Dancing Mad (FFVI) - The Black Mages

Yeah.

[@Zeldafan-fp3uu]

“Life, hope, dreams, where do they come from and where do they go. Such meaningless things, I’ll destroy them all.”

[@TheShurimanPigeon]

Where did he come from, where did he go? Where did he come from Kefka Palazzo

[@justinherkommer2942]

6:32 Go's good with that part

[@TamuzVentrue]

OMG, how much I despise Kefka Palazzo! 😡👿

[@markdevlin150]

And Kefka would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those darn kids!

[@astalidiot8559]

​@puppetgeneral39I was thinking the exact same thing

[@Leuka_]

That guitar solo is godly

[@nesoukkefka1741]

Entire last part add so much to the music, which is incredible considering thiis was already one of the most complete video game music ever.

[@TofuReacts]

Just realized this is Nobuo Uematsu's band... No wonder it's so freaking amazing 😆

[@darksaiyan9103]

Huh, now I did not know that

[@MetalSmasherGaming]

Imagine walking into church on Sunday and hearing the organist play this song!

[@GaGaWarhola]

there's actually someone who did that! if you search the name of this song with church organ, it should come up! they also did one-winged angel! :D

[@amsbeats841]

it is fucking HILARIOUS people come up and try to get him to stop but he just keeps going and at the end a few people even clap lol

[@LosSantosUriels]

this is that moment you know the rapture is coming, xD

[@Darki93160]

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[@CoralCopperHead]

@@GaGaWarhola If only he'd done it during Mass instead of to an empty cathedral, it would've been perfect.

[@DrNuyenVanFaulk]

That’s the guitar solo we all hear when the world’s about to either end or be saved.

[@nightrxgue3850]

i come back here after 4 years, damn... this still sounds sooo good

[@TheRotnflesh]

There has never been a more sorrowful piece of music written for video games.

[@matronmalice9867]

Probably my favorite piece by Uematsu.

[@cr8zyshredda007]

His Magnum Opus imo. 🤌

[@Waterbottlez_]

@@cr8zyshredda007 lmao when I click translate, your comment translates to “a great piece indeed” even though it can already be read in English

[@mynameisleave]

Uematsu himself agrees with you, he views this as his greatest work :)

[@spencerwood2381]

The Tier 3 arpeggio's harken back to the original final fantasy crystal theme and it's so clever and kinda hidden in the overall madness of the song. Amazing

[@jonathanvandiver2886]

The ending of this masterpiece is just ominous AS FUCK, with those bells. Gives me fucking chills Every time

[@niclasrasmussen3009]

8:01 to 11:01 is the greatest thing i’ve ever heard

[@spencertaylor5945]

I have to agree. It’s so good!

[@-Constrick-]

When I die, I'd like to hear this while slowly passing away.

[@luisenriquezacariassolano9882]

Yo lo escuché en un vídeo de los caballeros del zodiaco hecho por fans, según saga de Zeus, pero ya es oficial saldrá la saga de Zeus de los caballeros del zodiaco...

[@yaboi2500]

Part 1 - 0:00 Part 2 - 2:44 Part 3 - 4:43 Part 4 - 6:34 Finale - 8:00

[@adamyoung8109]

Can you do this on some dream theatre?

[@recklesflam1ngo968]

That guitar solo at the end is just *chefs kiss* perfection

[@hylus5d10]

8:35 this next section sounds like somthing that I could hear on Risk of Rain.

[@lowhp_comic]

lmao now I REALLY want someone to mod Kefka's tower as a playable map now with this music

[@strahinjagov]

Music teacher: "So class, what kind of music do you guys make?" Mozart: "I do classical" MJ: "I do pop" Freddie Mercury: "I do rock" Ozzy Osbourne: "I do heavy metal" Dream Theater: "We do prog" Nobuo Uematsu: "I do everything"

[@budakbaongsiah]

Even in FFX where he got help from two other composers, he still did a pop song (Suteki da ne), a metal song (Otherworld), and a prog rock track (Seymour Battle) among many others. That's mad awesome.

[@strahinjagov]

@@budakbaongsiah I love the interview he did with Polygon where he talked about how he composed OWA. He basically just spliced together random measures of music and created an iconic boss theme. What a legend.

[@budakbaongsiah]

@@strahinjagov Yeah. Carmina Burana + Jaws' Theme + Purple Haze = One Winged Angel.

[@strahinjagov]

@@budakbaongsiah don't forget Rite of Spring

[@sunrise_flare]

Queen is prog, I will DIE on this fucking hill

[@Waterbottlez_]

best part: 0:00 - 12:05

[@lunatechdesignsmedia]

best comment

[@RWBY_Ruby1]

Ikr

[@dashiznit1208]

-0.1 seconds into the song - I love it already

[@Cocoapuffs123]

my soul leaves my body at 8:38 and just never comes back

[@zolline]

Never played the game but I've been bumping this song for years. Incredible

[@Madalovin]

This video is 12 years old? Golly. Welcome music in my recommended though, all the same.

[@simbelanger1]

Every time I listen to this song (like once a year or so for the past decade+) I'm just stunned. The ending is so fucking good

[@phy6geniuxYTcreations]

Returning to this song after 10 years of haven't hearing it made me run through the nostalgia highway.

[@Raging_Redhead]

As someone who plays this like once every week, I can't imagine going a decade without it.

[@ydk1k253]

I fucking love Final Fantasy VI

[@PC-yp5dl]

This the best rendition of dancing mad I've found on YT Congratulations guys❤🎉

[@renanbrazparente449]

Because it is by the creator of the music. The black mages is Nobuo Uematsu's band.

[@PC-yp5dl]

@@renanbrazparente449 really?

[@ChadsT.A.]

@@PC-yp5dl yes really. it really is Nobuo's band

[@terryscott524]

In this moment, I am euphoric

[@jaydykstra3706]

This is wonderful. Best game ever, and so much in part due to the music. Never in any game or movie have I heard more fitting or inspiring musical character themes. Thanks!

[@LucidFlameX]

That guitar solo is *pristine.*

[@SebaSawa]

Holy f, I listened to this song a couple of times, but this time tears fell from joy.

[@ricebrown1]

Felt it in my stones. This shit fucks. Hard.

[@LoiValdes]

I cried with that solo

[@fantasybusinezz7331]

Oustanding. Can't be topped.

[@luisfelipenicodemus2055]

This version FUCKING SLAPS

[@RWBY_Ruby1]

Ikr

[@Aquariusprincess85]

I FRREAKING LOVE IT!!!!!!!

[@jollykirby2138]

i don't know how i got here, i don't know when this video was posted, but, it sounds nice i think

[@artken4901]

Ff

[@carlosblacido6003]

8:00 i have no words.

[@theMaxTero]

this is without a doubt one of the best versions of Dancing Mad! Can you imagine how it would be in the inevitable remake!?

[@strahinjagov]

They'll remake it... in about fifteen years once they're done with VII Remake

[@adamyoung8109]

It's an opera, and unless we can understand that, it's doomed.

[@theMaxTero]

@@strahinjagov I mean, there's gotta be a point where they will run out of things to remake about 7/get sick of it. But from the looks of it, I wouldn't be surprised that 7R makes them excited to revisit other FF games

[@WenGlen2]

The would remake it as a generic orchestral version

[@budakbaongsiah]

​​@@WenGlen2 Yup. Nobody at Square Enix knows how to do prog now. Just listen to Airbuster theme, it lost its prog rock root, changed with rockchestra.

[@TamuzVentrue]

It's just a masterpiece! So magnificent, I don't get tired of listen to this 💜🖤

[@artken4901]

What happened to the million views?

[@Genesisrequiem]

Greatest composer of the 21st century

[@stavinaircaeruleum2275]

Final Fantasy 20th anniversary on the PSP, thank you for the memories.

[@LinkMaster5555]

Still the best music I've ever heard 😊

[@jimhuffman9434]

Tier two is chaotic yet beautiful

[@georgekylo834]

8:24 best part

[@scandalousretribution9972]

foreever love

[@greciacortes2103]

MASTEEEER PIECEEEE AHHHHH

[@deliriumofthethrush3595]

Yeah.

[@jamisong.9653]

God(not you kefka) that finale though at 8:00.

[@okllo]

Uematsu pls come back

[@Elixirmore]

完美

[@wolfy6631]

This organ hits harder than Sabin using Suplex on the Phantom Train

[@darkflamestudios]

Nice!! I like it. Very EPIC

[@fantasticplanet4989]

The guitar solo sounds uncannily like a Slash/GNR style one. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!!!

[@mirkogreggs]

This is way better of the PR version.

[@ellesimealundile7182]

Amazing

[@niteowlgames6004]

Well, I played this at my local Christian church... Wasnt a good idea, Needless to say they now think im a devil worshiper and im never allowed back to the church,

[@vermillion6283]

:(

[@uncanalescarso7571]

Damn that's sad

[@bootblacking]

Sounds like they need a cooler god

[@Wallguardian]

Are you the infamous organ guy?

[@niteowlgames6004]

@@Wallguardian I could be, Who knows, ;)

[@yahayroexpressa6023]

Gonerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@stardust332]

what happened to other video

[@tokasumaki]

im sorry cameron.....

[@davidxxi8430]

Kefka didn't win in this game He was searching for his meaning of existence and of all things. But he always came up with the same answer, nothing. In the end everything withers and dies, what was the point of living then? He found his fundamental principle of life in destruction because it was the only inevitable thing in the world, the end to which everything came. The answers I was looking for must be there. Kefka did not find joy in the perishable, in the earthly, so he aimed towards the divine, towards the eternal. That which escaped death and destruction His goal was not to become a god, that was just one more step he had to climb. Kefka gains power, destroys the world and plunges it into terror and violence. He became that inescapable force of life, he had finally found meaning in his existence... Or he thought he had. Until he realized that eventually, he would run out of life to torture, mountains to crush, and oceans to dry up. Maybe then he should also destroy the universe, extinguish all its stars and destroy all its planets. But then what would happen next? When there is nothing to destroy and the cosmos is an infinite wasteland of darkness. What was going to be left? Again, he came to the same answer, the answer that destroyed his mind. Nothing Everything he did, all his triumphs, all the power he gained. Everything was to reach the same conclusion, nothing Kefka realized that it was nothing, eternity had not made him escape from its mortal and perishable prison. I had only made him come in... In a bigger cage, one he could never escape from, except through death himself.

[@nokey3536]

imagine if we got this in the omega ultimate

[@joshuawilson4614]

“Geometry of circles” old school Sesame Street. No wonder I like this ✌️

[@gavin4981]

No way&&

[@junielthegamer2845]

8:00

[@sammulammu8203]

6:34 8:00

[@miguelflaviusbelisarius3825]

Putin theme

[@Buggaton]

Replace the guitar solo with a choir. Way better.

[@mercylavigne]

no.

[@Unknown-jk7rs]

That would be more faithful to the original

[@Unknown-jk7rs]

Changed my mind, there's already a choir at the very end of the solo.

[@adamyoung8109]

I'm playing this at my funeral Edit: Since this got so much traction, I also plan to be buried holding my wife's urn. My family has always been a huge fan of Nobuo Uematsu since i learned to read on the Final Fantasy II (released as IV in Japan) VI sets the scene for ultimately the socially accepted masterpiece of VII though being critically acclaim pales in comparison to the introduction of Alexander magicite in VI or the origin of so many truly in depth questions presented from a moral obligation and the nature of the universe's entropy. I am. We are. Truly indebted. Anyway, the drop came g2g lol GG

[@ydk1k253]

Proceed to kill god

[@carsonsullivan6743]

This made me laugh a lil too hard

[@tophermorvan1509]

Your own personal "Monument to Non-existence". I shall drank to that

[@luisfelipenicodemus2055]

Or at the armaggedom

[@keyboardwarria]

Mine too

[@CodeNameX001]

I find Kefka a tragic figure. He willingly offers himself to undergo a magitek experiment for the sake of his country, and it leaves him mad. In this form, he can only see the meaninglessness of existence. All living things strive for more, yet alway end the same way. Death is the inevitable end result. And so, he sees destruction as the only meaning to life. He feeds into that intent, and sews chaos, fear, and death wherever he goes. He goes far enough as to become a literal god of destruction, and then... he waits? Did he tire of casting down destruction from atop his throne? Is it because, seeing the state he left the world in, he felt that their end was inevitable and his own actions felt meaningless? Or maybe he realized that soon there'd be nothing left to destroy, and then HE'D be meaningless? Or perhaps, like Pandora's box, he couldn't help but have an ounce of hope? We may never truly know.

[@ShredHeadJHJ]

He is a fictional character. He's not real.

[@CodeNameX001]

@@ShredHeadJHJ Good point. I guess that's why no one's ever analyzed literary pathos before.

[@iRavenTM]

@@CodeNameX001 In this case though, people are over analyzing. There barely is any source material for his backstory, or current motives let alone his thoughts or feelings given in the game. People are filling it in themselves. Kuja is a better Kefka IMO, strictly from source material.

[@CodeNameX001]

@@iRavenTM Cool, I like FF9, too. It's one of my favorite games, even more so than 6. That said, I'm not just grasping at strings. Almost everything I've said in terms of his backstory is from official material, he was perhaps Gestahl's most loyal General and the magitek experiment detroyed his mind and left his motivations as simply "ever escalating destruction". But that leaves a few questions: "When his goal is to destroy the world, why didn't he just end it in the year he spent atop the tower? Why even CREATE a monument to himself, when all he wanted was destruction?" THAT'S why I'm analyzing. Because he's at the peak of power and all he wants is to destroy everything, yet his actions say the exact opposite.

[@iRavenTM]

@@TheOneFreakservo I didn't say they shouldn't. There's nothing wrong with it and I along with them enjoy the game. But that's my point, one mention of a failed magitek experiment, so he's just crazy lunatic clown because experiment go bad. They could've fleshed him out WAY more. There's almost nothing there.

[@fooshee3681]

that guitar feels badass but sorrowful, in some way, at the same time

[@keyboardwarria]

Sekito tsuyoshi did an amazing job

[@micaholson7293]

Yeah, just exactly fits the tone of the end of this battle. Kefka already won and the world has been ravaged almost beyond repair. And despite that, you're avenging the world by killing a literal god and giving it slight hope that one day it could return back to it's former glory.

[@cosmalade]

as a music theory nut, tier 3 always makes me happy inside, bc i love organs and fugues, but also that entire solo at the end gives me such hard chills that it's hard to decide which i like better

[@myson291]

i always read this as "as a music theory, tier 3 makes me nut" no matter how hard i try

[@TheWeirdTalesPodcast]

It's the second best part, if only because of the way Kefka's theme plays in the bass just under the main pipe organ melody.

[@TheRotnflesh]

The last part denotes the sorrow of the end. It always brings me to tears.

[@ultimawolflycan7298]

without a doubt, this song has the best guitar solo i’ve ever heard

[@ChrisMaragoth]

So epic 😍 FF6 … in my opinion the best Final Fantasy with the most epic soundtrack

[@francisjunardavid7559]

8:00 Aphmau dying.. Kawaii~Chan getting injured.. WHYYYYY

[@redlineseven]

8:00 onwards still makes me cri evrytiem....holy shit, is that part good

[@camaralaye5578]

Its sound like the end of humanity ☠☠☠

[@thesecretlibrary890]

That is when all tha pain of Kefka pours out

[@niclasrasmussen3009]

Is swear from 8:00 will be playing at my funeral

[@maggiebrinkley4760]

The bells at the end remind me of Mussorgsky's 'Night on a Bare Mountain' - also used at the end of Disney's 'Fantasia.' Nobuo Uematsu is one of the greatest living composers of our time.

[@秋山好古-s1f]

探してた gaqoos webの奴だっけ

[@jafrytvasia9609]

WEH WEH WEH WEH WEH WEH WEH!

[@RWBY_Ruby1]

WEH WEH WEH WEH WEH WEH!

[@LambLiesDownOnBroadway]

Reminds me of ELP.

[@mono_matt_36]

6:34 and the rest sounds epic

[@unpopularmoviereviews3622]

Why can't I find any Black Mages CDs for sale online?

[@pale_wolf]

Looong out of print, fam.

[@natacha4565]

8:00 epic

[@millennialtrance3235]

Yeah.

[@AQuietMyth]

UEMATSU WROTE THIS IN A CAVE! WITH AN NES SOUND CHIP!!!

[@jamstan6444]

Yeah.

[@馬畠三十郎]

日本人ももっとコメントしろー。

[@antoinejunior3353]

Ultimecia castle theme at 5:57 amazing

[@williamschlueter6446]

No. This is Kefka.

[@yuriperez1221]

@@williamschlueter6446 That's right. But it resembles slightly Ultimecia Castle Theme. The original SNES OST has it too. The composer is the same so that must be the reason.

[@maninatreeproductions9588]

@@yuriperez1221 think both songs are influenced or inspired by Bach, especially that section

[@justinlloyd2446]

As far as "Ultimate Songs" go, there are very few that are this far up the ladder for me. Words will do little for things like this. You feel it or you don't.

[@shizo66]

favorite boss song but least favorite villain and game ever

[@Anmael60]

2:43 Movement II

[@CapitalParallax]

Eh.