The Smile LIVE album breakdown 🎧

[@iximusic]

I saw The Smile! I was on the floor and it was honestly so good, I had a blast! Thank you to everyone who helped get me there! They played everything from ALFAA and like 5-6 new tracks which I'm digging.

[@kevmcevoy89]

Met you briefly before the Monday show. I was BLOWN away by the gig - seeing them bring the music to life was incredible. I meant to mention to you to do an analysis of the empire of light soundtrack from Trent Reznor. But I’m back here to hear The Smile analysis😊

[@iximusic]

We hit the chat goal and I bought my ticket to see The Smile! I'm so so grateful and I promise to have an amazing time. 🎶

[@AvantjerTube]

Yay!! Have fun!!!

[@eagleeye2930]

Don't forget you've got taxes to pay as well! I hope it was accounted for in your goal =) Enjoy the concert!

[@MadsRitzau]

I saw them at a festival last year and it was one of the best days of my life. I believe I spent 2 hours waiting in line, so I could stand right by the stage. It really payed off, cause I ended up standing 4 meters from Thom at the front line of the crowd. Pure bliss

[@iximusic]

@@eagleeye2930 Yes it was! Thank you :)

[@jmarty1000]

You're helping me cope with a job that is slowly killing me. Thank you for breathing new life into mine. I sometimes don't want to dispel the magic of these pieces and performances, but this doesn't dispel them, rather it deepens them and enhances the magic. And it is strong magic, so that is saying a lot.

[@matthewsaul3533]

A little note on The Opposite. The entire riff is being played by Jonny. There's no trade off to make the notes overlap. Thom has a sparse bass line but that overlap spot where the riff starts over before the last few notes are done, that's because of the delay. The last few notes are coming from the delay.. they're notes Jonny already played which the delay is repeating but the delay is so long that those notes overlap with the beginning of the riff. It's very cool. Jonny is a magician

[@RyanRenteria]

yep. the delay repeats once evey 5 16th notes. jonny is just playing on the first 3 8th notes of every bar

[@jasonellis4998]

Your explanation of how the polyrhythm hits you is what I’ve felt for years and couldn’t explain. And of course I’m just learning the term “polyrhythm” 😂

[@GrantValdes]

Your immediate summary of the close/distant mix of "The Smoke" as "like a false sense of intimacy" is brilliant. Most insightful music channel.

[@aryabanerjee1179]

DUDE THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO YOU'VE PUT OUT OMG ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS FROM RECENT TIMES THANK YOU FOR SHARING US YOUR KNOWLEDGE I CAN SLEEP IN PEACE

[@andreedipo6356]

I feel the whole album plays with rhythmic displacement (or whatever the correct music theory name for it). 5/4s, 7/8s, twos over threes, drum fills that don't emphasize the one... it's kinda like Weird Fishes' guitars expanded to a whole album.

[@ajadeleye4970]

I can't get enough of Open the Floodgates. Your reaction is mine every time I listen to it lol I can only jam it once a week or so. It's so full of emotion

[@RyanRenteria]

on "the opposite" the riff isnt being passed off by the bass and guitar. the guitar has a delay on it set to repeat once every 5 16th notes. so Jonny is literally only playing 3 8th notes: | E E F#...| D D E...| E E F#...| B D C...| The delay fills in the syncopated notes

[@dakavanagh]

I got through it all! I was recently digging this first album and loved the analysis and reactions!

[@RyanRenteria]

the intro to pana-vision is in A octatonic aka half/whole diminished scale: A Bb C C# Eb E F# G A. it's Messiaen's second mode of limited transposition. its jonny's favorite scale, so it probably wasnt thom just making it up, as the melody follows the scale perfectly.

[@user-vn1hy6yl2e]

Stumbled across your live stream while looking for more information on The Smile. Thank you SO MUCH for this video and the analysis. Let me be the first to say it, A Light For Attracting Attention is the modern day Sgt. Peppers album. A modern blend of different musical genres, unpredictable time signatures, ethereal moods, all scary and beautiful at the very same time. I saw the Smile last week in Cleveland and I am driving 11 hours each way to St. Louis to see them again on 7/19. Thank you so much.

[@GIBKEL]

It was the first breath of fresh air after that first wave. They did 2 nights of live broadcasts- some small, in the round …3 shows in total, black and white- London Jan or Feb of 2022. It was so good. Hope you got to see them. I finally saw them on the Moon Shape Pool in 2017. Like trying to pick children-I hear it as a record, as with all of them. They are always messing with my mind and I love it.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

I don't know anything about music theory, but listening to you analyze the structure of these songs only makes me appreciate it more. Thank you for doing this!

[@shanerohane7494]

Love this album! Thom and Jonny can make otherworldly music, and I love your reactions to this music ❤. (And a brief update on the Thom/Burial/Four Tet tracks: they did two others, Ego and Mirror. Very cool tracks 🙂)

[@Cuzzzo42]

Loved this video! I hope you enjoy the show. Saw them in Chicago in December and it was one of the greatest displays of top tier musicianship I've ever seen. You're in for a treat.

[@JayKay-qi2sj]

The Open the Floodgates (live at Magazine Jan 2022) is perfection. Take a look if you get chance. I noticed the “starting the song with the end of the chord progression” for the first time when I saw that live version. Thom’s voice is flawless too. Great channel, and being a NIN and Radiohead / Thom Yorke fan, I can’t go wrong here 😊

[@_CoasterNinja]

I liked The Same, not one of my favourites from the record, but after watching this I have a new found appreciation for it.

[@danwebb1756]

Saw them in Charleston, they blew my mind

[@GrantValdes]

"You Will Never Work in Television Again" is one of those great Yorke titles. His wife is an actress -- let's assume she has encountered skeevy industry men like the troll described. That man would threaten her with "you will never..." but in a loving, protective way, Yorke is promising her she will never have to work in television again. "Get your dirty hands off my love." The line "heaven knows where else you've been" is also a dpuble entendre: It's a rhetorical cliche but also a threat about cosmic justice.

[@AnimatedLoopHD]

I love everything about this.

[@_CoasterNinja]

This is an epic video. Big fan of this album. Has become one of my favourite albums that Thom and Jonny have been involved with.

[@CaveWang]

You'll have so much fun seeing them live. I left the gig on possibly my highest music high haha Great channel as well. Impressive stamina!!!

[@JarredDonkersley]

I just started teaching myself piano and Pyramid Song is the third tune I learned. Super hard!!

[@ericlapointe5870]

This was great/fun/amazing!! Thanks for doing this.

[@zydanachmad1953]

Really impressed by your perfect pitch.. do you have specific training or it happens naturally? Just curious😅 You sound like my literature lecturer by the way🙏

[@Podus81]

Love this

[@philippegohier6992]

the smoke : bass in 7/8 , drum in 8/8 . they return togheter every 8 bars.

[@jmarty1000]

Cool. That's like King Crimson: "Discipline". Elision or Procession?

[@RyanRenteria]

not quite. the opening riff is in 4/4 on all instruments, but then they mutate it. the drums stay in 4/4 for the entire song, but the bass and guitar change. the basic cycle is : |: 4/4 x4, 7/8 x2, 3/4, 4/4, 7/8 x2, 3/4 :| Then on the bridge/chorus, the bass plays in 4/4 while thom sings in 5/8 along with jonny's 5/8 guitar part

[@MrGreendayzed]

You going with that woman is very sweet of you.

[@FernandoeAmanda]

More Thom York

[@iximusic]

Here's a couple more! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIevd2x-l6mpjLs kzbin.info/aero/PLn_Xar3I0ZoAqCx34ihykVInO-KNaO3rZ

[@jedtulman46]

This is an epic listen..4 fucking hours? Awesome . . . . . .

[@davidbibby3672]

Venmo is US only. I tried, but it didn’t like my non US phone number. Glad you’re going anyway.

[@Thrimpton]

I reckon the end to A Hairdryer sounds like the end to Climbing Up The Walls.

[@GrantValdes]

hope to have a 12h vid on the smile 4h is to short

[@broonton]

Epic

[@bjrnbrynemo9059]

10:30 The Same is a bit to the same as Staircase, melody vice

[@ericlapointe5870]

Could you do a Dave Matthews Band breakdown (Walk Around the Moon)? I'll immediately join the patreon.

[@iximusic]

I did a very in-depth breakdown of the song You Never Know! Maybe you're into that one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qV7GkKKFhNR8Z6M

[@matthewsaul3533]

Question about Panavision.. isn't the opening section some form of the diminished scale? Just half step whole step half step whole step etc

[@antoineroche2073]

Indeed that's a diminished scale (or octotonic), only the D# is missing.

[@WiseRiley]

pity i missed the stream, great analysis! enjoy them live and tell your feedback please

[@Faithorscience]

Hello!!! Please analyze music by Steven Wilson! I suggest "Harmony Korine" and "Significant Other" :D

[@7oNeSwaN]

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[@ashwinvishalvg]

Hey can you breakdown the song called "just eyes and mouth" by smile?

[@BrunoVinicius-ix8wt]

Could you do a breakdown on Sunburn by Muse?

[@iximusic]

I don't have plans for that one in my public analysis series, sorry! but I do take requests on my Patreon for a monthly livestream: www.patreon.com/iximusic

[@orstengroom2031]

Why donn't you ever mention Jonny Greenwood : the theoretically trained one who owns a chair at the London Symphony Orchetra as a composer ?

[@RyanRenteria]

london contemporary orchestra, not the london symphony orchestra

[@philippegohier6992]

hope to have a 45 min vid on the smile 4h is to long

[@fallensnart6574]

No, 4h is too short