Minecraft's New Vs Old Music

[@NotVeryAndy]

Before any of you comment it, yes, I know I pulled out the wrong disc in the intro lol

[@RyanSoltani]

Yeah I was a little confused why you pulled out that one 😂

[@ChrisGoodVibes]

no one cares ;) no biggie

[@Zen_Craft_Studio]

you put the wrong disk in ya intro 😉

[@Noah-Ingalls]

u good man :)

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

Ur first

[@kaesestein7781]

The only real issue I have with the newer soundtrack is that it plays a lot more often than C418's music and kind of feels like it's drowning it out. It has been a good while since I heard a older song in the menu screen.

[@drumming_cat]

Completely agree

[@JollyPower69]

music by C418 doesn't play on the title screen anymore, which is just sad. it just feels like it could be any update from now they'll just remove it completely.

[@hhff8534]

​@@JollyPower69there's no reason for them to remove it

[@JollyPower69]

@hhff8534 Well, yeah. There IS no reason, but I wouldn't put it past modern Mojang

[@jujoya]

Last time i played wet hands played like 10 times 😭. I love it but now im turning it off again

[@celticdash]

Ancestry is so annoying playing over and over again. It also keeps on playing when leaving the deep dark. I wish the deep dark had adaptive music that ramped up with how many shrieker strikes you have and then it becomes the scariest when the warden spawns but also all goes away when you leave the deep dark.

[@edmdeathmachine]

cool idea

[@robl0xgamer258]

THATS WHAT IM THINKINGG

[@V4N9U15H.]

I think its better for the biome dependent music for the Deep dark to completely cease playing when you trigger a Warden spawn. The music becomes quieter for each warnings made by the shrieker. Until it's completely gone with the conditions said earlier.

[@smellyeggrolls21]

​@@V4N9U15H.I think it should keep getting louder, then go completely silent when the final shrieker goes off

[@soapysoapster]

The Deep Dark has a new music now and its called deeper

[@VVS_Solar.Flare0417]

I just hate the fact that the biome specific music plays over and over. I’m tired of hearing crescent dunes play 5 times in a row when I’m in a desert for an extended period of time.

[@danielmorgan1126]

I feel ya. 😂😂 That's why I built my large house over 4 mountain biomes.

[@AidenHere]

Aerie has traumatized me but chopping spruce trees gives me new osts that are absolute bangers

[@caseys2698]

Idek what the new tracks names are tbh. despite liking the new upbeat one with the clarinet (i think it’s a newer one from the last 2 updates?…) i got sick of it playing repeatedly while playing recently :(

[@davisilva5064]

i was never able to hear crescent dunes in game even though i've been on deserts multiple times, how odd.

[@danielmorgan1126]

@@caseys2698 I'm guessing it's the wild update music you're talking about. And that you probably live in a densly wooded area. Cause that music seems to play nonstop there. 😭

[@Neodx2]

There's a mod called Music Control where you can completely customise all the music and when it plays, you can remove the music you don't like and even add new music

[@Cyanide404]

You're a legend bro thx

[@Basegud]

one of my biggest issues with the update aquatic soundtrack is that it only plays when you're underwater. Unless you're building an underwater base, the player will never be underwater for long enough for Minecrafts already scarse music cues to have the music used effectively

[@wiss_yt]

thats the point kinda

[@gamejitzu]

Really? I remember it also playing near the ocean, like on a beach. Not necessarily underwater, but it's been a while so idk

[@timohara7717]

@@gamejitzu Your went underwater

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

@@gamejitzu it only plays underwater, and only in certain biomes.

[@mrdollyman5675]

I was swimming for like 30 seconds and got a ocean song, so it’s not a huge deal

[@floofykxtty]

the issue with emphasizing location is, its minecraft, if the player really wanted to, they could completely tear down a biome and make it into something else, and then the music doesnt fit there anymore, imagine a new update track playing in 2b2t’s spawn, like an ocean theme, it just wouldn’t fit this is why the original tracks work in almost every situation, its not worried about the location, its worried about you

[@jc_art_]

Well that is such an extremely rare case. Despite what youtubers may have you believe, most players arent terraforming entire biomes, building mega bases, digging kilometer wide holes, etc, most are just building a base or multiple bases in the world, some farms, and just slowly progressing through each stage of the game while exploring new lands and conquering these lands as they get progressively stronger

[@Content_Deleted]

Exactly

[@paperhat_boi]

​@@jc_art_generally it's better for the song fit in every situation, the newer song aren't that bad but still I wish it Incorporated more the lemotif of calm1 or "Minecraft" It's too iconic and the melody/lemotif use frequently in the original soundtrack, while the modern ones never incorporate them

[@jc_art_]

@@paperhat_boi thats your preference but judging by how little ive seen people actually bring up any issues with the music, i think this is a very niche issue, and frankly it feels like alot of the minecraft community look for anything to have an issue with, where theirs no actual problem, like everyone needs to complain instead of just enjoying the game as it is. Ig Sorry that the music that plays occasionally isnt focused on your nostalgia but rather focused on the game itself? Thats pretty normal for a game (especially one that recieves hundreds of new players every day that wont be nostalgic for the same things you are) id say

[@paperhat_boi]

​@@jc_art_that's fair, i don't like when people say the new music like infinite amethyst the new theme of the game, no hate lena rain (fuckin love celeste) and it's just my preference, i'll just turn the music off :/

[@Bendytube72]

Dude your snappy animations alongside the commentary is great bro! Such a unique style, please keep it up!

[@ChuckSploder]

I love the animations tbh

[@gphil7856]

its just funke but minecraft

[@Bendytube72]

@@gphil7856 Is that a bad thing though?

[@LJ-em7kq]

​@@Bendytube72I dont think that's what they were trying to say but still a dumb comment lol

[@Azaryn]

Compared or other Minecraft youtubers who have loud and eccentric voices, your voice brings a fresh breath of air to the community

[@somedesertdude1308]

true lol

[@ArcherR135]

My personal hangup with the new music: It’s too damn loud. I literally can’t hear myself think when a newer track comes on. Instead of trying to be atmospheric, the new tracks are trying to be the whole atmosphere. It’s like that one friend that recommends a game to you, watches over your shoulder, breathing down your neck and constantly going “You enjoying yourself yet? You should do this thing. Oh, look at that! That’s really cool, right? RIGHT?!” C418’s tracks on the other hand are the friend who recommends a game, sits next to you while you play, and occasionally goes “…Liking it?” Infinitely more atmospheric, since it adds to the atmosphere instead of trying to BE the atmosphere.

[@downloadableram4212]

There’s a volume slider for a reason

[@ArcherR135]

@@downloadableram4212 I still want to hear the game, and C418’s music. It’s just the newer music that’s too loud

[@RetroCube]

@@ArcherR135 Sounds like a game problem moreso than an issue with the music itself if Mojang didn't adjust the volume before implementing it into the game. Listening to it on KZbin it sounds fine to me.

[@dry4smash946]

@@ArcherR135 you can turn lower the music's volume?

[@caseys2698]

Ppl saying “just turn down the volume” above are missing the point- C418’s songs are a fine volume but the new tracks are much louder. I experienced this on bedrock recently, the sound mixing is unfortunately poor

[@foggysigma]

This channel is so underrated

[@Fire_Axus]

no

[@HoundHere]

I love minecrafts old soundtrack because of the wonder and imagination that i was filled with while listening to it new minecrafts music emphasizing location just doesnt fill me with the same wonder that i felt when i first played it on the xbox 360 I cant tell if its the music or nostalgia but i just cant seem to love the new music as much as i loved the old music upon hearing it for the first time

[@HHHjb_]

+1 I'm a wii u/java player same sentiment

[@mwagsoney37]

My guess would be nostalgia you said it yourself it doesnt give you the same wonder the music gave you the first time you played it. Its an impossible task for the new music to give you the same feeling you had when you were possibly really young and you know what thats okay.

[@livingwitroaches12]

Saamee the old music felt so motivational and dreamlike

[@Whatismusic123]

​@@mwagsoney37it's not nostalgia. The soundtrack shouldn't be so interruptive and disconnected from the game itself. It's just noise, which they slapped a minecraft label onto. It could be in a ******** platformer, not minecraft.

[@birdblackbird4766]

Pc player since infdev. I agree the old music reallllly made you feel like whatever you were doing was amazing

[@lilchromie]

Im impressed that you went the entire video without mentioning the change in composer from C418 to Lena Raine (most famous for her work on celeste) as of the nether update.

[@miimiiandco]

She isn't the only composer on the team either.

[@bogosbinted1]

That's a man

[@gammacxy]

@@bogosbinted1 woman

[@bogosbinted1]

@@gammacxy why play pretend

[@gammacxy]

@@bogosbinted1 it’s not pretend that’s just a normal woman bro

[@basically_boring]

Something I've noticed about the new music is that I tend to get sick of hearing it playing over and over. I never felt that with C418's music, I could play the game for hours hearing Sweden or Moog City 2 and not feel like it was repetitive, the only exception being Aria Math.

[@edmdeathmachine]

aria math is a banger, i could listen to it for hours without any breaks

[@plaidhatter1674]

Aria math is one of my favorites. I may be a sucker for this sort of stuff, but the newer tracks have so much personality to them that I consider them equal to the regular tracks.

[@Aderalls]

Something about the pan drums makes it annoying to hear for long periods of time

[@lurkybird]

I feel the same way- nostalgic for the old music, but completely infatuated by all the new tracks. The animations you did were so cool, and your other videos were amazing- can't wait to see what you do next!

[@Ssyrious_Is_Hyena]

The skin with the eyebrows is a masterpiece

[@RyanSoltani]

This was a great video Andy! My personal experience with the Minecraft music is a bit different than most at least I think. When I first started playing Minecraft I would keep the music on but after a little while I turned it off since it kept distracting me from what I was doing in game and also because I couldn’t control what track it would play. So whenever I listen to the music I tend to get specific memories of me playing Xbox One Edition, the early days of playing Pocket Edition, and just scattered moments of me playing the game whenever I decided to turn the music back on for fun. C418 sure was a master at crafting some fantastic music for the game. It’s a shame that the only way he can get Minecraft to release his 3rd Volume of music is to sell the rights to Microsoft which it seems like he doesn’t want to do. The new music we do get though is great

[@Kingman524]

I only really play modded these days and often play older versions like 1.7/1.12 so when i heard the newer caves and cliffs music i thought it was apart of the modpack i was playing

[@LaseriteYT]

Bro you have the potential to be a great successful youtuber keep it on man!

[@Xizyx]

"One More Day" is my fave music in the game, so much so I added it back to the menu screen after it was retired for 1.19. "Ancestry" is great for Ancient Cities, with it's dark, industrial overtones. But they should have only used ambient sounds (like they did for the new nether) in the Deep Dark cave biome. The Deep Dark outside of the Ancient Cities should be quiet and ominous,.

[@lazarpetrovic1671]

I think it would be awsome if instead of deep dark biomes being quiet, they become completely silent, no ambience, no music in the background and no sound at all, just pure silence and any biome specific song that's playing before would instantly and abruptly stop when you enter a deep dark biome

[@TriptonicKerbal]

Nice video. I do think I feel different when it comes to C418’s Minecraft music. When I listen to the music, I don’t look at it with nostalgia because I never heard the music when I played all those years ago. What that allows me to do is to see that C418’s music was not only good but amazingly better than all the new music when you compare it with no veil of nostalgia. The quirky and minimalistic sound of Volume Alpha truly fits the game and even sounds good when comparing it to mainstream music nowadays. In Volume Beta, he takes that minimalistic approach and doubles it into emotional and beautiful songs. Take Alpha (the song) for example, it starts off with a small piano piece and then evolves into an orchestral song with strings and drums which is just perfect to listen to. Even his update aquatic music is amazing to listen to as well. He takes that orchestral feel and makes it slightly minimalistic again to kind of complete his work on the game like a full circle. The new tracks feel so industrial and made without emotion. The overly orchestral music kind of parodies C418’s Beta album and makes me feel like the music is dead. C418 himself has actually made more music for Minecraft, a whole new album that is estimated to be longer than Volume Alpha and Beta combined. The only problem is that Microsoft and Mojang don’t want to accept the music to be put in game because of C418’s 10 year old contract with Notch back when Minecraft was a tiny indie game. The contract said that C418 has all rights to his music and no one else owns it except for him. He just allowed Minecraft to use the music for him. What’s even worse is that C418 can’t even release the albums outside of Minecraft because it has Minecraft’s copyright in it. It’s a whole big thing but I just want to say that C418’s music feels alive not just because of nostalgia, but because of the emotion he put into it. He was the one who made Minecraft feel alive.

[@TriptonicKerbal]

A huge wall of text, didn’t notice. Let me summarize, I said C418’s music felt more alive than the new music because he put more emotion into it. I said that the new music felt dead and industrially made, copying C418 so they don’t have to use him again. I appreciate you for reading this summary and if you read the whole block of text I wrote, you are a legend! Thank you!

[@АнастасВиноградов]

​@@TriptonicKerbal Completely agree, the new Overworld music feels soulless and devoid of individuality. I also haven't heard the Minecraft music during the time i discovered Minecraft lets plays as pretty much everyone had it turned off, so i only discovered it around 5 or 4 years ago, and despite not listening to it in quite a while i still remember the majority of the pieces, unlike the new music which i was even interested in as the Nether update set my expectations fairly high, i remember listening to the full caves and cliffs album for multiple times and not even being able to remember so much as a melody besides infinite amethyst and otherside (which is the only great song in the album). The music only got worse with the "wild" update becoming not just boring "melancholic", wannabe movie ost slop but also just plain grating in some places. The tales and trails update actually improved a bit with its music, in my opinion, but it's still quite unremarkable, even the new disk, despite seemingly being a huge improvement compared to pretty much any song after 1.16 (except otherside) i still can't remember how it actually sounded like, i think it had really out of place drums as if it was trying to be a rap song or something but that's pretty much as far as my memory goes. And i want to clarify that i don't think that the new music is bad perse, it's just that it can't compare to C418's immaculate style and understanding of Minecraft's atmosphere. Also there are people that make fan music for Minecraft that's genuinely so much better than what Mojunk has been pumping out, like Firch or Ludocrypt for example.

[@TriptonicKerbal]

That is a perfect opinion, I like Otherside too. The Wild update, as you stated, felt completely unneeded and sounded like a hollowed out version of C418’s music and even the Caves and Cliffs music. They seem to be making music to try and paint over C418’s music instead of putting their music alongside instead. Ever since their music came out, I have noticed that C418’s music has started to play less and less when in the title screen or just playing in general. It truly is a shame. I like your opinion though. Have a great day!

[@Whatismusic123]

​@@TriptonicKerbal you can't "put more emotion" into music. We don'y have magical imbuing powers my dude. Lena's tracks are just poorly composed, and don't fit this style of game. That's it. This is arcady platformer music

[@TriptonicKerbal]

I@@Whatismusic123 I agree, but as a hobby musician, I can tell you that if you make up a song on piano from scratch and start playing it, you have to put some emotion into it. Lena Raine’s tracks had no human feeling in there or emotion. They felt dead compared to C418.

[@plaidhatter1674]

I tend to be very blinded my nostalgia for a lot of things. Music being one of them. That being said, both the old and new music for Minecraft is absolutely incredible. From the more calm C418 tracks that work for most mundane tasks a player will be doing to the newer and more specialized pieces, it is really nice to hear! I know people have there preferences, but you can enjoy something a certain way while understanding and appreciating why people like it differently.

[@shapeswitch_mood7221]

There is one artist over youtube, Ickemms Music, who made remix of Minecraft's popular and modern discs, as if "they were played in the ovrrworld." Coincidentally, thry sounds a lot like if C418 made them. And in such way, feels more like Minecraft. Quite underrated. If you have the chance, I woud recommend checking them out.

[@FierceDIO]

My biggest issue with the new music is how location specific it is. C418's soundtrack is more about the gameplay than the atmosphere. The Nether, the overworld, the End and creative mode are all different in gameplay while the menu has no gameplay and they all have different sounds. Then they added music for underwater which also has different gameplay from the overworld. I think Daniel even wanted to add cave music but Notch didn't know how to detect if the player was or wasn't underground at the time but I might be mistaken. My point is there isn't a large enough gameplay difference between biomes to justify a change in music with the exception of the deep dark. I also find it weird that they keep adding more music every update like yeah the swamp is pretty cool but does it need it's own music and 10 advancements to go with it? (Which advancements are also something I have issues with.) And also it doesn't sound like Minecraft music to me so I usually play with a resource pack that removes anything not C418.

[@syedomar1060]

Whats wrong with the new advancements? They set new goals for the player to do.

[@FierceDIO]

@@syedomar1060 yeah but the goals suck. A good advancement should either teach the player about game mechanics or be a challenge to them. What does putting a goat in a boat teach the player? Why is trading with a villager at world height an advancement? It's not challenging, it's annoying. And every update adds like 5 new advancements.

[@plaidhatter1674]

​@FierceDIO It adds for some fun stuff. The goat in a boat was funny...at least to me, and trading with a villager at world height was something that a friend of mine did because his base WAS at world height.

[@aketsuuu]

I know the terminology is probably incorrect and doesn't even exist, but I call Minecraft's original soundtrack associative. You have learned to associate a lot of its songs with specific things you did in the game, even something as simple as exploring a cave or doing, well, deforestation. Yeah, it's funny, but it creates simple memories that you'll always remember when you hear the soundtrack. I love when the new soundtrack plays -- but only at random -- because then I associate it with very specific memories, ones that are different from others. The problem is the soundtrack plays in specific locations most times, which means it's creating tailored moments and not those random moments. The new soundtrack is grand and beautiful, and does represent the new extremely well. I think it helps that as the soundtrack changed, so did the game. I do find some new nostalgia with the new tracks, because it's been a few years now. This was a fantastic video, love the animation and the commentary.

[@theoneandonlymr.d]

the new music is also *LOUD* when playing minecraft, i can usually have my TV at about 25 volume, where i can hear both my game sounds and the og music, but even with my music volume in-game being set to 60%, i STILL have to turn my volume down to 18 (sometimes as low as 12) when the newer songs chime in. its annoying and makes me want to turn the music off altogether

[@MohamedElwagi]

I can help you summarise it “*It doesn’t hit the same*”

[@arch_caff]

My only real complaint about old vs new is that due to a bunch of weird circumstances that technically can’t be helped, the older music as a whole feels more tightly woven. The reason for this is, believe it or not, motifs. The “Minecraft” theme alone appears in numerous C418 tracks, whether it be on the main menu, underwater, in the nether and in the end. The new tracks don’t get that luxury because they’re all done by different artists and aren’t able to use the old motifs due to copyright shenanigans. Basically my issues with the new soundtrack stem from the fact that unlike the new music, C418’s contributions aren’t fully owned by Microsoft.

[@arch_caff]

Should also clarify that C418 shouldn’t be obligated to hand over the copyright to Microsoft. Better off that way since C418 still gets financial support from music streams and purchases of his Minecraft albums. Still sucks that this whole copyright thing is preventing Volume 3 from coming out.

[@Ponytail_MC]

The 1.18 soundtrack is my absolute favorite out of all the newer music. There's just something about it that touches a really deep part of me. The song "Comforting Memories" brings me to tears whenever I hear it, as it makes me reflect on past experiences in the game. I get so nostalgic for 1.18, as when that update dropped, I was still very new to Minecraft and was still experiencing a lot of things for the first time. On top of that, it's just so...emotional, in a way. It stirs me in a way I can't explain. I agree that it will never beat the original music, but for me, it's a very personal experience whenever I hear any of the 1.18 songs ❤️

[@wiss_yt]

infinite amethyst is 🔥🔥🔥

[@hildalaw7627]

otherside better@@wiss_yt

[@Jaxagain.]

@@wiss_ytonly good track imo

[@danielmorgan1126]

​@@wiss_ytSame. Caves and Cliffs was the best update ever, and I love Infinite Amethyst (despite me hearing it the most rarely).

[@plaidhatter1674]

An ordinary day is my personal favorite.

[@anbanana26]

I don’t like how calm and quiet c418 songs are, to then have a newer song blast a loud distracting cinematic piece in my ears. I constantly change the music volume.

[@Jok3004]

Infinite Amethyst is the best song in Minecraft for me

[@Cringelordhahafunny]

I swear to god youtube needs to reccomend this to others more because JESUS CHRIST this was *REALLY* well made

[@shellder_gaming]

Pigstep goes hard.

[@mrlampy]

I feel like there’s a growing disparity between minecraft and the player. With mojang now more focused on “what would get people to play our game” rather than “what can we do to make this game fun”. They’ve began to make more of the pull be on the world itself rather than what you could do to influence it. Back in the early days of minecraft when fish didn’t even swim in the ocean and the end was just the dragon, the world was vast but not quite as full as it is today, the world was still, and you’d have to be the one to fill it with life. This is opposed to now where the world is vibrant, bustling. It hardly makes you feel necessary and makes you feel small, a lot of the new updates have slowly stolen the control from the player, lots lf things just happen on their own without the player needing to lift a finger, and the things the player can do feel quite inconsequential now. You can go fishing or dig up dinosaurs but it never quite feels like you’re getting anywhere from your efforts, when you thought you might’ve uncovered some great mystery or claimed some incredible treasure, you just end up circling back to where you started, and your great discovery just becomes a tedious task that nets nothing substantial for your efforts.

[@joekinnear4671]

I've never agreed more with a comment

[@bounds.astroe]

"people will always hate change" - Sun Tzu, art of war

[@Olympicmetor787]

True

[@pez.emikazoo]

Counterpoint: We don't owe change anything, just because it's new doesn't mean I have to like it- Or enjoy it at all

[@ScarletSeas]

Rip sniffer

[@benmccarthy2568]

3:04 i loved the attention to detail of having half of the screen have fog on instead of just making it darker or bluring the bg

[@cat8324]

btw, I really hate some of the old minecraft music because it isn't equalised very well. like, sometimes I'm just building peacefully and sweden starts getting louder and LOUDER and I have to rush into the settings and hit mute. haggstrom is like this also.

[@Sassquach022]

I honestly don’t like it, since I loved c418’s music since it felt calming and quiet. While when I’m building or trying to fight a zombie, I’m blared with Lena Raine’s music. It just feels too much. C418 had his reasons to leave, and I respect that, but I wish the og music would play more often, or let us have a choice to choose who to listen. The only exception I like is Lena Raine’s nether music, such as So Below, Chrysopoeia and Rubedo fit well with the location. I just wish it felt more ambient than overly exhilarating.

[@AccessGranted]

Very interesting take on narrative Minecraft videos with the animations. Great work mate!

[@-cold-1761]

*>Plays ‘Mall’* *>Ejects ‘Melohi’*

[@mrboojay]

One difference that I feel stands out to me, and now I think I understand why, is since it’s about a location, it makes the music feel too specific. Listening to C418 I feel this vast openness, like it could be about anything. The newer music, it feels like it’s about a thing, and maybe just that one thing, making it feel smaller and less expansive, more closed in, and it just doesn’t give that same open daydreamy feel.

[@pieTone]

It does emphasize your location though. It changes if you re in the nether, the end or the open world. It just doesn t change based on the bioms, that s all

[@TheWaffleManiac07]

I think the video by Funky Mushroom perfectly describes how I feel about the old Minecraft songs they feel alien

[@258thHiGuy]

Did you know C418 made the ost for fucking Cookie Clicker?

[@wiss_yt]

yeah its sound nice even if i never played. lena raine also made songs for other games but i think more people know this

[@rocketpadgamer]

​@@wiss_ytHIS NAME IS LEIF CHAPPELLE NOT LENA RAINE

[@wiss_yt]

@@rocketpadgamer i wasnt talking abt c418 chill

[@rocketpadgamer]

@@wiss_yt i know, but you mentioned a person that is getting away with identity fraud

[@riztiz]

​@@rocketpadgamerShut up transphobe

[@gaborfranko3673]

The best music is the end music, because it shows that how far the player went

[@MindfulAura73]

New music is the reason why i play ps3 Minecraft edition and uninstalled Minecraft from my Xbox

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

This video is so good Minecraft music just makes me nostalgic it feels like when you look at old screen savers just good

[@ultraisb2288]

3:57 Hey, watch out with that lil hand bro.

[@Cerri22PG]

I love all of Minecraft's music, I don't think they hace a single track that is bad, the original feels nostalgic and I love it, but the new one fits this new era of Minecraft, it feels powerful and the natural next step for the game as it kept evolving in it's mechanics

[@Surfboarder4]

I can't wait for all the musical easter eggs in the Minecraft Movie

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

this might be the only time i've heard anyone talk about how much they like the new music, including myself lol. i criticize the new music a lot, but really, my biggest issue with it isn't anything to do with the music itself, but rather, how it plays. it's not going to be noticeable to someone who plays with the music off, but it doesn't actually play exclusively in the biome it was written for. most of the new tracks play in a ton of other biomes that are absolutely unrelated, and it's very noticeable. as of 1.20, swamp music still plays in the forests, cherry grove music plays in the jungles, and caves and cliffs music plays literally everywhere! i can fix it with a resource pack, thankfully, but i kinda wish i didn't have to. but i digress. i could go on and on about my opinions on the new music, as i have very many of them, but the point is: good video. i enjoyed.

[@danielmorgan1126]

actually 'bromeliad' is meant for the jungle but also plays in the cherry grove, so, at least it's not 'echoes in the wind' in the jungle. 😂 buuuuuut, ik wym. Minecraft has a weird habit of playing several new biome emphasized songs everywhere. However, I do realize that some biomes just seem to keep other music out, I think, like deep dark and ocean.

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

@@danielmorgan1126ah okey. yeah i never thought to look up the meaning of the word bromeliad, so i just kinda assumed it belonged to the biome it was added alongside. plus, it's definitely the same style as most of the update's music. idk. 1.20 was very weird with its music. i feel like it would've made more sense to just shove everything it added except crescent dunes and relic into the cherry grove. and it seems 1.21 is going to be even weirder. that being said, swamp music still shouldn't play in most of the places it does. that's completely ridiculous.

[@danielmorgan1126]

@@cornbreadbutcringey5723 true, but, swamp music I believe only ever plays in thick wooded areas like forests, jungles, swamps and lush caves, and trails music play only in cherry groves, jungles, and deserts. So at least those six musics are the most biome exclusive. As for Caves and Cliffs and Tricky Trials, they have many tracks, some exclusive to cave and cliffs biomes. But some others also play everywhere. So, 'left to bloom', 'one more day', 'floating dream', 'comforting memories', and the first 6 tracks in tricky trials excluding 'pokopoko' (so 5 songs), are the most common new musics in the game that play everywhere.

[@danielmorgan1126]

@@cornbreadbutcringey5723 also, sorry for sounding like a nerd, and for the long paragraph. 😭😭 I'm heavily impacted on the game's soundtracks and their biome specific musics, and I literally made a few venn diagrams about those a few days ago.

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

@@danielmorgan1126 no problem! i also have a lot of opinions on the way the game's been handling music lately. like, back on swamp music: i mean, yeah the biomes are vaguely swamp-like, so i guess it makes sense if you look at it that way, but the swamp music is just so different from the rest of the music in those biomes, both stylistically and tonally, that it just doesn't really work for me. like, the swamp music is just very 'stereotypical video game swamp music' in everything from instrument choice to composition. honestly, with how empty and barren regular swamps are, i'm not even super sure i like that the swamp music plays there either. and that's before we even get into the way the music is stored internally. on java edition, swamp music has its own 'swamp' folder like the biome music in the nether does. someone clearly had a very specific idea of where these tracks should go. also, lush caves don't have trees, swamp music used to play in all badlands on bedrock edition (though this has been thankfully rectified), and trails and tales music also plays in the flower forest. idk. it just feels like mojang is just commisioning random music and trying to shove it wherever it'll go after it's done, without caring about the how it'll fit in with the rest of the biome's soundtrack. like, according to the most recent snapshot, tricky trials is gonna be having the dripstone caves share a track with the deep dark! that might actually be even worse than the swamp music thing.

[@cooiecub]

whats everyones favourite piece of minecraft music? I think mine is wait

[@NotVeryAndy]

What's funny is that my favorite song of all time is a Minecraft song, that being Taswell.

[@aaronyc2011]

I liek aria math

[@flashfire1604]

My favorite thing to do is start a bedrock world on max render distance climbing to a mountain peak and be able to look across your whole world its a very empowering feeling

[@SlumpSkull]

I think all minecraft music is “minecrafty” but the new and old music give off different vibes

[@maskedmanpkclysm5327]

firebugs my beloved... my only hangup is that the old nether tracks have way less chance to play now... The Lena tracks have about 60% chance of showing up while the C418 ones only have 10 to 6% :(

[@ct3000]

I actually have never been a big fan of minecraft's new ambient tracks, they are very atmospheric but as mentioned they don't really drive you to building which is my favorite thing to do even in survival. Sometimes I feel like the increased amount of instruments clashes with what I am doing in a game when they just PLAY. THAT BEING SAID I actually think the new DISC tracks are BETTER than C418's, Lena Raine's Pigstep and other side in particular are BANGERS. They have much catchier hooks and the instrumental variety makes them more suited to music that would play on a virtual radio, especially since they all have this lofi aesthetic that some of the C418 discs just don't for some reason. Don't get me wrong there are some C418 discs I like, Ward and Melohi in particular, but if Strad wasn't so iconic it would really just be bad, and Cat and Blocks I think are overrated and nostalgia blinded where as sweden, minecraft, subwoffer lulaby, and all of C418s ambient tracks praise are WELL earned. C418 is THE master of writing long ambient piano pieces that just melt away into minecraft's world and Lena Raine is my favorite Minecraft artist for writing catchy lofi bangers that feels like it makes dietetically in a jukebox. I wish Mojang would slow down on adding more ambient tracks to a game that launched with a perfect sound track, but add a lot more discs cause frankly they never had enough and you can't head bop to most of them. In my perfect alternate timeline, they would've never made the caves and cliffs ambient stuff and Mojang would've brought C418 back JUST to write overworld music and then let Lena Raine write a TON more Lofi music discs with a faster BPM. also just wanted to say I love your animations and editing style so much :3

[@firytwig]

First off I like this style. There’s very few mc KZbinrs who use animations and yours is by far the cleanest and also not overwhelming, it feels like a great replacement for the standard 3rd person talking to the camera. My notes on the music: honestly the same as most commenters pointed out. Getting a C418 song is now much more rare whereas before it was all you’d hear, at least the nether update soundtrack the difference between artists wasn’t extreme. But now it means a lot of new people probably won’t have nearly as memories associated with the old soundtrack, which is a shame. Also like everyone agrees that the C418 tracks are better even if the new ones aren’t bad, so it’d be nice to have them be more common. Building a base in a biome just means that you’re going to hear the same biome specific tracks over and over again, which for people like me who spend a lot of time in one place becomes very drab. The new music is also super loud, I find myself having to constantly change the volume to not be blasted, but then put it back up be able to hear C418’s significantly quieter songs. Overall I do agree, it is nice to have music with a new vibe and there’s nothing wrong with having variety between biomes. I just don’t think the execution was quite there. Just changing the rates that they play and changing the volume would make me appreciate it much more but as it stands I don’t really like it. Also as a sidenote I miss the old conversations around the music discs. Now it’s pretty much a Pigstep landslide (which tbf I do enjoy but I still absolutely adore all the C418 discs) with a few Otherside enjoyers as well. It’s just not nearly as interesting in polls and such.

[@michaelsbasement]

Yeah everything said is right, but the problem is that, as you emphasized, theres 2 different ways of executing music, one thats focused on the player and plays anywhere, and one thats focused on the place, and using both at the same time just doesnt work. The clash is jarring and confusing, id rather have one than two. If there was only an option to switch between "Terraria Soundtrack" to "Minecraft Soundtrack" I would be happy, but with this its just intrusive to what i would want if i turned the music on in game. They are are just stuck with the old soundtrack because completely removing it would obviously be horrendous, and adding new tracks wouldnt work either due to the reasons mentioned previously. All problems with this would be fixed by making an option like "Soundtrack: Old/Mixed/New" in the Music & Sounds menu, with mixed or new being the default, depending on microsoft's mood. This way everyone can be happy

[@BigMastah79]

This is really a non-issue. Music plays really far apart. You’re not jumping from one track to the next, there’s a lot of waiting for music to play.

[@michaelsbasement]

@@BigMastah79 not a counter argument

[@BigMastah79]

@@michaelsbasement It is, though. You’re saying the jump between styles is jarring. I’m saying it’s not because of the time in between tracks playing. You can’t say something is not a counter argument because you don’t like it.

[@michaelsbasement]

@@BigMastah79 the time it takes to switch tracks doesnt change the tracks themselves

[@jujoya]

Is incredible to see how this gane has aged. I never stopped to realize how much it has change

[@Lyraine1]

I personally don't like the music because I feel like It's just too different from the original soundtrack. When C418 made new music for update aquatic It still had that Minecraft feel to it while still being new. New soundtrack sounds like something from a different game. I've seen people saying it sounds like something from a Zelda and I think they are right. I like to use resource pack that completely gets rid of the new music. The Nether music slaps though It's just the overworld music that feels off.

[@newsinspace7174]

Really nice editing and animation.

[@cheeseburgerapocalypse2604]

The fact that C418 no longer makes music for Minecraft, we won't get to hear any new C418 music style in Minecraft anymore

[@Challenger10K]

My favourite modern minecraft song is one more day. It makes me happy and is a modern refreshed take on c418's songs

[@RosalieTheNerd]

I think there’s something that I feel was left out here. I don’t know about others, but I began playing Minecraft on ps4, way back in like 2014. I was literally 7. My first time ever playing Minecraft was at a family friend’s house where they had it on ps3, and I fucked around in creative and tried to place bricks with the brick item, not block. I say that because what I want to get at is i LITERALLY grew up with minecraft. I grew up with the original soundtrack, and I love it. Every time I hear the original songs I am taken back to when I was like 9 years old and played Minecraft with my sister every day, and then we would argue because I took her diamonds or whatever and then go back to playing. The original soundtrack brings me an insane sense of nostalgia, nostalgia so intense I literally can’t find it anywhere else. The only other game I can think of is terraria, which I also grew up with, but I played it solo more than Minecraft. I mention that nostalgia because that’s what is lacking with the newer music for me. Don’t get me wrong, I love the new music, but I CAN listen to it, unlike the original soundtrack. I love both, but I literally can’t listen to the original soundtrack by itself because I WILL cry. I don’t get that with the newer music.

[@ChildishAndy]

I personally have a texture pack and mod pack that makes it C418s tracks only and makes it play more often I would've liked the new ones if they weren't so freaking long

[@yasser_gamomode4736]

We should know that c418 was so smart because he knows how he could bring players to minecraft through it's music , honestly their music are so relaxable also sad , unlike lena reine and aaron smith they make music just in order to filling the new update

[@slavsquatsuperstar]

I think Trails and Tales is my favorite of the new soundtracks, as it feels closest to C418’s music (relic literally means something from the path). The 1.20 music seems more melodic, while the others feel more ambient.

[@wiss_yt]

i think one overworld track(i forgot the name) includes a little bit of chiptune, which is so unique and i loved it, i felt the creativity and the will to actually do stuff when i heard it for the first time.

[@strangecolouredbird]

Old background music is perfectly nostalgic and I flipping love it, while old Minecraft CDs aren't terrific. As such, listening to every music disc beyond Pigstep and then it ends and Wet hands hits is just *PERRRRFEEEECT*

[@varuhash50]

As someone who has always enjoyed embracing new stuff, i cant understand most people talking about C418s stuff. As you said, the new music and 1.18 generation makes discovering new terrain an absolute blast, since it captures that feeling of discovery when you first started playing. The Nether Update is easily my favorite and Caves and Cliffs close to it, and what did they have? Overhauls to world generation, massive changes to previously boring things, new soundtracks! I love just popping an Elytra or making a new world to roam on foot and exploring the world, knowing ill find something really cool along the way but not knowing where and when. Finding the Mushroom Island or a random Mansion still makes me happy, Villages to show theres some life, and with 1.21 i can have some challenge with the Trial Chambers (its actually kinda hard when youre not completely ready for it, and Ominous Trials can be literal hell if improperly prepaired). These updates make me want to explore more, not just do mega projects that i cant even complete. I want to find things ive only seen a handful of times, like Mansions and Trail Ruins, Mushroom Islands that are absolutely massive, cave systems that make me WANT to get lost in them and find an Ancient City to see if i can indeed shut up long enough to avoid the Warden lol. The new music just makes it feel more complete, even if i dont usually play with music on either. Most of it is too slow or calm and ill turn it off just because i get mad from it lol

[@BM30]

Kudos for being an Alex Unknown listener lol. For me I also don’t really play MC with music and this might be crazy, but I actually prefer volume Beta over Alpha because the Beta music is more nostalgic and is just more serenading to me, plus it feels more adventurous.

[@jofh2o]

When i’m playing survival mode, i play with the music on, but if i’m doing something else like bedwars, i’m listening to my spotify playlist

[@valen.barreiro]

Idk about Soundtrack because, like you, I play without music on, but man, every new disc the add is a fcking banger like, come on, nothing beats Pigstep lol

[@BaryonyxPlayer]

I tend to hear key from time to time and it scares the crap out of me especially on a single player flat world with structures disabled…

[@Nick-the-fox]

You really motivating me to animate. Thanks =D

[@Trianull]

I personally feel that C418's musical style is so ingrained into Minecraft's identity, that bringing in other composers just doesn't make the music fit by principle. It goes the other way too, all of the new tracks by Lena Raine for example feel like they're from Celeste. Also the new music seems to repeat phrases WAY more often than C418's did, so the new music gets old pretty fast. (cough cough Comforting Memories, GOD it got old after like three times.)

[@Danymok]

Some of the new discs sound really good but I don't care for the new background music. I actually play with a C418 music only resource pack because of that.

[@crusaderkaiser2000]

Love the animations, as well the topics and way you talk about them. Hidden gem

[@sphis-Sinco]

5:47 i only notice now that the sword handle is cut off WHY

[@miimiiandco]

I really love the new music, even if their volume is a bit too loud sometimes. I think it's kinda cool that each area has it's own music, as it means that different players have different experiences with the music depending on where they settle. Since my base is in an ocean, I hear the Update Aquatic themes very often, and on the contrary, I rarely hear Crescent Dunes, the desert theme. Though, the themes aren't explicitly "desert" or "jungle" themes like in a Mario game or Terraria, they're more broad than that. Having unique music for the Deep Dark also highlights it's unsettling nature, like how the End and Nether have unique music.

[@Barnaby_Jones]

How do you only have less than 10k subs? I could have been certain I was looking at some 1m+ yt channel with this kind of editing and animated. Youre going to get big soon fr.

[@Zen_Craft_Studio]

as time goes u will serve around KZbin click though random and garbage, then OH then you come across a bit of gold! this video is gold....

[@_brutalista]

I like the old music better because it just blends in the world. It doesn't demand my attention and it doesn't get in the way. So I'm always pleasantly surprised when I do notice it.

[@TheDefenstrator-lb3sn]

I don’t like how loud the new music is. I can’t even focus on what I’m doing when my ears are being penetrated by a flute.

[@GripFist]

damn, your videos just keep getting better and better!

[@AD_RC]

every time i hear "this is no reason to hate on the new composers", only fuels my rage and hatred more.

[@BusinessBear99Classic]

Minecraft music started playing because I was playing Java And I genuinely thought it was from the video That shows how much it can fit anywhere

[@waytoobiased]

otherside is such a phenomenal tune

[@mo9rook]

*coughs* cat and dog , far, and every other discs except the two disgraces

[@RobTFilms]

honestly i don't think anyone plays with the music on in game cause it happens so rarely and often you're just listening to something else

[@gupythefox]

the only difference I dislike between the "old" minecraft musics and the ones from 1.21 is that the don't make me wanna cry from nostalgy

[@0tterhead]

really loving your videos man, please keep it up!

[@stephensx9]

Old music felt alien but the new music is just lowfi the old music adds to the mystery of the game and it adds to the game it makes playing more exciting

[@jensgl]

Great video! Very high quality, professional and informative.

[@therobloxclam]

the old ones hit diffrent fr

[@dave7474]

I really, really don't like how there is only a couple biome unique tracks. The deep dark track has people screaming in the background and the place I'm at is totally safe, devoid of enemy mobs spawning at all since it's been cleared out. It's distracting to step down for only a couple seconds and hear that dreaded static sound effect. Music and ambiance I now need to listen to for a few minutes after leaving, every time.

[@hhff8534]

There definitely should've been more tracks for the deep dark, the music there can get very repetitive. And the existing track should've been less intense

[@ahmethacikasimoglu5819]

Literally all they are doing wrong is the insturments, WHAT THE HELL IS ELECTRO GUITAR DOING IN MC! I liked the nether ost she did, that was fitting

[@Vendetta_killer]

Now this makes a lot more sense

[@zenphir9051]

C418 is Minecraft, and nothing will make me think otherwise. Except maybe the 1.16 Nether soundtrack.

[@holidaywednesday4069]

The original music is lonely, in a good way... it fits a game where you find yourself all alone in a big empty world. Especially before the villagers were added; it was just you and the endless landscape (and some cows and chickens) and the music was soft and distant and a little eerie like the wind blowing through the trees and over the empty fields

[@sqrrl]

for me, possibly since i've only just in the most recent version beaten the game, i like some of the new music more. there are some tracks from alhpa and beta that are extremely nostalgic for me, but the new music that i picked up on while playing wasn't for feeling out of place or different, but because i really liked it and didn't remember it being there before. my current favorite music disc is also one of the newer ones (not pigstep tho i do like that one), and it was the more recent additions that got me to actually go and listen to the soundtrack outside of the game for the first time. one last note, using otherside for the end of the vid made me grin, since i think it's my favorite minecraft music right now