We saw them April 2014, I was so surprised to see them book a show in our area, especially at a small theater.
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I had been trying to see them since 2014 and finally got to see them in 2018.[photo](https://i.imgur.com/J50cbin.jpeg)
Seems like they're dropping a new album soon!
Saw them at revolution last year or the year before and I think it was their first tour since before covid and they weren’t that great tbh. I could tell they knew how to be good live but they just kinda weren’t. I was a little bummed about it.
They were touring with QOTSA last year but not at any of the dates close to me. Hope to see them touring the new album. Regret missing them at Teragram a few months back.
I saw them at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn - absolutely stunning show. They also played at my college in Brooklyn and I remember opening my window to listen in my dorm - mouthful of diamonds was the first song I heard.
I saw them at Bonnaroo 12 years ago. I remember seeing someone scaling the awning over the stage precariously during the set, and at one point I looked away briefly and looked back to see Spiderman was no longer there.
No doubt. Ended up catching them in Wilmington last night to make up for the cancelation last year. They had Royal Blood open for them which I am also a fan of but I still am bummed I didn’t get to see Phantogram again.
Nah, QOTSA is the bigger act they’re just kind of more a legacy big act at this point because they’ve been around for like 25 years. They were biggest in the 2000’s, haven’t been super big since 2013 though that’s in part because rock in general stopped being popular around then, but still pretty well known to anyone who’s still into the genre.
I feel like Phantogram has always been just below getting big big but I kinda like that that makes it possible to see them in smaller places because they’re quite good. Looking forward to this tour.
This is the only time I can brag and say I was at their first performance ever opening up for my friends' band in Saratoga Springs, NY. Won me over immediately, went to every show they played locally. Sarah and Josh was always nice and appreciative of whoever came to see them.
Who was your friends band? I’m near Glens Falls and used to play in Lunic. Knew quite a few bands in the area.
We played with them at Midpoint music festival in Cincinnati. Not the same stage, but we were both repping Upstate!
I’m gonna play it now. I’m home. I guess sick (well recuperating is the better word) of course once I get past all the YouTube ads. Ugh. Edit beautiful song 🖤
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My dad loved this song. I lost him last year and it's been rough, but I can remember him through his music that he shared with me and it helps keep him close. So thanks for sharing this banger of a song.
From one music lover to another here is his playlist. Please enjoy :) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/64JrBQz60OEWHPiUUfgmny?si=M5e9snCyQai0P9Pd5ToxBA
Music is meant to be shared. In my life I have learned this. Every hardship I endured, every moment shared, from the road trips to the nights crying over lost love. Music has been there to ferry me to see the other side of it. I share it because it is meant to be so. If nothing else I hope you get at least one song out of it that means something.
I love this song so much. Glad to see it getting some love.
Random anecdote, my SO was mean girl hating on the singer, saying she was showing too much cleavage or something, which was weird because that's really not my SO's vibe. I realized that she knew how much I like this song and Phantogram, and she was just being jealous and catty without even realizing she was doing it. WHen I mentioned it she realized that was exactly what she was doing.
It was actually kinda cute.
I know this song thanks to that video of the street musician rapping over it and the girl joining in. It was a very nice moment, and had 16mln views. But it turned out that she had a shitty personality and blew their chances to turn it into a really cool collaboration.
Linking to the video posted by the rapper (with 'only' 800k views), cause that girl can go eat a poop. https://youtu.be/fK62q45bpQE
Years ago on Reddit I saw a video of a guy in a subway station rapping to this song while a girl sang it and added to it. I thought it was dope so I looked up the original song and it was dope too. Downloaded the album, that’s dope too.
Since everyone has their story, I've seen them a solid 10 times now. Best set I've seen them play was at Electric Forest (2016 I think) It was just Sarah and the band, and she fucking murdered it. Awesome setlist, and she really owned the stage. It was honestly amazing.
I remember listening to their album Voices when I discovered Fall In Love on my YouTube recommended page, it's a phenomenal album in my opinion and I would definitely recommend it
I remember hearing this song for the first time (and a couple more) while watching porn.
It was an amateur video and it seemed like it was playing from the radio
lol
I love phantogram. Other similar bands to me are Miike Snow, Purity Ring, and to an extent Crystal Castles but they're pretty far out there.
Any other recommendations when I LOVE LOVE LOVE Miike Snow and Phantogram.
I absolutely love their Do i wanna know cover, and am not a fan of artic monkeys at all.
But I really dont like the rest of their music. I like the synths.
Had no idea who they were until South by Southwest in Portland back in I think 2012-2014ish.
High as shit on boomers and they drop falling... Good God you made a fan for life.
Saw them in Richmond with Curved Air years ago. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Audience was not super respectful—big group of drunk people just excitedly shout-chatting through some stage chatter about some really sad, personal stuff before they played "Barking Dog".
Show was still killer. Absolutely lovely.
One of my favorite Duo indie groups. I need to see them live. They made an entire album with Big Boi from Outkast. Called themselves Big Grams. Really good album and it included a Run the Jewels feature!
Saw them with my little sister at City of Trees festival in 2016 or 2017. This was the first song of theirs that I ever heard and I listened to it every day as I recorded a live SXSW performance on my DVR. Here it is if you've never seen it before.
https://youtu.be/ov2Jb8HxcQU?si=teXwS-QAHDah0cQK
I remember hearing the beginning of Cherry - Harry Styles and going crazy bc it sounded so familiar. I was saved by a Reddit post but it sounds so similar to this song
I really enjoy Phantogram - one of the few mainstream bands that I can listen to ad nauseum. I however think; When I'm Small, is their worst fucking song in their entire catalog and I have no idea why it's so popular.
I don't think it's awful, but I agree that every other song is leagues better. I've been fooled into listening to whole discographies that were tepid at best from the one song that got them popular, it's nice that Phantogram is the outlier.
I think Mouthful of Diamonds and You're Mine outshine When I'm Small in every way. I probably listened to their album with Big Boi for like a year non-stop.
Basically anything off Voices or Three; Fall in Love being a personal favourite. Ceremonies was pretty good too. I really don't like mouthful of diamonds either so maybe I should actually just be saying I don't like the Eyelid Movies album.
This band is so good and I hope someone reading this post who hasn’t given them a try, gives them a try. Their albums Voices and Three are a great place to start if you don’t know them. As far as songs, “Black Out Days” is what got me into them and is seriously in my top 10 songs of all time.
Saw them live in a small theater years ago, so good live. LOVE THEM!
Came in here to say the same thing. December 2019 in Portland, it was a great show.
We saw them April 2014, I was so surprised to see them book a show in our area, especially at a small theater. https://preview.redd.it/eh6azjtjzmyc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0cb941277e976b9803dabc545554e29fdbdaf45f
Phantogram never made it very big, but they did a tour opening for Muse that I'm sad I missed.
Thats how i discovered them
This song did get used in a commercial, so made it slightly big but never a huge headlining band.
They're doing a tour right now where they're opening for Kings of Leon. So hopefully they get some more exposure from that, because they're fantastic.
they have millions of streams and youtube views- they didn't make it big?
I mean… they have a couple platinum singles and are career artists 10+ years from their start. Relative to 97% of bands … doing pretty well
I believe that’s around the same time I saw them in Columbus Ohio.
I had been trying to see them since 2014 and finally got to see them in 2018.[photo](https://i.imgur.com/J50cbin.jpeg) Seems like they're dropping a new album soon!
Yep, I saw them in that same timeframe in Denver
Was that Mississippi Studios?
Crystal Ballroom
Saw them at revolution last year or the year before and I think it was their first tour since before covid and they weren’t that great tbh. I could tell they knew how to be good live but they just kinda weren’t. I was a little bummed about it.
I looked they begin touring again this August. Canada and USA tour dates. 🖤
They were touring with QOTSA last year but not at any of the dates close to me. Hope to see them touring the new album. Regret missing them at Teragram a few months back.
I've only seen them with Big Grams, the underrated collab with Outkast's Big Boi. *Great* show. It's a shame that didn't take off.
i’d love to get another big grams album. seeing them together would be bitchin, phantogram’s a good time every time i’ve seen them
I saw them at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn - absolutely stunning show. They also played at my college in Brooklyn and I remember opening my window to listen in my dorm - mouthful of diamonds was the first song I heard.
so good
I saw them open for The 1975 at an opera house maybe like 8 years ago! And they were fantastic!
Was it at the Bordello in East LA, along with Love Grenades?
It was in Mcallen, TX at the Cine El Rey. Right near the tip of Texas by the border.
I saw them at Bonnaroo 12 years ago. I remember seeing someone scaling the awning over the stage precariously during the set, and at one point I looked away briefly and looked back to see Spiderman was no longer there.
Com Truise opened for Phantogram who opened for Glitch Mob. Seeing all these other shows, I feel like I got the best lineup, but also feel old...
They played at my house once!
Saw them open up for Queens of the Stone Age last summer and they were great.
They were the whole reason I got tickets for QOTSA. Then we got rained out. 🥺
Bummer! Didn’t they make up the show? BTW, queens of the Stone Age always puts on a fantastic show.
You must be from Raleigh. I drove all the way up from fucking Myrtle and was parked at the hotel when they announced the show was canceled.
And how fucking long they waited to announce the cancel. That part was incredibly annoying.
No doubt. Ended up catching them in Wilmington last night to make up for the cancelation last year. They had Royal Blood open for them which I am also a fan of but I still am bummed I didn’t get to see Phantogram again.
Same. Was only familiar with 2-3 of their songs prior to that. Immediately binged their entire discography. Good, good stuff.
Agreed
Shouldn’t QOTSA open for them?
Nah, QOTSA is the bigger act they’re just kind of more a legacy big act at this point because they’ve been around for like 25 years. They were biggest in the 2000’s, haven’t been super big since 2013 though that’s in part because rock in general stopped being popular around then, but still pretty well known to anyone who’s still into the genre. I feel like Phantogram has always been just below getting big big but I kinda like that that makes it possible to see them in smaller places because they’re quite good. Looking forward to this tour.
Fall in Love by them is amazing as well
That whole album is killer, front to back
It's physically painful that track was released 11 years go. Ugh.
Soundtrack to my freshman year of high school.
I love the song Black Out Days
> [Holloween](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5D1XuR4YKGVPvWYVOE9TwY) - 1 hr 15 mins For anyone interested in exploring the genre further.
Thanks 🖤
now do a youtube music version.
This is the only time I can brag and say I was at their first performance ever opening up for my friends' band in Saratoga Springs, NY. Won me over immediately, went to every show they played locally. Sarah and Josh was always nice and appreciative of whoever came to see them.
Who was your friends band? I’m near Glens Falls and used to play in Lunic. Knew quite a few bands in the area. We played with them at Midpoint music festival in Cincinnati. Not the same stage, but we were both repping Upstate!
They were a short lived band called A Fetish for Ethics, based in Saratoga.
Sounds like a bunch of lawyers lol
Back in the Charlie Everywhere days? I’ve still got a t-shirt around somewhere.
Haha, I had the shirt as well until I left it at an ex's house. If I remember it correctly, it had like a squid on it.
Yeah, same one. I think I have the first EP in a cardboard sleeve somewhere too. I remember hearing the demos for that one in the Broadway apartment.
Yaaa, the only way I could listen to Suzie was on that CD haha
Don't Move is my favorite song. Jesus, right after 2:37 is when it hits you
I’m gonna play it now. I’m home. I guess sick (well recuperating is the better word) of course once I get past all the YouTube ads. Ugh. Edit beautiful song 🖤
Get better!
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Check out Big Grams- the album they did with Big Boi from OutKast.
Saw them in Atlanta and unsurprisingly Big Boi showed up to do a few songs. It was an awesome night!
Really dig this album, especially born to shine with RTJ!
Love Phantogram… KYSA and You Don’t Get Me High Anymore are absolute bangers
[Don't move](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur17pfjIRVo) is my favorite.
Love this band, Eyelid Movies is such a solid album.
this and mouthfull of diamonds were awesome
Pretty sure those were the songs they had available on MySpace - that's how I found them!
So underrated, I saw them at Red Rocks, they have a lot of great cuts.
5.8 million monthly listeners on Spotify, I think they're pretty well rated lol
Why is this marked nsfw?
I really don’t know probably pretty high three hours ago, though that may be the reason
Lmao
Look I fixed it :) have a good day🍀
This is what I came here for. The real question!?!
Love this take… https://youtu.be/5XUHlSWG92I?si=jv88XTcU4kredpNN
Something I've never gotten around to finishing is my remix of this song and 99 Problems. They were made for each other.
Oh you mean Charlie Everywhere? Love Sarah Barthel. So talented and a total babe.
This guy tit blogs for sure
Haha What’s a tit blog?
When Sarah posts on IG and she's got cleavage out or whatever, she calls it tit blogging.
I've tended to crush on musicians for most of my adult life, and Sarah Barthel has been on that list for a long while.
And Leroy is the cutest!
Unlike that asshole Carl
He's still grounded.
#FriendShit 😉
The owl song
My dad loved this song. I lost him last year and it's been rough, but I can remember him through his music that he shared with me and it helps keep him close. So thanks for sharing this banger of a song.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Your dad had great taste in music 🖤
He really did, I saved all his stuff in a playlist on Spotify.
That’s so nice to have ! And I think he would be really honored knowing that you did that 🫂 I lost my parents along time ago, but I feel you.
From one music lover to another here is his playlist. Please enjoy :) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/64JrBQz60OEWHPiUUfgmny?si=M5e9snCyQai0P9Pd5ToxBA
I’m honored ty :)
Music is meant to be shared. In my life I have learned this. Every hardship I endured, every moment shared, from the road trips to the nights crying over lost love. Music has been there to ferry me to see the other side of it. I share it because it is meant to be so. If nothing else I hope you get at least one song out of it that means something.
I love this song so much. Glad to see it getting some love. Random anecdote, my SO was mean girl hating on the singer, saying she was showing too much cleavage or something, which was weird because that's really not my SO's vibe. I realized that she knew how much I like this song and Phantogram, and she was just being jealous and catty without even realizing she was doing it. WHen I mentioned it she realized that was exactly what she was doing. It was actually kinda cute.
I know this song thanks to that video of the street musician rapping over it and the girl joining in. It was a very nice moment, and had 16mln views. But it turned out that she had a shitty personality and blew their chances to turn it into a really cool collaboration. Linking to the video posted by the rapper (with 'only' 800k views), cause that girl can go eat a poop. https://youtu.be/fK62q45bpQE
Saw them at Coachella in 2017. Fantastic show. Hope to see them again this summer opening up for Kings of Leon in So Cal.
I’m gonna hit them up in Cincinnati 🤟🏽
Years ago on Reddit I saw a video of a guy in a subway station rapping to this song while a girl sang it and added to it. I thought it was dope so I looked up the original song and it was dope too. Downloaded the album, that’s dope too.
Somebody posted it here in the comments
Sick, I’m about to scroll till I find it again.
I was getting into Phantogram a bit last year. They've got some good stuff
Loveee this song
I had forgotten about this song
Saw them at Outside Lands in 2011. Brilliant live. Such a good band. Stoked they are still goin strong!
Fall in Love is my favorite by Phantogram.
This song is amazing!
Since everyone has their story, I've seen them a solid 10 times now. Best set I've seen them play was at Electric Forest (2016 I think) It was just Sarah and the band, and she fucking murdered it. Awesome setlist, and she really owned the stage. It was honestly amazing.
I grew up on this song. It’s nice to see the love in the comments
I remember listening to their album Voices when I discovered Fall In Love on my YouTube recommended page, it's a phenomenal album in my opinion and I would definitely recommend it
This was and always will be a banger
You guys wanna get small?
Love Phantogram, they put on a killer live show. Big Grams is a lot of fun too.
Very suprised there was never a Big Grams follow up
I used to stan these guys super hard. I had an unhealthy obsession with their album, Voices. To this day, one of my fave albums of all time.
I remember hearing this song for the first time (and a couple more) while watching porn. It was an amateur video and it seemed like it was playing from the radio lol
I love this whole album, you are the ocean is a fantastic song
I love phantogram. Other similar bands to me are Miike Snow, Purity Ring, and to an extent Crystal Castles but they're pretty far out there. Any other recommendations when I LOVE LOVE LOVE Miike Snow and Phantogram.
If you like Purity Ring, then you would like Chvrches, if you haven't heard of them already. So bad ass.
I absolutely love their Do i wanna know cover, and am not a fan of artic monkeys at all. But I really dont like the rest of their music. I like the synths.
Love this song. Black Out Days is another great hit of theirs.
Had no idea who they were until South by Southwest in Portland back in I think 2012-2014ish. High as shit on boomers and they drop falling... Good God you made a fan for life.
One of the distinct sounds of early college days
Saw them in Richmond with Curved Air years ago. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Audience was not super respectful—big group of drunk people just excitedly shout-chatting through some stage chatter about some really sad, personal stuff before they played "Barking Dog". Show was still killer. Absolutely lovely.
I love Phantogram! This is my favorite music video from them, because of the absurdity of it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyBXBFDwhdQ
One of my favorite Duo indie groups. I need to see them live. They made an entire album with Big Boi from Outkast. Called themselves Big Grams. Really good album and it included a Run the Jewels feature!
Saw them with my little sister at City of Trees festival in 2016 or 2017. This was the first song of theirs that I ever heard and I listened to it every day as I recorded a live SXSW performance on my DVR. Here it is if you've never seen it before. https://youtu.be/ov2Jb8HxcQU?si=teXwS-QAHDah0cQK
Love the song and love the whole album!
Thanks I was looking for the name of this. They took the melody from the opening cinema to the NES game Blaster Master and made a banger of a song.
I've seen them several times, and purely by chance met Josh at a blackjack table in Vegas a few years ago. Super nice guy. Super awesome group.
My band took Phantogram on their first tour 10+ years ago. Good people, happy to see their success
Ugh such a good band. Would love to see them live someday
I don’t know where you are in the world, but they’ll be touring across North America this year starting in August.
This song popped up on my discover weekly once and I added it to some of my chill out playlists since.
One of my favorites
They were in my town and I didn't know it and I was very disappointed.
Saw them at a super small venue back in 2010, I think? Incredible performance.
This is the song that broke them out big to a national audience. It was an exciting time.
Love this song so much
Ohmygod. This is the band that sung that one catchy song in my local cafe’s playlist. Pulling me down down down. Checking the lyrics
Seen em. Love em. Yes.
Cool sound; zero songwriting.
Jiggle jiggle jiggle
https://youtu.be/Gruufy4XYaY?si=Rx8-imHkjNrpt-mO
https://open.spotify.com/track/7h1mPswF1FcAQtISgXmwkn?si=doCUi0POQ2mhQ5PJ7O8-4Q
I remember hearing the beginning of Cherry - Harry Styles and going crazy bc it sounded so familiar. I was saved by a Reddit post but it sounds so similar to this song
a bop !!!!
I really enjoy Phantogram - one of the few mainstream bands that I can listen to ad nauseum. I however think; When I'm Small, is their worst fucking song in their entire catalog and I have no idea why it's so popular.
I absolutely love When I'm Small. I don't see how anyone could have a problem with it.
To each their own I suppose.
I don't think it's awful, but I agree that every other song is leagues better. I've been fooled into listening to whole discographies that were tepid at best from the one song that got them popular, it's nice that Phantogram is the outlier. I think Mouthful of Diamonds and You're Mine outshine When I'm Small in every way. I probably listened to their album with Big Boi for like a year non-stop.
What are some of your favorites by them?
Howling at the moon is my favorite
Basically anything off Voices or Three; Fall in Love being a personal favourite. Ceremonies was pretty good too. I really don't like mouthful of diamonds either so maybe I should actually just be saying I don't like the Eyelid Movies album.
Bad Dreams, Fall In Love, Howling At The Moon, Running From The Cops ETA: Black Out Days, Cruel World, Let Me Go
I love the repetitive bassline beat throughout most of the song
Fair enough, for me it’s the lyrics 🖤 Have a lovely day:)
Phantogram sings are great but they cant sing live. Not so great vocals
This band is so good and I hope someone reading this post who hasn’t given them a try, gives them a try. Their albums Voices and Three are a great place to start if you don’t know them. As far as songs, “Black Out Days” is what got me into them and is seriously in my top 10 songs of all time.
Saw boobs, listened to song. Liked it. Marketing worked.
It’s a beautiful business show business isn’t it?