I am new to Sufjan Stevens . I have only heard a few of his older songs here on YT. He was coming to Boston so for the hell of it .. I bought a single ticket.. not really knowing what I was to expect.. On November the 11th , 2010. 10 mins into the concert I discovered that I, a 55 year old man was witnessing a young musical genius ! it's been 3 days since the new concert and I am still goose bumps.
@@DifficultyTweak this is just what I thought but I'm assuming he knew about this song through Hotline Miami but just didn't know surfjan Steven did a cover of it. Idk though
all i hear is red and white and black and grey in a vintage style montage of everything ive ever felt put into slow-mo stop-motion reverberating endlessly into the rabbit hole in the back of my skull. may your dreams never cease.
Suf turned the lyrics into something of a madness mantra. The constant repetition in increasing intensity really makes you think of a pair of lovers becoming completely unhinged.
Wow, Sufjan does progressive stuff. Absolutely fantastic version. From 6:05 it's so great I can't find words to it. I'd love to hear/see him performing this live.
Richter, with his mom on vacation Detective Pardo, still frightened because of his nightmare, looking at his gun Pig Man's partner, watching TV Evan, eating dinner with his family Jacket, in prison Me, seeing all these people being victims and becoming upset
For me it was exactly the same. At first, I always skipped it when listening to DWTN even though I'm a big fan of Sufjan, but after I tried listening to it a couple of times it suddenly hit me... now I can't stop listening to it.
@@guellrich Wow I posted that comment 11 years ago when I was in high school. It's funny too because "Dark Was the Night" is an album that I really associate with that time in my life. Thanks for the memories.
I fucking LOVE this man's music...I've listened to him for about four or five years now, but I only just saw him live in Boston a few weeks back. I sometimes feel disappointed seeing bands live, as they often can't hold their own on stage and I wind up wishing I was just listening to the CD. Sufjan was the exact opposite, and feel that he really got me to appreciate his newest album, Age of Adz, much more.
+svennetjes I like how he kinda just accepted it.... ...didn't even move.... ....just sat there next to hallucination Richard and waited until he was engulfed by nuclear flames.....
when i bought dark was the night i was really anticipating listening to this song, but when it came on, i have to say, i was blown away, even considering my high expectations...i was a bit disappointed when i found out it was a cover, but it's still amazing. and i'd consider it more of a theme and variations than any standard cover, given that it expands a 4 minute song into a 10 minute one
I heard about this dude from YMS (UA-cam channel) and remembered him praising surfjan stevens during the 2018 oscars video. Then I looked him up and realized the name seemed familiar and its because I looked up every version of this song I could find because I loved it in Hotline Miami
this is a perfect example of the sign of a real artist; they don't tell you, they show you. The emotion and sorrow is more clearly evident here than in any "emo" song i've heard where the singer rants about their problems. this is one of the saddest, angriest, and most beautiful songs i've ever heard.
Kinda interesting how as the song progresses the backing vocals sound more and more like they're crying, and the overall tone grows increasingly desperate, like the character in the song is trying to talk somebody out of suicide or something. Or maybe I'm just overthinking shit and I'm blowin' smoke. Who knows
"gay," said the underscore, attempting to escape the unescapably vacant scream of silence to which its very identity was assigned. A year has gone, and nothing has been heard from it since it's single, minuscule call out against its captors, isolation and loneliness. Entrapped in its own omnipresent vacancy. Lost forever, left to be but an afterthought of reality. A construct. And idea. No, not even. Lost forever in the stomach of time. Digested. Digest. Digest. Erase. Eradicate. Eradicated. Nothing left but a foundation of its previous self. Nothing left but a foundation. A flooring. An underscore. _
wutevaidc They never started planning on a second game, infact they planned on making HLM2 DLC. What they mentioned in the interviews, is that they had the characters in mind while they were making the first Hotline.
DaveBAWZ Aww... it's cute seeing kids trying to troll for the first time! Trust me kiddo, you're gonna need to practice a lot more if you really wanna get my goat!
Brady Cox 15 rounds/one game prior - Jacket throws his photo into the wind and lights up a smoke. He stares into the inky black night and mutters "good half".
***** However, after losing 12-16, as the game shuts down and last voices call out 'gg' or 'wp', he silently mouths the words, 'was not good game- was bad game', before being obliterated in the nuclear blast of Miami- a shimmering, endless light evaporating all in its way. Report for player "50 Blessings" sent. Report ID: GODBLESSTHEUSA
it's incredible how diverse sufjan can be with the electronica beats mixed with brass instruments, something that one man shouldn't be capable of doing well. but im glad i have been proven wrong
Oh, that's right. People used to not say first as if it were an exclamation of their superiority over literally every other human being to have ever existed first. Times fly.
When I heard this a few years ago (a little while after Illinois), I almost pissed myself in anticipation of Sufjan's next album. Dammit, why can't his new stuff ALL SOUND LIKE THIS!
Wilm Hosenfeld the ending to hotline miami a bomb goes off the last thing everyone sees is a big white flash slowly growing to them before nuclear fire burns them into nothing while that song plays. a car drove past my house lights flashed past and i was thinking of that nuclear fire at the time.
Forcedminer Nice spoiler there genius, of course I played Hotline Miami, like 90% of the people here... Just look at the other comments. You helped make sense of the car lights here but you dun goof'd again writing a whole paragraph of spoilers for fuckall reason.. Luckily people who will come here most likely have seen it already.
As MasterMark said, the music is remarkable, although I am newly familiar. I need to hear more. Will I ever be able to get up from the computer; SO much good music. This one REALLY drove me to do a search.
@serth3 Actually, I find the two versions very different. The main tune between vocals is the most noticeably different to me. He used the layers of instrumentation at his disposal to his advantage and made more vocal harmony. I know that the melody and lyrics are the exact same, but there's a lot of differences in it. Saying Sufjan "ripped off the original song" just makes it sound like he didn't add any of his own creativity, when he most certainly did. If you can't hear it, I am truly sorry.
this is slightly reminiscent of a sun came, his first album.... around 5:50 the instrumentals really sound like something from a sun came. i mean, obviously it doesnt sound exactly like something he's done before, but you can definitely tell from a sun came that this is a descendent of those ideas... like the droning vocals in the song demetrius and the complete change of the song is similar to you are the blood.
You are the blood that I may see you You are the blood in me John 6:50-71 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Just Ronjay Sure. But even in secularism it is important to acknowledge religious references in songs to help understand them. Especially with such an interesting compositional group as the castanets.
@MasterMark123 You should definitely check out all of his work... It's life-changing. The state albums (Illinois and Michigan) are so different from, say, his latest album, Age of Adz. Yet they are all genius, and they all are inherently Sufjan-esque in a way no one could ever mimic.
I am new to Sufjan Stevens . I have only heard a few of his older songs here on YT. He was coming to Boston so for the hell of it .. I bought a single ticket.. not really knowing what I was to expect.. On November the 11th , 2010. 10 mins into the concert I discovered that I, a 55 year old man was witnessing a young musical genius ! it's been 3 days since the new concert and I am still goose bumps.
I never thought I would see people talking about Hotline Miami on a Sufjan Stevens song. One of my favorite songs and one of my favorite games!
flobyboby84 didnt you hear
the castanets version was used in the ending of wrong number
@@DifficultyTweak this is just what I thought but I'm assuming he knew about this song through Hotline Miami but just didn't know surfjan Steven did a cover of it. Idk though
@@samgomez9942 why did you answred at a 7 year old comment
@@RetroMemerr why not
@@samgomez9942
You know a song is legendary if it has it’s own classical-style piano cadenza
all i hear is red and white and black and grey in a vintage style montage of everything ive ever felt put into slow-mo stop-motion reverberating endlessly into the rabbit hole in the back of my skull. may your dreams never cease.
Suf turned the lyrics into something of a madness mantra. The constant repetition in increasing intensity really makes you think of a pair of lovers becoming completely unhinged.
Hotline Miami: "Now this is epic"
Hotline Miami 2: "But what does it mean to be 'epic'?"
hotline miami 2 used the original, Castanets’ version.
I love Sufjan Stevens. This song got me into him and the next song I listened to was Impossible Soul
Frying1Pans wow, thats a steep sufjan career
You are the rock, you are the rake, you are the blood
This song is so beautiful. It is everything, it is glorious.
You think this song is over like 5 times and it just comes back every time how the hell does he do it? Sufjan is a mastermind
Wow, Sufjan does progressive stuff. Absolutely fantastic version. From 6:05 it's so great I can't find words to it.
I'd love to hear/see him performing this live.
Richter, with his mom on vacation
Detective Pardo, still frightened because of his nightmare, looking at his gun
Pig Man's partner, watching TV
Evan, eating dinner with his family
Jacket, in prison
Me, seeing all these people being victims and becoming upset
manly feelings kardeşim
yeah, i cant really feel bad for killer's like some of them, but Evan and others....
***** Normally the artist is Castanet in Hotline Miami 2 but this song is beautiful too.
I didn't notice the artist was the Castanets when I wrote this comment, now I'm too lazy to write another one :D
I understand :D
That piano part is amaziing
It's played by Gabriel Kahane
I love the song itself, but a big part of why I listen is that piano part
its like.. oh wow. this song is perfect, nothing could make it better. Then the piano solo starts. mmmmmmmm.
For me it was exactly the same. At first, I always skipped it when listening to DWTN even though I'm a big fan of Sufjan, but after I tried listening to it a couple of times it suddenly hit me... now I can't stop listening to it.
My first Sufjan Stevens song was "Chicago" and I have been listening ever since. My best friend got me hooked.
The piano bridge starting at 4:13 gives me goosebumps every single time I hear it.
You go Sufjan.
Gabriel Kahane, ladies and gentlemen!
@@guellrich Wow I posted that comment 11 years ago when I was in high school. It's funny too because "Dark Was the Night" is an album that I really associate with that time in my life. Thanks for the memories.
I fucking LOVE this man's music...I've listened to him for about four or five years now, but I only just saw him live in Boston a few weeks back. I sometimes feel disappointed seeing bands live, as they often can't hold their own on stage and I wind up wishing I was just listening to the CD. Sufjan was the exact opposite, and feel that he really got me to appreciate his newest album, Age of Adz, much more.
Such a passionate cover, very enamoring.
The deeper you get into the comments, the more interesting and alien the comment section starts looking.
dark, infectious, bizarre, eclectic, unconventional, raw, epic, magical, powerful, cinematic.....sufjan stevens!
except it's a cover
"How long do i have..?"
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;(
svennetjes Not much I'm afraid.
+svennetjes
I like how he kinda just accepted it....
...didn't even move....
....just sat there next to hallucination Richard and waited until he was engulfed by nuclear flames.....
@@Forcedminer copy and paste
Ohhhh Sufjan you never cease to amaze me...
This song is beyond awesome.
Such an underrated song. First knew it from dark night of the soul, thought it was a gift from heaven amongst other already very good songs
This is a masterpiece!!! What Incredible talent
when i bought dark was the night i was really anticipating listening to this song, but when it came on, i have to say, i was blown away, even considering my high expectations...i was a bit disappointed when i found out it was a cover, but it's still amazing. and i'd consider it more of a theme and variations than any standard cover, given that it expands a 4 minute song into a 10 minute one
I heard about this dude from YMS (UA-cam channel) and remembered him praising surfjan stevens during the 2018 oscars video. Then I looked him up and realized the name seemed familiar and its because I looked up every version of this song I could find because I loved it in Hotline Miami
this is a perfect example of the sign of a real artist; they don't tell you, they show you. The emotion and sorrow is more clearly evident here than in any "emo" song i've heard where the singer rants about their problems. this is one of the saddest, angriest, and most beautiful songs i've ever heard.
Kinda interesting how as the song progresses the backing vocals sound more and more like they're crying, and the overall tone grows increasingly desperate, like the character in the song is trying to talk somebody out of suicide or something. Or maybe I'm just overthinking shit and I'm blowin' smoke. Who knows
gay
MickeyDeezBro yeah?
"gay," said the underscore, attempting to escape the unescapably vacant scream of silence to which its very identity was assigned. A year has gone, and nothing has been heard from it since it's single, minuscule call out against its captors, isolation and loneliness. Entrapped in its own omnipresent vacancy. Lost forever, left to be but an afterthought of reality. A construct. And idea. No, not even. Lost forever in the stomach of time. Digested. Digest. Digest. Erase. Eradicate. Eradicated. Nothing left but a foundation of its previous self. Nothing left but a foundation. A flooring. An underscore.
_
No, I don't think you're just overthinking shit. This is the kind of shit I waste my life doing.
Once upon a time, this very song ~did~ talk me out of suicide.
This song really hits me.
If they ever decide to add a "Good Ending" to HM2, this needs to be the new ending song. Sounds more upbeat, and triumphant.
Dennaton doesn't plan on doing that, they didn't even want to make a second game.
Logski they did, very much so. In an interview he stated about planning on a second game, and it definately seemed necessary and fit
wutevaidc They never started planning on a second game, infact they planned on making HLM2 DLC. What they mentioned in the interviews, is that they had the characters in mind while they were making the first Hotline.
Logski I know they don't PLAN on it, but if they ever change their minds, this song is an option.
DaveBAWZ Aww... it's cute seeing kids trying to troll for the first time! Trust me kiddo, you're gonna need to practice a lot more if you really wanna get my goat!
This version sounds like it would be the good ending of hotline miami 2.
RIP Raymond
Thought it was a nice outro, found out it was only halfway through the song
This is a truly masterpiece ... not many tunes like this nowadays. And arrangements are just perfect.
he's got such a beautiful soul.
god, this is a good track. classic sufjan that covers a little bit of everything he's done.
*everything destroyed in nuclear blast*
ggwp
Brady Cox 15 rounds/one game prior - Jacket throws his photo into the wind and lights up a smoke. He stares into the inky black night and mutters "good half".
*****
However, after losing 12-16, as the game shuts down and last voices call out 'gg' or 'wp', he silently mouths the words, 'was not good game- was bad game', before being obliterated in the nuclear blast of Miami- a shimmering, endless light evaporating all in its way.
Report for player "50 Blessings" sent. Report ID: GODBLESSTHEUSA
kilozombie Ohmigawwwwd... plz repart !Da-Sonn! for wall hax!
Report Jacket's telephone for micspam.
always fucking russians in my lobby
Everything was blown away on that December night in Miami.
it's incredible how diverse sufjan can be with the electronica beats mixed with brass instruments, something that one man shouldn't be capable of doing well.
but im glad i have been proven wrong
Oh, that's right. People used to not say first as if it were an exclamation of their superiority over literally every other human being to have ever existed first. Times fly.
I'm blood.
+Petra Ess You are
The blood
Kira Yoshikage flowing through my fingers.
I'm peepee
An amazing piece of music...
This song is about Communion.
maybe
Forgot all about this gem
Wish they'd put this Dark Was The Night compilation back on spotify :-(
Pól 's Eye It's on Pandora
its back on Spotify
This is some crazily awesome shit.
holy crap this is a good song. never listened to it the whole way through till just now.
When I heard this a few years ago (a little while after Illinois), I almost pissed myself in anticipation of Sufjan's next album. Dammit, why can't his new stuff ALL SOUND LIKE THIS!
Devotional
4:08 This segment is...wow, man..
So much yes
From someone who is classically trained: it is!!
The style change at 4:08 gives me chills.
It’s when the game truly ended and you realize exactly what the main menu really was.
a car drove past my house with its light on.....
I nearly shit myself remembering hotline miami 2
+Forcedminer Would've been scarier if the lights were off actually lol.
+Wilm Hosenfeld the ending of hotline miami 2 has this song play with the ending.....impacts the song well.
Forcedminer
... I have no idea what you were trying to say there...
Wilm Hosenfeld the ending to hotline miami a bomb goes off the last thing everyone sees is a big white flash slowly growing to them before nuclear fire burns them into nothing while that song plays.
a car drove past my house lights flashed past and i was thinking of that nuclear fire at the time.
Forcedminer
Nice spoiler there genius, of course I played Hotline Miami, like 90% of the people here... Just look at the other comments.
You helped make sense of the car lights here but you dun goof'd again writing a whole paragraph of spoilers for fuckall reason..
Luckily people who will come here most likely have seen it already.
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidiculous! ridiculously YAY. wow. this is my favorite so far. I think.... no, wait... yes.
God bless the Castanets
This album is killer (new material from Arcade Fire and the Books? Hell yes!) and this is possibly my favorite Sufjan Stevens track evar.
Love it love it love it
@MasterMark123 I was there too! It was a fantastic experience. I go and see him every time he comes around...and it's not often.
this song is a roller coaster
incredible cover
Nothing like music in 480p.
Glory to God.
I WANT THIS SONG!!!
As MasterMark said, the music is remarkable, although I am newly familiar. I need to hear more. Will I ever be able to get up from the computer; SO much good music. This one REALLY drove me to do a search.
@serth3 Actually, I find the two versions very different. The main tune between vocals is the most noticeably different to me. He used the layers of instrumentation at his disposal to his advantage and made more vocal harmony. I know that the melody and lyrics are the exact same, but there's a lot of differences in it. Saying Sufjan "ripped off the original song" just makes it sound like he didn't add any of his own creativity, when he most certainly did. If you can't hear it, I am truly sorry.
Jesus Christ. Imagine having to talk to others like that today.
Gaaaaaaah I can't stop listening to this! Everything Sufjan does is so addictive.
i love really long indy songs like this. any other fans wanna recomend some more of their favourites????????
Me too! It's been the beginning of a great discovering for me
Did replies not exist five years ago?
i know it's a cover... but who knew Sufjan Stevens was capable of this! Illinois is good but THIS, is a masterpiece.
rock on freaky bro.
this is slightly reminiscent of a sun came, his first album....
around 5:50 the instrumentals really sound like something from a sun came.
i mean, obviously it doesnt sound exactly like something he's done before, but you can definitely tell from a sun came that this is a descendent of those ideas...
like the droning vocals in the song demetrius and the complete change of the song is similar to you are the blood.
this is amazing
@MasterMark123
I was there too! so great. i like how both teens and adults can enjoy the same music
love this!
man, when you watch this on the Itunes visualizer....awesome....
beautiful
incredible.
i love it :D
Sufjan's piano playing is pretty impressive for someone who isn't classically trained (I think).
That's not Sufjan on the piano, it's Gabriel Kahane
The piano section at the end sounds like Chopin.
@MasterMark123 Welcome to the world of Sufjan! I'm so happy you found the light! Haha! But I really do agree with you--he's a musical genius!
You are the blood that I may see you
You are the blood in me
John 6:50-71
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Screw God.
Just Ronjay Sure. But even in secularism it is important to acknowledge religious references in songs to help understand them. Especially with such an interesting compositional group as the castanets.
wow. i really like the castanets version but this is so good too
yes, yes i agree to all these puff piecees! love this guy beside my girl friend;)
Is this the best song ever??
just glorious
I'm not sure how I feel about there being an ad on something that wasn't uploaded by Asthmatic Kitty / Red Hot.
i like this song bc its about blood
Shit.
I miss you Steph.
Virtuosic. Nuff said.
No no no that's not okay. Explain the fucking context.
Love it
This is a song to the Earth, to Her blood.
Charles Ives kissed the Buddha's belly and out sprang Sufjan Stevens. Yep, I really like this guy. Keep on rockin' , dude.
It takes a lot of balls to admit you're wrong. Much respect, stranger.
What?
What? x2
love it
@MasterMark123 You should definitely check out all of his work... It's life-changing. The state albums (Illinois and Michigan) are so different from, say, his latest album, Age of Adz. Yet they are all genius, and they all are inherently Sufjan-esque in a way no one could ever mimic.
Wow!
this sounds like radiohead.
that's good
I love 7 swans.
ive never heard any of his stuff like this, mostly stuff off the illinoise album. pretty good.
the opening reminds me of bjork
This is a cool remix.
this is totally me when getting nuked in a nuclear war between russia and america
tfw you like hurting other people
oh man
holy crap guys, i listened to his other songs and they are like so happy and all but this is fucking deeeep. o_o
he's genius