beach life-in-death is such a perfect song, the 13 minutes feel so cohesive and entertaining. when listening to it again now, i had a little realization about he last lines, the ocean washed over/open your grave. i understand them as a mental challenge you face a tough breakup. the ocean is your thoughts and your mind, the grave is memory of the person you we're in love with, getting over the emotional struggle is wave of wanting to move on from the loss, and when washing open the grave, you remember all the memories you have and how the person made you feel. a wound refusing to close. idk im just high
him saying "your body could fall apart at any second" could also be him reliving a memory he has of his lover, if he stops thinking about it, the memory will be gone and the reality of him being alone again sinks in.
The message of self growth in the whole “Mirror to Mirror” and “Face to Face” is genuinely my favorite concept of any album, I can’t help my cry my eyes out when it gets to that instrumental climax in Famous Prophets (Stars). Face To Face perfectly captures the inner growth of overcoming that huge emotional hurdle in your teens or early adulthood.
6:28 you say the lyrics aren’t right, it’s cause there’s 2 versions of this album, you’re listening to the newer re-recorded one (face to face). The original from 2011 (mirror to mirror) has the lyrics you’re reading on screen, for some reason some of the songs Spotify just never updated the new lyrics for
This album got me thru high school, I have to take like a year long break between listens of it because its so visceral like you said. Such a powerful and impactful album, one of my favorites
This is the first album you've covered that I also haven't heard yet that I've really wanted to dig into on my own. It's gonna be a great soundtrack for my new tattoo session now.
The drums throughout the climaxes of each song help me feel every punch. And will toledos voice is so angsty, monotone, and depressing that it feels relatable to me. It ironically adds so much genuine emotion to every song on this album
Tracklist ;p 0:31 - My Boy - Twin Fantasy 2:51 - Beach Life-In-Death 9:30 - Stop Smoking (We Love You) 10:25 - Sober to Death 13:07 - Nervous Young Inhumans 15:44 - Bodys 19:02 - Cute Thing 21:54 - High To Death 25:11 - Famous Prophets (Stars) 30:02 - Twin Fantasy (Those Boys) Nice reaction man, keep it up :D
As an indietronica enthusiast I think an essential record is This is Happening by LCD Soundsystem, my favourite album of all time personally and something you'd definitely enjoy
As for the mismatched lyrics in some songs, it is because this is the 2018 remake, and Spotify at the time you listened to this didn't update some the lyrics and used the ones from the 2011 original album
I always come back to this video bc I love it sm :) so enjoyable to hear you really listen to the music and to make your own interpretations. ty man you are a blessing
I would very much reccomend the album Repeater by Fugazi. Or 13 songs. Or just any fugazi album, but Repeater or 13 songs are the best introductions to them in my opinion. Also your channel is awesome. Good selection of albums and really great commentary. Keep it up dude.
hearing him say "facts" to "i think evil is created by others to avoid dealing with their own problems" is so funny. thats like the absolute opposite message it was trying to portray. i'm not dogging him or anything i was confused about that line at first too. if your reading this will(the lead vocalist) has said in an interview "you are most succeptible to evil when you dont believe in it". also evil does exist and their called conservatives and nazis.
Love your reactions dog. Super transparent and raw and give a fresh new perspective to these albums that I have yet to witness before. Appreciate what you do! Imma spitfire a few reqs maybe you could check ‘em out sometime! - 4eva is a Mighty Long Time by Big KRIT - Lateralus by TOOL - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins - Mezzanine by Massive Attack - BBNG2 by BADBADNOTGOOD - Around the Fur by Deftones - Slide by George Clanton
I would love to see a reaction to Third Eye Blind's self-titled debut. The band is mainly only known for two songs but that album is a masterpiece. A turbulent emotional journey imo. I was just chilling outside on a bench yesterday listening to it and I got so lost into the music.
You should listen to Parannoul's "To See The Next Part Of The Dream" if you haven't already! Different Story but a similar energy to this one I would say :)
Listen to Swans, but not the new one. The new album has references to previous albums, so I'd recommend listening to the Trilogy (The Seer, To Be Kind, and The Glowing Man) and Leaving Meaning before diving into the new album, The Beggar
29:40 sorry to totally spam your comment section btw, this is the one song where I feel you kinda missed the mark of what it’s about, still your interpretation isn’t completely wrong (and mine obviously isn’t completely right), but he doesn’t wanna end up back together with her (Cate Wurtz, the ex who this whole album is about, she is transgender and when this album was written still identified as male) but rather the whole song and specifically the stars version is all about acceptance of a breakup and a lack of regret for the relationship. The metaphor of the Pain Star & of the mirror breaking kinda go hand in hand, this version of the album is called face to face while the older version is mirror to mirror, because in this newer version he’s able to look himself his feelings in the face rather than obstructing them with the reflection of the mirror. It’s a metaphor for growing up, as is confirmed by the ending speech (which is Bible verses Corithians 8-13) about childhood and growing up, the shattering of the mirror is now being able to see things clearly and realizing this was NOT an ideal relationship. He was only 18 when this album first released, wrote a lot of the songs when he was 17, he was a teenager through this relationship, and the breaking of the mirror represents maturity and outgrowing it, looking at it face to face. The deal with the Pain Star though, is a bit different but similar, the Pain Star shows up in Cate Wurtz comic series “lamezone” in a section inspired by a dream, where the character describes having a pain star entering the house. It only comes once every thousand or so years, incredibly rare, and if you touch it you’re met with the most inexplicable overwhelming pain ever, but only for a split second, then it’s gone forever. The character says he does not regret touching the pain star as it was such a unique and rare experience, even if it caused him pain. This parallels the relationship Will and Cate had, and in the song Will is saying that even though the relationship caused him pain and suffering, he wouldn’t miss it for the world. In the original album, the pain star & mirror metaphor aren’t included, but the reason they’re included in the re-recording 7 years later is because they represent maturity, knowledge, a lack of regret, and moving on.
why say he missed the mark on it if you admit that he's not entirely wrong and you're not entirely right? you could've just delivered your own personal interpretation on it's own instead. while i do agree with you for most of this there is also kind of no reason to dig into will's personal life here, and while it is public info, it's still sort of uncomfortable to namedrop her as will has gone out of his way not to after the negative response to the namedrop in minds (see: the second to last part of the vinyl version of life worth missing)
a lot of people (real) have been saying that you should react to come in by weatherday. it gets compared to this album a lot but I think its more of a Death grips comparison to any experimental hip hop artist type of comparison. Anyway would be cool if you checked it out :)
You should definitely listen to teens of denial they are definitely companion pieces Plus u should listen to the original version of this album they are really neat reflections of each other
please listen to Jon Hopkins Singularity! Electronic Tech-House goodness from your producers favorite producer. Big fan of your channel :) hope you blow up
You mention the lyrics aren't right. I haven't read other comments so someone might have told you. But they are from the original version of this album from 2011. So far this video is really cool.
I really liked your reaction and if you want a sort of continuation of the story there is another album about grieving the same relationship in this one and since you liked the twin fantasy I recommend you give it a try! the name is monomania and it's soooo good :))) hope you like it!!
Beach Life is an absolute riot and it just pops sober to death as my favourite.. My favourite carseat headrest song though is on Teens of denial album. Coincidentally the longest track again 👍
i heard alot of shit talk abt car seat headrest (mostly from interpol fans, funny enough!) and this is my first time listening to them (i think) but they arent too bad! i gotta recommend the great annihilator by swans, or really any swans album at this point because alot of them are great….
i loved this reaction, i think you didn't fully grasp the concept of high to death though, i'd really reccomend cardinal west's video on the song, it's great :>
