Deconstructing The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist

In this video I deconstruct and rebuild The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist , from their 2000 album Since I left You.
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The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
• The Avalanches - Front...
Wayne and Shuster - Frontier Psychiatrist
• Frontier Psychiatrist
The Enoch Light Singers - My Way of Life
• Enoch Light Singers - ...
George Barnes - Anna (El Negro Zum Bon)
• George Barnes -- Ana
Harvey Mandel - Wade in the Water
• Video
Divine as Francine Fishpaw and George Hulse as Mr Kerr in - Polyester (1981)
• Polyester - Dexter's E...
Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham - Lover and a Friend
• Eddie Bo & Inez Cheath...
Ron Goodwin and His Orchestra - Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
• Spitfire Prelude and F...
Wayne and Shuster - A Shakespearean Baseball Game
• The Shakespearean Base...
Dexter Wansel - Theme From the Planets
• Dexter Wansel - Theme ...
Doopees - Dr. Domestic's Physical Effect #1 - Piece for Turntables and Records
• Yann Tomita and the Do...
Wayne and Shuster - I Was a TV Addict
• Wayne and Shuster TV...
Aunt Theresa - The Piece of Wood That Talked
• Aunt Theresa, Please T...
Flip Wilson - Cowboys & Colored People
• Cowboys & Colored People
Sesame Street - The Count Counts Flowers
• Sesame Street - The Co...
Geoff Love and His Orchestra - Theme From Lawrence of Arabia
• Great/Big war movie th...
Aunt Theresa - The Leopard
• Aunt Theresa, Please T...
Laurie Anderson - The Laurie Anderson Interview (Side One)
• Laurie Anderson - The ...
Percy Faith & His Orchestra - La Chaparrita
• La Chaparrita
Flip Wilson - Midget
• Midget
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• The Good, The Bad, and...
The Conquest of Everest (1953)
• Video
Flip Wilson - Riot Suit
• Riot Suit
Aunt Theresa - Lost Mittens
• Aunt Theresa, Please T...
The Gray Line Tour of Historic Boston - Side Two
• Gray Line Sound Tour o...
Laurie Anderson - Kokoku, Sharkey's Day, Credit Racket [Excerpts]
• Laurie Anderson - The ...
Audio Fidelity Records - Cuckoo Clocks
• Cuckoo Clocks
Aunt Theresa - Picking Berries
• Aunt Theresa, Please T...
The Eddie Thomas Singers - Wait Till You See Her
• Eddie Thomas Singers -...
00:00 - 00:47 Intro
00:47 - 1:20 Geoff Love and His Orchestra - Theme From Lawrence of Arabia
1:20 - 1:35 Polyester (1981) (Dialogue)
1:35 - 2:30 Harvey Mandel - Wade in the Water (Drums)
2:30 - 2:56 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Gun shot
2:56 - 3:40 The Enoch Light Singers - My Way of Life
3:40 - 4:40 Wayne and Shuster - Frontier Psychiatrist (Dialogue)
4:40 - 5:05 Aunt Theresa - White As a Sheet (Diaglogue)
5:05 - 5:50 The Gray Line Tour (He Also Made False Teeth)
5:50 - 6:30 Dexter Wansel - Theme From the Planets (Drums)
6:30 - 7:00 Listen Through
7:00 - 7:19 The Conquest of Everest (1953)
7:19 - 8:00 Percy Faith & His Orchestra - La Chaparrita (Strings)
8:00 - 8:21 Aunt Theresa - Lost Mittens (Dialogue)
8:21 - 8:30 Wayne and Shuster - I Was a TV Addict (Dialogue)
8:30 - 8:52 Flip Wilson (Dialogue)
8:52 - 9:19 Wayne and Shuster - I Was a TV Addict (Dialogue)
9:19 - 9:25 Flip Wilson (Dialogue)
9:25 - 9:35 Aunt Theresa - Milk (Dialogue)
9:35 - 10:00 Laurie Anderson - Rectangles (Dialogue)
10:00 - 10:29 Wayne and Shuster - A Shakespearean Baseball Game (Dialogue)
10:29 - 10:55 Wayne and Shuster - I Was a TV Addict (Dialogue)
10:55 - 11:07 Aunt Theresa - Juice On Your Chin (Dialogue)
11:07 - 11:21 Flip Wilson - Promised My Girlfriend
11:21 - 11:35 Laurie Anderson - Violin (Dialogue)
11:35 - 12:15 Ron Goodwin and His Orchestra - Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (Strings)
12:15 - 13:13 The Eddie Thomas Singers - Wait Till You See Her (Vocals)
13:13 - 13:50 Sesame Street - The Count Counts Flowers
13:50 - 14:30 Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham - Lover and a Friend (Drums)
14:30 - 15:10 Audio Fidelity Records - Cuckoo Clocks
15:10 - 15:45 Aunt Theresa - A Bird
15:45 - 16:09 Doopees - Dr. Domestic's Physical Effect #1 - Piece for Turntables and Records
16:09 - 17:00 George Barnes - Anna (El Negro Zum Bon) (Outro Music)
17:00 17:24 Outro

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

What always amazes me about this song, after learning how it was made, is that it's a song that has absolutely no original elements, yet itself is so highly original.

[@davidswanson5669]

Kinda like how there’s only 26 letters in the alphabet, or 12 notes in an octave, yet it’s how you mix them in unique ways that help color the world. This seems to be using that same method, where samples are just notes on a piano.

[@riffcaster]

Close. The samples are essentially riffs.

[@stevekramerf242]

@@riffcaster Yeah, the high art of sampling. Coldcut and The Bomb Squad are/were also masters of this.

[@mr.moonthegoon4178]

Welcome to the wonderful world of DJ mashups, where 20 songs become 1

[@michaelchen2718]

I, and many others, consider this song to be one of the greatest songs ever created.

[@anotheryoutubechannel4809]

hells yes

[@gaetan4164]

What's really impressive is that those samples are barely transformed (at most pitched to fit the key of the song), it's straight-up collage.

[@jodawgsup]

that's a great way to describe how this song always felt to me, like a collage

[@rateeightx]

I'm honestly amazed that the Avalanches were able to find all these samples back in 2000, Did they just go to every record store they could find and by a tonne of old records just to see if there's anything interesting on them? Even then it's crazy that they even thought to use all of them, Some of these are the most random things, Yet they somehow work so well in the song.

[@OctopusOwl]

Every sample feels like someone’s echolalia focus. I think that’s why I like it so much. It feels like a quilt of favorite things.

[@IrishTechnicalThinker]

I knew this song was so dynamic but now, I respect this song way more. You have done insane research.

[@AwpWilliams]

Well now that I've seen this, the music video makes way more sense. They're like, "Well we made the song, now we need a music video. Let's just hire a bunch of people to represent the different sounds we sampled, even if it's not the exact same thing." That's literally all it is. I've been sitting here trying to find meaning behind it and there is none.

[@razzaus1570]

Your a nut, your crazy in the coconut.

[@UrrTheWise]

beautiful and satisfying deconstruction

[@robbe4711]

Great example of how sampling creates something totally new!

[@TheCrimsonMoogle]

I found Frontier Psychiatrist first and it led me to fall in love with The Avalanches. The song is so perfectly stimulating.

[@lemsip207]

For me it was Since I Met You on the Ministry of Sound's chill out album.

[@TheCrimsonMoogle]

@@lemsip207 My second Avalanches song, letting me know I'm in for life.

[@jonduffin7560]

In high school we had to write a play and I came across Wayne & Schuster via my nan. While finding the scripts online I came across this song and we sampled this across parts when we performed it. This song plays on my mind a lot over the years, thank you for the breakdown. I had assumed the instrumental was their own making and the audio was just from their radio plays. I've since found they are still making great music!

[@targetdreamer257]

I kind of realized there was several samples but WOW! The Avalanche have a broad interest to pull together all these bits and pieces.

[@dancoroian1]

IIRC the story was that a record store was going out of business and they managed to get all the old records that they didn't manage to liquidate in the clearance sale. Then, with such a wealth of possible sample sources, they embarked on this crazy ambitious project of an all-sample album

[@richardcrook2112]

@@dancoroian1 That's very interesting, thanks. Intriguing to think of all these obscure records left on the shelf in some defunct record shop being spliced together broadcast around the world, so random.

[@russellcontreras394]

It's amazing what masters of sampling can conjure by mixing things together, they're like chefs. Avalanches, DJ Shadow, MF DOOM, etc.

[@whereisbalakayat]

Something that needs to be appreciated about this sampling is that not only did it create a whole new song, it told an entire story using loads of different dialogue. So cool.

[@lesterforney6200]

It's amazing how they found all this rare media and it just as amazing that you figured it out. My mind is blown.

[@ARCWuLF]

An absolutely incredible amount of work went into this song. Also, an even more incredible amount of work went into researching this video! Thank you for posting!

[@cepson]

Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches . . . an outstanding recording achievement!

[@christopherscottcarpenter]

This is one of the few songs that is genuinely funny. The parrot scratching makes me laugh every time I hear it.

[@kallisto9166]

I was listening to this classic tune at work and the boss came over to ask if I thought it was appropriate music for the workplace. She also asked if it was hip-hop.

[@KarlBoltzmann]

Amazing

[@mudleydatthews]

NEW LEAD! The “Tighten your buttocks” sample could actually be from a series of UK fitness records in the early 80s called “Shape Up and Dance”. After browsing dozens of other exercise albums/programmes, this is the best candidate. At the end of every (available) volume, there’s a track for muscle relaxation, yoga, etc. where the host talks in a more gentle manner. Otherwise, all of these records have upbeat pop with loud instructions (which is obviously not the sample). For reference, listen to the last track of Shape Up and Dance Vol. 1 with Felicity Kendal. The tone is the same for both voice and background ambience…. Even the phrase is almost said verbatim. The only issue is there are several volumes. Only three exist on KZbin and none of them are the exact sample. (Though they generally are within the same ballpark). Hope this helps.

[@KarlBoltzmann]

Amazing! Sounds like it might be the one. I'll keep my eye on it, thanks!

[@HeyCarrieAnneWhite]

It is Felicity Kendal, 1981 - During "I Will Survive", she says it twice

[@mudleydatthews]

@@HeyCarrieAnneWhite I double checked. It isn’t the original, though it’s pretty close.

[@MikeViGa]

The Wayne and Shuster Frontier Psychiatrist sketch was from 1983, not 1959. They were on the air for a long time!

[@thegougy]

And twenty years later I find such gem- the deconstruction. Impressive work, thank you

[@Emiliapocalypse]

I LOVE this song, didn’t know I needed a deconstruction of it until now ❤❤❤❤

[@woritsez]

absolute gold

[@sean..L]

It’s ridiculous how the avalanches managed to use thousands of samples just in one album alone. This reconstruction reveals just how subtle and obscure they got with it, like they raided a record store dollar bin.

[@laurieberry162]

The twin psychiatrist reminds me of a dangerous psychiatrist who I had. Clozapine is dangerous and people died on it. I took it and had to be taken off. This song is creative. I like how Avalanches do this on stage. They jumped around a lot. It’s the way a person would jump around if they saw you as a patient in a long term patient.

[@jave2274]

Clozapine sounds like a ancient greece godess of the headaches

[@ant7699]

​@@jave2274Clozapine is the queen of the trumpets.

[@lemsip207]

It reminds me of being counselling and having a counsellor that I was on the same page with so developed better boundaries. I started to say no to aspects of my voluntary work. But some people didn't want me to change and tried to push me to find help elsewhere. I replied that I was already in therapy, that sometimes you feel worse before you get better as you gain insights and for them to get off my case.

[@tricky1992000]

Clozapine should only be given as drug of last resort and should be heavily monitored for side effects

[@musicfreaksco]

You did such a good job! Ive been waiting for some avalanches. knew this would be coming

[@KarlBoltzmann]

100% this one was on the list for a while! More Avalanches to come.

[@roguemutantbrain119]

I’d love the whole album done like this. Close To You, Flight Tonight, or Live At Doninoes especially.

[@satanmax13]

Amazing video about a amazing song !

[@TheMazz1234]

That was awesome ! Love The Avalanches, thanks for the breakdown !

[@davidjolley2468]

A masterpiece of production. Hands down... and the music video production is equally as masterful.

[@KickMaster83]

Awesome video!! Really makes you appreciate the work that goes into both making the track and finding all of the samples afterwards!

[@DavidHarberRadio]

Thanks so much for putting all the effort into this. You've answered all my questions!

[@NicolasDeWolfe]

I was always curious about this song. Thanks for making this.

[@summerlaverdure]

amazing deconstruction, thank you!

[@bjs001001]

THANK YOU! I've loved this song for years and always wondered where the samples come from.

[@KiDPANDA14]

This is awesome. came to YT on an impulse listen and saw this recommended. love a good deconstruction. thanks.

[@FinleyGomez]

The width of the drums came from the mixing boards they mixed the album on. A good way to re-create this is with the Haas effect, basically, hard panning the right channel, and left channel, and delaying each by a few ms. This effect was used all over the album!

[@KarlBoltzmann]

Absolutely! I use the Haas effect all the time when recreating these tracks. I think I even used it on my version of the drums, although I will admit that I didn't come close to the width or the crispness that the Avalanches achieved.

[@AlexDiamantopulo]

This is insane! Great job! Thank you so much for covering this 👍👍👍

[@KarlBoltzmann]

Thanks Alex! More Avalanches to come in the near future.

[@OriginalMindTrick]

The mixing and mastering are so insanely well executed.

[@MatthewBester]

23 years on I would never have guessed all these sounds would be discovered. While I am here that horse sounds like the one after the gunshot pitched. Perhaps they just swapped them around?

[@KarlBoltzmann]

I thought so too at first, but it is 100% from another source. I haven't checked in a while though so it is possible that it's been found since I made the video.

[@2Chickaboom2]

Glad I stumbled on this! Thanks for sharing. As innovating as the Avalanches are for music, I find their videos equally compelling. I can’t even have a favorite video of theirs. Ooh! I didn’t realize Laurie Anderson was on this track. I’ve been in love with her work for 40 years.

[@KarlBoltzmann]

Laurie Anderson is beyond cool.

[@gigabytemmx]

by far my favorite sampled song of all time, i love this track. very interesting seeing where all of the sample came from. save for a few, can't wait for those to be found

[@endofthelinejoel]

Great breakdown. Thank you.

[@hollie7926]

I've always loved this song lol. I knew there were superimposed pieces throughout it... I didn't realize the ENTIRE song was made with these... This is masterwork in dj mixing right here.

[@Valkanna.Nublet]

That song wormed its way into my brain when it was first released and I don't think it will ever leave, just occasionally pop up to surprise me.

[@pyrat42]

I've always wanted someone to make a piece like this.

[@saulmc8920]

Brilliant song and amazing breakdown

[@superhacker35]

Wow incredible work!

[@flunkedouttanasa9450]

Great job. I just found you and I’m hooked!

[@troncek]

This is incredible.

[@willess7312]

Awesome video ! Thank u for that

[@valentingomezcuello6491]

This song became my favorite from the album Since I Left You. There are only four samples left to discover: the horse's neigh, the drums that sound in the middle and at the end of the song, the line "and tight on your buttocks" and the parrot sound. I loved the deconstruction of the song! 😃😁👏

[@devinsamuel3612]

Apparently the line is "tighten your buttocks" and is from a Jane Fonda workout tape

[@valentingomezcuello6491]

@@devinsamuel3612 In another video I found that supposed origin, but I couldn't find it. It is a very rare tape and very difficult to find.

[@davids8449]

It's in the trees it's coming...............

[@UnDEADBishop138]

Something I found interesting about the Eddie Thomas sample over the Ron Goodwin strings is that it seems to accent a subtle sound present in the Ron Goodwin sample when pitched up. So if you listen very closely there are some quiet undertones created by the pitching up of the sample, sounds which at the source frequency go unheard, that may have inspired them to layer over the Eddie Thomas vocals in a similar fashion.

[@KarlBoltzmann]

Great ear! I think you might be right.

[@RetroCarsForever]

Thank you for this! This is one of my all time faves and I was hoping you'd cover this one. Did not dissapoint! Makes me appreciate this modern masterpiece even more.

[@sun6moon9]

Proper and respectable DJs!

[@grapemultimedia6230]

dope breakdown

[@murrfeeling]

Laurie Anderson's Home of The Brave is REALLY worth a watch.

[@KarlBoltzmann]

It's brilliant! Way ahead of its time.

[@ozielmoralescabrera8821]

thanks, just thanks, this is amazing!

[@KarlBoltzmann]

[@babybro70]

AMAZING!

[@patmfitz]

Thanks - very interesting!

[@secretsunofficial]

This track has some AMAZING drums!! Good one.Our music taste is 100% in sync :D

[@KarlBoltzmann]

You've got great taste in music then ;)

[@CD3WD-Project]

I found this video from this song and this channel is so underrated

[@IanJones942]

Here - you earned my thumbs up!

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

Fascinating. That is all.

[@Cobalt-Jester]

The "tighten your buttocks" sample is from a Jane Fonda exercise routine. I don't know if it has a name.

[@KarlBoltzmann]

That is what I had heard too, but I don't think anyone has yet found the exact sample yet.

[@huntrrams]

So happy I found this channel! I love this song and the album! You should do the whole Since I Left You album deconstructed! I thought the horse one was from the song Good Guys Only Win in the Movies

[@KarlBoltzmann]

That's definitely in the works.

[@ipodbaby]

so cool

[@dentyH]

The entire album is plunderphonics btw everyone here, it's all samples for about an hour of amazing songwork

[@Returntotheworld]

Mind blown as I have a vinyl copy of that war themes album!

[@jamesepstein642]

Amazing vid. That Dexter Wansel song still slaps

[@valliant811]

great job deserve 1 million views for this video

[@judgeberry6071]

Definitely their best work. Excellent music video too.

[@Flat_Earth_Addy]

The rest is all rap :(

[@judgeberry6071]

@@Flat_Earth_Addy Which parts are rapping?

[@Flat_Earth_Addy]

@@judgeberry6071 All of them.

[@judgeberry6071]

@@Flat_Earth_Addy Nope. There is nobody rapping. It's all samples. Did you watch the video?

[@Flat_Earth_Addy]

@@judgeberry6071 Yes there is. Do not contradict me. It's all gangster rap. How do you think I know? How dare you ask me if I watched the videos, when you clearly have not.

[@lemsip207]

They were edgy and creative without overstepping the line. They showed how it could be done.

[@AxleRods]

This was #3 of about 15 on my nomad 2 zune mp3 player in 2001

[@BayAreaMike99]

The fact i found this song YEARS AGO from a 15 year old Halo Machinima “It’s A Wonderful Live” and here i am is crazy

[@Stormtrooper53]

Well I guess I need to track down that Dexter Wansel album. Heck, and all those other albums, too.

[@mattd8725]

I did want to listen to Laurie Anderson. Your detective skills are really on point.

[@KarlBoltzmann]

She's got one of the most soothing voices ever.

[@DanEvansUS]

I’d love to see a deconstruction of Wax Tailor’s “That Good Old Tomorrow”

[@KarlBoltzmann]

I generally stick with the older stuff, but I appreciate the recommendation.

[@bayport-moto]

This is amazing!!! 💯💗

[@AC3handle]

I've always wondered about the 'hypnotize' sample, now I know it's from Eddie Bo.

[@zweij]

Just found you by accident, I searched for Bloodstain, and now... I see The Avalanches AND Fatboy Slim? I smiled. :) New subscriber here! Best, Julia

[@KarlBoltzmann]

Cheers, thanks!

[@bartholomew1096]

Plunderphonics is insane

[@LordofthePokemons-LotP]

Great job, great song. Love them since 2000 🥰. Love you now, you're an archeologist and answered so many questions i had. Need a new friend ? You got me. @+++, LotP.

[@sheepwshotguns42]

crazy as a coconut how much effort went into this, there's just one question. what does it mean?

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

listened to the track dozens of times and never heard the cuckoo clock sound somehow

[@maurobrunosolavergara5041]

Amazing job deconstructing the track and hunting down the samples. Are you planning to do the whole album?

[@KarlBoltzmann]

I will definitely be doing more of their tracks in the near future.

[@maurobrunosolavergara5041]

@@KarlBoltzmann I would'd love to see them !

[@hereforthefreewater]

Man I remember bumping this on Channel Z back in the 2000s

[@o-o857]

pretty sure it's 'Avalanches above, business continues below', not about

[@KarlBoltzmann]

Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.

[@amanichironda9129]

awesome

[@TopangaMulholland]

Oh nothing too obscure then

[@MusicalComparisons]

I was just listening to Frontier Psychiatrist and got recommended this video. Someone has already made a video about all the samples and their sources but its nice to see you also find them. I took a quick look at your channel and I must say its interesting, do you take suggestions on what songs to deconstruct?

[@KarlBoltzmann]

I will always take suggestions!

[@namahecc]

I miss these videos! Any news on when you're coming back?

[@KarlBoltzmann]

Soon! I've taken the summer to focus on other things, but I will be making these videos again very soon.

[@namahecc]

Awesome, take your time obviously. Will definitely be tuning in.

[@andreimusteata8257]

song is great but deconstruction is insane

[@NostalgiCrazy]

Daaang how long did it take ya to find and put this together? Great job as this track is so intriguing!

[@KarlBoltzmann]

It definitely takes a while to put these together in a way that I am satisfied with, but I am not responsible for finding the samples in this track! There are communities of amazing sample hunters who found these samples over many years, paving the way for this to be made.

[@NostalgiCrazy]

@@KarlBoltzmann Oh right I forgot 😅Still, the dedication to this vid is awesome! I wonder if it's still the most sampled song ever?

[@KarlBoltzmann]

It could be! All of their tracks are such a beautiful collage of so many interesting samples.

[@notachannel447]

Salut from Brasil

[@jonathanlallo4920]

Lawrence of Arabia has horses in it

[@Nate_the_Nobody]

2:32 Is it possible the horse sample they used is the same horse you hear in the clip of the gunshot?

[@KarlBoltzmann]

It has been confirmed to be a different horse. I'm not sure if it's been found or not yet, but people are on the hunt.

[@Mr-Prasguerman]

Does anyone know where the ghost coral came from?

[@saganandroid4175]

This is amazing. Are you telling me you reconstructed the whole songs by hunting down and recording the samples?

[@KarlBoltzmann]

The sample hunters out there deserve all the credit for finding the samples! I occasionally do that too, but I'm more about reconstructing how the samples were used by the musicians in order to detail how these songs came together, piece by piece.

[@lemsip207]

​@@KarlBoltzmannI love how it is all put together to create something else. There is nothing new in the world now. It makes it familiar. A lot of films have call outs to previous films.

[@rupman27isback]

amazing video! u got a sub from me