Deadmau5 - Waking Up from the American Dream

Electro

[@user-ls8tx5me9j]

I was a junior in high-school when I hear this song for the first time... Nostalgia hurts man, I can't believe it's been over 10 years.

[@nightnaj5278]

i know dude i know... i was in middle school and everything around me felt so dark but this songs and so many old mau5 tracks made me see the beauty in my daily life, walking to 7eleven, chillin in the park, dreaming. At least we got to live it :)

[@xxxxxxxxxx123454321]

I’ve been trying to find this song for years….

[@brenn7754]

Guess we "woke up" haha...

[@skatethebored]

This album makes me think of the feeling of breaking through and finally starting to achieve something in life

[@AleKXmusic]

exactly

[@skatethebored]

+XR sabRe It depends on how you see it. In my view, it means waking up from living an illusion (thinking you will magically get lucky one day) and start working hard for what you really want in life. :)

[@goldenretrieverindia]

Good luck, I wish you achieve great things in life

[@Janixsa]

This album helped me through a lot and helped me get to where I am now.

[@madmarsrocks2012]

This song is the best deadmau5 song during his pre-2008 days. The ambient introduction was moving, dreamy and heavenly. It makes me smile with glee. Then there's that piano melody after the alarm clock part... Just... Wow. I love deadmau5's music in his pre-2008 days, and I sure as hell do love his music now. But this song is a very moving and memorable piece of art, and it shows deadmau5 truly has talent. If it wasn't for him, I would NEVER have considered to be a producer. Thank you deadmau5.

[@blackmage8642]

This is a masterpiece, I really enjoy his first album a lot.

[@bloodstaindew1888]

Xlissian (BlackMage8642) Check out Circa 1998-2002, and his 1995 song Can't Remember the Name

[@blackmage8642]

Circa's great, you don't even need to tell me, heard it a while ago. Feeling Fresh, Another Mistake, Good Karma, it has a nostalgic vibe that I cant quite exactly describe but I know he'll never be able to make an album like that again unfortunately.

[@The_King_Of_Leeches]

its been calming me down tbh

[@HairoftheDogggo]

Jesus, this brings me back to the good days. Life was a lot more carefree back when this was playing on my headphones.

[@DakotaSoftpaw]

Love this song so much I remember listening to this as i walked to school in the morning :3

[@goddessethena]

Same 😍

[@xxxxxxxxxx123454321]

Fucking literally!!

[@sugarmousejones7801]

This song, now and forever, IS my morning coffee. Feels like somebody walking around inside my head and switching on all the lights :-)

[@DalekOfTheFuture]

this is the best comment here

[@LizelleLadyloko]

thank you its the same for me

[@konner690]

His old work really inspires me to open up Ableton and start producing. People need to calm down and stop trying to genderize the song, and just think and listen to the song. Its quite beautiful.

[@Vevector0]

This song makes every hair on my body stand on end, which, at the end of the day is all I look for in a song. Out of the 10,500 songs I own, only 3 do this. Best. Song. Ever.

[@aerfuzion6904]

The drum portion in the beginning really reminds me of Session by Linkin Park. Really dope.

[@CaptainIglo]

+Aer FuZioN that is exactly what I was thinking. I was just about to look that song up when I read your comment :D

[@wolfshozzer]

For some reason I have never heard of this album until today. This is one of deadmau5's best songs by far!

[@DaftPunkFan43v3r]

I don't know why but this song makes me cry from happiness. Joel is really one of the greatest EDM producers ever, all of his old projects (Circa 1998-2002, A Little Oblique, Project 56, Get Scraped and Vexillology) are simply amazing... he has beautiful songs like this in all of his old projects.. Joel, you're one of my biggest idols.

[@thatpersonguy13]

i love how deadmau5 can get his point across without even needing lyrics.

[@piavu6020]

I like this side of Mau5 it's more fluffy

[@inkyh4x936]

Oh Joel... i miss it

[@aaronata12]

I was flying in a flight sim listening to this song and when i herd the alarm clock i was like "OH CRAP WTF IS HAPPENING!?!?!"

[@de_wolf6289]

lol

[@maximiliankanaki7813]

lol XD

[@realtetria]

Aaronata lel

[@balmoreblue7550]

This whole album sounds a like soundtrack for some badass Sims spinoff game, and I love it.

[@Occupiedshell]

This is, nostalgia. I freaking love this part (all of it)

[@straightouttageorgia1794]

It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it

[@imicca]

+Straight Outta Georgia -George Carlin

[@JRStephens5005]

+Jason Smith True story.

[@jayarrbobdobbs]

Being a billionaire isn't the American Dream. The American Dream is a middle class existence for all peoples. Ownership of family property and local government based on community property ownership. It is the elevation of the peasant class to a communitarian landowning class of coequals. Not the creation of billionare parasite olgarchs.

[@jayarrbobdobbs]

Jason Smith No I'm taking the american dream in it's original Jeffersonian context. Social darwinism is a lie. It's just the way the people that want to put billionaires' balls in their mouth justify their sexual preferences.

[@jayarrbobdobbs]

If Social Darwinism was what you wanted you wouldn't be complaining that it's immoral to estate tax people at 100%. Darwinism in the sense of survival of the fittest doesn't make a distinction when a dozen mangy hyenas take down and eat a lion. The hyenas won because they are the most fit to survive.

[@nicko8989]

thats why I love music so much because when i read down through the comments some of them make u smile some of them make u take a second listen to the song to see what you missed some people try to explain it some people are just happy to keep it simple and just listen some people like to open another tab and go on facebook others lean back close their eyes and imagine the way music can been seen in some many different ways is just amazing!! :)

[@arfas69]

from his first time till now, his song never fails to entertain myself... Hail Deadmau5!!

[@liamfarrar4]

a amazing beat through out puts me in a calm like state of mind deadmau5 for life

[@robhimself33]

Time is a ruler to measure the day It doesn't go backwards, only one way Watch it go round like a merry-go-round Going so fast like a merry-go-round

[@jtapia112]

i approve of that. trent reznor started playing the piano when he was five and he's all about music, and so is joel.

[@3PICAT]

Wow, i never knew deadmau5 also made these kinds of genre's! Amazingly good! Why did he stop making this kind of stuff :( ?!

[@JerekDain]

Some of the most awesome piano I've ever heard.

[@JaminThornsberry]

Amazing what a simple song can make you feel. I absolutely adore this album. His newest stuff is great, too, but this is just amazing. All of Get Scraped is.

[@SANDbCREATIVE]

long board playlist material in my ears oh good new vid idea has been made i love you deadmau5 your one of the people that keeps me alive and takes me away from all this stress thank you for being in music and making the best music i have heard in a long time. thank you Joel and i sure everyone else can agree

[@RobbingHood12]

This song = pure happiness

[@AGKaiju]

This was my alarm for some time...

[@monsterenergy5555]

song ruined lol

[@AGKaiju]

+Thompa P Regardless, still love it.

[@brenn7754]

Kobra Ortiz How'd you set it to that?

[@AGKaiju]

R A V E N Downloaded the song, moved it to my phone. Set it as my alarm in settings.... if I remember, I used a ringtone making app for such an occasion.

[@JoeBloggs112]

I think it would ruin for it for me.. waking up having to go to work lol no thanks

[@TonicKemestry]

This is amazing I didn't even think this was deadmau5 at first.

[@DaftPunkVision]

Wake up... I feel like this is a reference to 'Terrors In My Head' on his new album...

[@ratmilk9260]

DaftPunkVision How is this a reference to terrors in my head exactly?

[@DaftPunkVision]

James Stethem half way through terrors in my head it "Wakes Up", just like how this does,

[@saimono8325]

Surely the most beautiful sound of deadmau5

[@xSilverScreenx]

wish he made more records like this one defiantly my favorite one and so there i was

[@weispaints]

Favorite deadmau5 song right here listen to it every morning

[@Adasioadasio]

This song is perfect Helps focus so much and helps me stay up :D

[@coastermusic93]

I love how he changes the looping on the beat a lot. Thats one of the things that I like to do when I messing around and mixing.

[@eeeerkaaan]

Deadmau5 is soo epic! Love this more different style of music from him! Love his house/electro house/you know, music too, this is is something special =)

[@Zukoaz]

Deadmau5, now i really can say your whole Get Scraped album is pure awesomness. Every Track has its own emotionally style, packed up in some wonderful and demanding Melodies I'fe never heard before. It's a true Masterpiece. Your new stuff is ... ok.

[@JW1171]

great song to wake up to. Wake n bake is even better wit this

[@blankpaper66]

Absolutely love this tune. it really is a beautiful work of art. Such a subtle bassline and smooth beat. With he would create an album with at least 10 songs like this, and a few other chilled out progressive house beats. Even though I do like his newer stuff, this is what I wish we could hear more of.

[@haxxic]

Never gets old

[@haloFAN119]

Dat piano...... simply amazing. Nuff said.

[@adjbuzz]

I can just imagine scenes from the end of a movie or video game showing all of the horror at first, then showing people rebuilding and how it will be okay, there is hope. But that's just me.

[@Kaathii1995]

It´s so good! And rythmic! It´s Deadmau5!

[@uploads87]

god i love deadmau5 stuff! can't wait for the new wave!

[@DSWEIG]

music should be appreciated for what it is...pure emotion...and this song makes me feel a little bit better to be alive and healthy. enjoy the little things in life everyone :)

[@Dunsparth]

One of the only deadmau5 tracks i prefer. good work

[@dkzdnp]

listening to this song in the morning when taking a shower sure is awesome. :D

[@iamjjanimates]

In his Demo CD, this song was simply just called "Waking Up"

[@antarespurifier]

Wakey wakey 🥰

[@ANCD7_]

Hands down, his best track

[@CHR0MEMATIC]

Wow this is really nice

[@ArsonSavage]

the part with the alarm clock gets my heart racing like i have to actually wake up. this song kinda takes over whatever im doing.

[@tommasorenzoni7771]

yo this is so fresh

[@tomio8072]

51 people couldn't wake up

[@brenn7754]

tom io So true

[@goddessethena]

Love this song 😊

[@ghos2277]

I really like that piano in this song.

[@markgilst]

BEAUTIFUL.

[@TheDavinator92]

I envy this dudes talent. I only hope that my tracks will sound half as good as his one day.

[@Token96]

Epic masterpiece!

[@TJMurderin]

man gatta love that piano riff

[@maborian787]

i must say.. this is pretty chill for me :)

[@chestor]

this is so awesome :D

[@sohaybmegraoui2050]

Boards of Canada-esque

[@imicca]

he is a fan so yeah...inspired by

[@keviniam4643]

He also has a song in this album called Bored of Canada.

[@ricochetsixtyten]

Sounds more like Fatboy Slim or Moby or something, BoC dont really do piano based songs.

[@grosslolgross8642]

more like Waking Up from the Canadian Dream

[@Multi-Waves_Music]

I have NEVER heard chords like these from deadmau5 wtf

[@skittlz12123]

One of my favorites c:

[@summertime361]

this song is amazing

[@haratofu]

This is from his album "Get Scraped". I'd start by listening to the full album if you haven't already.

[@ParadiseLost404]

now more than ever

[@brenn7754]

Trinity++ This song woke me up after the elections

[@Owiko7]

0:02 Cracking open a cold one...

[@SupremeVelocity01]

finally a song that isnt infected with "him" or actualy "her"

[@quickaction5690]

I miss this album, the mau5 has come along way since Get Scraped. He was Not Exactly Faxing Berlin, then he was messin' around with Moar Ghost N Stuff and he was hanging out with an FN Pig and knew There Might Be Coffee. His adventures continue. And me? I will follow him until the day We Fail.

[@surprise7002]

Makes no sense but you tried.

[@surprise7002]

It didn't.

[@doncarloancelotti2256]

This humor of yours is weird, "brony" :)

[@samjuri]

he removed the album from spotify for god knows what reason

[@realtetria]

My alarm clock plays this song

[@qapcom0]

im not sure which zelda temple song you speak of, theres LOADS! lol but honestly, good thinkin man, ur lookin out of the box for influences. thats cool! +1 :)

[@DJInfiniteFlow]

Love this song.

[@stecfc]

This is awesome

[@WinningMrPotatoes]

This song and minecraft creative mode simply amazing!

[@Snigerbobs]

nice work mau5..

[@GeoTown123]

I didn't know Chuck Norris made music!! This is the best!! GOOD GOING CHUCKY!!

[@RYNO2511]

I think this would be perfect for a live show intro, even incorporated into the new shows, like meowingtons hax tour.

[@str4jo]

makes me happy ^^

[@mproxxx]

piano is the shit! enjoying the hell out of this song

[@badcosmonaut365]

@ghos2277 It was just a letter from her saying that he inspires her and that this was her favorite song of his. Also, he needed to stop swearing on his streams so that her mom would let her continue to watch them. It was pretty funny. deadmau5 pointed out that he was impressed that this was her favorite song, being nearly ten years old.

[@shanem003]

sweet tune!!

[@movesix2773]

this is good for night time

[@interloeper]

best.deadmau5'.song.ever.

[@pokemaniac2471]

A moment to myself is another good Deadmau5 song a bit like this.

[@Gamefreak8881]

piano is beautiful *__*

[@KimiLeanne]

wow i love it :D

[@LordPetee]

incredible..

[@coke8045]

fab names!

[@DriveProgHouse2]

Love at first listen.

[@eamnr14]

masterpiece!

[@tomwatson1]

there hasnt ever been one cd that ive liked every song on it and would listen to those songs daily.... never. the closest cd that has done that for me was GZA-liquid swords prob 8 songs on that cd that i would listen to regularly i dont think any1 could ever enjoy a full cd ..

[@kuhnhenn]

@Memoyre literally sends shivers down my spine when i hear it...

[@Mistfire333]

I look out the window of my small apartment, it isn't much, just a bed/kitchen mashed into one room with a bathroom and closet. I get dressed and leave home, heading to work. I work at a fairly good paying job, i pick fruits, and i'm a janitor at this school that isnt far from the fields. I made it, I finally made it... But then i wake up in a truck filled with people like me, back to Mexico we go... No wonder it's called the American Dream, its pure mental fiction...

[@abnercalegari]

yeah but once you realize that the dream isn't really that good and it's better to live a simple life and be happy than live an extravagant life and be sad then you enjoy life for what it is instead of wishing you had it all.

[@Sternertime]

amazing...