How could they've done such a marvelous song for depressive people's with Achilles Come Down and now, that high rythm and joyfull intonation song? I'm half pleased, half disappointed becouse I hoped a song to cry on....
@@lorendaemon7945 exactly. What good is it to fight depression inside yourself and then crawl into a hole, to let the rest be abused? The fight isn't just in us, or for us alone. If anything, the songs are perfect compliments. The first, to rouse the broken warrior, to save them from the dehumanizing voices that tell them to quit. The second, far from being a happy song, is almost a call to war -- Achilles, the warrior, almost lost, and here, then, the enemy, that dehumanizing voice
My goodness~ Thanks for bringing this anthem to my attention. Another band worth checking out: The Oh Hellos make some great songs about Greek mythology too.
There's an entire album call Atlas, made by The Score. If you like, you could check it out! But, thanks for the new video! 😍 Also, I think there is something wrong with your link to the second channel in the description. I pressed it, yt said couldn't reach...
Y E S finally a greek myth inspired song that's a BOP. this is like, almost a direct response to Achilles Come Down with how agressively positive it is
This song isn’t actually about greek mythology as a matter of fact. Its a reference to the book atlas shrugged, look it up, great read about the failing sof the institution and capatialism itself
I grew up in Frankfurt and when I was small I used to love picking people up from the train station because of the atlas statue! (I still love arriving at the Frankfurt train station and just taking a moment to stare at the statue when I've left the station)
I've listened to this song many times but just now reading the lyrics did i realized that it is reference's John Galt from Atlas shrugs that make the song even more interesting.
Wrote this as a response to someone else, thought I should post it on its own in case anyone was curious about the topic of the song: Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand touting her philosophy of Objectivism which, as I understand it, essentially says that an ideal society is one in which every person acts exclusively for their own interests, with "full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism." In my experience it's idolized by a lot of alt-right and libertarian assholes to defend all kinds of deregulation and perpetuation of injustice because they don't think that they should ever have to be responsible for the the wellbeing of others. Basically the epitome of 'I got mine, fuck you' hyper-individualism. I haven't read the book so I can't really interpret the nuances of the song's lyrics but the whole thing is a passionate attack against the book and the people who use it to guide their lives. 'Galt' is a character in the book who is meant to represent Objectivism (I think. Again, I have not read the book).
I’ve been trying to get my hands on the book since I heard this song just to understand it better, but I can’t decide if I want to waste my time with ayn rand when I can just scroll through the Wikipedia lol
if you haven't read the book how can you make a judgment about it; it could have more nuances than you think (I've read the book and I can't say I fully agree with it either, but just saying)
It’s cool if ya think how atlas was the one to hold up the sky in Greek mythology so it’s kinda like saying “I’m cool to watch the sky fall” witch I feel is like something a lot of people say to be honest like watching the world burn they figured out a way to give it a slightly different wording witch I think is cool
This song is a very interesting contrast to Achilles Come Down, which can pretty loosely be tied to the Illiad, and obviously is a very slow, melancholy song In comparison, we have this fast rock song that is only connected to Greek Mythology in the sense that Ayn Rand used Atlas imagery first and thus song is a pretty clear rebuttal of her and other right wing bullshit
this is straight from genius "what have the artists said about the song?" "This song is a kind of polemic against the rational self-interest that motivates people to pretend that they are, in some way, entitled to unfettered, unmitigated, capitalistic impulses. I have never been able to quite understand why a lumbering, boring novel has made its way into the intellectual lexicon of a huge proportion of right-wing people. And I think, in respect, it’ll be your beliefs whether or not you align yourself on the left side of the spectrum or the right. I think it’s important to agree that we need to look out for each other, especially in this day and age, that unmitigated, unregulated, unchecked capitalistic impulses are not necessarily the way toward a better future for us. And I think a lot of the philosophies of objectivism - most of them are academically dismissed by many people in the discipline. But I think a lot of the philosophies espoused by Ayn Rand and objectivism are difficult to rationalise when they’re held up to scrutiny. So this song is against the kind of selfishness that that book seems to promote in a lot of people, and inspire in a lot of people." - Dave Le'aupepe
it's a reference to John Galt, a character who embodies libertarianism/the 'virtue' of selfishness from Ayn Rand's book 'Atlas Shrugged.' (spoilers below!!!!!) Galt is an inventor who 'shrugs' off responsibility for society and abandons humanity for his capitalist utopia in the mountains. That's why the singer is so pissed at Atlas
sfdhkj ok so!! it's basically a song criticizing both ayn rand (the right-wing author of a famous book called "atlas shrugged") and america's republican party (or at least the elite, very rich people who control it). it's basically attacking ayn rand's objectivist philosophy, which is the belief that every individual person has a responsibility to be as productive as they can and achieve as much "greatness" as they can, and that more collectivist philosophies lead to mediocrity. she thinks that humanity is driven forward not by collective actions taken by many people to help everyone, but instead by individual "great men" who do brilliant things for themselves. atlas is the ancient greek titan who holds the earth on his shoulders. the famous title "atlas shrugged" comes from a conversation that two characters have in the book where one tells the other (paraphrased) "the atlas tries to stand up, the heavier the world ways down on him," and the other character replies "then shrug." this conversation is basically saying that great men (represented by atlas) have to put forth effort (shrug) to create change (change the world). this song suggests that we should kill the idea of great men (atlas) who can change the world out of self-interest alone. this is shown even more in the line "galt, you can shake / you can cry, you can quake." galt is.... if we're being honest here, he's ayn rand's self-insert in "atlas shrugged", a famous philosopher who believes in all her ideals. this song is telling galt to cry and get over it. i don't think i did like. a great job explaining this so. here's the general meaning (at least by my interpretation, everyone'll understand it differently) of the song: *[verse 1]* this verse is about rebelling against your country because its values are morally wrong, and being in danger from the government because of it, as well as leaving your homeland. *[verse 2]* the system is rigged and collapsing + the songwriter's gonna fight back *[chorus]* "i'm cool to let atlas drown" -- he's good with letting the system collapse/destroying the idea that individual great men make all the change and should be in control. "galt, you can shake / you can cry, you can quake ... and i'll watch as you bleed" -- again, metaphorically killing the idea of individualism as the only path. *[verse 3]* this verse directly references the republican party ("elephant hats") and basically says he respects the working class republicans who perform labor but not the millionaires/billionaires that employ and exploit them. "why believe you are full / when you still get your meals from the trash?" -- this is more on the exploitation thing, under capitalism we're conditioned to believe that what we have is good enough when it's really less than the bare minimum. *[verse 4]* again, condemning the idea of "great men" and saying that the people leading us rn really suck. tldr: it's critiquing objectivism and individualism, two primary philosophies of right-wing political parties
Actually, its not based off of Greek myth. Its a direct rebuttal to Ayn Rand philosophy, and similar right wing stuff. The title, Atlas Drowned, is a refrence to Atlas Shrugged. Galt is a character in her book
I did not know they made more songs based off of Greek Mythology
some of their songs are but most of them are based on personal experiences, however all their lyrics are pure art
if you squint, you can find notes of myths in all of their songs!
(i see tons of patrochilles in “our time is short”!)
although they have a lot of songs based of off greek mythology, this is more of a commentary on the book "atlas shrugged" from what i've noticed
My thoughts exactly-
This one is about the book atlas shrugged
dave’s lyricism is on par w hozier’s i said what i said
S A M E i've been dying for a collab between them for so long
you’re right and you should say it
YOU SAID RIGHT
YES they should collab
Truly
How could they've done such a marvelous song for depressive people's with Achilles Come Down and now, that high rythm and joyfull intonation song? I'm half pleased, half disappointed becouse I hoped a song to cry on....
Same
This is a song about anti-fascism lol, that's important too
@@lorendaemon7945 exactly. What good is it to fight depression inside yourself and then crawl into a hole, to let the rest be abused? The fight isn't just in us, or for us alone. If anything, the songs are perfect compliments. The first, to rouse the broken warrior, to save them from the dehumanizing voices that tell them to quit. The second, far from being a happy song, is almost a call to war -- Achilles, the warrior, almost lost, and here, then, the enemy, that dehumanizing voice
Same
i suggest listening to "fear and trembling". it still has a very upbeat tone, but the lyrics definitely hit hard
Perhaps I should start listening to Gang of Youths. Also, zero dislikes, as it should be.
yes you should because they're amazing
@@artemisa9327 I will
The only two people that dislike def saw this comment and wanted to be edgy, it couldnt be for the song
@Happi Happi yeah :(
@@mediafox797 ugh! Really? Why? Also, 3 people disliked. Like, what? Why?
maybe i should listen to more gang of youths
yes you should because they're amazing
Do it. You won’t regret it.
you definitely should!! they’re amazing
Maybe you should. Your life will change for the better if you do.
Yes! I recommend “Say yes to Life” by them
Gang of Youths being my favourite band ever and not only giving me much comfort, but only feuling my love of mythology 💞✨
The fact that this has zero dislikes has not surprised me. Everyone here are men of culture, I salute!
Now just ONE person has disliked the vid... :((
now 10 people, quite unfortunate.
Now 22
btw y'all this song isn't really about greek mythology, it's about the book "atlas shrugged" by ayn rand lol
Yep - that's made pretty obvious by the reference to "Galt", as in "John Galt", the creator of Rand's idealized society in that book.
Gang of youth giving us depressive and rebellious ? We've been blessed ♡
as someone named atlas, thank you for giving me confidence in my name choice
atlas is such a pretty name omg
@@hannaheveb thank you sm :]
just checking in to make sure you haven't drowned
@@breanamorris1378 not quite yet thankfully
@@breanamorris1378 I don't think enough people have appreciated how fucking funny this is
Thank you for putting the statute in the description!
You should do “Achilles heel” By J. Maya 😭its filled with so many greek references its a masterpiece
Since i listened it and AMAZING
More songs like that ?
Yes!!! It’s absolutely amazing
Holy crap! MORE SONGS ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY?
LETS GOOO
My goodness~ Thanks for bringing this anthem to my attention. Another band worth checking out: The Oh Hellos make some great songs about Greek mythology too.
If Achilles Come Down is Achilles's depression then this is Achilles's anger.
There's an entire album call Atlas, made by The Score. If you like, you could check it out! But, thanks for the new video! 😍
Also, I think there is something wrong with your link to the second channel in the description. I pressed it, yt said couldn't reach...
yup, i know the score i love their album as well, thanks for telling me about the link i'll check it out
@@artemisa9327 Anytime, turns out I was already subscribe to your second channel anyway, hahaha
not only does this song slap and the statue is beautiful, the lyrics are awesome!
Y E S finally a greek myth inspired song that's a BOP. this is like, almost a direct response to Achilles Come Down with how agressively positive it is
I’m not sure if you are aware of this but both songs are written by the same person
@@cate9705 i am, that's why i mentioned it
This song isn’t actually about greek mythology as a matter of fact. Its a reference to the book atlas shrugged, look it up, great read about the failing sof the institution and capatialism itself
Thank you so much for always sharing these beautiful songs with us! You’re amazing and truly doing goddess’ work
I grew up in Frankfurt and when I was small I used to love picking people up from the train station because of the atlas statue! (I still love arriving at the Frankfurt train station and just taking a moment to stare at the statue when I've left the station)
I've listened to this song many times but just now reading the lyrics did i realized that it is reference's John Galt from Atlas shrugs that make the song even more interesting.
I need to talk with that one person who disliked this masterpiece://
Wrote this as a response to someone else, thought I should post it on its own in case anyone was curious about the topic of the song:
Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand touting her philosophy of Objectivism which, as I understand it, essentially says that an ideal society is one in which every person acts exclusively for their own interests, with "full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism." In my experience it's idolized by a lot of alt-right and libertarian assholes to defend all kinds of deregulation and perpetuation of injustice because they don't think that they should ever have to be responsible for the the wellbeing of others. Basically the epitome of 'I got mine, fuck you' hyper-individualism. I haven't read the book so I can't really interpret the nuances of the song's lyrics but the whole thing is a passionate attack against the book and the people who use it to guide their lives.
'Galt' is a character in the book who is meant to represent Objectivism (I think. Again, I have not read the book).
I’ve been trying to get my hands on the book since I heard this song just to understand it better, but I can’t decide if I want to waste my time with ayn rand when I can just scroll through the Wikipedia lol
@@alisongeek3396 scroll it, find summaries. I don't like Ayn Rand and Gang of Youths has every right to disagree with this song.
I hate anarcho-capitalists. As an anarcho-communist I say: Do you want unrestricted, but do not forget about the well-being of others.
if you haven't read the book how can you make a judgment about it; it could have more nuances than you think
(I've read the book and I can't say I fully agree with it either, but just saying)
This is poetry painted in the air
Another Greek mythology based masterpiece
It’s cool if ya think how atlas was the one to hold up the sky in Greek mythology so it’s kinda like saying “I’m cool to watch the sky fall” witch I feel is like something a lot of people say to be honest like watching the world burn they figured out a way to give it a slightly different wording witch I think is cool
This song is a very interesting contrast to Achilles Come Down, which can pretty loosely be tied to the Illiad, and obviously is a very slow, melancholy song
In comparison, we have this fast rock song that is only connected to Greek Mythology in the sense that Ayn Rand used Atlas imagery first and thus song is a pretty clear rebuttal of her and other right wing bullshit
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH OMG
Perfect!!
Amazing work once again can't believe your this popular now.
I have another song for you to add in this amazing Greek playlist of yours! It’s called Achilles Heel by J. Maya :D
when it started i expected it to be a sad song, but ended up liking it nonetheless.
When I heard the first notes I already knew I would love this song and OMG WHY IS IT SO GOOD ????
Ooooo an other song about greek gods?? That's great :D
Gang of youths deserves the world 🥺❤
their whole album is a masterpiece
The one dislike is from Atlas.
Madness is not civilized is my favorite sounding lyric. 1:08
Love the fact that the channel Admin is liking and replying to everyone's comment. Are you an academic student of Greek Mythology though?
awesome song choice! also please do talk by hozier
*hears first riff*
*downloads immediately*
Also check out Achilles Desire by the husband and wife duo White Horse.
Love all the bands you introduce me to.
god i love this song
Well this is the first I'm hearing of it
gang of youths really is out here making absolute bangers about stories older than most societies, huh?
Why does this feel like they're throwing shade at Ayn Rand? I mean I don't know if they are but its low-key kinda cool if that's true
they actually are lol
i mean... if either of you have the patience i would love to know the tea :*
this is straight from genius "what have the artists said about the song?"
"This song is a kind of polemic against the rational self-interest that motivates people to pretend that they are, in some way, entitled to unfettered, unmitigated, capitalistic impulses. I have never been able to quite understand why a lumbering, boring novel has made its way into the intellectual lexicon of a huge proportion of right-wing people. And I think, in respect, it’ll be your beliefs whether or not you align yourself on the left side of the spectrum or the right.
I think it’s important to agree that we need to look out for each other, especially in this day and age, that unmitigated, unregulated, unchecked capitalistic impulses are not necessarily the way toward a better future for us. And I think a lot of the philosophies of objectivism - most of them are academically dismissed by many people in the discipline. But I think a lot of the philosophies espoused by Ayn Rand and objectivism are difficult to rationalise when they’re held up to scrutiny.
So this song is against the kind of selfishness that that book seems to promote in a lot of people, and inspire in a lot of people." - Dave Le'aupepe
That one dislike is my ONLY problem right now
I love this song, but the opening instrumentals makes me think of the Sims
You know for a song called Atlas drowned it's quite happy
What does Galt mean? Google gives me a biological jargon and the next closest word is Gault which is a kind of soil
it's a reference to John Galt, a character who embodies libertarianism/the 'virtue' of selfishness from Ayn Rand's book 'Atlas Shrugged.' (spoilers below!!!!!)
Galt is an inventor who 'shrugs' off responsibility for society and abandons humanity for his capitalist utopia in the mountains. That's why the singer is so pissed at Atlas
@@enobyway2090 thank youuu
Could you do Medusa?
I'll just wait here for нехудожник история Аквилона, it just fits the whole greek mythology theme
Good song
Gangs of Youth is really just the Greek Class in our school
Bioshock really took the concept literally.(the sunken city)
Plz do hera by Justin nozuka it’s so underrated
Could anyone explain what this song is about? Please 😳
sfdhkj ok so!! it's basically a song criticizing both ayn rand (the right-wing author of a famous book called "atlas shrugged") and america's republican party (or at least the elite, very rich people who control it). it's basically attacking ayn rand's objectivist philosophy, which is the belief that every individual person has a responsibility to be as productive as they can and achieve as much "greatness" as they can, and that more collectivist philosophies lead to mediocrity. she thinks that humanity is driven forward not by collective actions taken by many people to help everyone, but instead by individual "great men" who do brilliant things for themselves.
atlas is the ancient greek titan who holds the earth on his shoulders. the famous title "atlas shrugged" comes from a conversation that two characters have in the book where one tells the other (paraphrased) "the atlas tries to stand up, the heavier the world ways down on him," and the other character replies "then shrug." this conversation is basically saying that great men (represented by atlas) have to put forth effort (shrug) to create change (change the world). this song suggests that we should kill the idea of great men (atlas) who can change the world out of self-interest alone. this is shown even more in the line "galt, you can shake / you can cry, you can quake." galt is.... if we're being honest here, he's ayn rand's self-insert in "atlas shrugged", a famous philosopher who believes in all her ideals. this song is telling galt to cry and get over it.
i don't think i did like. a great job explaining this so. here's the general meaning (at least by my interpretation, everyone'll understand it differently) of the song:
*[verse 1]*
this verse is about rebelling against your country because its values are morally wrong, and being in danger from the government because of it, as well as leaving your homeland.
*[verse 2]*
the system is rigged and collapsing + the songwriter's gonna fight back
*[chorus]*
"i'm cool to let atlas drown" -- he's good with letting the system collapse/destroying the idea that individual great men make all the change and should be in control.
"galt, you can shake / you can cry, you can quake ... and i'll watch as you bleed" -- again, metaphorically killing the idea of individualism as the only path.
*[verse 3]*
this verse directly references the republican party ("elephant hats") and basically says he respects the working class republicans who perform labor but not the millionaires/billionaires that employ and exploit them.
"why believe you are full / when you still get your meals from the trash?" -- this is more on the exploitation thing, under capitalism we're conditioned to believe that what we have is good enough when it's really less than the bare minimum.
*[verse 4]*
again, condemning the idea of "great men" and saying that the people leading us rn really suck.
tldr: it's critiquing objectivism and individualism, two primary philosophies of right-wing political parties
@@posthumously thank you soo much!!! 😪 I'd fry my brain if I just did what you have done
I love you@@posthumously
My friend’s band just got signed with the people who manage them and I’m
The song is basically Atlas saying fck this sht
Couldn't the gods just take turns? Poor Atlas, man :(
UHH he fought against the gods in the war. He worked for the titans.
You know how azures is with punishments. Looking at you Prometheus.
Atlas was a Titan, but forcing the guy to hold up the sky was a bit overkill
Oh shit, there’s more????
the one dislike is Atlas
Got into gang of youths because of your video of achilles come down and bought all their albums and now I'm ruined 😂😂
i got scared by the gutair - i expected more violin after hearing achillies come down
SAME
THEY HAVE MORE SONGS?!?
DON'T LET ME DROWN PLEASE
Also don't let me burn or bleed
Who else found this on the fnf kubz scouts playlist
I'm Italian and I forgot what's Atlas Italian name🙂
0:45 zeke
bruh why is this song lowkey based af
My alt that’s named Atlas: 👁👄👁💧
Who the hell are those 13 dislikes? Dishonor
I would kill god to this song
2 dislikes
ok if you don’t like the song they why did you listen to it?
Is this even Greek song?
No, it's in English obviously
Actually, its not based off of Greek myth. Its a direct rebuttal to Ayn Rand philosophy, and similar right wing stuff. The title, Atlas Drowned, is a refrence to Atlas Shrugged. Galt is a character in her book
the one dislike is Atlas