One guy in the comments is depressed drinking alone to this song, another guy is happily making coffee and breakfast to it. Captures the mood of the song pretty well tbh.
Esprit de Corps: "If an assault were launched on this building right now - if the windows came crashing down and the whole world descended upon you - this man would hurl himself in death's way to save you. He is your half-brother." What a way to introduce a character, especially with this playing in the background. It made me take a liking to Kim instantly. After that rough wake-up, at least *someone* got your back.
I like to think that I'd like to do anything in my power to make sure Kim was well, even put my life at risk to save him. But I also know very well that he wouldn't let me.
Finding out about Disco Elysium completely changed my life. I always come back to this sound track every night and listen to it before going to bed. This sound track is something else. I can't explain what kind of feeling it gives me when I listen to it. All I can say is that I am grateful that this masterpiece exists. People probably won't see this comment but goodnight everyone. I'll come back again tomorrow to listen to this. I'll always keep coming back.
@@nothingtoseeherepls5844 Be sure to check out the band Sea Power f.k.a. British Sea Power. They wrote most of the soundtrack and much of their other work has the same vibe
@@madikken5363 It's really interesting because on paper he doesn't sound like a popular character. He's stoic, has some character sure, but nothing crazy or super-cool on the surface. He's a straight man. But everyone who played the game loves him! Easily the most popular behind (maybe) the protagonist.
@@fpedrosa2076 True! I think we all love him because he´s like an anchor to the chaotic mess of a main character that is Harry. While playing I found it a great relief to be accompanied by someone who will always have my back, no matter how badly I fuck up. Maybe having someone as reliable and loyal by our side is something that speaks to us on a very personal level? Also, since he has such a serious personality, it is all the more satisfying when he does indulge in Harry´s shenanigans now and then :) The writers just did an overall fantastic job with him imo
ive been on a weight loss journey for the last two months now, every morning i wake up at 5:30am and put this on. i make a double shot espresso and go on a 3 hour walk with this soundtrack in the background. I never realised how beautiful the world was until now
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - Trying to sleep? But that's boring. You can do that when you're dead, or in tomorrow's lecture. Lectures are a great time for that, the *best* time, so drop the "just one more song" act. Put your phone aside, boot the computer back up and play some more! That's the life, my man, the gaming life! YOU - NO! I'm tired and trying to stay up to date with my studies. You kept me up too long already, so let me get at least four and a half hours of sleep, for crying out loud! Good luck with your dopamine receptors, y'all. Better luck than me, anyway.
VOLITION [Moderate:Success] - It's nothing you haven't dealt with before. Temptation has called every day of your life, and no matter how far along you wish you were, you're still better now than if you'd given in. This time's no different. REPTILIAN BRAIN - Embrace the darkness, true respite from what you want to be distracted from. It's warm down there in that bed, good enough to never get up...
Still love the line ‘that’s the name your parents gave you, tequila sunset is your real name’ there’s you as society sees you, and there’s you as you see yourself
It's amazing how this song can make me joyous and giddy with excitement. But then sad and empty. It's like getting deep into a dream of good times with friends in the sun but you know that it's just a dream. That's okay tho.
It is the songification of electrochemistry/addiction: like sex, alcohol and drugs, at first, the euphoria, then comes melancholy, then you might realize something is wrong but will be unable to give it up. The song does the same: it starts with an upbeat, slowly becomes less so, and in the end you just want to loop it to keep listening.
I've been in college for nearly 6 years, getting a 4 year degree. I've watched a lot of friends graduate and move on without me, and I've commuted every year so far, leaving my experience hallow for the most part. Just for one month during this summer I'm finally living on campus, an experience I never thought I'd get considering I'm a super-senior now. But the campus is sad and empty, leaving me unsure If it's even worth it. I'm sitting in a nearly empty warehouse sized chow hall, almost by myself there are so few people. It feels so lonely and a place out of time, but I listen to this song while eating breakfast in this largely empty cafeteria, and I feel a bit more comfortable while I wait for my life to finally get under way... join my friends on the other side of adult hood I guess... A lot how I imagine Harry feels waking up trying to muster the canter to find himself, and a killer, if you wanted to get philosophical about it...
same feeling I get in my late 20s at work or just alone on the grind man, roommates are getting serious relationships, Im recently out of a serious one etc. You know the deal. Just trying to keep the ball rolling. This game legit taught me how to process a lot of different responses Id have to things. There's a lot of strangely therapeutic elements to disco elysium. Going so deep down a self defeating rabbit hole in this game will straight up end it. So you learn to keep yourself going and finding reasons to keep going. And I suppose that's life. In a good way.
@@hossbonaventure Im right there with you, and I think the most important and moving thing about it is that: even when you do crazy or self destructive stuff, there are characters who still care about you/Harry. In particular Kim, and to a lesser degree even Jean. Most other stories would paint Harry as a completely unredeemable person, but even when you do some stupid stuff (up to the point that Harry is just down right malicious/racist), characters understand how the circumstances of the world pushed you in this direction and are patient with you. Some even doing every thing in their limited power to help steer you towards good decisions. It just makes me feel less alone knowing that you can mess up and feel lost but that people can and will still care about you, even if they literally don't know you at all. Just because we're all human and we're more empathetic than most are lead to believe. That's what felt therapeutic to me.
I can't tell if I want to cry or jam along to this song. There is a certain melancholy to it, bittersweet feeling but in the end, we all know what it entails...loss
This song has the energy of a sunrise No matter if you're seeing the sunrise because you woke up early and refreshed or if you stayed up all night drinking in existential dread the sun has still rose and it is still just as beautiful
Hits different when you are far from home for college, couldnt sleep in the dormitory thinking about that girl at 2 am in a cold and rainy fall night while smoking and knowing damn well that tommorow aint gonna go easy on you.
Shivers: As the music plays a distant flightless bird pecks aimlessly at the ground; the wind whips up an old, spoiled food wrapper and sends it spiralling to the ground. The glow of an abandoned lighthouse pierces the autumn air and an elderly man watches from a bench he visits each day to remember his wife. As it plays, it’s as if it will never end.
"VOLITION: You can do it. It's nothing. Do it for the city. Go. SHIVERS: Do it for the wind. LOGIC: Do it for the picture puzzle. Put it all together. Solve the world. One conversation at a time."
Just finished my first play through today, never has any game affected me the way Disco Elysium did, fantastic writing, great and believable characters, good voice acting, main character I might relate to a bit too much, one of the most interesting game worlds I've ever had the pleasure to explore and learn about, no forced shooty shooty bang bang fighting to keep players engaged but insightful, deep and meaningful conversations with people, truly touching moments, brilliant soundtrack and you can play the whole game with only a mouse. Truly a 10/10 masterpiece of interactive story telling. Jumped right next to DOOM and DOOM II as my all time favorite games ever, can't wait for the final cut version to come out, I'm already longing to return to Revachol.
I am really not judging your taste of games at all but... Isn't Disco Elysium Like VERY different from the DOOM games? I am just curious because those are as I said, very different
@@Honorio-nz4ts Yes they are different, I hope you realize that some people can and do like different kinds of things, not just the same regurgitated sludge that games usually offer. And btw I wasn't talking about nuDOOM, I was talking about OG DOOM, just to make that clear too.
@@Honorio-nz4ts coincidentally I jumped into doom 2016 right after disco elysium and disco was a spiritual experience for me. I loved disco. Doom was something I put off for years and now experiencing it and it’s amazing too. Balance of fast pace and slower methodical games works well for me.
My quarantine song, perfectlly captures the mood between not having to leave the house because of work in the morning, and not beeing able to leave the house at all lol
Quick info: Almost the entire ost was made by Sea Power. The game's songs are all featured on their various albums, usually with vocals. I'm unsure what relationship the band has to the game's dev team. This theme seems to be based on "A Light Above Descending" on the album Sea of Brass (2015), but finds its most faithful analog in "Fire Escape in the Sea" on Everything Was Forever (2022). The fluidity of the melodies and themes are incredibly compelling across their discography.
I know that the Whirling-in-Rags was named after a lyric from an older Sea Power song in the original tabletop RPG sessions that Disco Elysium was based on. "You're whirling in rags You're vast and you're sad Hail holy queen of the sea" So obviously having been fans for a while, the creators went straight to Sea Power to ask if they could do the soundtrack and by god did they do a phenomenal job
To me this song feels like you’ve found what you’re looking for, it may not necessarily be what you want but dawn is revealing itself and with it, some kind of happiness
The world is a beautiful place, the people shine with inspiration and passion within them. Don't believe it all, don't believe that ever swirling, ever consuming void. That comfortable black pit where you can convince yourself that the world has abandoned you- that nothing can ever get better. It may not now. It may not by the time you're on your death bed. But its those moments where the sun and wind rises, that you feel the cool vastness of the world on your bare cheek and you think "Yes, in this already passed moment- things are good." Be kind if nothing else. To yourself, to others, to those underserving. Disco into that tequila sunset.
@@smellypatel5272 notice also that the optimistic foreground melody gives way to the pained trumpet sounds in the end... the present moment passes and the pain resumes...
This game honestly left me not knowing how to feel throughout the entire game, it's like my brain couldn't tell whether I should be sad, angry, depressed or happy at literally any time.
Ok, so its 4:31 here in Poland and I cant fall asleep and Im quite drunk so I might as well write my experience from this game for the 3 people that will read it. First of all, Disco Elysium helped me understand things that I couldnt cope with, that is break up and running away from your problems, like alcoholism. Its definetely a game like no other, but what made me feel like this game was made especially for me, was probably 4th night, I cant really remember as I finished this game quite long ago. Namely, I played on hard, and made a promise to myself that I wont sell any "souvenirs", I mean items like postcards, forgive me but I cant really recall what they were called. So there goes 1st, 2nd, 3rd nights and Im doing quite well, making progress in investiagtion and then suddenly there comes night and I cant afford a place to sleep. I made a run around town for bottles but at this stage I basically found every single one of them. Here comes decision, do I sleep on street or I sell something? I was missing literally few cents and as sleeping on street in this god forsaken land was like commiting suicide at this point, I went to the thrift shop. I spent like 10 minutes on chosing item I want to sell and I made up my mind. I was going to sell photo of a particular reitred soldier, that is Rene Arnoux, with his girlfriend to afford a place to sleep. I received my money and went to whirling in rags. You can imagine horror in my heart the next day when I saw his friend sitting on a bench alone. I already knew what was going on I was thinking to myself for the rest of the game that he actually died because of me. I blamed myself for the rest of the game and weeks after I learned that he dies no matter what you do, but man, my heart seriously froze there for a moment. I know it wasnt planned but holy shit, no game made me feel this and probably no game will probably ever make me feel this pure, I dont even know how to call it, helplesness and injustice as Disco Elysium.
What I love about this soundtrack is that it really captures the mood of the Whirling in Rags. It's a place where the happiest of people and people at their lowest all gather. The place is constantly caught between a happy and sad state. That's the mood of this song. It's neither happy nor sad, it's somewhere in between.
This music is the end. This music is the beginning, This is what I hear when I wanna cry and this is what also makes me smile. It's what gives me confidence and what makes me question myself. This is what nothing and everything means at the same time. And you can damn bet that I love it.
I know a few of you have said that this song describes various melancholic life scenarios, but honestly, I feel like it paints the whole picture of life in general - sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down, sometimes we feel well guided, and there are times we feel lost. Life is a wave. It changes around like the seasons and a lot of the time it's extremely unpredictable, such as the weather can be also. Life is a beautiful, mysterious sorrowful bitter sweet song and dance, but what a hell of an experience it surely is. The trick is to try and enjoy it all, no matter how tough it can get. Ride the waves 🌊
About three months ago I started this masterpiece. I was only making ~$100/week and was at risk of financial catastrophe. Since then, I have gotten the "dream job" I always wanted, a high school band/chorus director. It pays well but the kids are savages. Like, imagine a fucking choir of Cuno. I'm about to quit and just deliver pizza on the weekends so I have more time to actually LIVE. Whatever the fuck that means... This song is perfect for situations such as these in life. Minimalism perfection.
@@BattleToads yea, kids in our time just cannot understand WHAT IS another human. So they don't want to deal like civilised creatures. Only barbarian lang, only kuno's way. And sry if i got some mistakes here.
@@BattleToads How is everything going right now? I hope it's well! I've gone back to school after like half a decade, after having my life basically destroyed ten years ago. Socializing with people again is weird, but finally feeling like getting out of that rut is a whole another feeling, even if it's hard, tiring and it hurts sometimes. That song personally reminds me of that and the cold days out waiting to cross the highway, humming songs to myself and just thinking of people, and thinking about writing about them.
@@Morgan_grail Hanging in there. Been self employed doing delivery apps and running my own tiny business. Student loan payments started back this month and it looks like my car is dying this month, right on que.
I came into Elysium as someone who had recently fallen in love with the band Pulp and constantly prepared myself for the kind of perfect karaoke that would demonstrate the immensity of my soul every night on the drive home from the job I hated. This song is exactly that mood. It's like getting off of work only to go home not sure if you have enough money for the fast food you feel the need to treat yourself to. It sounds like falling asleep just so you can wake up in less than eight short hours and continue "living the dream."
this song is the emotional opposite to gymnopedie no1 for me, i saw a comment on that song a while ago that said "i'd like to go back, not to change anything, just to feel a few things twice" but this song is filled with so much awareness of the present and inability to reminisce. i can't help but pause and breathe in the moment when i hear this, before reengaging in the rush and worries of my day
Woke up hangover after a night of self destruction and letting loved ones worry and after a hot shower i started listenning to this, while trying my hardest to not puke out a drop of water. Good song
We shared something. You and I. When we played this game, the few of us that ever will, and that thread of connection will remain. In twenty years, upon stumbling across this song, we'll remember and we'll smile about it. That you can be sure of.
I actually passed the check and got away from responsibility. Only returned back there close to 12 pm when I realised I had to sleep and he wouldn't let me in without his 200 pay. And I only had like 10 in my pockets. P.S. the game bugged out and Kim haven't proposed me to sell his stuff at pawn shop and it was late anyway so it was already close. Plus I already failed skill check for begging rich lady for money so I soft-locked the game lol. Reloaded recent save and then both sold Kim's stuff AND passed a check for begging money. Feels good man.
How does a song sound so comforting yet anxious? Seriously fucking incredible how it encapsulates the mood of the game. One of my all time favourites. Mixed to perfection
This music makes you think about a hotel named Whirling In Rags and makes you imagine that you are in that hotel lounge with a coffee cup in your hand. Maybe sitting around or maybe running from here to there and talking with people to investigate a case or about some bugs! Who knows? Life is Good and Bad at the same time. The joy and the melancholy hits at the same time. This music nothing but a masterpiece which Instantly reminds you about the City Revachol. I can write endless words, but the music is over now.
On a recent playthrough, the guitar riff kicked in right after Titus said the line about how the Hardie Boys had to look after Klaasje and everyone in Martinaise, despite everything, or there’d be no point to them doing anything. Really nice emotional moment.