hey everybody my name is ixy and if
you're new to my channel i analyze music
and i play covers on piano and just
generally have a good time listening to
and talking about music and i'm just
gonna listen to music
that makes me feel very nostalgic oh
yeah and if you're wondering why i'm
wearing such strange lipstick uh the
answer is a it is fun and b
i mean come on
here's just sort of a quick sampling of
some of the bands we're going to be
listening to today alanis morissette
seal the prodigy chemical brothers
marilyn manson static x and also some
trans and sidetrans cause i was really
into that around the age of 14 15. so
the first cd i ever bought well i bought
two cds at the same time sealed by seal
and alanis morissette jacket little pill
all i really want
right
the harmonica
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okay i remember always feeling like i
never really could tell when the
downbeat was gonna hit and i still can't
that's funny can you
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uh
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oh do i stress you out
my sweater is on backwards and inside
out and you say how
appropriate
i don't want to dissect everything today
i don't mean to pick you apart you see
but i
can't yeah yeah
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and there i go jumping before the good
shows
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if only i could haunt the
this is really well well produced this
is from 1996. the drum grooves were
great very like loop-based kind of
hip-hop inspired grooves
love that
uh now i didn't know this at the time
but this was what a lot of musicians
call rock major or also called
mixolydian so it's like a major scale
but then there's like this edgy
note so
and then
that one
but it has that overall kind of pumped
up feeling it's not like a very pensive
minor and then what knocked me down
what a melody i mean man that's just
moving she's going up a chord
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yeah
another one i really love from that
album was right through you i'll listen
to like five seconds of that before you
turn me away there's the other that's
okay so there's like flat sevens in all
of her songs that's that rock major
sound now you turn me away instead of
you turn me away which is what it would
be in major that's just it's it's got so
much attitude the flat seven to me is
the attitude note it's the sas note
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this is so great okay so pretty much so
far all the chords have been major for
the most part but she keeps throwing in
these uh these major chords that start
on the minor notes basically in the
scale so when you do that you get this
drama and this it's unexpected sound i
love it
also okay
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oh i'm sorry my voice and piano are a
little out of sync with the music that's
something i haven't figured out how to
uh resolve but anyway all right so let's
keep going so seal uh was the other cd i
got sealed by seal
so kiss from a rose
was the reason i bought the cd i was
just like this is just one of the most
incredible songs i've ever heard and of
course i was only 10 so you know i'd
only heard so much music but
it just stood out and i i was just in
love with his voice in love with his
sense of harmony and production and how
cinematic it was
uh so
we'll have to listen to some of it it's
going to be hard to stop it though
reminded me of like a
the secret garden or something
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oboe
the mournful
but bittersweet
no harmonies
oh yeah
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me
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flat 6 city so i forgot that this i
don't know if it was recorded at a at a
regularly tuned note and then the in the
mixing or production process it
goes up a semitone i'm sorry a quarter
tone whatever the point is it's a little
bit in between the notes on the piano so
i think it's between g
and g sharp so it's something in there i
can't really play along to it but uh if
i just play in the key of g for now
this is another situation where the flat
6 prominently featured this is just
gonna be a video about the flat six
chord i've already done
two videos about it
it is my soul mate though
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oh
the melody is just absolutely incredible
in the song
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that moment was always so oh my gosh i
mean at the at this age i didn't know
any music theory but i knew what major
and minor was so i guess i knew like you
know the most minimal amount that
anybody playing an instrument would know
but i knew that moment it went minor did
you know that when it snows
oh
my eyes become a large and
not going home yet why did
major
baby
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okay there's a few more steel tracks i
just want to listen to the beginnings of
them just to get that feeling again of
like oh man i'm 10. bring it on
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first i didn't have the wheel to carry
on oh
nice vocal harmonies i love the sort of
flanger almost on his voice bring it on
don't cry oh
don't
be
so
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oh
my baby that's the chord
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i think that's what i loved so much
about this album other than just i liked
the production i loved his voice
uh
but also just there's so much of mixing
major and minor keys like
you know in the same progression or in
the same even melodic lines just
the ones i just uh i love that and i'm
stronger now
i would say that like my musical taste
changed in very short amounts of time
so i went from being obsessed with like
the hansen brothers
to being obsessed with corn in i think
the span of one year
before i got to the corn phase i was
really into savage garden so we're gonna
have to listen to one of those songs to
bring me back i'm gonna chew i'm not
gonna do chicka cherry cola we're gonna
do break me shake me which probably
wasn't on the radio but i really liked
this one it was actually kind of an
angry song
and it's very minor and dark and serious
i never
thought opinion again
but you moved me in away michael jackson
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i might have to add this song to the
list of uh songs that have a minor v
chord in them because i really really
love that sound and it's not used a
whole lot in fact classical musicians
invented a whole scale just so they
could use the major version of this
chord so that just goes to show you how
important it is for western music but i
really really like the minor version it
just sounds so much more pensive and
just a little bit different so um
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there it is
that's pretty
then it goes to the five this time
i love it when a chord progression will
like change direction the second time
but the melody hasn't changed so it's
called reharmonization or re-harm okay
but this part
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okay so now we're going to move into a
phase that you might be more familiar
with and this is when i discovered my
local alternative rock radio station
101x or 101.5 in austin texas so i got
exposed to
a whole different set of genres the
prodigy fat of the land breathe was the
first track i heard i i have a feeling
that this album has held up really well
i mean it's so classic
oh my god
oh the whip
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just hearing a whip you sampled and used
rhythmically like that i mean and it
really does sound like it's going back
and forth
it was just so visceral
and i always loved the kind of reverse
symbols
just really creative production
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and that strings well
feels like a train is coming but it also
just sounds like maybe an orchestral
like a chord like a sample i don't know
i love that it's all in the right
all these little rhythmic accents i was
just i remember just like i knew all of
them
and then
okay i can't seem to sound like a symbol
today but anyway
oh my god
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okay what is he saying
atticusain attic insane is it a person
named attica zane but that just the way
oh and of course what's coming up i'm so
excited for but just the there's
something about this that feels like
there's just like like a wall of fire
being blasted at my face
i love the just the the rhythmic flow
of i guess it's rapping but man it's so
great
that come play my game oh man i loved
that and it took me a second to figure
out what they were saying too because
the accent's so heavy but comply my god
and this is chromatic he could have said
psycho-chromatic
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it's chromatic up until that point
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that's in a harmonic minor which i have
no idea what that was back then but
it's a minor scale but oh that's the one
i was talking about where they
invented the scale way back in the day
so that they could have a leading tone
or a major five chord which sounds like
this so
so
they could have this chord
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that's the note that's the one that i
had to bring in and in this context it
sounds pretty demented the imperial
march is also in the harmonic minor
scale okay well that's such a good song
but i also i remember loving mine fields
and we have to listen to the like
the chorus or the brit or whatever
there's a part
i just have i have to hear it
very very cinematic right opening
more strings
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oh i love this song
okay it's slightly
lower than f
so the piano is going to sound out of
tune with it but that'll sound kind of
it'll sound kind of cool
oh sorry
this is dangerous
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this feels like they're going easy on us
you know like
you're like is it dangerous
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that's kind of cool but then
oh
okay this base
this base is so nice it reminds me a lot
of the
timbre
of the base used in uk garage music
anyone remember this genre is it still
going maybe it is
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oh this is a dorian
that sound i love that then
they're so good at these sort of accents
that kind of come in
that's kind of how they like
add variation
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and that's just the beginning
they're leaving off the end right and
they don't bring that into later i love
that so just it's just building slowly
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what are qe and f
we gotta get to that part because i
think
it does a lydian thing
which is another scale
uh that has a very curious sound
yeah oh it's so cool
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it's kind of got this like
a mischievous sounding scale the other
one i really loved was narayan we just
have to listen to just a few seconds of
this
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wow music like this there are just
elements that you will
you can't hear everything until you've
listened to it over and over again and
then you start to hear all the layers or
even decades later you're like oh i'm
still hearing new things oh and i love
this part it goes there's like a string
sample maybe
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that's the tritone it's so like
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great sound design
they know how to build something right
they're making me anticipate everything
i'm like i can't wait you know
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i love the snare in this one
just really nice syncopation great
accents ornamentation
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all right now in a similar vein
block rock and beats chemical brothers
so i bought uh digging your own hole
after hearing block reckon beats on 101x
and loved the entire album and then i
think at the time surrender
was already out so then i got
surrendered but this album is
unparalleled for me it's just oh god
like
this this the level of nostalgia i feel
hearing that
panning
and
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but the whole intro is in like a
different key than this part
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that fell
that phil is perfect
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hi
so i don't get asmr
as far as i'm aware but
there are certain sounds
qualities of sound that just like i
don't know i they they hype me up or or
just make me want to like hit something
you know like they're just so there's
they do something to the nervous system
i i don't know what it is but the drum
sounds in this groove kind of do that
but then it ups the ante when it gets
this part where
the tail i guess it's like the reverb
tail or delay or something gets bigger
and everything sounds like it's a bit
further away
and they i don't know what they're doing
but it just feels like that
the groove gets thwackier
is this
very satisfying thwack sound that to
this day clearly makes me feel like
in a good way
uh
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interesting
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they sampled some kind of instrument i
don't know what it is but i feel like
there's metal involved and it's maybe
something you shake or i don't know
um but they have that kind of going
underneath it can you hear that
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and this song was always interesting to
me because like it very clearly didn't
have much of a low end like there's this
big sort of boom
at the beginning of every measure uh but
there's no like bass i mean there's a
bass guitar but you know that that
guitar doesn't actually sound
like it has much low end it kind of
can't but a lot of the song feels sort
of suspended and elevated in a really
strange way
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by the way they just took the sample of
the
bass guitar
and they just pitched it up a whole step
sorry it just goes up to create some
kind of difference right just some kind
of
little bit of tension that they create
or some kind of variety right just a
contrast and that's all i did they just
took their sample moved it up a whole
step or a note but there's that
i would love to know what those sounds
really are cause you can hear them
really well at the very end
similarly to the prodigy right just
really creative with these sounds and
recognizing sort of not just their
rhythmic properties
but also like their their timbre
and like
that one kind of goes down then this one
goes a lot higher
you know creating something very musical
with the sounds that inherently aren't
okay now here is a song that uh
i don't know how i'm gonna react to
listening to again
this is i'm with stupid by static x i
can tell that that was a band that
i was into for a very short amount of
time and then it just didn't i just
didn't like it anymore
i'll tell you something i i think this
song might have sounded a little bit
better if they didn't have that like
clap
so this has a has a flat two so that's a
note that's very heavy sounding and very
dark it's used a lot in metal
um
that's what jaws is
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big accent on that really heavy note i
like that so i grabbed my shovel i like
that change really like emphasize that
gap that the rhythm leaves that duh
right
and then they bring in this sample i
mean i think this part was so compelling
i was like what on earth is this person
saying what is this from what's going on
and this is before i was like
so i grabbed my shovels like that my
shovel
oh my god i remember trying to figure
out what on earth he was saying here and
i came up with some very sinister stuff
like i beat him with a skull so he
wouldn't yell
i i still like that part i am i am i am
mine i am mine i am mine i am mine i am
mayan
name and the rhythm it creates
the emphasis is a little bit uh uneven
little polyrhythmic
now i remember getting a marilyn manson
record interestingly enough i did not
buy the album with the beautiful people
on it but i got the mechanical animals
and i remember staring at the cover just
being like whoa what is going on like
this is like a scary and i also like
really like it
who is this person
how did they do this i remember thinking
about like is he wearing a suit is it
all cgi like
like is that even his body you know
it was just so compelling there were a
couple songs that
really really stuck with me the dope
show and i don't like the drugs with the
drugs like me
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a guitar tone isn't
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it's so textured like his i think his
voice was very very close to the mic so
you can hear just every like uh
you know we're all stars now
in the dope show
again it's that sort of satisfying
feeling like
so i really really like that this groove
is interesting this is what you might
call a shuffle
you could i don't know but it's it's
like got this kind of swinging 68 field
and i like that i love slow grooves too
because you can really like sink into
them with your body and with your teeth
just like ah
there's so many marilyn's like he
tracked his vocals so many times i mean
overdubbing like you can hear all these
different timbres and textures some of
them sound very close and sound very far
away
maybe not very but further away it's a
really interesting feeling like there's
all these people around you and you're
like who are you all and where are you
coming from you know
i like this part
all right i don't like the drugs but the
drugs like me
okay i do think there's three octaves i
mean come on don't look don't like don't
like
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oh my god
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i forgot how funky this is
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it is weird listening to the lyrics now
but i'm an adult there's a lot of stuff
in here that just went over my head i
didn't know what missionary meant i'll
tell you that
i like this part
i love this this is kind of the closer
nine inch nails groove you got that
you just got this nice like solid kind
of kick on the beats or maybe on the
back beat and then you got the snare on
the two and the four and then you've got
these big open hi-hats filling that
space and the offbeats
it just it sounds great with rock i
really like that sound it feels
it it feels very like foreboding and
kind of sensual and
oh i have not heard this in such a long
time
that's a cool interlude because that
phrasing is kind of uneven and just
totally you can't really predict what's
about to happen
i like this don't like the drugs the
drugs the drugs
next up is a psytrance song so this is
called who's nutty and i heard this um
it's by space tribe and i heard this on
101 x on some kind of show that they
were doing i think it was like after
hours
could have been like 2 a.m who's nutty
is what got me into psychedelic trans
oh my god it's like it was yesterday
that guitar
and he's got these cartoon samples
it made me feel so weird
pulsating
they really filled it up
i learned so much from this song i ended
up writing trans myself for quite a
while
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like i would just pattern my songs off
of this you know and be like okay then
they bring in the hi-hats then they
bring in the bass and all the elements i
was like this is what makes it work
uh so oh man but that bass sounds good
that sounds really great it's panned so
well it's mixed so well oh
oh yeah
those accents
all those harmonics oh my god there's a
tambo
no
truth be tambo i definitely put tambo in
my trans for a while too i thought it
sounded good and you know maybe maybe it
did
anyways this goes on for eight minutes
so so we got a part two we got a part
three coming up or 2000 to 2005. and i
also want to do a whole series on the
stank face songs awesome thank you so so
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