The Walkmen - "The Rat"

Song comes on unexpectedly 'DAMNIT! There's my earworm in place for the next fortnight!!'. I love this track, but it has been the same story for decades now!! NOTHING etches itself in my brain like this song does!!!

Absolute KoRkeR.

Only learn of this song working at gamestop and hearing the mlb2k7 trailer every 30 minutes

This their best song by far in my opinion

Who in the fucking hell can not feel that raw beatiful power, love, agony and theres sweeeetest pain that they give(gave) us..... forever and forever in millions of years.
I'm yest a nobody from Sweden !
But i do know when i heare something specialspecial right Into my heart
🤟💯👏💪😵😎😀

f*ck yeah; awesome!

Idles brought me here.

The soundtrack to wine for breakfast days 🥺

The hot chocolate tour brought me here :,)

Happy 20 years guys!

An anthem. It doesn't get any better than this...

Bass player really isn't having as hard of a time as he's portraying.

Doideira essa música ! Muito boa

Who's here in 2024!!? Damn, this is nostalgic! Such a great ass song!

Still quality now !

ace.

Yep

I was just thinking today, about how popular I was in my 20s, compared to how unpopular I am today 😂 Life of the party types tend to be risk takers - but the longer you take risks, the mistakes start to add up, and you alienate more and more people

Easily one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard

Yep Yep

Major League Baseball 2k7

Those drums!!!🖤

This song reminds me of True Crime NYC. Good times those were back then.

Love the sound of desperation in this song

"when I used go out I would know everyone I saw, now i go out alone if I go out at all" 🖤

Ah - to now be 43 making oatmeal for my little boy at 7am still listening to this. One of those timeless, well crafted tracks.

you've got a nerve to be asking a favor

Sorry I missed you guys in DC last year. By the time Sturtevant was trying to hook all that up, it was on the fourth or whatever night of added shows. Stoked you guys are back on it; for those about to rock, I salute you. BW

Learnt the song from Colin McRae Dirt 2 , have played and sang it live once with a band in my university. This is a very powerful song , and very nostalgic . I even had it as a ringtone for a while !

I'm knackered just looking at them!

Smart Band. More music pls.

Good song. Anyone else hearing the winner takes it all by abba in this?

Drumming is absolutely amazing on this track.

❤❤😜😜love this.

Really like this song 💜🎶

This is my favorite

There's something so The Animals era 60s about this song. Like time travel. Love it.

No matter how many amazing tracks I put on my 00s era mix cds(made for friends and gfs) this song was always asked about. The Rat had that urgency and sound people gravitated to not knowing who it was. This cut made most every mix coz it’s stone cold awesome.

wow

I feel for the guitarist. The sound is much more consistent to keep all the chords on down strokes, but when you're hammering them out nearly four times a second, your arm starts to tense up and your shoulder starts to hurt. you can see him switch to alternating down-up a few times in the video which is much easier on your arm. i wonder if he managed to keep it up for the entire recording. It sounds phenomenal regardless.

Who needs friends when you can blast this at full volume going 80 down a back road that never ends?

I loved this (and still do) so much. I loved the fact that they were dressed in such a plain, nondescript style, all had plain short haircuts, the crude lettering of the band name on the drum, the lo-fi video. It was as if they had put everything, EVERYTHING into this incredible, intense, focused knife blade of a song, and they knew that all the rest was superfluous.

the drum fills kill, so smooth!!! This song is so good, top to bottom!

I’m a 54 year old Englishman. No kids. Never Married. This is my Soundtrack ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👌

Rod Stewart Tribute.

Ohh my! this is an absolute banger. Love it ❤❤❤❤❤

Words...... RIP all those listening from another place

been thinking about this song for 20 years now. i think i might be the rat

You gotta nerve... from 2024