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Whoever put this up on YouTube named it “awesome video” and they are right. (UPDATE: YouTube removed at request of Final Placement. Replaced with Vimeo. Still awesome.)
About the awesome band:
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.
Awesome message. Awesome guitar solo at 2:07. Awesome walking down the street looking nervous. Awesome food court. Awesome fun fact: Midland, Texas is very close to Odessa, Texas, which is the real life town upon which the fictional Dillon, Texas, of Friday Night Lights is based. So this is basically the real life Crucifictorious. Awesome. (Thanks for the tip, Clown Coffee and JCA.)
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Well, they are an awesome Christian band so they’ll probably get signed.
Most sects reserved THAT word (awes—e) for speaking about G–? They need to “Go directly to Bible Camp.”
I am now officially Team Satan.
I only made it to 0:39. I am not awesome.
I made it to 0:43. I am just slightly more awesome.
I made it all the way though, because “Hey, if I gave 2 and whatever amount hours to James Fucking Cameron, then I can give 3 minutes to a group of seemingly harmless teenagers who are probably going to get fucking jazzed about strangers on the internet paying attention to them for 3 minutes.”
Now then, where’s my fucking ribbon?
Thank goodness the collapse of America’s manufacturing sector has provided these guys with a venue in which to be awesome.
I couldn’t watch this without thinking of the warehouse in Footloose where Kevin Bacon angst dances:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsCO-YkDgnY
Awesomely, the guitar solo is probably the best part of the video. Literal train is a close second.
They must have spent 75% of the budget on momjeans.
Fashion cycles: Thirtysomething is bringing them back.
These four are filled with the Spirit.
This is clearly just an awesome North Face internet marketing campaign.
apparently Creed can be difficult to imitate?
I blame Apple Computers for this. Their iMovie application shouldn’t be so easy to use.
I had to watch this with no volume, but I imagine it to sound like the sound of running out of gancha.
Like the chorus of angels!
Being from Midland myself, my high school was rivals with Midland Christian. So I knew lots of Crucifictorious’s, but none with the Rockettes action of Final Placement.
Also, this is Classic Midland. Miles and miles of UGHS.
Also, the singer’s Tie and guitar strap scream “New Wave!”, but the rest is, well, not.
To me they scream Thunder Wave.
The awesome-ist part, for me, is the Texas-sized whiff of homoeroticism
Ha, I am right this second, sitting here in my office, wearing that exact same North Face jacket. But I did not wear it in my band’s awesome youtube clip.
these guys would be your boyfriend, but they don’t believe in dating. they only court with the intention of marriage.
WHEREAS: I someone who has been (“has-been”) playing in bands for 20 years; and,
WHEREAS: the vast majority of the bands I have been in were not even this good; and,
WHEREAS: video exists of my much-worse bands that is of lower quality than this; and,
WHEREAS: I have been blessed by the fact that Youtube did not exist in 1990; and,
WHEREAS: The Reset Button has been pushed:
NOW THEREFORE, I resolve to say, “We all have things we love and believe. One man’s poorly harmonized lead guitar is another man’s thigh-crushed watermellon.”
One legit critique (from a pro): If, for you video, you are going to have microphones, with cables, in front of you; and amplifiers lined up behind you, why not just go ahead and plug your guitars in?
It’s prohibited. Corinthians 20:15, look it up.
I can’t be the only one to have looked it up, can I?
Either way, consider yourself a Grade 1 Zinger, Spaceprophet
The guitar and amp aren’t married yet.
awww yeah, I see your point. And if you read the comments and look around youtube, you see that they keep trying to take this down. So even they don’t think they’re awesome.
so that’s what frat guy bands sound like.
This band would be perfect for the Videogum Spring Fling Dance, if your mom says it’s ok.
they dont look like they are having fun. one of their parents is definitely pointing a gun at them from behind the camera.
God can apparently create the universe from nothingness, but he can’t conjure you up some musical talent, no matter how much you believe in him.
Why is that Paul Frank monkey singing off key to the Mary Tyler Moore theme?
It was very nice of them to leave the drummer in the warehouse while the other band guys went out and had an awesome time at the mall. Drummer’s words upon their return to finish their awesome vid, “Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?”
He was probably the only one around to hold the camera.
what would jesus wear? a northface fleece.
the early years
They do list Seether as their number one influence. So that explains the awesome.
I made it through the whole thing. What do I win?
…let the downvoting commence. but in the spirit of good fun here is what was posted
the best ever
death metalchristian band out ofdentonmidlandwere a couple of guys, who’d been friends since grade school.
one was named cyrus, and the other was jeff.
and they practiced twice a week in jeff’s bedroom.
the best ever
death metalchristian band out ofdentonmidlandnever settled on a name.
but the top three contenders, after weeks of debate,
were
satan’s fingersfinal placement, and the killers, and the hospital bombers.jeff and cyrus believed in their hearts they were headed
for stage lights and leer jets, and fortune and fame.
so in script that made prominent use of a
pentagramcross,they stenciled their drumheads and guitars with their names.
this was how cyrus got sent to the school
where they told him he’d never be famous.
and this was why jeff,
in the letters he’d write to his friend,
helped develop a plan to get even.
when you punish a person for dreaming his dream,
don’t expect him to thank or forgive you.
the best ever
death metalchristian band out ofdentonmidlandwill in time both outpace and outlive you.
hail
satanjesus!hail
satanjesus tonight!hail
satanjesus!hail hail!
I liked it.
yay! i guess no one else loves the mountain goats.
We should all be so lucky to find something that makes us happy, but we should also be so lucky that that thing does not sound like nails on a chalkboard.
Sorry guys! Keep rocking out for the lord…..away from me.
this is mixed so poorly that my ears are bleeding.
if by “mixing”, you mean mixing Christians with music, then, yes, total ear hemorrhage.
If Creed cannot do it, YOU cannot do it.
Between this and my homophobic boyfriend getting booed at ConservativeCon, the Christians are really bumming my stone today.
Nice Avril Lavigne tie, dude. U look so kewl!!
You have to realize Midland Texas has only progressed to 2002 culturally. They have only recently been exposed to Sk8ter Boi and faux rebellion.
Someone in the You Tube comments says they sound just like Slint. Ha Ha…Also the ripple effect back to the sun setting really gives the video a narrative arc.
I think my neck just snapped from saying “oh no they DI’INT!”
The only thing more amazing than this video is THIS VIDEO (http://www.vimeo.com/9631251) which is Final Placement’s “endless guitar solo” hahahaha…
Why do they fade out in the middle of the solo?
They didn’t fade out, they camera man passed out.
This band is going to get so much pussy.
“ALL the pussy.”- Sarah Silverman
Don’t forget the awesome singing! This band should team up with Taylor Swift. Ow, my ears!
aw, bless their little hearts (that’s what we say in texas when we don’t have anything nice to say)
The thing that pisses me off the most about this, is that they didn’t even capitalize “awesome video”
Nope, nevermind, it’s definitely the song that pisses me off the most.
I love when, during the lyrics “Train running off the tracks,” they show a train.
And some dude walks into the shot. Scorsese-level shit, there.
More like “Jesus Island,” am I right? (No.)
I lived in Midland from when I was about 6 months old til after 3rd grade. I’m sure I would have been super BFF’s with these guys.
What’s with the hanging around the ATM? Are churches soul banks? Is love the currency? These guys are so cryptic! Cryptic and awesome, of course.
i like to think that jesus also flinches at the timbre of the voice of this 16 year old who thinks he can sing really AWESOME but really just sounds strained and nervous.
and gay?
[i'm rather new at being a monster on the internet and not just in my everyday life.]
we usually try not to speculate about the sexuality of children.
They’re no these guys: http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/2009/10/complete_the_worst_band_in_wor.php
There is a fine line between terrible and boxset reissue receiving heavy attention from college radio. Do you hear me WXYC? Seriously: it is as though Robert Pollard consumed Don Van Vliet and then fronted the Shaggs on the set of Saved by the Bell: the College Years. Great find.
Landry has really lost it since Tyra’s left
Also they replaced the lesbian band mate? What the heck?!
His voice is the best, it’s like it almost doesn’t exist. He’s definitely singing I just can’t hear it.
so obviously these guys aren’t very good but let me remind you all that your high school band also sucked. whatever happened to the reset button?
Seriously: The first show that my high school band played was our senior year in our keyboardist’s yard. There were two bands: one really popular one that was really good (the drummer had a suede drum throne) and ours. We made the good band open up for us. Part of the stage was the bed of a pick up truck. Our drummer quit twice during the show out of embarassment. We had a funk song that we called “The Funky Song”. We began that song with the bass part to Jeremy to fake out the audience, which was quickly draining away with sad, embarassed looks on their face. By the end of our “set” they only people left were my little brother, our keyboardist’s dad (who got on the stage with his harmonica and said, “I can help. Let’s jam in the key of C”) and the opening band who stayed and applauded even though we treated them like crap. This was all also filmed.
I take it you never got to “score a record label”?
Not nearly enough Christian Side Hug.
Finally, the Christian music industry has picked up on No Wave. This is their “James Chance and the Contortions.”
They should have stuck with their original name, Stigmatalingus.
their record can definetly go murr
fun fact: i put this on and switched tabs and forgot i was listening to it until i closed out of facebook. how do you write a song so bad that people forget they are listening to it? and are those warehouse scenes green screened?
oh God, i think my ears might explode….
i found this on afrojacks a few days ago. my roommate immediately got the video because you know, when you find a priceless golden relic you dont leave it there in the poopoo. and hot diggity looky thur, they have deleted the original video as well as their myspace. also, in related hilarious, was the original video had comments from some guy claiming to have tracked the guitar parts and basically trying to convince everyone he wasnt satan.
The guitarist looks like Steve Holt. (Steve Holt!)
I love a GG Allin cover. Nice job, boys!
This video is lipsynced to the prerecorded album – nothing against that; that’s standard practice with music video making. What is baffling is the fact that they took the time to record and complete the recording, and over the course of making the song, they likely had the time to ask/answer the following questions:
“So, this is the song we’re going with?” Yep.
“We’re tuned up, right?” Sure, sounds fine to me.
“So, we’re happy with that take?” Yep, that’s the take.
“You don’t think I should redo the vocal, should I?” No, brah. You were perfect.
“I could do that guitar solo over; I could do that better.” You ain’t doing shit better than that solo. That solo was fucking hot.
“We should meet up again to get the mixing down pat. Throw in some echo, a couple of amp patches…” We’re doing the rough mix, man. It’s raw; it’s nice and raw.
“It’s not really that “raw” sounding. It’s weak, and kind of bootless, and…” Oh, I’m sorry – was it you who poured his heart and soul into taking the weeks’ worth of time to learn GarageBand on his parents’ iMac? No it wasn’t. So shut…the fuck…up!
“Okay, okay. So, this is the song we’re going with?” Yep.
Crucifictorious was much better than this, even in its early metalcore phase.
May God help them.
I commented last night on this but it seems they have been deleted in the updating of the site. (looks good by the way) and it got me pumped up knowing I have fellow monsters in west Texas, I live in Odessa, and went to school with the guitar kid for a little while in elementary. Amazing how close this is hitting me, in their defense, I remember him being cool in an elementary school kinda way.
The lead guitarist is graciously taking questions in the comments section over at DangerousMinds.net
Steve Holt!
Video taken down. Copyright claim by Final Placement. And so, the band who “dream of scoring a record label one day” took the one thing that got them the attention of maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, and shut it down. These guys went from (1) untalented Christians, to (2) web-famous untalented Christians, to (3) web-famous untalented Christian dicks. The ciiiiiiircle of liiiiiiife…
This is what happens you grow up in Texas and you only know about music through Hymns for the first 13 years of your life and then try and start a rock band. Best of luck, fellas!!
Remember Nickleback and Coldplay still sell millions of albums a year.
Hmm.. Is it just me or do these guys lack rhythm? I think they should practice their instruments more before they start making videos.
According to the guitarist (on the Dangerous Minds thing), they recorded the rhythm guitar first and laid the drums on later, which is an ass-backwards way to go about recording. You get the solid rhythm down first, THEN lay down the vocals, lead guitar, etc. If the drums try to follow the guitar (and not the other way around), it’s unsteady.
Also, the guy said he and the drummer weren’t really in the band, and were just doing it as a one-time thing for the singer and bassist. He also claims that he didn’t arrange the guitar solo and hated what he was told to play. From all this I’m guessing the lead singer/rhythm guitarist (who alone is about 66.7% of the problem) is the egomaniacal brains behind the outfit. He’s like the Brian Wilson of the band – if Brian Wilson was terrible at singing, writing, arranging, and playing music.
You missed the first step of recording, which is spending years intensely studying music, and not putting shit like this out.
This song is like THE ROOM of songs.
If you liked this you may also enjoy this:
http://www.myspace.com/kujoe666
just some straight up crap.
Horrible vocals. elliosenor, hilarious!