Robot scat, jail rap, and the telephone in music

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@samedifference5504 9 лет назад

When I saw the title "Robot scat" I thought something much different

@cjcskittlez 9 лет назад

me too.

@ZER0-- 8 лет назад

+CJ Skittlez And me. Thank goodness someone else thought the same.

@danielsadler1099 8 лет назад

same

@scrambledmeat618 7 лет назад

Same Difference thank god i'm not the only one

@amylee9092 4 года назад

Robots obey what the children say 😉

@Autarch127 9 лет назад

There's a number you can call that's just the JOHN CENA theme on loop, you know.

@applesKIWISbananas 9 лет назад

thats awesome!!!

@projectRHIthink 9 лет назад

what's the number?

@Autarch127 9 лет назад

+project RHIthink 515-808-2362

@tntiscool54 9 лет назад

@lilaid9211 9 лет назад

+Trilby Lascaux it doesn't work for me

@dmaster5556 9 лет назад

Neon Indian recently used a phone line to announce his upcoming album that's due next month. It starts off sounding like an old phone sex hotline, but eventually you hear snippets from the album and a woman's voice announces the album title and the release date. Then it sends you a text message with a link to the newest single.

@roboticpigeon42 9 лет назад

+dmaster5556 Neat.

@demonetizeddemonetisedinmy1890 8 лет назад

"robot scat" not what I expected...

@horserage 8 лет назад

How long did it take you to make up that name.

@demonetizeddemonetisedinmy1890 8 лет назад

JessHorserage 1 second

@demonetizeddemonetisedinmy1890 8 лет назад

Kek

@horserage 8 лет назад

Indeed good sir/madam.

@scrambledmeat618 7 лет назад

Anal Prolapse In My Bum When I'm Filled With Cum same to both your comment and your username

@ToastLogicJr 8 лет назад

I expected some Dial-a-Song. I was not dissapoint.

@amylee9092 4 года назад

Who's They May Be Giants? You'll get this 😉

@StealthMaster86 8 лет назад

Never thought I'd see an episode that has the awesome They Might Be Giants in it.

@zacharymorin5696 8 лет назад

I know right!

@JakeSnake07 7 лет назад

♫Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way♫

@zacharymorin5696 7 лет назад

So take me back to Constantinople, no you can't go back to Constantinople, been a long time gone, Constantinople, why did Constantinople get the works? That's nooo body's business but the Tuuuuurks!

@Formeldehyde 9 лет назад

This title is misleading. I'm looking for Scat Robots. Totally different

@thisexists 9 лет назад

Deserves its own episode.

@runthatbackagain7126 9 лет назад

+This Exists I was hoping for Scatman john :'(

@Uroshius 8 лет назад

Your reddit is "Who at, hi sexists" Don't know what it means, but it sounds controversial.

@bovinearrogance 7 лет назад

Jacket I didn't even know people still knew about scarab john

@Ultiman00b117 9 лет назад

I seriously love the shit out of this channel, man. Your channel continues to be a really big inspiration for my songwriting whenever I'm feeling tired or out of it. Hell, I made a song about Alan Smithee as soon as I checked your guys's video on it. I'm only a fifteen year old musician that's relatively new to songwriting, so these videos really do help make a dent in my regularly banal songwriting. You guys treat fun facts with dignity compared to those mindless top ten videos littered everywhere, and I'm glad for that. Keep it up, man :D

@projectRHIthink 9 лет назад

This channel is HIGHLY underrated. Also I still have nightmares of The Max Headroom Incident...

@GraveKing3473 9 лет назад

Once again, learned something new and got entertained for a bit. Well done, thanks, and keep up the great work!

@Metaphizzle 7 лет назад

The band Information Society had "songs" that were actually text files encoded as modem noises. One of the songs was "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)"; play it into a modem set up per those instructions, and it outputs a short story about the band. Do the same with "White Roses 1.0 300 8-N-1", and it gives instructions for a scavenger hunt to find the actual song.

@sophieward7225 9 лет назад

Both Stephen Colbert and John Oliver have used recordings over the phone recently for gags. John Oliver put up a number that you could call to contact his church, Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption. Stephen Colbert used a phone number in his week long RU-vid gag "Lunch With Stephen." I know it's not music, but I still think those were creative uses of phones in media.

@tacobotproductions 9 лет назад

My favorite band and my favorite RU-vid show together! Never thought I'd see the day.

@rcchadburn 9 лет назад

excellent episode. thank you for making it.

@librarykils 9 лет назад

this might be the first time i actually knew something existed before watching the episode! they might be giants are a great band, it's awesome that dial-a-song got brought up

@thomeiser8933 9 лет назад

Telharmonium! The first electronic instrument, used the transmitting power of the telephone to produce really clear, pure tones. As far as I know, never recorded though, and dismantled because when played it interfered with anything nearby meant to transmit communication signals, which included the telephone wires that were put in throughout New York City not long after the construction of his Mark II.

@thisexists 9 лет назад

HOLY SHIT THIS THING WEIGHED 200 TONS.

@strawberryjam3670 8 лет назад

+This Exists perfect for your living room

@romchompa6858 8 лет назад

+Thom Eiser Would you know what might the equivalent technology of today? I am curious what the tones sounded like or if anything since can produce as clear a tone.. then again since it wasn't recorded who is to say how good the sound really was? But then imagining the same idea but with newer tech, I can't imagine anything synthetic being able to achieve the same sound as something so analog as a giant machine like this.

@stonedsavage7814 8 лет назад

well my research has brought back only midi instuments (musical instrument digital interface} but with a sine wave sound format

@thomeiser8933 8 лет назад

TheShadowfexGamesHD a midi emulator of the telharmonium? or are you just saying that a sine wave would sound like that

@Eebers 9 лет назад

I am so ecstatic to see this episode, TMBG is my favorite band and it's great to see them recognized!

@Armando_DA 9 лет назад

God dammit the max headroom thing never ceases to scare the living daylights out of me.

@hopegallows1392 9 лет назад

Hey I know that this is completely unrelated but I figured that you'd be more likely to see this on a newer video. Thank you for doing an episode on Frightenstein. My family and I live in Western New York and my parents grew up watching CHCH and had all but forgotten that show until I made them watch This Exists. Seeing my dad smile and sing while the wolf man tripped out made me life. Again just thank you for being so amazing

@thisexists 9 лет назад

That rules! And your assumption (early comment on a new video) was correct! So glad you liked the episode.

@hopegallows1392 9 лет назад

+This Exists Thanks for the video and the channel.

@luckylucario 6 лет назад

Starting watching videos on the channel. At 12 a.m. Next thing I know it's nearly 4 a.m. Great videos.

@captainskeletor7783 9 лет назад

I like your vids dude. Great content.

@jhTheMan99 9 лет назад

Stop with the terrifying head guy (his name eludes me) at the end it gets me every time.

@HellaGangbusters 9 лет назад

Please do a podcast, I think that'd be super fun and interesting! Plus it'd be nice to hear like a longer conversation about the topics

@FreeCatCheese 9 лет назад

Sincerely love the show. I would really dig it if you did a weekly thing for the month of October as per interesting shit that goes down in your part of the world for Halloween... haunts, fests etc. BUT NO ZOMBIES! Please? There's my 2 Cents...so glad you came back with such a quickness, esp. considering I found out This Exists (see what I did there?) about 3 months before you thought the channel might be doomed.

@mistressari 9 лет назад

I'd love a podcast, the world is such a weird place and the things you find fascinate me. Thanks for making This Exists!

@spiderjerusalem100 9 лет назад

Some more videos about weird/obscure musical sub genres would be pretty sweet or some more stuff about low budget Z-movies. Keep up the good work shitheel.

@brandon1985ca4 9 лет назад

I could watch full 30 min episodes of this, its soooo fucking interesting, I love it all.

@disparateclam 9 лет назад

OMG this makes me so inexplicably happy ^-^

@paallikkovuohi4727 9 лет назад

So glad I found this channel

@cheyas 9 лет назад

Tobacco used a phone line in 2014 where you could call "Ultima II Massage " where you could hear snippets from the album. It was a pretty cool concept because in the music video for Streaker it actually takes place in the Ultima II Massage.

@Vaifan1981 9 лет назад

The vocals for the Bad Brains' "Sacred Love" were also recorded over the phone from prison.

@TheTute87 9 лет назад

I'm kind of a silent watcher but I must say that I enjoy every video of This Exist, they make me smile or laught and sometimes my mind blow. I would be a Patreon but my country, Argentina, has some shitty economic policies. You are one of the best channels here, at least for me. Thank you and keep beeing awesome

@1M00NBarker 9 лет назад

The Max Headroom reference cracked me up :)

@silliestsoup4976 9 лет назад

man I love this stuff

@BucaFan3 9 лет назад

Robot scat number doesn't work. Why must I miss out on this miraculous invention?!

@Alanciation 9 лет назад

I've been watching this channel for a while and though I find the content super interesting, I really wish Talk Show Night at Juicebox Manor was still a thing. I was introduced to it by this channel, and if somehow elements of that (interviews and live videos of current bands) could be added to This Exists, I'd be super stoked. Probably not going to happen exactly as I imagine since the two shows are very different, but hey I can dream. I also wish Metz would play in my basement...

@ArcaneOwlchemist 9 лет назад

That cutaway from the TV Highjacking unsettles me every single time.

@HollywoodHaack 9 лет назад

Much respect for rockin' a Canadaland tee. Also I'd be so down with a This Exists podcast.

@thisexists 9 лет назад

Canadaland the best.

@CaseyJames8181 9 лет назад

+HollywoodHaack YakkHeads!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@GeoExpansionify 9 лет назад

+This Exists Congrats by the way marriage is one hell of a job to maintain, you'll love it. Now about the show. What I like about the show, and what I want to see more of? All I can really say is that this is one of my favorites on youtube because I like weird things that I never thought really did exist. I like all the episodes like the one you did with Rob Dyke I thought that was very interesting. For some reason I thought the one with experimenting on a microwave is completely awesome. All I can really say is keep up the good work. If you really want to hear about something weird look up missing people 411 or Otakukin. You're mind will be blown on that.

@uncleblunts5 9 лет назад

u r awesome Sam.

@TomMilleyMusic 9 лет назад

well with cell phones today and the internet being on them, pretty much all media is being consumed through a phone now. in terms of traditional use, when my best friend moved up north to teach on a native community, sometimes when we called each other she would show me a song on the fiddle and i would play along over speaker phone. i don't know why, but that blew my mind that we were using pretty simple technology and we were playing music together over a vast distance and i could hear her in my room, almost like she was there.

@caitlinnothhard994 9 лет назад

I would totally listen to a This Exist podcast. It'd be a really great way to cover stuff that might be too long for a video episode to cover or for topics where there isn't a lot of visual material to use in a video.

@myminoxbeard3089 8 лет назад

I think I've found my favourite youtube channel!

@jdunham9894 8 лет назад

My drummer and I used to practice live over the phone when he was in Colorado and I was in CA. It was a fairly complicated setup that required the use of two phone lines simultaneously and a little box from Radio Shack for recording phone conversations that we then each ran through a 4-track on our own end so we could hear each other through headphones. It worked OK unless there happened to be latency which varied from day to day.

@korohacker 9 лет назад

That's really interesting, especially the 1909 telephone service! 7c per song seems pretty decent, for that kind of quality at that time. I'd use it :3

@HaggisDruid 8 лет назад

Holy shit. First minute mentions Korn and Malcolm in the Middle. I'm satisfied.

@MangoAnimates 8 лет назад

+TheDynastymedia But he obviously has never seen Malcolm in the Middle... He thought it was called Malcolm u sredini. Just cuz of the croatian version!

@seralouise. 8 лет назад

+Mango Productions that was a joke, my dude

@MangoAnimates 8 лет назад

blindskywatcher Was it really? It didn't seem much like a joke

@seralouise. 8 лет назад

the joke was that he was only able to find the regular english version, because youtube. so he had to use the croatian version. so he decided to say the name to confuse and annoy

@MangoAnimates 8 лет назад

blindskywatcher Okay, i guess.

@TrashHeapCustodian 9 лет назад

Gotta say, I really love the idea of using Max Headroom to interrupt yourself.

@almostideal1306 9 лет назад

I saw Robot Scat and my mind went somewhere else.. so glad this channel is primarily about music.

@anderson-kj3zs 8 лет назад

damn that malcom in the middle intro bought me wayyyy back

@allknowingdeitysacrificeal4107 8 лет назад

this show covers stuff that im pretty knowledgeable about, i also am an avid listener of punkrock/ bm. obviously you would come across individuals with similar interests when surfing the net but still thats dope. good show keep it up

@mburs004 9 лет назад

I had this idea for a 1800 service called dial-a-solo. Basically every day, a chord structure is written and given to a house band, then if someone calls in, the house band will play this structure while an instrumentalist solos over it, providing shredding riffs for those on the go.

@HyperShadic13 8 лет назад

I'm surprised that Sacred Love by Bad Brains wasn't mentioned in this video but still a great video!

@beanieNX420 9 лет назад

This channel allows me to win at "Look at this weird shit I found on youtube" All. The. Time. Thank you for that.

@petessake9914 8 лет назад

The number featured in the video at 0:22 is not the part from "Freak on a Leash". It is now a directory for Datacore, and apparently they own everything.

@SamtheAngelFox 7 лет назад

Thom Yorke's vocals for Sparklehorse's cover of Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd was recorded over the phone.

@Animaniacs11 9 лет назад

I like the music-related episodes. They're the most interesting to me.

@toastyotaku42 8 лет назад

You talked about my favorite band and made me squee!

@Alex-vc2mg 9 лет назад

And yet no Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Telephone and Rubber Band was the granddaddy of the telephone as an instrument, all the way back in 1981.

@inticoastal 9 лет назад

at the end you looked like that guy from that "just here in my garage"

@victoriafelix5932 8 лет назад

This Is Serious Mum, the Australian band, released a boxed CD & DVD, _The White Albun_ which featured a recording of a concert. This was a faux telephon, featuring recordings of calls to people with no idea what was going on. I recommend hunting it down.

@Velata 9 лет назад

Well... a Japanese band (now disbanded) actually included a "How to play our music on your mobile phone using the button tones" in one of their deluxe boxes. I think it's something that a lot of people have tried to do with their mobiles in the past, but these guys actually made it official.

@finnjohnn3k 9 лет назад

i remember when my dad used to put they might be giants on the car when we went for drives and then one day he found the number. when he found the number he thought it might be a prank with someone sampling TMBG's vocals. thanks for letting me know about this.

@yungdarko7774 9 лет назад

Hey have you done a video on the Mandala effect? If not, please do! It's really interesting.

@felixnilbog4517 9 лет назад

Ive been listening to quite a bit of korn, but mainly the first album, is there an album they have thats as good or better than the first?

@rocky0240 9 лет назад

the band mindless slef indulgence just had a number that played thier new album in it's entirety.

@RaccoonRevolution 9 лет назад

Seeing the words 'jail rap' in the title just made me think, "C-I-L-L my landlord"... After watching it, that might be an appropriate reference. Huge TMBG fan, right here, in case anyone's wondering.

@chetbrady8272 9 лет назад

Insane Clown Posse at one point would release tracks and riddles where the answers were phone numbers and that's how they would announce their next albums and/or release dates

@thisexists 9 лет назад

That rules.

@Cameroo 9 лет назад

Always free when you call from work!

@elephantbrandmcmahan 9 лет назад

There's also some pioneers in video games. Cardboard Computers used an actual phone line you can call as an element to their video game Kentucky Route Zero. Here and There Along the Echo, you can learn about the area the game takes place in. Really clever, they even have a digital version of it you can call on your computer

@SpaceNigs 9 лет назад

going to fan expo this sat, which day is your panel?

@stoplight2554 6 лет назад

Dial-a-song is epic!

@raylafave7227 9 лет назад

Sam you are the fucking man... I enjoy watching your show and can't wait for you to blow up like you should... And where do you get all your kick ass band shirts

@tkentertainment6168 9 лет назад

I imagined something completely different when I read 'robot scat'

@nathanielbeven9052 6 лет назад

there was a number you could call that would randomly play a hall and oats song. it was great.

@greenranger1983 9 лет назад

This show is awesome.

@skeeterhmcr 9 лет назад

Silophone was an interesting use of the telephone. Speakers, and microphones were set up in an abandoned grain silo just outside of Montreal. By calling a number, you could "converse" with other callers as your voices echoed throughout the silo. www.undefine.ca/en/projects/silophone/

@Oriminin 9 лет назад

Nine inch nails had a phone number you could call that shipped with the year zero album, as part of the ARG that went with it. Not sure if that would fit more here or in some future episode about such things.

@randydandy8840 9 лет назад

I actually knew about Billy Murray before this video, I used to collect phonograph cylinders, and his cylinders are some of the most desirable and expensive, now I collect video games :P

@rakatika 9 лет назад

I'd listen to a podcast!

@Kyriebby 9 лет назад

I know that it's not a real phone call, but Spike by The Network is such a cool phone-call/song.

@MeKaNiNjA8 9 лет назад

Tool also used what I believe was a recorded message on an answering machine from an angry roommate, which is basically an Italian man threatening to kill them, and use black magic on thief families. Song was called "Message from Harry Manback."

@paulcristo 9 лет назад

There are very expensive audio plugins (Speakerphone, for example) that transform a completely clean audio signal into something sounding like it's coming from any kind of speaker you can imagine, from countless models of phones to toys with speakers on them.

@Xatzimi 9 лет назад

I know this is about music on the phone, but as far as other silly and creative phone lines go, Virgin Airlines ran an add campaign that was, in the first part, a 5-hour long preroll ad, and secondly a phone number. I think it was 1-800-BLAH-AIR.

9 лет назад

No Towelie "Funky Town" reference in this episode? I am a bit disappointed but I really enjoyed it, as always.

@SirChubbyBunny 8 лет назад

Speaking of phones and the arts, I wonder when or if Longmont Potion Castle will get some love and attention from you guys.

@Duocaster 7 лет назад

What about the phone solo in the end of ty segalls finger?

@marybird2010 8 лет назад

I wasn't expecting the interruption dude from that time they hacked Doctor Who's broadcast. Does he do this often?

@Samael1113 8 лет назад

Just like to point out two addenda to this... Johnathan Coulton did a "Thing a week" series where he basically put out a new song every week. Considering his ties to geek culture being ever present in his songs, this period has been likened to the modern version of TMBG's phone line. Also, why no love for Callin' Oates? Not sure if it is still around, but there was a phone number to call that would let you listen to one of four Hall & Oates songs whenever you wanted.

@rickc2102 6 лет назад

Gonna have Birdhouse in Your Soul stuck in my head for the rest of the night now, thanks.

@amylee9092 4 года назад

Is that really such a bad thing 🤣

@amylee9092 4 года назад

I have a secret to tell from my electrical well

@mixedgaming01 9 лет назад

I need the link to the robot scat part.

@henrymikael82 8 лет назад

what´s with all the d.oa posters in the backround?:D

@Crossark1 8 лет назад

Some guy in my town did this with a call chain that told several different stories, then put up a bunch of idiosyncratically humorous signs around a hub of downtown activity and waited.

@mrepic789 9 лет назад

Can you do an episode about phone phreaking?

@Wukeywukey 9 лет назад

High Five by Beck is worth a listen if you're in to "phone rap".

@bonzaijoePA 9 лет назад

this is the earliest i've been to a This Exists! 46 Views!

@MidiFister 9 лет назад

straight outta payphones

@thisexists 9 лет назад

A+

@Replay260 9 лет назад

I think that of course there is untapped creativity on the telephone. The very fact that this video exist is proof of that. You're talking about how rare these things are and it is an interesting idea for channeling your art.