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[@BlehgarySD]

Never in a million years would I expect someone to react to Horse the band. I’ll subscribe strictly because of this alone

[@TheMoyfoy]

samesies !!

[@badenoir310]

Listen to the whole Desperate Living album on your own time some time. It's special.

[@systemd2]

its a special lovely band ;)

[@Honkinonthebobo]

❤

[@Agaetis181]

"the beginning made no sense" nah I'm pretty sure he wouldn't like it. he needs his chorus played 5x

[@yepwhatever1142]

This guy overthinks music. I love how chaotic and unpredictable HTB is.

[@Existential8read]

wow it is so cool and unexpected to see horse here. A lot of the bands from my youth arent really my thing anynore but horse will always have a place in my heart. Heavy, playful, groovy, melodic and woefully unnoticed.

[@chesterg.791]

The beggining feels much more congruent after a few listens. It really grows on you.

[@yelnik9000]

The greatest band of all time... Been listening to these guys for damn near 20 years and I can never get enough. It just keeps getting better. Thanks for the vid

[@chuckfalcon5054]

My guy same here!

[@SoapMovie2300]

Surprisingly this is not the band that i cringe when listening in adulthood. The sound is just so creative and singing so emotional i can't get enough too.

[@plewlonehitknown4812]

Mechanical hand is a timeless masterpiece. Could play that anywhere and totally immerse myself so that I loose any feeling for anything around me.

[@kitsumech]

"Ha, that's way longer than me" *looks at calendar* "... ah hell"

[@badenoir310]

the chip tune sounds were used in the beginning of the band to cut through the wall of sound, and they adopted it as a characteristic, which they have been able to explore in obvious, subtle, heavy and beautiful ways. Just another dynamic HTB use on their chosen pallet. They like to challenge themselves and their audience. Also, the lyrics really are poetry all on their own.

[@Thesilentduck666]

This band was way ahead of their time, way more serious about their artistic craft as musicians, and they were smarter than the majority of their peers in the core/emo scene. They conquered the world on their own terms, and no other band from that area can say the same.

[@icelandicbanks6473]

At the beginning he says "activate, initiate, instruments set to yesterday" then they do that crazy intro, where they start their instruments and travel back through time! It's also like the whole album itself in one song, A Natural Death for the album.

[@jay_vero]

these dudes are super cool. they did a world tour that they self funded and played a lot of obscure countries. their keyboard player is really unique to have in a hardcore band. suggestions with long song titles - save us from the archon - you dont recall our house near the ocean. red sparowes - "And by Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent in Their Puddles, the Air Barren of Song as the Clouds Drifted Away. For Killing Their Greatest Enemy, the Locusts Noisily Thanked Us and Turned Their Jaws Toward Our Crops, Swallowing Our Greed Whole."

[@thewhorocks515]

I still can't believe out of all the tracks in the poll that this one had the most votes, but I love it lol. HORSE the band is often referred to as Nintendocore, for better or worse. Their keyboardist uses a variety of tones but a lot of them are chiptune sounds. The chiptune sounds were apparent in the tracks you checked out previously (more so in the first of the two songs, as you did a two track video because the songs were short). I don't blame you for not remembering though as it was a long time ago and you check out so many songs. Here's a track where it's very apparent: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIu1Y4J6eK2iars. Obviously they use some samples too like the level up/game over sounds a few minutes into this track (which I find really cool that they start separate and then end up overlapping each other at the end of the section). These guys will always hold a soft spot in my heart for being so unique and the Earth Tour they did with the 10 1/2 hour movie/documentary they released for it. Also, they did an entire EP about Pizza, which even includes a cover of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song!

[@johanliljeblad1236]

Yes, Murder is my favorite!

[@num8ers]

The Earth Tour was great, I saw them at their stop in New Zealand and they were so much fun

[@thewhorocks515]

@@num8ers Wow I'm jealous that's awesome! I didn't get to see them on Earth Tour but I was lucky enough to see them in 2014 in the U.S. and it was one of the best shows I've ever been to.

[@Swifty-Kommando]

horse is great. you can watch their earth tour on KZbin. it's the best band documentary ever made

[@dogbarker3529]

I love Horse the band. You should listen to the whole album. Its genius.

[@adamsunderland0823]

They have a keyboard player. That beautiful zeppelin style organ in the second half. And most of the chip tune is played in real time.

[@andrewdonachy3621]

AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT! ACROSS THE PLAINS OF TIME!

[@Senecal]

One of my all time favorite bands

[@shortdrink873]

Over the course of their career I suspect they covered every conceivable variant of heavy music, if even for a single bar, lol. Desperate Living, their last full album, is just as nuts as this and their other songs you’ve checked out but I think a little more cohesive.

[@jerrysay8133]

This is my favorite Horse the Band song because it captures so much range in just a few minutes. The music alone tells a story and just sounds awesome. I'm still hoping they start making full albums again. "Your Fault" EP came out recently but it's kind of a tease. I'm excited to hear more.

[@deminybs]

He lives!!!

[@neilpatrickhairless]

Also, the beginning of this song is a section about time travel. That's why it sounds like exactly that

[@RadDadfield]

Horse is not for everyone, and this song is one of the harder listens from this album. I used to skip it and now it's quite possibly my favorite song of theirs simply because of the last half.

[@systemd2]

very well said, one of the best songs, but hard to begin to listen

[@FilthyAnimal893]

theres chiptune samples in the beginning and for the little breakdown bit, but the rest of the song thats an actual keyboard player

[@kangaroosterLP]

HTB's been consistently in my top 3 bands for the past 20 years

[@ekflagristoj]

HORSE the band is legendary! The early albums R.Borlax and The Mechanical Hand were a lot heavier in the video game samples, a lot of the greatest hits like Cutsman, Birdo, and Pol's Voice that very heavily sample the games they reference. Their newer albums A Natural Death and Desperate Living have a lot more musically experimental sections like the second half of this song but they've always had those sudden wild style and tempo changes on a dime. Definitely a whole discography that needs a second listen because the first listen just blasts you numb with density! I'd love to see your take on Manateen and Science Police. You'd be the first on youtube to do those!

[@paravarium]

Glad to have you back, hope you're well rested and ready to give me great critical reactions whenever I decide to watch your videos.

[@4tr0phy]

As a metal drummer, glad you noticed the drummer pretty early on. He is legitimately a machine. I mean that both metaphorically and in a more literal sense. That's just his style, sorta like Matt Greiner or the dude from HEALTH. He's not always doing the most groovy or flashy shit but he's always just a-GOING, ya know? It's the kind of thing where it sneaks up on you. You're listening to a groove and all of a sudden it's like "wait WTF is the drummer doing right now????" He never stops. Edit: Also, friends and I have speculated that the song is supposed to resemble something similar to the experience of smoking DMT or, given the sinister undertones, more accurately Salvia. The beginning of the song (everything before "time after time") would be blasting off and coming up, followed by complete dissociation, followed by the onset of panic, followed by a false confidence as the trip first starts to fade and a semblance of control is reestablished, and ending with coming to terms with and accepting that truly there was no control to begin with, so really nothing was lost. And that's ok.

[@SmashAtoms]

The whole song is about time travel. They took the phrase “Time after time” from Cyndi Lauper and used it in the literal sense. Is there time after time ends? It all plays into the neverending cycle of life and death that is the theme of the album.

[@4tr0phy]

@@SmashAtoms If you had ever done salvia, you would know that we're saying the same thing.

[@johnsanchez6263]

This is one of my favorite songs htb by them love how they jam and drag it out in the end an keep u guessing and build it back up

[@neilpatrickhairless]

This song is heavily inspired by the Joseph Conrad book, "Heart of Darkness"

[@Strizz484]

One of the best bands ever. And those aren't samples, Erik the keyboard player physically plays that stuff on record AND live, the guy shreds. And like others said, watch the Earth Tour DVD on KZbin, it's EASILY the greatest band documentary ever made.

[@dehv]

so glad this band existed/exists??!

[@2wycked859]

Fantastic album, their crown jewel

[@twostoryted]

My fav HTB song ever. TIME IS BROKEN (time literally breaks in the song) Good pick man.

[@codysnowden231]

Gotta do Octopus on Fire by them. Absolutely my favorite song.

[@AllanonXZ]

I'm a simple man and when I see HORSE, I click.

[@timeisnotaline]

Thanks for this video!

[@fernandohenriqueribeiro9337]

This week's theme is neat! I can't say how much i'm hoping for Blood Incantation - Awakening from the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul)

[@TheEternalHellwalker]

Those weren't samples. That was Lord Gold Wand on keys. He passed away awhile ago, which is what caused the band to quit releasing new tunes.

[@icelandicbanks6473]

Man, my heart dropped! EE is still kicking!!! 😂

[@pici5533]

HORSE the band is legit. I to do this day listen on the regular ...

[@alucard376]

Horse the band put on the best show of my life once

[@chadmichael_]

The samples are a mix of sounds generated from an LSDJ and a Korg MS2000 Synthesizer. They have a keyboardist named Erik Engstrom.

[@MrRunescapenator]

this was a fun video keep it up

[@badenoir310]

also please do a second listen reaction, that would be cool to see. HTB hits really hard on first punch, but there is so much in their subtlety.

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

Awesome to have you back, man! Things have been weird without you every day and Critical Role every week. Anyway, only other Horse the Band I've heard is last time you had them on the channel. I think last time I said I found them pretty cool, but more a novelty rather than something I'd sit down and listen to. I liked this better. It's definitely lacking in coherency, definitely very chaotic, but I think I like all the individual parts enough to make up for it. I also think the "chiptune" stuff was better integrated here, more of an interesting spice than the main dish. Really, really loved the "chill, atmospheric" section, and a lot of the riffs were really killer. So, yeah, this may inspire me to check out the band more.

[@christopherblowers443]

I rewinded this three times

[@randomstuffzofdoom]

I´d totally forgotten about this band. I liked their song A million exploding suns ages ago. It felt very different from this song though. I think I need to listen to some more before I decide if I like it :)

[@gunstar420]

Check out cutsman, you already have the affinity for megaman

[@user-zp4el5um6t]

Horse the band - Shapeshift please!

[@jakebarrowes]

I agree I feel like I would need another listen to this song as well. Sick second half though. Album react for The Dear Hunter some time please?

[@dimiko8232]

They aparently represent something called "Nintendocore" - Hardcore, Metalcore and Chiptune (more specifically older Video Game 8-bit music, hence the name!) fused together. I have to admit, it definitely creates an interesting sound, I do appreciate that. While I may be used to these kind of weird genre mixes, some may not be and they will just cast it off as novelty. From what I've read about it, this genre remains pretty niche (even after it peaked in late 2000's and HORSE the Band is supposed to be bigger band in this movement. Let's hope that we will see more of these obscure genres!

[@CriticalReactions]

I agree, I love hearing these obscure genres and seeing how bands incorporate odd elements into more traditonal ideas and sounds. I'll have to look more into this Nintendocore. The idea sounds fun but this specific song was a bit too chaotic. Maybe I can find a tamer song that incorporates the chiptune sounds.

[@xFuzzyxPicklesx]

not really a genre, just a bunch of bands trying to sound like horse the bands first album lol. HORSE the band IS the movement, no one else really even toured or released full albums. Its a tongue in cheek thing that spiraled out of control

[@noahforman3349]

That's the thing, Horse the Band is both sort of gimmicky but also really good songwriters. Like, the whole Nintendo thing would be a negative for me (it's not in actuality because they do it so well) but they're still one of my favorite bands. Also, like the other guy said, they are the "movement." They are the originators and pre-date the term Nintendocore.

[@floatingdisembodiedhead8975]

@@CriticalReactions Brian it's been a year too late but if you want a more cohesive brand of Horse the band, try The Black Hole or most songs on their Mechanical Hand album.

[@felipe8511]

its actually just a keyboard using "8 bit synth", dunno how its called people use to call it nintendocore back in the 2000s since they have many songs with nintendo references

[@lsptnjpm]

David Isen is awesome.

[@shredsngamez1594]

HTB = good mood music

[@rorz999]

The chuptine bits aren't samples. They have a synth player

[@benjaminrowe7294]

I'd love to see you cover Arsonists Get All the Girls. Easily my favorite weird Deathcore band, I'm certain you'd be fascinated by them

[@rmidthun]

Does that mean we get to see Behold the Arctopus - You Will Be Reincarnated as an Imperial Attack Space Turtle?

[@msiaregodz]

This is one of the greatest songs to ever be written by anyone in history.

[@dbgith]

Agreed

[@__iconoclast7744]

A Natural Death was their best album

[@Isaiah_McIntosh]

Dang really hoping giraffes giraffes - when the catholic girl go camping the nicotine vampires rule supreme. Was an option but that probably only ever has a chance in mathrock week when we get to that.

[@maaaaaap]

maybe more ne obliviscaris would fit this week, also Demilich comes to mind

[@liliIiliIilil]

When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water... It means absolutely nothing, but it's neat sounding.

[@eddiebernays514]

come on, gotta do lord golds throne room. have you listened to rings of saturn?

[@Icneumone7]

Horse the band rano next to Tool and Pink Floyd

[@brentw0681]

You should react to Wheels new single, Movement, interesting song from them.

[@CriticalReactions]

Definitely. I recall enjoying them the first time I heard their stuff. I'd love to hear their new works.

[@internalfire11]

Songs with long names? Hmm... Deathspell Omega - The repellent scars of abandon and election

[@johnsanchez6263]

Htb is definitely thinking persons music from thier lyrics to everything else.

[@yunusemrekarabacak8539]

Hahah that 8 bit bridge is killing me :D Black death thrash avant garde metalcore a lot of things together. I think that didnt work , but it was very fun to listen. Riffs are tasty.

[@shredsngamez1594]

If the beginning didn't make sense, then you must further develope your mind. The end is great but simple minded. The rest is straight fire my dude.

[@kanametousinabasi]

Oh man if you're doing long titles please do a Giraffes? Giraffes! song lol preferably 'I Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Are Me And We Am I And I Are All Our Together: Our Collective Consciousness’ Psychogenic Fugue, '

[@christopherblowers443]

How about listen to vektor recharging the void and then give it a second chance immediately lmfao

[@dillonsmith226]

If the synth is real-time it’s not a sample, is it? That’s not meant to be condescending I actually just don’t know the terminology. Lord Gold plays this live on a keyboard. It’s not a pad.

[@dillonsmith226]

Addendum: there are samples, but at the beginning it’s manual.

[@CriticalReactions]

I use the term sample interchangeable with a "virtual instrument" sound. I think you're right through and I need to find the proper term for the "voice" being used with a digital instrument like a keyboard.

[@andrewwykoff8193]

the nintendocore gods

[@jessemidel]

HORSE the band is amazing, its not chiptunes, its a guy playing a MOOG. this band is just absolutely fantastic. Nintendocore.

[@jessemidel]

also this band makes no sense, so dont try top make sense of it lol

[@fuckrapp]

korg ms2000@@jessemidel

[@systemd2]

nintendocore rulez!!111

[@LardDoesItRight]

Most people have a hard time understanding genius. Good try though 👍

[@deanfillery8652]

I think we are both suffering from the... Coronavirus.

[@Lame-Over]

ugh... those aren't samples

[@chadjovany892]

Really nice 👌 😍💋 💝💖❤️

[@TurdJesus]

Love horse the band, hope they make more music. Wish they still had this drummer but the newer one impressed me with what he did.