What I love about their music is just how easy it is to listen to despite the complexity. It's catchy and beautiful and the complexity isn't distracting.
@CriticalReactions2 жыл бұрын
Exactly! It's wizardry as far as I'm concerned.
@AngelaSmith-tz7wr2 жыл бұрын
That’s why I love Oceansize, Mike Vennart has such great delivery of vocals. He does get aggressive every once in a while but it’s at special times. The balance is incredible. These guys playing together was magical.
@wastagwaga2 жыл бұрын
Heavy - Homage to a shame, Massive Bereavement, Sleeping Dogs and Dead Lions Weightlessness/Spacial sound - Women who love men who love drugs, Long Forgotten, Music For a Nurse, Savant, Pine Time Signature craziness - Getting where water cannot, The Strand, anything from the Frames album really. Oceansize has it all.
@MitchInTheBox2 жыл бұрын
My favorite band! You should check Ornament/The last wrongs, it's Mike's (vocals and guitarist) masterpiece according to himself.
@009Edson2 жыл бұрын
Yeah my favorite song of theirs!
@justsomejusstsome89942 жыл бұрын
Oh man haven't watched yet but they're one of the best progressive rock bands from the 2000's and personally one of my favourites of all time. Their 2nd album is a masterpiece. And so is the album before that and the one that the song you just reacted to comes from. They were also one of Steven Wilson's favourites apparently. Amazing band.
@jonathanhenderson94222 жыл бұрын
I remember enjoying their last track, but I enjoyed this one even more. Still giving me strong Muse vibes, but this one sounds more original, or at least like an even better version of Muse. Will definitely have to check them out after this. Really love how despite the complexity of this it was so aurally pleasing. So many bands sacrifice atmosphere or melody or hooks for that complexity, but nothing was sacrificed here. This is one of those that's easy to listen to and enjoy casually, but is also undoubtedly one that will reward attention and analysis. Not many bands can pull off that trick.
@micahpilson98362 жыл бұрын
Best album ever made, hands-down.
@BlackIndigenousPosse3 ай бұрын
Yes, correct.
@EresTremulent Жыл бұрын
They never got the recognition they deserved. Truly a once in a lifetime band
@sebastianreh43562 жыл бұрын
Must‘ve been the fastest click in KZbin history I just made! Kind of addicted to your channel at this point. Seeing another Oceansize vid from you feels like a present - please don‘t stop, thank you! The album Frames - that this song of from - is just a big pool of awesome tracks with rythms, weightlessness and heaviness all over the place. Every track of it is worth to be checked out, but especially worth to be listened to as a whole. You started with their first album, now their third. I‘d say it‘s time for a track of their second album. Try a homage to a shame for more heaviness spiced up with funk or music for a nurse for an emotional, spherical beauty or Ornaments/ The last wrongs (maybe even the live version?) for an example of how good they are at closing their albums.
@HCXWinchester Жыл бұрын
Oh this album is a masterpiece.
@TheRightPlaceChannel2 жыл бұрын
Talk about an underrated album! So stoked you did this one, Frames is one of the most complete and mesmerizing listens that math rock has to offer, in my opinion.
@progperljungman82182 жыл бұрын
Just to wrap this fantastic special selections week up, here's Oceansize doing a cover of their heroes Cardiacs' song Eat It Up Worms Hero as special (surprise?) guests at the middle of a Cardiacs show (57 min in) kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIOVcmqCj6qEipY (Not the best quality but a unique moment captured and shared 😍)
@justsomejusstsome89942 жыл бұрын
That's awesome!!
@jonathanaustin68072 жыл бұрын
Wow they look young! Well...Durose kinda looks the same.
@jonathanaustin68072 жыл бұрын
Been waiting for some more 'size! I was considering a special request myself but struggling to choose a track...I imagine you'll get a few more requests by others too. 😀 Great analysis.
@flyingsteaks8 ай бұрын
so this is really interesting, they play a lot of 12/8 divided as 7+7+7+3
@Lancelot302 жыл бұрын
In my opinion, this song has the most beautiful chord progression. It’s just awe inspiring. I’m so glad that you reacted to this one and great analysis as usual! Hope you check out more from this band down the road. I would request some of their heavier stuff such as Massive Bereavement or A Homage to a Shame.
@jonathanaustin68072 жыл бұрын
I once heard Mark Heron getting confused trying to explain the rhythm of Massive Bereavement to another drummer - and he came up with it so would love to see a reaction to that! I think these weird beats just come naturally to him.
@PanasonicTooth2 жыл бұрын
911 Commemorative T-shirt, Unfamiliar and Dead Dogs And Sleeping Lions are still my favorite tracks from this album.
@mr.steinhaus60142 жыл бұрын
Bars of 7, 7, 7, and 3 are the intro riff...to my ears anyway
@ambassadortourettes7532 жыл бұрын
One can definitely do synchronized swimming to this befitting titled band 👌
@mouthegg2 жыл бұрын
Please please please, Ornament/The Last Wrongs, easily the best Oceansize track
@barnabyssjones2 жыл бұрын
You’re analyses are some of the best for real. It’s you and Key of Geebz carrying the entire show. I would love to see you react to Holy Mountains by system of a down. That song totally fucks me up. One of my favorite intros ever. You did like 4 of their songs a long time ago and seeing more would be awesome. Marmalade, Question, Deer Dance, and Streamline would also be cool to see, especially the former two. BYOB would be cool, but reactions are worse when one’s heard a song and everyone’s heard that one. I would assume you as well.
@CriticalReactions2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the kind words. As for SOAD, after listening to that handful of songs early on I went out and bought all 5 of their albums. Really great stuff. I wouldn't mind taking a critical look at Holy Mountain one day though.
@barnabyssjones2 жыл бұрын
@@CriticalReactions if that’s the case, Marmalade is an excellent choice. very difficult song to find since it’s only on the japanese version of one of their albums i think you probably wouldn’t have heard it (it’s on youtube though). I only listened to it for the first time this year and was shocked to suddenly find a “new” song by them, let alone one i really enjoyed. the question though is whether a good song makes a good analysis video. holy mountains certainly has more going on
@CriticalReactions2 жыл бұрын
You're right, I don't think I have heard that one. It's wild to think a band that hasn't put music out in long while (excluding those two recent singles) could still have music out there that fans wouldn't know about.
@barnabyssjones2 жыл бұрын
@@CriticalReactions Yeah they have an entree fan-made album called Storaged Melodies that has all theirs stuff that didn’t make their other albums. Don’t know that’s worth exploring cuz Marmalade and their cover of Metro are really the only good ones tbh
@progrockplaylists2 жыл бұрын
they are so intelligent. just like your reaction
@therealjohndoe38622 жыл бұрын
Great song from a masterpiece of an album!
@sicko_the_ew2 жыл бұрын
If you search on the terms "oceansize tim smith god" you might find an interesting connection to previous matter reviewed on this channel. Might be "mere" affection, but still ...