Acoustic Version of Aphex Twin - Rhubarb song from Ambient works Volume 2 with video to match. You can download the mp3 for free here: www.jamesdevane.com/rhubarb_co...
this is like when you're doing something with your friends. chilling out and watching a sunset, having conversations around a bench with a couple people sitting on their bikes, etc. and you just have this thought of "this is it, it doesn't get any better than this." and you have this sense of nostalgia for something that's already happening. this is it, this is the good old days, and you're living them right now.
the one thing that truly makes me sad is that i'm missing out on these feelings and moments. i've had them in the past, but am now left with no friends...
It’s been 13 years since I first saw this video, I lost my dad, my partner and two dogs. I emigrated to another country, 3 beautiful nieces have been born and I am still figuring out who I am but every time I come back to this video I feel at home.
Please never ever take this down. I'm watching this every few years for 14 years now. I cannot believe just how much time has it been and it still touches me so deep into my soul... I cry every single time.
@@kendrit4885 It's approaching the upload 'anniversary' too. I get the strangest feeling, seeing the date of the upload. April 2007. I was 16. I can't even begin to explain how much has changed, but I still always come back to this video.
Funny how minimalistic notes and a video with little to no embellishment can merge together into something stellar. It's a cheesy thing to say but Richard James really is the most underrated musician of our time.
overrated* its a bit naive to think that all his fame comes from his music work alone. in my opinion villalobos and loderbauer are underrated, even james holden is.. both re:ecm and the inheritors are much more solid works and inovative in composition and production techniques than any aphex twin album..
He's one of the greatest composers of this century and will be studied and remembered as such. I've never heard a musician so in touch with the human experience.
I am an old man now but I still very much miss my friends that died in their teens. I come here to remember some of the times that we spent together. Forever young Scott, Joe, and John. Growing up in the suburbs wasn't so easy after all. See you guys on the flip side.
hey, i come back to this video every once in a while and i always end up reading your comment every time. i'm sorry for your losses. i hope all is well with you, wishing you the best
@Ryan Plethra hi. I read through your entire comment. thank you for sharing your memories and your emotions. its hard to know what to tell you because i've never really went through any of that, i was never really someone who had that many friends or who enjoyed going out and meeting new people or any of that stuff, I always just kind of liked being on my own. i guess that probably kept me from having so many of those memories. different ways of living lives i guess. i'm really sorry about all that stuff that happened to you, although I can't fully comprehend exactly what you're feeling i really am fully aware of how deeply stuff like that can affect you. i don't know you but i'd bet you're a really nice genuine person. that's what it seemed like to me anyway. you spent all that time writing that comment and it was all about other people, you didn't really make it about yourself. that's as unselfish as it gets. that's worth more than i'm really able to explain to you. really hoping you feel better. the pain may never go away but you can make it a smaller part of yourself by continuing to live your life and creating new memories and just doing your own thing. that's how i see things anyway. try not to give yourself such a hard time thinking about the past, nothing's ever as important as right now. enjoy yourself out there. i wish you all the best, i really mean it, take good care of yourself
The man of Tao acts without impediment, He harms no other being by his actions, Yet he does not know himself to be kind and gentle. He does not struggle to make money And he does not make a virtue of poverty. He goes without relying on others, And does not pride himself on walking alone. The man of Tao remains unknown. Perfect virtue produces nothing. No Self is True Self. And the greatest man is nobody.
Jesus Herenadez Taoism is the most innocent and humane teaching I’ve ever come across. “The greatest man is nobody”. What an incredible amount of love you must feel yourself to be a nobody in this world, realizing your effect in this universe is just as powerful as the person breaking his back at 6 in the morning doing landscaping, or the lawyer that never sees his family because of his incredibly intense schedule and devoting to duty. The universe may be indifferent to us but it certainty treats us like the absolute equals we are. Energy and love that has no meaning or reason, is what we all are, with the universe as one of our mothers.
“The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and he has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.” Taoism is such a chill philosophy.
I would love to see a tao person or a buddhist monk working and in living somewhere like london as a bin man or something on rubbish wages waking up at 5am on a freezing cold january morning wearing his hi visiblity uniform. paying £1500 pound rent for a shity flat whilst only earning £2000 a month. Do you think he would be peaceful still? do you think if the londoner whos actually working in that job swapped positions with the monk who would be happier? The monk has no idea how shit it is losing or your youthful innocence working a dead end job he would actually think hes in the gulags or in a nightmare, whilst the binman would be loving his new peaceful life thinking hes in a dream.
We are so lucky to have each other. I like to imagine that if one day the human race does go extinct and some advanced civilization stumbles upon our ruins, they will find this video and understand who we were at our best. . . .
A few years ago someone posted a comment here along the lines of "I keep coming back to this video". It made me smile because I empathised, and more so now, as once again I find myself looking for APHEX TWIN RHUBARB ROOFTOP. I rarely comment on videos (least of all in as gushing and honest a manner as I find myself now), but I feel compelled to state that this video is- for reasons I can only partly fathom- incredibly important to me. Thank you RDJ... but also thanks to the dalycitytwins for making something magical. I think of you as old friends now; though we have never met (and likely never will) I wish you only well. Keep this video here forever! -Youssef
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Let it be known, there are more of us that keep coming back to this. 3rd time in the last 7 years, this video is my solemn link to a closed loop from the days of old; quite befitting, my thoughts have always been that the shot and piece were a finale solely purposed for sweet remembrance. Keep it alive dalaycitytwins, lest we lose some of our former selves and may good fortunes befriend you.
Same for me too. I mean I love AFX and i love Rhubarb. I cant get it out of my head. This cover is so peaceful and the video is perfect, care free, just mates drinking on a roof in the evening. I get very nostalgic when i listen to this. Happy yet sad at the same time...
First saw this video in 2007 when i was 17 and going through the usual shit you do at that age, it struck a chord with me then and now 9 years later i still watch it. Simplicity at its best, 2 friends having a couple of beers, the journey of these guys isnt important for this video, purely the moment and we have been lucky enough to be a part of it! Peace
thats so cool that you saw this video on the year it was published. I've only known this for about a couple of years. it's still somewhere I come to every once in a while and the awesome thing is that it always brings back the exact same feeling. i'm glad other people see the beauty in this as well, this is a special little corner of the internet for sure. all the best to you
I still watch this video every now and again. I remember watching it when I was 17, 13 years ago, depressed over a failing relationship. This video was one of many things that helped me overcome it.
It's the Hagelian dialectic, we only understand true happiness if we have an understanding of sadness (pain) and the synthesis of the two is profound. Like life and death etc...
I often wonder where these guys are now. I’m sure they have families of their own. Are they still friends? For all we know, this could have been the last time they spent a day together. Maybe they had a fight, maybe one of them could have passed away, or maybe they just naturally grew their separate ways. Or maybe they’re doing completely fine and are still best buds.
I've loved this video since I was 17 years old. I'm 30 now. I was a completely different person in a completely different world then, but when I watch this video, I return to that place, and it makes me feel melancholy. Even now, scrolling through the comments, I stumbled across a comment I left on here 12 years ago--like a glance at some looking glass. I took a lot for granted. Just know that this video means a lot to me and that it brings me to a more comfortable and familiar place where the world still seemed so big and there was still so much time left. I miss that summer all those years ago and the people I knew then. I hope this never gets taken down.
@@rawbeato i don't know if you would call it saudade. It has that sadness specific only to saudade, but saudade looks to the past- at something gone. This is like preemptive saudade, the same sadness but looking to the future- at something that will soon be missed.
@@pimxanthe emotion is just everyday feeling, a simple constructed moment you had when you were young with a friend. It was when you had nothing to answer to, so you took yourself up to a roof, or a mountain, or a train station. No matter the setting, you were just there, with a homie, its timeless. As you get older, you'll find those stupid simple ass moments were ones you'll never get to have again
lordmackery Ha, don't be silly. Just embrace the now, stop looking back and try to fill your days with as much joy as possible, i promise as you make joy your purpose you will have more fun that you could ever imagine. Nothing is ever wasted. I'm sure you've learnt a lot, even if its what you don't want or don't like. You can only know what you want to experience, if you know what you don't, It ain't all bad. Good luck! :)
I dunno if you will see this, but I have seriously been returning to this video once every couple of years for the last ten years now. It somehow captures a universal nostalgia despite the fact that this is not my own lived experience. It is a perfect video, and I don’t mean that hyperbolically. It is a legitimate UA-cam gem.
I'm so happy i've seen this comment yams02. I've also been coming back to this video on and off for many years, especially in times of desperation or need. Lots of music and art is appealing to me, or just fine, or not that good - I'm not a connoiseur of any kind. I don't really know anything about art. The way some other people talk about it makes me realise it's wasted on me. But even as a layman I can say with total certainty that this is something very precious and beautiful - I think you can see that too so thanks for coming and please know that I love you very much.
It's currently February 14, 2021. This video turns 14 years old in two months. I'd have to imagine that the guys in this video are now in their 30s, probably standing well on cusp of becoming 40. There is something very captivating about this video that I and so many others keep coming back to. Maybe it's because, this video is the closest thing to a modern snapshot of the past, like how your parents would dig into their old photo albums from the 70s and 80s. Something tells me that even in the next decade when I'm well into my 30's, I still be coming back to this video just to admire it again.
Another year, another check in with this video. First discovered aphex in school. Now been 3 years since I moved out of home. Every year I feel my childhood that extra bit further away... I know I can't avoid it but it still stings to think about. Dwelling on nostalgia. . . when you can never return ... I always cry at this video. Still don't quite know. Until next time...
One of the original seven deadly sins was Sadness a.k.a Nostalgia. I get why it was, nostalgia prevents you from enjoying the present, as you are too caught up in trying to relive those days where you weren't nostalgic.
The video makes this song. Simplicity, and a crappy recorder gave the video some 'homegrown' intimate feeling. Maybe that's what's being lost in commercial music. The feeling. This has a real vibe. Many times over the years I have just sat and listened to this on repeat. How can this bring so much thought and emotion in two chords. Amazing.
popolynn2 Awwww feeling embarrassed and can only let out his feelings with name calling. Poor widdle primitive boy... I think you must have a small appendage. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you disapprove of yourself in your own mind leaving you insecure and firing off insults in a desperate effort to gain whatever pride was left back by culminating. Good luck on your quest for fellatio.x
i cant believe how old this vid is, now imagine a kid finding vids from 2005 to 2022 150 years later. Entire generations on the internet right now will be gone and we will all be part of ancient internet history. 🤯
This video needs to exist forever - I hope to fuck someone has a back-up version or something for if this account ever disappears. Have loved this since 2007 - will love it for a long time to come.
I'd just like you two to know, as many others have pointed out, you somehow created a bond with your audience, we feel you, we have felt you for almost 10 years, we love you.
Pretty sure I found this 14-15 years ago near its upload time, and I always associated this with my close friend because that’s the kinda hangout shit we’d do (without the drinks cuz kids). He died a couple of years back and it’s very much amplified the melancholic state. I’m back today as we lay another friend to rest because this suits the feeling so well.
This video and song has been a major piece of my life for I don't know how long. It speaks to me in terms of love, kinship and togetherness that I really cannot express in words. I come to this piece in the good times, I come to it in the bad. It is magic. I love reading the comments. There's so much emotion. It is raw for me. I love being part of a community that so gets what this is about. I love you all.
Two dudes in a suit drinking beer on a rooftop watching the sun set with a classical guitar version of aphex twin’s rhubarb in the background. What a vibe
me and my Best Friend are listening to this and wanted to leave a time stamp so we can always be on here forever and remember this moment when seeing this again.. drinking a beer and chilling gonna go out for a smoke and eat food later.. crow & Jace 1:26am in the morning ~love you crow
every now & again I come back this this video, years at a time. the first time I was watching it I was much younger than these men now I've become older.
I’d completely forgotten about this, I’d already thumbs upped it god knows how far back and here I am with tears rolling down my cheeks all over again. Could be 10 years later, could have been forever ago. Fuck man.
Discovered this today at 29 years old. Glad to be part of this journey now. UA-cam gem indeed. Wish to look back to this video.. 10.. 20 years, and beyond, down the line.
This music and video never gets old. I appreciate the authentic and simple video footage that accompanies the music. I know that this is a video of two twin brothers, but I always felt like the video depicted two high-school best friends that are hanging out one last time, right before their high-school graduation ceremony, in their suits... They know in that moment, that life is great, but that their lives will also probably be changing very much after that day. That they may not see each other very much again, from that day on, and that they will begin having many more responsibilities, etc. And therefore, there is a sadness about that day, as well. Which is so true about life... Life can be great during our youth, but at the same time, life is usually extremely sad as we grow older. Life contains many beginnings, and many endings. And the sadness is usually stronger for many people, than the happiness. The happiness of our lives, is usually at its peak, when we are preparing to graduate from high-school, and it declines after that. And this music and video footage really seems to capture that feeling. Aphex Twin said that the music for this song came to him in a dream. That doesn't surprise me, and it makes perfect sense. This very simple melody probably did in fact come from "the other side." It is such a moving piece of music, and really shows the power that music and love has. Thank you, James, for this acoustic version of Rhubarb, and for this video. I hope that this video never leaves UA-cam. This is probably one of my all time favorite pieces of music and videos. I've been listening to this video for so many years, that I recall significant events in my life when I replay this video, many years later. Have a great 2023 everyone. Peace.
this part of my life isnt over yet, the hanging out with friends, getting drunk, doing stupid stuff and feeling amazing, but whenever i see this video i get this feeling like i miss those days. im already nostalgic for something that isnt over.
I hope you guys are doing well. It's jarring how I was seven when this video was released but now I'm hearing it, probably feeling the same feelings you felt at the time.
I keep coming back here. Theres something about this video and song that keeps stirring a swell of nostalgia within me. Such a simple song and video that completely captures a moment, mood and feeling without any contrivance. A moment and place that we all have been and long for.
One of the most haunting videos I’ve ever seen. Seems like it’s after a funeral. That’s how my family deals anyway. Can’t believe how fucking hard this resonates. It’s obvious the song is a huge part of it, I’m a huge fan, but it’s everything out together that is totally indescribable, almost alien. 💙
I love this video, because I love friendship, its silly/funny moments, sunsets on rooftops and beer. specially if they're all combined. And obviously, because I love Richard D. James work. This tune makes me feel very nostalgic per se, the classic guitar touch just makes it more "real" to me and my memories. This video only reminds me of cool lost moments, with great people that sadly now only live my mind and in the mind of others. I'll keep coming, like I've been doing for the past few years. Please keep this online :)
I'd think it might scare you to see "14 years ago" or more above some of the comments. It scares the shit out of me I'd tell you. But after watching the video all that anxiety somehow goes away. Considering that time is relative, you can imagine that somewhere far far off someone can see this very moment as it's happening. It will always be there.
Y'all must know by now this is the official video for this song. Everything about it is so perfect and nostalgic. I miss this place. I miss feeling complete or like i had reached completion of any kind. I long for that feeling you two share on this roof. I long for pride and finality. Y'all had no clue that you would make a cult classic. But ya did.
The year this video was published I became best friends with this other kid. We spent all our teenage and young adult years together. We were inseparable. We learned to play guitar together and we did that a lot. We wrote a lot of music with the intent of playing with one another. We also had the habit of climbing to this particular rooftop and have a few beers there. Once we used a rope to pull a table and a couple of chairs up to the roof and we called that our own rooftop bar, to which we'd come back often. One night we went were hanging out like so many other times and in the end of the night there was one beer left. We agreed to get together the next night to drink that beer together. I ended up forgetting that, he called me and I didn't pick up. That night his heart stopped and he died. I still miss him so much and I wish we could have that beer together and I always will. I will never have a friend like him again.
I’m sorry to hear that, your story moved me to tears. I’m sure he’s glad to have had a sincere connection with you as well. I hope you’ll have that beer sometime after your time is due too. Keep going 💪🏻
I love that this and the other popular upload of regular Rhubarb are old, low quality videos that evoke a melancholy sense of lost time and nostalgia. This song kills me. Achingly beautiful but full of sadness. Love to everybody here.
This is one of my favorite videos ever. I come here under certain emotional circumstances too pretentious for the everyday mindset I carry through work, functioning, etc. But for those certain nights, this video's casual yet existential vibes are just right.
I keep coming back to this hidden gem. I've been doing it for the past ten years. Can't explain what this video and this track do to me, but I'm glad they exist. I'm reading all these nostalgic, wholesome, sweet comments and it all brings me on the verge of tears. Hope everyone here is doing fine. Cheers from Italy, fellow humans.
I'm 22 years old right now, and I promise to come back in a few years if everything gets better to remember this moment. It's crazy how time flies. When this video was uploaded, I was 5 years old.
They are now 13 years older than how we see them in this video.. it's crazy to think about what was thirteen years ago and what will be in thirteen years. I will for sure climb on a roof some beautiful evening and film it just to watch it someday when I'm older
Most people here mention this longing for bygone times. I feel differently. I feel this particular twinge of anguish that makes me feel bad about how much I'm gonna miss the good moments I'm living through right now. I'm in a dark place as of now, but I've also learned how precious small, simple experiences can be. And I'm scared that, like most things, they too will fade away into being just memories... And eventually, not even that. I wanna enjoy life very, very much. But I'm always scared that the magic will fade away.
this is like when you're doing something with your friends. chilling out and watching a sunset, having conversations around a bench with a couple people sitting on their bikes, etc. and you just have this thought of "this is it, it doesn't get any better than this." and you have this sense of nostalgia for something that's already happening. this is it, this is the good old days, and you're living them right now.
And all at once, you all go silent and stare out into the sky, and just for a moment nothing could be more perfect.
Man, these comments are fucking me up.
On the roof of your car with the stars
the one thing that truly makes me sad is that i'm missing out on these feelings and moments. i've had them in the past, but am now left with no friends...
@@Djellowman I'm sorry to hear that, Tim. How did it become that way?
It’s been 13 years since I first saw this video, I lost my dad, my partner and two dogs. I emigrated to another country, 3 beautiful nieces have been born and I am still figuring out who I am but every time I come back to this video I feel at home.
hope youre doing good :)
Love you man
Welcome home:)
hope u come back
FYI this took place at 37°42'21.44"N, 122°27'44.89"W
It's a nursing home. That's... significant?
Not at all. Just thought it was cool that you can find the exact location based on the video.
It is cool.
how did you find that out?
I need to go to that place sometime, and listen to this song with a beer...
Man those evenings with good friends.. growing up sucks sometimes
I remember commenting on this back in 07, on my first account. Horrible depression that summer. 40 this year...
Thanks for this again.
Hope you are doing good homeboy.
nonetheless, there is good things about growing up (or old 🤷♀). I wish you well my friend!
hope your a doing well my friend
Please never ever take this down. I'm watching this every few years for 14 years now. I cannot believe just how much time has it been and it still touches me so deep into my soul... I cry every single time.
My man.
I too come back to this video religiously. I'll do it for decades if it's not taken down.
@@kendrit4885 It's approaching the upload 'anniversary' too. I get the strangest feeling, seeing the date of the upload. April 2007. I was 16. I can't even begin to explain how much has changed, but I still always come back to this video.
I come back too and reflect on the years that have passed. Hope you all are well
download it
Funny how minimalistic notes and a video with little to no embellishment can merge together into something stellar. It's a cheesy thing to say but Richard James really is the most underrated musician of our time.
***** He's well known but if you ask any random person in the street I doubt they've heard on RDJ or Aphex Twin.
overrated* its a bit naive to think that all his fame comes from his music work alone. in my opinion villalobos and loderbauer are underrated, even james holden is.. both re:ecm and the inheritors are much more solid works and inovative in composition and production techniques than any aphex twin album..
@@danielpereira8132 Opinion trash
He's one of the greatest composers of this century and will be studied and remembered as such. I've never heard a musician so in touch with the human experience.
I am an old man now but I still very much miss my friends that died in their teens. I come here to remember some of the times that we spent together. Forever young Scott, Joe, and John. Growing up in the suburbs wasn't so easy after all. See you guys on the flip side.
hey, i come back to this video every once in a while and i always end up reading your comment every time. i'm sorry for your losses. i hope all is well with you, wishing you the best
How did they die of?
@Ryan Plethra hi. I read through your entire comment. thank you for sharing your memories and your emotions. its hard to know what to tell you because i've never really went through any of that, i was never really someone who had that many friends or who enjoyed going out and meeting new people or any of that stuff, I always just kind of liked being on my own. i guess that probably kept me from having so many of those memories. different ways of living lives i guess. i'm really sorry about all that stuff that happened to you, although I can't fully comprehend exactly what you're feeling i really am fully aware of how deeply stuff like that can affect you. i don't know you but i'd bet you're a really nice genuine person. that's what it seemed like to me anyway. you spent all that time writing that comment and it was all about other people, you didn't really make it about yourself. that's as unselfish as it gets. that's worth more than i'm really able to explain to you. really hoping you feel better. the pain may never go away but you can make it a smaller part of yourself by continuing to live your life and creating new memories and just doing your own thing. that's how i see things anyway. try not to give yourself such a hard time thinking about the past, nothing's ever as important as right now. enjoy yourself out there. i wish you all the best, i really mean it, take good care of yourself
CRINGE
@John Doe CRINGE
This song reminds me of my friend. I miss him.
I've just watched these two guys sit on a roof and drink beer for 7 minutes, but somehow I feel like I know them really well
i hope you guys one day realize how many souls you have touched with this simple video of yours
I wonder if these guys still have access to this video. I do.
@@euroq years from now, will you still be here?
TOASTYCO. AV only time will tell
Αλήτης Τεντιμπόης it got me
The man of Tao acts without impediment,
He harms no other being by his actions,
Yet he does not know himself
to be kind and gentle.
He does not struggle to make money
And he does not make a virtue of poverty.
He goes without relying on others,
And does not pride himself
on walking alone.
The man of Tao remains unknown.
Perfect virtue produces nothing.
No Self is True Self.
And the greatest man is nobody.
Jesus Herenadez Taoism is the most innocent and humane teaching I’ve ever come across. “The greatest man is nobody”. What an incredible amount of love you must feel yourself to be a nobody in this world, realizing your effect in this universe is just as powerful as the person breaking his back at 6 in the morning doing landscaping, or the lawyer that never sees his family because of his incredibly intense schedule and devoting to duty. The universe may be indifferent to us but it certainty treats us like the absolute equals we are. Energy and love that has no meaning or reason, is what we all are, with the universe as one of our mothers.
I was literally reading the Tao Te Ching 5 minutes ago. Glad to see someone felt the same with this song and the Tao.
Dig it
“The Master gives himself up
to whatever the moment brings.
He knows that he is going to die,
and he has nothing left to hold on to:
no illusions in his mind,
no resistances in his body.
He doesn't think about his actions;
they flow from the core of his being.
He holds nothing back from life;
therefore he is ready for death,
as a man is ready for sleep
after a good day's work.”
Taoism is such a chill philosophy.
I would love to see a tao person or a buddhist monk working and in living somewhere like london as a bin man or something on rubbish wages waking up at 5am on a freezing cold january morning wearing his hi visiblity uniform. paying £1500 pound rent for a shity flat whilst only earning £2000 a month. Do you think he would be peaceful still? do you think if the londoner whos actually working in that job swapped positions with the monk who would be happier? The monk has no idea how shit it is losing or your youthful innocence working a dead end job he would actually think hes in the gulags or in a nightmare, whilst the binman would be loving his new peaceful life thinking hes in a dream.
This is the single greatest combination of sound and image I have ever seen. I'm not joking.
Agree
In always see Canadian mountains when I hear this version.
The original makes me see beautiful space pictures
Having been to Canada, I can see what you mean! (well, hear and see what you mean anyway ;) )
I remember being 11.
you have written the exact word by word comment I was going to write
2007... i miss that time when was possible to live without the will to die
Erick Viana it is still possible try to do new crazy stuff without saying it is not possible.
Hope you are well...
We are so lucky to have each other. I like to imagine that if one day the human race does go extinct and some advanced civilization stumbles upon our ruins, they will find this video and understand who we were at our best. . . .
Becaus of comments like these, I still read the comment sections on the internet.
well said my friend from earth. BleepBleep see ya
Agreed with Max, what a fantastic comment.
I can't thumbs up this enough. X3
yall make me smile...thanx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A few years ago someone posted a comment here along the lines of "I keep coming back to this video". It made me smile because I empathised, and more so now, as once again I find myself looking for APHEX TWIN RHUBARB ROOFTOP. I rarely comment on videos (least of all in as gushing and honest a manner as I find myself now), but I feel compelled to state that this video is- for reasons I can only partly fathom- incredibly important to me. Thank you RDJ... but also thanks to the dalycitytwins for making something magical. I think of you as old friends now; though we have never met (and likely never will) I wish you only well.
Keep this video here forever!
-Youssef
Let it be known, there are more of us that keep coming back to this. 3rd time in the last 7 years, this video is my solemn link to a closed loop from the days of old; quite befitting, my thoughts have always been that the shot and piece were a finale solely purposed for sweet remembrance. Keep it alive dalaycitytwins, lest we lose some of our former selves and may good fortunes befriend you.
same for me buddy. watching/listening to this for years. makes me sad, ´cause this video makes me think about my past.
Same for me too. I mean I love AFX and i love Rhubarb. I cant get it out of my head. This cover is so peaceful and the video is perfect, care free, just mates drinking on a roof in the evening. I get very nostalgic when i listen to this. Happy yet sad at the same time...
+YoussefDonovan THIS!!!
And so I'm back on the roof again... how are you all doing people?
-Youssef
I still don't understand why this video does what it does - but it does.
"Hey! How exactly is a rainbow made? How exactly does a sun set? How exactly does a posi-trac rear-end on a Plymouth work? It just does."
Because Aphex Twin is a genius and someone made a more accessible instrumentation of his piece, Rhubarb.
C Meade it’s more than that, it’s this whole thing out together. It’s incredibly haunting. I agree with the OP. Just my opinion.
What is does cannot be conveyed in words
Makes you miss stuff that didn't even happen to you... It hits hard
First saw this video in 2007 when i was 17 and going through the usual shit you do at that age, it struck a chord with me then and now 9 years later i still watch it. Simplicity at its best, 2 friends having a couple of beers, the journey of these guys isnt important for this video, purely the moment and we have been lucky enough to be a part of it! Peace
+wdunn06 many love
thats so cool that you saw this video on the year it was published. I've only known this for about a couple of years. it's still somewhere I come to every once in a while and the awesome thing is that it always brings back the exact same feeling. i'm glad other people see the beauty in this as well, this is a special little corner of the internet for sure. all the best to you
And here I am, 17 going on 18 stumbling upon this, love Aphex Twin's version but this may actually be better by a slight.
@უფალო შემიწყალე This is the most wholesome comment section on youtube.
I still watch this video every now and again. I remember watching it when I was 17, 13 years ago, depressed over a failing relationship. This video was one of many things that helped me overcome it.
I love that there’s people completing pilgrimages to this place every year. It really is a phenomenon. Long may it continue.
where is this place?
Yes please, I would love to know the place
I have found my tribe.
Daly City, right next to San Francisco@@josephl7906
I'm still here. I'm alive.
Me too.
What is it when we become so happy that we become sad?
It is the purest form of happiness.
It's nostalgia or melancholia or life
It's the Hagelian dialectic, we only understand true happiness if we have an understanding of sadness (pain) and the synthesis of the two is profound. Like life and death etc...
Melancholia.
Its guilt, we shouldn't be happy, love has died by our hands.
Ive seen this 16 years ago and I still do. Thank you.
I often wonder where these guys are now. I’m sure they have families of their own. Are they still friends? For all we know, this could have been the last time they spent a day together. Maybe they had a fight, maybe one of them could have passed away, or maybe they just naturally grew their separate ways. Or maybe they’re doing completely fine and are still best buds.
I wish they would come back and comment here. To let us all know.
It's that time of the year again.
Stay young at heart.
I'm crying right now. Everything about this is so pure
Y’all captured something here
I've loved this video since I was 17 years old. I'm 30 now. I was a completely different person in a completely different world then, but when I watch this video, I return to that place, and it makes me feel melancholy. Even now, scrolling through the comments, I stumbled across a comment I left on here 12 years ago--like a glance at some looking glass. I took a lot for granted. Just know that this video means a lot to me and that it brings me to a more comfortable and familiar place where the world still seemed so big and there was still so much time left. I miss that summer all those years ago and the people I knew then. I hope this never gets taken down.
Once again, the best video on youtube.
Please never delete this. I want to know what this feels like, one day.
I made a copy a couple years ago and will reupload it in case it's going to be deleted
@@felix-dk9tr Dude, bless you!
srsly, not only did u make the best cover ever, you made a video which captures an emotion that goes unnoticed, ive never cried so hard 2 a song.
What would you even call this wonderful emotion. It seems everyone here feels it but doesn't even know what it is. It's magic.
@@pimxan Saudade, perhaps?
If only it were a song.
@@rawbeato i don't know if you would call it saudade. It has that sadness specific only to saudade, but saudade looks to the past- at something gone. This is like preemptive saudade, the same sadness but looking to the future- at something that will soon be missed.
@@pimxanthe emotion is just everyday feeling, a simple constructed moment you had when you were young with a friend. It was when you had nothing to answer to, so you took yourself up to a roof, or a mountain, or a train station. No matter the setting, you were just there, with a homie, its timeless. As you get older, you'll find those stupid simple ass moments were ones you'll never get to have again
This makes me both incredibly sad and incredibly happy at the same time.
I still remember your post-rock uploads from around ten+ years ago, they were great. Thanks.
Still the best video on UA-cam
Agree. This is my favorite video ever.
Comments so special here. holy vibe
How painful is the fact that one day, everyone loses their youth
beautiful comment
Only if you're too afraid to let it go. Everything evolves and you get to decide whether you choose to see it as sad, or beautiful...
+Palm93 It petrifies me that I may have wasted mine...
lordmackery Ha, don't be silly. Just embrace the now, stop looking back and try to fill your days with as much joy as possible, i promise as you make joy your purpose you will have more fun that you could ever imagine. Nothing is ever wasted. I'm sure you've learnt a lot, even if its what you don't want or don't like. You can only know what you want to experience, if you know what you don't, It ain't all bad. Good luck! :)
My youth was a big piece of crap, glad that shit was over. Nothing painfull about no sir.
I dunno if you will see this, but I have seriously been returning to this video once every couple of years for the last ten years now. It somehow captures a universal nostalgia despite the fact that this is not my own lived experience. It is a perfect video, and I don’t mean that hyperbolically. It is a legitimate UA-cam gem.
Everyone has been returning, you're not alone, friend.
Hauntology is beautiful eh ?
I'm so happy i've seen this comment yams02. I've also been coming back to this video on and off for many years, especially in times of desperation or need.
Lots of music and art is appealing to me, or just fine, or not that good - I'm not a connoiseur of any kind.
I don't really know anything about art. The way some other people talk about it makes me realise it's wasted on me.
But even as a layman I can say with total certainty that this is something very precious and beautiful - I think you can see that too so thanks for coming and please know that I love you very much.
YES
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It's currently February 14, 2021.
This video turns 14 years old in two months. I'd have to imagine that the guys in this video are now in their 30s, probably standing well on cusp of becoming 40.
There is something very captivating about this video that I and so many others keep coming back to. Maybe it's because, this video is the closest thing to a modern snapshot of the past, like how your parents would dig into their old photo albums from the 70s and 80s.
Something tells me that even in the next decade when I'm well into my 30's, I still be coming back to this video just to admire it again.
Beautiful comment 🙌
You will be - I found this video at 20 years old and now here I am again (with sporadic revisits in between) three weeks away from turning 33
@@markwilliams7054 same story here. Just a couple weeks older than you. It hits hard every time.
@@markwilliams7054 14 years here and still counting. Cannot believe it has been so long and still hits hard
I'm with you. I'll be coming back to this in ten years.
One day at a time.
We are doing better buddy, see you in another 10.
@@Mexicannasa Glad you got through those 10. We'll make it through another. Let's stay.
the narrative of a true friendship
Another year, another check in with this video.
First discovered aphex in school. Now been 3 years since I moved out of home.
Every year I feel my childhood that extra bit further away... I know I can't avoid it but it still stings to think about.
Dwelling on nostalgia. . . when you can never return ...
I always cry at this video. Still don't quite know. Until next time...
One of the original seven deadly sins was Sadness a.k.a Nostalgia. I get why it was, nostalgia prevents you from enjoying the present, as you are too caught up in trying to relive those days where you weren't nostalgic.
Still the best video on youtube.
This video is holy
lol you nailed it
Absolutely
Holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy, the world is holy, the soul is holy, the skin is holy
yep but that beer not holy xD
Never have I ever seen a video so very...human. Thank you for this.
low quality cameras have a strange magic to them eh?
Of all the videos I have encountered in my travels...his was the most.........HUMAN.
The video makes this song. Simplicity, and a crappy recorder gave the video some 'homegrown' intimate feeling. Maybe that's what's being lost in commercial music. The feeling. This has a real vibe. Many times over the years I have just sat and listened to this on repeat. How can this bring so much thought and emotion in two chords. Amazing.
popolynn2 I'm a dude.x
don't care
Can't say fairer than that.
popolynn2 Awwww feeling embarrassed and can only let out his feelings with name calling. Poor widdle primitive boy... I think you must have a small appendage. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you disapprove of yourself in your own mind leaving you insecure and firing off insults in a desperate effort to gain whatever pride was left back by culminating. Good luck on your quest for fellatio.x
Peace and love from Barnsley, brother. I concur with you utterly
been coming back here for over 10yrs...
I always find this song when I need it to be the background theme for one specific kind of mood I sometimes get late in the evening.
oh man, you nailed it.
Still coming back to this gem
i cant believe how old this vid is, now imagine a kid finding vids from 2005 to 2022 150 years later. Entire generations on the internet right now will be gone and we will all be part of ancient internet history. 🤯
Practically the most famous, unknown cover song ever.
This video needs to exist forever - I hope to fuck someone has a back-up version or something for if this account ever disappears. Have loved this since 2007 - will love it for a long time to come.
I'm gonna download it, don't worry
Downloaded it ages ago, just in case. We got your back.
I'd just like you two to know, as many others have pointed out, you somehow created a bond with your audience, we feel you, we have felt you for almost 10 years, we love you.
I can’t imagine how much their lives have changed, this event happened 16 years ago. How much nostalgia may they feel
Pretty sure I found this 14-15 years ago near its upload time, and I always associated this with my close friend because that’s the kinda hangout shit we’d do (without the drinks cuz kids). He died a couple of years back and it’s very much amplified the melancholic state. I’m back today as we lay another friend to rest because this suits the feeling so well.
this whole piece is so beautiful, a lovely compliment to richard's work
10 years later I still come back to this piece of art on a regular basis
It's been 10 years since I first watched this video. Sometimes it pops into my mind and I return here to watch it again.
This video and song has been a major piece of my life for I don't know how long. It speaks to me in terms of love, kinship and togetherness that I really cannot express in words. I come to this piece in the good times, I come to it in the bad. It is magic. I love reading the comments. There's so much emotion. It is raw for me. I love being part of a community that so gets what this is about. I love you all.
+Colin Everett I hear you , I'm 17, and this video makes me realize what life is really about.. Peace
3 years later, I love you too, bro.
Love
Two dudes in a suit drinking beer on a rooftop watching the sun set with a classical guitar version of aphex twin’s rhubarb in the background. What a vibe
Came back 14 years later. Thank you for this!
15 years later
Checking in, 6/10/2024
this video gave me peace
me and my Best Friend are listening to this and wanted to leave a time stamp so we can always be on here forever and remember this moment when seeing this again..
drinking a beer and chilling gonna go out for a smoke and eat food later..
crow & Jace 1:26am in the morning
~love you crow
After 7 years there isn't much more to say is there? But here we are again all the same.
i hope all of my friends make it.
every now & again I come back this this video, years at a time.
the first time I was watching it I was much younger than these men
now I've become older.
I’d completely forgotten about this, I’d already thumbs upped it god knows how far back and here I am with tears rolling down my cheeks all over again. Could be 10 years later, could have been forever ago.
Fuck man.
Discovered this today at 29 years old. Glad to be part of this journey now. UA-cam gem indeed. Wish to look back to this video.. 10.. 20 years, and beyond, down the line.
I watch it once a year :)
It looks like the last day of their lives
Nikolay Tarabak last day of their old lives, and moving on to their new ones. basically growing up
Your comment hit me harder than I thought it would.
theoddone887 like a truck ?
it will be if they keep twirling around drunk on the roof, lol...
I keep coming back to this most perfect video, year after year...
Sincerely,
thank you for sharing~
+David Adams same here
+Linas Mukaltinas (weirdnoises)
Year after year
Me too....it moves me in ways I cannot explain. ..
Me too
+Matthew McGravey I always come back to this video. Time after time after time after......
Probably my favourite corner of UA-cam... for reasons I can't even put into words...
Here's to the next ten years!
This music and video never gets old.
I appreciate the authentic and simple video footage that accompanies the music.
I know that this is a video of two twin brothers, but I always felt like the video depicted two high-school best friends that are hanging out one last time, right before their high-school graduation ceremony, in their suits...
They know in that moment, that life is great, but that their lives will also probably be changing very much after that day. That they may not see each other very much again, from that day on, and that they will begin having many more responsibilities, etc. And therefore, there is a sadness about that day, as well. Which is so true about life...
Life can be great during our youth, but at the same time, life is usually extremely sad as we grow older. Life contains many beginnings, and many endings. And the sadness is usually stronger for many people, than the happiness.
The happiness of our lives, is usually at its peak, when we are preparing to graduate from high-school, and it declines after that.
And this music and video footage really seems to capture that feeling.
Aphex Twin said that the music for this song came to him in a dream. That doesn't surprise me, and it makes perfect sense. This very simple melody probably did in fact come from "the other side." It is such a moving piece of music, and really shows the power that music and love has.
Thank you, James, for this acoustic version of Rhubarb, and for this video. I hope that this video never leaves UA-cam.
This is probably one of my all time favorite pieces of music and videos. I've been listening to this video for so many years, that I recall significant events in my life when I replay this video, many years later.
Have a great 2023 everyone. Peace.
this part of my life isnt over yet, the hanging out with friends, getting drunk, doing stupid stuff and feeling amazing, but whenever i see this video i get this feeling like i miss those days. im already nostalgic for something that isnt over.
keep the fun alive
this video made me cry
Me, too.
I hope you guys are doing well. It's jarring how I was seven when this video was released but now I'm hearing it, probably feeling the same feelings you felt at the time.
I keep coming back here. Theres something about this video and song that keeps stirring a swell of nostalgia within me. Such a simple song and video that completely captures a moment, mood and feeling without any contrivance. A moment and place that we all have been and long for.
Every year I watch this video it gets more somber. I’m 24 now this video came out when I was 10. Time flies by. Enjoy life!
I feel very lucky to have found this video.
One of the most haunting videos I’ve ever seen. Seems like it’s after a funeral. That’s how my family deals anyway. Can’t believe how fucking hard this resonates. It’s obvious the song is a huge part of it, I’m a huge fan, but it’s everything out together that is totally indescribable, almost alien. 💙
omg you're right, the suits, l'appel du vide...funereal
It sounds a bit like a cathedral, when the churchbells are almost done and almost fall silent... After a funeral.
3- 15- 2023
I was here, I'm alive
I always return to this
I love this video, because I love friendship, its silly/funny moments, sunsets on rooftops and beer. specially if they're all combined. And obviously, because I love Richard D. James work. This tune makes me feel very nostalgic per se, the classic guitar touch just makes it more "real" to me and my memories. This video only reminds me of cool lost moments, with great people that sadly now only live my mind and in the mind of others.
I'll keep coming, like I've been doing for the past few years. Please keep this online :)
I'd think it might scare you to see "14 years ago" or more above some of the comments. It scares the shit out of me I'd tell you. But after watching the video all that anxiety somehow goes away. Considering that time is relative, you can imagine that somewhere far far off someone can see this very moment as it's happening. It will always be there.
Happy 17th anniversary everyone.
does anyone also get that weird feeling in their chest like it's tightening when listening to this track?
Oh god yes! Yes! that's exactly what I'm feeling. Kinda scary in the beginning but when it ends I feel more relaxed.
exactly. there has to be a name for it
It's called Melancholy
Heart-wrenching
Nostalgia to the point of pain and tears. This taps to human universal. Been returning to this nearly each year at least once.
Y'all must know by now this is the official video for this song. Everything about it is so perfect and nostalgic. I miss this place. I miss feeling complete or like i had reached completion of any kind. I long for that feeling you two share on this roof. I long for pride and finality. Y'all had no clue that you would make a cult classic. But ya did.
Seventh anniversary coming up and yep, still listening to this
The year this video was published I became best friends with this other kid. We spent all our teenage and young adult years together. We were inseparable. We learned to play guitar together and we did that a lot. We wrote a lot of music with the intent of playing with one another. We also had the habit of climbing to this particular rooftop and have a few beers there. Once we used a rope to pull a table and a couple of chairs up to the roof and we called that our own rooftop bar, to which we'd come back often. One night we went were hanging out like so many other times and in the end of the night there was one beer left. We agreed to get together the next night to drink that beer together. I ended up forgetting that, he called me and I didn't pick up. That night his heart stopped and he died. I still miss him so much and I wish we could have that beer together and I always will. I will never have a friend like him again.
I’m sorry to hear that, your story moved me to tears. I’m sure he’s glad to have had a sincere connection with you as well. I hope you’ll have that beer sometime after your time is due too. Keep going 💪🏻
A friend like that must have been really such a wonderful experience. My condolences.
This is the youtube i loved. Im nostalgic and sad rewatching my old fav videos.
been watching this video for years now. love it
I'm here again
I love that this and the other popular upload of regular Rhubarb are old, low quality videos that evoke a melancholy sense of lost time and nostalgia. This song kills me. Achingly beautiful but full of sadness. Love to everybody here.
This is one of my favorite videos ever.
I come here under certain emotional circumstances too pretentious for the everyday mindset I carry through work, functioning, etc. But for those certain nights, this video's casual yet existential vibes are just right.
I´m amazed how a melody so simple can give you shivers and rethink everything you´ve done with your life.. I want this to be played at my funeral
I keep coming back to this hidden gem. I've been doing it for the past ten years. Can't explain what this video and this track do to me, but I'm glad they exist. I'm reading all these nostalgic, wholesome, sweet comments and it all brings me on the verge of tears. Hope everyone here is doing fine. Cheers from Italy, fellow humans.
I'm 22 years old right now, and I promise to come back in a few years if everything gets better to remember this moment. It's crazy how time flies. When this video was uploaded, I was 5 years old.
you guys don't know how important this video has become to many of us
10 years later, I still come back to this video. Please don't ever take it down. Thank you.
and the tears keep flowing
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
the video is uploaded almost 9 years ago, are those guys still young like this?
+MrRandomSong LOL! Are you still young like you were nine years ago?
+Ryan Ours I meant do they still feel like young, every time nostalgy is killing me watching videos like this
years from now, will you still be here
I hope they are too.
this comment was uploaded 2 years ago. Is the guy still young like then?
They are now 13 years older than how we see them in this video.. it's crazy to think about what was thirteen years ago and what will be in thirteen years. I will for sure climb on a roof some beautiful evening and film it just to watch it someday when I'm older
I was 21 when they uploaded this. It's crazy. I'm 34 now and heading for 40. And it doesn't seem that long ago...
Most people here mention this longing for bygone times. I feel differently. I feel this particular twinge of anguish that makes me feel bad about how much I'm gonna miss the good moments I'm living through right now. I'm in a dark place as of now, but I've also learned how precious small, simple experiences can be. And I'm scared that, like most things, they too will fade away into being just memories... And eventually, not even that. I wanna enjoy life very, very much. But I'm always scared that the magic will fade away.