Opera Singer Reacts to Home Free Brothers in Arms | Performance Analysis |
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- What's up RUclips it's me Jess and I'm an opera singer. Today's video is going to be a performance analysis of Home Free's cover of Brothers in Arms.
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On Austin’s channel, now you’re back to them, Rob and Austin sing Nessun Dorma , Rob’s voice will surprise you.
I actually cried when i heard it. No idea what they were singing about but i felt it
I second that
Yes ❤💯💯💯
I third that
I fourth that.
Been waiting for a Homefree return. I was not disappointed, but I think it’s time to react and breakdown their cover of Cam’s Mayday. I personally think it’s top 3 of all of their songs.
It’s my fav of theirs. 🏠🍟
If you want to hear how great of a singer, Tim Foust, really is checkout his solo single Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow/Stay and his collaboration with The Bass Gang on Hooked on a Feeling. Gets to show off his 5 octave range on both of those songs. This really shows he’s not just a bass singer, he’s just a great overall singer that just happens to sing bass as well.
In his discussion with Peter Barber, Tim says he will often sing a high harmony when Austin is lead. With Adam Chance as bari/bass their vocal flexibility is superb.
@@ericclayton6287 “Mayday” is a perfect example of this. Tim sings the same high tenor notes as Rob and Austin, with Chance doing the bass line.
Yep this along with Helplessly Hoping is a couple of my absolute favorites from HomeFree
As a military veteran, this is a song that always brings tears to my eyes and nobody does this song better than Home Free. Thank you for looking into it!
In my opinion this is their masterpiece
The songs tells a story!
This is, in my opinion, one of their absolute masterpieces. It was a joy to see and hear you recognize each and all the nuances of harmony, melody, dissonance and transition. So many reactors miss those vocal interpretations, stressing the lyrics and the visual production of this piece. All those are important to the whole experience, but I learned a bit more about music theory from you. Thank you for your reaction.
The lyrics they sung together must indicate a common suffering amongst those seeing their brothers die. Great job and thanks for putting extra importance on that.
Masterpiece by Home Free. Your insight and analysis is exceptional. Thank you!
Good God this song is a tear-jerker. I want this shit played at my funeral just to make everyone cry.
"We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms". HOLY SHIT I'm just gonna drink myself into an early grave now, TTYL
The song is about the thoughts of a dying solder as his brothers in arms watch him die. This will now be his home since he can not return to the valleys and fields like they will. The further lyrics are about his other thoughts as they stay with him.
Holy moly, Jess, that was awesome! Thank you! I doubt I'm the only one here who, as a fan of both Dire Straits and Home free, would enjoy and benefit from your thoughts after you've heard the original. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Indeed - The Dire Straits band ( Mark Knopfler) in particular the great guitar work ..... is just phenomenal music .... instruments make their sound - these five vocal geniuses are so talented it's amazing ! Both experiences do inspire.
Jess, I appreciate your detailed analysis, it brings me closer to understanding music development using a song style and group that I appreciate.
Thanks for your analysis. I have always been a fan of this song by Dire Straits but think Home Free did an excellent version of this song. Tim's natural breathy bass was awesome along with Chance's smooth baritone & loved it when all the guys were doing 5 part harmonies. Who would believe humming could sound so good. They gave it a very solemn feeling. I love that they don't overproduce their songs. These guys are my favorite a cappella group out there.
What I picture from this song - A casket in a large mostly-empty cathedral. The deceased veteran is singing from his spirit and is surrounded by several brothers-in-arms that would have gladly taken the place of the deceased if they could. The last two notes emphasize the solemn nature of the song.
As conceived he is dying in the field as his Brothers In Arms stay with him, that is what the line "and always will be" is about. They get to return to the valleys and farms be he will not. At the time the Falkland War was the current one but the opening like about mist covered mountains is straight out of Vietnam. You are right about the others surrounding him but he is not dead yet when he has these thoughts. He dies at the end of the song which is why it ends on certain tones. I have listened to the original a lot.
Brilliant analysis,
This arrangement of the Dire Straits piece was originally by a Finnish a cappella group Club for Five, nine years earlier and used with their permission. If there ever was a group to outshine the original, Home Free is it.
This was the first CD I ever bought once I could afford a CD-Player way back then. I am 60 years old now and still love it. Home Free did this track justice!
I like their Love Over Gold album too.
50yrs old, and this was the first ever CD I bought too - for my mom for Christmas, because she loved this song.
15 years later I'd rock my colicky infant daughter around the room to it, trying to hang on to the shreds of my sanity, lol...
This album's been an intimate part of my life for so long.
Chills every time, i hear this song...
Loved the reaction 😊
That ending sounded like a pipe organ. Thank you Tim.
Dear lord!!!!! Listen to the original. It is a MASTERPIECE!!!!!
Mark Knopflers guitar work on the original by Dire Straights is a must listen. Absolutely hauntingly beautiful!
DAMMIT LADY NOW I'M CRYING HARDER
.... well done 😁
I loved the details you picked out even though yes they did make me cry harder, which meant the song worked better
Love this song. A Dire Straits song about the Falkland war. HF do a great rendition of it. Love it!❤
Huh. I thought it was about the Irish civil war ("Troubles")
Mark Knopfler wrote this song in 1982 or 1983 and he had the Falkland war in mind. A war between Brittain and Argentina in early 1980's on the Falkland island.
@@bennyboman6570 cool. this is the problem with history classes that are so sh!tty you learn more from reading Pratchett *wanders off to google*
If there is one word to accurately summarize the video of this: haunting.
Thanks for actually analyzing this performance.
Thank you for this. I haven't listened to this one in awhile and your analysis is exceptional. I have found Home Free's performance of this hits me in all the emotions - not to mention all the goosies I felt during the harmonies. Excellent analysis.
I like how you break down the song. Great teaching! They remind me of a pipe organ at the climax. Hauntingly beautiful yet sends a powerful message.
A favorite version of this song. Haunting. Great analysis. Thanks. If you have not covered it their version of "Bless the Broken Road" is good as is "In the Blood".
Chills! Always appreciate your breakdowns.
Have to say that when Adam does not beatbox, they are always stunning. I don't know what it is but, that 5th vocal adds so much.
Adam is adding texture with breathes. It helps blend all the voices a little more
It’s hauntingly beautiful. I loved the echoes too. Tim goes incredibly low on that one part. So good that they can carry harmony on humming notes too. Just beautifully done. Great analysis. HF is such a good band. Helplessly Hoping, One Man Band, In the Blood. 😄🤩
Jess did a nice reaction to “Helplessly Hoping”. 🌼
You rarely hear a bass sing softly and breathlessly and yet articulate so clearly.
His vocal effects really sold the idea that he was struggling, and fading from his wounds.
@@itzel1735 Thank you. I missed it
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Voices from the grave. Whispers in the wind.
Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is one of those musicians that the most impressive guitar players idolize.
The moving parts in the humming are mostly Knopfler's expressive guitar lines - he adds them after many of the lines he sings, in addition to during the intro and solo.
Jessica! Glade to see you back reacting to Home Free. I really enjoy your thorough analyses on complicated pieces. I would love to see you react to Home Free "American Pie" featuring the artist and song writer himself ~Don McClean. He collaborates with the boys to give us this wonderful up to date version. Thanks Darlin.
Hey, awesome analysis. As you mentioned, singing very low is really hard to squeez the words out. What's even more fascinating is that, Tim can sing low really clearly with a great control on his vibrato. Which is even more hard to do when singing low. Anyways, thank-you for the RV. Keep safe!
Lest We Forget
Jess - You took us to school. Another great teaching in HomeFree Appreciation Class. You notice, observe and explain details that some of us just hear as great singing. Thank You again Professor Jess.
Thank you!
Tim and Chance present a ghostly figure standing in front of the window and no beatboxing except wind noises from Adam who is singing.
I really enjoyed your reaction and analysis on this song! You got the original artist correct but this unique arrangement came from another a cappella group Club For Five. They gave Home Free permission to use the arrangement. Home Free did not disappoint on this touching song. Unique perspective of a man writing a song as a mortal injury ( second verse) is ending his life and how war has no use as his life ends! Gods love to you! Low bass Kenneth!
Yes, but as he is dying his Brothers In Arms stay with him until it is over.
Take Me Home Country Road.... Such a dynamic composition and I would be here for it all day to hear you break that intricate take on a classic down 💜
Tim actually moved his hand a few times in this, but the other ones you didn’t mention may have been subconscious. I believe Tim and Geoff Castellucci of VoicePlay have both admitted to not always being able to stop their hands from moving on the low notes as if they’re downshifting in a car.
this piece also celebrates honor and standing faithful to ones post
HF are the best. This song gets to me every time. I have two nephews who served in the military. Thank God they made it back home safely. Great reaction.
Thank you for explaining to me so much, Aquarius! Haha great reaction to a very somber masterpiece! Yes, at the end there is resolution because his buddy has passed and the video is ghostly for that reason. It was written by Dire Straits. I love your explanation of all the reasons I find it haunting.
So hauntingly beautiful. Master class in 5-part harmony. The "organ chords" at the end are absolutely stunning.
I LOVED your reaction and analysis.
Thank you 🙂
When I first heard this song, I thought they said "so many different sons" instead of suns. Speaking of how many sons we've sent off to war. It added to my regard for the song to look at it in that way.
Either interpretation makes sense.
Thank you for this - it makes a great companion piece to Peter Barber's analysis, because you are both being very detailed but focusing on different things. I think the reason Tim can be so clear on "brothers" is simply that it _isn't_ the extreme of his range! I can sing along OK, but I'm stretching at that point so it's getting raspy; he isn't stretching yet.
Every reaction video for Brothers In Arms has missed the wonderful unison cadence on the end. It is the 'Amen' or 'it is so' for the song. And you hear the wind blowing and the cry of the hawk over the graves. That is genius in my opinion.
Plagal cadence
wonderful analysis thank you
I love everytihing they do ... but for me, this is one of their masterpieces
That is a great song. Illustrated so well!
Loved your breakdown! When you got me really listening, I thought in one part at the end that I heard a hawk scream in the background. Adam Rupp is sooooo talented! All of them are! That song brings tears to my eyes!
When you were talking about Tim moving his hand, you missed his low note signal. He drops his right hand and points at the floor as he hits his extremely low notes.
Thank you for that wonderful reaction;I learned so much. I’m not knowledgeable when it comes to music and this informed me a lot. Home Free never disappoints. Along with their talent they have wonderful arrangements as well as physical backgrounds. The starkness of the barren field spoke volumes.
Great analysis!
Nicely done ma’am! Thanks for mentioning the genius of their arranging!
Tim can rattle the paint off a wall! More importantly, he is musical and has impeccable pitch! These guys are the real deal!❤️
Wow, that was a fabulous reaction. Many thanks. Have always loved this performance but you added a ton to the appreciation
Wonderful to see a reaction to this incredible piece by Home Free. So powerful, and such a great use of Tim's talent, not just the bass voice, but giving us the tenderness and meaning in a song. You could have someone hitting the notes, but not giving us anything so much like a punch in the gut.
You are so good.! I have noticed the background vocals when Tim sings "The Sun's gone to hell". They fade out and gives it a eerie feeling.! I wondered why no reactors had mentioned that .!You're the best.!
Love it
First time watching you and I love how in depth you go, not many do anymore. Please please please do more voiceplay and home free!!!
My understanding is that Tim adjusted another arrangement of this for a cappella. Someone else will probably remember the name of the other group he got the arrangement from. The chords the do throughout the song always remind me of a pipe organ. I also love the 5th part in the harmonies that we get from Adam Rupp.
Goosebumps and tears always from this song.
HF has such respect and respect when they do a cover. just coincidentally make it theirs. Such intricity , you have watch lots
Having listened to this group for a very long time, it amazes me that Adam Rupp is not given enough credit for the incredibly high tenor notes and harmony that he adds. His vocal percussion is next to none but his singing voice lends so much in several of their renditions. You can watch him in How great tho art and listen to the music.
I really enjoy the deep dives that you do with the music and the lyrics.
Thank you ☺️
The moving harmony part is the guitar riff.....well done
It's four part harmony supporting a melody or lyrics. Centuries old genre and wonderful.
Jess, amazing reaction... I really love how your musical training let's you point out so well why themes and arrangement in music is so, so powerful...listening to this truly powerful, emotionally poignant song we all know we being deeply affected by the artistry, but we aren't seeing why the music impacts us the way it does, but with your insights and invitations to look at how all the parts of the music work together for this effect it completely changes the way we experience the music now...I'll hear "Brothers in Arms" forever now with a new, richer appreciation of its artistry.... thank you
Thank you for this comment. It made my day 😊
There is so much of Home Frees library that you have passed up on and or missed out on!
It would be AWESOME if you would be willing to check out their vault of fantastic music as a 2nd look if you will... as I have NEVER heard a bad release! I know you will enjoy!
peace
That’s a very solid analysis of all of the multiple aspects of the background vocals and lead parts. I can’t recall anyone else going quite as in-depth with those details. So it’s great to learn so much about such vocal parts, as well as numerous nuances of the rendition. That kind of deep assessment is definitely appreciated.
The version/arrangement of this song was done by Club for Five ( I think I have the group name right), an a cappella group from Finland. This is their arrangement, with some modifications by Tim. It was released on Veteran’s Day in 2021 - I think.
The song was written in the perspective of a soldier who is dying after being wounded.
You'll enjoy the original by Dire Straits, Jess. It's very different to this one though: Mark Knopfler's forte is guitar playing rather than singing, though an analysis of his style would still be interesting. Several of the songs on the album (called " Brothers In Arms") have a war theme: Ride Across the River is a song about the similarities and differences between a guerilla and a mercenary, while The Man's Too Big is about the kind of local tyrant who starts wars getting his come-uppance.
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Love your breakdown of their rendition of this piece. Thank you.
I really love your breakdowns.❤
Home Free always seems to have a way of interpreting a song to make it pleasing to the ear. I have always loved their tight harmonies and the fact that they don’t need all the instruments. This song is one of my favorites. And you made interesting points in specific sections, especially with the mmms, oohs, and ahhhs. You’re a master in this trade!
Wonderful reaction! I really appreciated your analysis and impacts you felt. 👏
When the bvs came forward with a wall of sound, I heard that as representing the battle
Thank you for the reactions and all the info.
There are a couple Home Free covers that will Rock your world! I believe your subscribers would love to hear you react to Home Free's: "Ring of Fire", Cam's "Mayday" and Tim Foust with Peter Hollens singing "Misty Mountains"! Then you will be ready to hear the cherry on top, When Home Free (Rob and Austin) sing, "Nessun Dorma" in a video called, "Two Country singers try to sing Opera!" We really really look forward to seeing your reactions and opinions on these, especially the last one :) Thank you!
I think you would appreciate their version of "Auld Lang Syne".
Tim also head and eyes followed the moon rising and traveling across the sky then setting.
The first 3 echo effects on worlds, sun, and world are on the downbeat, and the echo on ones is on the syncopated upbeat. It's small changes like this that keeps the music so interesting.
❤ great to hear you break it down for us.
Given Xmas season- Do You Hear What I Hear would be a good, so many layers!
Hello Jessica; first of all, thank you again, I need to see and to listen your video several times to try understand every piece of information that you give us... A thousand thank you, amazing.
The second one that I would like to say is that I would like to see you disecting the original from Dire Straits. If you don't want to make a video about that (I understand that you make a lot of work editing your videos) you can hear/see this kind of material in another platforms with your followers, like disc.-. or twi.- I understand that it can be so exhaustive than in your videos, but your followers will be rewarded with a lot of insights that we can't properly appreciate.
A big hug from Spain
I recommend listening the Club For Five's original version also, because Tuukka Haapaniemi's bass on that one is truly a thing to hear and the rest of the group compliment his voice really well. Another Finnish A cappella recommendation would be a group called Rajaton: "Rajaton - Butterfly (live)". And there's this one too: "TUULETAR - Ievan polkka (Loituma COVER)".
Across lots of their videos, you can catch glimpses of Tim self-conducting, usually with right hand motions.
Regarding your comment about movement, when Tim says the worlds gone to hell, he looks down and then say and the moons rising high, he looks up.
Certainly (my opinion) the best thing Dire Straits ever did... yet Home Free one-upped them with this stunning cover. I think this is one of their most powerful songs. Both the harmonies and the leads are superb. I knew you would love this! Great reaction.
I sure like watching the wheels in your head turn via your expressions and eye movements while you're tryin' to take it all in, all the while analyzing and simultaneously enjoying what's being offered. I have a hunch you're smarter than I am with one brain tied behind your back....well....in this area anyway. 🙂
Hi Jess. New to your channel, but love it so far! Just a note: The harmonies at the beginning and throughout the song are their tribute to and interpretation of Mr. Knopfler's guitar. This is one of my favourite songs and I love the version that Home Free has done. If you haven't heard it, you should take a listen to Dire Straits' original version.
Due to my age, I have a very large collection of a cappella songs, which are the very foundation of the Doo Wop recordings of the early Rock and Roll era. However, I am always on the lookout for the very best of vocal harmony in THIS era. I very highly recommend "Hallelujah" by Pentatonix for your analysis, and also, a vocal group from Australia, The Tesky Brothers, singing "Hold Me" a cappella.
When Tim sings "brother" you made an excellent point, it is difficult to be clear at the extremes of his range, in Tim's case, I do not believe that was near his extreme.
Home Free always pays appropriate respect in their covers--especially to the content! Their talent is amazing--and I LOVE their 5-part harmony❣️🎼🥰🎶❤️
Such a genius touch to show the silhouette of the fellas in front of the window. I know some see it as a "ghost"y reference but it strikes me as a reflection of the POW/MIA flag. We'll never know just how many of those met the same fate as the soldier of this song. 😥
Such a moving rendition of Mark Knopfler’s song of Dire Straits! He wrote this song during the Falkland’s war and he is British. He became well known in America as a fantastic guitarist. He was definitely saying that we are fools to become Brothers in Arms. I love Home Free and how they make me feel with every word! New subscriber!
Yes, war at its most fundamental base is about killing and destruction. All the supposed glory and elevated hollow rhetoric is the purview of politicians and other fellow travelers hoping to benefit from carnage. For those of us who survived, there is endless guilt of why we came back when others, often more worthy, did not. Every time I hear this song (and and some others) I can't keep the tears back. Good reaction to an excellent rendition by HF.
The moving melody at the beginning is Mark Knopfler's Guitar solo in his original (Dire Straits) version and drops out to a more basic part when he starts singing.
This and the original are the only versions I can listen to - this is the only cover to reach the high bar set by Dire Straits in the original, at least that I have ever heard.
A great analysis, Jess, and yes, you should certainly listen to the original!
Mark Knopfler is the only composer for whom I've ever watched a movie purely because he wrote the score for it (Local Hero - also strongly recommended).