heart broken.

@timmiller1

Жыл бұрын

Man I am with you there. I had to avoid this music for so many years.

this is fucking fantastic. thank you.

So happy I got to see these guys on their one reunion tour they did a while back. One of my favorite albums of all time, never gets old.

This whole thing was a cosmic anomaly. Every aspect of this project just fell into its place as if it was some sort of fate for them to exist at all.

My prized possession is my 2004 translucent red vinyl edition of Give Up, the grooves worn out on "Brand New Colony" which has always been my favourite. I fucking love this album. What a great time for indie

5 people couldn’t get a drink in this place.

So happy to have stumbled upon this

That was pretty good. Thank you

So much breakthrough music around those years.

I don't watch the whole set of most bands on YT, but when I do, it's this one.

Don’t know why algorithm’s brought me here but I dont regret stopping here this sounds like 2003 forsure hard to believe it was 20 years ago

Thanks for the upload John, I travelled in time thanks to this! Greetings from Guatemala!

Thank you for uploading

Thank you for uploading this! I've never seen it. This band as well as death cab defined my teens. I saw you have Sparta videos too. Gotta check those out soon.

this whole recording is just so beautiful

144p 20fps is actually really nostalgic, like the icing on the cake of a great performance

Beautiful

Ben, running to the drums. ❤

Nuts. So glad this was captured. And the audio is decent! Amazing

I had this whole album on my iPod mini in jr. High

Really awesome to stumble upon this!

Can't believe it's been almost 20 years!

Omg what treasure did I just stumble upon???? I'm not worthy!

This is so intimate and spot on! Thank you

Pure gold, thanks for sharing!

3 beautiful musical geniuses and not to mention 1 of the best lyricist out there to ever grace our pathetic world. Thank you for sharing a part of your hearts and souls with us. You speak for the ones that can’t put our emotions into words so I thank you for that.

His vocals absolutely peaked here, crazy that this and trasatlanticism came out in the same year

Awesome band and set list 😊🎶❤️😊🎶❤️

I lived in Santa Monica then and KCRW was the soundtrack of my life- Zero 7, Sia, Postal Service…

It's nowadays and i still enjoy your upload.

Great quarantine music :)

@deltalotl

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly though

@msd10

4 жыл бұрын

Silhouettes is kind of eerie given what's going on

@awong160

11 күн бұрын

still listening :)

My favorite part is in "Clark Gable" when Ben looks like he almost forgets to move to the drum booth, or maybe this is how they rehearsed it...... he barely made it to the mic, haha... his singing was all nervous, you could tell he almost botched the ending but still, brilliant... god, I miss this band, so much. Maybe we'll get a 20th anniversary tour or new music or something. I love DCFC but I feel the last ten years of their output hasn't really been great. C'mon, Ben and Jimmy... let's get the reunion going!

@lunaisabella4477

Жыл бұрын

There’s going to be a 20th anniversary tour with Death Cab as well!

Please one more tour....

this is akin to me finding an old live set of Saosin at Arlene's Grocery so many years ago. Awesome awesome. damn i'm cheesing hard at this

@JohnnysMusicVideos

7 жыл бұрын

I have a Saosin set too from 2003 in Sacramento (not sure if this link will work) - kzread.info/dash/bejne/h3t5vMhvfLGfaLw.html

@f0bez

7 жыл бұрын

John Matulich umm...wow, those are all golden as well. man i should really try to find some stuff i recorded on old cassette and digis. i recorded so much from like 00-05. from saves the day to reggie and the full effect, dcfc, tguk...ugh. they're somewhere dammit!! anyway, thanks for the uploads, subbed!

@brendonmasters

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for these!!

Jimmy Tamborello is so good. My mind was blown in high school when my sister showed me the Postal Service for the first time. Had never heard that crispy electronic aesthetic before. And really, I've never heard someone else make it quite like Jimmy. Dntel has a lot of good stuff (check out the song with Conor Oberst). But I bet Jimmy knew that Ben could take the music into the mainstream.... and therefore dumped all his effort into this album. That...and sticking to traditional verse / chorus structure helped to make these songs really accessible. Amazing stuff.

@drinkingpoolwater

Жыл бұрын

owl city took this sound and made several records out of it but nothing sounded as good as the postal service. this album is a masterpiece. not sure it can ever be duplicated. i agree about hearing this for the first time. people forget but in 2003 this was revolutionary. it was crisp but still felt analog somehow. kind of like digital ash by bright eyes. electronic but still feels warm

@andrewyeung7317

Жыл бұрын

@@drinkingpoolwater Agreed. I love Digital Ash too. Owl City always made my skin crawl (not to hate). In a similar vein, have you ever heard of An Angle? In my mind, they were to Bright Eyes what Owl City was the Postal Service.... actually maybe a bit more egregious. Very interesting how some folks manage to pay homage to their idols respectfully and others seem so inauthentic. I think Owl City explicitly acknowledged his indebtedness to Postal Service though, which is half the battle.

@drinkingpoolwater

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewyeung7317 i have not heard "An Angle". i'll check it out. yea i never got into owl city. it was like the popular version of postal service - the mass marketed version. they never approached the authenticity of postal service. too cookie cutter sounding and corny.

@eugeniobonello418

Жыл бұрын

Damn, when I was I’d middle school my sister also introduced me to Postal Service! I loved it and none of my friends understood why. Everyone at the time was listening to my chemical romance and panic at the disco.

@drinkingpoolwater

Жыл бұрын

@@eugeniobonello418 in my age group we were all listening to indie hip hop. then this hit and blew us away. we also discovered interpol, bright eyes, metric, etc around the same time. great time for music.

It’s 2002 and this album aged beautifully

@mitchviquez8745

Жыл бұрын

I want what's this guy is smoking!

It's 2022 and this album has aged beautifully, feels like it could've been released yesterday.

This place is a prison fits like a glove these days. It was always a sad song of what could be, now it’s a piece of paper bound by a spine of what reflects our lives.

Been listening since 2004 no idea Rilo Kiley member was in this! Watching this way too late in life. Chris Walla and Travis Morrison from Dismemberment Plan was a great mention here. Both of them also worked with So Many Dynamos!

damn he sounds exactly as he does on the record

Still jamming in 2022 as well.

I've listened to this radio broadcast about 50 times. Years later I'd listen to the studio recorded album and miss the quirkiness of this specific audio recording. I've never seen footage, though. Thanks for the upload... (But.. It cuts off before the incessant clapping)

Best live ticket ever, if The Postal Service toured with The Rentals.

Wow. That was really good.

Ty for this upload. Good stuff, here. Good stuff

great!

Simply Beautiful

i know this was 9 years ago , but thank you , so much

This is amazing to see , you made my morning!