Dan Black - SYMPHONIES

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

I don't think I've listened to this in over a decade. Its like seeing an old friend you haven't talked to in years but picking up right where you left off.

[@ChaseOakley-rw2lx]

I'm here, bud

[@333finesse]

I always come back to this

[@333finesse]

Hopefully my comment brings you back too

[@CaspianMidnight]

Back here after six years, nostalgia level is real.

[@zanesylvester5988]

Caspianm2 It brings nostalgia to me too.

[@TheFaceofBeau]

This would have to be one of the best songs ever put together , if you are pumped up , it gets you even more pumped , if you are calm it has the power to mellow you .

[@AtomicSpaceJunkVideo]

Is it not finally time somebody uploaded a higher-quality version of this most awesome video?

[@skahler]

Still beautiful in 2024. Did this music video ever win any awards?

[@blingwave]

Ha, I still have Starman on VHS - I try to watch it once a year! Great sample for a great song!

[@InkblotsAndWhatnots]

This video is awesome...very creative. I like the part with the red snake. Pretty cool.

[@FlashFace]

One of the best videos I've seen in a long while. Just brilliant. Great track.

[@CornerCounterCulture]

Beautiful song and an outstanding video! I can watch this all day!

[@niceanddestroyed]

The main samples are taken from Starman Original Soundtrack, composed by Jack Nitzsche. Samples are taken from a replayed version by The City of Prague orchestra. Dan Black sampled the main theme, and some choirs. Check the video "Starman Theme" on youtube.

[@isabellebirot]

I can't stop watching this video... I love it!!

[@FuzzyGlowCar]

This video and track are both true works of art. Well done.

[@alvaskins]

The violin sample is from a John Carpenter film called 'Starman'. Great film and amazing sound track.

[@kidcudi51591]

I Always Will Love This Song

[@annsteindl1484]

This song is just awesome.

[@tiaratara123]

This song is so catchy. It's gonna be stuck in my head all day!

[@sanchir82]

"Easy A" totally brought me here :)

[@dustinderolph3542]

too under appreciated

[@lovehealsallbeginwithin]

it's really good..i have to be in the mood for it though. x

[@MaAnR.]

Beautiful!

[@Marielleuh]

J'adore, ce chanteur a vraiment du talent !

[@gibbonsa3a]

amazing apsoluitly amazing me and my brother adore this! x

[@KiwiFootballHD]

Wow i remember watching this music video on FOUR LIVE in new Zealand back in 2009

[@Confusion601]

what a great track! I'm going to buy the album very soon...

[@adivatoo23]

yo dis so good man we watched dis in mah film class, he makes like an homage 2 so many things

[@presentinmyself]

simply beautiful

[@Invisibleppl]

saw him at live at leeds and bumped into him twice lol he's brillient live

[@valeriact77]

I love you DAN......

[@lionweb1234]

I have discovered that I like english music way better than I do american and I am american. This video is awesome!!

[@feelgoodetc]

Sounds like" Umbrella" , btw amazing song ! so brillant

[@RAPFILMS58]

This is briliant.. if you didnt know the opening theme is from the movie Starman - Awesome!

[@gsuuz]

Dan Black, youre awesome !!

[@alfameds]

Awesome. Seeing him today. Yay!

[@lollerfisk]

Amazing video. Seriously. Movie title openings? Badass.

[@MEbeii]

Im addicted Love it !!

[@camilefranc]

C'est magique, magnifique, quel mélodie.... =)

[@stonealike]

this song is awesome!!!

[@reesespuff27]

Exactly, thank you. And this video is pretty darn cool.

[@FYLX100PRE]

una de las pocas canciones que desde hace años que no borró de mi lista de reproducción de mi celular , tanto esta versión con la ft kid cudi ,no se pero esta canción me transmite una sensación de relajación y al mismo tiempo energia espiritual.

[@kaz5807]

FYLX100PRE sorry i don’t speak DESPACITO

[@Gryt1z]

Perfect music

[@salsburysteakjr]

@sickboy2774 Well that's mostly true, it's lifted from a tribute album of classic sci-fi themes, this being a slightly reworked adaptation of the original piece of Jack Nitzsche score by Nic Raine & The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

[@baramelon]

It's a sample from the Starman theme. Awesome film by the way. I always thought this song was called Hypnotise

[@joana123joan]

The first to hear this and its actually pretty good ! It relax's me (:

[@hoobajudo]

It's a reference to a lot of the music videos at the beginning of old James Bond movies. Pretty cool :)

[@ferrari1235]

DAN BLACK ROCKS!!!

[@RyRy84]

For two, this guy Dan Black is good like all good artist which the best song is when people take a song as a sub-conscious rhetorical meaning, -meaning you can take the song as you want and make your meaning out of it no matter what the artist was going for. You can usually go by the chorus for a meaning in simple hook songs, a la Rihanna and many more.

[@JONJO_MUSIC]

Anyone in 2024?

[@atraxus]

The backing track is sampled from the theme to the movie Starman

[@TwistedBinderz]

excellent vid!

[@hannapark99]

I love the projector on the girl, that's the first time I've seen that in a music video

[@BsERoss]

After hearing the new itunes single, i had to listen to some of his other songs and OMG, this is amazing! xD

[@llangol]

I loved the original movie,'Starman', this is good.

[@GarnettKieran]

love all the intertextuality throughout the video :) can everybody name all the films?

[@Uncle_John_Ai_Xin]

I was kinda wondering, and I'm pretty sure I'm right... He originally was the singer from, "The Servant" Amazing voice, and great mind! =]

[@ericspectra]

excellent video!!

[@calmedic]

the background track is from the end of the 1984 movie "starman" ...The drum beat loop is also from the eighties(yeah , we had it b4 rhianna)...the clothing...from the eighties...the video is made like a music video from the eighties...anyone placing the pieces together yet?

[@diberhaze]

this has to be one of the only rare cases where the no rap version is better than the original. absolutely no disrespect though

[@patrickhdsn]

I've always been a metal head but there's something about Dan Black...I fucking love this song

[@ToxicFlavouredCandy]

It's video's like this that makes me want to start editing Profesinal Music Videos!!!

[@thomas1296]

I Like This Music

[@VintageLabSilvioPinheiro]

1:48 Barbarella. hotter than hell.... :)

[@marie21000]

Like this song!

[@gcurcuit]

heard this on NBA 2k11 and loved it!

[@tikachic]

I juste love this song :)

[@AirJam85]

I really like the song, I think the lyrical text in video is done comparably well in Royksopp's Happy Up Here (please comment if you disagree) I felt that sometimes because the text was inconsistent in which lyrics were shown or left out, it felt as if some lines were being turned into gimmicks.

[@gp112]

this guy has the best videos...

[@FlashFace]

Exquisite.

[@HudsonAO8TQ1]

very good tribute/mashup to john carpenter. nice track.

[@ukinsomniac]

I really like this. This track's been around longer than people think. As for the whole rihanna umbrella drums 'thing' people mention. Well, rihanna wasn't the first either - besides which, how many tracks have similar drum riffs to each other. Without going over the top, drum sequences aren't really infinite, unless of course you wanted to make something a mess just so it's 'unique'. Love the editing of the starman theme for the sample too. I'd forgotten it. Just take a track for what it is.

[@hyperauxia]

It's Jack Nitzsche's theme for the film "Starman".

[@Maplestaff]

Totally agree.

[@mynameiscal]

It's tough not to compare it with HYPNTZ but it's still great... and awesome video

[@stell4you]

"starman" soundtrack. check it out.

[@llangol]

Best theme ever.

[@LesterQuinn88]

Seeing him at Spaceland on the 24th!

[@sickboy2774]

@judemunkey360 It was the theme song to a movie titled Starman by John Carpenter and has been called Starman theme, not Symphonies. And I'm sure Dan Black has permission to use it since it has gotten airplay and I haven't read about any lawsuits against him. And besides, it's not a complete rip-off if it's not the entire song used, just a sample.

[@mattsgp]

only 41k views? wow should be like 20,000,000

[@JoshandDave]

Good track.

[@cottonsky]

This is fantastic, and it shows just how talented you are. I love the way your mind works, it's all quite deep and random. As someone else said, you definitely have a hit here. Remember us early fans when you go stellar, LOL!! xx Sara / sariflor / foxybacon

[@Moothead2]

@judemunkey360 It's called sampling. He also sampled Rhianna's Unbrella drum beat. He didn't "Rip it off", he asked permission and was given it.

[@hillsizz]

it's not stealing. if you see his podcasts, he full heartedly admits he took beats from these songs. he was inspired by them. nothin wrong with that. and made some really good songs from it.

[@hiyasta1981]

But the beat (of Umbrella and Simphonies) is just a drum loop from the Apple music-software program GarageBand (Vintage Funk Kit 03)... So there is no "robbery"...

[@ryanrowe1975]

Dan Black featuring Kid Cudi Symphonies always be a good NBA 2K11 video game of a different modern style anda awesome song! I am just subscribed to your channel 💯👍🔔🙏 Does Dan Black respond?

[@kristenisher]

The drum sample in both this and Umbrella is loop from GarageBand... made by Apple and royalty-free, so anyone can use it, really.

[@MEHOLE]

Yeah you're right. Nice spot.

[@GooseArg]

Starman ost Amazing

[@LittleLisa092]

yeah it does

[@adyj73]

@hixtreme It was the soundtrack to the film 'Starman'

[@flossbee]

Sampling is a huge part of the commercial music industry, like it or not. At least a 1/3 of the songs you've heard in your lifetime have some type of sampling or interpolation involved. Its accepted amongst music cohorts and its peers. The only people who can't seem to accept are the ones who are naive about the art, that is until they realize one of their favorite songs used some form of sampling. Who cares how the song was made? It can still be performed with live instrumentation.

[@mattsgp]

cool song

[@jemmaisgreat]

i was thinking that too!

[@Halsquare]

The song is good, the video is great!

[@rhysninetyeightynine]

But Dan Black is hip hop influenced, the original lyrics to this song were from the son hypnotize by biggie smalls. It doesnt matter if other genres use samples, its just that most people would associate it with hip hop, and btw the producer of Madonna's hung up has also produced songs by Missy Elliot and thus you could argue that there was a hip hop influence in the production of that song.

[@salsburysteakjr]

@llangol They still are!

[@rileyhyden7342]

So, this exists? Nice.

[@VintageLabSilvioPinheiro]

2:30 Seven

[@lukebmitchel]

his videos are soo goood =)

[@cursedbydarkness]

Wow it's surprisingly good.. :)

[@girlsaloud5]

remember its out 29th june =) awesome song!!! emmi in4merz xxx

[@angerock49]

that video is amazing :)