Band Teacher First Time Hearing Cowboy Bebop Tank! by Seatbelts 

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Yoko Kanno is the composer for this show. She’s absolutely brilliant 🔥

This honestly should be a high school band standard. It's just so damn accessible and groovy - who could dislike this?

Yoko Kanno, legendary anime composer. She took a trip through the United States, all the jazz clubs and streets to learn the raw way of playing jazz and blues, of feeling it. And all because she knew she was a perfectionist and she had to let her emotions flow... and she thought that only in America would she understand. She composed the fabulous score for Cowboy Bebop, but also for Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Macross Plus, etc. Any anime fan who is also a music lover simply adores Yoko Kanno.

No song makes me feel like I'm being chased through dingy back allies like this one lol

I remember convincing my highschool teacher to let us play this song for a show. It was awesome.

That sax break gets me every time. Dude is locked in.

The cool thing about this anime, was that the music was integral to the formation of the story. Kano and Watanabe worked closely together, altering scenes to match the scenes and vice versa. Cowboy Bebop is a classic that stands the test of time on so many levels. The OST is just brilliant and worth a complete listen through! And just a side note, The Seatbelts was created specifically for this soundtrack by Kano.

Shout out to my professor a few semesters ago that could play this solo on the sax. This tune was on our final too.

i dont condone smoking but as soon as i heard that intro bass, i lit a cig up

Masato Honda, the sax player you mentioned on this track (and others from the soundtrack) was previously the frontman of a jazz fusion group called T-SQUARE, and left the group just prior to his work on this soundtrack. Check out their song 'Megalith' if you want another example of his sax playing. T-SQUARE is fairly well-known as far as jazz fusion goes, their song 'Truth' was famous as the theme for Japan's Formula One coverage. 'The Seatbelts' themselves were composed entirely of session musicians, so there's a *lot* of talent that came together to work on this OST, which is massive and comprises about five or six albums of material.

Cowboy Bebop is not a western, Cowboy Bebop is what I'd describe as a genre Jambalaya. It's got everything tossed in the pot but still comes away having its own flavor.

Yoko Kanno is an absolute genious. If she was born in the US or the UK i bet she will be considered one of the best movie/tv music composers of all time. She had a TON of great compositions and always showing her immense talent and her refusal to be categorized into a single genre: from fusion jazz to electronic, and pop, rock, blues, country... even samba, you name it Cowboy Bebop is a masterpiece, my favorite anime ever hands down (hence my profile picture lol). 26 episodes and 1 movie full of action, dry humor, charismatic and colourful characters, a bit of a tragic romance story, and ofc a soundtrack that's has to be heard to be believed

as a former 1st chair tenor, this solo makes me feel that lift in that space under my heart and my fingers start moving. love it

Tank and Rush are classics. The entire OST is amazing and such good sound quality too.

Cowboy Bebop was produced by Sunrise and aired from April to June 1998, with some of the series' 26 episodes. In September 2001, a theatrical version, Cowboy Bebop: Door to Heaven, was released. It won the TV award at the 3rd Kobe Animation Festival in November 1998, and the Nebula Award in the Media category at the Japan Science Fiction Convention in 2000. Set in the solar system centered on Mars in 2071, this space western anime follows the adventures of bounty hunter Spike Spiegel and his crew as they travel aboard the dilapidated spaceship, the Bebop. It features stylish dialogue, cool visuals, and thrilling mecha and gun action. The main story has a hard-boiled touch, but the style varies depending on the episode, with a wide range including suspense, horror, slapstick comedy, and cyberpunk. As the title "Bebop" suggests, the series uses a variety of music genres, including jazz, blues, rock, and techno, and this, combined with its unique worldview, creates a unique style that was not seen in existing science fiction works. Director Shinichiro Watanabe said, "I made this by putting in everything I had wanted to do up until then but couldn't," and "I thought I was making a 20-minute movie each time." When it was first broadcast, many people said it was similar to "Lupin the Third," but according to Watanabe, it is more similar to the TV drama "Detective Story," starring Yusaku Matsuda, which was popular in Japan in the 1970s (including the narration for the next episode preview). Another feature of this work is that the racial characteristics of the characters are well reflected in the design of the world setting. According to character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, this was because director Watanabe gave permission. The production was handled by Sunrise Studio 2. The core staff was made up of people from the network of Watanabe and producer Masahiko Minami, who had previously been involved in Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Macross Plus, and Escaflowne. After the TV series was produced, Minami and his team left Sunrise to found Bones, which produced the film. Sunrise is originally a studio that produces many original robot animes with the intention of commercializing toys, but the idea for this work also came from an offer from Bandai Hobby Division, who saw a spaceship boom coming with the resurgence in popularity following the release of the new Star Wars trilogy, to make an anime that could be developed into spaceship plastic models. When Minami asked Watanabe if he had any ideas, he was inspired by the work of American bounty hunters and immediately came up with an idea for a stateless action movie set in space in the near future. The concept was "space jazz" rather than space opera, and the project title was "Shooting Star Bebop!" . However, the unique style of the work was met with a negative response from those around, and it was almost lumped together with another project that Sunrise was working on at the same time. The sponsor almost dropped the project, saying, "This won't sell spaceships," but with the cooperation of Bandai Visual, the show was able to be aired. The record company releasing the soundtrack opposed the idea, saying, "How many jazz records do you think sell in Japan?" (Music director Yoko Kanno also said that she initially thought, "Jazz will never sell"), and those involved who watched the first episode before it aired commented, "It's too dull. It won't sell." With no prospect of royalty income from the toys, a detailed plan was devised to recoup the investment through music CDs and video packages. As a result, the software was a hit, and Sunrise stated that this work "achieved sales of videos and music CDs comparable to those of the Gundam series." According to producer Minami, the production costs were so high that the president of Sunrise said to him, "Minami, are you trying to ruin the company!?" The opening and ending songs and background music in the film were all composed by Yoko Kanno, with the exception of a few, and performed by The Seatbelts, a group that included Kanno and other musicians from Japan and abroad. In addition to the ending song, vocal songs were used extensively. The first soundtrack won the Animation Album of the Year award at the 13th Japan Gold Disc Awards. The theme song, Tank!, was used in the short program of Canadian male single skater Kevin Reynolds at the 2016 Canadian Figure Skating Championships (with costumes by Spike Spiegel). The terrestrial broadcast version was subject to self-censorship, and violent and sexual content, as well as flashing lights, were revised or cut. This was due to the fact that between the start of production and the broadcast, there were violent crimes committed by minors, such as the Kobe serial child murders and the Tochigi female teacher stabbing incident, and TV Tokyo's regulations were strengthened due to the "Pokémon Shock." The final episode, a compilation titled "Yoseatsume Blues - A Collection Blues," is a protest against these restrictions and cuts in the form of monologues by the main characters, and unlike regular compilations, it makes almost no reference to the story itself. The ending concludes with the provocative message, "THIS IS NOT THE END. YOU WILL SEE THE REAL "COWBOY BEBOP" SOMEDAY!" This episode has been excluded from subsequent rebroadcasts and has not been included on video software such as DVDs. In the United States, the series was first released on video and DVD, and was broadcast nationwide (TV-14: ages 14 and over only) on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim slot from September 1, 2001, where it gained popularity. However, the depictions of fake blood and naked women were edited out for this broadcast, and episodes 6 (as they were reminiscent of the Columbine High School shooting), 8 (hijacking), and 22 (building bombing) were not broadcast on the first episode due to broadcasting codes and the influence of the September 11 terrorist attacks (though they were aired in a rerun immediately after). The evolution of the theme songs is as follows 😌 Opening theme "Tank!" Composed by Yoko Kanno / Performed by The Seatbelts (THE SEATBELTS) Ending theme "THE REAL FOLK BLUES" Lyrics by Yuho Iwasato / Composed and arranged by Yoko Kanno / Sung by Mai Yamane "SPACE LION" (#13) Composed by Yoko Kanno / Performed by The Seatbelts (THE SEATBELTS) "BLUE" (#26) Lyrics by Tim Jensen / Composed and arranged by Yoko Kanno / Sung by Mai Yamane Here's the OST 😀 [COWBOY BEBOP SOUNDTRACK 1] Released May 21, 1998 (VICL-60201) Won the Grand Prize in the Animation Album category at the 13th Japan Gold Disc Awards. [COWBOY BEBOP VITAMINLESS] Released June 3, 1998 (VICL-60248) Mini album in a paper jacket. Includes the full version of the ending theme. [COWBOY BEBOP SOUNDTRACK 2 - No Disc] Released October 21, 1998 (VICL-60202) [COWBOY BEBOP SOUNDTRACK 3 - BLUE] Released May 1, 1999 (VICL-60203) Only the first limited edition has the "As you like" jacket. [Cowboy Bebop remixes music for freelance] Released June 2, 1999 (VICL-60371) A remix album of soundtrack songs. The five previous albums have sold 800,000 copies. [COWBOY BEBOP Knockin'on heaven's door Ask DNA] A maxi single of the movie theme song. Limited edition vinyl version available. [FUTURE BLUES〜COWBOY BEBOP -Knockin' on heaven's door] The soundtrack for the movie. Includes the Mai Yamane version of "Rain (DEMO ver.)" that was played in Session #5. - Regular edition (VICL-60756) - The first limited edition (VIZL-54) comes with an 8cm CD "COWGIRL ED O.S.T.". The six songs included are "Goodnight Julia," "PAPA Plastic," "Telephone Shopping," "Kabutogani Kodai no Sakana," "Slipper Sleaze," and "Episode 23." ...Sorry for the long message 😅

The intro kind of reminded me of an old Mission Impossible movie. Pretty cool, and we don’t get to hear music like this very often anymore. Those transitions were great.

What I love about this theme is it sets the tone that anime is more than just animation.

Wait till you hear "Blue", still brings a tear to my eye.

1:00 Starting with stank face is always a good sign.

Cowboy Bebop is tough to fit into a single genre. Space-western, cyberpunk, and neo-noir all sort of fit. The creators even make reference to "a genre unto itself" in the soundtrack album notes. The first episode is one of the best pilot episodes of all time, but I really suggest watching 'til episode 5 for some incredible music scenes. If you're not hooked at that point, then it's not for you.

Yoko Kanno is a real musical genius. Everything she does is incredible.

Oh... Cowboy Bebop is one of the ONLY anime series I would actually recommend you watch in English. The show is INCREIDBLY accessible to a western audience. It is AMAZING!

The music of Cowboy Bebop is astounding... and Yoko Kanno is an incredible composer and I love all her works.

What I like most is that the album liner (or the CD pamphlet… whatever the printed paper that comes with the recording media), there’s a brief description of the band The Seatbelts. It describes them as a band that exists in the fictional universe of the show. It’s so meta.

They did it live over zoom (several of them separated) during the pandemic, and i thought that was amazing. Because theres no way to predict nonsense like internet lag or just any other sort of zoom nonsense especially Early zoom, but it was fantastic.

Entire sound track of Cowboy Bebop is tremendous. Many great songs. Try Real Folks Blues next. It was one of the greatest anime series ever created!

One thing that I always loved about Tank is that the solo has a great conversation with the rest of the instruments, that if you pay close attention is so organic that it make you loose yourself in that section.

Yoko Kanno is just amazing from Bebops high energy and emotion music to Ghost in the Shells introspection and quirky songs to full on mainstream pop of Macross Frontier she really is amazing.

Yoko Kanno is a genius. There are many famous anime songs composed by her. The opening song of the anime ”Protect My Earth'', ”Memory of Time'', is one of my favorites. Every time I listen to it, I feel connected to the grandeur of the work and it makes me cry every time.

Cowboy Bebop is definitely a show worth checking out! The director likes to do lots of genre blending, not just with music, but also aesthetics and tropes and such. Cowboy Bebop is a spy/film noir/western set in a dystopian futuristic outer space world. Another great one is Samurai Champloo, which is a modern city/street style action drama set in historic Japan lol

I can't believe this happened!! Japanese jazz is the real deal!!

Masato Honda doing what he does, making magic on that saxophone. There is a solo piece by him that is also part of the Cowboy Bebop original soundtrack called Cosmos where the melody he plays emulates the singing of the late Tiluvu-Donna Cumberbatch in the first verse of another track from the soundtrack called The Singing Sea.

Thank you so much for letting the solos play out! So many reactors pause in the solos and it kills me

Great Reaction! Cowboy Bebop is not a western per se, but it is a western flavored sci-fi series set in a future where the Earth suffered a catastrophic event that split the Moon, most people live on Mars, and the rest of the solar system is more or less colonized. It initially follows a pair of "cowboys", bounty hunters who earn a meager living tracking down dangerous people. If you're serious about checking out an episode, you can't go wrong with Honkey Tonk Women, the third episode, which introduces the third lead character, Faye Valentine.

The cowboy bebop OST has some crazy songs. I remember back in the 90's every jazz band from middles schools to colleges were playing songs from it.

To give this more context, you should watch the opening credits for the show, which is where the song is used. The animation is as wild as the music. It's a futuristic space bounty hunter show, but with the flavor of a Clint Eastwood western movie.

Yoko Kanno is a musical chameleon. Shes worked in so many different styles and somehow always manages to get to the heart of whatever style she's working in and make something truly great. But there's just something about the energy of this track that stands out.

Mission Impossible, Maxwell Smart, and James Bond, all played by Glenn Miller with Carlos Santana. How'd I do? 😁

Ah, you really do this track justice with your reaction, I hope you listen to more of the soundtrack! Bad Dogs No Biscuits is HIGHLY recommended! The opening is an homage to Tom Waits.

You can search for Tank! (Live) to see they performing… live. But it’s not an official video, I think.

I usually do "favorites" instead of "bests" because art is subjective . . . *but this is the best intro to any anime and maybe second only to Batman TAS as the best intro to anything, EVER.*

Hearing this song brings me all the way back to my childhood. Probably the reason why I love jazz so much as an adult.

5:11 🤣That look as the sax solo kicked in. 🤣 … 😋 priceless. 😁

Very interesting, informed reaction to this great music. BTW, _Cowboy Bebop_ is still in Crunchyroll, so you can easily watch the whole show. Yes, it can be called a western, but a space western. You might consider reacting to the opening, which has wonderful, atmospheric graphics over about 90 seconds of the music.

The high horn at the end is like letting the last bit of air out of the balloon.

I'va always loved this soundtrack. listening to Tank! for the first time on a TV ad for Cowboy Bebop was the main reason I got into anime. I was completely blown away by the entire soundtrack. Would live to hear your thoughts on the second track "Rush". It's always been a personal favorite. You hear it on the very first episode during a great martial arts fight scene.

This entire soundtrack is amazing. Yoko Kanno is incredible.

The entire soundtrack of this anime is wonderful. Yoko Kanno is a beast. Note. Is more like a space wester noir show...

This track somewhat reminds me of Bill Chase's Get it On. Both are awesome!

The Japanese music industry is THE most underrated and underappreciated in the world. Everyone concerns themselves with American music like it's all that exists, but a lot of the stuff from Japan is far better than anything you can find in the west. They're also not afraid to do crazy, unorthodox things and meld disparate genres that almost nobody would ever think to combine. I've literally stopped listening to western music for almost 20 years now. I'd be hard pressed to name more modern western musicians/bands than can be counted on a single hand. I just don't know any of them. I've been too busy paying attention to Japanese music of all genres.

The band is led by Yoko Kanno and was assembled specifically for this soundtrack. There are videos of them playing live. They are amazing. There are many excellent, not only jazz musicians in Japan, many people never heard of. 🙂 Take a listen to e.g. Senri Kawaguchi. Or another one by Yoko Kanno, but totally different, "Inner Universe". It's the OP song to the Ghost in the Shell series.

Yoko Kanno also did some incredible job on Ghost in the Shell, that franchise has a LOT of special stuff. And it isn't not a Western, well not exactly, it's bounty hunters in space, it has more to do with the Noir genra but it is a mix. It's a lot like Firefly

Kanno Yoko, the composer, wrote this after about a 1 month crash course in Jazz.

I could, and have, listened to this song on repeat for hours. I played classical double bass, and always wanted to branch out and try jazz bass, before I realized I sucked at playing and would not be able to make it. But it still fills my heart with joy to hear a great bass line in anything jazzy or big band, and there is no bass line that does that better than this one.

Tank is one of the all-time best bass lines. Right up there with hysteria

I make sure to listen to this and other music from the seatbelts at least once a month if not once a week. This show when it aired changed my view of music 🎶

I consider myself extremely lucky to have seen Yoko Kanno perform this live on piano, at the premier of her "Piano Me" project. She has made so many absolutely legendary songs for Anime and other Japanese Media. Please also check out the song "Inner Universe", the opening theme to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, also composed by Yoko Kanno, and sung by the late Origa, in both Russian and English. It's another amazing song!

Masato Honda is one of the all-time legends of the Japanese jazz scene. No surprise you're impressed by him, because it's quite a scene.

we got to play this in my high school jazz band. The sax solo was very much simplified, but it was a heck of a lot of fun playing this piece.

Bad dog no biscuit is another great song from this soundtrack.

Space western. but what someone said about it being a jambalaya is sooooo accurate. it's such a good show and very accessible. I also recommend Real Folk Blues (ending song)

I love all kinds of jazz, but this piece has to be my favorite. I really appreciate your approach to breaking down the song and commenting on the music. I feel like I'll learn a lot being subscribed! Thanks!

This was my dads ring tone for YEARS . Its Iconic for my.

I'm not really a big fan of anime, but Cowboy Bebop is one of those shows that most people can't go wrong with. It was an insanely good quality show for its time and it still stands up. It's a real media classic.

This dude is a teacher :)

Glad you focused on Masato Honda!

Fun fact about this song... this is the first time the Seatbelts performed it. This was a recorded rehearsal, and they just never got a chance to go back to the studio and rerecord it, so the official version was a first take.

I forgot to tell you about an important topic about Yoko Kanno 😅 When the current Emperor ascended to the throne in 2019, she was asked by the Imperial Household Agency to compose a congratulatory song"The Emperor's Enthronement Congratulatory Song Suite "Ray of Water"", and when she performed it in front of the Emperor and Empress, the Empress was so moved that she shed tears when she heard it 😌 She is also from Miyagi Prefecture, which was the most affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, and she composed the charity song "Flowers Bloom" to support the reconstruction efforts. A special version was released in which famous Japanese talents, actors, and musicians sang the song, and it is still sung by choirs all over Japan.😢

If you ever get to watch the show Cowboy Bebop you'll understand how you described this intro song totally fits and is soooo accurate as to what you said...

Gotta say, it’s one thing to see most people React to various songs; it’s another to see someone educated in composition, predicting how it would flow naturalistically before having heard it… Not unheard of but rare, and interesting for your particular perspective here.

Masato Honda is an amazing wind instrumentalist if you watch one of his live solo concerts.

This music and yoko kanno music has been some of my favorites for 20 years now, she is so good

I remember listening to this in my car back in like 2006-2009 when I worked at this Grocery store in CA and people would come up asking me who played the song and I'd tell them it's called Tank from the anime called Cowboy Bebop

Sigeaki Saegusa is the composer of this film. Awarded as a famous composer of Japanese music in 1989 Japan’s music industry has been co‐producing with South Korea since 2002, 1988 Mobile Suit Gundam 「Char’s Counterattack 」 Please give it a listen. ☺️

For quite a few of my generation, the ones born in the mid to late 1980s? This was probably our first taste of this kind of Jazz music through this show if our parents didn't regularly listen to it at home.

Because it's the work of genius musician Yoko Kanno. You'd better remember this name

definately check out the show, not only is there a whole bunch of incredible music, but the way they mix the music and visuals is often original and can be haunting.

"the Seatbelts" are the session musicians Kanno conducts to play her music; it's not a fixed group. Kanno I think is one of the genius composers/conductors of modern times. You should check out Space Lion. And check out a live video, Kanno is an animated conductor. That organ you mentioned may be Kanno - she adds little fills on keyboard to her compositions. Anything by the Seatbekts, i.e Yoko Kanno, is fantastic.

I heard this song played by a high school band at the Montreal Jazz Festival this summer. I wish I could remember the name of the school, but they were legit.

The whole soundtrack for the series goes to all sorts of places, highly recommend listening to all of them

The best way to describe the show is a Space Western crossed with a Noir movie. It depicts a group of bounty hunters, travelling across the Solar System, trying to earn money hunting for criminals, while escaping from their past, as it inevitably starts catching up to them.

I need to admit, this song is the main reason I took possession of all my saxophones back from my brother and has been getting me back into playing after 10+ years...That and he finally bought some much better ones for his gigs

Cowboy bepop has one of the best soundtrack that i have ever heard of. And one hook that keep me watching the series! Also get me get all possible albums for the music. Check other songs also!

It's ICONIC probably the most famous and loved intro to an amine.

Here's a version of the ending song of Cowboy BeBop "Real Folk Blues". I guarantee your students will fall in love with this, and want to learn it. It's a heartbreaker, a sound you can't forget, a group of diverse artists who blended like a milk shake. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8GwE0wwMmKE.html

If you want to see some of the absolutely most beautiful video game music, you've got to hear Ludwig the Accursed/Ludwig the Holy Blade from Bloodborne. A very, very close second is The First Hunter from Bloodborne as well.

cowboy beebop is a space western, trading small towns in the wild west, with small settlements in the fringes of space.

The live version of this really cooks too!

I wish this show would've aired just a little earlier in the States. It hit here in late 2001, and by then, I was a senior in high school and had already quit band due to constant director changes driving me insane. I know my favorite director would've loved this. We did have a jazz band as well, and I'm certain they would've played this. The whole soundtrack to this show is great.

I will say this, Cowboy Bebop's show is just as addicting as the theme song is...the show is SOOO well done, as is its theme...everyone involved with the show and the theme really knew exactly what they were doing to maximize every last bit of psychology to lure you in and keep you engaged...

This video should be included as a bonus episodes on the next release of Cowboy Bebop. Wonderful :D

If you've not gotten into his work, Nobuo Uematsu's work would be worth a look. He's the primary composer for the final fantasy series of video games, and his work is amazing.

honestly the entire soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop is worth a listen, every song is a vibe as for other animes with gorgeous soundtracks i would recommend Attack on Titan and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. both have songs that never fail to make me tear up just by listening to them, they are STUNNING

I went down the Yoko Kano rabbit hole through her work in "Macross Plus" and "Ghost in the Shell - Standalone Complex" and then later on "Cowboy Bebop". The way she easily transcends genres and incorporates and interweaves an incredibly wide range of instruments and musical textures is nothing short of mindblowing and ingenious.Massive respect for that woman and big thanks for that deep dive into one of the most iconic manga/anime theme ever! Kudos!

What I love most about this is that it came out in 1998. At time when anime, or as many called it at time japanese cartoons, wasn't as mainstream as it is now. Anime is bad. Video games is bad especially violent ones was the repeated story. The whole time we listened to music like this. Didn't get the respect it deserved because where it was from. Decades later its wonderful to see people finding and learned hard what they missed. Beware, anime mustic usually leads to the bottomless pit of fantastic video game music

Tank has always held a special place in my heart. I absolutely love the song and the show too.

This was awesome. Cowboy Bebop has some of the best music and was a big part of my teen years. Another classic anime that had a great soundtrack is the 1997 adaptation of 'Berserk' composed by Susumu Hirasawa. "Guts" (somber and sad), "Behelit" (mystical, otherworldly), "FORCES" (energetic battle music) and "Earth" (kinda new age-y) are all great tracks. RIP Kentaro Miura (creator of Berserk)

the syncopation parts remind me of Spike's lazy dodging, the audience is eager for him to start throwing fists and strike, but he casually waits for the right moment

This theme takes me back. Still a joy to listen to all these years later. A fantastic soundtrack you should check out sometime is Daniel Pemberton's score to 'The Man From UNCLE'. The world needs more bass flute and by golly that score delivers.