MUSIC DIRECTOR REACTS | Cowboy Bebop OST 1 - Tank! 

⏩Video Question: Who are your favorite composers in anime? I want to learn much more about Yoko Kanno for sure! Here is some basic information: Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子 Kanno Yōko?), born March 19, 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is a composer, arranger and musician who scored for the Cowboy Bebop anime series, movie, video games, and the live-action remake. She is also the keyboardist and frontwoman for the band The Seatbelts.

The entire Cowboy Bebop sound track is a complete groove. And the anime is top notch! Top 3 for me!

I had no idea Tank was such an iconic song outside the anime community but it makes sense even my grandparents enjoyed this song when i played it for them.

I was not expecting to hear this song when I went to a drum corps competition last week. My daughter was wearing her cowboy bebop shirt and she lost her mind. It was her first in person drum corps experience and it brought her to tears. She's now determined to march with SCV. Which corps were you in?

This theme is unavoidable since it's one of the legendary ones,

My high school jazz band senior year played this or was going to play this in festival, I even had the sax solo 💀 unfortunately this took place in 2020 and we were all quarantined, years later I’m now a 3rd yr in college and every time I glance at my sax in my room I’m just reminded of what could have been 🥲

What an iconic opening song. And, if you really haven't watched the show so far, I highly recommend doing so. I think it's a masterpiece and one of my favorite animes of all time. Dark, mature, but very funy. Great story and characters and one of the best soundtracks to any show ever.

I love the fact that you can just feel the trumpets peeling the paint of the damn ceiling, with that high, piercing, silver notes they're hitting...

The ost was ahead of its time. Yoko kanno is a legend.

I'm a simple man: I see "TANK", I click. Former marching snare player through high school and a private corps after, very happy to see you give us some BD. I know I'm a year late, but now I get to go look up their performance! Thanks for this!

I definitely recommend reacting to Guts theme

I LIKE Yoko Kanno. I especially like the music of the anime GHOST IN THE SHELL(攻殻機動隊). "Inner Universe" "Rise" "player" These songs are sung in English and Russian.

I will never get tired of the smile on musicians faces when this song is playing , especially that ending climax 🤣🤣

COWBOY BEBOP (I understood the title is a reference to a 1950’s term for competitive horn playing) is my favorite anime series. It’s definitely worth watching. This recording (CD version) of Tank is different from the version in the anime opening, which is shorter and from a different take. The ending song, “The Real Folk Blues” is an awesome ballad. You should check that one out next. Shout out to the SANTA CLARA VANGUARD. Anyone interested in learning more about the intense world of drum corps might enjoy the movie “DRUM LINE,” which is set in a fictional HBC.

I’m from Columbus Indiana and I was in the Columbus north marching band and I love watching dci. Not a lot of people realize how much effort you have to put into it but the end result is always worth it. I wish I got the chance to play this song

Fun fact: it is physically impossible to listen to this song without pumping up the volume

I just love Yoko Kanno so much. If possible, listen to her album Songs to fly, which contains selected songs from soundtracks of different media, it's just too beautiful.

If you're not aware of them, you absolutely need to check out the Tachibana Highschool band. They're of of the best marching bands in Japan. Though I won't be surprised if you already know them.

You should listen to "The Real Folk Blues" by the Seatbelts, it's from Cowboy Bebop as an ending song and it's one of my favorite songs ever.

I'll also add, for my generation at least (1987 model, myself) Blues Brothers did so much to introduce folks into Jazz, Blues and Rhythm & Blues etc.

Yoko Kano is amazing. This version of Tank will always be my favorite, but she also remixed it for the Netflix live action show as well. Worth listening too if you haven’t before. It has some subtle changes but it’s still very much Tank!

Just watched Blue Devils play this at finals!!! 🔥

Shout out to Blue Devils! And D&B in general. Some of my favorite memories are playing marching bass and snare. I miss it, and love watching/hearing bands play.

Yoko Kanno also did music for the Macross series of mech anime. Macross, while being a mech show, features female characters who sing pop music as a very prominent element. She actually used a pen name for.. I believe the lyrics for a lot of the Macross songs. She's done a lot more, some much more out there compared to Macross, but in my mind, there's something about being able to create both good pop music and all the rest of the stuff she's done that showcases just how great a songwriter she is.

1:55 As a bassist in big bands and combos, I have to agree with you 100% xDD

OMG the memories. I'm a clarinet and oboeist. Give me a great brass and saxophone solo - pkaylist ALL DAY!!Best anime video next to the OST from Death Note. Thanks 😊

You should definitely react to more Yoko Kanno, and also more of Cowboy Bebop's soundtrack in general. I have a feeling you'd really like Rush especially

"You have your brass, melting your face off..." This defines big band for me, thank you.

Such an great show, this opening plays before you know whether the episode is gonna be goofy, sad, scary, cheerful, or all of them. Every episode is very distinct. Speaking of, maybe react to the ending theme

The last 15 seconds of this song is my all time favourite outro ever.

oh man you gotta watch cowboy bebop, its such a classic and has such a good aesthetic, my only complaint is that it's too short 😭😭

This comment is 5 months late but I just wanted to say I love when other tunes I know make it into field shows. I remember going to a DCI event a few years ago and picked out music from Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them in one of the shows(and I'm upset I can't remember which group performed it). Awesome video! Edit: it was the 2018 Blue Devils show it seems lol

Got to play this song for my last jazz band concert senior year of high school along with Pat Metheny's "The First Circle". Both songs contained some of the highest notes I ever had to play as 2nd trumpet.

On the full CD collection there's an extra track with Ed singing the lyrics to Tank!

Yoko and The Seatbelts are a very tight band !

I imagine anyone who does a lot of jazz or big band work probably gets more requests for Tank! than almost any other song.

I had no idea that the Blue Devils were performing this song! I haven't really been following DCI for a while but you have reignited my interest. I have pleasant memories of going to a competition for the first time back in 2010.

My favourite list (it's really treasure for me): 1. Shiro Sagisu - The final decision we all must take 2. Shiro Sagisu - My brother 3. Shiro Sagisu - In my spirit 4. Shiro Sagisu - Treachery 5. Yoko Kanno - Moon 6. Yoko Kanno - Torukia 7. Susumu Hirasawa - Gats 8. Maaya Sakamoto - Kiseki no Umi 9. Yuki Kajiura - Canta per me It's not from anime, from game, but you should listen😍 10. Chris Christodoulou - Coalescence 11. Hades - Through Asphodel Also you can listen 12. Hiroyuki Sawano feat Gemie - Light and Shadow Hello from Russia😘

One of my favorites! Thanks, Tony.

Recently subbed to your channel and I'm loving your musician perspective so far. I suggest giving Baccano! a try. Its OP and OST 1 is similar to Tank if not more. Have a great day!

I would love to recommend another masterpiece from Hiroyuki Sawano, the OSTS from the movie "Bubble". It has a variety of songs composed by Hiroyuki, most of them are only instrumental but every single one has a special and unique melody. I assure you, you're gonna get goosebumps. It's probably my favorite work from him so far. By the way, I love your channel and reactions :)

If you like this, 100% check out "What Planet is This?" Its my favorite song in all of Cowboy Bebop and its incredible.

heck yea. id love to see you go over some lot videos or classic shows from dci history

With this intro you're missing out on seeing the visuals in the anime opening. It introduces the characters as the song progresses and the characters have their own theme to how/when the music comes in.

MAN Tank is a banger. Somehow I forget and am surprised every single time. There's really not anything like it in anime - save for the opening to Baccano! If you want more big band grooves

Recommend listening to ranking of kinds openings, great show, and as for you, great content so far, love to see you enter the genre

Here I was, having so much fun with the AOT video, about to recommend you to listen to The Seatbelts or Yoko Kanno in general (I recommend,insist, the things she did for the Escaflowne series), and was surprised to see this one! Because dude...this whole show and the music...almost no words for it. I'm definetly having the best time of my life here with you, even if you don't know about anime or a specific show I can see your passion for music, so thank you, keep it up!

If you check out The Real Folk Blues (both Japanese and English versions are great) be sure to also check out the Special Performance collab they released to youtube in 2020 as well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8GwE0wwMmKE.html Also there are a number of great songs off the OST, Gotta knock a little harder being one of my favorites.

Love this show, love the music! Love the breakdown. Really appreciate you bringing the music knowledge for us folks with musical backgrounds, while still keeping it entertaining. Btw, Polyphia just dropped a new single (Neurotica) you should check it out - the drum work is wicked, and I’d be interested in your take!

this theme is immaculate ah!!

My fav intro to any anime. Just amazing.

Now I want to know what u think about Trigun opening

Masato Honda is the lead alto sax soloist. He's also known for his work with T-Square. Isn't he amazing?

I wish he listens to higher quality version like flac which has 700+kbps bitrate compared to youtube's 128kbps, it really does make a difference, you can hear whole lots of details

AOT x DBD out today. Let's go. Also thanks for reviewing tank

would love to see you react to some "Initial D" tracks like "Deja Vu" "Running In The 90's" and "GAS GAS GAS"

I lost my shit when I saw DCI in Atlanta a month ago and BD pulled Tank out. It was so gooooood

The first time I heard "Too Good Too Bad" from "Cowboy Bebop" I immediately thought "Cool marching band tune!".

Blues-inspired Jazz Funk

"Stardust crusaders" another JoJo theme, think you would enjoy it!

While it is a very different style from most of the anime theme music you've been listening to, I think you might enjoy "Sono Koe ga Chizu ni Naru" - the opening theme for season 2 of "Snow White with the Red Hair". The anime is a romantic adventure, and the theme reflects that romanticism, but there are some very interesting complexities that are used so well that the casual listener would probably never notice them - but musicians (particularly the drummers, percussionists, and bassists among us) catch them with a smile 🙂

As a jazz saxophonist, this fucking song gets me GOING

I think you'd really enjoy Piano Black from Cowboy Bebop as well

More more more Seatbelts (Cowboy bebop ost)

Credens justitiam or Venari strigas, from Madoka Magica's OST, by Yuki Kaijura

Tenor-Sax here. The Sax section parts just sound so fun to play. Just the type of things I know I'd get elated while playing with everyone in BigBand.

Once upon a time when the earth was just beginning to cool I played trumpet in a marching band. It was the junior band, and we had one number. 25 or 6 to 4. I rescued myself by trying out for and getting a seat in the stage band where we always played inside. Always warm. Always dry. I do love the big bands of the ‘30s and ‘40s. Still, if it’s got a brass section I will listen to it. Now, I’m going to listen to Tank again.

These soundtracks are littered with gold nuggets of big band and small combo scorchers. For sure checkout: -Rush (quick loud big band chart like Tank) -NY Rush (small group version of prev) -Too Good To Bad (New Orleans style w/ a sousa, Bari sax solo) -Gateway (fun 3-horn ditty with some fast trading solo sections) -Bad Dog No Biscuit (crazy chaotic almost Ska track) -Car 24 (almost no bassline, but great bass clarinet usage) -Clutch (real quick Coltrane-esque arrangement with soprano sax & trumpet) -What Planet is This? (banging funk-fusion track ala Tower of Power) I'd kill to see a corps take this on for a full show. But alas I will settle for the snippet from Blue this year!!

PLEASE please do more Yoko Kanno. PLEASE

as a lover of cowboy bebop ( it is the first anime I ever watched) I would love to know what you think of the song "digging my potato" I honestly think it's one of the best songs in the series.

You should check out Paprika movie OST. They are super unique and fun

I have one an anime with a whole bunch of great songs you could check out. Its called Angel Beats! My Soul, Your Beats is the opening, Brave Song is the ending song, My Most Precious Treasure is one of the most impactful songs in the show, and all of the songs by the in show band, Girls Dead Monster, are spectacular. Especially My Song, Crow Song, and Alchemy in particular. I hope to see you check those out.

Would really recommend read or die (ova) and/or r.o.d. (ost). I watched my first read or die b/c the synopsis was so stupid and weird. It is actually pretty good though.

you heard any other of the cowboy bee-bop soundtrack? and if not would you consider doing a react to it?

I recommend checking out Lost In Paradise, it’s an ending to an anime called Jujutsu Kaisen, it’s super Jazzy.

amazing song, shows lots of the stretngths (the flexibility) of Jazz. (in my eyes, not professionally speaking, Jazz / Blues / Funk sorta has that ability to fuse with things in things like R&B (Blues Brothers sorta taking slow paced stuff like Soul Man and Riot and make it more exciting witht the electric guitar/bass etc), afro Blues and so on. It's so fun. I once had a visit-thing with a symphony and I remember sitting in the back for a practice for over an hour and doing nothing. All effort was on the violins (understandably) but then my role was just as a silly background thing nobody would notice missing (really). Like a segment in a part of a thing in the middle part of a 30 minute thing. Symphony totally lost me at that (luckily) and I've had so much more fun with jazz / r&b etc.

you should react to all the jojo openings! there are a few jazzy songs in there ;)

Reminds me a bit of the theme song to Johnny Quest at times. Edit: Fun Fact - Johnny Quest was one of if not the first soundtracks to use synthesized music.

I subbed cause you started talkin Tumbao I wanna hear more

Guts theme please 🙏😁

DNA - The Seatbelts (From Cowboy Bebop Movie)

Bro says hold the Salsa explanation for just an anime reaction. Go ahead with the explanation. Anime is art, the drawing and voice lines are layers like instruments in its soundtrack. This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Such energy, such dynamism, so rich

This is "The Opening" in the anime :).

Guts theme,especially recommend

I recommend Avidity from the anime 86. It’s really good.

Space lion

YES

I also want you to see "Virtual Session 2020 by SEATBELTS"!!

Anything from the Vision of Escaflowne sountdrack

you've got to react to the ending theme Rain

Yoko Kanno, Joe Hisaishi, Kenji Kawai and Hyde (from l'Arc~en~Ciel band) are the anime composers I prefer. Good choice with Cowboy Bebop. :) You can also check "wolf's rain", "vision of Escaflowne", "Macross"... The songs from Kokia and Gakt are also very good.

You should check out Wave Potter's rock cover of Tank. It's pretty awesome.

I don't remember for sure, but i think that last 2 bars of trumpet play double Eb's. Those hurt when i was in high school 😂 Edit: my guy on Blue Devils playing that double G in a field show, props. Miles harder than playing in a concert setting

Enjoying see your excitement, while I'm doing the same listening. Played lead tenor sax in two different university big bands. Two of my roommates were snares in "Spirit" back in the late seventies and miss the analyzing of all music around us as we did. Half of the Marching Southerners (JSU) were Spirit members because it was a cheap university in Alabama we could afford to attend. I could not understand why I was attracted to the Bridgemen when their chops were not Blue Devils until a club owner where I was playing pulled me to the side and told me this. People remember half of what they hear and half of what they see, and you have the chops but suck as an entertainer, fix that. Best advise ever and now understood why the Bridgemen didn't focus on scores only, but a show to rock the house for those times. DCI does incredible stuff far beyond those days, but are missing the Bridgemen entertainment element....or am I just that old? Glad to see the Blue Devils actually playing a tune in stead of practice room riffs for 12 minutes. Enjoy the semi finals. Back to the tune you played, it was hot, tight and I could hear the trumpet line rip off a couple of Bill Chase licks. Enjoyed this and now subbed, carry on!

Listen to Space Lion...same album.

Please watch the show sir, its an absolute classic, one of the greatest of all time

Would love to see a samurai champloo review of the nujabes soundtrack!

Jojo's OPs? They blow everyone away every time

i don't know if you had tryed it ( i don't think so) but you could try Umineko no naku koro ni opening song it's called "katayoku no tori" ( one winged bird) and is a song of the very talented artist "akiko shikata" it's in short a "modern opera" type song!

You should listen to What Planet is This? From Cowboy Bebop!