Why You Feel Nostalgia From Music You've Never Heard
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What are some songs that have made you feel nostalgia even though you've never heard it? I'm absolutely fascinated by this idea. Do you think it's inherent in the music or just triggering our own memories? Is it possible to feel nostalgia for something we have no experience with? Would that make it something fundamentally different from nostalgia? I HAVE TO KNOW PLEASE HELP.
Charles, did you cover the theme song from Dexter's Laboratory?
The Piranha Plant Lullaby from Mario 64
Passing Through.
Jungle 1 - Drilling Billy
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity made me feel nostalgic the first time I heard it, and I was sure I hadn't before. It wasn't the sort of thing my parents listened to, and I don't think it was used in any media.
You picked this song Wisely.
I see what you did there.
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That’s a rare pun you made there
ha funny pun
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It’s not just nostalgia. It’s also melancholy. There’s also sadness of time that passed. That feeling is incredibly strong and to me music cuts right into that emotion.
Melancholy is a part of nostalgia.
There's a wistfulness which is amplified in The Consouls' gorgeous cover which is what I heard first (never played the game)
Mono no aware
Does it have to be sad? Can it be celebratory if fun memories? I’m watching Jomboy Media as they watch through every episode of Nick Guts. It doesn’t bring about nostalgia, but does make me appreciate my childhood memories.
@@doeyjetiege2274that's his point bruh
Stickerbush Symphony is one of the greatest video game songs of all time. It evokes memories in me that make me wanna cry, but its a happy cry.
Like a "you had a great childhood" cry.
This couldn't have been described any better than this.
That song’s truly the *_checkpoint_* of our times…!
I don't get it
Reading the checkpoints every now and then is just..... something. Not fun, not sad, it's a feeling I can't describe.
@@JaysonT1 Search for "internet checkpoints", they are usually associated with the stickerbrush symphony
@@JaysonT1 Theres a video floating around on the internet that people find themselves finding from time to time called the internet checkpoint that often comes with donkey kong country music
Why do I feel like Minecraft have this feeling as well
if you played it in your childhood then you can't really consider it to be anemoia, but nostalgia absolutely
The minecraft soundtrack for certain has that nostalgia / melancholy for days past vibes without me having it played as a child, as the game came out when i had like 20
I immediately thought of minecraft's sweden
Dungeon Synth is a entire genre based on this feeling
Because it’s a escape game. It’s real life!!!
This song really DOES take me back to my childhood because it's the very first song I became conscious of actually loving. I paused the game for what felt like an hour to just sit there and listen instead of playing the level right away. It was one of the most serene moments in my life, probably the first of few truly zen moments where I felt at peace and everything was perfect. I was in the moment and dialed in.
Internet checkpoint song! For the uninitiated, there was a video on youtube a while ago with a japanese(?) title that was recommended to a lot of people, and it became the “internet checkpoint”. Nintendo eventually took it down (of course), and since it has been reuploaded by others. I miss the original, but i’m glad that there’s new videos keeping up the memory.
Do you have a link to those other videos?
Stickerbrush symphony is hands down the best music in all of videogames.
The Bon Iver shoutout was not expected but definitely welcomed. He’s the goat.
Stickerbush Symphony is something F-ing magical.
I can still remember playing DKC2 being almost a teenager and getting through almost all of the game, just enjoying my time playing Diddy and Dixie Kong... to then start up the level called Bramble Scramble, thinking "Ok, next level", to then be hit by this masterpiece.
It felt like doing the ice bucket challenge, but the icy water was a warm blanket. It stopped me dead in my tracks having walked left for like a second, making me literally put down my controller after a few seconds staring slack-jawed at the screen, taking in all the harmonies and sounds Stickerbush Symphony threw at me.
It might be one of the most beautiful moments of my life.
any of the minecraft music makes me want to cry 😭 it’s definitely my own nostalgia but some of the minecraft music definitely has that melancholic sound that would make most people feel nostalgic i think
Checkpoints pop up even when you’re not expecting them. It feels heavy a lot of days, but the durability of this song and what it represents keeps me hopeful and content. Great song, great video!
ahh yes, the life-changing experience of discovering Stickerbush Symphony for yourself
Smashing Pumpkins' 1979 is nostalgia encapsulated in music, making me feel nostalgic about something that I don't even know what.
along with today for sure
It's the part when the guitar riff reverbs in a way that sounds like street traffic, where it almost sounds out of tune. Makes the song seem dreamy or ephemeral.
Yes finally someone else feels the same
Great song! Check out the contortionist cover of it too - it's super faithful but really beautiful and special
SP's 1979 always the America's (the band) Venture spiritual succesor song for me.
i think FM synthesis, in general, is really nostalgia inducing for a lot of people. it has a timbral quality that reminds us of both video game music, and pop from the early 80's through the 90's, which is why it is commonly used in "nostalgic" genres like vaprowave.
Agreed, though I don't think this music used FM synthesis since the SNES sound hardware was sample based
@d34thby1337 if I recall correctly, I believe the SPC700 sound chip in the SNES is capable of FM synthesis, but I think you're right that most sounds on the console we're produced using samples. Either way, I believe the soundtrack to the SNES DK games were composed on a DX-7, and presumably this is also how the samples were generated.
@d34thby1337 ah nevermind, just did some more research and i don't think the DX-7 was primarily used, although many other games did use it.
i'm in my house but i want to go home
-not mine
nostalgia and anemoia have to be the some of the best feelings and the latter is one of my favorite words, so glad you talked about it because as soon as you started talking about nostalgia from games and music that we haven't experienced, i immediately remembered that word, so rare yet so beautiful
The home I want to go to was in 1992, with my siblings annoying me, and my dad was still alive, though grumpy. That was a really good year for me.
I do still go visit my Mom who lives in that same house, but it's awfully empty now, even though my little sister is back there for a bit.
There might also be an element of _saudade_ to this. That's a combination of a sadness for what you had and no longer have (usually a lived experience with someone who is no longer alive), mixed with not just happiness [for having had those experiences with that person], but also punctuated with the realization that you'll never again experience those feelings [with that person].
I don't know if any of the branches of the study of human history will ever be able to explain what exactly are the elements of both music and our brain chemistry that make it so that music (out of all other branches of art) tugs the most at our heartstrings, but I doubt that we'll ever stop trying to solve this most profound, intriguing and exclusively human puzzle!
The explanation/theory might be weirdly straightforward 🙂
Music is sound, vibration and frequency.
These things are by all means, physics.
Water is a very modular substance
Human bodies contain an awful lot of water in all major areas
Our cells are literally being pushed around in our body, when the music has resonance for us
My wife and I both grew up liking different things. She LOVED (and still loves) Pokémon and Legend of Zelda games. I was more into Star Wars and old-school Disney movies and MGM musicals. I also played loads of Nintendo, but not a whole lot of Legend of Zelda or Pokémon.
We have a playlist that we compiled and play whenever we have a chill day at home or cooking dinner together, and it's full of orchestral renditions of our childhoods.
Like I said, I didn't play a whole lot of Pokémon or Legend of Zelda - but any time selections from those games come on, I'm transported to when I would sit in my room and play Super Mario 64, or when I would take summer trips to Disneyland with my family.
Nostalgia is a hell of a thing.
That song was perfect for those stages, it calmed you down for those frustrating stages.
The comment about playing this game before going off to their grandmother's for Christmas almost put me to tears... that comment really brought me back because the Donkey Kong series was a beloved series that my stepmom and I played a lot... and it was mostly special around Christmas-time. Upon hearing this, I got some serious literal goosebumps. It's special music like this that will continue to captivate for generations to come.
Im so glad you covered this song! It felt nostalgic in the 90s too! Its always been my favorite in the game. Such a classic
Amazing timing, I had this SAME experience with Stickerbrush Symphony just two days ago, and have been listening to it over and over and over since then.
I think nostalgic feelings are associated with something from your own past. For example, I went to a Queen + Adam Lambert concert because queen songs make me super nostalgic for my childhood, and I sat next to am older lady who said she went to all the best concerts in the 80s and 90s and was here reliving that expirience. I wasn't alive in the 80s or 90s, and my nostalgia comes from listening in the early 2000s on roadtrips with my parents. But despite our completely different age groups and nostalgic connections, we were both there singing all the words to the same songs.
That's so heart-warming - music unites across tine, space and culture 💖
it doesn’t have to be the arrangement that you recognize - you recognize certain elements of the arrangement, from the timbre to common motifs to any sonic references
bramble blast takes me back to when things were simpler, brings me to tears
The Super Nintendo was the first console to have a dedicated sound DSP back then and it was truly a revelation compared to the Genesis/ MegaDrive, many arcade machines and even home computers like the Amiga or the first Macs. I remember letting my characters idle in many games just to listen to the music and the DK titles were particularly good. As a 3D artist I also couldn't get enough of the rich CG backgrounds and characters.
Not exactly the same but for GTA VICE CITY I would steal cars are just drive around to listen to the radio.
For me, Boards of Canada definitely hits a nostalgic chord. It has a lot to do with the particular sounds they use and how they treat them. It always takes me back to my early childhood in the 70's.
the track "Silent Light" from Chrono Trigger hits my nostalgia button too even though I never played it
"To Far Away Times" is still a chilling/touching bop, too!"
as someone from just before y2k, a lot of stuff: film cameras, old tracker music, cassettes, etc. gives me "anemoia" as they are things from a past that i feel like i missed out on.
or something that was still around, but i was too young to really experience before it faded away.
the peak of videogame nostalgic music for me has to be the ocarina of time title screen theme, i still remember how strong the feelings hit even when i launched it for the first time, and now enough time has passed for it to start feeling like real nostalgia…
I remember back in '95 in middle school playing DKC2 for about an hour when I came across Stickerbrush Symphony, and after dying a couple times because the level is actually difficult, I just let it play for a good 10 minutes. Since then, it's been one of my favorite songs that I come back to a few times a year, pulling out my SNES and game cartridge just to hear it. I was overjoyed when I found out the internet loved it so much, and it is uncanny how so many of us are transported to a time from before, even when some of us never lived it.
Trance 009 sound system dreamscape gives me UA-cam nostalgia. The "you wouldn't steal a car" psa music gives me early 2000s cinema nostalgia
Woah. I put on Stickerbrush Symphony and was listening to it in my car right when he uploaded the video. Now I see this video in my recommended the next day, lol, that’s crazy
I’ve never played DKC nor do I listen to its music; but the song was just stuck in my head all day
This song brings back memories because a version of it is featured in a certain level of the SSB Brawl story mode
"Nostalgia for something that never took place at all."
This is and has been Boards Of Canada for me. It has the nostalgia factor from hearing it in my youth, but it always felt like it was nostalgia for a parallel life too. Very weird feeling but it's some of my favorite music of all time. Turquoise Hexagon Sun is a good example of that feeling in their music. I'd love to hear your take on their album Music Has The Right To Children.
The whole OST of that game is INCREDIBLE and hits right in the feels. God it takes me back
A very subtle component to songs I've recognized as 'nostalgic' - slight detuning in harmony.
I didn't play the dkc games back then and also have this nostalgic feeling. I can almost smell, taste and feel the memories i had in the 90s when i especially hear the dkc 2 OST.
This is one of my all time favorite pieces of music from any video game; quite literally every time I listen to this melodic masterpiece, I get chills
There are a lot of songs that stir deep nostalgia within me. And I think its a mix of the music both being inherently nostalgic, as well as making us dig for memories and times we never experienced. For me personally, nostalgic music both makes me remember the few good memories of the past, as well as long for the life i have never had.
14:40 The normal piano sounds like a normal piano.
The mellow version sounds like distant echoes of the past.
Another artist that is known for his insanely nostalgic songs is Porter Robinson, his songs I think are very interesting because he uses nostalgia but almost as if it was a celebration, his most popular songs definitely have made me cry many times because of this mixture of feelings, it would be so cool to see you make a video about his music, he is such an icon for electronic and pop music!
Thanks for covering this song and Aquatic Ambience in your previous video. Both these songs have so much meaning to me and inspire me. I'm so happy to see you explaining the deep reasons both of these songs are so beautiful!
I was there... I remember being awed by this game. The graphics were amazing for its time, and the music was enchanting as well.
Great video! Thank you Charles
I love your passion 👍🫵
Yeah, this song is beautiful
Sooooo much meat-on-the-bone in Charles' music analysis videos. They're long and they're in depth. Dude deserves everyone one of his subscribers and views.
I'm so happy to see this channel keep on spreading love for video game music
Ohhhhhh that Bon Iver comparison.... The self titled album cuts me to my core, even though I can't fully remember the lyrics each time. Thank you, Charles - love your videos
A super interesting video as usual! I don't even play any instruments, though I did a tiny bit as a kid, but the approachable breakdown of music theory you do is always fascinating!
I was born in 1992. I happened to listen to some synthwave music from 2020 and that made some specific childhood memories automatically pop up in my mind. And that's wild because it's 80's like music, and I wasn't even there in the 80s!!
Excited for this video!
Regarding your closing question, it's probably...a bit of both honestly. Music has so much power to set and influence mood intrinsically, and combined with the tendency of melancholia to make people dwell on the past, it's no surprise that tunes like Stickerbush Symphony evoke such strong feelings of nostalgia. The song Thirteen by Big Star still makes me feel super emotional to this day, even though it has been a long time since I was anywhere close to my teens. Please keep the video game music analysis content coming
God I love how passionate you are about this
The fact that I heard Mario Kart 64 Credits music for the absolute first time yesterday and I felt exactly that is crazy. If you never heard it I highly recommend you do, I got instant nostalgia for a game I never actually played
I think your point about the different piano sounds explains why lo-fi hip hop works. What it accomplishes for me is very similar. I can put it on and just do other things. It’s like having my own nostalgic soundtrack while I do whatever it is I need to get done. Very similar vibes there
As an 80s baby, the resurgence of synthwave has given me major moments of anemoia in recent years. First time I heard Midnight City by M83, and Resonance by Home, they made me long for memories of a life I hadn't lived, yet knew intimately.
One music that always gives me this vibe is Lady, by Modjo.
An absolute banger!!
I'm a guitarist, but I found this page whilst looking for videos on games from my childhood. I absolutely love the channel, maybe I'll start learning piano! 😊
@CharlesCornellStudios I'm 41 now and continue to still hang in there! Thanks for such a great vid, DKC music hits the nostalgia hard, really transports back to those fun childhood days., it's a real stress reliever when the strains of adulthood get their claws in. Keep up the great work mate :)
Thanks for explaining how this music made me feel even *during the time* I was playing the game as a kid. It already felt nostalgic and I was experiencing it in real time!
This song felt nostalgic back when i first played dkc2. Most of the songs on both dkc1 and 2 osts have a melancholy feel but 2 was particularly strong
Stickerbrush Symphony!! You’re awesome for making a video on this. The Jubilife City arrangement is great as well. I really like your videos 🙌
Thanks for your videos!
I've been wanting you to make a video on the music of Donkey Kong for so long. Most things by the great composer David Wise are absolutely brilliant. This is probably already my most nostalgic music I know and I hold this series near and dear to my heart.
I used to play French Horn in band. I picked up other instruments in HS, one being piano. I played but got so frustrated for years so I slowly just… stopped. I found this channel recently a couple months ago and now I find myself ENJOYING when I play. Even if I’m just practicing scales. This channel helped bring back the nostalgia of playing the piano for me. Thank you so much for all you do!
song by cindy lauoer called girls just want to have fun is another nostalgia song for me. my mom did have red hair, but by the time the video is ending like easily a song that made me cry with nostalgia.
Hah! I knew it was going to be this song immediately.
It's a nostalgia bomb to be sure. I enjoyed the game as a kid but it wasn't one of my top titles but the song brings me back a ton.
I'd love to see some Bomberman 64 songs talked about as they have a similar feel for me. The songs impact me so much more than from games that I played much more like Mario or Pokemon.
Japanese city pop makes you nostalgic for a time and a place you never experienced.
I’m sure the soundfont and FM synthesis helps to make this feel very nostalgic too. It’s all just the most 90s sounds ever
The last part of "Castaway", when To Hanks is at the crossroads is another nostalgia evoker.
I think you should make a video about tom brier and how he improvised all the video game music when he was sight-reading it
nice music. thanks charles!
Sound waves have the ability to move matter. To assume that sound doesn't move matter in a way in our body that affects our mood would be bold. I think if studied enough, you'd find sound will make certain elements/molecules behave in different ways due to changing shape alone, not to mention undiscovered phenomena. Our ears are right next to all of these neurotransmitters, I would like to think they have a certain interaction on some level.
This is a topic I have wanted somebody to explain for SO LONG. Thank you for this.
Glad you’re still doing this channel! You should explore the Crash Bandicoot music soon. Really funky vibes.
Played the game in my childhood. I think that is the only game that I share a feeling of nostalgia with my siblings. They, although loved the game, were not much into games in general, but it is not rare that we remember this music together. I have a strong memory of playing a level with Stickerbush Symphony with all my family getting ready for a family party and my mom saying that this music is beautiful and apreciating my playthrough when brushing my sister's hair. That nostalgic feeling is powerful, and felt quite beyond my remembrance of my family and specially my mom being much younger, it speaks about our family ties beautifully. Something I would like to rescue.
such calming music for a stressful level.
I love how you gave the actual video nostalgic background music. Very meta. And also a very soothing video to watch. To answer your question though, I don't think music can really be inherently nostalgic. Like you said, it draws us towards thinking about memories and feelings of nostalgia. There are songs with completely different vibes than Stickerbrush or Bon Iver that give me nostalgia based on my own experience. However, hearing that plagal cadence always hits me deep. It's just such an emotionally stirring sound.
I also felt that on mining melancholy, and hot head bop.
But the feel of nostalgia in stickerbrush so strong im in tears the first time i heard it.
Musician here too btw.
This game´s entire soundtrack is golden, My favorite is aquatic ambiance even on top of this one, the song even makes me feel cool temperature on a hot day... nostalgia plus synesthesia.
I think having a rhythm or motif that keeps repeating through the song is a big deal too. It puts me in a reflective mood if it’s not boring.
This is amazing. Stickerbush and Holocene are two of my favourite songs ever.
The song that started my love of music to begin with
Yes! I'm glad that you picked this song!
Apparently, it was supposed to be underwater theme. I feel nostalgia from the music.
In this particular sense the combined sense of the Nintendo square synth really adds to this compatibility. Older systems were required to have video games essentially preform music live on the cartridge so using 4 different instruments Nintendo cracked down and helped support the phrase. Limited resources equals infinite creativity. So happy you did a video on DKC aquatic ambiance would be another hard hitter that’s used in pop hear recently too.
Went to my old school recently. Haven't been there since I graduated 8 years ago. Was mildly nostalgic to put it litely. Had a little bit of sensory overload the first minutes, seeing the kids run around and have fun like I used to. Can't anymore sadly due to medical conditions. Seeing old teachers of mine. And I remembered the friends for life this building gave to me. Was a really odd experience.
The Donkey Kong track makes me think of the Daft Punk album Random Access Memories, which also envokes nostalgia for me, for a time I never experienced (the disco era). Cool video!
This is one of the best videos you ever put out.
Indeed! Maybe it just the topic, but I can cleary see he was invested to make this video. Not that he wasn't in previous videos, but this one was special, y'know?
I've always been curious about this!
I knew instantly what song you were going to pick just from the title alone. Something about this song makes me feel like I'm right back in the 90s watching my brother play games on his SNES (even though we had DKC1, not 2) and sneaking into my other brother's room at while he was away to play his PS1. Pair this up with cozy liminal space images and I think you might explode with nostalgia.
In the last few weeks I was going through some playlists on Spotify and ended up having that kind of feeling while listening to some songs I had never heard before. I have been attributing that to music genre and overall instrumentation and arrangement. I'm glad to have watched this video, I don't feel nearly as weird now 😅
That was a fantastic video!
One of the most nostalgic pieces of music from my childhood is the Lon Lon Ranch theme from Ocarina of Time, it makes me feel incredibly sad too but it's a beautiful piece.
Kakariko Village theme and some of the ocarina themes like Bolero of Fire, that game is packed with amazing music. Any music that has a soundscape similar to this game will instantly make me feel the feels
I think you're an amazing musician and I had Donky Kong Country as a kid. I'll throw this song on to dishes and laundry!
Keep up the hard work!
I was able to look up Stickerbrush Symphony on Chordify and noticed that it has a hidden Royal Road chord movement. (F>G>Em>Am on C Major). Here, the G major chord is resolving onto a chord that is different from either C or Am. The second thing that I noticed is that the C tonic chord is hardly touched. As David Bennett pointed out, the Royal Road progression is supposed to add a touch of wistfulness to the major scale.
This song pass the vibe of "your adventure its almost ending. Keep mkving foward hero"
Dude, I can't believe this video exists. I have the same nostalgic association with this song, even though DKC2 came out years before I was born. It's my favorite song because I listened to it during a tough time in one of my relationships
I'm not crying. Just something in my eye.