Deconstructing The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2024
- In this video I deconstruct and rebuild The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist , from their 2000 album Since I left You.
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The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
• The Avalanches - Front...
Wayne and Shuster - Frontier Psychiatrist
• Frontier Psychiatrist
The Enoch Light Singers - My Way of Life
• Enoch Light Singers - ...
George Barnes - Anna (El Negro Zum Bon)
• George Barnes -- Ana
Harvey Mandel - Wade in the Water
• Video
Divine as Francine Fishpaw and George Hulse as Mr Kerr in - Polyester (1981)
• Polyester - Dexter's E...
Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham - Lover and a Friend
• Eddie Bo & Inez Cheath...
Ron Goodwin and His Orchestra - Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
• Spitfire Prelude and F...
Wayne and Shuster - A Shakespearean Baseball Game
• The Shakespearean Base...
Dexter Wansel - Theme From the Planets
• Dexter Wansel - Theme ...
Doopees - Dr. Domestic's Physical Effect #1 - Piece for Turntables and Records
• Yann Tomita and the Do...
Wayne and Shuster - I Was a TV Addict
• Wayne and Shuster TV...
Aunt Theresa - The Piece of Wood That Talked
• Aunt Theresa, Please T...
Flip Wilson - Cowboys & Colored People
• Cowboys & Colored People
Sesame Street - The Count Counts Flowers
• Sesame Street - The Co...
Geoff Love and His Orchestra - Theme From Lawrence of Arabia
• Great/Big war movie th...
Aunt Theresa - The Leopard
• Aunt Theresa, Please T...
Laurie Anderson - The Laurie Anderson Interview (Side One)
• Laurie Anderson - The ...
Percy Faith & His Orchestra - La Chaparrita
• La Chaparrita
Flip Wilson - Midget
• Midget
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• The Good, The Bad, and...
The Conquest of Everest (1953)
• Video
Flip Wilson - Riot Suit
• Riot Suit
Aunt Theresa - Lost Mittens
• Aunt Theresa, Please T...
The Gray Line Tour of Historic Boston - Side Two
• Gray Line Sound Tour o...
Laurie Anderson - Kokoku, Sharkey's Day, Credit Racket [Excerpts]
• Laurie Anderson - The ...
Audio Fidelity Records - Cuckoo Clocks
• Cuckoo Clocks
Aunt Theresa - Picking Berries
• Aunt Theresa, Please T...
The Eddie Thomas Singers - Wait Till You See Her
• Eddie Thomas Singers -...
00:00 - 00:47 Intro
00:47 - 1:20 Geoff Love and His Orchestra - Theme From Lawrence of Arabia
1:20 - 1:35 Polyester (1981) (Dialogue)
1:35 - 2:30 Harvey Mandel - Wade in the Water (Drums)
2:30 - 2:56 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Gun shot
2:56 - 3:40 The Enoch Light Singers - My Way of Life
3:40 - 4:40 Wayne and Shuster - Frontier Psychiatrist (Dialogue)
4:40 - 5:05 Aunt Theresa - White As a Sheet (Diaglogue)
5:05 - 5:50 The Gray Line Tour (He Also Made False Teeth)
5:50 - 6:30 Dexter Wansel - Theme From the Planets (Drums)
6:30 - 7:00 Listen Through
7:00 - 7:19 The Conquest of Everest (1953)
7:19 - 8:00 Percy Faith & His Orchestra - La Chaparrita (Strings)
8:00 - 8:21 Aunt Theresa - Lost Mittens (Dialogue)
8:21 - 8:30 Wayne and Shuster - I Was a TV Addict (Dialogue)
8:30 - 8:52 Flip Wilson (Dialogue)
8:52 - 9:19 Wayne and Shuster - I Was a TV Addict (Dialogue)
9:19 - 9:25 Flip Wilson (Dialogue)
9:25 - 9:35 Aunt Theresa - Milk (Dialogue)
9:35 - 10:00 Laurie Anderson - Rectangles (Dialogue)
10:00 - 10:29 Wayne and Shuster - A Shakespearean Baseball Game (Dialogue)
10:29 - 10:55 Wayne and Shuster - I Was a TV Addict (Dialogue)
10:55 - 11:07 Aunt Theresa - Juice On Your Chin (Dialogue)
11:07 - 11:21 Flip Wilson - Promised My Girlfriend
11:21 - 11:35 Laurie Anderson - Violin (Dialogue)
11:35 - 12:15 Ron Goodwin and His Orchestra - Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (Strings)
12:15 - 13:13 The Eddie Thomas Singers - Wait Till You See Her (Vocals)
13:13 - 13:50 Sesame Street - The Count Counts Flowers
13:50 - 14:30 Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham - Lover and a Friend (Drums)
14:30 - 15:10 Audio Fidelity Records - Cuckoo Clocks
15:10 - 15:45 Aunt Theresa - A Bird
15:45 - 16:09 Doopees - Dr. Domestic's Physical Effect #1 - Piece for Turntables and Records
16:09 - 17:00 George Barnes - Anna (El Negro Zum Bon) (Outro Music)
17:00 17:24 Outro
What always amazes me about this song, after learning how it was made, is that it's a song that has absolutely no original elements, yet itself is so highly original.
Kinda like how there’s only 26 letters in the alphabet, or 12 notes in an octave, yet it’s how you mix them in unique ways that help color the world. This seems to be using that same method, where samples are just notes on a piano.
Close. The samples are essentially riffs.
@@riffcaster Yeah, the high art of sampling. Coldcut and The Bomb Squad are/were also masters of this.
I, and many others, consider this song to be one of the greatest songs ever created.
Every sample feels like someone’s echolalia focus. I think that’s why I like it so much. It feels like a quilt of favorite things.
I knew this song was so dynamic but now, I respect this song way more. You have done insane research.
Well now that I've seen this, the music video makes way more sense. They're like, "Well we made the song, now we need a music video. Let's just hire a bunch of people to represent the different sounds we sampled, even if it's not the exact same thing."
That's literally all it is. I've been sitting here trying to find meaning behind it and there is none.
Your a nut, your crazy in the coconut.
This is one of the few songs that is genuinely funny. The parrot scratching makes me laugh every time I hear it.
I kind of realized there was several samples but WOW! The Avalanche have a broad interest to pull together all these bits and pieces.
IIRC the story was that a record store was going out of business and they managed to get all the old records that they didn't manage to liquidate in the clearance sale. Then, with such a wealth of possible sample sources, they embarked on this crazy ambitious project of an all-sample album
@@dancoroian1 That's very interesting, thanks. Intriguing to think of all these obscure records left on the shelf in some defunct record shop being spliced together broadcast around the world, so random.
I was listening to this classic tune at work and the boss came over to ask if I thought it was appropriate music for the workplace. She also asked if it was hip-hop.
Amazing
I found Frontier Psychiatrist first and it led me to fall in love with The Avalanches. The song is so perfectly stimulating.
For me it was Since I Met You on the Ministry of Sound's chill out album.
@@lemsip207 My second Avalanches song, letting me know I'm in for life.
The twin psychiatrist reminds me of a dangerous psychiatrist who I had. Clozapine is dangerous and people died on it. I took it and had to be taken off. This song is creative. I like how Avalanches do this on stage. They jumped around a lot. It’s the way a person would jump around if they saw you as a patient in a long term patient.
Clozapine sounds like a ancient greece godess of the headaches
@@jave2274Clozapine is the queen of the trumpets.
It reminds me of being counselling and having a counsellor that I was on the same page with so developed better boundaries. I started to say no to aspects of my voluntary work.
But some people didn't want me to change and tried to push me to find help elsewhere. I replied that I was already in therapy, that sometimes you feel worse before you get better as you gain insights and for them to get off my case.
Clozapine should only be given as drug of last resort and should be heavily monitored for side effects
It's amazing how they found all this rare media and it just as amazing that you figured it out. My mind is blown.
What's really impressive is that those samples are barely transformed (at most pitched to fit the key of the song), it's straight-up collage.
I'm honestly amazed that the Avalanches were able to find all these samples back in 2000, Did they just go to every record store they could find and by a tonne of old records just to see if there's anything interesting on them? Even then it's crazy that they even thought to use all of them, Some of these are the most random things, Yet they somehow work so well in the song.
Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches . . . an outstanding recording achievement!
And twenty years later I find such gem- the deconstruction. Impressive work, thank you
NEW LEAD! The “Tighten your buttocks” sample could actually be from a series of UK fitness records in the early 80s called “Shape Up and Dance”. After browsing dozens of other exercise albums/programmes, this is the best candidate. At the end of every (available) volume, there’s a track for muscle relaxation, yoga, etc. where the host talks in a more gentle manner. Otherwise, all of these records have upbeat pop with loud instructions (which is obviously not the sample). For reference, listen to the last track of Shape Up and Dance Vol. 1 with Felicity Kendal. The tone is the same for both voice and background ambience…. Even the phrase is almost said verbatim.
The only issue is there are several volumes. Only three exist on UA-cam and none of them are the exact sample. (Though they generally are within the same ballpark). Hope this helps.
Amazing! Sounds like it might be the one. I'll keep my eye on it, thanks!
It is Felicity Kendal, 1981 - During "I Will Survive", she says it twice
@@HeyCarrieAnneWhite I double checked. It isn’t the original, though it’s pretty close.
Thanks so much for putting all the effort into this. You've answered all my questions!
This song became my favorite from the album Since I Left You.
There are only four samples left to discover: the horse's neigh, the drums that sound in the middle and at the end of the song, the line "and tight on your buttocks" and the parrot sound.
I loved the deconstruction of the song! 😃😁👏
Apparently the line is "tighten your buttocks" and is from a Jane Fonda workout tape
@@devinsamuel3612 In another video I found that supposed origin, but I couldn't find it. It is a very rare tape and very difficult to find.
I LOVE this song, didn’t know I needed a deconstruction of it until now ❤❤❤❤
You did such a good job! Ive been waiting for some avalanches. knew this would be coming
100% this one was on the list for a while! More Avalanches to come.
I’d love the whole album done like this. Close To You, Flight Tonight, or Live At Doninoes especially.
It’s ridiculous how the avalanches managed to use thousands of samples just in one album alone. This reconstruction reveals just how subtle and obscure they got with it, like they raided a record store dollar bin.
I've always loved this song lol. I knew there were superimposed pieces throughout it... I didn't realize the ENTIRE song was made with these... This is masterwork in dj mixing right here.
The width of the drums came from the mixing boards they mixed the album on. A good way to re-create this is with the Haas effect, basically, hard panning the right channel, and left channel, and delaying each by a few ms. This effect was used all over the album!
Absolutely! I use the Haas effect all the time when recreating these tracks. I think I even used it on my version of the drums, although I will admit that I didn't come close to the width or the crispness that the Avalanches achieved.
23 years on I would never have guessed all these sounds would be discovered. While I am here that horse sounds like the one after the gunshot pitched. Perhaps they just swapped them around?
I thought so too at first, but it is 100% from another source. I haven't checked in a while though so it is possible that it's been found since I made the video.
Something I found interesting about the Eddie Thomas sample over the Ron Goodwin strings is that it seems to accent a subtle sound present in the Ron Goodwin sample when pitched up. So if you listen very closely there are some quiet undertones created by the pitching up of the sample, sounds which at the source frequency go unheard, that may have inspired them to layer over the Eddie Thomas vocals in a similar fashion.
Great ear! I think you might be right.
It's in the trees it's coming...............
Glad I stumbled on this! Thanks for sharing. As innovating as the Avalanches are for music, I find their videos equally compelling. I can’t even have a favorite video of theirs.
Ooh! I didn’t realize Laurie Anderson was on this track. I’ve been in love with her work for 40 years.
Laurie Anderson is beyond cool.
AMAZING!
Laurie Anderson's Home of The Brave is REALLY worth a watch.
It's brilliant! Way ahead of its time.
A masterpiece of production. Hands down... and the music video production is equally as masterful.
That song wormed its way into my brain when it was first released and I don't think it will ever leave, just occasionally pop up to surprise me.
So happy I found this channel! I love this song and the album! You should do the whole Since I Left You album deconstructed! I thought the horse one was from the song Good Guys Only Win in the Movies
That's definitely in the works.
by far my favorite sampled song of all time, i love this track. very interesting seeing where all of the sample came from. save for a few, can't wait for those to be found
Definitely their best work. Excellent music video too.
The rest is all rap :(
@@Flat_Earth_Addy Which parts are rapping?
@@judgeberry6071 All of them.
@@Flat_Earth_Addy Nope. There is nobody rapping. It's all samples. Did you watch the video?
@@judgeberry6071 Yes there is. Do not contradict me. It's all gangster rap. How do you think I know? How dare you ask me if I watched the videos, when you clearly have not.
The "tighten your buttocks" sample is from a Jane Fonda exercise routine. I don't know if it has a name.
That is what I had heard too, but I don't think anyone has yet found the exact sample yet.
The mixing and mastering are so insanely well executed.
This was #3 of about 15 on my nomad 2 zune mp3 player in 2001
This is insane! Great job! Thank you so much for covering this 👍👍👍
Thanks Alex! More Avalanches to come in the near future.
That was awesome ! Love The Avalanches, thanks for the breakdown !
The fact i found this song YEARS AGO from a 15 year old Halo Machinima “It’s A Wonderful Live” and here i am is crazy
I was always curious about this song. Thanks for making this.
They were edgy and creative without overstepping the line. They showed how it could be done.
This track has some AMAZING drums!! Good one.Our music taste is 100% in sync :D
You've got great taste in music then ;)
This is so cool. Thank you for doing this!!
Awesome video!! Really makes you appreciate the work that goes into both making the track and finding all of the samples afterwards!
Plunderphonics is insane
amazing deconstruction, thank you!
I've always wanted someone to make a piece like this.
THANK YOU! I've loved this song for years and always wondered where the samples come from.
Brilliant song and amazing breakdown
Great job. I just found you and I’m hooked!
Great breakdown. Thank you.
Well I guess I need to track down that Dexter Wansel album. Heck, and all those other albums, too.
Wow incredible work!
Proper and respectable DJs!
dope breakdown
Awesome video !
Thank u for that
This is incredible.
Thanks - very interesting!
I've always wondered about the 'hypnotize' sample, now I know it's from Eddie Bo.
Just found you by accident, I searched for Bloodstain, and now... I see The Avalanches AND Fatboy Slim? I smiled. :) New subscriber here! Best, Julia
Cheers, thanks!
Amazing vid. That Dexter Wansel song still slaps
thanks, just thanks, this is amazing!
I found this video from this song and this channel is so underrated
Fascinating.
That is all.
so cool
Here - you earned my thumbs up!
great job deserve 1 million views for this video
crazy as a coconut how much effort went into this, there's just one question. what does it mean?
Amazing job deconstructing the track and hunting down the samples. Are you planning to do the whole album?
I will definitely be doing more of their tracks in the near future.
@@KarlBoltzmann I would'd love to see them !
This is amazing!!! 💯💗
listened to the track dozens of times and never heard the cuckoo clock sound somehow
Man I remember bumping this on Channel Z back in the 2000s
I was just listening to Frontier Psychiatrist and got recommended this video. Someone has already made a video about all the samples and their sources but its nice to see you also find them. I took a quick look at your channel and I must say its interesting, do you take suggestions on what songs to deconstruct?
I will always take suggestions!
pretty sure it's 'Avalanches above, business continues below', not about
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.
Daaang how long did it take ya to find and put this together? Great job as this track is so intriguing!
It definitely takes a while to put these together in a way that I am satisfied with, but I am not responsible for finding the samples in this track! There are communities of amazing sample hunters who found these samples over many years, paving the way for this to be made.
@@KarlBoltzmann Oh right I forgot 😅Still, the dedication to this vid is awesome! I wonder if it's still the most sampled song ever?
It could be! All of their tracks are such a beautiful collage of so many interesting samples.
Karl, I'm not sure if you take suggestions for videos. But if you do, Jurassic Five's Lesson 6 would make a great video and challenge for you!!
That's a great suggestion! Love Jurassic 5. We'll see what there's time for this summer.
@@KarlBoltzmann Great I hope to see it on the summer. I'm glad i was able to give a new video idea
Thank you for this! This is one of my all time faves and I was hoping you'd cover this one. Did not dissapoint! Makes me appreciate this modern masterpiece even more.
2:32
Is it possible the horse sample they used is the same horse you hear in the clip of the gunshot?
It has been confirmed to be a different horse. I'm not sure if it's been found or not yet, but people are on the hunt.
Salut from Brasil
song is great but deconstruction is insane
amazing video! u got a sub from me
Does anyone know where the ghost coral came from?
Oh nothing too obscure then
This is amazing. Are you telling me you reconstructed the whole songs by hunting down and recording the samples?
The sample hunters out there deserve all the credit for finding the samples! I occasionally do that too, but I'm more about reconstructing how the samples were used by the musicians in order to detail how these songs came together, piece by piece.
@@KarlBoltzmannI love how it is all put together to create something else. There is nothing new in the world now. It makes it familiar. A lot of films have call outs to previous films.
Lawrence of Arabia has horses in it
i had no idea this song sampled laurie anderson
edit: and sesame street???
awesome
I miss these videos! Any news on when you're coming back?
Soon! I've taken the summer to focus on other things, but I will be making these videos again very soon.
Awesome, take your time obviously. Will definitely be tuning in.
Just a couple of quick questions. 1. Do you actually have a job because this shit must take ages to figure out. And 2. Why the hell don't you work for the FBI or something like that???? This kind of forensic genius must be used!
I immediately subscribed to your channel!
Thank you, you're too kind :) I can't take credit for the sample finding however. There are some very dedicated folks out there who are part time sample hunters that have slowly built up the public archive of found samples. I've found some samples here and there but mostly my job with these videos is to figure out the technical details, take a very very close look at how they were used/processed/cut and produced in order to make these amazing tracks.
I’d like to know about the actors/people in the video. How do we find out about them?
I would check imdb. www.imdb.com/title/tt9125792/
So… What does it all mean?
That boy needs therapy.
Sippy sippy. Take a proper swig man!
lol, I don't blame you for being upset by my dainty sips, but I don't think I will be swigging my hot tea anytime soon.
@@KarlBoltzmann it ruined my day mate. 🤣
You could at least try some ice cubes. 🤷🏼♂️
No way! I'm not watering down my perfect brew for anything. Just going to keep sipping and sipping...
What about " your a nut.....crazy the coconut ".....unknown?
Sorry if I didn't cover that exactly in the video but it's from Wayne and Shuster's - Frontier Psychiatrist, which is sampled for a lot of this track's dialogue.
After watching this video i think i wanna deconstruct Since I Left You
Working on it right now actually.
😱😱😱🙌🙌🙌
Hey man, I really like your deconstruction videos. Can you do a reconstruction video of the beat used in the final verse of Eminem’s song: ‘Bad Guy?’ It’s off his 2013 studio album: ‘The Marshal Mathers LP 2.’
Is that where this Gian Piero Reverberi comes in? ua-cam.com/video/18W5Z_RosYY/v-deo.html
@@KarlBoltzmann Yep, that’s the one
Cool. I'll look into it
It had to cost insane money to get all these copyrights!
Don't be stupid.
I think it was a bit of a mess because of the eventual popularity of the album. It's a shame it had to be so complicated because it's genuinely such a well made work of original art.
what daw is this?
Ableton Live. I would highly recommend giving it a try if you're looking for in the market for a DAW.
So maybe someone will see this comment and shed some light on the legality of sampling. I’ve talked to artists like pogo and others and I myself sample in my music…but I don’t understand why some songs can lean so heavily on sampled material , reach great success and not have people chasing them down for money or remove the song entirely. Where other songs will have the tiniest little sample and they will be taken to court😮 is there any good videos talking on this subject? I find it very interesting due to the incredible grey area..any help is appreciated!
I don't have all of the answers but I do know that before releasing a track, labels will always ask artists if they have any sampled material in their music. If they do and it's something of a concern, the label will reach out to the owner of the master recording and either pay out a certain amount of money which would depend on the predicted earnings of the track, or the owner of the master might ask for a percentage of what the track will earn overall. Every deal would be different depending on who owns the song that's being sampled. Sometimes artists will use a sample and not reach out to the owner and those will often end up in some sort of settlement or court but really only if it's making money. Then there is plenty of public domain material to work with that gets sampled/re-recorded often enough and that's all fair game. I am not 100% on the legality of micro samples, but I think it was litigated in the 90s that if a sample was short enough, (1-2 seconds, I can't remember, maybe someone else can correct me) that the owner of the master didn't need to be compensated for the usage. None of this should stop you from experimenting with sampling though. If you're not making any money with it, then just have fun playing around with it and if it turns into something profitable, you can always deal with compensation then.
10:50 I'm pretty sure that "Tighten your buttocks" is from a jazz exercise programme made by jew people. They actually used it on the Cornerstone mix.
This is the record "Neshoma Orchestra With Instructions By Ella Adler - Jewish Aerobics". Now I haven't heard it but I'm pretty sure the sample must come from here.
Interesting. I will check that out.
@@KarlBoltzmann Please do! And tell us if it's there or not. Btw have you heard the cornerstone mix?