Reacting to Regional At Best by twenty one pilots... yikes

[@ragefreak6969]

It’s also worth mentioning that Tyler did such a good job they didn’t even re-record most of the tracks they used on Vessel

[@clifftonl-vuitton2770]

One of the biggest differences is that Josh did not actually record any drums for the album. He is credited as part of twenty one pilots on the back cover, but all the drums are programmed. They don’t sound real because they’re not. The album was made between the departure of Chris Salih and Josh officially joining. Chris confirmed that. They re-recorded all the drums for Vessel

[@PEP.]

most of the drums in their studio recordings are not real anyways - most of trench were just drum loops from a library and lots of blurryface was from a plugin called nexus josh does record some but they are heavily spread out and are not always audible - josh is more a live performer than a studio recorder

[@clifftonl-vuitton2770]

@@PEP. that’s not entirely true. All the live drums from Vessel on are Josh. If you’re talking about E-Drums then, obviously. But even recently on Choker, the percussion loop in the beginning is Josh’s live playing sped up, not a sample. Check this out at 13:35 kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3SXnoqAeLF0f6s

[@PEP.]

​@@clifftonl-vuitton2770 thats why i didnt mention vessel - lots of vessel was real and also lane boy (along with some comped in cymbal sounds) and songs like that lots of the drums in scaled and icy were just plain loops from splice i dont believe josh was actually telling the *full* truth there as i have sped up the original sample and it sounds identical. also, in the ending chorus of choker where everything goes half time, the sample is played at around its original speed and you can hear it under all the other layers

[@PEP.]

@@clifftonl-vuitton2770 the beginning of never take it is a loop from splice, the saturday drums are mostly a splice loop, the outside was an addictive drums loop, my blood + chlorine + jumpsuit + smithereens + morph + many other trench songs were mainly addictive drums patches / loops

[@clifftonl-vuitton2770]

@@PEP. why would you think he’s lying about recording drums? also, that would mean you have access to the original sample? how so? bc as Josh said, they re-recorded the sample. That’s what you’re hearing in the song

[@brunohpaiva]

Tyler said that 'Ruby' is about a girl named Ruby, from his church, who got Down Syndrome i like this song so much😭

[@lk_dslr1951]

:0 awww I never knew that

[@tylermoore8031]

I know I’m late to this video(my bad lol) but I love when he yells “Tell our dad I’m sorry” he is talking to God and that part gets me every single time

[@ragefreak6969]

It was recorded and produced by Tyler in his parent’s basement. You can’t find it because the label made them sign away right to it because they used so many of them on vessel.

[@SherryBandito]

What I love about this album is the number of songs that has a scream. I love Tyler’s screams soo much

[@HannahBright]

Same haha I think it’s so cool!

[@jaydenwhite1166]

In Kitchen Sink, Tyler is explaining how his negative thought, feelings, and memories pile up like dirty dishes

[@ladrac198]

Kitchen Sink and Forest remain in my top Twenty One Pilots songs, but I think I just connect emotionally to them. Tyler has actually said he's not very proud of this album and doesn't really consider it part of their catalogue

[@HannahBright]

That’s totally fair haha I’m glad they still kept some of the songs for Vessel tho!

[@clifftonl-vuitton2770]

He flat out ignores that fucking album 😭

[@ragefreak6969]

@@clifftonl-vuitton2770 he has to because he doesn’t own it anymore. The label made him sign away rights to it as part of their record deal

[@TheNraveles]

Anathema will forever reign as one of the most underrated songs ever by TOP

[@SlowtownDog]

It's amazing to see how much the band has grown and improved since this album. It'll always be one of my favorites though, because these songs got my angsty younger self through so much. I enjoyed watching your reactions to everything. I was anticipating lot of negativity from the title but it's all light-hearted and valid. Regarding the song Lovely, there's a remastered/redone version from the Japanese release of Vessel than you can find if you search up "Lovely Vessel" (or maybe "Twenty one pilots lovely vessel"??? LOL). It doesn't have that autotune stuff going on and I think the delivery makes it much more impactful. You might like it :) Thank you for the fun content!

[@SlowtownDog]

Oh also, Zach is the brother featured on Kitchen Sink :)

[@thexinfobsphoenix6319]

I love Clear! It's my favorite! It's so cool!

[@cavak494]

they still play songs off self-titled and rab, they still play forest (sometimes) they still play the pantaloon, etc during old song medleys. During the beginning of the Sai era (2021), they brang back old songs and brang back ( i think) the keyboard solo during ode to sleep. (edit) the solo is during/ before Tyler's rapping verse fyi

[@neolbioldey]

Slowtown...

[@PEP.]

All the drums on this album are from EZDrummer 1 , an old computer drum library!

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

12:47 his brother isn’t called jay because if he was then he would be jay Joseph and I’ve heard his music and that’s not Tyler’s brother I got told that

[@toiletjoseph4167]

he has a brother called jay and a brother called zack

[@athanasiospapadopoulos6582]

To me nothing will surpass Regional at Best because there is something so homely about it. The production, the lyrics, the delivery, even the album title itself are all emblematic of a kid who believed that he wouldn't be known outside of his small town in Columbus Ohio and something about that just sticks with me. Also don't crucify me, but I like the RaB versions of Vessel songs more than I like the Vessel versions 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@The_Saddest_Landscape]

I don’t like the rab version of trees, which sucks because trees is one of my favorite songs off of vessel

[@BeeKnown]

I like most of the songs that didn't make it onto Vessel except not a huge fan of Clear and Be Concerned. I'm not a fan of these versions of the songs they ended up rerecording. Glowing Eyes and Forest are probably my favourites from this album.

[@jacob_massengale]

these songs will grow on you. give them time. Many who don't like a TOP song the first listen grow to love it.

[@helenanimocks]

Glowing eyes, slowdown, and forest are my top favs for this album. I absolutely bussy bop to them

[@owenisweirdo]

6:38 Slowtown is the same concept as stressed out. You can tell on the little rap verse it has a similar flow to stresses out and describes the same theme as the music video for stressed out as well. It was made before stressed out, though, obviously so stressed out is a more fleshed out, and radio fit version of slowtown. 16:00 rewatching this reaction, there are two versions of Lovely. If you look up “Lovely (Vessel)” you should get a version without auto tune. Also, in case you didn’t know, Air Catcher’s mixing is not good, and it has that auto tune section at the end, if you look up “Air Catcher (Alternate Version)” you should get a better version. I know air catcher was off topic, but, it also has a similar case as Lovely. At 17:42 the song ruby, is about a girl with Down syndrome at Tyler’s church that inspired him. “Tell our dad I’m sorry” is referring to God, because Jesus is often referred to as father. The reason he mentions Jesus is because he says Ruby is “an angel fallen down”. That’s also why he says “take me to the promised land” (heaven). Trees is also on Tyler’s No Phun Intended and is the same with the auto tune. Some people theorize why he plays it live every time, is, because it’s the first song he wrote, or people think it is. If you want meanings on songs you should look at @The Pop Song Professor’s videos. He explains every twenty one pilots song, although, he has retired from KZbin.

[@jaydenwhite1166]

Also, have you reacted to No Phun Intended? It’s written by Tyler Joseph and it includes 18 songs. Blasphemy, Drown, Hole in the ground, Save, Taken by sleep, I want to know, Just like yesterday, Never change, Prove me wrong, Realize that it’s gone, Tonight, Falling too, Whisper, Taco Bell Saga, Trees(again), Where did we go, I’m a goner, and Hear me now. Some of those songs have some really random weird parts but they are still good songs. Here is also a list of every 21 pilot song I know: 21 pilots songs: Album 1: No Phun Intended (2007) 1- Blasphemy 2- Drown 3-Hole in the ground 4- Save 5-Taken by sleep 6-I want to know 7-Just like yesterday 8-Never change 9-Prove me wrong 10- Realize that it’s gone 11- Tonight 12- Falling too 13-Whisper 14- Taco Bell saga 15- Trees 16- Where did we go 17- I’m a goner 18-Hear me now Album 2: Twenty One Pilots/ Self Titled (2008) 1:19- Implicit demand for proof 2:20- Fall away 3:21-The pantaloon 4:22- Addict with a pen 5:23- Friend, please 6:24- March to the sea 7:25- Johnny boy 8:26- Oh Mrs believer 9:27- Air catcher 10:28- Trapdoor 11:29- A car, a torch, a death 12:30- Taxi cab 13:31- Before you start your day 14:32- Isle of flightless birds Album 3: Regional at best(2011) 1:33- Slowtown 2:34-Forest 3:35-Glowing eyes 4:36-Kitchen sink 5:37-Anathema 6:38- Lovely 7:39- Ruby 8:40- Be concerned 9:41-Clear 10:42- Two Album 4: Vessel (2012) 1:43- Ode to sleep 2:44-Holding on to you 3:45- Migraine 4:46- House of gold 5:47- Car radio 6:48- Semi automatic 7:49- Screen 8:50- Run and go 9:51- Fake you out 10-52- Guns for hands 11:53- Trees 12:54 Truce Album 5: Blurryface (2015) 1:55- Heavy dirty soul 2:56-Stressed out 3:57- Ride 4:58-Fairly local 5:59- Tear in my heart 6:60-Lane boy 7:61-The Judge 8:62- Doubt 9:63- Polarize 10:64- We don’t believe what’s on TV 11:65- Message man 12:66- Hometown 13:67- Not today 14:68- Goner 1:69- Heathens (2016) Album 6: Trench (2018) 1:70-Jumpsuit 2:71-Levitate 3:72-Morph 4:73-My blood 5:74-Chlorine 6:75-Smithereens 7:76- Neon gravestones 8:77-The hype 9:78-Nico and the niners 10:79-Cut my lip 11:80-Bandido 12:81-Pet cheetah 13:82-Legend 14:83-Leave the city 1:84-Level of concern (February or March 2020) 1:85- Christmas saves the year(December 2020) Album 7: Scaled and Icy (2021) 1:86-Good day 2:87-Choker 3:88-Shy away 4:89- The outside 5:90- Saturday 6:91-Never take it 7:92-Mulberry street 8:93- Formidable 9:94-Bounce man 10:95-No chances 11:96-Redecorate

[@lucasbartkowski5358]

You forget cancer the Cover from twenty one Pilots

[@jaydenwhite1166]

@@lucasbartkowski5358 yeah there is a few other songs like Cancer, and Dollhouse. But I am still trying to figure out which order they are in. I haven’t forgot, I just didn’t list them lol

[@lucasbartkowski5358]

@@jaydenwhite1166 Dollhouse is in npi i mean im Not sure

[@jaydenwhite1166]

@@lucasbartkowski5358 yeah im not sure either. But a lot of people don’t even know about the first 18 songs in the No Phun Intended Album. Have you heard them? They are really good

[@lucasbartkowski5358]

@@jaydenwhite1166 i Love the Album , There is a song also called track 7 or

[@Exp.No.Zenar-57]

Self titled and regional are so interesting to listen to knowing that they weren't made in a studio.

[@latinaparfait]

The lyrics in trench are him repeating himself 500 times over and over like "jumpsuit jumpsuit cover me" or "im a bandito" or "stay with me my blood" or "all my friends are heathens take it slow" for 90% of the song. His songs were better before blurryface where they usually didnt follow a common structure and were experimental. The choruses were usually few and far between, and short and sweet. Most of his newer songs if you cut out the chorus you cut out 80% of the song.

[@latinaparfait]

And songs which he did repeat himself such as kitchen sink or holding onto you. There was progression, and the music would build up.

[@tannerhatchh]

I think your opinion on RAB is definitely valid! If I'm being honest, I think his vocals have too much autotune in them, which makes the song less emotional to me. He isn't sharing his raw, and unique voice, and I think that's what is causing a lot of disliking to the album.

[@tannerhatchh]

Kitchen Sink is about the only perfect song to me on the album btw

[@anibalbecerra2768]

i wonder if you've listened to the vessel bonus track version of lovely cuz you probably should just saying.... :)

[@chiri_creations]

You said kitchen sink felt like it was hyping up for more, well Leave the city has the exact same feeling when you realize it doesn’t…

[@lynxone9434]

My faves off this album are Clear, Be concerned, Forest, Kitchen sink and Glowing eyes I used to have a huge obsession with Forest

[@amitaiw8037]

they are playing addict with a pen in the icy tour i think 👀

[@HannahBright]

I know!! I got to see them in Cincinnati last week and I DIED when they played Addict With a Pen and Forest. I cried during Forest hahaha

[@jiplugpumelonnai9199]

A bit of a late add, but, the ending of Guns for Hands is completely different from the Vessel version. The rest of the song is nearly exactly the same though.

[@kekonator8262]

I absolutely love anathema tbh

[@rauleduardox]

‘Two’ is a must

[@lk_dslr1951]

Rab definitely takes time to grow on u lol at first I lokey kinda hated it but now it's my favorite

[@helenanimocks]

Don’t know if you’ve listened to no phun intended, but the rap at the end of anathema is the same one in blasphemy. And one the of raps in drown is the same as in fall away on self titled

[@HannahBright]

I definitely need to listen to No Phun Intended!!

[@leandrovictor6564]

A great album

[@tylermoore8031]

Glowing eyes talks about his demons knocking on his door and he is scared but at the exact same time they are familiar so it’s almost “comforting” in a way

[@girlwhocan]

In one of the recent behind the scenes videos for The Outside, he said “sAnd” the same way he used to sing certain words. Is it a regional thing with the vowels?

[@girlwhocan]

(Zack did the rap in Kitchen Sink, but it took me a minute to remember that too😂)

[@HannahBright]

Oh no Zack!!! Haha thank you for correcting me!

[@yeetsauceyi9471]

I am one of the biggest hater of this album. Mainly because Self-Titled cam before it and was so much better. I love glowing eyes so much and i guess kitchen sink and forest are ok?

[@SherryBandito]

Lovely is my favorite from this album

[@calebeedude5331]

It’s an album that suffers from them trying to make a high budget sounding album on a very low budget. It’s dragged down by some very poor production choices and bad mixing. Tyler also just wasn’t developed enough as a singer or a songwriter to the point where it just flops that they tried to make something that sounded bold. It wasn’t a very good idea that they tried making this without a label backing them, and it ends up failing because of it. You can see a clear passion in what they were trying to do, but it’s also pretty clear that it didn’t turn out exactly the way they had it in their head, due to the limited resources and lack of experience with music like this.

[@HannahBright]

I agree. It was very ambitious and what they came up with independently was impressive, but it definitely could’ve been better if they had better resources

[@jordanhardy7287]

Listen to self titled though. That was independent too

[@calebeedude5331]

@@jordanhardy7287 I’ve listened to it several times over the last few years. Self titled wasn’t trying to be more than it was, so it ended up pretty decent. Regional at best, however, attempted being way over the top, something it definitely wasn’t.

[@jordanhardy7287]

@@calebeedude5331 I still love regional at best though to be honest, it's the album that got them a record deal and allowed them to make vessel

[@Dont-Read-My-Profile-Picture__]

There's a non autotune for lovely on the japanese vessel, BE WARNED IT SUCKS, and Josh wasn't in the band yet, Ahhh, and they put Forest, Glowing Eyes, and Kitchen Sink in the japanese vessel too. ALSO Trees with autotune was originally in Tyler's duo with Nick, with many other GREAT SONGS🤐

[@anibalbecerra2768]

WHERE IS THE BAT

[@GeorgieTheWolf]

You should listen to the vessel bonus track version of lovely it's way better

[@zayracasariego]

This album is great but, the self titled is the real masterpiece

[@HannahBright]

I definitely prefer self-titled over RATB haha

[@iamthepantaloon2913]

You have beautiful blue eyes.

[@kittiecandy747]

rabs rawness

[@WilburBullara]

I prefer every song on RAB over the Vessel versions.

[@venyaitamiska12]

why didn’t u listen to ”Two”?

[@HannahBright]

It wasn’t in the video I watched for some reason haha I’ll have to look it up!

[@mizz41]

vessel's best songs come from this album.

[@wild.angelo]

11:31 thank the icy tour

[@HannahBright]

Omg they listened to me haha

[@phillipeinacio3305]

try the solo album from tyler joseph c:

[@lucasbartkowski53]

You mean no phun intended

[@tylerjosh8606]

I just want to comment

[@martybernshow7023]

The vessel lovely’s better, no auto tone

[@HannahBright]

I didn’t know Lovely was on Vessel! Is there a version with bonus songs?

[@lucasbartkowski53]

@@HannahBright yes vessel Japan Version

[@cyrusgaspar6336]

The Vessel version of Lovely is better

[@neolbioldey]

So real. I love that version