Hey soooo since you asked for what songs to listen next, and i had 16 days to think about it, i made a small categhorial list I don't know if you wanna know spoilers about the songs, so i am gonna keep with the overall theme and some important informations Edit: I know i forgot like a ton and have a lot of personal opinion in it, so many fans will probably disagree a lot with everything on this list) Edit 2: I forgott about all his colaboration albums, ffs, this mans discography is way too big and good (tbf when he started i wasnt even born yet) I will put 4 Special Songs at the bottom wich i think are extremly important songs (So yeah best comes last on this list) Story Teller: - Cycles to Gehenna - important note: its a story thats kinda told with the end first, and then what lead to this (personal interpretation with minimal spoiler : its a story of what aesop imagine himself doing after somethign tragic happens, but instead of doing it he wrote this story / song) - Also Music Video WHOOOO - Acid King: - Song about an real life incident that happened in i think the same school he went to 4 years before he went there - (and for real is fu*ed up read an article about it) - Only song from the malibu kent album i really like -Shrunk - Direct succsessor to kirby (also on the same album) - Talks about his problems with the mental health industry - Also his family - Blood Sandwich - Honest I think you will love the song - Succsessor to shrunk - One story about his junger brother, one story about his older brother with tons of references - Zero Dark Thirty - Astory about his time at Zero Friends the popup store from the artist Alex Pardee - Now close friend, made the art in the music video, in impossible kid, and also in the rings music video i think, and also a tattoo - Also the music video and art in the music video where made by alex - Aesop had a couple of performances in Zero Friends (most you can find on the 200 bats youtube channel) - The mentioned earthworms is a reference, to his 1. album "music for earthworms" - Holy Waterfall / Sleeper Car / The four winds - The whole Spirit world album is mainly about an ayuasha trip aes made through i think maybe peru, but those are his story time songs about it - (Seriously SWFG is just my favorite Album) - Agressive Steven - 100 Feet Tall - No reGrets - I love this song, its about living a full live - An experience you have to get yourself - Racing stripes - A story about his good friend (wich he also had a couple of features with) - Listen to this after Cycles to gehenna and Get out of the car, so this hits way deeper If you need something uplifting: -Jonathan -A story about becomming so good at something not even the devil can beat you - Also beastionary is my 2nd favorite album Feelings: - get out of the car: -its my go to sad boy song, so many lyrics resonate with me (but a different situation) -if my interpretation is correct its directly related to the incident that sparked Cycles to Gehenna - Gopher Guts: - Disconection with your family - Lotta years - about getting old - Dog At the front door / jumping coffin (wich you already reacted to but for the sake of a full list) - About paranoia / panick - Jazz Hands - Wolf piss - Isolation -Legerdemain - His like for skateboarding -By the river - His love for rivers (also 2 for one story about his uncle) Here is where my categorizing failed, like pizza alley, and get out of the car, are also very personal songs and i am not really sure where to put them So lets just say extras: -Pizza alley -On failure (Hey its like on of your regular video titles and also only 2 min long) - Drums on the wheel Also the spirit world field guide music videos especially have a whole different video story to interpret, analyse, so you gotta look at 2 things at once Special: - Commencement At the Obedience Academy - Hook is maybe a reference to invasion of the body snatchers -Actually tattoed the hook on his arms - The tugboat Complex 1-3 - 3 Parts, really at the beginnings of his career - One of four - None Shall Pass - His Magnum Opus - For real i am not kidding, the aesop rock reddit had a month longevenet cathegorizing some of the songs, and this old song still won "unequivocally the best" - You need to make at least a 40 Minute reaction to give the Song the respect it deserves - I am not kidding, even if the reaction takes 1 hour please read the lyrics and try to understand and interpret them - you are a writing major, i like your reactions because you pause so often and categorize the stuff, do not feel ashamed/ sorry to pause its your USP, - If you want to listen to the whole song once without pausing, then again, to try and understand the lyrics, and then again without pausing to see if it feels any different - I am sorry for hyping it up so much, now the risk is high that it wont live up to the expectations, but at the same time, i am kinda confident it still does Btw in 2023 my spotify rewind told me i was under the top 0.05% of aesop rock listeners, an i listened to none shall pass the most with 78 times And this year i listened to it at least 80 times already again. So yeah, now you have a huge list, with your upload scedule probably like 2 Years of content to react to, my top suggestions are - Zero Dark Thirty - Cycles to gehenna - Shrunk - Get out the Car -By the river -Wolf piss -Blood sandwich -Acid King -Gopher guts And obviously: None shall pass
4:44 if you like this playing with words, then the skelethon or noneshall pass album should be right for you Like cycles to gehenna, but be wary its a 180tone shift from that Btw LLL was so popular you could (idk if you maybe still can) buy a ton of merch for him, and also play his app Like they had LLL sweat arm hingys, or headbands, and i think even the orange trousers 6:57 what happened? you cut out the whole 3rd part ??? youtube copyright? because yeah the whole pi story is missing now You don't even read the lyrics like you did with part 1
Somehow you lost an entire verse. I didn’t get to see you react to the circus verse. I could tell you enjoyed it though. You were smiling ear to ear the entire time. He said he’s always wanted to do a song like this. My Belly is another one that’s very doctor Seuss
Have you done any songs from Spirit world field guide? The Gates is a really fun one thematically and musically, and Dog at the Door is another fun short story song sort of like this about Aes being paranoid.
Hey soooo since you asked for what songs to listen next, and i had 16 days to think about it, i made a small categhorial list
I don't know if you wanna know spoilers about the songs, so i am gonna keep with the overall theme and some important informations
Edit: I know i forgot like a ton and have a lot of personal opinion in it, so many fans will probably disagree a lot with everything on this list)
Edit 2: I forgott about all his colaboration albums, ffs, this mans discography is way too big and good (tbf when he started i wasnt even born yet)
I will put 4 Special Songs at the bottom wich i think are extremly important songs (So yeah best comes last on this list)
Story Teller:
- Cycles to Gehenna
- important note: its a story thats kinda told with the end first, and then what lead to this (personal interpretation with minimal spoiler : its a story of what aesop imagine himself doing after
somethign tragic happens, but instead of doing it he wrote this story / song)
- Also Music Video WHOOOO
- Acid King:
- Song about an real life incident that happened in i think the same school he went to 4 years before he went there
- (and for real is fu*ed up read an article about it)
- Only song from the malibu kent album i really like
-Shrunk
- Direct succsessor to kirby (also on the same album)
- Talks about his problems with the mental health industry
- Also his family
- Blood Sandwich
- Honest I think you will love the song
- Succsessor to shrunk
- One story about his junger brother, one story about his older brother with tons of references
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Astory about his time at Zero Friends the popup store from the artist Alex Pardee
- Now close friend, made the art in the music video, in impossible kid, and also in the rings music video i think, and also a tattoo
- Also the music video and art in the music video where made by alex
- Aesop had a couple of performances in Zero Friends (most you can find on the 200 bats youtube channel)
- The mentioned earthworms is a reference, to his 1. album "music for earthworms"
- Holy Waterfall / Sleeper Car / The four winds
- The whole Spirit world album is mainly about an ayuasha trip aes made through i think maybe peru, but those are his story time songs about it
- (Seriously SWFG is just my favorite Album)
- Agressive Steven
- 100 Feet Tall
- No reGrets
- I love this song, its about living a full live
- An experience you have to get yourself
- Racing stripes
- A story about his good friend (wich he also had a couple of features with)
- Listen to this after Cycles to gehenna and Get out of the car, so this hits way deeper
If you need something uplifting:
-Jonathan
-A story about becomming so good at something not even the devil can beat you
- Also beastionary is my 2nd favorite album
Feelings:
- get out of the car:
-its my go to sad boy song, so many lyrics resonate with me (but a different situation)
-if my interpretation is correct its directly related to the incident that sparked Cycles to Gehenna
- Gopher Guts:
- Disconection with your family
- Lotta years
- about getting old
- Dog At the front door / jumping coffin (wich you already reacted to but for the sake of a full list)
- About paranoia / panick
- Jazz Hands
- Wolf piss
- Isolation
-Legerdemain
- His like for skateboarding
-By the river
- His love for rivers (also 2 for one story about his uncle)
Here is where my categorizing failed, like pizza alley, and get out of the car, are also very personal songs and i am not really sure where to put them
So lets just say extras:
-Pizza alley
-On failure (Hey its like on of your regular video titles and also only 2 min long)
- Drums on the wheel
Also the spirit world field guide music videos especially have a whole different video story to interpret, analyse, so you gotta look at 2 things at once
Special:
- Commencement At the Obedience Academy
- Hook is maybe a reference to invasion of the body snatchers
-Actually tattoed the hook on his arms
- The tugboat Complex 1-3
- 3 Parts, really at the beginnings of his career
- One of four
- None Shall Pass
- His Magnum Opus
- For real i am not kidding, the aesop rock reddit had a month longevenet cathegorizing some of the songs, and this old song still won "unequivocally the best"
- You need to make at least a 40 Minute reaction to give the Song the respect it deserves
- I am not kidding, even if the reaction takes 1 hour please read the lyrics and try to understand and interpret them
- you are a writing major, i like your reactions because you pause so often and categorize the stuff, do not feel ashamed/ sorry to pause its your USP,
- If you want to listen to the whole song once without pausing, then again, to try and understand the lyrics, and then again without pausing to see if it feels any different
- I am sorry for hyping it up so much, now the risk is high that it wont live up to the expectations, but at the same time, i am kinda confident it still does
Btw in 2023 my spotify rewind told me i was under the top 0.05% of aesop rock listeners, an i listened to none shall pass the most with 78 times
And this year i listened to it at least 80 times already again.
So yeah, now you have a huge list, with your upload scedule probably like 2 Years of content to react to, my top suggestions are
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Cycles to gehenna
- Shrunk
- Get out the Car
-By the river
-Wolf piss
-Blood sandwich
-Acid King
-Gopher guts
And obviously:
None shall pass
Nice to see you're back.
Yay, my comment from 3 months ago. Still having a blast. Keep it up
we both at 1:43 haha
4:44 if you like this playing with words, then the skelethon or noneshall pass album should be right for you
Like cycles to gehenna, but be wary its a 180tone shift from that
Btw LLL was so popular you could (idk if you maybe still can) buy a ton of merch for him, and also play his app
Like they had LLL sweat arm hingys, or headbands, and i think even the orange trousers
6:57 what happened? you cut out the whole 3rd part ??? youtube copyright? because yeah the whole pi story is missing now
You don't even read the lyrics like you did with part 1
Somehow you lost an entire verse. I didn’t get to see you react to the circus verse.
I could tell you enjoyed it though. You were smiling ear to ear the entire time.
He said he’s always wanted to do a song like this. My Belly is another one that’s very doctor Seuss
Looks like we're missing a chunk in the middle, what happened? :D
The "poodle on a unicycle, rose in her mouth!" bar is soooo good, too!
Have you done any songs from Spirit world field guide? The Gates is a really fun one thematically and musically, and Dog at the Door is another fun short story song sort of like this about Aes being paranoid.
he did kodokushi and coffin jump