Understanding Crack The Skye
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INFO: Mastodon is a heavy metal band that was formed in Atlanta, Georgia back in 2000. The groups long-time members Troy Sanders, Brent Hinds, Bill Kelliher and Brann Dailor have stood for creation of some of metal’s most ambitious sounding albums in the 2000s and 2010s, but one album helped them take the leap to become one of the
pioneers of modern metal music. We’re talking about Crack The Skye, and album that tells a story about everything from Tsarist Russia and astral traveling to wormholes and paralysis. Together with psychedelic, dark and long-winded sounds the album it serves as an honorable memory of the drummer’s sister Skye Dailor who committed suicide at age 14. In this video we'll take a closer look at how the story and the album was made.
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Thank you for this. This is my favorite album by one of my favorite bands.
Yes please
Oh man some drugs are needed for that one.
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Joseph Bastidas I SO AGREE. Please do this.
I'd like to know more about The Way of all Flesh instead
The lyrics in the song Oblivion and The Czar, detail a moment when Brann dropped acid and tried to dig up his sister at her grave, before breaking down crying and apparently seeing her face in the stars looking down at him.
"I tried to burrow a hole into the ground, breaking all the fingers and the nails from my hands'
"I see your face in constellations'
JackMakesFilms citation?
I can't find the exact source right now, but here's a quote from an article I just found (from Googling 'Crack the Skye Brann Dailor Sister):
'Two weeks after her death, Brann got high and went to his sister's grave and started digging. He couldn't acknowledge that she was dead and wanted to bring her back. If nothing else, he wanted to open the casket just to see her face one last time. About halfway through, he stopped and just lied there in the dirt, staring up at the stars. That's when a sort of miracle happened - according to his own accounts, he swears that he saw his sister's face in the stars. She told him not to worry anymore because she was in a better place. Afterwards, he ran home only to find that his abusive step-father had bailed on the family. His mother was doubled over on the bed and crying, and he laid down beside her in what seemed like a night of endless tears'
This one! Damn i should've gone through this too before i made the video.
doroteathegreat.blogspot.com/2009/08/who-is-skye-dailor.html
Thanks for the link.
Dude, thank you for bringing this up. I've been a massive Mastodon fan for years and years but have never heard this story. Its heartbreaking, and really adds even more depth to one of my all-time favorite albums.
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Edit: Forgot to say, great analysis man!
Mastodon's album art is second to none, so rich and vibrant always.
For sure! Although i think it would've been awesome if they stuck with the same old artist all the way through.
They've been mixing it up quite a bit lately.
One of the best metal albums of all time
the album for me it was 10/10. now it goes to 11.
Good thing i made it even better for you! Thanks for watching and enjoying.
Or rather all other music goes one number down :D
There's a lot more to the story if Crack the Skye, the music was in part inspired by the coma guitarist Brent Hinds' was in after he cracked his skull after performing at the 2007 MTV music awards.
In interviews he's said that while he was out he dreamt that he was astral projecting and traveling the solar system.
Where can i read more on this?
and he was put into Rasputin's body. Nvm that's his original body
@@LieLikesMusic they made a video journal for the making of the album. He spoke in detail about the incident and coma.
Dude, this was deep. I actually love this album more than before. Great video.
Love this album. For me it marks a point when the band began to really grow as musicians and song writers.
True. But Leviathan and Blood Mountain were just as good as Crack The Skye too. They're just more
commercially appealing on that album because they're more Floyd'esque.
Crack the sky is such a masterpiece, one of my favorite albums of
the past decade
Same here. It's just as epic every time i put it on.
@@LieLikesMusic yay, and one of my favorite aspects about it (like any other great album) is that you are pretty much forced to pay attention to it. You either stay and listen to it or do something else
Man I love this album so much, easily tied for my favorite album of all time, and as the years continue on, it's always giving me more, giving me something new and my appreciation for it only continues to grow. The whole album front to back is such an incredible experience, and there are so many amazing moments I love, two of my favorites being: the surf guitar solo in Divinations really conveying the feeling and sheer velocity of ABSOLUTELY HURTLING through space and time like nothing else, and then the ending instrumentals of The Last Baron being the culmination of everything that had happened before it as a final closing statement summarizing and celebrating the journey.
In the Court of The Crimson King , you should do that sometime Lie.
SERIOUSLY. Or just an Understanding King Crimson vid in general.
Yeaah...as awful as it is, we'll probably have to wait til Fripp bites the dust before KC's music can be shared freely again, like with Prince.
dmaster5556 agreed for a person like me who lives in India where you have to get audio CDs shipped from US , which costs thrice more than what's normal , it's really tough to explore King Crimson
Greatest metal album of all time of 21 century. This video definitely do a proper justice for this album and i know you are big fan of mastodon too lol.
You got me! I've been a fan of them since 2012. And i'm glad you think this was a good one. I really tried to do
my best in covering the story, because i know a lot of fans don't have all the pieces collected.
Very well done video, glad it popped into my suggestions! Crack the Skye is definitely my favorite Mastodon album. The guitar solo on The Czar is incredible.
Yes Brent's guitar solo game is at its best at that time. LOVE it!
when I first bought it, it was playing every day for almost 50 days....sometimes more than once.....I just couldn't get enough of this pure awesomeness!!! One of my all time top 10's
Same here my friend! Or in the beginning i actually didn't get it. But when it grew on me, it REALLY grew on me.
To the point where i became a hardcore fan of theirs
@@LieLikesMusic same! It was a very funny story where I listened to crack the skye and loved it, yet never listens to more of their back catalogue!! I could never understand why until I had mentally matured more, and from then I was head over heals with everything Mastodon has done. To fan-boy out I can say the same appreciation came for Neurosis, that’s another story though haha
Took it deeper than I expected it could go. Love the breakdown. Hope they do more thematic albums.
Well i've been a fan of this album for a VERY long time. So i've soaked up all the information about it like
a sponge haha. I hope so too. That's what they're really good at.
Also understanding Fugazi!
This is fascinating. Its given me a new block to stand on when it comes to looking at things differently. I've loved Mastodon for years, but this is the first I'm getting any kinda detailed info on their content. This is great
I'm glad this made their music even more meaningful to you. That's the goal of my channel. When i first
heard about this info i was blown away. And i knew i had to make a video about it at some point! Because
i would personally love a video like this. Cheers from Oslo, Norway.
This was an amazing analysis of this album, I've been a fan of mastodon since remission was released but you really blew my mind with this!! Thanks for explaining Crack the Skye and taking the album to the next level! MIND BLOWN!!!
Thank you for making this. Crack The Skye holds a special place in my heart.
Same here! That's why i made this. Cheers from Norway.
I know the story of Skye Dailor in relation to the album and I've heard the album a hundred times, but hearing you read from that interview with Scott Kelly and then playing part of his vocal performance hit me with a strong wave of emotions and goosebumps. Damn I love when music does that.
My personal and Mastodon favourite album... A perfect masterpiece...
thank you so much for making this video! well done!
No problem. I would love to watch a video like this myself since i'm such a huge fan.
So this was my pleasure.
What a video ive always loved crack the skye but after learning all this stuff about the album I have a lot of newfound respect for it. I love Mastodon.
Another timeless masterpiece of an album! I know people that heard this when it first came out almost 10 years ago, and it still is among their favourite albums and say it hasn't aged a day. Mastodon have never released a bad album, but this was their artistic and lyrical peak, for sure. Oblivion sucked me in, Divinations gets me as pumped as Blood and Thunder from Leviathan or Mother Puncher from Remission, the title track is lyrically, thematically, musically and vocally crushing. Especially with Scott Kelly's usual guest vocals, crushing is a word I'd always associate with Neurosis.The Czar is probably my absolute favourite prog metal epic. Up there with some of Tool's best work. "Spiralling up through the crack in the skyyyyy"... God damn, the build up to that part and the following guitar solo. Fuck.
I agree with those suggesting a video on Gojira's From Mars to Sirius.
You have some brilliant taste dude, been following this channel for a while now. I also remember bringing up Sigur Ros when talking about some of the best live performances I've seen alongside Primus, on your video for The Desaturating Seven. It'd be great to see a video on Sigur Ros. Maybe for Ágætis byrjun or the bracket albums. Especially considering their unique blending of genres (especially Ágætis byrjun), use of bowed guitar and entirely fictional languages (particularly on the brackets album)
My thoughts exactly! Love what you said in that first paragraph. Although i don't agreed with what you said about them
NEVER making a bad record. Once More Round The Sun and Emperor of Sand weren't exactly good records in my ears.
Cold Dark Place was better than those two for sure. But lately their sound has been watered down i feel. I'll see what i can do about Gojira and Sigur Ros, but i can't promise anything for sure for the close future. Thanks for the great support and caring
btw! It means a ton.
Lie Likes Music no problem!
I can definitely see how people wouldn't like their releases after Crack the Skye. Watered down it absolutely is, but OMRTS is a fun album, imo, and in my Top 3 from them. The Hunter and Emperor of Sand are a lot lower for me though. Hope they continue to go in the direction of Cold Dark Place as well. Troy's vocals aren't what they used to be for this band and they need to accommodate for that. His vocals really shine in his Gone is Gone project, though. Looking forward to future releases from them.
Cheers man, keep at it.
Emperor of Sand is easily their best post-CtS album, I'd say its either their 3rd or 4th best album.
Turdsley To each their own, but to me it sounded like it was trying too hard to sound like Crack the Skye but while also keeping the much more commercial sound of The Hunter and OMRTS. It made it sound forced to me. I still love some of the songs on EoS (Roots Remain, Steambreather, Ancient Kingdom, Precious Stones), and I rated it much higher when it first came out, but it got stale very quickly for me. I feel that even though The Hunter and OMRTS were disappointing post-CTS albums, at least they were a new flavour each time, and OMRTS was the more consistent of the two, imo.
1. Crack the Skye
2. Blood Mountain (Sleeping Giant is tied with The Czar as my favourite Mastodon song, and Pendulous Skin, holy fuck)
3. OMRTS (Everything from Chimes at Midnight all the way to Diamond in the Witch House was pure gold)
4. Remission
5. Leviathan (controversial placement, I know, and I used to like it more than Remission but now I love songs like Trainwreck, Motherpuncher, March of the Fire Ants more than most of the stuff on Leviathan. Seabeast and Blood and Thunder are phenomenal though)
6. The Hunter (The title track alone is enough to make it an album worth revisiting often)
7. Cold Dark Place (great EP, hope they continue in this direction, but not enough nostalgia for it yet, and too short to be on par with most of the albums)
8. Emperor of Sand
9. Call of the Mastodon (I occasionally come back to songs like Battle at Sea, but it's my least visited release from them)
Thanks a lot for this epic doc. !
One of the Best albuns ever made in history!
My most awaited video, man, happy to be a Patreon, great work as always.
Thank you! I'm glad it lived up to your expectations. Take care my friend.
Great deep dive. Great insight. I've herd this album for many years and never studied the lyrics and had no real idea of its meaning. Subscribed and can't wait for more
Awesome! I'm glad you liked this. Is there any band/artist or album you want me to talk about in the future?
It has to be in the rock or metal genre.
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Please we need a full video on this.
Like, a 3 hour video.
Good luck
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Great record. My second favourite Mastodon record after Leviathan. I’m enjoying your videos. Especially the concept album analyses (like the Mars Volta stuff)
Leviathan is also a masterpiece! I read Moby Dick because of that album. I'm glad you liked these videos. I love concept and prog rock/metal, so if you have any suggestions like that for future videos then let me know.
Really nice and detailed video. Made me tear up a bit. Good job!
I'm glad you liked it and it made an impact on you. Cheers from Norway!
Understanding Beck. I love your vids man. Keep it up.
That's a great request. I'll see what i can do. Cheers!
7:30 this gave me chills thinking about this its so sad
Yeah it's a very messed up story and memory from Brann's life.
wonderful album, thanks for making my Friday better!
No worries Edward! I'm just happy to highlight great music.
Well done gives yet another reason to enjoy the album a masterpiece of music to me
Right? That's what i aimed for. Thanks for watching!
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Wowee. Thank you for posting this🖤
No problem. I love making this video series!
Amazing album. Excellent video.
Thanks brooo
Cheers! This is one of my favourite albums of all time!
I think so too! Cheers for our good taste in music 😂
You are a man of word! Can't wait to see more from Mastodon in the future!
I try my best ;) And this one was bound to come out because i'm a big fan of them anyways. And yes there will be more.
@@LieLikesMusic try listening to some of my suggestions from instagram ;)
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Amazing video💜 Really well edited
Honestly looking back, i think i could've done a much better job. But thanks for the compliment :)
Amazing video man! I love it!
Thank you Hayden! Many cheers from Norway.
Just bought the cd yesterday because of this video! Great album so far
Woah that's awesome dude! That's a great investment. Cheers from Norway
Thank you... amazing channel
Thank you Alexander!
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excellent analysis and album. i instantly loved it when i heard it, thanks. Understanding crimson by edge of sanity would be cool, it's not that complex but is very well executed and constructed.
Lie my man thanks for reintroducing me a little more to metal and introducing me to Mastodon, you make youtube a better place.
Papa bless
Thanks for the awesome support dude! It's always a pleasure to share music, and it's even better when i get
comments from open-minded people like you. Cheers from Oslo, Norway.
Best metal album of the 21st century
Maybe. It's very high up there for me.
I have to go with Lateralus
It might be my pick as well, although Lateralus, Blackwater Park, Toxicity, and The Satanist all belong in the conversation
Wow this was deep thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed it man! Cheers from Norway
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"If you've never heard of Rasputin before, he has a long and interesting-" I definitely thought that was going a different direction, haha.
Yeah that was probably a bit misleading. Sometimes i don't see those things when i write scripts, because
the words just fall out.
Awesome job man. This was my first album by them and got me hooked. This and Blood Mountain are my favourites but I hope they do a whole album in a similar style to Cold Dark place
Cold Dark Place had some very good songs on it. It's like a mixed style between their new albums and old albums.
I think i could dig that too. AND YES! Blood Mountain and Skye are very close in quality imo. Same with Leviathan.
But after The Hunter i think they started watering out their sound. They became more bland.
Understanding King Krule , please? Also your channel is one of my favorites to watch. It's cool I'm discovering a lot of new artist's. Keep at it!
I'll see what i can do. Thanks for requesting him. And thanks! That's what i try to do. To help you get into new stuff as well.
Favorite mastodon album. Oblivion and Divinations sold me on buying it when i first came out,but man i wasn't ready for everything else on the album. great concept,and tribute to his sister.
Haha that's basically my story too. I loved a couple of the songs on there and ended up buying the CD
despite of being sceptical to the other tracks. Little did i know that this band was to become one of my
favorites. Thanks for sharing!
no prob man! keep up the good work! \m/
Great analysis. This album is really special. I remember finding out about it at the time I was mourning my grandfather's death. It took a few listens but it connected deeply with me. It still moves me deeply, this one, after nearly a decade.
Same here Lucas! It's one of the best metal albums i've ever heard. Have you listened to Leviathan, Blood Mountain or
The Hunter? These are also some amazing albums that they've made. I would even say that some of them are even better
than Crack The Skye too.
@@LieLikesMusic Yes, I'm a big Mastodon fan actually! They have such a diverse discography! I remember having Blood Mountain as my favourite until I really connected with this one and, as a drummer, Capillarian Crest still blows my mind. Emperor of Sand made for a great return to story-driven concept albums too!
Thank you so much for this.
No problem. Glad you enjoyed it ;)
This album was everything to me in middle school thank you
Same here!
Their best album in my opinion, I'll check it out more tx for this beautiful review 🌻
I'm having a hard time picking my favorite. Blood Mountain and Leviathan were also fantastic imo. Thanks for
checking in Jackie :) Appreciate your opinion.
Wow, I was not ready for that. 😭😭😭
Too much, too fast?
REALLY appreciate this. I'm a longtime metal fan and it's always been difficult for me to connect with Mastodon, though I've had an appreciation for them. Definitely going to have to check this album out again and I have a feeling I'll like it more after learning this context.
As for what you should do next - how about more metal?? :)
That's how it is sometimes. But i'm glad this helped you to check it out another time with a new pair
of eyes (or ears). And about your request - yes why not? Would love to do videos about Mr. Bungle,
Tool, Black Sabbath, Kyuss, Periphery, Dream Theatre etc.
That was so beautiful I wanted to cry
Ah that's very nice of you. Thanks for watching this!
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Amazing insight,great work! The album concept of astro traveling,leading the main character somehow into XIX century Russia,reminds me of the 2002 film Russian Ark.Their are very diferent works,in diferent medias,yet they are eerie similar.Love your videos man,Cheers!
Never heard about that film. So thanks for adding more value and context here in the comments. Maybe i'll check it out sometime.
Also thank you for watching and supporting me. It truly means a lot. Cheers
Thanks for your kindness,always glad to be a part of this amazing community here in your channel.
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I would be interested!
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All you have to know is that they’re Noided
So stay noided kids
There is no "understanding" this
PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME. They multiple concept albums with an over arching story spanning multiple albums too. You'll find their music to be very rewardingly layered, and has some serious Mars Volta/ Queen/The Dillinger Escape Plan influence.
I've had them recommended to me so many times. But i never seem to "get" their music whenever i sit
down to listen. I hope someday it will happen
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Great video!
Thank you Eva!
These guys are like the complex legendary story writers of LORD OF THE RINGS & such !! Amazing !! I will definitely check out their albums !! Thank you for a great review !!
You definitely should. I would start with this album if i were you. It's considered their best work.
And for sure, the story is one of the better things about the album.
Never listened to this album. I love adding new music to the list.
Yes be sure to check it out. And let it grow on you if you don't like it immediately.
So dont listen to this one, you'll never add something new to your playlist again for a long time after you listen to Crack the Skye. Side effects.
do yourself a favor. buy the cd/dvd combo. i bought it when it first came out and never fully understood until now. i listened to it daily and as i fell asleep.
Waynimations I envy you a little bit, as I would go back in time to listen to Crack The Skye for the first time again
Great vid man, about one of the greatest albums ever made.
I know, that's why i wanted to make this hehe. Thanks for the support!
Well this was unexpected, fantastic album
I think that "Oblivion" lyrics refers directly to loss of Brann's sister. Nothing more, nothing less. It's just a endless letter to Skye, how he felt after her death, without her.
Everytime I listen to Crack the Skye it always makes me cry, I haven't had a sibling take their own life but my Cousin and one of my best friends when I was a kid did, and I've struggled with the thoughts for 9 years now, so anything about suicide always gets to me, love the whole album in general, but that song is easily one of the best ever written.
I get why you think so. It's so close to what you've experienced yourself. Although i haven't had any of those experiences
when i was younger, i still think this is one of the best albums i've ever heard. So emotional, impactful and complex.
I haven't lost anyone to suicide but they passed on from natural causes. When I think while listening to this album I always get the thought to live a good life so when I see them again I have a lot of stories to tell.
Crack the Skye is the first Mastodon album I heard, and I'm so glad I did. I listen to this album every day
Really? every day? Damn you're turning into a fan fast.
@@LieLikesMusic Been a fan for many years, Mastodon is amazing!
Great video man, that help to love more the album can you do one explaining the history of the parallax saga of between the buried and me please
Sure i'll see hwat i can do. I've tried getting into Between The Buried And Me before, especially Colors.
But there's something about them that i never seemed to "get".
This album will be 10 years old next year. Time flies.
Damn that's true! It was like yesterday when i first discovered this. At least it's being remembered.
great video
Thank you Thomas! Any specific artists/bands you want to see in future videos?
Understanding the Pixies plz
beautiful video
Thank you Matt!
I'd love a video about the different symbols, colors, and themes for each Mastodon album and maybe a comparison to Baroness and their colors
That would be interesting. I'll definitely make another one about Mastodon in the future. They're one of my all time
favorite bands.
This is by far one of my favorite albums of all time
Same here Bung. Some of their other albums are also amongst my favorite. Such a fantastic band.
Early for two times in a row.
Oh my god. I had not noticed those themes in the album art.
Well now you noticed. It's all about spirits, russia, Rasputin and astral traveling.
I like how you just read off the first paragraph on the Rasputin wikipedia page. I mean it's alright I would have done the same.
I guess i rushed a bit with the script at some points. I always try to re-write the sentences although
it's often in the same order as in the wiki article anyways.
outstanding band.
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amazing
Thank you James
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My fav metal album of all time
It's in my all-time top 10 i think. Fantastic record for sure!
YES!
I have listened to this album so many times and I still can't get over how good it is.
Good to know that it's not just me xD
Yesss!
Should do Sleep or Electric Wizard
Sure. Would love to do Sleep if they havea good story to tell.
I absolutely love your videos but please for the love of god i hate when i read the description during the ad and the video starts and its the exact same thing
You're the first person to mention this. I guess i'm keeping it very simple description-wise. Maybe i'll add some
additional info next time.
Interesting that both Remission and Crack the Skye were both dedicated to Brann's sister, and they're both my favorite Mastodon albums.
Yes that is interesting. Personally i think they still needed to mature when they created Remission.
But there's a lot of really solid songs on there!