I'm so sorry that Cartoon Network screwed you out of the credit you deserve, I know it's been YEARS, but I want you to know that as kids we all adored this song, and now as an adult I can listen to all of your music! Thank you for bringing light into the world of millions of children! :)
@@TheLairofVoltaire You are one of the reason i find monster such a facinateing concept nowadays thanks to this song. Something about it made me realize that grim and dark themes dont always have to be so scary
: ) I guess I did it sideways: I watched a fair amount of TGAOBAM as a child, but I don't remember this song from any of the episodes I watched (not consciously, at least) and I was introduced to A. Voltaire's music at a significantly later time - not knowing, for most of the time I knew about him, that this song of his was in that show (again, mostly due to my non-completist (indeed: not, even, close to completist) practice of listening to Voltaire.)
I really love how well this song fits with Billy and Mandy's style in general. The show's style has a very goth looking sharp style but still has the whacky slapstick everyone loves in a cartoon. And I feel like this song still captures that feeling perfectly, even years later. Maxwell surely made the right choice when deciding to commission Voltaire to do this song, and Land of the Dead is just as good if not better.
Maxwell made an insanely great choice. It's the only episode of the show I remember. Plus making the characters basically do the thriller dance helps solidify it as one of the best animated show episodes of all time.
Wasn't Aurelio contacted, asked to make a song, and then they made a story and animations around the song. Like they had no idea what they wanted and used the song to make the episode?
Fun Fact: The red zoot suit from Mr. McGee that Billy wears in the Season 1 Billy and Mandy episode "Little Rock of Horrors" is actually based off a real suit that Maxwell Atoms, the creator of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy himself, wore when he met Voltaire at a goth club and asked him to write the song "Brains!" for this Billy and Mandy episode.
Is it wrong that if an evil green glowing space rock landed in my back yard and asked me to sacrifice everyone I know and love while singing Voltaire that I would at least consider it?
I still remember when I heard this song on Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy over a decade ago. Still one of my all time favorites and the first Voltaire song I ever heard.
KnightProphecy that makes the four of us. this and Land of the dead are the first two songs I ever heard from Voltaire, and I didn't even know it was Voltaire at the time I heard those songs.
Rent free for 23 years and I still love it a friend of mine started playing it and it gave me a huge nostalgia trip so now ima go binge watch Billy and Mandy
Really? I would have assumed that DD,DDEES is more his trademark, or When You're Evil. This one may be popular with his younger fans, but I'm sure that the majority of his fans haven't seen Billy and Mandy.
@@swishfish8858 If you've seen him live, you'd know how wrong you are. Basically everyone knows this song from Billy and Mandy. Heck, I'm 39 and I first discovered Voltaire through Billy and Mandy.
@@ezra-jacksimas9613 Exactly. There's zero other cartoons that allot this kind of space to a song. An entire part of the 1/3 episodes they had every half hour was allotted to this song. It shows how much confidence Maxwell had in this working well. I think it worked great since it's the ONLY episode I remember from the show. Not taking anything away from the series, because it was great, but this is THE EPISODE I go back to every time.
Thank goodness. We wouldn't have this masterpiece if it wasn't for that. This is a top tier Halloween song alongside Thriller, the Monster Mash, and the Ghostbusters theme
My daughter and I were in Atlanta for Dragon*Con a couple of years ago. One of the events was a night at the Atlanta Aquarium. We were sitting at a table, having a nosh, and this song came on. I don't know why, but I jumped up and started to dance! (I do NOT dance!) My daughter got up to dance with me and when I looked around, I saw that half the crowd was dancing with us. It was the highlight of the entire trip!
I knew I loved Voltaire. When I heard this song on Grim I loved it. I got hooked on Voltaire's gothic homemaking years later then I realized he made music. It came full circle!
Beautiful. It’s crazy how this just comes back to my mind at random time at least once a month. Gosh, all the gothic child friendly horror stuff of my childhood, banger.
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode this song was in was my favorite episode as a kid because of how amazing this song was and still is to this day!
Ah, this takes me right back to my childhood Billy and Mandy is still one of my favorite tv shows, and this one was easily my favorite episode out of the whole series
Hey I used to love this song growing up watching Billy and Mandy. Funny that I finally found it now that I'm 24, it's still incredible after all of these years. I just wanted to say you're incredibly talented and thank you!
So, there was a video short that was posted talking about wanting to shed some light on this song for being so good. IT BLEW MY MIND, finding out you were commissioned by the creator to make a song for their show!! I really hope more people find this song because of that UA-cam short
Man I still come back to listen to this song all the time, so catchy! Halloween's coming up soon and Voltaire's stuff always gets me in the festive mood. ^_^
I only ever saw this episode of Billy ans Mandy once this sing stuck in my head for years and now it randomly pops up in my recomendations. This is a good evening for me.
I heard this when I was 16, as that's about how old I was when Little Rock of Horrors first aired... It made me absolutely fall in love with your music. There's just something fun and macabre about it that fills my little Halloween loving heart with delight. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some brains to eat.
Maxwell atoms had another show before gaobam and i forget the name but that show was sick and thats where grim and the kids were introduced withscar face and that girl with the red hair and the brain guy in a bear remember? Evil dr. Carne? I forget lmk it was my intro to grim
I still like to come back to this. I remember watching the episode on CN, and I didn't even speak English, but the song got stuck in my head. And then many years later I found your music and at some point I was like "wait holy shit I remember this song".
I found out about this track back in 2003, but it wasn't because of Cartoon Network or any other; I didn't even know that existed but later on. I found out about the song "Brains" in 2003, as an active duty soldier of The US Army, while living in Tennessee, browsing at the Mall one day and entering at a Hot Topic Store. There I found this Compilation CD titled " Projekt K: The Essence of Goth" and in it there were two tracks that called my attention which were "Goodnight Demon Slayer" and "Brains", I didn't even know who you were back then. But since I like everything Goth I bought it out of curiosity because I have not checked anything Goth that called my attention, not since the 80's. Once I listened to both tracks, aside from the other tracks there were in the CD, I fell in love with both "Goodnight Demon Slayer and Brains", and there was no turning my back on this again". Then later on I found out about the show and how your song was created for it. And also found out about you, your biography, your music etc and got instantly hooked, and I thank you for this. So since then (2003), not only have I become your fan (I'm from Puerto Rico btw), I began to appreciate the subculture, the music and everything else more....and it all began with the song "Brains".
im 17 and wasn't allowed to watch billy and mandy when i was younger so i decided to watch it. oh boy when i got to this episode and heard that opening violin i said "VOLTAIRE!?". i know he made a song for the movie but i had no idea he did other songs for the show
This song 110 percent shaped my childhood and taste in music, haha; I couldn't begin to convey how delighted I was when I found out the person who made this made other, equally wicked tunes~
something i distinctly remember about this episode was the “cop” in the second verse actually discovering the evil meteor and pulling his side-arm. keep in mind, these were the days of 4kids dubs and cigarettes becoming lollipops and shit, so seeing a real animated gun pulled definitely threw me for a loop as an eight-year-old. and of course the gun didn’t work, but he pulled and open-fired regardless before the meteor ate his brain. i think that’s what really solidifies billy and mandy as a dark cartoon in my mind. it’s not ‘horror’ specifically, not in the same vein as courage or ren and stimpy, but there were undoubtedly some very grisly concepts behind the cartoony veneer. i sincerely wish people remembered the show more than they seem to
When I heard this song on the show I became a voltaire fan especially after the movie came out and he sang another zinger for one of my all time favorite shows.
+MrLukygamer I think I heard somewhere that Maxwell Atoms (Show's creator) said he would be willing to reboot Billy and Mandy if Cartoon Network wanted to. Cartoon Network has been doing reboots recently so they might bring it back. Although, I also heard he was doing another project called "Dead Meat" as of now, so I'm not sure if that statement still stands. :)
MrLukygamer There's some information about it on its Kickstarter page here www.kickstarter.com/projects/745014573/dead-meat/description You have to scroll down through a few things but it has a synopsis. :)
I feel like Voltaire's voice would be perfect for an iteration of the Grim Reaper It has a similar eccentricity to Alan Tudyk's work I like to picture the reaper saying "well hello there, little boy! Don't be shy! Step right up, I'm a reasonable guy!"
Hey voltaire, your song is used for a custom perk in cod waw called Baron samedi rum. You've left such an impact. the kicker? it turns you into a zombie and you have to eat, wait for it, brains!
I just have one question about this. Did they gave you a script for the lyrics? Or they told you the sequence for the episode? Cuz you know, the song and the episode are blend together so... Did the song shaped the episode? or the episode (script) shaped the lyrics? It would be sooo damn great if I get an answer.
As far as I know they gave him a basic concept for the song, but they didn't give him a script or something like that; and they were going to pay him for the song's length, that's why it's so long xD
The episode of Billy and Mandy with the brain eating alien was my absolute favorite just because I liked this song so much! I'm so happy that I've rediscovered it!
So I gotta admit that I stumbled across this band by pure alcohol fueled dumb luck, whilst searching for a recipe for Irish grog. . .yeah. . . Don't know how I ended up here, but I've listened to about 5 songs and y'all are freekin epic! Right up there with metallica's s&m soundtrack (in your own right of course) so I'm going to proclaim that I'm your newest fan. . . I think. I will be buying up anything I can find from you guys ;)
Just seems like a really fun song to cover. And I watched Grim Adventures as a kid but never knew of Voltaire until I heard a later album and listened to everything he's made, I was surprised that he was on tGAoBaM
don't worry I wanna cover this song too so your not the only one, I absolutely love the singing and rhythm in it its perfectly catchy and I love the older style of music in it.
Heard the sound on a business trip to Australia in 2009, while discovering the Grim Adventures of Bully and Mandy. Then forgot all about it. 2023 and I stumble on this again and appreciate it all the better 😀
Voltaire's violins is amazing, brings me back memories watching Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy on cartoonnetwork I'll never forget the scene where Billy started coping Michael Jackson's dance from thriller while everyone was brainwashed the one dislike to this video is Mandy.
This song and another one was my bedtime song I’d listen to before bed growing up 😂 my mom even has a signed poster she got from going to one of your shows
this song went so hard when i heard it as a kid i was confused why it was just for a one episode character and not part of some kind of singing meteor spinoff show soft pilot
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I'm so sorry that Cartoon Network screwed you out of the credit you deserve, I know it's been YEARS, but I want you to know that as kids we all adored this song, and now as an adult I can listen to all of your music! Thank you for bringing light into the world of millions of children! :)
they paid him by the second
Minute
can confirm, I loved this song when I was younger and still do
I think you mean bring darkness into the world!
Agreed
The B&M writers made the perfect choice when they picked Voltaire for a commissioned song. His style just matches the show so well.
Thank you! But giving credit where credit is due, I was asked by Maxwell Atoms, the show's creator. :)
@@TheLairofVoltaire Big part of my childhood thanks for doing your thing dude
Interesting childhood bright.
...
but same lol, Voltaire's always a good time.
@@TheLairofVoltaire You are one of the reason i find monster such a facinateing concept nowadays thanks to this song. Something about it made me realize that grim and dark themes dont always have to be so scary
@@TheLairofVoltaire sometimes I get naked, paint myself green, and pretend I'm a meteorite singing about brains.
I did it backwards. I looked up Billy and mandy after hearing this gem
: ) I guess I did it sideways: I watched a fair amount of TGAOBAM as a child, but I don't remember this song from any of the episodes I watched (not consciously, at least) and I was introduced to A. Voltaire's music at a significantly later time - not knowing, for most of the time I knew about him, that this song of his was in that show (again, mostly due to my non-completist (indeed: not, even, close to completist) practice of listening to Voltaire.)
Me too
Same
Same
How you enjoying the classic?
I really love how well this song fits with Billy and Mandy's style in general.
The show's style has a very goth looking sharp style but still has the whacky slapstick everyone loves in a cartoon. And I feel like this song still captures that feeling perfectly, even years later.
Maxwell surely made the right choice when deciding to commission Voltaire to do this song, and Land of the Dead is just as good if not better.
Maxwell made an insanely great choice. It's the only episode of the show I remember. Plus making the characters basically do the thriller dance helps solidify it as one of the best animated show episodes of all time.
Excuse me, does anyone know what chapter it is?
Angel Ortiz Season 1 little rock of horrirs episode
Wasn't Aurelio contacted, asked to make a song, and then they made a story and animations around the song. Like they had no idea what they wanted and used the song to make the episode?
@@kalmebest Maxwell and Aurelio met at a club where Aurelio was playing. That's where Maxwell asked him to do a song for the show.
Fun Fact: The red zoot suit from Mr. McGee that Billy wears in the Season 1 Billy and Mandy episode "Little Rock of Horrors" is actually based off a real suit that Maxwell Atoms, the creator of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy himself, wore when he met Voltaire at a goth club and asked him to write the song "Brains!" for this Billy and Mandy episode.
Where do I find these so-called "goth clubs"?
@@ippotskbar sinister in hollywood
@@ippotsk The Castle In Tampa; Florida, for another suggestion
Id wear nothing less
Is it wrong that if an evil green glowing space rock landed in my back yard and asked me to sacrifice everyone I know and love while singing Voltaire that I would at least consider it?
+Michael McCormick
It's wrong that you need to consider it and not just do it automatically XD
Honk123456789 Agreed.
by the way the rock tried to eat billy's brain but couldn't find it so he asked him to bring it!
damn i am late to do comment lol
why does it sound like Griffith from Berserk except that it's a green rock and not a Behelit?
then I remember that thing was possed by a creepy girl....
I still remember when I heard this song on Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy over a decade ago. Still one of my all time favorites and the first Voltaire song I ever heard.
Same here lol
KnightProphecy me too :3
KnightProphecy that makes the four of us. this and Land of the dead are the first two songs I ever heard from Voltaire, and I didn't even know it was Voltaire at the time I heard those songs.
I didn't even know who Voltaire was even after I watched the episode. That was years ago and only today did I find out who Voltaire was
@@sonicdash3818 Same. It wasn't until a friend showed me the video of "When You're Evil" that I made the connection. XD Now I'm a *HUGE* fan. ^_^
When your GM isn't satisfied with just another scheming mind-flayer, so they make him a chaotic evil Bard:
I'm sold, change my alignment I'm going brain hunting for my new bestie
all hail space-rock mind-flayer
Neutral evil to me
i know voltaire is killing it with the wordplay in this one but i didn't even notice "It's not a MATTER if it isn't GRAY" incredible.
Voltaire’s violins or whatever they are go hard man
HARDCORE, BRO.
And let's not forget the 🎺 at 3:41.
No joke, and they're all slightly out of tune.
Makes it sound like Satan's house band.
Petition for Voltaire to voice a future Disney villain
Oooohh. That's a song I need to hear
Oh God yes!!!
Yesss but who and what kinda movie
People still out here trying to watch Disney movies? 😂
@@eddiebendigo7317…yes?
Well Cartoon Network is pretty much six feet under and our man is still making our hearts sing in harmonious joy
as always, the creations will always be immortal, and we have to remember to thank the artists and writers for giving us these things.
The lyrics of this song has lived in my head rent free for 16 years.
Since I was 12
Dang, it really has been that long. Wild.
yo can i sublet im trying so hard to memorize these lyrics
Rent free for 23 years and I still love it a friend of mine started playing it and it gave me a huge nostalgia trip so now ima go binge watch Billy and Mandy
Since 2007? Damn
i love the backstory of this song of just trying to write the longest possible song turning that episode into a literal musical
"BRAINS!" is to Voltaire as "Thriller" is to Michael Jackson.
Really? I would have assumed that DD,DDEES is more his trademark, or When You're Evil. This one may be popular with his younger fans, but I'm sure that the majority of his fans haven't seen Billy and Mandy.
actually his most popular song is riding on a black unicorn...
I mean, even my DAD knows When You're Evil, and he's older than Voltaire...I think. He was actually the first person to show me the song, years back.
for me lad
@@swishfish8858 If you've seen him live, you'd know how wrong you are. Basically everyone knows this song from Billy and Mandy. Heck, I'm 39 and I first discovered Voltaire through Billy and Mandy.
This space rock would STARVE if he landed today.
Nice high IQ joke you got there.
Well if that's the case then you'd be dead...
Because of how big brain that joke was!
Fred Fred burger
Haha, boomer comment
@@quartexgames9834 ...what? That doesn't even make any sense. Anyone that even has a remote idea of what this show is would not be boomers lol.
This song brings back memories. I miss the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. They were the first thing that got me into your spectacular music.
Yeah me too
The Voltair gateway song!
Just like what I Can’t Decide Is to Scissor Sisters, or Re; Your Brains to Jonathan Coulton lol
Crazy fact that explains alot: Cartoon Network would pay him only based on how long his song was. Hence this huge long horror song. Neat huh?
It was a 5 Minute song
@@stanmarsh7890 considering most songs in a kids cartoons are like a minute or two long this is long lol
@@ezra-jacksimas9613 Exactly. There's zero other cartoons that allot this kind of space to a song. An entire part of the 1/3 episodes they had every half hour was allotted to this song. It shows how much confidence Maxwell had in this working well.
I think it worked great since it's the ONLY episode I remember from the show. Not taking anything away from the series, because it was great, but this is THE EPISODE I go back to every time.
Thank goodness. We wouldn't have this masterpiece if it wasn't for that. This is a top tier Halloween song alongside Thriller, the Monster Mash, and the Ghostbusters theme
I saw a video where he talked about it, and he said he wrote the song to be the maximum length he was allowed.
2020 and this song still slaps
Yes it does XD
Bro, that's because at this point, it could legitimately happen in 2020
@@micycles1200 and i would absolutely not be shocked
2021
This song and "When You're Evil" were the first songs of yours that I ever heard.
You rock, good sir! Thank you for making my childhood awesome! :D
lol same here!
Artix Entertainment, right? =3
same
Same bro
Same
My daughter and I were in Atlanta for Dragon*Con a couple of years ago. One of the events was a night at the Atlanta Aquarium. We were sitting at a table, having a nosh, and this song came on. I don't know why, but I jumped up and started to dance! (I do NOT dance!) My daughter got up to dance with me and when I looked around, I saw that half the crowd was dancing with us. It was the highlight of the entire trip!
Went from nosh to mosh
That sounds absolutely awesome!
you win at parenting
Why do I feel like this is a r/thathappened story
@@someloseronline0449 Probably cause you've been on reddit too much.
They won't think twice, if they don't have a brain. Love that line, the wit of Voltaire's songs is just brilliant
Billy and Mandy is one of my favorite childhood shows. Thank you for making my childhood.
I can't believe The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy came out 22 years ago. I loved the series and even that weird Power Stone style video game.
I knew I loved Voltaire. When I heard this song on Grim I loved it. I got hooked on Voltaire's gothic homemaking years later then I realized he made music. It came full circle!
This is my 3 year old's current favorite lullaby, which is great since I heard it as a child myself 🖤
Beautiful.
It’s crazy how this just comes back to my mind at random time at least once a month. Gosh, all the gothic child friendly horror stuff of my childhood, banger.
How is life treating you now?
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode this song was in was my favorite episode as a kid because of how amazing this song was and still is to this day!
I agree
Ah, this takes me right back to my childhood
Billy and Mandy is still one of my favorite tv shows, and this one was easily my favorite episode out of the whole series
Am I the only one who thinks this would be an excellent theme song for a mindflayer?
One of my players is using the song for that
Mindflayer who's a Bard. Done. Go ahead, internet. This round's on me.
I mean, the character is basically a Mother Brain
Someone needs to get into a mindflayer costume and dance to this song.
@@chellejohnson9789 _Elder_ brain. _Mother_ Brain is the one from Metroid.
Every year this will randomly pop in to my head and I’m like “YES ITS BACK”
I love this
I was a little boy listening to this and thought " wow this is amazing" even now I'm just awestruck. This was made for a kids show
Who else just got forcibly transported back to their spooky childhoods???
Yup back to my childhood just the way I like it years later this song still slaps
Billy & Mandy was an awesome show - MAN I was bummed when I learned the spin off show "Under-Fist" got canned. Oh well - at least I have my memories ☺
Mandy: I guess my brain was too spicy for that meteor you tried to feed me to...
Billy: I'm sorry I'll do anything to make up for it
@@scarletweb2106 Mandy: Bring me some...BRAINS
Never ceases to make me smile and lift my mood. It's a catchy and fairly high energy tune.
i come back to this song every now and then. my childhood, and you voltaire, are a musical genius.
I just randomly remembered this song out of nowhere. Love the gritty, gothic influenced style this song has! Good shit Mr. Voltaire!
Hey I used to love this song growing up watching Billy and Mandy. Funny that I finally found it now that I'm 24, it's still incredible after all of these years. I just wanted to say you're incredibly talented and thank you!
Can’t believe I met the man that shaped so much of my musical taste as a kid with just this one song. Like this was definitely my ghoulish awakening.
I am using this for an Elder Brain villain arc for my campaign. SO GOOD
This episode was so good. I love this song
So, there was a video short that was posted talking about wanting to shed some light on this song for being so good. IT BLEW MY MIND, finding out you were commissioned by the creator to make a song for their show!! I really hope more people find this song because of that UA-cam short
Man I still come back to listen to this song all the time, so catchy! Halloween's coming up soon and Voltaire's stuff always gets me in the festive mood. ^_^
Childhood made awesome... Thank you
This song was and still is my childhood ever since I first watched the grim adventures of Billy and mandy
I only ever saw this episode of Billy ans Mandy once this sing stuck in my head for years and now it randomly pops up in my recomendations. This is a good evening for me.
I heard this when I was 16, as that's about how old I was when Little Rock of Horrors first aired... It made me absolutely fall in love with your music. There's just something fun and macabre about it that fills my little Halloween loving heart with delight. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some brains to eat.
Ah, childhood.
Maxwell atoms had another show before gaobam and i forget the name but that show was sick and thats where grim and the kids were introduced withscar face and that girl with the red hair and the brain guy in a bear remember? Evil dr. Carne? I forget lmk it was my intro to grim
How I was introduced to Voltaire... (Nostalgia from childhood.)
I still like to come back to this. I remember watching the episode on CN, and I didn't even speak English, but the song got stuck in my head. And then many years later I found your music and at some point I was like "wait holy shit I remember this song".
Mind-Flayers must love this song.
I found out about this track back in 2003, but it wasn't because of Cartoon Network or any other; I didn't even know that existed but later on. I found out about the song "Brains" in 2003, as an active duty soldier of The US Army, while living in Tennessee, browsing at the Mall one day and entering at a Hot Topic Store. There I found this Compilation CD titled " Projekt K: The Essence of Goth" and in it there were two tracks that called my attention which were "Goodnight Demon Slayer" and "Brains", I didn't even know who you were back then. But since I like everything Goth I bought it out of curiosity because I have not checked anything Goth that called my attention, not since the 80's. Once I listened to both tracks, aside from the other tracks there were in the CD, I fell in love with both "Goodnight Demon Slayer and Brains", and there was no turning my back on this again". Then later on I found out about the show and how your song was created for it. And also found out about you, your biography, your music etc and got instantly hooked, and I thank you for this.
So since then (2003), not only have I become your fan (I'm from Puerto Rico btw), I began to appreciate the subculture, the music and everything else more....and it all began with the song "Brains".
I'm dissecting an animal brain in my Anatomy class today. Decided it would be fitting to listen to this today
God bless Mr. Voltaire, _,Godbless Mandy._
im 17 and wasn't allowed to watch billy and mandy when i was younger so i decided to watch it. oh boy when i got to this episode and heard that opening violin i said "VOLTAIRE!?". i know he made a song for the movie but i had no idea he did other songs for the show
This song 110 percent shaped my childhood and taste in music, haha; I couldn't begin to convey how delighted I was when I found out the person who made this made other, equally wicked tunes~
something i distinctly remember about this episode was the “cop” in the second verse actually discovering the evil meteor and pulling his side-arm. keep in mind, these were the days of 4kids dubs and cigarettes becoming lollipops and shit, so seeing a real animated gun pulled definitely threw me for a loop as an eight-year-old. and of course the gun didn’t work, but he pulled and open-fired regardless before the meteor ate his brain.
i think that’s what really solidifies billy and mandy as a dark cartoon in my mind. it’s not ‘horror’ specifically, not in the same vein as courage or ren and stimpy, but there were undoubtedly some very grisly concepts behind the cartoony veneer. i sincerely wish people remembered the show more than they seem to
I loved that show! It was one of my favorites growing up. ^_^ Well, Ok, I was about 18, but still. I was young. :P
Well isn't this a blast from the past
Years ago, when I was a little, I watched Billy and Mandy cartoon and first heard of this song 🎵. I love it. 💘
When I heard this song on the show I became a voltaire fan especially after the movie came out and he sang another zinger for one of my all time favorite shows.
Love his music style. This song reminds me of "remains of the day" from the course Bride.
Yeah me too
Playing this song non-stop while finishing bg3 with my mind flayer bard.
Soooooo happy I found this!!! You have a new fan!
I remember playing the billy & mandy wii game...this song was part of the aleins boss fight....it was awesome
Just heard this song when the episode was rerun on Adult Swim's "Checkered Past" block. Still fire in 2023.
ClassicMan D just reminded me of how much of a catchy song this was!
Had to come check it out
one of my favorite all times from bill & Mandy. Edit* whoever wrote the song, i hope you got the credit!!! i love this song.
Words can describe how much I love the strings in this song
Why did they ever stop the cartoon? It was great, and this guy composed a great song for it.
+MrLukygamer I think I heard somewhere that Maxwell Atoms (Show's creator) said he would be willing to reboot Billy and Mandy if Cartoon Network wanted to. Cartoon Network has been doing reboots recently so they might bring it back. Although, I also heard he was doing another project called "Dead Meat" as of now, so I'm not sure if that statement still stands. :)
MrLukygamer There's some information about it on its Kickstarter page here
www.kickstarter.com/projects/745014573/dead-meat/description
You have to scroll down through a few things but it has a synopsis. :)
MrLukygamer You're welcome. :)
I would like to use this song in the SHORTS 😢❤👌👍.
one of the best episodes of billy and mandy for sure, this song really goes hard
Now we know where all the brains went.
Many people seem to be without them in 2020.
good song
I feel like Voltaire's voice would be perfect for an iteration of the Grim Reaper
It has a similar eccentricity to Alan Tudyk's work
I like to picture the reaper saying "well hello there, little boy! Don't be shy! Step right up, I'm a reasonable guy!"
didn't realize this was you. But now that i've listened again I can't believe I missed it.
For anyone thats interested, the style id say is of the Dark Cabaret genre
this old gem would fit so good in the Psychonauts game
Boogie to this for sure, my mind takes me to a couple of places.
still years later and this is one of my favorite songs. u got amazing talent love this song!!
whenevr i hear this can't help but dance n sing along
Voltaire the singing comedian named after a classic poet love the guy I had the pleasure of meeting him once he's hilarious big fan 🖤🦇
I haven't even seen Billy and Mandy and I'm jamming out to this song
as a kid this song along with that alien taking brains scared the heck outta me 😂
Hey voltaire, your song is used for a custom perk in cod waw called Baron samedi rum. You've left such an impact. the kicker? it turns you into a zombie and you have to eat, wait for it, brains!
I love this song :3 from my childhood of watching that episode of billy and Mandy
Yeah me too
Well, it’s that time of the year again, time to listen to some Voltaire!
I just have one question about this.
Did they gave you a script for the lyrics?
Or they told you the sequence for the episode?
Cuz you know, the song and the episode are blend together so...
Did the song shaped the episode?
or
the episode (script) shaped the lyrics?
It would be sooo damn great if I get an answer.
As far as I know they gave him a basic concept for the song, but they didn't give him a script or something like that; and they were going to pay him for the song's length, that's why it's so long xD
+Arturo Licona Also because it has to fill a cartoon episode length
Kokichi is a good boy I think about 20 seconds of the cartoon wasn't the actual song.
He made a video on it explaining the back story/info ua-cam.com/video/ZsG-ut2ssh8/v-deo.html
The episode of Billy and Mandy with the brain eating alien was my absolute favorite just because I liked this song so much! I'm so happy that I've rediscovered it!
I remember hearing this song first and loving it.. and then one day I watched the episode and was like "OMG! That's Voltaire"
Loved it.
Yeah me too
So I gotta admit that I stumbled across this band by pure alcohol fueled dumb luck, whilst searching for a recipe for Irish grog. . .yeah. . . Don't know how I ended up here, but I've listened to about 5 songs and y'all are freekin epic! Right up there with metallica's s&m soundtrack (in your own right of course) so I'm going to proclaim that I'm your newest fan. . . I think. I will be buying up anything I can find from you guys ;)
I'm here from Classicman D. And I'm still loved this song.
I feel the urge to do a cover of this song... And I'll assume I'm the only one to NOT be here because of Grim Adventures...
nah i dident hear it from billy and mandy either
Just seems like a really fun song to cover. And I watched Grim Adventures as a kid but never knew of Voltaire until I heard a later album and listened to everything he's made, I was surprised that he was on tGAoBaM
I came here because I mistook him for Curtis RX but I still like it :D
You're not. I'm here because I'm a Voltaire fan and it popped up in my youtube mix playlist.
don't worry I wanna cover this song too so your not the only one, I absolutely love the singing and rhythm in it its perfectly catchy and I love the older style of music in it.
Heard the sound on a business trip to Australia in 2009, while discovering the Grim Adventures of Bully and Mandy. Then forgot all about it.
2023 and I stumble on this again and appreciate it all the better 😀
One of your best songs, Adore the Lyrics and it brings back a decent amount of memories..
Voltaire's violins is amazing, brings me back memories watching Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy on cartoonnetwork I'll never forget the scene where Billy started coping Michael Jackson's dance from thriller while everyone was brainwashed the one dislike to this video is Mandy.
This song and another one was my bedtime song I’d listen to before bed growing up 😂 my mom even has a signed poster she got from going to one of your shows
Violin out here like "Danse Macabre"
this song went so hard when i heard it as a kid i was confused why it was just for a one episode character and not part of some kind of singing meteor spinoff show soft pilot