Well it's gotten much better in his newest albums/EPs and, of course, there is some progress in his autotune and filters skills + better sound recording quality. It's foolish of them to expect the good sounding/vocals in httjb or damn skippy, although imo he sings pretty good even here
THE VOCALS IS SO PEPPY DESPITE THE LYRICS AND THE INSTRUMENTAL LOL???? honestly hip to the javabean is criminally underrated like this song is SO GOOD but most people will probably never know because its old honestly these songs are as good as his current albums, which is something not all music creators can say. 9/10. bops hard as fuck
i'd argue they're better, of course his newer albums are really good too !! but there's just something so nostalgic about the older ones?? this is just my opinion though :)
The instrument that starts playing at 1:01 makes me feel like this is a 1930's educational safety video Edit: I've since discovered that it is VivesPS06 from the Touhou soundfont
classic, classic clASSIC EARLY LEMON DEMON!!!!!!! So good man, the goofy drum pattern, the whiney, weird synth vocal accompaniment, the metallophone solo, the bizarre lyrics it's all just wonderful, I love it so
I understand why stuff like this didn't make Neil famous. The music is fantastic, but he wasn't much of a singer. That's past tense, however. Several years of songmaking has improved that and if you listen to, say, Eighth Wonder, you really do have to wonder why he hasn't made it big yet.
You tell the truth my friend. And I would love it sooo much to hear a complete re-recording of Neil's older stuff, i.e. this album in particular. His singing improved by worlds and also his music production skills got upped a lot. Imagine 'Go to Hollywood' re-made by presence-Neil o.o
Between this and haircut If I had a nickel for every time Neil sings about getting something metal and stuck in his head and getting super powers from it I'd have two nickels! which isn't a lot but it's really weird it happened twice
@Rukoshii that makes sense actually!! I honestly have no clue but I kind of thought with "center of the forehead" and the discussion of eyes, it might be an allegory for a third eye, meaning he's just seeing the world the way it is? Or he's breaking the world down and analyzing it? It kind of fits w/ songs like Touch Tone Telephone and Sky Is Not Blue -- plus it ties into your idea, it's his analyzing that's causing the world to unwind... but also I'm not very good at analyzing stuff and my theory takes a LOT of jumps lmao
I always thought that the nail in his forehead somehow gave him telekinesis which is especially funny when you consider the previous track in this album.
After the sunbeam lightshow ended, Neil needed some matches. While waiting in near darkness, he gets telekinesis and becomes the confused destroyer of planets. Now everyone is left to discover how to act when robots attack.
i adore this song so much. its probably one of my favorite songs of all time. the way the vocals spin around the beat makes me very happy. and the song reminds me of time travel and i LOVE time travel so much
Most of the lyrics on this album are really whimsical and this is no exception. When Neil says he forgot what he wanted to say I think he meant it. He seemed to have a stream of consciousness lyric writing style. But when he grew in skill he started writing lyrics that're actually about stuff. So I think the reason this album feels special is because it captures the fleeting thoughts of a teen in Boston in 2005. And I imagine that he made a lot of it during the summer since he was still in highschool. It has that vibe of a teen who is hanging around the house in the summer, all his friends are busy so he has nothing do. So he lets his mind wander and songs like this get made. And I think that's why nothing will ever be quite like this album. This comment is probably longer than the song but if you paused to read it I hope you get it :]
ok but genuinely this is my favorite song of all time and words cannot describe how much this means to me. it never fails to uplift me, i love this so much thank you so much neil!!
i feel like this song is about an intelligent guy that was beaten up by his parents when he was child, and the "And when the sun comes back, there won't be any lack, of lumination in any way. But on the other hand, i'll never understand why it dissapears after every day. Now i've forgotten what i wanted" is like the father of the kid explaining to the principal why he cries all day and locks himself in his room at home. Then the "and with it comes a stream of thought and soon ideas begin to form, so i must thank you for it" is like his parents lying about he appreciating them for beating him up so in the future he could be as intelligent as he is now, and then the "With my new found mind i'll make the world unwind" is that kid now being a bad person and ruling the entire world and blah blah... (sorry if my english is all messed up)
Counter point: to me it sounds like a love song a love that ends but he is able to learn from and that he is able to move on from as time marches on despite the loss of the relationship. I mean lots of people are at a loss for words and feel like the world is going to end when they've lost an intimate relationship.
@@catsoda ty yes and I know Neil has said he doesn't make music with the intent for it to be interpreted beyond it's face value, but he also doesn't seem to mind it if people can derive a deeper meaning from any of the songs he's made. he talked a little bit about this very thing on his commentary for Spirit Phone.
around a year ago i managed to make a story/"theory" using this song, word disassociation, sky is not blue, i know your name, probably fire motif, and like two songs i cant remember
context: my mom wanted to know what homestuck was and thought the quadrants were weird so i had to explain how troll romance works and i remembered that trolls are very gay and sometimes poly so i got scared because my mom is really homophobic so i refused to explain it and she was standing next to me asking me to explain what homestuck was (in an angry tone) and i felt really threatened and cried a lot because she knows i dont like people to ask me about the things i like unless they're my friends while also doing math problems (i hate maths)
actually the song might be about a lobotomy, the MC says “with my new found mind” after he pins the nail into his brain and that pretty much what a lobotomy was, putting a huge nail into your brain to give yourself a new mind and make you “happier”
I think this song is about a lobotomy. Basically he’s obsessed with things he shouldn’t be, then they drive a spike into his head and it supposedly fixes him I know that isn’t how things work in real life, that’s just a theme I got from the song
does anyone have sheet music from the vibraphone solo i need to combine this song with man-made object and nails for breakfast tacks for snacks *don't ask any questions*
getting mind powers from having a sharp object jammed into your head is a surprisingly common motif in Neil Cicierega's music
Shouldn’t of gotten that haircut…
I’m sorry what
I need a list of songs to confirm this, my friend
@@kaeldavidson6898 well there's also Haircut, his Choose Your Own Adventure song
@@puppable 3 does make a pattern
i think the line "stream of thought" is the blood coming from his head
OMG YEAG THAT MAKES SENSE
brain wrinkles!!! hes brain is becoming acute and smooth brain
@@abarcyTelary this is the same type of comment i usually make
@@1stPersonNarrator Teehee!
matches and neils
Match and naily
@@NevadatheCornQueen bfd,i
@@NevadatheCornQueen
Bfdi is everywhere
Hello you tiny cardboard box with matches inside!
Oh that's why there's a neil cicierega in my head
As soon as verse 2 starts I always think that the beat is the hammer pounding the nail into his head
Would verse 1 be the matches being lit?
I feel like this song is attempting to lure me into a false sense of security.
"the sledgehammer only hurts for a moment"
This song successfully led me into a false sense of security.
@@tr0y644 is that a quote from Maxwell's Silver Hammer or something
@@tr0y644ok... If you say so
it is and it worked (for me, anyway)
edit: I covered the space between to and lure so it looked like it said torture @_@
This song makes me feel safe but also not
Same Ellie same
You get that vibe from lemon demon songs
@@user-lk7hq6yg2z Yeah, but especially this one.
Safe'nt
Safe (Only Not)
fun fact: the wobbly synth during the outro is a Yamaha CS15 that Neil's dad owned
Lol
How did you find that out?
thanks!! now to figure out the wobbly in between you and me, igsftd, all the other httj songs, etc!
Everyone keeps saying that Neil hasnt got the best voice, but i think hes a very good singer :) better than I ever could be...
Panpan-pokan I feel like he’s better at lyrics and instrumentals than songs in general, but he’s still pretty damn good
who the fuck said that 🔫😀
Well it's gotten much better in his newest albums/EPs and, of course, there is some progress in his autotune and filters skills + better sound recording quality. It's foolish of them to expect the good sounding/vocals in httjb or damn skippy, although imo he sings pretty good even here
@Elmo Gunan i might've used the wrong word or something, eng is not my first language :[
@zbub I think they meant the background voice stuff, take the bass stems in no-eyed girl as an example
Neil: "You know that darkness isnt good."
My other cat who is named Darkness: :(
Y iz your cat emo
@@Inochikaragara his name is darkness because he's a black cat and my parents thought the name was nice
@@RadleyJunkyard hey that’s racist
@@mjgrizz1005 what :0
me who's named Darkness: :(
THE VOCALS IS SO PEPPY DESPITE THE LYRICS AND THE INSTRUMENTAL LOL????
honestly hip to the javabean is criminally underrated
like this song is SO GOOD
but most people will probably never know because its old
honestly these songs are as good as his current albums, which is something not all music creators can say.
9/10. bops hard as fuck
i'd argue they're better, of course his newer albums are really good too !! but there's just something so nostalgic about the older ones?? this is just my opinion though :)
@@osakaiskool fully agree
FR
The instrument that starts playing at 1:01 makes me feel like this is a 1930's educational safety video
Edit: I've since discovered that it is VivesPS06 from the Touhou soundfont
It’s called a marimba, if I’m hearing the percussion correctly
It’s a vibraphone or possibly a glockenspiel. Marimbas have more of a wooden sound
seems like a vibraphone more than anything
that instrument is my favorite part of this song
@@radioactium same!!
very much a spirit phone song, before spirit phone existed
i feel like this song has a deeper meaning but i can't figure it out
I mean that railroad nail is certainly deep into his head
the hip to the javabean effect
i miss when i used to listen to this shit everyday on the school bus and wonder why no one liked me lmfao
I would of liked you, this “shit” slaps
2:01 "this is a tragic mix of wayward magic tricks" damn how is this guy so good at words
I read this just as the lyric came on lol
Do not implant railroad nails into yer head okay bro dont do it
BUT I WANT SUPER POWERS
@@BunnyKip you will GET HURT
@@yourbroskijack BUT- BUT- THE POWERS!!!!!!
@@BunnyKip powers OR DEATH you CHOOSEEE don’t choose DEATH
@@yourbroskijack HMMMM............. I mean the powers ARE PRETTY COOL.......
had this stuck in my head since i accidentally set something on fire!
yo that happened a year ago?!? i hyperfixed on this song a year ago?!? dawg..
@@strideryourself EGG THANOS. AGAIN. IM TIRED OF SEEING YOU. /lh
what'd you set on fire?
imagine a song w/ this energy but in nature tapes.
Why can i really see that working?
The chorus makes me want to hop around joyfully while crying
I know this is a whole year old but i couldn't have said it better myself like d a m n.
Just gotta love this guy.
Do you still love him?
Well? Do you?
this song needs to be remastered ! it's so fucking good
fuck man those stupid bots are here too
needlejuice has confirmed that every album starting with hip to the java bean is 100% confirmed for a remaster so you're in luck
it is done
classic, classic clASSIC EARLY LEMON DEMON!!!!!!! So good man, the goofy drum pattern, the whiney, weird synth vocal accompaniment, the metallophone solo, the bizarre lyrics it's all just wonderful, I love it so
THIS SHIT HITS HARDER THAN MY MALE PARENTAL FIGURE
i don’t know if I should laugh or not omg
I'm Jiggling! Great joke! Ps Hope your home life improves
LMAOO same
DUDE SAME
@@Popthebop youre… what
do you think he'll ever remember what to say
no
Because Neil has too much sex appeal for the mainstream
quote of the year
quote of the century
Quote of the
quote of
quote
HELLOO YOU RAILROAD NAIL 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Rearranging the world with magic and giant alien robots? Okay.
before he got addicted to fire he seemed to like robots a lot
Every time i find a new Lemon Demon song my mind gets blown like how does this man master the sound of funkiness so well
His voice is so cool
This song is so comforting for some reason.
The melody here is so nostalgic but I cant put my finger on it
it reminds me of Matches and Nails by Lemon Demon/Neil Cicierega
@@inactivepleasegoawayyea, there's something about it... but my mind can't place it...
splatoon
I understand why stuff like this didn't make Neil famous. The music is fantastic, but he wasn't much of a singer.
That's past tense, however. Several years of songmaking has improved that and if you listen to, say, Eighth Wonder, you really do have to wonder why he hasn't made it big yet.
It's really wonderful that just a year ago he released the Spirit Phone.
You tell the truth my friend. And I would love it sooo much to hear a complete re-recording of Neil's older stuff, i.e. this album in particular. His singing improved by worlds and also his music production skills got upped a lot. Imagine 'Go to Hollywood' re-made by presence-Neil o.o
@@AndySoks i am now going to start calling spirit phone "the Spirit Phone"
Between this and haircut If I had a nickel for every time Neil sings about getting something metal and stuck in his head and getting super powers from it I'd have two nickels! which isn't a lot but it's really weird it happened twice
Hold on, he says "FROM FAR AWAY"??? I thought he said "tomorrow-way", which is a way better word, albeit not real.
I've had this song stuck in my head for three days
Oh guess who just got a story idea???
Guess who's probably not gonna use it????
What was the idea me
Please I've forgotten
WAIT GUYS
GUYS
NOW IVE FORGOTTEN WHAT I WANTED TO SAY!!!!
@@pogdoggg5513 You got me so fucking excited you know that?? I thought you'd remembered what the story idea was :c
WAIT WAIT HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK I REMEMBER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh to awaken my Psychic powers in the fear of darkness.
this is such a nice song and it took me fucking 10 months to realize how good it is
Back to recover from a mildly spooky video that questioned if I am safe in my own home.
No, Tasque Manager Deltarune, I am not.
What the hell happened here?
@@foxyloxymoxy6376 you know what happened here
Is this that dream sweet and see major that everyone talks about
I need Neil's songs inplanted in my head so I can have them playing as the background music to my life
this is exactly how I feel right now
On kahoot/blooket/gartic phone i always named myself after this song and that's where I got the nickname Match
I relate to this song on a personal level.
i don't understand what "the nail in my head is the eye of the storm" means literally at all
@Rukoshii that makes sense actually!!
I honestly have no clue but I kind of thought with "center of the forehead" and the discussion of eyes, it might be an allegory for a third eye, meaning he's just seeing the world the way it is? Or he's breaking the world down and analyzing it? It kind of fits w/ songs like Touch Tone Telephone and Sky Is Not Blue -- plus it ties into your idea, it's his analyzing that's causing the world to unwind... but also I'm not very good at analyzing stuff and my theory takes a LOT of jumps lmao
I always thought that the nail in his forehead somehow gave him telekinesis which is especially funny when you consider the previous track in this album.
@@chloefoundpie6013 wish granted fr
@@chloefoundpie6013 lmao, I love this theory that's gonna e my head-cannon for the lemon demon lore
After the sunbeam lightshow ended, Neil needed some matches. While waiting in near darkness, he gets telekinesis and becomes the confused destroyer of planets. Now everyone is left to discover how to act when robots attack.
neil says lack alot 🫶🫶🫶
9 years and only 3 dislikes
That a dislike every 3 years on average
The Yakking Wakko aww its up to 5 I feel responsible somehow. Now that’s an average of one every 2 years
phineas gage
i've been singing this song in the shower for the past few years. thanks neil!
the only thing wrong with this song is that it doesn't keep going
i love it
Certified Slapper
i adore this song so much. its probably one of my favorite songs of all time. the way the vocals spin around the beat makes me very happy. and the song reminds me of time travel and i LOVE time travel so much
Most of the lyrics on this album are really whimsical and this is no exception. When Neil says he forgot what he wanted to say I think he meant it. He seemed to have a stream of consciousness lyric writing style. But when he grew in skill he started writing lyrics that're actually about stuff. So I think the reason this album feels special is because it captures the fleeting thoughts of a teen in Boston in 2005. And I imagine that he made a lot of it during the summer since he was still in highschool. It has that vibe of a teen who is hanging around the house in the summer, all his friends are busy so he has nothing do. So he lets his mind wander and songs like this get made. And I think that's why nothing will ever be quite like this album.
This comment is probably longer than the song but if you paused to read it I hope you get it :]
Correction: 2004
Nah he was homeschooled I believe
@@porsy he was, but I still think it being summer could make a difference in the song writing
god this song fucks me up, but like, in a cool fun way
this song makes me oh so sad
no not sad. like a lonely-sad-trying-to-keep-yourself-happy kinda feeling
ok but genuinely this is my favorite song of all time and words cannot describe how much this means to me. it never fails to uplift me, i love this so much thank you so much neil!!
The instrumental here is absolutely amaizing
favorite ld song
i feel like this song is about an intelligent guy that was beaten up by his parents when he was child, and the "And when the sun comes back, there won't be any lack, of lumination in any way. But on the other hand, i'll never understand why it dissapears after every day. Now i've forgotten what i wanted" is like the father of the kid explaining to the principal why he cries all day and locks himself in his room at home. Then the "and with it comes a stream of thought and soon ideas begin to form, so i must thank you for it" is like his parents lying about he appreciating them for beating him up so in the future he could be as intelligent as he is now, and then the "With my new found mind i'll make the world unwind" is that kid now being a bad person and ruling the entire world and blah blah... (sorry if my english is all messed up)
Counter point: to me it sounds like a love song a love that ends but he is able to learn from and that he is able to move on from as time marches on despite the loss of the relationship. I mean lots of people are at a loss for words and feel like the world is going to end when they've lost an intimate relationship.
It’s not that deep
@@iteeveee people can interpret any kind of music anyway they want to even if u think it isnt deep
@@catsoda ty yes and I know Neil has said he doesn't make music with the intent for it to be interpreted beyond it's face value, but he also doesn't seem to mind it if people can derive a deeper meaning from any of the songs he's made. he talked a little bit about this very thing on his commentary for Spirit Phone.
it seems to make him very happy that his music can resonate so strongly with people
The instrumental sorta sounds like a Christmas song.
Either way, this is my jam for the Christmas season. 🤷♀️
This song speaks to me
Literally the most underrated song in this album I can think of
around a year ago i managed to make a story/"theory" using this song, word disassociation, sky is not blue, i know your name, probably fire motif, and like two songs i cant remember
Neil I am not a tiny cardboard box with matches inside
around a month ago i had a mental breakdown to this because of homestuck
context: my mom wanted to know what homestuck was and thought the quadrants were weird so i had to explain how troll romance works and i remembered that trolls are very gay and sometimes poly so i got scared because my mom is really homophobic so i refused to explain it and she was standing next to me asking me to explain what homestuck was (in an angry tone) and i felt really threatened and cried a lot because she knows i dont like people to ask me about the things i like unless they're my friends
while also doing math problems (i hate maths)
groovy
what are you doing here
Hmm, what ya need?
This song is so underrated but yet so good I don’t get the hype of the album spirit phone, hip to the Java bean and Clown Circus is 10x better tbh
spirit phone is amazingg but this album rlly makes me feel something special. and yes this song is SUPER underrated
THIS SOUNDS LIKE SUCH A CHRISTMAS SONG AND I DONT KNOW WHY
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY! It's that pixely-synthy instrumental bit. But also like the whole thing is Christmas-y.
im starting to get addicted to this song
still addicted to it
@@RezyGD same it never gets old
@@RezyGD are you still addicted to it
@@cab1net_man nope, it happens once every few months
hello you toad wii remote with
motion plus inside
This song hits different when u been through some shit
banger
Why does the starting beat for this melody sound like the kahoot theme song?
I can definitely hear in kazoo in my right ear in a few parts
this song forces me to cry. I love it
this song makes me wan to cry and be a burden and be annoying for eveyone who i know
I am not that, by the way. People find me awesome, and I think I AM awesome.
You probably ARE awesome, listening to this banger.
the more i listen to this song the more insane it gets
i love how ur comments are 4 days apart
nail cicierega
Reminds me of arson
Wait that's my account
When did I comment this?? What??
I've heard so many songs that are objectively better than this but this is still my favorite song of all time
why do I not listen to this more this slaps
love this song 🕺
is this a bfdi reference
That's the reason why i tried this song and it actually became my fave
@@Kitty_spltn2626 splatoon
yes
this reminds me of my trollsona for some reason
edit: oh god now i gotta clarify this is about homestuck not the dreamworks movies
Why isn't this on Apple music or Spotify
i dont think this album is licensed to a music company or anything which would also explain why its not on the topic channel
anyway neil invented bfdi 😻😻
I wish 😔
actually the song might be about a lobotomy, the MC says “with my new found mind” after he pins the nail into his brain and that pretty much what a lobotomy was, putting a huge nail into your brain to give yourself a new mind and make you “happier”
caliborne
so UNDERRATED
i am anxious 📈😿😰
this song is beautiful
phineas gage type beat
I think this song is about a lobotomy.
Basically he’s obsessed with things he shouldn’t be, then they drive a spike into his head and it supposedly fixes him
I know that isn’t how things work in real life, that’s just a theme I got from the song
Kinda busted up but i'm (not) alright
i don’t know why but i think the guy in this song is the same guy in my trains
0:09
I see the same few people constantly in the comments in this album
yeah they do that
go and find the most obscure song by neil cicierega you can think of and someone you've seen before will probably be there
does anyone have sheet music from the vibraphone solo i need to combine this song with man-made object and nails for breakfast tacks for snacks
*don't ask any questions*
lejtom daimo
Hes probably addicted to canned beans and tomato soup 😭
i want someone to make a Baba Is You animation with this
HOMESTUCK OR A FUCKING BABA YAGA
Hello