FIRST TASTE: Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods (ALBUM REACTION)

First Taste is the album listening party that captures what it's like to hear an album for the first time.
Neil Cicierega is the genius behind the internet hits such as Potter Puppet Pals and Ultimate Showdown. He also makes mash-up albums, which includes 2015's Mouth Sounds, in which every song is smashed with Smash Mouth. He has a talent for seeing things in music very few can, and the results are astounding.
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neilcic.com/mouthmoods/
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Song timestamps:
The Starting Line - 2:12
Floor Corn - 2:49
AC/VC - 3:35
Revolution #5 - 4:38
Dear Dinosaur - 4:51
Annoyed Grunt - 5:06
Bustin - 6:00
Busta - 6:47
Tiger - 7:09
The End - 7:45
Shady Interlude - 9:00
T.I.M.E - 9:22
Smooth - 10:52
Stand By Meme - 11:53
Wallspin - 12:02
Wow Wow - 12:45
Mouth Pressure - 13:14
Shit - 14:39

[@toebel]

If you listen closely to the lyrics of Wow Wow you'll realize that Will Smith was having a stroke mid-song

[@RinkoDinko]

Toebel Actually its about gay cowboy sex with Loveless

[@0_Cardboard_0]

“PEN AND A PAD”

[@benarchyuk837]

Wow wow is to be honest a really good mashup

[@BudDinktrap]

"I'm the slickest they is! I'm the slickest they is! I'm the _slickiwickiwickest_ they is!"

[@Minetuber07]

T.I.M.E. is a goddamn masterpiece.

[@christopherpreindl8736]

AGREED!

[@christopherpreindl8736]

You're not wrong, Weldar. That's a great point. Who knew something so dense, reflective, and complex could stem from the Village People!?

[@mitto3151]

+Weldar yeah that's the genius of it right!? It feels kind of satirical in a way - on the surface it's funny, but it's pointing out something much deeper. It's a great example of the power of music to affect mood. I actually think T.I.M.E is kinda a masterpiece.

[@dandyrandymarsh]

T

[@John_Smith_Dumfugg]

i legitimately teared up

[@royalninja2823]

I'm sort of disappointed you guys didn't notice the sentence mixing in Shit to turn My Way into a song a bout pooping. "This time Imma let it all come out, this time Imma stand up and *shhhhhht*"

[@silentfilmss]

"Imma doo doo my way"

[@christopherpreindl8736]

Oh wow! That completely went over my head. I still think some of my favourite moments were the sentence mixing in Bustin: -"Sleeping makes me feel good!" -"I ain't 'fraid of no bed." -"FREAKY GHOST BED!"

[@SteltekOne]

I just realised that Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" was on an album named "Paint It Black", and he mashed it up with "Back In Black". Genius!

[@mitto3151]

+SteltekOne what album is this?

[@SteltekOne]

Hmm, guess my brain messed up there. The Internet corrects me in stating that she had a song called 'Paint It Black', but it was on her 'Be Not Nobody' album. I still stand by Neil's genius status though!

[@palblue]

This album is one of the slickest there is The slicki-wikki-wikkest there is

[@SakamotoIbuki]

An absolute adventure, this whole album was. Gotta give it up to the guy, Neil knocked it out of the park. Nice "insight," fellas. ;)

[@tmujir955]

Their faces at 10:22 are exactly how I felt when I first heard T.I.M.E.

[@ronkb]

Awww, no love for 300MB?

[@mitto3151]

+rowanaj We just didn't say anything really that interesting about the song. 😥

[@John_Smith_Dumfugg]

three HUNDRED M E G A B Y T E S

[@jacklfitz]

@@John_Smith_Dumfugg THINK OF HOW MUCH YOU CAN STORE

[@Joe_____7]

3 0 0 f I l e c a b I n e t s

[@blmn564]

You could do album reactions to Mouth Sounds & Mouth Silence, too! It don't really matter if it's just reactions, you're pretty entertaining.

[@mitto3151]

+TheHerpOfDerp thanks! Could make Chris listen to them. :P

[@paintspot]

"Bustin" has its own official video by Neil if you haven't seen it yet! Also, if you didn't know, "The Starting Line" has a triple meaning! (1.) It's a lyric that the song samples from "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" ("reluctantly crouched at the starting line...") (2.) *EVERY LYRIC sampled in "The Startling Line" is the "STARTING LINE" (the opening lyric) of the song it's from!!!* (3.) It's the first track (the "starting line") of the album! -Paintspot Infez Wasabi!

[@-starrysunrise-2908]

That lyric is actually from The Distance by CAKE. “The world is a vampire” is the one from Bullet with Butterfly Wings. =)

[@thatquietkid]

I hope you guys recognized the extra instruments neil added during the linkin park/doobie brothers mashup including bass, percussion, synth, just so he could make the first 8 bars of What a Fool Believes sound like a full song lol

[@Nickels-n-Dimes]

You two were a goddamn joy ta watch, i was hoping someone would do something like this

[@christopherpreindl8736]

Cheers! All hail Neil.

[@corbingarber7765]

ALBUM OF THE FUCKING YEAR

[@shad0wchateau]

NOTHING WRONG WITH CORN

[@blipdrifter]

This was a REALLY good video. Thank you for this.

[@notanundercovercop8851]

This was so fun to watch some genuine first reactions to hearing the insanity that is that album.

[@TheAnjelHarte]

I have such vivid memories of the first time I heard so many of these that watching other people react is fucking Great lol, I also yelled "god his voice is SO BAD" in response to ACVC so I feel vindicated now

[@arsweetie1234]

Do Spirit Phone-- some interesting songs there!

[@jaydeekaybee]

Your laughter and commentary added so much to the experience. I love it.

[@TehFoamy]

The dude on the right sounds like he's going to cough up a lung every time he laughs

[@senseisleepyhead]

I really enjoyed the clean editing and your insightful observations about the wild things Neil does and how he really does operate on a different level with music! And your reactions were absolutely priceless and endearing.

[@daveconnor6174]

Just found this channel and y'all are rad :D

[@christopherpreindl8736]

I think you're rad, Dave.

[@thegammakat]

Absolutely one of the best videos online. Let me relive the magic of hearing these bangers for the first time.

[@elizah9408]

Yeah, this video was about my reaction to Mouth Moods too.

[@ChesuMori]

I'm glad I was able to find this in my browser history... I just couldn't get it to come up when searching KZbin.

[@htimelines1089]

Most underrated channel I'm subscribed to, you guys are great. :)

[@mitto3151]

+Htimelines ❤

[@tobiasvilainnewman3569]

This album's feeling is the same as the emotion that I get from Harrison Ford.

[@MrFloyd-jf6fh]

If you're actually interested in all the songs he tried to mash together that didn't work, he has some of his 'outtakes' on his music YT channel.

[@Gorfinhofin]

I watched both this and Fanfare, but never realized you're the same person. My mind is blown. Any plans to do something similar for Dreams?

[@0_Cardboard_0]

Perhaps?

[@DarrenNowOnVideo]

This was actually very well done! Good on you guys!

[@christopherpreindl8736]

:) Thanks, Darren. We always have (way too much) fun doing First Taste.

[@JoTheAnomaly]

I’ve already listened to the album too many times alone, I’m happy to see it through new eyes

[@Suitcase08]

Hot fuck, sitting through this with your first experience after so long listening to this album on repeat brought me to tears of joy, great listening to it with you lads' pure enjoyment and analysis of this pop cultural zeitgeist. An absolute pleasure.

[@thatquietkid]

13:19 to be fair no track in Mouth Silence had any Smash Mouth heavy influence, unless you listened closely (especially with Wndrwll)

[@mattmess1221]

Listen to the entire album at 1000x speed.

[@TehFoamy]

I'm surprised that you guys heard Neil's Fly Away song but not Dear Dinosaur, Smooth, or Bustin before listening to Mouth Moods

[@ahmallama47]

now do the outakes on his like, 3rd youtube channel

[@super8ben]

It was really late, and I was super jet lagged when I first saw the “Fly Away” video, and I couldn’t figure out whether the whole thing was a fever dream the next day.

[@HobGungan]

Mouth Dreams now?

[@KingsBard]

Any plans for listening to Mouth Dreams?

[@juliusjoa3463]

Somebody is eating some chocolate candy at 2:17. I'm watching you, dudes!

[@senseisleepyhead]

If anyone wants to know the weird history of how Neil evolved over time RE: music & the internet, look up "Neil Cicierega, Internet Person - XOXO Festival (2016)". It's Neil himself telling his story for 20 min on stage to an audience. He had a *fascinating* intro to the internet as a kid, plus it's neat to see/hear this person speak IRL.

[@Y0USEEMUPSET]

don't know if birthmark or smeared milky way

[@juliusjoa3463]

5:32 LOL

[@rafaellucadetena9355]

You guys skipped the Harrison Ford part...

[@4dultw1thj0b]

Actually I did think Dear Dinosaur was Bon Jovi's Dead or Alive at first, so there is something to that.

[@juliusjoa3463]

It's coming at 4:52.

[@juliusjoa3463]

4:43 Number 9

[@juliusjoa3463]

8:26 that cracks me up

[@juliusjoa3463]

11:31 When your dad cusses inside of the bathroom....

[@goodmaro]

Don't you get it? How many he tries to mix and not have it work? NONE!! He's brilliant.

[@therealpixels]

You should probably make it so the song is more audible, so people can hear exactly what they're reacting to better

[@mitto3151]

+⧹.̷.シ.⃥.⧸ When that happens we begin to run into issues, everything from copyright to not being able to hear us talk. We try and have it as loud as possible without impeding.

[@fergusfisher1315]

The AC/DC slander is unacceptable.

[@hardlyanydiggity3953]

mouth sounds and mouth silence were 2014