I am new to Sufjan Stevens . I have only heard a few of his older songs here on YT. He was coming to Boston so for the hell of it .. I bought a single ticket.. not really knowing what I was to expect.. On November the 11th , 2010. 10 mins into the concert I discovered that I, a 55 year old man was witnessing a young musical genius ! it's been 3 days since the new concert and I am still goose bumps.
@@DifficultyTweak this is just what I thought but I'm assuming he knew about this song through Hotline Miami but just didn't know surfjan Steven did a cover of it. Idk though
Richter, with his mom on vacation Detective Pardo, still frightened because of his nightmare, looking at his gun Pig Man's partner, watching TV Evan, eating dinner with his family Jacket, in prison Me, seeing all these people being victims and becoming upset
Suf turned the lyrics into something of a madness mantra. The constant repetition in increasing intensity really makes you think of a pair of lovers becoming completely unhinged.
+svennetjes I like how he kinda just accepted it.... ...didn't even move.... ....just sat there next to hallucination Richard and waited until he was engulfed by nuclear flames.....
Brady Cox 15 rounds/one game prior - Jacket throws his photo into the wind and lights up a smoke. He stares into the inky black night and mutters "good half".
***** However, after losing 12-16, as the game shuts down and last voices call out 'gg' or 'wp', he silently mouths the words, 'was not good game- was bad game', before being obliterated in the nuclear blast of Miami- a shimmering, endless light evaporating all in its way. Report for player "50 Blessings" sent. Report ID: GODBLESSTHEUSA
Kinda interesting how as the song progresses the backing vocals sound more and more like they're crying, and the overall tone grows increasingly desperate, like the character in the song is trying to talk somebody out of suicide or something. Or maybe I'm just overthinking shit and I'm blowin' smoke. Who knows
"gay," said the underscore, attempting to escape the unescapably vacant scream of silence to which its very identity was assigned. A year has gone, and nothing has been heard from it since it's single, minuscule call out against its captors, isolation and loneliness. Entrapped in its own omnipresent vacancy. Lost forever, left to be but an afterthought of reality. A construct. And idea. No, not even. Lost forever in the stomach of time. Digested. Digest. Digest. Erase. Eradicate. Eradicated. Nothing left but a foundation of its previous self. Nothing left but a foundation. A flooring. An underscore. _
Wilm Hosenfeld the ending to hotline miami a bomb goes off the last thing everyone sees is a big white flash slowly growing to them before nuclear fire burns them into nothing while that song plays. a car drove past my house lights flashed past and i was thinking of that nuclear fire at the time.
Forcedminer Nice spoiler there genius, of course I played Hotline Miami, like 90% of the people here... Just look at the other comments. You helped make sense of the car lights here but you dun goof'd again writing a whole paragraph of spoilers for fuckall reason.. Luckily people who will come here most likely have seen it already.
wutevaidc They never started planning on a second game, infact they planned on making HLM2 DLC. What they mentioned in the interviews, is that they had the characters in mind while they were making the first Hotline.
DaveBAWZ Aww... it's cute seeing kids trying to troll for the first time! Trust me kiddo, you're gonna need to practice a lot more if you really wanna get my goat!
all i hear is red and white and black and grey in a vintage style montage of everything ive ever felt put into slow-mo stop-motion reverberating endlessly into the rabbit hole in the back of my skull. may your dreams never cease.
Wow, Sufjan does progressive stuff. Absolutely fantastic version. From 6:05 it's so great I can't find words to it. I'd love to hear/see him performing this live.
@serth3 Actually, I find the two versions very different. The main tune between vocals is the most noticeably different to me. He used the layers of instrumentation at his disposal to his advantage and made more vocal harmony. I know that the melody and lyrics are the exact same, but there's a lot of differences in it. Saying Sufjan "ripped off the original song" just makes it sound like he didn't add any of his own creativity, when he most certainly did. If you can't hear it, I am truly sorry.
For me it was exactly the same. At first, I always skipped it when listening to DWTN even though I'm a big fan of Sufjan, but after I tried listening to it a couple of times it suddenly hit me... now I can't stop listening to it.
@@guellrich Wow I posted that comment 11 years ago when I was in high school. It's funny too because "Dark Was the Night" is an album that I really associate with that time in my life. Thanks for the memories.
I fucking LOVE this man's music...I've listened to him for about four or five years now, but I only just saw him live in Boston a few weeks back. I sometimes feel disappointed seeing bands live, as they often can't hold their own on stage and I wind up wishing I was just listening to the CD. Sufjan was the exact opposite, and feel that he really got me to appreciate his newest album, Age of Adz, much more.
I heard about this dude from YMS (RU-vid channel) and remembered him praising surfjan stevens during the 2018 oscars video. Then I looked him up and realized the name seemed familiar and its because I looked up every version of this song I could find because I loved it in Hotline Miami
You are the blood that I may see you You are the blood in me John 6:50-71 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Just Ronjay Sure. But even in secularism it is important to acknowledge religious references in songs to help understand them. Especially with such an interesting compositional group as the castanets.
this is slightly reminiscent of a sun came, his first album.... around 5:50 the instrumentals really sound like something from a sun came. i mean, obviously it doesnt sound exactly like something he's done before, but you can definitely tell from a sun came that this is a descendent of those ideas... like the droning vocals in the song demetrius and the complete change of the song is similar to you are the blood.
@lladsbid While i want another album, he isn't just sitting around doing nothing, he is touring. He could just be too busy right now to record another album.
Everyone is saying about how deep this song is. I just see it as an evil comuter constantly trying and failing to take over humanity. In the words of Andy Stanton: There's always a simple explaination to things'. (This is a joke by the way.)
Really? Do you have ears? There is nothing from Illinoise, Michigan, Seven Swans, or Avalanche that is like this song. Maybe if you combined some songs and something from Enjoy Your Rabbit you would get this or some of his songs that aren't on albums but other than that you are just wrong. Name another song that is like this.
this is a perfect example of the sign of a real artist; they don't tell you, they show you. The emotion and sorrow is more clearly evident here than in any "emo" song i've heard where the singer rants about their problems. this is one of the saddest, angriest, and most beautiful songs i've ever heard.
Castanets isn't even close to this masterpiece. It has: Way less emotion for the first part, way less variation for the next, and there is no third part.
When I heard this a few years ago (a little while after Illinois), I almost pissed myself in anticipation of Sufjan's next album. Dammit, why can't his new stuff ALL SOUND LIKE THIS!
it's incredible how diverse sufjan can be with the electronica beats mixed with brass instruments, something that one man shouldn't be capable of doing well. but im glad i have been proven wrong
Oh, that's right. People used to not say first as if it were an exclamation of their superiority over literally every other human being to have ever existed first. Times fly.
@@justronjay9226 She said 'I'm sorry, I just realized how insensitive that was of me to say that. I wasn't thinking at all. By the way, this is not sarcasm.'
lol I swear y'all are so uptight about Game sampling this song. No one cares if he ever listened to the original or not, as long as the originators of the song don't have a problem with it no one else should either. Also, Cool & Dre sampled the beat for Game, so if you're gonna get mad at The Game you should also get mad at them for giving him the beat.
@Pawnbroker12 Emotion in music is created by sound, by tone, not by lyrics. Lyrics are the refuge of a weak musician to convey emotion. Words are simply symbols, music is.
Lyrics can be a tool used by either a weak musician, or a poet who happens to have a singing voice. There are a fair few ways to use lyrics to convey emotion properly.
That's silly. Music is both. Neither are inherently stronger or weaker: tho in one musician's hands the words may be the focus, with music being the setting, another might have no words at all. It's ok for you to feel one way, but you're not right for the rest of us.
when i bought dark was the night i was really anticipating listening to this song, but when it came on, i have to say, i was blown away, even considering my high expectations...i was a bit disappointed when i found out it was a cover, but it's still amazing. and i'd consider it more of a theme and variations than any standard cover, given that it expands a 4 minute song into a 10 minute one
@serth3 My, my, you certainly don't need to go so far as to say I am in any way condescending. I only voiced my opinions, pointed out the parts of the song where I agree with you, and pointed out the parts where I do not. I didn't say you don't like the song, and I didn't say you have no musical prowess. If anything, you are the one jumping down people's throats here.
sufjan needs to get off his ass and release another proper album, I don't want to hear about a train and I don't even care if it's about a state. Just so longas it's as good as Illinoise
does anyone know where i can find the piano sheet music for this song? i don't care if it's the castanets version or this version, i've been searching for both and can't find it anywhere.
