Watering a flower Haruomi Hosono 1984 cassette (花に水)

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  • Опубліковано 22 січ 2017
  • In 1984 Muji commissioned Haruomi Hosono to compose in-store background music.
    Tracks:
    00:00 Talking
    14:56 Growth
    29:49 Muji Original BGM
    Note: The third piece, Muji Original BGM, was not on the tape. However, it does feature on the "Muji BGM 1980-2000" compilation, which was also sold only in Muji shops. I have uploaded the three songs so that people can hear them all together.
    Art: poster by Ikko Tanaka
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  • @DudeWasteYourTime
    @DudeWasteYourTime 5 років тому +1571

    sounds like the "insert coin to continue" screen of life

    • @fatjuicymeatball2266
      @fatjuicymeatball2266 4 роки тому +8

      This is too accurate

    •  4 роки тому +13

      i'm out of coins.

    • @subspace2913
      @subspace2913 4 роки тому +5

      just like if you were in a life-threatening condition and had to pay for your hospital bills :)

    • @kurlykaeya7639
      @kurlykaeya7639 4 роки тому +2

      Bro sorry I want to give you a like but my left screen is broken and I keep accidentally dislike it🌧😢

    • @viciousKev
      @viciousKev 4 роки тому +3

      The princess is in another castle

  • @YoshiAddict
    @YoshiAddict 5 років тому +359

    this is like watching a clock that only has an hour hand

    • @SazLowify
      @SazLowify 5 років тому +3

      Wow... this made me feel a lot.

    • @andyedwards9011
      @andyedwards9011 5 років тому +4

      Almost like watching a plant grow, but not as hardcore

    • @buckorooster
      @buckorooster 5 років тому +1

      @@andyedwards9011 In 0.5x speed

    • @vincent6193
      @vincent6193 5 років тому

      Alec Hopkins look up Slow watches, I got one recently and couldn’t be happier:)

    • @blackphoenix8932
      @blackphoenix8932 5 років тому

      So boring then?

  • @magieux
    @magieux 4 роки тому +783

    one time when i was 15 i was up late working on an essay for school, exhausted and stressed and crying, and my dad came in around midnight to say he was going to bed and i basically said whatever just leave me alone and then he came back with a bowl of strawberries he sprinkled some sugar over before saying good night. this song feels like that little bowl of sweet strawberries he gave me late at night.

    • @DrHorribleDH
      @DrHorribleDH 3 роки тому +29

      that’s so sweet. your father sounds like an amazing man.

    • @dmallow5442
      @dmallow5442 3 роки тому +32

      This comment made me cry because reminds me of my own dad and he doesn't have much life left.

    • @crystalidentity
      @crystalidentity 3 роки тому +7

      @@dmallow5442 OMG... I am _so sorry_ to hear that . . . ! ! 😿 I'm just glad he was an awesome dad.💖

    • @helenacasas9171
      @helenacasas9171 2 роки тому

      😭 AwWw ...how touching is this 🤡🤣, what a spoiled t.w.4.t ! she treats her dad like sh1t and then he brings her strawberries with sugar, what a sick family

    • @CarenKH1
      @CarenKH1 2 роки тому +11

      A woman traveling across a field encountered a tiger. She ran, the tiger after her. Coming to a precipice, she caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung herself down, over the edge. The tiger sniffed and snapped at her from above. Trembling, the woman looked down to where, far below, two other tigers were circling, growling and looking up, waiting to eat her.
      She clung to the vine.
      Just then, two mice, one white and one black, came out and started to gnaw away at the vine. The woman looked around, wondering how, and if, she might ever escape. As she did, she saw a strawberry, ripe and red, growing near her. She reached out, plucked the strawberry, and put it in her mouth. Smiling, she closed her eyes and thought, “This is the sweetest strawberry I’ve ever tasted!”

  • @vercality6170
    @vercality6170 4 роки тому +145

    This is the waiting room music that plays while you're in the womb

  • @fadesblue
    @fadesblue 5 років тому +2414

    can only assume this is what it feels like to be a fungus

    • @supernovamimosa
      @supernovamimosa 4 роки тому +41

      nah fungi are more into dubstep

    • @thisiszari6979
      @thisiszari6979 4 роки тому +27

      Liam McFarland a little mushroom dancing to this song

    • @ugethacked6668
      @ugethacked6668 4 роки тому +20

      fungi lullaby :)

    • @bogiebabes
      @bogiebabes 4 роки тому +11

      most underrated comment EVER

    • @CatOfTheYearuWu
      @CatOfTheYearuWu 4 роки тому +7

      27:45
      Yes, a very sad, musty, shrivelled fungus.

  • @bradyjones3521
    @bradyjones3521 5 років тому +506

    this sounds like a bug admiring how big a human is while the human admires how big the night sky is

    • @drivebypoet
      @drivebypoet 3 роки тому +3

      That describes it so well.

    • @SimonandGarfunkel57
      @SimonandGarfunkel57 2 роки тому +1

      Poet you

    • @deadlincoln7729
      @deadlincoln7729 Місяць тому

      technical term is also japanese: Yūgen (幽玄) is a significant concept in Japanese aesthetics that can be found in art, literature, and culture. The word's meaning depends on the context, but it can generally be translated as "dark," "obscure," "dim," "deep," or "mysterious". It can also suggest a mood that is both profound and mysterious, and can encapsulate the allure of something that is beyond what is immediately apparent

  • @SaraYe
    @SaraYe 4 роки тому +44

    i've never cried while reading a youtube comment section before

    • @Bragnis
      @Bragnis 3 роки тому

      @@Caillouteletub123 ?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿

  • @remirussin7240
    @remirussin7240 Рік тому +81

    When you go to clean out your closet but wind up spending the entire afternoon rummaging through your old things and reminiscing

  • @comet1048
    @comet1048 5 років тому +461

    Getting a spider to crawl onto an old junk mail so you can set it outside politely.

    • @morkeljakeson9438
      @morkeljakeson9438 3 роки тому +2

      Sadly, that polite act usually kills the spider. It was coming inside to find a good temperature.

  • @FluxFreeman
    @FluxFreeman 7 років тому +531

    This is like a robotic child roaming through old ruins on a strange planet

    • @lauratrejos1528
      @lauratrejos1528 6 років тому +7

      yeah, I can feel the innocent and naive attitude of the little thing while it searches for something... yet I can also feel how that something is destined to ruin the robot's life exprience in a horrific way... like a mix between peace before the storm and the forced and traumatic experience of leaving innocence to see the world bare skinned...

    • @TurtleGamers1
      @TurtleGamers1 5 років тому +2

      it's just muzak guys

    • @pedrocardoso879
      @pedrocardoso879 5 років тому +1

      This is unironically accurate

    • @ledon26656
      @ledon26656 5 років тому +6

      Then you realise that strange planet is Earth and no humans exist any more. Only the ruins of our civilisation endure...and one lone robot child exploring it in pure isolation, destined to never understand what it all means.

    • @salma-amlas
      @salma-amlas 5 років тому +1

      Wall.e

  • @AndBusinessIsGood
    @AndBusinessIsGood 11 місяців тому +51

    this music is what music listens to

  • @PacProductions123
    @PacProductions123 7 місяців тому +27

    maybe once or twice a year i come back to this upload specifically just to read the comments people have left since. they're more scarce now. but yet, i wish to see you. understand a stranger who i will never meet. we are everything and you are the universe. i love you

  • @bricabracle
    @bricabracle 7 років тому +947

    my body is trapped in a spreadsheet but my mind is free

    • @justinspencer983
      @justinspencer983 5 років тому +3

      bricabracle free to ride the wings of a monarch butterfly traveling the sky’s

    • @jacketmeyer4534
      @jacketmeyer4534 5 років тому +3

      @@justinspencer983 ...

  • @zakaby
    @zakaby 5 років тому +411

    In the silence between the second song and the third I thought the computer was going to say my name

    • @Kevxwealth
      @Kevxwealth 4 роки тому

      Elb 😂😭🤣🤣🤣

    • @Ribula1
      @Ribula1 4 роки тому +5

      We could swear it did.
      Sorry taking so long to answer, time passes different here.

  • @g.g4813
    @g.g4813 4 роки тому +66

    This is what your house furniture is listening to when you left for a summer vacation.

  • @rowanfox4436
    @rowanfox4436 4 роки тому +52

    I am floating aimlessly in the precambrian sea

  • @bizarrestar4043
    @bizarrestar4043 5 років тому +75

    i found a ladybug outside the public library, we hung out for about an hour before i went home. sitting outside i realised he'd come with me so i said good bye again. later i found him still in my hair in my kitchen and i laughed for so long with my mom

  • @chrissirhc666
    @chrissirhc666 5 років тому +141

    This music is the journey of a microscopic snake moving through outer space at one mile per hour.

  • @vr1skaserket
    @vr1skaserket 4 роки тому +171

    It's 7 am on Christmas morning. Everyone else is still asleep, but you've never felt more awake.

    • @carsonchilds1166
      @carsonchilds1166 4 роки тому +1

      mighty comment, friend

    • @crystalidentity
      @crystalidentity 3 роки тому +1

      There's a short Saint Etienne spoken-word piece that feels so much like what you described... It's called 'Christmas 1936'. I wish I could find it, but it's not on UA-cam right now...

    • @js3ph253
      @js3ph253 3 місяці тому

      wasnt expecting you on here lmao

  • @duarte2140
    @duarte2140 Рік тому +121

    I keep thinking of Hosono these days. How it must feel for him to have lost two of his bandmates, his lifelong friends, in a matter of just a few months. How it must feel to be the last living member of YMO. I seriously can not imagine how harrowing it must be for him...
    RIP Sakamoto
    RIP Takahashi
    We love you Hosono, and we love you YMO.

    • @evanglicanism
      @evanglicanism Рік тому +14

      When you consider that he was older than them by about five years, and invited both of them to join the band before their careers had taken off, it's just so heartbreaking. He probably never thought that he'd outlive either of them.

  • @matthewlivick7882
    @matthewlivick7882 5 років тому +604

    i came here for a humidifier but now im crying in a store

    • @mariamason1919
      @mariamason1919 5 років тому +3

      Could be worse (IE: see David Coulter - Dead Vacuum)

    • @alexs.3383
      @alexs.3383 3 роки тому

      @@mariamason1919 What do you mean? I tried to look it up because I thought you were referring to a song title

    • @bluemonkjd
      @bluemonkjd 3 роки тому +1

      There's tears all over my reasonably priced notebooks.

  • @Carcosahead
    @Carcosahead 5 років тому +3447

    This is the music that plays when you get to the end of youtube.

    • @kuwala
      @kuwala 5 років тому +20

      Yes IT DOES. I'm here!

    • @saintmoIIy
      @saintmoIIy 5 років тому +55

      im crying i dotn want toget to the end of youtube

    • @idkmyuser1
      @idkmyuser1 5 років тому +6

      Kitty Donut Wolf eh think of how fucked UA-cam is though like the bad parts lol you may want he end after all

    • @themagicweedbus1319
      @themagicweedbus1319 5 років тому +20

      a long journey, finally coming to an end.

    • @pianogame8700
      @pianogame8700 5 років тому +40

      Yes, you have just reached the end of UA-cam. It’s a long way back to where you started. You’ve gone through all sorts of categories of videos on your way here. Here, the road forward cuts off and ahead of you is simply empty space. Slowly but surely, new forms will occupy the space that you see before you. For now, hear the music of processes that quietly, gently untangle themselves into existence. It is not yet to be, but you can already see something unfolding, ever so slowly.

  • @jaymondkreek854
    @jaymondkreek854 4 роки тому +489

    It’s my 365th day sober from alcohol and drugs , I wander in my room sipping peppermint tea watching my memories. Laughing at the rage fueled would be regrets . But I’m no weak soul, for everything’s turned out just the way it was supposed to. Now that I’ve stop running and started to breathe.

    • @christophfurler7252
      @christophfurler7252 4 роки тому +4

      Keep on Jaymond! :D

    • @KaiomiD
      @KaiomiD 4 роки тому +13

      good for you man, lost my mom to addiction, tried her whole life to get away from it, some never do. i know it wasn't easy, but you did it, i upon many others are proud of you.

    • @PapagenoDispo
      @PapagenoDispo 4 роки тому +4

      i'm so proud of you, man!

    • @MMM-jh6gp
      @MMM-jh6gp 4 роки тому +2

      This is the perfect example of progress and love within your own character

    • @Haiylin
      @Haiylin 4 роки тому +1

      You've come so far! I wish you nothing but good memories and happiness ♡

  • @AgentCDI
    @AgentCDI 5 років тому +66

    This sounds like getting abducted by very polite aliens who just want to tell you how much they admire your species. They serve you only salted pumpkin seeds and sparkling water during your stay.

  • @justacommenter7382
    @justacommenter7382 5 років тому +860

    you're sitting on the floor of your grandparents' house, making something out of cardboard. you're not sure exactly what it is, but it's never existed before you made it. you find an old toy and put it somewhere on it. your parents come to pick you up, and you tell them you had a great time.

    • @dennisnorthey
      @dennisnorthey  5 років тому +57

      this is so wholesome

    • @randyedmonds8742
      @randyedmonds8742 5 років тому +22

      This comment is sad and happy

    • @SolarWarden613
      @SolarWarden613 4 роки тому +2

      wtf

    • @farmemo
      @farmemo 4 роки тому +12

      this made me think of all the times i’d spend the night at my aunt’s house as a kid with my two sisters, and how much fun we all had, and then from there a bunch of childhood memories came flooding back to me at once. i feel happy and warm and nostalgic and a little sad, so thank you for this. i think we forget about things like that sometimes, and it’s nice to remember now and then the good things from the past that are now stuck in time.

    • @narcoskeptic
      @narcoskeptic 4 роки тому +3

      yo

  • @hoverbeaver
    @hoverbeaver 5 років тому +153

    my oddest experience in japan was passing through a department store at closing time as this music played and all of the staff lined up along the corridor and silently bowed to me as if i was highly inconvenient royalty

    • @CarlCampbell
      @CarlCampbell 4 роки тому +4

      Japan in a nutshell. Thanks for sharing

    • @tonybologna4489
      @tonybologna4489 4 роки тому +21

      @@CarlCampbell fuck you Carl

  • @knightcorps84
    @knightcorps84 4 роки тому +217

    This is the music that plays when you listen to 1980's Japanese shopping background music and scroll through the comments

    • @nobreath181818
      @nobreath181818 4 роки тому +16

      Ok this one got me. lmao

    • @mikemathers4524
      @mikemathers4524 Рік тому +7

      Well played, sir.

    • @sabrinatscha2554
      @sabrinatscha2554 Рік тому +3

      Unique comment. I love it. Thanks.

    • @connor991
      @connor991 10 місяців тому

      Big if true

    • @ericeychis
      @ericeychis 20 днів тому

      …I’m pretty sure this was made for background music or the composer had also done that in his life.

  • @augustogaidukas975
    @augustogaidukas975 2 роки тому +583

    Ten years ago, I lost my first love to a lymphoma. I then decided I would be a doctor and aid people with cancer.
    Now, ten years later, three weeks from graduating from medical school, I hear this and remember her once more, and how we loved each other in our way.
    Carol, I did it for you.

    • @danbobs25
      @danbobs25 2 роки тому +27

      This is too beautiful in a bitter sweet kind of way. Hope your medical career is going well for you.

    • @susuleta
      @susuleta 2 роки тому +11

      This can’t be real :( if it is I cried for your love ❤️

    • @kathfabros9602
      @kathfabros9602 2 роки тому +14

      You are the flower.

    • @ianbreeden7381
      @ianbreeden7381 2 роки тому +2

      God bless you, Jesus Christ is king!!

    • @akito7025
      @akito7025 2 роки тому +4

      Hope u have a beautiful life dear

  • @respekt7409
    @respekt7409 6 років тому +809

    I guess that repeating note represents the drops of water, and the flower is us. Haruomi Hosono is watering us.

    • @jimi0rig
      @jimi0rig 5 років тому +26

      deep comment is deep

    • @feli6277
      @feli6277 5 років тому +14

      water me

    • @pablocordero4991
      @pablocordero4991 5 років тому +23

      water me harder daddy

    • @JoJo-rs3oh
      @JoJo-rs3oh 5 років тому +11

      Water me father

    • @Isabella-sx7hv
      @Isabella-sx7hv 5 років тому +15

      hhnnnng im a thirsty little flower . you have to water me with your PEE mr hosono

  • @kerem9942
    @kerem9942 6 років тому +130

    Feels like looking in the mirror and seeing outside

  • @midnightcthulhu5551
    @midnightcthulhu5551 4 роки тому +349

    this is the music that plays as the credits roll on the movie of your entire life, the theater is dark and empty except for you and you know you're going to have to get up and leave soon and you're okay with that but you want to sit and watch all those familiar names scroll past for just a little longer.

    • @mannysmith7297
      @mannysmith7297 4 роки тому +11

      This comment right here along with the third song. Fuck man.

    • @mattd3826
      @mattd3826 4 роки тому +3

      :')

    • @billhicks8
      @billhicks8 3 роки тому +4

      The third piece is like watching that movie, all the way through to the end where you died, and just seeing your own name come up, then fade to black.

    • @thatbitchnoemie
      @thatbitchnoemie 3 роки тому +13

      Dude you made me cry, wtf

    • @MrTreezUK
      @MrTreezUK 2 роки тому +1

      you got me

  • @Leadhead
    @Leadhead 3 роки тому +378

    God this thing is beautiful...

    • @nouveau_nouveau
      @nouveau_nouveau 3 роки тому +4

      I never expected to see you here. Keep up the great videos!

    • @Picklepvp2
      @Picklepvp2 3 роки тому +11

      @@nouveau_nouveau He actually mentioned it in a UA-cam video talking about music.

    • @deadlincoln7729
      @deadlincoln7729 3 роки тому +2

      You mean life

    • @meloveganja6988
      @meloveganja6988 3 роки тому +2

      Do I know you from somewhere

    • @lucascaiah
      @lucascaiah 3 роки тому +2

      Your last video is phenomenal, Leadhead
      It's surely great knowing your channel and works, keep it up!

  • @lugiakid781
    @lugiakid781 5 років тому +358

    this is the music when you open a board that you never noticed in your closet and find a civilization of tiny mouse people living in your walls with tiny beautiful old European country houses

    • @matthewhack6510
      @matthewhack6510 4 роки тому +4

      i think i read a book like that once, but can't for the life of me remember

    • @hi-fistereo8987
      @hi-fistereo8987 4 роки тому +4

      @@matthewhack6510 Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh?

    • @matthewhack6510
      @matthewhack6510 4 роки тому +3

      @@hi-fistereo8987 that'd be the one! you just opened up a memory i didn't even know i had, thank you.

    • @hi-fistereo8987
      @hi-fistereo8987 4 роки тому +2

      @@matthewhack6510 haha no problem. I hardly remember that book myself, my teacher read it to the class when I was in maybe 1st or second grade!

  • @stanmaertens3741
    @stanmaertens3741 7 років тому +1812

    This tape was made to listen to while reading the comments of this upload of the tape.

  • @veronica-vs8kw
    @veronica-vs8kw 4 роки тому +95

    this is what plays when a frog goes to heaven

  • @deltadevlin
    @deltadevlin 7 років тому +444

    that guy really likes hitting that one note goddamn

  • @GraphicEncounter
    @GraphicEncounter 7 років тому +57

    This feels like going into a Kroger at 3AM and there's one employee asleep at the counter and only every other light is on. The store is impeccably clean, and all the items are in line and adjusted. It's so lonely but warm and populated at the same time.

    • @GraphicEncounter
      @GraphicEncounter 7 років тому +9

      And then the second piece is being fucking chased through the alleyway behind the store by a strange man in a costume but you aren't sure it's a costume God you hope it's a costume and you trip on a bone and you fall and

    • @deliusamat7705
      @deliusamat7705 7 років тому +7

      you certainly took me there but I didn't really want to go

    • @GraphicEncounter
      @GraphicEncounter 7 років тому +2

      I'm glad I could take you on a trip

    • @Ohfukmoment
      @Ohfukmoment 5 років тому +1

      These comments are my favorites.

  • @casersatz
    @casersatz 4 роки тому +935

    This is the warmest shade of grey I've ever felt.

    • @rsullivan6738
      @rsullivan6738 4 роки тому +4

      Thank you.

    • @skulluckid4390
      @skulluckid4390 4 роки тому +5

      @@rsullivan6738 dude THAT'S not weird to thank someone for a comment they left for someone that's not you. I was just feeling weird about doing the same to this other person on this videos comment section. Sooo thank you for saying thank you to someone else's comment on a video that's not yours because I presume you felt like I did and simply enjoyed the comment. Haaaa, now I don't feel weird.
      But what does feel weird is listening to this music and wondering if I stumbled onto an infectious happy section of the internet, I haven't laughed this loud in my lonesome in a long time.

    • @tzeege
      @tzeege 4 роки тому +2

      Smoked oyster grey?

    • @watertower1
      @watertower1 4 роки тому +3

      I feel it’s more teal and pink

    • @thedeskoftheherbalist
      @thedeskoftheherbalist 4 роки тому +6

      @@skulluckid4390 and thank you ! for thanking someone else for thanking someone else.... I dig the commentary as well. this is the happy section !! Peace !!

  • @helgenx
    @helgenx 4 роки тому +150

    I tied a fly's leg to a string and he led me here.

    • @NOL365
      @NOL365 4 роки тому +2

      I tied my leg to the fly's core and it flew me to minute 26. I regret nothing. Though the breeze is somewhat sour and I'm sure that I know somebody down there in the green-like breeze.

  • @eyevix
    @eyevix 7 років тому +2428

    life grips

  • @dustincovert128
    @dustincovert128 7 років тому +236

    I'm organizing my tumbled stones. they're very smooth.

  • @modularjournal3926
    @modularjournal3926 4 роки тому +45

    The soil returned to its soft and loamy state.

  • @nobreath181818
    @nobreath181818 4 роки тому +121

    The is the music that plays when you realize you are older than your parents were when they had you.

  • @bliplox9187
    @bliplox9187 5 років тому +194

    public service announcement jingle for a city of worms

  • @patrickmonaghan1101
    @patrickmonaghan1101 5 років тому +388

    My wife recently put an old blanket in a cardboard box, and now one of our cats loves sleeping in it. It's her fort. Her name is Carla.

  • @lepercolony8214
    @lepercolony8214 5 місяців тому +5

    This music is the music that plays when you click on the search bar and type "watering a flower" then click the video with the cassette artwork

  • @nly
    @nly 4 роки тому +84

    You are a young bamboo shoot. It's finally spring. Peeking up just above the ground, you're seeing the sun for the first time. Dew drops decorate your surroundings, reflecting its light with a crystal-like brilliance. Birds fly overhead, birds of all colours and shapes. You hear them sing, their melodies harmonising with the excited chatter of the cicadas, ringing in the new season. You absorb all of this life and beauty, giving you the strength to grow tall and become a part of the harmony that surrounds you. You are happy.

    • @RachLZelda
      @RachLZelda 3 роки тому +10

      I found the happy comment. Thank you.

  • @dominicsmall6502
    @dominicsmall6502 7 років тому +403

    Two Ghosts getting married ☺

  • @alskndlaskndal
    @alskndlaskndal 7 років тому +558

    This music has the purity and innocence of a child with the wisdom of an old man.

    • @Frisenette
      @Frisenette 5 років тому +11

      Now THIS is the comment that should have plus two thousand likes!
      Not the other first day of poetry class rejects.

    • @zeropr0ductions631
      @zeropr0ductions631 5 років тому +10

      like that one kid from twin peaks that spawns creamed corn from thin air

    • @TheCorreDiego
      @TheCorreDiego 5 років тому +2

      Love it.

    • @ahobimo732
      @ahobimo732 4 роки тому +13

      William Blake thought life had three stages: first innocence, then experience, and finally, innocent experience, where the purity of innocence is regained, but with the strength of experience.

    • @thatbitchnoemie
      @thatbitchnoemie 3 роки тому +2

      @@Frisenette This comment section was 100% positive and you had to ruin it

  • @kavajarrace
    @kavajarrace 4 роки тому +96

    i feel like i've already died and i'm experiencing the end credits

    • @TanM
      @TanM 3 роки тому +3

      They're enjoyable this time, aren't they?

  • @woozie___
    @woozie___ 5 місяців тому +18

    I drove around with my newborn son in the car one time playing this and he just quietly listened, presumably looking out the window as the world passed by him in reverse from his rear-facing car seat. After some time had passed I pulled over and turned around so I could see him in the mirror that hung behind his seat. I asked "are you doing ok bubby?" and he smiled at me

  • @GritaThePig
    @GritaThePig 5 років тому +209

    Like that one town in a JRPG where everyone keeps asking if you've seen Billy because he went missing and his parents are worried

  • @possumprince
    @possumprince 6 років тому +72

    This sounds like someone who has been physically in a coma for 30 years, but whose soul got transported to a parallel dimension where everything exists in a perpetual twilight and all the people are just human-sized woodland creatures in human clothes. In this world, their family has given up hope on them awakening; in the parallel world, they have a small but cozy apartment that they share with their close friend, a chipmunk. A tired nurse replaces their IV- she thinks she is possibly the only one who still cares about them; the chipmunk puts a kettle of tea on the stove and asks her strange human friend if they would prefer oolong or chamomile tonight.

    • @Gyrant
      @Gyrant 4 роки тому

      Ridiculous.
      Who drinks oolong before bed?

  • @puppable
    @puppable Рік тому +56

    This is the saddest that happy has ever been

    • @iamupinacloud
      @iamupinacloud Рік тому +2

      I like that! XD It really depends on perception. I like to think of it as the happiest that sad has ever been. ;p

  • @twentylush
    @twentylush 4 роки тому +40

    This is the music that plays when you see fresh flowers on the grave of somebody you dont know, who died almost a decade ago.

  • @t.c.bramblett617
    @t.c.bramblett617 6 років тому +79

    This is soundtrack music to cook tiny food to.

  • @Tantacrul
    @Tantacrul 5 років тому +276

    The song your Atari sings while waiting for you to come home.

    • @nly
      @nly 4 роки тому +7

      Oh hey Tantacrul, didn't expect to find you here! Shame about Eurovision this year, huh? There were some really strong competitors.

    • @neolulubeats
      @neolulubeats 4 роки тому +3

      tantacrul !!! love u and your vids man

  • @helenalestrange8557
    @helenalestrange8557 4 роки тому +329

    You have social anxiety, you're in a crowded train. But today you feel very comfortable on this ride because you are one station away from where you are to meet your favorite person.

  • @reecebartron3246
    @reecebartron3246 2 роки тому +196

    Hosono did a a fantastic job of capturing the feeling of bleak hopefulness. Like you know things will be alright in the end but for now you're unsure and a little afraid, but thinking positively and patience will set you straight.

  • @Jeffreywynn
    @Jeffreywynn 6 років тому +168

    First track feels like I died a while ago. But I can still move. I'm searching for something throughout grassy mountains. Maybe a lost love. The song is telling me it's alright. It says I can close my eyes now.

  • @Pheeze
    @Pheeze 5 років тому +35

    This is like when you open a shoebox expecting it to be full of childhood knick-nacks and objects with sentimental value only to find a single periwinkle shell you picked up from the family beach trip 22 years ago

  • @user-jb5np8xj4c
    @user-jb5np8xj4c 2 роки тому +119

    This is the music that plays when you are lost at sea on a sailboat, floating away into oblivion. You know that you’ll experience your demise via wreckage or starvation, but as your little boat rocks along you realize that everyone you know will always be left in a state of wonder about your final moments, how it happened or felt. Only you will share this experience with the universe. You’ve never felt privacy like this before.

    • @CptFarlow
      @CptFarlow 2 роки тому +3

      Look up a movie called All Is Lost. It stars Robert Redford. I think you might like it.

  • @jo1e-de-v1vre
    @jo1e-de-v1vre 4 роки тому +62

    It's been a while since you've come home. Your parents are older now. So are you. If only that goodbye hug could last a little longer.

    • @TallerVRS
      @TallerVRS 3 роки тому +2

      This comments hit hard. I'm someone who had to cut my dysfunctional parents from my life. Thanks for posting, I would say something to make sense, but none of the comments do.

  • @lindsayreed6482
    @lindsayreed6482 6 років тому +78

    I’m driving down a desert highway with one dead headlight. There’s a stranger in the passenger seat, but I don’t know how they got there. I’m scared to look at them because I know they’re really me.

    • @cryforbri9339
      @cryforbri9339 5 років тому +4

      Ask him about love and how his day was

  • @samuelkirk2099
    @samuelkirk2099 5 років тому +720

    this is the music that plays when a chair realises that they are a chair

  • @jackstack9367
    @jackstack9367 4 роки тому +47

    This is the kinda music that plays when you're going down your long, dark hallway at 3am and for whatever reason you just... Sit down. And you think. Your cat walks up to you and you pet him, and as you look at him your loneliness has had a level of happiness settle onto it, much like oil on top of water.

  • @mattilib1
    @mattilib1 3 роки тому +61

    Listening to this, staring at spreadsheets, crying my eyes out. fuck

  • @rizzrustbolt4841
    @rizzrustbolt4841 5 років тому +391

    This song is like a child's drawing of an airplane hanging in an empty house.

    • @SolarWarden613
      @SolarWarden613 4 роки тому +1

      wtf

    • @Blueskyhat
      @Blueskyhat 4 роки тому +16

      Sad, weird and utterly but inescapably profound

    • @sajiste
      @sajiste 4 роки тому

      we gotta novelist right here 🙏

    • @nickbryant2318
      @nickbryant2318 4 роки тому

      Damn bro this one is the best

  • @weaselhack
    @weaselhack 7 років тому +1355

    this sounds like the music that plays on the Start screen of a GameBoy game but if you didnt press A for like 45 minutes.

    • @namaste91
      @namaste91 5 років тому +8

      This is such a precise description,damn!

    • @joancaic2853
      @joancaic2853 5 років тому +2

      I'm pretty sure you knew it but ua-cam.com/video/49ZK_EVWIBM/v-deo.html (Haruomi Hosono - Video Game Music) mostly-retro.com/2015/01/07/game-music-revue-video-game-music-1984/

    • @GoldieTamamo
      @GoldieTamamo 5 років тому +1

      Nah, less GameBoy, more Mario Paint.

  • @DMetcalfe94
    @DMetcalfe94 Рік тому +31

    Somewhere, nestled in a hole in the earth on a breezy hillside, a red panda and a field mouse have made friends. Throughout the day, they’ve gathered enough moss and soft grass to furnish their hole and keep them warm for the night ahead.

  • @pointthree3
    @pointthree3 4 роки тому +34

    Someone is waiting for your call, and you are waiting to call them.

  • @joecasey907
    @joecasey907 6 років тому +671

    You sit in your childhood house but everything is painted white and it smells slightly of vanilla

    • @tomshaw1015
      @tomshaw1015 5 років тому +4

      That's absolutely right

    • @justinspencer983
      @justinspencer983 5 років тому +15

      Sitting in my grandparents house where the walls are white dappled with odd art works and the carpets are a woven once upon white faded and stained from years of use. The house it cool during the summer and overly warm in the winter. Silence is the most common sound, but you may hear a whisper or two if you sit on that faded floor long enough. It smells of one certain perfume that has long pervades the years of use. The once lively place of children and laughter fades into memories only to be visited on occasions like this one.

    • @numsiskit
      @numsiskit 5 років тому +12

      OK I'm not the only one who is transported back to my earliest memorable moments when I listen to this. Amazing. That feeling of complete wonder when you wake up and everything is just new and you don't have any thoughts. You just take it all in. It's so distant but I still remember.

    • @trashcat4056
      @trashcat4056 5 років тому +1

      fuck

    • @Alex-km7so
      @Alex-km7so 5 років тому

      What the fuck

  • @adamnelson4859
    @adamnelson4859 6 років тому +33

    This is the music that plays in a lonely taxidermists head when the stuffed fox gets up, looks at him then pads out the door. He sits, dumbfounded.

  • @thatbitchnoemie
    @thatbitchnoemie 3 роки тому +42

    The first song : your soul ascending to the next world just after you died
    The second song : sitting nervously in purgatory nervous because you have no idea if you deserve heaven or if you're going to suffer in hell
    The last song : the deep calmness you feel after you've been sent to neither heaven nor hell, but to a quiet hazy greyish-white space when all you can do is remember the good times of your life.

  • @ch0colatec0ff33
    @ch0colatec0ff33 4 роки тому +23

    This is what it feels like to find a skull in your backyard, but it doesn't scare you. You simply leave it alone to rest there.

  • @spinningindaffodils
    @spinningindaffodils 5 років тому +410

    Pretty popular with the insect crowd

  • @peepspers
    @peepspers 5 років тому +779

    a little snail doing his best (and his best is enough)

    • @SOFTWARMBEEST
      @SOFTWARMBEEST 4 роки тому +19

      this is one of the sweetest and kindest sentences i have ever encountered in my LIFE. Thank You.

    • @arnoarno1092
      @arnoarno1092 4 роки тому +1

      Love this, you should have all the likes

    • @TheStuderman
      @TheStuderman 4 роки тому

      Ha Ha. Excellent.

    • @joshuabernard3095
      @joshuabernard3095 4 роки тому

      ハイ

    • @zekeortega1576
      @zekeortega1576 4 роки тому +2

      You fucking snail

  • @funeralbug6402
    @funeralbug6402 4 роки тому +27

    My bugs is watering my flowers with their tears

  • @billytalty
    @billytalty 5 років тому +39

    Good bye father, I made it to California.

  • @garg414
    @garg414 6 років тому +2100

    This is like going to a job interview, but being greeted by a man sized frog in a suit, he speaks softly and kindly to you while smiling faintly. You talk about your dreams and aspirations over coffee at a local cafe while it rains outside.

    • @arturob5306
      @arturob5306 6 років тому +10

      Garret Gunheim perfect description

    • @colanemo
      @colanemo 6 років тому +36

      animal crossing

    • @odie10000
      @odie10000 6 років тому +48

      I think you may just be Haruomi Hosono commenting on his own albums incognito, using a high-quality online Japanese to English translator. "Garret"

    • @mondellomusic
      @mondellomusic 6 років тому +2

      kinda

    • @garg414
      @garg414 6 років тому +8

      @mondellomusic You're imagining the wrong cafe.

  • @davidcoulter2283
    @davidcoulter2283 7 років тому +3219

    I played this at my vacuum cleaner's funeral.

  • @dezeman8062
    @dezeman8062 3 роки тому +29

    Jesus the second track is so intense, imagine trying to fit your change in your wallet while grabbing your grocieries with a huge line behind you and an attractive cashier watching you with a look of intense boredom.

  • @Marie-yj5gd
    @Marie-yj5gd 4 роки тому +36

    You look at your hands. They're not the same. Every day they change. One day your fingers are short and chubby, the next day you are graced with pianist hands. Nobody has noticed yet. Not once in your life has someone said something about your always changing hands. Sometimes you might get a comment like "Wow you have such pretty nails" or "Your hands are so small" but never has anyone asked why it's changing. Apparently they haven't noticed them changing. Apparently they're not looking at you that much.
    You were scared that your first lover would notice your hands. But they never did. No matter how many times yours were in theirs, holding onto each other, they never realized, each time, there was a different pair in their hands. It broke your heart.
    You wonder if these belong to somebody. If you're wearing this part of somebody else's body as gloves. You wonder what your own hands look like.
    One day you sit down at the piano and let your fingers glide across it. Today you have the pianist hands again. You have never taken a piano lesson in your life. Yet your hands play you this wonderful tune.
    From that point on, you know these are somebody else's hands. You don't know whose, but you want to return them. You don't know whose, but you make it your mission to find them. Until some day, you will find your own pair of hands.

  • @atarirob
    @atarirob 5 років тому +212

    This is the album that plays when you close your eyes one day only to open them and be surrounded by millions of exact replicas of yourself from every minute in time dating back to the moment you were born

  • @jon863
    @jon863 5 років тому +670

    I've never liked so many comments on a video before lmao

    • @Big_Emilio
      @Big_Emilio 5 років тому +16

      yeah, for anyone checking this pinned comment, this entire comment section is easily the best of its kind on this website. Please enjoy the journey.

    • @FatherDragonMusic
      @FatherDragonMusic 5 років тому

      same here

    • @karenrosero2288
      @karenrosero2288 5 років тому

      Me neither.

    • @iankowalczyk8455
      @iankowalczyk8455 4 роки тому +6

      I was just wondering if I was liking too many comments and there there is this.

    • @lilienlambare
      @lilienlambare 4 роки тому +3

      This is a rare find, a delightful comments section, no doubt.

  • @emoji-lover625
    @emoji-lover625 4 роки тому +13

    Actually this is what the end of school feels like. Not as in, every day but once you completely finish school

  • @user-of5gd9gy6n
    @user-of5gd9gy6n 3 роки тому +35

    this music makes me want to water my rock garden

  • @Jorgee-
    @Jorgee- 5 років тому +462

    I moved houses in 2005 I think. My old room was yellow, small, and could barely fit a toddler but I never, ever thought of it as cramped. I grew up there and had dreams of santa visits, motorcycle dumps, children’s movies, and soft mulch on the little blue bedpost that I called my own. I’ll never go back to see the room that made me who I am today. I’ve probably completely forgotten what it looked like back then, what I looked like back then, but this song makes me feel like I just opened the door one last time and walked in, smiling that all my little plastic friends are still sitting on the carpet right where I last left them, the lot of them just waiting to be played with.

    • @taniapandia4264
      @taniapandia4264 4 роки тому +16

      this is the most melancholic and beautiful comment on youtube

    • @Dante-444
      @Dante-444 3 роки тому +8

      nah bruh dont make me cry like that.
      just got off work and its 1:25 am mane

    • @julianmeneghinidotremont7427
      @julianmeneghinidotremont7427 3 роки тому +3

      Fucking ninja onions

    • @air_
      @air_ 3 роки тому +2

      This shit almost got me crying bro

  • @TroubleBrotherTV
    @TroubleBrotherTV 6 років тому +599

    This is exactly the perfect music for when I'm grocery shopping for lettuce in bulk.

    • @eyywannn8601
      @eyywannn8601 4 роки тому +2

      You secretly a character from Avatar?

    • @mdog4909
      @mdog4909 4 роки тому

      bro how did you describe this perfectly

  • @mishavoid
    @mishavoid 4 роки тому +368

    This sounds like Frederic Chopin shrunk down to the size of a mouse and explored life in a small garden. He builds a hut made of peony petals and carves a canoe of cucumber to traverse the Big Puddle. On the other side of the Big Puddle is a tall sunflower that towers over him. Rather than feeling intimidated, he is overcome with a sense of adventure and begins to climb. When he finally reaches the flower he meets a ladybug. Together they bask in the sun of a gentle afternoon.

    • @Jukau
      @Jukau 4 роки тому +17

      I bet you are good at baking

    • @rianjams
      @rianjams 4 роки тому +3

      BEST ONE

    • @dezeman8062
      @dezeman8062 3 роки тому +4

      Please watch Studio Ghibli's 'Arrietty'. I bet you'll love it.

    • @mishavoid
      @mishavoid 3 роки тому +1

      @@dezeman8062 Great rec! I have seen and do love that one!

    • @BeingAwakeisPainful
      @BeingAwakeisPainful 2 роки тому +3

      I have a peony garden! 😁

  • @Monsterassassin3
    @Monsterassassin3 4 роки тому +28

    I wake up every day hoping that this gets reissued on vinyl

  • @marfology
    @marfology 5 років тому +25

    This sounds like i'm shopping in Muji in 1984

  • @JonathanJK
    @JonathanJK 5 років тому +80

    Finally, a national anthem to give hope to ants trapped in ant farms.

  • @dannyamado92
    @dannyamado92 9 місяців тому +18

    29:49 on March 7th of this year, my older brother passed away at the age of 32, leaving behind his wife and two children. I’ll never forget that day at the hospital. It has forever changed our lives in ways that I can’t describe. This song was playing in my head as I held his hand and said goodbye to him for the last time.
    The sunset that day was absolutely beautiful, Chris. We miss you so much. Keep watching over the family, love you.

  • @levmade
    @levmade 3 роки тому +36

    I wake up at 5 am when everyone’s still sleeping, turning up that album and do my morning routine with no lights in a complete darkness (shower, teeth, dressing up etc.). All of this has such a weird chill vibe with this music, like I’m alone in a strange world with no one else in it, but it’s not depressing or sad, it’s just peaceful

  • @roskelld
    @roskelld 6 років тому +28

    It's 2am and I'm walking around the village, I bump into an Elephant holding a net. They ask me if they look good in their new shirt, I say yes, they smile and walk away whistling. I return to my night fishing.

  • @hjshea
    @hjshea 7 років тому +2999

    I would play this in my basement if I were raising moths

    • @angelicreinforcement3373
      @angelicreinforcement3373 7 років тому +27

      I usually hate it when people write stories in YT comments, but this one is just spot on (for track 1) :D Awesome!

    • @tylerjohn8435
      @tylerjohn8435 7 років тому +39

      It's not everyday a UA-cam comment makes me cry

    • @Paisteboy69
      @Paisteboy69 7 років тому +13

      +bythefireside27 that us actual art. Please become a poet

    • @quindickinson1787
      @quindickinson1787 7 років тому +22

      With your permission, I would love to illustrate a comic with this story.

    • @tyhen12
      @tyhen12 7 років тому +7

      Link the comic here when it's drawn!

  • @Windwolvesfly
    @Windwolvesfly 4 роки тому +237

    The first song is how it feels to come back to an empty house in the middle of a spring rainstorm after a long day. You're tired and ready to relax and as you're taking off your shoes and your damp clothes you're struck by the fact that this is it. You've lived your whole life up to this moment to get here, and you sit down and think about how you're going to go to work tomorrow and do the same thing, week after week, and you're struck by a melancholy nostalgia for the freedom you had as a child. There's a calm acceptance that comes with it, your life is alright, but there's also a crushing loneliness that comes with realizing the death of your past self and all the opportunity they had. You sit, staring at the corner of the carpet that has been fraying for as long as you can remember, and embrace whatever the future will bring you.

    • @Undressful
      @Undressful 4 роки тому +5

      And the second?

    • @Windwolvesfly
      @Windwolvesfly 4 роки тому +26

      @@Undressful The second song is driving home at night on an unfamiliar road. Your GPS is spotty and redirects you every time you've got signal long enough for it to reconnect. You've got more than enough gas to get home and you don't have responsibilities tomorrow, so you're not in a rush but it's still unsettling to be so utterly lost. You look off to the shoulder and you see a deer for just a moment. It's too dark to see whether it's still there when you look in your rear view mirror.

    • @the_illuminati_thugga3810
      @the_illuminati_thugga3810 4 роки тому +17

      this comment gave me an existential crisis

    • @drivebypoet
      @drivebypoet Рік тому +1

      I just graduated college and broke up with my girlfriend a few months ago, so this comment hit home for me.

  • @brandonzombiekiller
    @brandonzombiekiller 3 роки тому +25

    I was listening to this for the first time and while I was my 7 month old daughter crawled for the first time towards my phone. I now love this even more

    • @woozie___
      @woozie___ Рік тому +2

      Sitting here with my 2 year old boy on a quiet morning listening to it while he eats his cereal. There's a beautiful sense of peace as a parent knowing that you are exactly where you're supposed to be when you're with them

  • @swellfoop
    @swellfoop 5 років тому +380

    This sounds like a moth mourning its brother on display at a museum a few hours before the museum opens